Jonas Knox Talks Brian Daboll's Problem, Baker Vs Brady's Buccaneers Era, An Uninspiring Start For Caleb Williams , And More!!

Jonas Knox talks Brian Daboll and The New York Giants and what problems are plaguing this quickly plummeting partnership. Jonas also talks shop on the viral comments Baker Mayfield made on the difference between Tom Brady leading the Bucs before he retired and how Baker currently handles this team. Plus, Jonas discusses more on Caleb Williams' first two games for the Bears, the 49ers being very banged up, a fun week 3 version of Knox Locks, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I have to stop Jonas Knocks.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
You thought you knew me. You didn't know a thing
about me.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
He's crazier than it else. Wrecked that guy, Jonas Knocks.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
You heard me, Friends of Darkness is lighting up your
speakers to establish an alibi for the day. From the
ti rack dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios, here's Jonas Knox.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yep, Okay, I'll be part of this world. So we
got ourselves some troubling signs in the NFL for one

(00:50):
head coach. We'll get into that for you here coming
up in just a couple of moments from now, Jonas Knox,
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matchups in college football. We got ranked first ranked teams

(01:33):
kind of sprinkled in throughout the day. USC Michigan kind
of feels like Michigan went for it all last year,
and this is an opportunity for USC to establish himself
in the Big Ten. You know, you've got another big
time matchup coming up later on where you got Tennessee
and Oklahoma. Oklahoma gets their first SEC test, so that's
gonna be a fun watch. We have no idea whether

(01:56):
or not Cam Rising is gonna play, because there's always
shenanigans with the injury rep when Kyle Whittingham is involved,
and so he got Utah, Oklahoma State, whatever you want
to call it. We got big twenty top twenty five
matchups in college football, but it all pales in comparison
to the appetires that we got for those, which was
last night in Lincoln, Nebraska between Illinois and Nebraska. Now,

(02:21):
I want to say this, I don't believe that Illinois
is going to be, I guess a factor in the
Big Ten race. I wouldn't imagine that, but it's a
good win for them. That's an impressive showing. It feels
like it's a long cry from where we were a
couple of years ago when people were bitching and moaning
because Brett Beilama called out his offensive line and people

(02:43):
thought that was unfair treatment to players that had come
in on the team that he had taken over. I
don't know, seems like they're playing pretty good football in Champagne,
and it seems like Brett Beelam has put together a
tough program who won a big time game on the
road last night. They've got Penn State next week. We'll
actually be doing this show live from State College next Saturday,

(03:04):
so that'll be a fun atmosphere and a fun watch.
But let me just tell you this because I found
this to be surprising and also borderline depressing, and it
pertains to Nebraska. Last night on Fox was the first

(03:30):
Top twenty five Verse Top twenty five matchup at home
for Nebraska in over ten years. That's depressing. Here's what's
even more depressing that Nebraska has lost twenty five straight
games to rank opponents. Like you know, I mean, they're

(03:54):
just there are certain moments where you realize, oh, God,
I've gotten old. Like there's just moments. And for people
out there that are on the younger side, oh don't worry,
you've had that happen too. You want to know a
humbling moment, Why don't you go back to your elementary
school and take a drink out of the water fountain.

(04:14):
How's your back feel a little bit lower down than
what you were used to back when you were in school.
I swear to god, I was at my elementary school
a couple of years ago, Like they did this like
carnival event there and it was like right around the course.
So I go there, went to school there when I
was like a little kid. I'm like, I'm not old,

(04:36):
but damn that place made me feel old. I'd been
over to take a drink out of the water fountain
and I thought I was jumping off a building. It's
night and day difference, and I'm seeing Nebraska and I'm
seeing those numbers laid out. And it was a great
game last night, and they played their ass off. And

(04:56):
let me just say this, Dylan Reyola is a stud
and a half. That guy makes it look I know
that the Patrick Mahomes comps and all that stuff. Whatever, listen,
you know, whatever you want to call it, but damn
he's good and he's only gonna get better. And when
you see listen, you know his dad was a great foot,

(05:16):
great player for the Lions, Dominic Rayola, like you see it,
like just all that, like it's fun to watch. So
Nebraska's gonna be fine. But when you see those numbers
come out, when it comes to Nebraska football, it makes
you feel old because you realize that was one of
the true powerhouses of college football, the true powerhouses of

(05:37):
college football, and Nebraska was one of them. And it's
been that long since they've had success, since they've even
been featured against another top it's a bummer. It kind
of made you feel your age a little bit. But
don't worry about it. Everything's going to be fine. Illinois's
off and running. Nebraska's got a stud quarterback, Matt Rules,

(05:59):
got the pro headed in the right direction. But you
can't help but look back at some of those numbers
and go, good Christ, I'm a little bit older and
I thought I was Jonas NOx here Fox Sports Radio.
Now let's get to this, because it does feel like
there's an NFL team who's got a problem. Kind of
feels that way. The New York Giants stink. There's no

(06:25):
other way to put it. They stink. And we can
sit here and we can try and guess how this
is gonna go, and we can try and take our
best bets to the window, as they say, and try
and fade the Giants and do like we can play
this game all we want, But all you need to

(06:46):
do is pay attention to the little signs, you know,
the little things that are out because usually in situations
like that, when little things pop up, there's generally bigger
things on the their side. Case in point, Jordan run On,
who covers the Giants for ESPN, was discussing, you know,

(07:13):
the vibe in the locker room in dealing with players
there on the Giants, and he had this.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
To say, Now, the question is how bad can it
get at Cleveland? Tough game, really good defense at home
against Dallas own four is clearly on the table here.
And if they're own four, I worry about this locker room.
I've spoken to guys over the past few days, a
bunch of guys, a handful of guys, and some of them,
not all of them, said, how you know, it's starting

(07:42):
to get shaky in there.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Uh oh, you know what that means. It's like ants
in the house. It's like flight delays. This is the
beginning of a bigger issue and the beginning of the
end for Brian day ball. And you can kind of
see this coming in the off season, the frustration, the
talking about, Hey, I would have drafted a quarterback. I'd

(08:07):
move up and I'd take a quarterback in the top five.
You know that would be in consideration. Would you move
up for Jaden Daniels, Yes, I would. The Saquon Barkley disaster,
how that all played out on HBO and we got
to see it back like all like, all of this
has been brewing, and now you've got players in the

(08:28):
locker room. There was even like a report out that
you know, Jalen Hyatt, you know, potentially would want a
trade request. He's denied it. But now you've got players
in the locker room questioning the coach, questioning the direction
of things, questioning what's going to go. Flight delays, ants
in the house, rats, there's always more, come on, you

(08:51):
know it? You know it. When's the last time you
had one aunt in your house? They don't exist like
they don't it's like coyotes. Like, we got coyotes out
here in southern California, you know, like we did have

(09:11):
mountain lions before. One of them ran across a freeway
trying to play Frogger and ended up, you know, on
somebody's back window. Like it just you know, stuff happens. Listen, pal,
Like they go a lot faster than you. I don't
know if you know this or not, right, So next
time you see a toyota tacoma, don't just assume you're
gonna go up and no on the front end, you're
gonna have to wear that. Like, but we got coyotes

(09:34):
out here, and occasionally you'll see one coyote, and usually
that coyote is an idiot because you got away from
the pack. But you know what, you never see just
one ant. Hey, I was cleaning the cleaning the house earlier.
I found an ant Oh you got rid of it, right, Yeah,
problem solved my ass. There's about ten thousand more where

(09:57):
that one came from. And you got to deal with
all of the flight delays. When's the last time you
went to the airport and your flight was delayed one time?
Usually when it's delayed, like twenty minutes, you can bank
on more like forty five to an hour. That's the
way this works. And when you're already seeing one report

