The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz get pumped for Week 0 of the College Football, NFL Storylines, & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning at
be happy week zero to all around the country.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
We're the fellas Jason Fitz Anthony Gargano from the Fox
Sports Radio studios, and we.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Have reached week zero. This is freaking awesome.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
We got a real football game from Marion Lingotts and Dublin.
We're gonna get to watch Iowa State and Kansas State
noon eastern, nine Pacific coming up. A real football game
that matters, and it's a good one too.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Iowa State and Kansas State.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Uh that rock O Becked and that cyclones taking number
seventeen Kansas State. That's gonna be a good game. We
got a couple other ones as Apple sizers. And then Thursday,
we're their way in a big way. Good morning, Fitsie.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Farm agaedon tonight today, come on, Iowa State farm again,
let's go. We've got football. We've got Kansas in action today. Congratulations.
Kansas getting a huge, huge, big donation that's gonna, you know,
help propel their program moving forward. And I don't know
the last time I checked to you and l he's
gonna make the college football playoff this year.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
And the Dan Mullen walk today.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Come look at that.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Look at that like four o'clock.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Congratulations you know, to to Mullin being on the sidelines.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
And just a reminder, Barry.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Odom, I am always happy when men and women go
out and get the back like I love everybody that
goes out and gets paid.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
But don't kid yourself. If you take a.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Purdue job over a Group of five job, you just
made it tougher to ever make the college football playoff.
I'm just saying, so, you know, Mullen coming in. I've
got some fun little nuggets on the un LV football
team on why they're gonna make the.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Playoff this year. Let's go. I'm happy it's it's week zero.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
It feels so right, like all my no noes are
saying yes, yes, brother.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
It just feels good.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
It just feels good to know we have meaningful, actual football.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah. Man, I was like kind of giddy up today.
I couldn't wait all weekend. I this is one of
those things where it's we've waited and waited and waited,
and you know, the calendar comes and it's like wow,
all of a sudden, I'll tell you I love it.
I love the whole rituals. I want to celebrate college

(02:31):
football today and talk about all the rituals. How we
fan in the South and the West and the Midwest
and the East, like it's so different everywhere, and it's
it's really a beautiful sport.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I know it's crazy and n Ils out of whack
and everything else is going on. Truthfully, I think it's great.
I love the playoff. I'm excited about it.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
You know, maybe one of the best parts about all
of it is that we just finally get to focus
on actual football. Like you and I have talked about
this over the years, but to me, one of the
failings of the NBA at times, for being honest, is
that the soap opera is better than the product. So
it's like the movie trailers better than the movie, and

(03:22):
so we spend so much time in the off season
talking about who's moving where, what it's gonna mean, and
all these things, and then you know, it's just it
falls flat more often than not compared to what the
expectation is. College football has spent months, months screaming fans, analysts,
everybody about the death of the game and all these things,

(03:42):
and sometimes I just think we need the beauty of
the sport that we love to simply remind everybody there's
a reason that it's the sport that we love, and
just seeing how important it is to so many fans
in so many places is such a welcome reminder of
why we're yelling and screaming. And sometimes it's easy to
forget that. I get, I'm excited to look, we're still

(04:04):
gonna nobody's ever gonna.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Be happy aa'inst college football.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
But at least we can be unhappy with whatever the
committee is doing and all the things that people yell
about while we're actually watching fans, you know, surrender cobra
and lose their minds and watching everybody absolutely celebrate the
little moments.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
And it's just I look.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Forward to actually having the distraction again of the reminder
of why we love.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
The sport exactly. Well set, well set, my man.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
The games themselves are great little mini events each week,
and it's something to look forward to.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Human beings, you need something to look forward to.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
And it's just fun, right, It's tailgating, and it's getting
together and watching games.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
With your family.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Like, one of the things that I think is underplayed
is the communal part of football.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Right.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
It could be you with your buddies at the sports bar,
because you love to go to the sports bar with
your friends and hanging out and watching games. And it's
me I love I'll go over my cousin with Mike,
my sons and a couple of the buddies and we're
there or as a family. People, you love it. It's

(05:24):
one of the things when the Eagles won the Super Bowl,
because you know, obviously I'm from Philadelphia, is when they
first want it a few years ago. It connected people's
loved ones, right. People talked about those who had passed
on that you know who's ashes were there while president

(05:46):
while they were watching the game of the Super Bowl party.
You know, there were cemeteries that were littered with eagle
stuff around on headstones. It connects people.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Right, like.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
It's it's because it's an event and because we use
food and and we have parties. Because of that stuff,
it becomes these this you know event, it becomes something
to look forward to.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
It's a celebration.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
It's why you know, celebrations, holidays were invented, right to
give human beings a chance to have a feast, have fun, right,
not have to work, and the football has kind of
become that. In many ways. It's our church, right, no
matter what religion we are. You know, it's a gathering

(06:41):
place in a lot of towns. It could be high school,
it could be college, it could be the NFL, but
we get together and we tailgate and we know our
friends and our sections which are like pews, and it
could be at the stadium or could be in houses
where everybody congregates, but it's a place to come together.

(07:01):
It's a good thing. I love sports, all of them, right,
but the thing that thinks most special about football is
that it brings people together. It's, you know, sports built churches,
which is a truism. And if you can get people
together to celebrate and have fun and watch a game,
I think that's a good thing.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
Yeah, there's just a.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Beauty to what you just said in the way you
said it that just hits you know. It's It's funny
because we've talked about the fact that, like I am, I.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Do what I do because my love of the Raiders.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Everybody knows that, but you know, it's my dad and
we sat down and watched Raiders games when I was
a kid, and when I moved to Nashville. I'll just
never forget not knowing, comprehending, understanding, you know, and whatever.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
It was ninety six right.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Why college football, particularly why the Tennessee volunteers, Like that's
what blew my mind.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
I moved to Nashville, and I was like, why are.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
All of you guys wearing orange when Vandy is in
Nashville and nobody cares?

Speaker 5 (08:03):
And I had to learn genuinely about.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
The generational Hey, my grandparents are Balls fans, and their
grandparents are Balls fans, and you know, just to see.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
Forty East and watch that road.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
That's a solid, you know, two and a half three
hour drive or whatever, three and a half hour drive
to get from Nashville to Knoxville. And on Saturdays you
couldn't drive it. Even back then, like during the height
of the Peyton Manning era, you couldn't get on forty
and just drive on Saturday because too many people from
Nashville wanted to get to Knoxville. And it made no
sense to me when I moved there, because I just

(08:36):
kept thinking, Hey, there's a team right here, and yeah,
it's not about this team, It's about the way my
family celebrates and when.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
You start to realize that.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
I think that's one of the reasons why, frankly, I
don't think there's a better sport to watch cover all
of those things than college football, because college football particularly
hits the heartstrings differently. Like I want to feel like
a you know, a rivalry matchup in the NFL means
as much as you know Tennessee Alabama does to Tennessee fans,

(09:09):
it doesn't like, you know what I mean, Like, I
don't think that as much as we sit here and say, oh, Bears,
Packers best rivalry in the NFL or whatever anyone believes,
it is the best Chiefs Raiders game that I've ever
watched on TV pales and comparison to what you see
on Saturdays, when you see how just the crowd reacts

(09:29):
to you know, SEC rivalries, big ten rivalries like these,
these regional moments that are bigger than just, hey, the
result on the field. It's about I've celebrated this exact
game every year with my family, this exact way that
there's there's such power to that, and I don't I
don't know that anything in sports captures that the same

(09:49):
way the college football does.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
That's why That's why it means so much.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
That's why you know, if I if I didn't do
this for a living and it's a random Sunday and
I'm flipping through the channels and it's Jags Jets on
a random sis, I'm probably not gonna sit there and
watch every snap of it. But if I didn't do
this for a living on a Saturday and I'm flipping
through the channels and it's some random Big Ten football
game that I don't really care about, hell yeah, I'm
watching every second of it because there's just something that

(10:14):
hits differently about the sport.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, the the energy there there is, there is an
incredible energy about it that emanates from the stadium. But
I will say I do think it's football as a
as a whole. Because if you're passing by you know,
I don't know, a tailgate and and the Metowlands with

(10:36):
a bunch of Jet fans, you'd be like, you know,
I'll have the beer with those guys of those people,
right like you know you're in Buffalo, I mean, you're
you're hanging with the Bill's mafia, right like that. That's
that's a cool thing. It's I'm with you on college
football and jump.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Through a fiery table.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Now you got me going, let's go jumping off something
into a fiery table like that just feels like the
stupidest thing in the world to do. But yet on
Sunday morning, Yeah, Buffalo, You're like, yep, light me on
fire and throw it through a table.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, I mean it's awesome, Like it's funny. I just
put on I just put on. Uh, look at Twitter
and right away there's McShay and Buffalo. You know who's
listening right now? Happy Week zero McShay. Right, there's Jason Alessandro.

(11:33):
Can't wait. Good morning fellas. Happy Week zero. Here's eg
up early and let's go go birds. Like you know,
everybody's uh, everybody's excited, like there's a there's a there's
a cool excitement. I spoke to Anthony Backed yesterday, the
former Jet buccaneer and coach of the Saint Louis BattleHawks.

(11:55):
His son is Rocko Back, who's the quarterback for Iowa State,
and and.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
He was like so fired up.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
He's in Dublin, and uh, it's just a it's a
great thing, man. It's gonna be a great game too.
There's both quarterbacks. That's a this is a real good game.
I wish there were a couple more like I wish
we had all due respect to UNLV Idaho State, I
wish we had a couple of more. I know next

(12:23):
weekend is when it gets really started, but I could
have used like, you know, give me a we got
a noon, I'll take a three fit.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
I'll take a seven thirty eight o'clock.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Two looks no respect to I just started. I've got
a UNLV helmet sitting on my desk behind me. I
will admit my like excitement. I think this could be
a really cool year for UNLV. That game is not
even on TV. You know how bad a game has
to be, Like I'm looking at ESPN dot com right,
I look at the games in Fresno, State of Kansas

(12:54):
on TV, SAM Houston at Western Kentucky on TV, Stanford
Hawaii on TV.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
Idaho State at UNLV is so bad that they're like, no,
we're not gonna make anybody watch this. So yeah, I'm
with you.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
I think, you know, we have to remember that this
is technically technically you know whatever week zero.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
You know now that now they want to call it
week one.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
Finally, but this is this is that preemptive college football
is not quite here, but it's sort of here. Week
I'm with you, though, I think there is something beautiful
like next weekend, my God, like knowing that we're going
to be just hyped for the first time ever that
we get a one v two in the opening weekend.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Of college football.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
Like that's that's Next weekend is is we're past the
gateway drug. This weekend is like when you're you know,
in your in your teens and you're sitting in your
mom's basement and you're trying weed for the first time.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
That's what this weekend is. It's a gateway drug.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
It's just just a little bit of it, not enough
to get anybody really hurt.

Speaker 5 (13:47):
It's just getting everybody in a little bit of trouble.
That's where we are this weekend.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, and well said, well said this next you really
and it starts Thursday night, right, so we'll have I
love this concept of college football starting before the NFL.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
And I wish there were a game.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
If I'm the Commissioner of college football, I have I'd
make it a week long celebration. So I kick off
with that Air WINGUS game, right, in Dublin since they've
been doing that on a week zero and then I
would have a game Tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, throughout the
week leading up through Labor Day, and it's a week

(14:29):
long celebration of college football Sunday afternoon and all week long.
That is a great idea.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
I love every second. That is a great idea.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Like the game of the day, it right, you know,
I mean, and everybody would watch, like we don't watch
the game be fun. You know, here's my man outside, Chuck.
You know, he's a Kentucky Wildcats fan man. Kentucky football tradition,
players walking off the bus going to the stadium, through
the fans right standing line up on both sides, players

(15:02):
holding hands to the Kentucky fight song. Nothing like it.
We call it the catwalk.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
God see you've got like this is where I know.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
I said this last year when we were together, and
then it turns out it wasn't a unique idea because
other people said it too. I wish they were starting
with bowl games. We know that now, you know, Like
I just I wish they were big, fancy exhibitions and
it was.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
Massive, and it was all we talked about, like, yeah,
you know, I frankly I would love a world in
a world where we start.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
With a rivalry week. You know, it's like every day
is a huge rivalry matchup. I know, no preseason, you
don't want to burn a game.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
For week one.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
I get all the reasons why, now, I don't forget
logic for a second. I just want to live in
a fantasy world where all of a sudden, Week one
you're getting some massive rivalry matchup, where we can appreciate
those sorts of moments and just have that reminder of
how great that is. Like I would love to see
college football embrace a little bit more of Hey, this
is good marketing for the sport. Like sometimes I think

(16:00):
you have to decide what's good for the product, which
is probably you know, ease into it with a few games.
It don't matter as much. But tell everybody you don't
have a preseason. Better for the product, but good for
the sport.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
Man.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Get me right out of the gate of just massive matchups.
Give me cross conference rivalries like start. We could start
everything like they do in college basketball. Commit Big ten SEC,
challenge first week, Big ten SEC. Last year's third place
team plays this year, and each conference plays each other
that sort of thing like we could. I would love
to see those sorts of you know, big moments that
everybody can band around.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
But in the meantime, Farmageddon is just gonna.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Have to do. Yes, yes, Uh. The concept of the
ball games, I remember I was talking about it. If
I were a sponsor, damn man, I would love to
be the beginning if I were, you know, the the
uh pullman was the pullman. We need your bowl, remember.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
That, Uh, the pop Tart bowl will give me pop tarts?

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, pop yeah, Like I would.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
I would love to do that, like if I'm the sponsor,
because I get the excitement instead of the now I
am a sucker for the end of the year balls.
I know they're meaningless, all right, right, Like I know
they're meaningless, and I get it, But it feels like
the holidays, right Like when I was a kid, bowl

(17:26):
games in the holidays were always a part of the landscape,
like they went hand in hand, like that week between
Christmas and New Year's and I'd walk around and like
every you know, the game will be on and you'd
see the happy Holidays, and I don't know, I just
I've always loved, always loved it, but I think a

(17:49):
smattering of balls to start the year would be very cool.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
I think to me, it's not either or it's both.
I want I want balls, like book end the season.
You start with bulls, you end with bulls.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, Well, we got lots to get too, a lot
of NFL stuff. Baseball's are pretty good in that too.
That's heating up. We'll talk about that. We got all
the college football you want kind of get your ready for.
We'll go through this schedule this week and kind of
take a look at that. We'll take a look at
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Speaker 1 (19:23):
Welcome Back, Fellas, Jason Fitz, Anthony Gargana. You can follow
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Speaker 3 (19:53):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Nothing like wake it up on a Saturday morning and
watching college football. If anything makes me feel like a
kid again, it's this. It's my man nw Kuresh three
three three. He's he's a good dude, and and I
get that whole sets, I get the same gidea up.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Man.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
I mean there's a there's a good there's this, there's
a feeling about it.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
I think back to the way our just overall tone
as human beings.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
You and I on this.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Show the weekend after football season, and there was just
a like, man, it's over.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
You know, even at the end of the regular season.
It's like, man, it's over.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Like it and that's real, you know, And so now
you you wake up like a kid on Christmas Eve
and that's Yeah, there's so much hope that comes into
this time of the year.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Like we're still so early on in.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
This that everybody has convinced themselves that their favorite team
is going to have the type of year that you'll
remember for the rest of your life. Right, Like, there's
this there's this guarded optimism if you're the the the
just most pessimistic fan, and it's not guarded at all
if you're if you're on the.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Other side of it.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
So like there's something just incredible about the way this
feels because nobody has really figured out that their team sucks.
Yet like in a month, all of a sudden, it's like,
no fire the bum. This guy's trash. I hate this,
Like our offense is too predictable. If I know we're
running up the middle, why we're running up the middle
to seventeenth play in a row, all the things that
people yell, we got a month before we get to that.

(21:24):
Right now, it's just the absolute Like this is truly
the honeymoon phase where everybody's just wildly happy and you
forget that you know she's crazy, and your friends all
told you not to do it. You're right back here.
You're in love again, and we're gonna let it happen.
Like I love this, Like this is this is why
it's just fun to be around this time of year.
It's why it's my favorite. Like fall is far better

(21:45):
than every other season because of this palpable joy.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
That everybody feels. Yeah, yeah, I no, I agree, And
you know what it is to for me, it's even
less than uh, I mean, obviously the fan piece of it, right,
you know what or team you love, college, NFL, whatever
it is that that's a big part of it, because
you know they're they're they're gonna take us through this journey.

