Steve Hartman & Monse Bolanos React To NFL Preseason Week Two, Key In On Major QB Battles, and Much More!

Steve Hartman and Monse Bolanos give their reactions to week two of the NFL Preseason as we are weeks away from the real start of the season. Plus, Steve and Monse talk more about some of the major positional battles with some QBs in particular going head-to-head to fight for their right to start for their team, chat with NFL Insider Adam Caplan, have another fun game of "Who's Your Daddy", and so much more!!

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it is that time when it's we're anxious.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yes, like we're almost We're almost there.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
We're almost there, but we're not quite there.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
This is week two of the NFL preseason. Week three
next week then we have the bye week, Bye week.
I just like, uh. But the good news is if
you're a college football fan, the wait is not that
long because next Saturday, when we are here, they'll already

(01:05):
be games in the books, including Florida State on the
road against Georgia Tech. So the Florida State Georgia Tech
game will be in the books as we get on
the air next Saturday. Week zero, we like to call
it of the college football season.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
We're here, it's here, fall I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, this is actually I'm sorry, let me let me,
let me repeat. The Florida State Georgia Tech game is
actually in Dublin.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh squeeze.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yes, I've never underquite understood this infatuation with playing games
like this overseas. But yeah, so the Florida State Georgia
Tech game will be out of Aviva Stadium in Dublin.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Because of this little thing called money. Yeah, this tiny
little thing called money. That's why those games happen that
I didn't know. I had no idea that we had
a couple of international games to start off college football seasons.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh sure, yeah, yeah, Dublin in Dublin, So there you go,
or to State Georgia Tech Dublin. That game will be
kicking off next Saturday. So we're gonna get into some
of the college football right now. We got a lot
of stories we're going to get to. Obviously, we're well
into the uh what we call the stretch run in
Major League Baseball right now. There's a lot of things

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going on. I don't remember a year where there was
as competitive a situation for the team with the best
record in baseball. There are like literally six teams within
one game of each other for the best overall record
in baseball.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, if you're a fan of one of those teams
with one of the best records, you're at the edge
of your seat.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Maybe a little bit nervous. If you're just a fan
of baseball.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
This is everything you could want for a season, for
the way a season ends, because typically, you know the Dodgers,
they don't take the end of the season seriously because
they have such a big lead. They can't be comfortable
right now. No team is comfortable right now.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
But that makes it kind of exciting because we haven't
seen this in a while.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Like you just said, well, I mean it comes down
to home field in terms of the playoffs and every
anything else. So we got an exciting finish coming up
in Major League Baseball. I want to start today, though, Monsey,
talking a little bit again about preseason football and why
it is time to end preseason football once and for all.
It serves no purpose and we were reminded of this

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just four years ago with the COVID shutdown. We did
not have any preseason football games started Week one after
an abbreviated training camp, and even things looked a little
rusty maybe the first couple of weeks. It did not
take away from the fact that we got a full
season in and there are no reasons, and we were

(03:40):
reminded again what is the worst case scenario? The only
thing that can come out of a preseason It seemingly
as bad news. It's not like you're going to suddenly
emerge some star that you didn't think was on your roster.
That's going to be like that guy going into the season.
That is not determined in these preseason What can be determined, though,

(04:02):
is the end of a season. JJ McCarthy the top
pick for the Minnesota Vikings in a game where nothing
seemed like anything went wrong.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, I think he was out there.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
And then after the game he was complaining about a
little soreness in the knee. You're like, okay, yeah, I
used to a little sore tormniscus out for the year.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I think we heard two days after the fact they
played Saturday. We heard about it Monday. Yeah, Yeah, it
was a note.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
What we were talking about last week is like, oh yeah,
by the way, JJ McCarthy, the little soreness of the knee.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Now, obviously injuries, they happen every year and it's quite unfortunate.
Sucks for Minnesota, sucks for JJ McCarthy. But I do
disagree with you that the preseason is useless. I think
there's a lot of value in getting dressed, going through
the motions of an actual game. You can't get that
from a scrimmage, from a practice scrimmage. You need to
actually go through the motions, getting your helmet on, taking

(04:50):
it off, on and off the field.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
All of that is necessary. Whether you want to believe
it or not. The preseason games may not show.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
You what you're going to see in the actual season
of the NFL.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
I understand.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Are we gonna see Patrick Mahomes do a behind the
back pass?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
That's probably just a preseason thing. Hey why not. But
I think it's more of the getting into a rhythm
of a game that helps these players, especially the rookies.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Well, I mean it depends from team to team. Like
we talk about Mahomes and it's his choice and he
likes to play some in the preseason. I guarantee you
Andy Reid and the staff are holding their collective breasts
every time he's out there doing anything in a preseason game,
but he likes to do that. We also know that
for many years there have been top level players that

(05:35):
don't pay play one second in the preseason and it
has no adverse effect on their regular season performance. So
I again, when I talk about what are the value
of preseason games, understand again fifty five man roster, maybe
three or four spots on each roster may be up
for grabs, you know, borring injury obviously, and is that

(05:58):
determined during a performance in a preseason game. The answer
is never, no, Just determine what they see in practice,
day in and day out, controlled scrimmages, other ways to
prepare for the season. So again, the only preople that
are really losing in these preseason games are the season
ticket holders because they are forced to pay full price

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for these exhibitions. Preceding is it's not real? Fooball?

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Thank you for that?

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Aaron? Thank you Erin.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
I don't disagree with you that you're not going to
play a preseason game and all of a sudden find
your wide receiver one.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Or number two, probably number three either.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
I don't disagree with you, but I really do think
that there is value with actually going through the proper
motions of a game that you cannot get from a
practice scrimmage. I see value in it, even if you
want to make it just two weeks. I think there's
value in it.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
But when you're playing guys and there's nothing at stake,
nothing at stake. Patrick Mahomes does not need to be
in a preseason game to get regular for a season.
This guy has been playing through the Super Bowl the
last several years. If anything, he needs to reserve his
energy for a seventeen game regular season and if you're

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a Chiefs fan, hopefully a deep run into the postseason.
That is a long, long year.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
But it's getting into a rhythm, getting into football mentality.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Rhythm, right him Him, Yes, I don't disagree. He doesn't
have to be there at all. He could be sitting
in the sweets for all I care.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
But in general, I think it's just these teams want
to get into a feel for it.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
All.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Right, tomorrow we have a game.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
If we get this opportunity to run a four minute drill,
we're gonna do it even without Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
But that's what you want, these controlled scrimmage But.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Scrimmage is not the same.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
You don't have refs there, you don't have a bit
of a crowd, you don't have the time.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's a little bit more loosey goosey.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Even even though the game doesn't matter, there are still
rules and regulations you have to follow during a practice scrimmage.
It is not like that if you wanted to stop
in the middle of a play, you would do it
because you're the coach.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
You can't stop in the middle of a game, even
though it's a preseason game.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Any team that has lost a frontline player in a
preseason game and has asked this question, so was it
worth it?

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Well, yeah, of course yes, no, And I understand, which
I don't disagree with what you're saying. I'm just saying
there's still value to it, even if you cut it
down to two games.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't know this long again, the way it's been
ever since they expanded to the seventeen game schedule. Now,
all of a sudden, we have this bye week, which
is fine with me because I'm a college football fan
and I love the fact that college football's Week one
really has no competition for the NFL, and we get
that whole week of games and everything else. That's what's Yeah,

(08:39):
that works for me because I can't This college football season,
to me is going to be the great unknown we
are by the way, did you hear that? So we
have the twelve School Playoff this year, which we can
now say is the first legitimate playoff we've ever had
in Division one college football. We never had this before.

(09:01):
The four team playoff was never legit because you had
five power conferences, meaning and sometimes you had two teams
from the same conference where one or two conferences are
left out of the mix. It was a made for
TV event. I'd n't blame the four letter for putting
it together. It was a nice vehicle for them, but
it was obvious as they chose these teams who they

(09:21):
wanted in and who they did not want in. This
is not going to be the case with the twelve
school Playoff, all right, And any team that has got
a sniff of winning it all is going to be
in the playoff this year. So we do have. But
now all of a sudden, they're always saying, well, wait
a second here, Okay, so we have the twelve school Playoff,
how about if we have sort of like a like
an n T playoff with some of the group of

(09:41):
five schools that you know, Like, what are you talking
about here?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, we can. We just try this first and see
how it goes.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Let's give this a show.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
We just see and maybe talk about this and see
if you want to remodel it again.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
But come on, Rich Hornberger and I've talked about this
playoff for years. He wants a college football playoff the
size of the college basketball playoff. Oh oh, and I'm like, what,
first of all, that would take forever to play. What
do you gonna have a sixty four team playoff? That's
six games in a playoffs?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Rich, No, this was this is not a good idea.
This one is not good.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'll put into question, though, what is the fate of
all these bowl games?

Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's and that's a very fair question because it already
is going into the trajectory that they're gonna expand it again.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's not gonna stay twelve.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
If they're already talking about expanding it to fourteen without
even going through the first year.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
To me, it would seem twelve to sixteen would be
the natural, you would think.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
But the point is they're gonna kept it's gonna keep growing.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well, the coaches want the bowl games because that's what
they use to kick off the next season, because you
get that practice time in that otherwise you not be allowed.
That's what That's why so many of these throwaway bowl
games are so unwatchable because in a lot of ways,
they're already treating it as the first game of the
next year, and you're putting players in for an opportunity

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to get get to see these guys play.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
So are these bowl games like preseason NFL games?

Speaker 1 (11:08):
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NFL preseason. This man who has been criss crossing the
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happening at training camps around the NFL. He is our
NFL insider, Adam Kaplan. And for this week, certainly the

(13:18):
big story is what happened with the Minnesota Vikings JJ McCarthy.
We're talking about this. He had a little soreness in
his knee, didn't see any obvious injury, happened during the
game that next you know, out for the season, Tormentiscus.
And so now we had talked about this Adam, like,
when is this handoff gonna happen from Sam Darnold over

(13:41):
to JJ McCarthy. I don't think they're going to hand
it off to Matt Corral. So what does this look
like for the Vikings right now? That Sam Darnold, who's
going to get one last chance to prove that he
is a starting quarterback in the NFL. How's this looking
for the Vikings? Here in twenty twenty four, So Steve, here's.

Speaker 6 (14:01):
The deal here with Sam Darnold. He's there because of
the offensive scheme that they runing West Coast. He was
with the Niners last season. It's the same scheme that
Kevin O'Connell, the head coach and play caller, runs with
a Viking. So that's why he's there. Donald is what
we call young journeyman. Seems like he's been the league forever.
He just turned twenty seven in June, so he's not old.

(14:22):
But he's never really played good football. Let's call it
like it is. He's he's an athlete, and he could scramble,
could run a little bit, but you better have a
great offensive line.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
If you don't, and they don't.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
By the way, it's above average, but it's not great.
When it breaks down, he panics, doesn't know where to
go with the football and eventually he gets benched. And
that's been the story of his entire career. So with
the Vikings, so hold down the fort. He's a kind
of guy talking to people to work with him. If
you only need him for like four to six games,

(14:54):
you could get away with it because he's been around
long enough. They've got Aaron Jones at running back. It
was really good last year with Green Bay, but he's.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Been hurt a lot.

Speaker 6 (15:03):
But if you've got an offense let's predicated on the
run game, you got a good defense and not in
take it out of his hands. He could do well, Steve,
but unfortunately too much is going to be on him.
They've got other injuries.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
TJ.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
Hockinson coming back from the ac all injury, and they've
got a couple of the guys heard on defense. So
this team is his. Look, they've kind of over achieved
under Kevin O'Connell. They're not going anywhere. And you know
what the sad part about this is, we finished this
discussion with JJ McCarthy. He was phenomenal last week against
the Raiders at home. I mean he was under pressure.
You can say it's preseason all that. I don't care.

(15:36):
Like he played really well. It's a shame because he
took a big jump and now he's done with the
full blown minisigus surgery.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Hey, Adam, let's move on to Caleb Williams.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Started off a little rough today, but it ended pretty good.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Tyreek Hill tweeted Caleb Williams so nice. He reminded me of.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Dot dot dot. Who does he remind him about him?

Speaker 6 (16:00):
Caleb Williams is an interesting quarterback because if you ever
watched him, he doesn't usually run the offense like it's
supposed to be run. He he'll scramble. He's got enormous,
enormous arm. He's not the biggest guy in the world.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
More comfortable in the scramble.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, he exactly.

Speaker 6 (16:16):
He doesn't like And it's funny because Shane Waldron, who
did a great job of developing Gino Smith, he runs
a West Coast scheme.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's it's it's more of a timing.

Speaker 6 (16:25):
Based scheme and it it's Caleb's just got to take
the coaching. But from what I'm told, the early returns
are good. They got to get the He's it's because
he's working with Roma Dunz, a, DJ Moore, Keenan Allen.
I know they like Tyler Scott who was a fourth
runner last year, and Cole kamand and Gerald Effort by
the way, who played for Who's who. Waldron knows from

(16:50):
his days with the Rams, who's a tight end, really
athletic tight end. So their past our group is phenomenal.
And this is more of a this is more of
a situation where the more he works with them, the
better he'll be.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
But Monci the.

Speaker 6 (17:04):
Issue with him, and I could tell you from talking
to personnel people, it's guys like this. They have an
idea in their mind they're going to move when when
they should move, and that's not always easy to coach.
Because he's played this way his entire life.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Daniel Jones, Yeah, wow, two picks in his first three series.
Did have a couple of second half series. The fact
that he's playing this much already in the preseason maybe
is a sign of things to come. I guess it
really comes down to Brian Dable. How secure is his
job with the Giants right now? Can he afford another
bad season if he stays with Daniel Jones? Is Tommy

(17:40):
DeVito got a serious chance to take away the starting
quarterback job? How's this going to play out with the Giants?
All right? Let's start though the latter.

Speaker 6 (17:47):
Absolutely positively, Tommy DeVito's and not starting quarterback of the NFL.
He's at best at number three. It was lightning in
a bottle then reality hit him. I get their offensive
line was the trocious last season. They just didn't have
very good personnel. Well, they addressed it and Milak Neighbors
did play today despite that minor ancle injury.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
That was good that he played.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
But it's a situation where Daniel Jones had to get
out there get his feed. What get used to being
on the grass. This game was on the road. I
think it's good that he got out there. I know
it wasn't good. I was with the Giants about ten
days ago. They feel better with Jones because he's more mobile.
His knee look good like they feel like he's back.

(18:26):
What I would question is the running game. It's funny
they played the Texans. Texas didn't want Devin Singletary back.
They made the trade for Joe Mixon, and Singletary is
coming back from coming off of a great season, no doubt,
but he's really not that good.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
He's what you call one a at.

Speaker 6 (18:41):
Running back, and I was surprised, to be honest with you,
that they made the signing. Now I know Dave All
knows him, he coached him with Bill's and Joe Shane
knows him from his days with Buffalo, so that he
understands the offensive scheme. And by the way, Dabell took
back to play Collins Steve As I throw.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
It back to you.

Speaker 6 (18:58):
There is pressure here, but to understand the contract. They
did this contract two years ago. Ownership is very involved
in every decision, Every big decision has to be run
through John Marra and John Mara. I'm told it's very
close to Daniel Jones. Even even if Joe Shane didn't
want him back, there was nothing they could do about it.

(19:19):
He was coming back. And by the way, it's thirty
million dollars is fully guaranteed the season. There were zero
chances being traded.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Is there any talk about Daniel Jones a psyche?

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Because, I mean during Hard Knocks they were very open
about their feelings. We just had Tom Brady he said
it was an accident. When he was like, well, you
know Daniel Jones that it was an interception. Wait, I
didn't mean him. I'm just but he brought him up.
How is his psyche? Is that not a topic of conversation.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
No, he's aware they made him as I understand, he
was aware of kind of what was going on. Yes,
they were going to draft Jade Daniels if he dropped
to three.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
He didn't. He went stayed in the division to watch it.

Speaker 6 (19:56):
He's stayed in the division to Wathington number two, so
he's aware this is bother. Drew Locke is the backup.
He's hurt right now. He'll replace Jones if Jones gets hurt.
But I would say this, they're clearly not committed to
Daniel Jones. The guaranteed money after the season is gone,
so this is really this is a sea. He's got
to play well. They're not expecting playoffs. I could tell
you talking to them privately. They're expecting to be better. Yes,

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Jones is back. They added John Runyon. They added Jermaine Iluminor, who,
by the way, grew up as a Giant fan, and
they feel better about their offensive line. They added the
leak Neighbors, who's phenomenal. Oh he put on a show
when I was there for the joint practice with the Lions.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
They feel bad.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
They added Brian Burns on defense. So the expectations are better.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
But it's not. I don't get the filming that's playoffs
are bust. It's just be better. We have a bunch
of games kicking off here in the next half hours,
so one of the games bills at the Steelers. Give
me a read on the Steelers situation with Russell Wilson
and Justin Fields. How is this going to play out?

