Buck & Fitz Talk Giants Quarterback Hunt, Myles Garrett's Extension, NCAA Tounrey & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
The NCAA tournament hasn't even gotten rolling, and.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
We already have more chaos than we can handle.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
We got buzzer beaters, we got upsets, we got one
of the best teams in the country without their superstar
for god knows how long. We've got the top team
in all the land falling, and I'm just looking around saying,
I have no idea. It's already difficult enough to fill
out your brackets. I can't even tell you today who
the number one team in the entire tournament should be.

(00:36):
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Speaker 3 (00:57):
Buck.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I think, first and foremost, we did this the first time.
What a couple of weeks ago, we got to hang out.
We've known each other for a decade for anyone that
didn't hear us. A few weeks ago we did this
for the first time and the boss and say, hey,
we should do it again.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
They put us back together, Like does that mean we
did something right? Or does that mean we're just the
only ones available?

Speaker 4 (01:16):
The ladder for sure, the ladder because you came on
there and gave this very sweet, very sentimental, very syrupy.
Oh we've known each other for a decade. How much
fun is this gonna be? This means so much. And
my sales pitch at the end of the two hours
that we were fortunate enough to do together was yeah,
I was great, have me back. So I'm glad to
be back.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well come.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
That's you know, that's the difference between like, look, it's
very clear. You spend ten minutes in the room with
the two of us, and you realize that I'm a believer,
my friend, that everybody has like a hamster wheel in
their head.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
We don't actually have brains.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
We have a hamster wheel, right, and so like my
hamster is constantly running, Like if you just saw my
hamster on the street, you would think it probably has
a coke problem.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's like way too energetic.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Way too much every time you walk into the room,
like lifting three different things at once because he's on
a fitness journey.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's my hamster.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Your hamster is sitting next to the wheel, unimpressed by
the entire thing.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's looking at the wheel.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And it's like, I know what you want me to do,
but I don't know for I'm telling you, like I
come in last time we do this, I'm all thankful.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
I'm like, heay, this was great.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I'm like Kermit the Frog running around with my arms
flailing around and buck rising.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
He's just sitting there said, Kah, that was cools. Do
it again.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
I mean, my hamster is telling your hamster to don't
be a hero and go make it to Kila Sota.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Relaxed a little bit. We're going to have a great time.
I'm excited.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
You got me fired up. March is my favorite time
of year, fitsie. College basketball is my favorite sport by
a mile. We've already had controversial finishes.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
I mean we are.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
I'm sure at some point going to talk about Duke
handing North Carolina a third straight l this season, seventy
four to seventy one. Last night, which set up, of course,
a great game between Duke and Louisville later this evening
or into this evening.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I'm excited for.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
All the coaches bad decisions that we get to yell
about and whind about. I'm excited for all the good
coaching decisions that we get to see play out. I
love the bloodthirst of the rivalries.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
I love it all. March is my favorite.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Here's the question, did a lane violation cost North Carolina
a chance at making it to the NCAA Tournament? Because, like,
when you start talking about what we saw last night,
North Carolina was just absolutely getting thumped, right, they're getting
absolutely blown out. Now I'm doing a bracket announcement.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Show with Yahoo.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
So I'm out in LA and you know, texted everybody
that's going to be on that show with me.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
I that feels like a humble brag or a brag.
I think you should find him every time he tries.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
I'm just gonna say he's in LA and he didn't
say anything to me.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
What.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, well, brother, you know what LA is is an
expansive place.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Like you know, the funny thing is half an hour
in LA fits.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Too good to Callie and too good to Callie and
he's waiting on this is Hollywood fits.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Bothering Ian during the previous show, trying to get him
to pay attention only to and not on the job
that he's focused on at the time, and it can't
even bother to call.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
You know, look, I'm a very busy man.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm a very busy man, and you know this this
what happens when you're trying to be a mogul. So
you know, I'm working with everybody on Yahoo and I'm texting,
I'm like, you get your butt kick like this to
Duke without two of their best players.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Boy, that's gonna be a resume hit.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
But North Carolina makes it a game, and at the
very end they have the chance and then a lane
violation literally costs them what would have been the game
tying free throw. So you just my heart breaks for
North Carolina in that process. But now there's this weird
situation because like you look at this entire bracket, he's
Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz by the way, Bucking fits
on Fox Sports Radio. You look at this entire bracket,

(04:40):
and I would tell you that the Committee's gonna have
a ton of arguments about the top, it's gonna have
a ton of arguments about the bottom because North Carolina
certainly has a better record than Texas. Texas is this
weird example of a team that has all these quad
one wins and all these quad one losses? Like what
do you do with the team that I think there's
seven and eleven in Quad one games? And so how
are you supposed to factor that in when North Carolina

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hasn't been anybody? So, like, I think tomorrow gets really interesting.
Because North Carolina beats Duke, they're probably in, I would think,
but they didn't, and now I don't know that we
can say for sure that they are.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
And I would argue, I would argue against obviously the
lane violation, the call, and it was a controversial call.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Listen, my guy was.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Like, my guy sat down in the lane, took a
picnic out, set some plates up. He called his girl
and he's like, I got this whole set up, and
then he's like, oops, my bad repacked it and got
back until the.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Line had time to let it breathe all of it.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I mean, he definitely got back in time, but come on,
like he was doing the whole like macarena in the
middle of that lane.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
There was nothing controversial about that. You gotta call it.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, So you look at the situation and you say, no,
that's not why North Carolina's not getting into the tournament.
North Carolina's not getting into the tournament because they lost
to Kansas, they lost to Auburn, they lost to Alabama,
they lost to Florida, they lost to Louis, lost to
all the quality teams on their schedule this year. That
would have put them in a better position to build

(06:06):
their resume. So I'm not super sympathetic to North Carolina.
I get kind of the argument. I get the discussion.
I get that it's weird that North Carolina is struggling
this much, and I wonder how Tarhill fans are feeling
about their coaching situation.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
I know that Hubert Davis has put them in the.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
Just answer speak for all of the of Tarhel Nation
fits yes bad, probably much like my basketball coach. I
get to enjoy basketball because Indiana season is done, thank God,
and Mike Woodson is going to shuffle off into retirement
hopefully and I can get back to enjoying my favorite sport.
But for North Carolina, there's a lot of different things
that are going to be debated tomorrow. I mean, hell,

(06:44):
we've got the SEC Championship here where I am in
Nashville tomorrow between Tennessee and Florida with a one seat
on the line. Auburn having lost to Tennessee today is
going to be an interesting discussion to see how what
they do with Auburn, what they do with Duke without
Cooper Flagg know Cooper flag. The latest report that came
out I think, like I don't know twenty minutes before
we got on air today is that he's expected to

(07:05):
be available for the NCAA A tournament, which is great news.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
That's that's interestingly worded, though right expected to be available
doesn't necessarily.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Mean like he's gonna play right away.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Like I just thought that was it wasn't expected to play,
it was expected to be available. That stood out to me, Buck,
like you know that that we get like we got
to parse these words out a little bit and it matters, Like, look,
I think you mentioned the SEC Championship. You're going to
see it tomorrow in Nashville, Florida right now.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I mean, of course, of course for you.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Florida though has got to be looking around saying Hey,
but they're number two in the country in kempom right now, right,
they are on a roll. They absolutely destroyed Alabama in the.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Second half of that game.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Today, Florida's got to be looking around saying, hey, why
not us for the number one overall seed in this tournament.
Duke is handicapped down two players. Auburn has not been
themselves over the course of the last of the regular
season and then taking NANNEL in the SEC tournament, and
Florida has been fire.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
So like, I think Florida actually is still trying to
play for an even better situation.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Which is why the state.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
This is why this is such a fun time of year,
because there is this level of debate. We get this
in college football too, right, but this this the scale
of the conference tournaments and the implications that it has
on the NCAA tournament when we finally get to put
the brackets together tomorrow. It's like, it's why, it's why
coach Cali Perry John Calipario at Arkansas pissed me off.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
And it's not the first time that Calas pissed me
off with something that he said.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
And I'm certain that he yeah, I'm sure he's real
worried about it. He's doing just fine, but like.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
You know, he was pooing the conference, the conference tournament.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
I had it coming down here to Nashville and playing
with Arkansas this year. I'm like, cal baby, You're not
at Kentucky anymore. What are you talking about Arkansas? The
way that they were, that they went through their season,
and the ability to improve upon their standing, and the
import of the conference tournament to them, and the way
that he was just kind of shrugging it off beforehand
and then making questionable coaching, just like telling kids to

(09:01):
intentionally miss a free throw after the factor whatever it was.
These things have such a huge ripple effect and I
love that, at least from what I've seen. And I've
been at the SEC Tournament every day so far. This
week we were doing the local show there all week,
and of course today with Tennessee and Auburn and Alabama
and Florida was must watch. And I'm looking forward to

(09:22):
being at the championship game tomorrow. But Auburn's not cruising
through this thing because they dropped a couple of games
at the end of the season, at the end of
the regular season that have put them in a pretty
precarious position after getting upset by Tennessee today. So I'm
loving the level of effort that I'm seeing in these
conference tournaments. I'm loving the passion, and I love that

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teams are treating it and programs are treating it and
coaches are treating it like it really really matters, because
for a lot of these teams it's going to come
down to the wire tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz at Fox Sports Radio.
Let me ask you this.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
If you right now had a committee, say so, Buck
Rising gets to walk into the and I'm going to
presume that Buck takes an array of snacks with him,
because he's a quality committee member. So he takes his
array of snacks in and he lays him out. I
would be donuts personally, you lay out good donuts for everybody,
and then you say, ladies and gentlemen, I would like
to present to you my number one team in the country.

(10:15):
Who would you put right now number one going into
this tournament?

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Wow? What a question.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
I have such a hard time answering that because I
don't know what to do with.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Duke right now.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Right So that's the hardest part. If Cooper flag is healthy.
That's it clearly goes to Duke, right, like Duke is
number one.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Paying say, Florida, are Valls fans going to storm the
radio station that I'm currently at and take it over
and try and ouse me with torches and pitchforks.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's a really tough conversation.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean, that would make for great radio if you
were being dragged out while it was happening, like.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Well, it would make Yeah, it would not be first
time that somebody tried to drag me off the air
for saying something ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
But it's a oh, that's neither here nor there. We
don't have to get into that.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Okay, what if the Balls win? If the Valls win
the SEC tournament, do they deserve a number one seed?

Speaker 4 (11:08):
They deserve a number one seed, certainly not the number
one overall seed. They are an inconsistent team at times,
though they seem to kind of have found their level
here in the last couple of weeks under Rick Barnes.
And that's the curious thing though, like I don't I
trust them, but I don't know when when the game
is coming that their offense is going to evaporate. And
I've seen that happen too many times throughout the course
of the year. They have these inconsistencies even from half

(11:31):
to half. They've had a really really good conference tournament
showing obviously getting underway yesterday for the first time as
a beneficiary of the double bye, but that would not
be the number one team in the country to me
based on and I watched them a great deal more
than everybody else that I've seen, so it's easier for
me to nitpick at their flaws.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I will say this right now as we are talking
to you. Saint John's taken on Creighton in the Big East,
Saint John's is only up by a couple of points. Houston,
the number two team, taken on Arizona. They're only up
by four in the second half of these things. So
these games are down to the wire. We will keep
you updated on every ounce of it over the course
of the next several hours. But in the meantime, obviously

(12:11):
there's not a day that goes by that we're not
contractually obligated to say the words Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
He's back in the news.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
The question is what does it mean, not just for
the Minnesota Vikings, but what could it mean for the
entire NFL. Based on some of the reporting that's happening,
there could be some interesting movement that's about to happen.
We'll tell you about it next. But in the meantime,
he's Buck Rising on Jason Fitz. This is a Fox
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he's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz. It's Bucking Fits on
a Fox Sports Saturday, coming at you from Tyraq dot
com Studios. I don't understand Buck. I just we'll get
back to NCAA Basketball in a second. But I am

(14:11):
dumbfounded by an organization that I think is well run.
I am dumbfounded by a team that usually does smart things.
I'm dumbfounded by a team that's in the Super Bowl
conversation because I cannot, for the life of me, for
a single second. Understand why in the hell it would
make any sense for the Minnesota Vikings to be interested

(14:33):
in Aaron Rodgers. Hear me out, Buck, Okay, they just
let Sam Donald walk. So, according to reports that are
out there from the Athletic and Michael Silver and Diana Rassini,
right now, Aaron Rodgers is taking his time and he
wants to hear from the Vikings, And in the meantime,
Kevin O'Collins is figuring out what he wants to do,
and the.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Team would be interested in him.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
If they are going to make this move, they would
be using him like they used Sam Donald last year
as a starter, paying him comparable money to what Sam
has made.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, if you were going to do that, damn, just
keep Sam Donald in the room.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Like why you bring it in a different variable when
you're in your Super Bowl window. But above and beyond
all of that, like, if you had any doubts about
JJ's ability to step in, then it would have made
sense to keep Sam. So even if you're looking at
Aaron Rodgers and you're thinking, well, this is just you know,
this is low hanging fruit. We gotta take it, Buck,
it makes no sense to me because you had somebody

(15:22):
in the room that you know, and you have a
quarterback that supposedly you know, that you see in practice.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
How could you possibly.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Justify as the Minnesota Vikings are in this window looking
at Aaron Rodgers to be your quarterback.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Uh, you said it.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
You answered your own question because you asked me to
hear you out, and I heard you, and then you
answered your own question in real time. Buddy, they know
who Sam Darnald is and they said, nah.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
We're good.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
We saw that Detroit Lions game for the Division, the
best division in football last year on the line and
he pooped the bed. And we saw the playoff of
spears that Sam Darnald had where the Los Angeles Rams
and their defensive line ravaged the Minnesota Vikings up front.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
And he was awful in their two biggest games of
the year.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
And I don't want to discount what he was able
to accomplish for the bulk of the regular season. A
credit to Sam Darnald. Good for him for going out
and getting the contracts. It's not an easy situation, especially
when you have survived an organization that has poorly run
as the New York Jets, and you bounce around the
way that he has to kind of have this career
renaissance and then to finally get into the big money

(16:32):
quarterback market, even though you know it's about top half
of the league. It's not crazy money that Sam Darnald
signed in Seattle for. They're telling you, yeah, we know
what he is, and what he is has a clear
and obvious ceiling. And we experienced the repercussions of that
clear and obvious ceiling to the point where if we're
in a super Bowl window, that's not going to be enough.