(22:08):
But I like, I love it in totality, which is
I love seeing like which players are going to step up, right,
There's always a story. There's a million stories that kind
of unfold. And I'm talking both college and the NFL,
and both and their stories that just kind of unfold

(22:30):
throughout the year.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Obviously the big ones in.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
College football with Arch Manning and Texas right and Penn
State and James Franklin, you know, finally win the big game.
And there's all these all these different little storylines everywhere. Uh,
But the fact that they're just playing games, there's a
normalcy to the world. Years ago, I read a story.
I might have brought this up to you before, but

(22:56):
it's germane to this whole thing. There was a piece
that the writer did, a piece was in GQ magazine
and he talked about in this case, it was college
basketball and specifically listening to Brenton Musburger call, it was
what was it on Big Tuesday? I think it was, uh,

(23:16):
Super Tuesday. It was like it wasn't even Big Monday,
it was like Super Tuesday. And he and he was battling.
The writer was battling from depression and you know, really difficult,
dark place, and he said the only thing that he
would find solace in was hearing Brent Mussburger's voice on

(23:38):
these Super Tuesday games, you know, from Live from and
and it's funny because I love hearing those announcers I
did broadcasters and and all these places that have become mythical, right,
and there is a sense of all right, cool man,

(24:01):
the world is normal. And not to get too deep,
but you know this world is crazy, right, Like there's
stuff going on that it just it hurts your brain
to think about. I was having a conversation about AI
and with the impact of AI is going to have

(24:23):
on you know, all of humanity and jobs and everything,
and it's freaking scary.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Man.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
It's like there's a lot of fright that's in the world.
But if there's games on, there is a like a
feeling of the world is normal, right, Like, no matter
what's going on in your own personal life and everything
out crazy, everything else is it's like you could take
a moment and you can take a breath and it's like,

(24:52):
all right. You know, they're playing football at Texas, they're
playing football in Alabama, they're playing football at Wisconsin, and
it's like, all right, man, that's good. I can, I can.
That makes me feel good. All right, it's solace. And

(25:15):
I think that was the right was that writer and
that piece it was years ago, was conveying that that thought,
and I get it, like I think the college football
in the NFL do that for the masses. It's just
a hey man, it's a great distraction, it's a great hobby.

(25:38):
It's a great excuse to get together with loved ones
and friends. It's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
You're right that there's something to just a few hours
where everything feels normal and you don't have to think
about anything.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
And I think that's one of.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
The beautiful things about however, you watch, wherever, you watch,
whatever your rituals are for Saturdays and Sundays, we're such
a habit, you know, based society, right, just the thought
of as simple as it is and as much as
it's been a tweet people have laughed at, Like, over
the course of the next several months.

Speaker 5 (26:14):
I no longer have to think what am I watching
on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Or Sunday for the next several months, And there is
some sort of joy and routine for me in that,
for a lot of people in that just knowing, like
you know, one of the crazy things and really amazing
things about having season tickets to something is when you
see the groups of season ticket holders that may not
have known each other that have now become friends and
like the the you mentioned. You know, if you're driving

(26:40):
by you know, MetLife and you see people out having
a beer, You're like, I want to hang.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Out with those people.

Speaker 4 (26:45):
Like there's something very real and very tangible about all
of this. But there's also something to me very real
and tangible about Like you wake up on Saturday and
it's like, yep, I'm going to turn on the TV
and I know exactly what's going to be on for
background noise all day and it makes me happy. And
then Sunday, you know, I've got this this great you
know football love that's going to make me happy all day.

(27:05):
And then guess what, you got it on Monday. You
got it on Thursday. You also, like all the shows
right now where we're just bored out of our minds
sitting here waiting for somebody to react to something that
we care about in the sports world, like that's going
to change drastically in two weeks because everybody does care
about these you know, the NFL is such a huge
part of culture, and college football is such a huge

(27:26):
part of culture that it just changes your entire week. Weirdly,
if you're a sports fan, your entire week changes once
you hit this particular week of the calendar.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
And that's it's wildly powerful and wildly difficult to do.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
And as you and I've talked about before, but I
think it's worth echoing again, we don't have a society
anymore that has water cooler moments like now you know
you you binge your favorite season of you know, Love
Island whenever you've binged it, And so then you're in
a car ride and it's like, well, we can't talk
about it yet because he hasn't watched it, and they're

(27:59):
going to watch next week.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
And like right once you hit football season.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
It's like, you know what everybody's going to be texting
about and calling you out Saturday, Sunday night, Monday day.
It's like there's something really beautiful about the way that
brings all of us together.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
I know, and growing up, it's amazing how big it's gotten.
Quite frankly, I just love it too. I love how
big it's gotten. I remember when I was a kid,
I was basically what I was at twelve is sort

(28:35):
of what I am like now when it comes to
talking about sports, I just I love I knew every
player and on every team and every sport, right like
I grew up watching football, basketball, baseball, hockey, Right like,
I just I loved every sport. I would watch everything
and follow everything. And you know, trying to name name

(28:55):
that collected every baseball football card, you can imagine it, right,
I was a g And it's so interesting because I
remember thinking, well, you know, at school, there was a
few of us. Obviously we played sports, and you know
there was our group, but it wasn't as big like now.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
And I think because women.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Have embraced sports so much, which I love, right because
it just feels so much bigger. It feels like everybody,
you said it, we don't have water cooler moments, right,
So you used to be everybody would watch that something
like HBO, right A Sopranos or whatever, and you talk
about it.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Now it's all about sports, man.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Everybody's like, all right, what happened to game last They
see the game last night, and you know, everybody's got
something to say. And I saw the list of the
top one hundred television shows and it's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Man.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Out of the top one hundred shows of twenty twenty four,
ninety one were football.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Ninety one, like how loss is that?

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Wow? There was like two MBA and the rest were
you know, a couple of mainstream type of shows.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
I just think back as you say that to, you know,
my mom never a sports fan, and you know, so
often when I was growing up, my mom and her
friends would sit around and talk about, how, you know,
what a waste they are, What a waste the energy is,
the money is, the effort is on sports just doesn't
make any sense. There were enough people to echo that

(30:43):
sentiment that it doesn't feel like there's that anti sports
rhetoric is.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
I don't know right right.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
Like it feels like even so much of that has
died down, you know, It's like it just feels like
everybody sort of even if.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
You don't like it, you get it at this point.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
And that wasn't the case when I was a kid,
Like there were certainly plenty of I love the way
Stranger Things and I don't mean love, I hate the
way Stranger Things glorifies what the eighties actually was, Like
I think it is hysterical. How like I is somebody
that grew up through the course of the eighties and
early nineties. You watch this this glorification of just like

(31:19):
kind of what culture was in the eighties, but the
eighties we were. It was interesting to me is a
sense growing up there were definitely a lot of kids
that you were either a sports kid or you were
totally right right kid, right right, And like, I just
don't I don't get the sense when I talk to
kids now that, like my friends have kids that are
in high school and everything, even the kids that aren't
in sports are just like, yeah, I don't really love it,

(31:41):
but like that's it, Like that's the end of it.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
As opposed to how loud that conversation used to be.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
There seems to be much more common ground on that
than there was when I was a kid.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Which even the kids that don't play, like they'll watch
they'll you know, there'll be a part of the conversation
like they'll watch the game and you.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
Know it's cool. Like, yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Wasn't growing up there, And I'm thinking back because you're
bringing me back now, you know, there was. There was
most of the class probably it was probably majority, was
not into sports like we were m hm.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
Facts By the way Stranger Things makes Dungeons and Dragons,
it looks like everybody that played Dungeons and Dragons was
cool in the eighties. I'm just here to tell you,
if you played it, you didn't really tell anybody that
you played it. You didn't like, wasn't a thing like
because you knew that you were gonna get picked on
by somebody, like like huge bully somewhere for being in
Dungeons and Dragons. Kid, Like, that's just like they It's

(32:40):
like the way they portray it, where everybody's.

Speaker 5 (32:43):
Just out there having a good time playing D and D.
That did not happen. I just want to I just
want to remind me.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
You play Stranger Things. No, my brother did. My brother.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
My brother was actually a weird kid, but it like
in a very different ways.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
But he played some Dungeons and Dragons.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
But no, like it's funny, like I was a fat
kid that played the violin and even I was like, no.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
That's great, all right, We're going to take a time out.
I want to do something next hour. Obviously we're gonna
go through nuts and bolts and talk all the field stuff.
But I used to do this all the time, and
I love it. I want to go through that. I'm
sure we won't get to all these, but I want

(33:29):
to try to get to the one hundred things that
we love about college football.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
And then we're going to do the same thing about
the NFL next.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Week, but before it starts, actually the week after. But
I want to do the one hundred things. I have
a notebook in front of me. I'm a weirdo. I
still write in a notebook all the time. And I
want to see if we could come with the help
on Twitter and on social media, if we can get
to one hundred things that we just love. And it

(34:00):
could be again the Big Fox Saturday right like or
Game Day, Lee Corso or Herb Street or you know
the way they do it in Texas Tailgates, Big Place.
I mean, everything about the game is on the table,

(34:23):
from viewing it to being there, to the players, to
the traditions that are there.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
I want to see if we can do it. Can
you help me do that?

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Let's go all right, good, because I like to geek
out a little bit, so we'll start that next hour.
So start thinking about the stuff that you really love
about college football. And I want to see if I
get to one hundred and then we'll put we'll publish
the list, but it's just a reminder of the things
that bring us joy. Where the fellas, Jason Fitz, Anthony Gargain.

(34:55):
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(35:16):
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search Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. Jason Fitz Anthony Gargano, Fellas, Hey,
did you, by any chance uh see the high school
extravag ads the last night?

Speaker 3 (35:32):
No?

Speaker 1 (35:33):
High School? No, I didn't.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
I was shamelessly I sat in with Edward McCain last
night and watched Train kick ass on stage.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
I did not see high school?

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Did you?

Speaker 3 (35:44):
That's awesome?

Speaker 5 (35:46):
I me and ed you know, could not ask for
more A little bit. I'll be let's go Edmund was great.
Well what happened to me?

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Begins? Well? Yeah it was.

Speaker 5 (35:54):
It was a blast.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
It was.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
And by the way, go see train. I don't care
how much they charge. I'd never seen Train live. I
am now sitting here saying, oh my god, I wish
i'd seen Train years ago.

Speaker 5 (36:03):
They were spectacular. Edward, what'd you say that, Mohegan Sun
the Casino Apparent, Connecticut. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was
a blast.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
It was great.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
Like any any I'm always thankful anytime somebody lets me
disrupt their set to go play for you know, a
bunch of people.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
But the high school and Trapaganza, I missed this.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, there was a bunch of big time high school
games on last night. So there's a school in my
neck of the woods that I'm close with called Saint
Joe's Prep. They're ranked sixteenth in the country and they
played American Heritage, which is ranked seventh in the eighth

(36:42):
in the country and out of Fort Lauderdale. And the
quarterback of American Heritage is Dia Bell and Dia is
going to Texas. He's uh going to be one of
the quarterbacks to vibe for the job after Arch. So
he's a senior and terrific player and uh and Saint

(37:08):
Jose Prep has a bunch of kids that are really
really good. It's kid Alex Haskell who's a defensive end
who's going to Penn State. They have a couple of
other big time players that are juniors that have already
you know, they can go anywhere. The schools fromund the
ground of the country are after. Charlie Fulk is the quarterback,

(37:31):
and you know, it's a there's a there's a linebacker
Lockley who's really really good. So it was it was
a lot of good talent and it got delayed. There
was storms in Florida and so there was a weather
delay for almost two hours and then they played and it.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Was was an unbelievable game.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
So Saint Joe's Prep is winning their dominating a quarter
and a half. They're up twenty eight to nothing with
about seven to go in the third quarter and Herodis
comes back, Dia comes back and you know, next thing,
you know, twenty eight seven. Then it's twenty eight fourteen,

(38:15):
and then they tie it and then there's a turnover
and a kid wins it on a forty yard field
goal at the buzzer and Herodis comes all the way
back from a twenty eight to nothing deficit to win
thirty one twenty.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Eight on the on the kick.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Man it was and I'm very close to the Saint
Joe Pett people, so I was, I was. I was
disappointed for the kids. I know that they're crushed for
blowing the lead, but it was. It was a great
football game. I mean, just tremendous time. Like if you're
watching the game and you don't know it's high school, right,
Like if you just walk into a bar and the

(38:57):
game's on and you see it your eyes just from
the movement, like you're not watching it and studying it,
but just from the movement, you think it's a college game.
That's a quality. That's how good the ball was.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
I mean, we're sitting here now with kids getting such
individual coaching and practice time on field to like, the
ability for some of these high school kids that develop
so quickly is just staggering. It's just staggering, and the
ability for some of these kids to come in. Like
I genuinely we talk all the time about the changes
in college football, I think we just have to acknowledge

(39:35):
at this point that coaches have to be better than
ever at getting through to players that are wildly different
today than they were ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five years ago, right,
Like their skill sets are different, and their wants and
needs and demands are different, all of those things too.
But like just as athletes when they walk in the door,
you're getting a better quality athlete today than anybody ever

(39:57):
could have imagined because of some of the coaching that
goes into the high school game.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Stone correctly.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
You watch these quarterbacks like this kid, both quarterbacks on
the game, the game last night, and we are going
through progressions, going through the reeds, through difficult throws, like
really tight windows.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
I mean, it's really impressed.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
If you just love the sport, you're watching these kids play,
You're going, oh my god, they're like prodigies. It's it's wild.
All right, we're gonna start our hundred things coming up
next Fellas on Fox Sports.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Good morning, Good morning, morning, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Happy Week is zero Jason Fitz Anthony Gargano. As we
were hanging out and it's kind of skipping around this
morning because we're pumped up. Week zero is upon us.
Real college football, Real games happened today from Dublin, Ireland,
Iowa State in Kansas State.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Great big twelve game. Man, we're a great game today.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
That's a that's a really good, good matchup. Two good teams,
two good quarterbacks. That should be fun. That kicks off
at noon today, and of course we got a big
week ahead of us. Right Thursday night, Nebraska and my
man Matt Rule take on Cincinnati at Arrowhead Stadium. By

(41:27):
the way, you can check out Matt's podcast, House Rules.
I'm a little part of that with Matt for all
you Husker fans and college football fans. Mats a terrific
coach and he just launched his podcast called House Rules.
So it's a lot of fun and then and then
that leads up to the big weekend and of course

(41:49):
the crown Jewel Texas Ohio State. I can't believe we
get that kind of game that early, FITZI.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Yeah, I mean, first time ever we've had a one
v two if you take the coaches pull coming into
the season, one v three if you take the Associated press,
but Texas Ohio State like coming in. I mean, that's
exactly what we were talking about earlier. That's the sort
of thing that I absolutely love. Give me, give me
a reason we're all gonna flock to it and watch it,
and give me a reason that we can all just

(42:17):
be immediately hit in the face with playoff talk and
you know Arch and you know Julian saying and what's
the quarterback situation going to look like? There are a
lot of weird quarterback situations this year in college football,
so I think we're heading for a wild season.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Now the two quarterbacks are set today where the Iowa
State and Kansas State so and they're both good. It
should be uh, I think that's kind of I think
I had a chance to be a really good game.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
No, yeah, I look, week week zero matchups make me nervous.
Like you and I have talked about before, I've gotten
to the point where maybe I'm conservative enough that I
just do the smart thing and don't gamble on we
zero games in general because it is two. It's too
for me.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
Every single time I sit there and think, okay, I've
got a sense of what's gonna happen this weekend, then
we watched the first weekend of college football, and oh
my god, all of a sudden quickly reminded that the
first weekend of college football is absolute, just total and
complete chaos. But I mean that we're starting with a
wildly even matchup, which is I think the most important thing, Like,
you don't. We're not starting with a cupcake. We're starting

(43:31):
with two teams that are sort of on the late
in the same playing field. I feel like they're in
the same range of where they're gonna finish this season.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Like I love this matchup to start with. Yeah, you
got a rock, go back, Avery Johnson, You got too, Avery.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
Johnson's gonna have a big year. Avery Johnson. I think
he's gonna have a very, very big year.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
I love that. I do too.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Kansas State seventeen. I would State is ranked twenty second. Yeah, yeah,
you brought up betting. We'll talk about to go through
all the games from a betting standpoint throughout the week.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
But yeah, you gotta, you gotta.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
You don't know who's who, Like even if you have
an idea about you know what you think because you go,
all right, well, who they returning on defense or offense?
I'm even returning starters? Who are you know, what did
they do in the portal? Like I'll look at all
that stuff right and see you know, like obviously as

(44:27):
you're kind of looking at a team, but you don't
know how it's gonna play early, Like you've got to
really watch before you invest, right, you gotta know, ya,
you gotta know what you're looking at first. Man, it's
like you're going to blind you know, as far as
like who's what and who's who?

