Jonas Knox Talks NFL Playoff Placements, Bill Belichick's Patriots Era, and much more!

Published Jan 6, 2024, 9:07 PM

Jonas Knox talks NFL Playoffs with week 18 setting up the playoff placement for teams trying fighting to get to the Super Bowl. Jonas also talks Bill Belichick's New England Patriot era may be coming to an end shortly along with other Head Coaches in the NFL getting canned on NFL Black Monday. Plus, Jonas has another fun edition Thank God For Gambling Game Of The Week, Knox Locks, Do You Care, and much more!!

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You know there is something in the NFL we should all be on the same page with, and it'll happen here not long from now. We'll tell you what it is coming up here just a couple of moments from now, though, Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. You can listen to this show as always on the iHeartRadio app. You can find us on hundreds of affiliates all across the country. No matter where you are making us a part of your Saturday morning into the afternoon. We appreciate you doing so. We will be taking you all the way up until four pm Eastern time one o'clock Pacific, and we do so live tire rack dot com Studios tire rack dot Com. We'll help you get there an unmatched selection, fast, free shipping, free road hazard protection, and over ten thousand recommended installers. Tire rack dot com the way tire buying should be. So you walk into this restaurant and you're not quite sure what to expect. You're just not quite sure, all right, you know, yeah, I mean you're hoping for the best, but you're just not quite So you take it slow, you take it easy, You order an appetizer. We'll get an appetizer to start.

Me.