Speaker 6 (20:55):
Unless Russell Wilson has a set back with his calf.
And I was with the Steelers and Sunday and Money.
He looked really good by the way I said it
some sports grid and I could got a couple more
minutes here so I could explain to you what I meant.
So basically, if you just watched Russell Wilson Justin Fields,
you had no idea who they were, you go, well,
Russell Wilson's a pretty agressive Thur boy. He's willing to
make throws in traffic where Justin Fields as they see it.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
And throw it.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
He waits, he's not sure where to go, and then
he fires it. He's got a great arm. It's got
to be clearly defined for Justin Fields. Yes, he's got
great sizes, great arm strength, great talent, but he's not
a great processor. This has been the problem with him.
It's not a secret. Anyone who covers the team knows this.
Who'll cover the Bears knows this. He's very gifted. But

(21:38):
it's not the Jesus got a coach. It's just Russell
Wilson will be the Star of the Season bars something
highly unforeseen. And by the way, Mike Tom Looks sat
at the Hall of Season. Then he backed off Steve
a little bit because Wilson got hurt and he missed
over two weeks. But he's fine. In fact, Tom Wauls
said he'll start this game. He did say unless something
happened leading up to it, unless something happens to pregame

(22:01):
war ups against the Bills. And by the way, they're
a team that doesn't usually have joint practices.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
They had a joint.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
Practice this week this week in Latrobe with those Bills.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Last one from me Adam, what did you think of Drake?
May you know what?

Speaker 1 (22:16):
And here's the problem with box scores.

Speaker 6 (22:19):
Had you just look at the box score, you go,
oh boy boy, he didn't play well. No, that's not
the key. He actually threw the ball really well. He
had two draw actually three depending on who's doing the
scoring or evaluation. He threw a bomb where he beat
Eagles coverage. He threw a post route and the receiver
dove for it. That's a tough catch, but it was
a great throw. He actually looked good. Now he's got

(22:39):
mechanics issues, processing issues, very raw quarterback with very gifted
your Kobe Brissett is almost certain to start early on.
Now what draw Mayo said with an asterisk, He said, listen,
if he tears up in the preseason, great in practice,
he's got the ability to change his mind.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
But right now they're going to go with Jacobe Psett.
All right. One final question, because you've been into several
training camps obviously, has there been a training camp you've
been to where the vibe has surprised you? Good or bad?
All right, I'll give you all right. I was.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
I just got back from Nashville. Was with the Seahawks
and Titans on Wednesday and Thursday. I would say this
about the Mike Rabel experience. They everybody likes Mike Rabel
with that organization. However, because of the intensity the Belichick background,
they feel like the pre like my As one of

(23:33):
their former coaches told me, with Mike Rabel, every place
fourth and one, every place important, Every practice is important,
super important, very intense, and people's two people told me
there that it was. They're kind of like on eggshells.
They feel like they like Mike, but they feel like
it's too much. With Brian Callahan, as more low key
and but what an unbelievable story, Brian Callahan. They head

(23:55):
coach hired his dad to be his offensive line coach,
the former Raiders head coach who, by the way, if
you remember, took over for John Gruden, got the Super Bowl,
It went it, but got.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
There, Yeah, and then had a disastrous second year and
set into motion which has been two decades of very
forgettable football for the Silver and Black. Great stuff, Adam.
I just wish we didn't have that one bye week,
you know. I wish we had like one more preseason week.
It's weird and then we get but they when they
went to the seventeen game schedule, we created that bye week.

(24:25):
It's a nice week for college football. But we'll have
plenty more to talk about over the next couple of weeks.
Great stuff has always Adam, Thanks so much. We'll talk
to you next week. Thank you, Adam Kaplan join us.
There are Fox Sports Radio, NFL Insider, and now let's
find out what is trending to Mazzi. He is freshly
back for Hawhite.

Speaker 7 (24:46):
I just got in last night, guys, Wow, and what
was amazing was that? And it's so hard I know
A lot of people that are traveling these days and
going on airplanes. To get on a plane that goes
off on time and lands on time is so rare.
I feel like I should just insert a couple of
tickets and I'll win one of the Mega million dollars.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, should, because you're right. So it left on time
and it landed when it said it was going to.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
Be unbelievable, and I'm so glad because it got in
at MINDI last night.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
So imagine if it was late what.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
That would have done.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
You guys know if I'm here, yes, I'm going to
be here.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
With you guys, and we appreciate it so much.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
So by the way, I should I should mention that
uh B fan play some golf with his wife. Does
she Is she comfortable with missus Bryant family? You know
this is very new for her, yes, you know.

Speaker 7 (25:42):
So she is going in the mental health field and
she's about to be a therapist. So there's this whole
idea Mancy and Steve about Okay, maybe the family you
keep the last name as if to say she'll go
by friendly but professionally maybe for now, just because she's

(26:02):
known with her own maiden last name, that that stays.
We'll find this out.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
How would you feel if she came to you and said,
you know, Brian, I think that we should have the
hyphenated dual last name for both of us. How would
you feel about that?

Speaker 7 (26:15):
I would think to myself, just like Dorian Thompson Robinson,
the UCLA quarterback DTR.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
I'd be like, let's go.

Speaker 7 (26:22):
And by the way, that might actually be a pretty
nice segue because DTR started today for the Browns.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Let's go.

Speaker 7 (26:30):
That is what we call broadcast professionalism. There DTR starting,
but his team, the Browns, are trailing the Vikings twenty
to ten. That is early stages of the fourth quarter,
and Nick Mullins got the start at quarterback one hundred
and thirty five yards and a touchdown for Minnesota. Of course,
the chief sixteen to fifteen there in front of the

(26:51):
Lions two and a half minutes into the fourth quarter.
There spot duty just playing the first quarter was Patrick Mahomes,
but what he was known most four was a behind
the back pass that he completed to Travis Kelcey. It
is everywhere on social media, So go look that one
up coming up at the top of the ac coming
up at the top of the hour, Titans and Seahawks.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
They are going to be battling.

Speaker 7 (27:15):
And speaking of those Titans, their linebacker Arden Key, according
to reports, won his appeal and no longer will have
to serve a six game suspension from an alleged ped violation.
Finals in preseason Ravens over the Falcons thirteen to twelve.
Also the Bears twenty seven to three winners against the Bengals.

(27:36):
Caleb Williams, making his soldier field debut, underwhelmed at the beginning,
then came on strong with seventy five yards passing just
played the first half and also at a seven yard
scamper for a touchdown. Daniel Jones did not throw a
touchdown pass.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Did you see that pick six?

Speaker 5 (27:55):
He true?

Speaker 1 (27:56):
What was he doing? Will was he doing? I mean
he's essentially being tackled, yes, and then he just throws
it up and right to the defender for a walk in.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Touchdown, Like yeah, yeah, it was like, no, take the
safety at that point.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
You take the safety.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
I mean maybe if you're a rookie or something, but
you know, if you've been a few years in the league, like,
you don't make that.

Speaker 7 (28:20):
So I mean, Steve, if you were in his position,
You're throwing a sitting duck in the air that's gonna
be taken in return for a touchdown as well if
you were in that position.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
First of all, I would never be in that position
because I wouldn't have the guts to walk on an
NFL field. But if if, if I was a veteran quarterback,
which Daniel Jones is, there's just no way you make
that throw.

Speaker 7 (28:48):
And it wasn't the only interception that he had. He
had another one where he forced one down the sideline
and Derek Yourn and.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Was essentially in the wrong spot. It was not that
difficult an interception. No, Yeah, a lot of a lot
of interceptions. They're chet balls, and we get that our
guy not these We're just flat out ugly throws. What
wasn't as ugly is what is going on in Major
League baseball? Yeah, So I'm try. I'm trying.

Speaker 7 (29:13):
You know, Moncey, being around Steve you learn a lot. Yeah,
some of the knowledge about him, you might want to.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
First of all, I don't know people do is I'm
going to come clean on this. My family has become
my therapist, So I tend to share a lot of
personal things that be fin Uh. He feigns some interest,
which I appreciate, but yeah, I mean basically, he is
my unpaid therapist.

Speaker 7 (29:38):
Monsey is getting to a point now where I almost
expect to check in the mail.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
I mean you should.

Speaker 7 (29:43):
And I don't have the certification to be a therapist,
but because the wife is a.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Therapy, I'm pretty close. I'm pretty close.

Speaker 7 (29:50):
So Steve is looking for a cheap way for somebody
who's living with one probably knows something about it. Now
I am like professing cogn behavioral therapy on him.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, you just need to drop like, oh, you know
I love Starbucks.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
And maybe you know he gets the hint.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
If I were to share these similar stories with your wife,
how would that go over? Do you think about you? Yeah,
she would be a pulled.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
She was clock in to become a therapy.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah, she would say she would take the couch.

