Fox Football Sunday: Andy Furman & Bucky Brooks talk UNBELIEVABLE Luka & AD Trade, Chiefs Fatigue & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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welcome back, Shay. Shay taking a well deserved day off, Brianna,
I know you couldn't wait to get back with us.
I am.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I was so excited, Like I literally had a little party.
I was so excited. I have like two five hour energies,
like I'm so happy to be here. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, And you know what, You're here on a very
special day because today is Groundhog's Day? Did you know that?
Did you know that today? Mark? Did you know that
today's Groundhog's Day. Did you know that? No? Y, I've
heard rumors about it. Okay, does anyone here? And it
comes from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundtog

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emerges from its borough on this day and sees its shadow,
it will retreat to its den and winter will go
on for six more weeks. Now, if it doesn't see
its shadow, spring will arrive early last year in twenty
twenty four, and the early spring was predicted. So happy
Groundhog's Day to everybody. And here's my partner and friend,
the one and only Bucky Brooks. How are you?

Speaker 3 (01:39):
I'm good, Andy? What's going on?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well? You know what, I gotta say something to you
because you know you're a tar heel, a tar heel grad.
And what about Bill Belichick, your new coach at University
of North Carolina football giving out peaches to the fraternity
last night at the basketball game. I know they got
drilled by Duke and it was ugly, but he gave
out peaches. Make it a little bit of a name
there on the campus. It's great, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
It is great.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
He's making a name on campus. He's also making a
name off campus in terms of the recruiting and those things.
He is really embracing the college football life.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well, I guess his girlfriend helps. I mean, obviously, you
know she's in tune with the with the college people,
with the co eds. You know what I'm saying. I
mean it helps. I would think I'm not making fun.
I mean that does help. I mean, she's like twenty
four its It's okay, she could relate. She's helping him around.
It's wonderful. All right, Now the big news. I wake
up the smile. I couldn't believe what I heard, all right,

(02:36):
and it's an amazing situation. The Dallas Mavericks. They traded
Luka Doncics to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis.
I mean that to me is a huge trade. And
why why would the Dallas Mavericks Okay, less to the
year going to the NBA five less to the year trade,
Really and truly the face of their franchise. He's only

(02:58):
twenty five. He's earned All NBA First Team honors in
every one of the last five years. He's gonna be
an all time great, he's gonna be an MVP. And
the the lunatic who's the general manager of Dallas. Is
I believe that defense was championships? Ah? Ah, are you
watching the same game that we're watching. These teams are
thrown up ninety three plus three point shots a game,

(03:21):
and you're telling me they went on defense. Doesn't work
out that way, mister Harrison, Nico Harrison, general manager of Dallas.
Not gonna work out that way. So now you got
Lebron teaming up with Luca and it's gonna be really,
really good. I think the odds went down big time
for the Lakers to win it. Now with Luca on
the La Lakers, it's amazing. What did you think about

(03:41):
that trade? I was shocked. I was shocked.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, I was shocked.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
And when it first came through, I was in on
the catch and I saw it come through, and I
was like, what, this must be a hacked to count
just because of what the Lakers gave up to get Luca,
Like it was just Ad and another player and I pick.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
It didn't seem like this blockbuster deal.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
And then as you see it kind of come through
and you start getting the details of the trade and
maybe the wives behind it.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
I can understand it.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
From the Mavericks standpoint, there was some It appeared to
be some frustration with Luca in terms of not coming
to camp in shape repeatedly having to kind of get
on him, and he appeared to kind of fall out
of favor in the building. And with a Supermax on
the horizon, which is a four hundred million dollar deal

(04:29):
even though he's twenty five, there were some concern what
is he going to age out like twenty five years old,
not necessarily disciplined when it comes to the conditioning part
of the game, will he be able to sustain it?
And do you want to be beholden to a superstar?
And it may not reflect some of the things coach
lead that you want in terms of work ethic detailed
in those things.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
For the Lakers, the Lakers do what the Lakers have
always done.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
They've always pilfered other team's stars to be the next
big star for them. If you go all the way
back to look, they had Wilt Chamberlain, they had Kareem
abdu Jabbar, Magic Johnson was homegrown.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
But they always find a way to get.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Somebody else's got Shaq you now think about Lebron. They
have always done this and so this is just part
for the course. When it comes for the Lakers to
have a superstar in the fold and Luca Danci to
take the baton from Lebron James when he eventually exits
stage right. So I think both parties got what they wanted.
And even though Nico's comments about defense winning championships seems dated,

(05:31):
I do understand why he would say that, because they
got to the finals last year, but they didn't have
the stopping power to get past Jason Tatum and the Celtics.
Sometimes when you fall short on the precipice of being
a world champion, it requires you, or you believe you
have to make radical changes to get over the top.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
I understand that Luca has been a bit of a
problem on defense, but here's a deal. This Dallas team
right now is in eighth place. He's averaging almost twenty
nine points a game, almost nine rebounds and seven assists
a game.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Too.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
The only played twenty two games. He's trained, I left calf,
and maybe he is out of shape. I don't care.
This guy is on his way to be a Hall
of Famer, and now he's teamed up with perhaps one
of the greatest players in the NBA history, Lebron James.
They say Lebron James, and they played the Nicks last
night in New York. They said he was having dinner
after the game. He knew nothing about it was initially
when I heard the trade and I think, oh, this

(06:21):
is something Lebron called. He made the move, but obviously
from what we hear and what we read, he did not.
It was just done on the part I guess of Dallas.
They want to unload Luca because they think he's out
of shape. He came out of weight, overweight, whatever it
may be, and he's got that calf injury. Look, I'll
take this guy. This guy's a heck of a player,
one of the all time greats in the NBA, and

(06:41):
he's going to help the Lakers. There's no doubt about that.
You talk about injuries, what about Ad. He's been sidelined
almost as much as Luca has been. So I don't know.
I think it's a good move as far as both
teams are concerned. But if you ask me right now,
I think the Lakers got the better deal on it.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Maybe so, but I think what you're doing, if you're
the Mavericks, is you can put Ad in his more
natural position of being a power forward. You have two
bigs already in place. You have Kyrie Irvin who can
do some of the things that Luca could do when
it comes to being the dominant ball handler, play distributor
play starter or whatever. And so the Mavericks are I

(07:21):
would say, closer to being a team that can contend,
more so than.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
The Lakers, because with the Lakers, what you have is
a very small front line. You have Lebron, you have Luca.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
It's exciting to see them go back and forth and
do that, but they're a very small team.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
And how much better does it make them in the West?
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
It gives them a future star, but I don't know
if it pays off. It gives them an immediate payoff
right now.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
But here's the deal. Now, with the Dallas Mavericks, the
two best players are thirty plus and that's not a
good thing. With Anthony Davis, he's thirty and Kyrie Irvings
in his thirties. So I think that you're looking for
the future. It ain't gonna happen with those guys. I
guess they want to win. They want to win now.
I don't think it's going to happen. I really don't.
And you got a twenty five year old teaming up
with Lebron in LA. Again, I think LA gets the

(08:05):
deal there, they get the better end of it.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
No, I mean, it'll be interesting to see how this
plays out because it's gonna take a while for the
chemistry to develop for these teams.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
You know that that's the main thing.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
How quickly can they get together when it comes to
the chemistry and the continuity and all that.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
It'd be interesting to see that Lebron, I mean obviously
welcoming Luca, but how they play together, you know. And again,
you know Luca has been at times a liability on defense.
But I'll take that. I'll take the liability, you know.
So why you know, the guy's averaging almost thirty points
a game. He's an All Star. It's a great player.
I mean, and again, I don't think many players play

(08:41):
defense in the National Basketball Association. I mean, I look
at these scores on a daily basis, one thirty seven,
one thirty four, I mean won forty six. I mean,
come on, there's no defense in that league. And that's
what people want. They want scoring, they want points. They
want guys to put up forty and fifty at night.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, they do all scoring and they want points.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
And the league is kind of changed because everyone they're
shooting so many threes. That is kind of a weird
herky jerky product at times. But I do understand what
you're saying in terms of the scoring and offense. But
where it really matters is in the postseason. In the postseason,
when you get to the playoffs, you have to be
able to play defense if you want to advance and

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go to the deep parts of the tournament.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
And the Mavericks are saying.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
We're going to make sure that we can score because
Kyrie always can put the ball in the bucket, but
we have to be able to play defense, and so
they want to see if they can upgrade their defense.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Well see if this works out. This fascinating move.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
For me. I agree, and I was shocked. I mean,
really and truly a big trade, one of the biggest
trades ever in the National Basketball Association, coming on the
heels perhaps of the Super Bowl, but still in all
I don't think it's going to get the play that
the National Football League will get. I mean, the NBA
cannot compete with the National Football League, not many people

