Jonas Knox talks Cleveland Browns and College Football Realignment

Jonas Knox talks about the Browns screwing up their QB situation, college football realignment, the tale of two organizations told by the Cubs and the Dodgers series, NFL Sunday Ticket moving to streaming, the Bears tumultuous offseason, and more!

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Sports Radio studios, here's Jonas Knocks. You're really going through
with this, hun cheese. So there's a reason why sometimes

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you just can't have nice things. There's an example of
this in the NFL. We will get into all of
that for you coming up here in just a couple
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We appreciate you doing so. We're gonna take you all
the way up until noon Eastern time nine am Pacific
right here on FS are welcome in. It is a
fun weekend here. Now there's a lot of people out there,
they're gonna try and spin this whole Well, it's a
slow time of the year, it's it's July, there's no
sports going on. There is. You gotta dig a little

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bit deeper. But there are conversations that need to be had,
like the one we're gonna start with right now. There's
a reason why certain people can have nice things. And
if you were one of these people, and maybe you
didn't even know you were one of these people, this
has probably happened to you at some point in your life.
You ever gotten something nice, like something so nice you

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probably shouldn't have it or deserve it, and almost a
media really you screwed it up. You figured out a
way to screw it up. Here's an example, because I'm
not trying to make anybody be insecure about this, here's
an example, not even that long ago. We're talking within
the past three or four years. As a gift, because

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I would never spend this on myself as a gift.
Somebody got me a really nice pair of shoes and
I'm not gonna tell you what brand it is or
anything like that, or what model, because you know they're
not a sponsor on this show, and if you're not
a sponsor, we're not gonna give you free plugs here
on Fox Sports Radio, especially in the Powerhouse and the
Power Alleys that are the weekends and Saturdays here in July.

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But I got a nice pair of shoes. They're like
walking on pillows. I mean, the the nicest pair of
shoes I've ever been given as a gift. Ever. I
would never purchase these. And I decided, you know what,
I'm gonna wear these. And I remember where I was.
I was filling in on Fox Sports Radio. I was

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filling in on a weeknight, and I wore these nice
comfortable shoes. But the problem was they were a lighter
color shoe, like a light gray slash white shoe. And
I thought, you know what, I'm an adult. I can
figure this out. I'm walking with these things. They feel great.
It's like it's like walking on a cloud. May you

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ever flown before? And you see like a cloud layer
out the window and you go, my god, that looks comfortable.
It was like walking on those And I'm strolling in
through the parking structure. I remember, I'm going to get
into the elevator to go down the next level because
I'm parking on the second floor to go into Fox
Sports Radio and fill in on this show, and of
course I spilled coffee on these brand new, comfortable pair

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of shoes. To this day, there is a coffee stain
on this brand new comfortable pair of shoes that I
have that are no longer brand new, that have been
forever destroyed, all because I can't have nice things. I can't.
It was a lesson learned. That's why you don't buy those,

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That's why you don't deserve to have those. This has
happened in the NFL, and it's maybe the most hilarious
part of the Cleveland Browns quarterback saga. I want you
to just think about this. The Cleveland Browns an organization

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that was a full blown laughing stock four years four years,
so much so, and we've talked about this before that
the Cleveland Browns had a promotion in which when they
finally did win a game, bud light fridges around the
country would automatically open up, and fans were being giving

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free bud lights in certain parts of the country. That's
how that's how much of an embarrassment the Cleveland Browns were.
They finally draft a quote unquote franchise quarterback number one overall.
He gives them their first win in like two years.

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He gets them to the playoffs. They win a playoff
game at Heinz Field, they're on the verge of winning
a second playoff game at Kansas City against the eventual
a f C champion Kansas City Chiefs. And in less
than two years they had to pay somebody ten million
dollars just to take him. It's great, It's the most

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hilarious part of this whole thing. And if you talk
to Browns fans like, well, you know, we needed to
close that chapter on Baker Mayfield. You did, Okay, that's
why you can't have nice things. And here's here's maybe
even the best part of it. Well, they upgraded at quarterback. Dude,
you paid somebody ten plus million dollars to take the

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quarterback who completely turned around the franchise, and the quarterback
you're bringing in best case, best case scenario is gone
for probably of the season. And that's best case scenario
exhibit A of why some people can't have nice things.

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And the Cleveland Browns are exhibit A of that. And
you can look at this and go, well, you know,
we understand Deshaun Watson is going to be suspended, you know,
for a certain amount of games this year. And we
understand that Deshaun Watson is going to be not a
member of the Cleveland Browns for a certain part of
the games this year. But he's so much better than
Baker Mayfield. And Baker Mayfield through all these interceptions, and

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you're the Browns, have we lost sight of all this?
You finally figured it out. You finally got a guy,
and we can have the discussion and say, well, he
doesn't deserve to be paid. Okay, Fine, if you want
to have the Dak Prescott discussion all over again, go

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for it. But you finally landed a quarterback and you
went from we're talking thirty plus million dollars a year two.
We had to give somebody money just to take him.
And the only reason the deal got done. And if
you're a Browns fan, you should be kissing Baker Mayfield's ass.

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You should be thanking him, because the only reason this
deal got done is because Baker Mayfield told the Carolina
Panthers and the Browns, all right, fine, Cleveland, you're gonna
give up ten plus a billion dollars Carolina, you're gonna
give up for and change, you know what I'm willing
to do. Let me take the other three plus million

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dollars that I'm owed because you guys gave me the
fifth year option. All right, let me go ahead and
let me convert those into incentives so that way it
makes this more doable and we can all just move
on and close the chapter here, like if not for him,
this doesn't get done. And so I'm sitting back just

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looking at it, and and I think we get so
caught up in the weeds that we don't actually take
a step back and look at the hilarity of the
whole situation. Like you were just in the playoffs. You
just want to playoff game that wasn't that long ago.

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And you can add the argument that Baker Mayfield stunk
his final year in Cleveland. That's fine and all that
is fair. He was also injured, and it wasn't like
Cleveland was an awful team. They were still knocking on
the door. They were still competitive. But now we gotta
move on. Deshaun Watson's final year in Houston, they were

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four and twelve, you know what I mean, Like you
just sometimes you gotta take a step back. And when
you take a step back and look at this entire situation,
because it has been dragging on for months and months
and months and months, and listen, I'm like you. I
got Deshaun Watson suspension fatigue. At this point. Somebody just

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figure out a number of games and let's move on.
If it's gonna be a year, it'll be a year.
If it's four games, six games, eight games, whatever, NFL
deal with the backlash, make a damn decision so we
can all move on with our lives. I mean, this
is worse. We mentioned the Dak Prescott conversation. This is
work worse than Dak Prescott's contract extension, which I'll say this,

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I'm not one of these ungrateful sports stock radio host
who's gonna sit there and complain about topics in the
middle of July because I have no creative bone in
my body. Hey, that that a Dak Prescott contract extension
that got us through a pandemic. Man, all right, So
we can sit here and we can be ungrateful all
we want, or we can appreciate the content we were
provided during a really dark time of this country and

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in this industry and Dak Prescott's contract extension got us through.
So listen, I have got Deshaun Watson suspension and fatigue
just like you do. Um over it, figure it out
and let's move on with our lives. But sometimes you
just have to take a break and take a step
back and look at this situation and totality and it's

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exhibit A, B, C, and Z why the Cleveland Browns
can't have nice things. This is why brand new pair
of shoes just got him as a gift, walking in
to do radio within minutes. Figure out a way to
ruin him forever. Cleveland Browns, brand new organization, feel to

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the organization, got everything going for him, winning a playoff game,
got talent, got a quarterback, he's got an edge to him.
Kind of turns the ball over a little bit. But
you know what wins a playoff game, gutty performer, number
one overall pick. And you figure it out a way
to have to pay somebody ten plus million dollars to
take him. The whole thing's hilarious. Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio,

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I think the Tool was the last concert I went to. No, no,
I'm thinking about it. Damn, that seems like a long

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time ago. That was that was before the pandemic at
Staples Center. I went to a I went to a
Tool concert because I've never seen them before. They're fantastic
live by the way, and uh, I just I just
remember sitting there in the crowd and and admiring how
who's who's the the the the singer who's got Maynard

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James Keenan No, no, no, not hit No, that's the
female singer. She's got a banner at Staples Center. It's
like the ongoing joke where she's got a she's got
a banner at at Staples Center, but the l A
Clippers don't like and it's not yeah Taylor Swift. Uh.
And I just remember sitting there going I'm at a
tool concert. There's a bunch of hippie smoking weed around me.

