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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Happy New Year's Eve, hanging out on a Tuesday with
the one and only Finder at Moncy Bilanios. You can
find me at dan Byer on Fox. There's a weird
feeling in the air. And it's not just that the
calendar is going to change from twenty twenty five to
twenty twenty six, Moncey. It's a weird feeling because for
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fantasy football is over. Brace yourself, buckle up for what
is Week eighteen and how difficult it is to watch
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look ahead to week eighteen. One order of business, and
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I want to blame this on Famous Birthdays dot Com.
I sent out a pre show tweet. I know, and
I've known for years that Lebron James and Tiger Woods
share a birthday. I've known that it's December thirtieth. I
just find it very odd that two athletes that are
transcendent athletes share the same birthday. And I knew that
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there was a third I knew there was a third
athlete that could rise to the level, but I just
I knew it was Lebron and Tiger. So when I
went to Famous Birthdays dot Com, which apparently is intended
for anybody between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, because
all it is is TikTok Star. Ye, Brady Noon. You
know Brady Noonton, he's a TV actor. What about Denny Love,
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he's thirty three, also a teenage TV actor. Dominic Fike,
he's thirty, he's a pop singer. Sloane Alex who knows
Sloan Alex here, she's eighteen today TikTok Star, they were
all ahead of Tiger Woods in this grouping of pictures.
And not only that, Apparently, ninety year old Sandy Kofax
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did not rise to the level of famous birthdays according
to Famous Birthdays dot Com. In less Monci, you wanted
to click.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
On more and then you have to go all the
way down.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yes, Tyresee is top tim Yes, Eliza Dushku Vieira top ten.
Oh wow, Yes, Leila Ali has got a birthday today.
Sandy Kofax is you're right on like nine, line twelve flat,
last one forty six. He's ranked forty sixth on the
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Famous Birthdays Bad job Famous Birthdays.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Sandy Kopak's ninety but listed as forty six.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
The Sandy Kofak the greatest picture of the history of
the Dodger.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yes, there's forty five other people with more famous birthdays
than him today, including Sloan Alex, who's fourth. She's a
TikTok star, So my apologies to Sandy Kiopak. You love TikTok,
I do love TikTok. Sloan Alex is not in my algorithm, gotcha?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
She will be now because your phone's listing right now.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
On my algorithm. For some reason, our dash cam crashes,
which I have no idea, crappy AI videos of wrestling
matches that did not happen with Martin Luther King Junior
and other historical figures like Queen Elizabeth and others. That
is that's in my rhythm right now or algorithm. And
some golf stuff like video of guy gets golf present
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it ends up being a bad present, where like it's
a net and he hits it into the neighbor's yard
because he got the new gift. And then of course
the Anthropology rock. Have you seen those tiktoks? So there's
this thing where you trick your unk or someone like
me in giving say your mom, just a rock and
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claiming that it's a rock from anthropology that was six
hundred dollars, and then you watch all the old guys
freak out that someone paid six hundred dollars for a rock.
That is what's in my algorithm right now. I may
have to go look at that.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That sounds funny.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What's not in my algorithm is Tuesday morning quarterback.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Tuesday Kid, This is Tuesday morning quarterback. In the afternoon,
Mondays could be overwhelming. Tuesdays start getting to whatever we
didn't get to on Monday. This is Tuesday Morning Quarterback
in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
All right, Jason Stewart's here as his Isaac Long Crown,
Chris Berfett, she is Monteglanya, So I'm Dan Byer. We
hit on the things that maybe we missed or maybe
we left out and talking about the NFL in Week
seventeen on Monday, Jason, let's start with you. Week seventeen,
Tuesday Morning QB in the EM. I don't know if.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Anybody noticed this. The Saints are on a heater. They
won four in a row, the New Orleans Saints. Now
this is a team and I'm gonna again, I guess
I'm throwing Dan under the bus, but I just want
to I want to. I want to give it context
by saying that Dan Byer had said at one point
in this counter year that the Saints would probably be
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tanking for Arch Manning, and we all know how that
kind of went from there. But anyways, the Saints are trying.
Maybe they shouldn't be, but they're trying, and they are
at the helm of that team is Kellen Moore. Could
I give you a brief history of Kellen Moore. Kellen
Moore was like the hot, sexy offensive coordinator of the
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Cowboys that was always looking over the shoulder of Mike McCarthy.
