Andy Furman and Bucky Brooks talk new NFL Kickoff Rule, $50 Million Dollar Club & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Bucky, how are you? It's that time again.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
It is your time. I am doing well, Andy, how
are you?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
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I love it. Chris Purfet with us all morning long.
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Speaker 3 (00:52):
I love hi.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Andy.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
I'm back to Torment you. I know it's been more
than a few years. I know it is miss you
and Bucky. No, I can't wait. There we go, Bucky
how's it going.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
I know you watched football on Thursday night, and it's
funny because I had not seen the ratings. But I'll
be very surprised if the Olympics out through the Hall
of Fame game on Thursday night. Have you heard anything
about I haven't seen any results on that because I
watched the Hall of Fame game a little bit and
I want them to see that new kickoff rule.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
We'll get into that later on. But then I switched
back to the Olympics.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, no, it was well one. There were a few
different issues when it came to the game, like the storm,
the weather's lads, all that other stuff kind of threw
it off. But I don't know. I think it's funny.
I had this conversation the Hall of the Game. The
Hall of Fame game and enshronment has lost a little
bit of its luster over the past few years, and
I think maybe because we are so into football, we

(01:50):
used to not have access to football over the course
of the off season, that we would salivate over any
opportunity to see it. I think now the added exposure
to added X access has kind of taken a little
bit out of that Hall of Fame Weekend as the
opening part of NFL Weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
You know, it's funny you mentioned that bigges to one thing,
and I honestly the inductees, I mean, I knew the names.
I watched it, but I didn't go through the entire
ceremony because I didn't want to hear it. But the
Steve McMichael situation really was gut wrenching. And obviously he
was surrounded by his wife and his daughter and he's
battling als he couldn't. I mean, it was I mean,
it's one of those things you just you can't get

(02:29):
out of your mind. Did you see the Steve McMichael
situation on TV a little bit?

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, Look, it's definitely tough because anyone who remembers him
at his at his best, not only for what he
did on the field, but what he was doing in
wrestling and how he was involved. It was tough. It's
difficult situation to see someone written. But I think if
you flip it and think about the positive part of it,
I'll have his teammates came together, all those Hall of

(02:54):
Fame teammates meeting him in that room, talking to him,
Steve hanging on, you know, dealing with the illness and
continue to hang on until you can have his induction
and his enshrinement date and all those other things. So
if you look at it in debt regard, like what
a great story and what a great I would say,
kind of like a lesson in connectivity that teams can

(03:18):
have because that Bears team was so great and you
continue to see the greatness in the bonds that they share.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Right, it really was. And I tell you what, It's
funny because I don't think much has been said. Maybe
I'm mistaken with the Devin Hester being inducted at.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
The Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Who was really the first primary kick returner and punt
return to be inducted ato the Hall of Fame. It's
almost like a relief pitcher in baseball getting into the
hole or a pinch hitter.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I don't think we're ever going to see that again.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I don't think you'll ever see a position guy like
a Devin Hester, a punt or kick returner get into
the Hall of Fame. It was an amazing call, I guess,
and I think he's the first and only.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, No, it was interesting because Devin Hester is one
of the greatest and it was longer redue for him
to get in, and he did change the game. You
think about a number of touchdowns that he had, being
able to impact the game as a kicking like look
as a kick return specialist, punt and kick return, being
able to take it back. Yeah, I don't know if
we will see another specialist get into the Hall of
Fame like that, just because of the way that the

(04:15):
kicking game has been diminished, the lack of kickoff return opportunities,
and some of those things can make it difficult for
us to see another guy like Devin Stginta.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
I'm hearing what you say now.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I did this, and I did this specifically for you
because you are such an informative individual and you give
us so much material with your NFL dot com stories
every single week.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
So I felt like I.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Owed you something. I'm going to run it by you
right now. I'm going to talk about the Olympics and
how they judge the points standings. All right, they have
like the USA obviously as we speak, with sixty one
total medals, and if you look at the standings, they'll
say the USA basically number one, followed by China at

(05:02):
number two with thirty seven total medals. I say the
system is flawed, And what do I mean by that?
It should not go by total medals. It should go
by total gold. And China has sixteen, so China should
be number one and the USA with fourteen should be
number two. And I think the system should be that
if you get a gold, it should be three points,

(05:25):
a silver two and bronze one point, and you total
up the points in that manner. Gold certainly means more
than anything else, and when they give you the total
point standings, the gold counts just as much as silver
and bronze. And I don't understand that. I mean, the
Olympics have been going on for over one hundred years.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
There's no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
And I doubt, very seriously someone's going to change it
because some lunatic like me is on a talk radio
show and they say, well, yeah, it's a good idea.
It's not gonna happen. I know, but I think it
should happen. That's what should hey, that's what the way
it should be. Gold is more important than anything else,
and you don't them up as equals.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
That's my take. What do you think I mean?

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Okay, so I understand your take. I understand you sent them,
and you're right there should be a point system where
you have more weight given to gold medals as opposed
to silver and bronze. But I'm be honest with you, Andy,
hadn't thought that deep about it. I keep up with it.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Look, I don't think anybody else has either, really, I.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Do all those other things, and like, look, being patriotic
and all this stuff, you always want to see USA
on top. However, I haven't thought about it like that.
And I know, I feel like back in the day
it was a little more nostalgic and that like growing
up as a kid. I feel like in the late
seventies and the eighties, like the Olympics were like like
a real big thing when it came to like our

(06:44):
team pride and the entire country winning more medals than
the others. But now I'm gonna be lied. The fandom
comes down to a few select events that you really
pay close attention to, and my vantage point like looking
at track and field, looking at gymnastics, looking at basketball
or soccer or some of those other things. So I'm
more focused on maybe those individuals sports as opposed to

(07:07):
the overall production and performance of the country.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, I hear what you're saying. I think most people
basically are. And I think when I see the equestrian
on TV, I turn it off. I'm not interested in
the question. Or last night, the announcer says something to
the effect that there was a fifty five year old
woman that won the equestrian event. I mean, I don't care.
I mean, I'm happy for that person. I don't even
know what country they were from, but I'm into the
Olympic race. The track and field is tremendous. Basketball is big,

(07:35):
and that's what I watched. And when I saw Richardson
losing that she got a silver instead of a gold,
that upset me. I mean, I expected a lot more
out of her. With the girl from Jamaica, I think
beat her.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
So I mean, actually, yeah, Saint Lucia is St. Lucia
winners and I think a teammate maybe at the University
of Texas, and it was a great start. And the
thing about what I love about the Olympics, I love
to see how people perform under pressure. I love to
see how people handle all of the stress and anxiety

(08:06):
that comes along with being on the biggest stage, handling
the bright lights and just the intensity of the moment.
And I can't necessarily say that Chakari Richardson did anything wrong.
You know, I think the winter did everything right. I mean,
she won this se my final, then she won the final,
and her ties were consistent in both of those things.
But the start a phenomenal start to the race that

(08:29):
put her ahead, and you know, it kind of was jarring,
I think to see her jump out and continue to
dominate the race from again and the end.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, you talk about handling pressure, I mean I hadn't
seen anybody handle it as well as maybe Leon Michean
just swimming from France in front of his hometown, because
there's a lot of pressure doing it in front of
your hometown. And certainly he had the crowd in his
hand and his fingertips the way he swam, and he
stood up and walked around and just just ate it up.

(08:58):
I thought it was just wonderful watching him. And I
cannot believe when he made those turns on the pool,
I mean he was almost halfway underwater on the way back.
If it's just an amazing I mean, it's funny. As
you mentioned, I would never watch a swimming meet on
TV but the Olympics. I watched swimming and I watched
track and field.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Yeah. No, I think it's the one time that you
kind of forget some of the things that you may appreciate,
like appreciating the swimmers and watching that on his dominance.
But Katie Lee Deck, you just dominate the pool and
continue to like kind of put the rubber stamp on
an exceptional Olympic career. Those things. Watching great performances, I

(09:36):
think the one thing that all athletes and non athletes
or whatever. I think people can appreciate great and I
think being able to appreciate the greatness that we've seen
over the course of the Olympics, I think everyone kind
of gets into that, and I think that's why it
is the thing that everyone tunes in to see every
two to four years.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Right, and again you're talking about greatness. I mean I
had no idea and Krauser had a three peet in
the shot put. I mean that was great. I watched
that last night. And again, I'm not really going to
turn the TV on if I see a track and
field event and watch the shotput event.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
But this kid was unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Really, I mean, he'd been tossing it just I mean,
it doesn't look like an athlete, that's the thing. I mean,
he's just like a big guy, a big strong guy,
and he's still thing like twenty two point six on
his first throw, and he improved on his second and third.
Three gold medals. Now that most of anyone in Olympic
shot put history, who knew?

Speaker 3 (10:35):
But I watched that. I enjoyed it. I mean I
show you saw that as well.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, no, it was great, Like all those things, the
field events, being able to see that, it's amazing to
be able to sustain your performance for that long. I mean,
think about the Olympics every four years. Being able to
kind of keep your form or keep your performance and
training and all of those things up so over a

(10:59):
ten to two of your peers you're able to peek
at the right moments. That's a remarkable achievement and accomplishment.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Okay, here's the thing, and I say this for last.
It's the Olympic basketball team. You know, I look at
the other sports, the swimming, the track and field, the
shot put, whatever.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
It may be.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's pure. It's pure sports. There's no negativity, there's no
second guessing. But when it came to basketball, it was like, hey,
you know, we're back into the fold of like normal
sports coverage. Because last Sunday, if you remember, Jason Tatum
sat on the bench and he watched the US team
blowout Serbia. Would not even have to take off his

(11:35):
warm ups. Okay, he wasn't hurt, he wasn't sick, and
maybe I'm thinking maybe the first time in his career
he simply was not in the rotation. And that's basically
what the media touched on. Basically, Olympic basketball, for the
men at least, has become just like any other sport
on a day to day basis in the US of A.
You know, I'm here to say, maybe he should have played,

(11:57):
Maybe he shouldn't, Devin Booker, they need a score. He
wasn't starting, Jason Tatum, he didn't start. You know, just
to me, they're winning. Maybe that's the most important thing.
Steve curR is getting a lot of heat because they're
covering it like they would cover the NBA on a
daily basis during the winter in the in the US
of A. You know, let them go. They're winning and

(12:20):
they will win. Brazil will not be a problem. On Tuesday,
I promise.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah, I mean I think sometimes with leaks in you
have casuals that that weigh in very, very heavily. And
when I mean casuals are not the casual NBA fan,
but maybe casual Olympic fans are casual international basketball fans
who do not fully understand the differences between the way
the game is played in the NBA and the way

(12:48):
Fever plays basketball and what's allowed in the physicality and contact,
and understanding difficulty and challenges of winning in a hostile environment,
an environment that is very different with referees that are
from various countries, and so you're having to deal with
a lot of different things at one time, and so

(13:09):
it's not always going to be clean and smooth and
without opposition. But I can't say this version of the
Dream Team has gotten better. They begin to play better
and we're beginning to see those leads stretch stretch out.
But in anything, anytime you're competing for a championship, there's
going to be some adversity that comes their way. How

(13:32):
they navigate that, how they play on during one of
their off performances, are they able to get a win
that's ultimately going to determine whether they win the gold
medal or not.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
And Steve car is getting a lot of heat. You know,
Steve Carr basically rested devil rested he didn't play him
in the seven pre Olympic exhibition.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Games at all.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
And he answered the question, I mean he didn't, you know,
he wasn't nasty tors the meeting, he gave them an explanation, said,
it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to
put out five leading scores on the floor for an
NBA season because these guys don't compliment each other. Well,
d'ur in the Olympics, just coaching basketball is pretty simple
for us, regardless of all the noise. I like that,
you know, at the end of the day, he's going
to be judged not on who he plays and if

(14:09):
he wins the gold or not. That's the bottom line.
And right now, I gotta believe he's gonna win the gold.
I don't see anybody challenging them. I really don't.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
I mean, I don't think it'd be a walkover. Maybe,
like you're making it, it's gonna be tough. They've gotten better,
they're finding they're going to make me tough, which is important.
But no it's it's look. Has been good to see
them kind of get back on track, like that's been
really really good to see and it's one of the
things that you want to continue to see from the scene.
There you go.

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Speaker 2 (17:05):
Back to football at Bucket Brooks. There's none better, all right.
I'm watching the game Thursday night. The first two kickoff
returns under these new rules of the NFL, it looked
like the kickoffs of the past. The Bears won that
game twenty one to seventeen. The game was shorten by
the weather. And then he beat the Houston Texans. And
there's the Hall of Fame game, all right. I think
as the wide receiver of Texas, Steven Simms, he took

(17:28):
the opening kickoff about twenty twenty one yards. He was
tackled at the twenty six and that's the yard behind
where the offenses used to begin their drives for a touchback.
All right, Explain to me these new rules. They certainly
look a lot like the kickoffs of the past. What
about when you noticed that? Did you feel the same way,
but that it looked like nothing has changed?