Listen, the draft beer was fine, the cocktail was fine, but let's get an appetizer to start. And all of a sudden they bring out an appetizer, and you go, damn. At that moment in time, that restaurant just became legitimate. That place just became legit, and you now are a frequent visitor because although the entrees may not be fantastic, they might not be the best cheeseburger you ever had, might not be the best past you ever had, but that appetizer at least got you into the door of considering that place as a regular stop for you and the family for the next however many years that you're in the area. We need the appetizer in the NFL to deliver in order to make some things in the NFL this weekend that much more palpable, so that we can make this the weekend we all need it to be. You gotta have the Steelers win this game. And this is not a slide against the Baltimore Ravens, all right, not gonna sit here and try and piss off Ravens fans, But let's be honest here, what do you got to play for? You're already the one seed. Lamar Jackson's not playing, Obj's not playing. They're doing the right thing. There was some speculation do they play their starters? Remember a few years ago twenty nineteen, John Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson after they they showed up and came up and just completely crapped themselves against the Tennessee Titans twenty nineteen, they were the home field advantage. They were gonna it was gonna be us against everybody in the AFC, and they got to go to Baltimore and it was like, okay, you rested your starters week eighteen or week seventeen, whatever it was back then. Then you had a bye week, then you had your divisional round, like dadn't played in like three weeks. And John Harbaugh after the game said, well, yeah, you know, Russ definitely played a factor. Lamar Jackson made mention of it after that game, and it's like you could understand why they would want to avoid that. So they go out and they know they decided, hey, listen, screw it. Rest is important. We need to be one hundred percent healthy, and we'll take our chances that this is a better football team and a different football team coming up the first game we get in the postseason. So, of you're Baltimore fan, what do you care? Do you care what happens in this game? It's not like your preseason streak is still going on. Who cares? Well, we care. We need the Pittsburgh Steelers to win this game because if Pittsburgh wins this game, it opens up the door for all sorts of scenarios. If the appetizer delivers, it opens up the door for all sorts of scenarios just from a playoff standpoint alone, Like, all of a sudden, there's another team out there that everybody in the AFC's got to be concerned with. Uh oh, they won. Now we've got to deal with that. That's another possibility. Now there's that we got to worry about. Like if Pittsburgh wins, all of a sudden, they're a playoff team. If the Jaguars lose to the Titans, which is a possibility considering Trevor Lawrence isn't one hundred percent. They're not quite sure whether or not he's going to be ready to go, And you've got to go to Tennessee to take on the Titans in that spot. So if the Jaguars lose, Pittsburgh is in and look as banged up as Miami is, and as critical as the injuries have been for Miami over the past several weeks, and they are an underdog at home against the Bills, it would not surprise me whatsoever if Miami ended up winning that game. They play Buffalo really, really well. They have over the past couple of years. And if we're being truthful, it's not like the Bills lit it on fire last week. I mean, you know, kind of an ugly win. So it's not as if it's impossible to think that Miami could win that game where Tennessee could be Jacksonville. There are some factors that are looming that could result in that. So from a playoff positioning standpoint, we need the Steelers to win because it opens up all sorts of fun stuff like you need it to that's just from a playoff standpoint. And then from a player standpoint, let's say Pittsburgh does win this game. Let's say Mason Rudolph does play well. Let's say Pittsburgh is a playoff team, they get some help in those other spots that we just talked about, and next thing you know, Pittsburgh's starting a playoff game. All of a sudden, Kenny Pickett's more healthy now for that playoff game than he's been over the past month or so. And Mason Rudolph has delivered you and brought you into playoff contention and gotten you into the postseason. Then what do you do now You've got a dilemma. Now, it's not a question of well, Kenny Pickett's good enough to be the two just in case, No, no, no, Kenny Pickett's ready to play and it's a playoff game. If he's your franchise quarterback, that's the guy you go with. Right. I'm telling you, whatever you think of the NFL, whoever your team is, even if you're a Ravens fan, you should be rooting for the most difficult scenario and possible scenarios that you could possibly get this weekend in the NFL. And that's with Pittsburgh winning this game from a playoff positioning standpoint, from a quarterback decision standpoint that could only we only get that if Pittsburgh wins this game, they're gonna need some help. But it all starts with this game. It all starts with the appetizer. If the app delivers, it's a prelude to what the entre could be. And I'm telling you, if you're a football fan, that's the result you're looking for. Earleon Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. All right, so let me ask you this, who the hell would want to be a head coach at all anymore? On any level? Because I was thinking about this, Like you've seen what has happened with college football recruiting and the transfer portal and the opt outs and all the other things that have come along with it. You know that Black Monday is right around the corner. You know there's going to be like a bunch of different coaches that are going to get clipped. Like Ron Rivera's birthday is tomorrow. Like I mean, if you're Ron Rivera, I know they're going to do you a solid and wait till after your birthday to can you. But just for story's sake, Like, wouldn't you just tell them, dude, just get it done with Come on, like what I mean, listen, let's make this funny. You know, we know what's going to happen here, we know what the result is. Let's go. But the point is most of these coaches are getting one to two years and then you're turning in burning every single season. In the NFL, you got six or seven jobs that open up, and it's black Monday. Who's gonna get fired? We need? And then you look around other sports and you go, well, wait a second, So Darvin Ham's on the hot seat now, like like that's gonna happen, like like Darvin Ham might actually get clipped, Like wait a second. The Lakers were just in a conference championship last year and they just won your gimmicky rinky dink crap ass in season tournament, and now all of a sudden he's on the hot seat because they've lost four straight and they've looked like garbage since the n seed. What am I missing here? Like, if you were somebody who was wanting to get into coaching, would you not at least kick the tires on another profession? Like who would want to be a head coach? You talk about instability? Who wants it? In the NFL? You getting fired now has a name. It has been branded black Monday. Like your profession, a good percentage of it, somebody's out of a gig every single year and it's got branding now, black Monday. Like when you were given a hashtag and it's the worst possible outcome of your profession. That's not great. You know, that's not great. You know it's like earlier this week, you know what hashtag was going around Epstein Island. Not great to be associated with. It's not a great I think it's not a great thing, you know, not really ideal. Hey, what's your name associated with today? Black Monday? Sorry about that? That kind of sucks. And then you're looking around the NBA you go, wait a second, that that guy was one of four teams remaining to win it all last year. That wasn't that long ago. And they just won your dumbass in season tournament. They raised a banner and everything, and now he's on the hot seat. Okay, boy, that's fun. And then in college football, a magic is in college football, you know what it used to be back in the day. It used to be, Man, can you recruit like? Can you recruit like? That is a big part of the job. Like Ed ors Ron, great recruiter, such a great recruiter. He won a national championship Like nobody ever was out there saying Ed ors Aron great x's and o's guys. No, No, he could recruit his ass off. There was this anonymous poll that came out years ago where they were like, you know, most overrated coaches, and one of the coaches on the top five list was James Franklin, and one of the reasons was, well, all he can do is recruit. It's like, okay, I don't know, like that kind of seems like a big deal, kind of seems important. You know, it's like drafting some guy. It's like, well, well, all he can do is like, you know, jump really high, dunk and like, you know, hit threes. Boy that sucks. Wouldn't want him on your team? Huh No, I'm building the basketball team. Get him out of here. It's like, why is that an't just think about it? If that's like one of the main factors to you having success, Well, you've got to be able to recruit. Nowadays it's well not only do you have to be able to recruit, but you've got to be able to re recruit your recruits. Like half the battle now, if not more, is can you convince the players you already convinced to stay at the place that you already convinced them to go to in the first place. It's wild, Like I'm looking around, going who would want this job? Like why would you want to be a head coach? Now? Like why would you want any part of this? Well, it's for the money. They make all this money, they're you know, okay, but like that's a real grind to get to that point. And then once you get there, gone, So what's the goal? You just want to get? Like you're just looking for one contract as a head coach and then you mailed it. No, No, you want to become a head coach because that's your passion, Like that's what you pursue that, Like you take low paying jobs, like your family lives in small play, Like you come from really humble beginnings. You're working the video room, you're sleeping on the couch, Like you got to do a lot to get to that point. And then once you get there, you're hashtagged professionally in the NFL. You're already on the hot seat a couple of weeks after you win some rinky dank tournament in the NBA. And if you do finally get a gig in college football, have fun because now you've got to resell players on the idea of playing, and for you after you just did it a few months earlier, I'm out. I'm sorry. I want no part of it. So whoever's into that and whoever wants to continue to pursue it, good for you. But that seems like a miserable working existence. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox on Twitter. All right, so we are gonna have the usuals coming up here later on. By the way, is it ex Twitter? It doesn't matter, you know what I mean, that's where you find it. We are gonna have the usuals coming up later on. 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Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio you can listen to. This show is always on the iHeartRadio app. Coming up here in about ten minutes from now from the Tirak dot com studios, we are going to hand out an award. It is our final award of the year in the NFL. It'll be yours here again, coming up ten minutes from now on Fox Sports Radio. So one of the big storylines out there in the NFL as we head into the weekend, is could this be the end of the era? The end of an era in the NFL and in New England when it comes to Bill Belichick and the Patriots, and it look it feels like everything is pointing towards Belichick being gone. There's a lot of speculation out there that this is it, that he may have some opportunities elsewhere. The LA Chargers have been brought up as a potential landing spot for Belichick. Like there's like there are some spots out there. You look at it and the fact that you know this this has gone on all year long, that you know, Robert Krawd, Like there's been various reports, Belichick's been asked about it in press conferences. You know, there's people that are trying to tie some things together, like, you know, is this is Robert Kraft, you know, is he looking to part you know, part with him and then maybe bringing you know, somebody else like a former assistant Mike Rabel's name has been brought up before, you know, Girod Mayo's name is Like, it does appear that we are at the end of the Bill Belichick era with the New England Patriots, And from one standpoint, you look at it intotality and you go, damn, we will never ever see this kind of success again. He has dominated a division, a conference, and a league for over twenty years. Like just it is wild to think about the success that he has had and everyone's gonna say, well, what about without Tom Brady? What did you do? Okay, dude, Like we could play that game all day long without this guy? What was he? Without? It? Was what it was? I mean, like, like, what do you want him to do? Trade Tom Brady? Like, you know what, screw it. I'm tired of this. I'm tired of having the best quarterback in the NFL. Would you move on? Please? Like just think about it like this. Between two thousand and one and two thy nineteen, the Patriots won the AFC East all but twice, and the two years they didn't they finished second. So from one toh nineteen, New England won the division all but twice, Belichick was the coach of those teams. All right, if you want to do well Tom Brady, ok fine, Belichick was the coach of those teams. Like it has been a level of dominance we've never seen before, and it's gonna all apparently come to an end this weekend against the New York Jets. But it's got me thinking not only in totality about the run that Belichick has had in New England, but about the ending. And I'm not talking about this season where they're going to finish last for the first time. You know, the quarterback carousel has been a problem, the town on the roster isn't up to snuff when it comes to in comparison to other teams in the AFC East. But I'm talking about this Sunday. This is the end. This is the finality. And if you're Bill Belichick, I don't care what you've done over the past twenty plus years. I don't care about the Super Bowls. I don't care about the dominance of the division that we laid out just a couple of moments ago. I don't care about any of that. If you're Bill Belichick, you have to beat the New York Jets on Sunday. You don't have a choice. You have to because if you don't, the ending is going to sour everything that happened before it. Now you could say, well, nobody remembers when Joe Namath was an La Ram. Nobody remembers when so and so finished here, Nobody remember. There are times where the ending can sour everything that happened before it. We've seen it in sports. When you think of coach k how did he go out lost in the NCAA Tournament two of all teams, North Carolina. You don't think that eats at him every single day. You don't think that eats at Duke fans, knowing the greatest coach maybe in the history of the sport was our coach and his ending was a lost to North Carolina. And not even North Carolina on the road, or North Carolina in a regular season, No, no, no, no, no no. His final game ever is a Duke head coach. He lost to North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament. You don't think that eats at them, that that needles them. You don't think North Carolina fans have that on Duke. It doesn't matter what his win loss record was against North Carolina. It doesn't matter how many national championships he won. It doesn't matter how many times he beat the tar Heels and what they did against them in the acies. None of that matters forever and ever. North Carolina fans will be able to look at Duke fans and go, hey, how'd coach k go out? How'd that feel? It isn't just I mean, we've seen other examples, you know, one of the great boxing rivalries. Ever, Like, if I were to tell you this is a great rivalry, be like, what were the results? Well, two teams met four times and one team won three of those four, you'd be like, that's not really much of a rivalry. If it was two to two, I get it, that's not really much a rival No, no, no no. But like I'm telling you, this is it one of the great rivalries in boxing, and there's been several. Was Manny pacyaw Juan Manuel Marquez, and for those of you that haven't seen the fights, first of all, I recommend him. Every single fight was a classic. But for those of you that hadn't seen the fights, this is how it went. They fought the first time and it was a great fight. It ended in a draw technically, but it should have been a win for Pacquiao. One of the judges miscounted their scorecard, not even making that up. They miscounted their scorecard. Had they properly counted all the knockdowns that Paqiao had of Marquez, Paquiao would have won the fight, but that's not what happened. So then they meet the second time close fight, pakiaw wins. Then they meet the third time close fight, pakiaw wins. So you're looking at it. Listen, this is two to zero to one, but should have been three. And oh Pacquiao, why the hell would we want to see a fourth fight? And what did Pacquiao do? He accepted a fourth fight, and of course what happened in the fourth fight. Juan Manuel Marquez knocked him out cold, flat face, planted him on a right hand in a fight Pacio was getting back in and starting to run away with and Juan Manuel Marquez timed up a right hand and chalk outline Manny Pacio like we've never seen before in his career and never saw it since nobody did that to Pacquiao, not Mayweather, nobody. And what did Juan Manuel Marquez do afterwards? No, we're done here. I have no interest in fighting him again. Well why would he He got the last laugh. Yeah, but he lost, you know, two of the first three, and it should have been all three. He's down one, he's down one, three to no. No no, no, no, no no. There are some endings that land a little bit different, and that one landed different, just like Mike Krzyzewski losing to North Carolina. Carolina landed different. You could say whatever you want about their totality of their careers and their win loss record. There's a reason why Marquez doesn't need to fight Pakiao again, even though nobody considers him as good as pakiaw or his historical as Pakiao never needs to fight him again. There is a reason why North Carolina never needs to play against coach k again. No we're good here, well, no, we're all good here. Belichick has beaten the Jets fifteen straight times. This is his final game as a coach of the New England Patriots. I don't want to hear anything about the previous fifteen. If he goes out with a loss to Little Brother, the team that he resigned from about an hour and a half after he took the took the gig to go take the Patriots job. If he loses this one, that's gonna land different. And he knows it, and soa Patriots fans, you can't let this happen. You've dominated the Jets for years. You can't let Jets fans have the last laugh, because you know what you can say to them, Oh, what about all that dominance we had against you was when Belichick was head coach. You know what they're gonna say to you, How did it end? How did it end? We sent you off riding a giant fat l just like Coach k got from North Carolina and just like Pachio got from Marquez. And sometimes the ending is bigger than what happened before it. And that's what it feels like could happen here. If the Patriots come out flat and the Jets win this game. That is the dig to the rib cage, the need of the nuts, the stepping on a lego in the middle of the night that you never forget. And that's exactly what the Patriots are gonna have to deal with, and that's exactly how Belichick's gonna have to deal with. If the Jets come out and win this game, You'll never hear the end of it. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox on Twitter, and you can hang out with us as always on the iHeartRadio app. All right's coming up next here, we are going to hand out an award here on Fox Sports Radio, like we do every single week here from the ti raq dot Com studios, but for all the latest from around the world of sports. This is an award for us Ohess the first time in a long time. Make some noise for Brian Finley. Hey, Jonas.

