Fox Sports RadioSteve Hartman & Monse Bolanos Talk Bears Being Ugly, Bengals Vs Broncos Craze, NFL Inconsistencies, College Talks, UCLA Basketball Win, And More!!
Steve Hartman and Monse Bolanos discuss the ugliness of the Bears organization with this recent game on Thursday. Steve and Monse also react to the OT thriller between the Bengals and the Broncos with the Bengals winning late in the game. Plus, Steve and Monse talk more on the inconsistencies in some NFL teams, UCLA beating Gonzaga in Basketball, Gameday Geniuses, and more!!
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio live in the dream once again here on a fully loaded Sports Saturday. This is Fox Sports Saturday, and we're broadcasting live from the ti raq dot Com studios ti rack dot com. We're gonna get you there and on match selection, fast reshipping, free road as a protection over ten thousand recommended installers, tie iraq dot com the way tire buying should be. It should come as no surprise as I am seated next to Moncy Belanos here that she has her charger cap on to celebrate the LA Chargers clinching a playoff spot with their demolition of the hapless New England Patriots.
This is a team again, Monsey. I look at it. I have all the faith in the.
World at Jim Harbaugh, but I looked at that roster and said, it's gonna take a couple of years before he can get this team to that playoff level. The fact that he has done it his very first year, uh, obviously tells you a lot about it. Is there a difference between Brandon Staley and Jim Harbaugh?
Is not a day.
It's literally not a day.
But congratulations, You're Chargers aren't in the proceeds and by the way, getting healthy at the right time of the year exactly.
I mean, we're gonna definitely miss you know, a couple of our running backs that have been hurt, and it's gonna be it's gonna I don't think we will win the Super Bowls, but I do think whoever we face, we're going to give them a hard time. I do believe that the Chargers week one to what we're seeing now is not the same team. It seems like the plan that Harbor had really was a we're gonna build up this team one week out of time. We're gonna focus on defense first and then worry about offense later. Because it's not the same team we saw. We were joking, you know, in the off season, who's gonna be a receiver? Are they gonna get somebody off the streets? Should I go audition and be a receiver? We joked about that. So it is incredible to see this turnaround happen so quickly. But that is what happens when you actually have a leader leading your team like they are so disciplined, a team that I had seen make so many mistakes throughout the past couple of years, annoying mistakes. They are disciplined, and here they are going to the playoffs. Very exciting and like you said, getting healthy at the right time. And again, the team that we're seeing right now is not the team we saw weeks one, two, three, and four.
It's a different team.
Well it is a very different team.
But you know, if you go back to the beginning of the year, Jim Harbob made it clear recognizing they are very limited in weapons. For Justin Herbert, they just didn't have a lot there. They didn't really have an established tight end. You had no depth at wide receiver.
I mean JK Dobbins.
If JK Dobbins doesn't get votes for a Comeback Player of the Year, I don't know what that awards all about. I mean, the guy played nine games over the last three years and suffered every imaginable leg injury you could have and still is able to I'm back and I have a very productive year for the Chargers. But you know, he wanted to run the football, and he recognized where's my strength offensive line? Okay, we have offensive line strength, and then he just basically got into the head of his very smart quarterback, Justin Herbert.
Just don't do anything to screw it up. All right, We're going to run the ball.
It's amazing, right, Brandon Stay was a defensive guy, and the Charger defense got worse and worse under Brandon Stately, Harbaugh's not a defensive guy, and suddenly the defense became dynamics. So they did everything they do to max out the talent they had on this team. What's interesting about the Chargers, Now, this is always tricky at the end of the year as you get into week eighteen. So the Steelers have lost three in a row, and now the Steelers and Chargers are tied. There's a big difference between being the five seed and going on the road against the Houston Texans that have completely lost it absolutely, or being the sixth seed and on the road again Sto, I don't know the Baltimore Ravens right right, Yes, So the Chargers could say, all right, we've clinched a playoff spot, we can't win the division, we're gonna we're gonna rest some bodies, you know, But do you really want to rest bodies when you have a chance. And I'm looking to the Steelers right now, they're gonna be hosting the Bengals.
The Bengals could win.
Now.
If the Bengals win today, they obviously keep their playoff hopes alive. There right now, leading the Denver Broncos seven to three, We're just at the start of the third quarter. How is this game so low scoring? Very bizarre considering how bad the Bengals defense.
Is and what they've done the last couple of weeks.
And yeah, and how good the Bengal offense has been good right now? Seven to three.
But if Bengals win that all of a sudden puts them in a position to really have a chance to win that game. And if the Steelers were to lose and the Chargers win, Hello Houston, good Bye Baltimore. Yes, so it's gonna be an interesting play based on what happens in this Bengals Broncos game as the choices for the Chargers next week.
Yeah, obviously I don't like to let's play for the easier route.
I don't want to play it that way. Now. I do think that some players can rest, but one of them.
Should not be Justin Herbert. I'm not saying he has to play the whole game, but he should play. In Week eighteen, he should get out there. He should go through the motions of a game and we should just see what happens. But don't try and play for the easier route.
I don't like that.
Go out there, try to win with the players you have, but don't try in you know.
Well, And again the Chiefs in that final game.
This again is there's only one team that gets a bye, right And if you're the Chiefs and you got that buy wrapped up, do you really want to take two weeks off?
Yeah?
So that's another one. The Chiefs really have to decide if they want to rest players. And I am gonna say the same thing. I would rest Chris Jones, you know, I would maybe rest Travis Kelcey.
I mean, anybody that has seriously banged up. Yes, but why not Trick Mahomes doesn't.
Want to play, he should absolutely play.
Remember, Mahomes plays more in the preseason than most E league quarterbacks because he likes to get out there and get some of the reps and get ready for the season.
So it's it's that time right now.
So the Chargers are now the sixth team to clinch a playoff spot in the AFC. The Broncos can get in if they beat the Bengals today, but right now they are trailing the Bengals by a score of seven to three.
Yeah, I just I think at this time of the year, you have to be careful.
Yes, you know, on the idea of losing momentum.
Everyone's banged up. I mean, you know, everybody wants to rest. Believe me.
For teams whose season will end, those players can't wait to go off somewhere and start healing their body because it's a process. But if you're in the mix, you know what. Taking time off. We've seen it time and again where teams just come.
Out flat, not always beneficial, and the other.
Team has built a little momentum because they're coming off a win exactly in the wildcard round.
They're feeling good about themselves.
And that's why it's so rare when you look at the super Bowl where you have matchups of the two top seeds, it's very rare.
I mean.
The thing though, the Chiefs are not a normal team, right the Chiefs are the Chiefs can do whatever they want. In reality, they can approach this bye week however they want because they're the Chiefs and they've proven over and over again that they are the best team in the NFL and they're going for a three p for a reason. So whatever they do I don't think is something that maybe other teams should look at. It's like every you cannot, you cannot compare yourself to the Chiefs and what they do. I do think that they will rest some players who may be banged up, but like Hollywood Brown, who they just got back, he should be out there going through the reps, going through it with Patrick Mahomes because he just got back.
Keep them, you know, running. But Travis Kelsey, he's probably banged up. He's you know, he could probably use a little break.
And I don't know how they're gonna how they'll do it, but yeah, it's it's tough.
But again it's the Chiefs. It's the Chiefs. I don't even think they're worried about it, Steve. They're like, yeah, we're good.
Well we're chilling I Again.
Every week we've been harping on the Chiefs at how unimpressive.
They looked really good in this last U game.
They've looked better the last couple of weeks. And so's Patrick Mahomes.
Yes, and so as I've said, many times, whether you believe. Look, no teams won three straight Super Bowls. There's a reason. I remember in the nineteen ninety season, the forty nine Ers are coming out back to back Super Bowls. Montana's had another MVP year. They're playing a Giants team without their starting quarterback Phil Simms in the NFC Championship game, and you're like, this is the year forty nine.
Ers is going to win three in a row.
And the Giants defenses came up big five field goals and they win the game like fifteen to thirteen, and they go on upset the Bills in Super Bowl twenty five. There's a reason why no team has won three straight Super Bowls. There have been plenty of teams that have been a prime position to win three straight Super Bowls, but something happens along the way. But that being said, I would not bet against the Chiefs.
