1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 2: With their playoff lives on the line and absolutely everything 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 2: right in front of them, but knowing that the only 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 2: way they could get into the postseason dance was to 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 2: go out and win on Christmas Day as part of 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 2: that journey. 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: Knowing that they absolutely had to bring it. 8 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 2: The Lions got thumped by the Vikings. The Lions didn't 9 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 2: just get thumped by the Vikings. The Lions got embarrassed 10 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:33,319 Speaker 2: by a Vikings team that somehow wildly they had a 11 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 2: net total of less than ten passing yards. And the 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 2: Vikings still beat Detroit, and now Detroit is not going 13 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 2: to go to the postseason. Now Detroit is looking around 14 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 2: and Lions vans everywhere are asking has the window slam shut? 15 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 2: Its bucking fits takeover at Two Pros and a Cup 16 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 2: of Joe, He's buck rising out. Jason Fitz will be 17 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: hanging out with you all morning. Also, be sure to 18 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 2: hang out with our new YouTube channel for the show. 19 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,959 Speaker 2: Just search two pros FSR on YouTube. Begin that's two 20 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,279 Speaker 2: pros FSR. Hit the subscri button, don't stop there, Hit 21 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 2: that thumbs up bike on common away. 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You have to admit this. 33 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 3: No, I was delighted by it. Are you kidding me? 34 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 3: The Vikings defense is unbelievable. It's not gonna be worth 35 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,559 Speaker 3: anything because it's not like they're going to the postseason either. 36 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 4: But to watch Detroit be put in a blender that way. 37 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 3: And I'm no active rooting interest one way or the 38 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:48,919 Speaker 3: one way. 39 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 4: Or the other in that situation. 40 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 3: But FITZI, we talked about this before the Christmas football 41 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 3: took place. We talked about how bad the games were 42 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 3: gonna be. We knew that this was gonna be the case. 43 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 3: I told you then, I was ready for it. I 44 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 3: was built for this. All I do in my life 45 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 3: is cover bad football. You know what I'm doing on Sunday. 46 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 3: I got the Titans hosting the Saints here in Nashville. 47 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 3: That's gonna be what my life is. So Welcome, America. Welcome. 48 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 3: It's that Homer Simpson meme where he's patting the couch 49 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 3: and staring at people with dead eyes, saying, come on 50 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 3: in here and take a seat on the playoff eliminated 51 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 3: football train. It was glorious to be able to have 52 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 3: the rest of the country participate in what I've been 53 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 3: doing for basically four seasons. 54 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 2: I have now figured it out after all of our 55 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 2: years of knowing each other. You are the ghost of Christmas, past, present, 56 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 2: and future, all wrapped in one. 57 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: All right. 58 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 2: There's a little bit of darkness to what's happened, and 59 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 2: there's a little darkness to where there is, and there's 60 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 2: a little darkness for what's to. 61 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: Come, all in one. Okay, you are absolutely personifying all 62 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: of it. 63 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 2: Look, this is a Vikings team that I just looked 64 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 2: it up to make sure that I didn't have the 65 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 2: number one. The Vikings had a total of three net 66 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 2: passing yards three net passing yards, and they won this 67 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 2: game twenty three to ten. Like, you're right, part of 68 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 2: it was in a blender. Part of the Lions just 69 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 2: came out so flat. You have to admit that that 70 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 2: was surprising, right to see a Lions team look that disjointed. 71 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: Because here's my thing. Dan Campbell is supposed. 72 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 2: To be the biiton kneecaps guy, right, So if you're 73 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 2: the biiton kneecaps guy, then what you expect is when 74 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 2: your team's back against the wall, that's where you expect 75 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 2: the biiton kneecaps guy to come out with the thunder 76 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 2: of the gods and have a team that comes out 77 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 2: of the tunnel feeling like they are ready to absolutely. 78 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 4: Destroy the world. 79 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:37,119 Speaker 2: And instead it just it looked disjointed, which is kind 80 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: of how the Lions have looked. 81 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: Oh you're they're too talented to not even be in 82 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: the playoffs. 83 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: This is I think of all of the fails in 84 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: the NFL this year, this might be the most shocking 85 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 2: to me. 86 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 4: Mmm, that's an interesting question. 87 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 3: Of all of the fails in the NFL this year, 88 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 3: what would be the most shocking. I guess Washington would 89 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 3: not be because we felt like that was a regrets candidate. Anyway, 90 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 3: we did not have on the on the scorecard that 91 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 3: Jane Daniels would miss. I mean, at this point, almost 92 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 3: the entire season, and dealing with the level of injury 93 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 3: that he's been dealing with. I'm looking at I'm trying 94 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 3: to think of other NFL fails that might surprise me. 95 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 3: Are we surprised that the Raiders are this god awful 96 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 3: for all of the things that we thought might it. 97 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 2: Is early in the morning to throw that level of 98 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 2: Raiders shade right at me. 99 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 3: I mean, no, no, no, no, it's not right at you. 100 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 3: It's just it's a it's five am here. This is 101 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 3: what you get from making me do radio this earlier. 102 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 3: I am I am surprised. I mean, I am surprised 103 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 3: that the Raiders are as just miserable as they are. Fitsy, 104 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 3: I don't know what your expectations is. For the rest 105 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 3: of America that may not know. Jason Fitz is a 106 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 3: Las Vegas Raiders fan, and he's been in hell for 107 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 3: basically twenty years at this point in time, they're two 108 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 3: and thirteen. I didn't think that Pete Carroll and Tom 109 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 3: Brady and Chip Kelly when he was still employed there, 110 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 3: and Gino Smith and Ashton Gent and Max Crosby and 111 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 3: all these different things I didn't. 112 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 4: Think two and thirteen was in the cards. 113 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 3: If I'm being honest, that's probably the biggest fail in 114 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 3: the NFL to me. 115 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 2: Okay, well, I wasn't even thinking of the bad teams, 116 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 2: because the bad teams are always bad. 117 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 3: But they weren't supposed to be that bad, right, that's 118 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 3: some thing, Like they weren't supposed to be the worst. 119 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 4: They are the worst? 120 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: Is this start to feel like it's just a personal attack. 