Speaker 4 (44:44):
You know, That's the one thing I do like early
on in the season. And like even in this game,
I Aloway State is going to.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Try to run the football.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
So like if you're gonna gamble on anything like Kansas State,
he's got some big boys up front, but I always
state it's gonna try and run the football.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
And then I think about.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
What's the easiest stuff to install from day one for
every team trying to run the football. Right, we're gonna
be physical, we're gonna set the tone, all these things
that coaches say. But in the first week of the season,
it's like, hey, if all those fails and nobody can
get on the same page, just hand the damn ball off.
So like I expect to see a lot of attempts
by both teams to run the football.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Yeah, yeah, totally, I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
All right, let's have some fun with me this hour,
and I want to try to compile less we'll see
how far we can get. But it's simply the one
hundred things that we love about college football, and it's
everything in and around the game. And so my man,

(45:43):
Jason Alessandro on Twitter, what I love about college football.
It's game day when I see and hear bands marching
to the stadium and he goes with a little gold
blue Michigan. Man, I'm gonna write that. I'm gonna try
to write down. I'm gonna, you know, see if we
get to one hundred. But the marching band is awesome.

(46:07):
It's completely college it is. It provides that whole thing,
that whole backdrop. So FITZI, we can start rattling in
them off. What do you love?

Speaker 4 (46:22):
I mean, surrender Cobra, Surrender Cobra, like just that one
move that speaks to, oh my god, my heart was
just ripped out, but I love my team so much.
Like what I love watching college football, just seeing the
emotion at the end of a game for win or lose,
like surrender cobra. Storming the field is the opposite of
surrender Cobra.

Speaker 5 (46:41):
Of those two moments. Just what other sport when.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
You pull off a win other than college sports, where
where does anybody try and just storm the field? You
can have the biggest upset in NFL history, and you know,
Bills fans aren't going to try and storm the field.
It's never gonna happen. Like, but there's something amazing like
thinking about Vandy last year picking up the uprights and
carrying them all the way down Lower broad after they
beat Bamah. Yeah, that right there, the the the absolute chaos.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Oh yeah, I love it. The chaos is uh yeah,
that that's that's very cool.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
I love.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
I love the overhead shot of the stadium. So I
want to add the stadiums and whether it's the Horseshoe
or the Big House or you know Bryant Denny Death Valley, Uh,
the stadium speaks.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
To me, right, it's it's I've always loved.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Like the Coliseum and these mythical places, right, and those
stadiums are are just that like when you're growing up
and you're you're a college football fan and you're you
would you would turn on the television. It was like
a window to the world, right or to the country,
and you'd see these places and you go, oh my god,

(48:11):
and Arbor and these and I always found the towns.
I love the college towns, right and Arbor and you know,
you could go back Austin and Manhattan, Kansas, right, Lincoln, Nebraska,
those places that you knew, Tallahassee, Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Right,

(48:36):
Like I remember memorizing the it's kinda loser. I was, Uh,
these these towns that you knew, you know, who was
I was city and who was names.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
M h, you're so like, I mean, you can add
sort of small town to all of it, Like you mentioned,
you know that rule. And I'll never forget the year
I was out with game day, the first time I'd
ever gone to a Nebraska football game, and just walking
through a real, live Friday night lights meets college football,

(49:14):
where like I just the walk from the hotel to
the stadium and walking through a gas station that had
closed for the day and simply had people set up
tailgating in the gas station parking lot and they were
just handing food and drink out to everybody that walked
through because it was just this big community walk to
get to the stadium. And I like, I'll never forget that,

(49:36):
And how incredible like these small towns that may feel
empty or quiet in the middle of June suddenly become
their own massive ecosystem in September, just because there's a
football game there and it's like everybody's on the same
page with it. That's man, that's special.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
Yeah, I mean how it all swells right. Like, So
my nephew, in fact, my sister just took my nephew
to college. He's a freshman and he's going to VA Tech.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
Right, so.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
He's he's pumped up, man, right like, So they went
and they visited the school. He fell in love with it,
and he's like, you know, uncle ant, I got uh,
you know, season tickets to the gates. I go, dude, man,
you're gonna be watching Biemer ball. You're gonna be Blacksburg.
And he's like, yeah, there's nothing you know. And I

(50:34):
he said, were you ever there? And I'm like, yeah,
I covered. But when it was Frank Biemer, when it
was Beamer ball, I remember covering. You know, I was
down there covering games here and there, and you know,
it's wild. It's a great, great experience where you know,
Blacksburg on game, especially at night.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
I remember at night covered in night game.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
It was like a Thursday night game or whatever, and
it was, uh, it was a great experience. Between that
and you know, Morgantown, West Virginia right like through you know,
and then you go through the Ross Belt. You know,
that's pretty cool. But like those towns, like you're right,
they've come a lot. Like you know what's wild is
Penn State and Happy Valley. You're talking one hundred thousand

(51:18):
people at the game. How the town swells there's not
enough hotel rooms. You know from when you used to
do game Day that you couldn't even stay in the area.
You had to stay well outside of Happy Valley.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
Yeah, no, you're you're a thousand percent right, And there's
something beautiful about that, Like that's yeah, like the the RV,
I mean, just just seeing the campuses, like when we're
talking about lists of things that we love, like just
seeing the campuses and the way that they shine in
these you know, on any of the TV. Like for me,

(51:56):
you know, as much as we love the fact that
you know, Big Noon or get Days right at the stadium,
I also love it when they give you somebody that's
walked through the campus and telling you about this random
sandwich shop that nobody else would ever know about.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
And yes, you mentioned Penn State.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
Like just going to the creamery is Yeah, most people
would never even know about that if they weren't a
college football fan watching these shows, you know. So like
there's something about watching the local the local flavor just
explode and seeing the campuses that I think is really incredible.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Yeah. Yeah, Todd Blackloch used to do the food segment
during the game, like during the week. They would shoot
him and he would go to some place speaking of
Penn State, right, uh, and he would go to wherever,
like there's such and such diner right where they had
like the oversized sandwich with the fries and you know,

(52:49):
the whole nine. Yeah, that's pretty cool. That's good stuff,
my man. Tasty Cake Dum says. The rivalry is ant
he goes Michigan versus Ohio State, Alburn versus Alabama. The rivalries,
the great rivalries are fantastic. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (53:08):
And again, I don't know how many other sports have
that same level of rivalry, you know, I just Auburn Alabama.
How many books have been written about Auburn Alabama And
there are so many just Auburn Alabama.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
Just it just hits different, you know.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
And and so you start thinking about Michigan and Michigan State,
you know, and Michigan. All these different won't even say that,
you know, it's it's great. It's like, won't even say
the name of the school. I just that stuff is
just different.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
I mean, think about think about the problem Jim Harball,
who's a great coach. Right when he first got there,
I mean, he just couldn't beat Ohio State, right until
you know, the finally he goes on a run. I
think he was zero in four to start and then
he won three in a row. So like that, and
then I mean Ryan.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
Day, same thing.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
They couldn't get over the hump, right, couldn't beat Michigan.
And at some point was they were talking about his job.
You know, go over to the last year he was
on a hot seat because he couldn't beat Michigan.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
There are Ohio State fans that are coming off of
the National Championship that are still angry about the fact
that they're you know what I mean, like it's just
if you can't beat Michigan. I mean that's crazy to me.
It's just crazy, like you're putting banners up, but if
you don't beat Michigan. So it's I mean, it is

(54:40):
their layers to this thing.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Brother, there was I mean Florida Florida State. I remember
covering those games. Peter Wark. I don't know if you
remember that name. He was a receiver for Florida. It's
a great game, man with Florida Florida State. It was
on Florestate Wark done and and uh in Gainesville walking

(55:02):
by the alligator pit, the gator pit, like you know,
that's great. Like these rivalries are awesome. That's a that's
a great one because it just juices you up.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
Man.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
You get you get, you get the best of it. Like,
there's there's something about you know, having sides sitting on
your sides of the stadium, right, you gotta sit together,
but you're you're coming into an opposing stadium and you're
wearing your colors. You gotta make sure you're sitting together

(55:35):
with the whole crew. There's something about that that's cool.
And it's fun to be both, you know, at home
with your team and also on the road. You know,
and it's cool because most of the time, ninety nine
percent of time, you got a couple of a holes,
but most of the time, you you know, it's your

(55:56):
you're busted, you get your stones busted. But it's good
nature stuff. Man, it's it's fun when you see the
opposing the fans from the opposing team and you're ribbing
them and then you at DA and you're like, you know, congratulate,
you know, well hopefully it's more like, you know, better
luck next time.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
Nice to meet you, have fun here.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
You know.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
That's I mean, you're saying that just makes me think
about the stadium experience, like you know here in Rocky Top,
inside land.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
Just something that you know.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
Yeah and are saying, man, you know, jump around like
these are these are things that you just you say,
you say one words and everybody's like, yep, know exactly.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
What you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
You know, won't back down at Gators games. Like it's
just these these Yeah, that's little iconic moments.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
Just that's great. I get some fired up man.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Yeah, that's a good one. Man. That's that's a that
is great.

Speaker 3 (56:59):
That is great.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Wow, that's good stuff.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
I like Saturday Night.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
I love I love the big Saturday night game, the
white out, you know, and then and then the Uh
I'm a big I'm a big Herbie fan. I think
he's terrific.

Speaker 5 (57:22):
I mean, I think you have to put like game
Day on this list.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Right, like there's just yes, I call the game day.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
I love it. You know, I love our Fox pre game,
but I love I love uh, I love.

Speaker 5 (57:37):
Look, I'm excited to see what Big One looks like
this year.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
But like Corso, I mean that that week one, you know,
send off for Lee Corso is gonna be the entire
college football community is just gonna be in their fields
all the all morning. There's gonna be It's gonna be
a morning of oh my god, Lee Corso memories, as
it well should be because of what he's meant to
the sport. And it's gonna be an incredible watch. I
think it's gonna take a minute to get used to

(58:01):
the fact that we're you know, not so fast. It's
just gonna be. That's gonna be a thing in the past,
right like you know, much like I mean, I remember
when I was a kid, Keith Jackson on the game
just felt different, you know, And and now you hear
that and you try to give a perspective to people
that didn't grow up in that era.

Speaker 5 (58:19):
But that's what's gonna happen with Corso. So of Courso
has to.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Be on that list, yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know,
and you brought it up. But you know the big
new kickoff is going to be great. Uh. I love Brady,
I work with Brady.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Last week he's terrific Brady Quinn. And and did you
see Matt Lioner Matt's fantastic the where his son asked, Siri,
I saw that. Yeah, that's great stuff. All right, we'll
continue with this little fun what do we love? You

(58:57):
can hit us up on Twitter. Uh, where are you
at at Jason Fitz.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
Not just at Jason Fitz.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
All right, I'm out, Anthony L. Gargano. So we hit
us up and some of the stuff that you love
about it, like you get detailed. Give me the census
which you love about college football? You know, I love
waking up on a Saturday morning, and you know, while
we're doing the show, looking at all the games, looking
at the schedule. All right, I'm gonna see, let's see

(59:26):
if I can watch this one and that one and
it's three thirty, I'm gonna watch that one and at
seven thirty eight o'clock and the Hawaii game at midnight
Hawaii and actually today, by the way, mmmm, we got
a little Hawaii. We'll do it all. We're hanging out

(59:48):
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Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
William Contreras says good night, Cours.

Speaker 7 (01:01:25):
Win it by a final score of.

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
Five to four.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
They walk it off against the San Francisco Giants. Giants
were up in the game early and then UH Brewers
scratched back like they've been doing all year long, tie it,
and then went in the bottom of a knife.

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As the Pennant races are hot, we'll go over a
little bit later on. But there's some great there's some
great baseball being played right now, and we're seeing some
pretty good talent. The Pirates called up this kid who
just throws lightning and that's pretty amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
So we'll get to that coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
But we're talking about the things that we love about
college football with Week zero happening today from Dublin in Ireland.
Do you like the the international start the air LINGUS game?

Speaker 4 (01:02:15):
Okay, so you know what, I'd like to think that
I evolved my thinking sometimes, my friend, and as you
well know, I've long been a I hate all international games.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
They suck.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
Yeah I haven't been, but you know what, thanks to
one Taytay Taylor Swift.

Speaker 5 (01:02:31):
I've changed my mind.

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
I talked to so many people that last summer chose
to fly to Europe to see Taylor Swift. And when
I talked to them and many of my friends, and
you know, when I talked to him about it, It's like.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
I just go somewhere here Now, it was a cooler experience.

Speaker 4 (01:02:46):
I went, you know, with my kids. I went with
my family. After we turned it into a vacation. We
saw someplace we would never see otherwise. Like when I
heard all the stories after Taylor going international and watching.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Everybody just fawn over what it was like to.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Fly to i'mster damn to see a Taylor Swift show
and a number of people that are like I never
I never otherwise would have taken my family to insert
country here, but this is where we went to see
Taylor Swift. I think I've I've turned my uh, I've
changed my mind. I'm evolving on it. I think if
you're an Iowa State or a Kansas State fan and
you have the chance to take your whole crew to
Dublin to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
A game, if you can afford it, that's probably a
pretty damn cool experience.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
I still hate what it means for our watching schedule
on weekends, but yeah, I think I'm actually in on
international games being a cool moment for fans that don't
get to see it very often, as long as it's
sort of thing you only do once in the leftime.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Well, it really is a good excuse to travel, right,
Like to go see your team. You can go with
a group of people. You know, it's sometimes you know, listen,
you're going to far country. It could be a lot,
could be daunting if you're not used to traveling, And
it's cool if you go with a group and you
have a purpose, right, Like, so you go to the

(01:03:57):
game and then you get to experience the culture of
a different country. In this case, you know Ireland, so
you know, it's like, I'm with you. I've always thought
it was kind of cool. I mean, it's not going
to replace this, And I'm anti London super Bowl. Like
did you see that story about how Loved is gonna

(01:04:18):
make a push for the Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Like that would work?

Speaker 4 (01:04:23):
Look, that would be weird timing wise, because you know
London's hours ahead, so five hours ahead that that part
I I start, You're gonna start the game at eleven
o'clock at night. I actually though, so I was thinking
about this because again, like what am I like Suddenly
I'm the International game police. But you know, I don't.

(01:04:45):
I don't like a lot of international games. I don't
like back to back international games, like all of these things.
But I've converted on the Hey, yeah, go over, Like
if the Raiders are playing in Dublin and I want
to go see Dublin, it's a cool way to go
do it?

Speaker 5 (01:04:57):
Okay, I'll buy that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:58):
I actually don't have a hard time. I'm with the
concept of a super Bowl in London. I'm like the
one person that doesn't have a hard time. And the
reason I don't have a hard time is I feel
like the only people that actually go to the super
Bowl are already dirty rich, Like they already have more
money than common sense. Right, So do I really care
whether they see the super Bowl in San Francisco.

Speaker 5 (01:05:18):
Or if they fly over to London?

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
Now, as long as my kickoff is at the same time, Like,
I think there's something you know, the NFL Draft is
the party that all fans from all teams go to
all the time, and I would hate to see that
go international because I think that's so hard for people
to get to and the draft is a very cool experience.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
No, I can't see that going internationale I can't even but.

Speaker 5 (01:05:41):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
But it's just in general, like for the most part,
I've been lucky enough to be around or go to
several Super Bowls in my life, and you know, most
of that is about a bunch of rich sponsors. And
if the rich sponsors want to go to London, I
don't care. It's just it's gonna be weird though if.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
It's a kid.

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
But if it's one in the morning, they're right. I
have to tell you, I I'm vehemently against it. Now.
I'm someone that's always for that stuff. I like to
do the manifest destiny thing, right. I want football across
the world because it's ours and I want to take
over the world. So I like a weekly international game.

(01:06:21):
You know, the first week is in Brazil and then
you know every week, and I think that's what they're
gonna want up doing, where every week they're gonna be
in you know, somebody will be in Barcelona's. You know,
you'll love your London. We have Germany this year. You
will play that will play in Rome at some point,
Like you know they're gonna be doing that. So I'm
cool with that during the regular season, but the super

(01:06:43):
Bowl needs to be on, you know, our soil. I'm sorry,
that's got to be on our soil. And you're right,
it's not a game for the the regular fan. But
if you're if you your team is in the super Bowl,
you know you should have a chance to go right,

(01:07:06):
Like there are listen people events, people took up, took
out some second mortgages. They go to the game like
they go to experience. Like there were a ton of
Eagle fans in New Orleans, right, the Kansas City fans
in New Orleans this past year. So there are some
of it. That's why it could never leave the soil,
our soil.

Speaker 4 (01:07:26):
I will say, well, I like, in my mind it's like,
oh my god, is it a last second flight to
London that much more than a last second flight to wherever?

Speaker 5 (01:07:34):
But I hear you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
The one thing that I would be really anti is
like if they ever did do it internationally, like the NFL, the.

Speaker 5 (01:07:43):
Super Bowl is about a celebration of the Super Bowl.
I don't really need my fears.

Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
I could be like Oh, now we're gonna have you know,
we're gonna play the British national anthem, and we're going
to celebrate London and all this. I don't give a
damn about London.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
I just want to run.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
I don't I don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
I got it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
I don't care.