(09:56):
can maybe college football to some extent. And I'm glad
you mentioned the three point goal because earlier this week
did Dan Patrick show. Dan had Adam Silver, the commissioner
of the NBA, on there, and he's talking about changing
some rules and moving around and trying to make the
lead better. TV ratings are hurting, and he said he
may go from a twelve minute period to a ten

(10:19):
minute ain't going to work. I have an idea, and
I'm gonna hold this. I'm gonna tease it right now
and maybe wait till the second hour. You're gonna go
nuts when I tell you this. But I wrote a
letter to Adam Silver the other day. I think it's
gonna work. I think this is gonna be the key
to help the NBA because you cannot live and die
with the three point goal. Every single night, these teams

(10:40):
are hauling up three pointers and the people don't want
to see it. You want to see a game played
on a normal basis with guys playing basketball, not going
down to the park and even up threes. So I
have the idea and the answer, but I'll save that
for a little later on because I think you'll appreciate that.
You may make fun of me, they may say it's

(11:01):
not going to happen, but I think it's a good deal.
I really do, all right, And speaking of football, let's
talk about what's going on right now in the national
football Maybe because of the week from today's the Super
Bowl and this time, I think it's going to be
a little different for the Philadelphia Eagles, hopefully, and I
hope if they do win, I hope the may Or
of Philadelphia knows how to spell Eagles this time, because

(11:21):
really and truly it'll be it'll be embarrassing. Really, Yeah,
it's funny. The other morning I was watching Good Morning America.
I don't know, I had the TV on in the
morning and they had a little feature one of the
elementary schools in Philadelphia. I had. One of the teachers
was having a lesson with their kids. I think it
was a fourth fifth grade class doing math, and she
was teaching math through the Philadelphia Eagles, aiding up game

(11:44):
by game how many yards sae Quon Barkley had gained
throughout the season, and the kids were using sae Quon
Barkley to help them with their math. I thought it
was great. And then at the end of the deal.
The end of the segment, they were cheering, let's go Eagles.
They were spelling eagles, and I was saying, I was
hoping that the mayor of Philadelphia was watching that, so
she knows how to spell eagles. It's embarrassing, it really is.

(12:05):
That's another.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
It was embarrassing. Hopefully she was just over excited, excited
about the moment.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
And you're so good giving excuses.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
I mean, I just thought, I mean, I would like
to think if you've if you've ascended to being the mayor,
I would believe that you should be able to hold
your own in some basic spelling bees. And so I'm
hoping that is just a mistake where she just kind
of got excited, you know, got in front of the
mic and kind of lost.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
The little You know that that's why you're so much
better than me, because you got a heart, you have feelings.
I'm just a cold hearted individual. You have a heart,
and you're good. You're a good person. That's why I
love you. You really are, Bucket Brooks, You're a good man. Anyway,
Eagles over the Commanders last Weekday rolled in fifty five
twenty three, and they're going to face the Chiefs and
the Super Bowl for the second time in three years

(12:55):
a week from today. But on February the twelve, twenty
twenty three, the Chiefs thirty eight to thirty five over
the Eagles. It was a less second field goal, But
that game was PS and what's ps? Pre Saquon? All right,
pre Saquon. It's a different Eagles team. It's a different
game now, it's a different animal two years ago. In

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that game, the Eagles running back was Miles Sanders. Miles
Sanders had just sixteen rushing yards. Jalen Hurts threw for
three to h four. He ran for seventy. He had
three touchdowns. But I ask you, mister football bucket Brooks,
what has Barkley added to this Eagles team to make
them more dangerous against the Chiefs next week.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Well, he's their best offensive player.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
So whenever you bring in a talent like that, it
changes the equation from a defensive standpoint. At running back,
he is a home run hitter who can score from
any row in the field at any time.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
He's physical.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
He does a great job of setting the tone the
way they're able to run the football. Very creative with
their we call them gap schemes. In terms of how
they're pulling people and putting them behind there. And then
when you throw in the combination of Jalen Hurt's ability
to run the football, whether on quarterback design, quarterback runs,
or read option plays, it makes this running game very

(14:14):
difficult to defend. And they have three legitimate weapons in
the passing game, the two wide receivers aj Brown and
DeVante Smith respectively, and then Dallas got it over the middle.
This is a very talented offense. For Saquon Barkley is destroyed.
The stirs to drink.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Would it be a fair statement for me to say
that Charles Charles Barkley, but Sae Kwon Barkley, say Kwon
Barkley makes the Eagles offense almost unstoppable. He rushed for
over two thousand yards in the regular season. He rushed
for four hundred and forty plus yards in the playoffs.
He's done this in an offense as somewhat of a
ball control offense. I would say that their offense is unstoppable.

(14:56):
I really believe that it's an unstoppable offense, and I
think that the build of the Eagles, in fact, we'll
beat the Kansas City Chiefs. I know everybody says that
Kansas City's got the n D Reid, Kansas got Mahomes.
They know how to win, the will to win. Look,
I've said this, I said this last week to you.
They've been playing with a horseshoe up their rear end
most of the season. I get it. You know, they
know how to win. They feel they're going to win.

(15:18):
Even when they're losing down the stretch, they say, we've
been there before, We're gonna win. I just think the
Eagles have more weapons than the Kansas City Chiefs. They
do on the offensive side of the ball, and then
the best defensive team in the league.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
I would agree.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
We can say they're the most talented team, but until
we see someone take the crown from the Kansaity Chiefs,
I can't pick them.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
I can see here and.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
Logically say the Philippi Eagles are the more talented team.
The Philadelphia Eagles on paper, should win the game if
you just look at the rosters, et cetera, et cetera.
But the Kansaity Chiefs are here. Look, they lost two
games in the regular season. One Thos was a giveaway
at the end. We can talk about how many one
score games they won, but they've won them. They knocked
off the Buffalo Bills, a Bills team that kind of

(16:01):
took care of them in the regular season. They found
a way to bounce back and they put up thirty
plus points. We talked about their offense. They finally put
up thirty plus points against one of the better teams
in the league when they needed to do it.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
To me, man, the Kansasita.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Chiefs can go to whatever level they need to rise
to to get dubs.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
That makes them scary.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
That's why I can't bet against them winning and completing
the three feet.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
You know, I'm glad you mentioned the Buffalo Bills because
we talk about Kansas City, and I hear what you're saying.
You can't bet against him because they have the will
to win. They know how to win been they had
done that. They experience everything there in the same token list.
Flip the coin for a second. This Buffalo team has
a situation where they don't know how to win. They
come so close, but I can't get it done. And

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this goes back to when Marv Leedy was coaching that team,
when they went to four straight Super Bowls they lost
all four. I mean, this is a team that's whatever
you want to call it, the hext drink jinks. These players,
I gotta believe that they know that when they go
into a big game, is it gonna happen again? That's
got to go through their mind. Is it gonna happen again?

(17:07):
We're in Kansas City. They'll say, if it happens again,
we're gonna be on top list. We've been there, done that,
we know how to win. Does that go through the
ball players' minds. I think it has to.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
I think there may be some anxiety and apprehension. I
won't say that they directly think, oh my god, here
we go again. But when you've seen one team win
in the fashion of the Kensa and Chiefs have consistently
won over the years, you do have a sense that, man,
you're facing this mystical, magical dragon that you're unable to slay.

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For the Buffalo Bills, they've been so close and heartbroken
so many times, it has to become a bit of
a deal. When they see the Chiefs in the postseason
that's even different than the regular season.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
And until they vanquished the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
In a high leverage game into a in a playoff game,
they'll always the Chiefs will always have their thing over them.
They know that Laman doesn't matter when we play, where
we play, if we play in the postseason, we know
how to beat you.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
And you know that as well.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
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Speaker 1 (18:53):
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one the Forlyheart Radio at Now, Bucky Brooks, the question
of the day is do we as fans, as followers

(19:33):
of the National Football League, do we have Kansas City
Chiefs fatigue? Are we tie with the Chiefs? Are we
tie with Tata? Are we tie with following them at all?
Are we tie with their winning? Is the second time
in three years the Chiefs will meet the Eagles, the
Chiefs in the Super Bowl the fifth time in six years?
Is it too much? Is it too much? Chiefs? Tell me?

