Mike Harmon & Dan Beyer Talk Micah Parsons, Luka Doncic, NFL Fantasy, & So Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
We're there. We've got one game in the books. Sitting
at the news desk. The happiest Isaac Lohancrown is going
to be all year related to Chargers information. Also, you
brought donuts stand byer alongside me, Mike Harmon. It's Fox
Sports Sunday here Fox Sports Radio. So you sugared him up.
So now he's fired up. Guys in the back are
fired up. It's like Holco Mania.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
I feel a little bad, Mike, just because you know this.
There was a time where we had donuts every week. Yeah,
now it's like once every blue moon. But today that
moon is blue. Mic, there are donuts for the crew today.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Nicely done at Dan Byron Fox where you find Dan
find me over at Swollen Dome. Full slate of topics
on board contract talk, more chaos at training camps, who
got the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and some questions
to ask about about that whole process. Because when I
look and you know, remind myself how long it's been

(01:01):
for a couple of guys getting in trine since they
actually donned a football uniform. I raised my hand and
I say, isn't there a better way, an easier way
to not wait thirty years after a final snap for
someone to make sure, hey, they're with us and they
can do these things as opposed to where we're at.
By the way, Happy birthday, Marv Levy's one hundred, Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
I love the graphic the Bills sent out. This is
the funny thing with the Pro Football Hall of Fame
is now, Mike, this is the first time in a
while where they haven't filled the entire class with players
they would. They usually would max out right, and this
year they didn't. There were just four modern era players elected.
But you'd be hard pressed to go back. I think

(01:44):
it probably about fifteen years since that was the case,
maybe even more. They were jamming anybody and everybody in.
So if they're at least going to be finicky about
it now and picky about it, I will take that
as opposed to just let's put everybody in. Plus, they're
cutting down speeches. They're saying, hey, I've only got this.
They're like, we're gonna make this, We're gonna make this
short and sweet. We're gonna limit the number of players

(02:07):
that are getting in. We're gonna get out of this
Hall of Fame weekend and get off the football.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Finally realize that it's one hundred and forty two degrees
under those gold blazers, and you do have the Elder
Statesman there, so let's take care of everybody's health while
we're at it. But yeah, it's the class size. Next
year we've got a couple of would be a seemingly
automatic entrance, but it's just the curiosity. To me, it's

(02:34):
still a museum and that fifth guy isn't changing it.
When we do have such a backlog, as we've talked
about some of these positions for many years, like how's
that got? I mean, like Eric Allen gets in now
and he last played in two thousand and one. Sterling Sharp,
who is a guy that's been argued for well thirty years. Right,

(02:54):
great career with the Packers but cut short, five times
Pro Bowl, three times All Pro only gets in but
hadn't seen a field since nineteen ninety four. It took
thirty years ye decide he was worthy.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, it's it is crazy, and it takes people campaigning
on your behalf, including Shannon Sharp, doing as much. But
you know, like Sterling didn't even make it through the
regular round of the It's fun hit modern era is
the better way you know to put it. Of the
of the four that got in with Gates and Jared Allen,
you mentioned the aforementioned Eric Allen, but yeah, there are

(03:31):
a bunch of players that are waiting. In the wide
receiver position is always one mic that you have a
conversation on. This guy's definitely a Hall of famer. This
guy's definitely a Hall of Famer. They probably are, but
when it comes to the wide receiver position, for some reason,
people are very reluctant to put them in the Hall

(03:51):
of Fame, or at least do so right away.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
I mean, even t had to wait.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Randy Moss was first ballot, Jerry Rice was first ballot,
but otherwise a lot of guys had to wait. I
remember the Chris Carter, Tim Brown, Andre Reid log jam
that you had after waiting all these years, and and
we've seen other names get in. But yeah, there there
is a bit of a weight. And I also thought too,
like you, when you're talking about linemen. We can look

(04:18):
at wide receivers and stats and it's very easy, but
how do you decipher between this lineman or that Lineman. Sure, right,
you know, and so then all of a sudden it
ends up maybe a log jam coming you know, be
coming there and talking offensive Lineman. But yeah, there's it's
an inexact science. I know, you talk with Jason Cole
every week and talk about this whole process, and I'm
still not sure if people understand the whole deal.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah. No, it's it's a fight every year. But I
mean we do this with most halls of fame. I
think the Basketball Hall of Fame is the only one
where everybody just kind of shrugs because it's usually a
very long list of people getting in from yes, various
entry points, great college player, international women's league, the NBA, greatness.
I mean, you can come in from any point point

(05:00):
in that process. But a guy who's trying to make
himself a Hall of Fame career, but first he wants
a new deal. Let's go to Dallas first. We'll get
to the wide receiver later on. We look at Dallas
and Micah Parsons and on Friday he put out a
very long missive I mean you could put together I
think you could take the live version of Indegatta Davida

(05:22):
and play it under it and if you read at
a decent pace, you might get to the end. Might
be it might have been about a twenty one minute
missive that he went to.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Said it was for font like that was the size.
It was four It was so tiny as well. It
took three screenshots.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah, it was. It was. It was a long letter.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Like reading through it and you know, I'm saying I
don't want to be here anymore. Well, we've seen that
tact before, right, We've had guys as recently as Miles
Garrett do that. We we had that conversation about Tyreek Hill.
I'm out and I've met, Well he's in camp eight point.
Miles Garrett eventually got a giant you know, end of
game show size check. He's fine, life is good. We're

(06:00):
gonna win this super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Miles Garrett was naming teams super super Bowl week on
where he would want to go. I remember, what, how
would you fit in Washington? I'd love to love to
be love to be a commander. Well, you're still brown?
What's going on with this? This didn't make any sense?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
So yeah, so that that happens Friday, Right, we get
the missive and now it becomes Parson out and is
it the you know, Bridge too far? Have have you
burned things down with Jerry Jones and and the Cowboys
to the point where it's irreconcilable? Differences would be stamped
on the forums. Well, Jerry Jones took to as he

(06:36):
loves to do, out Knox gn Ard, great throng of
Cowboy fans and of course a lot of media asking Jerry, well,
what do you think of all that talk for Micah?
Don't lose sleep over?

Speaker 1 (06:48):
To Jerry, Bob one thing I would say to our fan,
don't lose a sleepover.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Don't lose any sleepover. It'll be fine. Part of negotiations
was this longer, longer part of it with when I
first read Micah Parsons thing other than trying to figure
out what the proper musical accompaniment was, like a backing
band guy with the stand up base, whatever it's gonna be,
is like I started thinking about, you know, when my
kids were little, and I know I sure as hell
did it to my mom and maybe all of you

(07:14):
out there and those gathered in the room here at
Fox Sports Radio, I have had this experience either done
to you or that you did as a kid, where
you know you didn't get the lunch you wanted. They
didn't get the right color back to school thermos or
lunch box. So you were mad. So you gathered up
whatever toys in your little knapsack into your backpack, whatever

(07:35):
you had laying around, and he said, I'm done. You
don't love me anymore. I'm out of here. I'm believing,
walk about twenty yards, realize you have no idea where
you're supposed to go and what you're gonna do. And
then inevitably you turned around and there was mom just
kind of standing there, or dad or whoever the figure

(07:56):
was to be, like, I come on back in. Because
Michael Parsons was on the sideline at practice. Talk to
Steven Jones. He's there, he's watching and he looks like
there's no place in the world he would rather be.
So it's like that kid that was run away. I'm
done with you, I hate you and everything. You don't
let me do anything. And then there he is right back.

