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You know, it's a great thing. It's been a brilliant

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idea. It's been well planned,

0:51

well thought out, and it's been an

0:53

absolute success. But it doesn't mean

0:55

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0:58

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the NFL has done a couple of things over

1:36

the past several years that at

1:40

the moment you're thinking, yeah, but

1:42

I'm not sure this is going to be a great idea, Like,

1:45

for example, moving

1:47

the extra point back. It's

1:49

like, well, you know, the place too obvious, it's

1:51

you know, it's a twenty yard field goal. Everybody

1:54

just kind of tunes out, we'll just move it back. And I'm thinking

1:56

of myself, why would you do that? What

1:58

does it matter? And as it turns out,

2:00

they moved it back, and all of a sudden, a thirty three

2:03

yard kick turned out to be like a real

2:05

play with real ramifications

2:08

and a real impact on a football game. And

2:11

we're seeing kickers miss somewhere like having

2:13

complexes about it like it just it

2:15

turned out to be a great idea. When the NFL

2:18

decided years ago we're going to move the draft

2:20

around, I was a little bit skeptical on

2:22

it. I thought, listen, I don't

2:24

know that this is the best idea. It's always

2:26

been in New York. It's always been tradition,

2:29

Radio City Music Hall or whatever the hell it's

2:32

called there, or wherever the hell they had it at. But it was

2:34

always in New York, and it was always a big

2:36

event. You know, you moved it. You open

2:38

up Thursday with the first round, and then you

2:40

had Saturday Sunday or Friday Saturday.

2:43

I thought it was great. It used to be the Saturday Sunday

2:45

Extravaganza and it would be a marathon

2:47

and go all that time. And then they decided, we're

2:49

gonna move it around. We're gonna move it to Chicago, We're

2:52

going to move it to Philly. We're going to

2:54

move it to Dallas

2:56

and Nashville and all these different places.

3:00

And then they move it to Detroit and you're seeing

3:02

like hundreds of thousands

3:05

of people show up for an NFL

3:08

draft. And I was making this point

3:10

on the show Friday, on the whatever

3:13

the Two Pros and a Cup of Joe with it's

3:16

starring me, and there was like a couple other

3:18

guys on the show, I think, like Brady and LeVar,

3:20

some couple guys, but it's starring me, featuring

3:22

me and then they're kind of there. It

3:25

was making this point, like the

3:27

NFL Draft is such a big deal that

3:32

Joelle Embiid suffered Bell's

3:34

palsy and scored fifty points

3:36

in a playoff game, and that was kind

3:38

of a that's sweet.

3:41

Who the Raiders take? Oh

3:45

man? Can you believe what it?

3:46

Like?

3:47

Just like that is how big the NFL Draft

3:49

is. That it completely

3:52

overtook that story and that incredible

3:55

performance in a playoff game and

3:59

completely over took everybody's headlines

4:01

and everybody's conversation. So like

4:03

the NFL moving the draft around,

4:05

going to Detroit, I mean it's like you mentioned, like

4:07

that many people in one location. It's

4:10

like Woodstock ninety nine, except

4:12

nobody's burning the place down. It's

4:15

tremendous and there's still people there.

4:17

But I'll say this, as

4:21

great as it is, sometimes

4:23

there are some flaws the

4:26

whoever's idea this was. And I know you

4:28

want to like grow the game, and

4:30

I get it, you want to like welcome

4:32

in other audiences. All

4:35

that makes sense. Having

4:39

the international fans of the year

4:41

for each team call out some of these picks

4:44

today at the NFL Draft, Yeah,

4:46

I don't know. That might be the one where you

4:48

go em. Maybe we

4:50

modify that a little bit. I

4:54

have zero interest in

4:57

seeing some guy walk

5:00

up from Istanbul, no

5:02

offense to Istanbul, or

5:05

London or Ireland

5:07

or whatever, who's probably half

5:09

in the bag. Like the packers had some

5:12

guy walk up, you

5:14

would have thought that somebody pulled this guy

5:16

out of a claw machine. He had

5:18

suspenders, he had stuff

5:20

hanging off him, and

5:23

he's calling out a pick. You imagine like

5:25

the guy who's being drafted, like

5:28

this is like his dream come true.

5:30

He's like, man, I've been thinking about this moment

5:32

since I was seven years old playing pee wee football.

5:35

I've been thinking about this. I've been wanting this moment.

5:39

This is like, this is my time to shine.

5:41

This is the biggest moment in my life, in my

5:43

career. I'm becoming a professional. I'm gonna start

5:46

getting paid handsomely

5:49

for doing something I love. I'm there

5:51

with friends and family. It's a Saturday.

5:54

I've had to wait a couple of rounds, but the time

5:56

is here. The phone rings, You see the area

5:58

code, you know it's something you don't recognize. And

6:00

then you call and you talk to the GM, you

6:03

talk to the coach, You talk to

6:05

the owner, and you're excited and ecstatic.

6:07

You've got tears in your eyes. Your family's

6:09

holding hands, you're grasping each other, you're

6:12

looking at the television. And

6:14

then all of a sudden, some

6:17

dude who looks like he was

6:19

pulled off the middle rack

6:22

at a carnival at the basketball

6:24

shot, walks up and announces

6:27

your name after seventeen

6:29

beers that he's had the previous

6:31

night before. And that's the

6:33

moment you remember the international

6:36

fans calling out these picks. Enough's

6:38

enough. We've grown the game. We've

6:41

given them a bunch of games. There's

6:43

the potential they could even get their own league

6:45

someday. We don't need to do this. We've

6:48

reached the tipping point. Everybody,

6:51

relax, all right, We're

6:54

fine, We're good here.

6:56

We just don't need human

6:59

stuffed animals walking up to the

7:01

podium to announce somebody's dreams

7:03

because it kind of takes away from everything else.

7:06

Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. There's

7:10

a term in professional wrestling called

7:12

the cheap pop. You

7:15

know what the cheap pop is. The cheap pop

7:17

is when you go to somebody's

7:19

town. If you just call

7:21

out their town, you're gonna

7:24

get a reaction, like if you call out

7:26

their town, or if you come out like say,

7:28

you know, the WWE is performing

7:31

in Chicago, and

7:33

all of a sudden, somebody comes

7:35

out and they're wearing a Bear's uniform or

7:38

they're wearing a Cubs hat, or it's

7:40

like, that's called the cheap pop. If you want

7:42

to get the fans behind you, you do

7:44

it. It's called the cheap pop. That's the move

7:47

in professional wrestling. That's the go

7:50

to. If the crowd's a little

7:52

bit down or there's not a lot

7:54

of energy, you come out and you say, you know, it's an

7:56

honor to be here in

7:58

Chicago, illttoi, and it's like, people

8:00

go up, they start clapping,

8:03

they start cheering everybody. It's, you know,

8:05

the cheap popp. It's the go to. It's the one

8:07

you keep in your back pocket just in case

8:09

you need it. Roger Goodell

8:11

apparently is a big fan of the cheap pop.

8:14

Huge fan, so much so

8:18

that when he was on the Pat McAfee show

8:20

starring AJ Hawk yesterday

8:23

in Detroit following the first round of the Draft,

8:26

the conversation of eighteen

8:28

game regular season schedule

8:31

and the potential of moving

8:33

the Super Bowl back and all that

8:35

that was brought up. Let's take a listen

8:38

to Roger Goadell, knowing the audience,

8:40

knowing there's a live crowd behind him, and

8:43

using the cheap pop tactic

8:45

to try and worm this into

8:47

the conversation in the middle

8:49

of draft weekend.

8:51

Well, I think we're good at seventeen now,

8:53

but listen, we're looking at how we continue.

8:55

I'm not a fan of the preseason. I'd rather

8:57

replace a preseason game of the regular season any

8:59

day.

9:00

That's just picking quality, right, So

9:03

if we get if we got to eighteen and two, that's

9:06

not an unreasonable thing. The other thing it does,

9:08

which I thought you were going to is that

9:10

ends up on President's Day

9:12

weekend, which is a three day weekend,

9:14

which makes the Sunday night and then you have Monday

9:16

off.

9:17

There you go, live crowd, round of applause,

9:20

Roger Goodell, that's how you do it. Listen.

9:22

We are all about safety first. We've

9:25

got brand new helmets, all right.

9:27

We care about the game, you

9:29

know, we don't want this many preseason games,

9:31

you know, Listen, we want to make sure that that safety

9:34

is paramount in the NFL. It's got to

9:36

happen, We've got to have safety. How about

9:38

an extra regular season game though, But but wait, wait

9:40

wait, wait wait wait, We're gonna give

9:42

you an extra bye week, and then in turn that

9:44

would push the super Bowl back to a three

9:47

day weekend so people don't have to go to work out a

9:49

Monday. So a couple of things should

9:51

be addressed. Number one, if

9:53

you don't have it already set

9:55

in your mind to have something

9:58

scheduled or have some something in

10:00

your back pocket, a lab

10:03

you know, like like whatever you feel

10:05

like you need to do the cheap pop. If

10:07

you don't have something already built into your

10:10

schedule to know that you're going to take

10:12

the Monday off after the super Bowl, then

10:14

you're not planning ahead and you

10:16

deserve to go to work hungover and

10:18

half in the bag the next day. You

10:20

deserve that. If you want to go funeral,

10:24

if you want to go bar

10:26

mitzvah, if you want to go

10:29

look, I mean the in

10:31

laws a Mexican. If you want to go kin Signetta

10:33

on a Monday. Look, you could try and sell that

10:35

and spin it. Listen. I know, but it's their culture,

10:37

it's what they do. Like, I don't know what to tell

10:39

you, like, whatever you want to come up with, birth

10:42

of a child. If you want to fake it,

10:44

like completely lie, whatever you need

10:47

to do to get that Monday off after the super Bowl,

10:49

you go ahead and you do and take care of

10:51

your business. You deserve that, all

10:53

right. But if you're not planning ahead and you're still working

10:55

on a Monday, that's your problem, not mine. But

10:58

here's the other thing we've

11:01

been hearing for years. Safety

11:05

safety, safety, player safety. We

11:07

care about this stuff. It's important. Yet here

11:09

we are and Roger Goodell

11:11

is using the little prize

11:14

at the end of this whole thing, the little ring

11:17

or whatever you want in the bottom of the cracker

11:19

jack box, the happy meal

11:22

prize and toy that you get there. It's like, oh,

11:24

well I didn't want apple slices. Yeah, but if you eat

11:26

your apple slices, not those fries that

11:28

have been soaked in grease for three months, then

11:30

guess what you get, Like a Super

11:32

Mario Brothers one up box? Well,

11:35

what's inside of it? Nothing? But if heat good,

11:37

you can get this prize. So basically,

11:39

what he's saying is we

11:42

understand that we're asking a lot out

11:44

of players, all right, but we're

11:46

willing to take away a preseason game. Dude,

11:49

who plays in preseason games anymore? Like

11:53

who's playing in those games? But don't worry,

11:55

we're gonna add an extra game, and

11:57

then on top of that, we're gonna have the super oil give us

11:59

a second bye.

