1
00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:03,800
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

2
00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,360
Speaker 2: This time tomorrow, your bellies will be full, you'll be drinking,

3
00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:10,720
Speaker 2: you'll be hanging out with your friends, and you're gonna

4
00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:12,080
Speaker 2: be watching Super Bowl sixty.

5
00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:14,400
Speaker 3: The longest run up you could ever imagine.

6
00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:16,279
Speaker 2: And the funny thing is we have this run up

7
00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,680
Speaker 2: every year because the Super Bowl is a spectacle, but

8
00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:20,880
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's also a championship moment.

9
00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,919
Speaker 2: And my fear as we sit right now, is that

10
00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,439
Speaker 2: the game is not going to lead up. It's not

11
00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,160
Speaker 2: going to live up, I should say, to the lead up,

12
00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,560
Speaker 2: because I think we are on the precipice of a

13
00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,200
Speaker 2: Super Bowl slaughter. It's Bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio,

14
00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,400
Speaker 2: Buck Rising, Jason Fitz hanging out with you live from

15
00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,879
Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio studios. BUCKYE just got back from

16
00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,360
Speaker 2: San Francisco, where I was all week hanging out for y'all.

17
00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,400
Speaker 2: Who sports Red Eyed back so I can hang out

18
00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,319
Speaker 2: with you here on Fox Sports Radio. And I've tried, man,

19
00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,960
Speaker 2: I have tried desperately, because we are in the content business,

20
00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,680
Speaker 2: and you know what's good for content to rama anytime

21
00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,240
Speaker 2: we get something that's close get if we get a

22
00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:00,800
Speaker 2: compelling football game. My god, that that absolutely makes Monday

23
00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,279
Speaker 2: so much easier for all of us.

24
00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,480
Speaker 3: The way we break this thing down. I want an.

25
00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,720
Speaker 2: Epic super Bowl for the ages. I want this thing

26
00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:09,720
Speaker 2: to come down to the last couple of minutes. I

27
00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,120
Speaker 2: want us all sitting on the edge of our seats

28
00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,040
Speaker 2: as we try and figure out whether Drake may or

29
00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:15,160
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold's.

30
00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,400
Speaker 3: Gonna change our legacy. Like, that's what I want.

31
00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,080
Speaker 2: I think this game is done before Bad Bunny has

32
00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,560
Speaker 2: even stood on the stage. I think the Seahawks are

33
00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,400
Speaker 2: absolutely going to annihilate New England tomorrow.

34
00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,759
Speaker 1: Okay, very good, Happy Saturday. Good to see you, welcome back.

35
00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,880
Speaker 1: I would say that you look well, but you look terrible.

36
00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:35,800
Speaker 1: I do know.

37
00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,600
Speaker 3: I just I look like I just I wrong.

38
00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:40,360
Speaker 2: No, no, no.

39
00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,720
Speaker 1: No, Mary, you don't understand this creature that I'm looking at.

40
00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,480
Speaker 1: It across the face time from me looks like they

41
00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,480
Speaker 1: dug him out of an alleyway in San Francisco and

42
00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,080
Speaker 1: sat him down. And in the call, I mean, it's it.

43
00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,600
Speaker 1: It may well be worth it just to hear Mary

44
00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,480
Speaker 1: reaction to what the hell you look like today?

45
00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,640
Speaker 2: Look, we're not gonna sound terrible.

46
00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,320
Speaker 1: What's going on? With you, Mike, I'm great.

47
00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,400
Speaker 3: Look you know what this God's honest truth.

48
00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,320
Speaker 2: Like, I got to San Francisco Sunday, I was in

49
00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,240
Speaker 2: bed local time at seven pm. I kept myself so rested.

50
00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,120
Speaker 2: I was getting up. I got up every morning, I

51
00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:17,960
Speaker 2: went to the gym. I did everything the right way.

52
00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,959
Speaker 2: This is the ancillary effect of what happens when you

53
00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,480
Speaker 2: red eye, because you know, here's the fun fact people

54
00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,680
Speaker 2: don't care about. But when you stay in the media

55
00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,240
Speaker 2: hotel at the super Bowl, you cannot stay on Friday night.

56
00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,360
Speaker 2: Unless you stay Friday, Saturday Sunday. They require you book

57
00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,880
Speaker 2: the entire block, which means for the companies that send

58
00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,400
Speaker 2: their people out to do Super Bowl coverage, if you

59
00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:39,720
Speaker 2: stay Friday night, all of a sudden, you're gonna cost

60
00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,280
Speaker 2: your company anywhere from five to ten thousand dollars more

61
00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,680
Speaker 2: per person. So there's a mass exodus out of super

62
00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,239
Speaker 2: Bowl radio row, all the every one of your favorite

63
00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,120
Speaker 2: shows that you saw all week. The real peak behind

64
00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,680
Speaker 2: the curtain moment is that Friday afternoon, everyone's going to

65
00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,760
Speaker 2: the to the airport. The problem for me is I

66
00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,640
Speaker 2: live halfway across the country or all the way across

67
00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,560
Speaker 2: the country, and my show is from nine to eleven.

68
00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:04,840
Speaker 2: This week we did nine to eleven local time. So

69
00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:06,800
Speaker 2: by the time I finished you out who Sports Daily

70
00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,160
Speaker 2: every day, I didn't have the time to There was

71
00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,040
Speaker 2: no flights, so I had to wait until eleven pm.

72
00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,160
Speaker 3: No hotel. I'm checked out in my hotel, so I

73
00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:15,720
Speaker 3: just had to.

74
00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,400
Speaker 2: Dang around San Francisco yesterday until it was time to

75
00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,960
Speaker 2: go to the hotel at eleven pm, at which point

76
00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,359
Speaker 2: I left and no exaggeration, landed with our mutual good

77
00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:26,240
Speaker 2: friend Sean Wyman.

78
00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:28,560
Speaker 3: Landed today at just shy.

79
00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,560
Speaker 2: Of noon in Hartford. So I left at eleven pm

80
00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:34,160
Speaker 2: last night, landed at noon in Hartford by way of Philadelphia,

81
00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,440
Speaker 2: to then come home, shower off the absolute grossness of

82
00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,640
Speaker 2: that day, and then lay on the couch with the

83
00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,560
Speaker 2: dogs until it was time to do this. This This

84
00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,360
Speaker 2: is man, you know, this is like when you you've

85
00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,320
Speaker 2: been dating long enough that she no longer make sure

86
00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:49,880
Speaker 2: that she looks great first thing in the morning.

87
00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,400
Speaker 1: That's where we are, Buck, God, I just wish you

88
00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,400
Speaker 1: were still going to bed with your makeup on so

89
00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,720
Speaker 1: that I could wake up and not be horrified the

90
00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,360
Speaker 1: way that you know that all good relationships start out

91
00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:00,720
Speaker 1: with just lie to one another.

92
00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:03,400
Speaker 2: You want me to do the whole trick of getting

93
00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,640
Speaker 2: up like thirty minutes early, I'm putting on making and

94
00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,120
Speaker 2: then sliding back into bed and be like, oh y'all

95
00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,320
Speaker 2: and oh you're awake.

96
00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,680
Speaker 1: Who knew? It's the best part of the of Oh

97
00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,080
Speaker 1: my god, I'm blanking on the on the Bridesmaids? Is

98
00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,440
Speaker 1: that the movie with John Hamm and where John Hamm

99
00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,520
Speaker 1: is the terrible, terrible you know, finance bro or whatever

100
00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,680
Speaker 1: the hell to start the movie, and Kristin Wig is

101
00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,760
Speaker 1: in the situation that we are just describing. Yes, I

102
00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,640
Speaker 1: would like for you to go back to being Kristin

103
00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,160
Speaker 1: Wig at the start of our relationship. I'm not ready

104
00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,480
Speaker 1: for this phase. This is the phase where you start

105
00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:38,520
Speaker 1: going to the bathroom with the door open in front

106
00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,000
Speaker 1: of me, like, no, I can't. This is why I

107
00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,479
Speaker 1: don't do well in relationship.

108
00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,479
Speaker 2: You know what, I swear to God. During the break,

109
00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,160
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go up into the attic. I'm gonna see

110
00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:48,800
Speaker 2: if I have a clown no wig and a little

111
00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,080
Speaker 2: clown nose. I'm just going to every segment I'm gonna

112
00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:52,640
Speaker 2: try and get worse for you. By the end of

113
00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,120
Speaker 2: this thing, I'm gonna be in full Like usually Buck,

114
00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,240
Speaker 2: if you listen to us often, he's the one in

115
00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:58,800
Speaker 2: the road. By the end of this thing, I'm gonna

116
00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,360
Speaker 2: be sitting over here, just out in these streets, and uh,

117
00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,760
Speaker 2: you're just you're gonna find out exactly how much hair

118
00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:05,599
Speaker 2: is on my upper body.

119
00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,159
Speaker 1: I'm just worried about you at this point in time.

120
00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,080
Speaker 1: I mean, honest to god, married, doesn't he sound a

121
00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,919
Speaker 1: little more frantic? I mean, you hear this. It's just

122
00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:16,920
Speaker 1: it's disorienting the entire thing.

123
00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:22,279
Speaker 2: Okay, fine, had had a beautiful morning full of you know,

124
00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,400
Speaker 2: delightful Nashville breakfasts and three three beverages. Not all of

125
00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,440
Speaker 2: us started our day today with a green juice and

126
00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,640
Speaker 2: sparkling water. That's how you started your day, because you know,

127
00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,360
Speaker 2: as we saw on social media, and you pointed out

128
00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,480
Speaker 2: that you paid for the bottle of sparkling water and

129
00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,360
Speaker 2: the green juice with your fancy Nashville breakfast, your day

130
00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:41,839
Speaker 2: was much easier than my day.

131
00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:44,839
Speaker 1: I made that breakfast you made.

132
00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:46,279
Speaker 3: You made green juice.

133
00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:46,880
Speaker 1: That's right.

134
00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,080
Speaker 2: I gotta okay, Okay, you know, catch up right neck?

135
00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,480
Speaker 1: Anyway you want to talk football? Let's talk football.

136
00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:54,680
Speaker 3: Bray it.

137
00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,039
Speaker 1: So you think the Super Bowl is going to be

138
00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,200
Speaker 1: a slaughter, and that is all well and good. I

139
00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,640
Speaker 1: can understand why everybody in America would be looking at

140
00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,919
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks and looking at this Patriots team, which

141
00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,400
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the refrain that I hear

142
00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,840
Speaker 1: even out of New England at this point in time

143
00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:16,160
Speaker 1: is well, they're probably just here a little early, right

144
00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,799
Speaker 1: that it's just a little early for the New England

145
00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,599
Speaker 1: Patriots in their competitive trajectory to go from a four

146
00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,240
Speaker 1: win team to the super Bowl overnight, with a second

147
00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,080
Speaker 1: year quarterback and a coach who just got here, and

148
00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,960
Speaker 1: all these different pieces and parts on the roster that

149
00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,680
Speaker 1: anybody really could have had in free agency or in

150
00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,919
Speaker 1: the draft. I mean, maybe not Will Campbell, who's the

151
00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,520
Speaker 1: fourth overall pick at left tackle, but like for the

152
00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,640
Speaker 1: most part, all of their off season acquisitions are a

153
00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,440
Speaker 1: lot of just kind of dudes that are doing the

154
00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,839
Speaker 1: most in their respective jobs. But that is why I'm

155
00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:53,440
Speaker 1: picking the New England Patriots to do the thing that

156
00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:55,800
Speaker 1: nobody thinks they're going to do. I have seen this

157
00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,240
Speaker 1: story a million times before. I have covered Mike Rabel

158
00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,120
Speaker 1: for six year. Years prior to him landing in New England.

159
00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,200
Speaker 1: I have bet against them at every turn when he

160
00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,520
Speaker 1: was coaching the Tennessee Titans with dudes you never heard of,

161
00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,000
Speaker 1: because they had the most amount of injuries in a

162
00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,720
Speaker 1: regular season you've ever seen, and still somehow managed to

163
00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,040
Speaker 1: worm their way into the number one overall seed in

164
00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,640
Speaker 1: the AFC. Now they pooped themselves when they got that

165
00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,520
Speaker 1: number one overall seed, Ryan Tannehill with three interceptions in

166
00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:24,960
Speaker 1: the game. We don't need to relitigate all of that.

167
00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,080
Speaker 1: But I have seen Mike Grabel do this a million times,

168
00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:29,920
Speaker 1: and this is going to be the one time that

169
00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,360
Speaker 1: I actually believe he's going to do the thing that

170
00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,080
Speaker 1: nobody thinks he's actually going to do, and that is

171
00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,360
Speaker 1: going to be win the game that he has no

172
00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,239
Speaker 1: business winning, because that's what he's done his entire career. Yes,

173
00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,840
Speaker 1: the super Bowl path for the Patriots is maybe the

174
00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,560
Speaker 1: easiest we've ever seen in terms of both the regular

175
00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,480
Speaker 1: season and what they went up against when they finally

176
00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:55,920
Speaker 1: got to the playoffs. Right, it's justin Herbert with major malfunctions.

177
00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,400
Speaker 1: It's c J. Stroud major malfunctioning even more, and then

178
00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,760
Speaker 1: all of a sudden Jarrett Stidham and Weather in the

179
00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,000
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game, and ten points is all you need

180
00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,960
Speaker 1: on the road to advance to the super Bowl. That's

181
00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,320
Speaker 1: all well and good, But at every turn that Patriots

182
00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,160
Speaker 1: team has gotten better. And if you are going to

183
00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,200
Speaker 1: tell me that the Seattle Seahawks are going to slaughter,

184
00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,520
Speaker 1: in your words, the New England Patriots, I'm telling you,

185
00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,960
Speaker 1: I'm picking the one person in this game who I

186
00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,920
Speaker 1: know to be a bonafide killer when it comes to football.