(08:18):
He's like, here, I am. I know it's fifty thousand
dollars dollars a day, but still under the rookie deal
they would get that money back. We're not idiots. He
can still get that cash. Back, but it was just
the optics of it became a all right, this is
really great. It's like a Friday edition of a soap
opera where you actually have something happen to compel you

(08:38):
to watch next Monday before there's four days of nothing happening.
That's where the cowboys are to me right now.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Mike, it's a different world at the end of that driveway.
It's different than what it is like by the garage,
and every six year old realizes that, and that's why
they turn around and go back home. It's just a
different life out there. It's not a different life in
the NFL, though, because Mike, to your point of Micah Parsons,
is still showing up. This isn't a Trey Hendrickson who

(09:04):
at the time left Cincinnati and said see you later.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
I'm going to Florida or wherever. And he's there.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
He's not getting his fines accruing because he is at
least showing up. But again, checking the calendar, it's August third.
This is what happens on August third. Jerry even admits
that's what happens on August third. Jerry thinks this is
all a game. I do think that there is something
interesting happening, happening with Jerry Jones and in some of

(09:35):
the information that is that has come out recently. But
from what you're saying, you'll buy it when it's three
weeks down the line. It's four weeks down the line.
If we're here on September third, which would be a
day before kickoff of the regular season, now we've got something.
Now there's now there's something happening. Even two weeks down

(09:56):
the road, I would say that I think we've got
something because there's got to be some ramp up for
Parsons to be ready to start the season. But to
have this going on, not exact situation, but it's what
Terry McLaurin is kind of dealing with in Washington as well.
We're just dealing with the Dallas Cowboys. So everything is
just ten times bigger.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, when we look at like some of the details
left me scratching my head. Right, if whatever you believe
his side, his side, somewhere in the middle is the truth,
I think we can all recognize that. Right, what you
thought you understood from an informal Hey, let's talk about
leadership and the path going forward again. I don't know,

(10:33):
and I know that's the way Jerry is always operated,
and you've had a bunch of former players jump up,
But the fact that you had those conversations and you
didn't have an agent in the room for some of
that seemed odd to me or your performance guy or
whoever is on your team as an advisor, that you'd
go to that alone and then get to something substantively
enough Dan to where all these months laters like, well,

(10:56):
Jerry thought they had a deal in principle and obviously
other guys got paid. Part of Micah's missive was well,
I wasn't really worried about this. Well, it's pretty clear
that's what you're worrying about.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, I think this is I do think that this
is different than other negotiations with the Cowboys. I think
that Jerry is is saying, you know, it's again August third,
But I do feel that there has been this offensive
from the side of Micah Parsons to attack Jerry Jones.

(11:27):
And maybe it's the taking the part of the conversations
personally when the agent wasn't involved, and to your point
of Jerry Jones almost trying to stronghand Micah Parsons into
a deal. But now what we've seen is we've seen
a lot more reports. Jerry speaks for Jerry, but everybody

(11:48):
is speaking out now from their side of things with
Jerry Jones, which is, I think, putting him in a
bad light. And it's also a light mic that I
feel is different than what we thought Jerry Jones usually did,
and that was Jerry Jones wants to pretend to play hardball.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
And then he just caves at the end.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Right, Well, now we're finding out that Jerry Jones plays
hardball and also plays dirty pool with it and maybe
tries to strong arm of player and then not necessarily
respect the player by allowing that agent to be part
of the process and then now working in the media,
and he's done it more than anybody else. Now there's
actual pushback coming from the other side. And we didn't

(12:26):
necessarily hear that. I saw Tony Romo clip recently about
over the last couple of days at surfaced years back
with Jerry Jones, Bill Parcells and Tony Romo talking about
the contract that Romo was getting. Romo stood his ground.
We found out that DeMarcus Lawrence didn't DeMarcus Lawrence ended
up getting fooled if you will buy Jerry Jones and
buying in and maybe not getting the contract that he

(12:48):
should have done. But I find it interesting that there
are more and more stories coming out now about how
negotiations actually go.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
With Jerry Jones.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Then I found it even more interesting that the line
was drawn with Micah Parsons. Doesn't draw with ceedee lamb,
that we're hearing these stories. It wasn't drawn with Dak Prescott,
that it was drawn with Michaeh Parsons. And that's kind
of the old saying, bleep around and find out, like
you don't necessarily know where the line is, right, And
I think that Jerry will find Yeah, and I think
Jerry Jones is probably surprised that Michah Parsons is the line.

(13:18):
So now you wrong, and I'm using air quotes here
in an audio format, You wrong, Jerry Jones. And now
all these things are coming out, and I have to
think underneath Jerry is really really bothered by it, because
it's not only showing that not only are these negotiations odd,
they're disrespectful to the players. And it's been something that's

(13:39):
been going on for a while now in Dallas.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, I mean, and look, I can't tell people how
to feel right, and that's the thing. Player to player.
The story is consistent. But if you're able to do
whatever your job, pick wherever you work out there, Joe
and Susie Q public, whatever you do for your job,
if there's someone in your office, maybe do it and
you can skirt the line. Right, Hey, your lunch break's

(14:02):
supposed to be fifteen, but then you're eighteen, twenty twenty. No,
but nobody says anything, right, you don't get dinged in
your job reviews and whatever, you're gonna push that boundary.
I'd take the most innocuous part, because obviously there's plenty
of other things you could be doing at your job
to where you're really towing a whole other line. But
with Jerry, same thing. Right, you're the owner and you've

(14:24):
been able to do this for thirty years. Whatever, whatever
you think about you know whether it's an underhead attack
because Jerry's also being much more vocal right taking the
shot said while we signed Dak and then he was unavailable,
we signed Mike. You know, Michael has missed a bunch
of games last year. So yeah, if you don't go

(14:45):
through the agent. The agent's there is the filter. I
don't have one, so I get the tough love when
it comes time to talk about this. I mean full transparency.
You know, the agent's supposed to be there to try
to figure out the words, phraseology, put it into some
great agents speak to make you feel better about yourself.
It's like, well, they'd like you to do this, versus
your boss just punching you in the face with whatever
they need to do. I mean, you handle a part

(15:09):
of our world here at Fox. I mean, you know
how it is. It's different, it's a different tag. But
if you've been able to operate under the all right,
we can get everything in a framework and then eventually
the pencil pushers come in and finish the job. You're
gonna do that. So like for Jerry, that's worked for
thirty years. Yeah, so suddenly to have someone push back

(15:30):
so publicly. I still want to know how the agent
wasn't involved even at the start like that just well,
that's just a problem problem to me.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
I think there's a lot in what you said in
those last two sentence is for the last thirty years,
because how they did business thirty years ago is not
how they do business today and like things change and
now you have to you have to have that line drawn.
And I do think for a while that Jerry Jones
does think it's the good old days that he can
just saddle up next to a guy strong arm and

(16:00):
in a room and that's what he does and make
you think, by the way, remember a couple of months.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
But that's it. It's convincing you that you've got what
you need and you're right.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
And yeah, remember when I told you how I was
looking for a job and I went to the pyramid
scheme filter. Sure, it's not that different for what Jerry
Jones is doing. You show up wanting to find about
find out about a job, and they're in your face
trying to get you to go away for three days
and pay two thousand dollars to go to some conference

(16:30):
in Saint Louis, which again true story. Car dealership, right,
you go in, you're just looking for cars. You get
in that office, they do not want you to leave
without And I feel that Jerry is doing that, Like
Jerry's bringing you in, maybe on a false pretense of
we're going to talk, but I'm going to try to
suck you into a deal. And now I think what
that's done is that's burned bridges where everything is so professional.

(16:53):
Maybe back in the day it felt like you could
have these old handshake deals. That's just not what the
NFL is anymore. I'm not sure that's what professional sports
is anymore. You very rarely have that sort of thing.
And then even though those days are gone by Mike,
the frustrating thing I think is from the player side
of things is that it's not like Jerry is being
good natured on a handshake deal, like he's trying to

(17:15):
shake you down. He's trying to shake you down in
that way, and I think it ultimately comes back to
them feeling disrespected by what happens. And so then now
when you hear other stories, you hear Dez Bryant, you know,
sticking up for Michaeh Parsons and his negotiations being brought in.
I mean, how many other negotiations are we going to
talk about that are being brought up, whether it be
brought up by Jerry or other people. So this has

(17:37):
been a problem over the last thirty years, and now
that line is Michah Parsons, and I think I don't
know if they're going on the offensive, going on the
attack because they feel like there could be like blood
in the water. But I think it really reveals on
how archaic in some of the ways Jerry Jones does things,
which also then reflects on why the team has not

(17:59):
been able to be six that's well for the last
thirty years because those ways of doing things back then
are not the way of doing things right now. So
I think that there's they see an opportunity to show
let's just show we got this old, senile, crazy guy
who thinks it's nineteen ninety four and wants to do
business that way, and we're not gonna do it. Because
there's way more, way more details coming out about this
than I remember about the dak or Ceedee Lamb thing.