121 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening here. 122 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 2: Like this feels like maybe we're working on a little 123 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 2: Christmas aggression here, Like feels like maybe you're a little 124 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 2: Christmas hangler, and like maybe you need a little leg 125 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 2: nock this morning, because I feels like that's a person 126 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 2: of that. 127 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 4: Look, here's what I just didn't I didn't get to. 128 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 3: This is the first day all week later yesterday that 129 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 3: I didn't spend in front of a microphone. So I've 130 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 3: been I've just been building up the amount of amount 131 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 3: of sports talk dialogue that we were going to have 132 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 3: this morning. This is your fault forgive me a day 133 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 3: off yesterday. 134 00:05:55,080 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 2: You're right, somehow, Sack, there's no doubt it'bsolutely mean. I 135 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 2: think a lot of people would name the Chiefs as 136 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 2: the biggest disappointment or the biggest fail of all of 137 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 2: the teams that aren't going to be in the playoffs. 138 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 2: I don't, only because the Chiefs are not that different 139 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 2: this year than they were last year. It's just last 140 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:15,919 Speaker 2: year they caught every break. In this year they've lost 141 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 2: every break. Like the amount of one score games that 142 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 2: the Chiefs won in weird ways over the last year 143 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 2: and half, it's just sort of, you know, that is 144 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 2: regressed to the means. So I think Kansas City is disappointing, 145 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 2: but also Kansas City has been getting away with. 146 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 4: It for a minute. 147 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 2: Also, maybe when I say biggest fail, I also think 148 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 2: about how difficult it is to rebound from that. Like 149 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 2: do any of us really believe that the Chiefs are 150 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 2: going to. 151 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: Be down and out? Not really, I don't anyway. 152 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 2: I mean, they're still going to have at some point 153 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes comes back healthy, at some point Andy Reid 154 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,479 Speaker 2: and Patrick Mahomes reunited. 155 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: It's all going to be fine. 156 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 2: They're going to get a higher draft pick somehow this year, 157 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 2: and they're going to figure out a way to fix 158 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 2: some of this. 159 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: The solution is in as easy for the Lions. 160 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 2: I think part of it is when you gone from 161 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 2: being a darling that nobody expected to all of a 162 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 2: sudden now one of the more dominant teams, which the 163 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 2: Lions have been for the last few years. At some 164 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 2: point you got to seal the deal and they didn't. 165 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 2: And that's fine until you look at the future. They 166 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 2: are wildly over the cap next year, like they have 167 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 2: a tough cap situation, and they also have a bunch 168 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 2: of young guys. 169 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: They got to start figuring out how to pay now. 170 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 2: I do believe teams can get themselves out of salary 171 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,239 Speaker 2: cap you just you change some of the contracts around. 172 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 2: But if it's a how do the Lions fix this, 173 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 2: I don't think it's easy to fix. If you're looking 174 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 2: at things down and you're like, oh, we're forty or 175 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 2: fifty million dollars over the cap, and by the way, 176 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 2: we're gonna have to figure out how we're about to 177 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 2: pay Jamier Gibbs, and we're gonna have to figure out 178 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 2: how we're about to pay Sam Laporta. Like they got 179 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 2: deals they're gonna have to get done for young talent 180 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 2: that has exceeded expectation or at least been you know, 181 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 2: epic players in this league. 182 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: They got a lot of money to show out. 183 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 2: There's no easy solution for the late for the Lions. 184 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 2: So maybe that's why it feels so drastic to me. 185 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I'm just I'm not wringing my hands 186 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 3: that much. Because if you told me at the start 187 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 3: of the season that Detroit both of their coordinators on 188 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 3: offense and defense were going to get head coaching jobs 189 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 3: and the team that won, I mean, how many games 190 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 3: the Lions win last year? 191 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 4: Fifteen? Is that right? Fourteen or fifteen? Last year fifteen? 192 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 3: I believe it was fifteen because they got that one 193 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 3: over the Vikings at the end. 194 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, the Loves or the Vikings won fourteen. 195 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 5: Yeah. 196 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 3: So if you'd have told me that that was going 197 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 3: to be the case, and that Dan Campbell was going 198 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 3: to take over play calling, you know, halfway through the season, 199 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 3: and that they would finish eight to nine, assuming that 200 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 3: they don't beat the Bears this coming in week eighteen, 201 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 3: and assuming the Bears need to continue to win games 202 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 3: to I mean, as they try to make the hell 203 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 3: they can make a push for the one seat if 204 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 3: they wanted to at this point in time, or if 205 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 3: things fell in their favor, I would have felt that 206 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 3: that was right. Like, it's not a bottoming out for 207 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 3: a team that's not a bottom dweller. 208 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 4: But that's a lot. 209 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 3: To overcome in a season where basically everything that you 210 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 3: needed to go right twenty twenty four went correctly because yesterday, 211 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 3: I mean, the thing that concerns you the most is 212 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 3: not even about their future fits a year, although I'm 213 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 3: sure fans are wringing their hands and talking about offseason 214 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 3: needs and I'm sure calling for coaches to be fired 215 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 3: and things like that, because Detroit, I mean, last year 216 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 3: was their year, right. I don't know if have you 217 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 3: been to Detroit recently when the Lions have been good. 218 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 4: I don't know when the last time you spent time 219 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 4: in the city. 220 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: It's been a few years since I was in Detroit. 221 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, Titans played up there last year. It was my 222 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 3: first time in Detroit. The place is buzzing, right. They've 223 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 3: got this huge banner on the side of a skyscraper 224 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,559 Speaker 3: right in the middle of dight downtown Detroit that says, 225 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 3: this is our year, and it's got all these different 226 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 3: things listing why the Lions are built for this, and 227 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 3: you know how the resurgence is going to bring everybody, 228 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 3: you know, everybody along with it, and how much it 229 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 3: means to the city and all these different things. 