187
00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,920
Speaker 1: I'm picking Mike Rabel's football team. There is no way

188
00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,920
Speaker 1: in hell people talk about Super Bowl windows, right, the

189
00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,679
Speaker 1: idea that that maybe they got here a little early. No, no, no,

190
00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:39,600
Speaker 1: you got one shot at this. I don't even know.

191
00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,079
Speaker 1: I don't know if Drake May is ever going to

192
00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,280
Speaker 1: play in the super Bowl again. I have no idea

193
00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,680
Speaker 1: if we'll ever see anything like this. This is how

194
00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,480
Speaker 1: fleeting these moments are, right, Joe Burrow, the window is

195
00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,320
Speaker 1: my career. Yeah, how's that going for you? Joe? After

196
00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,360
Speaker 1: you go to the Super Bowl, you lose to the Rams,

197
00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:57,079
Speaker 1: and everything that's befalling the Bengals in that time period

198
00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,120
Speaker 1: since has come to pass. No, if used to believe

199
00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,280
Speaker 1: that Mike Ribel is going to get his football team

200
00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,880
Speaker 1: to this moment and not do everything within his power

201
00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,200
Speaker 1: and even outside it. A little bit of black magic,

202
00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,079
Speaker 1: a little bit of you know, time management, a little

203
00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:18,559
Speaker 1: bit of substitution, nonsense, a little bit of everything sprinkled

204
00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,280
Speaker 1: in to get the job done and win the final game.

205
00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,920
Speaker 1: I refuse to believe that they would be slaughtered, much

206
00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,600
Speaker 1: less that they won't outright win.

207
00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:33,160
Speaker 2: I am my entire math is done by the way

208
00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,120
Speaker 2: that they got here, not for the Patriots, because I

209
00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,000
Speaker 2: think so much of the conversation of the Patriots has

210
00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,880
Speaker 2: been done, but the conversation on the Seahawks, I don't

211
00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:45,120
Speaker 2: think has been. Like the forty nine ers decimated by injuries, yes,

212
00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,800
Speaker 2: but the forty nine Ers got slaughtered slaughtered forty one

213
00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,400
Speaker 2: to six in the first round of this. And then

214
00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,720
Speaker 2: I keep going back to that Rams game. I believe

215
00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:54,839
Speaker 2: that the Rams through the duration of the NFL were

216
00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,280
Speaker 2: the best, if not the second best team in the

217
00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,520
Speaker 2: NFL most of the season and into that NFC Championship game,

218
00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,520
Speaker 2: which I think was the ultimate prove it moment. Sam Darnold,

219
00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,920
Speaker 2: the history of melting down against that franchise and the

220
00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:08,560
Speaker 2: Rams with the great defensive line.

221
00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:10,680
Speaker 3: Their corners can't cover much, I know, but a great.

222
00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,880
Speaker 2: Defensive line and a really well respected coaching tree within

223
00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,240
Speaker 2: that organization, their defense is well respected, even if their

224
00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:20,760
Speaker 2: secondary is the weakness. I go back to that game

225
00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:22,880
Speaker 2: and I keep thinking about the fact that the Rams

226
00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,080
Speaker 2: no Jackson Smith and Jig but better than anybody in

227
00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:26,880
Speaker 2: the world, and they had all week to get ready

228
00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,480
Speaker 2: for an opponent that they have seen twice. They know

229
00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,760
Speaker 2: the ins and outs of what he does, how he

230
00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,720
Speaker 2: does everything about it, and he ripped them for one

231
00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,000
Speaker 2: hundred yards receiving in the first half of that football game.

232
00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,560
Speaker 2: When you think about the offenses that we take, if

233
00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,760
Speaker 2: you built a super team out of the entire path

234
00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:49,280
Speaker 2: of the AFC that the Patriots about to go through,

235
00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,200
Speaker 2: if you build a super team of every team that

236
00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,360
Speaker 2: they've beaten, that super team of the Chargers and the

237
00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:58,080
Speaker 2: Texans and the Broncos combined is not as talented offensively

238
00:10:58,120 --> 00:10:59,600
Speaker 2: as what the Seahawks are going to show them in

239
00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:00,439
Speaker 2: this one game.

240
00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,280
Speaker 3: And that to me is the biggest difference.

241
00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,280
Speaker 2: Like as much as the Patriots defense has played well,

242
00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,800
Speaker 2: they have not had to face what this Seahawks offense

243
00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:09,319
Speaker 2: can do.

244
00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,960
Speaker 3: And that is the hard part about because.

245
00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,120
Speaker 2: You combine that with the fact that Shaheed is somebody

246
00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,720
Speaker 2: that I believe can break a play from anywhere, anytime.

247
00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,240
Speaker 2: So you got special teams problems here too. This feels

248
00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,960
Speaker 2: to me like the one argument I would make against

249
00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,160
Speaker 2: the Seahawks sometimes this year, they've played with their food

250
00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:25,680
Speaker 2: a little bit.

251
00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:26,120
Speaker 3: In the first half.

252
00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,079
Speaker 2: They've started slow. They've really blown it open the second half.

253
00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,280
Speaker 2: But in the playoffs that hasn't been the case at all.

254
00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,600
Speaker 2: I believe that the Seahawks in the beginning of this game,

255
00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:36,040
Speaker 2: we're sort of feeling it out. They're up seven to nothing,

256
00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,760
Speaker 2: it turns to ten to nothing, a freak play turns

257
00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:42,040
Speaker 2: it to seventeen to nothing. That's where you get into

258
00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,760
Speaker 2: blowout territory because once we start asking Drake May and

259
00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,120
Speaker 2: this offense to start going blow for blow, I don't

260
00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,240
Speaker 2: think you're going to hold Seattle in this game to

261
00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:56,120
Speaker 2: under thirty points. So now my question comes, can the

262
00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,320
Speaker 2: Patriots score more than thirty points on the Seahawks. I

263
00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,400
Speaker 2: can't find that, man, And that's how I get to

264
00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,280
Speaker 2: thirty eight ten like that? My official I think my

265
00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,960
Speaker 2: official Yahoo prediction was thirty eight to thirteen, And if

266
00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,120
Speaker 2: you look across the board, the way I get there

267
00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,360
Speaker 2: is that it doesn't take much before Drake May is

268
00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,079
Speaker 2: heavy lifting. And if Drake May is heavy lifting against

269
00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,760
Speaker 2: this defense, presuming nickimn Wari makes it through this entire game,

270
00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,280
Speaker 2: if Drake May is heavy lifting against that four to

271
00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,360
Speaker 2: two five defense, I think that four to two five

272
00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,520
Speaker 2: defense is going to have him seeing ghosts. I think

273
00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:26,280
Speaker 2: he's gonna have to use his legs, and his legs

274
00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:28,480
Speaker 2: won't extend drives enough. He's going to make one or

275
00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,040
Speaker 2: two plays that turn into desperation, that turn into I

276
00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,800
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised to see the Seahawks defense and special

277
00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,320
Speaker 2: teams both score in this game. I think Seattle's going

278
00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:37,559
Speaker 2: to absolutely throddle.

279
00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,200
Speaker 1: Listen, there's no good reason to pick New England other

280
00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:43,959
Speaker 1: than the reason that I just gave you. Then, I've

281
00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,640
Speaker 1: seen Mike Rabel do this with Wizardry inexplicable, inexplicably a

282
00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:53,160
Speaker 1: million times over. There is not a single advantage on

283
00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,719
Speaker 1: the field that I can find in favor of the

284
00:12:55,760 --> 00:13:00,480
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. My pick may sound I logical to America. Again,

285
00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:04,480
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen them do the thing that I'm describing.

286
00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,400
Speaker 1: It is completely illogical. All of your points are well made.

287
00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:12,360
Speaker 1: The Seahawks, I believe, are undefeated. When they lead in

288
00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,200
Speaker 1: a game so far this season, if they score first

289
00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,840
Speaker 1: by the numbers by percentage, it's over for New England

290
00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,400
Speaker 1: in that game. Close or not. Right, This is how

291
00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,040
Speaker 1: good the Seahawks are. And to your point about how

292
00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,840
Speaker 1: much we have talked a lot about the Patriots, whether

293
00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,760
Speaker 1: it's about Brady not picking them or in all the

294
00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,120
Speaker 1: former Patriots coming out and being like, oh, you make

295
00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,560
Speaker 1: me sick and all these different things. What did Roberts explain,

296
00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,240
Speaker 1: say the linebacker at media day? Honestly, it makes me

297
00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,040
Speaker 1: sick that Tom Brady wouldn't pick the New England Patriots

298
00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,560
Speaker 1: in that particular spot. Right, there's a lot of human

299
00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:48,680
Speaker 1: interest angles to this next gen New England team that

300
00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,680
Speaker 1: have been overtalked and overtalked and overtalked in Seattle's just

301
00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,680
Speaker 1: kind of lying in wait, right, because nothing really I mean,

302
00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,240
Speaker 1: I want to say that there's nothing really sexy about them,

303
00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,599
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's either. I think JSN is

304
00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:05,679
Speaker 1: an incredible player. I think what Mike McDonald does as

305
00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,839
Speaker 1: a defensive play calling head coach, which, by the way,

306
00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,559
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen this fact making the rounds. I

307
00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:14,280
Speaker 1: don't think it's a stat. It's more a fact for

308
00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:17,680
Speaker 1: Mike Sando. There's never been a defensive play calling head

309
00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,200
Speaker 1: coach to win the Super Bowl. Belichick, in the few

310
00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,440
Speaker 1: times that he did in New England was not the

311
00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:28,200
Speaker 1: defensive play caller in those particular situations. It's never happened.

312
00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,720
Speaker 1: This guy is McVeigh on the defensive side of the ball,

313
00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,280
Speaker 1: and we tossed that kind of stuff out there probably

314
00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,320
Speaker 1: too often, except with this one. It's true. He's a machine.

315
00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:41,440
Speaker 1: He showed more personality after the NFC Championship game than

316
00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,640
Speaker 1: I think he has in two years as the Seahawks coach.

317
00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,120
Speaker 1: I would venture to say that America does not know

318
00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,160
Speaker 1: what Mike McDonald nor Sam Donald really sound like. Honestly,

319
00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:56,360
Speaker 1: how many press conferences have you seen of Sam Donald?

320
00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,920
Speaker 1: How many clips, how many news bites of you are

321
00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,000
Speaker 1: heard about the Seattle Seahawks. This is not the legion

322
00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,520
Speaker 1: of Boom. This is not loud Marshawn Lynch and Richard

323
00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,800
Speaker 1: Sherman and Cam Chancellor. They are literally just lying in

324
00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,520
Speaker 1: wait waiting for the opportunity to drown their prey like

325
00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,200
Speaker 1: some kind of you know, look, some kind of alligator

326
00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,080
Speaker 1: floating just beneath the surface, right, They're about to death

327
00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:23,320
Speaker 1: roll you and drag you under No I understand why

328
00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,720
Speaker 1: you feel the way that you do. Logic and reason

329
00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,040
Speaker 1: would tell you that that is the correct way to

330
00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,200
Speaker 1: go about this. But I'm telling you, logic and reason

331
00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,120
Speaker 1: are not going to apply to this game. I think

332
00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:33,640
Speaker 1: it's going to be weird as hell. I think it's

333
00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:35,520
Speaker 1: going to be ugly, and I think it's going to

334
00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:36,600
Speaker 1: be the new England Patriots.

335
00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,200
Speaker 3: With the iHeartRadio app, you can stream us wherever you

336
00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:39,680
Speaker 3: happen to be.

337
00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,280
Speaker 2: Catch us all the Fox Sports radio lineup to live

338
00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,680
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven in the new and improved Who

339
00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,400
Speaker 2: thought it could get any better iHeartRadio App. Just search

340
00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,800
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio in the app. Streamers live all day

341
00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,080
Speaker 2: every day. Be sure to select Fox Sports Radios. What

342
00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,160
Speaker 2: are your presets in the iHeart app so it always

343
00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,600
Speaker 2: pops up at the top of your screen coming up.

344
00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,080
Speaker 2: There's one thing that keeps being brought up in the

345
00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,200
Speaker 2: Super Bowl that does not matter at all for this game.

346
00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:04,080
Speaker 2: We'll tell you what it is next. He's Buck Rising.

347
00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,120
Speaker 2: I'm Jason fitz bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

348
00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:11,960
Speaker 3: Steve Gott's here.

349
00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:16,240
Speaker 4: I have a podcast empire. It continues to grow, and

350
00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,120
Speaker 4: I have brought it here to iHeart. I'm also doing

351
00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,800
Speaker 4: a live radio show from three to five pm Eastern because.

352
00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,240
Speaker 3: My wife wanted to kick me out of the house.

353
00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,360
Speaker 4: It's called Stu Gotson Company Live, which is available in

354
00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:32,360
Speaker 4: podcast form right when the show finishes every single day.

355
00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,040
Speaker 4: Some of the biggest names in sports, a lot of phone.

356
00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,600
Speaker 3: Calls, I love you guys a show, it's one of

357
00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:38,080
Speaker 3: my favorites.

358
00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,880
Speaker 4: A lot of interact shit guys not taking themselves too seriously.

359
00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,400
Speaker 4: Those are just some of the things that you can

360
00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,880
Speaker 4: expect from Stu Gottson Company and Steve Gottson Company Live.

361
00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,560
Speaker 4: So listen to Stu Gotson Company Live and our original podcast.

362
00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:57,000
Speaker 4: Please subscribe, rate and review Stu Gotson Company and God

363
00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:00,840
Speaker 4: Bless Football. Taylor's livelihood depends on it. Do it today

364
00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,040
Speaker 4: and you can check all of those out on the

365
00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:07,879
Speaker 4: iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

366
00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,960
Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

367
00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,359
Speaker 5: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

368
00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:22,600
Speaker 5: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app, search FSR to

369
00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:23,399
Speaker 5: listen live.

