Jonas Knox Ponders About A Potential Pete Carroll And Russell Wilson Reunion In Las Vegas, How Daniel Snyder Feels About His Former Washington Team, Suzuki's Non-Voter Culprit, And More!!

Jonas Knox opens the question about whether Pete Carroll, who just landed as the new head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, may reunite with pending free agent QB Russell Wilson this offseason. Jonas also does a deep dive into what former owner of the Washington Commanders, Daniel Snyder, may be feeling after his former team is contending for a Super Bowl. Plus, Jonas talks more about the rest of the coaching hires in the NFL, Patrick Mahomes insight on the refs, who really left Ichiro Suzuki off their voting ballot, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have to stop from beginning. Jonas Knocks, you thought
you knew me, You didn't know anything about me.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
He's crazier than a else. Wrapped that guy, Jonas Knocks,
you heard me.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Go bring some darkness is lighting up your speakers to
establish an alibi for the day. From the trag dot
com Fox Sports Radio Studios, here's Jonas Knocks.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yep. So okay, I'll be part of this world. I mean,
you're hoping, you're just hoping that it's gonna work out,

(00:50):
but it does feel like a departure from what we're
used to with one organization in the NFL. Will explain
who that is coming up here in just a couple
of moments from now, Jonah Knox, Fox Sports Radio. You
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Great movie it's about if anybody hasn't seen it, it's
about a guy who was one of the top professional
wrestlers in the industry, and he was in the biggest places,
on the biggest stages, in the biggest venues, in the
biggest arenas. And then they pan to where he is

(01:54):
now and they show him getting dressed inside a classroom
at an elementary school, because those are the venues that
he's performing at now. And you look at that and
you go, damn, you were on all those marquees and

(02:15):
all those big buildings. It's like seeing a band play
at like a local festival that used to be one
of the top acts in the country, and all of
a sudden they're playing at a county fair next to
some guy who's seeing how many corn dogs he can
shovel into his mouth in ten minutes to try and
break Joey Chestnuts record. Like, you just look at that,

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and the perception is got it feel small. Now they're
getting paid, they're doing what they love, but the optics
of it feel small, you kind of have a little ah.
So that's that's what they're up to. Don't you get
the same vibe with the Cowboys hiring Brian Schottenheimer. And

(03:05):
this is not a knock on Brian Schottenheimer because everything
that you hear from anybody is great. Dude has put
in his time, has paid his dues. Everybody's happy for him.
I'm happy for him. I loved his deb Marty Schottenheimer,
one of my favorite coaches of all time, should be
in the Hall of Fame. Two hundred career wins, should

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be in the Hall of Fame. But the point is
it's not so much a knock on Brian Schottenheimer. It's
a great opportunity for him. It's a knock on Jerry Jones,
because what have we been hearing for weeks now. First
of all, Mike McCarthy, super Bowl champion. We're gonna get

(03:48):
a deal done, no problem. Not worried about it in negotiations,
that's where it's gonna go. And you didn't, ah, But
but don't worry about it because you know, maybe they
can transition over to Bill Belichick. All I mean, greatest
coach in the history of the game, and he hasn't
signed his deal with North Carolina and it's only a

(04:08):
ten million dollar opt out and buy out, and in
Junitry Nope, Yeah, but don't worry about it because Coach
Prime is interested in the gig. Dion Sanders hottest name
in college football, one of the greatest players in the
history of the NFL, a former Cowboy, won a Super

(04:29):
Bowl there in Dallas. Coach Prime to Dallas, man, that
feels blockbuster, that feels marquee. That's gonna be in every
big stadium, and Ben Nope, it just feels small for
the Cowboys. When Jerry Jones has been trying to sell

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everybody on how great the gig is, all the big
names that are interested, all the ones are. How many
people put up gambling sites or links to gambling sites saying, hey,
Dion's the favorite, And then all of a sudden, within
the last week, things started to change. Remember we were

(05:13):
talking about it a week ago. Yeah, but Kellen Moore's
the slight favorite now, and you know it's kind of Meanwhile,
Jerry Jones is announcing the hiring of Brian Schottenheimer again.
Hope he does a great job. Seems to be a
great guy, but not the guy that was floated out there,

(05:35):
not the guy that was discussed publicly, not the guy
that was going to be the fix all of the Cowboys'
shortcomings over the past couple of years. All we heard
was big name after big name after big name, and meanwhile,
two teams in your division are playing for a chance
to go to a super Bowl that you haven't sniffed

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in decades. It just feels kind of small. It feels
Nickolin dime. It doesn't feel like America's team. It feels tiny.
And Jerry Jones could try and spin this anyway he wants,
and he releases a statement and said, oh, you know,

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Brian Schottenheimer has been an assistant for a long time.
He's been a career assistant, but all that changes now
he's the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. That's fine.
Nobody anywhere was talking about this is the possibility. You
could say whatever you want about Mike McCarthy. I don't
care what Cowboy fan you talk to. If you pulled
them aside a month and a half ago and said,

(06:40):
would you rather have Brian Schottenheimer over Mike McCarthy, nobody
would say yes. But this is Jerry Jones getting everybody's
excitement and everybody's hopes up and all these big names
out there, when the reality is you just stayed in house,

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like that's all this was because you couldn't get all
the big time names to sign on the dotted line.
Mike Rable gone, Ben Johnson, who clowned you with his
offense earlier this year in your house gone, Aaron Glenn gone.

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Every top name that was out there you couldn't land.
They're going to do a great job selling it again.
I hope it goes well. I'm happy he's finally getting
his shot. Probably should have gotten an opportunity years ago,
but has paid his dues. Apparently has a great relationship
with Dak Prescott. But if we're being honest, this wasn't

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what Jerry Jones was trying to sell us and trying
to push out there when he was talking about it's
gonna be okay. Where the Dallas Cowboys they feel small.
It feels like they went from a giant venue playing
in front of one hundred thousand people to behind a
barn somewhere where there's like a monster truck rally outside

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and pig races in between intermissions, just being honest. Jonas
Knox here, Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knox on
X at the Jonas Knox on X. Who's up for
a reunion? All right, let's talk about some reunions here, okay,
because sometimes it's not until you get away from each
other that you start to feel like, hey, you know what,

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upon further review, that wasn't so bad. You know, upon
further review, maybe it wasn't the worst thing in the world. Like,
how soon into his time in Denver before you think
Russell Wilson looked around and went, whoof kind of miss Seattle,

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you know, kind of miss it up there. I mean,
I got my own parking spot, I got my own office.
My wife and I bought this giant house in Denver
that's got four bedrooms and twelve bathrooms. Like when you
have three times as many crap closets as you do
bedrooms in a house. Like that's a statement you're making.