Speaker 5 (01:07:59):
Yeah, so that would be my other concern right now.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
I I would not want that. I'm sorry, I'm out out.
We're going over our one hundred things that we love
about college football and some great stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
Andy Furman check's in.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
He's like Dom, He's about the college football is great
because each game means so much and more. And of
course he brought up the rivalries as well. Army Navy.
Oh you think about this one man, right, Oh you
and Oklahoma State, Like, there's nothing like the that Friday

(01:08:43):
after Thanksgiving where all the that weekend where everybody plays
each other. You know, that's always that's always a great one.
I like how the sport is being is different. It's
celebrates differently. If you go out west as opposed to

(01:09:05):
the Southwest, as opposed to the Midwest, there's a distinct flavor.
I'll give you a match as something I love about
college football. Give me that Thursday night or that Wednesday night,
Tuesday night in October matching game, because I'll watch Toledo.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
I mean in that sense, like I'll give you. One
thing I love is like the number of TV windows.
Like I love, genuinely love the fact that on Saturdays,
it's like a noon game, a three pm game, a
six pm game, a nine pm game, then there's a
midnight game for all of you that are just waiting
for West Coast action. Like the fact that you can
watch that many different windows of college football and to

(01:09:45):
each fan base it feels fresh. That's tough for me
to say, is really that's the thing, like, cause you're
not you know, you might be on your couch for
the fourteenth hour watching a football game, but when you're
taken to that game live, you're taking to a group
of people that are just passionate about what's happened, like watching,
you know, for for whatever anybody thought one way or

(01:10:06):
the other, the last couple of years of Colorado being
as good as Colorado or as important as Colorado was.

Speaker 5 (01:10:11):
To the conversation.

Speaker 4 (01:10:12):
Getting a random Colorado Colorado State game that's going down
to the wire in overtime at two in the morning
Eastern time, when you've been watching football since noon, Like,
that's that's incredible. Like those are the moments you sit
there because you're still like you're two in the morning,
the people in the crowd are like the middle of
the peak time.

Speaker 5 (01:10:32):
So it's just it's electric. It's just it makes it
hard to sleep afterwards.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
Yes, yes, yeah, it is electric. I think that that's
that's it. It's electric. There is there is such a
great energy to it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
What I love about college football, and particularly compared to NFL,
is the varied styles of offense. Like you're everybody's gonna
run a different scheme and even so you know, uh,
a lot of teams run the same kinds of stuff.
It's a little it's it's more varied in college football.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
Like your offenses are going to be different.

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
You're going to have, you know, your more vertical offenses,
your horizon horizontal offenses, your run based offenses. They're different
the way you attack. So scheme is completely varied in
college football.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
Yeah, and to that end, I'll add I love sideline
chaos of like signs in the air and all sorts
of what Like, I just love the way that looks.

Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
It's good.

Speaker 5 (01:11:38):
I got six.

Speaker 4 (01:11:39):
People holding up like celebrities faces, and that's telling everybody
what's actually being run.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
I love that sideline chaos. I'm lady meant down. That's great. Yeah,
I like I like the cards, the big placards.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
There's the face.

Speaker 4 (01:11:59):
I got Matthew mcconna his face over there. I have
no idea what it means, but boy is it big.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
Right, Yeah, that's great. All right, we're the Fellas.

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I went outside, Man, it's chili. It's chilly and philly
fifty eight degrees. I was like, wow, man's got a
little child. The air maybe feel like the big skin
it is.

Speaker 4 (01:13:12):
It is felt like fall all week up here, like
in Connecticut. It feels like fall, and it's like, man,
I don't know, I love it. I'm the only reason
that I'm not buying in completely is because you know,
the weather God's is gonna get me one more sweltering
like push of just gross.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
Summer up here, and I don't want that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
Like, so I don't want to get too excited about
the fact that because I look, I'd be all in
if I had to like pull out a fire pit
and we just decided it was going to be late
fall weatherwise. Right now, I'm good for that. Summer sucks.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
I'm done. I don't want the heat.

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
I don't like it, you know, I'm just I'm out
on butt crack sweat, like I don't need any of
that my life. Like there are spots in your body
you don't even realize can sweat until you like spend
I don't know, a day in the south or like
in the desert. You do either of those, then you're like, yep,
I don't want to do that anymore. So I'm I
got I'm tired of having I'm tired to having a

(01:14:03):
lot of moisture that I can't really I can't really
figure out how to stop. So like I want, I
want just comfortable preeze, Like give me a hoodie and
a pair of shorts and a hoodie is perfect weather.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
Yeah, guess what man, this is? Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
I was looking at our forecast and it looks actually beautiful, man,
Like it's going to be in the seventies and lows
in the high fifties or the low sixties. So you know,
you got that. That's like that's football. It feels au tumbal.
Next thing, you know, like my kids go back. I

(01:14:37):
know some kids are already back in school. We go
back right after Labor Day, so the kids are gearing
up to go back to school. Like we've you know already,
we're now scrimmages. We've had our both the big one
and little one had scrimmages last week. So we'll be
counting down to the Pretty soon they'll be starting their games.

(01:14:59):
It's crazy. That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
That is crazy to think that, like Friday night lights
is here Saturdays.

Speaker 5 (01:15:05):
It's just yeah, it's all very very crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Yeah, last night because they both had they both had practice,
they had scrimmages during the week, and then I got
to daddy, Daddy, uh Chick fil A tonight for dinner,
and I was like, all right, you know, you guys
did good this week, so we'll treat you little Chick

(01:15:28):
fil A dude. The two things that come into play
real quick to Chick fil A. One, I got to
get a second job to give him a treat because
it was it costs me like sixty dollars right. Two
the place is mobbed, but they are so efficient at
getting people like in and out, like it's a parking

(01:15:52):
lot full of cars, and yet it took me only
five minutes to get the food. It's it's unbelievable how
efficient Chick fil A is.

Speaker 5 (01:16:02):
I look, Chick fil A's diet lemonade spectacular.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
It's elite. I will give them that.

Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
I just think on the whole if we're being honest, brother,
like the fries are nothing special.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
At all.

Speaker 5 (01:16:13):
So now we're just talking about the sandwich.

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
And every time I finished at Chick fil a sandwich,
I'm like, how's a good appetizer? Like it just never
fills me up. It just doesn't, like, and I can't
get two of those things, my god, Like that's just
way too much.

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
I don't know why. I don't know why the Chick
fil A sandwich doesn't fill me up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
It just doesn't.

Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
So like I rarely i'll stop, I'll stop through a
Chick fil.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
A drive through to get a diet lemonade.

Speaker 5 (01:16:34):
That's the only thing I ever get from Chick fil A.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
Like their lemonade is delicious. You're you're right about that.
Their lemonade is really good. But yeah, it's I mean,
you know, I mean my kid, it's for the kids, Like,
you know, I'm not you know, if it's up to me,
I'm not going to go. I die.

Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
I die on the Chick fil A Overrated hill. And
that's that's a very unpopular.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
People don't like that hill.

Speaker 5 (01:16:59):
I un the taco bell underrated a Chick fil A
overrated hill very often and people don't like that take.
And I realized that that might have.

Speaker 4 (01:17:07):
The taco Bell might have a little bit to do
with the amount of edibles that are in my life.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
But I'm just saying, like, you.

Speaker 4 (01:17:13):
Know, at some point I struggle, like I like my
Mexican food. Like in Nashville, there's a bunch of places
you can go to a Mexican restaurant that it's gonna
come out You're gonna order vegetarian combo g and it's
gonna be like a bean burrito, a cheesecas city, and
a cheese enchilada. It's gonna come out with tinfoil and
like a smothered and covered cheese sauce that came from
a can. Obviously, that's my idea of good Mexican food

(01:17:34):
with when you ask for the cein of sour cream,
they give you like four cartons of it and it's
like seven bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
I think that's great Mexican food.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
So like, I'll be the first to admit that when
I go to fancy Mexican restaurants, I don't I don't
want fancy Mexican restaurant.

Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
I'm like discernible.

Speaker 4 (01:17:49):
Beans and cheeses that are all mixed together and something
I don't really like.

Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
Meat in my life. I got a buddy of mine.
He has an upscale Mexican restaurant Oscar. The restaurant it's
called tequil is in the Ergo downtown Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
It's a great place, like he is.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
Ridiculous cocktails his la like they do like Castino's that
are just unbelievable with rice and beans, like they're it's
an elite restaurant.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
It's really is he.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
If he heard you right now, he would go crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
It's fair.

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
It's fair. I know it's a controversial take. But whenever
I go into some place and then my son would
fight you over to Chick fil A, I mean, like
leave fifty alone.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:18:38):
And by the way, like I don't need to spend
a bunch of money on tableside.

Speaker 5 (01:18:42):
Guawk is like the easiest thing to make really well,
just make it home, Like just make walking home?

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
Does it talk about make walking home?

Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
You're fine, and it'll be like an elite experience. Get
your own whole container of sour cream.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Put it on the side.

Speaker 5 (01:18:54):
You're gonna be perfect. It's great.

Speaker 4 (01:18:55):
You know, stobought salsa basically the same as restaurants salsa.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
I've got all the hills. All that's great.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
You know my oldest order is from Chick fil A.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
Two Chick fil A sandwiches, fries, two fries, milkshit vanilla milkshake,
and uh the t I guess it's ten or twelve nugget.
I think it's a tank. Count nuggets.

Speaker 5 (01:19:15):
Calories in the cash, my friend, the calories in the cash.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
Yeah, fellas right here, Fox Sports Radio. Don't listening to
Fox Sports Radio Radio. Ah, good morning, good morning, good morning,
good morning, good morning. Happy week zero, fellas. Football is
upon us. And I know we've been gaga over college
football for the last two hours, and we'll kind of

(01:19:41):
mixing some NFL certainly this hour. And I got a
couple of things to start with.

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
One of our guys said, you know, I love the
start of college football because he means the start of
the NFL is around the corner.

Speaker 5 (01:19:54):
Hey, I'll give you that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
I'll give you that.

Speaker 5 (01:19:56):
For years.

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
That was me too.

Speaker 4 (01:19:57):
For a lot of years, I was like, just means
to call it the I'll get through this week at
college football.

Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
Let's just get to the NFL. I'll give you that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
That's fine, Like I ever get you in there. Hey,
I'm just so Roco Becked is the quarterback of Iowa State,
and I always state Kansas State.

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
Today it's going to be a really good game.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
So Roco's dad is Anthony, back to playing the league forever,
and he's a great Dude's a buddy of mine. So
I'm just texting him about Ireland and he's like, dude,
he goes, it's been unbelievable out here. He said there
had to be fifteen thousand people at the PEP rally
just for us yesterday, and he said Kansas State had

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about the same for them earlier. So I guess they're
really into it, man, Like I guess they really They
were embracing it in a big way in Dublin.

Speaker 4 (01:20:49):
I mean, you and I have had the fortune in
our individual lives to get to go to international places.
I never want to take that for granted, because sometimes
we forget how few do you know? And it's funny
because when you talk to guys that played college football
at the highest level, they'll tell you all the time

(01:21:10):
that even bowl games that people spend time trying to
tell the world are useless. Well, they have meaning to
every one of those kids that may have never left
the state that they play in.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
You know what I mean, like so for.

Speaker 4 (01:21:22):
The kids, for the coaches, for the families, for the
the the fans, for everybody that supports these programs.

Speaker 5 (01:21:32):
The chance to.

Speaker 4 (01:21:33):
Go watch your team, your team play in Dublin is
pretty distinct and cool.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
It is.

Speaker 5 (01:21:39):
I'm so willing to just be.

Speaker 4 (01:21:42):
Honest about my my transformation and thought on this about
international games, because as long as we've been together, every
time there's an international NFL game, I just scream I
hate it, like a grumpy old man on my lawn.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
And now I'm sitting there saying, I don't know like it.

Speaker 4 (01:21:55):
These moments, Like if you were an Ioway State Kansas
State fan and you can go see this game in Dublin,
it just gives you a reason to get an experience
with the friends of your family that you might not
get or might not take the time to make any
other way.

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
Like I think that's pretty beautiful. Yeah, it really it
really is? It really is. I asked aunt, any guinness
is he goes last night, the night before, the night
before that.

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
Yeah, I love it, you love it. You like a
good guinness, Oh man.

Speaker 4 (01:22:30):
I so, yes, there was a period in my life
where there's a lot of guinness, but it's funny because
Dublin country music that's really well in Dublin. So I've
been to I mean just well in Ireland in general.
I've been to Ireland, I mean upwards it probably close
to twenty times in my life. And there was a
period where I walked up to the hotel the concierge

(01:22:51):
at the hotel we were staying at, the little tidy
place in Dublin, and I was like, Okay, so I've
done the Guinness Factory a bunch of times, I've done
the big church over there, I've done the famous street
of bars here, done the Jamison Factory. What else should
I do? And then I was just like run it
all back and do it all again.

Speaker 5 (01:23:06):
So there is something too, like.

Speaker 4 (01:23:10):
He's just he was right too, Like, I mean, it's
it's a it's an incredibly fun place to be though,
Like if you have the chance to hang out there,
I recommend everybody, like if you just want to go
somewhere for like three days and just see a little
bit of Europe and party like a god. I mean,
Dublin's got to be one of the bucket list places
to go for that specific thing.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's cool, man, that's very cool. All right,
So just so you guys know, let's kind of go
over a little bit of the schedule, and then I
got some a bunch of NFL stuff. But today is
like your appetizer, right, So at noon today you're going
to get Kansas State and Iowa State. And again that's

(01:23:55):
that's a really good game. It's twenty two versus seventeen. Uh.
And then we got you UNLV reps. It's not on television.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:24:03):
Yeah, according to the ESPN site, and not on TV
at all, which who knew was even possible now that
I mean, my god, you spend every minute of every
day cramming your new app time.

Speaker 5 (01:24:12):
I thought you can at least have all the games on.
I'm just being bitter, but yeah, it's not on It's
not on TV.

Speaker 7 (01:24:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
You got Fresno State Kansas on Fox tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:24:28):
Kansas is gonna be interesting because of Daniels.

Speaker 4 (01:24:33):
And I've shout out Lance Leipold, the head coach of Kansas'
longtime friend, somebody that I don't even I don't even
try and hide my bias of like I love that
human being and I want Kansas to be wildly successful.
But while most of us still think of who Kansas
was at one point.

Speaker 5 (01:24:50):
That's not who Kansas is now.

Speaker 4 (01:24:52):
Like Lighthold has done an incredible job there finding funds,
you know, and when you just talk about they just
got a three hundred million dollar donation what I think
it was last week to help with some of the facilities.
It's just the money is pouring into Kansas and the
football team reflects that this is not the Kansas of old.
This is this Kansas even you know, I think everybody

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thought last year losing their offensive coordinator to Penn State,
maybe there'd be a bigger step back. And look, if
Kansas can stay healthy, you know, they're going to be
well coached. You know, they're going to be explosive. And
anytime they have an air quotes athletes at the quarterback
position in Leipold's offense, it's just gonna be scary.

Speaker 5 (01:25:31):
So I think Kansas could be really good.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
Yeah, yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
And then you got Sam Houston, Western Kentucky Old CBS
Sports Network and then Western Kentucky Red Blobs.

Speaker 5 (01:25:43):
I don't know, are they still the red Blobs, but
that was their logos. Yeah, but it just looked like
the red blob on the right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:49):
Right, right, right, big old red blob. And then it's
seven thirty from the island. That's right, Hawaii Stamford, dude,
CBS on Paramount Plus, Uh, Hawaii in Stanford. Now, I
can't watch that game. I thought about it. I was like,

(01:26:09):
you know, but like my wife and I think we
got a little bit of a date night tonight. I probably, yeah, yeah,
I can't watch. I cant you know, no, babe, I'm
gonna watch Hawaii Stanford. I don't think that's gonna go over. Well.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
Just the market market, y'all. Market on the calendars. Let's
just make sure we don't have another Gargana nine months
of date night.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
I'm just saying, yeah, she's got enough.

Speaker 3 (01:26:37):
I got three boys, two kids, and my husband.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
Yeah, that's amazing. Uh Thursday, how about Boise five thirty
eastern start.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
That's weird Poise, South Florida.

Speaker 4 (01:26:53):
So can I this is where can I Can I
give you my quick now that you've mentioned UNLV and poison,
can I give you? Because everybody just wants to put
Boise in the college football Playoff because we're used to it,
and obviously they still have plenty of talent even though
Ashton Genty is not there. But I'm gonna give you
a little nugget you didn't know you needed about Mountain

(01:27:13):
West football. Dan Mullen the new head coach of BUNLV football.
Right so, Boise is the one everybody's paying attention to.
But since Dan Mullen became the head coach at UNLV,
they have recruited out of the transfer portal thirty three
Power four players, So they now have thirty seven on
their roster. That's more than double anybody else in the

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Mountain West.

Speaker 5 (01:27:35):
They have sixteen players on their roster right now. There
were either four or five star recruits.

