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Because it's time to apologize. Yes it is. We'll get to that in just about a minute. Good morning, everybody. This is Fox Football Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Bucky Brooks in the in the makeup room getting some makeup on. He'll be with us momentarily on Andy Furman and we're broadcasting live from the ti raq dot com studios. Ti rack dot com. We'll help you get there, and I'm match selection fans, free shipping, free road has a protection and over ten thousand recommended in Stollers tire rack dot com the way tire buying should be. All Right, I say it's time to apologize. I mean it, I really mean it, and this really and truly I'm zeroing in on our Fox Sports Radio affiliate in Columbus, Ohio, wmn I nine to twenty am. It's all about you. It's all about you, and you gotta apologize. You will not escape the wrath of my tongue today. Really, it's embarrassing and we've got to clean it up right.
Here, right now.
The number eight seed Ohio State Bucky are national champions in football. After that thirty four to twenty three win over seventh rank Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff title game that was on Monday night. Congratulations, you got what you wish for a national champion with the Ohio State buck Guys.
It was great.
It was a thrilling ending in the first ever a twelve team playoff. Ryan Day's team won for in a row. They got the trophy National champs. Okay, Ohio State finishes. They finished the season with the record of fourteen to two. They lost to Oregon and they lost two I'll say it, yeah, they lost to Michigan.
Now let's get into the meat and potatoes here.
Ryan day record now seventy wins, ten losses, good for a winning percentage of eight seventy five. That is the highest FBS winning percentage by a head coach, which is seventy five game minimum since Notre Dame head coach Newt Rockney. He had an eight eighty one. All right, so here's the question. I'll bring Bucky in in a second, because I want the apologies coming from Columbus today. You want that, Ryan, They fired after the Michigan loss. First off, who do you wanted to replace him. All right, now it's time, right here and now on Fox Football Sunday to say you're sorry, to apologize. Look at yourself from the mirror and see how stupid.
How foolish you are.
I get it, I get it. Fans are rabbit, you're crazy, You're emotional. But there's a thin line there, and many of you in Columbus, Ohio crusted. It's time to say you're sorry. Bucket Brooks, welcome, my friend. Do you agree?
Oh yeah, I mean I believe the conversation coming out of Columbus shortly after the lost in Michigan was ridiculous, Like to put so much on one game when you look at his body of work. Man, you talk about a college football Hall of Famer now eight seventy five winning percentage that you just spit off. I mean, look, man, there are few people that can coach their team like Ryan Day. And you can say he inherited a great program under Urban Mayer, but he has sustained it and maybe even taking it to higher heights and the way that they would do it, the resilience, stay shown, the grit determination. Hats off to Ryan Day. Man. He look he was backed into a corner where he needed to be at his best, and he certainly was his best throughout the tournament.
God bless you, Buckie Books, God bless you. By the way, how are you? How was you weak?
Everything's okay, good, great.
We'll do this today because we got that Fox sports radio affiliate in Columbus, wmn I ninet twenty am.
We will let them come in here and apologize.
Got eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
As we move on.
We'll move on for a second because I want to talk about Dan Snyder, And you know what, I never met the man, but I truly honestly respect him. Why we talked about situations like this, Buck, Remember we talked about guys who have been fired and hope that maybe their team would.
Lose after they go.
You know, they don't want it to be any better when they're gone, right, and they never say that they wished them the best, But they don't mean it.
Dan Sneyder meant it.
Dan Snyder reportedly says he e f and hates seeing Washington commander is win, and he threatened to kill the sale of the team. These two guys at ESPN really seth Wisdardsham and Don Van Nada. They wrote a big story, lengthy story about Dan Snyder who basically now hates the fact that this team has come from the Ashes. Remember list last year they were four and thirteen. Jayden Daniels comes along a culture changer, that's what he's changing, the culture of the Washington Commanders four and thirteen a year ago, and Dan Snyder not only does he not root for them, he is despising the fact that they're winning. That that since he's gone, I love it, I love it. He's honest, right, he is.
I mean, I appreciate it. I appreciate dani Just see anyone who is in that moment has been jilted, right, let's just say he's jilted by a former girlfriend or whatever you'd like. Never right, You never want to see them fully succeed and surpass what they may have been when they were with you. That is Dan Snyder right now. He never could get to Washington Commanders the franchise to be what he wanted it to be. And he looks up two years in to a new tenure, they're already I mean, not even two years in like a four year into a new culture, new environment, new regime. They're already on the verge of going to the super Bowl. That has to drive him absolutely crazy. So I appreciate the honesty.
I do too, really good.
And look, everybody knows that it was written here that he was a vindictive little man when he owned the Washington Redskins at the time, right he was. He refused to comply with the public and the request had changed it in from the Redskins, and he violated all these rules. And look, he was an alcoholic. He drank all the time, There's no doubt about that. But again he's saying things that most people do.
Say.
You get you're a coach, and you get fired, and you don't want to see anybody do. But do you think John Calli Parry right now is running for the University of Kentucky to win, are you kidding?
Really?
He's having a hard enough time winning at Arkansas. So, I mean, that's just the nature of the beast. That's why people are But at least Dan Snyder said it.
He said it, he did say, he did put it out there. I appreciate his honesty and his candidness. It looks it has to be hard, and it has to be hard for him because there's just this love affair with Washington that's coming back. You're seeing these things, and you just know that everyone is going to wax poetic about their new culture and new environment and Josh Harris and what they've been able to do. And it's gonna drive him crazy. And then they're gonna get a new stadium and they can get all the things that he wanted them to have. Yeah, it has to drive you nuts, and it's gonna drive you nice. It will continue to drive you notts. I don't care who you are as a human, it's human nature to feel these ways.
I love it.
I mean, I'm shocked that basically he even went so far to admit it publicly. But again, he probably was drinking when he did the story, you know, just the way he was. He's a drinker, and he moved. Now he's in England. He stays in England, and he's kind of like a recluse. But the point of the matter is this. I didn't like the fact that he didn't want to change the name from the Redskins. It wasn't pital correct. But the point is that he basically stood up and said what every American coach involved in athletics. I don't care who you are, even on what level you got fighter as a high school coach, if you're not winning, the next coach, you know you're gonna say up, there's no way on God's green earth he's gonna win. And he does win. You know, you hate it. It makes you look bad, That's why you just hate it. I know you've seen it, Buck, You've been around here. You see it all the time.
Yeah. Look, and I know that. And even being away, you know, because he's in England or you're where he is just kind of hanging out it. Look, it still bothers you. There's still impact. You know, you don't you don't like it because that's something that he aspired to have, I mean, to have his his hometown team, to be the owner of his hometown team. Yeah. Man, that's that's tough. I mean, that's that's just a tough situation to deal with.
Well, he's good friends and I guess they haven't talked in a while, but he's good friends with Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. And speaking of the Cowboys and Jerry Jones. Jerry was looking outside of the organization for the replacement for Mike McCarthy, who got canned.
Okay, so what do they do?
They get the offensive coordinated Brian Schottenheimer as the tenth coach in the franchise history. Now here's the deal. I mean, I get it. I think you want to hire sometimes from within. You know the system, you know the players and things like that. What does shottenheire have that McCarthy lacked. That's what I like to know, because you've kind of taught me this, you really have, because when they were talking about getting rid of a coach and firing him, your answer has always been, well, who do you get to replace him?
Who's better?
So?
What does Shott and Eier have that that McCarthy doesn't have?
Yeah, No, this is a tough one. I would say that what Schottenheimer have is a fresh perspective. He has an inner work, He has a knowledge of the inner workings of the franchise. He is at a position where he doesn't have power, so it has to be a cooperation and a collaboration between him and the front off. The Cowboys believe in their structure, they believe in their process, when it comes to personnel, they need a head coach that can go along with that. And to me, I mean you're a baseball fan, this is new eraror baseball where you have all the people up top, the general manager, the analytics crew. They kind of dictate the lineups. They kind of tell you how long your pitchers can pitch and all that did. They hand the lineup card to the manager and they send them into the dugout. Well, Brian Schottenheimer is the middle manager in baseball, basically being sent into the dugout. The thing about it, if you're Brian Schottenheimer, the only thirty two of these jobs, the only thirty two head coaching jobs, And if your dream is to be a head coach man, you got to grab the whistle when you have an opportunity. He's the son of a great coach and Marty Schottenheimer, who I played for, so there's naturally a bias there. Marty won two hundred games, seven most in NFL history. And what you're hoping for is that he's learned all the lessons from his travels, particularly those when he spent time with his dad, and he's able to take what the Cowboys already do well and find a way to get the quarterback going, to get the team going to have a level of success in Dallas.
