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Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending your football Saturday with us.
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Spot day on Monday. I am again so pumped.
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That the way that the schedule now works out, though,
is that we have week zero last week, which is
like cut down days, so like in the NFL world,
we're still very active.
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This weekend.
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Week one of college football for NFL folks is like
actually kind of dead, so perfect. It's so perfect that
we get to actually enjoy football for one week before
you know, the craziness of the NFL season starts. Really
really appreciate the way that this schedule kind of works
out so that we can go and enjoy ourselves one
last time before things get crazy.
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that into my veins. I want to wake up and
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got that this morning, which is what you also usually
wake up on Sunday. So we're about to have like
our weekends of football back. I mean, I think we
really got We got our first epic game on Thursday
with Colorado Shador Sanders Travis Hunter like wow, yes, Wow, yes,
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like showing up and showing out like this is this
is going to be.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, I'm not so sure that Travis Hunter is a
dB in the league. I think he might be an
NFL receiater after that. Oh yeah, yeah, he.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Is a dual threat player. And I mean I heard
a lot of conversations on Friday on sports talk radio
and TV with his name mentioned with the Heisman, but
who knows.
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Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah. Also Diehart, Bears fan that Karmen puts me.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I hosted a podcast with him last last season. I
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like a delusional fan. Yes, which I'm excited for that one.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
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Finley at the news desk, and we'll keep you updated
on all the college football action as it goes down.
But let's start in the NFL and show me the money, baby,
because we got some of the big names finally locked
up and ready to roll. Cowboys at same time, it's
(04:20):
about damn time finally got their deal done with ced
LAMB four years, one hundred and thirty six million dollar extension,
one hundred million guaranteed, thirty eight million signing bonus. CD
is now the second highest paid wide receiver, just behind
Justin Jefferson average per year.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
This was the right move for Dallas.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
This is their top receiver without a close second.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
The offense is dack in CD Lamb.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And I was talking with Jane Slater, Cowboys reporter yesterday,
who told me the vibes were so high at CA
once the contract got done and CD was back there.
She goes, he already had a million dollar smile, but
this time it was a multi million dollar like je Jennie,
I love it so much. But he also looked great.
(05:13):
He came into camp with fifteen pounds of muscle. He
was like visibly bulkier. And I had a chance to
talk with his trainer, doctor Sharif Toba, who had been
working with CD all the way back in March up
until the day that his contract was done and he
came back out to camp, and he said through the
whole process he was so blown away with CD's infectious,
(05:38):
positive attitude every single day. And he went in with
the goal this offseason to really improve explosiveness and lateral
agility and yards after catch. And they're gonna need that
because CD is this offense this season for the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, I mean I would also have a positivebout it
if I knew that I was coming, I was coming
for a pay day because it wasn't a question of if,
it was a question of.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
When and when in time for them.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
And the fact that it even took as much work
from CD, like his hold in all that other stuff,
I just I hate that that's the way the Cowboys operate.
But we know they've proved it to us time and
time again. They keep doing that and it keeps working
out for them. So there's really no repercussions for this.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, why would they change what they're doing?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I CD accounts for a third precisely of Dallas count
of Dallas offense, that's crazy. Thirty percent, that's crazy of
Dak Prescott's passage. Yeah, go to ceedee Lamb. Yeah, like
a third of the offensive snaps. I actually think it is.
So it's wild to think how much is riding on
(06:44):
CD Lamb to And the thing.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Is, too defenses. Can they do hone in on him?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You can focus on him because there isn't anybody else
to take any sort of attention off of CD on
that offense.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And it's what I've been talking about all the.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Time where I'm like, all right, in the regular season,
a quarterback wide receiver duo can kind of like get
you to some wins, get you through the season. But
when it comes to the postseason, this is where you
see the drop off because that is no longer enough.
And that is what I've been talking about where I
need the Cowboys to have a true number two receiver
that's going to take attention off of CD. I need
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them to have a viable backfield, which we'll see now
they have Dalvin cook and they have as you go out,
but like, these are two running backs past their prime, Like,
is Zeke really the answer, right, No, exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Like he already faded out once. Now it's like round two,
let's see, like how productive he's gonna be. I know
he's Dak's guy and he's Jerry's guys.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Right, but like the chemistry, the handle, you're gonna need
him because you don't really have a number two receiver.
I know you have Brandon Cooks there, maybe he can
return to for him, but he is two years removed
from a thousand yard season like he has been in
a study decline. I need to know if Ezekiel Elliott
can still catch passes out of the backfield and be
that checkdown option for Dak Prescott. Yeah, to kind of
round out this offense little bit more. And I don't
(08:01):
know if that's the case. I don't know if CD
can handle that load at this present moment of where
he's at in his career. I would feel so much
better if the Cowboys were in the market for a
true number two, yeah, to help deck out. I like
Jake Ferguson as a tight end too, but it's just
not enough for me once the postseason comes. But that's
the thing is, they'll get to twelve wins before that
(08:23):
and everybody's.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Like, oh see, like Doc, we did just fine. I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I very much though, appreciate that Ceedee Lamb got paid
right under Justin Jefferson's contract.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
He is absolutely with it, worth it.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
He's the second best receiver in the league in my opinion,
right behind Justin Jefferson. They got this kind of pay
structure right to me, But also like, this is something
that people have been talking about literally this exact contract
for months. Yeah, why why why might have to come
down to the eleventh hour like.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
He could have been with the team.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I mean he mind you, like I said when I
talked to his trainer, like he was in peak shape
ready to go, But.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That doesn't that doesn't always happen.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, But also like you need the gameplay Like there's
a difference between staying in shape and being in game year.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
There's absolutely a difference between you doing things on your
own and then being also part of a team, running
routes over and over and over again with the rest
of the team and getting those reps defense in front
of you. And also just I mean him and Dak
are obviously familiar with each other, but there are tweaks
and changes and everything to the offense, Like you don't
want to be behind in that. And that's why it
was important that this was a hold in so Ceedie
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was still in the classroom. He was still understanding what
was happening as far as what the what the changes
to the playbook were, all that kind of stuff. He
could digest it. But at the same time, there is
no reason that he needed to lose reps on this. Also,
now the Cowboys have backed themselves into a corner of
having to pay CD Dak potentially and Michael Parsons, by
the way, is coming down the pipeline. All at the
(09:52):
same time, I'm like, why didn't you just get CD
done last year?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
So then let's talk about Dak because it does not
look like he's going to get it deal done before
the start of the season, and when he spoke this week,
it made you think he's having kind of that final
realization that this might be his last season with the Cowboys.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
I think it says a lot if it is or
if it isn't. But however, doesn't really matter to me
to be on sweet. That's the business and the nature
of this, this game that we play. Yeah, I mean
I stopped honestly listening to things that he says to
the media a long time ago, so doesn't really holdway
with me.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It's just interesting because he's always been that guy that
says the right thing. He's so positive, he's so fired up.
This was a different this was a different sounding Dak,
And we've talked about this over and over again. This
whole offseason change. I don't think would be a bad
thing for Dak. This is his ninth season with the Cowboys.
He was the runner up in the MVP vote last season.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He will oh this year, he will get a max deal.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Wherever he ends up, a team that is desperate for
a franchise quarterback will give him whatever he wants. It
could be a blessing in disguise for him. I think again,
a lot's going to depend how the season goes with
Dak and the Cowboys. I mean, you not only have Dak,
but you have Mike McCarthy. You have your quarterback and
head coach playing on the last years of their contract
(11:15):
with no other contract like Insight at this moment. So
it's a very interesting vibe with this team this season.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I do think that we are reading a little too
much into him dismissing what Jerry says Jerry Jones says
in the media, because I think he he's still having
conversation He's had conversations with Jerry Jones behind closed doors,
and I think he realizes that what Jerry says to
the media and what he says behind closed closed doors
are two different things. Yeah, so all he's worried about
is the conversations that he's actually having with Jerry. But
(11:44):
the overall vibe of this press conference makes me think
that he didn't get good news because I was thinking, Yeah,
after this one of his voice after the CD deal,
I'm like, Okay, this probably goes a long way with
Dak knowing he's going to have his number one receiver
locked up and he knows what this kind of is
going to look like.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But then for him to come out and be a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
More candid than we're used to him being and saying
like that's going to say a lot if this deal
is done or not by the season. I'm not one
that thinks that any of these that it's so rare
that a major deal like this would ever get done
during the season. So we are quite literally running out
of room for this deal to get done. If it
doesn't get done five days this weekend, essentially, it has
(12:24):
to get done this weekend otherwise. Here's the thing about it, though,
I want Dak to go elsewhere because I want the
Cowboys to have to atone for the way that they operate.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I want them to be held account.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Are petty, petty, petty, petty.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It is such a petty want, but I am petty. Okay.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
The reason that their the Cowboys operate this way we
just talked about is because there's never any repercussions for
them doing this. They make their star players, their homegrown talent,
work every single time for their contract, no matter what
position they play, which is absolutely insane. Like, if I'm
a player and I've done everything that's expected of me
and then some, and I'm one of the best at
my position, I want to feel valued. I want you
(13:09):
as my employer to say, we appreciate you. Here's what
you're worth. We think it's top of the market.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Because it is. We're so happy that we're even able
to do this deal for you. That is not what
the Cowboys do now, and.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Think about it, I think that goes for like any
person at any job. Everyone anyone just.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Wants to feel valued.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Everyone and when you feel valued, you're going to give
that extra one hundred and ten percent in whatever capacity
you need to for whatever job you're doing.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
And there are so few players that have the type
of leverage that Dak Prescott now has because he has
a no tag clause, he has a no trade clause.
This is entirely up to him. Whatever he does from
here on out is entirely up to him. The Cowboys
could come to him with a top of the market
money sixty million dollars a year and he could say,
you know what, Nah, I want to hit free agency.
(13:54):
And I don't think that even precludes him from signing
back with the Cowboys. But for all the work that
they make their players do, I want them to have
to work for Dak Prescott. I want them to be
in the bidding war in free agency.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I'm petty. I'm petty, And if Dak signs with.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
The Cowboys, there's going to be a little part of
me that is disappointed that he didn't hold their feet
to the fire. Go take them to free agency and
make them get involved to show him how much they
value him.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's me. I'm petty.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Deep breath, deep breath, Okay, real quick here. Moving on
to the other big deal that was signed this week.
Forty nine Ers finally inked a deal with Brandon Ayuk
four years, one hundred and twenty million dollar extension, seventy
six million guaranteed, making Ayuk now tied for the fourth
highest paid wide receiver. Now, I don't think this was
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as big of a deal for the fort nine Ers
as for the Cowboys, because it's not a make or
break for the fort nine ers. Yes, Ayuk is their
true number one wide receiver has over thirteen thousand yards.
Kittle was number two with like ten twenty debo head
eight ninety two. But they still they have so much talent.
Yes that I think they would have been okay, but
(15:05):
huge congratulations because again, like we were talking about, what
makes an offense so dynamic is when you have so
many different offensive weapons and options that you can throw
off the defense, you don't know where they're going, and
that's that's how you're better.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
But I think.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
The issue the forty nine ers have is that they
still haven't figured out Trent Williams' contract.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yes he is.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
If you don't figure out Trent Williams your left tackle,
he is brock Perty's protection.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I think you have to take the forty nine ers
out of the super Bowl conversation.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I absolutely if you don't figure out, well you do
Trent Williams by the start of the season and he
says like he's not going to report until his contract
is adjusted, you have to take them out of the
super Bowl conversation.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
First of all, Trent Williams is not the one like
you do not play with Trent Williams. He's at out
the twenty nineteen season because Washington wouldn't give him his money. Yeah,
and then he ended up signing with the forty nine Ers.
After that, he will out a year and he doesn't
care that he's thirty six years.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Old, proguably the best lineman in the league and wants
to be paid as such.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
She is the best left tackle league. I get that
he's thirty six, but also he has not dropped in production.
He is still performing at a high level. He is
crucial to this offense. He is crucial to Rock Party,
who only took twenty eight sacks by the way last
year because of his protection around him. That was the
ninth fewest in the league. So this Trent Williams is
the most important part to the forty nine ers offense.
(16:28):
For all the star power that is on the Niners offense,
for the play caller that they have in Kyle Shanahan,
the most important part of the forty nine Ers offense
is left tackle Trent Williams. And you need to get
this deal done with him because he will absolutely take
this you talk about petty. Trent Williams will take this
through the season and will not report and will not
come play for your football team.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Until he gets the money that he deserves, deserves should
not have to work for.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
I don't care if you do anticipate a little bit
of a drop in production when you're talking about Okay,
maybe he drops to like a top five tackle at.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
The end of the day. Of those five, those guys
don't grow on trees.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Also, like, it's not a big sample, but Trent Williams
impact on brock party With Trent and without, He's nineteen
and three. With Trent, he's one and two without. His
passer rating is one fourteen with Trent eighty seven point
nine without.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Like the Niners, this is a big deal, the big
deal for Purt Niners.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
We saw what the Niners looked like without Trent Williams
and actually without Deebo Samuel last year.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, and they went on a skit like not good.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
This is absolutely crucial and it has gotten overshadowed because
brand AYUK has been louder. But Trent Williams is not
the one to play with because I don't think there
was ever really a chance that brand AYK was going
to sit out the season.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
There is absolutely.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Williams will Trent Williams has been a hold out and
will continue to hold it.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
They gotta figure this out. We're gonna take a quick
break here, but when we come back. Was missing the Olympics.
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We got college football going on every TV. One thing
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Speaker 2 (19:05):
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what's happening. We're talking about football, We're talking about music here.
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One thing about me?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, well, yeah, we're glad at Penn State West Virginia
is now started back up. We're in the third quarter now.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I forgot about that raindo less
on the still twenty to six? Yeah, okay, yeah, but
let's talk about a little WNBS.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Sure, because we were down to the last few weeks
of the regular season and we got a show last night,
you guys.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Caitlyn Clark went off.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
She had a career high thirty one points twelve assists,
beating the sky one hundred and eighty one. The fourth
meeting between Kitlyn Clark and Angel Reese and Fever ends
up taking the season series three to one.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I loved seeing these two play together for the first
time during the All Star Game. Obviously, the Wall Star
team beating Team USA, glimpse into the future. But what
I also love about these two women and this rivalry,
because this is a beautiful rivalry that we are getting
as sports fans, is both players have been hounded about
(20:12):
the Rookie of the Year race, and both of them
keep talking about that's not our focus, our job.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
What we're doing right now.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
We are fighting for our.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Teams to get into the postseason. And you can see
like both Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese have that dog
in them. Oh yeah, and you saw it last night.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I it's so crazy in basketball, whether it's men's or women's. Yeah,
one player can make such a huge difference. Because let's
not forget the Indiana fever Worthy worst team in the
league last year by a large margin.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
They were not two years in a row. They had
two years in a row where they had the first
overall pick. Yes, so like they were.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
It wasn't pretty there, No, And now you have them
in the third seed in the Eastern Conference at this point.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, they'gaging on the door. You won three straight.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And also, by the way, Chicago is one seed back.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah, they are five games back, so they're quite a few,
and they've been on a five game losing streak, which
isn't great. But in all of this, though, I mean,
Angel Reese is playing her part.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Yeah, she.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Had ten points, eleven rebounds. So she broke the tie
with Tina Charles for the rookie double doubles record with
twenty three, and she passed Sylvia Fowls for the Chicago
season record.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I mean, both of them were breaking records this year.
I mean, Kaitlyn Clark broke the all time rookie record
for three points on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That was previously set in two thousand and two. She's
gonna blow that record out of the water.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Five for nine on three pointers last night.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It was beautiful. What I also love when she's stuff
Curry with the pot. Yeah, oh yeah, no, no, no, no,
She's insane.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
But I also love Simone Biles was at the game
on Wednesday, and I'm showing a love her reaction when
like everyone on the fever, Like there's a bunch of
videos on social where each one of them came up
to meet her personally and they like smile for the
phone and they're like, oh my godness, some mobiles and
like walked away. Next one came in like smiled, like,
oh my gosh, has some mobiles, and Simone after was
(22:11):
like I love this experience. It's so much different having
female athletes right actually show you a motion of how
they feel when they meet you at post to.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
The men that are like all right, cool, right, nice
to see you, small.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Right right right the way.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Shit, it's a different dynamic in general, and like it's
just the support in women's sports across the board is
so heartwarming.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I like, this is going to be a fun last
few weeks in the w season and a fun postseason
if Caitlin Clark and the Fever and Angel Rees in
the Sky can hold on. But now, let's check in
with Brian Friendly and see what's trending football going on,
and yeah, we definitely do.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
And there we go, there we go.
Speaker 11 (22:52):
Yeah, so right now number two Ohio State is leading
Akron seven to three and they're still in the second quarter.
Early on in the second Akron actually scored first. So
the Akron, now, Carmen and Alex they might not win
the game, but they can at least boast it. At
one point they were leading, they led.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
First.
Speaker 11 (23:12):
Yeah, I don't know if you could put that in
some sort of award and hang that up somewhere. But
I kid, hey, guess what the number eight Penn State
in West Virginia game is back. Yeah, finally it's back.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Baby.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
There was a lightning delay.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
How long was that to like the game delay?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It was at least an hour, at least over an
hour for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
That's so hard too, because these guys are to stay
warm and they have to stay like pumped up, and
you have to get them foods.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
You also have to, like, right, you have to have
to lose.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, they get out and then like pack the stadium back.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And look it looks like it's packed again. People say
they got back.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, most people stayed.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
And then you saw the guys on the desk a
big neon kickoff like there were lightning strikes behind them.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, so so there was all of that.
Speaker 11 (23:53):
But yeah, twenty to six, number eight Pence State they
have they had the football starting up the third quarter
now with the weather allowing also Number seventeen Oklahomas to
tight thirty one to thirteen there in front of South
Dakota State. That one would be three minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Third quarter.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
Number four Texas up a touchdown and a field goal
ten to nothing over Colorado State halfway through the second quarter.