Speaker 4 (01:27:39):
Coming into college football and twenty one players that played
meaningful snaps for the SEC or Big Ten. So when
you're watching Boise State on Thursday night, just remember the
UNLV team that you don't get to see because it's
not even being televised today is going to take them
down because they are more talented and they are finally
investing in that program in a way that will make
UNLV a playoff teams. Wow, I'm saying it now, highest

(01:28:03):
ranked group of five team or group of six. Now,
I guess we have to call them the highest rank
G six team is a U n ov I like it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
Got brother also Thursday, great game Nebraska Cincinnati from Arrowhead Stadium,
and we like that. Do we like it? Do we
like an Arrowhead game for Nebraska?

Speaker 3 (01:28:25):
Since he yes, yes, it's cool, let's start to seize.

Speaker 4 (01:28:31):
I think it's for the kids too, to get to
play in an NFL stadium. I mean that that right,
they're gonna bust down.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
So they're gonna bust down from Lincoln to UH to
Kansas City and they're they're pumped up for it. And
of course Dylan Reyola, who I'm expected to have a
big year going into with sophomore year, watched Matt rule
teams in year three he was UH ten and it

(01:28:58):
was eleven to three at Temple ten for at Balor
in his third years. As he turned around those programs,
I could see the brask having a big jump. And
ray Ol is the truth man, Dylan is the kids
stud And you know what they'll never get because you know,
people say, wow, you emulate Mahomes and everything he does

(01:29:20):
is Patrick Mahomes right, the way he moves and the
whole thing, and I go, yeah, you know, you remember
a guy that used to imitate Michael Jordan all the
time and his name was Kobe Bryant, Like, why wouldn't
he imitate and try to try to replicate Patrick Mahomes?

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 5 (01:29:40):
Also, I mean, who cares if he does?

Speaker 3 (01:29:44):
Well, that's my point. Why are you criticizing him?

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
So?

Speaker 4 (01:29:48):
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that's like, if that's your thing, good, Like the if
The thing that we want to find on Raila that
we don't like is that he's trying to copy Patrick Mahomes,
who is if you're his age, the transcendent NFL star
that everybody wishes they could model their game after. Like
who cares if he cuts his hair like Mahomes?

Speaker 1 (01:30:37):
Who cares?

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
Like every long haired kid that I went to high
school with thought they were in guns and roses?

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
Who cares?

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
Like, So, if NFL players want to emulate the fashion
and this style and the play and the haircut of
Patrick Mahomes, if college football players want to bring that
into their.

Speaker 1 (01:30:53):
Life, let them they're kids.

Speaker 4 (01:30:55):
Let him have fun and like the Rayola thing is
an example of we need to learn from what happened
last year. Dominic raiol I genuinely believe this. Last year
it became, Oh, this kid's gonna be world beater, world beater,
world beater, and it didn't quite click right away. Okay,
it's his first year in college football, Like, hello, I
would like to use this Yeah, sorry, I would like

(01:31:15):
to use this same argument for any kid it's getting
their first meaningful starts. Like I think the fact that
I'm looking at Texas highlights right now with Arch Manning
is concerning to me, Like I would like to let
the kid play a little bit of college football before
I anoint him as the second Coming, Like, let's give
these guys an opportunity to get on the field and
grow and become who we hope they can be instead

(01:31:37):
of asking them to be that day one when you
when you haven't played years of college football, like in
the last few years, we've had quarterbacks that were grown
ass men playing the position.

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
Like that's not the case for real.

Speaker 4 (01:31:49):
Well, let's give him a little bit of time and
patience and grace to grow into what he's going to
be as a college quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
I know, I know. I Tyler Schuck was twenty seven.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
My god, I like Dylan Gabriel played like eight hundred
and seventy thousand years in college football.

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
I go.

Speaker 5 (01:32:06):
Of course he came in and looked good in a.

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
Transfer offense because like, yes, I mean he's he's a
grown man playing with you know, college kids that are
just barely out of promposal.

Speaker 5 (01:32:16):
Season, right right, anyway, thing I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
Wisconsin Miami is Thursday night, and then we've got some
games Friday night, Alburn and Baylor right Friday night. Georgia
Tech Colorado is Friday night, and of course Saturday, big
new kickoff right here on Fox Texas Ohio State which

(01:32:43):
we cannot wait one week from today, that epic epic
matchup and it's great game. Great games. Next Saturday, Syracuse,
Tennessee is next Saturday. You got George's in action in
Alabama's Alabama Florida State three thirty game. That's a that's

(01:33:06):
a great one. I'm just looking at disguis.

Speaker 4 (01:33:10):
That Alabama game, Like, look, Alabama Florida Florida State's just
not gonna be good. But when do either of those
fan bases get too impatient? And I realize that it's
bare Like we're not even one game into kaylend bors
second year, but Bama fans are, They're nervous, and that's

(01:33:31):
just being honest.

Speaker 1 (01:33:31):
Right, So, by the way, quarterbacks good, They're gonna be good.
They're gonna be better in what people think. Man, my
advice is, don't be nervous. Don't get nervous because quarterbacks legit.

Speaker 4 (01:33:46):
I just like, I like to see it for a
minute first, Like, and so I'm with you. I think
enty Simmerson has talent. I Kaitlyn de Boor's best years
came with somebody that had played a lot of college football,
right like, So like, I think Helen de Boor is
a really good coach. But I also don't think that
the expectation for most teams is to go, you know,

(01:34:08):
to lose one game and find yourself as a top
seat in the college Football Playoff every year. I understand
that that's what everybody wants, But in the modern world,
I think we're just gonna see more and more you know,
weird years. So I don't know what to make right now.
Like Florida State, I'm worried about whether Mike Norvell is
even going to make it through this season. It could
get very ugly, very quickly. And that first game, Man,

(01:34:31):
if Florida State goes out there and gets just run
out of the building forty to nothing, they're going to
be losing their minds. If Alabama somehow trips up in
the first game against Florida State, they're gonna be losing
their minds.

Speaker 5 (01:34:42):
That's to lose your mind Bowl.

Speaker 1 (01:34:43):
I like that in the middle of the day. Yes, Yes,
that's a that's a really good one. And then of
course Saturday night, what a quit a game LSU and Clemson.
No smer club, Nick, that's a great, great football game

(01:35:03):
next Saturday night, seven thirty Eastern.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
Man, that's gonna be a That's a great.

Speaker 1 (01:35:08):
One to.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
Do again. Early you know, you gotta get started on
the right foot.

Speaker 1 (01:35:15):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
Every year they lose this game.

Speaker 4 (01:35:19):
Yeah, and I think both of these teams should have
national championship expectations, Like when you have a quarterback that's
been in the system for a few years and you're
comfortable with them, and you have a guy you know
you can play, and you're putting a team out there
with as much talent as both of these teams have.
Like if I go up and down the top ten
teams in college football, it's pretty easy to find a

(01:35:40):
yeah butt for many of them, whether it's yeah but
James Franklin doesn't win the big game, which is what
we say about every coach until they do, or yeah but,
like I said, I love the potential of Arch, but
we haven't seen a damn minute of it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:52):
To actually back any of that up.

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
We have a good idea, especially if you look over
the last month of the season. Kate klubn it got
much much better throughout the court of the year. I
think Garrett that Smeyer is somebody that you know, he
there's no doubt he can play, and he's been in
this system for a minute, right, So there's a lot
to like about both of these teams. I think Clem's
in l s U or two teams that's sneaky could
be national champion contuchers. I don't know if it's sneaky,

(01:36:15):
but I feel more saul with them than money teams
in the top ten.

Speaker 3 (01:36:19):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
I'm really curious to see how LSU comes out. I
love No Smart. I'm a No Smart fan. I love
his he he's got a great arm. Man, he's he's
he lets he'll throw interceptions, and I get it. But man,
that dude's gonna make great throws. He's got a great,
great arm, golden arm.

Speaker 3 (01:36:40):
Man. He's he's really good. That kid. I I like
him a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:36:45):
I've interviewed him a couple of times. He's a smart kid.
He's got his head on straight.

Speaker 3 (01:36:49):
Father father is a great guy too, and.

Speaker 4 (01:36:52):
Just you know, even talking to him about the decision
through the process of trying to fight his way to
starting to not transfer, and just understanding the like I
like guys that are getting their shot, that understood the
need for development from day one, because most people are
not ready to go out and.

Speaker 5 (01:37:09):
Be an NFL superstar the first day they step.

Speaker 4 (01:37:12):
On the field in college, right and just his understanding
of what he needed to develop and how he needed
to develop. It was was really again it speaks to
being a coaches kid, you know, but it's just I
like the kid a lot, a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
And then a doubleheader all next Sunday from tomorrow Vo
Tech and South Carolina. Dude, Notre Dame Miami Sunday night,
Are you kidding me? Notre Dame Miami Sunday Night?

Speaker 4 (01:37:41):
With with Notre Dame again another team in the top ten.
With the quarterback question, you know, you start looking at
how good is CJ.

Speaker 1 (01:37:49):
Carr going to be? Right? But Notre Dame at Miami.

Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
Figure around him that was really good?

Speaker 1 (01:37:55):
Oh yeah, spectacular. And then yeah, I mean they're playing.

Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
Down in the just a the absolute swampy grossness of Miami.
Oh in august O conditioning, babe, Let's see how those
runs went this summer?

Speaker 3 (01:38:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
And then the Labor Day weekend closes with TCU and
North Carolina Belichick which has been quiet, hasn't it? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:38:22):
I think it was.

Speaker 4 (01:38:24):
It was so loud for so long and now it's
just finally like, hey, let's actually see him on the field.
And I don't know, I'm genuinely interested to see if
college kids react to Belichick and his approach.

Speaker 5 (01:38:37):
I just don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
Yeah, yeah, all right, let's turn our attention to the
NFL and go over the stories of the week as
we are in our final preseason week three, Like what's
going on in Dallas, Cincinnati, Indianapolis. Wow, a lot of
a lot of perplex singing places, stuff going all in

(01:39:03):
the league. I don't get. We'll talk about it, FITZI.
Because as we hang out on Fox.

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let's go to the NFL Big Boys time and uh
look at some of the happenings as we enter the
final preseason of the week for preseason game Week three. Man,

(01:40:07):
the season kicks off a week from Thursday in Philadelphia
Cowboys Eagles, and let's talk about Dallas.

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
Right, all of the eyes on the.

Speaker 1 (01:40:18):
Netflix show and the docu series and Jerry talking about
drama and talking a bunch of junk as Micah Parsons
sits and rots.

Speaker 4 (01:40:31):
The hard part for me is with all of that
is then we saw Jerry talking to Michael Irvin saying
that they made a proposal and the agent told him
to shove it up his rear end. But also, like
in that interview with Irvin, he talked about the fact
that when he sat down, he felt like he moved
in his negotiation already and he and Mike had worked.

Speaker 1 (01:40:51):
Out all the numbers and blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (01:40:53):
I really, man, I want to hear from Micah through this,
not the agent, not Jerry, Like I'd like to hear
from Micah and his side of this, because you know,
Dan Graziano said yesterday that while Dak Prescott and Zeke
and guys like that all had to have dinner with Jerry.
They never discussed contract details with Jerry. Everybody knows not
to do that. Did Micah actually discuss like, because look,

(01:41:15):
I have an agent now, I had an agent in music.
If if a buddy walked up to me when I
was touring and said, hey, we want the band to
play this show for one hundred K, the first thing
I would turn around and do is say, man, I
don't handle money, but you should talk to you know,
in that case, you just talked to William Moore.

Speaker 1 (01:41:30):
So now it's like, hey, talk to my agent, right.

Speaker 4 (01:41:31):
Like, like hey, I say that all the time to
people and they're like, hey, kid, would you do this, this, this, this, this, man,
I would love to you just got to go through
my agent to clear it, because I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:41:41):
How that works.

Speaker 5 (01:41:41):
That's genuine.

Speaker 4 (01:41:42):
I don't Michael Parsons has been in the league long
enough to understand you can't have those conversations.

Speaker 1 (01:41:48):
I would really like to hear from Micah on his side.

Speaker 4 (01:41:51):
Of this, because if he sat down and said yes
to all of these things and then his agent came
in at the last second and said no, I understand
why Jerry would be pissed.

Speaker 5 (01:42:01):
Nobody wants to take Jerry side onm this.

Speaker 1 (01:42:02):
None of it makes sense.

Speaker 4 (01:42:03):
I'm just going back to again if I said, if
Anthony comes to me and says, I want you to
play this show for one hundred grand, and I say
it's perfect, and then it caused my agent. My agent says, no,
it's two hundred and fifty grand. Well that sun that's
on me for doing that at some point. So I
just want to hear from right.

Speaker 1 (01:42:19):
Okay, so you're right, you I hear you what you're saying.
But you can't. You're Jerry Jones. You know how it works.
You can't be talking about with the player, right. It's disrespectful.
You're putting the player in a bad spot. The player
has an agent for a reason. You've been around this

(01:42:41):
thing for a million years. You know. You have to
talk to the agent. You can't circumvent the agent. It's
not fair. It's not fair to the player. It's not
that's not what he does. And I think that's taking advantage.
And maybe Michael did say, oh well it sounds good
or whatever. You know, just make sure you know you

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run everything through my agent. And I like I could
see him, you know, being uncomfortable, right, Like you're talking
and you don't want to be impolite to Jerry, so
you're to involve this conversation. And and that's why you
that's why you have an agent. And he knows that
he's taking advantage. So I to me, the onus is

(01:43:26):
on him. He knows better. I don't want to hear
about oh yeah, handshakes and everything else. No, it's not
how you do business with young people. They have an agent.
They're players, right, It's not like it's a you know,
appear right. You're talking about a player and there's a
protocol in place. You can't circumvent it.

Speaker 4 (01:43:48):
Now, that's a you're you're absolutely right that that's an
overstep equally there and you know, again, I always very transparent.

Speaker 5 (01:43:56):
I use real world examples.

Speaker 4 (01:43:57):
I was just negotiating my contract with Yahoo, and during
that process, like I didn't talk to some of the
bosses because like, hey, they're not talking to me. We're
not talking about because everything's going through my agent. Nobody
wants anything to get weird. Like, so, you're right, there
is some level of we've been here for a minute,
we know how this works, and as soon as we
get the deal done, then no, we'll get the deal,
you know what I mean. So I do think you

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make a good point, like Jerry knows better, I think
it would.

Speaker 5 (01:44:22):
It's still for me.

Speaker 4 (01:44:24):
Whatever has been said, because I know, you know, Micah's
agent already came out and said, hey, I've never told
anyone to.

Speaker 5 (01:44:30):
You know, shove it up their rear end. That's just
not the way I speak. I don't think the.

Speaker 4 (01:44:34):
Exacts matter as much, but I do think that we
need to hear at some point from Mike about how
all this went down, at least from his perspective.

Speaker 1 (01:44:41):
Because it would be helpful at the end of the day.

Speaker 4 (01:44:44):
I just can't imagine that Jerry doesn't get it worked
out though, Like right, I mean, I can't imagine that
that Michah Parsons is playing somewhere else. There's too much pride,
too much ego, too much money involved, right.

Speaker 1 (01:44:55):
No, no, no, And I and I'm with you ultimately,
I think it gets it gets ironed out. But I
don't think he's playing. I don't think he's gonna be there.
Does he get ironed out before next Thursday week? From Thursday,
I mean, somebody and I asked him the question and
he went no, And I heard what shot and Ironers said,

(01:45:16):
and I get it. But person I talked to is
pretty close to this whole situation, and he went, no,
Now that's that.

Speaker 4 (01:45:24):
This is where you know for it's just such a
foreign thought for most of us to sit there and say,
would he be willing to take the fine of not playing?
Because he can't get that back in the new CBA.
So if he misses a game, they can't, they can't
wave to find.

Speaker 5 (01:45:38):
Any of that. He has to pay, he loses that game,
check and that.

Speaker 4 (01:45:41):
But I mean, in the grand scheme of things, are
you willing to lose a million dollars here, a couple
of million dollars there to make you know, twenty or
thirty more million dollars on the back end?

Speaker 1 (01:45:51):
Yeah, So like, yeah, that's wild, you'll make it up.
But again, it's ridiculous that this whole thing is not
ironed out yet. Like you know you're gonna pay him,
you know what I'm saying, Like, like, identify the guys that.

Speaker 3 (01:46:10):
You're gonna pay, and then pay them.

Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
It's not that deep. Why is it You're only want
I'm spending more.

Speaker 3 (01:46:18):
Money I mean, look at other Eagles do it. Look
at your own division.

Speaker 1 (01:46:24):
They identify guys and they signed, like I can tell
you right now who they're gonna go. Like, they're gonna
sign Jalen Carter, They're gonna sign Quinnyon, Mitchell Cooper, Dejen Right,
Nolan Smith. They're about four guys on defense. And then
they'll then the other people they'll let go, like they
let go a bunch of guys, uh from their super
Bowl team along the front because they were gonna get

(01:46:46):
big deals and they weren't going to pay them. But
they identified who they are going to pay. I mean,
they're not going to pay Michael Parsons. You're gonna pay
Like every team should have a core guy to go,
all right, I'm gonna pay this guy, this guy, this guy,
part of which class that'll affect my cap and which matter.
I mean, I've seen how teams do it. They have

(01:47:06):
projections over the what the roster's going to look like
in five years.

