The Jonas Knox Show: 12/28/2019

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last time for the year nineteen. What do you say?
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it's funny how we pick and choose how we want
to make things important in sports. Like one minute they're

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really important and they mean everything, and the next minute
they're not it. So it's crazy. I was watching on
a Friday night the Holiday Bowl from the world's largest
armpit called the formerly qual Calm. It is a dump.
For those of you that have not been there, you
are the lucky ones. It is an absolute toilet. It's

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the reason why the San Diego Chargers turned into the
l A Chargers and upgraded to a thirty thousand seats
soccer stadium that was only thirty thousand seeds after they
added three thousand because it was before Okay, so there's
a reason they decided to do that. Because qual Calm
or s D C C U or whatever the hell

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they want to call it. I call it a porta potty,
you call it whatever you want. The place as a hellhole,
but that's where they played the Holiday Bowl on Friday night.
And so college football has told us, and as much
as I love the College Football Playoff, they have told
us that as important as the College Football Playoff is,

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the other bowl games that aren't the semi final or
the national title game, they're kind of not that important
because all the emphasis is on who wins the national title,
right like who's going to get into the college football Playoff.
And so as much as I like the college football Playoff,
it is sort of kind of indirectly taken out the

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value of a couple of different things. I've talked about
the Heisman Trophy. I think the Heisman Trophy doesn't have
nearly the buzz that he used to because we pay
so much attention on the College Football Playoff and the
rankings throughout the course of the year. And then also
I think that bowl games around the country that used
to be a really, really big deal are no longer

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that big of a deal. So if we all acknowledge that,
and we all agree that the college football playoff and
the National title are the most important games. Why do
we put so much emphasis on the other bowl games
when it goes one way or the other. Because I'm
now hearing from people that USC losing in the Holiday

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Bowl is a damning, damning look on the state of
the program and Clay Hilton, here's a question for you,
who cares? Who cares that USC lost the Holiday Bowl?
Honest to god, if you're a USC fan out there.

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Number one, why are you surprised that USC lost the
Holiday Bowl? Number two? Did it change anything that you
thought about the program? In Clay Helton, this is something
everybody already knew. Why is this all of a sudden?
Why is it now hot take bonanza? Everybody's else, everybody's
got a gatling gun of hot takes on social media,

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and now everybody jumps in all in on. Oh my god,
this is the low point for USC football. It is,
This is the low point. How about your coach showing
up to a pet prep rally drunk? How about that?
How about a coach on the sidelines during a game
and other assistants smelling booze on his breath? Like you

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want to talk about low points? Like you can complain
all you want about Clay Hilton. Uh the guy before
was Nicholas cage Off leaving Las Vegas. Okay, Like we're
gonna talk about low points here. All of a sudden,
now the Holiday Bowl is now the referendum on Clay
hilton status with the USC Trojans. Like which one is it? Like?

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Like how important is this bowl game? How important are
these other bowl games? Because one minute, college football and
the media and all the discussion is about the college
football playoff and the National Championship and those are the
only games that matter. And then fast forward a couple
of weeks later, and now the Holiday Bowl means that
maybe that coach shouldn't retain his job. This is how

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we're doing it. Like, why don't we just be honest
about it? These are exhibition games. They don't matter. If
we're gonna start firing coaches after they lose bowl games,
why don't we start firing NFL coaches after they lose
preseason games? Because guess what, those are exhibition games too.
Which one is it? Are these games not important or

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are they important? Because now, according to people out there,
I mean, this is I mean, talk about the state
of the USC can you believe they lost to Iowa?
First of all, Iowa is a pretty good team. Secondly,
who did you think was going to be more fired
up for this game? People from Iowa traveling from the

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Midwest to San Diego to play the Great and Powerful
USC or USC having to drive an hour and a
half down south on the five and playing a hell
hole known as Qualcom slash sd C, c U or
whatever dump they're calling it nowadays. Who is going to
be are fired up for this game? And you're surprised

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at Iowa one, I'm not. You want to tell it
like low points for USC? My god, this is what
an embarrassment? Okay, well what about losing at b y U.
Where was everybody then? Oh we were still unhappy about Okay,
well you were unhappy about it. But the coaches there,
they've already announced he's coming back. Whether you believe it

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or not, that's fine. But you can't base your overall
opinion on Clay Helton in the program off an exhibition game.
That's all this game was. It's an exhibition game. Like,
if these bowl games are so important, why did guys
entering the NFL draft now sit out of these bowl games?

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So which one is it? Is there? Are these games
important or are they not? I actually think we take
it a step further. I have found myself and I've
caught myself over the past couple of years looking at
bowl records when it comes to coaches in college football.
I'll go through and I've caught myself because back in

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the day, if you wanted to knock on a coach,
you could say, yeah, listen to man, he does real
well in the regular season, but man, his bowl record
isn't all that hot. Well, now you can't really play
that game because for a lot of these teams, these
bull games don't matter. Star players aren't playing in them
and their exhibitions, and certain teams are fired up for

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him and motivated because they mean more, and other teams
just aren't his fired up for him. It felt to
me like Iowa was totally up for that game. Iowa
was ready playing. Well, that's the best offense I've seen
Iowa put together in years. I don't know when the
last time Iowa scored that many points. When's the last
time Iowa nearly put up a fifty burger? Honest to God, Like,

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I like, when was the last time that happened, and
i WA went up and down the field. That happens
because one team super motivated for the game and the
other team isn't. But you can't take what you saw
at the Holiday Bowl on a Friday night and just
assume up, yep, that's a sign of what's happening with
the program. Okay? Was it a sign of what happened

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was happening with Alabama a few years ago when they
lost to Utah? I mean, these are exhibition games. It's
why I don't hold Bowl records against coaches anymore. You can't.
That's box score stuff. You can always tell who's on
the radio just reading a box score, or who's on

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television just reading a box score, because they'll tell you, well,
so and so I had this many points or so
and so through for this many yards. No, No, watch
the games. What do the games mean? Here's what the
Holiday Bowl meant. The Holiday Bowl meant that Iowa was
traveling to San Diego to try and make a statement
against the great and powerful USC, and USC was going

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about an hour down south to play in a dump
in a game that they've been told is a failure
because they didn't reach fill in the blank expectation for
the season. We've been telling USC players the entire year,
your failure, You've let the program down. You guys didn't
accomplish your goals. You well, the goals were the national title, right,

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that's what everybody expects. So why would you expect them
to get excited for a game in which they've already
been told you failed this season? Anyways? Yeah, but where's
their heart? Forget about heart? If a team in the
NFL is eliminated in week sixteen, you think they're gonna
come out firing on all cylinders in week seventeen. No,

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So this idea that all of a sudden these bowl
games matter when it fits a previous narrative, stop, it's
an exhibition game. Any opinion I had for Clay Helton
and USC going into this bowl game, it's the same
one I've got now. Nothing that happened in a meaningless
exhibition bowl game changes my mind on the status of

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a program in college football. We have got to stop
talking out of both sides of our mouth. One minute,
all that matters is the college football playoff games and
the national title, and the next minute meaningless bowl games
on a Friday night, all of a sudden matter because
one coach didn't look up to par based on expectations
during the season. It just doesn't make sense. Jonas Knocks

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Coming up next, a team in the NFL did something
very very unique. Find out who they are next here
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sea sucker, Jonas Knox, week after week always bleeps on
every sport. Go pose for a man's magazine or go
work for a fashion show. You worthless bleep. I mean
are they hiring like like this? And I you know,
I've I've got time. I mean I can make that happen,

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you know, I get off at three am Pacific time.
I could probably make that happen. I don't have to
tell you. Listen, I know the holidays are lonely for
some people out there. Just relax. We're talking sports, all
right there. There are bigger tragedies in the world than
how I don't take the Holiday Bowl. That's serious. I mean,
for God's sakes, another guy's crying, another guy's visibly crying

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on social media because he feels I didn't give Iowa
their due respect. Um, they got their due respect. It's
called the swag bags you get from the Holiday Bowl,
which I think include like a half used bar of soap,
half off tickets to Sea World in San Diego, and
then a free appetizer at t g I Fridays in

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the gas Lamp District. I think that's what comes in
the swagbag for Iowa. I mean, I don't know to
tell you, I really don't. I did hear from Iowa Sam,
former technical producer of this show here at Fox Sports
Radio Iowa Sam was at the Iowa game, and UM,
I'm just gonna go out on the line here. I
don't think he was sober. I'm just gonna say I
don't think he was sober. I will not be airing
any of those videos and clips or text messages that

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he sent me because I am not a rat. I
would not do that. Die with Sam. So there's that
all right. Coming up in uh In about ten minutes
from now here on Fox Sports Radio. There's a rumor
out there regarding one NFL quarterback that I think makes
complete and total sense. I think it makes total sense.
I will get to that here coming up ten minutes

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from now on Fox Sports Radio. I heard a this
was years and years ago. UM, a buddy of mine
at the time gave the greatest, one of the great
lines that I can recall. Like, there are certain times
to where people will say something and it just resonates
for the rest of your life for whatever reason. UM,
a lot of things as you get older, you start

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to forget things because life is busy. You know, you
have a family, you get married, you get jobs, you
go through stuff. Um, things are just you know, multiple
things come into your life, and so you have a
tendency to maybe forget a few things. But there are
those certain statements or moments or catchphrases or whatever that
stick with you for the rest of your life, and

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they could be the smallest thing at the time, but
you look back on it and you go, oh, you
know what, that makes a lot of sense. A buddy
of mine at the time talked about how you have
to learn how to have a fight, and the idea is,
if you're in a relationship, you can't just always want
to break up every time you guys argue, and some
people do that, and as you get older, I feel

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like people get better at that when you're younger, you know,
And let me just be honest, and I'm and I'm
gonna call out all god eyes here because I used
to be a dirt bag like this as well too.
When you're younger, in your late teens or early twenties,
the second you break up with somebody, the first thing
you're thinking about is, all right, well, let's go hook up, man,
let's get up now. When you get older, you break

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up with somebody, it's like, all right, I just now
I can drink and not be bothered. Okay, just I
just want to I just want to relax. I don't
want to be bothered. I don't want the hoss, I
don't want the headache. It's part of maturing. But the
idea of this is you have to learn how to
have a fight, which means if you argue, you can't
just always go nuclear. You can't always go to nukes.

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It can't always be we're done, we're breaking up, to
lead you off Facebook, to lead you off Instagram, You're gone, uh,
and don't even look up my twitch. It can't be that.
You gotta learn how to have a fight. You gotta
learn how to work through the difficulties and come out
clean on the other side. Because if you can do that,
it's a more mature approach, it shows patients and ultimately

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and actually benefits you in the long run. I feel
like the Atlanta Falcons have learned how to have a fight.
They figured it out. The Atlanta Falcons did something that
a lot of teams in the NFL aren't going to
be doing in the next seventy two hours. The Atlanta
Falcons learned how to have a fight. They realized, Okay,

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we are not very good right now. We were not
a good team last year. We've still got the reminders
all over the place of three in the Super Bowl.
There was even a meme that went up this week
at a Walmart and I'm assuming Georgia because it was
all Atlanta Falcons footballs. But at this Walmart there was
a bunch of Atlanta Falcon football's on sale and the

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price was to eight three each. Now, let me just
say this, whoever is responsible for that, all right, you'd
have a hard time selling me on the idea that
you didn't realize you put the same price as the
score of the Super Bowl that they blew. Okay, they
have a time convincing me of that. But I will
also say this for the manager or the person working

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the shelves who put up three to eighty three for
Falcons footballs at a Walmart, Bravo. That's how your bust balls.
That's next level ball busting by you and I, and
we celebrate those kind of individuals here on weekend overnight.
But the Atlanta Falcons, in dealing with all of that,
actually took a step back and took a mature, patient approach.

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You know what they said, all right, we're not gonna
go nuclear here. We're not just gonna fire Dan Quinn
for a bad season. We're not gonna fire Thomas de
mitchra for a bad season. You guys are coming back
we're taking the opposite approach. And I absolutely love what
they did because they not only factored in wins and

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losses on the field, they factored in wins and losses
in the locker room. Because you can say whatever you
want about the Atlanta Falcons. Nobody on that team gave
up on dan Quinn. Nobody dan Quinn came back after
the bye week, gave up play calling duties on defense,
decided all right, what do I got to lose? And

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guess what the Atlanta Falcons since center what five and
two after starting off one and seven? And look, I
have been as critical of as anybody with the Atlanta
Falcons because they have burned me way too many times
in Knox locks. I've picked the Falcons way too many
times because they're so seductive and you see all that
talent and you just assume they're gonna be really, really

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good each and every week, and then all of a sudden, ultimately,
especially early in the season, they turn around with steel
tip boots and kick you right in the balls. Every
single week. It happened. And I said, the problem with
Atlanta is you look at the talent, you look at
the names, there's still residue from that Super Bowl team
that was there a couple of years ago, and you

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fall for him. You think, God, there's so much there.
And Atlanta has won games against really good teams. They
beat New Orleans in New Orleans. They went to San
Francisco and beat the forty Niners in San Francisco. Like
Atlanta's won real games, Like they've looked really good at times,

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And that's part of the frustration. But I credit Arthur Blank.
I credit the ownership who could have so easily done
what everybody wants to do when black for a Black
Monday rolls around, everybody wants to just start firing guys.
All right, let's just start getting rid of guys. Let's start,
let's start breaking up, let's start moving on, let's get
At some point, you have to learn how to have

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a fight. And that's what the Falcons did here. They realized, Man,
those guys love playing for dan Quinn, and we're gonna
trust that locker room, and we're gonna trust the stability
that we've put in place in that locker room. Those
guys have spoken publicly, we love dan Quinn. We're playing
for dan Quinn. We're fired up to try and make
sure Dan Quinn is our head coach moving forward. And

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it worked, and I give him credit. Sometimes, when you've
got nothing to lose, when when you feel like you've
hit rock bottom, you make a change that ends up
changing the course of your career. We've seen it in
the NFL. Look at the Baltimore Ravens. Like people forget this.
You can actually find articles from the midway point last

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season in which they were talking about John Harbaugh stepping
down or the or the Baltimore Ravens moving on from
John Harbor at the end of the season. And the
thought was, all right, you've got Ozzy Newson, who's retiring
as our general manager, You've got John Harbaugh who's our
head coach, and Joe Flacco our quarterback. We're going to

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to move on from everybody, and we're gonna start this
brand new regime. And you know what John Harbaugh said,
screw it, We're just gonna go all in with Lamar Jackson.
What do I got to lose If I'm out, I'm out.
They trusted Lamar Jackson Jackson, they built an offense surrounding him,
playing to his strengths, and guess what, they rattled off

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a bunch of wins in the row, they got into
the playoffs, and John Harbag got a contract extension. That
one decision and the faith that he had in that
quarterback changed the course of his career, because if John
Harbaugh goes on and wins another Super Bowl, that guy's
going to the Hall of Fame. And you can argue
at the end of his career if they win a

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Super Bowl and he's in the Hall of Fame. One
of the moments that was the pivotal, key moment for
John Harbaugh's career was the decision he made understanding they
were probably gonna move on from him at the end
of the season anyways, to go with Lamar Jackson. That
right there changed the course of history in the NFL.
Dan Quinn, to a lesser extent, said, you know what,

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if I'm going out, at least I want to know
I tried everything here. I'll give up play calling duties.
What do I got to lose? And what happened five
and two? He kept his job, and if that team
makes a run in the postseason next year, he's probably
going to get a contract extension. Sometimes you can't just
panic and fire everybody. You gotta learn how to have
a fight. I love what the Falcons did. Jonas Knocks

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finish that, I pa Oh yeah, yeah, you're an alcoholic.
You're perfect for this show a little bit. I mean it,
did it? Did it taste okay? Even taking it and
to go contain? Oh yeah absolutely. In fact, the girl
I'm currently seeing also got me a growler for Christmas.