Speaker 4 (17:49):
I mean, in a way, I feel like there was
a lot of angst and consternation over nothing. The players
amounted to basically about the same as everything else. Most
of the teams are getting that anywhere from the twenty
to twenty five yard line to start their drives, and
I love the fact that they put it back there
and they're trying to experiment and create something. But right
now we haven't seen any spectactically because we haven't seen

(18:11):
a return leak through to create kind of some of
that Ouhi factor that we used to look for in
the previous kickoff return.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Okay, you're the expert, you're the football mave, and you
really are. What exactly is the rule and why did
they change it? I want to know as a fan.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
Well, the original kickoff, when they were kicking off from
the thirty five yard line, there's too much space in
between the defenders and the blockers, and so you had
the one play the kickoff that was responsible for a
number of the injuries, and I would say like the
injury per play was out of whack compared to the

(18:50):
rest of the game, and so they wanted to take
that out of it. They wanted to bring down the
numbers to protect the players and do those things. And
what they did is when we're having touchbacks and those things,
they really made it a ceremonial play as opposed to
a real impactful play. They put the guys closer together
down the field. The returners and stuff can't catch it,

(19:12):
but the cover guys have to wait until it's touched.
And so it is just taking away some of the
big collisions and creating another opportunity for coaching to kind
of work into the mix, because now if you can
strategically find a way to create an advantage, I mean,
you were won a kin.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Okay, was this rule approved by the NFLPA. I'm sure
they had to approve it, right.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, they had to prove it. No, they had to
prove it. Everything has to go by a partnership and
so it had to go through all the proper channels
and protocols to be able to get it approved. And
the special teams coaches were the ones that created this
off an extension of the xfil USFL model and stuff
that we had seen, and so I think it continued
to be a work in progress and it continued to

(19:58):
be something that we look at and see how people
truly utilize it. Because as I've gone around training camps
and those things, it is one of the things that
people are working the most on because there's an unknown
factor to how to execute it, how to defend it,
and what's around the corner when it comes to what
trick plays the coaches have in their bag, how can

(20:20):
we prepare for the trick plays that inevitably will happen
on that kick? You want everything in order and so
there's a lot of guessing right now.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Okay, so you've been going around to various camps. What's
the feedback that you get for the coach? They like it,
they dislike it, You don't know what to do with it.
What's your take on that.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
There's a lot of unknown because it hasn't been done.
I mean, you're in New territory, so you're trying to prepare,
prepare your team. A lot of what coaches do in
the National Football League is prepare your team for worst
case scenario. Here's how we can get hurt. Here's the
things that the other team can do. We want to
make sure we're rate on these things, to not give

(21:01):
up a play. Because display is new and hasn't hasn't
been done, there's no film on it. You're at a
loss in terms of how to prepare your team. So
there's just a lot of angst around that part of it.
But I think they're looking forward to it, and they
probably feel better than now that some of the stuff
has been on tape, given the Hall of Fame game
and everyonet being able to check that up.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Do you think it's going to better the game in
the long run, because what I fear now is the
next step is going to eliminate the kickoff altogether.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
Well, I mean this is to try and remove that
so if they can get some excitement out of it,
if they can get an occasional play, which will happen eventually. Yeah,
I think the kickoff can still be a part of it.
It should be a part of the game. It's been
a big part of the game for so long. They've
just been trying to serve a couple of masters, make
sure that the players are protected while also giving incentive

(21:52):
to guys to kick it in the field to play
so we can see some of the dazz things return
specialists display their talents.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
The next down I play in the National Football League
will be my first. I never played the game, so
I watch it, I study it in a sense. But again,
I mean, you're the experts. So here's my tea take
on this. It's a brutal game, all right. There's going
to be concussions. They will never stop having concussions in
the National Football League because it's a game of sense danger.

(22:20):
I mean, your next play could be your last. We've
seen injuries all the time. They mount. We've seen injuries
the last couple of days in training camp, acls, whatever
it may be. And the concussion factor is going to
be there because people get hit and they get hurt.
So to eliminate or to have a various a vverial
of various different rules of kickoffs and kickoff returns to

(22:43):
me is ridiculous. It's a great part of the game,
it's an exciting part of the game. And what they're
going to do eventually is to eliminate position players who
play on that kickoff return team.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
I mean, like they will change the kind of players
that own those kickoff return teams. And that's what everyone
is experimenting. I mean, after one I'm not ready to
throw the kickoff rule out. I'm just saying, we just
don't know, and another team may have a different philosophy
or an objective in terms of how they want to
attack that particular play. We just got to let it
play out. I think as more people put stuff on tape,

(23:15):
it will get better. We will see more creativity. It's
just really wiping away the unknown. You just have to
see it on tape. See how everybody's handled it. See
if there's a nugget or two that you can glean
from how another team prepared and executed, and maybe it
helps you improve your special teams in that face, Do
you like it?

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Do you like the rule?

Speaker 4 (23:35):
I mean, I like anytime players have a chance to
touch the ball and make an impact on the game.
I like it better than the automatic kickback that we
were getting after every play. I want to see people
have to defend some of what I think are a
special set of players in the league. As a former returner,
I appreciate how Devin has to impact the game. I
appreciate how Brian Mitchell of Washington Football franchise, like I

(24:02):
respect how he impacted the game. I would like to
see more guys impact the game like a Cordeo Patterson.
So most see it continued to evolve, but no, I
think it's exciting to see guys uh I touch the
ball in the kicking game. Here we go.

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Speaker 3 (24:23):
These three just aren't getting it. That is next. But first,
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Speaker 5 (24:29):
Hello, Andy, I think you should know at bucking at
Bucket and Bucky. We have to remember Bucky. I think
you should know that on the Olympics site it does
sort by gold medals first before overall medals. And I
know the complaints were going the other way in that.
Why isn't the USA on top of the most medals
and instead of showing China on top with sixteen gold medals?

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Okay, but when you look at Google just points standings,
they would have totals.

Speaker 5 (24:56):
I think it's gonna depend on your site. You're right, yes, No,
I don't know how you tried to you tried to
knock my thought process. Yes, exactly, that is exactly what
I am doing. Andy. As I said, I am here
to torment you and I'm not going I thought.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
It was so much creative with the points three two
one for gold, silver and bronze.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
But obviously you're putting a bullet like points.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
No, I know.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
It doesn't feel like we've given the same credence to
gold to medal counts ever since the Soviet Union went away, though,
So what can really say? But what we can say
is that Katy Laducky is now part of history.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Twenty five metre's left for Laducky to make four history.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Won the gold in.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Tokyo, it's gonna back it up again here in Paris,
and the greatest swimming machine we've ever seen.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
Us up to another gold here in Paris with a
new Olympic record that's NBC there, Katie Ladecky took the
eight hundred meter freestyle of your fourth gold straight Olympics
gold medal, four straight Olympics.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
There.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
She now has nine gold medals fourteen medals total. She's
one of the most decorated Olympic Olympians in history and
the most decorated among women's swimmers. Team USA all said
and done one a whopping total of eighteen medals the
Olympics on Saturday, including five goals. One of those goals
one of those golds was Simone Biles, who won in
the vault competition, her third gold medal this week. I

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believe she's up to seven total so far. US women's
soccer got an overtime goal from Trinity Rodman's defeat Japan
one nil. That is Trinity Rodman, the daughter of NBA
legend Dennis Rodman. Semi finals coming up on Tuesday, the
Americans will face Germany on the track you mentioned it earlier.
Women's one hundred meter relay race I mean one hundred

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meter race, excuse me, was won by Julian Alfred of
Saint Lucia, an island nation that now has their first
Olympic medalist for the first time in history. Last person
I remember running for Saint Lucia was formerly the NFL
Javid Best. Shakari Richardson finished second, Melissa Jefferson third. Let's
move on to baseball. The Dodgers won ten nothing at
Oakland Show. Hey O Tani has stolen three is, giving

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him thirty three hombers now thirty one stolen base so
far this season. Racking up the win was Jack Flaherty
in his debut for the Dodgers after being traded earlier
this week from Detroit. Speaking of Detroit, those Tigers were
retiring the number ten of Jim Leland, the long time
their longtime manager. He was unveiled at America Park he
had gone in Cooperstown last month. They came back for

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an eleventh inning and eleven inning victory over Kansas City,
six to five, scoring two runs in the ninth, one
run in the tenth, two more in the eleventh. The
Miami Dolphins have given Tyreek Hill a restructure on his contract,
sixty five million in new guarantees over the next three years,
no years added. I should be remissed before we move
away from baseball to mention that the White Sox now

(27:44):
have the ninth a nineteenth straight loss. Last time they
won a game, Andy Joe Biden was still the nominee
for the Democratic president in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
I think they're on pace to lose one hundred and
twenty three games, which will break the record. The Mets
in sixty two. I believe what forty do we need
to set out ahead of Lettuce? Do we need to
set out to have? Let us see how long it
will last.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
I love it, I really do.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
Finally there Carlos Alcarez set to face Novak Djokovic coming
up here at eight a m. Eastern to be ready
to tune into that. Back to you Indian, Bucky.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Quite honestly, this is an embarrassing thing and we have
it for you in just about a minute. And Bucky,
I want to bring in Chris for a second because
I saw something on social media. It said that Simone
Biles well on TV. It said that she's going to
compete in the la Olympics four years for now. Social
media just the earlier today, I saw that she is

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not and she's pregnant with her husband who plays for
the Chicago Bears. And I want to know if Chris,
have you seen anything about that, because I watched the
Olympics last night and they said that she was going
to come back and perform in La in four years
for now, in the Olympics, and this morning, several hours ago,
I'm looking at the social media and it said that
she's going to retire because she's pregnant.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Well, I can't speak on that last point there. I
do know that her comment was basically to the US today,
never say never. She's already the oldest, the oldest gymnast
at these Olympics, which is U twenty seven, twenty seven,
which is very deflating to think about that. At age
twenty seven, that is the oldest. As I sit here

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about to turn thirty eight in September, and I still
think that I'm at the midway point of my life.
But she is, at.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Twenties a gymnast though I'm not. I'm not.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
I did some gymnastics when I was when I was younger, though,
But no, I you know, I think we could see
her at the Olympics. She is certainly one of the
greatest of all time. She still has has it in her.
But four years is a pretty long time. She would
be in her thirties. That would be, without a doubt,
unprecedented to show up at the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
All right, thank you, Bucket Brooks. You were you a gymnast?
Did you do gymnastics?

Speaker 4 (29:50):
I did cartwheels? I mean, if they count, I guess it. Does, yeah,
and Ford roles in those things. I guess if we
can of debt regard I'm a gymnast. Let's say this
about Simone Boles. Simone Biles, if anyone has an opportunity
to check out the Netflix thing on Samon Biles. Her
documentary Any kind of chronicles the struggles that she had

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in the Olympics and how this was a huge moment
to kind of face her fears coming back. So to
think about all that she's gone through to win three
gold medals right now with more potentially on the horizon,
it's really a testament to her greatness. I can't imagine
her going in La Look. Thirty plus in the gymnastics

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world would be bananas. I hadn't heard the speculation about
Simon Biles being pregnant, but I do think it's really
interesting that people are wondering if she's going to come back.
To me, this is the perfect cap off to a
great career. She has three, she may end up with four,
maybe five additional, Like I mean, that's just this amazing

(30:59):
career of dominance, and I don't know what else she
would have to prove. I think she was trying to
prove to herself that she could bounce back from a
low moment that she had it in Tokyo. But going forward, man,
I can imagine, I can't imagine there's anything left on
the bucket list to sell.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
She needs to walk away and walk out there with
the gold and just leave it like that. That'll be
the legacy, you know. I talk about gymnastics. Gymnastics to
me is my kryptonite. I'll give you an example about gymnastics.
It kind of like changed my life in a sense.
In high school, we had gymnastics and I feared it.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
I really did.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
I had the parallel bars, the unevil bars, and so
I don't want to do it. I couldn't do it.
I figured I'd kill myself on that. So I went
to the basketball coach and I said, if you could
get me out of gym, I'll be your team manager
and keep statistics for three years in high school, tenth,
eleventh and twelfth grade. And he did so. I never
went to gym, and to this day, I still keep
in touch. My basketball coach turned ninety on the twenty

(31:54):
fourth of July, and we still keep in touch. And
I was his manager and kind of changed my life
around because That's what I basically did, kept stats and
called newspapers and got stories in there. And I never
went to gym again. So that was my gymnastis. I
thank gymnastics in a sense for starting me on my
career in high schools. That's what gymnastics did. Never went
to gym class. I didn't like it. I was afraid

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of the class. I was afraid of it. I was
afraid of gymnastics.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
I was.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
But I'll tell you what, this is one thing that
the USA team is missing some talent. It's on the
three on three basketball team. This is amazing to me,
men's and women's. In Paris, the US men's and women's
three on three basketball teams have a combined last time
I looked seven losses in eight games. What's the issue?
The men are rowing four to women and one and three.
I don't get it. I don't understand how they could

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be that bad and that sport. The women won the
gold at the Tokyo Olympics and the Phoebe World's Basketball
Cup Classic and twenty twenty three. The men failed to
qualify for Tokyo, but they entered Paris as a second
right nation behind Serbia.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
I don't get it. What is wrong?