370
00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,439
Speaker 2: The next time, you, you know, walk into a golden

371
00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,480
Speaker 2: corral and you see a bearded man in the corner

372
00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,159
Speaker 2: with his cats, that's probably Buck Rising. Bucking fits on

373
00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:35,639
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. It's going back for seconds on whatever

374
00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,840
Speaker 2: the meat product is there, that's that's.

375
00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:43,920
Speaker 6: What he's meat and then afterwards he needs some help.

376
00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:45,840
Speaker 6: Have you ever wiped with a piece of dry toilet

377
00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:47,840
Speaker 6: paper and wondered is this as good as it gets?

378
00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,040
Speaker 2: It is not switched to life changing wet extra large

379
00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,080
Speaker 2: fleshable dude wipes, because wetter just cleans better.

380
00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:54,840
Speaker 3: Just ask Buck.

381
00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,480
Speaker 2: Available to Amazon and at major retailers nationwide, dude wipes

382
00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:04,040
Speaker 2: best clean pants down. He's But I hate when you.

383
00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:07,000
Speaker 1: Do that to me during the library because there's no

384
00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:09,439
Speaker 1: way for me to lash out at you while you

385
00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,560
Speaker 1: are telling the audience about the wonderful sponsors who make

386
00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,240
Speaker 1: all of this stuff possible, other than I want to

387
00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:19,240
Speaker 1: reach through the FaceTime and grab you like Bart Simpson,

388
00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:20,919
Speaker 1: buy the neck and just wring you.

389
00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:23,720
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that you can't take the younger brother

390
00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,679
Speaker 2: out of me, Like there's just there's a portion. I

391
00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,199
Speaker 2: will always be the little brother that is trying to

392
00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,280
Speaker 2: figure out what I can get away with, honest to God, that.

393
00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,200
Speaker 1: We need like a Golden Corral sponsorship at this point

394
00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,160
Speaker 1: for as much free pub as they've gotten on these

395
00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,600
Speaker 1: two hours of national radio that you and I do weekly.

396
00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,439
Speaker 2: Fair, but I should probably not call it meat product

397
00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,680
Speaker 2: if we want them to buy it. Get to meat

398
00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,000
Speaker 2: products seconds and thirds from the Golden.

399
00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,800
Speaker 7: And with how insistent you are book that you will

400
00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,040
Speaker 7: never never have ever set foot in a Golden Crow

401
00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,880
Speaker 7: ever ever in my it's just negative publicity, I feel, ever.

402
00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:00,080
Speaker 1: In my life would I do that between.

403
00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,479
Speaker 2: To be clear, I just want to say this loudly

404
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,800
Speaker 2: in case anyone from Golden Kral happens to be listening

405
00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,680
Speaker 2: right now. I love your establishment and he would eat

406
00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,000
Speaker 2: there every single day. Slide into these d ms because

407
00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,280
Speaker 2: I am for sale. Just so we know I am

408
00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,000
Speaker 2: completely for sale. I'm like Buck, I have absolutely no

409
00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:19,960
Speaker 2: line like my my yes or no.

410
00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,080
Speaker 1: This morning you up at a du pub for Golden Corral,

411
00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:23,840
Speaker 1: get out of here.

412
00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:26,879
Speaker 2: You made your own green juice, to which means you

413
00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,960
Speaker 2: have a juicer, like you like what went in the juice,

414
00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,800
Speaker 2: like we like like leafy products and celery.

415
00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:33,880
Speaker 3: What are we doing in that's.

416
00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,399
Speaker 1: A little bit of celery, a little bit of kale,

417
00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,159
Speaker 1: a little bit of green apples, delightful tumor.

418
00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,159
Speaker 2: You went to the farmer's market, didn't you. You went to

419
00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,359
Speaker 2: the farmer's market and got fresh of all of these things.

420
00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,240
Speaker 2: I put them through. My god, it is rich.

421
00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:48,640
Speaker 3: It is you know if you ever warmer's market.

422
00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,440
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but if you were at the Nashville farmers

423
00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,960
Speaker 2: market today and market right now, yea.

424
00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:58,680
Speaker 3: Literally, he's got.

425
00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,639
Speaker 2: A mason jar with water in it and fresh cut

426
00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:02,439
Speaker 2: lemons in it.

427
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,359
Speaker 3: All right, that's halo. Don't hate, no, No, I mean,

428
00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:05,800
Speaker 3: I don't hate.

429
00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,239
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that's a reminder that maybe we live

430
00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,720
Speaker 2: a little different buck. There is one thing that is

431
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:12,800
Speaker 2: gonna come up a lot about the super Bowl in

432
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:14,560
Speaker 2: the coverage of the Super Bowl that I just want

433
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,840
Speaker 2: to remind everybody is absolutely insignificant, and it's called history.

434
00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,640
Speaker 2: Like every time I hear will or when teams play

435
00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,840
Speaker 2: children in the Super Bowl the second time, or here's

436
00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,160
Speaker 2: what happened when these two teams played eleven years ago.

437
00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,359
Speaker 2: I couldn't There's just no reason for any of us

438
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,840
Speaker 2: to waste any time on these things that have nothing

439
00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:33,520
Speaker 2: to do with the actual men that are playing on

440
00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,320
Speaker 2: the field in this game. If your answer is, well,

441
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,600
Speaker 2: like in the broadcast, they're gonna do this over and

442
00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,800
Speaker 2: over and over again. If you take a shot every

443
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,400
Speaker 2: time they reference the prior time that these two teams

444
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 2: played in the Super Bowl, you are going to need

445
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 2: to uber for the next three days.

446
00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:48,399
Speaker 3: They're gonna do it over.

447
00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,359
Speaker 2: And over and over again, which short of drives me

448
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,000
Speaker 2: crazy because yeah, it's a cool story that it's a

449
00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,359
Speaker 2: Super Bowl rematch from you know, a decade ago, but

450
00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,800
Speaker 2: outside of that, it does not This Seahawks franchise, in

451
00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,720
Speaker 2: this Patriots franchise are so different all the way to

452
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,120
Speaker 2: their structure and their bones from who they were. If

453
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,320
Speaker 2: your answer is anything about super Bowl history in these moments,

454
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 2: I don't care about your history because it's had nothing

455
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:13,200
Speaker 2: to do with Super Bowl sixty.

456
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the conversation, and I'd be curious because

457
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,439
Speaker 1: it's it's NBC, right, NBC has the Super Bowl, So

458
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,879
Speaker 1: like I'm not, I don't think Mike Rico is going

459
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,360
Speaker 1: to do the Mike to Rico maybe the best play

460
00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,000
Speaker 1: by play broadcaster that we have going right now, right, Like,

461
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 1: I don't think Mike to Rico is going to do

462
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 1: the lazy storyline thing over and over again just because

463
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,480
Speaker 1: it is the lowest hanging fruit.

464
00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 3: When talking about is on the same like Colle's Worth

465
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:37,120
Speaker 3: is good.

466
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, come on, collins Worth doesn't have my

467
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,120
Speaker 2: homes talk about. I just got to find something else.

468
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,440
Speaker 1: I didn't realize what a thing this was. I don't

469
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 1: see that much Sunday night football anymore because I'm working

470
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 1: on Sundays. I mean, you're working too on Sundays, but

471
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:49,800
Speaker 1: we're doing different jobs. Like I don't see a lot

472
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,400
Speaker 1: of it, or I don't hear a lot of these

473
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,680
Speaker 1: games more often than not until I go back and

474
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,959
Speaker 1: like rewatch football that I missed on Tuesday because I'm

475
00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 1: covering one game as a part of my job. But

476
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,400
Speaker 1: I think that on a if you set the over

477
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 1: under on two and a half, maybe that's low. Two

478
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 1: and a half references to the twenty fifteen Patriots Seahawks

479
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I think I'm gonna take the under. I

480
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: really do, because I think, I think again, Mike Turrico

481
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,639
Speaker 1: is the reason that I'm going this direction. I think

482
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 1: that Mike Rico is the best at his specific job

483
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,640
Speaker 1: of anybody that we have doing this for major networks.

484
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 1: I think that Mike Rico is going to find interesting

485
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 1: storylines to talk about throughout the course of the broadcast

486
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: while working in the both the history and frankly the precedent, right,

487
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,879
Speaker 1: because it's okay to talk about history in terms of

488
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: an unprecedented situation. Twelve super Bowls have the New England

489
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 1: Patriots franchise been in since the Super Bowl became a

490
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,439
Speaker 1: thing in nineteen sixty seven, right, they have? They have

491
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,639
Speaker 1: played in twenty percent of all super Bowls. That is

492
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: a thing that Stadhead had that graphic out there. For

493
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,199
Speaker 1: what it's worth, it's four more super Bowl appearances than

494
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,400
Speaker 1: the next closest franchise. And there's some clubs that haven't

495
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 1: even played in a super Bowl. Twelve of them have

496
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 1: never won a super Bowl. Right, So, I think that

497
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of a lot of people

498
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 1: feeling the way that you do on the front end,

499
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 1: being like, Oh, they're just good. There's nothing that interesting

500
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: about the super Bowl. They're just gonna keep bringing up

501
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,919
Speaker 1: the Malcolm Butler interception, this, that and the other. I

502
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,400
Speaker 1: just I think that Mike Tico is better than that.

503
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 1: If Collinsworth does it, then I'm banged. But I think

504
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 1: that as far as telling the story of this particular game,

505
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 1: I think Tarico and most everybody who's paid attention to

506
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: these two teams, understanding that the super Bowl is the

507
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,360
Speaker 1: most casual football audience that you will have all year long.

508
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 1: Most people I would argue that there's just simply a

509
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: football game going on around a Bad Bunny concert. If

510
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,640
Speaker 1: you saw the line, I'm sure FITZI you did out

511
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: in San Francisco for the Bad Buddy press conference, like

512
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a ridiculous spectacle. He's the biggest international

513
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 1: touring artist in the world, and there just so happens

514
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 1: to be an NFL football game being played around a

515
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: concert for him. So I think on the whole though,

516
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: there is enough there for Tarico somebody like that who

517
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,959
Speaker 1: dictates the narrative of the broadcast right to work around

518
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: it without being gratuitous. On Oh, isn't Pete Carroll such

519
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: a dummy because he threw the ball from the one

520
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,160
Speaker 1: yard line instead of handing it off to Marshall Lunch.

521
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 1: Of course, we'll have a little bit of that but

522
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 1: I'd take the under on references.

523
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 2: You said it at two and a half. If I

524
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 2: had been asked to set the number, I would have

525
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,679
Speaker 2: said it at eight. Like that's I think it's going

526
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 2: to be frequent. I'll give you an incredible fact about

527
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 2: Mike Turico and the truth about Bad Bunny. Everything you

528
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 2: need to know on that coming up. But first, Martin

529
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 2: Maikes got to get us caught up. What's going on

530
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 2: on the scoreboard right now?

531
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,959
Speaker 8: My friend, the Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins expected to be

532
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 8: released before the start of the new league year in March.

533
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,639
Speaker 8: That'll allow him to choose where he wants to play.

534
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 8: In twenty twenty six, Marcus Brady following Jesse Mentor from

535
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 8: the Chargers to the Ravens. He'll be the new passing

536
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 8: game coordinator. Chargers interviewed him for their offensive courting of

537
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,679
Speaker 8: job that obviously went to Mike McDaniel. The Jets hiring

538
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,919
Speaker 8: Seth Ryan as a new pass game coordinator. Ryan was

539
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 8: formerly of the Detroit Lions, where he worked with Aaron

540
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,399
Speaker 8: Glenn and was related to Rex and Buddy Ryan, who

541
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 8: used to work for the Jets different capacities. Obviously, Ryan

542
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 8: was with the Lions for five seasons. The Seahawks rookie

543
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 8: safety Nicki minoaris over the low ankle spring and practiced

544
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 8: during the week, but said he will be good to

545
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,679
Speaker 8: go for Super Bowl sixty two. Running backs activated to

546
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 8: the Seahawks l active roster, Cam Akers and Vellas Jones

547
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 8: Junior for the Super Bowl. The NBA Shooting Stars competition

548
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 8: returns to the All Star weekend, has been gone for

549
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 8: eleven years. The league announced that four teams will compete

550
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 8: in the February fourteenth event. Boys, I know you're super

551
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 8: excited for that. The Rockets beat the thunder one twelve

552
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 8: to one, Zho six outpranching goon At a triple double

553
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 8: seventeen points, twelve rebounds, and eleven assists, and right now,

554
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 8: with six minutes thirty seconds left in the first half,

555
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 8: the sixth ranken zaga As a twenty second twenty six

556
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 8: to twenty two lead over Oregon State.

557
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 1: Fellas back to you and.

558
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 8: I'll tell you as Buck, you know you were just

559
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 8: catching a lot of smoke. I think there's two things.

560
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 8: A guy who eats turmeric every day consumes turmeric every day,

561
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 8: and guys who don't. And I just want you to

562
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 8: know I'm in the category of guys who do I

563
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,120
Speaker 8: have a juicer. I have a blend there like it's

564
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 8: the it's the right way to live.

565
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 1: Thank you for being an ally for you. Well, I

566
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: appreciate that.

567
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 3: That I just now imagining you too bond and over

568
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 3: bare minimum stuff.

569
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 1: That's right, that's how men do it, over bare minimum stuff.

570
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: Are you unfamiliar with with the opposite sex? Clearly there's not.

571
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: We don't. We don't need that much, right, we don't

572
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,479
Speaker 1: want to know that much about the other person. I

573
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 1: you may ask me what my best friends in life

574
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: do for a living, and I would probably struggle to

575
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: tell you because we don't have conversation friends that male friend.

576
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 3: That is absolute fact.