There so low scoring. They're also low scoring in a
battle of two Titans in the Sunshine State Number nineteen
Miami ten Florida three ten minutes remaining in the first
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half Some Finals, Number one Georgia taking care of number
fourteen Clemson thirty four to three in Bulldogs quarterback Carson
Beck two hundred seventy eight yards two touchdowns. I'm curious
what Beck's prospects would be in the NFL. I know
he's There's been a lot of good quarterbacks the Georgia.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Also, I have a stat for you guys of clemsonsk
that I saw on Twitter as this game was wrapping up.
Since the transfer transfer portal opened up in twenty eighteen,
Clemson has had zero darts from incoming transfers they cannot.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Recruit in the transfer part.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
WHOA.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
That was from Kevin de Gandhi of ESPN. I that
like shook me.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
I'm like for what you Clemson used to be with
Trevor Lawrence and like they used to be wide receiver
you like, and also like Dabo's still there. It's just
it's wild how the Mighty have fallen?
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Yeah, and it's old dues the fact that you hate
to say that about a program, but you have to
adapt to the times, right, and.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
They can't get those.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I mean, Dabo is like so anti Anil too, and
he was so historically like anti Anil, and I think
players have picked up on that.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So like, why don't I want to transfer there?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Really really well said.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
And then lastly, as they get it right back to
number fifteen Tennessee sixty nine to three they beat Chattanooga
and number twenty five Iowa forty to nothing against Illinois
State Aide mc namara two hundred and fifty one yards
passing three touchdowns. So Alex and Carmen as they get
it back to you, I guess Iowa has an offense
after all.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, well of average, right, it had to happen at some.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
Point, and it is no offense to Illinois State.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I know Roberts. My brother went there. Roberts.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Oh ouch, did not mean this. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You're listening to Fox Football Saturday Alex Career with Carmen Vitali.
We are broadcasting live from the Tara dot Com Studios
in Los Angeles. Thank you, for spending your Saturday afternoon
with us. But it is time for our first guest, Dodgers'
hosts and the new Broncos team reporter, Alita Hernanez.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Alright, congrats on the.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
New gig Broncos team reporter, Huge. I know you finally
got some time out in Denver. What were the vibes
like around the team and Bonix kind of your first
initial reaction?
Speaker 10 (26:46):
Yeah, I mean first walking Meerts, thank you guys, some guys,
and I'm really excited to become part of Broncos organization.
And yeah, when I went out there, it was really
interesting to kind of be a play on the role, right,
like you're getting there, you're learning. This is before the
fifty three roster cuts were made, so everybody was really
like amped up and hungry. It's a lot of younger guys.
They do have some vets on the team, but I
(27:08):
think like what I saw the interest to me was
the quarterbacks. Right, you had Zach Wilson and you had
Bo Nicks yet steady, and you know, Zach has been
just such a voice of like positivity and gratefulness, and
he had even said after Bo was named the starter,
he was like, are you really surprised.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yes, we love self aware.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
Yeah, yeah, Like have you seen this guy at play?
And I think just seeing both, he's very poised, he's
very mature for being a rookie. And I think that
really comes from just like his sixty one starts in
college football, which is really unseen from a quarterback position.
Speaker 12 (27:42):
Right.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
People are really just trying to get to the NFL,
and because of COVID, he was kind of forced little
to stay and stay in college, and I think that's
really kind of helped them transition, especially coming onto this
team that's looking to make the playoff push after missing
it for what the last eight seasons.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yes, it's been a while.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I want to know what you've kind of observed between
Bonicks and Sean Payton, because Sean Payton was the driving
force behind letting Russell Wilson go and therefore costing the
franchise fifty three million dollars in dead cap to pay
Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
To not play there.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
But then on top of that, he goes and takes BONICKX,
who many thought were a Day two was a Day
two pick with the twelfth overall pick. He has his
fingerprints all over this. What have you seen between the
two of them, How is their vibe? How do they
work together? It just it seems like Sean Payton is
there to just mold Bonicks into the next Drew Brees O.
Speaker 10 (28:34):
Yeah, well that's the.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
Hope, right, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 10 (28:38):
But you know, I again, like I just got there.
I was only there for about four days watching practice
before I came back home, and then now I'm going
to head back out there. So I don't have a
really big pool to really like super common on that.
But I will say like Sean Payne has had nothing
but positive needs to stay about Bonick, especially like saying
like his leadership that he's had on the team. He's
spoken about, you know, to the media about just like
(29:00):
his maturity and the fact that he's almost surprised like wow,
like you're a rookie, like you move with such poise.
Patritaine also said the same. By him, a lot of
the guys have been on this team are just like
he's one of those guys that he walks into the
room and you instantly want to look at him, you
to want to see what he has to say, and
just in practice, like he just seems really impressed with
him It was funny when when he announced that Bo
was the starter. He you know, he spoke to the
(29:21):
media and he said like, yeah, like it was before practice.
I went up to them, I said, hey, Bo's a starter.
He's like I wanted to tell them before it came
out in the in the media. He even acknowledged to
the media like, I know, you guys been patient waiting
to see what the starter was. He was like, but
there was no cake and flowers. You know, it was
just like we told them. Everyone like Zach and said
he looked at him, they kind of give the head nod.
Both said thank you, and then it was just time
(29:43):
for practice. So it's very business as usual what I'm seeing.
And I mean, obviously Champagne is very decorated in this league,
and I think that that that mentality and that culture
is definitely starting to make its way into Denver.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Love it. I love hearing that. I mean, I mean,
it has to work, right.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
The Broncos made their choice of Sean Payton over Russ Wilson,
but let's switch to your other team, the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Shoh Otani made history.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Last night, the first player ever with forty three home
runs and forty three stolen bases.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
What is he meant to this Dodgers team this season?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And can he be that X factor to kind of
help the Dodgers get over that playoff hump?
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Yeah, I mean he has meant that. He is worth
every single petty. Yeah, He's literally in a league of
his own. Like there's no player before that has put
up these numbers in the season, and I think what
the Dodgers have. It always blows my mind that he
even became a Dodger, right, Like, he's such a generational talent.
(30:42):
He's said something where it's just like how did the
Dodgers get him? You know, And so it's a big
shout out to that front office and the way they've
been able to kind of to make those deals happen.
And he's just been such a force. He's such you know,
when the team is in like they're kind of struggling,
he comes in with a big swing the other day
after his bubblehead night, everyone that everyone got to hit
(31:02):
literally except for him right before he was on fire.
So he is such a force in its own and
I think what he's been able to bring to this
team is really gonna be showing the playoffs. Now, it's
crazy to think that show hail Tani has not had
any playoff experience played whose season ex.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Right, I love, I love, but it's unfair to him
and Trout for there on that team.
Speaker 10 (31:36):
It's insane. It's insane that this will be his first
taste of the postseason, and I really feel like it's
going to unlock a new layer of his game and
his intensity because he is clearly showing his books for
these moments. He's he's so playful, he made history. He
was kind of just like choking around, like wow, It's like,
do you realize what you're doing, what you're showing to
the squad? And so I think I think with the
(31:57):
postseason he could be that X factor that kind of
comes up, especially because we've had postseasons where the bats
really go cold. But I mean, for me, the biggest
thing that worries me is just the pitching rotation. Is
really was something that the Dodgers are trying to fix.
A lot of injuries have kind of happened. We've always
been plagued with that. Doudges have always been kind of
been plagued with that the last few years. That rotation, I.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Mean, Yamamoto made his first rehab start this week after
two months on the IL.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Do you expect him to be back at full strength
in time for the postseason run, because I mean we
have now like all of their top guys have had
some sort of stint on the IL season.
Speaker 10 (32:34):
Yeah, no, I mean mager Dave Roberts said the Alomoto
will throw a bullpen session on September first, and then
make another rehab start for Okac around September third. The
goal is for him to complete around three innings and
if he can get through a couple more outings like that,
you know, they've always sad the Dodgers do feel comfortable
enough with inserting him back into the starting rotation. Yeah,
(32:55):
but it really depends on that. Obviously, he's making a
significant step in the right direction and he's definitely needed.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
But you know, it was one of those things that
happened so early in the season that you're like, okay, like,
how do we get you back where we don't rush you.
You know, we're chugging along, We're we're making it as
much after yesterday when Kershaw came out in the first
time and really kind of showed that Yesterday was such
a weird game, But I think that's the hope. You know,
they hope to get on full strength. But I think
(33:22):
they're going to be very cautious with him then, and
they sign them to a very long to you and
I think it's like, let's not bring you out before
we need to. But I think they're chugging along with
his recovery.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I mean, Dodger's first team to hit eighty wins. Should
they be World Series favorites?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
I mean I picked at the beginning of the year,
right or diving? Yeah, I think we both like the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yankees like World serious, how much MLBA would just combust?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I've been calling it since before the season started. I've
gotten a lot of hate. I've gotten a lot of hate.
To get the cop out, I was.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Like, we're getting into the stretch here, and it looks
real likely the two best players in the league right
now are on these two teams.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Carrying these teams.
Speaker 10 (33:59):
Nothing is Where's where's the lie?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Where's the.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
I think the favorite of the Yankees and the Dodgers,
that's the World Series everyone wants. And obviously they had
that series in New York, which which was a lot
of fun to kind of see. So, I mean, it's
just I think the biggest thing for me with when
it comes to the postseason, it comes to World Series runs,
is if the Dodgers win their division, how that week
is that bileague? Basically it's going.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
To affect them, right.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
It really affected all top teams last season, you know,
so the Orioles, the Braves, I think the footage were
the only ones that really got through it. But it's
you know, baseball players are not meant to have so
many days off we're used to, like honestly.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
It's it's been a little bit harder for the Dodgers
down the stretch now, like they've had to like work
to stay at the top of the standards and stuff
like that. And that's what I'm saying is I think
it's really actually a good thing because then they're going
to be warmed up and ready and getting healthy at
the right.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Time, be fighting and fighting into the postseason, which is
what I think they were missing at Leasta your gem.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
We're so pumped for so proud of you. Someone who
is a team reporter for six years. I'm so I'm
so thrilled for you to have this experience, because there's
nothing like it when you're really embedded with the team
like that, it's.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Family, it is.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
Yeah. I'm excited. You guys know I've been a member
of Bronco's country as a fans because I was a kid,
even though I grew up in La. Yeah, but you know,
to have this opportunity again, Like, I'm super excited. I
can see you guys both at games. I'll be back
number twenty second for the game. So make sure you
guys come out because I'm gonna miss you guys so much.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
We love that. Have a great week one hun.
Speaker 10 (35:34):
Thanks Bry guys.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Bye, all right when.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
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Speaker 2 (36:31):
Welcome back to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Coury here
with Carmen Vitally. We are broadcasting live from the tark
dot Com studios in Los Angeles. Thank you for spending
your Saturday afternoon with carme and me. And it is
time for the dues and the don'ts in sports, highlighting
the dudes.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Putting us spotlight on the don't.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
The subject brings me no joy. Don't do that, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Next time for the dues and the dons in sports.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
All right, I want to start with a due. Okay,
do leave the family business at home.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
This week, Lebron was.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Lebron was asked because Lebron and Bronnie are the first
father said do a playing together in the NBA. And
he was asked like, are you gonna let Bronnie call
your dad when you're at practice and at games? And
he said, Bronnie cannot and will not call him dad
while they're like two three three, bron Like, while they're
(37:32):
at the Lakers' facilities, you know that's going to slip
out at some point.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
How does it not yet?
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Like, Oh, no, it absolutely is. It's like when you
accidentally call your teacher mom. Yeah too, Like it's just like,
did you have.
Speaker 10 (37:42):
One of that?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Did you have a I did that once? Did your
mom a teacher?
Speaker 11 (37:45):
No?
Speaker 4 (37:45):
But it's just like sometimes like you're just it's it's
just ingreen and so it's just like Okay, thanks mom,
and you're just like so like when it's actually your dad, Yeah,
it's absolutely gonna happen, for sure, gonna happen. It's really
funny too. I friend of the show Michael Junior, Yeah,
does a show with his dad, Mike Golick Senior, Daddy
Zaddy and Zach Saddy. I make him so uncomfortable everything
(38:07):
I talk about how.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Much his dad is the silver Fox. He called him dad.
So he does.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
And they had this conversation because when they were at
ESPN together to sing a show, the producers were like,
I think you should probably not call him dad, and
they both looked at each other and they were like,
what am I supposed to call him Mike?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Like absolutely not. Under called you Mike and Day in
my Life, And so they call it. It's really funny
that makes a show like Daring it is.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
It is funny when you have to like talk to
both of them. I've been on the show a couple
of times. It's like you do have to refer to
them as like senior and junior to differentiate. It's adorable though.
I might also has to kind of do with Lebron.
I have a du do put on for the New Wave.
I'll start with Lebron since we already talked about him.
Lebron James tweeted about Kaitlyn Clark. Yeah, just last night,
(38:50):
after she has this racket of breaking performance, he goes
Kaitlyn Clark in all caps, all exclamation points.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
High haters.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Yeah, love love, love to see Lebron James not only
as a member of the NBA putting on for a
WNBA player but as a member of kind of like,
you know, the previous generation of these massive, massive stars.
And then earlier this week, Rebecca Lobo came to the
(39:16):
defense of Angel Reese. Okay, so people have been kind
of coming down on Angel Reese for her rebounds, being like, well,
how much of those are actually your own misshots?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 9 (39:26):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Rebecca Lobo said that she said some of her critics
like to say she gets a lot of offensive rebounds
off her own missus.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Well, our stats and Information group look that up.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
If you take away all of the offensive rebounds off
her own missus, Angel Reese is still leading the league
in offensive rebounds her game.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Yep, boom drop.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
I'm going to just kind of like add this one
on to that because I saw this this morning, Shack
commenting he was at the game last night, the Fever
Sky game, and he goes, I love this. Now the
next step is getting these women paid as much as
our NBA guys.
Speaker 9 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
I was a little like like by Shack. Okay, my dude,
do teach your dog tricks.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
This week, Sho Tani Bobblehead Night, which also featured his
dog decoy on the Gold bobblehead. By the way, you guys,
people wind up at eleven am for a seven pm
game to get their hands on. The video that you
shared was why Why Wild? But Otani taught his dog,
Decoy to throw out the first pitch, the first dog
(40:30):
to ever throw out a first pitch, And it was
the cutest thing I've ever seen. He left him, he
left him on the mound, stay with the ball, went
behind the plate and then gave him the thumbs up,
and Decoy grabbed the ball and like ran it to him,
like across the plate. Like also not surprise how well
trained Otani's dog, Like the discipline, discipline, every.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Of course he's a good dog trainer on top of that,
Like it's just it's the most wild thing and it's
so fitting and it's just like I love how personal
is now.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Though, but like he's showing a lot more personality now
that he's in La like kind of like this was
a new It's been a really new era. Also like
the silver lining of losing Ekay, his interpreter, Like it
was kind of a safety like his kind wak it. Yeah,
Now he's like more outgoing and like having these like conversations.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
With teammates and being more interactive and on social media.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
And I just the way to anybody's heart is through
a dog. Yes, sure, always, that'll work every single time.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
All right when we come back, Football's back, baby, So
we're playing a bet or bust. You're listening to Fox
Sports Radio. Welcome to hour two of Fox Football Saturday.
I'm Alex Curry alongside Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending
your Saturday afternoon with.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Carmeie and me.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Happy Labor Day weekend, Happy college football season, Happy NFL week.
Also quick shout out to Carmen yesterday and her crazy
that she turned me on to.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
I was like, where are you going with this?
Speaker 10 (42:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (42:04):
My goodness, you guys.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
So I gave up coffee like six months ago, so
I'm always on the hunt for like the best caffeinated tea.
I don't drink coffee. That's a backstit. I drink coffee, Okay.
I felt like Talladegan Knights meme.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
I'm all honked up a mountain dew like I was
bouncing off the walls.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Yes, you know, I got that tea from a friend
of mine who coaches. In the end, he's an NFL
coach and he didn't. He doesn't drink coffee either, and
I was like, what do you do? Like, obviously there's
pulling tons of hours whatever. Yeah, he is now switched
to loose leaf t because he's kind of a tea snob.
It's really cute.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
But he was like, here, this is what I do.
And I'm like, oh, it has literally two hundred milligrams
of coffee. That's an energy drink le per packet. Yes, yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
Alex left it. She tells me that she left it
in the entire time while she was drinking, and I
was like, you're.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Supposed to steep it for six minutes.
Speaker 10 (43:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
I had to like drug myself to sleep last night.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
You guys had to take like a couple extra melowtonins
just to like calm my body down and fall asleep.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
But we're here.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
We learned.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
I drink it like I drink it like every morning.
You're crazy. I don't learn. It's the easy way.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
I learn really hard. It's like you do something you're like, oh, okay, yeah,
don't do that again.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
It was like start with the six minutes. Nope, nope,
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
That's another reason we're all hopped up today because I
also drank one another one this morning, so.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
I every morning I have one and I can feel
myself come to life. It's literally just called high caffeine tea.
If you want it on Amazon, it's a passion for
It's black tea, insane. Thank you and like next time,
pre warning, you have been warned.
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Speaker 3 (44:04):
So let's dive back into football.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Because we are five days away from opening nine on WOOO.
So we're gonna play bet or bust? Are you betting
on these teams or do you think they will be
a bust this season?
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Okay, all right, I think I understand the game. Yep,
We're gonna start with the Jets.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Now, there have been just as much buzz around this
team as they did last season, having Aaron Rodgers for
the first time, but now that Rogers is back and healthy.
They're favored in fourteen games. They have six primetime games. However,
the stories are a little different this time around, because
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stories that are coming out of camp are not great.
