Andy Furman and Bucky Brooks talk College Football Week 8, NFL Week 8 Preview, and So Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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buying should be. Okay, here he is my parler's fresh
from over the pond. Mister Bucky Brooks. Bucky, how are you?
I missed you, We all missed you. How's it going?

Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's all good man. I appreciate you guys hoping it
down when I was away. Spend a little time in
London doing some stuff with the jacks. But I'm glad
to be.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Back, okay, And that's the goodness. Were welcoming back now.
Not even the text, not even the postcard. You couldn't
even send like an email. We're worried about you, were
worried sick. We missed you to death. We were waiting
to hear from you, not even a little text like
I'm okay, what what happened? What?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
I don't get it. Don't we pals, We're friends, We
worked together, all of us. Shay Shade didn't get nothing.
He got nothing from you. Kevin got nothing from you.
I'm sure nobody got anything for you. Why what you
were that busy? What were you doing over there?

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
You were two good football games, So that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I was. I was really locked in on bottom line betting,
and I was making sure that I had some new
games that we could play. I was suddenly compiled on
the list that I was gonna send over to Shay
Shape once I got back to the States. But I
just couldn't get to it to the top of my
to do list.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
All right, that's fine, we'll forgive you this time. I
got a little present for you.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Your tar Heels of North Carolina even it up at
four and four. They beat up on Virginia yesterday forty
one fourteen. So that's the good news, all right, that's okay,
we got that now. Okay, Now the bad news is
I'm hooked. I am hooked on Colorado football on Sanders.
This guy Travis Hunter. So I'm hooked. So I had

(02:03):
to stay up like really late last night. The game
started at ten o'clock Easton time against the Cincinnati Bearcats.
And it wasn't a bad game. Colorado wins at thirty
four to twenty three. But this guy Travis Hunter right now,
I mean, one hundred and fifty three yards two touchdowns
right now, he's got to be in the Heisman conversation.
He has to be. And look right now, Colorado first

(02:26):
time is twenty sixteen ball eligible, six wins, six and two.
You know, Dion Sanders right now, you know he's making
it come true for Colorado, and I love it. I
mean I am hooked. You know when on God's Green
Earth will I ever turn on the TV at ten
o'clock Easton knowing I got to get it really early
on Sunday to work with Bucket Brooks, but Colorado was there.

(02:46):
I did it.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, samea same thing here. Andy stayed up to watch
the game Colorado versus Cincinnati, and I think we just
can call it the Prime effect. All their games on TV.
It seems like no matter what station, they somehow find
a way to be on that on late night, that
on early their prime time, all of those things. And

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you know, for a guy who took a lot of criticism,
a lot of people talked about the way that he
was building the program, the way that he look used
the transfer portal, and all those things. In two years
to Colorado, Buffalo's went from one to eleven to six
and two. And you could throw a lot of stuff
out there about him coaching and all those things, but

(03:31):
the proof is in the pudding. The team looks drastically
different than it did two years ago. They're winning games.
He may have, he should have the guy who is
the Heisman Trophy winner and Travis Hunter, and he has
a quarterback, his son, Shburh Sanders, who should be a
top ten pick. He's done a really good job. And

(03:52):
look beneath all the bravado, all the flash and glitz
and glamouring those things, it appears to be a really
really good head coach. He knows how to build a team.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Okay, now, I'm glad you brought up the situation that
people are questioning him as a coach, and whatever it
might be, I'm going to run this buyer right now.
All right, I'm gonna say this right here and now
and I'm going to back it up. I think coaching
right now in college football is somewhat overrated, all right.
I cannot believe that one coach can make that much

(04:22):
of a difference in one year. And the example I'm
gonna give you is the Hoosiers of Indiana, all right,
because I gotta believe it's the portal so much more
so than the coaching. I think that most coaches no
x's and o's. They know how to diagram a play,
do the offensive schemes, defensive schemes where it may be,

(04:43):
you got to be a salesman. If you know the
x's and o's, and you can knock on the door
and get a kid to come to you, be it
with your wallet. Now you got to go knock on
the door with a wallet, not just knock on the door.
Then you might as well give up coaching. That's what
it's all about. So to me, I don't know much
about x's and o's, but I think I'm a pretty
decent sales guy. I think I can make a pretty
good coach if I came in there with a staff

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like with Bucket Brooks. That's what it is. I think
coaching is overrated, do you agree? Look at Indiana. Who
in the hell would ever think Indiana will be doing
what they're doing eight and no, it's amazing. It's got
to be the portal and the guy's got to be
one hell of a salesman.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I would say that you have to give coaches credit
because the coaches have to sell the vision. The coaches
have to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.
They have to be able to jump in the portal
and bring people in. But they still got to make
a team. Let's look at Florida State for instance. Last year,
they jumped into portal, had a lot of guys come in.

(05:39):
It all worked out for Mike Norville. This year they
had the same recipe, jumped into the portal and it
hasn't worked out. Coaching does matter. You have to have players.
You have to have the right personnel to be able
to win at the highest level, but it's on the
coach to be able to take all the ingredients and
to make it work. So to me, coaching is under

(06:00):
They're not overrated.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, let me go back here up because I'm looking
at a team like Army. They were off yesterday, Navy,
the two service academies. Navy got rocked by Notre Dame
and I watched part of that game because I think
Navy was just too many turnovers. I mean, I think
they were sky high for that game and they just
were not themselves. Okay, but the thing is, are they
using portals in the service academies? Are they paying these

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guys to play?

Speaker 1 (06:24):
They're not.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
So basically it's coaching in the service academies that I
agree with. It's this and the Navy's doing great, Army
is doing great, and they're both ranked and I think
Army right now is ranked twentieth in the country. They
were off yesterday and they think they played next week
they play the Air Force. So I give them credit
because the coaching means something, at least in the service
academies agreed.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Look, I think coaching means something everywhere, but for the
service academies are particularly, they don't have the luxury of
being able to jump into portal. The only thing that
they can do is try and hold their guys and
keep them from gymming into portal. So they because they
can stay in two years and then by their year,
they have to honor that commitment. The military commitment so
it's Look, it's a different hustle. But yeah, coaching, to

(07:08):
me absolutely matters. You got to have the right coach
to be able to win at the highest level.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Okay, everybody's talking about Alabama. Everybody said Alabama's they finished
their dad, it's all over. Next thing. You know, you
take a look, they're six and two already, I mean,
and with two losses, they're gonna go to the top twelve.
There's no doubt in my mind. And they won bigs
are thirty four nothing yesterday beat over Missouri.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
So, I mean, one week, you know, people are going
crazy saying litz Bury Alabama, and now they come right back.
So I think, and I didn't think i'd ever say this,
I think this twelve team playoff is pretty good. I
think it's pretty darn good because in the years past,
if you lose two games, you might as well pack
it in for the season. Right now, two losses could

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really get you in the top twelve. So I kind
of like it. Every week it means something, and right
now Alabama is right back in it. They're right back
in it. They're gonna be in the top twelve.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, they can be interupt twelve, and I will say
I agree with you. The look the playoff has created
an excitement, It has made things fun to watch. It
has allowed us maybe to have some better matchups than
we've had in the past. I am all in. I
think it's been one of the best things that college

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football has done. And you kind of wonder why it
took the upper levels time to do it, because they've
been doing it at the lower levels, right They've been
having sixteen team playoffs and all twenty fourteen playoffs and
all that, But it took a while for the upper
levels to do it. But I think once they've done it,
once we see the excitement, and once we go through
the playoff field, there's no turning back. Like you know,

(08:42):
it's funny to watch season.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
But it is.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
And I never thought i'd say this, but the expansion
in the playoffs in college football is wonderful. Expansion and
everything else thinks expansion in baseball is ridiculous. I mean,
you know, I still love it. When they had the
two eight team divisions, American and National, they played the
World Series but a bing, but a bang and that's it. Yeah,
the NBA, I mean it's crazy. I mean, why play
the entire season. Everybody's gonna get in the playoffs anyway,

(09:05):
fifty percent of the teams get in. Even in the
National Football League with the wild cards. Would ever forget it?
You know, I understand the deal. Your more games, more money,
more eyes on the TV said, that's it. I understand that,
but I'm not happy with it. But in college football
it works out perfectly. It really does.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Now.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
One of the worst games yesterday, nothing for me, but
for coach Brian Kelly. This LSU team. You talk about
a team with two losses, the six and two now,
and they had they had Texas A and M. They
had them, I mean, and they throw a pick that
turned it around. Next thing you know, they're bringing this
backup quarterback Marshall Reid, Marcel Reid from Texas A and N.

(09:42):
Texas and A wins thirty eight twenty three. He came in,
he gave him a running game which they didn't have
before A and M. And next thing you know, they
scored four straight touchdowns and LSU goes down the tubes.
So that to me is a bad loss for LSU.
They had him, they were up. I remember I was
watching part of the game when the announcers says, well,
there's Brian Kelly. He's telling them they only got about

(10:03):
twelve more minutes to go to hold on to this
lead and concentrate they're gonna win. Next thing. You know,
they blow the game, that's a bad loss.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
I mean, I wouldn't say it's a bad loss. I
think his XC and M is undefeated in the SEC.
It may be a bad loss in terms of us
in brand names and our expectations in terms of who
we thought would eventually be in the thing. But I
don't know, man, Look I kind of see it as
one of those situations where it's a good team just
trying to kind of make it happen, and unfortunately they

(10:31):
just couldn't get it done.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, they couldn't get it done. Okay, I'm looking at
some of these teams yesterday. Ohio State was one of
those teams that prior to the season, like in August,
they said national champions. You know, they struggled against Nebraska. Yesterday,
Ohio State rush for only sixty four yards on thirty
one carries against Nebraska. You know, you got to do
better than that. And next week we'll find out how

(10:54):
good they really are. They're playing Penn State. I understand.
Maybe sometimes Buck, when you play the game and you
look at the uniform across the other side of the field,
he said, well, you know, we don't have to get
up for these games. Maybe maybe that's what the mindset
of an eighteen nineteen year old kid. I don't know,
but they should have destroyed Nebraska. You know, a team
that's picked to win it all. Now they rank number

(11:14):
four and I don't see them moving up at all
this week in the rankings at all.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Look, I'll say this, college football is hard. Games are hard,
and it's hard to get your team to play at
a high level each and every week. And sometimes what
you hope for is you just are able to win
survive in advance. As Jim Valvano used to say when
it came to the NCAA tournament, you just want to
stay in there. You want to stand in the fight
long enough to give yourself a chance. And they were
able to do it because in two weeks, no one's

(11:41):
going to care that they only won by four points.
They won the game. They keep putting themselves in a
position to be in the tournament, and at the end
of the day, that's all you want, you want a
lottery ticket to the tournament to give yourself a chance
to eventually compete for the national title.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Right, and they're gonna play Penn State and Penn State.
Yesterday they win at Wisconsin twenty eight to thirteen. However,
you know they're starting quarterback for Penn State. He's gone,
Drew Aller, he's out now he's hurt. So we'll see
what happens. Right now, Penn State is still undefeated. But
you know, and the number three team, No one's talking
about Penn State. The team was right third this week.
You know, they bypassed that. They talk about Oregon, obviously,
they talk about Georgia, talking about Ohio State, talking about Texas.

(12:15):
No one talks about Penn State. No one's team was
talking about Miami and Florida and they're undefeated of the eight.
No you know, I obviously they be Florida State. A
bad team, a real bad team, Florida State. And I
just don't understand why everybody's bypassing Penn State.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
I mean think I think some of it is like
they appear to be like a little sleepy when it
comes down to look at at them and what they do,
like there's nothing flashy about them. They don't have like
a household name as a star. Even the quarterback Drew
Aller was solid, but he wasn't a guy that people
were super excited or fired up about. That's why I mean,

(12:52):
like it comes down to names, It comes down to
attention and what you can create. And I don't know
if there's anyone that's really excited about any of the
star players on their roster.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Right you know, I went back to look, Indiana was
always in my mind a basketball school. All of a sudden,
now Indiana's football school. I think last week they rank
like thirteenth. They played and I will check that the statistic.
They played six quarters without their number one quarterback, Curtis Rourke.
He was hurt, and they still outscored their opponents fifty
nine to seventeen. Really, and they beat Washington by fourteen yesterday.

(13:25):
So everybody thought that Indiana with basically was just dreaming
what they were doing this year. And they had their
quarterback who was out and they're still winning, you know,
so they got a good ground game right now. They
wore down Washington yesterday in the second half eight to no.
For Indiana right now, it's Indiana's for real, and it's wonderful.
It's wonderful to see teams that you never see talking

(13:46):
about in college football. Indiana right now, bring him young.
I mean still these schools right now you never talk
about in college Fort Pitt. So right now it's opened
up big time. And maybe that is what the portal
has done. Not so much the coaching, but I think
the portal. There's so much talent out there, and it's
being spread across various teams, and we're seeing teams that

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you don't normally talk about in college football.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
And I love that.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
There's something to be said for that. For sure. The
talent is spread around because of the portal. People talk
about they'll talk about money, but I'll say because of opportunities. Yeah,
there are more chances to see players play at other
spots because players are going to situations where they have
really good opportunities to be able to play, and you
want to take advantage of that. And then the good

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teams are selling that. They're selling hope, they're selling opportunity.
They may sprinkle in a little nil to secure the deal,
but that's what it's about. And rather than join the superpower,
why not find a way to help me build the superpower.
Come join us, have an opportunity to play play in
the big stage and take down some of those traditional powers.
We're having some coaches who are having success spreading that message.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, and one of those teams does not having success.
The team that I put the kiss at death on
I Oli Gordon for Heisman. I mean this Oklahoma State team.
They lose to Baylor yesterday thirty eight, twenty eight in Waco.
I mean, I'm not going to say that coach is
in trouble, and I'm not going to come back here
and say he should be fired. But I think right now,
with buyouts, it's very difficult to dump a coach in
college football because the buyout's ridiculous. So you know, Gundy's

(15:18):
gonna be there. But Oklahoma State, that's a disappointing loss
and having a disappointing year. And I can't find the
Oli Gordon stats with a search warrant, I can't find them.
I don't know what he's doing. Really, what's going on.
I thought the guy's gonna win the Heisman trophies. But
that's how much I know. Really, he had a better
year last year than this year.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
He did. And sometimes it's stuff, man, because the other
thing that you don't know what's going on with Oli Gordon.
You don't know how his thoughts about the next level
are impact in his paw.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
He's having girl problems.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Well, I love it. But like a lot of times,
what happens the final season before someone is going pro.
They spent a lot of that time really worried about
the pros and worried about being hurt, worried about putting
get tape up, like a lot of unnecessary worries, and
it can impact the players games. That's why sometimes you
don't see people play their best season their final season

(16:09):
because of the pressure of I would say, looking ahead,
get to them.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Did you have that problem in college?

Speaker 1 (16:17):
I think yeah, I think everybody else. I think it's
something that Yeah, I think I think it's I think
it's hard to play. I think it's hard to stay
I think it's hard to stay grounded, it's hard to
stay focused on the next that what you're doing now
when you kind of want to peek ahead and get
to the end of the book and see how it
plays out, you know.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
And I could see some distractions. I mean, do these
agents cut bother you during the during the season, like
knocking on your door and sending your notes and email
and you say, you know, well, sign up with me.
These agents are really coming all over the place to
get you while you're playing.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Uh, there's some of this up. I mean, there definitely
is some of that that is going on in terms
of you know, agents are talking, people are talking to
your family. There's a more distraction. I would say that
these guys are already distracted by dealing with that because
they're dealing with money now at the collegiate level as
approched to the pro level. But there's a lot of distraction,
and it's hard to keep the main thing the main thing.

(17:12):
It's hard to stay focused, it's hard to stay locked
in with so many of the people around you are
worrying about what's next, what's coming, how we're going to
handle X, Y and Z. It's a lot.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
I hear what you're saying, and perhaps we could agree
on this. The worst team in the SEC right now
has to be Kentucky. I mean, losing to Auburn and
Yes State twenty four to ten is just it's sad.
I mean, it's unbelievable. They only have like two hundred
and something yards and they average like four point one
yards per play. I mean, it's just and they're changing quarterbacks.
I don't know what's going on in Kentucky. I expected more.
I expected more out of Kentucky this year, but again,

(17:46):
they're a basketball school. Although I see the way Indiana
has changed, but Kentucky this year a big disappointment that
I'm going to say right here and now they're the
worst team in the SEC.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
They may be, but you know, Kentucky is kind of
like that. Though. You have to understand Ducky was a
team that Stoops made into a a top team. He
kind of built them up so that they have success
doing this stuff like this is not a team that's
a blue blood. I mean, their plight is going to
be this. They're gonna be bad this year, they'd be
decent next year, they'd be very competitive. The third year,

(18:18):
then they'll have a really good season and then a
clock a reset. That's how Kentucky has to operate. They
won't be a team that is like your Alabama or
Georgia that's good year after year after year. They can't
stockpile talent and retain talent like that, you know.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
I've heard stories that say, well, why Kentucky is not
competitive in the SEC? You know for so many years
and one of the reasons I was told that. I
don't believe it because Kentucky is the northernmost team in
the SEC and kids don't want to go there. I
don't believe it. I mean, have you heard that. I mean,
especially now with the portal. I mean, if a guy's
coming out there with a big checkbook, you're going to

(18:51):
go there. Just wear an extra sweater, that's all you
got to do if it's gold. But I can't believe
that a kid is not going to go there because
of climate. That's the last reason why a kid goes
to a school, don't you agree? Am I going to play?
How much? Am I going to get? How many games?

Speaker 1 (19:06):
With you on TV?

Speaker 2 (19:07):
That that those are the three things kids want?

Speaker 5 (19:09):
Right?