Speaker 5 (01:47:11):
And to that end too.

Speaker 4 (01:47:12):
With that in mind, the longer this all goes, part
of what makes it complicated For anyone that says, well,
you know, they'll trade him, I think it's tougher and
tougher whoever would acquire him. What are you giving up
for Micah Parsons. It would actually be a trade work that.

Speaker 1 (01:47:25):
You'll lose the deal when you trade the best player,
unless you know they're living in the past with the
Herschel Walker trade.

Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
Like that's not happening anymore. Teams aren't going to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:47:36):
There's a formula to how you get when you get moved,
and you're not going to wait. It's like the NBA.
You don't win when you trade the best player.

Speaker 4 (01:47:46):
One hundred percent, and everybody involved in this now you know,
the NFL mindset has modernized so much. But like we
always talk about the draft, the points system for picks
and trades and values things like, it is tough for
you know, thirty forty years ago, you could go to
a flea market and find an antique that was going
to change your entire family's life because that person didn't

(01:48:07):
know what they had. You can't really do that anymore
because now anybody that knows what they're doing just simply
googles what they have all the time. Like that's sort
of where the NFL is to everybody's gotten a lot smarter,
you know, like congratulations. Ahearschel Walker trade was transcendent generations ago,
and as a result, the entire league looked at it
and said.

Speaker 1 (01:48:24):
Well, don't want to let that happen again.

Speaker 4 (01:48:25):
How can we have a better system in place to
make sure that trades feel more equal to both sides?

Speaker 1 (01:48:30):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:48:30):
Like, it's just it's a smarter football society. So it's
the Cowboys are I think a little bit stuck and
Mike is a little bit stuck. But ultimately I just
continue to wonder as the non conspiracy theorist in the
world like that doesn't really care about whether or not
we landed on the moon. Part of me is like, man,
I don't know, like as weird and contentious as is

(01:48:52):
his kids, is it just all for attention so that
we talk about the Cowboys like they'll get a deal
done at the eleventh hour. Hell, maybe they already have
a deal done, who knows. I just want to make
sure that it's as much conversation as possible, and then boom,
Mike is in a jersey that as weird as that sounds,
that's the only thing that my brain can wrap around
because I just can't imagine the Cowboys with Jerry Jones

(01:49:13):
knowing that he's not a spring chicken to wait for
Super Bowl opportunities. I can't imagine him letting money get
in the way of having their best opportunity to win
this year.

Speaker 1 (01:49:23):
Well did you hear You know it's funny because he
talks about that in the documentary, you know about how
it's he he'll be the one to create drama, and
he loves the drama, and he loves all this stuff.
And you know, there's no such thing as bad publicity
and everything else.

Speaker 3 (01:49:43):
I got news for you.

Speaker 1 (01:49:45):
The reason why you become popular is because you win.
Was Tom Landry acting like a fool when the Cowboys
were winning those the first part of their dynasty, Like
Jimmy Johnson was not a.

Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
Clown, all right?

Speaker 1 (01:50:06):
You know, Yeah, did they have drama with the White
House and all the other nonsense. Yeah, but they were great.
They were a great team. The reason why the Cowboys
became so popular is because they were among the first
dynasties in the history of the league. It was them,
it was the Steelers, it was the Raiders, right like

(01:50:27):
they were a part of it. And then you add
the cheerleaders, and you add the Thanksgiving Day and there's
a recipe for America's team. But they haven't been relevant
in twenty five years. That whole thing is dead. And
people go, yeah, yeah, they love talking about the Cowboys

(01:50:48):
because it's a dumpster fire. But do people want to
watch the Cowboys last year?

Speaker 7 (01:50:53):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:50:55):
Are you gonna want to watch the Cowboys this year?

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
I don't know what was that run game?

Speaker 1 (01:50:59):
Who you got? Run the ball? And now Mike is
going to be out for any stretch we got.

Speaker 4 (01:51:06):
They're not good, they're they're I say this very very
you know, if you love McDonald's, I get it. A
lot of people do. I like McDonald's. The Cowboys are McDonald's.
It's not really a good hamburger. It's a great brand.

Speaker 5 (01:51:20):
Like everybody everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:51:22):
If you're driving by, you think, oh, let's just swing
through McDonald's. Like it's not a great burger, but it
does what it does. That's who the Cowboys are.

Speaker 5 (01:51:29):
They're not a great burger, but they do what they do.

Speaker 4 (01:51:31):
And people still continue to flock by every time they
drive by. They're like, oh, let's just swing into the
Cowboys here, like they're McDonald's. It's it's mid but it
gets the attention.

Speaker 1 (01:51:41):
Of the water.

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
It was relevant. You're right.

Speaker 1 (01:51:44):
It's a great analogy because McDonald's was the was the
height of the restaurant, fast food restaurant in the seventies, right,
and the sixties or whatever. And now you know, now
we really that there are better burgers out there, but

(01:52:05):
there's still they have a warm place in our heart,
right because they're familiar, because they've been around. It's a
great analogy. Thank you, got it. We'll take a quick
t will come back now. On the flip side, the Giants,
I know, I think they can finish ahead of the Cowboys.

(01:52:26):
Let's talk about that. And I got to talk about
what's happened in Indianapolis. We go around the NFL news
and notes. We are the Fellas. He's Jason Fitzermanthony Gargatto,
which we hang out right here on Fox Sports Radio.
All right, welcome back, fellas hanging out Little League World
Series today. The final four teams. Do you see this fits?

(01:52:51):
Connecticut is one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:52:54):
Yeah, Connecticut out here doing Connecticut things. Can I get
loves me not gonna lie about that. I was actually
I was at a sports bar the other night and
all what we're talking about was the Connecticut Little League
World Series team.

Speaker 1 (01:53:07):
So yeah, oh yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:53:09):
Yeah, Like baseball up here is like, you know, everywhere
I've ever lived across the country has its own sports personality,
but pretty much anywhere you're like, okay, a lot of
people play.

Speaker 5 (01:53:19):
Pick up basketball things like that. This is the first.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
Place I've ever lived where people aggressively try to sign
up for adult baseball leagues and adult softball leagues. Like
it's just it is a way of life in Connecticut
that I did not know baseball softball was a way
of like, you know, still life for people not just
watching as a fan, but trying to get outside and
play it all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:53:39):
It's pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
That's awesome, man, that's very cool. So it's fair Field
and uh it's gonna be pretty cool. They're gonna play
uh Nevada.

Speaker 4 (01:53:53):
Who they already beat beat They beat some of them
already in this process. They get them again, but they
beat some of them already, some of them.

Speaker 5 (01:53:59):
Right outside of Vegas. So it's my two worlds colliding there.

Speaker 1 (01:54:03):
Like right word, it's the Fizie Bowl.

Speaker 4 (01:54:07):
Let's go, like you know, I always state Kansas State
are the last two winners of the Pop Tart the
Bowl game. So the Pop Tart people are there, Like,
I just need big head like fat heads of me
at this Little League World Series game. I'm gonna make
it all about myself, fat and fat heads of me.
Make it the Fitzy Bowl.

Speaker 1 (01:54:22):
There we go, the Fizy bawl. I guess Fairfield beat
Summerland seventy three earlier in the tournament.

Speaker 3 (01:54:29):
So there you go. It'll be uh that's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:54:32):
And then on the other side of the bracket is
uh uh China tap Tipey versus Aruba, the kiddle China,
the picture.

Speaker 5 (01:54:44):
A couple of pictures that have been nasty in this thing.

Speaker 4 (01:54:46):
Yeah, the kid the other day that threw up fourteen strikeouts,
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:54:51):
Yeah, what, yeah, what, Yeah, it's wild, it's wild. Yeah,
it's pretty it's uh, it's pretty cool. And uh anyway,
let's go back to the league. I don't want to
talk about the NFL, and we're going to dive into
it again next hour two. Jackson Dart can play all
right now. I know it's preseason and blah blah blah

(01:55:14):
blah blah. I don't care. Jackson Dark can play. Jackson
Dart comes from Lane Kiffin's offense. He played in the SEC.
Jackson Dart should start right Bob the Giants, and I'm
Brian Dable. I would start Dart. I don't think I

(01:55:34):
think Russ has cooked James Scott bless him is a
walking eye int I'd start the kid. I don't you
know what, it doesn't matter. Let's get him right and
see if I can get him on an upswing for
the next year. They're good, they have a great front,
defensive front, they have you know, neighbors, is the truth.

(01:55:57):
I like their run game. I think the rug game
is gonna be pretty good. I think they're ol. I
got fixed. I would start the kid man.

Speaker 4 (01:56:08):
I just want the entire arena to just start the
Dart start.

Speaker 5 (01:56:13):
Let's just get a whole chant going. I've been saying
since he was drafted.

Speaker 4 (01:56:16):
I thought he should start right away, but I never
expected this. He looks so in control, and I know
it's preseason. All the things you said, But Charles Robinson
at Yahoo Sports told me right after the draft that
the intent of the organization was never to really make
Jamis a viable like they never really saw Jamis as
part of the quarterback competition. They wanted Jamis in the

(01:56:37):
room to help the quarterback with a young quarterback, almost
like a coach. He's just another coach, so he's like
a quarterback coach out there. So let's you know, just
understanding that. And I agree with you.

Speaker 5 (01:56:48):
I think Russ is washed.

Speaker 4 (01:56:49):
So now you've got to look at it and say, Okay,
what saves Brian Dables' job through in New York. It's
either winning a boatload of games or having tremendous up
swing that we see throughout the course of the year
on Jackson Dart where it's like, no, we've got something
special and this relationship with coaching quarterback is really working.

Speaker 5 (01:57:08):
We don't want to mess with that.

Speaker 4 (01:57:09):
Well, I don't think the Giants are gonna win enough
games to win that, Like I don't think they're a
ten win team, right, but I do think that Jackson
Dart could absolutely show everything to make people say, Okay,
they've got something. And if that's the case, I don't
want to limit that to six or eight weeks. I
want to start that right away, Like, give me all
of the opportunity I can to see Jackson Dart grow
into it. Russ has played fine in the preseason, by

(01:57:31):
the way, like he's done enough that if it weren't
Jackson Dart, you know, in the first round, I'd say, okay, yeah,
just fine, whatever Jackson Dart is.

Speaker 1 (01:57:42):
I think Ross is cocked. I do too. Yeah, I
mean I don't think he's got anything.

Speaker 4 (01:57:47):
I think I thought he was washed last year or too,
And the Steelers made me look dumb for like a month,
and then they maybe look smart.

Speaker 1 (01:57:54):
See the problem with him again is he's because he's small.
He needs his legs to find windows, right, like, to
find creases to throw. He looks real slow, you know,
which looks real slow as Rogers my god, oh my god. Yeah,

(01:58:16):
for practice, he looks like he's in mud. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:58:19):
I think Rogers has washed too.

Speaker 4 (01:58:22):
Like I just last year I said Russ was washed,
Steelers fans destroyed me.

Speaker 5 (01:58:27):
This year, I'm saying Rodgers has washed. Steelers fans will
destroyed me.

Speaker 4 (01:58:29):
And next year, when the Steelers are still trying to
figure out the quarterback position, come back and apologize.

Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
Yeah, no, I no, I feel you. I feel you.

Speaker 1 (01:58:36):
But we agree that if you're the giant, you gotta
you're gonna start Jackson all right, loads of stuff to
get to across the NFL and week zero, where the
fellas on Fox's Fox Sports Radio, Good morning, good morning.
Well for those of you football heads, we've made it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:00):
This is a momentous day. It is week zero, the
morning of week zero.

Speaker 1 (01:59:06):
In some places across the country, the air is cool
and crisp. It pretends to autumn. That means we have
made it. All right, even if you're not the biggest
college football fan, the fact that Iowa State and Kansas
State play today in Dublin on Week zero signifies that
football has arrived. It'll come in a big way this week,

(01:59:30):
and then next Saturday with a full slate of college
a little Notre Dame Miami on Sunday Night, and then
a week from Thursday, the opener of the NFL Eagles
and Cowboys. Jason Fitz Anthony Garganttefella is coming to you
live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. There you have it,
Fitsi's this is it. We have arrived. It's a big day.

Speaker 4 (01:59:56):
It is amazing that it's not even real Opening day,
and it feels this way right like, I mean, it
is Opening Day. But you and I talk all the
time about just the ability for certain sports to become spectacles, right,
and the beginning of any season and just the way
it feels just feels different to me, Like, you know

(02:00:17):
how much I love hockey, and at the beginning of
the NHL season doesn't feel this way. Nobody even knows
when the beginning of the NBA season is. Major League
Baseball does a nice job of opening day feeling like something,
but man.

Speaker 5 (02:00:29):
I just don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:00:31):
You start talking about just the fact that today at
noon we're gonna have a game on it just I
don't know. It feels different, It hits different. It signifies
there's this collective side of we made it. And maybe
it's because it's so long from the end of the
season to the beginning of the season. Like if you
are an Iowa State or Kansas State fan, like, look,

(02:00:53):
we're not gonna call bowl games the same, like bowl
games are different. If you're an Iowa State Kansas State fan,
you haven't seen like a meaningful regular season football game
for most of these teams. Like I'm a U and
LV fan, I haven't seen a regular season, meaningful football
game since what the very end.

Speaker 5 (02:01:08):
Of November, beginning of December.

Speaker 4 (02:01:09):
I think how long that wait is compared to every
other sport, it's crazy.

Speaker 9 (02:01:14):
Yeah, man, it's a big, big deal, right, Like, you know,
one of the things that we talk about, like when
it comes to why we love football and we obsess
a little bit and why it sounds a little crazy.

Speaker 1 (02:01:30):
Sometimes they we're like, oh my god, calm down and
the whole thing. And I get it. And it doesn't
mean to short shrift the other sports, because you know,
we love the other sports, but because there's the season
is the shortest and the games are the biggest event,
like and that's why because there's only a handful of
them compared to the other sports. Every game is an event.

(02:01:53):
It's a day that you gather with friends and family
every for every game, right you have oode, it's a
mini holiday. And I think that's kind of what you hear.
I think that's why Americans cleave to the game because
it's our way of a mini celebration to get us
through the week, the mondayity of the work week. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:02:19):
And it's the fact that it's one day, the fact
that it's one uniform day for college football for so
much of it, like for ninety nine percent of the
college football world, it's a Saturday, right, Like it is
your one thing that over the course of the week
you look forward to. It's not like I don't know
when I'm old enough to remember when you know, people

(02:02:40):
barely went out to dinner and so like when I
was a kid, we didn't go out very often.

Speaker 1 (02:02:45):
We ate at home.

Speaker 4 (02:02:46):
But boy, like there was one Friday a month and
you look forward to that one Friday a month because
that one Friday month was the one time we were
going to go get pizza or whatever it was. It
was like that was a big, big deal because it
was one thing you look forward to.

Speaker 5 (02:02:58):
It was always on Friday.

Speaker 4 (02:02:59):
I think there's something about like you're right, you spend
the whole work weekend. You're like, man, I just got
to get Saturday. I get Saturday, and I'm gonna have
I'm gonna have Iowa State football and I'm gonna have
farm again, and I just want to see all of that.
Like there is something about just programmable replicating of that
one thing that is just it just hits different.

Speaker 1 (02:03:20):
It hits different, Yeah, it just does. Man, it does
hit different. There's there's something about it. And that's why
what like if you just turn on your ear, it's
all giddy and everything. You know, it's it's real, it's
and there's a reason for it, dude, I just I
looked it up here.

Speaker 4 (02:03:40):
Iowa States regular season finale, the loss to Arizona State.

Speaker 5 (02:03:46):
Was December seventh. That was their last game.

Speaker 4 (02:03:48):
Then they had the Pop Tarts Bowl on December twenty eighth,
so which was a fun game.

Speaker 5 (02:03:53):
So if you're a bowl game fan and you count
that in your.

Speaker 4 (02:03:55):
Mind as like, hey, I watched meaningful Iowa State football,
it has still been essentially eight months since you saw
your favorite team step on the field. If you're not
super into bowl games some people aren't, then it's been
almost nine months since you saw your team step on
the field.

Speaker 5 (02:04:12):
Think about that compared.

Speaker 1 (02:04:13):
If you're a major college football fan, Eve, if you
go to the day of the last the championship game,
it's still eight months. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:04:24):
Well, and if you're an Iowa State fan, maybe you
weren't sitting there just flocking to the college football player
because your team.

Speaker 5 (02:04:29):
Wasn't in it, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:04:31):
But if you're sitting around here and you're a you know,
a hockey fan or a basketball fan, you've become basically
a year round it's just there, it's in front of you.
There are games, not just speculative drama. There's games for
as much of the year as there are not games
for college football, Like there's nine or ten months worth

(02:04:51):
of games versus college football. It's like, yeah, you can
have a baby in the amount of time it takes
to get to the next college football season.

Speaker 3 (02:04:59):
Yes, that is wow, that's amazing.