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How soon into that time in Denver do you think
he was, like, man, I kind of miss Pete Carroll
and the Seattle Seahawks, you know, kind of miss all that.
Like what about like when he's in Pittsburgh and you know,
things are starting to ramp up a little bit. He's
recovering from the injury, and then it feels like, hey,
Russ has found a spot. And then all of a sudden,
you know, you lose like four five in a row,

(09:41):
another playoff loss. Reports start to come out. Despite what
you say about loving Pittsburgh, that you and Arthur Smith
didn't really get along, you guys had like a really
troublesome Like you know, at what point do you think
He's looked back while in Pittsburgh and gone, damn, maybe
it wasn't so bad in Seattle. Maybe I shouldn't have
tried to force my way out of there and twist
their arm and how to. But guess what, there's an

(10:05):
opportunity because now his former coach, Pete Carroll is the
brand new head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. And
guess what. Guess who's probably gonna need to find another
spot because it doesn't appear like the Steelers are all
that crazy about bringing them back, but Russell Wilson, And

(10:26):
why the hell wouldn't you. It's an upgraded quarterback. And
for anybody that wants to lead with the story because
this is such easy low hanging fruit, and trust me,
the Raiders give us an opportunity to eat the low
hanging fruit all the time. All Right, they've been a disaster.
Pete Carroll's their sixteenth coach since the year two thousand. Jesus,

(10:52):
just think about that. Sixteen coaches since the year two thousand. Okay,
and the Raiders are looking around and going, Okay, we're
gonna hire Pete Carroll and then you'll get people out
there that want to the lead is Ooh, Raiders hire
seventy three year old Pete Carroll. Dude who cares? Like
who cares? Success is success? The guy doesn't act seventy three,

(11:17):
So what does it matter? Like if he goes in
there and he stabilizes the organization and they're competitive, but
that's all they're asking for. Can we just be somewhat competitive? Look,
I thought in that division, you know why I would
have hired is Steve Spagnolo. Who knows the chiefs better
than Steve Spagnolo? Like, who knows that division from a

(11:39):
defensive standpoint? And if you don't have a quarterback, bring
somebody in that can at least get a couple of
stops and give you a chance. But they go with
Pete Carroll, and I like the hire, and I like
the idea of reuniting with Pete Carroll. According to sources,
they've mendedfenses, They've reconciled. Russell Wilson has had interest in

(12:02):
Vegas in the Raiders in previous years. To me, this
is an opportunity that makes a ton of sense. Like
the goal in Vegas shouldn't be let's go win a
super Bowl, all right, Like the realistic goal should be,
can we just not have chaos? Like we live in

(12:24):
a town in which chaos is around us at all times.
Like you could walk down the strip in Vegas and
see to your left a guy juggling bowling pins, to
your right, a guy asking for change with a prosthetic leg.

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Up in front of you, somebody blowing their entire savings
on a penny slot machine at the Orleans, and right
over there around that corner a hook. Sure, there's everything
you could possibly want in Vegas. It is chaos everywhere.
So Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson, they know each other, They're

(13:10):
probably have a better appreciation for each other. And in
that division, you just need somebody to stabilize everything. You're
not thinking Super Bowls. You're just thinking, let's calm the
waters here. Okay, let's quiet things down a little bit
and just be respectful again, because it's been a long
ass time since that's happened in Vegas for the Raiders.
Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knox

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we are going to take you all the way up
until four pm Eastern time, one o'clock Pacific. We do
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Care later on this hour. We're also going to have
another edition of Knox Locks. Last week might have been
the weirdest Knox Locks that we've ever done as far

(13:54):
as the results go, So we'll have more on that
throughout the course of the show. All of it is
yours here on this two hour extravaganza from the tire
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what's he up to? You know, one of the NFL's
biggest villains in a long time, Hey what's he up to?

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We have our answer. That's next my idle, Jonas Knox.

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Speaker 1 (14:33):
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up in about ten
minutes from now here from the tire Rack dot Com studios.
I'm trying to figure out what one team in the
NFL is doing. I think I might have an idea,
and it doesn't really make a whole hell of a
lot of sense. We will get into that for you
again coming up here a little over ten minutes from

(14:54):
now here on FSR. So, if you're like me, you've
been wondering, and there's nothing wrong. This doesn't make us
bad people, This doesn't make us inconsiderate, this doesn't make
us nosy. But everybody's kind of asking the question, you know, like, hey,
how does Dan Snyder feel about the Commander's success? You know, like, hey,

(15:16):
what's he up to? It's natural? Did you just you
just wonder? It's like, uh, you know, some somebody you
know breaks up with somebody or cheats on him, fools
around on him, you know, ends up sleeping with half
the town because oh I got that dude's broke and
he's a loser, and this and that, and then the

(15:38):
guy wins the lottery like an hour later, and you're thinking, man,
how's she feeling? Like? What? Boy, that's got to be
that's got to be rough. Knowing you are literally an
hour away from a different existence, all the success, all

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that happened and for all happen after you. It doesn't
make you weird. It doesn't make you nosy. You just kire, hey,
what's that like? Well, if you wanted that answer, you
got it. Seth Wickersham and Don Banatta Junior, who do
a great job for ESPN, did a deep dive because

(16:21):
those guys don't write like small columns. It's not like
one paragraph or two paragraphs. They go deep deep dives
and it takes a while to read. And they were
just wonder day, same thing. What's Dan Snyder up to?
How's he feel about this? You know, a guy who
couldn't head for twenty five years, basically for a quarter century,

(16:45):
ran a proud organization into the ground. Like for people
that are unaware, the Washington formally commanders or formally Redskins
now commanders. They spend time as the football team as
well too, very where the whole thing's weird. They were
one of the great organizations in the NFL. Three time

(17:07):
Super Bowl champions, a ton of Hall of Fame players,
a great fan base. Joe Gibbs won Super Bowls with
three different quarterbacks. Like their offensive line, the Hogs, like
all I mean, great players, great players. Dan Snyder takes
over the team, diehard Washington fan literally loved the team. Now,

(17:33):
maybe it was the start of things when it came
to the draft. His first ever draft pick was, you know,
some guy by the name of Lebar Arrington. Listen, I'm
not here. Look, I don't ever heard of them. Yeah,
I don't know the guy either, Right, I don't know
him either. But maybe that was kind of the you know,
the beginning of things. Maybe that was where things went sideways. Again,

(17:55):
I don't know, I don't I don't know Lebar here.
He's a great guy. Not familiar with him, but you know, pert,
he's a wonderful guy. A ton of Pro Bowls, college
football Hall of Famer. Again, I don't know. But the
point is, Dan Snyder takes over the team and it
just went downhill in a hurry. Coaching changes, firings and

(18:18):
all that so you're wondering, like, now that they feel stable,
they've got this superstar rookie quarterback, they're a game away
with a legitimate shot at a super Bowl for the
first time since nineteen ninety one, what's Dan Snyder feeling
about things? And according to a source who spoke with

(18:43):
Seth Wickersham and Don Van Atta Junior, Dan Snyder quote unquote,
he effing hates it. Can't stand it, like it's killing him.
And the most fascinating part because that you would expect,
you know, from like you expect, Hey, listen, you know

(19:03):
it really bothers him, you know. He The most fascinating
part about all this is how Dan Snyder, up until
the final hour, literally tried to blow up the entire
sale of the team. Like at one point he was

(19:24):
trying to claim that all those years of dysfunction and
all the things that were going wrong were because he
was drunk. I'm not making that up. He tried to
blame all that on the booze. I don't even know
if he was drunk. I don't even know how much
he drinks, but that was going to be the go to, like, Hey,

(19:46):
what's the ace up your sleeve? What do you mean
just to say it was an alcoholic Yeah, Dan, you
don't really drink all that much. Yeah h nobody cares.
Yeah yeah, I was drunk, which year all of them? Okay,
Like that was one of his good The other part
of it as well, too, is that he set a

(20:07):
asking price for the team, the six billion dollars. He
set it there because he didn't think there was going
to be a lot of people that could bin on it.
Josh Harris had to find twenty other people to get
involved to be able to afford it, and they barely
could afford it. And the best part about all this

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is how Dan Snyder even up until the last minute.
According to Wickersham and Don Banatta Junior a ESPN, Dan
Snyder didn't want to sell and tried to blow it
all up at the end, blow up the sale because
he didn't want to give Josh Harris his bank information
to wire him the money, like was refusing. Was also

