Hour 2: Jonas & Brady - Welcome Home Geno Smith?

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3:07sports radio dot com or stream us live every day on the I heart radio app by searching F S R. Let's not much trying to be completely negative. All right, I know we were pretty critical of the NBA, but I do feel like if you were trying to get people amped up, there's probably a better sound garden song than this. And it's not saying it's a bad song. OK, I just think that there's some songs with, you know, a little bit more high energy. High. Why do you always have to be critical? Why can't you just accept it for what it is a good song? I agree. It's a great song. But I just think, you know, there's certain songs that hit in this time slot. And then there's other songs that you just want to listen to while you're, you know, like you're in the woods with a 30 pack and a sawdoth by yourself. You know, that's that would be thanks for taking it there. I just think I just think that there's, you know, certain things that that

4:10apply to certain situations, but, you know, is what it is. It is two pros in a cup of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox, and you know, Lava Earrington, he is not here. Lava Earrington will not be here today. He will not be here tomorrow and he will not be here Friday. Man, look at what I'm doing. I'm laying it down. So if you, if you tuned in to this show to hear Lava are over the next three days, he basically told you to kiss his ass. I hope you're aware of that. And that was part of this is that whatever else you want to point to. Have you ever heard the story? Do you know about this for the whole Long Island University, the basketball program and the celebration, everything else? Have you heard the story? No. So there were two added college basketball fans who they just wanted to follow up a pathetic band based team and they want to try to start up like a tradition. And so what has become now like a viral thing with these two guys, the

5:12kind of, I guess across the court from each other while the other team sitting free throws the yellow fins up and they, they put up their fins, the Long Island University, there's the shark. But when they, when you show the first video, it's just one guy by himself, like down by the free throw line. And then three of the dudes all the way across the court and what was, do you, to be the student section? And this has now become kind of a trend, which Long Island University, I believe, just played the NEC championship recently or last night. I think they lost, but still they've actually built up a fan base now. It's become somewhat of a trend that has a little bit of height behind the program. So it's pretty neat to see it grow, but also just two added college basketball fans, which really just means they're, they're huge gamblers because they often march not as, but that's how it all got started. So I'm looking up the Long Island University sharks.

6:16They're in the Northeast conference, whatever the hell that is, located in Brooklyn. Yeah. And 24 and 10 this year. Yeah. All right. Good for them. First in the Northeast. All right. Good. So at least at least now they've, they've seen it through another scene, some success there. That's good. That's a feel good story. So good for those guys. That's awesome. By the way, here's something else. It's awesome. Your former teammate, Geno Smith, back with the Jets, just like he was 13 years ago, when you are also with the Jets, Geno Smith is now a member of the New York Jets yet again. The Jets are acquiring Smith and a trade from the Las Vegas Raiders. We're assuming that he's past his physical, you never know what these Raiders. So they're a real tricky bunch, but he is arrived to the Jets in exchange for a 2026

7:17six round pick. The Raiders will also be sending a 2026 seven-thround pick in the trade. I can already tell you right now that seven-thround pick probably going to end up in the bottom 10 mock draft that I'll be doing coming up next month here on the show. But Geno Smith, back to New York, back with the Jets, and apparently he's real fired up about it. This was a text from a very pumped up Geno Smith, according to Ian Rappaport, quote, complete full circle moment back to where it all began. I'm excited to connect with my new teammates and coaches and everyone in the building as well as build a new relationship with the fan base and community. Your guy, Geno Smith, back home. You don't do this happen very often in sports in general, let alone the NFL. So it is a full circle moment. It is a completely different player and really man than what he was back in 2013. I mean, I remember, you know, a rookie coming in who is still kind of trying to

8:18understand how to be a pro, how to break down film, how to prepare himself weekend and week out. I mean, Geno's always had a lot of talent and the ability to throw the football. And that's one of the reasons why it's still been able to have the long successful, you know, career in terms of how back goes. But this is not as good of a situation as he was drafted into, meaning the team that he was drafted into was a lot closer and more talented as far as being competitive than what this one is. So I will say that I think that's the uphill battle for all of this is he's going to be on a team where the coach, if things don't go well, is going to be on the hot seat. You know, you've got your star receiver, which back then, it was Centennial Holmes. You know, now it's Garrett Wilson. And, but you know, outside of that, and you got, you know, Bruce Hall in the back field, but this is a team that offensively, I think I'm not sure the offensive line. Is as good as that one was. Well, guys like Nick Mangold got rested soul and the British off for every

