Mike Harmon and Bucky Brooks get you geared up for Game 2 of the NBA Finals

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happy to be with you here on a big Sunday,
Game two of the NBA Finals. Later on the night,
we've got action at Roland Garrows. We've got on you Afa.
I've heard it pronounced nine thousand different ways, but like
nobody in these stands. But you know what, it's live soccer,
which means it's a win for us and some uh

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lacrosse finals. So I mean, we've got some sporting action
and that one's obviously on tape, but it's action that
I didn't see live. So it's like that old NBC thing,
you know if when they were playing reruns in the spring. Hey,
if you didn't watch it in the fall, it's new
to you. So it's new to me watching these guys
run around. What's going on? Man? I was a week
it was a good week. It was a great week.

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I mean, we have so many things that are going on.
We're finishing up like NFL off season program, so we
had an opportunity here about these O T A S
Mini camps. I think this week we'll see the veteran
mandatory mini camps this weekend. Next week. Uh, we got
basketball in full swing. The NBA Finals had a surprise
game one, so it's good. Things are good. And HL

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cruising a long, big Colorado cruising, even though the first
shot was a McDavid goal. Yeah, how about that. The
Avalent is doing that. You got the Rangers. I just
had a bunch of guys that are in Colorado, so
they've gotten a really chirpy the last week or so.
So I've had to meet them. I just had you.
You have mut and so I'm well, I mean, if

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the tweets are coming every thirty five seconds, even in
non game hours, I gotta go, are you a uniform
police person? The uniforms matter, do you man? There's ones
I like more than others. But in terms of okay,
because I'm having on that, I just gotta shrug. It's like,
all right, whatever, I'm having a hard time like looking
at the Edmonton Oilers uniform right, because it's darker. It's

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darker than he used to. It's like the Navy. It's
not like the old traditional I get it. I mean,
I'm not gonna see here and say that I'm like
the hockeys are. But it just looks weird to hit
on all blue. I don't I don't remember them having
on all blues, especially because you're you're thinking back to
grat Sky days. Yeah. In other words, the marketing folks
that these will sell better, yes, And so what what

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I like in what I'm finding? Why does everybody get
excited about the retro uniforms? Because the retro uniforms are
norally the best uniforms. So you think about the powder
blues of the the Los Angeles Charges almost called them
San Diego Charge because they were in San Diego time.
You got that? Did everyone decided about the Falcons bringing
back kind of like the old red helmet from and

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keeps waiting for days? You know, the pewter down there
in Tampa doesn't really make since when you have a
nice what are we doing? I mean, we gotta get
the creams go back and the pirate uh So yeah,
I'm with you. I mean the Bears when they had
those prison looking uniforms that they were for the Oh
no way, those are the throwbacks and the Bumblebees. Come on,

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come on from the Steelers, Come on, how great those?
If I had unlimited space, I'd be buying, like game
used ones of those, hanging them on my walls. People
think I'd nuts, but that's okay. We like what we like,
we do, But that's just it. It's the because some
folks get really caught up in those things. And and

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certainly we we know the Mitchell and Ness Apparel company.
How many how many guys did you know playing in
the league that had to get the next one and
the next one and the next one. They had a
whole rack of them that were costing them like four
fifty apiece throwbacks. Man, how can you go wrong with
a throwback except you're never go wear it. I mean,
back then there was the time when you can wear jerseys,

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and well, I mean I guess you can. I mean
you'll be who you are, But yeah, and jersey's reserved
for kids and wives? Is that is that where you're going?
I don't know. I see a lot of guys running
around with some throwbacks. I don't know if they're where
they're showing up from. I've seen some names and combination.
I remember going we we had an outing on a

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football Sunday a few years ago. Uh and there was
a bar here in l A that was a Bear's bar,
and we walked in. I mean, and you're seeing every name,
you know, Cedric Benson and Courtesy email and like just
go on down the line and it's the guy with
the Courtesy in his jersey. You know, we'd found out

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he'd lost a bet, so that that was the Bears
jersey that they made him wear for that Sunday. So
he was the object of a great scorn and ridicule
over the three hours that we were there. Well, welcome ahead,
and it's Fox Sports Sunday here on Fox Sports Radio.
Lots of good stuff to get to. As Bucky alluded
to with the first part of ot EAS winding down,

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We've we've got some great storylines. Guys that are getting
a little chesty speaking out for themselves, everything going back
against Twitter. Guys just need to staff Twitter. I mean,
but I guess you find fuel where you find fuel,
and if a bunch of anonymous guys that live in
you know, their parents basement. Is where where you're gonna
find it. How am I gonna criticize you? But we

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we've got a bunch of those stories. But we've got
gave two of the NBA Finals later on tonight, uh
Boston with the huge fourth quarter in Game one, watching
it live and in living color, it's like, all right,
Steve Kerr, get a time out and find someone who
can make a shot. Yeah, let's see what's happening. Um. Look,
it's funny because I think we're just so accustomed to

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seeing Togo State Warriors dominate because you know, like that's
what we saw for like a five six, seven year period,
and now what we're seeing is a team that is younger,
that is bigger, faster, stronger, go at them. The length
in the size of the Celtics certainly gives the Warrior's problems.
And we saw it like a quick flash early current

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just going nuts in the first quarter them hit shots.
But then when you look at the game, second quarter,
games right back close and even to make a little
spurting third quarter then so just kind of walk them down.
It's a nice a huge game, man, It's a huge
game if you go down to oh so that's a
big mountain to clock. No, that's that. That's the thing,
right as we look at this game, and obviously the

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odds are that the Warriors are favored, as you would
expect that the series odds and flipped the other way
after that game won win by the Celtics. But it's
the curiosity of watching, all right, what is it a
microcosm of of of a larger issue perhaps looming for
the Wars as well as they played and look once

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and for all all of the underdog things again, you
create your own demons. They were the fourth favorite in
terms of betting at the beginning of the season. Not
that that's the be all to end all, but that
to say that they were off the pack, off the pace,
and nobody believed in you is nonsense, right, The fact
that it was the Lakers and Nets were two of
the three teams ahead of them. It's kind of funny

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when you you see the way the season has worked out. Yeah,
Josh Dubo associated press teams lose at home in Games
one and two in the NBA Finals. He had a
short list of two the ninety five magic they got
swept by the Rockets and then the ninety three Sons
who lost in six. Of course, the Bolts. But when
we watched that that first quarter, right and as you mentioned,

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the first few minutes, some easy transition buckets, some easy
backdoor cuts. Steph Curry's on fire. He finished thirteen points
in the final three quarters, was a non factor in
the fourth quarter, right, and they had a five minute
scoreless streak. I mean, pon ponder that for a moment.
The Warriors five minutes and as I watched it, and

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we had our Jason and I, you know, breaking it
on after the game, we had Rick Bucheran and I
just asked point blanks, like, all right, Jordan Pool can't
play defense and was terrible. How much more do we
see of him? It goes, well, he's got no choice, right,
I mean, that's the problem is that you've got clay
upwards of thirty five minutes. That's not a recipe for success.

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Draymond taking twelve shots. I don't care how chesty he
gets in postgame. New media wants to yell at everybody
him taking twelve shots is not good for business. Comingo
didn't get off the bench. Moody didn't get off the bench.
That's a recipe for disaster the way that game bore out,
especially in in the fourth quarter. And I can agree

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to it to some point of all right, you're not
going to hit all those threes, but you don't want
putting them out as if there are a bunch of
of busters who can't hit a shot. Is also foolhardy,
like Al Horford. It's the ugliest looking shot in the world,
but he's hitting from three during the playoffs, so leave
him open at your own peril. And Jay Sanem Jewish credit.

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He still put up seventeen shots, but he had thirteen assists,
which means you want to collapse on me and try
to stop me these guys. These guys are gonna hit shots.
So a couple of things, and we haven't talked about
this with the Warriors, um there Core is an older group,
and so I wondered when Steph Curry came up with

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that flurry he used up all the gas in the
tank that explosive first quarter. We hit six threes and
did all the others that ran around was the height
was excited in the building. One thing that we don't
think about because of notice and we don't think about
how the adrenaline and all the other stuff like it
the police the tank very quickly. You see it everybody
when you go watch your daughter play soccer, Like when

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they come out very excited and anxious. Man, those first
first half is great, But then do you have anything
in reserve? And I wondered when Steph Curry shot the
way he shot in the first quarter and then we saw,
you know, only finished with thirteen points after that, did
he wear himself out? Is this a team? Because remember
they played andre Igodala, who had been twelve minutes from him.

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He comes in in place, because I mean that was
the other thing, right, he gets twelve minutes and you're
young guys that are supposed to be picking up. And
I love andre Igodola. You want to talk about a
storied career. Good for him. I mean he's what seventh,
seventh NBA Finals, first guy to that number that didn't
play for the Celtics or Lakers. Kind of a cool

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little nod, right, But but yeah, the fact that he's
got twelve minutes, so it's an older teams, So then
they gas out and so now you just wonder, this
is a team that normally they hit you in spurts
to separate. But if you have a team that is
athletic that can go with them. Every time you hear
i'm a Dooka talks, he talks about physicality and effort.

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So we're not only gonna play hard, but we're gonna
play hard. We can make sure you touch you up
as an older guy, and man, you get tired of
dealing with those things. So I think the big thing
we'll see leave for us to see how do the
Warriors change because they're smaller team. Do you play more
to young guys? But it looked like Jordan Pool didn't
like the physicality in the contact when Marcus Morton, those

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guys were kind of making sure that every time they
touched him. But that's the that's the million dollar question
for game two. Is the officiating the same as it
was Game one? It happened, No, no, no no. But
if that's consistent, see that, because that's advantage Warriors. If
it goes the other way, because all of a sudden,
you got you get, you get a couple of bogus
tiki tack files. Maybe maybe technically a foul, but if

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we're going to call that and you're gonna buy the
cells that Draymond, Clay and especially Steph do, then all
of a sudden you got a completely different game, right.
That was one of the things I kept watching the
whole time. It's all right, personal foul counts, Where where
are we at for Smart and for White and those guys,
because as long as that stays low, they're gonna make
like shooting hard on those guards. And then inside, the

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Warriors have been having a field day against teams with
their points in the paint, even even if you don't
get them, as there were a lot of because they
had three very quickly, and then those dissipated fast. And
here's the thing about the Warriors, because everyone is wanting
to imitate their style, so they adopted the three point thing.
But when you really look at the Warriors, they used
the three to set of the dribble drive. They live

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in the paint, Steph Curry and Clay, the shooting lay
up after lay up after lay up after lay up,
because you overextend your defense, they drill and put on
the floor gets the paint. So now you have a
team in the Celtics just like no, I know, layups,
We're not doing that. Remember they also came off that
that nineteen nineties playoff series when they're going to gainst
the Heat where it's basically football all over again, and
so can the Warriors are just because look, the easier

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path was the one that walked. That was walked by
the Warriors. They didn't really face like a team that
really challenged them and made them up to any When
it came to physicality, the Celtics have had to deal
with all bullies along the block Milwaukee, in Miami, the
Miami Heat in particular, they're more ready for what the
finals should be from a physical physicality standpoint. Now, officiating

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with determined, does it skew towards the physical game or
will we see Marcus mart and like right away in
the first quarter, too quick file left and we see
how the game is going to be officiated. No, that's it,
right is after the first couple of minutes they got
the initial on slot. And then you get to halftime
and the Celtics have a two point lead, and party
you're looking around going all right, Steph had his huge

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first quarter, but nobody else is hitting shots, nobody else
is showing up here offensively and defensively, you know you're
you're getting beaten down a bit. And we talked about
you know, Memphis made them work right, so where physically
they had to find that extra reserve to get through
the final minutes of games. But it's different when you've

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got that and you're getting a body on you every
time you go to the bucket, every time you go
and you're on your you know, dribble penetration. You know,
the guy's given no ground and and that's what we
have from the Celtics. It's great that we have the
best two defenses in the game. Uh Draymond Green, you know,
the most underrated part of his look. He's an agitator

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and there's a lot to love about his game. He's
one of those guys that if he's on your team,
you celebrate the hell out of him, but you hate
him if he's not. I mean, we we've all had
those for our particular teams, and maybe if you just
go league wide, if you don't have a team that
you call your own. But his ability to distribute the
ball is key. In in Game one, there wasn't a

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lot of room, wasn't a lot of space, and he
often looked for his own shot, which again, if I'm
Steve Kerr, I'm like, what are you doing? I mean,
you're at double digit shots? Stop taking the three point shot. Okay,
just because they're hitting them doesn't mean that there's some
magical fairy dust that's been sprinkled over that suddenly everybody
can shoot with great efficiency from beyond the ark. Yeah.

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I think that's one of the things that you have
to identify. You have to identify quickly who has it going,
make sure you feed the pig, and make sure that
everyone compliments who has the hot hand. And so we'll
see this is a game of great adjustments. We saw
the Celtics just we'll see how the Warriors of just
winning game. To see if Robert Williams that knee injury
he was hobbled a little bit during the game, did

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play twenty four minutes. A big interior presence for Boston
that needs to come up big quick. You know. The
personal note because well it is our microphones and and
our vast Fox Sports radio network here, Happy birthday to
my dad. Uh. He may be listening and laughing at
me as we speak, but we make another year and
we keep the line moving. Uh, he's got his Tampa

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Bay Lightning, so he's a little nervous right now since
they moved down to Florida. You know, that's the team.
That's the team he's watching. So look at, look at
for more greatness there. I'll call you later dead. Uh,
Mike Carmen, Bucky Brooks with the hare Fox Sports Radio,
Fox Sports Sunday coming up next, we'll turn it over
to the NFL. One of the big stories. Uh, the
meme that got everybody fired up, and now the quarterback

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(16:59):
Bucky Brooks. Find me were at Swollen Dome. Thanks for
hanging out with us. As we get towards summer, a
couple more weeks till it is officially. I know we
always do the kick off over Memorial Day weekend and
folks start finishing up their school school work. I know
my kids are doing nothing but really watching movies at
this point, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, Bucky,

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but it is what it is. Uh. I just gotta shrug.
How they schedule some of the testing and then you
still have a couple of weeks of you know, all right,
we're gonna play heads up. You know that you know
that no no, no, no no, you can't see because
that's it. You got the heads up, seven up, you
got that, but there's also a heads up where it's

(17:40):
a like a you've got got to give clues as
to who or what or whatever, and you hold it
up on your head and all that, and you know,
you try to guess, and sometimes hilarity ensues because you
have no idea who it is and you just start guessing.
But it's it's that, that's what, that's what we're doing
to finish the school here at this point. How do
you feel about that? I'm not thrilled it. I'm not thrilled.