230 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 4: And then you're eight nine. You're looking around me, like, 231 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 4: when is our year? 232 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 3: Because our year feels like it might have been twenty 233 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 3: twenty four, And at that point in time, it's to 234 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 3: your point, it's kind of slipping through their fingers. The 235 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 3: thing that concerns you the most, honestly, though, was golf. 236 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 3: And golf was terrible yesterday, and I think in part 237 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 3: it's because Taylor Decker, their left tackle, was ruled out. 238 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 3: He was dealing with an illness. They just couldn't run 239 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 3: the ball. They couldn't protect him well enough. The Vikings 240 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 3: defense is good against anybody, no matter who they play, 241 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 3: on any given night, if you've got your starters or 242 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 3: your backups out there. They had eight turnovers through week sixteen, 243 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 3: FITSI for the fewest in the NFL. The Detroit Lions did, 244 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 3: and they end with a season high six turnovers in Minnesota. Like, 245 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,839 Speaker 3: I just have to think that that's a little bit 246 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 3: of an anomaly to not put too much stock in 247 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 3: moving forward. Now, Again, what you're saying is accurate, Like 248 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 3: they've got a lot of different things to work through here. 249 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 3: And this is why it's difficult to sustain a kind 250 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 3: of championship competitive window in the NFL. The sport is 251 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 3: kind of built to not allow you to prolong that 252 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 3: window beyond what would be. 253 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 4: The normal cycle. 254 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 3: In the normal cycle, I don't know, it feels like 255 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 3: three years for a team to be competitive at the 256 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 3: highest level, right, I. 257 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 2: Need that to not be true, Like you're right, but 258 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 2: I need that to not Like, think about this, think 259 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 2: about what you just said. 260 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: Your window opens and it's three or four years. So 261 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,439 Speaker 1: if you are a Lions fan, you have. 262 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 2: Lived, I should say, through a level of suck that 263 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 2: is just a gut punch. 264 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: And you mentioned that you cover the Titans. I'm a 265 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: Raiders fan. We know bad football. 266 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:41,359 Speaker 2: You spend a generation, generations, You spend years with your 267 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 2: grandparents apologizing for your fandom of a team that sucks. 268 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 2: Because the window to suck seems like it's I don't know, 269 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 2: thirty years, but the window to be great it's like 270 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 2: three or four. 271 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: Let me think about that. 272 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 2: You suffer generationally, year in, year out, over and over 273 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 2: and over again. You finally get to the spot that 274 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 2: you're good. If you're a lion, you're looking around like, 275 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 2: finally we are not the laughing stock. We are one 276 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 2: of the teams that has a legitimate shot in the NFL. 277 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 2: And then it's like, well, you might have missed your window. 278 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 2: The window really only lasts three years. What the hell 279 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 2: like you would do thirty years of suck to get 280 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 2: three years good? That seems just holy I know fares 281 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 2: where a big gives a ribbon, but that just seems 282 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 2: wholly unfair in the life of any of us as 283 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 2: sports fans. 284 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 4: Oh sure, no, it's not fair. It's not fair at all. 285 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 4: It's miserable. It's hell. 286 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 3: It's it's the knife in the side that somebody will 287 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 3: just keep twisting. But that's the beauty of it, because 288 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 3: that's how the NFL keeps you hooked. 289 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:34,959 Speaker 4: Baby. 290 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 3: They don't want you to realize that it's only a 291 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 3: three year window. They want you to think that you've got, 292 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 3: you know, ten years of a competitive cycle. They want 293 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 3: you to think that the franchise quarterback that you drafted 294 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 3: as somebody who's going to carry you for fifteen, you know, 295 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 3: ten to fifteen years. That's not how this works at all. 296 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 3: It's once you have the scales removed from your eyes 297 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:55,839 Speaker 3: and you actually look at the way that this thing 298 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,439 Speaker 3: is structured to understand, No, no, no. Three years is 299 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 3: about all you get. Like the best stretch of just 300 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 3: to bring things local. For me, the best stretch of 301 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,319 Speaker 3: Titans football that I've covered was Mike Malarkey into Mike Vrabel. 302 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 3: Six consecutive winning seasons and they went to the postseason 303 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 3: what four times in that six years? They beat the odds. 304 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 3: That's the anomaly. Are you kidding me? That's Tennessee Titans 305 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 3: are not supposed to have six consecutive winning seasons and 306 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 3: make it of the postseason four times in those six years. 307 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 4: Nonsense. But they did it, and it. 308 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 3: Gave people unrealistic expectations, and it's going to keep people 309 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 3: hooked on the hope that they can do it again 310 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 3: and cam Ord is going to lead them to the 311 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 3: Promised Land and all these different things, when in reality, 312 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 3: you look at the percentage of time that a first 313 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 3: round quarterback is selected by a franchise that even wins 314 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 3: a playoff game, a single playoff game for the team 315 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 3: that drafted them. 316 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,079 Speaker 4: It happens like forty six percent of the. 317 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 3: Time the odds are not in your favor when it 318 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:54,839 Speaker 3: comes to NFL fandom. 319 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 2: He's gone from Christmas Carol to all of the gritches. 320 00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 2: By the way, you can join. 321 00:13:59,000 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 4: My favorite timing year. 322 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: God, that's so true. 323 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 2: Joint created professionals from around the world at south By 324 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 2: Southwest this March twelfth through eighteenth in Austin, Texas. 325 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: One of the coolest things you can ever experience. 326 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:17,839 Speaker 2: Experienced bold storytelling, thrilling live performances, cutting edge innovation, so 327 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 2: much more with the south By Southwest badge register today 328 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 2: at s x SW. Easy for me to say SXSW 329 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 2: dot com slash badges. He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz. 330 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 2: We're in on two pros and a cup of Joe. 331 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 2: I want to make sure to get this little nugget 332 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 2: in that doesn't help in the world of Buck telling 333 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 2: lines fans that your hearts are about to be broken. 334 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 2: For anyone that hasn't looked against Jared Goff's only thirty 335 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 2: one years old. There's plenty they can do with this 336 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 2: contract to work things around. Monetarily, it is worth noting 337 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 2: he is three years left on his deal of money 338 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 2: of cap number I should say only one year left 339 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 2: of guaranteed salary, so they're gonna rework his deal. His 340 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 2: cap number next year is almost seventy million dollars. His 341 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 2: cap number the year after that is forty f or 342 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 2: fifty five ish, and then sixty two ish. They're gonna 343 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 2: have to rework Jared Goff steal where this gets here, 344 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 2: and that's no big deal. That's where they're going to 345 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 2: create a bunch of room and maybe everything's going to 346 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 2: be fine, but eventually you kick the. 347 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: Can down far and up. 348 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 2: Eventually they are going to have to pay the piper, 349 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 2: and that piper is going to be Jared Goff. 350 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: So it is a reminder that there's been a couple 351 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: of times. 