(18:21):
I never heard other stories as much as I've heard
over these last couple of days.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, I mean with Jerry, it's, you know, to my
original train of thought with it, it's like you push
the line, it's until it's gone right, and finally someone
had the backbone to do this. It comes at an
interesting time too, because now we're talking about how Jerry
does business and we're watching over here. Meanwhile, all that

(18:48):
stuff with the PA and all the malfeasans and problems
is circulating over here. That gets pushed to the background
because we're talking about football in twenty twenty five. It's
on the field.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
This is more juicier though than the stuff I will say,
like the Cowboys and Jerry Jones and Michael Parsons star player,
Like who, right, who wouldn't want to be a Cowboy?
I've even said, Mike with you, like if there's if
there's one position that you would want to pick to
be in the National Football League with any team, it's
quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. And Michael Parsons isn't the
quarterback because he's kind of the quarterback of the defense

(19:18):
because of how good he is and and his value
to that to that unit. So there is extreme value
and there is importance when that stars on the side
of your helmet.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
To find my Leviedy and and all. I did see
a couple of memes out of Chicago saying he's holding
out and mad because he doesn't want to work with Eberflus.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Let's just let him be.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
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(20:00):
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Speaker 2 (21:19):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Sunday,
My Garment and Dan Byer with you. Thanks for being
with us wherever you're traveling about here on a Sunday
as we get into the final throws of the summer break,
registration and all that stuff for schools coming up. Yeah,
good time picture day on Wednesday here in the South
Bay before school. I don't have a thing really there? Yeah, interesting,

(21:43):
I think that's you know, you get everybody back, you
get all the principle like that way you can just
get into class.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
I just remember back in the day, it was like
third or fourth week of school. Sure, you know, you
show up and you got to pick wich package. Abed
er f.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Boy, I tell you, what do you see in a
pack of pictures? Oh?

Speaker 3 (22:07):
I am aware because they apparently had pictures in preschool.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yes, two of them.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Seems like this one's easier. Now there's so many things
you can do and digitally manipulate it as opposed to
I got to stand here for twenty five minutes to
make sure I got the right shot of your kids.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Kids.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
You not the preschool that we just exited had fallen
spring pictures.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Wow wow yeah Dublin, Yeah, yes they do.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
This is that sit on Santa's lap for the Holidays pictures.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
They got this scheme going on with Johnson Photography.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
No, just made it up.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Take that Johnson had the Empire on Fox. Find me
that's walling dope, all right. Fantasy season now flowing upon us.
We've got a replay of the Hall of Fame game
on Dodgers and Ray's already added out at Steinbrenner Field
down the road from my folks. We've got golf. We
got the hung Gary in f one race where you

(23:03):
had Axel Rose walking the pits. Very strange world I'm
living in where he's so social.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
But all of that.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
We've got Fantasy season up on the board, and it prompted,
you know, a little bit of the discussion. We did
our division by division, Dan, and now we start looking
ahead and trying to firm up some of those positional rankings,
a little bit of fluidity at the top of the boards.
And I just want to start with the quarterback position.
And I look at the top ten on average as

(23:30):
the draft. There's two guys that just stand out to
me greatly, and I want to get your thought on those.
Patrick Mahomes is currently the ADP sixth quarterback off the board.
Does it run? Your top receiver may not be there
for a while, still waiting on discipline for Rashid Rice.
He was eleventh last year. I know Travis Kelsey is back,

(23:53):
lean and mean and ready to go, so I've got him.
And then number ten is justin fields like I love
Garrett as much as anybody, and Fields may run around
and at times like his hair is on fire. There's
no chance in hell I'm drafting him as a I've
seen this, I've.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Got it on the paper here. I am in lockstep
with you, overrated Mahomes Fields, that's absolutely Now. We may
differ on who's underrated or who's undervalued, but I completely
agree with you like we are. They are basing Justin
Fields on one season, three seasons ago with the Chicago

(24:34):
Bears to have these sort of numbers, and I just
I don't think. I don't think that the Jets as
well will be as willy nilly as the Bears were
at that point. I feel that that it's important for
Aaron Glenn to try to install this culture that they
have there. So I think things are going to be organized.
I actually like the running backs that they have. I

(24:56):
like Bryce Hall, Brayln Allen, so I think that that's
where you're going to see more of the Jets focus.
I'm completely with you on that. And then on the
chief side of things, again, not to sound like an echo,
what even the front office said, may it may have
been Clark Hunt saying that they even saw Travis Kelce.

(25:19):
They know that He's not the same Travis Kelcey as before.
So you're even admitting that that maybe what we're getting
from Travis Kelcey in the regular season is now the norm.
There really hasn't been a huge push if you're gonna lose,
you know, Rashi Rice Xavier Worthy is not your go
to guy. Yeah, I just and they're a defensive football

(25:41):
team right now, and all they care about is winning
games and not fantasy stats. So I'm right there with
you on Mahomes. It's six overvalued, justin fields at value overvalued.
In fact, Mike the quarterbacks at nine, eleven and twelve,
I would take over Patrick Mahomes at this point.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
So I'm looking at Nick's purty and Prescott. You've talked
about Prescott in the past, and certainly he's a guy
that the upside is tremendous if he's there, right, especially
if this Micah Parsons then really blows up. Yes, and
now we're really talking about ay go score forty points
a game kind of situation that develops there. I had

(26:18):
one other guy that I circled in and was kind
of heaman and hauling about, and it goes to our
other contract issue. Assuming let's just assume, for all intents
and purposes that Terry McLaurin shows up and he's ready
to work. Jayden Daniels is the on average, the third
quarterback coming off the port. I'm I'm a little reticent

(26:39):
to push all my chips to the to the front
of the table.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah, especially as well, not that they weren't playing winning football,
because they were. But even early on his numbers were good,
you know, like their opening week game they had against Tampa,
which was really the only game that they seemingly when
they when they weren't turning into the new Commanders because
it was just earlier in the season.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
He still got into the end zone a couple of
times with that.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
But he's like revitalized, a guy like zach Ertz in
his you know, in his vench in his rebirth as
you will, as a tight end.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
I agree with you that the McLaurin deal could hurt Daniels.
I just don't know how far I would drop him, right, Like,
I mean, maybe go Hurts Burrow. I think there is
just as many questions about Jalen Hurts now repeating on
a Super Bowl year as there would be with Daniels,
But yeah, I think I think it's warranted in that
case if you had Alan and Lamar one two or

(27:35):
two to one. However, that maybe now Jayden Daniels isn't
the orgone conclusion at number three.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
All right, let's go to the running back position. Someone
that stood out for you in that RB one.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, I'll just I'll give you the overrated portion of it,
and I just it's Ashton Genty. To me, Mike, I
think that there is reason for hype, and I think
that there is reason to be excited about it. But
according to my rankings and a half point PPR, he's fourth,
and that just to me is I'm not sure how

(28:08):
great the Raiders are gonna be. I think they're gonna
be competitive. I know Chip Kelly likes to run the football,
but you also did pay Gino Smith some money. You
also have Rock Bauers there. I just feel that there
are other guys that, like I told you, I like
Jonathan Taylor. I do, as crazy as it sounds, a

(28:29):
chan for as bad as the Dolphins are going to be,
I think he could be one of the only things
that they have. And I would just I put more
stock in those guys than I would in putting genty.
I mean that's fourth running back off the board for
a guy that hasn't taken a snap yet. So that
to me, I was a little buyer beware on.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, I go sticking around the top five and I'm
looking squarely at Christian McCaffrey. He's won me leagues in
the past. Yeah, we certainly pushed in on him. I
did a couple of years ago on the podcast and
it worked out well. Right, seem like counterintuitive based off
of a prior injury. I don't know that I can
go back to the well. Like part of me is

(29:07):
excited to see what he's going to do and look
wish great success because stars on the field, we all win.
But either fourth, fifth, or sixth, depending on what style
of ranking you're looking at. But expecting him to come
back and suddenly be a three hundred touch guy again
with the same level of explosiveness, and for all of

(29:28):
that to work, like maybe they got the full injury
bug out. They certainly have gotten rid of all of
the contract nonsense that plagued them from a year ago,
so at least the noise is gone. But now it's
a question of are all those guys coming back healthy
and loaded for Bear?

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Yeah, I think that's It's we always talk about when
does a quarterback fall off? Right, Like when is that line?
And you're always worried about it. I actually feel it's
the same thing with the forty nine ers. And we
work with a couple of forty nine ers fans here
at Fox Sports Radio, and and I'm and I'll name names,
Rich Davis and Brandon Deutsch who Brandon you know on

(30:04):
social media?