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It was an empty one, but it came with a
nice sleeve that will keep it cold when I take
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I will be scorned a lot. How's it going, Jonas?
Chopstick Jesus, Yeah, chopsticks, putting those to use absolutely, But
he does everything with chopsticks. He not everything, brushes his
teeth with chopsticks. He eats with chopsticks. I mean, you
do everything with chopsticks. There's there's a few things I
will not do with chopsticks, but it's not safe for
radio to discuss those things in a couple of hours. Yeah, yeah,

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this is the this is the safe place you can
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his name is Kevin Fais. By the way, Jonas, you
brought up the Holiday Bowl swag bag a second ago.
Oh yeah, what is it? Falster watching a wireless speaker,
which compared to many of these other Bowl games of

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something which would consider to be lesser Bowl games on
the Holiday Bowl, not very impressive. Let me ask you
if if they were if those guy were to have
a buddy sell those on Amazon to make a little
bit extra cash, because I don't know if you know that, keV,
but college athletes don't get paid. Yeah, I didn't know
if you know that or not. But if if they
were to have a buddy sell those on Amazon, but
those guys getting they would get in trouble for that

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right you have to you'd have to be somebody that
you could really because I mean, you know, if you're
a USC player, what a fossil watch and this doesn't
match with anything that I have a wireless speaker, I
don't need this, Like I mean it would you have
to be a cash transaction only, but maybe you sell
it to somebody on campus. That's really a step down.
Mean that goes against the miles of rotis these guys

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get on the recruiting trips anyway, So I mean that's nothing.
Stuff is nothing, but that that that is true, Like
do you think that's part of the negotiation, Like, Hey,
if you come here, not only will we introduce you
to multiple strippers on your recruiting trip, but at the
end of this whole thing, you play your cards, right,
win er lost. You get a fossil watch. Yeah, I
mean I can stuff over here to the Rickettina memory.
You'll over here and try a red stick we recommend.

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Can I ask you this though on the on the
b and I actually wanted to ask all you guys
this on the bowl game, so they had the cheese
at Bowl between the Air Force and Washington State earlier.
Let me just let me just because I have no
interest in breaking down the ball game because it's an
exhibition game. But I hope I know where you're going here, Okay,
Like all the precincts are in, Like it's a wrap cheese.
It is the greatest cracker of all time. Right. That's

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especially partial to the You always ask why I make
it a racial thing, just it happens. But I'm a
partial to the white cheddar cheese. It's they're good. They're
very good. My buddy, well he is a racist, we
know that. But my buddy, um, by the way, you
know who doesn't like the white cheese it Antonio Brown.
He actually sent a tweet. He sent a tweet that said,
no more white cheese. It's I just don't think people

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is about that. You know, some some people tiptoe around
race issues here on this on the Fox Sports Radio,
we go right in. We're running into that burning building.
We're not We're not fearful with the flames. But it's
a done deal right there. Like cheese, it's are the
best cracker out that I ever made. Yeah, I don't
know what I mean, wheat thins, no flavorless some of

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those cars with the pepper in them, but that's really
you gotta put toppings on those cheeses. You can just
grab a handful and just wolf them down. Hell are
you talk Carpers on No, no, no, like with black
pepper in these table cracker and table water crackers. What
do you mean is in their cars? Like the name
of the brand is cars C A R R. I know. No.

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Like I love what they do with this bowl where
apparently they're putting cheese. It's like on the hot dogs.
And also they're they're the Air Force coach. One apparently
got a second after the gatorade bath, got a bath
of cheese. It's as well they've leaned all into it.
They've leaned into it for this bull you'd think when
the name of the sponsor is the name of the
bull game you want to write it off, but cheese it.

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They have no shame about it, and it's brilliant. Look,
this is a true story. My dog rest his soul,
my dog Hog who passed away. His favorite snack was cheese.
It's the last thing he ever ate was a cheese
it when he when he was getting ready to put
him down because he was sick. He was a bull
mast if he was over twelve years old, my best
friend in the whole world. It's exactly. I'll never get

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another dog. Is the last thing that he had. His
last meal was cheese. It's like he loved him. Every birthday.
I always got him a box of cheese it's and
he smoked him and he was a bullmassive, so he
drooled everywhere. So so cheese it crumbs, Yeah, it would
be attached to the to the shoe strings that were
hanging out of his mouth as he was just blowing

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through these the toast the new cheese. It's those thin
cheese it's those are unbelievable, outrageous or like a chip
and a cheese it. But I don't even I don't
even like what's number two goldfish crackers? I mean, goldfish
are solid alright, rits maybe, yeah, I don't know your
rits are classic. But again, like you gotta guess you
could eat rits by themselves. But again, if you don't

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have to put anything on the cheese and cheese, it
is good. It's it's enough, it's fulfilling enough of itself.
I mean, if anybody's got like what number two is
or or a shocking upset of number one at the
Jonas stocks on Twitter at the Jonas knocks on Twitter,
I would love to see what it is, because I
do not know that there's even a two. By the way,
Funny enough, when you look at the cheese at Bowl
swag bag does not include cheese. It's no mistake. That

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makes too much sense. I mean, why why would it?
I mean, it's well, it's a Mike Leach Bowl game.
So maybe he like gets, you know, everybody gets, you know,
like an autograph from from a YETI or something like that.
He's very, very into all that stuff. So all right,
Jonas Knox here on Fox Sports Radio from the Geico
Fox Sports Radio Studio is coming up next. There is
a rumor out there about an NFL quarterback I think

(28:44):
makes complete and total sense. I'll tell you what that
is next. Here on fs are for all the latest
from around the world of sports, though Kevin figures all right.
Speaking of college bowl games, there were five on Friday night.
It was highlighted by sixteenth ranked Iowa beating number twenty
two USC in that Holiday Bowl forty nine to twenty four.
I oh I had a kickoff return and an interception
return for touchdowns at us as. USC turned the ball

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over three times in the loss. The nightcap was that
after mentioned Cheese at Bowl Air Force beating Washington State
twenty one. Falcons finished this season on an eight game
winning streak Texas A and M with a comeback victory
over Oklahoma State in the Texas Bowl twenty four to one,
Kellen Mond a touchdown pass and a touchdown on the ground.
Michigan State held on for twenty one win over Wake

(29:27):
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(29:50):
from Jalen Brown and a twelve point victory over Cleveland.
That's five straight wins for Boston. The bucks Hamreta Hawks
despite not having Gallas to the Coompo in the lineup
as he sat out with Backstorren is the Heat with
the victory over the Pacers Orlando in Oklahoma City with
victories as well. Back to Jonas Knocks. Thanks Kevin. We're
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on fs are we are going to get into one
of our favorite segments here we just get to be negative.
Um I I really enjoy it because I think people
make a big deal out of stories that really aren't
a big deal at all during the week and so

(30:31):
you know, shots fired here to close up the week.
In the World of Sports. That'll be ten minutes from
now here on Fox Sports Radio. Um, all right, there
is a report out there from Ralph Avaciano, who covers
the Giants and New York Giants for s n Y,
that says that Eli Manning is most likely going to

(30:52):
retire after this season. Now that's not confirmed by anybody.
That hasn't been announced by the Giants or Eli Manning
or anybody like that. But if you were to just
take that report for what it is and and go
with that report, I think it just makes too much sense.
I think it makes total sense. This feels like the
perfect time for Eli Manning to step away. It just

(31:13):
does like it. Just like you watch how he's being celebrated. Um,
you watch how when he's out there and the Giants
fans are giving him, you know, a send off after
he gets a win and he's emotional about it. Then
he comes back and he's on the bench again. And
it's Daniel Jones team, and they're clearly moving in that direction,

(31:34):
and they clearly drafted Daniel Jones to be that guy.
And they've got their running back and they feel like
they've got their air apparent, and they go out after
the game and Eli Manning is playing flip cup with
the guys, and Eli Manning is, you know, teasing Daniel
Jones and they're making napkins rain at a bar somewhere.
And then these other reports come out that Eli Manning

(31:56):
used to drink beer on the team bus, that he
used that he just a different Eli Manning than what
a lot of people may be expected or thought of.
With all this stuff coming out, and you can say
whatever you want about the Mannings and maybe it's too much,
maybe get they get preferential treatment, which they absolutely do
from time to time. But Eli Manning, I you start

(32:20):
to see a different guy. You start to hear these
reports about what a great teammate he is and how
much fun it was to play with and all of
this stuff. It just feels like the right time, And
what what are the other options? Is Eli Manning going
to go on to free agency and go be a
backup somewhere else? Like what are the other options? I mean,
You've got your Super Bowls, You're probably a Hall of Famer.

(32:43):
He's got all the money in the world, Like he
went to New York and one in New York. For
all this talk about how man you know, sometimes the
big city is too big for certain players. You know,
Carmelo Anthony wanted in New York so bad, he wanted
there so bad, and it didn't work. And there are
other players that signed with the Yankees or want to

(33:05):
go be a New York Yankee and really really hope
it works, and sometimes it doesn't work. And then you've
got Eli Manning who was drafted by the Giants and
not only did he make it work there, he won
you two super Bowls and he beat the arch rival
Patriots in both. And Tom Brady, who is everybody considers
the greatest quarterback of all time. Nobody is going to

(33:25):
love and appreciate Eli Manning like Giants fans are. They're
just not so I don't know. This report isn't confirmed. Uh,
this report hasn't been talked about by other people. But
according to s n Y and Ralph Facciano, he thinks
that Eli Manning is gonna retire, and I think it
makes way, way, way too much sense. It feels like

(33:46):
the perfect time for him to move on and do
whatever he wants to do post NFL career. He's been celebrated,
They've forgiven all the poor play over recent seasons. It
feels like the perfect send off and the perfect time
for you by manning to retire. Jonas Knox here on
Fox Sports Radio, Get me on Twitter at the Jonas
Knox at the Jonas Knox on Twitter from the Geico

(34:08):
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next. Uh, this is
an opportunity to let you know how we feel about
things that you've been told in the world of sports
over the last week. Don't go anywhere. That's next NFSR.
Jonas Knox here on Fox Sports Radio, coming to you
alive from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up

(34:29):
top of next hour. Man all the trash, all the
crap that was been that has been talked about Knox
Locks this entire season, especially from whoever the a hole
is who's running the Fox Sports Radio Twitter account during
this show and promoting Knox Locks. Hasn't lost, Knox lost,

(34:49):
Knox Lox has not lost in three weeks. You talk
about a full blown five alarm fire in the sports
betting world, Knox Law. Coming up a little of our
ten minutes from now here on Fox Sports Radio. We
will have a do you Care coming up here. Momentarily,
we were talking about this and I sort of threw
it out there. The cheese at Bowl was on Friday night,

(35:11):
and I think it's hands down the greatest cracker of
all time. And I don't even know whose second. I mean, like, like,
what are the other options? And I swear to you,
I have never heard of this cracker. I didn't even
know it existed. I've never had it, I've never tried it,
I've never seen it. Multiple people are writing in about

(35:34):
a cracker called chicken in a biscuit? Is that? Okay,
let's go live to our I have heard of that
cracker that got to be careful how I say that?
And by the way, this will not be something that
this will let me be something that I go to
Kevin Figures on because I don't wanted to be misinterpreted
by anybody. Um, So, as we continue cracker talk here

(35:56):
on Fox Sports Radio, Kevin, go ahead and set this
one out. I don't want to get you in trouble. Uh,
let's go live to are I have heard of that
cracker that Jonas is not insider Chris Perfett for the
latest Chris. First off, we just had to make sure
that drop was saved, okay. Um, no, this is like
it's some nibisco offering. I've had it before. It tastes weird.
It is literally like a ritz cracker with chicken flavor.

(36:17):
I'm not kidding you. Multiple It's like a Southern thing.
I had it when I was in Georgia. I I've
seen it a couple of places, but I don't think
i've I don't think i've seen it outside of a
Piggy Wiggly. Actually, I've never even seen it before. And
people are writing in like this is the most It's
not as good as a cheese cracker. I mean some
people have said the Keepler Club crackers. I mean those

(36:39):
are good. Those are good. L Keeper Club crackers are good.
My dad, I swear to God, if you gave him
a sleeve of saltines and cheese slices, he could eat.
He could have eaten that every day in his life.
That was me when I was dead broke, I'd eat
a whole sleeve of saltines because I just I had
no money and that rather than kill myself with ramen,

(37:00):
I'd eat saltines. Kevin figures, have you heard of that
cracker I have had that. I've had that cracker that
I was talking. I'm talking about Ryan ber Singer. I
was gonna say this Cracker actually like, this is pretty good.
I have had the chicken in the biscuit in the bed.
Did I say something wrong? Kevin? You actually like a cracker?
I know he's crazy, right, this is normally normally goes

(37:23):
against my diet, but you know what I mean. But uh,
you know I saw the light eventually at some point
in my life, and uh, yeah, I endorsed the crack
breaking news. Kevin figures likes a cracker. I can just
see it. I never thought i'd say that I could
see it that. So you have you've ever heard of
chicken in a biscuit? I have, and I know I
had to google it and seeing the box refresh my memory.