352 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 2: That we've seen Jared Goff be no less than what 353 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 2: we want Jared Goff to be in some of these 354 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 2: He was absolutely wretched yesterday and I just kept looking 355 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 2: at that saying, that's a seventy million dollar quarterback. 356 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: Texture Again, by the time they do the deal, it 357 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: won't be. 358 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 2: They'll work his money around, but it's just who It's 359 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 2: going to be expensive to be a star for the 360 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 2: Detroit Lions. 361 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean absolutely, And that's something that I think 362 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 3: that I think a lot of fan bases are having 363 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 3: to think about as we get towards this time of 364 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 3: year where you're preseason and really even mid season, expectations 365 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 3: were in a totally different place. And it's why I'm 366 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 3: looking forward to the conversation that we're gonna have next 367 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 3: about what Charles Barklay had to say about the NFL, 368 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 3: because I think there's a lot of interesting elements here 369 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 3: that are worth peeling back a little bit of a 370 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 3: sociological study, which I'm sure we're going to get people 371 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 3: fired up the day after Christmas on their sports talk radio. 372 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 3: So why don't you, why don't you tease what we're 373 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 3: getting ready to talk about, and I'll tell the good 374 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 3: people about what they're missing out on. 375 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, I got Look, you're over here 376 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 2: trying to make things work and get us to I 377 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 2: still got to tell people about home Depot. 378 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: Okay, I got, I got, I got a whole sheet. 379 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 3: You're supposed to do that, you're supposed to tell I'm 380 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 3: supposed to do home Depot. 381 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 2: I have to tell people about home Depot. 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You took those clips 433 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 6: totally of context. 434 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, well after this promo, I'm gonna take you 435 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 5: out and be let me put this into context. 436 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: Shut up. 437 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, anyway, just listen to the Paully and Tony Fusco 438 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 5: Show on I on Radio Apple podcasts oherever you get 439 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 5: your podcasts. 440 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 2: Yea, so bucking fits takeover of two pros and a 441 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 2: cup of Joe hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio. 442 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,440 Speaker 2: He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz not gonna lie book. 443 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 2: My email just crashed and I was about to tell 444 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 2: everybody about the play of the day, So you know 445 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 2: we're on a roll. You want to tell everybody about 446 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 2: the tire Rack Player of the day while I pull 447 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:29,199 Speaker 2: my email back up. 448 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: You know, just do you want to? Most? 449 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 4: Certainly? Can you unprofessional broadcast? 450 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: Are you? 451 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 3: It's the tire rack play of the Day. For over 452 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 3: forty years, tire Rack has been helping customers to find 453 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,200 Speaker 3: the right tires for how, what and where they drive 454 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 3: ships fast and free, backed by free road hazard protection 455 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:54,120 Speaker 3: with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation, tire raq 456 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 3: dot Com the way. 457 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 4: Tire buying should be. 458 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 3: Can we hear the tire rack play of the day 459 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 3: from yesterday Spurs and Thunder game please behind us? 460 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 2: Back screen from Cornette Fox weeds into the paint, pull 461 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 2: up jumper, no good Tellman Johnson, Johnny on the spot, 462 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 2: follow up slam, nobody bucks out kJ and he makes 463 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 2: some pain. 464 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 3: Put back dunk action courtesy of the Spurs Radio Network 465 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 3: and Fitsie as we talk about the NFL on Christmas Day, 466 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 3: of course, that ignores the NBA was also on Christmas Day, 467 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 3: and this is the kind of thing that the NBA 468 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 3: should fear. Of course, one seventeen to one oh two 469 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 3: the Spurs again over OKC, who are you know, still 470 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 3: the best team in the NBA by record, but teetering 471 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 3: here a little bit in the last couple of weeks. 472 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 3: This is the kind of thing that the NBA has 473 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 3: to be concerned about, right, fits We talked about this, 474 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 3: what was that on Tuesday night when we were filling 475 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 3: in on Fox Sports Radio. 476 00:20:57,880 --> 00:20:59,120 Speaker 4: Welcome back to Fox Sports Radio. 477 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 3: By the way, he's Jason some buck Rising filling in 478 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,400 Speaker 3: for the guys on Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. 479 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 3: We talked about the idea that people would basically be 480 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 3: asked to make a choice between what you want on 481 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,719 Speaker 3: your television all day. Sure, you could flip back and 482 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 3: forth between network broadcast television and streaming if you wanted to. 483 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 4: Because the two at Netflix. 484 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,920 Speaker 3: NFL games and one on Prime yesterday versus the NBA 485 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 3: being broadcast on network television, Charles Barkley kind of irate, 486 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 3: I would say, maybe as irate as Charles gets in 487 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 3: those situations talking about the NFL and the NBA and 488 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 3: the kind of head to head that they were being 489 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 3: put up against to I don't know if we have 490 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 3: Barkley's comments, but perhaps you could read them if we 491 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 3: don't have them. Offhand, he seemed a little bit perturbed 492 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 3: by the idea that the NFL would even bother on 493 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:50,400 Speaker 3: Christmas Day. 494 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I've got it here, and it says 495 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 2: the NFL got greedy and started adding Christmas games. We 496 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 2: used to have this day to ourselves, but Roger Goodell 497 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 2: and then pigs at the NFL always want to hog 498 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 2: every day of the week. Now Christmas is an NBA day. 499 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 1: I understand the concept of what. 500 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,919 Speaker 2: Barkley is saying here, but but to me, it's not 501 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 2: the NFL's job to sit back and say, oh. 502 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: Man, well, that's really the NBA's day. 503 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 2: In fact, the NFL has done this to college football 504 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 2: the last couple of the years. The minute the college 505 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 2: football calendar changed to have more playoff games, I thought, well, maybe. 