Andy Furman & Bucky Brooks Recap A Crazy College Football Saturday, Analyze Veteran NFL QB Play, & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
It was a photo finish for one and a season
finished for another. We'll get to that at just about
a minute. Good morning, everybody. It's that time, the time
you can't wait for. I know it. It's Fox Football
Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He's Bucky Brooks. I made
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the man who is the evil Empire with the Jacksonville

(00:27):
Jaguars One only Bucky Brooks. Hello, Buck, how are you?

Speaker 4 (00:31):
I'm good, Andy, I am really good. Got in late,
so I didn't get a chance to catch up with
you to hang out in person.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
But I'm in your city.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
I am donning the black today because I am evidently
the villain because here we are in Cincinnati and we
get to square off against the Bingles, your beloved Bingles.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
That is well. You know I still love you no
matter what happens. The outcome of the game is secondary
to our friendship. And I'll say one other thing. Are
you on the field during the game.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
Absolutely, I'm right on the field. I am.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'll be down on the sideline, so right behind the team,
kep doing my thing.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
So it should be a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
So I could pump you throughout this show, like some
inside facts and some scattering reports that you may have.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
I'll do my very best. I'll work on it anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I want to get into the college games if we
can right now, and I think one of the most
well look I will the scheduled. Yesterday I said, I
don't know, is it going to be a big day,
a good day? But it turned out to be some
several exciting ballgames. And one of the games I want
to touch on right now is number three LSU, a
twenty ten winner with Florida. And like the game, really,
I mean, I look at these crowds, Buck, I really,

(01:38):
I'm not familiar with the South like you play North Carolina.
I mean, it's tough getting the ticket. I looked at
the game last night. I said, there are more people
at that LSU game with Florida than there will be
this afternoon with the Jacksonville Cincinnati game. It's unreal how
football lives in the South. It's crazy, is it really is?

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:58):
I mean, look, there's a lot of living and dying
by what takes place on Saturday down in the South.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
And the thing.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
About the South and particularly the SEC particularly they talk
about it's a little different. It is one different down
there in terms of the way they get down, what
they look forward to, they go about doing their business.
To me, it's exciting to watch it take place because
you get a chance to see people really get passionate

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about their teams. Uh, the fan bases are into it,
and the robberies are real. They extend beyond just what
it is on the on the gridiron. These people really
do not mess with detail.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
If you have the wrong colors.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
On not even that.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
I mean, they had that big lottery join the power
ball the other day, like one point nine billion dollars,
and they asked some woman down and down the South,
I think it was in Alabama, what would you do
if you won? She said, I would buy out the
contract that Keillen de Bore, the coach of Alabama.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I mean, really, it's unreal.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
I mean it's it's unbelievable passionate and love to have
a football.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
But I'm going back to this LSU.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Game and even the media is in that is the
same vein the LSU wins twenty ten. They go three
and zero. Florida began the game. There was like a
fight on the sidelines. It was somewhat ugly over there.
The defense of LSU. It just said that the quarterback
DJ Langway five times. The defensive LSU again held their

(03:23):
opponent to ten points or less. It's unbelievable. And they
win the ball game. And what happens after the game.
Brian Kelly has to go nuts on the media. Let's
take a listen to coach BK after the game.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
You love these immediate postgame sessions, but what are you
seeing with your offense?

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Stop?

Speaker 7 (03:40):
Really is that the first question? We won the game
twenty to ten. Try another question. What do you want
me to tell you? I just laid it out for you.
We played the game to win the game. We played
the game to win the game.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
All right, how about third down?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Then?

Speaker 6 (03:56):
What is going on with third down?

Speaker 7 (03:58):
It's one game. The last game we were great on
third down. You micro, you're looking at this from the
wrong perspective. LSU won the football game, won the game.
I don't know what.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
You want from me.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
What do you want?

Speaker 7 (04:13):
You want us to win seventy to nothing against Florida?

Speaker 5 (04:16):
To keep you happy.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
No, I think people want to know why you can't
run the ball.

Speaker 7 (04:19):
Quite well, we can run the ball. Did you see
the last play of the game. That's all you need,
You just need one. There's a ridiculous questions and I'm getting.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
Tired of it.

Speaker 7 (04:31):
That football team just worked their tail off to get
an SEC win.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
And you want to know what's wrong. You know what.
You're spoiled. You're spoiled.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
This team is seventeen and one at night, seventeen and one.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Give them some respect.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
How about that?

Speaker 7 (04:48):
Give them some respect instead of micro analyzing every little thing.
This is ridiculous for a group of seasoned reporters. A
question is so out of line.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
I mean, BK going off. He was more entertaining than
the game. He really was. But you know what, Beck,
I think that these media people are just an extension
of the fan base.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
They really are. I mean, what do you want?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
And neus Meyer Garrett Nusmar, the quarterback of LSUI fifteen
to twenty seven to two hundred twenty yards, had a touchdown,
but still in old The bottom line is you one?
I mean we'll get into that. Bengal game again a
little later on todayains Jacksonville. Joe Burrow had a poor game.
Their offense stunk last week against the Browns. It was
a defense that I wanted. But you know what, at
the end of the day, at w's a w and

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these media people, I don't know if they're either stupid
or they just want to start some garbage with the coach.
But you know, Brian Kelly was right on there album
mit his corner.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
I mean, he is right to a point, but there
is something going on. You can't be LSU and have
a player who's projected as maybe the number one overall
pick in the draft and Greg Garrett must Meyer. You
can't have multiple guys who people are projecting to be
future first round picks on the perimeter. You can't have
dominant offensive linemen and running backs and not put numbers up.

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I mean, I think there's a reasonable expectation at LSU
that you put numbers up on the board, that you
dominate the game in the trenches, and that even though
it's a conference game, it's Florida, there's an eyeball test
that you must pass.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Brian Kelly's been around.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Enough ball to know that he's coached prominent football programs
to know that, look, Rabbit fan bases have high standards
and high expectations. He's been over a decade at Notre Dame,
and he had to deal with being in the Fishbowl
and dealing with the weekly outside expectations at that place.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
He has been at LSU long enough to understand.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Man, down in the Bayou, they live and die by
what the Bengals do, by what the Tigers are doing
on those weekends, and so he has to understand that
he has to meet them that way. He has to
be prepared for those questions. To me, he was grand standing.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
As opposed to asking a question, how come.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
You're not dominating the way that you should dominate with
the kind of talent that you have at your dispose.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well, you know, at the end of the day, I
mean the national writers, I think when they're voting, I
don't think they look at the games. They look at
the scores, and they look at the w's and the l's.
That's what they look at. I mean the local writers
know that. I mean they see what's going on. Yeah,
there could be a question on the offensive side of
the football, but again, they won the game, and this
is the same Florida team that beat LIU what fifty

(07:32):
five nothing two weeks ago, the team from Brooklyn. I mean,
come on. And by the way, lu beat Eastern Michigan
last week at the s School, the first time in
the history of that school doing that. So you know,
maybe there's something cooking over there. But Florida right now, down,
I mean, it's over. But you talk about Notre Dame
and Brian Kelly did, coach of Notre Dame, what a

(07:54):
heartbreaker yesterday? Forty one forty They lose yesterday to Texas
A and M. On a crazy play. The backup quarterback
who's a holder, couldn't handle the perfect snap for an
extra point, drops the ball and all of a sudden
there was a two point conversion, leaving Notre Dame a
lead about six points with about two minutes ago, two
and a half minutes to go, and Texas A and
M and the next possession go down the field, fourth

(08:16):
down on the eleven yard line.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Boom they score.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
They go for the extra point, but a bang, but
a bang forty one forty not youre Dame right now?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Oh and two oh and two.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Look, it's unfortunate for Marcus Freeman's team that they are. Look,
they're winless right now, but they played good teams. When
you play good teams, that's what you put your self
at risk at. What you're hoping is that long term,
it's that's your team of her success down the road,
they take lessons from the losses and they become a
much better team. The problem that you may have is

(08:51):
you've now eliminated all of your margin for air when
it comes to the college football playoff. I'm not saying
that Notre Dame has to run the table to make it,
but boy, they're gonna have to run it almost completely
to be able to get it. It's hard to imagine
a three loss Notre Dame chain getting in.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
But it depends on the rest of the landscape.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
The only thing that they can do right now is
they got to focus on one game at a time.
They got to get better and better and better and
see what it looks like at the end.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
But yeah, a very.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
Disappointing start to the season for the national run Arts.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Okay, let me run this by because I think that
right now, media fans, I mean, on campus, this guy
Tyler Buck, He's got to be living in shame. I mean,
they're gonna be pointing fingers at him. He's going to
get the social media post that he lost the game.
But if you look behind the curtain, you'll say, yeah,
I mean it was a devastating loss and he was
part of it. But that defense gave up like four

(09:46):
hundred and eighty eight four ninety yards yesterday in that
ball game. And I ask you this question, is it
a problem now that the loss of Al Golden, the
defensive coordinator who left not to day to go to
the Cincinnati Bengals, Is that the big difference or losing person?