Speaker 4 (30:04):
Rich Davis at Cavino.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
And Rich they love the Niners prospects this year because
of how weak that schedule is, and I think that's fair.
But this is also like the same core of guys
that we're talking about a peak season of two or
three years ago, so like that's just not gonna pop
up again. Just kind of like the Justin Fields thing,
but actually in a more extreme scenario, because we're talking

(30:26):
about old guys now right in the National Football League
and the mileage that's on them. So I'm with you, Like,
if you were to get Christian McCaffrey as the seventh
or eighth overall running back or Ashton Genty at that point,
I think you're like excited about it. When you get
them at four or five, I just am I'm like, okay,

(30:48):
well they better hit because otherwise I've lost my value.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Well, you're gonna have to push in, Like that's the thing, right,
if you want one of those guys, you're making that
commitment in round one that you're grabbing them, so now
you know the rest of the team that you're you're
basing it off of and building around. Becomes a much
different animal. How about a wide receiver off the board.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Sure sure.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
You mentioned Garrett Wilson earlier. I overrated like where he's
ranked the other one. I don't mean to pile on.
I truly don't never be ashamed to pile it on.
But AJ Brown is tenth, and I just there's never
been a week. There wasn't a week last year where
I just look at and say AJ Brown won me
that week. And I think there are a lot of

(31:32):
guys in that top ten that you can look at
and say, obviously Jamar Chase, Justin, Jefferson, Ceedee Lamb, those
guys can do it, Like AJ Brown is a nice
contributor along those lines. But I just feel that the
I think it'll be difficult for the Eagles to repeat
this year, you still have everybody there that you have
to throw the football to. So to put AJ Brown

(31:54):
tenth where I think, I feel like Lad McConkey is
going to be the guy with the Chargers we saw
him like, I'd rather have Lad mcconkey's crazy as it sounds,
I think that A. J. Brown is overhyped year after
year after year from when he actually gives you on
the football field.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, and you look at just the how disparate it is.
Smith's twenty third in terms of your wide receivers there
in Philadelphia. The guy that stands out to me and
the monster rookie season despite the ineffectiveness and efficiency at
the quarterback position. But will lightning strike twice? And that's
Malik Neighbors currently an ADP of four or five, depending

(32:31):
on who you're looking at. I like, I think going
to be able to force feed him the ball for
a second straight year. So I'm not so convinced that
defenses aren't changing up to just take him away. Sure,
I mean, Tyrone Chercy had a nice season like running
back wise and whatever, but that quarterback position is going
to be a revolving door. Although I did like the

(32:53):
thriller dance that Jamis Winston did at practice spot on representation. Yeah,
I didn't see it's children of that era. We would
appreciate the work that he did on.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
I mean, yeah, I for everybody that's around him. When
you look at everybody that's around him in the rankings,
they're it's almost winning football. And I just don't know
if because the Giants we expect to just not be good.
We're talking bottom five, bottom eight, everybody else, Chase Hookah, Nicocollins, Amanra,

(33:31):
all of those guys are on winning football teams in
that same neighborhood. So you're either planning on garbage time,
which I think is a risky thing to do, and
if you're doing that, you're posting him up to that point.
I think that's a I think that's a pretty good pick.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah. The other part to it is the psychology of
just that. Are we talking rankings as a all right,
here's the most consistent and great player versus all right,
he's going to get to fifth. I may only have
like three games that constitute forty percent of that production
kind of situation, which they may be just bad enough
that that's the case.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
They should be. Their defense could be good. They could, yes,
but the offense, I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
There you go, He's Dan Bayer. I'll buy carbon. Check
out the Outwatching Flex podcast wherever you get the podcast
at Dan byro on Fox where you find and find
me over at Swollen Dome. Now it's kick it over
to Isaac Lowancrown, coming off of the only Charger game
this year that he may not have gotten a single
negative call in post except for Omarion Hampton and his
decision making on that goal line carry only two carries.

Speaker 7 (34:35):
Yeah, well, he did have a beautiful eight yarder earlier.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
But you're right.

Speaker 7 (34:38):
It might be the peak of fandom with them undefeated
with a plus twenty seven points and a plus five
turnover ratio.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
We've got two Major League.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
Baseball games going on right now, guys, right now at
Fenway Park. The Red Sox have just tied the Astros
at one in the bottom of the fourth, but Houston's
run coming out of home run by Carlos Correa, his
first since being reacquired by the Astros. Right now, the
Tampa Bay Raised in Los Angeles Dodgers are scoreless in
the top of the third. Earlier than Milwaukee Brewers put
right hander Jacob Mezarowski on the fifteen day injured list

(35:10):
with a left tibia confusion. Speedway Classic Saturday night at
Tennessee's Bristol Motor Speedway between the Braves and Reds suspended
in the first inning due to reign with the Reds
leading one nothing, and it'll be set to resume at
the top of the hour.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
And the stands right now actually.

Speaker 7 (35:23):
Filling up pretty well, according to a photo on social
media posted just moments ago by a fan who goes.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
By at Mile High Bill.

Speaker 7 (35:32):
At Mile High Bill with the latest in the NFL,
Buffalo Bill's head coach Sean McDermott told reporters today receiver
Khalil Shakiro week to week with a high ankle sprain.
The Philadelphia Eagles held receiver Aj Brown out of practice
today due to a hamstring injury. And finally, guys, today
is the one hundredth birthday of a.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Pro Football Hall of Famer.

Speaker 7 (35:54):
This guy right, legendary former Buffalo Bill's head coach Marv
Levy celebrating has one hundredth birthday today.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
He is also known for this went.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
To college with that official I went I went to College.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
You have human.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Here. You all refcious chirk a that note back to you.
That's a pretty good line. The Chicago's very own cheers
Coach Levy. All right, coming up next, old faces and
new places yet trade deadline, Hall of Fame. We got
a lot of things this could be. We'll tell you
what it's all about next here, h Fox. You're listening

(36:35):
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(36:57):
it's Dan. Here's the giant stick microphone.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Guys. We're tight on time.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
So it's a good thing that there's only the top
six answers on the board. And in fact, I will
give you guys a bonus, Yes, a bonus if you
get the first one right.

Speaker 4 (37:10):
I'm going to give you a clue.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
All right, Mike and I are gonna be talking about
this at least some point later on in the show,
Major League Baseball's at Bristol. Right, top six answers on
the board. US states that have hosted a regular season
Major League Baseball game that don't have a Major League
Baseball team. So there are six states that have hosted

(37:31):
a regular season Major League Baseball game, but they don't
have a team. I'll just tell you the California. We
got a bunch of them. So California's off the board.
Mike Harmon, Chris Purfett, Shay Morgan Guard and Isaac Lowencron
make up our Fox family. You get one, right, I
give you a clue. Mike, we start with you. All right,

(37:55):
Let's go to the state of Oregon. Okay, state of Oregon.
A lot of great stuff in Oregon. Is it Oregon?
It is not Oregon? All right, over to Chris Perfett.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
I mean this is a good one. Iowa for the
field of dreams.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
Show me Iowa.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
There it is twice in twenty twenty one and twenty
twenty two. Here is your hint. All of these states
ended a vowel. Oh wow, Okay, that's interesting. Yes, yes,
So five more to go over to Shay. US states
that have hosted a regular season Major League baseball game
that don't have a Major League Baseball team.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
I don't know. Let's go Hawaii. I feel like they
played at Hawaii.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Show me Hawaii three games set by the Padres in
nineteen ninety seven. Wow, yes, three games were played on
the islands. Hawaii is off the board. Over to Isaac Lohencroft.

Speaker 7 (38:51):
You have the hook up at Cashman Field in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
All right, is it Nevada? No?

Speaker 3 (38:59):
No, not according to Wikipedia, not according to Wikipedia.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
All right, over to Mike Carmen.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
By the way, this is up to the minute, even
if games aren't fully completed. Up to the up to
the minute, even if games aren't fully completed.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Even if games are not completed, So use Tennessee.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
Then show me Tennessee. There it is all right? Hey,
we got any getting in of the.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Spareway game between the uh, nicely doing the Reds and Braves.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
All right, Back around to Chris Purfett.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
I've got to think it's one of these two, and
unfortunately I have to decide between North and South.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Okay, all right, North Carolina, show me North Carolina. Yeah,
you're doing so well. South Carolina was wrong. There was
no South Carolina. There was a game at Fort Bragg
in twenty twenty three. All right, over to Shay.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
I think this happened last year. Alabama, show me Alabama.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
This professional ballpark of the US is Rickwood Field in Birmingham.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
They played a game there last year. All right, Isaac
lohing Cross.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
I was that was the one I picked. I'm doomed.

Speaker 7 (40:10):
So I'm gonna just take a wild guess and say
that for some reason, they played a game at that
ballpark in.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
In Indianapolis, Indiana?

Speaker 4 (40:24):
Is it Indiana? It's you guys.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Not that you're gonna kick yourself, but you're gonna be like, oh,
that was that makes sense? Nebraska. They played a game
at the College World Series really twenty nineteen as part
of that. In Juna twenty nineteen, they played a game
in Nebraska.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
Did they get jello shots? I don't think so. Twenty
nineteen at Yeah TD was it?