The quote was, there is complete disarray over there. Look
at how they've handled Aaron Rodgers. Has one player had
more power than him. He skipped mini camp. They have
been unable to convert him into a team player. The
vibe inside the building is terrible. Now everyone said it
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wasn't a big deal that he missed mini camp. I
stood my ground and said it was if you are
a leader on a team and you are not leading
by example.
Speaker 4 (45:20):
Man, you're forty years old. This isn't any Now, you've
been playing in the league for almost twenty years. You
know how mini camp works.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Oh yeah, I'm going bust. I am not betting on
the Jets this season. Now, we had Deshaun Jackson on
the herd last week, and now I personally had heard
rumors from reporters and friends that have been in and
around the team about the relationship between Aaron Rodgers and
Robert Sala, but DeShawn Jackson he confirmed that Rogers and
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Sala are not on the same page and there are
some major issues.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Yeah, so if that's going down, no, thank you, I'm out.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
It's interesting because Sala is more obviously the defensive side
of the ball. That's kind of his bread and butter.
That's where he It's going to depend, I think on
how much Sala tries to exert his authority over the
offensive side of the ball and therefore Aaron Rodgers, because
at this point Aaron Rodgers still has his guy in
Nathaniel Hackett at offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
He's got Alanizard is still on this roster.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
There's friends that still could be on their way to
the Jets, if David Bactieri's cryptic tweets are to be believed. Yeah,
Rogers wants full control over the offense. He also even
when it comes like when he was in Green Bay
and all this other stuff, he changes. Matt Lafleur copped
to Aaron Rodgers changing like thirty percent of the place,
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which means it's double that. If you're copping to thirty percent,
you need to double that. And it's more basically like.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
He came in and they like handed the offense to them.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
That's what you're doing if you're bringing in an MVP
player like Aaron Rodgers going to adjust to you, You're
going to adjust to him.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
So I am going bust on this all though, because
I do think that there's too many egos in play here.
There's also it's it's a house of cards here in.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
New Jersey's like someone's leaking stories inside the building. Theories
only come out when they want to become Rogers didn't
play in the preseason. I know he was there for Camp.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
I like, from a football standpoint, him missing Mini camp
doesn't make a difference. But from a leadership standpoint and
from you wanting him to be bought into a team.
You can have all the talent in the world, but
if you don't act as one cohesive unit and you
don't have one singular belief that you can do it,
it's not going to work. There's all these intangibles that
just seem.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
The vibes are bad.
Speaker 4 (47:42):
But also with how much Rogers changes things and how
many He's very particular with how he wants the routes run,
with how he wants these options thrown. Like he is
so particular with all of this, and these guys that
are around him don't have enough of of reps with
Rogers and how he operates because it it turned four
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snaps into the season last year. This is just I
couldn't believe that, Like, he wasn't doing everything possible to
gel with these guys. You saw him get into it
with Garrett Wilson, who is his number one receiver. I
just the Jets have invested so much in this, and
even Rogers said it, it's all riding on his shoulders,
and it's all riding on the Jets not only winning,
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in my opinion, winning a playoff game, but to make
all of this worth it, they need to make a
playoff run.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
They need to get to the super Bowl because their
window is not How long is there a playoff drought?
Is it since twenty ten? One of the longest? It
is the longest. Yeah, it's the longest. So that's what
I thought. I was like, I know it's up there.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
It's either twenty ten or twenty twelve, but it's the
longest playoffs drout in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
We are both busts.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
But yeah, I just I don't see this. I just
don't see it going.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Well, especially at the head coach and the quarterback are
not on the same tame.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
Real quick That was the other thing too, where I
was like solid did not have to say that rogers
absence was unexcused in mini camp. No he did not.
Speaker 3 (49:02):
He could cover for him. He chose violence. He shows
violence in that market. In that market.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Oh yeah, he knew it is.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
I mean, listen talking about those aren't fighting words last hour.
Speaker 4 (49:12):
I love a petty king like I was talking about
last hour, but like he can't have two petty kings.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Nope, going at each other your two years?
Speaker 9 (49:22):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
Okay, let's move on to our next team. Carmen the Bears,
the Bears, the Bears. Now, besides Aaron Rodgers, I try to.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Do it like Cam Williams. I can't.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
I can't even get that high.
Speaker 3 (49:33):
How did he do it?
Speaker 4 (49:34):
He goes the ber he like sings it, but he
says it like in a higher voice, like it's really cute.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Okay, So besides Aaron Rodgers, I think Caleb Williams has
the second most pressure coming into this season with the
high expectations.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
He's going to have every eyeball on him.
Speaker 10 (49:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
I do believe he will be the best quarterback the
Bears have ever had, not saying a lot. The bars
pretty low. They've never had a quarterback through over four
thousand years.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
I wanted to throw thirty touchdowns either.
Speaker 9 (50:02):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
The good news for Caleb they don't play division opponent
until Week eleven, so there are some lighter games for
him to ease his way into the NFL before they
hit the NFC North. I'm betting on the Bears. I'm
betting on the Bears and Caleb Williams.
Speaker 4 (50:22):
We are, We're aligned. I am cautiously optimistic. You guys
have to understand. I grew up in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
Let down. I've been let down. I have scars.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
I have a lot of wounds and battle scars from
supporting this team my entire life.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
You traumatized.
Speaker 4 (50:40):
I'm absolutely traumatized. I mean I remember crying when the
Bears got Jay Cutler, thinking that this was it.
Speaker 9 (50:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (50:47):
I was like, oh my god, oh my god, They're
gonna have offense, and like they did, they had offensive pieces.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
Yeah, and the teas it was a total tease.
Speaker 4 (50:54):
Yeah it didn't. I mean, they made it to the
NFC Championship against the Green Bay Packers and then lost
famously after Jay Cutler blew out his knee in the
first half, I mean just right there. And then you know,
there was the two thousand and six Super Bowl, even
if you're going back before that two thousand and sixth season,
and Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 3 (51:13):
My god, the Bears are gonna win.
Speaker 4 (51:15):
Yeah no, no, Mark Rex Grossman's quarterback, who was I
was delusional at that point.
Speaker 3 (51:21):
This is now my time?
Speaker 1 (51:22):
Is your guy?
Speaker 4 (51:23):
Ryan Poles, when he was hired general manager, said he
was brought to Chicago to break cycles.
Speaker 3 (51:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
So far he has done that by creating, over a
period of time three years now, three off seasons, a
roster that was ready to have youth and a really
dynamic quarterback prospect in it because there was development in
the coaching staff that was that was available. There's all
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this talent around him. The defense should be able to
be relied upon as a top five unit this year.
It's like a per perfect storm of a situation that
Ryan Poles has built. There's a little bit of luck
involved with them getting the first overall pick from Carolina
and then the best quarterback prospect we have seen in
years come out to be the number one overall pick
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in the year that you have the number one overall pick.
So it seems like there is a perfect storm brewing
in Chicago. I am so hesitant to even say this
because he has not played a snap, but okay, Caleb
Williams h should be yeah, the best quarterback in Bears
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history within the next two years. I'm not gonna say
right now, but like you were talking about.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
I said, I believe he's going to be the best
quarterback the Bears.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
I've ever had to do that.
Speaker 4 (52:46):
Even he could feasibly do that this year with the
season Jordan Love had in Green Bay. Oh yeah, like
four thousand yards, thirty touchdowns. It's a pretty run of
the mill stat line for an NFL quarterback, and that
would be their best friend. He should blow past the
rookie records by Halloween. But to that, to your point
from earlier, leading up to that week eleven game against
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the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field, which is when
the Bears open up Division play, yep. Before that, you
have the Patriots. Before that, you have the Cardinals. Before that,
you have the Commanders. Before that, you have your bye week.
Before that, you have the Jaguars in London. Before that,
you have the Panthers, that whole stretch, that's a pretty.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
Like should allow you to gel. Nothing's going to be easy,
but an easier stretch, it should be a really good
kind of like, let's get our footing.
Speaker 4 (53:39):
And because I mean the first couple weeks of this season,
I don't think the Titans are going to be an
easy out to open the season. But then you get
the Texans week two in Houston, and then you also
have to play the Rams two weeks later.
Speaker 3 (53:50):
But that's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 4 (53:51):
But if you can then win a majority of those
next few games leading up to Week eleven, and then
Alex the meat of the sandwich.
Speaker 3 (54:00):
If you can take the meat of the sandwich. Oh,
if you can beat the Packers at home for the first.
Speaker 4 (54:03):
Time, and how long they have lost twelve of the
last thirteen at Soldier Field to the Packers.
Speaker 3 (54:09):
If they can beat if you could see the Green
Bay you guys could just see Carbon's face right now.
She's talking about this, the pitch talks about it ad
nauseam all.
Speaker 4 (54:17):
If they can beat the Green Bay Packers Week eleven,
Caleb's first start against their division rivals, which hasn't been
much of a rival re lately.
Speaker 3 (54:27):
Yep, Chicago is just gonna go.
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Riot they Yes, I have, Like we won.
Speaker 4 (54:35):
I saw this one speak a couple of weeks ago.
They could not win another game after that, and Bears
fans would be like, no, this is this is gonna work.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
This is gonna work. But don't change a thing. We're
gonna keep going. It'll be fine, like we're we're in.
Speaker 1 (54:49):
We're in.
Speaker 3 (54:50):
But like I mean, it's a little bit of hyperbole.
Speaker 4 (54:51):
But at the same time, like if they can win
that game, in particular, I I'm going to be in
Chicago for that game anyway, I will stay probably longer
than I was supposed to, just because I want to enjoy.
Speaker 3 (55:03):
I'm going to be at a bar right after the.
Speaker 2 (55:05):
Game, is what I'm gonna do again if they win.
If they win, if they win, if not, crying at
your computer. Okay, let's move to our next better bust.
We've been aligned on these which, guys, we didn't talk
about this beforehand.
Speaker 1 (55:16):
No, he didn't the Bills.
Speaker 2 (55:18):
Now this week ESPN released a player poll and Josh
Allen was voted most overrated quarterback by his peers. So
now there have been extremely high expectations for Josh since
he got in the league. He has the talent, he
has the arm, but the bar has been super Bowl
and he keeps running into Mahomes in the postseason and
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Alan has zero to three against Mahomes in the postseason.
And last year it felt like it was supposed to
be his year, mahomes first road playoff game, and the
Bills still lost. I I'm honestly on the fence. Oh
I've got this one, but I'm leaning more towards the
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bus side.
Speaker 3 (56:01):
I think the question is, can Josh.
Speaker 2 (56:03):
Allen carry this team once again after losing their top
two weapons and Stefan Diggs and Gabe Davis.
Speaker 3 (56:08):
I I don't know.
Speaker 4 (56:11):
I mean, that's that's the thing is, I don't know
Josh Allen is going to have the opportunity he's gonna
have to carry to shut these people up, to shut
the rest of the league up, apparently if player wise,
because if he can elevate this receiver room, which I
think he can, and Keon Coleman is just impossibly likable.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
I absolutely adore him.
Speaker 4 (56:29):
Oh yeah, if he can be what they need him
to be in a number one wide receiver, and then
you can also lean on James Cook in the backfield.
We're not talking enough about this guy who had over
eleven hundred yards last year had four hundred and something
receiving yards as well. He's a dual threat running back
out of the backfield. He can be a safety net
for Josh Allen yep, and be extremely productive on top
of that.
Speaker 3 (56:51):
I think that this is going I think the Bills.
Speaker 4 (56:52):
Are going to be fine. I honestly think that Matt Milano.
If you're betting on the Bills, I am betting on
the Bills. Okay, the Matt Milano injury to me was
the most worrisome, even more so than losing stuff and
losing Gabe Davis. I don't understand how in the world
Josh Allen could be voted as one of the most
overrated players. I'm like, this time, you're coming from offensive players,
because defensive players when you are going against the Bills,
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the tape that you have to study and the way
that Josh Allen can get himself out of things, and
the physicality with which Josh Allen plays the quarterback position. Yeah,
I don't like every defense is scared of him. Every
defense is scared of.
Speaker 3 (57:27):
Him, so I'm like this.
Speaker 2 (57:28):
He was also voted trash talker. Oh yeah, which I
think maybe plays into the most okay rates, Like have you.
Speaker 4 (57:36):
Seen the trash he does talk? Because the Bills have
put it out there before. Oh I would they like
there's like miked up moments with Josh Allen and like
some of them. I mean obviously they added out like
all of the really really profane one, but they're.
Speaker 1 (57:47):
Like they're hysterical. Yeah, he's hysterical.
Speaker 3 (57:50):
I love it. I'm still in on the Bills. I
really am.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Okay, I really am, and I'm in on Josh Allen. Okay,
so real quick, we're gonna do one more. But Chargers
has changed for them this season obviously, New head coach
Jim Harbaugh said that, like the culture has changed for
the better, but can that reflect on the field for wins.
I could be delusional, but I am betting on the Chargers.
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I'm a believer in Jim Harbaugh, his culture, how he
turns teams around. Herbert also has the talent but hasn't
had the right coach. He's heading into his fifth season
with his fourth head coach. The look on your face, Okay,
what are you better bust?
Speaker 3 (58:26):
I'm I'm busting right now. Okay, I'm betting right now. Okay,
so we good. We did not agree on the last two.
Speaker 2 (58:34):
We will reconvene on these better bus halfway through the season.
We're going to take a quick break here, but when
we come back, should show how you Tani win his
third MVP. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back
to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry alongside Carmen Vitali,
coming to you live from the Tarak dot Com studios
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with Carme and me.
It's been a fun ra today.
Speaker 4 (59:03):
Yeah the dancing.
Speaker 2 (59:05):
You guys, sometimes I forget you can't see us. You're
just hearing us and no, yeah, we're we're having a time.
I'll just tell you that we are having a time.
We're gonna switch gears and talk a little baseball because
Shoho Tani is him, you guys, once again. Having an
MVP caliber season made history last night, the first player
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ever with forty three home runs and forty three stolen
bases in the same season. Now the last player because
he reached that forty two to forty two club earlier
this week on his bibblehead night. The last player to
do that was a rod in ninety eight, twenty six
years ago. So I mean, what he is doing for
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the game of baseball. Obviously he it's hard to put
into words what he did when he came into the
league as a two way player. But with him just
focusing on offense this year, we're seeing how incredible his
talent can be when honed in on just one aspect
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of his game. And everybody knows it too, you guys.
We talked about it earlier his bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
This was this week.
Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Fans were lining up at eleven am for a seven
pm game. Lines went around the stadium and I googled
what those gold bobbleheads are going for right now? From
ten thoy to eighteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Holy mo.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Yeah, that's insane. Yeah, because not all the fans got them.
I think they had like, yeah, they never have enough. Yeah,
they never have enough for the entire stadium.
Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
That's because it's like usually they're ten son of ized
people to get in there early and do all that
kind of stuff. But like then every now and again
it comes around there's a giveaway that like just but yeah, no,
they never the doctors never have no enough for the
whole stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
It's insane. Now Otani is en route for his third MVP.
Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
No P i'mory DH player has ever won an MVP,
So if it happens, he would be the first player
to ever win as just a DH.
Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
And I mean he's n L MVP odds.
Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Right now, Otani is minus fourteen hundred and Francisco Lindoor
is plus five point fifty.
Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Oh, it's not even It's not even close right now,
it's not even close.
Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
But I think there's another point to this conversation that
kind of takes a little bit of a left turn
here because we talk about how amazing his offense has
been this season, but it's still only the eleventh best
offensive season that Barry Bonds had.
Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
Put Barry Bonds in.
Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
The Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Everybody, I will, I will die on this hill. Everybody
was on steroids during that time.
Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
It was like culture.
Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
The pictures were like the pictures were also.
Speaker 4 (01:01:51):
That's always been with it is like it was a
level playing field. Everybody was doing it like I guess
it was the reason that performance enhancing drugs our outlawed
is because it gives you a leg up and whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
And if you're willing to risk that and do that.
Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Then usually you're like only one of the only people
doing it. Well, everybody in baseball was doing it at
the time. I free it was a level like if
you weren't cheating, you weren't trying.
Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
I mean, they had bowls of greenies just sitting in
the clubhouse like that was a thing. And we still
use his stats like Bonds is the all time leader
in home runs with seven sixty two so single season
home runs with seventy three, and the season that Otani
is having right now that everyone's freaking out about that
he might get a third MVP with is only the
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eleventh best offensive season that Barry Bonds had.
Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
Let that settle in for a moment, and it is
leading the league.
Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
Make no mistake, like shows forty three home runs. We
actually Marcello Zuna has the third best MVP odds, and
even then he still has what thirty seven home runs HM,
but he's also as a DH. I think it's very
interesting that the top two of the top three in
MVP odds in the National League inward agous.
Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
So Otani is him put bonds in the Hall of Fame. Now,
let's check it with Brian Frimley and see what's trending.
Speaker 11 (01:03:13):
Yeah, that is a saga that continues. We could go on,
yes for sure. Hey, by the way, there's a ton
of college football going on. Let's let's talk about that.
Ohio what's up? Yeah, so Ohio State, the number two
ranked team in the country, getting a surge of offense
from the quarterback Will Howard now Thurman.
Speaker 5 (01:03:33):
A motion from right to left, Will Howard takes a
hand off lopside into the end zone, caught touchdown Jeremyah Smith.
As Howard hit, he Will to strike nine yard scoring
place second time. Those two have hooked up with the
Buckeyes and Ohio State's lead is sixteen to three.
Speaker 11 (01:03:48):
Buckhy Radio network after the extra point at seventeen to three.
Buck guys leading at the half against Akron. Over on
Fox Television Number eight, Penn State is all over West
Virginia thirty four to twelve.
Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
This was one of the first windows.
Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
There's nine minutes to.
Speaker 11 (01:04:01):
Go in the fourth quarter, but there was a more
than hour long lightning delay that had things starting later
than usual coming out of the half.
Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Because of the weather issues.
Speaker 11 (01:04:11):
Number four Texas is dominating thirty one to nothing against
Colorado State early stages of the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
There quinn Ewers, the social.
Speaker 11 (01:04:19):
Media sensation has two hundred and forty eight yards passing,
three touchdowns and the one pick halftime in Gainesville, Well
where at number twenty we're number nineteen Miami has a
twenty four to ten edge over the Gators. Some of
the finals to get to involving top twenty five teams.
Number seventeen Oklahoma State clinch is a forty four to
twenty went over South Dakota State. Number one Georgia dominates
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thirty four to three against number fourteen Clemson. Carson Beck,
the Bulldogs quarterback, had two touchdowns through the air. Number
fifteen Tennessee sixty nine to three against ut Chadden Nougat
running up the score. Imagine how the Mocks had field
their coaching staff when they finish that game. Number twenty
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five Iowa forty to nothing over Illinois State forty to nothing. Yes,
Cade mac Damara two hundred and fifty one yards passing
and three touchdowns, and yeah, I still can't as I
get it back over to you, Alex and Carmen. Why
are you scoring sixty nine points to three? Like I
don't understand, Like I know you're better.
Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Ye, because it's nice, because it's nice. Stop.
Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
No, there is no mercy rule you. You keep playing
as hard as you can until the end.
Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Of the game. I am a believer.
Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
Okay, nice.
Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Yeah, it's just nice. Yeah, it's all I'm gonna say. People.
They gotta get it. Yeah, oh, I gotta get it.
Thank you, Brian. You're listening to Fox Football Saturday. I'm
Alex Curry here at Carmen Vitali.
Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
We are broadcasting live from Attara dot Com Studios in
Los Angeles, and it is time for our next guest,
Mister Fantasy NFL Networks Adam Rak Thanks for joining the show.
Speaker 9 (01:05:57):
Oh my gosh, it is such an amazing time to
be on with the both of you. Yeah, two of
my favorites from the Women's Mafia.
Speaker 4 (01:06:08):
It's so true.
Speaker 9 (01:06:11):
I watch it. It's just like you get It's like
the nWo back in the day, Like you guys just
got a new member, like it's Blackham but huge fans
of you guys. Obviously, obviously we.
Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
Love to talk to you, Adam.
Speaker 12 (01:06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:06:24):
I cannot wait to hear you and Greg Braggs do
with the Sick podcast together, because I think you guys
are just going to absolutely like feed off of each
other and.
Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
No one's going to be there to rain you in.
So I rained. I rained at him in last season.
Greg is not going to do any such things for him. Love,
let's start.
Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Let's start with your Bears, your your delusional fandom of
your Bears. The most anticipated season in decades for Chicago.
All eyes are going to be on Caleb Williams. So
what for you as a diehard Chicago Bears fan, what
would be considered a successful seas in for the Bears
and Caleb's rookie year.
Speaker 9 (01:07:03):
Winning the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
What I'm talking about.
Speaker 9 (01:07:10):
This is why. Yeah, let's go listen. If I was
if I was booking the NFL, and I don't get
control of that, I'm not on the booking committee, my pitch,
my pitch would have been listened Caleb Williams. The one
way to end all these years of frustration would be
for the Bears to become the first team in NFL
history to win a Super Bowl with the rookie quarterback
(01:07:32):
beating the Jets in the Super Bowl. Why the Jets
their quarterback by Aaron Rodgers just closed the book on
all of it. I don't say it's not happening. I
think you have a good team. The Jets could possibly
make it to the Super Bowl. But I think one
of the most realistic expectations for me for the Bears
(01:07:55):
is last year. I think a lot of people forget
like it's so funny, like some I was just reading
Twitter for some reason. I don't even think this is
a roster that competed NFL team and you're like, yeah, bro,
they beat seven of them last year, like they they're good. Yeah,
what you would like to see. And this is what
what escaped them last year. And this is what Carmen
tried to tell me week after week, and I'm like, no,
(01:08:17):
you're wrong.
Speaker 7 (01:08:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (01:08:19):
They lost three games where they had over a ninety
percent chance of winning in the fourth quarter because they
couldn't close. And I think that if the Bears can
go out there and close the games that they're supposed
to win, that would be huge. And then if they
do that, I think they have a good enough shot
to make the playoffs. Now it depends on how good
the rest of the teams are in the NFC.
Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
But I do it's going to be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Lions, Packers, Vikings, you can always count on to figure
it out.
Speaker 9 (01:08:50):
Can we wait? Hold on? Why? Why does everybody dismiss
the Bears? But they're a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Like I said anticipated season, and dear, this is your guy.
Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
I think the Bikings are going to be an easy out,
but I don't think that. I still think they're gonna
end up in the basement. Yeahs division.
Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
At least for sure, they're good.
Speaker 9 (01:09:09):
Sam Arnold's my guy. He's an Orange County dude like me,
so I'm rooting. I don't like that he's on the Vikings.
I wish he was somewhere else where I could I
could root for him. But they'll be good. Not as
a good team, they are a good team. I don't
want to take anything away from the Vikings because they
have a lot of good they got. They do have
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a good team. But it's like everybody's like, well, the
Vikings are going to like and we're not, Like we're
not on the level of the Vikings.
Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Hey no, no, you're buff.
Speaker 4 (01:09:37):
I've been talking a lot too about how this is
the best situation I think a quarterback taken first overall
has ever come into because they didn't actually warrant that pick.
Ryan Pols has spent multiple off seasons curating this roster. Also,
you don't necessarily need Caleb Williams to be his best
in this first season when he's surrounded by the talent
that he is, and theoretically you think that he could
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rely on the defense, you limit the amount of points
scored against them, given that I think they should be
a top five unit this year. I want to know,
and this is not something that I've dived in on
as much, but it's somewhat something that you are an
expert on, Adam. Because of all of this, what are
realistic fantasy expectations for Caleb Williams?
Speaker 9 (01:10:19):
Oh, I'm glad you asked. It is It is a
very similar situation to what is going on with c J.
Stroud down in Houston, because a lot of people have
questions for like what receiver do we want? When you
look at the Bears, it's you know, it's d J. Moore,
Keenan Allen Romadunze for here saying you've got Nico Collins,
Tank Dell and Stefan Diggs, and this is one of
those spots where you're like, well, I'll just take the
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quarterback is then you're getting all the you don't have
to worry about it because the tight ends also factor
into this as well. So the one thing that I
really like about Caleb Williams opportunity is that he's a
better runner than people giving him credit for sure. So
you can go into every game with an expectation of
about thirty to forty rushing yards, which is the equivalent
of a passing touchdown in most fantasy formats. So now
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he's like, Okay, well that's nice, and if you can
throw a touchdown and get some yardage, and I know
that you know they're going to try to run the
football as much as possible. But I think that he's
a He's a safe floor quarterback who will probably be
somewhere in the quarterback twelve quarterback thirteen, which makes him
the back end of the QB one situation. Okay, and
with the defense being as good as it is, we
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hope that they're not going to be throwing as much,
but still should be a solid performer fantasy wise. I've
been taking him as my quarterback too, and a lot
of drafts of course. Yeah, because I've been taking Anthony
Richardson and Kyler Murray.
Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
Oh yeah, Kyle, Oh, you're going hard in the paint.
Speaker 10 (01:11:42):
You know what the thing is.
Speaker 9 (01:11:43):
It's like I didn't I didn't plan on this. In
the early part of the offseason. I'd gone for Anthony
Richardson and then like this spicy it is, Well, that's
the rushing ability. Like you really need to you need
to know your leagues. Like if you're in a league
where you get four points for a rush for passing touchdowns,
excuse me, you got to take a quarterback who gives
you the rushing floor. Josh Allen and Anthony Richardson's in there.
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People love Jade and Daniels and Michael. Nobody wants Kyler Murray. Like,
I'll take um. He was good. He was good at
the end of last season. McBride was good with him.
And now you bring in Marvin Harrison Junior and like,
sign me up, and I try to stack him with
one of those two pass catchers and then I think
I'm cooking.
Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
Now, Okay, let's keep talking fantasy, because Cowboy just locked
in ceed Lamb with the long term extension. How high
are you picking CD as your wide receiver one in
Fantasy this year?
Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Are you taking him with a number one overall pig?
Speaker 9 (01:12:35):
It depends on the size of your league. If you're
in the league that drafts three, if you start free
wide receivers, yeah, you're better off drafting one of those
stud wide receivers because the falloff is not massive, but
it is significant, especially when you come back around the turn.
So for me, I play in a lot of leagues
where you just start two wide receivers, so there is
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a question of do I want him, Do I want CMC,
or do I want Freese? And a lot of dafts.
Early on, I've been going with the running back. I
tried one today where I went with CD Lamb in
the number two hole.
Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 9 (01:13:11):
The roster's good, but it's not as great as it
could because I missed out on Travis Etn who I
was anticipating coming back around. Okay, but I think it's good.
The one thing that I like about CD lamb situation
is that going into that Week one contest against the
Cleveland Browns, he's gonna have two weeks of practice.
Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
Yeah, he's going to be five.
Speaker 9 (01:13:29):
It's not like Jamar Chase, who has a Yeah, Brandon
Ayuka is going to get a week of practice before
they play the Jets, so that's okay. But yes, it's
like it's like the off season never happened, Like all
that worrying king had to sit there and wild all
these questions and it's like, yeah, no, big deal, he's back.
We're good. He's going to get two hundred and fifty
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targets were high.
Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
Yeah, right, it's crazy, so you would go CMC first.
Christian McAffrey is who you're going with, if that makes sense.
Speaker 9 (01:13:59):
Number one over, Yes, and it's and it's gonna be
bad the first week. It's not gonna be great because
Brent Williams probably won't play even if he signs. I
can imagine him playing, and that.
Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Week they need they need it, like Brock does not
play well without that protection. No, it's not a huge
sample size, but it's not great.
Speaker 9 (01:14:18):
What was what three games last year? Yeah yeah, yeah,
and it wasn't great for CMC, It wasn't great for
Brock Purty. So that is a dire situation. And Jim
Williams actually has the history of not like holding out. Yes,
and he's thirty three. He could retire, Like he doesn't
need this, he could just go out and do anything.
So it does. I'm almost to the point of like,
(01:14:40):
you know, maybe I'll just go ceedee lamb.
Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Oh okay. Interesting.
Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
I mean also, I would think that they would make
a lot of sense given the fact that he literally
accounts for a third of the Cowboys offense. Yeah, like that.
He is Dak Prescott's only reliable receiver. He is going
to get all of the targets, he's gonna have all
of the catches, he's going to have to have all
of the production.
Speaker 9 (01:15:02):
Yeah, I mean, and there's nobody really, I mean, Brandon
Cooks is there, Dalton Schultz is there. They signed Dalvin
cook which is not going to eat into that at all. Like, yeah,
it's it's all set up for Ceedee lamb. Once again.
Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
I love this, Adam, thank you for George, thank you
for all the bits. Because I have my draft this
timing a thank you.
Speaker 9 (01:15:22):
Can I say something really nice about Carmen Battalion? Please
do this? Is this is my goal. Yeah, Like over
over the last three hundred and sixty five days, yep,
Carmen has blown up so much and I could not
be more proud of her. She does a great job.
She was so objective about the Bears, and guys would
give her grief every week and she was spot on
(01:15:44):
every time. And I'm I'm incredibly proud of her. I
hope when they do like a behind the music of
her got to I just want to small mention, like
in the first five minutes before she goes on to
her big thing, kind of like when they talk about
Gwen Stefani being in no doubt to be I want
to be like her, Tom Dumont, you know, like briefly
(01:16:05):
spend some time together. But I'm proud of her and
Alex of course, like ever since your days covering the Angels,
I've been a huge fan. Actually, you know what, I
might need you to come out and help me coach
my uten soccer team.
Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Oh snap, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 9 (01:16:21):
Much love to both of you guys. Thank you for
having me on and I'm proud of both of you.
Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
Thanks Adam, we love you. Have a great weekend. Thank you,
thank you, we love you, we love you. See yah.
Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
All right, we're going to take one more break here,
but when we come back, we're making our week one
NFL Picks.
Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Welcome back to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here
with Carmen Vitally and we are broadcasting live from a
tark dot com studios in Los Angeles. And since Carmen
is going to be out next week at the Bears
home opener, we are going to do our Week one
NFL picks today. Now we will be being score all season,
so I think we need a fun bet. Don't need
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to come up with it right now, but let's marinate
on this. We'll also take suggestions on social media. What
does a loser have to do? We've seen some epic
fantasy football user situation crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
This is all one Oh oh no, we can be crazy.
Are you talking season long? Season long? Season long?
Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Now, we're gonna do like what you think we should,
like what the losers should do at the end of
the seay with our NFL picks. Let us know this
is going to be fun.
Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
I want to like make it weird, right, Okay, not
too weird?
Speaker 4 (01:17:34):
Alex, think about what you're asking the general social media
population pick.
Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
We're going to get a big one, it is. But
Producer Patrick lead us through.
Speaker 12 (01:17:42):
Alright, ladies, why don't we start off with the first
game of the entire season on a game show? Baltimore
Ravens versus Kansas City Chiefs, Now Carmen and Alex. You
want to know who the leader is with points? Right now,
Kansas City is a three point favorite minus three. We've
taken Alex.
Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
This is an AFC Championship rematch, and this is tough
because Lamar and the Ravens I feel like need to
avenge that loss, and Lamar didn't play well. You know,
he's been thinking about that and itching. But I did
say I'm never betting against Mahomes and the Chiefs again
until they prove me wrong. Chiefs are one and one
in game openers after winning.
Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
A super Bowl. But I'm gonna go with the.
Speaker 4 (01:18:23):
Ravens, okay. I I mean minus three for the Chiefs
at home is basically just like a watch there. So
I'm also going to the Ravens because the addition of
Dereck Henry to this offense and the fact that the
Ravens are gonna be motivated. I'm still not betting against
the Chiefs to make it to the Super Bowl again. Yeah,
but I think they can, they can drop the season opener.
(01:18:43):
All right, we got two ravens here, everybody, we got that.
We're gonna go number two.
Speaker 12 (01:18:48):
We got the Green Bay Packers heading over to the city,
the state, the city, Philly. We're gonna go play the
Eagles and ladies. The Eagles our three point favorites yet again.
And why don't we switch this over, Carmen, who were
you taking?
Speaker 9 (01:19:06):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
This is it doesn't matter that the Eagles, like deals,
are technically the home team, but this is in Brazil,
so they both have to travel.
Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
This is both good. It's gonna be a weird game.
Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
Uh not that I think it needs to be a
weird game, because I just think the Packers everything about
them this offseason and into the preseason has just been
business as usual.
Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
Like they have their swagger.
Speaker 4 (01:19:23):
They know they have their fifty five million dollar man
in Jordan Love and he's got so many options to
throw to that I just don't see this Eagles defense
keeping up.
Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
I'm taking Packers.
Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Yeah, there's been a lot of noise around Philly and
the relationship between Hurtz and Sirianni. They had a terrible
end to last season. Now they did pick up Saquon Barkley.
But any of the Packers just paid their guy Jordan Love,
and they had a great end to last season, as
you mentioned, growing up in Brazil, so it eliminates any
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home field advantage.
Speaker 12 (01:19:58):
I'm going with Packers, right we got two packs here,
let's go number three. We got dash Cowboys taking on
the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland. Everybody, we don't have a
three point favorite, but is a two and a half favorite.
The winner of that one right now? Is Cleveland the favorite? Alex,
what do you say?
Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
This was a bit little bit of a toss up
for me. I know the Cowboys obviously just signed their
guys CD. Nothing has really been done with Dak yet.
You got Browns Amari Cooper playing his former team, which
always adds a little bit of OMPs.
Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
They did pick up Jerry Judy. I'm gonna go with
the Browns here.
Speaker 4 (01:20:39):
Oo, you finally got we finally get one that we
disagree with. I'm going with the Dallas Cowboys. I just
don't I don't like the vibes in Cleveland. I don't
know that we can even trust that Deshaun Watson is
fully healthy at this point. The Dallas Cowboys are gonna
be even if Dak does not have a deal, that
means that he's playing for his next contract. He's gonna
be more motivated than ever. You know, Cee, he is
gonna be motivated with all that money. And I think
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the Dallas defense, I can keep the Browns if a
the Browns defense scares me.
Speaker 3 (01:21:03):
But I'm still going Cowboys. All right, let's go moving
on to this one.
Speaker 12 (01:21:07):
We got Rams versus Loons and the favorite at home
Detroit with three and a half Garman.
Speaker 9 (01:21:13):
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (01:21:14):
Lions? Lions? Yo, Lions. Yes, I'm so in on the
Lions this year. Let's let's go all the way to
the super Bowl.
Speaker 9 (01:21:20):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
I've we're also taking the Lions. They're gonna be hungry,
tough end the last season. There are fourth best odds
for Super Bowl faves. Like we're both We're.
Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
Both high on Dan Campbell, Dan Campbell. Yeah, that's gonna
be great.
Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
Thank you guys so much for spending your Saturday afternoon
with us.
Speaker 3 (01:21:35):
I'll see you next week, same time, same place,
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with
Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending your football Saturday with us.
Happy Labor Day weekend, which only means one thing football.