Speaker 3 (19:56):
I think it's too much.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Chiefs for the people that don't really creciate excellence. I
think what we do is we say that we love
winners in our country, and then we get tired of
people as soon as they start winning.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
The kan City Chiefs have become dynastic.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
And this is something that they said years ago when
they won the first one. They talked about the off
season about being a dynasty. They came up short against
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They traded Tyreek Hill and but
here they are really.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Being a dynasty.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
You do not go to the amount of Super Bowls
that they've gone to in a relatively short span and
not frustrate opponents in their fan bases an opportunity to
win a three peat having gone to whatever it is
four and five years or.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Six years.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah, it drives people crazy because when you think about
being a part of a fan base that probably doesn't
go often, there's some envy of the kans City Chiefs
allays being there. And this has been a great run
even I would say even a better run than the
New England Patriots had over a twenty year period. To
go five and six years, I mean, I'm precedented. And

(21:10):
for them to win if they put us off a
three peet man. It puts Patrick Mahomes already up there
bumping bumping up against Tom Brady as the greatest of
all time when it comes to winning, and those things
puts to be the same air with Joe Montana.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's amazing.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
You know.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
You look at Patrick Mahomes and it must have been
one heck of a draft pick with Kansas City. Why
they went with this guy. He was a Texas Tech.
He had a losing record as a senior at Texas Tech.
And it comes here and the question I have would
he be as good as he is without Andy Reid?
I mean, how important is Andy Reid to the development
and success of Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
He's essential to the success of Patrick Mahomes. And the
reason why I would say he's essential is every player
needs the ructure in the system.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
To be able to flourish.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
And when I look at what Andy Reid has done
for Pat Mahomes, he has taken an unorthodox quarterback prospect
out of Texas Tech and put him in an offense
that works. And he did it by kind of breaking
the mold, getting away from his traditional West Coast offense
to doing something that is a little more collegiate a

(22:23):
little more spread offense, and then allowing Pat Mahomes to
grow within the system that is a hybrid system. The
other thing that I'll say in what we slept on
about Pat Mahomes is not only his competitiveness, but I
would say his professionalism when it comes to wanting to
be a winner. Everyone can talk about wanting to be
a winner and say they do all the right things,

(22:44):
but his actions matches worse. First went in, last, went out,
deeply passionate about the game, film study, game plan study,
all those things rate off the charts, and more importantly,
on game day in games when those plays are needed
to be made, he makes them. A lot of times,
we look at franchise quarterbacks, they have to have this

(23:06):
not over my dead body type feel to them, like
a competitive zest and zeal that no matter what happens,
I'm gonna find a way to get us to the
winner circle. Pat Mahomes has that, and he displays that
time after time after time when this team needs it.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
In the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
You know, the Kansas City Chiefs go against everything that
the National Football League wants to do, and that's to
have everything balanced. They want to have the worst team
get the first pick, so they could have various different
teams winning every year. And Kansas City has kind of
broken that mold because of what they've done going through
the Super Bowl five out of six years. And you
bring up a great point because in our country right now,

(23:45):
people love the underdog, but as soon as the underdog
starts to win and become somewhat of a dynasty, they
hate them. And I think most of the country right
now is rooting against the Kansas City Chiefs unless you
live in Kansas City, because they don't want to see
this team dominate. And what they've done now gone to
the next level blaming the officiating and that's why the
Chiefs are winning. Well, here's the deal. If you're so

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stupid to believe that the officials are changing the outcome
of the Kansas City Chiefs, then why the hell don't
you take your wallet out and bet against them. That's
the key, And no one's doing that. Really, it's unbelievable.
And I got a breakdown. I did this just for you,
Bucky Brooks. I got a penalty breakdown with the Kansas
City Chiefs with the officiating. Okay, this was going down

(24:28):
into last Sunday's game against Washington, I believe here's the deal.
I mean, I got only stats mixed up over here.
But heading into Sunday's Kansas City game, they came out
on the favorable side of some of the differentials in
the last eleven playoff games, including eight to one in
penalties for defensive holding, seven to one in penalties for

(24:49):
roughing the passer, and four to one and penalties for
unnecessary roughness. Kansas City was also on the favorable end
of a twenty to seven gap in pre snap penalty
on offense, false starts, illegal formations, illegal shifts, twelve men
on the field, and delays of game, excluding on fourth down.
So it's unbelievable. But people still believe that Kansas City

(25:13):
has got the edge, and it's crazy. It's unbelievable. Really,
I don't know why they think that officials really get
the calls right. I'd say ninety eight percent of the time,
don't you agree?

Speaker 4 (25:26):
So yeah, I mean, look, it's a hard job, and
I think they do a pretty good job overall.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Officials do.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
One of the things that you have when you're the
Kansity chiefs, what you do is you've created this mystique
around you.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
When it comes to the winning, No one wants to.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
Give people credit for the excellence that they display over
and over and over again. So you have to attribute
it to well, someone's cheating, they're helping them. There's no
way they can win this many games in a row
without somebody like kind of tipping the skills.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
In their favor. And what it does, it creates and.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
I'll say in over the emotional response to the things
that happened, what is a ticke tak call for one
team becomes a huge deal when you fann the Kansas
City Chiefs and they are the beneficiary.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
And they because they've.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Won so much, they have what I call an emotional
stability about them that allows them to play in these
high pressure moments without flinching. Other teams are not as
emotionally restrained, and so it causes the ebbs and flows
and the lack of execution that we see in some
of these critical moments.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
No doubt about that. Against the Houston Texas last week,
Okay that according to statistical information after the game, there
were no fouls for hits on quarterbacks and the eight
to six overall disparity in favor of Kansas City. Get
this was nothing out of the ordinary. So look, I mean,
I think if there was a problem, there would have
been some sort of a statement from the National Football

(26:54):
League office about the officiating, and hasn't been. I mean,
it's just crazy. And again, I think that gamble and
the increased gambling and it's all over the place, on
your phone, everywhere else. That has created a situation where
people think this is an advantage for the Kansas City
Chiefs because of penalties. That's not the case. It's not
the case.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
No, it's it's definitely not the case. And it's one
of those things where the Cancite Chiefs continue to whin.
People are trying to find a reason why, and if
they can't find a reason why, then it just leads
to this hate that we've seen for them their team.
The only one who kind of escapes that has been
Andy Reid because he's such a lovable guy, but everybody

(27:36):
else gets all the venom. And look, it's one of
those things that fascining to watch. You wonder how long
or how much longer can they sustain this level of success.
But there will positioned to be a team that's going
to be really good for a long time because they're
built the right way. They have a young superstar at
quarterback who isn't going anywhere, and so as long as

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you have that piece set up, man, it just gives
you a chance.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Right.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
And then there's another thing that kindly kind of made
me crazy yesterday with this story, and stories like this
happened in the commonplace. They really are off the field stories, rumors, slander, lies,
People do anything for a click social media. And we
have the arrest, we got the drug stories, we got
the sexual assaults, and we're talking about players in the

(28:26):
National Football They go happen, okay, but I think that
has to be a fine line. And I read this
story about the alleged the alleged situation on Baltimore Ravens
kicker Justin Tucker and his allegations with a nine. Now
it's nine massage therapists. I said enough. As an I
didn't want to believe it, you know, but now you

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got nine. I mean, you know, first, first of all,
I say this, with this story, he didn't break the law.
You know, he may have breaken the National Football League's laws.
And it's going to be a problem over here when
they investigated, and he did say that the allegations were false.
But again, if Deshaun Watson had to sit on the
sidelines because of a situation like this, I think if

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they find some more evidence, Justin Tucker is gonna be
outside looking in. We'll see what the league does about this.
But I am shocked that Justin Tucker. I mean, I
remember about two years ago, and maybe it's more than that.
I was watching sixty Minutes on a Sunday evening and
they did a big feature on Justin Tucker on how

(29:28):
he sings for the local opera house in Baltimore. I said,
this guy's got it all together. Justin Really, when you
heard this story, were you a bit shocked of all
people to have an allegation with a massage therapist sexual
encounters allegedly. I mean, of all the people, did you
think would be Justin Tucker?

Speaker 3 (29:51):
I mean, like, look, I didn't think. Look.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
I thought Justin Tucker does great things away from the
game in terms of his singing, pros, him having opera
ambitions in those things. But when you ask me, being
around the National Football League for twenty plus years, when
I hear these stories, am I surprised?

