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he is George Rice to the six year NFL that time,
Dan buy, are glad to have you with us on
this Sunday. Now with all of this stuff going on,
these shockwaves are still being felt in the National foot
Ball League. We are a month in a day away
from the NFL Draft that will start on Thursday, April
twenty nine. And George on Friday. What a deal it was.

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Actually it was two separate deals, but it involved one
team doing two deals. First, you had the Dolphins swinging
their deal with the forty Niners, So the Niners get
number three overall, Dolphins had for like a minute, had
number twelve overall, got two first round picks from San
Francisco and also a third rounder. And then Miami used
some of that collateral that they got from the forty

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Niners and used it in a trade with the Eagles.
So the Dolphins then moved up the six Philly dropped
to twelve in Philadelphia also picked up a first round
pick as part of that deal. But that was a crazy,
crazy deal, George, just for the simple fact of not
only did we know that Miami was interested in Deshaun Watson,
and now obviously Watson's cases up in the air, so

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they make their own move with that pick to say, hey,
we want to trade back. The Niners jump up to
we assume him take a quarterback, and then you have
the Eagles in the mix, ending up falling back as well,
allowing the Dolphins to maybe get a playmaker early. A
lot of different ways that trade could go, as we're
still trying to examine what went down on Friday. Yeah,
and my biggest takeaway from all of that was how

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rude the NFL is. A right, the NFL is so
damn rude. I mean just rude and inconsiderate because they
the free agency period already started. They they had their
moment in the sun the NFL. You know, every everybody's
talking about them, per the usual, right, and then as

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soon as something starts going right for the NBA, what
does the NFL do? They had there, so they had
their trade NBA had the trade neadline on Thursday. They're like,
all right, uh, whoa free agents? What are the moves?
Who's gonna get bought out? All this NBA starts to
take some shine and then the NFL is like, slow down,

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we're taking print. Just a bully, the same way that
they're trying to do with Christmas Day. So that was
my biggest take to take away. I was just like,
the NFL is bullying the NBA again. I I loved it.
I loved it the NBA and what was I'm sorry,
a pretty There was a lot going on at the
trade deadline, but in the ends there's always stuff going

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on in the NBA, Like there's always drama and after
a while you just get kind of sick of it.
And I love the NFL being like, all right, your
trade deadline, Yeah, that was a nice little thing that
you had there. What about this freaking deal and what
about that freaking deal? Like that's what was going down
with the NFL. It was one. It was too, I know,
showing the NBA who was boss, Like that's what was

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going down. And I loved it. And and that's again
the NFL's goal to I believe, to try to dominate
at least eleven of the twelve months. And they've done
a really good job of it. They really have. And
I I've said to you, George, I think that the
NBA gets tiring at times, and and because every day
it's something, it's just every single day it's something. And

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so the trade deadline, which was was thought to be okay,
well you always have a trade deadline in the NBA,
a little different this year because the pandemic, but the
NFL being able to just show like what real excitement
it is and and where genuinely comes from. Yeah, I
think just kind of put the NBA in its place.
We're gonna get enough NBA over the next few months.
The NBA tries to tries to steal the the energy

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out of you every single day with who's gonna be
bought out where and who's going you know here or there,
But the NBA says, not so fast. We'll take the headlines. Yeah.
And but but with the trade though, like there's so
much to unpack from it, because there was so much
talk about what the Dolphins we're gonna do with that pick.

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They ended up with six first round draft picks. Six
so then you think, all right, they can they are
still in a position to make a move for Russell
Wilson or if things clear up with the Deshaun Watson
as well, not if they wanted to. So they traded
the third overall pick to San Francisco for the twelfth

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overall picked this draft, and then they got back the
three first round picks from San Francisco and a third
round pick. I mean that in and of itself is
like when you look at the formula for what draft
picks are worth, like that was a good trade for
both teams, But then you think there's no way. John

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Lynch of traded up to number three to draft another
ninety number right, No, no, absolutely, And in fact, that
offer that was was dealt to the Dolphins at that time,
I think it was better than the Russell Wilson offer
that they got from the Chicago Bears, because it was
I mean, when you look at when you look at it,

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what the what we had heard that the Bears were
offering three first rounders, two starters? Is it a third
round pick? When you end up looking at it, it
ends up being three first rounders because you're also trading
this year, and that pick that you end up you know,
you would give them a player in return that was
comparable or at least allow you to, uh to draft

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that player is much better than what the than what
the Bears had offered Seattle. Yeah, and because their pick
is going to be higher highing more more y. Yeah,
that's the draft. Yeah, So like that's what Bears are already. Yeah,
the Bears are already picking towards the end of the draft. Um,

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so their first round pick, assuming that they got Russell Wilson,
would have been, you know, it would presumably be lower
than it is now. So so you essentially are trading
second round picks and the and with the formula, you
have to give up so many more first round picks,
players and all of that to go from the twenties

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up to a top three pick. That it's not that,
it's uh insane. So then that brings the question of
who were they? Who would they draft if you're San
San Francisco's because because remember they said that they wanted that.
They called Jimmy Garoppolo before they made this trade and

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they said, Jimmy, you're still in our future plans. And
I'm like, yeah, he is still in your future plans.
He's in your future plans as a bridge starter now
because they're drafting a quarterback, So he's still in your
plans for one like you, like you told him. But
now it's different though. It's no longer in your plans

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as far as your future of your franchise. No, it's
just the future of at least the beginning half of it. Yeah,
that that's that's the key part. I'm right with you
with that, because I've heard a lot of talk of oh,
this is what the Chiefs did with Patrick Mahomes. I
don't think that's what are going for. I think what

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the forty Niners are going for is we'll have Jimmy
G b R starting quarterback for the first half of
the season because we think that our team is good
enough to win a certain amount of games. And now
with the playoffs expanded the seven teams in each conference.
I mean, we saw this year the Bears weren't a
playoff worthy team, but they made the playoffs. And I
think if you're San Francisco, you just say to yourself,

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all right, let's just let's not put a rookie quarterback
in in week one or week two. Well, maybe we'll
wait just a few more weeks of that, but let's
just make sure we win a couple of games that
we know we can win because we feel that our
roster is better than other NFL teams that we could
get by with Jimmy G. But once you get to
week seven or eight, I think that's when the baton

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has passed. I think that they just want a guy
in there to kind of end up holding the spot
for the first couple of weeks, and that obviously being
Jimmy G. Not like Alex Smith started the whole season
and then moved on the next year. I don't think
that the forty Niners are that patient. I think to
your point, George, as you said that, I think this
is a midseason deal to whenever the rookie quarterback gets

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up the speed and adds that dimension that they feel
that that offense, then that player is gonna end up
taking over the starting job. Yeah. But then the next
question is, all right, who do they draft? Who do
they draft? That's the next question. Because there's a lot
of people who used to be Jimmy G. Truthers in
the beginning, and I was not one of them. I said,

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there's no way he like, he is an average quarterback, Like,
but look at how many games he won. Yeah, don't
give me the Tim Tebow argument. Don't give me that.
I I have to look at this guy and say,
with two many if when they can't play action pass,
he's still good enough to win football games. And he's not.
And that doesn't mean that he's not a starting quarterback

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in the NFL. It just means that that you have
to have optimal circumstances around him for him to win
a Super Bowl. Like when they played against the Chiefs,
it came down to him making a couple of throws.
He threw an interception with his eyes closed, one and
then the other one. He needed to make a a

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a justin. I mean, I know playing quarterback is difficult,
but it was a pass that quarterbacks should complete that
that long past that he missed, and quarterback coaches, coordinators, yeah,
always say don't miss the layup. That was a layup.
He could have had Emmanuel Sanders stop and catch it,

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but either way, you can't miss that pass. And he
did like that. And that's the difference between Jimmy Garoppolo
and a you know, and an elite quarterback is that
everything has to go right for him to win a
Super Bowl, just like Joe Joe Flacco. Uh, you know

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the throws in the Super Bowl. And what gets lost
in all this, George, is if the forty Niners defense,
who would is really their strong point that season, uh,
was able to stop on the third down big pass
play that Kansas City had. I mean, the Niners were
up two scores with seven minutes to go in that
Super Bowl. That there are there are opportunities where they

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could have a masked where you know who Jimmy G
was and and that whole that whole narrative by Jimmy
G could have been masked if the defense would have
ended up getting a stop. But to your point, those
are the things that will will hang with you. And
it's one thing to be a regular season quarterback, and
it's one thing to uh, you know, get things done
in the playoffs, but when you have an opportunity to
make that play in the super Bowl, that's going to

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stick with you, fair or not. And it's actually why
I think that the forty Niners of these three teams
got the best end of the of of the deal.
And when you look at where the other teams are
as well, it makes me feel that the forty Niners
were able to get the better end of of this deal.
I don't know if it's going to be tre Trey Lance,
I don't know if it's gonna be Mac Jones. I
don't know if it's gonna be Justin Fields. That's who

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we believe is going to be there. But for San
Francisco to at least be confident enough in one of
those guys to go up and say, all right, he's
the guy of our future and this is who we
want to to lead us, I think that they have
won this deal out of those three teams. I know
you could look at the hall that the Dolphins have
and say that the Dolphins, you know, with all of

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their picks, that's fine, But the forty Niners are there.
The forty Niners are going to be super Bowl contenders
next season. They are there. They and the way that
it's set up for them, they will likely be super
Bowl contenders four years after that. And that's why I
just to take the opportunity in a year where you
had a down year and we're we're hurt by injuries,

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to be able to take advantage and now make a
move that allows you to get a franchise quarterback. I
I just I think that that I like the forty
Niners winning this deal out of any of the other
Eagles or Dolphins who made the trades on Friday. What
absolutely not due absolutely not day. The Miami Dolphins won
his trade. The Miami Dolphins won his trade because they

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were sitting at number three, right and they don't want
to draft whatever wide receiver they're likely to draft or
pay Soul at number at number three. Yes, you could
draft pay Soul there and feel good about it, but
they're probably going to draft a wide receiver. And if
you're gonna draft a wide receiver, none of them. You

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feel like that you that you can get at number
three that you can't get at number six. So that's
the first thing that you have to look at. So
then they're able to add additional draft draft value and
draft capital for this year and the future, which they

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can then trade to upgrade their roster at any point
in time. I mean, this is a this is by
far a win for Miami because Miami won ten games
last year. This is already a good football team. So
if they can figure out their quarterback situation, their golden dude,
and you that's exactly what you could use that those

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same exact words when talking about the forty Niners, those
same exact words and saying if they figured out their
quarterback position, their golden and you know what, the forty
Niners went and took the bull by the horns and
are figuring out their quarterback position, even when other people
would say that their quarterback position has already figured out
because Jimmy Garoppolo is their starter. Let's let's let's continue this.

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He's George rice Ster, I'm Dan Buyer. This is Fox
Sports Sunday. Who do you think got the best of
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(15:07):
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Before we went to the break, though, we were talking
about the trade that went down between the Miami Dolphins

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and the San Francisco forty Niners, and just a quick recap,
there was a day they the Miami Dolphins traded down
to twelve, forty Niners went up to three some future
draft picks. But then right after that it was the
Miami Dolphins, who then turned around and traded that twelfth

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overall pick to Philly for the sixth overall pick and
the first two first rounder plus fourth round pick swat
And now Miami has six first round picks in the
next three drafts. They turned Larry me Tunsel, who failed
to them in twenty sixteen, into first round picks, the

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thirty six pick, the hundred and second pick on a
good team already, And I said, they want the trade.
Dan does not agree. I cannot understand this insanity. But
you guys can weigh in, who do you think want
to trade eight seven, seven, nine, six three six nine
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Now, Dan, you

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had a minute to think about this over the break,
so I know you are a reasonable man. I thought, yeah,
so you over the break, you you had to be
sitting there thinking to yourself, like, yo, George is a
right about this? Like I that they that the it's

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not the forty Niners who won the trade, but it's
the Dolphins who won this trade. Well, when you look
at that, when you look at the the the trades
that occurred on Friday, I just think that when you
look at those trades, not the Laramie Tunzil trade, not
what the Dolphins have previously done to set up. I
just think that the forty niners are the true winners

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because they have a playoff ready team, went healthy when
went healthy, and and you now take the opportunity when
you likely would be a playoff caliber team the next
year and you aren't going to be picking as high
as twelve in another draft, to go and take that
opportunity to go and grab your franchise quarterback, that to

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me is that to me, Trump's all like, the Dolphins
have a great list of draft picks and I believe
it's five first rounders over the next three drafts because
they did have to give the one of those to
Philadelphia as part of the deal. But still five first
round picks six over the next three It's really really
good to have. But there's also some questions on where

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those could fall, where those could be in the draft,
and to be able to move up and get a
franchise caliber quarterback at number three is the reason why
I just think that the forty nine ers are the
real winners. And all of this a potential, all right,
So if they were getting Trevor Lawrence, I would say,
all right, they won this, but who do you draft
at number three? I mean, I would take Justin Fields.