(20:51):
refusing they were supposed to, you know, give them the
keys to the wouldn't give them the keys to the stadium,
and was claiming if anybody from that group showed up
to announce the sale of the team before he gave
them the keys to the stadium. He was going to
call the authorities because that's considered trespassing. It's the most petty,

(21:15):
petulant stuff you've ever heard. And meanwhile, the guy's got
a super yacht. He lives in London, hangs out with
his wife and kids. He needed previously mentioned Joe Gibbs
and others who he was still close with to push
him to sell the team. It's over. You gotta move on,

(21:36):
you gotta sell the team. He didn't want to pay
the fifty million dollar five like it is hilarious, and
yet you ask people now about how they and he's heartbroken.
That was his baby, like his dad took him to
a game when he was a kid, which, brother, I

(21:57):
didn't even know this. His dad wrote a book on
the Locknest Monster idea, like Dan Snyder's dad wrote a
book on the Locknest Monster. I love the Locknest Monster
as a kid. Well, you guys were all obsessing over
the tooth Fairy and whether or not she was going
to give you twenty five cents or a twenty dollars bill.
I was trying to figure out who had the sock
puppet in a lake in Scotland, Like that's what I

(22:19):
was into. Dan Snyder's dad wrote one of those books.
He so Dan Sneyder, he loved Washington's football. He loved him,
like he didn't want to sell him. But when he
got ahold of him, he just drove him into the ground.
But just said no, I just wanted to be the owner.

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Like it wasn't about success. He just wanted to own him, like, hey,
that's my favorite team. Like there's been talk that he
wants to get into owning a soccer team in Europe,
like the Premier League or something like that, and you
know he's kicked the tires on that. But people closed
to him and like, no, he doesn't watch other sports.
It's not even like he watches the NFL. He loved

(23:02):
that football team. So for him to see all the
success that they've had and all of it is right
after he's gone, and he loves them as much as
he does. What do you think that's like? Look, I
don't know how much the guy drinks. And maybe he

(23:23):
was bending the elbow and licking the lid and getting
on the liver lube all those years that he was
making disastrous decisions with the organization. But if he didn't
drink before, what the f do you think he's gonna
do now? If this team goes to a super Bowl? Like,
what do you think is gonna happen now? So maybe
he spoke his alcoholism into existence. Because if that team

(23:45):
beats Philly tomorrow and they got a really good shot
at doing it, if Dan Snyder's drinking or thinking about
picking the bottle up, I can't imagine what London's gonna
look like when he watches that team go to a
Super Bowl. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio at the
Jonas Knox at X at the Jonas Knox at X

(24:06):
coming up next here though there apparently is a maybe
this is the plan for one team in the NFL.
If that's the case, it doesn't make a whole hell
of a lot of sense. We'll get into that for
you here on FSR. But for all the latest from
around the world of sports. This is a man who
owns something more than a football team. He owns the

(24:27):
label as the king of all Sports update anchors. He
is radio.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Royalty, handsome, he's a good looking man, devon air dashing, who.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Was once quoted as saying nobody's perfect. But I'm pretty
close the one and only, Sir Isaac Longer.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
I didn't say pretty close for the record, Okay, I.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Mean listen, just split in airs here, I think. But
you know, to each their own, I think you're great, Isaac.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
I wish I could say the same. But I'm a friend.
I can be honest with you. You're a little off today.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
What happened?

Speaker 4 (25:18):
No, I know that zero hate tweets usually by now
thirty three minutes, then we'd have a stack of them.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, we had an hour and a half to play with.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Come on, zero.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
You don't think I could pissed somebody off in the
next hour and a half?

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Zero?

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Thank you? Arnie. Wow, But here's the thing, you know,
Can I just say that you're not a scubba?

Speaker 4 (25:42):
Can I just say? Look all right, you don't need
to say. Can I just say when it's your show,
just say it?

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah? But I'm not an a hold, I'm not rude,
Like that's rude. There is no it's why show?

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Like?

Speaker 1 (25:53):
No?

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Who can we all like you're doing an impersonation of
somebody there?

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Well, I mean you can probably fill in the blanks here,
But Arnie Spanier is a scumbag and a half. And
here's why that guy has his wife. First of all,
she snubbles, she shovels the snow and cleans the driveway
there and what because yeah, yeah, oh yeah, he sends
me pictures of her doing it. He sends me videos

(26:17):
he's done it before.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
So not only does he not do household chores or
exterior of the household shorge chores, he publicizes it.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh yeah, yeah no, and like hey, hey, hey, look,
hey McFly, look at what my wife's And he'll send
me videos and she's shoveling snow. It's not even just that.
He'll send boxes of Christmas gifts and bags to the
crew here, like he'll send it's got Vermont syrup, and
like you know Vermont, you.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Know apparel, delicious syrup.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yes, it is such a kind gestures that he has
no involvement in his wife does all that. He doesn't like,
he knows nothing.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
That's it's all all these years, it's only been Beth.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yes, he doesn't do any of that, not like none
of it, like he just but she does it. So
when anybody hears already span your talk about all the
fine things he does for the folks here and sends
stuff over to the Just keep in mind he's doing
none of that while she's doing all of that in
between shoveling snow and the driveways.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Wow, the liquor store, and just think of how many
other things that she does for him and humanity that
we don't know about.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Agreed hand, Yeah, all right, genius.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Well I love him.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
I love him.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
I'll mark it down on my calendar next December, I
will give an on air congratulations to Beth and eliminate
the middleman, as.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
I worry for you here. So Artie used to come
and visit. Yeah, and so he would come out like
once or twice a year, because you know he has
ties to La and all that. And he I remember
this one time he came out. It was probably, God,
it might have been like five six years ago something
like that. He came out, walked into the studio and
I'm not kidding you. Within ten minutes he had pissed

(28:07):
off three people. Literally walked in and just started insulting
people that he had been working with for a long time.
But it never actually met them. So you have I
think Bobo might have been one of like like Arnie
Boo it's impossible not to like Bobo.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
He's like the greatest guy around here. I'd never say
that to his face.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Artie didn't like Alaradie doesn't know, so he'll just like
walk in and be like, hey, what are you up to? Oh,
you're right, you should be a radio with a face
like that. Hey, we're's so on and like just insult insult, insult,
and people looking around going, great to see you, dude.
It was amazing.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
So what was that again? Three and ten minutes?

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh easy, yeah, easy. You have pissed off multiple people,
you know.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
It's sad. That's not even the Fox Sports radio record.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
No.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
I can think of a couple of people around here
who probably broke the eight minute barrier now, you know,
and some.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Of those people might have done shows here. Dude.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
We're just saying.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Anyway, back to you, Well, let's talk about what happened
at the Australian Open today. Because of the Ladies' final,
American Madison Keys won her first career Grand Slam title
with a big time upset over world number one Erena
Sabolenka Jonas.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Have you ever heard tennis on the radio?

Speaker 1 (29:24):
No, I was too busy living my life.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh snap wow.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
No, uh no love in forty love right there from
Jonas Knox. Anyway, here was match point on Australian Open radio.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
Sabolenka is ready, says Keys goes with the big backhand,
picks up on the hot folly by Sablenka huge tool
hand from Keys, well defended, She's done.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
It takes the long races.

Speaker 5 (29:54):
Eva's Madison kys she is the Australian Open champion.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
All right, So what did you think of tennis on
the radio?

Speaker 1 (30:03):
I mean whatever, Like just all right, have you ever
called tennis on the radio before?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Not yet?