Okay, Now the big question is offensive coordinator Movies to the head coaching job. How tough is it going to be for him to relinquish the offensive coordinator position.
It won't be hard because he hasn't been calling the plays. Mike McCarthy called the plays the last couple of years. So he called the cultural standpoint. Yeah, from a structural standpoint, it depends on what he's most comfortable with. I don't believe he has to call the place. You know, if he calls the plays like that's great. But I don't think it's one of those things that he has to that he has to do, And so you just kind of let you can be the CEO type, let everybody else do it, and you learn how to be a head coach, which is probably what he should do. I think he's been an offensive coordinator for fourteen of his twenty four years in the league. He certainly understands how to put it together. I don't think it's essential that he calls it. But if he wants to call it, great, But I don't think it's essential for him to be play call.
All right, that's fine. I hear were just saying.
But I think that came out of nowhere because everybody thought that Jerry Jones was to go outside the organization hire somebody else. But it's okay, well we'll see what happens. But you know what, they don't get Dok Prescott. I don't care if I'm coaching the team, they won't win. Really got to get a quarterback. I got to get Dok Prescott in there, and healthy Dok Prescott.
That's the Well, Yeah, he has to be healthy, has to be ready to go. You got to make sure that he's doing what he needs to do to make it happen. So it looks it's a funny thing. But who's to say that, Brian Schottenham it can't be a more successful coach than Ben Johnson, than Liam Cohn or any of these guys. It's all a crapshoot when you're making a transition from coordinator to head coach because the job requirements are completely different in the head coaching role.
Yeah, I'll ask you this because you played the game and you've seen this hands on coordinators to me are like assistant coaches in basketball, they're the ones that are the the liaisons, so to speak, between a player and the head coach. You know, players go to the assistant coach whining and crying, and the assistant coach maybe will go to the head coach and kind of patch things up right. So the offensive coordinator defensive coordinator, they're closer to the player I think than the head coach. The head coach that you say as the CEO, kind of tells the offensive guys, defensive guys what's going on, report to me what's going on. How difficult it is for a player now to relate to a guy who was a coordinator and now becomes the head coach.
It's still relationships, but there's a different line or boundary, right, Like you go from being as an assistant coach. You go from me and big brother to the players to now being dad when you're the head coach. So there's a different chain of command. There's a different authority and respect that you have to curry when you're the head coach, and there's a different way that you connect with the players. I mean, you still want to have relationships, but you have to have a bit of separation because sometimes you have to make horrid decisions regarding a player that used to be one of your favorites, and so sometimes they can require distancing yourself from the player relationship wise, so you always can make the best decision for the team.
All right, now, let's talk about head coach.
Is one of my favorites, Dan Campbell kind of still in the morning right now, Detroit head.
Coach of the Lions.
They really got beat up pretty good forty five thirty one and Ford Field this Saturday night by Jayden Daniels in the Washington Commander. Is Now my question is this, after losing their two coordinators defensive and offensive this week, can we say that maybe the best for the Detroit Lions is in the past right now?
Maybe their run is done. I don't know if they.
Could come back. They won the NFC North two years in a row. They never won the NFC North, They never won a crown like that. Prior to twenty twenty three. The team has never been in the conference number one seed. Before this year, they never won fifteen regular season games or even thirteen. The Lions never had back to back seasons with double digit wins and five hundred and sixty four points this year with a differential of two twenty two. These were franchise records. I don't think they'll ever see those things again. I think that had that chance and the window was shut tight.
Now I don't know if the window is completely shut tight, But what I will say is this. I will say that anytime you have a reset, anytime you flip the calendar, it's a new team, new year, and there's no carryover from one year to the next. With the mass exodus of folks out of Detroit, first the assistance, then what ultimately is going to be a handful of players, Dan Campbell has to rebuild the team all over again, and what he has to do is lean on the lessons that he utilized the first time he did it to get this team back up and running. He can't assume that there's going to be a natural next step that his team takes. He has to go back to square one, rebuild the team and watch that version of the team grow. He also has to teach a new set of coaches what the culture is. Sometimes when you do the reset to rebuild, it can be invigorating because it is a new set of crew it is. You do have new people listening to those messages, and you have to figure out how to deliver those messages differently while keeping the same core tenets of the message. Doesn't mean that it can't happen. It will be different. But he was right. He was very transparent when he said this group would never be the same again, and it won't be the same, But it doesn't mean that it can't accomplish the same things, if not more, if he does it the right way.
Jaden Daniels was unbelievable.
Picked him apart, and then the Alliance had like five turnovers in that game. But I will say this, I don't think that Jaden Daniels.
Maybe I'm crazy.
I don't think he's getting the credit he deserves what he's done to turn that franchise around. People I don't think even remember because the Washington Commanders were like nothing. No one even talked about them a year ago. They were until Draft day. Really they were four and thirteen. They got a shot today to go to the super Bowl because to this one guy, jayde Davis to turn the fortune of his ball club. And I don't think he's getting the right I guess accolades that he deserves. They talk about Players of the Year and will get into this later on MVP's Player of the Offensive Player of the Year.
I never hear his name. His name has never brought up.
He has done more for that team than perhaps any other player who's been mentioned for a postseason award.
Do you agree?
I agree he has done a lot. He deserves to be in the MVP conversation, like based on that, Like obviously the regular season MVP stuff is done. But yeah, he put everybody on he put the team on his back, and I'm really excited to see him have the level of success that he's had. He is someone who deserves to be in that conversation. And I will say even different than the way that CJ. Stroud played last year because CJ. Stroud to me, had a better supporting cast.
Right.
Jayde Daniels has really done it with a cast of like unherded no names in vagabonds, you know, and they found a way to kind of piece it together and to get it together. And his dynamic doing, threat play, baking ability, his poise, his composure, his confidence is reflected in the way the team responds to him.
Right, I'd love to see him beat the Eagles today. That's the story.
I mean, you know, everybody's talking about say Kwon Barkley, MVP offensive player there wherever it may be.
We'll get into that down the road.
But really and truly, if they lose today, if the Eagles lose, this season's death, I mean, you're sixteen to three and you lose the Commanders right now, and really and truly, maybe they're more relaxed. Maybe there's more pressure on the Eagles than the Commanders.
I don't know.
I mean there's pressure obviously. You know, if you never played the game, like myself, it's really easy to throw out the term pressure.
But I think that there is pressure.
But the fact is, if you've never been there before and there's no expectations, the pressure is not as tough as it would be in Philadelphia.
Look, I think once you get to this point of it, there's pressure on everybody. The challenge is who can manage it better, Who is able to kind of swim and wait in those waters that are a little turbulent When it comes to this kind of stuff, the game is going to be decided by the team that can execute the better. The team can do the ordinary things well in a high pressure environment, you don't have to get outside of yourself. It really comes down to eliminating the mistakes and being able to play really, really well, doing the simple things that you've done to get you to this point. If the Commanders can find their wits and do those things, they'll win. If the Eagles stay true to who they are, they will win. It really is about which team can really stay true to their identity in spite of the high stakes that they're playing for.
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The real winners and losers in the playoffs. We'll get to them in just about a minute. He is a winner. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman, and we are Fox Football Sunday at Fox Sports Radio and we're live from the tiraq dot Com studios. By the way, football fans, be sure to tune into Fox Sports Radio every Sunday morning. Why beginning at ten am Eastern seven am Pacific four. Countdown to Kickoff presented by bet MGN, Brian No, Jeff Schwartz and professional bett Bill Krackenberger will have you covered three hours before kickoff. Every single Sunday morning. Listen to Countdown to Kickoff presented by bet MGN right here on Fox Sports Radio. And of course they're won Thefulyheart Radio ad. Now, Buck, I got a little bit of a list, a list of names who guys who really have put a little star next to them, that have done well thus far in the NFL playoffs.