You remember in our talk space, we'd be like, you
gotta hire Kellen Moore. MacCarthy's done, let's do that. And
then he fell out of favor with the Cowboys, and
then the Chargers hired him in that stupid year where
they had Justin Herbert and the final year of their
rookie the deal and Brandon Staley was given another chance
and it was just a year Kellen Moore submerging into
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irrelevance than the Eagles ghetto. He wins a Super Bowl
at the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
He's back and he's relevant, clean right through the car wash.
That's his first.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Job with the Saints. And now he's on a four
game winning streak with a guy named what Tyler Shuck?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, who won.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
My Buddies fantasy team. He was on his Super Bowl
fantasy team winning team yesterday. Tyler Shuck was his quarterback.
Believe it or not, Kellen Moore. What a story in
a story and a year of head coaching successes, Kellen
Moore is fine under the Raider. I just wanted to
bring spotlight to that.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It's a team that I thought, to Jason's point, was
gonna have the first overall pick so much so I
put worst team. I put Saints on rist and they
have turned it around, and it has been with their quarterback,
and it hasn't been with someone like Alvin Kamara. They're
actually really depleted in the backfield, so there's Noel Alvin Kamara.
They lost Kendrey Miller. Devin Neil was a guy that
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filled in for a little bit. Audre Estimate has been
in for them lately. But that just tells you on
how it's been slim pickens for the Saints. Yet Chris
Olave has ended up being a star, and I think
that there is something to be said for Kellen Moore.
I can't remember Kellen Moore got a five year contract
or he got a six year contract for the Saints,
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but I felt that his contract allowed him to stink
this year, you know where like it's kind of a yeah,
an extra year and now they're ahead a schedule and maybe,
just maybe they found their quarterback of the future. And
it's nice to.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
See a team that is playing for nothing still go
out there and try to win, and that's what the
Saints have been doing. For the last several weeks and
Tyler Shook has how many games over three hundred yards?
Now in a short he's got at least three.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, ask Jason this is this is his top number?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Research that that that much I got as far as Wikipedia, guys,
I'm sorry, I'm out out of research.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
This is a team that went on the road and
meat the Buccaneers now wins over the Jets and Titans
may not be ones who want to write home about, however,
they're on your schedule right That's who's on your schedule,
and the Saints right now. I brought it up just
in passing yesterday. But depending on the Falcons situation. All
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the Falcons ended up winning last night, so they are
seven and nine. But there was a point in time
where the Saints, if certain things fell their way, actually
would have finished in second place in the NFC South
with tige breakers considering what would happen, which would mean
they then would have a second place schedule next year,
which they probably don't want. So they're probably glad that
Atlanta ended up winning. But yes, the Saints seemed to
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be on the uh one of the up and comers.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, they're figuring things out ahead of schedule.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yes, can I go next? Just because if piggybacks off
of something that we talked about yesterday, I felt in
love and hate. There were about four All we did
was talk about the Chargers in that scenario. But there's
a bigger thing at stake here because we talk a
lot about the Bills, and I'm glad that Mike Jones
said what he said when he joined us last hour
was that Josh Allen. The Bills are so Josh Allen
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dependent that when Josh Allen is in good nothing is
there to save them. And that tells me that's a
bad job by the general manager. When you look at
the Chargers. What do we say about the Chargers? We
say injuries, bad luck, And that is all true when
it comes to your tackles, the health of Vershawn Slater,
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the health of Joe Alts. Multiple times this season, hack
Omari and Hampton missed significant time. But the Chargers are
on a different clock. And this is what I've realized
in the last twenty four hours. Jason brought up the
point that Jim Harbaugh may be dealing with some of
the karma from the Michigan situation. Remember that comment Jason,
But there's also something with Jim Harbaugh that Jim Harbaugh
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only really has a certain window of thriving and then
after while it's time to maybe move on. And you
may think that Jim Harbaugh new head coach of the Chargers, Well,
we're in year two. This thing is a six or
seven year deal, so now a third of it is gone.
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If you're like me and looking at the Bills, and
I think a lot of Bills fans are saying, like,
time's a waste in here. With Josh Allen, we're starting
to waste his years. I know what may be circumstance,
but it's just the fact. I'm not saying that the
Chargers are wasting justin Herbert's years. What I'm saying is
you gotta start making Hay now. And I think that
that's important for the Chargers team because I don't think
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Jim Harbaugh is going to be the head coach for
the next ten years. And so the window is now.