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Everybody's got on a black T shirt. I think I
intentionally wore a white V neck because it just irritated
me knowing everybody was gonna have a black T shirt on.
And I just remember sitting there watching this with everybody
smoking a left handed cigarette. Uh and and and the
place is filled with marijuana smoke and just thinking, man,
this is great. And three months later, the the pandemic

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hit and everything got shut down. I don't know why
I just made me think of that. So there it is. Uh,
it is Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Rader. By the way,
get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knocks at the
Jonas Knocks on Twitter. Coming up in about ten minutes
from now. If you want to see a tale of
two franchises, a tale of two organizations that is happening
right now in the world of sports, feast your eyes

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on it. We will have that discussion because one team
decided to go one way, the other decided to go another,
and it's playing out before our very eyes. We'll get
into that. Um I I do inc that the the
college football stuff that's going on the realignment. All that
is interesting and it's fascinating and I do think it's
gonna have a big impact on the sport. Uh. The

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clowns are out though, that's the problem. Uh, these circuses
in town, it's already starting to happen. Listen there, there's
a reason why professional comedians are professional comedians, right, there's
a reason why they do it and we don't because
they're funny and most of us aren't. Yourself included. Yet,

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you go on Twitter and you see the same tire
jokes every time there's a sports conversation that comes up,
you see the same lame jokes and people, you know,
it's like one of those things to where you know,
they send a tweet and they keep going back later
on to see how many people like it, and it
just irritates me. So now the same jokes are well,

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which our teams are leaving which conference, and who's going
to wind up with who, who's going to pair up
and what's the super And I'm just seeing it over
and over now, and it's made me get fatigued with
the whole conversation entirely, the whole the whole thing has
given me fatigue here's the reality of where college football
is at right. This is what's happening. The powerhouse schools

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and the powerhouse universities have realized their power, and college
football as a sport has realized its impact. Here's something
that the ball washing NBA media doesn't want you to know.
Or here here's something that the fanboys who claim to

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be objective but continue to try and push the same lame,
uninteresting storylines in the NBA to try and get you
really excited about their product. Here's something they don't want
to acknowledge. They've been surpassed, and it's happened, and it's
been going on for years now, by college football as
the second most popular board in this country. That's a fact.

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You can live in an NBA hotbed and you can say,
well that we totally disagree. You can be in the
Northeast and say, well, we totally disagree. We love our
NBA here, whether it's the Knicks, the Celtics, the Nets,
the Sixers, we love our NBA. Good for you. That's
a small part of the country. In the South, what

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do you think they like more college football or the NBA?
In the Midwest, what do you think they like more
college football or the NBA go through every region of
the country, go through the big states in this country, Texas, California,
you name it, Florida. What do you think they prefer

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college football over the NBA? And I think college football
has figured that out and they looked around, and you've
got these powerhouse schools and these powerhouse programs that have
looked around and realized, why can't we get a little
bit bigger piece of the pie? And these conferences have
identified it, and these conferences have seen what has happened.

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And now you've got schools within conferences that have distanced themselves.
U C l A and USC are leaving the Pack twelve,
and more teams may follow, whether it's Arizona State, Arizona, Colorado,
utahsman rumored, Oregon, Washington. They're trying to figure it out.
But you've got the big programs leaving conferences because U

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c l A and USC, and I don't blame them,
looked at the PAC twelve and said, we are way
behind everybody else, way behind. And we mentioned the pandemic
and COVID and all that stuff in and what a
nightmare year it was. Man. I can remember being on
the air. Bucky Brooks and I did a show together

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here at Fox Sports Radio for a couple of years,
and remember being on the air with Uckey and we
were talking about, you know, as college football gonna come back,
because remember that was when you know, nobody wanted to
play college football. People were scared. But you had certain
conferences like the A, C, C and the and the
SEC that we're like, no, no no, no, we can figure
this out. The Big Twelve was trying to figure it out.
But the Pac twelve was like, we're not quite sure.

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You know, for for the safety of everyone, you know,
maybe we shouldn't play. And I remember having a conversation
with Bucky on the air and he says, I'm telling
you this right now. I played in the South. I
grew up in the South. Not only is there going
to be a season, there's going to be fans in attendance.
Nobody else is saying that. And sure, as s what happened,
college football kicks off, You're watching an SEC game. Hey

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socially distance, but looks to be about twenty people at
that game. They just figured it out. The Pac twelve
not quite sure. I'm not I'm not really sure. We
want to do. They were lagging way behind everybody else.
They had no plan. And so now you're seeing college
football conferences come up with these strategies. You're seeing, Uh,

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the SEC potentially is going to be landing a couple
of a CEC teams. Now it's gonna cost a CC
teams like five million dollars if they want to disband
from the A c C and go to the SEC.
So I'm not sure how that's gonna get worked out.
But you see Texas and Oklahoma go, and then Texas
and Oklahoma leave, and U C, l A and USC
are like, well, uh, I mean, have you seen our conference?

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Why the hell should we stay? Let's go to the
Big ten. We'll get smacked around the first couple of
years because you know, we don't have the line play
that the Big ten does, But why don't we go?
And it's just follow the leader because they've realized, why, why,
if we have this much power, should we wait around

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for them to figure out what they're doing. Let's go
and get ours now. And I don't fault them for it.
And if you're the Pack twelve, you've got nobody to
blame but yourself. You know what's funny about the PAC twelve.
It's it's like being in that bad relationship where the
person you're with all of a sudden starts to appreciate you,

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when when you're getting ready to break up. Now the
flowers come now, the nice things come now, the pleasant trees,
the nice dinners. Hey, way, can when can we hang out?
When can we do this? But like all of a sudden,
once they realize they're losing control, now the plan starts
to come in place. No, no, I'm serious about this. Now,

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all of a sudden, you got the PAC twelve making
all these plans. All we're negotiating a new a new
TV deal. We're negotiating this. Hey, a c C. Why
don't we come up with a partnership and you can
air our games on the A SEC network and we'll dude,
you had years to figure this out. You had years
to figure this out. The problem for the PAC twelve

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their schools realize their power way before they did. And
so now you've got at their schools inside the conference
going well, what are we supposed to do? I mean,
if you're Oregon in Washington, what do you like? You're
looking around going we're kind of the big dogs left
in this whole thing. What are we supposed to do?

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And so as you watch college football in the landscape
change and you see all that understand this, these conferences,
these schools realized way before a lot of people, Hey,
we got it, we got power here, we're gonna take
advantage of it. You can be a traditionalist like me. Listen,
the initial thought of U C. L a USC going

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to the Big ten I wasn't a fan of because
I'm thinking, Man, I grew up on the Pac ten,
the Pac twelve. I don't want to see all this change.
It took me like two three years. I don't even
know if I'm over the fact that Nebraska is in
the Big ten. I always just a suit. Nebraska was
gonna stay in the Big eight or Big twelve forever.
It's taken me a while to get used to that
Maryland in the Big ten. That doesn't feel right to me.

