Buck & Fitz Talk Lamar Jackson Drama, NFL Christmas Games & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio radio. Are we actually
underestimating the Houston Texans? Are we sitting in a world
right now, in a world where it's actually possible that
the strongest division in the entire NFL, the division most
likely in the AFC at least to give us our
Super Bowl contender, is coming from the dreaded AFC South.

(00:25):
Because certainly everybody has sat back and repeatedly told you
about the greatness of teams like the Broncos and the
greatness of teams like the Chargers. But here we sit
with Houston taking him down after Jacksonville beat Denver. It
feels like there is a power shift happening in the
NFL in front of our eyes. It's fucking fits hanging
out with you on a Fox Sports Saturday. Come on,

(00:47):
go with me on this one. Bucky always tell me
that I'm not positive enough. Now I come in and
I'm all sorts of poly positive, and you're giving me
a look like I've lost my mind. He's Buck Rising.
I'm Jason Fitts hanging out with you, by the way
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. What's the problem with
my opening theme? Is today.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
That you didn't mention the Tennessee Titans demolishing the Kansas
City Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah I didn't. I didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
That didn't make that didn't make my list.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Off. It's the same divisions, same divisions.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Chiefs in the Super Bowl last year, Titans winning record
against Kansas City in Nashville.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
No love, no love for the.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Team that I spend my days watching them struggle and
sputter about for them to finally look like a professional
football organization last week against the Chiefs, and you discount
them on these national airwaves.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Shame on here here I am here. I am sitting
back saying, now, Buck's gonna love this because I'm not
coming in down playing anything. Instead, I'm building it up.
I'm going full Josh Grob and you raise me up.
I'm doing the whole thing, right. I feel good about this,
and I've got this whole Kermit the Frog presentation. I
come out on the stage, Dot, I'm doing the whole thing.
I do my tap dance, I do my song and
dance routine for Buck. And like the two old crotchety

(02:00):
men sitting in the theater, the little puppets up there
saying it wasn't good enough for him, that's where point
I'm sorry I left the Titans out of my list
when talking about the relevance of certain divisions in the NFL,
I'm okay, well I got something for you, Buck, Oh Mary,
got something for you.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
I'm here to tell you right now, we don't care.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
We don't care. Would you like to would you like
to respond to that?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Buck Rising? The reality is that I also don't care.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's okay, you're you're You're not hurting my feelings. I
cover meetingless football for a living. I just wanted to
make as think, Yes, it's delightful that FITZI decided to
heat praise upon the trash mountain that is the AFC
South historically has been the AFC South. Texans aren't playing
that well though. The Chargers is just kind of the

(02:50):
chargers just kind of suck.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I mean, the chargers are beat up, and the chargers
don't look great, and the chargers shouldn't be where they are.
But the chargers are eleven and four like so in
this in this system that we're in right now, I mean,
the chargers certainly, why not in an AFC that's wide open,
there are plenty of people that when we get to
the playoffs because of the brand of Justin Herbert, are
gonna be ready to just pile on Oh my god,

(03:13):
looking it at the ANFC West and look at what
the Chargers are gonna do. I'm just not buying any
of that. And I'm with you that maybe part of this. Look,
this is the same Texans team that struggled to look
like they had any competent offense against the Raiders. And
I can't make that make any sense. But what I
can make sense so if is this is a colts
team in this division that could have been in this
conversation had they not lost their starting quarterback which derailed

(03:35):
their entire season. This is a Texans team where weirdly
the offense feels broken and they are still winning games
all the stink of time and a jack scene that you, yourself, sir,
have said you think could represent the AFC in the
Super Bowl. I mean, that's suddenly like the dumpster fire
known as the AFC South, the laughing stock known as
the Nobody gives a Damn AFC South. The annual tradition

(03:58):
of burying the AFC South on the Saturday afternoon wild
Card weekend playoff game that nobody watches compared to the others.
That tradition this year is false logic because I'm looking
at a Jacks team and a Texans team that certainly
have every bit the opportunity to win that anybody else
in the AFC does.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Don't worry. The Titans still suck. They still represent the
although they look look a little.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Frisky this last couple of weeks. A little frisky.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm trying to do my best Jason Fitz impression. My
voice won't hit that octave.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, it's that's it's it's a scull thing. They're not okansky,
They suck. Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
They are objectively awful.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Uh So, the Texans are winning games because their defense
is god tier, that's one.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
The Jags are winning.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Games because they finally figured it out around the number
one overall pick a quarterback a couple of years ago
in Trevor Lawrence, and he is playing maybe not god tier,
but he's playing really, really good.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
And also they have an excellent defense.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
The Colts the eight and two start was was obviously
a hugely impressive thing, and injuries happened to a great
number of teams. Now, I would say that the injuries
have happened at a great at a significant rate to
the San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Forty nine ers, and they're still winning games.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
They have a god to your coach arguably in Kyle Shanahan,
and maybe Shane Steichen is good, but not that good
to be able to survive all of this with Mac
Jones and Rock Purdy and Fred Warner missing time and
Nick Mosa missing time and all these different things.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
I I'm not.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I guess if you are impressed with the AFC South,
it's because you have no expectations of the AFC South. Yes,
like that they have all of a sudden risen up
and look like a semi competent NFL division. It would
probably be the first time that they've looked from top
to bottom like a semi competent NFL division since Win Fitzi,

(05:57):
since Deshaun Watson was quarterbacking the Texans and Andrew luck
was quarterbacking the Colts and Ryan Tannehill was sniffing around
there towards the end of that with the Titans and
the Jags have always kind of been a mess. But
you know, they've been to an AFC Championship game in
the last ten years. We can give him some credit
at this point in time. I don't know it's because
there is no expectations of that particular division that they

(06:19):
look so much more impressive after the fact, and what
they are doing is impressive, Like I'm hugely impressed by
the Jaguars. To your point, I think the Texans defense
is awesome. It is one of my favorite units of
any NFL team to watch this year.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
I also happen to think that.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
The Chargers are not only are they hurt, but they're
choking dogs in this certain in certain situations, and I
think Justin Herbert is kind of suspect in that regard,
not just I don't think that's that spicy of a take.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
When you see what he does in the regular season
and he's a.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Lovely he's a lovely uh you know, he's everything that
I think to and Andre sweat the Titans nose tackle
before they played the Chargers this year in Nashville described
him as the perfect quarterback because he's tall, he's dating
a supermodel, all these different things. He's fast, he's athletic,
but then he gets to the postseason and he is
a choking dog in that particular situation. I'm not saying

(07:12):
that you can bury Justin Herbert just because both of
his starting tackles have missed a significant amount of time
throughout the course of the season, Because that's an explanation
more than it is an excuse. But I'm tired of
dealing with eleven win Chargers regular seasons or double digit
win Chargers regular seasons, only them only for them to
do absolutely nothing in the postseason. Like I am in

(07:34):
I have to see it to believe it mode with
the Los Angeles Chargers.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
One of the funniest things about the way we cover quarterbacks,
like the number of times I hear, well, Josh Allen's
got to do more, Like Josh Allen's the reason that
the Bills have lost in the playoffs. He's simply not
or Lamar doesn't do it in the playoffs. We say
these things all the time. Anybody, anybody right now, tweet
us let me know is that I don't want to
call it, tweet us. Let me know what the signature

(08:03):
I know, the signature win of Justin Herbert's career is
as an NFL quarterback. What is the game that we
turn around and say, oh my god, that was Justin
Herbert rising from the ashes and bringing his team back
from the edge of the brink of elimination and finding
a way to get it done. What is this signature

(08:25):
win for Justin Herbert? And here's the problem with Justin Herbert, though,
if we're being honest, like I'll be honest about my insecurities.
Every time I think, yeah, Justin Herbert, he's fine, he's fine,
he's really good, he's a really good quarterback. He's fine.
Every time I think that, then I see the smart
kids in the class, and there's a handful of them,
people that we both know and respect, that do great tapework,

(08:45):
that will come in and be like, no, no, no,
you don't understand. So I feel like I'm back in
high school where I'm walking up to the board and
I feel pretty good about my calculus answer until the
smartest girl in class walks up and you realize that
she's gonna get it right. We don't have the same answer.
I'm going to defer to her. Feel like happens with
Justin Herbert. Every time we sit back and we're saying okay,
and Justin Herbert's fine, Then you've got a tape junkie

(09:07):
that does great work breaking these things down that will
turn around that play the game, or you know that
he's seeing the game through better eyes than mine, that
will turn around and say no, no, no, you don't
get it with Justin Herbert. So I feel like I'm
I feel like I'm not the only person that just
sits back and says, well, he must be great because
smart people tell me he's great. But I think he's
definitely greatered on a different scale. It's impossible not to

(09:29):
admit that we treat the body of work of Lamar
Jackson differently than we treat the body of work with
Justin Herbert. We treat any quarterback that's had some playoff losses,
We're like, oh, gotta see that guy get it done. Well,
what about the guy that hasn't done Diddley you know what?
In the playoffs? Like that's real too. So I don't know.
Certainly there are more people giving benefit of the doubt