I would not either.
And you know every team their goal is to upset the Chiefs. Every single team is like, we have to take down the Chiefs. They know that, they know that it is difficult to do.
But yes, the Chiefs look good.
They I know we've been talking about them, but in the last half of the season, they look different than the first half of the season.
The Rams and the Cardinals will play. That game will be kicking off here in a couple of hours. The Rams will clinch a playoff spot with a victory against the Cardinals today.
Of course, the Seahawks won.
Yeah, you know, the Cardinals want to play spoiler. That's the thing. It's it's a divisional game.
So even though the Cardinals are out, Cardinals are like, we want to play spoiler.
Well, remember they beat the Rams forty one to ten. Oh yeah early in the year. Blew the doors off the Rams early in the year. But again, this was a Rams team that started one to four. They won eight of their last ten. Interesting side note about if we end this day with both the Chargers and the Rams clinching playoff spots.
The Rams have now.
Been in LA since the twenty sixteen season, and the Chargers came the following year. You know, there's a whole generation now that doesn't remember the Saint Louis Rams or the San Diego Chargers.
Yeah, and you were, I mean.
We talked about this last year when Brandon Staley and Tom Tellesco were let go by the Chargers. Te Lesco's firing was most interesting to me because John Spanos, the son of Dean Spanos, the owner, is the head of football operations as the boss's son. Good guy by the way, John Spanos, I don't have anything personal against him, but I also knew this. Tom Tellusco was his best friend. That's when I knew the League had intervened. Ah where the Basically, the League basically said, all right, we have too much on the line in LA to watch this franchise fail.
Just be just medio Dean.
You are going to pay Jim Harbaugh whatever it takes. That's why when they had the introductory press conference, Remember Dean Spanels looked like he was gonna throw off standing next to Jim Harbor.
You would have thought he had had a smile on his face. We just got Jim Harbaugh.
He literally looked like he was gonna throw up that day because he the league said, you are.
Going to pay him.
But the fact is here in Los Angeles where we do our shows, there's still not that overwhelming buzz about the Rams and the Chargers. I was hearing my my dear friend Matt money Smith, the voice of the Chargers on the radio, make a play on the broadcast today that you know, there's there's more Charger fans here on the road than ever. I'm sure there's like you know, twenty yeah, like yeah, yeah, you know, really decked out and you know, in the cold over there in New England. But it is a process and it's gonna be interesting to see what it's gonna take. Can it be done for the RAM and the Chargers, even with on field success, to come anywhere near the level that the Dodgers and the Lakers enjoy in the city of La.
I don't know if they will reach that, to be honest with you, even even if we say the Chargers are successful, because this year there have been more Charger fans at the games. We have season tickets to the Chargers, and we notice the difference in this year's games. We sit on the visitor side on purpose, just in case we don't want to you know, we want to sell the tickets. It's easier to sell on the visitors side, ye, So we sit on the visitor side, and like we've noticed, like wow, there has been an increase in Charger fans game after game that I do.
I do think Jim Harbaugh is a big part of that.
Oh big, absolutely everything.
But it's going I don't to say, could they reach what the Lakers and the Dodgers are I don't know.
I don't.
It's gonna be hard, especially with two teams. Right, the LA fan base is split. You got the Rams on the Chargers. It's not like it's one team that everybody's just going to go to.
The Rams won a Super Bowl, right so far right, and we're the Bengal fans outnumber the Rams fans five to one that day. And has it taken the Rams to the next level?
Not at all at all that that Super Bowl happened twenty years ago exactly, not within five So it's crazy.
It is.
It is baffling because if you are listening from an NFL city or like, what is up man, NFL rules our city. It's not Major League Baseball, it's not the NBA, it's not the NHL.
It is all about the NFL, but not in LA.
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Steve Harvey, Montsey Belanos. Here Fox Football Saturday. We're live from the tire Rack dot com studios. So the Bengals got a field goal, increasing their lead to ten to three over the Broncos nine minutes ago in the third quarter. Really a surprising game score wise, Joe Burrow, not much going on today. Nineteen or twenty seven hundred and seventy eight yards and a score. Montsie and I were talking, you know, next week the Chiefs will play the Broncos. Yes, and again the Broncos need to win a game, and we knew it was going to be a tough game. Against the Bengals team on the road when the Bengals still have a shot at the playoffs. But if you're the Chiefs with this option, am I gonna play players? Am I not gonna play players? Obviously they've clinched the number one seed. You really would have a say and who gets in now? From the Chiefs standpoint, I'm thinking the one guy they do not want to see in the postseason is Joe Burrow.
Joe Burrow is that.
One guy that you do not want him to backdoor into the postseason.
Meaning, if the Broncos are in a.
Position where a loss could put the Bengals in the postseason, you're the Chiefs, maybe we should rest everybody and Sarah let them have the Broncos have a little walk through a game.
In order to get into the postseason.
Just my guest, No, no, no, here's the thing, Steve, It's not just the Chiefs. Nobody in the AFC wants to see the Bengals in the playoffs. Nobody wants to see Joe Burrow, especially because they're playing well as of late. Their defense, not that they're doing a lot better today, it seems like they're doing a lot better, but they have been better in the last couple of weeks.
They're high in takeaways right now.
No team wants to face Joe Burrow and the Bengals in the AOC.
It's not just the Chiefs. So the Chiefs do have the power though to they do manipulate the situation.
Again, is if the Barcas were to lose this games far from over obviously eight minutes ago in the third quarter and the Bengals lead this game by a score of ten to three. By the way, while this is all going on with the we're watching a basketball game at the Intuit Dome, home of the Clippers. Clip UCLA and Gonzaga, and UCLA as a three point lead with four seconds to go. Shot and that is going to be at UCLA has beaten Gonzaga.
Everyone knows I'm a Brown.
That is a huge win for UCLA as they get ready for Big Ten Conference play at it into a Dome.
Little do the listeners know that you were just losing your mind, yell the screen during the break, You're losing his mind.
Everybody see.
I have had situations. The worst, honestly for me, is during the nc Basketball Tournament. If I'm on the air when UCLA is in an NCAA tournament game. Forget it, get it. I am completely worthless. Hey, I did want to mention a little side note here as far as the NFL is concerned.
The fifteen finalists were announced today by the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Of this list, five of them will get to that final cut, and ninety nine percent of the time, all five of those guys are going to be in the Hall of Fame. So quick run down to the list. A dear friend of mine, he's been on this eligible forever. Eric Allen, the great corner with the Eagles, finished this career with the Raiders. Jared Allen, of course, one of the best pass rushers with his Chiefs with the Vikings. Willie Anderson, great offensive tackle for the Bengals. Jarry Evans course, longtime Saint Antonio Gates would get to him in a second to hold Luke Keikley, Eli Manning.
Will get to him. Steve Smith Senior.
I love that, Steve Smith Senior, Terrell Suggs, Fred Taylor, Adam Vinettieri, Reggie Wayne, Darren Woodson, and Marshall Yonda. Now these are all very qualified people. I mean, when you consider the preliminary list where we started well over one hundred names to get to the final fifteen. Most likely, at some point most of these guys will get into the Hall of Fame.
The question is who gets in first, right, So I'm going to make a prediction right.
Now, you're going to say the five.
I'm going to give you the five five? All right, Okay, go the five. I'm going to start with Antonio Gates. He should have been a first ballot Hall of Famer last year. He will not be denied this year. So the former Charger, Antonio Gates, who still holds the NFL record for most receiving touchdowns of any tight end history. Yes, more than Tony Gonzalez, more than Gronk, more than any of them. So Antonio Gates will be one.
The next name. I think there's two wide receivers here, Reggie Wayne and.
Tory Holt that have been on this list for a while, and I think they're finally going to put Tory Holt into the Hall of Fame.
Greatest show on turf back in the day.
Obviously, Kurt Warner, Isaac Bruce, Marshall, Falk, They're all in the Hall of Fame.
He will join them. That's number two.