You're in the playoffs, you're competing, and I know you
don't have the pieces, but you better make the most
of it now. You'll hope that health can be on
your side next year because at some point, history shows
us there's going to be a term.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I mean, at least luckily for the Bills and the Chargers,
despite the holes, there is no dominant team, right, So
it's like you can still do this, you can still
find a way even though you don't look as good
as maybe you should.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yes, what's your takeaway from week seventeen?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
But to your point, real fast? Oh, betch Jim Harbaugh,
the way things end, it's always messy. He always there's
always this massive ordeal that leaves a lot of like
casualties in their wake, like Sharon Moore type casualties and
programs and football teams. How it ended with what was
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that Trent Balki with the Niners was so ugly. How
it ended with Michigan was like grandiose ugly. So it's like,
you're right, you have this amazing time of him thriving
and then things are going to go south for whatever reason.
I don't know what that'll be, but it's never it's
always like awful at the end.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yes, and I think that unfortunately charge your fans have
to brace for it, and it make them sooner rather
than later. All right, Manzi grows yours?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, yesterday. You know, we did a lot of talking
about the forty nine ers, Brock Party in that game
and all that, and I just feel like because they
lost and because Brock Purty was so awesome, Caleb Williams
kind of went under the radar. And he also had
he did his part against you know, the forty nine
ers and what he had to do, and not just that. Like,
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I feel like Caleb Williams had so much attention on
him his rookie year, and not good attention. He had
a lot of negative attention. And for the Bears to
come into a division where I don't think anyone expected
the Bears to win the division the way that they have.
I know they didn't play the best teams. I don't
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care about that. You have to play who you have
to play, right, but to come out and be on
top of the NFC North in their very first year
with the new coach, with Caleb Williams, who has so
much negative attention surrounding him for stupid reasons. I like
Caleb Williams. I am just like they also are on
a trajectory ahead of schedule, figuring things out. Again. No
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dominant team Chicago can win.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
This that's scary.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's scary.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They can win this, I think. Yeah, I think, and
you're right about that. Like they had a signature win,
and their signature win was a standalone game, then nobody
remembers because it was Black Friday. They kicked the crap
out of the Eels like they did. They they ran
over them. They two one undred yard rushers. I believe
that game. So when you had DeAndre Swift and kalaman
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Ungai giving you a run game, giving Caleb Williams a
run game, yeah, it proves the difference. And you know what, Monzi,
to your point, Romo Dunje hasn't been healthy the last
couple of weeks, so they've been doing it even without
a full compliment of Kalla, Williams's favorite receiver.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, it's been a rotating cast for him because of injuries,
and they're figuring it out and winning convincingly in the
later half of the season. Didn't start that way, but
that's not how you You don't want to start, and
look at the Bucks starting hot, falling off. It started
slow for the Bears and now they're hot, just the
way you'd want it.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Do you think people will warm to the Bears because
they are a new kid on the block. If you
if you look at the NFC playoff picture, I have
a tough time thinking that people will just because of
the Bears. I think. I know Chris Profests's answer, is
it the history of the Bears?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, there's some Chicago gruff to it as well, like
they're not the Bears.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
And I don't think Caleb Williams is easy to like.
I don't think Ben Johnson's easy to Yeah, if they're
your guys, maybe, but yeah, it's not an easy team
to wrap your hands around.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I just think there are worse ones. I get what
you're saying, And I think part of the reason I'm
so shocked about this is because I think at the
start of the season, I said, I don't know how
those two are going to get along. They both seem
like they would not get along.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Who's more likable? The eighty five Bears are the twenty
twenty five Bears. The eighty five Bears were way more
dominant than I think that they're way more likable.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I think they had a song, Yeah, I literally had
a song.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
We broke it down, Yeah, yes, monsa documentary. Watson didn't
know any of the verses. No, still don't what he
didn't learn anything from that segment.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
No, the fact that I most of them wrong just
shows how I was. I was not on the on
the right train of thought as that.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Song Isaac Low and Crown. What stood out for you
from week seventeen?