Speaker 5 (10:00):
I mean, look, I think the combination of actors.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Right You lose NFL players, you lose an NFL defensive coordinator,
and it takes time to replace those things. And the
one thing that college football doesn't give you, it doesn't
give you the benefit of a preseason game to kind
of quickly accelerate the growth of your squad. And because

(10:22):
you don't have those preseason games, you're learning your squad
in real time. They're also learning you and the schemes
and those things. And you know, there's nothing that can
replace time on task, nothing that can replace repetition. Right now,
they just don't have enough reps to fully understand all
the ins and outs of the scheme, and it hurts

(10:43):
them because what you would like to do is you
like to win and learn. You don't like doing the
losing and learning because it didn't put your playoff hopes
and jeopardy.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
I hear what you're saying. Now, this team is three
and oh, one and oh in the ACC. No one
expected that, I don't think. But every year there's a
coach that comes out of the woodwork and they say
he's going to be the next whatever. And I gotta
believe the coach this year is to be Brent Key
from Georgia Tech. I think the guy is like putting
Georgia Tech on the map. They win yesterday, beating up

(11:15):
on Clemson twenty four to twenty one. But maybe in
fact Clemson's not that good this year. We'll see. But
I did say coming into this segment that one team
is finished for the year, and I gotta believe that
team is Clemson. I mean, you talk about Note Dame's
got to almost win the table, Clemson's finished as well.
Clemson's done. I mean, really, and as far as Davos
Sweeney's concerned, you got to get back into the portal.

(11:35):
This is the first year I believe he was looking
into the portal. He didn't believe in the port You
got to get in the portal. You know when in Rome,
do what the Romans do. You want to be competitive,
Get in the portal, get some players, you got backing,
you got fans over there. They're gonna put up the money.
Otherwise he ain't gonna win. That's the problem with Clemson.
So Clemson's done this year twenty four to twenty one
to Georgia Tech, a heartbreaking laws. Of course, they lose

(11:56):
on a fifty five yard field goal of the buzzer.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
But that's just the way it is now.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
I hear you, and there are a lot of people
that are kind of beating this drum about Clemson and
getting in the portal.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
I understand why Dabbo has been reluctant to get into
the portal. His model and what he knows to be
true for himself. He is better with kids that are
committed to being in the program as opposed to taking
flyers on mercenaries. For all of the successful stories that
we hear about, this player transferred here and it was
great for the team and him. More of the stories

(12:30):
are not like that. There's an issue typically when people
are leaving, are they running from a level of accountability
or is it truly a greater opportunity to go somewhere else.
Those things have to be factored in because if their
mind's not right, if they aren't in it.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
For the team.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
While also like hunting a big payday, man that it
clothes and so for Clemson, who's had a lot of
success dealing with the homegrown model, I can understand why
Dabbo is slow to bring those things into the program
because it threatens Director Core if you don't get it right.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Amazing, they're one and two Georgia Tech on one hundred
and forty seven yards rushing one hundred and three from
their quarterback Haines King.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
It didn't look good.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I mean they look they could have won, and maybe
they should have won. And I'm not saying maybe Georgia
Tech if they played ten times, maybe Clemson wins seven.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
But they didn't win yesterday.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
But I think Georgia Tech's a better team and maybe
they're just more disciplined. Maybe that's basically what it is.
Maybe be a little more disciplined. How do you lose
on a fifty five yard field goal? I'm seeing these
field goals. We mentioned this, well, I did anyway, because
that sounded stupid, So I'm not going to put you
in that vein. It was stupid usually coming out of
my mouth. But I'm saying I think they're doing something
with the football. There's no reason why college kids are

(13:46):
kicking fifty five and sixty yard field goals. Are they
putting healium in that ball? What are they doing? I mean,
I can't believe what I'm seeing. Fifty five yard field
goals in college?

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Come on? Really?

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Yeah, I mean, it's just it's a thing. I'll say this.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Kickers and punters now have more training available to them
than ever. They're getting after it very early in life,
as opposed to waiting and to being a soccer you know,
convert sophomore, junior year. Now you're trying to catch up
with technique. Now these guys are doing it from youth
ball up. And as they've become better technically, they also

(14:27):
have become stronger in the weightroom. Real kickers doing real
things in the weightroom, lifting, expanding their range. Well, now
what used to be cringeworthy was a fifty yard field goal.
Now people are taking fifty five and fifty eight yard
shots and not even blinking or considering a if it
goes back to the other team. They get it at
the whatever yard line, They're like, yeah, whatever, We're going

(14:49):
after these points at all costs. And that's the thing
that strikes me. They are trying to get after it
no matter what, no matter who different it really is.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
I mean, you know, how much is a field goal
kicker worth?

Speaker 2 (15:05):
In the nil portal?

Speaker 3 (15:07):
You know, we hear about the quarterbacks and the receivers
and running backs, but they don't hear much about kickers.
Are they Are they worth much? Are they paying big
money for kickers now too?

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Now that I don't know, but I would think that
their value will rise because people do see. Man, if
you don't have a kicker, you don't have a chance.
You have to have someone that can knock it through
the uprights from distance to be able to compete against
the top teams. It's a game changer. It opens up,
It opens up everything for you. It changed the way
that you can call plays. The scoring zone now is expanded.

(15:38):
That just gives you a chance to put more points
on the board. Yeah, I mean it's in value. But
I'm not saying that he needs to get quarterback money.
But you just can't throw a couple of dimes at
them and think that, Okay, the kickers coming because we
paid them a few bucks and gave him a free meal,
that they're important.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, no doubt about that. Okay. I will say this.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
I'm going to go on record and say right now
as we speak on this day, on the fourteenth of September, Georgia,
the Bulldogs of Georgia are the best team in the
SEC until somebody beats them. I'm saying right now, they're
the best team in the SEC. I know they had
a squeaker yesterday, beaten up on Tennessee forty one to
thirty eight in overtime. But I'll tell you what if

(16:19):
you go behind the curtain on that game right now,
Georgia gave up four hundred and ninety six total yards
on defense, three hundred and thirty seven. Joey Aguilar, the
Tennessee quarterback, did that against their defense as well, but
again they come out with the win. That's basically what
it's all about. Josh McCarey mccraig has scored a one
yard touchdown run in that overtime, and that was a

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photo finished because they had to look at that photo
several times before they said he was over the line
for the touchdown.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
Uh yeah, I mean, I don't know if I can
quite agree with you, and proclaimed George of the champions
after they were scuffling with the Tennessee volunteers and this
game was in you know, hanging into balance for most
of the I mean, not even hanging in the balance.
Tennessee was winning the game, dominating the game for most
of the game.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
But I hear you.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Look, it's something where the SEC is tough because man,
there's so many talented teams and to win that conference,
you got to be able to endure the gauntlet, right.
It's not just okay, I got to show up in
week four, in week nine, in week ten and that
that's enough. That's good enough for us to win it.
It's a battle of attrition. Can you survive? Can you

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handle playing the back the backs? Arkansas and oh and
Ole miss and then oh never got to shoot out
to Missouri, and oh don't for your Texas is on
the schedule, and all of those things.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
I mean, it's it's a lot.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
We will see if the boy Dogs have the competitive
stamina to withstand the challenges ahead. They're good team, I
can't I can't proclaim them to be the best team.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Though, all right, I want to move the calendar back
if I can. To Friday, and Colorado lost to Houston
and now the boo birds are coming out of the window.
And there was a story even yesterday about the buyout
clause in Deon's contract to Colorado.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
I mean, back off.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
A little bit, really, I mean, come on, I didn't
think they'd lose to Houston thirty six twenty. But what's
the problem over there? Are they now losing the stand?
I mean the players from a year ago is that
big of a deal. They're one and two. I didn't
expect Colorado to be one and two after three games
this year.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
I mean, look, man, the one thing that you never
can predict is how the backups are going to fill
in in more prominent roles. That is why these great
coaches talk all the time about you never know how
the team is going to transition from one year to
the next. Because people are in different roles. You're now
expecting more of a player who's a backup player last year?

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Can you handle those responsibilities? Is the chemistry and the
connection right the vibe within the team for Dion and Colorado,
because look, they're brand name program.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
Now everyone is tuning in to watch them.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
I think he may have realistic expectations for what the
team was, but the football world had greater expectations and
they're tuning in to see how do you handle the
loss of a franchise quarterback and Shuder Sanders? How do
you handle the loss of a Heisman Trophy winner and
Travis Hunter?