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But it's here. It's here, and it's the way this
thing is gonna go. But just stay up, like, be
careful what you read because there's a lot of bogus
reports out there. There's a lot of bad comedians. They're
gonna they're gonna fill you up with bad information. Take
it with the grain, AsSalt look, investigate a little bit deeper,

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because if you believe some of the reports on Twitter,
everybody's leaving for one conference not quite yet enjoy why
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out before your very eyes and ears. We will get

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calls basketball, and every single Saturday, twice an hour, he
graces you with his presence. I present to you, sir,
Isaac Loan kronh Yes, yes, yes. Do you believe in
time travel? Jonas Um? I don't know. It depends on
how many drugs you do. All right, we'll keep that

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in mind as I relate the following anecdote. As you know,
morbid curiosity makes me monitor your mentions at V Jonas Knocks,
and you receive the following tweet, which we can debate
on its merits separately, I suppose. But the tweet was
and I quote, you laugh too much at stuff that's

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not funny unquote. Now now we can we can separate
that for a moment. But here's what I don't really understand.
That tweet was sent thirty four minutes before you're show started.
So did this person listen to you, get in a
time machine, go back thirty four minutes before your show

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and then tweet that out, perhaps as a warning to
the rest of civilization. You don't. I think that sometimes
I'll get these messages, and well, first of all, I've
gotten messages about stuff that I never did on a
show people happy to And I'm thinking myself, like, dude,
you're tweeting the wrong person. Like go go, go do

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what you need to do and do your research and
find somebody else to tweet that actually is responsible for
whatever you're But like, I see some of the stuff
that's sent over and I'm just assuming that maybe they're
listening to the podcast and they're a little bit behind,
which which if look, if you're listening to a podcast
a day later, and you've gone out of your way

(25:51):
to listen to the podcast, you know, maybe listen in
real time. So if there's something that you are unhappy
with about the show, it can be correct acted on
the air or not. Because this person maybe and again
I'm not trying to make a reckless accusation here, but
maybe this person is just you know, a loser. There
is that possibility as well too. I'm just saying that

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there are there are options to figuring this whole thing
out that might be a solution to the whole situation.
That's the kind of nuanced, sophisticated analysis that I was
hoping for, because before I got your analysis, I was
all into the time travel scenario. So I appreciate you

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opening my eyes to other possibilities because can I ask
you a questions? What do you mean you never have
to say? Can I ask you a question? When it's
your show? I know, but listen, you and I both
know this industry is filled with egomaniacs and blowhards, and
if you step on their toes, they get outraged because
it's their show. I just I can't say that. Um.

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And by the way, if you think I'm lying, go
to a Super Bowl radio row one time you a
radio wrote the Super Bowl and and just feast your
eyes on some of the egomaniacs. It's like, dude, you're
you talk into a microphone about sports that you don't
play for a living. Stop all right, just just calm down.
But if you could go back in time to any era,

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any decade, what would it be? If speaking of time
travel any era and decade, what would it be for sports?
The eighties the eighties? I would go Lakers, Celtics form sports.
I'm talking about in general, any decade. What would you
want to go back to. I wouldn't because I wouldn't

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have a phone to like go on Twitter and stuff.
I mean, if I was watching TV and I'd have
to change the channel, I'd have to get up and
walk twenty ft to the TV and change the channel.
Isaac selfones have been around for what like twelve fifteen years? Okay,
so so there was you realize there was a world

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well well before Sam. I'm not talking about those bricks
cell phones instaid people had in a car. I'm talking
about like the ones that you have in your pocket
right now, Like like there were there was a time
where people had pages, remember pages, and it was hell.
It was hell. Remember when you used to have to
write in a code so that way somebody didn't waste

(28:24):
having to go to make a phone call. If you
wanted to message somebody down there on their pager, you
would write in some sort of a code like come
to house or some But it was like the four
upside down and it was like it was like a
whole language in itself. There was a world that existed
before cell phones. I'm just saying, like if you if
you had to go back, you would have been fine.

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You would have adapted to this situation. If you had
to pick a decade, what would it be? You had
to Okay, if I had to know, I you know what,
I would say the eighties. I would say the eighties. Yes, okay,
how about you? I think the fifties because I just like,
I like that vintage look. I just feel like diners.
I feel like, uh, you know, like chocolate malts, hamburger

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and fries, roller skates as they come out to your window.
There's just something about like like basically like back to
the future. Something about that era. I'm just I'm a
big fan of make sure you bring back your Gray's
Sports Almanac. That that's a good point. And there there's
also that and little known fact. I learned this a
while back. The guy who plays biff On Back to

(29:31):
the Future. I I found out a direct email from
him to our producer. I think it was Lee the
lap who reached out to him that he's a fan
of the show. No kidding, listen to the show. How
about that Thomas F. Wilson, yeahs show. Yeah, we were
trying to get him on. He said, Hey, you know,
I respectfully decline, but you know I listened to Jonas

(29:55):
love the show. Thanks for reaching out. Totally nice, super
cool guy. So one of the great villains of all time. Yeah,
he must catch he must catch the podcast because he
sleeps in on Saturdays. Well yeah, I mean listen. I
just I love I love how he bullies mc fly.
I just think it's hilarious. McFly didn't get the last

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left Hey, by the way, we got some results will
be in the twenty two two edition of Gray's Sports Almanac.
The Dodgers on Friday Night to Feeding the Cubs and
ten addings for to three, Will Smith the game winning
RBI single in the bottom of the tenth inning, Seattle's
au Haineo Sworez the game winning three run home run
in the bottom of the eleventh for a five to
win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Mariners on a season

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six game winning streak, Manning Machado with three run home run,
and the Padres six three victory over the San Francisco Giants.
In the NBA ESPN reporting, Portland Trailblazer star Damian Lillards
agreed to a two year, one hundred twenty two million
dollar extension through seven and as we speak, in the
Ladies Singles final at Wimbledon, they're in a deciding third

(31:05):
set on Jibor of Tunisia and Elena rib A Kina
of Kazakhstan tied at one set apiece, and right now
Riba Kina leads Jabbor three games to one in the
third and deciding set. Jonas back. Do you thanks, Isaac?
By the way, for you tennis faces out there. I
don't know what you call them, like, racket heads, whatever,

(31:25):
what I think you're just coming. I think you just
coined the new new phrase. Good job A right, Yeah, alright, So,
so you racults out there, here's a here's just some
facts for you. Bad mittens greater than tennis. Sorry to
wait to player to watch, I mean probably both. I've
never watched a bad mitten game, but I would be,
you know, I would be more interested in that than

(31:46):
a tennis match. That's a hot Take hold onto your
socks and shuttlecocks. Hey, eyes above the belt. I'm breaking
down bad minton. Get your mind out of the gutter
listening For those of you out there like, oh my god,
can you say that on the air. That is actually
what you call the little birdie they hit in badminton.