Speaker 7 (15:09):
We interrupt for a brief pop quiz. I want you
to identify this person.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
However, I did invent almost like a mindset or a
strategy for thinking, and it has helped me so much.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Who was that Peltrow?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
I'll give you a hint. You talked about that person
this segment is it?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Is it a Sloan Alex Yes, by the way, shout
out to meet Canyon. It's his birthday. He's thirty two,
a YouTube star, Meet Canyon, Meet can't it's wall one word,
but he shares the birthday with Sloan Alex, Meet Kenyon
Feadr and b Singer.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
So is that these are people in our society values
more than Sanday Kofax. I'd like to go on the
record as saying I wish when I turned fifty I
look a third as good as Sandy Kofax still does
at the age of ninety.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Unreal.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
That's one of the most underreported stories in overall sports.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Is Sandy KOFAXX hot? Yes?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yes, yes, he hot? I mean you see the guy
at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yes, and just always a pleasure. You would not know
he's ninety even having just a conversation with him.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
He looks so young.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
He does, and he's still there mentally like that's what's
the best part about him.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Yes, I wish I would also be there mentally as
much when I'm fifty as he ninety. All right, So
my take on the underreported deal and the context is
the potential future. What happened with Max Crosby and the Raiders.
So Jay Glazer reports they're going to shut him down
for the rest of the season, He disagrees, he leaves
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the facility. Pete Carroll says all the right things, which
I think were the right things. I think they were
genuine with his statements. But then he posts a video
of himself playing basketball on social media, something that he's
not really known for doing, sending those Lebron like messages.
I think a sneaky big story right now is next season,
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where's Max Crosby? Going to be because some contending team
out there could wind up with a hell of an acquisition,
could we see. I mean, what would happen if Max
Crosby wound up next season with the Cowboys or with
the Bears, et.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
So I think that's a sneaky under the radar thing
going on right now.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I'll tell you one of those etcs is also the Seahawks.
The Seahawks the thought to be attacked. Absolutely, John Schouder
wouldn't be shy to would be to bring in Max Crosby.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yes, I take away on this whole story was the
perception of Pete Carroll. You're seeing more and more stories
weak out about how he's probably not going to be
brought back. That would make like what the six head
coach in five years for the Raiders. But I think
that if Pete Carroll gives in the Max this week
and plays them on Sunday, I think that'll be proof
that Pete Carroll officially is done. I would lose respect
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for him.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
If he didn't. You should play him at quarterback. That's
what we really need Max Crosby under center against the Chiefs.
That's what I need to see on Sunday. I would
watch that more than half the other crap games they're
putting up at one o'clock Eastern time. Chris Purfett, what
stood up for you from week seventeen.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
I'm just gonna throw out real quick though, Max Crosby,
Michigan native, just to put that in everyone's mind a
little bit. Michigan the one. I'm just about to talk
about the Detroit Lions. Let's talk about the Lions. I
know they played on Thursday and it was a game
that probably sealed a lot of bad stuff. Five turnovers
for Jared Goff, I believe, two interceptions, three fumbles. Coming
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out today Tuesday, Dan Campbell says that Jared Goff is
quote going nowhere as the Lions quarterback. Not in that yes,
there's multiple ways double on Tandra that we could take there,
but more on the positive side of that that he
intends for him to be the quarterback, you know, continuing
into the future. And I've I've got a question that,
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like Goff, it gets to be a really he's so
frustrating to talk about because on one hand, we can
talk about the efficiency, we can talk about sixty eight
percent completing passes the four two hundred yards. Everything's like
set up for him to do well in Detroit, and
yet when the wheels fall off, they really fall off
for Jared Goff. And he took a career high thirty
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six sacks this season. And I know, and I was
talking with Ricky before the show about this, and yeah,
I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Just get Ricky on Uck Martin, Ricky Martin, Ricky.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Herrara, Ricky Herre the sound guy around here that makes
all the lovely, makes everyone sound lovely. Ricky brought up
this and I agree with him, Like, I think we
dismissed a little bit too much of what the Lions
looked like, how Gough looked liked in that first game
against the Packers, because then they went out the next
week and hung fifty on the Bears, and it all
came crashing back for the Lions. And like as we
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talk about, the Bears are now ascendant, the Packers now
have Micah Parsons. This division's going to be incredibly tough
for a long time to come. I don't think the
Lions lost everything when Ben Johnson went away, but they
have even under Ben Johnson, tailored everything to have Jared
Goff be as comfortable as possible, and yet the Jared
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Goff meltdown games seem to be getting more and more common,
and I do wonder moving into the future for the Lions.
I know they're committed to him right now, but you've
got an out I think after in two years or so.