577
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,919
Speaker 2: Like some of my best friends, like I kind of

578
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 2: know what they do, but I don't really and I

579
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 2: don't know where they do it or how they That's

580
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 2: why I.

581
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 3: Got the loneliness up and epic hm.

582
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 2: But Buck fills his loneliness epidemic differently. Bucking fits Buck

583
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 2: rising Jason Fitz.

584
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you know, I'm okay, okay, Shoe.

585
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 2: We'll get to bad.

586
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 3: Bundy in a second.

587
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 2: Fun Mike Turico fact that some people may not be

588
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 2: aware of he's pulling double duty. So this will be

589
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 2: his first Super Bowl that he's gonna call for NBC.

590
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 2: But what is amazing to me is after that, after

591
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 2: the game is over, he's going to host the NBC's

592
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 2: Olympic Studio program primetime in Milan from Levi Stadium following

593
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 2: the game. So you want to talk about, like you

594
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 2: just called the Super Bowl, which for a broadcaster is

595
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 2: one of the greatest honors you can ever have, and

596
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 2: you don't really get that moment to be like, all right,

597
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,959
Speaker 2: step back, wi your feed up, celebrate how great that

598
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 2: broadcast was. He almost immediately goes into Olympic duty because

599
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 2: for everyone that might not be paying attention opening ceremonies

600
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: Friday night, like this thing's already raging, it's already underway.

601
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 2: But I don't know, Buck, I find it impressive that

602
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 2: he's gonna bounce from one immediately to the other, and

603
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 2: there's such different energies required for that. That's just kudos

604
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 2: to Mike Terico, one of the best of the business.

605
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: No, he's a stud I actually was listening to an

606
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 1: Al Michaels interview because obviously the Olympic opening ceremonies were

607
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: last night. I watched a lot of ice skating today

608
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. Also, by the way, shout

609
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: out Lindsay Vaughan. You are a certified true blue American

610
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: badass for being out there on a bust at acl

611
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: still trying to compete. I don't know if you saw

612
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: her go through her trial run yesterday. It's absurd what

613
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: she's doing. Obviously, we're rooting for the American athletes no

614
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: matter what, but I mean, just an outsized level of

615
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,719
Speaker 1: praise deserved for Lindsay Vaughn, who's hell bent on representing

616
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: her country in Milan. But the thing that I was

617
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: listening to this week was al Michaels and I think

618
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: he was hanging out on an interview with Dan LeBatard

619
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,479
Speaker 1: and their show where he was asked about the Miracle

620
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: on ice right it's largely considered one of the greatest

621
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: play by play calls in history, and he was talking

622
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: about what they were doing, because, I mean, what the

623
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: the I can't remember exactly the year. I'm sure somebody

624
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: in the audience is screaming at me right now for

625
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: failing to remember the year. But whenever they were doing

626
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: the broadcast. Al Michael said it was taped to air, right,

627
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: so they are worried that something may happen with the

628
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: taped broadcast of the Miracle on Ice, so their bosses

629
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: and I want to say, it was ABC that had

630
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: the Olympics, if I remember the story correctly, had them

631
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: sit in the arena and do the next game, which

632
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: is you know, too obscure. It could have been. You know,

633
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: I can't think of the two countries that participated in

634
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: the in a hockey game right after the Miracle on

635
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: Ice game. But apparently al Michael's and his broadcast partner

636
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: just sat there doing that game right after, didn't go

637
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: out in the streets to see everybody celebrating one of

638
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: the craziest finishes in sports history. Didn't get to, you know,

639
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: really appreciate the atmosphere and the and the gravity of

640
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: the situation that had just tappen, right because they had

641
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: to go right into the next game. In a different

642
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: era broadcasting, I mean, people like that are certainly built different. Hell,

643
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: I don't even know how Jim Nantz does, like back

644
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: to back tournament games, remembering all the names and March

645
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: Madness and things like that. When they get to that

646
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: time of year. It's shocking to nobody You're gonna do

647
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: some play by play. It sounds like fitz here coming

648
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: up in the next couple of months. It is never

649
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: a tool that I've had in my broadcaster back. I'm

650
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 1: sure I could do it poorly, but the level of

651
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: attention to detail, preparation and all those things that these

652
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: play by play guys all the respect in the world

653
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: for them, except the one that I work with on

654
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: a regular basis, Lucas in Nashville.

655
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:40,239
Speaker 3: That's that's right.

656
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 5: Yeah.

657
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 2: I will be making my play by play debut soon

658
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 2: nationally with the Indoor Football League, so that coming to

659
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 2: the Yaho Sports Network. Our first game is March fourteenth

660
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 2: in Indianapolis, So that'll be the debut of the IFL

661
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 2: on Yahoo Sports.

662
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 3: First time everybody gets to hear me all across the country.

663
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 3: Do that.

664
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 2: I am beyond pump for that you mentioned Bad Bunny.

665
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 2: I want to stress here that a bunch of people

666
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 2: I know tried to get into that press conference Bad

667
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,719
Speaker 2: Bunny's press conference. I had been to many of these

668
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 2: press conferences even before I was in sports, when I

669
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 2: was on the music side. The first time I ever

670
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 2: went to a Super Bowl experience. Our friend John McLean

671
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 2: got me into the Beyonce press conference. I'll never forget.

672
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 2: It was right after the controversy of Beyonce, you know,

673
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 2: lip syncing, and so she came out to start her

674
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 2: press conference for the halftime show by singing the national

675
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 2: anthem and it was the I mean, the most compelling,

676
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 2: incredible version of the national anthem I've ever heard live

677
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 2: in my life. And then she just looked at the

678
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 2: crowd and said any questions like it shut the whole

679
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 2: room up about why things were done the way they

680
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 2: were done.

681
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 3: It was legendary.

682
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 2: So I was excited to try and go to the

683
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 2: Bad Bunny press conference only to find out that they

684
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 2: were literally turning people away because it was full. And

685
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 2: this is my reminder to everybody that if you hate

686
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 2: the selection of Bad Bunny, because many people have many

687
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 2: things to say about.

688
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 3: It, I would say, you're not the audience, and that's okay.

689
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 2: Like I've sat with the people, as you know, that

690
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 2: make these halftime decisions in the has to ask what

691
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 2: their process is like. They want people that wouldn't necessarily

692
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 2: be paying attention to the super Bowl to watch the

693
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 2: Super Bowl for the halftime show, and I can't stress

694
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 2: that enough. So if it is an act that already resonates,

695
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 2: So when people say why don't country music artists play

696
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 2: the super Bowl halftime show, well because country music fans

697
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 2: are already watching the super Bowl. So there's not really

698
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 2: a value added proposition. The halftime show is not to

699
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 2: entertain the people that would already watch the halftime or

700
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 2: the super Bowl.

701
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 3: It's to bring new audiences in.

702
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 2: And even for anyone that says, oh, counterprogramming that, frankly,

703
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 2: no one's really gonna watch. Counterprogramming is gonna dip this.

704
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 2: It's gonna be the lowest rated halftime in history. The

705
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 2: fact is even normal metrics won't really do you justice

706
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 2: if that's your argument, because the audience rate reach here

707
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 2: is global. They are trying to get people in countries

708
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 2: that would never watch the super Bowl to care about it.

709
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 2: Nielsen ratings don't track that. So even if they took

710
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 2: a massive dip, even if it was the biggest dip

711
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 2: we've seen since in Living Color, look it up, kids,

712
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 2: counterprogram the halftime show. Even if it was all the

713
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 2: way back to that, you could look at what is

714
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 2: going to happen for the global numbers of this, the

715
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 2: streaming numbers across the world. The NFL is going to

716
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 2: absolutely dominate this halftime show because Bad Bunny is the

717
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 2: most downloaded and consumed artist musically in the world. So

718
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 2: it's just a reminder if you don't like it, just

719
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 2: remember you're not the audience.

720
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: You have nothing really to add about that other than

721
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: the dialogue has been outrageously stupid and it's only going

722
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: to continue to get more stupid. And I am going

723
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: to probably take a glance at Twitter just to see

724
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: how much dumber it can get throughout the course of

725
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: the Bad Bunny performance, because I honestly I don't know.

726
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: Maybe I live in a bubble. Okay, maybe I have

727
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: no concept for what people what bothers people in America,

728
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: although I think I'm pretty good at bothering people in

729
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: the audience on a regular basis, whether it be nationally

730
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: or whether it be lovely feel like I got. I

731
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: feel like I got a pretty good ear for it.

732
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: But like even I, okay, who understands how to agitate

733
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: from time to time, was so dumbfound by how stupid

734
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: people were acting and tweeting and discussing the Kender Clamar

735
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: halftime Show. The Bad Bunny thing is just going to

736
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: be that to the nth degree, right, So I'm fully

737
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: prepared to be both entertained and deeply disappointed in how

738
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: ridiculous people are going to be about their lack of

739
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: interest or telling everybody that they're not interested in the

740
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: Bad Bunny Show or all these different things. Again, FITZI,

741
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: to your point, they are not. They are not programming

742
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl for you. They're programming the Super Bowl

743
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: for the world. How many different countries are we playing

744
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: NFL football in next season? I mean, and I don't

745
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: even think they've rolled out the full list, right. They

746
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: are trying to make this and you know, getting in incrementally.

747
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: They're trying to make the NFL, the National Football League,

748
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: into a global game. And maybe that's counterintuitive, even just

749
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: in the name of the league, right, but that's not

750
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: going to stop them because they are understand what a giant,

751
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: untapped piggy bank they have at their disposal, and if

752
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: they can use Bad Bunny to as rocket fuel to

753
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: jettison a few extra streaming subscriptions for the NFL next season,

754
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: and you know, Brazil or Japan or all these other

755
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: places when we eventually play football in Saudi Arabia and

756
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: wherever the hell else they're gonna send us at some point.

757
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: It is about the NFL's path to global domination from

758
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: a financial standpoint, and this is just one of many

759
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: steps that you will see the league take that is

760
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: probably going to bother to some extent American audiences at home.

761
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: I promise you.

762
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 3: They don't care.

763
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: They don't care.

764
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 3: They just want the money.

765
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 2: This is like a fratborough going to Magic Kingdom and

766
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 2: seeing a little kid getting their picture taken with Mickey

767
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 2: Mouse and yelling about it like, guess what, dude, it

768
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 2: ain't for you, all right, It's for the kid and

769
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 2: the kids happy. This is for the global audience. Global

770
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 2: audiences can be is going to be happy. Just tell

771
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 2: everybody to kiss your butt. But when they do kiss

772
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 2: you butter, it'll be nice and clean. If you ever

773
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 2: wipe through the piece dry toilet paper and wondering is

774
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 2: this as good as he gets?

775
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: It is not.

776
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 2: God, I love getting into these switched to life changing

777
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,919
Speaker 2: wet extra large flushable dude wipes.

778
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 3: Because wetter just cleans better.

779
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 2: Available at Amazon dot Com and at major retailers nationwide.

780
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 2: Dude wipes best clean pants down. Especially if here's Harry

781
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 2: is Buck Rising? All right, the truth about San Francisco.

782
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 2: We'll give it to you next coming up. Bucking fits

783
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio.

784
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 3: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. This fucking fits on

785
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio. He's Buck Rising.

786
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 2: I'm Jason Fitz hanging out with you, Mary mackahed and

787
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 2: Ian behind the scenes. Oh, I'm telling you, I think

788
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 2: this is Look, here's here's the reality. I know we're

789
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 2: gonna talk about San Francisco in a second, but I'm

790
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna wax philosophically about the halftime show.

791
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 3: Here's my belief, Buck.

792
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 2: I've been in the stadium for a bunch of these

793
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 2: halftime shows and like, if it's just head bob, it

794
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 2: never works as well in the stadium, so you don't

795
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 2: get the same energy. Like I was in the stadium

796
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 2: for Katy Perry's halftime show and it was just sort

797
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,280
Speaker 2: of a bobber and like left Shark all that stuff.

798
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 2: But even the fans that were around, like massive Katie

799
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,399
Speaker 2: Parker Perry fans, were like.

800
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 3: Ah, it just felt flat.

801
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 2: Like but I was in the stadium for Bruno Mars

802
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 2: with Red hot Chili peppers, and because everything was a banger,

803
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 2: like everything made it go.

804
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 3: It just it was electric.

805
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 2: I think the great halftime performances have so much to

806
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 2: do with the pace and energy of the music. Like

807
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 2: that's why the eminem Super Show with Everybody in La

808
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,800
Speaker 2: with like Dre and all those like it worked because

809
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 2: it was this, like this frenetic pace to it. I

810
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 2: think Bad Bunny's gonna come out and just entertain the

811
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 2: hell out of everybody, Like, even if you don't know

812
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 2: the music, it's just gonna be a vibe.

813
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 3: It's gonna be it's gonna be an electric view. I

814
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 3: believe that they will put.

815
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 2: Together a staggeringly good performance. I know, I know not

816
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,840
Speaker 2: everybody wants to believe that I was in San Francisco.

817
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 2: You were not in San Francisco. There's been a lot

818
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 2: of talk about San Francisco. So I'm just gonna give

819
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 2: you my perspective, because that's all anybody could do. I saw,

820
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 2: you know, Pat mcviee was talking about San Francisco's a

821
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 2: beautiful host city, but you have Clay Travis talking about

822
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 2: quite the opposite. I can only give everybody buck my

823
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 2: perspective to San Francisco for anyone, it's not aware of

824
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 2: how the city sort of laid out. The convention center

825
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 2: is in sort of a like kind of like a

826
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,399
Speaker 2: financial district. Don't think of midtown Manhattan, right, Like, it's

827
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 2: in that sort of area. That's where the radio row

828
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 2: stuff is, That's where all the interviews are being done,

829
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 2: That's where all of the media hotels are. And then

830
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 2: the actual stadium in Santa Clara is like an hour

831
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 2: drive away, right So the media that we're covering the

832
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 2: teams at the stadium had to take a shuttle every

833
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 2: morning at six am to get over to the stadium.