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I actually think that he is uh both physically and
what he can do. And if you put him with
Kyle Shanahan, I think that Justin Fields would just be
in all pro caliber quarterback for the next ten or
fifteen years. Maybe not first team all the time, first
team All Pro, but I think that he is of
that caliber. We've heard Trey Lance, and we've heard Mac Jones.

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But of those three, assuming that Zack Will, I want
you to put all the I want you to put
all the quarterbacks available. I want you to put Zach
Wilson in there too, because would you if if Zach
Wilson is about Let's say the Jets do not take
a quarterback, right, Trevor Lawrences goring one. Let's say they

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picked Pinay Sol at at two. Who are you drafting
if you're forty niners? Okay, all right, If that's the case, Um,
I would still take Justin Fields. Jests gonna take Yeah,
Jets aren't gonna take Pinay Sol, But that that's I
mean I would I would be shocked if that was again,
same same kind of scenario with the forty niners. But yeah,
I mean, I I just think that like to see

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what Justin Fields did in the transition, and so much
has made about what he did last year in a
game against Indiana and the interception that they had the
year before against Clemson in the semifinal game. If you
just want to focus on that, you're missing the entire boat.
I mean, in the transition that he made from his
freshman year to a sophomore year from Georgia going to

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Ohio State. The pandemic craziness, George, That's the other thing.
And this is something that is that is you know,
Daniel Jeremiah is a friend of the network, you know,
NFL Network draft analyst, and you know he's talked about
this as much where there's there's so much known about
this draft that there are just you don't know if
a late first round pick is maybe a guy that

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you should have taken in the third or fourth round.
And you're seeing I think you're seeing teams. The Seahawks
have three picks in this draft. John Schneider loves to
make draft picks, but they only have three in this draft,
and I think that's kind of reflective of where people
think this draft is. And I and I just I
don't think that people are just getting the real deal
on Justin Fields. For some reason, he seems to be

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the one that they wanted to nitpick and easy the
way they started to nitpick at Trevor Lawrence and say, oh,
Zack Wilson should be should be first. But we're taking
your phone calls as well. Adam in Bakersfield, welcome to
the show. Hey guys, thanks for having me. So. I
I definitely think Miami one that won the deal on

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the trades um once all the death settle, they ended
up with an additional first and third round, and like
you said, they got five picks in the next three
years in the first round UM, and they're in a position.
They're in a position now to do whatever they want
to do. Where they were at third it looked like
they were going Jamar Chase, which they can still get

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Jamar Chase potentially at the six pick. The way things look,
I think that will happen. If not they take best available,
and if they get a clear number one in Jamaar
Chase with the addition of Will Fuller and having the
time that to a needed to finally get healthy and
learn the system and have some real time with the

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team leading up to the season. They're they're set and
and they have the youngest team in the league and
multiple draft picks over the next three years to do
what they need to do. This team is going to
go off. I'm telling you, yeah, I can make some
sense out of that. I think that that's very very reasonable, Adam,

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and and it just gives Miami a lot of flexibility
for this year and for the future in case they
were wrong about tah So. I think that that's the
other thing is that if they were wrong about Toa,
they'll still be able to unload him because they have
plenty of draft capital to move up in future drafts.

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But we will continue taking your phone calls on this trade,
but a bunch of and stacked up, we will get
to you, guys. Eight seven, seven, six, three, six and
six nine. This is Fox Sports Sunday. I'm George Rice,
so he's damn buyer. But it's our man, David Gascott.
What's trending, guys. Michigan right now is trending in the

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right direction. They have a seven point lead over Florida
State in the first half most than nine minutes to
play in the opening half, over Rings up by seven,
nineteen and twelve, gating win. Final from earlier today saw Gonzaga.
They were triumphant in a large kind of way because
they shot the ball well. So it's about base lad left,
get her to timmy up top of the kissber Church's
plans strike two. I think everything right Gonzaga did. They

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shot six from the field and walked away from this
thing and Craighton eight three six five was the final score.
So they improved a twenty nine and oh on the
season and they move along to the Elite eight usual
in Alabama tonight, Oregon and Southern cal Meanwhile, in the NBA,
Sons defeat the Hornets in Charlotte one oh one to nineties.
Portland and Toronto later on today, Dimmon Lillard will be

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playing in today's ball game, despite the fact that he
sat out on Friday night on the ice Blues one
Ducks nothing Red Wings defeated the Blue Jackets four to
one and as a capitalist five four winners over the
New York Rangers. Guys, mate you, David Gascon, thanks for
telling us what's trending. I'm George Riser. He is Damn Buyer.
This is Fox Sports Sunday and we are coming to

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you live from the Farmers Insurance Fox Sports Radio Studios
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talking about that trade. Taking your phone calls. Joe in Ontario,
Welcome to the show. Good. Yeah, I think, uh, I

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think my idea. I mean the chances of uh, you know,
not handing out. I mean they're a little higher up
than I thought. I mean, Herbert's obviously better in my opinion,
but like you said, I mean they could use that
trade it up if if they don't think he's a
guy Miami definitely want the element. All right, thank thanks,

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thanks for to call Dan. How many more people need
need to tell you before you realize you made a mistake. Well,
I didn't make a mistake. I I mean the forty
Niners are gonna be able to get their franchise quarterback.
Where they were saying prior to the draft that wait,
hold on, you asked me a question, so I'm gonna
answer it. So the the forty Niners were sitting at

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twelve overall before this trade, and they had an opportunity,
an opportunity where next year, if they make the playoffs,
they're sitting and what with the inability to move up,
uh and make that sort of deal. Like, they took
advantage of the landscape. They took advantage of their bad
fortune and made it their good fortune. They're bad fortune

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was how the season panned out for them with with
their injuries and their setbacks. But they used that now
to their advantage. You know, they traded first round picks.
And it's funny over these last couple of weeks. You know,
now now everybody is starting to talk about, you know,
maybe everybody opening their eyes that the Dolphins should have
won this trade. Everybody's not opening their eyes realizing that

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when you trade draft picks that could be in the
last third of the draft, it's not that valuable. And
that's where the forty Niners did it in the essence of,
we aren't going to be in this position, so let's
go and get our guy and we can get a
franchise quarterback. I mean, you know, the Rams ended up
having to swing a deal to trade Jared golf In

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two first round picks for Matthew Stafford. How long is
Matthew Stafford gonna be in l a as their quarterback?
Not as long as whoever the forty Niners hope they
take at three is going to be their guy. And
if you say, like, but it's hope, you don't know
if they got it. We don't know who the Dolphins
are gonna be taking with any of those draft picks.
We don't know if we're going to be trading and
doing those things. So so if you're gonna use that

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against me to say that you don't know who the
Fortys are taking as there if it's going to be
a star quarterback, you can say the same thing about
all the picks that the Dolphins are gonna have. You
have no idea if those picks are gonna you don't
pan out. So that's why I just like what San
Francisco did. The difference is is that I would like
six chances at first round picks, then one chance at

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first round picks. Uh. Ronnie in South Carolina, Welcome to
the show. Hey, Hey, George and Dan, how are you
guys doing? Can you hear me? Ronnie? All right, man,
I'm a forty fan first of all, and I think
in the long run of things. I think Miami they

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wanned the trade. But I think the Natas are looking
at their division and they're looking at these quarterbacks and
all the gambles that the Rams have taken, and the
Cardinals going out and getting all these great players, and
they're looking at their window, and they're window is closing.
So I think, I don't know where I think for

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them to move up to number three, they're they're gonna
make a splash. I don't know what it's gonna be. Okay,
if the Jets select a quarterback, then Sam Donald will
get moved that he will. He will be a Niner
in my opinion. If they celect a quarterback, it depends
on what the Jet Jet does do in this draft.

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And you gotta remit, you have to remember the Jets
head coach, forty Niners former defensive coordinator. They're probably they
probably have a better communication thing's going on here. But
I really think, yeah, and the long run of my
AIM's answer the question might want the draft in the
long run, say three or four or five years on
the road, but the Niners are looking at our window

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is closing. We have to do something now, That's all
I have to say, all right, thanks, thanks for the call.
You know, and and and Toronni's point, I think you know,
forty Niners fans. It's funny because they're they're again seven
minutes away from a super Bowl what fifteen months ago,
and now you're like, okay, we gotta get this done now.
But you do see a bit of an arms race

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in the NFC West. Who knows what's gonna happen with Seattle,
but we do know that Russell Wilson is still there.
We do know that Kyler Murray is Arizona in Arizona.
We do know that Matthew Stafford is now a member
of the Rams. So now if you're you're sitting there
and you're saying yourself, okay, we're dead last in this
quarterback race in this division. Let's go out and try
to do something about it. They ended up doing something
about it, So I I like it. And and by

(28:40):
the way, I'll say this, and this isn't conceding anything.
We watched sports well and go go, go ahead, It's
okay to concede. No, I'm not conceding anything. We saw
a game yesterday between Arkansas and Oral Roberts. Arkansas one,
Oral Roberts lost, but the effort that all Roberts put
in pretty darn good effort and had a chance to
win it. It's kind of actually, how I look at

(29:01):
what the Dolphins did. I don't hate anything with the Dolphins.
In fact, if you're gonna take Kyle Pits, you're gonna
take Davante Smith, you know, and you know that you
can get one of those guys at number six as
opposed to number three. That's being smart. But just in
the grand scheme of where everything is in the NFL
and where and what these deals meant to their organizations,

(29:23):
it means more to the forty Niners. It means more
to the forty Niners than it does to the Eagles,
And it means more to the forty Niners than it
does to the Dolphins because of what it signifies. And
that's why I think they are the team that wins
this trade. Close game, good game. You know, I don't
hate what the Dolphins did. I just like that the
forty Niners again took the bull by the horns and

(29:45):
and figured out, you know what, we gotta move into
the top five, we gotta move into the top three.
And they did it to your to your point, though,
right is is that it does mean more to the
forty niners. But here's the thing that I believe that
the Miami Dolphins have seen as an organization is that
there is a huge advantage to having a lot of

(30:11):
draft picks every single year because the way free agency
is set up. Look at look at what had to
happen with the Seahawks defense with the legion of Boom.
They broke up because these guys, I mean, because there
there's only so much money under the salary cap, and
then the way the team structured deals and all that,
it just made it impossible for them to resign everybody.

(30:34):
Some people had to be able to walk. And but
with all these draft picks, the good thing about it
is is that it makes that next man up mentality
even more so because you can say, all right, we
like this guy, right, but we have a first round
draft pick, and we can draft a guy to replace

(30:56):
him that we can that obviously won't be as good
because he has no experience ends, But we can keep
replacing guys with these draft picks and keep our salary
cap and pay our quarterback and all these things that
people say that you can't do I think that that's
where the value is. That if you draft well, you've
created a pipeline for yourself where you can be successful

(31:19):
and have long term success. Um Rick and Florida, Welcome
to the show. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Thank you for taking
my call. I believe, I believe my Dolphins did one
amazing But here's two things that you guys are missing,
and I think Dan is missing. The Dolphins are betting
on themselves because if you look at who they gave

(31:40):
the Eagles, they didn't give them, they didn't give them
the forty nine pick. They gave them their rown. So
they're betting on themselves that they're going to be better
than the next year. They play in a weaker division.
All we have to deal with this buffalo. I don't
believe in New England, and the gents think the forty
niners playing a perfect division and probably have a tougher schedule.
We play the a f C and NFC. Sell. That's

(32:00):
number one. Number two. The key to this deal was
not saying at twelve, because I think the first caller
brought it up. Had we say at twelve, all those
guys are gone, Wattle Smith, pits Uh Kase, they all
would have been gone. The key to the seal was
moving back up to six. And now what George just said,

(32:20):
the guy they were targeting at three all along, they
know that they could get him at six, and that's
the key of the seal. But but the main thing
is that they are betting on themselves that they are
going to be better than the forty and that's why
they gave the Eagles there our own pick and not
the forty Niners. Sick. That's all I got to say, gentleman, happen,
good afternoon. I love Rick's passion and and and everything

(32:43):
that he said there was was true in the fact
of of of the facts, I would say this about
the the Dolphins giving the Eagles their own first pick
and not the one that they got from the two. Again,
we go back to the pack of the picks in
the last third of the draft. I think we expect,
and I think Miami expects to make the postseason next year.