Speaker 7 (30:19):
You have many hours and many years of therapy that
need to be done.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, thank you. Hey, I'd be fan. Great stuff. Thanks
for the session. Appreciate that as always, Steve Harbin and
Manzi Belana. This year Fox Sports Saturday, We're coming to
live from the tay Iraq dot Com studios. You know,
our conversation with Adam. You know, I started looking at
every single team. I mean I could sit there.

Speaker 8 (30:44):
And I feel like I could do and just analyze
just I could do a whole show on each of
the thirty two teams because there's so many and we've.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
We've done this before. Where if you look at every
single year, whether the number is four, maybe up to six,
I'm talking about at least four teams each year that
way overachieved preseason expectations, and conversely, there are four teams
that way underperform preseason expectations. It happens every year. So

(31:22):
you know, when you when you start looking at you
wanted to do the prop bets before the season, you
look at those over under wins, they're there. Yeah, And
last year I was one hundred percent convinced that bad
team was going to be the Rams. Like the Rams,
the Rams are going to be the worst team in
the league. And that was based on a conversation I

(31:42):
actually had with a Rams player before the season began.
Because remember Cooper Cup was out of the beginning of
the thing. You know, Matthew Stafford's coming off, Andrey Aaron
Donald's coming off and off year we don't even know
who Puka Nakua is or Kyron Williams, the all unknowns.
And if you had said, not only will we not
the worst team in the league, but would make the playoffs.

(32:04):
And let's not get started with the Houston Texans, obviously
they literally came. So I keep looking at these teams
like the Giants, Like the Giants really look bad. They
really look bad.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, But like I said, it's preseason. It's preseason.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Daniel Jones as bad as he started this game, bounce
back and have the kind of here he had two
years ago when the Giants were a playoff team.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
I don't know, And it doesn't seem that way, right
It Like you just said it, you're not a rookie
and you're kind of making these decisions where you're like,
how why did you.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Do that that?

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yeah, like did you see Romo Doonsday was out of
bounds in one of the rockets that Caleb Williams sent
him in the end zone and he didn't even know.
But it's like, you're a rookie, okay, all right, this
is a preseason.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
You're a rookie. You were completely out of bounce. But
it's fine.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
It's fine, Yeah, there's there's concern with Daniel Jones because
you're not a rookie, because this isn't your first time around,
so you want a little bit more confidence, a little
bit more you know, of a quarter it's going to
make the right decision is what you want to see,
especially during preseason, especially because he got injured last year
and you haven't seen him, especially because you're paying the
money all of these things.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yet you're right, the Giants don't seem good.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Well, I mean again, Saquan is gone, and so you
saw this. You're looking at your team and you're saying,
if we are going to have a bounce back year,
it's on the shoulders of Daniel Joe. He has to
have a great year, and then you throw that pass.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Yeah, I can't imagine in that same division. I'm really
curious to see how the Philadelphia Eagles bounce.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Back after their free fall last year.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
It was such an it was just a weird season.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Right, but they didn't look like team. Every week we're like, okay,
they're ten to one, but they don't really look quite.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
They were uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
But the way they ended the year and they're getting
birrown out in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Spiral spiral, so that one I have many questions.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
It's there though, it's figure it out, all right. We're
gonna figure it out over the next couple of weeks.
Coming up on the other side. The most talked about
segment in this building, well maybe this room. Who's your daddy?
That's right, you'll find out. This is Fox Sports Saturday, Daddy.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
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Speaker 2 (34:28):
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Speaker 3 (34:29):
I am Montcy Belanos here with Steve Hartman, and we
are coming to you live from the Tirek dot Com studios.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Let's get going the.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Wise one day six. What's happy.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
We'll see about that.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
We gotta know who's your daddy? Daddy, you can call
me daddy daddy, all.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Right, it's our favorite times of the week here.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Last week Nick Pope actually came into the studio. He did,
and you had the first question about who the NFL
in receding yard touchdown nineteen eighty four, and I paused
and then I mentioned Roy Green. That's correct, And you're like,
that's right. And the look on Nick's face like he's like,

(35:13):
when you see him, there's nothing you're actually no, you
actually know that.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
He is a Rolodex. It just like you don't see
the rolodexs going. But let's get going here. Yes, all right,
who coined the term sack in football?

Speaker 1 (35:27):
That would be David Deacon Jones, who is probably, in
my opinion, the late great Deacon Jones. So I got
to know the Hall of Fame defensive end for Los
Angeles Rams lated with the Chargers, briefly with the Red Skins.
They didn't have official sack totals in those days, but
they've sort of looked it up since then and determined

(35:50):
that the only guys that have more sacks of Bruce
Smith and Richie White. So Deacon Jones, that.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Is obviously correct, Jones, because.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
When your name is David Jones, it's like, especially when
the monkey's around, they had Davy Job, Like, I don't
want to be confused with that guy. So yeah, Deacon Jones.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
That is correct.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
All right, let's go around sorry with our producer Patrick, Hey,
rad Let's see.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
If you can be as daddy.

Speaker 9 (36:14):
Obviously I'm not the daddy We're gonna see Monty. I
think you and I are in the same wavelength. Cousin,
you said sacked, you said for SAX. Today, I'm going
with SAX. But it's not with football. With the baseball.
Oh transition, Steve, who is the all time MLB leader
in sack flies?

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Let's go, most sacrifice flies in a Major League baseball career. Yes,
that is a great question.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Great question, let's go.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
I'm gonna say. The answer is, there's a lot of guys.
I basically narrowed down to two guys, so I'm gonna
guess Albert Coohols.

Speaker 9 (37:02):
No, he's in third on the list, though I knew
he was close.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
He is third on the list. Though.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Who was the other one?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
The other one I thought was Hank Aaron? But no,
he's not. He's not even in. Okay, on the top four. Okay,
you got is it? Manny Ramirez? Nope? Who is it?
It is Eddie Murray with one hundred and twenty. Baby,
I love Eddie. Just beat out cal Ripken and won.
I would not have guessed cal Ripken. Eddie Murray is,

(37:32):
in my opinion, one of the most underappreciated players in
the history of Major League Baseball, never won an MVP,
was second twice, Top five seven times, and a high
school teammate of Ozzie Smith. Can you imagine Locke High
School right here in Los Angeles? They were high school teammates.
Both became first bout Hall of Famers. You're my daddy,
My daddy. That was a great show.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Move on to Brian Bentley.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yes, so this one is for you, Steve. Yes, I hope.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
So I'm not.

Speaker 7 (38:03):
Playing most consecutive championships in sumo wrestling.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
What I think the answer is the big guy.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
A win is a win.

Speaker 7 (38:25):
They call him Hakuo. Yeah, most career championships as well.
Forty five set the limit, he's the record.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Hold forty five much?

Speaker 4 (38:35):
How much?

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Did we have a weight class? There is only one
real weight class in sumo, right, he's the daddy. Yeah, big, bigger, biggest. Yeah.
So he he three hundred and forty two pounds. That's
not too I've seen much bigger sumo guys. Th that
all right? And that name again, just the clarify kuo. Okay,

(38:57):
very good, daddy, it's the big guy.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
All right. Let's move to I know, yeah, I always
Sam my technical producer for the day.

Speaker 10 (39:05):
Hi, Sam, this is crazy because my question is also sacks.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Okay, let's go saxa my question.

Speaker 10 (39:15):
I'd be like, wow, Okay, no, it's not super related,
but Steve, this is an Iowa football trivia question. Okay,
single season, single season sack leader Iowa football.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
I would say unofficial because officially sacks were not counting
any defensive sacks stats since two thousand? Was it since
two thousand? It's not prior to two thousand. I would
say Andre Tippett, the All American at Iowa, went in
nineteen eighty one. You're about ten years off. You're exactly
ten years off.

Speaker 10 (39:47):
Leroy Smith he had eighteen in nineteen ninety one. He
was the defensive player of the year in the Big Ten.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Are you sure Tippa didn't get credit for Mars Sachs
in nineteen eighty one?

Speaker 10 (39:57):
This is what I found on the old googly machine. Okay,
le Roy Smith, n S and anyone.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
They were big champions. You're like the frize, your guy,
what's that?

Speaker 10 (40:07):
The frize Jared de Brees's forty three sacks in his
io creer.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Actually I would have said debris or debrize. I didn't
know how to Well that's the last single season though,
but this was Leroy Smith. But again there were no
official MCAA defensive so you win the stats until the
year two thousand. Daddy. That's why I asked that you
got you got the daddy clause right there. I just
you know, yeah, I'm not going to one hundred percent gift.

