August 23, 2023 • 36 mins
Chris Plank and Arnie Spanier, in for Jason and Mike, look around at major questions in the NFC and discuss who they might be able to have faith in this season. The guys sound off on umpiring issues across Major League Baseball. Arnie has a theory that starting pitchers may become the running backs of MLB. Plus, why do the Cowboys always have nauseating levels of coverage?!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
Oh, let's go with staking g.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Let's go, big boy, let's go warn you man.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
How was your day?
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Jeff Goode took two and a half hour, took a
two and a half hour nap.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
So I'm feeling good today.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
Your son gets signed and you celebrate by taking a
two and a half hour nap.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Well that was at you earlier. I just we just
got it posted now. Oh okay, so but yeah, by
the way, yeah, my son outside, he's gonna be playing
in like southern eastern Ontario.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Uh, this is impressive.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Four thousand people in the town and they get a
seven hundred and fifty people go to the games.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That's in pretty good percent. That's population.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
That's because it only holds seven fifty.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
If it holds fifteen hundred, fifteen hundred would go to
the games and they were showing a picture of the jerseys.
They have a fight strap now, where a strap hooks
onto your pants so when you get into a fight,
they can't pull it over your head, and you know
so then they can pummele you.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
So it's straight up.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
I'm like, why, why you gotta be fighting? Why you
gotta be throwing? You're a goalie for crying out lab
So that's a good point.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
He's a goalie. Why does he need the fight strap
as a goalie.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
No, they all have all the jersey fight straps.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
But I'm like, you know, that'll be fine because the
first time he goes out there, there'll be some crazy
goalie like from Mike slap shot that will punch his
face in and then he won't do it anymore. You know,
you got to learn the hard way. I guess that's
that's what we'll thank.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
So gotta learn the hard way. Look out for Ogi Oglethorpe.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Yeah, there's a guy. They have all the Oglethorpe on
their team. Because though there's a guy on their team,
they kept saying, you know what, this guy leads the league.
In last year he led the league. In starting fights,
I'm like, oh, I like this guy already. Man, I
like him.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It's kind of guy like to have.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I gotta tell you this is like, it's like really
out of slap shot.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
It's it's you want to talk about minor league to
the to the minor leagues. I it's just incredible. I
mean you really like you could make another movie about it. That.
That's that's how crazy it is. But whatever, it's his life,
so let's go. So I even keep playing hockey, so
somebody as well keep doing that.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I guess to give that full background for those that
aren't aware, Arnie Son after a stellar collegiate career, he's
pursuing his professional hockey career. So congratulations to Shay Spaniel.
That's big time. As we come to you live from
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buying should be. I'm pumped to hang out with you tonight, Arnie. Yes,
because I feel like we have a ton of stuff
to get to now with.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
How many Roman numerals I gave you? You have thirty
two Roman numerals?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You have thirty Well, I won't lie to you, dude.
I have my own agenda for the show tonight.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I ah, I really gate. I added some late ones
that were pretty good too, that you make.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Something see here for those that aren't familiar with our
Sunday Night show. Arnie is insistent in sending a rundown
that has Roman numerals with very little details and incredibly
impossible to read handwriting.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And let's see tonight.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Yeah, I only have I only have xxix?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Is that thirty two?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Though?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
The xxix is Roman nouble twenty nine?
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I only got twenty nine, so you don't be holding back.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
A few there?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
You don't know how to space thirty two is on
the My gosh, man, you could not make a more
confusing attempt at a rundown for me tonight. What are
you doing because thirty one thirty two is pickleball teams?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Know that's do you want us to get us fired?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah? Twenty two? Yeah, that's well, they were oh and nine.
I just thought we'd bring that up.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Are you trying to mean we don't get these opportunities together.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And you have Dax pickleball.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Team on the rundown? What are we even doing here
at Brushinger. I have to walk, I have way.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I have Robert new Rod number thirty, which says your
Raiders have the third best best offense in the preseason,
and that was without Jacobs.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I thought that was very gratuitous. Did I put that
in there? I appreciate you putting that in the rundown.
I'm not allowing myself to have hope. For those that
aren't familiar, Arnie and I do a show on Sunday
nights from ten p to one a Central time, God's
time zone eleven to two Eastern Time, so we get
a chance to react and recap to the weekend and
kind of in our mind set the tone for the
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week ahead. But I am a oh, I'm just a
beating down Raiders fan. Yeah, I'm not allowing myself to
have hope this season. I'm just not going to hope
a little bit of hope. But it's starting to peak
a bit. I'm I'm falling for a and O'Connell. Even
though against the Scrubs, Jimmy ch looked really good in
the max protect throw swing pass drives that he was
(05:08):
in starting to believe in Zamir White a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Here's the thing, do.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You know, by the way, could I just say, not
only is Aidan O'Connell preseason Hall of Famer, right, you
know what he's won now though he is the preseason MVP.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, we still have another game to go.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, I think he's wrapped it up.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
I don't think we need to start handing out those
awards quite yet, and especially from you given your track records.
But I have allowed myself to have a horrible, horrible
illness and ailment creep into my life because, let's be fair,
no team loses a nine year starter and just gives
him away like the Raiders did Derek Carr. I mean,
Carson Wentz got a freaking first round pick, and Sam
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Darnold you're able to get a second round pick for
him and Alex Smith I ain't got a second round
pick twice, But we can't get anything for Derek Carr.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And you're giving Darren Waller.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
To the Giants. Out's fair.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Darren Waller last year didn't seem like he might have quit.
I needn't mesh All that well with the Raiders' staff.
But I wasn't allowing myself to have hope because you're
in a division with who. You're in a division with
Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert. I like a O'Connell, I
like Jimmy g I don't know if you're gonna beat
those teams with those guys, but you could with Caleb Williams.
So I was on team Tank, but I've done a
(06:19):
one eighty recently, Arnie. I've allowed to enter my life,
so I need it taken away rather quickly.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
You know, I love how you say how we got
nothing for car and that leaves a bad taste in
your mouth. Now you know how angel fans are gonna
feel coming up in a couple of months when they
when the best player in baseball walks away from their
team and they get absolutely nothing for him. So they're
they're gonna know exactly how you feel, actually, because that's
that's what's gonna going to happen to them.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
I would defend it by saying, I like Derek Carr
a lot. He is not a generational, once in a
lifetime player like oh TONI is.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Okay, I gotta go to the super Bowl this year.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
You know? I have the Saints and and the Dolphins.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Well that's going to change after whatever team plays well
this weekend in the preseason, right, that's it?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Could I get one more mulligan?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Up? This is it?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
This Sunday is the one more mulligan I get for
my final predictions?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Well, I I appreciate that because I do want to
see Derek Carr and Darren Waller do well. But if
the Saints make the Super Bowl this year, you can
cut off one of my fingers live on radio. I
will have a bit. I'll come to Los Angeles. I'll
walk in. You can numb it down, you can pick
which finger you want and you can chop that bad
boy off. And I like the Saint too. You know,
(07:37):
I was thinking about this today as we come to
you live from the ti rack dot com studios.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
God, I want to sit here and.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Talk about my team for the next four hours, So
I could you got use that you would do?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I'm not going to Arnie. I want to talk about
the NFC a bit.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Today.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Baker Mayfield was named the starting quarterback for the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. You and I spend endless amounts of times
with hot take knee jerk projections on Sunday. And this
isn't about Baker Mayfield by any stretch of the imagination. This,
to me is about how truly wide open the NFC is. Right,
we all think the Eagles are slam duncan. Boy did
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they get better in the offseason?