(33:04):
I think that would that would be their goal. And
and so in saying that, he's right that, yeah, they
bet them themselves. But if the Dolphins of the Forts
both make the postseason, then that pick is only going
to be about you know who, who knows it could
be four picks apart. That's that's the space, and that's
at the latter part of the first round. I don't

(33:24):
think it's as big of a deal as Rick may
look at it. However, if Miami does have the bottom
fall out, then they're gonna pay for that next year.
If they have two a dozen progress and they continue
to be the same team that they are, then they
are he he's dead on about them betting on themselves
because they gave up up that pick. But yeah, they

(33:45):
don't do that deal with the forty niners if they
don't already have that deal done with the Eagles, you know,
like like so, so they they knew that they weren't
gonna fall down to twelve and and miss out on
Pits or Davante Smith. They knew that from the get go.
That because that that trade was anounced five minutes after
the forty Niners deal was done, So you knew that
they had both of them in place. So that so

(34:07):
the Dolphins knew what they were doing. Yep, and a
couple more phone calls left. But Dan, that's a really
good good point. They did absolutely have that deal in place,
because it was like, there's no way you make another
deal that quickly unless you know. But I gotta commend
their front office because they're playing in Chris Career, their GM.

(34:27):
They're playing you know, draft day right now, flipping picks
all around and it could turn out to be because
at the end of the day, it's probably it's Vonte
Mac the whole way. George right there, he's Dan Buyer.
This is Fox Sports Sunday. You can call us eight

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seven seven six three six nine eight seven seven ninety
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(35:08):
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On Fox. We've been talking about these trades going down.
George is ripping up his takes as we speak. You
can hear him crumpling up his paper because he knows

(35:29):
that I'm writing all of this. No just you know,
that was that was the that was the potential. That's
what the Jets should do with their draft card if
they're thinking about draft and Zach Wilson, who Okay, alright,
to wrap up this topic, let's go to let's go
to the phone lines. Blind Seahawks fan in Olympia joining

(35:53):
the program again, what's up? And I was like, how's it.
How's it going today? I'm doing pretty well, Dan Buyer
and George Rister big into the show. Thanks for taking
my call. I just want to say, did now I
really like what the Niners did, but I also love
what the Dolphins have been doing these past couple of years,
just stacking these fits. But at the moment, I think
the Niners have won this trade because the quarterback is

(36:14):
one of the most important positions in a franchise, and
you know, you could get that franchise guy, whether it
be trade Lands, justin Field, Zack Wilson, but one or
one of those guys. But I think, you know, in
a couple of years, say that quarterback doesn't work out
and the Dolphins had a good draft, I think the
Dolphins goold one could have easily won this trade in

(36:35):
a couple of years. But at the moment. The Niners
have won this trade, and I just want to I
just want to say about the Eagles to um. I
think that the reason they traded down is because they
know they're not going to really have the best of
years because the football team, the Cowboys and the Giants
are such a good division this year. Like, I'm really
high on that division. So I think they know they're
gonna be last and probably in the same boat next

(36:55):
year with a lottery pick. Yeah, no problem. Thanks. I
appreciated there there's a out there. I actually agree with
him on the Eagles. I don't agree with him necessarily
as a whole on the NFC East, but I could
see where he's coming from. I could see, you know,
I think Washington should be better. Um, you know, Dallas
with that healthy uh, we we hope should be better.
You know, we think that they're going to be better.
But yeah, that's that's I'm kind of you know, Emmet

(37:17):
and I are are lock stepping this and just seeing
with it with the forty Niners and what they've done
right now because of what could happen right now. Well,
I wanted to address what he said about the Eagles.
The Eagles are a team that I think that them
training down showed that they're like, Okay, we're gonna give
Jalen Hurts a shot. We're gonna give him a shot

(37:39):
that we're not gonna draft well or or they're saying
like we're gonna draft a possibly if trade lance is available,
yeah we'll draft him, but if not, we're gonna be
committed to Jalen Hurts. And they also gave themselves future
draft capital. I don't think they're mailing it in on one,

(37:59):
but think that they realize that they need more than
on to make this team a good team than just
a quarterback like they are. They were poor in some
parts on the on the defense last year. They know
that they need to upgrade that. They damn sure need
to upgrade the wide receiver room. So I mean, like,

(38:21):
if you're and then their officive line had been had
been hurt, there's a lot to address then just a quarterback. Yeah.
I I don't think that that they have any idea
where they're going. And I'm not saying that in the
front office vision the Jeffrey Lurie edict of building around
Jail and Hurts this season. I think it is the

(38:41):
egos just being like, let's just find out what we have.
What what do we have here that could stay long term,
whether it be the quarterback position, whether it be the
running back position, whether it be trying to figure out
whatever they're gonna do, you know, the offensive line or defensively.
I think they're trying to figure out what they have

(39:02):
and if they don't have it, then they can use
that extra first round pick that they got a year ago.
I don't think that they have any expectations of having
success in I think that they're so far away even
from the NFC, where where there seems to be, it
seems to be pretty wide open. I don't see how

(39:22):
Philadelphia can think that they're in it and to use
that division. They aren't anywhere close I think to the
teams in that division and where those teams are going.
And I think Philadelphia is taking a let's just see
what is, see what we've got, and then we'll move forward.
And I don't know if it's tanking, but but I
don't think that they have any intentions of of trying

(39:44):
to make a push with anything in it's all just
let's see what we've got and we'll go from there.
He's George rice Stir, I'm Dan Buyer. Wiggins tweets in
come on Dan. Three first round picks are still three
first round picks. So you got someone on your side, George,
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(40:55):
NBA today, A couple of buyout candidates finding a new
uh new teams. Andre Drummond goes to the Lakers, Austin
Rivers could be heading to Milwaukee. And this on the
heels of LaMarcus Aldridge joining the Brooklyn Nets. So the
trade deadline. George had a lot on Thursday for the NBA,

(41:16):
but over the weekend it's now the buyout season in
the association, and three teams that are title contenders or
have a shot at the title trying to make their
own moves. And and and I just I know, like
there was a running joke with Brooklyn considering all of
the guys that have now joined the team. Blake Griffin

(41:36):
obviously joins them recently, we know about the hardened trade.
There's just, you know, a lot going on in Brooklyn.
And while the Lakers add a big body that they'll
need once Lebron James and Anthony Davis come back, I
kind of want to focus on the Nets, or at
least my my my thoughts are on the next that's George,

(41:56):
because I look at the Nets and I actually don't
think that these additions are going to harm their chemistry.
For two fold. Number one, I don't even know if
they have chemistry because the play six games. Just so
you know, Kevin durand Kyrie Irving, who is well, Kevin

(42:18):
Duran has been out since I think February Twelves, Um,
Kyrie Irving takes random sabbaticals. Um, James Harden is back
to being the James Harden and Houston shooting ball all
the time, a lot of free throws because that's what
they need to win. So, yeah, this team has no chemistry.
And then you and they had one of the worst

(42:38):
defenses in the league. I think they ranked in the league.
And then when you add, well, when you add what's
gonna happen with the minutes for Jeff Green, who is
actually a three point threat, if Draymond, if Andre Drummond
is on the floor, then that somebody in the paint
to grab rebounds and pick and roll with. But now

(43:00):
your shooters are are all messed up. It's a I
think that they've put so many pieces together that they've
created a disaster. And for me, this looks like the
two thousand three, two thousand four Lakers. Yeah, I don't,
I don't, I don't. I don't think it's I don't
think it's that far. And I think you just misspoke,
LaMarcus Aldridge. I think the guy that you're talking about, yeah, yeah, um,

(43:25):
I don't think it goes that. I don't think it
goes that far. I I actually think that. And the
part that I joked about the chemistry, you know, was,
you know, just what you laid out is we have
no idea what their their chemistry is. But I also
think that the guys that they are bringing in, when
they're bringing them in, aren't expected to necessarily have the roles.

(43:46):
And you compared it to the to the oh four uh,
to the two thousand four Lakers, And so when you
had Karl Malone and Gary Payton coming in and those
guys were there at the beginning of the season, like
they had kind of like you know, like they're like,
all right, this is going to be a team. They're
also banged up. I believe that at the end of
that year, I think that Bloy Griffin and LaMarcus Aldridge

(44:09):
know exactly what they're signing up for. I think that
they know that they know that they are going in
there to be the superstars. I think they're going in
there for a Hey, let's just take a stab at
a title. Let's try to form the super duper team,
and we'll just go from there and see what happens.
I don't think that they have any realistic expectation to

(44:30):
go in there and dominate minutes or dominate certain things.
I think that they will defer to Harden, Kyrie, and
Durant whenever they all end up being on the same
court together. So that's why that's what I think. It's
different about your comparison with the with the Lakers from
you know, fifteen sixty years ago. Okay, So that so
that Lakers team, Kobe was the leading score twenty four
points a game, and Shaq then came in at twenty one,

(44:54):
Gary Payton at fourteen, and Carl Malone at thirteen, so
they were significant. Then there wasn't another double digit score
on the lead on the team the net. The next
was Met Medvedenko. He was the next highest score, and
then after that was Devin George. So the the comparisons
to me are not in terms of just like who's

(45:16):
going to defer in all of that. I look at
it more like they're adding dudes who are in the
twilight of their career, and like in terms of Blake
Griffin and LaMarcus Aldridge, like if you turn back the
clock five five years, yeah, hell yeah, this is a
this is a this is a this is an all
star team. But when you add up just the fact

(45:39):
that their defense has been poor, and then like, how
is Steve Kurr supposed to figure out this rotation? Because
another week is going to go by another week because
they've already said that Kevin Durant won't be joining the
team this week. So he's been out for like seven
weeks maybe maybe yeah, like seven weeks, And I'm like,

(46:02):
what did he do to his hamstring? Did he rip
it off the bone? Or does achilles having like this,
this is a long time for a hamstring, and and
and there there there could be concerns. I do think though,
in the end they're going to be in it. When
you look at the East right now, it's it's three teams,
It's Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Brooklyn. That's who it is. There's

(46:23):
a lot of job. How far do you think that
their defense or lack thereof, can take them? I think
they can win at all? Yeah, I I mean, I
I do I think that they can win an NBA title. Um,
you know, there's each team has their you know, has
their own uh problems, their issues to deal with, you know.

(46:47):
And I give all the credit in the world to
the Lakers and how they locked down in the NBA
bubble and playing defense when it's bad enough people don't
even want to be there anyway, so to be there
and play defense, um, you know, like I I tipped
their their cap to them, and maybe the Acres are
going to have to do that. But I don't necessarily
see that with other teams around the NBA. Milwaukee's defense
is down from from a year ago. I don't think

(47:09):
that they're going to be a lockdown team. You have
Drew Holiday and p J. Tucker going into maybe lock
down the stars that they may faith you know, play against.
But I don't think you're going to see the great
team uh defense effort uh from other NBA Here's either.
Here is the thing that I that I'll tell you
damn is that of NBA champions since the year two

(47:32):
thousand's over the last twenty years. Over the last twenty years, right,
only one team has won the NBA Championship with an
offensive rating outside of the top eleven outside of the
top eleven, and it's only been done twice where there
were even eleven in eleven or higher I'm sorry eleven.

