August 2, 2021 • 39 mins
Jonas Knox is joined by Geoff Schwartz and they get your week started with NFL talk, as we’re just a few days away from the Hall of Fame Game! They discuss gambling on the first preseason game, Dak's health and Geoff has some camp stories. The fellas dive into the Carson Wentz foot injury and get into some Cubs, Giants and Dodgers baseball. Plus, Geoff shares a $1750 chicken finger/tater tot boat he watched being served in Las Vegas.
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It's how kick the coverage here Fox Sports Radio. Jonas
Knocks and Jeff Schwartz is with me and coming up
on the show. It is officially football week. That's right.
The Hall of Fame game is this week, and we're
gonna get you primed for how you can be a
degenerate when it comes to that game. We've also got
some bad news at the quarterback position for one team
in the a f C. You've got a food boat
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in Las Vegas. It's revolting, it sounds disgusting. Jeff Schwartz
has got the details on that. There's a coach really
really upset with his players. Chris Mannix stops by the
talk NBA free agency and possible trades. And then also
Jeff Schwartz is constructing his perfect offensive line. All of
that for you coming up next here. I'll kick the
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you all the way up until nine am Eastern times,
six o'clock Pacific, and we will do so with none
other than the great Jeff Schwartz. Good morning. I'm so
glad to be here because, as you mentioned, Jonas, it
is a special week. Football is back this week. Do
not make fun of the Hall of Fame game, guys,
It's real. Football is happening later this week, and I'm
so excited to feast my eyes on the third team
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of the Steelers against the third team of the Cowboys
for thirty minutes. I don't care. I don't They could
roll out whoever they want, It would not matter to me.
This This is game week man. Football is back, because
if I'm not mistaken, this is the We're gonna go
every single weekend. If I'm not mistaken, I think I
have this correct. There might be one that we don't,
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but from now until February, we're getting football every single
weekend that we are that you have not missed a
weekend that we will have. Because the NFL has three
priests of games, they have one less weekend of games,
but that weekend is filled with Week zero of college football. Yes, yes,
so we have We have U c l A Hawaii,
which is what I will be glued, glue my eyes
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to the chip. Kelly's a fourth year at u c
l A on that opening weekend. Yeah, we have football
now every weekend, every week all the way until it's
mid February this year. I can't wait, man I, I I
cannot wait. It's gonna be It's gonna be a lot
of fun. Now. I always ask this because I do
think that there's something to it, and I've talked to
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Brady about this. I've talked to LaVar about this, that
it's just sort of your body clock. So as an
NFL player, are you already starting to get into football
mode even though you're not playing anymore, even though you've
been out of the league, are you starting to get
some of the fields, like, man, I gotta light somebody up,
Like I've got to get into a physical altercation to
just scratch the itch that I normally scratched this time
of year. No, I don't feel that. But what I'm
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starting to feel is like a lack of preparation for
the season type of feeling. Right, Like there's so many
ways to preview the season. There's so many preview guys,
there's so many ways to look at the year. And
I do college football as well as it. Packed to
a media day last weekend last week, I should say
is as part of my my radio duties as well.
So you know, I'm just excited for the season. I
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don't feel as prepared, but I know I am prepared,
but I'm like, I'm I just don't have my I
don't have my gambling notes ready for the Paul Thame game.
I'm a little behind for the week. And by the way,
for those of you that are going to sit here
in judgment and try and pass down judgment if you
if you like to do that to your sports stock
radio host, and this is the show for you, because
I am openly and so is Jeff. Going to be
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gambling on the Hall of Fame game this week was
zero shame. There's actually money to be made in the preseason.
And the way you wage during the preseason is you
wage on coaches. Because there are coaches, most of the time,
their defense coaches who do really well in the preseason
because they try to win the game because of defensive guys.
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A lot of the offensive coaches just don't care like
they're gonna get their offense. They're gonna get their work in.
The starters are gonna play a driver too, That's it.
The defensive guys man, they care. They want to win
these games. And if you look at I haven't. I
don't know the numbers from from this year. I need
to look them up. Like Mike Zimmer really good in
the priest. I think Tom One was really good in
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the preseason. John John Harbor is really yeah. Like you
wager on coaches in the preseason, I mean you can,
I guess look at backup quarterbacks right and see. But again,
we don't know what what the rotation will be this
year because of the of the third preseason game, right,
So I'm curious. Excuse me three, I I don't know
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who's gonna play. When I get bet on coaches in
the preseasons, it is because I was thinking about that
as well too. I wonder because we didn't have preseason
games last year. I know, I know there was the
big talk of all we don't need the preseason ever,
just get rid of the preseason. I We're going to
find out which coaches really do value the preseason, because
I do think there is something to it. I do
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think it does mean something for especially guys that are
on the bubble that are trying to make a team.
I still think there's some value in the preseason. Well,
there definitely is. And coaches love games, right, I mean
they love any opportunity that you have to evaluate your team.
Coaches absolutely love right And the coaches have no say
in the c b A, so you know, they it
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was up to them. They go back to six preseason games.
But because of last year, and you know, the games
were not as sloppy as I thought they'd be to
start the season. I was very concerned we have sloppy
and we wasn't the best of football in the first
month of the year. But I do wonder if coaches
look at them and say, hey, look we got by
last year without any preseason We're not going to play
our starters at all. Just not at all, which is
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possible that we might see starters play a driver too
in the game. But I think there's gonna be some
teams that just, you know what, we have a quarterback
that we trust, we have starters that we trust. I
would imagine the Dallas Cowboys who have to play an
extra PRESEC game and the Hall of Fame. I play
in the Hall of Fame game, jonas it is. It's
not worth it for the players. It's just the extra game.
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Like well, I also did with Tom Coughlin, who is
one of those coaches who wants to win the preseason.
So we played the starters, played three drives in that game,
which is a lot for the first prisons. The game,
Um like we we we scored against the Bills to
defense and we got to come off the field. I
was like, who, we're ready for the season now, Um,
just the extra wee could practice. It's just not fun.
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I mean it's actually we could practice. Uh, it's just
not it's not fun. Uh that's whatly what it's. And
back then and I played too in the field was
really in bacudition, you know. I think it's the year
the year before, No, that was I played two or
three years before it melted. But the year before the
year after I played the Steelers, I think we're there
and their punter blew out his knee just running on
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the the turf was really bad, really bad, and so
obviously that's been fixed now. Um, but it's just not
for a player so I'm curious that the Cowboys are
gonna do uh you know, Dad's come off injury. Uh
you know, I would imagine that Mike McCarthy um probably
wants him to play a little bit, but I can't
imagine Jerry Jones wants him to play. So I'm curious
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know that that that that how the Cowboy especially in
Game one, are going to use the starting quarterback if
he doesn't play and Big Bait doesn't play, and then
obviously the game is the quality is not going to
be as good. But I'll watch every second of it. Yeah,
And I think when it comes to Dak Prescott, he's
you know, obviously dealing with whatever the shoulder injury is,
and I I still can't get a clear answer as
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to what it is. Is it serious, is it not serious.
They're taking it, you know, taking away kind of a
cautious approach and all that, and they want to take
their time and make a decision. So with that being said,
I would assume Dax's not gonna not gonna be in
the game. I would assume he's not going to be
a part of the Hall of Fame game. So then
you know, you might want to start to look at Pittsburgh.
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Maybe Pittsburgh's got a couple of guys are gonna to
make a roster that you could you could lay a
wager on. But I just I can't wait. Man. I
think I think there's there's a true value to it.
I think there's a this is going to there's gonna
be an opportunity for a lot of coaches to get
to see what they actually have because you can you
can go out there and you can practice, so you
can have these joint practices. But there's something to getting
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out even if it's just an exhibition game, getting out
there in in live reps, in a game atmosphere that
you can't match that, Right, Like, there's something too that
you don't get by just practicing or having a joint
practice like we like we had last season or the
year before. Correct and there and there are more more
joint practices this year than ever before. Right, That's how
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you're supplementing the lack of preseason games or even just
not wanting to play your starters in those games. You
have them go in a in a camp situation and
play twice before um you you play in the game.
I just want to say there is value in the
preseason Jonas. But the training camp battles uh in in
reality are far less than I think the media and
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fans would like to think. Right, if you have a
fifty roster now right, motive you're looking at you're looking
at a forty eight guys that are already on the
roster when camp starts because of contract, draft status, just
kind of where they fit on the roster, uh, their
their versatility. So then you're kind of fighting for the
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last lineman, right, the last linebacker, the last cornerback, the
you know, the third string quarterback. So the cam battles
are they are not as furious as we think they are.
