Andy Furman & Bucky Brooks Wonder What Happened To The Underdogs, QB Carousels With A Few Prominent Rookies, Big Money Contracts About Ego, And More!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Andy Furman.

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Bucky Brooks, how are you?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm good, Andy. What's going on? How you doing?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I feel great? Let me tell you why. Okay, I
just checked. This is the first time all week I checked.
I checked the Fox Sports Radio bracket challenge. I'm out
of the basement. I'm not last anymore. Dan Patrick. The
last time I looked Dan Patrick was last, and I'm
right there on top of him, and I got like
something like fifty nine points, but like you know, in
third or fourth place is sixty three, so it was

(01:10):
kind of bunched up. It's kind of really bunched up.
So I'm not too bad. How are you doing in
that bracket thing?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Not doing well? Because I tend to pick them my heart,
not with my head.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
So I know, let me ask you an honest question
and you'll and you'll be You'll be straight up with me.
Does it mean anything like if I if I come
across like last or next to last, like damp, I mean,
it's not a reflection on my knowledge. It's it's all
look right, I mean this stuff. I'm taking this stuff
to heart, you know. And Jonas Knox on the Morning

(01:44):
Show basically is ripping the you know what out of
me because I was last last week. I mean, is
it a big deal? It's just you know, here and gone.
That's no, it's no big whoop.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, I mean you are viewed as an expert, and
so as an expert, if your last I mean, it
kind of speaks to your expertise. Maybe, so you just
got to finish out of the basement. And I know
there's kind of like a changing trend in the tournament
where this tournament and the women's tournament, we've seen no upsets,

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no madness. In more right, this has been as sharp
as they come when it comes to which teams are advancing.
And maybe we just needed a year to reset and
even next year to be better because then we know
just to big the favorites.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
The fun is out of playing the bracket.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
No, you're right about that, you know. I'm glad you
brought up the women's tournament all right, because women's basketball
has taken leaps and bounds. I mean, it's big time
right now, Caitlyn Clark. I mean, Reese was there, THEWNBA,
the college game, you name it. Women's basketball is on
the radar right now. However, I would say this, the
women's tournament, to me, is not getting the accolades and

(02:54):
the coverage and the press that the menses. And I
understand that, but don't you think that perhaps the women's
tournament should not go head to head with the men's
Maybe the women's tournament should be a week earlier or
a week later. Can they do that? Is that such
a stupid idea? I think that they should not go
at the same time.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
I think it's hard. I think it's hard the way
that it is just because of all the attention. But
march mans is march Mandess has to take place in
the bunch of march I don't know how they can
better do it.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I know that Gino.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Ariema and some of the women have changed about these
super regionals that they're having where they're just having two
sites for regionals as opposed to four sights X, and
that has changed some of the dynamic.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I don't know. I mean, I think if you're a
fan of women's hoops, you find it.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
But for the casuals, some of it may be driven
by the star power or lack of juju. Watson Watkins
gets hurt. That impacts some of the viewership. And I
think if we're comparing anything and everything to what we
saw the last few years with Caitlin Clark and Iowa,

(04:00):
I think it's always going to be changed.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I think that team and her in particular, she.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Captivated the the American minds, whereas look, it's still front
of mind when it comes to the sports. But I
just think it's different because she just had a gravitational
pool that led a lot of people to tune in
and watch you.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'm I'm with you right there, But I just think
that you're right, it's much madness. But perhaps they could
put it a week prior to the men's or maybe
you know, like the nit used to do. I think
they still do it. They play like on Mondays and
Tuesdays rather than on the weekends. I just don't think
it's good to go neck and neck at the same
time head to head, because when it comes head to head,
I think it's going to be lack of television coverage

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on various networks, and also coverage as far as media
and other areas, be it radio or newspaper wherever. So
I think the women are taking a second seat, not
so much because it's not popular, it's because they're going
head to head with the men. That's the bottom on
I think.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
I mean, yeah, I mean, I look at I think
Dad has something to do with it, like just like
going hit hit, and they've tried to stagger their days.
They've tried to do it where some of it is
like Sundays and Mondays as opposed to the weekend.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
As you're seeing from the guys.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Look, I just think it's a hard slot and you
have to be a hardcore fan to be in love
with the game and to track it and defined it
and those things.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
It'd be interesting to see what those ratings look like though.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
No doubt about that. Okay, let's go back to the
men for a second.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Duke is in eighty five sixty five. They rolled over Alabama,
and look, I look at this Alabama team. Alabama was
like against Brigham Young, they something like twenty five three pointers.
That was an NCAA tournament record. Last night against Duke
eight for thirty two. And look, I'm not so certain
it was the Duke defense that did it. But look,
you live by the three, you die by the three,
and that's just the name of the game. And I

(05:53):
think there comes a point in time where you just
got to say, look, we're not making it beyond the arc.
Let's let's try to move inside and get some scoring
in the paint. I mean, you just can't live with
that three point guy. You just can't do it.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
I mean, but that's who they are, and that's how
they become. I mean, that's how we look. They were
a team that was ranked in the top five all year.
They were a team that blew the lights out, I
mean smoked BYU the night before, hitting twenty five or
fifty one three pointers, and it is a bit of
a feast or famine approach. And against Duke, they couldn't

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get a good going. Now, some of that was Alabama
being out of rhythm. Some of that was also due
to the pace of the game not being as up
and down in terms of like just fast breaking quick
pull up threes.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
And those things.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
And then let's be honest, a lot of it was
due to Duke's defense. Duke played lights out defense. They
were switching everything up front. Their length gave Alabama problems
and because Alabama lives by the three or they lived
by layups or dunks, they refused to settle for the
mid range jumper. And the mid range jumper is what

(07:02):
was available to them, and.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
They refused to take it.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
And so I would say they over penetrated too many times,
led to block shots, led to transitions. But to me,
Duke out played Alabama. They forced Alabama to play on
their terms. And the bottom line is they have an
absolute superstar in Cooper Flag. But Cooper Flag understands when
to insert himself into the game and went to allow

(07:26):
his teammates to take over when they have it going,
and Duke had it going last night.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
No doubt about that. Now this is the first time
going to the final four for the coach of Duke
john Shire. And when I heard that and I look
at that situation, I think that there are gonna be
many college teams and maybe on way off, based on this,
many college teams are going to be hiring from within.
What do I mean by that? Shira was on the
bench right next to the Duke program for years and
he played for Duke. I think rather than bringing an outsider,

(07:53):
I think it's better to have a guy who knows
the program, knows the personnel. And I know personnel means
nothing in this day and age because you go out
there in the portal. But I think that colleges right
now are going to look at the I guess the
blueprint of what Duke has done and other teams have
done that they take a guy who sits to the
right side of the head coach and they just bring
him up there and make him and elevate him as

(08:13):
the head coach. Is that the right way to go
rather than go out there and get another coach from
another school. For example, in the area in Cincinnati, Xavier
University lost their coach, Sean Miller goes down to Texas
and they hire Richard Patina from New Mexico. There was
some talk of hiring Chris Mack who coached and played Xavier,

(08:35):
and they wanted to bring him back from I think
Chattanooga or Charlestony's coaching right now. They didn't bring him back.
It may have been more of an advantage to bring
him back because he played there. He knows the school
and he knows the inner the inner workings of the
school rather than bring a new face. Is that way
off base?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's not all based. I mean, I think it depends
on who the coach is.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
I mean, sometimes you stand inside the family and it works,
sometimes it doesn't. Carolina has traditionally stayed inside the family.
Hubert Davis was a homegrown pick. And you have some
grumbling about the way that they played out, but they've
always done that. You know, Warre Williams, Bill Guthrie, Dean Smith,
like everyone had a lineage.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
They all had links back to Dean Smith.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Because you're trying to continue on the traditions that were
established in the Dean Smith and Xavier bringing potentially Chris
Mackback or some of these other teams hiring alums or
people that are played at the programs. There is some
comfort in knowing that this person understands the traditions of
the program.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
They know the school, they know the community.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
But you still want to make sure that you get
the right coach for your program at the time in
which he's taken over.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Now I'm with you right there. Nother good game really
was the Florida Texas Tech game. Because Florida was down
like six and a half minutes to go by down
by ten, I thought it was all over and their
number one seed and look them back to Texas texts
gonna make a move. Florida wins eighty four to seventy nine.
They star Walter Clayton Junior. He had that go ahead
three point. They was about a minute to go, and
they never looked back. They won the game. They're going

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to the final floor right now. Clayton was unbelievable thirty
points and really and truly I thought Florida was one
of the best teams. I think I still think Houston's
gonna win it all. Maybe I'm crazy and they're playing today,
but Florida was a balanced team. For some reason, they
looked out of sink. They really did look out of
sink yesterday. They didn't look like Florida was playing well

(10:30):
season long, a lot of sloppiness, turnovers. But they came back.
And you're down ten points with a six and a
half to go, I mean, it's almost like death now
he finished. But they came back, and I give him
a lot of credit for coming back.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, I mean, you gotta get them a ton of
credit because look, with four minutes left, it was seemingly over,
but Florida came up big and look, man, the shot
that flipped it over when Clayton drive it out and
literally in one motion kind of spun around and hit
a dagger. Look, great shot makers make big shots, and

(11:04):
he made a great shot. And they hung in there,
and Texas Tech gave them opportunities by missing free throws,
which always is critical in March. If you have an
opportunity to knock down your one, and once you got
to knock them down, you cannot give good teams extra opportunities,
extra possessions to get back in it. They did it,
and they had to pay for it a great game,

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heartbreaking if you're Texas Tech, because you're literally on the
doorstep of being on the final four. And the tough
thing about this situation for them is you can't fast
forward next year and put yourself in the same situation.
You got to go and re earn the right to
be in the final four. For Florida, THO, Look, man,
every championship team has to have one of those type games,

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one of those heartbreak, hanging on game, hanging in the balance,
you find a way to win. Every championship team normally
has that on the resume in the tournament.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
We'll see if this propels them to.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
No doubt about that. So we have half of the
final four done. Duke in Florida. Today it's Michigan State, Auburn,
and Houston, Tennessee, and we'll talk about them a little
later on. But right now, I want to know where's
Saint Peter's, where's Loyal Lover Chicago, Where's Sister Jean. I
don't know if that's good to a bed, but there
certainly maybe that's the future of the Tournament's all going
to be the big schools, and that's it. NC Douba
Sweet sixteen, who was in Florida, Alabama, Duke, Texas Tech,

(12:23):
and so on. Look, is it less interesting? I think
it is. I mean, should it be a Sweet sixteen
without the little guy? I don't know. There's no Darling,
there's no Cinderella, there's no underdog, not even a mid major.
And I looked at the Sweet sixteen lineup going to
the Sweet sixteen, there was four Power Conferences SEC seven,
Big Ten four, the Big twelve had four, and the

(12:44):
ACC had one and that was Duke. So I think
there's something to be said about maybe lack of interest.
Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe it's just me. I think there's
a lack of interest where you don't have a school
like Saint Peter's loyal lover of Chicago, those kind of
storylines that come into the NC DOUBLEA Tournament. Right now,
this is going to be the future of the tournament
because the big schools just get stronger and bigger and

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better because of nil chance, reportable, whatever it may be.
That's it. I mean, I saw a school the other day,
Saint Francis of Pennsylvania. They were in the n Cuba.
They announced last week that they're dropping out of Division one.
They're going to Division three. They can't compete. That's it.
That's all over. It's going to be big schools, the money,
the power schools, and that's it.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
I mean, that's where it's going. They have and they
have nots to people that are all in. When it
came to nil and all the other things, it looks
like that's what you can be dealing with.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
That you're not going to have enough to do it.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
And when you hear mid majors talk about, look, man,
we're being treated like a juco basically, you know, stepping stone.
It's hard to retain their players. They can recruit them,
but it's hard to retain them.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
That's hard.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
I mean, it's really really difficult if you're a coach
trying to figure out how to do it.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
You know, it amazes me when I heard that Richard
Patino is leaving New Mexico to go to Xavier of
Ohio in Cincinnati, I scratched my head because you would
think that New Mexico, you know, is the only show
in town. You probably have some bigger lumps in there
in that city, in that region, and you know, you
have some good NIL money where in Cincinnati, he's gonna

(14:20):
have to compete obviously with a couple of pro teams.
They got pro football, pro baseball, pro soccer, another Division
I school in Cincinnati. I'm not so certain that it's
a better situation for him. I guess he thinks it is,
but he did say he went to the coach in
the Big East, and he went to the coach against
his dad, who coaches at Saint John's. So I was
scratching my head. New Mexico to Xavier. I mean, I