(47:55):
And then after that it's all single single digits, and
that was the Oh four piss And who had a
offensive rating of nineteen. You go to the defensive rating side,
there has only been one champion, one champion in the
last twenty years that had a net defensive rating that

(48:17):
was over eleven. And there's one case of eleven, and
there's two tens and and the two tins are the
O six Miami Heatles, which they had a phenomenal team,
the twenty sixteen Cavaliers they were ranked tenth, and that
was a shorthanded team against that Warriors, and then the

(48:38):
twenty eighteen Warriors who had Kevin Durant, Steph Curry all
of that. But besides that, there was one team, only
one outlier, and that was the O one Lakers with
Kobe Shack all of that. In the midst of that
three p they had a net defensive ranking of twenty
two and the nets are at twenty six. Right now,

(49:00):
That's the thing that I think bodes too. They cannot
win a championship because it has never happened, and then
it's only happened where you had one outside of the
top eleven in twenty years. That means the odds are
stacked against them. Okay, then who beats them? Somebody who
plays defense? I mean that. I think it's like I

(49:24):
think that this team can get beat by the Boston
Celtics in a series if they get hot, the Miami Heat,
who actually played defense. Um, I don't think the Philadelphia
seventies sixers can beat them, but I think that mil
Milwaukee can give him auch. I think that those are
the three teams. The Celtics, the Heat, and the Bucks
are the teams that can beat them because they play

(49:46):
better defense, so that they I just think that we're
going to see a team and and again, and going
back to the joking point about the chemistry. We don't
have any idea and how they're going to come together,
but I do think that it's the best real that
we've seen in NBA history together. Whether it works, I
don't know. Better than they eat you, you have possibly

(50:08):
the greatest player of all time. Come on, George, I mean,
the only the only one that you the only one
that you can compare is the Warriors with Durant. That
part of that, like you've heard to say, Steph Clay
and Durant could maybe rival these three guys. I mean,
I think you're giving way too much credit to Kyrie Irving,

(50:30):
way too much credit. He's he's a really good player.
He is, but like, let's not act like like Kyrie
Irving is a Hall of Famer at this point, he's not.
So Like you're looking at the at the heat who
had three Hall of Famers? That Warriors team three Hall
of famers. I don't know what you're telling me. Chris

(50:51):
Bosh is better than Kyrie Irving? Yes, what do you do?
You do you realize that, Chris, you've just killed your
own argument. I know I did, Are you kid, George?
This is Fox Sports Sunday. My goodness, My goodness. I
like Chris Bosh as a player, But if you tell
me your argument is that Chris Bosh is better than

(51:13):
Kyrie Irving, Chris Bosh in Toronto was a top ten
player in the NBA. Do you not remember that he
was and night ten? He's not. He's not, George, get
out of here, Dan, you have lost it today. He's not.
He's not. Oh man, get George on Twitter at George
Rice Stir. George, he's single handedly just killed this topic

(51:36):
with that awful take that. George, you're gonna do that
on your birthday week? Is your when you blow out
the candles on Thursday, you're gonna say, I wish I
had that TakeBack. No, because because one of these guys
isn't is an all NBA team player, right, is that
Chris Chris Boss has been all all in me, all

(51:56):
NBA and dude, overall, Chris Bosh, I would say, has
been a better player than Kyrie Irving big. And also
you have to consider that that Kyrie Irving's availability has
been limited as well. And and he he went to
the Boston Celtics all of a sudden, the Celtics they

(52:18):
can't win, and then and then they played better without him.
He doesn't go to the playoffs in Cleveland, and then
he goes to Brooklyn. And he's been the biggest hits,
the biggest shot in Cavalier's history. How long you hold
on the one shot? He's George Rice Stir, I'm Dan Buyer,
this is Fox Sports Sunday Shot. Robert you can Find

(52:41):
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So we were talking earlier about the trade, the blockbuster
trade between the Miami Dolphins, the Philadelphia Eagles and the

(53:24):
San Francisco forty Niners, And of course I was right
about that, and damn Dan was wrong, per the usual.
But we have to bring in a special guests, and
and Dan is shaking his head because he can't talk
right now. Well, I can talk. I just that's splits. Uh.
I'm just used to it. That's what it is. That's
what it is. But we have to bring in friends

(53:46):
of the program, Fox Sports Radio, NFL insider and the
host of Inside the Birds podcast. Find him on Twitter
at Kaplan NFL. Adam. Welcome to the show. God's good
to talk to yes. So in a minute, Now, what
was Dan wrong about George? I need to know this. Okay.
So Dan said that the forty Niners won the trade

(54:07):
between but that that won all the trades on Friday
that ended up with the Miami Dolphins with six first
round picks, the number six pick overall, flexibility for the
future and everything. But he thinks the forty Niners one
drafting possibly because they could get a franchise quarterback. Maybe
if they draft the right guy, if the right guy

(54:29):
is still available, yeah, I would have. Well, the Dolphins
did a lot of we only dealing thanks to the
Laramie Tunsil trade, which continues to pay off. It's just
unbelievable how much they've gotten returned for that player. But yeah, look,
the Dolphins did very very well. They they traded obviously,
they traded with Eagles, they traded up, and then they, uh,
we're able to still go back to six from from

(54:52):
after the first trade, and they're going to be able
to secure that franchise receiver. The Dolphins clearly are gonna
do something that receiver. They're in a situation where DeVante
Parker has just not lived up to being a first
round pick. He's every once in a while puts together
and you go, wow, he looks great, and then he
gets hurt. That's been the problem with him. But the
Dolphins are loaded. They're absolutely loaded. And this also, by

(55:13):
the way, would take away the talk of to Ah
having a challenger with a first round pick this year,
that that's not gonna happen. But it doesn't mean they
want draft a quarterback of the second or third round.
So so you you have to choose the side. Adam Oh,
Dolphins Doalpins did a great job. I I don't put
them number. Yeah. But here's the thing though, if the
Niners would have got the second pick from the Jets,

(55:33):
because Zack Wilson right now is going to go to
whether the Jets take keep it and take them or
they trade out, that Zach Wilson's going to too. So
we've got four weeks left now. Uh, next week will
be making four weeks from the draft. I would say
that we may not be done trading here. I'm not
saying with these teams, but I felt for a couple
of weeks from people I trust around the league, you

(55:56):
know the Niners are gonna do some significant quarterback whether
so they traded four quarterback or do what they just did.
But this could shake up the first fifteen picks, folks.
This this trade, the big trade, not the second trade
with Philly, but the first, the big trade with the
Dolphins and Niners that could shake up the quarterback landscape
as we know. Yeah, and the Adam and I won't
rehash it. I rehashed it for an hour with George

(56:17):
and we we chopped it up of of the reasons why.
But it's like, you know, yesterday's Arkansas Oral Roberts game,
somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. You gotta pick a
winner of a trade. Didn't think that, look one or
or Or Roberts played a great game yesterday. I'm not
saying that the Dolphins didn't come away with anything. That's
just I just liked the forty Niners where they are
as a franchise. George wants to put put all of

(56:38):
their other trades in in giving their first round picks.
But you know, including but just done these two deals.
So you just want to say on this one right,
and by the way, I want to add this with
the Niners, Jim mc garoppolo's kno gonna be the starter
in two, and he's not even guaranteed to be the
starter one. It's just a matter of do they think
they're going to get their guy right now at number three?

(56:59):
And who knows if they right up to number two? Um.
But the fact the matter is the reason why I've
been uh so outspoken. I was quoted from a radio
station in the the Bay Area back in right after the
season ended, is that they're going to the Niners would
spend their first or second round pick on the quarterback. Well,
now we don't have to worry about that. The only
question is what do they do from here? Um? And

(57:20):
what quarterback are they going to take at number three?
Because they look, they gave up a ton to get
up there. Let's not and I understand why the draft
value chart they had to, but they're going for a quarterback?
What about the Eagles in all of this? Because George
and I touched on this a little bit, it h
and I guess George and I can kind of came
to the consensus that one is a let's just see

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where we are sort of year. Is that fair to say? There?
And I would call them this is what I got
from other teams. They seem to agree with this. The
Eagles are in a semi rebuild. They don't know who
the future quarterback is. Jalen Hurts only started four games.
He was drafted late second round. He was really drafted
because the owner, Jeffrey Lorri, was a big fan. You know,
they were big on Russell Wilson in twelve. They failed

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to trade up for him. This was their guy in
twelve and they think there's something very interesting with with
Jalen Hurts, and he did a decent job overall, being
after being pressed into service after Carson Wentz got benched.
So they like to take a look at him. So
right now he would be their starter with Joe Flacco
backing him up. But they have so many needs. If
we went through the roster, you could probably find ten

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needs for the football team. So you're absolutely right. They
were a team at tennis semi rebuild here. Yeah, I'm
I'm I want to go back to that Zach Wilson
talk because I feel like Zack Wilson is bo Callahan
from from draft day, like everybody has fallen in love
with him. But but I'm like, what are you forgetting

(58:43):
that that he had his best season this year against
a very low caliber schedule compared to what b y
you normally plays, and he played phenomenally except in the
game Coastal Carolina that was good. This yere so and
then and I know that this is gonna sound weird,
but when you add that in with how much quarterback faced,

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this dude as like he looks too perfect, and I
like it, just like it just looks too perfect. And
there's no if I were drafting number two, there's not
a snowball's chance and hill that I would draft Zach
Wilson number two. Well with with the first quarterback behind
h Trevor Lawrence. It just I'm not buying it. Are

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you buying it? Well? Okay, So if you would have
asked me early February, I said, hey, listen, Zack Wilson's
a guy we need all need to get on here
because we needed he's gonna go in the first round.
I didn't know enough about him to say where if
he'd go in the upper half. Now I could tell you.
For the last six weeks, it's pretty universal. Every offensive coach,
including some high profile quarterback coaches I spoke with, absolutely

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love his tape. They they understand that he didn't play
a great, great competition. You mentioned the Coastal Carolina game.
But one thing I learned from work with Bill Paulian
at ESPN, Bill, the Hall of Fame general manager, told me,
do not focus on the competition. Focus on what the
guy has and what the tape looks like, and then
and and how many and how many years he started.
So I'll give an example Blake Bortles, when he was

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drafted in seventeen. I reported he's gonna be a top
ten pick. I didn't agree with it, but he had
a lot of athleticism. Teams start and fall in love
with him. The Bears obviously reached in a big way.
They never should have taken him that high. He as
as uh One. An folsource said to me, if Blake
Bortles was taken this on Blake Bortles, if one of
my Mitch Drobiski was taken in the second round, we

(01:00:35):
never would have talked about it, never would have been
to reach. But this is what happens. You fall in love.
And this is what I think. Georgie, you're kind of
alluding to be careful of who you fall in love with,
because what what does it show you? Over the years
and Blake Bortles back in another high riser. Another pretty
decent player, uh from Central Florida, but he's severely overdrafted.