Now players of course are told they're they're not. You know,
they're still battling. Of course you want competition on the roster,
but I think in actuality it's not as much as
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you think. Right, seven roster spots and there's ten guys
for seven roster spots. I mean, what what a what
a str RESTful, stressful gig man. And on top of that,
you're probably fatigued, you're sore. Even if you are injured,
you can't let anybody know because they'll just eliminate you
being injured. Even it's just like the a minor injury,
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they'll just say, all right, we're going to take the
healthiest guy and and and move on. That's just a
stressful gig man. Yeah. I mean you think, like you know,
you know you you you've been with LaVar who was
obviously never really have to worry about a roster spot
as a young player. Brady didn't have to worry about
a roster spot as a young player. And you got
me here, seventh round draft pick pick to forty one
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in the Panthers, who every day woke up I was like,
am I getting cut today? So it's uh, yeah, those
two had much differ camp experience and that I had
early in my career. Um, that is a stressful life, man.
I mean, just you know, I I don't I don't
remember ever thinking about it. I um, you know, I
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was maybe it was just you know, young and naive
and and just didn't really think about it as a
rook but you know when I was, and I hate
doing this when I'm back, I'm only thirty five. When
I second back of the day, I feel like I'm
you know, seventy five years old talking about training camp.
But we had two days, right, and you didn't have
time to think. You practice at nine am and full pads.
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You came back at six thirty at night in uppers,
and you practice in full pads again the next day,
and then you went to one to one. We had
no off days. We got Wednesday nights off. You know,
that was like our big That was like our big,
big win for us. So like, I don't remember having
time to think, like, am I on the roster? Am
I not on the roster? And then you can tell
by and this is my agent told me this at
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the end of training camp. You can tell by how
much time you got in the preseason games whether or
not they were considering you. And then before we play
our fourth game, my agent called me and says, look,
they want to put you on practice squad, So you're
not gonna play very much in the last game because
they want to kind of hide you from other teams
claiming you when they released you, because they have to
release you and then put you on practice squad. So
I kind of knew then what my situation was heading
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into the fourth game. The only time I ever recall
openly thinking like, hey, I'm getting cut was when I
actually got cut in my ninth year in Detroit. I
didn't the third Princes. The game rolled around, which is
an important game. UM. At halftime, I was told, you're
not playing this half. I was supposed to play it
the whole second half as a as a backup lineman.
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UM offensive line. Coaching with him is like, you're not
playing this half. I said, okay, Um. And then we
got back on the field for the third quarter and
I went up to coach and I said, hey, am
I getting cut. I mean my ninth year, I am
thirty years old. I can I understand what's happening. And
Coach Prince was like, yeah, it doesn't look good. It
doesn't do you know, it does not. I mean he
doesn't you know, he doesn't know in the moment why
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they didn't play me. He just was told by by
coach they're not playing me. And again I was the
backup for right tackle, right guard, and left guard, like
I was if so if if someone got hurt in
the first quarter, I was the first one in. I
wasn't like I was just like a fourth team and
I was supposed the second half. And uh, He's like, yeah,
it doesn't look good. And then I got cut the
next day. I mean by the time of already. I
get how it works, But if I was twenty one
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at that moment, I probably would have no idea what
was happening. Yeah, but look where you are now. I
mean he's sitting in my robe in my house talking
about sports. I mean that. Yeah. I mean, come on
and get a gamble on possibly Garrett Gilbert or whoever
the hell is gonna play quarterback for the for the
Dallas Cowboys. I mean, come on, Jeff, like, who, like,
who's got it better than you? And no one does. Uh,
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no one has it better than the person who who
ordered a tender top boat at the party has at
this weekend in Vegas. Um. But nonetheless, yeah, it is.
It is exciting time for for the sport of football,
and even that, like, like I said, college football August,
like we are four weeks away it crazy, not just preseason,
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real college football. And we're five weeks away from Clemson, Georgia,
uh in Charlotte, like where we got big time football
coming up very soon? Yeah, it is. It's actually, once
you hit August, it shocks you how fast this stuff
comes around. And then you you know, you just start
to say your goodbyes slowly to family members, to your wife,
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Like I'll be saying my goodbyes to my wife here
shortly because she's not gonna have me until February. It
just sits over. I told my wife we were obviously
we were on a trip this past weekend. Yesterday I
told her. I was like, you know, I'm going back
to work, like full time this week. My my radio,
my night radio gig is back for Pactical Radio this week.
We've been off for basically three months. I'm like, it's
it's happening. Football is back. Like we're not taking trips
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till till you know, we're not going on a vacation
until February. Now, you get that right, I'm not going anywhere.
She keeps saying to me, Hey, you know that you
committed to that weekend in October to go to I said,
I didn't do that. I just said I might be
able to. I'm not going anywhere in October, hun Like,
I'm not taking a weekend off to go somewhere. I
can't do that. This is my livelihoods how we make
our money. Football. I watch all of it. I lose
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all the gambling. But at least watch you need to
watch all of it. You know how many weddings I've
missed over the past five six years of good friends
that have gotten married because they decided to get married
in like octop Yes, I agree. I had friends tell me,
I know you're not coming to this because it's in September.
I'm like, yeah, you're exactly right, I'm not coming to you.
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It is out kicked the coverage. Here on Fox Sports Radio,
Jonas Knocks Jeff Schwartz with you here on FS are
all right, So coming up next, speaking of football, bad news,
we have got bad news for a playoff contender in
the National Football League. We will get to that next year.
It's how kick the coverage Fox Sports Radio. This this
is out kick the coverage. Uh, it could not have
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gone worse, could not have gone worse for somebody's ex
in the world of sports. We will get to that
here coming up in just a couple of moments from
now or excuse me, ten minutes from now here on
Fox Sports Radio. But Jeff Schwartz, we've got obviously football
this week. We got the Hall of Fame game, we
got some Olympics stuff going on, we got the NBA
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Free Agency. We're gonna catch up with Chris Mannix later
on in the show. Um, we don't you and I
are not trying to, you know, hand out bad news
here to start the show. There's something we want to
start anybody's week. But the Carson one story feels like
it's kind of bad news. I don't know about you.
This feels like a problem. Uh. He feels a twingeing
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or a tweak or whatever you want to describe it
as in his foot at practice towards the end of
last week. Uh, they go into the weekend not really sure. Uh,
they're just kind of you know, you know, maybe it's surgery,
Maybe it's not surgery. We don't think it's serious. No
timetable for his return, and now the latest is he
is going to put off surgery. They're gonna try and
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rest and rehab it and then see where're at in
about a week from now. But as it stands right now,
no Carson wentz for the Indianapolis Colts. And I just
got a bad feeling about this whole situation. You should
have a bad feeling about it because how often do
we hear about athletes putting off surgery and then two
or three weeks later, boom, we have surgery months later. Right.
We see this in baseball the time with with Tom
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John's right, I'm gonna rest rehab my elbow and then
two months later going on to the knife. Right, this
feels in a situation where, um, we're getting an operation
done sooner than later would allow him to play at
some point this season earlier earlier than not. Right, And look,
and maybe we're all wrong. Maybe the rest and recovery
is we're the way to go, but um, it doesn't
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feel that way. Right. A lot of people feel like
this is a little doom and gloomy, in which it
probably is if you're a Colts fan. But we've also
seen the history though in the in Indianapolis of doing
this right with with with Payton Manning, with downplaying injuries
with Andrew looked to his entire career, right, kind of
downplaying injuries, trying to play through the pain, not getting
the operation, not not taking the time you need to
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to get healthy. And this team, Jonas is built to
win now, right with the roster they have, with some
of the contracts are about to give out to Quit Nelson.
They just paid their right tackle Um, so they have
to figure out how to get him back on the
field as soon as possible, and this is not the
way to do it, in my opinion most I think,
I think most field Jonas right that this is a
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a major injury and rest and rehab is not the
way to go here. Get this fixed and get back
on the field as soon as possible. And also to
you know, Carson Wentz when he is good, and I
think this year, um good As a stretch for him,
I think average would be good, right. I mean, if
you go you're thinking about about Carson Wentz, he was
the worst quarterback in NFL last year. There's no arguments
about it. You can't make an argument otherwise the worst
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hard quarterback. And you could blame whoever you want, but
he was the worst one. If if he goes Jonas
from the worst in the NFL to average, that's a
huge jump in one year, huge jump of one to
all those people that think, oh he's gonna be elite
now the Frank right, No, no, no no, maybe in year two.
But I actually have doubts that's ever gonna be the case.
