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some guy busting my balls because I pronounce it Albany and not Albany. All right. Apologies.
Again, our fine affiliate AM 98985. I'm sorry. How are you pronouncing it? I said Albany
and not Albany. Albany. Yeah. That's so weird. Why would you ever look at that word and think
Albany? Because there's one L. I'm just saying like no one pronounces it ever though. Albany
and there's plenty of examples. It's simple. It's that sensible though, Jonas. There's
one out one L would say out. Thanks, Varr. It's like basketball. You don't call it the
real issue. Two L's would be all now this is this is because Jonas grew up on the West
Coast. Do you know what that state capital of New York is? What's that? Albany. Okay.
Okay. If you're state capitals, when you've learned them when you're in first grade or
whatever it is, you know, it's Albany, New York. Do you know what the state capital of
Ohio is? Yeah. Yeah. It's my ass. That's what it's called. That's state capital of Ohio.
All right. Sorry for mispronouncing Albany as Albany or whatever you want to call it.
Listen, point is we appreciate everybody listening and mistakes are made here on the
show. I want you, Jonas. I mean, you're going to say Benny, right? But you ain't going to
say the part, the first part, right? You don't say you don't say a a L as all. You don't.
Okay. We don't need to go with you all the, you know, all the different issues with the
pronunciation of the English language. Or for example, you know, when you say swan, you
don't say it's plural and singular. Like my daughter asked me a question the other day
about a word and I was like, Oh gosh, this is going to be difficult because, you know,
for a six year old, it's like, it's not going to make any sense to her. She's like, wait,
that words pronounce the same way as this word, but they mean two different things. I'm
like, yes. And she's like, huh, I'm like, yeah, I know. I was like, it's the English
language. None of it really ever makes sense. Like moves. Right. Isn't that the same thing
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the way tire buying should be. Hey, you said those words correctly. Yeah, better. Yeah,
yeah, talking about. Okay. All right. So you guys ready for the NFL to go ahead and
start making some major changes. Sure. All right. So the last my hubcap. So NFL owners
approved the new fair catch rule in the NFL, in which basically if you decide to fair catch
it in between anywhere before the 24.9 yard line, you're just going to go ahead and get
the ball at the 25 yard line. So they already do this in college football. But the idea
and this was talked about yesterday is again, they want to improve player safety. And they
feel like this move, which they're calling a quote unquote trial run only for one year,
this move they feel like is going to reduce the number of concussions by 15%. Because
it's going to entice players to maybe not bring the ball out. If it's kicked short,
just take it on the 25 and then move on with your lives. And it just feels like this is
another step in the direction of the walls closing in and them trying to get rid of one
of the most exciting plays in football that we've seen a lot of exciting players be a
part of and have major impacts on games and their careers, whether it be Devin Hester
or Brian Mitchell, you name it. And here we are, the NFL is trying to eliminate it all
for the sake of player safety. Do we know the percentage on amounts of like in terms of
you said the percentage going down by 15% that's what I would be curious as to how many how
many concussions because you know, my major concussions when I got them were on special
teams. I wonder what the percentage of special teams concussions are to the entire whole.
Okay, it's probably been receiving receivers getting hit, defenseless or considered to
be ticked, defenseless or targeting or whatever it may be. And then it would have to be special
teams. And I wonder which I would be the most kick off is number one, I believe. It's
the most dangerous play would have to be the reasons why they're trying to make this this
change. Even though it's it's to the disliking of most special teams coaches that are in
the NFL. One of the reasons is they the way they go about kicking the mortar kicks. So
they'll kick it basically with with a bunch of air. Because a lot of these kickers are
strong enough to be able to kick it out of the end zone. But now they'll kick it with
enough air to try to get that ball caught somewhere between, you know, the goal line
and the five. And then they can cover down enough. So now they're not getting the ball,
you know, out at the 25, they're getting at the 15 and 20 something like that. You know,
that's kind of become more the style that you've seen attempted in college and then
probably a little better executed at times, even in the NFL. And that's the thing is you're
probably going to get more of that. Because in Lvar, you know this, like an extra 10,
five yards, it may not seem like a lot to the people on the outside. But that's the
difference between you have to stop an additional first down. Like that's the difference between
a team potentially going forward on fourth down and a defense having to face, you know,
four down territory versus three down and being able to get off the field. And those
numbers add up obviously over the course of a game and of the course of a season. And
that's why I think there's some people who are like this is, you know, taking it a step,
maybe a little bit too far, even though it's in the best interest of player safety. So
I look, they're not going to get rid of the kickoff because otherwise like what the hell
are you going to call the game or the start of the game? It's kind of been the most like
ceremonial thing ever that just it just, it's too, it's too much part of the game, right?