Speaker 5 (19:25):
And right now they haven't handled it well.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
They're still kind of spinning the wheels trying to find
a quarterback. Look, it hurts me because Ryan Stobb is
one of my buddies, one of my guys. I've known
since he was in middle school. Watched him play, washed
him kind of grow and flourish, and was really rooting
for him because his story, the underdog story, is one
that a lot of kids can can learn from, can

(19:49):
gravitate towards and those things. And look, man, he had
an opportunity and just didn't play well, didn't play well
enough to.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
Retain the job.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
So they're back to square one when it comes to
quarterback and you're back to square one with a quarterback
and uncertainty at the position. Man, you'll lose some games
that you shouldn't because you don't have consistency or stability
at the most important position in the game.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Well, it hurts me too, but for a different reason.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
It hurts me because I think there are immediate people
out there that root against Deon Sanders.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
That's why it hurts me.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
I mean, you want to cover a game, cover the
game fairly, but I know in the heart of hearts
of many, not some, but many media people, they want
to see Dion louse.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Is it an envy, jealousy, hate, I don't know what,
but I just know I think you feel the same way.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
They just want to see him losing failed.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, I mean, look, there's always going to be some
of that, but that's part of the thing. Man, First
they love you, then they hate you, then they love
you again. How does he navigate the Hollywood story book arc,
you know, like that's what we have to see from Colorado?
How does he bounce back from being vilified and hated?
Can't he build a program that's the challenge.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
I'm waiting to be loved again.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
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live from the Fox Sports radio studios Now, Buck keep Brooks,
I got the question of the day for you. I
look at the college football score board es today and
the scores that are rolling across in Cincinnati. No less,
University of Cincinnati played Northwestern State and beat them seventy
to nothing, Penn State fifty two to six over Villanova,
Miami of Florida, forty nine to twelve over South Florida, Oklahoma,

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forty two to three over Temple Michigan, sixty three to
three over Central Michigan. These are basketball scores. What does
this prove? Why do they do this? Does it mean
anything to run up the score like that?

Speaker 4 (23:32):
I mean, look, I think there are a few different
ways to take on those matchups.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Ray.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
Sometimes you take on those hips to build confidence, to
get your young guys in the game, to ensure that
your players feel good about themselves going into maybe a
tougher matchup down the line. The problem that you have
is how do you rate those scores in comparison to
win a team takes on a tougher team. For instance,

(23:59):
Notre Dame is sit at too, but if Notre.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Dame is scheduled two cupcakes, there'd.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Be two to zero and we'd be maybe raving about them.
But when you test yourself, you put yourself out there
where you can lose some games, and you have to
understand that if you lose games, there's gonna be some
noise that comes around it. Even though as a coach,
as a team builder, you're doing that because you want
to figure out the flaws early in your team so
you can get to work and fixing and addressing those issues.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
They're a different approach.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
Some people like to have a look a shiny, glitzy
record and know nothing about their team until they really
really have to start playing these meaningful games. I think
I fall on the camp. I'd rather play some tough teams,
see where we are, and see if we can be
a better team down the stretch than we start.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
I'm a few because Cincinnati winning seventy to nothing yesterdate
with Northwestern State, I say to him asself, that's great.
It's a false hope, because there's no way on God's
green Earth they're going to win the Big Twelve conference.
They're just not. They can't compete with some other teams
in the Big Twelve. But yesterday they win seventy nothing.
A nice these players on that team, I guess, and
even the coach get a little false hope saying maybe
we're better than we think, we are, better than people

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say we are.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
It doesn't work that way.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
I remember last year was it two years ago when
Notre Dame played Marshall.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Marshall beat them.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
So maybe it's not even good to play a lesser
team because the team looks at the schedule, it looks
at the name of the team, and doesn't play as
hard as they should, thinking they're so much better than them,
and they lose. See, maybe you're better off playing a
tougher team and getting better yourself.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
I mean, you always are better off playing a tougher team.
Now you got to make sure you know where your
team is when it comes to that, meaning, how do
they handle those tough games if they take a loss,
can they bounce Do they have the mental toughness to
forty two to bounce back from that?

Speaker 5 (25:43):
You have to kind of know that as you're making
the schedule.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
But yeah, somewhere early in the year, you want to
take on a team that is a bit of a
measuring stick for you, one that provides you with enough
answers to help you build a better team, a team
that plays better down the stretch. That's why you don't
I want to schedule all cupcakes. So I applaud these
teams that are taken on real squads. And even though

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some of these teams are taken on the cupcakes and
the patsis, can you get something out of the game,
like Alabama beating whoever they be last week seventy three
to nothing over like, that's fine, but that doesn't prove
to me that you're a real team. I need to
see you play against those real teams to really get
the respect that you deserve.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Okay, so your jads today are playing a real team.
They're playing in the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati. But I look
at what happened last week. The Bengals won. Did they
really beat the Browns or that the Browns just lose
that game? Because I look at the Bengals and everybody
said preseason rightfully. So their strength is on the offensive
side of the football. Last week, this is an unbelievable stat.
I mean, you had to see the game to believe it.

(26:46):
Last week, in the second half against the Browns, they
gained seven seven seven net yards. They were held to
minus eighteen in the fourth quarter. How does that happen
to a pro team? How does that happen to any
football team? Brown the running back had nine carries for
no yards. Joe Burrow three of nine for twenty five yards.
He was sacked three times. Now, why does that happen

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to a team that's built on offense? Was it all
Miles Garrett on the Browns? I mean, I don't understand
how that happens.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
Some days you have bad days, man, Sometimes you just
can't get into a rhythm. And despite what they may
have put together and the energy that they committed to
the preseason to get these guys ready, the rector season
is always a different animal. You just don't know how
people going to perform with delights or on. And it's
not just Oh, their star players, Joe Burrow didn't play well.
T Higgins, Jamar Chase. We need more from them. What

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did the offensive line look like? And they were playing
against a dominant force in Miles Garrett.

Speaker 5 (27:46):
Desk us everything because.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
He can dominate the game on his own accord, and
you may not have an answer for him. With double
teams and those things.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
We got that.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Look what I've known to be true they're never as
good as they look. They're never as bad as they look.
They're probably somewhere in between. They're probably much better team
than showed up against Cleveland.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
But I can't sit here and say, then come.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
Out in a light of the scoreboard and hank fifty
on the Jacks because they're smarting from their loss.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
I mean this, mrighty from their poor performance the week before.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
We'll see that's that's that's why the great the game's
early year are really interesting.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
And the key to the game.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
I mean, I'm sure that you you guys are in
those meetings and maybe you could tell me if I'm
right or wrong. But the key is the coaches say,
you want to win this game, keep Joe Borrow on
the bench, keep them on the sidelines. That's that's the
way to win the game. You would think even though
he had a poor performance last week. But you're a
running game. You know, was tremendous in Jacksonville. Travis ATM
Junior had one hundred plus yards and they win last week.

(28:43):
So we'll see what happens. I mean, what's your take
on that game? That they run the football is a
quarterbacking strong enough? Now do we see a difference in
the offense with the new head coach. What is the
what's the what does it look like now in Jacksonville?

Speaker 5 (28:57):
They want to be a physical football team. They want
to run the football.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
They want to control the game by running the football,
the setting everything up off of that. And so whether
that is Travis Atiene getting a ton of carries and
physically wearing you down over four quarters, whether that is
using the thread of handing the ball to Travis, it's
the end to then come back and find ways to
deliver big players off play action pass as a variety

(29:21):
of play action passes. All of those things are in play.
What you're hoping for is I not only control the game,
but I can alleviate some of the pressure on my
quarterback Trevor Lawrence, so he can settle in and become efficient,
effective and really live up to some of the expectations
that they have for him when he was done one
overall pick.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
And you got to believe it's time. He's got to
have his coming out party hopefully this year. Do you
see a change with the new head coach with the
offense kind of different now? Do you see a change
in Trevor Or is it. Basically, you know, he's not
going to really shine as he was predicted to be
when he was drafted.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Look, I think it's all about connectivity with Trevor. Like
a lot of players, man, when he feels like he's
connected with the coaches, connected with his.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
Teammates, he's going to play better. You have to have
some buy in.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
This is a relationship's business, and we can talk about
the x's and o's, but players and coaches have to
be on the same page to really maximize the talent
of the squad. And to do that, you have to
spend some time away from the field with the players
and when you talk to them and the facility in
those things. Those conversations have to range beyond what can

(30:34):
you do for me as a player. It has to
be about personal life, family, how's everyone doing. You have
to show them that you care about them before they
truly give you everything that you want from them.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Really, so the has to be almost like a father figure.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
No, it doesn't have to be a father figure, but
there has to be more than just I'm coach your player,
I tell you what to do in this. When you
have more buy in from people, you get the best
out of them. And the way that you have buy
in is you have to build a relationship. You have
to spend the time you have to connect with them.
You have to have regular communication and dialogue, and that
dialogue can't always be centered on what is happening between