Number three will be Jared Allen, Now, the guy who's been on those list for a while, one of the best pass rushers in the game. I mean, Suggs is on the list, but its first year of eligibility. Jared Allen's been waiting. Jared Allen gets in. That's three. Now the next two. There's five people on this list. This is their first year of eligibility. That's a lot to make the finals list. Five of the fifteen first year of eligibility. And those five are Luke Keikley, Eli Manning, Terrell, Suggs, and Aviditieri. And who is the other one here? I guess there's oh and Marshall yonda Okay, two of those are gonna make.
It, okay, and those two are.
Luke Keikley and Adam Vinnettieri. Oh, not in the first ballot, no chance, No chance, because he's a five hundred quarterback over the course of his career.
He had two runs in the Super Bowl, and.
You can make an argument they'll be in history.
They are in history, and he'll be in the But he's not a first Ballotphon Jennifer, I mean, Joe Montana is a first ballot quarterback, Peyton Manning, it's a first ballot quarterback. Brett Farv is a first ballot quarterback looking into the future, Tom Brady, Drew Brees. These are guys that set records. They had, you know, hundreds of you know, Pro Bowls and everything else. That's not Eli Manning.
Devil's advocate here. I hear what you're saying that the numbers aren't there. But you can't tell the story of football or the story of the Patriots without bringing up Eli Manning. I think context matters, and if he would have beaten other teams in the Super Bowl, okay, but who he beat has to matter.
Okay.
He was, as I like to say, a passenger on a luxury liner. It was the defense of the Giants that won those Super Bowls more so than Eli Manning. Did he make some big plays, Yes he did, and he had two great runs. Here's the irony. Not only did he have a five hundred literally a five hundred career record as a starting quarterback in the NFL, but in the postseason every year other than those two years they lost in the first round of the playoffs. So basically you're basing this Hall of Fame first ballot. I mean, there's a difference between being a first ballot Hall of Famer and then, you know, not a first ballot Hall of Famer. I mean, I just I know a lot of guys on that committee. I can't believe it.
I can imagine them.
I mean, Keighley had a very short career but a super dominant career, and Adam Than and TIERI.
So what kicker on the first ballot? Yeah?
John stenerridd was because he revolutionized the sport as a soccer style kicker. Adam Vinitieri is the greatest clutch kicker in the history of the NFL. He checks every box and oh, by the way, he's the all time leading scorer in the history of the NFL. So I think he's a first ballot Hall of Famer. Right, I could be wrong, but I could be right.
You're not You're not wrong very often.
Well, so I wish I could say that. All right, let's find out what is a trending right now? So Martin, do you consider Eli Manning a first ballot Hall of Famer?
No?
I think everyone's answer is what do you.
Think of me saying that?
Luke, Keikley and Adam Vinatieri are first ballot Hall of famers.
Think Kickley, because his career was so short, would be a second.
Guy for me.
But I think you're dead on with the kicker. Yeah, and everybody's gonna be like, but he's a kicker. And we got to get there's some weird thing in the NFL where like kickers are not viewed as equal ANFL player.
Yeah, And I don't know.
If it's superstitious, I don't know what it is. And I get it that you know most We had.
This thing with Devin Hester, right, and you know, the most dominant return guy in the history of the game. It took until his third ballot he finally got in, but he didn't win super Bowls. And then this guy won, literally won super Bowls.
We kicks. That's your kicker.
He's not as important as your quarterback, your left tackle, and maybe your middle linebacker is edg Rusher. But like it, he could win in the top seven of most important players on the team. Right, as far as I see it now, I've never played it down in NFL football, But as far I see I watch kickers win and lose games every year.
Every week.
Every week we see.
It Thursday night.
That's all we saw was kickers exactly so we saw So we'll see how that plays out.
We'll find out, uh kickers.
Super Bowl Week is when they'll announce the Class of twenty twenty five.
Justice for the feet.
Yes, tied right now ten to ten, thirty three minutes and ten seconds left in the third quarter between the Broncos and the Bengals. Bo Nicks just threw a touchdown pass to Cortland Sutton for Denver's first touchdown. Joe Burrow to T Higgins had the other one. And guess what two field goals important? Important?
Yes? And this game quick come down to a field goal.
It just might.
This one didn't though, the Chargers and the Patriots. Congratulations to Monci.
Playoffs ten and six.
The record now for the Los Angeles Justin Herbert three touchdowns, Lad Mclocky Cart two of them.
JK.
Dobbins ran one end his first action in quite a little while. In the best marketing campaign in college football, the pop Tars Bowl, Miami has a forty one to two thirty five league just kicked a field hop look at that another field goal, another field goal for the Hurricanes. They just put that through just under ten minutes left in the fourth quarter all field goals between Miami and Ohio and Colorado State and the Snoop dogg Arizona Bowl nine to three, or Miami of Ohio with the lead. There East Carolina with a touchdown lead and with seven minutes and fifty four seconds left in the second half in the Military I mean first half in the Military Bowl. That's East Carolina is seven and nothing. Panthers put running back Chuba Hubart on I R with the calf strain quarterback to a tongue of ila.
It's downgraded to a tongue of I Loauba Cuba.
Are you kidding me?
What he got on IR? Yes?
Oh, I gotta make some changes.
Yeah, thanks, look at it.
She's on her phone right now, desperate. Thank you for that update.
I thought I said so. I thought I had.
Just said to a tongue of I loa and I was like, I didn't say tug of iloa. Wrong.
Yeah.
No, he's out calf strained and we do miss the last two games that I put him on IR so they can activate somebody else.
I literally, she's going crazy right now.
Ceedee lamb done. Kenneth Walker done.
What am I doing well?
You might want to look for the backup running backs in Jacksonville. Tony Pollard had an ankle injury. He didn't travel with the team. He also has the flu, so he might not play tomorrow. You could look for Isaac Garndo, who should play OL on Monday night after missing last week with the hamstring injury. There are some options for you people who are not going to be options for you.
Anthony Richardson.
He's rolled out with back and foot sore on this so if you need a quarterback, I don't know how flexible your league could be.
Joe Flatt goes.
Going against the Giants, or Kenny Pikett is going to go for the Eagles. Because Jaalen Hurts did not clear concussion protocol and enough time Georgia quarterback Carson Back to clear for the NFL draft. He also had UCLs solder surgery and his throwing arm last week. And Bucks point guard Damian Lillard set to play today against the Bulls.
He's missed the last four games.
Right now, the Thunder at the end of the first quarter have a twenty eight to twenty two lead over the Hornets.
Back to you, guys.
All right, well, thank you very much, Martin. Good stuff right.
There, Martin.
Yes, I'm just saying the first season, I'm glad you update desk was able to do the job we see.
Okay, So, Montci, as we all know, is wildly popular with everybody out there, and we appreciate that.
I certainly appreciate that you see what I see.
But they're always curious about your status in terms of fantasy football. So where are we right now heading into playoffs? So this is week one to playoff week?
Right?
No, it's already lost. I lost last week and I'm in this. I'm playing for third place right now, So going on right now?
Is there money in this?
Yes, I'm playing for third place.
But in the league that I was talking about for CHEWBA Harvard, that's the Guillotine League, which is different you the last four weeks. It's just whoever scores the most in these last weeks, right, And so this is where I had Ceedee Lamb, CHEWBA, Hubbard, Kenneth Walker.
They're all they're all gone. They're all gone. And so what am I doing? Why do I do this? Every year?
I say I'm never playing fantasy again, and then I'm back at it.
Here's what I've never understood about fantasy football, and one of the reasons why I gave up fantasy football. I give a fantasy football when Bo Jackson was still playing.
Wow?
Okay, Wow?
So that was what was What was the end for you?
What did it?
Okay?
So this is a true story, and you're not going to believe this story.
So in nineteen eighty seven, I'm working for the Raiders and it was the year that we drafted Bo Jackson, and it was like, why he's a baseball player. He hadn't played football in two years. Why are you wasting any pick on Bo Jackson? He'd already said no to the NFL. He was already a member of the Kansas City Royals playing Major League Baseball. But Al Davis said, oh no, I believe we can make him molreta. I believe we can make him moreta. So he joins us mid season. Literally had not played football in two years. I can still remember his first practice and Howie Long, who was one of our star players. I remember talking to how he is as they were coming off the field.