Speaker 3 (30:10):
No? I can't say that I'm surprised.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
I think it's just surprising that a kicker, a guy
like Justin Tucker is associated with it. But you know,
the delegations have risen from six to nine five different locations,
and if we're being fair, look, some of the stuff
that you read about that transpired allegedly are some of

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the things that really turned people off on Deshaun Watson.
And at some point, as it continues to escalate, Justin
Tucker is going to get the same treatment or deserves
to get the same treatment that Deshaun Watson had.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
So well, yeah, and so.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
It will be interesting to see how this plays out,
because you want to give people the benefit of the
out and in our country, you are innocent until proving guilty.
But as these thens continued him out, it makes it
very very difficult to kind of stand behind and defend Justin.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Tucker against these allegations.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
It's look, it's going to be a nasty fight that
he's going to have to get in to clear his name,
and he appears to be very willing to do that defamation.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Retribution. He's seeking to make sure that he cleans his name.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
But this is look, this is hard and Deshaun Watson
has never gotten back from that. Some of that is
these the allegations that he had the settlements, and then
some of that is also the blockbuster contract. And when
people talk about the difference, they say, oh, ones a quarterback,
one's a kicker. Yeah, but it seems to be a
little more layered into it.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
And I think the contract for Deshaun Watson.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
Had a lot to do with the visceral reaction that
we had from the public when his allegations came to
the surface.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Okay, here here's my question. Okay, there was a situation
where Robert Kraft several years ago going through misself therapist,
and obviously he's an owner. So I don't know if
the National FOOTBA leaguer are the suspending owner. I think
they can. I think it's happened in the past, and
I'm not saying that they shouldn't do anything to justin Tugle.
We know what's good for the goose is good for
the game. There. If they find them guilty, and they do,
then whatever Deshaun Watson gets, god he should get as well.

(32:16):
But is it a situation right now that you know
when you're an athlete is that the price that you
have to pay that every move you make you're under
a microscope. And now with social media and everybody basically
as a photographer with their telephone, they could take a picture.
Robert Krap wanted to do a massage Paula. You know,
is it breaking the law? You know, it's not the

(32:37):
right thing to do. You're an owner of the team
and you're kind of a public figure. You just don't
do something like that. And everybody knew about it. Same
thing with Justin Tucker, I mean, and Deshaun as well.
But the point is that, is that the price you
pay that you know everything you do off the field
because public knowledge, you can't go anywhere. Is that the
problem right now with athletes?

Speaker 4 (32:59):
I can't say it's a problem, but I say that's
the life that they've chosen. When you place pro sports
and you become a public figure, public figure, some of
this is kind of part of the territory and it's
unfortunate for these athletes that are dealing with these things.
But you have to be well aware of it, and
you do have to operate not out of a level

(33:20):
of paranoia, but you really have to have your antennas
up when it comes to your encounters with people, when
it comes to where you're at and what's going on
the people around you, like your entourage and your friend,
your families home, all of that stuff matters because it
ultimately comes.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
Back on you.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
When you're the pro athlete, when you're the big fish,
people hang these things on you and you just have
to move cautiously as your chimp to navigate like civilian life.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Right.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
And it's a money grab too, I mean, you know, honestly,
I think that the fact that they make a lot
of money, there's an opportunity for people out there to say,
I want to get into that guy's wallet. I'm gonna
do this. I'm gonna accuse him of something and make
life miserable for him. Really, so it happens, what are
you gonna do? You were lucky didn't happen to you? Buck,
You're a good man. I'm glad. There we go. He

(34:15):
is Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman. We are Fox Football
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dot Com studios and awhere we go, Here we go.
Ask Bucky now, as a college athletic director, is it
better is it better to participate in a lesser conference
and move to a Power five conference of being also around?
Which is better? Lesser conference and win? Or go to
a Power five and being also ran?

Speaker 4 (34:54):
Big fishmall pond. I'd rather be the dominant team in
a lesser conference because it gives.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Me more notoriety.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
I'll have opportunities to play against the bigger teams down
the line, but I rather dominate a conference.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
I'm with you one hundred percent, I really am. Although
I tell you what, the big money is the thing
that lures these college teams to the big conferences. They
may not win, but they're getting a bigger paycheck. That's
what it's all about. I guess. Now. Major League Soccer
MLS plans to introduce Get This Sunday Night Soccer for
twenty twenty five, and they're going to go head to
head with the National Football League on TV. Have they

(35:29):
lost their mind? Are they crazy?

Speaker 3 (35:31):
No?

Speaker 4 (35:31):
I don't think they're crazy because it's a niche sport.
The people that are going to watch soccer were unlikely
to watch football, particularly at the MLS level.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
If you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
Premier League and those things, then I would be a
little more concerned.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
No.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
MLS.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
It's a small fan base, a small obsessed group of
people that are following them. Yeah, try and create them
all night, but it won't have any impact on football.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Okay, I hear a different audience. I guess there you go.
All right. Now, the Cleveland Browns they're coming up with
disappointing twenty four twenty twenty four season, they went three
to fourteen, and they're not going to trade their edge
rusher Miles Garrett, the defensive player of the year. That's
what they said. I ask you this bucket, Brooks. Is
that selfish and selfish not only for Garrett but for

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the fans and the team. They could possibly get two
first rounds for him, but they're gonna keep him there.
And look, this guy wants to be a winner, and
I don't think it's gonna happen in Cleveland for a while.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
No, I think they should keep him there, like it's
too hard to find blue chip players. He was number
one overall pick. You selected him, He's lived up to billing.
Why would you trade away approving commodity for two lottery
tickets on players that you don't know. Also, with the drafts,
the upcoming drafts, then I can be as talented as
deep as they've been in the past because of nil

(36:47):
and the way people are staying in those things. When
you have someone that you know can play, you try
and do everything in your power to keep them until
you've exhausted all of those options and there's no other
choice but to let them walk.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
All right, the Pro Bowl Bucky Brooks talk about the
Pro Ball. Give me a thumbs up or a thumbs down,
and what are the possible changes they need to do
for this Pro Bowl. The guy's running around with towels
sticking out of their hip. I think it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Well, it's never going to satisfy the common fan, right
The common fan wants.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
To see the Pro Bowl play like it's a Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
They want to see players kind of risk their livelihoods
and put it all on the line for an exhibition game.
That is never going to happen. Those days are gone
because the money is so significant in sports. You're trying
to get to your next contract, and after you're going
through a seventeen game regular season, the last thing you're
trying to do is play another game that doesn't have

(37:43):
any significantificant outcomes for you.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
So yeah, like, look enjoy for what it is.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
See your favorite players doing what they do, whether it's
flag football or these skills, and that's what it is.
But don't expect the Pro Bowl to ever equate to
what a Super Bowl is when it comes to the
level of intensity.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
All right, now, the return if you remember this, the
return of the college football All Star Game going against
the NFL All Stars. Is that a possibility? And way
back in the day, the College Charities of the Chicago
that a college All Star game. It was an American
football game played for nineteen thirty four to nineteen seventy
six between the National Football League champions and a team

(38:22):
of college All Star seniors from the previous year. It
was known as the College All Star Football Classic in Chicago.
Can we ever see that again?

Speaker 4 (38:32):
We should not see that because it looks the disparity
is so significant between the pros and the college guys.
It's nice in thought, the think that the national champion
could take on pros.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
No way, no how. I don't want to see that.
No one want to see that.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
And the last All Star win came in nineteen sixty three,
when a college team coached by legendary quarterback I Don't
Graham beat Vince Lombardy's Green Bay Packers twenty to seventeen. Really,
I wish they would have that again. I don't think
it's gonna happen again now. Last, but not least, the
Washington Capitol's public address announcement, Wes Johnson was hobstabalized with

(39:09):
a medical emergency. The team shared a crowdfunding page set
up by Johnson's family, and the fans were outraged. Why
would they be outraged to raise money for this guy
who got sick? I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Yeah, idea, it's weird to fan reaction. Normally these things
are well received. So we'll see a different time.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
All right, Bucky Brooks has the future of your team
in your hands. Coming up right here next on Fox.
Don't listen, no, Fox Sports Radio Radio. All right, it's
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tire buying should be. Bucky A Taya's funny story. Last night,
I'm watching the Arkansas Kentucky game on TV. All right,

(40:10):
I live in Kentucky. People will go crazy with the
Kentucky Wildcats. And prior to the game, I think several
days beforehand, Rip Patino sends out a message a video
that people should not boo John Cali Powrie, the Arkansas
coach who's the former Kentucky coach who left after last year.
I'm saying, why on earth would Rip Petino do that?