(31:14):
the lines. You have to know where they are, because
even though these guys are pros, a lot of them
have never been in the real world outside of what
they've done with the sports. So they go straight from
middle school to high school to college just kind of
doing their thing. They've been kind of part of the system,
and sometimes people do everything for them where they can
feel like it is a transactional experience instead of a

(31:37):
transformational experience. And the way that you have to create
that transformation a little more time and investment. The best
teams are connected player the player, player to coach, coach
to coach.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
I'm spending a little more time on this game than
I normally would simply because that you're close to this
team and you're part of the team. Really, what is
the buzz inside the line? Did these guys have a
different attitude as you had seen they had last year?
They have the winning out of it? Is it changed
they talk about culture. Has the coaching staff now changed
that's so called culture and that groom door, do you

(32:12):
see the same same old like here we go again deal.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
I think there's always gonna be some of that, And
you really don't know what your team is like until
you're in the middle of the storm, right and the
storm can be a two or three game losing street.
A storm could be in the middle of the game
the team falls behind. How do you handle it? How
does the coach handle it? Because the team is looking
at how the coach handles it. Coach handles it like
he told the team that he would handle those things

(32:37):
that he's built for, the grind or the rough and
tumble stuff, where then there's more connection. They buy in.
They believe they take on that personality you always talk
you always hear people talk about a team takes on
the personality of its coach. That's why the way the
coach presents himself in good times and in bad times matters.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
Because if you change.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
And start doing all this other stuff and fussing Anderson
and stuff when that hasn't been your mo up to
this point, well, now you've lost credibility because they're like, oh,
he doesn't even know who he is. How can we lead?
How can we follow his lead? When he doesn't know
a lot of this stuff matters?

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Interesting, I tell you what, though, if you look on paper,
this is a team that wants to run the football,
and the Bengals right now have a hard time stopping
the run, or at least they used to. And we'll
see what happens today. It looks like there's going to
be someone in Jacksonville's favor, but we'll see.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Got to play the game. He's Bucky Brooks on Andy Furman.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
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Speaker 2 (33:37):
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Speaker 3 (33:39):
You know, I'm so appreciative that the little things make
me feel good. When I hear Stevie Wonder, you made
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If we could get him on as a guest, that
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Speaker 5 (33:52):
You know.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
There are people in this business that live to see
athletes and talk to them. They want to meet Michael Jordan.
They want to see this guy, that guy. I want
to see Stevie Wonder. Make it happen, Brianna, our executive
directive producer. Whatever if you can make that happen, Buddy,
I put a star next to your name. Could you
do that?

Speaker 5 (34:10):
I'll work on it.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
We'll a lot for the Fox West Radio studios. He's
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and Fox That's ready. It is time for ask Bucky. Yes,
and Brianna, it's up to you.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
You got to get started, Okay, all righty Bucky. I
just want to know how likely do you.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Think it is that Sam Donald and just as Seahawks
will kind of get on track with him being there.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
I think it'll take a little while, but Clint Kubiak
knows the system that Sam Donald had success in Minnesota,
and he'll eventually tweak it to the point where Sam
finds a level of comfort in that system. And it
may not take the first three or four weeks, but
I would think by mid season, Sam Donald will be
in a full groove and swing and you'll see the
Seahawks offense play different as he settles in.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Are you satisfied with that answer, Brianna.

Speaker 8 (34:58):
I am.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
He's Aside with that answer.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
I got a kind of a multiple, big kind of
question here, bim, because I want to talk about the
Heisman winning Travis Hunt, who plays for your Jaguars. Okay,
I want to know how tough it is to play
both ways? How he did it last week?

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Tell us? And how tough is it to learn? How
people don't talk.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
About this much scouting reports for both sides of the football,
meetings for offensive defense and the wear and tearing your
body the last play with five or more receptions, and
he played defense as well. Believe it or not, I
had to look this up. He was a Cincinnati Bengal
aj Green. He did it I think in twenty seventeen.
But tell me a little bit about Travis Hunt and
how tough it is to go both ways and basically

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go to those meetings in both sides of the football.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
I think look is tough, but it's something that he's
always done. And most of the players in nas Football
League had played on both sides of the ball, either
Pop Warner, middle school, high school or whatever.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
You just don't see it in the pros.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
What you have to do is you have to build
out a plan that will allow him to get the
reps that he needs in practice to be prepared to.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
Play for it in games.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
In game, you have to be able to monitor the
fatigue factor.

Speaker 5 (36:05):
How much energy does he have? Is he too tired
to go the other way?

Speaker 4 (36:09):
This is an experience inexperience that will change week to week.
This is a week I would expect to see him
play a lot on defense because the Bengals have a
prolific offense. He needs to be on the island to
kind of help this defense play how they want to play.
So we'll see he should play more on both sides
this week, but it's gonna change week to week based
on matchups.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
All right, thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
I wanted to know that you kind of put everything
in perspective. Daniel Jones completed twenty two to twenty nine
pass if a twenty seventy two yards and a touchdown
for the Indianapolis Colts last week as their starting quarterback.
Tell Us is he now the quarterback revival story for
this year.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
Look, he's gonna have a lot of success because Shane
Steichen is gonna make it where he's playing to his strengths.
The other thing is he has a really good support
and cast around him. He has a guy that does
the lead mercing candidate and Jonathan Taylor. He has a
fast and athletic while receiver corps.

Speaker 5 (37:01):
You think about.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
They added Tyler Warrant to go with that. So Michael Pittman,
Josh Downs and others.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
They're good. Offensive line is solid. He just needs to.

Speaker 4 (37:10):
Play his role, be the distributor, to take care of
the ball and lean on that experience because remember a
couple of years ago he led the Giants to the playoffs.
They can lean on that experience and expertise. They help
them get going.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
All right, And the Baltimore Ravens now seemed to be
gaining on the Buffalo Bills as far as the new
hard luck team in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
The Bills have remember the lost four consecutive Super Bowls.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Now the Ravens led forty to twenty five with a
little over nine minutes left in the game against Buffalo,
they lost forty one to forty. Teams were fifty three
and oh since the year two thousand, counting the playoffs. Now,
when leading by fifteen points and taking possession with about
eight to ten minutes left in regulation, what is happening
at the tail end of ball games for the Baltimore Ravens.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, I just got to learn how to close it out.
They're not closing games out is something that is a
learned skill. You have to learn how to close these
things out, and they just aren't getting them done.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
It's weird to kind.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
Of see it play out, but it's one of those
things where my biggest concern about the Ravens has always
been their ability to are they emotionally mature enough to
finish it? Can they finish the game the way that
you need to finish it, And they still have not
proven that they can do it consistently, and so that's
that's a huge issue.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Whose problem is that is that the coaching staff, players,
How does that work? How do you change that?

Speaker 5 (38:33):
Everybody?

Speaker 4 (38:33):
Everybody has to get better at what they're doing, Like
everyone has to learn how to finish games, and you
have to talk about it, you have to work on it,
you have to consistently make it the big deal. And
until they're able to kind of get over the hump
and have that signature win, it's always going to be there,
but that signature win has to come into postseason because
that's where it really matters. That's where it really catches

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up with them.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah, and you're talking about closing games.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
When I think about that, I think about also the
charges about three years ago. I couldn't do it either.
And they got a new coach right now, and I
guess that's changed. So maybe it is the coach. You
know they took about Hey, they used the term culture.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
You know.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
He came in there, Harbaugh, and they're changing it.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
And he's done that. So we move on.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Expectations in Detroit with the Lions for a smooth transition
from Ben Johnson to the new offensive coordinator, John Morton.
They really and truly were and looks like they're going
to be realistic. Also, they lost the court they set
to Frank Ragnoll. He retired. The Lions offense has seen,
at least in the Week one, a big drop off
the package sack quarterback Jared Goff four times, they hit

(39:33):
him nine times. Is it time to worry if you're
a Detroit Lion.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
Fan, Yes, it's time to be worried.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
You're absolutely should worry because look, man, they had a
synergy and a connection not only with Ben Johnson but
with Aaron glam But when we talk about this offense.
Ben Johnson was able to make this offense fast, physical, fun.
He had creativity, but he had an old school mentality.
I can't say that John Morten can replace that. A
lot of pressure on him to get done. But it

(40:00):
certainly didn't look right when we saw it.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
Well, I tell you what, though, it's gonna be really
bid in Detroit. They may have peaked, maybe peaked too early,
and now it's not gonna happen this year. It's I
don't think they're gonna be successful this year. But let's
take a look at the real Oh geez, that and
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Speaker 3 (40:23):
Seven count them seven Vets made their start last week,
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(41:39):
NFL dot com, but the one on foxsports dot Com
this week is tremendous. You talk about a quarterback driven league.
We know that the NFL is a quarterback driven league,
and last week they had in week one, seven veteran
quarterbacks started for new teams as part of maybe a
wave of offensive makeovers. Okay, and you talk about first
impressions set the tone for the rest of the year.