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And I know that forty one year old Aaron Rodgers
is at best. I mean, have you seen these pictures
of him wandering beaches in Australia with a blanket selling
is with wired headphones? And one what is he listening to?

Speaker 1 (17:11):
To?

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Who the hell has wired headphones in the year twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Look, there are so many things wrong with this number
one the devil you know versus the devil you don't.
Everybody keeps telling me about the two games that they lost. Okay,
they lost to the Lions, right, A Lions team that
I think is clearly in a super Bowl window. Despite
the massive injuries on the defensive line. They lost to
a Rams team that now everybody's telling me is a
super Bowl favorite because they were able to take Philly

(17:38):
down to the wire last year in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
So all right, who is everybody? Who is everybody? This
is not everybody saying this?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
UESP has given me this over note, dan Orlovski giving
me constant you know, like this is they brought everybody
back to our super Bowl caliber football team.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
Wonderful man, dan Orlowski. The best advice that I could
give him is keep your powder dry.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, okay, but all I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
All I'm saying is that it's not like he lost
those last two games to the Cardinals and the Titans respectively,
Like he lost those last two games to two of
the better teams in the NFL last year. And yeah,
he didn't play well enough. But are we just gonna
gloss over the entire massive section of the last year
where frankly, Aaron Rodgers looked like garbage, like hot doodoo

(18:18):
at quarterback, Like we can't just excuse the terrible play we.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Have on tape from Aaron Rodgers last year, right, Like.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yes, at the end of the year, there were some moments,
but we've gotten Aaron Rodgers is such a shell of
who he used to be that now the conversation is, well,
he played better at the end of the year. Like,
that's not what you say about somebody you want, is
your quarterback going into a Super.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Bowl year, especially one who you know comes in with
all the pomp and circumstance that Aaron Rodgers does and
then finishes with the worst record as a starting quarterback
than the team did.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
With Zach Wilson. Jet's legend at the time.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Listen, I understand your confusion, but they are telling you
loud and clear, it's a huge risk to even let
Sam Darnold go without knowing what JJ McCarthy is. I
know he's a first round pick and has lost his
entire rookie year to injury, and they're comfortable with the
way that he's taking things into the meetings or whatever.
He hasn't played an NFL snap. It's a huge risk
even just in the JJ McCarthy room, without adding the

(19:13):
Aaron Rodgers component, volatile volatility that that brings into the mix.
But what they're telling you, what they're screaming at you,
is that, hey, we know we know Sam Darnold better
than a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
We just spent a year with him.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
We saw him do all of those impressive things that
we believe the system and the playmakers that they have
put in place in Minnesota helped Sam Darnold to do.
I have experienced this with the team that I cover
on a day to day basis, the Tennessee Titans, the
Ryan Tannehill post Dolphins effect, where Ryan Tannehill came in
Here is the second best quarterback that they've had the

(19:48):
frame in the Titans era twenty seven years since Steve McNair.
There has not been a better Titans quarterback than Ryan Tannehill.
And he threw three interceptions as the number one overall
seat in the AFC against the Cincinnati Bengals team where.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Joe Burrow got sacked nine times in a game.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
Because that player has a ceiling, Minnesota is telling you,
red flag, red flag all over the place, not just
these two games. We see it in the meetings, we
see it in practice, we see it in the day
to day ability that this player brings to the table,
and we are comfortable taking a greater risk to reap
a better reward.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Now, if that greater risk is Aaron Rodgers that.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
I mean, the coach of the year in Kevin O'Connell
is hanging his He's hanging his hat on a very
very interesting proposition here. But it's not just the Vikings,
who are a well run organization we believe to be
a well run organization that are kind of held hostage
by this Aaron Rodgers situation. Three teams are comfortable turning

(20:47):
things over to the forty one year old quarterback who, yes,
will be two years removed from the Achilles injury. But
that's how desperate, desperate, desperate teams are for even average
to slightly above average quarterback play. If there's even remotely
a chance that the person that used to be Aaron
Rodgers is in that graying, hunched, over body, malcontent though

(21:10):
he may be, then they are willing to at least
explore the option because they know Sam Darnold cannot get
them there, which honestly makes Seattle's off season ten times
more confusing to me.

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Speaker 1 (21:42):
He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason fitzbucking Fits hanging out with you.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Buckers told you there are three teams that are all
just dangling here waiting for Aaron Rodgers. I'll explain who
those three teams are and I'll tell you why the
Vikings are different than the other two. We will do that,
but first, NCAA actually going on. Steve Disager, give us
an update, my friend on Fox TV.

Speaker 9 (22:00):
Right now is the Big East Final and top seed
Saint John's is in the lead, late seventy two to
fifty nine over Creighton, just over three minutes to go.
We're just a few minutes away from the tip of
number one Duke against Louisville in the ACC Tournament final.
Cooper Flag of Duke is out again with the sprayed ankle,
although the NCAA Tournament committee did say Duke told them
Flag will play in the NCAAs selection Sunday is tomorrow

(22:24):
to fill out the tournament field. One seed in the
Big twelve, Houston has just won that tournament's final over
Arizona seventy two to sixty four. There were Big Ten
semifinals today. Wisconsin beat the one seed Michigan State seventy
seven to seventy four, and then it was Michigan over
Maryland eighty one eighty on a fast break layup at
the buzzer after Maryland and made a couple of free

(22:45):
throws at the other end. SEC Tennessee beat one seed
Auburn seventy to sixty five. Florida one oh four eighty
two over Alabama, one seed in the American Memphis advanced
seventy eight seventy seven against Tulane, among the many many
other games. We're halftime right now with the MAC Conference
championship first place Akron is losing forty six thirty four

(23:06):
to Miami, Ohio. Akron went seventeen to one in conference
play this year. Colorado State pretty easily has just won
the Mountain West Final sixty nine fifty six over Boise State,
which apparently is a bubble team. Villanova fired coach Kyle
Neptune after three seasons. He had replaced Hall of Famer
Jay Wright, who retired. UNLV fired coach Kevin Krueger after

(23:27):
four years. He missed the NCAA tournaments all four years.
Our first final tonight in the NBA goes to Boston
holding off Brooklyn one fifteen one thirteen. Cam Thomas of
the Nets is out for the season with a strain hamstring.
He averaged twenty four points per game starting the third quarter.
Thunder only leaded Detroit fifty five fifty four twenty points

(23:47):
for Shay gilgis Alexander Thunder with a record of fifty
four and twelve. The feature matchup Golden State winners of
sixth straight, about to host New York. The late game
in a half an hour, we'll have Denver hosting a
Washing team that's fourteen and fifty one this year. Philadelphia's
Tyree s Maxey will be out again Sunday with hand
and finger injuries. The Atlanta Falcons cap quarterback Kirk Cousins,

(24:10):
so his ten million dollars roster bonus for next year
is now fully guaranteed. And in the NHL. Among the
eleven games, Buffalo in a shootout defeated Vegas four to three.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Back to you, he's buck rising on Jason fitz Bucket
fits on a Fox Sports Saturday, coming at you from
the tire rack dot Com studios. We'll keep you updated
on NCAA Action. But we were just talking about Aaron
Rodgers and watch. To me, it makes no sense for
the Vikings.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Buck.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
You mentioned there are three teams that are just sitting
around all right, so hear me out. Anybody that's ever
been single in their life, you go into a bar
with your single buddies late at night, and maybe there's
a girl at the bar that you know, you squint enough,
like maybe.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Past it's pass it like not somebody'd really be into.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
But you look over it's late at night and you're like,
I don't know, I guess this is where the night's going,
right like, and then you look at your buddies and
you're like, you're just gonna wait this one out, like, well,
I'm gonna sit at the bar as well long as
it takes to talk to this one person. That's what
three teams are doing right now, the Giants, the Steelers,
and the Vikings. The difference here is the Vikings in
this situation, are truly a legitimately super Bowl caliber franchise

(25:13):
right now, right now, like you won fourteen games last year.
You've got two of the better coaches. I think, You've
got one of the better defensive coordinators in the league.
You've got one of the best offensive minds as a
head coach in the league. You are keeping the people
in the building that you need to keep in the building.
You are structurally sound at every level on both sides
of the ball, like you are built to win right now.
That's your buddy that's really good looking, that's got a

(25:35):
good job, that's going to be driving a Ferrari right
he doesn't need.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
To sit at the bar. He's got plenty options.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
He can just leave you just leave open up an
app STARp swipe been, and he's gonna have a glorious night.
The Steelers in the Giants in this situation, they're desperate.
They're your friend that's like well past his prime. They're
your friend that's like, you know, maybe thirty pounds on
the wrong side of where they want to be, and
they're trying to overshoot right there. They're just trying to
stay in the game. That's the Giants and the Steelers.
I understand them being desperate for Aaron Rodgers, even if

(26:01):
he's a shell of who he once was book, but
the Vikings are in a much different category. Like I
understand the Steelers and Giants being stuck, I don't understand
the Vikings being stuck.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
Why are the Steelers not in the same category as
the Vikings. All Mike Tomlin does is have wedding seasons
that make the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
I know they lost five straight.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
I know, and I know every time I do a
game in Pittsburgh, I get in a Nuber from the airport,
and all the uber drivers want to talk about is
how much they hate Mike Tomlin and how much Mike
Tomlin underperforms and when are they finally going to fire
this bum Tomlin? And all they do is win ten games,
ten games, ten games. They've done it with Mason Rudolph
and Duck Hodges and Ben Roethlisberger, the shell of Ben Roethlisberger.

(26:39):
They've done it with Kenny Pickett and Justin Fields and
Russell Wilson and all these other things. You find me
a more consistent organization than the Pittsburgh Steelers anywhere in
the NFL. I fundamentally disagree with you on that point alone,
which makes the Aaron Rodgers conversation even more compelling to me, FITZI,
because there are two places that he could go. I

(27:01):
think if he plays at even a reasonably high level
and be in contention for a Super Bowl. The team that,
of course, is in a different category entirely is as
you described your overweight, buddy, what.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Is thirty pounds out of it?

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Out of thirty pounds on the wrong side.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, sorry, thirty pounds on the wrong side, Bud. You
gotta start reevaluating some life. This is and you get
thirty pounds on a right.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Wait wait, wait, see buck, this is like when you're
young like you are, you know, thirty pounds sounds like
a lot, right, but when you start to get into
your forties and fifties, thirty pounds like thirty pounds hits right,
Like thirty pounds is just.

Speaker 10 (27:32):
You look over they things do not swing thirty pounds
one way or the other.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
That's outrageous.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Stop it. We are not allowing that to be a
thing for people.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Okay, as somebody said, the average person puts on like
three pounds a year in Christmas. That never takes it off.
So over the course of ten years, bam thirty pounds.
I actually don't disagree with you with the Steelers. I
think if there was any place that Aaron Rodgers should go,
it would be Pittsburgh. Yes, Pittsburgh has won in a
lot of places. I also don't think Aaron Rodgers has
anything left in the tank. I think Aaron Rodgers is done,

(28:03):
and I think Aaron Rodgers, we are now trying to
find reasons to apologize for why it didn't work in
New York when the fact is he had Garrett Wilson,
and he got Davante Adams and every single person that
he wanted traded there so that he could throw the
guys he was comfortable with. They did everything for him,
and what did it lead them to it? They led
them to the sea of suck. So at some point,

(28:24):
like we sit here and we say that the Jets
dragged down Aaron Rodgers, I believe Aaron Rodgers is equally
culpable in that entire toxicity of dragging down the New
York Jets. I think part of the reason the Jets
stunk is because Aaron Rodgers never lived up to his
end of the bargain, which was to be a competent
quarterback week in and week out.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
He is no longer that.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
So I don't think Aaron Rodgers with the Pittsburgh Steelers
is any better than Mason Rudolph.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
I just said that, stay off. I'm just gonna stay off.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
I saw you flinched. I saw you run away from
the VIC the phone.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
Don't you come for my sweet prince Mason Rudolph, who
got a raw deal here last year in Tennessee, they
offered him another dealer. He said, nah, I'll go back
to Pittsburgh. I'm gonna get the hell out of here
this nonsense. Listen to me, all right, I you took
it too far, he took it.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Just reel it back in. I gave you a mulligan.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Okay, largely.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Bet he's marginally better than than than Mason Rudolph.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Let me say this, considerably better.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I don't think he'll win.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
As a person.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
You're gonna make me personally attack or professionally attack Mason Rudolph,
who I have great professional respect for. He is considerably
better than Mason Rudolph, even if he is a corpse.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
I don't think they win more games with Aaron Rodgers
than they would with Mason Rudolf. I think that Mike
Thomas can win nine or ten games with anybody, and
I think Aaron Rodgers at this point is a liability
at quarterback.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
Which which insurance company has that commercial where it's the
old guy in the fishing outfit with a dollar bill
on a string and he's just he's just really just
reeled it back and just yank get it away from people.
That is that is you trying to bait people into
freaking the hell out on Twitter because you just said
that Mason Rudolph would win more games with the Pittsburgh
Steelers than Aaron Rodgers. Ironically enough, he's the only quarterback

(30:08):
on the contract in Pittsburgh nine or ten. No matter what, nobody, nobody,
I haven't heard, You've just made a straw man. I
haven't heard a single person not put some level, if
not the bulk, of the blame on Aaron Rodgers for
how catastrophically bad that thing went in New York last year.
He's he was when he went to the Jets, the

(30:31):
most powerful player in the NFL. We do not have
player empowerment in the NFL. Look at Miles Garrett all
they did when he tried to take things into his
own hands. Say, Miles, we're gonna shove your mouth with
as much money as humanly possible until you stop doing
a radio road tour at the Super Bowl saying how
many different teams you'd like to play for.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
No, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Aaron Rodgers deserves the vast majority of blame for why
things went badly in New York. But if anybody is
equipped to get him back on the right track, the
Pittsburgh Steelers are an organization that have dealt with Leveon
Bell and Antonio Brown and Ben Roethlisberger and all these
different incredibly high level egos and talents and made it

(31:15):
all work.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Year in and year out.