834
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 2: It's a very disjointed layout, but there's been a lot

835
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 2: of conversation about what the host city is like. I

836
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 2: can tell you this. After one day of walking around,

837
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 2: a group text went out to everybody that was out

838
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 2: there for our shows saying don't text Uber and I tried.

839
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 2: I walked to the gym the first morning at six am,

840
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 2: and midway through the walk, I was like, Yep, this

841
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 2: was not a great idea for me to walk to

842
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 2: the gym. I walked to dinner a couple of nights

843
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 2: because I went to the Warriors game on Tuesday night,

844
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 2: and when I pulled up the traffic to get to

845
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 2: the Warriors game, because traffic is so unbearable with all

846
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 2: the media that's there. It was a forty minute drive

847
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 2: or a forty two minute walk. I'm nature to say, Okay,

848
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 2: I'm rather walk forty two minutes. So the group of

849
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 2: us that went to the Warriors game, even with the

850
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 2: group of us were curious about that walk along the way,

851
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 2: felt like we put ourselves in some bad situations. I

852
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 2: felt like I was living an episode of Long Order.

853
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 2: A couple of nights ago, a highly recommended restaurant about

854
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 2: a twelve minute walk from my hotel. I'm just following maps.

855
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 2: I've got my head down looking at my phone, and

856
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 2: I looked up and a car had sort of veered off,

857
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 2: and suddenly I found myself in a very very very

858
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 2: problematic area with a bunch of people around.

859
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 3: That like it just it was scary. It was frightening.

860
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 2: So I'll be honest, I think San Francisco has a

861
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 2: lot of work to do in the area we were in.

862
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful city, but man, we weren't in a

863
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 2: beautiful area. And the two things can be true. People

864
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 2: are yelling on both sides. I think everybo he's sort

865
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 2: of right and everybody's sort of well.

866
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, it just depends on if you want

867
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: to traffic and the political politicization. I'm sure I didn't

868
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 1: say that word correctly of California, San Francisco, Gavin News,

869
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: all these different things like some of the people that

870
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: you saw, Clay Travis, for example, you know, obviously has

871
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 1: a bit of a slant on the things that he

872
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: talks about on a regular basis. I you know, I

873
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: can't speak to it. I wasn't out there. I heard

874
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: mixed reviews. I think the Super Bowl should be in

875
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: New Orleans every year.

876
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 2: I think if you are being driven around everywhere you go,

877
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 2: like some talent are, it's a beautiful city. If you're walking,

878
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 2: be very very very careful. And I don't care about

879
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 2: the politics either way. So that's just my open perspective

880
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: on it. More super Bowl breakdown coming next Bucking Fits.

881
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

882
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 5: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

883
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 5: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

884
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 5: listen live.

885
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 2: We are twenty four hours away from finally getting answers

886
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: to who the next Super Bowl champion will be super

887
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 2: Bowl sixty right around the corner. We're getting all the

888
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 2: breakdown you could possibly need. Buck Rising Jason Fitzbucken fits

889
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio this on the heels of a

890
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:12,720
Speaker 2: wild Super Bowl week.

891
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 3: In San Francisco.

892
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 2: If you've been listening to Fox Sports, obviously all of

893
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 2: our shows have been out there. It was great this

894
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:19,919
Speaker 2: week to get to see the guys like Cavino, Rich

895
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 2: and Stu Gotts and everybody else from the Fox Sports

896
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 2: Radio family doing a great job with the celebrity interviews.

897
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 2: One surprising note we got this week, though not about

898
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl team, but about a team that was

899
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 2: very close, was.

900
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 3: Matt Stafford not winning the MVP.

901
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 2: But Buck Rising, were you surprised that, this early straight

902
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 2: into the offseason, when we're trying to figure out what's

903
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 2: next for the Rams, that we now sit here with

904
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 2: the knowledge that Matt Stafford is coming back MVP? He

905
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 2: made the point at his acceptance speech. Only days after

906
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 2: finding out that Lesneed and Sean McVay had signed contract extensions,

907
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 2: we now find out Matthew Stafford is coming back.

908
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 3: Did it surprise you at all.

909
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 2: That Matthew Stafford made a quick and definitive decision considering

910
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 2: last year, all the conversation about his back, all the

911
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 2: conversation about how long did he want to play?

912
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess no, simply because like, when is

913
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: the last time the back has been a talking point?

914
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: Has it been since training?

915
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 7: Can? We?

916
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: That never came up throughout the course of the season.

917
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you know, like any football player, like

918
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 1: any athlete, you're battling through things at a variety of

919
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: different points throughout the course of the regular season, especially

920
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: when you play deep into the postseason the way that

921
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: the Rams did. I'm sure for a thirty seven year

922
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: old body, there is a heightened degree of difficulty. But

923
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: there's no question that his skill set is still e lite.

924
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: I mean, he is the most valuable player in the

925
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: NFL this year. It's his first time. I had somebody

926
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: at my gym this week who is from Michigan come

927
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: up and talk to me about Stafford a little bit,

928
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: and just the idea that Detroit fans still root for

929
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: him and love to see him having the success that

930
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: he is and obviously what he's done in Los Angeles

931
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:04,720
Speaker 1: bringing them a championship elevating the Rams organization significantly, understanding

932
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: that they got there, got to a super Bowl with

933
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: golf like, it's a totally different ballgame. They are year in,

934
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: year out contenders, and to your point, Fitze, like we

935
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: talked about in the first hour, they were the second

936
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: best team in football this year behind Seattle. At any

937
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: given point, you can maybe and I did make the

938
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: argument for Jacksonville down the stretch in Hell. I mean,

939
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: I think if Jacksonville got passed Buffalo in the wildcard route,

940
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: I think they could have been the Super Bowl representative

941
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,800
Speaker 1: of the AFC for as well as they were playing

942
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: in the most important time of the year. A couple

943
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: of missed opportunities against an efficient Josh Allen performance, obviously

944
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: their season comes to an end. But for Matt Stafford,

945
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: you know, if he feels good, hell with it. What's

946
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: the conversation to be had. I mean, it doesn't mean

947
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: that he has to play or play until what was

948
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: Brady forty three, I think his final year. He doesn't

949
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: have to do that, and it's a significant gap between

950
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: thirty seven and into your mid forties that Brady was.

951
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to do the thing like Rivers does.

952
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: Right where he steps away at some point that he

953
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: comes back and plays for a terribly injured football team

954
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: that just desperately needs a quarterback off the bench. He

955
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: doesn't have to do any of those things. He can

956
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: play at the highest He can play the sport at

957
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: the highest level possible at this point in his career,

958
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: and as long as he's doing it at a reasonable

959
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: level of discomfort, that's not inhibiting him, and as long

960
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: as they continue to surround him with assets that are good.

961
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: I mean, pooka akup is not going anywhere. To your

962
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 1: point about McVeigh and Snead, they're running it back as

963
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 1: far as the infrastructure of that organization. And while they

964
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: do have some things to shore up, specifically on the

965
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:42,879
Speaker 1: back end of their defense, that defense is good enough

966
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: to give you opportunities as a quarterback. I think Matt

967
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 1: Stafford's in a really good spot at you you want

968
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: guys to walk away before the game forces them out,

969
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 1: and I don't know if Matt Stafford will be one

970
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 1: of those. It happens far more often than you would like,

971
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: just because it kind of makes you sad at the

972
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: end when you see that you the corpse of Peyton Manning.

973
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: I understand that Peyton won a super Bowl that year,

974
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 1: but not because Peyton Manning was winning that Super Bowl,

975
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 1: that guy got benched for Brock Osweiler, a player that

976
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: I with all due respect to Brock, who's actually pretty

977
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: good on TV from what I've seen him doing some

978
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: college games. I don't want to have to watch Brock

979
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: Osweiler play in a situation like that. You don't want

980
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 1: to see your heroes and legends become shells of themselves

981
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:30,479
Speaker 1: the longer that they pushed this thing out. But for him,

982
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: I think there are so many more pros than cons

983
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: to a certain situation, as long as he's got his health,

984
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: and it sounds like after training camp it was a

985
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 1: pretty manageable situation.

986
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 2: Just thinking though a couple of years ago, Buck, we

987
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 2: were sitting here talking about Man Stafford might walk away,

988
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 2: Sean McVay having kids.

989
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 3: He made it sound like he might be wanting to

990
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 3: walk away.

991
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 2: Right around the time Aaron Donald retired, it felt like

992
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 2: we might be in a massive reset. Then the Rams

993
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 2: absolutely nailed it in the draft for some great defensive line.

994
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 2: Town rebuild everything up front. They go on this run

995
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 2: and we've gone from this are they in flux to

996
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 2: now what I thought was going to be one of

997
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 2: the mos more interesting offseason stories. The Rams do not

998
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 2: right now have a clear path to a replacement for

999
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford.

1000
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 3: Right They have two.

1001
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 2: Picks in this year's draft, they have plenty of salary

1002
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 2: cap money, but there's no quarterback worth signing in free

1003
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 2: agency this year. I cannot scream that loud enough. All

1004
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 2: of them suck. So there's no quarterback in free agency

1005
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 2: that I think is worth it. And they're sitting right

1006
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 2: now with Atlanta's pick in the first round at thirteen

1007
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 2: and their own pick in the first round, which is

1008
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 2: at twenty nine.

1009
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 3: So I sat here a few days ago.

1010
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 2: Wondering, man, if Stafford doesn't come back, like did they

1011
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 2: sign Less and Sean McVay because they were trying to say, hey,

1012
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 2: we understand it's about to be a rebuild and we've

1013
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 2: got to figure it out.

1014
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 3: We don't have a quarterback. This changes everything.

1015
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 2: Now they sit with two first round picks any year

1016
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 2: where the draft doesn't necessarily have that epic talent. I

1017
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 2: wonder if they try and move those picks for players

1018
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 2: that they want. I wonder if they go even more

1019
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 2: all in. I wonder if this suddenly becomes the most

1020
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 2: aggressive offseason, because Lenie said, before Matthew Stafford made the announcement,

1021
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 2: he said, we're aware that you don't get a lot

1022
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 2: of seasons like Matthew just had, and he doesn't have

1023
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,399
Speaker 2: a lot of them left, so if he comes back,

1024
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 2: we want to maximize it. I think the Rams entire

1025
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 2: process knowing that Stafford, which is why it was key

1026
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 2: he said it. Then if Stafford waits until, you know,

1027
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 2: after free agency to announce his intentions, things get really

1028
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 2: complicated for them. By announcing it now, I think part

1029
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 2: of what he's doing is also telling the.

1030
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 3: Rams, hey, we're all in whatever it takes.

1031
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 2: All. This is like a Lebron moment where whenever Lebron's

1032
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 2: on a team, you don't care about the future. The

1033
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 2: Rams have to go just as FM picks. It's like,

1034
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 2: f the future, I care about one thing right now,

1035
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 2: which is can I win a Super Bowl today this

1036
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 2: year with this team.

1037
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: How much would Aaron Rodgers hated if the Rams did

1038
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: the thing that the Packers would never do for him, right?

1039
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: That's kind of the conversation that we're having here. The

1040
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: whole dialogue leading up to that Jordan Love draft was

1041
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: how badly Aaron Rodgers needs a first round talent at

1042
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 1: wide receiver that year, and then they go and take

1043
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: the air apparent to Aaron and it leaves him. I mean,

1044
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,240
Speaker 1: you know, he's maybe just a bit disconcerted about everything generally,

1045
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in the way that he approaches certain situations

1046
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: that he thinks are not in line with his thinking.

1047
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: I don't think you can do that in good conscience, honestly,

1048
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: Like I don't think that you can have a deliberate

1049
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 1: attempt to sacrifice. Well, damn I say that. But then

1050
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: the Rams kind of did that right to bleep them

1051
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:32,919
Speaker 1: picks thing that you talked about. They did sacrifice their

1052
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: short term future for immediate gain, and they, you know,

1053
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,399
Speaker 1: their version of bottoming out was that what they were

1054
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: like a five and twelve team. I think maybe a

1055
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 1: year or two years after the Super Bowl, I can't

1056
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: remember exactly. I want to say that they had that

1057
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: big dip immediately after the Super Bowl where there were

1058
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: some health issues around the team. They lost a lot

1059
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: of guys obviously in the free agency process. So just

1060
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: because one team does it one way, that mean that

1061
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: you have to approach it in that situation. I just

1062
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: think that if you are the Rams, that wouldn't you

1063
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: at least me if I was a fan of the Rams,

1064
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: I would not want them to go all in around

1065
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: a going to be thirty eight year old quarterback without

1066
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: some level of meaningful insurance policy behind him, because I

1067
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 1: don't want everything to go down if God forbid something

1068
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: happens to Matt Stafford. He had an incredibly healthy season

1069
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: given all of the circumstances, especially when we talk about

1070
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: how many different quarterbacks started games have started games for

1071
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: teams over the course of these last three years. For

1072
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford to be that available is pretty crazy. I

1073
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: would not want my franchise to forsake an opportunity if

1074
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 1: Stafford were to go down and not have a viable

1075
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 1: backup option or an air apparent ready to sit the benches.

1076
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: He works his way up to that level of competency

1077
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: and then maybe come in a Ringer type of situation

1078
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: better than a Jared's at them right.

1079
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 2: Here's what I would say to that, though you have

1080
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 2: Jimmy g right now, you could look around the landscape

1081
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 2: and say, Okay, Mac Jones is available next, not this

1082
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 2: coming season. I don't believe the forty nine ers are

1083
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 2: going to move off of mac Jones, but I do

1084
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 2: believe that mac Jones is somebody that has gotten just

1085
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 2: enough Sewan they could look at a reclamation project like that.