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It's his seventeen season was was such an outlier. The
rest of his career. Um, if you look at the
numbers in the red zone and third down the rest
of his career, it feels like the norm. So this
is gonna send it back. He can't move right when
he plays well. Part of what he can do is
move in the pocket, out the pocket and make plays.
We see all really most quarterbacks outside of Tom Brady
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be able to move outside the pocket and make place.
If your foot is messed up, you can't move in
the pocket. Like you're setting him up for failure by
putting him a situation where he has to play with
a bum foot. And it's not like this happened in
a game. It's not like this happened in a preseason game.
It was at a practice. He stepped back wrong and
he felt it pop. And when and look, when you
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feel anything pop. I've suffered one knee injury. Are one
major injury. I dislocated my kneecap. I heard something pop,
all right, Like I like, when you feel something pop,
it's probably not good. And so to hear that and
then there and and I look and this is a
massive year for him based on what happened last year.
And you're a correct he was the worst starting quarterback
in the NFL and it wasn't even close. Anybody that
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tries to dispute that wasn't watching the NFL last year.
But I also think at some point this is just
who he is. He's been injured every step of the way.
Like you we can talk about we can talk about
the next year when he tried to come back and
then they ended up having to go to Nick Foles
to finish out the season and they went to the
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playoffs again. He gets to a playoff game, you call
it a dirty hit, whatever you want to call it
against the Seattle Seahawks, Jadevan Clowney knocks him out of
the game and they've got to bring in a McCown
to finish the game. At like forty years old, he's
got one leg is his hamstring blue uh and and
ripped off the bone completely. They had nobody else to
go to. But you even go back to his rookie season, Jeff,
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he got injured and I think he missed all of
of a preseason. I think he missed at least all majority,
if not all, of preseason because he suffered an injury.
Then the injuries are just who he is, and at
some point like it's it's not that you're trying to
pick on the guy, that's just part of his story.
I'm very sensitive to injury prone tag because that was
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the tech I had when I played in the NF
fell and you know, I was I was very injured.
I was the first starter in NFL history to going
I R twice in one season. I wish I should
have a plaque for that somewhere. Um and uh. And
the part that that really is irritated if you're a
player is a lot of times. So there's there's two injuries, right,
There's there's two types. There's the the on the field injury. Right,
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I broke my leg, okay, um uh twice I just
okated my my big tone another time. On the field injuries, Okay,
they happened in the game. It just happens, right. Bad luck.
There's bad luck, and there's injuries. The training injuries, right
that the blown hamstring or they're growing or something else
where you just you know, probably didn't train well enough,
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or you weren't in shape, or or you didn't eat
properly or whatever else. So those injuries, you know, they're
they're we're awful, but you can maybe outtrain those injuries,
right you you decided to change your diet or you
decide to to train differently. And it's really in basketball.
Anthony Davis is the best example, right where guy who
who who? Everyone says, like, you know what, probably needs
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to train a little bit better. Right, Okay, so, but
but these were the injuries with Carson Wentz though, aren't
training injuries? Right? Busting your foot, your a c l
during a game, and those are the toughest because again
that's just a luck issue, right, Like I I can't
outtrain a broken leg because seven people fell on my leg, right, like,
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I can't. There's nothing I could do about that. My
brother played, Um, he's still a free agent, but he
put eight thousand snaps in a row without missing a snap.
And when you asked him about it, when people have
asked him like, hey, how come your brother was always
hurt and you were not even he said, it's just luck.
It's just luck. Like it's not like mitched training different
than I did. Um, it just was lucking. So if
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you're Carson Wentz, you have to be feeling it this morning,
because again, like you didn't do anything. You got out
of Philly I'm sure you're excited to play in a
new offense. Everyone's looking to you as being the reason
why the Colts have a chance to win their division.
I I don't think there's a FC contender with Wentz
at quarterback, but I was looking forward to seeing if
he was going to make that jump to just be
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an average quarterback this season. And I think now, Jonas,
there's almost no chance he's good this year. He's gonna
be hobble in the pocket. Even if he comes back
to play, he's most likely surgery at some point, which
takes him down for launch part of the season. So
he'll miss all the training camp right if he if
he has surgery, he'll come back at some point this
year and be hobbled. This is complete wasted year for him. Yeah,
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it's and it's a tough spot. And also this was
the year in which a lot of people looked at
it and said, and you mentioned the offensive line with
Quentin Nelson and company, going, man, he's finally gonna have
that great offensive line like he had back in seen
He's finally gonna have this And they've got Jonathan Taylor
and they've got and then this happens and and that's
that's a division that I mean, look, that was up
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for grabs, that was there for the taking Tennessee, added
Julio Jones. But we've talked about this before in the show,
which pisched off a lot of our our Nashville fans.
Just the awful Tennessee Titans defense from a year ago.
That was the issue, um. And who knows whether or
not Derrick Henry the wear and tear is going to
be able to if he's gonna be able to give
it a go as many times as they're giving him
the football next season. And then Jacksonville, nobody knows how
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that's going to work out with Urban Meyer. Houston's a
disaster like this felt like a golden opportunity. And man,
we're not not even a week into training camp and
here we go again. Carson Wentz feels a pop and
he's out. And and you know the hard part about
all of this, right is the windows of the NFL
open and clothes are very fast if you don't have
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a Pat Mahomes or Tom Brady. Right, the Chiefs obviously
every year feel like they're going to be in it, um,
And so you're looking at your point, right, Tennessee. Defensively,
they should be better. I mean, it's hard to be
that bad. Again, it added some pieces, but I just
don't you know something about that. I don't. I don't
really can look at them as as super Bowl contenders,
I think, and it will be good team, but you
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know that your point, the Colts easily can win the division.
Jacksonville will be better with Trevor Lawrence is getting better
and thrown to Tim Tebow of course, um and Houston
is not gonna be good for years, right, So it's
kind of your window right now after the Colts to
make it happen. And this year's lost for them. It
is absolutely lost for them, even if again I just
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I can't in that situation where when it's his hobbled
during training camp and there's that helps him become a
good player during the season, right, I can't see it happened,
especially with the guy whose confidence was certainly lacking in
Philly and maybe in Indianapolis and changes. I just I
don't see it for them. So now you've wasted an
entire year with with Carson Wentz, which again wasting years
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of your quarterback and its prime is never good. No,
and and look, and I was making the point when
they've made the move and they got Carson Wentz, I
just asked the question, is he an upgrade over Philip Rivers?
Like and that's the thing, And people could say whatever
they wanted about Philip Rivers. He was so much better
than Carson Wentz last year, it's not even funny, like
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like not, they're not even weren't even in the same class.
Ass And and go back to that playoff game against Buffalo. Yes,
a couple of plays here or there, man, And it's
not because I had money in Indianapolis. A couple of
plays here there in the Indianapolis culture winning that football game.
And so this idea that Carson Wentz, you know, they
had a major hole at quarterback and he's going to
improve him know, if anything, it was it was more
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of a lateral move to try and capitalize on the
window that you pointed out that they have in front
of him right now. And now it's all lost. You know.
The wednes thing is pretty interesting because there's obviously some
very ardent defenders of his play, but it's hard to
really defend most of his career, I mean, has not
been has not been as good and when we look
at again third down and red zone in seen he
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was out of this world good, right, And we've seen
now in his subsequent years that those those have come
back down. Right. So his his twenty seventeen years, the
outlier year of his career, and he looked again. You
can blame lack of wide receiver help, you can bring
his injured offensive line, you can blame whatever you want
coaching for other years. But you know when you have
four or five years, Um, yeah, yeah, four or five
(27:06):
years and make sure of the years, right, And the
Eagles fans are cards and Wentz fans get after me
for in the years right on this, But you have
four or five years where we have one set of
data and the other year you have another set of data.
You guys, the four or five years is the kind
of ones we should go on, right, Like I just
the defenders of Wentz, I don't think I paid attention
to the rest of his career. Yeah, they've they've looked
(27:29):
at the highlights, they've looked at the potential, and they
have not looked at the reality of and the bulk
of his career, which would indicate um not nearly the
impact player that many people think he is. It's the
question becomes, what do they do at quarterback? Because they
have a win now team, right they want to and
you have one sucher contract though, so you really there's
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only a couple of options if you're gonna go veteran here.
And so I'm curious if we're gonna see the Colts
to make a move at some point to bring in
a veteran um who they can get out of their
deal after the season, just to you have the chance
to win this year because their backups there, they're not
going with Jacob Easton or Sam Ellinger. Sorry, guys, those
are not the answers for them a quarterback. And they
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signed Brett Hunley and and so so they've got some
stuff to figure out here before the season. It is
outkicked the coverage here Fox Sports Radio, Jonas knocks Jeff Schwartzer.