Speaker 10 (31:17):
You're outrageous for saying something you're saying.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
But here's the thing. You can't have two things at once.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
You can't tell me that everybody accepts Aaron Rodgers blame
in the failures of the Jets. But then I sit
there and I turn on NFL Network and I turn
on ESPN, and I look across the landscape of everything
that's going on on Twitter from respected writers, and they're
all coming in and saying, well, if the Vikings get
Aaron Rodgers, well they're a Super Bowl contender, Like really,

(31:44):
So on the one hand, we're going to acknowledge that
they're the part of the reason the Jets failed is
because Aaron Rodgers sucked.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
But then we're going to turn around and say, oh,
but that's all going to be fixed.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
It's all going to be roses and sunshine once he
goes over here, not if it's in part his fault,
like at some point he's forty one years old coming
off of bad achilles injury that just didn't rehab the
same way, and he wasn't consistently himself. And I think
it's okay to admit all of those things, like he's
he's broken down. He's just not the quarterback he used
to be.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
He's mean.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
He will talk themselves into it though for the I mean, yeah,
look at you trying to be elect the kids mid
We're gonna start just calling cap out every time you
think that Aaron Rodgers is lying to somebody about where
he is in the world. He's like Drake, he ran
off to Australia to escaped to the stink of the Jets.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
I think I don't think it's my age, I think, like,
but it is part of it. Like I'm just not
sure that like, as a middle aged white guy, I
can say cap at all, Like that just doesn't work.
Middle white middle aged white guys can't say cap no.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
I mean you can, but it's just not going to
it's not going to hit the way that you intended to,
which is what we thoroughly enjoy about middle aged white guys.
But I think that when you are talking about the
situation for Aaron Rodgers, teams will talk themselves into it
fits because it's not just it's not just people on
media outlets talking in March about Super Bowl contention, right,

(33:00):
Anybody talking about super Bowl contention in March is way
too caught up in the oxygen that is the off.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Season and the sugar rush that.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
Is free agency, which I know you have another tinfoil
hat conspiracy theory for us later on in the throughout
the course of the show, which I just can't wait for.
I am looking at this and saying that teams, even
the smartest and most well run teams, will talk themselves
into it if the price is right. And the thing
that we do not know is what kind of money

(33:27):
is out there for Aaron Rodgers at this point. Is
Aaron Rodgers gonna make more than Sam Darnald next year?
I would be absolutely shocked. And if you tell an
NFL franchise, even one that watched Aaron Rodgers with the
Jets last year, you can have Aaron Rodgers for less
than Sam Darnald cost this year. Somebody is going to
look around and be like, I can fix him. I
can fix him. Me, it's me, I can do it.

(33:48):
I can fix him. No ayahuasca, no darkness retreat, no
shoulder shrouds and wired headphones wandering forlornly on the beaches
of Australia.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
I can fix him. I got this.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
I'd rather have Sam Dodarnold and Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
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(34:22):
back to some NCAA tournament updates. You you need those,
we will make sure you get those. Plus, Buck just
told you he wants to talk about who the biggest
Super Bowl contenders are. That's his favorite. We'll certainly do that. Actually,
Buck's got beef with baseball. You got to hear this.
Nobody else has heard this. There's an absolute there's something
happening in the world of baseball that impacts every fan,
and you're gonna lose your mind. Buck will tell you

(34:44):
about it when we come back. He's Buck Rising on
Jason Fitzbucking fits on a Fox Sports Saturday on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Major League Baseball it just cannot stay out of its
own way, whether it's the league is an entirety, or
whether it's clubs that are playing in minor league ballparks
or getting ready to play in minor league ballparks ahead
of the twenty twenty five MLB season, or even clubs
Jason Fitz here with you, Buck Rising, Fox Sports Saturday

(35:19):
on Fox Sports Radio, comingy you Live from the tire
rack dot Com studios. Even fits MLB clubs that don't exist,
but are trying to grift their way into existence. This
thing happening here in the city that I call home,
in the city that I love, in the city that
I broadcast to you from right now, Nashville, Tennessee, where
a group called Music City Baseball has been working I

(35:42):
think since I moved here in twenty fifteen to bring
an MLB expansion franchise to Nashville. I saw headlines this
week about, well, they've moved one step closer to making
its goal of reality on Wednesday, when the Nashville Stars,
a potential MLB expansion team, revealed a new logo and

(36:02):
cap that they are trying to sell. FITZI it's like
popping up a lemonade stand outside of an active construction
site and saying, here, help us fund a Major League
Baseball team in this city where we have no land
to build it, no money with which to finance it,
and no particular interest given the proximity to the Atlanta Braves.

(36:22):
I've got all kinds of problems with Major League Baseball,
and I know we're going to get into what's going
on with the Athletics and what's happening with the Tampa
Bay Rays, who people have talked about potentially being moved
from markets, but there has never been something so innocuous
that has made me see the way that these music
City Baseball Nashville Stars logos and hats that just basically

(36:46):
look like a knockoff Yankees hat did to me when
I saw this release two days ago.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, look, it's firefest for you know, baseball, like there's
nothing real to it. And then you got people out
there buying it because they think they're supporting it, and
all you're really doing is putting more money in the
pockets of people that really have no clear path to
a major League Baseball team. In fact, you know, a
few years ago, I sat down with Jeff Passon and
I was asking a buster only in some of my

(37:12):
ESPN buddies at the time.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Find him again, and find him again if he drops
more names.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Well, I mean, I know a lot of people. I
can't help it, you know, as I was what him
up to five bucks and fives anyway, I was asking
them future of baseball in Nashville, and the comment I
heard consistently from people that I trust was major League
Baseball loves the idea of a team there, but they
don't love any ownership structure, and they haven't seen the
money be what the money needs to be to make
anybody comfortable with that. And so you've got an ownership

(37:39):
group down there that's like, well, we're selling hats, like
for what I mean? This is the ultimate music Man.
You're too young? Did you ever see the music Man?
Like seventy six Trung?

Speaker 3 (37:47):
I saw it on Broadway. I'm the oldest young person
you'll ever move.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
God, I love that about you. Think about it, like,
what do you do?

Speaker 2 (37:53):
He couldn't teach any instruments, but he went in and
made sure that you bought the uniforms, and you bought
all the stuff to look good. You bought the struments.
He couldn't teach you how to play anything, but he
was out there being a shyster. That's exactly what's happening.
And you mentioned the Oakland A's for anyone that didn't
see this, the A's have started a season ticket, non
refundable season ticket that you can buy now in Las Vegas.

(38:15):
It's nineteen dollars, like nineteen oh one or whatever. So
it's twenty bucks. You think, okay, well, what's twenty bucks?
It's non refundable. It's twenty bucks to just get on
the list to eventually buy a season ticket. But let's
remember the actual people in Vegas, not just you know,
random social media accounts, but people that really follow Vegas
politics will tell you that nothing has been funded. They
truly haven't decided where that stadium's going to be. They

(38:37):
demolished the Tropic Canna, but people around the city are
telling you that there's not really a scope, and there
hasn't been the research done, and they're not.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Really sure they could put the stadium there.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Nobody's really sure on it, and John Fisher, the owner
of the A's, has done nothing to show how he's
going to come up with his side of the funding.
There's all these questions, yet the A's are still taking
non refundable twenty bucks from everybody that just wants to
give them twenty dollars on the if come that baseball is.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Gonna end up there.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
It's it's so wild to me to see sports fans
taking advantage of like this. It's it's it's maddening to
me on behalf of all of us, Like we shouldn't
be this stupid.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yeah, but there's suits somewhere sitting around a boardroom being like,
what if we tried They're sitting around there, they're twirling
their mustaches, they're drinking their coffee, and they're saying, what if.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
What if we just tried to.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
Slide this one by maybe a hat here, maybe a
season ticket deposit there, nobody will be the wiser. Surely
we'll be able to make some money off of it,
and by the time they've figured out what we're trying
to do, it'll be too late.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Fits. We'll take the money and run.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
You know what, what I just heard you say is
we're gonna develop Bucking Fits hats and shirts during the
break and then you know, we'll just put them out
there and see if we can get somebody to buy them. Like,
we'll get get one or two people to buy those
hats and just but like there's no real show.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
We're just buying. You're buying the hats anyway, and we'll
see what we can get out of it.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
Manifested, baby, that's all we need to do, Like manifesting
Cooper Flag return to the NCAA tournament. You know that
the biggest star in college basketball sustained an injury in
the conference tournament This week. Now, the question becomes should
he stay or should he go? Find out next on
Fox Sports Saturday. On Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
March is when stars are made.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
We've got college basketball all over the place. You've got
Saint John's winning the Big East Tournament.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
You've got Duke in Louisville duking it out.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
No pun intended for the ACC right now, and Duke
doing it without their biggest star, Cooper Flag, suffered an
ankle injury during the ACC tournament opener on Thursday. Jason Fitz,
as you listen to Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Saturday
from the tire rack dot Com studios, they're telling us

(40:53):
the Cooper Flag, the star of the show, the star
of the college basketball season, that he is expected to
be available for the NC DOUBLEA Tournament. But, as you
noted in the first hour on this Saturday night, words matter,
and they have given themselves a lot of wiggle room
for when Cooper Flag will actually be available to participate

(41:14):
in the NC DOUBLEA Tournament. We're happy to have you
along for the ride on this Saturday. We are looking
forward to talking hoops. We'll get back into NFL free
agency in the cam Ward situation, who's become the heavy
favorite for the number one overall pick throughout the course
of this hour. But FITZI, I want Cooper Flag back
as soon as he's able to be the best version

(41:37):
of himself, not as soon as humanly possible. And I'm
curious to see which direction the Duke star will take,
given that he's got a lot of money one way
or the other on the line here.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yeah, this is really interesting book because we've heard Cooper say, hey,
you know, he'd be open to returning, and everybody sort
of jumped on that. And the question is when you
hurt your ankle, and you know, if you didn't see
the play, he he came down on an ankle there
was already taped, And I keep thinking about the fact
that the ankle was already taped, landed on it. It
was innocuous. He didn't land on somebody else's foot, There

(42:08):
was none of that, Like he just landed and in
that moment his ankle rolled right. And Allly keep thinking
about is for all the people that think, well, you know,
unfinished business, will this be a reason he wants to
come back for another year?

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Duke?

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Does he if he doesn't get to play in the tournament,
or isn't himself in the tournament, missus part of the tournament?
Is that gonna be a reason he wants to come
back the buck, I think is the opposite. Man, if
you were sitting there thinking, well, you know, I love
this duke experience and I want to come back another year,
and then you just a weird injury happens.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
I keep thinking about the zion shoe.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Blowout, right like it's just one play makes such a
difference in the NBA to the rest of your life,
right like tom basketball to the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
I just keep thinking about it.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
If I'm Cooper Flagg, if I was thinking, if I
was on the fence before that injury, now I'm squarely
off the fence, and I'm not coming back because I'm
gonna go out there, I'm gonna get paid, and I'm
gonna make sure that I start that next trajectory towards
being generationally wealthy.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
It would be fiscally irresponsible for him to return to
Duke yea. And whether or not, and I'm sure he's
enjoying it and enjoying the adulation, I don't know if
you saw him on the final home game of the
season on Monday Night last Monday Night, where he's signaling
to run it back while he's on the bench. He
got Dukies cheering or chanting.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
One more year, one more year.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
With the Camon crazies and all these different things, it's
easy to get.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Caught up in the moment.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
It's kind of like Travis Kelcey before the Super Bowl,
right He's talking about, Oh, yeah, I'd love to play
for three or four more years. That sounds great as
long as I'm physically able, that's the plan. And then
after the super Bowl, he gets on the podcast after
getting smoked by the Philadelphia Eagles in what was not
a close game at really any point throughout the course
of this looking around and saying, I don't know what
I want to do with my future at this point

(43:50):
in time on his podcast with his brother, The New
Heights Show. So for Cooper Flag in this moment, there
are going to be a lot of different people tugging
in a lot of different because he is an economy
right now unto himself, and he will be an even
bigger economy once he gets to the NBA level. To me,
there's no even debate in the idea of what he

(44:12):
should do regardless of what happens and how this ankle
situation impacts the conference tournament that he is currently not
participating in, and whenever he appears in the NCAA tournament,
no matter how it goes, for Duke, who is one
of the best basketball teams in the country and with
Cooper flag the best basketball team in the country, he
should leave for the NBA, no matter how this goes,

(44:34):
because there is too much money to be made at
that level, and I know the nil checks are nice,
and I know he's not hurting for cash right now,
but you could set yourself up for generations to come
if you just make the decision to get that process
started as early as humanly possible. Whether that's in the
best interest of the player and the development, all these
things have been debated with the one and done.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
Year after year after year.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
But I mean, if he even if he even gaslights
people into thinking that he's actually coming back for another
season at Duke because of whatever happens in the NCAA tournament,
which is of course a hypothetical, and we got to
let these things play out, nobody's going to actually believe
him right, No.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
No, I mean, there's just no way, but he's buck rising.
I'm Jason Fits on Fox Sports Radio. And you know,
it's funny because the one thing we can say now
that we know that he's healthy, you know, and we
can healthy, is he's getting there now that we know
that he's not seriously like life altering injured with this ankle.
You mentioned the Duchies earlier, screaming one more year, one
more year. Dukie has me thinking, if you look at

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that wheelchair picture of him being wheeled off the court
man side by side, it sure looks a lot like
Paul Pierce, right like, it looked very similar to Paul
Pierce being wheel tear it out for non angle reasons.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
I'm just pointing that out, and I will point out too.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
As we started this show, we were trying to answer
the very difficult question of who the number one overall
team is right now in the country, who should be
the number one seed when they when they put together
the rankings tomorrow for the tournament.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
And as we see here.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Right now you just heard the update you mentioned it,
Duke is up on Louisville by two, but Duke is
without two.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Of their best players.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
And if they go out and win their conference tournament
without two of their best players in a week where
Auburn lost again, I think this is a pretty strong
statement for Duke to be the number one overall seed
going into the going into the NCAA Tournament.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
It would be the most compelling case that they could make. Look,
they've take We've got both arms tied behind our back,
and we're still doing it at a high level. We still
handed Carolina third straight loss this season. We're still doing
the thing that we're expected to do. We're still living
up to expectation. And that's what makes Saturday's results, excuse me,
Sunday's result between Tennessee and Florida in the SEC Conference

(46:46):
Championship SEC Tournament Conference Championship here in Nashville tomorrow so
fascinating because those two teams will be playing for a
number one seed and the question is going to become
and the question that only the committee can answer is
could Duke be dinged for there being even the slightest
margin for maybe Cooper Cooper flag is not available for

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the first round of the nc DOUBLEA Tournament.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
Maybe we just slow play this thing a little bit.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
And you're looking around and saying, well, do we really
want to give Duke the number one overall seat in
NCUBA tournament if we don't know for certain that the
biggest star in college basketball and their best player is
going to be available right away.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
I would hate for that to be the case.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
That would reek to me of recency bias, and again
ignore what Duke has continued to do in these couple
of games without Cooper flag.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
But it leaves the door open for that possibility.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Look, I think that's part of why when you hear
well he will be available for the NCAA tournament, Duke
made sure the NCAA was aware that he will be
available for the tournament. They made him aware. They made
them aware of that. For a reason, they're turning around
and make sure all of that information gets right to
because the Ken Palm rankings in and look, I have
no damn clue how they come up with the Kempom numbers.