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I mean, not that they didn't have a long, arduous
year and got a lot of good work done. Just
if there's days left on the calendar, you just want
to maximize the day. Let's maximize. Let's let's hey, you know,
even if it's a rudimentary finance lesson on the final
couple of days, and here's something, now here's something you'll
really like. It's something that you really really can use

(18:26):
outside of what we've been doing here. But let's get
a little creative here in the final days. I mean,
how many more weeks? I mean they're done. They're done Wednesday.
So it's it's there. The fetish line is is there
it's just the are we done on a Wednesday instead
of on a Friday? Why? Why not a clean break?
I don't know. We got we got a commencement, promotion,

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what graduation, whatever term you want to use, and whatever
you use in your municipality. Congratulations of all that did
at every level, right, all all those successes. Take a
deep breath and get ready to climb the next hill, right,
I mean that's the message. I there's my ten second.
If I were allowed to speak at graduation, I mean

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I could wax poetic and give you an hour, you know,
extemporaneously speaking at all. But I mean that's really it.
And no matter what level you're at, take a deep breath, exhale,
celebrate the Moment's kind of like a win on the field, right,
or or scoring a goal on soccer, getting a lead
and going into a quarter break in and basketball whatever

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it's like. Alright, exhale, there's still more work to be done, right,
So you can't rest on your laurels and you know, lollygag,
get back into into the mix as fast as you can.
And that's one of the things we're seeing down in Miami.
A new look squad, big money spent to bring in
Tyree Hill and the name scene around the world over

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the last couple of weeks with to a tongue of
iloa and that throw you see where was that was
on the money. I don't care if the guy's got
to come back for it. I don't care if he's
got to run back thirty yards for it. You're doing drills, right,
That's that's it. You're doing drills at this point. But
it's to a tongue of voloa. And since he's come

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into the league, a lot of questions and and you
and I, talking a little bit off air, are still
scratching our heads as to why. But talking about arm
strength and that video clip that was put out by
the Miami Dolphins certainly did him no favors, you know, certainly,
as we have talked about quite a bit. Guys are
in their mentions, guys are on Twitter, in the blog isphere,

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and I'm sure the Beat writers have been asking every
media availability that has had so finally, at the end
of this first round of O t A S he'd
had to address the elephant in the room. You know,
for me, it's just zoned that out. I mean, we
come out to practice to everyone else. Twitter Warriors, you know,
keyboard warriors, whatever you want to call them. You know

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they're not out here practicing with us, working hard. So uh.
I don't know if you guys recorded that last one
to Tyreek, but I don't know about you, but that
looked like money. I wouldn't say I put the most
emphasis on my downfield throws. Um, you know this offseason, Uh,

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just because learning the offense was was kind of the
biggest thing. Getting guys set motions, landmarks with receivers timing. Um,
I think it works out better that way. Um. You know,
whereas if guys are where they're supposed to be, you know,
I man pushing it down the field. It's it's not
something we're forcing. It's something that's you know there and

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there you go. There there's your summary statement that other
than the Twitter Warriors keyboard warriors comment, which is fun
and I'm sure some folks would get bristled. I can
think of a couple of media members who um immediately
started gripping and I think you and I are thinking
of the same people. But I will only say this,

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he has now opened himself up because when you address
it like that, when you make it kind of little
every serial between yourself and the keyboard Warriors. When the
three interception game comes, as it will come, well, especially
if you're gonna start pushing the ball down the field. Right,
it's the degree of accuracy an opportunity. And that's why

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I like the way he finished that second clip. We
played those back to back, kind of talking about not
forcing it. And that's one thing I think that needs
to be people need a reminder of of NFL football
is just because you want them, Hey, throw the bomb
doesn't mean that it's there and just throwing it up
half hazardly like Brett Farve did and all these guys

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did back in the like go back to the seventies, right,
watch watch video of a lot of games of the
seventy interceptions did not have the same weight that they
do now. Right, an accuracy completion percentage used to be
pushed the ball show Right, if you took a shot
into double coverage, okay, our defense will will pick you up.
We don't look at the NFL the same way. And

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it's also different. Um, it's different on how defenses are
taking it, you know, seeing where people are the number
one thing. All Right, there are a couple of things
that are deciding factors in football. The number one thing
is the turnover ratio TEA. It wins the turnover battle
typically when as you talk about plus one and it
goes up with each additional um turnover in your favor.

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The second thing is big plays. Big plays allowed. It
is hard in any level of football, but the National
Football League in particularly to score without the assistance of
an an explosive play. And explosive play has been broken
up a million different ways, but the easiest way to
think about it passes over twenty yards, runs over ten yards.
It's hard to drive the ball at the length of

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the field without getting an explosive play. So now what
more defensive coordinators are doing. They're saying, let's take away
the deep ball and forced quarterbacks to Nickelin diamond down
the field. So the reason why we see Tampa two
or too deep coverage, or while we see safeties parked
in the parking lot, defenses do not want the ball
flying over the head. And when you have Tyreek Kill,

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what Tyreek Kill is going to do is he's going
to change the way that people defend the Miami Dolphins
because they're gonna make sure that number ten does not
run past him down the field. So even though we
may be salivating over the deep ball from Ta talking
about Lowa, we actually may see more short intermediate passes
because the defense is backed off and his other guys
do to work. Well, that's the thing, right, is that

(24:36):
you can use him and as long as you know
everybody's on board with the game plan of decoy. Uh,
you know, like you're gonna run some forty yards sprints.
I know the ball is not getting there. Trust me,
we'll find our shots down the road. But I mean,
you talk about Gisicky, you talk about bringing in Chase
Edmonds and Mo Shirt, Like, you got guys that can
catch the ball out of the backfield and give you

(24:56):
big plays right off. A little swing passes on that
that's gonna be a big part of this offense. You
got Jail and Waddle hundred catch guy, right, So while
he didn't have a ton of explosive plays, you're talking
about moving the chains because we talk about the two sides, right,
You've got the explosive plays on one. But if you
limit those long protracted drives, what's gonna happen? Eventually? In

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most drives there's gonna be something to beset the drive,
a holding penalty, a false start, something that's going to
take it away and make it that much harder to
finish beyond just a long field goal attempt. So for
the Miami Dolphins, I mean, I like the to uh
addressed it. I don't know that you know, adversarial to
a degree. I mean he's also trying to make a name.

(25:42):
M hm. So I think, you know, getting a little
chesty because the other thing is the guy that can't
throw the ball. I guess is the thing that we
buried lead is go back to when he started playing
at Alabama. What do you know him for a deep ball? Right?
And if you get through an offensive right right now,
it's all right, Armstead and Williams and Hunt and Eikenberg,

(26:04):
it's on you, right, I mean your offensive line. And
we we preach about it all year long as we
look and analyze games, who's in, who's out, and the
changing faces of the front five. But it's it's the
reality of all right, how quickly do you have to
get the ball out based on the ineffectiveness of your
offensive line without having to design rollouts? Well that's the

(26:27):
thing that um Hey coach Mike McDaniel was talking about,
you know, everyone talking about pushing the ball eighty yards
down the field and those things. He was like, quarterackle
only needs to be sixty years, which is in line
with what we always discussed and talked about um and scouting,
because when we think about Peyton Manning and his Hey,

(26:47):
they like Peyton Manning when they were having these great
years in Indianapolis, pay Man and was never really releasing
the ball more than forty forty five yards. His trick
was what we call out and up, meaning the ball
will come out early, and he would put it up
high to allow these guys to run up under it.
And so it's out early because he knew, I can't

(27:07):
look at Reggy Wayne and Marvin Harrison a flying down
the field. I can't throw it that far. So I
gotta get it out up and let and trust that
they're going to get up under it. And so arm
strength is overrated in terms of range. The most important
part is do you have enough velocity to fit the
ball in the tight windows? And can you paint the
numbers or paint the corners When it comes to hitting

(27:28):
the receiver and the strike zone, if you can do
those things and throw with anticipation. That's what quarterback king is.
It's not oh, I'm just gonna rear back and hockey. Yeah,
it's it's a different different age here in the NFL.
And obviously you see the success of Manning, Who's never
Who's never a guy that you're tagged as one of
the greatest arm strength guys. Nah, it was a accuracy

(27:51):
and anticipation understanding, being able to put the ball fitting
into the mailbox, being able to know exactly what he's
doing pre snap, by manipulating the defense, by looking off
and doing all those other things. It's high level quarterback play.
And so it has to be more than that. For
two or talking about lower I think what he has
to understand is what are the strengths and the weaknesses

(28:12):
of his game? How can he be the most efficient
playmaker from the pocket. As the team is surrounding him
with ellent, they also have to look at his game
and say, how can we maximize the talents of the quarterback.
And so if he's a quick rhythm passor which I
think the two things coming out of tour out standing
quick rhythm passer, and he was an RPO Jedi Master.
I don't know if there was anybody that was better

(28:33):
at running r P O s and two are talking
about Lord, the one diversion that we saw in college,
and so what you wanna do? You want to build
that into your offense to allow him to do what
he does, to think that he can change. Now, that's
not what it is. It has to be you do
what he does really well, and then you move on
one that way. Now it's all about McDaniel, super genius.

(28:54):
He's Bucky Brooks on Mike Armen here Fox Sports Sunday
coming up on the show. As as we continue here,
we've got plenty of NFL. We're gonna say goodbye to
an absolute legend in the NFL. But first we're gonna
kick it over to Isaac Gloadron get an update onw
What's what's trending is France in many, many ways, most
notably the men's singles final at the French Open, where

(29:16):
as we speak, Lafael Nadal as a three games to
one lead over Caspar Rude in the opening set of
the match. Nadal going for his fourteen French Open title.
His all time record at the French Open a hundred
eleven wins and three losses. In Game three of the
NHL's Western Conference Finals Saturday night, the Colorado Avalanche and

(29:36):
Edmonton Orleans were tied at two in the third period.
All right, Mike Kentucky, I want to get your thoughts
on what happened next? Called by Connor mcgahey on k
k SC, I want to know what you thought of this.
In a foot race with J hfer Comfort wins it,
Comfort shoots shot J T. Comfort eight seven seven colts

(29:59):
now of the fox hand of the net, and the
Avalanche had the lead back with to go in the
third period. What do you think? How do you spell
goals now? Because that's when one digit too long? Oh,
I hadn't thought on that very sharp. Okay, well, I
get like that. That's the nerd me. He went eight,
he only gets seven. It's not so much nerd, but

(30:21):
it's the quickness for you to be able to process
that in real time. I mean, that's NFL quarterback esque
right there. That's it. I gotta know where the hot
read is. I guess it'll I guess it'll dial the
number after you do the oh, I said, I mean
if you leave the s off and it's just goal
now and then that's fine. Well, the Hill have a

(30:42):
chance to do that in Game four when Colorado goes
for the suite, because they wound up winning over Edmonton
four to two. So the Avalanche now leads a series
three games to none, one victory away from the Stanley
Cup Final. Baseball Saturday night, Pete Alonso to home runs them.
That's nine for whatever. The Dodgers soccer coming up today
at noon Sstern, Ukraine will take on Whales. The winner

(31:03):
goes to the World Cup. A lot of drama coming
up just a couple of hours from now. So we
started with France, We're gonna end with Frances. Might be
the first time ever in Fox Sports radio history that
we have covered the idd A rod and I did.
A rod sled dog from France named Leon that went
missing during the legendary race has been found safe after

(31:27):
spending three months in the Alaskan wilderness and I did
run spokesperson said that Leon was quote understandably skinny, but
seemingly healthy unquote. His musher is heading from France to
Alaska to take him back home to France. Did that
very happy? Oh that's good? Did they not have a

(31:49):
tracker on Leon, it seems like you have a tracker?
Did have a chip in Leon? I mean, this wasn't
like an open water scenario. Anybody remember the classic film
that you Iver's left behind that open water. That's like
a really good point, Like these are important dogs, man,
someone someone's pet she wah wah in Tarzana that stays

(32:11):
indoors all day and Yapps probably has a chip. That
that's a really good idea. I'm just walking when they
have a chip. Did you just out where you live
in the neighbor that has? You mentioned the Mets and
the Dodgers real quick? Yeah? What did you all think?
This is the story? You know, very late last night,

(32:32):
the attempt to bring in Zach McKinstry, but because it
was only a five run deficit, they were told they couldn't,
you know, and then they still allowed the reliever to
warm up, so there was a delay of like ten
twelve minutes. Harmon, I did not know that that rule
even existed, and I don't really know the point why
that rule would even exist. I mean, what's what's the
problem with having a position player no matter what the
score is. I mean, it's the team's problem. Own problem, right, Yeah,

(32:54):
I think part of it is the you know, sham
of a travesty mockery. And I agree with Buck show
Walter that we're seeing it way too much like it
used to be the novelty thing where every once in
a while. But I guess roster limits being what they are, uh,
and trying to make sure and especially now where guys
aren't trained. We were we were joking the other day.
We we brought up Don Sutton. Right, we're having our

(33:16):
weekly conversation with our guy, Jason Cole, Jason Smith and
I and Don Sutton came into the mix. Don Sutton
at three four career wins, right, hundred seventy eight career
complete games, hundred You could go a decade across Major
League Baseball, and I don't think you get to a
hundred seventy eight anymore. I loan, they just don't do it.

(33:38):
So I think part of it is the bullpen management,
arm management, you know however you're gonna do it. But
it's also adjusting time. And Buck's been around the block.
But the fact that he knew that rule and was
holding up the six right, holding up the six fingers like, hey,
it ain't six fingers, you know, six runs yet I
thought was kind of a big deal. And our guys
Smith was at the game because it was Gil Hodges

(33:58):
Bobblehead night and he went and they obviously had to
go support the Mets. He was just excited they scored
one run, let alone actually winning. He was more excited
about his helmet. Nachos. Well, I mean they kind of
get back on track, and they got back well, I
mean they they've been pretty bad, not angels bad. Mike
Trout over his last three and all of a sudden

(34:20):
they're back to being five hundred. Mike Troud is distracted
because he's now taking these fantasy football commissioner classes, trying
to become a better commissioner. Tell you what, man, that
that was the story that would not die this week
and May and maybe it is. Maybe it is weighing
on him. I mean, think about that. If we're talking
about the stakes that are really out there, that you're

(34:40):
bad at your job, well, I think you get over that.
I think you probably have a bunch of text messages
if he really wanted to disclose it all kind of
like Jack Peterson did, I bet you Tommy Fams been
in his uh been in his mentions, where's my blanket money, bitch,
I'm messing up my fantasy football stuff. You know how
that it took my cash. Very pridful and my standing

(35:02):
when it comes to fantasy football. I mean, if I'm innute,
I'm into winning. I'm not gonna waste all my time studying,
researching lineups, trying to figure out who's my flex And
he's looking at the schedule one when he trying to
figures Tommy fam So he's got to keep his eyes
a lot of stuff on because he doesn't get smacked either. No,
it's it. Dave's Chappelle comes again. He's Bucky Brooks up

(35:26):
by Carbon. Coming up next, we say goodbye to an
NFL legend. I'll let you decide which one left this
week that we honor. Next on Fox Public Service Announcement.
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(35:46):
But it does mean that colleague of them on, Bucky
Brooks brought in donuts. And you know what Homer said,
whenever there's the possibility of more donuts, Now there's more
from the facility. So Isaac Lowen Crown will now break
a land speed record by sprint take and there he goes, well,

(36:08):
I mean, look, it's only right because we missed out
on National Donuts. We did when National Donut Day was
on Friday, Friday, June three, there was a declaration that
we celebrate our love for donuts on Friday, and so
how could I not participate in National Donut Weekend by

(36:29):
bringing some donuts? What it felt us? Now, that is
really really a piece of championship material right there. I
mean you you got it across the goal line and
took care of your town exactly, alright, So two guys, well,
three guys, right, Alex mac he's done after thirteen years,
so there's a big hole in the offensive line. But
you know, you're you're doing your planning. When a guy

(36:51):
gets into his second decade, you're already thinking about succession
plans in your interior alignment. So we got that from
a pure entertainment standpoint. The removal of Ryan Fitzpatrick from
an active roster saddens me because he was you know,
we don't want to talk a ton about fantasy here,

(37:12):
but I mean, you talk about a guy that always
had two or three weeks where he'd be the spot
pick up because your guy got hurt, or was a
bye week, or maybe they were playing that you know,
a week opponent. How could you count on it? Oh no,
what you knew he was gonna throw. See that's the thing. Now,
it could be bad, but he wasn't gonna get cheated
out of his attempts because one of the things, and

(37:32):
we've talked about this for our time here on Fox
Sports Radio, it's like when I got a guy like
that that knows there's nothing left right, He's not only
gonna be a long term answer anywhere, he's leaving it
out on the field, which means he's taking his chances.
And sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good. For
Ryan Fitzpatrick, i'd been going all the way back to
two thousand five when he came in as a member

(37:54):
of the St. Louis Rams, then to the Bengals, then
to the Bills, then Tennessee, Houston, at Tampa, Miami, Washington.
So there you go, long traveled, historic career. So congratulations
on a job well done. And for all the entertainment
and all the references to your education, now the one

(38:14):
I want to talk to you about is the future. Uh,
you know, considerations and respect and where do we put
Frank Gore and everything. As he finally officially says goodbye,
he has to go down. He would go down as
it has a great right. Fifty yards short of twenty
total yards for his career, he'll go down as an

(38:37):
all time great. And it's the subtle part of it.
I think sometimes when you play as long as he did,
you remember how great he was that little segment where
he was doing everything for the Niners. I think the
best thing, the best thing I can talk about with
Frank Gore is when Frank Gore was coming out. One
of the things that you do as this scout, as
you always ask teammates about other players. And I remember

(38:58):
in the draft it was like like Kellen Winslow and
and Rowe Parish and a bunch of just just a
bunch of guys, Roscoe Parrish and you're asking, hey, man,
who's the best guy that you saw come through Miami
while you were there, to a man Mike Harmen. They
said Frank Gore. And there are some that would say
that Frank Gore is the only guy that we could

(39:19):
see that ran out with us mcgahey and Clinton porters
because they knew what was coming, and he lived up
to what everyone thought he would be. Even as a
third round pick for the forty niners, he was out
standing in terms of being able to run the ball,
the patience, the power, all of this stuff and could
catch the ball out of the back. I think one
of the big things, you know, longevity can be cloud

(39:41):
and clouds it right because even when you go to
baseball and you look at, you know, guys that are
seen as stat aggregators, that mean someone still wanted you
in the lineup right now. Sometimes we can wonder about
teams that aren't very good and just wanting to put
butts and seats as you commemorate a milestone is some
of that. But for Frank Gore availability at the running

(40:03):
back position all those thousand yards seasons, that's a big deal. Yeah,
so hard to achieve and so just being able to
play as long as he played, being affective as he was.
I remember, this is a guy who had a c
O issues respect the Frank or nine thousand yards seasons
three where he narrowly missed. Congratulations Frank Gore. We shall
miss you. Back to the NBA next here on Fox.

