Andy Furman & Bucky Brooks Discuss Championship Game Set For Monday, Getting Ready For NFL Draft, Trey Hendrickson's Waiting Game, And More!!

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Speaker 3 (00:36):
I know, well, Andy, how's everything with you?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
You know what, though, I watched those games last night
and I'm saying to myself, you know, yeah, four number ones.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
You know there's no Cinderella this year. You know what?
This is the way to go. Four number ones, the
way to go.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I mean, I have a couple of words to say
about this game, that Houston game, the Cougars seventy sixty
seven comeback over Duke last night, A stunner, a heartbreaker, improbable,
and you know what the bottom lineers and maybe a
way off base on this. I think it's maturity against youth.
I just think the youth kind of crackled with the
fiftiest thought is on Houston and these seniors on Houston

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kind of paved the way and they had more of
the confidence factor, where the youth on Duke, including Cooper
Flag who basically did scored twenty seven points, but down
the stretch he kind of like short his immaturity.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's been a common theme
in college basketball. The older team wins and there's nothing
that can replace experience and expertise, and the repetitions that
these older teams have gotten forced sorry has forced them
in fire, so they're prepared for those moments. Despite the talent,
and look, Duke is im mensely talented, maybe the most

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talented team that was in the final four, there's still
nothing that replaces the wisdom that you acquire by going
through a time and time again.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
And what we saw was a.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Hardened team, a team that was seasoned, a team that
had been in these moments time and time again. We
saw them pull it out because they knew how to
win in those moments more so than Duke completely collapse in.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
At the end.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
It amazes me some of the things that happened in
that game last night. First of all, in a sixteen
second span under a minute to play, Houston goes on
a seven zero run. All right, that's number one, number two. Honestly,
I cannot believe the comeback. Certainly with nineteen seconds to go,
Juan Roberts has down two free throws. I don't know

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how you do that with a crowd like that. I mean,
I can't do it in the park, and he's doing
it in front of like sixty thousand people. Nineteen seconds
left to help his team take that one point lead,
that Ljkry has two more free throws to steal the win.
So the Cougars ended up on a nine to notzhing
run in thirty three seconds. I mean, you don't see
that in basketball. I don't know how it happens.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Is that a fluke? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
They trailed by fourteen with about eight to fifteen to
go in the game and they had to comeback. Amazing, Yeah,
it truly is amazing. Remark have you want to describe it?

Speaker 5 (03:02):
But what I would say in watching Houston over the
course of the season real tough, minded, gritty team, a
team that hangs their hat on defense. And when you
hang your hat on defense like it always gives you
a chance. And when Houston needed to get stops, they
were able to make Duke uncomfortable get stops, and then
they converted those stops and their points on offense. And

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when you have older players, players who aren't afraid of
the moment, they didn't blink or wilt when the game
pressure got thick. They were able to kind of keep
their composure, focus on the things that needed to be done,
and they executed. And a lot of times in these
moments we talk about, execution exceeds emotion and you got

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to be able to focus on what do I need
to do, how do I need to do it, when
do I need to get it done, as opposed to
being in your feelings, And Houston was able to do that.
And then on the other side with Duke, look, the
emotion of the moment, the feeling like the game is
slipping away, overwhelmed them and they weren't able to make
the players they needed to make at the end of
the game.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
It amazes me because Kelvin Sampson was asked after the
ball game yesterday. You know, it was the most improbable
win of the year for him or maybe in his career.
And he said no, because back in a month ago
they were playing in Allen Field House in Kansas and
they rallied with like ninety one seconds to play to
win at Kansas in double overtime. So you know, he's
used to it, and I think that kind of transcends

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into his players. So they used to it and say, hey,
calm down, we did it before, we could do it again.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
I mean, like, when you have experience, is the best
teacher that you can have. Going through these situations time
and time a in is the best thing you can
do to prepare your team down the line, especially if
you're able to go through something hard and come out
on the other side successfully. Because Houston has had several
of these moments throughout the course of the season where

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had the boat like buckle down and make plays down
the streats to win games, They're very, very comfortable in
that environment. And because they are team that look, they
pride themselves in their toughness, their physicality, their defense, their
ability to kind of win all the fifty to fifty plays.
They just believe that they can outwork you and outlast

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you at the end of games, and they were able
to do that in the final four.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know, it's funny you mentioned something about defense, and
they kind of put their head on defense. They started
the game. Lease some of the statistics from the game
last night. They started from the field one for nine,
three for fifteen, and then five to twenty five. Okay,
but they out rebounded Duke by eleven and they scored
nineteen second chance points against Duke, all right, and it
amazes me. Then they trailed by fourteen about eleven thirty

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to go in the game, and they held Duke to
three points in the final three minutes. Now, I don't
know if it's their great defense or Duke so of choked.
I don't know, but that's exactly what happened. Three points
in three minutes.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Uh yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Look, there are a lot of different things that can
factor into it. The defense play well. Duke certainly had
to help them to turn over his misfretz Rose, lack
of execution, all that stuff played a part, But without
Houston having a belief that they could win, without them
being able to kind of turn up that effort and
play with the desperation, but I would say a controlled desperation.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, you're not able to get that done.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
At some point, when you're coming back from a significant deficit,
you have to get the game close enough so you
can make the opponent feel the pressure. Houston did that,
and they seized their opportunity when Duke made some costly
mistakes down the stretch.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
It amazes me, and I thought that when Tugla had
that technical foul call on him and Duke goes to
the foul line shooting the technical, Duke's up sixty seven
sixty one to figure the games over. Really, I was
already to show the TV off. I thought the game
was over right there, and I was pulling for Houston.
I think you get a guy like Kelvin Sampson who's
now has seven hundred and ninety nine wins, and he's
had some misfortune. I mean, I mean when they kind

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of dumped them out of Indiana as a coach of
the Indiana Hoosiers. Now the NCAA has changed the rule
now on those phone calls. He was let go because
of like not illegal phone calls, but maybe making too
many off season for recruiting.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Now that's Okay, that's all. Okay.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
So you know he had that black mark against him,
but he came back. He came back strong. I think
he was an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks for
a while and he got a second chance and I
love that. And boy, oh boy, is he have a
I mean, he's a Hall of Fame coach. I don't
care what happened prior to to yesterday. He's going to
be in the Hall of Fame because hopefully Monday night
he gets his eight hundredth career win and used to
wins it all.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, it's gonna be tough, though, because Florida is talented.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
They got players, they got big shot makers, they had
a lot of athleticism. We'll see how to handle it.
Should be a great final, dough. It should be a
great title game. I'm excited to look at it.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
I am too.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Let's take a list with Kelvin Simpson how to say
after the game last night, Calvin coach.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
No one ever loses in anything. As long as you
don't quit, you quit. I don't care because you've lost.
I'm figuring our time outside. We've been here before. It's
not like we're down twenty it's not like we were
playing great. Felt like if we could get it close
enough to put some game pressure on them, that something
that could happen. But the credit, the credit, how the

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glory goes to God and the creditable young man.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
I got the coach.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm so glassed. I get the coach.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
You know, Kevin Sampson was great. I mean, I love
the man. I think that I think the kids loved
playing for him. He's an old school coach. He's tough.
I mean, I'd love to see one of his practices
because I'm sure he's just really tough, because a lot
of times after the ball game will say, well, you
know that that's nothing, that we've done that in practice,
and that's great, okay. But the one good thing that

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I that I'm hearing and I didn't hear from you,
which is wonderful. I heard people crying after the game
on various talk shows that, well, the Cooper flag foul at.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
The end of the game.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
It was a bad call. Don't blame it on one play.
You had a lead. You were up, I mean you
were up with eight minutes to go.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
You were up. You had the lead.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know, when Houston won the game last night. It
was only the third time that had the lead the
entire freaking game.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
So you're gonna play.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
It on a free on a foul call, which in fact,
the announcers on TV and Bill Raftery didn't. No one
even complain about that call. No one said it was
a bad call, but don't play it on the call.
So I'm so happy you didn't blame it on the
call because it had nothing to do with it. It
may have been a touchy call perhaps, and maybe at
that time of the game you don't maybe blow the whistle.
I don't know, but the point is that Duke had

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the game in hand, and don't blame it on a foul.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, you gotta finish the game.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
They had a significant lead, They had multiple opportunities to
ice the game and they didn't. When you when you're
allowed to come back and you put it, we always
say like, don't let it go to the judges. And
they let it get close enough where the if it
could make a call that would sway the game, that's
on them.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
They got to finish the do you know.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
I will say this at the end of the day,
and this game will be one of those games for
the ages. Do you call it an incredible combat by
Houston Cougar's or what do you call it one of
the biggest.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Collapses in Final Four history.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
I don't know. I think it's a combination of both.
That's basically what it is.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
I think it's an incredible comeback.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
I think the comeback puts the pressure on the team
to make them collapse.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
I don't think it was just Douke being lose to Careless.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
I think a lot of it was the effort and
energy that Houston exerted. Then it was the execution down
the stretch and when they had to make plays, they
made plays.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
You know.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
And it was funny because you talk about defensive they
basically Houston has been winning on defense twenty year long.
And basically Florida came back in their game. It was
a seventy nine to seventy three and Auburn. I thought
Auburn had him. I thought Auburn may have been even
the better team. I don't know, but the second half
they were a different ball club. You know, they came

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back defensively, that's basically what they did. And this kid,
Walter Clayton Junior, I don't think he's got the accolades
he deserved.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
What he did last night career.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
High and a game high thirty four points last night,
I mean, he owned the game.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
They couldn't stop him.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
And really, truly, you hear about so many players in
college basketball throughout the season. I just don't think he
got enough pub throughout the season. But the way he
played last night, it was amazing.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah, he was brilliant. He made plays.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
You know, he showed up when it was time for
them to show up, and it was great to see
him play like he played. In terms of being a
big shot, big shot maker, he's been terrific. Though he
had an opportunity starting out at Iona, playing under Rick Patino,
makes his way to Florida, and he has steadily improved
and gotten better and for them this season, he's been

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the number one guy. He's been the go to guy
that got to count on whenever they needed a bucket.
And look, he saved his best for when they needed
it the most. He was terrific yesterday.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
You Know, it's funny because I don't think many people
either A know that he went to Iona or be
don't even know where Iona is. It's in New Rochelle,
New York and that's where Patino coach, probably to Saint John's.
And what we're seeing right here in the big picture
is the fact that there's a lot of players that
have been skipped over on a I guess mid major

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or a lower D one program like on Iona and
they're in the Matt Conference, MAAC Conference. You just can
see right now. What's happening with the portal is the
fact that it's almost serving as a minor league for
major league colleges.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
That's what it's doing. You got the big schools in
the SEC.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
They're gonna reach down and get a player that maybe
they skipped over. They say, hey, let's give them a shot.
And we're seeing it right now. So that's why you
get four teams in the final fourth that are all
number ones and they say there's no Cinderella. You know what,
I changed my mind? The heck with the Cinderella is yeah,
the great story. You get the loyalists of Chicago, you

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got the do Canes, you got your Saint Francis a PA.
You know what, those teams are never gonna win anyway,
So get him out of there and let's see the
best of the best.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
And that's what we did last night.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
You say, get him out of there, get him out.
They're away best, the best we're seeing. I mean, I
mean there's something to that. I'm not disagreeing with you. Yeah,
we're seeing the best of the best. It's unfortunate. March
Madness was fun. It was fun when you can see
the upsets and all the other stuff. But it's a
different time and it's gonna be we're not going to

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see that anymore.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
They're no longer would be madness.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
It's going to be the favors in both sides, men's bracket,
women's bracket. It's gonna change the way we go about
doing business. But I don't foresee anything change. And the
way the portal is and the way everything is nah
that the haves and the have nots a being divided.
There's a more significant gap between them than there's ever been.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, And the funny thing is that in years past,
people will tell me all the time, well, you know,
anybody could win, because it's not the best team of
the country that could have win March Man.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
It's it's just a tournament. Okay. Now I'm not saying
it's not a tournament anymore.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Now, you're gonna see the best of the best, because
we're seeing that now. The four teams that are won
number one and Auburn was the number one, number one,
and they go down the road. You know, it's very
similar to what the women have had for years, because
you've seen Tennessee dominate for so many years. South Carolina, Connecticut,
I mean, they've dominated because it's the halfs and a

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half nuts. There's maybe on one hand you could count
the great teams in women's college basketball.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
I'll tell you who they are, USC, UCLA, South.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Carolina, Connecticut, and maybe Texas And basically that's it, right,
and they got the championship going on today with a
South Carolina playing Yukon, it's gonna be a pretty good game.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Other than that, everybody else falls on the wayside.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
I mean, yeah, look, you have the teams that have
always been there, have always kind of been the top dogs, and.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
They continue to be there.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
You throw in LSU, you got them, you kind of
name them all. There's some teams that are flash and
occasionally they'll pop up and make some things happen and
you can say, Okay, they've had a really good season.
But in terms of programs, establishing programs a little bit
of the teams that have the best players consistently dominated

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at the top, and those teams that you mentioned, particularly
on the women's side, they always always are dominant.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
You know, it's great because I love doing Staley the
coach of South Carolina, because she doesn't hold back. You know,
she doesn't hold.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
About the thing.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
And now she's complaining to the extent I agree with her,
and she says in according right now. Sometimes we create
these narratives about great players. It's about Caitlin clusters. Kaitlyn
was one of them. Paige Becker is one of them
right now, and we tend to forget the narrative about
what our kids, meaning our kids in South Carolina have
been able to do going for the third title in
four years.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
And this is what she said yesterday.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
There's a sentimental narrative about Page, a great freaking player.
Anybody would start their franchise with Page because she's a winner.
But when you put a narrative out there, everybody sees
that and puts us at a disadvantage.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
Whether you want to believe so or not. I love
that it's true.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
I mean South Carolina has been dominating women's college basketball
for the last three four years and this page Becker's
comes out and she didn't even play last year.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
She was hurt. And this hype, the hype is crazy.
I mean, I get it.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I mean it sells tickets, it gets on the front page.
People want to turn the TV on to see this
one player. But I think in the sense it hurts.
I know, all of a sudden, page Becker's is the
new Caitlin Clark, right.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
Yeah, but no, I would say this was she was
her before this moment. She's always been highly regarded.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
I want to go.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
And say, going all the way back to her freshman year,
she might have won an esp for how dominant she was.
She has always been one of the elite players.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
They've talked about her. She was legendary when she got
to Yukon.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
So this is not a Johnny come Lately, a late revelation,
someone that's new.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
To the party.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
It took her a while last year to recover from
their knee, but no, she's legit. And so the hype
and the credit that she's getting right now to recognition
is well deserve because she is one of the best
players that we've seen.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
She's phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, you know it's great though, So Don Staley comes
back and says, unquote, she's a great player meeting pages,
but just because you're a great player doesn't mean you
need to win the national championship to legitimize it. Basically,
she's saying, you ain't gonna win. South Carolina's gonna win
whether to beat you, You're still gonna be a great player,
but we're the great team.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
That's basically what she's saying. I love it.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
She's probably gotten her head right now. I love down Staley.
She's a great coach. I mean, I don't know how
she does it. I don't know if there's a lot
of is there a lot of nil money in women's
college basketball? I don't know are these women getting good cash?