(37:44):
It's been years, but I have had a chicken in
a biscuit in the past. Yeah. What I remember was good,
not cheese it but it's good. Yeah, just such a
weird taste because it's like chicken, and it is I
mean multiple people, that's the one that they're writing in
Chicken in a biscuit? So me who they? Who knew?
I mean, who knew? I mean, jeez, a little bit

(38:04):
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(38:27):
it's time for this. There's so many stories in the
world of sports, and most of them are a complete
waste of time. MC reports. Let's get kinky. Here's some
of the big stories from the last week. But Jonas,
the real question is do you care? All right? And
for that we turn it over to Ryan Burshing are

(38:47):
our executive producer, to find out what the hell people
have been talking about bursh Marshawn Lynch is returning to
the Seahawks. Do you care, Jonas? I do? Yeah, I
actually do. I want to see him play. Well. I
think it's a good story. Uh. Sunday Night foot Bowl
will be making an appearance in Knox Locks. I like it.
It's interesting. I'm excited for it. Next, jun Jin Riu
signed with the Blue Jays, Jonas, do you care? No,

(39:10):
I'm good and there's enough on the sports plate. I
don't need a sign of hinging U to the Blue
Jays to go ahead and wet my whistle. That's for
somebody else, not me. Next, uh the story about Uncle
Dennis wanting part ownership with teams that Kawhi Leonard was
negotiating with, Jonas, Did you care about that old situation?
I mean that it just sounds like sour grapes. Like

(39:30):
the Lakers are bitter because you know, he didn't sign
with the Lakers and so they're trying to show all
we couldn't believe what he was asking. Well, whatever it was,
you would have said yes to it. If it many
would have gone there. Uh No, that's a non story. Next,
Adam Gaze doesn't care about fan criticism because, as he says,
he as rich as f Jonas. Do you care love it? Yes?
I absolutely do. He's the j Cutler of coaches. I

(39:51):
love Adam Gaze, and in fact, I'll take it a
step further. If you don't like him, I think you're
gay sist right, I think you are a gaye. Anybody
that doesn't like Adam Gaze is a gay sist. All right,
print the T shirts. I am not a gaysist. I'm
all about Adam Gaze. Next is coming to an end
next week, Jonas, Do you care? No, Honestly, I'm like,

(40:16):
what's this decade crap? Like all of a sudden, like
everybody just realized the decade is coming to the end,
and they're looking for stuff to print up. So you're seeing, like, uh,
top ten shocking moments of the decade. Nobody cares man
like in this, in this immediacy time and day and age,
I think people want things now, all right, they want

(40:37):
things now. They don't care about taking a trip down
memory lane. We don't need to do best of the decade,
this and that, forget about it. The most important thing
revealed on this show is that I am not a
gaysist and you are. It's the hottest thing in sports today.
You could talk all you want about the Baltimore Ravens.
You could talk all you want about the impressive of

(41:00):
Lamar Jackson. You could talk all you want about Christian
McCaffrey and his thousand thousand season Michael Thomas and his
record breaking performance. The hottest thing in sports over the
last two weeks has been Knox Locks. I've Got the
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(41:23):
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(41:43):
com for a free rate. Quote. Man oh man, all
that trash, all the s that has been talked, all
the arrows that have been fired in the direction of
Knox Locks. Man oh man, you talk about coming up
clutch like some people when the game was on the line,

(42:05):
or it's crunch time, or it's going down to the wire.
You want them to have the ball. Give them the ball.
Everybody get out of the way. In sports betting and
in sports gambling, clearly it has been established. That is
Knox Locks. Now for those of you just tuning in
that if not are not familiar with the show, don't worry.
We care about you as well too, as we were

(42:26):
always trying to grow the audience and welcome everybody into
our dysfunctional, weird, borderline offensive family here on weekend overnights
on Fox Sports Radio. Knox Locks is a segment I
started doing, I don't know three or four years ago
here on Fox Sports Radio in which every single week,
heading into the NFL games, I would make five picks,

(42:50):
but it wouldn't be your typical point spreads. Sometimes I
would do over unders or point totals. Sometimes I do
a prop bet. Sometimes I'll call my shot on a
TV game and I'll tell you what will be shown
on the broadcast. It's sort of it's a little different
than your standard UH picks every single week to finish
up the weekending into the NFL weekend. I've never had

(43:11):
a losing season and Knox Locks ever, I've come close.
I finished a couple of games over five hundred a
couple of times, but I've never had a losing season.
This by far. To start out the year was my
worst Knox locks in the history of the program easy.
I was terrible below five hundred majority of the season,

(43:31):
and then all of a sudden, a couple of weeks ago,
four games under five hundred. What do I do five
and oh get back above five hundred. So now I'm thinking,
all right, all the pressures on these final two weeks
of the regular season, all the pressures on. I do
not want to finish below five hundred. So I need
to really come out last week. And I've got to

(43:52):
make a point. I've got to show everybody that five
and oh wasn't just a fluke. And so what did
I do last week? Well, I told you that the
Dolphin plus one. I really liked Miami in that game
plus one hosting the Cincinnati Bengals, and uh, it got
a little dicey towards the end. It took over time
when it probably shouldn't have. But the Miami Dolphins did
win that game. That's a win for me. I also

(44:15):
told you Will Greer making his first career start as
a quarterback. I told you it was going to turn
the ball over we went to the prop at market.
I told you that, and not only did he did
it multiple times, that was a win. I told you
the Jets plus three and a half against the Steelers.
I love that game. I didn't buy Pittsburgh's offense. They've
got issues at quarterback. They are so limited on that

(44:38):
side of the ball on the road. The idea that
they were over a field goal favorite didn't make sense.
I like the Jets. We won that one. I loved
the Philadelphia Eagles getting points at home. Injuries are not
I just had a great feeling about that game going
into it, and as we all watched, Philadelphia won that game.
That was another win. And then I had to take

(45:00):
green Bay plus five and a half on Monday Night
Kirk Cousins Prime time. I've talked about it, his issues
in adjusting to to anything outside the one pm Eastern
time time slot, which is slowly but surely being stolen
by other people covering the NFL, and I'm not getting
any other credit for it, but whatever, uh, I had
to take it. Green Bay plus five and a half

(45:22):
on Monday Night football was a bank heist, and of
course won that one as well too, which means for
the second week in a row, a five and oh
performance on Knox Locks, which means it puts me six
games over five hundred. I am guaranteed another winning season
in Knox Locks. So whoever's running that Fox Sports Radio

(45:47):
Twitter account, I don't know who it is, but whoever
is doing it that continues to ridicule me here on
weekend overnight, you can kiss my fat ass because they
take the l's, sir, take the L. You can kiss
my fat ass. That's a five and oh week for
the second week in a row and guarantees me a

(46:07):
winning season. Damn right it does. Now here's the bad news.
Betting on week seventeen, Little dicey betting on week seventeen.
You're not really sure what you're gonna get, all right,
you use it just sometimes it's a good idea, sometimes
it's not. It's like, you know, trying to shave certain

(46:29):
parts of your body after you've been drinking. Sometimes you slip,
you lose your balance, and the next thing you know,
you're in the e er uh and you're trying to
figure out how you're gonna go about having kids when
you've you know, done certain damage to certain parts of
your body. It's not the smartest thing in the world.
It is never the smartest thing in the world to

(46:49):
try and shave certain parts of your body when you've
been drinking. It's also not a good idea. If you
remember the scene on Jackass, the movie where Henry Rawlins
is r iving the jeep through the dunes in some
desert somewhere and they're trying to give a guy uh
Stevo a tattoo at the same time, that's also gone
a good idea. Gambling on Week seventeen in the NFL,

(47:11):
if you don't know what you're doing, is probably not
a good idea. But you know what, when you're tenant
O in your last two weeks, you say, screw it.
Let's all for a dollar, lock it, let's lock no knocks, locks, lady. What?
Browns and Bengals. The Cleveland Browns are a two and

(47:33):
a half point favorite at the Bengals. This is a
one pm Eastern time kickoff on Fox. If you've paid
any attention to the Browns all season, and if you've
listened to sports stock Radio or watch sports on television,
you have definitely paid attention to the Cleveland Browns. Doesn't
this feel like the typical Cleveland brown game? Doesn't it

(47:55):
against a team that's not good? The Browns are a
small favorite. Uh more are mocking of the Cleveland Browns
over the last week and the Brown's most recent performance
in which they were blown out in a game against
the Baltimore Ravens a week ago. This just feels to
me like the Browns playing bully and going into Cincinnati

(48:15):
and taking care of business with the Cincinnati Bengals. I
like the Cleveland Browns here minus to and a half.
This feels like the typical bounce back spot for the
twenty nineteen Cleveland Browns Panthers. This is a one pm
Eastern time kickoff also on Fox, and the Saints are

(48:37):
thirteen and a half point favorites at the Carolina Panthers.
I'm gonna be honest with you. I could sit here
and give you a bunch of reasons I could. I
could try and find statistics that will that will you know,
side with me and make me look smarter. I like
Carolina Carolina here, and the main reason is the number
of points they're getting almost two touchdowns at home. I mean,

(48:58):
for the love of Christ, have some pride, have some dignity,
and and try not to lose by more than thirteen
points at home and at least make your fans feel
somewhat better about the awful season that they have embarked
on and being part of this ride that is the
Carolina Panthers. I just to me, this feels like, if

(49:19):
you can't do this, maybe you just shouldn't be in
the NFL anymore. I also think that the Carolina Panthers
are fired up because they want to get Christian McCaffrey
to that thousand thousand mark, thousand rushing yards, thousand receiving
yards he's sixty seven away from doing so. I think
they get it done. I also think New Orleans wins,

(49:40):
but I think health is the main concern here. New
Orleans is banged up. They are banged up. They've gotten
multiple injuries and guys with little nicks here or there.
And as much as New Orleans would love a first
round buying, we'll go through all of those scenarios later
on in the show. I like Carolina here. It may
take a backdoor cover, but if I'm getting thirteen and
a half points at home, I'll take it. Lady Falcon,

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Tampa Bay is a one point favorite at home. This
also a one pm Eastern time kickoff on Fox. I
like Tampa Bay here, and I like him for two reasons.
Number one, Jamis Winston. Never mind the fact that he
is staring a thirty thirty season square in the eyes,

(50:25):
thirty touchdowns, thirty interceptions. Never mind that. Okay, never mind that.
If you've watched Jamis Winston at all this season, if
you are a Jamis Winston fantasy owner all this season,
you know that Jamis Winston season has been this one
week looks pretty good. That's a guy I want to

(50:46):
give a lot of money to. The next week. Are
we taking on the draft again? What's the quarterback of
the future look like? Jamis Winston was bad a week
ago against the Houston Texans, uh to the point to
where I'm starting to wonder whether or not he he
knows which jersey the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are actually wearing
from game to game. He was terrible last week, I think,

(51:08):
and I like Jamis Winston to bounce back in this game.
So that's reason number one why I like Tampa Bay.
Here's reason number two. Atlanta's motivation. What were the Atlanta
Falcons playing for the last month and a half to
two months of the season to keep Dan Quentin? They
wanted dan Quinn to keep his job. Well, now that

(51:28):
it's already been announced before the final game of the
season that dan Quinn is going to keep his job,
I think there's gonna be a little bit of a letdown.
I think the Falcons who now recognize it it worked.
Dan Quinn is now their head coach. I think there's
a little bit of a natural letdown, a sigh of relief,
if you will. And I think the Atlanta Falcons come
up small in Week seventeen. I like Tampa Bay metis

(51:51):
Wan Packers. This also a one pm Eastern time kickoff
on Fox. The Green Bay Packers are twelve and a
half point favorites at the Detroit Lions. Look, the Packers
have been less than impressive in a lot of games
this season. I know we want to jump for joy
because they beat Minnesota on Monday Night. I get all
that they looked okay. Aaron Rodgers has looked okay. He

(52:15):
hasn't been great, But the Packers have been less than
impressive in a lot of games teams that they should dominate.
It ends up being a lot closer, and it should
be the Bears twice Detroit the first time on Monday
Night football in one of the most poorly officiated games
at multiple points in the game that I think a
lot of people, uh forget about this late in the

(52:37):
season the Carolina Panthers. Look, Carolina almost covered that spread.
They almost on a late touchdown that maybe should have
been ruled a touchdown by Christian McCaffrey. By Christian McCaffrey,
That game was a lot closer, and the Washington Redskins
played the green Bay Packers much closer than a lot
of people would anticipate. I like Detroit, and I like
the points here at home, and it's much Carolina that

(53:01):
many points at home in Week seventeen, when you know
one team is for sure in and wants to make
sure they're healthy. I gotta take Detroit plus to twelve
and a half. I also think there is going to
be a little bit of a letdown for green Bay
coming off that emotional Monday night game. They celebrated a
division win. I like on a short week Detroit getting
that many points at home. Next lay at Seahawks. All right,

(53:27):
this is Sunday night football, and this is a damn
good and interesting football game. I have got certain rules
that I live by if if you've listened to the show,
I've talked about these rules. Three of them that come
to minor this number one, I always work out in
the morning, never later in the day, Always in the morning.
Always got to be the first thing. That way. Once

(53:47):
you get it done, the hardest part of your day
is over. You can now focus on getting everything finished
and taken care of and all of that. The worst
feeling in the world is when you're working at nine
to five, or you're working all day and then you realize,
oh God, now I gotta go to the gym. No
attack it in the morning, when your energy is there
and you've got the most of it coming off a
night of sleep. Go to the gym in the morning.

(54:09):
That is rule number one. Rule number two. If she
cheated on him with you, she'll probably do the same
thing to you, all right, So don't date that girl
long term. It never ends up working. If you met
under circumstances that involved cheating on the other side, do
not expect that that is all of a sudden gonna
change moving forward. They've shown you what they're capable of.

(54:32):
You have the intel, make the smart choice, and don't
think long term with that person. And number three. If
you're a Hall of Fame quarterback and you're getting more
than three points at home on national TV with a
lot to play for, I don't care what it is.
You take that Hall of Fame quarterback. I like Seattle here.

(54:52):
I know they're banged up. I get it. They're bringing
in every running back that's ever played for him in
the history of the franchise. Next week, maybe it's Shot Alexander.
Who knows, Maybe it's gonna be Chris Warren or the
first Kurt Warner whose name was spelled with the Sea.
I have no idea, but I know they have not
been the same team at home. I get all that.
So we've got the injuries, we've got a less than

(55:14):
impressive performances at home. But I can't pass up the
points at home for a Hall of Fame quarterback like
Russell Wilson. I just can't do it. I think there's
gonna be opportunities against this forty Niners defense. This forty
Niners defensive everybody you talked about at the beginning of
the season as being one of the great defenses in
the NFL. They're allowing thirty five points a game over

(55:35):
the last three weeks. They're a shell of themselves from
earlier in the season because the points because of Russell Wilson.
I gotta take Seattle plus the three and a half
on Sunday Night Football. And that is your week seventeen
edition of Knox Lots Knocks. Got It's mouthful, sure is

(55:59):
like where does this stuff come from? That? I don't
even I don't remember saying half of this craft Like
where does it? Where do you? Is this just all like, hey,
here's Jonah saying something that sounds like a six sexual innuendo?
Is that like a certain page that you have, Chris,
I have a whole wall of it. Yeah, I don't.
I don't want to know, Like what else is in there?
It's gotten so big. I might need to say that
that's going there. You go the Ryan Burr Shinger on it. Listen,

(56:22):
everybody is there's a hot mic for everybody and Bursch
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on fs ARE, I can't fit one on my head. Well,
the well, the problems, and some people wish that was
their problem. Jonahs knocks Fox Sports Radio Company alive from
the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. Uh, in honor of
Iowa and they're big winning the Holiday Bowl. Little Slipknot
from Iowa. Not heard during the Christmas season here on

(57:27):
fs ARE. That didn't qualify for Christmas music? But good
do you good to hear from Slipknot here on Fox
Sports Radio. Yeah? By the way, we for those of
you just tuning in. I don't know anybody on an
AM five l A Sports who maybe didn't catch uh
the show open uh and and don't worry we will
be getting to a story in the NFL that I

(57:48):
think reeks of desperation here. Um, but if you didn't
catch the show open, I am not going to do
what many people did on social media. Uh and now
call for Clay Hilton's job after losing in the Holiday
Bowl because it was the effing Holiday Bowl and who cares.

(58:08):
Nobody cares. It's an exhibition game, Like, come on, man, like,
what what are we doing? You can't all of us.
You can't tell me in one side of your mouth
that these games don't matter. It's all about the national championship.
And that's why players sit out Bowl games if they're
not for the national championship. And then in the same

(58:28):
side of your mouth say, oh, but that's that coach
should be gone. And that's the proof right there. It's
an exhibition game. It's a Holiday Bowl like it just
And also it's not like Iowa's a bad team. I
was a pretty good team. They're competitive in a lot
of games in the Big Ten. Like I don't look

(58:49):
at that and say, man, this is a sign of
how bad the USC program is. You can't have it
both ways. It's my same complaint when it comes to
Laker fans. You can't tell me and rave and brag
about how great you were doing in the regular season
and then after you lose a regular season games say
it doesn't matter. It's a regular season. Which is it.

