Mark Willard & Ephraim Salaam Have A Conversation About Ball Security In This Week In The NFL, Jaylen Warren Gave Fantasy Owners Headaches, Packers Vs Cowboys Revenge Game, And More!!

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

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh it's week four.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
It's week four in the National Football League, and just
like every other Sunday at this hour, we are absolutely
overwhelmed by everything that needs to be discussed, starting right now,
and we will do that alongside E from Salama, Mark Willard.
Good evening, good, late evening, early evening, whatever it is.

(00:27):
The Cowboys and Packers are about to get on our
television sets all across the nation. Together we'll do a
watch party. But we need to start out E from
first of all, good evening by talking about the main thing.
Like if I asked you a good family man, a
good family man with a wonderful wife and two young,
wonderful sons. Like when you wake up in the morning,

(00:49):
what's the main thing you need to take care of?
What would you say? The main thing?

Speaker 4 (00:54):
I like on this So as a dad of school
age kids, there are two separate caveats weekdays and weekends. Okay, weekdays,
I have to get them up. They will not get up,
so I have to. The number one thing is I

(01:16):
got to get them up, get them going, and get
them to school. They don't drive yet. It's a fair answer.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
That's that's that's the truth.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
And and and when what happens if there are other
distractions at that hour, if your phone is ringing, or
if they're like, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Right, the laundry needs to be moved over.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
There's a precedent right like there and and and there's
a pecking order.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Yes, okay, they've come first.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
I put everything else until when I get them gone,
and and then school at school, then I can open
back up the things that I need to do.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
That's that's that's how family That's how family man does it.
It's how family man does it. When it comes to
a business, it's all about your bottom line. You have
to take care of the main thing first. So all
of the other distractions that are out there, okay, we'll
get to you, but we need to take care of
the main thing. Can I find a way maybe with

(02:11):
your help, Can I get a message out to everybody
who plays in the National Football League.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
There's one thing. It's the main thing.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Your offense and defense, special teams, team, camaraderie, baha bah.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
There's a main thing. It's called the ball. A from
the ball, I give you the ball.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
This is the number one indicator for who wins and
loses a football game. And we can talk about this
throughout a bunch of the games all over the country today.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
But the greatest example I want to use.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
You have a tie game with a minute and a
half to go and a defensive breakdown that leads to
two to two at Well who somehow has the second
most unique name as a wide receiver on his team,
and he flies down the field and scores a touchdown
in the rams and the Colts unbeaten streak to start
the season. Flash back to about a quarter before when

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yet again, and we see this at least once a year,
and each year when it happens.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
People go, I've never seen anything like it. Yes you have.
You saw it last year, the year before that, and
the year before that.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
And that is when somebody hits the open field with
the ball and prior to getting to the goal line,
they decide it's time to show y'all everything that I
just did. Check out me and my foot whoops, there
goes the football and it flies out the back of
the end zone. And then we all have to have
a conversation as a collective society over whether or not

(03:43):
it's okay that if you fumble the ball through the
end zone, should the other team get it at the twenty,
because that seems like.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
An unfair all this stupid stuff.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Ado Ni Mitchell is the name of the wide receiver
in my crosshairs today who decided to just cough the
ball up by himself at the one yard line, and
essentially it probably decided that football game.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Can y'all please do a better job of taking care
of your main thing the.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Ball hand size? That's why they hear people always ask
about to combine. Why do they want to measure your
hands and you vertical and and all of these things. Well,
I want to know you can hold the ball securely
if it's in your hands. And just watching that, all
he was doing was switching hands and it just slipped
out of his tiny hands, slipped right on the way

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out the back of the end zone as he was
running twenty two miles an hour, seventy or seventy plus
yard touchdown into nothing.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
That's a tough SAT. That's a tough SAT Sunday man.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
What a shame, What a shame. And then.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
And then you get a big penalty after that, then
the gates.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Huge run. So now you got two eggs on your face.
It's a long and lonely and quiet flight home for you.
There will be no one sitting next to you.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
How does that work?

Speaker 3 (05:20):
By the way, Like I know that that's you know,
kind of a thing that broadcasters say, like, oh man, but.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Like is that real?

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Like is he socially outcast or is it the opposite
where people are going to kind of give him some
love or whatever it is?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Like what is the flight home like for Indianapolis today?

Speaker 4 (05:37):
What he will give him some love to his face?
But then you know pro I mean, coaches don't care
about mistakes. They care about what you do after the mistakes.
So if another mistake follows, uh oh, that's the real
life truth. Coaches understand no one's perfect. They don't want

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you to make mistakes, but if you do, they understand that.
So they're closely watching what happens after you make a
big mistake. Like if you fumble the ball, they'll let
you carry it again. If you fumble again, there's a problem.
If you give up a sack you don't get you
don't come out of the game. But if you give

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up another sack within the next couple of plays, then
they're just gauging how you deal with adversity and how
you push through it. Now, mistakes and mistakes means you're
holding on to the first mistake and you're gonna carry
it into the second and the third, and fourth and

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so on and so forth. That's what coaching is. It's
not for you, guys, to be perfect. It's not for
us as athletes to be perfect. It's an we're as humans,
we're imperfect. But what can you do to minimize mistakes?
Do you compound them or do you compartmentalize them and

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let them go? And boy, it's hard to give up
a touchdown with a touchback and then take a touchdown
off the board withholding. That's a difficult thing to swallow
as one individual. So that's a fourteen point swing by yourself.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Right, yesh, and you lose by seven with a minute
and a half to go.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
It's pretty tough, man.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
It's tough.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
And there's a lot of that around the league. By
the way, that was just something that stood out to me.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
How you doing, man? Everything good this weekend?

Speaker 5 (07:44):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
You sound tired? My man?

Speaker 5 (07:49):
I am tired. You know why I'm tired?

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Why?

Speaker 5 (07:52):
And it's my own fault?

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, it usually is.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
But number one sleep well last night, well, I should
have went to bed earlier, and I was messing around
playing Xbox. I was playing Halo last night till about
three in the morning, had no business doing it actually
till about two. And then when I came in the room,

(08:18):
my wife was already knocked out, but she was watching Interstellar,
and so I laid down and then ended up watching Interstellar.
And then I looked up it was like three forty five.
I said, oh my god, what And then I had
to get up early because the Steelers played in in
Ireland at six thirty.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yep, And oh I got something. I got gift my
chestnut go ahead.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
And so i'm I'm I'm now it's on my back. Literally,
I'm like, what if what am I doing? So three
hours of sleep back essentially two hours.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Too and playing Xbox with it two in the morning.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
You know, Uncle Jack, Uncle Jackie Uncle Jack are playing
Xbox Man. It was getting good to us. And you
know it's uh. Uncle Jack is our is our neighbor.
He's a part of our family. We've adopted him into
our family. And you know, he's not older than me.
He's thirty five. Years old. But he's a heck of

(09:19):
a musician. He's a great guy. The kids love him.
They call him Uncle Jack. So his name is uncle Jack. Okay,
and he's a gamer two, so we you know, it's
very rare you find people that you can play online,
especially Halo. Everybody's call of duty and you know, roadblocks

(09:39):
and all that goofy stuff.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
I'm a Halo guy, okay, keep it real.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
That's why I'm equally jealous.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
And also just like mouth hanging wide open, I haven't
seen two or three in the morning in a long
time on purpose.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Killing myself right now, Oh my god, shame on me.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
And young fella get in the cadence because they're going
overseas every week for like a month and a half.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
So get used to this.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
For those of you wherever you're listening, you know, we
sometimes we puff our chests out West Coast, Best Coast.
I can't believe you all have to wait till one
o'clock in the afternoon for your football to start.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Boo who on you? Boo? Who on us?

Speaker 3 (10:26):
When these get over to London and Germany and now
Ireland and like your Friday or Saturday night now needs
to take this thing into account and oh, by the way,
so does your fantasy roster.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
But I'm gonna hold that for a second.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
I'm gonna hold that for a second because they need
to get loose on that a little bit. The other thing, obviously,
that's on people's minds right now. I don't know necessarily
why we need to go here, and it's not the
number one game I was focused on in the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
But talk to me.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Why is Lamar Jackson Why is saying being labeled a
quitter this evening?

Speaker 4 (11:04):
I don't know why he's being labeled to quit. Her
heard his hamstring, He heard his hamstring. I mean, you
can't have a two time MVP labeled a quitter, can you.
I mean, one of the most prolific quarterbacks, guy with
the highest passing rating ever, guy who was won seventy

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of his games as a quitter. No, but just today
was a tough game. It was a tough watch. I
can tell you that. Yeah, that was That was a
first drive, spectacular burn the rest of it down yep.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Wow. And and it's also a timing thing.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
I don't think anybody's calling Lamar Jackson a quitter unless
you're one in three you're one in three when there
are still people walking on this play Earth who believe
you're the best team in the NFL. In fact, I'm
old enough to remember three weeks ago tonight when you
and I sat here on these very airwaves and got

(12:12):
off the air in a fourth quarter where the Ravens
led the Bills by double digits, and both of us
flatly said, I don't know how anyone's going to beat
this team this year, and what they have done from
the moment we turned our machines off and put our
headsets down at the end of our show at eight

(12:33):
o'clock Pacific time three weeks ago. Today is Derrick Henry
has fumbled three times in four games. They blew that
football game. Then they took care of their own divisional doormat,
followed by six days apart, two matchups against high profile
opponents and lost them both, and lost them both convincingly.

(12:56):
Like don't get it twisted about Monday night either. The
Lions went into Baltimore and completely outplayed the Ravens in
that football game. Their defense, at no point this season
has looked even good, let alone great or Ravens Like,
what do you see here with a team that is

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now facing an uphill climb to even I mean, I
don't even want to know if I want to say
uphill climb to make the playoffs because of the status
of their division. Joe Burrow the Browns. I still think
they're probable to make the playoffs. But it's an uphill climb.
When you start one.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
And three, Yeah, it is an uphill climb.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
You're behind the eight ball, and you know, just watching
them play, I don't ever remember seeing Lamar Jackson be
sacked this many times to in the first four games
of the season.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
I think it was seven last week another three.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
That's ten in two weeks, not to mention before, you know,
the sacks before that.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
Not to me.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
I'm scratching my head because he is a master magician
when it comes to getting out of trouble and you
just don't see it. Maybe the hamstring was bothering him
earlier and on that final scramble he had, maybe he
really you know, pulled it or whatever. But I don't

(14:29):
remember ever seeing Lamar be you know, just harassed, and
I've seen it make people look like kids, but it
just doesn't seem like he has that gear and that
extra movement that we're accustomed to seeing with him when
the pocket breaks down that offensive line. There's a lot

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of injuries up front, both offense and well, they didn't
play with their whole defense, so they have no starting
defensive lineman actually started in the football game. And I
knew that was gonna be tough against Kansas City because
if you can't put pressure on Patrick Mahomes, then you
can't beat Patrick Mahomes. And you know, shout out to

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the Kansas City Chiefs for you know, writing a ship
that was sinking fast, and Patrick finally looked like Patrick.
Two hundred and seventy yards, four touchdowns, no picks, only
got sacked one time. That's to Patrick Mahomes. We had
grown accustom to seeing play prior to last year. And