(10:19):
coming out where players are questioning the head coach, questioning
the direction of things, questioning and having a lack of
confidence in the building and direction of the organization, it's
the beginning of the end. This has been brewing, but
the fact that this has come out after week two

(10:39):
from the locker room tells you everything you need to
know about where this team is headed. They're in trouble
and Brian Daball, I think is a good coach. I
think he overachieved with Daniel Jones the first year. I
think Joe Shane, the GM is in a can't win situation,
like everything the guy does is now being talked about,

(11:00):
like he was seen on Hard Knocks the final episode
with the Bears, not even his team, like like not
even his ta Ryan pulls the GM of the Bears
and they got their own problems. Is scouting a college
football game, Joe Shane happens to be there and says, hey,
you know, must be nice not having to be looking

(11:20):
at a quarterback this year. All of a sudden, that
turned into Oh Joe, Shane's talking about his own quarterback.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
And now.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
It's the beginning of the end. Players know it, people
in the media know it. And Brian Daball, who is
a good coach who did good things this first year,
is going to be the fall guy there. I'm telling
you that's where this is added. Now, does it get
to the place where it's a firing in season, I
highly doubt that, but it does feel like we are

(11:51):
at that point where the tables have turned, the opinion
is turned. There's one ant in the house. Now there's two.
Now there's two hundred, Now there's two million. Hey, flight's delayed.
Ten minutes turns into thirty, turns into forty five. Now
we're at an hour fifteen. This is the beginning of
the end for Brian Daball, New York. Jonas Knox here
Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knox on X. It

(12:13):
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we are gonna have the usuals coming up later on.
We do have another edition of Do You Care. We
are also going to have the week three edition of Knoxlocks.
A lot of you guys want to swim in the negative.
You want to point out all the bad performances of
Knoxlocks through two weeks. Don't worry about it, no quitting us.
We'll be back to close up shop later on an

(12:33):
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Gionas Knox Fox Sports Radio. Coming up a little over
ten minutes from now from the tire Rack dot Com studios.
You are going to see one team before your very eyes.
Continue to get break after break after break. Despite some
of the news that came out earlier, they've gotten break
after break. We will get into that for you again.

(14:25):
Coming up here a little over ten minutes from now.
Quick update and college football Ohio status scored again. They've
got a thirty five to fourteen lead over Marshall and
Clemson annihilating NC State fifty two to seven is a score.
I just imagine being an NC State fan and you
decide you don't what Let's go see a road game.

(14:45):
Let's go to Death Valley. What's the point? Like what? Like?
I mean, just go start drinking, dude, Like the tickets
couldn't have been that expensive. I know it's about the
experience and all that. But for God's you know, we
can we can venture and do the bar scene there
locally to see what the hell looks like in Death

(15:07):
Valley and around Clemson as they are annihilating NC State
right now. So if you're a visitor attending that game, apologies,
Just turn on the iHeartRadio app and listen to this
show for the next couple hours, and we'll kind of
make you forget all about your pain and your misery
that is an NC State fan as they get wiped
out by Clemson there on the road. Now, let's get
into this. Baker Mayfield. I want to be clear on

(15:32):
this right, Baker Mayfield. I love everything that he's done
in Tampa Bay. I'm rooting for Baker Mayfield. Big fan
of the guy. All right, And I'm a big fan
of him because the way he got screwed with the
Cleveland Browns disaster. So when Baker Mayfield was in Cleveland,

(15:55):
he did a lot of magical things for the Cleveland Browns, like,
you win their first game in a couple of years.
He also it was so momentous that they opened up
bud light fridges at the same time on Thursday Night football,
he came in in relief. Tyrod Taylor was the quarterback
and he came in relief, and they were so ecstatic

(16:16):
about it. They opened up all these automatic bud light
fridges around the city and in different venues. And so
he goes on establishes himself, you know, goes on to
win a playoff game on the road without his head coach. Remember,
Kevin Stefanski tested positive for COVID. He does all that,

(16:41):
it seems like he's the guy. They're negotiating a contract.
Then all of a sudden they have a down year.
Him and Stefanski have a falling out. Reportedly, the Browns
decide to go to Shaun Watt like and it's played out.
He bounces around, he goes to Carolina. That's a mess.
He goes to the Rams, then he finally gets an
opportunity and he takes over for Tom Brady, and so

(17:06):
Baker Mayfield has kind of noticed some differences between the
Tom Brady era in the locker room and his era
in Tampa Bay. He was on the Cosa de Clube podcast.
Not making that up, that's Corey Klueber's podcast, all right,
you know, former pitcher, former Cleveland guardian, listen, whatever, like, hey,

(17:27):
a name's a name, right, But he was on the
podcast and he talked about the differences between him and
Tom Brady that he seen.

Speaker 7 (17:36):
The building was a little bit different with Tom in there. Obviously,
playing wise, Tom was different. He had everybody dialed in
high strung environments, so I think everybody was pretty stressed out.
So for me, and everybody was expecting the Bucks to
not be good last year, so they wanted me to
come in, be myself, you know, bring the joy back
to football a little bit for guys that weren't having
as much fun, and just continue to raise the competition level.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
So that you just asked me to be myself.

Speaker 7 (18:01):
And like, as a as a player, you really can't
ask for much more than that.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
You hear some of this thing now people will talk about.
In the first clip there him talking about the tom
Brady experience, what it was like before and when he
got there, and people are going to look at that
and go, well, you is he throwing shade at tom Brady?
Is he throwing it's like no, like like here, like
to defend both guys. Baker Mayfield is saying, look, there's

(18:26):
a difference, like, you know, my personality and his personality.
They just wanted me to come in and be myself.
And it's not like he was anointed the job, like
he had to compete against Kyle Trask, just like he
had to compete against Sam Darnoald and Carolina when he
got there, and then once he established himself, like then
he was able to Okay, this is me. This is
why I'm far cry from Tom Brady. But it doesn't

(18:48):
mean that there's not the option for both. It doesn't
mean that that neither can work. Tom Brady came in
at a completely different phase of his career. Like when
tom Brady comes in, he's trying to show everybody I
can still do it, and if I'm going to do it,
I'm going to do it my way and the way
that I've done for twenty years, and so he shows

(19:11):
up to Tampa Bay he wants it done a certain way,
with certain pieces involved, with certain influence on the end,
Like Baker Mayfoot even talked about Tom Brady's influence on
the offense and how he would like things done a
certain way and if it wasn't, some people were gonna
have to deal with the repercussions.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
You hear some of the stories about if he didn't
like a certain play call and he didn't like it
throughout the week and they still call it in the game.
There might have been a throwaway on purpose. They're throwing
at the running back or receiver's feet. There's there's a
lot of mind games.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Going on through a point that it wasn't the right call.
Yeah yeah, And like people will hear that and it's like,
oh my god, tom Brady mind games and you know, god,
he was so hard on everybody there and people weren't
happy when they were in Tampa. It's like, dude, ude,
Like he was running out of time and he knew it,
and he had a red ass and he had a

(20:06):
ton to prove. Like I don't hear Baker Mayfield making
those comments and things. Oh that's shade at tom Brady.
I think that's just the truth. Like he liked the
offense run a certain way, like and when he goes there,
he expects it to be run a certain way. And
when a different play is called, he's gonna throw the
ball at somebody's feet. Yeah, it was high strung. Yes,
it was high pressure and high stress. Of course. Guys

(20:30):
running out of time, like you've ever been like jammed
up trying to finish a project or get something done
before before the clock runs out, you're gonna get stressed
out too, Like whenever you're like running later, you're rushing
to get ready for it. Like, man, listen, like whenever
my wife. I always know this about my wife, whenever

(20:50):
we have some place to be, it always takes her
longer than it should to get ready. Always, and then
with about a half half hour to spare, the attitude
changes comes stressed out. The voice raises. She's yelling at
my son and I we're running out of the house
because we don't get hit with a frying pan. Like