(48:04):
I just tell there are a bunch of numbers on
a sheet, and this is what I can tell y'all.
When it hit sort, it tells me who's at the
top and who's at the bottom. I don't know how
that factor it. I don't know how they figure it out,
but I can't tell you.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
That's just a minute.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
You know, number one in the Kenpom, Duke, number two,
Florida Auburn is all the way down to number four.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
And part of the reason is you.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Mentioned that matchup tomorrow becomes huge Tennessee and Florida. Well,
Florida's number two, Tennessee's number five. I'm genuinely interested to
see what the Kenpom looks like when there's a winner
of that game, because Duke, if they're able to win
the ACC tournament, you could say that they're just.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Sliding right into this, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Man, Like this, this gets really interesting because there's certainly,
let me take the iron sharpens iron SEC argument of
all of these teams that beat each other up. That
doesn't change the fact that it's really hard to figure
out how the SEC should measure up with everybody when
you know they're very good teams, but you also know
that a team like Auburn lost a few games that
they shouldn't have lost over the.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Course of the last couple of weeks. Like that's stuck
in my head.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
And the committee used to have the caveat of considering
the last ten days.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Of the regular season.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
That used to be a sort of one of the
line items that they checked off. It is no longer
something that they're forced to put wade in. But if
this committee does weigh the last ten days of the
regular season like the committees used to, then Auburn is
going to They're gonna get taken.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Down a notch, and they should.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
But I would disagree just slightly with what you're saying
about Auburn because Auburn lost a couple of Dames games
down the stretch, and I know that they were favored
in and so maybe the argument is as simple as well,
if you're favored, then you should win these games, given
that you've been the number one team in the country
the whole way through. But the SEC has been a
gauntlet all year long. The conference tournament has been electric

(49:46):
from start to finish. The only two teams that did
not matter whatsoever were LSU and South Carolina. The SEC
could get fourteen teams into the day. So the fact
that Auburn survived as long as they did without.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Taking one of these li that should be expected.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
Frankly, given the strength of this particular conference, the best
conference in college basketball. I'd probably push back on that notion,
but just to stick with what we're talking about here
on Fox Sports Saturday, Jason Fitz and Buck Rising here
with you, Cooper Flag, there's no argument for him to
come back to Duke. Are you prepared to say that
Jason Fitzer argued that Mason Rudolph is better than Aaron

(50:22):
Rodgers at this stage of their career.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Nonsense.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
I don't think I said it quite that way. But
you know when you.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Say it back, No, you said it worse.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
You said the Steelers would win more games with Mason
Rudolph than they were.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
It's the same number. Look, Cooper Flag's gone.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
The only caveat to Cooper and this is just just
a real life application, right because we want to just
throw everybody into the league. I mean, Victor women Yama
is the most transcendent talent we've seen coming into the
NBA in a very long time. And there is no
doubt that Victor has already started to and will continue
to live up to his hype in San Antonio.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
And what does that led the Spurs to a whole
lot of nothing?

Speaker 2 (50:59):
So the one thing that is interesting to me is
if he's having a blast and in an nil world,
he's making good money and he's winning a bunch of games.
That's a heck of a lot more fun then it
will inevitably be. You never know, depending on how the
lottery goes, obviously, but when you start talking about the NBA,
you go on to a terrible basketball team. Like if
Washington ends up with the first pick in the draft,

(51:21):
Cooper Flag is not gonna win a lot of games
next year.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Or the year after, or the year after or the
year after.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
So like there is a part of me that says, hey, buddy,
like go out and get your back, go get paid.
But the other side of it is just be prepared
to just take it on the chin for a long
time because you are going to lose.

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Speaker 1 (52:23):
Not do it.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
However, if you have a hot take on who the
number one should pick in the draft should be, we'll
get back to some NCAA fun. But obviously a lot
of eyes are on the NFL draft. Buck Rising, my
co host here is in the thick of Nashville, and
I keep hearing that it is done. We know who
the first overall picking the draft is going to be,
and we know why. We'll see what he thinks of
it when we come back. And obviously we know what you.

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(53:40):
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Speaker 3 (53:44):
I'm all of.

Speaker 8 (53:44):
Them as if that's what you lobbing it and that
I'd be like it's.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
A slur, not because I know many, because I value
my time, because I don't want to take a dumb
animal out in the elements.

Speaker 8 (53:56):
To watch it eat its own poop. Of course, I'm
a cat.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
You scoop poop. Scoop poop.

Speaker 8 (54:01):
No, the dog is true, but no, I don't scoop it.
I have one of these fantastic liter romots that does
job for me. Again, My god.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Not only does he have a fancy litter robot, he
also has a hat that says cat Dad. He's currently
wearing it. Can't make that up. He's Buck Rising. I'm
Jason fitzbucking Fits on a Fox Sports Saturday, coming at
you from the tire rack dot Com studios.

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Francis done a great video many of our Fox Sports
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She always have instant access to our Fox Sports Radio
videos on YouTube. I'm surprised we got you out of
the house and into the studio long enough to be
away from your cats. I mean, I'm just I'm so
proud of you, Buck, Like I don't I don't know
if you to feel about like the manliest of men
that's sitting here with his cats.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
I just you know, I'm not a cat. I'm not
a cat guy.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
That's your fault. Again.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
I am contemplating because I travel all NFL season with
the Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
Is a part of my job here.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
In Nashville, and I'm contemplating going full Kirk hurb Street
and buying one of these bubble backpacks for Francis and
taking her around.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
With me on the road. This year.

Speaker 4 (55:20):
I'm going to take her to Vegas they play the Raiders.
I'm going to take her to Denver. I'm gonna get
one of these harnesses to take her out to the park.
Don't hate on the sophistication that is the cat.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Look if if Annabel could still fit in anything that
would let me fly with her, the world would not be.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Ready for that. I would fly. And she loves flying.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
She's the perfect little flyer, like before she got too big.
That that would be amazing idea.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
No way, you know that that dog does not like flying.
The dog does not want to go through TSA. The dog,
oh my god, I want to sit in an The
dog does not want to does not want to turn
down the terrible snacks that Southwest lives out.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
No, No, she I got her during COVID, and so
when I was flying back and forth at the time
when everything was really limited, it flying from Hartford to
Nashville a bunch at the time. She got so comfortable
with the route of the airport that like, because you
always connect in Baltimore, it was the way only way
you could do it at the time. I would get
off at the same gate every time. She would walk
me to the pet relief area. She would go in,

(56:14):
she'd go to the bathroom, she'd come back, she'd lay
in the same seat, and then the gate agent would
come up and give her her little Southwest treat and
we'd get on the plane and she would immediately walk
to the third row, go lay under the seat in
front of me, not make a peep of a noise.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Ah, she's the best little flyer. Like she's killed there.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
She's a good road for buddy too. She's far more
behaved than her dad. Is that, There's no doubt about that. Also,
the Raiders play the Raiders play the Titans in Is
that a Vegas.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Game this year?

Speaker 3 (56:39):
That is a Vegas game.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
That's one of the I've got three NFL stadiums, now
four NFL stadiums left that I have not covered a
game in my career, and the New Vegas Rumba is
one of them.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Okay, first of all, put some respect on Rumba when
you call it that. It's a beautiful stadium. You'll find
that out. Secondly, a were going to rage in Vegas?

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Is that's?

Speaker 2 (56:59):
Is that what's happening when that gets announced on the schedule?
Or we having like a vender of a weekend with
Cabana's and bottle service. I think this has happened bucking Fitzgo's.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Bottles like this is this is Ian?

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Would you come out for bucking Fitzgo's boy, like full
fancy bottle service in cabanas we hanging?

Speaker 4 (57:14):
Ah wow, Ian, he didn't even call you when he
was in Los Angeles.

Speaker 5 (57:20):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, is it.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
Didn't even call you in the city that you are
currently helping us produce this radio show for.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
I'm very busy, right, I work multiple jobs.

Speaker 11 (57:28):
Okay, I'm gonna Fits has been to the tirerac dot
com studios, though I haven't met Fits in person.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Which I've actually gone into the studio before.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
Buckler.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
Now I really wasn't, but all right, saved me from
myself here. Okay, So as we take a look.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
At what's gonna happen in the NFL Draft, and trust me,
we'll get back to the NCAA tournament.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
We'll get you updates in just a couple of minutes.
I want your thoughts on.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
This because you are in Nashville, you cover the Titans.
You know this team better than ninety nine percent of
the people. I tell people all the time, not just
because we're friends, but because you do quality work, follow
people that are smart. You are smart about the Titans.
So on my show last week of for Yahoo Sports
insid coverage, Charles Robinson, NFL insider for Yahoo said very

(58:11):
clearly to me that the people he's talked to have
made it clear to him the Titans do not and
have not had any interest in Russ.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
They do not, have not had any interest in Aaron Rodgers.
And as they look around the quarterback landscape, it becomes
clearer and clearer to the rest of the league that
the Titans are zeroing in and they are going to
select cam Ward with the first overall pick.

Speaker 4 (58:32):
What do you think if they're picking number one overall,
they are picking cam Ward, The question is are they
the ones making that number one overall pick? Because of
the dominoes that you've just mentioned previously, Aaron Rodgers is
holding three NFL franchises hostage that could be even remotely
interested in his services. One of those teams is the

(58:52):
New York Giants, who currently picks at third. If there
is a scenario where New York misses out on Aaron Rodgers,
are they going to up the annie on the offer
for the number one overall pick, Because in this year's draft,
if you get an offer and the starting conversation here,
because I still do believe Fitzi at the end of
the day that their preference here with a new general
manager and a coach that is coming off the three

(59:15):
and fourteen season that Brian Callahan just had, coming in
off the hot seat for an ownership group that's fired
John Robinson one year, Mike Vrabel the next, Ran Karth
On the following and round and round the merry Go
round goes, they would still prefer to trade back and
get as many assets as possible because this franchise's roster

(59:36):
is rotten. If you can do that, if the offer
is sufficient, then you can consider moving out of the
number one overall pick. But they have needs at quarterback,
and all they did this offseason was signed Brandon Allen
at thirty two years old, who's been a career backup.
He embodies the definition of backup quarterback.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
And if that is the person that.

Speaker 4 (59:56):
I'm covering a quarterback competition between Will Levis and Brandon Allen,
and they didn't take cam Ward with the number one
overall pick.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
If there's any deviation from that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
Whatsoever, what's left of this fan base for one of
the most irrelevant teams in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
They will riot.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
This is where I'm confused. Buck Like, okay, So let's
play this out. Let's say they trade down. Okay, And
by the way, I'll go on record again, I think
Abdul Carter and Travis Hunter are better prospects than cam Ward.
If I were an NFLGM, I would take either of
them above the quarterback. Having said that, I got to
have a quarterback, right, What is the plan at quarterback?

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
If you trade down and you don't draft.

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
One, Potentially you pick up picks and explore the opportunity
of a Jackson Dart, a Tyler Shuck out of Louisville
who's gotten some noise coming out of the Senior Bowl.
They they have options theoretically, but they really don't fit.
It's again, it is a complicated situation that Tennessee is
dealing with because they have put it's a situation of

(01:00:54):
their own making and now they have to figure it out.
But again, Cleveland still has a need at quarter New
York has a need at quarterback, picking second and third,
and I think that they could still push them into
a point of desperation. I think that New York is
clearly I mean with an owner that is publicly expressing
impatience for a coach and a general manager and Brian
da Ball and Joe Shane who they're bringing back anyway,

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for reasons that are beyond me.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
It feels like Matt Eberflus and the Bears.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
They could still put the Titans in position to take
Shador later in the first round, depending on how far
back the Titans were willing to drop, and if they
were comfortable enough with the player that Shador Sanders is.
There are options on the table. But again here in Tennessee,
people would riot if they do not take cam Ward
with the number one overall selection. They've got a new

(01:01:41):
stadium opening here in twenty twenty seven. Their football team
has been cheeks for four straight seasons, and they're okay
for it to continue to stink down the stretch in
that decrepit site, that is the concrete mess that Nissan Stadium,
the old Nissan Stadium is before they open this palace
to whatever on the east bank of the Tennessee River
or the Cumberland River down here in Nashville. Cam Ward

(01:02:04):
has to be the pick here because your fan base
will freak the hell out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Is cheeks a technical term?

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Is that what we like? Cheeks? The is it?

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
Ian, If you would like to provide us an urban
dictionary reading at your convenience, perhaps we could go down
that road perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
I would love an urban dictionary like if Ian, if
you could prep this for us, If you could give
us a very proper urban dictionary reading.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
I'm on it of the definition of cheeks.

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
He says, on it now until he sees it, and
then maybe once he sees it, he'll contemplate rate again.

Speaker 5 (01:02:34):
I'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
We would like to make sure that you keep your
job here.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Ian. You mentioned Shador Sanders. Somebody told me last week
that Shador Sanders will be the most interesting Draft day
scenario we've seen in twenty years. Tell you about it
in just a second, But first, Steve to Sega, got
to get you caught up on everything that's happening right
now in the NCAA tournament and more.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
Well, March is madness.

