07/23/2021 - Best of Outkick the Coverage

Jonas Knox and LaVar Arrington are joined by NFL insider Albert Breer, as he weighs-in on the vaccination debate, Aaron Rodgers and his impact on Packers camp, chances of OU and UT joining the SEC and more. They get into a discussion about the college gameday experience, which leads to a healthy conversation about top stadium foods. LaVar tells a funny story about playing Larry Allen and the Cowboys. Danny G. delivers Animal Thunderdome, which features diseased snails, a face full of Seagull and a Bigfoot sighting. Plus, the fellas talk Big 12 conference call, and OU and UT not being there. The show reacts to the Olympics opening ceremony, discuss their favorite Olympic sport and learn about Seychelles.

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(00:26):
Albert Brier, mm QB, Senior NFL reporter with us here
on Fox Sports Radio. Albert, It's Jonas and LaVar. How
are you, man? I'm great. How you guys doing. We're good. Um,
So let's let's just get right to the most important
discussion that came out yesterday that I saw in the NFL,
which is your thoughts on the Cowboys getting a point
in the Hall of Fame game against the Steelers. What

(00:47):
do you What do you think of that? Albert Um? Well,
I mean, I guess the Vegas must have a lot
of a lot a lot of confidence in uh In
bend Nucci, right. I mean, I don't know, would say yeah,
but it all serious. That was a that was a
wild I wanted to like. It felt like a half
hour to an hour of man, everybody panicking, everybody, you know,

(01:12):
freaking out, players talking, you know, hinting at retirement. And
then I think, you know, when everybody's sort of cooled down,
it was, look, they're they're not they're not telling you
have to get it. They're just telling you, this is
what's going to happen if you don't get it in
your test positive right right? And and I you know,
the interesting thing guys is that you know, there are
just a lot of teams that have required their other

(01:33):
employees they're non players, um, get it. And a lot
of teams, you know, their rates are at for non players. Um.
So like it's interesting because players, because the players are unionized,
but like they're basically I mean kind of doing the

(01:56):
same thing the fighters they're doing to everybody else in
their buildings and trying to rate the save this environment
for everybody. And let's not be naive about this either.
I mean, you know, what's a mistake for the owners money,
you know, and delivering on the inventory to the television
networks and selling their stadiums and making up for all
they lost last year. Um, and you know, I I know, um,

(02:18):
you know there's one golden rule that billionaires have is
don't mess with my money. And I think that's the
message that the owners are sending to the players right now.
But Albert, in the end, and I said this in
the last segment, you gotta believe that they're not going
to sacrifice the health of of their commodities, which are
their players. So there isn't some I mean, you got

(02:40):
to assume there's no like crazy hidden plan to to
vaccinate them and turn them into zombies. That and you know,
now zombie football teams. I mean where where I mean,
I know there's always going to be the beliefs and
the ideas connected to this, But I mean, at some
point is this becoming like common knowledge that this is

(03:00):
really about the health and the end? Yeah, I mean
I mean, like look like and again I tell you
that the owners are motivated by money, um, but I
think there's like mutual self self interest there, right, Like
if the players going to the the field, they make money too,
you know. So I mean it's in everybody's best interest
that this doesn't spread in those buildings. And I think

(03:22):
we all know that, you know the nature of the
viruses that, um, no matter what you think, if it
gets into a workplace is going to spread, you know.
And so the same way that they did everything they
could to keep it out of the workplace last year.
They're gonna do to keep it out of the workplace
this year. And um, you know, I I think the
misconception here is that they're punishing people for not getting vaccinated,

(03:46):
and and that's not really what it is if you
really look at it. The rules haven't changed since last
year for guys who don't have the vaccine, right, Like,
the rules and the protocols, testing, weight room, cafeteria, practice field, like,
all of those rules are the same as they were
last year. What they're doing is they're incentivizing getting vaccinated

(04:10):
by lifting those rules for people who have the vaccine.
And so, you know, I like, I don't know what
to tell people. I mean, I it's you know, I
don't think there's any great injustice here. I think they're
just trying to protect the people who They're trying to
people protect both the people who are vaccinated and the
people who are unvaccinated. And as much as anything else,
they're trying to protect everybody's ability to work, because if

(04:34):
you know, people go to work every day this year
and there's not a problem. Everybody's gonna make a lot
of money. So Um, you know, I actually think all
this is pretty simple, and I understand why the owners
are doing it, and um, you know I I I
think I think there's a silent majority of players that
understand that their ability to make money and Lavari knows

(04:56):
as well as anybody, your window to make money as
a player is relative really short. Um, they're doing everything
they can to protect everybody's ability to make money this fall,
and you know, in a lot of ways make up
for stuff that was lost last year as well. I
haven't heard any minimum wage players come out and say
I'm not taking the vaccination out like a comedian about it.

(05:18):
But like I think about the names that are coming
out and saying that they don't want to take the vaccination,
you know, they've probably made a good, good deal at
this point. And it's not only that, you know what
it's it's it's interesting too because those are the guys
that the guys who are you know, on the bubble.
I mean, look, the reality is, and we know this, okay,

(05:39):
is there's a coach who is trying to, you know,
decide on whose backup linebacker, you know, maybe his fifth
fifth linebacker on his roster is going to be a
guy who's probably gonna be doing most of his work
running a kickoff. The vaccination is going to be on
their checklist. It's a factor, right, Like, it's like, it's
absolutely a factor. And that coach, that general manager cannot

(06:01):
say that, and he can't even hint at it, right,
But he's gonna know, I mean, like you know, and
it's gonna be obvious to everybody in the building who's
wearing a mask and who's not right, So you're gonna
know who's vaccinated who isn't. For that coach, you know,
it's not just in the best interests of um, you know,
of of of the one person. You know, it's not

(06:21):
just the best interests of the one person when they're
making that decision on who to keep the bus the
overall health of the team. And if I think two
guys are equal and even and the best thing for
the team is to do everything, I can't keep COVID
out of the building. You know what, I'm gonna pick
the guy who's vaccinated. I mean, it's just that. And
again you can't, like they're not gonna be able to
say that. But really, I think in a lot of

(06:42):
cases is going to be that simple. Albert Brier mm
QB joining us here on a Fox Sports Radio Senior
NFL reporter Jonas Knox LaVar Arrington with you here on
FS are all right, so where what is the what?
What is the date to watch? In the Aaron Rodgers
saga that he needs to be present for the Green

(07:02):
Bay Packers in order for you to go all right,
So we're good here or if he's not there, that
would be the indicator that we might have ourselves a
little bit of a holdout in an issue moving forward. Well,
I mean, obviously Tuesday, you know he's not there in
the reporting date. That's a big deal because you know, now,
I mean and and look like the way these things work,

(07:23):
and you know I've covered the Lee for long enough
to know, um that you know, if if you stay
away from camp and you're a player of the magnitude
of Aaron Rodgers, it's not just affecting what's going on
on the field, it's also affecting what's going on off
the field. And so every person in that building is
gonna have to answer questions about you. Your whole camp

(07:44):
is going to feel different. Um, it's going to affect
everything that goes on in that organization. So if he
doesn't show up on Tuesday right away, like their camp
takes on a completely different look. And until he shows up,
it's going to be under those circumstances, um, you know.
And then I think, really to me, like the if
you were to stay away at the beginning, I think