I go, what do you see?
He goes, He's from a different planet, like that guy is unreal. So he has some incredible games. He has two hundred yards of Monday Night football against the Seahawks. And I'm in a fantasy football league and it was a shortened season because there was the replacement games or whatever. But I had a perfect team. So we had ten games ten weeks and then the last two weeks are the playoffs. Right, not only am I ten and zero. I have wiped out everyone. Like every guy I pick was having a career year. Like it was like the perfect team. And one of my big stars that I drafted was Bo Jackson. So the week of that last week, he gets banged up in a game in Kansas City. And I have a luxury that nobody else in fantasy football has. I can actually talk to the person directly. So that week he was practicing, I go, are you feeling good? You know, he goes, I'm good. Everything's good, right, And I going I'm gonna put you out there and a good smart move, right, I'm gonna have a big game, you know, because he was frustrated he went out of the previous game a little early. So we go down the coliseum and we got a home game, and the game kicks off and I'm up there, and Marcus Allen was on our team, so they would alternate.
Serious.
I didn't need a whole lot out of boat, just a little bit. So Marcus starts the first series. I didn't think anything of it. And then we came out with a second series and Marcus is still out there, and I'm sort of like, where's Bob because I had seen him warm up on the field and everything else. So I get my binoculars and I'm starting to look at the sideline. I'm like, he's in Civilians. No, why playoff week?
I lost by one point.
If he had carried the ball one time for five yards, I would have won.
Oh yeah, and there was money on the line.
And I asked him after I go what happened? He goes well during warm ups. I felt a twinge now having the opportunity to actually talk face to face with the player I thought gave me a huge advantage, and it convinced me that you're a loser. You cannot do this, And that was the end of my fantasy football career.
I you know, that's a tough one. That is a tough one to swallow. I just lost last week for the championship game this week two points because Brandon Aubrey kicker gave him twenty one points.
Wow, I lost by two to.
Go to the championship game. So now I'm playing for third place kickers like.
I literally.
That's another reason why Adam Nitierry should be.
A first ballot Hall of Me one points.
That's insane.
If he would have.
Just not made one of the fifty yarders, just one, I.
Would have I would have been in the championship right now. So, hi, I worse? No, yours is way worse.
Yes, I literally the irony was I could have played a different back, right, but you still played any other back they at least played.
And the fact that you lost, like if you would have lost by twenty, you probably would have been like.
I lost by one.
You lost by one, which is like so much worse, so much worse, insane.
Actually, I'm glad you lost as you cheated, because.
Look at any advantages you can have.
By the way, you know, this is when I know, these are the early days of fantasy football. I was the media relations director. This is still phone time, you know, and my phone like the you know, our front you know, the lady secretary she was direct calls to me and I'm like hello, and like who's this And this guy goes, yeah, is Marcus.
All'm playing this week? And I'm like, who the hell is this? What do I want here to give away?
Was you picked a different career path in high school?
All of a sudden, I don't know, Steve Hartman m D.
Is trying to win his fantasy football league and he calls up to the Raiders office. Just Allan picks up the phone and says, you know what, Actually, I'm not going to go today.
You had that opportunity, it took it, you cheated, you lost.
And I'm just like dead panned looking at Steve, just.
Dead pan, like anytime anything involved with gambling to me is a loser.
Because I don't put my own money on the line. You know, I've got a chance.
By the way, this is the year, by the way, this is the year after I was in a rotisserie baseball league where I had the last pick and I had two pitchers that I was looking at to make the last pick.
One was a young pitcher, another was a veteran pitcher. I went with a veteran named Tommy john As in the Tommy John surgery twenty five years old, but he was still pitching for the Yankees. The kid that I passed on because he had had some injury problems the.
Year before was Roger Clemens, who went twenty four and four that year and was both cy Young and MVP.
And then.
That was that was in my Rotisserey Baseball. We're coming you live from the tyrack dot com studios. All right, we're gonna get back to the NFL. We got this game going on right now, ten ten Broncos and Bengals, huge playoff implications. We've got some interesting things in terms of the Sunday schedule. We're gonna get to. This is Fox Football Saturday. Steve Harvey, Montci Belanios Here, Fox Football Saturday. We're coming live from the tyrack dot Com Studios.
Joe Burrow to T Higgins touchdown.
So the Bengals have retaken the lead seventeen to ten over the Broncos. We got eleven and a half minutes to go in that game, and of course kicking off here in a little over an hour. Huge game for the Rams as they try to wrap up a playoff spot. The Cardinals were already eliminated from the postseason last week, and this gets down to, you know, who's going to show up and play?
By the way, we had some I mean, I'll put it this way.
We've already had three games this week going into today. Could they have been any worse? I mean, the Chiefs Steelers game was never in doubt. This is the best we've seen the Chiefs really all season long. Mahomes three hundred and twenty yards, three touchdowns. They thoroughly dominated the Steelers. Then there was that unwatchable Ravens Texans game. Everyone is just like, wow, Taxans could be right now, one of the worst playoff teams we've seen in recent memory, as they are absolutely you know, nose diving. And then and then of course there was Thursday nine six three Seahawks Bears. Now, I mean, it doesn't get any worse than that game. And by the way, I don't even want to say the guy's name because it's not worth it, but the Bears literally have the worst.
Interim coach in the history of the NFL. Yeah, what was that at the end of that game?
I am not The Bear situation has been ugly though all season, right, there was too much football going on. First of all, Steve, it was hard to keep track, and I didn't even want to watch the Thursday game.
And then I decided to watch it, and I was like, I am wasting my time. I am wasting my time. The game never changed, nothing at all. There was nothing worth watching in that game.
And I was watching it with my friend, the Seahawks fan who I went to Arizona to watch the Seahawks Cardinals game. Right, this Seahawks team has been so inconsistent.
I don't know what team I'm gonna get.
Don't you're telling me?
First of all, I'm gonna get.
We've got our picks coming up later on. And I blame Patrick, our producer, who's been trying to sell me on his Seahawks all season long. I'm going down to defeat and the reason I'm going down to defeat is because of your stinking Seahawks.
Don't let ze listen.
To Patrick, Because when I picked the Seahawks, they won.
Yeah, every time I beg they are losers, and this week they weren't in play, and of course they win.
A frustrating team for sure, by the way, a record that will never be matched ended in that game. This will never be done again. So the Bears came into that game on a nine game losing strep.
After that hail mary went.
Caleb Williams in those nine games did not throw a single interception. Now, think about that. Will there ever be another team, another quarterback that will lose nine straight games without throwing an interception.
In any of those games? All losses.
Now, it almost was ten for ten except for the hail mary at the end of the game last play, which was intercepted by the Seahawks, ending the streak. But I promise you there will never be a quarterback to start nine straight games with no interceptions and lose every game.
No, there's not going to be another record like that. Speaking of hail mary's being interceptions and counting, I hate that. I feel like when there's a hail mary thrown at the end of a game, it shouldn't count against the quarterback because it's like it's a hail mary for a reason.
And I hate that.
I may be alone, but I hate the count. Like that game that Kirk Cousins had like four or five interceptions, but.
The last one was like a hail mary at the end. It's like, y'all do we need to count those.
Yeah, but I mean quarterbacks might argue, all right, let's say I throw a pass and it goes through my receiver's hands, right, and it's intercepted, and.
Should it happen?
And it's all me And that's another conversation, Right, could that go against the receiver when it literally goes through your hands?
I think the hail Mary interceptions bother me.
I think going back to the idea of going nine straight games, so that interception and losing all nine games.
We're never going to see that.
It tells you again how overrated the interception numbers are.
It really is.
Yes, I mean, throwing interceptions is one thing. Throwing interceptions that result in you losing a game is another thing.
I mean we have like you have that.
The other stat that is in sane it's game when he drives completely bogus stat completely.
Bogus sing Geno Smith is leading in when you talk about fourth quarter comebacks.