12:00

We go.

12:01

Well, yeah, like,

12:04

calendar wise, you can't

12:06

just add an extra game and

12:08

have it not make some sort of an adjustment

12:11

to the schedule. They've been trying

12:13

to get to this point a little bit at

12:15

a time. They were always gonna go

12:17

to eighteen games. This seventeen

12:20

game test run

12:22

or seventeen game adjustment because

12:24

you know, we deserve an extra game. No, dude, you were

12:26

always gonna get to eighteen games. It was always

12:29

gonna go here, And so I

12:31

get the whole You got to give a little to get a

12:34

little. But let's not pretend

12:36

like this wasn't always the plan, Like

12:38

they weren't always looking at this going, hey, this

12:40

is in our back pocket. And by the way, we'll

12:43

start having the discussions in front of a live

12:45

crowd that's gonna cheer anything. At that point,

12:47

man Detroit was gonna cheer anything

12:50

except for a Packers, Vikings

12:52

or Bears draft selection. They were just happy

12:55

to have the draft there in town because

12:57

it'll let them forget about what the Piston season

12:59

look like. So you

13:01

like this was always going

13:03

to be where this conversation headed. The NFL

13:06

was always gonna get to eighteen games.

13:08

It was always going to happen, and

13:10

you were going to have to push the schedule back

13:12

anyways, Like

13:15

it didn't make sense. Yeah,

13:17

but well, you know we'll get rid of a preseason game,

13:20

okay, and then

13:22

what these guys aren't playing in those

13:24

games anyways, So like,

13:27

what does that really do? You add

13:29

a second bye week? The NFL

13:31

having one team getting a buye in each

13:34

conference was only temporary, and I

13:36

said it at the time when had happened. Listen, it's only a

13:38

matter of time before eight teams are gonna get in and we're

13:40

gonna go back to two buys. That's it.

13:42

It's only a matter of time. That's the way this thing's

13:44

gonna work. And so when you hear

13:46

Goodell talk about this and a feel

13:48

good weekend and in front of a live crowd,

13:51

this is the beginning stages of them

13:53

working this in and the Players Association

13:56

is gonna speak out against it and say we

13:58

don't like it, we're not fans of it. And then you

14:00

see how much money's involved, and it's gonna

14:02

go the way this always goes. You're gonna

14:04

get eighteen games, but they're gonna promise

14:06

you the super Bowl during President's Day weekend

14:09

after that, so you can get excited about having

14:11

potentially the day off on Monday. And

14:13

this was Roger Goodell's cheap pop moment

14:15

with fans behind him to sort of work

14:17

this way in and get the conversation going.

14:20

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14:23

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16:36

So there was some speculation

16:39

because when like players drop

16:41

in the draft or you know, the projection

16:43

is some guy who's going to go somewhere in the draft

16:46

or be drafted by you know, somebody

16:48

here at this spot, and then it doesn't happen,

16:51

there's some speculation that like, all right,

16:53

well, is their character concerns? Are

16:55

their character issues are there? And you

16:58

know, that happened a little bit with Texas

17:01

wide receiver at Donnie Mitchell, who

17:04

some people had projected as potentially

17:07

maybe a first round pick. They

17:09

saw him as as somebody

17:12

who had a lot of talent at Texas,

17:14

and they were wondering sort of what happened,

17:16

And there was some stuff out there that apparently

17:19

he was a little bit difficult to assess

17:21

and interviews, that they

17:24

found him difficult to kind of

17:26

judge, and that the process didn't go as

17:28

smooth as everybody thought it was going to be. And

17:31

so Colts

17:33

GM Chris Ballard decided

17:37

to speak with the media about

17:40

those reports and about

17:42

those rumors as to why Donnie Mitchell

17:44

fell in the draft as the Colts

17:47

drafted him in the second round

17:49

of the NFL Draft. And let's take

17:51

a listen.

17:52

I mean I read some of the that

17:54

was set on tea. I mean just a typical choose

17:58

my language, our typical unnamed

18:01

sources, you know, bad

18:04

interview. That's such book. I mean

18:06

it is it's bored, like

18:08

put your name, like, put your name on

18:11

it. We tear these young men down. These are

18:13

twenty one, twenty two young men. And

18:15

if you can, if people out there can tell me

18:18

they're perfect in their lives, it's crap.

18:20

It's crap. This is a good kid. And

18:23

you know, for those reports to come out like

18:25

you know much I said it last year, it's

18:28

it's bud. I'm sorry. I

18:30

apologize for the language. I don't but I do.

18:35

By the way, he's got a little uh with his hair

18:37

grown out he's got a little chip gains from a

18:39

fixer upper. I don't if anybody else noticed

18:41

that, but I mean, first

18:43

off, great rant. I

18:46

don't know the last time we've gotten a rant like that

18:48

from somebody in the NFL who's picking who

18:50

talking about a second round draft pick who they should

18:53

be really really excited about. But a

18:55

hell of a rant by Chris Ballard that

18:57

seems like a guy you probably don't want to mess with all seems

19:00

like a guy you don't you want to play for. And

19:02

he's not wrong. Like I

19:05

think, sometimes we lose focus

19:08

of the fact that, all right, so we're picking apart

19:10

because we've run out of material and run

19:12

out of content. We're picking apart

19:15

twenty one twenty two year

19:17

olds that are trying to make it to the

19:19

NFL because of either an interview or

19:22

a moment or It's

19:24

like, there are things

19:26

that can be done and players have done

19:29

them before the draft that you look at

19:31

and go, all right, that should be called into question,

19:33

like the Jalen Carter situation, the tragedy

19:35

last year. You look at it, you go, that

19:38

could be called into question. We understand

19:40

that, all right, we can understand

19:42

the concerns we can understand

19:44

the question marks, the character

19:46

concerned, like all of that stuff. But

19:48

if it's simply that the interviews

19:51

were awkward or the

19:53

interviews made him a little bit difficult to assess,

19:56

dude, some people just don't interview well.

20:00

Like not every job interview you have is

20:02

going to be a home run. Like

20:04

I've told this story before, I

20:07

remember getting a call and I'm not going

20:09

to say who it is, but

20:11

from a you know, pretty big market

20:13

in radio, having the program

20:16

director call me and

20:20

basically kind of you know, trying it

20:22

was a feeling feeling out process and

20:24

not feeling out that's out of weird, you know what I mean. It was

20:26

over the phone, So get your minds out of the gutter, a right,

20:28

just leave it a lot, but your standard

20:31

old school, old fashioned phone call,

20:33

just trying to get a gauge for who I was

20:35

as a person and a potential employee and all

20:38

this stuff. And I can remember in the middle

20:40

of the conversation and we talked

20:42

for about fifteen minutes. At

20:44

about the six minute mark, I

20:46

remember thinking to myself, this

20:49

is going so horribly wrong.

20:52

There's not a shot in hell I ever hear from

20:54

this guy again. Ever. I

20:58

knew six minutes in and we had like

21:00

another nine to go before

21:03

we set our goodbyes. And sure

21:06

enough, I've never heard from that guy ever

21:08

again ever, and

21:10

he's like a pretty prominent name. But

21:13

for whatever reason, in

21:16

that moment, in that discussion,

21:19

while we were just you know, talking about a

21:21

potential fit and what it could look like

21:24

and what my thoughts were on radio, and I

21:26

feel like, yeah, I've been doing this long enough. And at

21:28

that point, you know, I hadn't been doing it as long

21:30

as this. This was before Fox Sports Radio, but I

21:32

felt like I had a pretty good understanding of radio,

21:36

what I wanted, likes dislikes. I

21:38

knew the market he worked in. I knew the

21:40

professional teams that were in that city.

21:42

Like I felt like, I was, you know, should

21:44

the call come, and I was kind of expecting it

21:47

for it to come that once the call comes,

21:49

I'm going to be prepared and ready to go. And

21:51

I bombed literally,

21:56

not quite literally, but figuratively

21:59

deficate, hated down the inside

22:01

of my leg on a phone call with the guy, and

22:04

trust me, I desperately needed

22:06

work and

22:08

I completely bombed

22:11

and I knew it. And afterwards

22:14

I said, Okay, that didn't go well,

22:17

Hopefully somebody else gives me a shot. Luckily

22:21

for me, they did. And here we are,

22:24

so like, if this is all about

22:27

a Donnie Mitchell not interviewing

22:29

well or teams interview

22:32

and go, ah, you know that didn't come across well,

22:34

if that's how this happened, and

22:37

he ends up with Chris Ballard and the Indianapolis

22:40

Colts, a guy who some people said was a first round

22:42

talent ended up going to them,

22:46

Like, there's a reason why Chris Ballard is probably

22:48

fired up about it because a he probably can't believe

22:50

the guy was sitting there, and b

22:52

he looks at it and goes, dude, this is so dumb,

22:55

like what we're like, We base so much of

22:57

our opinion on how these guys

22:59

interview. There's a big difference between

23:01

a bad interview and a bad

23:03

incident off the field. Now, if there are incidents

23:06

off the field and things that happen else, like,

23:08

that's one thing. But if this is all about a guy who

23:10

came across awkward in an interview, dude,

23:13

welcome to the club, not interview. Every

23:15

interview you have is a home run. I'll

23:17

just say this. If you're Chris Ballard,

23:20

and you go that hard in the paint for a guy, you

23:22

better hope you're not wrong. Otherwise you're

23:25

gonna have to hear from the fan base and a lot of people

23:27

in the media questioning why

23:29

you went the direction you did when everybody

23:31

else went the other way. As

23:33

it stands right now, just a rough interview.

23:36

But he ends up in Indianapolis, and he ends

23:38

up with a good football team and playing for

23:40

a good general manager. Jonas Knox

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24:05

going to tell you how we have an example

24:08

of somebody in the NFL who can handle a little

24:10

bit of ball busting and somebody who

24:12

can't. That's yours here on FSR.

24:14

But for all the latest from around the world of sports, Let's

24:16

turn it over to Martin Wise.