Speaker 1 (19:10):
They are things that they want. But some guys aren't
built to play in the coal, and so some people
won't go to the coal, especially if you know that
about yourself. I'm not one that truly enjoyed cold weather.
But sometimes you have to go where the work is.
But if you have options, if you have options, it's
a different story, so everyone won't have the option to
be able to say no, I'm not going there. I

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want to only go here, but others have to go.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
All right, I hear what you said. He's back. He's here.
He didn't even send us a note and though pictures,
nothing at all those stories. But it's okay. Bucky Brooks
is here, he's alive, he's well, And get him on
Twitter at Bucket Brooks hod Andy from an fso better
yet eight seven seven ninety nine half foxes our number
eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
I gotta ask Bucky in this hour our number two

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bottom barrel betting Yay or nay returns an Hour number
three with Shay Shay Yes and of course before Yes,
we got four big ones. Today the blame game an
hour number four. But right now a different twist for
one NFL team.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
That's next. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
A bad situation just got worse. That's coming right up.
All is Bucky Brooks. Yes, he's back. We're full strength today.
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back to Thursday night for just a second. The Vikings
Rams game. Okay, Rams up ten, and they sacked their quarterback,
the Vikings quarterback Sam Donald. They got him in the
end zone. But the tackle was made using Donald's face mask.

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But they didn't call a penalty and it's not reviewable.
I don't know why they don't make that reviewable. It
was crazy, But here's the deal. The Rams won the
game thirty to twenty. Minnesota attempted that onside kick. The
Rams running back Williams recovered it about a minute and
a half to go in the game. It was all
over and there's crying and whining and pointing fingers. You
know what, don't keep the score that close. You have

(21:19):
to wind and cry. You know, put your foot on
the pedal, put your knee on their throat, chok of
the death and you have to worry about crying and
the last minute play like this. Although it was a
bad call and I don't know why it's not reviewable.
You have any reason why those players aren't reviewable, Buck.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
I don't have a reason why it's not reviewable. It
was a bad call, but that's not why they lost
the game. They lost the game because of the Rams
played better for the majority of the right and that
was just, like, I mean, something that you could whind about.
But let's be honest. Sam Donald was having to throw
the ball from his own end zone. He was gonna
have to lead him on a ninety plus or a
drive to win the game, and there's no guarantee them

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to do it. Yes, the guy have his face mask,
but if you look, the referee was literally right behind
Sam Donald. He couldn't see the hand on the thing.
You can see a weird movement, but he wasn't privy
to being able to have an angle to be able
to do it. I don't know why it was non reviewable.
Reviewable like that's something that look, the league has to

(22:18):
kind of figure that part out. But the Vikings didn't
walk out US so far with a loss because of
that one call.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Right in Cincinnati this after, the Eagles are in town.
They're playing the Cincinnati Bengals. That game was flexed. It
was flexed from a late game to an early game,
and they flexed it in place of the Ravens Browns game.
I don't know why, because I think Eagles Bengals game
might be even a better game because the Bengals right
now are kind of kind of looking up. They're kind
of trending up, if you will. But we'll see what happens.

(22:47):
But the Eagles right now. Last week, Jalen Hurst the quarterback,
only fourteen attempts and they had a big win over
the Giants twenty eight to three. Giants are terrible, they
really are. Eagles. AJ Brown and Saquon Barkley. They have
combined out for nine of the eagles sixteen touchdowns. Barkley
was unbelievable against his former team last week, and the
Eagles sacked the Giants quarterback Daniel Jones eight times. Giants

(23:09):
finished the game. It's amazing forty three net passing yards.
They're just a bad team and look we saw what
happened on Hard Knocks. They were looking to draft a quarterback.
So if you're Daniel Jones, you know they talk about
coaches on the hot seat. Daniel Jones to me is
on the hot seat. He really is. For some reason.
I give him maybe some praise in the sense that

(23:35):
his offensive line is terrible, but he's not getting it done.
He's just not getting it done. It with the Giants,
and the Eagles only converted one of thirteen third down tries,
but it was Barkley that did it. And when you
look at Barkley what he did, you know last week,
it's so much hurting for the Giants because he was
the guy a year ago one hundred and eighty seven
yards from scrimmage, a touchdown, nineteen touches. I'm not so

(23:58):
certain this game. If you're a gamble, I stay away
from this game. You know, my head tells me the
Bengals should win, but you know, my heart is going
with the Bengals as well. But I think the Eagles, boy,
I just they may have many too many weapons. And
if t Higgins doesn't play, they say he's a game
time situation that could be a problem for the Bengals.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
I love Staddy Bengals. No matter what. You can talk
your way into seeing that they're gonna win, no matter
how dire it is for them. You're always a believer.
So that's good that your fandom is unconditional. I appreciate that.
The thing about it Sincinnati Bengals is they've been bad
on defense. Ana Romo has tried everything to try and
get this defense right, but I mean they're struggling. So

(24:42):
my worry for the Bengals defensively, first, can they get
a stop? Offensively, can they figure out a way to
score enough points and control of the game, you know,
running the football or doing whatever they need to do,
so it's not just all Joe Burrow all the time.
And and you just get back to playing your football.
Here's what I will say about Zach Taylor, He's figured

(25:05):
it out. They always start out bad, but they always
end up being the team that is around, uh the
playoffs and kind of in the hunt at the end.
When I look at this game, I think it's Philadelphia's
to lose. They have a better offensive team, they have
more firepower. They I mean, we don't even know if
A J. Brown is gonna play like they have everything
that you want to say. Kwan Barkley makes you defend

(25:26):
the running back first before you deal with the other weapons. Defensively,
they're getting better. They have young guys Quinon Mitchell and
Cooper dejen who are playing in the secondary. Who's really
helped and they're beginning to find their way. To me,
this is a tough one, tough day for who they.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
And you guys saying you can hurt me, stabbed me
with it stick? All right? You got the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
I think what's the song fly Eagles Fly? There's some
kind of silly tune that they have, like but whatever,
I just know it starts out like that it does.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
All right, Okay, I respect you. Okay, I'm right. I'm
going Bengals because I know what it's like in this
town when this team loses. It's ugly. Maybe it's like
that in other cities, but people are ready to jump
off the bridge, you know, when they lose a football game.
Let's squeeze in one more before we go to Kevin
with the sports update. We've got the Ravens Browns. Okay,
that game right now. Deshaun Watson, he's out with an

(26:17):
achilles team maybe that's a positive. I'm not saying injuries
are great, but maybe for this team and winning football games.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Like Miles Garrett and those guys was great.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
But after the game last week, he was great, and
I never heard a player do that. He was great.
You know, he was saying that it was a bad
thing to say, and the fans were applauding. When when
Deshaun got hurt, it was an amazing situation. He was
just on the field. He just collapsed. Really, but maybe
they got a better chance to win with that. I
don't know. The question is kind of even come back.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, there is something to be said for that part
of their people who have real questions and concerns about
are they a better team now that he's not necessarily
in the mix like that, will they be a better
team going forward? We'll see, man, we'll see if that's
something that they can you know, kind of kind of
deal with and kind of get right. But yeah, it's

(27:10):
a tough situation when it comes to it, like can
they figure out a way to I don't know, move
the ball right better now that he's out and that
Ken Dorsey's calling plays. That's also a thing that you
have to talk about.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
I mean, here's a team right now. They're ready to rebuild.
They really are. They have no backup. Quarterback Jamis Winston
is not going to be the quarterback of the future.
They get rid of Amari Coop, but they trade him,
so there's no wide receiver it right now, the Ravens
are going to dominate. They'll dominate the team. They'll dominate
the defensive end of the game. And you got to
keep the Ravens off the field, you really do How
do you do that? Maybe running back Nick Chubb could
do that. He didn't do much last week, but it

(27:47):
was his first game in about thirteen months. So if
Nick Chubb could get it going, maybe, But I will
tell you right now, I think the Ravens going to win.
I think the Ravens, if they're not the best team
in the National Football League, that the top one of
the top three.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, I mean they played well. The thing about the
Ravens defensively, they're still not good enough. They're not playing well.
They brought in Dean Piece quietly to kind of help
the decordinateor Zach Or who's in his first year coordinated defense.
They're just not good enough and they're giving up too
many points, too many big plays. They got to fix

(28:22):
that if they won't have a chance to be able
to win win it all.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Okay, but you do like the Ravens though, you like
the Ravens in this one.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
I do like the Ravens. I do like the Ravens
in this one.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
All right, here we go, Bucket brooks Andy Fer now
coming up next on Fox Live on the tyraq dot
com studios. Why have Hite House? Why you have them
if you can't pass them?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
That is next.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
But first, Kevin wydot guy with your sports.

Speaker 6 (28:44):
Yeah, we are about six and a half hours away
from kicking off another full Sunday of NFL football, and
Ian Rappaport had several updates overnight regarding injuries. First beginning
with Jayden Daniels. He's saying that the commanders will make
a team decision on whether Daniel's plays to get today,
but there is a realistic chance that he is able

(29:06):
to go against the Bears if you want to see
how he feels when he arrives at the stadium and
then will have him do a pregame warm up. Dolphins
wide receiver Tyreek Hill expected to play as he's dealing
with a foot issue, Mike McDaniels saying he is optimistic
Hill will be able to go. Jaguars running back Travis
Etn a long shot to play today. He's questionable with

(29:29):
a hamstring injury. The Niners thope expected to have a
couple of their big weapons, Deebo Samuel and George Kittle
on the field, though they are listed as questionable, Deebo
dealing with a wrist issue and recovering from pneumonia, while
George Kittle has a foot injury, but they are expected
to be able to play today. Jacoby Myers expected to
be back for the Raiders as he has an ankle

(29:52):
injury that's caused him to miss some time, but they
are expecting him to be out there today. Chargers wide
receiver Lad McConkey is expected to play against the Saints.
He's questionable with a hip injury, Joey Bosa saying on
Friday that he expects to be able to play. Ravens
wide receivers Eight Flowers will have a pregame workout to

(30:14):
determine his status. He only practice once this week with
an ankle injury, and Bucks running back Bucky Irving is
expected to play despite a toe injury that has him
listed as a questionable and in Major League Baseball. Last night,
World Series Game two goes to the Dodgers as they

(30:34):
beat the Yankees four to two, the Dodgers getting home
runs from Tommy edmund Ti, Oscar Hernandez and Freddy Freeman
backa six and a third strong innings by Yoshinobo Yamamoto
as a Dodgers take a two to nothing lead in
this best to seven series. But scary moment for Los
Angeles as Zoeyozani injuring his shoulder as he doe for
second on a stolen base attempt looked pretty serious. However,

(30:57):
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pretty optim mystic about showy Otani's chances.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
He had a little left shoulder subliction. So we're gonna
get some tests at some point tonight tomorrow, and then
we'll know more in the next couple of days. But
the strength was great, the range of motion good, so
we're encouraged.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
Game three of the World Series set to take place
Monday evening over in New York.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Back to you guys, all right, thanks keV seeing it
now now his absence makes him even more valuable. Yes
it does, and we'll get to that in a minute.
He's Bucky Brooks. I mean de fermerweel Fox Football Sunday
and asked Bucky in just a couple of minutes. Titans Lions.
All right, you know one of the greatest stats I
think about the Detroit Lions this year and you know
this as well. It's a tough deal. The Lions are
undefeated on the road. And the National Football League. I

(31:45):
think the de mantra is you be undefeated at home
and if you go five hundred on the road, you're
in great shape. They're undefeated on the road. That's a
big task. That's a big plus. I think it's tough
to do.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Well. I mean, yeah, it's tough. It's always tough to
play away from your own building. I don't care what
anyone says. At any level, when you're playing on the road,
it's tough because you got to travel. You gotta get
into a conference zone while being away from it. Yeah,
it's hard to win games on the road. You also
don't get calls when you're on the road. That's also
the fact.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Okay, let's talk about the Tennessee Titans right now, not
much to talk about right now at one to five.
But they got quarterback will love Us who's hurt. Mason
Rudolph played last week, and I would say this, they
sent de Andre Hopkins from Tennessee to Kansas City, a
great move for the Chiefs. Right now, I would say this,
that deal doesn't happen if the Titans had a passing quarterback.
They realized they don't have a passing quarterback, so they

(32:39):
can get a Andre Hopkins could go. Agreed on that.
I think that's one of the reasons why Hopkins left
that he was good about that. He didn't balk it
and scream it, didn't say I want to get out
of here. They just let him go and he's gonna
do do great things in Kansas City right now because
they need an additional receiver. But I think if they
had a quarterback that could pass, you know, basically they.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Keep them well. I mean, I don't disagree. Will Levs
is having a tough time kind of finding finding his
finding his way, and it's an issue. I mean because
like DeAndre Hopkins wasn't complaining, but Calvin really sure was like,
hey man, I got to touch the ball, get the ball.
U until late stages of the game. We got to
figure out a way to get this done. Mason Rudolph

(33:20):
is a better player than will Levis's right now, maybe forever. Uh,
you got to get the ball to the to the perimeter.
You need to utilize the playmakers, and right now Will
Levis certainly can't do it. DeAndre Hopkins going to Kansas City,
I'm sure we'll talk about that later on. Uh, it
gives them a reliable pass catcher on the perimeter. He
is not what he was once though. He's not the

(33:42):
phenomenal DeAndre Hopkins that was in his heyday for the Texans.
What he is is a chain moving there who can catch.
But the speed, the explosiveness and all of that stuff, yeah,
that's not in his bag anymore. So it'll be interesting
to see how they use him as a rental for
the rest of the season and then to see if
he's able to poor Lad into anything of significance beyond that.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
All right, we're rolling along right now. He's Bucky Brooks.
I'm Andy Firman. Now he's fresh from old England, jolly
old England, and it's time for the answer Man. He's
back as Bucky. Here's next.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
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Speaker 2 (34:27):
Ask Bucky coming right up, O worry, it's about twelve
minutes now, before the top of the hour. He is
Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman. We are Fox Football Sunday
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It's time for asked Bucky. All right, I want to
know some stuff about England. You're in England for a week.
Probably the worst thing you did was watch the Jaguars
play football, right, I mean really, when you think about it,

(34:48):
you had a great time for a week and you
had to watch them play football. But that's okay. I
don't want to get into that. I mean it's personal
with you, right, It's true. I want to more of
the cost of food in England. How rough is it?
I mean people complain about food here in the US
of A. Prices are up and things like that. It's
like nineteen dollars for a big mac and you make
it poison anyway for the onions. But still in all

(35:09):
it's a lot of money here. How is it over
there in England?

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well, I mean it's due to the conversion rate, it's
gonna be a little pricier. It depends on how much
the dollar's being valued at. But it's a little more
expensive over there. But I would say that London is
a city that has a lot of different cultures, a
lot of different cuisines, so it's always fun going overseas.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
All right, what about the jet lag Because Mark Ramsey,
our guy, the control man, he had a control freak,
he said, he was talking to you about the jet
leg situation. It's about what seven eight hour flight coming back?

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah, yeah, well no, it's an eleven hour flight coming
back from eleven London direct to la Yeah, it's an
eight hour time change. So what it does it completely
flips your body clock. So when you're trying to talk
to your family and your people back out west, when
you're there, i mean night is day and what's day
is night. So it's trying to coordinate all that in

(36:03):
your mind and in your head. And it's not so
much the challenge over there is trying to get readjusted
when you come back. I mean, when you think about
like flipping your body clock eight hours, at some point
you almost have to stay up most of the night
to get your body back right. So it's a challenge
for sure, you.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Know, and it's got to be a challenge for the
players as well. Do the coaches do they have these
guys practice at different hours to getting used to the
time change.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
People take a few different philosophies when it comes to
playing the London game. Some will come over late last minute,
try and make it where your body never really gets
on London time. You just kind of operate like you
operate and it doesn't just Others come over early, like
on a Monday of the game week, so you can
go through that jet lag period then get back on

(36:53):
track by the end of the week. It really depends
on what you believe is best for your team. Late arrival,
early arrival, it doesn't matter. You're trying to get your
team on schedule to play their best game on Sunday
in a foreign country.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Okay, let's get back to the NFL and NFL officiating.
Your thoughts about the use of maybe overhead drones for
NFL officials, Maybe that could have changed things a little
bit in that Minnesota Rams game on Thursday night.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, I think what we all want, man, we want
perfection from officials, but there has to be the human
error element that is a part of it, you know,
And unfortunately, like there's gonna be some bad calls that
are made. But normally in the league you kind of
operate that. Look, whatever goes against us today, we'll get
back tomorrow in some way, shape or form. It typically
balances out. That's not the answer that people want to

(37:45):
hear in the immediacy, but it normally balances out over
the course of a season.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Well, okay, very good. Here's a choice. I'll give you
a choice. You have a choice of two players to
pick on your team, Derrick Henry or sit Kwon Balkley.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Oh that's it. There's there's no Uh. I'll read for
something else to be kind of dangled, like Derrick Henry
and or whatever. I'm gonna take. Takewon Barkley. And the
reason I'm take Saquon Barkley is he can he can
impact the game, uh in a few different ways. Derrick
Henry is a runner and pretty much a runner extensively.
Sakuon Barkley is a runner, receiver. He can do a
bunch of different things. He gives you the big play ability.

(38:25):
Now you have to live through what I call some
of the Barry Sanders losses where he's trying to find
a big play. But in terms of being able to
catch the ball out the backfield, run it to the edges,
run with power, Saquon Barkley is a more complete overall back,
even though I would say Derrick Henry might be a tougher,
more talented back in terms of just doing what he
does better than anybody else on the planet.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
And I would think Derek Henry is a tougher Kuyt
of tackle to bring down. I would think, just like all.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Of this is gonna hurt. Like Sakuon Barkley, you saw
him smash the Giants defender doing the revenge game, and
then you see Derrick Henry repeatedly throw people out the
way with the stiff arm. It's not easy for either
one of them. But I would say if I had
my brothers, I would rather size up sake one in
the hole didn't have to go one on one with
Derrick Henry in hole doesn't It doesn't feel like a

(39:15):
lot of fun for either player.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Okay. We talked about coaching, and I say maybe it's overrated,
and especially in the college game, it's more about the portal.
Here's a question for you. Would the Chiefs coach Kansas
City Chiefs coach Andy Reid? Would he make a difference
if he was coaching New England or Carolina or Tennessee.
Would it be a big difference on the field with
their record?

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yeah, I mean I think it might be a little
bit of a difference. I mean, you just never know
how it's gonna fully impact, but yeah, I think it
could be a little bit of a difference he was
on the field coaching them, all right, I hear you.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Okay. And last, but not least, another choice for you,
Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Ooh, Lamar Jackson this year, Patrick Mahomes forever. But right
now this year, Lamar Jackson's out playing Pat Mahomes. There's
no He won the MVP last year, but he's playing
better than any play last year, right.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
I mean, MVPs are great, but you know, got to
win that Super Bowl? All right?