(08:06):
the next big one is the preseason opener, which I
believe is and whatever, So that weekend, the August twelve,
four teams right in there, Um, if he were not
to show up by then, we're talking about the money
ramping up a little bit, the fines ramp up at
that point where you lose the equivalent of a game
check if you're skipping a preseason game. And you know,

(08:28):
once you get past that first preseason game, like I
feel like in Labar you probably answer this better than me,
But I feel like once the teams get past that
first preseason game, like you know, obviously there's still a
competition for roster spots, but I feel like for the starters,
that's really when and guys who know they're gonna be
in the roster, that's when things start to turn towards Okay,

(08:49):
we're starting to like really like put in some work
and and start to look at the regular season and
worry about the opener. And so I think if he's
not there when the preseason games start, not because he'd
missing the preseason games, but just because I think the
focus of the team shifts a little bit at that point,
that would be an important checkpoint too. And again, like
I said, because because the money takes on a different level. Two. Yeah,

(09:12):
he's too big of a player, too big of an
influence for it to ever at any point in time
not be a big deal. I mean, that's just is
what it is. Let let me let me throw another
one at you. Uh, that's a big deal as well.
And he did report but you know, as you mentioned
on your your feet your Twitter feet, Uh, it hasn't
played out yet. We don't know what the end results

(09:33):
will be with Stephon Gilmore and the New England Patriots.
What what's the latest on that? Yeah, So, I mean
I wouldn't expect to see him on the field for
at least a little bit. And um, you know, this
is the way that this is what those new rules
are going to do. I think two players, um to
most players, um, you know, and how they handle these

(09:53):
situations Steph Gilmore is coming off of a torn quad,
and um, you know he's not ac at and I think,
you know, there's a certain way, you know, a player
who's in this sort of situation is going to to
handle this now instead of holding out. I think he
almost called it a hold in. You know, I'm not
going to go out and put myself at any sort

(10:14):
of risk on that field if you know you're not
gonna reward me and if you're not gonna if you're
not gonna pay me what I think I'm worth. And
so I think what this turns into in essence is
a hold in where step Und Gilmore is in there
and he's getting his work in and he's working out
and he's rehabbing, and they can see him getting healthier,
but he's not putting himself at any sort of risk

(10:36):
until that situation is resolved. Um So I think that's
where we're gonna be, you know, for the time being.
I also think he does have some leverage here in
that Bill Belichick's has spent a lot of his boss's money.
And yes, Bill Belichick, like all of us, he has
a boss and he's spent you know, I think something like, oh,
somewhere around a hundred and sixty million dollars and guaranteed

(10:58):
money to try to fix everything that went wrong the
last year. Think about this way, guys, Stephan Gilmore's best player.
You spend all of your boss's money that way, and
then you keep your best player off and then you
can't get your best player on the field. Wouldn't that
undermine everything that you just did. You know, you're acting
with urgency and signing free agents and all the rest
of it, like, and then you know, the guy who

(11:20):
is the one, the player who's like your biggest difference maker,
is not out there. That undermines all the investing that
you did in the off season back into the roster um,
you know. And so I think that that's where Steph
Gilmore's leverages, and I think ultimately they find in middle ground. Um.
You know, My understanding is he wants something in the
neighborhood of what Darius Slay got um on an extension

(11:41):
from Philadelphia. I think the more likely scenario is that
they give him, you know, a one year bump, something
like what they did to for Gronkowski and Brady at
the end, and then he probably hits free agency in
Um Albert Brier mm QB. I do want to point
this out on Twitter yesterday. Well, everybody's talking about Big
twelve and Texas and Oklahoma going to the SEC. Albert

(12:04):
chimes in the Ohio State. Aluma just says, uh, hold my,
Sam Adams, I got an idea, and now you're trying
to petition for Texas and Oklahoma to join the Big One.
First of all, I'm looking. I'm looking at that number here.
I look. I am all about chaos, all right. I
have family from the Midwest and I worked in the South,

(12:25):
so I know the SEC feels about things. But I'm
looking at this setup right now. Could you imagine Texas
and Oklahoma in the Big Ten? First of all, they
would fix the weak side of the conference. But LaVar, LaVar,
all of a sudden, you're Nitney Lyons and Albert's Buckeyes
would have their a work cutout form if they want
to make a run at this. And I don't know
that we would have our specially your house. I think

(12:46):
I think it would be just fine. I don't know.
I mean, work is already cut out for us, right.
I still think, I still I still think that East
Division is better. But but yeah, and it would be
like I honestly looked at it, like, you know, before
I tweeted that, I kind of like thought like, wouldn't
that help Nebraska to But we think what you're talking about,
how far Nebraska has fallen off. I think a big

(13:07):
part of that is that they've lost their identity to
some degree, right because they don't have the natural rivals.
And then you'd be like welcoming their biggest rival from
back day of history with um, you know, and then
you know, all of a sudden, now in that West
division Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wisconsin like that, like those schools
sort of seem like like, I don't know, like it

(13:29):
just it seems like that wars Iowa right Like it
feels to me like I don't know, like that almost
feels to me like and I understand why you like
the SEC would make some sense too, but it almost
feels to me. And I know I'm talking about this
from like a big tent perspective, like Texas and Oklahoma
almost fit the big tent better than they do these
agree now, I totally agree. And here we were actually

(13:50):
talking about this yesterday. I think I still when I
think of Maryland, Man, I think a CC like I
I can't. I just can't get over my my teenage
mind of no, no, no, they're an a CC team.
Rutgers I so as an Ohio State alum, even though
they're part of the conference. Now, don't you still kind
of look down on those schools a little bit like

(14:11):
you just got here. I'm yeah, I'm from the East
Coast and I you know, my my dad's from the Midwest,
which is a big part of why I wound up
in the Midwest for college. And um, I look like
a Maryland and Rutgers is East Coast school, and I
just can't look at them any other they are they are,
I mean, like it's just they're not. I mean they
play in that basketball they played in basketball conferences right

(14:35):
defin the way I always looked at them, and I
was like, I mean to me, like I and I
don't know, like I always felt like when when the
expansion was going on, Nebraska to me was a perfect fit.
Nebraska I thought made more sense than like any other school.
And I historically speaking, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I honestly
like would have I think looking at like I would

(14:55):
have at the time, I would tell you this. At
the time, I would have rather had like Missouris and Rutgers.
I would have rather had I mean, like I just
I thought there were other schools that made more sense,
Like the identity you have, the identity of the conference,
you know what I mean, Like West Virginia would have
made more sense than than that. Yeah. So like I

(15:19):
just think, like it's like I don't know, like I
think a lot of like that. Like and maybe it's
because our conference is so like sort of old school,
but I just think there's like a sort of certain
identity that these conferences have in the parts of the
country that they are that they're in. And it's like
really hard to I like, I'm not gonna say it,
but you guys know where I'm going with. It's like,
you know what you know, it's hard to describe, but

(15:43):
you know when you see it, there's something else that's
like that too, right, uh but but but but it's
like like the identity of these conferences, you know it
when you see it, you know, and the SEC has
that I feel like the Big ten that's always been
the strength of the conference. And I just I feel
like it's just like you look at Nebraska, and you
know it, that looks like a Big ten school. You
look at Rutgers in Maryland, It's like it doesn't really

(16:04):
feel that way. Yeah, it's I totally agree. It's it'll
be fun to watch and see how this whole thing
plays out. Albert, we always appreciate to get him on
Twitter at Albert Brier mm QB dot com, Senior NFL reporter.
Always fun catching up with you here and hopefully we
can do it again next week. Alright, a great weekend guy. Yeah, yeah, there,

(16:28):
it is all right, good stuff. He's he's a good dude.
Always fun catching up with Albert Brier here on Fox
Sports Radie. All right, so we are going to get
into uh and over the todd This is absolutely over
the top. I'm gonna be on an island alone when
it comes to this. It's an NFL story. We'll have
that for you next This this is I'll kick the coverage.

