Jonas Knox talks about NFL coaching, Nick Sirianni, Sam Darnold, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jonas Knocks.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
You thought you knew me, You didn't know a thing
about me.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
He's crazier than a else. Wrecked that guy, Jonas Knocks.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
You heard men, brit in some darkness is lighting up
your speakers to establish an alibi for the day. From
the tirag dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios, here's Jonas Knox.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Yep, Okay, I'll be part of this world.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
You know.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Imagine that something that seems so obvious yet there's always
been a little pushback. We'll get into that for you
coming up here in the NFL and just a couple
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the LA Chargers have a seventeen to nothing lead over
the New England Patriots right now, this game and NFL
Network game a Saturday edition here to close out twenty
twenty four for the NFL. They've got three games coming
up later on. So congratulations to ladmcconkie fantasy owners. He

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just scored a touchdown, a touchdown reception from Justin Herbert,
and with just under three minutes left to go in
the first half, the Chargers have a seventeen nothing lead,
and you know it's you know, it's hilarious about this
whole discussion when it comes to the Chargers, Like it's
a discussion that surrounds Jim Harbaugh because people can look

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at the Chargers now and say, well, you got Justin Herbert.
He's one of the best quarterbacks in the league. He
got no Like this just confirms what we've thought, or
at least people that aren't haters have thought for several
years now. Coaching matters in the NFL. It just does,

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and in fact, good coaching matters the most. And Jim
Harbaugh is a good coach, and it has worked everywhere
he's gone. It worked at Michigan, it worked at Stanford,
he turned around San Diego, it worked with the forty
nine Ers, and now it's working with the Chargers. And
I'm not saying that the Chargers are going to go

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on to win a Super Bowl this year. I'm not
saying the Chargers would ever maybe ever win a Super
Bowl with Jim Harbaughs coach there. But the point is
the discussion here in La where we are doing this
show live from the tirak dot com studios, the discussion
around the Chargers was always potential. Yeah, there's a ton
of potential there. They got a ton of talent, but

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you know what just always seemed to come up short.
The discussion was always about, yeah, but Brandon Staley, is
he ever going to be able to get the most
out of this guy? I mean, christ Justin Herbert didn't
get his first start in the NFL until a trainer
accidentally stabbed Tyrod Taylor.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
He punctioned as lung.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Like.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
It was always about potential, this, potential that, and then
you realize, okay, well there's an opportunity to upgrade and
to add a coach to this team who has worked
and gotten the most out of every place he's ever been, to, NFL, college,
you name it. They make the move, and the conversation

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surrounding the Chargers is completely different. You're not worried about dysfunction.
You're not worried about even when they do have injuries.
You're not overly concerned by it like there have been
in years past with the Chargers. If they get into
late game situations, you're not worried about whether or not
Brandon Staley is going to make a ridiculous call or decision.

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Like even the ones that didn't burn them, which were
few and far between, you look back at and you go,
wait what, Like you decide in Cleveland to go for
it on fourth down with under a minute left at
midfield up by two to give the brown and if

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not for the Browns missing that kick, like that's another two.
But you don't have any of that discussion when it
comes to Jim Marvaud, no thing, Like there's this feeling
that no matter what, they're going to be okay, no
matter what, And that hasn't been the case here with
this franchise in this organization in years, maybe ever, even

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when they did have good coaching, like they had a
really good coach. We're talking like a Hall of Fame
caliber coach. We're talking a guy who's on the short
list of two hundred career wins. Even when they had him,
they fired him after he went fourteen and two. That's
mind boggling. That already shot in. Ieber was fired because

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it was, well, it was a disappointing playoff loss, and
it was okay, well, there was you know, a lot
going on there and that game was a little wild
against the Patriots, and by the way, it was the Patriots.
But now Harbaugh's there, and all of those concerns, all
of the expecting and impending doom that you were so
used to in this town when it comes.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
To the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Even when they were in San Diego playing at that
outhouse Qualcomm, which is basically a porta John with no
urinal cakes, even when they were there, you always were like,
oh my god, something's gonna go wrong. Okay, there's I mean,
there's gonna be a catastrophic injury, or there's good. With Harbaugh,
everything's kind of cool. The guy will do a postgame

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press conference and talk about Justin Herbert being able to
survive in a broken elevator and how it inspired the team.
Justin Herbert's all these weird, quirky things that he said.
All anybody's doing is paying attention to that. And now
you look and you go, oh, well, wait a second.

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They're about to be ten and six after they take
care of business here at Foxborough, and then you know,
depending on what's on the line, you know, maybe they'll
play their starters like this is going to be an
eleven win team that presents a problem with whoever they
meet in the first round of the postseason and the
first round of the playoffs. So if anybody was wondering

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whether or not a you know, is coaching that important
in the NFL level, It's all about talent. With this situation,
Harball was the perfect fit, the perfect guy for the
job because all of the stuff in the past nobody
talks about. They're just focused on the fact that they've
got hope now and Jim Harbaugh is here to save
the day and it's already working. Jonas Knox here Fox

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Sports Radio, So I was thinking about this. We love football,
right like you and I listening right now having a conversation.
Like if you're driving around in the car, you're just
you know, you got your air pods in. You're just
trying to ignore the screaming downstairs because you know somebody

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can't find like the key piece to the toy you
got them three days ago that they've already ruined. Like,
we love football, all right, you got this show on,
you're watching that game. There's some bowl games on. We
love football, specifically the NFL.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
We love the NFL.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
But I'll be honest with you, the NFL owes us one.
You know what that one is? They owe us a
good game. That's what they owe us. Because the NFL
this week has proceeded to roll out bag of vomit
after bag of vomit after bag of vomit, and we've

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just taken it all and been like, sweet, got any
more for us? We are owed a decent game by
the NFL. Now, I love the NFL. You love the NFL.
We all acknowledge that even though you got listen, Lebron
James is talking to Christmas is our day? Okay, Okay,
you're right. You know what about that extra twenty million

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viewers in all, but who cares. Don't don't get caught
up in the numbers. Like we love football, and we thought, man,
what if there was a way to where the NFL
could be like almost every single day? And then you
start to look around and you go, well, that was
kind of like this week. You had Monday Night. You know,

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Monday Night was there? You had that one that was
going on and that was cool and all, and it
was a holiday week and you're like, all right, so listen,
we got a game on Monday night. Big deal. We
always have a game on Monday night. Okay, what about
two on Wednesday? What about one on Thursday? What about
three on Saturday? What about more tomorrow? What about another
one on Monday? That's a lot. I don't know if

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I can recall the last time we've had that much
NFL and a short span of time, maybe during COVID.
I have no idea. I think I was too busy
listening to lies being told by people about having to
wipe down your groceries when you bring them home. But
the point is that's a lot of football. The problem
is it's been a lot of bad football, Like find

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me the good game that we've seen during this inundated
NFL schedule we've gotten during the holidays. Find me the
good game please, Packers Saints. Awful football game New Orleans stinks.
That game wasn't competitive. The Christmas games, those games were competitive,

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great performances, fun performances. MVP worthy performed. Got it not competitive?
Thursday Night football? Good God literally set back the NFL
thirty years easy, to the point to where Al Michaels

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made the tired joke of yeah, I believe there was
a White Sox Mariners game that was scored six '
three and he was right. It we've got and then
just to start off, we've got a game that opened
up seventeen to nothing. New England has scored.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
They've tried.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
But the point is, while we sit here and clamor
for more NFL and the NFL will never get tired.
I'm just saying, Look, it's not so much a complaint,
it's just a request. But it is a request that
we have earned. We have been fed garbage NFL games
for several days in a row during an overloaded NFL schedule.