24:19

Milwaukee Bucks point Guardemian Lillard

24:22

has been diagnosed with a Grade one achilles

24:24

strain. He's now doubtful for tomorrow's

24:26

Game four in the Indiana

24:29

Milwaukee series. The Pacers lead that

24:31

series two games to one. The

24:33

Cavaliers in the magic of Game four of the four

24:35

or five series in the East, right now, Orlando

24:37

won like an eleven to two run in the third quarter.

24:40

Seven oh five left in the third quarter,

24:42

Orlando with a sixty eight to sixty

24:44

seven lead, as Donovan Mitchell at sumps a shot

24:46

and yep, you miss. It's still sixty eight

24:48

to sixty seven. Carolina Island, Carolina

24:51

Hurricanes, the New York Islanders getting things started

24:53

in Game four, Islanders trailing

24:55

right now the Hurricanes in the series, and

24:58

the game Carolina with a three to zer lead in the series. He's

25:00

one on lead in the game, seven minutes

25:02

left in the first period, and Jonas as you

25:04

were just talking about, the NFL draft is.

25:06

In full swing. Chris Baller just made a pick.

25:09

He took Anthony Gould from Oregon State

25:11

at wide receiver, and then up next after that

25:13

you had the Falcons taking J. T. Birchran

25:16

linebacker from Notre Dame. Then the Bears

25:18

took Austin Booker at rusher out of Kansas.

25:20

Chris Abrams, drain cornerback out of Missouri,

25:22

goes to Denver in the tenth pick. In the fifth

25:25

round. Jarvis Brownlee Junior, the

25:27

last person drafted so far, cornerback

25:29

out of Louisville for the Tennessee Titans.

25:32

The Denver Broncos are on the clock.

25:34

Jonas, you're up, Thanks Martin,

25:36

Jonas Knox he or Fox Sports Radio by the way,

25:38

coming up in we will call it a little over

25:40

twelve minutes from now from the ti raq dot

25:42

com studios, we are going to have another edition

25:45

of Do You Care? So here's how this works. There's

25:47

a lot of stories in the world of sports that you've

25:49

been force fed over the past several days, and you're

25:51

probably thinking to yourself at the time, like, man, why are

25:53

they talking about this? I don't want to hear about this crap.

25:56

Well, don't worry, You're not alone. I'm

25:58

the same way. We'll decipher which story those

26:00

ares that'll be yours coming up here again a

26:02

little over twelve minutes from now. So, like

26:05

there's a there's an art

26:08

to ball busting, and there's

26:10

some people who can handle it and some people who can't.

26:12

Right now, if you grow up in a big

26:15

family, you really don't have a choice.

26:18

You just got to be able to handle it. I

26:21

grew up we had a lot of brothers and sisters, big

26:23

family, and it was like, all right, if you

26:26

showed that something bothered you, then

26:30

you were going to hear about that for the rest

26:32

of your life. That's just the way

26:34

this works. If somebody knows, especially when

26:36

you have a lot of older brothers, if somebody knows that

26:39

something's gonna bother you, they're

26:41

going to go to that every time, like

26:43

that's the week that's like your weak spot. They

26:46

know that. You know, Like in

26:48

fighting, Hey, if you come into a fight, if

26:50

you come into a UFC fight and you've got

26:52

a bum knee or you're dealing with some sort of an ankle

26:54

pain, you know what you don't do. You don't

26:56

wear one sleeve on your knee

26:59

or one an ankle wrap. You wear two. That

27:01

way, people just say a little bit of a fashion choice.

27:05

Oh, maybe feels comfortable having his ankles taped

27:07

that way, You're not showing everybody where your

27:09

weak point is and where your soft spot is.

27:13

And so you're seeing a couple of examples

27:15

in the NFL of some people can handle

27:17

some ball busting and some people who

27:20

can't. Dan Campbell,

27:23

this is a man who can handle some ball busting.

27:27

They showed the Detroit Lions

27:29

war room earlier today,

27:31

and everybody in the Detroit Lions war

27:34

room was wearing Dan

27:36

Campbell number eighty nine Lions

27:38

jerseys, including Dan Campbell himself.

27:42

What do you want to bet somebody within the Lions

27:44

front office said, Hey, next

27:46

time the camera comes in, let's all

27:48

be wearing Dan Campbell jerseys just

27:50

to bust his balls. And

27:53

Dan Campbell's sitting there in a jersey that didn't

27:55

even fit all that well. Sleeves were all baggy

27:58

and whatnot, and he's laughing as the

28:00

camera's on him. Do you think Dan Campbell

28:02

strikes you as the type of guy that says,

28:05

can we make sure we're wearing my jersey

28:07

the next time the cameras are turned on here? Probably

28:10

not. That's probably like Brad Holmes or

28:12

somebody else within the front office who's like, hey, let's

28:14

do this and really give him a hard time. And

28:16

they did it, and everybody's laughing, everybody's

28:19

having a feel good moment and a fun time. That's

28:22

Dan Campbell. That's a guy who

28:24

can handle some ball busting. And

28:26

then you go on the flip side

28:30

and you've got David Tepper, the

28:32

owner of the Carolina Panthers. That

28:35

is somebody who can't handle some ball

28:38

busting. Now you're probably

28:40

saying, well, what are you talking about. You just sat

28:42

here and talked about a Donnie Mitchell and

28:44

he had one bad interview and teams

28:46

are judging him and that's not fair, Like, why

28:49

are you giving David Tepper a hard

28:51

time? Because he had one bad moment last year

28:53

when he was at a Jaguars game and

28:55

the Panthers were losing and he threw

28:57

a beer at some guy. And it's like, Okay, that

29:00

one moment. You're right, I'm not

29:02

going to judge him for that one moment. It

29:04

was a rough year, it was a difficult

29:06

time. They're seeing everything they

29:08

traded away. Go to Chicago and the Bears

29:10

have completely redone their franchise.

29:13

They've got a franchise quarterback, and they've got Roma

29:15

dunes like all these things that have happened, and Dj

29:17

Moore went there and he was a stud last year, and

29:20

they're sitting there with Bryce Young and question marks

29:22

and they fired another head coach and all that stuff, like,

29:24

hey, just a difficult time. And

29:27

then David Tepper follows that up with

29:30

the second proof and the second

29:32

piece of evidence that we've got that he can't

29:34

handle some ball busting as he's

29:37

on his way to the

29:39

Panthers war room and facility for

29:42

round one of the NFL Draft, and

29:44

now surveillance video from

29:46

a restaurant on the way there shows

29:50

David Tepper walking in and

29:52

confronting the people that work at the restaurant

29:55

because there was a sign out front that said,

29:58

let the GM and coach make the pick,

30:00

not the owner. So

30:03

David Tepper takes it upon himself

30:05

to walk into that

30:07

restaurant where somebody has a sign

30:10

up and confront

30:12

the people inside. And then, because

30:14

one of the people inside was wearing an Eagles

30:16

hat, David Tepper, in

30:19

one of the douchiest, most

30:21

disrespectful moves, takes

30:23

the guy's hat off his head and

30:26

sets it down. What

30:29

are you doing? You

30:32

just threw a beer at some guy wearing

30:37

a Steve Burline

30:40

jersey or

30:43

whatever. Jaguars jersey. Look, I hopefully

30:45

it was a Bucky Brooks jersey if he wants to be respectful,

30:49

like you just threw a beard a

30:51

guy wearing a Bucky Brooks jersey

30:53

and some Zuba pants at a Jaguars

30:56

game, and then you

30:58

follow it up a few months later confronting

31:01

a restaurant employee because

31:03

of a sign out front that says,

31:06

let the coach and GM make the next

31:08

pick. What

31:11

are you doing? First

31:14

and foremost? Clearly can't handle getting

31:16

his balls broken. Can't handle it. So

31:19

if you wanted to really get under somebody's

31:22

skin, that's the guy. We've got two pieces

31:24

of evidence that we can point to on it. We've got proof

31:26

David Tepper's that guy. Here's the other thing.

31:29

Who are you to walk in and

31:31

tell anybody what they should have in front of their restaurant

31:34

and then follow that up by removing somebody's

31:37

hat from them. He's real

31:39

lucky he

31:41

didn't do that to some other employee

31:43

who doesn't need his job as much as he

31:45

does. Otherwise. I know

31:48

a lot of places, and I'll just speak for myself.

31:51

My brother owns a restaurant in a bar. I can assure

31:53

you you walk in and

31:56

you take the hat off the

31:58

bartender's head who's

32:00

sitting there trying to serve you because

32:03

you didn't like to sign out in front, and

32:05

David Tepper's getting slept right

32:07

there where he stands. That doesn't

32:10

go well, but for some reason he

32:12

thinks that's appropriate. It's like, oh but listen,

32:14

everything was fine. We shook hands afterwards,

32:17

and you know, all was good. It's like, where

32:19

do you get the idea that that's okay,

32:23

that you can just go in there and just be And

32:25

if you're Roger Goodell and you're the NFL,

32:28

don't you look at this and go, hey, maybe we should have vetted

32:30

this guy a little bit. I mean, I know we wanted to get

32:32

the previous owner out of town and all this stuff, and this

32:34

guy's got all this money in the world, but maybe we should

32:36

have vetted this a little bit. And

32:38

if you're Frank Reich, if you're

32:41

Matt Rule, if you're some of these

32:43

other guys who were the scapegoat and fall

32:45

guy for why this thing hasn't

32:47

worked, are you not looking

32:49

around going hey, Dave Canalis

32:52

just say, you know, Boddy, this is

32:54

what potentially could happen here. Like

32:58

every time David Tepper

33:01

either fires a coach or has an incident

33:03

off the field, everybody within

33:05

the Carolina Panthers front office or

33:07

within that team, or within that fan base should

33:09

be looking around going, oh my gosh,

33:12

what have we gotten ourselves into. I

33:14

mean, we don't have the off field issues

33:17

yet of a Daniel Snyder, but

33:19

this is a guy who's an egomaniac,

33:22

who's way too sensitive and can't

33:24

handle a little bit of criticism. Otherwise

33:26

he throws beer at you, or he approaches

33:29

you in a restaurant and takes your

33:31

hat off your head if he doesn't like what the team

33:33

logo is on front of it, and

33:35

god forbid you put a sign out in front. It's

33:38

not like everybody called David Tepper an a hole.