How would you start it if you didn't have the kickoff? That's what I'm saying is like,
I don't know, like I can't picture in my mind what it would look like because you have
this big like, you know, the crowd getting intense, getting excited, the guy swaying,
the kicker puts his hand up, he gets ready to go and it's just, oh, there's this whole
like moment of time where you're like, that's the beginning of it. It's part of the vernacular.
Hey, what time's kickoff? Now we're going to get rid of all that. But it's more about
even just being there in the feeling of it. Like it's almost like literally that the
shotgun started out at a track race. Like that's the start. Like you know, that's the moment
when you hear that ball literally being kicked and the entire crowd's like, oh, it's just,
it's a feel to it. And if you took that away, I think it killed the live game experience and
it'd be those awkward thing ever. Yeah, I mean, it would probably feel like a scrimmage for
some reason or not. I mean, what people adapt and adjust if they did adjust it out of the game,
I'm certain that the fan base would adapt and adjust. But to a purist, I do think that that
would be a difficult, it would be difficult adjusting and adapting to not having a kickoff.
But I don't know, man, it just seems like that is, it definitely is a dangerous part of the sport.
It's definitely a part of the sport that you could say if you found ways to minimize it or even
not do it, you're basically preserving the health of a lot of guys. You know, I don't know, it's just,
it's, guys are moving so fast and they're hitting so hard. I don't know.
I'll tell you why it's not already out of the game. Because how many starters do you actually
have on special teams? Not many. Usually your core special teams guys are the ones that are set up
in your L4, L5, R4, R5. Those are the guys who are set up to make the tackle, make the play.
And it's those core special teams guys that are backups on defense and offense are the ones that
are typically the ones that are out there playing special teams and getting hurt.
You know, if you had, like, again, we see all sorts of rule changes to protect quarterbacks
because people tend to think, well, hey, these are the face of the franchise, face of the league,
however you want to do it. So, you know, they've, you know, callous times. I mean,
changed rules to help protect the quarterback. This isn't as much of a sense of urgency because
it's not that important of a position in the minds of the rules makers.
I mean, at what point do you just accept the fact that it's a violent game and like,
there's going to be stuff that you, there's nothing you can do about it?
Like, and today's society, that's not, it's not, that's not that simple.
Can we make football like, like, kind of separate from today's society?
Well, no, I mean, it's a good point because why do we view like,
Miss, Miss Marshall art? So we're not putting in safeguards necessarily for that.
Yeah, we do for football. You know what I'm saying? So you should then begin to take martial arts
classes then because then, you know, you would know martial arts better.
Great point. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. That's true.
I just, I don't know. I look at it and to Brady's point, like, that's the signal of the start of a
game. Like the site, the excitement, everything that comes along with it, the buzz, and then it's
just, and now we're going to, you know, it's, it's like the guy from the office who gets moved down,
or to office space, that movie was in Milton. He gets moved down to the bottom and they just
keep sort of closing the walls in. And finally, they just get to the point to where it's like,
dude, you no longer have a job here. It's over. Like, it just feels like that's where the NFL is
trying to get this instead of trying to eliminate the play altogether with, you know, an advantage
on the fair catch to go out to the 25, you know, they've, they've changed the way, you know, punts
are that play in particular has been, you know, played even kickoff formations. I would wonder if
they would ever look at trying to space out players more in like a kickoff formation to help
reduce the amount of space in between both teams. Because that's part of it too,
is when you've got a lot of space guys building up speed and running towards each other, it's just
a big collision. And so I wonder if there's a more creative way of trying to, you know,
allow more kickoffs, but not necessarily allowing the media quite as much space between when they're
doing this. They did that. What what what league was that they did it in? Was that the USFL or
maybe I'm sure you'll continue to see experiments done in both the XFL and USFL as almost experimental
rates or even even the pre-season, you know, you might see some of that. I get asked you guys this.