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Right?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
They are the overwhelming favorites, no doubt about that.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Yeah, but keep this in mind. Let's just look at
the NFC East. Do you know the last time there
was a repeat division winner in the NFC East.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I don't know the exact year, but I know it's
been what a while, I guess what?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
N years?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Oh, nineteen years, ten years.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
In the last eleven seasons, the last place team in
the division won the East the following season six times.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Six out of eleven years, six.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Out of eleven years. Oh, by the way, you all
kind of think about all the Giants. They've only won
the division twice since two thousand and six. And oh,
by the way, they've also won say am out of
Super Bowls in that time, and they last won a
division time in twenty eleven. And oh, by the way,
you might think that Giants Cowboys matchup is familiar in
(09:06):
Week one. It's the seventh time in the last eleven
years that those two teams have met in Week one.
All those notes courtesy of Peter King's Football Night in
America Our Football Morning in America. It really good stuff.
Just kind of lays out the statistical anomalies. Right, we
always have a team, what was your note? Eighteen of
twenty years a team has gone from worse to first,
(09:27):
So we're always kind of looking at that. That's a
wild stat in the NFC East, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Can you imagine if we had that in the other
sports too, that would be same.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
It'd be amazing. But who right now? Who right now?
Would you say? Man, I am one hundred percent comfortable
saying that they're gonna go and play in the NFC
Championship game. I feel like it's pretty wide open in
the NFC. I like the Eagles a lot, right We'll
see how people adjust to the running game and how
they use Jalen Hurts in two seasons now. But they've
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got new offensive and defensive coordinators. And I know Eagle
fans are celebrating Jonathan Gannon being gone, but it's a
completely different world.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
On the offensive side of things. Right, it's a whole.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
New world with no Tom Brady and Tampa in the
NFC South. You don't have Aaron Rodgers in the North anymore.
I love the Niners in their roster, but Bosa hasn't
signed yet.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I mean, we'll see such a question their quarterback.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
I mean, if we're gonna do a negative on each one,
I'll start with their quarterback. Who knows if brock Perty
is really the quarterback that they had last year? Who
knows if he's not gonna, you know, get the second year,
you know, and have a bad year on that.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
There could be all kinds of problems in San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
I guess my question, if it boils down to something here, Arnie,
is this, And I'd love to hear from the Fox
Sports Radio Nation tonight at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
six ' nine. We've got the We've got the X up,
so you get hit us up at stinking genius one him.
I'm at Plank Show as well. But who are you
just over the top, supremely confident in the NFC and
(11:01):
right now you you have had this I don't want
to say bit but Roman numeral right every week that
you feel like of the divisions, what six of them
are already finished?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Over six of the six of the eight have already
been clinched coming into this year.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
But again, you're talking about one division where you haven't
had a repeat winner back to back years since two
thousand and six. You also are counting on a Minnesota
Vikings team that no offense to my man Eric up
in Minnesota, But Arnie, that's by statistical dork analysis, it
was one of the luckiest teams last year. I saw
that out there with one of the PFF things a
(11:38):
complete and total unknown right with the with the AFC
NFC South period, and then I can't figure out what
mode the Rams are in. Are they going forward again
or are they Are they tanking to make sure that
Sean McVay can get him the quarterback he wants in
Caleb Williams. Are the Niners going to figure things out
with Bosa and his brock perty going to be as advertised?
(12:00):
I mean, I feel like outside of the Eagles and
maybe the Cowboys, I feel like every team has these
wild questions and I can't figure out who I'm confident
in right now.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Oh, Cowboys have questions also, But you know, as of Minnesota,
it's so much both ways. Yes, I like Minnesota as
a team, and yeah they were very lucky last year,
but I mean, who's going to do it otherwise? Yes,
I like Detroit, that's the sexy pick, but are they
really ready to win the division? Certainly, I'm not going
to be picking the Packers and Jordan Love. I mean
that is that guy gonna.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Come in here first year as a starter and lead
the Packers to the division.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I like the Bears, but come on, there were three
and fourteen last year, so I don't see it worse
the first there. So out of all the teams that
I've said were clinched all the divisions, I'm more sure
about Minnesota than any of the other divisions out.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You're more sure about Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Maybe Kansas City, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I'd probably walk that back just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah maybe Kansas City.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Well maybe they've only dominated that division and pretty much
the AFC for what since Patrick Mahomes stepped on the field.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah yeah, yeah, bite too bad that NFC.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I think I look at it right now and it
gets me pretty pumped to see how wide open it
is now with the news of the day.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
You surprised you all.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
The Baker Mayfield after let's face and it wasn't necessarily
the greatest run with the Panthers.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I think he went one and five.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Uh, he went with two and two with the with
the Broncos because they beat their He didn't start in
that Raiders game, but they beat up on the Broncos
on Christmas and whatever that was against the Raiders on
Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
But it's does it intrigue at all about Tampa? Do
you put them on team Team Tank this year?
Speaker 8 (13:35):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Actually, that's not what I thought about when I heard
about Baker Mayfield the first thing. And I wasn't really
thinking about it because I'm I'm saying to myself, it's
gonna be the Saints Division anyway. But what I was
thinking about Tampa is, out of all the teams and
quarterbacks sort of premium.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Everybody wants a quarterback. Everybody's looking.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
That was the best that Tampa could come up with,
because I mean, you would think that they'd be able
to make a trade, not not for obviously a top
quarter back, but somebody. They could have made a move
for some veteran, you know, isn't Jameis Winston. Still, I
don't know. There's gotta be somebody out there that you
(14:12):
could have gotten to the starter over Baker Mayfield. What
I mean, my goodness, is it that thinn and quarterback
for these guys coming out of college that you can't
I would I would have just rather dialed up Trey
Lant and see what he've gotten se if they trade him.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Seriously, I went, what do you do it?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I can't believe that they're so thinnic quarterback coming out
of college that we can't even get what thirty two
decent starting.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Quarterbacks out there? Well, what do you mean they're so
thin at college? We had one quarterback battle in the
NFL and camp.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
No. I meant being the starter, you know, Like like
I said, Baker Mayfield, he's a starter now.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Right, But he was the number one pick in the draft,
and the guy that was in the top five that year,
Sam Darnold, were slobbering all over because apparently he's getting
the greatest coaching that have that quarterback has ever received
in his life this year, which might be fair because
he was with the Jets of the Panthers. The last
couple of years. I mean, I don't I disagree on
hundred percent. I think we're getting some of the best
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quarterbacking that we've ever seen. I think the problem is,
you know, it's just few and far between with the
guys that can stay healthy.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
The leashes are shorter than they've ever been.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I mean the fact that Jordan Love has been with
Green Bay as long as he's as he's been on'
hee and they're now giving him a chance and it's
taken that long. I mean, you and I were used
to that back in our day, right Philip Rivers set
for several years before you.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Wear a hat.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah, yeah, I clipboard nicely. You know that, though Aaron
Rodgers did it.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I mean, in three seasons since he was drafted in
the first round, Jordan Love has one start. He's played
in ten games totaled in three years combined, and didn't
even step on the field his rookie year. That's unheard
of for a first round pick right in the National
Football League. So there's there's a shorter ramp up. I mean, listen,
(15:59):
we're gonna talk about when we come back. You brought
up Trey Lance Arnie as much as my mind is
blown by this. I mean, it sounds like the Niners
are tapping out. It sounds like they're about to punt
on a guy that they gave up more draft capital
than you could ever fathom, when we all should have
seen this coming because he's started with like ten games
(16:19):
since high school.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
So I understand where you're.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Coming from, But I think we're getting some of the
best quarterback play that we've had a while.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Are you talking about more numbers of guys?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Well, just saying, you know, you look at all the
look at some of the quarterbacks. Are some of the
teams that are lacking starting quarterback? And as of Trey Lance,
I wasn't on that Trey Lance back.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
By Wagena, But what do you what do.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You mean teams that are lacking starting quarterbacks?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
There was only one battle for a starting quarterback right
now because thirty one of the thirty two teams pretty
much had it set.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
No no, no, like like Baker Mayfield, Like, really, is that,
like I said, is that the best they could do
at quarterback out there?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
You know you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Trask was a second round pick.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Geez, I mean again, that's the best you can do
there too. I mean, really, you think there'd be a
better battle out there, But I guess I'm wrong.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Well, I mean, Jalen Hurts was a second round pick.