(40:25):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Search f s R to listen live. Hey, great Eggs.
Hour two of the program here out of beautiful Fox
Sports Sunday. So much going on in our sporting universe.
Already out on the play the French Open underway. We've

(40:47):
got a replay of a lacrosse game where there's been
some heavy hitting. Got a soccer game where someone just
got ticked into face. And later on we got hell
in a Cell. Oh and there's also NHL Stanley Cup playoffs,
as well as Game two of the NBA Finals. I'm
split screen experience for me, man, A little Hell in
a cell. Hell in a Cell. I like the name

(41:08):
I got my n f T S the other day,
I got an undertaker. It's going to be beautiful. Really Yeah,
w w E n f T S. Minimal investments, Bucky,
But you know what, I'm always looking too for some
alternative assets. Okay, well you know, but I don't really
understand the n f T world in terms of collecting.
But I mean I kind of get it, but not really. No,

(41:30):
it's okay, it's uh, you know, try trying to figure
out I got my partial because I do have part
of it. Andrea the giant jockstrap, we've got shares of Well,
it's it's fractional ownership, so it trades like a stock.
How you feel about it, I don't know. I bought
it for Novelty's sake. It's very minimal. We have a

(41:53):
couple of showers and Andre the John's jockstrap. Yeah, hello,
got in your face right now. It's priceless. I wish
we had a video component to the show because the
embarrassment everything else right there, you know exactly. Look, it
is a Sunday morning, wherever you are in this great
land going to and from services, Uh, say one for

(42:16):
us certainly if you are, if you're out walking the dog,
having a cup of coffee, getting ready for brunch, maybe
a hike, whatever it is. We appreciate you making us
part of your day. Take us with you wherever you
go on the I Heart Radio apps, hers XM Channel
A D three, and of course thank you to all
the program directors that make us part of all those
local markets. Four hundred twenty four thirty whatever that number

(42:40):
is right now. I haven't looked at my grid in
a while, But either way, I appreciate you all being
out there, being part of the extended family. Buried in
that long rambling introduction of what's on tap for today,
Game two of the NBA Finals and for the Golden
State Warriors, it's put up or shut up time, and
there was a lot of well, what the word I

(43:01):
would use was dismissive. Confident is one thing, right, you
should be confident you're in the NBA Finals, right, we
expect that a little bravado, especially when we're talking about
a team that has been there before. But as we know,
Draymond Green and I and look, the folks are gonna
think this is derogatory. No, no, no, he's he's playing

(43:22):
the heel. He's playing his role as he has that hybrid.
I'm still playing, but I have my voice hashtag new
media and then he puts out et cetera here where
his comments about the Celtics win. In Game one, they
hit twenty one threes and Marcus Smart, Al Horford and
Derek White combined for fifteen of them. So those guys

(43:44):
are good shooters, but for what fifteen out of a
we're a smart seven eight right, eight seven and eight
eight seven, and yeah that's right. Yeah from those guys,

(44:05):
you know, so fine. And then he talked about his
own offensive games like, oh my shots will fall. It's like, okay,
that's not your game. But okay, right, two of twelve
from the field over four for three, uh for Draymond Green.
But the dismissiveness like if you're not going to close
out and guys are standing out around by themselves, guess
what professional players are going to hit shots? Especially nowadays.

(44:29):
It's not the alright, he takes point one three pointers
per year kind of thing. Uh, looking at you, Ben Simmons.
But the rest of the rest of the NBA, these
guys could shoot, and it's part of the game. Especially
the Celtics have embraced it. The Mavericks embraced it. Put
up in three we're gonna, we're gonna, We're gonna shoot threes.

(44:50):
We're gonna they believe that they're going to knock those shots. Now,
I think one of the things about the Warriors and
look their fans love love them and dubbed nation should
uh celebrate and revel and success that the Warriors have
had over the last decade or so. But there is
a little bit of an attention arrogance to this team

(45:14):
that kind of makes them like one of those teams
I would say, like it's kind of hard to love
that they got unlikable fast. Remember how quickly it was
while they're changing the game too. They changed the game
a little smug, little smug nature to him when it
comes to winning. And now he is right. I mean,
you take your chances that Marcus Smart and White and

(45:37):
Horford are not going to kind of duplicate that performance
that said you have to go easy on just me, like, yeah,
we'll be okay. Because the other thing that you don't
take an account when you dismissed those things, is Jason
Tatum gonna put up another uh dud of a shooting
performance that he put up even though he had thirteen assists,
but three or seventeen is he going to do that? End?

(46:00):
So you just have to be you gotta you gotta
be careful when you just kind of like shrug it
off is not a big deal, because look, it's real.
This is a do or die game. In game two
because twin for one in the next five. Yeah, it's
like to a man. And they had their speaking points.
It was almost like they were getting prepped, going in

(46:21):
witness prepping, you know, ahead of a case, like all right, here,
here's your talking points. You know you're gonna go meet
the media off. You know, we've watched it for years
and all your police serials like just say this, you
can't say anythingmore. It's like, all right, it takes four
not one. Right, everyone said that, from Steve Kerr Steph Curry.
They were very much, very much brand. Yeah, very much

(46:44):
on brand when it came to it. I mean, you know,
do this good team, but hey, we take care of
what we take. We'll be fine. We were, you know,
let the rope go. We dominated for three quarters. Kind
but that was the other thing, right, is all right
we dominated? It's like okay, then fine, explain how it
all came asunder in six minutes. Then to where you guys,

(47:06):
you know, put up sixteen points in the fourth quarter.
A bunch of that was trash after the game was
long decided because you gave it up. Well, how can
we say we dominated when the game was nip and
tuck in the second quarter at halftime? But after at
the half. That's a domination. Like I just point out

(47:27):
the dismissiveness of name checking the three opponents, and I
get it. It's the best of seven. It's a bit
of games been shipped because maybe you're you're thinking, now
the there's a bit of an aggression, right, playing a
little buying games and you played in the NFL at
the highest level. Main part of that is all right,
I got you, now I'm gonna get you know, maybe

(47:47):
you chirp a little bit. What happens guys coming at
you stronger than next time? Right, Maybe a guy who
wasn't the most uh engaged as a blocker, as a
wide receiver, if you got him on the last series
or maybe on the last lay and suddenly he had
to come and he wasn't really running a route, you
might have gotten a little bit of extra effort out
of him, right, And I think that's what Draymond might
be counting on here and and hoping that this goes

(48:09):
into an echo chamber, you know where you know, you
maybe bleed my own blood kind of thing of they
come out a little aggressive and if you do get
the officials, as we talked about an hour one, that
are gonna go at it a little bit. And Draymond
does a good job of selling that. Maybe you can
draw the foul trouble early and they get out of

(48:30):
their game because they want to shut you up. Maybe
I'd like to think you're a professional and you're in
the NBA Finals for a reason that it doesn't. But
we always talk about extra motivations, right, I mean, just
think about Michael Jordan's sitting in that chair. I took
that personally. I mean, of course, and and I understand
that I get that part of it, but man, I

(48:53):
just cause just bothered. But you know what we're talking
about Draymond Green here, So he got what he wanted.
He do you get what you want between his past,
his podcast is outstanding. He does draw a lot of things.
I think one of the things that is refreshing in
terms of listening to Draymond what we like from our athletes.

(49:16):
We want to hear beyond kind of like the cliches,
and so they give us that. But then when they
do it, because we're not used to someone being open
and transparent, you're like, oh my god, you can't say that. No,
but he here's the thing though, It's like I like
opening transparent, I don't. I don't like the clap back. Right,
It's like in our business, like rarely do do I
go out of my way to bring up something I

(49:38):
read in on my Twitter mentions from a specific you know,
other host or something else, right, like, it's what what's
the point? Like here, it's supposed to be original thought
and pushing forward. But like Draymond and and and Kevin
Durant and everybody else too, all right, let's fight with
Skip and and Shannon, and let's go act owen and

(50:00):
let's do all this. Let's go back like all right,
obviously you hear it. But look we all we know
it's a game. And I guess maybe I can engage
and and maybe I could have a bigger house if
if I engaged and started doing flame wars with players.
Just honest, that was that the East flame off? Put

(50:23):
the hand light up? What superhero? Is that? It's a
flame on someone? Are you going to the human torch?
Are you doing a little Fantastic four? Isn't that? Chris
Evans later to become Captain America. Oh, I became Captain
America after being yeah, you can't do that? How can
you become Captain America because the Fantastic Fantastic Four. That
movie wasn't very good, and I think people try to

(50:44):
forget it. Wow, I can't do that. And at the time,
you didn't have the constructed Marvel universe that we've now
had for the last decade. He went from me, Yeah,
I'm about I mean it might comic book movies coming
out here. As we're sitting around at Sunday morning, you're

(51:07):
just looking at me like, really No, I was surprised.
I was like, that's the hell of a transition. That's
like going from Batman to super in a way, someone
might be able to pull that off. I don't know.
They're saying, Henry Cavill's coming back is Superman again. So
that's good because they're doing the reboot and all that stuff.

(51:28):
DC trying to figure out what they're doing. The thing
they lack is a really good villain most of the time,
um speaking of unless you go to the Joker and
the Rogues Gallery. But you can only do that so often.
But look, this is different. I'm taking a different time. Yeah,
go ahead. Have you seen Top Gun? Yeah, so twice
once with Smith we went in that. You did get

(51:51):
the late showing and with my girls on Monday. Okay,
so so what, so what? What did you think? What
do you think about it? After seeing the first? What
do you think about the second? Thirties six years later,
I actually liked the second movie as a movie better.
First One's iconic, a lot of great one liners, soundtracks fantastic,
although I think this one has some more, some more
fun to it than maybe are acknowledging right anytime you

(52:14):
can surprisingly good? I was. I was. I was because
I was trying to figure out how are you gonna
put it together? Thirty six years later, I would say this,
and for those that haven't seen it, well, you probably
don't want to, because everybody seems to have gotten to
a theater since it came out. But the thing for
me is the first one always just resolved too quickly.

(52:36):
Here we are in the air. Done. Yeah, this one,
And I've seen it and it's not original and I
don't remember where, and I'd love to give credit, but
it had the feel of the end of episode four
of Star Wars, right the chase scene and kind of

(52:57):
you know, here, we've got to navigate a tight canyon.
All of that enoughs but the fact that it goes
on and you've got there's tension that builds and works,
like I think, and Miles Teller will now be something
more than he was in evidently foot Loose. I saw
the last two minutes of that last night on cmt
UH the remake of that, which was kind of interesting.

(53:18):
But he'll also be more than just the guy that
was hanging around with Aaron Rodgers during his summer of
finding himself last year. Yeah, so now this catapults him
into a whole other level of movies. Yeah, it's so
you're good with it? No, No, I'm good with it.
I'm trying to figure out, like, Okay, now we can
wake another thirty years before we do another one. They're

(53:40):
already they're already worked franchise the franchise, so we can
get something like Fast and Infuriors. You will have like
nineteen different versions. Well, and then looks so long as
he can still do the special flying and stunts, because
that's his big thing with these and with mission impossible
that physically he can still do a lot of his
own stuff, would you you that guy? My DNA, I'm

(54:04):
probably him celebrating Dad's birthday today. Chicago Police officer for
over thirty years. I think I'm cut from that. Yeah,
I need a body up. I'm not going I'm not
doing anything jumping from all this stuff. The big thing
is if if it's going to add an element of
realism and give me that cashet, because that's what Cruise
gets because of that, Right, he gets the extra bump

(54:25):
because like you really did all your own stunts. Does
the bump come down to your bottom line? The bottom
line is to change the direct deposit no direct, But
that's just it. I don't know. But when it comes
to what you think of Tom Cruise, Okay, right, I
think I think there's tough. There's a little bit of
that of wow, he's he maybe five foot nothing, but

(54:47):
he does his own stunts, own jumps and whatever else. Dude,
I'm tall compared to Tom Cruise and I'm five foot
nothing my own self. Don't like a fireplug, nice fire plug. No,
that's it. I got a strong base. He's Bucky Brooks.
I'm Mike Carmen. Coming up next, we turn our attention
to the NFL Injured versus Hurt. One of the great
discussions that we have every year trying to determine player

(55:11):
availability on the information that provided Bucky, you'll give us
a little insight as an analyst and as a guy
that played in the league and in the locker rooms.
And then we've got an issue turning up in Detroit,
so we'll get into that coming up next year on Fox. Hey,
welcome back in had to get that scream in my
carmon alongside Bucky Brooks. Here it's Fox Sports Sunday, Fox
Sports A Radio and to the first run of O

(55:35):
T A s we'll start getting Demandatory's Kyler Murray showed
up for work, So that was exciting, saying I want
my money and I'm showing up to show you I
want my money. Hey man, Time still has a job,
and Kingsbury got extended, was Calabury not got his cash?
Give my cash? And they all have same representation to

(55:55):
I think, no, they are. And that's the thing that
the whole process kind of bothers me from a guy
that watches as we do. And I do this because
we'll segue into another O t A story here in
a moment. But that was a big deal of Murray
showing up and and I's still just wondering aloud. It's
like if you extend Kingsbury, but you try to put
all your ills on Kyler Murray about second half collapses

(56:18):
and everything. Go back and look at Kingsbury's entire record.
And I've been chirping about this for a while. It's
now become a bigger media line of late to kinda say, hey,
let's look behind the curtain. If you're going to reward
the guy who's leading the charge, how do you not
give Kyler Murray his money? Because what are you replacing

(56:38):
him with? That's that's what we always go back to, Right,
what is your reco McCoy in the fold? We want
two games Coe McCoy. Co McCoy is the guy. He
can replace him. I'm glad he's got a long career
in the NFL. Or to make him more intriguing, we
can wait for Baker to get cut, bring Baker back
playing the same system, bring him bring him back into Kingsbury.