Speaker 3 (40:54):
Yeah tdam Meritrade Stadium America TDIA America Trade Park, Royals
and Tigers Oils beat the Tigers sevent to three.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Iowa, Hawaii, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, Nebraska. Thanks Dan. Coming
up next back into more contract talk one that actually
got signed. Next greetings and welcome in day Baseball underway
a couple of games. We've got the final rounds of
the regular season and the PGA trying to avoid the

(41:24):
cut line. Dan was giving me the primer of Final
seventy because we got to see highlights of shots from yesterday.
And you know, as soon as the guy can use
the awning of the hospitality test, color me intrigued.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
It's a backstop. They'll use it to their advantage. They will.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
So you've got Cameron Young who's on the verge of
maybe getting his first ever career PGA Tour victory. But
the real drama comes up on the overall top seventy
the top seventy on the FedEx Cup Points list end
up making it to the playoffs that start next week.
So if you're number seventy, good for you. Number seventy

(42:03):
one's not gonna cut it, Mike. So that's where the
real drama takes place today in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
See some crazy, happy Gilmour like shots here, maybe in
the back nine, trying to steal a shot here and there.
With some of the chaos.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
It was a what was your review? On Happy Gilmore too.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
I thought it worked. Yes, I didn't go in expecting Shakespeare.
I didn't go in expecting an Academy Award winning thing.
I got to go back and count all the the
cameos because they are plenty throughout the movie. But you know,
it hit all the nostalgic feels. So it worked for me.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
The cameo that people may not have realized but now
they are because he's making the rounds. A Hunter Mayhan
served as Adam Sandler's body double, and we were filling
in for Communo and rich on Friday, Monci and I
were and we had a Hunter on to talk about
what life was like as a is the backup to
Adam Sandler, the body double. And I don't to give

(43:00):
away anything, but the green that you see at the
end of of the movie is not AI generated. You
told us it was a real green constructed that way,
that moved that way. So it wasn't camera tricks and
stuff that you thought. I don't want to give it away.
A practical, Yes, practical, So I didn't. I didn't realize

(43:24):
that that was the case. And obviously, as I was
trying to figure out where in the movie it was
Hunter swinging the club and not Adam Sandler. Monci's point was, yeah,
you're not supposed to tell, So like, yeah, I get it,
I'm not supposed to You didn't know if he could
tell or if his his wife could tell. But that
last seed I thought completely was or you know, one
of the the last shots was going to be completely

(43:44):
AI generated and it was not.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Yeah, I'd be out there selling the hell out of that.
Look what we constructed, what we did, because I mean,
it was, it was. It was good to the end
of it. Uh to the point I made Yeah last
week as we started to talk about it, as you know,
before we realized forty six million people tuned in last weekend.
So congratulations to Happy Madison Productions and all the success

(44:07):
there are. Colleague Dan Patrick part of the movie as
he is with the Adam Sandler universe. But I loved
all the golfers in it. Like Scheffler was fantastic because
coming off of the heels of talking about him in
a different trying to get inside his head, and then bam,
there he is in this movie and he's got some
great one lion or some little one acts like he

(44:29):
gets it. Rory McElroy and and some others, like they
Cavalcade of Stars, no question about it. So I thought
that was what that worked.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
I thought Vern Lunquist stole the show to me.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Him and hanging alongside post alone. Who now he's doing
interviews like I never knew him, but man, we had
a great deal. Yes, yes, well, but it's when they
cut to Vern for the first time, like you get
the fields.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
Yeah right, you and I have watched Burn our entire lives.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
So like there's just that moment. I have no idea
what he's going to say, you know, it's I mean,
it's to say on their movie, So he's gonna get
at least one or two crazy ass one liners before
it's done. But just him popping up on screen just
made me smile. It's like they brought Vern back.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
Yes, it was great, it was great, and then he
just he added more and more to it, whether it
be the look or the commentary was good.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
So you gotta go back for seconds on I might,
I might have to.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
I might have to again. Between Bluie and other shows.
Sometimes the DVR is not at my disposal, but I
try to find what I can find.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Gotta find your respite there somewhere along the way I
went saw Naked Gun. I was telling Dan here, Look,
if you remember the original series, all the one liners
and gags, you can't see it just once. I went
with my daughters, and I'm sure there's a million little
jokes that I missed or site gags in the background.
But Liam Neeson, we've seen him in a number of

(45:52):
little quick comedy things through the years. It works and
good for him and Pam Anderson finding their next iteration.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Yeah yeah, what a, what a? What an unknown surprise
that that.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Was little extra bonus as we walked through.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
Hey.

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(46:29):
we'd love dying in the pop culture and music and
Well for the next story, there's only one band that
can bring us in that's it. Doing a residency at
the Sphere in Las Vegas. They were joined by three year,
one hundred and sixty five million dollars. It's all he
could get at this point. Luca Dancitz and a celebrating

(46:51):
party from the Los Angeles Lakers. It's his favorite band,
and they said, let's hook this up.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
I saw TikTok with him and Brian Latro eye to eye.
Latrell just was on a table. He's the shortest of
the backstreet boys. But what a whirlwind of the Lakers
and the twenty four hours, all Lebron less as it's
all about Luca in La Well.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
And that's the thing, right from Rachel Nichols on Twitter
and so many others that made sure to say, oh
here's who showed up, or however they termed it basically
saying the elephant in the room. There he is posting
his workouts with the you know, at the Clippers facilities
and everything else. Lebron had the run of shots the

(47:36):
other day. You know, it's like I'm in the gym
and okay, great, we had him in Cleveland. We've had
all this other stuff. The hey look at me, look
at me again, it's the you know, I used it earlier,
the kid leaving town, you know, and saying I'm running
away because I don't like you. In this case, it's
the ah the second kid came in and I don't
feel like I've loved it all anymore. And that's where

(47:59):
Lebron is with the changing of the guard to the
new world order that is Luka doncics how this team
has been built, the fact that he's been the guy
recruiting players. We have the he said, he said, going
back to those kind of fun things. As to whether
Lebron and his team knew about the sale the Laker, well,

(48:20):
Luca and his team clearly did. And all of the
who's getting information, who's not? And going forward, every one
of the new additions this off well that they did,
they weren't in Vegas. The new additions to the Lakers
gave the way for the right pioneers. But to the
to the Lakers side, the roster editions, every one of

(48:42):
those guys has come forward to say, hey, I talked
to Luca. Luca called me, and here's where we were
going to. Where Lebron is just you know, this shadow
that's hanging over and stomping up and down, wanting his way.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
I think the easiest way to say it is right now,
the Lakers and Lebron are not in sync.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
No, that's that.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
That's the easiest way to say it when you're talking
about the relationship between Lebron and the Lakers organization.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
I looked at what happened yesterday. Sorry, it was there,
you had to take it.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
The thing that stood out to me was I felt
that this was Lakers driven. And the reason being, Mike
is we're in We're based in Los Angeles. The Lakers
are in Los Angeles. The Lakers have always been about
a show. I've always been about being the show. To
be a show, you don't have a press conference on

(49:35):
a Saturday afternoon, as you quickly announced this extension that
Luca got at some point in late morning yesterday. Isaac
was at the news desk, but all of a sudden,
you have the extension news conference and then all the
players are around. So that to me was completely orchestrated

(49:56):
by the Lakers to show we don't need Lebron, we
don't want Lebron here for this to hijack this moment.
He's obviously not at our facility working out because look
at all the players who are look at all the
players that are here that are doing their stuff and
not doing stuff in random gyms. This is about us,
and this is about Luca, and in a way empowering

(50:19):
Luca that this is now your team no matter what
happens this year with Lebron, he is not even a
part of our equation and we don't even give him
second thought in terms of who this franchise now belongs to,
and it's all yours. I felt it it was crafted
that way because Mike, you could announce it on Saturday,

(50:39):
have it on a Tuesday, because you're gonna get more
media there, gets into the week news, you know, the
weekday news cycle. In a way, it almost felt like
it may have been buried a little because it happened
on a Saturday afternoon, and that is very unlakerlike. And
I think that they did that because of Lebron, and
they wanted to keep him away and to show that
they're in control. They knew Lebron was going to be

(51:01):
there for the photo op and they knew we would
all talk about it. But it was all a quick
turnaround of promoting this and hyping this when I thought
it would be Hey, Wednesday ten am, Lakers facility, we're
going to have Luca there and announce it. That's not
how it was done, and I think that was directly
to show that they didn't want Lebron to be a
part of it.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Well the deal in principle, you could have just said, hey,
you know, this is happening and move on and we'll
talk about it in fold to your point as the
week goes on, get everybody assembled. But you know, they
take a page out of the Lebron playbook, make it
all about themselves. Yes, right, because that's all Lebron. Look
because he said all the right things after Lucas showed up,