(16:49):
Welcome to your Friday weekend right around the corner. We
appreciate you hanging out with us here. We're gonna take
you all the way up until nine am Eastern times,
six o'clock Pacific right here on Fox Sports Radio. We
have just been waxing poetically during the breaks about you know,
going to the meat market as opposed to the supermarket
to get yourself a rib about going you know, talking

(17:12):
Penn State football, the scene in Penn State, I think,
I just, man, there's something about And I always tell
people this, I didn't get the hype around college football
because out here in southern California in l a U C,
l a U S, Yeah, it's not. There's just there's
so much going on. And then when I got into

(17:35):
radio and I got a job in radio in Charleston,
South Carolina, and I went out there, the first thing
that stood out to me was everybody had a different
college flag on the outside of their house or the bar,
whether it was Georgia. Well yeah, but like out there
you would have South Carolina, Clemson, Georgia, all of these.

(17:56):
And when I finally saw and got to go to
a South Arolina Clemson game, it just it completely changed
my perspective. It made me fall back in love with
college football. We gotta go Telgate. It's so much, it's
so much fun. It is the most insanely cool, like

(18:17):
it's aing and also look and here's the other the
other part of uh. I think last year with everything
being shut down and stopped and whatnot, one of the
one I think a lot of the people that were
affected as well too, were those businesses around the stadium.
I mean, that's their livelihood, especially in a state like
that is like Penn State, football is the economy, they're correct, Yeah,

(18:41):
And so during the fall you had all those businesses
that just didn't have that, like the bars around Wrigley Field.
You ever been to a Cub game in Wrigley Field,
It is that that drives the entire business structure from
around the stadium. Because anywhere you look at any point
you walk out a wrigley Field and you walk out
of the outfield, left field, right field, somewhere to eat,

(19:05):
there's like two hundred bars. Anywhere you look. There's like
two a hundred to two hundred bars in every direction.
And all of those places took a hit last year
because there wasn't and and so to see that we're
getting close and and all these college towns are going
to get back to where they were before, it just
makes me happy. Man. That's why I'm so fired up.
I'm sure hoping so, you know, and that's you know,

(19:28):
we've had the conversation earlier in the show, and if
you didn't listen to earlier in the show, you can
go to the podcast and check it out. I mean
it is available to so you know, um, but just
talking about the whole vaccinations conversation, different things like that.
It's things like that for me. That's say you know
that it has to be a valuable option in terms

(19:50):
of what you you're thinking, because you do want to
see that. I not only want to see it, I
want to experience it again. And we wanted to be sustainable.
You know, you don't want to just be like all right,
everybody like that stuff that happened with the Milwaukee Bucks
with all of them being out there, and like I
love that, like that energy. You can't you want to

(20:12):
know why athletes struggle when they're not playing games anymore,
because that energy is not it's not matchable. You can't
match it in any other aspect of your life. Like
when I had my kids, it was like, oh my gosh,
it's it's it's my baby. Like it's like, man, it
ain't like how I like make a play in in

(20:32):
Beaver Stadium. It's not the same. Sorry, kids, I love
you guys. I promise you Daddy loves you. I had
the same me father's dan LaVar. Hey look here I
met my chickens. Like, oh my gosh, I met the
woman of my dreams. We're gonna get married, We're gonna
build a family and build a life. But it don't
feel like when I came out and Beaver Stadium. It

(20:53):
doesn't feel the same. Just HiT's different, the truth, and
I love them like it's a right feeling. Every day
I look at my family, it's like, oh my gosh, like, yeah,
I'm happy to be here. But it isn't like when
I came out the Beaver Stadium, Like this is the
craziest thing, and I need for you to experience that
with me. Look, I think everybody needs to go. I

(21:16):
think we all need to get there and just take
it all in. It would be a lot of fun
and uh fired up about all everything that is right
around the corner, uh college football included. Wait in the NFL.
I can't wait to smell that fall air. Oh you
know the best man, bro. Like there's certain things that
happen like you can smell it, you know, the smells

(21:40):
like you know the feeling of it and it's just like, yeah,
like this is it, Like it's time, Like I feel
really really good about this. Like oh my gosh, Like
that first Friday or Saturday morning before the first games
are played. For college football, it's just crazy man. It's
it's even for high school. It's just a crazy feeling

(22:04):
you get when you get like to those days right
before the first one is played. It's just an amazing feeling. Man.
Every time. It's why the show Last Chance you I'm bummed.
I'm bummed that you know, it's it's gone to the
basketball route, which is cool but safe. Yeah, the football route.
The best part about that show was that it would

(22:27):
come out in July, so usually around this time because
it was a year after the season was played and
they've got to you know, edit and put it together.
But it always got me fired up because that is
in these small towns juco football, a lot of really
talented players who literally it's their last chance to try
and get an opportunity at a big time school because

(22:49):
you know, they blew their last chance or their first
opportunity and it just wasn't working out. But it's just
the scenery, the sites, the sounds, the drum, the band
playing the drums, you know, like you go to Whenever
I think about high school football, I think about popcorn
because I can I can smell. You can always smell
popcorn and Pogers hot dogs cooking at the when you

(23:12):
walk into the stage. Your favorite game day food like
like like maybe not maybe not like the food food,
but like that type of food. What's your favorite come?
We just had a bond. I'm telling you it's literally
my fing That's my favorite food in the world. I
could eat wings that day. Why is that? I don't

(23:35):
game day bucket of wings or whatever, basket whatever you
want to call it, and beer, man, Like, I don't.
I don't even need the fries. I just give me
wings beer. In Pittsburgh, dude, Bro, I love you gotta fries.
I mean they put fries in their toothpaste in Pittsburgh.

(23:55):
We put it. We put that on everything, Bro, I
gotta be honest with the other Burgers, Bologny sandwiches. I
had a perman brother at p NC where the Pirates played.
It was awful, Yeah, well, but I had a permani
at at a real Permanti and it was better. I
think it was just the ball version right, yeah, like

(24:17):
you think you think you'ren't know. Man, I got used
when I did radio in d C. One of the
hottest spots shots out the bench chili Bowl. Great people,
great spot, bro. And we used to we used to
do our show on the terminal before every game and
they would bring me a half smoke every game. Half

(24:40):
smoke or what what do you mean? That's the name?
What is it? I mean it gets you, gets you
nice likes? Will I tell you that from what I
hear so so it's it's uh, it's a sausage and
a hot dog and it's got like chili on cheese.
And I love chili too, man. And let me tell
you something, bro. Let me tell you something about that

(25:02):
that bench chili bowl that them have smokes and the
consistency of it and which was crazy because I used
to get it at the at the baseball stadium more
than going in to the to the to the main spot.
But back to Permanni Brothers, Bro, you gotta get there
there fried zucchini to by the way, it's the best

(25:22):
fried zucchini that you'll ever have in your life. And
they're big fish the fish sandwich with the cold slow
on or like like the whatever it is that they
put on it, but with the French fries on top
of it. You gotta get extra tartar sauce and some
hot sauce and put on it. And then you gotta
cut it. Little iron city light on the side. I
see light, baby, Come on, you're taking me back. Notice

(25:46):
I'm about to go jump on the Red Eye soon?
Does this bad? Boys over wings Chili? I'd actually love
to find I'd love to do some research how much
the average man gains and wait from September to January.
Love ridiculous because everyone says, oh, man, I gotta watch
my physique for the holidays. May kiss my ash. You've
been eating like crap for two months for watching football?