1086
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 2: But even more so, I know a year ago right

1087
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 2: now we were saying next year's draft is better at

1088
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,399
Speaker 2: the quarterback position. But it seems today like next year's

1089
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 2: draft is better at the quarterback position. If I think

1090
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,919
Speaker 2: I need a quarterback, these picks aren't going to help

1091
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 2: me really attain that there isn't somebody in this year's draft.

1092
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,839
Speaker 2: If I'm a RAMS fan, I want to trade out

1093
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,320
Speaker 2: of this year's draft entirely for next year's draft. I

1094
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 2: want to stockpile picks so that I can try and

1095
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 2: move up to get a quarterback if I want one.

1096
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 2: I tell you all the time, we don't know that

1097
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 2: you can out suck everybody else. And there's a ton

1098
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 2: of teams that are going to have a ton of ammunition.

1099
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 2: But picking where they're picking, there is no real clear

1100
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 2: path to a quarterback. They don't have a ton of needs.

1101
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 2: I don't think overall to go back like.

1102
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 3: What they need to do is cornered something awful. Well,

1103
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 3: they do.

1104
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:04,760
Speaker 2: They need corners, and they need to fix their special

1105
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 2: teams like special teams with the Achilles heel of the Rams.

1106
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 2: This year, I think they can accomplish that. With the

1107
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 2: salary cap space that they have, they could address some

1108
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 2: of it in the draft. But I would just be

1109
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,839
Speaker 2: punting those picks to next year, hopeful that next year

1110
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,280
Speaker 2: I can turn around and figure out the best way

1111
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,760
Speaker 2: to maximize the picks that I have to then select

1112
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 2: the quarterback of the future. I just don't think the

1113
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 2: quarterback of the future unless you believe that, you know,

1114
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss with the fourth round pack is somebody who

1115
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 2: wanted to, you know.

1116
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 3: Draft and develop.

1117
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 2: Maybe you believe Garrett nuss Meyer and a third round

1118
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 2: pick is somebody you could draft and develop. But I

1119
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 2: don't think there's a sure fire answer for them. So

1120
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:40,320
Speaker 2: if I know I don't have a sure fire answer,

1121
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,320
Speaker 2: I know I have the right now window, then I

1122
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 2: don't need these picks. It might not be f then

1123
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,240
Speaker 2: pics to get pieces. It might be FN picks until

1124
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 2: next year to get myself in a better situation than

1125
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 2: to address the quarterback position.

1126
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: Roster building is so fascinating because you can't do it

1127
00:51:56,040 --> 00:52:00,359
Speaker 1: one specific way. Given how many different phases all these

1128
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: different franchises are in the rams are a really really

1129
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:07,399
Speaker 1: interesting case study. I think you've you've moved me off

1130
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: my initial position about how they can go in around

1131
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford. I just think you know you run the

1132
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: ultimate risk, right that if something happens to him, you're bank.

1133
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: Maybe if something happens to him, you're banged anyway, Right,

1134
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 1: So does it really matter? Is it that great of

1135
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: a risk when you understand what's the uh all? The

1136
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:30,399
Speaker 1: famous offensive line coach, most recently for the Bucks, Tom Moore, Right,

1137
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: Tom Moore talking about Peyton Manning when when during their

1138
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: time together in Indianapolis, where he's saying, if eighteen goes down,

1139
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: we're bleeped, and we don't practice bleeped, right, using a

1140
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 1: bit more colorful language. So maybe it's just as simple

1141
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 1: as that for LA I will hear you on that

1142
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 1: being a more logical situation than kind of hedging your

1143
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 1: bets and fortifying your roster, fortifying your quarterback position, given

1144
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 1: specifically the core situation we're in now as far as

1145
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,280
Speaker 1: free agency in the draft goes now, I don't think

1146
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: like I don't think Malik Willis, for example, sucks. I

1147
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: think that he needs a very specific situation to be

1148
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: able to succeed, and he has gotten that with Matt

1149
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: Lafleur in Green Bay. Would the Los Angeles Rams have

1150
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: a viable situation for Malik Willis right where you would

1151
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 1: trust somebody like Sean McVay working with the best available

1152
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: free agent quarterback coming up? Probably not, So it's not

1153
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: really a logical situation there. And also, I don't think

1154
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: Malik is going to hit the off season this year

1155
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 1: with the intend to be Matt Stafford's backup, even if

1156
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: there is air, apparent vibes and a really really good

1157
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:43,479
Speaker 1: coaching situation to surround yourself with, just a hypothetical talking

1158
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: about I mean, Malik is right, the best available.

1159
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 3: Free agency, the best available for Yeah, so.

1160
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: I mean Aaron Rodgers at this state of his career.

1161
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: I don't really know what the conversation like looks like

1162
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:55,399
Speaker 1: around him at this point. I'm sure we'll be waiting

1163
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: until August to figure out whether he's going to play

1164
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: or not. But yeah, I hear you. So the Rams

1165
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 1: are in a very specific circumstance that it would be

1166
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:10,360
Speaker 1: more justifiable than your average franchise on a vacuum, sacrificing

1167
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,880
Speaker 1: draft capital for this year, this moment, right now.

1168
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 2: Sometimes you're in a specific circumstance where you're wiping with

1169
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 2: a piece of dry toilet paper and you're wondering.

1170
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:20,720
Speaker 3: Is this as good as it gets?

1171
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:24,280
Speaker 2: Nope, it is not switched to life changing wet extra

1172
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:28,800
Speaker 2: large flushable Dude Wipes because weather just cleans better. Available

1173
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 2: at Amazon and at major retailers nationwide. Dude Wipes, Best

1174
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 2: Clean pants Down. Yanas Onto Takumpo did not get traded

1175
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 2: this week, but that did not end the controversy around

1176
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,440
Speaker 2: yanis Onto Takompo. We will give you the latest greatest

1177
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 2: news next Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio. I'm still

1178
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 2: waiting for him to fan me while I get my

1179
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 2: frozen grapes. They are delightful, delicious treat, especially the cotton

1180
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 2: candy grapes.

1181
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 3: Oh so good.

1182
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 2: Speaking of great For the best pregame show, be sure

1183
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,280
Speaker 2: to tune into Fox Sports Radio Countdown to Kickoff, presented

1184
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 2: by the bet MGM every Saturday and Sunday morning, with

1185
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 2: all the best plays and up to the second injury news.

1186
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 2: Tune in to Countdown to Kickoff presented by Bed MGM

1187
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 2: every Saturday Sunday morning, right here on Fox Sports Radio

1188
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 2: and the iHeart App.

1189
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 3: We have some breaking news.

1190
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:15,840
Speaker 2: Buck Rising, Jason fitz bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio.

1191
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 2: Schefty out here in these streets even before the Super Bowl,

1192
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 2: getting us caught up on the NFL news across the league,

1193
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 2: and of course, all eyes for many teams have been

1194
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 2: on what the Cowboys would do with George Pickens. We

1195
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 2: at least got the first piece of that, as Schefty

1196
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 2: has tweeted out the Cowboys expected to place their franchise

1197
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 2: tag on wide receiver George Pickens.

1198
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 3: So if your favorite.

1199
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,760
Speaker 2: Team, like many, if you're one of these fan bases

1200
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 2: that has one hundred million dollars to spend, and you

1201
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 2: think that that one hundred million dollars is going to

1202
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,879
Speaker 2: help your roster, this is a reminder that a bunch

1203
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 2: of teams will find the money somehow, someway, and great

1204
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 2: players rarely make it to the open market. Pickens likely

1205
00:55:57,120 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 2: going to be a Cowboy.

1206
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 1: Free agency conversations are always fun until teams are like,

1207
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna keep that guy who know, no

1208
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,359
Speaker 1: way in hell, oh, we gonna let that dude hit

1209
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: the open market, especially for how well it went for

1210
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: George Pickens this year. Like I understand, they had the

1211
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 1: situation with him and Ceedee Lamb missing a curfew and

1212
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: uh and you know some some rumor scuttle bud about

1213
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: you know, where they at a casino the night before

1214
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 1: a game or something like that whatever, like George Pickens,

1215
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: and also some effort moments that were scrutinized on the broadcast,

1216
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: which you know he has a little bit of that

1217
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: in his background just generally. But FITZI, when when he

1218
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 1: ended up getting traded there before the season began, I

1219
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: thought that was a disaster waiting to happen, just because

1220
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: the one guy that Mike Tomlin has had enough of,

1221
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: for all the different giant personalities that Mike Tomlin has

1222
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: dealt with and difficult to navigate situations that the Pittsburgh

1223
00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 1: Steelers have had, this this one this too much or

1224
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: enough that they're just gonna be like, yeah, you know what,

1225
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 1: just what did he get move for? Like a third

1226
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: round pick or something like that. I can't remember, I

1227
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: have yah, But either way, for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who

1228
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 1: probably could have used a wide receiver of George Pickens'

1229
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: talent opposite DK Metcalf, especially when DK got that suspension

1230
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. To just move this guy,

1231
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh my god, he's gonna go to

1232
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. He's gonna go to the Cowboys with Brian

1233
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 1: Schottenheimer as the head coach, like somebody who's very much

1234
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 1: untested in this particular situation, navigating the most covered NFL franchise,

1235
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: one of the most covered sports franchises anywhere in the world.

1236
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: George Pickens under that microscope is going to succeed. I

1237
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: refuse to believe it. And then he bawled out again.

1238
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't perfect, but to his credit and

1239
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys credit. I don get the Cowboys a

1240
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: lot of credit for many things in these last couple

1241
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: of years, but they really handled his circumstance well. I

1242
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 1: think it's deal that makes sense for both sides. Now,

1243
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: it's going to cost roughly twenty eight million to franchise

1244
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 1: TAG him at this point in time, and that is

1245
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: a you know, it can be a tool. Right. Just

1246
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: because they intend to franchise TAG him does not mean

1247
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: that he will definitely play on the tag and will

1248
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 1: definitely cost them twenty eight MILI against the cap this year.

1249
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: It can be a tool to just keep the player

1250
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 1: under team control while you continue to work towards a

1251
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 1: long term extension, ultimately finding a way to mitigate that

1252
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: cap hit. We've seen that done millions of times over.

1253
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones went on record on the team's website and

1254
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 1: said he wants George Pickens to be a cowboy for

1255
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: a long time. We know that Jerry does not say

1256
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 1: things that he does not mean. For whatever you think

1257
00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: of Jerry Jones and the messaging, I think that when

1258
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: Jerry puts that out there like that, that means he

1259
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: intends to move forward in that direction. And from Jerry's standpoint,

1260
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 1: I get it. I think it becomes a comp and

1261
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: maybe I'm not giving George Pickts enough credit. I obviously

1262
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: don't know him. I haven't worked around him in any

1263
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: former fashion. You know some people. Obviously his dad is

1264
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: somebody who played for the Titans as a matter of fact,

1265
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: as somebody who had an NFL career and obviously a

1266
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: very long and storied background at Georgia for all the

1267
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 1: things that he was able to accomplish there. So I

1268
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: don't know what kind of person George Pickens is other

1269
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: than what you read, what you see on TV and

1270
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: some of the things that you hear going on in

1271
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 1: the background. But to I think he's managed that circumstance

1272
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: pretty well. I think Dallas feels like a good spot

1273
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: for him. If I'm Dak Prescott, I'm sure as hell

1274
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: won him back coming off a career year or one

1275
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 1: of the best years that Dak has ever had in

1276
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: his career. They just need to fortify that defense and

1277
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: give them an opportunity to get stops in some of

1278
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 1: these games where they've just been moving the ball up

1279
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: and down the field with regularity. Yeah, I think it

1280
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 1: makes sense for both sides, and it is disappointing for

1281
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: a lot of fan bases who were looking at George

1282
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: Pickens be like that guy could be mine with all

1283
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: my caps, bas specifically Titans fans who have been talking

1284
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 1: about it here in Nashville for months at this point

1285
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 1: in time.

1286
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 2: But that's the problem for everybody, And by the way

1287
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 2: we looked at up George Pickens was traded along with

1288
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 2: the sixth round pick to the Cowboys. The Steelers received

1289
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 2: a third and fifth round pick in exchange. To your point,

1290
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 2: and This is the dangerous thing if you are listening

1291
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 2: to this right now, and what your argument is for

1292
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 2: why your team is going to turn around is we.

1293
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 3: Have cap space.

1294
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 2: I laugh at that every year because astronomical increases in

1295
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 2: the cap have become an annual tradition. In fact, the

1296
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 2: salary cap this year ended up being higher than anyone

1297
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 2: even expected. What's the first for the second straight year.

1298
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 2: So what does that mean that whenever the cap ends

1299
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 2: up being higher than anyone expected, that means that more

1300
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 2: money was made and as a result, teams have more

1301
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 2: money to spend, which means people don't make it to

1302
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 2: the open market. In fact, if you look right now

1303
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 2: on overthcap dot com, if you look at the cap space,

1304
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 2: number one of the Titans with almost one hundred and

1305
01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 2: five million, Number two of the Raiders with ninety one million,

1306
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 2: two teams that are.

1307
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 3: Desperate for wide receiver help.

1308
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: Right.

1309
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 2: But then all of a sudden you look down to

1310
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 2: the bottom third least salary cap space before the micah

1311
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 2: or micah sorry, before the CD and George Pickens moment.

1312
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 2: Here the Cowboys are thirty million over the cap and

1313
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 2: they just franchised, They're going to franchise George Pickens. It

1314
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 2: reminds us that all of this stuff is just manageable.

1315
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 2: Charles Robinson, the NFL reporter for Yahoo Sports, told me

1316
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 2: over a year ago that he believes by twenty thirty

1317
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 2: the NFL salary cap will be over half a billion

1318
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 2: dollars a year. It will be over five hundred million.