Speaker 1 (30:09):
It feels it feels awkward because if that guy's not talking,
all you hear are grunts and moans in the background.
And if you were to listen to that in the car,
like your significant other would look at you and go
get it together, dude, Like get it together.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Oh, I guess it depends on who your significant other is. Well, yeah, true,
I'm just saying that's fair. We also had some drama
on the men's side at the Australian Open because today
Novak Djokovic, who was booed by fans when he was
forced to retire one set into his semi final match
because of what he said was a torn hamstring. Actually,
today he posted a picture of his hamstring MRI on

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social media with the caption quote, thought I'd leave this
here for all the sports injury experts out there unquote.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Good thing. It wasn't a pulled gowin anyway. Finally in
the NBA in Paris.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
In the middle of the conference championship weekend, at least
we got that all cleared up. What a relief.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, So what happened was have you ever heard of
this device on X called I don't know if it's
Grock or Groke.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Have you heard of it? Yeah, I don't know what
it is.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
Well, it's some AI gizmo, and people were actually able
to get the AI Grock or Groke to like diagnose
the MRI and explain what was in the picture. Because
you post a hamstring MRI, it looks like a giant
circle with some squiggly lines on the inside. But according

(31:34):
to AI, it was apparently a legitimate hamstring injury. One
final note it is now a final in Paris, the
Indiana Pacers and Devita the San Antonio Spurs one thirty
six to ninety eight. Find twenty eight points from Tyrese
Haliburton victor one Baniama, by the way, twenty points and
twelve rebounds in the contest, back to a guy who

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doesn't need AI to diagnose hamstring.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
MRI's Jonas Knox.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
That's right, thanks Ilo Jonas knocks here on Fox Sports Radio.
By the way, coming up here in about ten minutes
from now, we are going to have another edition of
Do You Care. We're going to address several stories in
the world of sports and beyond that we have not
had a chance to get to yet because you've been
force fed them all week long. So we're gonna give
you our honest thoughts. That'll be yours here in another
edition of Do Do You Care? Coming up here less

(32:20):
than ten minutes from now here from thee tiraq dot
com studios. Now, I'm trying to figure out why the
hell the New Orleans Saints don't have a head coach yet. Now,
what they're going to say is, well, there were snowstorms
pushed back some of our in person interviews. Okay, you

(32:41):
fired your coach on November fourth. I mean, at no
point was there like a somewhat sunny day, or at
least a day with you know, maybe a little overcast,
maybe some rain, but no snow anywhere insight, Like, at
no point between November fourth and now here we are
January twenty fifth, and you couldn't find like a day

(33:03):
that you could get to the office and have some
discussions about who you wanted as coach or who you
And I'm trying to figure out what the hell the
delay is. And the only thing I can think is this,
the Super Bowl is in New Orleans? Are they going

(33:25):
to wait until that week to try and announce the
hiring of their head coach knowing that everybody that covers
sports media for the most part, is going to be
in their city talking about two teams that's not theirs.
That's the only I can think because I don't understand

(33:46):
the delay. I really don't like, why don't you just
name Mike McCarthy the coach? Just name him the coach, Like,
get this done with. But when you're getting beat to
the punch by teams like Jacksonville who are a clown show,

(34:08):
the Bears who never do anything right, and the Raiders
who were on coach sixteen since the year two thousand,
it just kind of feels like maybe you had a
little bit of time to kind of figure out what
direction you wanted to go since you made the move
to move on from your previous coach on it just

(34:30):
it feels a little strange to me. So maybe that's
the plan. Other than that, I can't figure out what
the hell the Saints are doing. Jonas Knox here Fox
Sports Radio at the Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox
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Speaker 3 (35:51):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time,
dmgre reports. Now let's get kinky. Here's some of the
big stories from the last week. But Jonas, the real
question is do you care?

Speaker 1 (36:06):
And for that we turn it over to our executive producer,
Patrick Sweek and to find out what the hell people
have been talking about all week?

Speaker 6 (36:12):
Pat, all right, well, Jonas, NFL's been going crazy with
the coaching stuff. Do you care that Liam Cohen initially
withdrew his name from the Jaguars job, only about a
day later to jump back in and take it only
after the Jags former GM Trent Balkey was fired.

Speaker 7 (36:28):
Do you care?

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:29):
I think it's hilarious. It's hilarious because they had all
this intel everybody had been telling shod Con, everybody within
the organization, everybody outside the organization. A nobody wants to
work with Trent Balkey, Like, nobody wants to work with him.
And for some reason, when he decided to and he
could have cut ties all together and had a clean

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slate and been more appealing to other candidates, Ben Johnson,
maybe Vrabel, all these instead of doing that, he's like, no, no, no,
we're gonna hold on to Trent and then we'll see
what we got when it comes to the coaching front.
And then it was only after Liam Cohen was like, yeah,
I'm out of here. I don't want to work with him.
This is not And then finally shot Con goes, oh,

(37:11):
so you mean we've got to make a move, Like
the whole thing is a disaster. But it's funny because
other organizations get their balls broken for stuff like this.
Meanwhile shot Con doesn't. It's like, ah, no, big deal,
Yeah no, big ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (37:24):
Next, All right, jonas well, Lebron James and his son
Browny declined an invitation to join the NBA All Star
Games Skill Challenge.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Do you care?

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Nope? Next? Oh man, that's good.

Speaker 6 (37:38):
Do you care Jonas that so each your of Suzuki
jokingly said he wants to have a good chat with
that one writer who didn't vote for his supposedly unanimous
Hall of Fame vote.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Do you care? Yeah, I do, because I'm curious where
him and Rob Parker are gonna go have dinner. Like,
I'm curious where where those two are gonna get Rob Parker?
You know, is Rob going to you know, do what
he normally does?

Speaker 2 (38:03):
And cheese was hot?

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Well, I mean whatever that cheese was, I guarantee you're
not paying for you gotta have the bone. I mean,
you've gotta have the structure. And again I have it
on good authority. The one guy who didn't vote Suzuki
as a unanimous was you know Rob Parker, Like wow,
if you were looking at the culprit, you can get
him on social media. It's Rob Parker, MLB bro or

(38:25):
whatever it is. He's the one that tried to screw
you and sell the alarm exes. Oh man, thank you.

Speaker 6 (38:33):
Rob Jonas So, an eleven year old obtained a one
of a kind of rare baseball card of Paul's skiings,
was offered a massive deal by the Pittsburgh Pirates of
season tickets for thirty years, meeting Paul's skiens, watching game
with his girlfriend Livy Dunn, and a whole lot more,
and he still declined it.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Do you care? Yes? I love it? But did the
Pirates think that season tickets to see their team for
thirty years was going to be the selling point? What
that's like somebody saying, Hey, you know what, you did
a great job? All expenses paid? Where we going? Ninety
nine cents store, all pass? Like what? What? Like? What

(39:13):
like you gotta do better than that? Like have it
like a dollar amount? How about like, oh but you
could see it? Come on up the anne a little bit,
Like you want to throw in season tickets to the Pirates,
the Steelers and the Penguins for thirty years. I get it. Okay,
now we're talking. Now, maybe I can make a few
bucks on the resale market if I don't want to

(39:35):
go to games but to the Pirates, Like you could
walk up to the stadium in Game seven of the
World Series, buy a ticket at the front and sit
right above the dugout for thirty eight dollars. Like nobody's
going to those games next? All right? Jonnis?

Speaker 6 (39:53):
Well, a barbershop was left scrambling in terror because why
a random cow entered the shoppparently wreaking havoc for both
customers and stylists.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Like, do you care?

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Where was this at? This was? Apparently it just happened.

Speaker 6 (40:09):
Apparently it was in China.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Okay. I mean, look, you know, I'm more worried about
the bats in China to be, to be honest with you,
you know, I feel like that's really been a problem.
But apparently cows have now entered the conversation when you're
trying to get your hair done. So who knows? Who knows?
I mean, I told you it was only a matter
of time before this was going to happen. I told you.