33:42

It's not like anybody like totally insulted

33:44

and they just said, hey, let somebody else make a

33:46

pick, Like,

33:48

hey, you know, but we let the coach in the GM make

33:51

the pick. Nothing wrong with that instead

33:54

David Tepper on his way to the draft, It's like, mister

33:57

Tepper, how come you were late? I had to approach

33:59

some guy at some point bar and grill on the way

34:01

there because he had a sign out in front man, What

34:03

did the signs say? Did they have like your social Security

34:05

on it or like did it insult your family? No,

34:08

it just said let the coach and GM make the pick.

34:11

Also, their sign was accurate and that offended

34:13

you. Okay, Fun

34:16

times for the Carolina Panthers. Jonas

34:18

Knox here Fox Sports Radio, at

34:20

the Jonas Knox on Twitter at the Jonas

34:22

Knocks on Twitter, and you can hang out with us as always on

34:24

the iHeartRadio app Let's Go Live to

34:27

Our. I have a thought on Dan Campbell's

34:29

baggy jersey insider Chris Prefet for the

34:31

latest Chris, Yeah, I want one. That's

34:34

it.

34:34

That's it. Yeah, I saw that.

34:36

It's in that black style. I'm actually wearing

34:38

the new one for I'm on Ross Saint

34:40

Brown right now, extended by the Detroit

34:43

Lions. But those black ones look good.

34:45

Now.

34:45

Did he he played for Detroit

34:47

Didy Yes, in the famously in their

34:49

winless season. Yes. Was he number eighty

34:52

nine?

34:52

Yes, that was his number? Yeah, Yeah, you gotta go

34:54

with that. Yeah, that's that's got to be. As

34:56

soon as they open up the custom jerseys, I've got to get

34:58

one of those.

34:59

And I do wonder if Detroit ends up

35:01

winning a Super Bowl, do they retire

35:03

Dan Campbell's number eighty nine in

35:06

the Ring of Honor? I think, I

35:08

mean, why wouldn't think you have to? Yeah, like

35:10

nobody wears eighty nine anymore. Like the

35:12

all the wide receivers are are two nine tight

35:15

ends. Yeah, they're too fancy.

35:17

They all want like you know, single single

35:20

digit jerseys. They all want these like

35:22

flashy numbers. Yeah, eighty nine

35:24

is sort of a lost number, Like it wasn't Mark

35:26

Bivaro eighty nine back in the day

35:29

the Giants tight end.

35:30

So he actually, I know Danielle wore different two

35:32

different eighties. He wore eighty four with the Cowboys

35:35

as well.

35:36

I missed the good old days when

35:38

a tight end would wear something in the eighties. Man,

35:40

for all you tight ends that are still doing it, good

35:42

for you. Way to keep the tradition going. So there

35:44

it is Detroit Lions and

35:47

the Detroit Lions team store Chris Purfett

35:49

with like one of those jerseys. You get that over to them,

35:51

we'd appreciate it. Jonas Knocks

35:53

here Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knocks on

35:55

Twitter. Coming up next here it is another edition

35:58

of do you care right here on FSR Jonas

36:00

Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up top

36:02

of next hour a little over ten minutes from now from

36:04

the tire rack dot Com studios.

36:07

So, somebody

36:09

in the NFL did something that

36:11

you'd expect. Yet

36:14

there's gonna be people that spin it into this

36:16

noteworthy and yeah, great

36:19

teammate moment. But if you know the

36:21

person, if you know the player, you'd expect

36:23

it. It still doesn't change the fact that things are a little

36:25

bit awkward. We'll get into that for you again coming up

36:27

here a little over ten minutes from

36:29

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36:48

There are so many stories in the world of

36:50

sports, and most of them are a complete

36:53

waste of time DMG reports.

36:55

Let's get kinky.

36:56

Here's some of the big stories from the last

36:59

week. But Jonah, the real question

37:01

is do you care?

37:04

And for that, we turn it over to our executive

37:06

producer, Bo Benson to find out what the hell people

37:08

have been talking about all week.

37:09

Bo, all right, the biggest story of the week

37:11

by far, Reggie Bush

37:14

got his Heisman trophy back, and

37:16

he said his next goal is to get USC's

37:19

two thousand and four title and those wins reinstated

37:22

by the INSTATEABLEA.

37:23

So, Jonas, do you care? No, this

37:25

is one of the biggest non story.

37:27

This is like what the cool kids on Twitter

37:30

like to complain about. Give reggieus heisman

37:32

back, give himss Heisen back, Like who

37:34

cares? Why don't they just

37:36

come out and be honest. It was OJ's heisman,

37:38

and now that he died, it was refurbished and they give

37:40

it to Reggie Bush. Why don't you just say that, Like, let's

37:43

turn this story into something that actually matters

37:45

and is noteworthy. Other than the fact that Reggie

37:47

Bush gets his heisman back. What does

37:49

it do about the thirty scholarships that were taken

37:51

away, the three hundred grand he got and I get

37:53

it, college football's landscape has changed

37:56

or whatever. It doesn't mean he didn't commit

37:58

violations when he was there. He doesn't

38:01

you want to admit to it. There's a defamation

38:03

lawsuit. There's all this, oh, I'm gonna get the vacated

38:05

wins Back Heisman Trophy

38:08

or no Heisman Trophy. Reggie Bush was the

38:10

best player in college football that year and he was

38:12

deserving of it. The fact that they took the trophy

38:14

away to begin with was lame. But

38:17

I don't need that to know that Reggie

38:19

Bush was the best. It's like just like I don't need

38:22

Barry Bonds to get in the Hall of Fame to know

38:24

that he was the greatest hitter I've ever seen. And

38:26

you could say, oh, he was on the gas, his head expanded,

38:29

Okay, well, there were a lot of guys on the gas. There's

38:31

a lot of players in Major League Baseball that are in the

38:33

Hall of Fame who have egregious

38:35

things in their background. Ty Cobb

38:37

might have murdered somebody, look that one up.

38:39

There's players that have been had been

38:41

caught with sandpaper in their gloves filing

38:44

down baseballs and they've gotten it. It's like this

38:46

whole idea that we need a prize

38:49

in order to know that we made the shot at

38:51

the carnival. You don't if

38:53

you know, you know, and we know Reggie

38:55

Bush was the best player in college football, So

38:57

just move on with your lives.

38:59

Next, Angel's third Basement, Anthony

39:01

Rendon tore his hamstring, as

39:03

reportedly facing a long road to recovery.

39:06

Jonas, do you care?

39:07

I do, because I was

39:09

really hoping he came out and just had a monster

39:12

season. As an f you to everybody

39:14

that was offended that he said, baseball has never

39:16

been a priority to me after he signed this seven year

39:18

deal. But I think I have this right. He

39:21

hasn't played more than fifty eight games

39:23

since signing the deal in a season.

39:25

I think I have this right.

39:27

That sounds correct.

39:27

Yeah, And then he comes out and says, you

39:29

know, obviously I'm disappointed, and it's

39:32

like, so they were

39:34

able to come up with the money to

39:36

pay Anthony Rendon. Meanwhile,

39:39

Sho HEEO tani Is just took the

39:41

five Freeway up north and said, all right, well

39:43

you guys, enjoy that over there and get ready for the next

39:45

monster jam event. Anyways, go Dodgers.

39:47

Just the whole thing and the way this is transpired

39:50

for the Angels not ideal.

39:51

Next, the Cowboys and running

39:53

back Ezekiel Elliott appeared to be close

39:55

to a reunion.

39:56

Jonas, do you care?

39:58

Yeah?

39:58

Kind of a fun store, are you listen?

40:01

Zeke was always better as a cowboy.

40:04

Maybe he'll come back and he'll show some flashes

40:06

and finish out his career in Dallas. But he's

40:08

still pretty young. I know some people look at

40:10

his production and say it slipped, But if

40:12

you can work him into a platoon situation,

40:14

I think it makes sense for both sides. Next show,

40:17

Hao Tan.

40:17

He took his first at bat in Toronto yesterday

40:19

after the Wild Day in December where

40:22

everybody thought he was gonna sign there, fans

40:24

boot him and he hit a home run.

40:25

Jonas, do you care? Well?

40:27

Yeah?

40:27

Why is he getting booed? Yeah? That was odd. It

40:29

was very odd because because of a report,

40:32

because of a rumor, like so

40:34

Jay's fans like like took

40:36

a rumor and ran with it and actually thought he was

40:38

going to sign there. And then the guy shows back up

40:41

and it's like, oh, we got a boo his ass,

40:43

like like boo the reports, Like

40:45

if you don't like the rumor, boo the rumor? What did shohey

40:47

have to do with anything? Did anybody throw any like gambling

40:49

slips on the field by any chance. I'm just curious.

40:52

You know, just because you do something nice for somebody

40:55

doesn't mean it's going to make the situation any less

40:57

awkward. I'll explain why that is

41:00

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everybody knows. The big, surprising, stunning

41:40

moment that took place in the NFL Draft

41:42

was the Atlanta Falcons taking Michael

41:44

Pennock Junior. Now it's

41:47

nothing against Michael Pennock Junior. I love

41:49

the guy. He's been one of my

41:51

favorite players to watch at the college

41:53

level in a long time. Like and I don't know,

41:55

I was thinking about this too. Maybe it's because he's left handed.

41:59

There's just something about it, Like I think I give

42:01

preferential treatment to left handed throwers,

42:04

left handed fighters, because I've thought about it, like

42:06

a like a lot of my favorite fighters

42:08

all time are left handed, like

42:11

Manny Pakiow Mirco

42:14

crow Cop. If you're an MMA fan,

42:16

you know that name. His name was Mirco

42:18

crow Cop because he

42:21

was a cop or he worked

42:23

for the police force when he was in Croatia. He

42:25

was a kickboxer and so his last name

42:27

was actually Philipovich, but they just called him

42:29

crow Cop Croatian cop for

42:32

short. And the guy's finishing

42:34

move was a left high kick,

42:37

like he would just he would pas dispenser

42:40

dudes with a left high kick. There's something about

42:42

left handed fighters, left handed

42:44

throwers, Like I just think

42:47

it's fun. And so you see

42:50

Michael Pennix and you see him go to Atlanta,

42:52

it's like, it's not a knock on Michael Pennicks junior.

42:55

It's more so, why would you do that

42:58

if you're the Atlanta Falcons, and you just gave

43:00

Kirk Cousins one hundred million dollars. Well, they needed,

43:02

you know, some insurance just in case, you

43:04

know, Kirk Cousins isn't healthy. Well,

43:07

if you were that concerned whether or not he was healthy, why'd

43:09

you give him a hundred million dollars guaranteed? Like,

43:12

if you had those question marks, what

43:15

are you doing? Like I could understand having

43:18

some insurance if

43:20

like he had been there for a while.