(21:11):
there's all these tom Brady's time was running out, like
he recognized, Hey, I don't have much more of an
opportunity at this So yes, I'm going to be high strung.
There's going to be a lot of pressure. We don't
have time on our side to try and figure this
thing out in a slow process. And when it comes

(21:32):
to Baker Mayfield, he wasn't in a position to dictate
terms or call shots. He was competing for the job,
and so he's a little bit more relieved. He's a
little bit It doesn't mean that he's more lax of
days ago. His vibe is different because he recognizes, Man,
I'm so grateful and thankful to have another opportunity based

(21:55):
on the bag of crap that I've been dealing with
the past couple of years. I'm thankful and I know
I got the pieces here and I know I got
an opportunity. Like it's two different worlds, two different mindsets,
but neither one of them is wrong. It's just where
you are at that point in your life and at
that time in your career that are kind of impacting

(22:15):
the way the locker room fives and listen both have worked.
They want a Super Bowl. Anybody gonna go back and
complain like all these guys are like, man, Tom Brady
really stressed us out. They want a Super Bowl, Like
you're gonna look down at your ring years later and go, man,
I appreciate it because that gave me an opportunity, opportunity
to do something that maybe I would have never done before.
And with Baker Mayfield, guys are like, it's kind of

(22:37):
cool being in there with somebody who's really grateful and
appreciated for the opportunity to have another chance. And that's
what that is. Like, this is gonna get spun out
of control. I'm telling you right now. I know the
way the media works. They're going to pick it apart
and they're gonna say he said tom Brady played mind games.
He said the locker room was miserable when Tom Brady

(22:58):
was there. No, it's just who was brought in and
where they were at in their career. Tom Brady was
at the end of his and there wasn't a lot
of time to play around, and Baker Mayfield got a
second life at his and was really grateful and appreciated
for all of it. Both ways work, no problem whatsoever.
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Man oh Man, a guy who's really feeling the pre
You think Tom Brady was feeling the pressure because time

(24:02):
was running out on his career, Bryan Finley, I've got
it on good authority, Okay, that I have the authority, yes,
that if this update isn't a ten out of ten,
your ass is gone next hour? Really call? Do you
think that up and vanished like a fart in the
wind if you don't get it together this first?

Speaker 8 (24:24):
Do you think that might have anything to do in
terms of going over to the Burbank Studios to get
ready for the UCLA game.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Way to lead into the joke, the way to go,
way to lead into it.

Speaker 8 (24:35):
Pal nice job, by the way, I love how you
trash your wife for being late for things and leaving
the house when it's you who takes forever to run
your fingers through your hair and get the moose and
get the gel, just to your satisfaction in that maine
of yours.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Hey, you know what I can I tell you what
my hair product is. It's really actually ridiculous. Sure it's
a tough act internect. No, no, not at all. I
wagh that's my cologne. But it's uh. I just use
leaving condition or cream. Like I don't even use product.
You just use enough of it, you know. And plus
it's better for your hair, you know, it doesn't dry
you out or anything like that. I use this leaving

(25:12):
condition or cream. Put it in there. Style it ready
to rock now if it gets a little windy. I
wouldn't recommend it in an F five, Like, if you're
in the middle of an F five, you're probably gonna
lose all of it. But the point is that way
you don't have to like, you know, put me like
sprays or gels or anything, you know, a little a
little tip.

Speaker 8 (25:29):
For you there fitly well, I'm speaking of which I'm
looking for some more advice.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
What do you do for your skincare? Because I know
you've had a back meat problem for a while, Hollie.
I don't know where do you get your jokes from it?
Because they are getting worse and worse.

Speaker 8 (25:41):
Man, my god, I I mean at a certain point
this has got to stop.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, you know, and and again if you don't improve,
you're out next hour. Yeah, and you know they're right now,
and I've got the authority to do that. I reached
out to a couple of people involved in the discussion
and they have said, yeah, he's gone like like we
don't want to like in fact, I mean you know
I'm not trying to like air anybody out here on
the air. No, not at all. You never do that.

(26:12):
Brian Blackmore told me, hey, listen, if if he doesn't
get it together, I want him out of there by
hour too. I said, okay, no problem.

Speaker 8 (26:20):
And if I don't want to leave that, I know
that you're gonna come in this studio with your numbchucks
and your baseball bat and run me out and chase
me out of the room.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
We've got Patrick, don't call him Swayze, Sweeka in the
other room, and he'll drag you out of there by
your face, like what are you talking about? Like, we
got our muscle right there, Finley.

Speaker 9 (26:39):
I'm looking right at him too, Jonas, I got him Bentley.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
He winked at me too when he just said that
he's the assault rifle of Fox Sports Radio. You want
any part of that smoke?

Speaker 7 (26:51):
All right?

Speaker 2 (26:52):
I don't. So what do we got? Here's what we have.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
We've got football galore, Jonas and look forward to hearing
about the Knox locks, which is Knox unlocked.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
A screw you vomiting?

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:07):
So here we go. Are we on the air? And
we all mean later? Music started over? What does that mean?
I think that means we're on the air now finally. Anyway.

Speaker 8 (27:15):
Number three Ohio State is rampaging past Marshall thirty five
to fourteen. That game is on Fox Television, Big noon kickoff.
Is there seven to fifty one to go in the
third quarter. Number twenty one Clemson is taking it out
on NCCT fifty two to fourteen. They're midway through the
third quarter. Late in the third quarter in Mississippi State

(27:36):
is getting manhandled at home thirty five to twenty one
against Florida. Indiana is taking it to Charlotte forty five
to fourteen.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
They just began the fourth quarter.

Speaker 8 (27:46):
Also, James Madison is bearing North Carolina fifty three to
twenty four ten minutes flat in the third quarter, West
Virginia seventeen, Kansas twenty one late in the third quarter.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
There.

Speaker 8 (28:00):
As far as what else is going on in the
world of the NFL, according to multiple outlets, it looks
like there is a growing chance that Chargers quarterback Justin
Herbert will be starting on Sunday against the Steelers despite
that high ankle sprain that he encountered last week. Wide
receiver t Higgins of the Bengals is set to make
his season debut on Monday against the Commandos or the

(28:24):
Commanders or whatever they call them these days, this after
he missed the first two games with a hamstring injury.
And lastly, Jonas we do know that Jaguars Tite and
Evan Ingram is not on track to play against the
Bills with a hamstring issue. But what I have it
on in good authority is that you are going to
be filling in for him as the tight end in

(28:45):
the game. So look forward to seeing how that goes,
because I'm very curious to see how you handle the
punishment the physicality out there with that toe issue you
have and that third thumb.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, thank you? Oh my god, really just say that
on the air you have three thumbs us friendly because
you saw one tweet you think you had to do
that on the air. It's three thumbs, it's friendly. Do
you know what you're saying? Are you aware of what
you're I have hands, these are I don't know what
you're talking about. Okay, Oh my god, I don't know

(29:19):
why Chris dropped. I literally thinking of my hands. So okay,
I'm running out of dumps here.