Speaker 2 (32:56):
I mean, they have nowhere near the talent on the
five on five guys, the regular basketball teams. I don't
understand that.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Well. I mean it's a difficult it's a difficult game.
And I think what you people are seeing this how
difficult it is to win it, you know, to get down.
It's a completely different game, Like the hustle is different.
It's half court. You don't have room. You have to
be able to win and shoot you oh, then do
those things. Jimmer for Debt is the top three on

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three basketball player for the US. And you think about
Jimmer for Debt and how great he's been in other
leagues outside of the NBA. They just couldn't get it done.
And look, other teams are playing in the game is
a global sport and our expectations for US, the US
is to maintain this dominance. But it's look, it's closer.

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So the margin for era it is thinner than it's
ever been. And that's what contributed to USA on the
men's side and the them's side kind of falling short
of expectations.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Well, you're talking about Jimmerfred Debt, he's thirty five years old,
he's the only guy in the three on three team
in NBA E. It's amazing to me. And I think
maybe the problem is recruiting players because as you say,
maybe it's not as u.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
I mean, be into the Olympics. I mean, it's got
to be exposure.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
So maybe it's not as exposed as the men's basketball
and women's basketball five on five, but just recruiting a
player to want to be on that team.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
And I guess they don't.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Practice three on three, but they do have that Big
Three league, right and that's on TV now people see that.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
But I don't understand why they're got to be so bad.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
I mean, look, it's a different game, and it's a
different game, and we don't have a national three on
three Association. The Big Three is now picking up and
becoming that, but it's still a different game. You have
to learn how to play, you have to learn the rules,
and you have to really start preparing for those things.
The days of just rolling out the basketball and saying, hey,
we're USA, we're going to We're just going to show

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up and show out. Now that doesn't happen anymore. You
got to work, you got to have a team, you
got to have chemistry. You got to make sure that
everybody's own point, and it's a challenge to do in
a like a different environment. And in terms of one
where the world has really picked up a game and
taken it to the next level.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
You're exactly right and like to count the ract what
Chris Perfetts said about my points situation. The men's three
on three and women's three on three in their standings,
they do have a winner's two points and losses a
point of four feit snow points. And here's the standings
as we speak right now, Latvia, Serbia, France, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland,
China and bringing up the rear to the United States with
four points. Women Australia, Canada, Germany, China, Spain, France are

(35:29):
zerbian a Zerbian. I mean in the United States and
the United States isn't last than the women. So there
you go. I don't get it. I don't understand why
that is. And the USA used to dominate two men volleyball,
and I watched them this the other day. They're in
the loser's bracket. Win goes to round zero and sixteen
and they go home if they lose again. So I
don't understand why they're not good. I mean, we should

(35:52):
be dominant in all sports when not. I know, maybe
I'm just speaking of USA Pride, but that's the way
I feel.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Who knows?

Speaker 2 (35:58):
All Right, Tucky Brooks, Andy Furman, Fox Sports Sunday and
Fox Sports Radio. If there's a question to be answered,
we have to answer Man as Bucky. It's freaking next
as Bucky, coming right up. It's about eleven minutes now
before the top of the hour. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm
Andy Ferman, and we are Fox Sports Sunday and Fox
Sports Radio Life from the tire Rock dot Com studios.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Here we go. It's Bucky right now. Okay.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
On Wednesday's practice, Buck, the Chicago Bears had their quarterback room,
obviously headlined by the number one draft pick, Caleb Williams.
They practiced on a slipping slide. So we ask you, Bucky,
why and what is this slipping slide?

Speaker 7 (36:37):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Slipping slide is a look of kids toy or apparatus
that you use to slide around you Brey slide. You
learn how to kind of just you know, it's doubts
with ward and you do it. Quarterbacks will use it
because some quarterbacks do not know how to slide. Some
of the guys have never played baseball, so they haven't
mastered the art and the technique of sliding. The reason

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why you want to teach them that now because of
a very valuable skill to have International Football League. When
you scramble, you flee the pocket instead of taking hits.
You want to be able to slide and get down.
It's not the first time that we've heard teams use it,
but it is kind of funny to think about these
guys using the kids toy to get ready.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Shouldn't they have done that in college before they go
to the NFL. Should they have known how to do
that beforehand?

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Well, I mean guys may not slide in college. I
mean you may just go and play. And so this
is a chance for them to kind of really officially
learn how to slide and teach them in a way
that kind of resonates with them so they can do
it the correct way.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
I knew you'd have the answer. I knew it. Okay,
that's all we have asked, Bucky. Now, the team USA,
they're spread this in the four by four hundred seat
of World record on Friday in three seven forty one,
So Bucky, when they picked the greatest athlete of the world,
is it selected in the games by the by they
are accomplishments or by the sport? For example, would the
greatest athlete be a swimmer or is it harder to

(37:56):
do it in track and field? I mean to me,
how do you pick the greatest athlete?

Speaker 4 (38:01):
I think it's very similar. I think swimming and track
and field of slimmer, and it's similar in terms of
their individual sports. Within a team concept, I think you
picked a person that's most dominant, the one that kind
of takes it to a new level. And I think
gymnastics also qualifies. I think ultimately comes down to the accomplishment.
Who walks away with the most impactful accomplishments and achievements

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and some own Biles being that conversation katiele Deck, He's
certainly be in that conversation. There'll be others, but you're
gonna have to walk away with a handful of metals
to create that conversation.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
So it's some Moon Biles. She'll be the greatest athlete.
I'm sure she's got it hands down right now. I
heard some media people jabbing at Bill Belichick recently calling
him a hypocrite since when he coached, he snubbed the media,
and now he's part of the media.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
What are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Look, I think it's different. I think when you're in
his previous job, you don't want to let the media in.
Now that he is not a head coach, Like, yeah,
you want more access, you can be a little freer
and looser because it's a different job requirement. It's a
different expectation. We on our side, like the media side,

(39:11):
we always want all the information. We always want access
and insight and all that other stuff. But as a
head coach, your job is to make sure like you
don't negatively impact the team. And sometimes giving them the
media for access to not only the locker room and
those things, but to your thoughts can come back to
bite you. That's why he probably stayed away from it.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
Here go okay.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Now, no on NFL team has won three consecutive Super Bowls,
the Kansas City Chiefs. They aim to make history. They
union of quarterback Patrick Mahomes and their coach Andy Reid
that translates into perennial title hopes. Now, thus far, this
team has managed to avoid serious injury to any of
its star players. I call it durability. Can you explain,
Buckey Brooks, how and why since these veterans are somewhat aging,

(39:53):
Travis Kelce, Chris Jones, just to name a few, how
do they avoid that?

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Just kind of understan in their bodies and a lot
of his luck and good fortune. I mean, injuries can
happen at any time in any way, shape or form.
You just I hope that you prepare your body well enough.
You hope that everyone is operating on the same page
where you avoid like the big licks and the big
hits that can impact the injury situation. But a lot

(40:19):
of it is luck. And the longer you're around the league,
you know, the more you figure out what's really important
when it comes to preparation. These vets that have logged
a lot of hours, they know what's important. That's why
they ever stay healthy.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Yeah, I'm glad you used the term luck, because I
think it is luck to some extent. It really is.
All right.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
He's Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Firmer. We are spots Fox
Sports Sunday and the NFL quarterbacks. Are they worth it?
Bucky has the answer on Fox Next.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
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Speaker 2 (40:47):
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just about a minute. Good morning, everybody. This is Fox
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Speaker 4 (40:55):
Ready.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman.

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He's the man. Hello, Buck, how are you?

Speaker 4 (41:18):
I'm good? I'm good and good. What's going on? Andy?

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Everything's wonderful. This is a great time of year because
you're kind of rolling into the football season when we
got the Olympics right now, and it's amazing to me
that if we didn't have the Olympics, I think it
would be almost a dead period in sports because I
think people, I hate to say that, they turn their
back on baseball.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
What do you think you think they have? I don't
hear a lot of baseball talk.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
I don't think they turned it back on it. I
just think we're kind of in the dog days of summer.
We don't really turn up until late August September, getting
into the playoffs and getting ready for those things. It's
still relevant. It's just you know, whenever football kind of
takes over, it takes all the way over, and that's
what we're in the middle of it.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
You know, I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
I can't figure out when football bypass baseball growing up
as a kid, and maybe it was the same with you.
It was always baseball. You couldn't wait for spring training. Kitchers,
pitchers and catchers reported the spring training. It was a
big deal, and you followed the sport throughout the summer.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
You couldn't wait to go to a game.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
And then all of a sudden, like out of the blue.
I mean, football just bypassed baseball. And maybe one of
the reasons it has. Obviously we know it's fantasy football,
the gaming aspect, but I think when they had the
blackout rule lifted, because I know when I was a
kid and I lived in New York City, I couldn't
watch the New York Football Giants on TV if they

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were at home.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
They had a blackout rule.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
A lot of people I know were getting their cars
and drive to Connecticut. The ninety mile blockout rule was
lifted at that point, and they watched the games. Did
they rent their hotel room then watched the football games
on a Sunday. Then they lifted the rule and everything
became Wow, this is it. I think for fear, ownership
was afraid that it would hurt the gate and certainly
it did not. I mean, people still crammed the stadiums

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even though it gained. The home games are on TV.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
Yeah, so that's a big part of some of the
legislation that's been going down. People talking about Sunday ticket
and all that, and the monopoly or the proposed monopoly
that the NFL and directing you put in the game
in terms of access to the fans and those things.
You're right with the blackout rules. Those existed for so
long because you couldn't watch a team that was out
of your market area. But like I did, I grew

(43:24):
up in North Carolina. At the times, Carolina didn't have
a team, so you'd either watch Washington or Atlanta and
those teams like the Cowboys, and still there's also would
command your attention because they were on TV so much.
Now different because access is everywhere, But it's really just
being able to see your home team so you can
build and foster that connection and develop that love that

(43:47):
leads you to buy tickets and season tickets and merch
and all that other stuff.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
So you're growing up in North Carolina and if in
fact the Redskins or Atlanta were at home, was that
game blacked out?

Speaker 3 (43:58):
As a kid when.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
You're watching whether you were able to watch their home games.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
Now, we were able to watch their home games because
outside of the market. But if you grow up in
the marketplace where you're in a team, you're in Philadelphia,
and if if Eagles weren't sold out, then you wouldn't
have to see the Eagles. You have to watch the
you know, the Cowboys or somebody else that came on
in your area. You just didn't have access to your
local team because they wanted everyone within the market to

(44:24):
go to the stadium and watch the game live. They
wanted the tickets and the ticket revenue. It has changed
since because the money's grown so much in the TV
space that you want to give people access to see
their teams because obviously they're consuming it no matter how
you do it.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
No doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
We talked about the fifty million club and you wrote
about that obviously. Bucky Brooks, former player in the NFL
coach Scout, now writer NFL dot com on Friday. We
talk about his columns every Friday, and okay, quarterbacks, are
they worth all that money? The fifty million dollar club?
And is this salary, Bucky Brooks, is this salary that
they obtained? Is it ruining pro rosters? When I say that,

(45:00):
I think that there should be some sort of maybe
a percentage of the total budget what a quarterback could make,
and that what even things out, because when a quarterback
is making sixty million, there's not much left for the
rest of the ball club. I mean, I'm looking at
the Cincinnati Bengals, which is my home team.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
Over here.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
You got fifty five million going to Joe Burrow. T
Higgins wants big money. Jamar Chase is not even playing
now in practice because he wants a big time contract.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
Where's the money coming from.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
If they put a percentage on each position, maybe things
will be a little better and fairer.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
Maybe. No, no, no, no, no, they can't put a
percentage on a cap on a percentage. I think you
pay what you got to pay, and I think for us,
and it's a weird phenomenon or fascination that we have
as the public, we always side with ownership in these
things when it comes to, oh, the players are making
so much money, YadA, YadA, YadA. No, the players are
making what has been negotiated and what the owners can

(45:58):
certainly pay if it's like a fifty to fifty split
in the CBA, so that they have to be able
to pony up the money to make sure that the
top players get the most money and what you have,
or you have some owners who are shrewd and you know,
we'll keep the budget down despite having a handful of stars,
and others will just overpay because if they value winning

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and what comes along with winning more than other stuff.
So now tying a percentage, I don't believe is fair.
You negotiate what you negotiate. They already have restrictions on
there when it comes to the draft and options and
those things, so they're able to manage the number is.
Teams have to protect themselves for themselves by making sure
that the guys they get are the right ones of

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the guys they signed are the right ones.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
I hear what you're saying, and you did a look
over here.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
The biggest quarterback contract sign this offseason is kind of
mind boggling, it really is. You got Trevor Lawrence or
the Jaguars five years two to seventy five. That's twin
seventy five million, all right, fifty five million a year.
Jordan Love Green Bay Package four years two twenty fifty
five a year. Tour Teglevo Miami Dolphins four years two
twelve point four fifty three point one million a year.

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Jared Goff of the Lions four years two twelve all right,
Kirk Cousins of the Falcons four years, one pint eighty,
Baker Mayfield Tampa Bay three years, one hundred million, fifty
million of that's guaranteed. That's thirty three million a year.
All right, let's talk about it. Are they worth it?
And you did the I guess the winningest the ranking
of the winningest numbers. It's so to speak, who's worth it?