(40:33):
I like to see the Tippet number again from nineteen
eighty one. He's aloa made the uh. He was a
hell of player. Well in Monsie and Steve.

Speaker 7 (40:42):
Like with Sumo, I kind of kept up with the
playing off the football defensive sacks in a way, in
a way.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
With with what I brought up with. Yes, no total,
We've never had a Sumo question before.

Speaker 11 (40:57):
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(41:47):
my feeling about the preseason as opposed to your feeling
about the preseason, but this is sort of like one
of our ten o'clock times. I mean, we literally have
right now, let me count them up. We have one, two, three, four, five,
six games that are kicking off right now.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Yeah, it's very exciting.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
It just gets you, like you said, it just feels
like we're getting closer.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
That's all to madness.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
And again, the outcome of these games obviously don't matter.
Do not matter. One of the games that's kicking off
right now, Rams and the Chargers. If you think going
into last year, the buzz was about the Chargers. You know,
they had made the playoffs the year before, had that
disastrous playoff collapse against Jacksonville. But there was a lot

(42:38):
of buzz about the Chargers going in the season. Brandon Staley,
you know, it was under some heat, but you know,
he seemed like in a pretty good spot. There were
no expectations to the Rams at all and then the
season completely flipped. Sean McVay showed why he should be
if he wasn't already recognized as one of the absolute
best coaches in the NFL. Was his best coaching job

(43:01):
by far, and the Charger season was such a disaster.
Then not only do Brandon Staley lose his job, so
did Tom Telesco, the general manager. And now Jim Harbaugh
is there. The Chargers opened up last week and looked
awful in their preseason opener, and so much so that,

(43:21):
remember it was announced that Jim Harbaugh was going to
serve as an honorary captain for Michigan's first game. Well,
apparently Jim Harbaugh contacted the university and said, I actually
have work to do here. Yeah, right, a lot of
work to do here. It's the reality is set in.
You've gone from the pinnacle of college football. Not only

(43:43):
did Michigan win the National Championship last year, they dominated.
It was a dominant college football team that he had
built over several years at Michigan. And now the realization
that this may be the worst situation he has been
in as a head coach since he took over the
Scamford job. Twenty five years ago. It is bad right

(44:05):
now with the Chargers. They have no receivers East and
Stick their backup quarterback was so bad last week that
even Harbaugh at best said, well, yeah, there were some
things that were good on offense, but not nearly enough.
This is going to be a major And I have
faith in Jim Harbaugh. I think his track record speaks

(44:27):
for itself. But I think the reality is setting in.
They got a long way to go to get back
to respectability of the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Yeah, and as a Chargers fan, I kind of I'm
not gonna lie. I worry about this season as to
what it's going to mean for Justin Herbert. I feel
like Justin Herbert has been riding the wave of potential.
Everybody wants to like Justin Herbert. You see him, you
want to like him, and you see that there's a
lot of talent and potential there. But it hasn't been enough.

(44:55):
And it's always been blamed on what the coaching. It's
never been just Herbert can't do the job. It's that
he is not surrounded right the right people to do
the job. So now he is surrounded by the right person,
by the right people, and I worry that for some reason,
if it doesn't work out, Justin Herbert will be the
one to blame and will be shipped out.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Well, here's the problem for him. Yes, he has a
better group of people on the sidelines, yes, but on
the field, I mean outside of the offensive line. And
I applaud the drafting of Joe Alton. You've got a
franchise quarterback and you have a chance to draft someone
of Alt's stature. I mean, he could be Joe Thomas.

(45:38):
He could be one of those guys that literally makes
Pro Bowl year one and for the next ten years.
He's that good slater if he's healthy. I mean, that
gives you those bookend tackles that you really need with
a great quarterback. Their wide receiver corps is by far
the worst in the league. I mean there is they
forget wide receiver one. They don't have a two. I mean,

(46:00):
they have a couple of rookies, and they have guys
that have almost zero NFL experience. Same at the tide
end position. I mean it's.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Which is why preseason is important, especially for a team
like the Chargers, to just get the fields.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
Unfortunately, he's not playing Justin Herbert, so your quarterback is
going to have to start the season. We still don't
know if he's going to be ready week one. With
the foot situation. He's not going to play in the preseason,
so he's going to have to learn on the fly
when the games actually count.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Yes, yes, he is gonna have to learn how to fly.
Look at it.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
I know you're a Chargers fan, and like I said,
I'm a big believer in Jim Harbaugh. He'll figure it out.
But to this for these people that just think you
throw Harbor in them boom make everything.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
No, I don't know about that. I don't know about that.
I am looking forward to the season.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
I am really looking forward to see what Jim Harbor
unleashes in Justin Herbert that maybe we haven't seen.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
But am I worried of course because of literally what
everything you just said. I mean, I think a few
months ago we jokingly were like, one of us could
be a receiver for the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
They have nobody there is If you went to their roster,
it was blank across.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yeah, I don't see any potential of Pukinakua is emerging
and this wide receiver corp. But again, this is this
is why you gotta play the games, right. But you
can see Jim Harbaugh. They're showing a little get together
right there. He's on the sideline. He's got the charge cap.
But yeah, I think when he decided to call Michigan
and say, you know what, I don't want to take

(47:32):
the spotlight away from you guys by being that honorey,
that that was his way of saying, I've got a
lot of work to do. No, that was going to
be a bullload of money and I need to figure
this out.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
It wouldn't have been a good look if you would
have been the honorary captain at that game.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Well, especially if you're walking away from the team that
is employing you. Sure to get ready for the season.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
Yeah, but I think even if the Chargers looked good,
I think he was gonna be like, I don't think
this is a good idea for me to be the
honorary captain when college football has basically told me to
go away for four years.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
You mentioned earlier about the Eagles. Another team that collapsed
at the end of last year was the Dolphins. You know,
remember they had that home game to conclude the season
against the Bills in order to win the division and
they ate it. They at home and then they were
quickly eliminated as wild card in the postseason. Are you

(48:24):
a believer in two a Tungua below? I mean when
he was healthy last year, and you know, it certainly
helps when you're throwing the ball to Tyreek Hill.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
Jaylen Waddle devon eight chance, surrounded just by a bunch
of different.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Weapons, huge weapons, and the offense they put in was
perfect because he is an acrid passer. And if you
can hit Tyreek Hill or Jalen Waddle in stride, they're
off to the races. You know, a ten yard pass
becomes a seventy yard touchdown. That being said, what separates
these quarterbacks the quarterbacks that are you know, deemed franchise

(48:58):
quarterbacks as a to elite quarterbacks that can actually win
games when they matter most.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
You love this conversation, and we've talked about this. Here's
the thing you want.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
You want every team to find their Patrick Mahomes right,
and they're.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Just no, that's never gonna happen. There's gonna be one.
There's gonna be one. Maybe we'll see another.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
So Tua toako bail for me, is a good quarterback
and if you can snatch up a quarterback that is
consistent from the pocket. I would snatch him up, especially
if you have the weapons around him. Now, yeah, there
are things you could worry about his health, whether even
though they lost at home. But you know, weather is
a big part of when it comes to the Miami

(49:37):
Dolphins and Tua. If they play in a blizzard, they're
definitely not gonna play as well as the Bills would
play in a blizzard. But I think Tua is a
type of quarterback that if if you can lock him up,
I would.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
I would. By the way, speaking of the Dolphins right
now that just kicked off their game against the Washingon Commanders,
Jayden Daniels to me is a hard read. As you know,
I did not give him my vote for the Heisman Trophy.
I voted for I voted for Penix because Pennix. Yeah,
oh you didn't know that. Pennix to me, And as

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I said, when it comes down to players for the
Heisman Trophy, I always say, what did you do in
the biggest games. Pennick's two biggest games last year against Oregon,
he beat him twice. They were undefeated again the vote,
long before their eventual loss in the championship game. And
then I looked at Jayden Daniels and they lost several games,

(50:34):
and in those games he wasn't at his absolute peak.
He put up goutdy numbers. I get it. I don't
know how to read this guy. It's so hard now
when you have players that we had last year. You
had Bo Nicks who had spent three years at Auburn,
two at Oregon. He had Pennix who spent four years
in Indiana, two at Washington, and then you had Jade

(50:57):
Daniels who had three years at Arizona State. And to
it L it's hard for me to read how that experience.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
Yeah, how those journeys translate here to the NFL exactly.
I don't think we would find those answers. Just like
Adam Kaplan said last year, college is not the NFL.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
It's just not.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
So whatever you think you see, you can hope that
it's going to translate.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
But I think it really depends on the teams.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
If the team surround this type, if you like a
quarterback in college, then you have to build around their
skill set.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
You can't ask them to all of a sudden change.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
And so I hear what you're saying when they're journeymen,
it's kind of hard to make a prediction on them.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Because they've been around.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Jaden Daniels is playing Washington's got the ball for us,
He's completed his first couple of passes. I just it's
hard for me to separate the Jaden Daniels that I
saw at ASU, sure, from the unbelievable player I saw
last year at LSU. But then I could say the
same thing about Joe Burrow. I mean, Joe burr Rows
first year at LSU, after sitting on the bench at

(52:03):
Ohio State, he didn't do anything special, and then that
last year, the guy's rewriting the record books and I'm like, oh, wow,
you know, Kyler Murray, it was a one year wonder
in college. And so it's really hard for me to
try to figure this out. And I mentioned this last week.