Speaker 8 (29:26):
Yeah, I don't know why you did because I'm mentioning
another thumb here, okay.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
And you keep mentioning it. Yes, well, nobody knows what
it means. A maybe take the hint that that should
have been said on the air. I don't know what
you don't need to say that again because Guardian are
dumpling it for the sec Yeah, there is there is
that's going on here. Yeah, this is not the Overnight's
it's not that Nickel and Dime morning show you were

(29:52):
you were doing. I have no idea how that's dirty.
I don't I would have said it if I thought
it was. Oh my god, I'm sorry. All right, Well, yeah,
that'll do it for his appearance on this show. Thank you,
Brian Finley for being a part of the program. And yeah,
we're gonna ask you to sit this one out, all right,

(30:12):
Jonas knocks here on Fox Sports Radio. Coming up, we
are going to have another edition of Do You Care
About ten minutes from now here from the tiraq dot
com studios. That'll be yours here on FSR as we
try and gather ourselves from the train wreck that Brian
Finley just put us in. But we transition smoothly over
to this and we're going to talk about teams getting

(30:34):
all the breaks now. As you listened before he was dumped,
Brian Finley did describe the situation is a little bit
more optimistic for Justin Herbert and the Chargers. Tomorrow they
are at the Steelers, They're in Pittsburgh and Justin Herbert's
dealing with this high ankle sprain, and so the expectation
is yeah, he's probably gonna be able to play, and

(30:54):
so you feel good about the Chargers and you feel
good about all that. It's a pair of two and
oho teams and that's all fun. And then you know,
you see the news out there and Troy Fontanu, the
offensive tackle, the first round pick out of Washington for
the Steelers, apparently he suffered a little bit of a
knee injury to his knee in practice. He's going to
be out indefinitely until it gets evaluated further. And so

(31:16):
you look at that and you go, oh, well, you know,
both of those are concerning for the Steelers. Now, like
font new aside, let's just be honest about this. There's
usually a team or two in the NFL each year
that just and it's not anybody's fault. It's not planned

(31:37):
or premeditated. Like there's just teams in the NFL at
least a couple each year that kind of end up
falling into all the breaks, you know, like like certain
things go their way when it comes to the schedule
and injuries and quarterbacks they're facing, and you look at
it and you go, oh, well, that's the one this year.
They're the one that's going to get all the breaks,

(31:59):
like they're the team that gets into the postseason that
people call fraudulent, like you know, and the Steelers appear
to be shaping up as that team. And this is
not me having a being pissy about the whole thing,
because I thought Pittsburgh was going to be dead last
in their division. I thought they had the worst quarterback
situation in the AFC North, which I still think they do.

(32:19):
But things have really worked out for them. Like you
opened up the year at Atlanta, Kirk Cousins new offense,
first game back, a lot of like you look at
that and you go, man, that might be a game
later on in the year if they met. It's probably
not that close. But you open up in Atlanta and
you win that game, and it was ugly. You go

(32:41):
to Denver in week two, a place that is historically
a difficult place to play, especially early in the season
when guys aren't in shape, they don't have their breath.
You've got mile high condition like all, and you win
that game and your defensive backs and players on that
side of the ball are reportedly last at the limited

(33:01):
playbook that bow Nicks had in that game, which look,
that's not a shot a bow Nicks or Sean Payton.
He's trying to slowly work him into things, and then
you start to see, okay, well, week three, they're finally
at home and Justin Herbert if he does play, clearly
nowhere close to one hundred percent, and you look at

(33:22):
it and you go, next week is Indianapolis, and then
you've got the Raiders, after that the Giants, who the
hoe knows what that's going to be. You start to
look at things early on in the year, and it
does appear that Pittsburgh is that team that we get
every year that is getting all the breaks. I'm not
saying they're not playing good football. They are on defense,

(33:43):
and Justin Fields has done his part. He hasn't turned
the ball over, just take care of the football, which
was a problem for him in Chicago, especially late in games.
But if we're being really honest about it, like you
can kind of understand why they got at Lanta and
why they went on the road and got Denver. If

(34:03):
they beat the Chargers here, you can kind of understand
why that would have happened. If they're four to zero
after they beat the Colts next week, you can kind
of understand why that like they appear to be the team.
Every year there's a team that just has things go
their way throughout the course of the season on the schedule,

(34:24):
and the Steelers, at least through a couple of weeks
this year, appear to be that team. Jonas Knox here
Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knox on X Coming
up next here from the Tireraq dot com studios, we
are going to have another edition of Do You Care
right here on FSR.

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(35:22):
I will also tweet out a link to that. No,
I will not x out a link to that, because
that sounds weird at the Jonas Knox. At the Jonas Knox,
but right now, it's time for this. There are so
many stories in the world of sports, and most of
them are a complete waste of time DMS reports. Let's
get kinky. Here's some of the big stories from the

(35:43):
last week. But Jonas, the real question is do you care?

Speaker 2 (35:48):
And for that we turn it over to our executive producer,
Patrick sweek and to find out what the hell people
have been talking about all week.

Speaker 9 (35:54):
Pat, all right, Jonas, let's start with a big one
with a banger. This week. Adrian Wojanowski Alsha knows that,
also known as Wojbombs, has retired from reporting and he's
going to be the GM of his alumni. I guess
it's Saint Bonaventure.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Do you care? No, not really, Like I just know
the more interesting part about all this. But I love
when everyone's like, oh my god, one final woes bob ooh,
one final wof Okay, we got it, we got it everybody,
you're all reading off the same joke prompter. But like
when the news comes out and then you start to

(36:29):
hear a little bit more about Adrian behind the scenes
there apparently kind of a manipulative guy, you know, kind
of influenced certain decisions and certain things that weren't allowed
to be on and certain people that weren't allowed to
be on. And so that, to me is the more
interesting part of this, is that there's the potential reality
that he was just a giant pain in the ass

(36:51):
behind the scenes.

Speaker 9 (36:52):
Next, all right, Aaron Rodgers has been recently voted Jonas
as number one in most annoying NFL player in the
league by NFL fans. Do you care?

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Not?

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Really?

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Like this is like he's just and he said this
before and people can try and say it has nothing
to do with that, and it's got nothing to It's
like it does. The second the whole COVID vaccine stuff
came out, people had it out for him, and god
forbid he think differently or he speak differently, or you know,

(37:25):
maybe he you know, find nuance and answering a question
and add a little more detail and be like, whatever
dude is, does he have an ego. Of course, is
he a little bit arrogant? Of course, I got news
for you at that level. Find me somebody who doesn't
and isn't next.

Speaker 9 (37:42):
Oh right, let's go next week. Got A recent report
came out this week that Lion's head coach Dan Campbell
sold his Detroit home due to fans finding out where
he lived.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Your your people, Chris Prefett, Yeah, I care about it.
Here's why. Let me tell you why. Dan Campbell, who
is turned around the organization, is getting grief from fans
if they lose a game. What the hell did Marty
morning Way get? Like, I gotta know, Like what sort
of vandalism Chris Purfett did Rod Marinelli get when he

(38:14):
was head coach there? After all?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
I was lost?

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Hold on?

Speaker 10 (38:16):
Yeah, the vandalism Rod Marinelli got was Rob Parker.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Yeah, I know that. I heard that story. By the way,
By the way, he's an idiot. Let me just say
that for the record. I love y'all Parker, But what
are you doing? Oh my gosh, But like, dude, the
the guys turned around the organization, and what are people doing, like,
you know, putting flaming bags of dog crap on his doorstep,

(38:40):
Like what was Marty Wardingway getting like what like some
of these other guys have been bad there, like Matt Patrio,
what do you think Matt Patricia got? I mean, this
is listen. Let the guy have his piece, all right,
we get it. He lost the NFC title game, all right?
So did Wayne fonce? Like did you guys also vandalize
his house as well too?

Speaker 10 (39:01):
I think it's just a matter of this got out
a little bit too far into the wild, and this
is just precautionary. But yeah, it's just it's not a
good look. It's there's passion and then there's a little
bit too much passion to be like, hey, coach, just
want to talk sometimes like no, no, we're good here.
I'm trying to get it. I'm trying to get another coffee. Yeah,
you got to back off a little.