Are you ready?
And if you disagree you want to add, just let me know. I got to start up with Travis Kelce. People thought it was all over for him, one hundred and seventeen yards against the Texans, forty nine yard game season best, all right, he's average just about eight point five yards a catch, and they asked him, I think there's a quote I read this.
They asked him if he's feeling twenty five again.
Kelsey said, no, twenty two, No, twenty This great, So that Travis Kelsey as a winner. All of a sudden, he came out and you said this weeks ago that it's playing just to get into the playoffs.
Then they're going to gear it up a little bit.
Well, I mean, like when you're a veteran team like the Chiefs are, particularly on offense, it is about these moments, right when do I need to be ready? When I need to be at my best? And now they're ready to do that and you're seeing that and it still hasn't been what it was, but it's efficient enough. We've seen that Pat Mahomes hasn't turned the ball over and they just have become a team that knows how to win and they do the things that are necessary. They don't worry about lightening up scoreboards. They do just enough to win each week. And that's why there's such a dangerous team. And when we eventually talked about the game in Buffalo, sometimes the worst thing that could have happened is Buffalo winning in the regular season. While it has maybe boosted their confidence, there's no expectation that they're gonna be able to win it again. And this is a completely different game because the Chiefs are in the postseason. They know what it takes. They've done it what for Out of the last five years they've been in the Super Bowl, they won three of those. They know how they get it done in these moments, and so I feel like there's a lot of pressure on the opponent more so than on the Chiefs.
All right, I'm going to continue with another star next to te Spagnola's name, defensive coordinator. Last week, their defense had eight sacks against CJ. Stroud. Amazing, it really was. The guy never really made it as a head coach, but sometimes you're better off staying in your lane. He's a hell of a defensive coordinator.
Very good, he knows. He does a really good job of setting his team up for success. When they get in precious situations, he's gonna bring a creative blitz. He's unafraid. And it's the continuity that the Kansas They Chiefs have been able to maintain. When you look up and down their coaching staff. They haven't had a lot of movement, and when they do move, they come back. Matt Naggy gets a promotion to be a head coach in Chicago. As soon as it goes awry, he comes right back to Kansas City. Steve Spagnula has been there forever since Andy Red made the move. When it came to the defense. The consistency of the continuity has led to this. The steady yet he played from the Chiefs and their confidence from winning. They know how to win. There's something to be said from when you walk into the field every day and you know that your team is a team that should win, all right.
The last star I got over here from the Philadelphia Eagles Jalen Carter, defensive back of defensive tackle. Last week, Astorenza had five tackles, two sacks, and three quarterback hits.
Pretty damn good day for Jalen Carter. A great look.
He is exactly what we thought he was going to be ahead of the draft. If not for the care to concerns that took place leading up to the draft, he should have been a number one overall pick. Dominant player, a disruptive player, and he has been a force, a disruptive force. Since Vic Fangio came over, Vic Fangio has unlocked him. He's unleashed him. A few teams have found a way to slow him down. He is one of the reasons why this defense is playing well because at the point of attack, the few that are better than Jalen Cark.
Okay, now I got the losers. And I hate to say this, but Matthew Stafford's going to be on that list. He had a ball pop out of his out of his arm about midfield. The Eagles turned that into a fumble and another field goal, and they kind of just they couldn't get it going.
I mean, the Rams just couldn't get a go bad the look. I think you knew. I knew that.
Most people knew that the Eagles were a better team, just had better personnel. And I think the Rams had a heck of a season considering they started one and four.
Season. They showed a lot of toughness, a lot of resilience. Most teams started like that and they put a bounce back, But the Rams have been do it two years in a row. That's a testament to Sean McVay what he does with the team. How the team responds to his coaching and how they just look. Man, they just do a really good job with their young players, getting them ready to play. And look, this is a team we talked about momentum. There's no automatic annoying it next step, but you certainly have to be impressed with what they've done so far.
All right, now, this is the worst, that is the most obvious. The loser, Mark Andrews. I couldn't believe it. First of all, he had that fumble in the midfield situation, which was just terrible, and then the two point conversion at the end of the game when he dropped the ball.
I mean, I'm not saying I would have caughd it. You would have called it both.
Look, I think the announcers I forgot it was even announcing the game. They said, out of one thousand throws, he would have caught it nine hundred ninety nine times. I don't understand what happened, and I know things do happen, and it shows the public that he's normal. It happens, but you don't expect it to happen. You don't expect to have.
From Mark Andrews. It was terrible.
It really was yeah, it's bad. I mean, he's an all time great within their organization. He is someone that is one of the best who ever do it at that position there and for him to have two major faupas in the clutch, to fumble in open field when they had momentum going, you could see that this offense was beginning to spark and get into it and then just dropping the two point conversion. And I can say this, you know, sometimes what Lamar Jackson did and taking a little bit off you completely throw off the timing in the rhythm of the pass catcher. Pass catcher should still catch it, but it's almost like Andy, You've been looking for the fastball, fastball, fastball, and then you throw a little change, a little off speed pitch and it just throws you off. To me, I felt like just just it threw Mark Andrews off just enough where you couldn't concentrate focus and bringing it.
If I'm not mistaken.
After he dropped that and the game ended, Lamar Jackson on the bench on TV show this say we're a team.
We're a team.
He kind of went over to him to console him a little bit, and I thought that was great, but it doesn't do anything to change the outcome. But again, you played the game. When you see someone who blows it to cost you the game, how does that react in the locker room? Did the guys point fingers at in they ignore what happens? How did Mark Andrews react? And what did they do to him after the game in the locker room?
I want to know.
I mean, they won't do anything to him. Everyone is disappointed one of your best players didn't come through for you. But you say that we're a team, and it's hard in those moments to focus on being a team, but ultimately that's what you do. That's what pros do. Now, as you get away from it, you may wonder, there may be some side conversations about it. But the best teams, yeah they talk about a team. They'll point that, but they also pointed the various other mistakes that cost them. You know, it wasn't just those two plays that cost them the game. Yeah, they were critical, but there are other people that contributed to the loss with their own mistakes and shortcomings. And so you're trying and put it on everybody. Hey, look and see what you did. Did you play a perfect game?
No?
So you're just as responsible. It's just that Mark Andrews' plays are highlights because they happened late, and you just don't expect it from a player of.
His ilk big time game changers, they really were. It was you didn't expect it. I thought the game was going to overtime, but it just didn't happen. Now here's the big story. I'm not surprised. I think we saw it coming. When you got a team that keeps on winning like the Chiefs are doing, all of a sudden they become the villains. That happened to the Patriots, It's happening to the Chiefs and now there looking for excuses while they win. Now, the Chiefs won over the Texas twenty three to fourteen Patrick Mahomes. In that game, the quarterback received two favorable calls. They were worth fifteen yard penalties apiece and the playoff victory. That's what happened over there. But there's a stat that was dug up by the Athletic Sky. Michael Salfino did it this week and he says the average number of roughing the passer penalties for active quarterbacks in the postseason is zero point one two per game. Patrick Mahomes's career postseason average is zero point four one two per game, the highest among all active quarterbacks, and that's not counting roughing calls in him as a runner. You know what, though, I say, take it it's bull throwed out the door. It just happens to happen that way. That's the way it is. There is no bias in my heart of hearts against the Kansas City Chiefs. What do you think on that? I don't think there's any bias that people are favoring the Chiefs.
No, but it feels like that, right, It feels like that when you've seen a team win and win and win, because what you want to do is you want to explain the way there's success. You want to say that someone else is given them an advantage, as opposed to saying they're just better than us. And the Kancity Chiefs have been better their opponents. The last we talked about it, what five years they've gone those four suit walls. They've been better. And sometimes, you know, it feels like those plays that are hanging in the balance tend to go the Chiefs way, But when you look at the stats, they really don't. It's just the momentum, the flow of the game, and because everyone is so emotional when dealing with the chiefs, the overreactions to the calls that may benefit them prevents you from locking in and being focused enough to handle them and take them to task when you have an opportunity to knock themorrow.