Look at the making him that he sucks? No mean
so much.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I mean, but we didn't know Jalen Hurts. Was Jalen Hurts?
You were actually anti Jabs was anti Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I was.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I didn't think he was going to be an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Well, look at Mahomes, I mean he was, you know,
not the top pick.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Well, but the Chiefs gave up a first round pick
to go up and get him. That's true, though he
had a horrible, horrible team around him at Texas Tech.
But no, I just the core in all of this
is how wide open I think the NFC is. And
Baker getting named the starter at Tampa, I don't think
changes too much in that NFC South and it does
maybe trigger a few thoughts of all right, is Tampa
(17:54):
one of those teams that's thrown in the towel here?
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Speaker 3 (18:10):
What a crew.
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Speaker 4 (18:25):
Right.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Hey, by the way, I have a question for you
that we get to later on or whenever you have time.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Well, I mean you brought it up here before I
did a read, so I mean, go.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Oh wow, I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Sorry, Well, listen, you're driving two of these hours. You
better I stand where these reads need to go on?
He is this do I need to tell? Are you
gonna be okay?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Or well?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I guess we should tell the listeners out there that
you know, I told Planke. You know, just because you
own the Ferrari doesn't mean that I shouldn't get to
drive it every every once in a while.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
So I think I'm going to take over for a couple.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Of hours, and you know, let's just let's just sit back,
can eat your sandwich and have your sodo overgoing.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Obviously you don't care about anything but what you want
to talk about So it makes sense anyway, So go
ahead with the question that you know, I just.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Wanted to prank or mean prank or mean if you
tell a friend who's a diehard Boston fan that Jalen
Brown hurt his knee two days before his wedding.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That's just that's why. Why would it be a prank?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I mean, are you that's not funny?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Are you celebrating a dude getting hurt?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
No, but he didn't get hurt, so it was just
a joke. So that's you know, Are you the one
making up this prank?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Yeah? I was making it up to him because he's
a diehard Celtic fan.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
So you went to a diehard Celtic.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I texted him. I texted right, and the whole.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Thing was Jalen Brown tore his knee before his wedding.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
No, no, no, no, I said, Jalen Brown tore up his
knee and my friend was getting married.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Oh, oh, it's like that, I know Jayleen Brown was
getting married. That makes a little bit more sense. H yeah,
that's that's that's terrible. Why would he be happy? Some
Celtics fans like you are mad that they signed Jalen Brown.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Would I really make him mad. No, that would make him.
That would yeah, would, It would crush him. He would start,
he would curl up in the feudal position if that
was true. But I after twenty minutes, I told him
it wasn't true beause I didn't want to ruin his
whole wedding.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You know, why would you do it in the first place.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
It was just a joke. I mean, come and take
a joke at you. Come on now.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
I mean there's jokes that are, hey, man, why did
the chicken cross the road? And then it's like a
different level of sinister evil where it's hey, do you
hear about Jalen Brown tearing his knee up and then
going road for like ten minutes before. Oh, by the way,
congratulations on your wedding. I was just joking.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
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It is we did. We did come to that agreement.
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Speaker 5 (22:35):
Only because this tweet came in and it was I
just saw it from Jason that said, can we please
get a better system than the non athlete ruined good games? Uh?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
You know at night? A lot of three two pitches
justin turner? Was it called to strike?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
It's pathetic, Sally, the umpires union doesn't care. I actually
wrote down this is Roman numeral thirty one. You didn't
get this? Did you know how many calls were missed
this week by umpires? Do you have any idea?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Usually it's not who terribly high you.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Want to take. You just want to take a guess
with this, just one. I guess in one week this
past week, how many calls were missed by umpires? So
this is injured pitches pitches?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I guess in Major League Baseball across the board. Yes,
I'm gonna guess one thousand and thirty two calls about fifty.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Oh yes, saw righty, you got it, one thousand and
thirty two, one thousand thirty two mistakes. Think about one
thousand and thirty two in one week by umpires out there?
Is that amazing or what?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
That seems like a really really high number?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
You think? So?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Yeah? And this is from umpire auditor on Twitter. And
for those that aren't familiar, they they have several different
umpire sites. Now they have one that literally after every
game gives you a sheet of the of the missed calls.
But I'm looking back through here, like two days ago,
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Dave Packley missed twenty five calls in the Padres Diamondbacks
game yesterday.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Wow, do you get an f for that? Do you
mat or what?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
But I mean again it is umpire Auditor and official site.
I know they've met a lot of one followers and
that's great and all, but I mean, how are they
gauging this? It's just is this some dude that's sitting
at home and just rolling it's like out of a
missed call? I mean, do they have a staff that's
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working on this, Like they have an Instagram page.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
That it sends you to.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
But is there a statistical number behind this or do
they just throw it out there as they saw that
many missed calls? That's the only question I have in it,
and that seems excessive.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Right twenty you said twenty eight? How many did he have.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
In the in the Diamondbacks game? We see here?
Speaker 6 (24:52):
I just scrolled past it and clicked off as soon
as you said it.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
It was twenty Yeah, twenty eight missed calls out of
how many?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Though out of how I see again? I don't you
sent this to me, Arnie.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I thought you were the smart one on this. Oh no,
I didn't know you were actually reading what I sent
to you.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Yeah, it's absolutely insane to think that there would be
that many miscalls. Where's the accountability outside of uh at
Umpire Auditor on Twitter. I means, and again, what's what's
your Show me your work, Show me your work to
let me know you have a system for this. Are
you you taling each pick? Do you just throw a
number out there and people go, wow, that's a large
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number that you get a few highlights. I don't know,
because Arnie, that seems incredibly poor at your job to
miss that much.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Oh could your picks?
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Could you imagine if we even had like a dozen
miscalls in the NFL or something like that, or in
the NBA, there'd be hell to pay over something like that.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
That's that's rough.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
And as Jason brings up, it's always interesting because we're
seeing more.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Now, all right, So this is nerd debate.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
This is like my nerd conversation I've had twice today
Arnie about the Michigan thing with Jim Harbaugh And how
is this a sign that the NCAA is trying to
go like Barney Badass on everyone to become mister tough
guy and start doling out punishments left and right. I
can't help but wonder if the umpiring has always been
this bad, the officiating has always been this bad, and
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now we have the super slow mo extra angles. Here's
the ex angle where somehow they spin the body around.
It's like, oh, look at that little blade of grass,
his right little cleat, there's a piece of dirt on it.
The touches the grass. That's a catch. I mean, are
we seeing more? Is it being exposed more or is
it just worse because they're relying more on getting bailed
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out by video replay.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
The officiating has always been hideous. Okay, going all the
way back, you want to go back twenty thirty forty years,
all those pictures.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
He's peyton the corner.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Yeah it's a foot outside. You're giving him the strike zone.