Speaker 4 (40:07):
Here we go?

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Will one NFL team be sellers that and so much more?
Aware of Fox Football Sunday coming up next. All right,
one NFL team is starting to fade. That's right around
the corner. Good morning, everybody. This is Fox Football Sunday.
He's Bucky Brooks on Indy Furman and we are broadcasting
live from the ti iraq dot com studios ti iraq

(40:28):
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the one and only Bucky Brooks. Hello, Buck, how are you?

Speaker 1 (40:54):
I don't sear? Is he there? Are you there?

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Buck?

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (41:00):
I don't know. Maybe he's back in England again?

Speaker 1 (41:04):
All right? Is he there?

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Okay, we move on. That's okay, he'll be back. Maybe
went to the men's room. I don't know, we'll see.
I wanted to touch on a couple of things, but
so many things are going on right now, and it's
one of those things that really bugs me because if
you love sports, and I think that if you turn
on this show, you love sports obviously, ohkay, hey, you
love but there's so many things happening, things rolling over.
You got the NBA, you got the NHL, you got

(41:27):
MLS playoffs, you got the World Series. I just think
there's too much going on at one time. If you're
a sports fan, can we have certain things in certain parameters?
I'm thinking, and maybe I'm nuts, but I think that
there should be some sort of legislation really that sports
have to be in a certain period of time with
no overlapping. Look, I would have loved to watch the

(41:48):
entire World Series last night, I can. I'm watching college football.
It's crazy, it really is, and I don't think it's right.
And I think that basically some of these sports get
hurt by it. As a matter of fact, when you
think about it, the World Series right now is off today.
Why you know they're off today because they didn't want
to compete with the NFL. That's why they're off today. Well,

(42:09):
I mean it is, no.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
I was just to make sure I wanted to get
your full point. I think some overlap is good, though, Andy,
I think cross because we all don't appeal to every sport,
and so I think having the cross of right we
always know. October is for baseball, is for the World Series.
And even though like those games kind of conflict, like
it's weird to have the opening night of the World

(42:33):
Series on a Friday night, that's high school football, that's dedicated.
I was at a high school game the Dodgers win,
so you don't get the full thing. But uh, LA
in general, let's talk about LA and what was going
on on Friday night. You had the Dodgers playing the Yankees,
you had the Lakers playing in the game, you had
sc playing on Friday night, you had a bunch of

(42:53):
notable high school games going. Uh the energy was a
buzz because you had all these different events in different
sports going. So to me, I see it as a
good thing, not a bad thing.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Well perhaps, and you're right. I mean, everybody is not
an NFL fans. Some people are NBA fans. And you
talk about the NBA, you talk about LA. The Lakers
are three and oher right now. It's amazing, it really is.
And I just did some checking because you know, there's
a lot of buzz with the Lakers right now, Lebron
playing with his son Bronni, And I want to know
how much would it cost to go to a Laker game.

(43:25):
The average purchase price is three hundred and twenty nine
bucks for a ticket, which is, by the way, a
fifteen percent increase from last year, which was two eighty six.
Really and last year, if you remember, they lost the
first round of the playoffs. So it's not a question
of how good you are. It's like, I guess you
want to be seen there, and now with Bronni there
with Lebron is kind of history in the making. People

(43:46):
are going there. I mean, but I'm not paying three
hundred and twenty nine dollars for a ticket for a
basketball game? Sorry, would you much?

Speaker 1 (43:53):
How much would you pay? How much? How much would
you pay? How much you pay? Where would he cap
off at?

Speaker 2 (43:58):
I'm so used to not paying at all. I'm just
trying to cap out.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
That's what I'm saying. You would pay for anything, probably
those you don't want to pay for anything.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
I am. I'm a pig. I admit I'm a pig.
I'm so used to not paying for a thing. It
hurts me to stick my hand in my wallet to
pay for a ticket for a sporting event. I'd rather
go to a Broadway show than see a sporting event
and pay. That's just the way I am. You know,
how much do you pay?

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Okay, how much do you pay for a Broadway show?

Speaker 2 (44:23):
I pay a couple of hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
I mean the game, Okay, I pay. I pay a
couple of hundred bucks for a ticket. Now, I'm not
gonna pay three hundred dollars. But I'm also I'm also
not a Laker fan, and it would be hard for
me to get out to a basketball game unless it
was a playoff game, just because I like the energy
is different. I would pay for a top college game
more so than a pro game. But I would spend

(44:46):
two hundred dollars for a pro ticket. I gotta have
if I'm gonna go, I want to have a good ticket.
I want to be able to see. I don't be
all the way up into Noslees. I don't want to
be up under the banners.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
But I don't think two hundred dollars is gonna get
you a good seed. I really don't, do you. I
mean in the NFL, I don't know how much you.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Know Laker Laker Laker dealer is there, Yeah, Laker deal
will be a little different. You talk about three hundred
man that's I mean, that's I mean, it's a little pricey,
but it's also part of the thing. You have to
go to a Laker game.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
But how do you take a family of four? How
do you take a game with three hundred bus ticket?

Speaker 1 (45:18):
You tell the kiddos, You tell the kiddos you're bringing
back a T shirt. You're bringing back a T shirt
and a pennant and some other stuff like what kind
of goodies do you want we're bringing back. You can't
bring a family afford though, fourteen.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
I mean it was three hundred bucks for a ticket.
It's got to be like one hundred and fifty bucks
to park your car, right, I mean, come on, I
mean you gotta take out a second mortgage to.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Go to a game. So just for example, the when
you park around so far, that is the rams that
rams charge the stadium a hundred bucks. You're talking about parking.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
You better a front of a car when you go
to it.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
When you go to a Dodger game, I think Dodgery
parking is thirty five to forty dollars.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
I just look, I understand, I stand the prices, and
I think things are different now, but wow, I mean
times are rough. And I think to spend money like
that on sporting events, I don't think the general public
could afford that. And right now, I mean I'm ticked
off that I got to pay to watch on TV. Now,

(46:27):
I mean that that bothers me enough as well. It's
not going to pay for a ticket. It's better though,
I got to pay for for all these streaming devices
to watch a game. So that's what I say. You
could say, I say it. I want to get back
to this, so I want to get back to the NFL.
I don't want to talk about money. It hurts me,
it really does, all right, Cardinals doll I said this.

(46:47):
I said, basically, his absence makes them more valuable. I'm
talking about Tua. Cardinals are playing the dollars study in Miami.
Tua is expected to return. But get this, Miami was
one than three with Adam thus far. All right, So
when you think of about it, this is how valuable
he is. I mean, there's always a silver lining to something, right,
And the fact that Tua knows that he's needed and wanted.

(47:08):
I mean, right now he's gotten by the you know what,
by the unis. I mean, really there's nothing without him,
and guys like Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill need him.
Dana combined two receptions against the Colts last week and
they lost to the Colts. That's how valuable Tua is.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
This is more so for the football world to be
able to assess his value. The Dolphins obviously understood how
he was based on the contract they gave him. It
was the outside world who felt like anybody could jump
in the system with all the weapons that they have
and survive to it deserves more credit for what he's
been able to do. What he's been able to provide

(47:47):
for them in terms of being a playmaker, being a
guy that can get the ball out of his hands
and do all those things. Yeah, he's finally I would say,
getting some of the respect that he deserves because of
what he's able to offer them. M hmm.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
But I will say this, I say, shame on you Dolphins,
knowing his injury history, that you didn't get a quality
backup quarterback. And this day and age, the quarterback is
the most important position in the NFL. We know that,
but I think so is the backup quarterback because most
of these quarterbacks don't finish the season, and they didn't
get it back up. Maybe that's maybe I'm off based
on that. That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
No, I mean, it's silly that they didn't get a
backup quarterback. It's crazy. It's one of the more critical
positions that you have. They should have had a backup
quarterback in place. I mean that you have to invest
a backup quarterback like that. It's silly that they don't
have one.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
I'm with you there. We move on there because I
think the Dolphins, they'll probably I think the Dolphins win
that game today. I think they beat the Cardinals. I'm
taking the Dolphins close game. I'm thinking the Dolphins. Let's
talk about the Jets and Patriots, all right, And we
talked about the trade deadline, which is this Tuesday. The
Jets are two and five. What do they do?

Speaker 1 (48:59):
You know?

Speaker 2 (48:59):
They went to old for Aaron Rodgers, a quarterback. I
don't think he's the future. He camp he's forty years old.
They lost at Pittsburgh last Sunday night, thirty seven to fifteen.
And get this, no receptions for Devonte Adams, Aaron Rodgers buddy.
In the second half, he had three targets. The Jets
have now lost four straight games and Aaron Rodgers all right,
as good as he was. And I say it was

(49:21):
because I think he's in the twilight of his career
right now. Seven interceptions, six in the last three games.
I get it. Maybe he's not getting the protection he
needs up front. But still in all this Jets team
is going down the tubes right now. They really are
going in the wrong direction.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
I mean they are, but I mean this is what
they wanted and when they entrusted the team to him,
this is what you get. And they should have known this.
I don't know why anyone is surprised by this. They
should have known, like, this is how he is, and
this is what it is when you go all in
on an older player, old plus player. They went all

(50:01):
the way in on You're gonna get some of this.
He can't play anymore. He's not what he wants was
and everyone is having to come to that realization at
this point.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Especially coming up the injury too.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Yeah, it's crazy. This is what it is and this
is what it's going to continue to be.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
If I was a general manager of personnel director, I
don't care who you are. There was some rumors early
on this year that Tom Brady may come back. Remember,
Heybe's gonna go maybe to Tampa or whatever it may be,
or La whatever, I don't know, whatever I mean, forget it.
I mean, he hasn't played them in two years. He's
forty plus years of age. It's over. His best days
are behind them. All. You can't you can't hide from

(50:44):
father time period in the story. So I get it.
They signed Aaron Rodgers. It was a big deal. Maybe
last year he could have done something if he wasn't hurt.
It was great for the fan base, it was great
for media, but it's not great for the team morale.
It's not great for the team. They're not winning. They're
two and five, all right, and he's not having a
great year. And I know it's going to get real
ugly if they lose again, because that's just the way

(51:05):
he is.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
I mean, he's going to continue to get ugly just
because of not only who he is, what he is
how he leads those guys under us. Poor Mike Williams
is still trying to reel from the train tracks, the
tracks that are on him after that Monday night game.
He just look, man, he's not a great leader, and
everyone is seeing it. Talented player, poor leader. Everyone blamed

(51:30):
all of the Packers' roles on all the coaching. I
think we're now getting a greater look at how he
goes about his business. Makes it hard to win games
at a high level.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
You like him, You like Aaron Rodgers personally?

Speaker 4 (51:44):
You know him?

Speaker 1 (51:45):
No, not really, not my type HiPE good player, Yeah,
my type hype. I think it's hard to win. It's
hard to win with a quarterback that's as selfish as
he is. It's hard to win games. This quarterback needs
to be his best leader. But he's selfish and he's
always been that way. And we look talent brings tolerance,

(52:07):
and so we tolerate a lot. But with him, the
talent is now coming to a point where it's not
tolerable some of the stuff that he's about.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
And the quarterbacks are leader and sometimes as a quarterback
you have to own it. You cannot point fingers. He
pointed fingers at the coaching staff. He pointed fingers. I
think at the press conference after the game last week,
at the media they said. I think the first question
was some media guy said what's the problem, and he said, you,
meaning to media, you can't win. You can't win against
the media. You just can't do it. And honestly, it's

(52:39):
the stupidest thing to do to attack the media. But
he's got his buddy on ESPN that he gets paid
so random rave with that guy. It's just it's not a.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Good situation of Pat McAfee.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Yeah, that's ugly. It's it's just dumb, it really is.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
I remember back in the day when when the late
Paul Brown owned this Cincinnati Bengals, he did not permit
his players to do like these radio gigs and TV
gigs and things like that. You know, you're part of
the wall club and that's it, and I don't want
you doing any of these outside things. And maybe that's
the healthy thing to do. I don't think you can
get away with that today, but that's what he did

(53:16):
because I remember when Bob Trump he was the tight
end of the Cincinnati Bengals. You know, he had a
war with the Bengals because he wanted to do like
the outside gigs and like talk shows on radio, and
the late Paul Brown would not let him do it.
But that's the way it was. He can't do that,
and I don't think it's healthy for the team. I
really know, you got to criticize, and when you're criticize,

(53:38):
you make enemies. That's what it's all about, some of the.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
I mean, if it's done within the proper context, I
think you can do it. I think you can give
players to freedom to have their own radio shows and
all that. But you know, whatever you say on those shows, like,
you got to be the say face to face. And
if you're unwilling to do it face to face, then
what's the point. You know, you got to be able
to tell your teammates directly. Man, it can't always be

(54:04):
a finger pointing thing or whatever. I just think he
undermines it. I'm in tier. He Yeah, he oversteps his bounds.
He's out of his lane, as some would say. So
that's about him.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
Let's look at the Falcons Buccaneers for a seconds. Last Sunday,
the Falcons after that Seattle game, they played the Seahawks.
They are on a three game winning streak. Seattle had
lost three in a row. The Falcon get it. The
Falcons outgained the Seahawks in that game three eighty five
to three thirty nine. They had more first downs they
converted eight to fifteen third downs compared to four to
eleven for Seattle offensive plays, Atlanta seventy one, Falcons fifty six.

(54:45):
But guess what Falcons lost by twenty Why? I think
the Falcons have no pass rush. That's the bottom line
right there. Seattle scored the game's final seventeen points and
that Landa lost the game in turnovers three zip. But
it looks like they're not gonna have Mike Evans or
Chris Godwin today. But Baker Mayfield, boy, what a story
he is. Leads the league in touchdown passes. I think, uh,

(55:08):
Tampa Bay comes back and wins this ball game right now.
They need to win right now badly. I think they
really do. But I think the Tampa Bay Bucks winner's
gonna be close, be a pretty good ball game because
Seattle needs I mean, Atlanta needs to win this game
as well. But I like I like Tampa Bay, and
I'm really happy for Baker Mayfield because he could have
packed it in and he turned his career around. I mean,
really and truly he has. He may be the comeback

(55:30):
player of the year this year.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Maybe, I mean, where's he coming back from?

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Though?

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Like he had a good year last year, Yeah he did?
Was he coming back? From the thing.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
I mean, well, see he didn't get it last year,
he should get it this year. Maybe that's what who knows.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
What I would say is well, I can't believe you're
taking the Buccaneers without wide receivers. That's that's kind of
crazy to me a little bit. But okay, I'm gonna
let you do it because we don't. We don't bet
on those, so you're you're on your own on that one.
But okay, that appears to be a little crazy to me.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
I don't trust the Falcons. I just don't trust them.
And I think that Bakers have a lot of time
to throw the football anyway, even though his great receivers
aren't going to be there. No, don't do no pass
rush in Atlanta. We'll see.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
You like the Falcons.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
I get you you like the Falcon. I mean I
would be more apt to take the Falcons than I mean,
they don't have a they don't have a wide receiver.
I don't know how. I don't know how to even
do it without. I mean, you're talking about their number
one and number two receivers.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
That's amazing, isn't it. Evans and Godroom, not there.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
You're you're acting like it's nobody.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
You know what again, Like I think with my with
my heart now on my head, I'm a Baker Mayfield guy.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
You know.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
I just think he cuts it out in the game,
you know, you know me. That's why, that's why we
don't gambling a lot in this show, because I don't
want people to go ahead and say, well, he said
that they're gonna win. I don't. I don't want to
come back and haunt me. You know, we're not a
gambling show. We tooked the game of football between the lines.
That's what we do.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Okay, all right, I mean I give what you're saying,
we do that.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
All right, let's do this what we'll do there. We
got the we got Twitter going up there, and we
got Bucky Brooks. You get him at Bucky Brooks had
Andy Fromann FSR eight seven seven ninety fox at eight
seven seven nine ninety six sixty three sixty nine bottom
barrel betting. All right, Bucky's got jet legs, so maybe
I could get him today on the bottom barrel betting.
And we're gonna follow that up with yay or nay,
and the fourth hour, we got the blame game, yes,

(57:41):
but could this be a championship roster will tell you
that next look out, the sophomore slump may be coming.
That's right around the corner. Hey's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Freman,
and we are Fox Football Sunday at Foxb's Ready. We'll
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(58:02):
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Speaker 1 (58:12):
Again.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
Just search Fox Sports Ready wherever you get your podcasts,
and you'll find this show Fox Football Sunday right after
we get up to you. Now, I hate doing this
to you because it's your team. Packers are Jaguars, Okay,
the Jacks today, and it's a shame, it really is,
because they're like a turnover machine. Their secondary is terrible.
I think the Jordan Love's gonna pick them apart. And
I feel bad for these two guys, Andre Cisco, Antonio Johnson,

(58:36):
the safeties of the Jacks. What's going on with the
Jags right now? I don't see them, and you're probably
going to that game today, Am I correct?

Speaker 5 (58:43):
Or?