A sizable number of NFL quarterbacks have drawn zero roughing the pairs of penalties in the postseason. And they are Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts, Lamar Jackson, Matthew Stafford, and Brock Party. And I say, big whoop. It doesn't make a difference. It really doesn't. As a matter of fact, Patrick Mahomes had to go on Reckon and talk about the whole bias or lack thereof. Let's take a listen to Patrick Mahomes.
What do he had to say? No, sorry, is.
It dealing you like you've gotten protection or anything like that from officials.
That's not around the rest of the quarterbacks.
Only I don't feel that way. I mean, I just try to play football. At the end of the day, the referees are doing their best to call the game is as fair and as proper as they possibly can, and all you can do is go out there and play the game that you love as hard as you can and live with the results. And so for me, it's to go out there, play hard, try to do whatever I can to win the football game, and then live with the results based off my effort and the way that we played the game. And so I think that's that's what we preach here in Kansas City.
Well said, Well said Patrick. I like it.
Look he could have ignored it, and people say, oh, he's not going to talk about it because he knows it's true. Just just the nature of the beast. This team is winning and the public doesn't want to see them win. I will say other things now, I will say I will add this on there on the whole situation, the fact now that gambling has become so prevalent in the National Football League more than any other sport perhaps, and I'm not talking about fantasy football, to a big time wagering.
You can't go anywhere without you you wager on your phone.
Okay, I think that has a lot to do with the penalties and people wagering on the games.
Agreed, Well, yeah, it does have something to do with it, because you have more eyeballs on it, and you have more people who have that emotional interest in it. So a lot of times the whining that you hear abouts from people that have small wages on the game and those wagers are impacted. It's no different than those people who have fantasy football options and players and the way that they feel. So you can imagine when you have fantasy football and the emotion that you get. Players talk about, Hey man, I don't care if I'm on your fantasy team, there's more to me or whatever. So imagine now that you put your heart on money on these teams and spreads and all of that. Yeah, it can lead to emotional reactions. It can lead to outbursts, It can lead the frustrations, no.
Doubt about that, lead to fights in the stands as well. It's crazy. I knew gambling would have a factor in this. But the point is that they're the villains right now and people want to see him get knocked off.
That's what it's all about.
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All right, He's Stevie Wonder, He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman. We are Fox Football Sunday, Fox Sports Radio A Live from the Tyraq dot com studios. It is time for ask Bucky. Here we go, all right. Dan Hurley University of Connecticut basketball coach. He berated an official during the game against Butler on Tuesday night.
They won eighty seventy eight.
He complained that the TV cameras focus on him. What kind of an example does he show for the school and for coaching by going nuts?
Yeah, he's a lot man, just so emotional all the time. He's just he's a lot. But he's a winner. You went back to back championships. You have an opportunity to say a little more. But he is definitely a lot. It's a lot to handle his.
He was in Cincinnati last night they lost his Xavier. I tell you what. He was going nuts last night.
Well see, yeah, I mean it works for him and his team, but good gosh, he calm down. He's a powder kick. He sure is.
All right.
This is interesting because This may be the dumbest person on the face of the earth, the mayor of Philadelphia trying to get the fans in the city pumped up for the Philadelphia Eagles.
You want to take a listen, listen to this.
Let me hear you all saying, he.
Let's go birk Wait a minute. I don't know her name, and if I did, I wouldn't mention.
I don't want to embarrass her. But honestly, you don't know how to spell.
Eas I think got a little excited.
How do you how do you not know?
Got a little excited?
I would say this, let's go birky.
Excited performance say this.
If you're not a good speller, if you're not a good speller, at least have someone help you. I mean that, that's embarrassing. I just look, I'm gonna say this. Thank goodness, she didn't have to spell the coach's name. She's still be up there spelling it's Sirianni. Really, she can't even spell Eagles. I don't know how that happens. I don't know how she got elected. I really don't we move on? Yes, it's really yeah, all right, Las Vegas Raiders they hired they soon to be seventy four year old Pete Carroll is that coach?
Good for him? But why was it no talk about his age? Yet? With Bill Belichick that was the main focus age.
Yeah. I don't know, like it's such a weird, such a weird dynamic, right, but it works. I mean it works. I don't know, you know, I don't know why there was such a focus.
On Belichick looks older. I don't know.
I think, I mean, people are high behind like the youthful energy, and he's this, he's that, he's ready.
He's got a twenty four year old girlfriend. Belichick, come on, he's kind of going.
He does, he does have it going. I appreciate what Bill Belichick is doing in his personal life, but yeah, like no, I think it's just perception, right. The perception is that Pete is upbeat, positive, bouncing around, doing all this other stuff, whereas Belichick is kind of a curmudgeon.
All right.
We talked about that bias a lock thereof with the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahons and Joe Mixon, the running back for the Texans, was handed a twenty five thousand dollars fine by the NFL for comments about officiating. Why can't you go public and say I think that we're getting screwed over it.
I don't get it.
Twenty five grand for that, that's unbelievable.
Yeah, it is crazy. And then when this, you know, when it ends up being kind of quote gate where some of his words were misinterpreted or misquoted, then they had to come back and find the real words. But find them again. It's a lot. I mean, I understand why the league doesn't want that because it puts the league in a bad light. But players should be able to say what they want to say about certain games, certain calls. If you ask them, they should be able to give you their version of the truth based on how they perceived it to go in the game.
All right, we move on to Ohio State football. Money money, money, money, money.
Is the reason the Ohio State University star freshman wide receive a Jeremiah Smith who is the best player on the field and that national championship win over Notre Dame.
That's the reason money.
That's why he should enter the transfer portal and test the open walkt agreed. Why not pros do it in free agency? That's like free agency right now in college and nil. Don't you think Jeremiah Smith should test the portal?
No, I don't think so. I think he should if he's happy at the place where he's at and he's compensated fairly. You used to stay where he is because you won't have the same opportunities elsewhere. He's playing with the best team for him. Everyone acknowledges him as a star. Why change your team is winning, You're the start of a winning team. I can't imagine what would be better, Like, yeah, you can get a bunch of cash for man, this game is hard when you're losing.
I read a report earlier this week that he was off it, and I didn't mention what school he was off at four million dollars to go play for that school, I mean, I don't think he's getting in state.
I mean that's no, he's not. But that's a significant amount of money. But you also are stepping into a new environment that can feed you and do all that. But in a perfect world, you want to win and make a ton of money whilere you winning. I'm sure he's making significant sums of money at Ohio State. That's why I don't think it's even a consideration to jump into the port.
And by the way, whatever happened to like when you transfer you have to sit out of it, I guess that's down the boards anyway.
Forget about that, right. So in other word, that Jeremiah Smith goes to the point he could just play next.
Year and get a big check. Yeah, I mean he can play. I mean there's even more stuff that's coming down the horizon about playing. Where we saw the court case with the Wisconsin guy who's going to Miami's saying that now you can just transfer schools like a regular student and you should be able to be eligible immediately. That's a game changer as well.
But whatever happened when you transfer losing credit, I guess people don't care.
These players don't care if they're graduate or not, do they They'll play two three, they'll play three years, go to the polls.
And that's it. I mean, hopefully they care about graduation. I heard Riley Lennard talk about the things that he had to do, the hoops he had to jump through to get on track to graduate at Notre Dame after starting his career Duke. Most of that stuff doesn't transfer, so you have to be on top of your studies to try and get closer to getting your degree if things don't work out for you at the next level. Interesting.
All right, So talk about Notre Dame. Media reports at Notre Dame players berating reporters after they're lost to Ohio State.
Wasn't there more? Why wasn't there more of this nationally? Is a story? Are they trying to protect Notre Dame.
I'll say that maybe they're protecting Notre Dame, the big image of Notre Dame. They didn't want to say that the students are going crazy, the football players, or they were just clearly custing their reporters in the locker room after the game.