(09:49):
to Justin Herbert right now.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, because Lamar is a two time MVP.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Lamar is.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Lamar does things that we haven't seen since Michael Vick. Arguably,
I mean maybe not a maybe not a faster or
or athletic version of Vic, but he's certainly a better,
more at a more well rounded quarterback while also being
freakishly athletic than as Vic. And yeah, I mean Lamar
for example. And I'm sure we'll talk about him a
little later because there's a bit of a stir around

(10:14):
the Ravens here recently, is their playoff hopes are evaporating
very very quickly. But what Herbert's I'm looking I'm literally
looking through five years a game loss to try and
find this mythical signature win of Justin Herbert, and perhaps
just looking at the box scores and things like that

(10:36):
is not going to allow me to come up with
a reasonable answer. He's got a handful of overtime losses
and he's only won ten more games, and I don't
want to do. You know, quarterback wins are not a
quarterback stat necessarily, But at the end of the day,
it does matter that he's fifty two and forty two.
And I understand that he was, you know, in a

(10:57):
situation where he got there at a time where the
poor and he was not doing a lot or not
able to do much with what was surrounding him. But
I don't know if it's I'm looking at you, I'm
looking at a bunch of wins over teams like the
Jets and the Cardinals.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
And you know Denver before Denver got good.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
And I'm not super impressed with the kind of things
that I'm seeing right now.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Buck, He's zero and two in the playoffs. And I
will include if you want to add one more fancy
one here, I'll include the Week eighteen game that I
was in Indianapolis partying with a bunch of people for
the College Football Championship, when the Raiders and the Chargers
played a winner gets in to the playoffs, loser stays
home game that the Raiders won in overtime, which not
a playoff game but certainly a Justin Herbert moment to

(11:46):
get into the playoffs. So oh and two in the playoffs. Look,
I don't think Justin Herbert's a problem. I want to
be clear here, right for anybody that comes at it
and says, well, you're Justin Herbert hater. Hell, I would
kill for my team to have Justin Herbert as a quarterback.
Let me be very clear. I just think that we judge,
like the amount of times that I turn on stupid
TV shows that get very good ratings that are sitting

(12:06):
there yelling about what Josh Allen has to do. And
then I turned on stupid TV shows to get very
good ratings that are yelling about whatever Lamar hasn't done
in the playoffs, and oh my god, rise, he's got
to rise above all of this and he's got to
find a way to beat Mahomes. And then I don't
feel that I don't hear that same level of well,
justin Herbert, you know, it's we haven't seen it in

(12:26):
the playoffs yet. But the fact is we haven't seen
it in the playoffs yet, you know, So this is
there's just some truth to that to me now.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
And I'm looking at the two playoff games, twenty five
of forty three. That's fifty eight point one percent for
two seventy three a touchdown, a fumble, lost, three sacks
against the Jags. You remember that JAG's playoff game. That
was one of theest playoff games I've ever seen in
my life, not just because I watched it at a bar,
a bar with no TVs where we had to watch
that on our phones. And have you ever been to
the underground bar?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Can you not just leave? Can you just leave the bar?
If you walk into the bar, there's a playoff game
and there's no TVs on. You just leave the bar.
You're in Nashville. You can how long it took me
to get into that bar.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
This was before I could just cheat the line the
way that I do now. I tell yeah, are you
kidding me? Who do you think I am? You think
I wait in lines at this point in my life?
You're insane?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Anyway. I don't understand where you got the clout. Where
did the cloud come from? I never had cloud, even
when I was even when I was marginally successful in Nashville,
I never had cloud. Well I had a little bit cloud,
but not cloud like you have. I mean, you're just walking.
You're skipping the line.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Correct, Oh my god, that's just what it is. That's
it can be a fine if you want. I'll pay
the fine while I don't wait in line, because I
probably I'm probably paid to skip the line in certain situations.
So I'll pay your fines. We got it like that anyway.
Fourteen of thirty two to forty two to one touchdown
four interceptions against the Houston Texans this January thirty two

(13:51):
to twelve was the loss they lost by a point
to Jacksonville, and Herbert wasn't necessarily the problem. Their defense
was just abhorrent in that first playoff game that he
appeared in, and then in this second playoff game. I mean,
how many interceptions that Justin the Herbert even have last season?
I feel like he had three or four. He may
have thrown as many interceptions in that playoff game against

(14:12):
the Texans as he did have all season long, which
more definitively makes him the problem in that game, as
opposed to the implosion that was the Jags playoff loss, which,
by the way, the Jags tried to give away in
the first half and then the Chargers defense literally gave
it away in the second. So I reserve the right
to continue to judge Justin Herbert as a postseason participant.

(14:35):
I think it's okay for me to say to the
people who are smarter than me about the ex's and
o's analysis that I would like to see him do
some winning of consequence, beyond just beyond just compiling regular
season wins, because it matters, and that's your ticket to
the playoffs, and it's not an easy division, certainly when
you're playing second fiddle to the Chiefs, and now the
Broncos seem to have seemed to have stepped into the void,

(14:57):
the brief void that the Chiefs may have left.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
We'll see how brief it ends up being at this
point in time.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
But yeah, I think it's okay to look at him
in the postseason and be like, it's not good enough.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
It's just not good.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
If there are idiots out there, and I do mean idiots.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Three total interceptions for Justin Herbert last year, he had
four interceptions in the playoff game, three interceptions all regular
season long.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
If there are absolute morons out there that want to
tell me that somehow Josh Allen is responsible for a
blown lead against the Chiefs with twelve seconds left, then
I just want that same standard hill to Justin Herbert,
who hast Herbert, who has not yet done a damn
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Speaker 1 (17:00):
He's Buck Rising, Gout, Jason Fitzbuck and Fits hanging out
with you on Fox Sports Radio. All Right, you know
what you mentioned, Buck cracksweat there. I'm just gonna be
honest with you. I had some of that working this
morning even though it was five degrees outside because I'm
in Connecticut. Bucks in Nashville, I'm in Connecticut. I was
in multiple layers. Well you know, I mean, you get
a little shits out there when you gotta do the shoveling,
and so I had to shovel. We got buried in snow.

(17:22):
So I want to make sure that I get this
right because we are on in Hertford, Connecticut. I listen
all the time in Heartford, Connecticut. So I'm hopeful right
now that whoever drives the plow for the city of
New Britain plow number nine. I saw the number on
the back of your truck. I hope you're listening right
now because I just need you to know you sir,
are a jerk. I hope your entire Christmas is ruined

(17:43):
and you're a jerk. Because see the way it works here,
buck Like, they plow the streets, but they don't really
care about where your driveway is. So when they plow
the street, it creates this mountain, and they don't do
anything about it. They just let the mountain go at
the end of your driveway. And you gotta get it
out before it melts and freezes, because then it's impossible.
It's it's all of these things. So I get up
early this morning and I shovel out the whole driveway,

(18:03):
and I get all the way to the end of
this driveway, which is already a process. I get to
the mountain and when I say in the mountain, it's
about waste hide. So it's about you know, belly button high,
and you just start taking it. You just gotta scoop it,
scoop it, scoop it, scoop it. So it's like a
solid hour that I'm spending digging the mountain portion of
the south. Then I see New Britain City truck number
nine come by, right, and the truck sits there at
the end of my street and I see the guy,

(18:24):
we make eye contact with each other, right and then
what's he do? He puts that plow, you know, the
truck down and he just right by the right by
the driveway, which creates a whole nother mountain. And I'm like,
you know what, I'm mad about it, but fine, whatever, dude,
you do you if that's gonna make you happy, So
I just start digging myself out of this again. Boom boom,
boom boom. I watched that son of a you know

(18:46):
what turn around at the end of the street because
he's got to get the street again, even though the
street look pretty good to me, and all of a
sudden comes right up and this time like he slows
down and makes eye contact, literally laughing at me. While
now it would have taken him three seconds. He could
have angled. He could have literally angled and just scooped
everything that I was scooping in one fell swoop. Would
have taken him ten seconds at his time. I'm the

(19:08):
only person out there in that early in the morning
plowing all this wouldn't have even started some precedent for
help and everybody else. He could have helped me, or
he could have veered away from it a little bit
and just let it go to a way seeing that
I'm taking out No, he laughs in my face as
he creates a third mountain, and that, my friend, is
the difference between the North and the South. Having lived
all over the country in my life, I had three

(19:30):
different neighbors across the course of this morning. Did Joe
biden their regular trucks with their regular plows on the end?
Not a single one of them. Everyone saw me like
everyone saw me. Not a single one of them took
the thirty seconds it would take in You know this
as somebody that lives in Nashville. If you're in the South,
you would have stopped. Like somebody would have been like, hey,
let me get this portion for you. It's heavy eye.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
I wouldn't have stopped. Somebody would have stopped though.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Most people would have stopped right, most people, and even
if it's how you make your money, if that's the argument,
somebody would have rolled down the window and said, hey,
fifty bucks, I'll clear that out for you. I would
have gladly get him the cash. No, no, what they do,
no eye contact. Go to the end of the road,
turn and get out of the way. That oh man,
the north lost of the South today, I'm just saying,
be better New Britain truck number nine. I hope you

(20:13):
get a hangnail that you can't get rid of and
it gets stuck and it's just stuck there with them.
And I hope you get a popcorn kernel stuck between
your back two teeth that is stuck there for the
next three years until a dentist has to remove it.
You have earned these things.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
I would have been that snowplow driver.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
There's no doubt about that.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Mary Ian.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
What is the temperature today in the sunny, scenic Los Angeles?