Speaker 9 (01:02:55):
We'll find out the nc DOUBLEA Tournament field tomorrow on
Selection Sunday. But for place, Akron has literally just won
the matt Conference championship game on a bucket with two
seconds left. They're storming the courts seventy six seventy four
over Miami, Ohio. Mount Saint Mary's is leading its Metro
Atlantic final with under two minutes to go, fifty five

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fifty seven over Iona. We have four other conference finals
coming up this evening. Colorado State pretty much dominated Boise
State to win the Mountain West Finals sixty nine to
fifty six. We've got the ACC championship game going on
with number one Duke trailing Louisville thirty eight thirty three
at the half. One seed Saint John's took the Big

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East Crown eighty two sixty six over Creyton Houston one
seed in the Big twelve wins again, taking that conference
tournament seventy two to sixty four over Arizona. In the
Big ten semis, Wisconsin eliminated the number one seed Michigan
State seventy seven to seventy four, and Michigan on a
layup essentially at the buzzer beat Maryland eighty one eighty

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SEC Semifinals one seed Auburn out after losing a close
one to Tennessee seventy to sixty five. Florida put away
Alabama one oh four to eighty two. Villanova fired coach
Kyle Neptune after three seasons, UNLV fired coach Kevin Krueger
after four years in the NBA. Oklahoma City Shay Gilgis

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Alexander has thirty nine points tonight, four and a half
minutes to go. The Thunder lead at Detroit ninety eight
ninety four. If Oksee gets another win, its record would
be fifty five and twelve. The Box mid third quarter
leads seventy seven seventy two against the Pacers Janisan tenecunpo
twenty eight points. So far, Grizzlies have twenty seven so

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far from Jaron Jackson grizz leading the heat seventy eight
sixty two about four minutes to go in the third.
Boston won its game at Brooklyn one fifteen to one thirteen.
Cam Thomas and the Nets is out for the season
with a strain hamstring. Jalen Brown of the Celtics left
to night's game with backspasms. Philadelphia's Tyrese Maxi will out
again Sunday with hand and finger injuries, missing a seventh

(01:05:03):
straight game. He averages twenty six points a game. Luka
Doncic is probable to return Sunday, but Lebron James and
the Lakers is still out with the string groin. He'll
miss a fourth straight game. The Atlanta Falcons cap quarterback
Kirk Cousins, who his ten million dollar roster bonus for
next year is now fully guaranteed. The forty nine Ers
re signed fullback Kyle Yuschek, and San Francisco has traded

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running back Jordan Mason to the Vikings. The Chiefs re
signed wide receiver Juju Smith Schuster. Among the NHL's eleven games,
Tampa Bay leads late in the contest at Boston five
to two, Buffalo in a shootout beat Vegas four to three.
The Dodgers won their first exhibition in Japan early this
morning our time, five to one over the Tokyo Giants

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and sho Heyo Tani homerd in a five run third inning.
Tonight our time, the Dodgers also in the Tokyo Dome.
We'll have an exhibition against the Haunchin Tigers.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
Back to you, he's Buck Rising.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
I'm Jason fitz fucking Fits Sports Saturday, coming at you
live from the ti iraq dot com studios Buck in Tennessee,
and we were just talking about the fact that cam
Ward looks to be the number one pick in the draft,
and it brings up Shador. Everybody wants to talk about
Shador and Buck. I thought this was interesting again talking
to Charles Robinson last week and talking to a couple

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of other draft insiders.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
That I think do a really good job.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
I've been lucky enough in my career to cover the
draft at this point for eight years. I'll be hosting
another draft show for Yahoo this year. You know, really
proud of that work with the draft and I love
doing it. But if I run through my phone book
and I just talked to as many people as possible
about Shador. Sea rob was the one that said to
me the other day, Charles Robinson said, this has the
chance to be the most interesting person we've seen selected

(01:06:44):
in the draft since Aaron Rodgers. And that is solely
because there are still a bunch of people that want
to put Shador to the Raiders at sixth the argument
being that Gino Smith is going to be a bridge
gap quarterback, and then they will simply go with, you know,
he'll mentor Shador and sure we'll get in with they're ready.
But then there are people that believe that the appropriate

(01:07:04):
grade on Shador is a mid second rounder, and so
you reach the situation. It's tough for me because if
you look at quarterback needy teams like the Steelers are
sitting there. Obviously you go up and down the list
in the middle of the draft. Are the Rams going
to be looking for the quarterback of the future. You
can go up and down and find a million holes.
But if guys, if teams don't believe that Shador is

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a first round bankable talent, there's a chance that he
could free fall. And I don't root for that for anybody.
Buck but I think it becomes really interesting if Shador
isn't off the board by six or seven, when we've
gone through a bunch of those quarterback needy teams.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
I think it'll be interesting to see if that is a.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Sign that there are more people freaking out about Shador
than we thought.

Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
I covered a situation like this because this exact thing
different players and different drafts, but this exact thing happened
to Will Levis.

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
Will Levis the Kentucky quarterback at the time who ended
up getting drafted to the Titans in the second round
and who the Titans tried to trade back up into
the first round with the Minnesota Vikings to draft in
twenty twenty three. He was looked at in twenty twenty
one as a player who, if he's strung it together
for another good season, he could have been, based on
trades and ability, the number one overall pick in the draft,

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and he was still being talked about as a potential
first round quarterback that year, where of course Bryce Young
and CJ. Stroud Anthony Richardson all went in the first round.
And Levis is one of these Aaron Rodgers type moments
where the camera keeps going to the green room, and
they keep looking at Will Levis and his family and
his girlfriend at the time, and everybody's trying to figure
out where the hell is Will Levis going to go
and is he going to continue to spiral? And it

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becomes this great drama that becomes as interesting as the
picks that the actual teams are making, because you've got
the face of this playing out in real time. If
that were to happen to the son of Dion Sanders
on national television. I know that he's not planning on
attending the draft, and I know that they've talked about
how important it is for them to be.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
I believe they're going to be in.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
Bolder, Colorado for the draft and to take it in
with the people who are closest to them, and also
to protect against something like this, the optics of Shador
being on camera in a draft room and falling out
of the first round.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
He might well be a second round pick.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
There's plenty of people, and I know, FITZI, you're talking
to people throughout the course of this too, doing your
work for Yahoo and the great NFL shows that you
guys are able to produce as a part of that.
There are people who will tell you there are not
but ten players with a first round grade in this
draft class entirely, but you got thirty two picks to
make in the first round anyway. So what happens with

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shador Sanders here is going to be a fascinating situation.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
I don't know though, just because of the.

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
Scarcity at the position, that he wouldn't just go in
the first round by default. Because even a team like
say the Rams, say Sean McVay with a thirty Matt Stafford,
what thirty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
Years old at this point in his career.

Speaker 4 (01:09:56):
If Sean McVay is sitting there later in the draft,
looking around the first round with a thirty seven year
old quarterback and trying to prolong a window of meaningful
competitiveness and one of the toughest divisions in football.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
But Shadoor Sanders wouldn't have to play right away.

Speaker 4 (01:10:12):
Why wouldn't a team like that take a flyer on
a quarterback who may just need time to be in
a better situation.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
Hell cam Ward may need time.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
All of these quarterbacks probably need time to be able
to compete at a high level in the NFL because
they're usually going to the worst teams at the top
of the draft. I refuse to believe that Shadoor Sanders
is going to drop out of the first round. If
for no other reason, then teams will do what Atlanta
did last year with Michael Pennix and Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Yeah, and I'm with you, he's Buck Rising.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
I'm Jason fitz coming at your live from the tyraq
dot com studios. I'm with you on some of this
in the sense of, because there aren't a lot of
surefire talent players in this draft. If you're going to reach,
why not reach for a quarterback A B I agree
with you. I keep looking at the rams and think
whether it's Shade, whether it's Jackson Dark Like I have
a hard time bel knowing what their quarterback situation looks like.

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If there's somebody that McVeigh actually likes, I don't think
he would make it farther than that. Like that all
makes sense. The one thing that's interesting to me you
mentioned Will levis when all of the rumors started a
couple of days before the draft in the year he
was selected, that he was going to go high. I
started just working the phones. I think that's one of
the most important things you can do when you host
draft content is work the phones. Can you talk to anybody?

(01:11:22):
I couldn't find anybody truly plugged in that believed that right.
So what's interesting to me is in the eight years
I've covered the draft, there's been one quarterback surprise, and
that's Michael Penick s Sheer, and that was stunning. Like
I will never forget. Charles Robinson was sitting two seats
away from me. We were live doing a live stream,
and he was because of his contacts, he was getting picks.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
Three early, two early, all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
And his eyes just blew up and he looked at
We did our production meeting the day before and he said,
I think, you know, Pennix is going to be the
Raiders might have to trade up a little bit to
get Pennix if they really like him. And I thought
that c rob has just lost his damn mind. And
then all of a sudden, you know, he goes to Atlanta.
Nobody saw that coming. But what's interesting is like the
Anthony Richardson being picked as high as he was. If

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he talks to people around the league, most people saw
that coming. Most people saw CJ comming. Most people like
where they were selected, you know, Like, so for me,
it's really weird to talk to one person and this
literally happened. I talked to one person that works with
quarterbacks and he said, yeah, I can see shit or
going second overall. And then I talked to somebody else
that's a former quarterback coach a couple hours later, and

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he's like, yeah, mid late second round is kind of
where i'd have him graded out. And I'm like, how
how do we have two smart people that have worked
around successful quarterbacks that very that much in their opinion
on one player, Like that's wild to me. I don't
remember seeing that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
I really think it just depends on what these teams
are looking for, and it's so specific to the clubs,
and you have so much time to overthink some of
these picks. I mean, Kyl Shanahan is a great example
of this here. He's now getting the opportunity to potentially
use as a reclamation project, the next young quarterback reclamation project,
Mac Jones, who, if you remember from the twenty twenty

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one draft, there was legitimate conversation as to whether Kyle
Shanahan would prefer to have Mac Jones as opposed to
At the time justin fields or Trey Lance, obviously understanding
that Trevor Lawrence and Zach Wilson we're going to go
number one and number two. Overall, we knew that the
entire way through the draft process. And I know Kyle
Shanahan has talked about overthinking this publicly and in interviews

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with Mike Silver.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
Of The Athletic. If I'm not mistaken, he did.

Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
A book on that generation of play callers, and he
had a really good interview with Shanahan where he talked about, yeah,
I just I overthought it, and we ended up trading
multiple first round picks to go up and take Trey
Lance when we did, and it ended up being one
of the worst decisions that he's made as a head coach,
one of the few head coaches who has personnel control. Now,
sometimes that works into the emotion, and again it depends
on who's in the draft room, who has the most

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pull in the room, and what they actually think of
these players. And I don't know, we've seen a lot
of conversation about Shudor's draftstock and.

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
Is it falling and do they just not like him
in the room.

Speaker 4 (01:14:02):
Is the fact that he doesn't have an actual you know,
a conventional agent to kind of serve as the buffer
between Team Sanders and these teams who are looking at
him and maybe not in love with the casualness of
his approach, given that he has been in a lot
of different situations that were probably just as big, if
not bigger, than the interviews that he's going through right now,
So why wouldn't he.

Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
Treat it with a degree of casualty.

Speaker 4 (01:14:25):
There's a lot of lying, there's a lot of smoke screen,
there's a lot of misinformation that has produced around the
draft time. But I really do think it just depends
on which team you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Misinformation is the keyword, because what if I told you
for all the conversation that we have about what to
do with the number one overall pick and why you
need to save money on a quarterback, it's the right logic,
but it's the wrong position.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
Well, explain what we mean next. He's Buck Rising. I'm
Jason Fitz.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
It's Bucking Fits, coming at you on a Fox Sports
Saturday on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
He's Buck Rising on Jason Fitz.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
It's Bucking Fits on a Fox It's Saturday on Fox
Sports Radio, coming to you live from the tirack dot
com studios. You can hit us up on Twitter at
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Speaker 9 (01:15:12):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
Ian do?

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
Like, well, it's it's very close. You should have gone
that way. It's just maybe changed it to your sweet like.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
Wine would that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:21):
I would be more pretentious if it was Reasling instead
of Rising.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
The minute you open your mouth and speak with that voice,
everybody knows exactly where you stand. Okay, Like it's it's sensual.

Speaker 10 (01:15:31):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
By the way, you got to give Ioa Steve a
shout out doing a great job, great music and ian producer,
extraordinary doing it?

Speaker 5 (01:15:37):
Was that Iowa Steve? Is that me and Steve Di
Saeger combined. I was Sam, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
That's what I did. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
I just looked at I looked at my own notes
and it's funny because I was write everything down and
I have Iowa as all I wrote, and then I
wrote Steve Sager, so you are actually Iowa Steve.

Speaker 11 (01:15:53):
Sega and there we go, there we go.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
It's good.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
It's like a knockoff Stanford, Steve. What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
I mean Iowa Sam and Steve de Seger. Amazing that
I wrote her down like that. You know, Hey, I'm
bat in a thousand here. By the way, speaking of
awkward moments, Ian, you want to give us the proper
reading of the term cheeks before we get into why
you should draft something other than a quarterback at the
top of the draft.

Speaker 5 (01:16:20):
Oh yeah, I can do, can do.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
So here we go.

Speaker 11 (01:16:21):
According to Urban Dictionary, the definition of cheeks adjective a
phrase used to describe places, people's and events that are
perceived as lame, silly, or downright unsuitable for existence. So
for the older audience out there, that's what Buck meant
when he said cheeks.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
Yeah, that is the Tennessee Titans roster.

Speaker 4 (01:16:41):
I've never felt more steadfast than any analysis that I've
ever done in front of a microphone.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Thank you, Ian, well done.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
That was well done. Okay, So here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Everybody says you have to draft a quarterback and then
win on the quarterback's rookie deal. Now, as I preface
this every time, I'm not going to go through the
numbers for the million time am I radio career. That's fallacy,
and the numbers actually don't support it. If you look
over the last twenty years, it's about an equal number
of quarterbacks on rookie deals and non rookie deals that
have gone to the Super Bowl. But whatever, if we

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want to believe that you have to win. Also, only
one player in the last twenty years has been the
highest paid to this position and won the Super Bowl.
So really the argument you can't pay anybody. But if
we just want to nail down the quarterback argument here,
there's something that happened last week that I think has
to factor into this logic. Like when you look at
the deals that Max Crossby got at roughly thirty five

(01:17:32):
million dollars and then Miles Garrett gets a deal at
forty million dollars, the expectation is that Michael Parsons is
probably going to deal get a deal in the range
of forty five million dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
I would not, for a.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Single second fault the Tennessee Titans if they can't trade
out of one and they're sitting at one and they're
trying to figure out what to do. I would not
fault them for a second if they took Abdul Carter,
because frankly, we are now at a spot where you
have to if you want to win. We all know
that you got to be able to get after the quarterback.
Edge rusher has become the second highest paid position across

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the board with some of these guys, they're getting paid
like quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Buck.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
I'm just saying, there is at least the logic of
if I'm going to pay you like a quarterback, then
I'm going to have to draft.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
At a competent level at that position.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
And if there's a guy that looks transcendent, maybe you
just go out and get that guy because it's still
saving you a ton of money on your future expenditures.