Some people would say that the knee working on the show with you is the feeling of stepping on a lego in the middle of the night. That's what they feel like when they hear my voice on network.

By the way, is there anything worse than that?

No, terrible vomiting.

No, there really isn't, Jonas. And I've been your place and you do have a lot of legos, and there's nothing and there's no shame in playing with legos at whatever age you are.

That's not true. Listen, if you know my house, there's a bunch of monster trucks lying around. My kid is obsessed with monster jam and monster trucks. They're everywhere, literally everywhere. It was garbage trucks. Now he's transitioned up to monster trucks. I didn't even know what's next. Like what is next, like fire trucks, Like I don't even know. I don't even know if there is a progression after this. He is already into monster trucks. He can list off every He's two years old. He can list off every single monster truck by the alphabet. If I go A to Z, he can name every single one. It's unbelievable, It's obsessed.

You know what also is unbelievable is the fact that we're here on January sixth, and I just saw when you drove into the studio, when you parked your car, you still had the antlers attached to the side of your car. Jonas, It's January sixth, Why do you still have those furrery antlers on the sides of your car.

I just can't get so understanding that.

I'm not opposed to being misrepresented on the air by people I work with. It happens every single morning when I'm working with Brady and LeVar posed to that. But I will not be misrepresented as somebody who has antlers on their car after the holidays or during the holidays or any time. That is a disgrace. And if you are somebody who drives around with antlers on your car. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Well put, well put.

So we do have the college football National Championship coming up on Monday, and Jim Harbaugh was speaking to the media today, the Michigan head coach, and they'll lead up to his team taking on Washington and was asked, of course, about whether or not he's going to jump to the NFL, and he said, smugly quote all gladly talk about the future next week and a future. I hope to have one. How about that? Yes, I hope to have one. Close quote. So the good non answer answer.

I mean that's the only the beginning. What do you see the pretzels he puts NFL media in. I mean, like part of me hopes he actually takes the Patriots job, just so the media can say, finally we got rid of Belichick and get some answers around here, and then you get Harbor on answer questions next year, like that would be fun.

Well, listening to the way in which you were talking about Belichick, it seems like you and him are really good buds.

I mean, I like bell what's wrong Belichick? You don't like Belichick? Hey, Finley, let me you better mind your p's and q's. He might actually be in LA coaching the Chargers next year, so you better you better watch it. I'd better watch it. Yeah.

By the way, there is one NFL game coming up later on tonight and it's Steelers and Ravens and Pittsburgh linebacker Landon Roberts is expected to play today this according to league sources. He's coming off a pack injury, and NFL Network says Jaguars are intending on activating wide receiver Christian Kirk in time for Sunday's game against the Titans. He recently had that core muscle surgery. And lastly, we do have a bustling of college basketball games, Jonas, and know that you've got about three or four.

Of them on right now on different screens, like in your control room.

Like how do you want it?

Do you want?

You know, Villanova, Saint John's, Do you want Kansas TCU? I mean, I'm all over the place here. There's we got the Florida, Kentucky. I mean, there's all sorts of fun stuff here. Family.

Oh, I was thinking about like Sethern miss and James Madison.

Well, yeah, of course, isn't James Madison undefeated.

Yeah, that might be a different sport or actually no, yeah, it's really right.

They're undefeated.

Unbelievable, Jonas, I know, I know my college basketball. Yeah, there was no satsire there and saying that you know your your basketball. And speaking of basketball games, we've got number six Kentucky. They have taken a lead against Florida at Gainesville twenty nine excuse me, twenty nine, seventy nine to seventy six, thirty five seconds to go in the second half, and it's been a wildcat second half where they have outscored the Gators by twelve midway through the first half. Number two Kansas is bludgeting TCU twenty one to eight. So I'm not sure if bludgeting is the right word when there's only a three point differential, But why not just throw something in a little bit different eve anybody's listening, Yeah exactly, I know the fiance is not listening, So I can get away with a few things.

By the way, to slide that one congratulation.

There you go.

Is that what you wanted? Congratulations? And I want you are engaged.

I want to get this on the record. It is a living human being. This is not some blow up doll. So I want people to know that some people were trying to say that it was, but I have evidence that it's a real human being.

I mean, listen, there's nothing wrong with you know walking, Listen. Love exists even right next to an air valve, like, there's nothing wrong with that, friendly and you just do what you gotta do. Listen. I'm not here to judge. This is a judgment free show here on Fox Sports Radio.

And with that said, Jonas, I'm going to send it back to you with a new nickname, the Love Doctor, because that's what I think of when I think of you.