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To start out the week, at least give us a
decent game. That's all we're asking. Give us a couple
of decent games Lions Niners on Monday Night football is
probably going to be a good game. I have no
idea how this game is going to finish up between
the Chargers and the Patriots. It's probably going to be
a wipeout. But Denver, since he come on, can you
help us out a little bit here? We're not asking

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for a lot, We're just asking for a little because
we've gotten a lot of bad NFL games lately. And
while we appreciate having the NFL and we're gonna miss
it when it's gone in about a month and a
half or two two months, it hasn't exactly been spectacular
football that we've gotten over the past several weeks. Jonas
Knox here Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knox on
X at the Jonas Knox on X where, by the way,

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the positive feedback has already come in. I have reached
out via X and wished a police Navidad to one
of our Hispanic listeners who had some nice things to say.
You can go check that out for yourself. If you
know Spanish, you can, you know, maybe ask somebody out
loud if you don't. But I wouldn't do it in
front of children, so that would just be my recommendation,

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do you But you can't check that out at the
Jonas Knox where you could see the fun commentary Here
on a holiday weekend, Here on a Saturday, late in December,
here on Fox Sports Radio, we are going to have
the usuals coming up later on, We're going to hand
out an award. Listen, I mean you know that or
you know whatever elsesech I said, but we are going
to hand out an award coming up later on this hour.

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It is our TGFG game of the week. That'll be
yours here bottom of this hour, and then we're gonna
have another edition of Do You Care? Because we like
positive sports talk radio, so we're just gonna be brutally
honest about things you've been force fed throughout the course
of the week. We've also got Knox locks for Week
seventeen in the NFL coming up later on to closeup shop.
It's all yours here on this two hour extravaganza.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
Up next here.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Though apparently diva behavior is not just for wide receivers.
Somebody has managed to pull it off in the most
unlikely position in the NFL. I'll explain next Boom touch
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Speaker 2 (13:47):
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. Coming up a little over
ten minutes from now from the Tirak dot com studios.
We are going to hand out an award here on
this show. There's only two of these left, all right,
We've got two awards left our TGFG Game of the
Week in the National Football League for Week seventeen, So
we hand out that award coming up here for you

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a little over ten minutes from now. By the way,
I mentioned the pleasantries which you can see on my
social media at the Jonas Knocks on x where somebody
said all sorts of raunchy things to me in Spanish.
I only know like exactly what he said because a
the in laws are Mexican and BFC narcos, so I
know exactly what was being said. So you can go

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check that out for yourself if you'd like to. Also,
I wanted to address this t longtime loyal listener to
the program and Fox Sports Radio in general reached out
and asked if I've already taken down the Christmas lights
and if that happened on December twenty sixth per tradition
that I've talked about on the show. Oh yeah, like

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Santa's fat ass wasn't even out the window before the
lights were down.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
Up and vanished like a fart in the wind.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Wife and son weren't even awake on the twenty sixth,
and I had everything down, boxed up and gone, swept up,
everything gone, and we had a lot everything gone. So yeah, no, no, no, no,
this isn't one of those keep it up until February
or keep it up until the middle of January. Now,
all the inside stuff, my wife loves Christmas, so she'll

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hold on to that for as long as possible. She'll have,
you know, everything done because it's got to be on
this certain day in January. And it's got it like
all of the I mean, it's it. And also there's
way too much of it, so it takes her a
long time to have to put it all away. But
as far as the outside stuff goes, my jurisdiction gone
like it never existed, literally gone. And it's so fast

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that my wife and son don't even know how to
respond to it, like it's not even like they're and
they catch me in the middle of taking it down
and it's a slow process, and it's like, hey, are
you sure about that?

Speaker 5 (15:56):
I mean, you got he loves the lights. No, you
don't have a say in the matter. It's over. It
is over.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
December twenty sixth gone, just like the Christmas music being
played on this network. The second the twenty six hit,
it's over. Same with the lights at the house. Strong
belief in that and conviction, right, Jonas Knox here Fox
Sports Radio. Now they I would like, I don't want

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to defend a position group, all right, this is not
necessarily a defense of a position group. But I think
now we're starting to understand that it's not just isolated
to a position group. Like there's this term that gets
thrown around diva wide receiver, and a lot of it
is warranted because you will see wide receivers act in

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a way that you go, oh, it's just a wide receiver.
I mean, we'd like it, you know, we know that
we've we've heard all the stories, you've heard all the
different wide receivers, the issues they bat or whatever, and
it's like, well, that's just how wide receivers are.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
You know, they're away from the football, they're.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
On an island, which you know, they got a me
first personality. So that's why we celebrate non diva wide
receivers whenever they come along. Perfect example, Mike Evans, Mike Evans,
no diva, no issues, no like the only issue he's
ever had is when he throws down with Marshaun Latimer
when he was with the Saints. That's it, like, no issue,

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like you just like and it's just high level production
every single year. It doesn't matter if it's Jamis Winston
throwing to him, Tom Brady, Baker Mayfield, doesn't matter. Guys
just gonna produce. You know what you get, No drama,
no bs, nothing, just a good dude, great player. You
know what you get. And then you'll get other wide

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receivers like right, need listen. You know, George Pickens is
in the news because you know, sometimes he wants to
run the route and then sometimes he's like in the
middle of the route, not into this, just not not
my thing. So like you hear that, and you know,
like some guys maybe will unfairly get labeled diva widers.
But the point is when this stuff comes along and

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you see sort of, hey, this guy, you know, it's
not working out here, but he ends up somewhere else.
You look at the production and you go, well, why
would you want to move on from them? Well, it's
the behavior. It's not the numbers. The production is there
on the field, it's the other stuff off the field.
Antonio Brown all that you know, believe it or not,

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that is not just a wide receiver thing. Apparently, to
where the production on the field is now outweighed by
the other stuff off the field. Apparently that's not just
a wide receiver. And in fact, apparently that's not even
just a player thing. It's a coach thing too. I

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have been on record as saying one of the more
bizarre things that we have going into the season, that
if you followed along last year, or one of the
most bizarre things, is the fact that Nick Sirianni was
on the hot seat. I didn't get it.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
It doesn't make any sense to me.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
All the guy does is win games, like you can
go back to when he got to Philly. First off,
they've gotten to the playoffs every year, they went to
a super Bowl, nearly won it. He's twenty six games
over five hundred. We're talking like high level. You don't
see this almost ever, if ever, in the NFL. When

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it comes to the first four years as a coach
with the team, you go back to twenty twenty one,
there's two teams that have more wins than the Eagles,
Buffalo and Kansas City. Like you don't hear anything about
Andy Reid's job security, You don't hear anything about Sean McDermott.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
You wondered, ay, what's this year? Nothing?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Well, you don't hear anything. But with Sirianni you do.
And then you start to realize, Oh, it's kind of
like being.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
A diva wide receiver.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Like you're willing to put up with all the stuff
off the field as long as the production is there
on the field. But the second there's a slip up,
gotta go, Like his latest altercation with Zach Ertz that
both of them are downplaying afterwards, you look at and
you go, where else does that happen? And where else

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does that happen? When you've had other stuff happen this year,
like yelling at the fans or the reported issues with
Jalen Hurtz that may or may not be there the
other stuff that went on last year, he was yelling at,
you know, obscenities across the sideline all the then you

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start to realize, oh, so that's why his name was
even floated out there as far as potentially being on
the hook and being on the outs, and up until
like maybe three four weeks ago, I thought to myself, man,
there's no chance, no way that they move off from him.
They're going to the playoffs. They're probably gonna win a

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game in the playoffs, at least you would assume. And
with all the injuries Detroit Scott, if Jalen Hurts comes
back and he's healthy, like I mean, I'm looking at it, going, man,
Philly's got a real shot to go to another super Bowl.
And now with the latest issue that came out and
you start to pile that on to all the other
stuff that goes on there with the team and AJ

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Brown and Jalen Hurts, he just starts to look at
it and go, oh so, that's why that's why all
of this stuff is even a conversation like, why would you,
if you were the Pittsburgh Steelers, ever move off of
Antonio Brown?

Speaker 5 (21:52):
Why why would you have ever done it.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Antonio Brown for a time was the best, best wide receiver,
one of the best players on the planet for a time.
We're talking Hall of Fame guy was on his way
to the Hall of Fame. Why'd you move on? Oh?

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Got it?