(57:04):
Now that's controversial, I'm just saying it. I mean because
eventually he's gonna hit the streets. Well he asked you, right,
I mean that eventually that's got to happen. Because they're
not finding a suitor previous relationship. You can you can
patch up that rest, that frosty relationship from Texas Tech
bring it back. Yeah, but do you think that works though?
I mean, I don't know if it works though, kind

(57:24):
of like I mean, where where does Baker work? Because
I think he's a better quarterback than the national narrative.
But there's the guy, right, there's the player, and there's
the guy. As to how you're bringing in to lead
a locker room to be the guy because we've certainly
because look, keep the chip on your shoulder. I've heard

(57:45):
and seen on Twitter people saying, oh, you're the number
one pick that's got to go. It's like, no, that's
what made you who you are and hopefully you keep
that now you should probably chirp back at people a
little less, can necessarily talk about it like that number
one But yeah, right, don't don't. It's tough, right because
the reason why it's tough to figure out where it

(58:07):
was the best place is because when you think about
what teams want to do for their quarterback, it's hard
to say that there wasn't a better environment that he
had than what he what he is leaving in Cleveland.
At the time, he had receivers, So what you want
about Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham Jr. He had tight ends.
Just give him a huge deal. They've got a they

(58:30):
had a great offensive line that they plowed money into,
had big offensive line, had two running backs and Kareem
hunted Nick Chup. I don't know if anyone who can
give him an opportunity to have that kind of support
um around him. System was quarterback friendly, really easy. We've
seen that system make average players into All Stars, all

(58:53):
Stars and the m v P s. It's a great system.
I don't know, man, I just don't know. And so
when we look at the musical chairs now and dance
Card is fool right, that's it like the two places
that still stand out, or Seattle in Carolina that people
keep wanting to push on. Now, David Depper, for what
it's worth, just filed for bankruptcy. I don't know if

(59:14):
anybody saw that in the mix. Now it'll just be
a reorganization and re shuffling. But I'm sure the NFL
ain't ain't terribly pleased that that that's in the news. Hey,
I can't finish building the building, so hey we out
that's basically we said. So then Seattle Seattle is interesting
because you have Geno Smith battling Drew Lock. Um, there's

(59:34):
been conversation about and that building. Maybe they felt like
Drew lock would have been the first quarterback if he
was in this draft class, So why did we need
to move on a young quarterback? But then coming off
of the stuff that they just dealt with with Russell Wilson,
maybe feeling like Russell at the end of his tenure
might have become more diva like in those things, do

(59:55):
they want to jump right back into those waters with
the quarterback. It's tough. I mean, look, I don't know.
This Baker thing has been confused because we've never seen
a situation where you have a former number one over
a quarterback who everyone knows is being dangled and put
out there for trade bait. And it's been very quiet. Yeah,
it's just a curiosity how you didn't come some team

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right now. But it goes back to something you told
Jason Smith and I and you and I have traversed
down this road on a Sunday, But it's something you
told Jason and I as we came into the draft,
was you know, it was very telling based on the
veteran movement, what people thought of this draft class. Likewise,
the fact that Baker's still in limbo, and I guess

(01:00:38):
if I put up a giant pie chart, I can
only give so much of a percentage to the Everybody
just wants to see the brown squirm because right now
they they're not squirming. There's nothing that needs to be there.
They're squirming about the other stuff. And we'll get to
Deshaun Watson coming up in about a half hour. But
as far as Baker's contract, there's there's no rush. Obviously

(01:00:59):
you'd like it resolve sooner rather than later, but you know,
the hey, let's let's let the Browns stew here only
so much. But it shows that nobody wants to pick
up the eighteen point eight million, right that that's the
larger thing. Like but the fact that no team has
come to the table with an offer to whatever portion
they would end up paying and the Browns eat some

(01:01:20):
of that cash, that we haven't hit that point in
the off season is is a curiosity to me, I
am surprised. Or if I guess the conversely, if we're
looking at a team I don't know, pick pick any
team that you think is gonna go to your over
under wind totals, that's gonna place near the bottom. Do
you just say, all right, we gotta ride it out

(01:01:40):
and then we are what we are that Baker is
not going to give us but one win, one and
a half wins, whatever, whatever you think that number is.
So you're better off going and getting the rookie quarterback
at a fresh clock than having to deal with Baker
not only personality wise, but also contract wise. It is
so unlikely because honestly, Mike, I've never seen a situation

(01:02:01):
where normally we always talked about quarterbacks getting multiple bites
at the apple to particularly if you're drafted in the
first round. I mean, it's just common place. Like you,
it is uncommon for a quarterback that has taken at
the top of the board to not get a second
bite at the apple fairly immediately. I mean, we see

(01:02:22):
Mr Dubinsky go Chicago Buffalo poem right back. Now he
has to fight for a job in Pittsburgh. But still
he was signed maybe with an opportunity Baker Mayfield. Now
the buzz or lack there of around him kind of imprecedented.
Yea curiosity and going back to Drabinsky just because I
need to do it. Everybody that still stands for Matt

(01:02:44):
Naggy as going to the playoffs twice during those years.
Mitchell Drabinsky was your quarterback. Yet all he gets his
slander and hate. Yeah, yeah, I mean so, you know,
let's let's be fair about that. But yeah, to your
to your point. You know, we talked about the deals
and the draft ex and they're much maligned when it
doesn't go a hundred percent according to plan. And this

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one where he's not at least an asset, it's hard
to find a spot. It's hard to find a spot
for him. It's really hard to find a spot like
the two obvious spot. You take Seattle and Carolina off
the table, where's another spot for him? Everything else is
a waiting game for an injury. And I would say

(01:03:27):
see because look, Andy dun going to New Orleans is
is one thing that would have been a good spot
for him. My thought, look at that receiving corps now
like that that but Sean Payton's not that. Not only that,
but yeah, Jarmes Lang will be like whoa, yeah, yeah,

(01:03:48):
oh wouldn't that be That'd be great theater though, forget
about the end season. You know, hard knocks of these
other teams. Give me the New Orleans Saints. Yeah, like,
but it's really hard to find a spot form. So
now you aating on an injury, and if you signed
him after an injury, you signed him to come in
and maybe starter, Yeah, maybe New England. I can't bring

(01:04:11):
me here, I mean yeah, I mean we've talked about
it on the program. Smith and I uh, he's always
talked about Baker just you know, sucking it up and
taking whatever minimum deal and go hang out with Tom
Brady and just learn learn in Tampa in a stable
environment and all of that to be a good a

(01:04:32):
better teammate, better leader maybe. And then there's enough, you know,
enough voices in the room and veteran receivers and a system.
And obviously Bruce arians is still around. So it's gonna
be you're either in or you're out, which I think
is that is an underrated part. We don't you know,

(01:04:55):
some some don't buy in fully, but the fact that
he is a no nonsense kind of guy. Yeah. Interesting.
It's a great quandary. I mean, it's one of the
great theater pieces. Going into the next few weeks. We've
got more O. T. A s and then training camp
coming up in about six weeks. So um Thompson storylined

(01:05:16):
here it's just still no movement curiosity. Again in a
half hour, we'll get back to the other Cleveland quarterback
UH and more news UH coming out this week. He's
Mucky Brooks out bike Armen. This is Fox Sports Sunday
and Fox Sports Radio. Coming up next, we're gonna talk
about a situation in Detroit and just the adage injured
or hurt? What are you? But first it's Isasa Glow

(01:05:38):
and Crown with what's trending? I'm both right now, but
I'm gonna plate isn't too many doughnuts? You've diagnosed me instantly.
Great job, by the way. And when I say too many,
I mean one. They have that effect on me. Well,
I just I mean you could then run off a
little of it back down the hallway again. That was
my problem on a second one. That was my proba.

(01:06:00):
Pull a hamstring, awaite, I pulled both hamstrings. You saw
how fast I don't usually move that fast. Speaking of
moving fast, a couple of guys on clay right now
with the French Open Men's singles final, Rafael Nadal facing
Casper Rude, or as I call him, Ravishing Casper Rude.

(01:06:21):
See you get the Rick Rude reference in as I'm
wearing my Razor Ramon. Oh see, we all tie it up.
I thought those are Laker shorts. Okay, there they They've
got the logo and everything all right, Okay, Well, and
across the front it says oozing machismo as as as
Razor Ramon does and as you do every every day

(01:06:42):
or Fox Sports Radio. Rafael Nadal took the first set
over Ravishing Casper Rude, six games to three. There in
the second set right now tied at three games apiece,
with Nadal going for his fourteen career French Open championship.
In Game three of the NHL's Western Conference Finals Saturday night,
the Colorado Avalanche and Edmonton Oilers were tied at two

(01:07:03):
in the third period. Here is Connor McGahee on k
K S Bruchhard in a foot race with J T. Kahf.
Comfert wins it comfort shoots short j T Comft eight
seven seven Dults now out of the box into the nets,
and the Avalanche had the lead back with seven eighteen

(01:07:23):
to go in the third period. They would go on
to win it at Edmonton for to two. Colorado leaves
the series three games to none. Baseball Saturday night, Pete
Alonzo of the Mets hit two home runs and their
nine four win over the Dodgers. The Braves scored four
runs on the top of the eleventh inning for a
six two win of Colorado, and the Cardinals scored four
runs on the top of the tenth inning for a
seven four victory of the Cubs at Wrigley in the

(01:07:45):
second game of a doubleheader. Finally, great drama coming up
today in soccer at noon, Eastern Ukraine facing Whales. The
winner advances and qualifies for the World Cup. Ukraine trying
to make the World Cup for the second time. In
street Wales try to make the World Cup for the
first time in sixty four years. Kickoff a little less

(01:08:05):
than an hour and a half from now Bykea Bucky
can't wait at Isaac Loowan corn where you find him
on Twitter. Uh he made post pictures of the donuts
that he's consuming here on a beautiful Sunday morning. I
hope you're good out there wherever you are. Thanks for
making us part of your Sunday morning. Uh. It is
certainly not lost on us. We appreciate the opportunity to entertain, inform,

(01:08:27):
get you to start shaking your fist at your car
radio or to go and be the king or queen
of the water cooler at your office place at Buckey
Brooks on Twitter find me over at Swallew. I want
to bring this up. We've got our guy christ Perfect
who works prior to Detroit doing a lot of analysis
of the squad that is the Detroit Lions, and during

(01:08:48):
draft week he had a huge week going on with
everything UH and their new additions story that came out
just a couple of days ago. UH do Staley running
backs coach assistant head coach within the verbal challenge to
DeAndre Swift quote, injuries happened, But one of the things
Swift and I had a conversation about is you've got
to be able to play through some of these injuries

(01:09:09):
as a running back. We all know there's a difference
between being injured and hurt. As soon as you step
in this building as a running back day one training camp,
You're not gonna feel the same. Now. Swift's miss seven
games UH in his first two seasons. A guy you
know when we bridge into that fantasy world. A guy
very popular as a runner and receiver over a thousand

(01:09:29):
total yards last year, but to that point, not a
guy that every Sunday he's got an injury designation that
you think is necessarily going to step on the field.
I'll start with you, Chris Perfett, when you look at
DeAndre Swift expectations, do they need to go add more
backs to the room? What? What do you think in
year three? I don't think they really need to add
more backs to the room because they've already got pretty three,

(01:09:52):
pretty well established ones. But it's also just not a
great it's it. I mean, last last couple of years,
like they've wanted to be the last two coaching staffs
really have wanted to be just kind of this run
heavy team and they've just not been able to do that.
And I mean they they have the offensive line where
offensive line play isn't a problem. They've got you know,

(01:10:13):
great tackles now with pay Sewell and Taylor Decker and
Frank Ragnow under center. But like they've got a great
offensive line. So even now with the current coaching staff,
like I think a lot as hey has been made
this offseason about the wide receivers that Detroit's added, bea
Jamison Williams in the draft, DJ Shark from free agency,

(01:10:34):
uh almandros st Brown, kind of being the late bloomer
in the season that just you know, the rookie from
last year that's stepped out in kind of a big way.
So but they've always, in spite of all that, they've
wanted this balanced offense. They've always talked about how they
want to establish dominance via the run, but their their
efficiency and running has just never been great. But there's

(01:10:55):
definitely a difference when DeAndre Swift is main is mainlining
the running backs for a day, or when he's taking
a step back and it has to go to like
Jamal Williams are one of the other backs, it it
starts to, it starts to dip off. And you know,
Swift has always been able to thrive because he's both
a running back. I mean he's a running back by

(01:11:17):
rushing attempts and also the option to pass him out
of the backfield. So yeah, I think for Deuce, I mean,
it's only it's not bad. I mean it's not too
bad as far as missing some of the games. As
far the numbers but this is a big year for
him coming up and Detroit's gonna have to figure out
if he's their main back going forward. And Deuced himself
being a former, you know, running back for a very

(01:11:39):
long time, it's it's I think he's definitely speaking to
a wisdom there, like you're going to at that position
play hurt and you just got to be able to
be available on those days, like even if you're heard,
it's it's kind of like, are you hurt or as
he said, are you hurt or are you injured? And
there's the billion dollar question, Bucky Brooks that turned it
to you five years in the lead league. College experience

(01:12:02):
analysts scout all of those trying to ascertain on a
week to week basis, all right, where where are you
at on that scale? And how does that work over
at the locker room? Look, availability is the biggest building.
You have to be available for your team. And what
Deuce is alluding to is the difference between being injured
and hurt. Being hurt is oh man, I feel like

(01:12:24):
at the bumps and bruises like this, and that being
injured is you have a debilitating injury to prevent you
from getting on the field and really being able to
play everyone in this game. By the time you get
into the season, everyone doesn't feel right, particularly running back,
because well you're not even getting a week one if
you're taking any reps in the preseason. It's like a
car crash. And so what Deuce is trying to get

(01:12:45):
him to understand is like, this is a mentality. You
have to be able to play through some of that stuff.
And if you're the bill cowed, the workhorse, and even
though most of us are operating under the running back
by community, running back by community approach, you want your
dude to be a dude to be of available. Like
that's the thing that separates the great Ones when you
think about King Henry. Not only is it the imposing

(01:13:06):
size and the production and those things. Is like, for
the most part, the guy lines up each and every week,
despite everyone pounding on him and him issuing out his
fair share of punishment, he's available in the backfield. You know,
Jonathan Taylor, you look at the workhorse to mentality to
grind it out. For DeAndre Swift to be the guy
that they want him to be and the guy they

(01:13:27):
expected him to be, he has to be in the lineup,
and so look, I think they're just trying to set
the table and set expectation because if he is not available,
then someone else is gonna jump in and be the
guy and they'll move on. And my hope is that
it all collapses and God when Igwa Weekly Performer Northwestern
Wildcat can jump the whole line. He's at on Twitter
at Chris Perfect, go read up on what he's got

(01:13:49):
cooking there at Bucky Brooks, of course, and find me
at Swollen Dome, Fox Sports Sunday here Fox Sports Radio,
coming up competition in a new sport. Well it's an
old sport, but new competition has people a little bit
nervous and shaking their fists, a lot of idle threats,
I think on the way. We'll get into that next
year on Fox Welcome back in Fox Sports Radios. Fox

(01:14:13):
Sports Sunday, Mike Harmon alongside Bucky Brooks. Thanks for hanging
out with us here on a Sunday morning. Thanks to
the crew we got Chris and Brandon and Isaac making
it sound so pretty as the sun starts to come
up here in Los Angeles. All sorts of fun and excitement,
no question about it. Uh So I'm curious do you're

(01:14:33):
thinking about this, Bucky, Because normally competition is a great thing.
Now you have to react and respond, right, because when
you're complacent in a marketplace, you get lazy, the product suffers,
and generally we don't get the innovations and push that
one would expect. Right, So when a company gets too large,
that's when people get nervous. Think about tech companies, think

(01:14:54):
about telecom companies all the way through. Right. That's why
there's rules for what you can own in the broad
casting world, all of those kind of things. Well, in golf,
now you have the Saudi backed Golf League and people
are getting the well, for lack of a better term,
the Royal treatment. There's a Yahoo article that actually talks
about it as the Tiger Woods treatment, as in Everybody's special,

(01:15:17):
everybody's the number one guy. And from some reports, Dustin
Johnson was repaying was paid over a hundred million dollars
for his participation these events. Right, and so they're guaranteeing
pay days, which is a whole other world. Right. Normally,
you make the cut and now we between your sponsorships

(01:15:38):
and whatever. You you hope to be in the black
when you're you're finishing a tournament. Everybody gets paid out,
travel expenses whatever else, boom done, massage therapists and you know,
trainers and everybody else. And I say that with no
agenda there we'll talk about Deshaun Watson. On the other side,

(01:15:58):
I'm talking about legitimate all of the things. Your agents,
your nutritionists, your your everything. You're trying to make sure
you're making enough money above the cut to get there.
In this case, now we're talking about huge signing bonuses.
Basically like we're going into the n I L world
of appearance fees and things in that nature, whereas traditionally

(01:16:20):
in the p g A it's like, well that's not
how it works. They might have have to suddenly rethink
their entire business model because you know, we can talk
about politics, we can talk about global economic standings. You know.
Obviously there's been some words and and some fire storms
around different players on the tour associated and some threats

(01:16:44):
from the p g A related to guys going and playing. Obviously,
Phil Mickelson is at the forefront of a lot of this. Norman,
But for the p g A, maybe having to shake
things up is not a terrible thing, A terrible thing.
I know this because I've heard a lot of people
kind of weigh in, Oh, this first time you and

(01:17:04):
I have had a chance to talk the money that
they're waving, like for Dustin Johnson. So Dustin Johnson may
maybe over almost eighty million dollars on PGA tour and
they're offering him a hundred and fifty million dollars. I've
seen the estimates all over, but either way, it's more
than he's made in his career and fifty million dollars.
And the big boys, the big tournaments that we talked about,

(01:17:28):
the majors that we celebrate, are not really a part
of the PGA tour, So he's still in theory could
play in those as well. Look, man, depending on putting
your politics aside, like business being business, h fifty million said,
theyllion plus I get to play the major's smaller schedule,

(01:17:52):
a less competitive maybe tour. You can win a little
bit peace fees and all of that stuff. That's hard.
Like like I've said long ago, I've got a number.
I get to that number, I'm gone, Okay. Legitimately, like
you could do this, take the pr hit do it

(01:18:14):
for however many tournaments because some reports are this hundred
to a hundred fifty million dollars or Dustin Johnson is
literally just show up just for the inaugural thing in
this league, not even Hey, you're here and committed to
this long slate. That's how much money is at stake here.
The purse being uh, the grand prize is like million

(01:18:34):
dollars or something like that. So I made it sound
like a raffle, but you know, the the prize for winning,
I guess the purse as it were. But think about
that is if you can make that in one one
tournament or even for a year, take the pr flak,
and then you can just say I'm done. Thirty seven

(01:18:55):
years old. Thirty seven years old? How long do you
really want to play like the grind? No, that's just it, right.
Do you want to do Champions League? Do you want
to do all that? Maybe? Maybe not? Maybe I just
kind of play a little bit and have fun. Eventually
get into the Senior Tour, kind of whack it around
a little bit. Don't play in the events where I've
got exemptions that they'll let me, because that's the thing.