(14:43):
know New Mexico is in the hindulands, and I think
that as good as New Mexico will ever be, there'll
never be that attention they get because it's not a
large media market, they don't play in a great conference,
and basically it's the middle of nowhere. That's the problem
with New Mexico.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, I mean, that is one of the things, and
you just kind of wonder how it's going because teams
are going to have to make a decision to be
all the way in nil portal. The extra money, revenue sharing,
all of that other stuff. It's going to matter an
impact whether you're able to fill the championship caliber program

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because it is clear that money matters, and it really
matters in these situations because the only way to get
the players just got to have the money. And we're
seeing it. The women's tournament is breaking out like that
right now. It's all the heavyweights that are standing in
the Final four and the Elite eight and the Sweet sixteen.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's how it's going to ever be well, I mean.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's the way it is. I don't know if it's
better or not. But I kind of enjoyed the storylines
with the little schools and I don't think we're going
to see them anymore. We saw them in the opening
rounds out the Robert Morris was there, and you know
they'll get in because of the conferences that they're in,
but other than that, they're not going to go much
for And that's that's the story. And maybe maybe the
tournament is better for it because these are the best

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teams perhaps that that are going to be playing right now.
I don't know if these are the best teams in
the tournament, but I know Duke is. I mean that
they're Chalk Team Florida, Chalk Team Houston as well, so
you've got team in Michigan State. So I think that
those are the teams that people predicted to go deep
into the tournament. They are, and maybe they're better teams
and maybe that makes for a better tournament. I don't know,

(16:27):
it doesn't make for better storylines. You know, it's like, oh,
they're there again, ho hum. You know, they dominate their
conference play and they're coming to the NCAA tournament. They're
dominating that too.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, I mean that that is what's happening. I mean
it is clear as day. The teams with more resources
are the teams that are saying and they're one of
the teams with all the resources.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
I mean, I don't know. I mean, what's hoppy? You know,
what's going on with North Carolina? What's going on there?
Do they have a lot of packing with nil money?
Or is that nil money now going to football because
Bill Belichick's there. Because I still believe that if you
coach at a school that is basketball only, you may
be better served. Now, remember Richard Patino left the school
that had football and basketball. New Mexico Xavier just has basketball.

(17:13):
Maybe he's better served because money will just go and
funnel into basketball. There's no football there. You know, I
would to think that there's a pool of alums stay
at North Carolina, right, And are there just football alums
and basketball alums or the big time money people that
give money to both. How does that work?

Speaker 2 (17:33):
I mean, I think they there's a lomma.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
You gotta have donors that believe in both sports, but
for yours wort particular, and you really write to check
and put backball only in the memo line. At North Carolina,
I think they were slow to change and open up
to the NIO thing to understand how much money played

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a part in being able.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
To secure players.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
A lot of time, your arrogance can get in the
way and you kind of think, hey, we're North Carolina.
The brand is big, the program is big, and no
one is bigger than the program. And today's players are like, yeah,
that's cute, and we appreciate all of that, but how
much are you paying? And that's what it comes down to.
The teams that have the best players are the ones

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that are paying the most. And you have to be
willing to look. You got to be willing to open
up and checkbook. If you want five star recruits, you're
not going to get them just on legacy and tradition.
You better make sure that the monies are there to
pay them, or you're not gonna be able to compete
with some of the teams that are all in when
it comes to pushing the chips across the table to

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make sure they have the best rosters.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Right. And you talk about rosters, I mean you look
at dust team made a coach of Michigan, first year coach,
he made the NCAA Tournament. He coached ed in Florida Atlantic.
He got a KI and his team from Florida Atlantic,
which really would truly would you have to say Florida
Atlantic's a mid major. He played in Michigan this year
had another Florida Atlantic kid went into the portal. He's
at Alabama. So what they're doing right now is they're

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draining the mid majors because there's always one or two
mid major player that's been overlooked that can play big
time basketball. They get them out of those mid majors
in the portal, and that's how the mid majors are
going to be just pushed to the wayside. They really will.
That's the way it's happening. I see it. It's happening
right now.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, it is happening, and mid majors are becoming another
transitional stage.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
You talk about high school, then ju Goo, then you
get your lower levels D two, D three, then you
have your mid major D one's. It's almost coming like
baseball where you have the minor leagues in the farm
system and you have to prove yourself in a ball
because you get to double A, you know, and triple
A and all of those other things. There are deptist

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steps to this, and if you don't come out of
high school as a five star, you are going to
have to kind of take an alternative route to be
able to get up and get to where you want
to get to.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
No doubt about that. I were just getting started right here.
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All right, Bucky Brooks, what do you think about this?
All Right? The New York Football Giants Russell Wilson signed
the other day. It's gonna make like ten and a
half million for a year. You could double that to
twenty one million if he reaches all the incentives. Right now,

(21:48):
I'm a little upset because I think the Giants in fact,
were boxed in for a quarterback at the third pick.
Now maybe not so, and shoulder standers may not go
to the Giants now, which I was hoping he would surprised.
I mean, really, Wilson to the Giants that had no quarterback.
They had Tommy DeVito. So Wilson's probably going to be
the quarterback right now unless there's a quarterback available at

(22:11):
three three.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
I think what you're doing, you're Joe Shanne or Brian
dave Ball.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
You want to make sure you give yourself every opportunity
to explore all the options that you need to on
draft day, meaning you have the potential to take the
best player available to you whenever the pick comes up.
And what we saw is when they made the move
to give Russell Wilson, they wanted to give themselves that
freedom to go in there without pressure, without having to

(22:40):
chase of need, but to simply take the best player
that is there for.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Them at three.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
If they see a quarterback at three, whether it's're Dors Sanders, Jackson,
Dart Campbell, whoever's there at three, and they like him,
they can take him. But if it's a quarterback that
doesn't necessarily fit how they want to play or what
they want to do, when now they can take the
best as player. Presumably it could be maybe an Abdual Carter,
it could be a Travis Hunter, it could be a

(23:04):
Will Campbell, whoever's available to them right there. To me,
this is smart team building because you don't want to
box yourself in and you don't want to make moves
out of desperation. You want to be able to deliberately think, ponder,
and make really good decisions to put the best players
that are available on your team.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
But I would say this right now, if you want
to judge who won the quarterback battle right now in
New York City Russell Wilson is second to Justin Field's
with the Jets. I think the Jets right now probably
won the quarterback battle, at least off the field thus far.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Agreed, Maybe, I mean, we won't know until we play.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Like guess to think about it, like winning in the
off season rarely turns out to.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Be what we think is going to be on the field.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Right now, for headlines, yes, Justin Fields appears to be
a better player. It appears that like the Jets were
able to one up their counterparts in the Giants.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
But timea tale.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
We'll see how it really really works out when they
both take the field. And when we see the end
of the team building efforts for the Giants, who do
they come away with?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
What kind of players do they finish with?

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Who is ultimately the QB one that to determine which
team really really won or lost this little conversation.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
All right, we mentioned should do with Sanders, But right now,
let's talk about his daddy for a second. But I
said he's number one. Let's talk about his daddy, who's
the coach of Colorado's deon Sanders and Colorado and Sanders
they agreed on a contract extension through the twenty twenty
nine season, and that put Dion Sanders in the ten
million dollar club, one of the ten highest paid coaches
in college football. Five year deal worth fifty four mil

(24:45):
and says to put Dion Sanders at ten million dollars
for this coming season, eleven million for the following and
twelve for twenty twenty nine. And this was in the
Boulder Daily Camera newspaper. My question is this. I'm happy.
I want everybody they get as much money as I
can and whatever line of work they're in. But what
has he done to deserve this kind of money? Am

(25:06):
I crazy?

Speaker 2 (25:07):
I mean?

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Really? Why is he getting so much money? Really? And
you know what, I gotta believe there are coaches right
now in college football with more success than Deon Sanders
scratching their head, banging on their desk and getting ready
to see their athletic theory. They say, wait a minute,
this guy is getting this and what have I Look
what I've done. I've won bowl games, I've won maybe
a national championship. Why is he getting more than me?

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Well, to me, it's just pretty easy. Why he's getting it.
Colorado is a national brand. Now we talk about them weekly.
When it comes to football and their exploits, they went
to a bowl game last year. They won nine games.
They may have two players taken within the top five
picks of the NFL draft. He has made Colorado a

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destination spot for recruits for top coaches.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
The TV.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
TV can't get enough of Colorado football. He is a brand.
He's driven up in missions and an amount of money
and recognition that Colorado has. So, yeah, this extends beyond
whatever work he did on the field. That's why they
reward him in paying him what they are. And let's
be honest, he was going to have some overtures. Teams

(26:18):
were going to approach him, and so if they didn't
lock him up, he was going to bounce either to
an NFL team or another team that would open up
the checkbook and pay for the Anders experience.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well, I'll say this, his two year record is thirteen
and twelve. They were nine in four list. Yeah, I
get it, and look, you know, put the record aside.
I understand every time you pick up a newspaper or
magazine he's in there with a story. More than that.
He's been on sixty minutes. I mean, I don't know
any of the college football coach recently has been on
sixty minutes. So he's done a lot of sales jobs

(26:51):
for the school, which I think is great, which maybe
translates into increased enrollment and selling merchandise and whatever it
may be. And again, you're right. When the college football
is started. Last year, there was the first three weeks,
I think Colorado was on nationally the first three weeks,
which I can't remember the last time ever Colorado was
on national TV. So you're right about that. But he's

(27:11):
got a big challenge coming up this year. Travis Hunt
is gone, his son Shadua Sanders is gone. His other son,
Charlotte Sanders is gone. What is it a shepherd? Will Shephard?
The receiver, he's going to be gone. Got a big
and the pass rush well, bj Green, He's gone big,
big rebuilding season. However, I got to believe that when
he turned that roster around when he came there, didn't
get rid of like like something forty plus guys. He

(27:32):
just said goodbye, we don't need you, we don't want
you here. He's probably gonna do it again this year.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
I don't know if you have to turn it over
the way that he did, but he's certainly always actively
looking for players to come in.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
They got a top quarterback.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
That came in, Juju Lewis coming in from somewhere in Georgia,
maybe Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
He comes in.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
They got a transfer from Liberty, another quarterback, so they
said at quarterback. In their mind, they feel like they'll
be okay. And remember this, you know, can read the
record like thirteen and twelve and that doesn't seem worthy
enough of being able to do it. But the team
he inherited, yeah, okay, there were one and eleven. They
were dead last. No one was talking about Colorado. They

(28:12):
were one and eleven, and in two years he's flipped
him and put him in a Bowl game and had
an opportunity to win the conference if they don't stub
their toe down the stretch.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
To me, what you're doing, if you're Colorado, you're betting
on the come.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
You're betting that he's going to continue to sustain the
excellence that he's shown, and we want to make sure
we reward him on the front end rather than wait
and potentially lose him on the back end where it's
either more expensive to retain him or he decides that
a he wants to go elsewhere. So to me, Colorado
is making sure that they keep what has been a

(28:48):
huge boom for them in place.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Okay, he was nine to four last year and I
just checked this. It was the first winning record in
a twelve game season of Colorado since twenty sixteen. Oh yeah,
he's done. Time to turn around, and he did. But
I ask you this, how surprised are you that a
guy who has played the game, and more often than
not professional players who played in the NFL did not
go with the college coaching. They just don't. I understand why.