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Well, it's been it's been really rainy the last few days,
so I actually I can't sit here and just gloat
about the weather.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
That's fine, I'll do it for you. It was seventy
degrees and sunny. I went to the bar last night
and shorts. It was lovely. I sat by the pool
today as Jason fitz was sitting there in five degree windchill,
getting buried by snowplows and mountains of snow and all
manner of other things. Nashville is as far north as
I'll ever live for the rest of my life. Unless
you want to pay me just ungodly amounts of money,

(21:07):
and even then I would probably I would probably struggle
with it. Not because of the people. I can handle
the people. Those people are my people. As a matter
of fact. Just because I've lived in the South for
as long as I have at this point in time,
doesn't mean that I cannot relate to the wonderful people
of the Northeast, who are not actually wonderful people, but
they are very much my type of people.

Speaker 7 (21:27):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I just I don't think you could pry me out
of the Southeast if you tried.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
I don't. Usually, usually I'm a big believer in Again,
I've lived everywhere in my life, all over the US,
so I'm a big believer that most places are kind
of the same at the end of the day. Like
you fight, like you settle into everything you have. You
find your favorite type bar, you find your favorite local restaurant,
you find your favorite change. You know where the Walmart is,
the movie theater is, like comfort of life. America has

(21:54):
become very homogenized. I'm not sure there's a massive difference.
The few differences are the people in the weather. And
usually I usually I actually don't mind New England and
I've often said on the record, I would rather shovel
a driveway than mow my lawn. I absolutely hate getting
hot in the summer, so like, look, I'm usually not
this guy. It's just New Britain truck number nine, that
particular driver. You, sir, you have cracked me. You have

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(23:00):
us caught up on the scoreboard. What is going on,
my friend?

Speaker 8 (23:03):
Well, right now if you're judging it by quarter, so
you're doing it like a prize fight. The Houston Texans
won the first quarter, the Los Angeles Chargers won the second.
The Texans with the lead fourteen to three right now
and leading third quarters. They're driving down the field eight
twenty left in the third quarter.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
CJ.

Speaker 8 (23:20):
Straw with two first quarter touchdown passes but two second
quarter interceptions that have kind of even this thing out.
But it's been all charged, I mean, all Texans thus
far on the scoreboard, fourteen and three. Like I said,
with Houston, just get to call for a holding penalty,
so backing up a bit, maybe out of the red
zone there.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
In college football, the Pops Are Bowl.

Speaker 8 (23:38):
You got Georgia Tech and BYU twenty one to eighteen
to score in BYU with a two point touchdown two
point conversion in the fourth quarter to make this one
a closer game eight minutes left there in the fourth quarter,
twelve minutes into the third quarter at Fresno State in
Miami of Ohio and the Snoop.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Dogg Arizona Bowl.

Speaker 8 (23:57):
Fresno State with a nine to three lead over the Radhawks,
North Texas with a twenty one to six lead over
San Diego State, and the New Mexico Bowl. Earlier today,
we saw East Carolina beat Pittsburgh twenty three to seventeen
in the Military Bowl. Penstroke Bowl was Penn State Clemson.
They weren't expecting to finish with seven and six records,
but both did twenty two to ten. The Ninty Lions

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get to win an Army beat Yukon forty one to sixteen,
and the Fenway Bowl. Leak Willis is starting for Jordan
Love tonight for the Packers. Jordan Loves out with the concussion.
Packers guard Zach Zach Tom also out. The Ravens need
a win tonight to keep their playoffs hopes alive. And
for the Rams on Monday night, DeVante Adams is doubtful.
He's been dealing with a hamstring issue. Bucking fits back

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to you, guys.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason fitzbucking fits. That's right. Lamar
Jackson out for tonight's game against the Green Bay Packers.
And this is not without buck its own sort of
sub controversy. There was an editorial piece this week in
the Baltimore Sun about whether or not the Ravens and
Lamar Jackson are on the precipice of parting ways. Given

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the salary cap numbers for Lamar, given some of the
contract guarantees that are there for Lamar, and given the
fact that it's about that time where most quarterbacks will
be looking at an extension to pull in more guaranteed money,
there is some conversation, at least from that editorial piece
about what the future looks like. It also pointed out that,
you know, while breaking your body, breaking down is a

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natural thing. The piece made it clear that Lamar spends
too much time, according to some sources, playing video games
late at night, not enough time around football, falling asleep
in meetings, all of these things we are suddenly hearing it.
It feels somewhere between I don't know, it feels somewhere
between a hit piece and an opinion piece. But it
is interesting to me at the very least that Lamar Jackson,

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who by the way, is a two time NFL MVP
before he reached the age of twenty seven, just the
consideration that there's any possible world where the Ravens and
Lamar Jackson aren't a marriage next year seems wild to me.
But now we have Lamar not playing tonight in a
game with absolutely huge consequence for Baltimore and for the Packers.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, two backup quarterbacks now Malik Willis as as Martin
mentioned for the Packers, and then Lamar Jackson out for tonight.
So I'm just looking at his contract quickly. They do, man,
that would be difficult to maneuver if they were going
to put themselves in a situation where they wanted to
move on from Lamar. I mean, he's got a dead

(26:32):
cap hit in twenty twenty six of eighty six point
five million dollars. Not to say that they would cut him,
they would move him. Obviously there would be buyers for
Lamar Jackson, but like, I mean, doesn't. And it's different
because Lamar is a two time MVP and Kyler Murray
is Kyler Murray. But doesn't it feel Kyler Murray esque
in terms of some of the dialogue that we're talking about, Dude,
new Call of Duty comes out all of a sudden,

(26:53):
Kyler Murray's you know, QBR takes a DMP or whatever
the case may be. Like those were the jokes that
were being made at the time, and the lack of
studying that was, or rather a clause included in his contract,
Kyler's contract that specifically indicated basically how many study.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Hours he was going to have to make or do
at that point in time. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I mean again, I haven't I'm not in Baltimore. I
have not seen the ins and outs of Lamar Jackson's
work dynamic the way that somebody writing for the Baltimore Sun,
I would assume has If you're going to be comfortable
putting that in print or online, whatever the case may be, like,
you better be damn sure you know what you're talking about,

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because that's I mean, that's that is a bit of
a character assassination unless it's true, and don't I don't
want to speculate, because that's we just there's never been
that kind of dialogue around Lamar ever until now. And
we're doing this why because he's got a back injury.
Because the Ravens offense has st uggold a little bit

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this year. They've not been horrendous, but they certainly weren't
as good as they were last year. They were number
one in DVOA and number one in efficiency and all
these different things. They were just an absolute force to
be reckoned with. No what happened in Baltimore this year
is Lamar's been hurt. Their offensive line, interior offensive line
has been particularly poor. Z Flowers is not a number
one wide receiver, and the defense has been pedestrian to

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outright bad for the vast majority of the season.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
So I'm not wringing my hands if I'm.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
The Ravens organization about Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
I'm just looking at the season be like, yeah, we
thought we were closer. We probably are closer than this
season indicates, but just things didn't.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Fall our weight.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
They're kind of a different version of the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
No. I mean, the Chargers are obviously an eleven win
team in Baltimore is trying desperately to stay above five
hundred at this point in time. But still, I just
feel like it's an extreme version of what we were
just talking about around justin Herbert.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Look, Lamar's not going anywhere. My mom used to say
to me when I was kid, and I'd say something
particularly stupid, my mom would say, I'm gonna have to
put a glass plate in your belly button so you
can see since your head so far up your ass,
if you believe that Lamar Jackson is not going to
be the quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens next year, you
need a glass plate in your belly button. I don't
give a damn about this story. I do not care.

(29:18):
Like you all can clip this off and send it
right back to me, I would be beyond stunned. Beyond stunned,
because to your point, the only way that Lamar goes
somewhere is if there's a trade and the trade cap
on him would result in an eighty million dollar cap
hit next year. That is a trade pre June first,
And if there was any trade, you would have to

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be pre June first because it has to be before
the draft so they can allocate what they're doing. You cannot.
You cannot designate a trade to be post to June
first like you can a cut. So that's not a possibility.
So the only way Lamar goes somewhere is if the
Ravens agreed to take an eighty million dollar capit Right now,
that doesn't make any sense. It drops to fifty seven

(29:59):
point five million new So like none of this makes
any sense. But more importantly, there's not a clear path
to another quarterback. And even above and beyond all of that,
if Lamar is sitting around, falling asleep in meetings and
playing video games until four in the morning, I don't care.
Because last year Lamar Jackson should have been the NFL MVP.