I don't know when the future quarterback that you developed
behind Goff is, but I would stop thinking about Jared
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Goff as a long term quarterback because of these kind
of games, because if he's not if he's off his game,
nothing works for Detroit's offense, for that high flying, prolific
offense with all their talent. I know they had a
lot of injuries this year, but it stops working when
GoF stops working.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, and that's probably gonna be sooner rather than later.
And it didn't work behind the beat up offensive line
this year. A lot to fix in Detroit, both on
the defensive side of the ball on the offensive side
of the ball. You're gonna need someone at that quarterback
position to cover up some of the warts that you
have because you can't fix everything in one offseason. There
it is your Tuesday morning quarterback in the afternoon.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Tuesday, Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Here you have it your Tuesday morning quarterback in the
afternoon on the DOUN dot ling shown.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I thought Ricky Herrera just changed his name to a
one name, like he just like Madonna share CEO. That
will now it's like big mic He's just only Ricky.
But that's two words. This is just Ricky Ricky.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Everyone knows who Ricky Schroeder Silverspoon.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Doesn't see a lot of Ricky's these days.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
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ones here. Mancy Jason Stewart is here, as is Isaac
Lowncron and Chris Prefett and Ryan bursch family, Mike Lingard,
we've got seven mics. Sounds like it should be a
NAS song, right seven mikes right.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Now, micones, microphones and one mic.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
That's what That's what we've got because Jason says, we
need to talk about this on the air, not three,
not four, not five, nope, not fix stop freeze card
sharks freeze, seven mics right now to talk about our
Fox Sports Radio Guillotine League. Now, Chris Purfett has been
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a part of it in the past, asked, was not
this year? I just got I didn't ask you. Don't
worry about it. Not a part of it because of
his NFL responsibilities with the Chargers, So keeping it, keeping
it okay. But our Fox Sports Radio League crowned a
new winner last night, and you guys, sure as heck
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made it known that you wanted to congratulate our winner.
Ryan Berschinger, Congratulations, congratulations, Thank you nice so much. This
is all an alright slap in the face of me
who he beats in the championship that none of you
people took any accounts when we walked in today. And
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the first thing handshakes to Bersh Jason even did this.
I'm gonna be honest, it was downright embarrassing, this fake
passing of the crown to the new champion in front
of me.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
You guys have a crown.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Lingard came in as the first winner of this league,
and you guys had like this champions pow wow. Like
it's a Tuesday at Augusta National during Masters Week, this
Master's dinner.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
We are looking at getting jackets made all.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
In my face. It's after after Ryan Bershing sports blue
jackets and I'm sitting here like Peyton Manning with a
big forehead, looking like an idiot because I lost last night.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Okay, so all this needs background, Dan, All this needs
background for the listeners.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I don't know if all of our listeners are familiar
with the Guillotine format. It's so great so far, it's
so fun and original, and Dan organized the entire thing.
He brought the idea to UH to us three seasons ago.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Paul Charchion is the one that started the Guillotine League,
so it was his. I don't want people to think
that it was my idea. Charts had started the leagues
on his own, with his own and then it is
blossomed from there.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
And the basic format is, without getting too detailed, is
that each week somebody is blown out or guillotine from
the league. The lowest score of the eighteen and seventeen
are taken out of the league and you can't play anymore.
And then the members of that team go into a
free agency for pill to bid on. And it's so fun,
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It really is fun. Dan organized it, he accepts the money,
he pays it out. He has yet to win a championship.
So I want to show my appreciation. I want all
of us to show our appreciation to Dan Bayer because
without him, none of this could be possible. The three
is what we're going to be called in the Fox
Sports Radio hallways. Got goes the three? The three people
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that have won the championship. And I do want to
I want to say thank you Dan, You've put in
a lot of work for this. And I want to
say that Bursch has a lot to live up to
because I got a lot of comments in the offseason
of how I wore the crown. You have to show
up at parades and every time you're on on the air,
you need to you need to represent the league. You
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need to represent the championship with honor. Bush, are you
willing to not only accept the money for the win,
but also wear the crown in the off season as
well as I did?
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Well, I absolutely accept the money.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
That's that's smart. Yes, thank you. I will. I will.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
I will take that crown and wear it with pride.
I'm very I'm following the footsteps of somebody who was
very gracious in their victory, who has really a reign
that I think people will talk about when it comes
to modeling their their championship reigns after So, I really
appreciate the kind, kind words.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Here's the thing, There's it stinks to be eliminated early, Manzi.