(47:31):
At number one on your list? At number one, which
I was shocked. Are you putting him? And I'll give
the name of a second. Are you putting the number
one because on his contract or the results that he
brought forth last year. He's twenty nine years of age.
His name is Jared Goff. He's the quarterback of the
Detroit Lions. And I was shocked that he's the number

(47:52):
one guy in your list as far as quarterbacks being
worth the money.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
Well, I think he's worth the money because look at
what has coincided with his arrival in Detroit and how
they're playing. Well. I know everyone likes to beat up
on Jerk Goff, and I believe I blame a lot
of data first hard knocks that he was on with
Jeff Fisher where they didn't necessarily betray him in the
good light, and he's had to overcome that. But think
about this guy's a multiple time Pro bowler. He's led two,

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he's led a franchise to a Super Bowl. He's been there,
done that, And what he comes in and provides is
kind of like that that steadying influence. He not only
is able to kind of distribute the ball to one
of the best collection of playmakers on the perimeter when
you think about what Detroit has and a marmas Saint

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Brown and Sam Laporta and Jamison Williams and Jamier Gibbs
and David Montgomery. He understands how to manage the game
at a high level to win and that's what matters.
And that's why I believe he has the most value
this year in terms of bang for your buck. Absolutely
no issue with the Detroit Lions playing Jerk Goff because

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he has them position to be a title team. And
if you go back and look at the game last year,
they should have won the Ducy Championship Game. Last year,
they should have went to the Bowl last season, right
they were dominating the game and kind of lost their way.
He had, Look, he had a lot to do with that.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
I would say this, and I'm under the belief that
as good as a quarterback is, sometimes the receivers make
the quarterback.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
What do I mean by that?

Speaker 2 (49:24):
Put Jared Goff on the New York Football Giants, I
don't think he'd have that kind of success because they
don't have the receivers of the Detroit Lions have. Maybe
I'm crazy, maybe I'm off, but you played the game,
you know? Am I barking up a wrong tree?

Speaker 8 (49:36):
Here?

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Is that possible?

Speaker 4 (49:39):
Repeat everything? Did you say?

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Because the ISA at times I believe that sometimes the
receivers make the quarterback, and I think see, obviously Tom
Brady made the receivers. I say, put Jared Goff on
the New York Football Giants, he would not have that
kind of success.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
Yeah, but that's most teams. Though, most teams, most teams,
most quarterbacks are says quarterbacks. Only a handful of quarterbacks
that can play outside of a system that's built to
their talents and thrive. I mean, we can talk about
Pat Mahomes, but outside of Pat Mahomes, who else can
play in a system that is nonexistent? You can just
drop them anywhere and live with them playing. Josh Allen

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maybe a little bit, but he hasn't had the highest
of the highest like Pat Mahomes. Everybody else is a
system quarterback who has to be supported by the right
guys and play under a play caller who understands how
to unlock them. Jared Goff can go toe to toe
with any of those guys, and we saw it last year. Yeah,
so I know people will view him as a high

(50:38):
end game manager, but game managers eventually chalk up wins
because they understand how to manage and navigate situations and circumstances.
And you know you don't believe me, Ask guy got Chris.
Chris knows. Chris loves the Lions. He knows what it
is he does.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
And the best example may be as a game manager
may be brock Perty. I mean, look what he's done
in San francistem right.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Oh you disrespect well, that's disrespectful, mad, disrespectful to the
brock Purdy like you hadn't let brock Purdy's the squab.
Rock Perdy is one of the top right five eight
quarterbacks in the league. People don't give brock Purdy's due,
But I will say this to those who don't believe
in brock Purdy. We saw the San Francisco forty nineers
with Jimmy Garoppolo, we saw with Trey Lance, We've seen
it with Nick Mullins. The offense looked different when those

(51:21):
guys were at the controls. Brock Purdy jumps in, this
offense explodes. So we can talk about Kyle Shanahan and
all the wizardry and creativity and all the weapons that
they have, but when brock Purdy runs the offense, it
looks different than when other guys who've had the opportunity
to run offense. Maybe we're sleeping on whatever it is
that Brock Purdies bringing to the table that offense goes

(51:43):
when he's there.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Hear what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Okay, number two And I'm going to challenge you on
number two because and you hit it on the head,
because you say, why is it risky? You got Jordan
Love the quarterback, got a Green Bay package is number two.
And look, I get it. He had twenty one touchdowns
to one I int F eleven through the wildcard round
of the players second half of the season, he was dominant.
He led them into the playoffs, no doubt about that.

(52:07):
But you said it may be he may be a
one year wonder, and I agree. I don't think his
body at work is proven yet. I think there's a
big question mark on him. They gave him the money
because obviously he had him by like the units. What's
the option you got to sign the guy? You know
you need a quarterback in this league otherwise you're down
the creek. However, I think he's somewhat of a risk.

(52:27):
We'll see what happens this year. There's a big year
for him.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
Yeah, it's a huge year for him, and it is
a risk because he's only done it for half a season.
The big thing that we have to see from Jordan
Love how does he handle the way that people attack him?
Now now that they have seventeen games, I mean, they
have a full book on Jordan Love. These defensive coordinators
around the league have been talking. They've been looking at

(52:53):
the tape. They've been trying to figure out game plans
to throw him off. They've seen what his kryptonite is
based on studying the tape. How does he handle the
kryptonite that they ultimately set out there. If he navigates
around it, then you feel great about it if you're
the Green Bay Packers. But if he struggles and can't
get himself out of his own way, well then it
becomes a big issue, no doubt about that.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
I want to go to number three because this is
a guy that you know, Philly.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Well, Trevor Lawrence, Jacksonville Jaguars up and he back to
back four thousand yard seasons. He's the franchise quarterback in Jacksonville. However,
you said it, and I've seen the statistics. Turns the
ball over, I mean, he's a turnover machine.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
He really is.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
He's had something like sixty or sixty career turnovers, twenty
one giveaways in twenty twenty three fourteen a in T's
seven fumbles lost.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
You got to stop that. How do you stop that?
Will he stop that?

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Yeah? No, Look, that's the million dollar question. The thing
about Trevor Lawrence is he has the pedigree. He has
the prototypical things that you look for that you love
in a franchise quarterback. Besides athleticism, talent, toughness, all of
that stuff he brings. He needs the high level of
consistent performance to be able to kind of validate what

(54:06):
the Jaguars have done. The Jaguars are betting on the up.
They're betting that he realizes all of his potential as
a franchise quarterback. They don't want to wait and have
to continue to see like the pot sweeten when it
comes to quarterbacks, where now it's a sixty million dollar
conversation as opposed to fifty five million, which is what
they agree to. He has to step up though, He

(54:29):
has to reduce the turnovers, and he has to make
better decisions in the red zone. He feels like sometimes
he has to wait to the world on him. He
just needs to let the ball go to his playmakers
and trust his playmakers that they can lighten the load
on him by making them better.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
No doubt about that. I mean, you know, obviously some
pressure on the coaching staff as well. I would think
this year in Jacksonville, I.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
Mean a little pressure. I mean pressure just in terms
of like consistency. But I will I will say this
back to back winning season for Doug in the first
time it's been done in over a decade. Trying to
get the team from good to great is a significant jump.
They went from terrible to good in a hurry in
terms of being able to have back to back winning seasons.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
But that Urban left.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
That next step, yeah, after Urban left, that next step
is harder because it requires you to really pay close
attention to the details and the margins. You know, the
margin for Air to win against those heavyweights. Look, it
becomes slimmer. And so you've got to be able to
play at a high level. In everybody, and that includes
the quarterback has to be able to play at a

(55:35):
level that allows you to kind of navigate those circumstances.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
He's Bucket Brooks.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
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Speaker 3 (56:18):
Who has all the pressure?

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Now, we'll get to that in just about a minute,
about twenty two minutes past the hour. This is Fox
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the deal. I want to go back to the fifty
million club and quarterback number four tour Taglavoa, the Miami

(57:07):
Dolphins quarterback and obviously Tyreek Hill who just signed. He's
got Jalen Waddle, Oldell Beckham Junior and all these great receivers.
But here's the problem that I have, and you hit
it right on the head. Bucky Brooks. His injury history
not a good thing.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Not a good thing.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
No, not a good thing. And the thing about it is,
no one knows when an injury is going to occur. Right.
You can play one snap like a four Stamps play
Aaron Rodgers did, and then it's over for the rest
of the season. And you played most of the year.
You just don't know. But it's only as a concern
just because there have been serious career threatened injuries on

(57:45):
his resume. You think about the way he finished college
with the hip, the concussion issues, he had a few
years ago, something that you just want to be worried of.
The performance on field has been spectacular. His synergy and
connection with his playmakers in the Water and Tyreek Kire respectively.
Next level, you're trying to toe that line between what's

(58:07):
best for the team, whether it's making sure that he's
comfortable and happy and he's got his money through the
franchise quarterback, or trying to protect yourself in the event
of something happens even though you really are.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Forty six hundred plus passing yards last year in the
National Football League. That's great, and he's got great receivers
on there, Tyreek Hill probably number one. I saw a list,
I mean the top one hundred players in the league,
and I think Tyreek was number one, So you know,
he's got it done. I mean, what they needed some
defense right there, and they gonna get something cooking. But
that's for another day. Another story. Number five on your list,
and I'm really happy to see this kid with a comeback.

(58:45):
I really am Baker Mayfield and certainly big money one
hundred million, fifty millions guaranteed, but is he worth it
because I know he's a number one overall pick in
twenty eighteen. But he's had so many struggles and people
always looked at him as, you know, as a backup
kind of guy. Yeah, he won the Heisman Trophy, but
still in all just a backup kind of guy. And

(59:07):
now Tampa Bay saying he's our guy. I mean, how
does that happen?

Speaker 4 (59:13):
So when you think about fit in scheme, we talked
about it, right, how important it is for players to
play in the right system to really maximize who they are.
Baker Mayfield finally found someone and a team that the
system is perfect form. And when we think about that system,
that system is well. We has two big playmakers on

(59:36):
the outside, Chris Godwin and Mike Evans. They're able to
kind of mix in some of the running game and
do some of those things that are essential. And then
he's become a much better player. You know, he just
it just resonated. He got it right. It works, and
that's why they're playing well. You just want to continue
to allow him to grow in that. And for the
Bucks paying thirty million dollars when the thirty million when

(01:00:00):
the rest of the league sometimes it's forking over fifty million,
that's a twenty million dollar discount. They came out on
the good end of it, and so you pay Baker
Mayfield his money, you keep him locked in because it
really worked well with the players that you had around him,
and then you continue to evaluate on a year to
year basis all.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Right, number six on your Listen, It's kind of a
big question because he's going to be thirty six years
old this month. He's had a twelve year career in
the National Football League, seven years, four thousand plus passing yards,
and I don't understand why the Atlanta Falcons even went
for him for the big money, because they drafted the
number eight this year. Michael Pennick Junior. I'm talking about
Kirk Cousins. You know, injuries and age, two negatives. I

(01:00:39):
think I think that basically says it all with Kirk Cousins,
unless they want to use him as a teacher for
Michael Pennick Junior.

Speaker 4 (01:00:49):
Yeah, Originally, Like you know, you talk about the age
and the injuries. Thirty six years old coming off of
major Achilles injury. You just don't know what he's going
to be like the what you made the move because
you want to have the quarterback room short up because
remember I free agency happens before the draft. You didn't
really know if you were going to get Michael Pennox,
so they made the move, and you have to treat

(01:01:10):
the independent of the draft. Everyone's gonna beat them up
because they've heavily invested in the quarterback. But when most
NFL teams lose their starting quarterback, they can't function, so
they double down on the most important position in the game.
The other thing about Kirk Cousins. If kirk Cousins doesn't
work out in Atlanta, they'll be able to trade kirk
Cousins away to a team that needs a veteran leader

(01:01:31):
and playmaker. For instance, if the Las Vegas Raiders don't
get what they expect from the quarterbacks they brought in,
they could be a viable option where they's ay Man
whatever man. We'll take that aging player and use him
to navigate a transition to the next quarterback by using
him as a bridge. So there are things that can

(01:01:51):
be done. I wouldn't worry about it, but I would
say that kirk Cousins is risky for the Falcons just
because the age. He's thirty six, injury coming off to
the Achilles and Michael Pennocks junior being there. We've seen
the highlights. We've seen him rip it and shredded as
they continue to get down the playoff run. If he's
super hot, this is gonna be some of that conversation

(01:02:12):
about man, maybe they should for Michael Pennox over Kirk Cousins.
So that's why it's a high risk maneuver, but it
can be pulled off if they get into the tournament
and make some noise with both players. Both quarterbacks contributed, no.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
Doubt about that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:24):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
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Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Now we hope you're not on this list. We really do.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
That's coming up next Live from the Tire Rock Dot
comes to the first our guy Chris Purfet with all
your sports.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
All right, Andy, we got a lot going on the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
Ki and Buck Bucky.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
Why why do you always wait before the Bucky Because
she's my partner with together. Okay, but I okay, okay, sure,
we'll go with that. As I said, let's search you
off in the Olympics. Here, there's a lot going on
right now. First, let's go back to last night and
to Katie Ledecki and the.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Greatest swimming machine we've ever seen.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
What was to another bolt here in Paris? What a
new Olympic.

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
Record, fourth straight Olympics with gold, and the eight hundred
meter freestyle wasn't even close there. She now has nine
gold medals fourteen medals total. She is one of the
most decorated athletes in Olympic history, certainly in women's swimming.
The only one more with her than swimming, I believe
at this point is Michael Phelps. Simone Biles won gold
in the vault, her third golden medal this week's seventh total.