Yeah, maybe they were protecting the imagery without fully knowing everything they're transpired. Yeah, like normally you try and protect the kids and then you try and punish them and reprimand them behind closed doors. We'll see if any day gets out, but certainly not behavior becoming of the finer arts.
Well, last, but not least House surprised. I have that Al Golden left and he came to the Cincinnati Bengals of all places.
I'm not surprised. I mean, everyone wants to scratch that tion and if you have the chance to step into the best league and show your words. Why not? He did a terrific job with Notre Dame, but Notre Dame won't drop off. Marcus Freeman is the brains behind the outfit. Congrats to Al Golton.
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I know match selection, fast, free shipping, free road has a protection and over ten thousand recommended installers. Ty rack dot com the way tyre buying should be. All right, Bucky, here we go. Big day in football. I think last week was the best day ever and the best weekend because at the college game on Monday. But it's a big ee today because the rights to go to the Super Bowl, and it's pretty good. I'm glad that both on the same day. You know, because I think it gives teams. No one gets that advantage of getting that extra day rest. I like that both on the same day.
Oh you like that. I do like that. You like having both of them on the same day. I did it too. I mean, I think a good deal. The latest start is different after you've been in addition to kind of see these things at a certain time on East Coast time, it's always one o'clock, four o'clock. When they push you back a little more for prime time, it just kind of throws your day off a little bit. You know. I'm so used to after I surely having a little bit to do kind of get to it. But now we got more time, So I got to figure out how to feel the time to take along a nap. I mean, I guess that could work. That could work too well.
By the way, before we get involved in the meat potatoes here, let's talk about your new coach in Jacksonville. How surprised were you with that situation, getting rid of the general manager to get a new coach.
Yeah, that was a bit of a surprise, right because right after the season, when they removed Doug Peterson from his head coaching job, they talked about Trim Balki being there, and the owner was pretty steadfast in his comments behind Balky, supporting him in those things. But it became a parent as they tried to get down the road with the head coaching sirch that per spot perspective, candidates had issues with stepping into a situation with Balky as the general manager, just given the reputation that he has in terms of just the relationships with coaching and all of that stuff. And I think for Shod he had to weigh what was more important have an opportunity to get a coach that you really wanted or holding on to the general manager. And at the end of the day, he bet on the head coach, allowing the head coach to help consult in the personnel matters so they can put together the best combination of coach general manager in the building to recreate the re establish the culture and see if they can get more wins on the field.
Now you work for Jacksonville to do some personnel work over there, did you give a come in contact with Bulky? What kind of a guy was he? Because from all the reports I read he was a bear to work for.
I'm with.
Look man. I would say this about Trent, like Trend has been in this thing for a long time. He's smart. He is steadfast in his beliefs and convictions regarding team building, and some of those things are traditional prototypical things where he values size and length and that stuff. I think what may be frustrated some of the people on the outside. He doesn't have a lot of availability when it comes to the media or transparency. He doesn't really let you in on the process. He is good at identifying in those things. Perhaps the thing that got him is his ability to play nice in the sandbox. Personality is everything, and how people feel about you comes from the way that you make them feel when you're in their presence.
I'll say this.
We talked about Dan Snyder and his remarks he made to those writers at ESPN dot com, the fact that he can't stand the success now of the Commanders since he's gone. I have to believe that Doug Peterson right now, who got let go as head coach at Jacksonville, could wish and pray that they don't win a game next year, that they don't win a game for the next three years. You know, that's just the way the human natures. He'll never say it, and no reporters ever going to come over and ask him that question. But the point is, I think that's the way human nature is, and that's why I have so much respect for Dan Snyder. He may have been talking under the influence of alcohol. I don't know, because he's been a drinker. However, I just like the fact that he just let it all out because I think most people feel that way.
Don't you think Doug Peters would like to see that team go down the crapper?
Yeah, I mean, thank you. No one wants to see your team have a level of success when you leave, because then it makes you appear to be not as valuable you run. Ay addition, so yeah, I understand that.
There we go.
Okay, and before we get into what you wrote this week, which was tremendous, it really was. We mentioned like these trophies and the awards and the postseason or one and MVP in the NFL. Let's talk about that for a second, because I got to believe that Lamar Jackson, the quarterback of the Ravens, is going to win the MVP t year. However, he's been announced as a first team All Pro quarterback, and he got that from the voters of the Football Riters of America and the ballots that closed on January eighth. By the AP, there's a fifty person panel. My feeling is this, and maybe on way off base here and tell me so because you have in the past. I think the MVP should not end during the regular season. I think if you're a Most Valuable Player, you're taking your team into the championship round. And the last MVP in the NFL whose team did not qualify for the playoffs was O. J.
Simpson in nineteen seventy three.
Really, and why I'm saying this because I'm going to bat for Joe Burrow.
He should be eligible, but obviously he won't get it at all. He won't do that. I think you get the comeback Player of the year. Why.
I mean, I can answer a ridiculous award anyway, comeback player.
Of the year.
But I think that the MVP trophy an award should carry over to the championship series.
And yes, you can win it if your team does not go there.
But I think more often than that, if you're an MVP, you are the guy that helped get you a team and did a championship series.
Yeah, I can't agree with you on this one. I can give Joe Burrow Offensive Player of the Year in those scenes, but team's success has to matter some. It either has to be extraordinarily individual performance, record breaking individual performance like a Sakwon Barkley two thousand yards something like that, or it has to be you helping one of the best teams in the league with your talents. If it's just about stat stuffing in those things, that can go to the Offensive Player of the Year. So Joe Burrow for Offensive Player of the Year, I can fully endorse, but can't give him MVP. And I don't want to extend it to the regular season because everyone's not gonna make the I mean, and everyone's not gonna make the playoffs. So I just wanted to be a regular season award. I want to appreciate what they do over a seventeen eighteen game schedule and rock out like that.
Well, let's talk about Jaden Daniels, first Washington quarterback, redskin and or commanders to have multiple wins on the road in the same postseason.
All right, they're in the playoffs.
They couldn't go to the super Bowl today if they win today, there's a possibility. I think that more so than maybe anybody else. And again I mentioned this early on. He's not getting any any praise whatsoever for these awards. I don't know why, because I guess they figured he'll get the Rookie of the Year award.
Maybe that's why.
I don't know. I mean, I think he's getting I think he's getting some he's getting some love. But I don't know if his numbers are enough to make him MVP worthy because when you look at his peers, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, his numbers aren't quite to that level. So that look that makes some bronze medalists on the podium stand, it's just a different deal.
Okay.
If Lamar Jackson wins the MVP, and I think he probably will, it'll be the seventh time, the seventh on the seventh three time NFL MVP, but the only one.
Without a championship. I don't know what that means.
I mean, it doesn't bode well for Lamar Jackson, but his stats are ridiculous. His rushing and passing numbers really put a shadow over Josh Allen, and I don't know how you could compare Josh Allen to the Lamar Jackson. I mean, that's what everybody's doing. I think if it came down to those two, it's Lamar Jackson hands down, isn't it.
I mean that's what I think. That's how I would vote in the regard. I would I would absolutely say the numbers are ridiculous. And even though the feel good story is Josh Allen in Buffalo surprising everybody, Lamar Jackson has outplayed him, you know he has. Now it should be a close vote, and I wouldn't even be mad if it was one of those where the numbers made it where it was co MVPs. It has to be Lamar Jackson on the podium in some capacity.
I think that Josh Allen is getting the praise. And maybe I'm more based on this one because I don't think anybody thought the Bills would be where they are right now. I think people thought the window was going to close. I'll tell you one of the reasons being is that Stefan Diggs is not there and they're a better team this year without Stefan Digs for whatever the reason, because I had read that there had been some off the field, you know, problems with Stefan Digs and various players and social players socially, not not playing wise, but the happy he's gone. I'm not saying he's a trouble maker, but he just maybe didn't get along with some of those players.
Including Josh Allen.