(15:37):
they got Xavier Worthy back, which helped in a couple
of week three weeks. I believe they get Rashid Rice back.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Ye.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
I think that's seriously will help and so they'll actually
have actual targets that they can throw the ball to
downfield as well as Kelsey.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
So they're they're on the other side of.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
What I think was a stagnant start, little hangover going
to three straight Super Bowls the only other side of that,
and that defense was really getting after one of the
premier quarterbacks in our league.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
You mentioned those sack totals.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
I want to give everybody a couple numbers before we
dive further into the game that's about to kick off tonight,
Lamar Jackson. As you pointed out, ten times he's been
sacked in these last two games, in the last six days.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
That's now fifteen on the year. Fifteen sacks this year.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
How many times he was sacked all last year and
he played in all of the games.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Twelve or something like that. That had to be three, three.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
And fifteen already this year in four games, he is
flying toward hitting last year's number by week six. Yeah,
is the pace that he's on right now. So you're
right to point that out. And then there's a much
more simplistic number. The Ravens are giving up thirty three
quarter points a game, last in the league, thirty three

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point two five points per game. The Ravens defense, Ray
Lewis is hucking his remote off the wall somewhere like
this is not Ravens defense.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
And it's not And I will say, like I say,
they and their bet we saw Remember what Detroit looked
like when their whole defense was hurt last year. They
kept winning because they were literally outscore people. But once
you lose two, three, four, five, six, starter, especially guys
up front on your defense. You know, defensive linemen rotate

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through the game, but your playmakers are on the field
on third downs, on like that, first downs like and
when you don't have that, then you expose yourself, especially
when you're playing against a dynamic quarterback, no question about it.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
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(18:18):
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Speaker 3 (19:50):
All right, these are Fox Sports Radio Studios, packers in
the red zone, already on their opening drive.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
But it's a third down. We'll keep you up to date.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
We want to get you ready for the Michael Parsons ball.
You need to hear what Jerry Jones said this week.
We'll have that for you in just a second. Yes,
another big name goes down for the year. We'll talk
about that in a second. But I just want to
put this out to America. I want to see if
you agree, Ephraim. I want to put this out to
the world because to me, we need a stipulation. We

(20:21):
need a stipulation because in fantasy football, Ephraim, it's a fantasy.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
We're not actually on the team.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
I don't need anybody telling me that I need to
rub dirt on it or harden up or play hard
or no. I'm a guy with a computer and a phone.
That's all I am. That's all I am. I'm not
on the team. Therefore I am not expected like the
coach to show up, not like Tom Coughlin's coaching me.

(20:58):
If you're not five minutes earl, you're five minutes late,
we're finding you all of these rules. Life is happening
out here. People have jobs, they've got kids, they've got stress.
And if you live on the West Coast and Adam
Schefter tells you at eleven PM the Jalen Warren is

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gonna play, then it should not be incumbent on West
Coasters to set a flip and alarm.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
For six ten in the morning on their Sunday, for.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Most people, their only day off, so that they can
wake up, pull out their phone and find out if
Adam Schefter was wrong.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Like that's that's not that's not real.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
So what I am proposing today on September twenty eighth,
twenty twenty five, is that if your fantasy league, especially
if it's in the West Coast, when these games start
playing in Europe at eleven PM at night, if someone
has been labeled expected to play, and then when we

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wake up at a normal human hour and they're not playing,
then you eleven league mates.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Don't be jerks.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Let the person put somebody else in who's playing later
that day. I'm not asking for a lot. We're not
on the team. I don't need to be. I'm not doing.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Jumping jacks at five point forty five.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Because my fantasy team's about to start. Let's be human beings.
Let's be normal in that scenario. Let the people put
somebody else in the game. No, that's all I'm asking for,
e from That's all I want. This didn't even affect me,
by the way. I don't want this energy to make
it feel. My wife has Jalen Warren. She's the commissioner

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of her league. I'm texting with her at six point thirty. Babe,
baby's out, he's out. She hits me back at like
six forty WTF too late. I'm like, hun, you're the commish.
Just put Jordan Addison in to something. Just put someone
else in for later today. She goes, No, that's a

(23:16):
bleep move. I won't do that. I'm like, well, stand
up woman there, Yeah, you're a stand up woman. But
at the same time you've been done wrong and you
didn't deserve that.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Well, that's the two wrongs don't make a right.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Well, Adam, Shefter told her something and she believed it.
And the Steelers told him something and he believed it.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
And the Steelers are liars.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
And Steelers are liars. She's a stand up woman.

Speaker 8 (23:43):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
We happen to have a truth teller and a stand
up guy. And that Steve just said.

Speaker 9 (23:51):
Well, good evening, gentlemen. The Green Bay Packers are out
to a seven to nothing lead in the early minutes
at Dallas tonight. Green Bay was facing a quick third
and long but hit Matthew Golden for forty six yards.
They hit the tight end Tucker Craft for sixteen on
this drive. Eventually a short pass from Jordan Love to
Romeo Dobbs two yards and a TD and at seven

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nothing for the visitors five minutes into tonight's game, Oh fast,
it was fast, and now the Dallas Cowboys might be
getting a first down or not. Kansas City beat Baltimore
thirty seven to twenty. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson left with
a hamstring entry. He had one touchdown two turnovers. Jacksonville
a winner at San Francisco twenty six, twenty one. Traves

(24:33):
etn nineteen carries one hundred and twenty four yards in
a score. The Rams won on an eighty eight yard
touchdown pass with under two minutes to go, beating the
Colts twenty seven to twenty at Bears repeating, coltswide receiver
Adunai Mitchell blew a seventy six yard touchdown when he
celebrated early and fumbled the ball through the end zone.
Colts lost by seven. Bears came back to win at

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Las Vegas twenty five twenty four. The Bears blocked a
fifty four yard field goal attempt at the end. There
are a couple of games tomorrow, by the way, The
Owen three Jets are at Owen three. Miami quarterback Justin
Fields is out of concussion protocol for the Jets, so
he is due to start. He practiced fully all week.
Miami tight end Darren Waller due to make his team debut.
There's also a Cincinnati at Denver game tomorrow night. Bengals

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with the worst offense in the league coming into today.
Tight End Noah Fant of the Bengals is out with
a concussion Broncos tight end Evan Ingram will play after
a bad back. Arkansas fired head coach Sam Pittman. Bobby
Petrino takes over as the interim coach. Oklahoma State fired
defensive coordinator Todd Grantham. Head coach Mike Gundy was let
go last week. Oklahoma States lost twelve straight against FBS opponents.

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Oregon is up to number two in the new College
football rankings, behind number one Ohio State. Miami is number three,
Ole Miss is up to number four, Oklahoma is number five.
In AP Chase Elliott took the NASCAR race at Kansas.
Denny Hamlin finished second. He led the most laps. Europe
held on to win the Ryder Cup, fifteen to thirteen.
It led by seven points to start the day on

(26:02):
Long Island. Europe's golfers have won nine of the last
twelve Ryder Cups. There is a WNBA semifinal game going
on right now. It is Minnesota up thirty one to
nineteen at Phoenix, trying to force a finale a game
five in this round. It's best to five this round
and then best of seven finals. By the way earlier,

(26:22):
Indiana stayed alive. It's two games to two after beating
Vegas ninety to eighty three, and Major League Baseball's regular
season has ended. All the games today started at about
three pm Eastern time. Really a lot was there for
the taking, and almost nobody took it. Mets lost and
Reds lost. Reds get the final wildcard spot. Those two
Reds and the Mets finished tied for the last NL wildcard,

(26:45):
but the Reds hold the tiebreaker over the Mets. The
Mets season is over. They lost for nothing at Miami.
They go eighty three and seventy nine, and the Mets
payroll was about three hundred and forty million dollars. The
season is done. They had the best record in the
majors in mid June and went in the Tank. Yankees

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in Toronto each won home games to finish out the
regular season. Yanks have won eighth straight. Those two finished
tied for first in the AL East. Toronto held the tiebreaker.
The Blue Jays clinch the AL East title with a
win thirteen to four over Tampa Bay. Blue Jays clinched
the top seed for the American League playoffs by the way.
Yankees and Blue Jays each finished with ninety four wins

(27:27):
and what a historic comeback for Cleveland to take the
AL Central crown. Detroit lost again today, losing its finale
four to three at Boston Red Sox. By the way,
we'll play it a best of three at the Yankees
starting on Tuesday. Detroit plays its wild Card series at
Cleveland starting Tuesday at one pm Eastern time. The Guardians

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wound up with a ten inning win today. They finish
up as AL Central champions in the largest comeback ever
in the MLB standings. Cleveland was fifteen and a half
games back of Detroit as of July the eighth. Starting September,
they were still down ten and a half games. This
is the largest September comeback ever. Cleveland's record in early

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September was sixty nine and seventy since then nineteen and four,
and the Guardians are going to be hosting the best
of three this week. By the way, best of three
Wildcard series all begin on Tuesday. Best of five Division
series after that all start this Saturday. Why isn't there
a one game playoff tomorrow, you may ask. There is

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no such thing anymore. Since twenty twenty two, all the
playoff tie breakers are determined mathematically instead of one game playoffs,
so ties for division title or postseason berths or for seeding.
It all comes down first to your head to head
record between those teams during the year, back to you.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Steve great stuff. And I kind of hate that, by
the way. I hate that there's no one game playoff.
I think when you're playing one hundred and sixty two games,
if you get all the way down to the end,
if you got the same it's kind of tough where
you're like, well, we were four and three against that
team back in June, so we're moving on. I don't
like that, but I wanted this ques throw this question
at you too. Has anyone ever before won a division

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in baseball with a negative run differential?

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Has that ever happened before?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Because the Gardens have a negative run differential and they
won the American League Central. So I'm not asking to
know that off the top of your head. I just
wonder if you could like bounce it. I cannot. Like
if you look at the run differentials of the other
division winners this year, they're intense, they're overwhelming. They're like,
you know, the Phillies one hundred and thirty, the Dodgers

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one hundred and forty two.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
The Guardians are minus six and won the division.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
That crazy.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
That's hard to do.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
It's really hard to do. Yeah, outscored by their opponents
and won the division.

Speaker 9 (29:55):
Apparently the Diamondbacks of two thousand and seven won the
NL West that way.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Look how quick you are. I was wondering why you
weren't responding. I'm like, oh, he's googling. Oh he's working.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, he's looking at it.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
He doesn't use Google. He closes his eyes, not the
only one.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
He closes his eyes and just summons the answer and
it comes out.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
No, you're right. Actually Google uses Steve that. I just
found that out two weeks ago. But that's true. That's
that's the America. That's a fact.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Google. When it wants to know something, it's like, call
Steve now.

Speaker 9 (30:26):
Actually, I got to make this clear. It's it's the
most recent time it has happened. But yes, it has happened.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Okay, that's that's that's fascinating. Uh, and Steve, could you
weigh in?

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Please?

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Do you believe that West Coasters who started Jalen Warren
because Adam Shefter told him it was safe to do
so should they have?

Speaker 2 (30:43):
I don't know an extra hour.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
Can we go to seven thirty in the morning on
a Sunday before we got to make that sweat for starters?

Speaker 9 (30:49):
This is what you get for believing ESPN about something well.
For second, I agree that the commissioner herself ought.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
To be able to do something.

Speaker 9 (30:58):
I'm like, talk about powerless.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Oh man, she would like talk about us, you said
he from a stand up woman.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
I'm like in her ear being like, Babe, they don't
know they're sleep, Just do it. Do it. She's like,
I'm not doing it, and she didn't do it, and
I think she might have won her game anyway. Hold
on to that one. You know.