Thank you. There is Brian Finley joining us here on Fox Sports Radio newly engaged Brian Finley here on FSR. By the way, Family, you want to hear a good story, let's hear it, all right. So when I was in high school, I had this art teacher, and first of all, I was terrible at art. I'm just not good at it. And so I kind of had like I was getting like a c or B just because I was creative. It just never looked good. Like the intent was good, it just never looked good. I just couldn't. I I've always been bad at art, drawing things like that.

You're a Jackson Pollock kind of guy.

I'm just not good at it. I'm not. It's just not not my expertise, nor is anything else. But I remember having this conversation with him and he threw out like a college basketball like a final four result, and I told him, was like, no, that's not what happened. That's what do you mean. I was like, that wasn't the final four that year. He goes, what are you talking about? And I listed off whatever teams it was, and he goes, no, and this is you know, before I could look this up on a computer or cell phones or any of that. And then I proceeded to say, in fact, I could tell you the final four teams of the last ten years. Oh yeah. I'm like, yeah, I could do it right now. He goes, okay, he's all write him down same to me right now without looking them up on the spot, and I'll pay you twenty bucks. I was like, okay, and I literally wrote down every final four team from the previous ten years because I loved college basketball. And he came in the next day and he said, while you were right, and I was like, I told you, he goes, okay, I owe you twenty bucks. That bastard proceeded to pay me out in installments of spare change for the next month. Like I'm thinking, I'm gonna get like a Chris twenty dollars bill and look like I was working. I think I might have been working at Chuck E Cheese at the time, like I was making pennies, and I was like, man, this would be great if I could have like a fresh twenty dollars bill. You know, this could go towards me paying for my yearbook at the end of the year, which is way too expensive. And this guy came in and just would drop off whatever was in his pocket. Thirteen cents here, dollar oh five here, And it took like a month to pay off the twenty dollars. So that was that was my gift and curse at the same time. I eventually got my twenty bucks, but not without a big bunch of a hassle.

And that's the most you've ever made in a day.

Listen, I was gambling back then, Finley, how about that you thought this was a new thing. You thought knox Locks is just here, And then I was gam blenn On myself back in the day. You see, you've.

Made some good decisions though, and you're gambling.

Oh yeah, yeah, that's why I'm sitting at five hundred with one week to go. Yeah, you bet it. You better believe it. But we will get into that later on the show. All right, Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio. By the way, coming up next in a bout we'll let us say less than ten minutes from now. It is another edition of Do You Care? All right, So we're going to tell you the truth about major stories in the world of sports. But right now, it is time to hand out our award ore tg FG Game of the Week in the NFL the final of the twenty twenty three twenty twenty four season, and it goes.

To Broncos and Raiders.

Oh there are nothing screams TGFG Game of the Week like a couple of teams who have zero to play for. The Broncos and the Raiders have both been eliminated from the playoffs. They are both mediocre as mediocre can get. Now, the Denver Broncos have a bigger storyline. What happens with Russell Wilson? What do they do with Russell Wilson? Well, I'll tell you what happens with Russell Wilson. He'll be playing elsewhere next year. It won't be in Denver. The writing was on the wall when Sean Payton took the job over. This was a hope for the best. But let's look forward to twenty twenty four year for the Denver Broncos to begin with, Sean Payton is calling the shots and he makes the decisions there and they are coming to the end of this season with eyes towards the future. And then a few of the Raiders. The obvious move should be make Antonio Pierce the job, but they've got one game to play, and I got news for you. This game is not going to determine whether or not he gets the gig moving forward. Thus, this game means zilch. Fantasy football is over. But you know what's not over gambling. Speaking of gambling, that's why the Broncos and the Raiders are our tg FG game of the Week are Thank God for gambling game of the week, because if not for gambling, nobody's watching this craft. Jonas knocks here Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox and coming up next to say another edition of Do You Care? And It's yours right here on FSR.

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There are so many stories in the world of sports, and most of them are a complete waste.

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Here's some of the big stories from the last week. But Jonas, the real question is do you care?

And for that we turn it over to our executive producer Patrick sweek And to find out what the hell's going on? Pat?

Hey, Jonas, all right, welcome to Do you Care? And let's start us off with the NFL with this one, Jonas, it's the end of the year in the NFL, and with that, we have awards and more that are actually given. Well, I'll tell you one thing, Jonas, the New York Jets actually have given awards to their own players, one such being Aaron Rodgers. He was named the most inspirational player on his team. Now, Jonas, do you care that Rogers teammates seem so fond of him?

Uh? Yeah, I do. First of all, I love it here. I love the fact that this is a story written about by people in the media like I don't know who's the most inspirational player on the Titans. I don't know who the most inspirational player is on the Giants, the Bears, the Colts, have no idea, but we know who it is for the Jets, and you want to know why that is because it's Aaron Rodgers. And he continues to find a way to trigger people in the media every single week. I think it's hilarious. I hope he continues to do it. I find it entertaining. I got no issue with it whatsoever.

Next all right, Next up, we have Cowboys rookie kicker Brandon Aubrey has been lights out on kicks this year, to the extent that he's now zeroing in on the quote unquote greatest field goal season ever. If he kicks three more field goals in a row, he will break Mike vander Jacks All Tide record of thirty seven kicks in a row all season. Do you care if Brendon Aubrey breaks this record?

Yeah, I want to see history. This is He's been unbelievable. He's a former soccer player at Notre Dame. I don't think he ever kicked at all whatsoever at any capacity for the Notre Dame football team. And he was like an XFL USFL guy. And I actually I made fun of this move in the offseason because I was like, of course, Jerry Jones went out and signed some guy from one of these other developmental league or spring football leagues rather instead of, you know, signing somebody more established, like a Mason Crosby or a Robbie Gold who were available. And I look like a horse's ass because he's been lights out all year and I hope he breaks the record.

Next, all right, Jonas, the Orlando Magic will be retiring Shack's jersey on February thirteenth, and he will go down as the first retired jersey or the Orlando Magic. Jonas, do you care that Shack was the first Magic to have his jersey retired?

No, I don't care. This is I mean, like what took him so long? I mean, he hasn't been there for a long long time. It's like, are things that bleak in Orlando that now you're rolling this out? I mean, good for them, but this does nothing for me.

Next, all right, Spurs Rookie Victor Wembin Yama and Bugs Jannis nd the Goompo put on a show the other night when at the end it appeared that Wemby actually ignored a postgame handshake by Yannis. Do you care that Wemby spurned Yiannis's handshake?

No, listen, we need we need more red asses in sports. Things have gotten too soft where people are hugging and sharing jerseys afterwards. We need some enemies. We need some bad blood, we need some vitriol. That's what we need. That's what we grew up with. I need more of that in sports. Next.

All right, we're gonna go off the grid here of football. We're gonna go in the local mall of at Miami, there was speculation of ten feet tall aliens roaming the mall, but the rumor was shot down by Miami Police Department, saying it was a teen prank that went apparently wild. Jonas, do you care that a random Miami mall would be the first place for aliens to invade and show up?

Yeah?