Maybe that's what well, Yeah, some of that is definitely true, And talking to some of the Buffalo people there, they felt like addition by subtraction was good for them. Forcing the quarterback to grow up without the training wheels of having and established them more and receiving on the perimeter would advance his game. I saw that happen in Green Bay when Sterling Sharp suffered a career ending injury and Bradforth didn't have the luxury of having an all pro receiver on the outside had to rely on the others to make plays. So sometimes you have to do that. Sometimes you have to make that that decision and go with it. But the Buffalo Bills have done it and Josh Allen has benefited. And in fact I rode in Fox Sports because we always bring up the stuff on NFL dot Com, but are just rolling Fox Sports on Friday about Josh Allen being the most irreplaceable player in the league, and in that we talked about you know how there are a lot of people that do a bunch of things, but no one does more with less than Josh Allen and their run this year has really showcased all the things that he's able to do, but also the new mentality that he plays with where he really takes care of the ball right.
And for my money, I think we both agree. I think Lamar Jackson is going to get it. I think it's a shame that I think he would trade every one of those MVP trophies in for a Super Bowl ring. I think anybody would. Individual awards are great, but I think that's a team game. You want to win something that the team could show off and that's basically what it's all about.
And I feel bad.
I mean, he had it and it wasn't his fault, but they'll say it was because the quarterback gets all the praise and the quarterback.
Gets all the criticism. That's the way it is.
That's what the position is, the way it is, that's the way it's always been. They get all the money.
Too, Yeah, they really do. Now, you did right for NFL dot Com, as you always do, and I read it this week. I gotta stop moving over to the Fox one two. I don't know how you do it. That's tough writ and two big ones. But you wrote about the offenses and the defenses of the team in the Final four and you rated them, and you said, right, offensively, the Philadelphia Eagles are the number one offense with the four teams that are playing today, and you've picked them over the Kansas City teams. And I agree because I think there's more weapons on the Philadelphia Eagles.
What was your decision on that?
Yeah, well, when it comes to like offensively, look man to fill their for Eagles are loaded with star power. I mean just loaded at every position. They have eight plus players. You think about. Two wide receivers are both Pro Bowl caliber players at Brown and tailback. See you know, yeah, Devanti Smith and aj Brown tailback. Say Kwan Barkley won the best in the business. The offensive line, they talk about that being the best. Jalalen Hurst is not an eight plus player, but man, we've seen him play at his best in the Super Bowl before. To me, I don't know if there's not another team in the league that can match them player for player in terms of talent, all right.
So we got them number one. I'm surprised at the rest of the order that you had. You have the Bills to I could kind of buy into that. The Bills too, I made. They got James Cooks running the football, Philly good and you obviously Josh Allen's all over there.
Their defense is good.
But as far as offensively, you got the Commanders and you got to Chief fourth. Tell me about that that pick in your mind, how tough a decision was that for you to do that.
It's tough, you know, like to put the Commanders there. But the Jayden Daniers thing is realter mclaur and Zach Hurtz have been really good, uh able to run the ball. But it's more an indictment on the Chiefs in terms of just their lack of firepower. Outside of Pat Mahomes playing the two main game with Travis Kelsey, this team has a tough time scoring. Offensive line as bad as you're kicking Joe Thunny all the way out from guard to tackle because you haven't properly addressed a position. Yeah, just not a lot of explosionss a very slow team to watch on tape.
They do have something that the other three teams don't have. If you ask some people in the general public, they got the officials in their corner.
That's what they guy, right, that's what everybody saying. They saying it's bias.
Oh my goodness. If they win today, would that be something I mean, came out. If there's a call today and they win the game, Wow.
Yeah, it'd be a lot. It'd be a lot to deal with. Like a lot of people would not be happy.
That's for sure.
All Right.
We move on to the defense, and again you had the same team number one ranked offense as you do in defense, and that I guess you're.
There on that. They've got the Philadelphia Eagles.
We talked about Jalen Carter and now number one and these guys are just second year NFL players and Nolan Smith, boy, I tell you what, they're difference makers.
They're sure about that.
But how do you pick them over the Kansas City Chiefs that had what eight sacks last week?
Yeah? No, here's the thing that I would say when you look at the Eagles once again, man, it comes down to star power, right like upfront first round commitments and Nolan Smith and Jalen Carl both are playing at elite levels. You didn't look in the back end. They invest in two young cornerbacks Quinny and Mitchell and Cooper Dejene made all the difference in the world with their defense in terms of being able to blanket people. Bring in some free agent guys to kind of upgrade the leadership and experience on that standpoint, Zagbond, who is getting consideration as defensive play of the Year. Chelsea Gartner Johnson won the leaders and interceptions talented team man. And I love the Chiefs, but player for player, they can't stack up with They stack up with the Eagles like that.
Okay, here here's the question.
We talk about Steve Spagnola, who's been a defensive gem, a genius, really defensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Who at one time was a head coach.
How come we never hear Vic Fangio's name mentioned when head coaching jobs are open right now in the last several years.
Oh well, I think because he's he had it before it didn't go great, And I think that's it. He's an older coach, a grizzly coach, and I know we have seen Pete Carroll come out of the rock and cheer and take over job. I think for Fanger is just a little different. I think the crustiness that he exhibited as the head coach might have been a turn off for guys that are looking for the next one to come in and kind of lead their franchise out the doldrums.
All right, we got Kansas City's you mentioned number two, They got Chris Jones after that?
Who else did I have?
They got a pretty good defensive end over there as well, But other than that, I don't think they stuck up with the Eagles defensively, So I kind of agree with you there.
But Chris Jones is a game changer, no doubt about that.
Oh is the game changer. But it's one of him, and they need more, even though they are a really good team and they'd compliment each other how they've been constructed.
All right, let's go to the Buffalo Bills right now. What's going on with the Bills defensively? Tell me about their defense right now? Von Miller is there, grizzly old pro right ed Oliver's there. So other than that, whether they have their defensive.
Yeah, what you got is just a bunch of hardhead guys. A bunch of blue collar guys that come to work. They play together as a team. Sean mcderrett does a really good job of getting them to play hard, run to the ball, execute The scheme in high level ball never flies over the head. They keep everything in front and they are masters at take in the ball away. The reason why the Buffalo Bills are sitting here now, it's because during the regular season they had a plus twenty four advantage in the turnover margin plus twenty four. They only turned it over eight times. But defensively, man, they just have a knack for getting after it. They attack the ball relentlessly, and they attack it. They attacked the ball bile also being sound and disciplining their approach. Just a will coach team who look man their individual parts would tell they after one thing, but as a unit they want the best in football.
All right, you got the Commanders the fourth team ranked for defense right now. So according to your logic here what you've written, it doesn't look it doesn't bode well for the Commanders to advance today. You don't think they Well, we'll get into that obviously when we start breaking down the games.
But it looks like the Eagle.
Is gonna be up on that because you wrote that Dan Quinn and Joe Wick Jr. Have helped the Commanders reach the Finnel four by utilizing smoking mirrors on defense.
Explain that to me. How do they do that?
I mean the schematic tricks then not line it up and just saying our guys are better than you. They do some They scheme it up a little bit to help their players getting the favorite positions to make plays. And look, it's work duck and seed jars and those things. But they do a good job in the red zone. Uh, they make the plays that are there, and they of late have been turning the ball over. We saw the Detroit Lions implode partially because of the Commander's ball hawking ways. It's a tough defense to play, despite what I would say, lacking some frontline guys, some brand names. Uh, Bobby Wagner, Yeah, Bobby Wagner. Bobby Wagner's our each you know, Bobby Wagner's Yeah. He still makes a splash play and stuff like that, and he has value, but he's not Bobby Wagner. And ad vantage Bobby Wagner in the prime of his UH Seahawks days, We'll.
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Into Baseball's Hall of Fame. You know, and you gotta believe. I know you're a baseball fan, I know you are.
You gotta believe there's gotta be a better time than in the heat of the football playoffs for Major League Baseball to come out with this announcement. It's gotta be better. I mean, it was buried. It really was, don't you think.