Speaker 9 (31:21):
Somebody just stuck Kenneth Gainwell in there and he ran
for touchdowns and almost one hundred yards and oh, Pittsburg
holds on to win in Dublin.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Oh my goodness. Indeed, all right, Steve, thank you. We'd
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(31:51):
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want to get into a little bit more of the
Micah Parsons Bowl and the Jerry Jones sound coming up
next because the game is underway. Packer's off the ball again,
already up seven nothing, But can we also, uh man.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Can we tip one to Elite Neighbors? Man? I feel
like we're four weeks in.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
We have been through a lot already, big names and
not big names who still matter. You were talking about
the Ravens defensive line. I don't know what's going on, man.
Maybe I'm just more sensitive to it this year that
the injuries are overwhelming right now a month end of
the season.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah, it's you know, when you look at it, that's
the thing with football, man, you never know, and you
know you never know why, you never know how. But
every week someone's gonna be done for the season. That's
the reality of it. Who is it? Is it a
special team or no one knows about? Or is it
a marquee player like a Elite Neighbors. We got to see,

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you know, Joe Alt, the top round pick of the
Chargers who was filling in Uh at left tackle for
their left tackle who they lost for the season for Slater,
So it's ye Slater, Yeah, it's It's one of those
things where do you look at the whole defensive line

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for and linebacker group for Baltimore. It's no real way
to put a finger on it and quantify what's happening.
Football is a collision sport, and collisions will happen every
single game.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
I mean, I felt like that was Xavier Worthy was
the opening drive of that Friday night game in Brazil.
We've friendly fire, right, We've had at least five teams
already have to start a backup quarterback. Joe Burrow, a
huge name, is essentially gone for at least the majority

(33:57):
of the year. Nick Bosa last week, Malik Naps this week, and.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Apologies because I know I'm forgetting others.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
You know, Mike Evans, he's gonna miss a bunch of
time now, Lamar, James, James Connor. James Connor is out
for the year, you know, Lamar Lamar today.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, it's a hell of a list already, hell.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Of a list, man. It's tough living.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
That's why football is the number one sport were attrition matters.
It's a war of attrition. Who can get to be
the healthiest going into the later months and into the playoffs,
because anything can happen literally on any people want to know. Well,
people always say, well, if any sport should have fully

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guaranteed contracts, it's football in theory, yes, but in reality, no,
owners aren't signing up to pay someone guaranteed money and
on any and every play they could be on for
the year or for their career. That's why all these
players contracts aren't fully guaranteed. Right, Quarterbacks are starting to

(35:09):
get them fully guaranteed because you can't really hit quarterbacks anymore.
But until you started playing flag football, running backs and
receivers and their contracts won't be fully guaranteed.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
No, you're right, that's precisely why the contracts are not
fully guaranteed. Okay, we've got our three things coming up
here at the top of the hour, our top observations
of the week based on what we've seen so far.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Also, if you didn't hear earlier this.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Week, what Jerry Jones had to say getting ready for
this game, the Micah Parsons Bowl. If you will gonna
want to hear, we'll talk it out. The game's already underway.
Keep it here with me from Salama, Mark with it.
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Speaker 2 (36:24):
Mark willard E from Salaam.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
So, it's the Micah Parsons ball tonight and the Packers
lead seven to nothing late first corner. Cowboys with the
ball in their own territory. I want everybody to hear this.
This is Jerry Jones doing what he does every week
in Dallas, which is talk on the radio and say
all kinds of things he probably shouldn't say.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Here's this week's version.

Speaker 10 (36:49):
Michael is special and we all know he is, and
he can be disruptive, but we have huge amounts of
the experience with the anecdotes that we've seen used on
us for the last four years. While he does make
great plays, there is also a way to approach playing

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against Michael, as we know because we didn't exactly win
the Super Bowler in those years. The bottom line is,
when I look at playing him, I think of trying
to have him as an advantage when we were playing
other teams over the last four years, and some plays
it looks beautiful, but then other plays, especially running plays,

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you can wish you to have had a different formation.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
What's your reaction to that.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
You know what, I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
We all know and agree that Michael Parsons is a
generational talent. No one other than Reggie White has had
twelve and a half sacks in their first four years
in the league. Would you say something like that, And
I'm not saying Michael Parsons is Reggie White, but what
I'm saying is no other player other than Reggie White

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has put up the numbers when it comes to putting
pressure on quarterbacks like Michael Parsons. So early in Reggie
White's career, Would you say that about him?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Well, of course not. I mean, do you want to
know what stands out to me?

Speaker 3 (38:40):
There is the insinuation that Micah, while talented, is clearly
not a vital member of the team because we didn't
win the Super Bowl while he was here. And I'm thinking,
I don't know that I've heard a more disingenuous statement
out of the.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Fell in a long long time.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
You don't get to put your entire team's performance on
a pass rush, no, especially when we know, damn well
what twenty thousand reasons are why that wasn't the case?
You weren't a super Bowl contender. I mean, is Miles
Garrett now to be traded because they didn't want it

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to win the Super Bowl with him?

Speaker 5 (39:24):
DJ Watt trade?

Speaker 3 (39:25):
So well, yeah, these guys must be underperforming. I mean,
what an absurd thing to say. And you know what
I said the other week about just every time you
have to trade someone, when you get all locked up
in an emotional discourse with him, that here comes the
smear campaign and it continued this week.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
Look, Jae, I didn't want to trade Michael Parson's He
offered him a deal he thought was fair and he
negotiated the deal the wrong way, and because there was
pushback on that, Jerry decided we will be better off
without Micah. But if he didn't want him, or if

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he thought he was lacking something, he wouldn't have offered
him the contract he offered him, which which was probably
around you know, forty two million a year?

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Right?

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Do you offer someone forty two million dollars a year
if you don't believe in him?

Speaker 3 (40:26):
Now, all of a sudden, we're like, so about the
part where you can't stop the rotten?

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Right, Like, do you I don't know if you you don't,
I don't know if you you negotiate at that level
for someone do you think have huge holes in their game?

Speaker 5 (40:42):
And on a benefit to your team?

Speaker 4 (40:47):
So, yeah, you could say anything after the fact, but
the fact that you guys offered him a multi year
deal at forty one to forty two million dollars a year, yeah, right.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Shure, yeah, all right? Is right? Can't win the Super
Bowl with him, apparently, And when.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Nobody over there you now that he's gone, I'm sure
Dallas is gonna be on their way.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
All right.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
Three things our top observations of the week Coming up
next on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Yeah, into the night we go.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Sunday Night watch Party is on live from these Fox
Sports Radio studios. The Packers leading this one seventy nothing
will follow along.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
But that's not the only thing we're here for.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
We're here for, as we would put it, all the things,
every single thing that unfolded so far on this NFL Sunday.
Don't forget Thursday. Two more games coming up on Monday
as well. And as we say, every single week, from
every time we go to bed on a Sunday night,
the NFL world is completely different. For example, those New

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York Giants, just a little teaser, they might come. Uh,
they've got themselves a new quarterback, but he's got himself
a new number one receiver and I don't even know
who it is because Malik Neighbors.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Is no longer going to play this year.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
The Chargers are no longer three, and oh Niners are
no longer three, and oh, on we go.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
You ready to do a little three things?

Speaker 5 (42:24):
Of course?

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Okay, let's fire up, everybody. Let's do three things.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Top three observations each of us had after another week
in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
I'd like to go first, so that you go last,
So they did that.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
That way, you can go last and uh and you
can bring the uh, you know, the big finish if
you will.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
My observation number one is going to go back to.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
Thursday night, and I'm glad that as he laid down
in the corner of the end zone with the ball
in his hands, I'm glad that Marvin Harrison Junior felt emotional.
I'm glad he felt like he had finally redeemed himself
and he had made a big catch in a big,
primetime close game. I'm sorry, I don't want to be mean,

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but Marvin, you did not redeem yourself. That's not how
it works. You can't catch one ball and have it
be in the end zone. And I'm sure congrats to
everybody out there who started him in your fantasy league.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Your game turned out okay, his didn't. They lost on
the final play of the game.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
And that's a wide receiver who found a way in
the first half to essentially be solely responsible for two interceptions.
He put his team in a massive hole, and the
team battled back, and he was part of that battling back,
but they fell short and they lost that football game.
So I'm glad everybody thinks that Marvin redeemed himself.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
He didn't. He didn't.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
He's the fourth pick in the draft last year, and
I don't know what the hell's going on. He doesn't
catch the ball well, he doesn't seem to know where
he's supposed to go.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
He is. It's a wild disappointment so far in this league.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
Uh yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
He was drafted with such high expectations, so much so
even though he had a pedestrian rookie year, people were saying, hey,
is he going to have a bounce back year this year?
And I was saying, well, bounce back from what? This
is his second year. I mean, we haven't seen him

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be great, right, so what if this is just who
he is?

Speaker 2 (44:36):
This is it? Right?

Speaker 4 (44:37):
In order to bounce back to a level, you have
to reach that level at the level of the NFL, correct.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Right, That is I think the idea of bouncing back, yes,
back to what you were before.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
So I was like, what is bouncing back to college?
You have eligibility level. So but you're absolutely right.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
It.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Look, man, when you are namesake and you're you're you're
the person whose name you share is in the Hall
of Fame, then good luck, good luck. It's just tough.
It's just you. All you gotta do is just be okay.
No one expects you to be better, Just be okay.
And so that's where we are. He's got to figure

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out how not to let the drops in the outside
noise affect him on the on the field, and it's
difficult for young players, it really is.

Speaker 5 (45:31):
It's difficult for young players.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
I'm sure.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
First thing I of my three is man uh the
Tennessee Titans. I really feel bad for someone like cam

(45:56):
Ward who possesses all the leadership quality. He was a
hard nosed guys, a guy in college. I remember when
him and Shaduor were training together. He was hyper focused
or just getting better and just it was not a brand,
not any not in no shade to Shador. They come

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from two different worlds, and so I just remember how
optimistic everyone was with him coming in into the league.
But he landed at a place where there is absolutely
nothing there to help him get better as a player,
and just watching their ineptness, I felt bad for him.

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He's constantly under siege. He doesn't have any real weapons.
They can't run the ball, the offensive line is not good,
and so I'm just watching him get frustrated more and
more after every series on the sideline, and they look,

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there is something to be said to where you're drafted.
And I just noticed him not having fun doing the
thing that he loves to do.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
I think that's pretty well said.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
And actually a little bit later on in the hour,
we've got some commentary from cam Ward that would suggest
he's not having a very good time as the.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Titans do indeed fall to zero to four.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
All right, My observation number two, The forty nine Ers
need to trade for Trey Hendrickson as soon as the
Bengals will let them. As soon as the Bengals will
let them. There is no Joe Burrow. I know the
Bengals are two and one, but if you look at
their situation and their schedule, I would think that they
are on their way to a pretty poor record soon.

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And as soon as the forty nine Ers are willing
to get the or able to get the Bengals on
the phone, I would do that deal.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
I'd like to read this to you.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Check this out and see if this hits you in
a certain sort of a way. In the Niners first
game without Nick Bosa this year, their defense had no
sacks and no quarterback hits none for the first time
in a game since almost ten years ago to the day.

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Ten years an entire decade of football has gone by
with the forty nine Ers never having a game where
they literally don't touch the quarterback. Congratulations to the Jaguars
equipment guy. He doesn't even need to wash Trevor Lawrence's uniform.