Speaker 5 (17:30):
I mean, she built it up, she built up the program.
She's done it everywhere. She did it at Temple. She
was a great player. I personally watched her play at
the University of Virginia when I was at North Carolina
and they were a dominant team. And she has taken
all those experiences from being on the women's version of
the Dream Team to coaching with the Sting and playing

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with the sting and becoming everything that she's become as
a coach and helped those players become a dominant team.
And when she went to South Carolina, no one thought
South Carolina was a destination when it came to women's basketball.
She built that up, She created that aura, and she
is being able to really recruit good players. But they
are a tough defensive team, super athletic. They're gonna get

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after it. This would be a great game because you
know Arima. Look, man, he's one of the best who've
ever done it. Eleven national titles, but he hasn't won
one since twenty sixteen. This is a big, gay, big
game for both programs.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Right.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
I think he won. He's pretty hungry about that. He
came out something like yesterday, I think he had a
coach saying that, you know, the years that they've lost,
he blames it on himself.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
He said the various coaching moves.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
And that's kind of big. That's a big thing to
come out and say. And some media person was pushing
him and kind of saying, well, you know, what moves.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
Did you make that caused these losses.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
He didn't want to go into that, but he said
there's some of the coaching moves that he made or
didn't make, created the fact that, you know, Connecticut did
not win several championships down the road that he thinks
that they should have won. But you know, the other
night they beat UCLA. They beat him like a drum.
I mean, they really beat him barely. I mean I
couldn't believe the score when I saw that score. It
was like eighty five fifty one Yukon once and u

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CLA is pretty darn good. And they were they were
the number one overall seeds. So Connecticut comes into this
game at the number two seed. So we'll see what happens.
And I'm glad that the game is a standalone game.
What I mean by that, it's not like part of
a double headed with the men. It's not on the
same time where the same day as the men. It's
the say afternoon East coast three pm time, and you know,

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got an audience. I think it'll be a pretty well respected,
a pretty good sized audience watching that nothing else going on.
There's no football or anything else going on at three
pm Eastern time today, Sunday afternoon. So I think that
it's a good thing for the women.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, it's a great thing.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
They put it on prime time, as you be, a
terrific opportunity to kind of see the women on the
main stage. And we've seen it in the last couple
of years, like the game is growing so much interest
in the game.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
This would be fun to see because you talked about
two legendary programs, two legendary coaches going at it.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
Now.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
I was talking to my wife about this the other day,
and it's hard to believe. And maybe maybe I'm showing
my age. I don't know when you were in high school.
I don't think. I'm trying to think now I'm going
back in time. I don't even think my high school
had a girls basketball team. I don't remember. I don't
think they did. I'm sure yours did right at the time.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh yeah, weird girls basketball for sure. You know.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
I don't think they had it. Even in college. I
don't remember. I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
I can't remember yesterday, but I don't remember that far back.
I don't think we did. I mean, that's how far
women's sports has come. And it amazes me right now
when you turn the tube on and it's kind of
just kind of channel surf on a given night you
could see three or four women's college basketball games on TV,
which is you know, it blows me away because I remember,

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I still don't think my high school had a high
school girls basketball team, And I try to follow my
high school right now and the schools where I grew
up in the neighborhood in Brooklyn, and there are even
women coaching boys high school teams in Brooklyn, New York,
which I think is wonderful. I think what has happened
over the change in time, I think it's remarkable.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
I mean I think that people don't see it from
day to day, but when you look back and look
at the big picture, what has happened with women's sports,
I think it's tremendous.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
I love it because women deserve the opportunity to deserve
the chance, and now they're getting it.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah, look they are getting They're just due.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
The game is continue to grow, and look, it's the
popularity of the stars, like people talk about Kaitlin Clark
and Angelies and some of the other ladies that have
really helped elevate this game on top of the solid
foundation that's been coming, but it has become a phenomenon.
More people are tuning in, more people have respect and
reverence for the players and the way the game is played,
and so all of that is terrific, and we'll get

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a chance to see it midday.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
It should be fine.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yeah, who do you like? Just asking you right now,
who do you think is take that game?

Speaker 3 (22:01):
It's because win. Look, Connecticut has played well.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
South Carolina has not played great, but they continued to
dismantle people and they played their best game in the
final four semi. To me, I think it's destined you
can go back to back, So give me South Carolina.

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Speaker 2 (23:16):
Who needs an agent? Well, we'll explain that in just
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dot Com studios. Now let's get into this. Because they
had what they call I guess showcase day or I
don't know what you'd call practice into a practice NFL

(24:01):
practice day in Colorado, which you quote, were you there?

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Were you there, Bucket?

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Did you know we were?

Speaker 5 (24:08):
I was covering it from studio, so we had a
chance to see everything that was taking place.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
It was Colorado Showcase.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
They didn't want to call it the pro Dame because
they were showcasing their talent, showcasing the talent was going
to make the way to the NFL.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Okay, and Shadoor Sanders was there being showcased. I guess
Travis Hunter as well, and it looked like a lot
of people were there with their jaws dropping out because
they had teams from the Titans staff and the Titans,
the Browns, the Giants, the teams picking one, two, and three,
and obviously those are the three teams that probably need
a quarterback. So shaud Door Sanders came away and I
think you're the one that told me this that Brian Callahan,

(24:43):
coach of the Titans, said that Shoudoor Sanders reminds him
with Joe Burrow.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
Right going back into January, he was quoting in an
article that you can find on ESPN dot com, and
he talked about the similarities between Shuduer Sammers and Joe Burrow,
and he basically talked about the aspects of the games
that are similar, and he talked about Shader Sanders being
a touch, timing and anticipatory thrower much like Joe Burrow's

(25:09):
superpowers are his touch, his time, and his anticipation, his
diagnostic skills. He was saying that with Chadur's skill set,
those guys can see it in a different way without
having what we call the premier talent or the A
plus arm talent and athleticism that's some of the quarterbacks
in the league have.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
And so he's making that comparison, all right.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
So right now, I think that people came away not
only impressed with Shador Sanders, but even more so with
Travis Hunter. And I got to believe with Travis Hunter,
who's going to play both ways and he could very
well play and Dion said this that he could play
both ways in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
He may very well be the best player in the draft.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
So do you draft now for these teams like the Titans,
Brown and Giants?

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Do you draft for need? Will you draft for the
best player in the draft?

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Well, you can't go wrong if you take the best
player in the draft.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
That said, you got to have a playing for filling
up your quarterback room. Like, what is the plan if
you don't take one of the draft, who we're going
to take? Who are we going to get to be
a starting quarterback? Kenny Pickett is only quarterback in the building.
So if you're gonna roll with Kenny Pickett, okay, everyone
has to get comfortable with him being the starting quarterback

(26:19):
or are you waiting for Atlanta to dump Kirk Cousins,
Then you're gonna have a competition between Kirk Cousins and
Kenny Pickett. I mean, maybe that's the case. But even then,
Kirk Cousins, the last time we watched him play did
not end well. He was benched in the middle of
the year because he had a stretch where we had
one touchdown eight interceptions.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
I mean it's hard to win.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
We'll see if Kevin Stefanski, if he likes Kirk Cousins,
if he's willing.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
To see if he can turn back the clock.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
I don't know, man, I don't know if an older
quarterback can bounce back and bounce back at the high level.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Right, especially with his injuries. Coming off those injuries and
he didn't have a good year. He really did not
have a good year in Atlanta, that's for sure. But
you talk about quarters, and I think that if Shadua
Standers isn't the number one quarterback taken, probably cam Ward,
the quarterback for Miami of Florida, is going to be
going and he's probably going to get like a four
year deal, get about forty mili. I would think, right
if he is the number one pick in the NFL

(27:13):
Draft and the draft, believe it or not, it's like
eighteen days away April of twenty fourth. All right, I
was ringing up about cam Ward for a second, and
he says he's going to go without or at least
till now, he has no traditional agent. Caleb Williams did
it last year when he's picked number one overall by
the Chicago Bears. So his father said, And this was
like in USA today. The other day his father said

(27:36):
that he's still evaluating the agent. Now in the slotting
scenario in the National Football League, you probably don't need
an agent. If you're the number one pick, you're going
to get what slotted to you. Is that correct? So
what's the point of giving the agent? What does he
get like three percent of year contract? Why would you
do that when you're going to get the X amount
of dollars.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Anyway, I'll say.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
This, and I understand and people who like to have
their independence and like to do things on their own.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
But Andy, when you get sick, you go to a doctor.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
Right When you have issues with the are as, you
go and consult an accountant or a tax consultant. When
you need professional help with major issues, you go see
a professional that understands the landscaping can help you navigate that.
If you're can ward, you're going to be the number
one overall pick. You don't need to scamp it on

(28:27):
a few pennies to avoid representation when a representation can
help you map out a path to make even more money.
The way that you approach things, the way that you
do things, and that now if you want to negotiate
on that feed where you don't want to give three
percent or whatever, like, Okay, that's fine, there's some room there.
But to go without representation, yeah, I think it's a

(28:50):
bad idea because you need to have someone that can
take those hard, hard phone calls, who can advocate for
yourself and put you in a position to make even
more money and you can focus on the business at hand,
which is being the best player that you can be,
being the best teammate, and ultimately helping your team be
the best team that they can be.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
How did you pick an agent coming out of college?

Speaker 3 (29:14):
So my agent was.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
My roommate was represented by a guy, and I watched
their plight and the familiarity watching what he did for
my roommate led me to go with him. Now, I'll
say that's not always the best way and unfortunate when
it comes to athletes and representation. You don't know what

(29:39):
you need until you need it, meaning every agent, every
firm is not the right fit for you. So you
have to have a clear kind of vision for what
you want from your representative, and sometimes it's a going
to the big conglomerate and a great agent from that

(30:01):
big firm. Sometimes it's a mom and pop shop with
a guy who really can tend to your every need
because he doesn't have a huge client list. A lot
of it depends on instinct and feel and touch.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
It's a very very.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
Difficult decision because you don't really know what they do
until you need them to do it.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
I was tall by various players throughout the years. The
reason you want to have an agent, there's not so
much he's to negotiate a good contract for you, which
you probably will, is the fact that he's going to
take all the lumps because when you negotiate with a team,
they will tell you everything you can't do, and you
don't want to handle it. You don't want to hear
that stuff. You know you're okay, but you know, we
don't know what kind of past you are. If you're

(30:41):
a quarterback, but we don't know if you could run
the football or you know your experience. Maybe you're not
too tall, your hands aren't that big. So it's the
agent that's going to deflect that negativity that you're going
to have to hear, and you don't want to hear it,
so let him do it.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Is that correct? That's what I've heard.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
I mean, yeah, there is something to that, Like I
don't know, like in your broadcast career, if you've had representation,
if you had an agent, if you did it on
your own.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
I've gone about it both ways.

Speaker 5 (31:05):
I started out without representation, so I had to do
everything and I had to listen to those conversations, and
that part is not the hard part.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
The hard part when you're working without representation is.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
Finding the next or the new opportunities that are out there.
You don't have your ear to the street, so you
don't know what's about to come around the corner.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
In the industry, your agent.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
They're supposed to be up on that to be able
to guide you in counselor you through these situations while
having an eye towards the future and the way the
industry is going. There's some value to having someone around
who understands that, who also can have those hard conversations
with management and those things to make sure that you're
treated fairly and compensated to the best that you can

(31:49):
be compensated, giving your status within the team.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
You know.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
According to the NFLPA, out of the more than two
thousand players right now in the NFL, only twenty nine
do not have a certified agent to represent them. That's
an amazing situation. However, Colorado Shuder Sanders, who we started
talking about here, he doesn't have a certified agent either,
according to the NFL Players Association.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
Neither does his brother Shiloh.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
So I guess with Coach Prime as their dad, is
a good opportunity that Coach Prime may do some of
that negotiation for them. I would think, maybe, I don't
know what aready have.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
A team in place.