(40:33):
I said it a year ago, probably a year before that,
but I told you this was eventually going to be
the place we would arrive at with one team in
the NFL, And we are finally here. We'll get into
that for you coming up here in just a couple
of moments from now. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. You
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way tire buying should be. If you know me at all,
you know that I have a tendency to root for
the bad guy or the villain, or you know, I
just kind of for whatever reason. I just it's fun.

(41:41):
Adds a little bit. You know what, Why have sugar
when you can have spice? You know what I mean.
I don't want a candy bar. I want a Serrano pepper.
Give me a ghost chili like I don't need. I'll
take tabasco. You know, I need a little spice. I

(42:03):
need something there like growing up, like we were mentioning.
You know the movie The Wrestler earlier. You know the
Dallas Cowboys. You know they're they're claiming Dion and throwing
Dion's name out there and Bill Belichick and Vrabel and
Ben Johnson and they go with Brian Schottenheimer and it's like,
you know, the cowboys kind of feel like, you know,
this this guy who was in his prime that all

(42:25):
of a sudden is now you know, wrestling at you know,
gymnasiums and all this stuff. It's like, you know, growing up,
I always, you know, for some reason, I liked the
bad guys growing up. You know, Roddy Piper was fun
to me. You know, it was fun to root for
the guys that everyone else is booming. That was fun.
And so I'm watching this whole discussion take place about

(42:48):
the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes getting all these calls and
all that, and I'm like, I don't know, I'm kind
of liking them more and more now, you know what
i mean, Like I just I kind of like him
more and more. Now. Patrick Mahomes spoke this week because
there's been this discussion. I don't know if you've heard
it or not, but there's been this discussion about whether
or not he gets favorable calls and whether or not,

(43:09):
you know, maybe he took a dive when he was
going towards the sideline, and maybe the NFL is kind
of favoring the Chiefs with some of these calls, like
a lot of conspiracy theories out there about the NFL
favoring the Chiefs, Taylor Swift's involvement, etc. Etc. Here was
Patrick Mahomes being asked about whether or not he believes
he's getting preferential treatment from the officials.

Speaker 7 (43:28):
I don't feel that way. I mean, I just try
to play football. At the end of the day. The
referees are doing their best to call the game is
as fair and as proper as they possibly can, and
all you can do is go out there and play
the game that you love as hard as you can and.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Live with the results.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
And so I think that's what we preach here in
Kansas City. You get new referees every year, you get
new circumstances, and he never can and you never can
really tell because every play is different. That's what makes
the NFL so special. And so I feel like I'll
just continue to play the game and I just try
to win and whatever happens kind of happens.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Whatever he said I agree with And do you want
to know why, because you probably don't. This is wonderful
and by the way, this is also what was to
be expected because this is how it always goes. Oh
and I a year ago, I told you we're getting close.

(44:20):
We're getting close. We're not quite there, but we're getting
close to the switch where it becomes a one to
eighty Instead of the feel good everybody loves Kansas City,
Middle of America football town, Patrick Mahomes does it the

(44:40):
right way. All of that's of Andy Reid, Like, oh,
we were getting close. All of a sudden, Taylor Swift
gets entered into the fray, and now people are like, oh,
this is nauseating. They keep showing her like forty seconds
a game, like, oh my god. They keep panding up
to the booth and they go, oh my god, this
is too much. We're tired of it. But man, oh man,

(45:01):
that Patrick Mahomes is great and nobody does it like him.
And a year later, oh my god, they're still panning
up to the booth and they're showing Taylor Swift like
thirty nine seconds out of a three hour game. And
I mean this is just like, oh wait, any other
quarterback wouldn't get that call. Wait did you see him
dive out of We're sick of this crap. The NFL's

(45:24):
favoring the Chiefs. Everybody wants the Chiefs to win. Look
at this officiatings this Cruise record and the Chiefs record
when they're calling their games. I can't. I knew this
was gonna happen. I knew it because it always goes
this way, like this is the Patriots. It's exactly what

(45:45):
happened when Kansas City won their first Super Bowl. When
they won their first Super Bowl in Miami against the
forty nine ers, right before the country shut down, right
before COVID, right before when Kansas City won their first
Super Bowl, nobody felt this way it was. In fact,

(46:09):
it was a wonderful moment for the Chiefs. It had
been so long since they had won their last Super Bowl.
They'd gotten closed, but they had been kind of on
the fringe, and Andy Reid finally gets to like it
was such a feel good moment man the Chiefs organization.
They found their franchise quarterback. Good for them. They'd been
so closed with Alex Smith, but they upgraded, like that

(46:31):
wasn't that long ago. Like I realized COVID being thrown
in and everybody having to like wipe down their groceries
and you know, use one ply to you know, clean themselves.
Like I get all that, Like some things changed, did
some things happened, But it wasn't that long ago that
everybody loved the story and loved the coach and the
quarterback and everything about them. That wasn't long ago. Here

(46:56):
we are five years later, three super Bowl championships, later
appearances too, But you know what I mean, and people
think the NFL is playing preferential treatment, and they're rooting
for the Chiefs to get their comeupp ins, like they like,

(47:20):
they want to see this happen because they think they're
getting the shaft that the NFL is trying to pull
a fast one. Now, I'll be honest with you. Some
of those calls little suspect, you know what I mean,
Like a little suspect. But sometimes when you're in the
middle of a match, you know, maybe you know you

(47:42):
got to take a couple of shots. You know, there
used to be this accusation that you know some uh,
you know, a lot of you know, Julio says, our chaves,
a lot of Mexican fighters. What they would do is
they would hit a little below the belt, but to
where you couldn't see, you know, like you'd be tied
up and in a clinch and all of a sudden,
they take a couple of shots, you know, to your
to your hips, to your side, liver shots when the

(48:04):
ref wasn't looking. You know, a couple of those things
hit them behind the you know, you take a couple
of take advantage here there, you know, cut some corners do.
The Chiefs are kind of at this point to where
there's like some villain tactics that are at play here,
Like there's some stuff that they do that Patrick Mahomes
specifically you look at and go ooh, we don't know

(48:26):
about that. Yeah, no, no, no, we're not sure how if
you And it makes me want to root for them more,
like I liked the Patriots more when you didn't when
they came out and they beat the Rams and they

(48:47):
came out as a team because for people that don't remember,
the Super Bowl introductions used to be a big thing
to where each team would introduce their players individually. So
you go down the entire offense or defense, whoever was
you know, getting the ball first or hoever they decided that,
and it would go, you know, quarterback to running back,
to wide receiver, tight end, like you would go all

(49:09):
the way down the line and you would introduce individual players.
So during that Super Bowl, the Patriots for the first
time came out as a team, and it was, Oh
my god, this is America. This is that's a team.
They're not about me, it's about we. Like people loved

(49:30):
that story. And then, like you know, four or five
years later, wasn't that long later, they were rooting for
them to lose. They didn't want to see them go perfect.
They loved seeing the jet this always happened, and the
Chiefs are here and I can't help but find myself

(49:52):
rooting for more, like I love this. In fact, They'll
be honest with you. You want to know, it would make
my day if Monday morning, we open up the show
on two pros and a cup of Joe Monday morning
at six am Eastern time, and the conversation is Patrick
Mahomes took a dive to get a fifteen yard penalty call.