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It's called a shuttlecock. But by the way, one of
the great nicknames ever handed out here in the history
of sports radio, Ben Maller called Eddie Garcia the shuttlecock
of sports talk. So get your mind out of the gunner.
Thank you. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio, Get me on
Twitter at the Jonas Kocks at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter.
We are gonna have another edition of Do You Care

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coming up in about ten minutes from now here on
fs ARE. Let me just say this, if you've been
if you want to see the tale of two organizations.
Just watch the Cubs Dodgers game from last night Thursday night,
later on tonight tomorrow during the day. It's a tale
of two organizations. It wasn't that long ago that the

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Chicago Cubs were celebrating going to a World Series in
front of the Dodgers at Wrigley Field, celebrating, and then
the very next year we're in the NLCS again against
those same Dodgers. But here's the difference. The Dodgers have
stayed at the same level competitive, good, aggressive in free agency,

(33:16):
aggressive at the trade deadline. They've stayed at that same level.
The Cubs have crapped themselves for five or six years
in a row. And if basically said, hey, you know
all those guys who got us our first World Series,
uh in over a hundred years. You know all those

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guys who gave us our first successful championship team in
over a century. You know how we're going to reward
everybody here. We're gonna first fire the manager who did it,
and then we're gonna trade everybody who got us that title.
That's what we're gonna do. Bryant Rizzo by as you

(33:58):
name it, Lester Areata like go go down the list
like this is. This is how funny the trajectory and
the paths that the Dodgers and Cubs have taken. This
how this is how different it is. The members of
the Cubs team that are still on the team that
we're there when they won a World Series in two

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thousand sixteen, when they celebrated in front of these Dodgers,
who they figured out a way to gag another lead
away from to a last night at Dodger Stadium. These
are the remaining members that were on that team. Wilson
Contraris who they're probably gonna trade, Kyle Hendricks, who they're

(34:43):
probably got a trade, and David Ross, who was a
player and is now the manager of the Cubs. And
I'm watching these two organizations and I'm thinking to myself, Jesus,
the right right there is why certain organizations have sustained

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success for a long time and others are a blip
on the map. They have this they're they're they're a comet,
not a star. They don't stay up there for a while.
They shine really really bright, and then they disappear, just
a flash, really bright flash, and then they're gone. That's
the Cubs and you're watching the talent discrepancy, You're watching

(35:25):
the way they've handled the organism everything. So if you
want to see the right way to do it and
the opposite way to do it, because who knows, maybe
some of these prospects they've traded for we're going to
turn out to be something. Just watch the Dodgers and Cubs.
You could not have a more different approach to success

(35:46):
than those two organizations have had. And it's playing out
on the field in front of your very eyes. Jonas
Knocks Fox Sports Radio, Get me on Twitter at the
Jonas Knocks at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter. All right.
Coming up next it is another edition of Do You Care.
It's an opportunity to make fun of some of the
hot topics in the world of sports over the last week.
We will get into that for you right here on
fs are Hey, I'm talking to McFly, you Irish bug.

(36:09):
Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio. Coming up top the next hour,
the NFL, as you know it is going to change.
We'll figure out whether or not it's a big deal
or not. By the way, is this the song that
they played in Peewee Herman's Was it Peewee's big Adventure
where he's standing on the bar top and tequila by

(36:30):
the champs man the sand loot stinks. What a bad hell.
That's one of those movies you get older and you
watch it and you go, I can't believe my parents
subjected me to this garbage, this feel good, crummy story.
Oh it's a it's a Babe ruth ball. Blah blah blah.
Look at that a dog spit out a Babe ruth ball.

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And it don't sell me that. Benny the what is it,
Benny the Airplane Dominguez or whatever his name is, Benny Riguez, Yeah, whatever,
same thing. Don't don't don't tell me that that guy
made you know, made the Dodgers uh lineup. You're a
horrible person, Jonas, What a bunch of crap. That guy
didn't make the lineup with his with his lack of
speed and inability to hit with runners in scoring position.

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You're telling me Benny the Airplane Dominguez made the Dodgers roster.
I don't buy it. Called Shenanigan's bunch of bs. Shut up.
About time somebody told the truth about that crumby movie.
Here on the show, speaking of Peewee Herman killing. I'm
just saying, speaking of Pewee Herman interesting behavior outside movie
theaters from what I hear. Look that one up. Oh,

(37:34):
come on, that was in a movie theater that was
like thirty five years ago. Listen, look it up. He's
like seventy now. Looks amazing, Paul Rubens, look it up.
Look it up. By the way, Welcome in the Peewee
Herman Defense League. That is Iowa Sam joining the program.
So good to have Peewee's Defense league here. Great, great
to have him. All right, right now, it is time

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for something we do on the show every single week
all this There's so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time reports.
Let's get kinky. Here's some of the big stories from
the last week. But Jonas, the real question is do
you care? And in for Ryan Burr Shinger, who has

(38:18):
been suspended until further notice because of conduct detrimental off
the air, it is Bow, Benson, Bow, What the hell
is going on? Thank god, man, his reign of terror
must end. Listen. I want I want to be clear
on this because I said it a couple of weeks ago,
and I want to make sure we save this. I
hate Ryan Burr Shinger right there with you, right there.

(38:40):
I'm I'm also concerned. Did you hear that? Sam said? Uh,
Paul Rubens was in the theater, as if that makes
it better. I know, I know that's terrorist. Honey, I'm
gonna get a popcorn and some Juji fruits. Oh it's
not a normal movie theater. What's he doing over there? Oh? Yeah? Alright, so, uh,

(39:03):
this guy's a terrorist. Chet chet Homegren played pretty well
in the Summer League this week, And do you care
about that at all? And now I don't. I just
said this this whole thing, like, like we're talking summer league?
What are we doing here? Like, like, chet Homegren, did
you see him dominating at six blocks at his summer
league debut? Dude, it's the summer League. What are we talking?

(39:27):
Like the next game, he was getting bullied down on
the block. But I don't even know who the guy
was it was bulling him down on the block. I mean,
if you wanted to know what month it is. In
sports talk radio, people are breaking down chet Homegren's summer
League appearance. Next Albert Pooholes and Miguel Cabrera have been
added to the All Star Game as legacy selections. Do

(39:48):
you care? No, I don't listen. Bo, You're you're you're
the baseball guy here is. Do they still do it
where every team has to have a representative in the
All Star Game? I still done? I'm not sure. I
don't think so. But maybe maybe if it's not the case,
let's delete this next statement from the podcast. But if

(40:08):
it is the case, let's keep this. Um Once I
figured that out as a kid, I was out on
the All Star Game. I mean, like, everybody's got to
be represented. Why some of these stink bomb teams need
a need a player on there so you can make
their fan base feel good. Get out of my face. Next,
von Miller said he would have taken less money to
sign with the Dallas Cowboys. Do you care? No, That's

(40:30):
what that's like me saying I would have become a meteorologist,
you know, if if I hadn't been struck by lightning
when I was four months old. Come on, next, The
Bachelor returns on Monday with two Bachelor's dating everybody at
the same time. Do you care? Actually kind of look
at that getting aggressive by the match are at That's

(40:50):
how it's done. Oh man. So football as you know
it is going to change quite a bit. We will
get into that coming up here in just a couple
of moments from now, Jonas knocks Fox Sports Radio. You
can hang out with us is always on the I
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affiliates all across the country and wherever the hell you

(41:12):
are making us a part of your Saturday morning. We
appreciate you doing so. We'll take you all the way
up through the end of the hour noon Eastern time,
nine am Pacific. It's been a wild show thus far.
We have got reviews pouring in on some of the
content that we have discussed here on fs R. So
we'll be getting to that here, uh in just a

(41:33):
couple of moments from now. I do want to mention
this though, so football as you know it could be changing,
and this this should show you the gravity of the
NFL years ago when you wanted to watch your team
play and it was an out of market team. Like
if you if you lived in a certain part of
the country but your favorite team was somewhere else, there

(41:53):
was really one option you had, Like you had to
go find a sports bar or a restaurant and that's
how you could watch your favorite team. Like, not a
lot of people had Sunday ticket nowadays, you know, I
mean like you almost have to have it. Like you

(42:15):
talked to some like bar owners, like people who own
sports bars, and they'll tell you, like it's gotten to
the point to where Direct TV could just jack up
the price as much as they want, because the price
you and I pay for Sunday ticket is different than
what they do. They pay by capacity, and when Direct

(42:35):
TV comes to your establishment, they look at how many
TVs you got, and they look at how many people
are inside this establishment. Now, there are certain places around
the country that do like to uh you know, cut
corners and maybe not do things on the up and up.
You know, places around the country who might illegally have
a TV that's hooked up to a Direct TV box

(42:56):
and they're paying what you would pay at home to
air certain sporting events. I can recall living in South Carolina,
uh in in Charleston, South Carolina, North Charleston, to be exact,
in a place that is no longer in business. I
remember going to watch a UFC event and then seeing

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that there was another event on that was not on
direct TV. It was on another cable box. So they
had two TVs sort of jerry rigged up to where
you could you could watch one and the other. But
they weren't paying the premium prices as a sports bar.
They hadn't hooked up, almost like they were a house.