Speaker 9 (39:18):
Bit next, all right, Jonas Earlier, CJ. Abrams was sent
down to Triple A for staying up till eight am
at a gazino before having to play a game at
one pm five hours later.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Do you care? I yes, I do. I love it.
Listen those Friday day games at Wrigley. I tell everybody,
if you want to have a damn good time at
a baseball game in the summertime. Go to a Friday
day game at Wrigley, it's always at one twenty local time.
You get it in, you're probably still a little bit

(39:51):
banged up from the night before. And then you walk
right across the street to Murphy's or the Cubby Bear
or some of these other spots, and and you just
get after it. And that that's how you spend your Friday.
It is glorious. I wasn't talking about baseball players on
the road there. And apparently CJ. Abrams couldn't get his
ass out of the casino at Bally's on Wabash in

(40:13):
time to make it to the stadium in time. And like, dude,
if it's a night game, I get it. But if
you're playing five hours later, just like the tell the
dealer to hold onto your chips and you'll come back
later on.

Speaker 9 (40:25):
Next All right out in theaters now, Jonas the hottest
movie of the year. Transformers one, nerds everywhere flock into it.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Do you care?

Speaker 9 (40:33):
Jonas?

Speaker 2 (40:33):
No? I mean, come on, man, if you release a
movie during football season, you're a moron. All right, Nobody
gives a rip about it. You either got high school
football or college or the NFL, know your place and
stay in the summer. Proof that winning cures all in

(40:54):
the world of sports, specifically in the NFL, and we
will get into that for you coming up here and
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So I was talking about this earlier that you can

(41:38):
always tell when there's something bigger on the horizon in
certain situations because little things will start to seep out,
you know, like little things will happen. And uh, for example,
I made the point. Look, you know, if you find
one ant in the house, you're gonna find more. Happens
every time, Like there's no no sitting as one ant.
If you have a flight delay, there's always more. If

(41:59):
you have rats in that house, there's always If there's
never just one, there's always more. You can just bank
on it. And whenever stories start to trickle out in
the NFL, there's usually more. And so I made the
point because the Giants have got a problem. The problem
is they're a bad football team. They just are. And

(42:21):
we're starting to see who's going to get the blame
and who's going to be the one that like, you know,
because I mean everybody kind of understood that. Hey listen,
Joe Shane, the GM has been put on blast a
little bit by HBO and this. You know, I made
the point at the time, like when the stuff came
out about Joe Shane and the negotiations with Saquon Barkley

(42:41):
and then he's talking to Ryan Poles on the sideline
of a college game and saying, hey man, it must
be nice not having to look at a quarterback. It's like, dude, like,
whoever thought hard knocks off season was a good idea
like it wasn't. It didn't. It didn't benefit anybody at
all whatsoever. Instead, it gave Eagles fans, Cowboys fans like

(43:04):
it gave everybody else material and an insight as to
how problematic all of that was for the Giants organization.
And I've said this before. Look, I think Belichick is
somebody who would seriously consider going to the Giants. Loves
the organization, has spent time there, knows ownership, like, has

(43:25):
nothing but respect. Like there was a a A Football
Life documentary on Belichick years ago and he went back
to the old Giant Stadium, not New MetLife, but the
old Giants stadium. It was just kind of walking through
the hallways and started crying because he was so emotional
about how much he loved his time there. So Belichick

(43:45):
being out there, everyone kind of recognizes, Yeah, this could
be a problem for Brian day Ball. Maybe he'll be
able to turn it around, maybe he'll get this team
together and they'll play better football, but it could be
a problem. Well then you know you hear Jordan run On,
who covers the Giants for ESPN, have this to say
on this podcast, how.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
Bad can it get at Cleveland? Tough game, really good
defense at home against Dallas Owen. Four is clearly on
the table here, and if they're on four, I worry
about this locker room. I've spoken to guys over the
past few days, a bunch of guys, a handful of
guy and some of them, not all of them, said,
how you know, it's starting to get shaky in there,

(44:25):
Like the confidence in Brian Dabo is like hanging by
a threat. And that there's guys And this is when
players sit there and talk to each other. What do
you think they're talking about? These are things that they
talk about, that they're trusting him is waning.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
So you see that and you hear that, and you go, Okay,
we're at week two. There's already this. Jalen Hyatt reportedly
wants to be traded, then goes back in tonight like
we're only at week two. It's not even officially fall yet.
By the way, I think this the last day of summer,

(45:02):
Like we're not even at fall yet and we're already identifying,
uh oh, we got problem here. Water in the boat,
there's some So it appears that this is where this
season is headed for the Giants. Not great, especially for
Brian dave Ball. Now, winning cures all all right, Like

(45:24):
you know people tell you that, hey, winning cures everything.
It's like, oh okay, but does it really cure? Yeah
it does. Case in point, you know who the Giants
are playing this week? Jordan mentioned in that clip, but
you know you know they're playing this week the Browns.
They're at Cleveland. You know what you haven't heard anything

(45:45):
about recently? You know, the latest accusation against Deshaun Watson
and like you know, what a terrible trade and like
he's not been very good and like kind of a
weird no and they got to move on from him
and like, you know, worst deal in NFL history, and

(46:07):
like wish you would have Baker Mayfield back and like yeah,
like it's been pretty quiet all week when it comes
to that, Like like why.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Do you think that is?

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Because they won? Oh like that's all it took. Literally,
like you don't hear anything about that this week, Like
it is nowhere to be found. And it's not like
they went to Jacksonville and like really put it on
him or like really lit up the scoreboard. Like no,
they like they they beat Let's be honest here, I

(46:39):
think we can all agree. I'm guilty of it as
well too. I had Jacksonville winning the AFC South, and
I know it's all just one week, it's okay, or
just two weeks okay, Like maybe we all kind of
overrated that playoff win for Trevor Lawrence, you know, like
maybe maybe that was more of a Charger's meltdown than
a Jaguars win, like and it wasn't like Trevor Lawrence

(47:02):
was great in that game. He was great for a
half a little bit over a half because he had
to fight, like you know, threw a lot of picks,
like they maybe we were all kind of wrong on
the Jacksonville Jaguars just saying, you know, like that's why
when people were arguing about like, oh, oh, you can't
pay Tua like he's been better than Trevor Lawrence. What

(47:23):
do you mean, like you can't you can't win a
sup Okay, but like what because like you had a
preconceived opinion and notion of Trevor Lawrence and so you
just want to hold hostage to that and not like
actually look at it honestly, Like let's look at it honestly.
Like all the criticism Bryce Young gets Bryce Shung's numbers
and his record through x amount of games is better

(47:43):
than Trevor Lawrence's. Those are facts, Like, those are numbers,
those are like that's a reality, that's facts. But like
that's who Cleveland just beat. That's who Deshaun Watson just beat.
And yeah it was on the road and it was
a nice bounce back. But like, man, you don't hear

(48:05):
anything about any of that stuff off the field. There
are no rumblings anywhere this week about Deshaun Watson and
the trouble in Cleveland. Nothing Like they're hosting the Giants
and the only thing we've gotten from that matchup is
Brian Daballs in trouble. It's kind of wild. It's like

(48:29):
this is it's not like we're talking. Oh it was
like so long ago. Man, that was like three years. No, no, dude,
that was last week. That just happened. And I'm look,
I know, the news cycle moves fast, and that gets
proven time and time again. Like I know, like I'm
well aware of that. Like you could pick whatever is

(48:49):
the hot headline in sports or anywhere else, and you know,
wait twenty four to forty eight hours and all of
a sudden, it's like not that big of a deal.
You know, it's like like, oh whatever, like it happens,
but like that wasn't that long ago. And yet here
we are all because they won a game. We don't
even talk about it. It's not even mean brought up,

(49:11):
like and it wasn't like Deshaun Watson went on the
road and beat like one of the better team. Like
if Deshaun Watson had gone on the road and beaten
the Chiefs and like throwing for five hundred yards and
eleven touchdowns, I'd be like, oh my god, man, like, hey,
look at that. A touchdown for every game he was suspended.
They sweet look at it, dude, Like they beat a