(01:19:15):
PGA doesn't want to lose the stars. So enough guys
go and say hey, I'm cashing out like the USFL
way back in the day. Changes changes the thing, and
it only takes I am full of the the heavy hitters.
You start losing three or four of the top ten,
started losing six, seven, eight of the top twenty. It
changes the way the tour looks, It changes the leaderboard. Yeah,

(01:19:38):
it becomes a problem. So yeah, their their eyes definitely
on it, and you look nervous. You don't want to
lose too many people put that money. Well, but it
reminds me a lot. It's it works in parallel with
the n C double a right, where you're looking at
your control over a sport, over the way it's always
been run, is suddenly getting torn asunder. We'll see where

(01:19:59):
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I'm good, I am good. We're hitting into our three
lust to discuss sports weekend. Yes, much going on, so
much going on. We got Roland Garrow says you heard
in eyes of Glowing Crowns update. We got action on

(01:21:06):
the pitch, uh, the World Cup qualifier a little bit
later on. We've got hell in a cell for your
sports entertainment needs. Stanley Cup playoffs and me A Finals
game two. Yeah. And then obviously a million football stories
coming out of O. T A s thought pieces. And

(01:21:29):
then obviously one story that continues to rule the the
football watching world based on all of the timing, the dollars,
everything that's come together related to Shawn Watson's deal to
head to the Cleveland Browns uh, latest reports that there
may be another couple of complaints brought forward allegations. Now

(01:21:55):
that gets us to trials and none of it's gonna
happen until after this season, and then it becomes a
question of, well, how much further does it go? Right,
there was a story saying, well, he's in clearing, but
he wanted to go to Miami. Well, Stephen Ross for
all of his legal wranglings that he's got regarding tanking

(01:22:15):
and those allegations among other things that you've got him
saying flat out, It's like, yeah, it would have been
great if he'd taken care of all of these issues,
then sure we could look at him and that And
that's one thing I always caution and we have to
talk about, is there there is a separation between Deshaun
Watson the player and what is hanging over Deshaun Watson

(01:22:39):
of what he may or may not have done. And
when you've got this many plaintiffs, I find it hard,
and I think I'm a reasonable man. I find it
hard to believe there's not a problem here somewhere, right,
that this many people come forward with complaints. Because we've
talked about at it before the number of actual other

(01:23:02):
masseuses therapists that have been found that he's it doubles,
it's double that number, if not more so. There there's
a whole other issue their psychology, and we've talked about
it a little bit from a player and how you
go about your business in the off season, what goes
through the team, etcetera. But the fact that this continues

(01:23:23):
to swell and you have the HBO special that came
out Bucky, all of these things for for Cleveland. I
know people say, well, how did you give them money?
It's like, again, it's the separation between the player who
went on the field. You'll find very few people I
think would be hard pressed to say he's not a
top five, top seven guy. But now you've got to

(01:23:46):
just determine, going back to our old adage of availability
being the most key thing, what does Roger Goodell do? Right?
Some call for him immediately, you know you've got to
do it now you've already waited too long. But you
still have all of these because because we've seen it before,
it's like he suspended Ray Rice and then video got

(01:24:08):
out and then it's oh, what do we do now? Yeah, Look,
it's a it's a tricky situation if you're a commissioner, right,
because if you do it soon, um, you do it early,
and then you say, okay, he suspended for this, and
then more stuff trickles out where it becomes more egregious

(01:24:29):
or whatever. Then you thought, then it's one thing. If
you do it and you wait and what you're trying
to do is trying to wait for everything to be
resolved before you take an issue, then it's it's still hovering, right,
because at the end of this is you have the
back and forth between both sides, like the attorneys and

(01:24:50):
all this, like where it's playing out in the media
where you're getting leaks on certain things or whatever, because like,
as they're doing their job, they're trying to court um
public opinion, right, they're trying to make sure they get
certain things out there so that people coming to these cases,
who may be the jurors the determining what happens, they

(01:25:12):
hear things that maybe they come in with a little
prejudice in terms of thinking what they have. But if
you're a commissioner, it's not a great look. It's certainly
not a great look for one of your franchises that
that's the representative, and he's tied to all of these things,
like surely they would like it all to go away
and be able to be done with it, make the

(01:25:33):
decision and go But so many layers too, how you
make this And something we had theorized a while ago
given a little more color over the last couple of
days Pro Football Talk amongst others, that reportedly a settlement
of one thousand dollars was offered to each of the
plaintiffs as well as an n d A and that again,

(01:25:57):
as we theorize and aggressive and I think they use
the words aggressive n d A. But but but to
the point of as we theorize, then it comes down
to can you get now and rising to agree to
the same terms because their experiences, their needs there where
they're at in the process of handling their own individual

(01:26:22):
situation as related to Deshaun Watson and the aftermath, again
not looking at guilt innocence, just reading it for what
it is. Standing here is that you weren't going to
get everybody to take a blanket. Oh yeah, we all
get this. No, that's just not the way it works. Yeah,
And what was you know, was what's interesting about it

(01:26:44):
is we saw that come out about h the aggressive
d n A, the aggressive in d A from Deshaun
Watson's side, when early in the process it was the
Shaun Watson's camp didn't want any in the a's They
wanted to be able to freely discuss what went on.
And then it came out that with the Miami Dolphins,

(01:27:05):
the Dolphins wanted this buttoned up and they didn't want
um anything discussed about it, which any potential, right, because
it doesn't mean that like with the NBA, right, it
doesn't mean that everybody's running to a microphone, running to
be on the line or anything else. But you want
to gorugle out the possibility that it does. Yeah, you want,
you wanna, you wanna you want to tighten it up,

(01:27:26):
you want to terms of the settlement, all that, like
not Disglosi boom. You just wanted to go away basically,
And so so it was the flip. And so now, man,
who knows, but I know this, Uh, they're talking about
we're talking about two years harmon before they can go
through all of these different trials. And that's if it

(01:27:47):
goes and as scheduled, there are no delays, No man,
at some point, at some point you want it done.
But then like if you commission, if you okay, so
let's just say hypothe big him six games, all right,
let's will use Zekiel Elias stuff. Okay, So they do
to six games this year. It doesn't mean that it's
not gonna be talked about the next two years. It's

(01:28:10):
still is discussed. It still talked about. I've always said
that the greatest thing Roger Goodell ever did was to
try to say, hey, we need to hold people accountable
in this league, right, I've always I've always said that
from day one, and people have really railed on him,
like to just say, you're gonna have no policy. We
we saw it in the Tagliaboo era. As long as

(01:28:30):
you weren't locked up or physically detained somewhere, you can
get out of field. And I think there's there's the right,
the privilege and the what you need to do for
the business. Right for all of us to show up
at our respective work sites. Are you out there whatever
you do here? Uh, as a member of our our
extended Fox Sports Radio family, you have a code and

(01:28:53):
an accountability to your coworkers, to your bosses, to the
company you work for. You may not like most of
the policies, any of the policies, but you're showing up
for the paycheck and you adhere to most, if not
all of them. Roger Goodell, by putting in and working
to establish the player conduct policy, it's the greatest thing.
The worst thing is the fact that no two cases

(01:29:16):
are the same. So while you've tried to make strides,
you've also availed yourself too well, what's enough? And it's
always what's enough? And in this case, right you you
mentioned Ezekiel Elliott. We can go back to Ben Roethlisberger.
Tom Brady got four games for deflating quote unquote football's
which every quarterback going back to Sid Luckman has told

(01:29:38):
you that they had someone screwing with the footballs. So
that that will never make any sense to me, and
you'll never change my mind. But the point is four
games there here we're talking about two, three, four separate
incidents of Zeke's one Roethlisberger too separate. Yeah, the the

(01:30:02):
thing is, and like what's tricky about it, right is because,
like to be fair, if we're using it like as
the legal system or whatever, allegations are not convictions. They're
allegations and there's a reason why we have a course system.
So what you want to do is there is a
part that you want to like, let it play out

(01:30:23):
in court, let it be adjudicated, and then figure out, okay,
what a jury of his peers find to be true
or not true or whatever. The other issue that you
have when you come down, if you come down like
on Deshaun Watson now, is there's another faction of cases
and things that have taken place that you haven't done

(01:30:46):
because you have ownership who's been involved in these tryst
in things. Robert Kraft in a situation used the euphemism
which we're not gonna do here on a Sunday more,
but we all know what is yeah, but yeah, the
way it was laid out, I mean it's illegal. Sorry,
there's money exchanged, right and so and so you have

(01:31:10):
various owners who have been involved in things that are
maybe cd away from the unsavory would be yeah, yeah,
so so so you have all of this stuff. So
then you have this fear that if you go crazy
hard on this one, then public outcrest and be like,
well wait a minute, you went hard here, you have
to go a hoard elsewhere. And then in the Boys Club.

(01:31:33):
The Boys Club going to be okay with because that's
the other party, right, is that? What do we have
five five six owners that have either had litigation or
have been involved in something right, because we're talking about
Ross and and and Tanking, we're talking about Robert Kraft.
You got Jimmy Haslum has had his issues with you,

(01:31:54):
Daniel Snyder. Snyder just going, yeah, you've had some issues. Yeah,
it's so ho. So you're the commission You're trying to
figure out, like, man, how do I handle this? Like
what is the path of least resistance when it comes
to it? And so right now they said, like, look,
we'll just deal with the headlines because until we have

(01:32:16):
to and at some point you have to figure out
like when is that coming? And so he's taught me
an oppressor a week or a couple of weeks ago.
He said, look, they're getting close to wrapping up everything.
Whatever I would think before we get to training camp,
we'll have an idea what is going to be. But look, man,
I don't foresee a situation where you can take him
off the field for entire year. Okay, So say you

(01:32:37):
wipe them away for the year, it comes back that
these things are still gonna go on, like what like
what what is the end? Like what what? What is it?
You know? And then I know there's been trying to
make this loose thing to Trevor Bauer or whatever, but
baseball and football are completely different. Like you can't necessarily
do the crossover deal right, And it comes back to
criminal versus civil versus the c b a s and

(01:33:01):
the policies and procedures that have put in Are we
reading the letter of the law, spirit of the law,
extenuating circumstances, all of those things right, Because that's where
Roger Adell stepped in, you know. And again greatest and
worst of his tenure, I think is that you know,
at first it was tied to criminal proceeds, and then

(01:33:22):
it kind of got into a civil and and and
and now you're trying to ride that fence and figure
out where you should be coming down. And obviously it's
not him. He's got people there because because because it
opens up potentially, it opens up another can of worms
for the next people to come through. You know what
I'm saying. The next the next cases, the next allegations

(01:33:47):
and incidents involving players or NFL league personnel, like how
do you how do you handle all of that? And
so it's because a tricky situation. But I would say
that in a few weeks it has to come to
a resolution because you can't have you can have two
years in a row, you can't go into three years
in a row of just the cloud. Well sure, I

(01:34:08):
mean year one. Look, if I were the Texans, I
would have played him. And I mean that's another thing. No, no,
but but well because it would have may have forced
the league even if they didn't want to, they may
have had to make a decision, make a decision. What
are you doing? You put them on the commissioners example,

(01:34:28):
did he just go into the holding cell for a while?
How long? How long did you do it? But now,
because people will say like, well, he didn't play, but
that was on his own volition, Like one, I don't
understand why the Texans would continue to pay him and
not playing. Absolutely, hey man, you're you're gonna play for
us or whatever, But this is what it is. And
so when they go soft on that role, like it's

(01:34:49):
just just kick the can down. But at some point
the bill comes to well and somebody, yes, at some
point somebody's got to take charge and just saying this
is how we're handling this situation. And I think if
you're Cleveland, you're rather to have and sooner rather than later.
Obviously that's why they structured the deal. However, they structured
like sooner rather than later, Like Okay, look, we'll take
our punishment right now, because in their mind, the deal

(01:35:10):
that they signed with him long term play. It's a
long play, absolutely, yeah. And look, obviously if this extends
in the next season, guess what next year's deal gets
renegotiated and restructured and he's on the books for a
million dollar salary again. So folks that want that pound
to flesh because that's big, because that because that's the

(01:35:30):
big thing everyone that wants it. When herb like, look,
it's not going to happen in that regard two under
thirty million dollar contract. You're not, like, nobody wants to
give away that kind of money. But let's call it
what it is. I mean, that's that's Andy Dufrain shaking
out some pebbles on the yard and like everyone talking

(01:35:51):
about like the money. I guess what's about to happen
when the new TV deals and all that peanuts, right,
it doesn't matter with all the places that have come
in on their piece of the pie. Yeah. There, there's
so much more to come. We'll keep an eye on this,
obviously awaiting the details of the next filing. Uh that

(01:36:13):
Florio and Pro Football Talk, amongst others. I have put
out there that we're expecting that for tomorrow. So he's
Bucky Brooks on My Carmen. I love having the deeper
conversations on these because hot take nonsense only gets you
so far. Um. Maybe maybe it would give me the
extra zero on the back end of my paycheck if
I just started calling folks out and ranting like a lunatic.
But I've been told I'm doing okay, uh and then

(01:36:35):
and that they don't need another one of those right now.
Coming up next, we'll stay in the National Football League.
It takes a goat to no one tell about that
next year. On Fox Sports Sunday, Trading Card Conversations, law Suits,
we got into the legal frame of mind talking a
little bit about the Deshaun Watson situation. Ceedee Lamb has

(01:36:57):
evidently returned all his redemptions, will be fulfilled. All the
autographs that were outstanding. Um, short name, shorter signature, you know,
because you don't get the check until you turn those
cards back in. In a lot of cases, oh you
check into after depends on who you are. Seedee Lamb.

(01:37:19):
I don't think would have had enough juice in the product,
right the quarterbacks might have gotten a little bit of
an advance, maybe got a little taste, but until that
box of cards gets back into the offices, I got
to imagine most of your money is just kind of
sitting in an account waiting, waiting on you. So like
go whenever I see like the sorest thing in the world.