Speaker 5 (22:14):
Now?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
What he's done, you know, post career and CTESPN. You know,
he also had had an award show yesterday on social media,
which you know, I'm a little disappointed. I wasn't up for.
I was really hoping to win that award. You can
go look at it yourself. Was really hoping I could
be at least nominated for the award. But the point is,
you needed all the other intel off the field to

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start to come out before you went, oh yeah, okay,
we get it. Like it's now gotten to that. And
I wonder if the Eagles are at the point now
it's where they're like, you know what, this now supersedes
all of the wins, Like now he said, like who
has ever had an altercation with zach Ertz?

Speaker 5 (22:58):
Like who's ever had an issue with s?

Speaker 2 (23:01):
And Nick Sirianni had one. It had to be separated
post game? Why like why are you yelling at the fans?
Like why is any of this stuff happened, and then
you realize, no, that's just him. Now I love it.
I think it's great. Like I love the fact that

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Nick Sirianni's like this because it's entertaining as hell. But
I can understand why the Eagles maybe after the season
would be like, hey, dude, like we're we've really kind
of loaded, Like this roster is really good. We like,
we don't need all of it. We just need to,
like somebody to stabilize and calm things down. And when

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all the other stuff starts to come out, like the
hurts and aj Brown, the awkward thing, Brandon Graham speaking
on it publicly and them trying to go afterwards, Oh no,
it's not you just start to wonder if maybe players
there feel like, well, we can do whatever the hell
he wants. Why can I? Why not? Like Jalen Carter

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bashes some guy in the side of the head and
Nick Sirianni's the first guy to go over there and
talk to him, and him and the defensive line coach
are like having words, and it's like the d line
coach is probably like, dude, you know what you do?
Like You're like, yeah, it's a teachable moment, So I
now understand why the conversation is as loud as it

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is like, and now I get it because if it's
not about production, it can't be about wins. Because all
he does is win games at like almost a record pace.
It can't be about wins. So it's got to be
about something else. And the conversation sounds really similar to
a DIVA wide receiver or a DIVA player, or a

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player whose production is at such a high level that
makes you wonder why would you ever want to move
on from him? And then you find out, oh, it's
the other stuff that led to the decision. Jonas Knox
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It's our TGFG game of the week that'll be yours here,
But first for all the latest from around the world

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of sports, including what the story is at halftime at Foxborough.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
He's the one and only Martin wise Well.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
Story is twenty to seven, the score of the Chargers
with the lead at the half. Thirteen second quarter points
for the Chargers, Cameron Dicker with a couple of field goals,
lab Aconki with the touchdown catch, and Darius Davis the
kick returner. Mostly you got to cuch on the first
quarter to Mario Douglas with the touchdown off a thirty
six yards strike from Drake May Drake, who.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
Was knocked out of this game earlier.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
He was evaluated for her head injury, went in to
the tent, went into the locker room, and then went
back into the game.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
So he was cleared and came back finished the half.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
Patriots cornerback Christian Zales will not he knocked out of the.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Game and is ruled out.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
Speaking of other people ruled out, there's a pluthor of
guys that got knocked out. Just a couple hours ago,
Panthers put running back to a Hubbard on injury reserve
with the cap strain. Dolphins downgrade to a Tonguobai loa
to doubtful with the hip injury if he can't go
to be Tyler Huntley against the Browns. The Colts quarterback
Anthony Richardson ruled out with the foot and back sore.

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On this Joe Flacco gets to start for the Giants.
Tony Pollard, Titans running back, didn't travel to the team
with the team because he has the flu. His status
is in jeopardy for Sunday's game of Jacksonville. He's also
has an ankle injury that he had on the injury report.
Jalen Hurts didn't clear concussion protocol and enough time to
play it against Dallas on Sunday. Kenny Pickett's going to

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be your guy for that you're talking about. Antonio Brown
likely would have been in Hall of Famer, and honestly,
I still think he's got a pretty good shot. We
are looking at the twenty twenty five class of the
Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
It was the Modern era.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
Finalists were announced for induction today and the five players
who can be selected in their first year of eligibility
would be Eli Manning, Derel Suggs, Luke Keighley, Marshall Yonda
and Adam Vinetteri Steve Smith former wide receiver. He's the
first time finalist in his fourth year of eligibility. Antonio Gay,

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Sharry Evans, Jared Allen, Reggie Wayne, Fred Taylor, Tory Ol
Willy Anderson, Darren Woodson, quarnerback Eric Allen also all returning finalists.
Yukon beat North Carolina twenty seven to fourteen in the
Fenway Bowl. Nebraska leads Boston College twenty to two at
the start of the fourth quarter ten minutes left in

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the first and start of the fourth quarter of.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
The Pinch Strike Bowl.

Speaker 6 (27:58):
Excuse me, TCU with a seven nothing lead with eleven
minutes left in the first quarter. In the New Mexico Bowl,
Georgia quarterback Carson Beck declared for the NFL Draft. He
also had Tommy John surgery on a storing arm last week.
Foxspoint guard Damian Lillard said to play today against the Bulls.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
He's missed the last four games. Jonas, back to you.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Thanks Martin. Jonas Knox here on Fox Sports Radio. Coming
up in we will call it about twelve minutes from
now here from the Tirak dot Com studios. We are
going to have another edition of Do You Care? This
is just upbeat, positive stuff. It's the final Do You
Care of the year for twenty twenty four, So that'll
be a good conversation to have here. If you'd like
to hear the brutal truth about several storylines that have

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been foresped to you throughout the course of the week
in the world of sports, that'll be yours here again
twelve minutes from now here on Fox Sports Radio. But
right now it is time to hand out an award
for the second to last time this year. It is
our TGFG Game of the Week, and this might be
the easiest of the entire year.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Titans at Jaguars.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Oh baby, Look, when you think TGFG Game of the Week,
you think of, all right, what can we get here?

Speaker 5 (29:13):
Can we get like a couple.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Of teams that are bottom feeders in the league, teams
that are like you know, not good at all and
also not all that entertaining, And step right up in
week seventeen to the AFC South Donnybrook, which is the
Titans and the Jags six and twenty four a combined
record between these two and that'll be going on at

(29:35):
Trevor Banks stadium there in Jacksonville. The Titans and Jaguars,
both awful football teams. You know, it's hilarious though. This
is my favorite part about Tennessee. So report comes out
from Tom Pellisera which is the Titans are expected to
bring back Brian Callahan as head coach. Why would they
fire him? Got like you just walked away from Mike Rable,

(30:00):
Who's the hottest coaching candidate on the market. Everybody misses him.
He was the guy, the face of the franchise. You
bring in Brian Callahan, you gotta give him at least
a year, like you gotta give me at least a
year to see whether or not they can find a quarterback,
whether or not they can draft a quarterback, depending on
where they pick in the draft. But nonetheless, all that

(30:21):
being said, it does lead you up to this week,
seventeen Sunday, one pm Eastern time. They're in Jacksonville to
close out twenty twenty four Titans Jags. Your TGFG game
of the week, Thank God for gambling. Game of the
week is if not for gambling, who the f is
watching this? Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio again at

(30:43):
the Jonas Knox on X at the Jonas Knox on
X coming up next here. Though this is a show tradition,
we basically take all the things that you've been forced
to hear about and listen to people talk about throughout
the course of the week, and we do something different.
We give you the brutally honest truth on all of them,

(31:04):
and it's yours next year in another edition of Do
You Care right here on Fox Sports Radio Jonas Knox,
Fox Sports Radio coming up top of next hour. There's
a really really really good thing in the world of sports,
good thing in the NFL, but there's like a key
ingredient that's missing, you know what I mean, Like there's

(31:26):
something that's really lacking about this one thing other than
that it's great. Other than that is great. We will
get into that for you coming up here in a
little over fifteen minutes from now from the tire Raq
dot Com studios. Quick update for you on the NFL
game currently taking place in New England. It is the
Chargers of twenty to seven over the Patriots early on
in the third quarter, so the Bolts looking to get

(31:49):
win number ten of the years. We'll keep you posted
on that throughout the course of the show. By the way,
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Speaker 3 (32:10):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Of time DMG reports.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
Let's get kinky.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Here's some of the big stories from the last week.
But Jonas, the real question is do you care?