Speaker 1 (58:44):
No? Oh, I am going. I'm great here, I'm down here,
I'm ready to go. I get my bags packed, ready
to go. So you finished the show, I'm gonna scoot out,
get to the stadium, and I'm gonna make sure that
whatever bad stuff you're about to say about them, I'm
gonna make sure that I've plastered on the bulletin board
right before they run out.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
Well. You know what, though, your bag should have a
uniform in there. That's what your beg should have. You
should be shooting up for them because you can't be
any worse than they are right now. In the secondary.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Look, it hasn't been great, but what I will say
in their defense, they've been missing like what two three
starters in the secondary for most of the year. They
haven't played with Tyson Campbell he played the first half
of the Miami game, just came back, played about thirty
five snaps the last game. Andrew Wingert, their starting safety,
hasn't played at all. He should be coming soon, and

(59:35):
so they've been playing with a bunch of backups in
the back end, and those backups have had some communication issues,
some coverage issues, and all those things. I would say
the Jags are on the up, but this is a
big game for them. And the reason why this is
a big game for them, they're sitting at whatever two
and six. They have this game, then they have two
and five Philly, two and five Philly, you have Minnesota,

(01:00:01):
and you have Detroit. This is a tough stretch because
everyone with they the games of the season, it really
opens up for them. They come to it. So if
they can tread water during this little mid run, it
will give them a chance to kind of get back
on the graphic and make a run at a postseason push,
which is all you want. The magic number is ten
in the National Football League. If you get the ten,

(01:00:21):
you go into the postseason. You just got to find
a way to hang in there until you can get
to ten.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
I'm gonna make it feel God, I'm gonna be positive
right now. They've won two out of the last three,
all right, Indianapolis and New England, So that's not a
bad deal. And two and five you're not dead yet.
I mean, things are not that bad. So two and
five so I'm going.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Yeah, the Cincinnati Bengals had done this before. The Rams
did it last year with one and four and cut
off Matt. You can do it. It's hanging in there.
The thing that as a team you can't still come
to the house that noise because everyone on the house
does go to see that it's with you. Just gotta
keep playing can As I said, the magic number is ten,
no matter how you get to it. You just got
to get to ten, ten and get you in there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
You go, Okay, let's switch that number around from two
and five to five and two. And that's the Texans.
They at home, they got a five and two record.
They're hosting the Colts of Indianapolis Colts. Surprisingly, they're like
right now they're in the wildcot hunt there four and three.
And I talked about the sophomore slump coming into this segment.
Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud coming off his least productive game

(01:01:23):
less week, can be looking at maybe perhaps am I
being too negative? A sophomore slump coming ahead now for
see maybe people know his tendencies. Is that possible? Is
it possible? Well, just a big game, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
I Mean the more tape you put out, the more
people can adjust to how you play and take with
the things that you're good at. And what we saw
last week, the Green Bay Packers man threw a lot
at him, lot lets. There's a lot of he's homes
behind the pressures made him think he had less than
one hundred yards. I mean a passing. That's something to

(01:01:57):
be said for a guy who was offensive. Rick Year,
a guy who we always talk about being a top
five quarterback. They are, and Nicole Collins being away has
hurt the right, yes, not the same squad.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Right, And I want to see CJ. Straud of Stefan
Diggs do some magic today. Looked Indianapolis Hays Anthony Richardson
at quarterback. All you got to do is make him
pass because he can't do that. Can he handle it?
I don't think so. He's the league's worst accurate passer
at forty eight percent. He's the league's worst efficient passer
at sixty percent. And look, the Colts are still in

(01:02:33):
a wild caught position, which is amazing to me. But
they can't go much further with Anthony Richardson a quarterback.
And you made this point several weeks ago, and I
remember because he never had that many reps coming into
the NFL from college. That's what it's all about.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
Ever ever reps coming in he only had whatever thirteen
seventeen stars in college before he got to the pros.
Last year he only had one hundred and seventy two
total snaps. This year he started five out of seven games.
And you talk about numbers that are from the Joe
Namath era. Now, Joe Namath is in the Hall of

(01:03:09):
Fame with a you know, a tick over fifty percent
completion rate, more interceptions than touchdowns. But Joe Namath is
in the Hall of Fame because he made a guarantee
and they came to fruition in the Super Bowl. Anthony
Richardson is not Joe Namath, and I don't know how
long how long do the coach go with him at
at quarterback? They are clearly a much better team when

(01:03:30):
Joe Flacco is there. They can do more things, the
playbook is more expansive. Uh, it's a team that is
more feared with Flacco at quarterback. I understand you want
to develop Richardson, but I'm not saying that you have
to dump him and say he's a bust. I'm just saying,
right now, he's not the best quarterback on your squad.
And you have a team that can go to the

(01:03:50):
postseason and maybe win a postseason game or two. You
owe it to the team to put the best quarterback
on the field. And that quarterback right now is not
Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
And when you say that, can I go and add
one more kind of say the Browns are a better
team with Jamis Winston a quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Yeah, I mean you can say that. Like, look, I'd
be the first to say there are no sacred cows.
And if if look, Deshaun Watson prior to the Achilles
injury wasn't playing great at some point they were gonna
have to address that. They won't have to They don't
have to talk about it. They're won't have to address it.
They won't have to like make a decision and determination
on whether he could get it done. He was not

(01:04:30):
getting it done. Like there's no there's no way around it.
He was not playing well. He was not getting it done.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
There you go, all right, we're getting it done. Ho
we are, We're getting it done right here, he's Bucky
Brooks on Andy Furman. And by the way, one quarterback
is not looking forward to return it to action. We're
going to tell you why that's next. But first, Kevin
Wyatt's always in action. Yes got your sport, Yes, Yes.

Speaker 7 (01:04:52):
In action.

Speaker 6 (01:04:53):
And we got a lot of football action coming up today,
a full slate of UH Sunday football as no team's
on a this week, so we got a maximum amount
of games for us today. We got a few injury
updates from Ian Rappaport overnight. He was talking about Washington
Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels, saying that they do want to

(01:05:13):
have him work out and see how he feels when
he arrives at the stadium, but he certainly has a
shot to play today against the Chicago Bears. There is
a realistic chance that he plays. According to the report,
Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill expected to play Today's Deyn
been dealing with a foot injury, and Mike McDaniels saying

(01:05:33):
he's optimistic that he'll will be able to go. Jaguars
running back Travis Etn a long shot to play today,
he's questionable the hamstring injury. The Niners zough likely to
have both Deebo Samuel and George Kittle on the field,
as both of them are questionable but are expected to play.
Raiders expecting to get Jacobe Myers back into the lineup

(01:05:55):
after he has missed some time with an ankle injury,
and Charges wide receiver lad mcon Honky is expected to
play against the Saints. He is questionable with a hip injury.
Joey Bosa saying on Friday that he expects to play
later today. Ravens wide receiver z Flowers will have a
pregame workout to determine his stats. He only practiced once

(01:06:17):
this week with an ankle injury, and Flowers is hoping
to play, but Ian Rappaport's saying nothing will be sure
until he works out pre game. Bucks running back Bucky
Irving expected to play despite a toe injury that has
him listed as a questionable. And in Major League Baseball,
the World Series Game two Dodgers beat the Yankees four

(01:06:40):
to two, the Dodgers getting home runs from Tommy Edmond, Ti,
Oscar Hernandez and Freddy Freeman to help back Yoshino, but
Yamamotos six and a third innings only allowed one hit.
It was a home run to Juan Soto, so he
allowed one run, struck out four and walked to to
give La the two nothing series lead, but a scary
moment as Shoeyotani dove for second get on a stolen

(01:07:00):
base attempt, hurt his shoulder and it was not looking good. However,
Dave Roberts was optimistic about it after the game.

Speaker 7 (01:07:08):
He had a little left shoulder sublection, and so we're
gonna get some tests at some point tonight tomorrow, and
then we'll know more in the next couple of days.
But the strength was great, the range of motion good,
So we're encouraged.

Speaker 6 (01:07:24):
Game three of the World Series set to take place
Monday evening over in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Back of you guys, all right, Kevi seeing about it
out now? All of a sudden, one NFL team developed
a passing game has coming right up. Peace, Bucky Brooks.
I Meany Freman. We are Fox Football Sunday at Fox
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up in about ten. Yes, I'm ready to win. I'm
ready to wipe the floor with you. How's that? I'm ready.

(01:07:51):
I'm pumped, see because I know you're not one hundred percent,
you still got jet lag in your system.

Speaker 5 (01:07:58):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
I'm fine, Well really, I am fine. I'm looking forward
to it. So I'm waiting for you to mock me
up or whatever it is. Yeah, he say that you're
gonna do with me?

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Saints charges. Here's the deal. Here's the question. Why would
the quarterback of the Saints, Derek Carr even want to
return to this mess. They've lost five straight games. They're disgusting.

(01:08:52):
They're two and five, They're one of the worst teams
in the National Football League, and they've lost their last
two games by more than twenty points each. Sean Payton
where are you they want to come back? I know
they do terrible. We talked about coaching. His one situation.
I know Sean Payton made a difference. He made a
difference over there.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
He did, I mean, he did make a difference. But look,
I don't know how we can handle this little thing
when it comes to uh, Look, the Saints, they're just
a bad team, man, They're just a bad bad They're

(01:09:32):
bad squad. They have a bad quarterback. Derek Carr wasn't
playing great when he was active. It's just a bad
team and you just have to call it what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
You guys give up very good. I mean you've lost
five straight games. I mean yeah they did. They'd just
throw in the towel because I hate his studied Oh
they don't give up because his tape and then make
it to another team and the coaches said, no, they
give up. I don't care who you are.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
No, you get no. You get discouraged. For sure, you
get discouraged. I guess it can be problematic. You certainly
get discouraged, and it's hard to keep everyone hanging in
there and fighting and all that other stuff. Like, Yeah,
it's a tough deal. Alca Ario a tough deal.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
I feel befalvacame. He's scored five touchdowns in the first
two weeks. He's got two touchdowns since It's unbelievable. So
what's gonna happen with JK. Dobbins of the Chargers. He's
going against the Saints and it's gonna be an ugly
game anyway. I think it'd be low scoring. But I
think the Chargers win this win. But let's talk about
the Bills and Seahawks. This is a pretty good game,
and the Bills get a Mariy Cooper. So last week
got Marik Cooper and Keon Coleman. You liked him from

(01:10:35):
the get go. From the jump, you like Keon Coleman. Right,
Buffalo had the first one hundred yard receiving game last week,
boyd is Amari Cooper helped his ball club, really does.
Bills have been outscored though forty eight to thirty three
in the first quarter, twenty one to six, and losses
to Ravens and the Texans. Right now, Seahawks Gino Smith
have the number one passing offense in the NFL two

(01:10:56):
hundred seventy one yards a game. Bills have a new
passing attack they do, and I think they're gonna win
this game because all of a sudden, with the Amari
Cooper edition, I think they're a different ball club. They
really are. I like the Bills in this one.

Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
I don't know, man, I'm gonna go with the Seahawks.
And the reason why I'm gonna go to the Seahawks,
uh coming off to the wind they had last week.
They were impressive. They had been embarrassed. They were able
to take a little time. Mike McDonald kind of whipped
the troops in the shape and we saw a really
good performance. More of the same will happen this week.
I looked at them to get back on track, and
the Bills are really solid, that's all around, but still

(01:11:36):
there's something lacking. Amari Cooper coming over was great. Gives
them a receiver that they needed because I felt like
they couldn't do it with just like the spare parts
that they were working with. Just not all the way
convinced that this is one of the elite teams in
the league. Maybe their record says that. Just not convinced
they're still one of the elite team. That's why I'm

(01:11:56):
going to Seahawks.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
You gave me every reason why the Seahawks you went
this game, but also the fact that they're playing in
the stadium that still has the twelfth Man. They're playing
in Sea that's a tough place to play. You've played there,
I'm sure that's one of the roughest places I think
for visiting teams to come into.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
It is a tough place to play, and it's one
that you got to make sure that you're ready to
deal with all of the noise, all of the energy
that they're gonna have, particularly early in the game. Look,
it's not an easy place to get a dub, and
they'll have to continue to kind of work on like
silent counts and all of that other stuff. But this
team plays differently at the home than they're doing the roup.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
Okay, how difficult is it for a guy like Amari
Cooper coming to a new team to learn the playbook?
I mean, can he just adapt? How difficult is it
for him to come in there to work with Josh
Allen just coming from another team. I mean, he's got talent,
so that about that, but it's going to take time
for him to have a chemistry with his ball club
and with Josh Allen. That's number one and number two.

(01:12:57):
Do the bills play when they do practicing? Sueek? Did
they turn up the volume of the PA system with
music and noise to get they do? Okay, they do
that to get ready for that. Okay, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
Absolutely, Yeah, you absolutely want to get used to the noise.
It's gonna be a Rockets environment. You want your people
to be comfortable dealing with all that. You have your
silent accounts and all that ready. You have your nonverbal communication,
your hand signals and all that stuff ready, not only
from coaches to player but from player to player, so
Josh Allen can control that. Yeah, you want to get
ready to deal with all that because you still want

(01:13:30):
to have the full playbook at your disposal. And if
you don't have the ability to communicate, could you, guys,
you don't have a shot.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
So, but how difficult is it forgot like Amari cooping
out to adjust coming to a new team in mid season.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
When you were when you were pro and you've been
around the pros for a long time. It's about understanding
concepts and then figuring out how to take concepts that
were one thing in one system and translate them into
another thing. So it it's almost, I won't to say,
like learning a foreign language, but in a way, it's

(01:14:03):
like learning a foreign language. So I took IOK Spanish
in college and I wasn't great at it, but I
took it, and the best thing that I had to
do was Kamas the DS how do you say X,
Y and Z. So Amari Cooper's gonna have to figure
out how to take things that he did when he's
with the Cowboys and the Raiders and the Browns and

(01:14:25):
ask the Bills Kamas to DS this concept so he
can figure out how to match it in his head.
And so when they say it to him, he has
to kind of put that spin on it. So he's
gonna need some Rosetta Stone or some babble to kind
of help him get it, but he can figure it out.
The concepts will be the same as more so just
learning the verbiage and what they also can do. Josh

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Allen can call to play and he said, Coop, you
got a seven round, Coop, you got a hitch, Coop,
you got the crosser. That's also common, so they can
put playing play on that. Josh Allen can be his
one on one tutor.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Hear what you're saying. All right, we'll see what happens today.
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman. He's my tutor right now.
And it's a game that truly needs a preseason. We
call it bottom barrel betting. You know what, it's freaking next,
bottom barrel betting right around the bed. Okay, it's about
eleven minutes, not before the top of the hour. He's
Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman, and we're live from the
tirerap dot com studios. All right, we got a gate

(01:15:21):
to play. Let's play. And I say mark this day
down and the day that will live and inf me
to day that Bucky Brooks goes down. Here's Shaye Shade
and make it happen.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
Let's play this game.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
You guys ready, Yeah, we're ready, babes, ready.

Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
Bucky, welcome back. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
I'm gonna explain the game because it has been a
while since you've played it. So this is the game
where I give games across the world, not just the
good old basketball, football, tennis. I'll also be giving random
sports leagues like snooker or darts, and I will give
the lines too, and Andy and they will tell me

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who they think will win. You guys, ready, Actually we
have a couple of lines to get from the last
couple of weeks. So last week, Bucky, you had Jay
Fitzen for you. He actually did a very good job,
getting four points for Bucky and Andy getting two.

Speaker 4 (01:16:18):
So that leads the open.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
That doesn't count. It only counts with BUCkies here. It
doesn't count according it's like preseason. That's like exhibition.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
Okay, okay, So that leads the overall score to Bucky eighteen,
Andy thirteen. Let's get right into this.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
In the Northern Ireland Snooker Open, jud Trump is taking
on Kyra and Wilson today at six am Pacific Standard time.
Trump is minus two to ten and Wilson is plus
one sixty Andy. Let's start with you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
That's like a political thing with Trump. You know, I'm
gonna go with Woodrow Wilson.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
All right, Bucky, I'm gonna go with Wilson in this one.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
That means you're not voting for Trump. I know you
don't want to mention his name. I get it. It's okay,
I voting. I think it does. I'm reading it's a
completely different guy in the I'm not saying who I'm
voting for either.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
In the Big Bash Women's Cricket League, the Perth Scorchers
are taking on the Melbourne Stars today. In thirty minutes,
the Perth Scorchers are minus one thirty five. Well, the
Melbourne Stars are plus one oh five, Bucky. Let's start
with you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
Oh, let's go to Scorchers. They're my favorite. I love
watching them.

Speaker 4 (01:17:34):
You've been in Perth. I love you know what watching
you know them? He goes to Perth when he's in London.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
He knows, I'm gonna go in Melbourne, all of it.
I'll go in the Melbourne Florida Stars for Melbourne, Florida.

Speaker 4 (01:17:46):
Yeah, it's in Florida. That's what that was for.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
In the European Starts, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
In the European Darts Championship, Richie Edhouse is taking on
Gary Anderson today at six am Pacific Standard time. Richie
Edhouse is plus two seventy five while Gary Anderson is
minus four hundred Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
You know what, though, in this game, I don't care
what the what the odds are, but I'll tell you what.
I'm not going with Gary Anderson because there's too much
of a common name. It's like you're next to a
neighbor's name. I like ed House guy's at House because
he's got some class, he's got some something. He's different,
and that's why he's involved in this game. I got
Richie Edhouse, Richie spelled ri I t c Hi also right, Yeah, different, different, Bucky.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
Yeah, I'm not gonna go. I'm not gonna be Richie.

Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
I don't like the Wastfields's name, Gary Anderson simple. Bucky
is a simple guy.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
No he's not.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Don't say Punky Simple. I'll smock you from here today.
Don't even say that. Please.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
He is not.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
In the world People Tennis Feeder Calgary Women's Singles, which
is basically just a ping pong tournament really long title.
Uh Soccer Yakui is taking on Choi Yahujo today at
two pm Pacific Standard time. Sakara is minus three sixty
while Choi is plus two thirty five.

Speaker 4 (01:19:11):
Bucky, it was a Yakui. It was Sakara and then Chroi.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
Oh, I thought it was Yakui something.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
I thought it was Sakara, Sakaro Yakui and Choi Yojo.

Speaker 4 (01:19:24):
Yeah, yeah, it was Yakui.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
He was the coo.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going with yaku because I can't
pronounce the other names. I gotta go with Yakui.

Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
So two for Yakui's okay. Yeah, Wilson and Yakoui. You
guys like him?

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
Oh it's Wilson.

Speaker 4 (01:19:36):
No, no, no, you guys were with Wilson.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
And then this one.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
You guys driving me crazy. I have no idea how
many people are playing in this game. It's only supposed
to be two, right, You got Wilson, Yaqui and Sekui
and Troy and Troy?

Speaker 4 (01:19:50):
How many you can't? Don't forget about Trump? And and
Richie that was the right, That was the other one.
And Gary Anderson.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
You're kidding me? All right, Hey, there's a real reason
where this team stinks. We're gonna tell you that in
so much weird Fox Sports put the Fox next here what.

Speaker 5 (01:20:08):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
Won a record and with some pretty good company as well.
That's right around the corner. Good morning, everybody. This is
Fox Football Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He's Bucky Brooks,
I'm Andy Furman, and we are broadcasting live from the
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and installs ti rack dot com the way tire buying
should be here. He is Bucky Brooks. Could we have
like a little drum roll for this guy? He's back?
We missed him, we love him. Here he is, Hello, Buck?
How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
I'm good, I'm good. What's going on? Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
Listen to standing? Oh a standing? You never had that
when you were a player. You're getting it right now?