(42:01):
Tell me what exactly that means first impressions, because we've
talked about some of those quarterbacks that look fairly decent
in the first week. But is it going to continue
with Sam Donald, Aaron Rodgers, these had first impressions. They
were winners, Okay, Indianapolis Daniel Jones, he looked pretty good.
Is that a first impression? Is you're going to carry over?
Tell me a little bit more about your first impressions.

Speaker 5 (42:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Now, so at Fox Sports, we looked at the new
marriages quarterbacks and their new teams, veteran quarterbacks, how they're going,
how the debut went, and how we projected to play out.
And what's really interesting in seeing how many of these
teams were able to really build systems that accinuated what

(42:45):
their quarterbacks did. And so if you want to start
out with a player list, for instance, talk about Aaron Rodgers.
Aaron Rodgers linking up with Arthur Smith. This offense is
one that wants to be run heavy. But Aaron Rodgers
obviously brings the expertise of look Super Bowl winner, four
time MVP. You want to tap into that, Well, how
do you tap into that and kind of maintain the
strengths of the team. You run it, You play action,

(43:08):
you quick, You give him control that the line of
scrimmage to make sure that he always puts you in
the best play and you give it to him with
enough structure that it doesn't go wayward in terms of
all of a sudden you become a passing team. So
we saw this, you know, over and over and over
again with these veteran quarterbacks, and a lot of them
had a lot of success.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
I'll tell you what they took about Aaron Rodgers. They
won last week. They beat his former team, the Jeedge
thirty four to thirty two, but thanks to a sixty
yard field goal that did that. He was twenty two
to thirty, passed with two forty four, was sacked four times,
with hit three other times. And I've had a couple
of heavy body blows right there. But you talk about
the receiver, I think that one of the plays that
really stood out. I saw them on the highlights. He

(43:48):
led that receiver of Calvin Olsen the third with one
of those like off balanced things that you always see
Aaron Rodgers in those highlight films. He was somewhat off balance,
he flicked the wrist and he hit it. So I
think he still has I mean, we talked about that
he was going to come back probably the year after
his surgery, and that usually happens when you have an
injury like that, and we'll see. I think that he's
going to be very blessed on this stealer team because

(44:11):
when he played in Green Bay, he played well, but
how many times did he played well when the special
teams let him down and he lost the game. So
right now, I think he's gonna have a strong unit
behind him, which he lacked basically is several years at
the end of Green Bay and of course last year
in New York with the Jets.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
Yeah, but I think it goes beyond that.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
I think it's also having a strong head coach that
can rain him in and can look has the respect
of Ann Rodgers, but Aaron Rodgers also is complicit because
he knows, man, this guy can help me be a
better player. This guy has goods to help this team
that I'm a part of win and win at a

(44:53):
high level. When DA is in place, that's when you
can get the best out of him. And I think
for Aaron Rodgers, he respects that, he respects intelligence and
know how, the ability to be able to convey to
him this is how we're going to get it done,
and to say it in a way that he looks
he feels like the coach is convicted. Because the coach
has confidence in his methods. Aaron Rodgers will always buy

(45:14):
into that, and I think that's what we've seen.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
All right, let's move along now. I have a Gino
Smith on your list right now. And Gino Smith last
week he was on the Raiders and they beat the
Patriots last week, which I don't know if that's a
great eye test whatever it's going to do, but three
hundred and sixty two yards passing him that twenty thirteen win
against New England, and he did post the best yards
per attempt ten point six for a Raiders' starter since

(45:38):
twenty twenty two. Now is that because he's on a
new team where in a new uniform is the coaches
the Pete Carroll And do you expect more from this?
Can he continue this.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Yeah, I think it actually continues. I would continue to
expect him to play at a high level. Look, he's
a really, really good player. He's found his way. And
I told you when I was referencing Trevor Lawrence about
the belief Gino Smith knows that Pete Carroll believes in him.
Pete Carroll gave him a chance with others when he
became a two time Pro Bowl quarterback under his direction.

Speaker 5 (46:11):
So Gino Smith is going to be all in.

Speaker 4 (46:13):
And because Pete Carroll knows that Gino Smith can play
at a high level and lead an underdog squad, it's
a mutually beneficial relationship. And I continue to expect the
Raiders to succeed with Gino Smith in the fold because
Pete Carroll's going to set them up to have success.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
The beautiful thing about you when you write these little
stories this is on Fox Sports obviously that you make
me do a little more work because I'm looking back
right here and I found this out a little nugget
about Gino Smith. It was Smith's fourth game over the
past three years with three hundred plus yards, no more
than one touchdown pass, and at least one interception. No

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player no player has more of those games than Smith
over that period of time. That's an amazing stat right there.
And I wonder who keeps these stats. They're quite interesting,
but I wouldn't want to have that job to keep
those stats. But very interesting to read. But we move
on right now because you've got Justin Fields, Justin Fields
with the Jets three total touchdowns and I guess the

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best expected points added per pass whatever that stat is
for any Jets start us is twenty twenty two. What
about Justin Fields? Is he going to get it done?

Speaker 5 (47:20):
I think so.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
One, you have to understand Aaron Glenn face justin fields
when he was at his best in Chicago, really attacking
them as a dual threat playmaker. And because of that,
he has the confidence that he can unlock that and
he can make him a guy that is a headache
and a handful to deal with.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
Well, when you have that kind.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
Of confidence and you give your offensive coordinator, I would
say a bit of a mandate to say, man, unlock
this dude. Let's make sure we tap into who he is.
Let's not worry about what he can do. Let's focus
on what he can do. When you do those things
and you take that approach, you can get the best
out of people. And it seems to me that they are.
The Jets are all in all making sure that Fields succeeds,

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and he succeeds in a way that falls in line
with how they want to play. They want to run
the football, and so the best way to run the
football is one you got to be committed to it.
But to have the X factor a quarterback who can
get it done and give you the rushing yards not
only on design quarterback runs but also on those impromptu
scrambles and other things. Man, that's when your offense becomes
very very difficult to defend.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
I hate to put you on the spot, but you're
the football maven here and maybe it could help me
with this. They said that in that game, Justin Fields
had a career best expected points added per past play
was at five thirty six.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
What exactly is EPA?

Speaker 3 (48:38):
I never heard of that stat added poor offensive play.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Well, they're looking at the thing and they're saying what
you should get off of this? Does it go above
and beyond that? Does he find a way to go
above and beyond? But the x'es and o's suggests that
you should get So that's a credit to him in
terms of being able to maximize it, to enhance it,
to to it because it talks about his own athletic

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ability adding to that, and when you get that, you
have fireworks. I'm telling you he can make it right
because whatever scripted is scripted. But man, it's the guys
who can go off to script and make things happen.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
Those are the ones that keep you up at night.
All right.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
Moving along now Daniel Jones, and I don't know if
it was his team or the team they played, because
he led the Colts to a thirty three to eight
win against the Dolphins, and he helped that offense score
on all seven possessions.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
I mean, I don't think.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
What he did last Sunday is sustainable for the remainder
of the season. Nine passing two seventy two, one touchdown,
no I iNTS, runs for twenty seven yards two touchdowns.
But I guess that conn be more consistent than they
were in years past. But I don't see him keeping
those stats going because Miami Dolphins looked like that had
no idea what was going on.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
They really did. They were just out of it.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
Yeah, but maybe the Miami Dolphins I mean they aren't
that good, or maybe the Indianapolis coach overwhelmed him. You know,
the Coats had a lot of success because the deep
them up. Lou Anna Remo comes over from Cincinnati Bengals,
where he was dismissed. He goes there, creative mind, finds
a way to jump start that defense, and now they
create more turnovers. More turners mean more opportunities for the

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quarterback to do it.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
And with Shane Styken coming over.

Speaker 4 (50:24):
Who has dealt with a number of athletic quarterbacks, he
can take advantage of Daniel Jones's athleticism.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
Remember when Brian.

Speaker 4 (50:32):
Day Ball took over the Giants, he kind of put
him in that Josh Allen blueprint formula where he utilized
his legs a lot to jump start that offense. They're
gonna do the same. They're doing the same, They're gonna
find a way to maximize it. He scored two rushing touchdowns,
two for two hundred and seventy plus yards. A great performance.
We man, we can't even recall Danny die is playing

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like that. So to me, nice start, and I think
it's probably the start of more stuff to come.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
He led the on points on every drive during the game.
Peyton Manning never did that, Andrew luck never did that
for the Colts. He did it last Sunday. And I
tell you right now, there's one person who's not happy,
it's got to be Anthony Richardson. I mean, if there
was any doubt right now, I mean, and there was
some talk during preseason there was gonna be a kind

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of a battle for quarterback and Anthony Richardson was getting
hurt almost every other day. Anthony Richardson have a hard
time getting back into that lineup.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
Well, I mean that was the whole point they signed him.
They signed him because they knew that they couldn't depend
on him. And Anthony Richardson is not close to the
player that Daniel Jones is. And for the Coles Man,
your job as the coach and the general managed to
always put your team in the best position to win,
regardless of who comes in from what their pedigree or whatever.
Best players to play. Daniel Jones is clearly.