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For everybody who said Nick Bosa underperformed the last two years,
I want you to watch today and understand that Nick
can perform very well and not get a sack. But
what it leads to is the rest of the line
being able to achieve with him gone. This line was
stonewalled all day. I did in four turnovers against none,

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and I'm shocked that the forty nine Ers were even
in that game with a couple of minutes left to go.
Trey Hendrickson APB has been set. He needs to get
to the Red and Gold asap.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Yeah, I mean that would make the most sense.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
The Bengals don't want to pay him and the forty
nine Ers need him, so that would make the most sense.
There you go, because their season won't be salvaged at all.
The Bengals are gonna be the Bengals. I don't know
if Joe Burrow is coming back at some point this year.
I don't see why. I don't think they have enough,

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even defensive wise, to compete. It'll kind of mirror what
happened last year. So absolutely get on the horn and
get that done. That way, you get some valuable assets,
you get some picks, and the forty nine ers get

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a real legitimate pass rusher because without Nick bos over there,
it's it's bleak.

Speaker 5 (50:12):
It truly is bleak. The the other thing I noticed is.

Speaker 4 (50:23):
There's even this early in the season, I think there
are teams lining up to get the first pick in
the draft next year. Teams know who they are. Like
when I watch the Saints play, I'm like, oh, huh yeah,

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I'm really like, oh this okay. This doesn't seem like
they're playing to win a game. It just seem like
they're playing because they're they have a schedule, they have
a team, and they have to be a part of it.
And I say that because even when you watch the

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Jets play, they're zero and three as well, but they
are they're you. They're actually competing and they've been like
that the last couple of years. Yep, Like they're really
trying to win these games, right, But when I watch
teams like you know, I don't know what's going on
with Miami, But when I watch teams like the Saints,

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and I scratch my head. Even Carolina is trying they
will come out there and fight you and do that.
I just don't get that feeling from New Orleans. And
so I'm just gonna go ahead and pencil them in
as the number one, uh draft destination for whatever choy.

Speaker 5 (51:57):
It's not Argie Manning anymore.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
I don't believe whoever that quarterback is, he should start
watching a lot of Saints tape so he can be prepared, yeah,
to come in and try.

Speaker 5 (52:08):
To ride a ship it's down there with the Titanic.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Well, they might need to battle the Titans for him,
but the Titans just used number one draft.

Speaker 5 (52:16):
Cat, so we know that's not gonna happen, right.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Don't forget.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
Now, the Dolphins will play a football game against Jets
tomorrow night, and a loser is also going to join
them at zero and four.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
So but yeah, your point is very very well taken.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Here's my number three observation, and I bet that you
will concur Hey, Ephraim, I like Jackson dark that was nice.
Now you like listen, you won the football game, which
is the most important thing.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
But it goes way way deeper than that.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
I know that there were moments where he'd like, he's
a rookie, and so does he take off too soon
or hold the ball too long?

Speaker 2 (52:56):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (52:56):
Maybe, I mean, but it wasn't ever really overwhelming. Number one,
Number two, dude, use the legs. He's really good on
his feet. He's got a nice presence out there. But
number three, yo, that is a hard assignment. They gave
him today. We've talked for weeks about the landing spot
for Jackson Dart. They gave him the three and zero Chargers,

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and then they took him a league neighbors from him
in the first half, and he won the game. Anyway,
where his number stunning, maybe not, I don't even look
at him. It doesn't matter. I watched a lot of
that football game. The Giants have themselves something there, they
really do. They nailed it. He looks nice and Russell
Wilson can go ahead and start looking for a new

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address if his name comes up in the trade deadline,
because that's the end of that. That is Jackson's game,
that is his team, that is his town. He looked
great in his debut.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
The thing I like about Jackson Dart is his energy,
his swag. As the kids say, you can tell he
wants it, you can tell he wants to be They
got the the mock turtleneck on with the diamonds on
the outside. He's just got the face painted, right. How
many quarterbacks do you see with their face painted? And

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just the energy between him and Brian day Ball after
the game, it was literally like, you're gonna save my job.
That's the energy I got from Brian dave Ball after
what they're embracing right like it literally was like and
that wasn't an easy feat. That Chargers team is a
real deal and to standing there and to compete.

Speaker 5 (54:36):
I told you this last week.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
I thought they should have brought him and let him
start the second half against Kansas City. I think they
would have beat the Kansas City Chief last week if
he would have came out and started.

Speaker 5 (54:48):
The second half. I really do.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
He just brings a different level of energy to the game,
and I think the players respond to that. Russell Wilson
is more laid back, right, he's more. You know, it
doesn't seem like to be a real sense of urgency
when Russell was under center. So Jackson Dart is shot

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out of a cannon. And that's what you need when
you're trying to find your footing as a team. You
need someone to be shot out of a cannon. My
third one is.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
For me.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
It's I talked about it earlier. It's important. It's the
importance of getting the proper rest.

Speaker 11 (55:33):
Okay, all right, at forty nine years old, Okay, I
have no business being up to two, three, four o'clock
in the morning play video games.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
You do not.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
I have responsibilities, all right. So for for all you
Gen xers out there, get your rest. Okay, get your rest.
It's not like when we were in our twenties and
thirties and you can just bounce back. Get your rest.
And shame on me, and shame on Uncle Jack for

(56:11):
persuading me to play all night long. And I love Halo.
Shout out to Halo, Halo Infinity. They really fixed it.
They screwed the pooch on the one before this. But
I'm a Halo guy. I'm a Halo fan. Shout out
to Microsoft and in Xbox and Halo. Are you an
Xbox R or psor PlayStation?

Speaker 3 (56:32):
My sons are Xbox people. Xbox people don't. I don't
play very much. I did, and I'm always like, just
like my job, it's a sports thing. I'm I always
always like, I played Madden, I play a little two K.
But it's been it's been a minute, Like, yeah, I'm not.
I'm not a gamer, you know I would be, But

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a friend of mine got me on that Netflix series
F one, and so that's what I do.

Speaker 5 (56:58):
That's what I do with my first team. Hey, how
how is it this good?

Speaker 2 (57:01):
Right?

Speaker 3 (57:01):
We're doing good. I've told you this before. You're maddened
by our pace.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Like we got we did season one on the Honeymoon.
That was that was almost two months ago. We're now
done with season two. That like, that's the pace because
it just don't have many nights in the same room
with the ability to watch and not pass out and
fall asleep and eight things going on. It just it

(57:30):
doesn't happen. So like we even started episod this week. Ali,
we started an episode on Wednesday. We watched a little
bit more yesterday. We didn't even get to the end
of it. They're only forty five minutes long. Ain't from there?

Speaker 2 (57:43):
That's it. They're not that long.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
Nope, we're split forty five minutes into three parts.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
But it's ridiculous what you say, you stay split and
you stay watching.

Speaker 5 (57:51):
Oh dog, what season are you guys on?

Speaker 2 (57:53):
We're done with two, we're about to start season three.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
It's not we we we were just coming out of COVID.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Oh crazy, right, season two?

Speaker 3 (58:01):
Yeah, we're just coming out of COVID. But like, yeah,
we we love it. We love it to the point.
This is part of the problem. Not allowed to watch
it without each other.

Speaker 5 (58:08):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
You can't cannot do it like that would be like
it wouldn't be.

Speaker 5 (58:12):
Cheating it cheating.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Your wife come home and be liked watch it. I
caught you watching that one without me.

Speaker 5 (58:20):
Oh god, no, can't do that.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Can do that?

Speaker 3 (58:23):
No, No, can't do it. So anyway, yeah, I'm not
gaming much. But the X we got xboxes in the house.

Speaker 4 (58:29):
Don't ask you a question on there, man, I like
to get on with you.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
I'm terrible. I'm terrible, I'm so I'm so much. I'm
so far past. Uh.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
The generation that can handle this that I'm I'm like,
you know, I can see the X button.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
I can see the buttons in front of me.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
When you start telling me that at the drop of oh,
you need to hit the back button and the double X,
and I'm like, I've only got ten I can't use all.
Like what are we doing? This is is too fast,
it's too much. I used to tell the kids when
we're playing Madden. I'm like, I didn't even snapped the
ball yet, and I'm like, I know where I'm throwing it.

(59:07):
It's just a matter of whether or not you can
guess it. I'm not reacting to your defense. I'm hitting X, hit, but.

Speaker 5 (59:16):
Let it fly.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
That's all I can do. If he's there, he's there.

Speaker 5 (59:19):
Shout out to all gamers out there listening. The world
needs you.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Hell yeah. It's how boys communicate now, is how they
do it. So uh, you know, don't discriminate. Speaking of games,
it's not just the games once in generation events. The
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in at about ten minutes get you up to date
on everything.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
I know.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
One of the things that we haven't talked out yet
that I would really love to talk out with you
is that quarterback situation in Minnesota. Yeah, it's getting weird
and complex. And they lost today and then there was
a late comeback and this, that and the other. So
let's do that. Coming up next with e from salam

(01:00:15):
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Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
I had a feeling that Carson Wentz's play was a
little bit masked last week by a game that got
out of hand, a bunch of defensive touchdowns Jake Brown
and getting overwhelmed by the Minnesota defense. But that said,
I expected better in Ireland today. For those of you
who woke up early and watched the Vikings play this dealers.

(01:01:00):
Don't let the final score fool you. Things got a
little out of pocket there in the fourth quarter. Give
Wentz and the Vikings offense credit for coming from behind
and making it a game.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
And they had a.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
Shot there, they had the ball in their hands down three,
and they had a shot there at the end, but
they fall a little bit short. But I thought Wentz
lacked pocket presence and he didn't see the field great.
And I was just very very surprised in the trenches
on both sides of the ball there today that the

(01:01:36):
Vikings look the way they did. So now what to do?
What would you do Wentz? JJ McCarthy, where do we sit?

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
I mean, you obviously have to go with JJ McCarthy.
You spent a first round draft pick on him last year.
You gotta figure out if the kid can play, and
you got to give him as much run way as
you can. Carson Wentz is not gonna be the quarterback
of the future for you. We already know that Carson
Wentz has played himself into a good backup and he

(01:02:12):
can play, you know, five six more years just being
a good backup. But he's gonna be, you know, carrying
a team, leading a team, not especially not when there
is a first round draft pick who we've yet to
see play four games. It's JJ McCarthy's team, and they're

(01:02:35):
gonna go where he takes them. Carson Wentz is a
band aid. They may not be happy with JJ McCarthy,
but at this point you got to coach him up
and you got to put him in the right in
the best position to be successful. But that's where you
are for at least the next two years.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
He's your guy. Yeah, I hear you. I just keep
hearing that. Because he's your guy does doesn't necessarily mean
he needs to be your guy right now.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
They're two and two. They're not not this thing by
any stretch of the imagination. No, they're not.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
And I'm with you, that's what I would do too.
But I keep hearing, and you look at JJ McCarthy
and now that's a stay in play situation.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
They get to stay and host the Browns.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
Next week, which is a huge advantage I think for Minnesota,
UH to already be out there and acclimate and everything,
and and here comes Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
So it's a little bit. Now Cleveland's a good defense.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
But that's a nice spot to maybe enter JJ back
in if he's fully healthy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
And I don't know that he is, but I keep.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Hearing that wentz in there was not just about McCarthy's injury.
And you wonder because whenever you've got kind of someone
who's thought of as a quarterback guru as a head coach,
they want a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
They wanted to look a certain way, and so.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
I mean, yeah, I don't know what Sam Donald looked like. Yeah,
and they may be kicking themselves right now for not
keeping Sam on, but they had to get Vidicon. They
couldn't keep Sam right and keep JJ on the bench.
They just just same with Atlanta. I mean, you you
draft Michael Pennis and you pay Kirk Cousins, you gotta
play Michael Pennick.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
I like your premise.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
Your premises is that you don't keep good people on
the bench.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
No, so you go, yes, let's call.