(50:12):
Harrison Bucker lined up to kick the game winner, missed it,
but they ruled that a Bills player was off sides
when he wasn't really off sides, And then Butcker got
another opportunity to kick it and the Chiefs won, Like
that would be gold. Like I want to have that

(50:36):
served up Monday morning. That's what I want, because it's
going to drive people nuts. There's going to be a
play in the game tomorrow where Patrick Mahomes is going
to get a call, and whether it's the right call
or not, there's going to be people that go, oh,
here we go again. The NFL favors it? All right?

(50:56):
Does the NFL favor them every single game? Did they
get every single call? No? They've earned their Super Bowls,
They've earned their championships. Like, do you want to blame
the Niners for you know, special teams gaffes and MIXEDX,
missed extra points and things like that. I mean maybe
you should, you know, do you wanna do you want

(51:18):
to blame the Niners for blowing Super Bowl leads? Do
you want to blame the Eagles for not cashing in
on opportunities when Jalen Hurts is playing the game of
his life and that's like, these are real things that happened,
But instead it's more fun to point out the conspiracy stuff.
That's more fun. And I just find myself watching this

(51:39):
team of Mahomes and I go, I love this. This
is great because I told you this is where we're heading,
because we had an example. The proof was there. We
saw it with New England. Now we're seeing it with
Kansas City. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio at the
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Speaker 2 (52:23):
Jonas is Couna Today.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
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ten minutes from now here from the Tirak dot com studios.
We are going to talk about some bitterness in the
National Football League. Wich should be a feel good moment,
but apparently there's some bitterness involved. We'll get into that

(52:46):
for you again here coming up a little over ten
minutes from now. You know one who obviously pay tribute
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we are still efforting to confirm about about eighty five
percent certain that Rob Parker was the voter who said
no to each yourro in the Hall of Fame, Rob

(53:58):
Parker eighty five percent sure, working to get that number up,
but we are efforting that so I will keep you
posting on that I bumped those numbers up. Those are
rookie numbers throughout the course of the show. So I
was noticing kind of a theme here about something. You know,
It's very interesting because we're discussing the hiring of Brian

(54:20):
Schottenheimer in Dallas. Now, I mean that guy right there
called me a hog hole. I have no idea what
that means, but I would say this about Brian Schottenheimer.
He's been in as system for a long time. He
obviously has the pedigree his dad, Marty Schottenheimer, one of
the great coaches in the NFL of all time. Two
hundred wins. I believe he's one of seven or eight

(54:41):
who's got that number. So a ton of success, paid
his dues, They know him in Dallas, has a good
relationship with Dak Prescott. All of that is fine and well.
Clearly though not the plan, like clearly not the plan
at all. And we know that because of everything that
the Cowboys themselves discussed over the past several weeks. Retaining

(55:04):
Mike McCarthy didn't happen. The rumors about Bill Belichick didn't happen.
The rumors about Dion Sanders that Jerry Jones spoke about
publicly didn't happen. Ben Johnson didn't even get an interview.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Like.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
In fact, they were so late with the decision to
part ways with Mike McCarthy that they couldn't get an
interview with certain candidates, because if they were still coaching
in the playoffs, Dallas had already missed the cutoff point.
So like, none of this was their plan. Jerry Jones

(55:46):
can try and spin it all. He once with the oh,
I meant to do that, No, you didn't. What you
meant to do was retain Mike McCarthy failed. What you
meant to do was bringing a big name to try
and overshadow the fact that you whiffed on Mike McCarthy.
And that was a fail. So it doesn't mean that

(56:06):
Brian Schottenheimer is going to be a failure. It just
means that this entire process was a disaster. Like you
cannot refute that none of this was the plan before
this at and so if the plans are going this way,
how are you supposed to take that organization seriously? And

(56:32):
I like Jerry Jones, and I love what he's done
for the NFL, and love the fact that he's a
part of the NFL and that he's the Cowboys owner.
He's awesome, But come on, man, like you, if you're
a Cowboys fan, there's no way you're looking at this
going all right, hey, that we got our guy, Like
none of this was the plan in place based on

(56:54):
what they were telling us, which is why you are
getting the reaction you're getting, which is why I made
the comparison to So it feels like a big time
act that's all of a sudden playing small time venues.
It feels small. It's the first time in a long
time where the Cowboys feel small. They just do. And
then you start to look around at some of the
other situations in the NFL when it comes to this

(57:17):
hiring cycle, and it starts to play out exactly the
way that their reputations have preceded them, Like, look at
the Jacksonville Jaguars, What the f man? What are we doing?
Like everybody that you talk to. Brady quin was on

(57:39):
the airwaves on Fox Sports Radio the Monday after the
final game of the season. He called the Jaguars Colts
game and literally came on the air, and the big
takeaway was everybody he talked to in and around Jacksonville
was like, Hey, Doug Peterson's not really the problem. Trent
Balky is, so what a show on shod con do?

(58:03):
He gets rid of the non problem and keeps the problem,
and the problem stays a problem until he chases off
all the prime candidates and then has to settle on
Liam Cohen to take the job. But it's just a disaster,
like all of it, like like all of it, and

(58:26):
you're looking around going, man, like, you know, there's a
lot of other organizations that get a lot of heat.
The Jaguars are kind of they don't really get as
much heat, but maybe they should. And I know, shod
Con seems like a good guy, and you know, his
son's like working for him and doing the analytics when
he's not you know, running a wrestling company into the

(58:47):
ground and all that and paying out a fortune for contract.
But like you just look at it, you go, dude,
what's going on here? And we were talking about it
on the show yesterday. So LaVar Erin and I we're
at an event in Houston for O'Reilly's Auto Parts. They
do this big convention every single year and they have

(59:09):
like nine to ten thousand employees that show up from
stores all over the country. It's amazing and great people.
You know, get to shake their hands and talk to
them and say, hey, where are you from, Like I mean,
all over the country and totally down to earth, just
having a good time. You know, representing the company, a

(59:30):
company that's thriving in the midst of you know, all
the chaos that's taken place. You talked to some of
the higher ups. They started with three hundred employees across
the country. Now you've got nine thousand store managers. Like
it's amazing, Like what they've done and what they've accomplished,
and you know the fact that they're part of the
Fox Sports radio family and all that is awesome. And
one of the guys that we talked to said it best.

(59:53):
The guy's name was Skeeter and his store is based
in Jacksonville. I said, oh, you must be a Jaguars fan.
He said, well, I try to be, but they won't
let me. Like it's I guess that's the correct answer.
Like you see the Cowboys handling and the Jaguars handling

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of things, and then you see the Jets and they've
hired their coach but still haven't hired their GM, and
it's like, oh, well, you know that. I don't worry
about it. We got it. It's like you start to
go down the line of all these teams, the Raiders
and the Ben Johnson stuff that was out there that
never made any sense, like Ben Johnson going to the Raiders, Like,
let's just like really think that never made sense. We

(01:00:38):
talked about it on this show, Like what's the appeal there?
Unless and I speculated maybe he didn't want to like
burn any bridges with Detroit and didn't want to stay
in the division because of his affinity for Dan Campbell.
But like the Lions lost last week and twenty minutes later,
Ben Johnson agreed to become head coach of the Bears.

(01:00:58):
Like like the Raider Raiders, what there's no plan? So
like the Raiders hiring Pee Care Like I like the move.
Maybe they'll bring in Russell Wilson. But you're noticing a
theme there, Like there's a lot of reputations that are
being proven correct during this hiring cycle, on top of
the fact that you are in a hiring cycle and
you're looking for a new head coach because you are

(01:01:20):
a bad team. Like it is stayed consistent bad teams
doing bad things in the NFL. It shouldn't be a
surprise that the Jaguars search went the way it went.
It shouldn't be surprised that the Cowboys search went the
way it went, or the Raiders or the or any
of these teams, because that's what bad teams do, and

(01:01:43):
all they've done is proven. You and I, right, Jonas
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atop his throne, way above everybody beneath him in Sportstop Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
I can't reach the microphone. I gotta climb down.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
Hang on.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
He is royalty.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
He is the one. He is the only. No. He
is Isaac Loohane.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
Nolan and I actually went to the same high school.
By the way, did you know that did you really
many many, many, many years apart?