(29:15):
It's a grind, you know, the fourteen to fifteen hour
days and recruiting and now, and they didn't want to
do it. He did it. I commend him for doing that.
How surprised to all you that not only did he
do it, but he did it and he's been successful
not only at Colorado but at Jackson State.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
I would say I'm not surprised, but I would say
that my relationship with him made it. Well, I'm not
surprised because we worked the other NFL network for over
a decade. I would see him every Sunday night. At
the time he was coaching youth ball. Then he was
coaching high school ball, and so we would share stories
about what took place over the course of the week,
how the season was going, what he's learned, what he's

(29:52):
working on, all of those things. And for everyone who
thinks his success is just a recent development when it
comes to coaching, I can tell you he's been in
this a long time. He's been rebuilding sports programs for
a long time. Building up his youth program which was
the Truth, that's what they called it.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
It was a baseball, basketball, football, and.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Track program that had a million kids running through there,
then taking over a couple different high schools being a
part of their coaching staffs, and then having a chance
at Jackson State, and every step of the way he's
proven that he can be very, very successful. And even
though with the jump from Jackson State to Colorado was
a big one man, it took him a year to
kind of figure out what he needed to do, but

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in year two it popped and popped.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
In a major way. He is a shrewd businessman, big.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Time marketer, but even beneath all of that, he's really
an old school coach with good values that work, and
they work in this game and they've always worked, and
so I am not.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Surprised to see a success.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
I think people get caught up in the glam and
the glitz and they don't see that what you have
is an old school coach who has blue collar values
that have always worked in college football.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
You sold me on him, and I've always been a fan,
but you sold me on him because the money think
kind of knocked me for a loop. It really did.
And speaking of money, we talked about the first round
draft pick, and by less than a month right now
for the draft, the Tennessee Titans will be on the
clock with a number one pick and Penn State outside linebacker,
I have Dual Carter. He's banging the drum right now
for himself, saying that he should be the first name

(31:26):
called by Commissioner Roger Goodelfhi the Jedi, and he says,
I think that my overall impact on the game really
on my versatility. I can play multiple positions. I feel
like most importantly, I step up when I'm needed the most,
when crunch time comes around, when you need somebody to
make that big play, I feel like I'm the guy
who makes that big play. All right, It's great, I've
Dual Carter. You know what I'll do. You're a great player,

(31:48):
You're not going to be number one. I just think
that although people normally say, let's draft for needs know
you're going to go for a quarterback. I don't think
I'm ever going to see the day that we'll see
a non quarterback pick for number one.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
I would say I understand the dual carter campaigning for
the number one over a pick, and in most years,
I would say he probably would get that. A lot
of it still depends on the Tennessee Titans and how
they viewed the quarterbacks in the class. Dr Sanders cam Ward.
Cam Ward is presumed to be the number one overall.
The conversation over the last two weeks is that he's

(32:25):
a lock to be number one to the Sanseea Titans.
He just had his pro day. Everyone was oohing and
owen over what he was able to do on the field,
and so maybe the Titans go that way because with
our quarterback, you don't have a chance, particularly in this
league where you've seen the elite quarterbacks carry their teams
to the winner circle.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
That s it.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Pass rushers are coveted at a premium abdua call. It
is one of the best pass rushers in the drafts.
He's natural, he's fluid, he's slippery when it comes to
his maneuvers in those things. As you dig deeper, though,
he's only had one year of exceptional production, and you
just want to make sure that his.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Skill is transcendent.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Now I've heard people talk about him as a generational
talent in those things.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
I am a little more.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Conservative in terms of putting generational talent tape labels on guys.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
But he's a fantastic pass rusher.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
And in a league that is built on the passing game,
you got to have quarterbacks, you got to have pass
rushers and cover guys, and it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
If you need a pass rusher, due call is the guy.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
I would say this, the fact that he just went
public like that, and I got to believe behind all
that is his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, because he's that kind
of a guy. He had Pro Day, but he didn't
even participate in the Pro day, so all of a sudden,
Drew Rosenhaus is telling him what to say. I'm sure
he did. And also he's coming up that shoulder arm
injury that he had during the college football playoffs, So

(33:49):
I think there's a bit of a risk factor there
as well. I don't think he'll be number one when
Tennessee has their chance to get their first pick. I
don't think he'll be number one first round of Yes,
not number one, agreed.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Uh, Look, he's Look, he's one, no load lower than
three or four, and I think there's gonna be a
serious conversation for him at one and two if he's available.
That's how people view him, That's how he's talked about
in the scanning community. He's a talented kid, and he's
been impactful. It helps city where is number eleven, So
people have visions of Michael Parsons to a lesser extent,

(34:25):
or Arrington because.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Levart made the number famous.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
But yeah, he certainly benefits from from all of that,
and there are a lot of people that are excited
about his potential.

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wasting another moment, another wasting another moment, let's do ask Bucky.
Are you ready? Buck?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah, I'm ready, I know you are.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Okay, I got a question It's been bugging me for
a long long time, so I know you have the answer.
Why are baseball fans, well fans in general, sports fans
and media, Why are they so interested and obsessed with
content tracks of players and teams attendants? What do they
care about the game? Why do they care about those things?

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Well, I think the reason why you're interested in it
is from a player standpoint. The money reflects how much
a team respects you and how much they value you
and what you're going to do. So your fans want
to know who we count on to be our best players.
And so when we sign free agency we draft people,
we want to know, like, why are you paying them
so much money?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (36:28):
That means he must be good, So it raises the
level of expectations. The compensation has to equate to the production.
That's why fans want to know. We want to know
who are we counting on to produce for our teams
in the upcoming seasons.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Thank you, Now I know, and now I've got the answer.
But why is everybody, at least in the media always
concerned about the attendance or lack thereof?

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Repeat what you said about the attendants?

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, why are the why is the media so concerned
with attendants always running about attendance is down x percent
with this.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Team, because that's the way we jud right, because we
judge how much we adore our teams bout how many
people are rabid about the thing, how many people show up?
What's the viewership like, like, are you really into this
or are you not into it? Because maybe it speaks
to a bigger problem. That's why we always are worried
about how many people show up at games?

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Thank you God, think answer. Okay, let's talk about Houk
the renfro right now. He's a technical comeback in the NFL.
He was once, I guess, a premiere pass catcher. He's
twenty nine years old. He set out the twenty twenty
four season. He could be reunited with the Raiders. How
tough is a comeback for any player?

Speaker 3 (37:36):
I mean it's tough because the year it can be
a lifetime. I think a wide receiver it can be done.
Though I don't think it's that big of a deal
for him to want to explore or kind of take
a year off reset and then come back. The way
that he plays speed isn't an issue. He was more
of a quick guy that allowed on that.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
So I think it'd be fine.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
I think if he can just get through the russ
In Mini caamp training camp of those things, I think
it'd be back to the same old Hunter Renford that
we've seen.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
I just think sometimes guys who will retired and they
come back, they probably need the money. Am I wrong
on that? That's why no, I won't.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
I won't say that it's always that you need the money,
but I would say maybe he really really missed the game.
And for Hunter Renforred, you got to remember he was
a guy that was a highly productive player. Josh mcdanines
comes in and he all of a sudden loses his spot,
is no longer involved in the offense. Maybe there was
a sense of frustration that led him to step away
for the game, but now he wants to come back.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Right, got it? Okay? University of Connecticut women's basketball coach
Gino Rima, he's upset and you mentioned this earlier on today.
He's upset that the NCAA has moved to a two
regional site for the women's tournament this year from nineteen
twenty from twenty twenty three on this year and after
previously they hosted games at four locations like the men.
Do you agree that basically there's the wrong thing to do.

(38:54):
I think that you want to get exposure as much
as you can. Why go to two regions instead of four?

Speaker 3 (39:00):
As you were saying, he was saying, fewer people around
the country, you have an opportunity to see the game.
So now, because you have two big super regionals and
you have eight teams there as opposed to four teams,
logistically it's a nightmare trying to get practice time, trying
to get on the court, trying to get to and
from the gym back to the hotel. I understand all

(39:23):
of those things, and I understand why you want to
go back. Theoretically, you're right, and it would make sense
to have everybody there because you got more bang for
your buck. You're more likely to feel the capacity of
the stadiums, So it makes sense from a business standpoint.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
But I understand why he would be frustrated at that.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Okay, last, but not least, the other was sports popularity
as we know it right now. I'm going to think
it's NFL and college football one on one, a maybe
college basketball second in the NBA. Do you agree that
college basketball basically is trailing and they're kind of out
distancing Major League Baseball NHL in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
I mean, look, that's really I don't know where they
slot and the thing, it's just hard to keep up
because you can't there's no name recognition.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
We know Cooper.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Flag, but we don't know the rest of the guys
that are really playing in a tournament.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
That makes it challenging.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yeah, so they're falling behind, but football is always gonna
be king, so you can't keep up with that.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
That's a different.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Federal quarterback has his eye on this team, but Bucky
brook says, not so fast. That's next a surprise in
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rocking and rolling.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Here we are rocking and rolling. Andy, I'm doing great.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
I'm excited because look we're entering the month of April.
That means the draft is really really creeping up on us,
and I'm excited to see where these players go.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Well, also kind of finishing out who's gonna win marsh Madness.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
Right, and today there's two games of the teams getting
into the Final Four. Tennessee Houston Michigan State, overn. I
want to say something about Michigan State because I don't
think this man gets the credit he deserve. I'll talk
about Tom Izzo. Tom Iso, the basketball coach in Michigan State.
He can become the fifth coach in college basketball history
to reach the Final Four with a win today, reach
the Final Four nine times if he beats Auburn Okay.

(41:32):
Izzo is in fifth place for the most Final Four appearances.
He's got eight, behind Roy Williams, Dean Smith, John Wooden,
and Marshassky. That's unbelievable. I just don't think he gets
the credit he deserves. And a win by Michigan State
today with ty Izzo for fourth place all time with
Roy Williams in the standings that's amazing. Really, he is

(41:54):
one of the greatest coaches in college basketball and doesn't
get the accolades. I guess the others do to make
a lot of noise, that's the problem. He's quiet, quietly.
He gets the job done.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
He does get a job done. He's one of the
best coaches that we've seen. He doesn't, in an old
school way, throwback, very confrontational when it comes to his players.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
He demands a lot out of them and they respond.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
And he wants a tough minded, blue collar team that
makes you work on on the on the other end
to get every bucket and they're gonna challenge you.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
And it has really been very effective for him.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
You talk about the number of final fours that they've
gone to, and let me say this, like they've they've
done it without having the most talented teams in most
of those tournaments. And so it's a testament to toughness,
tenacity and how that can get you over the top
and kind of carry you to the threshold of being
a champion.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
So he should be celebrated.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
It'd be interesting to see how this team battles out
against a very talented Auburn team.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Can they impose their.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Will on the Tigers, because that's that's what it's going
to come down to, because the Tigers are more talented.
But there's something to be said for making people have
to deal with you when you are a tough, minded, relentless,
resilient squad.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
And you know, it's funny you mentioned he's old school.
I am sure over the years tom Izzo has gotten
some nibbles from other schools to coach there, and more
often than not, when a coach gets a nibble, it's
like news all over the country. You never hear anything
about tom Izzo about that. You really don't. He's been
at Michigan State. He's state at Michigan State. Even if
he's gotten a call or a sort of a nibble,

(43:37):
you never hear it. I mean, he's just there, does
his job and stays at Michigan State. I love that,
I really do. He's a pros pro.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
He really is, oh one hundred percent, he is absolutely
a pros pro.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
You don't hear about him kind of being involved in
those things like there are some look, I think he
had some offers years ago. Potentially Bill Cavaliers wasn't the
pit for Yeah, he's been lawyer to the sword.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Sure as like you, just like you, all right, I
tell you, it's funny. We're gonna move over to football
for a second right now, because that's your wheelhouse, it
really is. And then we talked about the Cleveland Browns.
There's no doubt in my mind they need a quarterback.
And you know, just the other day, I think it
was Thursday, Kurt Cousins just happened to be in Cleveland.
So I'm thinking right now, if the Cleveland Browns were

(44:27):
draft Abdul Carter and they have Abdull Carter on defense
of Miles Garrett, all they would need is a quarterback
and away they go. There's no doubt in my mind
they would do that. And also, I mean, Kurt Cousins
right now could be the guy he wants to be
out of Atlanta. And obviously he's in Ohio and I look,
they claim according to the NFL media, his trip to

(44:48):
Cleveland was not NFL related. Who knows. I don't know.
But the point is, if the Browns could sign Kurt
Cousins and get Abdual Carter in the draft, they'll be
pretty tough.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Maybe, But is Kirk Cousins good anymore? I mean, we're
assuming that Kirk Cousins can still play. Like, if we're
going to celebrate Kirk Cousins, then we can't be mad
at the Giants for poop poo or poop pool on
Russell Wilson going to the Giants. Russell Wilson now played
Kirk Cousins last year. The last time we saw Kirk Cousins,
he had like a four or five game stretch where

(45:23):
he had one touchdown in eight or nine interceptions. So
I don't know if Kirk Cousins can still play. Like,
that's the thing that I would be concerned about if
I'm a Browns fan. I understand on paper makes sense, like, yeah,
we get up Duel Carter, it works, Kirk Cousins has
a relationship with Stefanski, YadA, YadA, YadA. But all we

(45:45):
convinced that the thirty seven year old Kirk Cousins can
still play.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
That's the number one thing that you have to talk.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
About when you're considering paying I'm twenty seven million dollars
for his efforts.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Well, the first thing you do, he's got to be
released by the Atlanta fe Falcons, Because the Falcons have
decided at least to keep him for the time being.
Number one, you mentioned Kevin Statistic. I think he was
the offensive coordinator of Minnesota when Cousins was there. Is
that correct? I think he was.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Yeah. But now here's the thing. Kirk Cousins has a
no trade clause.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Kirk Cousins is waiting until after the first day of
the draft to waive that no trade clause because he
doesn't want to get caught in a situation that he
got caught in last year where he signed with the
Falcons then they drafted somebody. So he wants to make
sure he doesn't step into a situation like that. That's
why when we talk about the money and all that,

(46:34):
it's on kirk Cusses.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Well, I would say this, I mean, what's the option
in Cleveland right now? They're stuck with that Deshaun Watson deal.
That's the problem with money. But the point is that
if they could get Kirk Cousins, he's got to be
better than what they have. Number one and number two.
You've always said that if a guy comes off an injury,
it almost takes two years. That second year he may
come back, and he had an injury. He was there

(46:57):
last year, you know, look, I know he had some
problems over there. Yeah, but I just don't think that
was a team for him. I think that if he
could go to Cleveland get it done, that team's going
to be defensive minded on a running game, that's what
they are. And if he could just not turn the
ball over, you know, just just do adequate adequately over
there in Cleveland, they could be reckoned with they can.
They could, they could be a contender in that division.