(40:32):
First of all, Rip Patino and caliperiy and not the
best of friends anyway, and I just don't understand that.
And certainly when Rip Pettino coached at Kentucky, he left
Kentucky to go coach to Boston Celtics. Then he came
back to coach University of Louisville. And yes, when Louisville
played Kentucky when he was the Louisville coach, he was booed.
So maybe that's why he didn't want Cali Perry to

(40:54):
be booed. You know what it's like. However, they did
boo calib Pari last night, but Cali Perry had the
last left Arkansas beat Kentucky last night in Lexington. But
why would he do that? I mean, why would a
coach go crazy? I mean all of a sudden. Now
Rick Patino is acting like the King of coaches telling
people what to do all of a sudden. I don't

(41:14):
get it. Why would he do that?

Speaker 3 (41:18):
I think, Look, he's trying to pay it forward.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
He's also trying to implore because he wants to be
beloved and he would like to think that he has
still some impact on that Kentucky kingdom. And so he
was trying to use his way to an active result.
And even though he and caler Pari are not the
best of friends. Look, he's able as a legendary coach

(41:41):
to see the job that John caler Pari did and
realized that it needed to be appreciated, and maybe he
was underappreciated during his tenure in Kentucky. But the thing
that those fans were not going to boot that was crazy.
I mean, when you go on to the other side,
particularly to a team within the conference on and so

(42:02):
they'll eventually patch it up and get it together.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
But it's nonsensical to.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
Think that he was going to come back and walk
into reporrida and get a stand in your.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
Vation, right. Yeah, And you know, here's the thing. I mean,
I've heard for years you can't book college kids they're
student athletes. Now you can. They're getting paid. I mean,
I don't think it's the right thing to do. I
don't think it's classy. But you know, really and truly
you could boo them, right, I mean, what is your
stance on going to a game if you're paying for

(42:30):
a ticket and you sit in the stands and you're
a big college booster of that team, you're a graduate
perhaps of that school, and they're not doing well, can
you boo? Is it a good thing to do? I
think it's classless, but you know, I don't think there's
anything wrong with it if you want to.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
Do it, I mean, if you want to do it,
but it's going to negatively impact the performance on the field.
When kids are booed, or when they're heckled or taunted
or any of those things from their own fans. There's
already a level of disappointment that they have in their
own performance. It only look it only raises it up
even higher. And so if you feel better because you
paid money for a ticket and it's your right to

(43:05):
boom like, so be it. But it's not gonna change
anything that happens on the floor, right.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
But I think that enough booze and enough people staying
away could have a result where staffing, athletic director and
maybe boosters will say it may be time for a
coaching change. Is that possible?

Speaker 4 (43:28):
That is possible because apathy is the worst thing that
you want to see when you're an athletic director. The
fans aren't show enough anymore, they don't care about the
product all of those things. So that's where it can
be impactful. But I still would say that it's never
a good thing. Like your job is to support the team,
So rather than admonish them, maybe encourage them to pick

(43:52):
it up they can play better. Maybe those are the
things that the team needs frad the situation.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
I can say this in.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
Watching Carolina, watching my tar Hs lose four out of
the last five, washing them get absolutely choked out by
the Duke Blue Devils yesterday, seeing them drop a bunch
of one possession games. Yeah, there's a sense of frustration
within the fan base to the point that they have
talked about man, can Hubert Davis get it on and

(44:18):
those things, and some of that is par for the course,
but I also see a bunch of kids that are
struggling with the weight of expectations. The thing about coaching,
particularly at the collegiate level, your job, your livelihood, hinges
on the emotional stability of eighteen to twenty two year olds.
And in basketball you talking about eighteen nineteen year olds

(44:39):
because they're won and done. It is hard to know
what they're going to do on a day to day
basis when it comes to eating and shopping and sleeping
and what they want to do to think that they
can execute.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
At a high level over time.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
Hard easier said hard to get done. It's a tricky
profession right now, and the money only makes it worse
because some of the tactics that you used to use,
we're regarding holding up players, playing time, punishment for being
late in those things. Some of those things you can find,
but like that that negatively impacts the culture, the environment that.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
You're trying to create.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
It's a very very difficult set of circumstances coaches are
dealing with.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Yeah, I'm glad you broughtup the nil on the money situation.
How does that work? I mean, we're hearing that some
of these players are getting like in the millions now
that they got one check prior to entering school that
I get paid by the week. Can I get that
check held? Can I get suspensions? If they don't play?
Do they not get paid? How does that work? Or
is an individual situation per school.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
I think it's an individual per school, and it's a
situation where guys have to figure out what works to them.
In terms of coaches, how heavy can you go at
players for their money? And if you want to run
a professional program, are they ready for it to be
run like a professional program? Everyone thinks they're ready until
they have to. So coaches and players, you got to

(46:02):
make sure the environment that is being created, that you
fit and you're more than just a guy that's a
cognate will that you're in essential part, invaluable to the group.
That's how it goes. That's how you carve it out.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Okay, let me zero win on your school, University of
North Carolina. You got Bill Belichick coaching the football team.
You got Hubert Davis basketball. All right, Certainly every athlete
on the football team and or a basketball team is
going to get a paycheck to some extent. Now do
they have an agent to get them in the money,
because now I'm hearing that most of these schools have
what they call a general manager. I guess he handles

(46:38):
the funds. And what does he do? He goes out
there and recruits the lums and businesses to help pay
the athletes. How does it work?

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Well?

Speaker 4 (46:46):
When you have a general managers operates very similar to
a protein. The general manager is responsible for a roster construction,
maintaining the continuity when it comes to the quote unquote
salary cap, that's the money. Who who deserves to get
paid what? Because you approximate value and assigned value to
certain positions, certain players, and you probably rank and re

(47:09):
rake your team from one to one hundred to see
who deserves the most and most time you reserve that
I would say for the tallest, I mean for the
most talented in those things. And as you rank them,
you just have to figure out how you want to
slot the money in doing those things. But it's a
more difficult and challenging landscape, you know, to kind of handle,

(47:33):
because there's no regulation, there's no set spending them out,
none of that, and so everyone is kind of fending
for themselves.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Okay, so the general manager's going to kind of slot
them as you say. I'm a quarterback coming out of
high school being recruited by Belichick and North Carolina guy says,
I'm going to give you, you know, one hundred and fifty thousand,
I don't know, five hundred thousand, whatever it may be.
And the kid comes to the school and say, you
know what, though I've been off, it's seven hundred and
fifty thousand school X, I don't want to go. I mean,

(48:02):
is that the way? Is there a negotiation there? And
then North Carolina says, well, well we'll get back to you,
and they're trying to get more money to give to him.
Is that how that works?

Speaker 4 (48:11):
Yeah, it seems like there's a bit of a negotiation
between the general manager, head coach and the player's representatives,
and you have to get all that buttoned up and
down in before he's able to kind of join the squad.
So you're in a holding pattern until you can get
all those agreements. The thing that is going to change everything,
because what we're talking about is like not necessarily nil of.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
But revenue sharing.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
If this becomes a Title nine case and it's one
of those things where you have to pay all of
the athletic departments, women and men, it changes how much
money is available and how you do it. That's why
it's gonna be fascinating to watch how this eventually plays out.
Because the NCUBA is operating kind of like a house

(48:56):
of cards. I don't know how sustainable the model is
then continue to operate this way.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Why would anybody in their right mind going to coaching
right now on a major college level. That's why guys
like Jay Wright have left a Villanova. You can't do it.
It's crazy, you know. Recruiting alone without the NIL was
a pain in the rear ring. It really was going
to an eighteen year old kids living room with their
mom and dad there and say come play for me,
and the kids's gonna say, well, I'm not going to
start how many games are gonna be on TV? When

(49:24):
we the schedules like and then back and forth, and
there were some under the table moneys given by various schools.
We know that, but now there's an added problem not
only going there to ask them to come play for you,
say well, how much are you going to pay me
to play for you? It's crazy, really.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
I mean it is.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
But then I'm not going to pull up my tiny
little land for all these coaches who've been doing this
for years. They've been and I would say this entire
athletic departments have been taking advantage of players when it
comes to not wanting to give funds to the players. Like,
let's go back and really think about the origin of this.
The NCA used to penalize players for getting.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
Like an extra cheeseburger, right.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Like simple things that you should have a reasonable expectation
to be able to get when you're on campus, and
so it must room form like hey, can we at
least work during the off season because you need extra money.
Everyone doesn't come from a situation where they have extra
money to pay, like you're on scholarship, which takes care
of room and board, and you have the meal table

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and all that, but some of the things on the
weekends you can't do right depending on whether the training
table is open or close or whatever.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
And so it.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
Started from that, and greed ultimately put them in a
situation where they're now like this, and the players have
a significant amount of power when it comes to the money,
and it's become transactional in those things. And so some
of the coaches that jumped out, I would say they're
selfish in their own right because they don't have the
ability to change just because players are getting paid. Good

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coaches figured out. Good coaches continue to hold people accountable
with or without the money.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
If you really love the game, you stay in it.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
If it was something as a means to an end,
a means to being able to acquire more wealth for
you as a coach, those are.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
The ones that are more likely to get out when
it gets hard.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
I'm I'm not opposed to players getting paid because I
think they should because they do a lot of the university.
They increase enrollment, they increase merchandise, and they put them
on TV. I get it, and they do a lot
of work, and they're going to school as well as
practice time, so a lot of time is taken up
and they don't have much time for a social life.
I get it. They should get paid, but I think
there's got to be a better way to get paid.
I really do. I mean, eventually, I think it's going

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to happen, because, as you say, this situation now it's
not really working out as I think they thought it
would work out. However, we move on because you have
the ability to do an NFL mock draft. You're a
personnel man, you're a coach, you play in the NFL,
you're a scout, you're a writer, you're right fort NFL
dot com, and this week you had your mock draft.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Right.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
However, I am going to challenge you. I'm going to
ask our executive producer today, Brianna, are you there? Are
you here with us right now? Are you with us?