Speaker 5 (32:25):
Remember, he has, like Prime has won the best agents
when it comes to his off field stuff in constant
sports and her team and as evidenced by the five year,
fifty four million dollars deal that he got, the countless
marketing campaigns. He's been a part of the partnerships that
he set up. He has a solid team around him.
I would expect him to put a solid team around

(32:47):
his kids to ensure they have a lot of success
on and off the field.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, it's funny. I would think that the day of
the agent. I'm not going to say it is waning.
It's never going to go away, but I think the
big chain is nil because players are coming into the
NFL right now with a pocket full of change, which
they had not done prior. So maybe the look for
the agent situation is not going to be that great.

(33:12):
Maybe I'm wrong on that, but I think the NIL
is changing the whole concept of agents.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
Yeah, it's changing the whole concept, but it's actually providing
a pathway.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
For agents to get around kids younger.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
Now what you're seeing is if I have an agency
where I represent NFL players, I also have an arm
of that agency that represents college players looking for NIL opportunities.
Now I'm able to get my hooks in the players early.
We're beginning to build the relationships early, and it's not
this mad dash to speed day to see if you

(33:44):
can get representation before. You know more on both sides,
and so it helps you make these decisions that are
best for you and your family and your opportunities.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
All Right, So you were happy with your agent, that's
for sure. Did you have this agent whole career?

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Yeah, the same you got the entire time.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
I can't say that he was without whatever, but I
think now, in looking back, I also know what I
didn't know and how I could have benefited. So, look,
he was good for me at the time. I think neted.
I know more like who knows what would happen?

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That's shipstation dot com Code Sports. Okay, let's do it,
asked Bucky. Right now here we go, Ready, Buck, Yep,
let's do it. Okay, let's talk about women's March Madness.
They're looking to go fully neutral. That means changing the
location of its first two rounds and first four rounds

(35:49):
to neutral sites rather than school campuses.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Your thoughts on that.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
Man, I'm split, but I will say I like them
saying on camp because the environment you have a rabbit
fan base that's going to show up all the time.
I think when you go to all neutral sites, you
order it down a little bit.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Doesn't have the same festive atmosphere.

Speaker 5 (36:11):
I remember the hasd the have nots we've seen traditionally,
they're not a lot of upsets in women's basketball.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
You're exactly right. Let's talk football for a second. In
the NFL, and we know that the NFL probably is
the most popular sport. I think it is the most
popular sport in the USFA right now. So the question
is to have these spring leagues, the USFL, whatever it
may be. Why can't those leagues capitalize on the success
of the NFL. The ratings are through the roof on

(36:39):
the NFL, and the ratings are not even half that
which leagues at the USFL. I don't understand that it's
the same sport. Why can't they do it?

Speaker 5 (36:49):
I would say that it's been the entire employ of
the marketing. The reason why you can't replicate it is
because twenty four to seven, three sixty five, the NFL
has done a great job of marketing as product. The
other guys have some name cache, but not enough to
sustain it. With the NFL, it's about the team and
about the individual stars.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
With these new leagues, you can't really get.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
To know the stars well enough to fall in love
with a new team.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Is it maybe too much?

Speaker 2 (37:17):
I mean less is more because the seasons start finished,
super Bowl over end and then you don't want to
start all over again. It's time for a rest and
move on to something else or the season. Maybe it's
springing summer, it's not football time.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
I don't know. I can't figure it out.

Speaker 8 (37:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
No, Look, there's a viable market for it. You just
haven't been able to do it.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
The numbers have never reached what the NFL's numbers are,
and so you have to quit aiming for that. You're
trying to find a good product that works as long
as there's gambling, though, there always been an appetite for it.
You just got to figure out a way to make
the product good enough for the old school purists to
football people to want to check it out.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Okay, back to the NFL. The nflush push vote seems
to have been pushed. What do you think? Do you agree?

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (38:04):
I agree because it was silly. If you can't stop
the play, you need to work on it more. This
was nothing that was due to fact, your data, or
health and safety. And this was all an opinion, an
opinion that more people could get hurt, could but we
don't have any proof that they are.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
So what are we doing. I'm glad they tabled it.
Hopefully they go away.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Basically, I think that the people who voted with about
the green Bay Packers are others. They couldn't stop it,
so that's why they want to get rid of it.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Not a good Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
I think it's great. I think it's good for the game.
I think it's fun.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
It really is all right the NFL again, the NFL
expands the TV show on HBO Hard Knocks, and they
got the new pool of teams. Is that a good
move or a bad news move? And I have some
of the teams that basically are in this pool. If
you're interested, what do you.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Think, Yeah, give me some teams. I'll say quickly.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
It is a good thing because you saw people that
reacted poorly to the Giant situation the off season Hart Knocks.
You have to expand the pool to eventually get a
team to say, yes, well.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
They may have responded poorly to the Giants, but I
think there was a lot of information out there because
we saw ownership really didn't want to see Saquon Barkley go.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
That was kind of a big news story. So that
wasn't too bad.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
No, it wasn't. That was a good thing for him.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
I'm gonna give you the teams and you tell me
ya and A because there's twenty teams that are eligible
right now in the AFC East, the Bills and the Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
M Bills for sure, all right, Dolphins.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
AFCO, me too, AFC North, Bengals, Ravens, Steelers.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Any of those, any of those seems I will be okay.
But raven still has come to the top of the list.
But having watched end season hard knocks with them, I
know they all would represent well.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Okay, I'm gonna go down the list quickly now, Colts, Texans, Titans.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Yeah, there's nobody from there, Broncos, Chiefs, Broncos. I'll see
how Son frem is.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
A team Commander's Eagles, Giants.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
I'll take Commanders, oh, commanders all day, right, Packers, Vikings, Oh.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Vikings, Kevin O'Connell. See how he goes to work.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Falcons, Panthers, Cards and Seahawks. That's it, Okay, who's the best?

Speaker 4 (40:22):
BUCkies?

Speaker 8 (40:23):
Next?

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Right here on Fox? All right?

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should be. And Buck, we're going to get into the
kind of a review a little bit of the semi
finals yesterday in college basketball NCAA setting up the championship
game for tomorrow night, which would be the Cougars of
Houston against the Gators of Florida.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
And I'm sure you watched.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
It in any surprises in your mind because at Houston game,
trailing by fourteen with about eight and a half minutes
to go, and they came back the improbable comeback. You know,
I still believe it was a collapse in the putt
of Duke. But again, as you said early on, Houston
made them collapse.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
Yeah, Houston didn't make them collapse the pressure on them,
I would say the biggest surprise for me was how
bad Houston shot to start. They've been a team that's
been fairly efficient on offense, and to see them really
really stumbled out the gates to me with surprising. But
the one thing in watching the game It never fully
felt like Duke was in complete control of the game.

(41:44):
It was just a matter of could they get enough
stops in Forest Duke. They have to play at the end,
which is what they were able to do.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, And the question I have, and I'm sure you
know you played the game at the highest level you
were in the National Football League.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Losing a game like that, what does it do?

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Kind of to me? It was deze you.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
I would rather lose by fifteen twenty twenty five points
than lose that way, To hold on to a lead,
lose the lead and lose the game the way they
did it was kind of, as I say, demoralizing seventeen
sixty seven. And what does a coach say, Have you
been involved in a situation like.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
That throughout your career? And what does a coach.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Come in and tell a team who basically the coach
feels like two cents anyway? How does he come in
there kind of to rally the troops and say, I
love you guys.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
It wasn't that bad. But it was that bad. It
really was.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Look at me.

Speaker 5 (42:35):
I think if you're john Shaw, you use it as
a teaching opportunity.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
You encourage them you thank them for their efforts.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
You talk about how those who return will learn from
the opportunity when you get here, and look, you always
give them honest assessment, but I don't think you have
to browbeat them at the time. The kids feel bad
enough knowing that they lost. It was huge implications that
they had a chance to go play for the national
title and they lost, and so they have to live
with that forever, because no matter what happens, they have

(43:02):
to earn it all over again.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
They have to earn the right to do it all
over again. There's no easy way to the title, and
for some of those guys there.

Speaker 5 (43:10):
Won't be another opportunity. It is the last chance, and
you know, it just makes it tough. But if you,
John Shire, you take the good moments from the season,
you talk about all the incredible moments along the way
that puts you in position to get to the final four.
The final four should be a bit of a destination.
And so, yeah, it was a good season, just came
up short.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Let's find that. Let's hear directly from the duke coach,
John Shire. Let's hear from John Hell coach.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
What's up.

Speaker 9 (43:35):
Well, it's hard to process still and you know, I
thought our guys did an incredible job the whole game,
and you know, I thought we had some good looks,
didn't finish. You have to give Houston a ton of credit.
And then still even with that, you know, we have
the lead with under a minute ago, and I couldn't
be more proud.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
I'm not I'm not about to hang around.

Speaker 9 (43:56):
I mean, this is part of it. You got to
you gotta handle the wins, and you got to handle
the losses too. And in a moment like this, you
know we're this close, and you know we felt we
were the best team. The best team tonight was Houston.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
It amazes me John Shire, coach of the Duke. I mean,
he's got to be staring at that stat sheet after
the game because that team started the game shooting one
for nine. As you mentioned, Buckie, they didn't shoot well
at all, one for nine, three for fifteen, five to
twenty five from the field, but they outrebounded Duke by eleven.
They scored nineteen second chance points against the Blue Devils, okay,

(44:31):
and they trailed by fourteen with about eleven and a
half minutes to go. They held Duke to three points
in the final three minutes and Houston shot even worse.
They shot thirty seven percent, but they had eighteen offensive
rebound set. And that's something you don't coach. I think
that's something in your heart, in your chest. I mean,
you just want to get it. I mean, you can't

(44:51):
tell a kid how to grab an offensive rebound.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
It's something you want, right.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
I mean, there's certain things in sports that really can't
be coached. It's something that it's a desire.

Speaker 5 (45:04):
Yeah, I mean, like there's certain things that can be coached.
And so every day you have to bring the urges
and energy to get better, and if you do it
enough and practice, it becomes second nature in the game.
That's what Kevin Sampson has always harped on, Man, play hard.
Just focus on playing hard, great attitude and effort. They'll
fix everything else on the back end. And if you
play hard, you give terrific effort with a great attitude,

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you're gonna have a chance. And then it comes down
to making a handful of plays and if you're good enough,
you'll make it.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
Kelvin Sampson in the Hall of Fame? Is he a
Hall of Fame coach?

Speaker 3 (45:35):
I say yes, yes, yes, without question.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
And least, but not least, we'll talk about these Hall
of Fame coaches. I don't understand why Digger Phillips is
not in the Hall of Fame coach of Notre Dame.
I don't get it. I mean, I just I don't
understand why he has not gotten in there.

Speaker 4 (45:53):
What he did before he went to Notre Dame, what
he did to.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Fordham was that Fordham can't buy a win right now.
He had New York City. What Saint John's and Rick
Patino did this year to New York City, That's what
Digga Phelps did in nineteen seventy one, seventy two to
for them. Really, I mean, and then he goes to
Notre damon wins. I know he never won to an
NCAA title, but him into the final four.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
I don't get it. I don't understand why Digga Phelps
is not in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 5 (46:21):
Yeah, that's weird because he has some notable wins going on,
back to when he knocked off you said, when they
were the powerhouse.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
Right fifty five game with win streak.

Speaker 5 (46:30):
Yes, he's elevated the game. But being a commentator, he's
like so many great things. I am shocked that he's
not included.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
And plus I read this too, he graduated every one
of his athletes, which I think is it's a plus.
I think that means something. I mean, maybe not to
the Hall of Fame voters, but at least to me,
it meant something.

Speaker 4 (46:49):
It really did. We'll see, maybe eventually he'll get in.
All right, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
But now we move on to the NFL and the
NFL Draft. I can't believe it's only eighteen days to go.
And and really I have to think, although we're talking
NCAA basketball, I think the NFL Draft is bigger news
than the NCAA tournament. I think people go crazy over that.
It's not even a sporting event. It's just an event.
But people love the NFL Draft.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
Really.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
I think it's gonna be in Green Bay this year.
It'll be on TV and you see all these lunatics
out there. It'll be like sub zero's weather in Green Bay,
probably even though it's in April. But people just line
up and they go to the draft. In cities clamber
to have the draft and their city, and economically it
helps hotels, restaurants, whatever it may be. But I mean,
the draft is a big deal. Have if you ever
attended the NFL Draft.

Speaker 5 (47:37):
Yes, I have attended the NFL Draft intended back to
back years in Chicago. I did it one time in
New York. Great atmosphere, great energy, being in a villain.
But that's a lot of work, A lot of work.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
I bet it is.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
I mean, but I guess the NFL Draft is a
bit because it's the hope for the future for not
only fans, but for teams alike. I mean, they pick
a play and hopefully that play or players will help
them achieve success down the row. So look, we move
along and talk about the draft. Bucket Brooks, as always
AUTHORANFL dot com, you have the top ten defenders to

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build the team around, and why.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
Did you pick these guys? In how did you pick
these guys?

Speaker 5 (48:20):
You know, it's one of these things where you're looking
for foundational pieces, guys that play critical positions in a
league that is a passing league, and when you think
about how you want to do it, you want young guys,
guys who are about to enter their prime so you
can have them for that three to four year run
in their prime. And as I prioritize the position, you'll notice,

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like there are a ton of pass rushers on there
and only a handful of corners. Well, the front end
impacts the back end far more than the back end
can impact the front end.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
So if you can.

Speaker 5 (48:52):
Rush the passer, it has a greater effect on the
quarterback in the passing game than just having a lockdown corner.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Okay, and I'm glad you mentioned that. Rushing the passer
and being a sack leader, which the Cincinnati Bengal sack
leader and he led the league, Troy Henderson, it was
not on your list? Was he even considered? And is
there even a market for this guy? We're going to
get into that a little later on today, but I mean,
he's got some problems with his contract negotiations with the
Cincinnati Bengals. But was he on your list or was

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he considered to be on your list?