Speaker 9 (01:04:30):
You gotcha. We got a lot of football to update,
because you know, until the current drive, the Cowboys only
had one first down in the first half tonight, They've
moved the ball all the way to midfield. So we've
got so much to talk about. But two quick items First,
we talked last hour about run differential and baseball, and
we've talked a lot about the Colorado Rockies on the show. Mercifully,
the regular season is over. Rockies got shut out at

(01:04:51):
San Francisco for nothing. They not only finished with one
hundred and nineteen losses this year, forty three and one
nineteen the record, it turns out they you have set
the modern record for worst run differential. They were outscored
by over four hundred runs this season. They were a
minus four to twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Yikes.

Speaker 9 (01:05:12):
And an announcement from USC Women's basketball All American Juju
Watkins today she will not compete in the upcoming basketball season,
instead focusing on her recovery from the season ending knee
entry she sustained last spring during the NCAA Tournament. The
Green Bay Packers are leading the Sunday Night NFL game
thirteen to two at Dallas, which just over two minutes

(01:05:34):
to go in the first half. Jordan Loved two short
touchdown passes to Romeo Dobbs. After the second of those,
the extra point kick was blocked and run back for
the two points that the Cowboys have until this current drive.
The Cowboys had more yardage in penalties than on offense.
And now, as I said, they've got the ball to midfield,

(01:05:54):
so it's keeping in perspective. It's a great drive underway
that they've got going right now. Josh Jacobs eight sixteen
yards for the Packers, who are trying to go to
three to one on the season. If Dallas loses, they'd
be one and three. Green Bay does only allow about
fifteen points per game so far early season. Kansas City
at home beat Baltimore thirty seven to twenty. Patrick Mahomes

(01:06:15):
four touchdown passes, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson left with a
hamstring injury. Jacksonville won at San Francisco twenty six twenty one.
The Niners had four turnovers. Travis etn in the win,
nineteen carries one hundred and twenty four yards and a touchdown.
The Rams with two tds in the last three and
a half minutes to beat the Colts twenty seven to twenty.

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Beat him on an eighty eight yard touchdown pass with
under two minutes to go to two to two at Well,
his only reception of the day. Chicago won twenty five
twenty four at Las Vegas. DeAndre Swift to go ahead
TD with under two minutes left. He had been questionable
with a hip injury. At fourteen carries thirty eight yards.
There are two games on Monday night, including justin Fields

(01:06:56):
and the Jets against Miami Fields. He's out of concussion Protogo.
The day started in the NFL in Dublin. Pittsburgh was
up twenty four to six against Minnesota with eight minutes
left twenty four to twenty one. The final DK Metcalf
five receptions one hundred and twenty six yards in a score.
The Giants beat the Chargers twenty one eighteen, but Giants
star wide receiver Molik Neighbors left with a knee injury,

(01:07:18):
a possible torn acl MRI coming on Monday. Buffalo is
four to o after defeating winless New Orleans thirty one
nineteen James Cook one hundred and seventeen yards rushing and
a TD. Philadelphia is four to o after a win
at Tampa Bay and a battle of what were three
and oh teams thirty one twenty five Eagles. Jalen Hurts
two short touchdown passes to tight end Dallas Goddard. Detroit's

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three to one after ripping Cleveland thirty four to ten.
Jamiir gibbs On fifteen carries at ninety one yards rushing
and a score. Atlanta thirty four to twenty seven over Washington,
New England forty two thirteen winners against Carolina. Drake May
grew up in Carolina. A Panthers fae Ha had three
total touchdowns in this and Houston sent Tennessee to another loss,

(01:08:03):
twenty six to nothing. It was six to nothing to
start the fourth quarter. Titans are zero and four. Arkansas
fired head coach Sam Pittman. Bobby Petrino takes over as
the interim coach. Oregon is up to number two in
the New College Football rankings, behind number one Ohio State.
Chase Elliott took the NASCAR Race at Kansas. Europe held
on to win the Ryder Cup fifteen to thirteen. Baseball's

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regular season ended with the Guardians clinching the AL Central title.
Detroit lost again. Cleveland won its finale in ten innings.
Detroit will play its wild Card series at Cleveland starting
Tuesday one pm Eastern time. The Red Sox play a
best of three at the Yankees starting Tuesday. The Yanks
have to play this week because Toronto clinched the AL

(01:08:47):
East title with a home win of thirteen to four
over Tampa Bay. The Yankees have won eighth straight one
at home today, but they finished in a tie for
first with the Blue Jays in the AL East, and
Toronto holds the head to head tiebreaker. The Mets season
is over. Mets got shut out four nothing at Miami.
The Reds get the final wildcard spot. Those two Reds
and Mets finished tied in the standings. Reds held the tiebreaker.

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Milwaukee beat Cincinnati four to two, but the Reds will
be at Dodger Stadium starting Tuesday nights in a best
of three. And can I mention that Clayton Kershaw's perhaps
final start ever, likely his final start ever was today
at Seattle, a six to one Dodger victory. He's retiring
after the playoffs and he will not pitch this coming
week in that best of three against Cincinnati. Kershaw finishes

(01:09:33):
eleven and two this year. Ear three point three six show, Hey, O,
Tony hit his fifty fifth homer.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
Back to you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
You know you mentioned a couple of things the Mets
and Yankees there, Steve. I wonder what both of you
think on this, What leads tomorrow in New York sports.

Speaker 9 (01:09:49):
Radio, Jackson Dart.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
Okay, Jackson Dart, the Mets completely collapsed, Negativity loves to
drive sports radio. The Yankees are starting a series against
Red the Red Sox, the Jets will play tomorrow, and
New York hosted a raucous and quite frankly often out

(01:10:14):
of line Ryder.

Speaker 9 (01:10:16):
Cop correct on Long Island.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
Okay, so but you guys think Jackson dark Yes, yeah, Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:10:24):
I won't say it's not even close, right because there's
a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
There, a lot there. But I would will be Jack.

Speaker 9 (01:10:31):
Night and day with the Giants. I mean from the
first quarter today.

Speaker 5 (01:10:35):
Just the energy that the first.

Speaker 9 (01:10:37):
Drive for a guy on his first drive as a
pro to go straight down the field and then cap
it off with his own touchdown run up the middle.
Very impressive.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Yeah, there's energy back in the building, man, Brian day boy.
They're like, Yes, that Russell Wilson thing is weird, isn't it? Yeah?
What is it?

Speaker 5 (01:10:56):
It just seems and.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
I'm not talking about the quarterback play. What is it
about that dude's energy. It's just taking everybody off.

Speaker 4 (01:11:04):
It seems too safe, that's what it is. It seems
too safe.

Speaker 9 (01:11:09):
Those lob throws were something new this year.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Yet oh god, they were ridiculous. But at the same time,
like I'm even talking to y'all, se that, like all
of the NFL media tweeted out, Jackson Dart has been
named the starter and then if you waited two hours,
all the shafters and the rappaports and everybody else had
to come in with some sort of like.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
So, while Russell Wilson is not thrilled with the.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
Benching boy, he was instrumental in being a mentor towards
Jackson Dart. And I'm like, oh God, is that Russ
or his agent or is it his wife or like
what you are?

Speaker 9 (01:11:53):
So there's a lot of power there and body he
wasn't he could have been the emergency third quarter today.
He was active. Yeah, he's not down to Jamis Winston
on that roster.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
No, no fence.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
It's so there's just something I can't put my finger
on it, but it annoys a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
It's just too safe. Man.

Speaker 4 (01:12:19):
He plays safe, he's talk safe. Everything is just it
seems so prepared and so rehearsed.

Speaker 9 (01:12:29):
And can we, as far as the football agree that
Yet another quarterback's career goes south as soon as he
can't run.

Speaker 5 (01:12:36):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (01:12:36):
I mean Cam Newton's career went south really quickly when
he couldn't run, because now he wasn't special at all,
and he was special for years.

Speaker 4 (01:12:46):
It's easier for teams to take things away from you
when you can't do something that they were afraid of.

Speaker 9 (01:12:52):
Yeah, Matthew Stafford, I mean he kind of had to
throw for three hundred yards today. There were times he
was out of the pocket and couldn't even make it
to the sideline much less, you know, put a move
on anybody?

Speaker 5 (01:13:02):
All right, Dallas scores?

Speaker 9 (01:13:05):
What is going on here? The Cowboys offense is in
the end zone? Dak Prescott two yard touchdown run? Should
you go for two?

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Now?

Speaker 9 (01:13:12):
Are the Cowboys assuming they're actually going to score again tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:13:16):
Their best player is their kicker. They should let him
perform when he can right right, like put him out.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
On the field.

Speaker 9 (01:13:23):
I would like to disagree, but he is. They're gonna kick.
It's gonna be thirteen to nine green Bay late first half.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Yeah, they're kicking because they don't know that they suck.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
Honestly, we do. They don't I get where you're coming from, Steve.
It's like, just go for it, guys. It's not like
you're going to win this game. But I don't think
that's the way they're.

Speaker 9 (01:13:47):
Well, I mentioned earlier, green Bay is the best in
the league so far this year. They're only allowing fifteen
points a game. Yeah, meaning on average, pretty much just
one field goal is needed in the second half to
put this away green Bay because Dallas on the ground
as a team, it's thirty two yards rushing and that
includes the quarterback two yard touchdown that we just saw it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
Now, beautiful catch by George Pickens SI. That was nice.
That was really really nice. So yeah, all right, forty
one seconds to go until halftime. Green Bay thirteen, Dallas nine. Steve,
thank you so much, appreciate it. As always, we are
live in the Fox Sports Radio studios. This is not
just a game, it's once in a generation event. Harlem

(01:14:30):
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Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
We are.

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
We're nowhere near done, lots still to get to. We
are down to only two four and oh teams left.
We'll get to the top of the board and talk
a couple of those teams out coming up next with
Eve from I'm Mark Willard.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
It's Fox Sports Radio at.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Almost halftime in Dallas, and we've got to sell a
little bit of a development. And that is as the
Packers are trying to scurry their way down to field
goal range with just a handful of seconds left, Jordan
Loves getting ready to throw the ball and he forgot something.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
The ball. That's a fumble.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Cowboys recover that, and so now they are suddenly and
quickly in the red zone after already scoring a touchdown
just moments ago, only down by four. Are we really
going to do upset alert tonight? Oh my goodness, are
we really going to do this? I mean, I thought

(01:15:46):
this one was about no. I mean, good lord. The
Packers coming off of what they did last week. The
Cowboys to me have at times, not the whole but
at times look like the worst team in the NFL
so far this year, even though they have a win.
And here we are, they got a shot to take

(01:16:07):
the lead before half. So that's funny, but but good,
let's keep you up to date.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
We'll keep watching.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
And there it is boom right down right down Broadway
that that's a man that goes by the name of
George Pickens for a touchdown and the Cowboys will take
the lead. Yeah, live in the Fox Sports radio studios.
Before we dive deeper back into that though, Hey, did
you see the h you see the coach fight? No, okay,

(01:16:40):
postgame Levi Stadium, Jags and forty nine ers, and what
ends up happening is Liam Cohen, head coach of the Jags,
at a certain point red face screaming at forty nine
or defensive coordinator Robert Salah keep my name out your mouth.
Oh wow, you keep my name out your mouth. And

(01:17:04):
I know exactly where this comes from. And I want
your perspective because I think me most fans, I don't
really know too.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Much about this.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
So Sala's doing a press conference on Thursday and he
says the Jags and Liam Cohen are really really good
and he used the word legal. They're really good at
legal sign stealing. And I'm thinking to myself, Okay, this
is normally something that baseball fans talk about signs being stolen.