(47:19):
They really could. Defensively, they'd be unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Yeah, I mean, look in theory that that is true,
but now here, here's what you have to decide. If
you're the Cleveland Browns, all right, kirk Cousins said, limited
playoff success.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
If kirk Cousins is all the things that.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
You say that he can be coming back second year
from the injury, taste, care of the ball is really
solid and effective in Kevin Stefanski's system, Where does kirk
Cousins stack up in the AFC amongst quarterbacks when we
know that you have to go toe to toe with
the best quarterback, Let's start in the division.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
We don't even know who pays gonna get but let's
say they get Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Where does kirk Cousins stack up in the division.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Then when you go outside the division, Pat Mahomes and
Josh Allen and Justin Herbert and CJ. Stroud and others,
are we confident that Kirk Cousins is going to make
the Cleveland Browns a viable contender? Or are we just
looking for an option to keep our head above water
while we navigate the situation with Deshaun Watson and finally

(48:26):
get his number off the books.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
I don't know if kirk Cousins takes them. I don't
know how much better he makes them.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
You know, if you're gonna do it, and so Stamfi
Stefanski knows him, knows how to work around some of
his deficiencies, But.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
I don't know if his the signing of Kirk Cousins
moves the needles significantly.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
I would say this, and I hear what you're saying.
Are you're rating the quarterbacks and making the quarterbacks basically
the success factor of the teams in that division? We've
seen last year it didn't work out that way. What
do I mean by that? Look at the stats that
Joe Burrow put up and that team didn't make the playoffs,
all right, So I don't think that's entirely correct, and

(49:04):
I don't mean to put you down like that, but
I just don't think that even though the quarterbacks are
probably head and shoulders above Kirk Cousins in that division,
doesn't mean those teams will be better than the Cleveland
Browns because look, the Bengals right now have a major
deficiencies on the defensive side of the ball. So even
if Joe Burrow has a tremendous year throws up for
five thousand yards and forty five touchdowns, you know, defensively

(49:28):
they may be giving up more than anybody else in
that division. They'll be winning games or losing games like
forty one forty five something like that. So I think
that defensively is the key, and that's the Achilles Heals
of Cincinnati. So with Kirk Cousins, they could still be
better than Cincinnati, although Cincinnati has Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
I mean, they're really key, he could be, but remember
the Browns were terrible on defense last year too, Like
they weren't dominant. I mean, they have Miles Garrett, but
if you're saying Miles getting a dual carter are going
suddenly make them great. Okay, two years ago they were
a great defense. Last year not so much. They don't
have a running back. Nick Chubb is no longer there. Remember,

(50:08):
they like, they don't have any of these things that
you need to prop up a Kirk Cousins, And so
if they go that route, there's a lot more work
to do on that roster to enable them to play it,
because remember, Kirk Cousins doesn't elevate your team. He may
kind of steady it right now, but he's not a
transformative guy that is going to take this team and

(50:32):
radically overhaul who they are and what they've been.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
We'll see.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
I mean, just like Russell Wilson doesn't move the needle,
just like I don't think Aaron Rodgers is going to
move the needle much in Pittsburgh when you're dealing with
an older quarterback who lacks mobility. They got to be
so great and like the accuracy, touch, timing and anticipation area.
I don't know if any of those guys as they

(50:58):
get older are good enough to got to be the
difference makers for those teams.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
And I'm glad you brought that up because that leads
us right into what you wrote about on NFL dot
Com this week, Bucky Brooks and his NFL mock draft.
I guess number three NFL dot Com, which is tremendous.
And you did that. You said you have three quarterbacks
in the first thirty two picks and three running backs.
First of all, this final mock draft number one, is
it your final one? Or there'll be another one before
the draft?

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Oh, there'll be another. I'm sure there may be two
other ones. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
I mean, those things get clicks, so we kind of
sand to do a bunch of them.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Okay, let's do this right now. Let's go number one,
and Tennessee has the first pick. And you said that
Cam Woard, the quarterback, will be picked by the Tennessee tiers,
so that that leaves I guess Abdul Carter on the sidelines.
He will not be the number one pick. You got
Brian Callahan, the coach there, saying that Cam was their quarterback. However,
I remember you telling me that. You said, Brian Callahan

(51:55):
said that your Dr Sanders reminds him of Joe Burrow.
I would think she'd door Sanders will be picked over
cam Ward in Tennessee. Maybe I'm crazy. You got kim Ward.
Tell me why you got kim Ward going to Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Well, just reading the tea leaves this isn't how I
would rank them, because if you ask me in quarterbacks,
I have Shuder Sanders over cam Ward in terms of
how he plays.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
The game in those things.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
But in Tennessee and around the league, there seems to
be a fascination with cam Ward. His tools, his talent,
and his tennasty really have captivated the minds of scouts
around the league.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
They love his story going from a zero star recruit to.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Incarnate word, to Washington State to Miami, displaying that leadership ability.
He has tools where you can throw in the pocket,
out of the pocket, off platform, in platform, working with structure,
without structure, all of those things. And if you're a
team that is trying to roll the dice on a
player with superpowers, cam Ward would.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Be your guy.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
Because we talked about the quarterback slate that you're dealing
with in the AFC, it makes sense, But my mind
comes back to Callahan talking about the touch, timing and
anticipation with your doer centers and those things. I just
believe he gets outvoted in this scenario and cam Ward
ends up being the one that holds up the powder
blue jersey.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
On Gleig, you said that you see outvoted. How does
that work? Is it similar on most teams? Does the
head coach go into a meeting and say I need
this guy, I need a quarterback? The position coaches come
in there, the general manager who basically makes the Finnel
picks of the vote. Is it a democracy or is
there one guy doing it and say I want this guy?

(53:36):
I mean every.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
Time the democratic process is ever changing. And I would
say in NFL meeting rooms, it depends.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
On who has the power.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
If the general manager has the power, and to say
he ultimately can determine which guy's gonna be the guy.
You would like to do it with the blessing of
the coaching staff, and you would like to have open
dialogues so everyone agrees on the pick.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
But sometimes you have to be the bad guy.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
And if you're the bad guy, want to stand up
and say, Hey, this is the guy that's gonna lead
us to the Promised Land. You stand on it, and
I think for the Titans looking at it from Afar.
I would say that the general manager Mike Burgazi, who
comes over from Kansity Chiefs, the president Jad Brinker, who
has been there has been elevated to.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
A huge president of football ops role.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
I believe they're more likely to make the choice with
a little consultation from Brian Callahan than Brian Callahan making
the choice, because remember, Brian Callahan is new. He wasn't
hired necessarily by the new regime, so his voice won't
have significance when it comes to how they believe this
team should be in five ten years.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
They can make the decision.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
Best long term and that may or may not include
Callahan and his thoughts.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
You know. And I'm glad to see the owners are
not meddling, because even in New York with mister Mara,
he really loved Saquon Barkley. He didn't want Sequon to go,
but he let his general manager and coaching staff do
what they wanted to do. But I think he really
really wanted Sick want to stay with the Giants, but
he didn't want to meddle, and I respect him for that,

(55:10):
but I wish he would have stayed in New York.
I'm sure he wished he would have stayed in New
York too.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Well, yeah, Like it's funny, like we don't want them
to meddle, But if it's your team, if it's your house,
so you're gonna let someone else make final decisions on
your house? Probably not, And it's a situation. Lagmarra stayed
out of it, but he made his opinion note and
he was right. And so that puts a lot of
pressure on people, like when you go against the grain,

(55:36):
when you go against ownership's wishes, you better get it
right because if you don't get it right, you can
be on the sideline. But I do respect the fact
that he trusted his football people to get it done.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
It just didn't work out, right.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
I gotta believe there's two strikes against the coaching staff
and the general manager right now in New York because
I'm the Saquon Barkley didn't help. That move did not
help them whatsoever. Not only did they lose him, but
they lost him that to play twice in the same division.
That was bad. That was real bad.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Oh yeah, I mean it was terrible. I mean it
was terrible. It's bad.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
It's the worst scenario that the New York Jazz could
ever envisioned. They're not only lost to the Eagles twice,
they watched their division rival go to her Super Bowl.
They watched their favorite player, the player that the owner
was adamant about trying to keep. They watched him play
at the MVP level and go over two thousand yards.

(56:28):
I mean that is that is the trifecta and bad
when it comes to dealing with ownership.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
I mean not not great, not great at all. Unreal.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
All right, we got the second pick right now, and
that's the Cleveland Browns, and you say Shudoor Sanders, so
basically that that leaves out the defensive players. But I guess,
and I hope he does go to Cleveland because I'll
see him twice coming to Cincinnati. But Stefanski says, uh,
he's worked well with pocket passes. He's a pocket passer.
Shoulder Sanders number two right now, going to the Cleveland Browns.

(57:00):
You see that, right? What made you make that cousion?

Speaker 3 (57:03):
Well, here's why, and here's what few people talk about,
because you talked about Kirk Cousins in Minnesota in that
relationship with Kevin Stefanski. But you got to remember Kevin
Stefanski was a quarterback coach in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Under Pat Shermer.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Pat Shermer is currently the offensive coordinator at Colorado. So
if anybody knows anything about Sherdur Sanders, it'd be Cleveland
Browns and Kevin Stefanski. And because deepnen Kafanski is resuming
play calling duties, he certainly can talk to I'll assume this,
and this is loosely assuming one of his mentors about

(57:37):
how to get the best out of a young.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Quarterback right away.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
So the reason why I put Shador Sanda is what
the Browns is.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Man. This dude is going to know everything about the quarterback.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
And so if they're going to take a quarterback, Shadur
Sanders appears to be the one. If Cam Wore's not there,
he would appear to be the one because he would
be the one that they have the most intel on
in the draft class.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
You know, you brought up something very very interesting right
there that Fancy calls the place us the head coach.
Zach Taylor does that as well, and Zach Taylor does
it from the sidelines as the Stefanski A two pot question.
A is an advantage to call plays from the booth upstairs.
We have a better view of the field and look
at the defense how they're lining up. And B is

(58:21):
it too much for the head coach to be calling
the plays? Should he leave that to the offensive coordinator.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
I'll say, let's answer the reverse.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
It is very difficult for young head coach to also
be the play caller. It can be done, but it
requires a lot of organization when it comes to how
you delegate things on your staff. Typically, if you're an
offensive minded head coach that's the play caller, you then
need a an experienced defensive coordinator to basically be the

(58:51):
head coach of that side.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Me and amen, you're in charge of the defense. Handle
that run the big things by me.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
But I need you to really handle all that stuff
so I can focus on the offense and the overall
management of the team. So it's really important that the
defensive coordinator high is big if you're going to handle
all the duties. It's a lot to manage the team
and call plays on game day. It requires the village
to be able to do it effectively. And that offensive
coordinator who works up under you but doesn't call the place,

(59:20):
his job is to install the offense, make things happen
in practice, organize the scripts, get all that stuff together,
and then you kind of come in and out because
remember you're still responsible for the entire team. As relates
to being on the sideline and up in the booth,
and that depends on field and flavor. Some guys like
to be up in the booth because it's quiet, it's

(59:41):
a sterile environment.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
You can see the field and you.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Can kind of lock in and focus, put all your
papers out, all your notes, all that stuff out there.
When you're on the field, you want to be on
the field because you want to have a better kind
of understanding.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Of the field and flow of the game.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
You want to be able to we have conversations with
players as they're coming off the field or on the sideline,
in between defensive series and in those things. That's the
advantage of being on the field. But it really comes
down to the flavor. But if you're the head coach,
heair coach can't be in the booth. Hair coach has
to be on the field because there's so many things
that you have to answer.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
You go, all right, you answered that for me, and
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You know, Mighty Mark, our technical producer, came to me
during this break, Bucky, and he gave a very very
interesting insight. Baseball started this week, all right, And in

(01:01:49):
Cincinnati it's kind of like a national holiday. In most
cities they have ticket tap parades after teams win championships.
In Cincinnati they have a parade before. They had a
big parade on Thursday, Opening Day, tremendous. I mean, the crowd,
no one went to school, everything is shut down. And
he wants to know why we're still talking football and
not a lot of baseball. And you know, he brings

(01:02:09):
up an interesting point because I just think that football
moves the needle. Football is the sport of sports. People
love football, and there's always something going on with the
draft right down the road and the gambling. I expect
there's so much interest in football where baseball maybe too long.
I don't know. Big game yesterday Yankees at nine home runs.
But is there any reason in your mind why baseball

(01:02:30):
is going to still be pushed to the side. People
wait for the season to start and they're not talking baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Just because there's so many things going on right now.
All right. So you have March madness, which commands.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
A lot of attention. There are a lot of people there.
Some of that has to do a gambling interest. You
have the NFL Draft ramping up because it's a month away.
In the NFL is king and it's a slow transition
to baseball. It's still I mean, we haven't got the
April yet.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
We're almost there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
Opening Day just took place, But it's such a long
sleep season that I think many of us, including myself
a huge Dodger fan, I know I can ease into baseball.
There's no need for me to rush fandom. There one
hundred and sixty two games. If I'm behind five, six,
seven games, I'll catch up. I can look at the
standings and catch up. I think that's what it is.