You here coming up ten minutes from now. Um. Jeff
mentioned something earlier in the show that he was witnessed
to at a party this weekend that I think is
just one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen
(28:32):
in my life. H It is, like, it actually makes
me nauseous just to think about all the all the
details in which it goes into something like this that
somebody would order at a party. Uh, And we can
get into that here coming up in about ten minutes
from now. Just I I just I saw it and
and could not believe that that was a real thing.
(28:53):
Very it's very real. Yeah, it's a very very strange.
By the way. Um, you talk about a bad week
in for somebody's ex. So the Cubs go out and
they trade Anthony Rizzo, Hobby Bias and Chris Bryant, cornerstones
of their quote unquote dynasty, and all those guys in
their first game with their teams hit home runs like
(29:17):
it literally could not go any Imagine breaking up with somebody. Yes,
he was awesome this weekend. Your guy Chris Briant of
your San Francisco Giants, he goes along Hobby Baias goes
deep like it's like finding out, Hey, so what happened
to your ex? Oh she won the lotto? Oh that's cool, Like,
I mean, he could not have gone worse for the
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ex Cubs in that team, But your your Giants rolling
and and Chris Brian, how about that. Jeff Schwortz, I
have waited a while to emotionally invest in the Giants
being a playoff team because they're doing this with guys
like Darren ruff LaMonte Wade Jr. Um, you know, Mikeya Stremsky,
Brandy Crawford's like having his best season of his career,
(30:00):
Posey's hitting over three d Um. And I've been waiting
for them not to play well, and they're just they're
not going to comply with that. Um. You know, they
just had ten games over two weeks against the Dodgers,
seven against the Dodgers, three against Ashes. They went, they
went seven and three and one all three series. Um.
And thank you to kill Lee Jensen, by the way,
(30:20):
for being a contributor in those Giants wins. And I
just I keep, I keep waiting for them to not
be good. Um. You know, Gossman, They're all star pitcher
has not been good the last three starts, so maybe
there's some chicken the armor there. But they just play
good baseball and they hit. They leave I think majors
and home runs right now, which is crazy. So I'm
(30:41):
in man, I'm invested. I'm three game lead. Let's do it.
And I do think this is for those of you
that are just tuning in or have not heard, Um,
Jeff and don't know the backstory here. So Jeff's got
an ongoing feud with Danny g Our executive producer and
Roberto are technical producer because they are die hard Dodger fans.
You are a Giant fan, and it's just always coincidental.
(31:05):
Every time the Giants have a good weekend or going
on a little bit of a role, either Danny or
Roberto don't show up to work. And today Roberto is
nowhere to be found. He's no, he's probably you know,
he probably over party last because Mookie Betts was back,
That's my guess. Yeah, he was just so excited that
the Mookie was back. Um, they have to play him
(31:25):
in the second and they have so many guys on
the roster that are good and still can't be in
first place because Mookie to play second base last night.
It's pretty sad. They've been moving guys around because they've
been so injured. So once they get healthy, Jeff, your
giants are in trouble. I feel really sorry since the
Giants are missing their first base in their third base
when they missed their catcher for three weeks. Roberto, by
the way, six weeks. We'll get that in the fifth
(31:47):
hour of the show. All your giants line up. But
the Roberto is in Arizona. He was actually at the
last two games that the Dodgers won against the Diamondbacks.
So he's a good luck charm. Yeah, he's been traveling,
and I do I think he's going to the Astros games, right,
and I think he'll I think Roberto said he's going
to be at the Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah,
(32:08):
batteries in podcast. Yeah, that's good. Send that lunatic. Send
that lunatic into a game against the Astros. See what happens. Man,
You don't you don't want to piss Roberto off. Right,
he's a violent guy. Uh, And the Astros are in
town and Dodger fans still can't let it go. So
so this is gonna be a bad, bad situation all
the way around. It's not why they lost, but I'll
(32:29):
take it anyways. What what was what was fun for
me is baseball had like two days of intense trading action.
It was kind of nice for a couple of days
to be like your clubs guy, Right, I'm sorry for that.
That feels that's that's tough to tough to see, but
I mean the Yankees went for it, right, the Doctors
went for it. Um, the White Sox made some White
(32:49):
Sox made some trades, the A's and the Giants like
teams that are in the hunt. Um, with all that,
I'm improving this, I don't think we've seen the trade
deadline ever like this. Yeah, John and Paul MORROSSI was
saying it was the best trade deadline he can ever remember, Like,
and he's been covering the sport for a long time.
He said, I don't remember one like this because look
you had, I mean, how many all Stars got traded,
(33:10):
how many future potential Hall of Famers got traded? Like,
there were big names that got dealt, and a lot
of teams pretty much remade the rosters you know in
in in the with the flip of a switch over
the last you know, three or four days in Major
League Baseball, it is outkicked. The coverage here on Fox
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(33:33):
hear one of the most revolting food items that that
I would encourage you not to look into during the
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Top the next hour. There is a head coach in
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We will get into all of that here for you,
coming up a little over ten minutes from now on
Fox Sports Radio. By the way, Jeff Schwartz was out
in about this weekend and just for so that you
(35:01):
are aware of a conversation that we had. Uh LaVar
and I were talking about last week here on OutKick
LaVar Arrington and I just about best game day food.
All right, So you're watching football, you're hanging out, what's
your what's your go to? And and you know a
lot of the wings things like that, like people were
throwing out like him and I both agreed wings or
the go to, like like be beer and wings even
(35:23):
if you're not a beer drinker or a beer drinker,
you know, soda and wings. Whatever you want to do
it with wings feels I could go to it definitely
go to because it's you want anything to eat, your
hands right, and you want to not weigh you down
in my opinion, so anything with a lot of carbs
is gonna Like a pizza is great pizza anytime you want.
But I kind of waves your song with that, especially
if you're drinking heavily, right, Like wings don't really do that.
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And I think wings for me, um are probably the
go to again, very easy to eat, very delist. How
do you like can prepare is the question? I mean
different ways I'm not a big fan of grilled wings,
like I kind of I kind of mind a little
bit fried, even if even if they're naked. Um, so
definitely definitely wings. I would no argument there. Yeah. And
(36:06):
so look, we were just having bouncing around some ideas
and talking about right, so what do you like? What
do you and then all of a sudden you decide
to post and this was video that you posted, I
think it was. It was a picture. I was at
a Cascade uh concert at the What Republic, which is
you know, Jeff Schwartz at that such an event, it
(36:27):
would be very rare to see. But my wife enjoys
the dance music. You know, a good time as well. Um.
And you know, you have to spend a certain amount
of money if you have a nice seat. Uh. We
we spent our money and we were eight dollars over.
I was pretty proud of us. We spent exactly what
we had to spend. But some people have ten thousand
dollar I did not spend that much money. Um, And
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you have to reach your minimum. You have to spend
the money. And when you have a lot of people,
you have to order a lot of food and lo
and behold the tender taught yacht. They serve the Wet Republic.
It is a boat, a literal boat of food tenders
and tater tots for the price of uh. And it
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was a disgusting display of food in one serving apparatus.
And it was a lot of food and a lot
of money. It's just gross. Man. I saw it and
I got sick to my stuff. Yeah. No, but that's fine.
It can feed it, it can feed people. That's the
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size is not the issue, the size of the boat.
It's it's the food items in the boat. First of all,
there's no food that's worse when it's cold than tater tots. Literally,
nothing worse on plane earth. That's a good observation and
a very still what I'm with you. I didn't thought
about that, but it's way worse than a cold frog. Yeah,
because it like leaves this coat in your mouth, like
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if you have if you have a cold tater top,
there's like this coat in your mouth, like this dry,
weird and almost like you know somebody, you know, you
fell asleep in your buddy just you know, emptied his
chap stick in your mouth, like like there's like this
is there's weird, just this weird texture in your mouth
after you eat a cold tater tot and then chicken fingers. Look,
they go from really really hot when they first come
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out of the oven, and all of a sudden they're cold,
like there is no there's no middle ground. They just
go from really hot to really cold. They're not there's
no warm. They just skip that step and go to bad.
And so it feels like unless you're eating those things
right out of the oven right when they bring that
boat out to the pool, you're screwed. Man, that's a
waste of money. The tenders and we ordered a plate
(38:38):
of chicken tenders and fries. It was like it wasn't
that bad. I guess, um, they were actually very good.
The food there was delicious. I mean, if you're spending
eighty seven dollars on a cheese pizza, better be good. Um,
so I will give him. The food was good, but
cheer point that has to be eaten immediately five minutes
of showing up, and that's a lot of food to consume.