(01:17:38):
I don't hear about it in basketball ever, sure football
field sometimes in college, right you got somebody holding up
a picture of a bee and the next person over
there is holding up a picture of a bridge, and
you're like, what the hell is this and it's like, yeah,
we're trying to confuse the other team. It launched a
conversation here about like what is and what's unfair within

(01:18:02):
the framework of sporting events.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
And here's what I mean by that.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
If Bill Belichick shows up on Wednesday and films your practice,
that's out of bounds. But to me, anything you're doing
on the field to try to get an edge, that's
called life, and I'm good with it. But Robert was
careful to use the word legal. But obviously the phrase
signs stealing. It made the rounds, and it ended up

(01:18:29):
at Liam Cohen's press conference, and it ended up at
Kyle Shanahan's press conference. Liam wouldn't answer it, he wouldn't
touch it. Kyle was like, not really a big deal,
kind of everybody does it. It was a compliment the
Jags do it well. But it led to this shouting
match after the game. In Santa Clara. I wondered what

(01:18:50):
your perspective is on that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
What I can tell you is football is and emotionals,
and so you know, coming into the game and you know,
beating an undefeated team, shutting somebody up, it's all part

(01:19:18):
of it. It's very very masculine sport. Yes, And so
what do you do? You beat on your chest when
you've defeated the other gladiator?

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
And that's what this is. You know, it's.

Speaker 4 (01:19:38):
If the Niners win this game, none of this happens, right,
But because they lost, he gonna speak to it now.
It's been bulletin board material for them the whole time,
and so now you're gonna speak on it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:19:57):
If you wouldn't have opened your mouth, we wouldn't have
whooped you, like is if you can call that a whooping.
But yeah, I mean, you know it's it's just vi brado.

Speaker 5 (01:20:09):
It's it's you know, look at me, shut your mouth.
That's it. You know, it's an emotional game.

Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
But I mean, I don't know legal legal sign stealing.
Was it a compliment or was it a passive aggressive way.

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
To that's aggressive? But you know, of course, anytime you
put stealing in a sentence. Then it's a dig.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
I guess, but I like I I back up what
I said.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
Man, if you're on the field together, I'm trying to
get anything I can get. Like I got no problem
with that runner at second base trying. I got no
issue with it at all, none, none, You know what
I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:20:57):
Yeah, be better hiding right?

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
Well? Amen?

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
All right, not even done yet. Second half coming up?
Stay right where you are. Yeah, into the night we
go Week four National Football League, and maybe we're gonna
go a little deeper into the night than we thought.
I think a lot of us thought, self included, this
one's gonna be easy tonight. Then it started and I

(01:21:23):
was like, I was right, this one's gonna be easy tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Guess what, this one's not gonna be easy tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
As you just heard Steve say, Dallas leads Green Bay
at the half sixteen to thirteen. Keep you up to
date here in these Fox Sports radio studios. I want
to bounce around a little bit at the top of
the league, because we have not necessarily done that yet.
I want to just maybe rapid fire, throw a few
questions at you and see how you respond to them.

(01:21:52):
The bills are the last remaining undefeated team in the
AFC and the Eagles the only remaining undefeated team in
the NFC. Does that mean that they are the two
best teams in the league or do they just happen
to be four and oh right now?

Speaker 5 (01:22:08):
No, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
I think the Bills are the best team in the league.

Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
I think Josh Allen is on another level right now.
The team itself believes they're the best team in the league.
On the NFC side, I mean, the Eagles will find

(01:22:34):
ways to win. They will find ways to win. It
was tough shit earlier with the run game, and they
just they wear you down. They wear you down, they
wear you down, they wear you down. They're well coached, uh,
and they're gonna be difficult to beat, especially coming off

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the ultimate success of being Super Bowl champion is they
know what it takes to win and it's it's They're
a tremendous team now, depending on how Detroit continues to
play Green Bay, it depending on what the second half

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looks like. There are some teams in the NFC where
I'm like.

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
Well, okay, I'll see.

Speaker 5 (01:23:30):
But the teams we thought would be at the top
in the AFC with.

Speaker 4 (01:23:37):
You know, Baltimore and Kansas City.

Speaker 5 (01:23:44):
Its just it's not working out for them.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
There's a lot of depression throughout the AFC that I
didn't think it was going to be there.

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
I didn't think.

Speaker 5 (01:23:51):
I didn't either.

Speaker 3 (01:23:52):
We're only four games in, but what the hell is
going on with the Ravens is one question. Joe Burrow
is out that kind of eliminates the Bengal. We certainly
thought the Houston Texans would be able to beat someone
other than Tennessee. Now there's some there's at least one
like eyebrown raising team and that's the Colts. But I think,

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you know, we thought Denver was going to be very good.
That's been a rough start, and the Chiefs are fine,
but right and then like even go to the next pack.
I thought there were some like wild car contenders that
don't look like wildcar contenders.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
The Raiders are one of those teams.

Speaker 3 (01:24:31):
And even though the Patriots had a nice day, they've
been a little I don't know, yeah, just kind of
lacking a little zip that I thought that they would have.
So I thought the AFC was really deep, and it
may end up being really deep, but it doesn't look
as deep as I thought it.

Speaker 5 (01:24:50):
Was going right Chargers, yep, I think of who else?

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
I mean, right, I mean, Jacksonville. Do we need to
do we need to talk about the jobs.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
I mean, we could talk about them, but I'm not
convinced yet. They're three and one for the first time
and ever, uh it was a big win for them today,
but I need to see a little bit more.

Speaker 5 (01:25:20):
I have to see a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
I agree with that.

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
I mean, and by the way, they're like a breath
away from being four and oh.

Speaker 5 (01:25:29):
A literal breath, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
Breath away from being four.

Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
And oh, I think they're.

Speaker 4 (01:25:34):
Being I really like the fact that they've taken control
of the games with the running game.

Speaker 5 (01:25:41):
Uh them Travis Uh, Travis e t n.

Speaker 4 (01:25:46):
Dynamic back and he takes a lot of pressure off
of off Trevor Lawrence and what they're trying to do,
and and you know, on the outside. So I really
I'm really filling their running and he happens to be
one of my running backs.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
And oh congratulations, yeah, nice, nice long touchdowns today for
great great that's okay. Oh yeah, I mean even even
those who played cannot remove fantasy from analysis.

Speaker 4 (01:26:22):
No, no, no, no no.

Speaker 5 (01:26:25):
And then look We're still trying to figure out who
the Broncos.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
Are for sure, so and and and I'm interested in
getting another look at them tomorrow night. You know, they're
one and two. But one of those losses was a
weird one. They they messed up that last play in Indianapolis,
where in theory they had to win.

Speaker 4 (01:26:43):
But yeah, and even in a loss with Andy, I
still like the way.

Speaker 5 (01:26:50):
They were out there competing.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
Sure, sure, you're sure. And they lost a three point
game to the Chargers. There's not a ton of shame
in that they were a little wonky in their opener
again the Titans.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
It's still a young quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:27:02):
Look, yeah, I'm willing to kind of kick the can
down the road on that. And I do think that
they'll be you know, I think they'll be victorious tomorrow night.
They'll be two and two, and they're right in this.
Let me ask you this, did the Chiefs save their
season today or did their season not need saving?

Speaker 5 (01:27:19):
I think their season needed saving.

Speaker 4 (01:27:21):
I think we needed to see a semblance of what
the Chiefs were, and I think we got that today.
I think we needed Patrick Mahomes to be Patrick Mahomes
at some facet and we saw that today with the
four touchdowns and him being able to spread the ball around.
Tell you what it is a dangerous, dangerous quarterback. You

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cannot give him time. If you don't put pressure on him,
he will kill you. He will make the right decisions.

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:27:47):
He is unbelievable how remarkable he is when it comes
to making the right decision with the football. I mean,
I was just watching him, like, wow, he will put
the ball exactly where it needs to be every time,

(01:28:08):
and it's something to be said about that. He's a
heck of a leader.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
He did a nice job today looking like Patrick Mahomes
again because it had been a minute, no question about that.
A couple other AFC quarterback or quarterback situations I want
to bring up. Let's go back to Jacksonville for a second,
because you're right, I'm with you. They're three and one,
their breath away from four to zero. But you said
you still kind of want to see more. Go back

(01:28:35):
to that stat that I gave you earlier, that it's
been ten years since the forty nine ers played a
game where they did not have a sack or a
quarterback hit, they did not touch Trevor Lawrence. Today they
literally did not touch him. And I don't want to
make this about stats at all, but in a game

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where he was not sacked and he was not touched,
Trevor Lawrence went twenty one up thirty one for one
hundred and seventy four yards, and he threw a touchdown pass.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
So there was that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
He also threw an interception that he is very fortunate
it got overturned by a very friendly pass interference call
on Young Upton. Sw Yeah, that was not it's not
PI in my eyes, but okay, And in the second
half of the game, somehow, some way, the Jaggs did

(01:29:34):
pretty much next to nothing offensively, even though quarterback was
not being sacked or touched at any point. In other words,
the forty nine er defensive line is stonewalled for three
and a half hours, and you still didn't do anything dynamic.

(01:29:54):
You still didn't like. Your leading receiver was Brian Thomas
with forty nine yards. There's still there's still balls that
are getting thrown into traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
Fred Warner had two shots.

Speaker 3 (01:30:07):
At a at a couple of picks and the ball
just didn't quite it just didn't quite tuck it away.
But I'm looking at at at Trevor Lawrence. And this
is not to take I mean, he's three to one
and he won the football game and he didn't turn
it over and these are all things where like, dude,
you get credit for that, But at the same time,
I'm like, there's just something lacking there with with his play.

(01:30:33):
It's another I'm very mindful of his landing spot. He
kind of he's got the Alex Smith treatment going on,
like a new coach, new coordinator every year, and that's very,
very difficult for a young player. So like there's grace
to be given there. The other reason I think people
don't come after Trevor Lawrence so much, even as the

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number one pick in the draft, highly highly talked about
quarterback draft, and the other four that went behind him
are all clearly worse than him.

Speaker 5 (01:31:06):
But that doesn't make him great, right, do you know?

Speaker 3 (01:31:09):
It's not It's like, Okay, Caleb Williams, but Jaden Daniels,
So people are like, ooh, you made the wrong pick.
Jacksonville didn't make the wrong pick. Maybe there just wasn't
a pick to be made, but I don't know, man,
I came away from watching a game where he was
clean the whole time.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
And I still was just kind of like shoulder shrug.
He's pedestrian, right, He's a pedestrian.

Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
He's he is.

Speaker 4 (01:31:39):
You know, he hasn't met our expectation at being the
first pick in the draft and the energy he came
out of college with. Now a lot of that has
to do with the leadership from the head coach. It
also has to deal with the different offensive coordinators. It's

(01:32:02):
just learning different languages every year, different plays. So if
you can get any semblance of of consistency there, then
we may see him turn the corner. I mean, they
paid him, so he's gonna be there. But can he

(01:32:25):
make the throws?

Speaker 5 (01:32:26):
Yes? Can he? Yeah? He can.

Speaker 4 (01:32:30):
Is the offense more conducive to running the ball? Yes,
it is, which helps him. We don't need you to
be Superman. Just be Robin, not Batman, not Superman. Just
be safe.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
That's a that's an evolution. That's boy. That's gotta be tough.
Because why they put so much on his shoulders when
he got there, right because he's Trevor Lawrence. Like, I mean, we're.