Speaker 4 (01:18:22):
He's not even as transcendent as the player that you're
talking about. Miles Garrett is an actual generational talent of
an NFL player. Abdul Carter is without question the best
prospect in a draft class that's probably weaker than most,
but it's not even remotely the same comparison.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
I mean, FITZI are then are we then going to.

Speaker 4 (01:18:41):
Have that conversation around wide receivers because Jamar Chase is
going to make more.

Speaker 3 (01:18:45):
Probably forty plus.

Speaker 4 (01:18:46):
Miles Garrett just became the highest paid non quarterback in
the league, and Jamar Chase is getting ready.

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
To exceed that. I mean, but the answer is you don't.

Speaker 4 (01:18:56):
You don't invest any any any percentage of your cap,
any that substantial percentage of your cap in any one
player in a team sport like football.

Speaker 3 (01:19:08):
That's just not feasible to me.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
The Browns are not doing a good thing by paying
Miles Garrett forty million dollars a year. What about the
Browns decision making would tell you that they're good at this.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
But here's the thing I would say to that is
with the number one overall pick, you know what you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
Need to do. You need to hit the player. It
doesn't like at this point, whether.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
We're talking about a wide receiver, where we're talking about rusher,
mid range edge rushers. Now we're going to be making
twenty million dollars. Like the middle class has risen because
the top of the class has risen. So like, if
I'm looking around and saying, well, the best player in
this draft is Abdul Carter, then take him, like you
need the rookie deal, just take him. Go get yourself
a player, because if you miss on that, you're setting
your franchise back five years.

Speaker 4 (01:19:49):
Well, certainly we're going to have an interesting discussion about
pass rushers and a couple of pass rushers, one who
has been paid and one who's expecting to be expecting
to be paid. A little Cowboys drama on a Fox
Sports Saturday. You're listening to Jason Fitz and Buck Rising
on Fox Sports Radio. All the beef between Micah Parsons
and DeMarcus Lawrence coming up now.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
Cheeks, beef cheeks. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 4 (01:20:16):
When it comes to the world of the NFL, all
things optically feel like they run through the Dallas Cowboys,
America's team. We hear it time in and time out,
even though they have not mattered at a championship.

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
Level in nearly thirty years.

Speaker 4 (01:20:37):
Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday from the tire rack
dot Com studios. He's Jason Fitz, I'm Buck Rising. We
got Stevenie and holding it down for us in La
making all things happen. And we're talking Cowboys, which means FITZI,
we're talking drama because there is nothing that grabs the

(01:20:58):
attention of the nation like a couple of Cowboys players.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Having a little bit of a tiff on Twitter. You
like that, do you?

Speaker 4 (01:21:07):
I thought about going with Jack del Rio's dust up
and tiff feels like appropriate.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
It is.

Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
Micah Parsons, the Marcus Lawrence won a cowboy, still a
former cowboy in Lawrence now signing with the Seattle Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
FITZI.

Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
He gives an interview to Marcus Lawrence does here recently
after signing with Seattle, to the effect of saying that
Dallas is his home and will always be his home.
And I know he put out a statement on social
media today and all manner of nice things to say
about the Cowboys organization and the city of Dallas and
the fan base and all these wonderful things. Accepted an

(01:21:44):
interview with a Seattle blogger. He mentioned that he knew
he was never going to win a Super Bowl in Dallas,
which is why, in part, he took his talents to Seattle.
You got Micah Parsons on Twitter fire quote tweeting the
almighty quote tweet. This is what rejection an envy looks like.

(01:22:06):
Michael Parson says on Twitter. This is some clown show
like that. Yes, you see safe word to use for
mike Ca Parsons. There you got Lawrence firing back on
Twitter calling me a clown. Won't change the fact that
I told the truth. Maybe if you spent less time
tweeting and more time winning, I wouldn't have left, which

(01:22:28):
ignores the simple fact Jason Fitz that DeMarcus Lawrence was
also on those Cowboys teams not winning while Michael Parsons
was tweeting. But that's neither here nor there. Let's not
let that get in the good in the way of
a good Cowboys story.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
I mean, it also ignores the fact that he went
to Seattle. Like it's hard for me to buy.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
The argument of like I had to get out of there,
man can't win a super Bowl, and you went to
the Seahawks. You didn't go to the Chiefs, you didn't
go to the Eagles, you didn't even go to the
Commanders like gonna bolster a team that's on the rise.
You didn't go to the Bills. You didn't go to
a perennial contender. You went to the Seahawks, like you
went to a mid team that might make the playoffs. Okay, congratulations,
you've been on a team that's pretty good that likely

(01:23:06):
most years make the playoffs. Like this all just feels
so stupid to me, and DeMarcus.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
Knows better, Like buck.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
We've all had the moments where microphone is thrown in
your face, right, Like, look when I got when I
got laid off by ESPN, Immediately everybody, everybody reached out
and wanted to try and get me to say something.
And all I kept saying over and over and over
again was that place changed my life. They changed my platform,
They changed everything about my ability to continue to work

(01:23:34):
in sports forever because I was part of them.

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
Like that, that was a calculator.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
Could I have stood up and been like, Man, I
didn't like this guy, and this guy was a jerk, and.

Speaker 3 (01:23:43):
This I wish you would have taken them all out.
I wish you would have.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
There's plenty of people that that tried to get me
to do that, and.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Then you just all you have to do is think
for a second and a half and you're like, you
know what, none of that's worth it?

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
Like right now, the.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Grand scheme of things, they changed my life. The Dallas
Cowboys and paid to Marcus Lawrence a ton of money.
They've give him a ton of opportunity. They put him
on the football field where he had the opportunity to
change the culture that he's now blaming as he walks
out the door.

Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
He did none of that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
He just waited until he got out the door and
then did what so many people do when they've left,
Like basically, you got fired, you found another job somewhere
else because they're not paying you enough, so now you
go somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
And this is the moment where you're like, I felt
like I could never be my self.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
Fare like, what are we doing? Like I've seen this
from plenty of people that have been laid off from
other networks. They're coming and saying I never was able
to use my real voice. I'm sitting there thinking, I
don't know. I sat there with you in hosted shows.
Nobody ever told you what you could or couldn't say.
But the minute you get out the door, you're like, oh.

Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
No, they held me back.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Like what is the Marcus doing? He knows what he's
creating when he does all of this.

Speaker 4 (01:24:45):
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and lay it open, lay open, or kind of remove

(01:25:13):
the scales from fans' eyes. Because the thing that the
football players tell us all the time, and I've covered
locker rooms, You've been in locker rooms. We've all been
in this industry in some former fashion around professional athletes
in their most sacred space.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
Right the locker room, the brotherhood, all these different things.

Speaker 4 (01:25:29):
Well, it takes is a stray on Twitter for that
all to go to hell and people to start burning
each other down on social media, and now their teammates
starting to chime in, and a tortured fan base who
just wants to win so badly, wants to be relevant,
actually relevant, not just TMZ relevant, but football relevant. Again,
you're just showing them all the things that they are

(01:25:52):
constantly accused of and they spend so much time denying,
which is, oh no, it's not just optics.

Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
Oh no, it's not just drama. Oh no, it's not just.

Speaker 4 (01:25:59):
The circus that is the Dallas Cowboys. We're a serious
football organization. I know DeMarcus Lawrence has left and this
that and the other. But they are embodying a part
of the problem with Dallas. Whether it's Michaeh Parsons, DeMarcus
Lawrence or any other player that would take to Twitter
and air dirty laundry that way, How am I supposed
to take you seriously about the thing that you tell

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everybody that you regard as most sacred when at a
moment's notice, you're willing to turn on each other in
a Twitter tiff.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
Yeah, look, you're right about everything you said, But this
is also the moment that I yell and scream to
Cowboys fans you're not special. Like Cowboys fans sit here
and they bemoan the fact that they haven't been in
the Super Bowl since what I don't have it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:48):
In front of me ninety two, so like thirty years.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
I was not alive.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
Do you know how many teams haven't been in the
Super Bowl in the last thirty years? A bunch like
you've been covering the Titans. You've like, when's the last
time you saw a Super Bowl? And even if you
want to say, Okay went to a super Bowl, I've
seen this.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
Everybody wants to say, well, nobody in the NFC has
waited longer to go to an NFC championship game. Who cares, Like,
of all the arbitrary things to make the line in
the sand of whether or not you're okay. So if
you'd lost an AFC or an NFC championship game, then
you wouldn't have this chip on your shoulder about not
winning a super Bowl. Like I just all of this
crying about what the Cowboys don't do. They haven't won

(01:27:27):
a Super Bowl in thirty years. Get in a line
like the Browns have never won one, right, like my god,
Like the last time my beloved Raiders won a Super Bowl,
I was little and I'm old. Like there's just this
moment where you look around the league and say, there
are twelve teams that have never won a Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
It's just Cowboys fans sit here and she just complain
all the time about the Super Bowls they don't win.
And I just I want to look at you and say, oh,
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
Do you think like, just because you like the Cowboys,
you're supposed to get a Super Bowl every year?

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
Like it doesn't work that way. You're just Cowboys fans.
You're not special. Your franchise isn't special. Nothing about what
you guys do is special.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
Like you're just a pretty good football team that doesn't
usually suck but is not usually great, gives you more
wins and losses and no championships.

Speaker 12 (01:28:11):
Congratulations, That franchise valuation is special.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
Yeah, they doesn't get much more special than that that.
Those couple of billion dollars you know, what are they lately?
Six valuated at No? I think it's closer to twelve fits.
I think it's twelve billion dollars for the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
What would that be like, Jerry?

Speaker 4 (01:28:36):
It doesn't matter once you get past the first be
it really doesn't matter anymore, one would imagine.

Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
But it would be nice to have eleven extra.

Speaker 4 (01:28:44):
I think it's an interesting conversation though, because it speaks
to fans frustrations. Really not and not to make it
specifically about Cowboys or the Cowboys fan base or their
organization or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
But I think fans are mostly frustrated.

Speaker 4 (01:28:59):
Cowboys fans should be bothered by this because the thing
that you try to talk yourself into as a fan
all the time is those players care as much about
this franchise as I do. Those players care as much
about winning as I do. Those players care as much
about championships as I do, when at the end of
the day, the answer to all of your questions forever

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and always will always be money.

Speaker 3 (01:29:24):
Money is the most important.

Speaker 4 (01:29:26):
Thing for the vast majority of these dudes, And of
course they love football to some extent, or maybe football
they like it enough, but it's a means to better
their circumstance and make generational wealth.

Speaker 3 (01:29:36):
But FITZI, you can't. You can't be unserious.

Speaker 4 (01:29:40):
As a football organization and then have your players constantly
remind you how unserious of a football organization you are,
and expect for a fan base that's as proud as
the Cowboys are and maybe entitled a little bit, but
that's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
I'm good with entitlement. They earned it for a period
of their.

Speaker 4 (01:29:56):
Existence, and it's just been you know, an odd three
decades since they've been able to really pound their chest
and say, no, we matter this way, No, We're still
America's team. I would be totally I would be totally
pissed if I was a Cowboys fan looking at this
and say, hey, knuckleheads, get it together. You're not focused
on the most important thing. Why is this infighting so easy?

(01:30:20):
So easy for you to do when you've been telling
everybody at every turn, no, the most important thing is winning,
The most important thing is brother, the most important thing
is the product on the field, and then turn around
and start firing strays.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
Well, because in most of life, there's a difference between
being good and being popular, Right Like, the best restaurant,
the most amazing food you've ever had, may not end up.

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
Being the most popular. And what happens, Like you can have.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
The best restaurant anybody's ever eaten at in La and
it's gonna suffer. We can we out trying to keep
their doors open half the time because it's like off
the beaten path and whatever whatever, But then the McDonald
down the road is gonna make billions and billions of dollars,
right Like, there's a difference between and I don't want
to enrage any swifties, so I'll say this, like, there's
a difference between being the most popular act you've ever

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seen and maybe the most generationally gifted musician, for example,
that you've ever seen, Like rarely does good and popular
actually always align, where like, the best of the best
is also the most of the most popular, And that's
just that's true in life, that's true in football. And
I just I just want us to start covering the
Cowboys the same way we cover the Bears, like a

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team that has just not had a lot of success,
not had a lot of Super Bowls, not had a
lot of any of that. And you're right, there is
a systemic problem with the culture inside the organization, and
I'm not sure Jerry knows how to fix that. I'm
not sure Jerry knows what it actually takes to fix
what's rotting inside that building.

Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
Now he's a part of the problem.

Speaker 10 (01:31:50):
Of course, he's the leader. He's Barnamann Bailey. I I
would be like, looked it up. You're right, the Cowboys
are worth ten billion dollars. Let me tell you, if
I owned any thing, we're ten billion dollars, you wouldn't
be able to talk to me.

Speaker 1 (01:32:02):
You wouldn't be able to get through to me.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
I'd be pig headed and I would go out and
screw everything up. But if I kept making money.

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
I'd keep doing it, Like, oh wow, would be that?
That is fair?

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
He's buck rising on, Jason Fitch. We got to get
caught up on the NCAA tournament. We will do that.
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Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
I think we figured out who the number one team
in the country is. We'll tell you about it after
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Speaker 1 (01:33:20):
Would you rather be the Yance or Jason isbel Right?

Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
Like not that Jason isbel isn't very accomplished, but you know, like.

Speaker 1 (01:33:26):
I think I'd rather be that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
No, no, No, he's very accomplished, but he's not being
honest like Jason isbel doesn't walk into accomplished.

Speaker 4 (01:33:33):
Jason isbel playing the exit in on a Tuesday night
for party people.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 7 (01:33:39):
But I mean, like Jason, half the people listening to
this like that, which is half of Scott Shapiro is
basically said, you're saying, who the hell is Jason Isabel.
I still stand by It's the ultimate popular versus a
great argument.

Speaker 1 (01:33:53):
See he's buck rising up.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
Jason fitz fucking fits on Fox Sports Saturday, coming at
You Live from the Tie dot Com Studios, NCAA tournament action.

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
We'll get back to some NFL thoughts in a second.
But starting to pull away.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
My friend Duke is up by ten over Louisville, And
the proper way to say Louisville for anyone that hasn't
lived near that area is like you've got a bunch
of popcorner in your mouth there trying and say it's like, well,
like you're.

Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
Swallowing the word while you say Louisville.