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We also had a bronze all around for Sunny Lee,
who if you don't remember, she's actually coming back from
kidney disease. She'll be later competing on the uneven bars.
All in all, on this gold rush weekend yesterday, team
USA took home eighteen medals at the Olympics, five gold.
They still trail China sixteen gold medals to fourteen more

(01:04:16):
from that's going on right now, sitting him Glaughlin LVNE
just ran in her the four hundred hurdles heat first
in that one right there. Team USA volleyball right now
taking on France in women's volleyball, chance to move on
to the quarterfinals. There Amani Khalif, the boxer for Algeria
who came under some controversy here after some manufactured questions

(01:04:39):
about her testosterone and her gender. She is a woman
and she has always been a woman, and she will
box for a medal coming up here. As she moves
on in boxing, Quman Jang picked up the first gold
medal for tennis singles for China's history in the women's singles.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Coming up here a little.

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
Bit later, we do have Carlos Alcaraz taking on Novak
Djokovic for the men's singles. That is at eight am Eastern.
Let's get you off to oh and we should remind
people to us women's soccer. Women's soccer got an overtime
goal from Trinity Rodman to defeat Japan one nil. Trinity
Rodman is, of course, the daughter of Dennis Rodman. Semifinals

(01:05:20):
coming up on Tuesday. The Americans will take on Germany,
and let's move over to baseball. Dodgers won ten zero
at Oakland sho hey O Tani with three stolen bases
that racks him up to thirty one stolen bases on
the season, and Jack Flaherty winning in his debut for
the Dodgers, his first outing since being traded from the
Detroit Tigers. Speaking of those Tigers, they retired Jim longtime

(01:05:43):
manager Jim Leland's number ten on Saturday and then honored
him by coming back fro an eleven inning victory over
the Kansas City Royals. Minnesota has sent the White Sox
to their nineteenth straight loss, six to Twounbelievable, Andy and Bucky.
It is nothing like we've seen before with his franchise.

(01:06:04):
It's just the exclamation point on so much misery on
for the South side. There also, Miami Dolphins have restructured
their contract with wide receiver Tyreek Kill. That news came
down on Saturday, No New Years, but he is getting
sixty five million in new guarantees over the next three years,
ninety million. All said and done, and in boxing, Terrence

(01:06:26):
Crawford defeating Israel Madromov on Saturday Night by unanimous decision.
This is now his fourth tight. It makes him a
four different title holder in four different divisions. I should say,
remarkable stuff back to you, Andy.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
Thank you so much. Seeing about an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Okay, you've heard of them, but maybe now you one
of them will get that in just about a minute,
and I'm gonna have some fun with that. He's Bucky
Brooks and Andy forever. We have bon a barrel betting
at about seven eight minutes from now. But before we
roll on with this little fun top, we'll get everybody
involved in that. We've talked about your quarterback listing. Where
would you rank Dak Prescott Because he's entering a contract

(01:07:03):
season and as you mentioned, Bucky are one of the
most high profile and accomplished quarterbacks maybe ever to hit
the free agent market. They got to sign him. I mean,
he's got Dallas by the you know, wats and I
don't know what Dallas is waiting for.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
Yeah, I don't know what they've waited for, but they
may have missed it. Dak Prescott has all the leverage
he may wait and do it. So if you ask
me where Dak Prescott rates, Dak Prescott is a top
eight quarterback. I think there are times where we can
say he's a top five quarterback, and I think there
are times where sometimes you just wonder is he there?
But I will say this, if you're in the top eight,

(01:07:37):
like you're in the top twenty five percent, like you're
an elite quarterback, Dak Prescott is elite. Dak Prescott last
year had an elite season that people don't talk about
in terms of going over four thousand yards, led the
league in touchdown passes, the weight that he has done
it in each of the last three seasons where he's
played sixteen more games, he's been over four thousand. This

(01:07:58):
is an elite quarterback who people don't appreciate enough. We
let his postseason disappointments or failures overshadow the body of work.
Dak Prescott's one of the best quarterbacks in the league,
and he's gonna get paid and such. He's gonna be
in the sixty million dollar club.

Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
And he should be.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
All right, now, we're gonna have a little bit of fun.
We'll get eybody involved if in fact they want to
get involved. But you attend games, you, me and everybody else.
And the fans in the games that they yelled, they
cause they screaming. You can't stand them. But you might
be one of them. We'll find out in the second
because they are the most annoying fan bases in sports.
And we got that list for you right here. And
think about this question for a second. When you say

(01:08:35):
you hate a particular team, are you actually talking about
the team itself? Well, maybe it's fans. The players that
are doing their jobs. Obviously, they're doing their jobs on
the field, and there are some who play and endanger
the opposing fans. The real bad blood's created by those
that are cheering for them from the stands or maybe
cheering on social media, from college to the pros. And

(01:08:56):
we have a list over here of the most annoying
fans in sports. I'll just ask you, Bucket, but if
I were to ask you, who do you think are
the most annoying fans in the world of sports, college
or pro? And there's a list over here that they say,
according to Yahoo, they are. Who would you say would
be number one?

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
On that list.

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
Annoying fans. I would say that the Boston fan base.
So whether it's the New England Patriots, the Red Sox,
the Celtics, I think they were probably top the lists.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
They're on the list.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
But anybody else here, Brianna or Chris, anybody want to
take a guest with the most annoying fan base.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
Anybody out there.

Speaker 9 (01:09:39):
I'm going to get Cowboys close could be.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
I mean, I'll give you here a college It's a
college team, and I'm shocked. Really, I didn't think they
were the most annoying.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
I really was.

Speaker 4 (01:09:51):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
The Cameron crazy is Duke Duke basketball.

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
I see, I don't. I don't. I don't, Yeah, I don't.
I don't like them anyway, just because I'm a tar heel.
But that's you know, they just have always ignored.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
Me, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Number two, it's in baseball. Give you the baseball most
annoying fan base in baseball. It's a baseball team. I
think this is somewhat easy, really, because people can't stand
teams that are above them being well, maybe at one
point in time I think they were because they're cheating aspect,
but I think because win Crows he had a Treash Show.

(01:10:29):
Not even on the list. No, I would you know
what the list has as number two, The New York Yankees.
They say it must be tough to cheer for a
team with the deepest pockets in the American professional sports
the team with sixteen more World Series titles twenty seven
than its closest competitives. So people hate winners, they really do.
I mean, people go, I guess, go see the Yankees
play on the road to root against them.

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
That's they do. Like I guess, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
Number three is a football team in the pros, in
the National Football.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
League, all right, And and I'll give you a hint.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Saturday Night Live we do many a skit about this team,
and I'm surprised that they're even on the list. Couse
they're not. They haven't been that competitive over the last
several years. Then, he guess, most annoying fans some clues fans.
I mean, they're living off their accomplishment.

Speaker 4 (01:11:23):
American they can get an American and I'll give you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
I'll give you a hint they give they're living off
their accomplishments of the season of nineteen eighty five Bears.
The Bears, I didn't think they were annoying. I mean,
there's nothing wrong with the Bears. The fans are they
claim the being wrong with the Bears are from Chicago.

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
Stop it, all right, move on, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Next, next team, the most annoying fans is in the
state of Indiana, and it's college football.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
It's a national program. They haven't won a national championship
in thirty five years. There you go, You're right. The
fans are similar annoying. You know, I thought I lived
in Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
I thought the Oklahoma Sooner fans would be up there
because they're really annoying and also basically Ohio state. Okay,
Bucky got the next one, he said, New England Pagers.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
They're on the list.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
The next one after that, we're gonna figure about hockey.
They got the Pittsburgh Penguins and back to back with
the Toronto Mayple Leafs.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
The next.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
The next team, the number eight team on the list.
We'll go top ten. The number eight team is in
the National Basketball Association. And here's the hint. A lot
of celebrities attend these games. Maybe they're just going there
just to be seen.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
On the West Country Lakers, bingo, all right, and number
nine National Basketball Association Again. Their mid run in the
twenty tens maybe produced some of the most dominant basketball
in recent NBA history. In the mid twenty tens.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
All right, Golden State, here you go. They ago and
number ten. This is team number ten. All right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
Uh, let's give you a hint over here. Uh it's
a great baseball town in the Midwest. That's the best
hint I could give you. They didn't invent the big.

Speaker 4 (01:13:19):
Big, big red machine. The Cincinnati Reds are annoying.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
No, no, no, no. They got great fans in they they.

Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
Haven't won and they haven't won it forever. I never
won it forever.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
I know they have that once is ninety nine. No,
it's Saint Louis Cardinals that got in there. I don't
know why. I don't know why.

Speaker 4 (01:13:41):
I don't see their fans is annoying. I know they why.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
I think they're very loyal. I mean, you know, win, loser, draw.
I mean you go to a Cardinal game in the
middle of August. I'm like, on a Wednesday afternoon though,
to a forty five thousand. They got great fans in
Saint Louis. I think it's one of the great baseball
cities in the country, don't you, I really do.

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
I don't. I don't get it, but I will tell
you this much.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
North Carolina basketball is on this list, and you got
to tell me a little bit about that, Bucket Brooks.

Speaker 3 (01:14:06):
I didn't think they were that annoying.

Speaker 4 (01:14:10):
I think it's just jealousy because they're always in the conversation.
I would think that, No, they're always in the conversation.
I would think annoying. I would think I think Yukon
basketball and their fan base would be more annoying than
North Carolina. North Carolina they always talking about it being
a wine and cheese crowd. They don't say anything like
there's no yes. That's how they always treat it, like

(01:14:32):
it's not an atmosphere in the building. So maybe it's
the arrogance because of the expectations. They kind of always
expect to win. But that's weird.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
I tell you what they got the Kentucky basketball fans
on that list and an Alabama football Now, you played
the game, obviously, you were in the National Football League,
You play college football in North Carolina. What were some
of the annoying fans that you ran into, perhaps on
the road, not the North Carolina fans were on the road.

Speaker 4 (01:14:56):
I would say difficult places to play. Clemson football can
be tough because when they come down the hill, they
get them all stirred up. Florida State's fan base can
be a lot to kind of handle and deal with. Yeah,
I would say in the SEC, not the notable names
that everyone kind of thinks of, like LSU and Alabama.

(01:15:20):
I would say going to Starkville and dealing with Mississippi
State because they played the cow Bills the whole dog
on time like that is a lot to deal with.
I don't know if you've ever if you ever tried
to do anything but just cow bills ringing in your
ear can be a lot. That's kind of annoying.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
I bet it is, really is, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
So those are the most annoying fans in sports, according
to Yahoo, and of course our staff here on Fox
Sports Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
He is Bucket Brooks. He's not annoying. I'm Andy Furman.
I could be. I could be annoying.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
Douce Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Ready and now
I call it a game of chance, but honestly, I
have no chance. Really, it's bottom paddle betting, and it's
freaking next a betting right around in the ben. It's
about eleven minutes now before the top of the hour.
This is Fox Sports Sunning and Fox Sports Ready his
Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy froman Well live from the Tyrock
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(01:16:11):
Let's play this game.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
It's bottom you thought you was late.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Put my wanting to sleep. People get my money.

Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
I'll put your brain to sleep, Betty, Yes it is.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
And Harry, she is the one, the only Brianna running
the show. He she did you say that? Yeah? I know,
I know, so used. I'm so used to Ian doing it.

Speaker 9 (01:16:33):
You obviously miss him.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
I do, Actually I do.

Speaker 9 (01:16:37):
I'm sure you do.

Speaker 10 (01:16:38):
Alrighty, So last week it looked like unfortunately Andy won
and I'm three to two. So now the updated score
is sixty eight to fifty four.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
So coming back, you know, I think I've won two
of the list three weeks and maybe you were a
little bit of a good luck shown.

Speaker 9 (01:16:53):
Well, thank god that'll end next week.

Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
When hell would he stay here?

Speaker 10 (01:16:57):
Okay, we'll go ahead and start uh the UFC, and
we'll start with you, Andy. I got Carol Rosa at
minus one sixty versus Panny Cannazid.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Forget that, I got Carol. I can't pronounce the other name.
I mean, stop doing that to me. I can't handle it.
I have enough problems pronouncing regular names.

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (01:17:16):
I got thirty five? Anyways, is that Carol to see
or a ca? It's with a k? Actually? Alrighty, Bucky?
You cool with Canny Canny?

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
Okay, Yes, I'm gonna take Fanny.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
Okay, By is a loser?

Speaker 10 (01:17:29):
Oh gosh, Okay, we got the Olympics, we got men's handball,
and it's actually Spain at minus one twenty two versus
Croatia at plus one forty five. Bucky, let's go with
Let's go with Spain Spanish? Okay, Andy, you cool with Croatia?

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
You know, I guess I'm stuck with Croatia. I'll tell
you why I say that. It's why say I use
the term stuck. I don't think they have a lot
of walls to play handball there? Wow, I really don't think.
I mean, what do you play handbunk Wayoshia?

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
Really? I mean I've never been have you been there?

Speaker 7 (01:18:04):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:18:05):
But I've been to Croatia. But I'm not rowing Croatia.