(59:09):
It either matters or it doesn't, Like you can't like
make up your mind. So no, I'm not gonna sit
here and call for Clay Hilton's job because USC lost
in the Holiday Bowl. I think we look at bowl
games like we used to look at them, and we
need to stop doing that. There are too many other
factors at play here. One of the fall one of

(59:30):
the drawbacks of the college football Playoff is that it's
made other bowl games that aren't the National championship or
the College Football Playoff. It's made those games less relevant,
which is why players sit out of those games. Leonard Tornette,
Christian McCaffrey, etcetera, etcetera. You can go down the list
of names of really good players who have sat out

(59:51):
bowl games. If those are national champion implicated games, then
they would have played in those games. But I'm not
gonna sit here and a head coach based on how
they did in a bowl game. I don't even count
bowl games against coaches anymore because I think there are
too many other factors involved. I am not surprised Iowa
came out and hammered USC. I'm not surprised at all.

(01:00:15):
Who did that game mean more to Iowa coming from
the Midwest out to San Diego, fired up to get
to play on the West coast on a Friday night
against USC or USC who drove an hour down south
on the five and played in a dump me come on, like,
these are exhibition games. You can't you can't base your

(01:00:37):
entire opinion on Clay Hilton based on what happened. It
doesn't add up to me, all right, Jonas knocks here
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that garbage is coming up next year on Fox Sports Radio. Um,
before we uhuh we get to that, I do want
to say this, this Antonio Brown work out with the Saints. Now,
first of all, uh, the Antonio Like, you could literally
do a Netflix documentary on Antonio Brown. In fact, I

(01:01:43):
think actually they should scrap Hard Knocks next year as
far as teams go, and just focus on Antonio Brown,
because I have no idea what the hell is going
on with that guy from one minute to the next.
So he works out with the Saints earlier today or
on Friday, and uh, people saw that as a surprise. Now,
now keep in mind, you never can tell where this

(01:02:05):
is gonna go. One minute, Antonio Brown doesn't need the NFL.
The next minute, he doesn't need the NFL. One minute,
he appreciates everything the Patriots did for him. The next minute,
he's making fun of Bob Kraft going to a massage
parlor in Jupiter, Florida. One minute, he's saying no more
white women. In the next minute, he's filming a music
video playing a fake guitar, and it's nothing but white women.

(01:02:25):
I can't keep track of it. I do not know.
I don't know one moment to the next what the
hell Antonio Brown is thinking, or what his thoughts are
or anything. But the New Orleans Saints brought in Antonio Brown.
The first thing I thought of was, Wow, there must
really be injury issues. If you're bringing in Antonio Brown,
that must really be it. The next thing I thought

(01:02:45):
of was, well, it doesn't make sense because Antonio Brown
is not going to be playing probably this year, because
you know that doesn't This feels to me after I
sat down and thought about it, like a team that desperately,
and I mean desperately needs to win a Super Bowl

(01:03:06):
this year, maybe more so than any other team in
the league. I think it's desperation time. I think the
New Orleans Saints are completely all in, and I think
they're willing to do whatever it takes to win a
Super Bowl because you gotta figure it like this. The
one thing that's the most difficult to obtain in the
NFL is consistency. Winning consistently. The New England Patriots have

(01:03:29):
done it, and it's why the Patriots are the Patriots
and everybody else is everybody else. But it's really hard
to win consistently in the NFL. The New Orleans Saints
have now in consecutive years gone to the playoffs and
lost a heartbreaker in the Minneapolis Miracle, and then gone
all the way to the NFC Championship Game and lost

(01:03:51):
a heartbreaker on a bad call and poor play in
overtime and a fifty nine yard field goal. How many
It's why I didn't like the Saints when a lot
of people did. I didn't like the Saints to go
to the Super Bowl this year because my thought was,
how many times can you get kicked in the nuts
before you need to take a seat and catch your breath.

(01:04:13):
And two years in a row they have been kicked
in the groin by circumstances, some of which outside of
their control. I just I didn't buy New Orleans coming
into this season. They're much better than I thought. I didn't.
I didn't think that they would be in a point
to where they can not only have a first round
by but if things, you know, go a couple of
ways or another, and maybe they end up with with

(01:04:35):
home field threat. Whatever. I mean, there's there's multiple ways
for the New Orleans Saints to really have an advantage
when it comes to the postseason. I didn't expect all this,
but I this to me feels like a team who knows,
hey man, this windows shutting soon. I mean, everything is
kind of worked to your advantage this season. Michael Thomas

(01:04:56):
has been historic. The defense is playing better and better
through the course of the season. It feels like Drew Brees,
who faded down the stretch last season, you know, uh,
ended up getting injured this year and it was a
blessing in disguise. You didn't lose any games and he
doesn't have as much wear and tear on the body
like he did a year ago. Alvin Kamara finally got

(01:05:18):
into the end zone last week. It finally Jared Cook
has played like this feels like a team who is
starting to maybe catch their stride. And I think they
realize internally, if it's not this year, when is it
going to be? I mean, after how many years do
you think the Buffalo Bills said to themselves, all right,
look um, if we don't win the Super Bowl this year,

(01:05:42):
maybe this just never happens again. And one ended up happening.
A couple of years later they went to the postseason
lost on the Music City Miracle, and it was twenty
five years or something like that before they got back
to the postseason, or over twenty years. This feels like
desperation for New Orleans that they're willing to kick the
tires on anybody if it means some something that's gonna

(01:06:04):
generate an advantage for them in the postseason. I don't
know what to make of Antonio Brown's future there. I
don't think it's this season, but I do feel like
New Orleans feels the pressure now more than ever and
realize the most difficult thing to do in this league
is win consistently. You've been on the doorstep of greatness
two years in a row. You can't expect it to

(01:06:25):
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(01:06:47):
Ladies and gentlemen, Kevin figures all right, and we'll get
to the college bull schedule in a second. There were
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Jayson Tatum at thirty points. Jaylen Browne had thirty four.
Warriors won their fourth in a row after beating the
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(01:08:11):
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Right now, though, it is time for this. Oh my god,
what the hell is that smell? These two teams flat
out stinks. It always has stunk. He stinks stinks. He

(01:08:35):
Welcome to the party, baby, How does that garbage? Yes,
every single week at this time, we go around the country,
sometimes around the world and we see who out there
wants to participate in the hottest game show regarding the
NFL anywhere on sports radio. And so we will get
things started in Minnesota where the Blizzard Wizard is here

(01:08:56):
on Fox Sports Radio. BW what's going on? Not much? Man?
We got two inches of ice head in our way?
All right? Now, how do you prepare for two inches
of ice? What do you do? You watch the Vikings
Blues on Sundays at Monday's all right? And uh, yeah,
you thought the roads up and drive a little bit flower.

(01:09:17):
So uh, it's just say a full blown negative approach
to the Minnesota Vikings to to get ready for a storm.
They're interesting. Uh what's uh? You know, it's all right, man,
just be safe out there. We we need we need
you back next week. All right. So here's the question
I have for you, Blizzard Wizard. So dan Quinn was

(01:09:38):
announced the Atlanta Falcons are going to retain dan Quinn
is their head coach. Uh. Everybody knows about the Super Bowl.
Dan Quinn lost to the Patriots, the three, all of
that stuff. But here's my question for you. What team
did dan Quinn win a Super Bowl with? As an
assistant coach. Oh lord, the Cowboys, that is incorrect. Not now,

(01:10:00):
that is incorrect. That would be the Seattle Seahawks. Dan
Quinn was an assistant with the Seattle Seahawks when they won,
uh and beat the Denver Broncos, so that is incorrect.
I also don't think that, um, that dan Quinn would
have won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys. Um.
And And the reason why I'm confident in saying that

(01:10:23):
is because it's been um, you know, twenty three years
uh since that took place, and dan Quinn is forty nine.
So I don't believe that dan Quinn was in the
NFL at that time. But again, I could be wrong,
but we're gonna go with the Seahawks because that is
the right answer. Let's go to Washington where Don is

(01:10:45):
listening here on Fox Sports Radio. Don, what's happening? Um? Yeah? What? Yah?
Hold on? Hold on, Don, Don, You're you're having a
conversation with yourself right now. All right, let's let's walk
through this together. Were you about too ready to fall

(01:11:07):
asleep before we Oh? Oh you're smoking weed? Okay, now,
did you do that right before we went? Did we
catch you in the act of smoking a bowl. Yeah, okay,
well listen, man, I'm sorry and interrupt. I mean personally
on the road, I go get some crown around. Yeah,

(01:11:28):
I mean, especially with the ice on the road, that
seems like a safe thing to do, I would think. So, um, now, now,
don do you want us to put you back on
hold so you can smoke some more weed and then
we go to you or what before? Okay, some tells
me you're not done smoking though, of course. Okay, good,
all right, So here's the question I have for you
speaking of the Seahawks. All right, so you saw Marshawn Lynch.

(01:11:49):
He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks. Now you're in Washington,
are you a Seahawks fand on the first season game
they had? All right? So, so here is the question
I have for you. What three franchises has Marshawn Lynch
played for in his NFL career? Look at you, Don,
how about that? You know what? You know? What you know?

(01:12:10):
I pod gets a bad rap in the state of Washington. Don,
is proof that if you want to win a guests
at garbage, take a bong hit right as we go
to you on the air, and then cough as as
we as we go to you while you're exhaling the
weed smoke that is filling up your room. So that
is that that is proof that that that is a

(01:12:32):
Now is that considered a p D as weed let's
go live to or is that a p e D
inside of Ryan bur Shinger for the latest burst? Is
that a p D? On guests at garbage? Um? The
way he used it, I guess so, and typically it
wouldn't be, but he yeah, it felt like it was
definitely an additive that was used. Now, but again we're
not testing. Maybe in our next c B A that

(01:12:54):
might be something that we put in, but we will
not be testing for weed here in the year twenty nineteen. Joe,
he is in Tennessee here on Fox Sports Radio, Joy,
what's happening? Most Jonas has enjoyed my first fourth bourbon?
So your fourth? But now what kind of bourbon are
we drinking at? Is? Uh? It's a local for beer GNC.
It's called bill Mead Bourbon sour match. Okay, Now you

(01:13:18):
do it on the rocks or do you add anything
to it? Or what? Uh? Just de bands on a day?
Most time it's on the rocks. I went to Yeah,
I went to Actually, I think it was a whiskey
slash bourbon bar in downtown l a Um, not that
long ago. But I don't I don't drink it. I'm
more of just a beer guy. I'm not into the
hard booze or anything like that. But I had a
couple of tasters. Not bad. Man. If it's done right,

(01:13:41):
that's a damn good drink. I could see how people
would sip on that. Oh yeah, yeah, all right. So Joey,
here's the question I have for you. See, he saw
Ben Roethlisberger is coming back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He
has announced that he will be back. In my question
for you is this, who was the last Steelers quarterback
not named Ben Roethlisberger to start all sixteen games in
the regular season? Multiple choice? Here are your options, Tommy Maddox,

(01:14:06):
Terry Bradshaw, Bubby Brister, Cordell Stewart or Martha Stewart. I
think it was mad. That is correct, Well done by
Joey and Tennessee Tommy Maddox was the correct answer there
of XFL fame. So for all you negative nancies who
like to pick on the XFL, listen man. He hate

(01:14:28):
me and Tommy Maddox. Uh they had careers because of
the damn XFL. Cole is listening here in California on
Fox Sports Radio. Cole, what's happening? Good? Is this Cole
McDonald of the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors or no, no, this
is not. That's all right? Uh So, Cole, what are

(01:14:49):
you doing? Man? Are you driving around California? We're in
California are you I'm in northern California right now? A
little bit nice? So you're in the Bay Area. Um,
just kind of using around. Now are you drinking? Are
you just driving? Are you working? What's happening? No? No drinks,
you know, just uh had a little fun on a
Friday night with the bluddies and now I'm driving back. Nice.

(01:15:10):
Good for you, man, Well, we appreciate you listening and
calling in. Here's my question I have for you. This
should be an easy one. Who is the only team
in the NFL that will finish the season winless on
the road? I'd have to say the Cincinnati Bengal. That
is correct. There, it is job well done by Cole.

(01:15:31):
So apparently there are two ways you can skin a cat.
You can either smoke weed or just be sober and
you get the same result, a correct answer here on
guests at garbage. All right, last one, and for this
we go all the way to Madison, Wisconsin, where David
is listening here on Fox Sports Radio. David, what's happening? Good?
Just hanging out? What are you doing, Dave? I'm just
hanging out my sover getting ready for the Bearger's basketball game. Alright,

(01:15:55):
the volunteers and said about the Bearers going duck hunting
out Wednesday. Yeah, now you are. Uh Now do you
listen to Mike Heller and John Odius there? And yeah,
those are good guys. I've worked with them many times.
They're good dudes. Yeah. Alright, So here's my question I
have for you, David. It is a multiple choice question.
So Baker Mayfield is set to become the first Browns

(01:16:19):
quarterback in eighteen years to start all sixteen games in
a season. All right, So here's my question for you.
It's multiple choice. Who was the last Browns quarterback to
do it? Was it Charlie Fry, Derek Anderson, Tim Couch,
Kelly Holcomb or Kelly Kapowski. Let's go with the Couch man.

(01:16:40):
You're gonna go Tim Couch. That is correct, David, while done, Yes,
Tim Couch is the correct answer. Uh, it was not
Kelly Kapowski. In a stunning development, she did not parlay
her saved by the Bell career into a starting job
with the Browns. And with that a four and one
performance to finish up the year and guests that garbage.

(01:17:04):
Well done. Maybe those are too easy. Who knows, but
four and one to finish up the year. Job well
done by everybody who took took partner. Alright, Jonas Knocks
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(01:17:25):
be a peek into the future. Find out what we're
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Coming up in uh about ten minutes from now here
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Football League. I actually I'm hoping there's a new trend

(01:17:45):
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makes you do an act in a way that you
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(01:18:29):
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People do realize that the Dallas Cowboys have a legitimate
shot at winning the division still, right, I mean that's
we do. We do, get that correct. Because everybody was

(01:19:14):
dancing on the grave of the Dallas Cowboys after last week,
and I understand they looked bad on the road against
a banged up Philadelphia Eagles team. I will just say this,
Dallas is an eleven point favorite at home against the
Washington Redskins. All right, Dallas should very much win that

(01:19:37):
game based on the fact that they are a better team,
one that they've gotten motivation too, and also the fact
that Dallas all year has beat up on teams like
the Redskins. So this plays completely into what the Dallas
Cowboys do. And at the same time, the Philadelphia Eagles
are on the road at the Giants and that point

(01:19:59):
spread continues to drop and a team that was already
decimated by injury just lost their best wide receiver slash
tight end in Zach Ertz. He's out. Uh, there's gonna
be a lot of people who are gonna have to
walk back some hot takes from a week ago if
this thing plays out like it could very well play

(01:20:21):
out in Philly getting shocked and upset in what maybe
a rain soaked game at the Giants, and Dallas just
takes care of business against a bad football team in
the Washington Redskins. I just I wonder if people understand
that the threat is very real that the Dallas Cowboys
could ultimately end up winning the division and getting into

(01:20:41):
the postseason. Jonas knocks more next year on fs are
so could we potentially see the start of a new
trend in the National Football League. I'll tell you what
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(01:21:26):
tis the season when people start to forget the realities
of the NFL and the realities of head coaching in
the NFL and start to do things that they would
not like if it was done to them in return.
One of the things I am not a fan of

(01:21:47):
at all at any level is calling for people's jobs.
Maybe that makes me soft. Uh, maybe that makes me um,
you know, not good at sports radio. Maybe, But I
just you'll never hear me come on the air and
say somebody should be fired or I I hope somebody
should get fired, or I think somebody should lose their job.

(01:22:09):
I'm just not gonna play that game. I'm not And
if it makes me bad at this job, then it
makes me bad at this job. I'm not going to
sell myself out for a hot take. I'm just not
gonna do it. Just because I have dealt with it.
I've been let go from radio. I've had my heartbroken,
I have had my dream shattered. I've been there. I
know exactly how it feels, and it doesn't feel good.