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Would you do me a tremendous favor? Of course, I'm
gonna ask Bucky Brooks to go like his first three
or five picks in his MOX draft, and I'm gonna
give you mine. And if you write these down, I
will save them for draft day. I will see who
is more correct? Is that fair? Is that fair?

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (52:26):
A former a former NFL player and a guy who
played two a touch in the streets of Brooklyn. We'll
see who's who's more on top of their game. I'll
be ready to go. Bucky, your first pick in the
draft this year? Who did you have on NFL dot com?

Speaker 4 (52:43):
Okay, Tennessee Titans selects Shoulder Sanders as the number one
overall pick. And I'm glad that you actually brought this
up because I found some quotes where Brian Callahan, the
head coach of the Sinse Titans, compared Shador Sanders to
his former quarterback Joe Burrow. I think that comparison is
valid giving the way that he plays point guard from
the pocket. I think if you're the Tennessee Titans, you

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want a polished player at the position as opposed to
the wildcard, which is cam Ward.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
That's why she Drea Sanders is to pick.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Okay, so bring on to you right down now, Bucky
brook Scott Sanders, I got Tennessee Titans number one pick,
cam Wards, Miami and Florida, better schedule, toughest schedule, and
I think the comparison with cam Ward, at least for
the Tennessee Titans, is not so much going to be
Joe Burrow. It's going to be Patrick Mahomes. And I

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think Tennessee's taking cam Ward. How do you like that?

Speaker 4 (53:38):
I mean, I like it, But here's what I tend
to say. Normally, you try and get away from projects
if you just had a project. Part of the conversation
with Will Levis was Okay, he has some tools and stuff,
but he just needs to project and develop. When you're
Brian Callahan and you need to win right now, I
don't know if you want to jump into that lot
with cam Ward. The other thing that I would say

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is cam Ward's terrific. Kim Ward is shown at Incarnate Word,
Washington State, and Miami that he certainly can win, but
he's more of a gun slinger.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
So turnovers in those things Shador Sanders despite.

Speaker 4 (54:11):
All of the stuff around him where people may not
like the personality in those things. I'm gonna say this,
Jackson State turnaround, Colorado turnaround. When you think about franchise quarterbacks,
you want guys that can do the hard stuff to
help your team get back on track. He's proven he
can do that.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
You make a good selling pointball. We'll see what happens
in April. Ok pick number two, Bucket Brooks. That's gonna
be the Cleveland Browns. You're on the clock.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
Yeah, the Cleveland Browns, despite an obvious need a quarterback,
they're gonna go with Abdual Carter, pass running pass rusher
extraordinaire from Penn State. Part of this is we have
the disgruntled Miles Garrett. Well, let's give him a playmate
on the other side.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
To win in this.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
League, you've got to be great on one side of
the ball, and the Browns had the potential to be
great if you take a dynamic pass rusher to go
with Miles Garrett. Being able to win in that division
against the quarterback play in the division certainly helps. So
we don't get the quarterback now. We get the quarterback later.
But Abdual Carter is to pick.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Okay, number two, Cleveland Browns. They're gonna pick Travis Hunter,
the cornerback wide receiver from Colorado. Get I get it.
Deshaun Watson's got that second Achilles surgery. The quarterback situation
is up up in the air. It's in question walk,
But I think you got to get a rookie that
has a situation where he could go either way, play
both ways perhaps, and a most viable guy. He's the

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best player. You gotta go with the best player available
at the time. I'm going with Travis Hunter from Colorado
number two Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Okay, Travis Hunder is interesting because you're talking about a
perimeter player or someone on the outside that can do
things not only as a receiver, but potentially as a
corner or vice versa. I mean, I like it, but
I will tell you what coaches will tell you.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
The front impacts.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
To back end more than the back end impacts to
front end, meaning pass rush over coverage, because if you
can knock the quarterback down, doesn't matter who you got
in coverage.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Okay. Pick number three goes to the New York Giants.
Bucket Brooks, you're on the clock, Brianna, are you up
to date with us?

Speaker 2 (56:07):
You got all the information, I got everything ready to go.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Yes, you're the best. You're the best, really, all right,
Bucket Brooks. New York Giants, You're on the clock.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
Okay, New York Giants, time to get a franchise quarterback.
But we need a franchise quarterback with a little bite.
Cam Ward is to pick here. And I know I
talked about cam Ward being a gun slinger. You compare
them to Patrick Mahomes. I'm gonna compare them in terms
of as a playmaker to some of these new school
quarterbacks that we have. The thing that you have in

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New York is you want to be competitive. This is
a guy who's leadership skills, his intelligence, his IQ, I mean,
his instincts, all of that stuff rates off the charts.
Is just cam Brian daball harness, some of the recklessness
that he displays within the pocket.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Regardless that New York Giants need a little dog at quarterbacks.
So cam Ward is the.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Okay, New York Giants pick number three. Obviously both a
they need a quarterback and Brian day Bol supposedly as
an offensive genius working with quarterbacks. They're gonna pick sure
Door Sanders and honestly the other day didn't should do
what Sanders say, not mentioning what team he was going
to play for, who he'd like to play for, That
he's going to play against Dallas twice every year, which

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tells me he's probably gonna go play for the New
York Football Giants. Shed Door Standers goes to the Giants
pick number three out of Colorado. What do you think?

Speaker 3 (57:31):
I mean?

Speaker 4 (57:32):
Look at I mean, I think he's there. Regardless, those
teams at the top need a quarterback, so we can
talk about Shader. Sanders is not going to go earlier
cam Ward, but Shaduri's going early because teams need a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
So I can see it with the Giants working out
all right.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
Pick number four goes to the New England Patriots. Bucky Brooks,
you were on the clock.

Speaker 4 (57:53):
The New England Patriots have an interesting dilement because they
need to upgrade the firepower around the quarterback. Drake may
could be an offense line, but let's go Travis Hunter here.
I find it interesting. Mike Rabel is a decorated two
way player in New England, Hall of Famer in New England,
having played outside linebacker and tied in for the Patriots,

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particularly down in red zone situations. He knows how to
maximize a player like a Travis Hunter, who could be
a two way player in this league, perhaps not full time,
but in packages.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
I just think.

Speaker 4 (58:25):
Rabel sees a little bit of him and Travis Hunter
in terms of the versatility, and it kind of leads
him to select the playmaker from Colorado with a fourth
overall pick.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
Okay, fourth pick, New England Patriots. I'm going to go
with Abdul Carter out of Penn State. He's the Big
Ten defensive player of the year. Somebody this guy. Mike
Rabel would love this guy. He's probably salivating. He hopes
he's available. Defensive end, outside linebacker from Penn State, defensive
player of the year in the Big Ten. He goes
to the New England Patriots at pick number four. Okay,
well wrap it up, pick number five. You're Jacksonville Jaguars,

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Bucky Brooks, pick number five, if you are on the clock.