You'd been in it for a long time, but this
year you kind of got chopped early.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yeah, so I don't care. You know, I lost in
my championship league last night. So I'm sorry you lost
too in the guillotine league.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah. Did we bring in your opponent and shake their hand?
And I are doing a national radio segment on how
you lost your league. We're doing it right now.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You're in the championship, You're in the so we're talking
about you.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I've been gone since week like four by the way,
I got into the championship because George Kittle No, I didn't.
That site was so confusing that I wouldn't even know
how to cheat.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yes, no, you accidentally cheated, if you did.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
George kittle tweaked his ankle against the Colts in the
fourth quarter and I won by like two points. Like
he was, he was well on his way to moving.
So I'm actually fortunate to be in second place. Mike
Harmon should have been in the championship game. Then Mike
Carmon could have faced the Juggernaut lineup that had Ryan
Berschinger with Derrick Henry on his bench and Jonathan Taylor
on his bench. But that's what happens in this format.
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All of the players are available at the end. So
it's just this. I'm sorry, it's this huge orgy of
good players going ahead to head. That's what it is.
That's true.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
I will say as someone who's been in the league
in the past, because I know MANSI were talking about
getting chopped early, I do appreciate guillotine getting chopped early
when you know you are bad or you know you're
just not going to have a good year, versus what's
happened to my other fantasy league where I am already
writing the script for my fantasy punishment because I had
a bad hand of it, and now I have to
like just sit around and just keep waiting for the inevitable,
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which was last place.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Well, here's the great thing about it. This is what
I appreciate about this is I've been in a fantasy
football league for with a group of guys for twenty
eight years. I actually think the stuff that happened this
league is some of the worst stuff that we've had
happened in our league this year, and I have no
idea if it's going to make it to thirty years. However,
this every day we would come into work, especially on
a Wednesday when there would be waiver wires or something.
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The best day of the week, by the way, you
had something to talk about with everybody else. I'm here
on Sundays. Monty's here on Sundays, so is Ryan. Mike's
here on Sundays, Chris is here.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
I'm always the weekend.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Like it's you're like, who's who's on the chopping block Monday?
Who needs to do what tonight? So what was a
good thing for camaraderie to get everybody together and on
the same page, so I appreciate that conversation.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
I have to agree. For me, the best thing about
it is, even after being eliminated, I was still interested
to find out who was going to get chopped, who
was going to get to whose team, Like it is
a whole drama all in itself, even if I was
no longer involved.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
This does also impact us around the work because I
can tell from firsthand experience from hearing down the hall
Bursh and one of our other senators, Shay yelling about several
things about Guillotine at times, or at least I'm assuming
that that those were cries of anguish.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
There's also great stories that come about, and I think
that people will remember Bjohn Robinson's ninety three yard touchdown
ron like That'll be the way that they like, That's
how I won my league, So that highlight will always
mean something to you. What was great was the first
year we did the Guillotine League because we had so
many members here, We've got some shared community spaces here.
We had a player in the league make two draft
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picks in the first year that were for Mike's team.
Because Mike couldn't attend the draft, so he got Ceedee
Lamb the championship week Ceedee Lamb ninety five yard touchdown
against the Detroit Lions on a Saturday game. I know
Chris remembers that was nice, but yes, it was very nice.
But it's funny because now you can always look back,
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you tie those strings together and be like, yeah, I
remember when so and so didn't log out of their
own team and ended up drafting for Mike, and then
Mike had Ceedee Lamb the entire year, and then when
it matters most, it's Prescott back to pass gooing Gabe,
He's got labid fday like that. There, you are to
be fair.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
I did kick down his entry feet for making that draft.
I did pay him back after I got paid.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
It was in I guess that's heavy that wears the crown.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Yeah yeah, yes, like I'm looking out for my constituents, yes, responsibility.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
As as the champion. I'm going to jump in here.
I know you guys have to get to trending, but
I will be the one who calls this out. I
will be the one who says it. Matthew Berry purchased
this format from Paul Chargie and prior to this season,
and had his guys create a new app for this league.
This app is the single worst fantasy football app absolute
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which basics functions did not work for the entire season.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
It was an issue.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
I won the league and I still hate the app.