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
What which high school?

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
University? High school in Irvine, California? No kidding, no kidding. Yeah,
did you guys go to you?

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Are you ant Eaters too? Did you grow up a
fan of the and Eaters?

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
To be honest, Wait a minute, ant Eater's the mascot
for uc your vine or actual ant Eaters?

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
No, like the actual mascot of UCR Vine.

Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
My buddy went to UCR Vine. Yeah, went to a
couple of games back then. They they weren't really it
wasn't really a big thing to do. We were all
about our high school back then. But actually they've made
they've made great strides. I think in college basketball under
U Russell Turner as their head coach. I believe Russell
Turner maybe the only person on this earth who has
a louder voice than Steve Hartman, I might add, true story, No,

(01:03:31):
that's not humanly possible, Okay, I said maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
Yeah, you know what, more, now that I think of it,
you're right.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
By the way. Fun fact about Steve Hartman, who's gonna
be on? I believe it will be on with Moncy Belongs.
There are nothing later on. There are no unfun facts
about Steve Harps souh. A fun fact about Steve Hartman.
He's never actually plugged in a microphone to do a
radio shit.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
And this is true, this is true.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
He just talks so loud that you just pick up
on it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:58):
Well, it's impressive, you know what. I have to thank
you for something that lasts. You know, let's face it,
vamping that you and I just did. The last couple
of moments that just allowed some fresh NFL news to
come down. The Washington Commanders, Yeah, Washington Commanders just announcing
the defensive tackle Darren Payne has been downgraded to out

(01:04:20):
for tomorrow's NFC Championship game at Philadelphia because of.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Knee and finger injuries that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
Just announced moments ago by the Washington Commanders. In the
Australian Open Ladies Final earlier today, American Madison Keys won
her first career Grand Slam by upsetting world number one
Irena Sablenka. Keys came in as the nineteenth seed in
the NBA. Right now, the Minnesota Timberwolves old I go

(01:04:46):
thirty eight to thirty one lead over Denver late in
the first quarter in Minneapolis, while earlier Saturday, in a
game played in Paris, France. The Indiana Pacers beat the
San Antonio Spurs by thirty eight points one from thirty
six to ninety eight, and finally Jonas back to the
NFL because the Las Vegas Raiders have just officially announced

(01:05:09):
the hiring of Pete Carroll as their new head coach,
but moments before that, they teased the official announcement on
social media by posting a picture of an enormous piece
of chewing gum with the field of their practice facility
in the background. Carol, of course known for his affinity
for chewing gum. Among the comments underneath the post Sean

(01:05:33):
commenting quote, just chew baby unquote. Others, however, didn't really
understand the symbolism of that picture. Jaden comment and quote,
is that a starburs? WTF? Yeah, it's a good call
at Steelers CAA two Pa commenting is that a block

(01:05:55):
of spam meet? Then you have at Raider Nation four
or live unlike Raider Nation for life posting quote is
that Carol's dentures unquote? And finally Gordon adding quote, you
idiots running the Raiders account should have put the gum
in focus and not the logo. Everyone would know it's
the Raiders unfocused that looks like a hunk of meat unquote.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Fair criticism, but.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
The bottom line is it is official. Pete Carroll and
an enormous hunk of chewing gum headed to vakas Jonas.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
By the way, what chewing gum does he like? And
you a big chewing gum.

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
I've never understood it. I don't have a problem with it,
but I've just never understood it. I've tried. I've tried
to blow bubbles. Nothing has worked.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
What about you?

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
I mean, look, you could go bubble ishous. Back in
the day, the watermelon flavor was cool. A grape was
also a good flavor. Was it Hubba hubba or Hubba
bubba whatever the hell they're calling.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:06:53):
But I remember the bubble gum. The Bazuka would come
with the cartoons of Bazuka Joe. I would love that,
would yeah. I would tell all my Little League teammates
as I grew splinters in my backside from riding the pine,
I would ask them to have the cartoons, the Bazuka
Joe cartoons from their respective bubblegum packs. Big League chew

(01:07:15):
the Big League chew Gun bouches.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
That was a big deal.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
They used to have contests back when we were growing
up where they had the actual calipers measuring the biggest
bubble that major league players could chew.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Do you remember that?

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
And you know you can get those custom made that
the pouches like you can get like our Lord and
Savior Scotch Shapiro used to have a pouch of Big
League chew and it was his cartoon character on the cover.
How do you get that, Dutch? It's pretty sweet? So yeah,
it's you can get that done. Do you remember, by
the way, when the when the gun would come in
the pack of baseball cards? Absolutely, like for those of

(01:07:53):
you that aren't familiar, like it used to be, you
would buy a pack of baseball cards, there would be
a stick of gum that would come in and you
could you could cut cocaine with this dick of gum.
It was so U said authoritatively, like I like you
could this. It was basically like a thin stick of
wood and they would expect you to chew that and
how it stayed preserved in a pack of Don Russ's.

(01:08:13):
I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
My understanding is I don't think they do that anymore
because everyone's freaked out that the bubblegum residue is going
to somehow ruin the value of the car.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
Is that is that correct?

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
That's what I heard.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
I mean, well listen, I mean, you know, they got
their guy. But that is a fair criticism though, if
you're going to send out a picture like focus more
in on the gum and less on the on the
raidar logo.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
Yeah, you know, can't count count can't count on people
out there on social media to always understand what the
what the symbolism of things.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Let's put it that way.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
Yeah, I mean if Isaac so So, no chewing gum
for you, huh.

Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
No, Like I've tried, But I just I don't know
the technique for blowing a bubble of bubble gum.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
They used to look really cool back in the day.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
I see, I want to describe how to do it
on the air, but it, yeah, just sounds creepy.

Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
Yeah, with your social media following, they might misconstros.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
I don't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
So you know, this is you know, it would be
one thing if this was like during the week with
like a professionals listening, But there's just savages that are
listening right now. They're just going to take that and
run with it. So I'm not gonna let him, you know,
drive our names into the ground. We have reputations to
a poll. We gonna let that we do. By the way,
did you get Iowa Sam's text from earlier? I did?

(01:09:25):
I did. Artie Spaniard's wife is there. Her name is Beth,
and she sends all the gifts over for Christmas, and
Samson's a Texa goes bed Beth and beyond. It's so dumb,
it's it's it's hacky cornball cedar rapids comedy that he's

(01:09:45):
been throwing at people in between making crop circles since
he was ten years old. You had a polite you
had a polite farmers whood be cushions because it's just
it's tip, that's Iowa. That is Iowa. Sam.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
I appreciate e you at least politely texting back, although
that was a that was a that was a preamblety
you ripping him over national radio. But a lot of
our great comedians, I come from the Midwest, Well that's
what I was.

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
Sam does. By the way, let's go live to our
I have a thought on Iowa Sam because I secretly
hate him inside.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Not a secret anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
To two pieces of news.

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
Number one, I think we have to question Iowa Sam's
Iowa noness. I did see in the news that there
is a man who is making the rounds and eating
a pork tenderloin sandwich at all ninety nine Iowa counties.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
What a loser.