(01:03:26):
Everyone understands it's a marathon, not a sprint. That's why
they're kind of slow to come over too.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
All right, I agree, you always make a great point.
You missed a common sense, you really are and I
gotta I gotta tell you you better sit down for
this one. And when I heard about this yesterday, I
couldn't believe it. Wolf Fraser Clyde birthday eighty years old?
Can you believe it? Wolf Fraser is eighty live? That's

(01:03:52):
that's scary, I mean it really, I mean wow, I
just want to let you know Wolf Fraser's eighty. I
mean Clyde playing for the Knicks with something else. But
we move on, all right. I just want to finish
up over at least I want to get the first
five picks in your mock draft. And we got the
first two. We've got cam Ward Tennessee shoulder standard for Cleveland.
We're going to the New York Football Giants, and you

(01:04:13):
picked Travis Hunter. All right. A great situation for Travis Hunter.
When does he play? He's a two way guy at Colorado.
Where would he could he play both ways in the NFL?

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
H I think he can play both ways. You know.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
It's interesting because I viewed him as a defensive player first,
wide receiver second. However, after talking to a lot of
people around Colorado. They believe that he might be more
of a offensive player than defensive player. That if you
ask him and give him his brothers, he's always going
to kind of lean towards look playing on the offense

(01:04:50):
and doing some things where he can touch the ball
and be an impact player in that regard.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
So I get that. I think you can do both,
and I think it's easy to do both.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
If he plays wide receiver full time, it seeds to
make him a nickel or a dime defender comes in
on your sub packages, meaning you're passing down. It's when
you're putting five and six dbs on the field. He
can come in and play that role. But I also
think he could work in reverse. I think he could
be your full time starter at corner and come and
play a role in your spread receiver says as your

(01:05:23):
wide receiver three, wide receiver four. To me, it is
one of those situations where you really got to know
the kid and you got to ask him hard questions like, look,
I know you want to be a two way player,
but if we could just pick one for you to start,
where would you go?

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
And then kind of lean off of that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
The guy won the Politanikoff Award as the best wide
receiver in college football.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
But here I am talking about man.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
His best position is defensive back. Maybe we go to
him and ask him how he sees himself playing and.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
What he would like to do, and then kind of
build the plan out from that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
I wouldn't play him full time both ways because that
would be taxing, But there's certainly a way to put
him on the field and allow him to play both
without worrying him out all right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Now, with the signing of Russell Wilson with the Giants,
even if a quarterback is available, that they skip over
that quarterback and they still stick with Travis Hunter in
your mind.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
See, now, that's a tough one, right And the reason
why it's tough. You're Brian dave On, You're Joe Shane.
You got to win right now, you know, and we
can talk about like, yeah, you want to do the
best and right now, I don't get a chance to
talk about the future unless I find a way to
win enough games to ensure that I'm a part of
the team and the franchise for the future. Travis Hunter

(01:06:40):
or a regular position player might give you the opportunity
to do that and to do that right away. So
a lot of it depends on how you rank the
quarterback in comparison to what could be two really good
non quarterback players in Travis Hunter, Nmdual Carter whicheveryone carries
the bigger grade. You can go that route if you
just say we're gonna take the best de Beilable player

(01:07:02):
and we're not going to force the need to secure
the quarterback position.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Okay, you're talking about the edge rusher, ab Duel Carter,
and that's the number five pick, and that's going to
be with the Patriots. And I'm not surprised with Mike
Vrabel at defensive minded guy, he probably puts his stamp
on that big time. Abdul Carter going to the Patriots
at five, right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Well, I mean I would think so. I mean, we
talked about the division, We talked.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
About the quarterback playing the AFC, and the only way
to slow down.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Quarterback plays you gotta knock him down.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
Got to knock them down with multiple pass rushers, so
you can rush for and play with seven and coverage.
Abdul Carter with joint with team with Harold Andry similar
skill sets in terms of being more finesse type pass
rushers coming off the edge, but we give them an
impact player immediately on the edges.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
That's it. You got a young quarterback in Drake.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
May you think about the weapons, the firepower, how you
can upgrade that?

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
That would lead you to bleep man.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
I would love to get a playmaker here, But if
Travis hunters off the board, I think the best player
by at this point would be a bull Carter.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
All right, I was gonna do a top five, But
since you're involved with Jacksonville and the Jaguars, let's do
number six. And you got Mason Graham. Now you've got
some inside information. I would think, right, do you have
any idea what they're going, what direction they're going, and
how does it work. Are you involved in the war
room that they are the draft with them?

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
No, I'm not involved in the war room.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
I'll be doing coverage on the NFL network. I don't
have inside information. If I did have inside information, I
certainly would have shared it right now when the public
so everyone would know what they're doing. They would mess
up potentially their plans. I'll say this, Look, they need
someone on the inside that can impact the game. A
defensive tackle that can command some significant attention to allow

(01:08:44):
Josh e hanz Allen and Trayvon Walker to continue to
erast quarterbacks off the edge.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
And until they get that fixed.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
On the inside, it's gonna be harder for the guys
on the outside to go to work. If there was
like an offensive playmaker that could really make a difference
that could help them, like a wide receiver, that would
be something.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
But you know, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
Defensive tackle is probably the way they lean where they go, and.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
That's Mason Graham, the junior defensive tackle for Michigan.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
Yeah, he's a great player, man.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
He's he is a low leverage player, high school wrestler,
has some some some nastiness, some grit, he has some
some some toughness that you can't find, and he's a
very talented and technical guy at the point of attack.
Those things typically lead to success. Even though you're going
to him the run up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
To the draft about uh, size, arm.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
Length and those things doesn't really show up enough to
make it a problem or concern. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
He just is one of those non.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
Prototypical guys that is a really good football player.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
And to me, UH, you tend to lean to.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Those guys because they tend to have a lot of
success when they're given a chance to play in the league.
This dude plays hard, he's all day suck, he's always active,
and he's what I call a culture changer. He comes
in with his no nonsense approach. He's working like attitude.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
He's going to impact the way the rest of your
team gets Now.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
All right, now, here are the big questions right now.
And I appreciate your mock draft. I'm sure you'll have
another one before the draft is in a couple of weeks.
But you know, we got the first six picks and
we'll keep him in there to see how how correct
or incorrect you are. I'm sure you're pretty spot on
on those. However, the question is, and I don't think
many people address this, the veteran quarterbacks moving around the
college or around the pros on the carousel. How would

(01:10:37):
they mesh with their new offense? That's the question right now.
It's great to see a quarterback jump from teammate to
TB team B, but will they will they do well?
Can they fit in there? And let's let's look at
some of these quarterbacks and one of them, Gino Smith
leaving Seattle going to the Raiders. He could perhaps have
with the Raiders a career year. Maybe, I don't know.

(01:10:58):
New offensive coordinated right there, that chip Kelly going in
to the Raiders now, is he with them?

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
Yeah, chip Kelly is with him.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
He didn't have a lot of success the last time in.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
The NFL, so right.

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
Yeah, he has I will say this, the relationship between
Pete Carroll.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
And Gino Smith is when it matters more than the.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
Play caller, because Pete Carroll's gonna walk into the meeting
room until the offensive coordinator. Here's what this guy does, well,
this is what he did really well for us. I
want him to play. I want this offense to play
in this manner, and he lays it out very clearly,
sets out what he wants to see from the offense.
Then it's on the coordinator to make it happen while

(01:11:41):
building around Gino Smith's talent. So yeah, I mean that's
I mean, that's that's that's easy money. That's that's one
of the more ideal fits when it comes to the
musical chairs.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
Okay, So all Gino Smith needs is it up above
average offensive line that could protect him for passing, run
block for him and he could have a darn good year.
But how difficult is it for one guy going from
one team to another to learn on new offense, with
new coaching and things like that. I mean, it's difficult
that we see when a quarterback stays on one team

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and they're switching coaches. This guy's going to another team
with different personnel, with different coaches.

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
Yeah, I mean, like all of that stuff matters. Personnel matters,
play call it matter. You got to have all the
right things to be at your best, and it's really
important that you make decisions with that in mind. And
as we're evaluating situations and scenarios, how does the play
caller fit the player, How does the people around him
elevate him or does he have the ability to elevate them.

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All of those things are factors and considerations. And with quarterbacks,
because you're a forced multiplier, it is really important that
you're able to connect the dots and see how the
pieces of the puzzler really fit together and how they're
gonna fit together going forward.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
Okay, let's talk about that puzzle right now, because you know,
Smith leaves Seattle, goes to the Raiders, and the Seahawks
didn't waste any time they got Sam Donald. And I
think that Sam Donald's gonna struggled with the Seahawks. Why
is that he had the best possible situation a quarterback
in Minnesota with the Vikings. They had two top tackles
whether Darris saw and O'Neill. They had great receiver and
Justin Jefferson. They had Aaron Jones, TJ. Howkinson, Jordan Adison.

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He didn't have that in Seattle. Right now, I think
as good as he was last year in Minnesota, he's
gonna struggle in Seattle.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
Potentially he can struggle. He doesn't have what he had
in Minnesota. He not only doesn't have Justin Jefferson, Jordanaison, TJ. Hockinson,
he doesn't have Kevin O'Connor. Kevin O'Connor has made.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
It work for everybody, made the game very, very easy
for him.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
And when you look at Sam Donald and you look
at his career and you say, man, that's the only
year where he's really played really well. Can he replicate that? Well,
how many of the same things does he have?

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Have?

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
The Seattle sex afforded him to a Naghbor that the
transition is smooth. Well, I loved Jackson Smith and Jigba.
He's nice, but they don't have a dominant number one
receiver right now to anchor. Yeah, Cooper Cup comes over,
but remember oft injured unavailable. Been three years since he's
been available, like full time all the time. Can he

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kind of turn back to the clock and become the
guy that was the triple crown winner? That's key because
if he does, now you've got two route runners on
the perimeter. Running Game? Can you get the consistent part
of the Running game? Aaron Jones is Aaron Jones.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
He's a really good player.

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
Won't call him a great player, really really good. Can
Seattle get that kind of production from the Running Game?
People like him walk? But can they get that consistent production,
that persistent approach to allow Sam Donald to operate.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
On their pitch count?

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
I would say thirty passes a fewer that will help
him mitigate the risks, help him stay in the concerts.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
Yeah, I almost forgot. She had a lost to turnover
and receivers. DK Metcalf has gone and Tyler Locket's gone
as well. Released that hurt him too, We'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
It's interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
So as good as you are, a one team may
not be the same when you take even your own
skill set to another team, as you say, the personnel
is a very, very big factor. He's Bucky Brooks on
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Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
I think we need a ruling on this.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
It's yay or nay.

Speaker 4 (01:16:23):
That is right.

Speaker 5 (01:16:24):
It is time to play yay or nay on this
Sunday with Bucky and our other host mister and Day,
on this lovely day. All right, well, let's get into it, guys,
So thank you my tay.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:16:41):
The first one we cut is so Pacers scoring one
hundred and sixty two points this last Thursday against the Wizards.

Speaker 4 (01:16:49):
Is this healthy for the league?

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Yay or nay?

Speaker 4 (01:16:52):
Andy Furman, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
Think it's healthy for the league, but it's healthy for
fans because I love it. I'll tell you why. You
go to a game like that. You just your head's
dizzy from spinning around watching these baskets go through. But
I love that for the league. I don't think there's
not healthy. You gotta you gotta control a little bit
of defense out there. But for the league. No, for fans.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
Yay, Oh, I think he's great. I think he's great.