9:21time in that front. I mean, those, those guys could absolutely get after it. And defensively, you know, that was still during the Rex Ryan years. Where, you know, they didn't have any issues getting the interceptions or you're getting turnovers and they had the ability to get pressure. You know, that was a team that if I'm not mistaken, I think they'd have been, you know, 500 that year or around maybe just a game off of that. But it's just, it's not as good of a situation, I think, for him going into it as what it wasn't he was drafted into, at least in regards to the, to the roster. So he's got his work cut out for him, but it's another opportunity and kind of a cool way to again, come full circle. And I think he's more equipped to handle a lot of the adversity that will be thrown his way as the Jets quarterback compared to again when he was still there as a rookie, still learning, still kind of growing. He's a completely different player today. And by the way, you were naming off all those names. I forgot how talented the Jets were back then. But there's a reason why they were a problem for the Patriots.

10:23Like they beat England in a playoff game at Foxboro. They went to back to back AFC title games. The Jets were really talented back then. Yeah, people, I mean, Antonio Cromardi on the outside. You look at their linebacking crew up front. You guys like a model Wilkinson, who's a hell of a player, especially young. I mean, they had some stud. Revis was still there. Revis was still there. I mean, the side and you had really blown up front to an offensive line. I mean, that roster was as talented as some of the best that I've played for over about eight years. And it's, you know, getting looking, looking at what it is now. It's just going to be a different challenge. And that's where I say he's better prepared for it. And I think if if Aaron Glenn can get this thing turned around, get the defense playing at a higher level, like Rex had them playing at, you know, they could be competitive in some games. But I, again, I think it's an uphill battle, you know, based on what last year looked like. I know that it's easy to take shots at the Jets because they make it easy.

11:26And they've been a disaster and all that. And we've obviously had our laughs with some of what's gone on there. And I know that it would be easy to look at Geno Smith and, you know, oh, God, you're going to bring Geno Smith back. That's really going to work this time. And then you see the comments from Geno Smith. I think it illustrates something about him. I think he probably recognizes, yeah, I get it. It's the Jets. It probably wouldn't be my first choice. But you know what, I'm going to be the starter. I know that I'm going to get an opportunity to play. I know I'm not going to be backing up, you know, a developmental quarterback at all, likelihood, I'm actually going to get an opportunity to play. And a guy like that who's already seen his own mortality in the league, who's already seen what can go wrong, especially, you know, if you're drafted in a certain place and it doesn't work out initially, I think he probably looks at this and cherishes the opportunity to just play anywhere and be the guy which he's going to be with the Jets. I think all those things are true. And I also think, you know, they know that there to be a sort of adversity here, you know, based on how the season goes.

12:28Let's just go back to Woody Johnson, not allowing Eric to have the higher defense coordinators and say, no, you are defensive like all you call the defense. That to me was the first sign of they maybe feel like they made a mistake. They don't want to make it a one year thing. They're trying to get through this year. That's how it feels to me. And unfortunately for Gina Smith, he's willing to take the opportunity to go there, play and start and be able to manage what will be, you know, again, I think an uphill battle this season, but I think it sets them up to being a position to draft high next year. I mean, a much better draft class. And I know I keep, you know, out on the table for that class. But again, from what I've watched and what a lot of people have talked to around the league say is that that's what teams are preparing to do. They're preparing themselves to build a draft a quarterback and that you're sure I would not be shocked at all. If the jets have what the number two pick, yeah. If they don't trade back with someone who see something in Thai Simpson,