(43:37):
So it was like going over to a house party,
like hey, man, can I watch the Sixers game? And
your buddy's like, oh, come on, man, I got money
on the box and it's like, well, do you have
another TV? I just throw it on the laptop. It
was like that. So there are places around the country
you don't play by the rules, but by and large,
if you wanted to watch the NFL back in the day,
you had to go find one of those sports bars

(43:59):
and and that that would be your only avenue to
be able to get to watch your favorite team play.
And look, if you're like me, you found yourself in
some shady places trying to watch football, like not even drinking,
just having a you know, a glass of water and
what they called chips and salsa and going, okay, it's

(44:19):
ten am out here on the West Coast, what do
we got? So like the NFL and Sunday Ticket has
been a part of our lives for a long time. Well,
this came out according to Roger Goodell, the commissioner of
the NFL. Um He was on CNBC on Friday and
he said that Sunday Ticket is going to leave Direct

(44:41):
TV after this upcoming season. It's gone, and it is
going to go to a streaming service. So it's going
to and CNBC is reported it could be Disney, could
be Amazonic, could be Apple, whatever the case may be,
it's leaving Direct TV. It's going to streaming service. The
thing about the NFL, none of it matters, Like like

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the NFL is so powerful, none of it matters. Like
I love boxing, huge boxing fan. Ever since Boxing left
HBO and HBO stopped carrying boxing, I'm not as big
of a boxing fan because I just love the presentation
of it all, Like them leaving that one platform that

(45:28):
I could watch it makes it more difficult for me
to follow along. And just because I thought HBO's coverage
of boxing was so good and so brilliant and listen,
there are other places out there to do a great
job showing boxing, but I felt like HBO was part
of your it's it's it was what you grew up
on when you thought of boxing. You you thought boxing

(45:51):
after Dark, you thought Jim Lampley, Larry Merchant, you know,
Emmanuel Steward, Max Kellerman, Roy Jones. Like that's what you
thought of when you thought about boxing. It looks like
Fox has done great events when it comes to boxing, showtime, ESPN,
do Zone, so you know, still watch, you still pay attention.

(46:11):
But they left HBO and it kind of took something
away from the sport. The NFL could be anywhere and
you would go watch it. It doesn't It's like it's
the complete opposite. It doesn't matter that it's Direct TV.
Years ago, if I told you, hey, the NFL is
leaving Direct TV, you'd probably be like, where are they going? Dish,

(46:34):
Like what what are we gonna do? Like the NFL
has gotten to a point to where they call the shots.
Direct TV is going to take a massive hit because
they're losing the NFL. And this has been in the
works for quite some time, and as the prices have
gone up every single year, people have been looking for

(46:55):
what's next, what's going to be another option? And now
it's gonna be streaming. Like if I would have told
you ten twelve years ago while you're sitting in some
crumby sports bar having to watch an NFL game at
you know, ten in the morning, or if you're in Hawaii,
seven am to try and watch your favorite team play,
eating bad food because the kitchen is not even fully open,
but they got games on. If I were to tell

(47:16):
you a decade later, by the way, don't worry about it.
It'll be on the Disney app soon, Like what what
are you talking about? But that is how much the
sport has grown to where however you grew up watching it,
it's completely changed and the NFL calls the shots now.
So no longer Direct TV after this season, no longer

(47:37):
Sunday Ticket. It's coming to a streaming platform and then
we get to wait to see whether or not it's Amazon, Disney, Apple,
you name it. But football as you knew, as you
know it is going to change after this upcoming season.
So if you are fed up with paying these prices, uh,
good news and bad news, maybe you won't pay as much,
but you're gonna still gonna have to pay probably a
grip to try and get the NFL games next season.

(47:59):
Jonas knocks Fox Sports Radio all right, So a lot
of feedback on the show. Thus far, we are an
hour plus into the show, a lot of a lot
of feedback. Let's first start with positive stuff here, all right,
people are very excited about the performance of everybody involved
in this show. Dan writes in, uh quote you flaming

(48:19):
fairy stick to crying like the sensitive snowflake bleep. You
are about bleep golfers taking Saddy money when you're not
breaking down about conference changes in boring ass college football
f boy. First of all, have you seen the private

(48:41):
jet that those live golfers are taking to go to events.
It looks like a casino, so good for them. Brian
writes in You're useless, never been interfering in any second
of life. Bleep ass makes even unwatchable garbage sand lots

(49:06):
seem watchable. Not the most smooth of of insults. Via
Twitter from from Brian, who's a big fan of the show. Also,
some people are are commenting on Iowa Sam defending with
all his might, uh the great pee wee Herman and
his behavior outside of movie theater. So congratulations, Sam, You've

(49:30):
reached it. This is the pinnacle of sports talk radio.
You're associated as the guy defending Peewee. Herman settled in
this a little bit, reached what exactly just the the pinnacle,
the pinnacle. Yeah, yeah, just just wanting just wanted you
to be aware of that. Guys made an incredible impact
on pop culture. Sure, he has what I mean, incredible

(49:50):
impact on pocket culture too, pocket billiards. Yeah. Uh, there's
also uh people, And by the way, listen, for those
of you that are upset that I made fun of
the sand Lot, I don't know what to tell you.
It's just it's not a great movie. Uh, it's it's just, uh,
it's not my thing. It's one of those things. Listen.

(50:12):
It's one of those things you watch when you're a
kid and then you get older and you're like, why
did I watch this? It's like fun dip. You ever
had fundip when you were a kid, It seemed like
the greatest idea in the world. It's it's a it's
a bag of candy sand and it's a stick of
sugar and you lick the stick and you put it
in the bag of candy sand and it's got like

(50:32):
different flavors. You can like wrap it around your waist
like a tool belt and uh, and it seems like
the greatest idea in the world, and then you have
it when you're older and your body shuts down and
you're thinking to yourself, I paid a dollar twenty five
for this from the ice cream man when I was
the Hell's wrong with me? I'm just trying to shed
some light on the sand lot for you so you

(50:53):
can get be piste off about it all you want.
I don't know what to tell you. These are these
are just facts that we're spitting here on Fox Sports Radio.
And by the way, for so many people that are
really upset, get a sense of humor. I don't know
what to tell you, Like, get a sense of humor.
I'm seeing all the naked like just be being too negative.
Come on, man, try to have a little bit of

(51:14):
fun here on a Saturday Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio.
Get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knocks at the
Jonas Knocks on Twitter, you can hang out with us.
Is always on the I Heart Radio app. If you're
a big fan of the show, you can respond on Twitter.
If you're not a fan of the show, respond there
as well too. You don't even have to follow along,
just say what you gotta say. Let her rip. Uh.
Coming up next though, if you want to talk about
who has had the worst off season in the NFL,

(51:37):
A lot of people think it's easy, it's the Cleveland Browns.
There is a team that's giving them competition. They are
giving them serious competition, a serious threat to the crown
of worst off season in the NFL. I'll tell you
who that is coming up next year on Fox Sports Radio.
Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio. I'll be honest with you.