Yeah, it was very It's one of those things that you don't. You'd love to hear more conversation about all those guys, right, I was in Seattle when each hero was doing his thing in Washington play remarkable player in those things. I just want to know who's the descending voice, who's the one that didn't want to vote on each ero being a Hall of Famer test That's the thing that drives you.
Met rumor has it it was Rob Parker from Fox Sports Radio.
I'll what you've done that?
Yeah, yeah, hater, hater, hater, I can I can see that it's probably Rob Parker, probably probably like forty nine vs are going there. I'll just raise my hand just to make sure it's a little rock.
He hates Lebron, he hates Brady, and he hates each Row. Yeah, but I love him.
I do.
He goes visit me every year.
And Cincinnati he used to write here, you know, for the Cincinnati Inquiring Newspapy used to cover the rights. However, I will say this, I'm thinking Major League Baseball should do this. They should have their inductions as they do like we use like what the second and third Monday in July, and at that time, I announced who's going to be in the following year.
That's what they should do. Don't do it in January. It's ridiculous. It gets lost, it really does.
The discussion not only should be who is in the discussion, should be who didn't vote for each row? And more than that, how come Carlos Beltrand didn't get in?
And that's the story and no one wrote about that or talked about it.
Carlos Beltrun's just one of five players in history with four hundred home runs and three hundred steals.
He was on the ballot again.
He fell short this year, not only for the first time, not for the second time, but for the third consecutive. The year he felt short, he need seventy five percent of the votes, He had seventy point three percent of the ninety four ballots. Close, Bano Cigar, Carlos beltrunk should be in. But again, when there's no conversation and there's no talk about it, it goes by the wayside.
It was a nothing announcement. Really, I'm just no one news, so I just wanted to bring that up, give major League Baseball a little bit of a pop.
There we go.
But now now we got the football games today and the first one would be at three o'clock easton. It's going to be on Fox the Commanders of Washington fourteen and five at the Eagles of Philadelphia sixteen and three at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. And we talk about matchups right now, it's got to be the Commander's wide receiver Terry mclaur against Eagles cornerback Darius Slay. That's the that's the matchup in this game. Agreed, that's gotta be the matchup.
No, yes, you don't repeat your HURTLAWI agatting any because it don't mind.
Got command is at Eagles today, three o'clock on Fox. They're Legal Financial Field in Philadelphia, and I'm looking like maybe the key matchup to watch on this game would be the wide receiver of the Commanders, Terry McLaurin against the cornerback of the Eagles.
Darius Slay.
Yeah, that's an interesting matchup just because scary Arry can have his way with anybody. Slay is an older player who relies on instincts and savviness to make plays. Athleticism has started to diminish, and so that gives you the advantage to make Lauren. The other thing that gives make Lauren the advantages. He's gonna move around the formation. He's not just gonna line up on one side and dominate the side. They're gonna give him opportunities to do it. To me, this is a tough one on slag and so you've got to make sure you help him. Even though he has been a Pro Bowl player, there's years ago. You had to make sure that you don't get beat with the right hand. Don't allow Scarry McLaurin to be the one. Make somebody else do it, Yami Brown, whoever Zach er is. You cannot allow Terry McLaurin to be a major factory in this game.
Okay, I think that the Eagles right now have just a more talent. It's more of a talented team. You had your picks offensive defense, you had a number one in the bull the four teams that are playing today. But I heard this comment earlier this week, and I just questioned this that the Eagles are talented and they have a quarterback in Jalen Hurts who has been to the Super Bowl before, making them tough to beat. What does that mean the fact that he's been to the Super Bowl, that's why they're going to win?
I don't think that means anything.
Maybe the experience, like the overall experience that he has in terms of he's been in those big games, and so you would like to think the more that you play those games, the easier it becomes for your team to get used to it. Right. You get used to an environment, you get used to having to play and perform at that level. Maybe that's what you're saying. It gives Jalen just a little nudge because he understands what the speed is of the game it's gonna be like, and what you need to do to play really, really well.
I will tell you this much on Glenn.
I'm not an announcer of this ballgame because I think it's gonna be very difficult. You have a Jayden and a Jalen. That's tough, isn't it. I mean, think about that. I'm gonna watch that game today very close.
You see how many screw ups they make.
The good news is once a quarterback on one team, what's on the other like they're not. It's not a quarterback receiver situation that would really be nuts. But Jayden and Jalen tough. It really is confusing. I'm confused right now.
I mean it is you get it, slow down and pause every time before you do it. But yeah, it's a little different.
Right, Okay.
And honestly, I hope that the Commanders could get a running game going if they can.
And I look like.
Austin Eckler was starting to show some signs of life against Detroit, but I don't know if he could run against the Eagles. I just don't know if he can. Got to run the ball. Gotta run it.
You get to run the ball. It's gonna be tough. They don't really run it primarily with him anyway. They want to do it with Brian Robinson because he's a little thicker, has a little more force behind him. But they need him. They need him to be a factor when it comes to touch getting touches and all that other stuff.
Now, these two teams met twice this season they split, so it is a big one. So it's sort of a just the fact that the Washington command is one. It's a confidence builder, I would think. But again, I just think that the Eagles have too many weapons and I think they're gonna win. But I will tell you this, I think I may be by a field goal. I think it'd be very close.
I mean that's fair to be a close game just because there's a division game and and rivals know you're better than anybody else. That's why this was not the team that the Eagles necessarily wanted to face, even though beating them twice. Not beating them twice, but had two competitive games, and you had Jayden Daniels when the last one in a comeback, even though there's an injury that impacted it. Jada hurts going out. I don't know, man, it's tough. And they turned it over five times when they won that game, so they still have some room to grow when it comes to their ability to play.
Now, this is a Biggie six starting eastern at our Head Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri. That Bill's fifteen and four at the Kansas City Chiefs sixteen and two. And you mentioned something early on the fact that the Bills beat them early on.
What was that thirty to twenty one. I think that SCOREL was.
Sometimes you can get a false sense of confidence.
Yeah, I mean, it's not going to work against the Buffalo Bills right now. Say we beat them once, we'll put a little I are in the Chiefs saying they beat us.
I mean, how does that work.
It's a little bit of both. I mean, like, I think the confidence that Buffalo gets can help them because it was the nemesis, they were the boogeyman a little bit right, Well, well, this gives them a chance to write that, you know, to say, Okay, we know how to beat them. Then when you just need to play our game, we play our game. We wan beat him again. Sometimes you want that win a for Kansas City. You've had an opportunity to see to take see how they defended you, and see, okay, this is what they did against us. Let's see if they have answers, and then we have to test. We'll see.
Okay, you had the Bills ranked third out of the four teams defensively so and offensively you had the Bills ranked second. Then when you talked about the offense, are you talking about their offensive line as well? Because I'm looking at the Chiefs pass rush going against the Bills offensive line.
That could be a key today.
Yeah, it could be a key. And then the thing about the Buffalo Bills offensive line is they've been terrific, only fourteen sacks allowed. They've kept child Shallen upright, all those things that you love, right, But the problem is you're dealing with Chris Jones. And if Chris Jones gets on the heater, particularly in Steve's Bagnulo scheme, where they are bringing pressure from everywhere, it could be problematic. This is a game that's going to test their maturity, how they bounce back, how they handle the adjustments that inevitably happen when you have a chance to run it back. The Bills have handled everything along the way. If they play their game, they can get this. Dub just got to play your game. Can't make it bigger than what it is.
And here's the deal with the Kansas City Chiefs. They've been playing with a horseshoe up. They're real end they really have they they've been living on the ahol.
I'm just greatness.
I'm not talking about bias. I'm not talking about officiating.
They went eleven and zero in one possession games this year, all right, and it got some bad penalty calls. I get that, but I'm not blaming that. That happens. That happens in old sports. But someone's got to stand up to them right now. The Bills did once, Can they do it again? I don't think they can. I don't think they're gonna do it in Kansas City. I watched those games on TV from Kansas City. The visiting team can't even hear themselves. I mean they blow time outs during offensive places, they can't hit a call.