(51:42):
you know, and you could take tone and tenor and
whatever in some of his postgame comments and exit interview
comments about you know, it being Lucas squat and you
can you know, squash it and just say no, you know,
I'm not buying this, and that's fine because I don't
like in terms of what he felt because he doesn't look.
I can't tell a guy how to feel, right, is

(52:04):
a tenet that I try to live by. We put
the cards on the table. If you're mad, sometimes we're
just not going to agree, you know, whoever you are
in my world, in business and whatever. For Lebron, he
had the easy out and he didn't take it. He
opted in for his fifty two point six, right, So
anything that comes back on him, he chose this path,

(52:28):
which makes life a lot harder in terms of the
basketball side of it, right, because none of these contenders
are going to give up anything commensurate to fifty two
million dollars because most of what you want or what
they're willing to try, it's all young guys on young contracts,
and it guts the core of what makes them a contender.
Whatever you think Lebron has left in the tank, he

(52:50):
doesn't replace three guys in a seven man rotation, right,
And that's what would have to happen. So by opting
in instead of just saying, you know what I'm done,
I'm opting out. I'll go find my fortunes. I get it.
I couldn't walk away from fifty two million dollars very
easily either. But it's also the if you really wanted
to go play somewhere else, you had the opportunity. Now

(53:12):
you're just being a pain in the ass and then
you add your social media part to all of this.
At every turn, does he want to be a cavalier?
Is he going to be here? The flirtations with Dallas right,
and his old friends Kyrie Irving and Anthony Davis and
all the rumor he's really intrigued. He could be intrigued
about whatever the hell he wants to be intrigued about.

(53:33):
It's like he could have a lot of great dreams.
By signing that fifty two million dollar opt in, or
by opting in to trigger it, he eliminated a lot
of choice, and all you want to do is avail
yourself with options. Now, he's basically just tried to drive
that line in the sand that Luca and the Lakers
in their cool beach looking garb before they went to

(53:54):
see the Back Street Boys erased on Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
Well it was it was quite the stance.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
And I completely agree with you that now it was
the Lakers turn to do their social media blitz, to
do their own media blitz, and I just wonder what
this season is going to be like. I honestly think
that they all got together and except Lebron and are saying,
all right, let's just let's let's get through the season.
But luculd just know that, like you are our guy,

(54:20):
Like this is your franchise now, and we are committed
to you. So whatever whatever shenanigans may go on between
September and April and May, depending on how far they play,
maybe June, I doubt it, but let's just say April
and May and maybe June that after that point then
it's it's it's his team now. But then after that

(54:42):
point it's really his team, and that they aren't gonna
waver from that. And none of us were surprised that
he signed the deal. What I was surprised about, again,
kind of like the Jerry Jones stuff, was again the messaging.
And I'm not trying to critique any insider or reporters
work on the story, but we got this lovingly loving

(55:03):
review mic of how the Lakers and JJ Reddick and
Rob Polenka and Jeanie Buss and Mark Walter and the
new ownership and everybody that's coming together and bringing Luca
in and how this is collaborative and now this is
all positive. All of that messaging is completely opposite of

(55:23):
what feels like the Lebron James era was about. And
so again it feels like the Lakers are bending over
backwards to try to show and so insiders and people
that are connected are saying, on, this is how this
extension came about. I didn't need to know any of that.
Luca was going to sign the extension, Like what better
place would he have to go? Like he's going to

(55:46):
be a superstar with the Lakers, Like there really weren't
any options. He wasn't going anywhere. And so to hear
all of the work that they put in over the
last six months to make Luca like he was going
to be back, he was going to sign the extension
and then when this is done, you'll pay him even
more money after that, none of that was a surprise.
But to hear the messaging of it really makes me

(56:07):
think that, you know, the Lakers wanted to show on
how this is. This organization is being led by Luca
and it's not the days of Lebron James.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Yeah, two and one. So a three year deal, one
sixty five, the option that final year, which can he'll
be at ten years in the league to trigger whatever
it's going to be like four fourteen, four twenty is
the estimate of what the next Supermax will be. But
it's just funny, right because the last couple of years,
us being here in LA and being surrounded by you know,

(56:36):
Laker and Dodger fans everywhere we turn a lot of
the Lebron messaging as it came in pejoratively or or factually.
We were always trying to figure out where the truth
was and anything was that Clutch Sports ran the Lakers.
This is the proverbial flag back in Genie Boss for

(56:58):
three years, five years, whatever the actual term is, before
she cycles out and Walter and all his crew re
reconstitute the raw in the front office and all the
management of the Lakers is to that point, right, we're
at the table because before it seemed like Lebron and
Clutch had moved all their desks to the basement like

(57:20):
Milton and office space, and we're running the Lakers.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Just think of I just think of that, that image
of all the players being there and not that they
were used as pawns, but in a way that they
were there to shove it in Lebron's face and maybe
they are sick of Lebron, so there are willing participants.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
How do we get a quote from one of them.
There's the question where did they go in Vegas after
the Backstreet Boys? Because what am I get? Audio or video?

Speaker 3 (57:48):
And that's all people could tweet about was that picture
because the contract wasn't a surprise, but it was who's
not pictured? That was the common phrase. And you know
the Lakers knew exactly what they were doing in that instance.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Now, I think you hit the nail on the head though,
talking about it being it's a Saturday afternoon. Now it's
the anniversary six months from him showing up and all
of that stuff, and it's the day that he can
sign so he can do the ceremonial thing. But to
get all those guys to show up, coordination, I want
to know what they got, like a little bonuses he minute, Hey,

(58:24):
I other than a Backstreet boy and a concert and
a great.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
Al So you know Lebron's not in the building, right,
so you just do it? Then where if you did
it on Wednesday? What about a fossol? Lebron does show up?
Now he makes it the Lebron Show. And look at
what Lebron has done. And I don't think that they
wanted to give him the satisfaction of doing that.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
No, it's great. It's great theater, and we'll keep watching
it unfold here. I love the fact that Luke also
donated five million bucks for seventy seven kids to pursue dreams,
to trying to help in the athletic process.

Speaker 4 (58:55):
Yeah, that was awesome. Yeah, awesome.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
People tweeting Scott's tots from the office when Mike gil
Scott did the same thing.

Speaker 4 (59:02):
So I thought that was that, Wait that bills do now?

Speaker 2 (59:05):
Yes, all right, well we'll have to track the money
out of Lucas accounts as we go. He's Dan Buyer.
I'll by Carbon coming up next. You know, we talk
a lot in nostalgia and first across the sporting universe.
Dan noticed something this week that he wanted to raise
his hand on and get our roundtable together. So diamond
Dogs mount up. We'll do that next year on Fox. Hey,

(59:28):
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you're doing a lot of nostalgia this week. We went

(01:00:12):
back to last weekend Major League Baseball, all the luminaries
at Cooperstown and the greatness and pomp and circumstance all
the way into Canton tonight where Nickelback will perform us
in a big concert. Eighty five bucks was getting.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
I like that the Nickelback documentary on Netflix. It was
very it was very good.

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
A couple years old. Yeah, okay, I actually really enjoyed it.
I did. I mean nice, it's a good watch.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
It's to me, it was just like sit back and
relax and watch and they go through the they go
through the rise, they go through the hate, and when
it came out, they had an album that was coming
out at the time as well, so it coincided with that.
So everything is done for a reason. But I did
think that it was revealing. So I'm not gonna I'm
a Nickelback hater, like there are.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Open hey they saw According to the Billboard Charts Music Universe,
they've sold over fifty million copies. Sure, so I have
a shirt that literally says Nickelback fan or liar.

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
So all right, Pro Football Hall of Fame. As we're
watching a replay here in the Fox Sports Radio studios,
Brent Musburger sitting with Collinsworth and Tarico. So it's been
a big nostalgia week. We lost a couple of illuminaties
talked about over the last week, Ryan Samberg the latest
for me. You know that there was another gut punch
to little Mikey Harmon coming on the trails of Ozzy

(01:01:38):
Osbourne and a Hulk Cogan. But you know, we're seeing
things day after day that well we've never seen. Like
Friday night, Jason and I are doing our show in
the evening seven to eleven Pacific time. You hear Dan
in the mid days with Doug gottliebing with Cavino and
Rich twelve to four Pacific time. Those crazy ass baseball
games and you just sit back and smile right down
nine to one in the first and crazy seventeen sixteen

(01:02:01):
comebacks and all of that. But something, you know, got
you thinking about the sporting world at large as well.

Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
Yeah, yeah, because also this weekend was this Speedway Classic,
and we thought it was going to be yesterday, and
now they're gonna have to complete it today in Bristol, Tennessee.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
And in a couple of weeks they'll be.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
Playing a baseball game in Williamsport again for Major League Baseball.
It's also on the heels of this week the NBA
announcing they'll be playing some games in Germany, doing more
in the next couple of years. Played in Paris this
past year, They've played in London previously, and the topic
of conversation there came, all right, is the NBA going

(01:02:40):
to focus on building a European league as opposed to
maybe expansion over here? But again, we've we're taking NBA
regular season games and exporting them out of the country.
And it just got it got me to thinking. And
I've actually been sitting on this this entire summer. I
don't know if you guys realized this, but Isaac Longcron

(01:03:02):
I think would be intrigued by this. And I know
the guy that's talking his year off behind him, who
follows us, Steve Hartman rescue me, probably remembers, probably remembers
this time. But in the early to mid nineteen nineties,
the NHL decided we're going to take regular season games
and play them in neutral sites across the US and Canada.

(01:03:26):
And I was amazed by this because this isn't just
one or two and it's something that I always thought,
could it work? Could you could you take an NFL
game and could you just put it in a college stadium?
Would it have the same sort of effect or would
it just fall flat because it's not in that NFL setting.
So in nineteen in the ninety two ninety three NHL

(01:03:48):
season and then the ninety three ninety four season, the
NHL played fifty games in neutral sites. So they tried
to accommodate this so much they expanded the regular season
to eighty four games from eighty two. There were ready
for this. Eight games played in Hamilton, Ontario, six games
played in Cleveland. Six games were played in Phoenix. Six

(01:04:12):
games were played in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. At the time, Minneapolis
didn't have the Twin Cities, didn't have a team now
the while the arena's in Saint Paul. But when the
Stars left didn't have a team. All right, let's put
them in games in Minneapolis. Indianapolis hosted a game, so
did Cincinnati Atlanta who lost a team. You got a

(01:04:32):
team and lost the team since them hosted a game.
Milwaukee hosted a couple of games at that point. It
was crazy on all the different spots that the NHL
tried to go to try to just gain interest. They
went to some they went. They played five games in Phoenix,
which then allowed them, all right, can we put a
team in Phoenix. Can we see how that goes? Like

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those are the things that like when you're looking at
trying to build a fan base or trying to expand
the game, it's really hit or miss.

Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
And some of these.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
Attendances were like Halifax at like nine thousand fans. I'm
not sure how big the arena was. Cincinnati only got
eight thousand fans for theirs. However, Milwaukee had thirteen thousand
Miami averaged about twelve thousand, eight hundred fans. So it's
really intriguing to see what works and what doesn't. And

(01:05:28):
I think Major League Baseball is finding a really cool
thing by doing these one off, unique games. But it
just kind of shows that when the circus comes to town,
not everybody necessarily goes, and that the NHL actually made
a concerted effort to try to see, all, right, where
can we go? Thirty years ago. I don't remember any

(01:05:48):
of this happening. I don't know if you do. I'm
not sure if Isaac does. I know Isaac was a
big hockey fan back in the day. I don't remember
any of this happening. But they played fifty games in
neutral site spots around the US.

Speaker 7 (01:06:00):
That's a great question, because I actually did not remember
that they did regular season games in those neutral sites.
They played a ton of preseason games in unique places
back then, including the Kings around the same time played
a neutral site preseason game against the New York Rangers
in the parking lot at Caesar's Palace in Vegas. They
built an ice rink out there. But I'd forgotten that

(01:06:21):
they also had those neutral side games during the regular season.

Speaker 4 (01:06:24):
Yeah, I had no idea, don't remember it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
But also because there was a workstoppage afterwards, but it
wasn't successful enough for them to keep doing it, and
that's what I thought was as well. So unique about it.
It reminds me of when the NFL a few years back. Well,
they would always try to play different preseason games. I
remember games in Tokyo. Yeah, yeah, right, And then in
twenty nineteen they tried to play the game and Winnipeg

(01:06:49):
between the Packers and Raiders.

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
Then the field stunk, so they can only play it
on an eighty yard field is a disaster.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
Yeah, yeah, they do eliminated kickoffs s Aaron Rodgers didn't
play it on the Raiders played, so it was so
it's kind of like, well, that's the last time we're
doing that sort of thing. And I don't even know
if it works with the NFL like you think it would, like,
oh yeah, who wouldn't want to go see that? But
if it's a preseason game, I'm not sure if people
are buying it. I'd just be curious even if it

(01:07:15):
was a regular season game, if people would even care
in the NFL, because I'm not I'm not so sure
that that would be the case if you were to
take a let's just say, take a Bill's Ravens game,
and not that you would, but and say, guess what
we're gonna play it in? You know, Blacksburg, Virginia, you know,
home of Virginia Tech. Like, are people showing.

Speaker 4 (01:07:32):
Up for that? I'm not necessarily sure.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
Yeah, that's the curiosity, right and Ilo bringing up the
Caesars Palace in the ice rank. They also did a
WrestleMania outside going back to WrestleMania nine, So curious even
though it's coming back to Vegas a couple of times
and it'll be there again in April. Whether they want
to do that again, and anybody wants to jump on
board the harm and caravan for either night one or

(01:07:55):
Night two, you let me know. But all of that
to say, I think the one offs worked, Like the
the aggressiveness of the fifty games, like that's early enough
to where I mean that predates a lot of our
cable and certainly our social media's or whatever, so you
can do that. And if our team wasn't playing in
them or playing just a one off, it didn't resonate

(01:08:16):
that there were fifty of them.

Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
Sure, yes, yes, because.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
Back then, like even the Blackhawks were good, but that
still would have been relegated to another part, like three
pages into the fish wrap, next to the racing results
and stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
You wouldn't have seen.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
That as a headline kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
Well, what's unique too is so you know Milwaukee at
the time, the Bradley Center, which is the old Bucks Arena,
was actually built for a hockey team. It was built
for an NHL team that never came. But they did
have an NHL game there in nineteen ninety three when
the Capitols and Red Wings played, so like like you
look at that, you're like, and they got nine eight
hundred fans. You're like, well, why didn't the Blackhawks play?

Speaker 4 (01:08:57):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
The Blackhawks did against the Kings in the seven of
nineteen ninety two, sixteen thousand fans showed up, So like, okay,
probably fans from Chicago, La comes to town. Let's let's
fill the arena. But the second time around, with two
teams that aren't connected there didn't register it had half
the fans.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Yeah, I mean, you can't keep going back to the well, right,
that's where it's got to be. The you know, pop up,
pop up shop of like, all right, we've exhausted our
run here, whether the local cops hate us or whatever. Like,
if you're a food truck, eventually you probably get run
out of that spot, you know, no matter how good
your food may be. In this case, like, I'm curious

(01:09:38):
just if you were tried to integrate I mean this
stuff at Bristol. Man, it's been called Firefest two by
a number of folks because you had a two and
a half hour delay. Yeah, and when people are sitting around,
what are they going to do to pass time? They're
going to consume whatever is available, which meant you started
running out of food lines for everything, whatever. So it

(01:09:58):
became a disaster to mention, just dealing with the elements
became an issue. But to get to that eighty five thousand,
you know, your eyebrows are certainly raised and you're trying
to figure out what's the next iteration. It's like you
just can't oversaturate it, right, And it's got to have
a game with some juice, yes, right, So to your
point about the NFL, I think you can put almost

(01:10:19):
any NFL. Look look at what we get for bad
teams except for come December when it's done and they're
playing out the string and now you're giving away tickets.
That and the preseason are the only times where you
don't have sixty five thousand people showing up and really interested.
So I think you could probably move a bunch of

(01:10:40):
those regular season games around to specialty locations as long
as it's not playing out the end of the string
or these preseason debacle.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
And the tricky thing is as well is and I
used Bills and Ravens just as an extreme example, and
it may not be a good example, but you would
have two marquee teams going to an area that isn't
filled with those fans when people show up, Well, if
you were if you were to have if let's just
say the Saints and Drew Brees were, you know, playing
in Baton Rouge, maybe you.

Speaker 4 (01:11:11):
Would get that sort of feel.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
And obviously they were there relocated when the when the
Superdome was being fixed after Hurricane Katrina. Like there's there's
there's something about having a local team like the Blackhawks
played in Milwaukee against Wayne Gretzky and the LA Kings.
But if you bring it outside of that, it doesn't
necessarily resonate. And so I think people would see a

(01:11:35):
Ravens Bills game and be like, well, I'd rather have
it in Baltimore, Buffalo, you know, like like these these
sort of things. And the reason I brought it up
was twofold. Number one, I love the creativity.