Speaker 5 (49:23):
He was considered to be on the list, But I
don't know, Like, when we think about the Cincinnati Bengals
and who they're built around, it is clear they've bilt
around Joe Burrow, like that's who it is, and so
I can't see a scenario where Henderson would ever be
the guy that you're like, hey, we're just.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Gonna build completely around him.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
There has to be a transcendent nature or feel to
your game that you're like, hey, look, we can't lose him.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
He's hard to replace.

Speaker 5 (49:47):
No disrespect to Trey Henderson, but does a feeling that
I have it maybe the league has that you can
find someone to do what he does.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
You know, and he's a really good player, a great player.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
But I think that prevailing sense is the difference between
him and Miles Garrett arguing for money at the contract table.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Right, and I think Miles Garrett has done it consistently.
I think this was almost a breakout year for Trey Hendrickson.
Am I correct on that? I mean Trey Hendrickson just
almost came out of nowhere. And again, if you were
to look at Trey Henderson's stats, and I looked at
them the other day, he grabs thet he gets the quarterback,
you know, he'll sack the quarterback. He's not strong at
stopping the run. And against the Ravens this year, against

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the Eagles, he didn't have any sacks. So although he
led the league in sacks, he didn't do much against
two good teams Ravens and Eagles.

Speaker 5 (50:35):
Yeah, but I also say this, I think double digit
sacks in either two or three of the last couple
of years. He's always at the top of the charts.
He's a hard working player. I mean he works hard,
high motor energy is they're a great technician, mister Miyagi.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Like with his hands, all those things.

Speaker 5 (50:51):
I think it just comes down to when we're talking
about franchise, there has to be some prototype or some
pedigree involved in that for you to say that a
this is who build around. I think it's hard to
build around later round picks.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Right, and again you're right.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
I think the Bengals run out by signing Jim ar
Chasin and t Higgins. They've told everybody in the league
and fans alike that you know, we're an offensive team.
You know we're gonna be Our strength is gonna be offense,
and we're gonna win games this year like you know,
forty five forty That's how They're just gonna outscore opponents.
They'll give up points, but they're gonna score more. Hopefully,
that's what they want to do, I would think.

Speaker 5 (51:27):
And they should have their capability. It should look like
the old school Indianapolis Coots. Score early, then have your
defense preserved to leave. That's how they would ideally like
to play.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
All right, now here, here's the bucket Brooks list, and
hopefully we can get through ten. But I'm gonna start
with one first. I'm not gonna make it really dramatic
because some people start with the higher number move down
to one. Now, we'll start with number one. And I
think that there's no surprise here, Michael Parsons, I mean
from the Dallas Cowboys, who basically right now is looking
for a contract. And we'll get into that down the

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road too. But you say he's the ultimate front line
hybrid force. What does that mean hybrid force?

Speaker 5 (52:04):
Well, he played off ball linebacker. He't come off either edge.
You just never know where his whereabouts. And because of that,
and because he's so good at doing so many different things,
that creates k I said, a lone of scrimmage. He's
a really talented athletic free you add that with driving, determination,

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motor energy.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
He overwhelms everybody. That's why he's number one on my lists.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
And it's hard to believe he's a fifth year pro already.
I can't believe that he's been in the pros five
years already. It's It's like he was there yesterday. But
he's the heck of a player. And I don't even
understand why. And again we'll get down the road and
talk about that. Why Dallas is waiting a situation like
in Cincinnati, they could have gotten Jamar Chase a year ago,
probably for twenty.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
Million dollars less.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
And it's the same thing in Dallas that could have
signed Michael Parson's last year. But now the going rates
up thanks to Miles Garrett, and you know that's gonna
be I mean, I guess ownership.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
Why why do they wait?

Speaker 2 (53:03):
I mean, what's the what's the upside of waiting to
sign a long term contract? They want to see if
the guy gets hurt. I mean, what's what's the point.
I don't get it. You're just gonna end up paying more.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
Yeah, you just got to get you ducks in the row.
It's a big payment. You know.

Speaker 5 (53:17):
You got to save up, man, like you just don't have,
you know, one hundred and sixty million dollars cash to
just give a weight and you got to put that
money and escor immediately.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
That's a lot of money to go away.

Speaker 5 (53:27):
You got to scratch up a lot of funds to
be able to pay for some of these toys and
trinkets that you want on the team. That's why it
takes so long. And for Jerry Jones, he has to win.
He has to feel like he's winning every negotiation. This
was one that didn't have a true negotiation, but everyone
knew what it was and so they just got to
see if they going to read lent or not.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
All right, I will say he's gonna be signed. There's
no doubt in my mind. Dallas is gonna sign him in.
But you know for what price? Number two and he
has been signed Miles Garrett and then it's a situation there.
You said he didn't want to play for Cleveland and
think they're a winner, but the money changed his mind
rather quickly. It really did so. In other words, if
Cleveland doesn't go to the playoffs this year, he'll still

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be happy because he got his money.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
Right.

Speaker 5 (54:09):
Oh yeah, the direct present makes everything feel better. And
so he had the big he had a big check.
He's paid.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
He changed his tune on Cleveland real quick.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
People ask me what happened the check? The check happened.
It made her change his mind. And so he's twenty
nine years always gonna be thirty soon. He's talking about
Wane to win in Cleveland, and he may do that.
But now this was about securing the bag. He secured
the bag with the big deal.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Okay, he was the twenty twenty three Defensive Player of
the Year. He became the youngest player to reach one
hundred sacks in NFL history. He has over one hundred
and two right now in twenty twenty four, and he
has ten plus sacks and seven straight years. What makes
this guy so good?

Speaker 4 (54:51):
Why can he be stopped by other defenses, well by
on the offensive line.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
I don't understand. I mean, if you know he's coming,
why can't you stop him.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
He's a freak athlete. Excuse me.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
He's a freak athlete with unique traits size, athleticism, wiggle,
can turn speed into power, has developed a few intriguing
past rush maneuvers that really make him tough to deal with,
and it puts defenders.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
On their heels at all times. Look, he's gifted.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
I mean, he's a gifted player with the athleticism and stuff,
but he also has become a more technically sound playmaker
as well.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
Okay, I think maybe I'm mistaken. Is TJ.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Watt three on your list or no, Yeah, he's up there,
so let's go.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
Let's go with t J. Well, I think you had
the cornerback from the Broncos too.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
Oh, Passer ten was up there right right. I think
I think he's three.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
Okay, so you.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
Had Passer ten. Yeah, Passer ten reigning Defensive Player of
the Year. He makes life easy for Vance Joseph and
those guys. He can blanket the field. He can do
using a variety of different techniques. He is under the
radar guy because he doesn't seek the limelight or the fanfare,
but he just gets the job done. When I'm thinking
about building the team, and particularly on defense, I'm thinking
past rush. I'm trinking an elite corner. He's one of

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the few eliite corners in the league.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
You know what's funny, you talk about it under the radar.
I have to think at this point in time, and
it's certainly kind of crazy to talk NFL where teams
will end up next year. But I think that Denver
Broncos team is under the raidar. I think they're gonna
do rather well next year.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
I really do.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Oh. Okay, so that's your Super Bowl pick.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
That's well, definitely playoffs.

Speaker 5 (56:37):
And then what we're talking about they made the playoffs
last year. It sounds like you like we're talking about yeah,
I mean, it sounds like you're ready to go all
in on them.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
So I don't know, all in them.

Speaker 5 (56:52):
You can't say, hey, they're gonna be good and they're
gonna get back to the same spot where they were.
But that's a disappointment being a wildcard team being in
the tournament. So like go bold, like say to your
super Bowl team, you're dark words.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Let me wait to lift the draft.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Let me see what they get, all right, I wait
to lift the draft because you know, I really, I mean,
I love the Commanders, but honestly, you know, I worry
about how deep they'll go. You know, I think that
I think they've made major progress, but you just don't know.
And certainly you got to throw in the injury factor
because every year someone gets hurt.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
And that's just part of the game, it really is.
Let's talk about TJ. Watt, all right? What makes him
so good? You got to now his number four?

Speaker 2 (57:31):
He says, a great playmaker, one hundred eight career sacks.
How did I mean the mindset of a guy who
plays linebacker or a guy who was just a power rusher.
What makes him that good? And you've seen these guys
in practice for years because you were in the league.
You know how do they do it? You know what

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what is the motivation?

Speaker 4 (57:56):
I mean, if you're an offensive player like a Jamar Chase,
you want to score a tight you know, you want
to catch the football. I mean, what's the motivation with
TJ Wat? I just want to go out there every
week and get the quarterback?

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Is that it?

Speaker 5 (58:09):
No, it's a little more then just I want to
go get the quarterback and that's it. I think it's
a combination of understanding who you are and what athletic
traits you possess. Is then taking those traits and finding
a few techniques that work with you.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Well. It's also about adding effort to your.

Speaker 5 (58:28):
Game, making sure that you are in all day sucker
when it comes to playing, I'm gonna play from stamp
to whistle. I'm a line up from stamped the whistle
over and over and over again, and you're not going
to see that. I'm overwhelmed. When he takes breaks, I
would expect him to be more. I mean, a guy
that can come off the edge and give you speed
and power.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
And splash plays. All those things are important.

Speaker 5 (58:51):
And that's why when you go down and you look
at the stat sheet, the splash plays to pick sixes,
to force formals, the FuMB recoveries, all those things matter.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
That's what he's up there.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
Okay, I'm going to run this by because you would
have the answer. You played the game, and I love
to pick your band like this going back to high school,
college and even the pros. And if you call me
a dummy, if you want to, because I got to
believe that every kid, at least in the high school level,
they want to play on the offensive side of the football.
Nobody wants to play defense because there's a it's not

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considered a quote skilled position, and B you know, honestly,
there's no fame. There's no fame I'm playing on that
side of the ball. There really isn't, right, and the
big money is on the offensive side of the ball.
So when you have a choice, I mean, you don't
want to play defense, and you're in high school, the
coach says, well, I don't want you running back. I'm
going to put you as a linebacker. You know, you

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kind of frowned that you want to stay as a
running back. You want to be a star, right, Isn't
that it?

Speaker 3 (59:51):
I mean it is? It is it?

Speaker 5 (59:53):
But how many people can put ego to the side
for the betterment of winning and winning at a high level.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
It depends on.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
If you want to be legend legendary, can you know,
be defined in a few different ways. Sometimes it's a
jersey in the Raptors that's legendary. Other times just key
contributor on a championship team that's also legendary. It depends
on what path you would like to take. And I
just I just think about like what you're talking about,
Like guys wanted to play offense and defense and all

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this sud this to be a conversation we have to
have with Travis Hunter. Offense is fascinating because you get
the glory. You know, it's the glitz and glam of
being able to put the ball in the paint. Defense
is harder, no recognition, and the conversation that you typically
have is always negative.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
So that's why you grow up in a off time.
But but based on what.

Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
Position you play, you get different critiques and different expectations.

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
Why did you play in high school.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
I only played offense. In high school.

Speaker 5 (01:00:47):
There was only one game that I played defense. Coach
asked me to play defense. We were playing a really
good player. I played defense for a game, but then
went right back to playing offense primarily, and didn't play
defense again until I got to the pros.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Okay, but when when you went to college, you were
hoping to play offense again, weren't you?

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
I played I only played offense. I never played defense.

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
I never played defense again from high school, like one
game in high school on defense to when I got
to the pros and I was asked to make a
switch from wide receiver to dB.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
And when they asked you to make the switch, did
you question, say why I've always played offense? I mean,
how did that happen?

Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
I mean it was a long I mean it was
a long process. I worked out for the Green Bay Packers.
I can say this. I didn't have the greatest workout.
When it came to catching the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
TJ.

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
Rubley was throwing missiles at me, and I was having
a tough time snagging it because I had just been
working out with high school quarterbacks. At the end of
the workout, Ron wolf Hall of Fame executive asked me
if I minded doing some defensive back drills because I
ran really fast, I jumped, I crushed the athletic part
of it, but the positional part was not up to

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the standard, and so they asked me to do some
dB stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
I hadn't done this up for.

Speaker 5 (01:02:00):
A while, but it was really easy and comfortable for me,
and based on that workout, they said, hey, maybe late
in the year, we'll bring you back and have you
play defense the following year. And it was tough because
I had to have the conversation with my dad about
playing defense.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
I never had it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:13):
He wanted me to stick with playing wide receiver, but
ultimately the move to defensive back not only extending my career,
but he expanded my horizons, which has helped me look
at the game with a different perspective dan I would
have had if I was just a one dimensional wide receiver.

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
Certainly helped you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Now, I mean, when you study the game and talk
about it and write about it, there's no doubt about that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
Because you got both sides. I hear it, okay, the
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The blame game in our number three. But it was
only his fingers. What is the big deal that's next?

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
All right?

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videos where on YouTube. Okay, let's talk about the NBA,
which we haven't done for a while. John Moran plays
for the Memphis Grizzlies. He showed off an imaginary gun
with his fingers. All right, that's what he did, and
the NBA came back. They gave him a seventy five
thousand dollars find.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
The other day, he.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Used his aiming gun gesture to celebrate making three point
shots and he was fined, as they said, seventy five
thousand Friday by the league. Second time this week. Dat Morant,
who was suspended twice last year for incidence with real weapons,
he heard from the league about mimicking the act of
using a gun during the game, and the league said

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the gesture was inappropriate. What's the biggie, I mean, really,
how many people really saw it?

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
It's fingers?

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
I mean, come on, And he says the league's picking
on him, and I think, you know what, maybe they are.