(26:08):
What are you talking about? You know what else? I
love bro nacho's. Yeah, I'm I'm a big nacho fan.
Solid and the older I've gotten out, here's the weird
thing about me. I never was a pepper guy, but
now in my older age, like spicy food take the
physical challenge and I like getting lapenos all my my nachos. Yeah.

(26:31):
I love me some spicy food, man, I got it.
Let's go live by the way we do have a
crack staff here, no stone on turn here on weekday mornings.
This is like, this isn't like the weekend stuff you're
used to, Lamar, this is this is a this is
weekday mornings. Man, what we're the big time. Let's go live.
We do have a research or a medical researcher on
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(26:53):
To find out about weight games during the football season.
A study by here As Interactive found that of football
fans have gained an average of ten pounds during football season.
That's good, that's what they're called by it. But the

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problem is you get to a point to where that
ten just sticks around a little bit longer, you know
what I mean, Like, there's just that there's a point
to where you added on it does go anywhere. Did
you get to the season again, like it's six months
and trying to get it off. Man, you're getting that
slow one or two going ahead to next season, you
add ten more pounds. By the way, six in the

(27:39):
study gained more than twenty pounds during the same period.
All listen, you know, like and and then, but but
here's the here's the best part. You'll get to the holidays,
and they'll go, no, man, I gotta you know, I
just I just want to make sure. I want to
be smart about It's like, dude, you've been eating like
crap for two months. First first Saturday, a Sunday of

(28:00):
the football season. Your body goes into a state of
shock the first weekend because you're now telling yourself, I
can eat this. I'm I should be rewarded. It's celebration time.
Football's back, and your body's like, hey man, no Moss,
like like there's like Roberto during no Moss, Like, we're
not used to what you're doing right now. And then

(28:21):
it's just a slow building. The funniest thing is is
that football season ends after January. Oh yeah, it totally
destroys Oh your New Year's resolution. I've got to get
back and say, wait, hold on the super Bowl has it? Oh,
it's Bowl season? Like the best Bowl days happened January.
And if you take your lady out for Valentine's Day,

(28:42):
zero shot you're tucking in your shirt. That's a zero
zero shot, zero shot. I'm telling you right now you'll
see more guys with untucked button up shirts on Valentine's
Day and all that's because the football say. Some people
are happy with their gut hanging out when they their
shirt is some people can pull it off. Man, my
legs are too small. It's the funniest thing. My my, my,

(29:05):
my gut when it's out there, hides my legs and
then people people say, I have the little man legs.
I don't like that. And by the way, our chef
on staff, Roberto, have you figured out a way to
make nachos to where it gets to every layer or
we still gotta uh, you know, it's a pain in
the ash man, Yeah, trying to figure that. You bake
yours to see. I heard I saw a recipe that

(29:26):
was done. I forget the name of it. They take
the top off a giant can. They pour the chips
in the can so it's sitting vertically, and then they
pour the toppings in like that, so when you lift
the top up, the chips all spill out and it
goes everywhere. I forget what it's called, but it's a
it's a fan and I probably just that was terrible radio,
and I just did that's that's exactly why I don't

(29:48):
do play by play. That was terrible radio. But trust me,
I will try and find totally well listen, I'll tweat
it out all right at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter,
I will tweet it out here. We're completely off the rail,
all right, I'll kick the coverage here Fox Sports Radio
Eric to I'm Jonas Knocks. All right, So coming up next,

(30:08):
we are going to get to um. A player in
the NFL knows he has something to prove and there
could be a Super Bowl on the line to do.
So it's yours next year on fs ARE. This is
out kicked the coverage. Hey, I'm Doug Gottlieb. The podcast

(30:30):
is called All Ball. We usually talk all basketball all
the time, but it's more about the stories about what
made these people love their sport and all the interesting
interactions along the way. We talked to coaches, we talked
to players, We tell you stories. You download it, you
listen to it. I think you like it. Listen to
All Ball with Doug Gottlieb on the I Heart Radio app,

(30:53):
Apple Podcast orherever you get your podcast. What's your favorite
game day food? We just had a bond. I'm telling
you it's literally my favor That's my favorite food in

(31:13):
the world. I could eat wings that day, oh Man,
kick the coverage here Fox Sports Radio. He's LaVar Arrington.
I'm Jonas Knox here on fs are by the way,
coming up in ten minutes from now, less than ten
minutes from now, it is the return of Animal Thunderdome. Alright,
Animal Thunderdome UH an hour earlier than normal, which means

(31:37):
we got another hour to recap what the hell Danny
dug up to deliver in the world of Animals and
beyond um. And usually he likes to end these uh
these segments with a yeah, you know, a celebrity animal
with a with a story from the morgue of of
the Animal Thunderdome. But we will get into the Animal
Thunderdome coming up ten minutes from now, less than ten

(31:59):
minutes from now on Fox Sports Radio. By the way,
I did tweet out the link. Trash can nachos is
what I was trying to think of that I did
a poor job of explaining on the air we were
talking about game day food for the upcoming NFL and
college football season. Trash can nachos. I sent it out
to everybody on the show. UM at the Jonas Knocks

(32:20):
on Twitter, you have to follow me. I couldn't care less.
Don't don't follow me, just steal the recipe and make
it on your own. But Roberto, that's legit, man, I'll
tell you there's something to that that the way they
have that whole thing set up, there can nachos, can't wait,
labars leave already started making them like keep shopping on.
Told you listen when we were watching the TV yesterday.

(32:41):
We love watching Food Network. While we're doing the show,
by the way, everyone and I was getting so hungry
watching them make these steak Hogan. So I go to
our butchers starts out to my peeves A Plaza butcher
Plaza meats. But anyway, I go get some ribis, and
I had I was going to cut on myself, like oh,
you freeze them for thirty to forty minutes, then it's

(33:02):
easier to cut. They got the cutter right there. I
was like, can you cut these rabis for me? Yeah?
It's like all right, she cuts them up. Man, I
go back to the crib. I whipped them things up, bro,
I'm telling you, And in my mind, I'm like, like
everything I see on the television, it's like it gets
into my head. And then I start like formulating the

(33:23):
plan like a game plan, like four football game like
it's the craziest thing. And I tried. It doesn't sometimes
it works, sometimes it does Jones. But trailing there right,
this is how That's how you get it. So Zeke
Elliott he had some comments. Now, he had some comments
on the vaccine um but yeah, you know, I'm tired
of talking about that. He had some other comments about

(33:44):
this upcoming season, uh and uh, in which he basically
said he's got something to prove. Yeah, and I would
agree with you himself because we can sit here and
we can point at Dak Prescott and say, well, they
should they have given him the money, and you know,
is he gonna be healthy coming in the next season,
And we're unsure about Mike McCarthy and what about the