Speaker 2 (32:25):
And for that we turn it over to a man
he must have pissed somebody off because he's working this
show again, the one and only Bo Benson Bow. What's happening?

Speaker 7 (32:32):
Always a pleasure, Always a pleasure. I want to start with,
h know what the sick bess is going to do next?

Speaker 2 (32:38):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
I want to start with probably the most important story
in sports over the last weeks or so. Chess great
hand icon Magnus Carlson quit the World Rapid World Rapid
and Blitz Chess Championships in New York on Friday after
the governing body of Chess barred him from participating in
a round of the tournament for the horrific crime of

(32:59):
wearing jeans. Oh Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm good for you a stand you know
what I mean? Like, look, I wear jeans, Like, who
doesn't like a pair of jeans? Like, it doesn't matter
if they're blue jeans, jeans with holes in them, black jeans,
like whatever you need, Like, listen, they're good for everything.
You can wear them with a sport code, you can
wear them with a T shirt. You can wear them
with like really messed up holy shirt that's you know,

(33:25):
like some old band's T shirt. You got a nice
pair of shoes, Like, listen, who does like a pair
of jeans? And if this guy wants to be a
little bit more relatable, like that's the problem. Look, I'm
never I'm not really a chess guy. I'm more of
a Checkers Connect four type of guy myself personally. Not
that that's surprising here, but I do find it kind
of odd that anybody would find entertainment and like, hey,

(33:48):
what do you want to do today? Hey, let's go
down to the park and play chess. You ever seen
those guys sitting around playing chess at the park? Wait?
What dude, Like, why do you play with ball at
least like go play, go play corn hole, play some
beer pong, like like be like like have like a personality.

(34:09):
So the fact that this guy tried to add a
little personality to a chess tournament and stood on his
beliefs and his conviction, I'm happy for him.

Speaker 7 (34:16):
Next Rams running back. Former Rams running back Eric Dickerson
told the La Times this week that he does not
want to see Eagles running back Saquon Barkley break his
single season rushing yarded record.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Jonas, do you care, Yeah, I cant. It's awesome.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
I love Eric Dickerson. You know, we have an opportunity
to talk with Eric Dickerson a couple of times throughout
the course of the year.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
I'm filling in on the blowtorch A five seventy LA Sports,
and Eric Dickerson's great, Like he will he is not like,
not ashamed, he will be brutally honest. Like he was
part of the reason why the falling out with Jeff
Fisher and the Rams started to happen because he was like, yeah, listen,
I wanted tickets. Jeff Fisher wouldn't hook me up with
some good tickets so and went public and complained about it.

(34:58):
He's going to call it as it is, and that's
his record that if he wants to hold on to
it for as long as he can, good for him.

Speaker 7 (35:04):
Next after being ruled out of the College fotball playoff,
Georgia quarterback Carson Beck has declared for the NFL draft.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 5 (35:11):
Yeah, not really.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
I'll be honest with you, because, look, I don't know
where he's going to fall in line when it comes
to the draft. Like you know, there's going to be
a run on quarterbacks. I was talking to Brady Quinn
about it. He thinks maybe he'll be the second quarterback
off the board. Cam Ward's going to be an interesting breakdown.
But as far as what's next for him at the
next level, I think we've already seen it doesn't matter

(35:33):
where you get drafted in the NFL. If you don't
have a structure around you, you can't succeed as a QB. Next.

Speaker 7 (35:39):
Sixer center Joel Embiid was fined seventy five grand by
the NBA for making obscene gestures during the Sixers win
over these Celtics on Christmas Day, Jonas, do you care.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
No, I don't care about this. I mean, well, look,
I'll say this though, it's better than the punishment, the
flag and potential fine that Travis Kelsey got for dunk
in a bat for Duncan and football in honor of
Tony Gonzalez. Like that I didn't understand. Like, he passes
Tony Gonzalez, he jumps up and dunks a football, and

(36:11):
all of a sudden, it's like, oh, listen, we've got.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
To punish this guy.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
Have you seen some of the other celebrations in the
NFL throughout the course of the year. I mean, Jamiir
Gibbs against the Bears, scored, went to the goal post,
was grinding on the goalpost with two other teammates around
him dancing. It got called back for a holding penalty.
Then he scored again and did the exact same grinding

(36:37):
celebration with two teammates celebrating around him, and nobody thought
anything of it. They're just like, oh, whatever, listen, you know,
who's ever grinded on a goalpost before? What's wrong with that?
So some of these punishments what they decide. And also
like people are like, oh, you know, he brandished a firearm?
Did he really though, I mean, did he really like
you ever looked at a buddy of year say, hey, baby,

(36:58):
you and me today and you do you like a
little finger gun at him? Is that brandishing a firearm?
Are you just trying to be cheesy? I don't get it.

Speaker 7 (37:04):
Next, Nuggets coach Mike Malone told the media that the
Kings showed no class in how they handled the firing
of coach Mike Brown. Yesterday, Jonas, do you care? Yeah,
I actually do, because you got screwed. So apparently Mike Brown.
They're in the midst of a losing street. The Sacramento Kings.
By the way, the Sacramento Kings are an NBA team
For people that aren't familiar.

Speaker 5 (37:25):
NBA is a basketball league.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
They shoot a round ball, goes into a hoop there
that's on both sides of the court. It's got a
net on the bottom of the basketball. You probably haven't
seen it based on the numbers, you probably haven't watched
much of it this year. But so Mike Brown's coaching
the Kings. They've been disappointing this year. I think they're
like five games under five hundred. And he goes to practice,

(37:47):
he has a media session he's in his car on
his way to the airport to fly out with them
on a road trip and then gets called and they
tell them that you're fired, Like wait what? And so
not only is Mike Malone burying the Sacramento Kings for

(38:08):
the decision, Steve Kerrz chimed in on it, obviously because
that's somebody who coached with him in Golden State for
a long time. Tom Thibodeau has talked about it like
he's gotten completely screwed by the Sacramento Kings. Then it's
not the first time. I mean, look what happened to
Darvin Ham and the Lakers, Like they win this quote
unquote in Season Cup. In the next year, it's like

(38:29):
he's got to go. Like the NBA, the players run
that league, and if a player doesn't like you or
they're not getting along with you, you're on the hook
and you're gonna be gone. And that's the way it goes.
And coaches around the NBA realize it and now they're
speak it out about it. So good for them. Next.

Speaker 7 (38:45):
The much famed New Jersey drone sightings have continued to
fall as the holidays come to a close. Following an
early December surge. I'm assuming there might be less flights
in the air. I don't know, Jonas. Do you care?

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (38:57):
I care. Let me tell you why.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Look, I have no idea whether or not it's a
drone looking for nuke parts, or whether or not it's
you know, like some kid who got a drone for
you know, his bot mitz fun. He's like firing it
up into the sky to like look at people, or
maybe he's like a peeping tom.

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Like I have no.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Idea, like what the hell these things are for. But
the point is it does open up conversation. Like there's
a new UFO documentary from James Fox. It's out on Amazon.
I watched it last night. There's, I mean, just a
great encounter with the UFO. So at least it adds
a little spice here. And let's be truthful, it's not
like the NFL has given us a lot of good

(39:37):
content to break down this week. So if we can
talk a little bit more about drones, if we can
work in a UFO siding or two, if we can
confuse Santa Sleigh with some sort of a you know,
an unidentified or aerial phenomenon, a UAP or whatever, they're
calling them now because they come out of the water.
Sometimes at least it adds some interesting content to what's
been a really mediocre NFL week. So let the drones fly.