Listen. First of all, if aliens pick Miami, you're gonna have a lot of coked up people from out o space Like that is gonna be a wild part of our lives if that actually takes place. But the fact that people actually believe this story enough to where police were called, I ought to tell you how dumb and gullible. Some people are and it makes the rest of us feel a little bit more normal. So I think I might know why something is happening in the NFL. It's actually pretty obvious if you think about it. We will get into the answers though, coming up here in just a couple of moments from now. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. You can listen to this show as always on the iHeartRadio app. You can find us on hundreds of affiliates all across the country, and no matter where you are making us a part of your Saturday afternoon, we appreciate it. We will be taking you all the way up till the end of this hour four pm Eastern time, one o'clock Pacific, and we do so live from the tire raq dot com studios ti rac dot com. We'll help you get there an unmatched selection, fast free shipping, free road has a protection and over ten thousand recommended installers. Tire rack dot com. The way tire buying should be. You know, it is kind of wild actually when you think about it. So Week eighteens, which means the cold glass of water in the face is right around the corner, right And look, I'm not trying to be negative, and I'm not trying to think about negative things. But I've always been and I've talked about this before on the show, that there are two different people in the airport. There are the people that are coming and the people that are going. Like because when you walk into the airport, when you're getting ready to go somewhere, there's a different energy. It's like a different vibe. Like you get to the security gate, it's like, hey, whatever, deal with this, sure, take your time, yea, do what you gotta do. I don't worry about it. I'm not annoyed. Nothing can bother me. I'm out of here. And then the feeling on the way back is completely different because then it's like, oh god, here we go. Go okay, like this all right? Like I every time I would fly to Chicago, when you go through Midway Airport, if you go through Midway, there's like a clear I like, you can clearly see in plain sight the other security line. Like sometimes it's obstructed the views in different airports, but you can clearly see the people that are leaving and the people that are, Like they can clearly see each other. And I just remember every time I would make eye contact with somebody that was on their way back out of Chicago. They always looked miserable. I was like, God, what's their problem? Chicago? I'm gonna understand, Like, come on, And then you find yourself there three days later and you're like, oh, I get it now. It's just kind of miserable. Like we are right around the corner from the fact that there's no NFL. We already got our first cold dose of reality on Thursday night. No NFL, no football, not even college football. All those bowl games you complain about, all that's going to be gone soon, going to be out of here, you know, like, oh, what do I care about some you know, makeshift toaster and a pop tart coming out of the bottom. What do I man, you would kill for that coming up here? In about a month or so, it's all gonna be over. So again, appreciate it. Final full slate of NFL games here. We got two today, we got a bunch tomorrow. And then everybody starts to get weeded down and weed it out, and they disappear and they follow the way. Now. The good news is the NFL's made itself a storyline all throughout the course of the year. But as far as games go, enjoy this weekend of football because it's the last of its kind for a long long time as we wait for next year's NFL season. Jonas Knox here, Fox Sports Radio. All right, so I have, by the way at the Jonas Knox already the positive tweets I've already started to come in. So we will read some of those here per usual, coming up here in the next next few minutes from now on FSR. So there's been a lot of question marks about what the hell is going on in Philadelphia when it comes to the Eagles. Now it does appear like Philadelphi is going to have to go on the road in the postseason, especially early on, because it does appear that Philadelphia is going to lose the NFC East. Dallas should win that division, They should beat Washington Philly doesn't matter what they do. The controllers out of their hands. Last week's lost to the Arizona Cardinals was a disaster. But it does appear like Philadelphia is gonna have to go on the road. The good news is they're going to take on the NFC South winner. So Philly goes on the road and they got to go play the NFC South winner. They'll be a favorite in that game. Whoever comes out of it, whether it's Tampa, Atlanta, New Orleans, who the hell knows at this point, but Philadelphia will be favored and they'll win that game. So that's a good news. I mean, we have a recent example of that. We saw it last year. Dallas finished second in the division, Dallas had to go on the road, Dallas ended up beating the NFC South winner, and then they ended up losing the next week in San Francisco. But the point is, at least you're gonna get a win in the postseason. So it's not gonna be all or not, you know, it's not gonna be like this big waste of a season with a bunch of drama and back and forth and disappointment and all the other things that come along with it. But it does get back to the question what happened? Why are we here? This team was destined for great things and now you've got security members getting kicked off the sideline. You've got a quarterback with a bocky knee and it doesn't appear like he's been anywhere close to healthy the entire season. You got a head coach who reportedly doesn't see eye to eye with his best wide receiver and AJ Brown. AJ Brown having to speak on it, Jalen Hurts talking about commitment issues, Jason Kelsey looks frustrated, like, I mean, everybody looks worn out, frustrated. They're getting booed, Like what happened here? This team was on the rise. They had found their franchise quarterback, they had paid him, They'd been landing talent left and right. They get DeAndre Swift on a draft day deal with the Lions. Like you're looking around, going like where are the holes in this roster? Yeah, the secondary's a little banged up, and yeah they can be exposed from time to time. But man, oh man, even Jalen Carter, maybe the best overall prospect in the draft, fell to them in the bottom portion of the top ten. Man. Nobody thought Philadelphia was gonna end up with Jalen Carter because a stud. All of a sudden, he ends up Because of course he would end up in Philadelphia. He played for Georgia, for God's sakes, That's how this goes. But what happened, and it seems pretty obvious to me what happened. They lost the Super Bowl. I mean, what do you mean, Like we all know this, Remember the first time you threw up on booze? Not to take a drastic dark turn here, but let's take a drastic dark turn here, because that's what we like to do on this show, right, because it's not like a bunch of candy asses who want to soft play stuff. No no, no, no no. Let's take a drastic dark turn and talk about the first time you threw up on alcohol. So when you were drinking the night before, you were making some questionable decisions. I know the first time I threw up on booze. I still remember what beer it was, and there was some other hard alcohol that was mixed in there, some shots, but I specifically remember. And this isn't a shot at a knock at the beer. I'm not taking a dig at this beer company. I just know that this is what I was drinking the night before. It was a beer called Red Hook Ale. Might have been an Ale, darker beer, I'll put it that way. And the beer is fine. People probably loved the beer For the rest of my life. The only thing I think of is that beer made me throw up the first time I ever got sick because of alcohol. Again, not because of the beer. The beer's great. It was because of the person consuming the beer. I was irresponsible. I was young, I didn't really know my way around. I didn't have my sea legs, so they say, I just didn't know a whole hell of a lot about what the repercussions would be if I have another one and then another one and then another one and then decide not to eat for hours and hours and hours and don't drink enough water, and don't pacete myself and don't take like all the other things that come along with it. But the point is, forever, I recognize that that is going to be why I feel like craft the next day. Everybody's got that one alcohol in their life. Everybody's got that one booze in their life, the one drink they had that you can never have again, because man, oh man, that's not a good idea. I know what that looks like the next morning. We know as football fans, we know his NFL fans, We know his NFL media reporters, Riders, gas bags on the radio, blowhards on TV, big mouse on social media, like we know, like, I don't care who you are if You've been around the NFL long enough, you know that the reality is when you lose the Super Bowl the previous year, the next year ain't all that hot. It's why there's such a thing as a Super Bowl hangover. So the fact that we're seeing Philadelphia struggle the way they are, we all should have probably seen this coming. It's why when the Eagles lost the Super Bowl the way that they did and Jalen Hurts was the best player on the field, I mean, there's a really good chance they never get to that point ever again. Ever, when Philly won the super Bowl the first time around, it was like, man, and they did this with a backup quarterback. Imagine what they'll do with Carson Wentz back healthy. It's like I remember saying at the time, like dude, you don't know how this works. It's really difficult to get to a super Bowl. It's really difficult to win a super Bowl. Imagine trying to get back there and do it again. And they got back there but with a completely different quarterback, coach, staff, a bunch of different players, but it was years later. It's really hard to do. It's difficult to do. So when they lost last year, I'm like, man, like, there's no like you guys think they're going to be back, Like we know this about super Bowl hangovers. What is it two three teams have ever come back and won a Super Bowl. Maybe you get to the playoffs, but more often than not, it's not like you're going to be back and actually win a super Bowl or make a deep run in the postseason. Like this, to me felt like what it was always going to be with the Eagles. The fact that they started off with the with the record that they did is impressive that should be commended. But if you go back to early in the season, man, there were a lot of games that were really close that they won that you looked at and went, I don't know, like, yeah, they won and they've got this impressive record, but it just feels like there's a lot going on there that ain't right. It always felt like this is kind of what the season was. So when everyone's looking around scratching, they're like, God, what's wrong with Philadelphia?