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But I love the name though, it's a great name.
Sevent dars though I'm out sorry, yeah, not not not interesting.
I'm not I'm not paying those prices, but Vegas Man
and one of the most underreported stories, Great food in Vegas.
They always have great food in Vegas. It's Jeff Schwartz
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you all the way up until nine am Eastern times,
six o'clock Pacific, and we will do so with none
other than the great Jeff Schwartz. Good morning. I'm so
glad to be here because, as you mentioned, Jonas, it
is a special week. Football is back this week. Do
not make fun of the Hall of Fame game, guys,
It's real. Football is happening later this week, and I'm
so excited to feast my eyes on the third team
(01:36):
of the Steelers against the third team of the Cowboys
for thirty minutes. I don't care. I don't They could
roll out whoever they want, It would not matter to me.
This This is game week man. Football is back, because
if I'm not mistaken, this is the We're gonna go
every single weekend. If I'm not mistaken, I think I
have this correct. There might be one that we don't,
(01:58):
but from now until February, we're getting football every single
weekend that we are that you have not missed a
weekend that we will have. Because the NFL has three
priests of games, they have one less weekend of games,
but that weekend is filled with Week zero of college football. Yes, yes,
so we have We have U c l A Hawaii,
which is what I will be glued, glue my eyes
(02:19):
to the chip. Kelly's a fourth year at u c
l A on that opening weekend. Yeah, we have football
now every weekend, every week all the way until it's
mid February this year. I can't wait, man I, I I
cannot wait. It's gonna be It's gonna be a lot
of fun. Now. I always ask this because I do
think that there's something to it, and I've talked to
(02:40):
Brady about this. I've talked to LaVar about this, that
it's just sort of your body clock. So as an
NFL player, are you already starting to get into football
mode even though you're not playing anymore, even though you've
been out of the league, are you starting to get
some of the fields, like, man, I gotta light somebody up,
Like I've got to get into a physical altercation to
just scratch the itch that I normally scratched this time
of year. No, I don't feel that. But what I'm
(03:02):
starting to feel is like a lack of preparation for
the season type of feeling. Right, Like there's so many
ways to preview the season. There's so many preview guys,
there's so many ways to look at the year. And
I do college football as well as it. Packed to
a media day last weekend last week, I should say
is as part of my my radio duties as well.
So you know, I'm just excited for the season. I
(03:24):
don't feel as prepared, but I know I am prepared,
but I'm like, I'm I just don't have my I
don't have my gambling notes ready for the Paul Thame game.
I'm a little behind for the week. And by the way,
for those of you that are going to sit here
in judgment and try and pass down judgment if you
if you like to do that to your sports stock
radio host, and this is the show for you, because
I am openly and so is Jeff. Going to be
(03:46):
gambling on the Hall of Fame game this week was
zero shame. There's actually money to be made in the preseason.
And the way you wage during the preseason is you
wage on coaches. Because there are coaches, most of the time,
their defense coaches who do really well in the preseason
because they try to win the game because of defensive guys.
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A lot of the offensive coaches just don't care like
they're gonna get their offense. They're gonna get their work in.
The starters are gonna play a driver too, That's it.
The defensive guys man, they care. They want to win
these games. And if you look at I haven't. I
don't know the numbers from from this year. I need
to look them up. Like Mike Zimmer really good in
the priest. I think Tom One was really good in
(04:27):
the preseason. John John Harbor is really yeah. Like you
wager on coaches in the preseason, I mean you can,
I guess look at backup quarterbacks right and see. But again,
we don't know what what the rotation will be this
year because of the of the third preseason game, right,
So I'm curious. Excuse me three, I I don't know
(04:48):
who's gonna play. When I get bet on coaches in
the preseasons, it is because I was thinking about that
as well too. I wonder because we didn't have preseason
games last year. I know, I know there was the
big talk of all we don't need the preseason ever,
just get rid of the preseason. I We're going to
find out which coaches really do value the preseason, because
I do think there is something to it. I do
(05:08):
think it does mean something for especially guys that are
on the bubble that are trying to make a team.
I still think there's some value in the preseason. Well,
there definitely is. And coaches love games, right, I mean
they love any opportunity that you have to evaluate your team.
Coaches absolutely love right And the coaches have no say
in the c b A, so you know, they it
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was up to them. They go back to six preseason games.
But because of last year, and you know, the games
were not as sloppy as I thought they'd be to
start the season. I was very concerned we have sloppy
and we wasn't the best of football in the first
month of the year. But I do wonder if coaches
look at them and say, hey, look we got by
last year without any preseason We're not going to play
our starters at all. Just not at all, which is
(05:51):
possible that we might see starters play a driver too
in the game. But I think there's gonna be some
teams that just, you know what, we have a quarterback
that we trust, we have starters that we trust. I
would imagine the Dallas Cowboys who have to play an
extra PRESEC game and the Hall of Fame. I play
in the Hall of Fame game, jonas it is. It's
not worth it for the players. It's just the extra game.
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Like well, I also did with Tom Coughlin, who is
one of those coaches who wants to win the preseason.
So we played the starters, played three drives in that game,
which is a lot for the first prisons. The game,
Um like we we we scored against the Bills to
defense and we got to come off the field. I
was like, who, we're ready for the season now, Um,
just the extra wee could practice. It's just not fun.
(06:39):
I mean it's actually we could practice. Uh, it's just
not it's not fun. Uh that's whatly what it's. And
back then and I played too in the field was
really in bacudition, you know. I think it's the year
the year before, No, that was I played two or
three years before it melted. But the year before the
year after I played the Steelers, I think we're there
and their punter blew out his knee just running on
(06:59):
the the turf was really bad, really bad, and so
obviously that's been fixed now. Um, but it's just not
for a player so I'm curious that the Cowboys are
gonna do uh you know, Dad's come off injury. Uh
you know, I would imagine that Mike McCarthy um probably
wants him to play a little bit, but I can't
imagine Jerry Jones wants him to play. So I'm curious
(07:20):
know that that that that how the Cowboy especially in
Game one, are going to use the starting quarterback if
he doesn't play and Big Bait doesn't play, and then
obviously the game is the quality is not going to
be as good. But I'll watch every second of it. Yeah,
And I think when it comes to Dak Prescott, he's
you know, obviously dealing with whatever the shoulder injury is,
and I I still can't get a clear answer as
(07:41):
to what it is. Is it serious, is it not serious.
They're taking it, you know, taking away kind of a
cautious approach and all that, and they want to take
their time and make a decision. So with that being said,
I would assume Dax's not gonna not gonna be in
the game. I would assume he's not going to be
a part of the Hall of Fame game. So then
you know, you might want to start to look at Pittsburgh.
(08:01):
Maybe Pittsburgh's got a couple of guys are gonna to
make a roster that you could you could lay a
wager on. But I just I can't wait. Man. I
think I think there's there's a true value to it.
I think there's a this is going to there's gonna
be an opportunity for a lot of coaches to get
to see what they actually have because you can you
can go out there and you can practice, so you
can have these joint practices. But there's something to getting
(08:25):
out even if it's just an exhibition game, getting out
there in in live reps, in a game atmosphere that
you can't match that, Right, Like, there's something too that
you don't get by just practicing or having a joint
practice like we like we had last season or the
year before. Correct and there and there are more more
joint practices this year than ever before. Right, That's how
(08:46):
you're supplementing the lack of preseason games or even just
not wanting to play your starters in those games. You
have them go in a in a camp situation and
play twice before um you you play in the game.
I just want to say there is value in the
preseason Jonas. But the training camp battles uh in in
reality are far less than I think the media and
(09:09):
fans would like to think. Right, if you have a
fifty roster now right, motive you're looking at you're looking
at a forty eight guys that are already on the
roster when camp starts because of contract, draft status, just
kind of where they fit on the roster, uh, their
their versatility. So then you're kind of fighting for the
(09:31):
last lineman, right, the last linebacker, the last cornerback, the
you know, the third string quarterback. So the cam battles
are they are not as furious as we think they are.
Now players of course are told they're they're not. You know,
they're still battling. Of course you want competition on the roster,
but I think in actuality it's not as much as
(09:51):
you think. Right, seven roster spots and there's ten guys
for seven roster spots. I mean, what what a what
a str RESTful, stressful gig man. And on top of that,
you're probably fatigued, you're sore. Even if you are injured,
you can't let anybody know because they'll just eliminate you
being injured. Even it's just like the a minor injury,
(10:13):
they'll just say, all right, we're going to take the
healthiest guy and and and move on. That's just a
stressful gig man. Yeah. I mean you think, like you know,
you know you you you've been with LaVar who was
obviously never really have to worry about a roster spot
as a young player. Brady didn't have to worry about
a roster spot as a young player. And you got
me here, seventh round draft pick pick to forty one
(10:33):
in the Panthers, who every day woke up I was like,
am I getting cut today? So it's uh, yeah, those
two had much differ camp experience and that I had
early in my career. Um, that is a stressful life, man.