Speaker 9 (01:18:09):
Those kind of things. They're not the same.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
There aren't get over here before I slap you. Really,
but Croatia, I mean, I don't think there's a lot
of walls. They have to play handball now, I'm just saying,
all right, but I play indoor?

Speaker 3 (01:18:19):
Is it indoors?

Speaker 4 (01:18:20):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
When I think of handble, I think it's outdoors.

Speaker 10 (01:18:22):
I'm sure they like gyms and stuff too. Are people
playing gym's?

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
And I've taken Crow and Cooasia.

Speaker 9 (01:18:27):
Both there you go both two for one. Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:18:29):
The National Rugby League, we got Saint George Elwarra Dragons
at plus one fifty five versus the Canterbury Bulldogs at
minus one seventy nine.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Andy Canterbury Bulldogs. And who are the Dragons again?

Speaker 9 (01:18:44):
Saint George Illawarra.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
I'm going with st.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
I like the Saints, the Saints and the New Orleans
Saints and the Saint Louis and there was of course
they're very annoying fans of Saint Louis Cardinals.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
I got the Saint George. They must be annoying there too.

Speaker 9 (01:18:58):
Okay, and Bucky, you're with the bull Yeah, we're going
to pick anyway.

Speaker 10 (01:19:02):
Rough rough, Okay, we're head over to E sports, the
League of Legends Sports and so and it's o MG
versus oh no, I'm sorry o MG at minus one
O five versus I T gaming at minus one twenty five?

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
I T gaming?

Speaker 9 (01:19:20):
Is that Bucky?

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Uh T O MG?

Speaker 9 (01:19:27):
Like, oh my god, I got omg OMG right, oh
good pick? Okay, Andy, the way you can't be doing
that kind of.

Speaker 4 (01:19:37):
Notice. But and you didn't notice. You're so disrespectful to it.
And I'm dedicating this week to her. I'm dedicating this
week too. Yeah. I can't believe that he gets the
team ball afterwards.

Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
Okay, but why why would she say o MG? Good picked?
I mean she knows something because I love g I say,
you love Bucky? You love Bucky? That's what you love?

Speaker 9 (01:19:58):
Okay, right, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:20:00):
Stiaking of going on? MG, I'm not. What's the other one?

Speaker 4 (01:20:02):
Now?

Speaker 9 (01:20:02):
I tea gaming?

Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
It gaming?

Speaker 3 (01:20:04):
It gaming? Yeah, it you's the man, right, don't don't look,
don't try to suck up.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
It's too late. I started gaming. And I hope I
remember this one for next week because I'm gonna get you.

Speaker 10 (01:20:16):
On this one, all right, we're gonna end in for
table tennis the check A Liga Pro at Miroslav Adamic
minus one seventy versus Mincholas Leopold at plus one twenty
and deep Leopold.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
What name I love Leopold and.

Speaker 9 (01:20:32):
So Bucky Miroslav Endemic.

Speaker 4 (01:20:35):
Yeah, yeah, I'm good with that.

Speaker 9 (01:20:37):
All right, thanks guys, Good luck to both of you.
Both of you.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
You don't mean that. You don't mean that. We've got
to move on, okay or here? The deal, a new deal,
A new deal gives this quarterback a new life. We'll
tell you all about it way on Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
Next listen, no, Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
All right, a new deal gives this quarterback a new life.
We'll get to that in just about a minute. And
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Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
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Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
There we go. What's going?

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
All right? I love it?

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
And you know what, I want to get back into
this quarterback situation. I love talking about NFL quarterbacks. You
know why I like to talk about them because they
make a.

Speaker 3 (01:21:46):
Lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
That's why I like to talk about them. Is it
jealousy Bucky? Is there from other guys on the team?
I mean, you played the game, You're in the locker room.
You know they talk behind this back, say mc all
the money he's making.

Speaker 4 (01:21:59):
I don't know. If I don't know there's jealousy. I
think it's only jealousy or envy or conversation when everyone
clearly knows that the quarterback is not not necessarily worth
the money, but he's not the driving force of the offense,
and so you feel like the front office is trying
to prop him up to be something that he's not.
Then it kind of becomes an issue because it's not

(01:22:20):
representative of what the team really is. Or if you're
quick to play the quarterback, but then you won't pay
the other guys around him to really make two quarterback
looks looks look good. Then it becomes an issue. So
it just kind of depends on the dynamics of the team,
but really, how good the quarterback really is.

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
I want to do a thank you, a quick thank
you to a gentleman who's listening to the show right
now and a friend by name Melanie Siegel. He lives
in Florida, and we were talking about Simon Biles. I
said that I ran on social media earlier today that
she may not perform in the twenty was the twenty
twenty eight Olympics in Los Angeles because she's pregnant with
her husband who plays for the Chicago Bears. And he says,

(01:22:59):
regardless your Facebook post, because I saw it on Facebook
and I posted up. I'm glad to help, it, says Simon,
and Bile says, never say never about returning for twenty
twenty eight games in LA. So that's what she's saying,
regardless the fact that she may or may not be pregnant.
So there's a good chance she may be back. So
thank you, Lonnie Siegel. As we move on now. Denver

(01:23:19):
Broncos coach Sean Payton. This guy's been called a quarterback coach.
Why why is one coach called the quarterback coach.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
In New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
I know he had a lot of credit given to
him for Drew Brees, but I will tell you this
much didn't he have Jamis Winston, Taysom Hill, Trevor Simeon,
he and brock Andy Dalton. So why is he a
quarterback coach? What has he done Drew Brees? Did he
make Drew Brees? So why is this guy a quarterback coach?

Speaker 4 (01:23:47):
I think the success did he had with Drew Brees,
it says that he had with Tony Romo in Dallas.
Those things if kind of tipped them off. It doesn't
mean that you can get maximum performers from everyone, but
he certainly has done it enough where people respect how
he's made those players better. In regards to Taysom Hill,
he'll get credit for Tasom Hill because Taysom Hill was
a beat up player at BUYU who is really a

(01:24:08):
run only player. And he created a role for Tasom
Hill to have success, far more success than anyone expected
him to have when he entered the league. So that's
why he gets that credit. You think about the work
that he did with Teddy Bridgewater when Teddy Bridgewater was
a short time fill in for the Saints and the
success that he's had, and even like people love to
kind of pour water on Jameis Winston's flame, but he

(01:24:34):
also had a level of success working under there. Sean
Payton is good when he has a quarterback that has
enough talent that allows him to kind of play the
game in a way that is comfortable for him.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
I'm so happy you defended Champayne because I like the man.
I'll tell you why. I like him, because he coached
at Miami of Ohio and he loves Skyline Chile.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
And how do I know that? Back in the day
when he was coaching big time in.

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
New Orleans, I wanted again more than as a guest
on the radio, and he said the only way he'd
get on if I sent them a case of Skyline Chili.

Speaker 3 (01:25:04):
And I did and he did so it was one oferful.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
So I like. I like Sean Payton. Now he's coaching
in Denver, all right. He didn't do much with Russell Wilson.
Maybe that's Russell's fault. I don't know, but he's got
Jared Stinham, bo Nix and Zach Wilson. He has a
lot to work with, But I don't know if he's
got a lot of talent to work with if they
all fail, and they might.

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
Okay, how much pressure then goes on Sean Payton?

Speaker 4 (01:25:28):
A lot of pressure? Sure, A lot of pressure goes
on him because he hand picked him and the way
that he was so dismissive of Russell Wilson. If the
next quarterback, the next whoever he picks to be the successor,
does not perform at a high level, yeah, it is more.
There's more egg than to be thrown on Sean Payton's face,

(01:25:49):
and here here more criticism. It won't change anything, but
the drum beat, the voices would get louder, right, and.

Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
I read up.

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
Just during the practice sessions this week, the Broncos began
to sit up. Get this and I never heard of this.
I'm sure you did. They set up a speaker behind
the team's three quarterbacks Stinham, Nixon, Wilson as the three
go through individual drills early in each practice. Okay, Usually
the three quarterbacks each take a snap from one of
the team's centers at the same time and go through

(01:26:20):
a drop back together with the speaker and use one
of the quarterbacks will do the cadence for all three,
and all of the centers will then snap the ball
as each quarterback goes through a dropback.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
I never heard of that. If you tell me what
that's all about, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:26:36):
Repeat it so I can visualize it. So everyone takes
a what.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
They take a snap, and the cadence for all three
of the centers will then snap the ball back as
each quarterback goes through a drop back. It doesn't make
any sense to me. The quarterbacks take a snap from
one of the team's centers, all at the same time,
and they go back.

Speaker 3 (01:26:54):
They drop back.

Speaker 4 (01:26:55):
Then I guess you're trying to do the same drill,
And it's weird because everybody's cadence is different. So maybe
one person is leading it, but you're trying to get
the mental and the physical reps done. To do it
without seeing it, I have to kind of really understand
the context around it, but I can only imagine that
it's trying to make sure that the time and the

(01:27:16):
rhythm of everything that is being done from all of
the potential quarterbacks that could be in the huddle, that
all of those guys are kind of working on the
same page, not throwing off the rhythm of the effortence.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
Yeah, and I'll say this and again, I've never coached
in the National Football League. I never planned to, I
never want to. But I can always question what they
do because I don't know. I just don't think that
three quarterbacks could ever work on a roster, especially when
you tried to find one out of those three, because
they'll never get enough reps to separate who's the best.

Speaker 3 (01:27:46):
Don't you agree you just can't do it. I mean,
they got three going to camp and they don't know
who number one is.

Speaker 4 (01:27:51):
No, I don't agree with you and that I think
you need to have three. I think the days of
just having two it's too hard. The season is seventeen
games and last year we saw almost seventy quarterbacks play.
So you're gonna play your starter, your backup, and you
need to have another one in place just because. And
I know that team builders got cute for a minute

(01:28:13):
where they were only carrying two quarterbacks on a roster.
I think that's a faulty strategy because what happens is
your guys don't get the reps. The number one quarterback
takes the majority of the reps in practice, like eighty
I would say ninety percent of their snaps. Ninety nine
percent the snaps go to the number one. The number
two does it literally through visualization and mental reps in

(01:28:36):
those things. Number three at least knows the playbook, but
he's running the scout team primarily. If you don't have
an established number three and you have injuries to number one,
that then means you need to sign another quarterback as
soon as number two gets elevated. But that new quarterback
that you signed has no familiarity with the offense, and
he also doesn't have the talent that's good enough to start,

(01:28:59):
so it becomes an issue. Whereas if you keep three
and three good ones, then you always have a chance
to win a game because you always have a solid
quarterback in place.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
Okay, I pick up what you see. You know, I
listen to every word you say. You see three good ones.
You have to underline the word good ones. I get
what you're saying, and I agree you should have three
on the roster because I see these clubs that you know,
they're decimated if the one gets hurt or the second
one gets hurt, right, But they got three in Denver
and they.

Speaker 3 (01:29:24):
Don't know who number one is.

Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
I think it's very difficult to have three on the
roster when you don't know who the number one is
and they're not going to get enough reps to kind
of separate who number one could be or should be.

Speaker 4 (01:29:36):
Well, you can't determine who a number one is until
you play games. You gain base it just off practice.
You got to put them in games because the game
is different than practice. So you can do simulations and
scrimmages and those things, but the games are completely different.
And to be honest, preseason games are nothing like regular
season games when it comes to the speed, the intensity,
the complexity that you face. This could be one where

(01:29:58):
it goes into the regular and you're trying to figure
out who's who and what's what. Naturally, you have someone
in pole position where you're like, all right, worst case,
I got jareds Todam. He started some games. I know
exactly what he is and I can coach around that.
But best case, you want the guy who has the
most potential to expand your offense and take it to
the next level.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
Okay, in my mind, I think that Zack Wilson failed
in New York for whatever the reason. Okay, Stinham he played.
But to me, you're looking for the future and you
drafted this kid. I think Bonnets is your guy. He's
got to be the quarterback in the future, right.

Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
No, I mean I look, I think there's a couple
of different ways to look at it. First, to addresser
Zach comment, Zach Wilson comment, Ron Wolf, Ron Wolf, l
the lady Al Davis. They always believe that you kick
the tires on former first round picks. Zach Wilson was
drafted at the top of the board in his draft.
Someone in several evaluators thought he had premier talent to

(01:31:00):
be a Pro Bowl caliber player. What you want to
do is you want to bring him in and just
see what the talent looks like and see if a
different scheme, a different environment, a different coach in his ear,
unlocks another level of potential and performance from him. As
it relates to the competition itself, yeah, you got to

(01:31:23):
divvy up the reps and all that, but then you
got to let guys play. And in letting guys play,
it may mean that it takes two four games to
kind of make a determination on which one is best
and who responds well who because you have to always
just see what people look like in games, because practice
is not like the game. The game it is completely

(01:31:43):
different as fast as more intense, and you got to
make sure that the person that you pick can handle
all of those things.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
Now, I will say this, I'm going to give Zach
Wilson a little bit of a pass simply because coming
from Brigham Young and going to the Bride Lights of
New York, that's a shock treatment, tough, and that media
New York will bury you, and they kind of did
at times. So I'd like to see Zach Wilson do
well and turn it around. That's what I'd like to see. Yeah,

(01:32:11):
but a lot of it is on him. He's gonna
have to determine his future. So he's gonna have to
dig intore, He's going to have to do the work.
He's also gonna have to exhibit the toughness mentally and
physically to be able to get it done. Playing in
the league is hard, and he has to embrace the
challenge of look going through difficult circumstances and situations to

(01:32:31):
get to the other side.