Speaker 10 (01:34:21):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:34:21):
The first time I've ever heard it described that way.

Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
Is there a better I mean Louisville. I mean that's
like the less the less clarity you have when you
say it, the more correct it is.

Speaker 2 (01:34:32):
Like it's got to feel like a Pearl Jam lyric
where the whole room has no idea what you're saying,
but they just sort of figure it out. That's the
way you say Louisville. So uh, you know, but Louisville
down by ten right now to Duke. So Duke starting
to pull away, and man, the more we get into this,
the more I feel like this is a pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
Big statement by Duke.

Speaker 2 (01:34:49):
I know, the ACC's trash, but you're sitting there in
SEC country, and it's interesting to me, Buck, because we're
in this situation where there could be you know, thirteen
fourteen depending on who you read. I mean, the SEC
is going to set a record this year for most
teams in the attorney the Big Ten. I would argue,
you're looking at some while it's top heavy, the top

(01:35:11):
of the Big ten is very good. Michigan State loses
to Wisconsin, in a game today that really to me
was a statement I think about how far Wisconsin can go.
Michigan needed to come down to the wire against Maryland.
Maryland a team that I think could go on a
deep run. There's some really good teams at the top
of the Big Ten. The ACC just isn't that for
the most part. But what you have now is a

(01:35:33):
Duke team pulling away from a Louisville team and Duke
minus two of their best players and importantly Cooper Flag
Like I do think at some point, whether we're talking
about football or basketball, one truth remains committees are human.
Like this is gonna be seared in the minds of
the committee when they're trying to figure out who their
one seeds are gonna be. But not just who their
one seeds are gonna be, but how they rank them

(01:35:54):
so we know who's going to what region.

Speaker 4 (01:35:58):
It is so cool to see what Duke is doing.
And I know, you know, plucky underdog Duke. Right, it's
Tom Brady at the end of his career going to
Tampa Bay and all of a sudden he drinks avocado taquila.
He's a likable guy in your root for Tom Brady
plucky underdog Tom Brady, plucky underdog Duke is the number

(01:36:18):
one seed in the ACC tournament. But I do still
think it's a cool sports story because they are doing
it definitively. They are leaving no doubt for They're leaving
no doubt or no opportunity for interpretation. We are good
enough without our two best players. We are good enough
without the best player in the country. And to your point,

(01:36:40):
it's Louisville, it's Duke, It's Clemson. That's really what the
ACC's best offerings are. And you could probably start after Duke,
although Louisville has had a really fun run to this
ACC Championship game, if you've been paying attention to that conference,
and what's gonna happen between Tennessee and Florida here in
Nashville tomorrow at Bridgetone Arena where they play the SEC

(01:37:02):
Championship game, has the opportunity to have some impact here.
But Duke is leaving no room for Florida or Tennessee
to really get into the discussion for the number one
overall seed here if there was any real discussion to
be had, because not only have they survived this stretch
without their two best.

Speaker 3 (01:37:21):
Players, as you've noted.

Speaker 4 (01:37:23):
I wouldn't go so far to say as they've thrived,
but they've handled it very competently, and that's a credit
to the team and the staff that John Shire has
put together. Even as again, nobody in the world wants
to give Duke more credit than they already get week
in week out, year in year out as a perpetual
college basketball fixture.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Yeah, Duke is like your buddy that goes to trivia
night every single Tuesday, right, and he's way too good
at Like it's your buddy that's qualified for Jeff Markby,
Like everybody else is just there to have some drinks
in a good time, and we're not really going to
know the answers. And then there's one person's like mad
at the end of the night because they missed one question.

Speaker 1 (01:38:00):
They always get the gift card. Like that's Duke. At
this point, I'm just it's exhausting.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
You mentioned Florida Tennessee, and this game is particularly interesting
because I think Florida can still make a statement, especially
given the way they've run through this SEC tournament. In
your mind, you said go balls earlier. Everybody should know
you're in Nashville. I mean, I mean, is this a
for you, is that you think the.

Speaker 1 (01:38:22):
Balls win this game?

Speaker 2 (01:38:23):
You think Florida look like you're You're sitting there in
the heart of it, like there's gonna be some element
of a home court advantage. Obviously for anyone that doesn't know,
Nashville is actually balls country, and a lot of people
outside of Tennessee don't really get that Vandy doesn't matter
all that much in Nashville, but the Tennessee volunteer sure
as hell do. So it's gonna be a rockous crowd there.
I feel like that's a lot for Florida overcome.

Speaker 4 (01:38:46):
Florida absolutely dismantled Alabama today, who was also in the
conversation for could they play their way into a number
one seed in the NCAA Tournament depending on how the
comference tournament went. Tennessee, Alabama, and Florida were the three
teams in question. And then that becomes even more interesting
given the Tennessee upset Auburn today and provided more doubt

(01:39:10):
as to what their future might hold as they worked
their way through.

Speaker 3 (01:39:13):
And now I know there were some mitigating circumstances as to.

Speaker 4 (01:39:15):
Why that went Tennessee's way, but still it was a
closely played game. Auburn rallied back and Tennessee withstood. I
just how Florida basketball is playing right now. It suggests
that they're not just a number one seed, but that
they could be the best team in college basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
They showcased, at least here.

Speaker 4 (01:39:37):
In Nashville, talent depth efficiency one oh four to eighty
two is what they beat Alabama by today. Alabama, who
can score basically at will with any of these teams
anywhere in the NCAA, they ran.

Speaker 3 (01:39:51):
Them off the floor.

Speaker 4 (01:39:52):
It wasn't It wasn't really until half where they started
showing signs of life Alabama, and by then Florida basically
had the game and just couldn't commit silly turnovers or
mistakes that would put them in position to blow that
and they didn't. They handled it the whole way through
Todd Golden. And I know there's been some controversy that
Todd Golden has come out on the other side of,
and there's been you know, that's kind of been hanging

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over a part of their season. It's become less of
a talking point obviously, since those those allegations were proven
or found proven to be unfounded based on what was
going on there at the time. But they definitely secured well,
I don't want to say that they definitely secured. I
think they think they secured the number one seed. Today

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Florida did well. Regardless of how this plays out in
the SEC Championship tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
What's interesting to me is, look at the two games
that these two teams have played.

Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
I've never seen anything like this.

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
Tennessee at Florida earlier this season, Florida wins by thirty. Yeah,
all right, Tennessee at home against Florida. What a couple
of weeks ago, Tennessee wins by twenty. That's such a
You're talking about a fifty point swing in two games. Like,
these two teams have played head to head twice. Now again,
for anyone that doesn't know this, the Committee is trying
to the Committee is does everything they can to prevent

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interconference matchups in the first two rounds, especially if they've
already played more than two times. So like these become
one of the tricks for the Committee as they're putting
all these things together tomorrow. But they've played twice with
two staggeringly different results.

Speaker 1 (01:41:24):
So I think there's a lot on the plate here.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
And Ken Palm still matters to me, It matters to
the committee if Florida's number two, Duke is number one,
If Florida gets a win over Tennessee, a convincing win, particularly,
I have no idea what that's going to do to
their net rating. I'm not smart enough to know how
that's factored. But I don't think Duke has necessarily left
the window open.

Speaker 1 (01:41:45):
But man, I don't know. If Florida plays the way
that they played and they go out and they just.

Speaker 2 (01:41:49):
Absolutely ram Tennessee, it's gotta be something that you at
least step back and consider.

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
Yeah, I don't think I don't think it'll be a blowout.
I think it'll be a competitive game. But there's no
question that Florida's played incredibly motivated basketball right now, and
they made a bit of a run last year. I
don't know if you saw that that awful injury that
their center had, their seven footter had last.

Speaker 3 (01:42:08):
Year that.

Speaker 4 (01:42:10):
Really derailed the emotions of it. But it'll be a
fun game here in Nashville, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
All Right, We're gonna keep getting you updated on the
tournament as big results happen. You'll be the first to
hear it, obviously, but we're still looking at the NFL
free agency and we're trying to figure out what the
football like. Do any of these moves make sense. We'll
break it down, but first, Iowa Steve to Seger's got
to give.

Speaker 1 (01:42:31):
Us the updates. Steve, you're just getting new nickname. That's
what's happening. Now. I'm all over the place.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
Okay, I guess we have no choice but to accept.

Speaker 1 (01:42:38):
Hey, Steve, and we'll hit the score.

Speaker 9 (01:42:41):
Of course, it's selection Sunday tomorrow to fill out the
NCAA Tournament field. In the ACC Tourney Final, number one
Duke is up on Louisville sixty eight fifty five with
about four minutes to go. In the Big East one seed,
Saint John's came back to win over Creighton eighty two
to sixty six, and then the Big Twelve Conference final,
one seed Houston was a winner against Arizona seventy two

(01:43:03):
to sixty four. Akron took the MAC Final tonight seventy
six seventy four over Miami, Ohio on a basket with
two seconds left, and Norfolk State won the MIAK on
a late free throw sixty six sixty five against South
Carolina State Conference finals also went to Colorado State, Mount
Saint Mary's and Bryant. In the Big Ten semifinals, Wisconsin

(01:43:24):
beat the number one seed Michigan State seventy seven to
seventy four. Michigan over Maryland eighty one eighty on a
last second layup. Tennessee took down number one seed Auburn
in an SEC semifinal seventy to sixty five Florida one
oh four eighty two over Alabama, one seed in the
American Conference, Memphis edge two lanes seventy eight seventy seven

(01:43:45):
Tigers against UAB Next, Villanova fired coach Kyle Neptune. UNLV
fired coach Kevin Krueger to the NBA scoreboard eight minutes
to go in the game at Golden State tonight, the Warriors,
who won six in a row, are winning against the
Knicks eighty four fo or seventy five Steph Curry with
twenty three points about eight and a half minutes to go.
At San Antonio, Spurs ahead of the Pelicans ninety nine

(01:44:08):
ninety two pels without Zion Williamson out for personal reasons.
At Denver, it's not yet mid third quarter. Nikola Jokic
has twenty nine points. Nuggets lead only seventy six seventy
two against the Washington Wizards, who have a record of
fourteen and fifty one this year. Houston won its six
straight game etging Chicago tonight, one seventeen, one fourteen at Milwaukee,

(01:44:30):
thirty four points for Giannis Antinecumpo in a win over Indiana.
Victories for Memphis, Boston, and Oklahoma City, which won at
Detroit one thirteen, one oh seven. Shay gilgis Alexander with
forty eight points under two minutes left on the ice
at Minnesota, Saint Louis leads the Wild five to one.
Tampa Bay was a six to two winner at Boston,

(01:44:50):
and Carolina won its seven straight game five nothing at Philadelphia.
Ne Atlanta Falcons kept quarterback Kirk Cousins, who has ten
million dollars roster bonus for next year is now fully
guarant The forty nine Ers resigned fullback Kyle Yustchek, and
San Francisco traded running back Jordan Mason to the Vikings.

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
Tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:45:07):
Back to you great work by Steve as always shout
out to Iowa sam and Ian doing God's work on
this show.

Speaker 1 (01:45:14):
Keeping us on the on track as we go through it.
He's Buck Rising.

Speaker 2 (01:45:17):
I'm Jason Fitzits Fucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio on
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(01:45:38):
I thought we could get Ian to help us out here.
We're gonna take a look at some of the biggest
moves and free agency some of the different moves. And
maybe he's head scratchers or maybe clappers. Maybe it's maybe
we're super into it. Maybe ye're clappers.

Speaker 1 (01:45:49):
You know, like yay clapping.

Speaker 3 (01:45:51):
I don't know, Like that's not what I thought you
were talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:45:53):
Okay, all right, there we go, Ian, save us from
the clap brother.

Speaker 2 (01:45:58):
All right, So Ian's gonna come in and he's gonna
give us some moves and we'll figure out.

Speaker 11 (01:46:06):
Save Let's start here, guys. So actually I'm a Jets fan,
so we'll start with the Jets. Here, So Jets are
signing quarterback Justin Fields to a two year, forty million
dollar contract with thirty million guaranteed. How much does this
move the needle for you guys?

Speaker 2 (01:46:25):
I don't think it makes the Jets staggeringly better. But
I think this is a pretty solid move. I think
we have to just acknowledge the fact that most of
the quarterbacks and free agency were they had flaws all
over the place, and I, as I've said on record
a million times, I wouldn't draft any of the guys
at the top of the draft. So you know, I
think this lets you at least buy yourself time and

(01:46:47):
there's nothing wrong when you're year one with the new
coach buying time bucks. So I does this suddenly change
the fortunes of the Jets?

Speaker 1 (01:46:55):
No? Is it a smart move to me? Yeah? From
a football standpoint, I think it's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (01:46:59):
I like it. It moves the needle for me. Because
Justin Fields took a chance on himself. I think Pittsburgh
would have liked to have him back. Arthur Smith really
liked him. The offensive coordinator there with the Steelers. He
goes to New York, he goes to the unknown. He's again.
We've talked about quarterback reclamation projects. Sam Darnold just got
paid what thirty six plus thirty six million plus a year.
We don't know what Justin Fields will ultimately amount to,

(01:47:21):
and there are plenty of questions, as I'm sure Ian
knows with the New York Jets and their roster right now,
but there are enough players there that make you think,
all right, if Fields can put this together and continue
to stack the progress that he's made, this moves the.

Speaker 3 (01:47:36):
Needle, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:47:37):
Next up, Cooper Cup.

Speaker 11 (01:47:38):
After the Rams released him, he's now signing with the
division rival Seattle Seahawks. They agreed to a three year,
forty five million dollar contract extension. What do you guys
think about this one?

Speaker 1 (01:47:48):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:47:49):
I just could not care less.

Speaker 4 (01:47:50):
We are so far removed from Super Bowl MVP twenty
twenty one Super Bowl MVP Cooper Cup. He has gotten
progressively worse as his body has continued to fail him.

Speaker 3 (01:48:01):
It perplexes me.

Speaker 4 (01:48:02):
What on earth the Seattle Seahawks plan is heading into
this year in the NFC West. They got worse at quarterback,
trading Gino and Key and signing Sam Donald. They're adding
to Marcus Lawrence at the tail end of his career.
That got one of the league's worst offensive lines, and
they don't do much to fortify that in that direction.
Especially understanding that again, you're Sam Donald. Sam Darnald is

(01:48:24):
going to play quarterback for you. He's going to have
less weapons than he ever has in Seattle. Cooper Cup
is not going to be a difference maker there.