(49:33):
mediocre team, an overrated team on the road. He did
just enough to win the game. Looked better than he
did the previous week, because it was hard not to
look better, like it actually would have been harder to
look worse, and like we don't hear anything about it,
Like winning cures all.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
And I got news for you.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
If the Giants go in and beat the Browns, like
all of a sudden, this whole conversation we had about
Brian Day ball players giving up and the like oh
that's gonna go way too like so when people tell you, hey,
winning cures everything, it really does, because we haven't heard
a damn thing about all this stuff that happened after
a loss for Cleveland last week. Jonas Knox here Fox

(50:13):
Sports Radio. By the way, a lot of positive feedback
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(50:37):
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(50:58):
fade you this week so I can finally start drinking better. Booze,
go back to pontificating about the crossover between WWE and
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You forever, Boardop JC Wrights in you again, fu look, Jony,

(51:25):
go bleep Chachi and retire from Fox Sports Radio. It's
bad enough that I have to wake up to your
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Why do they even tolerate you? You probably bleep your
boss just to be on the radio with those two studs.

(51:47):
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(52:07):
the unedited versions of all of those for your pleasure.
Coming up next here from the tirac dot com studios,
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in the NFL that is way worse than anybody expected.
Right here on FSR Boom Texas for Jonas Jonas Knox

(52:29):
Fox Sports Radio coming up a little over ten minutes
from now from the tiraq dot Com studios. There is
a situation developing in the NFL that I'm not making
this up. I was very close to predicting before the season, right,

(52:51):
And you know how brutally honest I am about how
bad I get things wrong. But I was really close
to predicting something before the season, and there's still an
opportunity to do so, and it could make you a
decent chunk of change. We will get into that for
you again coming up here a little over ten minutes
from now. Quick update on the top twenty five matchups
in college football, and boy, oh boy, do we have

(53:14):
some doozies. Ohio States beating Marshall by two hundred, Clemson's
got a four hundred and thirteen point lead over NC State,
and Iowa States beating Arkansas State. And if you want
all the accurate scores on all those games with a

(53:34):
little bit more detail and context, make sure you stick around.
We'll have those for you here coming up in a
little over ten minutes from now. And by the way,
this is where we get to find out a lot
of people think I don't have any power here, like
everyone gets this confused, Like some people have gotten this
mixed up in the past where they think this show
is like whatever that Nickel and Dimes show is on

(53:56):
weekdays from six to nine Eastern time three to six
am Pacific time.

Speaker 5 (53:59):
With the.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
God Who's who are those guys? Lorenzo is it? I
think it's Lorenzo and Brody.

Speaker 9 (54:13):
Never heard of them?

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Yeah, I don't know, but two pros and a cup
of Joe whatever. Like people get a confused, they think
like this is that Nickel And you know here on
this time slot, the primetime hours of two to four
Eastern time at eleven am to one pm Pacific time
on Saturdays, we have a level of power and control
that is unprecedented. And I made a couple of calls

(54:37):
and we had to go to the bullpen. So we
went to the bullpen. Brian Finley, you are out with
a capital T at the end, you are out pal
And we had to go to the bullpen based on
some poor behavior and tone issues in the first hour.
So we went to the bullpen. And that arm out

(54:59):
of the bull bullpen will give us the more accurate
update on all of those games that I mentioned in
college football coming up here in about ten minutes from now.
That I do want to say this that there's been
this discussion around the world of football about offensive play,
like the numbers aren't great, Like field goal kicking is up.
I guess Week two set a record for most field

(55:22):
goals made. There was like seventy three field goals made
in Week two. And you're like, oh, it's just there's
a small sample size. Nah, it's kind of we've seen
an uptick in years past, and usually it's early in
the seasons. The numbers would say so like the top
five most field goals kicked in a week, like you know,
one of those years it was two thousand, or it

(55:43):
was week sixteen. Other than that, it's usually early in
the season, and it's usually been the past couple of
years like Week one was third, like this year's you know,
offense has not been great, and you've got people who've
got varying opinions out there like mel Kiper, bless his heart,

(56:04):
you know, he uh he threw out the idea of
you know, two high safeties, you know, you need to
bring him down, and like, you know, the obvious response
would be, well, why don't you just run the ball?
Like you know, why don't you just like I mean,
he just run the ball. Like if you establish the run,
then those safeties will drop and that'll open up the pass,
like you know, but you know, I will say this,

(56:25):
mel Kiper did do the impossible, right if we're going
to give credit here, if you guys want to swim
in the negative waters, and I don't. If you want
to give credit here, mel Kuiper did do the impossible.
He actually united everybody, like in a time of division,
where everybody is, you know, at one side or the other,
and if you're not, you know, agreeing with me, then

(56:46):
I hate you. In today's climate, everyone was in agreement. Yeah,
that's a terrible idml bad take. So at least he
united a nation. So listen, you can find flaws in
his argument, but at least there's that. When it comes
to mel Kiper and what he did when he said
you should get rid of the two high safeties in
the NFL, all right, at least he united everybody. We

(57:09):
all have the same opinion. That's a terrible idea. But
on the subject of offensive play people have pointed out that, well,
you know, the rookie quarterbacks haven't been great. Oh no,
they haven't been like they've they have been like good
at all. Like Steelers defenders. We talked about this earlier.

(57:29):
Apparently they were laughing at the limited playbook for bo Nicks.
It's like, okay, well, I mean, you know, like they're
slowly developing and working them along. Jaden Daniels, you know,
it took seven field goals to beat the Giants, all
that stuff. But when it comes to the one that's
been featured, the most talked about, the most discussed, the
most you know, put on tea the Caleb Williams Bears experiment.

(57:57):
You can argue it's just been two games. You can
argue whose fault it is. You can blame the coach
or Caleb, or the front office, or the offensive line
or the wide receivers or this and that and call
him a rookie what you can come up with, whatever
way you want to discuss it. I don't know about you,

(58:20):
but it is way worse than I even thought it
would be, way worse. I find me one person who said, oh,
not only will it not look good the first couple
of weeks, it's going to look historically bad the first

(58:40):
couple of weeks, because that's where we're at. It is dreadful,
like look Bryce Young. People like to make jokes about
Bryce Young.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
Look it up.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
He was better his first two games than Caleb Williams
and he's in a diaper fire of an organization. This
is so much worse than anybody thought it was going
to be this early in the year. Again, I'm not
saying that he can't figure this out and it won't
you know, they won't bounce back, and he'll get his

(59:14):
rhythm together and they'll figure out what they want to do.
But nobody thought it was going to be this bad.
Nobody And you can be a usc fanboy all you want,
you could bro it is like you can be a
Bears fanboy. It's and I made the commentary on the

(59:36):
air while it was happening in the preseason. I made
the comments, and then you know, Fox Sports Radio turned
it into a bit to where I made the comments
and then like two minutes later, everything turned around. But
you remember that preseason game. It might have been against
maybe the Bengals, but it was Caleb williams first ever

(59:59):
game at Soldier Field in the preseason in August, and
he goes out there and the offense really struggled early on,
and yet all the placers filled. It was a preseason game.
It looked like it was a sellout. Everyone was excited.
There was a buzz, like there was real energy for
a preseason game because Kayleb Williams was here. And the

(01:00:21):
offense went out early on and they could get nothing going.
They had no rhythm, like he was inaccurate, like it
just it didn't look good and My whole point was like, man,
this is Bear's football to a t like excitement, energy,
finally got our guy, and then a few plays into it,