(01:37:40):
I was telling you a little bit. My carman, Bucky Brooks,
Fox Sports Sunday here, Fox Sports Radio, Me and my
football card nerd um one are the great products of
the year. Just released a product called Prism. So excited
to see people break boxes of it and see what
the product entails. Right, they got some cool think they've
got a manga manga I'm I'm not sure to pronunciation,

(01:38:01):
but you know the animation uh cards where they have
got one where it's Brady with all the rings that
looks like East Thanos out of out of the Marvel Universe.
All those things it's kind of cool. And the price
of this is is pretty hefty. But the worst thing
in the world you see is all right, let's open packs.
You're paying thirteen dollars of box twelve packs, right, this

(01:38:22):
is not the mom and pop five and dime store
stuff anymore. And you're pulling cards. And I love the
careers of Mark Brunel. I love the careers Fred Taylor
should be a Hall of Famer. And I don't mean
to pick on the Jaguars, but if I'm opening a
box in two and that's one of the cards I'm
pulling in a pack, I'm sorry. You've expanded your legends

(01:38:45):
list a little too far. You're not really happy about
that to be I'm just talking about the bass card
at this point. Like you want to include him in
some insert sets and autographs right that numbered. But in
terms of a bass card Fred Taylor, go back and
find his rookie stuff, second year stuff. You can go

(01:39:06):
buy that in bulk all day long for a nickel
or a dime. Don't include him. But what I did
see quite frequently where a number of the rookies were
their autographs were only available as redemptions. I like, take
the time to sign the cards please. People are paying
a lot of money for said product, and then it
becomes the all right, when do you get around to it?

(01:39:27):
If you get around to it's like, oh wait, it's
now been several months since you redeemed it. Here, we're
gonna send you something else of quote comparable value, and
then you might get that Fred Taylor autograph again. I
like Fred Taylor, but I'd rather have a Jamar Chase
in hand right now, or or one of these emerging stars.
Especially when you're talking about it from a value perspective,

(01:39:49):
there's the two cents. There's a little pull back of
the curtain of the things we talk about. Uh. In
the in the process, I gotta bring in some cards
for us to open. On a Sunday, We'll do a video,
have a little bit fun, not not for bucks a box.
We'll go a little cheaper I had. I had to
go take my car in for servicing. Uh, it's it's
gonna be a while before I opened another pack of cards.

(01:40:11):
Let's just tell you nothing. Nothing right now, it's an
empty box and my wallet. Because I actually weighed myself yesterday,
I was the lightest I've been in a while. Bucky,
but I did that after I'd um, I'd gone yet
It's it's it's more setting up the punchline. I'd weighed
myself after I've done the walk to and from the

(01:40:33):
to the dealer to go get my car, and then
after I paid the bill. So I'm guessing it was
just my wallet was a little bit lighter in the process.
There we go. I'm here all week, everybody at Swollen Dome.
If you want to mock me for the joke, you
want to talk trading cards, you got something you want
to trade, uh and and work out deals with that's
I'll find too. Add Bucky Brooks on Twitter is where

(01:40:55):
you find him now. Tom Brady a couple of stories
this week, um that I think are kind of fun
when you you look at his return to the NFL,
saying it was hastened by the start of free agency.
And we get to circle Steven Ross back into this
right because the rumors of well Miami and it seemed
like Miami was just going well, fishing for big names

(01:41:16):
and and look we talked to in our one who
I think they've got a guy that can play. But
it's like anything, you may have a guy, but if
there's a better guy, a bigger fish out there. And
I'm not suggesting you do this in your your personal
dating lives or any of those others, but the the
idea of being that there's the there are quarterbacks, and

(01:41:37):
then there's next level quarterbacks. Miami looking at Deshaun Watson
but wanted everything buttoned up allegedly with Tom Brady if
he could wrangle himself away from Tampa. So that story hovers.
But I do buy the free agency side of things
when it comes to an urgency to get him back
in the fold, because obviously for Tampa it does a

(01:41:58):
lot of their decision. May King, Yeah, in terms of
who stays, who goes? And quarterbacks, right, Kyle Trask be
a guy who are you gonna go find? Right? Oh yeah,
remember they were they're hyping up Blae Gabber Blain Gabber
who was going Remember talked about Gabber Bruce at the
time and talked about sorry, yeah, Bruce isn't in charge

(01:42:19):
there anymore. Yeah, but at the time, you know he
was talking about heaven, Well, it's the most popular guy
in the room until he isn't, until you have to
depend on it. There you go so Blaine Gabber, but
the idea that perhaps they'd have to go into the marketplace,
go find a veteran, go do something in the draft
if they weren't satisfied with Gabbert and Trask. And you
had a number of big time players both on offense

(01:42:41):
and defense that we're looking at potentially signing elsewhere. It's
still Gronkowski's out there deciding if he's gonna come back.
They just added a Keem Hicks former Bear to the
defensive front who, when right, is a disruptor. And yeah,
so we we talked about run to fence and and
interior play. So for Tom Brady, I certainly buy that

(01:43:06):
the free agency beginning as part of the deal that
after forty days, I'm also fairly certain he was itching
because for twenty two years it had always been the
same clock, it had always been the same run. And
now he had fun at the match and and poking
fun at Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes and whatever else,
And and we get to see more of the Tom

(01:43:27):
Brady personality which I think we all knew was there.
I think everybody if you actually paid attention to his
press availabilities and his interviews and everything through the years.
You knew it was there. He just only gave you
a little snippets of it. But I think he was
ready just to get back to work, no disrespect to
his family, his home life and whatever else. Like the

(01:43:49):
I mean you could speak to it better than I
the rhythms of what a year looks like. And to
actually take some time off as he did his forty
days sojourn that it was looking around going what else
do I do? Yeah? And and look, it had to
be challenging for him to kind of figure out how
to do it. What you talk about, the rhythm and
the canus of the daily existence? What is important to him?

(01:44:11):
What did he want to do if he came back
at the right time and I did it. I just
think he's so cool. I just think he's so cool.
I after watching him in the match to put himself
out there because he's not a great golfer, I think
I'll take my chances with him, but he's not. I mean,
look nice, and I should do that again once my
hand heals and I can hold a club. Oh, we

(01:44:32):
can go back. I don't know, it's been a long time. Look,
I think that's a bigger conversation. I think that goes
corporate thing. I just I think we need to corporate
outing somewhere somewhere nice that overlooks the ocean and all
that other stuff. We can whack it. I felt really
important that day. I just have to say, how about that?
And driving the carts around, Yeah I didn't crash. That

(01:44:55):
was good. And use my driver in the middle of
a in the middle of a fair way like uh
Ben Ben Mallory, we celebrate our buddy Ben Mallory. He
basically said, I'm doing this my way. Beat it, but
I thought it was kind of girl. He did do
it his way. Yeah, Well, you know, sometimes you you
gotta be yourself. That's what we are here Fox Sports Radio.

(01:45:16):
A lot of independent uh loan isolated voices screaming into
the the echoes. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Mike Carmen coming
up next, the other side of the town Brady story.
This one where we talk goat on goat. But first
it's easing lowand crowd and he's got what's trending, Mike
and Bucky. Let's go right to the men's singles final
at the French Open, and Rafael Nadal with championship point

(01:45:38):
against Caspar Rude. Here is G. G. Salmon on radio,
roll on Garrows Rude is ready championship point number two
for rough n adult route serves out why the foehand
spins back middle of the court, inside out goes root,
fuehand cross court from Nadal woods a long way back,
goes inside and Nadal goes backhand cross court the fuehand
cross court from it, He's out of court. The back
hand down the live time from six three six three

(01:46:12):
six love Nadal now one hundred and twelve and three
all time at the French Open. Getting underway literally one
minute from now, the Yankees hosting the Detroit Tigers. Soccer
coming up at the top of the hour of birth
in the World Cup will be on the line as
Ukraine takes on Whales. Ukraine trying to make the World
Cup for the second time in history, the first time

(01:46:33):
back in two thousand and six, Whales seeking its first
World Cup appearance in sixty four years. At three Eastern,
it will be Game three of the NHL's Eastern Conference Finals,
the Tampa Bay Lightning hosting the New York Rangers, with
the Rangers leading the series two games to none. At
eight p m Eastern. It's Game two of the NBA Finals,
the Boston Celtics playing at Golden State, Boston victorious in

(01:46:57):
game one. Mike and Bucky thanks so much. Hello at
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(01:47:19):
Pacific time here on Fox Sports Radio, and then I'm
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Cup playoff games. Uh and anything else that tries to
sneak in the news wire Uh in the evening time,
and there's plenty, don't get don't don't mistake it. But

(01:47:41):
talking about Tom Brady and the match, and one of
the things they had the guys do in their little
round table was to name the defensive back that you
hated playing the most. And I go to this in
in your wheelhouse, certainly here Bucky um Brady the no
surprise and I think he'd said this before. But Ed Reid,
Aaron Rodgers said, Charles Woodson, Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Ramsey, and

(01:48:06):
Josh Allen said trad Avious White a man. Oh no way,
So Josh Allen camp, he named his own guy. Now,
to be fair, Aaron Rodger's name his own guy in
Charles Woodson. Yeah, but Charles at least played some played
somewhere else where. We can we can have like, well
maybe they played against each other whatever. But White a

(01:48:28):
practice battle one now, But that's the question, right for pratty,
we're talking about practice. Uh is the idea that you
know iron Sharpen's iron, and that maybe you went back
into the locker room after a practice feeling a little
less of yourself after getting school by one of those
guys on a drill. Maybe I don't know, I'm reaching here,

(01:48:51):
I guess, but still it seems a little, It seems
a little that he could have given me a little
more than just that. Yeah, he only had I Aaron
Rodgers only had one game against Charles Woodson in his career. Now,
you want to talk about a guy he he scared
the hell out of my my partner and during the weekdays,
Jason Smith. A few years ago, we were up in

(01:49:13):
San Francisco for Super Bowl festivities and we're at Glazer
Palooza and Jay's introducing us to a bunch of folks
and we're going around and and and meeting folks, and
he introduces us to Charles Woodson. He's got his you know, like,
no nobody dresses better Charles. Yeah, he had his assout
on and he had a He must have brought it himself,

(01:49:36):
because I didn't see anybody else with one of these glasses.
But you know in the movies and TV when you
get that big wine glass that's just kind of hanging
in your hand. And he put his hand out to
shake Jason's hand as he was introduced. He goes, I
know you, and it was the most uncomforta because he
didn't let go of his hand. He just kept saying
I know you, And it was the most uncomfortable fifteen

(01:49:57):
to twenty seconds. I didn't know if that wine glass
was about to get massed him and said, I'm like,
after you know, he goes on, I look at Smith,
I go, hell, did you say about him? On the radio,
Did you do something? What did I miss it? Because
I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I would have
probably had some questions when he was converting from corner
to safety and stuff, but I don't think it would
have been that best. I don't I don't know that

(01:50:19):
I've ever seen a look of terror, like what did
I just do? And like he was on an enemies list.
Emmy's an enemies list for Charles Woodson. But I just
find it it like Ed Reid obviously is a guy
that's historic and and we we talked about in such grand,
grand terms, right, and a guy that just went and

(01:50:41):
did his job right. So those are the guys like
Hall of famers, Like you could play me five Ed
read sound like five sound by T right now and
tell me Ed reads one of them, and I just
have to shrug. Right, it's like Marvin Harrison, and Marvin's
got his own stuff. We're not even getting down that road,
but just the idea of like you've got guys that
are superstars that just lunch pale business best in the

(01:51:03):
game that you just you didn't hear from and you
know for you, you know, as you're in the league
and around the League. I mean, I think that's a
pretty good who's who of generations. But is there there's
someone that you look at your game. I was trying
to teach my daughter about Dion Sanders. So it's funny
because that's that's actually who are we bring up? It
was two It would be too is Dean Sanders on

(01:51:26):
defense watching him do his deal because he was head
and showed us above everybody else. And I remember distinctly
in a game, uh, the Cowboys finally come to Green
Bay as a member of the package. We couldnt they
were our fourier. We cannot knock off the Cowboys. The
Cowboys in the mid nineties were the dominant team. They're
kind of going on their run, and you know, we

(01:51:47):
just could knock him all. So finally we're able to
get them in a game up in Lambeau. So it
might have been the nineties seven season, I mean nine,
I think it was ninety seven season n seven. Anyway,
first play the game, breath far throws and out to
Dean Sanders side and Dione Deane closes on it, misses it,

(01:52:11):
but he looks at Brett and I want to sideline
like toes all the wayto something he's like, and he
puts his two fingers up that close. Three or four
plays later, Bret goes back to that pick six and
he takes it in and I'm on the packers, but
I remember being excited, being like, holy smokes, because he

(01:52:35):
picks it off high steps, shakes, goes in. Does it
look just everything at the just and You're just like, wow,
how good he was. So that's the one moment. The
other moment is watching Jerry Rice just do his deal right,
because you see the legendary thing him running the hills,

(01:52:57):
how impeccably dressed he is, and all the other stuff.
And then to watch him and to play against me,
You're just like this, how great those great players are
and how much different they are than yourself those but
trying to figure out best practices right and where you
can find an age what is he? Because I got
to imagine you ran a lot of Dion tape as

(01:53:20):
a player, just trying to figure out just watching from it,
just watching, just seeing like the excellence or whatever. And
it's no different than today's game, Like, look, this is
the weekend where we had d von Miller pass for
a summon and all the guys that are did Cam
Jordan's everybody showed up. It's like that tight end university,
Like everybody showed up even if you're at the top

(01:53:41):
of the game. I mean we're talking the Apex guys
were all still there to compare notes and talks in
the share Like. I think that's the cool part of it. Now,
It's like there's nothing cooler. Eventually, I want to get
him in here and just have them sit for four hours.
Cam Jorgan is one of my favorite guys. The Yeah,
he's another guy. He's, you know, the football version on

(01:54:04):
the on the Draymond scale of yeah, just get it started.
I mean, look at Greg Olsen one day out of
the NFL Year two boom number one team. How about that? Yeah, geez,
how about that? Hey, Fox, you got you got room
on the back end. We're ready. He's Bucky Broox un
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(01:54:25):
A a bit of an uneasy moment in in college baseball,
as an announcer kind of speculates and does a huge
disservice what should be the punishment and what does it
mean long term? As we we broadcast and sometimes opening
mouth and saying things comes back to bite you. We'll
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(01:55:07):
a little extra flavor with some of the audio cuts
that he finds along the way. Interesting note from broadcast
perspective because you had an issue with the Tennessee baseball
catcher Evan Russell, who was available for his team's matchup
against Campbell on Saturday, but in the broadcast on Friday,

(01:55:31):
the broadcast crew exciting reports and speculations were that even
Russell had been suspended for p E d s and
would miss the rest of the season, and that the
team was then going to be tested. Was the speculation
based on this report, to which it later came out

(01:55:54):
he was sick, missed the game, it was feeling better,
was able to read joined the squad. Team issued the
statement Evan Russell's absence last night had nothing to do
with any violation of Team n C, double A or
SEC rules. We've been in contact with ESPN. They're aware
of the situation regarding last night's comments made on the broadcast.

(01:56:14):
They're handling the situation. We're expecting a public apology from
them later today. Family reached out Family Talking Team talking ESPN.
I mean reckless speculation about a rumor, like you know,
the old check your sources. Make sure you've got to

(01:56:36):
not too not three And that's for print. Extemporaneously speaking
about such three. No, that's it, keep going lebron uh
not sick. Now, you might need that many but extemporaneously
speaking and theorizing about such things, it's just asinine. I mean,
that's that's I don't call for people's job very often.
But now this guy now cleans up in theory pretty easily.