(52:24):
There's only been one player ever to have won the
Heisman Trophy as a quarterback and then voted into the
Pro Football Hall of Fame as a quarterback, and that's
Roger Staubach, who won the Heisman sixty years ago. So
we've got a lot of Heisman winning quarterback since then.
So I'm not one hundred percent sold that Jayden Daniels

(52:44):
can be that guy. But I'm not going to say
he can't be. Yeah, no, I at least they at
least they have new ownership. Right, that's the positive.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
That's the positive. That's it's kind of like a fresh start.
Whatever happens with them this year, it's not do or die,
it's it's the beginning.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
It's the beginning for them.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
By the way, Jane Daniels looking good on this opening
driving this preseason matchup with the Dolphins, four or five
forty two yards and again that's that time of the
year and we're gonna effect on the other side. I
want to ask you this because I know that you
are a very very ardent fan of fantasy football. So
we're gonna start gaining over the next couple of weeks
as we get ready for the start of the NFL season,

(53:28):
some of Monsey's inside picks.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Yeah right, Oka, in terms of.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Players to watch for your upcoming fantasy football drafts, we'll
start breaking it down. This is Fox Sports Saturday, Steve
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(53:55):
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we got all these preseason games going on right now,
not a lot to look at. We are watching this
Chargers Rams game because Moncey is a Chargers fan. Yeah,

(54:17):
and I mentioned her. I think she was in shock.
Eastern Stick, who is the backup quarterback for the Chargers.
This is his sixth season.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Before last year he had only actually appeared in one game,
and maybe that's why in his first four years and
last year when Herbert got.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Hurt, he was out there.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
He started four games, lost them all. And then last
week I'm sure that Harbaugh was in shock when he
saw his backup quarterback in action because he looked back.
I got Iowa Sam, Here, Iowa Sam, can you jump
on with us for a second here, follow that pizza,
because I know that he is a Max dugg And fan.

(54:59):
Max Duggan is your Iowa native who became a superstar
in college at TCU, that one year of ascension of
media medior rise. I will say this, he's better than
Eastern Stick in terms of being a viable backup for
the Chargers.

Speaker 12 (55:16):
You think so if you want dick of what what
North Dakota Stick, he's one of those North Dakota state guys,
you know, like turns out Trey Lance, like, who's the
guy for the Eagles?

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Yeah, that's Carson Wentz. Yeah. Might be a pattern there. Yeah,
uh so, yeah, I think that well, Eastern Stick playing
right now for the Chargers, He's gonna have to do
a whole lot better if he's going to hang on
to that backup role.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
It's not looking pretty.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
No, it's not not looking good, especially when you still
don't know one hundred percent if Justin Herbert will be ready.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
We ready, He's going to be ready. Plantar fasciatus is fine.
I'm dealing with it right now, are you?

Speaker 1 (55:57):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (55:58):
And I I I don't know how I'm gonna do
my my, my race that's coming up, but I'm gonna
just take a bunch.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Of pills and do it.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
What race is this?

Speaker 2 (56:06):
I'm doing a half marathon at.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Disney slow Down, slow. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are
you doing? I haven't told you this half marathon thirteen miles.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Thirteen point two technically or one. I don't know, yeah,
but yeah, thirteen.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
I'm running thirteen miles.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
I'm running thirteen miles.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Monci's a jogger. Yeah, she's a runner, she's a track star.
How long does a thirteen mile jog? Taking?

Speaker 3 (56:30):
My fastest that I've ever done it in has been
two hours and three minutes.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
That's my fastest. My average is like around two fifteen.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
See, I could actually go faster. Of course i'd be
traveling in an ambulance. Yeah, over those thirteen miles. But otherwise,
well that's unbelievable. Yeah. So I'm joking you have bad feet.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Well, I'm dealing and in my volleyball I think makes
it worse when I play on Tuesdays. So I don't.
I don't know. I've been icing. I've been, you know,
like trying to put on.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
They say, don't walk barefoot, don't wear flip flops where.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
You know something, he's using a boot, He's gonna be fine.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
It's a pain tolerance once you once you warm it up,
it goes away but it is an uncomfortable pain, like
up your heel.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Well, let me ask you this, With all these physical
activities that you're involved in, does this give you enough
time to properly prepare for your upcoming fantasy football?

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Oh? Yes, no, that's what I you know, I see
my foot, I'm reading. I see my foot and I'm reading.
So it's good.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Is it too early to ask you about it? I mean,
I don't even that sort of caught your eyes.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
So I can tell you a couple a couple of
ones that I that I do have an eye on.
And maybe this comes because I'm a Chargers fan, but
Ladi m Aconkey wide receiver, he's one.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
That I would keep an eye on. Obviously we don't
have a wide receiver. If he's gonna be throwing the
ball to.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Someone, maybe he's pooking a.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Cool Maybe he's pooking a cool.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Well, I will say this, uh Mconkey is an interesting guy,
as you say, and it really comes down to that
rapport that he develops with Justin Herbert exactly very similar.
Lasher Nicoa got an opportunity with Cooper cup Out and
Matthew Stafford just found that connection with this guy and
never never left. But again no preseason opportunities here from

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McConkey to hook up with Justin.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
Herbert, and also thinking that you know, Jim Harbaugh likes
to run the ball. So if he's gonna try and
run the ball and defenses are gonna have to figure
out he's gonna throw, are they gonna run, McConkey.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Could become a weapon, could become a good ball.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
Just do the numbers. If Justin Herbert completes, you know, again,
over a seventeen game schedule, right, assuming he plays all
seventeen games, and you have eighteen completions per game eighteen
to twenty, that's well over three hundred completion somebody's got
to catch those.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Body has to catch the ball, right, So I feel
like he's in there.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
Right. So McConkie is one of your rookie specials. I like, yeah, I'm.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Gonna give you another rookie one, Main Burton, Yes, for
the Bengals, but he played at Alabama, and like he's one.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
I also am keeping in on my list, you know,
like just I like Burrows.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
I don't know. Also, I'm just coming from a spot
of like my preferences here may.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
Get nervous with Joe. I mean, there's no doubt about
his talent obviously, and he's got great receivers to go
along with that. But just staying on.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
The field, of course, it's as if you.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Bank on a player. I mean my fantasy football. I
did play some fantasy football with Rich down in San
Diego for a number of years. It was more of
a station thing, and I was so determined not to
put any effort out. I actually had a year where
we had our on air. People think there was four
of us, and then we brought in eight other listeners.

(59:48):
They're like a twelve team league. I did not make
a single transaction that year, and the way the league
was configured, it was a head to head each week.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
And at the the end of the year, my team
had actually scored the fewest points of any other team
in the league and I finished second.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
And you survived the scene does?

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
It seemed like every single week the team I played
had their worst week, and I didn't make a single
roster change the entire year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
I'm really bad.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
I only had it, you know, with bye weeks, had
to change up guys. Yeah that was it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
Yeah, No, I'm really bad about that stuff like picking
up people have a.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Bad week and then like they hit the panic button.
Yeah I can't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
Or like I'm really bad, like if somebody gets hurt
to jump on and get their back up, Like I'm
so late on that stuff. I'm like, oh man, I
should have picked that guy up, and then you go
and everyone's trying to pick up I'm so bad.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
About twenty twenty hind say, you can't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
But sometimes it's like who beat you to the punch,
And I just I'm not paying close enough attention for
my transaction.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
So I hear you.

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
I mean a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
I know because obviously we've been living this together for
several years now with your fantasy football teams, and it's
it's always that one week when you decide, all right,
am I gonna play him or him? They always the
one you're like, and the guy you don't play is
just scored his third touchdown of the game and you're
just like.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
Yeah, that's when I would say in this week's episode
of Why I hit Fantasy Football, it's because I didn't
play Derrick Henry, but this time he actually rushed for
three touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
That was me. I think last year.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Eastern Stick three six twelve yards.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Yes, very good Easton.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
You're not picking him up as a no, don't.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
If he is on your team, you should never.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Play fantasy football again if you have Easton Stick on
your team, Sam, what.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Are you eating in? There's what I went in there?
You have pizza today?