13:30if they go that route and try to get out, accumulate more picks and then build up for what will be that quarterback in next year's draft. Now it could they could take Thai Simpson as well and allow this year to be a year where, you know, some of the starts Thai Simpson sits and learns. You just have a ton of starting experience at the college level. But it would be my guess if they could trade out of it, they will. Or they would look at taking best player available. But again, this is not a very highly tied a draft in either way for quarterback or for top end talent. I mean, again, we're looking at what I believe to be maybe a historic draft class next year. Pete says five quarterbacks also, you know, I say six, but not even that. I think about Catholic Jeremiah Smith, we're going to be coming out to as a wide receiver. You're going to plug in right away as your number one wide receiver is wrote to Ryan Williams out of Alabama, another absolute blazer who's going to be talked about as part of that crew to. So it's an extremely talented class all the way around, not just a quarter

14:33back, and there are a lot of teams that themselves up to be able to get some of those prize pieces in that draft. So if you look at what the Raiders are this year, and you know, sort of put games for them, you know, maybe there's a thought too of like, hey, he's going to be a guy who could manage a lot of the adversity, keep us competitive in games. Maybe we could win some, but at the end of the day, we're still going to be able to get through what could be a very adverse season with where our roster's at, where our team's at, or this organization right now, and look to make more of a reset in 2027. And also, if you think about it because you mentioned they've got the number two pick, they've also got the number 16 pick as that was part of the sauce gardener trade when they traded him to Indianapolis. And so that's, that could be a spot to where if Ty Simpson is sitting there, teams could also want to trade up and maybe feel like that's maybe a more appropriate place to want to take him if they value him more. So at a 16 as opposed to a number two overall, so they, they've got options, man, like trading back makes sense, especially with the class

15:33that's coming in next year. And look, I also, when I think about Geno Smith too, like, because we we had a lot of conversations about, you know, the fallout in Minnesota, letting Sam Donald walk and then seeing what happened. He goes on to win a Super Bowl and, you know, what happened to, I mean, I call him JJ McCarthy, you call him nine, whatever, like it, you know, to each their own. But to see what happened there and how that's perceived with Sam Donald leaving and winning a Super Bowl, I also look at it. I go, man, Geno Smith was just there in Seattle. Like he was just there. He gets traded away. He goes to the Raiders. They pay him what close to $60 million, give up a third round pick, whatever the compensation was there. And it was awful and Pete Carroll the same. And so Geno Smith's probably looking around going, damn, man, like I like, like, you know, I was on a potentially a Super Bowl winning roster at the time. Obviously they added a couple of pieces, you know, in that, in the next

16:36off season, but I was on that roster. They just want a Super Bowl. And here I am with the Raiders and we're a clown show. And so the fact that he's going to be able to get an opportunity after all that's happened in the past year and it's going to be going all the way back to New York and getting that chance to start, you know, with some, with, you know, some talent there. You got your Garrett Wilson, the briefs halls you mentioned. I just, you know, I look at, I go, I feel good for Geno Smith. My hopes aren't that high because it's a Jets, but at least he's going to get another, another shot and another chance to start. And who knows how many more of these he's going to get in his career. Yeah, and my again, a different player now, much more matured player. He knows how to handle adversity. I thought he handled a lot of the adversity last season, you know, but people tend to forget they fired their office corner mid-year. And I think Chip Kelly got a lot of blames for what was going on. However, you know, when you start reading more of the reports that came out from Las Vegas, I mean, it was a clown show behind the scenes in regards to how they were trying to prepare for stuff. I mean, whether it's the O'Line Room and the blocking scenes and John Spytech

17:37down there, breaking down the film with some of the O'Line men because they didn't feel like they were prepared with p-carol suns, like kind of helping out on the staff coaching. There's a lot of things you want on there. He weathered the storm. I mean, he really did, you know, a lot of stuff didn't necessarily surface until it became more apparent, you know, how things were being orchestrated on the coaching staff with the firing of Chip Kelly. So again, you're bringing in a guy who is going to be the face to franchise, at least initially, as the quarterback, as the starter again. And he's handled the New York media before and he'll be able to handle it again. And it will be able to handle again, some adversity that could come from a team that struggled to win games last year and probably will struggle to win games this year. Yeah, I just hope for Tino's sake that I can and Paulie's not anywhere near the building, you know, I knew this would come up. That's simple. I knew a word. You couldn't help yourself. What? I mean, is it he business? What's he busy doing right now? I don't know. I mean, I just, I mean, I, well, because for those that aren't familiar,