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
This guy could very well be the face of the NBA.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
He really could. Great player, I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
They told him not to do it, and he came
back and did it again. Is it that big of
a deal, Bucket Brooks, I don't think it really is.
Come on, really, let it go. They got more play
by the fine than when he actually did the mimicking
of the with his finger.

Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
Really, I'll say this like Jah Morant like to me,
he creates mountains out of molehels.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
They told him a man, get rid of the gun.

Speaker 5 (01:05:14):
Justin they're trying to take all those out of everything
sport in the NFL part of the initiative that came
out of the owner's meetings. They want to up the
sportsmanship initiative and so taking any of those gun violent
gestures out of the game. Jah Morant was told early
in the week, Amen, cut that out, and then.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
He comes back and does it again.

Speaker 5 (01:05:35):
He absolutely should be finding held to a consequence with
his dad in the stands, and I would tell his dad, Amen,
get your kid, like, tell your kid to quit acting up.
Because the reason why the league wants to take it
away is there are millions of young people that look
up to jab Morant, and if Jahn Morant is portraying
like he's in that life, like he's in gang life,

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people will ultimately follow in his footsteps.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
And so what the league is trying to get him
to understand that you are a roll bottle.

Speaker 5 (01:06:04):
Your every look has everything that you do has an
impact on the people the next generation of people that
coming behind you, so act accordingly. And he refuses to
do that, and people think he's like, hey, I don't
want to play kate to the man.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
I don't want to whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:06:21):
But at the end of the day, we all have bosses,
and if the bosses said, hey, man, cut that out,
he needs to cut it out.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
He needs to eliminate it from his repertoire of celebrations.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
I understand what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
I agree one thousand percent the fact that he is
kind of bought and paid for and property of the
Memphis Grizzlies and represents the Grizzlies as well as the NBA.
And if your boss tells you that you must wear
a shirt and tie to work, then you probably wear
a shirt and tie, which you know they're extinct right now, ties,
but you know you got to do what the boss
tells you to do.

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
Was he's paying you to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
But remember, Moran and other members of the Grizzlies have
used that gun gesture many times this year, and they
did it Thursday night when they played Miami heat. He
made a three point shot in the first quarter, and
he turns towards a bench at the Memphis bench, his
arm was fully extended, his left arm, his right thumb
pointed in the air, index finger, middle fingers pressed together.

(01:07:12):
You know, really and truly, I don't even think he
said or admitted that it was a gun who was like, bang,
you know, I hit a three point. That's his I
guess signal for a three point. I don't think it's
that big of a deal, you know, I really don't.
And they're making a tremendous deal out of it, because yes,
he's bigger than anybody else on the Memphis Grizzlies who

(01:07:34):
they're doing it as well. I don't let him alone.
Leave him alone. This doesn't do any good for anybody.

Speaker 4 (01:07:40):
It doesn't.

Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
Well, let's think about context. He got in trouble with
weapons and those things. So now what he's doing is
he's promoting that lifestyle and the last thing the NBA
wants is your star player promoting their lifestyle. They already
had to remove him. He was next in line to
be the face of the franchise, right to face of
the league, the face of everything, and they had to

(01:08:02):
put him to the back of the bus because of
the way he showed out.

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
They would still love.

Speaker 5 (01:08:06):
For him to eventually be the face, but they got
to make sure he understands how to carry that responsibility
without embarrassing the brand. And right now he doesn't show
the maturity to carry the responsibility. Well, maybe in time
he can do it, but right now he's not mature
enough to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
It was a lot worse when he had a twenty
five game suspension when he had a firearm in his
car during a livestream video. I mean, you just don't
do that. I mean that to me, what's the upside?
I had a general manager once at the radio station.
Always would tell me because I used to do stupid
things I still do. He called me in his office,
say what's the upside? What is the upside?

Speaker 8 (01:08:42):
Really?

Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
I mean sometimes you got to say to yourself, what
is the upside? In twenty twenty three, he was a
thirty three game suspension and it coursed him eight point
three million dollars in salary. He'd be better off taking
an eight point three million and going to the highest
building in Memphis and.

Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
Throwing it off the roof.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Eight point if they flush you, get down the toilet.
That's what he did with that money.

Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
Yeah, I mean, it's silly, and that's why you wanted
to make better choices, and hopefully he will grow out
of it. He needs made better choices. The league is
counting on him. He has to meet them, have way
and deliver.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
I just you know, the finger imagination thing. I mean,
I'd say it's not I think if he did that
and he never had the incidents with their live weapons
on video, they probably would have let it go. And
the fact that they've told him several times so they
gave him opportunities there. But here's the situation with him.

(01:09:39):
He had a firearm while he was in a club
in Denver and he was intoxicated. So what he needs
is not suspensions. What he needs is not fines. He
needs treatment, he really does. He needs to talk to
some a counselor or somebody to say or a psychiatrist,
get on the couch and say why are you doing this?
And what again, that's the upside for your doing this?

(01:10:01):
Eight point three you could have fed every homeless person
in the city of Memphis for eight point three million dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:10:08):
Well, the bigger thing is he's had therapy and council
because remember when he was suspended, that was kind of
part of the conditions to me with people or whatever.
So as a matter of him putt him into practice.
I mean, that's that's really what it comes down to,
the discipline every day to do it exactly what you're
supposed to do, how it's supposed to be done.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
Can't he do that?

Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
Can he play the game with energy and exuberance without
exhibiting some of those silly signs like that's the mean
the dollar question when it comes to John Morant.

Speaker 4 (01:10:36):
I'm figuring maybe he does it for attention. Maybe he
thinks that you're thought.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
I'm sure it is all for attention in those things
like he's getting a player where he doesn't need the
extra attention.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
But maybe that he doesn't see himself like that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Now, Look again, I kind of lean on you for
this information, because again.

Speaker 4 (01:10:55):
You played the game.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
You had to have played with athletes like this on
any level that are just a little out of whack,
just a little out of whack, and they want attention.
They do things good, better and different biggers. They want
people to see them, hear them. But he he doesn't
need to do that because people see him and what
he can accomplish on the basketball court.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
Yeah, he doesn't need to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:11:18):
Like I mean, it's funny because he's already he's already
a star status. He doesn't need to prove to anybody
he's the star. Like he's already been annoyed. He's a
made man. Now, it's about just doing the silly stuff
like eliminating that and just you know, when when you
take on these things, when you take on face of
the franchise, tape, roles and responsibilities, a lot of it

(01:11:40):
is are mature enough to handle it. We always talk
about quarterbacks on our show, and one of the things
that we used to talk about is the quarterback should
have a regalness about him. He should feel like he's
a president, like he should exude that kind of stuff. Well,
that's what we want for some of these players like
to be able to handle themselves and comport themselves in
that way because that reflect the brand, reflects well on

(01:12:01):
the brand, and ultimately everyone's brand has to.

Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
Matter, right.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
I ain't know when the National Football League teams have
like a director of a player?

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
What right?

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Right did I have that in the NBA? And if so,
what what do these guys do that they take these
players under their wing and say, man, you got you
got to calm down, you got to just just cool it,
you know.

Speaker 5 (01:12:23):
Really in the NFL like that role can serve a
few different purposes. You have some of that that you're
talking about counseling the players. The other thing is helping
them go back to college and graduate thirteen, is helping
them finish up and tie opinnion loose ends around town, internships, housing, Uh,

(01:12:45):
if your significant other is looking for a job or career,
like all.

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
These things, they kind of help you with all that.

Speaker 5 (01:12:50):
I'm sure the NBA has some kind of mentoring program
for the young players that they have come into the league.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
They have to, that's the only way it can work.

Speaker 4 (01:12:59):
I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
I can't fathom giving away eight point three million dollars
in fines for doing something stupid.

Speaker 4 (01:13:06):
Really, you know, it hurt me.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
You know, about two years ago, I got a thing
in the mail that I went through, one of those
z pass things.

Speaker 4 (01:13:14):
It was a.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Fine, no, I do it right, and then send me
a letter. I think I owe two dollars. I mean,
I wrote a change in it away. But you just
don't want to give money away like that. That's what
you're doing. You work too hard for it. No matter
what you do in life, you work too hard to
give it away to the man for something stupid that
you didn't have to give it away for.

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
That's the foe.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
Well that's well, that's the thing.

Speaker 5 (01:13:34):
Don't do super stuff like just keep it like if
we were planning to go, just hit in the fairway.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
Like just just just keep it.

Speaker 5 (01:13:41):
Out of the hazards. And the way that you do
that is about just keep your nose clean. Do us
the ass, run on and off to court, limited interaction
with the folks, and get out of there. Get your money.
That's all he had to do. That's all he has
to do.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
You know what, It just it just my head starts
to spend because I remember, just about about three years ago,
I'm driving and The next thing, I know, I look
on my rearview mirror. I see like these flashing lights.
Said what the heck did I do? It can't be
after me, So I kept on going. Next thing, I know,
he must have called another police call. There were two
police cars following me. I had to pull over. I said, well,
what's up? He says, I didn't stop completely to stop signing.

(01:14:19):
I said, you gotta be kidding, really right? You know,
it cost me one hundred and fifty bucks. It's crazy.
I mean, it hurt me. It really ticked me up.

Speaker 4 (01:14:27):
And I was thinking of going to court because you know,
you could record it. So I talked to an attorney. Says,
you have to pay court fees plus to find so
I said, you know what, forget it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
I gave him a check and that was the end
of it. But it was ridiculous. It was a joke, really,
I mean, I did stop. What am I gonna do?
He says that, you know I went through a red light.
I said, no, no, it was yellow.

Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
But what are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
You can't win? I mean, I I was crazy. I
was like, you know, in a ball of heat, That's
what I was. But when I saw these two police
cars behind me. I pulled over. I didn't think they
were after me, and I think I did anything.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Yeah, I mean it sounds like a twisted tail there any.

Speaker 4 (01:15:06):
Yeah, I know next to you know, I'm in the lineup.
I'm in the lineup. Here we go, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
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(01:15:54):
who's number one in the in the pool over here
in the bracket? Do you have any idea?

Speaker 4 (01:15:59):
Right now?

Speaker 8 (01:16:00):
I believe the number one way now was looking like
it was either Alex Curry or Doug gottlieb Oh was
it me?

Speaker 4 (01:16:08):
It was not me? Are you laughing and sing over there?

Speaker 8 (01:16:14):
I'll say this, Andy, You're definitely not last place. And
I'm being I'm being real here. You're not last place
for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
Now, let's chick on it.

Speaker 10 (01:16:22):
You moved up right.

Speaker 4 (01:16:23):
Well. I got used to to win it all, so
I'm in pretty decent shape. I had that. What about
Bucky Brooks? Wist Bucky in this?

Speaker 8 (01:16:30):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
No, no, I'm not. I hear it out. I'm not
in there.

Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
Oh oh that's good. No one can make fun of you.

Speaker 8 (01:16:38):
I think Bucky would definitely be higher than you, though, Andy,
I haven't feeling Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
You keep on smacking me around.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
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Sports Sunday, Oh Fox Sports training. No, it's either up
or down or for us it's ya on a and
you know what it is next? Alr yay A coming
up right now?

Speaker 4 (01:16:56):
Okay, but gout.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
About nine ten minutes before the top of the hour,
that would be eight am on the East coast. And
of course, so we are live from the Tirat dot
Com studio. He's Bucky Brooks and Andy Furman. This is
Fox Sports Sunday, and it's time.

Speaker 4 (01:17:09):
For a na So here he is. Let's still it.

Speaker 7 (01:17:11):
Okay, let's beget rock those brains, gentlemen, these stories needed ass.

Speaker 1 (01:17:16):
I think we need this yay nay, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
Patty get it called pat all.

Speaker 8 (01:17:24):
Right, it's time to play the yay rnay and I
say we go on this very nice Sunday.

Speaker 10 (01:17:32):
All right, guys, so let's start here.

Speaker 8 (01:17:34):
The Colorado Rockies lost to the Sacramento A's. I guess
we can call him Sacramento A's Friday in the snow
yay or nay?

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Andy Furman, well, is it the Sacramento ways, Bucky with
he is still the Oakland A's.

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
I don't know what do you call him now?

Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
I thought he was I thought he was just called
the A's.

Speaker 5 (01:17:52):
I thought he's just kind of like took away all
of the front of it and just called it the A's.
But regardless, they have him playing in Sacramento.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Well, they played Colorado, they played in the snow, and
I say, if you're a fan, I'm watching it on TV,
I say yay. But if you're a fan and you're
sitting in the stands, I say nay, because I don't
want to sit in the snow watching a baseball game.

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
I agree with you. I don't want to see that.
I'll wait. I'll wait for the warmer ups. I'll wait
at June before I go. Yes.

Speaker 10 (01:18:22):
All right, Well, guys, we got next one up.

Speaker 8 (01:18:26):
Coastal Carolina University will offer free concessions at home football
games this season. Fans can order four free items per
concession visit. And eligibles are nachos, hot dogs, popcorn.

Speaker 10 (01:18:38):
And fountain drinks, which would be like sodas and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Yay or nay.

Speaker 10 (01:18:42):
Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Such a tough one. Let's just go with nay. Let go.
I'm just short and sweet like nay. I just don't
like it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
Really, you know what, I'm gonna go yay because I
know if I were to purchase them, they may not
be as free. Is yay, because the fact that everybody's
gonna want free stuff, they're gonna have to restock the
concessions all the time. So this stuff will be fresh.
The worst thing is when you go to the movie
theater and you buy popcorn and you know it's stale,
and you know it's there from like the you know,
three days ago, and you can break a tooth on it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:15):
So at least this stuff is gonna be fairly fresh.
So I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
I say, yay, fairly fresh, fairly fresh.

Speaker 8 (01:19:24):
Fairly fairly fresh. Well you know what's you know what's
fairly fresh? Another one of our yeah or NAIs here, guys.
So the NFL hasn't outlawed the toush push yet, yay
or nay?