We're back, baby, College Football's back. Happy NFL week. The vibes,
you guys are so high today. I cannot fully share
(00:26):
with you why, but Carmen just surprised me with the
gnarliest thing five minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Before we went Why.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Sure, details to come tomorrow, but she's leaving for Vegas
right after the show for lsu USC this weekend, which
is going to be absolutely Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I'm literally getting on a flight right after the show
to go to Vegas so we can go see lsu USC.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
What a wait, it came in Las Vegas kick off
the football season.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You gotta be raging tonight too.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
We're going to Swedish House Mafia at XS. That's what
I want to hear. Like, I'm about to relive like
little my early twenties, probably to my demise, but we're
going to we can sleep in a little bit tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Marathon marathon A marathon, not a sprint.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We need you to last all tonight through the tailgate tomorrow,
through the tomorrow and the day.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Spot day on Monday. I am again so pumped.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
That the way that the schedule now works out, though,
is that we have week zero last week, which is
like cut down days, so like in the NFL world,
we're still very active.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
This weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Week one of college football for NFL folks is like
actually kind of dead, so perfect. It's so perfect that
we get to actually enjoy football for one week before
you know, the craziness of the NFL season starts. Really
really appreciate the way that this schedule kind of works
out so that we can go and enjoy ourselves one
last time before things get crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
But I love like I love waking waking up to
Big Neon kickoff in West Virginia, Machine Gun Kelly performing
live on the set. Vibes met So high k at
nine am is a little buch, No, it's not ject
that into my veins. I want to wake up and
I want in your face excitement, vibes, energy, and we
(02:07):
got that this morning, which is what you also usually
wake up on Sunday. So we're about to have like
our weekends of football back. I mean, I think we
really got We got our first epic game on Thursday
with Colorado Shador Sanders Travis Hunter like wow, yes, Wow, yes,
(02:29):
like showing up and showing out like this is this
is going to be.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, I'm not so sure that Travis Hunter is a
dB in the league. I think he might be an
NFL receiater after that. Oh yeah, yeah, he.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Is a dual threat player. And I mean I heard
a lot of conversations on Friday on sports talk radio
and TV with his name mentioned with the Heisman, but
who knows.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
This is early, like game one, a lot to go.
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Speaker 3 (03:33):
Now, we've got a great show for you guys today.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Great guests again, Broncos and Dodgers reporter A Lisa Hernandez
joining us in thirty minutes. Then mister Fantasy Adam Rank
from NFL Network in our Buddy.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah. Also Diehart, Bears fan that Karmen puts me.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I hosted a podcast with him last last season. I
had to like rain him in. Yeah, no, no, no, it's
like a delusional fan. Yes, which I'm excited for that one.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Patrick with us Today Technical producer Chris per Fet Brian
Finley at the news desk, and we'll keep you updated
on all the college football action as it goes down.
But let's start in the NFL and show me the money, baby,
because we got some of the big names finally locked
up and ready to roll. Cowboys at same time, it's
(04:20):
about damn time finally got their deal done with ced
LAMB four years, one hundred and thirty six million dollar extension,
one hundred million guaranteed, thirty eight million signing bonus. CD
is now the second highest paid wide receiver, just behind
Justin Jefferson average per year.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
This was the right move for Dallas.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
This is their top receiver without a close second.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
The offense is dack in CD Lamb.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And I was talking with Jane Slater, Cowboys reporter yesterday,
who told me the vibes were so high at CA
once the contract got done and CD was back there.
She goes, he already had a million dollar smile, but
this time it was a multi million dollar like je Jennie,
I love it so much. But he also looked great.
(05:13):
He came into camp with fifteen pounds of muscle. He
was like visibly bulkier. And I had a chance to
talk with his trainer, doctor Sharif Toba, who had been
working with CD all the way back in March up
until the day that his contract was done and he
came back out to camp, and he said through the
whole process he was so blown away with CD's infectious,
(05:38):
positive attitude every single day. And he went in with
the goal this offseason to really improve explosiveness and lateral
agility and yards after catch. And they're gonna need that
because CD is this offense this season for the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, I mean I would also have a positivebout it
if I knew that I was coming, I was coming
for a pay day because it wasn't a question of if,
it was a question of.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
When and when in time for them.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
And the fact that it even took as much work
from CD, like his hold in all that other stuff,
I just I hate that that's the way the Cowboys operate.
But we know they've proved it to us time and
time again. They keep doing that and it keeps working
out for them. So there's really no repercussions for this.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, why would they change what they're doing?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I CD accounts for a third precisely of Dallas count
of Dallas offense, that's crazy. Thirty percent, that's crazy of
Dak Prescott's passage. Yeah, go to ceedee Lamb. Yeah, like
a third of the offensive snaps. I actually think it is.
So it's wild to think how much is riding on
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CD Lamb to And the thing.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Is, too defenses. Can they do hone in on him?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You can focus on him because there isn't anybody else
to take any sort of attention off of CD on
that offense.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And it's what I've been talking about all the.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Time where I'm like, all right, in the regular season,
a quarterback wide receiver duo can kind of like get
you to some wins, get you through the season. But
when it comes to the postseason, this is where you
see the drop off because that is no longer enough.
And that is what I've been talking about where I
need the Cowboys to have a true number two receiver
that's going to take attention off of CD. I need
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them to have a viable backfield, which we'll see now
they have Dalvin cook and they have as you go out,
but like, these are two running backs past their prime, Like,
is Zeke really the answer, right, No, exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Like he already faded out once. Now it's like round two,
let's see, like how productive he's gonna be. I know
he's Dak's guy and he's Jerry's guys.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Right, but like the chemistry, the handle, you're gonna need
him because you don't really have a number two receiver.
I know you have Brandon Cooks there, maybe he can
return to for him, but he is two years removed
from a thousand yard season like he has been in
a study decline. I need to know if Ezekiel Elliott
can still catch passes out of the backfield and be
that checkdown option for Dak Prescott. Yeah, to kind of
round out this offense little bit more. And I don't
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know if that's the case. I don't know if CD
can handle that load at this present moment of where
he's at in his career. I would feel so much
better if the Cowboys were in the market for a
true number two, yeah, to help deck out. I like
Jake Ferguson as a tight end too, but it's just
not enough for me once the postseason comes. But that's
the thing is, they'll get to twelve wins before that
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and everybody's.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Like, oh see, like Doc, we did just fine. I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I very much though, appreciate that Ceedee Lamb got paid
right under Justin Jefferson's contract.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
He is absolutely with it, worth it.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
He's the second best receiver in the league in my opinion,
right behind Justin Jefferson. They got this kind of pay
structure right to me, But also like, this is something
that people have been talking about literally this exact contract
for months. Yeah, why why why might have to come
down to the eleventh hour like.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
He could have been with the team.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I mean he mind you, like I said when I
talked to his trainer, like he was in peak shape
ready to go, But.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That doesn't that doesn't always happen.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, But also like you need the gameplay Like there's
a difference between staying in shape and being in game year.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
There's absolutely a difference between you doing things on your
own and then being also part of a team, running
routes over and over and over again with the rest
of the team and getting those reps defense in front
of you. And also just I mean him and Dak
are obviously familiar with each other, but there are tweaks
and changes and everything to the offense, Like you don't
want to be behind in that. And that's why it
was important that this was a hold in so Ceedie
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was still in the classroom. He was still understanding what
was happening as far as what the what the changes
to the playbook were, all that kind of stuff. He
could digest it. But at the same time, there is
no reason that he needed to lose reps on this. Also,
now the Cowboys have backed themselves into a corner of
having to pay CD Dak potentially and Michael Parsons, by
the way, is coming down the pipeline. All at the
(09:52):
same time, I'm like, why didn't you just get CD
done last year?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
So then let's talk about Dak because it does not
look like he's going to get it deal done before
the start of the season, and when he spoke this week,
it made you think he's having kind of that final
realization that this might be his last season with the Cowboys.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
I think it says a lot if it is or
if it isn't. But however, doesn't really matter to me
to be on sweet. That's the business and the nature
of this, this game that we play. Yeah, I mean
I stopped honestly listening to things that he says to
the media a long time ago, so doesn't really holdway
with me.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It's just interesting because he's always been that guy that
says the right thing. He's so positive, he's so fired up.
This was a different this was a different sounding Dak,
And we've talked about this over and over again. This
whole offseason change. I don't think would be a bad
thing for Dak. This is his ninth season with the Cowboys.
He was the runner up in the MVP vote last season.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He will oh this year, he will get a max deal.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Wherever he ends up, a team that is desperate for
a franchise quarterback will give him whatever he wants. It
could be a blessing in disguise for him. I think again,
a lot's going to depend how the season goes with
Dak and the Cowboys. I mean, you not only have Dak,
but you have Mike McCarthy. You have your quarterback and
head coach playing on the last years of their contract
(11:15):
with no other contract like Insight at this moment. So
it's a very interesting vibe with this team this season.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I do think that we are reading a little too
much into him dismissing what Jerry says Jerry Jones says
in the media, because I think he he's still having
conversation He's had conversations with Jerry Jones behind closed doors,
and I think he realizes that what Jerry says to
the media and what he says behind closed closed doors
are two different things. Yeah, so all he's worried about
is the conversations that he's actually having with Jerry. But
(11:44):
the overall vibe of this press conference makes me think
that he didn't get good news because I was thinking, Yeah,
after this one of his voice after the CD deal,
I'm like, Okay, this probably goes a long way with
Dak knowing he's going to have his number one receiver
locked up and he knows what this kind of is
going to look like.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But then for him to come out and be a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
More candid than we're used to him being and saying
like that's going to say a lot if this deal
is done or not by the season. I'm not one
that thinks that any of these that it's so rare
that a major deal like this would ever get done
during the season. So we are quite literally running out
of room for this deal to get done. If it
doesn't get done five days this weekend, essentially, it has
(12:24):
to get done this weekend otherwise. Here's the thing about it, though,
I want Dak to go elsewhere because I want the
Cowboys to have to atone for the way that they operate.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I want them to be held account.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Are petty, petty, petty, petty.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It is such a petty want, but I am petty. Okay.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
The reason that their the Cowboys operate this way we
just talked about is because there's never any repercussions for
them doing this. They make their star players, their homegrown talent,
work every single time for their contract, no matter what
position they play, which is absolutely insane. Like, if I'm
a player and I've done everything that's expected of me
and then some, and I'm one of the best at
my position, I want to feel valued. I want you
(13:09):
as my employer to say, we appreciate you. Here's what
you're worth. We think it's top of the market.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Because it is. We're so happy that we're even able
to do this deal for you. That is not what
the Cowboys do now, and.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Think about it, I think that goes for like any
person at any job. Everyone anyone just.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Wants to feel valued.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Everyone and when you feel valued, you're going to give
that extra one hundred and ten percent in whatever capacity
you need to for whatever job you're doing.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
And there are so few players that have the type
of leverage that Dak Prescott now has because he has
a no tag clause, he has a no trade clause.
This is entirely up to him. Whatever he does from
here on out is entirely up to him. The Cowboys
could come to him with a top of the market
money sixty million dollars a year and he could say,
you know what, Nah, I want to hit free agency.
(13:54):
And I don't think that even precludes him from signing
back with the Cowboys. But for all the work that
they make their players do, I want them to have
to work for Dak Prescott. I want them to be
in the bidding war in free agency.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I'm petty. I'm petty, And if Dak signs with.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
The Cowboys, there's going to be a little part of
me that is disappointed that he didn't hold their feet
to the fire. Go take them to free agency and
make them get involved to show him how much they
value him.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's me. I'm petty.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Deep breath, deep breath, Okay, real quick here. Moving on
to the other big deal that was signed this week.
Forty nine Ers finally inked a deal with Brandon Ayuk
four years, one hundred and twenty million dollar extension, seventy
six million guaranteed, making Ayuk now tied for the fourth
highest paid wide receiver. Now, I don't think this was
(14:43):
as big of a deal for the fort nine Ers
as for the Cowboys, because it's not a make or
break for the fort nine ers. Yes, Ayuk is their
true number one wide receiver has over thirteen thousand yards.
Kittle was number two with like ten twenty debo head
eight ninety two. But they still they have so much talent.
Yes that I think they would have been okay, but
(15:05):
huge congratulations because again, like we were talking about, what
makes an offense so dynamic is when you have so
many different offensive weapons and options that you can throw
off the defense, you don't know where they're going, and
that's that's how you're better.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
But I think.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
The issue the forty nine ers have is that they
still haven't figured out Trent Williams' contract.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yes he is.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
If you don't figure out Trent Williams your left tackle,
he is brock Perty's protection.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I think you have to take the forty nine ers
out of the super Bowl conversation.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I absolutely if you don't figure out, well you do
Trent Williams by the start of the season and he
says like he's not going to report until his contract
is adjusted, you have to take them out of the
super Bowl conversation.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
First of all, Trent Williams is not the one like
you do not play with Trent Williams. He's at out
the twenty nineteen season because Washington wouldn't give him his money. Yeah,
and then he ended up signing with the forty nine Ers.
After that, he will out a year and he doesn't
care that he's thirty six years.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Old, proguably the best lineman in the league and wants
to be paid as such.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
She is the best left tackle league. I get that
he's thirty six, but also he has not dropped in production.
He is still performing at a high level. He is
crucial to this offense. He is crucial to Rock Party,
who only took twenty eight sacks by the way last
year because of his protection around him. That was the
ninth fewest in the league. So this Trent Williams is
the most important part to the forty nine ers offense.
(16:28):
For all the star power that is on the Niners offense,
for the play caller that they have in Kyle Shanahan,
the most important part of the forty nine Ers offense
is left tackle Trent Williams. And you need to get
this deal done with him because he will absolutely take
this you talk about petty. Trent Williams will take this
through the season and will not report and will not
come play for your football team.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Until he gets the money that he deserves, deserves should
not have to work for.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
I don't care if you do anticipate a little bit
of a drop in production when you're talking about Okay,
maybe he drops to like a top five tackle at.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
The end of the day. Of those five, those guys
don't grow on trees.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Also, like, it's not a big sample, but Trent Williams
impact on brock party With Trent and without, He's nineteen
and three. With Trent, he's one and two without. His
passer rating is one fourteen with Trent eighty seven point
nine without.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Like the Niners, this is a big deal, the big
deal for Purt Niners.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
We saw what the Niners looked like without Trent Williams
and actually without Deebo Samuel last year.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, and they went on a skit like not good.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
This is absolutely crucial and it has gotten overshadowed because
brand AYUK has been louder. But Trent Williams is not
the one to play with because I don't think there
was ever really a chance that brand AYK was going
to sit out the season.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
There is absolutely.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Williams will Trent Williams has been a hold out and
will continue to hold it.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
They gotta figure this out. We're gonna take a quick
break here, but when we come back. Was missing the Olympics.
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Speaker 2 (18:47):
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Speaker 3 (18:55):
Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with KRMEI and me.
We got college football going on every TV. One thing
about Me too is eighties pop.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh okay, you're going to the song. I was like,
what's happening. We're talking about football, We're talking about music here.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
One thing about me?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, well, yeah, we're glad at Penn State West Virginia
is now started back up. We're in the third quarter now.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I forgot about that raindo less
on the still twenty to six? Yeah, okay, yeah, but
let's talk about a little WNBS.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Sure, because we were down to the last few weeks
of the regular season and we got a show last night,
you guys.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Caitlyn Clark went off.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
She had a career high thirty one points twelve assists,
beating the sky one hundred and eighty one. The fourth
meeting between Kitlyn Clark and Angel Reese and Fever ends
up taking the season series three to one.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I loved seeing these two play together for the first
time during the All Star Game. Obviously, the Wall Star
team beating Team USA, glimpse into the future. But what
I also love about these two women and this rivalry,
because this is a beautiful rivalry that we are getting
as sports fans, is both players have been hounded about
(20:12):
the Rookie of the Year race, and both of them
keep talking about that's not our focus, our job.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
What we're doing right now.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
We are fighting for our.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Teams to get into the postseason. And you can see
like both Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese have that dog
in them. Oh yeah, and you saw it last night.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I it's so crazy in basketball, whether it's men's or women's. Yeah,
one player can make such a huge difference. Because let's
not forget the Indiana fever Worthy worst team in the
league last year by a large margin.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
They were not two years in a row. They had
two years in a row where they had the first
overall pick. Yes, so like they were.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
It wasn't pretty there, No, And now you have them
in the third seed in the Eastern Conference at this point.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, they'gaging on the door. You won three straight.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And also, by the way, Chicago is one seed back.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah, they are five games back, so they're quite a few,
and they've been on a five game losing streak, which
isn't great. But in all of this, though, I mean,
Angel Reese is playing her part.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Yeah, she.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Had ten points, eleven rebounds. So she broke the tie
with Tina Charles for the rookie double doubles record with
twenty three, and she passed Sylvia Fowls for the Chicago
season record.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I mean, both of them were breaking records this year.
I mean, Kaitlyn Clark broke the all time rookie record
for three points on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That was previously set in two thousand and two. She's
gonna blow that record out of the water.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Five for nine on three pointers last night.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It was beautiful. What I also love when she's stuff
Curry with the pot. Yeah, oh yeah, no, no, no, no,
She's insane.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
But I also love Simone Biles was at the game
on Wednesday, and I'm showing a love her reaction when
like everyone on the fever, Like there's a bunch of
videos on social where each one of them came up
to meet her personally and they like smile for the
phone and they're like, oh my godness, some mobiles and
like walked away. Next one came in like smiled, like,
oh my gosh, has some mobiles, and Simone after was
(22:11):
like I love this experience. It's so much different having
female athletes right actually show you a motion of how
they feel when they meet you at post to.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
The men that are like all right, cool, right, nice
to see you, small.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Right right right the way.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Shit, it's a different dynamic in general, and like it's
just the support in women's sports across the board is
so heartwarming.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I like, this is going to be a fun last
few weeks in the w season and a fun postseason
if Caitlin Clark and the Fever and Angel Rees in
the Sky can hold on. But now, let's check in
with Brian Friendly and see what's trending football going on,
and yeah, we definitely do.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
And there we go, there we go.
Speaker 11 (22:52):
Yeah, so right now number two Ohio State is leading
Akron seven to three and they're still in the second quarter.
Early on in the second Akron actually scored first. So
the Akron, now, Carmen and Alex they might not win
the game, but they can at least boast it. At
one point they were leading, they led.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
First.