18:38Gino Smith, no, I think you need to tell the I can and Paulie story. Okay. Well, so the reason I can and Paulie's name is being brought up is because apparently there's a dispute over money that was owed to him from Gino Smith. There was a skirmish in the locker room and the report was that I can and Paulie punched Gino Smith and broke his jaw. Now you hear that and you go, wow, that's salacious enough. And then we go, oh, but no, but wait, there's more when it comes to I can and Paulie who back in, I believe 2015, he was, I, he was arrested. There was police called because there was an issue that he had. He was going to meet up with a woman to consummate a plan of attack on a, of a sexual nature. We'll put it that way. He was going to meet up and get some stuff done with a lucky lady that he met online who I believe's name was Missy Lee. So he meets up. He goes to this residence. He goes in the side door and when he's there, he sees Missy Lee with a blanket

19:41overhead. And for whatever reason, she won't remove the blanket. And he thinks it's a little weird. So he gets frustrated. He just leaves Missy Lee texts, I can and Paulins says, come back in. I can and Paulie comes back in Missy Lee's phone lights up under the blanket. And I can and Paulie sees that Missy Lee's got facial hair. Then sees another individual walk in the room. You know, no, no, no, we don't have it to confer whether or not it was the gimp from Pulp Fiction, who actually the real guy just passed away last week, thoughts and prayers, but I can and Paulie punched Missy Lee, who turns out name was probably Mike with a full blown beard under the blanket as the phone lights up. And there was an arrest teeth were knocked out, all sorts of stuff happened there. So that is one of the all time great catfish stories. Just imagine walking into somebody's house one time.

20:43They sell you on coming back in again. And then you figure out who they really are because the phone lights up under the blanket and they've got to go tea. That's terrifying. I hope we never put yourself in that situation. That's not back. Yeah, already you better shave. That's enough. Oh, man. Yeah, that's so that's, but again, Gino Smith's back, everybody. He is back and he is now a New York jet again. And so we're often running with the jets in 2026. By the way, for the ones who get it done, Grainger offers access to over a million products and the scale to deliver when and where you need them, the right tools and supplies are never far away. Call click grainger.com or just stop by. All right. It's coming up next here on two pros in a cup of Joe Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with you. We are going to tell you about somebody who may or may not have been aware of how things work. And the problem is it was their decision on how things would have ended up.

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28:04You know, we could, uh, you know, celebrate the band who, by the way, from Nebraska, you know, I like seven 11. They have slushies. Ah, that applies. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. It's my anniversary, by the way, 7 11. Oh, is that the wedding that you guys did during COVID? We get out of half the table or money. Great. Great. It's great. Brilliant. Brilliant thing. Hey, you don't know that Marriotti man still kept their deposit. It's all right. It's all right. They are. How much was the deposit? What do you think we're going to like a twinkie and a Hershey's bar? No. Five pesos. Why do you have to, uh, why do you have to be so rude, man, uh, yard rake and, uh, you know, a couple of trash bags, nothing, uh, nothing wrong with that. Uh, they, but they did perform at, uh, we ended up having them perform at, I think her brother's wedding. So her brother got wedding not, got married non-COVID and so they performed there. Very good band. One of, one of the guys got just blasted. I mean, he was annihilated at her brother's wedding.

29:07So I don't know how that finished out. But, uh, but yeah, they, uh, you know, got our money's worth. But yeah, by the way, I recommend anybody wants to save money out of wedding. Just wait till the next pandemic. Please, like you will save a fortune. Brady won't come out for it because he won't travel out, uh, for his friend's wedding. But for those that weren't attendance, it was a good time to be had. So there's that. It's not my fault. You couldn't do a destination wedding where I lived. By the way, I was still remember Bobo. Bobo was like our former tech producer was like, man, Q was going to be here. Brady was going to be here. I was like, what do you mean? He goes, yeah, he was trying to surprise you, but he was trying to line it up. But he couldn't make it happen because I guess you guys had some other stuff going on. But yeah, we were trying to make it work. Um, unfortunately, we couldn't figure that out. And so, yeah, well, uh, hey, it is two pros in a cup of Joe. I'm about to be another one, but well, well, I'm working on it, buddy. I'm trying, I'm, I'm working on it. I'm doing my best.