(01:00:56):
Now this guy universally, Zack Wilson, the coach is absolutely
love where Trabisky. They didn't Blake Bortles. They didn't. You
could go through the list, Matt Matt Leiner if they didn't.
But this guy from personnel people to In fact, I'm
gonna give you a quote which I have. I got
from a for NFL GM about two weeks ago. He said, quote,
if Lawrence is number one, Wilson has one A and

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this is based on tape study. He doesn't know does
not know a thing about either guy off the field.
So this is what the tape study told me. I
was like, Wow, Okay, I said, I'm gonna use that,
and there you go. Wow. Adam Kaplan joining us here
on Fox Sports Radio. He's George Royster. I'm Dan Buyer.
Get Adam on Twitter at Kaplan NFL. Now that we
are a month away, how much of this draft is

(01:01:39):
still and and I'll just use the phrase crap shoot
Adam for what we've had to deal with for the
last twelve months, Like how much how much do teams
question the prospects that they're going to be picking because
of the information that they didn't get because of the pandemic.
And remember Dan, with pro days. Now we've got the
we've got the Ohio State Pro Day, which is huge

(01:02:00):
on on Tuesday. So we're gonna get a little bit
better fieldful for justin fields. And let's not overrate these
pro days. The pro days do one thing for quarterbacks.
You can see how the ball comes out of their hands.
You really want to do see that, like Mac Jones, right,
Mac Jones had one team that interviewed. They interviewed him.
Told me that his interview was the best interviews they've
ever done for a player. But here's the problem, as

(01:02:22):
they told me, also, the tape doesn't change. They saw
him live. They were at the pro day Alabama's prote
last week. He does not throw the ball with velocity.
He's more of a West Coast offense timing a rhythm quarterback. Well,
those guys, folks typically don't go very high. And you know,
if you love him, that's great, you love everything about
him off the field, But if you can't drive the football,
George noses from being a tight end. If you don't

(01:02:44):
have a quarterback to drive the ball down field, particularly
in cold weather, you've got a problem. That is a effect. Um,
what are the Philadelphia Eagles looking to do at number
twelve because they moved back from six to twelve and
to me, that kind of signals and when we talked
about it earlier that they're gonna give Justin Ohis are

(01:03:08):
Jalen Hurts a shot and that they're kind of just
waiting to see what they have for the two draft.
Really yeah, So Philly, George and Dan may have eleven
picks in the first in this year's draft to first
this year and potential three first rounders next year. Um,

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it actually two first rounders next year in the potential
the third rounder, third first rounder if Carson Wentz place,
the offensive snaps are to play seventy and the Cults
make the playoffs. So they've got four picks in the
first three rounds. This is again, is a total rebuild
for them, where we know what the Niners are doing.
They're getting a quarterback if they could, if the Nights
could just get everybody back. You know, they had the

(01:03:50):
most injuries of any team in the National Football League,
plus they had a bad COVID issue. If they could
get all these guys back healthy, they're gonna be a
playoff team most likely. Whether they keep Jimmy g or not,
they're gonna be right there. But you'll Philly again. They
I'm not gonna say a hundred percent that they're not
gonna draft a quarterback earlier. I'm not gonna say that.
I'm just gonna tell you that they definitely want to

(01:04:10):
evaluate Jalien hurt for the season, but you can't roll
off them taking a quarterback early. But I would also
tell you to answer your question, They're most likely will
go with the receiver or a corner at number twelve
because both are major needs. UM. Last last question, real
real quick, Adam, has there have you heard anything about

(01:04:31):
Deshaun Watson or anything any development from the Statement's where
we are The league is doing their investigation. UM. I
would move this forward and say this, if they feel
what they're finding is a little bit troubling or they
feel the need to do it, he'll go in the
commissioners special exemplest and he won't be a lot around
the team. That will only happen if they feel it's

(01:04:51):
necessary right now, they don't. But remember we're in the
infancy of this of their investigation. We have not heard
from the Texans, by the way, um, so we we
need to hear where they're at with this situation. Here's
the other thing, you know. I'm glad you brought this up, George,
because think about it, if we didn't have the the
off the field concerns with Watson right now, and they

(01:05:11):
may they may have been able to trade him. Now
forget about it. I don't, I don't. I mean, how
in the world could you take to Shaw Watson to trade? What?
I know they've got Tyrod Teller as the backup. What
do you do if you have the Texans now do
you draft a quarterback? Like? What are you going to do?
This is this is really fascinating that this store is
a real wrench into their plans at quarterback because you know,
they've they've been saying very strongly and not returning call

(01:05:34):
from other teams for the quarterback position, but right now
they don't even know who their quarterback is because of
Watson's issues. Yeah, has absolutely right, Adam Kaplan. He just
joined us Fox Sports Radio, NFL Insider find him on
Twitter at Kaplan NFL and of course on the inside
the Birds Podcast. Adam, thanks for coming on, guys. Thank

(01:05:55):
you all right. Um, we are here and we are
oh and bragging rights are on the line when it
comes to the n C Double, a tournament for three states. Um,
but first we have to go to David gascon West
trending guys. Uh, the weather is trending right now. Since

(01:06:17):
you guys are here in beautiful southern California. I had
told Iowa, Sam and Vince not to go outside because
it's a pleasant eighty degrees. It is been a nice
nice Um, Dan, you got you still got a dog
in this hunt for the uh for the final four? Um,
well that dog is Florida States, right and yeah, so

(01:06:39):
they got a pulse. They got a pulse. Wait you
Florida State to win it? No, No, final four? Is that?
Is that the only one you have left? Gonzaga? Yeah, Gonzaga,
easy day at the office, guys. They wanted by eighteen
sixty five is the final? So yeah, they do move
along to the Elite eight. Uh. Join them will be
a handful of teams. We don't know if it'll be

(01:07:00):
Michigan or Florida State. Just yet, Wolverines are up by
nine forty one is to score in this ball game.
They led thirty two twenty one at the end of
the first half of play. Neither teams shooting great from
the field. Just yet US Late Alabama Tonight tip off
times at seven fifteen Eastern and the final game the
Sweet sixteen featured two pack twelve clubs, USC and Oregon.
That game will get underway at nine Eastern. Winner obviously heads,

(01:07:23):
along with Oregon State to the Elite Eight, switching gears
to the NBA. Andre Drummond expected to join the l
A Lakers roster as soon as he clears. Waivers Sons
bottle up the Hornets and overtime. One on one nineties
seven was the final score in that affair, and c
double A go from that to the college basketball scenes
can be in the NBA scene. HLSE now blues to
one lead over the Anaheim Ducks Devils one nothing for

(01:07:45):
the Boston Bruins. Florida's open things up in the first period,
three one against the Dallas Stars. NASCAR postponents inaugural Food
City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Because of weather,
heavy rains and also flooding in that area. Royals have
added right hand to picture Wade Davis to team's forty
men roster, and of course the NFL Adam Schefter reporting
earlier today that the league is looking and expected to

(01:08:06):
get a regular season enhancement of seventeen games, with the
regular season nowhere yet on what that'll do with preseason activity. Guys,
back to you. He is David Gascon and I am
George Rice to with Dan Buyer. This is Fox Sports
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But now it is time because Dan gets to be
the Alex Trebek of our show. Um, what you got today? Dan? One? Yeah,
we have got something great planned in the game that
we usually play at this time. It is as easy

(01:08:50):
as one to three for George Rice. Stir has given
a variety of topics. Doesn't have to give me all
of the right answers, just some of them. And he's
got some help from the crew as well. It's in
Elis is the executive producer. He's standing by as is
Iowa Sam as our technical producer, and of course he
just heard David Gascon. He's at the news desk to
help George as well if he has any difficulties with

(01:09:10):
these topics. Alright, let's start it out, George. The goal
is to get a perfect score of ten. Name one
of the two quarterbacks that the San Francisco Fortys have
drafted in the first round in the modern era. So
the Forts from nineteen seventy until now have twice taken
a quarterback in the first round. Named one of the
two quarterbacks Alex Smith. All right, is that your final answer? Yeah,

(01:09:36):
all right, show me Alex Smith. George sounds puzzled, like
I don't ask him this every single time I asked
me question. Yes, there it is Alex Smith. The other one,
Jim drucken Miller in seven was a late first round
or out of Virginia Tech. But he would have been uh,

(01:09:57):
he would have been another answer that would have worked
in that question. All right. If if if I had
said drunken Miller, you would not have believed me. No,
Actually I would have because you and I are similar
in age, and I know that is also you know
around our time, I'm a little bit older than you are.
But but yeah, that would have been so I wouldn't
have been shocked if you would have gotten that. Um

(01:10:18):
Alex Smith, though, was the obvious answer. One point for
George Rice stir off to a perfect start. Let's see
how he does here, named two of the three US
states with the most Final four appearances. So yes, so
if a university is located in that state and they
go to the Final four, it would count for that state.

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George named the two of the three states with the
most Final four appearances in college basketball history. Okay, I'm
gonna go with North Carolina because they they have two
schools who have the most period in North Carolina, and
they have Duke in there. And I am going to

(01:11:00):
go with the state of You got some help, you
got you know us the guys that yeah, all right,
we will go. I feel like Iowa Sam would be
able to be helpful on this one because I'm shaking

(01:11:20):
Michigan because you got Michigan Michigan State. Yeah, but what
about or I was taking Kentucky, what about they California
with all the schools and then you got though, you
got taking a ton of final fours. Thank you and
then different you knows, also making occasional final fours. I
would say California perfect, I was perfect. I'm going with

(01:11:43):
North Carolina and I'm going with California. All right, Okay,
show me North Carolina. There they are number one, forty
one appearances. You could also throw a little anty state
in there at times, if you will, uh, show me
California second with twenty nine appearances and tell you what

(01:12:07):
heads up to To mention Kentucky, they also would have
been an answer that would have been acceptable. Yeah, Louisville
and uh in Kentucky the seven. So those are the
top three states, North Carolina, California, and Kentucky. Alright, one
more h as we continue the game. Before we have
to take a time out, George, name three of the
four schools that made the final four in nineteen Oh

(01:12:31):
my god, um okay, I'm gonna go with Oh lord,
who axe. I'm gonna immediately use a lifeline. That was
That was the year that Virginia one so and Virginia

(01:12:52):
played Texas Tech. So I need help from there. I'm
gonna go with David Gascon. Do we have Villa Va?
Was it Villanovan? Gonzaga's Villanova Conzaga. Alright, well we're going
to go with that. Man. You don't sound good. Okay,
give me your three answers, George, what are your three finals? Virginia,

(01:13:15):
Texas Tech, and David Which which one do you feel
more confident? All right? Virginia, Yeah, they cut down the nets,
show me Texas Tech and to keep that perfect score?
Is it Villanova? It is not, It is not. The

(01:13:38):
other two schools we were looking for. Auburn, who remember
played Virginia to that nail biter, and Michigan State and
they were the ones to knock out Zion and Duke
in the Elite eight. So either way to go, David
gascon way to go? I fail this edition. I hope
I beat Michigan the year before that, remember y, Yeah,

(01:13:59):
that's that's one of those things with the COVID year.
It seems like it was, you know, you're trying to
figure out who was where and what was happening. But yeah,
you got you got two out of them, two out
of the three, five out of six so far, George,
a very very good score. Let's wrap this up on
the other side, how about that? Absolutely when we come
back we will finish easy as one to three four.

(01:14:22):
This is Fox Sports Sunday. I'm George Rice and he
is Dan Buyer. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Fox
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I'm Dan Buyer, rolling along as it looks like Michigan
is to the Elite eight taking it to Florida State

(01:14:42):
up big with just over seven minutes to go, uh
sixty to forty three, the Wolverines lead. We are live
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Farmers Today for a quote. George Rice stir is five
for six in our game of easy as one to
three four. We have one question to go. And George,
when we play this game, you've said this before. You

(01:15:03):
always go, Okay, I want to I want to save
my lifelines for the end because the last question is
the most difficult. And then I respond, George, that's not true.
Sometimes the most difficult ones are, you know, just randomly
in the game. It just happens to be. Today could
be the most difficult question I think I've ever given
in this game. So so there's there and any anything

(01:15:27):
that is that is given just because I don't necessarily
I don't necessarily know your entire history, like where you vacationed,
where you've gone places. And I don't know like where
the other guys are even either, So I don't know
where our lifelines will lie. I don't know where you lie.
But here we go, George, this could be the most
difficult question. Hopefully it's not. But right now you've got

(01:15:49):
five out of six named. Four of the five Cactus
League teams that don't share a spring training complex with
another club. Of course, the Cactus League. We know the
spring training sites for fifteen Major League Baseball clubs in Arizona,
and five of those clubs have their own ballpark that

(01:16:09):
they play at. The other ten, you know, end up
sharing it with another club. I want to know the
five that have their own. And for this question, you
have all lifelines available. You have gas scot even though
you used them, You have Iowa Sam, You obviously also
have Vincent Close, our executive producer. So Cactus League teams
that don't share a spring training complex with another club,

(01:16:32):
Oh my god, Okay, you can do this, George. I'm okay,
so my so, just so you know, my oldest son
is a baseball well was a baseball player, and we
have spent a ton of time down at spring training. Okay, good, good,
So I feel like I have a shot all and

(01:16:54):
I am going to go with the Angels for sure.
I know that for sure, and the Cubs for sure.
And it's either the Giants or the Athletics the a's um. Okay,
I'm gonna go because I haven't called on Vinch yet. No,

(01:17:17):
and you can use Dave and Sam not just a
heads up to I used to work in Arizona Salt
River Fields, the home of two teams. Hint, h oh,
all right, so I am going to all right, So okay,

(01:17:37):
so what do you have, David Gascon, Well, it's not
the Rockies. It's not the Diamondbacks. That is the Los
Angeles Dodgers Camelback Ranch. No, it's not the Dodgers. The
Dodgers share a stadium White Sox. Now, yes, since when
they move with the White Sox, it's up. Okay, alright, Vince, Vince,

(01:18:03):
do do what you have an answer? I think I
think I have my locked in, but I'm gonna go. Yeah,
David took one of mine. I was gonna go with
the Giants, and I believe you're correct on the Cubs
as for a fifth team. Yeah, I don't pay that
much attention to minor league baseball, so I don't know
who shares. I know in the Great Food League, who shares?