(34:04):
defense and blood Man, let's just focus on the guy
who did get paid first, and that was Zeke. And
I gotta be honest, man, if you're a Cowboy fan,
I think you were expecting a little bit more after
that guy signed the dotted line on that contract, you think,
I mean it is. It's one of those things where

(34:24):
this this Dallas team, the Dallas team has struggled There's
been a lot of of noting and pointing out the
idea that this offensive line is not the line that
it was when everybody talked about it being a super
Bowl caliber offensive line. They have probably the most approved
out of everyone is the offensive front for Dallas. Um,

(34:49):
if if Ezekiel Elliott is able to run more, then
you know what, maybe Dak Prescott isn't forced to be
flushed out of the pocket and be running. Uh, he's
able to throw more effective. You know, they're more effective
in the passing game. I mean, there's just so many
different things that are connected to if you win in

(35:10):
the trenches and and so to me, looking at Ezekiel
Elliott right now, if I am Dallas and I'm an
offensive lineman with Dallas, they should be thinking that more.
They should take the ownership of Ezekiel Elliott coming out
and saying I got something to prove, I need to
do better, I need to be better. They should be

(35:31):
taking on this on that. So I'll tell you from experience, Jonas,
when we used to play against Dallas, the one thing
that you knew you were going to have to deal
with where some nasty ass old lineman. My my rookie year,
my rookie year, because this is all I heard about
coming into playing in the NFC. East Dallas, Dallas, Dallas.

(35:51):
They got this guy like Larry Island. Larry Island is
Larry Island, Larry Larry Island. They're so nasty, they're nasty,
Dalla do this and that, and they're like, oh, they
got another guy, Eric Williams. They drafted flows out at him.
This is all crazy offensive. I'm like, all right, man.
We get into Texas Stadium, my rookie year and Emmett
Smith gets a toss and I had All I could

(36:14):
think about was beat Dallas and you're good, like we're good,
like we were having a decent year, but it wasn't
a great year. You're having a decent year. Beat Dallas.
And all I remember was going into the week. They
just kept telling me, LaVar, when you see a pooler,
if it's if it's Larry Allen, you gotta chop him.

(36:38):
You gotta take his legs, chop him down. Now, you
gotta keep in mind the school I come from. We're linebacker, you.
We don't play that. I'm not chopping you. I'm popping you. Yeah,
you're not you're not a d tackle trying to buy
behind you. We don't. We don't do that ducking and
dodging stuff. So here we are in the game, and

(37:01):
and Emmett gets a toss, and here comes Larry Allen
on a pool. I can hear him breathe. You can
hear him breathe. Right, so I started breathing. We hit pooh.

(37:23):
I turned and look and Emmett Smith is still running downfield,
and so is Larry Allen. Emmett Smith is running downfield,
and so is Larry. I didn't know what happened, right,
I'm like, what what? I hit him solid. It was

(37:43):
as hard as I could hit him. I gave him
everything that I had. We're getting a film review. I
went three hundred and sixty degrees off my feet in
the air, landed on my feet in the exact same
place where I hit that man. Everybody was laughing. Everybody

(38:03):
was laughing, and then somebody somebody in aroundn't even remember
who it was. Somebody is wronging. You had the Larry
Larry Island experience. That's the l A experience. I'm like,
First off, I'm l A. They called l A. Second
of all I did get the l A experience, and
I gave him and said, you could be l A

(38:24):
b l A first, I'll be l A second if
it's okay with you. Mr Allen, that's that is a
guy much like Aaron Donald. That's a guy everybody looks
at and goes a respect. You seem out of his parents,
Like like how Aaron Donald is. I just met Aaron
Donald at the Super Bowl that was in Miami, and
he's from where I'm from. We're from the same place.

(38:45):
And I just met him. And when I saw him,
I was like, dang, he's small, Larry Allen, outside of
his pads is he's small. He's not that big. And
his hats you remember round man on a man you
hit his head and the like he pop up and
stuff on the football field, Dude was like round man.

(39:08):
His his his his pats came up like I don't
even know how you could see a star on his
held because his pats came up so far on his
on his head. You just saw the top of his
head and then and then it just started it just
go down. It was like literally like the perfect V
shaped person, Like his pats were like bigger than life.
And then it goes all the way down and then

(39:29):
his feet got big again, but the dude could run.
It was like it was like a horrible, ridiculous science experiment.
We're going to make the nastiest, rudest, baddest football player
at this position. But he's not even gonna be that big.
He was awesome. That was awesome, man, ridiculous bro. So Anyways,

(39:51):
the point is is that you're able to become the
all time leading rusher in the history of the National
Football League when you have an offensive line, says I
am going to make sure my quarterback stays upright and
has the ability to throw the ball. I Am going
to make sure that our running backs had the ability
to have open holes and be able to get up
into the second wave, the second phase of of the defense.

(40:14):
It has to be the offensive line that supports Ezekiel
Elliott in this Bowld proclamation of what it is that
he thinks he needs to prove, he's l A R
l A LaVar Arrington. I'm Jonahs socks is out kick
the coverage coming up next Animals thunder Dovas next for
all the latest though, it's Eddie Garcia. Thanks Jonas. Sits
all about Major League Baseball. We had a couple of

(40:36):
very interesting and dramatic finishes in a couple of old
time rivalries. Will start in the West Coast, where the
Giants scored four of the ninth and beat the Dodgers
five to three. Kenley Jansen, the closure for the Dodgers,
blows the save for the second straight night. There was
a controversial call in the ninth inning, and this when
bases loaded full account two out, the batter for San

(40:56):
Francisco has a check swing. They appealed the first base.
If the umpire calls him out games over, he says
he didn't swing that forced in the tying run and
Sarence Sisko goes on to get the win, and they
took three or four in the series from the Dodgers.
In now lead l A in the NLS by three games.
Red Sox score two in the ninth, two more in
the tenth walk off of the five four win over
the Yankees. New York relief Picture Brooks Kriskey said a

(41:18):
major league record. He through four wild pitches in the
tenth inning. I had never done been done before. An
X training raised bounting down the Indians five four and
ten Boston, so with the one game lead on Tampa
Bay in the AL East. The A's beat the Mariners
four to one. Oakland now two and a half games
back of Idol Houston in the AL West, and the
Braves down the Phillies seven to two. Philadelphia is now
four back of the Mets in the NL East. The

(41:39):
opening ceremonies of the Olympics are going on right now.
Very weird stuff going on. There's lots of dancing, uh
people running around with signs, are twirling around. I don't
know what's going on, but the opening ceremonies and Olympics
are going on right now. Of course there's no fans there.
Uh so I'm curious to see when they walk in,
like the athletes come in, will they wave or just

(42:01):
kind of walk around. I'm not sure how that's going
to work, but yeah, you know, what's the point. I
don't know. It's a TV show. I mean, it literally
is just for TVs. There you go, so there you go.
Huh listen, now, there you go. That's why we got options.
So we got Food Network on. All right, thank you, Eddie.
It's out kick the coverage here Fox Sports Radio right

(42:24):
now and actually coming up here. We'll call it a
little about twelve minutes from now on fs are UM.
You know, somebody had some interesting comments in the world
of football yesterday. We'll get our thoughts on that. It
is a major name in the world of college football.
But for right now, it's time for something we do
on the show called this, Ladies and gentlemen. I'm just glad.