(01:22:32):
And I don't wish it on anybody. It sucks. It
absolutely sucks. Uh, it's humbling, it's demoralizing. Um. You start,
you you deal with self doubt, you deal with depression,
you deal with There's so many things that come along
with it that it's terrible. And the one thing that
that I pushed back on is when people say things like, yeah,

(01:22:53):
but whatever, I mean, they made all this money. You've
got millions of dollars. Look, when these coaches decided they
wanted to be head coaches in the NFL, do you
think they were thinking about what the paycheck was. I mean,
like you think that was even a consideration for them, Like,
I want to be a head coach because I want

(01:23:13):
to make a lot of money. No, most of these
guys started such a lower level, entry level position. They're
making pennies. If you look at what some of these
salaries are for these coaches, they're making pennies. Like there
was a documentary done on the Cleveland Browns back in
the day when Bill Belichick was head coach. The lower

(01:23:36):
level assistance, I mean lower level guys like Thomas Demtrov
who's now the Falcons general manager. He was a lower
level assistant and they talked about him, Jim Schwartz, other
guys on that staff how little money they made in
that position. Like you, you didn't get into that because
you wanted to make money. You got into that because

(01:23:56):
you loved the sport. That's what you wanted to do.
You didn't want to have to quote unquote work for
a living. You wanted to go do something that you
really enjoy. That's why they did it. Somebody's thinking about
the paycheck. But when I hear people call for jobs
or say this coach should be fired or that coach
should be fired on Black Monday, and and the pushback is,

(01:24:17):
oh my god, they make enough money, they're gonna be fine.
It's not about that. I think about if you were
in that same spot, if you worked your ass off
your entire life, you finally got your opportunity at your
dream job, your dream job finally in the palm of
your hands, and then all of a sudden, it was gone.
No matter how much you make, no matter how much

(01:24:40):
money you got in the bank, no matter how many
wins or how much success you've tasted. Once that's gone,
it's heartbreaking. Mike McCarthy just did an interview on the
NFL Network with Tom Pellisero, talking about how he's been
off from coaching for the first time in a long time,
and he's getting together with guys like Jim Haslett and

(01:25:01):
former coaches in the NFL and they get together and
they break down tape and they break down film, and
they go over stuff every single week, and they do
it multiple times a week. And they do it because
you know, they enjoy it. They love the process. And
in talking about Mike McCarthy getting back into coaching in
the NFL, he started crying like he wasn't crying because

(01:25:25):
he's emotional about the position and he's excited about the
opportunity and they were happy tears. He's crying because he's devastated.
I mean, think about that. You win a Super Bowl
with the Green Bay Packers, one of the great organizations
in all of sports, and after you leave, your reputation
is thrown in the garbage. You're told that you were

(01:25:48):
too busy getting massages and that your idea of football
and coaching and offense was totally outdated. You got completely
ridiculed up and down for the past several months. And
on top of that, the team that you used to
coach just want a division and are going to the
postseason with a shot at winning the Super Bowl. Mike
McCarthy wasn't crying because he was emotional about his next opportunity.

(01:26:10):
He was crying because he's devastated that he doesn't have
the opportunity now, like he's now dealing with the reality
of Man, I had it and it was gone. I
dealt with it. First radio job I ever got, station
closed down. I was broke. I made nothing like I
could remember every two weeks my paycheck at that my

(01:26:35):
first job in radio. Every two weeks. I made seven
every two weeks. And I was a host, did updates, producer,
cut commercials, you like all of that. But I didn't
do it for the paycheck. I did it because I
loved it and I wanted to get into the business.
And then all of a sudden, the station closed down.

(01:26:56):
I was devastated, completely heartbroken, totally depressed, didn't care about
anything else. I was demoralized, and I always wondered, God,
am I ever going to get a shot again. I mean,
it was a bad luck. It was a bad time
in the economy, and people were losing jobs in radio
all the time. It's why I always work. People ask

(01:27:17):
me too, like why why you always work? You're back
here again. You're working this because I'm terrified by that
feeling again. I'm terrified at not having it again. It's
why I appreciate it so much. Mike McCarthy's the same
way these coaches that are gonna lose their jobs on Monday, Like,
these guys may never get another opportunity again. And you

(01:27:39):
can say, yeah, but they're gonna find jobs as an
assistant somewhere and this and no, no, no, but it's
the idea of no matter what, that taste will never
leave their mouth because they're gonna be looked at as
an abject failure when it comes to their dream job,
their dream job that they wanted so desperately, that they
worked in sacrificed so much for and it's on just

(01:28:00):
like that, it's gone. That's why I never do it.
I'll never call for anybody's job. It's never gonna happen.
It's why I commend what the Atlanta Falcons did on Friday.
The Atlanta Falcons decided, you know what, we can be
overreactionary and we can fire Dan Quinn and we can
try and try and bring in a new coach. And

(01:28:21):
it's been another bad season. And you know what the
Falcons did, and I made this point earlier. They learned
how to have a fight, they learned how to deal
with adversity. They learned that, you know, sometimes we don't
need a quick trigger. Why don't we go ahead, slow
things down, think about it, and try and figure out
what we want for the organization. Arthur Blank, the owner

(01:28:41):
of the Atlanta Falcons. He talked about the time when
he knew dan Quinn was coming back next season. I
don't think it was any specific point in time, but
I look at you know, five and two over that
period of time. I looked at, you know, our players.
I looked at our coaching staff. I look at the
changes that were made. I looked at a coach who
was willing to be very reflective as a lot of
you melody about himself and about his own decision making,

(01:29:03):
and was able to be self critical and self aware,
which is not always an easy thing to do for
somebody that's accomplished. Yeah, and and guess what, the Atlanta
Falcons not only looked at wins and losses. They looked
at the totality of the situation. Alright, so we don't
have the greatest win loss record, all right, So what's
going on? Well, I mean you're you know, gutted by injuries.

(01:29:25):
I mean, that's that's been a problem in the past
couple of years. Okay, what about the locker room. Oh yeah,
they never gave up on the guy ever, never gave up.
They battled like that was their rallying cry as as
a roster, as a team, as players in that locker room,
their rallying cry was no, no, no, let's do it
for coach Quinn. And if you're an owner and you

(01:29:48):
see how hard these guys played for this coach, and
you realize even after the Super Bowl loss, even after
coming up short in the playoffs the year after, even
after a seven and nine season a year ago, even
after the one and seven start this year, and you
still didn't lose the locker room. You know, outside of

(01:30:09):
the wins and losses, that's a success. Like there's a
lot of other places to where players would just give
up or they say, ash, screw it, you know, I mean,
we're already done here that who cares, coaches gone doesn't matter. No, No,
those guys refused to quit. They came back after Dan
Quinn made adjustments and decided, you know what we want.

(01:30:30):
That guy's our head coach, and we're gonna fight for him.
We're gonna rally for him, We're gonna battle for him.
And the one thing they tell you is the second
you lose the locker room, you gotta make a choice,
you gotta make a decision, and you gotta move on.
And dan Quinn never lost the locker room. That's why
he's gonna be back next year. What happens after that,
who knows. Thomas Demitrough he'll be back as general manager.

(01:30:52):
But I like the idea of the Atlanta Falcons doing
the alternative of what everybody else wants to do. That
guy should be fired, Fire this guy. We need change,
we need no listen, slow it down, be patient, and
let's look at this thing overall. Let's take a real,
big look, big picture at what is happening. They didn't

(01:31:15):
just go wins losses. They looked at the coach, his relationship,
the response of the locker room, and the adjustments he made.
And it worked, and I'm happy it worked. I was
thrilled for Gus Bradley. Gus Bradley was the head coach
of the Jacksonville Jaguars and they were a bad football
team every single year. You know what Jacksonville did. You

(01:31:38):
know what Shod Khan did, backed him, stood by him
until they just absolutely couldn't do it anymore and decided,
all right, we gave you enough of an opportunity. But
you know what, at least he got his chance. He
didn't get blown out of there in a year. You know.
It wasn't like a Steve Wilkes to where Steve Wilkes,

(01:31:58):
Josh Rosen, You're all gone. It wasn't like that. It
wasn't like a Greg uh situation in Miami where you
had the offensive coordinator who then Cam Cameron then went
to go be offensive coordinator for the l s U Tigers. Afterwards,
Cam Cameron finally got his opportunity to be an NFL
head coach, finally got his chance and went one in fifteen,

(01:32:21):
and his one win was on a Greg cama Rio
touchdown catch and run in overtime. Like, think about that.
No matter what Cam Cameron does for the rest of
his life, he's always going to think back to, damn,
I had it that one time I had it and
it's gone. Steve Wilkes may never get another opportunity again.

(01:32:45):
He had one chance and he failed. Like that's devastating.
So to see a team decided to go the opposite
of what everybody else wants to do and actually said,
you know what, back to back losing seasons, but he
didn't lose the locker room. We're gonna keep that guy,
and we're gonna move forward with Dan Quinn, and we're
gonna move forward with Thomas de mitchrof. I hope. I

(01:33:06):
doubt it because the culture we're in, but I hope
that that's the new trend in the NFL. Patients don't
just fire him right off the bat. Maybe Cleveland keeps
Freddie Kitchens around. Maybe Cincinnati says, you know what, Zach Taylor,
I know it was a bad year, but we're gonna
give you an opportunity to figure this thing out. We're
not going to just fire you after one season. It's

(01:33:28):
not happening. I hope that's a new trend in the
NFL because I feel bad for these guys when they
lose their dream job and then people out there want
to call for other jobs around the league or say
they shouldn't be a head coach. That's their dream gig.
And if you get an opportunity at your dream gig,
I would hope that people around you would be supportive
of you and not try and throw you out when

(01:33:50):
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There is a coach in the world of football who
I don't always agree with. I feel like he lays
it on a little thick from time to time. Maybe
not the most sincere in the world, but he did
say something that I fully agree with in regards to

(01:34:33):
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that I absolutely I don't normally agree with because I
feel like they overdo it a little bit, but I
do absolutely agree with them in regards to uh something
they had to say about the world of football. So

(01:36:01):
we'll have that for you here. Momentarily, people are chiming in.
If this doesn't some up sports talk radio, I don't
know what does. So I was mentioning, Uh, a few
minutes ago here on Fox Sports Radio, I loved what
the Atlanta Falcons did in bringing back dan Quinn and

(01:36:26):
Thomas Dimitrov. Al Right, I love it. I they showed
a loyalty. Uh. They showed a dedication to dan Quinn
that I like a lot. I know a lot of
people out there like to call for jobs. I personally don't.
It's not my thing. I've been laid off, I've been
let go. It sucks. I think there's a real life
aspect to it. I think it affects multiple people, not

(01:36:48):
just the coach. And it's devastating anytime you have your
dream job and you no longer are able to do it,
And being an NFL coaches such a special job to get.
When you finally get it, you want to hold dawnto it.
And I feel bad for coaches that do get fired.
I really really do. I legit so I never call
for jobs. And if this doesn't sum up sports talk radio,

(01:37:10):
I don't know what does. Guy writes in on Twitter. Wow,
that was touching. I agree with what you just said.
Another guy writes in on Twitter, shut up, you millennial bleep.
Failure is the only solid foundation for all successes. I mean,

(01:37:30):
if that doesn't sum up sports radio in a nutshell,
I do not know what does. So uh there it
is multiple responses to the idea God forbid that I
don't like to call for coaches jobs. God forbid, God,
God forbid. I actually, uh, you don't want those guys
to succeed. So there's that. Uh again, pro wrestler porn

(01:37:54):
start coming up about less than ten minutes from now
here on Fox Sports Radio. I will say this about
Dabo Swinney. I remember in covering uh college football in
South Carolina, in the state of South Carolina, UH got
to see and hear a lot about Dabo Swinney. Dabo
Swinny was young there when I was first got there,

(01:38:16):
he had he either just started or um had not
been there very long at all. And when Dabo Swinney
first started, Uh, great personality, great guy, always friendly with
the media, UM you know, always seemed to have time available,
never blew up on media members, never freaked out about anything,

(01:38:37):
really tried to build a program, and early on he
was getting dominated by Steve Spurrier in South Carolina to
where I think Clemson lost five games in a row.
To South Carolina, who's their in state rival, and it's
the big uh season finale before conference championship games and
all that. It's the big rivalry the Palmetto Bowl, and

(01:38:59):
so I mean early on, Dabo Swinney really great guy,
great reputation locally in South Carolina with the media there, uh,
and struggled to beat the in state rival. Since then,
the tables of turn South Carolina is a full blown
five alarm diaper fire. Clemson continues to be, if not

(01:39:20):
the best team in college football, uh, the best team
in college football moving forward based on recruiting class and
the national championships that they've already won, and they are
the defending national champions by the way, and I think
they won like twenty in a row, so completely different
in that time, Dabo Swinny feels like a guy that's

(01:39:42):
really looking for different ways to motivate his team. He's
talked about how nobody wants him there. Ah, He's complained
about you know, respect and this and that, like and
and it feels like a guy who overdoes it a
little bit. Um. He really more and more enjoys hearing

(01:40:04):
himself talk, more and more enjoys hearing his opinions, uh,
and it just comes across a little bit insincere from times.
I like Dabo Swinney as a guy, as a person,
I think he's a good dude, but it just feels
like maybe he doesn't know necessarily what to say now
that they've had all this success, So maybe he's trying

(01:40:26):
to invent different things to get worked up about. I
don't know. That's just my take personally on the situation,
but Dabo Swinney did say something that I absolutely a
percent agree with. As we get ready for the college
football Playoff coming up on Saturday doubleheader, We've got l
s U Oklahoma, You've got Clemson in Ohio State, which
is gonna be a a great game to finish it up.

(01:40:48):
On Saturday Night, Dabo Swinny talked about the idea of
introducing more teams into the college football Playoff, and his
answer is exactly what I've been saying personally. I'm not
for expansion of the playoffs. And a lot of people
will say, well, well, hecku'ess coach you allrea in every year,
and I'm like, well, if we can get in it
in four, surely we can get in it with eight

(01:41:09):
it's not about that whether it's not whether we get
in it or not. I just like the tradition of
bowl games. I love seeing, uh, some of these teams
get to celebrate the finish of their season winning a
bowl and getting experience. There's a hundred thirty teams. I mean,
if there were thirty two teams would be different. But
you got a hundred thirty teams and not everybody's gonna

(01:41:29):
win the national championship. But I think the Committee has
gotten it right since they've started this. I think I
think they've gotten four great teams, and I think the
best team has won every single year, and it's been
played out on the field, and I think it's, uh,
it's been awesome. I totally agree. I think the idea
of expanding the college football playoffs, I mean, if you
think these games, these bowl games are sort of irrelevant, now,

(01:41:52):
what do you think they're gonna be like when they
added eight teams? Because I do believe that that's probably
gonna happen, and I will be a hundred percent again.
It just here's the problem, and there's always sort of
a drawback to any idea that that takes place. Anytime
somebody comes up with something, there's there's a drawback, I can.