What do you mean?

What's wrong? What did they drink the night before? It's easy the night before they drank a Super Bowl loss. We know how this works. We've seen it all the time. You know at a Super Bowl hangover last year. I mean the Bengals. Yeah, they made a deep run, didn't end up going like you can go throughout the go throughout time. Remember Atlanta when they lost that heartbreaking Super Bowl, they were kind of like the Bengals, they want a playoff game the next year, and then they lost in the division. We know with it like, this is usually what the result looks like. Some results are a little bit some hangovers are worse than others, but make no mistake about it, they are hungover, and so maybe next year is a better year they get back healthy. I don't think Jalen Hurts has been healthy for majority of the season. Maybe maybe that's how this goes. But I'm looking at this whole scenario in Philadelphia going, yeah, this seems about right. Like if you've watched enough NFL throughout the past several years, you know this is usually how this stuff goes. And this is pretty much how it's going for the Philadelphia Eagles. So if you're surprised by it, I don't know what to tell you. They're gonna be the five seed, They'll win a playoff game, and then I don't like their chances in the next round versus whoever they get Jonahs Knox here Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter, at the Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter, which is a fine place to hang out if you want upbeat, positive conversation here on the show, because if you want people that are being infiltrated with compliments, this is the show for you. Like David who tweets in and says, Joni the bleep McAfee want to be bleep clone without any of the outs of talent, success or fame. Get back beta bleeping form against unwatchable ESPN. You bleep soyboy. 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I probably shouldn't be rooting for something to happen in the NFL, well, but I kind of am, to be honest with you, because I think it would be a really fun story, be a really fun story, like a feel good story, not one of these negative, sick, sadistic stories that I sometimes like to root for, because you know, kind of I know it outrageous people, and I think it's funny to sit back and watch the chaos. Like I've always said, one of my favorite roles in any movie is in the movie stand By Me, where there's that kid lard Ass who wins the pie eating contest and spoiler alert if you haven't seen the movie. It's not my problem. But lard Ass wins this pie eating contest but intentionally makes himself sick so that he can get sick, and then he knows that it'll make everybody else there in attendance get sick who was mean to him. It's kind of like his revenge, and he just sort of at the end of everything, when everyone's kind of, you know, blowing chunks all over each other, lard Ass has got there with his arms just looking and admiring his work, just standing back and looking at all the chaos. And that's kind of like how I am when it comes to sports, you know, like sometimes I just like to sit back and look at all the chaos because none of it really bothers me. But it is hilarious just to see some of the outrage as some people have with some of the stuff that goes down. So there is a scenario that could play out in the NFL that I'm hoping for, and it's not one of those. It's actually a feel good story that'll be yours here coming up in about ten minutes from now. There is the potential of something happening that I don't think a lot of people thought was possible. But the more that you hear things start to come out, the more that you wonder, oh god, this could actually be a real problem, Like this could actually be the end of an era for somebody else in the NFL. Now, we talked about the Bill Belichick situation with the New England Patriots, to where if you're Belichick, like I know that you don't think short term when it comes to your entire career with the Patriots. You're always going to think super Bowls first, and you're gonna think about all the success you have first. But if you're Belichick, the ending has to matter, like the end, Like you got to go out in the right way, and the right way to go out is beating the Jets again. You've beaten them fifteen straight times. Why don't you just make it an even sixteen? All right, Well, let's just get to that even Nember. Make it a sixteen and then go on your way and you'll take your five win season to close out the year. But at least you know you swept the Jets, you beat them in your final game as Patriots head coach, and then you can go off and live your life in peace. It's like if you lose to the Jets, they're always going to have that one on you, like, oh, what about that last time we sent Belichick into retirement, Like that's what they're gonna do, and that's gonna bother him. That's gonna eat it him, much like coach k against North Carolina. It's gonna eat at him. And so there is the potential that Belichick is gone after this year. But that is fun final memory and moment as Patriots head coach is losing to the team that he'd been bullying for the past twenty years. You can't let that happen. You gotta beat the Jets on Sunday. You have to. But one of the other names it's been sort of tied to the Patriots job is Mike Rabel. And the more you're hearing stuff and reports from various people, whether it's Albert Breer or Adam Schefter or you in Rapaport, the more that you hear this stuff come out of Tennessee, the more it feels like it's a kind of a strange spot that Rabel's in, because it does feel like a little bit of a transition, you know, maybe there's a little bit of a rebuild going on there. They gave it a rum this year, but like you think, maybe Will Levice is the guy, but you still got some other decisions to make. Maybe Derek Henry's on his way out, maybe you're moving off of him. You know, who knows if DeAndre Hopkins is going to be a long term fixed there. He has had a really nice year for them. But it like, if you look at that division, it's like, man, Houston feels like they're in a great spot. Indianapolis is doing all this with a backup quarterback. The guy they drafted isn't even there. They feel like they're in a really good spot. Like it does feel like looking around, like, Okay, Jacksonville, it's been kind of an up and down year, but they've got their friends. It does feel like the one team that is in sort of this limbo is the Tennessee Titans. And the more that you hear reports come out of there, the more that you're hearing rumblings that Rabel may not see eye to eye with members of the front office. It's a brand new GM there, Like maybe Mike Rabel, you know, his idea for where he's gonna like, you know, Vrabel's talked about he said, well, you know, I hope to be here, but the fact that they're even asking the question, I think is telling. And Mike Rable is going to be one of those guys to where if he's available, he'll get hired immediately. Like Drod Mayo is a great candidate for the Patriots. They're very high on him there. He seems to be the heir apparent. But if Mike Frable was available, or they felt like he was going to be available, or they could have him, you don't think Robert Kraft would want to hire Mike Rabel a guy who knows the Patriots way. He knows Patriot way, he knows the Patriots' success, he knows everything about the organization. He's been there at the highest of highs, won Super Bowls there like, you don't think Mike Rabel would be a guy people would jump at. Which is what makes some of these other jobs that much more interesting, because all of a sudden, it isn't like a normal hiring cycle where you know you've got some you know, potential name bro, You've got Bill Belichick, the greatest head coach of all time, he's going to be available. You've got Jim Harbaugh, who's going to be out there, out and about and available. Like, you've got a lot of potential and a lot of landing spots for coaches out there, like Ben. Like there was a report from Albert Breer that Ben Johnson, the OC for the Lions, that David Temper of the Carolina Panthers would just hand him a blank check and say, hey, I got a young quarterback. He's a number one pick. Love what you did in Detroit, love what you did with Jared Goff. Here's a check please, Like, there's a lot, like there's a lot of big names out there, and a lot of stuff that's out there that is gonna, like maybe make some teams consider making moves and moving off coaches that maybe they weren't originally planning to. Like, I don't think Arthur Smith should be canned. Arthur Smith deserves another gag, another shot at this. But he deserves another shot at it with a quarterback who's a viable option, Like he's kind of had to work with whatever the organization decided to do. Look, Deshaun Watson was there. They didn't want to give him all that guaranteed money, otherwise he'd be in Atlanta. But I've talked about it on the show. If the Bears move on from Justin Fields, and I think they're going to man Atlanta makes a ton of sense. Grew up in the area, A lot of people love him in that Arthur Smith system. I would love to see him get another opportunity. But if you're Arthur Blank and you're looking to make a move and you realize, oh wait a second, Belichick's going to be available, Harbaugh's going to be available, You've got other owners that are willing to spend and out that you got to make your move now. Maybe Vrabel's available. There's some people who think maybe Mike Tomlin could be had. There's even the rumor that's out there that's a real one that Dan Quinn is in his final year as defensive coordinator for the Cowboys because he might take over it in Seattle this year. Albert Breers brought that up with us before to where Pete Carroll could be on his way out, he could be stepping down and retiring, and dan Quinn would be an air apparent in Seattle because he coached there, won a Super Bowl there as an assistant, and they have such a close relationship. Like, with this much potential on the head coaching market, I want if there's gonna be teams that make moves that you are surprised by, Like I don't think the Bears are gonna fire Matti Ebraflus. I don't think it's happening. But if they, you know, all of a sudden, they're looking around and Jim Harbus says, I want to go to Chicago. I mean, do they consider it, they make a move. I'm look, if you follow baseball, nobody thought Craig Council was going to be managing the Cubs this year. He is because they realized, oh we could have him. Like they're like, there's the potential for a lot of stuff out there that could go down. You've got a brand new owner in Washington. Maybe he's willing to spend big money like the Raiders. Antonio Pierce feels like he's the guy. But if you believe anybody out there that that that knows a thing or two, like there's a potential. Mark Davis is for sure gonna call Jim Harbaugh and say, what would it take you coached here before you started your coaching career before here, Like, what would it take. So you just start to see some of the names out there and it's like, man, these may be surprising, but in an off season like this, I think any job is up for grabs. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio within reason by the way, within reason, right, not any not just any job, but there is within reason some jobs that are up for grabs. All right, So you can hang out with me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox Coming up next here we are going to take a closer look into what would be a really fun story in the NFL playoffs. For as long as it lasts, that'll be yours here on FSR. But for all the latest around the world of sports, make some noise for the newly engaged. Oh, thank you, Bryan Family. Thank you Jonas.