1319
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:42,439
Speaker 2: So if your answer right now to fix your team

1320
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 2: is we have cap space, you're an idiot like it

1321
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 2: just you don't get the guys in the cap space

1322
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 2: that you want. That cap space really is supposed to

1323
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 2: help you keep guys when they're in the building. The

1324
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 2: answer is still and will always be draft stars and

1325
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 2: when you get to the four year pay them mega contracts.

1326
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 2: And all of this cap increase means if you draft

1327
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 2: stars and you need to pay mega contracts, like the

1328
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 2: Titans want to be in a situation in three or

1329
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 2: four years where it's no problem to keep cam Ward

1330
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 2: because they have cap space. If you're the Raiders, you

1331
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 2: don't have to worry about what you're gonna do with

1332
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 2: brock Powers at some point because you have cap space.

1333
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 2: Like that's what the cap space is actually for good

1334
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 2: teams going to help them with all of the time spent.

1335
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 1: Just that.

1336
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:31,600
Speaker 2: I've heard over the past month where people say we

1337
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 2: have so much cap space and that they were going

1338
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 2: to fix it. It never works, and then they'll say, well,

1339
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 2: work for the Patriots this year. Okay, congratulations you found

1340
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 2: the one outlier. Congratulations you found the outlier. So great.

1341
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 2: If that's the way that you view everything, then you

1342
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 2: have no problem, you know, drafting a short quarterback because

1343
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:53,840
Speaker 2: there's an outlier. You have no problem drafting a slow

1344
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 2: wide receiver because there's an outlier. Every once in a while, Yeah,

1345
01:02:57,560 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 2: somebody will scratch off, use the scratch off lottery to

1346
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 2: get to pay their mortgage. That doesn't mean that that

1347
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:05,000
Speaker 2: person has actually found a dependable way to do it.

1348
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:06,959
Speaker 2: That is not the way you should plan on paying

1349
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 2: your mortgage. The cap space ninety nine out of one

1350
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 2: hundred times cap space used effectively is used effectively when

1351
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:16,080
Speaker 2: it helps you keep your own not when it helps

1352
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 2: you buy scraps at an overvalued price. Plenty to say

1353
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 2: on that, Martin, get us caught up on what's going

1354
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 2: on the scoreboard right now, though you guys are just

1355
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 2: talking about it.

1356
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 8: The Dallas Cowboys reportedly expected to franchise tag wide receiver,

1357
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 8: George Pickens, Falcons quarterback, and Kirk Cousins is expected to

1358
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 8: be released before the start of the new league year

1359
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 8: in March. That'll make him a true free agent to

1360
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 8: choose where everyon wants to plan A twenty twenty six

1361
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 8: Marcus Brady's going to be the new Ravens passing game coordinator.

1362
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 8: He had interviewed for the Chargers offensive coordinator job. The

1363
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 8: Jets hiring Seth Ryan as their passing game coordinator. Ryan

1364
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 8: was with the Lions for five seasons prior with Aaron

1365
01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 8: Glenn Ford for those last five seasons, and he's also

1366
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 8: related to Rex and Buddy Ryan. Seahawks rookie nick Emmin

1367
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 8: Warri suffered a low angle sprain in Super Bowl practice,

1368
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 8: but expected to be good to go for Sunday. Two

1369
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 8: running backs activated to Seattle's practice I'm from practice squad,

1370
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 8: two active roster and Cam Akers and Vellis Jones Junior.

1371
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 8: In the NBA, the Rockets beat the Thunder one twelve

1372
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,800
Speaker 8: to one oh six. Alprin Changoon had a seventeen point

1373
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,959
Speaker 8: triple double right now with just under eleven minutes left

1374
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:23,919
Speaker 8: in the third quarter. The Mavericks and the Spurs San

1375
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:27,520
Speaker 8: Antonio with an eighty three to sixty nine lead. Stefan

1376
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:30,560
Speaker 8: Castle with twenty one points eight Assist Cooper Flag with

1377
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 8: eleven with two minutes left in the first quarter of

1378
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 8: the Magic lead the Jazz twenty nine to twenty three.

1379
01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 8: Palo Bancaro has seven. The NBA has announced the Shooting

1380
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 8: Stars competition will return to All Star Weekend. It's been

1381
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 8: gone for the last eleven years. Four teams are set

1382
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 8: to compete in the February fourteenth event.

1383
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 1: Fellas Back to You.

1384
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 2: He's Buck Rising m Jason Fitzbuckin fits on Fox Sports

1385
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 2: Radio hanging out with You. If you missed any of

1386
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:59,520
Speaker 2: today's show, catch the podcast just search Fox Sports Radio

1387
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 2: wherever you get pods. Right after the show the pod

1388
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 2: goes up, be sure to follow it. Rated five stars.

1389
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 2: You can even give us a review. Just search Fox

1390
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 2: Sports Radio wherever you get your pods. You'll find today's

1391
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 2: show fully posted. Right after we get off the air, Buck,

1392
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 2: we just heard Martin tell everybody Kirk Cousins is obviously

1393
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 2: going to get cut at this point. It's just so

1394
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 2: wild to me. The ride we have been on in

1395
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 2: the last two years, where the Vikings signed Kirk Cousins

1396
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 2: and everybody says, Oh my God. And then right after that,

1397
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:29,720
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there doing an NFL draft show for Yahoo Sports,

1398
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:33,040
Speaker 2: and we are stunned at the moment that everybody finds

1399
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:35,480
Speaker 2: out that Michael Pennox Junior is going to be the

1400
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:39,439
Speaker 2: quarterback selected, just just after they gave such a huge

1401
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:40,480
Speaker 2: contract to Kirk Cousins.

1402
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 3: And then everybody said, they're idiots.

1403
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 2: And then we get into that rookie season and no,

1404
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 2: they're brilliant because Kirk Cousins is playing well while they

1405
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 2: develop Michael Pennick Junior. And then Pennix gets hurt and

1406
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 2: everything looks weird and Kirk plays up and down. It's

1407
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 2: been a whirlwim for the last two years. But at

1408
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 2: the end of last season, when Kirk came back in,

1409
01:05:58,080 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 2: he played pretty effectively.

1410
01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 3: It took a minute post Achilles injury.

1411
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 2: I just have to wonder if I'm the Minnesota Vikings

1412
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:06,560
Speaker 2: and I'm looking at JJ McCarthy, justin Jefferson this week.

1413
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 2: We talked to him, everybody talked to him. He did

1414
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 2: not mince words. He does not have an elite quarterback.

1415
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:14,320
Speaker 2: He has made that clear. I just wonder if the

1416
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,440
Speaker 2: Vikings look at Kirk and say, buddy, come on home, Like,

1417
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 2: we don't know what our answer is. We're gonna let

1418
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 2: you compete with JJ and let's see how this whole

1419
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:25,000
Speaker 2: cookie crumbles. But it feels like that makes too much

1420
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:26,479
Speaker 2: sense to not happen in my brain.

1421
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: Well, you know, the interesting wrinkle to all of this

1422
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 1: is there's one domino that we and I'm sure people

1423
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 1: have talked about it at some length, especially people who

1424
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: were more attuned to the inside information at the time

1425
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:45,920
Speaker 1: that these deals were going down. Is they really it

1426
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:49,520
Speaker 1: sounded like anyway, based on everything that you read, it

1427
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:52,320
Speaker 1: sounded like Minnesota really thought they had a chance to

1428
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 1: keep Daniel Jones, and that the Daniel Jones element of

1429
01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:59,080
Speaker 1: this further caused a repel effect where he said, you know,

1430
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 1: I refer to go to a more decisive, clear cut

1431
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:08,120
Speaker 1: starting opportunity where Anthony Richardson, the former number four overall pick,

1432
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,160
Speaker 1: is a bit in battled. I think that I'm fully

1433
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:12,919
Speaker 1: capable of beating him out. I think that's a really

1434
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:15,360
Speaker 1: good football team you saw. I mean, it looked like

1435
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: everything was falling the Colts away in that specific situation.

1436
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 1: What were they they go off to an eight and

1437
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:24,919
Speaker 1: two eight and three start before he before in.

1438
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:27,439
Speaker 3: My preseason prediction that the Colts win the division.

1439
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 1: I was, yeah, no, it was. It looked like everything

1440
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 1: was coming up Daniel Jones and the Colts. But how

1441
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 1: much harder that made things on Minnesota when they couldn't

1442
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:39,400
Speaker 1: keep Daniel Jones in that particular situation, because then they

1443
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,200
Speaker 1: had to you know, basically at that point, all right, Jj,

1444
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 1: it's all on you. We are still in that situation

1445
01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 1: if you're a Minnesota Vikings fan or somebody who's looking

1446
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 1: around at the at the circumstance, it's still all on

1447
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy. And at a certain point, like, yeah, man,

1448
01:07:58,040 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: you're a first round pick, you have some level of

1449
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: expectation that you are going to have to perform commensurate

1450
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,440
Speaker 1: to your draft pedigree or we're going to have to

1451
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:10,800
Speaker 1: start making difficult decisions alas c J. Stroud in Houston

1452
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 1: right where they still have a little more wiggle rooum

1453
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: and not much that that they're running out of rope.

1454
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 1: On the CJ. Stroud situation with the Texans, I think

1455
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:23,280
Speaker 1: that a Kirk Cousins reunion would make a ton of sense.

1456
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:26,000
Speaker 1: Hasn't he talked a lot publicly about never wanting to

1457
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 1: leave there. I mean, his wife's family is from the

1458
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:32,680
Speaker 1: Atlanta area, if I'm not mistaken.

1459
01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:35,320
Speaker 2: Yes, but he said when he went to the Falcons

1460
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 2: that had he known it was going to play out

1461
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:38,559
Speaker 2: the way it played out, he never would have left

1462
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:40,840
Speaker 2: the Vikings in the first place. And then you've got

1463
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:43,160
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson, and look, I want to be clear here,

1464
01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:46,360
Speaker 2: I think the way we treat what athletes say is

1465
01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:49,840
Speaker 2: asinine at this point because Justin Jefferson, like we asked

1466
01:08:50,439 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 2: Justin on Yahoo, you know, are you happy? Do you

1467
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 2: want to be a Minnesota Viking? And his answer was essentially, well,

1468
01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 2: I'm a Minnesota Viking and that that's all the matters.

1469
01:08:58,200 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 3: I'm a Minnesota Viking.

1470
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 2: And some people sort of freaked out about that, and

1471
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 2: people have freaked out about the way he's talked about

1472
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson, about JJ McCarthy, I should say, I think

1473
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 2: he's just been honest. Like we're at the spot where

1474
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:13,200
Speaker 2: if he comes out and says JJ's amazing, then we

1475
01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 2: all know he's full of you know what, Right if

1476
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:17,599
Speaker 2: he comes out and says JJ struggling, like I talked

1477
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 2: to Justin Jefferson before the season even started, and I said,

1478
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:23,599
Speaker 2: what do you need from JJ McCarthy, And his answer

1479
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 2: to me, I won't forget was his answer was, I

1480
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 2: need JJ to believe in himself as much as I

1481
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 2: believe in him.

1482
01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:30,760
Speaker 3: I think Justin Jefferson.

1483
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 2: Has been really honest for an entire season about the

1484
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 2: failings of JJ McCarthy. So now you have a receiver

1485
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 2: that is being honest about the fact that it's broken.

1486
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:41,320
Speaker 3: You have a GM that was fired.

1487
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 2: I believe in large part because not only did he

1488
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:47,680
Speaker 2: draft incredibly poorly, but he wildly mishandled the most important position.

1489
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,360
Speaker 3: In all the sports. While they're in a Super Bowl window.

1490
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 2: I don't know if JJ McCarthy can even stay healthy,

1491
01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 2: And if he is healthy, I'm not sure that JJ

1492
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,680
Speaker 2: McCarthy can be good enough to win. But I think

1493
01:09:57,720 --> 01:09:59,719
Speaker 2: the rest of that roster is and I sure believe

1494
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 2: in there. So if I can bring in a quarterback

1495
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 2: that doesn't have to learn the offense because he already

1496
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 2: knows it, I can bring him home and I can

1497
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:08,639
Speaker 2: let him just start to work with Justin Jefferson. That

1498
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 2: calms everything down. I think this is like, this is

1499
01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:14,519
Speaker 2: one of the luckiest moments that the Vikings could have

1500
01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 2: imagined if they just do the simple thing, bring them

1501
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:19,240
Speaker 2: on home and let their be stability.

1502
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 1: You deal with a little bit of discomfort on the

1503
01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 1: front end just to make things right when they come

1504
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:26,960
Speaker 1: full circle. Type of situation that's that would be.

1505
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:30,360
Speaker 3: I think JJ can't expect something else right.

1506
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:33,200
Speaker 2: You can't be JJ McCarthy and expect that you're going

1507
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:34,720
Speaker 2: to come in on questioned this year.

1508
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 3: You're not healthy, you never get to play a full season.

1509
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: And even then, I don't I think viewing it as

1510
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:45,519
Speaker 1: I mean, it is competition, right. You are expected to compete.