Speaker 11 (23:12):
Yeah, I don't know if you could put that in
some sort of award and hang that up somewhere. But
I kid, hey, guess what the number eight Penn State
in West Virginia game is back. Yeah, finally it's back.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Baby.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
There was a lightning delay.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
How long was that to like the game delay?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It was at least an hour, at least over an
hour for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
That's so hard too, because these guys are to stay
warm and they have to stay like pumped up, and
you have to get them foods.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
You also have to, like, right, you have to have
to lose.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, they get out and then like pack the stadium back.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And look it looks like it's packed again. People say
they got back.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, most people stayed.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
And then you saw the guys on the desk a
big neon kickoff like there were lightning strikes behind them.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, so so there was all of that.
Speaker 11 (23:53):
But yeah, twenty to six, number eight Pence State they
have they had the football starting up the third quarter
now with the weather allowing also Number seventeen Oklahomas to
tight thirty one to thirteen there in front of South
Dakota State. That one would be three minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Third quarter.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
Number four Texas up a touchdown and a field goal
ten to nothing over Colorado State halfway through the second quarter.
There so low scoring. They're also low scoring in a
battle of two Titans in the Sunshine State Number nineteen
Miami ten Florida three ten minutes remaining in the first
(24:27):
half Some Finals, Number one Georgia taking care of number
fourteen Clemson thirty four to three in Bulldogs quarterback Carson
Beck two hundred seventy eight yards two touchdowns. I'm curious
what Beck's prospects would be in the NFL. I know
he's There's been a lot of good quarterbacks the Georgia.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Also, I have a stat for you guys of clemsonsk
that I saw on Twitter as this game was wrapping up.
Since the transfer transfer portal opened up in twenty eighteen,
Clemson has had zero darts from incoming transfers they cannot.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Recruit in the transfer part.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
WHOA.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
That was from Kevin de Gandhi of ESPN. I that
like shook me.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
I'm like for what you Clemson used to be with
Trevor Lawrence and like they used to be wide receiver
you like, and also like Dabo's still there. It's just
it's wild how the Mighty have fallen?
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Yeah, and it's old dues the fact that you hate
to say that about a program, but you have to
adapt to the times, right, and.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
They can't get those.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I mean, Dabo is like so anti Anil too, and
he was so historically like anti Anil, and I think
players have picked up on that.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So like, why don't I want to transfer there?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Really really well said.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
And then lastly, as they get it right back to
number fifteen Tennessee sixty nine to three they beat Chattanooga
and number twenty five Iowa forty to nothing against Illinois
State Aide mc namara two hundred and fifty one yards
passing three touchdowns. So Alex and Carmen as they get
it back to you, I guess Iowa has an offense
after all.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, well of average, right, it had to happen at some.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
Point, and it is no offense to Illinois State.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I know Roberts. My brother went there. Roberts.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Oh ouch, did not mean this. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You're listening to Fox Football Saturday Alex Career with Carmen Vitali.
We are broadcasting live from the Tara dot Com Studios
in Los Angeles. Thank you, for spending your Saturday afternoon
with us. But it is time for our first guest, Dodgers'
hosts and the new Broncos team reporter, Alita Hernanez.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Alright, congrats on the.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
New gig Broncos team reporter, Huge. I know you finally
got some time out in Denver. What were the vibes
like around the team and Bonix kind of your first
initial reaction?
Speaker 10 (26:46):
Yeah, I mean first walking Meerts, thank you guys, some guys,
and I'm really excited to become part of Broncos organization.
And yeah, when I went out there, it was really
interesting to kind of be a play on the role, right,
like you're getting there, you're learning. This is before the
fifty three roster cuts were made, so everybody was really
like amped up and hungry. It's a lot of younger guys.
They do have some vets on the team, but I
(27:08):
think like what I saw the interest to me was
the quarterbacks. Right, you had Zach Wilson and you had
Bo Nicks yet steady, and you know, Zach has been
just such a voice of like positivity and gratefulness, and
he had even said after Bo was named the starter,
he was like, are you really surprised.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yes, we love self aware.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
Yeah, yeah, Like have you seen this guy at play?
And I think just seeing both, he's very poised, he's
very mature for being a rookie. And I think that
really comes from just like his sixty one starts in
college football, which is really unseen from a quarterback position.
Speaker 12 (27:42):
Right.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
People are really just trying to get to the NFL,
and because of COVID, he was kind of forced little
to stay and stay in college, and I think that's
really kind of helped them transition, especially coming onto this
team that's looking to make the playoff push after missing
it for what the last eight seasons.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yes, it's been a while.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I want to know what you've kind of observed between
Bonicks and Sean Payton, because Sean Payton was the driving
force behind letting Russell Wilson go and therefore costing the
franchise fifty three million dollars in dead cap to pay
Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
To not play there.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
But then on top of that, he goes and takes BONICKX,
who many thought were a Day two was a Day
two pick with the twelfth overall pick. He has his
fingerprints all over this. What have you seen between the
two of them, How is their vibe? How do they
work together? It just it seems like Sean Payton is
there to just mold Bonicks into the next Drew Brees O.
Speaker 10 (28:34):
Yeah, well that's the.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
Hope, right, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 10 (28:38):
But you know, I again, like I just got there.
I was only there for about four days watching practice
before I came back home, and then now I'm going
to head back out there. So I don't have a
really big pool to really like super common on that.
But I will say like Sean Payne has had nothing
but positive needs to stay about Bonick, especially like saying
like his leadership that he's had on the team. He's
spoken about, you know, to the media about just like
(29:00):
his maturity and the fact that he's almost surprised like wow,
like you're a rookie, like you move with such poise.
Patritaine also said the same. By him, a lot of
the guys have been on this team are just like
he's one of those guys that he walks into the
room and you instantly want to look at him, you
to want to see what he has to say, and
just in practice, like he just seems really impressed with
him It was funny when when he announced that Bo
was the starter. He you know, he spoke to the
(29:21):
media and he said like, yeah, like it was before practice.
I went up to them, I said, hey, Bo's a starter.
He's like I wanted to tell them before it came
out in the in the media. He even acknowledged to
the media like, I know, you guys been patient waiting
to see what the starter was. He was like, but
there was no cake and flowers. You know, it was
just like we told them. Everyone like Zach and said
he looked at him, they kind of give the head nod.
Both said thank you, and then it was just time
(29:43):
for practice. So it's very business as usual what I'm seeing.
And I mean, obviously Champagne is very decorated in this league,
and I think that that that mentality and that culture
is definitely starting to make its way into Denver.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Love it. I love hearing that. I mean, I mean,
it has to work, right.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
The Broncos made their choice of Sean Payton over Russ Wilson,
but let's switch to your other team, the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Shoh Otani made history.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Last night, the first player ever with forty three home
runs and forty three stolen bases.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
What is he meant to this Dodgers team this season?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And can he be that X factor to kind of
help the Dodgers get over that playoff hump?
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Yeah, I mean he has meant that. He is worth
every single petty. Yeah, He's literally in a league of
his own. Like there's no player before that has put
up these numbers in the season, and I think what
the Dodgers have. It always blows my mind that he
even became a Dodger, right, Like, he's such a generational talent.
(30:42):
He's said something where it's just like how did the
Dodgers get him? You know, And so it's a big
shout out to that front office and the way they've
been able to kind of to make those deals happen.
And he's just been such a force. He's such you know,
when the team is in like they're kind of struggling,
he comes in with a big swing the other day
after his bubblehead night, everyone that everyone got to hit
(31:02):
literally except for him right before he was on fire.
So he is such a force in its own and
I think what he's been able to bring to this
team is really gonna be showing the playoffs. Now, it's
crazy to think that show hail Tani has not had
any playoff experience played whose season ex.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Right, I love, I love, but it's unfair to him
and Trout for there on that team.
Speaker 10 (31:36):
It's insane. It's insane that this will be his first
taste of the postseason, and I really feel like it's
going to unlock a new layer of his game and
his intensity because he is clearly showing his books for
these moments. He's he's so playful, he made history. He
was kind of just like choking around, like wow, It's like,
do you realize what you're doing, what you're showing to
the squad? And so I think I think with the
(31:57):
postseason he could be that X factor that kind of
comes up, especially because we've had postseasons where the bats
really go cold. But I mean, for me, the biggest
thing that worries me is just the pitching rotation. Is
really was something that the Dodgers are trying to fix.
A lot of injuries have kind of happened. We've always
been plagued with that. Doudges have always been kind of
been plagued with that the last few years. That rotation, I.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Mean, Yamamoto made his first rehab start this week after
two months on the IL.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Do you expect him to be back at full strength
in time for the postseason run, because I mean we
have now like all of their top guys have had
some sort of stint on the IL season.
Speaker 10 (32:34):
Yeah, no, I mean mager Dave Roberts said the Alomoto
will throw a bullpen session on September first, and then
make another rehab start for Okac around September third. The
goal is for him to complete around three innings and
if he can get through a couple more outings like that,
you know, they've always sad the Dodgers do feel comfortable
enough with inserting him back into the starting rotation. Yeah,
(32:55):
but it really depends on that. Obviously, he's making a
significant step in the right direction and he's definitely needed.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
But you know, it was one of those things that
happened so early in the season that you're like, okay, like,
how do we get you back where we don't rush you.
You know, we're chugging along, We're we're making it as
much after yesterday when Kershaw came out in the first
time and really kind of showed that Yesterday was such
a weird game, But I think that's the hope. You know,
they hope to get on full strength. But I think
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they're going to be very cautious with him then, and
they sign them to a very long to you and
I think it's like, let's not bring you out before
we need to. But I think they're chugging along with
his recovery.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I mean, Dodger's first team to hit eighty wins. Should
they be World Series favorites?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
I mean I picked at the beginning of the year,
right or diving? Yeah, I think we both like the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yankees like World serious, how much MLBA would just combust?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I've been calling it since before the season started. I've
gotten a lot of hate. I've gotten a lot of hate.
To get the cop out, I was.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Like, we're getting into the stretch here, and it looks
real likely the two best players in the league right
now are on these two teams.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Carrying these teams.
Speaker 10 (33:59):
Nothing is Where's where's the lie?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Where's the.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
I think the favorite of the Yankees and the Dodgers,
that's the World Series everyone wants. And obviously they had
that series in New York, which which was a lot
of fun to kind of see. So, I mean, it's
just I think the biggest thing for me with when
it comes to the postseason, it comes to World Series runs,
is if the Dodgers win their division, how that week
is that bileague? Basically it's going.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
To affect them, right.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
It really affected all top teams last season, you know,
so the Orioles, the Braves, I think the footage were
the only ones that really got through it. But it's
you know, baseball players are not meant to have so
many days off we're used to, like honestly.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
It's it's been a little bit harder for the Dodgers
down the stretch now, like they've had to like work
to stay at the top of the standards and stuff
like that. And that's what I'm saying is I think
it's really actually a good thing because then they're going
to be warmed up and ready and getting healthy at
the right.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Time, be fighting and fighting into the postseason, which is
what I think they were missing at Leasta your gem.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
We're so pumped for so proud of you. Someone who
is a team reporter for six years. I'm so I'm
so thrilled for you to have this experience, because there's
nothing like it when you're really embedded with the team
like that, it's.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Family, it is.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
Yeah. I'm excited. You guys know I've been a member
of Bronco's country as a fans because I was a kid,
even though I grew up in La. Yeah, but you know,
to have this opportunity again, Like, I'm super excited. I
can see you guys both at games. I'll be back
number twenty second for the game. So make sure you
guys come out because I'm gonna miss you guys so much.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
We love that. Have a great week one hun.
Speaker 10 (35:34):
Thanks Bry guys.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Bye, all right when.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
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your Saturday afternoon with carme and me. And it is
time for the dues and the don'ts in sports, highlighting
the dudes.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Putting us spotlight on the don't.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
The subject brings me no joy. Don't do that, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Next time for the dues and the dons in sports.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
All right, I want to start with a due. Okay,
do leave the family business at home.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
This week, Lebron was.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Lebron was asked because Lebron and Bronnie are the first
father said do a playing together in the NBA. And
he was asked like, are you gonna let Bronnie call
your dad when you're at practice and at games? And
he said, Bronnie cannot and will not call him dad
while they're like two three three, bron Like, while they're
(37:32):
at the Lakers' facilities, you know that's going to slip
out at some point.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
How does it not yet?
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Like, Oh, no, it absolutely is. It's like when you
accidentally call your teacher mom. Yeah too, Like it's just like,
did you have.
Speaker 10 (37:42):
One of that?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Did you have a I did that once? Did your
mom a teacher?
Speaker 11 (37:45):
No?
Speaker 4 (37:45):
But it's just like sometimes like you're just it's it's
just ingreen and so it's just like Okay, thanks mom,
and you're just like so like when it's actually your dad, Yeah,
it's absolutely gonna happen, for sure, gonna happen. It's really
funny too. I friend of the show Michael Junior, Yeah,
does a show with his dad, Mike Golick Senior, Daddy
Zaddy and Zach Saddy. I make him so uncomfortable everything
(38:07):
I talk about how.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Much his dad is the silver Fox. He called him dad.
So he does.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
And they had this conversation because when they were at
ESPN together to sing a show, the producers were like,
I think you should probably not call him dad, and
they both looked at each other and they were like,
what am I supposed to call him Mike?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Like absolutely not. Under called you Mike and Day in
my Life, And so they call it. It's really funny
that makes a show like Daring it is.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
It is funny when you have to like talk to
both of them. I've been on the show a couple
of times. It's like you do have to refer to
them as like senior and junior to differentiate. It's adorable though.
I might also has to kind of do with Lebron.
I have a du do put on for the New Wave.
I'll start with Lebron since we already talked about him.
Lebron James tweeted about Kaitlyn Clark. Yeah, just last night,
(38:50):
after she has this racket of breaking performance, he goes
Kaitlyn Clark in all caps, all exclamation points.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
High haters.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Yeah, love love, love to see Lebron James not only
as a member of the NBA putting on for a
WNBA player but as a member of kind of like,
you know, the previous generation of these massive, massive stars.
And then earlier this week, Rebecca Lobo came to the
(39:16):
defense of Angel Reese. Okay, so people have been kind
of coming down on Angel Reese for her rebounds, being like, well,
how much of those are actually your own misshots?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 9 (39:26):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Rebecca Lobo said that she said some of her critics
like to say she gets a lot of offensive rebounds
off her own missus.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Well, our stats and Information group look that up.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
If you take away all of the offensive rebounds off
her own missus, Angel Reese is still leading the league
in offensive rebounds her game.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Yep, boom drop.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
I'm going to just kind of like add this one
on to that because I saw this this morning, Shack
commenting he was at the game last night, the Fever
Sky game, and he goes, I love this. Now the
next step is getting these women paid as much as
our NBA guys.
Speaker 9 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
I was a little like like by Shack. Okay, my dude,
do teach your dog tricks.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
This week, Sho Tani Bobblehead Night, which also featured his
dog decoy on the Gold bobblehead. By the way, you guys,
people wind up at eleven am for a seven pm
game to get their hands on. The video that you
shared was why Why Wild? But Otani taught his dog,
Decoy to throw out the first pitch, the first dog
(40:30):
to ever throw out a first pitch, And it was
the cutest thing I've ever seen. He left him, he
left him on the mound, stay with the ball, went
behind the plate and then gave him the thumbs up,
and Decoy grabbed the ball and like ran it to him,
like across the plate. Like also not surprise how well
trained Otani's dog, Like the discipline, discipline, every.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Of course he's a good dog trainer on top of that,
Like it's just it's the most wild thing and it's
so fitting and it's just like I love how personal
is now.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Though, but like he's showing a lot more personality now
that he's in La like kind of like this was
a new It's been a really new era. Also like
the silver lining of losing Ekay, his interpreter, Like it
was kind of a safety like his kind wak it. Yeah,
Now he's like more outgoing and like having these like conversations.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
With teammates and being more interactive and on social media.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
And I just the way to anybody's heart is through
a dog. Yes, sure, always, that'll work every single time.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
All right when we come back, Football's back, baby, So
we're playing a bet or bust. You're listening to Fox
Sports Radio. Welcome to hour two of Fox Football Saturday.
I'm Alex Curry alongside Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending
your Saturday afternoon with.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Carmeie and me.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Happy Labor Day weekend, Happy college football season, Happy NFL week.
Also quick shout out to Carmen yesterday and her crazy
that she turned me on to.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
I was like, where are you going with this?
Speaker 10 (42:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (42:04):
My goodness, you guys.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
So I gave up coffee like six months ago, so
I'm always on the hunt for like the best caffeinated tea.
I don't drink coffee. That's a backstit. I drink coffee, Okay.
I felt like Talladegan Knights meme.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
I'm all honked up a mountain dew like I was
bouncing off the walls.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Yes, you know, I got that tea from a friend
of mine who coaches. In the end, he's an NFL
coach and he didn't. He doesn't drink coffee either, and
I was like, what do you do? Like, obviously there's
pulling tons of hours whatever. Yeah, he is now switched
to loose leaf t because he's kind of a tea snob.
It's really cute.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
But he was like, here, this is what I do.
And I'm like, oh, it has literally two hundred milligrams
of coffee. That's an energy drink le per packet. Yes, yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
Alex left it. She tells me that she left it
in the entire time while she was drinking, and I
was like, you're.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Supposed to steep it for six minutes.
Speaker 10 (43:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
I had to like drug myself to sleep last night.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
You guys had to take like a couple extra melowtonins
just to like calm my body down and fall asleep.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
But we're here.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
We learned.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
I drink it like I drink it like every morning.
You're crazy. I don't learn. It's the easy way.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
I learn really hard. It's like you do something you're like, oh, okay, yeah,
don't do that again.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
It was like start with the six minutes. Nope, nope,
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
That's another reason we're all hopped up today because I
also drank one another one this morning, so.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
I every morning I have one and I can feel
myself come to life. It's literally just called high caffeine tea.