Speaker 3 (01:32:57):
Talking about this guy's the number one picking the draft
of for he was even eligible, Like he goes to
Clemson and everybody knew it, and.

Speaker 2 (01:33:04):
Then you know, he'd like it, just he's been that
guy probably his whole life.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
And so then now what you're suggesting is, no, you
need to learn how to just kind of lay back
and be a distributor.

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
I don't know if that's in his DNA.

Speaker 4 (01:33:22):
Yeah, it may not be, and that's probably where the
struggle comes from. But there are a lot of great
players who have to deal with with things like that.
You think cam Ward has ever dealt with this level
of dysfunction. Very few quarterbacks can come in and lift
teams from nowhere into something that Cam Newton was able
to do that when he went to Carolina.

Speaker 5 (01:33:44):
He was able to lift a.

Speaker 4 (01:33:45):
Team and put them on his shoulders. Who else Andrew
Luck came in and did that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:57):
C J.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
Stroud came in and did that. Yep, Jayden Daniels came
in and did that. It's a very difficult thing to do.
If you don't do it early, doesn't mean you can't
do it, as Sam Darnell.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
Just might need to do it somewhere else.

Speaker 5 (01:34:17):
Yeah, and that just might be it, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
Yeah, Okay, I'm glad you brought up cam Ward because
I would like everybody to hear what cam Ward said
after the game today. It's worth our time. We'll do that,
and then I also need to ask you what for
me is the burning question of the San Francisco forty

(01:34:44):
nine ers organization. And as somebody who was once upon
a time a tackle in a Kyle Shanahan or Mike
Shanahan offense, you're the guy to answer my question.

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
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Speaker 5 (01:35:33):
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Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
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Speaker 3 (01:35:41):
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Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
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Speaker 3 (01:36:08):
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iron is hot, the iron is very very very very
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Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
This is a good choice right now. But I'm always struck.

Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
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have a moment? Why does it have to be like, oh,
by the way, here's second choice. Why why do we

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got to do that? And I don't even know who
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know if that's publicist. I don't know if that's nothing
to do with Taylor at all. So I'm not pointing
a finger at anybody, but like, you know what I mean,
I knew somebody once upon a time that announced their
plans to get married in their toast at someone else's wedding.

Speaker 8 (01:37:07):
Oh you can't do that, Come on, man, right I'm like,
who today is not about you? Not about you?

Speaker 5 (01:37:20):
Out right?

Speaker 2 (01:37:23):
Yeah that happened. I was there. I was like, oh.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
Boy, yeah, So anyway, like whatever, Bad Bunny.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
It's Bad Bunny's day.

Speaker 4 (01:37:37):
You know, it's you know, I don't. He's a tremendous artist.

Speaker 5 (01:37:42):
It goes.

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
Yeah right, well, I already know how it's gonna go.
He canna perform. People who love the act, gonna love
the act. People who don't, people.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
Who don't go pull up their phone, rip on social media.

Speaker 5 (01:37:58):
That's how it works.

Speaker 2 (01:38:00):
That's how it works. Yeah, it's too bad.

Speaker 3 (01:38:05):
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up a legacy that never stops. We're five minutes away
from Steve de Seger, so get your update on everything
going on because there's a lot of action right now
going on between the packers and the Cowboys third quarter
and Steve will have all of that. Hey, did you
hear cam Ward today? After the game? You brought up
cam Ward. I thought we should let everybody hear what

(01:38:46):
cam Ward had to say about his Tendensey Titans after
the game today.

Speaker 2 (01:38:52):
Let's take a listen.

Speaker 12 (01:38:52):
I mean, we're keeping a book right now. We ask
so we own four. We have this point, We got
none to lose. We dropped a court of our games
and we've yet to do anything. So we have to
lock in, especially myself on the offensive line, from the
defensive line, from the special teams to all three faces.

Speaker 2 (01:39:09):
We have to play together.

Speaker 12 (01:39:10):
We have not played together this year yet, and that's
just something that you know, we want to preach about
it every day every day. We got to do better
and we're doing that, but it has to show up
on Sundays. It hasn't showed up yet, but it got
to show up next week.

Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
What's your take on a rookie saying that into a microphone.

Speaker 4 (01:39:33):
I like it, Okay, I like it. I mean there's
obviously no leadership there. So they brought him in the
number one pick. They're looking for leadership. Who else on
that team is going to lead, and if he's not
happy with the standard and how they're working, yeah, change it.

(01:39:59):
He has to change the culture and you know, according
to them. According to him, he can see the things
that that you know that aren't working.

Speaker 5 (01:40:11):
Yep. So yeah, speak on it. I'm okay with that.

Speaker 4 (01:40:15):
I'm okay with leadership, especially when the person who's leading works,
who wants to work. I have no problem with that
at all. Rookie two year vet, ten year vet come
in and lead. Most first round picks in the draft
are drafted to be the leaders on their team. Most

(01:40:36):
first picks in the draft, I mean, you have a
dysfunctional franchise that needs leadership.

Speaker 5 (01:40:51):
I'm with you, so yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:40:53):
I just you do not hear commentary like that from
someone who has played four games in his life very long.

Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
That's what I'm saying, you know what I mean, some
things that aren't conducive to winning.

Speaker 5 (01:41:05):
He sees it more than we see it. He sees
it more than we see it. This is what I
do know.

Speaker 4 (01:41:15):
When new coaches come in and they bring people with them,
they're bringing people in to change the culture. When I
went from Jacksonville to Houston, Gary Kobeat called me and
was like, Hey, I'm taking the head coaching job at Houston.

(01:41:38):
I need you to come with me to show these
guys how to play offensive line, how to be a union,
how to be together, because if you remember, prior to
Gary getting there, Houston had had the worst offensive line ever.
You know, Derek Carr was sacked a whole bunch of times.

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:41:59):
Now a lot of those sacks came from Derek running
out of bounds behind a line of scrimmage. But still,
so you bring guys in who can help you change
the culture. And if that's a rookie, okay, you're still
trying to change things up. Tennessee hasn't been viable since

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Mike Rabral and Dereck Henry. They've never really had a
quarterback outside of Steve McNair in the franchise history. So
they're trying to find it through this young man and
hearing him talk, it seems like he's up for the
challenge and he believes that this team can be something.

Speaker 2 (01:42:52):
I dig it. It's just different. It is different. It's different.
It's different.

Speaker 3 (01:42:56):
I dig it kind of like the same way we
dig Steve Sager dig it is because it's different.

Speaker 5 (01:43:02):
He is definitely different.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
Yeah, there he is.

Speaker 9 (01:43:05):
I'll take that as a compliment. Thank you, gentlemen. Good
to speak to you once again. Green Bay has scored
to lead at Dallas twenty to sixteen. Dak Prescott, by
the way, was pressure just once in the first half tonight,
his fewest pressures faced in a first half in any
game in his career. And they've been tracking such things
with the next Gen stats since twenty eighteen. But something
that you brought up mark about actual quarterback hits. It

(01:43:26):
is stunning to me that the forty nine Ers literally
did not have a single quarterback hit in losing this
close game against Jacksonville. Because the Chargers today, just as
an example, Justin Herbert was hit twelve times by the
New York Giants. Abdul Carter. You mentioned the tackle problems
and the injuries the Chargers lighted. Carter alone had five

(01:43:48):
quarterback hits. And then when the Chargers hosted Denver's Great
Defense in La one week ago, fourteen quarterback hits in
the game for the Broncos, five for Nick Benito for
San Francis go with or without Bosa for the defense
to have literally zero quarterback hits in a game. It's
just a bit stunning to me. Through the NFL game

(01:44:09):
tonight at Dallas. How did we get here? The Packers
were ahead thirteen to two with a minute to go
in the first half. Dak Prescott scored on a two
yard touchdown run and through a touchdown pass of fifteen
yards to George Pickens before the halftime break, so Dallas
actually led sixteen to thirteen. They've just fallen behind on
a Josh Jacobs one yard touchdown run in the first half.

(01:44:32):
Jordan Love with a couple of short touchdown passes to
Romeo Dobbs. Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City had four TV
passes in a win over the Ravens thirty seven to twenty.
Mahomes against Baltimore is now six and one in his career,
and Baltimore so far this year not only one in three.
They've had the league's worst defense. They allowed thirty three
points a game, gave up thirty seven today, and Ravens

(01:44:53):
star quarterback Lamar Jackson left with a hamstring injury. He
had one touchdown two turnovers. The Jacksonville win twenty six
twenty one at San Francisco saw the Niners commit four turnovers.
Quarterback brock Perty did have two touchdowns, but three of
the turnovers over three hundred yards passing. He returned today
after the tow injury. Travis etn On nineteen carries one

(01:45:13):
hundred twenty four yards rushing in a score for the Jaguars.
San Francisco wide receiver Ricky Pearsall left with a knee injury.
Each team is three and one rams edge the Colts
twenty seven to twenty. Each team three and one rams
scored two touchdowns in the last three and a half minutes.
Matthew Stafford three TD passes today, three hundred and seventy
five yards through the air, thirteen receptions for Puka Nakua.

(01:45:35):
It was two to two at Well, with his only
reception winning the game on an eighty eight yard TV
catch with under two minutes to go. Chicago won at
Las Vegas twenty five twenty four. The Bears blocked a
fifty four yard field goal attempt at the end. Meanwhile,
Chicago's Cairo Santos was four for four on field goals.
He hit from forty three, forty six, fifty one and

(01:45:56):
fifty two yards. And yes, we will have two Monday done.
Football games tomorrow, including the Jets against Miami, and Jets
quarterback Justin Fields is out of concussion protocol and is
due to start. The Giants won at home against the
Chargers twenty one to eighteen. The Giants wide receiver Molik
Neighbors left with a knee injury possible torn acl MRI

(01:46:16):
coming on Monday. Chase Elliott took the NASCAR Race at
Kansas WNBA Semifinals. Indiana tied it up two games apiece
in the best of five, beating Las Vegas Asia Wilson
thirty one points in defeat. Minnesota has been eliminated tonight,
losing at Phoenix eighty six eighty one. Baseball's regular season
ended today. Cleveland clinch the AL Central title, a team

(01:46:40):
that was down by ten and a half games in
the standing starting in September, and they come back to
edge Detroit. The Tigers at least clinched a playoff spot Saturday,
but they lost the finale today four to three at Boston,
Cleveland one in ten innings. Guardians get the division title
and they'll be hosting Detroit in the best of three
wildcard series starting Tuesday one pm Eastern time. Toronto won

(01:47:04):
at home to clinch the Al East title, winning a
tiebreaker over the Yankees, who finished the season winning eight straight.
And yes, it'll be Red Sox at the Yankees in
a best of three starting Tuesday. The New York Mets
season is over. They had a payroll about three hundred
and thirty three hundred and forty million dollars. They got
shut out in Miami for nothing today, which gives the

(01:47:26):
Reds the final wildcard spot. Reds at Dodgers starting Tuesday night.
The Dodgers finished up the schedule with a Clayton Kershaw
victory six to one at Seattle, and Europe held on
to win the Ryder Cup fifteen thirteen today on Long Island.
It led by seven points to start the day. Some
people going into the day thinking, Wow, what's the what's

(01:47:48):
the largest margin of victories in one of these Ryder
Cup things? Sure enough, Europe survive for the victory. It
would have been twelve singles matches, but Victor Hovlin was
unable to play his neck injuries, so a match got
halved and twelve five was the score at the time
in favor of Europe. They hold on for a victory.
The US was facing the largest deficit by any team

(01:48:10):
entering singles in the last fifty years. Now, Europe's golfers
have won nine of the last twelve Writer Cups.