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Is standing?

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
Never has your jersey ever been retired? Of all the
twenty five teams you played for?

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
High school? High school Hall of Fame?

Speaker 4 (01:21:03):
A deal.

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
My twenty two is putting a glass case back in
Millbrok High School in Raleigh, North Carolina. Can't say that
the number is hired. But I've been recognized as a
Hall of Famer here. How about that?

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
You are a hall of in my Buck, You're a
Hall of famer. Hey, let me go back to this thing.
I'm really impressed how it worked out that back to
back games in England and you stayed there for the week.
You know, was there any running around? Not on your part?
I don't think you will but the players are running
around at night and uh bet checks things like that.
These guys are doing a lot of tourist stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:21:35):
Uh No, they don't. I mean, look, you treat them
like professionals. So what the Jags do is when they
typically go over, uh they stay about an hour outside
of the city at a nice spot golf course resort.
So the guys have kind of like the lay of
the lamb when it comes to that, they get in
a couple of holes, kind of hang out, do their thing.
It's really advantageous for the Jags because it becomes almost

(01:21:56):
like a little mini training camp. Because most teams don't
go away for your training camp anymore, it's hard to
kind of bond the team the way that you would
back in the day when they would travel to a destination.
It's just them in the dorm room. You don't really
have anything to do, so you just sit around and
talk and kind of grow closer. Well, the London trip

(01:22:17):
serves as that for the Jaguars. There for ten days,
guys get a really chance to know one another, spend
time with one another, and anyone who's been around teams
for is particularly at the NFL, or NBA or higher
levels know that the most connected teams are the ones
that win. It's not always about the talent, it's about
the connectivity because with that connectivity comes a level of

(01:22:40):
accountability in terms of being able to hold people accountable
for their actions where they're shortcomings, if they're failing to
live up to or perform to the standard. You're able
to have these real conversations that you have to have
as a good team. So in London it gives the
Jaguars a chance to bond because they're outside the city.
They don't really have the opportunity to do a lot
of sight seeing and touristy stuff, so they have to

(01:23:03):
kind of get down with each.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
Other and I would think that they enjoy it. Not
bugged by the media. The local media is not going
to be as tough as they would be, Like in Jacksonville,
number one and number two. If they do go out
on the streets or whatever it may be, they're probably
not as recognized, not recognizable as perhaps they would be
in Jacksonville going into a restaurant or a pub in Jacksonville.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
Yeah, but now they are recognizable because they're big. Like
whenever you see these massive men walking to the pub
like you know they're not oh, look at my post
office guy, like you know that they're doing something well,
I mean like you can recognize them. But I can
say overseas everyone is really cool, right. It's a sport,
American football that's gaining popularity overseas. You used to go

(01:23:47):
to these games and you see everyone in all different
types of jerseys showing their fandom of their respective squads.
The second game served as a Jaguars home game, which
was in Wimbley, and so it was a bit of
a till out. You saw the people rocking the Jack
stuff and there's still some smattering jerseys from other places.
But it's been a real cool thing to watch grow.

(01:24:08):
The Jacks have been going over for over ten years.
This is something that is a little bit of the
owner's baby and it's really done. It's come to fruition
for him as he envisioned.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
Well, he has a home there. I mean he lives
there off the season. I think, doesn't he Sean Khan.

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
I mean he has all kinds of stuff. He tried
to buy Wembley Stadium on his own. He has interest
in Fulham, the soccer team, all those things, so he
gets it he understands it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
Have you met him, Do you know him at all?

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
Yeah? I see him. He's at every game. He's around.
He and his son, Tony, the daughter I have not met,
but yeah, they're always around. It's their team, so they
take an interest there. They're around. He's not a I say,
he's hands off, but he's very in tune with what's
going on.

Speaker 2 (01:24:53):
And what's your thoughts about perhaps the NFL someday even
expanding to London. I'm so against it, I really am.
I just think the travel is going to be so
cumbersome for these players. I don't think it's healthy. I
don't think it's a good deal. I really don't. Money
Wiser probably will be, but because they want to have it,
they want to I guess, get their product and their
brand worldwide one day, I guess. But I just don't

(01:25:17):
see it. For the fans. I don't think it's a
good deal. I really don't.

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
Well, it's a great deal, and I love you, Andy,
but I'm gonna tell you what I've learned about the
National Football League. Owners don't really care what you think.
They care about the money, and so if money's coming in,
if they can, if you can show them the bottom
line that's gonna make everybody a bunch of money. Then
you'll see NFL games in London full time. You're already

(01:25:40):
getting the expansion of ash up to sixteen sixteen and
when we play out of the borders. The reason why
because there's an appetite and assessionable appetite for these games
in other countries. Need to get that kind of response.
I can guarantee you one day there's going to be

(01:26:01):
a team that plays London. Would be the easiest team
to play because the London trip is very similar to
a West coast trip for East Coast teams. Right a
flight if you're on the East coast five six seven hours,
it's not crazy. You can set it up where if
you're the London team, you play back to back home
game weeks, so you play weeks three and four in London,

(01:26:24):
then you travel away. Just makes it easier for the logistics.
You just don't want that team bouncing around.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Well, get you get you buy the next week after
the London game.

Speaker 1 (01:26:33):
Maybe yeah, and think about it this way. Everyone talks
about London. Why now you can put a team in
Mexico like we've seen games played in Mexico City and
those things. There's so many different ways that they could
do this. If they wanted to expand outside of the US,
it can be done.

Speaker 2 (01:26:50):
You know, I haven't seen any negativity as far as
a pushback from the London Premier leagues in soccer because
there's going to be a competition and they never really
had much competition as far as the Premier League. Have
you heard or seen anything about that that the Premier
League is sort of against having the NFL there.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
Well, the NFL couldn't take away they couldn't take away
the people from the Premier League. It would only enhance
what's going on over there. Soccer is king and they
will always be king. That's what it's gonna be like.
They love their soccer, and we have grown to love
their soccer as we follow the Premier League and some

(01:27:28):
of those things. There's always gonna be a critical part
of what they do.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
Okay, now we've got the NFL right now, we're just
about the halfway point where at the eighth Greek believe
it or not, and there are some teams that are
sub five hundred. Then they know the score, coaches know,
players know that they're not good they're not doing well.
And one of those teams, obviously, is the Carolina Panthers
that one and six. They're playing at the Denver Broncos today,
Broncos of four and three. And there's a reason why

(01:27:55):
the Panthers are that bad, all right, And everybody points
the finger to the quarterback, and certainly play has not
been that great, but the Panthers have been outscored by
get this, one hundred and thirty three points. That's fifty
seven points more than any other team. And they also
have the league worst pressure rate. And I don't even
know what that means, but I read that, what is
a pressure rate? How many times you get to the quarterback?

(01:28:17):
I would assume, right, that's the pressure rate.

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
Yeah, how many times you can get to the paint,
get close enough to the quarterback to impact this ability.
So pressures matter more than sacks, and people have to
understand what we talk about. Get to the pain, get
close to him, gets hits on them, change his clock,
his rhythm, all of that matters. And so that is
what disrupts the passing game, when guys are able to
get close enough to the quarterback to make him rush

(01:28:42):
and get happy feet.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
Okay, I would think that this game is gonna be
very quick game. Why because I think it's gonna be
a clock rolling because it's could be a run game.
The game would be played on the ground. Why because
I don't think the Panthers can move the ball really
well in the air, and they got Miles Sanders to
run the football, so I would see that in the
Broncos run, the gives up only about four yards to carry.
So I think this is going to go rather quickly

(01:29:05):
because there's not gonna be a lot of action in
the air.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
Maybe, yeah, so the game could go quick. You just
talk about the Broncos and the Panthers. This is one
where if you're Sean Payton, you appeal to the emotional
maturity of your team. Let's take care of businesses. Team
is not good enough to shouldn't be on the same
field with us. Don't give them anything early to allow
them to feel like they can play, because then there's
gonna be a sixty minute ordeal and you have to
deal with an energetic team coming at you hungry for win.

(01:29:33):
Let's go in there, Let's take care of businesses. Let's
play a clean football game. Don't give them anything that
can ignite some positive bus we want to squash them
right away.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
Right And you got bo Nicks a quarterback right now,
rather decently to pass for over twelve hundred yards right now.
But he does have five I INT's, but five touchdowns
right there.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
And you know what.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
We talked about coaching, and I was one that said
early on, at least in the college game, maybe it's overrated.
Now with Sean Payton, they've won four out of five.
He's turning the Broncos around. He really has done a
great job and I think they'll they'll do well today,
obviously playing as a bad team, but more than that,
take got a little extra rest beers. They played the
Thursday game prior, and also the game is at home.
We talked about Seattle being a tough place to play.

(01:30:17):
I lived out in Denver for a while. It's crazy
for Bronco games. I don't know if it's still that way.
I gotta believe it is. But it's a tough place
to play too if you're a visiting team.

Speaker 1 (01:30:28):
Yeah, no, it's a tough to play. It's it's one
of those things where you got to get used to
the environment, the atmosphere, Uh, just all of it. Man,
it can take your breath away. And if they're going
and they're playing fast or whatever, you just push you
on your heels. Uh, you just got to get ready,
got to get ready to go. It's a tough it's
a tough one. You got to know how tough it's
gonna be going in and you got to prep appropriately. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
I'm not watching this game, but I don't think so
too much of a game. But I will watch this game. Perhaps.
I like the Chiefs. The Chiefs are playing at the
Raiders today and uh, and the Chiefs critis every week.
I'm hearing like, you know, they can't do this. They
don't have a parsing game and they get cool. You
know what, they could get criticized. All they want. All
they do is win the six and zero. That's what counts.
You're winning. Patrick Mahomes get this stat. He's joined Peyton

(01:31:13):
Manning Peyton Manning back in twenty fifteen as the only
quarterback in the last thirty years to guide a team
to a six and zero perfect start despite throwing more
interceptions than touchdowns. It's crazy, it really is. So what
who cares if he's throwing I ts he's a gambler.
That's why he throws the is not because he's losing
it that he takes chances. They're five and zero at home.

(01:31:35):
They have not lost to the Raiders on the road
in seven years, all right, so believe me, they're not
going to lose today. And they got desbon ridden Now,
the former University of Cincinnati quarterback and former Falcon, he's
not with their Radiers. I don't know what he's gonna do,
but he was signed by in this week. And again,
as you mentioned to me early on with Amari Cooper,
you got to learn the playbook. He's not learning the
playbook in a week. And the Radiers have lost three straight.

(01:31:58):
Not a good year. I expected more than from the Raiders,
I really did. But obviously no quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
Yeah no, I mean that's tough. You know it is
is it's tough to quarterback play has been horrible for them.
Garner Minshew has been terrible in terms of taking care
of the ball. Came in last week, turned it over
four times. It's just hard to win. It's hard to
win when your quarterback turns the ball over like they've
been turning over and you hope that they can kind

(01:32:27):
of figure out a way to you know, fix it
and get it done and those things. But I'm not
optimistic that it's gonna change with this team.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Gardner Minshew right now is four touchdowns, eight I in
T's It's passing percentage is like sixty four to sixty
five percent. It's not not good. I mean again, I mean,
you don't have to be a football genius. They took
about this guy, Howie Grossman of the Philadelphia Eagles a
GM that he's a genius. The trades he makes me

(01:32:57):
you know what, you could do it. I don't know
if I could do it. I'm not that smart. But
again to me again, I never would have traded for
Aaron Rodgers because he's forty years old. I get a quarterback.
I stock up on quarterbacks again. I go back to
the Miami Dolphins. How do you not get a backup?
How do you not trade or draft the backup quarterback?
Knowing that Tua is injury prone? These are common sense

(01:33:20):
things that you know that teams that lose, teams that
do not make the playoffs in the National Football League
do not have a quarterback. You know what you told
me this week's ago, And I tell this to everybody else.
They look at me, Wow, you're smile. I'm not smart.
Bucky Brooks are smart. Really, You know what the key
to winning in the National Football League is coaching and quarterbacking.
That's it. You get a coach like Andy Reid and

(01:33:42):
the Patrick Mahomes and you're gonna win. That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
Boom, because you got a way to get Pat Mahomes
to play at high level. Because they're winning without Pat
Mahomes playing well. Pat Mahomes has been upside down with
touchdown and interception ratio and all that other stuff, but
they're finding a way to get it done. It helps
to have Pat Mahoe Holmes talent where they can make
up for some of the mistakes that you may make
as a play caller. But in everyone got to play

(01:34:07):
the right way to be able to win. You gotta
play right. You got to understand what you're doing. You
got to make sure that we're all on the same page.
If you do that, you can have a chance to
kind of, you know, put some wins, stack some wins.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
Yeah, and look, he's very creative. That's why. Maybe he's
a bit of a riverboat gambler. But you look at
the stats on the Kansas City Chiefs. You got the
running game. I mean, the longest rush from scrimmage is
something like thirty three yards, and that's Mahomes. That's Mahomes
rushing there because that's what he does.

Speaker 1 (01:34:39):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:34:39):
And they talk about Kelsey, the double team and the guy,
what do you want? He's had what the twenty eight
targets to him and his longest thirty eight yards with
two hundred and forty five total yards and no touchdowns.
All right, but what do you expect? Teams are double
teaming Kelsey? Now they take the pressure off with him
a little bit. They got another receiver, all right, and
Rashid was.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
Now I would say this. I would say this about Kelsey.
Kelsey is he's older, and his game is in decline.
He's in the twilight of his career. He was beginning
to show signs of that last year. He doesn't have
the same bursts, the explosiveness. What he has, though, is
he has that what we call veteran savvy, that experience

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and expertise where he understands how to kind of work
free and create space and find the nooks and crannies
of the defense to kind of tall you some catches,
but if teams are willing and able to go man
and man and lock him up, he's gonna have a
tough time getting away. You deal with the trick, so
that's why you have to play snug to him, but
not too tight, so then you allow him to be

(01:35:44):
able to knock you off and move you around. But
people are having success taking them away, taking him away
because he's not as fast, he's not as athletic as
he once was, and you might be a bit distracted.
His lady friend has him doing a lot of CMOT,
hosting game shows and doing all kinds of other stuff.

(01:36:07):
I mean, you know, and I can't say that he's
one hundred percent. I've got his podcast with his brother,
they signed a major deal. I mean, lots of stuff
going on.

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
I don't think his mind is entirely on football like
it used to be, because I think in his mind
and his heart of hearts like I've accomplished. You know,
I've done what I can do in football. I've got
two championship rings, super Bowl rings. You know, I know
what I could do. Now it's time for me to
look for the future. Like you say, podcast his girlfriend doing,
it's hosting like game shows on TV. I get it,
you know, and it happens to everybody. It's not a distraction.

(01:36:39):
He's looking for the future.

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
He's done his football. That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:36:43):
That's why I respect Lebron Lebron James. Lebron James doesn't
do really think about that. You don't see Lebron James doing.
He's still playing hard. He's scored sixteen last night and
the Lakers are three and oh, I mean I'm making
a comparison here. I just think that Lebron is all basketball.
I think Lebron, if you talk to him, he wants
to see the Lakers win another championship. He really does.

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I'm not so sure Travis Kelcey is hearts into it
as much as as Lebron's into it with the Lakers.
Am I am I off base on that?

Speaker 5 (01:37:13):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
I can't say you're off base. Yeah, I can't say
that you're off base with that assessment. The big thing
with Travis Kelcey and all those guys, we're all going
to transition to a new career, But can you say,
can you keep the main thing, the main thing that's
what you worry about, right? Can you keep the main
thing the main thing where it doesn't impact your performance

(01:37:34):
on the field. I'm not saying that that is impacting
his performance. I'm just saying he's not all the way
locked in. I think he gets locked in as the
playoffs get near. But sometimes and when you have a
lot of success, like the Chiefs have had, man, you
kind of just want to get to the good part.
The farm part is the postseason, like this is just
kind of the drudgery of not that they're time to

(01:37:55):
the motions, but yeah, you just kind of come on, man,
let's get to the main thing where they give out
the rings in the banners and stuff. Right, you begin
to raise your level of play and all that. That's
why they you know, they may play a little differently
down the stretch, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:07):
I hear you, I hear there.

Speaker 5 (01:38:08):
You go.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
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(01:39:11):
the air. Now, let's talk about the Bears. Are playing
at the Commanders today, Bears four and two, Commanders five
and two. Are you surprised, Bucky Brooks that the Bears
are in now the toughest division in the National Football League,
the NFC North, And there's a good chance they'll have
a winning record, but they may not even make the playoffs.
That's how tough that division is.

Speaker 1 (01:39:33):
I can't say that I'm surprised. What I would say is,
you know, the thing about the Bears kind of being,
you know what they are when it comes to the record,
is the fact that Katy Williams has changed the way
he played from the beginning of the year, meaning that
he is more composed, showing better poise, and he's making

(01:39:53):
better decisions. And if they continue to get that kind
of play from him, everything is going to boat will
them in their future in terms of, you know, being
able to continue to put it on the young quarterback,
you know, to to not only make those those good plays,
but to make the plays on and off schedule that
they need them to make. So if they continue to

(01:40:16):
get the play out of him that they're getting, Look, man,
I think the future is right in Chicago.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
And I'm gonna spoil that right now by saying, Look,
I understand there foreign too. I understand they weren't the
last three. Well, of course, that's that's what I do.
That's that's what I do. Really, But look who they beat.
They beat the Rams, Carolina and your Jacksonville team in London,
all right, So basically, you know, you got to look
at the record, but they've got to say a little pit,
you know, push back a little bit, open the curtain.

(01:40:42):
Let's go behind the curtain. Look who they've beaten again.

Speaker 1 (01:40:45):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
Every team is in the National FOOTBA League is tough,
and he gives them someday. Right, you're right, I get it.
But still they're not beating the meat of the of
the lead. Today they got some, they got a challenge.
But then again right after that, after this week, they
got Arizona in New England. So there's a good chance
they can win the next three. They could be seven
and two. But let's talk about today for a second.