(30:19):
It went to Josh Allen, but if I had had
a vote, it would have been Lamar. So you're telling
me that, in less than twelve months, you have gone
as an organization from having who I think should be
the NFL MVP, which would make him a three time
MVP for somebody that still has years left in this league.
You've gone from MVP status to well, we're gonna trade

(30:40):
him and just go draft somebody. Here. Let me just
give you a clue right now, if any team in
the draft believed that picking a quarterback first overall, if
the Raiders believed that Fernando Mendoza had any chance of
being Lamar Jackson, they would trade every draft pick they
could have for the next five years to get him.
Because you don't find core like Lamar Jackson very often.

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So this this thought from from from the writer coming
in and trying to establish some path that leads to
A split between the Ravens and Lamar to me is
as asinine and clickbait is anything I've read in the
NFL all season long.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
It's also made more interesting because I'm looking at his
contract notes on spot track. Guess what Lamar Jackson has
on his deal currently?

Speaker 1 (31:26):
A no trade clause. Correct, a full no trade clause.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
So buddy, I mean, what are we What are we
talking about here?

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Again?

Speaker 3 (31:37):
This is as somebody.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Who has been an NFL reporter or covering one team
for I mean, oh my god, this is my tenth season.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
I'm old at this point in time.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
But relax.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
If information, when information comes out, no matter what kind
of information it is, or if it's information or opinion whatever.
But if it's opinion with an information tinge, who benefits
from having this out there? Like who benefits from giving
this or or leaking some kind of detail of Lamar

(32:13):
Jackson's work, ethic or war habits, or falling asleep in
meetings to a reporter, to an opinion columnist or whatever
the case may be, putting that out there in the world, Like,
who benefits from this information being out there? Because normally
I feel like you can at least take an educated guess,
But in this particular situation unless I just I can't

(32:35):
wrap my head around where what would change the dynamic
between one of the most stable organizations in the NFL frankly,
one of the most reliable quarterbacks in the NFL, and
all of a sudden in a season that is less
than Super Bowl expectations, obviously because a lot of people,
I mean, they were a very popular super Bowl pick
this year. All of a sudden, the bottoms just fall out,

(32:56):
and Lamar Jackson's a bum now and he doesn't work hard,
and all these different things, everything that he's done to
this point doesn't matter. I'm very, very confused by this
as a news item if it is in fact news.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Which is why it feels like such a hit piece,
because you're right. An agent told me years ago that
really helped me early on in my career. Agent told
me years ago, if you want to know who leaked
the story, figure out who benefits from it. Well, I
look at this story to your point, Punk, and nobody
benefits from it. The Ravens don't benefit from it in
any way because it fractures the relationship with the starting quarterback.
You don't want to do that Lamar doesn't benefit from

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it in any way because it questions his work ethic.
If you're another team that's trying to put some sort
of a wedge in between them, and that's a weird
reach to try and make. And these reports, oh he
would love to play in Miami. It just all of this,
just this is what we do now to such a fault,
what we do in every sport. The minute something's not
going wrong, well, they're going to make a huge trade.

(33:51):
Somebody needs to make a huge, splashy move. It's like
no organizations that are consistently good are consistently good in
part because they're patient and they understand that some years,
you know what happens, right, Like, some years it's just
not there for you and I to think that the Ravens,
you maybe Ravens fans and I work with one on
y'a who Sports Day convinced that Harbor needs to go.

(34:13):
Harbor needs to go.

Speaker 9 (34:14):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
I don't agree with that take, and I don't think
it's gonna happen. But if that happens, coaches are far
easier to replace when you have one of the few
quarterbacks in NFL history to be as good as Lamar
is when you have one of the few superstars that
can actually contend with Mahomes. You don't roll the dice
on Tua in a trade. You don't suddenly go to
the draft in a trade. The asinine way that we're

(34:36):
approaching this is blowing my mind. I want to get
your thoughts on what all this means for the future,
what it means for Harball, and what this means tonight
for the Packers. We'll break that down next. He's Buck Rising.
I'm Jason fitzbuck and Fits on Fox Sports Radio. You're
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(34:56):
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Lamar Jackson inactive. Tonight we get the battle of backup quarterbacks,

(35:20):
which seems to be a theme over the course of
the week in the NFL. Yeah, but I mean.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
The best of football.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, this is what makes Buck the worst.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Can we be enjoy its bad football?

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Let it watch over you.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
You only like this because you want everybody to have
to watch football as bad as you watch covering the Titans.
I would never like I am going to watch the
Raiders Giants game Sunday, riveted to see what happens, like
riveted to see what happens in a game that is
the most transparent tanking I think we've ever seen in
modern NFL history. But I wouldn't wish that on anybody.
I wouldn't wish that on anybody. But you know, at

(35:57):
this point, you are sitting here a glutton for pun
like we are going to get Huntley versus Maleik tonight
and you're in on this?

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Come on, Oh yeah, I'm so in on this.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
I've never been more in on a football game in
my entire life. I would rather have this than Chiefs
Eagles Super Bowl. I would rather have this than Peek
Brady versus Manning. I would rather have this than any
of the highest forms of the sport being played, because yes,
I want everybody to experience football the way that I
experience football, which is to just low the what you're

(36:28):
watching in front of you for a period of two
and a half to three hours, depending on the situation.
So yes, I'm very happy that America gets to watch
football the way that I do.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
The hardest part about this is, well, a couple of
things here. Number one, let's just acknowledge we've gotten so
many backup quarterbacks. I just want to remind people that
this is inevitable. This is never going to change, and
this is part of how the NFL is going to
be wired from now on. Like when the NFL decides
to add more games, which is again, follow the money.
I'm not talking about what should like. I don't live

(37:00):
in a world of you know, unicorns, So when everybody
says they shouldn't add I don't really care what to
think about it, because it's not gonna change the reality
that it's going to happen. Money is there to be
made for everybody by adding games. So in the NFL
is gonna inevitably add games. The question is just how
many games are they going to go to? So when
they go to you know, the inevitable twenty games or

(37:21):
whatever it is, let's just remember it's going to be
more and more and more important to have two quarterbacks
on your roster. You're gonna have to have. So there's
gonna be a lot of guys that should play their
way out of the league that are just hanging on
holding clipboards because week sixteen, seventeen, eighteen nineteen are the
weeks of backup quarterbacks. And I'm not even talking about tanking.

(37:43):
You're talking about a game tonight that two teams need
and it's looked they would love to have their starting
quarterbacks in this. Unfortunately, they just don't have that option.
Wear and tearror is what it is. Maybe it's just
a bad year for quarterbacks, but I think we do
have to acknowledge Buck that this is the inevitability of
the future. The fel you get late in the season,
you are going to have so many banged up players,
You're going to see more backup quarterbacks. Do you know

(38:06):
what I just realized?

Speaker 2 (38:07):
And I'm looking through this, uh just quickly checking to
make sure that I've got this correctly, but or that
I've got this correct I think cam Ward is the
only starting quarterback who have played every snap for his
team this year. As I'm going through snap counts for
all these starting quarterbacks. I mean, we're talking about two

(38:28):
guys who aren't playing a night in Jordan Love and
Lamar Jackson. I I think cam Warden is the only
person who has started every snap, played every snap for
his team at the most important position in sports, which
is again, they're they're three and they're three and twelve at.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
This point in time.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
For all the good that it's done him, but yeah,
even even guys like Stafford have missed a snap here
or there. It's it's it's a really bizarre situation. But
I mean this is the norm. It's it's always mattered
this way, Fitzy, Right, we had sixties we had like
sixty five guys play last year, sixty six guys start
games the year before. This has been the theme for

(39:06):
quite some time. And yeah, it's only gonna The backup
quarterback has always been important. It's why what if Shanahan
was able to do with mac Jones was so impressive.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
I think that's why I continue to say that at
some point you have to you literally are going to
have to start drafting four backup quarterback. Like I think
if your favorite team has a fourth or fifth round
pick available and they can draft quarterback that is limited,
shirt limited. But a guy that you can train in
your system and you can hold on to there is
going to be so much value to this is my guy.