How many times when Tom Brady's run in New England was he trailing in the fourth quarter? How many opportunities did he have to do that fourth quarter comeback?
That isn't great point.
I mean when Matthew Stafford was with the Lions. They were losing in the fourth quarter every day. No one look at my fourth quarter comebacks. He had what is his percentage? Okay, by the way, coming up in the next hour, also going to clarify another record on the line touchdown as do we have a Broncos touchdown right now? So the Broncos have answered back and that is a touchdown pass mar Mims.
Yeah, Mems on the receiving them from bow Nicks.
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Aaron Torris.
Is scheduled to join us, coming up here in about fifteen minutes. I guess he was at Intua Dom for that UCLA gain zagagate as he was.
He knows about my allegiance. You know, he's a big Yukon.
Of course, yes, but I'm.
Gonna have plenty to say about my bruins coming up with a nice one against Day. But we're going to go over these college football playoffs and there's a lot to be said as we get ready for the quarter finals. We'll have one game on Tuesday, on New Year's Eve, and then of course the other three games will be on New Year's Day. Does it seem possible that we only have a few days left here in twenty twenty four.
Steve, I don't even know what day it is the fact that I'm sitting here next to you is all that matters.
Like I have lost truck of days time.
I don't know.
It's all a blur because of the holidays, because of sports.
I don't what how many days are left? You tell me, because I don't know.
It's it's something to be said.
As you get older, and you know, this difference between being twenty and thirty, thirty and forty or whatever it might be, the time just seems accelerate when you think back to your twenties.
Yes, and you just you're anxious to get things going.
When you're in your twenties, right, you might be finishing up school, you're trying to get your careers started.
You're trying to get something really going. Then in your.
Thirties, hopefully by that time you got something going on, and then all of a sudden, you find yourself getting busier. Now if you include relationships or maybe having kids or whatever, everything just adds to the acceleration of time. And I remember when I was My fortieth birthday was the month after my second son was born, and I just remember, like, you're forty, and now I have two babies at home. My daughter was born a couple of years later. All I know is like one day I was forty and the next day it was fifty.
Yeah.
Yeah, with three kids and you know, working you know, seven days a week. It's like, what happened? What happened?
And believe me, as tough as that decade was, every decade since that has been even more crazy. But we all are busy, a lot of things going on. And this is the thing about the end of the year. It coincides with the football season, right, And that's the problem with football.
Just when you sort of settle in on the season, it's over.
It's blink of an eye, the football season, blink of an eye, and then to add the holidays, it just makes it go so fast.
So I can't I cannot believe it's already.
No, you know, I could sit here and get play now.
Tomorrow we got Red Zone Radio and we do the opening half of Red Zone rate right, Dan and carry do the back half correct, And we have six games tomorrow, which actually is pretty amazing when you think about it, because.
Because of how it spread out there.
I mean you've had you know, you had two games on Thursday, he had a game on Well, you had two games on Wednesday, then he had a game on Thursday. You have three games today. That's six, so we do get six games.
Man, it is the bottom of the pack. There are some really dog games.
I don't think the Jets are going to put up much of a fight on the road against the Bills.
I mean, Air Rodgers trying to prove something as of late.
Okay, Raiders at the Saints.
Wow, yeah, what are we doing there?
Okay Colts, Colts could still be alive at the Broncos lose this game, right so technically, and there on the road against a Giants team with.
Joe Flacco, which you know is looking to lose.
I mean, you they basically have the number one pick in your hip pocket. Yeah, they're the only two win team left, so they're going to try to lose Cowboys at the Eagles.
Woof, No, Jalen hurts.
No, Jalen hurts Cowboys coming off a nice win against Tampa Bay.
Yeah.
You know, did you see Jerry Jones after that game with Mike McCarthy.
I thought he was going to kiss him. I mean he was right in his face, like, oh my gy, we just.
Want the Super Bowl, very excited about it.
He was just so excited that a team had learned. Earlier in the day they had been eliminated with pol win and then he got the Panthers at the Bucks. Now that game, by the way, I'm skipping the Titans Jaguars game.
Okay, that's not even there.
We're just twelve teens now. But the Buccaneers. Here's where it sits with the Bucks. Right, So the the Bucks are at home against the Panthers. They're at eight and seven, and the Falcons, who are eight and seven but have the tie break because they beat the Buccaneers twice, will be on the road against the Commander's Sunday night. So yeah, after a disappointing loss of the Cowboys. I don't think the Buccaneers are going to no show at home against the Panthers.
No, but you know the Panthers are going to put up a fight. The Panthers are trying to get in a rhythm, right, They're trying to get Bryce Young out there and get more and more comfortable. So the Panthers aren't just going to sit down and not do anything. Yes, the Buccaneers cannot go into this game thinking it's going to be easy, because the Panthers have not been doing that the last couple of weeks. They have been putting up fights.
The way the Pro Bowl is selected, they pick three quarterbacks in each conference. Of course, nowadays it's the Pro Bowl games and I have a game they have like a flag football whatever it is. But they're still an honor and being picked. Baker Mayfield will be picked for the Pro Bowl. I mean, thirty four touch down passes, almost four thousand yards.
Two weapons, losing Chris Godwin and Mike Evans. He kept them afloat, exactly, He kept them afloat, and yes he should so.
Uh, but then again, is Sam Darnald going to be a Pro Bowler. He has to be right.
I mean, if you do the math, who are the three NFC Think about this, who would the three NFC quarterbacks be?
So you got Jared.
Johns Goff, Baker Mayfield, Matthew Stafford, Jordan love.
I and and do you take a look at Jayden Daniels.
You could take a look at Jayden Daniels. I don't think. I don't think I would be a look at Golf.
Goff's a given. I got one. Gop is the absolute lock. And then you have Sam Donald.
I I guess I don't know it.
See I would do Sam Donald, and I would do Baker Mayfe. Okay, So Jayden Daniel's good, not good enough, Jordan loved Good got good enough.
Matthew Stafford's close, really close. That would be the NFC side.
Yeah, but Matthew Stafford is like an afterthought because of the rams.
Let me ask you this about the AFC side. Three quarterbacks? So you got Josh Allen and Lamar Jacksonville.
Is there the two? Yes, I'm with you, okay, And then the third?
I mean, do you pass on Patrick Mahomes or do you give it to Joe Burrow Salies It's.
Not even close.
It's not evil.
Burro has way better numbers than Mahomes this year.
He does, but it's like, what have you done for me lately?
Right?
And if we do look at Mahomes in the last couple of weeks, he's put up those numbers and also they're the number one seed, like how how?
But I agree, I don't know.
I don't think they're going to pass on Mahomes.
I don't think so either.
By the way, a.
Quick reminder about how many people listen to this show. So a couple of weeks ago, we were getting read for the ACC Championship game between Clemson and SMU, and I called my friend Eric Dickerson because I had a sense he might be there in Carolina for that game, and he was, and so I said, can you open the show for us before he head out to the stadium And he did that. So we were talking about the game and SME and everything else, and then Montsi asked him one last question, how do you feel about Saquon Barkley threatening your single season rushing record? And he says, well, if you're asking me, do I want him to break it?
Hell no?
And then he brought up all the story answer.
The La Times put out the exact story. Oh really yeah, like they had this exclusive they broke it. Eric Dickerson says that he would not be happy if Saquon Barkley broke his, and I'm like, I'm sorry.
We had there two weeks ago.
Geerson on the air literally literally he said that the exact they're literally quite like, did you just lift this right off our radio show?
Those are the exact words he said to us.
He even talked about his rookie rushing record, the one record he does.
Think it will stand time. Let me give you a number here.
First of all, this rushing record, they got the wrong number because the NFL went from a twelve game schedule to fourteen game schedule to sixteen game schedule now seventeen games. The record is not twoy and five yards. The record is one hundred and forty three point one. That is the NFL record for most yards average per game in an NFL season. That was Oj Simpson in nineteen seventy three, first got to crack two thousand yards in a fourteen game schedule. If you look at the stat right now, we're Sakwan Barkley ranks yards per game, he's twelve.