(40:01):
As long as they don't peep on me. I'm good
with everything involved. You know, there's something missing from a
place in the NFL, and all they got to do
is look across town and they can see it like
it's very obvious. We will get into that for you
coming up here in just a couple of moments from now.
Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. You can listen to this

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up the show talking about the situation with the LA Chargers, who,
by the way, the chart Argers do have a twenty
seven to seven lead over the New England Patriots. Another

(41:06):
touchdown for lab mcconkeye. He's got two on the day
from Justin Herbert. So the Chargers are running away with
this game. As expected, the Patriots are not a very
good football team, and so the situation there looks just
about how we all expected it to be. Was the
Chargers going into Foxborough taking care of businesses. The Patriots
are just limping towards the finish line. So that said,

(41:31):
you look at the decision by the LA Chargers to
bring in Jim Harbaugh, and my point earlier was look
coaching matters, and yeah, he's got a quarterback there, and
there's some talent there, but it's not like everybody came
into the season going, man oh man, the Chargers have
the most talented team in the league. You haven't years past.

(41:51):
But the difference is they have a coach who you
look at and go, man, this is going to work,
because it's worked everywhere he's gone. And what's so funny
about that is that this was like a coach who
wanted to be elsewhere, believe it or not, Like this
coach had like two preferred places Jim Harbaugh did. Like

(42:15):
he did two places like he wanted to go to,
like he preferred to go to, you know, like one
of them was the Raiders and you know they went
with Antonio Peers because you know, the players there really
liked him and all that. And then the other one
was last year he reached out and was interested in

(42:35):
the Bears head coaching job. Jim Harbaugh. You know that guy,
this guy who like has changed the optimism with the
Chargers unlike we've seen in a long time. There.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
Like he wanted to be in Chicago because that was
the team that drafted him.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
He played for the Bears for a long time and
you know, like he's still very fond of that and
he wanted to be there. But the Bears were, like
Kevin Warren said, Nan.

Speaker 5 (43:01):
And I, We're not interested.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
We're not We're you know, we're just gonna we're gonna
go with Matt Eberflus again this year. We're gonna give
him a chance. All good, listen, all good, gonna give
him a chance. And then after he gets fired, then
we're gonna turn the keys over to an offensive coordinator
passing game coordinator who just became the offensive coordinator because
we've already fired the offensive coordinator. And as you've seen

(43:25):
how that's all played out, like you've seen it. And
you know what's so funny about this, I was thinking
about it. The Bears are like the Cubs without Wrigley Field,
which without Wrigley Field, the Cubs are just an underwhelming,

(43:47):
historically bad franchise.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
Who's won one.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
World Series that's gonna keep them afloat and keep everybody
into the team for decades. Upon deck aides, and it
kind of sounds similar because the Bears have been living
off the eighty five season for ever now ever since then,
it's almost like, hey, that's good. That'll that'll just carry,

(44:13):
that'll carry the optimism, that'll carry like everything we look
back on this and that, And I've talked about it before.
Since that eighty five season, they've got six playoff wins.
Like they've been bad, they've had some good teams, Like
they've had some really good players. They've listened in the
two thousands, they had some really good players. Devin Hester
is a Hall of Famer, er Lackers, a Hall of Famer,
Olden Krutz, borderline Hall of Famer. Like they've had really

(44:35):
really good players, like good team Lovey Smith was a
good coach. You know what they did after he went
ten and six one year he fired him. Yeah, you know,
why not. But it's literally the Cubs, but without like
the awesome venue that they play at. It's like a

(44:56):
restaurant that's got mediocre food, but there's something else about
the restaurant that you go to be a part of.
Like I don't want to name the place, but there's
this place in town. It's an Italian place, and the
food's like, you know not, I mean it's okay, Like

(45:19):
you order chicken palm and like, you know, you're hoping
that it's not burnt, Like the sauce isn't all that flavorful,
Like you know, occasionally you'll get an espresso at the
end of the meal. Maybe it's hop maybe it's not.
You know, you're just hoping there's you know, enough caffeine
in it to like overcome the food coming. But like
the point is, like you go to this place and

(45:42):
the venue feels festive.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
The waiters sing.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
To you, like as you're waiting for your meal, they'll
just start singing opera and they're really really good, Like
they're singing Italian opera. Like it is like that place
is awesome because of that, Like they recognize, hey, you
know what, food's not all that great, all right, and

(46:07):
it's hit or miss on on exactly what you're gonna
get from one meal to the next.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
But you know what, though, here's some entertainment.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
We've got waiters who are like professional singers, and the
whole place it feels like you're in Italy. Like it
feels Italian. You know, it's like going to a Mexican restaurant. Look,
the food's not all that great, but man, they got
the best mariachi band that comes to your tables. They're
making your guacamole. Like it's if you were to take
away the singing waiters and the mariachi band, you just

(46:34):
got a mediocre restaurant to bad restaurant. That's it. But
they recognize, hey, at least you've got something to offer you.
The Cubs are historically a bad franchise, a nickel and
dime franchise, but Wrigley Fields awesome. People go there when

(46:55):
it's not baseball season, just to be in the neighborhood
because they look at it and go, this is history.
This has been here for you know, a century. This
like you got the it's it's right next to all
these cool spots, and there's a vibe there and Wrigleyville's fun.
Like you like, you go there and you don't even
care that the team sucks. I was there two years ago,

(47:20):
Like you're walking around the place looking at it. I
remember some guy stop me and he goes, hey, man,
you think they were actually good. I'm like, yeah, right,
Like you know, like there's people everywhere, like it's a
tourist attraction. You gotta go when they take when you
look up like things to do in Chicago, Wrigley Field's
one of them. You know, it's not a Bears game.

(47:43):
It's not like they don't even want to be in
that stadium anymore. They can't even find a place to
put the new stadium in. They're still arguing over us
that Arlington is it? Here is it? They're like, we're
not quite sure, but here's a new drawing of the stadium.
Look at this. It's all like, ah, this is what
it's going to look like, yeah, where people supposed to park?

(48:05):
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Like they're the restaurant
with bad food and no entertainment. Like how many times
do they have to be presented on national TV or
a big spotlight game where you go, this team is

(48:26):
not good at all, Like if you were to look
across town, at least, at the very least, the Cubs.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
Can give you Wrigley Field.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
Like you remember Mark Cuban was trying to buy the
Cubs years ago, and they tried to say, well, listen enough,
if you want to buy the Cubs, Wrigley Field is
a separate thing altogether. That's a set, And Mark Cuban said, now,
I'm good, thanks, Like why would I want to buy
this team if I can't have Wrigley Field. That's the attraction,
that's the singing waiter, that's the mariachi band. Other than that,

(49:00):
this is below average food. The Bears don't even have that.
They know that. So I'm looking at this on Thursday
and you look back to all of the ten game
losing streak and all, and it's like.

Speaker 5 (49:16):
Oh, okay, all right, we're just gonna wow.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Let's let's mercifully get get to the end of the
season and they but we've got no like, there's not
as much hope as you think that there is. And
what's playing out that everybody's just now tuning into has
been going on for decades. They've been living off one season.
They've been living off some great players at certain points

(49:43):
of time, and other than that, they've been floundering trying
to figure out what direction to go. And you're watching
a team like the Chargers, who's got Jim Harbaughs show
up to town and all of their historical dysfunction and
issues and late game mismanagement and injury, all of that
isn't even just we're not even talking about anymore, because
there's actual hope there. Okay, even if they don't win

(50:04):
a Super Bowl this year, and they probably won't, at
least you know they've got the guy who's gonna send
him in the right direction. With the Bears, you don't
have that, and you don't have a bunch else. Jonas
Knox here, Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knox at
the Jonas Knox and X By the way, thirty to
seven is the score there. The Chargers over the Patriots

(50:26):
third quarter, four minutes and change left to go in. Hey,
what do you know? Another wipe out in the NFL
this week? Awesome? So another bad game that the NFL
has given us here. But maybe who knows, maybe Drake
Mail starts slinging it around a little bit and get him.

Speaker 5 (50:39):
Back into this game. We'll keep you posting.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
By the way, a lot of positive feedback here on
social media, A big fans of the program thus far.
On what we're doing here on a Saturday. By the
final Saturday show of the twenty twenty four years, you
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(51:04):
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(51:32):
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(51:56):
a Saturday, an hour two of this two hour extravaganza.
Coming up next here though, from the tire rack dot
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in the NFL has got a really interesting decision to
make really interesting but apparently they're not taking any chances.