That's so kind of you, by the way, and I can't believe that she said yes and yes, she is a human being.

Why why though, family? Why do you uh you're surprised? She said? Yes? Why I think your catch dude? Am I?

Yeah, okay, you like that. I'll take the self confidence boosts.

Any take a deal.

Yeah, by the way, I like to take one of your terms here as we look at NF today, Is it considered with the two games today, is a double barrel action?

No, because they're back to back, aw Man so, and I'm glad you bring that up. So there's a clear double barrel scenario on Monday Night football at least a couple of times a year. Well, I hope it's more than a couple of times. But this past season to where you had side by side two games going on at once, and I brought up that term on the show in the Morning with Brady and LeVar and I was made fun of by Dan Levatard, who apparently was listening to the show and was mocking my calling it a double barrel action in the NFL, which, you know, a bit insulting. I like Dan Levatard, but it was a bit insulting. It was double barrel action. And it's actually a term taken from baseball to where when there were two relievers going a writing a lefty, the announcer would go or the broadcaster would go, we've got double barrel action going onto the bullpen. And so I took that term and applied it to the dual Monday night football games, and so it is not technically double Barrel. It's simply back.

To back or double header if you will, Oh, Jonas, you broke that down so splendidly.

You like that.

I like that.

By the way, broadcast professional, I.

Hope you don't read the tweet that was directed at both of us or whatever the X comment from Eat blank and Die. That's the handles big fan of the show, A big fan of the show. Yeah, so I don't know if we can read that on the air, but yeah, but so yeah. As far as those two NFL games that are going on later on today, we do know according to NFL Network that it looks like former Ole Miss rebel and left tackle here Pro Bowl guy Laramiets Huntsol, dealing with a groin injury is expected to be back in this game today.

For the Texans.

It's also appearing as if Will Anderson Junior dealing with an ankle problem, we will be able to go. So we have, of course that Texans Colts game. Also the Ravens and Steelers will be going ahead to head some inactives for Baltimore in that Game's a Flowers, Odell Beckham ju you're Lamar Jackson is going to sit this one out.

For Rest purposes.

Trevor Lawrence got on the plane headed to Nashville on that what do you think do you think he's gonna play tomorrow? They haven't said, but he's on the plane, Jonas, Do you think that might give it away?

I mean, I just love when we get that sort of ut so and so's on the plane, like who was it? Like there was somebody that happened recently with where it was like, uh, you know, for the record, so oh it was when Joe Flacca was spotted on a plane headed to Cleveland. It was like, oh, you know, what does that mean? And next thing you know, he's like the comeback player of the year, you know, Like so, I mean, look, it's something. I mean, I like that we're getting that sort of that sort of coverage here. Family.

Yeah, you're more you are a TMZ kind of guy, and you know, I feel like that's that's the kind of TMZ news that that you're always behind, always top of your game there.

Well yeah, I mean, come on, you know me, I hang out with those The TMZ cameras follow me all the time.

They do.

They tell you they follow you all the way in the ditch, right into the Dollar Tree that's where they follow me.

From from dollar tree.

To making that dollar, and that would be in college basketball. A lot of these guys are with the nil situation, and we did as some top twenty five games go on. Number six Kentucky coming back and beating Florida eighty seven to eighty five, outscoring the Gators. The Wildcats did by ten in the second half. Number eight North Carolina buzzing past number sixteen Clemson sixty five to fifty five. The Tigers went one of eighteen from three point range, which I think, going back to Jonas your JV basketball days, I think that was your stat line, one of eighteen. It's not true point range.

I was.

I was one of two from three. When I played CYBA, I had two three point attempts. I was one of two. So fifty three point.

Shooter, okay, And you got in the game for I think two minutes that season.

Well, no, that's not true. But the final four game, we played the best team, and I believe we were significant underdogs. Were lost by eight, but we were double digit underdogs. So if you had us, you won money. But I hit a three from the corner and then my last three was like a desperation. We were just trying to get back in the game and the clock was winding down. So I don't know if you really I mean, technically it counts as a three, but threes that mattered one for one in my career.

That's dotistic.

So why don't you put that in your tennis racket pipe and smoke it.

Let me tell you something, one hundred percent.

That's about as many as far as percentage of your gambling.

Picks that you hit.

Right, No, absolutely not.

I'm more like a Chris Dudley at the free throw line. Way, Why do you get to mock Chris Dudley? What was wrong Dudley?

Hey? What was his Uh? It was under forty Where can we can we fact check that? Can somebody look up Chris Dudley's free throw percentage? You're saying it's thirty seven percent. I'll take I'll take the over Finley.

It is definitely I'm looking it up right now. It is deaf only worse than Shacks. Okay, had a free throw percentage of forty five point eight in his career.

It's yeah two google okay, So look, you disrespect Chris Studley. He was good for you know, not less than one of two.

Yeah, I mean, what's wrong with little hyperbole? Like nobody does it on the sports radio hemisphere.