(01:57:02):
But sometimes you can't un ring that bell, right. It's
why the retractions are always in the middle by furniture
ads as opposed to still on the back page after
something is alleged in any of these cases. And so
for this one, uh, just an egregious error. My goodness.
Look man, it's tough. It's a tough um deal. Then

(01:57:24):
we all want to be on the front end of it.
We all want to make sure that we have opinions
because in this base, you need to have an opinion.
That's why people tune in. But man, talk about doting
eyes and crossing tease and making sure everything is on point.
You just want to make sure everything is on point
before you go to it. But I mean this is
not only the I mean, did he go just off
of something he'd heard right the announcing team didn't come

(01:57:48):
from a producer, Hey we're hearing this wasn't part of
a production meeting. As the speculation of why there, I mean,
there's still some more details that need to come out.
But we talked about media contract and live sports being
you know, the last bastion of real event watching in
a lot of cases for people say nothing of you know,

(01:58:09):
some of these limited series and whatever that are released
on a on a schedule. I get that, but sports
is that that outlier the unicorn still and why so
many people are coming to the table with tens of millions,
hundreds of millions of dollars for broadcast rights. It seems
like there might be some significant ramifications when it comes
to their broadcast partners in college college sports coming out

(01:58:33):
of this one. Yeah, I mean there has to be
They're gonna be some consequences, Like whenever you have these
kind of errors, like you just have to kind of
take care of it. Is. Look, it's unfortunate. Um, you
just have to always do you do deals. It's gotta
be on it, man. He had to be on your
p's and queues. We talked about it. It's really important
that you always do you work. You know exactly what

(01:58:53):
you're talking about. You kind of double one, trouble check it,
make sure it's accurate, and then you go with it. Yeah,
it's been interesting because you have that that comment, which
clearly agree. Just you've had a couple of word choices
and phrases when we talk about Jim Cott with Nextra Cortez,
go back to Mark Jones and a few terms he
used during the NBA Finals Game one to describe the
Celtics come back and others where you're just like, hey,

(01:59:16):
why why why inject uh certain phrases and terms into
the conversation. Uh, when you've got a very expansive English
language in front of you. So just curiosity here and
you know always but folks make mistakes but this one
potentially harms a kid's future and his career UH ambitions

(01:59:41):
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(02:01:07):
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(02:01:28):
We've got the Stanley Cup playoffs. We've got hell in
a cell. I gotta keep getting it in uh. And
we've got the NBA Finals Game two, which could turn
into a bit of a wrestling match if the Celtics
have their way. We saw the physicality at play, and
certainly Williams in the center cutting off a lot of

(02:01:49):
lane some of the easy layups, Bucky that you saw
in quarter one. Uh, that that's sinched off. Right, It's
kind of that feeling out moment, because look, nerves are
gonna show up in big games. Right, you played in
the league. Even on what is week six in the NFL,
you're still a standalone. You're playing where you did. You're
on an island, so you know, you know the way

(02:02:09):
that works. And so we watched it for the Celtics
where a lot was made of NBA Finals experience for
the Warriors versus what the Celtics are, and it showed
in those first few minutes, A right, look pretty wide eyed.
They're up in San Francisco. But that lasted a very
short time. Yeah, it didn't last long. Uh. They quickly

(02:02:30):
moved beyond that. And experience matters, but it doesn't guarantee anything.
It doesn't matter of how long does it take you
to settle in to the game, settle into the intensity
and the urgency of the moment. We talked about in
the first hour. We talked about the difference in the
roads traveled by both teams, because the Celtics had a
harder road where they had more of these edgy games.

(02:02:52):
They're a little battle tested, they're a little heart and
little calloused going into the finals, different than I would
say most teams that kind of it there, and so
because of that, I don't think it took them as
long to kind of ramp up and understand that, hey,
this is the final. This is the difference in the
energy that is a winner, go home game, which is
why I felt like you saw them respond the way

(02:03:13):
they responded after taking the flurry from the Golden State
wards at the beginning of the game. Now, I felt
pretty good because I joked about it in the before
the series started, Right, you're looking at all right finals
M v P and obviously Steph Curry, Steph Curry, Steph Curry. Uh,
that take is old, tired, et cetera. Yes, everybody would

(02:03:33):
love to put that on his resume. Would it be
legacy defining? I don't know. It depends how much you
care to talk about that stuff. For me, that gets
a bit old. You know, goat conversations and all of
those things are fun for about five minutes, but when
you're making you know, year seven of your existence on them,
I'm done with it. But for Steph Curry. There's just

(02:03:55):
so much attention will he be able to finish off
the finals? Write a lot of discussion of what he
is and isn't when there's no Kevin Durant. So that's
a curiosity. Clay Thompson playing heavy minutes game to game,
you don't know what you're getting. Offensively, Draymond Green from
the Celtics. Every time I see twelve in his shots, right,
he was doing the shot counting for Al Horford and

(02:04:18):
for Marcus Smart and for Derek White. You want to
do that On the other side, they could have said
he took twelve shots. Right. We're feeling pretty good about that. Right.
If he's not doing his playmaking right, his his point
forward type material and he wants to be a shooter
and be a score, have at it. And I love
Draymond Green. I don't know that. You know, obviously he's

(02:04:40):
now got ties back into the volume and Colin and
the podcast, but long before that, Like, I appreciate him
for who he is, right because he's warning all the
way through you may not like what he says at times.
It may be just as bad as the hot take
theater coming out of old media as opposed to new media.

(02:05:00):
But either way, he's been entertaining and he's laid it out.
But I joked in the whole m v P thing,
it's like it's gonna be for something at Al Horford
at a hundred to one or Derek White and a
hundred one. Suddenly they had big series and were in
consideration lo and behold both of them, and pretty huge games.
Jaylon Brown obviously a big game. He was only ten

(02:05:22):
to one. So when we actually did our picks, that's
who I chose because Jayson Tatum has the time, had
games like he did in Game one now still thirteen assists,
so he did his job driving dish and guys made shots.
But that's the big question is when we talked about
trying to get everything returning to level, what's more likely

(02:05:47):
the Warriors not disappearing for much of a fourth quarter,
putting up sixteen points and defensively looking like they were
the junior varsity team running against you know, a competent contender,
or Jayson Tatum gets back to the next as so
many have tagged him. I would say, I'll go to

(02:06:10):
the ladder that fresher legs, new eyes and a guy
still on the Rise is more likely to have one
of his normal games than we get forty eight minutes
of defense from Golden State. You know, I'm with you
on that. I think he gets he gets back on track. Um,
he has an explosive game, because we've seen he puts

(02:06:32):
up big numbers. Um, this is a situation where the
Warriors have to be careful because if you just assumed that,
oh we're just throttle, Marcus Smart, Derry White and Horford
were good, you still gotta take care of Jayson Tatum
and Jason Tatum's willingness to be a playmaker. I think
that is a big difference. Thirteen assists willing to continue
to be aggressive while giving the ball up, continues to

(02:06:54):
put pressure on the defense, makes the defense move as
a problem. And then the other problem is the Celtics
is just bigger. They're bigger at every position, and so
when the Warriors are playing their death lineup with Draymond
Green at five, they're just not big enough. And so
then offics of rebounding becomes an issue. They're able to
kind of bully these guys and get the looks that

(02:07:15):
they want up under the basket. Um, this will be
a challenge so I'm looking to see, as we're looking
at the chess match, what does Steve Kerr do from
a personnel standpoint to kind of flip the matchups and
to kind of neutralize some of the advantages that the
Celtics have. Those extra touches, the back door, wide open layups,
all of those. We saw several of those in the

(02:07:36):
first few minutes of Game one, and then those lanes
shut off. Robert Williams moving around a little bit better.
He played twenty four minutes. Key number is his minutes total,
and obviously foul trouble because that did not become an
issue for the Celtics in Game one. They were able
to body up on Steph Curry and over the course
of a forty eight minute game. Right, it's gonna wear

(02:08:00):
on you, you know how much you know you're you're
working to get the ball and working off the ball. Sure,
that's part of it, but having to work on defense
and then certainly offensively, everything every touch being contested becomes
a big deal. When we look at the Warriors, you
got some good minutes out of Wiggins, right, who's become everything. Unfortunately,

(02:08:22):
he's like a guy like we're talking about Baker Mayfield
earlier that is always going to be tagged with, Well,
you were number one, you're the chosen one. Sorry, I
got my Obi wan nerdum in. You know it's about
one uh, because we're all watching Obi wan Kenobi were words? Uh.
Episode three was really really good. I can't wait till Wednesday.

(02:08:42):
And episode four all right midnight Tuesday in the Wednesday.
But the the idea being that you get away and
into a new situation and you find your space. Right,
maybe you weren't the the guy that had to be
the lead and everybody jumped on your back, But if
you're the second or third galuy in this case, you're
the fourth guy, life is pretty good. Where I'm concerned

(02:09:04):
is how lost on both ends of the court. Jordan
Poole looked a guy who had a fantastic year for them,
picked up a lot while Clay was still out and
then with Steph was out. Offensively had been great four turnovers,
team worst game worst minus nineteen and defensively looked as

(02:09:25):
if you put me out there trying to run a
team's defense blind like he he was awful and a
liability on both ends of the court, and for a
guy who had been so instrumental to what they developed
over the course of not only the regular season but
into the playoffs. That's concerning because you don't have a
lot of depth, especially if you're not gonna go to
Cominga and Moody, which Steve Kerr didn't, right, if you're

(02:09:49):
not gonna trust some of the young guys and you're
gonna give twelve minutes to andre Iguodala. Again, we celebrate
the career of andre Igadala, but twelve minutes game one
seemed like it was a bit much and you're just
kind of reaching after a while. Yeah, it seemed like
it was a bit much because Andrea Goodala was coming
off and not really playing. E've been on the sideline

(02:10:10):
and Street glows for a ton. He comes off in
game one, they need him, they play him significant minutes.
And then with Jordan Pool, what appeared and what would
be troubling to me if I'm gonna stay Warriors For
a guy who has kind of been an essential cog
of the wheel, it seemed like it might have been
a little too big for him. And we talked about
the Warriors having its finals experience and having a ton

(02:10:31):
of guys you know, logging a number of games in
these big moments, but they also have a bunch of
young players who have never played in these significant games,
and so the ebb and flows, the pressure that you
feel even though you're playing at home, it takes a
while to get used to. And it appeared that the
Celtics quickly settled into that environment. Why it took the Warriors,

(02:10:52):
particularly young guys, a little more time to kind of
figure some of those things out. And we don't figure
it out, you lose the confidence. You coach, doesn't put
you in the fourth quarter, your rotation changes, and you
get a different looking Warriors team in the fourth quarter
that we've seen all year. Yeah, we saw Otto Porter
Junior hit a couple of shots early, but he finished
minus eight team just behind Jordan's pools. And what we

(02:11:15):
saw in the fourth quarter when we go back to
the barrage of three point shots from Boston as well
as Golden stated played team defense during the year, they
looked tired, They looked you know the do you do
you get old fast? We know where where do things going?
And obviously it's one game, it's seven game series. Not

(02:11:35):
to channel too much of the Warriors talking points after
game one, but they're gonna go back and look at
the tapes like, Wow, that guy was wide open. Yeah
he's gonna hit that shot all day long if you're
gonna stand there, Like the collapse on Tatum is one thing,
but no rotation and wide open shooters. I mean that
was the entire fourth quarter which met led to the

(02:11:55):
huge barrage and the reversal of fortunes for Golden State. Yeah,
it did. And it's one of those things just to varage,
just bangbabe bam bam bam bing, not being able to
corral it. And so as you get into it, what
you don't want to do is you don't want to overreact,
but you do want to be conscious of Collinson, of
what took place, why you actually lost the gamp, and

(02:12:16):
you want to be able to look in the mirror
and be honest with hey, here's where we need to fix,
here's where we are, Here's how we can get better,
here's how we can finish it. He's Bucky Brooks on
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(02:12:38):
and where else but the City of Brotherly Love. Yes,
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(02:13:00):
in Holmes nationwide might be brunch time, doesn't matter, You're
still getting your dance on. But not in Philadelphia. Why
because old b free surfaces. Why you go on a
podcast and you start telling stories on the I m
Athlete podcast. Seems like we bring this up with some regularity.
Brandon Marshall, pac Man Jones, Lashawn McCoy. McCoy had the

(02:13:24):
quotes on Eric b Enemy a week ago. We talked
about uh Now. They had Deshaun Watson on and he
talked about a time where he clashed a little bit
with Donovan McNabb. A lot of guys seem to have
had beef with as well a lot of his wide
receivers during their time. But this goes back to a
two thousand nine pro Bowl selection when Jackson went as

(02:13:47):
a punt returner and wide receiver. Well, when the ballots
came out and they found out that I was the
first player in NFL history to get elected to start
in the Pro Bowl for two positions, that was the
little humble brag. You can almost see him doing the
little Rick Flair strut. Um, my starting quarterback, tells my
backup or our backup, Michael Vick. Damn. I don't think
he should have got that. He shouldn't have deserved that.

(02:14:09):
Like you're telling another quarterback that your receiver that you
throw to your receiver, that he didn't deserve that. Mm hmm.
So there you go. Jackson also kind of went after
McNabb the guy, so it seemed like he didn't like
him either, just in general. But we talked about be
from Pro Bowl. I mean you were in the locker room.
Is that something that was talked about a bunch. I

(02:14:31):
mean we're talking about roster bonuses, talking about bonuses and contracts.
The guys start chirping about that as December rolls around. Um,
look man, it's it's it's tough when you dealing with
these relationships with players, right, is the difference so many

(02:14:51):
different factions on the team, and even though we would
love the kumbay yah, we all get along, we all
love it. Spore, you just have different personality and sometimes
they don't job. I think de Sean Jackson, Dono mcnap
thing like to me is interesting. Um is interested on
a few different fronts because you have de Sean Jackson
now talking on top of what Tara Lewins they kind

(02:15:12):
of alluded to. So you just kind of wonder, like
what's real, what's fake? Like why is there this disconnect
between some of the receivers they played for uh, someone
who I think is worthy of all the fame consideration,
and Donovan McNabb. So, I don't know, it just maybe
it's just a weird deal. Maybe kind of speaks to
maybe some of the championship failures of the Eagles. I
don't know. It's just a Weird's just a weird It's

(02:15:34):
always been something I've always wanted to revisit, right, much
like the Buffalo Bills during the Jim Kelly run. Yeah,
with fresh eyes all these years later, try to go
back and watch games, try to analyze, and let's face it,
we're all too busy to really go back and do this,
So it would be a fun exercise, I think, to
see where the disconnect is. Because we're also going back

(02:15:56):
to young Andy Reid, we're going back to play calling.
We're talking about McNabb in big moments and a guy
to your point, if we're gonna go down the list
and see some of the guys that are in the
Hall of Fame and others that will receive consideration his name,
I don't know that it gets up brought up nearly enough,
so I'll stand for him, even though if he gets

(02:16:17):
in that becomes Syracuse guy, which means Jason Smith never
shuts up. But but between him and guys like Fred
Taylor and like there's there's the handful of guys that
I've watched the last years that I think we're better
than perhaps they get credit for. And Donovan cannabb certainly
one of those guys. But once you start getting a

(02:16:40):
little bit of critical mass in terms of the wide
receivers that start getting after it, a little bit about
him as a guy and then as a quarterback and
how he leads the room, it's like, all right, where
there's smoke, there's fired. Do we just have that's going on.
It just such a weird deal. You know, why are

(02:17:02):
the wide receiver resulted with dynomy McNab well. Jackson went
on to say, he was one of the quote cheapest,
richest blanks. You could know he'd make you pay for everything.
So he got that too. Um that and that that
doesn't that just takes you over the top, right, It's
one thing you want to criticize in between the white
Lions and what's going on. Yeah, that does, that does

(02:17:24):
kind of take you to another level because there are
some guys like guys that are making the most money.
But then when it's time to go out to dinner
or whatever, and it's not the expectation that you spied
him to pick up the bill. But yeah, sometimes you
want to take care of you guys. And Jackson said,
don't you know he's cool with McNabb Now it's like
I immediately reading this story, started thinking about the Jared

(02:17:44):
Letto joker. You don't want no beef. You don't want it.
You don't want to beef like you just said this stuff.
But you don't want no beef. That's where you're getting
to you. Yeah, I mean, it's it's a different it's
a different deal. Yeah. Yeah. The locker room is is
so interesting as as you yeah, I mean trying as

(02:18:05):
we always outside looking in. It's like, you know, there's
a lot of little storms potentially building, but it's the
question of how do you contain it right, And that's
why not to jump straight out of football. But the
easiest comparison is always those that try to dismiss the
job that Phil Jackson had done or take other coaches

(02:18:29):
like if you've got a lot of big time players,
you've got a lot of big time egos and you're
gonna have to manage that. And it's a long NBA season.
We'll get to Adam silver uh and something he talked
about this week as related to the NBA schedule and
potential changes going forward. But there there's a lot you
have to manage. Likewise, in an NFL locker room, you

(02:18:50):
got fifty three different individual corporations going on, yeah, right,
all looking to a next contract in a league that
doesn't have guarantee these outside of your signing bonuses. I know,
it's like it's such a deal, right, because it's such
a weird deal because um, in pro sports, you still

(02:19:13):
promoting the team concepts that you would do at lower levels.
You know, we're team, you buy in, uh, we get along?
Is we over me? And those things? But the money
can cloud and money up the waters when it comes
to those things. And the best teams and the best
coaches are able to find a way to help players,