506 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: On that Saturday, the NFL is stay out. 507 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 2: Nope, the NFL clearly looks around and says, oh, college 508 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 2: football wants a Saturday. 509 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: Now, we'll take that. We're going to make sure that 510 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: people watch our product. 511 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 2: When you're the biggest bully in the land, you can 512 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 2: do kind of whatever the hell do you want. And 513 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 2: I don't even mean bully in a negative way, because 514 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 2: to me, this is as simple as give the people 515 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 2: what they want. Like, it's not the NFL's fault that 516 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 2: terrible NFL games are going to absolutely throttle the NBA 517 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 2: Christmas Day ratings. 518 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: They just are. Like it's just. 519 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 2: And it's shocking to me because you mentioned something that 520 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 2: we've talked about, but I think is important here. This 521 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 2: isn't the NBA versus the NFL on Fox or the 522 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 2: NFL on ESPN or ABC or any of those. No, 523 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 2: the NFL went standalone on Christmas Day, which absolutely requires 524 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 2: anybody that doesn't have two televisions in their living room 525 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 2: on Christmas Day to make a very conscious decision, would 526 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 2: I rather have the NFL on all day? 527 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: Or would I rather go back and forth? 528 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 2: Because you can't split screen Netflix and whatever device you're 529 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 2: watching the NBA on. 530 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 4: Right. 531 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 2: So, not only did the NFL come in and get 532 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 2: greevy about Christmas Day, I don't think it's accidental that 533 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 2: the NBA turned around and said, wait, we can sell 534 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,159 Speaker 2: those games to streaming services for a ton of money, 535 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 2: which will force people to come to our product, which 536 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 2: will at some level not only boost us up, but 537 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 2: it will curb stomp the NBA. Like, this is all 538 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 2: very intentional, good business, if you ask me. Like, it's 539 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 2: not in the NFL's job to pull back so the 540 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,239 Speaker 2: NBA can compete. It's the NBA's job to figure out 541 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 2: how to damn compete. 542 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 3: So it's seventy eight years that the NBA has had 543 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 3: games on Christmas, and so I get why anybody, whether 544 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 3: it be Charles Barkley or just diehard NBA fans, or 545 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 3: anybody in this sphere, this sphere or this space that 546 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 3: has some kind of you know, some kind of tradition 547 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,880 Speaker 3: associated with the NBA and Christmas Day because it has been. 548 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 3: It has been a tradition to that point. But just 549 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 3: to me, it sounds like sour grapes if I'm being 550 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 3: honest with you, because what Charles is saying again the quote, 551 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 3: the NFL got greedy and started adding Christmas games. We 552 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,439 Speaker 3: used to have this day to ourself. But Goodell and 553 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 3: then pigs at the NFL always want to hog every 554 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 3: day of the week. Now, No, Charles, sweet baby Angel, 555 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 3: it's not about Goodell and them getting greedy. I mean 556 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 3: it is, but it's our greed. It's the sports consuming 557 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 3: public's creed. I want more NFL football. I don't want 558 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 3: less NFL football. Give me as much football, good or bad, 559 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 3: as humanly possible. That's my greed as the consumer. Now, 560 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 3: obviously I also work in the NFL. I'm a reporter 561 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 3: for one of the thirty two teams, or covering one 562 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 3: of the thirty two teams. I don't work for a team, 563 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 3: But you get my point, Like, I'm more interested, more 564 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,120 Speaker 3: invested at this time of year, even as we get 565 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 3: to the tail end of the regular season in the NFL, 566 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 3: on what's going on in the NFL teams I don't 567 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 3: get to watch on a regular basis. 568 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 4: In a setting where I don't have. 569 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 3: To work a game that day, I am vastly I'm 570 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 3: going to seek out football over anything else, NFL football 571 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 3: over anything else that you put on television. FITSI I 572 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 3: kept I was aware of what happened in the NBA yesterday, 573 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 3: just because I knew we were probably going to talk 574 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 3: a little bit about it on a national sports talk 575 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 3: radio show. Had this been the local show that I 576 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 3: do here in Nashville, I wouldn't have turned on a 577 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,479 Speaker 3: basketball game for anything yesterday, even as I love Wembin 578 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 3: Yama and watching the watching the Thunder, and I consider 579 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 3: that to be one of the premier matchups in the 580 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 3: NBA right now, I'll watch this bad football over any 581 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 3: of it, though, if you give me the option. It's 582 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 3: not the NFL's greed. It's the NFL taking advantage of 583 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 3: our greed. 584 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,120 Speaker 2: That's the ownership element that people forget all the time. 585 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 2: It's like we talk about corporations and entertainment and business 586 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 2: and all these things, like at the end of the day, 587 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 2: it's not all consumer driven. 588 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: It is consumer driven. Speaking of consumer driven, Sesame Street 589 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: helped raise us all. Now it's our turn donate this. 590 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 2: Holiday season at sesame dot org because the world needs 591 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 2: Sesame and Sesame needs you. 592 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: Great way to get back to something that helped raise 593 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 1: us all. 594 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 2: He's Buck Rising on Jason Fitzwerin for the guys on 595 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Here's the thing, Buck, So I looked 596 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 2: it up from twenty twenty four. Okay, let me give 597 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 2: you some impressive numbers here. You ready for this. In 598 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, the NBA saw an eighty four percent 599 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 2: jump in Christmas. 600 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: Day ratings from twenty twenty three. That's a huge jump, right. 601 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 2: They averaged five point two five million viewers across five games. 602 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 2: That's an eighty four percent jump from twenty twenty three. 603 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 2: It was the best christ Miss Day that they'd seen 604 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 2: in five years. The primetime Lakers Warriors got seven point 605 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 2: seven to six million. 606 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: That's up huge over what they'd have. So those are 607 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 1: all great numbers. Last year. 608 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 2: Last year, Chiefs Steelers Ravens Texans were the two Netflix 609 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: games that we got. Those averaged twenty four million viewers. 610 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 2: Reached sixty five million total viewers but averaged. 611 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:26,919 Speaker 1: Twenty four million. 