Here's my hot You want to hunt sports.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Oh hey, listen, that's what happens here regularly.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
That's what all right.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
I'm when they go to robots or whatever it is,
computerize balls and strikes, hitters are going to realize these
pictures are not gonna get the call outside when it's
a foot outside, or when it's low or higher.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
You know, none of that.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Oh the boy they payton the corners, not none of
that crap is gonna work anymore. So the hitters are
going to focus it on the strike zone, and they're
going to crush the pictures. Scoring is gonna go up, right,
scoring is gonna go up, and you know what else
is going to go up? Pictures era And then you
know what's gonna happen after that, Pictures are going to
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become the next running backs, where their value that you
see right now in salary will start to come down
a little bit because they won't have the numbers that
they used to have. Right now, we're not even seeing
twenty game winners anymore. Now we're gonna see high arras
pictures with less wins. They're gonna get batted around because
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pictures are gonna realize where exactly that strike zone is.
And these pictures not going to get the calls all
the time. That's that's really what's going to happen. And
you know what, I don't blame it. What are these
pictures making anyway? Somebody make what forty million a year?
Fifty million a year? Ridiculous to pitch every what fifth
game or something like that. And you knew that trees
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don't grow all the way to the sky. Sooner or later,
you had to give them a reason to lower picture salary.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
And here's a perfect reason to do it. So you
think the move to robot umpires. Yeah, with a plan
all along. No, I didn't say you try to cut
pitching pictures.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I think I think it was to get rid of
all the mistakes we made, like you said, one thousand
and thirty two mistakes with the balls and strikes.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
And it depends on how you feel that day.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Maybe it's a hot summer afternoon and you're like, hey,
let's pick it up. If it's within six inches, you
better be swinging because I'm not standing out of here
all day. Or maybe a guy's not feeling well, or
maybe it's in a bad mood because he got in
a fight with his wife or something like that. Or
maybe it's Angel Hernandez. How about if that guy, Oh,
how many mistakes does that guy make? For crying out loud?
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She makes a feel.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Do you know the of the top five highest paid
pitchers in baseball, only one of them is on a
team with a winning record right now? Wow, Max Shure's
are forty three mil. Well, my sures a got dealt,
so that's a little different. And Verlander got dealt. But
the team they started with, the Mets, Verlander and Sures
are forty three mil. Garrett Cole thirty six mil with
a Yankee. Strasburg still makes thirty two mil.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Can't do that.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
There's Otanian d Grom both make thirty mils. So de
Cram and text.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
He can't be paying pictures that type of money quarterbacks
for one thing.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Quarterback, starting pitcher, you know what?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Like I said, well, it's gonna come to the point
where all you need is really like ten wins out
of them, and I'm not going to be paying them
forty seven million dollars to pitch every fifth game. I'd
rather get two pitchers to give me like eight wins each,
and I'll give you like five million apiece or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's a it's a brilliant plan. If it would make you,
it's a brilliant I.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Do money game money talks.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I know, all right.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
When we come back to the track dot Com Studios, Arnie,
I want to hit a list of teams that are
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All right it, Tardian Plank. I got I've got two
things I want to accomplish, and I.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Want to change my Super Bowl pickpack again too.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Of course you do.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Why do you want the Cowboys since they've done absolutely nothing,
nor have the Saints that would change your opinion?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Are you digging deep you're seeing some tissues on the
O line?
Speaker 5 (31:30):
What?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Sometimes you just feel it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Just you know, sometimes you've been dating a girl for
maybe eight months a year, and then one day you
wake up and you're like, nah, no, no, I'm not
feeling it anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
You know it? It hit me.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
It hit me that, you know, the Cowboys could start
seven and oh, maybe six and one at worst. Could
you imagine how awful the Cowboy Nation's gonna be when
they start seven and oh. They're gonna have all that momentum,
they got a pretty good defense, They're gonna start the role.
I'm like, yeah, you know what am I doing? Don't
overthink the room stick? Stick with the Cowboys Dolphins. Cowboys
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gonna be a great super Bowl. Can't wait to go
out to Vegas. I'm gonna take that Sunday off.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
So you're changing your Super Bowl pick.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
I'm changing by a Super Bowl pick back to Cowboys
and the and the Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
For the second time in third week.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Really I changed it to yeah, third, well, second time, yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
For really no reason except just your gut, which is
fine because it's the preseason.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
It's the it's the off season.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
But usually I just got that Tingley feeling. That's all.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
So you're gonna change again by the end of the show.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
No, I feel good now now you see it's it's now.
I feel like I'm at ease, like a colmness has
come over to me, like you finally got it right,
you know, like when you when you find that right
girl and you're like, you got it right this time,
you got it right.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Now, now I got it?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
What a what a relief because my picks have been
really bad in the preseason. But now right now, now,
now that I'm back, you know, it's like going back
out with the girl, your duffin.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
You knew you made a mistake.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
That's what I'm doing here, going back to the Dolphins
and the Cowboys.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
But wait till you realize that she is crazy and
she really has issues. But just because you've been away
and you've been around other people that also have their
own issues, yes, that doesn't mean that their is there
any better.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Now.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
It's funny that you bring up the Cowboys here. Yeah,
because I've seen I've witnessed this and making the rounds
on social media. Chris Collins Worth was on with with
Dan Patrick today here on Fox Sports Radio, and DP
asked a fantastic question because I feel like this is
the case with a certain team that's playing in the
Big Apple with a new quarterback. Is the amount of
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talk and coverage equal to are befitting how good they
really are? Is the amount of stuff we're having crammed
down our throats? Is it equal to what it should be?
So Dan Patrick asked Chris collins Worth that about the
Dallas Cowboys. Arnie, listen to this answer. I found this
to be pretty fascinating.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
It's a really good question. I mean, it's the historically
it was, they were really great for a decade and
then they really weren't for a long time. And yet,
if NBC had their choice, we would do seventeen Dallas
Cowboys games. Right, I'm not kidding on you know. It
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doesn't even matter what the record is. It doesn't matter.
They could be four and six. We would take. Okay,
you guys can pick any game you want this week,
We'll take the Dallas Cowboys. It's insanity, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
You buy that.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Oh yeah, one hundred I saw that, and I totally
agree with that. If they could put on all the
Cowboy games. They would love to do that. Matter of fact,
that tied into one of the Roman numerals. I can't
find it because there was so many. Oh yeah, the
Roman numeral number ten. Guess who has the best winning
percentage since nineteen seventy in the NFC.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
The Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
The Dallas Cowboys. I I think I caught you by
a surprise. I you know, when you think of the
best team, you're not thinking, you know, but you think
of all the losses and the.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
No Super Bowls and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
I know you had a couple in since nineteen seventy,
but I didn't think it was going to be the
Cowboys with the best winning percentage, right.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
But they're also a team that hasn't even played in
the championship game, in the NFC Championship game. And again
that used to be oh well, we got to the
championship game. That was the bare minimum already. They haven't
even made the NFC Championship game since nineteen ninety five. Wow,
And then that following season when they lost to Carolina
in the Divisional playoffs. They've only won what five playoff
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games during that span since and they've all been wild
card games.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Oh jeez, which blows my mind.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
But hey, you want a dog and say Dallas isn't
America's team anymore? If NBC, who has the biggest window
for the NFL, is like, oh, we do the Cowboys
every single the game. If we can, No, man, they're
still the dominant force. And you're right, Arnie, as far
as popularity is concerned. Yeah, if they really get over
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that hump this year and they weren't bad last year,
look out, they're gonna be insufferable. They've been twelve and
five the last two years, twelve and five the last
two years. All right, when we come back, we got
a lot to get to, including new starting quarterback in Tampa.
A lot of buzz around the umpiring in baseball too.