(02:19:38):
everybody on the roster get on common ground and to
play for something bigger than just to check and those things.
But it's a challenge and the only way that you
can do it is you have to build bonds and
relationships that enable you to think about things beyond the
bottom line on the check. And everyone has a master
at and that's why it is um such a journey

(02:20:01):
when it comes to building a championship team, because you
have to find a way to check egos and selfishness
and all of that while managing those other things away
from it. Is this why, theoretically, and this is the
great experiment the staff assembled in Detroit. The way it
looks right with a lot of former players and guys

(02:20:22):
that had played really well. We talked about Douche Staley
and his comments about DeAndre Swift earlier, is that where
at least for me, it's a great experiment right, it's
Detroit for one, So you know, I take all your
Detroit jokes for a minute. All right, I'll let you
let y'all marinate on it, But that that you put
it in the hands of guys who could be perhaps

(02:20:45):
more hands on because of their locker room experience to
really relate two players in a different way in terms
of managing egos and trying to keep guys on a
path or am I overreaching reaching? Uh? There's some validity
to that. Now, those who have staffs without players would

(02:21:06):
say that no good coaches are good coaches. But I
would say this, and I have respect for those who
have played and coaching those who have not played. In coaching,
I believe there has to be enough people on your
staff that have played, because there's a level of credibility
that comes with it. Also, um, what happens is when

(02:21:26):
you have former players on your staff, some have can
understand the journey and the difficulty and the challenge of
playing the game, and so there's a relatability and an
instant credibility that exists when they walk into the room
and they begin to talk in those things. That said,
it doesn't mean that every former player is going to
be a great coach. It also doesn't mean that everybody

(02:21:48):
who was not a former player that is coaching um
does not earn the respect of the locker room. But
initially former players kind of like as a fraternity, like
when when guys have done certain things, there are certain um,
there's a certain level of understanding because you've kind of
done the right of fast as you paid your dues
or whatever. And so in Detroit, it's interesting because I'm

(02:22:10):
looking at that situation and wondering Canada team with that
many former players put it together and get it together,
because it's uncommon to see that many, that collection of
former players together trying the coach and trying to lead
and trying to get it well. And it goes back
to that experience, right, So you all have an NFL experience,
But as we're talking about the locker room, the experience

(02:22:32):
and the journey for every one of those guys are
going to be different. So the same thing with the coaches.
So even though as a collective you could say they've
all got NFL experience, that they're they're all going to
be different. And so relating back to the players about
their journey, Yeah, there's a base level of understanding that
maybe you don't have to establish with the same still

(02:22:52):
relationships though, right, but but you're at least building from
some commonality versus all right, you went to school here, here,
you've been an assistant here here, here, and now I've
got to learn about you. I know your resume. Yeah.
Whereas a former player you feel you may know yeah
and like something and then ultimately you know, like am

(02:23:14):
I experience? And I say this like a lot of times,
like your best players don't necessarily make the best coaches.
Sometimes you guys who were journeymen, who were backups and
those things. Um, And look, there's there's no rhyme or
reason to how and why someone becomes a really good coach.
But sometimes with a great player, you were so talented
that you were able to skip steps, and so maybe

(02:23:36):
you didn't necessarily master some of the nuances of you know,
the fundamentals and and those things, whereas the backup who
had to do a bunch of different things like that
was your only chance of being around. So now, because
you know, um, from ground up how to build yourself up,
you may be a better teacher. But then there are
guys who haven't played who are great teachers. I think
every experience is different, but good teams have a level

(02:23:59):
of the versity um with playing experience with all kinds
of other stuff to enable you to relate to the
locker room. And I think it's really really important that
I said you want to challenge everybody. I think the
best coaches are outstanding teachers. And whether you play it
or not, there's no reason why you can't be a
great teacher. It's about building that relationship so you can

(02:24:20):
teach and mentor and do all those other things that
are necessary. He's a coach analyst, my partner here at
Fox Sports Radio, Bucky Brooks. Five years in the league, scouting, analyzing,
now coaching the youth and trying to make this world
a better place. That's right, He's Bucky Brooks at Bucky Brooks. Right,
you find about what you like that now, it's good
at Swallowing Dome. I I'm just me. Uh, let's start

(02:24:43):
it over to Isaac Loewenkron to find out what's trending.
I know we've got action on the pitch. We had
action on the clay. What else we got that's it?
Clay pitch baseball diamonds. Let's get all the lot of dirt. Indeed,
so many ways I could take that in that just
leave it there. But sometimes you gotta let the joke

(02:25:03):
just do its own thing. Very true. We'll start with
the clay in Paris, French, the men's singles final at
the French Open. Here's Rafael Nidal at championship point, basing
Caspar Rude. We go to G. G. Salmon on radio,
roll on Garrows. Rude is ready championship point number two
for rough. N adult Root serves out why the foehand

(02:25:24):
spins back middle of the court. Inside out goes Root,
foehand cross court from Nadal woods, a long way back
goes inside. Nadal goes backhand cross court, the foehand cross court.
From it, he's out of court. The back hand down
the line up time for from this being his fourteenth

(02:25:49):
French Open, he should believe it right now. By now,
don't act like you've been there saying you know no,
you know what it's still hey, Christmas comes have been
to Christmas before. Never gets old. I guess you get
someone's giving you a gift, you got your family, friends,
whomever around you. I mean that never gets old. Doesn't. Yeah,
he just improved to a very small margin of a

(02:26:09):
hundred and nine matches above five hundred his lifetime. The
French Open a lot one hundred, twelve wins and three
losses for Rafael name. It's not Dustin Johnson hundred billion,
but it's certainly an extra title comes with some u
some glory and and a few more ducats. You've been like,

(02:26:31):
really really really X. I mean not to say that
you're not quick normally, but you've been really on fire
today with with with your equips lightning fast. I might add,
and for the record, the prize money for Rafael nidalper
winning the French Open today in American dollars two million,
three hundred fifty five thousand and three hundred and forty

(02:26:53):
three dollars should hold out. I guess, and I look
at Mlock you we're looking at each other going okay.
I thought. I guess. All right, I mean, maybe he
gets some bonuses from some of his sponsor endorsements, probably
the endorsements, some say, speaking of a high rad district

(02:27:13):
Yankee Stadium, Tigers and Yankees are scoreless in the top
half of the fourth inning. Onto Soccer and Great Trauma
going on right now, a birth in the World Cup
on the line, Ukraine facing Whales, and Wales has just
scored in the thirty fourth minute seconds ago, So Wales
has a one nothing lead over Ukraine. Ukraine trying to

(02:27:35):
make the World Cup for the second time in history,
the first time in two thousand and six, Whales seeking
its first World Cup appearance in sixty four years back
in nineteen fifty eight, the tournament that served as the
coming out party for the Great Pelee. But right now
Whales just scoring in the thirty fourth minute against Ukraine,
the match being played on a rainy afternoon in front

(02:27:57):
of a wild crowd in car in Whales. So again,
Whales has taken a one nothing lead over Cardiff in
the first half. It isn't go off a free kick?
What about a thirty free kick? Nothing? One nothing? Whales
back to you tried to redirect and off his head

(02:28:20):
at Isaac Low and Cron on Twitter. You know I
went to uh A game, a US women's team game
a couple of months ago. There were three owned goals
by the same girl. It was so it was so
heart wrenching to watch because it's like she did everything
angular trying trying to just get the like constant barrage,
and no matter what she did, it was like chipped

(02:28:41):
up into the corner, chip like just you felt sorry
for that's bad. I will say this. I am not
a soccer expert, but man, and we talk about celebrating
in football, they just ate up like a minute minute
ye look like three minutes before I show to replay
and I let show the crowd. And I know, I

(02:29:02):
know we get extra time at the end and that stuff,
but man, it seems like if you put it in
the basket, you get to kind of hang out take
a victory. Laugh. Oh yeah, you can start doing somersaults
all the way through. Everyone can I mean that's a lot.
Go run, go pose, do a little. I mean I
was waiting for something, a little victoria. You just you
just eat, You just eat up all the time. They

(02:29:25):
eat up all the time. It's insanity, I tell you.
But thirty six minute in the rain Wales with the
one oh lead on Ukraine. Now, Adam Silver, as you
want to do? You know, we always have big events
like you know, the super Bowl, Roger Goodell will do
his State of the NFL. Will Adam Silver taking questions
ahead of the NBA Finals. Talking about the NBA regular

(02:29:47):
season and always the criticism of how long it is.
Is there a way to improve what too many people
is a long regular season. One of the ways we're
thinking of doing that is an in season tournament, something
we've been talking a lot about out. We're not there yet.
We continue to talk to the Competition committee about it,
our team governors, the players Association to see is there

(02:30:07):
a way throughout the season that create more meaningful games,
more games of consequence. Potentially a tournament that would arguably
replace some of the regular season games, but would be
more meaningful. I'm not against potentially changing the format of
the season, given me, even possibly shortening it a bit
if we can demonstrate that that's going to have it

(02:30:30):
direct impact on injuries. Yeah, fewer minutes, fewer heavy minutes,
seems to me the logic would be that you'd have
fewer injuries. So Adam Silver and his full quote, we
don't see increased number of injuries is the season goes on.
It's not as if because of fatigue over the course

(02:30:53):
of the season you see more injuries. Really, that does
that fly in the face of everything we've been told
since we were kids. Yeah. But here's the thing, and
it's it's been debated like okay, and I get it.
I don't want to be the old man one you
could be. You could be that guy, but rub some
dirt on it, throw some more pitches. The money, the

(02:31:14):
money is at an all time high for this and growing.
I mean look at the triple Yeah, like you're trying
to go to sell for their next right said an
all time high. You have very limited back to back games.
You're no longer really getting four games in a week.
You travel on private air for you're not traveling commercial.

(02:31:35):
The travel is completely different to hotels and all that.
You now, when you look behind the game, when you
watch the game tonight, look at the number of people
in Polos team issued gear. You not only have personal
development coaches, your assistant coaches. You have pts, masseuses, you have,
you have everybody pologists sports, you have cryo machines, you

(02:31:59):
have and for red all of this stuff available that
the team is providing for the players. You right now
have players doing load management. Do we think that if
we shorten the season that those players are now, oh
I'm going to play? So anybody buying that? So right,
So at some point you have to get players to

(02:32:22):
do hard stuff. Now you can take care of them
and practicing those things, but you gotta play games because
if I mean if not, because as the money continues
to escalate, and as we get more TV deals and streaming,
and as betting and gambling comes into the Hey, I

(02:32:43):
mean you're talking about a ton of money. Yes, the
product can be living up because the regular season does
have some laws, and maybe an N season tournament would
do it. But we have to change the mind of
the basketball fan to that of what soccer is and
the cuffs and there has to be some something of
significance to participate in the tournament and give great effort.

(02:33:06):
But no, you can't shot in the season. It can't be.
It can't be a sixty five or seventy game season.
Like I mean, if that's the job to do, like
if you if you want to do the thought process
right and just say, okay, money is not the issue here,
which is always cool, hardy. I used to get in
fights with my professors as a kid, like all right,

(02:33:26):
you have to assume this this this like well then
I'm assuming that I'm about to uh get into a
fight with you over that piece of bread that you're
holding in your hand. With the assumptions you're giving me,
it's like no, no, no, no, no, keep it like no,
I'm going real world practical experience if this is the
scenario you're giving me. Likewise, here, if you suddenly say,
all right, we're rolling gonna place sixty five games, guess

(02:33:48):
what player that's only playing seventy percent of his team's games,
now they're gonna play seventy of those sixty five. It's
just it's gonna be the same thing because you're still
going to go to the process of, well, I've got
to be available quote unquote for the playoffs should my
team get there. Right, that's the game we play, what
Lebron did this year, what a number of players did
this year. If we get to the tournament, then x.

(02:34:11):
Once the tournament is not available to us, and I'm
talking about the playoffs, which is always the tournament. But
now you get an in season thing. Now you gotta
get players buy in for that. Like every everything you
want to do in these regards starts uh, making you
look at take another look at the c B A.
And anytime you do that, now you lead to contentiousness
and people quibbling over the next However, many billions of

(02:34:34):
dollars are coming into the sport. Yeah, because it changes
it changes the equation. But there has to be a
way to do it. You want a better but you
can you can't have a few games. No, that's it,
And well I think we just have to lose a
couple of teams. We'll set set some teams for relegation.
Coming up next. No, just kidding, he's Bucky Brooks sawbike
garment because they're talking expansion. Uh here Fox Sports Radio,
Fox Sports Sunday, when you're talking about goats, major League

(02:34:58):
Baseball and a the erie from a Fox broadcast about well,
how you could change things to maybe make one player
who's already great even greater. We'll talk about it next
year on Fox, Fox Sports or radios Fox Sports Sunday.
I was told to be louder or not. Steve Hartman,
Rich Hornberger coming up next here on Fox Sports Radio.

(02:35:20):
Always good to see the guys up here in studio.
We got a lot of activity, a lot of voices,
a lot of energy today. Feeling good about this Sunday.
Happy birthday, Dad. I'll call you in a little bit
another big milestone, right. We love these birthdays and celebrations.
I actually don't have to drive anywhere for soccer tournaments,
so I can just hang out today. It's a beautiful day,

(02:35:40):
Bucky Brooks, let me tell you. And it's been a
fast easy Uh. We got to through some great stories today.
I mean, there's so much going on in the sporting universe,
some that are unsavory and but important to talk about. Nonetheless,
for those that listen to our discussion on Deshaun Watson
earlier and came to the conclusion that we were suggesting, nope,
enalty for Deshaun Watson. Clean your ears. Okay, it's Sunday.

(02:36:05):
Get a cute tip. If you need me to send
you on, I'm happy to just get me a mailing address.
The question was how why? How long? That was the question,
not if, because there's a suspension coming just no matter
of when it comes down the line. But I wanted
to get to this one because Major League Baseball in

(02:36:26):
full swing and right now in the middle of a
miserable swoon are the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. After
a hot start, they've lost ten in a row. Mike
Trout mired in an oh for twenty three slump, but
you still have the glory that is Show Hey Otani
and when you start off is as well as the

(02:36:48):
Angels did. While you get some national broadcast mixed therein,
and sometimes the hyperbole comes strong and John Smoltz taking
to the broadcast and kind of talking about the prowess
of Shoyo Tani, who we've watched as a two way
marvel right deep flies big. I mean, he moves box

(02:37:11):
office right there. They're clamoring to get as many Show
Hey Otani theme nights as they can. You've got pillows,
You've got blankets, You've got snow globes, you've got bubble heads.
He was a Star Wars, bobble head, you name it.
But he had this quote. If he never never hit
again and concentrated on only pitching, he's Jacob to Graham

(02:37:31):
in the American League, that's head. He praise for a
guy sitting with an E R A J just shy
of four right now, But certainly he's when he's on
commanding stuff that that gets you to the edge edge
of the seat. But when you say a guy who's
doing it part time and doing it well, mind you

(02:37:52):
could be that dominant. It makes sense though, Like it
makes sense in terms of reps and repetition and focus,
Like because the time that he's spending in the cages
taking bad and practice, working on his swing, doing the
video analysis, all of the other stuff that jeffs to
be a great hitter, he would be the voting debt
to pitching. He would spend his time on working on

(02:38:14):
his craft. In terms of doing that, maybe developing another
complimentary pitch to go with his his his primaries. And
so when you think about that more, it should translate
to more success, more uh, consistency and those things. And
if he's already having a level of success that he's
having now without even fully devoting and pouring himself all

(02:38:35):
the way in, that's a natural assumption to be able
to make. Yeah. Unfortunately for the Angels, they need him
to do both and you both at a very high
level because uh, well they're right back to where they begin,
all the expectations of this breakthrough season and all of
a sudden it's been torn asunder. And for Mike Trout,
as we talked about earlier in the show, heavy is

(02:38:56):
the is the head of he who wears the Crown
of Yeah seven, tough time with that. He's looking over
his shoulder for Tommy fam I'm telling you you can't concentrate.
How can you concentrate, especially if the purse is as
large as we've heard, upwards of six figures. Bucky crazy stuff,
He's Bucky. I'm Mike. Thanks for hanging out with us
today on Fox

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