Speaker 5 (01:10:30):
And I well, I do have to question Sam's commitment
to the Iowa bit if he's not willing to do that.
Number two, I think this is a good time as
any to announce that Iowa Sam will be your technical
producer next week.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
Oh God, it is it next week? You know I
had something come up last minute. I don't think, man,
next week, I'm not going to be able to do
next week for some really crazy you know, I just
have all all all the circumstances and situations and all
the possibilities. The fact that I won't be able to
do the show next week.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
What a shade?

Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
Yeah, what a bummer. God. It is Jonas Knox here
on Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knox on X
at the Jonas Knox at X For those of you
that were just tuning in by the way, we're gonna
have Knox Locks coming up in about ten minutes from now.
There was a lengthy article that was done by Seth
Wickersham and Don Vanatta Junior of ESPN talking about Dan

(01:11:22):
Snyder and how bitter he is. He hates the fact
that the Commanders are having all this success and hates
it there and so, you know, like the whole story
is fascinating because it talks about how he didn't want
to sell the team, and he was fighting until the
last minute, and didn't want to give the keys to
the stadium, and didn't want to give his bank information
to Josh Air so that he could wire him the funds,
and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Like I know

(01:11:44):
that I would just say this. I know that everybody
is celebrating and jumping for joy when it comes to
the Commanders and oh my god, what a turnaround. They've
found their franchise quarterback. They've done this, they've done that.
But just everybody settled Down's let's calm down. Greatest rookie
quarterback season of all time. Man, You know, I think

(01:12:05):
I've heard that somewhere before. You know, when I heard that,
I heard it last year with CJ. Stroud. This year,
the Texans just fired their oc Like they were so
good last year that Bobby Slowick was being interviewed by
like four or five teams for their head coaching job

(01:12:27):
because of the work that he had done with CJ. Stroud.
He just got fired earlier today. So look, I know
that everybody wants to celebrate that, and it is amazing
and it's great. And Dan Snyder's pissed and he's you know,
he's bitter and upset about just slowed down a little bit.

(01:12:48):
All right, let's let's everybody relax. We're not even finished
with the season. Let's calm down. We can reassess. But
we've seen examples like this before great start things go sideways. Man,
people in Philly loved Carson Wentz. Remember all those jokes
about how how the Rams got stuck with the worst

(01:13:10):
of the quarterback and Jared Goff and Carson Wentz was
the guy and blah blah blah, And it's like, Okay,
all these years later, like you know, you start to
look back and go, oh, yeah, upon further review, maybe
we should have calmed the nerves and calm things down
just a little bit here, let's just relax a little bit.
Jonas Knox here, Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knox

(01:13:30):
on X at the Jonas Knox and X Coming up
next here though, it is the Conference Championship weekend edition
of Knox Locks and it's yours here on FSR. Jonas
Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up a little over ten
minutes from now here from the tire rack dot com studios.
Make sure you stick around. It'll be Tracy Sandler and
Nicky k who will be taking over the airwaves all

(01:13:51):
sorts of NFL, NBA, college hoofs. There's college basketball and
every single channel on television right now it's ridicul so
all of that will be covered here from the tire
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of this show here today, and what a wild one
it's been. Some top notch insults and accusations made by

(01:14:12):
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(01:14:33):
link to this podcast as well too at the Jonas
Knox on X at the Jonas Knox on X. But
right now it is time for this.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Let's lotch it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Knoxlocks.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
You know, we've been doing Knox Locks for a lot
of years here on this network and we've seen it all.
We've i mean seen the ups and downs that everything
could present to us. We've had really good years, we've struggled,
We've had bounce back performances like this past year in
the regular season, and then what we had what we

(01:15:12):
had last week in the divisional round of the playoffs,
which was just odd. And I'm not sure that we've
ever dealt with this before. Two pushes. Now, I'll say this,
there's a wrong side of the push and a right
side of the push. The wrong side of the push
is when you get one of the what do they

(01:15:32):
call it a back door push where some team does
something fluky and then you hit up right on the
number and you don't end up losing, You just break even.
But it's so much better than what you assumed it
would be. That's the wrong end of the push. The
right end of the push is when you were on
the other side and you needed that little fluky play

(01:15:53):
at the end which led you to a push. But
you really should have won the bet. And that's what
we got a couple of times last week. The first
things first, the Kansas City Chiefs a nine point favorite,
and it closed at nine and the game ended at nine.
Why because for some reason the Patrick Mahomes kneel downs

(01:16:15):
and then the safety on the punt afterwards running out
of the end zone and all that. You just you're
sitting there watching that, going, are you serious? This is
what this weekend is going to be like, only to
be outdone by what the hell the Rams and Eagles
were doing, and what that Eagle defense was doing all
of a sudden, turning into a sid before our very eyes.
There was at one point when we had the Eagles

(01:16:37):
minus six. I was looking at it going, you know,
this is the way this is going to go. I'd
rather just lose the game outright, Stafford, go throw a
touchdown and let's get people in Philadelphia pissed off about
the result. I mean, at least give us that make
it entertaining. So two pushes there. We were on the
right side of things when it came to the Commanders
getting nine points to nine and a half depending on
where you shopped for it at Detroit. I set it

(01:16:58):
a week ago. I set up before we made the pick.
I just was getting this weird feeling, this weird vibe.
We talked about it being a more game where you know,
the stadium feels like a Morgan a certain point because
people are so depressed because they assumed one thing was
gonna happen and it's a complete opposite of that. That's
what it felt like watching the Lions fans, and every

(01:17:18):
time they panned up to a Lions fan, they just
looked distraught. So we were on the right side of that.
And then the Ravens Bills game, we had Baltimore minus
a point at Buffalo. Damn it. Look. I know Mark
Andrews is a good guy. I know he is, and
I know he feels bad and he's been a great player,
But Mark, who cares about you? All Right? This is
about Knox locks and us having an opportunity to go

(01:17:42):
two zero to two in the Divisional round of the
NFL playoffs, but instead a drop couldn't get enough stops,
turnovers by Lamar, chaos ensued. The Bills are moving on
and we get ourselves a loss. So one one and
two was the record last week in the divisional round
of the playoffs, which brings us in to conference championship Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Commanders ad Eagles.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
I'm gonna go Philly. I will take the Eagles minus
the six here. I don't like the big number. There
is familiarity there, but something tells me the dream run
ends for Washington and Jaden Daniels. I'll take Philly. Jalen
Hurts is banged up. I'm gonna trust that their defense
bounces back after whatever the hell that was late in

(01:18:30):
the game last week. It's a dangerous proposition. Somebody actually
made the point. I think it might have been Albert
Breer who said, game on the line, who do you
trust right now if you need a drive at the
end of the game, Jalen Hurts or Jaden Daniels, And
I would agree with him. It's Jaden Daniels, but I
think overall Philly's got too much for him. I think
they're gonna run the football, try and keep it out

(01:18:51):
of Jadeen Daniels' hands, and I'm gonna go with the Eagles.
It's a big number. I'm not crazy about it, but
I'll take Philly going on to the super Bowl minus
a six.

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
Bills and Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
Listen. I love Patrick Mahomes, I said it earlier. I
love the fact that he's a villain. Now I'm taking Buffalo.
I think this is the year. They're getting two points.
It's at Arrowhead, but I think this is the year
and we're going to get ourselves a Bills Eagles super
Bowl and it'll be a battle of who's the crazier
fan base. But I think Buffalo gets it done on

(01:19:23):
the road finally at Kansas City. And those are your
Conference Championship weekend edition of Knox Locks. It's been a
fun one thanks to Patrick, Chris and Isaac. Appreciate you
listening here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Shonas son of a Bitch,