Speaker 4 (59:02):
Let's go with Mason Graham from Michigan. The Jacksonville Jaguars
need to fix the interior of their front line, and
so when I look at what they have available, Trayvon
Walker is nice, Josh hens Allen is a nice piece.
Eric Armisteon is on the down the back nine in
the Twy Lives career. So you need someone on the

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inside that can dominate. You think Mason Graham coming from Michigan,
heavy handed, arms, a little short by scouting measures. But
you put him with Mason Smith, their second round pick
from a season ago. Now you begin to cook with
gas with a young, dynamic front line that can really
wreck shop at the point of attack.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
You know, it's funny. You got Mason Graan, the defensive
tackle out of Michigan going uber five the Jacksonville. I
got the cornerback out of Michigan, Will Johnson. He's six '
to two, he's a pretty physical guy, and we both
agree they any defensive help. But I'm going with defensive
help in the back fiet with the cornerback Will Johnson.
Do you think there's a possibility on my way off
base on the Will Johnson pick.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
No, you're I mean, look, you're in the ballpark. They
need a cornerback to go opposite Tyson Campbell. In fact,
they need Tyson Campbell to play well, but they signed
him so he's gonna make nineteen million dollars. They need
someone that can be a front line defender on the
other side. Will Johnson would be a worthy candidate. I
just think that when you're the Jags and you've struggled
for so long defending the run, getting have to pass,

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you got to get a big body.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Got to get a big guy. When you can get
little guys late, you can get corners and stuff later.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
But a big guy, dominant guy, proven track record, Mason
Graham can't pass him up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
All right, bring I did you got those five picks?

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
I got all five for each of you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Could you put him in a safe for something to
lock them up until the draft on April? Question?

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
I know I don't. I don't win offen in bottom
barrel betting. But I think I got Bucky on this,
I really do. I think I got him.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
The best of luck to both of you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
That was very nice of you. Really, I didn't think
you had it in you. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Here we go.

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just waking up and you're getting that stuff out of
your eyes in the morning when you wake up and
you know it's disgusting, but your eyes are stuff together.
But I'll tell you there was a big trade last
night in the National Basketball Association of Mavericks traded Luca
Doncik to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis. All Right,
and we talk about the professional sports leagues. If you
were to be asked a question, and I'm asking this

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to Bucket Brook, my partner who knows all if you
would to ask what professional sports league needs help, what
professional sports league perhaps is in trouble and pointing in
a downward direction, which league would perhaps that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
Be, which works league needs help? I would say basketball.

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
In terms of just watchability, the ratings are down, and
I think that's reflective on the product. The product just
I'll say it's boring. There's nothing exciting about watching the
regular season NBA game. Everyone plays the same style, the
jack up a lot of threes.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
You may or may not.

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
See your star player participate, depending on the load management schedule.
I would say basketball needs a lot of work. The
thing is, I don't know how you change it. Players
have played significant money. You can't make them play. And
if you're a team like I, understand the desire to
satisfy your fan base, but make sure that your stars

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play in these home games. But also understand ultimately you're
judged by your ability to win in the postseason. So
I need to take a couple of days off in
the regular season to ensure that my star players available
in the postseason.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
I want to do that stylistically. I don't know how
they can change.

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
Man, the analytics and the coaches prefer to jack up
to threes and that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
So it's just it's not like a fun game to watch.

Speaker 4 (01:04:18):
But we saw baseball make some changes with the pitch count,
eliminating the shift in those things, and that brought some
of the people back to the sport. I just think
the NBA needs a little bit of some tweaking and refining.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
That's why we're here, Binga. You got the right answer,
You got the right sport, because it is the NBA.
We're going to examine some of the problems. I mean,
one of the problems I think is the season is
too long. When are they going to wise up and say, look,
let's officially start Christmas Day? Stop starting when the NFL
is in full swing. You're never going to go head
to head with the NFL. Why the NFL is a

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national sport. The NBA, sorry to say, is a regional sport.
Really coast to coast, there are big NFL fans in Boise, Idaho.
I don't think there's a lot of NBA fans in Boise,
Idaho or Bismarck, North Dakota. Just the way it is.
The NBA is regional. Those cities that have a team,
they root for the team that follow the team. I

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live in a non NBA city. You can't get the
NBA scores on the eleven o'clock news on TV. They
don't give it because no one cares. There's no team here.

Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
Yeah, one, but I think it's yeah, but I think
it's different. Also, because the NFL was very intentional about
the way they marketed their sport, going all the way
back to the Roselle days. They made it about the
team above everything, and so no matter who plays for
the Green Bay Packers, you're always rooting for the Packers.

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The NBA promoted stars, particularly coming out of the laborer
Magic Johnson era, Michael Jordan. It was about the star,
Lebron James and those things because the game is so
transactional and people are changing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
When Lebron, his fans go with them. So they went from.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
Cleveland to Miami back to Cleveland to LA Because you're
a Lebron fan, you rock with Lebron. You don't rock
with Oh, I'm a Cavs fan. That's who my team
is unless it's your city. So that's part of the difference,
and that's also why it makes it hard. So think
about all the people that were Dallas fans, all the
kids that were Lukadoncich.

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
Fans when he was with the MAVs.

Speaker 4 (01:06:24):
Do they continue to pour for the MAVs after they
traded their favorite player or do they become pseudo Lakers fans.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
It's just the difference in.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
Terms of how it was marketed, how the brands were
established and built. Because basketball is one where you can
see their faces and get an appreciation for the player
because look, you see them smile. When you're a gladiator
in football stuff, you don't see all that, so it's
easier to fall in love with the team, not so
much the player. That's also a big part of it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
Bingle, you're right on, You're your spot on, you really all.
But I think the NBA right now seeds to promote
the new young stars. I think the days of Lebron
and Kdal. I mean, they're great players, and Lebron one
of the best ever, but you know it's time to
push them aside just a bit and stopped promoting like
the Anthony Edwards are the games. I mean the new
guys they ant man, that's what they gotta do.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Yeah, I mean, they a man. But then you know
what they also have to do.

Speaker 4 (01:07:15):
The players have to meet them halfway by being consistent,
you know, Like we've seen a level of dominance from
Lebron for twenty plus years, right we saw it from
Michael Jordan for a bunch of years. Like those stars
that earned the right to be the face of the NBA,
they were dominant players for a long time. As much
as we love Anthony Edwards, he had a fabulous playoff

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run that kind of brought him to life. He hasn't
played at the same level that he played at that
previous year. I like Tyron Maxey. Tyron Maxey is good,
but his team sucks, you know, in Philly like they're
so they're good players, but we expect and demand a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
When it comes to our fandom and who we're going
to follow as the face.

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
And right now we're talking about Kevin Durant, Steph Curry
and Lebron James be in the faces of the NBA.
There's something wrong with that, and not just the marketability.
But I would say it's the young players being.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
Able to do it. But Andy quickly, I'll say it
goes back to this Steph.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
Well, Lebron is a bit of the anomaly. But what
used to happen is you had time to build your
brand in college because you stayed three years, and that
gave you enough time to fall in love with the
development of the players so you could track him. I
would say the one and done era has certainly hurt them.
Even though Lebron James is recognizable because he was a

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high school jump but he was a name. They had
already built him up even before he left high school.
I think some of that has to do with do
we know these people? Because I'm be honest with you
when I turn them the game, I don't know a
bunch of the NBA star instead of playing.

Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
I don't know those guys because I didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
Watch him in the tournament and March Madness, so I
definitely don't know him when they get to the NBA
if I didn't get a chance to see him in
the tournament.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
That's a great point. There really is. And also, if
you follow a kid for three years in college, sometimes
you had your fingers cross saying I hope my team
gets this kid. That's what you were hoping for. Right
now you have no idea, you really don't. And the
players right now in the NBA, they're gliding through the
regular season just to qualify for the playoffs. That's basically
what they do. And there's complaints now about too many threes.

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You know, the teams are shooting up like thirty, forty, fifty, sixty,
seventy seventy three point shots a game. So the question
is which sport's more popular right now, the NBA or
Major League Baseball. I don't know. I still think the
NBA is. I think kids right now can relate to them.
The problem is with the young kids right now. They

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can't afford a ticket to go see the NBA. That's
a major problem there. But how can we save it.
It's real easy to kind of pick it apart and
say there's problems. And I heard the commissioner the other
day with Dan Patrick saying that, well, we need to
go from a twelve minute period to ten. They ain't
gonna get it done. You know, going from forty eight
minutes to forty that's not going to change things. Here's

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how you do it. And I put this in writing
and I mail it to the mister Adam Silver the
other day. If I get an answer from him, I'll
let you know as soon as I get it, I promise.
All right, here's the deal. Here's the answer. Baseball has
a DH, a designated hitter. The NBA needs a DS,
a designated shooter, a designated three point shooter. Maybe you

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need two if you have one. Here's a deal. If
you're losing by three at the end of the game
and you have that designated shooter, there's a good chance
your team is going to double team that guy. So
you probably need two. Two designated shooters. That's what you need.
It's going to cut down on the number of threes
taken and maybe make the game a little more exciting.
What do you think about a DS A designated shooter

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for the NBA, A designated three point shooter?