Speaker 4 (01:19:39):
Andy, yay there, Kip, But I like that, tushy, leave
the touch push in there.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
It's a great game, it's a great play. And I'll
tell you, if you can't stop it, it's on you.

Speaker 4 (01:19:48):
It's on you.

Speaker 5 (01:19:50):
Yeah, I mean, I'm with that. I don't I don't
think this shout lord. People got to come up with it,
like you got to figure out a way to stop it.
There have been teams that have gotten stops. We saw
the Washington and is get a couple stops like it
can be done. You gotta put some time in, you
gotta practice.

Speaker 10 (01:20:04):
All right, final say here guys final nay or yeay?
Your call?

Speaker 8 (01:20:08):
Uh the toush push or torpedo bats yay or nay?
Bucky Final, Say.

Speaker 4 (01:20:15):
To Bush, I like torpedo bat. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
I'll go to the bad There we go. Hey, one
NFL team. This may be the biggest laws the biggest
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has been poor. We'll explain that in just about a minute.
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Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Ready.

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Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
And Bucky really and truly a big day today in
sports because we have the women's final tomorrow night's the
men's final and CAA basketball and all you got to
know as far as the men's game is concerned. Houston
beating Duke last night seventy sixty seven. Houston ended the
game on a nine to nothing run in the last
thirty three seconds, which is almost unheard of. And there's

(01:21:12):
a devastating loss for Duke, no doubt about that. A
collapse perhaps, but a comeback, a comeback for the Ages,
no doubt about that either.

Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
Yeah, like a great comeback, Like just terrific comeback by Houston.
Showed all kinds of grit, resilience, determination, all those adjectives
that you want to use to describe a tough, minded,
hardened team. They were able to do and they made
it an improbable comeback. They were able to kind of
put the pressure on Duke. Duke was unable to make
the plays, but to Houston's credit, they guys who hadn't shut.

Speaker 3 (01:21:41):
With all night.

Speaker 5 (01:21:42):
They came through when they needed them. And ultimately that's
what it's. It's about your best players coming through in
those key moments.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
And the funny thing is, like, you know, it didn't
really surprise Houston coach Kelvin Sampson because when he was asked, basically,
you know, is this like the most improbable win you've
ever had, maybe in your careers? Now, you know, a
couple of months was a month ago they played in
Allen Field House in Kansas. The Cougars came back from
six points down with ninety one seconds to play, and

(01:22:08):
they beat Kansas in Kansas in double over time. So
basically he's used to it. It didn't bother him. He
wasn't panicking, and I guess his teammate. I mean, this team,
it takes a page out of the coach when they
say players follow with the coaches lead.

Speaker 4 (01:22:25):
That's basically what they did.

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
And they came back back and shot poorly, but they
got rebounded Duke, and they had the offensive boards controlled.
So you know, I still think the better team won.
I still think that overall, I think Houston is a
better team because the maturity level. I think it was
the maturity and the age factor over the youth of Duke.
That's what hurt Duke down the stretch that hadn't been

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there before. Houston has been there before.

Speaker 5 (01:22:52):
Yeah, So when I think about like the difference between
the two teams, I think experience matters. Houston having been
there before, having played in a bunch of tough, greedy,
competitive games, they were ready for those moments. You got
to remember, man, Duke roll through everybody, roll through everybody
in the ACC by twenty plus points. They didn't have
to play games of significance down the stretch, So they
never got comfortable with late game execution, understanding the attention

(01:23:16):
to detail.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
That needed to win in these games. All of that,
they just saw the good.

Speaker 5 (01:23:21):
So it's it's a harsh lesson to learn, but it's
one that has served John Shower and John Shire and
the Duke program well as he goes forward, no.

Speaker 4 (01:23:30):
Doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
And Kelvin Sampson, I win um a seven ninety nine. Boy,
would that be great if he get his eight hundred
win tomorrow night winning the championship against Florida. But let's
take a listen to the coach, Kelvin Sampson of the
Houston Cougars.

Speaker 6 (01:23:43):
No one ever uses in anything as long as you
don't quit, you quit. I don't care that you lost.
Aren't taking our time outside. We've been here before. It's
not like we're down twenty. It's not like we were
playing right. We felt like if we could get it
close enough to put some games showing them, that's something
that could happen. But the credit, the credit, how the

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glory goes to.

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
Guy, all the credit to coach. I'm so glassed.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
I get the coach I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
It sounds like a pretty confident coach. I'm I'm pretty
happy for him too. But he's been through hell and back.
He really has in his career and he really has
a second life with the Houston Cougars. And really I
credit usedon for giving him the chance because he was
like an outlaw in college. He lost his job in
Indiana and he had to go to the NBA for
a while, sat on the bench with the Milwaukee Bucks.
And you know, sometimes someone reaches out to you and

(01:24:34):
he's carry and you turn around and you get it done.

Speaker 4 (01:24:37):
And he's a good man and he's a good coach.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
So we'll see tomorrow night. You got Florida, you got Houston.
And Walter Walter was I mean this this guy in Florida.
Uh w Walter Clayton junr uh thirty four points. He's amazing.
I mean I again, I hadn't heard of much until
last night. I think that he opened up a lot

(01:25:03):
of eyes. Walter Clayton Jr.

Speaker 3 (01:25:06):
Great player, really good player.

Speaker 5 (01:25:08):
The thing that you have though in this one number
one team in the game, which would be the Florida Gators,
Like number one, they've been rolling the last half of
the season. And then you have Houston, who traditionally their
defense man, they can lock you up. And I don't
know if anyone saw the end of the Florida game.
They had a tough time with pressure. They had a

(01:25:29):
tough time getting the ball up like they held on
for dear life. It escaped me right now. But number
fifteen's name, he turned it over two or three times
in a row.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
The pressure.

Speaker 5 (01:25:39):
If I'm Houston, I'm starting with that knowing he we
can tighten the screws on these guys and maybe make
them have some mistakes and do some of those things.
To me, man, I feel like this is Houston's time.
I love what the Gators have been able to do,
but look, Houston was on their way to being able
to do and they had injuries a year or so ago.

(01:26:00):
This is a team that is built to do it,
and I expect them to get it done.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
On Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
You know, you watch Houston play and the way they
came back and won.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
You know, and I know this sounds ridiculous, but I
think those guys on Houston, those players, they were ready
to play Florida last night. After they won, after they
beat do that. That's how sky high they were.

Speaker 8 (01:26:18):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:19):
If Florida would have came out last night after that game,
they would have played them right there, right.

Speaker 3 (01:26:24):
Yeah, Yeah, the way it is, the roll the balls out,
let's go to.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
Work right exactly right now, today's Yukon is playing South
Carolina for the women's title three o'clock Eastern time. And
here's my theory on the women's NCAA, the women's basketball
in general. I think men and fans in general, they
watched the game regardless of who's playing.

Speaker 4 (01:26:46):
They watched teams, and.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
They watched the matchups. That's what the guys do, all right,
That's what people do. Right as far as the women,
I think the women and people in general watch players.
You know, don't watch a Caitlin Clark. They'll watch a
Page Beckers.

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
That's what they do. And I think that's why.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
Dawn Staley was a little upset when she's talking about
the promotion that Page Beckers is getting for Ukon.

Speaker 4 (01:27:11):
Well, that's what sells the game.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
I don't think people are going to turn it on
to say, oh, I want to watch South Carolina play,
because honestly, most people who turn onto the tube probably
can't even name three people or two people who play
for South Carolina, but they're going to turn it on
with say, well, how good is this page Beckers. That's
all I hear about. So I think the women's game,
and I think they're smart and doing so. They promote
players and promote stars. That attracts viewership.

Speaker 4 (01:27:37):
That's what they do.

Speaker 3 (01:27:39):
I mean, And there's nothing wrong with that. No, there's
nothing wrong with trying to get eyeballs on it.

Speaker 5 (01:27:45):
However, you have to sell the game, sell the game
to get people to watch it, and when they watch it,
they may fall in love with the game as opposed.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
To the star that was being promoted.

Speaker 5 (01:27:53):
I understand women have had an issue in terms of
like people coming in, the casual coming in in those things,
and that's going to be some of that. But man,
you want to invite everybody to come watch the game
because the game is, the game is amazing, the people
that are playing, the women that are playing outstanding.

Speaker 3 (01:28:12):
You want more people to see it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:12):
And I understand Don's frustrations, but if A helps drive
some of the interest, then let her drive some of
the interests.

Speaker 4 (01:28:20):
Look, I will say this, I'm one of those got
sucked into it. I really didn't. I'll give you an example.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
I live in the greatest Cincinnati area and they have
University of Cincinnati women's basketball, Xavier, Northern Kentucky University three
Division one teams, they have a Division two team, and
Thomas Moore University to when they were Division three, they
win the.

Speaker 4 (01:28:39):
National title twice.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
All right, maybe I've seen a total I'm on one hand,
five games in the last five years. But last year
I drove from where I live near Cincinnati to Bloomington
and Dianna to see Caitlin Clark. I got sucked in.
I heard so much about it. I want them to
see her in person, so I did.

Speaker 4 (01:28:58):
That's what I did.

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
So I think this something to be said about selling
the names, selling the so called stars, and I would
drive to see Page Becker's play or say how good
she is.

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
They say she's better than Caitlin Clark. I want to
see that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
That's what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:29:12):
Yeah, I mean different, different style game, but yet she's
a great player.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
She's a great player in her own right.

Speaker 5 (01:29:17):
People just need to go back like she was off
the map a little bit because she got hers, she
blew her aco, but when she bounced back. It was
slow and surely, but this year we've seen vintage you
could come back.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
So I enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
So you get her out, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
Now, let's move over to the NFL, because that's what
everybody wants to hear. I guess the NFL and the
NFL socks leader a year ago plays for the Cincinnati Bengals.
His name is Trey Hendrickson. He's winning for a new deal,
all right.

Speaker 4 (01:29:44):
Why would he be winning for a new deal?

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
I mean, honestly, I mean he's got a contract, but
I guess he had a good year and he wants
to get it extended. He's gonna be thirty one years old.
He wants a long term deal, like it's a two
year deal. And he says that the Bengals have not
communicated with his agent. You know why, I'll tell you why, Trey,
because he he who talks first the negotiations loses. You
know that Bucky right and the Bengals have all the cards.

(01:30:05):
Why should the Bengals reach out to him? Really, you
have your agent, Cole not gonna do a make a
proposal and then you start working at it. I don't
understand that he wants long term. He's thirty one. I
guess he saw Jamar Chase and t Higgins getting signed
that the team, as you mentioned earlier on the team
is built an offense. They're not built on defense, and
I think they could. They have more problems on defense
than Trey Hendrickson. So if they could sell him and

(01:30:29):
trade him, maybe for a couple of draft picks, I
think they would. I don't know, and you have your
ear close to the ground. In the NFL. Is there
a market for Trey Hendrickson? Does anybody want him?

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
Yeah, there's always a market for people that can take
the quarterback down. There's always a market. It may not
be at the price that he wants. So when you
make a trade for Drey Henderson, you not only have
to give him the capitol and the conversation terms of
the draft, you got to sign him to a new contract.
If he's asking for wherever it is, thirty five thirty
six seven million, Yeah, I can see that slowing down

(01:31:02):
the marketplace. It just depends on what he's asking for
and if you can meet him halfway. But he's a
good player and we can't dismiss his accolades and his accomplishment,
says a pass rushing specialist. It's just that man, the
sticker sticker shock. The price tag on that sticker is significant,
And do you want to get in business with Trey
Henderson at that price point?

Speaker 4 (01:31:23):
Right exactly right now.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
The executive vice president of the Cincinnati Bengals, Katie Blackburn,
who's the daughter of Mike Brown, she was quoted in
the Cincinnati Inquirer the other day and quoting it, says
it's on him, meaning it's on Trey to be happy
at some point. This is what he's that she said quote.
I think some of it is on him to be
happy at some point. If he's not, you know, that's
what holds it up sometimes, you know, it takes him

(01:31:44):
to say yes to do something.

Speaker 4 (01:31:47):
So I don't have to show what she meant by
that trade.

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
Well, I think I think she's saying this.

Speaker 5 (01:31:53):
She's saying, Look, Trey, we put proposals and things on
the table for you. We put things on the table
that work within the confines of where we're at. You
have to make a decision do you want to play
for us at this number or do you want to
go elsewhere? But here's where we're at and he appears
to be one that likes to go back and forth

(01:32:13):
and he's unhappy with the number, and if he signs
the contract, he's gonna be unhappy with the number and
maybe act out like a Brandan Nayuk. Ultimately, Trey Henderson
has to decide what's most important for him.

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
If it's important for him.

Speaker 5 (01:32:24):
To stay in Cincinnati, he can find a way to
get them up to the number that's satisfactory. But if
he wants to go elsewhere, then because he has the
freedom to seek a trade, go find us a trade
so we can get this done. I think they're tired
of hearing about it because it's been a year long
soap opera with him.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
You know what you need to get on the horn
of col Trey Hendrickson because Henderson said he after reheard
those comments from Katie Blackburn, he said he thought those
comments were confusing, all right, Chris. He says he's been
talking to the Bengals front office about long term contract
for several years, all right, So I think you need
to tell him, hey, look, this is what it's all about.
And I think that As have made an offer, and
they probably made a long term deal when I say

(01:33:03):
long term, maybe two years, and maybe he wants more,
maybe he wants three, maybe he wants four.

Speaker 4 (01:33:07):
Then I got to give him three or four years.
He's thirty one. It doesn't work out that way.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
It's it's the money. He wants more bread, he wants
more money. He wants to be update like Miles Garrett.