43:23

Like, there's been some speculation that the Rams

43:25

were kicking would potentially draft a quarterback

43:27

because there's this awkward thing going on with

43:30

Matt Stafford and he wants some more guaranteed

43:32

money and they're having to speak about it, and apparently

43:35

talks have not been going smooth. There's also some

43:37

conversations about, well, you know, Jared Goff

43:39

and the Lions are far apart, Dak

43:41

Prescott and the Cowboys don't have anything locked

43:44

in after this year, So there's been some thought

43:46

that like, okay, well, those could be some teams that maybe

43:48

surprisingly would take a quarterback,

43:51

but it wouldn't be that surprising because that would be an

43:53

insurance policy. If something were to happen, then

43:55

next year, but it's like you're locked in on Kirk

43:57

Cousins for the next couple of years. And

44:00

so by the time Michael Pennix Junior really

44:03

gets his chance of everything goes well

44:05

for you, then it's like, well, we're looking at the Jordan Love

44:07

model. It's like it's not really

44:09

the same because,

44:12

like the Jordan Love model was Aaron

44:14

Rodgers had kind of struggled a little bit.

44:16

He had been there for a long time. They weren't quite and

44:18

he came out. It's like, you just signed

44:20

Kirk Cousins. He just got

44:22

there. He was just at a Braves

44:24

game during Sunday night baseball, sitting

44:27

in the booth like he's

44:29

talking to Shack on his podcast about like,

44:31

man, I want these to be my final years. I want my

44:33

kids to remember it instead like his kids

44:35

first memory of his time as an Atlanta Falcons

44:38

quarterback because I'm raft drafting his replacement.

44:41

Like so it's it's it's just kind of

44:44

a weird situation. It doesn't really

44:46

make a lot of sense. And then you

44:48

know, Michael Pennix spoke of the media

44:51

and this shouldn't come as a surprise, but apparently

44:53

Kirk Cousins did him a solid and did reach

44:55

out. I'm gonna keep it, you know, just between

44:57

me and him right now, you know. But it was definitely

45:00

good conversation and you know, I'm super

45:02

excited to work with him, and he said he's

45:04

the same with me. So of

45:06

course he was gonna call him. It's

45:08

Kirk Cousins. He's a great guy. Of

45:11

course he's gonna call him and say, hey, man, don't worry about

45:13

it, welcome in. It's fine this and you know

45:15

they don't even worry. It

45:17

doesn't make it any less awkward. But

45:20

Jordan Love spoke glowingly about

45:22

the fact that Aaron Rodgers called him, had

45:24

nothing but kind things to say about him, all this

45:27

stuff, and Aaron Rodgers had a couple of MVP

45:29

seasons after that. It

45:32

still didn't make it any less awkward. Like

45:35

you just signed him and you drafted his replacement.

45:40

That's like, I mean, like, what do

45:42

you want to do. It's like finding out, you know, like

45:44

your wife left you for the

45:47

security guard at the bank. It's

45:50

like, yeah, but the guy, you

45:52

know, I mean, he let me in

45:54

five minutes earlier to deposit my check. It's

45:56

like, oh, what a great dude. Doesn't

45:59

make it any less awkward. I mean, you know she's

46:02

still you know, they're still hanging out in his apartment.

46:05

I don't know what to tell you, Like, I mean cool, Like

46:07

okay, I got early access, Like well

46:09

he did me a solid Okay, Well, so it doesn't change

46:11

the fact that you drafted the guy's replacement.

46:14

So like, you know, we can try and pretty

46:17

this thing up and try and make it make sense. It

46:19

was a strange move in what has been a

46:21

strange off season for the Atlanta Falcons.

46:24

Like if this doesn't go well and

46:28

like, hey, you know, this season it's

46:31

a struggle, and there's all these other things,

46:33

and god forbid, something happens to Kirk Cousins.

46:35

But Michael Pennix Junior comes in and

46:37

then he doesn't play well, Like

46:40

you've basically kind

46:43

of gambled away your

46:45

season, a season in which you absolutely

46:48

could compete for the division and probably should

46:50

win the division because

46:52

you wanted to look two years ahead or three years

46:54

ahead down the road. Like

46:56

this is also the same off season they chose

46:59

not to hire Bill Belichick as head coach

47:01

when he wanted to be there. You

47:03

think Belichick would have drafted Michael

47:05

Pennix Junior. I mean,

47:07

do you like, just like the whole

47:10

thing in Atlanta is odd, It's

47:12

strange. Look, I'm appreciati if they did

47:14

it. It made the draft more interesting. It

47:17

felt like we were just going to get chalk chalk, chalk

47:19

chalk everything that we had projected. People were bragging

47:21

about their mock drafts because everything had gone as

47:23

a lot of people expected. And then Atlanta

47:26

throws a screwball into things and

47:28

takes Michael Pennix Junior. You hope it works

47:30

out for everybody. You hope Kirk Cousins

47:32

has a great run in Atlanta. You hope Michael

47:34

Pennix Junior has a great career. But

47:36

you can't help but wonder if the

47:38

Atlanta Falcons fell

47:40

too much in love with the guy that isn't

47:42

going to see the field for a couple of years. Jonas

47:45

Knox here Fox Sports Radio, at the Jonas

47:47

Knocks on Twitter, at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter.

47:49

Now, we did have another quarterback

47:51

go off the board. Spencer

47:54

Rattler is now a member of the New Orleans

47:56

Saints. Right, so we have been

47:58

waiting to see who the other quarterback

48:00

was going to be. To get drafted. Because six went in the

48:02

first round, it was a major run

48:04

on quarterbacks, and now we were waiting

48:07

to see the seventh quarterback go off the

48:09

board, and it was Spencer Rattler who went in

48:11

the fifth round to the New Orleans Saints, which

48:14

if you talk to enough people, they

48:16

tell you he's got a shot.

48:19

The arm talent is there, the

48:22

you know, you can you could work with him. He's very

48:24

coachable, but he's got a shot. And

48:27

there's all the fundamentals

48:30

and things like that that need to be tightened up. But as

48:32

far as just the natural thrower

48:34

of the football and all the other terms of these people

48:36

that you know, break this stuff down talk about,

48:39

Spencer Rattler's got all that. And

48:41

so he goes to the New Orleans Saints,

48:44

who have, you know, got themselves a you

48:46

know, a quarterback in Derek Carr

48:48

who's had a little bit of

48:50

an up and down start to his New Orleans Saints

48:52

career. And so now Spencer Ratler

48:55

gets there with the Saints and all of a sudden

48:57

that becomes something to watch. Not saying

48:59

he's supplant Derek Carr or anything

49:01

like that, but it is at least

49:04

the next best quarterback off the board

49:06

and he goes to New Orleans and he was a guy that a lot of

49:08

people thought maybe the Raiders would have taken in the second

49:11

round. So you're getting him in the fifth round

49:13

if you're the New Orleans Saints. So at least

49:15

we now know where the next quarterback

49:18

is going to go. And he's going

49:20

to go to the New Orleans Saints and that's Spencer Rattler

49:22

who gets there and he's going to back up Derek

49:24

Carr, which will be a fun sort

49:27

of quarterback battle to watch. And

49:29

again, if you believe some people that cover

49:31

this stuff and actually do the deep dive

49:33

into all of this, like people forget Spencer Ratler

49:36

was the starter in Oklahoma before Caleb

49:39

Williams and he ended up getting supplanted

49:41

by Caleb Williams there at Oklahoma and

49:43

then he transferred and he went to South Carolina.

49:45

He can sling it, and so

49:48

that's something that you look at and at

49:50

least it's a training camp note,

49:52

or at least it's a storyline to kind of

49:54

pay attention to. And it also makes

49:57

preseason football, even though Roger Goodell wants

49:59

to eliminateseason football or at least cut

50:01

it down to a game to give us eighteen games in the

50:03

regular season. Getting to see

50:05

guys like Spencer Rattler in the preseason

50:08

is why I still like preseason football.

50:11

People can can root against it and not be

50:13

a fan of it, but you get to see players in real

50:15

time NFL action. Yes,

50:18

it's not the regular season. Yes,

50:20

the end zones aren't painted sometimes.

50:22

Yeah, I get all that. You know, it's

50:24

a sparse crowd and it's basically giveaway

50:27

tickets because the season

50:29

ticket holders don't want to go to the preseason

50:31

games. But at least it's something to watch, something

50:33

to pay attention to. For the New Orleans Saints

50:35

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50:38

on Twitter, which is where you can find

50:40

all the positive feedback of this show.

50:43

Many people chiming in here, David

50:47

writes in Old

50:50

Daliss Ginger, Roger Goodell

50:53

is Jonas Knox level desperate

50:55

to pander to the brothers to finally

50:58

like him, to get street cred like

51:00

you are to NFL hunks like TB

51:02

twelve, Jimmy g and Travis Kelce

51:06

to let you have their way with them every

51:08

way possible. You bleep

51:11

Paul writes in Jony

51:15

is like a bleep at a Pride parade,

51:17

getting to see bleep Williams,

51:20

and now you can follow him painting your nails

51:22

and the colors that he

51:24

does and wearing makeup like he does, like

51:26

the bleep you are, except you're still an

51:28

irrelevant board op. Again,

51:33

that is insulting. The term

51:35

is technical producer, not boardop. All the other

51:37

stuff is fine,

51:41

Jason writes in j Off

51:43

Jony loving the drafts. So you

51:45

got new beefcakes to bleep

51:47

your man bleep to your

51:50

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51:52

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51:54

and preferably white or will take

51:56

bleep if they're in the mold of Caleb

51:59

Williams. The

52:03

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52:06

is a fun Twitter account rights in I'm

52:08

going to love hearing your weak ass

52:10

bitch boy takes bleeping Spencer

52:13

Rattler playing for the disappointing Saints.

52:15

You'll be making more dumbass excuses

52:18

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52:22

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52:24

writes in Hey, bitch boy, your

52:27

entire show is a cheap pop you moron.