I mean, just you know, I I don't I don't
remember ever thinking about it. I um, you know, I
(10:54):
was maybe it was just you know, young and naive
and and just didn't really think about it as a
rook but you know when I was, and I hate
doing this when I'm back, I'm only thirty five. When
I second back of the day, I feel like I'm
you know, seventy five years old talking about training camp.
But we had two days, right, and you didn't have
time to think. You practice at nine am and full pads.
(11:14):
You came back at six thirty at night in uppers,
and you practice in full pads again the next day,
and then you went to one to one. We had
no off days. We got Wednesday nights off. You know,
that was like our big That was like our big,
big win for us. So like, I don't remember having
time to think, like, am I on the roster? Am
I not on the roster? And then you can tell
by and this is my agent told me this at
(11:35):
the end of training camp. You can tell by how
much time you got in the preseason games whether or
not they were considering you. And then before we play
our fourth game, my agent called me and says, look,
they want to put you on practice squad, So you're
not gonna play very much in the last game because
they want to kind of hide you from other teams
claiming you when they released you, because they have to
release you and then put you on practice squad. So
I kind of knew then what my situation was heading
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into the fourth game. The only time I ever recall
openly thinking like, hey, I'm getting cut was when I
actually got cut in my ninth year in Detroit. I
didn't the third Princes. The game rolled around, which is
an important game. UM. At halftime, I was told, you're
not playing this half. I was supposed to play it
the whole second half as a as a backup lineman.
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UM offensive line. Coaching with him is like, you're not
playing this half. I said, okay, Um. And then we
got back on the field for the third quarter and
I went up to coach and I said, hey, am
I getting cut. I mean my ninth year, I am
thirty years old. I can I understand what's happening. And
Coach Prince was like, yeah, it doesn't look good. It
doesn't do you know, it does not. I mean he
doesn't you know, he doesn't know in the moment why
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they didn't play me. He just was told by by
coach they're not playing me. And again I was the
backup for right tackle, right guard, and left guard, like
I was if so if if someone got hurt in
the first quarter, I was the first one in. I
wasn't like I was just like a fourth team and
I was supposed the second half. And uh, He's like, yeah,
it doesn't look good. And then I got cut the
next day. I mean by the time of already. I
get how it works, But if I was twenty one
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at that moment, I probably would have no idea what
was happening. Yeah, but look where you are now. I
mean he's sitting in my robe in my house talking
about sports. I mean that. Yeah. I mean, come on
and get a gamble on possibly Garrett Gilbert or whoever
the hell is gonna play quarterback for the for the
Dallas Cowboys. I mean, come on, Jeff, like, who, like,
who's got it better than you? And no one does. Uh,
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no one has it better than the person who who
ordered a tender top boat at the party has at
this weekend in Vegas. Um. But nonetheless, yeah, it is.
It is exciting time for for the sport of football,
and even that, like, like I said, college football August,
like we are four weeks away it crazy, not just preseason,
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real college football. And we're five weeks away from Clemson, Georgia,
uh in Charlotte, like where we got big time football
coming up very soon? Yeah, it is. It's actually, once
you hit August, it shocks you how fast this stuff
comes around. And then you you know, you just start
to say your goodbyes slowly to family members, to your wife,
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Like I'll be saying my goodbyes to my wife here
shortly because she's not gonna have me until February. It
just sits over. I told my wife we were obviously
we were on a trip this past weekend. Yesterday I
told her. I was like, you know, I'm going back
to work, like full time this week. My my radio,
my night radio gig is back for Pactical Radio this week.
We've been off for basically three months. I'm like, it's
it's happening. Football is back. Like we're not taking trips
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till till you know, we're not going on a vacation
until February. Now, you get that right, I'm not going anywhere.
She keeps saying to me, Hey, you know that you
committed to that weekend in October to go to I said,
I didn't do that. I just said I might be
able to. I'm not going anywhere in October, hun Like,
I'm not taking a weekend off to go somewhere. I
can't do that. This is my livelihoods how we make
our money. Football. I watch all of it. I lose
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all the gambling. But at least watch you need to
watch all of it. You know how many weddings I've
missed over the past five six years of good friends
that have gotten married because they decided to get married
in like octop Yes, I agree. I had friends tell me,
I know you're not coming to this because it's in September.
I'm like, yeah, you're exactly right, I'm not coming to you.
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It is out kicked the coverage. Here on Fox Sports Radio,
Jonas Knocks Jeff Schwartz with you here on FS are
all right, So coming up next, speaking of football, bad news,
we have got bad news for a playoff contender in
the National Football League. We will get to that next year.
It's how kick the coverage Fox Sports Radio. This this
is out kick the coverage. Uh, it could not have
(15:35):
gone worse, could not have gone worse for somebody's ex
in the world of sports. We will get to that
here coming up in just a couple of moments from
now or excuse me, ten minutes from now here on
Fox Sports Radio. But Jeff Schwartz, we've got obviously football
this week. We got the Hall of Fame game, we
got some Olympics stuff going on, we got the NBA
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Free Agency. We're gonna catch up with Chris Mannix later
on in the show. Um, we don't you and I
are not trying to, you know, hand out bad news
here to start the show. There's something we want to
start anybody's week. But the Carson one story feels like
it's kind of bad news. I don't know about you.
This feels like a problem. Uh. He feels a twingeing
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or a tweak or whatever you want to describe it
as in his foot at practice towards the end of
last week. Uh, they go into the weekend not really sure. Uh,
they're just kind of you know, you know, maybe it's surgery,
Maybe it's not surgery. We don't think it's serious. No
timetable for his return, and now the latest is he
is going to put off surgery. They're gonna try and
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rest and rehab it and then see where're at in
about a week from now. But as it stands right now,
no Carson wentz for the Indianapolis Colts. And I just
got a bad feeling about this whole situation. You should
have a bad feeling about it because how often do
we hear about athletes putting off surgery and then two
or three weeks later, boom, we have surgery months later. Right.
We see this in baseball the time with with Tom
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John's right, I'm gonna rest rehab my elbow and then
two months later going on to the knife. Right, this
feels in a situation where, um, we're getting an operation
done sooner than later would allow him to play at
some point this season earlier earlier than not. Right, And look,
and maybe we're all wrong. Maybe the rest and recovery
is we're the way to go, but um, it doesn't
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feel that way. Right. A lot of people feel like
this is a little doom and gloomy, in which it
probably is if you're a Colts fan. But we've also
seen the history though in the in Indianapolis of doing
this right with with with Payton Manning, with downplaying injuries
with Andrew looked to his entire career, right, kind of
downplaying injuries, trying to play through the pain, not getting
the operation, not not taking the time you need to
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to get healthy. And this team, Jonas is built to
win now, right with the roster they have, with some
of the contracts are about to give out to Quit Nelson.
They just paid their right tackle Um, so they have
to figure out how to get him back on the
field as soon as possible, and this is not the
way to do it, in my opinion most I think,
I think most field Jonas right that this is a
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a major injury and rest and rehab is not the
way to go here. Get this fixed and get back
on the field as soon as possible. And also to
you know, Carson Wentz when he is good, and I
think this year, um good As a stretch for him,
I think average would be good, right. I mean, if
you go you're thinking about about Carson Wentz, he was
the worst quarterback in NFL last year. There's no arguments
about it. You can't make an argument otherwise the worst
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hard quarterback. And you could blame whoever you want, but
he was the worst one. If if he goes Jonas
from the worst in the NFL to average, that's a
huge jump in one year, huge jump of one to
all those people that think, oh he's gonna be elite
now the Frank right, No, no, no no, maybe in year two.
But I actually have doubts that's ever gonna be the case.
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It's his seventeen season was was such an outlier. The
rest of his career. Um, if you look at the
numbers in the red zone and third down the rest
of his career, it feels like the norm. So this
is gonna send it back. He can't move right when
he plays well. Part of what he can do is
move in the pocket, out the pocket and make plays.
We see all really most quarterbacks outside of Tom Brady
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be able to move outside the pocket and make place.
If your foot is messed up, you can't move in
the pocket. Like you're setting him up for failure by
putting him a situation where he has to play with
a bum foot. And it's not like this happened in
a game. It's not like this happened in a preseason game.