Speaker 5 (01:33:18):
And I understand because he can make a case based
on his resume the last few years. He's been at
the top of the business, sack leader, all that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
But he's thirty one, and no.

Speaker 5 (01:33:28):
One's gonna give him Miles Garrett money because no one
views him right like of Miles Garrett. Your numbers say
one thing.

Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
Great. However, when we turn on the tape, you're not
Miles Garrett exactly right.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
And I mentioned early on that this NFL team, or
one NFL team may very well have their biggest loss.
The biggest loss may be what Katie Brown basically is
saying right now to the city of Cincinnati, because they
have negotiations going on, not only with Troy Hendrickson, they
got negotiations going on for stadium improvement with the city
of Cincinnati, and now there's some talk of moving like

(01:33:59):
a three first of all, they did this years ago
when they wanted a new stadium and they had to vote,
and they voted on I remember they brought all the
players from the past, just like in the mid nineties
early nineties. I remember Chris Collinsworth was on the street
corner with Reggie Williams. They're all out there, You're telling people.

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
What to vote for.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
And then the public voted for it for a tax
increased and they got the new stadium. Now the stadiums
are twenty five plus years old. They would either want repair.
They're not gonna get a new one, but they want
repairs to be done in it. So now the threats
out there again. First of all, they're not gonna move
because there's ur Modell route out there. Okay, number one?
Number two, we are you gonna go to? What city

(01:34:36):
is available right now? Besides Mexico City. Really think about it.

Speaker 5 (01:34:41):
What did they do you san Antonio? You think they
could be the San Antonio Bengals. There's always cities.

Speaker 4 (01:34:48):
Is San Antonio an option?

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
Really?

Speaker 5 (01:34:51):
I think I think they're more than enough cities that
they could find if they want to.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
It's the NFL, and they can find a way to move.

Speaker 4 (01:34:58):
Them the only city I could think.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
I'm not I'm not even thinking of San Antono because
I think like Houston and Dallas may may oppose to that.
Maybe I don't maybe in their marketing scheme, I don't know.
Maybe Portland. Maybe Portland could be a sume. Other than that,
I can't think of any city in the continental United
States that could have a team.

Speaker 4 (01:35:17):
Really, I really can't.

Speaker 5 (01:35:19):
M I mean, we can't go to Salt Lake City.
You think I like available cities that Salt Lake City has.
They have all the teams, they just got NHL, they
got the Jazz. You know, why not put a little
You can put a football team in that Rocky Mountain region.
They'll mess up to AFC West, but like you can

(01:35:40):
put them in there.

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
Well, maybe maybe it is a possibility. I don't know.
I think it's a threat. I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
I don't think the Brown family wants to leave Cincinnati.
They they had their roots here, and I think they
want to stay here. I don't think they.

Speaker 3 (01:35:52):
Want to leave, So I don't think they want to leave.

Speaker 5 (01:35:55):
But I'm saying that there's a viable option if they're
going to push the envelope though, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:36:00):
We'll see speaking of pushing the alvel what Michael Parsons
and the Cowboys? What gives you had this guy and
we talked earlier today as the number one man to
build your defense around. And Jerry Jones says he's here
to give him a mega deal, but he says he's
also bypassed Parsons agent. Is that a good thing that
he's dealing directly with Michael Parsons himself? Because Jerry Jones,

(01:36:20):
and this was in print the other day, he says
he has had a direct contact doing negotiations with guys
like Emmitt Smith and Deon Sanders. But Deon Senders was
represented I think by Eugene Parker at the time, so
I don't know when he saw cam about Jerry Jones.
I think it could be a little Steeniley.

Speaker 5 (01:36:36):
Here, but maybe because ultimately, remember the agent works for
the player. So if I go directly to the player
and I make a very appeal in case to the player, hey,
here's what we can give you, here's about much money
I can give you whatever. Well, if it appeals to
the player to play into the agent like yeah, man,
I hear what you're saying. You give me a couple

(01:36:57):
more million or whatever, But I like this situation. They're
trying to apply pressure a few different ways to make
the agent collapse. Sometimes it works, though, and sometimes I
am a believer and deliver your own message.

Speaker 3 (01:37:10):
Don't have your friend do it. You go directly and
deliver the message so it's clear.

Speaker 5 (01:37:15):
There's no misunderstandings, and you're very direct with what it
is that you want and expect.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:37:21):
So, at the NFL meetings in Palm Beach, Florida the
other day, Jerry Jones said, this is in print. So
he's willing to offer a megabucks contract that would make
Michael Parsons the star Edge Russier the highest paid non
quarterback in NFL history, with a deal in excess of
forty million dollars a year.

Speaker 4 (01:37:41):
All right, what's he waiting for? And why not? He
could have gone maybe for twenty million last year.

Speaker 3 (01:37:49):
Crazy, there's a lot of money. There's a lot of money.

Speaker 5 (01:37:53):
Look, man, it's just some particular it's probably length to deal,
how it's structured and those things. The Cowboys are never
hurting for cash. They always can deal with that part
of it. It's probably just the structure of the deal.
The Cowboys likely we won't four or five years to
make sure they can time to the team. Parkers may
want to get to the market sooner than that. Maybe

(01:38:13):
three years is his number, three years in whatever number
that is, so he can get another bite at the apple.

Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
You know, we talk about the Trey Hendrickson's of the
world and the Michael Parsons. What does that do to
a player, especially if you're not signed or you're in
a signing season. With your play on the field. You've
seen players, I'm sure and you played with them that
how it affects them perhaps and their performance? Do they
play better that they play worse that they think about

(01:38:40):
it twenty four to seven? How does that work? I
mean to me, I'd rather have it locked up before
I go training camp, no matter good better indifference, get
my name when the dotted line, get me in two years,
three years, whatever it is, and I'm ready to play football.

Speaker 4 (01:38:51):
I don't want to have this lingering over my head.

Speaker 5 (01:38:55):
You're like the majority of the people that are dealing
with do they want to so they can focus on
one thing. There's some people who are willing to bet
on themselves, roll the dice and say, look, man, I
know I deserve more.

Speaker 3 (01:39:07):
I'm willing to.

Speaker 5 (01:39:09):
Continue to push it, push the envelope to see if
I can get more. Depends on your comfort level.

Speaker 4 (01:39:15):
What about you. I guess you want them to have
it locked up, right.

Speaker 3 (01:39:18):
I prefer to have it locked up.

Speaker 5 (01:39:20):
But I've also been willing to bet on myself in
other areas, whether it comes to like in broadcast media,
I've been willing to bet on myself and just kind
of see what it looks like. It's not always great,
but sometimes you have to be willing to better on
yourself regardless of what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
When you're in the midst of.

Speaker 5 (01:39:35):
The negotiation, you have to be able to compartmentalize your
feelings so you can really kind of keep the main
thing the main thing, regardless of whatever the money is.
You got to play well and you got to continue
to play well. So whatever vehicle or whatever decisions you
have to make to allow you to have that comfort.

Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
You have to do that. And ultimately, when it comes
to contracts, only you know what will make you.

Speaker 5 (01:40:00):
You can't get caught up in what we call like
pocket watching, seeing what other people make or people telling me,
well you should get this. You got to focus on
what do I need to make me happy, and if
I sign a deal that makes me happy, you have
to ignore all the other noise.

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
Yeah, but it seems to me what makes one happy
is getting more than what the guy who plays your
position makes.

Speaker 4 (01:40:23):
That's what makes you happy.

Speaker 3 (01:40:25):
Really, that's not agent. That's what makes the agent happy.
It may not necessarily make the player happy. Every player
doesn't worry about what the other person at the position makes.

Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
Some players do, but not everyone. Some people do, so
you got It depends on the person, you know. Like,
for me, I want enough for me to be good,
to be comfortable in those things. Now, if you're gonna
push the envelope and do that, you can do it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:51):
But those negotiations become harder. Depends on what makes you happy.
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
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Speaker 4 (01:42:28):
All right, we got the blame game coming up in
about nine ten minutes from now. But did you hear
about what's going on in Detroit? Buck? Have you heard
about that?

Speaker 8 (01:42:37):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:42:38):
With the Detroit Pistons.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
Oh my goodness, it's unbelieved.

Speaker 4 (01:42:43):
They're going crazy in Motown.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
One year after finishing with the worst record in the NBA,
the Detroit Pistons are going to the playoffs for the
first time since twenty eighteens. Last twenty nineteen, the Pistons
punched their postseason ticket with a win over the Toronto
Raptors Forday nine one, seventeen five. And you got to
give some credit to the first year coach JB. Bickerstaff.
Coaching does make a difference, you agree, I know it does.

Speaker 3 (01:43:11):
Makes a difference.

Speaker 5 (01:43:12):
And I felt like he was wrongly dismissed from Cleveland.
Thought he did a fantastic job getting the Cleveland Cavaliers
up and going. Can't argue to the results because Kenny
Atkinson has taken it and run with it. But what
JB was able to do with Detroit toughness, physicality, everyone
playing at a high level level.

Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
Kate Cunningham absolutely balling. I think his.

Speaker 5 (01:43:34):
Experience, his experience dealing with underdogs has helped him come
up with a plan that enables them to kind of
win and win right away.

Speaker 4 (01:43:42):
Yeah, it amazes me because you have a team that
won fourteen games a year ago.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
New guy comes in basically you got the same roots
of the team and the guys are basically you know,
together and saying, well, what is he going to do?

Speaker 4 (01:43:55):
How's he going to change it?

Speaker 8 (01:43:56):
Right?

Speaker 7 (01:43:56):
But he did.

Speaker 4 (01:43:57):
That's a that's a tough haul. You could know only
and O's in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
You have to know how to get a guy through
his ears, between the ears, that's the key. And I
guess BJ bickers though JB. Bickerstaff did it. He knew
how to do it. You know how to press the
right buttons. It's not plays. It's all social activity. It's
all relationships.

Speaker 4 (01:44:16):
That's what it is. It's not drawing plays on a
truck board. It really isn't.

Speaker 5 (01:44:21):
He did a great No, it's not no it's not
only like the exits and O's. I'll say it's the
establishment of the word that everyone hates with his culture.

Speaker 3 (01:44:29):
But what the culture is is the environment creating standards.

Speaker 5 (01:44:33):
And expectations and make sure those guys live up to
play up to those standards and expectations every day. It
can be something as simple as a we've going to
run back on every misshot. Everyone needs to get back.

Speaker 3 (01:44:44):
To the paint.

Speaker 5 (01:44:45):
We're gonna die for loose walls. There's certain things that
we're gonna do. We're gonna challenge every shot, but we're
not going to jump. We're gonna contest with our hands high.
All of those things that are things that you know
are conducive to winning. You begin to stab, dolish those habits,
and what you hope is in time, as they began
to embrace those habits, the results naturally change on the floor.

(01:45:08):
But you got to create the habits, and you got
to create the habits without looking at the scoreboard, because
you know, if the habits are good, eventually the winds
that come their byproduct of doing things the right way.

Speaker 4 (01:45:19):
You know what's going nuts in Detroit right now?

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
Is there a PA announcer I listened to him in
the morning on Serious XM seventy four.

Speaker 4 (01:45:26):
Mason in the morning, he said, he's on the I
don't know if you heard. Have you listened to him
in the great.

Speaker 3 (01:45:32):
Listen him in the morning. But I know who you're
talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:45:34):
Oh you know him? I mean you've met the guy.

Speaker 3 (01:45:36):
No, no, no, I've never met him.

Speaker 4 (01:45:37):
I wrote him.

Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
He hasn't been me back. But I listed him in
the morning on Serious XM. And he does the PA
for the Detroit Pistons. He's great, He's unbelievable in the morning.

Speaker 4 (01:45:46):
He really is. I love him, I really do, Mason.
I'm gonna write him again, so we'll see.

Speaker 3 (01:45:51):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
So we talk about how to promote a team, all right?
And I think major League Baseball is onto something right
now with this torpedo bat. It's not a big promotion,
but a lot of people of buzzing up out of
talking about it, and the Yankees have really taking advantage
of it because Aaron Judge is going nuts hitting home
runs the torpedo bat. The design moves more mass to
the sweet spot of the barrel, closer to the handle,

(01:46:11):
whatever the heck that means. But I guess it's working.
There's more meat there and the ball is going out
of the ballpark, and that's what people want to see.

Speaker 4 (01:46:18):
They want to see home runs and it's working right now. Oh,
so good for them. Good for the torpedo bat. I'm
glad they didn't find it illegal. That's what I'm happy about,
all right. I mean, like, the torpedo bat is interesting
because you're talking about moving. Basically, what you're doing is
you're moving the sweet spot to.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
The place that the batter normally hits it.

Speaker 5 (01:46:38):
So taking all the analytics, all the data and beefing
up the area where the player normally strikes the ball
makes a lot of sense. Now people laugh because the
bat looks funny. It's not quite a fun go bat,
but it looks it looks a little weird. It looks
almost like a softball, a softball bat that's designed to

(01:46:58):
hit big home runs. But it's been the rule, so
I'm okay.

Speaker 4 (01:47:02):
With it, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:47:04):
So we talked about how to promote a team. I'm
gonna I'm gonna let you relax right now, because I
got a stack of promotions in baseball that have been
going on or have gone already this year.

Speaker 4 (01:47:12):
Are you ready to hear this is great?

Speaker 3 (01:47:14):
Love it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:15):
The Chicago White Sox had a weather day recently, which
featured meteorological education. The game drew just twelve thousand spectators.
The White Sox lost to the Twins. You can't give
it away in Chicago's They're terrible. They lost ten to five. Okay,
but this is more Okay. April the eighteenth of this year,
the Boston Red Sox will have a Grateful Dead sixtieth

(01:47:37):
Anniversary Night and Pharmacist Appreciation Night on the same night.