Interesting, So the idea that he.
Will break the record, it should not be based on the number.
It's yards per game.
By the way, Eric Dickerson's only like fourth on that list because he did it in sixteen games as opposed to fourteen games.
Yeah, so that should be the record.
Yeah, you're right. I agree with you on that one.
But I do think Barkley's going to get it.
No, it seems that way.
It's what hurts out wit.
I was just about to say, especially with hurts Out, they're going to have to rely heavily on him, and they can't ease up because the commanders are right behind him.
You're not feel it. I got to show you this. You're not the La Time Lolis lifted or right off our show. I mean just right off our show.
Come on, You're welcome, Elly Times, You're welcome.
All right.
We're going to talk about all the inequities in the upcoming quarter final matchups in the College football Playoff. Will break it down with Fox Sports Radio Zone Aaron Torres. This is Fox Football Saturday, Steve Arvin, Montcibolago's Fox Football Saturday. We're coming live from the tire Rack Dot com studios don't forget after the short podcast is going up, So if you missed any of today's show, just check out the podcast. Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts, then follow rate and review the podcast.
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Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts, and you'll see the show posted right after we get off the air. Minute thirty to go, fourth quarter, the Bengals and Broncos are tied at seventeen. The Bengals have the ball after a Bonnicks interception, and they're trying to run clock. I mean, they're very much in short field goal range. They're inside the five yard line, and you're trying to run the clock down and make this as close to a last second field goal attempt as possible. So right now the Bengals in the driver's seat to keep their season alive. All right, speaking of a live the college football season is alive. And we'll resume on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and the man that's been helping us break it down first on very short notice and now on a week's notice to join us as a man who, by the way, was that into a dome a little bit earlier to watch my UCLA Bruins take care of business against Gonzaga. Aaron Taurus is with us right now, mister Yukon and Aaron, I'm shocked. We watched the end of that game that my Bruins came out on top against Gonzaga.
Yeah, yeah, no, Steve, your boys look good. You know, all that nil money that you're contributing has gone a long way this offseason. So it was a fun game. First time at the arena, you know, for our listeners in Los Angeles, that place is wild and it's like I encourage everybody, you know, Friday night, even if you're not a Clippers fan, you know, take go on a date, go to a game, eat a hot dog, because it is it's next level. It's a brand new arena. It's beautiful, and it was I don't know that it was a great game. Was certainly a great finish, but but yeah, your broom's got the victory, So congrats. Like I said, your nil money is going a long way.
My friend, I have not been to into it. Dom I know, I know I'm.
Going choir on the billboard.
No, no, no, she's waiting for his return.
What you understand is January fourth, Yes, is when he's expected to make his debut.
So I've heard only a good thing, so I'm excited to go. But all right, let's get into these bowl games. Aaron, this is my first question to you. Sooners had more than two dozen players that went into the transfer portal. They lose to Navy by one in the Armed Forces Bowl LSU. Apparently seventeen players went into the portal. They're preparing for a bowl game against Baylor. Do you think these bowl games will be obsolete? Because if players aren't playing, what is the point of them?
It's a great MATI I swear you're you're asking like really great questions these last couple of weeks. Like seriously, I'm so glad you're asking like beyond just the like, oh, who's gonna went Ohio State Oregon? Like great question. So I'll be honest, like, this is one of my takes that I truly believe, is that I believe exactly what you just said is that eventually we saw this year Marshall their coach. They didn't basically extend their coach, and then he left, and then a bunch of players at the portal. They were the first team that I've ever seen opt out of a bowl game, obviously outside of COVID, and I don't think this is going to be a surprise going forward if we see that more. First of all, in college basketball, we've seen a lot of teams decline invites to the n i T if they don't make the NCAA Tournament, and the thought process by the coaching staff is, I'd rather use these next two to three weeks to really work the portal and focus on next year rather than playing in you know, you know, the n I T. And I think when you look at football, guys, you know, the reason that all these teams wanted to play in these bowl games back in the day was because you'd get all these extra practices and you know, it really would be the launch for the next season. Well to Artie's point, if you know, if you have fifteen, sixteen, seventeen guys on top of you know, on top of the graduating seniors, you have fifteen guys that are transferring, and you're replacing them with potentially twenty twenty five thirty guys, Like, what is the purpose of the practicing if all of a sudden, all the guys that are going to be on the field next year, aren't even in your program, and so I don't know, you know, if it's going to become a thing in the next year, But it just feels like this is a thing where I do think teams are just going to say, listen, we appreciate the invite, but we're not gonna take the time. We'd rather spend the time in the portal. We'd rather spend time doing other things. I think that is something that is going to happen more often going forward.
All right, Aaron, So this is your one of this expanded playoffs, and already one thing is painfully obvious. Either you're going to have to cut it to eight schools or you got to go to sixteen because the four schools that get a buy are.
At a huge disadvantage.
They've been offered wenty five days, and unlike i'mlike, hold on, wait, hold on a second, hear and unlike the teams that they're going to be playing, they didn't get home field.
So let me get this straight.
I get a I get a bye, but I never get my home field. I'm on a neutral site, I'm playing a team that's only been off eleven days, having demolished an opponent on their home field. Either you expanded where everybody plays in equal amount of games, or you reduce the field. And the other thing that is painfully obvious is the idea that the conference champions should get the top seeds.
Think about this.
The fifth conference champion was Clemson and they were the lowest seed in this tournament. Forget look at you get the automatic but you get in the tournament automatically if you win your conference tournament championship game. But the seting should be based on merit, not on winning a conference championship game.
Because this is all out of whack.
I mean, you got Boise State and Arizona State is double digit underdogs. I'm predicting right now all four teams that have been off for twenty five days are going down to defeat this week.
Well, you know a lot there. You want a lot of different I need a compass to get get back draft.
I had a lot to say right there. Yeah, the whole thing's a mess, but it can be fixed. Yeah.
So, first of all, so the question of the number of teams, we are not going to reduce teams. That's just not something that's gonna happen. I think the number that gets settled at is fourteen with the SEC and Big ten Champ getting automatic buys. I'm not saying that that's fair. I'm just saying that that those two leagues hold all of the power and they know it. So what I would also say, Steve is I do think in that long winding statement that wasn't really a question, but I know where you were going to. It's okay. I think you hit on to me. The two biggest issues, if you will, with this with this format. One, I think we need more than one round of home playoff games. I mean you could just listen all four teams that were at home, not only one they dominated. Like It's just it's such an X factor. And to your point, it's not fair to Oregon that Ohio State gets a home game and they don't. Now they got to go play in a neutral field where we know that Ohio State's gonna have just as many fans there because they have such a massive fan base. So I think one I would like to see at least the first two rounds go to home home stadiums, and I think we'll get there because I think it's going to be interesting to see what kind of attendance numbers we get when you're talking about schools and programs and fan bases having to travel to three neutral site games in a month period. It's just nobody can do it. You can't afford it, you can't get the time off of work, et cetera. And then I think to your point, Steve, I was somebody that wanted to see how the four auto you know, the four conference champs getting an auto by went. But I'm with you, and I've used this analogy a million times, and I may have used it with you guys last week. But you know, IFOK in North Carolina and basketball, or the number one and number two teams in the country going into the final weekend of the season and one of them loses in the ACC championship game, they don't get knocked down.
To a nine seed or ten exactly exactly.
So you're right, No, I agree with you on both those points. And I actually think the number we're going to get to at least a start is going to be fourteen. But I think I think I am not I'm trying that to be as negative. It's the first time we're doing this, but obviously I do think the format needs a little bit of tweaking going forward.
And so Cam Moore today, through a record setting one hundred and fifty sixth touchdown pass of his college career, did his stock in the NFL draft.
Just go up?
Let me ask you guys a question, because I was trying to monitor this while I was at the basketball game. Did they pull him for no reason?
Like?
Did they There was no injury, right, they just pulled him at halftime? Am I reading that?
Correct?
Yes?
That was a low injury correct.