Speaker 4 (01:32:32):
If he does that, he'll have a chance. He'll have
a chance to maximize and realize some of the potential
that many saw when he was drafted at the top
of the charts. But it's on him. No one else
has vested in him, and so Sean Paige won't feel
any type of way if he cuts him because he
didn't pluck a lot into him. So this is one
to be one of the hardest things that Zach Wilson

(01:32:52):
has to do is to continue to believe in himself
when no one around him believes.

Speaker 2 (01:32:56):
And it's funny because we roll into this now because athletes,
many times it gets labels a journeyman, you know, a
utility player, a bench player, a backup. I'm not so
certain that's fair, and maybe it's not even true. And
how much does that hurt one's career You labeled a
journeyman and basically you finished. I mean, you can never
come back and perhaps be a starter in baseball you

(01:33:17):
always consider perhaps a utility player.

Speaker 4 (01:33:21):
Well, he is a journeyman because he's bounced around. That's
the whole definition of a journeyman, Like he's on a
journey to try and find where his path is. And
once he leaves New York and he goes to Denver.
It begins to start. And if he doesn't find the
right spot in Denver, he'll go somewhere else and be
his third team. And then people are talking about, well man,

(01:33:41):
what was the ceiling, what did we miss on him?
All those other things. He needs to play with a
kind of head off some of that conversation, because then
it goes from viewing him as a potential starter to
he goes into the backup quarterback Ben, And you can
make a career there in that band, but the reception
and everything else is different when when when you're languishing

(01:34:04):
in the backup Ben.

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
Yeah, And it's funny because there was a quarterback who
was in the backup Ben and he got a brand
new contract. He's got a new life. I'm talking about
Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield went from the Browns to the Panthers,
to the Rams and now he's with the Bucks. He
just signed in May a three year deal one hundred million,
fifty million guaranteed, which is a tremendous a tremendous story
when you think about it, because he was considered a journeyman.

Speaker 3 (01:34:28):
He really was.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
I mean he bounced around. Guy wins the Heisman, but
he couldn't cut it in the national football for whatever
the reason. And now he's found the home in Tampa.
And I'd love to see that, I really do, because
both both parties needed one another. He needed a job,
he needed a full time gig, and Tampa needed a quarterback.
And the system fit him, and he fit the system

(01:34:50):
like love at first sight.

Speaker 4 (01:34:51):
Really yeah, I mean, yeah, you call it that. Yeah,
but no, he does. He does fit the system. Now
the difference is the system will be different. Dave Canalis
is no longer. They're in Tampa. So who takes over?
How do they utilize Baker? How do they keep invested
in that? You know, that would be the trick because
now the training wheels and all that are off. Can

(01:35:13):
you now ride the bike in the neighborhood without assistance?
That's what we'll get a chance to see.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
How surprised are you that Baker Mayfield kind of came
all the way back after some would say that he
failed until he went to Tampa.

Speaker 4 (01:35:25):
Not surprised really, former number one overall pick, which means
he has considerable talent. The story former walk on who
walked on twice and bet on himself, so he doesn't
look he's not going to shy away from those situations
where he has to prove himself over and over again. Now,
some would say that maybe he lost a little bit

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of that edge at the initial part of his journey.
Maybe being number one overall kind of takes some of
that away. But in his heart, in terms of who
he believes he is, he's the walk on who's always
had to prove the people that he was good enough.
He went back to that mindset mentality when he went
to Tampa and it's played out well. So I think

(01:36:07):
he'll continue to have a chip on the shoulder. We
talked about it earlier. With the money. Everybody else got
fifty million, he got thirty million. In his mind, in
the competitive mind of an athlete like that, he's going
to be like, I'm better than Trevor Lawrence, I'm better
than Jordan Love. I should be able to get that
kind of money. So I'm approving to people.

Speaker 3 (01:36:26):
Yeah, I love hearing that. I mean, it's great. And
money is the motivator. It's not the need of money.

Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
It's the motivation factor that wants to make you a
better player. I know it sounds crazy, but that's what
it does, doesn't it. That's what it's all about.

Speaker 4 (01:36:41):
It's not so much the money, like how much someone
is willing to pay you is how much they respect you.
And so it's not about like the really the cash
in hand, even though certainly you like the cash, you
do things with the cash, whatever. But a lot of
times when you see these arguments or these holdouts or
whatever about the money, it is about how much do

(01:37:01):
you respect me? Because the way that you respect me
is the way that you will pay me. And eventually
the conversation has to match the production. But it comes
down to respect. And so you talk. You've heard people
talk about oh it was a disrespectful offer or Brandon
Ayuk and some of the stuff that they do in
a negotiation which is supposed to go back and forth. Man,

(01:37:25):
the back and forth brings emotions because no one wants
to feel like they've been disrespected on the team and
on the field.

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
Does it work that way and talk radio too being
disrespected with contraction.

Speaker 4 (01:37:37):
Minding it, Yeah, I just care. It always works. I
think it always works. I think it works in everything.
Like you hear people spend it and say value everybody
wants to make sure that they're valued by their organization,
respected and valued by the people that manage them and
control them or lead them. So yeah, it matters sports

(01:37:59):
talk radio in any situation. You want to be respected
in that respect can't come in the form of salary.
If you respect me, then you will pay me up
because you respect what I do and what I add
to the team. I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:11):
I'm writing that down my next negotiation.

Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
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And we have the blame game in this hour.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
But there is truly truly a separation of power and
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Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
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They really do we'll get to that in just about
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Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
It's here.

Speaker 2 (01:40:15):
And I think that athletes bringing a wealth of money
to schools and universities they need to get a cut,
and they will. Here's the deal though, but the school
should pay them, not the boosters, and not the public.

Speaker 3 (01:40:26):
Agreed. Do you agree with me on that, bucket Brooks.

Speaker 4 (01:40:31):
The school should pay them, not the public.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
Yeah, I think it should be a mix.

Speaker 4 (01:40:38):
I think it should be a mix because there's some
things that the school are doing, like when it comes
to scholarship stuff or whatever like that they should be
responsible for. But I think the boosters also have to
pick up some of the tab when it comes to it.
And I would say that at some point we're venturing
into the realm of a salary cap to make it
equitable and fair for everybody, so it's not just a

(01:40:59):
game by the head as opposed to the have nots.
There has to be that happy medium where everyone can
compete on the level playing field, but the players can
get compensated and.

Speaker 2 (01:41:08):
I'm glad you said the level playing field was Get this,
three of the richest college football programs in the country
are capitalizing on their fans and their fans passion, and
they're gonna use it to generate funds for nil Nebraska
and Ohio State. Get this, they're opening one or more
of their preseason practices to the public and charging in mission.

(01:41:29):
Alabama opens it up for free, but they're gonna charge
for autographs. Number one, Why can't the players keep that
autograph money? It's their autograph. Why would Alabama keep that money?
I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (01:41:41):
I mean they're going to if they redistributed it to
the players, Like who cares? Because every player is not
gonna have the same value. If you're the player that's
number one twenty four on the roster, you're not gonna
have the same currency as the top player in the program.
But if you want to make it fair for everybody,
you find a way to chop it down so everyone
gets the same amount. You know, Like you talk about

(01:42:03):
being a team, that's the way to It's kind of
like share some of those team lessons by doing those things.
You got to find a way to do it. I'm
not surprised that people are doing it. You're going to
see the way the money as the money's being exchanged
and passed down where the players are getting a cut.
You got to raise certain things to make sure that
you can pay everybody on that. And also remember the

(01:42:26):
new proposals that they're talking about, more scholarships and more
things for all of the sports. Well before the money
from football and basketball, the revenue sports used to fund
the non revenue sports that were on campus, whether it's
track and field, whether it's field hockey, where there's those things. Well,
now all of those sports have to have enough scholarships

(01:42:47):
to fill the bills. So instead of having partial scholarships
that you're giving out, you have to give out full scholarships.
You got to find a way to pay for that
as the school. So you can see a lot of
different things kind of pop up to raise money not
only for NRL, but for true scholarships for all of
the players in athletes that are on campus.

Speaker 3 (01:43:05):
I like what you're saying, but here's the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
Why I say the rich kid Richard schools that struggled
to fill their stadiums during the season probably would never
or they couldn't ask fans to pay to watch a practice.
It works at it works like places in Nebraska, Ohio state.
These places average about sixty to eighty thousand a game,
maybe even more than that, maybe one hundred thousand a game.
Nebrask is charging twenty five dollars per fan any age

(01:43:28):
for its open six pm practice Saturday next Saturday. And
it's an amazing and they say maybe more than three
thousand fans would show up. Ohio State, they're charging fifty
bucks to attend one of four open practices, with the
last one this coming Sunday or two weeks from Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:43:46):
I'm sorry, and it's amazing to get fifty bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:43:49):
And they said they may get seven hundred and fifty
or one thousand people at practice, and that's big money.
That's big time money. I don't get it. It's just
not fairness, right, and it's the balance of power because
schools like University of Toledo in Ohio, Miami of Ohio,
they couldn't get it. You know, they don't get sixty
thousand people maybe for three home games total, and then

(01:44:12):
they're not going to get anybody to go to practice,
let alone pay to go to practice. So again, the
rich get richer is not fair. I mean, it's not fair,
but it's never gonna be fair.

Speaker 4 (01:44:19):
I mean there's this kind of part of what it is,
you know, like you have different programs in different spots,
and it's going to continue to grow. Power four versus
a group of five, it's only going to continue to
grow and kind of show us the halves and the
half nots and the rich are going to get richer.
It's already happening when it comes to nil and the
recruitment and transfer port where the power of four teams

(01:44:41):
is scooping up the top players from group of five
and that stuff. It'll continue to be there, and so
there's some kind of regulation with all of it. It's
always going to be a bit of the wild wild
West with the ones with the most money in the
deepest pocket is benefiting the most.

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
No, you're exactly right. Let we move on right now.
He's Bucket Brooks. I mean, the firmer wheel of Fox.
What's Sunday Fox Sports Radio And of course some MVPs
who are not quarterbacks. That's coming up next live for
the tyrak dot com students. But first here's an MVP,
Chris Purfect with your sports. You're too kind there, Andy, MVP.

(01:45:15):
I don't know if I could do that for myself.
That's a little bit too much. You're putting too much
on my play. You're putting too much pressure on me.
You understand that.

Speaker 4 (01:45:21):
I like. I like doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:22):
I like to put pressure on people.

Speaker 5 (01:45:24):
That's good. Well, let's catch you up on the Olympics
right now. Currently under way, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic for
Olympic gold. Currently I believe tied one game apiece. Team
USA Volleyball is leading France two sets to none with
a chance to move on to the quarterfinalists. Is the
final game of pool play. Those are your live events
right now. We've still got plenty going on here. Brady

(01:45:45):
Ellison in for American archery. Uh, gonna be playing for
a medal as well. Just part of a very busy
gold rush weekend they call this gold rush with many,
many medals up for debate this weekend, Andy, Team USA
on Saturday took home eighteen medals, five gold Katie Ledecki
probably the biggest of those in the eight hundred meter freestyle,

(01:46:09):
her fourth gold medal in four straight Olympics in this event.
She now moves into history nine gold medals fourteen medals total,
making one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history.
Also part of that weekend Simone Biles winning gold in
the vault, her third gold medal this week, and Sunny
Lee after coming back from kidney disease, bronze in the

(01:46:30):
all around competition. She'll be later competing on the uneven
bars as well. John Rahm has moved into sole position
place of first at Olympic golf in minus eighteen right
now Xander Schaffley two strokes back. Also on Saturday. Women's
soccer moving on to the semi final. They'll be taking

(01:46:52):
on Germany on Tuesday, but the winning goal coming one
nil with Trinity Rodman here Rodman again.

Speaker 3 (01:47:01):
Rodman and Trinity Rodman AM's the Marasmvel mediocrity. I'm frustration
a special moment. Twenty two year old Trinity Rodman take
a bow.

Speaker 5 (01:47:17):
The daughter of Dennis Robmin Trey Rodman has been one
of the rising stars of the US women's team as
she helps America to defeat Japan one nil on the
track yesterday women's one hundred meter relay was I mean
one hundred meter race was won by Julian Alfred of
Saint Lucia and Island Nation that now has an Olympic
medalist for the first time. Shakari Richardson ended up finishing second.

(01:47:37):
Moving over to baseball, Dodgers won ten zero at Oakland
as Jack Flaherty, in his debut for the Dodgers after
being traded from Detroit, picks up the victory ten zero,
shohey a Tani stealing three bases in that game. The
American League East remains heated Andy and Bucky as the
Yankees beat Toronto. Baltimore wins at Cleveland eight three, seven

(01:47:58):
to four. Between the two Yanks and O's are still
tied for first place in the American League East as
it starts to get late early in that competition. As
we head on down the stretch here in baseball, as
also the Minnesota Twins and the White Talks to their
nineteenth straight loss six to two. They were already the
fastest team to get to eighty five losses last time
they won. Andy, I don't know what you were doing.