Speaker 5 (02:05:02):
Although I don't recommend that for either of us, but
you could.

Speaker 1 (02:05:05):
You could, but you know, yeah, and then that's great.
I haven't heard it like to put it like that.
You're right, you can have it.

Speaker 4 (02:05:16):
I mean, if you did, Kyle, if after the Pop
Dart Bowl you were really excited you did the hibbittidibity
with your significant other, that was December twenty eighth.

Speaker 1 (02:05:25):
Here we said, like, that's that's enough time to have
a baby. Brother. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:05:31):
Yeah, ain't that nuts? Oh my god, it's the truth.
That's that's sobering, man, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (02:05:39):
All right, Well, today, let's look at a couple of
things and then I do want to get back to
some NFL stuff because it's a big week the last preseason.
There's a lot of question like JJ McCarthy's going to play.
You know, he's kind of like a mystery as the

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expect in Minnesota. He's got a lot, you know, around him,
and it's all going to be on his shoulders.

Speaker 3 (02:06:09):
Fits it?

Speaker 4 (02:06:11):
I mean, when you talk about fourteen three and you
want a to come in at quarterback that hasn't played
a single meaningful snap of NFL football for a team
that is right smack dab in.

Speaker 5 (02:06:29):
The middle of a super Bowl window.

Speaker 4 (02:06:31):
And for whatever, we hope that JJ McCarthy will be
and I hope that he is a world beater. I
want everyone every kid that's drafted, I want to be
better than Peyton Mannick.

Speaker 1 (02:06:40):
I want him all to it.

Speaker 4 (02:06:42):
But that being said, I think it's fair to go
back and revisit some of the conversation around when he
was drafted. Of Okay, well, everybody says he's great at
these things, but he didn't really show much of that
at college because that wasn't really required in the way
that Michigan won their football game. So like, do we
really know? And like even if you do think you know,
how does it translate to the NFL level?

Speaker 1 (02:07:03):
Who knows?

Speaker 4 (02:07:04):
Like all of the very fair conversations we have about
kids when they're drafted. Now you add on that an
injury that kept him out for a season. You add
onto that massive amounts of weight loss that they had
to then try and get it worked back through, and
another procedure they didn't think they were gonna have to
do initially.

Speaker 5 (02:07:19):
Like, those are all.

Speaker 1 (02:07:21):
Reasons to stack up concern.

Speaker 4 (02:07:22):
Now you've got one of the best coaches and one
of the best wide receivers in the league.

Speaker 1 (02:07:26):
So maybe everything turns out super easy.

Speaker 4 (02:07:29):
But I think there's sneaky, just a wild amount of
pressure on JJ McCarthy to come in and day one
just be really good. I don't know how reasonable that
pressure is, but man, if you let a quarterback walk
because he wasn't good enough to win you a Super Bowl,
that means you presume that JJ is good enough to
win you a Super Bowl. And like, I don't want
to take for granted winning fourteen games last year, So

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I don't know. I like, this is gonna be interesting
to me over the course of the year for JJ
to see how he develops.

Speaker 1 (02:07:55):
I know, all right, let's go quarterbacks around the league.
What's happening Indianapolis? The Anthony Richardson Saga, Boy, they just
misplayed this whole thing. They misplayed this whole thing. They
started him too soon. They have just the ying and
the Yankee him in and out Shane Stiken. It's a

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shame because I think he's a pretty bright guy. But man,
I think he misplayed the quarterback thing. And now you're
in the Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson. You're gonna have
to trade him because he's done now.

Speaker 4 (02:08:27):
Well, the other side of it is they won too
many games too soon, because remember we all thought the
Colts were just gonna suck for a minute, and then
once they started winning with Gardner Minshew, then it was like, oh, well,
well this is I mean. The funny thing is the
Colts went nine to eight in Shane Stakin's first year
and eight and.

Speaker 5 (02:08:43):
Nine last year.

Speaker 4 (02:08:44):
So they're a five hundred football team with one of
the trashiest quarterback situations we've seen in the last two
years in the NFL. I actually think Daniel Jones is
gonna win some games for him the Colts roster.

Speaker 1 (02:08:54):
I don't think it's bad.

Speaker 4 (02:08:55):
I think the Colts have actually an outside shot of
being able to compete in their division if they can
get anything out of Daniel Jones.

Speaker 1 (02:09:02):
Yeah, but that's Shane Friken.

Speaker 4 (02:09:04):
Yeah, but I mean Daniel Jones is not not good,
but he's better than Anthony Richardson. He's better than Gardner Minshew.
And I think he's better than Joe Flacco was last year.
Like I I think I think Daniel Jones, I don't care.

Speaker 1 (02:09:18):
If he's not if he's a statue, he's a throwing statue,
you know. I mean the problem with Dana Jones is
you can't throw.

Speaker 5 (02:09:27):
But you also saw what Stichen was capable of doing.

Speaker 4 (02:09:31):
Again, I'm not putting these two quarterbacks in the same
common conversation. Let's let's let's be very clear, Like I
think the best case scenario for Daniel Jones is that
you're getting a wish dot Com version of some sort
of like It's it's like you thought you ordered Josh
Allen and you got something that looked like it was
like a weird reprint of a bad picture of Josh
Allen or like, but like Shane Steichen has done some

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great things with Jalen Hurts, right, Like he's done some
great things with mobile quarterbacks that you know he needs
to be able to just you know, push around I'm
gonna I'm gonna hope that Shane Styke and can minimize
Daniel Jones's ability to sabotage what they're trying to do
successfully on offense. And if all you get is the
Daniel Jones that we had a couple of years ago

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that was like fifteen touchdown passes and six picks, like,
I think that's still gonna be enough for them to
win nine games. And if they win, if they win.

Speaker 1 (02:10:21):
Nine games, they're right.

Speaker 5 (02:10:21):
And to think of it in that just awful division.

Speaker 1 (02:10:24):
Okay, So I don't disagree with you with the roster.
I really don't the rosters. I mean listening, you got
a premiere running back, all right, you got really good receivers.
You know. Their defense I'm in love with and you
know I do like Okay, their line is is better,

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their their O lines better.

Speaker 5 (02:10:51):
Their offing Warren a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:10:52):
Warren was a good and good.

Speaker 5 (02:10:53):
Draft pick for him.

Speaker 1 (02:10:54):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (02:10:54):
I like, I like Tyler Warren coming in making an impact.

Speaker 1 (02:10:57):
Yeah yeah, yeah, No, I I like, I agree with you.
There's ability, it's just you have no quarterback. I hate
Daniel Jones. I mean I don't, you know, as a guy,
but it's a quarterback as a player. Now do I
hate him less than your previous quarterbacks?

Speaker 3 (02:11:15):
I guess, But man, it's just a mess. Like it's
just terrible. It's a terrible situation.

Speaker 5 (02:11:25):
Yeah, it's hard.

Speaker 1 (02:11:26):
You you think you think he's better than I.

Speaker 5 (02:11:30):
Do better than Gardner Minshew Like, I mean, I mean it's.

Speaker 1 (02:11:35):
A different Like I walk out and there's weeds in
my house, right, and it's like a it's like a
Gardner Minshew weed or a Daniel Jones weed.

Speaker 3 (02:11:43):
I mean they're weeds.

Speaker 4 (02:11:44):
But Stiking won nine games with that Gardner Minshew weed.
Like that's when I keep trying to wrap my head around, like, I.

Speaker 1 (02:11:51):
Know, yeah, because the rest of your rosters could imagine
if they had incredible quarterback.

Speaker 4 (02:11:57):
I was watching Get Up and they were saying, well,
you know, the Colts stink, And I watched Graziano kind
of raise an eyeball, like eyebrow, like are we sure
about that? Like the Colts as a overall roster, they're
good enough to win eight or nine games, So, like,
I think that puts them in the conversation. You know, look,
I need this offensive line to be who we thought
they were going to be.

Speaker 1 (02:12:17):
Two years ago.

Speaker 4 (02:12:17):
Right, this offensive line is taking a step back. And
I don't know if you saw, Quentin Nelson kind of
came out and like I thought it was it was
important for him to say, hey, like, I see other
franchises with franchise quarterbacks, and it's a heck of.

Speaker 5 (02:12:30):
A lot easier. That's real, Like, y'all, that is real.

Speaker 4 (02:12:33):
The difficulty of changing quarterbacks every single year isn't just
about the quarterback and the receiver. It's about the entire offense, right,
But man, I have I have very little. Like again,
it's the wish version of Daniel Jones, or Daniel Jones
is the wish version of like a really competent quarterback.
But I do think that Shane Steichen is a good

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enough play caller and a good enough head coach with
an offensive line that, if it plays at the top
of its potential, could be good enough enough weapons that
they can win some games. And they're clearly better. Like
I'm not buying the Liam Cohen hype. Everybody else likes
the Jags to make some big leave. I am not
buying squarely, loudly, I do not believe Liam Cohen. It
was a great hire for the Jags. I don't think

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the Jags are gonna be great. So I think the
Jags are fine, uh maybe, but more likely bad. I
think the Titans are. I mean, I think the Titans
are gonna have the first coach fired this season, So
this this division is bad. I can get the Colts
to eight or nine wins even with you know, even
with the just the worst, the worst of Daniel Jones

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still gets them to eight wins.

Speaker 1 (02:13:35):
So yeah, but I disagree with the Jags because I'm
drinking the Jags kool aid. Dude, Trevor Lawrence can't be
that bad.

Speaker 4 (02:13:48):
Oh, I think Trevor Lawrence is good. I just think
the Jags have jacked it up over and over.

Speaker 1 (02:13:53):
No, I know like and listen.

Speaker 3 (02:13:56):
I love Dup Peterson to death.

Speaker 1 (02:13:57):
I know him. He coached the Eagle. He's a great dude.
But you know, I don't think he had strong enough
development guys around him, and I think he suffered. I
think Trevor Lawrence suffered. They got players, man, I think
they're going to be better. I think they're going to
be good. I'm gonna d I'm going to drink the

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koid and give you Jags over Colts.

Speaker 4 (02:14:24):
I'm looking at a Liam Cohen that was on Sean
mcvay's staff, and McVeigh was happy to let him go
be the offensive coordinator.

Speaker 5 (02:14:32):
At Kentucky, and then Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (02:14:34):
Was happy to let him go back to the Rams,
who were then happy to let him go back to Kentucky,
and then he went to Tampa Bay. And I don't
think Dave can Alice and Liam Cohen get a damn
bit of credit anymore for Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 5 (02:14:46):
I think the Baker Mayfield gets all the credit. I
think Baker.

Speaker 4 (02:14:49):
Mayfield turned his career around and he's a coach maker now.
So I look at Liam Cohen and I'm like, you're
just a dude, your dude that's been passed from, you know,
from one offensive great mind to every time you've had
to stand out on your own. It's been fine, fine,
But I like I I think the Liam Cohen trained
is what I'm not buying. So I like, I I'm

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not sure that the Jags didn't.

Speaker 5 (02:15:13):
Downgrade at coach.

Speaker 4 (02:15:15):
So if I if I don't believe in Liam Cohen
is their head coach, then I just I don't think Doug.

Speaker 1 (02:15:22):
And I'm again I'm a dug guy, But I don't
think I think I think he was. He's happy, like
he's he's done being the head coach. It's a lot
like he was a player, and it's a ton when
you're when you're I just don't think he had the
energy for it, like especially toward the end. They didn't

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look buttoned up to me. I don't think so. I mean,
I don't know about like your your point with William Cohen.
I we'll see, but I'm basing it more off of
the talents that they're that is there. I think they're
going to be better. I do, and we'll see. You
could have the Colts, I'll take the Jags. I think

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the Texans win the division. And I'm in my boys,
cam Ward. I'm going to root for cam all day long.
But there's got nothing around him. It's sad.

Speaker 5 (02:16:16):
I think the Colts win the division.

Speaker 1 (02:16:18):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (02:16:19):
I think I like that roster enough.

Speaker 3 (02:16:22):
I like you being bold like that.

Speaker 5 (02:16:23):
It's bold, it's bold.

Speaker 4 (02:16:25):
I would I would trust Daniel Jones as a quarterback
more than I trust Liam Cohen as a head coach.

Speaker 5 (02:16:30):
And that's not saying much.

Speaker 1 (02:16:33):
Yeah, man, I mean, my god, what did he did
her call? Me like, what. Very nice.

Speaker 5 (02:16:47):
He's actually very nice man.

Speaker 1 (02:16:48):
I've interviewed him a couple of times.

Speaker 5 (02:16:53):
Very nice man.

Speaker 1 (02:16:53):
You just told me that you think Daniel Jones is
a quarterback, it will be better that Liam Cohen's the coach.

Speaker 4 (02:17:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I stand by that take. You just
set it back to me, and I'm like, that's a
smart take.

Speaker 1 (02:17:12):
My god, man, that's a wow. All right, Like listen,
I like you. You put them out there. Man, let's
go all right, I'll take the Jags, you got the cults,
all right, we'll have that. We always have our running uh,
you know, long term wagers. So that's uh, that'll be
one of them for us. All right, let's think quick

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to you will come back. We'll run through the gamut. Uh.
We'll take a look at some of the stuff through
a betting standpoint. But I also want to get into
some little more NFL, a little more uh, and some baseball, man,
because it's it was. It's been a great Pennant race
so far. Some good stuff going on too. So still

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a lot to talk about. Where the fellas Jason Fitz
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Speaker 1 (02:18:18):
Fellas. Welcome back from the Fox Sports Radio studios. The
brain is under the weather today, so no brain, we'll have.

Speaker 3 (02:18:35):
To get We'll have to go through the games ourselves.

Speaker 4 (02:18:40):
As we As we start to do that, I have
to ask you have you seen because it's just it's
all over my social media is today. Did you see
the Boomer of Sias in Bengals thing? Did anybody see
the Boomers decide?

Speaker 1 (02:18:51):
Okay, no, no, no, no, tell me Boomer talk about Bengals too.

Speaker 3 (02:18:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:18:55):
Boomer Sias in live on air read the that he
got from the Cincinnati Bengals inviting him for the Ring
of Honor, that he's going to be inducted in the
Ring of Honor. So on air he was explaining to
everybody exactly what happened, but essentially in the process of

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reading it, he revealed to everybody that to go to
this ceremony where he's going to be put in the
Ring of Honor, he has to book his hotel, which
he pays for it.

Speaker 1 (02:19:26):
They do have a group.

Speaker 4 (02:19:27):
Right, he has to book his own flight and then
he has to buy any extra tickets to the Ring
of Honor game out of his own pocket. So they're
putting him in the Ring of Honor, but they're making
him pay for the flight he discounted hotel ring and
then pay for extra tickets.

Speaker 1 (02:19:43):
Like, what is the that's the worst franchise.

Speaker 3 (02:19:48):
It's such a horrible franchise.

Speaker 1 (02:19:50):
By the way, you have a jewel of a quarterback, right,
you have a crown jewel. You have lucked out into
one of the great quarterbacks of his generation, and you
refuse to pay to put quality around him. The interesting
thing is to disgrace. They're a disgrace of a franchise.

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Their cheap ownership is horrible and it's a shame. They
don't deserve it. Those people don't deserve it. It's a great town,
great sports town, and that ownership is the worst.

Speaker 3 (02:20:24):
It could be the worst in the league.

Speaker 5 (02:20:28):
I don't understand.

Speaker 4 (02:20:31):
Why if you're doing a Ring of Honor induction, and
I don't care whether it's his Ring of Honor or
anybody else's. If you're inviting a former player to come
to something at your stadium, you.

Speaker 1 (02:20:43):
Pay the cost.

Speaker 4 (02:20:44):
In fact, I can't tell you that if you're invited
to sing or play the national anthem at most stadiums,
they'll fly you there.

Speaker 5 (02:20:52):
So if you will fly.

Speaker 4 (02:20:54):
Some random violinists in my case, or some saxophone player
or some singer, if you'll fly him to whatever stadium
it is to play the national.

Speaker 1 (02:21:01):
Anthem, you'll fly your ring of honor.

Speaker 4 (02:21:03):
People like, there are just certain moments that you simply
you create culture. The want to be around the organization forever.
I do think has some meaning to people, and they're
you know, it has meaning to fans, particularly so like,
what are you saving a few thousand dollars? I mean,
in the grand scheme of things, you're saving a few
thousand dollars. And instead, Boomer.

Speaker 5 (02:21:24):
Sison is out on his radio show letting the.

Speaker 4 (02:21:26):
World know how stupid you are. Like that's just such
a bad look. Like get out of your own way.
You're a multi billion dollar business. Just if Boomer science
and is if you're bringing Boomer in, right, you bring
him in.