(01:41:07):
Let's talk about Washington and the Commanders. Jayden Daniels ready
to play? Is he going to play? Is they say
it's a game time situation or is he playing? I
guess he's gonna play, right, he'll play today, won't he?
With that rib injury.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
I think he'll play, you know what I mean. I
think I think that'll be a big part of what
they do. I think I think he'll play, and I
think that that'll be critical for them in terms of
getting him him to play. And if he plays, man,
this is a it's a very very difficult offense to
deal with. I mean, it's difficult because his speed and
playmaking ability is real. It just changes, it changes so

(01:41:44):
much about what they're able to do. You know, he's
just a really good just a really good football player,
and they'll they'll find ways to create problems for for
the offense with design, quarterback runs, keepers and all of

(01:42:04):
that stuff. It just becomes real problematic to deal with them,
you know, and so you just want to make sure
if you can protect them, meaning he can stay healthy
and away from it all. I think you want to
continue to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
Look at these points that they put up this year,
thirty eight against Cincinnati, forty two against Arizona, thirty four Cleveland,
thirty against Baltimore, and twenty three I think against Baltimore
and forty last week against Carolina. They have a sixty
six point differential, which is unbelievable. So what do you
do you're a coordinator, you're working for the Chicago Bears.

(01:42:38):
How do I win? How do I win this game? Well,
you want to keep the ball away from Jayden Daniels.

Speaker 1 (01:42:43):
What do you do that?

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
You run the football? So the pressure is going to
be on the Bears running game. I think anyway today
DeAndre Swift and Rashawn Johnson, you want to give those
guys the football and say, guys run, move the change,
run the clock, keep Jayden and Daniels off the field.
That's what they got to do. I think that's got
to be the game plan. Am I right on that? Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
Yeah, I mean it has to be a big part
of what you're doing. You know, you want to keep
you want to keep Jadan Nanius off the field. You
want to make sure that you don't running the problems
in terms of like being too aggressive or whatever, because
the bulk of his rushing yards have been on scrambles.
He just has a keen sense of timing in terms

(01:43:26):
of when I need to escape the pocket, when I
can go and make these plays happen outside of structure
of the offense. And that that's really hard to account
for it because we all can account for the structure
stuff right when he's running, when the ball is handed
off to the running back or whatever. It's the like
the impromptu stuff that makes it hard. When he just
takes off on the passing play and you got your

(01:43:47):
your eyes locked on your coverage and then now he's there,
So do you play more man, more zone, do you
want to keep more eyes on him? All that kind
of determine how the Bears score. About it, I would
say this about fluse it met even loose in this defense.
Man typically their zone based team. They want to keep
oys on the quarterback, keep everything in front, don't allow
it to leak to the perimeter. I think you see

(01:44:08):
more zone from the Bears to prevent some of those
big running nions and big rushing opportunities that happen at
man and man.

Speaker 2 (01:44:15):
Right, and as far as the passing is because Terry
McLaurin on on the Commanders. But again, let's not forget
the Bears have a tremendous defense in their cornerback Jelon Johnson.
He's tremendous. So I think it's would be a pretty
good matchup and we'll see if, in fact, Jayden Daniels
has some problems delivering the ball with that cornerback of
the Bears kind of disrupting play. I kind of like

(01:44:35):
the Bears to win this game, I really do. I
think the Bears are gonna win, and I don't think
Jadeen Daniels is going to be one hundred percent. I
really don't. I mean, they're gonna go after him pretty hard,
so we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:44:46):
Yeah, this is be a intruder gain because everyone doesn't
play well when they're injured. I'm gonna say that Jane
Daniels has a little more toughness to him than meets
the eye. Even though he has a slender frame. He's
built for these moments and the fact that he will
have an opportunity to play against Caleb Weedis and kind
of show everyone who should have been the number one.
Don't estimate that as a motivating fact in him trying

(01:45:06):
to get on the field.

Speaker 2 (01:45:08):
All right, we'll do that now. I end up squeezing
hit his cowboys at the forty nine ers today. And
I mentioned coming into this segment Nicoll, this the house
of horrace. I talk about. The house of horace is Dallas.
For Dallas, they're three to zero outside of Texas, and
they have not allowed more than seventeen points in any
of those games. They're better off on the road than
they are in Dallas, and they get a lot of
heat in Dallas. So we'll see what happens there. But

(01:45:30):
the bad news for the forty nine ers, Brendan Ayuk.
He's lost with an ACL for the year, so we'll
see what happens there. But this is a big game
for Dallas. They got to win this game. I don't
know if they can, but they really and truly need
to win badly, they really do. I guess Ricky pearsall
the kid who got shot, and he's gonna I could
see a lot more action now a wide receiver for
the forty nine ers. And you know, Dallas defense is

(01:45:51):
near the bottom of the league in points allowed. So
I think right now everything points towards the forty nine
ers to win this game, and that's bad. So the
forty nine is going to four and four today and
they're on their row back.

Speaker 1 (01:46:05):
M you like Dallas, Yeah, I'm with you. I don't
have I don't have a lot of confidence in Dallas.
I'm worried about the Niners ever coming all the way
back though. I think the combination of the Super Bowl hangover,
the disgrun up nature of their players training camp, offseason,
just the Super Bowl hango has not The Super Bowl

(01:46:25):
hangover has not treated them well. They just did not
handle it. Will They'll get the win against Dallas because
they're the better team I just don't know if the
Niners can can can get all the way back. It
just seems too disjointed in the locker room right now.

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
Okay, so we do agree they're gonna win, but that's
basically just to win and leave it at that. They're
not going anywhere after that, so we'll see take it
back to four and four. All right. He's Bucky Brooks,
I'm many firm, and we have Fox Football Sunday on
Fox Sports right now. He may be double teamed, he
might be double team, but in fact he's the leader
that's coming up next live for the Tyrock dot Coms
do this, But first, here's our leader, Kevin Wyer with.

Speaker 6 (01:47:02):
The ses here with all your injury updates for the
NFL games coming up. We're about four and a half
hours away from kicking off a full Sunday of NFL action.
Ian Rappaport with several updates overnight. First, regarding Jaden Daniels,
the commander is going to make a team decision on
whether he plays today, but apparently there is a realistic

(01:47:25):
chance that he will be able to suit up against
the Bears and the commanders. Do you want to see
how he feels when he arrives at the stadium, and
that he will likely do a pregame warm up to
see exactly how he how well he is able to go.
Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill is expected to play despite
dealing with a foot injury. Mike McDaniels is optimistic about

(01:47:47):
his availability. Jaguar's running back Travis Etn is a long
shot to play today. He's questionable with a camstring injury.
The forty nine er Zer gonna have a couple of
key weapons. Deebo Samuel George Kittle are expected to be
on the field for San Francisco, despite both being listed
as questionable. Raiders wide receiver Jacoby Myers expected to be

(01:48:10):
back in the lineup four Las Vegas. He'd missed some
time with an ankle injury and is questionable, but he
is expected to play today. Chargers wide receiver Lad mcconkeye
expected to be out there against the Saints. He's questionable
with a hip injury. Joey Bosa already indicated that he
expects to play. Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers will have

(01:48:32):
a pregame workout to determine his status. The only practice
once this week with an ankle injury, and Bucks running
back Bucky Irving expected to play despite having a toe
injury that has him listed as questionable. World Series Game
two goes to the La Dodgers. They beat the Yankees
four to two Yoshinobo Yamamotos six and a third innings

(01:48:55):
only allowed. One hit was a home run to Jan Soter.
The Dodgers' offense, powered by Tommy Ye Mean Ti, Oscar
Hernandez and Freddie Freeman. Hernandez and Freeman going back to
back in the third inning to help propel the Dodgers
to a two nothing series lead. But a scary moment
as show Aotani diving for second base on a stolen

(01:49:15):
base attempt injured his shoulder and it did not look
good as he was on the field, but manager Dave
Roberts after the game sounded a lot more optimistic.

Speaker 7 (01:49:25):
He had a little left shoulder subliction, so we're gonna
get some tests at some point tonight tomorrow, and then
we'll know more in the next couple of days. But
the strength was great, the range of motion good, so
we're encouraged.

Speaker 6 (01:49:41):
Game three of the World Series will take place Monday
evening over in New York back you guys, all right, Kat,
thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
Now you won't need a school board for this. And
we're gonna tell you why in a minute. He's Bucky
Brooks on Andy Furman. We have Fox Football Sunday. I'll
Fox with sy yay on a yay on a in
about seven eight minutes from now. All right, Monday night,
Giants at the Steelers, all right, And I didn't even
know why they put this game on Monday night. Maybe
because of the market size of the New York fans,

(01:50:09):
I don't know. But Pittsburgh's five and two. The Giants
are two and five. And here's all you need to
know about the New York Football Giants. And after they
traded away, they let him go in trader, they let
him go Sakwon Barkley, who was like seventy percent of
their offense a year ago. I just think it took
all the air out of the balloon. But here's all
you need to know about the Giants. They've scored one
touchdown over the last two games and a total of

(01:50:31):
ten points overall. So basically, they stink. They stink. They
really did. What else can you say? And I grew
up rooved for that team, and I can't believe that
they let Sa Kwon Barkley walk. And I watched that
Hard Knocks and they didn't want to go. Mister Mara,
who basically owns the team, was a big fan of
Sa Kwan and he wanted to keep in there. But

(01:50:52):
I think he let his GM do the doings of
Sa Kwon Barkley. That's what he did.

Speaker 1 (01:50:59):
Eljosh Shane to uh make the decision, as owners typically do.
That's why you hire football people. You know, you empowered him.
You trust their decision making. We'll see what it looks
like right now. Short term doesn't look great. Then they
gave up. Take going Berkeley, Take going Berkeley at the
top of the charts, killing it. But you know, things happen,

(01:51:19):
So you just.

Speaker 2 (01:51:20):
Do you want to do? You want to know what
kind of a fan I was growing up for the
New York Football Giants. Are you ready? You want to
hear this story? Because I don't tell us often, but
I tell it to you because I love you and
you're a good but you're a friend, all right. I
write letters. I'm a tremendous letter I used to write
letters all the time, and I wrote letters to mister
Wellington Marra, the main man who's no longer with us, Wellington,
all right, not Timothy Wellington, who owned the Giants. One day,

(01:51:43):
I'm in front of my house with my buddies. This
is like I lived on eighty eighth Street in Brooklyn,
all right, and a ups truck pulls up in front
of my house and a big box and it was
for me, and it was from the New York Football Giants.
And mister Marra sent me on my hand the goodness
a pair of socks, a jock, a pair of Giants sweatpants,

(01:52:07):
and Dell Schoffner's jersey number eighty five. How do you
like that? I have no idea what that stuff is today,
but I wish I still hadn't. It was a big
fan of the Giants.

Speaker 1 (01:52:18):
My question would be, was the jock newer use?

Speaker 2 (01:52:23):
It probably was used, but it was clean. But I'll
tell you what you and me could have fit in it.
That's how bad bit it was. Really.

Speaker 1 (01:52:30):
I just don't understand why they felt necessary to send
you a jock we swetants.

Speaker 2 (01:52:35):
They probably thought I was I was a fool. They
thought I was crazy. You know, I could, right, mister
morrow Letts. I'm still mister moraw told the equipment guy,
take care of this nut job. Send him a box,
fill it up, whatever you've got, and that's the end
of it. So that's what that's what it was. Really.

Speaker 1 (01:52:50):
So I was able to maybe you have Laurence Sailor's
jock there, Maybe that's Laurence Saylor's.

Speaker 4 (01:52:55):
This is before they check the number.

Speaker 1 (01:52:57):
I was young.

Speaker 2 (01:52:58):
It was eighty five. Was Dell shop. Eighty eight was
a great tight end, I believe in the name of
Aaron Thomas. These are the guys I grew up with.
These are my guys, Tucker Frederickson and Ernie Coy in
the backfield, and and that's this way. Wyat Tilla was
the quarterback, that's you know. And the great defense that
Andy Robistelli, all those guys come on. Really it was
great place. I was a kid. But I used to

(01:53:19):
love the Giants and I can't win. They can't. They
have one come then that you just don't win that
on that one Super Bowl. So they're bad. But I
will say this, they got this three hundred and forty
pounded defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence. The second for the Giants
usually double team. He leads the league with nine sacks.
That's my only saving grace now with the Giants. Dexter Lawrence.

Speaker 1 (01:53:38):
The second little little fun factored about Dexter Lawrence. H
Dexter Lawrence is from my hometown. Really, do you know
who Dexter Lawrence's high school coach was? His d line coach? No,
that would be none other than my dad. My dad
goes dex Yeah, my dad goes Dexter At wake Forest Roseville,
Reggie Lucas was the head coach there and Dexter Lawrence

(01:54:02):
was on the same team with Heisman runner up Bryce Love.
They all played together in high school. Wow. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:54:13):
It's funny because he deserves better. He deserves better, Dexter
than the being on that giant he he really does.
I talk about Daniel Jones. I mean when they gave
that guy like forty mili, I said, what on earth
are they doing against the Eagles. Daniel Jones was benched
with twelve minutes left in the game in favor of
Drew Locke. What does that mean? You know he's on

(01:54:35):
shaky grounds. He's not going to finish that game tomorrow
night against the steel As I promise and the Steelers
are going to win big big.

Speaker 1 (01:54:43):
Yeah. Here's the thing I'll say about the benching or whatever. Man, Sometimes, man,
you take your quarterback out to protect him against himself.
You gotta remember he's still coming off that ACL a
year ago. I don't know, I don't know why you
put him in harm's way if the game is out
of hand or within reach. I understand they drew lo
and the controversy that simmers over there and Eli and

(01:55:04):
you know, like Daniel Jones saying he wanted to stay
with his team. But sometimes in those moments, man, you
just gotta let it roll, let the clock run out,
let's go to the next week.

Speaker 2 (01:55:13):
Well, I'll tell you one thing. In that game against
the Eagles, he was running like a guy who never
had an ACL injury. Really, he really was, Daniel Jones.
He looked pretty good there. But anything else, Look, a
lot of times he's running for his life. I get
I'll give him that. I mean, his stats stink, but
the point is that he's not getting much protection. But
you know, he's not gonna take you to the Promise Land.

(01:55:34):
He's not. He's not gonna take the Giants to the
super Bowl. That I promise you, so we'll see who
knows bothers me. It really does?

Speaker 1 (01:55:41):
It does?

Speaker 2 (01:55:42):
All right, He's Pucky, I am a little bit. I am,
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman. We have Fox Football
Sunday and Foxbut's Radio. It's time. It's time for either
a yay or a nay.

Speaker 1 (01:55:55):
That's next.

Speaker 2 (01:55:58):
Yeah, your nae coming right up with Stevie one, taking
us right into it. He's Bucky Brooks on Andy Firm,
and we are Fox Football Southern and Fox Sports. Ready,
we're live for the Tyrock dot Com studios. All right,
Shay Shay, you got the goods. Take us at the
AA and okay, let's rock those brains. Gentlemen.

Speaker 5 (01:56:14):
These stories needed.

Speaker 1 (01:56:15):
Ass I think we need a ruling on this. Ya
or nay.

Speaker 4 (01:56:20):
Hi, Shay Shay, welcome into ya Ornay. Let's do. It's
been a little bit since we played this.

Speaker 2 (01:56:26):
I know how do you play?

Speaker 3 (01:56:28):
So it's pretty easy. There's some sports stories around the world.
There's a lot of them, and I give them to
you and you guys, let me know if it's the
ORNA and let me know why, so we alternate. As
you're saying exactly, you guys alter name. We're going to
start with you first, Andy, So let's let's let's begin.

Speaker 4 (01:56:45):
This weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:56:45):
In sports, we have the World Series, MLS playoffs, NBA
and NHL Pro and college football. Should we have legislation
that sports should not overlap?

Speaker 4 (01:56:56):
Andy?

Speaker 2 (01:56:56):
Oh, this is a done deal. When you have the
Major League Soccer STUF in March and still playing now
until November, there's something wrong. First of all, injuries are occurring.
People just can't do that. You can't have one sport
engulfing and eating up another sport. It's not right. Baseball
should start around April, mid April, maybe even late April,
and end around Labor Day, really, and then let football

(01:57:18):
take over. It's ridiculous, it really is. Everybody should have
their time. Really, it's like going to the circus. Everybody
has their ring. It's a three ring deal. And I
tell you there should be legislation for this. I don't
like when they have NFL games on Friday night, well
college games on Friday night. That should be reserved for
a high school football period and the story. Let's get
their legislators during that. The politicians talk about that instead

(01:57:41):
of abortion.

Speaker 4 (01:57:41):
All right, where you please, Bucky?

Speaker 1 (01:57:46):
Yeah, no, the look, I think sports should overlap. I
think it's all great, going back to my high school
experience when you have multiple sports playing at one time. Americans,
we like diversity, we like options, and it gives us
an opportunity to kind of pick and choose what we like.
So now they should continue to overlap.

Speaker 3 (01:58:07):
The biggest distraction for the Philadelphia Eagles football team their coach,
Nick Sirianni Bucky, We're going to go back to you.

Speaker 1 (01:58:16):
Yeah, he's the biggest distraction because as a head coach,
you is supposed to be the leader of the team.
You are supposed to have a level of maturity that
exceeds what your players are expected to have. Yet he doesn't.
He barks with his own fans, he mean mugged at
the camera, he talks to the opposing crowd. He's out
of control. And the thing is they have a good team,
and by all accounts, like when it comes to tactically

(01:58:37):
and putting a play together, he's good, but his emotional
antics on the sideline too much.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
Nick Sirianna is a clown, all right. And I'm kind
of excited because if I get my dan the rub,
if I get ready, I might take a nice cold
shower after this show. I may go to the game
today in Cincinnati and see Nick Sirianni get on the
field with my past. I have a little sign held
up say, clown, Nick, you're a clown. If they don't win,
it's his full What do you fight with the fans for? Really?

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I can't wait to see him today.

Speaker 1 (01:59:09):
Okay, let me know how you really feel.

Speaker 3 (01:59:11):
It's a Yankees Dodgers World series iconic to say the least.
Will World Series TV ratings eat into the NFL?

Speaker 1 (01:59:18):
Andy?

Speaker 2 (01:59:19):
Well, obviously, the NFL is king and tonight there's no
World Series games because baseball is afraid to go against them,
so they were going to eat into them. So there's
no World Series tonight. It continues tomorrow on Monday, Bucky.