Speaker 5 (52:12):
We'll get into that for you here on FSR.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio, by the way, coming up
a little over ten minutes from now here from the
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I believe he's wrong. I believe he took the wrong
approach when it comes to something in the world of

(52:35):
football here that he has said recently. We'll get into
that for you again a little over ten minutes from now.

Speaker 5 (52:41):
Here on FSR.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
A quick update for you from the game currently taking
place at Foxborough.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
It is the Chargers with a thirty.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
To seven lead over the New England Patriots. A minute
twenty left to go on the third quarter, it's been
all la.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
New England's trying, man.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
I mean they're going forward on fourth down from their
own territory. They're doing whatever they can and it's not
enough at all or even close. So it looks like
New England's on their way to four to a three
and thirteen record. With one game remaining, the Chargers are
going to be ten and six. What is interesting about
the Chargers situation when it comes to the playoffs. If

(53:17):
you're the Chargers in the Broncos like, you're looking around going, dude,
is there any possibility or any hope for us to
get into the five seed? Like, is there any hope
for you to get in the five seat? Because whoever
gets in the five seed, because right now the Pittsburgh
Steelers have the five spot, whoever gets there. I mean,

(53:41):
you're looking at Houston in the first round. Of all
the teams in the AFC playoffs, especially the division leaders,
anybody in the five spot I look at as being
a team that can beat Houston any of them. Other
than that, you're gonna end up with either Buffalo or Baltimore.
So if Baltimore is sitting there and maintains that three spot,

(54:02):
and you're the sixth seed, whether it be Denver, whether
it be the Chargers. I actually think it might be
more difficult to go in and beat Baltimore right now
than it would be Buffalo, because I'll say this, man,
I've been pounding the table for Josh Allen as MVP
for weeks and weeks and weeks. I think I might
be wrong. Lamar Jackson's unbelievable. We were talking about this
on the show this week, that he was already an

(54:26):
MVP last year and he's gotten better, significantly better. And
I don't know that there's another quarterback in the league
who's had as good of a year as Lamar Jackson.
He's unbelievable, and Josh Allen's had a great year. And
whoever wins, there's going to be a debate, because of
course there is at sports. There's always going to be
a debate. But I think Lamar Jackson's got a real

(54:49):
opportunity to steal this thing, which three four weeks ago,
I thought it was a done deal. I thought Josh
Allen was a slam dunk MVP. I thought it was over.
I thought, listen, it's the store it's you know, he's
never wonted. He's never man. I don't care how many
times Lamar Jackson has won it. He's better this year
than any of his MVP seasons before, Like he's gotten

(55:13):
that much better. And so if you just look at
the Baltimore Ravens right now, I don't know that they're
not the most dangerous team in the AFC or in
the NFL period, based on what they have figured out
and what they're putting together. And then it becomes the
conversation of, well, listen, we see what happens in the
postseason with them, because they've come up short every single time.
But I just I thought it was a done deal.

(55:37):
I thought Josh Allen had this whole thing wrapped up.
I was wrong. Lamar Jackson should be the MVP. Whether
or not he wins it, who knows, that's a whole
nother discussion. But he's been the best quarterback in the NFL.
And I don't even think it's close. At the Jonas
Knocks on X. At the Jonas Knocks and X, and
you can hang out with us as always on the
iHeartRadio app. There was a report from Diana Versine of

(56:01):
the Athletic earlier that was discussing the situation in Minnesota
at quarterback, because you know, the Vikings find themselves in
a really interesting spot. So apparently the Minnesota Vikings, who
have Sam Darnald as their quarterback for ten million dollars
a year, apparently there is some discussion about what they

(56:22):
will do moving forward, and that they'd like to bring
him back at least for another year so they can
either franchise tag and which is going to be over
forty million dollars, they could give him a shorter term deal,
whatever the case may be.

Speaker 5 (56:36):
But what makes this interesting is.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
That JJ McCarthy was drafted just this past year in
the top ten, and you would assume that that would
be their franchise quarterback. And if I'm the Minnesota Vikings
and I'm looking around at this, I don't know that
I even risk or take a chance at moving on

(56:58):
from Sam Darnold. I think I try and lock him
up long term. And you could say, well, it's just
because he's with Kevin O'Connell. Okay, Well, if Kevin O'Connell's
not going anywhere, what does it matter? Like who cares
that it's the system? If it's working, go with it.
And if they make a deep run, which they've got

(57:19):
an opportunity to based on the injuries and what's happening
in the NFC. If they make a deep run and
Sam Darnold continues to play the way that he's playing,
how the hell do you move off of that? Like,
how the hell do you just bring him back for
a one year deal? Like if you could lock him
up long term and you see, hey, this works, this
has got staying power here. We've already got Justin Jefferson,

(57:41):
We've got Jordan Adison, and look, Addison's a really good player.
I mean, I wouldn't let him pick me up from
the airport, but he's a really good player, you know,
like just you know some of the other stuff he's
gonna work on. But point is, Minnesota's got talent. And
if you can have that talent in place around to

(58:01):
Sam Donald, even though you've already drafted a quarterback.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
Why would you take the chance?

Speaker 2 (58:07):
Like like why go in a different direction just because
you want to play kate to the move that you
already made, Like you didn't expect this from Sam darna
You were optimistic, like Justin Jefferson was optimistic. You know,
obviously knew JJ McCarthy was injured, He knew that Kirk
Cousins was gone, but you were you were hoping like

(58:28):
there was some hope there that then and some optimism
that Sam Donald was going to be able to get
it done for you. But I think he's performed at
a level that is way beyond anything that they thought.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
Now.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
I think it's completely opened the door for them to
want to make him their long term answer quarterback. Now
what you do with JJ McCarthy. Pete Prisco and I
were kind of throwing it around during the week. Look,
there's gonna be some teams on the outside looking in,
some teams that wanted a quarterback in last year's draft
that weren't able to get one. Do you entertain the
idea of maybe trading JJ McCarthy, even though he's never played,

(59:02):
even though he's coming off this injury. Do you entertain
the idea of trading him if you believe Sam Donald
your guy, and one of those teams that's going to
be out there that's going to be looking for a
quarterback that's going to be on the outside looking in
at one of these top quarterbacks in this draft that
was on the outside looking in at one of the
top quarterbacks in last year's draft is the Raiders. And

(59:24):
I just wonder, if you're the Minnesota Vikings, do you
call up the Raiders and say, are you interested in
JJ McCarthy, because if he was there and available last year,
they would have drafted him. I think Sam Donald's completely
changed the conversation for the Vikings. I think he's completely
changed it. And if you want to do the Michigan

(59:45):
connection and say, hey, Tom Brady's going to have personnel
say there and JJ McCarthy is a Michigan guy, like,
maybe maybe there's some But if I'm Minnesota, I'm looking
around going, man, this isn't just a one year deal
for me. I'm not franchising him to see what I
got in JJ McCarthy, Why take the chance at all? Like,

(01:00:06):
if it's me, I'm locking him up long term. And
if I've got to move on from JJ McCarthy, so
be it. But I think I found my quarterback of
the future. And if anybody wants to say, well, no,
he's gonna regress. It's the Sam Donald of old. I
don't know, man, Like this looks pretty good and all
the key ingredients are there. Kevin O'Connell's going to be

(01:00:28):
locked up long term. They're not letting him go justin
Jefferson has locked up long term. Why would you not
lock up a guy who's having the best year of
his career and one of the best quarterback seasons in
the NFL just because you drafted an unknown in the
top ten last year. To me see what maybe you
could potentially get for JJ McCarthy. I think the Raiders

(01:00:49):
make a ton of sense, and I would go with
Sam Donald long term. So the theory and the info
put out from Diana Rassinia that the Vikings are thinking
we want to keep him long term there in Minnesota.
What that looks like, we'll see. I think it makes
a ton of sense. He's been fantastic this year. Jonas
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Speaker 5 (01:01:40):
By the way, they do parlay parties on that show.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
As well too. I do like the fact that Jeff
Schwartz has become a degenerate gambler. Good for him, good friend,
Like I think I was kind of there when he
started his journey down this road. And Brian Knows always
been a degenerate gambler. So it's good to see those
guys are getting a little bit of love. And they
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out here every single Sunday morning. By the way, we

(01:02:02):
are going to get into a discussion about somebody, maybe
the greatest of all time, who apparently is taking the
wrong approach when it comes to one of the great
things we get every single football season. We'll get into
that for you here on FSR, but for all the
latest from around the world of sports, including the most
recent scoring touchdown for the La Chargers at Boxborough. He's

(01:02:27):
the one and only Martin.