Speaker 1 (02:21:40):
I'm so glad you brought this up, because the Boomer
thing is just a it's just indicative to how bad
of a franchise they are like how cheap and how
pathetic they are like that, First of all, that's so
low class. That's a classless organization. He has to buy

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tickets a gate, Like, are you kidding me? You're gonna
put this man in the ring of honor and then
have him and then treat him like that pay for
his hotel. That's a cheap, classless thing to do. That's
just so you know, listen, I can get on Jerry
for the best of them, right, but you know Jerry's

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gonna do a first class for you, like like he
would put you up. He would. You know, you're getting
a basket when you arrive. You're gonna be the sweet
like they're gonna take care of you. That's part of
who you are. And it's a shame because it filters
down to the football team and filters down to what's
on the field. You got Joe Burrow. Dude, you got

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Burrow Barrow is ridiculous. I was watching this kid playing
the preseason. First of all, I don't know what they're
thinking about. He's in the game, he's got backup offensive linemen.
He's taking a beating, Like how stupid can you be?
But beyond that, you got that offense. You all sign
Hedrickson seriously, after how big your defense was last year.

Speaker 5 (02:23:14):
It's the It's Dan Marino all over again.

Speaker 4 (02:23:18):
We're watching an organization with a quarterback that just steps
back and says.

Speaker 1 (02:23:22):
Well, we've got a quarterback. We're good.

Speaker 5 (02:23:24):
We're gonna be good every year.

Speaker 4 (02:23:25):
And like it's maddening to any friend of a franchise
that's desperate to have a quarterback that's amazing.

Speaker 5 (02:23:33):
And it just speaks to.

Speaker 4 (02:23:36):
Burying your head in the sand to all of it,
like not understanding the greater picture. And I think in
some ways not understanding your audience. Like look, I think
if you spend to it. They always say in football, well,
if you're listening to the fans, eventually you're sitting with them.

Speaker 1 (02:23:48):
Okay, there's a fine line.

Speaker 4 (02:23:49):
If you run the business of a football team, part
of your job is to make sure that your fans
have this incredible experience and connection to the organization. So
you got to make sure you do things on game
like I will I will die in the hill forever.
That One of the coolest things in the entire NFL
is that the Atlanta Falcons have a concession stand within
the stadium. Where everything is five bucks are under like,

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it's all cheap pricing for hamburgers, hot dogs in case
you're coming.

Speaker 5 (02:24:12):
With the family.

Speaker 4 (02:24:13):
Why they want to make sure that there's a bond
creative for future generations.

Speaker 1 (02:24:17):
And Falcons fan It's like, that's that's just smartserable Blank, Yes.

Speaker 5 (02:24:21):
One hundred percent, that's Arthur Blank being smart.

Speaker 4 (02:24:23):
Look, I personally think cheerleaders of NFL games are useless.
They don't do anything for me, Like, I don't really
understand it. But why do they exist? Because it's for
the experience for some people that that just it helps broaden.

Speaker 5 (02:24:35):
Your audience to another experience, to more to more people.

Speaker 4 (02:24:38):
All of these things are like, if you're the Bengals,
you have just kicked your fans in the teeth for generations,
and now you should be in a window where every
single year you're asking yourself, how do we get a
super Bowl? Because if you got, if you've got Joe Burrow,
you should be in the Super Bowl conversation every year.
And instead, now you're in this weird situation with Trey

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where you don't want to pay him, and all of
a sudden you know you want to pay him, but
you don't want to guarantee the money, and it's say, okay,
how many billions of dollars is your franchise worth. Fans
don't at this point, shouldn't care about the pockets of
your favorite team's owner. Just go out there and do
the right things the easy way. And this ring of
honor thing is just another example.

Speaker 1 (02:25:20):
Again.

Speaker 5 (02:25:20):
I'll go back to the first time I.

Speaker 4 (02:25:22):
Played the Raiders Super Bowl or Super Bowl I wish
the first time I played the Raiders national anthem.

Speaker 5 (02:25:27):
The game was in Oakland the first time I played it.

Speaker 4 (02:25:30):
And while my friends had to fly themselves out, I
got four field passes.

Speaker 5 (02:25:35):
I got four sweet passes.

Speaker 4 (02:25:36):
And when I walked into that sweet brother, John Madden
and Fred Blittnikoff were in the sweep next to me,
and they came over and they shook my hand afterwards,
and the like that was the most incredible.

Speaker 1 (02:25:45):
Anthem I've ever heard.

Speaker 5 (02:25:46):
That was awesome.

Speaker 1 (02:25:46):
I'm glad we did that. That was so beautiful too.

Speaker 4 (02:25:48):
Jockey, I didn't went up to you and sugar your head,
and John Madden went up to me, and I will
never forget that moment. But this, dude, that's some things
like so we were in like the old O dot Co,
you know, And like the craziest part about it is
fans sitting in front of the suites. We're just turning
around and screaming at him just to be close to
the legends.

Speaker 1 (02:26:08):
And I think you gotta if you own the Bengals,
you got to understand that this is about generations of suck.
You've sucked for generations.

Speaker 4 (02:26:17):
Now if you're doing anything around a Ring of Honor
game every year, and again, I don't care who's being inducted.
I don't care which players. Like if you if you
invite your Ring of Honor people out to a game,
the minute you invite, you invite with no strings attached,
like either don't invite them, or the minute you invite them,
it's like, hey, we want to fly you and a
guest out, Like even if it's just you and one guest, Okay,

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you and.

Speaker 5 (02:26:40):
A guest out to the game. We'll take care of everything.

Speaker 4 (02:26:42):
We just want you to be at this Ring of
Honor game because it's an important moment for the franchise.
Like I love the fact that I'm a fan of
a team that, while they may suck, every time you
turn around, there are legends standing around and it just
says to me, like, yeah, you know what this meant?
Some the Raiders mean something to me, And it's cool
to see that the Raiders mean something. Still Tim Brown
that I watched growing up, Like there's connection to that

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that fans care about. The Bengals are just they got
their heads so far up their rear ends they can't
figure out what's straight.

Speaker 1 (02:27:09):
It's the truth. It's a shame because that's it. You
know again, you're wasting elite talent. It's just elite talent.
I just don't even I don't. I just don't understand
how they go about it. There's sometimes these teams. I
just don't get it. I just I don't.

Speaker 3 (02:27:24):
I don't. I don't get it. And I don't get
why he played as deep as he did.

Speaker 1 (02:27:29):
Like I know he wanted to play, all right, get
him a couple of series and get him out when
you got a backup offensive line. Did you see that
we got slung down by the goal line? Did you
see that the other night? Yeah? Like, what are you
out of your mind?

Speaker 5 (02:27:40):
I says, yeah, what are we doing?

Speaker 3 (02:27:41):
You know?

Speaker 1 (02:27:42):
But seriously, you can't blame Burrow. You gotta play. You
can't be the game, like you can't like it's enough.
It's a preseason game. It's so maddening sometimes to see
how some of these teams are run. It's ridiculous when
you do you know better, all right, real quick, because

(02:28:08):
the brain is sick, and you know, people like the picks.
So let's look at the games. Here you go, here's
your weak zero games. Kansas State is three and a half.
The total is fifty and a half.

Speaker 3 (02:28:27):
Three and a half.

Speaker 1 (02:28:28):
I kind of like Iowa State. It's a tight game.
I think it's I think there's some value in Iowa State.

Speaker 4 (02:28:36):
Yeah, I think there's some value in Iowa State. And
I really like the under on this. Like combined everything
that we talked about, you know, you've got early season game,
you're in Dublin, You've got just all of the the
concept of distraction, which you know, I think is real
in this sort of a game. I've had Sports Center
on the back in my office all morning while we've

(02:28:57):
been on and they're they're doing live hits, and like
it just looks like a wild party environment in Dublin. Like,
I just think all of these things lead to the
possibility for some you know, sloppy football. And if we're
gonna have sloppy football, that to me means trust absolutely
everything that I can possibly trust to run the football.
So you know, even like I if I'm Avery Johnson,

(02:29:20):
I like Avery Johnson getting a lot of yards, but
I don't know that. I don't know that Avery Johnson
getting a lot of yards in the air. I like
Avery Johnson get a lot of yards on the ground.

Speaker 1 (02:29:30):
Agreed, Agreed, Your Reds are a thirty and a half
point favorite.

Speaker 3 (02:29:39):
You're laying it.

Speaker 1 (02:29:43):
Yeah, I'm laying it. I'm laying taking it. Here's the
game I actually like. I like it's Kansas Fresno. Kansas
fourteen over Fresno State. I'm gonna tell you now, Kansas
is gonna score. So I like, I would lay it.
I mean, it's a big number, but I would lay it.
I also would let I also would look at the

(02:30:04):
team total. I can't I think Kansas offense is going
to be really, really potent. Daniels is the truth, So
I would I would look at their team total over
And then there's two other games. Western Kentucky is ten
and a half over Sam Houston, I couldn't tell you.
And Hawaii is two and a half over Stanford. I mean,

(02:30:28):
I think Stanford's going to be abysmal again. I kind
of lean Hawaii there.

Speaker 4 (02:30:33):
Yeah, I'm leaning Hawaii there. By the way, I agree
with you Kansas. I think Kansas is just gonna throttle
throttle so excited to see that game. They're going to
go out and use it like a preseason practice to
as many as many yards and points as they can.
So I like all of the overs on that. How
far has Stanford fallen that it's just.

Speaker 1 (02:30:54):
This is Andrew lux alma mater.

Speaker 3 (02:30:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:30:58):
Remember when Andrew Luck came back to he was gonna
he was gonna be the number one pick. He's not
going to go back to school, And it was like
Stanford was, you know, was a regal program.

Speaker 4 (02:31:11):
It was the sort of program that like, even if
they weren't a Natty contender, they were still a relevant
football team.

Speaker 1 (02:31:16):
And now they are irrelevant. Yeah, yeah, you're right, They're
just a bad, bad situation. All right, we'll come wrap
it up with some of the nuggets that we may
have missed.

Speaker 3 (02:31:28):
Uh, we'll hit you with.

Speaker 1 (02:31:29):
That fellas on a weak zero right here on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (02:31:38):
I don't know the end of the show brother, but
like the beginning of college football. See this is too
sad for today. You're too happy today. Like Frank's in
the Frank's in the corner just singing. He's crooning right now,
and you and I are sitting there bellied up at
the bar and we look over like Frank, not today, dude,
We're We're good.

Speaker 1 (02:31:56):
He's like, you know, Frank still and he's still singing.

Speaker 4 (02:31:59):
And I respect her because he's Frank. I'm never gonna
tell him you can't. But no, joy, George, Georgey.

Speaker 3 (02:32:05):
I don't think we need to.

Speaker 1 (02:32:06):
Uh. I think Frank's got to go into closet for
a while. I mean, football's back, you know. I think listen,
love you, but you got to go into closet.

Speaker 4 (02:32:16):
Mighty Marks a song now that says like somehow we
made it, you.

Speaker 1 (02:32:20):
Know, yeah, like and then yeah, like we got we
need something that cannotes more happy and football. Uh. Mighty
Mark is our great sound engineer, always with us. Bre
is our incredible producer. She's the best.

Speaker 3 (02:32:38):
How are you guys?

Speaker 1 (02:32:40):
Hello, Happy Saturday. They always are great, like they they
wake you up with not wake you up, but like
we had our text before the show and they're always chipper.

Speaker 3 (02:32:53):
You know. Mark, we'll do mob quotes with me, movie quotes.

Speaker 1 (02:32:57):
He'll just like send me a text to make sure
that I'm like ready to go, and it'll say, you know,
did you get the papers?

Speaker 3 (02:33:05):
Get the papers type of thing.

Speaker 5 (02:33:09):
Well, the muscle, this is a good time to get him.

Speaker 1 (02:33:12):
We got the muscle. It's a good time to do it.
He just does following good folks quotes to me. But
I appreciate. And then Brie is that, you know, gives
us that melodic good.

Speaker 4 (02:33:23):
Morning learning Okay, Wow, She's always so happy.

Speaker 3 (02:33:30):
Do it break makes you happy?

Speaker 7 (02:33:36):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:33:36):
It's like a producer slash cheerleader slash u you know,
hype hype woman.

Speaker 1 (02:33:45):
Man Like, No, we appreciate that. You guys are the greatest.
Now we love you seriously. You know that every week
you got our backs, So we appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (02:33:55):
How does Flavor Flave have to tell everybody he's Flavor
Flave every time he walks in.

Speaker 5 (02:34:00):
I just don'd it blew my mind to the super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (02:34:03):
He's walking around going flavor or flav and it's like, yeah, dude,
I didn't think anybody else would be walking around with
a big clock around their neck and huge glasses, so
short accorder of the market on it. We got it,
We understand you our flavor. That's my constant. If you
have to tell everybody your name, like, if you have
to tell everybody you're Jason Derulo and every Jason Derulo song,
you're doing something wrong.

Speaker 5 (02:34:24):
I just I can't. I can't get into it.

Speaker 3 (02:34:27):
I think you're right on that violation.

Speaker 4 (02:34:31):
If you got if DJ called has got to say
we the best music, if you have to tell the world.

Speaker 5 (02:34:36):
You're the best music, You're probably not the best music.

Speaker 1 (02:34:38):
I'm just letting you know.

Speaker 5 (02:34:39):
I'm just I'm just here spitting the logic.

Speaker 1 (02:34:41):
Go ahead, yet, No, listen, I can't argue. I can't
argue in any of that. Man, You're you're you're right there,
all right? So this week, what will you know? Because
this is it, this is like, this is your l
this is our last week. We got, you know, Labor

(02:35:02):
Day weekend coming up next weekend and then it's all business.

Speaker 3 (02:35:06):
So what do you got on chat.

Speaker 1 (02:35:10):
Man? Nothing?

Speaker 5 (02:35:11):
I'm already in football mode, so you know, shameless self promotion.

Speaker 1 (02:35:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:35:15):
Who Sports Daily now Monday through Friday, nine am to
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on all of those in the next couple of days,
so you know, right now it's all straight. Like I
feel like I'm already in football season.

Speaker 5 (02:35:32):
I'm ready for this.

Speaker 4 (02:35:33):
Like this is the week that I do hate, like
I hate that we don't have a preseason after this weekend.
We have a whole weekend of no NFL, like so
we have to wait a weekend Like I'm I'm ready now.
I feel like I got the appetizer, and the appetizer
was great, but I'm ready for my stake, and now
I have to wait too long for the stake. So
I get frustrated with the server who's making eye contact
with me, and I'm making eye contact with him, but

(02:35:53):
we both know mistake's not ready. Like that's what's happening
until we get to the following weekend. So college football
will will obviously be our our pride and joy there.

Speaker 1 (02:36:02):
But I'm just I'm ready to watch.

Speaker 4 (02:36:03):
A meaningful Raiders game that actually counts and to see
what it looks like. And Week one is against the
Patriots right up in my neck of the woods, So
I am, are you No, I gotta work Sunday.

Speaker 5 (02:36:14):
Mornings for fantasy for like I don't yeah, I can't,
can't go.

Speaker 4 (02:36:18):
I can't go, But I can go to the bar
that's five minutes down the road that I know will
be packed with Patriots fans head to tow in raiders,
geared to let them know. I don't let them know
where the bubble will be burst on the Patriots season
in the first week.

Speaker 5 (02:36:30):
Thank you very much, sir. I'm talking about talk.

Speaker 1 (02:36:32):
Now, Yeah, I uh, you know what. I love the
fact that we got a little bit of a break
in college footballs is like at center stage right like
next weekend.

Speaker 3 (02:36:45):
With Labor Day.

Speaker 1 (02:36:46):
Like as much as I listen, we love the NFL, right,
but I like the fact that you kind of like
lead up to it and you have a big Labor
Day of college football and that leads into the NFL.
I've never liked when the when the NFL started on
Labor Day weekend. I always thought it was too early,
Like you know me, nothing's too early. But I like

(02:37:10):
it better with this the way it goes now, and
you're truthfully they got to get rid of the third
preseason week. Like to me, you go eighteen games, two
preseason games and joint workouts. I'm in for that.

Speaker 5 (02:37:24):
I'm in for that, right, I'm absolutely all in for that.

Speaker 1 (02:37:28):
I also I enjoyed the first two weeks of preseason,
but like that, now it's like enough, Like I think
the threshold is two preseason games.

Speaker 4 (02:37:37):
I don't just two preseason games would be great. I
don't disagree with any of that. I also think if
they do end up expanding the college football playoff again
for even more instead of going later into the year, I.

Speaker 5 (02:37:49):
Wish they would start earlier.

Speaker 4 (02:37:50):
I wish we could start college football at the very
beginning of August and give me a month of college
football ramp up with no NFL A. Well, yes, let
me already be on week three of the college.

Speaker 3 (02:38:02):
Football seasons, dude, I think that's a great idea.

Speaker 1 (02:38:05):
I'd sign up for that tomorrow, at least the you know,
first second week of August. Yeah, let's go. I'm with you.
I think people would love it, and it's why you
could still end around, you know, early January. I think
that's a brilliant, brilliant idea. All right, that's gonna do
it for us. Everybody, have a great weekend, all right,

(02:38:26):
enjoy football, love you, See you next Saturday.

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