(01:42:12):
I can acknowledge that the invention of the iPhone is
one of the great inventions in the history of of
our time. I mean, it's one of the great inventions
as far as being able to do anything from your phone.
Uh you can, you can order food, you can order movies. Uh,
you can check traffic, you can order a ride, you

(01:42:34):
can i mean make obviously, phone calls, emails, text messaging,
everything on your phone. It's right there in your pocket.
There's no longer a oh god, I'm stranded. I've got
to try and find a pay phone. It's all right there,
like you can. Like they've talked about it. Du wis
er down in this country because of Uber and Uber

(01:42:55):
is all about your phone, your iPhone, being able to
touch a button and get a ride right off the bat.
So I can acknowledge that that the iPhone is one
of the great inventions in our lifetime easily. I can
also acknowledge that it has kind of killed the art
of the conversation, right, Like, like you do see people

(01:43:15):
on their phone all the time. Ryan Burr Singer is
on his phone right now as we speak, Right as
we speak. Ryan Burr singer is on his phone right
now in the other studio. But lit's that's part of
the job, Like, that is part of We need to
know what's going on. We need to check things, we
need to see emails, all of that. So while I
do admire and appreciate the invention, I also know that

(01:43:39):
if you go to a public place or you're sitting
in a bar, majority of the people have got their
heads buried in their phones. They do like sometimes I'll
find myself on my phone. I'm thinking about myself, why
am I going back? Like I don't need this, this
is just a habit at this point. I feel the
same thing about the college football playoff. I love the
idea of the college football playoffs. I love that the

(01:44:01):
best four teams face off. We skip all the other stuff,
we go right to the final four, and those teams
are put on a pedestal with an opportunity to prove
it on the field who the best team is. I
absolutely love it, But I also acknowledge that the drawback,
the downside to it, is the fact that these bowl
games elsewhere aren't as important. They're just not. It's why

(01:44:23):
I didn't freak out that Clay Helton lost in the
Holiday Bowl. Who cares it's a Holiday Bowl? Who cares?
It doesn't matter? Like it doesn't like it's an exhibition game,
doesn't matter. They've told us that it doesn't matter because
of the college football playoffs. So if we acknowledge that
bowl games outside of the playoff and the National Championship

(01:44:45):
Game have become less relevant because of those college football
playoffs and National Championship Game, what do you think is
gonna happen when they add two more games. It's gonna
lessen the value of those other bowl games even more so.
I hundred percent agree with Dabo Swinney. If you go
this direction, you're going to take away what has already

(01:45:07):
been diminished somewhat by college football putting in this playoff,
and you're gonna lessen the value of these bowl games,
And I just I don't like it. The farthest I'm
willing to go with expansion is by adding two more teams.
You want to add two more teams. You want to
give the one and two ranked teams in the country
a bye week while those other teams battled out in

(01:45:29):
the in the in a semifinal game or in a
quarterfinal game. That's fine, but if you expand it to eight,
you're going to diminish and lessen the value of other
Bowl games even more than you already have. Agree with
Davo Swinney. Jonas Knox here on Fox Sports Radio from
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There were five college Bowl games on Friday night, highlighted

(01:46:35):
by six th IUA beating number twenty two USC in
the Holiday Bowl to four. Iowa had a kickoff return
and an interception return for touchdowns, as USC turned the
ball over three times in the game. The nightcap on
the schedule was the Cheese At Bowl, where Air Force
beat Washington State thirty one. The Falcons, finishing the season
on an eight game winning streak, takes US and M

(01:46:57):
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to one. Aggi's trailed that game fourteen to nothing. Michigan
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(01:48:00):
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(01:48:47):
go all the way out to Ryan, who is in
California here on Fox Sports Radio. Ryan, what's happening? M Hey,
shut up my friend Ray and Falcons. I'm glad to
hear that. Keep the gang wan, bring it. Nobody gives
a craft about your friend Ray. All right, so go
screw you Ray? How about that? I'm kidding Ryan, It's
I'm just busting kidding. All right. So, so Ryan is

(01:49:11):
in California. Ryan, what are you doing? Man? What's what's
happening in California? Hanging out? I got a couple of
days off. I gotta work on Monday. And all is well?
You're having a couple of drinks, a couple of cocktails
or what? I did have one? Okay? Did you have to?
Did you have just one? Or what? Oh? I had to? Okay?
Did you only have to? Again Atlanta Falcon? It is

(01:49:36):
well done by Ryan there. Now what what what kind
of what kind of cocktail are we're talking about? Are
you a beer guy? You? Uh? Ginn? Okay? Good? Very
very low carb low carb there. So that is good.
Not a lot of not a lot of sugar in that.
So nice nice job by Ryan in California. All right,

(01:49:57):
let's go out to uh to Todd, who is in
Illinois listening here on Fox Sports Radio. Todd, what's happening?
How are you doing? Good? Todd? Whereabouts are you m
around the Jacksonville area? Okay? That is the southern part
of Illinois, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, okay, well Illinois.
Well you know what central southern? You know, we're splitting

(01:50:19):
nearest here. I mean, you know, I'm trying to show
off my my my map skills here on Fox Sports Radio.
Not Todd. What are you doing? Are you driving around?
Are you drinking or your partying? Uh? Driving around delivering newspaper? Okay,
because I was my next question. My next question was
gonna be, uh, you know, are you like, are you
with a hooker? Are you with? I mean there's you
never know like that. It gets wild here in the

(01:50:40):
middle of the night. Uh so alright, So so Todd,
you are driving around delivering papers? Uh, respect to anybody
also grinding and working that extra job to make a
little bit extra cash. Man. I appreciate what you guys do. Uh.
We're all in this together, man. So it's a nice work.
Keep hustling, that's all. Right, So here's how works, guys, um,

(01:51:03):
I have a list of names here. It is either
the name of a pro wrestler or it's the name
of a porn star. These are all names that have
been told on the air at some point this year.
It is the Best of your End edition. It is
a tradition here on Fox Sports Radio. So if you
guys are ready, we'll go ahead and we'll start firing
off these names. All right. Here we go Ryan in California,

(01:51:26):
who seems to be fading fast here on Fox Sports Radio.
Ryan in California, You are first up here on Pro
Wrestler Star. Ryan, Ryan, let's go ahead and slow it
down there. We're trying to get to the game. So
Ryan in California, here on Fox Sports Radio, Ryan, are
you ready? Yeah? Okay. The first name for you here

(01:51:46):
on Pro Wrestler Porn Star the Best of twenty nineteen
edition is Miranda Rights pro Wrestler a porn Star. That
is correct, all done by Ryan in California. Miranda Rights
is a porn star. Here Fox Sports Radio. Over to

(01:52:08):
Todd in Illinois. We go, Todd. The name for you
here on Pro Wrestler A Porn Star is principal, Richard Pound,
Pro Wrestler Porn Star. I'd have to say that is correct.
That is correct. Todd in Illinois on the board, and
we are all tied up here. Back over to Ryan,

(01:52:29):
Ryan and California. The name for you next here on
Pro Wrestler Porn Star is Marty the Moth Martinez, Pro
Wrestler porn Star, porn Star. Seriously, Martin the Mouse Martinez.
Is that correct? Is that what I heard? No, that's

(01:52:50):
actually better. Uh, it's actually the Moth. But now if
it was the Mount. Sorry, Ryan, Sorry, you already gave
your answer, Ryan will but I will say this. You
know what credit A credit to you. Marty the Mouth
Martinez is a damn fight porn name. You know what's
screw it? I'm giving you the point that is a

(01:53:12):
that job well done, Marty the Mouth Martinez. Uh, that
is that is something. So if you are a porn
director out there, or if you are in the porn
industry trying to come up with a new name in
northern California, wasn't talking to you talking to everybody else?
Marty the Mouth Martinez is an option for you. Todd
in Illinois. Next up here on Pro wrestler or porn star.

(01:53:35):
Hey Todd, what about Dick wiggles Worth, Pro wrestler or
porn star. Um, well, gee, I hope you give me
the same collateral movement here on this one. Um I
have that is incorrect. Yeah, that is a cred that

(01:54:01):
is a pro wrestler's name there, so yes, that is uh.
That is really close. It's true. Yeah, that is true. Um,
and listen, there's a lot of ways we could take
that that would get us all fired up. Back over
to Ryan in California, we go here on pro wrestler
a porn star. This is the best of edition, En, Ryan.

(01:54:24):
The next name up for you, sir, is Nice Canoes
pro wrestler, a porn star star. That is correct. That
is uh. I don't even like guy. I just don't
even I don't even know what to say with some
of these. What wrestler want to be named the Canoes? Who?

(01:54:46):
Who knows? Man? I mean there was a wrestler we
had in here last year and his name was black Man.
I mean you never know, like it's some of these
things are so far out. Just for the record, that
Dick trickle Driver, Yeah, listen, I know to know, Hey, listen, Todd,
can we just you know, let's just keep it at
Dick Wigglesworth. Try not to top Dick Wigglesworth with Dick trip.

(01:55:11):
Let me come on like, don't try and king me here, Todd. Uh, Todd,
you are next up here on Pro Wrestler A porn Star.
Todd in Illinois, here on Fox Sports Radio. The name
for you, sir is Brohemoth, pro Wrestler a porn Star. Well, um,
that's a that is correct. Good job, Todd. If that

(01:55:34):
was a porn star we got, we need to have
a conversation and an investigation done into that. Over to
Ryan in California. This is the best of twenty nineteen
edition of Pro Wrestler A Porn Star, all the best
names from the past year, Ryan and California. The next day,
I'm up for you, sir is Leilani Ballocks Pro Wrestler

(01:55:58):
port So, yes, that is correct. You didn't we need
to uh information there? I would pay okay. Over to
Todd in Illinois. Todd, next one for you here on
Pro Wrestler porn Star is Bone Setter, pro wrestler or
porn star. Name that that is correct? Yes, that is

(01:56:20):
absolutely correct. Bone setter is a pro wrestler. Over to
Ryan in California. Now, Ryan, if you get this correct,
the game is over. All right, it's over, and Todd
in Illinois has no chance to try and catch up here,
and you will go perfect on Pro Wrestler Porn Star.
So Ryan and California to win the game. Here on
Pro Wrestler Porn Star, the name for you, sir is

(01:56:43):
Bobby bad Fingers Pro Wrestler Porn Star. On That is incorrect.
Come on, man, sober up if you're gonna call back
in all right, so that it is incorrected. You can't
say that on the air here, apology alright, Over to

(01:57:06):
h Todd in Illinois to tie things up, your Todd.
If you get this correct, you for sudden death overtime,
right all right, So no pressure for Todd in Illinois
to tie the game. On the final edition of Pro
Wrestler A Porn Star in the year twenty nineteen, the
name for you, sir is Sexton Hardcastle, Pro Wrestler A

(01:57:28):
Porn Star. M hmm, well that's pretty tough. Was my
first instant pro wrestler. That is correct, job, well, Todd,
that is ice water in the veins and it's only

(01:57:49):
appropriate we go to a sudden death overtime. Here, guys,
here's how it works. I'm gonna say the name. You
have to buzz in with your name if you want
to take a guess at this. All right, So I
will say the name game, and you must buzz him
with your name. Your name is your buzzer. First person
to get in, we'll have the opportunity to win the game.
A right, So you guys are ready to go? Here
we go. Uh. The name for you, gentlemen here on

(01:58:11):
Fox Sports Radio. The tiebreaker name here on Pro Wrestler
Porn Star is Black Serpent. Okay, Todd was in first.
Todd close uh to the finish line A photo finished,
But Todd, you got in first. So Todd to win
the game and the final edition a pro Wrestler porn

(01:58:32):
Star in this decade, in the year nineteen Todd in Illinois,
the name for you, sir, is Black Serpent. Is that
a pro wrestler porn Star? That is correct? That is
grand Todd in Illinois has done it. Black Serpent a

(01:58:54):
pro wrestler. Although I was hoping it would have been
the opposite, But Todd in Illinois, you are the winner
here on Pro Wrestler Porn Star. Congratulations, sir, you're gonna
be uh the name of a trivia question someday, the
final winner uh in the decade of Pro Wrestler Porn Star. Todd,
you have done it. Congratulations, Thanks Jonah, and have a

(01:59:15):
happy new year. Thank thank you, Todd. It's Jonas, but
thank you for being a loyal listener here on Fox
Sports Radio. What an F you like? You talked about it.
That's how you stick the landing, Like, like, what did
f You didn't even get my name right? That that
other show you my career right there in a nutshell

(01:59:36):
is my career. This has got its semi right. Didn't
call you Ben or well whatever? I mean? May as
well have called me Jehovah at that point, I mean,
what is Jesus? Alright? Jonas Knocks here Fox Sports Radio,
all right. Coming up next, I don't even know. Maybe
we'll talk NFL. Maybe we'll talk more about how it's
just insulted. At the end of this segment, find out
next year on fs are Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio,

(01:59:59):
Coming to you Alive from the I Go, Fox Sports
Radio Studios. All right, coming up in about ten minutes
from now here on FS are I promise you we're
gonna get to a coach in the NFL has got
a really interesting decision to make. I want to make
sure we have enough time for that, so that will
be coming up ten minutes from now here on Fox
Sports Radio. Quickly, Kevin figures our national update anchor here
on Fox Sports Radio. Do you want to hear some

(02:00:19):
of the names, uh that we didn't get too in
the Best of edition Pro Wrestler Porn Star twenty nineteen.
You know, all right, there we go, Uh, Shania Tweaks. Okay,
you want to take a guess at that, keV, I'm
going to say wrestler. No, there's a porn star. How
about Marcia Thick? Yeah, there's no option. There's really no

(02:00:42):
other option. Uh the Booty Man. Oh, this is tough
because it used to be a pro wrestler name mrs That.
I'm gonna go our pro wrestler, that is correct. What
about the Bollywood Boys Tag Team? Huh yeah, porn Star? No,
I see what you did there, though, I wish. And
then finally, last but not least, the Best of twenty

(02:01:05):
nineteen name pro Wrestler porn star. How about concrete dongs. Oh,
I'm just saying I get there. I mean that if
you want to take it. There is an NFL head
coach who's got a very very difficult decision, all right,
because there's the smart approach and then there's the stubborn,

(02:01:28):
prideful approach to go along with it. I'll tell you
who that coach is coming up here in just a
couple of moments. Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio. You can
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(02:01:50):
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rate quote. So there are different scenarios around the NFL
in which teams have decisions to make about what they
want to do with their starters. Uh, if they are

(02:02:13):
already locked into a playoff spot, how do you handle it?
And Week seventeen is always a difficult approach. There's there's
different ways you can look at it. Um In years past,
I remember the Indianapolis Colts being upset because they, you know,
potentially could have gone for a perfect season and instead
they rested starters and decided we're not going to take

(02:02:35):
any chances. Here. The New England Patriots, we know that
they really went for it. You've seen other teams take
different approaches to where they're just gonna rest up and
be a hundred percent healthy coming in and if they
deal with some rust in their first game in the postseason,
the deal with some rust, but they'd rather be healthy
than than than run the risk of anybody getting getting

(02:02:56):
injured as you had into the postseason. And it's why
week seventeen, and I was talking about this with the
guys on Straight out of Vegas heard on Fox Sports
Radio on Friday, gambling on Week seventeen is just a crapshoot.
Like you don't know who's playing, who's motivated to play,
who's I mean, like, look at Kansas City in Houston.