Yeah, it's a huge advantage. And look, man, Patrick Mahomes has heard the fodder. Everyone's kind of dismissed him a little bit. Right, we give them we kissed the ring a little bit, but not like we should. Right. Everyone's trying to find a new hot quarterback. They were talking about Josh Allen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think maybe Pat turns back to the clock a little bit, kind of gets after it a little.
I will say this much that Bill's better pass the football. I mean they've been leaning on that ground game most of the season. I think right now they gott to see if they count pass the football against Kansas City.
That's the thing. I don't know if they can.
I just think the crowd factor, it's really a tremendous factor because I've seen these quarterbacks put in their hands on the helmet, by their ears, they can't even hear what's going on. And man, that's gonna be Seattle in that place. Kansas City gotta be the two worst for visiting teams to.
Play very very difficult, very hard to uh get wins in those environments. Uh yeah, you are right, it is very tough to do that. And the pass rush the Pastors benefits from being a home Chris Jones, George carl Office. They benefit because they can get an early jump on the snap and they can that can be the difference in a game changing player.
And I'll say this, I just don't see Buffalo winning this game. I just think Kansas City. They've been there, they've done that, they used to it. They have confidence. Even if they fall behind, they know they got they got something. I don't know what it is, but they're gonna win. They're gonna win it to win closely, and I hope, I hope the goodness it is a close game with an officiating call, so people will go nuts after the game, and I hope they win in Kansas City.
Okay, what do you take a Buffalo?
Did you? Did you? I mean, no home taking Kansas City. I mean I would like Buffalo to do it actually being a part of BISFI and I understand that, but this is tough man. I enjoy seeing winners play at a high level and succeed. I just think they continue to get it done. They know how to win, and it's gonna take a look a terrific effort to prevent them from putting off this three peet.
No doubt about that. So we got Buffalo losing and we got Washington losing, and that's it. We'll see what happens. So the super Bowl will be Philadelphia and Kansas City.
That'll be the super Bowl.
We'll see.
We're gonna have our own super Bowl coming right up in just a couple of minutes. Because he's Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Ferman. We have Fox Football Sunday at Foxbuts Radio. We call it the super Bowl of Wix. That's what it is. It's by the barrel betting, and that's freaking next byton barrel betting right around the bend. He is Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Ferman. We are Fox Football Sunday at Foxbuts Ready, and we're lie for the Ti Rock dot Com studios.
All right, we got a gate to play. Let's play. Yes, it is.
It is our guy, the one, the only, Shay Shaye handling the business.
What is up, guys, I missed you guys last week we were here. I was also here, but you know, your biggest hater, you know from from back in the day. It took over. But it was a great interview. I enjoyed the interview a lot.
Andy.
Oh okay, yeah, I almost forgotten.
Yeah, yeah, I mean you're getting old tribute short memory. I got it, Yeah, I got it.
It's a memory.
So two weeks ago, Andy, not a great week for you. Andy, you got one. Bucky got four. So Andy, you were close, but no more, making the overall score Bucky forty eight, Andy forty one. If you are new to this game and you've never listened to the show before, first off, you're missing out. Second off, this is bottom barrel betting, the game where I give Bucky and Andy different sports betting lines from around the world, and they're probably lines you guys have never heard of. So let's get right into it. Yes, Round eight of the Masters, which is starting right now, and it's not the Masters that you guys have all thought of, it's the Master's chess wise, So if you're bored of us, you can go watch some live chess because it's starting right now. Leon Luke Mendosa is taking on Jordan van Forrest. Leon is a plus three seventy five, while Jordan is minus two twenty champ. Let's go to you.
Wait wait what watate Champ? What's what is this?
This is?
This isn't pattionhold, it's bias, it's facts.
It's just it's like I'm.
Just saying, let's call it what it is. Let's call it what it is.
He is the former champ.
Champions. Here.
The names are Leon and Jordan. Bucky.
Oh, Leon is Leon ready to go?
But you look named Jordan's got to be related to Michael. Gotta be Jordan. I'm going with Jordan's all right? So wait easy, that was easy.
And I was gonna give you a title and stuff, but you went right into it.
I'll give you a title, but I can't stay it on the air. How's that?
Oh? Look at you. I don't have to tell me. Let me go to break. The Dancing on Ice twenty twenty five finale is upon us, and I know Andy is excited. The top three skaters to win it all are Michelle Stration, Molly Pierce, and Sam Aston. Michelle Stration is plus two two plus two twenty five, Molly Pierce is plus two twenty five and Sam Aston is plus four hundred. The event is said to take place today at ten thirty am Pacific Standard time. We all know Andy already knew that.
Andy, Yes, dancing guy Ie. I was doing that the other day, getting out of my house, dancing on ice. However, I'm going with Antonio Pierce's doing.
To Pierce, all right, Molly Pierce it is, yeah, bucking well.
I can't go with Molly Pierce because he's all over, so I'm good the.
Other way, are you gonna go with Pierce?
Two?
No, I can't do that.
So there are two choices here. It's Sam Aston or Michelle Chris Aston. Let's do it. I love it, love it nice and easy. In the Hamball Men's World Championships, Bahrain is taking on USA. I don't know if I'm saying this. It's it's a country, Bahrain, Bahran.
Spell it b A h R.
A I N.
I don't know.
I don't know if I was saying that right. I looked it up, but Byrain Mark marks helping me out here, Bahrain, I guess. And so Bahrain is minus two seventy five, while the USA is plus three hundred to win it all. So this is probably the first time I've ever seen the US not be the uh the the favorite in something. But that's that's a hint.
That's another hit that you would give to Bucky before he got right.
But what if I was going to you first?
Andy?
No, I just went first to last night looked but you don't know that. I mean, you just don't make the rules, don't know.
No, Let's can we get the game going in let's I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but Andy, let's go, I go. I got but bahrain bahrain.
Well, I mean it was so much conversation whatever, I forgot my other choices. What are my choices? Say USA and ran in the map Oh I guess you would say, yeh like plus three hundred. Yeah, I haven't seen a Let's go.
Okay, if you like the US and you want a good bet, it's a good bet. In the Call of Duty East Sports League, Toronto Ultra Duty I do too.
I do too.
Toronto Ultra is taking on Optic Texas today at three twenty pm Pacific Standard time. Toronto Ultra is plus to run thirty while Optic Texas is minus one seventy. Bucky, Let's start with you.
You say Toronto Ultra.
Yeah with Toronto Ultra.
H yeah, we got to I got to hundred pluses.
Sweet going over with Ray.
I thought it was Mick Ultra, not Toronto Ultra.
But anyway, that in Texas Optic Texas, baby staying in the States. Love it.
Yeah, yeah, And a.
Light heavyweight bout between USA David menevie Is and Cuban national David Morrell on Saturday, February February first, at seven pm Pacific Standard time. Benavitez is a minus one ninety, while Morel is a plus one sixty.
Andy, ben Avitez, ben Avites, Benevitez, Bevidees, and uh, Bucky.
I normally would go with Benavitez, but I'm gonna go the.
Other way just because you hate Andy.
I don't hate him.
Don't use that.
We don't hate anybody. I mean, that's disgusting to say that. Eight We we don't hate.
We're in radio, you know we we we say what we think. And so you hate him. So I thought, I don't hate either of you. I love both of you. I'm just saying there might be some animosity between you two, but I don't know, not at all.
I love people winning.
I just like winning, and we all know that. The listeners can see that. Andy, any plans on what you're gonna do if we're gonna stop bottom barrel?
But soon?
Are you going to turn it around? Or is it just.
I can't predict the future? Let me just win this week? All right? We go through the super Bowl? Is that correct?
Keep it simple?
Point out of time through the super Bowl.
No way, if you go through the super Bowl, there's no way on God's green Earth that could win. There's there's not enough weeks left. Well, that's what I'm saying. Are you just putting in another dirtor are you getting that draft pick? Or are you are you saying no, I'm doing this for the fans. I think we had to dump it after the super Bowl and we'll go back to we used to have another little game we used to play.
Well, there's a couple of games.
We got blame game, we got games.
We got a lot of fun games we could play.
Pressure to do the playing game. Yeah, right now we're getting ready for the main man himself, the Swallow Dome coming up next right here, the Fox