(01:18:24):
That's not gonna help you out here. So yeah, I
can help you out with the Giants, but that's not
as far as I can go. So then I am
going to go with my original with my original picks, right,
I'm gonna go with the Angels, the Giants, the Cubs,

(01:18:53):
and the A's. All right, those are the final answers.
Let's go to the scoreboard. Show me the Ain't Hills. Absolutely,
Tempe Diablo Stadium is the home of the Angels and
the only home. Show me the Chicago Cubs. Ah, yes,
the Chicago Cubs. Sloane Park in Mesa is where they

(01:19:16):
play their games. Show me the Giants, ah, Scottsdale Stadium.
Dave knew that one is Scottsdale Stadium where the Giants are.
And for a perfect score of four on this question,
show me the Oakland A's there. It is all right,
all four. The other one that you that would have

(01:19:37):
been acceptable was the Milwaukee Brewers. So the Brewers also
have their own park, but Yeah, Dodgers and White Sock
share Camelback Ranch, Dave, you mentioned Domondbacks and Rockies share.
Mariners and Padres play and share their stadium in Peoria,
Indians and Red's in Goodyear, while the Royals and Rangers

(01:19:58):
play in Surprise, Arizona. About Montreal Expos soon too soon,
they're grape Fruit League team. Yeah, yeah, Vince, do you
do you have any sentiment? Actually we don't even have
time because Vince is a Nationals fan, so he's probably
the guy like who cares about the Expos? Alright, good
job George nine of ten on Easiest one to three

(01:20:21):
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that took me back. That took me back to all
the summer until all the springs spent in Arizona. Are
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Two more games to go later tonight. Know George rice
stir will be interested in the finale, not that he

(01:21:05):
is interested in the other but his Oregon Ducks taking
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eight Farmers get a quote. Today we are Farmers. So, George,
what would have happened if Oregon was playing in this

(01:21:27):
window right now? Would would we like it? Would there
have been you know, a call out, you know, pure
focus on the Ducks. How much were you looking at
the schedule, you know last week when it was you know,
we're trying to figure out when these games were Uh
what what was What was the scenario with you in
the Ducks playing tonight? It would have been fine, Okay,

(01:21:48):
we had we had your your your mic was muted,
so I didn't I didn't hear So did you get that?
Did you get so? Yeah? So yeah, yeah I heard you.
I would not have been well, I mean, what would
have been fine. I'm for fessional, but but I'm happy
that it wasn't in the window. And truthfully, it would
have been like as if the Ducks were Michigan right now,

(01:22:10):
it would have been no problem. Would have just been
watching the game, having a little bit of fun, joking
with you, commenting about it slightly. But if it were
a nail biter and it were a minute thirty five
and it was like seventy two seventy three, I might
lose my focus at the very end, just just a
couple of times. I might be like, hey, Dan, you
bring it back this segment, buddy, because I'm not present

(01:22:33):
right right now. We should have a Dann the uh tonight.
These two games that we've had so far today, the
matchups were thought to be better, but the games that
we have were not better than at least what we
had yesterday. At least we had an arkantel Earl Roberts yesterday.
The mat the games right now have been uh one
sided in the first time. Okay, I have a question
for you because you're an Ohio State fan, So does

(01:22:57):
this Michigan win? Are you? Are you get a little
bit nervous because you're like hold up. They're on the
way to the elite A. I don't like it, like
I want them to lose or or do you not
care or do you want the Big ten to win?
The way everybody doesn't say that the Big tam was
actually trash. I think that the Big Ten has made
their bed. No matter what Michigan ends up doing. Maybe

(01:23:19):
they could save some grace, but uh, save some face
by uh, you know, making a run and maybe going
to the title game. But no, I I can't cheer
for him. It is yeah they I was telling the
guys actually in a break, you know, the Juwan Howard
Fab five squad delivered my worst sporting moment of my

(01:23:39):
when it like worst loss, which was in in Michigan
beat Ohio State in the regional final. That's when Jim
Jackson was on the team. Uh, it was his junior year.
Ohio State was the number one seed in the Fab five.
That's when they were freshmen, and they ended up making
it to the first Final four. Ohio State lost in overtime,
had a chance to win it at the end of
regular lation, couldn't do it. So there's like, there's there's

(01:24:03):
no way that I can really even pull from Michigan.
It's why I usually have the Wolverines knocked out of
the bracket at you know, at some point early on,
just so I wouldn't be tempted to end up having
the cheer for him. So there's not there's really not
any enjoyment in in uh in watching this. How scared
are you though, that Juwan Howard is the head coach
there because he's doing a really good job and if

(01:24:25):
his team was fully healthy because they because they lost
what was his name is, isa Isaiah Livers? If they
if they had him, this could be a national championship team.
How afraid are you for the future of what he's
doing in Michigan. Not not as much, not because I
don't think that he can do it, but Georgia, I mean,
you know, you're going up against the likes of Tom Izzoh,

(01:24:47):
you know, like you've had over the last twenty years,
and those Michigan State teams, um, there have been you
know Michigan, I mean, for as much of him turning
around that program, you also have to remember that they've
been in two national title games in the last ten years,
so they you know, they were there a few years ago,
um against Villa Nova. They also lost in to Louisville

(01:25:10):
when Trey Burke was a member of that that squad.
So so they've been there so like they they've made runs,
so like their success. But I mean, yeah, it would
be great if they lost a long time I will
readily admit that. But Ohio State also had squad, especially
you know with that Mata uh during you know, his tenure,
where they they you know, had had comparable uh talent

(01:25:33):
to the other top teams in the country. Just so
would you rather This is a game of would you
would you rather? At this point would you rather Michigan?
I'm sorry, Ohio State win a basketball national championship next
year in or Ohio State football? Well sorry, if if

(01:25:56):
you get that, Ohio State football has to lose to
Oregon and Michigan last year, And no, wouldn't No, wouldn't
wouldn't treade it, not at all? All right, how okay?
Instead of both just in Ohio State national championship and
a loss in the Michigan game in football, uh No,

(01:26:16):
wouldn't trade it. Yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah, as crazy
as it sounds, it's it's actually the Michigan football ruined.
Like my childhood was the John Cooper era, like the
prime childhood where you know, like when you're twelve, thirteen,
sixteen like that, like so like your your buddies are

(01:26:37):
all laughing at you. Because every single third Saturday in November,
which it was back then, you know, it seemed like
Ohio State would even when something was great was going
for them, Michigan would ruin it. In the years where
it didn't matter, maybe Ohio State would get a random
win like they did in but in the years. Yeah,
so that that football game is something, Uh, it's funny.

(01:26:59):
My wife quiz to me, and I don't want to
do this on the air, but of guessing the outcomes
of Ohio State Michigan games for like the last thirty
years and I and I remember them and not to
the scores exactly, but I can tell you kind of
how they played out. But yeah, so it would be
losing that that football game is the absolute worst, absolute worst. Yeah,
And honestly, that that Oregon game, it's I know it's

(01:27:23):
a big game and it's unique, but Ohio State plays
a lot of big games, you know, and I'm not
trying you know, like so like no, no, no, I
would I would agree that it's a bigger game for
the Pack twelve than it is for the Big ten.
It is. Yeah, so there's so there's that so that Yeah,
I wouldn't trade in. Yeah, I would not trade in.

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So you wouldn't trade the Oregon? Would you? Would you
trade the Oregon? Would you trade the Oregon? Law stand
for a national championship in Bass? That I would Yeah,
that I would consider. Yeah, that I would consider. But wow,
you would just consider it. That's see that that lets
you know how deep fandom runs in people, really, because

(01:28:05):
if if you're really a fan of a school and
football is king, then you would say, oh wow. I
mean even Kentucky basketball fans, who is one of the
most story programs in all of basketball history. Right, if
you ask them somebody who's a loyal Kentucky fan said, look,

(01:28:27):
you guys can beat Alabama and win the SEC in
or you can win a basketball in the National Championship,
they they would be hard pressed to figure out which
one they wanted. That's the crazy part. That's how deep
football like goes in people's veins. Yeah, And the funny
thing is, you know what, you know what ran through

(01:28:47):
my mind was Okaytate did loose the Virginia Tech and
bounced back and was able to you know, win a
national you know, you know that. But the point being
is you're like, Okay, you can rebound from a loss,
you know, a non conference loss, maybe end up making
a run back. So then you're kind of like weighing it.
It wouldn't take the national championship out of the picture,
it would just take that regular season game out of

(01:29:08):
the picture. But yeah, I would be one to consider.
I don't know if I would immediately cash in on
the chips. Also to george the tournament for as great
as it is, and and it's not random, but it
is random, and and and the perfect point is you
look at you look at what Gonzaga has done in
their first three games. They beat Craton today by eighteen,

(01:29:28):
they beat Oklahoma by thirteen, They you know, one by
thirty something and forty something, uh in their opener. And
now you're like, Okay, well the Gonzaga is just rolling along.
Baylor's made the Elite eight. But then you look at
what Houston has done in Houston fifteen seed, ten seed,
eleven seed, now face a twelve seed, Like you think

(01:29:49):
of that run. And it's not trying to take anything
away from the Houston Cougars, but every two seed would
have loved that sort of run, you know, Like yeah,
but those are the teams that one like, you can't
say that that's that's like I heard somebody saying, oh
that that Illinois got the unfortunate of playing against Loyola

(01:30:13):
Chicago instead. But it's like, no, loyala Chicago beat Illinois,
and and there's and that they they say, oh, Illinois
would have loved to play Oregon State. Are you sure though?
Are you sure? I Mean, that's the thing I'm saying,
Like Oregon State the twelve seed and they keep beating
They've beat a five seed, of four seed and an

(01:30:33):
eight seed, I mean, and everybody says, oh my gosh,
those those teams that before the games, the team the
narrative was, oh man, this is an easy matchup for them.
They got a twelve seed, lucky them. Yeah, sometimes it's
unlucky too, sometimes it is, Yeah, But that that also
is what I talked about the randomness of it, like

(01:30:53):
of the of the path that you would see like
and I used I use Iowa as the example because
when you look at how things are playing, and it's
your Oregon Ducks. Did you think Oregon deserved a seven seed? Like,
I think that I think I thought I thought they
deserved ay manet. They finished a regular season eleven and one,

(01:31:15):
I believe, like finished up to regular season that had
a bunch of COVID injury issues to their two best
players missed weeks of the season, including one of them
miss like almost six weeks of the season with a
broken hand. Like I thought that they deserved to be
either four or five seeds. Yeah, and and and that's
you know, and that's and and that's just the only
point of it. It's not like a bat scene. It's

(01:31:37):
it's the randomness of it. And when we did the
selection show two weeks ago, you know, you know, we
were talking when the picks are coming up. When Illinois
and Michigan got number one seeds, there was no way
they were gonna put a Big ten team as the
two seeds in those regions. So when you had Ohio
State in Iowa, they could have only have gone to
the Gonzega Baylory just just talking on how this is

(01:31:57):
set up is it's just kind of the rand omness
of it. While it's not random that Gonzaga is winning
all these games by double digits, that's not random. There
is a factor of it that is as well. And
that's what I think that Then in Houston, to their credit,
have won all these games. They weren't upset by a
fifteen seed like Ohio State was, they weren't upset in
their second round game like Iowa was. They continued to win,