(02:03:21):
I mean, look at that setup. So Kansas City in
Houston is basically going to come down to Kansas City
wins and Houston can't really move up in Kansas City
hosts uh the Chargers in uh in In in the
early time slot, and then Houston is hosting the Tennessee
Titans in the later time slot. So if Kansas City

(02:03:43):
wins that game, what's the motivation in Kansas City should
win that game? What's the motivation for Houston want to
come out and empty the chamber against Tennessee? And where's
the motivation? I mean, like getting healthy, especially if you're Houston.
If you're looking at at teams that are playing at
the same time. We were talking about it. In game betting,

(02:04:07):
that's where you could really take advantage of it. Because
if you're a team that needs help in order to
move up in the standings, and you realize while you're
playing that the team that you need to lose in
order to move up is blowing out their opponent, don't
you tend to take your foot off the gas. If
you're a coach, wouldn't you pull some starters? Wouldn't you
take that approach in Week seventeen? So therefore, if you're

(02:04:30):
in game betting, you can take advantage of that. But
the whole, the whole thing is it is a crapshoot,
and there are different motivating factors. And I believe that
there's a team that's already in the playoffs who's got
a really, really interesting decision to be made, and I
believe that team is the Minnesota Vikings. Now, I think

(02:04:54):
that Minnesota will rest their starters. Dalvin Cook will not
be in the game. They are hosting the Chicago Bears,
who have nothing to play for. I think Minnesota will
play it smart. And if you were listening on k
Fan in Minneapolis, you can look at this and and
and take the same approach, rest your starters. You're locked
in at the six seed, you've got nothing to play for.

(02:05:16):
You go in and you're gonna wait to see who
you play in the three spot, depending on what happens
between San franc Seattle, New Orleans Green. There's so many
different scenarios at the top. Bottom line, though, Minnesota is
gonna have to go on the road, and Minnesota is
locked in at the six seed, so why would you
even run the risk of sending anybody out there to

(02:05:36):
damage your shot in the postseason? And then that would
be the smart approach, And then you've got the stubborn
approach in which if you're Mike Zimmer and you're in
the Minnesota Vikings and you're a player that was on
that team a year ago, you remember going into Week
seventeen against this exact same team in the Chicago Go Bears,

(02:06:01):
and you could have had you one clinched a playoff spot.
The Bears had virtually nothing to play for. They were
already locked in as a division winner, and we're going
to be a three or four seed in the NFC playoffs.
And so what did what did the Bears decide to do? Yeah,
We're gonna play every single one of our starters the

(02:06:21):
entire game and went out and knocked you out of
the playoffs, winning in Minnesota in the final game of
the season. If you think that Mike Zimmer isn't toying
with the idea of giving it back to Chicago a
year later, you're insane. I think absolutely. Mike Zimmer and

(02:06:42):
coaches on that staff and players on that team would
love nothing more than to get their revenge. But you've
got to be smart about it. It's where this stuff
becomes an interesting decision. It's where, look, you could get
hurt at any time. I mean, it could happen in
the preseason. It could happen in week one, it could

(02:07:03):
happen in week ten, it could sure as he'll happen
in week seventeen, it could happen in the postseason. So
how do you take the approach? And that's what makes
week seventeen fascinating because you can go around Week seventeen
and you can look at Week seventeen and you can say, Okay, well,
this team should do this based on that. Uh, that
team should do this based on that. But everything is

(02:07:25):
predicated on what's going on around you in a lot
of cases. So it's gonna be a fun watch. You've
got a lot of teams that are playing at the
same time. It's it's a it's a sports bar kind
of a day to where if you don't have multiple
TVs at your house that you can just watch and
set up like you're at a sports book, you've really
got to go to a sports bar where you got
every single TV all in front of you and then

(02:07:47):
you can pay attention to what's going on. But it's
gonna be bananas and uh, and it's gonna be a
lot of fun to pay attention to throughout the course
of that Sunday, Jonas knocks here on Fox Sports Radio.
Here's one other thing I want to point out. There
is a difference between an accident and a fender bender. Right,
we all know that, we know what the difference is. Um.

(02:08:09):
I've been in an accident, and then I've been in
a fender bender, right, Uh, fender bender. Hey, you're back
into a car? Okay? Uh, somebody hits you from behind
or nugg you know, nudge you. I had somebody not
paying attention back into me, uh two weeks ago, and

(02:08:31):
then try and drive off like I wasn't going to
chase them down in the parking lot, which I did, uh,
and and made sure to let them know don't ever
do that again. Don't just drive off after you back
into somebody. They didn't do any damage, but I knew
what they were trying to pull, and I wasn't gonna
let him get away with it. And then I've also
been driving through an intersection and mint bone before h

(02:08:54):
and at a car totaled and my head bleeding and
all of that stuff. That was a fun, fun little
trip down um memory lane, which was a nightmare scenario.
Insurance all of that stuff, terrible situation But the point
is both are considered accidents, but there's a clear difference
between an actual accident and a fender bender. In the NFL,

(02:09:20):
there is eight Nate and then there's eight Nate. Okay,
there are certain eight Nates around the NFL that feel
like a fender bender. Hey, you know what, could always
be worse. You know, could always got a got a
little bit of a different spin on it, a little
bit of a different scent attached to it. And then
there's other eight Nates that you goo, Yeah, that was

(02:09:42):
t boned in the intersection. Alright, perfect example, if the
Pittsburgh Steelers lose this weekend. Right, if the Steelers go
out and the Pittsburgh Steelers lose on the road at
the Baltimore Ravens, even though the Ravens are resting players,
you know what, They're gonna finish eight and eight, but

(02:10:04):
it feels like a fender bender. Hey, it's a bummer
you didn't go to the postseason. But all things considered,
the injuries on a third string quarterback, all of it,
you know what, that seems like a fender bender. And
that's them losing a game. The Dallas Cowboys could go
out and win a game on Sunday and they could

(02:10:27):
finish eight Nate and that would feel like getting t
boned in the intersection. The Cowboys would feel like, oh god,
eight Nate again, what the hell is that? So there's
a clear difference between eight and eight and eight Nate.
Here's another example, the Indianapolis Colts. The Indianapolis Colts could

(02:10:49):
go out this weekend and they could finish eight and eight,
and you know what, that would feel like a fender bender.
We're not going to go to the postseason. That's a
fender bender. And when you can it or what Indianapolis
has been dealt with where they've been basically been thrown
a a a bomb of crap on their laps before
the season the last two years in a row. Josh McDaniels,

(02:11:12):
who left him at the altar the year before last.
They had, in turn had to rush higher Frank Reich,
which has actually worked out. And then Andrew Luck retires
right before the season and Jacoby bri said his name
to starting quarterback. Indianapolis has been behind the eight ball
two years in a row, Indianapolis finishing eight and eight,
you know what, that's a fender bender. Not ideal you'd

(02:11:35):
like something better, But today it's a little bit of
a fender bender. The Bears at eight and Nate. That
feels like they got t boned in the intersection. That's
been a disaster. There are different shades of eight and
eight around the NFL. They're just it's a it's a
different feeling for certain teams when they go eight and
eight around the NFL. Here's another one. The Tampa Bay

(02:11:58):
Buccaneers could finish eight and eight. Tampa Bay could be
the second best team in their division. And that's with
the quarterback who's looking at thirty thirty on the year,
thirty touchdowns, thirty interceptions, and Tampa Bay could finish eight
and eight. That is a fender bender. That's a team

(02:12:21):
that you look at and go, hey, you know what,
despite all of the turnovers and everything else and the
injuries late in the season, we finished five hundred. That's
a win. That is a win. The l A Rams
could lose on Sunday and be eight Nate and it
feels like a full fledged five car pile up. There

(02:12:46):
are just different shades. Eight and eight for one team
is not eight and eight for the other. And a
lot of it is expectations going into the season. But
all of it is really perspective. And so when see
the difference between a cult Eitan nate and a Bear's
eight and eate, or a Bucks eight and Nate and

(02:13:06):
a Rams eight night, or a Steelers eight and eight
and a Cowboys eight nate. Every team deals with their
own issues and their own problems throughout the course of
the season, but no to eight nates are alike. It's
the big difference between a fender bender and getting t
boned in the intersection. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. You
can get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at

(02:13:29):
the Jonas Knocks on Twitter. As we come to you
live here from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming
up next, We're going to take a look. I have
a funny feeling about one game in the college football Playoff.
I have a funny feeling and it might be bad
news for one program. Find out what it is next

(02:13:51):
year on FSR. Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio, coming to
you Alive from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming
up in we'll call about ten minutes from now here
on fs ARE we are going to get to another
edition of the scraps some things in the world of
sports we have not had a chance to touch on.
H plus Uh the usual Kevin figures UH steers us

(02:14:12):
down a path that we don't want to go. I
don't want to go. I'm uncomfortable with it, but he
likes to try and get us all in trouble. So
that'll be happening in about ten minutes from now on
Fox Sports Radio. Uh. The college football playoffs are here. Uh.
Coming up on Saturday. We've got a doubleheader. I will
actually be on the air with Bucky Brooks UH for
these games coming up later on today, Bucky Brooks and

(02:14:36):
I will be here on Fox Sports Radio from four
to eight Eastern time. Oklahoma l s U is the
four Eastern time kickoff. That is the Peach Bowl. UH
from from Atlanta there, congratulations. Uh. The Chick fil A
will be open at Mercedes ben Stadium because it's not
a Sunday U and one of the worst ideas in
the history of restaurants inside stadiums. You're an NFL team,

(02:15:01):
why not put a restaurant in that's not open on Sundays.
Makes a whole lot of sense. But Oklahoma LS you
followed by Clemson in Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl
will be the nightcapper at eight Eastern time. UM. I
have a very funny feeling, just a gut feeling on
Oklahoma L. S U. I'm not saying that Oklahoma is

(02:15:25):
going to win the game, because I do believe that L.
S U is the much better football team, but it
does give me a little bit of a fun and
and this could be Heisman hangover or whatever you want
to dub it, but it just feels like that game
is going to be a lot closer than people anticipate,
and then people realize, Uh, Jalen Hurts has been in

(02:15:49):
so many of these moments. It's why whenever you watched
him during the course of the season, and and in
talking UH two people post Oklahoma games. If Fox was
on the coverage, Jenny Taft, if she was on the
sidelines for the game, she would always call in on
Saturdays and talk with Bucky Brooks and myself, And the
one thing we always talked about is Jalen Hurts like

(02:16:11):
his his demeanor never changes. He's almost unimpressed with the moment.
It's almost like, Hey, I was at Alabama, this is
nothing like this is like, I'm gonna get worried about this.
I'm gonna get nervous about this. He's played in so
many big games. He's had highs, he's had lows, he's weathered,
he's been through it. I just don't think he's in

(02:16:33):
this game and in this environment is going to be
rattled by the moment. And I have no idea what
Joe Burrow is gonna do. I don't know. I don't
know if if maybe you know L s U. Who's
dealing with an injury to their running back, who's a
little bit banged up. I I don't know what that's
gonna do to the offense, but it does. I think
L s U wins the game. But I just have

(02:16:54):
this funny feeling that something weird is going to happen.
I don't know why. I I hope it doesn't. I
would love nothing more than to see L s U
Ohio State in the college football in the National Championship Game. UM.
I although Clemson is under the radar, I think Ohio
State has been the best team all season as far

(02:17:14):
as my eyes go. And I feel like Ohio State
was punished. I think the punishment in the opening round
was who's gonna get Clemson. And I feel like l
s U got a little bit bailed out because of it.
And I think what ended up happening was a lot
of people took the lazy approach when it came to
Ohio State. And here's why I say that. They based

(02:17:35):
their opinions on what they saw in the first half
of the Big Ten Championship game, because they looked at
Ohio State struggling against Wisconsin and they already wrote in
their vote, Uh yeah, okay, we're gonna dock them. They'll
jump down to two. L s U goes to one.
Problem solved, case clothes, we're on all right, let's get
to the end of December so we can look at

(02:17:55):
these games and these matchups. Well, no, I mean, it's
too bad you did that, because if you actually paid
attention to the second half, you would have seen how
incredibly dominant Ohio State wasn't that second half, And to me,
that's superseded whatever happened in the first half. I thought
they were that good in the second half. But it
felt like people were having a difficult decision, a difficult

(02:18:18):
time making their decision and making their minds up as
to who deserve the one seed, and they were looking
for any reason whatsoever to try and disqualify somebody. All right,
It happens all the time back in the day when
you would write in an application. If you're writing in
an application and you're filling one out, the first thing
I learned early on, my mom told me this. Whenever

(02:18:39):
I was applying for a job. She always told me,
make sure it's nice and neat, because if it's sloppy
and there are other people that are applying for the job,
they're looking to disqualify people just based on whatever they
can use. It's going to justify their decision making. And
if they get they get one resume or one application

(02:19:00):
and it's nice and neat and the other one is
a little bit sloppy, they're gonna throw that one in
the garbage, like because it makes their decision easier. Like
sometimes you may not know what you want to eat
or what restaurant you want to go to, but you
can always tell or always know which ones you don't
want to go to. Like what do you feel like eating?

(02:19:22):
I don't know. Do you want sushi? Oh god, no, okay,
you want pizza? No? No? Definitely not all right? So
what do you want? I don't know, but you know
what you don't want. It felt like that was happening
when it came to that game. It felt like people
just were looking to make their decision easier. And so
if you just start process of elimination, their process of

(02:19:43):
elimination on Ohio State was what happened in the first half.
We saw enough of what we needed to see. Ohio
State didn't look good against Wisconsin in the first half.
That's all that we need and we're moving on and
have fun with with Clemson coming up in the college
football semifinal. So I absolutely believe Eve that Ohio State

(02:20:03):
was in a way punished. They, no doubt about it,
have the most difficult matchup of the two. They've got
to beat Clemson, and then if L. S U wins,
they've got to go on to beat L. S. Hue.
But I'll say this, if Ohio State finishes the season
fifteen and oh and in doing so, knocks off the

(02:20:25):
Clemson Tigers, who haven't lost a game in like thirty tries,
and then goes on to beat the number one team
in the country and the Heisman Trophy winner in L.
S U. We're talking all time team stuff here. We're
talking one of the great teams of all time. There

(02:20:46):
are already people who have been covering and watching Ohio
State football who say, this is the best team in
the history of the program. Right, It's one thing to
be the best team, uh, in the history of a
lower level program. Alright, this is the best team in
the history of Minnesota or Idaho or something like that.

(02:21:06):
No knock on any of those programs, but you haven't
had this success that in Ohio State. As we're talking
all time in the moment, great team in Ohio State.
And if they go out and they beat Clemson, who's
won like straight games with that roster and that coach

(02:21:27):
and the defending champs, and then afterwards go on to
beat the number one ranked team in the country in
l s U and Joe Burrow all time team, an
all time team. Entering into the conversation with the Miami
Hurricanes of the early two thousand's, USC Nebraska in the nineties, Miami,

(02:21:48):
those Miami teams also in the nineties, we're talking all
time stuff here. So that's why I'm fascinated to see
how Ohio State Clemson plays out, because if Ohio State
gets past Clemson. I think they're winning the national title.
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(02:22:30):
of sports, ladies and gentlemen, it is Kevin Figures. Well,
John's a lot of people want to play hilt in
the head coach oft USC to be fired. That did
not happen. He's remaining as the staying one of the
head coach of the USC Trojans and done. Yeah well,
how about how's that for a transition? Well done? Yeah? Well,
he's still sticking around even despite their loss on the
Holiday Bowl forty nine. It's four at the hands of

(02:22:50):
Iowa Nate Stanley. A couple of touchdown passes there for
the Hawk Eyes that Imer Smith Marcaid who had a
kickoff return for a touchdown and receiving touchdown and a
rushing touch down. Usc starting quarterback kidn Slovis entered his
arm in the third quarter and did not return. Elsewhere.
In college ball action, you had Texas A and M
overcoming a fourteen nothing deficits to beat Oklahoma State in

(02:23:11):
the Texas Bowl twenty one Michigan stay with a victory
over Wake Force twenty seven to twenty one. In the
Pinstripe Bowl and the Cheese A Bowl, you had air
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In the NBA, you at the Warriors picking up their
fourth straight win with a one oh five ninety victory
over Phoenix. The heat now fourteen and one at home
twenty three and eight overall, with they won thirteen to
one twelve victory over the Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks get
a victory over the Hawks despite not having Yonton to
to Kompo in the lineup, The Orlando Magic with an
upset victory over the Philadelphia seventies sixers, and these Celtics

(02:23:54):
get thirty four points from Jalen Brown in a seventeen
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(02:24:17):
edition of Knox Locks this season. Uh surprisingly, I feel
okay heading into week seventeen right these are it's it's
a crap shoot, but we will get to that here
coming up in about fifteen minutes from now on Fox
Sports Radio. Right now, though, it is time for a
little something we do on the show called this Jonas,
how could you not get to these stories? Are the scraps.