Speaker 5 (51:47):
A much better player than Anthony Richardson. So to me,
this is what.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
All right, we're moving on right now. Russell Wilson with
the Giants, I think for the time is moving in
a little bit right now.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Maybe i'm but he completed only forty six percent of
his pass last week seventeen to thirty seven. He averaged
almost four point five yards per attempt and the Giants
lost to Washington twenty one six. Is it time to
move on? Is it too soon? It is Jackson Dart
and he's like, you know, chomping at the bit right now.
He's a rookie obviously, But I guess when you throw

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the rookie in there, basically you're throwing the season away, saying, look,
we're looking for the future. But I don't think the
Giants have much of a future with Russell Wilson.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
I would agree with you. As a matter of time.
I think he's trying to find the comfort level. When
are they comfortable giving him the ball and letting him
roll with it. It's clear man athletically, he has a
lot of things that they want to lean into, they
want to take advantage of.

Speaker 5 (52:46):
I love Russell. Russell was a terrific player for.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
The Seattle Seahawks, and you know, it's unfortunate that, look,
he deviated from the formula that was successful. He got
out of there, wanted to see if he could do
things on his own and become more of a legendary
in that regard. Look, it hasn't worked out, and now
at his age thirty six thirty seven years old, he
doesn't have the athleticism to carry the team, and because

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of his game where it's not always designed to operate
in the pocket, he just has a tough time, Whereas
Jackson Dart will give Brian Daboll the look man to
du a threat playmaker that he is most comfortable with.
I'm telling based off the success he had with Josh Allen,
Jackson Dart is more like that than Russell Wilson is

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at his age, they want to get back to that.
So that's why I think, Look, it's only amount of
time Jackson Dart takes over. Maybe by the sixth game,
six seventh game of the season, he should be in there.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Okay, I'm going to run this buyer right now because
I think that Brian day Ball when he goes home,
talks to his confidants, maybe his family, his wife, his friends,
maybe a close assistant coach. He realizes that this team
is not going to go to the playoffs, and if
they do happen by chance, but happenstance.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
They're not going to do anything in the players, but
they're not going to make the players.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
It'll be bad. So what he needs to play for
this year is his job. That's what he needs to
play for. So I think if he benches Russell Wilson,
if they lose today and you bench Russell today and
you put in Jackson Dart, at least there's an excuse
factor saying, well, he's a rookie, he's learning, and maybe
Brian day Ball won't lose his job after this year

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because you don't want to change the offense again to another.
That's what I have the treasure in Jacksonville. But they
have four offensive coordinators in four years. You just can't
do that to a guy. So if he brings in
Jackson Dart, maybe next week they'll keep Brian dave Ball
because they want to have some consistency with coach and quarterback.
Am I correct on that and maybe dave Ball keeps

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his job.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
I look, there are a lot of people that have
tried to go there brow where they've tried to use
oh look at me, developed a young quarterback, and that's
what happened. The problem is that man if you do
this in week two. If you do this already, that's
your card. That's your ace in the hole. There's no
other trick, there's no other magic trick that you can
lean on if the team isn't playing well. So you're

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to do that because now that is your that's the
last resort, you pulling the ripcord and saying, hey, guys,
it's over. And I don't know if you want to
do that right now. I don't know if you've reached
that stage of the season where you feel like you
have to do it.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
All right, we'll see what happened.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
But he will be playing. You do a great He'll
be playing before the end of the season.

Speaker 5 (55:21):
Oh one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (55:22):
I mean that was I think the timeline. Yeah, Jackson
Dartis is gonna play, and he's gonna play a prominent
role for them. I'm just saying, if I'm brand Dave Ball,
I don't want to pull the card so soon. I
kind of want to wait see if I can play
it out a little longer before I have to.

Speaker 5 (55:37):
Go to him.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
And they may have a similar situation in Cleveland with
Joe Fago and he was thirty one to forty five
two hundred and ninety yards a touchdown, but he had
two i nts and they lost, not entirely his fault.
Seventeen sixteen, they lost to Cincinnati, basically lost because they're
a kicker Andre Smith.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
And you know what they say, smit happens. You know,
that's what happens.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
All the time he was ride, I'd write like about
thirty five thirty six yards and that was the game
right there. And I'm surprised he's still on the team.
I thought he'd be cut like immediately, really, I really did.
But Joe Flacco right now, I mean, I don't know
how long he lasts. I mean, forty one years of age.
I'm amazed. I'm amazed that a forty one year old
man can play professional football.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
Good bit or different.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
Just the fact that he could suit up and go
to work at forty one years.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Of age and play professional football, I am I.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
Mean, you played the game. Doesn't that make your head spin? Say, wow,
forty one playing football?

Speaker 4 (56:33):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's supposed to be a young
man's game and you're not supposed to be playing at
that age.

Speaker 5 (56:39):
But look that's how they want to do it. And
you know they want to play.

Speaker 4 (56:42):
They want to see if they can stretch it out.
He's supposed to add some stability to this team, which
is why Kevin Stefanski has him as a starter. The
thing about when you're forty you can do a lot,
but man, you certainly can't.

Speaker 5 (56:57):
Do it week after week after week just reliant on him.
I don't know how long this will go.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
I know they will have some success with him for
a short term. I don't know if he can be
the long term solution, meaning the entire season.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Yeah, he's gotta be surprised as well, don't you think.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
I mean, this guy was on the couch two years
ago and they brought him back, so he probably feel
it to be just like an interim guy. Now he
becomes his daughter in Cleveland. I mean, it's just shocking
to him, as is to everybody else.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
Oh, one hundred percent. Yeah, it has to be.

Speaker 4 (57:26):
I mean, it certainly is a shock that he is
a starting quarterback in the league. He has to be
pinching himself to think that I am a starter.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Right, we're going to continue with this. It's got a
couple of more quarterbacks on your list. This is tremendous.
If you want to read this. It's on foxsports dot com.
Just search Bucky Brooks there because he'll take care of
that for you. Because it's really interesting. I mean, I
love this conversation and you did a lot of a
lot of research, a lot of homework on this, so
well worth the read it really is.

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Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
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Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Now we have another quarterback we need to touch on
because we had the Big seven, the big seven that
came into Vets, the Ogs, the OG's buck that came
last week. It's good to see that Sam Donald from
the Seahawks passed for one point fifty no touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
They lost.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
They did the Seahawks seventeen thirteenth to the forty nine ers.
Seattle gained two hundred thirty yards, second lowest total since
Mike McDonald became coach over there. What's the deal now
with Sam Donald? Future yay or a thumbs up, thumbs down?

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
Look, man, I'm still reserving the right to come back
and check on Sam.

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
I think Clinton KBIAC knows him.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
Will haven't spent time on the Viking staff with Kevin O'Connor.
I'm sure they've had plenty of conversations about how to
unlock and his talents, but we've only seen Sam only
do this one time in his career. He did it
one year, that was last year, and then it fell
apart when he got the pressure escalated as we got.

Speaker 5 (01:00:55):
Close to the postseason. Which one is gonna show up?
So I have my doubts. I need see what he's like.

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
What is he going to be like when they really
need him? Can he deliver? Can he step up to
the plate and play at a high level?

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
I hear what you're saying now speaking of quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
The San Francisco forty nine is they're not going to
put quarterback brock Party on the injury reserve. That kind
of means to me that that turf toe like injury
and how I mean living to that in a second,
it's going to be healed in time, so he won't
miss as many games as four perhaps. Talk about this
turf toe thing. I hear it all the time. What
exactly is it? How serious is it? And how do
you get it?

Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
Think about stubbing your toe like, think about kicking the
night stand or the coffee table with your toe, and
how that pain feels well, turf.

Speaker 5 (01:01:45):
Toe is similar.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
It's right up on the ball of your foot, so
like your big toe, primarily like you can't do anything
like we never know how important our toes are, particular
big toe, until we have an injury. But it's everything
how you ground, how you walk, how you do everything.
So if that is impact, it changes everything about who
you are.

Speaker 5 (01:02:03):
And it takes a while because it's painful. You have
to be able to play through the pain.

Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
Sometimes they'll put a little steal thing and your shoot
like to keep it from bending in those things. But yeah,
it's a cumbersome thing to have to overcome.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Did you ever have it when you played?

Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
Yeah, I had my rookie season. It's terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Wow. Is it more more for an offensive player to
get that than a defensive player?

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
Or could have anybody is random.

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
It can happen at any time. Make you just be
running around on the turf doing something. You kind of
step wrong and your foot rolls wrong, and yeah, it's
and it takes forever for that thing to come back.