(01:32:20):
and they deserve where they are. But there is just
the randomness of the tournament to be like, Wow, one
team's final you know, road to the final four had
all of these you know, obstacles, and then another team
who gets to the same spot, maybe their obstacles weren't
the same. That's all just the randomness of it. While
it doesn't seem random when the top seeds win, there

(01:32:42):
still is a randomness when it comes to the tournament.
All right, he's George, do you want to add anything
to that? No, no, I was. I was going to
say that there is a randomness to it, but you
do still at the end of the day, you gotta
go win the dog on games. Yep. Absolutely, I don't
disagree with that. He is George, Rice Stir. I'm Dan Buyer.
This year's at Fox Sports Sunday, we're gonna talk about

(01:33:02):
the Major League Baseball Star Game and the possibility of
that being moved out of Atlanta. George, let's do that
at the bottom of the hour, so after we talk
with Aaron Torres will dive into that topic. Get George
on Twitter at George Royster. You can find me on
Twitter at Dan Buyer. On Fox coming up next, I
did mention the name Aaron Torres. He'll break down the
bracket and what the newest hiring college basketball means for Indiana,

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Span your eight to eleven pm Pacific. And that is
our man, Aaron Torres, Aaron, welcome to the show. That
is what's going on? Are we doing? Remember doing good?
I mean Dan is a little bit sad because Michigan
keeps keeps winning and me I am you know you

(01:34:52):
know uh because sinning keep going. No no, no, no no
no no, I'm not. I'm happy Oregon State keep it
keeps winning. To the non the conduct, I am rooting
for them because that's more money for the packs. Well,
we we need all the money that we can get
and all the press, all the press. Stidge, I'm a
back to pack guy. Well, listen, first of all, we

(01:35:14):
established last week when I was on with you guys
that the only team that George rist hates is those
Huskies up North Um. And on top of that, I
would say that is a great point. You know, George,
I think you're being a Pack twelve guy. I think
we can all just agree. Larry Scotchold just retired or
resigned about four or five years ago. I mean we could.
We could have had multiple national championships in the Pack twelve.

(01:35:36):
At this point, they're unbeatable. Since this guy decided to
retire or resign. I keep saying retired. He didn't retire.
He basically got forced out by the by the conference president.
That means football season is gonna be glorious. What do
you laughing? I can't wait till we beat your ass
day And I'm just telling you that I am. I
am getting fired up already, George. Yeah, no, listen, I

(01:36:00):
was gonna say, I was gonna I was gonna give
credit to your ducks. I thought they played really well
the other day. I was going to give him credit
for the Fiesta Bowl. But I'll be honest, I really
didn't watch that game that closely. I don't think that
they what happened to Fiesta Bowl. Good or bad? I
can't remember. They lost to Iowa State. They Aaron remembered.

(01:36:20):
That's why I think he brought it up. I think
that I didn't. I'm team Pack twelve. We got to
represent the best coast. So anyway, continue you guys, I'm
still in your whole segment. I'm sorry. So um so
we have games today and still still two games left today.
What do you see going on in that Oregon USC
and the u c l A Alabama game? Well, the

(01:36:44):
u c l A Alabama game just started. And for
people that are driving around that you know, may have
you know, interested in this game with what's worth noting her?
Once who's the SEC player of the year. Um, probably
a late first round draft pick this year, just picked
up his second follow less than one minute into the game.
I'm not exaggerating. It was a forty eight seconds he
picked up his second follow. So he's gonna sit for

(01:37:06):
a while. UM, I'm just interested kind of contrast of styles,
you know, we Alabama at this point, it's been well
documented with what they do. They play fast, they like
to shoot threes, they like to attack the rim. You know,
uh U c L a kind of has that Midwestern
toughness to it from mc cronin coming from Cincinnati. You know,
they're they're they're very good, they're very kind of fundamentally sound.

(01:37:28):
They don't turn the ball over. I think it's gonna
be a fun contrast style. And speaking of which, that
late game, I mean, you know, we we joked about
the Pact wealth but uh, USC and Oregon, I think
it's it's indisputable at this point. We're completely misseated then.
And I talked about it on Monday's show when Oregon
was running uh running Iowa to the gym. Ben and
I discussed it a little bit, and um, you know,

(01:37:48):
I'm just fascinated because Oregon is kind of the modern
skill athleticism, ball movement, spacing, and USC is just old school,
you know, they want to beat you up inside with
the mobile brothers. And so I'm genuinely excited for that one.
I'm genuinely excited for this one. I don't know if
you guys agree or not. I've enjoyed the basketball so
far this weekend. I know we haven't gotten a ton

(01:38:09):
of close games other than or Roberts Arkansas, but I've
really enjoyed the basketball so far. You know, it's it's
a perfect segue to the question that I actually did
jot down because I thought yesterday's games, a bunch of
them got off to a slow start, and I was
gonna ask, you, do you think being in that bubble,
being there another week and not maybe like having another

(01:38:30):
normal travel week affected the start of some of the
Sweet sixteen games that we saw. Yeah, I mean I
think I certainly, I think so. And it's really funny because, um,
they just talked about it on the Michigan broadcast. I
know you guys were on air, but this this week
was really the first time that some of the players
were able to really get out of the hotel other
than the practice. I mean, they set up excursions to

(01:38:52):
top Golf and to uh to the zoo, and I'm
not even kidding like that was, like, you know, the
the highlight of the week for a lot of these programs.
I've been talking to, you know, s I D s
and coaches and assistant coaches and things like that. Dan,
I don't think there's any doubt. And by the way,
I would also say, what it's what makes Gonzaga what
they're doing is so impressive is they've basically been in

(01:39:13):
a bubble locked up the entire year and they just
come out and put up ninety every time they step
on the floor. But to answer your question, Dan, absolutely,
I mean I remember talking to you guys about this
last week and again, Dan, you and I were or
in for Doug on Monday, and I think these are
That's a real factor is when you don't really get
out of the hotel room except for a couple of
hours a day to to to practice. I mean I

(01:39:35):
think that it it mentally wears on you. I think
it physically wears on you. I would add that was
what made what George's Ducks did so impressive on Monday
night was basically a Monday afternoon excuse me, was that
they basically hadn't played a game in two weeks, had
been in a hotel for a calendar week, and came
out and didn't miss a beach. So I don't think
there's any doubt in my mind, Dan, that that it

(01:39:57):
is wearing on the players. I mean, both of you
just certainly not so much the first game, but the
second game today was really low scoring. And I think
the fact that these kids are essentially not. Not only
are they in a bubble, they can't really leave. Like
even in the NBA bubble last summer, they could go
golf and they could go fishing. These players got a
little bit of that this week, but that was the
first time since they got there two Mondays ago. Um,

(01:40:20):
what do you think about the coaching moves that we
were potentially looking at? The First one is last week
when you were on, I asked you if this was
Shaka Smart's last time a well of Texas would be
paying another buyout, but they're clearly not because Shaka Smart
decided to move on to Marquette. What have you heard

(01:40:41):
about how that happened? Well, George, you know, I mean,
you hear differing things, and we've all covered this stuff before.
I was basically told that, you know, not only was
I think frankly Texas was very happy about this. I
think it would have been tough, even at a non
basketball school to justify Shock Smart coming back next year.

(01:41:01):
That would have been years seven. Uh, and he didn't
have a single n c A tournament win, and so
you know, I don't know if if he would have
gotten fired if he didn't get the Marquette job. I
I do think pretty comfortably from the people that I've
talked to. Um, you know, Texas encouraged him to seek
other employment opportunities, So that is a big one. I'll
say weirdly, you know, I have been critical of Shaka Smart,

(01:41:23):
but I do think this could potentially work. I think,
you know, when he got to Texas, there was a
lot of kind of inherent pressure to recruit five stars,
recruit NBA players, and and maybe he's just a guy
that does better. I mean, if DCU he kind of
took those under the radar guys and really uh frankly
turn them into really good teams and in a very
good program obviously most notably going to the Final four. Um,

(01:41:46):
you know the one that if you I know you
guys both kind of at least sort of follow me
on social media. You probably have me muted at this
point because I go crazy sometimes. But uh, the Mike
Woodson stuff, I just don't get. Mike Woodson's going to Indiana,
you know, Indiana, I guarantee it, mark my words. They're
going to try to spin this as their version of
Juwan Howard. John Howard of course, just advanced the Elite Eight.

(01:42:08):
He came down from the NBA, and they're going to
try to say this is similar. It isn't. Juwan Howard
was forty six when he accepted that job. Um, you know,
his son was a high major recruit. He was familiar
with how recruiting worked, uh, in all things of that nature.
And and Mike Woods and sixty three years old. He
hasn't been on a college campus in literally forty years,
for any extended period of time. I'm very dubious that

(01:42:31):
that one works. But listen, coaching carousel stuff is interesting.
It doesn't matter the sport, um, but certainly in college
basketball where like you said, George, major market name in
Shaka Smart and obviously a major marquee program in Indiana.
Well yeah, and and Aaron Torres joining us here on
Fox Sports Sunday East, George Rice Stir. I'm dan buyer
more in the Indiana higher though, I don't want to

(01:42:52):
say where did you expect them to go? But is it?
Is it more of them going to the n B
A is it that going with an Indiana guy? Is it?
Is it just the age that's the issue, because they've tried.
You know, Archie Miller was you know the you know,
the toast of the town with Dayton. You know, Tom
Crean had great success at Marquette, comes in and obviously

(01:43:15):
things didn't work out. What what did you expect from
the Indiana higher that ended up being Mike Woodson? Yeah, Dan,
and I think it's a fair point. And I think
that's what Indiana fans are selling themselves on right now.
Is kind of a combination for people who do not know.
Mike Woodson, former Hawks, former NIXT coach, is an Indiana alum.
Uh you know, many years ago, obviously played with Isaiah

(01:43:36):
Thomas there and I think it hit defense. He really
wanted this job. But to me, Dan, what I would
say is one year a thousand percent correct. They have
tried the young up and coming the major coach, they've
tried whatever, and it just hasn't worked for whatever reason.
What my concern is very simply, and and you know
George knows this, He's been around college sports so much.
You know, George, I know your son was a baseball player.

(01:43:58):
I don't know if he's still playing, you know, sport
at a super high level. But recruiting is just so
different now. It's just one First of all, it's worth
noting half of Indiana's team entered the transfer portal since
the Archie Miller firing. Um, you know, kids know they
have options now, and I think obviously he's going to
sell that NBA aspect of things. But I just think

(01:44:20):
it's so crazy how this is now. Everybody wants to
get to the league as fast as possible. Transfer recruiting
is more important than it's ever been, you know, high
school recruiting. I hate to say it, but it's kind
of what can you do for me? What position can
you put me in? I'll give you a good example, guys.
Is I remember talking to our our Fox colleague gave
wants that about this who went back to pit. Uh.

(01:44:41):
You know this was now fifteen years ago when he
took the pitch job, and I remember him saying, you know,
when I was a player, when I was young, even
when he was an assistant at Miami and Oklahoma State
and all that, he said, it was about, you know,
an education. It was about you know, the things that
that I think the three of us probably think the
college experience rance is about. And he said when he

(01:45:01):
got back to pit about two thousand four, two thousand five,
two thousand and six, whatever it was. He was shocked
just about how you know, all twenty five guys that
he stegns thought they were all going to the NFL
and wanted the fastest path possible And what are you
gonna do for me to help me get there. I
don't blame kids, there's so much money involved now. I
don't blame parents. There's so much money involved now. I

(01:45:22):
just think it's a totally different deal. And until you
get down there, until you're dealing with the parents of
sixteen seventeen year old the AU coaches, the people that
frankly I hate to say it, but control the power
and recruiting. I just think it's a major, major, major adjustment.
I think success and failure will be a lot about
kind of the staff that he hires around him. Hopefully

(01:45:43):
get some young guys that kind of are familiar with
that scene. Um you guys. He is Aaron Torres, Fox
Sports radio host and college basketball insider. You can hear
him Saturdays on Fox Sports Radio with Arnie span Your
eight to eleven p m. Pacific, and you can catch
him on Twitter as well at Aaron Underscore Torres. Aaron,

(01:46:05):
thanks for coming on Fox Sports Sunday. Now, fellas, I
appreciate you having me. Thank you very much. We'll talk soon.
Thank you, Thank you absolutely um you guys. Up next though,
the MLB maybe moving the All Star Game out of Atlanta,
and we'll talk about that up next here on Fox

(01:46:26):
Sports Sunday. I'm George Reichser he is Dan Buyer, and
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Kristen tyed rolling right now a little bit of a run.
They have an eight point lead over u c l
A fifteen seven is to score in this ballgame. Just
one other game that we played tonight in usc An,
Oregon Metal Round. Now at the Sweet sixteen, A couple

(01:46:48):
of teams advancing to the Elite eight already, Michigan's one
of them, handing it off now to Smith. Smith trying
to find some room to drive baseline. It's blocked off
by Gray backs it out to Walker three to shoot
Fogger on the drive all the way to the ram
and a finger roll right over the front edge of
the rim. Yeah, big Man had a double doublet ten.
Michigan prevails over Florida State, seventy six to fifty eight,

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sixty five was the final and that contest. Portland and
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has eleven points early on thirty six to twenty nine.
The first quarter sends one today in Charlotte on the ice,
Devil's one nothing but the Boston Bruins, Ducks and Blues
heading an overtime. Right now, score is tied at to two.