Well, that's kind of lame, you know, if you're gonna shoot up, you know, to the finish liney. But well, I don't think it's I don't think there's anything that's gonna happen tonight in today because obviously sand Or Sanders plays as well today. I don't think there's anything that's gonna happen over the next couple of weeks that those guys are gonna go number one, number two. I did see the Giants actually, Joe Shan Shane or I'll we say his name, the GM was actually at that game in Orlando, So I just bring it up. I don't think it really did anything to help or hurt his.
Soul hold on second air and we are watching this Broncos Bengals game.
Eight seconds to go.
Cincinnati had scored and bow nickt threw one up for grabs in the end zone on fourth down and Men's just came down with it and they're an extra point of way of tying this game. This was an unplida with two Bengal defenders and he got it, and he got it and that is a catch and that is wow.
Wow, that was an unbelievable play. Continue on Eric.
I don't even know where I was. I'll say this hosting eleven to two am. We hit those moments every couple you know. I can't remember the last time we've had something crazy like that. But it's such a pleasure to work on Saturdays because of moments like that. So you can ask the other college question if you got to go and break down that game, I understand.
No.
I actually do have one for you still with the Cam Morton Shador. Who would you take if you were the Giants with the number one pick, who would you take?
I would think Shador. I think Shador. You know what, This is a take I'm debuting on on Bonci and Hartman here, Yes, one that you guys will appreciate. I think with Shador is the Jesus Bizarro. He is the anti Bronni James. And what I mean by that is Bronni just we all assume because he's Lebron's son that there's some you know, weird pawn, but like a sauce in there that you know eventually, like I just think Brownie is a six to two combo guard that is not an NBA player should or I feel like in the exact opposite, because people don't like Deon Sanders. You know, obviously last year, you know, the team started off flow and there's a lot of noise. I think because people don't like Dion, Shador doesn't actually get enough credit for how good he is. I mean, he is, you know, big arm, accurate down the field. You know, the O line play has not been great in his two years there. The run game has been non existent. Like I you know, listen, I don't know how to compare him to you know, the guys that came out this year, Jayden Daniels, Michael Pennix, et cetera. But I think he is by far the best quarterback in college football. And I think he actually doesn't get enough credit because people don't like Dion. I truly truly believe that.
Well, I agree with you, and of course they will be a package deal to the New York Giants next season.
There, oh stop, Dion's gonna be at Colorado.
Well is Shador Sanders has only had one coach and his dad. By the way, the extra point by the Broncos is good. So with eight seconds left, it looks like we are heading to ot. Aaron Torres, Hey man, we're gonna have to get your reaction next week after we have these four games, so we're gonna do it again if.
You can do it.
I'm always free, guys. Thank you for having me. And uh yeah, happy New Year, and I'll be on air. I might to you guys in studio. I'm coming from uh from the what where was i Inglewood? I'm not stopping home. I'm just coming straight.
Come on down, come on down. All right, Aaron, thank you so much, Take care guys.
All right, that's Aaron.
Torris joining us there as we get ready for the quarterfinals of the college football playoff. All right, let's find out what is trending right now, and Martin was just like us, Yeah, that was just unbelieved. Fourth and one and you're like, what are you doing? Just get the first down and throws it up and memes between two defenders catches it.
Well, yeah, I mean never had no timeouts left, so I didn't have the biggest problem with the play. It was just once you threw the ball, you see two defenders up there. Do you see him coming down with the ball. But they wouldn't even have been in this position. If Chase Brown, who's Cincinnati running back, probably plays for Manci's fantasy team because this type of stuff that seems to happen to her. He declines to go into the end zone right Denver was trying to let him score on second in goal. He goes down, hurts himself, trying to intentionally give himself up, causing an injury time out, giving Denver the time out back that they called on that last drive in which Denver was able to score.
The game that you had a quarterback sneak, which I thought, again they were trying to run clock. It was a delayed call in the touchdown. I think it actually went too far.
Well, if they were trying to run clock, then I would have suggested they take a knee exactly they got cut.
Well, they just took a knee right there. So we're going overtime.
We are going to overtime.
Bo Nicks with touchdown pass with eight seconds left on the clock to Marvin Mems to send that game to overtime earlier today.
I mean, you know what, It's fine. It's a Christmas miracle.
It's a close NFL game because we haven't had one since Christmas. The Los Angeles Chargers beat the New England Patriots forty to seven, Justin Herbert at three touchdown passes. Two of them were the lad McConkey. In college football, at the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl, Miami of Ohio RedHawks have a twenty nine to ten lead over the Colorado State Rams in East Carolina has a thirteen to seven lead over North Carolina State in the Military Bowl to start of the second half.
Iowa State beat Miami.
In the Pop Tarts Bowl, cam Ward broke the Division one passing touchdown record and then sat out in the rest of the in the second half of the game, deciding not to play.
So I think that was in his NIL contract. It's my guess. Why was he playing at all? I mean, other than to get that record.
It I mean, I think he also just wanted the.
Record, Yeah for sure.
Why would you just not get the record if you can.
So, it'll be interesting to see dor Sanders four touchdowns away behind cam Ward for the season leader in touchdowns this season. So I expect to see a lot of Shador throwing touchdowns also, Steve, I don't know if you saw this earlier this week, she dors Sanders said. Check out my shoes. It'll show you where I'm going. He's per social media. He's wearing New York Giants cleats.
He will be a New York Giants.
Congratulations, Steve, you might just be onto something.
Yeah, he will be a New York Giant.
Wrong for a lot of college football.
There's no way the Giants are gonna blow this like the Raiders did by winning a game last week.
The Giants will not be that stupid.
I think I'm going to blow it up heavy on the other side.
Even Joe Flacco still even still, even still, it's team trying to make the playoffs.
The Colts back to you guys.
All right, thank you very much, Martin.
Once again, this is Fox football Saturday, We're coming you live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
It is that time.
All right, I'm not giving up yet, I'm not so once again, we work on a Stableford system, a points system, not wins losses. It's very complicated. We overcomplicated it. I overcomplicated it. And as of course, every time I try to do something to help my cause, I only heard it. So Patrick, where do we stand points wise going into this week?
Well, I'll tell you what based off of last week's So, Moncy, you got three points, two wins and then a plus one for your Well was.
It an over my team pick loss?
But I got the over?
Yes?
Correct?
And like this competition with one more week, this might also be over soon.
Sorry, that was a good one.
Yeah.
How many points did I get?
Zero?
You got one and then you lost one on your under?
Yeah? What is the point leader?
Lead?
Is?
Monsey twenty nine? Steve twenty four?
Okay, so do you have that? Is that?
I think that's right, that's what I had. Yes, Yes, he's right, you're sure about that.
Twenty nine to twenty four. All right, I just have to this is we are all in agreement. This is going to go all the way through the Super.
Bowl, right, yeah, of course.
Okay, so like it, I.
Just have to take a little bit of time, maybe pick up a point only. That's what I'm going to do, all right. So what's our first game here?
Patrick?
All Right?
Well, this one, for the sake of football, is actually probably going to be a close one.
But for the sake of playoffs, we'll see.
It's the Panthers taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFC South matchup. Over under is forty eight and a half. Bucks are in fact home, and our fearless leader is Miss Monsey. Monopoly Belanios, you get to go first months.
All right, what was the game?
Sorry?
I was looking up at the aners at the Bucks, Panthers and Bucks. Okay, so I I the Buccaneers cannot lose this game because they're obviously still trying to get into the playoffs.
It's not that they're already in. I do think it's going to be.
Closer than what the spread says, because Tampa Bay is favored by minus eight. I think it's going to be way closer than that. But Tampa Bay wins this one.
Okay, Tampa any over under on that one, forty eight.
And a half.
It's a big number. I know, yeah, I would like ooh, ooh, ooh. I don't know. Hold on, but Steve, if you want to take it, you can, right.
So yeah, I'm not picking the Panthers.
But look at the Panthers have been close every week I've been, so they've been very competitive, and you know they're they're they're playing with house money. Bucks obviously have to win this game. They're hoping for a win and Falcons loss against the Commanders. So picking the Bucks is a no brain as far as the over under is concerned. When I see a big number like that forty eight and a half, my thought is.
Under, he's going.