1511
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 1: They'll expect them to compete in training camp, even if

1512
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,680
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy is definitively who they want to be the

1513
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:53,360
Speaker 1: starting quarterback in Minnesota. You don't want, you don't want

1514
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:56,640
Speaker 1: to have to go back to Kirk Cousins. But it

1515
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 1: is nice to be able to have Kirk Cousins in

1516
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:03,280
Speaker 1: that situation, somebody with schematic familiarity, somebody who knows your

1517
01:11:03,320 --> 01:11:06,599
Speaker 1: wide receiver one very very well, somebody who's had success

1518
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: with you. I think Minnesota people in Minneapolis think very

1519
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 1: very highly of Kirk Cousins, even though he never had

1520
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 1: the kind of postseason success that maybe you would like

1521
01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 1: for him to have. That's kind of always been the

1522
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:22,920
Speaker 1: book on him. It's a security policy for JJ McCarthy

1523
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: and for the Vikings, and I think it makes a

1524
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 1: lot of sense that these are always going to be

1525
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:30,160
Speaker 1: highly pressurized jobs starting quarterbacks. So it's not like it

1526
01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:33,080
Speaker 1: alleviates a ton of pressure. Nor should JJ McCarthy go

1527
01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:37,400
Speaker 1: in to this season without feeling pressure to perform. Right,

1528
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:40,519
Speaker 1: there are good levels of that, and there's also some

1529
01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:45,840
Speaker 1: level of Okay, if I fail, then it all goes

1530
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:49,920
Speaker 1: to hell. Whereas if you do have Kirk, you understand, Okay,

1531
01:11:50,080 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 1: if my body just isn't holding up the way that

1532
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 1: I need it to, and we need a ringer for

1533
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 1: two or three weeks to come in here and stay

1534
01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:00,479
Speaker 1: this over while I work my way back from whatever

1535
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: hypothetical injury I'm dealing with. Because he's missed a good

1536
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:05,240
Speaker 1: chunk of time so far in his NFL career with

1537
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 1: a variety of different injuries, then you have that ability

1538
01:12:08,280 --> 01:12:12,120
Speaker 1: to keep things on the rails and not additionally pressure

1539
01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:15,360
Speaker 1: the young quarterback to come back before he's healthy, which

1540
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:17,280
Speaker 1: I feel like we've seen in a lot of these

1541
01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:20,880
Speaker 1: circumstances where these guys know it's all on them, these

1542
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:23,760
Speaker 1: young top draft picks, And this is the kind of

1543
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:25,640
Speaker 1: thing that Kevin O'Connell has talked about the level of

1544
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:29,439
Speaker 1: burnout that he's talked about with franchises churning and burning

1545
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:34,200
Speaker 1: quarterbacks or just players in general, as opposed to sticking

1546
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:37,880
Speaker 1: it out with them and finding reasonable ways to further

1547
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:41,200
Speaker 1: their development and growth while still keeping them on a

1548
01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:45,439
Speaker 1: reasonable timeline with expectations to perform. I think Kevin O'Connor

1549
01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 1: this would be and I again not speaking for him,

1550
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:50,439
Speaker 1: but if I was Kevin O'Connell, if I had the

1551
01:12:50,479 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 1: mindset that I feel like he's projected in every public

1552
01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:56,559
Speaker 1: appearance that he's made, this would be the best case

1553
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 1: scenario for me. That just kind of fell into his

1554
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:01,599
Speaker 1: lap because Atlanta, you know, screwed up their quarterback situation.

1555
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 2: And even if JJ gets benched, Bryce Young is a

1556
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:05,960
Speaker 2: reminder to all of us that that doesn't have to

1557
01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:08,720
Speaker 2: be the end of your sure in this process at

1558
01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:13,360
Speaker 2: the quarterback positions. Just the mass misdevelopment of quarterbacks young

1559
01:13:13,439 --> 01:13:16,160
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the NFL is a chronic problem that we'll

1560
01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:18,559
Speaker 2: actually be facing the league for years to come coming

1561
01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:20,640
Speaker 2: up next. If you will listen to this show, you

1562
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 2: know how we finish every single episode. It is time

1563
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 2: for the single greatest game show in the history of

1564
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:28,200
Speaker 2: sports talk radio. Would you rather coming at your next

1565
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 2: bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio? It's fucking Fits on

1566
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:38,679
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz. Twenty

1567
01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 2: four hours from now, we'll all be regaling in Super

1568
01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 2: Bowl fun. I can only imagine how difficult it would

1569
01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 2: be to have Buck Rising at a Super Bowl party,

1570
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 2: not really pleased with anything, not really happy with anybody,

1571
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:53,280
Speaker 2: spread little Judge Judy on all of it. The wings

1572
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:55,760
Speaker 2: are not quite the temperature he wants them to be.

1573
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:58,640
Speaker 2: The pizza isn't quite the crusty wants. He doesn't like

1574
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 2: the toppings. I've just I'm seeing all of it. I'm

1575
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:03,400
Speaker 2: seeing all of it. But then again, as I'm saying

1576
01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:04,760
Speaker 2: all of that, I'm the guy that's no fun in

1577
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:06,800
Speaker 2: the back with the You know that I bring my

1578
01:14:06,840 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 2: own case of Diet Sodo to parties now, just because

1579
01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:09,680
Speaker 2: I don't know how much of it.

1580
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're way worse than him, cart me.

1581
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:15,679
Speaker 2: I literally in San Francisco every day went to Trader

1582
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:17,639
Speaker 2: Jose and just bought grilled chicken for me to eat.

1583
01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:19,800
Speaker 2: All that, I realized that I'm letting it loose. I'm

1584
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 2: letting it loose. So super Bowl Sunday, that's a splurge day.

1585
01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:25,599
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let it loose. And like so we'll all

1586
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:27,680
Speaker 2: figure out what happens on Monday. If you listen to

1587
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:29,800
Speaker 2: this show, you know we finished every single episode with

1588
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:31,160
Speaker 2: the single greatest game show in history.

1589
01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 3: So we're gonna try it now. Book, Let's get to

1590
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:35,599
Speaker 3: some what you.

1591
01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 1: Rather?

1592
01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:39,960
Speaker 2: That was pretty good.

1593
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,240
Speaker 3: I don't think too hard. I'm not would you rather

1594
01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 3: bucket to more?

1595
01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:46,400
Speaker 1: Fix it? All? Right?

1596
01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:47,080
Speaker 3: That was pretty good.

1597
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:49,120
Speaker 7: Don't let it go to your guys' heads though, Like

1598
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 7: you actually got married to say a compliment to off air,

1599
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 7: which is that.

1600
01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:54,920
Speaker 1: Was our super Bowl. That was our super Bowl.

1601
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:58,679
Speaker 2: I'd like to thank God our life coach radio coaches everywhere,

1602
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,200
Speaker 2: Don and Scott for I think it's have this opportunity.

1603
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:03,599
Speaker 2: I'm just, you know, thank you for the award. And Mary.

1604
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:05,640
Speaker 2: Mary's complimented us this show. Can't get it.

1605
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 1: We're going to Disney World.

1606
01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:11,559
Speaker 3: There we go. You've got to give us a question.

1607
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:12,519
Speaker 2: We're going to figure out what.

1608
01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 1: It's our greatest life achievement and just met with a wheel,

1609
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 1: all right?

1610
01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 7: Would you rather have a little goblin that tries everything

1611
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:24,760
Speaker 7: it can to tie your shoes together whenever you sit down,

1612
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 7: or have a dude that calls you out publicly every

1613
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 7: time you fart.

1614
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:32,639
Speaker 3: You need me to repeat that, I can.

1615
01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I think I would rather I already

1616
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: live with the goblin. It's his name is Jason Fitz,

1617
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 1: And despite us being in different places, I feel like

1618
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:44,120
Speaker 1: he is a little goblin who's constantly trying to both

1619
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:46,960
Speaker 1: physically and metaphorically tie my shoelaces together.

1620
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:50,040
Speaker 2: Now we know that you you just dream of me

1621
01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:53,280
Speaker 2: being under the desk during the show to tie you together.

1622
01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:58,960
Speaker 3: That's wild, wild.

1623
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,360
Speaker 2: So much. I know I might rather be called out

1624
01:16:01,360 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 2: because I really don't care. Like that's a great thing, y'all.

1625
01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 2: Like as you get older, you don't care as much

1626
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 2: about this. And let me just tell you, there's nothing

1627
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 2: better than being on an airline in general. Like if

1628
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:12,640
Speaker 2: you look around and you have a kid or an

1629
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:14,920
Speaker 2: old person next to you, that is carte blanche, because

1630
01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:17,680
Speaker 2: now you can just rip it the entire time, like

1631
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:20,000
Speaker 2: you're just like I'm pushing it out for the time

1632
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:23,559
Speaker 2: like I want to miss Yeah, I am just getting

1633
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:23,880
Speaker 2: cut off.

1634
01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:27,840
Speaker 1: Thank god, Mary, where's the fine system? Even I can

1635
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:30,559
Speaker 1: get out this pushing it out. I don't want him

1636
01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:31,960
Speaker 1: underneath the desk or that.

1637
01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:33,640
Speaker 2: What is happening to you?

1638
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:39,000
Speaker 1: You need a nap. You are clearly disoriented. You need

1639
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:40,720
Speaker 1: a nap, all right.

1640
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:43,879
Speaker 7: This one's way more tame. So that's a good transition.

1641
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:46,920
Speaker 7: Would you rather never have to commute to work again?

1642
01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:48,719
Speaker 7: Or always have a three day weekend?

1643
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 1: Oh? I think I would get antsy if I had

1644
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 1: three day weekends all the time, Like I'm so used

1645
01:16:57,080 --> 01:17:00,720
Speaker 1: to working and this is a very very sill beside problem.

1646
01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:03,479
Speaker 1: Well no, I mean you just during football, like you

1647
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:07,320
Speaker 1: work seven days a week, Like that's just what it is. Anybody.

1648
01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:09,800
Speaker 1: You work holidays, you work nights, you work weekends. Right,

1649
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:12,680
Speaker 1: that's that is the life in sports. It's not some

1650
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:15,760
Speaker 1: great sacrifice. It's the best job in the world. But uh,

1651
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 1: I think I would get antsy, Like I think I

1652
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:20,400
Speaker 1: would want something to do by the time I got

1653
01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 1: to my like third consecutive three day weekend.

1654
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:29,960
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm mmmmm. I mean that's it, Like that's what

1655
01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:32,160
Speaker 2: fridays for Golden Coral, A bug rising.

1656
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 3: That's what we like. You just to meet up with

1657
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:34,240
Speaker 3: your buddies.

1658
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:35,840
Speaker 2: You can like hold court in the back of the

1659
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:37,960
Speaker 2: Golden Crown off.

1660
01:17:38,040 --> 01:17:40,960
Speaker 1: I know she's back there, cackling to herself like that,

1661
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: I see you.

1662
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:45,519
Speaker 2: I already don't commute to work because you know what

1663
01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:48,080
Speaker 2: we do for a living, Like my entire camera set

1664
01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:51,599
Speaker 2: ups in my office, so I just walk upstairs. So uh,

1665
01:17:51,640 --> 01:17:54,919
Speaker 2: but let me. I miss commuting to work. I genuinely

1666
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,320
Speaker 2: miss like being around people to do what we do

1667
01:17:57,400 --> 01:17:57,760
Speaker 2: every day.

1668
01:17:57,800 --> 01:17:58,840
Speaker 1: So you're done, I stop it.

1669
01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:00,599
Speaker 3: I do I miss all of you do that work.

1670
01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:02,920
Speaker 1: The two of them brought this up because they live

1671
01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. My law I have the longest commute

1672
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 1: between the two of us. It's eight minutes for me

1673
01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:09,080
Speaker 1: to get from my house to the studio.

1674
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 2: Oh no, I bought a house that was twelve minutes

1675
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:14,080
Speaker 2: from ESPN the headquarters for a reason, Like I mean

1676
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 2: my commutes twelve minutes.

1677
01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:17,360
Speaker 3: All right, let's wit in the wheel. I'd rather have

1678
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:18,680
Speaker 3: the three day weekend, by the way, I want to.

1679
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:21,240
Speaker 1: Let's get the work.

1680
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:25,040
Speaker 2: Let's just get high, all right.

1681
01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 7: Would would you rather only be able to take would

1682
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 7: you rather only be able to take phone calls on

1683
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:34,960
Speaker 7: speakerphone when you're in public, or have your phone occasionally

1684
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:43,479
Speaker 7: autocorrect words to slurs could get pretty bad.

1685
01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:49,960
Speaker 1: I uh, I will take the first one, Alex, thank you. No.

1686
01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:53,040
Speaker 2: See, here's the thing I don't trust. If Buck knows

1687
01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 2: that I'm always on the speakerphone, He's going to say

1688
01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:59,000
Speaker 2: things that shouldn't be said on speakerphone, just so that

1689
01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:00,880
Speaker 2: I have to deal with that. I don't want that

1690
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:02,759
Speaker 2: my life. I don't trust the maturity in my friends.

1691
01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:06,599
Speaker 2: I hope over the time Letta slur tex.

1692
01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:10,479
Speaker 7: I mean you're constantly aware of it. You can then

1693
01:19:10,520 --> 01:19:12,599
Speaker 7: delete it and fix it. But that gets pretty uh.

1694
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: No.

1695
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:16,080
Speaker 2: I I feel like there's just a part of me

1696
01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:18,639
Speaker 2: that every time I hear somebody like listen, if you're

1697
01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:20,800
Speaker 2: listening right now and you walk around in public with

1698
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:23,799
Speaker 2: your phone on speakerphone, I want so badly to slap

1699
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:25,439
Speaker 2: it out of your hands and then slap you in

1700
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:28,559
Speaker 2: the face, like that is the only appropriate punishment. Two

1701
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 2: slaps one hand, poom, the other hand.

1702
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 3: To the face. Can we get one more? One more quick?

1703
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1704
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:35,160
Speaker 1: Faster wheel.

1705
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 7: And that's a quick one anyway, So would you rather

1706
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:42,200
Speaker 7: your only mode of transportation be a unicycle or a segue.

1707
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:46,000
Speaker 2: Uh, unicycle, just so I can show off and like

1708
01:19:46,040 --> 01:19:48,360
Speaker 2: got while I'm doing it, and I.

1709
01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:50,840
Speaker 1: Think you gotta wear that dope helmet. I'm good on

1710
01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 1: the helmet.

1711
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:53,400
Speaker 2: Oh that's the line.

1712
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:54,080
Speaker 3: That's the line.

1713
01:19:54,120 --> 01:19:56,599
Speaker 2: Keep listening to Fox Sports Radio, enjoy the super Bowl.