Speaker 1 (01:59:34):
It won't look it won't impact it. Like, they're not
many people that are gonna really pay attention to the
World sees over the NFL. The people that are diehards,
they're gonna tune into the World Seeds. But everyone else
could care less because they're two franchises that everyone loves
to hate.

Speaker 4 (01:59:49):
And that's yeah, your and there guys, good job, I
love it.

Speaker 2 (01:59:52):
There you go all right there you go. I love
the air and aa we should be doing that a
little more. And suddenly, all right, Bucky Brooks now wants
to send someone to the best. This is unbelievable. That
and more where on Fox Football Sunday coming up right
here next, all right, it's time to take a step back.
We're gonna tell you why in just about a minute.
Good morning, everybody. This is Fox Football Sunday. I'm Fox Sports. Ready,

(02:00:15):
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from the plane ride. I don't know, But Bucking Brooks,
I'll tell you right now. You got the NFL dot com.
You got the column every week. I'm telling everybody you
can't miss it, you really can't. I love it. I
can't wait to read it on Friday, you don't want
to miss at NFL dot Com, And I will say this.
I know that you played the NFL. You played in
the league, and that means you're tough. And the worst

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word you could tell somebody who is a player is
that year soft. I'm not even gonna say the word
because I once said it to Lincoln Kennedy. I don't
want to say I once set it to Lincoln Kennedy
took my head off, so I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna say the word. But all of a sudden,
now no no no, no, no no no no no no, no,
no no no, Lincoln, I'm sorry, Linco. I won't do
it again. However, I will say this you you on

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NFL dot com. You got a pair of hanging downs
right now, you got a pair of hanging downs. And
I love it because you wrote that the Colt should
bench Anthony Richardson. This is big, all right, This is
big because I want to know how much feedback and
flack that you get when you write some of this stuff,
because I know, I know what it's like doing local

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radio and they commenting on the local teams and then
going into the locker room to face the music, which
a lot of guys don't do. I did it for
whatever the reason, because I'm stupid, or maybe I want
it to course controversy. I don't know, but I was
threatened the many a time. You know, Bob Huggins when
he coached Cincinni basketball, didn't talk to me for a year.
Sham Weischman, he rest in peace, didn't talk to me

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for a long time. We got into it pretty good.
I thought it was great radio, but it was my
piece and I wanted to say it. I did. But
now you wrote this about Anthony Richardson. What kind of
flack and feedback do you get?

Speaker 1 (02:02:18):
I mean, look, I don't know what kind of feedback
or flack I'll get. I just think that what I'm
saying is is really in the best interests of the
lototle guy like Richardson, he's struggling, and he's struggling. I mean,
you're trying to make him the quarterback and all that,
but I mean he's just having a tough time right now,
and at some point you got to call spade a spade,

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Like if he's not getting it done, then you just
have to say, hey, he's not getting it done, and
you have to be able to line up and understand that.
And this doesn't mean that he can never be the quarterback,
but this is what it is. When they drafted him,
they drafted him more as a prospect than a polished product.

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He was a prospect because he had great physical traits
and tools that you wanted to develop. The thought of
pairing him with Shane Stiken, who had just had success
making Jalen Hurst an MVP caliber quarterback, you're thinking, maybe
you would get that kind of development from him. He
plays in like four games as a rookie. On the
heels of playing I mean thirteen seventeen games whatever. He

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played at University of Florida. Not a lot of snaps
at quarterback in his lifetime, and so he plays, gets hurt,
misses the rest of the season. Had one hundred and
seventy three snaps plays this year, He's only been able
to play in five or seven games because of injuries.
At some point, when he ranks at the bottom of
the league, dead last in court completion percentage and passer rating,

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at some point, for the good of the team, you
got to put the better player in there, and the
better players Joe Flacco.

Speaker 2 (02:03:54):
Right, and Flacco has given the coach two wins and
his three appearances as a replacement for him, So that
makes it even worse. But I'm going to play the
devil's advocate here with you. I'm gonna challenge you, Bucky Brooks.
I'll tell you why number one. He was drafted number
four overall in twenty twenty three. But he was drafted
a to be the face of the franchise, as most

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quarterbacks are, but also for a future, for the future
as this team moves ahead. So sometimes you gotta take
the lumps and you put them in the lineup to learn.
You can't learn on the sidelines. I get it. There
are some teams that basically have the guy on the
sidelines to learn, like Patrick Mahomes did that when Alex

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Smith was quarterbacking, but Love, Jordan Love did it when
the Brett Favre was quarterback in and Aaron Rodgers. I mean,
that's what these guys do. There's different philosophies, but I
think that you gotta draft the guy. You got to
throw them to the wolves at times, because that's how
you learn. You're not gonna learn by holding a clipboard
on the sideline. So you're saying to bench Anthony Richardson,

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I think A he's not going to learn being benched,
and B it takes away his confidence. That's my take
on it. I'm not a player. I didn't coach in
the National Football League. The next game I coach will
be my first. However, I think you got to learn
by experience. It's kind of like on radio and talk radio.
You just have to go there, put the microphone in
front of your face and do it. You gotta do it.

(02:05:19):
You just can't look look, look and say this is
how it's to know. You gotta do it, like riding
a bike. Get up on the bike and do it.

Speaker 1 (02:05:27):
You're so nice. I would just imagine, like, let's just
imagine you're doing a radio show and we have all
interns running behind the scenes on the boards doing the
reads the breaks, and everyone is messing it up. Can't
get the reads right, we're hitting the wrong sound, we

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can't get anything going. You're trying to throw to me.
All of a sudden, my sound doesn't come in. But
you're gonna be okay with that? For how many? For
how many? For how many? How many weeks? Can you
be okay?

Speaker 4 (02:06:00):
With that.

Speaker 1 (02:06:00):
It's one thing to do it on a Sunday like today.
But let's just say it was like this all the
way through December, where we get all of those sounds
that just happened just randomly popping in. Andy, you're being
just you're being judging this. This is what we have.
We got Andy Richison right now behind the scene. We
got Anthony Princesson right now behind the scenes controlling everything.

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But we're trying to continue to be a top rated program.

Speaker 2 (02:06:27):
Okay, here's the big difference. We do have them, then
we really do. Here's the big difference. And in turn,
is a kid to learn, no male or female to learn.
They're not getting paid. Anthony Richardson is an investment's an
investment and an intern Basically, it's not so much of
it as an investment as an Anthony Richardson depending big bucks.

(02:06:47):
I'm not paying a guy not to work. Get out
there and work. It's the same deal. Like you know
in coaching. You know, when the Bengals were losing their
first several games, the fan base in Cincinnati its not
tailing fire. They're not gonna fire. You know why Mike
Brown is not gonna fire a guy who's got years
remaining on his contract. He's not gonna pay a guy
not to work. That's what it's all about. It's about

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the money. It's about the green cabbage. It's all about
the money and the gelt.

Speaker 1 (02:07:14):
Maybe maybe sometimes he's just not good enough.

Speaker 2 (02:07:17):
Though, well that's their problem.

Speaker 1 (02:07:19):
I just wonder if I just wonder if he's good enough.
He's dead last and completion.

Speaker 2 (02:07:24):
Percentage and terrible, he's terrible, prone, dead last.

Speaker 1 (02:07:30):
I mean, at some point, it's a production based business.
How can you stand in front of the room and say, hey, guys,
it's a meritocracy. We're gonna play the best players play YadA, YadA, YadA. Okay,
the best players except for Anthony. Run on the field,
because that's what you're telling the team. We're gonna play
the best players except for Anthony. Ignore what Anthony has done,

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ignores production. We're all looking at the take together where
he's throwing these dirt balls, where he's bouncing it like
he's Izy Smith playing on the turf with the Cardinals
back in the day when I was a kid, throwing
it deep from the hole. That's what he's doing. But
you don't get the benefit of that being a completion
in the pros. Come on, man, at some point, you

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gotta look at the performance in the production.

Speaker 2 (02:08:13):
I hear what you're saying, and I'm gonna throw this
to you because you're a football man. You got the
football mind that I don't. All Right, is it the
coaching or is it the system that he's not fitting in? Well,
because I look at guys like Sam Darnold, they said, oh,
the Jets, he'll never make it in the NFL. He's
now here's another guy on the possibility as a comeback
Player of the Year in Minnesota. So is it the system?

(02:08:33):
Is it the coaching, or he's just not going to
make it in the NFL? I got you, I got
your bucket, Brooksi.

Speaker 1 (02:08:42):
No no, no, no, no, no no, Like I don't
know if there's a system in place. Okay, let's just
say we are the little league park and you and
I are playing catch, right, so this is before we
can even get onto the field. Can a system teach
me how to throw you the ball to nothing so
we can play catch? The system has nothing to do

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with me throwing the ball at your feet. There's no
system that can replace that. Like you and I are
just playing catch. But I can't throw you the ball.
I mean I can't. And with Anthony, like even when
he runs it knock on woo, because I don't want
this happen to day. Every time he runs, it seems

(02:09:23):
like he gets hurt. So we're not even getting the
benefit of him being the great runner because he's so
justin fields in Chicago ran four thousand yards. Anthony Richardson
is not staying on the field long enough to give
me the benefit of his athleticism to make up for
the passing. Maybe he can develop on the practice field

(02:09:46):
in those things. And I'm not saying it's a blown
pick yet, but you can't look at your team in
the eyes every day and say, hey, guys, we're gonna
give us the best chance to win by playing Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 2 (02:09:57):
Okay, now let's move along. The best chance to win
in Cleveland is Jameis Winston, and I don't want to
see anybody get hurt. I think Miles Garrett was wonderful.
I never saw an athlete do that after a game
last week when he got hurt, when Deshaun got hurt,
he went on in the postgame news conference and said
it was a shame that the fans were clapping and
yelling and being happy when DeShawn. I don't want to

(02:10:19):
see anybody get hurt. But the point is they have
a better chance of winning with Jameis Winston. So here's
the deal. I think that Deshaun Watson was playing because
management made him play. I don't think it was a
coaching decision. I think the fact that they were paying
two hundred and forty million dollars with this guy, say
he better play. And I think the word came down
from above to the coaching staff that DeShawn had to play.

(02:10:41):
Is that a possibility with Anthony Richardson? That management is
making Anthony Richardson play because he was a top draft pick.

Speaker 1 (02:10:49):
Maybe, So yeah, that might have something to do with it. Yeah,
I mean that I would say that has I would
say that has a lot to do with it, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:10:57):
Huh. All right, we're getting to sad place now.

Speaker 1 (02:11:00):
They were making him, they were making him play to
take care of that part of it. Yeah, they absolutely were.
They were making They're making him play because of that.

Speaker 2 (02:11:12):
Okay, And the players in the locker room in Indianapolis
and maybe even in Cleveland, but in Indianapolis for sure
know that they have a better chance with Flack a
quarterbacking than Anthony Richardson. And I'm sure that creates some
sort of a rift inside the locker room and a
little tension as well. I'm sure that. I'm sure. Do
you think any player would go over to a coach

(02:11:33):
and say, coach, I mean, let's face it, Anthony just
he's not cutting it. Can you get flacko in the lineup?
I mean, does that happen? Have you seen have you
ever seen anything like that? Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:11:44):
I have, Yes, I played on teams that did that.
I played in the Kancity Chiefs in the mid nineties,
James Hasty and Dale Carter under Marty Schottenheimer. They would
come to the coordinator Gunthy Cunningham got rest his soul
and say, hey, man, get him out the game. Like
in yesteryear. Ye, Dan Marino and Jim Kelly, those guys
could tell people I don't want them in the game, coach,

(02:12:07):
get them out, and they would get them out the game.
So that is how it's a player's game. And look,
everyone is being nice now and everything, but at some point, man,
you have to be able to play. If you can't play.
I don't know what we're doing. You know, you have

(02:12:28):
to be able to play, and right now he can't play. Hmm.

Speaker 2 (02:12:33):
I mean, I hear what you're saying, but I think
that there are bigger issues than his not being able
to play. I think the bigger issue is the contract
and when they're drafted, and you know what else, I
think it's almost a situation when you don't play a
guy who's drafted that high, you look like a fool
for drafting him. And it comes back to right.

Speaker 1 (02:12:54):
You're right, you're right. So for both guys, right, for
both guys, the consideration right and Rigidon we're talking about
being a draft pick Deshaun Watson, we're talking about the money.
At some point, you try and give guys enough opportunity
to prove that they can or they can't. We were
at the point with Deshaun Watson. Look, man, I mean

(02:13:15):
it's been how many years in Cleveland, three It hasn't
worked out. And sometimes you got to call a spade
a spade and you just have to eat it. But
you can sit on the money and you can say, hey,
we're paying and we will keep playing. But what's going
to happen. Your fan base is gonna be apathetic to
the team. They're gonna quit showing up to games, They're

(02:13:36):
gonna quit buying product and merchandise. You've already been hamstrung
because of the cloud that is hanging over to Shaun Watson,
prevents you from making him part of your marketing campaign,
prevents you from really trotting about in the community. Even
though he is attempted to be in the community, the
fans haven't received.

Speaker 2 (02:13:57):
Oh he's in the community. You don't want him in
the community.

Speaker 5 (02:13:59):
You don't.

Speaker 1 (02:14:02):
I'm not saying that. I'm not saying I'm not saying
I'm not saying that. I'm just saying he has not
You're just so limited and crippled by and the play
has not been good. So the return on investment has
not been what it is. And there's a thing in
business where they say, if you're gonna fail, fail fast,

(02:14:25):
you know, go forward, do it. If if it's not working,
porter plug and going to the next thing. But the
thing that you can do is how long we go
keep going on with the same thing. It's been three
years Andy ten games. He was suspended for the first year.
The second year he played a handful of games got hurt.
This year, he's played a handful of games and got hurt.
At some point, you got to have a quarterback that

(02:14:47):
can play, because look, their window is all but gone
with Miles Garrett and all these young guys. This is
a team that, in my mind had a roster that
was capable of being one of the heavyweights in the AFC.

Speaker 2 (02:14:58):
Well, I have to put you on the spo. But
you did say that there may be in the super
Bowl that was like that guy I did.

Speaker 1 (02:15:04):
They're killing me. They kill me, they killed me, they
messed me up. They've ruined and wrecked some of my
credibility because I.

Speaker 2 (02:15:12):
Was no, no, no, I'm not. I'm not saying that
for that reason, though you were right.

Speaker 1 (02:15:16):
I'm saying it. I'm saying it. I didn't say it here,
I wrote about it. I'm going on TV and said it.
Those things are going to be replayed if they finished
five and twelve because the quarterback was not great. All
of that stuff matters, and it ain't about me. But
let's we just got to call it what it is.
He hasn't played well enough.

Speaker 2 (02:15:34):
Right, But here's my question, did he lose that much
skill by not playing or is it all the outside situation. No,
I will tell you this, he's a perfect twenty four
for twenty four on cases with the women, he's twenty
four for twenty four, So he's doing well. Banned, there's
one stat that he's okay with.

Speaker 1 (02:15:51):
I will say. I'll say a few things. Didn't play one.
Some of this he brought in himself first by sitting
out in Houston, right, So then it became a contest
between him and the owner in terms of power and
those things. So he took himself off the field his

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last year in Houston. His behavior took him off the
field the next year for ten games. That is a man.
Two years is a lifetime in pro sports in terms
of skill development and skilled erosion. Man is use it
or lose it in pro sports. He didn't use it

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really for two years. It's hard to get that back.
And then when you add in Deshaun Watson for the
first time in his life. He's always been celebrated hometown.
He rows from tough circumstances to become a great player
at Clemson then in the National Football League, but for
the first time he's been vilified. The off field behavior

(02:16:56):
has made him like some people view him as a pariah,
him like he's he's hated everywhere for someone who is sensitive,
for someone who has always been celebrated. Man, it's hard
to deal with that. On a lesser skill, think about
Lebron going from Cleveland to Miami and how all of
a sudden people hated him. He'd never been hated before.

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He tried to wear the black mask and take that on,
but that's not his personality. Everyone's not built to be
the villain in the story. Deshaun Watson is not built
to be the villain. So his confidence is gone on
top of his skills eroding. Yeah, he's a shell of
what he is. And because he never acknowledged and I
don't want to say that he had to throw himself
at the mercy of the people of Cleveland, but because

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he never came out and said, hey man, whether I
intended to or not, I offended a lot of people
with my actions and my behaviors, and for that I'm
truly sorry. I hope to pick up the pieces and
make it right from this point forward, much like Michael
Vick had to do it with the dogfighting and made

(02:18:02):
the statement dealt with it, but his actions matched what
he said. And you look at Michael vic Now, Michael
Vick has everything that he had before all of that stuff.
Same thing with DeShawn if he had acknowledged it, then
played and performed well. Not that all would be forgiven
and forgotten, but he would have been able to make
it on the other side. Remember, Kobe Bryant had to

(02:18:26):
deal with it, to deal with he had to deal
with that. He was hated. But the difference in Kobe
and some of those other guys he didn't mind because remember,
he created the Mamba mentality during that point where he
had to be the villain and embrace it. Different mindset.
But people celebrate him now because he came on the

(02:18:47):
other side and he won that sewn Jack. Deshaun Watson
didn't win, didn't play well enough amidst the scandal to
kind of turn everybody back on his favor.

Speaker 2 (02:18:57):
Quick question. I wrapped up one last question. If in fact,
obviously Deshaun watches having problems, do you think if Colin
Kaepernick suit it up today, he'd have a better better
situation playing than Deshaun Watson.

Speaker 1 (02:19:13):
Uh, Shaun Watson would be a better player, But I
think cap would not be as vilified as show.

Speaker 2 (02:19:22):
No, I'm just still watched.

Speaker 1 (02:19:24):
I will say this, there there's other things baked in
the Deshaun Watson cake. Uh. People are not only mad
about like the stuff off the field. They're mad about
the contract. Like people are mad about the money, the
fact that he got the fully guaranteed money. If he
wasn't making what he was.

Speaker 2 (02:19:43):
Guarantee it was money.

Speaker 1 (02:19:45):
It's right, it's the money. It's hidden behind the fact
that people hate that he got a fully guaranteed deal.
Sometimes it's hard for the layman to appreciate and respect
what he is. And I would say this, Deshaun Watson
might have flaunted it in everyone's face when you go
to his ig and you see him on yachts and
all this other stuff. It's hard when all of those

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factors go in with the off field stuff too.