(01:00:41):
you realize, oh no, we're just gonna need to depend
on our defense, which is really good. And like some
special teams plays here or there. That's exactly like that's
what it. It's turned into that, like like that's what
the season looks like. The defense is great, like Matt
Eberfluss has got that defense. And what's most notable about
that is like you look at the defense in the
second half, like they come back after halftime and they're

(01:01:04):
even better than they were the first half. Like they
make adjustments. The defense has been great. They had no
business being in that game against the Texans last week
at all and nearly won it with zero help from
the offense. Like they could get nothing the first game
against Tennessee, Like they could get nothing going on offense.
The defense scored and special teams scored. That's how they

(01:01:28):
won that game. And it's literally the same story with
Bears football every single for forty plus years. This has
been going on. This is what it is, and I
don't care whoever you talk to before the nobody thought
it was gonna look like this. Nobody like I made

(01:01:48):
the joke and I was joking even I thought it
would be better than this, Like, oh no, they'll be better,
Like come on, like if you would have told me, like, hey,
you know, like Kayleb Williams won't have a touchdown until
like week three, potentially, maybe they go okay whatever you say,
like you know, if they're getting blown out, I mean
garbage time time. No no, no, no, no, no no no,
like no and a big fat no. And it's like,

(01:02:15):
you know, you could have taken an offensive lineman at nine,
but now you took roma Dunesay, and maybe it'll turn
out to be a great player, but like, clearly the
offensive line is a problem. There's like a guy that
they acquired in a trade with the Bills who's you know,
missing time. Now do you want to know why he's
missing time? Because he's got like an arthritic condition, you know,
in his shoulder, elbow whatever it is, Like okay, like
you guys didn't know that, Like arthritis doesn't pop up

(01:02:37):
in like an hour, like you know, like I have
an arthritic hip. I didn't just get it last break
using the restroom. Like no, it's like it's slowly built up.
It's there, it is what it is, probably gonna have
to get it replaced whatever, but like that's like these
are problems that like nobody thought we're gonna be this

(01:02:58):
bad and this through a couple of weeks, Like like
ask yourself this, do the Bears feel like a one
in one football team or an OHO to two team?
I mean, come on, like I just it is what

(01:03:19):
it is. Man Like, I'm sorry, like very a one
in one football team that feels oh to two because
they should be. And like it's pretty obvious what the
game plan should be this week against Indianapolis, Like Indianapolis
literally can't stop the run. They can't. They're giving up
like five hundred yards the first two weeks on the ground.

(01:03:41):
And if you're a rookie, like rookie quarterback, like, oh,
establish the run like you would. If they don't do
that this week, this thing could go from real bad
looking right now to even worse, which I don't think
anybody projected it being this bad or have gotten this
worse early on before or the season started. Jonas Knox

(01:04:02):
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(01:04:49):
so close to predicting before the year, but I didn't.
But there's an element of this that you see all
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from around world of sports. A real professional, all right,
somebody we can depend on to keep it classy here
on a Saturday. Kevin Wireder.

Speaker 11 (01:05:08):
Oh, yes, always keeping a classy here as we have
college football.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
By the way, Kevin, sorry to interrupt, I don't know
if you heard that unmitigated disaster that was Brian Finley
last hour. But we appreciate it, I said, we appreciate
you coming out of the bullpen, nonethe last. I'm happy
to help out whenever I can, So I'm a team player.
So if you if you need some relief pitching coming
out here, right here, you are. That's what I'm talking about.

(01:05:34):
That's some quality here on a Saturday. Damn right.

Speaker 11 (01:05:37):
Yeah, we do have a full day of college football
going on. We have a couple of ranked teams in action,
although these games not particularly close. Number three Ohio State
doing as expected against Marshall forty nine to fourteen. The
Buck Guys lead it, and this game all but over
just two forty to go in the fourth quarter. So
the Buck Guy's well on their way to moving to
three and oh twenty. First, Clemson, it was a difficult

(01:06:01):
start for them, but they're blown out NC State right now,
fifty nine to twenty. They led twenty eight nothing after
the first quarter, so after losing to begin the season,
they look like they're on their way. The Tigers are
to two and one. James Madison, how about the Dukes.
I don't think I've ever seen a team as successful
moving up subdivisions from the FBS to the FBS and

(01:06:22):
now the Dukes pounding the tar Heels of North Carolina
right now sixty three to forty four, and it was
fifty three twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
One at halftime.

Speaker 11 (01:06:32):
They've got about nine minutes ago over in Chapel Hill,
Kansas at West Virginia. This is a close one twenty
one seventeen, but they are currently in a lightning delay
near the end of the third quarter. Tulane in Louisiana.
It's the Green Wave rolling right now forty one to
thirty three. They're near in the end of that contest.
Ohio and Kentucky. The Wildcats on top thirty four six

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Central Michigan and Ball State.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
Ball State leads.

Speaker 11 (01:06:57):
This is one twenty four to twenty three, twenty three
Iowa State thirty one nothing lead on Arkansas State, and
a couple of games have gone final Florida. Maybe it's
a bit of a reprieve for Billy Napier. He did
get a win in the SEC, beating Mississippi State forty
five to twenty eight. Indiana over Charlotte fifty two fourteen.
Maryland gets by Villanova thirty eight to twenty. Cincinnati shuts

(01:07:19):
out Houston thirty four to nothing, an army over Rice
thirty seven to fourteen. NFL we got some injury news,
good news and bad news for the Cincinnati Bengals's start
with the good news. T Higgins he said he was
gonna play Monday night. Zach Taylor said he was gonna
play Monday night. Now he's officially off of the injury report,
so it does look like he will be out on
the field on Monday Night against the Washington Commanders. However,

(01:07:43):
they will actually, Yeah, it's Detextans, Ronning, Bachell Mixon. I'm
mixing myself here. Joe Mixon is not traveling with the Texans.
He's going to Minnesota. He has been downgraded to out
from doubtful. Elsewhere in the NFL, Evan Ingram unlikely to
play Monday night against the Bills. That's according to a

(01:08:05):
Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson. Running Back Tank Bigsby has
a shoulder issue, left tackle Cam Robinson dealing with an issue.
They both will play. Defensive Back Darnell Savage is still
to be determined. That's according to NFL Network and in
Major League Baseball moved by the Washington Nationals as they

(01:08:25):
have demoted they're All Star shortstop cj Abrams after he
was seen at a Chicago casino the night before a
day game against the Cubs at Wrigley Fields. So yeah,
he's going back to their spring training complex over at
West Palm Beach. So well, yeah, went to the casino
and lost big time there. Cj Abrams, they All Star

(01:08:47):
shortstop for the Washington Nationals.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
Back you, Jonas, Oh man, that's the hell of a run. Like,
you know, here's the thing too, If people are just
left three hours earlier, no problem. But he just had
to stick around that extra three hours. And that's really
the issue when you go to casinos. It's keep the
oxygen on, like nobody's falling asleep. And you know, but
the good news is, I mean, you know, the Nats
are no hitting the Cubs through five right now, so
there is that. So maybe they'll be celebrating the casino

(01:09:11):
with the no hitter. Coming up later on Jonas Knox
he or Fox Sports Radio, by the way, coming up
in about ten minutes from now. It is the week
three edition of Knox Locks. And I'll tell you this
right now, it's the best I've felt about my picks.
And you're probably thinking, well, you're one and five, so
what That's not the point here. It's about what you
feel going into the week, and this is the best
I felt about my picks all year. So that'll be

(01:09:32):
yours here coming up in a little over ten minutes
from now. The forty nine ers got problems. They've got
injury concerns and issues. We know about Christian McCaffrey. He's
on IR Deebo Samuel, he's going to be out. George
Kittle doubtful for Sunday's game against the Rams. Nick Boss

(01:09:53):
banged up, Charvarius Ward is banged up like it just
you know, And I've we talked about this before. I
totally buy into the super Bowl hangover because we've seen
it time and time again where a team that has
a really really strong year the year before, it's so
much so they go all the way to the super Bowl,