How did they identify who was going to be the wedge breaker? Was it the guy that seemed like
he had a little something wrong with him and they said, I was the wife breaker my freshman year.
Okay, that makes sense. The hell five, the hash, the hash guys, the wedge,
Buster, it was the guy who had no neck. They're like, Hey, um, get that guy. It looks like he's
a walk around like a battery. He has no, he has no fear. I'll tell you that. So Davis mills with
his thermos neck would never be the wedge breaker. That would his neck. If he wanted to really get
a shorter neck, he'd have to go be the wedge breaker back in the old days. He would lose like
eight inches off his neck. He'd have a normal neck by by by three seasons into his career being a
wedge break. That would be a trip watching a quarterback run down the hash. All of a sudden,
you see Davis mills racing at the Kentucky Derby. You're just like, Hey, what happened to you,
pal? I played wedge. By the way, we do have an update. We have a wedge breaker on the show here.
Let's go live to lead to laugh who claims he was a wedge breaker. I was a wedge breaker and the
middle of the wedge. Yeah. And I and they made me put on a horse collar because I'd always knock
myself out. My neck is this is explaining a lot of things. What high school was this Lee?
Notre Dame high school. That's right, baby. Yeah. And we know. Have you talked about these stories
with Todd was Todd's like, dude, no way. I was a wedge breaker. No way Todd played. Did Todd
say, Hey, Lee, you think you could put those football pants again one more time or put that
cowboy collar on again with with no no Jersey. Only more camping though. Yeah. No, Todd, I think
I played, you know, flag football. I don't think he ever played real football. He seems like he
might have been a wedge buster too. I mean, I don't know. Lee, how are you feeling now? Do you
still wake up some days and have like fear of the fear of just breaking up the wedge? Do you ever
wish you could go back and do it again? Oh, absolutely. No fear. No, just like Lavart said,
you kind of had to just God, that's amazing. How many times you knock yourself out, like,
what are we saying? Like five, six. Oh, I mean, once a once on me,
once it was your mindset was you're running downfield. If you can remember, I know it's
been a while, but give me your mindset where you just like biting your mouth, like, Oh,
I'm gonna create destruction. If there's any fear, it's the I hope I don't run my flask.
If you don't go full speed, you will get hurt. So you yeah, that's true. You just have to go as
freaking fast as you can. And it was always and it was yeah, it was actually really fast. And it
was always the biggest guy. I was not big at all, but it was always against the biggest guy on the
opposite team. They'd always be cackling before the game looking over at me. And then by the end of
the game, knocking them out or did you get knocked out? We'd like knock each other out.
Usually go down to one. You hit each other and you just stop and go down to one knee and then
stare at each other. Usually get dashed up at the end of the game. Huh? You guys asked each other
while you were on one knee, if you can cuss each other, like, or you can cuss? No, I think you just
know, right? You just look at each other and like, yeah, I'm concussed, dude. Yeah, I always
got respect from the from the opposite guy, the biggest guy on the team by the end of the game.
By the way, the NFL is saving this and using this is there. Why are we adjusting the kickoff rules?
And they're using all of Lee's answers right now as he knocked himself out once ever.
Sing with once. Hold on. We missed what Lee said. He wasn't just a wedge buster. He was part of
the wedge, right? Yeah, absolutely. So you're on the other side of it has been so
several double a double on his abuse. Give give give fee. You're
perspective on that side as you're watching this dude fly down at you.
Yeah, you kind of you definitely kind of measure each other up. You kind of get a little nervous,
but again, you kind of just got to flip flip that switch and just know you got to go full speed.