612 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,679 Speaker 2: So last year the NBA put up the best numbers 613 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,239 Speaker 2: it's put up in years, and it's still still got 614 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 2: what a fifth of what the NFL pulled in that day. 615 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: And here's the sad reality. And I think this is 616 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: just I don't even know if it's sad. 617 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 2: This is just the reality. To Chuck's point, the NBA 618 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 2: yesterday gave us the Knicks. It gave us OKC versus 619 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 2: San Antonio, which truly is trying to turn into right 620 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 2: now one of the better new rivalries in the NBA. 621 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 2: They also gave us the Warriors, and they gave us 622 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 2: the Lakers throughout the course of the day. They are 623 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 2: going to get murdered in the ranking ratings when they 624 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 2: come out. I'm sure Netflix will give us those numbers soon. 625 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,959 Speaker 2: When those numbers come out, don't just remember that they 626 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 2: got murdered. Remember that they got murdered by a quarterback 627 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 2: you've never heard of playing for the Chiefs, and a 628 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 2: quarterback you've never heard of playing for the Vikings against 629 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 2: the Lions team that got eliminated. Oh and a Cowboys 630 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 2: Washington game that meant absolutely nothing. They could not have 631 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 2: given you three less meaningful NFL games with less brand 632 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 2: power at the quarterback position, and they're still going to 633 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,360 Speaker 2: throttle the absolute best that the. 634 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: NBA has to offer. 635 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 2: Like, if I'm the NBA and I'm looking around, now, 636 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 2: you got two choices. You can either decide that you're 637 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 2: very okay being a Christmas Day tradition that matters to 638 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 2: a lot of people, but not to most people, and 639 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 2: that's okay, like it's okay to not be everything to everybody. 640 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 2: Or you need to figure out how to own a 641 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 2: different day. Maybe you decide Christmas Eve is your new day. 642 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. But if your actual goal is. 643 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 2: Ownership of the day, the NFL has taken that from 644 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 2: you and you are not getting it back. It is 645 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 2: never going to be an NBA a day again. 646 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: It is an NFL day. 647 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 4: Well that's that's why. 648 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 3: And again Charles Charles is entitled to whatever opinion he 649 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 3: wants to have, of course, and Charles Barkley earned the 650 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 3: right to speak on whatever he wants to speak on. 651 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 3: But it's a dated perspective, you know what I'm saying, 652 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 3: Like it's just football has passed all of these things 653 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 3: by How how does baseball feel about no longer being 654 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 3: America's past time? 655 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 4: Except clinking to the. 656 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 3: Idea that they they they can still say, well, where 657 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 3: America's past time, No, you're not, really, It's football. That's 658 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,719 Speaker 3: that's that's where football, football comes for us all after 659 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 3: a while. And and I don't think that it's that 660 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 3: it's a sad reality at all. It's just it's where 661 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:42,479 Speaker 3: people's tastes have changed or where people's interests have changed. 662 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 3: And how the NBA or if the NBA or Major 663 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 3: League Baseball or any of these other sports that are 664 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 3: competing for I wouldn't even say second fiddle, uh to 665 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 3: the NFL, because college football is America's second most popular sport. 666 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 3: I would argue by a wide margin even is that 667 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 3: is a more region live sport than anything else. That 668 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 3: still beats the hell out of the NBA and Major 669 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 3: League Baseball. So I wonder how how that process, How 670 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 3: how the commissioners of these two sports, and specifically basketball, 671 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 3: because I don't know, Adam Silver feels. 672 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 4: Like he's up against it on a regular basis anymore. 673 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 3: Where he was thought of as one of the more 674 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 3: progressive and thought provoking commissions and commissioners in the league, 675 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,959 Speaker 3: turns out he's not been overwhelmingly effective, and the problems 676 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 3: under his watch have only gotten worse. Maybe that was 677 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 3: always going to be what happened, regardless of who was 678 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 3: the commissioner of the NBA, given the changing landscape or 679 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 3: what the landscape of professional sports and consumption looks like 680 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 3: right now. But this, this to me is it's it's 681 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 3: not yet. It's going to sound like a shot at 682 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 3: Charles Barkley, but it really isn't. It just sounds to 683 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 3: me like an old like an older generation, shaking their 684 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 3: fist at the clouds and saying, why can't things be 685 00:30:58,240 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 3: like they always were? 686 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 4: When in reality that's just not how it works. 687 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 3: And someday that will be you and me and somebody 688 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 3: somebody younger than us will tell us, no, you idiots, 689 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 3: you don't matter anymore. And the thing that you think 690 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 3: is it should be because it's always been, it's outdated 691 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 3: and you don't know what you're talking about anymore. That 692 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 3: will happen to all of us at a certain point 693 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 3: in time. I just I know that Charles is aware 694 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 3: of the landscape and sports. I know Charles knows how 695 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 3: popular the NFL is. The idea that he would be 696 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 3: sitting there on the NBA Christmas Day broadcast and being 697 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 3: like this is our day. 698 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 4: They need to get the hell out. No, they don't. 699 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 3: You need to put on a better product or give 700 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 3: people a better reason of care. That's the only reason 701 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 3: that the NFL is taking all of your stuff. 702 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 2: I think you also at some level. I say this 703 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 2: gently for everybody, but like, why yuck? Anybody's young? Like 704 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 2: you know is we've joked over the years. I hate pie. 705 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 2: I don't like pie. And every year that it comes 706 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 2: up that I don't like pie, people are just absolutely 707 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 2: offended that I don't like pie. And my answer to 708 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 2: that is like, cool, Like I don't like pie. So 709 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 2: if I show up the same Christmas gathering as Buck, 710 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 2: you have all the pie you want. I'm not taking 711 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 2: it into your pie. You go enjoy your pot. I'm 712 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 2: gonna enjoy cake. Anything pibly can do, Cake can do better, 713 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 2: Like I love cake. Right, So it's fine, I love cake. 714 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 2: Somebody else can love pie. No big deal. I don't 715 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 2: understand why in this landscape everything has to make the 716 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 2: NFL a villain. And frankly to your point, you know, 717 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 2: I just looked at it because the college football playoffs 718 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 2: this year and gave us head to head yet again, 719 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 2: as we mentioned, right, So I looked at it and 720 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 2: the ratings head to head for college football playoff games, 721 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 2: understanding that Miami, Texas A and M was before the 722 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 2: NFL was kicking off, Right, they fourteen point eight million. 