So all I'm gonna say is sleeper now has chopped,
which is in essence what guillotine is, and maybe we'll
try that one next year.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
As a champion, did you get to set a rule
or something? Is this like the new rule is we
got to move to sleeper, kind of like shutting the
master's dinner.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I could do that.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Well.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
I'm also gonna set the menu for for our league dinners.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I knew something was wrong and it said Jamior Gibbs
only gave me six point four points in Week seventeen.
What's up with that? She's stupid? Sight had nothing to
do with the Lions.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
It definitely didn't have two of the guys that I
drafted on my team.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I didn't draft this guy, by the way. By the way,
Manzi gave Jason a cold shoulder because of Jason's taunting
tweets over lad McConkey because of this leag Oh yeah, yeah,
because I was in the middle.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Of work here. Oh thanks, I'm glad lat McConkie is
actually playing well for me now that you got chopped.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Yeah, that's not He's a champion like behavior that lasted.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
About three weeks, had three weeks being good karma.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Yeah, you literally texted me not even a week later.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
That's true. It's just very true. All true stories. Uh.
The most underrated part of the segment so far is
Bursch is the consonment producer at thirty nine had the
sense to say, I know we need to get to trending.
I know we need to get the trending, and.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Then threw an entire company under the bus, backed up
and ran over it again. Let's go over to Isaac
long Crown at the news desk, seven mics. It's like
it's like we're going like four wide into a turn,
Like this is just unheard off, unheard of.
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We've been taking to big stories from the NFL and
whittling them down. We'll have a final three at the
end of our broadcast today coming up at about six
forty five Eastern three forty five Pacific. But the stories
of the NFL we had Micah Parsons kind of emerge
from the Jaguars turnaround the quarterbacks of the twenty twenty
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four draft class, something that we've talked about a lot
here on Fox Sports Radio. There's there are other topics
as well. Speaking of the Jaguars, Cam Little set the
NFL record with a sixty eight yard field goal this season,
So Kim Little now has the record for sixty eight yarders.
We've seen sixty eight yards attempted, We've seen seventy yards attempted.
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Just another story in the National Football League in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
And then we didn't even mention the two way player
that Jacksonville moved up in the draft to get.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, Travis Hunter, who is not playing right now, hasn't
been around, hasn't been around because of his injury, hasn't
been that much of a of a factor. Jason Stewart,
is here story that stood out for you in twenty
twenty five?
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Well, I just as far as the kickers go, Cam
Little being obviously the biggest story, but the kicking game
just changed the way teams handle the end of games,
are sure, and it seemingly happened overnight. I think that's
why that was a big story. The length of the
kicks has changed the strategy at the end of games,
like no team is out of it for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Right, Yes, but I also find it interesting that teams
will a shoe field goals for going forward on fourth down,
Like there's there's been this just monumental shift in everything
that simultaneously. Yes, in seeing and I've not been a proponent,
but I brought it up here. My point was, shouldn't
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the closer you get to the end zone be the
worth more? Right, because that's the goal of moving the.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Football down mentioned and now more than ever it makes
sense because if Brandon Aubrey can kick a sixty two
yard field with bad wind, I don't you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
In fantasy people are like that should be five points,
but in the real thing, maybe it should be one. Maybe,
like we're getting away from the real goal here of
what's going on. Yeah, the page, it's our back. I know,
Iowa Sam's out here, Chris is in his spot. But
the fact that New England has turned this around. But
I think the story, a story that kind of tops
these two is shaud Or Sanders. Oh, and he continues
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to be a story and has been a story basically
the entire year, going through the draft process, the actual draft,
the training camp, the preseason games when he wasn't playing.
Now that he is, like should Or Sanders. We even
got Jason tweeted in a different Jason that should Or
Sanders has got to be a top story of twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
And he absolutely is. All year people were looking forward
to either seeing Sudor Sanders finally start, and once he
did get the starting job, I'm pretty sure search engines
were filled with how does Shoudor do last night? How
what was your door stats last night?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
He is a guy that moves the needle, and he
has deserved, he deserves an opportunity to be the full
time starter in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Everybody, some of the Hotline just called Josina Anderson votes Schedure.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
For the Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I don't think that there's any doubt that Shador is
a top three story in the National Football League in
twenty twenty five. She's WANTSI belanios, I'm dan byer Isaac Lowancraniz,
as is Jason Stewart and Chris Perfett. We're putting Shador
in the finals. Michael Parsons. Also his saga this year
are finals that comes up against six forty five Eastern.
There'll be another candidate that we add to the list.
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You wouldn't believe what the Clippers did to one fan,
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