Speaker 4 (01:47:41):
How do you like that?

Speaker 2 (01:47:42):
That's great? So you can take your drugs and listen
to the Grateful Dead at the same time on the
same night.

Speaker 4 (01:47:48):
All right, I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:47:49):
I mean that's very cool.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
Last night last year, the Miami Marlins was sued by
a woman who says she slipped on dog urine during
the tea means bark at the park night in Miami,
and you know, barking the park, the kids are on
the bases and have all that stuff over there. I
guess you know what, you know, you want to make
a little money over there. I guess the team's gonna

(01:48:11):
have to pay out right now because she said she's
slipped on urine. I thought that if you step on
you and you get stuck in it, you don't slip
on it. It's it's sticky.

Speaker 4 (01:48:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
I've never stepped in urine. I don't think at least
I didn't do it intentionally, that's for sure. All right,
here's another one for you. Uh you know monorin League
Baseball does it all.

Speaker 3 (01:48:29):
It's great.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
Monta Leagues are the major leagues of promotional creativity. On
September first of this year, the Lake Elsinore Storm, I
don't even know what league they're in, but the Lake
Elzino Storm, they're gonna hold an awful night when, according
to m i LB dot com, whatever can go wrong
will go wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:48:49):
So be prepared for the best worst time of your life.
Awful night. Crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:48:54):
But this is the stuff that gets people in ballparks
and you know, have people talk about things and stuff
like that.

Speaker 4 (01:48:59):
So yeah, it's fun.

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
I love that stuff. So that's what they do, barking
the park events. That's pretty big. They do it at
NORLA ballparks. I don't understand how they clean up the
mess after that. And I guess the woman in Miami
fel and slipped on the urine. So it's gonna sue
the Miami Marlins.

Speaker 3 (01:49:14):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (01:49:15):
So you know they don't do that in the NFL.
Buck you know, you don't have to do that. People
come anyway. You have to promote those games like that.
Modnor League Baseball they do it, and some major league
teams do it as well. So different, but on college.

Speaker 3 (01:49:28):
Too, I think, yeah, really different, real different.

Speaker 2 (01:49:31):
The game is the game is the key in the NFL,
not in modern league baseball. They don't know who the
players are. They've got to have a good time. That's
exactly what they do. So that's basically a promotional thing
of it. So who knows, you know, and people have
gone extreme, and I guess the key, the key promoter
of all time, I guess is Bill Veck. I think
the White Sox are going to aren't a Bill Veck

(01:49:53):
later this year, the late Bill Veck. They're going to
have a night for him. I think the club's one
hundred and twenty fifth anniversary. The Chicago White Sox.

Speaker 4 (01:50:01):
Their history includes three World Series titles, the Black Sox
Scandal of nineteen nineteen, and of course Bill Veck and
Bill Veck owned the White Sox from nineteen fifty nine
to sixty one, and then he owned it again from
seventy five to nineteen eighty. One of my idols in
life Bill Veck, So what are you gonna do?

Speaker 3 (01:50:20):
And then you're I know, I bet it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:22):
One time when I lived in Florida and they were
having a game against the Yankees and Fort Layda Dale
spring training. I walked over to introduced myself and he
was smoking a cigarette and he put it out of
his ashtray and his wooden leg. He had an ashtray
attached to his wooden leg. He lost his leg in
the war. So that was That was my Bill Veck story.
There you go, any good stories with you give me
a good story there both.

Speaker 5 (01:50:44):
So I don't really have a great story when it
comes to any of those things. I feel like I
emptied the bucket with my stories. When I told you
about making a move to defensive back, I think I
need to ponder a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:50:56):
You give me three him in So I don't I
have a great story. I wish I had a great
story for you.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
Oh you've got great stories. What about a story about
a teammate? A teammate you played with some looms because
I know there was a story that someone told me
about the Cincinnati Bengals. I can't recall this name, but
I wouldn't even mention it because I don't embarrass him
because I asked him one time in the locker room.
One of the players asked him, why do you always shower?
I think I mentioned this to you once, Why do
you shower before practice? And he said, I do it

(01:51:21):
so enough? The shower after practice, that's.

Speaker 5 (01:51:23):
All okay, Yeah, let's see. I don't know what we're
like like like for me, like the showering before practice
thing was funny because I am one that takes a
shower before games. Really got warm up, cut me in,
take a shower before the game, put on the uniform,
didn't go play.

Speaker 3 (01:51:40):
That was always kind of a thing and continue to
be a thing. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:51:45):
There's something about the shower that not only wakes you
up and perks you up, but I don't know. I
kind of want to feel fresh and clean. That was
one thing. And then I always like for game they choose,
I only wore my the clease on game day. Only
on game day, like I would break them in. But
because I always wanted my shoes to be either super

(01:52:06):
crispy white or whatever color that we had if they
were black or whatever. So I had a different set
of shoes that were practicing, but on game day these
are my game day shoes. And I was just really
fanatical about being super clean and super crispy white because
I felt like it looked the part and the last.

Speaker 3 (01:52:25):
Thing that would be a little bit of a weirdo thing.

Speaker 5 (01:52:28):
Because as a kid, whenever I looked at NFL football,
I always saw players wearing eye black, like the two
strips of black right up on the decrease type that
was smeared up under. So I could only play with
eye black, whether it's a day game or night game.
I had to put eye black on because I felt
like that made me the quote unquote tough football player.

Speaker 2 (01:52:52):
Is that why they wear or does it really help
you with with sun? I mean I wanted to wear
it at night. If you wear it for sun, right.

Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
Yeah, I don't. I mean, I don't know. I wear
it because it's a part of the lug. Maybe it
helps with the sun. I don't know. I just saw
everybody do it.

Speaker 5 (01:53:10):
It's very similar to I got in trouble as a
kid one time, Fred Bolitnikov would have stick him everywhere,
and one of my first little league games, I put
stick them on my socks like bulitnikoff, where I didn't
know that when my mom watched my socks that the
sticker wouldn't come out.

Speaker 3 (01:53:29):
She wasn't really happy about having stick them on my
little socks. But yeah, so you know, you mimic what
you see.

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
What about a lucky number that you wanted to wear
high school, college pro I wore twenty two.

Speaker 5 (01:53:44):
I wore twenty two for most of my time coming
up because twenty two my birthday is the twenty second
of January. My dad's number was twenty two, so I
always wore twenty two.

Speaker 3 (01:53:57):
Yeah, that was number. That was number always.

Speaker 4 (01:54:00):
Would you have paid for number twenty two?

Speaker 2 (01:54:02):
Because I see some of these athletes will give up
big money to other players on the team for their number.

Speaker 4 (01:54:06):
Would you have done that?

Speaker 3 (01:54:08):
I mean it means a lot, doesn't mean that much
to me. I'm not gonna be significant sums. I can
find another number to get it to make work. I'll
figure it out. But yeah, I'm not paying like with
some of these guys pay. Yeah, no, that's not gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (01:54:22):
There we go, all right, he's Bucket Brooks. I'm Any Firman.
This is Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Ready.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
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Speaker 4 (01:54:37):
That shipstation dot com code Sports.

Speaker 2 (01:54:40):
I think they make you say it twice because they
want to make sure you don't screw up, because ship
station you could slip up very easily by saying ship station.
There you go, Bucket Brooks, Andy Firman, Fox Sports Sunday
on Fox Sports Ready.

Speaker 4 (01:54:52):
Yes, it's that time.

Speaker 2 (01:54:54):
Point your finger because the blame game is freaking next game.

Speaker 4 (01:55:00):
Coming right up.

Speaker 2 (01:55:01):
It's about right now, eleven minutes before the top of
the hour, and of course at the top of the hour,
nine o'clock Eastern time, we will have countdown with Brian O,
Jeff Schwartzer, Bill Krakenberg, a countdown.

Speaker 4 (01:55:12):
Get you ready for the big.

Speaker 2 (01:55:13):
Games all time, all time. There you go, and of
course we are lying at the Tirack dot Com studio.
He is Bucky Brooks on Andy frommember right now, it's
time for the.

Speaker 4 (01:55:23):
Blame game with me.

Speaker 1 (01:55:25):
It's all your fault. No, it's your fault.

Speaker 3 (01:55:28):
What is all your hault?

Speaker 4 (01:55:33):
Maybe it's everyone's fault.

Speaker 1 (01:55:35):
Who knows he's a liar. That's why there's the blame game.
The blame game. Let's figure out who to blame.

Speaker 4 (01:55:41):
He's a liar. Here he is t he's a liar.

Speaker 8 (01:55:44):
I'm a liar, Andy, All right, Well, let's get lying
away here, guys. So Ja Morant was fined seventy five
hundred for pointing a fake finger gun by twenty five thousand,
seventy five thousand, seventy five hundred, seventy five thousand, My bad,
lift of zero.

Speaker 10 (01:56:01):
Hey it's early morning, My bad.

Speaker 8 (01:56:03):
I'm not a money guy anyways, for the fake finger
gun by the NBA after being warned twice.

Speaker 10 (01:56:09):
Is he being picked on?

Speaker 1 (01:56:11):
Or is it bad?

Speaker 3 (01:56:12):
Who do you blame?

Speaker 10 (01:56:13):
Mandy?

Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
I blame the National Basketball So if very easy to
blame John Moran, okay, because he was worn several times.
But there are all the guys on that team doing
the same thing. And the fact that he had a
loaded weapon on video several years ago and was suspended.
They are picking on him. Leave him alone, and they're
finding him out. The Wazu eight million dollars plus suspensions.

Speaker 4 (01:56:36):
Leave him alone. He's being picked on. So I blame
the league.

Speaker 7 (01:56:39):
Let it go.

Speaker 3 (01:56:40):
Give him some help, yes, plea your help. I blame him.
They told him, hey man, quit shooting the gun, the
fake gun on the basketball court. He made a decision
to do it. That's on him.

Speaker 5 (01:56:51):
Jamaran has quit being a ding dong, like, just quit
doing that stuff. They've asked you about it, they told
you about it. They want you to be the face
of the league right now. He's messing with the bad.

Speaker 10 (01:57:01):
All right. Well, guys, I like that Bucky ding dongal
it's funny. But let's move on. So college basketball goes there, goes.
I'm never gonna get that anyway, He's wi.

Speaker 8 (01:57:18):
So college basketball has the NCAA Tournament, the nit in
the crown too many?

Speaker 10 (01:57:24):
If so, who do you blame Bucky Brooks?

Speaker 5 (01:57:29):
I don't know, because I don't know who created a crown.
I mean, the crown is nice, but there's a payoff there.
It's a lot of basketball. We already are kind of
like ify on college basketball. It seems like it's too much.
I didn't even know. The nit concluded that's how much
basketball has been going on. So I just kind of
blamed the state of affairs too much basketball, too much.

Speaker 4 (01:57:49):
You can't get enough basketball. It's great.

Speaker 2 (01:57:51):
The only thing that bothers me is got you teams
that have losing records are competing with some of these events,
which I think is ridiculous. I mean, you have to
earn it, and so of these teams aren't earning it.
They're just there on name only. But you know why,
I love basketball. Let him play, keep on playing. You
know why, what's the alternative going to class? You know
we're going to class. Play basketball.

Speaker 8 (01:58:12):
Well, speaking of playing basketball, we got the Yukon women's
basketball basketball actually a page Buker's was projected to be
the number one pick in the w NBA draft and
now getting more hype than Caitlyn Clark did.

Speaker 10 (01:58:25):
Why and hoo do you you blame Andy?

Speaker 4 (01:58:29):
Well, you know what, I blame the game itself. Be goes.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
I think that's the way they sell women's basketball right now.
You got to sell the stars. You gotta sell the names,
and the names basically draw you. When they suck you
in like Caitlin Clark did, and all of a sudden,
you become a user.

Speaker 4 (01:58:42):
You become a user what does that mean.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
You've become a fan and you start watching it, so
you want to see page Becker sye how good she is,
and then you'll keep on watching the game itself.

Speaker 1 (01:58:51):
That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:58:53):
Yeah, I mean, look, she's a great player.

Speaker 5 (01:58:55):
She's a great player, and people are just kind of
reacquainting themselves with her. But she's talented, she's terrific, and
this would be an opportunity for us to.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
See her on the main stage. Never won a Natty,
so she's gonna go hard. I'm sure, all right?

Speaker 8 (01:59:10):
Final blame here, guys. The number eight has been well
known among many athletes and sports so Baltimore Ravens star
Lamar Jackson has taken that number to another level. His
attorney filed a notice of opposition with the Patent and
Trademark Office against NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhard Junior

(01:59:31):
for a pending trademark claim by JR Motorsports. That's his
Earnhart's a team because over the style uses of number eight.

Speaker 10 (01:59:39):
Who do you blame here?

Speaker 8 (01:59:40):
Jackson's notice of opposition is the number style that is
in a different fund. He says it conflicts with his brand,
the Era eight brand. Who do you blame Rocky Brooks.

Speaker 3 (01:59:51):
I don't know. It seems like a live man. I
don't know how you can claim a number like I
think they need to figure out this outlight because.

Speaker 5 (01:59:57):
Everyone has their favorite number. I don't know why they
in court talking about the number. It's kind of weird
to me. I'm laying Lamar Jackson his crew for bringing
it up.

Speaker 4 (02:00:04):
I hate to agree with Bucket Books, but Lamar, you
got more things on your plate.

Speaker 2 (02:00:07):
I mean really, I mean, you got too much free
time on your hand here worrying about your number.

Speaker 1 (02:00:11):
Let it go.

Speaker 2 (02:00:13):
When people see number eight, they know it's you, they
really do. And with that we say, have a great day,
have a great week. We'll see you next Sunday, right
here on Fox Sports Radio.

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