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Speaker 5 (00:32):
Jeff Goode took two and a half hour, took a
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So I'm feeling good today.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
Your son gets signed and you celebrate by taking a
two and a half hour nap.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Well that was at you earlier. I just we just
got it posted now. Oh okay, so but yeah, by
the way, yeah, my son outside, he's gonna be playing
in like southern eastern Ontario.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Uh, this is impressive.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Four thousand people in the town and they get a
seven hundred and fifty people go to the games.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That's in pretty good percent. That's population.
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That's because it only holds seven fifty.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
If it holds fifteen hundred, fifteen hundred would go to
the games and they were showing a picture of the jerseys.
They have a fight strap now, where a strap hooks
onto your pants so when you get into a fight,
they can't pull it over your head, and you know
so then they can pummele you.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
So it's straight up.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
I'm like, why, why you gotta be fighting? Why you
gotta be throwing? You're a goalie for crying out lab
So that's a good point.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
He's a goalie. Why does he need the fight strap
as a goalie.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
No, they all have all the jersey fight straps.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
But I'm like, you know, that'll be fine because the
first time he goes out there, there'll be some crazy
goalie like from Mike slap shot that will punch his
face in and then he won't do it anymore. You know,
you got to learn the hard way. I guess that's
that's what we'll thank.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
So gotta learn the hard way. Look out for Ogi Oglethorpe.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Yeah, there's a guy. They have all the Oglethorpe on
their team. Because though there's a guy on their team,
they kept saying, you know what, this guy leads the league.
In last year he led the league. In starting fights,
I'm like, oh, I like this guy already. Man, I
like him.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It's kind of guy like to have.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I gotta tell you this is like, it's like really
out of slap shot.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
It's it's you want to talk about minor league to
the to the minor leagues. I it's just incredible. I
mean you really like you could make another movie about it. That.
That's that's how crazy it is. But whatever, it's his life,
so let's go. So I even keep playing hockey, so
somebody as well keep doing that.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I guess to give that full background for those that
aren't aware, Arnie Son after a stellar collegiate career, he's
pursuing his professional hockey career. So congratulations to Shay Spaniel.
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to get to now with.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
How many Roman numerals I gave you? You have thirty
two Roman numerals?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You have thirty Well, I won't lie to you, dude.
I have my own agenda for the show tonight.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I ah, I really gate. I added some late ones
that were pretty good too, that you make.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Something see here for those that aren't familiar with our
Sunday Night show. Arnie is insistent in sending a rundown
that has Roman numerals with very little details and incredibly
impossible to read handwriting.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And let's see tonight.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Yeah, I only have I only have xxix?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Is that thirty two?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Though?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
The xxix is Roman nouble twenty nine?
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I only got twenty nine, so you don't be holding back.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
A few there?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
You don't know how to space thirty two is on
the My gosh, man, you could not make a more
confusing attempt at a rundown for me tonight. What are
you doing because thirty one thirty two is pickleball teams?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Know that's do you want us to get us fired?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah? Twenty two? Yeah, that's well, they were oh and nine.
I just thought we'd bring that up.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Are you trying to mean we don't get these opportunities together.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And you have Dax pickleball.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Team on the rundown? What are we even doing here
at Brushinger. I have to walk, I have way.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I have Robert new Rod number thirty, which says your
Raiders have the third best best offense in the preseason,
and that was without Jacobs.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I thought that was very gratuitous. Did I put that
in there? I appreciate you putting that in the rundown.
I'm not allowing myself to have hope. For those that
aren't familiar, Arnie and I do a show on Sunday
nights from ten p to one a Central time, God's
time zone eleven to two Eastern Time, so we get
a chance to react and recap to the weekend and
kind of in our mind set the tone for the
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week ahead. But I am a oh, I'm just a
beating down Raiders fan. Yeah, I'm not allowing myself to
have hope this season. I'm just not going to hope
a little bit of hope. But it's starting to peak
a bit. I'm I'm falling for a and O'Connell. Even
though against the Scrubs, Jimmy ch looked really good in
the max protect throw swing pass drives that he was
(05:08):
in starting to believe in Zamir White a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Here's the thing, do.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You know, by the way, could I just say, not
only is Aidan O'Connell preseason Hall of Famer, right, you
know what he's won now though he is the preseason MVP.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, we still have another game to go.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, I think he's wrapped it up.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
I don't think we need to start handing out those
awards quite yet, and especially from you given your track records.
But I have allowed myself to have a horrible, horrible
illness and ailment creep into my life because, let's be fair,
no team loses a nine year starter and just gives
him away like the Raiders did Derek Carr. I mean,
Carson Wentz got a freaking first round pick, and Sam
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Darnold you're able to get a second round pick for
him and Alex Smith I ain't got a second round
pick twice, But we can't get anything for Derek Carr.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And you're giving Darren Waller.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
To the Giants. Out's fair.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Darren Waller last year didn't seem like he might have quit.
I needn't mesh All that well with the Raiders' staff.
But I wasn't allowing myself to have hope because you're
in a division with who. You're in a division with
Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert. I like a O'Connell, I
like Jimmy g I don't know if you're gonna beat
those teams with those guys, but you could with Caleb Williams.
So I was on team Tank, but I've done a
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one eighty recently, Arnie. I've allowed to enter my life,
so I need it taken away rather quickly.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
You know, I love how you say how we got
nothing for car and that leaves a bad taste in
your mouth. Now you know how angel fans are gonna
feel coming up in a couple of months when they
when the best player in baseball walks away from their
team and they get absolutely nothing for him. So they're
they're gonna know exactly how you feel, actually, because that's
that's what's gonna going to happen to them.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
I would defend it by saying, I like Derek Carr
a lot. He is not a generational, once in a
lifetime player like oh TONI is.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Okay, I gotta go to the super Bowl this year.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
You know? I have the Saints and and the Dolphins.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Well that's going to change after whatever team plays well
this weekend in the preseason, right, that's it?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Could I get one more mulligan?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Up? This is it?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
This Sunday is the one more mulligan I get for
my final predictions?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Well, I I appreciate that because I do want to
see Derek Carr and Darren Waller do well. But if
the Saints make the Super Bowl this year, you can
cut off one of my fingers live on radio. I
will have a bit. I'll come to Los Angeles. I'll
walk in. You can numb it down, you can pick
which finger you want and you can chop that bad
boy off. And I like the Saint too. You know,
(07:37):
I was thinking about this today as we come to
you live from the ti rack dot com studios.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
God, I want to sit here and.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Talk about my team for the next four hours, So
I could you got use that you would do?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I'm not going to Arnie. I want to talk about
the NFC a bit.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Today.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Baker Mayfield was named the starting quarterback for the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. You and I spend endless amounts of times
with hot take knee jerk projections on Sunday. And this
isn't about Baker Mayfield by any stretch of the imagination. This,
to me is about how truly wide open the NFC is. Right,
we all think the Eagles are slam duncan. Boy did
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they get better in the offseason?
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Right?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
They are the overwhelming favorites, no doubt about that.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Yeah, but keep this in mind. Let's just look at
the NFC East. Do you know the last time there
was a repeat division winner in the NFC East.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I don't know the exact year, but I know it's
been what a while, I guess what?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
N years?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Oh, nineteen years, ten years.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
In the last eleven seasons, the last place team in
the division won the East the following season six times.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Six out of eleven years, six.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Out of eleven years. Oh, by the way, you all
kind of think about all the Giants. They've only won
the division twice since two thousand and six. And oh,
by the way, they've also won say am out of
Super Bowls in that time, and they last won a
division time in twenty eleven. And oh, by the way,
you might think that Giants Cowboys matchup is familiar in
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Week one. It's the seventh time in the last eleven
years that those two teams have met in Week one.