52:33

Another guy writes in hey,

52:36

bleephead, put some respect on Brady

52:38

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52:40

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52:45

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52:49

versions of all of those, or at least most of those. Some of those

52:51

are a bit much so we cannot retweet those

52:53

because I don't want to get suspended

52:56

or whatever they call it on social media. So that

52:58

being said, at the Jonas Knock you can find whatever

53:00

we can repost. Coming up next here

53:02

though, from the tirac dot com studios. If

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53:31

over ten minutes from now. But

53:33

you know, the talk of the NFL has

53:36

been none other than the Chicago Bears, maybe

53:39

for the first time in a

53:41

positive way since the

53:43

mid eighties. And so I was thinking

53:45

to myself, you know, we need somebody

53:47

who's going to be able to tell the truth about this whole thing,

53:50

all right, we need somebody who's not going to

53:52

pander or be a kiss ass

53:54

and is going to let you know the brutal truth

53:57

about what is happening in Chicago. The

54:00

Bears with Soldier

54:02

Field, with whatever that fiasco

54:05

is that they didn't include the parking in when

54:07

they put the renderings together to let everybody

54:09

know what a brand new stadium could look like, all

54:11

that fun stuff there in Chicago. They just

54:13

drafted a punter, for God's sakes, earlier

54:16

today. So none other than

54:18

Mike North is here to set the record

54:20

straight, former Fox Sports

54:23

radio host, one of the all time greats

54:25

to ever do it in sports radio. You get them

54:27

on Twitter at North to North,

54:30

Mike North, how are you handsome?

54:32

Seventeen? No, seventeen to know

54:35

my friend, Bears.

54:39

Are Mac Northy.

54:41

I'm telling you, I'm feeling so good.

54:43

You know, the whole thing, the whole week's

54:46

just been monumental. I mean, it's been

54:48

a journey. It's really been a journey. I

54:51

tried to get in touch with all the folks

54:53

that basically work

54:56

with me when I said I don't

54:58

want Justin Field, and they

55:00

haven't gotten the callback. Because everybody was for Justin

55:02

Field. They decide to hold the party for

55:04

everybody that didn't want Justin Field

55:07

in a phone boots and I'm the only guy attending.

55:09

So basically they're more

55:12

pensive right now about Caleb Williams.

55:14

But I've watched the man, and I

55:16

got to be honest with you, Joe. I mean, it's

55:19

it's a crap shoot like any of the three other

55:22

quarterbacks. I'm not against him

55:25

like I was with Fields

55:27

or I was for Mitch. I mean, I

55:29

said, basically, if Justin Fields can match

55:32

Mitch Trubisky's stats, then I'll

55:34

be happy. And he didn't,

55:36

so he's gone. And then the other day

55:38

I'm on the radio and I said, if he throws,

55:40

if this Caleb Williams throws for sixty percent

55:42

of his passes, makes two playoffs

55:45

in four years, throws twice as

55:47

much intercept touchdowns as interceptions,

55:50

will you be happy? And the guy goes absolutely,

55:52

I go, well, those were Mitch Trubisky's numbers.

55:54

When we let him go, he had a twenty nine

55:56

to twenty nine record, So the

55:59

nonsense the Mansons, we're still trying to

56:01

replace him. Now we got this young man, Caleb

56:04

Williams, and I watched him

56:06

the very first time I turned him mind this year

56:08

was against Notre Dame. He impressed

56:10

the hell out of me through three interceptions, basically

56:13

mechanics were screwed up. They scored

56:15

a whole twenty points. And you

56:18

know, I wouldn't have minded

56:20

Jay if we had the second

56:22

pick and we had our pick of four instead

56:25

of the beers just saying this guy's heads

56:27

and tails above anybody else, because

56:29

I don't see that well.

56:30

And I'm also a little bit surprised that Kayleb Williams is

56:32

going to go with number eighteen. I mean, first

56:35

of all, I can't believe they didn't retire

56:37

Mike Tom's acts number back in the day. That was

56:39

a stutter to me. So he's where he's following in the

56:41

great line of number eighteen's in Chicago,

56:44

Tom, Zach Kyle or And now

56:46

we've got Caleb Williams at QB. But

56:48

also to your point, like people

56:51

were, remember that conversation, everybody

56:53

was happening, Like, what should the Bears do with the number one

56:55

pick? Well, first of all, they kind of lucked into

56:58

this because Carolina sucked, and so

57:00

because Carolina was so bad, and they've

57:02

got an owner who's the most insecure

57:04

owner in sports. The Bears ended up at

57:06

number one, and there were people that were out there pounding

57:08

the table for now they should keep

57:11

justin fields and just build around him. And

57:13

it's like, well where did all those people go?

57:15

Now?

57:16

What happened all those people north theer? I mean, are they all

57:18

hanging out with you?

57:19

Like?

57:19

I don't understand where all the all the conversation

57:21

went when it came to all this stuff.

57:23

Well, what I wanted, Joe, and this is this

57:25

is on record. I wanted cousins of Wilson.

57:28

And then I wanted them to take a quarterback.

57:31

And somebody says, well, they don't do that anymore

57:33

except in Green Bay. You know, they

57:35

led a quarterback. I go ninety miles

57:37

away boys the last thirty years,

57:40

you know, I mean you had

57:42

quarterbacks sit behind fire, you

57:44

had then you have this quarterback,

57:47

the new guy. I love, Jordan Love sit

57:49

behind Rogers. Rogers stay up behind

57:51

far and they sit for two, three, four

57:53

years, and somebody goes, well, who does that? I

57:56

go, the team that gets in the playoffs almost

57:58

every year and the team that we haven't been since

58:01

Patton was a corporal. How's that?

58:03

So?

58:05

I mean the nonsense. I

58:07

think that I would have preferred that. I think the Bears

58:09

would have been a playoff team, just like

58:12

you know, Atlanta has got an edge in the

58:14

South because they picked up Cousins,

58:17

and I think Pittsburgh's got a little bit of an edge

58:19

because they changed their quarterback situation

58:22

with Wilson. So you know, we'll

58:24

see what happens. I can't believe

58:26

they're going to throw another rookie into

58:29

the fire like they did Fields, And

58:32

you know, we've gotten in the habit. We're

58:34

not patient in Chicago. We don't know what a good

58:36

quarterback is. We don't know what a bad quarterback is.

58:38

Basically, what we've done the last three three

58:41

different times the last ten years,

58:44

we've leased a quarterback every three years, like

58:46

I leased my Cadillacs. We had Trabisci for

58:48

four, we had Fields for three,

58:50

and now we're going to do a deal

58:52

with Caleb Williams. So we'll see what happens.

58:55

But nobody has had a team

58:57

more ready than Caleb Williams.

58:59

I mean, you got Keenan Allen, you got DJ

59:02

Moore, you got hol Comeet, who's at

59:04

tight end, you got they picked up a new running

59:06

back and slip. But they're in a tough division with Detroit

59:09

who's over and unders ten and a half, and

59:11

then you got Green Bay. You're

59:13

asking a rookie or maybe a bage

59:15

ent our second stringer who was two and two last

59:17

year to step in and try to win a division

59:19

the over unders eight and a half only a game

59:22

more than it was last year with Fields. So I

59:25

think the only thing.

59:26

I'll say about Fields, if Caleb.

59:28

Williams gets hit like Fields did, he won't

59:30

last the season. He never will say, He'll

59:32

never think he's got the same situation

59:36

that Field's had at Ohio State. Every film

59:38

I looked at Caleb Williams, He's got all day

59:40

to pass. I mean the Pac twelve was

59:42

so bad defensively, they broke the whole. H

59:44

they broke up the whole.

59:47

You know what you guys allowed to what he points

59:49

a game. We got to get rid of this whole thing.

59:51

Yeah, they can't.

59:52

They total organ State what's wrong with you?

59:53

You're finished? Uh? You know I

59:57

made. I watched the Pack twelve

59:59

this year and I could have thrown some passes

1:00:01

against it, you know. So we'll

1:00:03

see what happens. But I did see him,

1:00:06

and then I see the new guy after

1:00:08

Caleb Williams acts like the hot shot and

1:00:10

says I'm going to sit out the bowl game, and

1:00:12

the new guy comes in and breaks the individual passing

1:00:15

records for us. So we'll

1:00:18

see what happens. But I think every drafts

1:00:20

a crap shoot. I could

1:00:22

have taken Daniels. I would have been happy with anybody

1:00:24

else. But we'll see what happens.

1:00:26

And it's also the one thing Mike North joining

1:00:28

us here on Fox Sports Radio. Get him on Twitter

1:00:30

at North to North. He's the voice of

1:00:32

Chicago sports, the man who's going to tell the truth,

1:00:35

not pander to the audience like a

1:00:37

lot of guys do. But I also like

1:00:39

Justin Fields as a teammate.

1:00:43

All you hear is glowing things about him,

1:00:45

like he was tremendous and he was

1:00:47

in a difficult spot. So Caleb Williams,

1:00:50

to your point, is going to take over a much

1:00:52

more ready made team, and ready

1:00:54

made franchise. But I look at it

1:00:56

like this. And I heard Olin Kreutz, the

1:00:58

great Chicago Bear Center, make this point

1:01:00

on radio yesterday. He was on a

1:01:03

year old stomping grounds on the score, and I

1:01:05

heard him say, look, we

1:01:08

all we all want the

1:01:10

flashy players, the quarterback,

1:01:13

the wide receiver. He's I can't argue with

1:01:15

the Caleb Williams pick the Roma Dunes pick

1:01:17

from his Almah Water Washington. He goes, but then we

1:01:19

get to the season, and we're about halfway through the season,

1:01:21

and we're like, well, why didn't they address the offensive

1:01:24

line? He goes, like, we like everybody,

1:01:26

everybody wants the He's all everybody wants

1:01:28

the offensive lineman until you get to the draft and

1:01:31

you want the bright and shiny stuff. And

1:01:33

I still look at the old line and I go, all

1:01:36

right, dude, like there's some question

1:01:38

marks there. I love the defense, all right, I like

1:01:40

the direction. You know, offensively,

1:01:42

there's a lot going on there. But I still look at the old line

1:01:45

and I go, that's at least got to be a conversation

1:01:47

at some point.

1:01:48

There's no doubt about it, y'all. I mean, the

1:01:50

bottom line is that you look at what fields

1:01:53

did. He had all day to pass at Ohio State, and

1:01:55

he threw to better type of receivers.

1:01:58

Then he threw with the Bears. This

1:02:01

Caleb Williams. You know, he's going

1:02:03

to be stepping into a situation where he's going

1:02:05

to see a rush and defenses in

1:02:08

the NFL that he's not going to be ready

1:02:10

for. I mean, somebody said to me the other

1:02:12

day, this guy could be the next big thing. I thought he could

1:02:14

be Jason Campbell too. I mean, I've

1:02:16

been through seven hundred, I mean,

1:02:19

and he looks more like Jason Campbell, which is scary.

1:02:22

I will tell you this out of it.