Speaker 4 (01:11:46):
Of Major League Baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
I do of just trying to like Field of Dreams
was awesome. I think that this is awesome. But number two, Mike,
is that it doesn't work everywhere. And I had completely
forgotten that it even happened in the NHL. Not only
did it happen, it happened for two years, but they were.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Doing the games. That's a lot of change. Well, I mean,
cause think about it, even the exporting of games in
the NFL. We'll get to Ilo in a second. Chargers
are going to Brazil. There's a class action lawsuit that
got filed. Whether it sees any more traction or more
than a all right, get out of here kind of situation.
But you had your season ticket holder saying, hey, we

(01:12:27):
got nine games this year. Oh wait, one of them
is in Brazil. Sure I can't afford to go to it.
It's the Chiefs game in Brazil, like one of the games. Now,
now the Chargers have a tremendous home slate because you
get both the Steelers and the Eagles come to town.
So they've got some creative packages, like you just want
to go cheaply, You got to figure out how to

(01:12:48):
where you're gonna park and how to get in. But
the actual get in part is being made pretty easy.
But you lose the Chiefs. Yeah, I mean, that's one
of your major selling points, right, even if it's just
a I'm gonna flip those of my buddy in the
office and pay for half my year. He's Dan Bayer
on my Carbet it's Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Radio.
Let's turn it over to Isaac Lowan Crow for an
update on Major League Baseball and everything going on in

(01:13:10):
our sporting universe.

Speaker 7 (01:13:11):
I yes, back underway at the Speedway Classic at Bristol
Motors Speedway in Tennessee, and the Atlanta Braves have a
three to two lead over the Cincinnati Reds in the
bottom of the third inning thanks to a three run
home run by Eli White, his fifth home run of
the season. Now, one of the many issues with last
night's game that wound up being suspended by rain was
that the concession stands at the Bristol Motor Speedway ran

(01:13:34):
out of cheese for the nachos as well as buns
for the hot dogs. Well, today we're happy to report that,
according to at Not So Cool Jewels, who's sitting in
the left field stands, they did successfully restock their hot
dog buns overnight. I know America will heave a sigh
of relief at that news.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
I never I've always wondered why they just didn't all
come in packs.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Of eight, right, they don't match up. And it's one
of those great mysteries that will be revealed at the
end of time.

Speaker 7 (01:14:06):
Just the bane of my existence. I mean, that was
just me one month ago at this time, on the
third of July. I'm shopping for hot dogs and buns
for fourth July Feast, and I thought the exact same thing. Meanwhile,
at Fenway Park, the Red Sox leave the Houston Astros
six to one after seven Astro's got on the board
at the top of the fourth on a home run

(01:14:27):
by Carlos Korea, has first since being reacquired by Houston.
But then the Red Sox went on to score six
runs in the bottom half of the fourth inning. Los
Angeles Dodgers have just taken a one to nothing lead
at Tampa Bay as they now go to the bottom
of the sixth inning. Earlier, the Milwaukee Brewers place right
hander Jacob Mezarowski on the fifteen day injured list with
a left tibia contusion. NFL Buffalo Bills head coach Sean

(01:14:48):
McDermott told reporters today receiver Khalil Shakir week to week
with a high ankle sprain. Philadelphia Eagles held receiver Aj
Brown out of practice today due to a hamstring injury. Finally,
guys in Gulf. At the Women's Open Championship in Wales, today,
golfer Mimi Rhodes made a hole in one on a
bank shot. Her t shot on the par three fifth hole,

(01:15:12):
bounced on the green, then deflected off of the ball
of playing partner Stephanie Kiriaku and carramed right into the cup.
Bank shot and a beauty back to you guys, thanks
so much.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
Ilo A getting hot dogs. That's it. It all comes
back to one of the more base foods creating chaos.
That and cheese.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
And I take from that update is, yeah, there are
many ways to get a hole in one, and I've
yet to find one.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
Just got to keep swinging. See old you miss uh.
I mean, look, you can use a tarp. Evidently you
know we're watching it. It's kind of like a mini
golf course at times. As we go. Thanks Ilo at
Isaac Lohenkron. Check out the latest and greatest Sea's got.
Check out Dan at Nanbayro on Fox. Check me out
over at Swollen Dome. Coming up next, we'll talk about

(01:16:01):
the other trade demand that's out there, and then a
curious date now put up for a statue unveiling. What's
it all mean? We'll do it next year on Fox. Hey,
welcome back in Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday Mike
Carmon with my god Dan Byer. Thanks for hanging out
with us today, Shay Chris making us sound so pretty.
Isaac Loewenkron, Now I want to go visit all of

(01:16:23):
the places that have held Major League Baseball games. I
might even go to the bull Ring before it's all
said and done, as we watch that game unfold, Thanks
for being with us at Dan Byer on Fox. Where
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(01:16:44):
far starting to get you ready, the primers for the
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we start to wax poetically on.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
The Speedway game I think is so much about everything
but the game, because your seats probably aren't great, especially
if you're in the outfield, like going to a Final
four game. Yes, exactly, that's exactly how The.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
Tyler Stevenson set up was pretty good though the catcher
who looked like he was Ricky Bobby, like you did
the paint job in the whole nine yards on his
chest protector. Very nice look. For those that haven't seen that.
You can find that over on social media. Now, a
couple of stories from the NFL before we seed Way
to Hartman and Husky coming up here. Tom Brady walking

(01:17:28):
the sidelines after being in Chicago for the Sports Collector's
Convention wearing all Raider gear is going to, you know,
continue to look odd to me, Dan, It just does.
But they just off of Pro Football Talk it looks like.
And then courtesy of ESPN that they're going to reveal
the Brady statue in New England before their preseason opener

(01:17:51):
against the Commanders was supposed to happen last year before
Tua got hurt, so they pulled the plug on his crew,
the Fox crew going to that game and now looking
at the schedule and trying to make it make sense,
and he can't cover Raider games quite obviously, so now
it became the what's the next alternative? So it's a
preseason game for your franchisees and maybe the sports all

(01:18:15):
time best.

Speaker 3 (01:18:15):
When you gave me a heads up on this, I
was like, Oh, that's kind of too bad, and then
I thought about it. I'm like, this is Bob Kraft's genius.
Make everybody show up to a preseason game. It's fair right,
Like you're gonna then you get your full It's not
like fifty thousand of there, you're gonna get seventy five thousand.
People are gonna be there to see Tom Brady. They're
gonna buy all the gear, all this stuff. It's a

(01:18:37):
perfect way to maximize your dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
You got ninety minutes of concession sales before everybody leaves,
that's true. Get him in early, get your seats, and
then go from the Dell cash in on parking, that's
no question about it. And then you go to a
little mini mall that's built up around there. It's really nice,
all right, and so let's finish it in Washington. Since
the Commanders are part of that game. You had this

(01:19:00):
really odd thing on their inside the training camp live
with Mike Garifolo talking to Deebo Samuel and he mentions
a finger injury and a hand injury that nobody wanted
to talk about. He wouldn't shake his hand and he
actually mentions it goes all right, edit that part out
strike that it didn't happen, and you got Debo giving

(01:19:21):
him side eye, co host look giving him side It's like,
you know that's on air.

Speaker 4 (01:19:24):
Yeah, it's live.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
And I blanked on the name of the other hosts
from the NFL network who was giving him the side
eye as well. And this is the point. This is
something that is I think needs to be known by people.
When insiders all break news and they all have it
at the same time, it comes from the same source.
But what also happens with insiders is they don't report

(01:19:47):
one hundred percent of what they know. There are things
that they keep under wraps because it's good for their business,
and this was something that should have been kept under wraps.
But Garofolo didn't get the message.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
Usually i'll give you a handshake when a guy leaves,
but I tried to shake your hand on the way up,
Garifolo said, and then it finishes gun. But you said no, no, no.
I got a little jam in my fingers to day,
and that's where the stare down commenced, and he said, hey,
we can cut that and post right, we can get
rid of that.

Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
Who doesn't jam their finger If you're a wide receiver
at least at some point right.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
Now, that's it. Yes, But when you've got your number
one and battled in a contract dispute, that's a chaos
there for Washington again. Jayden Daniels Third High Home things
so at Dan Byron Fox where you find Dan, find
me over at Swollendume. I want to say thanks to
the team once again. Go out and have yourself a

(01:20:42):
blessed Sunday. Plenty of sports to watch. Go ahead and
do something. You got another opportunity to be great.

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