(39:36):
He's been in this system for several years. He's going
to be comfortable in this system. He's going to be
able to do something because my god, just think about
what we saw from the Vikings and that three yards
passing right, I mean, it was just absolutely grotesque to watch.
It was grotesque to watch the Chiefs offense, and that
was somebody that has been on their practice squad for
a few years. So I don't know what the answer is,
but I know that certainly when we start getting into

(39:57):
meaningful games that are giving us Huntley versus Malik instead
of Jordan Love versus Lamar Jackson, then everything has gone
off the rails. What does all that mean for a
Christmas Day that actually turned out to be a huge
win for the NFL. We'll explain why next Bucking fits
Fox Sports Radio. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

(40:17):
You got Charles Barkley out here calling the NFL pigs.
You got people out here complain and that Christmas Day
belongs to the NBA. But at the end of the day. Truly,
the people have spoken. The people have spoken loudly, and
it is clear now that the NFL owns Christmas Day
just like the NFL owns every single day that they

(40:38):
want to on the calendar. He's buck rising up, Jason
fitzbucking fits on Fox Sports Radio. Look at it, we're
sitting right now on a Saturday. You know what the
main topic is NFL right, what we're all focused on
right now, Like we're gonna see here tonight on a
game that's exclusively streaming on Peacock. I believe, I believe
you have to have Peacock to watch tonight NFL game

(41:01):
between the Ravens and the Packers, a game that will
now feature, as we told you a few moments ago
confirmed it will now feature backup quarterbacks on both sides
of the ball. It's still going to do better numbers
than the NBA would do if you put it on
ABC and said, please God watch us. And this isn't
an anti NBA take. This is where you so often
social media comes and says, well, you guys are just

(41:23):
an NFL apologists. I don't really care. I'm just ever
the capitalist I believe at the end of the day.
It's our job to talk about what people care the
most about, and y'all care the most about the NFL.
The NFL didn't take over Christmas. Y'all took Christmas for
the NFL. And there's a much different way to think
about it.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Buck hmm.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
So this onslaught of social media commentary that you're referencing.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
That wouldn't just be the one tweet.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
That I saw us get tagged in and that you
were responding to about us being NFL apologists from what
was that Tuesday?

Speaker 1 (41:55):
No, that one was to us. That's a fair If
you watch any of the social media content towards any
of the TV shows that our friends are on on ESPN,
and you'll see much of the same conversation after Christmas Day,
and in fact ESPN themselves, like I heard Perk talking
about it, Like Perk's out there, you know, talking about
how you know it's the NFL's day. We got Chuck.
Chuck's out here calling the NFL pigs. Don't believe me.

(42:17):
We've got the audio. We'll let the world hear what
Charles Barkley had to say about the NFL on Christmas Day.

Speaker 9 (42:23):
The NFL got greed instarted and Christmas game. We used
to have this day to ourself. But you know, Roger
Goodell and them pigs at the NFL always wanted.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
To hog every day of the week. Now they can't
play the NBA.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
Dude.

Speaker 9 (42:38):
I saw those guys yesterday on the ESPN talk about it,
and they're right, Christmas.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Is an NBA day, not anymore, Chuck.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
So that's Charles Barkley referencing the NFL and Roger Goodell
and the people in the league office as pigs. But again,
we you and I talked about this earlier in the week,
but that's okay. We will repeat it for the Saturday
audience that always hangs out with us here each and
every week. It's not the NFL are the greedy ones.
The NFL is the dealer. The audience is the addict.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
We are out here trying to get.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
That sweet, sweet football smack maybe, and so Roger Goodell
and his team full of pushers, they just keep pushing
and pushing and pushing because that's what we want. That's
what we're gonna get is more football, even if the
football is diluted and filled with backups and injury riddled,
and now it's on Fridays and Tuesdays instead of just

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Sundays and Mondays and Thursdays. They're sprinkling it all across
the board here because it's what people want.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Football is America's pastime.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Baseball and basketball and everything else is just trying to
play catchup because they're not even trying to catch up
to the NFL. In reality, baseball and basketball and every
other major professional sport in America is trying to play
ketchup to college football. They can't sniff the NFL. They're
no work close to it. The NFL is competing, as

(44:07):
far as eyeballs, in a completely different division than the
rest of professional sports in this country. So the fact
that we're having this conversation is if there's really even
a conversation to be at, people like football more than
they like anything else across the country.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
That is true.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Now you can go to NBA markets and you can say, well,
you know, how much more of a draw are the
We'll just take la right, how much more of the
draw are the Lakers than the Rams or the Chargers
or whatever. It's It's not about butts in seats.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Necessarily, though that does matter. Too.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
It's about where the most amount of people are viewing nationwide,
and perpetually, football is the thing that's going to grab
our attention most, even if it is Lamar or rather
Malik Willis versus who is it?

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Tyler Huntley tonight?

Speaker 1 (44:55):
Tyler Huntley, YESO Puntley tonight? Okay, stinking. I mean think
about it this though, because there was a bit of
a beef in Boston between a Boston college show played
by play announcer with the Boston local radio stations talking
about the fact that Boston Radio made it clear they
don't talk about college football because nobody in their market cares.
And we've seen this before, like you and I both

(45:17):
got our starts and a station in Nashville that was
affiliated with the Nashville Predators, and I remember distinctly, I'm
hosting the morning show at the time of the flagship
for the Preds, and I remember distinctly going into October
and we'd be sitting on air doing the morning show
I was doing at the time, and all of a sudden,
the Preds had come in and they'd start yelling, you
guys are talking too much, Titans, like why are you talking?
So you should talk more about the preds. You're our station.

(45:39):
I laugh at that. I'm like, nobody cares about the
third line defensive pairings of the NHL in the middle
of October, and if you do, you're getting it from
somewhere else. I think what's funny to me is that
everybody thinks it's some big narrative or some big sweeping
you know, conspiracy or all these things. Not Like you
don't have to conspire against any of this. You just
have to allow consumers to assume what they want to

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consume it. It makes the data pretty clear. In a
city like Boston, they don't talk a lot of college
football locally because their numbers show with the little meters
Nielsen meters that show people what they listen to, shows
that their audience doesn't really care about it, so then
you don't talk about it. Like that's just the reality
of where we are now as a society, is that

(46:22):
I think it's better than ever. Like I genuinely believe
that getting football on Christmas Day is better than ever.
Why because people are flocking to it so obviously people
wanted it, Like obviously it's easy to yell at the trees,
it's easy to walk out in the lawn and scream
nobody should be open on Christmas Day. Like I love
every time every time I sit there and I hear
somebody scream. Somebody listening to this radio station right now

(46:46):
that has screamed about the fact that there should never
be a single business open on Christmas Day. It's Unamerican
to make people work on Christmas. I laugh at that
because you're listening to the radio on Christmas, you think
that isn't people working, Or you're watching TV on Christmas.
Those people will make millions, not all the people behind
the scenes you don't ever see. Like at the end
of the day, we all want our creature comforts, and

(47:06):
it's easy to scream about things without ever accepting our
own role in all of it. Like if nobody went
out to shop and nobody watched TV and nobody listened
to the radio, y'all shut everything off and only spend
time with their families. Nothing can be open on Christmas Day.
There'd be no monetary benefit to it, and as a result,
only truly necessary places would be open. But people don't

(47:27):
want to accept that level of personal responsibility, right, so
they consume radio, which helps you and I pay our bills,
so we're happy to work. Right. The whole argument here
of NBA versus NFL is no argument because the people
have spoken like, you all want to watch football, So
NBA heads who cares? Like? Who cares? Just enjoy it
to joy?

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Yeah, no, that's fair. What did you call it earlier
this week?

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Don't yuck my yum if you're an NBA fan, just
watch your basketball and be happy with it and let
the football people watch football people and watch football rather.
And there's more football people than our basketball people at
this point. Do you remember off the top of your head,
because I do have the numbers in front of me,
what the two Netflix Christmas Day games last year? So
that's Chiefs and Steelers and Ravens and Texans. Do you

(48:14):
have a guestimate at what the two games averaged in
terms of US viewers last year?

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Twenty four million, I believe, if memory serves me correct.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
An average was twenty six and a half for the two,
thirty one point three for the Ravens and the Texans,
thirty flat for Chiefs and Steelers. Now, those are megabrands
with star power, and Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson were
playing in those games and all those different kind of things.
This year is going to be a little different, obviously,

(48:45):
so I'd be curious to see if Netflix puts out
a press release to the effect of last year. And
we understand that Prime also had a game this year too,
so perhaps they'll put out their number and aggregate streaming
numbers something like that across all platforms versus just you know,
terrestrial television or.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Whatever the case may be.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
So I can't imagine that thirty million people on average
are watching what we watched on Christmas Day, but I
imagine it's still kicked the holy hell out of the
NBA number, like the biggest number for we would assume
what Spurs thunder would be the biggest the biggest draw
of the Netflix or extremely the NBA's Christmas Day.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Maybe Lakers people sort of like the Spurs in the Thunder,
but I mean last year. I think that the highest
number of Lakers Warriors last year got about eight million
last year. And by the way, like you say, not
as many people are going to watch. Can we all
agree for a second that Logan Paul is not a
good boxer. I don't think that's a hot take, right,
Like Logan Paul not a great boxer. Thirty three million

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people tuned in on Netflix to watch him get his
ass kicked. Everybody knew he was going to get his
as kicked. Everybody know's going to happen. I was actually
a Paul, but that just shows like you don't even
remember his name. That's how Yeah, Logan the wrestler, Jake
the box in my back, Oh my bad, one of
the Paul brothers. Like thirty three million people tuned in

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to watch one of the Paul brothers and get his
ass kicked when everybody knew it was gonna happen. And
now you could say part of that was he's got
to make some fans and people that just couldn't wait
to watch him get punched in the face. That's fine me.
I just think we're going to quickly find out that
a Christmas Day Tred didn't you know. There's how many
people in the world that tune in and they watch

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Christmas Story for twenty four straight hours on t n
T or TBS or whatever network it's on now right,
twenty four straight hours of Christmas Story. That's why they
run it every year because people tune in and watch it.
I think We're going to find out that upwards of
thirty million people just go to Netflix and watch football
on Christmas Day, And like, look, I would be stunned
if Snoop Dogg's halftime show doesn't just by itself throttle

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the NBA. Like that's just true. And it's not like
I'm not anti or pro.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
It was a really good halftime show for what it's worth.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
I don't know that.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
I don't know that I would push back on that
much just because it was the light full across the board.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
It's set the bar. Look, I don't I don't think
it has to also Like to your point that I
made earlier, who cares? To the point that you referenced
that I made earlier? Who cares? Don't yuck the yum?
Like NBA fans get what you get. Like, as long
as as long as somebody's watching, why does it matter.
Everybody doesn't have to love your sport. Everybody doesn't have

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to love what you do. Like you can love it
and that's fine.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
That is a good question. Why do people care about that?