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Yes? Because it's Martin's birthday? Can you see Martinson over there?

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
He's like, he's a birthday guy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
It's his birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
Happy birthday, birthday. I did not even know they were day.
Martin wise in the building, her birthday day, big birthday today,
twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
That's right, that's alright, twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Fresh out of the University of Michigan.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
By the way, Martin, were you chosen to replace Jim
Arba as the Honorey captain for their opening game? Is
that true? That's what I heard with Martin.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Yeah, he's coming on.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
I was forced to turn down the invitation because where
else would I be on a Saturday besides entertaining the
nation on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
Thanks you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
You think that's bring down that opportunity? A very smart decision.
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(01:03:05):
given has his one hundred percent Brian family. I don't know,
you just seem a little different now really, how so
how long was the honeymoon? Was it a full week?
Was about a week? Yeah, so we didn't get into
the Uh are you gonna be posting this golf YouTube?

Speaker 7 (01:03:23):
Yeah, it's a twenty minute long golf on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
I saw it. It looks a genius me. Yeah, so
it's gonna go up after this show golf. That's a tease. Yeah,
we're doing golf and no golf. This is you. I
was saying, it's long form storytelling.

Speaker 7 (01:03:41):
I don't know how that works with the gen zers
who have to check their phone every ten seconds. Yeah,
because it's so compulsive with their attention spans.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
But we're gonna try. I don't know if it's.

Speaker 7 (01:03:53):
Gonna stick, but I'm gonna put it out there and
maybe nobody likes it, but at least we're gonna try, right, Moncie,
and see, gotta try it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
You gotta try. The little snippet that you showed me
was phenomenal. Thank you. I hope though your bride is
not upset about any adverse views of her golf game.

Speaker 7 (01:04:14):
Well, she did with a few, and that will be
pointed out in the golf video because every shot.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
You hit is perfect. It's great. But that's part of
the it's part of the dynamic here. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:04:25):
Yeah, but we're gonna we're gonna have this out, Okay,
So MONSI and Steve look forward to if you guys
have time giving it a listen and in your feedback,
and you're happy to trash it if you want.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
I'll give you an honest yeah, no question about it.

Speaker 7 (01:04:42):
And I know we're all watching the Seahawks Titans preseason game,
or maybe we're all not watching it, but what we
do know is that there's no score late in the
first quarter, and Malik Willis is playing starting for the
Titans here thirty two yards passing so far. Cardinals Colts
underway as well in the first quarter. All NFL preseason games.

(01:05:03):
Of course, there were thirteen preseason games today and some
of them haven't even started yet. But Indianapolis seven and
nothing in front of the Cardinal. Sam Ellinger has the
start for Indianapolis. So all the top dogs are getting
QB starts today, and there might be some sarcasm attached
to that, but twenty eight yards passing for Sam also

(01:05:24):
in no relation to Iowa. Sam just wanted to make
sure we got that out there. Ju, Yeah, exactly. Tua
Tunga by Loa is starting as the quarterback for the Dolphins.
Seven and nothing in their favor against the Commanders, also
in the first quarter, and Tula has a touchdown pass
in fifty one yards through the air. No score after
one quarter of play between the Steelers and Bills. Mitch Trubisky,

(01:05:46):
the phenomena that is Mitch Trubisky is still playing and
he's out there trying to make something happen. Aaron Rodgers
is sitting out all the starters are for the Jets,
so it's all the third stringers essentially for New York
and they're taking on a team that well, they probably
need all their first stringers in preseason to win a
preseason game. But right now the Panthers are in front

(01:06:09):
three to nothing. Jack Plumber, remember that name. He is
the quarterback for Carolina. Three nothing in their favor in
the first Also, I know Manci's high on this Chargers game.
Chargers in the Rams, all of Los Angeles, They're all
focused on this game.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
That's all that's going it is.

Speaker 7 (01:06:25):
Yeah, there's everybody in Los Angeles that is a sports
fan is at so far to watch this. It's three apiece.
What a start. Three to twenty eight in the first quarter.
And then let's go to some of those completed games,
because we had the Vikings win twenty seven to twelve
against the Browns, Nick Mullins finding Tristan Jackson for a touchdown,
Falcons short. They come up short against the Ravens one thirteen.

(01:06:49):
This is not the NBA Brian thirteen g Hey to twelve,
And people were asking, why isn't Michael Pennix Junior playing
in this game? And Raheem Morris said that the reason
that his quarterback didn't this because they saw enough from
what he did in the first preseason game. As if
that was enough to.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Well, I've got to start right now, right there's no
reason for him to look at it again. I would
throw the preseason out. And by the way, Mitchell Trubisky,
his last three years with the Bears, his record as
a starting quarterback was twenty five and thirteen. Thank you,
thank you. In the three years after that with Justin Fields,

(01:07:27):
his record was ten and twenty eight. I am in
twenty five and thirteen versus ten and twenty eight. Yep,
I'm with you.

Speaker 7 (01:07:36):
I'm a Mitch Trubisky truther, I am. And it's sad
to see all of the hate that's been thrown his way,
that's been so underdserved. Finally, Bears over the Bengals twenty
seven to three. Caleb Williams ran in a touchdown. Also
the Texans, they slice up the Giants twenty eight to ten.
Everybody was so excited to see Daniel Jones, and this

(01:07:59):
is obvious a metaphor, but he puked all over the
field with the two interceptions pick six.

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
I think the fans thought that we're.

Speaker 7 (01:08:07):
Watching the Giants New York Giants fans comedic, Yes, exactly,
Dom Yeah, there was a lot of that from him, unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
And then I'll throw.

Speaker 7 (01:08:15):
This this one right back at you here Montsie and
Steve before before I let go here of this update duty.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
And what we're doing here in the studio.

Speaker 7 (01:08:23):
The Lions won over the Chiefs twenty four to twenty three.
They lined up with two seconds to go in the
fourth quarter a forty three yard field goal attempt, and
the Lions made it to win at Kansas City suspense
and drama in a preseason game on a last second kick,
although Patrick Mahomes might have had the world's attention from

(01:08:47):
the behind the back pass that he pulled off in
the form of a completed pass to Travis Kelcey. But
I love it, Montsie and Steve, as I work it
back to I love it when we're going for suspense
and we're trying to win games in the preseason because
we know lo and Behold, there are some teams and
they might wish that the preseason wins would carry over

(01:09:08):
to the regular season.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
So we'll see if that can happen for some teams.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
And they gave the Chiefs the taste of their own medicine,
since the Chiefs loved to win off of walk off
field goals. Yeah, taste of their own little medicine.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
Back in the day, the Detroit Lions had an oh
and sixteen season. They were four and oh in the preseason.

Speaker 7 (01:09:28):
You know who also did that? Volows to it? Remember
that Charger season? Yes, yes, the Chargers. What was it
one in fifteen or they go in sixteen and they
went perfect in the preseason.

Speaker 1 (01:09:40):
I can't stop watching this pick six of Dana jim
today preseason is it's not real.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Football, Thank you, Erin.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
I cannot stop watching this pick six. I can't just
it's still yeah, okay, I I gotta watch it one
more time here because I.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Because you think you're gonna understand what he was thinking.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
I am just trying to figure out again. Okay, here's
the play. So he is in the end zone, he
is basically getting sacked and he throws the.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
I mean, right, no, you just take the sack at
that point.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
I mean, and he's looking right at the defender, right,
I'm sure that when he threw the ball, the defensive
backs like really, like you're gonna hammy a pick six.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
Yeah, it just seemed like he had no strength there
because it's like he threw.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
It right at him, right at him.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
He is literally getting sacked. See this, watches one more
tell you see he's getting sacked and then he as
he's going down, he throws the ball to who That
is just unreal. So yeah, for Giants fans that know
that any opportunity for this team to be anything other

(01:10:55):
than awful depends on Danna Jones at least playing to
the love we saw a couple of years ago. But
based on that one, it's just preseason.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
It's just preseason.

Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
Hey. I wanted to mention every when we have an
opportunity someone we haven't talked about in recent weeks because
we had the Olympics obviously, which I think most people
say was a pretty rousing success. A lot of eyeballs
on the Olympics. I was watching certainly more of the
Olympics than I have in the last few Olympias.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Yah, I am.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
But Caitlin Clark is back after her hiatus, well rested
since she was not part of the Olympic team, which,
of course the women won their eighth straight barely. I
mean that woman for friends, she thought she had tied
the game with a three and her foot was on
the line and no overtime and they hung on by one.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Yes, definitely not I think women were expecting, not at
all at all.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
No, but we know Kaitlyn Kark's going to get many
opportunities to be on the Olympic team, starting with the
next one. Twenty nine points in her latest outing, So
she looks, you know what, she needed a little rest,
of course she did. She had to be exhausted going
directly from her college season almost directly into the WNBA season,
plus all the hypes surrounding around there the rest, so

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she had to do and so she came out well rested.
Twenty nine points first rookie and WNBA history have at
least twenty five points, ten assists, and five rebounds in
the same game twice in a rookie season. And right
now the Fever are very much in the mix to
make it into the postseason. Would that be unbelievable if they,

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you know, they get in as the seven team or
the six or seven eight teams in the league get
into the play season, then they go on a bad run.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
Oh, it'd be so fun.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
It'd be so fun because it would just kind of
reiterate what you said that she really just needed the break,
Like the beginning of her WNBA career.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
Fell flat, I think to the expectation everybody here.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
They were one and eight.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Yeah, and she didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Look like the Caitlin Clark that we were watching, you know,
during her run with Iowa.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
So it is very much like, man, you really did
need a little bit, a little bit of break.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
By the way, one of the reasons I wanted to
mention this, did you actually say that Kaitlyn Clark is
better known than Aaron Judge? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
Yeah, she is more famous than Aaron Judge. Congrats Aaron
Judge on a three hundred.

Speaker 10 (01:13:16):
Everybody agree that we did an unofficial FSR Twitter poll, Steve,
We did, and it was heavily in favor of Kaylyn Clark.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Okay, so how many people were involved in that poll? Thousands?
It had like twenty thousand views and I think about
nine hundred votes, eight hundred votes something like that, and
it was overwhelming that Kaitlyn was like seventy two. If
I were to said who is more famous, Kaitlyn Clark
or show Heyo Tani what do you say, how would that?

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
Oh, that's a good one because obviously shoe Heyo Tani
is an international star.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
That would be a much closer.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
I think, Yeah, who wasn't Kaitlyn Clark international? Okay, right, no, yeah,
he is an international.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
But you saw people at the Olympics were in Iowa jerseys.
Of course she's hit the international.

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
How do you think the poll would read if we
had Kaitlyn Clark versus show hate, I think it'd be
much closer.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
I think it would be much close, have a.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
Little edge over her.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
I don't really know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
I think he'd be about fifty to forty eight close.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
I'd say about Yeah, it would be too close to call.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
I think I think she's in more commercials than him, and.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
That has a few months ago.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
He doesn't like the attention like that, even the commercials
he's in for a New Balance.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
It's like he doesn't say anything.

Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
He stacks a swing like it's it's very minimal, just
like Aaron Judge.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
Say, Kaitlyn Clark versus Kevin Durant, Caitlyn Kaitlyn Clark, no question,
no question. I mean, obviously the two NBA players it
would beat or would be Lebron and Steph. Right, any
question about that Lebron and Steph, who are still the
two biggest stars in the NBA. I commercialise every other Bron.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
I would even say, you would say.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
That Kaylen Clark is more famous than Steph current. What
I disagree on Steph is her Steph is her male
comp So I would say that he's male cop comparisons.

Speaker 10 (01:15:02):
I'm sorry, she's the female colm to him. Yes, I
think he's still more popular. I think he's the more popular.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
To say what I said.

Speaker 3 (01:15:09):
In order to really figure this out, you have to
go to people who are nonsports.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
People people don't know who Steph Curry is.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
I think you might go up.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
I could ask right now, friends who don't follow sports,
have you heard the name Steph Curry or Caitlyn Clark.
I guarantee you they would all say, I don't know
who Steph Curry is.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
I'm not so sure about that. All right, we'll continue
on with this. On the other side, how many people
are actually more famous than Caitlin Clark?

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
It's a short list.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
Is Donald Trump or Donald Trump? La Harris are more famous?

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Definitely?

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
Donald Trump Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Trump, Yes, just the name Trump, Yes, but if.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
You were to have side by side photos of Kamala
Harris versus Caitlin Clark, more people would recognize Caitlyn Clark.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
I would say, yes, yes, interesting, all.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
Right, this is interesting. What kind of week ahead? And
we're gonna break it down for you. This is Fox
Sports Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
Oh, the mood has shifted all of a sudden.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
That's why it was Sam at work as usual, the
crazy genius Steve Harbin, Manzi Belanya's here. We're live from
the tairag dot com studios. Want to thank the the
newly red Fresh Office Honeymoon Brod Family Befen for his
work today.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
Married man.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
I was Sam, it's always good. We never know what
we're going to see.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
Is this?

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
We've been seeing you a little more frequently. All of
a sudden you're showing up, uh, slumming on the weekends. Here, Sam,
what's going on? Just to my doing my part here?
And it was brief, but it was memorable. It was
we always appreciated City Patrick, of course, is our brilliant
producer and shielding his resume with each and every show.

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We were talking about, Uh, the fame of Caitlin Clark.
I'm gonna ask you, uh, some women who is more famous? Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
Okay, Kaitlyn Clark or Simone Biles, Kaitlyn Clark?

Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
Does everyone agree with that? That's push?

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
It is a push, and that's why I paused, especially
with what she just did at the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
But I do think you Caitlyn Clark is more famous.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Okay? How about Kaitlyn Clark versus Oprah Winfrey?

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
Ah, Oprah, Oprah and she goes by one name?

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
Okay, all right, I'll give it. Then I'll give you
this Oprah versus Taylor Swift? Who's more famous? Taylor Swift?

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
Is Taylor Swift more famous? And Oprah win Taylor?

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
It might be Taylor Swift.

Speaker 10 (01:17:43):
I mean, like you're talking about enduring legacies for decades,
recognize women in media know who Oprah is over Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
You know, if you were to show to every human
being on the planet a photo of Oprah Winfrey versus
a photo of Taylorylor Swift, who would be more recognizable?

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
That's actually even more interesting because if you don't say
the name.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
I'm saying, recognizable.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
Recognizable, Taylor, Taylor.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
Taylor Swift is more recognizable than Oprah.

Speaker 10 (01:18:16):
Well, we have more TVs than ever, you know what,
more screens and you see her face more Taylor than.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
What you're saying is if I say Taylor versus Beyonce,
who is more recognizable?

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
Taylor? Taylor, Taylor?

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
These are brain twisters. Why, that's the whole point. I'm
the world denizable. We're saying, who is the most recognizable
woman on the planet right now?

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
It's Taylor Swift. I think Beyonce is right there though
beyond you.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
Show a picture a picture of Beyonce, people know it's Beyonce.
That's a good one. See this was It wasn't that
close with Aaron Judge, not even.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
Yes, But if I had thrown show Hey out there
instead of Aaron Judge.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
Yeah, and and that changes things, Yes, because show Hey
comes naturally with an international interest.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
But do people recognize show Hey Tony? They know the name,
but would they recognize it?

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
That is that is a fair question, right?

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
And do people recognize Caitlin Clark?

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
I do think people recognize Caitlin Clark?

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
Do they recognize her if we put her in her
IOWA uniform and if she's in a regular like white
T shirt.

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
Is Angel less recognizable than Caitlin Clark. If you have who,
if you will show me side by side photos of
Angel Resent Caitlin Clark, who is more recognizable, I would
still say.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
It's Kitlin Clark. Maybe not by maybe not by a
large margin, but I think so.

Speaker 1 (01:19:57):
And you don't think sim Own Biles is there?

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
I I don't and I and and right now I
don't think she's there, even more so if we were
to have this this conversation a year, even more so
that it's not Simone Biles. The only reason some open
Biles is close is because the Olympics just happened.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
But she's been in our concert for eight years.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
Now, of course even longer than that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
No, yeah, well since the twenty sixteen games for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
But she's it's she is not the phenomenon that is
Caitlyn Clark.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
I don't know, guys. So where where do we put
Caitlin Clark in terms of most recognizable female on the
planet right now? Is she top five?

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
Top three? Easy three? Top three?

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
So you're saying Taylor's Swift, Beyonce and Caitlyn, that's karb
of the most recognizable woman in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
Yeah, I would. I would stand by that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:47):
I cannot believe that Caitlin Clark is more recognizable than Oprah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:50):
No way, absolutely, way, absolutely, no question. Taste the name maybe,
but people know you put pictures. It's Kaitlyn Clark.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
Interesting. Alright, well, we'll continue this conversation. A lot more
coming up. Don't go anywhere. This is Fox Sports Radio.