723 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 1: People watch that? 724 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 2: Well, Tulane Ole Miss drew six point two million viewers, 725 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,640 Speaker 2: and then the NFL game started between Philly and Washington, 726 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 2: by the way, also a meaningless game that had fifteen 727 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 2: and a half million viewers versus another playoff game, JMU 728 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 2: versus Oregon had four point four million. Right, But I 729 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 2: don't hear college football fans coming out all over the 730 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 2: place just screaming about, Oh, the NFL is stepping on 731 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 2: our playoff Why can't they get out of the way. 732 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 2: Why can't they make this day about college football? Why 733 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 2: do they have to do these things? Like, I just 734 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 2: don't hear that. As much there is to me an 735 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 2: entire section of NBA fans, NBA media, NBA coverage that 736 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 2: is all about what the rest of the world should 737 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 2: be thinking or should be doing, or. 738 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: How much everybody should love their PROBA. 739 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 4: Like I don't care. 740 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 2: You know, if Christmas Day is about the NBA to you, 741 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 2: then enjoy the NBA that day. 742 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: And if it's about the NFL. Do you enjoy the NFL. 743 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 2: I don't hear the NFL complain about much anything because 744 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 2: at the top of the top of the pecking order. 745 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 2: But I don't hear college football fans complain the way 746 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 2: that basketball fans do about the lack of appreciation for 747 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 2: their sport. And I think at some point it just 748 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 2: all feels fail to me enjoy what you enjoy. 749 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:45,959 Speaker 1: Well. 750 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 3: But I wonder if that's not a reaction because of 751 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,479 Speaker 3: how much basketball has to deal with this in general. 752 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 3: I live in the Southeast, right there's a whole portion 753 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 3: of the country that will tell you how much they 754 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 3: don't care about the NBA and how much the NBA 755 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 3: is varable now and all these different things, and they'd 756 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 3: rather watch paint dry than watch an NBA game or 757 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 3: whatever the case may be. Right, Like, the NBA, I 758 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 3: feel like, more than any other any other major American 759 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 3: sport has to deal with the constant what you described 760 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,319 Speaker 3: as yucking somebody's young. If you like basketball, there's ten 761 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 3: other people that will tell you, no, it's a terrible product. 762 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 4: All they do is shoot threas. It's a tough watch. 763 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 3: The regular season doesn't matter, like the NBA BI percentage 764 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 3: deals with a greater volume of that criticism where people 765 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 3: aren't actually watching but are comfortable submitting their opinions on 766 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 3: what they think about the NBA no matter what because 767 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 3: of rightly or wrongly, the NBA in the last decade, 768 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 3: let's say, has become a level of polarizing by a 769 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,280 Speaker 3: portion of the population that it probably didn't want anything 770 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 3: to do with and wish that it hadn't been, hadn't 771 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:57,239 Speaker 3: been associated with whatever kind of political belief you seem 772 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 3: to have, whether that's fair or not. The NBA is 773 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 3: kind of the sports poster child for that in the 774 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,280 Speaker 3: last couple of years, and it's created a polarizing element 775 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 3: with a good population of the country, even though that 776 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,680 Speaker 3: population in the country, like I said, is not actually 777 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 3: watching the basketball to criticize. If they did, they'd probably 778 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,279 Speaker 3: enjoy the holy hell out of it, because there's some 779 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 3: really fun players in the NBA right now and some 780 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,839 Speaker 3: really excellent teams, regardless of if you think that the 781 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 3: inventory of the NBA is too much. 782 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think to your point there, it's interesting because 783 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 2: you're absolutely right. How many people I say this all 784 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 2: the time about the w If you're a WNBA person 785 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 2: or not. This is just a fact to me. You 786 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,560 Speaker 2: can take the WNBA yelling and you can split it 787 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,400 Speaker 2: into thirds. There are a third of the people that 788 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,239 Speaker 2: are truly passionate about it that watch it and they 789 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,280 Speaker 2: yell about it. Then there's a third of the people 790 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 2: that have never watched the second of it and they 791 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,600 Speaker 2: think it sucks, so they yell about how much it 792 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,560 Speaker 2: sucks even though they've never watched the second of it, 793 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 2: so they have no idea. And then there's a third 794 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,799 Speaker 2: of the people that have never watched the second of it, 795 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 2: but simply because they need to prop tell you how 796 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,719 Speaker 2: great it is even though they've never watched the second 797 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 2: of it. So like it's only a third of that 798 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,560 Speaker 2: yelling actually ever feels real. 799 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 1: What is real as DraftKings. 800 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,520 Speaker 2: By the way, this show sponsored by the DraftKings sportsbook 801 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 2: and official sports betting partner of the NFL and NBA. 802 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 2: Right now, use the promo code two pros to claim 803 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 2: your special offer at DraftKings again. Promo code is super easy, 804 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:26,120 Speaker 2: two pros at DraftKings. The crown is yours. There's no 805 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,839 Speaker 2: easy solution to this, and I know I'm oversimplifying when 806 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 2: I say NBA fans enjoy what you enjoy. NFL fans 807 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,720 Speaker 2: enjoy what you enjoy. But I do think one truth 808 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,800 Speaker 2: is here. I mean, I'm ever the sort of capitalist 809 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,200 Speaker 2: I guess in this like, these things aren't being played 810 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 2: for no reason, They're being played for money. So the 811 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 2: only real change anybody can ever affect is their eyeballs. 812 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,800 Speaker 2: So I guess the answer is that if you truly 813 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 2: believe that the NFL is taking something from you, and 814 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 2: you're an NBA fan just to make sure that you 815 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,040 Speaker 2: don't watch a single second of it, the one thing 816 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,919 Speaker 2: that will ever change anything is eyeballs. We just don't 817 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 2: want to empower ourselves to actually make that change. All right, 818 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 2: he's Buck Rising, Jason Fitz coming up. We're gonna figure 819 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 2: it out. Buck has the most shocking thing you ever 820 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,360 Speaker 2: need to hear about the AFC. There's one team that 821 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 2: stands out to Buck as clearly the super Bowl favorite 822 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,080 Speaker 2: from the AFC, and it's not who you think it is. 823 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,240 Speaker 2: We'll tell you about it next. He's Buck. I'm Jason. 824 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 2: I don't know why I used our first name. It's 825 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,960 Speaker 2: Bucket Fitz takeover on two Prosonly Cup of Joe on 826 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:21,800 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. 