Speaker 2 (01:48:18):
Back to you, Steve real quick. Yeah, Europe deserved this one.

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
I don't know why America seems to only play well
in the singles format.

Speaker 2 (01:48:27):
They always do this.

Speaker 9 (01:48:29):
Which is only the Sunday of the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:48:31):
Right, So.

Speaker 9 (01:48:34):
I just learned this because we're individualists in the United States.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
Indeed, that's right. We're only out for ourselves. We do
not want to play with teammates.

Speaker 2 (01:48:42):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:48:42):
Actually, you can see this in many sports. When you
see the baseball in Japan or Korea, all the group
cheering is encouraged to actually separate yourself as an individual
in the crowd is frowned upon.

Speaker 2 (01:48:58):
Well, yeah, that's different.

Speaker 9 (01:49:00):
It's it's an example of the culture of the country.
It's one of the many, many, many great things that
sports teaches us.

Speaker 3 (01:49:08):
Okay, and then there's this. I never knew this before.
So Victor Hoblin, what did you have a neck injury?

Speaker 9 (01:49:14):
Correct?

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
So check this from how does this strike you? He
can't play? So the match is halved.

Speaker 9 (01:49:25):
That's right, because there's an envelope involved, and.

Speaker 3 (01:49:28):
Both sides get a half point because Victor can't play,
not because.

Speaker 2 (01:49:36):
Both people couldn't play.

Speaker 3 (01:49:38):
Victor couldn't play, so he gets a half point for
not playing.

Speaker 9 (01:49:44):
There's a substitution rule in the captain's agreement. Team captain
provides the name of one player in a sealed envelope
who won't be playing in case of injury, and provides
it to a member of the other team. I guess
that was therefore invoked with this injury. I find it
a bit crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
I'm like, do you realize that if if Europe wanted
to at the start of the day, they could have
got twelve injuries and one of the cup like that
won't That was a new one to me. That was
a new one to me. I'm gonna try that in
my fantasy league. I'm be like, I'm elite neighbors, so

(01:50:24):
we tied.

Speaker 9 (01:50:26):
By the way you reference this a bit earlier, would
you not agree that also indicative? An example of the
culture at large is the New York fan behavior this
weekend at the golf.

Speaker 3 (01:50:37):
It's so disappointing and it it I'm not stuffy, I'm
just not I'm not. This isn't about you know, golf
and decorum and goodie two shoes by by any stretch
of the imagination, but that we have arrived. And I
do think a lot of it has to do with
just where our country has arrived in terms of how
we speak to those those that we disagree with or

(01:51:00):
or or whatnot. Like to have an actual employee of
the course and the and and the the event leading
chance at the course of bleep you rory as they
arrive on the first tee is so disappointing. It's so

(01:51:21):
disappointing to me that that's where we've arrived and that
people think that that is fun or funny or or what.
It's just like, I don't know, I don't know that that. Yeah,
that was that was big bummer for me. That's not
terribly surprising though.

Speaker 9 (01:51:37):
It's kind of like Twitter going to real life where
nobody thinks there's any rules for behavior or you know,
being an adult in public, right, and this is was
clearly on display. I guess every day this weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:51:50):
That was a tough one. Yeah, that's a tough one,
all right, Steve. Great stuff is always today, Steve. Yeah,
did you catch any of.

Speaker 2 (01:51:57):
That, Ephraim, I know you're just well, no, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
I mean the sort of the vibe of what was
happening out there. I wouldn't imagine you watched a lot
of it. I didn't either, No I did, but but
the vibe of what was happening out there. Touchdown Cowboys,
Cowboys Jake Ferguson. Okay, they came to play tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:52:15):
They came to play. Look at that, Jerry, Yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:52:19):
Yeah, I knew, told you I knew. If we trade Micca.

Speaker 5 (01:52:23):
This is Micah Parsons. Where the hell is Mike?

Speaker 11 (01:52:28):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
Where's Michael? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:52:32):
The Cowboys. The Cowboys are in the leading. Good it was,
it was. It marched all the way down the entire field. Okay, okay,
fourth quarter, apparently you're gonna be a thing tonight. Let's
do this U thirty four seconds ago, third quarter extra
point and Dallas will lead this one over Green Bay

(01:52:53):
by three with just uh with just some ticks left
to go until the fourth quarter starts twenty three to twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:53:00):
Okay, I'm gonna throw this at you.

Speaker 3 (01:53:04):
See if you can guess the team they are averaging,
let's see, about eighty eight yards per game rushing they
are averaging as a team three point three yards per carry.

Speaker 2 (01:53:20):
They have not rushed for a touchdown yet this year.

Speaker 3 (01:53:24):
I'll tell you which team I'm talking about and why
Ephram might want to weigh in on it.

Speaker 2 (01:53:29):
Coming up next on Fox Sports Radio, Fox.

Speaker 3 (01:53:32):
Sports Radio Studios, Mark Whilly from Salam always fun. Another
one totnight, my brother, and then you can go sleep.
You can go sleep soon you catch up on that rest.

Speaker 4 (01:53:50):
Man, if you knew, if you knew, if I knew, what,
it ain't gonna be no sleeping. Oh I got why
not jam pack schedule?

Speaker 2 (01:54:02):
Man tonight? Man? Tonight? Really?

Speaker 5 (01:54:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:54:10):
Is it going to be more video game?

Speaker 5 (01:54:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:54:12):
No, no, you gotta shout it?

Speaker 3 (01:54:15):
Oh you do what you got like something? You're filming something.
I am wow, boy, you really didn't think this out?

Speaker 2 (01:54:23):
I did not.

Speaker 5 (01:54:23):
That's why I'm angry. Do you didn't over here?

Speaker 4 (01:54:28):
White knuckling it just barely holding on and I'm just like.

Speaker 5 (01:54:31):
Oh my god. At a four o'clock call time.

Speaker 2 (01:54:35):
Oh oh god, oh that's rough.

Speaker 5 (01:54:40):
Oh wow, Jordan Love took off. They did flag.

Speaker 2 (01:54:45):
Oh that's too bad. Yeah, well, hey splaining this to me?

Speaker 3 (01:54:52):
Yeah, eighty eight yards per game on the ground three
point three yards of carry, and the only team in
the NFL that has not yet rushed for a touchdown
this year, and that team is coached by someone with
the last name Shannanan, and that team has the man

(01:55:14):
has been healthy for four games two years ago. Offensive
Player of the Year Christian McCaffrey explain this to me, what.

Speaker 2 (01:55:22):
The hell is going on?

Speaker 5 (01:55:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:55:27):
It's very uncharacteristic of a Shanahan offense. I think the
lack of outside weapons. I think Kittle is a big
part of that run game.

Speaker 2 (01:55:39):
It's a good point and.

Speaker 4 (01:55:40):
Not having him there, teams don't have to worry about
the middle of the field. They can stack the box.
They really don't have to worry where are the who
are the receivers?

Speaker 3 (01:55:52):
Well, it's been a revolving door, right anybody give you
because of injuries other than Ricky Piersoll, who also.

Speaker 4 (01:55:59):
Is nourt injured today. So you can key in on
the one thing that they have that's exceptional, and that's
Christan McCaffrey. Makes it very difficult to rush when they're
waiting for you to rush. Oh you got it. Oh,
by the way, in two games, you didn't have your

(01:56:21):
starting quarterback, so you weren't really worried about anybody passing
down the field. It's only been four games, yep. Two
of them quarterback hasn't played, Kerry Kettle, George Kittle got.

Speaker 5 (01:56:36):
Hurt the first game, yep, yep.

Speaker 4 (01:56:39):
So it's it's disheartening, but it's not shocking to me
that they can't run the ball because they don't have
the pieces that they need to.

Speaker 2 (01:56:49):
Run the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:56:51):
If I told you if I told you that forty
nine Ers quarterbacks this year have thrown more interceptions than
games they've had, If I told you that they could
not barely get over three yards per carry on the ground,
If I told you that George Kittle was hurt, and

(01:57:12):
I told you that Nick Bosa was hurt, and I
told you that their.

Speaker 2 (01:57:16):
Quarterback only played in half the game.

Speaker 3 (01:57:18):
Four And I told you that Juwan Jennings was in
and out of the lineup, And I told you that
DeMarcus Robinson was suspended, and I told you that Brandon
now Yuk hasn't even.

Speaker 2 (01:57:27):
Sniffed the field as of yet. Yeah, what would oh? Four?

Speaker 5 (01:57:35):
They lost today by five, and they were.

Speaker 3 (01:57:37):
In and they were at midfield having not touched the
opposing quarterback all day long. They were at midfield with
two minutes ago, with a chance to go four and zero.
So there is that way of looking. There's something to
be said, Holy hell. I like when you look into
the the data of the forty nine ers this year, I.

Speaker 2 (01:58:00):
Don't know how they've won a game. I really don't.

Speaker 4 (01:58:05):
They're finding ways to win, man, Lord, that's even more
dangerous than than you know, having all your horses.

Speaker 3 (01:58:13):
Well, except for the fact that I know the fan
base is sitting here going when we get healthy, I'm like,
I don't know if you're ever going to like we
have this vision in the head of like well week ten, Yeah, maybe,
or maybe they're all going to.

Speaker 2 (01:58:30):
Be hurt, all of them.

Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
Because they cannot get through a game without losing key people.
They've not done it in a long long time. Josh
Jacobs into the end zone. That's the Packers are back
in front, and we have got quite a shootout development in.

Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
Dallas this evening. This is pretty wild.

Speaker 5 (01:58:56):
It's great. Good to have a good Sunday night.

Speaker 2 (01:59:00):
It's a great football game.

Speaker 3 (01:59:02):
I don't I don't, I don't know what to do
with these Cowboys. It's nice to see them show some fight.
It's nice to see them show some fight. You know what,
I haven't even checked in on yet tonight. How's Micah doing?

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:59:18):
I'm not like, have you seen him? Yeah, I've seen him.
I mean I see him. But you know what I mean, like,
is he like has shown up? He's he done anything?

Speaker 5 (01:59:27):
Trying?

Speaker 2 (01:59:28):
He's trying.

Speaker 4 (01:59:28):
He's trying. I know he heard his back a couple
of plays back.

Speaker 3 (01:59:34):
Okay, he's got two tackles and he does have one
QB hit.

Speaker 5 (01:59:40):
He's trying. In fact, you know, they were not gonna
let him go crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:59:44):
He has the only quarterback hit in this game.

Speaker 4 (01:59:47):
Yeah, they're not gonna let him go crazy. So they're
gonna turn to him. They're gonna that's the mandate. Jerry
was like, he he won't be the one.

Speaker 3 (01:59:54):
The mandate as if you can just walk out there
and control that.

Speaker 5 (01:59:57):
I mean, isn't Jerry controlled it all?

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
I mean, he does own the building. So I'm telling you,
I know you are, and I didn't know that you
didn't get I thought the whole night.

Speaker 3 (02:00:13):
I'm like, we're going to power through and then he's
gonna go home and he's go to bed and he'll
wake up when his kids go to school at eight
o'clock tomorrow morning, and it's gonna be great.

Speaker 5 (02:00:22):
Won't even be in the house by the time they leave.

Speaker 2 (02:00:24):
Goodness, my man.

Speaker 3 (02:00:28):
If I had it in me to scold another forty
nine year old man, I'd do it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:33):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (02:00:33):
I'm doing always too. Way to power through, my man.
All right, that's it for Ephrom. I'm Mark.

Speaker 2 (02:00:40):
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