All those notes courtesy of Peter King's Football Night in
America Our Football Morning in America. It really good stuff.
Just kind of lays out the statistical anomalies. Right, we
always have a team, what was your note? Eighteen of
twenty years a team has gone from worse to first,
(09:27):
So we're always kind of looking at that. That's a
wild stat in the NFC East, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Can you imagine if we had that in the other
sports too, that would be same.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
It'd be amazing. But who right now? Who right now?
Would you say? Man, I am one hundred percent comfortable
saying that they're gonna go and play in the NFC
Championship game. I feel like it's pretty wide open in
the NFC. I like the Eagles a lot, right We'll
see how people adjust to the running game and how
they use Jalen Hurts in two seasons now. But they've
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got new offensive and defensive coordinators. And I know Eagle
fans are celebrating Jonathan Gannon being gone, but it's a
completely different world.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
On the offensive side of things. Right, it's a whole.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
New world with no Tom Brady and Tampa in the
NFC South. You don't have Aaron Rodgers in the North anymore.
I love the Niners in their roster, but Bosa hasn't
signed yet.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I mean, we'll see such a question their quarterback.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
I mean, if we're gonna do a negative on each one,
I'll start with their quarterback. Who knows if brock Perty
is really the quarterback that they had last year? Who
knows if he's not gonna, you know, get the second year,
you know, and have a bad year on that.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
There could be all kinds of problems in San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
I guess my question, if it boils down to something here, Arnie,
is this, And I'd love to hear from the Fox
Sports Radio Nation tonight at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
six ' nine. We've got the We've got the X up,
so you get hit us up at stinking genius one him.
I'm at Plank Show as well. But who are you
just over the top, supremely confident in the NFC and
(11:01):
right now you you have had this I don't want
to say bit but Roman numeral right every week that
you feel like of the divisions, what six of them
are already finished?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Over six of the six of the eight have already
been clinched coming into this year.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
But again, you're talking about one division where you haven't
had a repeat winner back to back years since two
thousand and six. You also are counting on a Minnesota
Vikings team that no offense to my man Eric up
in Minnesota, But Arnie, that's by statistical dork analysis, it
was one of the luckiest teams last year. I saw
that out there with one of the PFF things a
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complete and total unknown right with the with the AFC
NFC South period, and then I can't figure out what
mode the Rams are in. Are they going forward again
or are they Are they tanking to make sure that
Sean McVay can get him the quarterback he wants in
Caleb Williams. Are the Niners going to figure things out
with Bosa and his brock perty going to be as advertised?
(12:00):
I mean, I feel like outside of the Eagles and
maybe the Cowboys, I feel like every team has these
wild questions and I can't figure out who I'm confident
in right now.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Oh, Cowboys have questions also, But you know, as of Minnesota,
it's so much both ways. Yes, I like Minnesota as
a team, and yeah they were very lucky last year,
but I mean, who's going to do it otherwise? Yes,
I like Detroit, that's the sexy pick, but are they
really ready to win the division? Certainly, I'm not going
to be picking the Packers and Jordan Love. I mean
that is that guy gonna.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Come in here first year as a starter and lead
the Packers to the division.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I like the Bears, but come on, there were three
and fourteen last year, so I don't see it worse
the first there. So out of all the teams that
I've said were clinched all the divisions, I'm more sure
about Minnesota than any of the other divisions out.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You're more sure about Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Maybe Kansas City, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I'd probably walk that back just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah maybe Kansas City.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Well maybe they've only dominated that division and pretty much
the AFC for what since Patrick Mahomes stepped on the field.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah yeah, yeah, bite too bad that NFC.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I think I look at it right now and it
gets me pretty pumped to see how wide open it
is now with the news of the day.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
You surprised you all.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
The Baker Mayfield after let's face and it wasn't necessarily
the greatest run with the Panthers.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I think he went one and five.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Uh, he went with two and two with the with
the Broncos because they beat their He didn't start in
that Raiders game, but they beat up on the Broncos
on Christmas and whatever that was against the Raiders on
Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
But it's does it intrigue at all about Tampa? Do
you put them on team Team Tank this year?
Speaker 8 (13:35):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Actually, that's not what I thought about when I heard
about Baker Mayfield the first thing. And I wasn't really
thinking about it because I'm I'm saying to myself, it's
gonna be the Saints Division anyway. But what I was
thinking about Tampa is, out of all the teams and
quarterbacks sort of premium.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Everybody wants a quarterback. Everybody's looking.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
That was the best that Tampa could come up with,
because I mean, you would think that they'd be able
to make a trade, not not for obviously a top
quarter back, but somebody. They could have made a move
for some veteran, you know, isn't Jameis Winston. Still, I
don't know. There's gotta be somebody out there that you
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could have gotten to the starter over Baker Mayfield. What
I mean, my goodness, is it that thinn and quarterback
for these guys coming out of college that you can't
I would I would have just rather dialed up Trey
Lant and see what he've gotten se if they trade him.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Seriously, I went, what do you do it?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I can't believe that they're so thinnic quarterback coming out
of college that we can't even get what thirty two
decent starting.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Quarterbacks out there? Well, what do you mean they're so
thin at college? We had one quarterback battle in the
NFL and camp.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
No. I meant being the starter, you know, Like like
I said, Baker Mayfield, he's a starter now.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Right, But he was the number one pick in the draft,
and the guy that was in the top five that year,
Sam Darnold, were slobbering all over because apparently he's getting
the greatest coaching that have that quarterback has ever received
in his life this year, which might be fair because
he was with the Jets of the Panthers. The last
couple of years. I mean, I don't I disagree on
hundred percent. I think we're getting some of the best
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quarterbacking that we've ever seen. I think the problem is,
you know, it's just few and far between with the
guys that can stay healthy.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
The leashes are shorter than they've ever been.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I mean the fact that Jordan Love has been with
Green Bay as long as he's as he's been on'
hee and they're now giving him a chance and it's
taken that long. I mean, you and I were used
to that back in our day, right Philip Rivers set
for several years before you.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Wear a hat.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah, yeah, I clipboard nicely. You know that, though Aaron
Rodgers did it.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I mean, in three seasons since he was drafted in
the first round, Jordan Love has one start. He's played
in ten games totaled in three years combined, and didn't
even step on the field his rookie year. That's unheard
of for a first round pick right in the National
Football League. So there's there's a shorter ramp up. I mean, listen,
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we're gonna talk about when we come back. You brought
up Trey Lance Arnie as much as my mind is
blown by this. I mean, it sounds like the Niners
are tapping out. It sounds like they're about to punt
on a guy that they gave up more draft capital
than you could ever fathom, when we all should have
seen this coming because he's started with like ten games
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since high school.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
So I understand where you're.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Coming from, But I think we're getting some of the
best quarterback play that we've had a while.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Are you talking about more numbers of guys?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Well, just saying, you know, you look at all the
look at some of the quarterbacks. Are some of the
teams that are lacking starting quarterback? And as of Trey Lance,
I wasn't on that Trey Lance back.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
By Wagena, But what do you what do.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You mean teams that are lacking starting quarterbacks?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
There was only one battle for a starting quarterback right
now because thirty one of the thirty two teams pretty
much had it set.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
No no, no, like like Baker Mayfield, Like, really, is that,
like I said, is that the best they could do
at quarterback out there?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
You know you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Trask was a second round pick.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Geez, I mean again, that's the best you can do
there too. I mean, really, you think there'd be a
better battle out there, But I guess I'm wrong.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Well, I mean, Jalen Hurts was a second round pick.
Look at the making him that he sucks? No mean
so much.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I mean, but we didn't know Jalen Hurts. Was Jalen Hurts?