Speaker 2 (01:48:32):
Yeah, no quarterback had less time to throw the football
last year than Gino Smith. So Sam Donald getting that pressure,
if the argument is pressure is what killed him down
the stretch.

Speaker 1 (01:48:40):
Now he's got to get it to Cooper Cup.

Speaker 2 (01:48:42):
Also, this just objectively ask everybody, is Sean McVay bad
at football, because like I don't think he is. So
you have one of the most talented offensive minds in
the NFL saying now we're good, I'm gonna let him walk.
That to me is a huge flag on this. So
it doesn't move the needle for me.

Speaker 1 (01:48:57):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:48:58):
I think Seattle is sort of trying to stay relevant
while they figure out how to rebuild, and I don't
know that that works. I don't think you can do
two it once.

Speaker 11 (01:49:05):
All right, Well, there's lots of eyes on the Bengals
this offseason, we don't know or are they going to
pay Chase Higgins or both. Well, it's starting to look
like they're going to be able to pay both, and
Diana Verssini's reporting that it actually might be over seventy
million dollars annually combined for those two. So what do
we think about the Bengals signing both of their star receivers.

Speaker 2 (01:49:25):
Potentially look fine, but you got to start drafting players
on the defensive side of the ball. Like everybody keeps saying,
fix your defense. I don't think there were free agent
options out here that we're going to fix the defense
for the Bengals. So spend the money you got, spend
it on your own.

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
But if you really want to compete, if you really
want to be able to beat the Chiefs, like, what
is the method to beating the Chiefs absolutely destroying Patrick
Mahomes over and over and over again. What are that
defense other than Trey Hendrickson, who on that defense is
going to destroy Patrick Mahomes over and over? No, Like,
we are seeing the method to how you beat Kansas City,
and it it doesn't feel like the Bengals are paying

(01:50:01):
any attention to that, they're gonna score a bunch of points.
They'll be the best team to play on Madden if
you're into that, But does it make them demonstrably better? Like, Nah,
they're gonna be exactly who they've been the last few years.

Speaker 1 (01:50:12):
Buck.

Speaker 3 (01:50:12):
I'm into that purely for the entertainment value.

Speaker 4 (01:50:15):
But like, how many teams have had the accomplishments at
quarterback that Joe Burrow did last year, a triple Crown
winner in a wide receiver in Jamar Chase and the
NFL's leading sack getter, and missed the playoffs the way
that last year's Cincinnati Bengals team did.

Speaker 3 (01:50:29):
It's pretty crazy, but.

Speaker 4 (01:50:30):
I feel like, I mean, I like their offseason, even
though they haven't done anything but keep Trey Hendrickson basically
hostage there after he asked out for a trade, and
are en route to signing the two best weapons at
wide receiver, or two of the best weapons at wide
receiver that any quarterback could ask for. This is a
talented draft class when it comes to edge depth. Smarter

(01:50:51):
people than me will tell you that, and there are
ways for the Bengals to cost effectively fortify their defense.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:50:58):
You keep that trio together, looking for a high flying offense.
Points points points points points.

Speaker 11 (01:51:04):
All right, how about another let's go Joey Bosa to
the bill. So they agreed on a one year, twelve
point six million dollar contract.

Speaker 5 (01:51:12):
What do we think?

Speaker 4 (01:51:14):
Uh, My question immediately comes to mind is how many
games is he going to play? Yeah, he's been wildly
unavailable down the stretch, and I know he's had success
and he's a he's got a very good pedigree, but
the way that it ended in Los Angeles for me
was just pretty uninspiring, and I was curious to see
where he'd land. And this seems to be, you know,
them getting younger with a von Miller esque type of

(01:51:35):
move the way that they brought him in a situational role,
and if he ends up being a great situational player
on a defensive front.

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
That's pretty talented and was.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
Very effective against Mahomes, it's just Josh Allen's inability to
convert on the tush push or brotherly chef plays or
whatever you want to call it. I thought that they
were well equipped in Buffalo and it's an interesting piece,
but I want to know how much he's actually going
to play for them.

Speaker 2 (01:51:57):
Yeah, if they put him in bubble wrap the entire
year and wait till the playoffs to like unleash him,
then that's fine. You know, at this point, it's it's
one of those situational things. This is either he's going
to be completely invisible and we've all forgotten about it,
or we're gonna be sitting here in the playoffs saying.

Speaker 1 (01:52:11):
Oh my god, how did everybody not say this?

Speaker 2 (01:52:13):
I think this moves the needle, though, I think it
accomplishes a lot for Buffalo Ian.

Speaker 1 (01:52:16):
Give us one more real quick.

Speaker 5 (01:52:17):
All right, one more quick one?

Speaker 1 (01:52:19):
J C.

Speaker 11 (01:52:19):
Horn in the Carolina Panthers agreed on a new four year,
one hundred million dollar contract that makes j. C. Horn
the highest paid defensive back in NFL history.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
What do we think that it moves the needle because
it changes a pay grade, but it doesn't move the meeting.
I mean, the Carolina Panthers also just made Treyvon Marrying
that fifth highest paid safety. They are overpaying to try
and get defensive help, which is what you do when
you're desperate on the defensive side of the ball. In general,
I guess you have to do that. But jac Horn
very good player, j C. Horn one hundred million dollar

(01:52:49):
player like that, Just that number jumped out to me.
Book is pretty staggering. So it moves the needle because
it changes the market. But I don't think suddenly like
the Panthers are just this world beater because as they
you know, rewarded and with a massive contract.

Speaker 4 (01:53:02):
I cover a bottom feederor franchise myself here in Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (01:53:06):
That fits.

Speaker 4 (01:53:06):
He is what we lovingly have adopted here as the
we suck luxury tax you got overpay for the good players.

Speaker 2 (01:53:13):
Oh that is a that is a level of truth
and honesty that I feel in my bones as the
fan of a team that stinks. All right, Ian, great
job giving us a little bit of a mindset around
some of these transactions that have happened in free agency.

Speaker 1 (01:53:27):
If you are new to Buck Rising, Jason Fitz and
what we do here, we like to end every show
the same way. Would you rather coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:53:34):
Next on Fox Sports Radio on a Fox Sports Saturday,
He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz, Bucking Fits hanging out
with you on a Fox Sports Saturday, Fox Sports Radio
coming at your live from the TIRAQ dot Com studios.
Got a tradition here, when you've only done a couple
of shows together, can it be a tradition?

Speaker 1 (01:53:54):
I don't know. I feel like this is a tradition
we're gonna be.

Speaker 4 (01:53:56):
We haven't done a couple of shows. We've did that,
We've done this once and then somebody was foolish enough
to say, all right, from seven to ten pm Central time,
go ahead, try it again.

Speaker 1 (01:54:06):
Don't you know what?

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
I don't want to bog you down with semantics here,
but like a couple too, like this is two. So
now we've got a tradition. All right, this is this
is how traditions are born. Alright, one one step, but
don't you roll your eyes at me, cat dad?

Speaker 1 (01:54:16):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:54:17):
Uh so the tradition is we like to end the
show with would you rather? But we wanted to be
like a game show, feel like a big energetic if
we're going to ask him would you rather?

Speaker 1 (01:54:25):
Questions?

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
So this is where producer Ian's gonna come in and
he's going to ask the questions. But first we're gonna
give it this big, grandiose intro where we scream would
you rather?

Speaker 5 (01:54:34):
Like this game shows?

Speaker 1 (01:54:36):
Waiting for? Are you ready? Buck? Are you ready for this?
All right, I'm warmed up. Here we go, Here we go.
The game is called would you rather look at that? Actually?

Speaker 5 (01:54:48):
That worked really well?

Speaker 1 (01:54:49):
That was pretty good. Point. That was pretty good. That
was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:54:52):
It's not good if we actually do it.

Speaker 11 (01:54:53):
Yeah, that's the thing is, like it was supposed to
be terrible and you guys actually just nailed it.

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:54:57):
The terrible part.

Speaker 4 (01:54:58):
Comes when we start speaking sponsor to questions. We'll cross
that bridge when we get through it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:02):
Ian give us a give us a would you rather
and uh, we'll see how this goes.

Speaker 11 (01:55:06):
Okay, all right, let's start with this one. Would you
rather have to always sing instead of speaking? Or would
you rather have to dance everywhere you go?

Speaker 1 (01:55:15):
Well, okay, so that one's easy.

Speaker 2 (01:55:17):
I'd rather have to always sing because I think like
it's more impressive if you, like actually walked in and
you had the worst Starbucks order in history and you
were dancing while you did it, then you're gonna get
punched if you sang it beautifully, like if you sang
your triple shot no half calf like all that stuff,
people would people would applaud at the end of it.
I want to I want to sing everything, not dance everything.

Speaker 4 (01:55:38):
Book that assumes that you would sing beautifully. I think
if you start bursting out in song in the middle
of a Starbucks, somebody is going to throatprunch you thick,
because it's probably pretty early in the morning. And the
last thing that I want to deal with is somebody
sing singing at the coffee shop while I'm waiting in
line for my order.

Speaker 3 (01:55:54):
No, I would rather dance everywhere that I go, because then.

Speaker 4 (01:55:56):
I could just put it on TikTok and then I
become super rich and famous off doing silly TikTok dances.
And the worst thing in the world is trying to
talk myself into you know it's here. You're gonna look
foolish doing the TikTok dance. No, you do this, you
blow up. If it's bad, it's good.

Speaker 11 (01:56:11):
Okay, Well this one. Buck sent me this one, so
I don't know how to feel about it. It's a
little uncomfortable. But would you rather play a game of
Airplane with Bill Belichick or getting a pillow fight with
Nick Saban?

Speaker 3 (01:56:23):
Do you know why I sent you this? Are you
not on the internet today?

Speaker 1 (01:56:27):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:56:28):
Is there something I'm not.

Speaker 3 (01:56:32):
Wait? I don't know what audience, what you're seeing right now?

Speaker 11 (01:56:39):
Okay, yeah, well there's a Bill Belichi. No, actually it
wasn't him, it was his girlfriend. Jordan posted on Instagram
a picture of Bill is laying on his back on
the beach and he's he's holding her up with his
she's she's it's so hard to explain this.

Speaker 1 (01:56:54):
She's he's on He's on his back with his feet
in the ear.

Speaker 2 (01:56:57):
She's balanced on his feet like an airplane sing by
the lays on the beach.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
It's not that hard.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
Did you never play as a child? Also, she had
to put that phone up, like somebody took that. Like
she had to set the phone over on the time
or get that thing right. A lot of work went
into that picture. Uh buck Rising. I want desperately to
play a game of airplane with you where I am
the airplane because I can go wait the whole time
that I'm up there, and that's on brand. Like Pillow,
fighting with Saban is still gonna be intimidating, because like

(01:57:23):
I feel like, the first few hits and be nice,
but then it would go a little bit over the
top and get super competitive and before you know it,
Nick Saban is Pillow beating the snot out of me, right,
So I need I need a airplane with Buck Rising.

Speaker 1 (01:57:34):
Yeah, go have fun with that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:37):
I think I would.

Speaker 4 (01:57:38):
I think I think it would delight me to play
a game of airplane with Bill Belichick. I would not
trust Jason Fitz and his tiny, tiny legs to be
able to support me, so we could We could not
do that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:48):
Vice versa.

Speaker 1 (01:57:49):
Just like that.

Speaker 4 (01:57:50):
Look at look at Ian by the way, not having
any idea what the hell I was talking about, and
still read to get into a microphone.

Speaker 1 (01:57:56):
Well done.

Speaker 11 (01:57:57):
I was more intrigued by the pillow fight with saving.
I don't know where did that come from. I just
figured an airplane with some game I hadn't heard of.
But now I get it. Now I get it. Anyway, Next,
would you rather talk like Yoda or breathe like Darth
Vader for the rest of your life?

Speaker 5 (01:58:13):
That's a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:58:15):
Would you rather what like Yoda?

Speaker 12 (01:58:17):
Talk like Yoda or like Darth Vader? Sent is deconstructed
and run backwards? Kind of Yeah, nothing worse than a
mouth breather. Darth Vader is a mouth breather. No nobody
wants to be around that person. Nobody wants to nobody
wants to heavy every time, you.

Speaker 4 (01:58:33):
Know that, that's usually somebody who's, you know, maybe a
little bit winded coming up the steps, and nobody wants
a mouthbreaker.

Speaker 3 (01:58:40):
Yeah, but then even that was a bit breathy.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
Let me, let me, let me talk into this though,
because can you imagine sports bar huge, huge moment. Okay,
Indiana wins the national championship on a buzzer beater, right,
like would never happened? Three wins a national championship. You
look at your buddy to celebrate. One of them is
going whither celebrating or the other one saying when we did, like,
you don't want the when we did, guy, like, you

(01:59:04):
don't want that?

Speaker 4 (01:59:05):
Yeah, because then i'd hold the little grain fell up
and spin him a not actually yoga.

Speaker 1 (01:59:09):
He's like a one hundred and fifty pound dude. That
sounds like yoga.

Speaker 4 (01:59:12):
Well, I'm assuming the mouth breather. There is also four
hundred different paths. That's factful.

Speaker 1 (01:59:18):
Did you get this another one? Quick ian? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:59:20):
Yeah, yeah, let's do another.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
Ah.

Speaker 11 (01:59:22):
Would you rather go on a pedal tavern during a
tornado watch or a party barge during a flash flood?

Speaker 1 (01:59:29):
Oh? Man?

Speaker 2 (01:59:30):
Okay, pedal taverns are the worst in Nashville, like where
you actually have to do the work. So I'm in
a party barge. I got put me on a barge like.
I don't understand the concept of getting on a pedal
tavern and tavern tavern and pedaling myself while I drink
beer that half the time I brought Buck.

Speaker 4 (01:59:45):
I don't drink beer on those things. It's tequila o'le
makes it a lot more fun.

Speaker 1 (01:59:49):
God that said that says everything.

Speaker 2 (01:59:51):
Hey, we will say everything just by saying, Hey, we
appreciate you guys taking the time to listen and hang
out with this. We couldn't do it about Steve and
Iowa Sam. I got that obviously. Ian thanks to the
bosses for letting us come back together.

Speaker 1 (02:00:03):
Stick around.

Speaker 2 (02:00:03):
Aaron Torres and Jason Martin Coming up next, he's Buck
Rising Up. Jason Fitz, thanks for hanging out with Bucking Fitz.

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