Down on deck, He's going under.
Huh, I need to win one of these over any bold?
Any boulders here?
Uh?
Is she gonna? Are you gonna do over here?
I'm still thinking about it. I don't have a bold, but I am. I kind of want to go over.
I'm not saying that, I'm just thinking about it. I have not made the official decision. I've got time.
How about this for a for a bold prediction? Okay, I'm picking the Buccaneers to win the game. Bryce Young will have more touchdown passes in this game than Baker Mayfield.
Wow?
Is that bold the same? It has more more.
I'll take that.
That's a good one.
I like that. That's fine, Okay, that's a good bold.
Do you want to boulder?
I don't have a bold on this one. No, okay, I don't.
And you're staying away from the over ender.
I do I have to?
Can?
I just have ten minutes?
I just don't.
You mean towards going over? But I have not. Fine, I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you what's going on that all right, Well, I'll tell you what. Let's break early, okay, okay, And that gives her extra time to think about it, and then we'll get our two more games in. As we roll on with game day, genius is. This is Fox Football Saturday. Steve Harvin, Montci Belanios here, Fox Sports Saturday, Fox Football Saturday, and we are live from the tire rack dot Com studios. Right this Bengals Broncos game in overtime, and right now a field goal will win it. There's four to twenty to go in the overtime and the Bengals have just gotten themselves in the field goal positions. So right now, the Bengals, trying to keep their season alive, are looking in pretty good shape.
But nothing's a given in the NFL. One thing that is a given.
When I'm in a contest that has picks involved, I will lose. But I'm trying to change that trend in twenty twenty four. Maybe if I turned the clock to twenty twenty five, you see.
Yeah, no, it's still close.
It could be.
This is our last pick of twenty twenty four.
All right, so we're we left off here was that Panthers Buccaneers game ONSI trying to make a decision on whether or not to take the over.
Forty eight and a half points in that game.
I am not taking the over because I just remember that Chewba Hubbard is dead, so I'm.
Not taking me over. I forgot about that, so there see.
I just needed to remember because he's a big part of their scoring.
So I take it back.
It's our next game, all right, Well, Steve, another sign of good luck for you here. There's not a Seahawks since I've already played, so no Seahawks for this week, so maybe maybe to if I lose by.
One or two points, I'm holding you again.
Well, it weren't from Monsie's tie yet.
I don't listen to him. Don't listen either way. It's the we're gonna go with the next one. And this is a very game that is near and dear to my heart. It is the Green Bay Packers.
Taking on.
Yours truly's Minnesota. Vikings over under is forty eight and a half, just like the Panthers Bucks. Vikings are in fact home for the skull Steve, what are you gonna pick on this one? Yeah?
What are you gonna pick?
Some? Well, I mean the Packers are locked into their slot. They're not going anywhere. Vikings is still battling for the number one seed, So I'm going Minnesota in this game. I wish I had a better feel for this over under. It's also what forty eight and a half? Just like the other game, right, it is the exact same. Yeah, I'm gonna have to wait ten minutes like Mincers will make up my money maybe up there.
Yeah, let me give it a fun over, but I'm gonna go with the Vikings.
You're taking the Vikings?
Yeah, all right, So the Packers haven't really beat like any of the top teams in the NFC, like they lost to the Vikings in Week four, they lost in Week nine to the Lions.
And all of those they have like a slow start. In Week fourteen they lost the Lions.
Honestly, I'm glad you picked the Vikings because it's pushing me to pick the Packers. Wow, I am going to take the Packers even though they have not beat I know that, but they've only allowed one.
Team in the last seven games to score twenty or more points.
That was Well, what's curious about this game is Vikings are home and they're a one point favorite, Yeah, which means on a neutral field, the Packers will be favored.
Yeah.
And the Packers are five and two on the road this year.
Right right, Yeah, I'm gonna I'm going to take the Packers.
And you love that over don't you.
I know, look at that over look at that forty eight and a half.
You love it.
You You want me to pick something so that you can take the opposite of whatever I pick.
I know what you're doing.
Well, maybe I will, maybe I won't. That's that's for you to figure out.
Can I Can I do a boldier? Is it?
Yes?
Can I say that Josh Jacobs will rush over one hundred and fifty yards.
One hundred fifty yeahs. And that's against a very good run stuffing defense.
I just don't Yeah, I just don't know. It's like, I don't know.
I think that's gonna be who they have to stop Josh Jacobs.
And the fact if it was one hundred and say no, one to fifty use you don't see.
That off right, I'm gonna say one fifty cool?
Come over under?
Yes, forty eight?
Like if if the score is like.
Thirty twenty seven, that's over, and I think it's gonna be like twenty seven.
Well, twenty seven to twenty four is over?
Is over? Yeah? And I think give me the over.
Oh she's going over over and.
I have not taking the under.
Okay, are you gonna take a bold?
Here?
Still?
Here we go.
Thirty three our field goal Temph the Bengals.
He missed it.
It was off upright. Oh he missed the field goal at death. But Broncos are alive. Thirty three are deal goal and tip hit the upright?
What come on? He'll just win man.
He just absolutely pulled this.
It was a perfect snap and he pulled it and he hit point right on the money. I just go for the touchdown, so we got two and a half minutes to go. Because he blows it.
That's unreal.
He can't believe it, cannot believe that he just hit Oh.
Oh, yikes.
That was their hero a couple of years ago. No longer, we got one.
More game to pick we do. It is not this game.
It is. In fact, though, the Atlanta Falcons, with Michael Pennix Junior taking on Jaden Daniels, fellow rookie for the Washington Commander's Commanders are home and the over under is forty six and a half.
Monsey, who we going Which rookie are we going for?
I think the Commanders are actually'll be pretty good.
I think they are.
Yeah, Like there was a time where they were losing, but I think I think Jaden Daniels was dealing with that rib injury and it really affected him. I'm going to take the Commanders, even though the Falcons are still alive. But no, I'm gonna take I'll take the Commanders winning at home all right.
Last year in my Heisman vote, I took Michael Penix over Jade and Daniels as.
She did, and I'm gonna do it again. Pennix has got the magic.
Falcons obviously need this game to maintain their lead in the NFC South. I think the Commanders have been a little bit fortunate and some of their wins recently. Obviously Daniel's coming out that amazing five touchdown game. That taking nothing away from him. But I love Michael Pennix and I think he showed a little bit last week. I think he's gonna feel even better this week. So Sunday Night football. Yeah, I'm going Falcons and he over.
Unders are Boulder Boulders, Boulder Bulls. I just wanted to be funny.
That's good.
I don't know about the Bowl, but that forty six and a half is really intriguing to me.
Come on, like Canello says, be Boulder.
Yeah, all right, I'm calling it. I'm going over. You're going over, Pennix.
Daniels pos right train.
I mean, listen, I understand why you want to take I get it, I get it.
The over is.
Definitely more appealing than the under. I'm not doing the under. The over is definitely the appealing one. But yeah, I don't blame you.
By the way, in this overtime game that we're watching, which is sort of our main job here.
I can't believe.
It is still tied after the miss thirty three yard field goal by the Bengals two and a half minutes remaining in overtime. The Broncos have a third and nine right now, so remember timeouts are not a factor in the You just got to score. I mean, whoever gets a field goal here will win this game. Now, if this game were to end in a tie, well, here we go first two and a half minutes to go. The Broncos are at their own twenty four yard line and they have a third and nine, so obviously they need a first town here or they're going to kick it right back to Joe Burrow, which would not be a good idea. Bnicks misses badly in the pass. Well, they have to punt because they can't give up the ball and downs here, So Broncos will punt to twenty nine to go, so again, plenty of time for Burrow again to get the Bengals in field goal position.
That's so brutal, this game.
Has nobody wants to win. No, nobody wants to win.
I'm not sure if the Broncos clinch a playoff spot with.
A tie I don't know if they do it with the win.
They do, with win they do, I don't know about the tie. So here's the punt by the Broncos. Two thirty to go right now, and the Bengals are going to at the ball inside their own forty yard line. For all the latest on this game and so much more, don't go anywhere, because we got an all cover for you.
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