Speaker 4 (01:02:28):
Wise, that'd be JK.

Speaker 6 (01:02:29):
Dobbins right through the a gap, one touchdown on the
ground for him, seventy six yards rushing, one touchdown total.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
For the New England Patriots.

Speaker 6 (01:02:37):
Right now, it's not been pretty doing thirty seven to
seven score with twelve minutes left in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
You were talking earlier about this.

Speaker 6 (01:02:45):
How you know you would just you know, all we
wanted for Christmas was a good game.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
Yeah, still haven't gotten one.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Nope.

Speaker 6 (01:02:53):
Right now we're looking at the winnings. Teams have scored
one hundred and three points. If this margin of third
seven and seven between the Chargers and the Patriots Holls,
that means the teams that have won from Christmas to
now will have scored one hundred and three the losing
teams will score twenty two. So one hundred and three

(01:03:13):
to twenty two scoring margin there wins and losses. That's
exactly the way they drew it up. Yeah, jeez man,
Justin Herbert putting people's fantasy teams on his back. Three touchdowns,
two hundred and eighty one yards through the air, Lad McConkey,
ninety four yards on the ground.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
I'm perceiving. I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:03:31):
Two touchdowns as well to Mario Douglass got that touchdown.
Drake May leading the Patriots and passing in rushing one
oh seven through the air thirty two on the ground
tells you how the day's been going for New England.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
He has a touchdown pass.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
He was knocked out of the game in the first half,
evaluated for a head injury. He came back in the game, obviously,
Christian Gonzalez did not. He also had a head injury.
He's ruled out. Panthers put running back chu Bu Hubbard
on ir with the CAF strained. Dolphins downgrade quarterback to
a tongue by Loa to doubtful with the hip injury.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Can't play. Tyler Huntley will start against the Browns.

Speaker 6 (01:04:02):
Quarterback Anthony Richardson ruled out for Indianapolis. He's got foot
in back soreness. Joe Flacco starting against the Giants. Titans
running back Tony Poler didn't travel with the team.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
He's got the flu.

Speaker 6 (01:04:12):
The status in jeopardy for Sunday's game at Jacksonville. Jalen Hurts,
Eagles quarterback did not clear concussion protocol. Kenny Pickett gets
the start Sunday. Pro Football Hall of Fame First time
finalist for the class of twenty twenty five are Eli Manning,
Terrell Suggs, Luke Keigley, Marshall, Yonda, and Adam Vinetteri. In
college football, Yukon beat North Carolina twenty seven and fourteen

(01:04:35):
in the Fenway Bowl and the New Mexico Bowl. TCU
has a twenty dozering lead over at Louisiana with three
minutes left in the first half. Nebraska beat Boston College
twenty to fifteen in the Pinstripe Bowl. Georgia quarterback Carson
Beck declared for the NFL Draft. He had UCL surgery
in his throwing arm last week. Bucks point guard Damian

(01:04:56):
Lillard set to play today against the Bulls. He's missed
the last four games. Right now, with one forty two
left in the first quarter, the Atlanta Hawks lead the
Miami Heat twenty eight to twenty six.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
Jonas back to.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
You, Thanks Martin Jonas. Knox here on Fox Sports Radio.
Coming up in about fifteen minutes from now, we are
going to have the week seventeen edition of Knox Locks
that will be yours here on FSR. I wait, look,
last week, we're kind of we find ourselves in the
same spot, all right, But it all comes down to
the final two weeks, trying to get over the hump,
trying to do something we haven't done I think all

(01:05:28):
year long, if if my memory serves me correct. So
we will get into the details on that for you again,
coming up here at about twelve minutes from now from
the tiraq dot com studio. So I love me some
Nick Saban, all right. I love the fact that he
is forever a red ass. I love the fact that

(01:05:50):
he got pissed off at Shane Gillis and it became really,
really awkward. I love it. I got to disagree with
Nick Saban on something. He was on the Pat McAfee
show this week and he was talking about Ohio State fans,
and he was talking about Ohio State fans who were
really caught up in this Michigan rivalry so much so

(01:06:12):
that it feels like it supersedes even them going after
a national championship. Let's take a listen.

Speaker 8 (01:06:18):
These are high state fans. You know, they got a
psychotic obsession with Michigan and they need to go get
therapy or something to try to get it bit because
they have a chance to win the national championship, and
here you are. You know, nobody's excited about their opportunity
to play because they lost to Michigan, which was a
tough game.

Speaker 5 (01:06:37):
So I totally disagree with him. And here's why.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
When the expansion of the college football playoffs happened, one
of the things that people were worried about is, well,
you're going to diminish the regular season. You know, you're
you're going to diminish some of these other games that
are out there. And to a certain extent, I could
understand the logic, but my point on it was always this,
there are certain rivalries in sports that you don't need

(01:07:05):
a record or a ranking attached to to make it worthwhile.
You just don't. There are certain rivalries in sports that
you don't need a bunch on the line as far
as a chance to win a conference championship or a
chance to go to a national championship. You don't need
all that for it to matter and mean a lot

(01:07:27):
to a lot of people. And Michigan and Ohio State
is one of those. And it feels like the pressure
and the heat has gotten ratcheted up in that rivalry
over the past several years. Maybe more so than in
years past. And if you talk to enough people there,
they try and explain it to you as no, you

(01:07:50):
don't understand, this is a big deal. Like Brady Quinn
grew up in the area and he would tell me
stories about it. I was like, wait, really, Albert Breer,
who's a guest here on Fox Sports Radio. You hear
him on Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. You
hear him with Colin Coward. Albert's fantastic. Albert is a
Ohio State alum. Remember, Like we asked him one time, Hey,

(01:08:12):
would you rather beat Michigan but lose a national title
or vice versa, win a national title and lose to Michigan,
And he said, I'd rather beat Michigan and lose a
national title, which is bizarre, which doesn't make any sense

(01:08:32):
at any level in the NFL, like it doesn't matter,
Like you can't even you can't even comprehend it. Like
if you're an NFL team and you lost to your
arch rival twice during the season, but you ended up
winning a super Bowl, nobody cares. You're the super Bowl
champion Ohio State. And it was part of the reason
why I kind of liked Tennessee last week because I

(01:08:54):
wasn't sure what I was going to get from Ohio
State because they completely melted down in that game to Michigan.
They completely unraveled in that game. And you could feel
the intensity and the pressure ratchet up as that game
got late, because they were like, oh god, we were
supposed to run away with this game, and now we
find ourselves trailing and it's the fourth quarter with five

(01:09:14):
minutes left, or it's the fourth quarter with two minutes left,
or oh my god, the clocks winding down, we're actually
gonna lose. You could feel it. It was palpable while
you watch the game. We were on the air what
was happening, Like, you don't ever want to lose that.
So when Nick Saban says, well, they need, you know,
to get some sort of therapy and that no, no, no, no,

(01:09:36):
they got it right, Like that is proof that some
of these expansions don't diminish what that game means. And
the second it does, that's when I think college football's
got a problem. That's when I think sports has got
a problem when all of a sudden, the rivalries start
to go away because and the intensity of the rivalries,

(01:09:56):
because one team did this and the other team went
in direction. No, no, no, that game still got a
matter and what we saw between those two teams a
month ago and just sort of the fallout ever since
to where look, Michigan is nowhere in the conversation of
a national title this year, and they're running around like
they won the national title because they beat Ohio State.