Speaker 2 (02:20:09):
There you go, He's Bucky Brooks. It was wonderful. I
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but one coach needs to watch his mouth. That's next,

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all right, It was the dreaded S word. That's coming
up next. Life from the tyrack dot Com Studios with
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with all your sports.

Speaker 8 (02:20:42):
Good morning Andy, Good morning Bucky. We start with games
here in the World Series. On Saturday night saw the
Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees four to
two on home runs by Tommy Edmond Ti, Oscar Hernandez
and Freddie Freeman for a two games to un lead.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto got the win, and at six and a
third innings, he allowed us one hit and one run
Show Heyotan. He left the game after partially dislocating his

(02:21:03):
left shoulder while sliding at his second base in the
seventh inning. Dave Roberts, the Dodgers manager, provided a post
game update.

Speaker 5 (02:21:09):
He had a.

Speaker 7 (02:21:10):
Little left shoulder subliction, and so we're gonna get some
tests at some point tonight tomorrow, and then we'll know
more in the next couple of days.

Speaker 1 (02:21:19):
But the strength was great.

Speaker 7 (02:21:21):
The range of motion good, so we're encouraged.

Speaker 8 (02:21:25):
College football Saturday Night, Number three Penn State victorious at
Wisconsin twenty eight to thirteen. Number six Miami over Florida
State thirty six to fourteen. Fourteenth rank Texas A and
M knocked off eighth ranked LSU thirty eight to twenty three,
and number sixteen Kansas State prevailed over Kansas twenty nine
to twenty seven. NBA Saturday Night at the Los Angeles
Lakers improved to three at zero with a one thirty

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one one twenty seven win over the Sacramento Kings. Lebron
James a thirty two point fourteen rebound, ten assist, shriple
double Andy.

Speaker 2 (02:21:53):
And Bucky back to you, thank you? I Man, How
does he get out of this one? We'll get to
that at just about a minute. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm
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(02:22:34):
We mentioned the S word before. GIROD Mayo, the coach
of the Patriots. All right, you wrote about this on
NFL dot Com Last Sunday in London. The Patriots lost
to your Jags, who had entered the game with a
one to five record. They lost thirty two to sixteen.
It was New England's sixth straight defeat and the fourth
time this year that the team was outscored by double digits. Afterward,

(02:22:55):
and you were there, head coach Grod Mayo made a
comment that raised some ipse. You said, quote, what I
would say is, look, we're a soft football team across
the board. Mayo said, quote, you talk about what makes
a tough football team. That is being able to run
the ball, that is being able to stop the run,

(02:23:15):
being able to cover kicks. We did none of those. Today.
You use the term soft maybe inside the locker room,
I don't think you used it publicly or especially to
the media. I don't think it goes a long way.
I don't think it's going to work. I think there's
a divide now in the locker room. Have you ever
had a coach that did that? And what happens when
it's there the dreaded s words soft. You don't use

(02:23:37):
that word. And I got to believe there's some hatred
pointed towards Draw Mayo right now and that New England
locker room.

Speaker 1 (02:23:46):
So to be fair, he tried to walk great those comments.
Later try to say that you know we're playing soft.
It's too late because he put yeah, he put it
out there. Here's what happens. I've told people like pro
sports are like coaching youth kids, right like, you got
to be careful what you say. They're very much impacted

(02:24:08):
by what you say, particularly when you say it publicly
to the media. If you want to rip them, come
at them hard. You can do that in the close
confines of the locker room or team meeting room or whatever.
But when you put it out there and you say, hey, man,
this team is soft, or you disrespect them in terms
of the way that you describe them, and you don't
necessarily protect them from the criticism on the outside. Players

(02:24:28):
begin to look at you sideways, and when you derived
mail a former player who goes out there, now what
you've done is you've gone to the other side. Part
of the appeal for players and playing for a former
player is that he's in the fraternity. He's in the brotherhood.
He knows how hard it is to operate between the lines.
Not that he has grace, but he has an understanding

(02:24:52):
of the challenges that are presented for a player playing
a very very difficult game to play. When he says so,
he now goes to the other side where they see
him almost like a suit, right like, so we've all
worked for people and you're like, oh the suits upstairs
or yahd YadA, YadA, da YadA. Well he's now done that.
But he also has pointed the fingers at the players

(02:25:13):
without saying coaches, we got to do a better job.
He put it on the players. So now when you
talk about it's a team thing, it's we, uh, not me,
it's us, you know, it's the team, not the individual.
It's the collective. Over all of those things that you've
uttered in the locker room are no longer true because

(02:25:34):
you're not living out that example. He's lost the credibility
in terms of that. So you're right that the two
face can't go back into two. It is what it is.
Everyone knows where he stands. They'll continue to play, but
they won't play for him like that. They won't respect
him like that. They'll not hit and be like, oh no,
he still got this, but they don't. They won't look
at him at the same because after six or seven weeks,

(02:25:54):
he's already emotionally thrown them under the bus. Yeah, not
a good sign of leadership.

Speaker 2 (02:26:00):
Have you ever played on a team college or a
pro where a coach did that? Because I'm thinking right
now as you made me as I was listening to you,
I don't recall in the last several years a coach
on any level, but let's stick to football, that after
a loss would point the finger out a player. Back
in the day, it was commonplace, It really was. I

(02:26:22):
think players took it. They sucked it up. That's where
it was. There's a different breed of players today, and
there's different breed of coaches, they just don't do it.
They don't do it.

Speaker 1 (02:26:31):
Yeah, it's a different breed to play now. I will
say this. You want to hold them accountable, but the
form where you hold them accountable is in the film room,
in the locker room, and those things. There are certain
things that are sacred for the team that you don't
let the public go because now what you've done, you've
given every time di can harry an opportunity to criticize
the team for being soft, even though they don't even
know what they're saying. When it comes to softness, you're

(02:26:54):
supposed to protect the team at all costs. As the coach,
you put it on yourself. Hey I got to do
a better job preparing my guys. We're not prepared. It
was on me, coaches, players, we got to do a
better job to put a better product on the field.
Pump in the meeting room, hey man, that's all. That's
not where we were brought. This is not to the brand.
You can hold players accountable, and you should hold players accountable,

(02:27:14):
but you got to protect them in the media space.
I believe players can still be coached hard. I believe
you can still hold them to a higher standard. But
you want to protect them in public because when you
call them out publicly, they get embarrassed. And there's already
more noise on the outside then back in yester year,
because remember you talked about yesteryear's players could handle it.

(02:27:37):
But remember yesteryear's players didn't have to deal with Twitter
or X. They didn't have to deal with Instagram, where
everybody can offer their opinion solicited or unsolicited about how
you played and how you perform, and they can hide
behind the keyboard and they don't have to be accountable.
There's more noise. So your job as to coach is

(02:27:57):
protect the team from any outside side noise. And he
didn't do that.

Speaker 2 (02:28:02):
And here's the problem. The fact that he called them
soft opens up a Pandora's box. For example, they lose today,
the next thing you know tomorrow in the Boston Globe,
the first sentence of the story will be Gerd Mayo
in London list we called this team soft, and boy
Diday look soft today. And if I was doing talk rating, right,
and if I was doing talk radio with tearing them

(02:28:23):
up them up, hey, he just gave you right, right,
You're right, they are soft. It's bad, that's right.

Speaker 1 (02:28:30):
Yeah, you've given You've given them the opportunity to weigh in.
Look they look, it's chumming the water for talk radio.
You couldn't wait to wake up and be like, oh
he called him soft, Holy smokes, and just I mean,
how much content could we create out of day? Yeah,
he has to do it. But I will say this,
it also shows his immaturity, his immaturity as a coach.

(02:28:53):
As a coach, this is what we sign up for,
you know, we we sign up to. It's hard. We're
gonna go through some moments. Hey, guys, I'm gonna work
through this. His job is to help this team work
through this tough thing. He can talk about it being
a rebuild, difficult moments and challenges in those things, but
he has to stand in there every day and handle it.
If he shows any sign of weakness, if he shows

(02:29:14):
he's gonna fall apart the first sign of trouble, the
team is going to take that on. And I am
surprised given how hard the program was before under Bill Belichick,
the program that he played under, I am surprised at
already he's beginning to crack under the pressure of one
and six start. Yeah, Dan Campbell was.

Speaker 2 (02:29:39):
Come on, man, I was. If there was a coach
in this day and age that would call a team
soft publicly, it would be Dan Campbell. He's he's the
hard ass that would do it. And he wouldn't even
do it. But he's pretty close to doing it.

Speaker 1 (02:29:51):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:29:52):
I've heard him and they've had him on hard knocks
and you can hear what he has to say in
the locker room after a game. But he yes, he
pushes it, but he doesn't go over the line, doesn't
go over the line.

Speaker 1 (02:30:02):
But even then, but even then, that's in the locker room.
You've never heard him go up there and tell the
team we suck, we're this, We're not good enough, they're soft.
None of that. He wouldn't say that. Now you say, look,
we got to play better. It's not the brand that
we want to put up there. That's not who we are.
We got to be better. That's on me. I got

(02:30:23):
to figure out how to do it. Now. He'll tell them,
he'll call him out at meetings, as he should, but
in public, using the media to do that, you can't
do that.

Speaker 2 (02:30:31):
You know, It's funny because there are certain coaches a
that wouldn't do it. But I think there are certain
coaches that would be afraid to do it. I'm gonna
tell you one of them, Zach Taylor in Cincinnati. I
see him. The guy has no experience, he never played
in the NFL, and if he ever did that, they'd
hang him in the locker room, they would. I've seen
him at news conferences after losses and like, he says

(02:30:52):
these things, and you know he doesn't mean that. I
know he doesn't mean what he says after Look, we'll
be fine, We're gonna turn it around. I got confidence
in this team. There are good No, they're bad. And
some of the things that are bad are the things
that you've done. You know, you know, a running play
with a third and thirty three and you're running the football.
Come on, really, I mean it's you. I mean take

(02:31:12):
take take accounting for the account take responsibility for the
players that you call. Coaches need to do that as well.
Say it's on me, it's on you want to blame
the team, you want to blame play. That's okay, I
did it. It's my fault. I didn't even hear that
from him. I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:31:29):
He has to do that, that's part of Look, that's
part of the game, right, part of the game is
taking accountability and that in that aspect, like being able
to say, hey, this, this is on me. We got
to do a better job in these areas and those things.
And that's something that they'll learn how to do. He'll
learn how to do. Uh, take greater accountability in that

(02:31:50):
and that part of it.

Speaker 2 (02:31:51):
Okay, now, have you ever played for a college I
got to hear this from you. A coach that really
and truly would say that you guys were soft in
the locker room or out.

Speaker 1 (02:32:03):
Oh, Marty Schouanheimer would tell it like it is. He say, hey,
this is not good enough. Gunna conning him who is
defensive coordinated. There, He's called me out on that. He's
challenged me, Hey man, you can't get away with that here.
That that is, that is that is not good enough.
That's not what we do here. It has to be better.
Talk to the team. John Gruden would call the team out,

(02:32:25):
you know, individually, Yeah, but in team meetings anything goes.
You won't direct harsh criticism and feedback that is to
be done in a team setting. What I'm saying, and
I want to be really clear, Gerard Mayer is okay
to call the team soft, but it has to be
within the confines of the team meeting room. It has

(02:32:45):
to be while we're watching tape. It has to be
on the practice field. It cannot be through the media
because now you've given everybody else the authority to weigh
in and to say that your job is the coach,
is to protect the team. And just like we got
on Aaron Rodgers for being a bad teammate when he
threw Mike Williams under the bus, like, hey man, that's

(02:33:07):
team business. That's not for everybody to say, Oh, that's
Mike williams fault for running the wrong rock. Even if
he did, you're not supposed to put him out there
like that. We take care of that behind closed doors.

Speaker 2 (02:33:17):
Less but not least, the late Forrest greg who coached
the Cincinnati Bengals. He would do that publicly at times.
But here's the problem I myself, and I'll admit this,
I think other media as well were too afraid to
use his terms and terminology publicly because he knocked your
head off, he killed you. So I heard Forrest Greek
say stuff like that when he coached the Bengals, but

(02:33:38):
I would never use it because I was afraid to
use it because he killed me. He would. I mean,
it's one thing for a coach to get in your face,
and I've gotten that many a time from a coach
and ignore you. That's fine, but this guy would have
slugged you. Forrest Greg was crazy. May he rest in peace.
And I wouldn't do it to Forest Greg.

Speaker 1 (02:33:53):
He's also from the Lombardi era, and that's how Lombardi
would go about it, Like you know what I'm saying
Like that, it's different, I mean, but it's still holding
people account. I would just say, like in today's thing,
it's a little harder to air everyone's dirty laundy when
it comes to the media. There you go.

Speaker 2 (02:34:08):
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Firman. We are Fox Football
Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He's an NFL leader and
so is his team. But how could they win with
his numbers?

Speaker 1 (02:34:18):
That's next?

Speaker 2 (02:34:20):
The playoffs are large but dangerous?

Speaker 5 (02:34:22):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:34:22):
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman. We are Fox Football
Sunday and foxbut's ready. Okay, they're playing game hopefully we'll
see if we have time for that. But let's talk quarterback.
Let's talk Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love. Eight in deceptions
are tied for the National Football League lead. His team
obviously is in contention to win the NFC North and
get this buck. He missed two starts and still is

(02:34:45):
it deceptions are tied for the lead. He's a risk taker,
which isn't a bad things. So as Patrick Mahomes. He's
tore at least one at deception in each of its
first five starts this year, and that ties it with
Dan Mkowski back in nineteen ninety one for the fourth
law as such streak for a Packast quarterback. Since nineteen
eighty seven, three Green Bay quarterbacks had sixty seven games

(02:35:08):
saying games sixties sixty seven games streaks, most recently Randy
Wright back in eighty six four games. Was Brett Farbes
long the streak the start of season, and he needs
to minimize their risk. How do you minimize the risk
of being so reckless? How do you do that?

Speaker 1 (02:35:24):
You can? You are what you are. I'll say this
with Pat Mahomes and the thing, it's crazy that his
numbers are up there with magic Man Don Mkowski, but
he's turned the ball over more than you were. Like
his receivers have struggle creating separation. They've caught the ball
better than this year than they had in previous things,
but they don't get a lot of separation. We talked

(02:35:46):
in the previous hours about Travis Kelcey and maybe he's
a little distracted while also being in the twilight of
his career. He's not the same guy for Pat Mahomes,
he has to understand what he has with him, and
what he has with him is a really good defense.
He has a running game that is solid enough to
be able to lean on that, and he just needs

(02:36:08):
to make a handful of plays each week. The only
way that the Chiefs can lose is if he keeps
turning the ball over. So if I'm Andy Reid, if
I'm Pat Mahomes, I have to realize that and have
to dial it back and just make sure that I'll
start playing playoff football now. During the regular season, they're
six and zero without him playing great. If he plays
better and just takes care of the ball, it's gonna

(02:36:28):
be hard to prevent them from three peating. That's how
good the can see.

Speaker 2 (02:36:32):
The Chiefs are right, and honestly, I think a lot
of the things that Patrick Mahomes does is on the
spur of the moment. I mean he just improvises. That's
what he does on the field. But I don't think
you can compare Jordan Love. Certainly he doesn't have the
track reck he is. Have the file, if you will,
of Patrick Mahomes. He's got to be better of not

(02:36:53):
turning the ball over and minimizing the risk. And look,
he's leading the league in interceptions and he's missed two games.
Hackers need to do something to kind of reel him
in a little bit, to be a little more not creative,
but a little a little more wild. I guess that's
the thing he's staring interceptionally game he started.

Speaker 1 (02:37:15):
Now with him, same conversation, I would say even even more,
I'm att Lafleur or pull him in. Hey, Jordan, let's
look at our team right now. We lead the league
in takeaways. They have seventeen takeaways. On that defense, Jeff
Athley's done a really good job as the new defensive coordinator,
come from Boston College. Offensively, you got a running game
with Josh Jacobs where you can run the ball physically

(02:37:35):
and just pound people. One of the best offensive lines
of football they have you have a young cast of
playmakers that can get it done. So Jordan, you don't
need to feel like you have to be a hero.
The contract is what the contract is. You've been paid.
You don't have to spend your time trying to justify
and validate why you're being paid. That run the offense
as this call. Take the easies that are there when

(02:37:56):
the shots there, take it. But don't feel like you
have to play hero ball. This team is good enough
with you just being in a pass first point guard
mode as opposed to a scoring guard mode.

Speaker 2 (02:38:08):
Let's talk about molding a quarterback in the National Football League.
I think there's two ways to do it. You talk
about the Jordan Love mold. He kind of followed Aaron Rodgers.
Aaron Rodgers was there, but he was on the sidelines.
Patrick Mahomes, Alex Smith was the guy playing, and that
got rid of Alex Smith. For Patrick Mahomes, that's one.

Speaker 1 (02:38:27):
Way to do it.

Speaker 2 (02:38:28):
You let him learn from the sidelines. Okay, you talked
about Anthony Richardson should be benched. There's really no one
he could learn from. I mean, Joe Flacco's on his
way out. He's not your future. What's the best way
to get a quarterback to mold him, to groom him.
And certainly the success rate has been pretty good in
Kansas City and looks like it's been pretty good in

(02:38:50):
Green Bay. So what's the best way to do it.
I mean, look at the football Giants, you know, with
Danny Dimes over there, not good and he had no
one to mold from. I don't know what you do
if you're a culch or manager of a team, how
to take your quarterback and say we're going to do
this to let him grow.

Speaker 1 (02:39:10):
I think every quarterback is different. Jade and Daniels had
a lot of experience in college, so he had a
lot of success right away because his confidence was there.
He had a lot of reps. When you have a
young quarterback like a Drake May, it has to be
a different deal. To me. I think it's about understanding
what the quarterback is and giving him what he needs.
But you got to surround him with the right talent,
and you got to make sure you spoon feed them.

(02:39:31):
For the success you do that, they have an opportunity
to grow.

Speaker 2 (02:39:34):
Right and if you put him in too soon, they
lose that confidence. And you know it's difficult, but it's
like Sam Donald can come back and do it. Then
we'll see what happens. But Bucky, it's been a pleasure.
I'll see you next Sunday. It's been great. Count out
the kickoff next right here where on Fox Sports Radio.
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