(02:24:43):
And for that we turn it back over to the great,
powerful and voice of l A Sports Radio, Kevin Figures
keV thank you. Jonas knocks in. Despite having career loans
and yards for the career lows I should say, and
yards per carry, rushing yards per game, and yards from scrimmage,
and possibly not having the support of actually being on
the roster by head coach Adam Gate, Levian Bell says

(02:25:04):
he definitely wants to return to the New York Jets
next season. He says, quote, I would not have signed
here for four years if I did not want to
be here for four years. He had signed a four
year contract initially, but most of the guarantees are in
the front first couple of seasons of the deal, and
of course it would not be costpresitive if the Jets
actually did wants to cut him loose or trade him
in the off season. By the way, for the uh,

(02:25:27):
the don't pay the running back big money truthers, kind
of a big year for that looking pretty good, aren't you?
You know, Like you consider Ezekiel Elliott and Lean Bell,
Todd Gurley and Melvin Gordon and like that that actually
is gonna end up working out well for them. For
the people that say don't pay the running back not

(02:25:47):
I don't know who's worked this season like a big money,
big money guy. Yeah, you're right. I don't think any
like none of them have worked this season. And you know,
it could be just coincidence, but I think that old
go into why people say, See, this is exactly why
you don't pay a running back that kind of money.
All the running backs who were having really good years.
You look at a Christian McCaffrey, he's on a rookie deal.

(02:26:08):
You know they're gonna they're gonna run him into the
ground before he even gets a chance to get a
contract that big. It reminds me so much. Um when C. C.
Sabbathia was, you know, before his arm exploded in his
final pitch and major which was just bizarre. But when
he was with the Indians, he was like the best,

(02:26:28):
one of the best pitchers in baseball, unbelievable. And he
got traded to the Milwaukee Brewers, who were in a
pennant race, and so the Brewers realized, we don't have
the money to pay this guy in the off season.
He's probably going to the Yankees. Anyways. So the Brewers
literally drove cc Sabbathia into the ground. He was out

(02:26:50):
there every single night. I think he started all every
single game, every single night in the postseason. He may
have appeared in every game they had. It's like they
ran him into the ground because they're thought was, well,
I mean, he's not gonna be here long term anyways,
it's not our problem, so let's go ahead and let's
just let's grind him for as long as we can.
And so it feels like, I mean, if you're at
the Carolina Panthers, uh, I mean, Christian McCaffrey is gonna

(02:27:13):
be a thousand thousand guy, which is crazy to think about,
the third player ever to do it. Yeah, I mean,
they're just gonna, i mean, grind him down and then
you know, a place of franchise tag on him if
they have to, which would be fourteen fifteen million dollars
depending on where it's at at that time, and then
just go with that and then draft somebody else in
the draft or take somebody else in the draft of
that position. That's what I was trying to get. You

(02:27:34):
mentioned the name Melvin Gord, and he's probably gonna end
up getting hurt more worse than anybody because he's a
free agent after the season, and you see what's happening
to all these guys that have gotten a huge contract,
and he held out for an additional two or three
million dollars per year more than the charges are offering him. Well,
now the Charges aren't gonna offer him anything. Alton Keler
looks like to be there guy moving ahead in the future.
And now Melvin Gordon, the best he can probably look

(02:27:55):
at is maybe a one or two year deal with
incentives on it, because nobody's gonna be willing to pay
him that much money. Seeing what's happening to tailbacks now, Yeah,
it's just I would love to find out and and
I've like there's a lot of things in the NFL
I'd love to know, like what really happened or what,
but I would love to find out what the actual
number was that they offered him that he turned down,

(02:28:17):
and and when did that just no longer become an
option for them, Like if he came back to and
said okay on second thought and they just said no,
absolutely not like I I'd love to because I know
the reported number that was out there, there was something
like that was the fourteen is what he wanted. They
were offering about ten. He so he wanted about three
million dollars more than they were per year than they

(02:28:39):
were offering. And you would know the situation with the
Chargers at M five seventy l a sports better than
I would. So the ten number is a legit number
that you heard. That's what That's what all the reports
said from the people who are in the know. Ten
is what they were offering about. Thirteen to higher up
to about fourteen was what he was asking for. I mean, look,

(02:29:00):
Tevin Coleman, and this was the biggest shock to me.
He ended up settling for like a two year ten
million dollar deal or something like that with the forty niners.
And if anybody's watched or paid attention to Tevin Coleman
in his time in Atlanta, he was a productive back
who bailed them out whenever Davonte Freeman had injuries or

(02:29:20):
anything like that, Like, had really good numbers and always
performed well whenever he got an opportunity. And even he
had to settle for a two year, lower level ten
million dollar deal with the forty niners. I don't to
your point, I don't know what Melvioln Gordon is going
to get this offseason, Like, I don't know what's out
there for him. Yeah, I don't think it's It's not
going to be a very robust market. You know, you're

(02:29:42):
talking about the depth of the running back position. It's
not gonna get any better with all the examples we
just talked about when it comes to Levy on Bail
and guys like Todd Gurley. Now, now I know you're
a fight fan as well, let me know how excited
you are about this while they're fewer too. It's on
definitely happened in the rematch we all been waiting for
in a heavyweight boxing is going to happen on February

(02:30:04):
and at the n g M Grant in Las Vegas.
Of course, we had the epic draw despite the fact
that Fury was knocked down two times, and honestly, that's
the only reason why I was a draw because he
would have won that fight. I still think Faury won
the fight, even in that last round when Furry got
knocked down, when he was just annihilated. But Deontay Wilder,

(02:30:24):
like Deontay Wilder hits so hard that when he hits
you somebody you bumped into two weeks earlier. Dies Like,
he hits so hard, I mean trunks for arms. He's
he's to eighteen. He was like two oh nine for
that fight against against Tyson Fury, which you know, big guy,
but as far as heavyweights go, it's a small guy

(02:30:45):
that it's barely above a cruiserweight. And and Deontay Wilder
has got like a nineties seven percent knockout percentage. He
hits guys and they vanish, like they just vanned, like
they disappear there. Their conscience, their senses just go away.
It's it's gone. Because he hits so hard, and he

(02:31:06):
bombed Fury, and Fury got up and won the rest
of the round, like he completely outboxed him. I thought
Fury still won the fight, but regardless, it was a
great fight. The only thing that pisses me off about
this is that the heavyweight division has kind of made
a comeback to where you've got Andy Well when Andy
rees run right, well, he just decided, you know what, Uh,

(02:31:30):
why don't I just not train? You know, Let's see
how that goes. Yeah, he says after he once, So
I got trained, I got in shape, and I was like, oh,
you know what, I can eat a little bit more. Yeah,
he just you know, he just decided, Yes, what happens
if I just you know, don't do any road work
or anything like that, Let's see how far I could
take this. But it feels like there's a little bit
of a comeback in the heavyweight division. What bothers me though,

(02:31:52):
is that, like there'll be people out there that will say, oh,
finally the heavyweight division is back. I can go back
to watching boxing again. If that's your approach. Do you
know how many great fights you've missed over the last
twenty years in the lower weight classes. Focus on the
heavyweight division, I mean from one to one sixty or one.

(02:32:14):
It has been some of the great fights that I've
seen in my life in boxing. But people are lazy
and they only want to well, you know, it's it's
like the Tiger Woods approach, like, yeah, I'll watch that
golf tournament when Tiger Woods is in it. Now, you're
just lazy, You just you just don't like been the
era of the waltzweight and the middleweight's a little bit
earlier than this era. For sure, it's been awesome. There

(02:32:36):
have been so many great fighters over the past fifteen
twenty years while the heavyweight division has been down that
have come through that people just haven't been paying attention
to because they just didn't want to do the research
or the work. No, it's too bad. Now. This story
comes from North Oedlborough, Massachusetts. Substitute teacher in Massachusetts at
of High school fired four smoking marijuana in class and

(02:32:58):
leading a discussion about the draw. Yes, he plan in
front of the students, started smoking in front of them,
and I guess try to tell them, you know, this
is an education in uh and smoking the reforest some
would say yeah. Apparently some of the students in the
class went to the principal and told them what was
going on. The principal said it was unfortunate and unprecedented

(02:33:20):
and that the teacher was quickly removed from substituting at
the school. So a substitute teacher um who clearly just
did not want to be a substituteacher anymore and decided,
you know what, I could either do it the quiet
way and just and just you know, retire and say
I'm done teaching, or I can just go in there
and just smoke weed in front of the kids. Well,

(02:33:42):
It's like I can either tell you guys about it,
or I can just I can just show you. You know,
when someone talks about getting baked, you know, and maybe
you get a little disoriented forget something you want to
you want to experience the munchie's firsthand. Here you go,
kids that that that is true and it's a it's
a hands on approach. Um. Now, did any kids all
so take a hit off whatever? That has not been

(02:34:02):
confirmed as to whether or not any of the students
decided to uh do a you know, imvibe themselves. I
did not get that get in the report. Clearly they
just didn't want to do it anymore, right, they didn't
want to be a teacher anymore. That had to have
been it. There's no way he could have thought this moment. Okay,
I know, I know marijuana has been legalized in many places.
I don't know if Massachusetts is one of those places.

(02:34:23):
But I get our friend Arnie Spanier on the hook
for that. Yeah, I think he's up in that area.
I'm not I'm not really sure. Um, but needless to
say that this this teacher is no longer teaching. By
the way, did you did you get Arnie Spaniards gift
to you in the other room. Just shocking. So I
walked into I walked to the kitchen a little bit earlier,
and I saw a bunch of little packages on the
floor with names of many people on the Fox Sports

(02:34:43):
radio staff. Funny, I didn't see my name on any
of those packages. You weren't on there. And I worked
with Arnie no less than about four or five times
this past year. Okay, here's here's what's happening with Arnie Spaniard,
A little peek behind the curtain here, all right, for
for just just to right off the bat. He's a
douche bag. All right, let's just go ahead, and let's
let's put that right up. I love the guy. I
I love him. So Arnie Spaniers sent boxes of gift

(02:35:07):
bags from Vermont with syrup and and all sorts of
goodies for for the holidays, really nice gestures. Sent a
bunch of them out, and so people's names were written
on the side of the boxes, random people's names. So
Rob Parker earlier this week just grabbed a bag. He
just said, he just grabbed a bag out of one

(02:35:28):
of the boxes. And I said, what's that. He goes, Oh,
you know Arnie Spaniers sent gifts. I was like, yeah, bro,
that wasn't for you, Like of those what do you mean?
I was like, I'm go check the side of the box. So,
as it turns out, Arnie Spaniard only sent gift bags
to the producers, the anchors, and the bosses because he

(02:35:51):
wants to kiss ass obviously, So I told Rob. I
was like, I'm gonna mess with Arnie. So I sent
Arnie a text and I said, hey, man, thanks so
much for the gift bag. I really appreciate it. Um,
that was nice to you. He said, well, it's not
for you, it's for the producers. It's for the uh,
the anchors, and then the bosses. I was like, well
too late, Rob Parker and I already got ours and

(02:36:12):
we're out the door. So I don't know what to
tell you. Was hot, It was hot, and it was Arnie's.
So here's the thing, he said, all the anchors, all
the so you're nowhere on any of that box, nowhere
to be found. And trust me, I'm made three sweeps
that those boxes didn't see my name on any of them.
I Figgy, don't worry because I produced his show for
six months. This year. He did not send me a bit.

(02:36:36):
He texted me about it the day that they were
sent to He's like, hey, make sure these are coming
in tonight. And I went through those boxes. My name
is not on. Everybody gets one except you on the
box first singer has informed me, I do have one
out you have. Here's the thing. I have produced one
show with Arnie since I got here, on one when

(02:36:56):
he was filling in for Anthony Gargano. What a scumbag?
What a what a scumbag? Like like, don't don't tell
everybody you're getting gifts for the crew when you pick
and choose who you're getting gifts for. It doesn't even
make sense. What a dirt bag. I doubled down on
every negative thing I've said about the University of Arizona.
Now I'm a tenfold It's my favorite thing to do

(02:37:19):
to Arnie and he hasn't caught onto it yet. He'll
send me a random text and it's always busting my balls.
It's never anything nice to say. It's it's never anything
nice to say. And uh, every single time I write back,
who is this? And every single time it's Hardy, you idiot,
It's Hardie and so that, but it's always the go

(02:37:41):
to and and he finally figured it out about a
week ago that I've just been busting his balls, Like
I know exactly who I used to listen to Artie.
I love Arnie Spaking. I used to I listened to
him every single day Monday through Friday, troll Laker fans
locally best, Hey Laker fast, Oh it's the best Artie
span your who thought it was a good idea. I'm

(02:38:02):
doing a live show out in front of Staple Center
before a playoff game. Thought it would be funny to
get on the loudspeaker and say, oh, breaking news, Kobe's
not playing at night. He just got injured and the
Lakers were piste because he's right outside Staples Center, and
then gives out a fake injury report before the game.
If that happened, now he gets fired. He get fired

(02:38:26):
like it just a terrible decision. But I love Arnie,
But man, what a what a dirt bag when it
comes to handing out Christmas gifts? Unbelievable, Wow, terrible guy.
Those are the scripts, all right? Jonas knocks here on
Fox Sports Radio, thank you too, uh to Kevin figures
here on FS are uh from the Geico Fox Sports
Radio Studios. Get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knocks

(02:38:47):
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I did give out my box locks Week seventeen edition
earlier in the show Week seventeen. Gambling is a crap shoot.
You don't know who's playing, what the motivation is. You

(02:40:10):
could bet on the team before the game and then
they find out mid game that their game is irrelevant
because the team they needed to lose actually one and
so they're out of the playoffs. There's a lot of
things to factor in, but I'm tending o my last
two weeks with Knox Locks. Uh. This week, I like
the Browns minus two and a half. I like the
Panthers getting plus thirteen and a half against the Saints.

(02:40:32):
I like the Bucks minus one against the Falcons. I
like the Lions getting twelve and a half points against
the Packers. And I like the Seahawks getting three and
a half points on Sunday Night Football against the forty niners. UH. So,
hopefully we will do decently well there because I know
last Week seventeen, last year it was a disaster, so

(02:40:52):
but a guaranteed winning season, which is always a nice feeling. Uh.
This has been a fun year. I want to thank
everybody who took time to listen to it. I know
there's a lot of options out there. We just try
and have fun and goof around and bus balls and
try and get your mind off whatever is bugging you
or bothering you throughout the course of your day. And
we try and do so. But I couldn't do it
without Kevin Figures. I couldn't do it without Ryan Burr

(02:41:14):
Singer and Chris Perfett. Uh. They really do make the
show happen. I'm just part of the fun. So hopefully
we can continue next year.

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