You were actually anti Jabs was anti Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I was.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I didn't think he was going to be an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Well, look at Mahomes, I mean he was, you know,
not the top pick.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Well, but the Chiefs gave up a first round pick
to go up and get him. That's true, though he
had a horrible, horrible team around him at Texas Tech.
But no, I just the core in all of this
is how wide open I think the NFC is. And
Baker getting named the starter at Tampa, I don't think
changes too much in that NFC South and it does
maybe trigger a few thoughts of all right, is Tampa
(17:54):
one of those teams that's thrown in the towel here?
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Speaker 4 (18:25):
Right.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Hey, by the way, I have a question for you
that we get to later on or whenever you have time.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Well, I mean you brought it up here before I
did a read, so I mean, go.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Oh wow, I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
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better I stand where these reads need to go on?
He is this do I need to tell? Are you
gonna be okay?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Or well?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I guess we should tell the listeners out there that
you know, I told Planke. You know, just because you
own the Ferrari doesn't mean that I shouldn't get to
drive it every every once in a while.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
So I think I'm going to take over for a couple.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Of hours, and you know, let's just let's just sit back,
can eat your sandwich and have your sodo overgoing.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Obviously you don't care about anything but what you want
to talk about So it makes sense anyway, So go
ahead with the question that you know, I just.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Wanted to prank or mean prank or mean if you
tell a friend who's a diehard Boston fan that Jalen
Brown hurt his knee two days before his wedding.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That's just that's why. Why would it be a prank?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I mean, are you that's not funny?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Are you celebrating a dude getting hurt?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
No, but he didn't get hurt, so it was just
a joke. So that's you know, Are you the one
making up this prank?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Yeah? I was making it up to him because he's
a diehard Celtic fan.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
So you went to a diehard Celtic.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I texted him. I texted right, and the whole.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Thing was Jalen Brown tore his knee before his wedding.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
No, no, no, no, I said, Jalen Brown tore up his
knee and my friend was getting married.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Oh, oh, it's like that, I know Jayleen Brown was
getting married. That makes a little bit more sense. H yeah,
that's that's that's terrible. Why would he be happy? Some
Celtics fans like you are mad that they signed Jalen Brown.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Would I really make him mad. No, that would make him.
That would yeah, would, It would crush him. He would start,
he would curl up in the feudal position if that
was true. But I after twenty minutes, I told him
it wasn't true beause I didn't want to ruin his
whole wedding.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You know, why would you do it in the first place.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
It was just a joke. I mean, come and take
a joke at you. Come on now.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
I mean there's jokes that are, hey, man, why did
the chicken cross the road? And then it's like a
different level of sinister evil where it's hey, do you
hear about Jalen Brown tearing his knee up and then
going road for like ten minutes before. Oh, by the way,
congratulations on your wedding. I was just joking.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
It was no more than twenty minutes. It was no
more than twenty.
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Can you lod? Can I allow me to grab the
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Speaker 3 (22:12):
Or do whatever you want?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
One?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
You told me you wanted me to drive, and then
you know what you said allowed?
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You said you wanted me to drive a little bit?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Did you not? Well?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
I thought that we had come to an agreement that
you were going to do hours two and four.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
It is we did. We did come to that agreement.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
But but I've also been fully understanding that I have
no control over this show goes.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Only because this tweet came in and it was I
just saw it from Jason that said, can we please
get a better system than the non athlete ruined good games? Uh?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
You know at night? A lot of three two pitches
justin turner? Was it called to strike?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
It's pathetic, Sally, the umpires union doesn't care. I actually
wrote down this is Roman numeral thirty one. You didn't
get this? Did you know how many calls were missed
this week by umpires? Do you have any idea?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Usually it's not who terribly high you.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Want to take. You just want to take a guess
with this, just one. I guess in one week this
past week, how many calls were missed by umpires? So
this is injured pitches pitches?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I guess in Major League Baseball across the board. Yes,
I'm gonna guess one thousand and thirty two calls about fifty.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Oh yes, saw righty, you got it, one thousand and
thirty two, one thousand thirty two mistakes. Think about one
thousand and thirty two in one week by umpires out there?
Is that amazing or what?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
That seems like a really really high number?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
You think? So?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Yeah? And this is from umpire auditor on Twitter. And
for those that aren't familiar, they they have several different
umpire sites. Now they have one that literally after every
game gives you a sheet of the of the missed calls.
But I'm looking back through here, like two days ago,
(24:03):
Dave Packley missed twenty five calls in the Padres Diamondbacks
game yesterday.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Wow, do you get an f for that? Do you
mat or what?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
But I mean again it is umpire Auditor and official site.
I know they've met a lot of one followers and
that's great and all, but I mean, how are they
gauging this? It's just is this some dude that's sitting
at home and just rolling it's like out of a
missed call? I mean, do they have a staff that's
(24:31):
working on this, Like they have an Instagram page.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
That it sends you to.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
But is there a statistical number behind this or do
they just throw it out there as they saw that
many missed calls? That's the only question I have in it,
and that seems excessive.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Right twenty you said twenty eight? How many did he have.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
In the in the Diamondbacks game? We see here?
Speaker 6 (24:52):
I just scrolled past it and clicked off as soon
as you said it.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
It was twenty Yeah, twenty eight missed calls out of
how many?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Though out of how I see again? I don't you
sent this to me, Arnie.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I thought you were the smart one on this. Oh no,
I didn't know you were actually reading what I sent
to you.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Yeah, it's absolutely insane to think that there would be
that many miscalls. Where's the accountability outside of uh at
Umpire Auditor on Twitter. I means, and again, what's what's
your Show me your work, Show me your work to
let me know you have a system for this. Are
you you taling each pick? Do you just throw a
number out there and people go, wow, that's a large
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number that you get a few highlights. I don't know,
because Arnie, that seems incredibly poor at your job to
miss that much.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Oh could your picks?
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Could you imagine if we even had like a dozen
miscalls in the NFL or something like that, or in
the NBA, there'd be hell to pay over something like that.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
That's that's rough.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
And as Jason brings up, it's always interesting because we're
seeing more.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Now, all right, So this is nerd debate.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
This is like my nerd conversation I've had twice today
Arnie about the Michigan thing with Jim Harbaugh And how
is this a sign that the NCAA is trying to
go like Barney Badass on everyone to become mister tough
guy and start doling out punishments left and right. I
can't help but wonder if the umpiring has always been
this bad, the officiating has always been this bad, and
(26:16):
now we have the super slow mo extra angles. Here's
the ex angle where somehow they spin the body around.
It's like, oh, look at that little blade of grass,
his right little cleat, there's a piece of dirt on it.
The touches the grass. That's a catch. I mean, are
we seeing more? Is it being exposed more or is
it just worse because they're relying more on getting bailed
(26:37):
out by video replay.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
The officiating has always been hideous. Okay, going all the
way back, you want to go back twenty thirty forty years,
all those pictures.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
He's peyton the corner.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Yeah it's a foot outside. You're giving him the strike zone.
Here's my hot You want to hunt sports.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Oh hey, listen, that's what happens here regularly.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
That's what all right.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
I'm when they go to robots or whatever it is,
computerize balls and strikes, hitters are going to realize these
pictures are not gonna get the call outside when it's
a foot outside, or when it's low or higher.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
You know, none of that.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Oh the boy they payton the corners, not none of
that crap is gonna work anymore. So the hitters are
going to focus it on the strike zone, and they're
going to crush the pictures. Scoring is gonna go up, right,
scoring is gonna go up, and you know what else
is going to go up? Pictures era And then you
know what's gonna happen after that, Pictures are going to
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become the next running backs, where their value that you
see right now in salary will start to come down
a little bit because they won't have the numbers that
they used to have. Right now, we're not even seeing
twenty game winners anymore. Now we're gonna see high arras
pictures with less wins. They're gonna get batted around because
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pictures are gonna realize where exactly that strike zone is.