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
All right, let's hope about the forty nine for just
a second. They're playing the Saints today and they've already
placed a little pro tight end George Kittle on the
injury reserved. He's had a hamstring injury the first half
of the list Sunday's game, and he's going to come back,
I guess in Week six against the Buccaneers, and then
he's going to be thirty two years old right about
that time as well. I got to ask, last year
they were decimated injuries to forty nine ers. They finished

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six and eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
Is there is it bad luck or is there a reason?

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Why is it lack of training technique, bad bid trainers
on the team. Why is this team more than any
other in my mind, suffering injuries like they are?

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
You know, it's weird.

Speaker 4 (01:03:19):
I mean, this is a team that really gets after it.
People look up to them in terms of how they play,
the Shanahan system, the physicality. People talk about that, but
you haven't had that. Haven't had good luck? Man, They've
been seize injuries and those things, and you just got
to be able to navigate around it to win, you know,

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That's what they're talked about.

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
When the championship has a lot to do.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
With fortune in phage, you got to be lucky to
get there, and injuries are are part of the luck.

Speaker 5 (01:03:48):
Situation and they just have not avoided the injury book.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
All right, So today the forty nine ers under center
love Mac Jones. This is the kid that was a
national champion when he played for Alabama.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
He went about.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
Fifteen, I think it was to the Patriots, drafted in
the first round by Bill Belichick, the first one ever
by Belichick.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Drafted in the first round.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
After a Pro Bowl season in twenty twenty one, and
then he fell out of favor. Bill Belichick benched the guy.
He wouldn't play him. Here's the guy that was benched,
and then he was traded to your Jags back in
twenty twenty four. He started seven games and then he
signed with the forty nine ers this passed offseason. So
you know a little bit about Mac Jones. What's the story.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Can he make it? I mean Bill Belichick really didn't
give much of a shot.

Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
If you watch him pradute, you would think he could
make it because the confidence is there in those things.
He has a vibe about him when it comes to
the teammates and those things. But then he gets in
the game and he forgets what his restrictions and limitations are.
Mac Jones can be a really effective quarterback in the league.
If he understands where the Lions are drawn with his

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talent and if he plays to.

Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
His skill set, he'll be successful.

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
But he has a tendency to want to do too much,
and he does it in critical moments, and ultimately, I
think that's his albatross, his achilles heel, and that's gonna
be Look, man, that's gonna be the thing that helps
hurts him as the Nineers are trying to lean on
their backup quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
All right, I hear what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
Okay, Now, let's talk about which I think is going
to be the game of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
It's going to be on Fox Eastern time about four
to twenty five. The Philadelphia Eagles go to Kansas City.
Kansas City's own one I ventured. I guess I don't
see them being oer and two. But we'll see Eagles
are one and oher right now. Eagles dominated the Chiefs
in the Super Bowl. And when they dominated the Chiefs,
and the last time they played it wasn't so much
offensive defense. I think they dominated them in the trenches

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on the line play. I mean, you got those big
beef guys on Philadelphia on the offensive line.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
You talk about the tush push. Many teams would love
to try to do it. They can't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
They don't have three hundred fifty plus offensive lineman to
do that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Really.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
I saw even the college game last night they tried
to do that with Georgia and Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
You can't.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
You need to have beef to do a touch push
at Philadelphia has it?

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
Yeah, I mean like phil if he does have it,
they also are committed to it, like they it's their thing.
This is what they do, so they spend a lot
of time into it. And whenever you pick up and
do a new scheme, it's not only the scheme that
you're doing, but do you have the answers to the
counter taxis that opponents will throw at you. You have
to have a lot of experience and expertise before you
make those moves and the touch push. Even though it

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may seem simple at a first glance, Look, man, there's
some execution and some expertise that comes along with making
sure that you're able to be successful doing it time
after time after time when everyone knows you're doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Okay, here's the question of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
Saquon Barkley rushed for over two thousand yards last year,
and I think that today the game plan for the
Eagles obviously is going to put that ball in the
belly of Saquon.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Let him run.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
Okay, you didn't run much last week. Let him run.
Would he be as successful on a different team, because
I think that offensive line gets at least a percentage
of the success and the credit for what sa Kwon
Barkley did last year.

Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
A little bit, but I mean he game in two
thousand yards. He does deserve a lot of credit. He
enhanced what they had. They had running backs that played
in the same system of those same players, and they
couldn't pop and deliver like him. That's why he deserves
some credit for it. But mutually beneficial, like the team
helped him.

Speaker 5 (01:07:26):
He up the team.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
They needed a beil Calt running back, someone with some
explosive pop.

Speaker 5 (01:07:30):
He delivered.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
He needed an offensive line that could allow him to
get to the running game.

Speaker 5 (01:07:36):
To do some of the things he did at Penn State.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
He what you're saying, I mean, obviously, but I don't
think he's gonna get on two thousand this year, and
maybe there's no need for him to get two thousand
you know, we talked about the forty nine ers. With
the injuries that they're having right now, the Chiefs are
hurting it receiver. So you got Hollywood Brown coming up there,
Juju Smith Schuster, He's going to be playing today as well.
They need these guys, and I'm not so certain the
Chiefs can win against the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
However, that think the one thing to have going for
them is the game.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
Is in Kansas City and Tata is going to be there,
so the fact that it's a home game is gonna
be a major factor. I think that if they get
one and a half points at home, I believe and
I a lot of game. I just happened to take
a glance at that simply because this is a pretty
big game. I think it's the best game when there's
slate today. But who do you like in this one?
I find if I am a betting man, I think
I'm going with the Eagles.

Speaker 4 (01:08:24):
Yeah, I'm gonna take the Eagles on this one. The
Eagles are the better team. I will say that the
Chiefs are the more desperate team because they know, man,
you don't want to fall behind the race, regardless with
Pat Mahomes.

Speaker 5 (01:08:36):
Yeah, so let's let's go to New Shiny Toy. Let's
seet see if you can see.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
Uh the Eagles as the back to back champs, but
it starts with a big win against Case.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
All Right, guys, I mentioned coming up to the sevement,
I've got some good news. They got some bad news.
They got the good news and the bad news. Right now,
the Broncos are playing the coat. Both teams are want
to know. The good news is the Broncos won. They're
opening last week over Tennessee. The bad news, I would
have to guess. I mean, if you look at the
coaching staff and they're saying this is bon Nicks. Their quarterback,
the second year quarterback right now, had two I t's,

(01:09:08):
he lost the fumble, and his passer inning was a sixty.
So that's the bad news right there. How do you
fix bone knicks and there's not going to be a
problem going down the stretch.

Speaker 5 (01:09:18):
Get back to basics. That's how you fix them. Get
back to basis, get back to doing the things that
you've done really really well.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
Get back to that. Focus on that, and if you
focus on that, you can have success. I think that's
what they'll do. They'll focus on Hey man, this makes
sure we do the little things right.

Speaker 5 (01:09:31):
We do little things right, all the other stuff will
fall back into place.

Speaker 4 (01:09:34):
That's what Sean Payton, that's the conversation he will have
with Bo Nicks and Bo next year perform better.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
And the good news is you mentioned Sean Payton. He's
the perfect guy to get it fixed. I mean, I
don't think the other coaches right now have that offensive no,
how as you will as Sean Payton. They're a couple,
you know. I think Andy Reid's right there, right up
there too. But Sean Payn's one of the best. He
really is.

Speaker 5 (01:09:58):
He is he understands how to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
I remember, no one counted on the Broncos being to
get through it last year. In fact, after his first game,
people talked about, oh my god, what Sean Payton seeing
Bo Nicks.

Speaker 5 (01:10:08):
But he stayed.

Speaker 4 (01:10:09):
Of course, he found a way and they got better
and better and better. So now he's a e an
elite dude. But it goes through the development. You have
to develop him. You got to be committed to that
part of the process.

Speaker 3 (01:10:20):
And let me tell you a little story about Sean Payton,
if I may, all right, Sean Payton started way back
when at Miami of Ohio, which is the cradle of coaches,
Miami of Ohio and Oxford, which is about maybe thirty
five miles up the road from Cincinnati, Ohio. Great coaches there,
the late Paul Brown there. They all went to Miami
of Ohio. All right, and back in the day, I
wanted to get Sean Payton on as a radio guest,

(01:10:42):
and he told me, and you're in Cincinnati, no, you
may want to try while you're in town. He loves
Skyline Chili. I don't know why, but he loves Skyline Chili.
And I sent them a box of Skyline Chili and
I got him on the radio for doing that. So
if you want to get under the good favor of
Sean Payton mis mentioned Skyline Chili, he'll go crazy when
you say that.

Speaker 5 (01:11:04):
All right, Okay, I did. I did see it. I
have tried it before. It not really my jam.