Otherwise, you're going to get knocked out. I remember when my brother played at more park
college, it was junior college, they were actually a pretty good team. And one of his buddies,
like his dear friend, his role was he was the wedge breaker. And we watched him in a game,
go down and hit a group of guys on the kickoff and get absolutely disintegrated. And he was so
buzzed that he came to the sideline and said does that count as a pancake because he got
pancaked? He had no idea of really what had happened. And you just think about all and
that's at the junior college level. I can't even imagine at the pro level what those collisions
look like from the sideline. I had an NFL game. I can't even imagine just the car racks every
single time. So jeez, I had no idea. Lee, I mean, it does explain a lot, but it props to you, buddy.
Hey, big props to you. Every single wedge buster and guy knew that was a part of that. I always
had the utmost respect for I remember one of our backup offensive lineman, Lenny Friedman.
He was a backup center. Super, super smart guy. I love talking to him just about football,
business, everything else. But he also seeing him get geared up to go out there to be a part of the
wedge. Like you knew exactly what was going through his brain. Like this is potentially
detrimental to my long term health, but he was as tough as nails and he'd go out there and he'd
go out there and try to blow someone up. So it's a doggy dog world there. He played on special
teams. That's sure. Was the meat wagon a wedge breaker? I don't recall going back. I just I would
define him as a thumper. Like he was he was our hardest hitting linebacker we had and he had no
problem whatsoever in flicking pain on other people. Like, you know, so like some guys like when
they are hard hitters, they'll like help the dude up or something. They kind of know. Jake's the
type that would have would have just walked right over a dude, like laid him out and just like walked
over hand or something. No, he wouldn't extend anything. He was just literally knocked the dude out
and then walk right over top of him and like make sure you let him know.
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around for that again, 20 minutes from now from the Tyrak.com studios. So there was a situation
that kind of took place while we were out in Arizona for the Super Bowl that there were some
rumblings about, Hey, who's Arizona going to hire his new head coach? Like what's taken so long?
We've been asked Albert Breer at the time. He joined us on set. He was sweating for some reason.
And Albert Breer joined us and he was saying, look, it feels like, you know, one of the, you know,
like Jonathan Gannon's the guy we're hearing rumblings about Jonathan Gannon. And then all of a sudden,
after the decision and the move was made and Jonathan Gannon was hired as head coach.
Apparently there was some, you know, some tampering going on by the Arizona Cardinals after the NFC
championship game. They interviewed Jonathan Gannon, which they were not allowed to. Some people have
speculated could that have been why there was some failure to make adjustments in the Super Bowl,
because maybe he was distracted because he was interviewing for the Cardinals job. And so to make
a nice on the whole situation, there was a pick swap during the draft. So the two team swapped
third round picks. Philly ended up picking at number 66 and Arizona dropped all the way down to 94.
So how we rose from the GM and the Eagles haven't really spoken to the full extent of what happened
or why there was the agreement to the pick swap, etc, etc. And so yesterday or recently,
rather, he had an opportunity to sit down with one Mike Florio for a football talk and, uh,
well, the exchange was boy was, you know, it was kind of interesting.
What can you tell me about how the Jonathan Gannon tampering situation came to be?
For me personally, obviously, extremely appreciative of JG and his contributions to our football team,
you know, helped us win the NFC. That was handled as we discussed before at the ownership level.
And I think the more we look in the past, the less focused we are on the future.
And so for me, that's over with, you know, wishing well in Arizona and we're moving on.
Did you guys actually make a complaint or was this the Cardinals raising their hand saying,
we realize we screwed up?
I really appreciate it. The JG's contributions helping us win the NFC.
And that was handled at the ownership level. And I think we need to move on.
You know, the less we focus on the past, the better we'll be in the future.
You're doing a good job.
I'm in the same time twice because I don't think I did.
Can you just know? You got it. You got it. Right. You're talking points are on point.
You're not realized that answers like that make people like me think there's a hell of a lot more
to this than anyone is ever going to tell us. And it was a much bigger deal than anyone ever
let it on to be. Don't you? Don't you?
I was making a list of top five conspiracy theorists around the national football league.
You would be on. I don't know that you'd be one. I don't want to put a point.
You as one, but you would definitely be tough. You're deflecting. You're deflecting.
Should it not be taken as a surprise that the announcement was made minutes before round one
began? Didn't you even chuckle at that? Good Lord. They're announcing this to the world
literally minutes before the draft started.