(42:50):
I was scared, boys and girls. I thought he thought
I was like this enormous piece of chicken. Dit times
I hadture this is animal thunder dog. And now we
turned it over to Danny G to find out what
the hell sort of material you have concocted here on

(43:12):
this week's edition. All right, let's start in Houston where
U S Customs and Border Protection. They were working over
time at George Bush Airport because they intercepted fifteen live
giant land snails from a passenger's luggage. Now I sent,
I tweeted, I texted all of you guys pictures of

(43:32):
these ugly things. I'll tweet them out at Danny G Radio.
Now it might seem fun to have these African land
snails as an exotic pet, right or maybe not. It's
considered one of the most invasive pests in the world.
Though the passenger was traveling from Nigeria and initially only
declared dried beef, but later amended her declaration to include

(43:54):
these live snails. During an examination of her luggage, agriculture
specialists found re plastic zip closed bags containing these live
snails with fresh leaves and some beef. How do you
have a zip clothes bag and expect for them to
live the snails? Did I miss something? They were turned

(44:15):
over to the U S Department of agg who identified
the snails as banana rasp snails. Now, these these suckers
are native to West Africa and they affect fruit crops
and plants. Giant African snails are believed to carry a
parasite in its slime. It's responsible for a form of
meningitis that's harmful to humans. Yeah. Are they cookable? So

(44:40):
you're you're you are a world traveler, LaVar, you're thinking
of some some s cargo. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
I mean, does the meningitis get cooked out? Yeah, I
mean there's a lot of things that are are not
good for you if if not you know, prepared, correct,
Is that like eggs? Eggs snail. Take your snails and

(45:00):
if you're taking a caviar, yeah, I think maybe listen
either one of those I'm not eating. Yeah, I'm not
eating that. Disgusting. Oh god, so nasty man. And these
snails are huge. I've eaten chitlands before. Don't mess with me.
Those are yeah, tested they're so nasty that even exotic

(45:27):
pet veterinarians here in the US will not treat these
snails because they're illegal. Oh wow, that's a serious snail.
That's an of a story. See. I don't don't mind.
Jesus God, oh my god, LaVar will be here till Thursday.

(45:49):
D everybody to hang out with us here. I see,
I don't mind. Like banana slugs, like the Santa Cruz
banana slugs, one of the great mascots in all the sports. Like,
I don't mind banana like snails, I don't mind. These
are two big man. Like this looks like something off
the Never Ending Story. You still locked in on zipped

(46:10):
plastic bag. How are they breathing like there's no oxygen?
They only had so much oxygen. You only had so
much time, A little, a little bizarre time. Let's go
to Jersey for the next story, and you guys have
actually talked about seagulls on the air together before. Well.
Kylie Holman was celebrating her best friend's birthday when an

(46:31):
uninvited guest smacked her right in the face. Holman is thirteen,
got more than she bargained for when she hopped on
the classic Slingshots with her best friend Georgia Read at Wildwood,
New Jersey's Mores and Beachfront water Park. She was skyrocketed
into the air at seventy five miles per hour and
she came face to face with a speeding seagull. It

(46:52):
was right at the beginning, though soon did they launched
her hit her and she recovered like she was like,
grab it's a guy. Rid of it. Like, first of all,
she must be a New Jersey and I'm married in
New Jersey and and they are stone cold. She got
she got nervous, she got rattled, but she recomposed herself.
She grabbed that seagull, got rid of the seagull. The
seagull was like, what were you supposed to do this together?

(47:14):
But I'm gonna try to fly off And then she
started enjoying the ride again. By the way, seagulls are
basically sewer rats. With that you can literally black eyes
on a sewer rat. I I can't. They're just nasty.
Man sells are gross, dude. She got rid of this,
She got rid of that bad boy quick money because

(47:35):
in this resulting video you see that the birthday girls
oblivious as Holman peels this bird off her face and
tosses the animal to the side to set it free.
She says, I knew there was no going back and
it was just going to hit me, she told Fox.
I didn't know what to do, so I waited for
it to spin over. I just grabbed it and threw
it off of me. Meanwhile, the other teen's mother, Arena Reid,

(47:59):
said she didn't realize what had happened until the ride
had finished. I saw the wings fall from the vehicle,
but at first I thought they were tickets, she said.
According to The Daily Mail, the seagull appears to be
uninjured in this video. It fests away. It just leaves
feathers behind, and this upset teenager. Holman told her local
TV news outlet that she has no plans to ride

(48:20):
the slingshot ever. Again. Gotta make sure that you're upset, Peter.
You gotta make sure you get in there. Sell was
not injured like that. You know what. I love to
catch somebody from Pete and a cheeseburger one time. That
would be pretty interesting. I would love to see that happen. Here.
Here's my problem. If this was any other bird, I
don't think it would be that much of an issue

(48:41):
because it's that sewer rat, the seagull that like here,
here's sewer rats. I think pigeons are worse than no, no,
I think I think pigeons. Seagulls are the bird that
other birds offer changed to on the side of but
pigeons are the bird that dap up rats. They be
on sat walked together and they'll be walking like, oh,

(49:02):
you're going over to Capitol girl, Yeah, okay, happy him up,
Like I'll check you out over there, Nicodemus, like we'll go.
They got named for it and everything. Man. Yeah, I
don't know, man, I don't know, all right, and quickly
for the final Thunderdome story, I thought about it long

(49:22):
and hard of whether or not to do another tiger
killing in Asia, but I thought this would be a
little more fun. And I'm gonna tweet this picture out.
You guys all have it in your phones now. Coss
River is the place in Michigan there was a big
Foot sighting. Now there's kind of a war going on
between the haters and the believers. A friend of the program,
Joe Kinzie from OutKick dot Com, posted this video the

(49:45):
other day and people are not sure what to make
of this. It's a kayaker who took a five second
video of what looks like Bigfoot carrying baby. Bigfoot or
maybe a deer just strange in the In the picture,
there's one still photo. What you guys now have and
I'll tweet this out? It's crazy? Did the kayaker was
scared so didn't get close enough to get a clear photo.

(50:08):
But what do you guys make that was Lenita? She
was on on Vacation's gonna say that that wasn't make
from this photo? Rap I just told you, Daddy, it's Nita.
I gotta be honestly from Grand Rapids was on vacation.
I gotta be honest with you. When you zoom in
on the picture, it looks like he's holding whatever this
is disrespecting her, it's holding holding a baby. But when

(50:32):
you pull out careful when you, when you, when you
when you don't get a baby big foot? If you
do that, yes, you do, when you But when you
actually zoom out on the picture, it looks like a
guy with a lot of hair, who's you know, washing
his downstairs bathroom. If you know what I mean. Well,

(50:53):
I'm staying on guy. I'm trying to tell you who
it is. But go ahead. Want to report on bigfoot
sightings by state had Michigan at two and twenty reports,
which puts them at the top of the list. It
Washington is still number one in sightings. Nevada has the

(51:13):
few sightings per capita. But this happens in Michigan a lot.
It just happens. Will be to two places where narcotics
is very very well used and of fans. And I
was gonna say, man, this is like Washington. This is something. Yeah,
this is some meth head who rolled around a dog
hair like I don't know. We're looking at here like