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
Anytime you have an opportunity to put up points, it
makes it for a more exciting game, however it is.
And so putting up one hundred and sixty points, man,
that's exciting to watch, and that ultimately makes them league better. Remember,
the league is about not only competition but entertainment.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
That was a very entertaining thing to watch.

Speaker 5 (01:17:30):
Well, speaking of entertainment, Bucky, we got our next one here.
So Saint John's star r J. Lewis is entering the
NBA Draft. Certainly not a good thing for Saint John's.
But what about for college basketball?

Speaker 4 (01:17:42):
Yay or nay?

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
Bucky Brooks, I think it's Look, I think it's good.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
Like everyone should pursue their things.

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
I think the way that he played was very indicative
of someone who was going into the draft. So yeah, like, look,
players you have the freedom to pursue what they want
to pursue, and at a coach you just have to
adjust to it. So, look, it's good for basketball because
guys are getting to do what they want to do.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
I say nay for college basketball, but yay for r J. Becaues. Look,
you can risk an injury because he's gonna make some
big bucks. He was a player of the Year in
the Big East Conference, So let him go college basketball
and ay because you want to see how this guy go.
He's going to follow his career. But do be others,
Debbie others. That's the way it is. He's not the
first to do this, So you're yay for him, nay

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for college basketball.

Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
Well, speaking of college we're gonna go over here for
something different with football. So the nc Double A Committee
has denied the Colorado versus Syracuse spring game.

Speaker 4 (01:18:38):
Yay or nay? Andy Furman, nay.

Speaker 1 (01:18:40):
I want her to see that. You know, people love
college football. Why are you doing this to the public.
It's a great way to promote it and get exposure.
Why it's the dumbest thing in the world. Dion was
smart enough to say, let's do this game. He calls
up Syracuse. But the point is NCUBA. Once again, whatever
they do, they take a step and step in do
do that's what they do.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
I mean not great.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
I think they blew a tremendous opportunity to really expand
on something that will eventually be commonplace in football. You
need to have a way to look invigorate college football.
But having spring game these jamber Ree practices would be good.
I think at some point they have to do it,
but the NC Double A is always slow to act.
In the future, though, we'll see this thing happen.

Speaker 5 (01:19:26):
All right, Well, final say the yay or nay guys.
MLB Opening Day overlapped at the NC Double A Sweet
sixteen Yay or nay bucket.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Look not smart, I mean not smart. I mean you
gotta read the room. Everyone is going to.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Be tuned in to March madness because of the brackets
and those things.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
They should have put it off.

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
If we wait after the championship game, then the stage
is theirs because there's nothing else that's going once college
basketball is done. NBA is going, but it's not quite
the playoffs. If they want to have center stage, wait
after the tournament is done.

Speaker 1 (01:19:59):
Nay, what are you rushing for for? I remember when
Major League Baseball started like by April tenth. Now that's
starting in March. Why are you doing it the day
of the Sweet sixteen? I don't get it. Are you
that stupid? It's nay, nay, nay nay, And now you
know what we're gonna tell you who improved the most
during free agency. That and more where Fox Sports Saturday
and Sunday Right here? Hey, did you hear about these taters?

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That's coming right up? Good morning. This is Fox Sports
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Theway tire bink should be here is Bucky Brooks. Let
me get the red carpet. Will you please get some music?
For get a drum roll?

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
At least?

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Come on nothing, Come on hello, Bucky, how I'm sorry,
you deserve it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
I'm good this day go.

Speaker 1 (01:21:00):
Thank you very much. All right, I'm good. And what's
going on? You're doing great? You're the best, you really are, Okay,
Duke and Florida in the final four today Tennessee, Houston,
Michigan State Auburn and by the way, Tennessee is going
to make its third Elite Eight appearance when they play
Houston today. A chance to reach the final four for
the first time. For the first time. In twenty ten,

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they lost the Elite A to Michigan State, and last year,
if you remember, the Volunteers lost to Purdue. And Rick Barnes,
the coach of Tennessee, has been to the Final four
just once, in two thousand and three when he was
the head coach of Texas. So that did you go,
right there? So I think that basically today, I like
Houston winning and I want to see Michigan. Well, I

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don't know. I love Tom Izzo, but I don't know
it's gonna be a good game. That all burn Michigan
State games are pretty good. That may be the game
of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
Yeah, I mean, look, I anticipate great games.

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
It's funny you bring up Rick Barnes and the fact
that he's only been to one final four. I think
I'm going to the Final four is something that we
take for granted, right me and particularly growing up a
lifelong tar Heel having watched Tuitar Hills go, I think
they've gone to more final fours than anyone. Twenty one
is I think where they stand at Duke is up there.
I think Duke maybe third right now, with like either

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seventeen or eighteen. But the accomplishment is getting to the
final four, and tom Izzo have an opportunity. I think
he's been to five, maybe six final fours. The fact
that Rick Barnes has only been to one, to me,
is surprising because he is such a good coach. He's
done such a good job with the programs that he's
been in charge of Clemson, then Texas and now Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
He has those guys playing.

Speaker 3 (01:22:41):
I watched them dismantled Tennessee on Friday night. This'd be
a interesting test, though, because the one thing I know
about Tennessee is man they back down, no retreat, no
surrender from them.

Speaker 2 (01:22:52):
And then Kevin Sampson.

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
Kelvin Sampson one of the best coaches in college basketball.
His guys are built on toughness and how they go
at it like this is one that's gonna be a knockdown,
drag out. Uh look, it's gonna be It's gonna be
a braw is basical, gonna be a fistfight ninety four feet.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
This is gonna be a really really good basketball game
to watch.

Speaker 3 (01:23:15):
It may not be the ninety four ninety two shootout
that we crave but it's going to be very contested,
it should be should be fun to watch it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:25):
I can't wait, and I'm glad that there are normal
hours I don't have to stay up real late for
these games. Today. It's just like an eastern time two
twenty I think, and then one about five thirty Eastern times.
That's not bad. So it's a good thing. And it's
a great day to be in because the weather's not
too good today. So I'll be doing that. By the way,
I got a question for everybody, not only for Bucky Brooks,
but for Patty and a magical mark over there. I

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want to ask you, do you know what a tater
todd is? Does anybody know what a tater todd is?

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
Oh? Who doesn't know tator tots?

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
I mean, I know what they look like. I've tasted them.
But could you give me like a death definition of
a tato?

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Time?

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
What exactly it is? Small piece of potato? I mean,
come on, that's that's like a break of a French
fry in head. That's a small piece of potato.

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
I mean, I mean basically it would it would almost
be the nugget version of a fry.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
I mean, in a way it's like a it's like
a mini.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
Balled up hash brown, like whatever hash brown is to you,
Uh just take it down and kind of uh squish
it down even smaller and and and change the shape.
It's basically just a bunch of little mini hashbrows.

Speaker 1 (01:24:34):
If you want to get answer to a question, where
do you go to? You got a bucket? Brooks he
knew first of all, Patty didn't even give it a
volunteer an answer. At least Mark tried okay, magical, Mark
try okay. But I looked at up. Tata touched a
small cylindrical deep fried potato nuggets right and there, So
there's a side dish. And why I bring that up?

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Because bring them Young University forward Richie Sonders. He told
reporters he he wasn't the one to publicize the fact
that get this, His great grandfather F. Nephie Griggs was
the inventor of Tata tots, but his secret was revealed
during this year's Big Twelve men's basketball tournament. And guess
what it wasn't long after that was revealed or Ida

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I brand potato based frozen products owned by Craft Hinds
that owns the trademark to the term Tata. Todd reached
out the cylinders with an idea for the nil deal,
and he got one. I don't know how much cash
he's getting, but look, if you got a grandfather that
invented the Tata Todd and you got the company out there,
it sells him. You got the Tata tots right now,

(01:25:38):
he's getting nil money for Tato tots. That's amazing, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
I mean, that's a sweet thing. Imagine what he could
have cast in on if you put that out there sooner.
All right, Yeah, that's why you have to broadcast. He
put it out there. He got a nice little thing
on the horizon.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
I'm with it. I appreciate that. Nice job.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
Yeah, And you know, there's gonna be other athletes right
now looking at their family trees seeing what their family
tree is invented, if they invented anything at all. So
that's a good deal. That's a good story. That's a
good Nil story. I like that. It's a good Nil
story because it's a great fit. I love that. And
speaking of great fits, we started talking about adapting and
adjusting to a new offense, and we talked about two

(01:26:21):
quarterbacks moving on Geno Smith right now to the Raiders
and Sam Donald right out to the Seahawks. There's two
more I want to get into, and one of them
is Justin Fields. And I think the Jets are going
to have to adjust the Justin Field's game. Is that correct?
I believe they will.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
I mean they are going to have to adjust to
his game. He's a different type quarterback. He is an
athletic quarterback, someone that has the ability to really impact.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
The game with his legs. And when you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Have a quarterback like that, you want to make sure
that you building things that enhance what he always is
able to do. And that means more design quarterback runs.
That means encouraging him to utilize his legs when things
are there, That means movement based passing game, all of
those things.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
And it also means that the offensive.

Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
Line needs to be aware that he may not always
line up and throw from the same spot in the pocket.
You have to be numble, you have to be able
to adapt to the new quarterback that we have. But
to me, this should be a great move for Justin Fields.
It should be a great move because maybe for the
first time in his NFL life, he'll have someone that
truly believes in him and his talents. He was hand

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picked by the Jets to be their QB.

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
One.

Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
People to talk about, oh, they may take another quarterback
and maybe so, but what we do know is Aaron
Glenn faced Justin Fields four or five times doing their
time together in the NFC North, and Justin Field has
some monster games against them that led Aaron Glenn to
want to make him the quarterback. I am sure that
he started the offensive coordinators and said, hey, I want

(01:27:52):
this guy to play the way that he played against us,
So find a way to build on an offense that
allows him to be a dynamic threat. So I'm looking
forward to seeing how this plays out.

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
You know, you hit the run on the head because
I just looked that up. In three games against Glenn
when he was with the Bears, Justin Fields threw for
six thirty four yards, rushed for four hundred and forty
one yards twelve point three yards per carry, and had
eight total touchdowns with just two I iNTS. So I
guess Glenn's saw firsthand right now how dangerous Justin Field's
ability as a runner could be. And honestly, I think

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Field's ability to run, and the running game in New
York is not going to be too bad. They got
a pretty good offensive line right now. I think this
is gonna be a pretty good move for the New
York Jets. I think they could do some damage. I
really do.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
Yeah, they should be able to create I would say
some problems, and those problems from a defensive standpoint, she
lead the bigger players. Remember, he has a number one
receiver that's already established with him, Garrett Wilson, who was
his teammate from Ohio State. They combined during the time
in Ohio State for over eleven hundred receiving yards, so
that connection is solid. They'll add I'm sure tied it

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in in the draft. They'll continue to upgrade.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
What they have on the perimeter.

Speaker 3 (01:29:06):
They got two good backs and Bredon Allen and Breesehault
that are really good. They should see their production spike
because now the defense has to account for justin fields
coming out the back door. For a defensive minded team,
because remember head coach comes from defense at the ball,
He's always going to think about it from dad vantage point, Yeah,
this should be really good. Now, how far can they

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go operating like this?

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
But I think it's a chance for Justin Fields to
finally blossom and become I would say the start that
some expected when he was a first round pick coming
out of Ohio State.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Interesting. Okay, last, but not least obviously a quarterback. This
could have to make some adjustments with a team as well.
Daniel Jones goes to the Indianapolis Colts and he was
with the Minnesota Vikings, and I got to believe that
the Vikings would have liked to have Jones back. But
even if he had won that starting job at quarterback
from JJ McCarthy, I think it would have been just

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a temporary band aid situation because the JJ McCarthy's that guy.
They drafted him, although he's coming off that injury. I
think they would have liked to have kept him. But
now there's going to be a quarterback battle I guess
in Indianapolis with Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones. What happens
over there, Anthony Richardson's going to get all the opportunity
to stop because why he was taken them before the
twenty twenty three draft. And if they don't start these guys,

(01:30:25):
I think it looks like they made a mistake. That's
why he's it to be given every opportunity to be
the starter.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
Yeah, but they probably feel like they made a mistake
if they had to go out and get Daniel Jones right.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
There wasn't a plan. So to me, Daniel Jones is
in pole position more so than Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
If Anthony Richardson had taken care of business, this never
would have happened. So he has a longer road or
bigger heel to climb to convince his coaches and teammates
that he's ready to be QB one. To me, Daniel
Jones just has to steady the ship, understand what he's
doing in play, and when you look at the money,
because you're always going to follow the money.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
In these situations.