It is possible. That's when resolution came, right?
Well, I guess that's possible. Is that when it came?
There are answers for some of your conspiratorial. Is that the word conspiratorial theories?
Well, that's good. It's good that I got something out of you. I thought you were just going to read
the talking points again. We have about 30 seconds. Do you want to read the talking points one more time?
I feel like there's sarcasm involved in that.
So there was the interesting little back and forth. There was just a lot of sarcastic
jousting going on there. There's a bunch of passive aggressiveness.
I mean, that was like a $1,500 type of sound bite there.
He's a near dig them right in the ribs.
Got a lot to do with me. That's for sure.
She's condescending tone.
Why?
Why?
That's for a chasm.
Sounds like we're still in the clip.
Why the hell did I mean, it was my request to put the clip in. I wanted it to be played.
That was mine. I thought it was important to the development of the show.
For me personally.
What else were we talking about? The McDaniel Jiujitsu?
Cubidrill?
I know.
That's what we're talking about.
On the subject of why...
Here's the part that is weird to me. Why when they swapped the picks,
why did Arizona get a later pick in the draft from Philadelphia?
Like it wasn't an even swap. Like I had read that there was the third round swap,
and then Philadelphia had to give a fifth round pick or something like that to Arizona.
Why does that make any sense?
If there was real tampering here, and if Howie Roseman was really bothered,
and the Eagles organization was really bothered by this,
why would there have to be a pick given back in return?
Why wouldn't it just be a swap of third round picks?
Like that's part that doesn't make sense.
Maybe to equate to the value.
I don't recall which third round pick was swapped.
So that fifth round pick might have equated to the value to make it make sense for what
they're looking to accomplish.
Yeah, it's a very weird situation all the way.
It's... I mean, there's two things that are brought to light here.
One, it's not just us or others out there that think Mike Florio is a conspiracy theorist
and would have given him a hard time, which it was just absolutely fantastic to see Howie Roseman
be able to do that. That's the start off with, begin with.
The second is it just goes to point out that the NFL in a moment like that where,
you know, they realize there's a flaw within their process of hiring coaches,
and clearly they don't have an answer for it.
And I don't know that they care to because of the way they handled this situation.
You know, you could make the case that tampering was involved with almost every single coach
that it was leaked out. He would become a head coach, but was still coaching deep into the
playoffs or to the Super Bowl.
I mean, Kyle Shanahan's calling... I mean, everyone knew he was going to be the head coach
for the San Francisco 49ers. At some point you sit there and go, okay, well, so what exactly,
how do you define tampering that aspect? Clearly he interviewed. Clearly he was going to get the
job at that point. Like, where did Arizona cross the line and where they considered tampering
with Jonathan Ganon if he was a candidate, if he interviewed, and even though he was still hired,
still DC for the Eagles until after the Super Bowl, like at what point, where did they cross a line?
That's why I'm still trying to figure out, as far as what went wrong or why did the Eagles have an
issue with what the Cardinals did. And if the argument... It was the turf on the field.
Yeah, that is a great point. It could have been the turf on the field.
Maybe it was the football field that was causing all of these problems. And you know what,
from what I hear, 32% more non-contact knee injuries are problems too. That's why American Grassy
company guys, Pennington, they're on a mission to ban turf fields with that hashtag fliptheturf
movement. So go to Pennington.com slash fliptheturf now to learn more and sign the petition
for teams to hashtag flip the turf to real grass because, you know, that's probably why there's been
so much drama in the world because, well, they got that retractable turf that they pull on and
off the field in Arizona. That was another part of the problem. Yeah, they just do all kinds of
different things that, you know, you just want to see them put it together and keep it together.
By the way, do you think the Eagles felt like he was distracted by interviewing for the job?
Because I don't know how you wouldn't be distracted if you were trying to prepare for a Super Bowl
and at the same time interview for a head coaching job in the town where the Super Bowl is being
played. I don't know how you wouldn't be distracted. Like that, that to me seems like it makes sense.
And maybe that's where the root of the issue is for Philadelphia. So maybe they felt like he
wasn't ready to go when they needed to be able to go. Was it fully dialed in? Yeah, that's a lot.