And these pictures not going to get the calls all
the time. That's that's really what's going to happen. And
you know what, I don't blame it. What are these
pictures making anyway? Somebody make what forty million a year?
Fifty million a year? Ridiculous to pitch every what fifth
game or something like that. And you knew that trees
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don't grow all the way to the sky. Sooner or later,
you had to give them a reason to lower picture salary.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
And here's a perfect reason to do it. So you
think the move to robot umpires. Yeah, with a plan
all along. No, I didn't say you try to cut
pitching pictures.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I think I think it was to get rid of
all the mistakes we made, like you said, one thousand
and thirty two mistakes with the balls and strikes.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
And it depends on how you feel that day.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Maybe it's a hot summer afternoon and you're like, hey,
let's pick it up. If it's within six inches, you
better be swinging because I'm not standing out of here
all day. Or maybe a guy's not feeling well, or
maybe it's in a bad mood because he got in
a fight with his wife or something like that. Or
maybe it's Angel Hernandez. How about if that guy, Oh,
how many mistakes does that guy make? For crying out loud?
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She makes a feel.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Do you know the of the top five highest paid
pitchers in baseball, only one of them is on a
team with a winning record right now? Wow, Max Shure's
are forty three mil. Well, my sures a got dealt,
so that's a little different. And Verlander got dealt. But
the team they started with, the Mets, Verlander and Sures
are forty three mil. Garrett Cole thirty six mil with
a Yankee. Strasburg still makes thirty two mil.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Can't do that.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
There's Otanian d Grom both make thirty mils. So de
Cram and text.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
He can't be paying pictures that type of money quarterbacks
for one thing.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Quarterback, starting pitcher, you know what?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Like I said, well, it's gonna come to the point
where all you need is really like ten wins out
of them, and I'm not going to be paying them
forty seven million dollars to pitch every fifth game. I'd
rather get two pitchers to give me like eight wins each,
and I'll give you like five million apiece or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's a it's a brilliant plan. If it would make you,
it's a brilliant I.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Do money game money talks.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I know, all right.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
When we come back to the track dot Com Studios, Arnie,
I want to hit a list of teams that are
truly in Super Bowl or bust mode. I've got a
laundry list of teams here. But we had an NFL
quarterback named a starter today and what we feel like
is the only QB battle we'll hear from the coach
next on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 4 (30:31):
He's Mike Krmen, I'm Dan Byer.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
We have a brand new fantasy football podcast called I
Want Your Flex. Twice a week, every Tuesday and Friday,
we come up with new episodes to not only look
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Speaker 2 (30:50):
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Speaker 8 (30:51):
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find the pickups to turbo boost your fantasy lineup six
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Speaker 9 (31:02):
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Speaker 6 (31:10):
All right it, Tardian Plank. I got I've got two
things I want to accomplish, and I.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Want to change my Super Bowl pickpack again too.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Of course you do.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Why do you want the Cowboys since they've done absolutely nothing,
nor have the Saints that would change your opinion?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Are you digging deep you're seeing some tissues on the
O line?
Speaker 5 (31:30):
What?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Sometimes you just feel it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Just you know, sometimes you've been dating a girl for
maybe eight months a year, and then one day you
wake up and you're like, nah, no, no, I'm not
feeling it anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
You know it? It hit me.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
It hit me that, you know, the Cowboys could start
seven and oh, maybe six and one at worst. Could
you imagine how awful the Cowboy Nation's gonna be when
they start seven and oh. They're gonna have all that momentum,
they got a pretty good defense, They're gonna start the role.
I'm like, yeah, you know what am I doing? Don't
overthink the room stick? Stick with the Cowboys Dolphins. Cowboys
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gonna be a great super Bowl. Can't wait to go
out to Vegas. I'm gonna take that Sunday off.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
So you're changing your Super Bowl pick.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
I'm changing by a Super Bowl pick back to Cowboys
and the and the Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
For the second time in third week.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Really I changed it to yeah, third, well, second time, yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
For really no reason except just your gut, which is
fine because it's the preseason.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
It's the it's the off season.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
But usually I just got that Tingley feeling. That's all.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
So you're gonna change again by the end of the show.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
No, I feel good now now you see it's it's now.
I feel like I'm at ease, like a colmness has
come over to me, like you finally got it right,
you know, like when you when you find that right
girl and you're like, you got it right this time,
you got it right.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Now, now I got it?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
What a what a relief because my picks have been
really bad in the preseason. But now right now, now,
now that I'm back, you know, it's like going back
out with the girl, your duffin.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
You knew you made a mistake.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
That's what I'm doing here, going back to the Dolphins
and the Cowboys.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
But wait till you realize that she is crazy and
she really has issues. But just because you've been away
and you've been around other people that also have their
own issues, yes, that doesn't mean that their is there
any better.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Now.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
It's funny that you bring up the Cowboys here. Yeah,
because I've seen I've witnessed this and making the rounds
on social media. Chris Collins Worth was on with with
Dan Patrick today here on Fox Sports Radio, and DP
asked a fantastic question because I feel like this is
the case with a certain team that's playing in the
Big Apple with a new quarterback. Is the amount of
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talk and coverage equal to are befitting how good they
really are? Is the amount of stuff we're having crammed
down our throats? Is it equal to what it should be?
So Dan Patrick asked Chris collins Worth that about the
Dallas Cowboys. Arnie, listen to this answer. I found this
to be pretty fascinating.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
It's a really good question. I mean, it's the historically
it was, they were really great for a decade and
then they really weren't for a long time. And yet,
if NBC had their choice, we would do seventeen Dallas
Cowboys games. Right, I'm not kidding on you know. It
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doesn't even matter what the record is. It doesn't matter.
They could be four and six. We would take. Okay,
you guys can pick any game you want this week,
We'll take the Dallas Cowboys. It's insanity, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
You buy that.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Oh yeah, one hundred I saw that, and I totally
agree with that. If they could put on all the
Cowboy games. They would love to do that. Matter of fact,
that tied into one of the Roman numerals. I can't
find it because there was so many. Oh yeah, the
Roman numeral number ten. Guess who has the best winning
percentage since nineteen seventy in the NFC.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
The Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
The Dallas Cowboys. I I think I caught you by
a surprise. I you know, when you think of the
best team, you're not thinking, you know, but you think
of all the losses and the.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
No Super Bowls and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
I know you had a couple in since nineteen seventy,
but I didn't think it was going to be the
Cowboys with the best winning percentage, right.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
But they're also a team that hasn't even played in
the championship game, in the NFC Championship game. And again
that used to be oh well, we got to the
championship game. That was the bare minimum already. They haven't
even made the NFC Championship game since nineteen ninety five. Wow,
And then that following season when they lost to Carolina
in the Divisional playoffs. They've only won what five playoff
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games during that span since and they've all been wild
card games.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Oh jeez, which blows my mind.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
But hey, you want a dog and say Dallas isn't
America's team anymore? If NBC, who has the biggest window
for the NFL, is like, oh, we do the Cowboys
every single the game. If we can, No, man, they're
still the dominant force. And you're right, Arnie, as far
as popularity is concerned. Yeah, if they really get over
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that hump this year and they weren't bad last year,
look out, they're gonna be insufferable. They've been twelve and
five the last two years, twelve and five the last
two years. All right, when we come back, we got
a lot to get to, including new starting quarterback in Tampa.
A lot of buzz around the umpiring in baseball too.
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