827 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 828 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,320 Speaker 6: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio 829 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,560 Speaker 6: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 830 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,280 Speaker 6: listen live. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz. It's Bucking 831 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 6: Fits taken over two Cup of Joe on Fox Sports Radio. 832 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,480 Speaker 2: We've reached such an interesting point in this NFL season. 833 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,520 Speaker 2: And I mean interesting because we spent so much of 834 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 2: this season trying to figure out how to make sense 835 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:51,279 Speaker 2: of some of the teams. 836 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 1: That aren't good. 837 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,520 Speaker 2: We started the show talking about the Lions, who are 838 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 2: going to miss the playoffs. Obviously we all know that 839 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 2: the Chiefs are going to miss the playoffs, The Cowboys 840 00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,359 Speaker 2: are going to miss the playoffs, The Vikings are gonna 841 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,640 Speaker 2: miss the playoffs. You can look all over the place 842 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,200 Speaker 2: at the disappointments in the NFL and probably have a 843 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,600 Speaker 2: pretty good conversation about which one of those are the worst. 844 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,720 Speaker 1: But there's a flip side to all of this, and that's. 845 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,160 Speaker 2: Some of the new teams that maybe we didn't think 846 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,960 Speaker 2: would be here, and we are now in this weird 847 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,040 Speaker 2: AFC where all of a sudden we're trying to figure 848 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,799 Speaker 2: out how good the Patriots are, And what does it 849 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,680 Speaker 2: mean for the Broncos who last night, I mean frankly struggled. 850 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:27,600 Speaker 2: They struggled to get a win over at Kansas City 851 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,560 Speaker 2: Chiefs team that couldn't really generate any offense, but was 852 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,480 Speaker 2: still in the game all the way to the very 853 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,200 Speaker 2: end of late touchdown seals that win for the Broncos 854 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,759 Speaker 2: who desperately needed it. And I'm looking around Buck and 855 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out, Like most years, right now 856 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,320 Speaker 2: we have a good idea who the best team. 857 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,560 Speaker 1: Is in the AFC. As we say, right now, I 858 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:45,200 Speaker 1: have no idea. 859 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,719 Speaker 4: Oh I do, pick me, pick me, I know who 860 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:49,040 Speaker 4: is it? 861 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:50,680 Speaker 1: Who is it? 862 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:56,320 Speaker 4: It's the Jags. It's the Jacksonville Jaguars. It's at least. 863 00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,760 Speaker 3: Right now, I don't think there is a better team 864 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 3: in the month of December as we get ready to 865 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,480 Speaker 3: put a bow on the NFL regular season. Obviously we'll 866 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 3: get our work our way through the rest of Week 867 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,200 Speaker 3: seventeen moving forward starting tomorrow. 868 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,920 Speaker 4: But as we sit here, and not just. 869 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,760 Speaker 3: Because they beat up on a bunch of bad teams, 870 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,200 Speaker 3: they went to Denver and handed the Broncos their first 871 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:21,240 Speaker 3: home loss of the season. 872 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,879 Speaker 4: Did the Jaguars. Trevor Lawrence is playing excellent football right now. 873 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,839 Speaker 3: Their offense looks and we talked about this a little 874 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,440 Speaker 3: bit on I think it was Tuesday night, if I 875 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:36,000 Speaker 3: remember correctly, that the offense completely changed when they put 876 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,760 Speaker 3: Jacoby Meyers into the mix. There after they lost Travis 877 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,479 Speaker 3: Hunter for the season, so much so that they felt 878 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:44,080 Speaker 3: comfortable giving Jacoby Myers a three year, sixty million dollar deal. 879 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:45,320 Speaker 4: The defense is awesome. 880 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,120 Speaker 3: They did not a great pass rush defense, not a 881 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,799 Speaker 3: great pass rush defense, but their tops against the run. 882 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,040 Speaker 3: They can make you one dimensional, which allows them gives 883 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,400 Speaker 3: them more opportunities to create these turnovers that they're capitalizing on. 884 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,760 Speaker 3: The Jags the best team in the AFC right now 885 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,799 Speaker 3: in the month of December. There is not a better 886 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,600 Speaker 3: team in that conference than the Jacksonville Jaguars. 887 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:11,120 Speaker 2: Opportunistic defense, a first overall pick at the quarterback position 888 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,880 Speaker 2: that maybe hasn't lived up to some of the hype, 889 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,759 Speaker 2: But my god is still Trevor Lawrence. Obviously they've got 890 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,720 Speaker 2: explosive players. Now, you're right, Shcoby's been a huge pickup 891 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,680 Speaker 2: for them. Why are we not buying more into maybe 892 00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,480 Speaker 2: just because it's the brand of the Jags, because it 893 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,120 Speaker 2: certainly feels like everybody's welcomed in the concept of the 894 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,640 Speaker 2: Patriots being great again, and everybody's welcoming in Sean Payton 895 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,279 Speaker 2: and what he's done to the Broncos and how good 896 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,839 Speaker 2: that Broncos defense is, even though again they struggled last 897 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,759 Speaker 2: night against Kansas City team with nothing to play for. 898 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,600 Speaker 2: I have not felt that same level of buy in 899 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:43,520 Speaker 2: for the Jags yet. 900 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,080 Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's because I've done this before with 901 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,959 Speaker 3: the Titans, right, they were one of the best teams 902 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,520 Speaker 3: in the AFC for years with the Chiefs and the Ravens, 903 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,759 Speaker 3: and before really the Bengals arrived on the scene, were 904 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,080 Speaker 3: competing with the Bills, all of these teams, and people 905 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:00,960 Speaker 3: would discount the type at the time, even though they 906 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,319 Speaker 3: made it to an AFC Championship game, didn't get it 907 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,000 Speaker 3: done ultimately, didn't win a Super Bowl. With that current 908 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,400 Speaker 3: iteration of the window with Derrick Henry and Ryan Tanneh 909 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,080 Speaker 3: and all that. But like I've lived that experience before, 910 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,680 Speaker 3: it'll take a couple of years of this happening for 911 00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,920 Speaker 3: people to really want to give the Jags any kind 912 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:16,280 Speaker 3: of credit. 913 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,080 Speaker 4: And even then they'll find ways to discount them. 914 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:19,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're probably right. 915 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,919 Speaker 2: There's just certain brands it just takes everybody a little 916 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,759 Speaker 2: bit longer to fall in love with it. I don't 917 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,600 Speaker 2: think it's just market size or any of that. It's 918 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,200 Speaker 2: just been there, done that. But it's weird that the 919 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,520 Speaker 2: Jags are sort of stuck in no man's land. But 920 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,200 Speaker 2: in this AFC, why not the Jags. There is one 921 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,440 Speaker 2: team we haven't mentioned yet to Texans. How did they 922 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,880 Speaker 2: fall into all of this in the AFC power structure. 923 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,680 Speaker 2: We'll figure it out next on Two Pros and a 924 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 2: Cup of Joe