If you want it on Amazon, it's a passion for
It's black tea, insane. Thank you and like next time,
pre warning, you have been warned.
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Speaker 3 (44:04):
So let's dive back into football.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Because we are five days away from opening nine on WOOO.
So we're gonna play bet or bust? Are you betting
on these teams or do you think they will be
a bust this season?
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Okay, all right, I think I understand the game. Yep,
We're gonna start with the Jets.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Now, there have been just as much buzz around this
team as they did last season, having Aaron Rodgers for
the first time, but now that Rogers is back and healthy.
They're favored in fourteen games. They have six primetime games. However,
the stories are a little different this time around, because
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stories that are coming out of camp are not great.
The quote was, there is complete disarray over there. Look
at how they've handled Aaron Rodgers. Has one player had
more power than him. He skipped mini camp. They have
been unable to convert him into a team player. The
vibe inside the building is terrible. Now everyone said it
(45:12):
wasn't a big deal that he missed mini camp. I
stood my ground and said it was if you are
a leader on a team and you are not leading
by example.
Speaker 4 (45:20):
Man, you're forty years old. This isn't any Now, you've
been playing in the league for almost twenty years. You
know how mini camp works.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Oh yeah, I'm going bust. I am not betting on
the Jets this season. Now, we had Deshaun Jackson on
the herd last week, and now I personally had heard
rumors from reporters and friends that have been in and
around the team about the relationship between Aaron Rodgers and
Robert Sala, but DeShawn Jackson he confirmed that Rogers and
(45:52):
Sala are not on the same page and there are
some major issues.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Yeah, so if that's going down, no, thank you, I'm out.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
It's interesting because Sala is more obviously the defensive side
of the ball. That's kind of his bread and butter.
That's where he It's going to depend, I think on
how much Sala tries to exert his authority over the
offensive side of the ball and therefore Aaron Rodgers, because
at this point Aaron Rodgers still has his guy in
Nathaniel Hackett at offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
He's got Alanizard is still on this roster.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
There's friends that still could be on their way to
the Jets, if David Bactieri's cryptic tweets are to be believed. Yeah,
Rogers wants full control over the offense. He also even
when it comes like when he was in Green Bay
and all this other stuff, he changes. Matt Lafleur copped
to Aaron Rodgers changing like thirty percent of the place,
(46:45):
which means it's double that. If you're copping to thirty percent,
you need to double that. And it's more basically like.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
He came in and they like handed the offense to them.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
That's what you're doing if you're bringing in an MVP
player like Aaron Rodgers going to adjust to you, You're
going to adjust to him.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
So I am going bust on this all though, because
I do think that there's too many egos in play here.
There's also it's it's a house of cards here in.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
New Jersey's like someone's leaking stories inside the building. Theories
only come out when they want to become Rogers didn't
play in the preseason. I know he was there for Camp.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
I like, from a football standpoint, him missing Mini camp
doesn't make a difference. But from a leadership standpoint and
from you wanting him to be bought into a team.
You can have all the talent in the world, but
if you don't act as one cohesive unit and you
don't have one singular belief that you can do it,
it's not going to work. There's all these intangibles that
just seem.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
The vibes are bad.
Speaker 4 (47:42):
But also with how much Rogers changes things and how
many He's very particular with how he wants the routes run,
with how he wants these options thrown. Like he is
so particular with all of this, and these guys that
are around him don't have enough of of reps with
Rogers and how he operates because it it turned four
(48:05):
snaps into the season last year. This is just I
couldn't believe that, Like, he wasn't doing everything possible to
gel with these guys. You saw him get into it
with Garrett Wilson, who is his number one receiver. I
just the Jets have invested so much in this, and
even Rogers said it, it's all riding on his shoulders,
and it's all riding on the Jets not only winning,
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in my opinion, winning a playoff game, but to make
all of this worth it, they need to make a
playoff run.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
They need to get to the super Bowl because their
window is not How long is there a playoff drought?
Is it since twenty ten? One of the longest? It
is the longest. Yeah, it's the longest. So that's what
I thought. I was like, I know it's up there.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
It's either twenty ten or twenty twelve, but it's the
longest playoffs drout in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
We are both busts.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
But yeah, I just I don't see this. I just
don't see it going.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Well, especially at the head coach and the quarterback are
not on the same tame.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
Real quick That was the other thing too, where I
was like solid did not have to say that rogers
absence was unexcused in mini camp. No he did not.
Speaker 3 (49:02):
He could cover for him. He chose violence. He shows
violence in that market. In that market.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Oh yeah, he knew it is.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
I mean, listen talking about those aren't fighting words last hour.
Speaker 4 (49:12):
I love a petty king like I was talking about
last hour, but like he can't have two petty kings.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Nope, going at each other your two years?
Speaker 9 (49:22):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
Okay, let's move on to our next team. Carmen the Bears,
the Bears, the Bears. Now, besides Aaron Rodgers, I try to.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Do it like Cam Williams. I can't.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
I can't even get that high.
Speaker 3 (49:33):
How did he do it?
Speaker 4 (49:34):
He goes the ber he like sings it, but he
says it like in a higher voice, like it's really cute.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Okay, So besides Aaron Rodgers, I think Caleb Williams has
the second most pressure coming into this season with the
high expectations.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
He's going to have every eyeball on him.
Speaker 10 (49:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
I do believe he will be the best quarterback the
Bears have ever had, not saying a lot. The bars
pretty low. They've never had a quarterback through over four
thousand years.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
I wanted to throw thirty touchdowns either.
Speaker 9 (50:02):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
The good news for Caleb they don't play division opponent
until Week eleven, so there are some lighter games for
him to ease his way into the NFL before they
hit the NFC North. I'm betting on the Bears. I'm
betting on the Bears and Caleb Williams.
Speaker 4 (50:22):
We are, We're aligned. I am cautiously optimistic. You guys
have to understand. I grew up in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
Let down. I've been let down. I have scars.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
I have a lot of wounds and battle scars from
supporting this team my entire life.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
You traumatized.
Speaker 4 (50:40):
I'm absolutely traumatized. I mean I remember crying when the
Bears got Jay Cutler, thinking that this was it.
Speaker 9 (50:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (50:47):
I was like, oh my god, oh my god, They're
gonna have offense, and like they did, they had offensive pieces.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
Yeah, and the teas it was a total tease.
Speaker 4 (50:54):
Yeah it didn't. I mean, they made it to the
NFC Championship against the Green Bay Packers and then lost
famously after Jay Cutler blew out his knee in the
first half, I mean just right there. And then you know,
there was the two thousand and six Super Bowl, even
if you're going back before that two thousand and sixth season,
and Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 3 (51:13):
My god, the Bears are gonna win.
Speaker 4 (51:15):
Yeah no, no, Mark Rex Grossman's quarterback, who was I
was delusional at that point.
Speaker 3 (51:21):
This is now my time?
Speaker 1 (51:22):
Is your guy?
Speaker 4 (51:23):
Ryan Poles, when he was hired general manager, said he
was brought to Chicago to break cycles.
Speaker 3 (51:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
So far he has done that by creating, over a
period of time three years now, three off seasons, a
roster that was ready to have youth and a really
dynamic quarterback prospect in it because there was development in
the coaching staff that was that was available. There's all
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this talent around him. The defense should be able to
be relied upon as a top five unit this year.
It's like a per perfect storm of a situation that
Ryan Poles has built. There's a little bit of luck
involved with them getting the first overall pick from Carolina
and then the best quarterback prospect we have seen in
years come out to be the number one overall pick
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in the year that you have the number one overall pick.
So it seems like there is a perfect storm brewing
in Chicago. I am so hesitant to even say this
because he has not played a snap, but okay, Caleb
Williams h should be yeah, the best quarterback in Bears
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history within the next two years. I'm not gonna say
right now, but like you were talking about.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
I said, I believe he's going to be the best
quarterback the Bears.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
I've ever had to do that.
Speaker 4 (52:46):
Even he could feasibly do that this year with the
season Jordan Love had in Green Bay. Oh yeah, like
four thousand yards, thirty touchdowns. It's a pretty run of
the mill stat line for an NFL quarterback, and that
would be their best friend. He should blow past the
rookie records by Halloween. But to that, to your point
from earlier, leading up to that week eleven game against
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the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field, which is when
the Bears open up Division play, yep. Before that, you
have the Patriots. Before that, you have the Cardinals. Before that,
you have the Commanders. Before that, you have your bye week.
Before that, you have the Jaguars in London. Before that,
you have the Panthers, that whole stretch, that's a pretty.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
Like should allow you to gel. Nothing's going to be easy,
but an easier stretch, it should be a really good
kind of like, let's get our footing.
Speaker 4 (53:39):
And because I mean the first couple weeks of this season,
I don't think the Titans are going to be an
easy out to open the season. But then you get
the Texans week two in Houston, and then you also
have to play the Rams two weeks later.
Speaker 3 (53:50):
But that's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 4 (53:51):
But if you can then win a majority of those
next few games leading up to Week eleven, and then
Alex the meat of the sandwich.
Speaker 3 (54:00):
If you can take the meat of the sandwich. Oh,
if you can beat the Packers at home for the first.
Speaker 4 (54:03):
Time, and how long they have lost twelve of the
last thirteen at Soldier Field to the Packers.
Speaker 3 (54:09):
If they can beat if you could see the Green
Bay you guys could just see Carbon's face right now.
She's talking about this, the pitch talks about it ad
nauseam all.
Speaker 4 (54:17):
If they can beat the Green Bay Packers Week eleven,
Caleb's first start against their division rivals, which hasn't been
much of a rival re lately.
Speaker 3 (54:27):
Yep, Chicago is just gonna go.
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Riot they Yes, I have, Like we won.
Speaker 4 (54:35):
I saw this one speak a couple of weeks ago.
They could not win another game after that, and Bears
fans would be like, no, this is this is gonna work.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
This is gonna work. But don't change a thing. We're
gonna keep going. It'll be fine, like we're we're in.
Speaker 1 (54:49):
We're in.
Speaker 3 (54:50):
But like I mean, it's a little bit of hyperbole.
Speaker 4 (54:51):
But at the same time, like if they can win
that game, in particular, I I'm going to be in
Chicago for that game anyway, I will stay probably longer
than I was supposed to, just because I want to enjoy.
Speaker 3 (55:03):
I'm going to be at a bar right after the.
Speaker 2 (55:05):
Game, is what I'm gonna do again if they win.
If they win, if they win, if not, crying at
your computer. Okay, let's move to our next better bust.
We've been aligned on these which, guys, we didn't talk
about this beforehand.
Speaker 1 (55:16):
No, he didn't the Bills.
Speaker 2 (55:18):
Now this week ESPN released a player poll and Josh
Allen was voted most overrated quarterback by his peers. So
now there have been extremely high expectations for Josh since
he got in the league. He has the talent, he
has the arm, but the bar has been super Bowl
and he keeps running into Mahomes in the postseason and
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Alan has zero to three against Mahomes in the postseason.
And last year it felt like it was supposed to
be his year, mahomes first road playoff game, and the
Bills still lost. I I'm honestly on the fence. Oh
I've got this one, but I'm leaning more towards the
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bus side.
Speaker 3 (56:01):
I think the question is, can Josh.
Speaker 2 (56:03):
Allen carry this team once again after losing their top
two weapons and Stefan Diggs and Gabe Davis.
Speaker 3 (56:08):
I I don't know.
Speaker 4 (56:11):
I mean, that's that's the thing is, I don't know
Josh Allen is going to have the opportunity he's gonna
have to carry to shut these people up, to shut
the rest of the league up, apparently if player wise,
because if he can elevate this receiver room, which I
think he can, and Keon Coleman is just impossibly likable.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
I absolutely adore him.
Speaker 4 (56:29):
Oh yeah, if he can be what they need him
to be in a number one wide receiver, and then
you can also lean on James Cook in the backfield.
We're not talking enough about this guy who had over
eleven hundred yards last year had four hundred and something
receiving yards as well. He's a dual threat running back
out of the backfield. He can be a safety net
for Josh Allen yep, and be extremely productive on top
of that.
Speaker 3 (56:51):
I think that this is going I think the Bills.
Speaker 4 (56:52):
Are going to be fine. I honestly think that Matt Milano.
If you're betting on the Bills, I am betting on
the Bills. Okay, the Matt Milano injury to me was
the most worrisome, even more so than losing stuff and
losing Gabe Davis. I don't understand how in the world
Josh Allen could be voted as one of the most
overrated players. I'm like, this time, you're coming from offensive players,
because defensive players when you are going against the Bills,
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the tape that you have to study and the way
that Josh Allen can get himself out of things, and
the physicality with which Josh Allen plays the quarterback position. Yeah,
I don't like every defense is scared of him. Every
defense is scared of.
Speaker 3 (57:27):
Him, so I'm like this.
Speaker 2 (57:28):
He was also voted trash talker. Oh yeah, which I
think maybe plays into the most okay rates, Like have you.
Speaker 4 (57:36):
Seen the trash he does talk? Because the Bills have
put it out there before. Oh I would they like
there's like miked up moments with Josh Allen and like
some of them. I mean obviously they added out like
all of the really really profane one, but they're.
Speaker 1 (57:47):
Like they're hysterical. Yeah, he's hysterical.
Speaker 3 (57:50):
I love it. I'm still in on the Bills. I
really am.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Okay, I really am, and I'm in on Josh Allen. Okay,
so real quick, we're gonna do one more. But Chargers
has changed for them this season obviously, New head coach
Jim Harbaugh said that, like the culture has changed for
the better, but can that reflect on the field for wins.
I could be delusional, but I am betting on the Chargers.
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I'm a believer in Jim Harbaugh, his culture, how he
turns teams around. Herbert also has the talent but hasn't
had the right coach. He's heading into his fifth season
with his fourth head coach. The look on your face, Okay,
what are you better bust?
Speaker 3 (58:26):
I'm I'm busting right now. Okay, I'm betting right now. Okay,
so we good. We did not agree on the last two.
Speaker 2 (58:34):
We will reconvene on these better bus halfway through the season.
We're going to take a quick break here, but when
we come back, should show how you Tani win his
third MVP. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back
to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry alongside Carmen Vitali,
coming to you live from the Tarak dot Com studios
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with Carme and me.
It's been a fun ra today.
Speaker 4 (59:03):
Yeah the dancing.
Speaker 2 (59:05):
You guys, sometimes I forget you can't see us. You're
just hearing us and no, yeah, we're we're having a time.
I'll just tell you that we are having a time.
We're gonna switch gears and talk a little baseball because
Shoho Tani is him, you guys, once again. Having an
MVP caliber season made history last night, the first player
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ever with forty three home runs and forty three stolen
bases in the same season. Now the last player because
he reached that forty two to forty two club earlier
this week on his bibblehead night. The last player to
do that was a rod in ninety eight, twenty six
years ago. So I mean, what he is doing for
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the game of baseball. Obviously he it's hard to put
into words what he did when he came into the
league as a two way player. But with him just
focusing on offense this year, we're seeing how incredible his
talent can be when honed in on just one aspect
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of his game. And everybody knows it too, you guys.
We talked about it earlier his bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
This was this week.
Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Fans were lining up at eleven am for a seven
pm game. Lines went around the stadium and I googled
what those gold bobbleheads are going for right now? From
ten thoy to eighteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Holy mo.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Yeah, that's insane. Yeah, because not all the fans got them.
I think they had like, yeah, they never have enough. Yeah,
they never have enough for the entire stadium.
Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
That's because it's like usually they're ten son of ized
people to get in there early and do all that
kind of stuff. But like then every now and again
it comes around there's a giveaway that like just but yeah, no,
they never the doctors never have no enough for the
whole stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
It's insane. Now Otani is en route for his third MVP.
Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
No P i'mory DH player has ever won an MVP,
So if it happens, he would be the first player
to ever win as just a DH.
Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
And I mean he's n L MVP odds.
Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Right now, Otani is minus fourteen hundred and Francisco Lindoor
is plus five point fifty.
Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Oh, it's not even It's not even close right now,
it's not even close.
Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
But I think there's another point to this conversation that
kind of takes a little bit of a left turn
here because we talk about how amazing his offense has
been this season, but it's still only the eleventh best
offensive season that Barry Bonds had.
Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
Put Barry Bonds in.
Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
The Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Everybody, I will, I will die on this hill. Everybody
was on steroids during that time.
Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
It was like culture.
Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
The pictures were like the pictures were also.
Speaker 4 (01:01:51):
That's always been with it is like it was a
level playing field. Everybody was doing it like I guess
it was the reason that performance enhancing drugs our outlawed
is because it gives you a leg up and whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
And if you're willing to risk that and do that.
Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Then usually you're like only one of the only people
doing it. Well, everybody in baseball was doing it at
the time. I free it was a level like if
you weren't cheating, you weren't trying.
Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
I mean, they had bowls of greenies just sitting in
the clubhouse like that was a thing. And we still
use his stats like Bonds is the all time leader
in home runs with seven sixty two so single season
home runs with seventy three, and the season that Otani
is having right now that everyone's freaking out about that
he might get a third MVP with is only the
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eleventh best offensive season that Barry Bonds had.
Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
Let that settle in for a moment, and it is
leading the league.
Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
Make no mistake, like shows forty three home runs. We
actually Marcello Zuna has the third best MVP odds, and
even then he still has what thirty seven home runs HM,
but he's also as a DH. I think it's very
interesting that the top two of the top three in
MVP odds in the National League inward agous.
Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
So Otani is him put bonds in the Hall of Fame. Now,
let's check it with Brian Frimley and see what's trending.
Speaker 11 (01:03:13):
Yeah, that is a saga that continues. We could go on,
yes for sure. Hey, by the way, there's a ton
of college football going on. Let's let's talk about that.
Ohio what's up? Yeah, so Ohio State, the number two
ranked team in the country, getting a surge of offense
from the quarterback Will Howard now Thurman.