(52:00):
We say, Uh, there's a lot of stuff that gets
said on this show every single week. I don't know
that there's been as much pushback or vitriol via social
media than than some of the comments that were made
earlier in this show. I I had no idea people
were this worked up about this. Uh. You know, we

(52:21):
will get into that conversation here momentarily. I do want
to let you know in about ten minutes from now,
we are also going to have a discussion about some irony.
There is some irony in the NFL about a quarterback situation.
We will have that for you here on Fox Sports Radio. Um, listen,
I I made a comment earlier, and UM, you know, I,

(52:44):
upon further review, I would like to as a man,
um as an adult, as a grown up. UM not
apologize at all for my opinion on the sand Lot.
Not a fan of the movie. Uh cool movie. When
you're a kid, you get older and you realize is
just not great and people are really really bothered by
it getting insults. Uh people are. It's like they act

(53:10):
like I beat up Santa Claus, like I'm ruining their childhood.
Like I didn't beat up Santa Claus, all right, I did.
I didn't throw the Easter Bunny down a flight of stairs.
I'm gonna kill you like all. I just it was
a common about a movie. I don't have to tell
you the Listen, there's movies that I like that people
think are bad. The movie Used Cars. You ever seen

(53:30):
the movie Use Cars? One of the great comedies of
all time. There is nobody listening to this right now
that has ever seen the movie Used Cars. I can
assure you if you have seen it, you'd understand one
of the great comedies of all time. But I've shown
it to friends before and they don't get it. Why
do you think that's funny? Like? Why why? Why do

(53:52):
you think this scene is funny? I don't know it's
what I grew up on. Probably shouldn't have been watching
it as a kid. Maybe it shaped my childhood more
than I than I really changed my trajectory and more
than I realized. But that's a movie I like. Some
people don't like it. Some people haven't even seen it.
These are just opinions, you know, having some fun busting
balls here on a Saturday morning. Should be allowed to

(54:14):
do that here on fs are. That's why you come here.
But people are very upset about it. So I don't
know have to tell you. All right, you can continue
on at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter at the Jonas
Knocks on Twitter. Um, so I did think, Uh, I
do think the Cleveland Browns have a contender right there.
There is some competition, So the Browns depending on what

(54:38):
happens with the Deshaun Watson suspension, depending on how that's
gonna go. Uh, the Cleveland Browns have had the worst
off season in the NFL. But I think that's fair.
And listen, the longer this goes on, the more I'm
starting to think that Deshaun Watson suspension is getting reduced

(54:59):
to lie eight games, maybe ten at most. Maybe they
suspend him for ten, but it gets reduced down to eight.
I just I thought the entire season, the full season,
But I think the NFL's case that was presented to
the judge Suel Robinson was kind of flimsy, and from
what Altbert Breer was saying this week on Fox Sports Radio,

(55:21):
Suell Robinson, the judge was not happy about some of
the leaks and reports about the potential punishment and what
it was going to be from the NFL side, She's
not happy about it. So I think we're gonna be
getting a decision on that in the upcoming week, I hope,
so we can all move on with our lives and
have some sort of an answer. There are people out
there that have a future's bet on the Cleveland Browns.

(55:42):
They bet on the Browns win total or Super Bowl
odds before the year and made the move right after
the Deshaun Watson trade, and they're looking around going, hey,
should I go ahead and count on this not happening.
I'd like to make that move now. I'd like to
figure out my my financial plans. Can we figure out
whether or not Deshaun Watson is getting been it for four?
Game six, eight, ten, twelve, sixteen, nineteen five. Whatever the

(56:06):
decision is, let's speed this up. I do think we're
gonna get an answer this week. But the Browns have
had a bad off season. They've had the worst off
season in the NFL. There is a team, though, that
is giving them stiff competition. I present to you these
Chicago Bears. Wow. So they fire Matt Naggy, they get

(56:31):
rid of Ryan Pace, they bring in Ryan Poles, and
they've had three players that he has signed get arrested
this offseason, most recently David Moore, a wide receiver who
signed a deal with the Chicago Bears this offseason. I
don't know what you're fourth of July weekend was like,

(56:51):
but his wasn't all that interesting. You know. He was
found passed out in a Taco Bell drive through last
Sunday night. Ha ha, but don't worry, listen, probably just
a little tired. And then they searched the car and go, oh,
we got edibles. H we smell marijuana and there's three handguns. Okay,

(57:17):
you had another player speeding. I think it was a
Byron Pringle who was speeding. He had a small child
in the car while he was doing like donuts. He
was like street racing. I mean it is. It has
been an awful offseason for the Chicago And that's just
from the legal standpoint. And then you go to the
football side of things. You know, what's the future gonna

(57:38):
look like? Justin Fields is screwed. Like, let's let's be
clear here, that was a guy they traded up for,
gave up first round picks four because they were so
high on him. Now they've got him, and they have

(57:59):
surrounded him with nobody. They they've got the most inexpensive
offense in the NFL. Warren Sharp, who does a phenomenal
job breaking down the NFL analytics, putting numbers together, crunching
the numbers, he sent out a tweet a few days
ago most expensive and least expensive offenses. The Bears are

(58:24):
thirty two out of thirty two teams. Like they've gutted
the entire roster. Well, it's a rebuild, all right. Tell
that to Justin Fields. It's a rebuild. And he's got
nothing around him. Now they've added some players in the draft.
They do have uh you know, uh, some you know

(58:45):
receivers there that they feel strongly about. They you know,
darn Old Mooney they think is gonna be a potential,
a stud, a receiver. He had a pretty good year
last year. Like they they've they've tried, they they're trying
to sell you all. But you're looking at this team
in this raw auster and you're like, this doesn't make sense.
How is he supposed to have success? And by the way,

(59:05):
if Justin Fields struggles this year, are we sure if
the Bears are bad enough, they're not going to take
a swing at a quarterback in the top of the
draft next year with all the studs that are coming out,
like like, like we're sure that the that the Bears
wouldn't be in the market for a quarterback next year.
You think they're just gonna all of a sudden, say, listen,

(59:25):
two years in both struggling seasons, don't worry about it.
We're sticking by our guy. This regime didn't draft him.
So Justin Fields is looking around going we've got the
cheapest offense, literally the cheapest offense of the league. It's
year too, it's a brand new regime, brand new coaching staff.
They didn't draft me, they didn't trade up to draft me.

(59:49):
But don't worry about it. The new guys here I
have signed a bunch of players that have been arrested.
One guy, in particular, a guy I'm supposed to be
throwing football's too, was passed out ordering a Mexican pizza
and a Gordi at eleven thirty at night on a
Sunday before fourth of July. It's unbelievable. Oh here, but
don't worry about it. Uh. They're talking about putting a

(01:00:11):
dome over Soldier Field, you know, because because that'll make
the Bears to want to stay in downtown Chicago. Smallest venue,
outdated stadium, a stadium that they tried to renovate twenty
years ago, and it's been a punchline for two decades
because it looks like a spaceship landed inside the old

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Soldier Field, not an exaggeration. If you drive by Soldier
Field coming in from the airport, look over and you'll
think you're like, in was it War of the World's
Fire in the Sky? Pick a UFO movie. Look to
your right as you're driving in from the airport, whether
it's O'Hara or Midway, and you'll swear to God, Tom

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Cruise is being dropped out of a pod in downtown Chicago.
The entire organization is in flux, and yet they keep
trying to sell you dot don't worry about it. It's
a rebuild hot I don't want Hey listen, they've got
this new venue in Arlington Heights that they're getting. You know,

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they've they've torn down the race track. They're gonna put
the team there. Like it has been an awful start
for the new regime. It's been terrible, But don't worry
about it. They got the quarterback of the future. Yeah,
with nothing around him. It's great for his career. Jonas
Knox Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter at the
Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox. Coming up, we are

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going to get to some irony in the NFL when
it comes to the quarterback position for one team. We'll
have that for you next year. But for all the
latest from around the world of sports, ladies and gentlemen,
I present to you, sir Isaac Loancron. We have a
Jonas Knox cinema update coming up big time? Is that

(01:01:58):
okay with you? I mean, let's and when you talk
movie knowledge, you you come here. No nobody knows more
about movies than me. By the way, the last movie
I saw in the theater. I think was the most
recent Halloween, the Michael Myers movie. I think it was
it Jamie Lee Curtis. Wasn't that movie Like it was
a remake of the original Halloween. You're saying, yeah, but

(01:02:19):
you were like a different one every Halloween. I think
I went with my sister um and I realized, yeah,
this wasn't very good, but it was, you know, it
was the Halloween season, so it was like, you know,
it's kind of spooky. You know, you're sitting in the
theater and uh, you know, you're getting scared because the
guy pulls out a knife, you know, the size of,

(01:02:39):
you know, a whiffleball bat, and he starts going to
work on the neighbors. And it's like, oh man, this
is this is something. But that's the last movie I
saw in the theater. So when it comes to cinema knowledge,
when it comes to movie knowledge, nobody better than this show.
You know, if it's a knife the size of a
whiffleball bat, I actually think that wouldn't be too dangerous.
I mean, you're you're not exactly talking about a Samurai sword.