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
I mean, I don't know. If Disney's two point shooter,
you hit the shots. I think it's a skilled development
thing too, because I see a bunch of guys taking
three point shots.

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
They're all clanking the rim, I meant shots. So it
becomes a boring game to watch.

Speaker 4 (01:10:59):
When everyone is shooting forty threes and no one is hitting.
It's just not an exciting game. Maybe they can shrink
the shot clock. Look, I know it's twenty four seconds now.
Maybe they need to make it twenty seconds. Maybe they
can speed the game up a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
I don't know. I just know it's not a great
game to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
I agree, it's not a great thing, and I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
I love the NBA a great product on TV.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
I dreamt of working in the NBA my entire life.
That's what I wanted to do. And now if there's
an NBA game on TV, I just assume watch a
college basketball game. Really, ray, I would do that. And
I watched a lot of college basketball yesterday. I watched
Kentucky Arkansas. I watched Saint John's Providence yesterday, a little
bit of North Carolina Duke. I watch college basketball. I
just think it's more competitive. I think these guys are hungrier.

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The games mean more. The regular season NBA game doesn't
mean much. But I think if you want to cut
down on the three point shots, you have a designated
shooter that one guy and only that one guy or
two can shoot threes or in the game. I think
that's what you need to do.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
So we're handcuffing who can shoot threes? So you have
to go, how do we how do we designate that?

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
Do we put like a little ribbon on their wrist
and the guys with the ribbons they can shoot threes?

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
The other guys can't.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
I'm just trying to be something. I don't know. I
just you know, you do something, but maybe a different
colored jersey something like that. He's the three point guy.
But you gotta cut down. And they talked about me
moving the three point line back. I don't want them
to do that because I'm a statistical nut and I
think you take all the stats in the world and
you start moving the line back, it doesn't mean anything

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because you can say this guy broke the record. Well
they broke and win when the line was this distance
or that distance. It's like in football, you know, when
they they talk about a guy rushing for a thousand yards,
you know it doesn't mean anything anymore because they play
seventeen games. When Jimmy Brown did he did it in
fourteen games. So it's it's stupid. The baramater doesn't mean
anything anymore because they've changed the rules. They stretched it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:59):
Okay, I mean yeah, I mean like the rules and
certainly are definitely none of the rules and stuff have
certainly changed.

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
It certainly had an impact on those things.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
So I understand you're not buying it, to the frustration
I thought you would.

Speaker 4 (01:13:12):
You not really my thing, Not really my thing. It
doesn't need to shoot I think it's too hard. It's
not a thing. But i'd like I get it. Maybe
maybe they moved a three point line even farther back.
You know, I don't know, but something doesn't need to
shoot out. I don't know how we get that through. Yeah,
they got to do something soon though, because it is

(01:13:32):
it is a snoozer.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
Really it's hard to watch, it really is. And then
I again, I love the NBA, and it hurts me
to see how it's deteriorated like it has. And they
may be the greatest athletes of the world. Seriously, those
guys running up and down like five six seven miles
a night, every single night. It's tremendous. But I think
it's maybe the season is too long, perhaps, and the
playoffs are ridiculous. I mean, back when I was a kid,

(01:13:56):
the first rounds was three out of five. Every rounds
four out of seven. Right now, pull it back a
little bit. Really, less is more. I really believe that
less is more. But that's the way it is, all right.
He is Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Furman. We are Fox
Football Sunday and Fox Bots ready on the game that
even Adam Silver can't fix. It's bottom barrel betting, and

(01:14:19):
it's freaking next bottom barrel betting right around the bend.
Is about eleven minutes now before the top of the hour.
This is Fox Football Sunday and Fox Bot's ready. He's
Bucky Brooks and Andy Furman, and we are live for
the tirad dot Com Studios Okay, we got a game
to play. Let's play this game, all right, Brie, are
you ready to do bottom barrel betting? Are you ready?

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
I am totally ready?

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
Could you handle it?

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
I can handle this all Let's do it. Alrighty.

Speaker 6 (01:14:44):
So last week Andy, you actually won. It was Andy three,
Bucky two.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
Take that, Bucky Brooks it even possible.

Speaker 6 (01:14:52):
So updated, Bucky, you're still in the lead. Of course,
I'm not surprised to see these numbers. Bucky you're up
to fifty. Andy you're forty four, about six behind.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
If I don't think I could do that, I think
at the super Bowl we stop. So this is just
playing out the numbers now, Oh wow, we'll see I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:09):
You're just driveling out of the clock. We're just driveling.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
All right. We're gonna start in the Premier League. Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:15:15):
So we got Arsenal at minus one ten versus Manchester
United at plus two ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
Bucky, who do you got?

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
Ooh, let's go Manchester United.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Okay, I want to man you too. Okay, I guess
I'll take Arsenal because he's got man U. Never take
what Bucky takes, because it's not going to be right.

Speaker 6 (01:15:35):
Yeah, I'm sure that's the way to do this. Yeah,
that sounds like it's definitely that's helping you a lot. Okay,
So we're gonna head over to the EA Games, the
Valerie EA Games. I have Sicatas Gaming at plus one
sixty versus the Carmine Core Blue Stars at minus two ten.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
Andy, Who do you got?

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
I go with Carmine? Wow? I love Carmine. Yes, wow,
Carmine Blue Stars. Never heard of them? I did well,
I did hear.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
Buy never never never heard of them? So I got
to go the other way.

Speaker 6 (01:16:05):
Okay, Socicatas Tickets team, Yes, Okaytasicadas isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
Isn't it a bug?

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
I think cicadas every every Sixicatas Okay, Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:16:18):
I was gonna say, like, Kukaracha is like a bug too, right.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
Cookara do you have those in your house?

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
Don't you?

Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:16:25):
Okay, anyway, actually, speaking of bug, speaking a bug, We're
going to actually head over to the Cricket International League.
We have the oh oh, I already forgot how to
say this. The Emirates Okay, the me Emirates at minus
one seventy five versus the Sharja Warriors at plus one

(01:16:46):
thirty five.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
Andy, who do you got?

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
I'll go Charza Chaza the Jaza Sharjah.

Speaker 4 (01:16:53):
Yeah, yes, what was the name of the other team,
Charza Emirates Ours.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
That's easy, there, easy, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
You'll see how easy it is. We'll see, Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:17:07):
And then so now we're gonna head over to Darts,
the Premier League of Darts.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
Luke, that's Bucky's game, No, it is, He's really.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Good, Lucky. Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:17:17):
So we have Luke Littler at minus twenty five versus
Michael Van Gerwin at plus one seventy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
Bucky, you got who's Luke Lickler? Luke Littler Okay, yeah, Luca, Luca, No, you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
Got Luke Hitler.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
You know, I would have to go with the man
with the three words, the three letter words, Michael Van Guren.
I think he's just like a darts name, like a
Van Guren is not a dark.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Name like an MVG.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Right, yeah, MV. He probably has that on a shirt.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
You know what, the back of his shirt like like
a jersey. That makes sense.

Speaker 6 (01:17:51):
You wouldn't know anything about jerseys. Bucky would, but I
don't think you would.

Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
So that makes it maybe he made he made rock one.

Speaker 6 (01:17:59):
I guess he can rock one, but not with his name,
like it's a different kind of thing, only only I do.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
It's just fact. No, it's just fact.

Speaker 6 (01:18:11):
Okay, Okay, we're down to the last one.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Thank gosh. Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:18:15):
So we're gonna go to the Tennis Davis Cup. We
got dominic Stephen Stricker versus Roberta Carbias Vina. So dominics
plus one twenty. Roberta is minus one fifty five, Bucky.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Who do you got?

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
Oh, let's go Stricker? Okay, Stricker?

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Andy, who is that? He got Roberta?

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
No, yes, strict, I got Roberta.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
You got you go with that. I got Roberta.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
Alrighty well, best of luck to the both of you.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
That's it we did.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
We did all five.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
No more, no more, give a practice one. You gotta
practice one. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
So for the Pro Bowl, are you taking the AFC
or the NFC.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
We'll go with you, Andy, I gotta go with the AFC.

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
I'm gonna guy, I'm so surprised.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
Well, what do you mean?

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
Why are you?

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
Mocky?

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
I knew you would get it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
Yeah, NFC, there's no right or wrong answer? Why there is?
You favor him? You favor him? You do? Thanks guys,
all right, I see you goodbye? Are you coming back
next week?

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
No, I will not be here. I did my time.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
There we go, Swollen Dome. That's Mike Harmon. He joins
us next right here on Fox Football Sunday

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