Speaker 5 (01:03:33):
A motion from right to left, Will Howard takes a
hand off lopside into the end zone, caught touchdown Jeremyah Smith.
As Howard hit, he Will to strike nine yard scoring
place second time. Those two have hooked up with the
Buckeyes and Ohio State's lead is sixteen to three.
Speaker 11 (01:03:48):
Buckhy Radio network after the extra point at seventeen to three.
Buck guys leading at the half against Akron. Over on
Fox Television Number eight, Penn State is all over West
Virginia thirty four to twelve.
Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
This was one of the first windows.
Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
There's nine minutes to.
Speaker 11 (01:04:01):
Go in the fourth quarter, but there was a more
than hour long lightning delay that had things starting later
than usual coming out of the half.
Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Because of the weather issues.
Speaker 11 (01:04:11):
Number four Texas is dominating thirty one to nothing against
Colorado State early stages of the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
There quinn Ewers, the social.
Speaker 11 (01:04:19):
Media sensation has two hundred and forty eight yards passing,
three touchdowns and the one pick halftime in Gainesville, Well
where at number twenty we're number nineteen Miami has a
twenty four to ten edge over the Gators. Some of
the finals to get to involving top twenty five teams.
Number seventeen Oklahoma State clinch is a forty four to
twenty went over South Dakota State. Number one Georgia dominates
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thirty four to three against number fourteen Clemson. Carson Beck,
the Bulldogs quarterback, had two touchdowns through the air. Number
fifteen Tennessee sixty nine to three against ut Chadden Nougat
running up the score. Imagine how the Mocks had field
their coaching staff when they finish that game. Number twenty
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five Iowa forty to nothing over Illinois State forty to nothing. Yes,
Cade mac Damara two hundred and fifty one yards passing
and three touchdowns, and yeah, I still can't as I
get it back over to you, Alex and Carmen. Why
are you scoring sixty nine points to three? Like I
don't understand, Like I know you're better.
Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Ye, because it's nice, because it's nice. Stop.
Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
No, there is no mercy rule you. You keep playing
as hard as you can until the end.
Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Of the game. I am a believer.
Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
Okay, nice.
Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Yeah, it's just nice. Yeah, it's all I'm gonna say. People.
They gotta get it. Yeah, oh, I gotta get it.
Thank you, Brian. You're listening to Fox Football Saturday. I'm
Alex Curry here at Carmen Vitali.
Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
We are broadcasting live from Attara dot Com Studios in
Los Angeles, and it is time for our next guest,
Mister Fantasy NFL Networks Adam Rak Thanks for joining the show.
Speaker 9 (01:05:57):
Oh my gosh, it is such an amazing time to
be on with the both of you. Yeah, two of
my favorites from the Women's Mafia.
Speaker 4 (01:06:08):
It's so true.
Speaker 9 (01:06:11):
I watch it. It's just like you get It's like
the nWo back in the day, Like you guys just
got a new member, like it's Blackham but huge fans
of you guys. Obviously, obviously we.
Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
Love to talk to you, Adam.
Speaker 12 (01:06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:06:24):
I cannot wait to hear you and Greg Braggs do
with the Sick podcast together, because I think you guys
are just going to absolutely like feed off of each
other and.
Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
No one's going to be there to rain you in.
So I rained. I rained at him in last season.
Greg is not going to do any such things for him. Love,
let's start.
Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Let's start with your Bears, your your delusional fandom of
your Bears. The most anticipated season in decades for Chicago.
All eyes are going to be on Caleb Williams. So
what for you as a diehard Chicago Bears fan, what
would be considered a successful seas in for the Bears
and Caleb's rookie year.
Speaker 9 (01:07:03):
Winning the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
What I'm talking about.
Speaker 9 (01:07:10):
This is why. Yeah, let's go listen. If I was
if I was booking the NFL, and I don't get
control of that, I'm not on the booking committee, my pitch,
my pitch would have been listened Caleb Williams. The one
way to end all these years of frustration would be
for the Bears to become the first team in NFL
history to win a Super Bowl with the rookie quarterback
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beating the Jets in the Super Bowl. Why the Jets
their quarterback by Aaron Rodgers just closed the book on
all of it. I don't say it's not happening. I
think you have a good team. The Jets could possibly
make it to the Super Bowl. But I think one
of the most realistic expectations for me for the Bears
(01:07:55):
is last year. I think a lot of people forget
like it's so funny, like some I was just reading
Twitter for some reason. I don't even think this is
a roster that competed NFL team and you're like, yeah, bro,
they beat seven of them last year, like they they're good. Yeah,
what you would like to see. And this is what
what escaped them last year. And this is what Carmen
tried to tell me week after week, and I'm like, no,
(01:08:17):
you're wrong.
Speaker 7 (01:08:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (01:08:19):
They lost three games where they had over a ninety
percent chance of winning in the fourth quarter because they
couldn't close. And I think that if the Bears can
go out there and close the games that they're supposed
to win, that would be huge. And then if they
do that, I think they have a good enough shot
to make the playoffs. Now it depends on how good
the rest of the teams are in the NFC.
Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
But I do it's going to be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Lions, Packers, Vikings, you can always count on to figure
it out.
Speaker 9 (01:08:50):
Can we wait? Hold on? Why? Why does everybody dismiss
the Bears? But they're a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Like I said anticipated season, and dear, this is your guy.
Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
I think the Bikings are going to be an easy out,
but I don't think that. I still think they're gonna
end up in the basement. Yeahs division.
Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
At least for sure, they're good.
Speaker 9 (01:09:09):
Sam Arnold's my guy. He's an Orange County dude like me,
so I'm rooting. I don't like that he's on the Vikings.
I wish he was somewhere else where I could I
could root for him. But they'll be good. Not as
a good team, they are a good team. I don't
want to take anything away from the Vikings because they
have a lot of good they got. They do have
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a good team. But it's like everybody's like, well, the
Vikings are going to like and we're not, Like we're
not on the level of the Vikings.
Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Hey no, no, you're buff.
Speaker 4 (01:09:37):
I've been talking a lot too about how this is
the best situation I think a quarterback taken first overall
has ever come into because they didn't actually warrant that pick.
Ryan Pols has spent multiple off seasons curating this roster. Also,
you don't necessarily need Caleb Williams to be his best
in this first season when he's surrounded by the talent
that he is, and theoretically you think that he could
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rely on the defense, you limit the amount of points
scored against them, given that I think they should be
a top five unit this year. I want to know,
and this is not something that I've dived in on
as much, but it's somewhat something that you are an
expert on, Adam. Because of all of this, what are
realistic fantasy expectations for Caleb Williams?
Speaker 9 (01:10:19):
Oh, I'm glad you asked. It is It is a
very similar situation to what is going on with c J.
Stroud down in Houston, because a lot of people have
questions for like what receiver do we want? When you
look at the Bears, it's you know, it's d J. Moore,
Keenan Allen Romadunze for here saying you've got Nico Collins,
Tank Dell and Stefan Diggs, and this is one of
those spots where you're like, well, I'll just take the
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quarterback is then you're getting all the you don't have
to worry about it because the tight ends also factor
into this as well. So the one thing that I
really like about Caleb Williams opportunity is that he's a
better runner than people giving him credit for sure. So
you can go into every game with an expectation of
about thirty to forty rushing yards, which is the equivalent
of a passing touchdown in most fantasy formats. So now
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he's like, Okay, well that's nice, and if you can
throw a touchdown and get some yardage, and I know
that you know they're going to try to run the
football as much as possible. But I think that he's
a He's a safe floor quarterback who will probably be
somewhere in the quarterback twelve quarterback thirteen, which makes him
the back end of the QB one situation. Okay, and
with the defense being as good as it is, we
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hope that they're not going to be throwing as much,
but still should be a solid performer fantasy wise. I've
been taking him as my quarterback too, and a lot
of drafts of course. Yeah, because I've been taking Anthony
Richardson and Kyler Murray.
Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
Oh yeah, Kyle, Oh, you're going hard in the paint.
Speaker 10 (01:11:42):
You know what the thing is.
Speaker 9 (01:11:43):
It's like I didn't I didn't plan on this. In
the early part of the offseason. I'd gone for Anthony
Richardson and then like this spicy it is, Well, that's
the rushing ability. Like you really need to you need
to know your leagues. Like if you're in a league
where you get four points for a rush for passing touchdowns,
excuse me, you got to take a quarterback who gives
you the rushing floor. Josh Allen and Anthony Richardson's in there.
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People love Jade and Daniels and Michael. Nobody wants Kyler Murray. Like,
I'll take um. He was good. He was good at
the end of last season. McBride was good with him.
And now you bring in Marvin Harrison Junior and like,
sign me up, and I try to stack him with
one of those two pass catchers and then I think
I'm cooking.
Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
Now, Okay, let's keep talking fantasy, because Cowboy just locked
in ceed Lamb with the long term extension. How high
are you picking CD as your wide receiver one in
Fantasy this year?
Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Are you taking him with a number one overall pig?
Speaker 9 (01:12:35):
It depends on the size of your league. If you're
in the league that drafts three, if you start free
wide receivers, yeah, you're better off drafting one of those
stud wide receivers because the falloff is not massive, but
it is significant, especially when you come back around the turn.
So for me, I play in a lot of leagues
where you just start two wide receivers, so there is
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a question of do I want him, Do I want CMC,
or do I want Freese? And a lot of dafts.
Early on, I've been going with the running back. I
tried one today where I went with CD Lamb in
the number two hole.
Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 9 (01:13:11):
The roster's good, but it's not as great as it
could because I missed out on Travis Etn who I
was anticipating coming back around. Okay, but I think it's good.
The one thing that I like about CD lamb situation
is that going into that Week one contest against the
Cleveland Browns, he's gonna have two weeks of practice.
Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
Yeah, he's going to be five.
Speaker 9 (01:13:29):
It's not like Jamar Chase, who has a Yeah, Brandon
Ayuka is going to get a week of practice before
they play the Jets, so that's okay. But yes, it's
like it's like the off season never happened, Like all
that worrying king had to sit there and wild all
these questions and it's like, yeah, no, big deal, he's back.
We're good. He's going to get two hundred and fifty
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targets were high.
Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
Yeah, right, it's crazy, so you would go CMC first.
Christian McAffrey is who you're going with, if that makes sense.
Speaker 9 (01:13:59):
Number one over, Yes, and it's and it's gonna be
bad the first week. It's not gonna be great because
Brent Williams probably won't play even if he signs. I
can imagine him playing, and that.
Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Week they need they need it, like Brock does not
play well without that protection. No, it's not a huge
sample size, but it's not great.
Speaker 9 (01:14:18):
What was what three games last year? Yeah yeah, yeah,
and it wasn't great for CMC, It wasn't great for
Brock Purty. So that is a dire situation. And Jim
Williams actually has the history of not like holding out. Yes,
and he's thirty three. He could retire, Like he doesn't
need this, he could just go out and do anything.
So it does. I'm almost to the point of like,
(01:14:40):
you know, maybe I'll just go ceedee lamb.
Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Oh okay. Interesting.
Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
I mean also, I would think that they would make
a lot of sense given the fact that he literally
accounts for a third of the Cowboys offense. Yeah, like that.
He is Dak Prescott's only reliable receiver. He is going
to get all of the targets, he's gonna have all
of the catches, he's going to have to have all
of the production.
Speaker 9 (01:15:02):
Yeah, I mean, and there's nobody really, I mean, Brandon
Cooks is there, Dalton Schultz is there. They signed Dalvin
cook which is not going to eat into that at all. Like, yeah,
it's it's all set up for Ceedee lamb. Once again.
Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
I love this, Adam, thank you for George, thank you
for all the bits. Because I have my draft this
timing a thank you.
Speaker 9 (01:15:22):
Can I say something really nice about Carmen Battalion? Please
do this? Is this is my goal. Yeah, Like over
over the last three hundred and sixty five days, yep,
Carmen has blown up so much and I could not
be more proud of her. She does a great job.
She was so objective about the Bears, and guys would
give her grief every week and she was spot on
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every time. And I'm I'm incredibly proud of her. I
hope when they do like a behind the music of
her got to I just want to small mention, like
in the first five minutes before she goes on to
her big thing, kind of like when they talk about
Gwen Stefani being in no doubt to be I want
to be like her, Tom Dumont, you know, like briefly
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spend some time together. But I'm proud of her and
Alex of course, like ever since your days covering the Angels,
I've been a huge fan. Actually, you know what, I
might need you to come out and help me coach
my uten soccer team.
Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Oh snap, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 9 (01:16:21):
Much love to both of you guys. Thank you for
having me on and I'm proud of both of you.
Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
Thanks Adam, we love you. Have a great weekend. Thank you,
thank you, we love you, we love you. See yah.
Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
All right, we're going to take one more break here,
but when we come back, we're making our week one
NFL Picks.
Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Welcome back to Fox Football Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here
with Carmen Vitally and we are broadcasting live from a
tark dot com studios in Los Angeles. And since Carmen
is going to be out next week at the Bears
home opener, we are going to do our Week one
NFL picks today. Now we will be being score all season,
so I think we need a fun bet. Don't need
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to come up with it right now, but let's marinate
on this. We'll also take suggestions on social media. What
does a loser have to do? We've seen some epic
fantasy football user situation crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
This is all one Oh oh no, we can be crazy.
Are you talking season long? Season long? Season long?
Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Now, we're gonna do like what you think we should,
like what the losers should do at the end of
the seay with our NFL picks. Let us know this
is going to be fun.
Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
I want to like make it weird, right, Okay, not
too weird?
Speaker 4 (01:17:34):
Alex, think about what you're asking the general social media
population pick.
Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
We're going to get a big one, it is. But
Producer Patrick lead us through.
Speaker 12 (01:17:42):
Alright, ladies, why don't we start off with the first
game of the entire season on a game show? Baltimore
Ravens versus Kansas City Chiefs, Now Carmen and Alex. You
want to know who the leader is with points? Right now,
Kansas City is a three point favorite minus three. We've
taken Alex.
Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
This is an AFC Championship rematch, and this is tough
because Lamar and the Ravens I feel like need to
avenge that loss, and Lamar didn't play well. You know,
he's been thinking about that and itching. But I did
say I'm never betting against Mahomes and the Chiefs again
until they prove me wrong. Chiefs are one and one
in game openers after winning.
Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
A super Bowl. But I'm gonna go with the.
Speaker 4 (01:18:23):
Ravens, okay. I I mean minus three for the Chiefs
at home is basically just like a watch there. So
I'm also going to the Ravens because the addition of
Dereck Henry to this offense and the fact that the
Ravens are gonna be motivated. I'm still not betting against
the Chiefs to make it to the Super Bowl again. Yeah,
but I think they can, they can drop the season opener.
(01:18:43):
All right, we got two ravens here, everybody, we got that.
We're gonna go number two.
Speaker 12 (01:18:48):
We got the Green Bay Packers heading over to the city,
the state, the city, Philly. We're gonna go play the
Eagles and ladies. The Eagles our three point favorites yet again.
And why don't we switch this over, Carmen, who were
you taking?
Speaker 9 (01:19:06):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
This is it doesn't matter that the Eagles, like deals,
are technically the home team, but this is in Brazil,
so they both have to travel.
Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
This is both good. It's gonna be a weird game.
Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
Uh not that I think it needs to be a
weird game, because I just think the Packers everything about
them this offseason and into the preseason has just been
business as usual.
Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
Like they have their swagger.
Speaker 4 (01:19:23):
They know they have their fifty five million dollar man
in Jordan Love and he's got so many options to
throw to that I just don't see this Eagles defense
keeping up.
Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
I'm taking Packers.
Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Yeah, there's been a lot of noise around Philly and
the relationship between Hurtz and Sirianni. They had a terrible
end to last season. Now they did pick up Saquon Barkley.
But any of the Packers just paid their guy Jordan Love,
and they had a great end to last season, as
you mentioned, growing up in Brazil, so it eliminates any
(01:19:56):
home field advantage.
Speaker 12 (01:19:58):
I'm going with Packers, right we got two packs here,
let's go number three. We got dash Cowboys taking on
the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland. Everybody, we don't have a
three point favorite, but is a two and a half favorite.
The winner of that one right now? Is Cleveland the favorite? Alex,
what do you say?
Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
This was a bit little bit of a toss up
for me. I know the Cowboys obviously just signed their
guys CD. Nothing has really been done with Dak yet.
You got Browns Amari Cooper playing his former team, which
always adds a little bit of OMPs.
Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
They did pick up Jerry Judy. I'm gonna go with
the Browns here.
Speaker 4 (01:20:39):
Oo, you finally got we finally get one that we
disagree with. I'm going with the Dallas Cowboys. I just
don't I don't like the vibes in Cleveland. I don't
know that we can even trust that Deshaun Watson is
fully healthy at this point. The Dallas Cowboys are gonna
be even if Dak does not have a deal, that
means that he's playing for his next contract. He's gonna
be more motivated than ever. You know, Cee, he is
gonna be motivated with all that money. And I think
(01:20:59):
the Dallas defense, I can keep the Browns if a
the Browns defense scares me.
Speaker 3 (01:21:03):
But I'm still going Cowboys. All right, let's go moving
on to this one.
Speaker 12 (01:21:07):
We got Rams versus Loons and the favorite at home
Detroit with three and a half Garman.
Speaker 9 (01:21:13):
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (01:21:14):
Lions? Lions? Yo, Lions. Yes, I'm so in on the
Lions this year. Let's let's go all the way to
the super Bowl.
Speaker 9 (01:21:20):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
I've we're also taking the Lions. They're gonna be hungry,
tough end the last season. There are fourth best odds
for Super Bowl faves. Like we're both We're.
Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
Both high on Dan Campbell, Dan Campbell. Yeah, that's gonna
be great.
Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
Thank you guys so much for spending your Saturday afternoon
with us.
Speaker 3 (01:21:35):
I'll see you next week, same time, same place,
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