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it's interesting how people tell you, you know, keep politics
out of sports. But sports is always involved in politics,

(01:48:17):
always has been, and now with the MLB All Star Game.
It's gonna be front and center square again because the
NB MLB All Star Game is set to be in Atlanta,
and it's less than a week to go before opening Day,
and in MLB Players Association appears they seem to be

(01:48:41):
open to discussing whether or not the All Star Game
should be relocated, and largely because of the new voter
laws that were passed in Georgia. And we've seen this
with the uh n C Double A tournaments being moved
big because of legislation that was passed, and I believe

(01:49:02):
North Carolina because it was supposed to be in Charlotte.
We've seen a bunch of this and now the MLB
is getting involved and I'm not mad at it because
the players have a voice, and I have no problem
with them using their voice and saying, listen, we don't
want to support a state in that way when we

(01:49:23):
can use our power and influence to get the right
things done. You know, there and and and they're just clarify.
The NBA All Star Game was moved from North Carolina
after the transgender law um was passed, and then they
ended up being lifted and they gave the All Star
Game back to Charlotte, but the NBA did pull out
of North Carolina at that time because of laws in

(01:49:45):
South Carolina. The nt double A didn't go to the
state of South Carolina um because of that. So this
isn't this isn't anything new. And Dave Roberts, the Dodgers skipper,
said today that he doesn't know if he'd manage in
the All Star Game. If because of being the manager
of the National League and then World Series champion Dodgers,

(01:50:05):
he would get that opportunity this summer, He doesn't know
if he would he would do that if the game
was held in Atlanta. And I think that Major League
Baseball really has an opportunity to take a stand. I
don't think that the Masters is going to be pulled,
despite some groups wanting the Masters. Completely different situation. Major
League Baseball is taking their product to Georgia, taking it

(01:50:27):
to Atlanta. The Masters is in Augusta. It's put on
by Augusta National Golf Club. It's not a PGA Tour event.
It's not run by the PGA of America. It's run
by Augusta National Golf Club. And so like taking away
the Masters is not going to happen. What you could
have is you could have players not playing in the
Masters because of that in trying to take a stand.

(01:50:48):
But you're not going to see the Masters move. But
now if you have one of the managers, you know,
Dave Roberts saying like, yeah, you know what, you know,
I'm half black. I don't necessarily feel that these voting
rules are are are good for the African American community.
I have a problem with this. I think you're gonna
see more people step up and say and I think
that Major League Baseball and really as an opportunity to

(01:51:10):
take action and to do something. And I would not
be surprised in the slightest George, if they end up
moving this game. Oh, I would not be surprised either,
because there's so much of it in that and that
when you look at some of the laws that were passed.
As American citizens, we always want that our votes count

(01:51:31):
free and fair elections. I think we can all agree
on that. But when you do things like like you
can't pass out food and water to people who are
who are in line waiting to vote, like that's just stupid.
And and the fact that oh, we're we're gonna limit
drop boxes. And then in communities of color there are

(01:51:55):
less voting local locations. The machines always, they mirac conlessly
break there and they have lines that are six seven
hours long, where whereas in other areas that that they're
much shorter, they have much more easier access to vote.
They want to stop early voting all these things, and

(01:52:15):
it's like you're trying to stop a quote unquote problem
that there has been no evidence of. And then the
other thing is the American spirit, just though in general,
like no matter what your race color, creed is when
you try to stop people from doing something, whether it's
wearing their masks, going outside, when you when you try

(01:52:37):
to make mandates on people, they buck at it like
tremendously and this will end up blowing up in their face.
And and I also say this, there are other states
that are passing that are passing bills, that are considering
similar bills, but this is the first. So if you
don't do it here, then you've kind of allowed it
everywhere else. So that's why I think that this is

(01:52:59):
important to look at. I know David Gascott on the
news desk wants to uh chime in, Dave, what you
got I'm kind of curious to those guys, like, what
does that have to do with Major League Baseball when
maybe a portion of these athletes actually agree with the
voter bills that are being passed. I mean, don't forget.
I mean, these are the constituents that are are throwing
up these bills. They're writing these bills, and they want

(01:53:21):
the governor to sign off on them. So you have
representatives and a legislator that are passing these bills, Like
why why would Major League Baseball have any kind of
influence on that. They don't speak to every single player
a part of their union. There's gonna be a ton
of diversity and something like this. Well, let's say it's
I was just gonna say, it's the same thing with

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the with the with the transgender law in North Carolina.
I mean, it was past because there were people in
support of it. But what they're saying is that's fine,
you can support this, we just don't want to do
business in places that support this sort of legislation. And
I don't think that there's anything you know, I don't,
I don't. I'm nderstand why it may seem like it's
a conflict of interest, but I don't think it is.

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I think it's just them choosing to not want to
be a part of that. Well. I think it's their
way of politicizing what's going on in one state because
they don't agree with it. I mean, that's what it is, right,
Like politics has become so captivating that what you hear,
what you see on certain news agencies is completely different
than another one. And because that, you want to make
that stance, and they could certainly do that, but I

(01:54:23):
think you guys would agree with me in this sense
that this may this may feel or at least people
of of one color black, they'll say that this is
discriminated against them. I haven't heard anyone say that being brown.
I mean the thing I mean you're talking about Asians.
There's obviously there's different pockets of people in different counties

(01:54:44):
in Atlanta, in Georgia as a whole, but the same
in the same breath to you. I mean, you read
the bill and you look at certain things that are
on here. Obviously you're you're looking at when people can
obviously uh qualify for APS and T voting. That's one
thing that's been condensed a little bit. The age require
mints and then voter identification. I mean that's a hot
topic for a lot of people for some unknown reason,

(01:55:06):
like you and I couldn't buy alcohol, getting a plane
and anything of that nature within an I D And
now that's blown out of proportion because now you're gonna
show an idea when you request absentee vote. Well see
see I don't I don't think that that, for the
majority of things, is what people have a have a
problem with. It's it's the fact that in in a

(01:55:27):
lot of these counties, what has happened, it's proven to
have happened. And it's not just black people, it's black,
brown any anywhere that they're like some of the some
of the counties, their demographics are different, and people it's
proven that, especially in Georgia and and other states around there,
that in the black counties there have been longer voting lines,

(01:55:49):
there have been less places to vote. So so like
where in another county it may take an hour and
a half for you to vote, but then in a
black or brown hounty it may take five hours for
you to vote. And and and so I think that
people in general are for sensible voter registration laws, like

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I'm I'm even though a lot of old people and
poor people don't necessarily have ideas because some of them
don't drive, and they don't fly anywhere because they because
because they don't have money. I don't believe that that's
necessarily unreasonable. I think it's unreasonable like to to like
limit drop boxes or absentee vallets, or or not give

(01:56:30):
people food and water while they're in line when they
have to stay in line for five six hours like that.
That's the part that people have a problem with. UM.
But you guys, we are here on Fox Sports Sunday.
I'm George Rice, Sir. He's Dan Buyer, and I think
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Been a rapid fire here at the end as we
wrap up the show on a variety of topics. UM,
just to put a bow on what we were talking about.
Major League Baseball Players Association President Tony Clark saying that, yeah,

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some of the players are aware of what is happening
in Georgia with the new UH voting bill being passed,
and they may discuss possibly wanted to move the All
Star Game, And that followed up with Dave Roberts saying
that there could be a possibility where he wouldn't manage
in the game if it stayed in Atlanta. I just
brought up the point just to keep it on the
sports angle of it. George of the Masters is not

(01:57:38):
going to go away, and there was a civil rights
group that was saying the Masters should be moved out
of George. It is you can't move the Yeah, It's
is what it is. It's either gonna be played or
it's not. Like there's no yeah exactly if a player
doesn't want to play in it, Um, that would be
you know, that's different. I don't think you're actually going
to see it, especially considers considering Masters Week starts a

(01:58:01):
week from tomorrow. But it would it would send quite
a message. But there's no way that the Masters is
going to be moved. Major League Baseball All Star Game
to be determined, UM, other other things to be determined,
likely this week. Finalized by NFL owners seventeen games schedule.
Stevens president Art root In the second even told owner
told season to get olders last week that the seventeen

(01:58:24):
game schedule is going to happen, likely with three preseason games,
so that would be um less than the four that
they usually had, so you would only have three preseason weeks.
But we expect official word this week that the NFL
will go to a seventeen game schedule. George is a
former player, your thoughts on that deal? You knew that
it was gonna happen. I mean, if I were the

(01:58:46):
players though, and I were negotiating the last c b A,
if we're gonna play seventeen games, I need extended healthcare,
Like I need healthcare for five years, well, sorry for
longer than the five years after the guys finished playing.
I want it for and I want an additional five
week as well, because they're going to be more injuries

(01:59:09):
simply because playing an extra game, and that takes years
off a guy's lives, their livelihoods, all all of that
we eat. Either that or shortening the preseason games to
two games, like like, I need more than just a
one game, a one for one reduction because that's not
how it works. Sure, I'm curious to see on what

(01:59:29):
the schedule is going to be. Do they just start
training camp? So later? Do they start you know, the
Hall of Fame Game? Is it later? Will they take
a gap between the end of the preseason and the
start of the regular season. Uh? If if you want
to do it that way to maybe give the guys
a break before the start of the regular season. A
lot to be determined, but we do know this that
the NFL season won't start until after Labor Day, so

(01:59:50):
they're not gonna start this season early. So now you're
gonna have the Super Bowl pushed back into mid February.
One other final note intruding on the All Star Game again. Yeah,
well they All Star Game has been moved before to
because of this, like it used to be, you know,
February ninth, thish. I think the NBA All Star Game
used to be around that time and they've had to

(02:00:10):
move it and same thing. Well, the the the NFL
is just bullies. They don't care. They're like, here's here's
when we're doing it. So I don't care what you do.
You know what NBA All Star Game then have it
the week before between the super Bowl in the conference
championship games. There you go can have your own weekend
to yourself. You can have it a little bit earlier,
so it's not as late. There's a solution. Final point

(02:00:32):
to bring up. Trevor Lawrence says, this is according to
Adam Schefter that reportedly will not attend the NFL drafting
Cleveland gonna do the you know, celebrate with family and
friends on draft night. Again, there could be pandemic issues,
but I actually think it's better TV George to have.
Instead of having these guys get a bear hug from
Roger Goodell, it's actually better to see them in their

(02:00:52):
own settings. I think that. And it needs more money
for him because for for some there are some marketing
dollars that play. That's hey, it always comes down to
the dollar's sign in the background all that. Yeah, it's
just it's better theater, Like, yeah, it's great to see
the hug and you know, from Roger Goodell and holding
the cap in Jersey. But I think Joe Thomas was

(02:01:15):
onto something when he went fishing with his his dad
years ago when he was drafted by the Browns that
I think this is better. Plus we could get another
Seedee Lamb moment. There could always be the possibility of that.
He's George Rice Stir. I'm Dan Buyer. This is Fox
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