(01:48:20):
I do know that Joe Biden was still the nominee
for president for reelection. It's been really rough for the
south Siders out out there and for the Detroit Tigers
retiring number ten for Jim Leland yesterday their longtime manager,
and also you know, going into Cooperstown last month. They
ended up walking off the Royals six to five in

(01:48:44):
extra innings. In boxing last night, Terrence Crawford defeated Israel
Madramov by unanimous decision. First time in a while, since
I think twenty sixteen, that Crawford has actually had to
go the distance. He has been on a phenomenal knockout streak.
But he is now a champion in four different weight
divisions in boxing and finally in the NFL after being

(01:49:07):
named number one on the NFL Top one hundred. In
a very interesting decision the Miami doll Tyreek Hill got
a new deal with the Miami Dolphins. They have restructured
his contract, giving him sixty five million in new guarantees
over the next three years. Andy, Bucky back to.

Speaker 3 (01:49:24):
You, Chris S. Taiki said, very much. It was a
pleasure having you with us this year.

Speaker 5 (01:49:28):
It was miserable, Andy, it was miserable for us, not
for you. No, I'm speaking from your experience. I know,
I just know that you're always miserable, so I just
have to play to it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:37):
Bucky, Do you think I'm miserable all the time? Honestly,
I know it's Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 4 (01:49:42):
I mean you can look look grumpy, look cranky bits, Okay,
it's part of your appeal.

Speaker 2 (01:49:47):
Well, I played with the Devil's Advocate. That's basically what
I did. If you want to call it grumpy, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
Anyway, he is Bucky Brooks. That made it for me.

Speaker 2 (01:49:53):
By the way, we got the blame game coming up
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(01:50:14):
You'll see this show Fox Sports Sunday posted right after
we get up the air. Now, we talked about this
a little last week, and we talked about the teams,
the MVP of various teams, but not the quarterback of
the team. But before I get to a couple of teams,
I want to throw this in your lot because I
need to know the real answer. And the only person
who has the answer is Bucky Brooks. And they got

(01:50:34):
this chart saying worse to first. And I live in
the Cincinnati Greatest Cincinnati area. Actually I live in Kentucky,
but I'm a Cincinnati Bengals fan. I root for the Bengals.
You know, when they lose, the town is depressed. That's
just the way it is. And they say that Bengals
are the number one team on this list that can
go to worse to first. I don't know if they can.

Speaker 3 (01:50:53):
But I'm going to ask you this.

Speaker 2 (01:50:55):
The AFC North, which is they are part of, was
the only division to have four teams with winning records
last year and maybe even more brutal this year. That division, okay,
And obviously Joe Mixon's gone. On the backfield, I got
Chase Brown and Zach Morres running the football. Tyler Boyd
is back. It's gonna be a big year for t Higgins.
Jamar Chase hasn't even practiced yet. And obviously you gotta

(01:51:15):
look at the quarterback Joe Burrow, who I gotta believe
there's an injury factor right there with that wrist, and
I worry about that. You know, one hit with a
wristlet of little bones on that wrist to heal, I
don't know. Can they go worse to first they pick
up as the number one team, that would I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:51:31):
They can go because it starts with the quarterback. Joe
Burrow is healthy. This team is a team that has
super Bow aspirations, and we know that he can close
out games. The problem that you have, I would say
the concern that you have is Jamar Chase hasn't been
in camp because he's holding in. T Higgins is there,
but T Higgins didn't get his money. So you just
wonder from an attitude standpoint, how is he going to be,

(01:51:53):
particularly when things get tough. Is he going to lean
in to the team. Is he going to just step
out and say, hey, I'm just going to finish the season.
I want to be healthy. I'm not going to put
my life and limb on the line when the team
doesn't really love or value me like that. So you
run the risk of a lot of individual agendas overwhelming

(01:52:14):
you know, the fabric of the team, and the same
thing can be said for Trey Hendrickson, who has also
been looking for a new deal. You have a bunch
of mercenaries out there. It's good when things are good
and the team is rolling, then everyone is winning. But
if they hit a rough patch, those people that you
haven't necessarily rewarded for their work to this date, they
can step back and say, hey, I'm gonna get mine

(01:52:36):
and whatever happens to the team happens. But I got
to look out for myself my own interests.

Speaker 2 (01:52:40):
Okay, but you mentioned the tea hidding situations. Certainly he
wanted more money. But he's gonna come back. Is there,
as you mentioned early on the Chip on your Shoulder factor,
that he's going to say, Okay, I'm not getting get now,
but I'm going to bust my button, show you that
I deserve it, and I'm going to get the money either.

Speaker 3 (01:52:53):
From you or from someone else.

Speaker 4 (01:52:56):
I mean, that is a way to approach it. But
he can't get it now because he's on the franchise tag,
so they can't. I mean, they can't talk about it
until next offseason. So no matter what he does and
all this other stuff, I'm gonna show improve and do
all this other stuff. It doesn't change his situation in
his plight right now with the Bengals. I mean, he
wants to play well, he wants to be the top

(01:53:16):
wide receiver on the market, but everyone is gonna look
at Ta Higgins and say, hey, he's either a number
one or number two receiver. Where do we slot him at?
So regardless of what he does this year, he is
going to get a bag next year. It's just a
matter of how big is the bag going to be
for another team. But it's gonna be hard to justify
bring in Jamar Chase back at over thirty million dollars

(01:53:37):
and pay another receiver twenty million dollars. It's been done,
But then you have to make sure that the rest
of the team is ready to be able to play
without all the assets and resources that you have because
you allocated so much to that offense.

Speaker 2 (01:53:50):
They certainly need Jamar Chase and he's been a practice,
but he's been like a no show or an in show,
whatever you want. Hold hold in, hold in, hold out,
hold in. But he's been suiting up, but he hasn't
been playing. And he's got three more years to go
on his contract. But he's needed and he's making four mil.
But I don't know if they're going to tear it
up and give him a new deal. But I think

(01:54:11):
if Joe Borrow was and he's saying them out of
they will because Joe needs him, he wants it. But
here's the thing with Jamar Chase, and I'd be mistaken
on this, but I think he would know. I think
he set out his junior year at LSU, so you know,
sitting out for him is nothing new, and he could
come back and just get right into the flow of
things and play, don't you think. I mean he sat
out before, so he may sit out again.

Speaker 4 (01:54:33):
Yeah, I mean, look, he could. I don't think he
wants to say having a long holdout. I think what
they're trying to do, they're trying to wait for these
deals to get done so everyone can see. We've seen
a flurry of quarterback activity. You know, we just talked
about yesterday Tyreek Hill getting his money. We saw DJ
Moore get some money. We've seen a bunch of these
things going. So like Domino's, as these guys beginning to sign,

(01:54:55):
others are going to sign, Jamar Chase is waiting to
see who's the last one that comes in and what
that deal is going to look like, and then he
can kind of measure it off of his So he
certainly is probably waiting on CD Lamb to see what
Ceedee Lamb gets so he can go in there and
make sure that he gets more. It's all the game.
It's all the waiting game. And as long as teams
are going to cooperate and allow guys to show up

(01:55:17):
to camp and not work, they're going to continue to
take advantage of those rules.

Speaker 2 (01:55:20):
There you go, Bucket brooks Andy Furman, Fox Plus Sunday
and Fox. But's ready, We're going to continue. Maybe next week.

Speaker 3 (01:55:26):
I'll do those the MVPs of each club that we
had missed that are not quarterbacks. We'll do that then.

Speaker 2 (01:55:32):
But right now, everyone and I say, everyone loves to
point fingers and we do too. Why because the blame
game is freaking next on the blame Game.

Speaker 3 (01:55:42):
Right around the corner's eleven minutes before the top of
the hour.

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Speaker 3 (01:56:03):
And how can I not? How could I Berkie? How
can we forget this?

Speaker 4 (01:56:06):
How do we not?

Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
Thank our great staff, the mighty man, Mighty Mark Ramsey,
Brianna and of course Chris Purfet doing the sports updates today.
Thank you so much. But right now it is time.
It's that time of the day to do the blame game.

Speaker 3 (01:56:20):
You ruin me.

Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
It's all your fault. No, it's your fault.

Speaker 8 (01:56:25):
It is all your fault.

Speaker 3 (01:56:29):
Maybe it's everyone's fault.

Speaker 1 (01:56:31):
Who knows the liar. That's why there's the blame game,
the blame game.

Speaker 3 (01:56:35):
Let's fight the blame game, the blame game. Go ahead, Brianna,
it's all.

Speaker 9 (01:56:40):
You, okay.

Speaker 10 (01:56:41):
Eurosport removed veteran commentator Bob Ballard from its roster after
the comment a very Andy Furman type comment, oh my word,
made during the Australian woman's victory in the four Times
Before by one hundred freestyle relay.

Speaker 9 (01:56:56):
He said, quote, while the.

Speaker 10 (01:56:58):
Women are just finishing up you know what when and
are like hanging around doing their makeup unquote, who do
you blame for getting the acts?

Speaker 3 (01:57:05):
Bucky gotta blame him.

Speaker 4 (01:57:08):
You can't say those types of things. You gotta be
up on it. So he gets to blame. I know
he may have been Andy Furman influence, but he can't
he can't say that. He can't be a crusty I say,
ain't that kind of stuff?

Speaker 2 (01:57:22):
So first of all, I'm gonna go right now. Number one,
I don't say stuff like that. But here's the problem
with this moron, this far ballance, an idiot. But maybe
his problem is this, Maybe he hangs around too many women.
That's the problem. When you hang around people, you kind
of pick up the things and the traits that they do.
But he should have known better.

Speaker 3 (01:57:40):
He's a fool. It's a sexist remark.

Speaker 2 (01:57:42):
He should be banished, he should be he should never
see a microphone again. And I want Bucky Brooks and
I want Brianna to kind of back off and stop
picking on me.

Speaker 3 (01:57:52):
I'm not that way. I'm not that way. I have feelings.

Speaker 10 (01:57:55):
I do.

Speaker 7 (01:57:57):
Wowright well, and you and your feelings, let's go on
to the next one for man and women in U
feeling many and women in USA three on three basketball
teams are having like a hard time the women.

Speaker 10 (01:58:10):
The men are zero and four and the women are
one and three. Who do you blame, Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:58:16):
When you have Jim and for Debt playing for you
with thirty five years of age is the only guy
that ever played in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:58:21):
Of course you're gonna lose. Of course you're gonna lose.

Speaker 2 (01:58:24):
First of all, you gotta do better recruiting, better coaching,
that's what you are. I don't understand how the USFA
could be so good on the five on five deal
and so bad in the three on three. It doesn't
make any sense. So get it together, Jim and for Debt,
you had your day. You shouldn't even be on the
us of A.

Speaker 3 (01:58:40):
Sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:58:42):
Yeah, If they want to have better performance in those things,
they got to put better players. So they got to
take a list of NBA players who didn't make the
five on five and put them into three on three.
That'd be an advantage that they have. You just have
to put better players. If you want to win, you
got to be committed to winning. And if we're saying
that our best players come from the NBA, then the
best players on the three on three team have to be.

Speaker 9 (01:59:03):
NBA players definitely agree.

Speaker 10 (01:59:05):
Okay, so well, every major sport has had their Hall,
has their Hall of Fame ceremonies on a standalone date.
Baseball has it during the season when other games are played.

Speaker 3 (01:59:14):
Who do you blame, Andy, No, I went first last year. Oh, Bucky,
come on, get it you please?

Speaker 7 (01:59:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:59:22):
Yeah. Here's the thing with the Hall of Fame stuff
or whatever, like, I think we romanticize that stuff, and
I love seeing the guys going to the Hall, but
I don't know if people are checking it out like
they used to. I just think our attention spans are different,
and it's hard for us to commit to sitting down
and watching the induction speeches. So I applaud baseball for
trying to prop it up and trying to do it
around games and that stuff. I just think as you

(01:59:44):
look around, the viewership on all of those things are declining.

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
Okay, but you know what you got.

Speaker 2 (01:59:49):
The NBA has a separate show, the NFL has a
separate show on TV, and baseball you could either watch
the ceremonies or watch a game. I mean, if it's
that important to play, do it in the off season
promoted during the off season.

Speaker 3 (02:00:03):
I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:04):
How stupid could you be? Everything they do Baseball steps
in it. They do Opening Day in Japan. No one
knew what it was all about. Then the Dodgers came
back from Japan. Come on, really, it's not that difficult. Really,
get it together.

Speaker 10 (02:00:17):
Okay, So we'll finish up with this as several NFL
stars are potential holdouts, Michael Parsons, Ceedee Lamb, and Jamar
Chase refuses to practice.

Speaker 9 (02:00:24):
Who do you blame? Andy?

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
You know what, very easy to be. You blame the
green cabbage of salvation, guilt.

Speaker 3 (02:00:32):
Money.

Speaker 2 (02:00:32):
It's all about money. It's all abouty ego. If player
X gets this player why once more than him? It's
all about money and stop it already. It's not a
money grab. It really isn't, but it seems to be.

Speaker 4 (02:00:42):
Well, I mean, it's business. I mean that's just part
of the thing. That's what players do. That's what everyone does.
If you have leverage and you try and flex on it,
it works out for some, it does it for others.

Speaker 3 (02:00:52):
All Right, it's been a great day.

Speaker 2 (02:00:53):
I want to thank everybody's day tuned for the swollen
dome right here, God bless you will see a Sunday
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