(01:03:01):
If it's like a whiffleball bat, it's gonna be a
little floppy on wheel dy inaccurate. So you know, if
Michael Myers or whoever that has came after me with
a knife that resembled a whiffleball bat, I think I'd
like my chances. Yeah, that's fair. Unfortunately, Uh, it'll get
the job done either way. So I mean really, well,
if it's a movie, I mean yeah, so, I mean,

(01:03:24):
you know, it's it's like, what do you want? Do
you prefer a chainsaw or but you're not. I mean,
I don't know. They both do the trick. As long
as the check clears and I get residuals, you can
do whatever you want. On set. From whiffleball to Major
League Baseball. On Friday night, at the Los Angeles Dodgers
to be to the Chicago Cubs in ten innings, four
to three, Will Smith the game winning RBI single in

(01:03:45):
the bottom of the tenth I think I believe we
actually have audio of the game winning RBI single by
Will Smith, and there it is right there. Meanwhile, in Seattle,
a u Hanio Suarez the game winning three run home
run in the bottom of the eleventh inning for a
five to victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Mariners on
a season I six game wedding streak. Lapadres Manny Machado

(01:04:06):
with three run home run and their six three victory
over the Giants. Blakes Now struck out eleven for his
first victory of the season in the NBA. ESPN reporting
that Portland Trailblazer star Damian Lillards agreed to a two year,
one hundred twenty two million dollar extension through the seven season.
The Ladies Singles final at Wimbledon today came down to

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a deciding third set between Lena Raibakina of Kazakhstan on
On Jabbor of Tunisia. Here's how it ended, courtesy of
Rich Connolly on Wimbledon Radio. Kicked it to the back
end of who's missed with the back ends her second

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appearance of the Championships as she's won the Ladies Singles
and now to wrap up, yes, go ahead of you
know you know how excited that guy is that that
matches over? Can I go get a drink? Hey, if
somebody give me to a pub and order me a
Boddington's and a fish and chips. I'm tired of watching this.
Can somebody put badminton on? That's what he's thinking at

(01:05:14):
that was Isaac at the Blue Dog two weeks ago.
That very it's very, very accurate, by the way that
that is a that is a joke that ten people
listening got because they've seen what's next to the fun
sports radio student, you know what? That makes it worthwhile though,
And no, it's it's funny to mention that because ribaki

(01:05:35):
A won the second set and I'm like, okay, I'm
gonna record the second set winning highlight Wimbledon Singles final
going to a deciding third set, and this guy's highlight
was even he sounded even more bored than that, And
I'm like, I want to blame this, but I can't.
It's still boring. Why not? Come on, It's gone forever,

(01:05:56):
per Okay. So here's the Jonas knocks cinema updates bonus,
sending me down the rabbit hole like he typically does,
mentioning a movie that I've never heard of called Used Cars.
And it turns out, it turns out I discovered a
scene that I'm gonna play for you right now, just
for you, Jonas, to cover up my actual real life

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distaste for you. But this is a scene where Kurt
Russell has a car dealership, a used car dealership. A
guy across the street is about to buy a car
from a competing car dealership across like a six lane road.
Kurt Russell takes a fishing pole, attaches a ten dollar
bill to it, cast the line across the street, and

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gets the guy to chase the ten dollar bill as
he literally reels in his customer across the street with
that ten dollar bill. I'm gonna play it for you,
Jonas right now. This is from Used Cars starring Kurt
Russell in Up to Your Decision. One who hesitates is lost. Hey, Sleeve,

(01:07:05):
don't foult back here either. How you're doing? Say this
your ten dollars? You know, I saw it floating underneath
the car and picked it up. Here, Mr rep what's
your name? Stanley watched Great Shoes? Love them so Jonas.

(01:07:28):
I might, I might disagree with other of your movie choices,
but so far I love what I've seen and use
cars back to you, I'm telling. And by the way,
there are people that have seen and this shocks me
because I feel like I'm in the minority when it
comes to that movie I grew up on that we
shouldn't have been allowed to watch it as kids, but
I had really older brothers who would put it on

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and it was so good. There's there's a scene where
people are protesting their antics and and they're standing out
in front of the car lot and one of the
guys has to take a pose to some nuns who
were protesting. It's so good. It's so good. Oh man,

(01:08:08):
hopefully my wife didn't hear that. Uh well, let's go
live to our I have a thought in a movie
from nineteen eight insider Iowa Sam for the Latest Sam.
I was just thinking about how young Kurt Russell sounds.
You must have been like twenty five when he made
that movie. It just sounds like a little little guy,
a young guy. Yeah, I don't know. I I think
he's in his late sixties now and maybe early seventies.
But Kurt Russe, he was twenty nine years old by

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the Kurt Russell, the Pride and Joy of Thousand Oaks, California,
where I was. Kurt Russell is the man. He's been
in so many movies. Yeah, it's great. Kurt Russell went
to my elementary school, to my junior high, and went
to my high school. I'm just saying, man has have
you guys looked up the production staff for Used Cars
Robert Zemeckis. Robert Zemeckis is the director, and it was

(01:08:53):
executive produced by Steven Spielberg and John Millius. Yeah, Jesus, yeah, see,
I told you know what I'm talking about. I had
no idea that, wow, that movie. I just thought it
was a a B level comedy that I thought was
funny and nobody else did. But listen, people are chiming in.
They think it's great. So that's awesome, man. I I
encourage everybody, uh, do yourself a favor. Uh and uh,

(01:09:17):
By the way, if you are easily offended, probably not
the movie for you. I'll just say that, maybe wait
till the kids are in bed, you know, maybe wait
till certain people aren't in the room. If you are
an easily offended person, and if you are, you're probably
not listening to this show. But if you are an
easily offended person, not the thing for you. I'll just
say that, all right, do wanta snocks? Fox Sports Rading.
By the way, we are gonna have the scraps things

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in the world of sports we have not had a
chance to get to and beyond that's coming up here
in about ten minutes from now. I do think there
is some irony to the Carolina Panthers quarterback situation. If
we're just gonna be honest about where they stand at quarterback,
you basically have two players from the same aim draft

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who were taken in the top three at quarterback, who
are competing to save their careers. So just think about this.
Whoever loses the starting job, Baker Mayfield or Sam Donald,
their career is probably over, meaning their career as a
starting quarterback is probably over because the book's already been written.

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Sam Donald, because he's not as loud or as boisterous,
or as controversial, or as talkative or as noisy as
Baker Mayfield, he got another chance with Carolina because people
think he's a good teammate and he's a good dude,
and you don't have a lot of the drama that
you normally deal with when it comes to Baker Mayfield

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and the talking and everything that comes along with Baker.
You don't have to deal with that. So Sam Donald
got an opportunity to be a starting quarterback in Carolina
when he hasn't had half the career Baker Mayfield has.
And if we're gonna be honest about Sam Donald. And
there's a lot of Sam Donald ball washers who who
thought he was the next big thing coming out of USC.