That's a hard one. Because if you look at it from one perspective, guys are, that's what you're
working towards. You're trying to climb that corporate ladder and the corporate ladder as a
coach is to become a head coach. And if you have that opportunity, it's like, I'm focused in on
what I have to do in front of me. But this organization is approaching me to have an opportunity to do
something as to what's connected to why I do this in the first place. So it's like, it's, it's, I feel
like that creates a terrible dilemma. Like you could call it tampering, you could call it what you
want. But if a coach is getting the opportunity to further himself and climb in this game, I mean,
you can't be mad at that man for for wanting to to to further his career. How can you be mad at
that? How can you aid on that? I could be frustrated if I'm the owner, or if I'm associated with the
Philadelphia Eagles. But at the end of the day, the Philadelphia Eagles are going to make the
decisions that are best for the Philadelphia Eagles. So watch it and John Gann and do the same exact
thing for for his career. Yeah, but if you felt like it like if somebody was gonna take another job
and say they put in their two weeks and you felt like, yeah, maybe they didn't give you their best
on their way out. I could see what that would bother some people. Isn't that expected though? I mean,
let's be real, if someone gives you their two weeks, you can't expect them to be one of the top
performers on their way out. That's not the way I'm right. That's just not human nature. That's not
how it works for the majority, probably the vast majority of people out there. Yeah. I mean,
and usually you can see those signs. It's like a relationship. If you've heard the phrase that,
you know, usually when people break up, they've been breaking up for half the amount of time that
they're actually together. Like you can look back if they're together four years and two years prior,
you can well, and maybe people feel that way. That's probably a conclusion. But usually two
years into it, they can go back and say, you know what, it was that fight, it was that moment,
it was that situation that ultimately created a fracture that never healed. And that's where we
got to. And so I feel like that's the case too when people kind of put in their two weeks notice or
hey, like, this is mine. This is it for me. Like this is my last year. It's like, well, all right.
Like usually they're not, you know, they see the light at the end of the tunnel. They've already
got one foot out the door. That's why you hear players all the time when they start saying when
you start thinking about retirement, you maybe should already retire. Because in your mind,
you're allowing yourself to go to a different place and you need to be in order to be able to
succeed and prepare yourself. So I understand there's obviously the distraction by it. I don't
know how you get around it unless you completely pause the hiring cycle until after the Super Bowl,
which puts teams who are, you know, obviously not a winning team at a disadvantage. Because now,
you know, you've, you've got to wait all the way until everyone's done with the Super Bowl in order
to even start interviewing and hiring and plus it just creates more of an issue, I think, in the NFL
schedule in general, especially as the CZ gets longer. We're not, you know, subtracting games,
we're adding games. So there's probably no way around it. I just think at the end of the day,
the NFL doesn't want to have to try to create any sort of, you know, standard,
standard protocol to handle this sort of thing when teams have grievances versus one another,
with the exception of the cold two, you know, just went ahead and dropped their, you know,
their grievance against the commando. I should handle it in the old ways.
You guys didn't talk to it. You guys didn't talk to him. I never mind. We'd like to take back that
complaint. I believe the exact verbiage of the report was they didn't talk to Andrew Luck or
anyone in his immediate circle, which went back to our speculation that they probably talked to
someone who was like, Hey, what's Andrew Luck to do? Do you think he'd like to be interested in
coming back? And that all of a sudden that got back to Jim or a San he thought that was a temporary
as probably his agent. It's so great. I just think they should find out who the most
they get to choose their champion and the ownership ownership group and they battle it out after 50
yard line in Oklahoma drill. Yeah. I mean, I think that that's how you should settle it. And whoever
wins the Oklahoma drills, it's whatever it is that they decided it should be in the situation.
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There are some good things that happen. And there's some bad. And then there's some downright
ugly things. It's time for good, bad and ugly. All right, leave the lap who's got what this week.
Well, as we do each and every Wednesday, we start with a little bit of good news. And that's
coming from LaVara this week. Come on, bar. I mean, this is a great one. I feel really
confident about it. My man Brooks, the LB, Kepka. Yeah. You know, I love watching the PGA tour.