1:02:24

Since the Super Bowl Era, seven

1:02:27

hundred and seventy seven quarterbacks have been

1:02:29

taken. Forty six percent

1:02:31

have lived to see a second contract. I've

1:02:34

heard it all. I've seen the Tim Couches,

1:02:36

I've seen the Achille Smiths, I've seen

1:02:38

DeAndre Wars. But here's what I've also

1:02:41

seen. I've seen every USC

1:02:43

quarterback and some of them friends

1:02:46

like Sean Salisbury, like

1:02:48

Matt Berkley, like Matt

1:02:50

Reinert. Everyone has

1:02:53

been a bust in the NFL. And don't bring up Carson

1:02:55

Palmer to me, because Joe Burrow showed up in Cincinnati.

1:02:58

They forgot about him in ten minutes. Okay.

1:03:00

So the last USC quarterback

1:03:03

that I saw that was ultimately successful

1:03:06

did play for the Bears. His name

1:03:08

was Rudy Bunkich in nineteen sixty

1:03:11

five, and he read the league in passing.

1:03:13

That's how far.

1:03:15

Hey was that? Who the movie Rudy was named

1:03:17

after? Is that what the Rudy you're talking about?

1:03:19

Or no?

1:03:19

Is that I went to school with this kid?

1:03:21

My god? I mean that's how long ago was, you

1:03:24

know? I mean it?

1:03:26

So when I'm looking at can the Bears

1:03:28

pull.

1:03:28

Off something that nobody's ever pulled

1:03:31

off? Ohio State, I

1:03:33

said, didn't have a quarterback ever do

1:03:35

it in the pros until this year, and somebody said

1:03:37

USC North See I go. Yeah,

1:03:40

My argument held up for fifty eight years.

1:03:42

Ohio State didn't have anybody until Stroud.

1:03:45

Now can a USC quarterback

1:03:48

after countless amounts of

1:03:51

disappointment basically

1:03:54

come in and play for the Bears?

1:03:56

An Ohio State quarterback build? Now

1:03:58

we got a USC quarterback, and both

1:04:01

both clubs, both colleges

1:04:04

on Chill Stroud, have never produced

1:04:06

a quarterback in six decades.

1:04:08

I also think there's something to like having

1:04:11

expectations and then let's let's slow down

1:04:13

a little bit here. Like people are talking about, Oh, we're

1:04:15

gonna we're gonna win multiple championships,

1:04:17

just like, how about you just be like, how about you, uh

1:04:20

you know, be the final team in the NFL

1:04:22

to have a four thousand yard passer in a season.

1:04:24

Why don't we start there and finish about

1:04:26

five hundred.

1:04:28

I'll give you the best one of all.

1:04:30

If folks, I

1:04:33

know six media types

1:04:35

or wholes for writers, or I

1:04:37

know now if you have the

1:04:39

holy trifecta Mike North, basically

1:04:43

you should just quit the business, okay,

1:04:46

uh D three

1:04:48

D six men, and I will not divulge them.

1:04:50

I'll forget about the national guys, forget

1:04:53

about all of them, the org Lowski's and all them guys.

1:04:55

They had Catleb Williams going to Canton. Well,

1:04:58

anybody who listen to those guys around their mind, okay,

1:05:01

and not Callab Williams Justin Field's going to Canton.

1:05:03

Okay, but if you look at it, I

1:05:06

know of six people in the Chicago area.

1:05:08

Now we got papers, we got pats, So I'm not going

1:05:10

to finger them dead. Thought

1:05:12

Fields was going to be an MVP. Okay,

1:05:16

that thought. Basically the Cubs

1:05:18

of twenty sixteen would have four championships

1:05:21

by now. Okay, And yet

1:05:23

the White Sox rebuild was going to work and they

1:05:25

got four wins. You kick both things.

1:05:27

You gotta walk out of them. You just walk out. I

1:05:30

mean, I've been hearing, I'm

1:05:33

hearing everything, but Field's going to can until

1:05:35

the White Sox were going to run the Central Division for

1:05:37

the next ten years and they got four years.

1:05:41

Now, I will say this, Mike

1:05:43

North joining us here on Fox Sports Raining, I will

1:05:45

say this, I do love the balls of

1:05:47

the Bears being like, you know what, we only got four

1:05:49

picks in the draft. You know, why don't we go ahead

1:05:51

and spin the chamber and draft a punter. You

1:05:53

know'll just go that in the in the fourth

1:05:55

round as they took Tory Taylor out of Iowa,

1:05:58

who, by the way, is fantastic. But

1:06:00

the fact that at the time and they trade it back

1:06:02

in and got an extra pick, that at the time they

1:06:04

only had four picks in a draft and one

1:06:06

of them was spent on a punter, I think it's

1:06:08

tremendous, my friend.

1:06:09

And here's another thing. They were worried somebody was

1:06:12

going to grab him. Okay, pore

1:06:14

up the

1:06:17

punters. How important one thurs theen

1:06:19

years. The punter should have been our most valuable

1:06:21

player?

1:06:22

Are you kidding me? How

1:06:24

does Mary Buford not have a statue

1:06:26

by now? Morphy? How does that not happen?

1:06:29

We had a guy named Bobby Joe Green. When he first

1:06:31

started, he looked like Paul Anka. By the end he looked

1:06:33

like Cannibal Lecter. He was he founded so much

1:06:35

he was exhausted. It's

1:06:40

crazy. But you know, I've heard it all

1:06:42

in this town and we have nothing to show for

1:06:44

it. You know, the mis evaluation

1:06:47

of Panlent by the Bears, by the White Sox,

1:06:49

you know, the the Blackhawks, you

1:06:52

know the Bulls. They haven't won, uh,

1:06:54

basically since christ was a child. I

1:06:56

mean so, I mean it's

1:06:59

just like in Saor and then I get

1:07:02

yelled at because I'm negative, and

1:07:04

I did yelled because I'm negative.

1:07:05

Well what's going to be positive about?

1:07:08

I mean, you know, I made I

1:07:10

made you. So hopefully this

1:07:12

kid will be everything we're

1:07:14

hoping for. I'm not against him like I

1:07:16

was Field. I think he's got some talent.

1:07:19

But you know when

1:07:21

you practice against one hundred and twenty fifth

1:07:23

defense like he did. USC defense

1:07:26

was one twenty fifth.

1:07:27

Oh, so you're learning what are you learning?

1:07:29

What are you learning?

1:07:31

I mean, he's going to go up against the lineus

1:07:33

next year after playing against his defensive

1:07:36

practice every day.

1:07:37

So we'll see what happens North the

1:07:39

last one for you here, We've got

1:07:41

to get to the bottom of this stuff. I

1:07:43

mean, what is with the circus

1:07:46

tent that they're calling the new soldier field

1:07:49

that they're that they're throwing up with no parking

1:07:51

available? In the renderings put together?

1:07:54

I saw the renderings and the first thing I did

1:07:56

is look at a rendering, an artist depiction of a big

1:07:58

mac, and then I went and bought an actual big

1:08:01

Mac. Okay my

1:08:04

artist renderings. Have you ever had an artist rendering

1:08:06

of a beautiful home and then you went into it and there

1:08:08

were splatters going, we owned this

1:08:10

place. Get out.

1:08:13

They're like cleaning up the blood from a murder scene

1:08:15

two weeks earlier.

1:08:16

Yeah, you walked in and

1:08:18

it's the scene from seven.

1:08:19

You know what I mean? Orsha

1:08:22

Gars sitting in a chair going and sit down, Carson,

1:08:24

you know, I

1:08:27

mean, that's how I walked into every new season

1:08:30

with all these seas. But the Soldier Field

1:08:33

thing was funny. They hired

1:08:35

this guy, Kevin Warren.

1:08:36

Who's in my opinion, he's the president of the

1:08:38

Bears, but he's a hustler.

1:08:40

I give him credit. He's helped to build them.

1:08:42

And they asked, like he put the bricks in for

1:08:44

all the stadiums and did this into that he's

1:08:47

president of the Bears and we

1:08:49

were supposed to be going to Arlington Park, which

1:08:51

is perfect, and

1:08:54

we were. He was hired to do that, and then

1:08:56

after a year he goes, I'm gonna hire a CEO.

1:08:59

Well you should have done that a year ago, a chief

1:09:01

operating officer of the stadium.

1:09:03

What are you doing? Then we hear they're going back. Then

1:09:06

we see the artists renderings and

1:09:08

we're looking, and I'm looking.

1:09:11

I go, am I gonna park my power over on Michigan.

1:09:14

What the hell are we? And

1:09:16

I've made that walk from

1:09:18

Michigan Avenue to sell at your field.

1:09:20

Oh it's a disaster.

1:09:22

It's like I needed a cave by

1:09:24

the time I lived on I

1:09:27

mean, I don't know.

1:09:28

And then there's not a cat stand. I'm looking

1:09:30

for it. I'm even looking for a phone. If they put

1:09:32

this thing together in like a month and going, hey,

1:09:35

this is what we want to do, right before the draft,

1:09:38

right before you got the number one pick, this

1:09:40

is the announcement thing. Then there's no parking

1:09:42

lot. There's not a parking lot in

1:09:44

the picture, so

1:09:47

you know they're not serious. I think they're gonna

1:09:49

end up being back in hide

1:09:51

Finn. I think they're gonna end up building

1:09:53

there. But now in my lifetime, do you ever see Prissy's

1:09:56

Honor? Do you ever see that movie Prissy's

1:09:58

Honor? Okay, I'll give you a better

1:10:00

one.

1:10:01

Have you ever seen any

1:10:03

I guess, any movie

1:10:06

where there's.

1:10:07

Just there was Nick Naughty

1:10:09

back in the seventies eighties, okay,

1:10:12

a people sexiest man. He was on

1:10:14

the magazine covers by the time

1:10:18

they finished the Stadium. Okay,

1:10:20

I'm either going to be dead or I'm gonna be like Nick

1:10:23

Naughty.

1:10:23

Is now okay, and

1:10:26

it's not as pretty as it used to be. Okay.

1:10:29

You know somebody said the other day,

1:10:32

boy, this game may do ten years. I go up seventy

1:10:34

one. What are you how much time to think?

1:10:35

I got?

1:10:39

Get him on Twitter at North to North

1:10:42

Northy you're the best. He's the voice of Chicago

1:10:44

sports, a Hall of famer.

1:10:46

Everybody good, Oh.

1:10:47

Everybody's good. You know. We're still still chugging

1:10:50

along here and and and send

1:10:52

the best to be and everybody over there. And if

1:10:55

if you want more brutal honesty about

1:10:57

how things really work in Chicago, he's the

1:10:59

guy to go to at North to North, Love you, Northy.

1:11:01

We'll talk later.