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
Daniel Jones ten thirteen million, he is making more money
than Anthony Richardson. That means he's going to get more
opportunities to be the QB one than Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 1 (01:31:16):
Yeah, and I read this and I maybe you can
help me out here. Apparently, Daniel Jones has a career
on target percentage of seventy six point six percent, which
does not include spikes with throwaways. Seventy six percent of
better is considered very good. I never heard that stat
before on target percentage. Have you heard that stat?

Speaker 3 (01:31:35):
I'm sure I never heard of it, But I mean,
if it speaks to his accuracy, that is good. Because
what we assume that we know about Daniel Jones is
that he's not a very good quarterback. That's that's the conversation, right,
he was overpaid and those things. But if you go
back and look at how he played this his pre
injury with Brian day Ball and they went to the

(01:31:55):
playoffs that year, he had fifteen touchdowns, only five interceptions.
Randa Ball made a bunch of plays with his legs.
He has that capability now, so on Shane Stikeen to
build an offense that plays to his strengths. He was
a mobile quarterback. He's a solid quarterback. Is he does
he have the potential to be a premier guy? Probably not?

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
But can he be good enough for them to win
with the talent that they have around him? Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
And that's what the Coasts were like, Man, they just
want someone who's going to be available for all seventeen games,
who's going to be not only the professional that you expect,
but the leader that you expect from a QB one
and if he becomes an extension of the coach on
the field, conveying messages, leading the team, challenging when he
needs to challenge, well, then you've checked off all the

(01:32:42):
boxes and it makes it very very easy to hand
the ball to Daniel Jones.

Speaker 1 (01:32:46):
All right, and now we talk about free agency and
people adapting and teams adapting, players adapting the various teams.
The question I have, I mean, they always talk I
hate this every year at the draft and you always
hear these clowns on TV talk about, well, here's the
best player available and here's a need factor. I mean,
if I'm a guy drafting for a team, if I'm

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a personnel guy, general manager, coach, whatever it may be,
I want to fill the problems that I have with
players that could go to those positions that I need.
I want to go for need, not necessarily the best
player available. If I have a starting quarterback and a
quarterback is on the board, I don't think I'm going
to draft another quarterback, although we saw that several years ago.

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Remember when the Cleveland Browns, I think I picked number
one in three and they picked two quarterbacks in both picks.
Remember that that was several years ago. But I don't
see that. So what do you do? I mean, is
it best player available? If for need? How do you
do it?

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
It's a combination of both, and hopefully the best player
available matches the need. Where really factors in is if
you have two similarly rated players and you have a
player at a different position than the one of need.

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
What you have to then do is, Okay, who are
the best players available?

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
These guys have grades that are comparable, may not necessarily
be exact, but comparable. Well, we got a bigger need
at disposition in that position? What supply and demand? Like,
are there any other guys at disposition that are available
in later rounds that would give us comp production and
performance in return?

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
Well, if it's not a we're gonna have to take
this guy.

Speaker 3 (01:34:27):
Now, see if we can find the best of the
other position a little later.

Speaker 2 (01:34:32):
Yeah, So it's always that debate.

Speaker 3 (01:34:35):
Ultimately, you can jerry rig your board to make it
where the best player available always matches your need. But
if you're being true to it, you great everybody for
who they are, what they are, the talent they bring,
and how they project, and then as a team you
have to figure out which of those guys really fits

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with the dynamic that you want to create an the
locker room.

Speaker 1 (01:34:58):
Okay, So basically, in a what you want to do
is you want to build your team to be competitive,
no doubt about that. But there's another way to do
that as well, and that's free agency, which is going
on right now. So building through free agency can hurt
a team, do you agree, can hurt an NFL team
and the long term depending upon the types of deals
that are given. But there some evidence now that could

(01:35:19):
really help you in the short term. So basically a
draft is for long term to develop. Free agency is
right now, let's get it done. We need you right
now to turn things around like next year.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
Yeah, that's how I suppose.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
That's how I was intended to be done, particularly by
teams that take a draft and develop approach. From a
cost standpoint, it is more efficient and more cost effective
if you build through the draft, because you get guys
on a three or four year period on a rookie contract,
we have cost control.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
Then if you resign them dependent upon.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
You know exactly what you're getting, So it's unlikely that
you're going to bust on a free agent that has
come through your program.

Speaker 2 (01:36:00):
That's where it works. Free agency was designed.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
When you talk to Hall of Famer Ron Wolf and
some other general managers that I've been around, they'll say
that free agency is designed to fill the holes. What
you do as a general manager early in the offseason,
you look at what's available in the draft and what
is available on the free agent market. You try to
identify the strengths and weaknesses of both classes, the draft

(01:36:24):
class versus the free agent class, what's available, and then,
based on supply and demand, you may opt for a
free agent at disposition because the supply in the draft
is not what we need to ensure that we can
fix the position. You may opt for the draft to hey, look,
the draft is plentiful. We got more than enough options

(01:36:45):
there to take care of what we need to take
care of, so we can skip that position in free agency.
Great general managers, great team builders, can float in both worlds.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
They know the pro.

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
Game, they know what's going on there, but they also
know the college game. If you're too heavy in one,
you have a blind spot towards the other. Great general
managers have operated in both worlds and they know how
to mess them together to build the best team.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:37:12):
Okay, so I know you did that mock draft NFL
dot Com at Bucket Brooks mockdraft. I got a little
bit of a I believe me. I'm in no way
trying to compete with you, and there's no way I can.
If I ever had a race with you, I'd lose
by several miles. However, I am going to share this
with you. The teams that have improved the most in

(01:37:32):
free agency, all right, and one of them, I gotta
believe is the offensive line of the Chicago Bears. They
got the Drew Dollman center at a free agency and
they traded for Jonah Jackson, a right guard. So I
think the Bears really had not a really good offensive
line maybe in five, six, seven years, and they got
the new coach and Ben Johnson, he really and truly

(01:37:53):
he was the man with the Detroit Lions and their
offensive line. He went in that direction. I think the
Bears have improved their offensive line.

Speaker 2 (01:38:00):
Yeah, they have improved.

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
They've improved significantly on the offensive line, and that is
a great thing to see them improve because they need
their young quarterback to take another step in his development.
And the only way to do that is to protect them,
and you protect them by being.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
Able to run the football.

Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
If you look at Ben Johnson's pass and what Detroit
really was, all the fun stuff that we saw, trick plays,
passing game, jerk goff, all this other stuff, all of
that masked a team that was really an old school throwback,
run it down your throat type team.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
Chicago's gonna do that. They're gonna run the football.

Speaker 3 (01:38:35):
They're gonna be built on the running game because that's
the foundation, and then they will supplement that with the
creative stuff that we've seen Kailer Williams get outside throw
or whatever, but run game first. That's where the offensive
line needed to upgrade so they can play the bully
ball that you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
Need to play in the division.

Speaker 1 (01:38:53):
Yeah, and the right guard Jordan Jackson, he played for
the Detroit Lions, and I think he's one of the
best gouts in the league. But he's got to be healthy,
has to keep with him. So basically, Johnson knew, he
knew what he wanted. He got his guy Jackson from Detroit,
and he stays healthy. They're be in pretty good shape.
At least the right guard. And I'm not talking about
the deorderant either I'm talking about the position.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
I mean, I mean I was hoping that's what you're
talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:39:19):
But with it, there is a smell around here. But
with the eye, I'm not pointing anythingers, I'm not doing that. Well,
save that for the playing game, all right, I'm moving on. Okay,
Now I'm gonna looking at the New England Patriots. I
think they improved on defense. I'm not surprised Mike Rabel
that he's the guy. He's a defensive guy. They're gonna

(01:39:39):
be building on defense. And they got in free agency
Carlton Davis, a cornerback. They got an inside linebacker, Robert Splane,
and a defensive lineman Milton Williams. So I think these
these guys really improved on defense. What they got Harold
Landry a free agent edge rushers. So they really stocked

(01:40:02):
up the pile and free agency on defense. That's what
they did because I think they believe in Drake May
right now, he's that guy. He impressed him at least
down the stretch. So I think with Drake May developing
defense getting stronger, they could they could be reckoned with
maybe not next year, maybe the year after.

Speaker 2 (01:40:19):
Yeah, they want to continue to start.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
I want to continue to make sure that Drake May
has what he needs to be successful. And that's important
because as you're building around the quarterback, you want to
make sure that he understands that he can comfortably play.
He doesn't have to feel the need to be rushed.

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
In those things.

Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
But they got to give him enough playmakers around to
allow him to really do his things so he can shine.
So I like their approach. Still more work to do,
but I like what they've been able to do. And
more importantly, man the coach is right. Vrabel is the
right guy for them, and so I want to you

(01:41:00):
continue to see them grow, you know, and allow those
guys to kind of build the program that has been very,
very successful in doing the old school throwback physicality, toughness, discipline, detail,
all that other stuff that work in New England.

Speaker 2 (01:41:17):
I want to see them get back to that.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
He's like an old school kind of coach. He's like
a forest great coach's Neve Rabel.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
Yeah, some of that m for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:41:25):
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we did have that list buck improved units in free agency,
and we did the Bears. We did, we did the Patriots.

(01:43:16):
I'm going to throw another one at you. I'm going
to throw the Indianapolis Colts, and I think they improved there.
His secondary with cam Bineam a free agent signing for Minnesota. Agreed, Agreed.

Speaker 3 (01:43:29):
I think that certainly Hurt helps them in the secondary.
They also added a safety that helps him. What they
want to do is they got to get back to
playing really good defense. Lou Narrumo comes over. He was
fired from Cincinnati despite what I would say is doing
a really really good job in difficult circumstances. He goes
to Indianapolis, he's going to have the luxury of having

(01:43:52):
more firepower on defense, more playmakers available to them, and
offensively they should be good. So they should have an
opportunity control the game because they're running game. But Jonathan
Taylor will allow them to saltweight leagues and so that
time of possession.

Speaker 2 (01:44:07):
Battle that they can win will only help lou and
Rumo and.

Speaker 3 (01:44:10):
His troops play at a high level. So I like
to fit. I like the players that they brought on board.
But look, there's a mandate. Gotta win now. No one
is waiting.

Speaker 1 (01:44:19):
Gotta win now, especially the owner. He's not waiting. He
wants to win, no doubt about that. All right. Another
team that has improved with through free agency. I think
it's the Los Angeles Rams and the receiver situation they
got Defonte Adams because the Cooper Cup era in LA
it's over. It's over, and really and truly, if you
are graphing that Cooper cut era, it's been going downhill

(01:44:41):
the last several years because he has been healthy since
he won that Triple Crown of twenty twenty one. He
has played, believe it or not, just thirty four out
of a possible fifty one games. So basically, Devonte Adams
comes in. I think they improved themselves on the receiving end.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
I mean, yeah, he I mean he helps them.

Speaker 3 (01:45:01):
Devanta Adams, I'm gonna say this, he is a descending player.
He's not what he once was, but he's available. I
think they've said he's always played fourteen games. He's going
to be available. Sean McVay will make sure he creates
some things for him to not only get his touches,
but to make an imply because that's what Sean McVay does.
You now have him and Puka Nakua. I would expect

(01:45:22):
them to add another piece. I know they had two
two act well, which they resigned for like a ten million.
They have some juice in the passing game, but it's
the way that it all comes together, and the running
game is a big part of how it comes together.
Their running game allows them to really take deep shots
off play action, which puts their offense on an entire

(01:45:46):
different level.

Speaker 1 (01:45:47):
Okay, the Minnesota Vikings, I think through free agency they
improved the offensive line, and they got two former Indianapolis
Colts offensive linemen, Kelly and Fries came to Minnesota, which
is really going to bols to them, and they need
that with their new quarterback over there in Minnesota. So
I think that's a good move. As you mentioned, they
went for need. They needed offensive lineman. They need to

(01:46:09):
protect their new quarterback. They need to protect JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 3 (01:46:14):
Yeah, no, they needed to. They needed to protect JJ McCarthy.
They excited as I am about the moves they made
on offense. I think defensively is where they really got better.
Jonathan Allen coming over to help them at the point
of attack. They now have salty defensive tackles that can
get it done to go with the defensive front line
that already speaks already has Andrew Van ginklm, Jonathan Grenard,

(01:46:36):
all of those guys are there. Secondary, they will plug
and play some young guys to deal with some of
the old guys leaving. But this is a team that
on defense was doing it with smoking mirrors the first
two years on the floors. When he has really a
rock and stock lineup to feature, this defense could go

(01:46:58):
next level and they already were top. Now you're talking
about being a problem and a thorn in the side
of the opponents can't deal with all the chaos and
the talent that they able to put on the field.