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Like?

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Why is that? Because we do talk about it?

Speaker 2 (51:32):
I mean, it comes up a lot, right, I mean,
and it's not just because Barkley said the thing, and
so everybody, whether you're aggregating articles on the internet about
what Charles Barkley said, it's because he used the word pigs, right,
he said Roger Goodell and then pigs at the NFL.
That's why I got so much traction at that point
in time. I just think there's I've never I guess
I've never quite understood why something like this is. Is

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it actually polarizing for fans or do fans? Are they
operating this way? Like I don't see any great level
of outrage. And again, I'm not in an NBA market
here in Nashville, and Nashville Tennessee could give a damn.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
I mean, but you know, Tennessee is a weird state.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
A third of the stillwell, actually the entire state cares
about the Tennessee Balls. Only Middle Tennessee cares about the Titans.
And that's hardly ever. And you know, basically it's two
thirds of the state against Memphis on a regular basis
for how much money meant, Like Memphis, Memphis cares.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
I did a week puner of Memphis, and Memphis cares.
I did a weekly puner in Memphis for almost a decade,
and Memphis cares dramatically about the fact that people don't
pay attention, like it's something I'm asked about all the
time on radio there, like their audience cares really and
to me, it's a disconnect. Like look the number of
times even now when I tell people I do radio.

(52:46):
You know how many people are like, I don't listen
to sports talk radio. Okay, cool like that that doesn't
really bother me one way or the other. Like for
years of my life, I had determined like I had
to qualify the band that I played, in the genre
that we played and what even when we had the
number one song in the world, I still had to
be like, no, we're not Katie Perry's band. It's just
a stupid name for a band. It's a man like

(53:07):
I had to go in and explain this and people
will be like, I'm sorry, I don't listen to Coachry music. Okay,
I don't really care like you do you. I'll do
me like I get paid to do what I do
and there's an audience for it, and if it's not you,
I don't really care.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
I you know, I mean, you and I have known
each other for a long time at this point. Uh,
And I've always been perpetually just unimpressed by things. I
don't even as somebody who is perpetually unimpressed by things,
I don't feel. I don't feel like I'm somebody who
feels the need that just burning urge to be like, Oh, yeah,

(53:42):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
I live in Nashville, Tennessee, but I don't like country music,
and I'm you know, I'm a I'm an NFL reporter,
but I'm actually a way bigger basketball fan, like all
these different things like, I don't. I don't know what
it is about human nature that makes us feel the need.
Who tell Like, does it make you feel better about yourself?

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Do you do?

Speaker 2 (54:01):
You feel like you're putting yourself in a more exclusive
category if you.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Say, oh, I'm I'm I'm a sports hipster.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
I like, I only watch highlight as opposed to the
NFL or something like that. I couldn't possibly partake in
the slop that is Tyler Huntley versus Malik Willis.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
I'll go watch my highlight.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Games on I don't know where where even would that
be broadcasting the zone or something like that, something obscure
just to kind of have some level of pretentiousness about
you that you think is going to I don't know,
impress people.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
I've never understood that, but it is a very people behavior.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
I don't I think people don't want to be judged.
They're worried that you're thinking something, so they're trying to
get ahead of it. I think most of like what's
weird about the world now is that so many people
are worried about the perception and feel the need to
get ahead of what you might be thinking to correct
the record on the on the income that that's where
your mind was going.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
I don't know. But at the end of the day,
like the real answer is, as long as peop people
are still watching the NBA, who cares? And as long
as people are still watching football on Christmas Day?

Speaker 3 (55:05):
Who cares?

Speaker 1 (55:06):
And as long as everybody's selling that ad space ESPN, ABC,
Netflix are all gonna win. And as long as they
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The air of the Pop Tart Bowl happened today, one
of the more elite of all of the Bowl game experiences.
I don't really I'm gonna be honest, I don't know
who won. I don't care who won. What I do
know is that we saw pop Tart's mascots ripping their

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packages open and just exposing themselves as they ran around
on the field. It was a It was a delight.
I think I may have painted that picture a little
bit more rated r than it needed to be. By anyway,
where are we buck rising on the on the bowl
game phenomenons in a year like this? Because the college
football playoff time he's a little weird. It feels like

(57:44):
the bowl season is just a little disjointed. Were you
all in on pop tarting?

Speaker 3 (57:49):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Yes, but I don't care that BYU won twenty five
to twenty one over Georgia Techs and the pop Tart Bowl.
I'm there for the pop Tart extravaganza. They sack the
pop Tart mascots to the toaster gods at the end
of the pop Tart Bowl that come out and the
winning team gets to eat the mascot, the carcass of

(58:10):
the mascot, the pop Tart mascot. It's a by the way,
the marketing people at pop Tarts deserve a huge raise
for whoever came up with all the different elements of
the Pop Tart Bowl that they've got going on. I
like Bawl season, but again I understand it's not for everybody.
For example, I'm in Nashville and the Music City Bowl

(58:31):
is taking place this week. We'll have Tennessee. Tennessee is
in the Music City bol so it'll be a huge draw.
Illinois is playing Tennessee in the Music City Bowl. There's
opt outs all over the place. Anybody that you care
about in the NFL Draft or anything like that is
going to sit out or have already declared, or whatever
the case may be. And that's typically how the ancillary

(58:51):
bowl games that are not the college Football Playoff go.
And that's fine because it's still more football at the
end of the day, and some of it will be competitive,
so it will be very much non.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
Competitive speaking or non competitive. Today, you see what happened
to Clemson.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
Well where where where did Caid Club next season go
twenty two to ten to a bad Penn State team
in the Bad Boy Mower's Pinstripe Bowl, which is for
some reason played at Yankee Stadium, which always delights me.
The amount of ball games that are being played at
places like Fenway and Yankee Stadium.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
And that was you get the Pinstripe swag, like they
sell different swag to it. So I like that, Like
I'm in on the Pinstripe swag. It's it's cool. Look
it's a little bit different, right patch.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Some eleaitest elitist rolls.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Bowl Indiana merch that I have ordered, even though I
have never gave a damn until basically the last I mean,
I would argue just this season about Indiana football road
to that game.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
I mean, you are in Indiana grad, they are in
the Rose Bowl. You bought the merch. Why do you
not fly out there and go to the game?

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Because I have to cover Titans and Jags in Week eighteen?
What are you talking about? Okay, well, I mean just
forsake my day job to go go Gallivant the first time,
just for sake, for sup for it wouldn't be the
first time you just skipped work forsook. I don't know,
Like I'm just just, you know, just decided you weren't
going to show up. You know sometimes when you're just
like I'm just gonna go to Miami because I have

(01:00:16):
a few days off, Like you want to tell me
that you couldn't bye week. That's not too fair. That's
my vacation.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
When you spent all this time talking about you know
how you don't wait in lines. Why don't you just
pj yourself out to the Rose Bowl and then back
for the game. Oh, he's giving me the look like
he's thinking about it. Now, he's giving me the look
like he's actually contemplating the PJ. You know a couple
of people with a jet. I know you do. I'm
just saying, that's like, that's the best friend to have.
Is the best friend with the jet? A best friend

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with jets and Miles. They got to have Miles left
on it at the at the at the end of
the year to really help you. Look So would you
are you waiting? Are you waiting like you? Is it
going to be an Indiana National championship appearance for you?
Or are you just gonna watch no matter what happens
for Indiana you watching from home?

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
I'm I don't want to go to all that. That
sounds that sounds like a lot. If I'm being completely
honest with you, For if it was Indiana basketball and
a national championship game, I would go.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
But Indiana foo.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
I mean, listen, every time I'm asked this question, I
feel bad because it sounds like I'm talking down about
Indiana football. I just I went there, and I never
went to a game. Nobody did. You didn't go to
Indiana football games. It's not a It's the only time
I ever saw the inside of Memorial Stadium was when
I graduated, and that's because Assembly Hall, the basketball arena,

(01:01:35):
was under construction. So we were like one of the
first classes to not graduate at Assembly Hall.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
And that's not a slight in Indiana football.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
It's a tribute to what Kurt Signetti and Scott Nelson,
the athletic director, and all the different players for Nana
Mendoza and before Curtis Rourke and all these different things
have done to turn that into a legit national championship contender.
But Fitzy, if I'm gonna, if I'm gonna bandwagon my
way through Indiana football, I just assumed do it at home.