It was at a practice. He stepped back wrong and
he felt it pop. And when and look, when you
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feel anything pop. I've suffered one knee injury. Are one
major injury. I dislocated my kneecap. I heard something pop,
all right, Like I like, when you feel something pop,
it's probably not good. And so to hear that and
then there and and I look and this is a
massive year for him based on what happened last year.
And you're a correct he was the worst starting quarterback
in the NFL and it wasn't even close. Anybody that
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tries to dispute that wasn't watching the NFL last year.
But I also think at some point this is just
who he is. He's been injured every step of the way.
Like you we can talk about we can talk about
the next year when he tried to come back and
then they ended up having to go to Nick Foles
to finish out the season and they went to the
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playoffs again. He gets to a playoff game, you call
it a dirty hit, whatever you want to call it
against the Seattle Seahawks, Jadevan Clowney knocks him out of
the game and they've got to bring in a McCown
to finish the game. At like forty years old, he's
got one leg is his hamstring blue uh and and
ripped off the bone completely. They had nobody else to
go to. But you even go back to his rookie season, Jeff,
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he got injured and I think he missed all of
of a preseason. I think he missed at least all majority,
if not all, of preseason because he suffered an injury.
Then the injuries are just who he is, and at
some point like it's it's not that you're trying to
pick on the guy, that's just part of his story.
I'm very sensitive to injury prone tag because that was
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the tech I had when I played in the NF
fell and you know, I was I was very injured.
I was the first starter in NFL history to going
I R twice in one season. I wish I should
have a plaque for that somewhere. Um and uh. And
the part that that really is irritated if you're a
player is a lot of times. So there's there's two injuries, right,
There's there's two types. There's the the on the field injury. Right,
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I broke my leg, okay, um uh twice I just
okated my my big tone another time. On the field injuries, Okay,
they happened in the game. It just happens, right. Bad luck.
There's bad luck, and there's injuries. The training injuries, right
that the blown hamstring or they're growing or something else
where you just you know, probably didn't train well enough,
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or you weren't in shape, or or you didn't eat
properly or whatever else. So those injuries, you know, they're
they're we're awful, but you can maybe outtrain those injuries,
right you you decided to change your diet or you
decide to to train differently. And it's really in basketball.
Anthony Davis is the best example, right where guy who
who who? Everyone says, like, you know what, probably needs
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to train a little bit better. Right, Okay, so, but
but these were the injuries with Carson Wentz though, aren't
training injuries? Right? Busting your foot, your a c l
during a game, and those are the toughest because again
that's just a luck issue, right, Like I I can't
outtrain a broken leg because seven people fell on my leg, right, like,
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I can't. There's nothing I could do about that. My
brother played, Um, he's still a free agent, but he
put eight thousand snaps in a row without missing a snap.
And when you asked him about it, when people have
asked him like, hey, how come your brother was always
hurt and you were not even he said, it's just luck.
It's just luck. Like it's not like mitched training different
than I did. Um, it just was lucking. So if
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you're Carson Wentz, you have to be feeling it this morning,
because again, like you didn't do anything. You got out
of Philly I'm sure you're excited to play in a
new offense. Everyone's looking to you as being the reason
why the Colts have a chance to win their division.
I I don't think there's a FC contender with Wentz
at quarterback, but I was looking forward to seeing if
he was going to make that jump to just be
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an average quarterback this season. And I think now, Jonas,
there's almost no chance he's good this year. He's gonna
be hobble in the pocket. Even if he comes back
to play, he's most likely surgery at some point, which
takes him down for launch part of the season. So
he'll miss all the training camp right if he if
he has surgery, he'll come back at some point this
year and be hobbled. This is complete wasted year for him. Yeah,
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it's and it's a tough spot. And also this was
the year in which a lot of people looked at
it and said, and you mentioned the offensive line with
Quentin Nelson and company, going, man, he's finally gonna have
that great offensive line like he had back in seen
He's finally gonna have this And they've got Jonathan Taylor
and they've got and then this happens and and that's
that's a division that I mean, look, that was up
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for grabs, that was there for the taking Tennessee, added
Julio Jones. But we've talked about this before in the show,
which pisched off a lot of our our Nashville fans.
Just the awful Tennessee Titans defense from a year ago.
That was the issue, um. And who knows whether or
not Derrick Henry the wear and tear is going to
be able to if he's gonna be able to give
it a go as many times as they're giving him
the football next season. And then Jacksonville, nobody knows how
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that's going to work out with Urban Meyer. Houston's a
disaster like this felt like a golden opportunity. And man,
we're not not even a week into training camp and
here we go again. Carson Wentz feels a pop and
he's out. And and you know the hard part about
all of this, right is the windows of the NFL
open and clothes are very fast if you don't have
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a Pat Mahomes or Tom Brady. Right, the Chiefs obviously
every year feel like they're going to be in it, um,
And so you're looking at your point, right, Tennessee. Defensively,
they should be better. I mean, it's hard to be
that bad. Again, it added some pieces, but I just
don't you know something about that. I don't. I don't
really can look at them as as super Bowl contenders,
I think, and it will be good team, but you
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know that your point, the Colts easily can win the division.
Jacksonville will be better with Trevor Lawrence is getting better
and thrown to Tim Tebow of course, um and Houston
is not gonna be good for years, right, So it's
kind of your window right now after the Colts to
make it happen. And this year's lost for them. It
is absolutely lost for them, even if again I just
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I can't in that situation where when it's his hobbled
during training camp and there's that helps him become a
good player during the season, right, I can't see it happened,
especially with the guy whose confidence was certainly lacking in
Philly and maybe in Indianapolis and changes. I just I
don't see it for them. So now you've wasted an
entire year with with Carson Wentz, which again wasting years
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of your quarterback and its prime is never good. No,
and and look, and I was making the point when
they've made the move and they got Carson Wentz, I
just asked the question, is he an upgrade over Philip Rivers?
Like and that's the thing, And people could say whatever
they wanted about Philip Rivers. He was so much better
than Carson Wentz last year, it's not even funny, like
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like not, they're not even weren't even in the same class.
Ass And and go back to that playoff game against Buffalo. Yes,
a couple of plays here or there, man, And it's
not because I had money in Indianapolis. A couple of
plays here there in the Indianapolis culture winning that football game.
And so this idea that Carson Wentz, you know, they
had a major hole at quarterback and he's going to
improve him know, if anything, it was it was more
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of a lateral move to try and capitalize on the
window that you pointed out that they have in front
of him right now. And now it's all lost. You know.
The wednes thing is pretty interesting because there's obviously some
very ardent defenders of his play, but it's hard to
really defend most of his career, I mean, has not
been has not been as good and when we look
at again third down and red zone in seen he
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was out of this world good, right, And we've seen
now in his subsequent years that those those have come
back down. Right. So his his twenty seventeen years, the
outlier year of his career, and he looked again. You
can blame lack of wide receiver help, you can bring
his injured offensive line, you can blame whatever you want
coaching for other years. But you know when you have
four or five years, Um, yeah, yeah, four or five
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years and make sure of the years, right, And the
Eagles fans are cards and Wentz fans get after me
for in the years right on this, But you have
four or five years where we have one set of
data and the other year you have another set of data.
You guys, the four or five years is the kind
of ones we should go on, right, Like I just
the defenders of Wentz, I don't think I paid attention
to the rest of his career. Yeah, they've they've looked
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at the highlights, they've looked at the potential, and they
have not looked at the reality of and the bulk
of his career, which would indicate um not nearly the
impact player that many people think he is. It's the
question becomes, what do they do at quarterback? Because they
have a win now team, right they want to and
you have one sucher contract though, so you really there's
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only a couple of options if you're gonna go veteran here.
And so I'm curious if we're gonna see the Colts
to make a move at some point to bring in
a veteran um who they can get out of their
deal after the season, just to you have the chance
to win this year because their backups there, they're not
going with Jacob Easton or Sam Ellinger. Sorry, guys, those
are not the answers for them a quarterback. And they
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signed Brett Hunley and and so so they've got some
stuff to figure out here before the season. It is
outkicked the coverage here Fox Sports Radio, Jonas knocks Jeff Schwartzer.
You here coming up ten minutes from now. Um. Jeff
mentioned something earlier in the show that he was witnessed
to at a party this weekend that I think is
just one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen
(28:32):
in my life. H It is, like, it actually makes
me nauseous just to think about all the all the
details in which it goes into something like this that
somebody would order at a party. Uh, And we can
get into that here coming up in about ten minutes
from now. Just I I just I saw it and
and could not believe that that was a real thing.