I love watching golf. All those things I said earlier, it was just a lie. But here's the truth.
Brooks Kepka, well, he captured his third, I believe, if my math serves me correctly,
a fifth major title at at Oak Hill by winning, you know, yeah, there's this third PGA championship
victory. So yeah, yeah, there it is. That's my good news is Brooks Kepka, like the linebacker,
you know, coming through and winning. Yeah, he's back. He's back.
Caps back. Yeah. You know, I mean, cap cut.
Line back. I don't want that to become a headline.
Now cap isn't back.
Okay. Well, guys, you can't have good without the bad Jonas. What was bad this week?
Uh, me. I did something over the weekend that is still bothering me. My wife thinks I'm just
borderline obsessed at this point. So I was trying to make pizza at home. And I thought this would be
a great idea that I thought, all right, well, you know, I normally I put the dough on a little
screen that lead the lap got me because I have this thing where you set it on the grill and you
you close the grill lid after you put the pizza inside this little box and it cooks a pizza and
it's awesome. But I thought it would be, you know, a good idea. So instead of putting it on the
screen, I got cocky and said, you know, I'll just throw it straight on the wooden pizza peel.
And then I'll put it back in the fridge and leave it in there long enough that it won't stick to
the bottom of the pizza peel as I try and load it into the actual pizza cooking box on the grill.
And that no, that's not exactly how that worked. I tried my best to get it off there. I couldn't
do it. I tried everything to slide it into the and I said, all right, screw it. It was already late.
I just wanted to go to bed. I didn't even care about eating it at this point. I just wanted to
complete the journey. So I just put the entire wooden pizza peel inside the pizza oven box
and burned it to shreds, absolutely destroyed. But I was able to get two slices out of it,
which I was okay with, but it just destroyed the whole thing. It split apart on the bottom,
almost caused the fire and ended up having to get a new one and throw it away. So my bad for the
week was my performance trying to make a pizza at home. Terrible.
Bummer, man. My propane gave out on me halfway through my steak yesterday. I was pretty.
So what'd you do? I, well, I went and got a new propane tank and then I,
I kind of got rid of those stakes. I cooked up some new stakes. I had extra stakes. So
I just cooked up another. Where'd you give the wasted stakes?
I, well, I did finish cooking them and I tested them, but they didn't, they didn't turn out that
good. So yeah, that's a bummer. That's why I did cook up the next stakes. Well, guys,
bringing it on home. Brady, what was ugly this week? Yeah, probably the Lakers, just getting,
getting swept by the Denver Nuggets. Although, you know, some folks out there
are caught at the greatest performance by a team that got swept. I believe Brian Winhorse said that
at some point in time, which is quite an interesting way of putting it. I don't know that I've ever
heard someone compliment a team that got swept the way the, the Lakers did obviously, especially
considering how well they were playing up until that point. So just kind of interesting to hear
that. Let's hear from, you want to hear from your guy, Brian Winhorse? Oh, do we have it? I think
he's in Ohio native. I'm not miss me. He's pretty close to some of the Lakers.
The Lakers absolutely were terrific in going down in this series. I'm not sure I've seen
a more impressive performance in a sweep ever.
What a well. What does that mean? I mean, honestly, I'm not sure I've seen a more
better performance ever in an ass kicking that I have from this team. Oh, man. So they're like the
closest worst loser. Like, what does that even mean? By the way, the Bears were the best three
win team I've ever seen in the NFL. Did you know that? Like that's, that's how this works now.
Yeah, just find those. I just, I'm like, why do you feel the need to make that sort of statement?
Did it be one thing if like, for example, I'll be going to the Panthers game versus the
Hurricanes tonight. And like the first two.
Can't excuse me. First two, those games went into OT, right? Like they've been tight games.
One was a four over time. The second one was an overtime. This past one was tight. They've all
been really, really tight games. Like, okay, maybe, but are we really looking at the Lakers,
Denver series saying like all those games were tight games, like they're closely, very competitive.
Yeah, they lost. Yeah. Well, he's got to pay the bills. I mean,
the Lakers, they're bills. They're the best worst team to get.
That's so silly. You got to find the optimism, man.
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