Right, nobody does that? Nobody?

Yeah?

Yeah.

And then I'll leave you with this, Jonas, because I know that you are really invested in all these college basketball games. At number three Houston trying to go to fourteen and zero on the season, and they have taken a crowbar out on West Virginia fifty seven to twenty seven, fourteen forty two to go in the second half. Jonas, did you get key under over for that one?

I don't know.

Kevin pittsnogling walking through that door, though, I'll tell you that that's a bad look for West Virginia.

Remember air Bear? What was his name? Air Bear? For West Virginia as well?

Yeah, oh yeah, that's right, Yeah, I remember him.

They had that great NCAA Tournament game against Wake Forest and Chris Paul. I think it went into double overtime. I remember that back in the.

By the way, speaking to West Virginia. What's Bob Huggins up to see? Uh?

What do you think he is doing now that he's no longer What do.

You mean drinking? What do you what tuggets doing. What do you mean you know better than that?

Yeah, that's that's about all he can do. And don't know where else he's gonna go without getting called out.

He's fine, Yeah, he's fine. Well listen, I mean a lot going on, a lot going on in college football, and a lot going on in the life of Brian Finley. By the way, for those of you wondering the tweet that Fendley referenced earlier, very insulting tweet. But what we you know, if you know this, show, the last thing we want to do is give any attention to the negative stuff on social media. Uh the Twitter account s, and Die wrote in and says, let me guess Brian Finley's fiance's name is Pauly Erathane. So show, Yeah, I don't know if you if you want to comment on that friendly, but happy New Year to you and yours.

This is one of the nicest things anybody's ever said to me. And this isn't any time to the movie along game Paul, So this has nothing to do with that should be the name of my child one day.

Thanks family, Thanks for being a good sport there. He is the great Brian Finley with us back on Saturdays, slumming it with us here Saturday afternoons on Fox Sports Radio Jonas Knox with you here at FSR. Now to pay off the teas, I think it would be fun to have Gardner Minshew in the playoffs, So just put it that way, all right. You know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bloviate too much about it, but it would be fun to ed Gardner Minshew in the playoffs. He has been tremendous for the Indianapolis Colts as a backup quarterback. Take it up early on and if you listen to any of his commentary while going against Max Crosby on the sidelines, it's fantastic. He would be a lot of fun in the NFL playoffs, so Indianapolis can get in. They can obviously win and get in later on tonight against the Houston Texans, not the Demico Ryans and CJ. Stroud wouldn't be a good story, but Gardner Minshew and company would be a really fun story. And to see where they were pre season with the Jonathan Taylor drama, with the Jim Mersey drama, all the other things that came along with it, losing their rookie and their starting quarterback early on. That would be a tremendous story for the Indianapolis Colts. I'll also say this, and just I want to hit on this quickly. The Darvin Ham stuff with the Lakers is hilarious. There is the potential that this in season bag of crap tournament that the NBA tried to roll out and tell you was important and actually mattered, is going to be one by the team who then a few weeks later fired the coach who won the title as they raised the banner up to the rafters. Do you know how comical that is? And if I'm Darvin Ham, I don't want to lose my job. But the sense you get from Darvin Haam is like, Dude, I'm a grown man. I don't need to deal with this crap. I don't need to do like I took over a bad team. We were in the conference chain, we were in the conference finals, and then when your bs garbage rinky dink clown show circus tent tournament and then a few weeks later, I'm fired because my team was underperforming. There is a hilarity to that that I just want to see happen. Just from that standpoint, because now all of a sudden, nobody you're gonna get labeled with the jinx like the Madden curse. Now it's the nd season tournament curse. Hey, who everyone's that nd season tournament watch out. You could be on the hot seat a few weeks later, like it could actually go a long way and getting rid of that gimmick and that garbage they have tried to roll out this year. It could go a long way and making that happen. So from that standpoint, keep your eyes on the situation in LA with Darvin Hand, because it is a clown show developing right in front of our very eyes. Jonas Knox here on Fox Sports Radio. Coming up next here from the tire Rack dot Com Studios. We're going to close up shop with another edition of Knox Locks, and it's yours here at FSR. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio coming up top of next hour a little over ten minutes from now from the tire Rack dot Com studio. Stick around for Moncy Bolanos and Alex Curry who will be taking over these airwaves. Always a good listen, Make sure you leave it here and stay locked in because Moncy and Alex will be taking over here again a little over ten minutes from now on FSR. A reminder that shortly after this show, our podcast will be going up, So if you've missed any of the show, be sure to check out the pods. Search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast. You're gonna find all sorts of stuff in there. You're gonna find out about somebody who got engaged. You're gonna find out about Black Monday, the potential of a move in the NFL that would surprise a lot of people, some chaos we should be rooting for this weekend, a miserable job in the world of sports. Not the gambling we talked about last week, but something else. We're going to talk about how it really means to go out on a high note. All that fun stuff here, plus the usual grabss in shenanigans you can find on the pod. So again, just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast. Be sure to also follow, rate and review the podcast. Again, search Fox Sports Radio orerever you get your podcast. You'll see today's show posted right after we get off the air. I will also tweet out a link to that podcast at the Jonas knocks. But right now it's time for this he lock it, let's not it.

Knocks Loucks.

Now, we start off every week in Knox Locks looking back at the previous week, and if we look back at the previous week, it's clear that we were not on the right side of the Lions Cowboys game. We had Dallas minus five and a half, and of course, while everybody else was complaining about whether or not somebody reported and didn't report and what happened on that two point conversion, we were sitting there looking around, going well, this doesn't help us. We had the Cowboys minus five and a half, so that was a loss, but we did bounce back. We had the Ravens minus three and the Chiefs minus six and a half. Thankfully Harrison Butker showed up for Kansas City because that helped us get to that point. So it was a two to one performance last week. It puts us at twenty four twenty four and three with one week left to go. We've never gone under five hundred in the history of Knox Locks here at Fox Sports Radio. So let's see if we can keep the streak alive. Jad said, Patriots, I mean, I gotta go with the page you have to. The story's too good, and I'm willing to put my reputation on the line and our win streak on the line with an awful team like the New England Patriots. I like the Patriots in this spot. They are a two to two and a half point favorite depending on where you look. But I just don't see them sending Belichick out on the wrong note. Just for the story's sake, I'm willing to roll with the New England Patriots. We're gonna get snow. It's gonna be quite the scene there the swan song for Bill Belichick with the New England Patriots. All right with the Pats, Bears and Packers. Bears are one of the hotter teams in the NFC. Green Bay's playing well. They're playing for a playoff spot. But I like the Bears in this spot, and they're getting three points on the road. The Bears defense has been one of the bright spots in the NFL over the past several weeks. The passing game, the offense with Justin Fields is coming along. I think the Bears figure out a way to keep this game close. I'll take Chicago on the road. Bills and Dolphins. I'll take the Bills. Look, there are two and a half points. It's on the road, but Miami's dealing with injuries, Buffalo's hot. It feels like one team going in one direction and the other going in the other. So I will take the Buffalo Bills in this spot. And that is your Week eighteen edition of Knox Knocks. I want to give a thanks to Patrick, to Chris, Brian Finley, Brion crandall behind the scenes. It has been a good show. It's been a fun one. Thanks for hanging out. Moncie and Alex are next hear from the tire rac dot Com studios, shownas Son of a Bitch.