(28:53):
Very it's very real. Yeah, it's a very very strange.
By the way. Um, you talk about a bad week
in for somebody's ex. So the Cubs go out and
they trade Anthony Rizzo, Hobby Bias and Chris Bryant, cornerstones
of their quote unquote dynasty, and all those guys in
their first game with their teams hit home runs like
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it literally could not go any Imagine breaking up with somebody. Yes,
he was awesome this weekend. Your guy Chris Briant of
your San Francisco Giants, he goes along Hobby Baias goes
deep like it's like finding out, Hey, so what happened
to your ex? Oh she won the lotto? Oh that's cool, Like,
I mean, he could not have gone worse for the
(29:37):
ex Cubs in that team, But your your Giants rolling
and and Chris Brian, how about that. Jeff Schwortz, I
have waited a while to emotionally invest in the Giants
being a playoff team because they're doing this with guys
like Darren ruff LaMonte Wade Jr. Um, you know, Mikeya Stremsky,
Brandy Crawford's like having his best season of his career,
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Posey's hitting over three d Um. And I've been waiting
for them not to play well, and they're just they're
not going to comply with that. Um. You know, they
just had ten games over two weeks against the Dodgers,
seven against the Dodgers, three against Ashes. They went, they
went seven and three and one all three series. Um.
And thank you to kill Lee Jensen, by the way,
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for being a contributor in those Giants wins. And I
just I keep, I keep waiting for them to not
be good. Um. You know, Gossman, They're all star pitcher
has not been good the last three starts, so maybe
there's some chicken the armor there. But they just play
good baseball and they hit. They leave I think majors
and home runs right now, which is crazy. So I'm
(30:41):
in man, I'm invested. I'm three game lead. Let's do it.
And I do think this is for those of you
that are just tuning in or have not heard, Um,
Jeff and don't know the backstory here. So Jeff's got
an ongoing feud with Danny g Our executive producer and
Roberto are technical producer because they are die hard Dodger fans.
You are a Giant fan, and it's just always coincidental.
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Every time the Giants have a good weekend or going
on a little bit of a role, either Danny or
Roberto don't show up to work. And today Roberto is
nowhere to be found. He's no, he's probably you know,
he probably over party last because Mookie Betts was back,
That's my guess. Yeah, he was just so excited that
the Mookie was back. Um, they have to play him
(31:25):
in the second and they have so many guys on
the roster that are good and still can't be in
first place because Mookie to play second base last night.
It's pretty sad. They've been moving guys around because they've
been so injured. So once they get healthy, Jeff, your
giants are in trouble. I feel really sorry since the
Giants are missing their first base in their third base
when they missed their catcher for three weeks. Roberto, by
the way, six weeks. We'll get that in the fifth
(31:47):
hour of the show. All your giants line up. But
the Roberto is in Arizona. He was actually at the
last two games that the Dodgers won against the Diamondbacks.
So he's a good luck charm. Yeah, he's been traveling,
and I do I think he's going to the Astros games, right,
and I think he'll I think Roberto said he's going
to be at the Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah,
(32:08):
batteries in podcast. Yeah, that's good. Send that lunatic. Send
that lunatic into a game against the Astros. See what happens. Man,
You don't you don't want to piss Roberto off. Right,
he's a violent guy. Uh, And the Astros are in
town and Dodger fans still can't let it go. So
so this is gonna be a bad, bad situation all
the way around. It's not why they lost, but I'll
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take it anyways. What what was what was fun for
me is baseball had like two days of intense trading action.
It was kind of nice for a couple of days
to be like your clubs guy, Right, I'm sorry for that.
That feels that's that's tough to tough to see, but
I mean the Yankees went for it, right, the Doctors
went for it. Um, the White Sox made some White
(32:49):
Sox made some trades, the A's and the Giants like
teams that are in the hunt. Um, with all that,
I'm improving this, I don't think we've seen the trade
deadline ever like this. Yeah, John and Paul MORROSSI was
saying it was the best trade deadline he can ever remember, Like,
and he's been covering the sport for a long time.
He said, I don't remember one like this because look
you had, I mean, how many all Stars got traded,
(33:10):
how many future potential Hall of Famers got traded? Like,
there were big names that got dealt, and a lot
of teams pretty much remade the rosters you know in
in in the with the flip of a switch over
the last you know, three or four days in Major
League Baseball, it is outkicked. The coverage here on Fox
Sports Radio, Jeff Schwartz Jonas knocks with you here on
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(33:33):
hear one of the most revolting food items that that
I would encourage you not to look into during the
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Top the next hour. There is a head coach in
the NFL and he is piste off at his players.
We will get into all of that here for you,
coming up a little over ten minutes from now on
Fox Sports Radio. By the way, Jeff Schwartz was out
in about this weekend and just for so that you
(35:01):
are aware of a conversation that we had. Uh LaVar
and I were talking about last week here on OutKick
LaVar Arrington and I just about best game day food.
All right, So you're watching football, you're hanging out, what's
your what's your go to? And and you know a
lot of the wings things like that, like people were
throwing out like him and I both agreed wings or
the go to, like like be beer and wings even
(35:23):
if you're not a beer drinker or a beer drinker,
you know, soda and wings. Whatever you want to do
it with wings feels I could go to it definitely
go to because it's you want anything to eat, your
hands right, and you want to not weigh you down
in my opinion, so anything with a lot of carbs
is gonna Like a pizza is great pizza anytime you want.
But I kind of waves your song with that, especially
if you're drinking heavily, right, Like wings don't really do that.
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And I think wings for me, um are probably the
go to again, very easy to eat, very delist. How
do you like can prepare is the question? I mean
different ways I'm not a big fan of grilled wings,
like I kind of I kind of mind a little
bit fried, even if even if they're naked. Um, so
definitely definitely wings. I would no argument there. Yeah. And
(36:06):
so look, we were just having bouncing around some ideas
and talking about right, so what do you like? What
do you and then all of a sudden you decide
to post and this was video that you posted, I
think it was. It was a picture. I was at
a Cascade uh concert at the What Republic, which is
you know, Jeff Schwartz at that such an event, it
(36:27):
would be very rare to see. But my wife enjoys
the dance music. You know, a good time as well. Um.
And you know, you have to spend a certain amount
of money if you have a nice seat. Uh. We
we spent our money and we were eight dollars over.
I was pretty proud of us. We spent exactly what
we had to spend. But some people have ten thousand
dollar I did not spend that much money. Um, And
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you have to reach your minimum. You have to spend
the money. And when you have a lot of people,
you have to order a lot of food and lo
and behold the tender taught yacht. They serve the Wet Republic.
It is a boat, a literal boat of food tenders
and tater tots for the price of uh. And it
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was a disgusting display of food in one serving apparatus.
And it was a lot of food and a lot
of money. It's just gross. Man. I saw it and
I got sick to my stuff. Yeah. No, but that's fine.
It can feed it, it can feed people. That's the
(37:34):
size is not the issue, the size of the boat.
It's it's the food items in the boat. First of all,
there's no food that's worse when it's cold than tater tots. Literally,
nothing worse on plane earth. That's a good observation and
a very still what I'm with you. I didn't thought
about that, but it's way worse than a cold frog. Yeah,
because it like leaves this coat in your mouth, like
(37:54):
if you have if you have a cold tater top,
there's like this coat in your mouth, like this dry,
weird and almost like you know somebody, you know, you
fell asleep in your buddy just you know, emptied his
chap stick in your mouth, like like there's like this
is there's weird, just this weird texture in your mouth
after you eat a cold tater tot and then chicken fingers. Look,
they go from really really hot when they first come
(38:18):
out of the oven, and all of a sudden they're cold,
like there is no there's no middle ground. They just
go from really hot to really cold. They're not there's
no warm. They just skip that step and go to bad.
And so it feels like unless you're eating those things
right out of the oven right when they bring that
boat out to the pool, you're screwed. Man, that's a
waste of money. The tenders and we ordered a plate
(38:38):
of chicken tenders and fries. It was like it wasn't
that bad. I guess, um, they were actually very good.
The food there was delicious. I mean, if you're spending
eighty seven dollars on a cheese pizza, better be good. Um,
so I will give him. The food was good, but
cheer point that has to be eaten immediately five minutes
of showing up, and that's a lot of food to consume.
(38:59):
But I love the name though, it's a great name.
Sevent dars though I'm out sorry, yeah, not not not interesting.
I'm not I'm not paying those prices, but Vegas Man
and one of the most underreported stories, Great food in Vegas.
They always have great food in Vegas. It's Jeff Schwartz
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