(01:10:15):
but they lose. They usually take a step back the
next year. Look Philly looked like they were off and
running last year to kind of buck the trend, and
then we saw how that finished up. I think the
Niners are in for it this year. I think I
think they will take a step back significantly. The big
question is do they take a step back in the
division overwhelming favorites to win that division still the NFC West,

(01:10:39):
And a lot of that has to do with the
team that people projected to be the real threat to
the Niners being the La Rams. They've got their own
injury concerns. They're zero to two Cooper Cups now out
Puka Nakua, offensive line issues, Like you know, it's why
that first game against Detroit was such a bad loss.
And I remember we were talking about it on the

(01:11:01):
local NBC affiliate KNBC on the Challenge, myself and Rob
Parker and Mario Salise, and I was kind of making
the point, like, guys, this is a worst loss than
you realize because if they convert on a third down
Stafford to Cooper Cup, that game's over and we're having
a whole different discussion about that. Instead, Detroit came back tied,

(01:11:22):
it went to overtime and literally ran the ball down
their throat and they had no answers. So you look
at that, you go, well, yeah, the Niners are still
favored because the Rams they've got their own concerns and
their own issues, Like so yeah, I mean San Francis
Is still won the Vision. And I'm telling you this
right now, there was a team that I was really
really close to picking as a playoff team before the

(01:11:46):
season started, and it was Arizona. Like, there's something about
Kyler Murray right now. And I know you could say
it's one game, but man, they had Buffalo on the
ropes in Week one. Buffalo Marvin Harrison Junior bounces back
last week as a monster performance. Kyler Murray looks completely

(01:12:08):
back to health. You know, they always say it's not
the year after you come back from the ACL, it's
the year following that one, when you're fully ready to go.
There's just something about Arizona in that division and I
am so close to picking them to win the division.
Where by the way, right now, plus seven fifty the
Cardinals are to win the NFC West, like plus seven

(01:12:30):
fifty if Kyler Murray continues to play the way that
he does, and he has now taken the lead as
my favorite player in the NFL to watch. It was
Lamar Jackson, but I don't know when the hell he's
going to play or practice. So and I still love Lamar,
but watch Kyler Murray play this year. He's on a
different level, Like there's something different about the guy and

(01:12:52):
I'm telling you, mark my words, Arizona is a team
to watch and they could be a surprise in that division.
Before it's all said and done, Knox here, Fox Sports
Radio at the Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox on X.
Coming up next here, we are going to close up
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(01:13:14):
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find that. We were marveling at the James Madison Dukes,

(01:14:01):
who were like a twelve point underdog eleven and a
half twelve points depending on where you shop going into
North Carolina and are trailing seventy to forty four in
the fourth quarter. So excuse leading seventy to forty four. Sorry,
I couldn't even believe it. Seventy to forty four. James
Madison has a lead over North Carolina on the road.

(01:14:24):
So plenty more on that, and I'm sure there'll be
plenty of negative feedback on the tar Heels following that game,
throughout the course of the day and throughout the course
of the week. Last week when it came to Knox Locks,
look we improved. I mean, you guys can sit there
and again try and swim in the negative side of
the pool. I prefer to swim with the positive. Won

(01:14:46):
a game, first win of the season on behalf of
seven field goals and the Washington Commanders I had him
a one and a half point pick over the Giants.
They ended up winning that game barely. You know, the
league neighbors makes that catch. Maybe it's a different story
if a Graham Gano doesn't rip his hamstring in half
before the game or whenever that injury occurred, maybe it's

(01:15:07):
a different story. But nonetheless, we'll take the win. Cannot
even begin to explain what the hell happened to Baltimore
and eight point favorite against the Raiders. Felt pretty good
about that, and then they gave that game away and
then just a brutal pick. Don't really know why I
made the pick based on stadium history. I didn't look
at it clearly enough and realize, well, it's a rookie.

(01:15:28):
I had the Broncos plus two and a half at
home and their home opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and
that was just a terrible, terrible pick. Like, at no
point did I realize during that game, oh, like I
might have a shot here. Like that realization never occurred.
It was, oh, it's a terrible pick. That's going to
be a loss. So nonetheless, one and two last week.

(01:15:48):
It puts us at one in five overall for the year.
But guess what, like we do every single week, we
get up, we dust ourselves off, and we're back for more.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
About Knox Loucks, I thought the Bears at.

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
Coles as much as I said the Chicago Bears the
start of the year, the offense, Caleb Williams and how
things have looked, as much as I said earlier that
it's way worse than even I expected. I'm gonna take
the Bears here. Look, I don't think Indianapolis is very good.
I think Anthony Richardson is still struggling to try and

(01:16:29):
work through some things. I think he's turnover prone. And
if you know anything about this Bears team, the one
side of the football you cannot dispute where they are
legitimately great at is defense. Like you look what they
did to Houston last week, especially in the second half.
You look what they did to Tennessee in the first week.
I think there's gonna be opportunities for turnovers here, and

(01:16:50):
Indianapolis tells you what to do against them. And it's
everything that the Bears need to do to get the
offense on track, get the passing game on track, Caleb
Williams on track, and that's run the football. Indianapolis is
dead last in the league against the run. By far
through two weeks, they're giving up close to five hundred
yards on the ground. There's an opportunity for the Bears there.

(01:17:12):
I know it's a road game. I know it looked
ugly last Sunday night, but I'll take the Bears getting
a point at Indianapolis.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
Eagles.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
It says I'm gonna go with the Eagles here, three
point underdogs on the road at New Orleans. Look, I
know what it looked like on Monday night. Terrible. Oh
you want to blame Nick Sirianni or Saguan Barkley or
Big Fangio of the defense, I got it. We're all
good here. But I can't help but wonder if a
little bit of this is overrating New Orleans' last performance

(01:17:42):
and start off the season and underrating Philadelphia based on
one final minute and a half in a football game.
I think Philadelphia responds here. I think they're way too
good of a roster to not respond. I think they
come in as a three point underdog on the road.
It would not surprise me if they won this game
out right. But if I'm getting three points in this

(01:18:03):
spot and I've got Philly on that side, of things.
I'll take the Eagles in New Orleans getting the.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
Three Bravens at Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Oh give me the Cowboys, baby. Let me tell you
what the Cowboys do better. Let me tell you. Let
me tell you what they do better that just about
anybody else in the NFL. They lose horribly better than
anybody else in the NFL. Last week was a horrible

(01:18:32):
loss against the New Orleans Saints. And they do those
at least a couple of times a year. Sometimes occasionally
they're a playoff game. Case in point, the Packers game
at home in the playoffs last year. But you know
what else they do, maybe better than anybody else in
the NFL. They respond the following week. And I think
that is this response. And you look at this big

(01:18:54):
picture and you go, wait, Baltimore starting off to the
season zero to three. Yes, believe the Dallas Cowboys will
respond just like they always respond from a bag of
crap performance the prior week. I like Dallas getting it
done at home and I'm getting a point to a
point and a half. Here, give me the Cowboys. They'll

(01:19:16):
respond well tomorrow. And that is your Week three edition
of Knox Lock Knocks. By the way, I was so
close to taking the Cardinals at home against the Lions,
but I didn't because it's Chris Purfett's birthday and he's
a Detroit Lion fan, a Detroit Lion insider and broadcaster.

(01:19:38):
So Chris, Happy birthday. I didn't think the Cardinals, although
the better present would have been me taking the Cardinals
because I don't what have guaranteed the Lions win. So nonetheless,
happy birthday, Chris. Thanks to Patrick, thanks to Kevin Wired
and he previously fired Brian Finley. Stick around more FSR.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
Next shonas Son of a Bitch,