Speaker 1 (01:47:08):
Okay, I'm gonna give you one more team, and I'll
tell you what. This team is going to be a
dark corse. This team is gonna be competitive. I think
think I'm talking about the I'm go go Baey the
Denver Broncos. I think bo Nicks is that guy. We
saw that at the end of the season. He came
on strong. And the fact that in free agency they
picked up on defense and inside linebacker in green Law,
Drake Greenlaw. I think this team right now is going

(01:47:30):
to make some moves. They made some moves listed they
had a shot at the playoffs going into the final
game of the season. I think the Denver Broncos will
be a team to reckon with this coming season.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
I mean, look, I can't dispute it. I like what
they've done. I like how Sean Payton is building his team.

Speaker 3 (01:47:46):
Signing Evan Ingram was a big hit because it takes
the pressure of them having to get a tied end
in the draft. Now they can focus there for someone
getting a big time running back. Javonte Williams is out.
They need a stud running back, and I look for
them to take one. Earthly Champagne at his best has
always operated with a balanced offense approach.

Speaker 2 (01:48:05):
The running game has always been sneaky good.

Speaker 3 (01:48:08):
He would use a variety of rotation of backs to
kind of attack the defense. But his feasters, his big backs,
is his blended backs all made significant impact. He wants
to get back to that. That's his sweet spot. That's
how he's always been at his best. Look for them
to spend little money in that regard to make sure

(01:48:30):
or a little capital to make sure they have those positions.

Speaker 1 (01:48:32):
Feel Okay? Now I mentioned about a duo that's gonna
hurt others, and I'm talking about Jamar Chase and t Higgins.
How is that going to happen? Look, these two guys
right now are the most expensive wide out duo in
NFL history. I mean, it's amazing. They're in Cincinnati. So Chase,
as you know, won the receiving triple crown one hundred
and twenty seven catches, seventeen hundred and eight yards, seventeen touchdowns,

(01:48:56):
tops in the league. Four years, one hundred and sixty
one million dollars, the best compensated non quarterback ever ever.
Forty point three million average annual salary tops to one.
Cleveland Browns defensive end Miles Garrett gets recently got T
Higgins four years, one hundred and fifteen million. That ranks
him about the top ten richest in the wideouts. Okay,

(01:49:18):
it's impressive because I think right now, these guys are
going to put pressure on other guys around the league.
And I got to ask you, these guys right now
who make this kind of money? Is it all about
talent or is it ego? I mean, I know Jamar
Chase last year, even during the preseason, would come to
practice jersey on, uniform on, but stay on the side

(01:49:39):
lines would in practice. He was still upset back then
about his contract. I mean, I guess he's doing it
because others were making similar money. Is it ego or
is it worth? I still can't figure it out why
some of these guys want so much more and I
don't know why. I mean, is it because Justin Jefferson

(01:49:59):
was making more him, so he wants to make more
than Justin Jefferson at the same position. Is it all
about ego.

Speaker 2 (01:50:06):
I mean ego, value us, all of the above. It's
a little bit of everything. Ego. You want to be
the top eight guy, because that.

Speaker 3 (01:50:12):
Means the league respects you as one of the premier
players in the league, if not the best. Some of
it is value and impact. You're willing to open up
the bank for Joe Burrow. We're as top wide receivers.
And as much as you can say he made us,
we might have made him. So everyone needs to get paid,

(01:50:36):
and I'm gonna get paid. And then what they did,
which is really smart, and this normally happens in the
broadcast world.

Speaker 2 (01:50:42):
Sometimes T Higgins and.

Speaker 3 (01:50:44):
Jermar Chase teamed up and got the same representation. So
now when the Cincinnati Bengals are sliding numbers across the table,
the agent has knowledge of both sides. He knows exactly
what you are from the other guy and my guy.
So now we got to make sure that we get this.
And here's the best way that we can make sure
that both guys are compensated fairly and.

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
They feel the love. And that's what they were able
to do.

Speaker 3 (01:51:08):
So it was slightly less than market value for some,
but collectively, I mean they're in a.

Speaker 2 (01:51:14):
Hot gutt and a duo. I mean two duos with.

Speaker 3 (01:51:16):
Two franchise play a duo with two franchise players, franchise
caliber players at wide receiver.

Speaker 2 (01:51:24):
Nah, that's banana. You can't let that walk out the door.

Speaker 1 (01:51:26):
You're right, and you know I have no problem with
them making that kind of money. Make as much as
you can, because I tell you why. And no one
even brings this point up. If Tom Bradley could get
a contract with three hundred million dollars to broadcast games,
and he's never had any experience doing so, and I
don't think he was that good. To be honest with you,
I really don't three hundred mil. Remember, I honestly believe this.

(01:51:47):
I don't think anybody tunes in a game for an announcer.
I tune in a game because of the competition and
the two teams that are playing. If there are two
games going on at the same time, I want to
watch the better game. I don't even look to see
who's announcing that game. So I have no problem whatsoever
these guys getting that money. All I'm saying is that
what they have done, they've raised the bar for others.

(01:52:08):
For example, Michael Parsons with the Dallas Cowboys. Miles Garrett
set the bar for Jamar Chase, and he may have
done the same thing for Parsons Dallas Cowboys. It's all
pro linebacker. He's supposed to get twenty four million dollars
this year, a fifth year option of his rookie contract.
But Jerry Jones is procrastinating, hasn't done anything, and he's

(01:52:28):
gonna get some big money. He's gonna sit out. He's
gonna get the biggest money he can and he should
have got it last year. And really and truly it
could have been a similar situation in Cincinnati, because really,
the Bengals probably could have saved twenty to thirty million
dollars if they would have signed Chase last year. I
don't know why these guys wait, why ownership waits, but
they wait. And now Michael Parsons is gonna get money,

(01:52:49):
and Jerry Jones is gonna have to pay.

Speaker 3 (01:52:53):
He's gonna have to pay if they want to keep them.
But what if they don't want to keep them? What
if they don't want to pay that kind of money
for Michael Parson. Maybe Michael Parsons is disruptive to the
chemistry that they are trying to establish in the locker room.
This is one that you want to keep on eye
on because normally you want to be the first to
the tape when.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
It comes to doing these big deals.

Speaker 3 (01:53:12):
Miles Garrett has changed how much conversation these guys are getting.
Maybe the Cowboys aren't necessarily convinced that this is going
to be a great thing for their franchise long term.

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
I go fifty to fifty. I'm on the fence on this.

Speaker 3 (01:53:26):
Love the talent, love all the impact, potential, very disruptive,
all of those things. But he also has a look
he can be a little different. He's in the podcast world,
he's doing some of this other stuff. Are his interests
all in on ball? Or does you want to be
a star? Those things have to be kind of assessed

(01:53:46):
and figured out, and some of these going to require
some hard conversations, but some conversations that.

Speaker 2 (01:53:50):
Need to be had. It they need to be had early.

Speaker 3 (01:53:53):
To allow the team to prepare if some of these
don't go the way that they think.

Speaker 1 (01:53:58):
Yeah, and Jamar Chase, do you talk about these guys
having the same representation. I think that one of the
best representations that they had was Joe Burrow, the quarterback
who went public every time he had an opportunity to talk,
he talked about how much he wanted these guys on
the team, how much he needed these guys. And I
think that put a lot of pressure on the front
office to sign those guys.

Speaker 3 (01:54:19):
I mean when I think, I mean when I think
about all of this and we think about the money. Ideally,
here's where the money should go to. The money should
go to your best players. But for your best players
to get the money, they not only have to have
the best performances on the line, they have to be
the most valuable when it comes to what their presidence brings.

(01:54:40):
But they got to be great dudes in the locker room.
Because what happens if you reward people who are not
great in the locker room, meaning the connectivity, how they engage,
how they bring the team together, and those things. Now
the team looks at you and say, oh, you reward
bad behavior. So why do I need to mind? Why
do I need to be on my p's and q's
When you talk to me, you direct me whatever. There

(01:55:01):
are others who are doing it their own way and
they're getting the bag. Maybe I'll do it my own way,
and I get the bag and on the terms that
I see fit, I say, look, that's a rarity, but
some of this is about being able to understand value,
being understand pecking order or the hierarchy of the locker room,
and then the overall impact on the franchise that that

(01:55:24):
player brings as the premier player.

Speaker 1 (01:55:27):
I hear what you're saying. I'm going to wrap this
up right now. Is that? Could he say? Is that
the reason why Aaron Rodgers are still looking for a job.

Speaker 3 (01:55:35):
Yeah, because everyone needs to know how he fits in.
They can talk about the jigsaw puzzling those things, but
how does he fit in the locker room? And how
does he take over your organization? Are you going to
allow him to hijack the organization if you are the man, Look,
it's a short term, fixed, long term issue. You got
to have a strong presence at head coach if you're

(01:55:57):
going to bring him in, because he has to set
him straight and he has to make sure that the
in order say it's the same.

Speaker 1 (01:56:01):
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But right now, it's time for the blame game. Goe,
go ahead, Patty taking.

Speaker 5 (01:56:34):
It all right, lads, Go all right, guys, So you cons.
Dan Hurley admits mistakes won't change how he coaches. He
made comments about the officiating after his Husky's A lost
to Florida in the attorney earlier in the week.

Speaker 4 (01:56:49):
Uh, who do you blame? Andy Furman?

Speaker 1 (01:56:52):
You know what, It's really easy to point the finger
at Dan Hurley and he's a friend, so I won't
do it. I'm gonna point the finger to the athletic
director in president. They got to control him. I saw
Dan Hurley in sixty minutes and Gino the women's coach.
He was telling him a back off, relaxed a little bit,
you know, take some time off, do something. So these
people got to surround him. He's got some problem. He's
a hyper guy. He's intense, but you gotta know that

(01:57:14):
going in and these people do and they don't do
anything to help him. So I'm not blaming Dan. I'm
blaming the people surrounding him and those who hired him.

Speaker 2 (01:57:25):
I'm blaming Dan. Sorry. He's the leader of the team.

Speaker 3 (01:57:29):
He has to have the emotional maturity to be able
to deal with those situations. Good call, bad call, ups
and downs. He has to be able to handle it.
He's been a baby at times. And even though he
has the two time national champion thing behind him and
that's on his resume, it's not a license. It's not
a license for him to talk to the people the
way that he talks to him. It's not a licen
for him to show out in games. Hey, it's on

(01:57:50):
Dan Hailer.

Speaker 4 (01:57:51):
He gotta grow up, all right, Well, we'll going on
the next one, guys.

Speaker 5 (01:57:55):
So Saint Francis University of Penna quits March Madness for
Division three, with revenue sharing looming so Basketball Hall of
Famer Maurice Stokes played for that school in the nineteen fifties.

Speaker 4 (01:58:07):
Hoodia blame Bucky, Look, I blame.

Speaker 2 (01:58:11):
The currency of basketball. It's to have and have not.

Speaker 3 (01:58:13):
It's like, if you don't have big money, you can't
compete at the highest level. When you looked at the
Elite eight and you looked at the seas, it's all ones,
twos and one or two threes.

Speaker 2 (01:58:23):
That's it. There's no send to reller stories.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
And so if you don't have the money to compete,
why even do it? Drop down the Division three, be dominant,
be a big fish in a small pond.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
Makes sense to me.

Speaker 1 (01:58:33):
For Saint Francis the Red Flash or Saint Francis of
Pennsylvania never should have been a Division one to begin with.
It's a small school that got maybe two three thousand students.
They can't compete. They got a beautiful gymnasium. I've been there.
It's in Loretto, Pennsylvania. But the point is that you
don't have the nil money, you can't compete. So why try?
Why try be big in a little place? Like you say, Bucky,

(01:58:55):
move down to Division three, you'll do fine.

Speaker 4 (01:58:58):
All right, Final blame here, guys.

Speaker 5 (01:59:00):
The Oakland A's are stuck in a minor league ballpark
in Sacramento, California, the capital of California.

Speaker 4 (01:59:07):
By the way, this season, who do you blame?

Speaker 1 (01:59:09):
Many ownership of the A's. They couldn't cut a deal
with the city of Oakland. The city of Oakland. The
fans have to suffer about that. So you know what,
You're stuck in a minor league dump in Sacramento. That's
why you're stuck. You deserve it.

Speaker 2 (01:59:23):
Look, I blame ownership.

Speaker 3 (01:59:25):
Look, the A's ownership has disrespected Oakland on so many
different occasions that they made it where. They moved the
team first from go to Vegas, then they ended up
being Sacramento.

Speaker 2 (01:59:35):
Lesser place.

Speaker 3 (01:59:36):
They've violated the tradition and the history, the glorious history
of the Oakland A's. I'm disappointed it isn't been Sacramento,
but now they canna be irrelevant. No one is going
to pay attention to the A's just because they're Sacramento.
They were Oakland's team, and ownership moved them from being
a tradition and an institution in Oakland.

Speaker 1 (01:59:55):
Unbelievable. What to They have a great week we'll see
you next week. Count Down this next, right a Fox

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