Speaker 4 (01:11:10):
I'm not really a chili person, but I have seen it.
I know it comes on the bitter spaghetti and all
that other stuff. Just not not the jam for me.
My little tummy. I'm a little sensitive. My little tummy
can't take it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
I think you get different different.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
You get the spaghetti with the chili on top, and
you could have beans and onions on there as well
if you want.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
Oh, my tummy is flipping and flopping right now just
thinking about all that in my belly. You know, I'm
a little sensitive California dude, there, Andy, but I have
seen it. In fact, Uh, I think it's right there
at the airport. There's a little there's a little thing. Uh,
Scott and the team.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
I got to a little person.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
The team have a team dinner last night at a
local restaurant, did they No?

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
I mean like the team always has the stuff in
the in the hotel, and then people will venture out
on their own, but the team always has something for
the team hotel.

Speaker 5 (01:12:00):
They won't go out.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
Now did you venture out? I'm just curious. Did you
venture out?

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:12:06):
I mean like we ate dinner or whatever. But that
was that was kind of it, kind of standard.

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
I think maybe to Jeff Ruby's restaurant in town.

Speaker 4 (01:12:14):
No, no, no, no, I don't know anything about Queen
City like that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
Okay, this was a double check on that. Let me
squeeze it one more. But this is a pretty good
game right now, because you've got the Bears going to Detroit.
Both teams are zero and one, and we'll see what
happens right now, because you know, the coaches are going
to go back to their starting roots, so to speak,
and the Bears right now, the offense last week with
the Bears was sort of non existent, but the Lions

(01:12:41):
only had thirteen points in their opener, so it's going
to be a low scoring game. I think I still
believe the Lions personnel wise are better than the Bears.
I still think the Lions would this game, but that'll
be a tough one.

Speaker 5 (01:12:54):
Yeah, I'm gona going to the Lions.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
And look, there's a lot of pressure right now on
both of these Teamsiams and the way that the Bears
loss puts pressure on being Johnson justin turns of.

Speaker 5 (01:13:03):
Me, boy wanted the Wizard, Kayla. Williams didn't look.

Speaker 4 (01:13:07):
Great, you know, and you begin to wonder, man, is
it we keep talking about the scheme and the team
and this that maybe it's him with being Johnson's John
Morton living in the shadows of being Johnson, been across
the field from him, being able to see him and
know that he can critique that offense.

Speaker 5 (01:13:24):
Like why are they doing that. We didn't do that
when I was there. What is this?

Speaker 4 (01:13:26):
He's messing up my product, my masterpiece. A lot of
pressure there.

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
But well, I mean there is pressure there, But I
tell you what, the game of the day, I think
one of those games that I would always say if
it was in my backyard, I closed the curtains. The
Patriots are at the Dolphins right now. You talking about pressure,
this pressure on that coaching staff in Miami. But we'll
get into that and so much more. But right now,
he is Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Firman. We have Fox
Football Sunday on Fox buttuating it is time, Yes it is.

(01:13:53):
Don't be shy why the blame game is freaking next?
The blame Game coming right up right here on Fox
Football Sunday and Fox Sports Radio about twelve minutes before
the top of the hour. He's Bucky Brooks. I meany
firm and I at the top of the hour, which
would be eight a m. On the East Coast, Mike
Harmon and Greg Cosel will join you right here on

(01:14:13):
Fox Sports Radio, and we are live on the Fox
Sports Radio studios. We have the blame Game right now.
I want to talk to my executive produce here. What
is happening right now? Because I'm confused. I'm not that smart.
What are we doing here with the blame game? Could
you help me out there?

Speaker 8 (01:14:25):
I need I need you to run point on this.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
Andy, you know what I should write the question? I
answered the question.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
You are going to ask the question? Yes, okay, Mark?
Can we have Mark do it?

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:14:39):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:14:40):
We'll have Mark do it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Yeah, because it looks like I'll be cheating if I
did that, right? That is true?

Speaker 5 (01:14:45):
That is true.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
I guess it was going to be a Bucky Brooks
edition of the blame Game and how much blame he
was going to put.

Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
Okay, so let's do let's do this. Mark do it,
and we'll get going. Right now, let's do the blame
game with me. It's all your fault. No, it's your fault.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Why is all your fault? Maybe it's everyone's fault.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
The liar. That's why there's the blame game. Let's figure
out who to blame? Yeah, who to played?

Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
Mark?

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Are you ready? This is your first experience. You're a
virgin in the blame game.

Speaker 6 (01:15:19):
You know that, don't you?

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
Are you ready? Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
I know? Number Well, whatever that is, Okay, do you
want to like throw out a first question for us,
I mean the blame game question.

Speaker 9 (01:15:29):
So, Bucky, who is to blame when it comes to
whether the w NBA likes Caitlyn Clark or doesn't like
Caitlyn Clark?

Speaker 5 (01:15:45):
Geez?

Speaker 4 (01:15:47):
I would say that this is immediate creation and fascination.
There's been so much talk about Kaitlyn Clark that naturally
when you talk about somebody so much, that naturally.

Speaker 5 (01:15:58):
You create a legion of haters.

Speaker 4 (01:16:00):
And so I would say the media is to blame
just because so much attention has been focused on her,
that is taken away from some of the attention that
should rightfully go to some others.

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
So that's why, well, I'm going to go one stuff
for at the end of the media has kind of
rolled with it because it's real easy. But I think
it all started back when the LSU team played Iowa
in the ncuble A's and Angel Resenter got into it
a little bit and a little competition there, maybe jealousy, envy, whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
It may be.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
So I think that the media thinks that Angel Reese
dislikes Caitlin Clock.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
And I run with that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
So I think Angel is a little bit to blame
on that we'll see, but.

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
Who knows who cares? Go ahead, Mark, give us another one.

Speaker 9 (01:16:39):
Okay, So now that it's in the second week of
the football season, Andy, who is to blame when it
comes to some of the teams not being able to
hold their end up when it comes to being a
good team, Because my view, some teams are like practice

(01:17:00):
and there are other teams that are contenders. So who's
to blame for some of these teams just being like
practice teams?

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Well, I will say this, I think that the media
blames coaches at all times. But after talking to the
maven of football, and that's Bucky Brooks, I'd have to
say it's personnel or lock thereof.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
If you're not a good team. If you're not good,
you're not gonna win. That's basically the bottom line.

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
And if you don't have a quarterback in the National
Football League, forget it. You have no chance at all.
So that's why the forty nine ers today are going
to be in bad shade. Mac Jones is playing quarterback.
I mean, the Saints, come on, really, Bucket Brooks should
come out of retirement and play quarterback for them. So
it's personnel that's the problem, Bucky.

Speaker 4 (01:17:42):
Yeah, Look, personnel, there's everything. Personnel dictates what you're supposed
to doing. Great coaches able to look at their team,
assess what they have and find a way to play
to their strems.

Speaker 5 (01:17:51):
And sometimes everyone.

Speaker 4 (01:17:53):
Doesn't do that because your ego is tied to playing
one way as opposed to playing the other way, which
is what you need to do to maximze.

Speaker 9 (01:18:00):
So you have huh So my third question for the
blame game, So when it comes to just your average quarterback, Bucky,
do the coaches have a little sit down and talk
them through what they're going to do each week or

(01:18:20):
is it just they rely on their coaches to do
most of that work.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
Now, most teams, depending on how I involved the head coaches,
the head coach will also have a personal sit down
with the quarterback, go over personnel, talk about what the
style of the game, how they're envision the game playing out, meaning, hey,
this is going to be one where we want to
control the cloud because we want to play keep away
from the opponents. So you need to make sure take
advantage of the situation, slow the game down, don't make

(01:18:45):
silly mistakes. It should be an ongoing conversation throughout the
course of the week to have a quarterback get ready
to play.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
I'm going to say this, I've never been in those
rooms with the coaches for the game plans and things
like that. When I hit coaches sleeping on couches, staying
up till one o'clock in the morning putting together a
game plan, and it ain't that difficult.

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
It's not that hard. It really isn't.

Speaker 3 (01:19:08):
I think that's one of those things that the public thinks, Wow,
you gotta be like a nuclear physicist, I mean to
do that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
So that's not the key.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
The key. The key is like, we know what they have,
we know what we have. What could we do like
a chess game to kind of beat them? That's basically
it really, so don't overlook what coaches really done. My
right buck on that these coaches sleeping on couches and
one of them want to give me a break.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
They just don't want to go home.

Speaker 5 (01:19:36):
I mean, I don't know about that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:37):
I mean, some people got it takes a little longer
to get their work done.

Speaker 5 (01:19:39):
I wouldn't say it's the best.

Speaker 4 (01:19:40):
Because you're not ready to go on Sunday, you're tired,
But you gotta do what you gotta do to Prayer
four A game, here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
As always, best ill up to you today, Fuck, I'll
see you next week.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Stay tuned. Harmon and Cosell next on Fox

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