(51:36):
I'll tell you it's like, Danny, will you tweet this
picture out? I'm going to do that during the break here.
If you zoom in, it looks like somebody holding a baby.
If you zoom out, it looks like they're cleaning their crotch.
I'm telling you, like it's it's weird. There's something about this.
But just somebody who was vacation in Man and it
just stayed a little too long with their vacation. That's
that's all. Like they're living out there like, you know,

(51:58):
naked and afraid. I love that. In sin No Man,
I woke up at a block of ice and n
our burnside bath. Let's go do it, slob uh it is.
I'll kick the coverage here Fox Sports Radio. He's LaVar Arrington.
I'm Jonas Knocks here on fs are all right, So
coming up next, there was a player who had some
comments about a well known coach in the world of

(52:22):
college football and in the NFL Super Bowl champion. LaVar's
got intimate knowledge of this situation and he doesn't even
know it. We'll get to that next year on f SR.
This this is I'll kick the coverage. So we've talked
a lot about so college football. Um, the latest on
the Oklahoma Texas sort of, you know, potential move to

(52:45):
the SEC. The Big Twelve commissioners. Last night they got
together to our the Big Twelve teams and athletic directors
got together on a conference call to discuss what was happening.
Oklahoma and Texas were not there of worse because they're
trying to get to the SEC. So it feels like
this is gonna go on for a little while. But
Oklahoma Texas as of right now are trying to get

(53:07):
out of the Big twelve and they want to get
to the SEC. That is the that is the goal
there for those two programs you got sometimes you gotta.
It's more of a financial play and I get that,
but I think it would be a difficult transition, is

(53:27):
what I'll say. That would be a difficult deal, especially
for Oklahoma. Like Oklahoma shows that they can be good,
but they haven't shown that they're elite or dominant and
outside of the pageantry and the tradition of what Oklahoma
has represented in the past, I don't know what Oklahoma

(53:48):
could do to change their trajectory. I mean, you've had
Heisman Trophy winners. There's should there. You would assume that
there would be some type of spike in terms of
how much better they're able to do, but they just
they always miss, they always miss. And listen, I know
people are out there sitting there saying so does Penn State. Yeah,
you're right, You're right. But the one thing that I

(54:11):
will say about Penn State, Uh, they've they've gone through
the growing pains of being a part of the Big
ten in a time where the coverage and the expectations
and and just the total landscape of where college athletics
is what's not where it is now. So a lot
of things could slip through the cracks, and a lot

(54:33):
of things slip through the cracks there. Uh, things could
slip through the cracks that you know possibly won't do
that now. And I think that the pressure, the turn
up of of pressure on on decision makers at these
these institutions would be it would be ridiculously high and
probably very difficult to overcome. A lot of people will

(54:54):
end up losing their jobs and these types of situations.
Let me tell you something right now. If I'm Lincoln Riley,
when when it does get announced and they say yes,
so we're going to the SEC in three, I'm out
for the NFL. See I'll take the cowboy job of
McCarthy fails, I'm out. Like I'm Lincoln Riley. You're at
your highest right now. It only goes downhill if you

(55:16):
go to the if you go to the SEC, like
you are the guy who gets quarterbacks, Heisman Trophy awards
like that is that's that's something to look at. My
guy Matt Rule. I mean he goes to Baylor. I
mean he made obviously with with you know, his his
his background, but he was a part of Temple being good.

(55:37):
He goes into state college and beats beats Penn State,
his alma mater. I mean, then he goes it's like
everywhere he's gone he's had success. But then he ends
up in the Big twelve and and he's winning with Baylor,
like he's made down relevant and he gets a gets
a gig, He gets an NFL game and gets a
seven year contract with l experience none none, So and

(56:00):
I think what was he I think he might have
been an assistant with the Giants for when I say NFL, ya,
being having a cup of coffee with a team is
not being a hit coach like going that's like, you know,
that's like going from peddling a bicycle to jumping on
a ninja motorcycle. Like it's it's just very it's two

(56:21):
different animals, two different things. And so in talking about
just the landscape of college football and uh, and and
where we stand with college football. Jim Harbaugh, the coach
of the Michigan Wolverines. Um, you know, he was talking
with the media the Big Ten Media Days, big deal
and everybody's gathering around, and so Jim Harbaugh was discussing, um,

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just sort of the talk about him being on the
hot seat there is the Michigan head coach. Here's what
you had to say. I look at it like, uh,
people are trying to discourage you. You know that that's
almost like propaganda, like let's discourage him, you know, almost
like World War two, uh propaganda, Uh machines you know, um,
you know, stop quit you know, uh, you know, no

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need to try? Do you have no chance? And you
don't even try any further? Uh yeah, So you just
it that becomes like now we don't we don't, we
don't subscribe to that at all. Trying to get to
the top. We're gonna die trying. We're either gonna get
there or that trying. Who are we? That's my guy,
Jim Harbor. Who are we? Wolverine? You better believe it,

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the Michigan Wolverine. Who with us? Because I'm showing there
are a lot of people on that team like I
don't know about what coach about it, Like I don't
know about that trying you see. I actually think, uh,
first of all, I think Jim Harbaugh has been a
success at Michigan. I just think that people came in

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tired of hearing about how great Jim Harbor is is
a coach, and he's a good coach him everywhere he's been,
he's he's turned around the program that he's been at,
whether it was San Diego, whether it was Stanford, whether
it was the Niners. Um, Michigan was a bad football
program when he got there. Uh, they're back into relevancy.
I just think the expectations were wrong to begin with.

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They've never been Ohio State ever. Michigan has never been
Ohio State. Ohio State has Ohio State has run that
conference man for a while. Never is a long time.
Michigan has some serious football history, and they they've they've

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been the cream of the crop for for at times.
I'll say this, I'll say this, the expectation, like if
you talked about this the other day, in terms of
football rivalries and how important they are, there is no
bigger football rivalry than Ohio State in Michigan there is,

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it's not. And when I say it's not even close,
it's not even it's not even close. Okay, when we
were yeah, we're about the in the same age range
Miami Florida State was in the discussion, those days are dead.
It's not the same. It's not the sa it's not
even the same backgwn. It's not close. It's not close.

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And it's got to be a nine am Pacific time kickoff.
That's when Michigan Ohio State has to happen. Do not
fart around by scheduling later in the day. It's got
to be a nine am Pacific time kickoff New and
Eastern times where it's the rivalry still continues to drive,

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just like what we were talking about with Oklahoma and Texas.
The pageantry, the tradition, the legacies that are connected to
these programs are what are still able to drive them forward.
Even in being a an Okay team, hardball is over.