1:11:02

Many Yeah, next time you're in

1:11:04

Chicago, brother Gibson. So we might we might have to

1:11:06

keep our head on the swivel this time later.

1:11:11

Way to us stick the landing the great

1:11:13

Mike North with us year on Fox Sports Radio.

1:11:16

He is one of the best, one of the all time

1:11:18

greats. That that was a lot of fun.

1:11:21

Jonas knocks here on FSR. All right,

1:11:23

so we do need to get to something

1:11:25

in the world. But one of the great movie characters

1:11:29

came to real life in the NFL. We're going to

1:11:31

get to that here coming up shortly for all the latest sto from

1:11:33

around the world of sports. Better late than ever, it's Martin

1:11:35

Wise.

1:11:36

The New York Jets have traded defensive lineman

1:11:39

John Franklin Myers to Denver in

1:11:41

exchange for a twenty twenty sixth sixth

1:11:43

round pick, less than a week after trading

1:11:46

in the quarterback Zach Wilson to the Broncos

1:11:48

as well.

1:11:48

Go back to the NBA Real Quick.

1:11:50

Milwaukee Bucks star Damian Lidlard. He's been diagnosed

1:11:53

with a great one Achilles strain and is doubtful.

1:11:55

For Game four of the playoffs tomorrow.

1:11:56

In Indiana, Pacers lead that series

1:11:59

two games to one. Cavaliers

1:12:01

at Magic. In Game four of the

1:12:03

series, Orlando wins one, twelve

1:12:05

to eighty nine.

1:12:07

Series now tied to apiece.

1:12:08

Thunder Repelicans just getting started down in New

1:12:10

Orleans. Thunder lead the series two to nothing.

1:12:13

Re Pelicans lead the game four to two

1:12:15

nine minutes left in the first quarter. There

1:12:17

at the Smoothie King Center, Carolina

1:12:20

Hurricane and New York Islanders score

1:12:22

there tied a piece at one at the

1:12:24

end of the second period.

1:12:26

I guess our start of the third period? How

1:12:28

are you.

1:12:29

Going to look at it? Glass half empty? Glass half full?

1:12:31

Carolina leads the series though, three to nothing.

1:12:33

And in the NFL draft, let's see

1:12:35

here. Keton Oladopo from Oregon

1:12:38

State, the most recent selection safety

1:12:40

for the Green Bay Packers, Javon Solomon

1:12:43

from Troy and edge rusher to the Bronx to

1:12:45

the I'm sorry, that's the Bills, not the Broncos.

1:12:47

Keelan Robinson from Texas running back to the

1:12:50

Jaguars, Tyrone Tracy from Perdue,

1:12:52

another running back to the Giants.

1:12:54

And finally Rashen Ali from

1:12:56

Marshall a running back going to the Baltimore

1:12:59

Ravens. Sure he will have a thousand

1:13:01

yards next year as those Ravens seem to just plug

1:13:03

in these running backs that we have. Very

1:13:05

few people have heard of until week

1:13:08

five and he's just running through the league. But we'll

1:13:10

see what happens with that. Dalen Simpson aubor

1:13:12

and safety to the Colts. It's

1:13:14

a twenty ninth pick in the fifth round. Jonas,

1:13:17

I pick your best.

1:13:19

Oh, thank you. I appreciate it. And listen. I'm

1:13:21

okay being mister irrelevant, all right, nothing wrong

1:13:23

with that. I'll take what I can get. Thank you, Martin

1:13:25

Jonas Knox here on Fox Sports Radio. Coming

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So we promise this, we are going to deliver. One

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1:14:40

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1:14:42

Moro.

1:14:43

How could you not get to these stories?

1:14:46

Moron?

1:14:47

These are the scraps and

1:14:49

to find out what the hell we've missed so far on the show,

1:14:52

Bo Benson our executive producer Bo So.

1:14:54

The New England Patriots drafted

1:14:57

I believe UCFO wide receiver Javon

1:14:59

Baker in the fourth round of the NFL

1:15:01

Draft, and he had an interesting quote you wanted

1:15:03

to share with everybody.

1:15:04

Yeah, so in meeting with the media after

1:15:07

he was drafted, you know you like typical

1:15:10

per usual. You know it

1:15:12

took too long. You're all gonna pay as

1:15:14

far as you know him having

1:15:16

to sit and wait for as long as he did. He

1:15:18

also dropped a couple of gems, like

1:15:21

the mentality is to kill whoever is on

1:15:24

the other side of me. And this one

1:15:27

quote, bring your popcorn. I

1:15:29

make people in wheelchairs stand up.

1:15:32

Now, that's pretty aggressive,

1:15:35

but it did remind me of one of

1:15:37

the great movie characters of all time. Anybody

1:15:40

who's a big fan of football movies a

1:15:43

cult classic if you will, the program.

1:15:46

So when I hear Javon

1:15:48

Baker say bring your popcorn.

1:15:50

I make people in wheelchairs stand up,

1:15:53

and the mentality is to kill whoever's in

1:15:55

front of me or ever on the other side of me. It

1:15:57

makes me think of the great Alvin mack Oky

1:16:01

thunder line. Once you were assigned, kill

1:16:03

the.

1:16:03

Quarterback, if

1:16:05

the tight end so hard, his girlfriend dies, kill

1:16:09

everybody.

1:16:13

By the way, you don't want to talk about movies,

1:16:15

Bo, that could probably not be made today based

1:16:18

on some of the content. Like I was looking up at the highlights

1:16:20

from the program, I was like, yeah, I can't play that. Yeah,

1:16:23

definitely not gonna play that. Nope, yeah,

1:16:25

that's not gonna work. This is a classic

1:16:28

from Javon Baker, who went hard

1:16:31

after the Patriots drafted him earlier

1:16:33

in the fourth round. Pretty rough,

1:16:36

pretty rough going. Where does the program

1:16:38

rank for you, BO, on your all time favorite

1:16:40

football movie list?

1:16:41

Can I be honest, I have not seen the program.

1:16:43

You've never seen the program.

1:16:45

But I will. I will watch it. If

1:16:47

it's a movie that you recommend of all people, I

1:16:49

will watch it. Okay, Well, but it

1:16:51

might spot in between Friday night Lights and

1:16:54

any given Sunday.

1:16:55

Okay, Well, I'll just say this. If

1:16:58

you're gonna watch it, might

1:17:00

I recommend when

1:17:03

the wife and child are asleep, okay,

1:17:06

and just to double

1:17:08

up the safety, I would

1:17:11

watch it with the AirPods in. I'm

1:17:14

just saying, and you'll understand about

1:17:17

twenty minutes into the movie why I say that, because

1:17:19

there are some things that are definitely not suitable and you

1:17:21

don't really take that into consideration. You see

1:17:24

like rated r PG thirteen, you

1:17:26

see that coming up on moving and then you have a kid and

1:17:28

you realize, oh, yeah, that's not a

1:17:30

good idea. I don't want her to hear that because

1:17:32

I don't want her to say kill

1:17:35

them all, let the paramedics sort them out at preschool.

1:17:37

Just not not a good look for anybody involved.

1:17:39

So that would be my recommendation, less an ideal.

1:17:41

That would be what else we got during

1:17:44

the NFL draft Today. Ian Rappaport

1:17:46

shared a little bit with the desk

1:17:49

on the NFL Network, I believe, saying

1:17:52

the NFL teams were hesitant to draft

1:17:54

Spencer Rattler due to what

1:17:56

they had seen on the Netflix

1:17:58

documentary that was filmed while

1:18:01

he was in high school, which is, you

1:18:03

know, like four or five years ago now. So

1:18:05

I don't know, I feel like that's kind of bush league from

1:18:07

my league NFL teams to do. Yeah,

1:18:10

dude, how long was

1:18:13

it? Like the QB one or something?

1:18:14

Yeah, I just I think if any of us

1:18:16

had a documentary about us that was filmed in high

1:18:18

school, we probably wouldn't like the

1:18:21

stuff that was shown.

1:18:22

Dude, I was a janitor in high school. Like,

1:18:26

like, I'm sure me pushing around a mop

1:18:28

bucket and cleaning up urine off

1:18:31

a of a little kid's carpet

1:18:34

in class probably wasn't the best look either,

1:18:36

Like, I don't like what are we talking about? Because

1:18:38

because that that showed Netflix, I think it was

1:18:40

called QB one, and

1:18:43

I think he was on there with I forget who else

1:18:45

was on there, but there were a couple other quarterbacks. So they

1:18:47

went back to that as the reason

1:18:50

why he felt, dude, they're

1:18:52

just trying to find something wrong with anybody.

1:18:54

I feel like the process this

1:18:56

year with Caleb Williams and now that Spencer Ratler

1:18:59

just kind of shows how how looney it

1:19:01

can all be.

1:19:02

Like Donnie, we were talking about this earlier, donnad

1:19:04

Mitchell from Texas, Like, Okay, what did he do?

1:19:06

Was there like a like an off field to my knowledge.

1:19:09

I didn't. I didn't hear of any like, you know, he pulled

1:19:11

a gun on somebody or got a dui or

1:19:13

pulled a like. The reasoning

1:19:15

that he fell down the draft is because he was

1:19:17

hard to assess during the interview process.

1:19:20

Yeah really, yeah, Like that's

1:19:23

you're just trying to find something wrong with

1:19:25

somebody. Like you're trying like everybody's been in a relationship

1:19:28

and you might still be in that relationship where you're with somebody

1:19:30

and it's like, dude, are you just trying to pick a fight. It's

1:19:33

almost like they're trying willingly to pick a fight

1:19:35

to have some sort of an altercation. That's

1:19:37

what this feels like. Yeah, real quick

1:19:39

here.

1:19:40

Chicago City officials determined that the famous

1:19:42

landmark rat Hole sidewalk needed

1:19:45

to be removed and replaced due to damage. The

1:19:47

future of this rat hole sidewalk will be

1:19:49

determined at a later date and a collaborative

1:19:52

decision between city departments and the Mayor's

1:19:54

office. So the imprint

1:19:56

of a rat on the sidewalk is gone.

1:19:58

And oh so that's that's why

1:20:00

it's called a rat hole.

1:20:01

Yeah, it's a fully print of a rat.

1:20:03

So he crawls the wet cement. Yeah yeah,

1:20:05

No, first of all that that's an egregious

1:20:08

air by them. That is a teaching lesson

1:20:10

to let people know, don't draw on them,

1:20:12

don't walk in them, God forbid, if you're a rat,

1:20:14

don't get stuck in them.

1:20:15

This is what I