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
It just doesn't mean anything to me, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
I mean, you could use your media access to get
probably some sort of a media pass to the Rose Bowl.
You could use your friends to get a jet. You
go out there. I mean, this is it's less about
the football game, but more about Buck Rising living like
a baller, like just putting on your social media. How
I go to the Rose Bowl as you get on
a jet, go there, stand on the side of the field,

(01:02:24):
get on your jet and come back like I did.
This is this is this is I'm sorry, I'm the
one giving you this level of brilliance. Although without looking
at it, I think we're scheduled to work, so you
never mind, you can't do this now you have obligations.
Oh well, then now I.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
Will go to Pasadena. You're right, Oh god, I'll go.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
I'll go ahead and scamper on out the California real quick.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
I just abhor, abhor you. That is the that is
the he is Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz. I need
a moment to collect myself, Martin, get us caught up
on what's going on right now on the scoreboard.

Speaker 8 (01:02:54):
Well, this Gary part Buck is if you did come
to pass the dinner for the game, you could probably
catch the first half and make it back here for
the start of your show.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
See in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
Just saying out one time, Martin, why why don't you
just give me the update.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
What I say it? I want to say it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
I didn't say it.

Speaker 8 (01:03:11):
It's out here, we're out here, We're I'm looking at
it right now, seats Wideop, but says Buck right there.
All right, let's get to the update to the updates,
as Buck has requested. Two thirty two lefts in the
fourth quarter of the Houston Texas with the ball and
the lead twenty to sixteen. As Uh, it's been a
back and forth game thus far. Texans jumped out to

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an early lead and the Chargers have been chipping away
at it ever since, but unable to actually take that
as Texas now to the ball in their own forty
nine yard line with again two twenty left in the
fourth quarter. There chieh with two touchdown passes and two interceptions.
Woody marks just rush for nearly a first down. He's
got sixty nine yards on the ground eighteen carries in

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college football, I know Jason Fitz said he didn't care.
But the Pop Tar Bowl was won by BYU twenty
five to twenty one, fifteen on answer to in the
fourth quarter for BYU. In that matchup, as bear Bachmeyer was.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Named the MVP.

Speaker 8 (01:04:07):
I don't know if you get the special like pop
Tart for that, but you know he was the MVP
East Carolina over pittsb Tart.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
That face barely fits in that helmet as it is
relaxed over that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
That said bear is an earned nickname.

Speaker 8 (01:04:21):
Twenty three to seventeen East Carolina over Pittsburgh at the
Military Bowl and Penn stating Clemson. You guys just touched
on it at Yankee Stadium and the Bad Boy Moores
Pinchtrap Bowl. He had a twenty two to ten win
for Penn State, both of these teams finishing seven and
six on the year, Penn State and Clemson not how
they drew it up. NFL Tonight Ravens and Packers no

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starting quarterbacks involved. Malik Willis is going to get to
start for Jordan Love who has a concussion. Tyler Huntley
will start for Lamar Jackson, who's out with a back injury.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
The Packers will also miss guard as.

Speaker 8 (01:04:55):
Zach Tom and the Ravens need to win today to
keep those playoff hopes alives back to you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
Fun fact he's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz When I
worked at ESPN. You're not allowed to mock the name
of bowl games like it's specifically something you're told on there.
You can't too because they spend millions of dollars in
advertising money, so you can't do funny things around it.
You can't make jokes about it, you can't mock it.
Let's exercise that freedom here a little bit like the
the Bad Boy Motors whatever, mower's pins, trip ball, it's

(01:05:25):
a stupid name. What stupid like? And then out there
trying to figure out how to mow like with their
fake mowers when there's like ten inches of snow hit
New York last night. I don't know, I don't know.
It's just some of these bull names get me. I
did just see buck that the Pop Tart Bowl had
Pop Tart ice cream sandwiches at halftime for everybody? Is
that a move? Like you went on a pop Tart

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ice cream sandwich?

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
How much weed have I had that day?

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
Well? I mean presumably you're working because you're in the
media area, so none, none, ish not enough to get
you fired? How about that? That's there's qualifying on the scale,
Like there's a there's none and then there's not enough
to get you fired, and then.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
The football team I cover, I'm medicating at that point,
it's it's prescription. But uh, if you had to come
up with a sponsor for a ball game, like the
best possible sponsor that would delight you, that would that
you would enjoy the marketing around, Like if you could
come up with one company that you would like to
sponsor a ball game, and then you would get to

(01:06:26):
design the marketing, the promotion all the different things around
said ballgame, like the Pop Tart Bowl. Is there something
that you have in your mind that you when you
get when you get the Snoop Dog Bowl or the
the Gronk Bowl that he had last year, like the
Jason Fitz Bowl. Who would sponsor the Jason Fitz Bowl
and what would be the accompanying the accompanying festivities around it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
It's a Skittles Bowl because Skittles and Mike and Ike
were really my my my, but I went, I went Skittles.
It's a Skittles bowl. Yeah, and then taste the rainbow.
The entire field is basically lacquered Skittles, like it's it's
just all painted. They paint the entire thing to look
like Skittles, and then there are massive creepy Skittles that
are running around on the side, like you know those

(01:07:11):
those suits that people can wear that are like the
round suits of the balls that they could just bounce
off of each other. Like I've never done that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
We should do.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
That, we should do that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:19):
Oh my god, this this is can the winner like
jump into a big thing of skittles too?

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Oh my god, yes, a bath of skittles. I'm all like.
And then like the dunk, the Gatoray dunk is just
all skittles being dunked on a coach. I mean, hurt,
Oh okay, tough enough a little bit, I am in.
And then yeah, yeah, the the bouncy balls that that
you're you're in that you're running after each other. They're
painted to look like different skittles. Oh my god. Yeah,
like the Skittles bowl tastes the rainbow. I'm in on

(01:07:47):
this a whole way. I'm all in.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
I will participate in the Skittles bawl. I will I
will put on the bubble outfit and we can we
can have some fun with that. Whenever it is that
you get to sponsor your own ball game, like the
Snoop Dogg Arizon featuring Miami of Ohio and Fresno State.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
I mean if the boss is here, want to get
on it at the Fox Sports Radio Bowl and then
you and I will be the skittles and then we
can do the run. Or we could just do this
at the Rose Bowl that we're now we're now going to.
I'm just I'm manifesting that you and I rose bull
boom running on the side, and.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
You want to go to the Rose Bawl, so you
want me to go with?

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
You have no interest in until Martin pointed out that
we could do the show in LA and then it's like, Hey,
that's the way we can hang out with everybody, do
a little team bonding, have a little bit of a
fun time.

Speaker 5 (01:08:29):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
I'm just, I'm just I'm a man of the people,
that's all. I'm just, you know, people for the people.
Where are you on the college football playoff schedule? Though?
Because in all, seriously, is I feel like there was
such a long gap after the selection to get to
the first round and then it just feels like we've
had forever. I know, it hasn't been that long, it
feels like it's that long to get to the next round.
There's no continuity to momentum to adrenaline on all this.

(01:08:52):
It just it just feels so lost to me in
the landscape right now.

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a much more what's the
word I'm looking for.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
I care vastly more about the college football playoff schedule
than I do, for example, about the MLS playoffs. You
pay any attention to Major League soccer, I only do
because we have Nashville CE here in town. In nashville'
c's first round playoff matchup was with Lionel Messi and
Inner Miami. Then it was a three game series and
they were out. I mean, they've made it to a
game three, but still Inner Miami was still playing in

(01:09:24):
the playoffs. Like not that long ago, the MLS playoffs
took forever to get through. I mean the hockey playoffs
feel like that as well, where it's basically I mean,
you and I did a preed's playoff run a couple
of years ago in Nashville where they ultimately lost to
the Penguins and six in the Stanley Cup. It's a
two month long playoff, but it doesn't feel like that right,

(01:09:45):
Like it's two months. It takes up basically that much time,
but there is something to keep you engaged. Even if
a series ends in a sweep or something like that,
like you still feel like.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
You're in it the whole way through.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
I feel like we go so long between the first
round of the college football Playoff and the actual playoff
games that matter, because FITZI, I don't feel like we've
had the college football the first round of college football playoff.
Like we watched the Miami A and M game and
that was whatever, and it ended up being a game
that Miami was able to advance in and it's a
significant thing in program history and all that. But I

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won a good football game and the rest of it
was just slop right. It's Oregon and JMU. It's all
missing Tulane.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
It does.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
It feels more like the the isleta New Mexico Bowl
than it does the college football Playoff. So for me,
the college football Playoff doesn't actually start until next weekend
because of the way that it's structured right now with
the Group of five participation and all these different things.
So maybe that's just a me thing. I'm sure JMU
fans don't appreciate that. I'm sure tou Lane fans don't

(01:10:45):
appreciate that because it was an accomplishment for them to
make it into the field.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
But still those are not I do not consider those
to be even though they.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
Are by title college football playoff games, because they're not
really contest until we get to the second round.

Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
I just need the opportunity to be sort of swept
up in emotion throughout a playoff run. And that's every
time somebody says, oh, they can't add more teams, they
can't add more playoff games, they can't do anything to
the schedule, I laugh because I just look at the
inefficiencies of the schedule right now, Like ultimately, when you
have a playoff, when you have a twelve team playoff,

(01:11:19):
and I believe eventually it'll be a sixteen team at least,
but when you have a twelve team playoff, the number
one thing that matters to your sport is now that
twelve team playoff, Like that's everything. So you move everything,
you move mountains to make sure that your twelve team
playoff is absolutely the moment that casuals die hards. Everybody,
they can't get enough of your product. That's what I need.

(01:11:42):
And so to me, that's why I've said to you before,
you know I'd move the Army Navy game to the
beginning of the season, so we can celebrate America and
the pageantry at the beginning of college football. I get
rid of conference championship games because frankly, they don't really
matter at this point, and I would get straight to
the playoffs. And once I get straight to the playoffs,
just like the NFL gives us the wild card and
then the divisional round, then the conference championship. Like that's

(01:12:03):
what I'm doing. I'm giving you week in, week out.
Oh my god, I cannot wait for you know, in
this case, probably because of the way the schedule works,
they're gonna have Friday Saturday games, right, like, so make
it enticing. Like it just it hit me when you
and I found out that we're going to be working
together on New Year's Day on Fox Sports Radio. We'll
be on in the afternoon on New Year's Day. And

(01:12:24):
part of the reason we're excited to do it is
it's during playoff games. And I just sat there, I thought,
my god, we have to wait all the way until
New Year's even New Year's Day, to just get to
the second round of this thing. Like it's just so
disjointed and it lacks momentum because of.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
It, and maybe this will be something that's corrected when
we eventually expand to sixteen. I know that that is
a deadline that's coming up in twenty twenty six for
them to make a decision about when they will expand
the playoff field at this point in time, so maybe
they'll fill in the gaps right now in the current
schedule with additional playoff teams, which you know you could

(01:13:02):
argue with further water down the field unless you make
it the best sixteen as opposed to a group of five.
And the whole thing that we're currently going through right now.
There's a couple of different iterations of this that I'm
curious to see, But what we can't agree on at
this point in time is that it's it's it is
disjointed to the point where I just feel like it
loses a little bit of juice. Right the Alabama comeback

(01:13:25):
win in the first round of the College Football Playoff
against Oklahoma is a big deal, and then all of
a sudden, it's Indiana and Indiana we want Bama. And
Kurt Signetti has a background at Alabama, and Kaylin de
Boor was a former coordinator at Indiana, and like all
these different storylines that you have in the immediacy of
it that lead the dialogue the following day or the

(01:13:47):
following week, but then you just have this this, for
lack of a better term, dead period. I know these
teams are practicing and all that, and there are press
conferences given, but whatever, like it just it loses. We
talk about momentum sports like it loses audience momentum when
you have this much time between the meaningful matchups and
when you water it down initially with matchups that aren't

(01:14:08):
in fact meaningful.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
It's all of this needs to be examined because if
you're going to do these things, you got to get
it right. And I don't think it's a hot take
to say that so far the college football Playoff hasn't
been able to settle itself because we all know they
haven't gotten it right. I just hope that when they
do get it right, the schedule is part of it.
We're gonna get it right for you. Next we start
for the single greatest game show in the history of
sports talk radio. Would you rather coming up next? Bucking

(01:14:31):
Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio, Mary Mack asked
me the other day, what my earworm is the song
that gets stuck in my head, like four Days by
the Way.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
Making love out of nothing at all Their Supply. She's like,
I don't know it. Let me tell you something. When
this song comes on, I don't care if it's the
middle of winter, if I'm stuck at a red light,
I am rolling every window down in my car, and
I am turning the vall him up as loud as
possible because I want the world to know I am
listening to air Supply making love on anohing at all. God,

(01:15:07):
this is a banger, such a good song. Oh my God,
change my life. Oh, I'm telling.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
You changed her life? Fits look at us us?

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
The hell did you have to do with it? Nothing?
He's buck rising out, Jason Pitch. You didn't do anything.
You're just sitting here us and us. That's like, yeah,
I'm telling you. That's like a dad that did nothing
at Christmas. That is suddenly like, oh, we got your
great presence. You didn't do a thing, Dad, That's where
you are, right. How does it feel to your mom?

(01:15:38):
I walked into that. That's my fault. Oh, I could
listen to the song all day, but would make a
sandwich keep it moving. Whoa wow? Wow? Can we please
cut that off and send that to Buck's mom, who is,
by the way, a wonderful, intelligent, brilliant human being.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
That is just a totally excommunicate me if she ever
heard me say that to a woman.

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
Which is the antithesis of Buck in every possible way,
actually accomplished. All right, so let's let's get this.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
She can't get the lines at the Underground Margarita bars
on Broadway.

Speaker 1 (01:16:14):
Though, my god, can we just do this? It's side
of the greatest game show in the history of supports
Ark Radio. Buck, it is time for woo you rather?

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
I don't think that was very good?

Speaker 1 (01:16:29):
Sounds bad? Okay, he slows down. Well, I'm trying to
match you. I can't. Yeah, I don't know. You guys
have mastered. You've mastered getting the second.

Speaker 6 (01:16:40):
Two words right, But that first one is really what's
the it's the entry?

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
The entry? I did no judge, Judy produced this show.
What are we doing over here? Like? You're just happy?
On time? This time he barely shows up and all
of a sudden, he's ian did you pull making love
out of nothing? No? You did not. You did not.

Speaker 3 (01:16:58):
It's all falling apart the last five minutes of this show.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
I don't even get the judge Judy reference. But because
you're being judgmental and that made you judge duty, explain it.

Speaker 6 (01:17:09):
Okay, let's spin the wheels.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
Spin the wheel or it. Papaul wants to wheel spin? Please,
I'm the old need a drink? Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:17:20):
Would you rather only be able to speak to people
like you're mocking them in their own voice? Or always
have to point out a person's biggest physical flaw before
being allowed to speak to them.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
Oh, two of my favorite things.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
How do I pick? I do all of these things already?

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Probably their physical flaw, like their most their most glaring
physical flaw.

Speaker 1 (01:17:45):
Yeah, your nose is way too big.

Speaker 7 (01:17:46):
Anyway, I would I would absolutely, uh personally assassinate a
person from a physical standpoint before engaging in conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
I probably am prone to do that anyway. You probably
have to ask somebody how I do with first impressions?
I imagine not good?

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
WHOA you? Probably we have to somebody who I do
it first impressions? Probably not good? Sea, I just want
to mock them in their voice. That's because I could
play I can play it totally oblivious. That's his voices.
The way you just made me sound like, goofy, get
out of here. I mean that is one hundred percent.
You know what I wanted this one. I want to
mock the voice and then be like, what, I'm not
doing anything at all. It wasn't me.

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
I didn't do anything.

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
Okay, fine, yeah, all right? What roll roll the wheels,
spin the wheel, roll the dice.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
What are we doing landing the plane?

Speaker 9 (01:18:33):
All right?

Speaker 6 (01:18:34):
Would you rather every joke you ever tell be met
with silent and literal cricket noises or be unanimously hated
by the entire continent of Europe.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
I'm pretty I'm pretty used to the former of those things.
So like, uh, you know, I tell a joke, it
doesn't land. I'm good with that, Like, I'm I will
embrace that level of awkward words.

Speaker 6 (01:18:53):
But the literal cricket noises like that adds awkward. That's
a whole nother layer of awkwardness.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Yeah, one hundred percent. And then yeah, I'm gonna turn
around and be like, am I right? Like I'm gonna
make it into a catchphrase. I'm all into that, Like,
you know, so I don't want to be hated by
the whole, by all of Europe. So yeah, it's a
lot of people. I mean, that is a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
Fuck, Europe's overrated. I'll take the hate.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
Good. I don't even know how to recover from that.
Spin the wheel.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Except for Spain, Spain's lover all.

Speaker 6 (01:19:27):
Right, would you rather look weak and actually be strong
or look strong and actually be weak?

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
Oh the ladder.

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
It's about my vanity at that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
Point, yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I'm not really actually looking
to have to do any manual labor in life, Like
that's just not really my strength. So I don't want
to be strong. I just want to look strong, Like
I don't get four to eleven. I am five nine
and a half, thank you on five nine in a quarter,
and now I'm shrinking as I get older. I'm like
a little over five night. Like, look, my my search

(01:19:59):
for ABS has everything to do with vanity and nothing
to do with actually being stronger. So one hundred percent,
I just want to look strong and then actually not
be strong, because then I can be like I'm sorry,
I kind of actually did of that, and I don't
have to do any extra work along the way. I
feel that was the most buck rising answer in history.
I'm just trying to avoid work. Ian, you did a
great job today. I'm not you know what, Ian, you

(01:20:19):
were great. Harry, you were a spectacular fuck you were here.
We'll be back with you more of this week. Thanks
for hanging out with bucket fits. I hate you.

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