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I believe what four D nine and let me see
forty nine and twenty two. But he doesn't beat Michigan.
That's excuse me. He doesn't beat Ohio State, and and
and that's you know, you're not winning the Big Ten.
So mediocre is what you're gonna call Michigan. Mediocracy is

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where you're placing the Michigan Wolverines, because Michigan, when you
think of Michigan, it's supposed to be a battle back
and forth between Michigan and Ohio State to win the
Big Ten. And that's not what it is. In fact,
Michigan isn't even representing the side of the Big Ten

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that competes for the Big Ten title. And now you've
got teams like Pat Fitzgerald has Northwestern as a relevant team,
Wisconsin is always a relevant team. Iowa flirts with being
more than, you know, than what they generally are. They
they flirt with it. You now you're now seeing, now

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this is crazy. You're seeing Indiana take advances towards being
a more competitive and better team uh in the Big Ten.
So when you look at what the task is as
a head coach in the Big Ten, it's a it's
an arms race for talent, and Michigan does exceptionally well

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and recruiting, they just don't seem to be able to
turn it into what is considered to be successful seasons,
which is beating Ohio state competing for the Big Ten
title or getting it. At perfect example, John Cooper, Ohio
State coach, was a hundred and eleven and forty three,
a seven fifteen winning percentage there, but he was to

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eight and one against Michigan. And that's why can't survive it. Trestle,
on the other hand, Trestle was dominant, Irvin Meyer dominant,
and and those guys who looked at completely different and
John Cooper had a hell of a run there with
understand Lloyd Carr, all you gotta do is beat oh State.
Get when when when the Big Ten get to the

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Rose Bowl, Like that's the idea of it. And and listen,
James Franklin is under tremendous scrutiny, tremendous pressure because he
can't get past Ohio State. And for us, for Penn State,
that's what we want. We want o State. Yeah, we
we have to have a successful year for us is

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beating Ohio State. We might, we might, you know, we
might fall off a couple of other games. People can
tolerate it. The faithful can tolerated if you win certain games.
And one of those certain games, the highest on our
lists is Ohio State. If you can't beat Ohio State.

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And and James has not beating Ohio State for like,
He's been very close, but he's not beating him. You
are going to fall under an intense scrutiny that could
eventually lead to you not being the coach. And that's
why Jim Harball is under so much, so much scrutiny
and so much stress. Is it's not propaganda. Sorry, you're winning,

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but the propaganda is thinking that you can continue to
be what you are, even being Jim Harball, that that
played at Michigan and had a brilliant career and not
beat Ohio State. It doesn't work that way. Up next,
some things in the world of sports we have not
had a chance to get to. They are yours here.
But for all the latest it's Eddie Garcia, thank you Jonas.

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Watching the Olympics opening ceremonies going on right now in Tokyo,
did you know that Syria has a twelve year old
table tennis athlete that is competing in the Olympics that,
according to Mike Tarico, the things you learn watching the
opening ceremonies of the Olympics, I could tell, but your
speech listen, I mean, was that the Sudan. I just

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saw they had this Sudan walking out and now we've
got Spain. The chat very good. So in in alphabetical order,
anybody want to guess what country is next? In alphabetical order?
Do we want to take a stab at this? Uh? Syria? Okay,
that's a good one. Um, I was gonna go Siberia.
I was gonna go South Dakota. Anybody taking on that? Yeah? Tijuana?

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All that's good? That works. Did you know the States
they have a new policy. They have a new policy
this this year at the Olympics, a male and female
athlete have to carry the flag in together. Yeah. Good
about time, quality, you know about time. I'm sick of this.
You are so funny for that? All right? Major League

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Baseball last night Roberto was laughing now, but he wasn't
laughing earlier. When you can cut it off in about
two minutes, now, be out the door. The Giants score
four in the ninth off of Kenley Jansen, five three win.
That's that sounds like the Dodgers fan that I know.

(01:05:09):
Second straight night blown save for Kenley Jansen. There was
a controversial call on the ninth inning, bases loaded full,
didn't matter. He walked the bases loaded check swing. They
say he did not go around, so the tying run
comes to the plate. If if they would have called
it a striking, the game would have been over. But anyway,
San Francisco takes three or four in the series and
now three games up on LN the NLS. Yes, John,
I was just gonna say, like this is he would

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have never spoken this way if it were Eric gan
Eric Ganya who was on the gas, he would have
never have said this. But Kenley Jansen out there trying
to finish, trying to finish off his career, and he
got savages like Roberto and Ben Maller who won't let
him get through the rest of his season. I want
to apologize on our Blowtorch A five seventy l A Sports,
the flagship of the Dodgers. I want to apologize for

(01:05:53):
Roberto's comics about Kenley Jansen. Dare he Roberto Slovakia is
up now, by the way, and it was not the
next one up in line, and it wasn't. It didn't
look like they were an alphabetical order either. I think
I think it's maybe the Japanese alphabet. They're going in
that order. It definitely was not alphabetical. It was it
was Stockton right, brothers came out. I really didn't mean

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for it to go this way, but okay. The Red
Sox beat the Yankees five four in ten endings Boston
two in the ninth to tie it, then two more
in the tenth to win. It was not a great
night for Yankees. Really. Picture Brooks kris Key, as he said,
a major league record with four wild pitches in the tent.
The wild thing he made my heart sing. Raise beat
the Indians five four intent and he's Boston still has

(01:06:41):
a one game leading on Tampa Bay in the AL East.
The Raise did make a trade yesterday, pick up Nelson Cruse,
a veteran slugger from the Twins. A's over the Mariners
four to one. Oakland now two and at back of
idle Houston in the AL West. And the Braves beat
the Phillies seven or to Philadelphia now four back of
the Mets in the NL East. Race now back to
Jonas Knox and Lavarkick the cover studios. Thank you, Eddie.

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It is out. What's the name of that country, Chellis, say, Chills,
I've never heard of that country. I mean hear you say,
say chillis, Say chillis? I like, I like, I like,
I like the flag, Say Jill, how do you pronounce that?
Can we get a just told you? Like now Equatorial Guinea?

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I mean, come on, this is okay. So so it's
the opening served by the way, for those of you
wondering what the hell we're talking about, it's the opening
ceremonies of the Olympics. It's an empty arena, but I
think they've done a pretty good job making it seem
like there's at least some cardboard wave to the crowd.
It's just some real tight shots, you know. The magic
of television's crazy saying the number of athletes that are

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participating versus the population of the country. By the way,
Danny g has say chills else show. Yeah, I don't
know an island somewhere personally, I like it is a
country in East Africa. All right. See we're learning here,

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we're learning. I mean, are these are these events are
going to be at my big issues? Are we gonna
have live Olympic events? Are we gonna have to watch
it on tape delay? Because we're watching on tape delay?
It just it depends on what time you're up. I mean,
come on, man, like, that's what people are up all
over the place like, and we're we're working, you know,
odd hours here, so we would like something a live
swarning event on so the rest of these people who
get it during the week, you know, we can know

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how they live for once. I think we'll have a
few live events while we're on the air. Favorite Olympic
event around the room quickly one hunding to break track
and field, right, not track and field. So you just
want to hear in and out like I need, I need,
I need, I just so ten seconds and let's get done.

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Wrap Roberto favorite Olympics, need to get time swimming all right,
Danny g you know cycling? Oh that's good, yeah, with
no seat, right, that's very good. Dancing Eddie, Eddie. Favorite
Olympic ice hockey. I forgot I was dubbed there. Du

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Do you have a favorite Olympic event. I'm gonna go
with women's beach volleyball. Mad at that, I'm gonna go
with that. I'm gonna go with women's gymnastics. And in
honor of Brady Quinn's wife, Alicia, who is yeah, but
she could be listening I don't want to piss her off,
because I've seen her when she's piste off. I don't

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want any part of that. She's yeah, yeah, Away from that,
the Italian side of her comes out and it's it's
not pretty. But yeah, this is what I got. Something
going on in another country I can pronounce the name of.
This is awesome, all right. I need to buy some kids.
You got to buy a globe. Come on, man, we
gotta buy a globe for the studio and try and
find these places. All right, Uh it is I'll kick

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