(01:10:22):
But the two different conversations, Ohio State looked maybe like
the best team of the opening round of the college
football playoffs last weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
Yet they'll never.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Get the taste out of their mouth of oh my god,
but we lost to Michigan. Like I'm telling you, they're
the seniors that came back to beat Michigan because they
hadn't done it in their career. If they were to
go on and win a national title, they'll walk around
with that ring and celebrate being a national champion, and
they'll never be able to say, yeah, but I beat Michigan,

(01:10:57):
like it's gonna haunt them the rest of their life.

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
So when Nick Saban was all they need, no they don't.
This is what.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
College football has to have, otherwise it just becomes the
same as the NFL and the same as everywhere else where. Hey,
we only put a premium on you winning a national title,
and if you don't win a championship, then nothing else matters. No, no, no,
This is proof that those teams could be bottom feeders.
They could be national championship considerations. They get the fact

(01:11:26):
that they care that much and they're this depressed about
it tells you everything you need to know. Let's go
live to our I have a thought on depression inside
of Christophe for the latest.

Speaker 9 (01:11:33):
Quell I do, I do do depression. But either way,
I grew up in Toledo, which is for those who
don't know where, Toledo is just right on the border
with Michigan and Ohio state. In fact, in history, Ohio
and Michigan fought a war over Toledo, and the game
is usually seen as an extension of that. But I
think to your point, Jonas, I've been talking with people

(01:11:55):
back home who are still rooting against Ryan Day in
these playoffs just because they want a better.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
Excuse to fire him.

Speaker 9 (01:12:02):
And you know, you know the name comparison that comes
up to and it's a dming name, J Cooper, John Cooper,
who went I believe two ten and one against Michigan
in his tenure there, and that's all you will ever
know John Cooper for is that he could not beat Michigan.
But this is this is what hangs over Ryan Day's
head and should hang over.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
His head and bo John Cooper won like over one
hundred games or something, yes the time.

Speaker 7 (01:12:29):
Yeah, I just want to say real like real quick
from Nick Saban to say this, like it's really rich
because like you would have needed he would have needed
like secret service protection to go grocery shopping in Alabama
if Bama ever lost like three straight to Auburn.

Speaker 9 (01:12:43):
Or Yeah, I was gonna say, like you you played
the Iron Bowl and you're talking like.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
This, come on, yeah, yeah, and uh it's that's why
I'm like, dude, like this is like Ohio State fans
being so miserable and still great is hilarious.

Speaker 5 (01:12:59):
That's that's the point, Martin, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:13:02):
Jonas c The thing you said, Michigan fans are walking
around like they won the national championship as a result
of this. What you're missing is we did win the
national championship last year and then the entirety of the
program left, like eighteen seniors, Jim Harpen the team, right
now that's up thirty on the Patriots is being coached
by the coach, and the defensive coordinator is the same

(01:13:23):
defensive coordinator that was coaching in the National Championship Game
last year and still undefeated against their rivals, and got
the quarterback that everybody wanted in the port like got
Bryce Underwood. Yeah, this is the best possible scenario for Michigan,
cause we're never gonna be just bad again and still
will be in Ryan Day's head.

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
That's why this is amazing. It is a super Bowl.

Speaker 5 (01:13:45):
It's also the best result for college football.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
The fact that this is even a conversation, like the
fact that Michigan actually pulled it off, went into Ohiowa State.
I'm telling you, man, we were on the air what
was happening, And I'm like, dude, they thought it was
going to be a coronation, like this is going to
be three years for four years pent up frustration they
were going to take out on Michigan. And the second
they started trailing, I thought, oh god, you can feel
them start.

Speaker 5 (01:14:07):
To stress out.

Speaker 9 (01:14:07):
The highest paid roster in the history of college football
and you only scored ten points at home.

Speaker 5 (01:14:14):
But damn they look good last week I'll say they.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
Really did it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
Is a Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio at the
Jonasknox coming up next here though, we will close up
shop on this Saturday with another edition of Knox Locks
right here on FSR. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming
up top of next hour a little over ten minutes
from now here from the Tireraq dot Com studios, and
we'll be Alex Curry and Carmen Vitally. They'll be taking
over the airwaves here. Make sure you stick around. We've

(01:14:39):
got NFL games going on, we got Bowl games, we
got all sorts of discussion and conversation to be had,
So Alex and Carma will have you covered here in
a little over ten minutes from now A quick update
on the blowout at Foxborough. The Chargers have a thirty
seven to seven lead four and a half minutes left
to go in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 5 (01:15:00):
Justin Herbert has.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Been taken out of the game, like why would you
need him in there? Taylor Heineke is in at quarterback
for the Chargers and they're looking to put together the
finishing touches on this one there and move to ten
and six on the season. While New England will drop
to three and thirteen. So congratulations to the Bolts. They
get it done on the road again and Jim Harbaugh

(01:15:23):
continues and impress it for a season with the LA Chargers.
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it is time for this lock it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Let's lock it Knox Locks, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
So we go back to last week, and last week
we were sitting at five hundred looking to get over
the hump. Haven't been over five hundred the entire season.
Fought Claude to get back to five hundred, and so
we decided, you know what, We're gonna ride on the
Pittsburgh Steelers plus seven at Baltimore. They've had Lamar Jackson's number. Oops.

(01:16:23):
Thankfully we kept it in the AFC North and we
took the Bengals minus eight and a half over the Browns.
Cincinnati gets it done for us there, and then we
had the Vikings and the Seahawks, with Seattle getting three
points at home. If you watch that game, you know
that was exactly the score. So that was a push
which gave us a one one and one week a

(01:16:45):
week ago, which keeps us at twenty three twenty three
and two. We will try this week to finally get
over five.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
Hundred thought Broncos at Bengals, and we're gonna do it
with old Faithful the Cincinnati Bank.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
I will take the Bengals minus the three at home.
This game is kicking off a little over a half
hour from now on NFL Network. Look, Denver's been a
great story, but Cincinnati is alive. They are alive thanks
to that Denver loss to the LA Chargers.

Speaker 5 (01:17:16):
If you remember, this was actually a flex game.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Sean Payton was okay with this because he thought, listen,
I'm gonna go ahead and flex out. We will accept
the short week because it'll give us extra time for
this game on the back end and getting ready for
the Cincinnati Bengals. But I think the way the Cincinnati
Bengals have been playing. I'm gonna roll with Cincy at
home here, and I think they get it done. I

(01:17:40):
think it also would be who the NFL. I'm not
saying he pull any Shenanigans. As great of a story
as Denver is. We'd love to see Cincinnati and Joe
Burrow in the postseason.

Speaker 5 (01:17:49):
We would love to that is.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
A live dog if they were to get in there
against either team they meet in the first round, with
the way Joe Burrows playing quarterback. But I like Cincinnati
in this spot. Give me the Bengals minus three.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
Boodeta Cold said Giants.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
So Anthony Richardson is out, Joe Flacco is in. I'm
gonna go with the Giants here against my better judgment.
I'll take the Giants plus seven and a half at home. Listen,
Indianapolis is not a good team. If you're the Giants,
can you just not suck out loud for another week?

Speaker 5 (01:18:21):
At least keep it within a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
If you can do that, you would give us a
win here against Joe Flacco.

Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
I'm gonna roll with New York here plus the seven.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
And a half book deta Packers and Vikings.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
I nearly took the Commanders minus three and a half,
but something smelled fishy about the lines. I'm gonna take
the Minnesota Vikings and Sam Darnold minus a point against
Green Bay. I think they're the better team. I think
they get it done in a tight one against the Packers.
All go with Minnesota and that is your Week seventeen
edition of Knoxious.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
Knocks.

Speaker 5 (01:18:55):
It's been a fun year.

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
I want to thank Bo Benson and Chris Purfett, Martin Wise,
everybody who was a part of it, enjoyed it, Appreciate
all that you hanging out with us listening here and
even the insults, they're hilarious. Alex and Carmen are next
year on FSR

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
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