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I mean, guys like Mitch Robinsky have had way better
careers than Sam Donald. Yet the criticism isn't equal to
either one Robinsky. The Steelers signed Trabinsky, and it's like,
oh my god, that's the answer. After Ben Roethlisberger, Carolina
trades for Sam Darnald. It's like, well, thank god, he's
got a new scene. Thank he's got some fresh scenery

(01:11:30):
around him. He's got a fresh start. Good for Sam Donald.
He deserves it. It's weird. It's where don't we make
those those conversations and those discussions happen like that. It's
where that works. But whoever loses his starting job in Carolina,
their career is over because Baker Mayfield's probably not gonna
get He's probably not gonna get another chance to be
a legitimate starting quarterback after this because the noise, as

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I mentioned, all the talking. Uh you know, if he's
piste off, I'll let it be known. Who have a
back and forth with the media. Uh, he'll he'll he'll
take people out on social media from time to time,
and so there's a lot of people who don't like
Baker Bayfield. So the book is going to be written
on one of these guys. And it's just the irony

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in thinking when you go back to that draft class,
the first two quarterbacks taken in less than four years,
two of the first three picks from that draft are
going to be competing for the same job with the
same team, trying to save their careers. And it just

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goes to show you the short life in the NFL.
It is a real thing. And when you're a quarterback,
people write the book on you. Now a lot of
times they don't want to talk about the organization and
your surroundings and things like that. But those are both
guys who ended up in bad spots who now have
ended up in another spot with a head coach he
was on the hot seat despite what his owner says,

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and two guys that could be looking at the end
of their career if they lose out on a starting job.
I think that training camp battle in Carolina for quarterback
is one of the most interesting storylines coming up in
training camp in the NFL. Jonas knocks Fox Sports Radio
Get Me on Twitter at the Jonas Knocks at the
Jonas Knocks on Twitter. Uh. Coming up next, we are
going to have the scraps things in the world of

(01:13:20):
sports and beyond we have not had a chance to
get too as we put a ball on this bad boy.
Right here on FS are Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio.
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(01:13:41):
coming up later on as soon as it's posted at
the Jonas Knocks on Twitter. Stick around little over ten
minutes from now, it's another edition of Up on Game
with the guys. Always a fun listen. Um, I do
have a favorite insult now. Some guy absolutely just integrated
me on Twitter. Uh called me a h this is great. Uh,

(01:14:05):
well he said, I'm I'm no better than a radio
row B list guy. Hey, as long as you're on
radio row doesn't matter. I mean, it's like living in
a gated community. Your neighbor might make ten dollars a
year more than you. You're still behind the gates. You
punch in the same code. So as long as you
have access to radio row, who cares if your bc
D level? Who gives a rip? He also said Isaac
is only a slight upgrade in his role for this craps.

(01:14:27):
How do I feel, Isaac? I literally screenshot of that
and texted it to my wife and I told her, quote,
I take that as a great compliment. Unquote. How about
you get a catching a stray here? It wasn't a strain,
that was a compliment. Uh, this is one of my
favorite insults I've gotten. He called me a self absorbed blowbag. Hey,

(01:14:51):
what that means? You're not a blowbag? It's great. I think.
I think he tried to combine blow hard and douche bag,
and he said, you know what, blowbag sounds better. I'm
into it. I'll go with blowbag. You only get characters,
gotta make it out the way. I'm gonna steal that.
That's great. Good for him? All right? Right now, it

(01:15:13):
is time for something we do on the show to
close up shop every single week, and it's called this Jon,
how could you not get to these stories? Are the scraps?
And again in for the Suspended indefinitely, Ryan Burr Shinger.
It is Bo Benson bringing some class and dignity to

(01:15:33):
the role of executive producer. Bo. What's happening? Not much?
That's right. If I could just grandstand for a second,
you were just talking about Baker Mayfield in Carolina and
who should win the starting job. NFL Network tweeted out
a graphic with the question, oh, who's gonna start in Carolina? Uh,
and comparing Baker Mayfield and Sam Donald's career so far,
Mayfield is better than Donald in every category they listed,

(01:15:56):
especially in the touchdowns, where he's thrown thirty eight more
touchdowns than Sam Donald has. So I don't understand why
this is even a question. It's it's the whole thing,
Like it's just because Sam Donald's a nice guy. That's
exactly what this is is if you're nice, you're going
to get a free pass. I've never understood if you
and I said this a few minutes ago, if you
were to listen to people talk about Mitch Drabinsky after

(01:16:19):
his time in Chicago and Sam Donald after his time
with the Jets and their new teams, Sam Donald going
to Carolina was like, man, finally get him away. From
all that, I mean, Mitch Drabinsky has done so much
more in his career, Yet the narrative on Mitch Drabinsky is,
oh my god, the Steelers are going with him like
it's like, it's great as long as you're a nice guy.

(01:16:41):
Like it's just it's the whole Sam Donald coverage has
been weird from the start. People they love washing that
guy's balls. I have no idea why. He probably is
a nice guy, but he has gotten so many free
passes that some players never get. Speaking of nice guys,
the uh, the Akers had their first game in the
NBA Summer League last night, and you know, all the

(01:17:04):
stars came out. Rob Polinka was their new coach, Darvin Ham, Lebron,
James Um, Russell Westbrook was there. Uh. Westbrook and Lebron
sat on complete opposite ends of the court from one another,
and uh, every single Laker that was in the building,
the new Signeese, you know, Taylor Horton, Tucker, Kendrick Down,
all those guys. Everybody was there. During halftime, they came

(01:17:25):
up to say hi to Lebron, except for Russell Westbrook,
who left the building and did not acknowledge Lebron's existence,
and Lebron did not acknowledge his existence either. So I mean,
wasn't it Lebron who wanted Westbrook? Like isn't like he
like basically he's a de facto GM there. I mean, yeah,
he also wanted uh Tyler to be the head coach

(01:17:47):
and they told him no. So I think it kind
of goes both ways. I mean, just here's the thing, Like,
Westbrook's gonna end up somewhere and he's, you know, obviously
as his his skill, you know, start to diminish the
older he gets. He's gonna end up somewhere on like
a bad team and and be the best player or

(01:18:08):
second best player on that team, and he'll still be
a draw. He's still fun to watch. I still like
watching Westbrook. I mean, let's you know, not a great
shooter makes you know, I think you might be the
only person in Los Angeles it still wants to watch
wrestling Westbrook play basketball here, but you know what you
can count on he'll be there. Like so like all

(01:18:28):
the conversations about you know, Lebron and Anthony Davis and
their bodies breaking down, man, Westbrook plays as hard as
anybody in the league, and buy and large he's there
almost every single game, so that that's the one thing
at least you can count. And whether or not that's
a good thing, that the debate, I do believe. I
think Lakers fans in the buildings were also chanting, we
want Kyrie. So that's just it's all. It's almost so

(01:18:50):
much fun. Well, I mean, jeez, you know, if you
want dependable, go with Kyrie. That's right. Ums. Left tackle
Trent Williams became the first offensive lineman to join the
Madden ninety nine club this week. Think about that. So
he's so no lineman ever has been in the Madman nine.
He's the first offensive alignment Madden. I saw people were

(01:19:14):
getting upset about it, like, well, what about so and
so if he's a ninety nine or why wasn't so
and so a ninety nine er? It's a video game, dude,
Like we're talking about a video game. Who gives a rip?
Whose rating is what? In Madden? Like I haven't played
Madden in years. If Trent Williams gets a ninety nine

(01:19:34):
or who cares? What the fact that people get this
worked up about it? You know what? What I would
encourage people to do? Stick around here on Fox Sports Radio.
I dare you stick around here on Fox Sports Radio
because if you've ever wondered what it's like listening to
players that you played with in the game Madden, we'll
take a listen next right here on FSR. Son of

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a Bit