30:08I'm not Dak Prescott, okay? All right. I'm not everybody's, uh, that fluid, uh, with relationships. Uh, by the way, we'll have another edition of the Good, the Bad, the Ugly coming up here in about 15 minutes from now here on, uh, two pros in a cup of Joe. Um, all right. So let's get into it. I mean, this is a real, you're really torn on this because, the eye ties showed up at the World Baseball Classic, the expectations were very low. And now the Italians are undefeated at the World Baseball Classic. After they beat the Americans last night in Houston, they got an espresso maker in the dugout on it. And the best part is that book that's an Italian lighting. Oh, great. The best part is is I'm looking at some of these guys that are, that are on the roster. I know that guy. He pitches for so and so he pitches for this.

31:08I'm thinking, how Italian is he? You know, like, what, what are we really talking about? Survelli, the manager, you know, that's an Italian. Like that's 100%. But I'm watching these guys for team Italy and they're undefeated and, and they're rocking a role in here. And now the US finds themselves in a difficult spot because they need some help now to advance to, to the next round out of pool play because the top two teams from their pool advance to the next round. The problem is, Mark Derosa, the manager for the US was on MLB network before the game. And he alluded to the fact that guys are really celebrating after the Mexico win because they were refired up about it. You know, very contentious. You had Cal Raleigh and Randy Erozerina, not, not, you know, one of the shake hands and all that. And he kind of alluded to the fact that they celebrated after that game because they thought that they'd clinched their way to the next round. And he said so on MLB network before the game.

32:11Tonna respect for Italy. It's, it's weird. We want to win, we want to win this game. Even though our tickets punched at a quarterfinals because Mexico plays Italy actually tomorrow. So this, the way, the way the schedule lines up, this is an important game for us. Nolan McLean will start. He's on the bump and he's good to go. He's an absolute beast. And I expect him to throw to heck out of him. Yeah, that's not the case. They need, they needed to win last night if they wanted to advance to the next round. It would have changed. I think the way that he had certain guys in certain positions, guys that were playing with an opportunity to advance instead. They lost. And so now, see if you can keep track of this. This is what team USA needs in order to advance to the next round. So they would move on if Italy beats Mexico later on today. So that's the simple option of Italy, you know, goes undefeated through the, through the entire pool play. They'll be 4-0, the US will be 3-1, Mexico will be at 2-2. So obviously the top two teams from that pool advance.

33:11But if, if Mexico, this were things get confusing, right? If Mexico beats Italy later on today, there's a three way tie. Team USA can advance if it wins a tiebreaker. Team USA, Mexico and Italy would all finish three and one overall, one and one against each other. But apparently there's, um, lowest, like, there's runs involved. There's head, it's just, I feel like there's an easier way to, to sort through all this and get to what the answer is and get to the next round. But this is like the World Cup. There's run differential. All these things. If, if Mexico wins a low scoring game, it's bad news for the US. If Italy wins a game, but holds mex, the whole thing's kind of a fiasco. But just to make it simple, they need Italy to win. They're rooting for the eye ties later. Okay, they are, they're, they're, they're pumping up that fresh machine that trying to keep lighting in those bats. And then put, you know, again, you know, maybe there's some bad blood between the USA and Mexico.

34:11But what if the case may be, it's unfortunate. It's got to this point because I really felt like two after the win over Mexico that a clear path, there wasn't heavy expectations. What was the betting line on the USA, Italy game? Italy was a plus 700, 70, they were significant underdogs and a cagliadone coming up big for the eye ties. It's just, and then obviously the bullpen too, you know, pitching in as well versus the US. So I'm not, I don't have much hope that what USA needs to happen to make this a clear, definitive path for the next round is going to happen. I think we're going to find ourselves in a freeway tie scenario. And I think they got a hope, they have to hope that this is a more low scoring game between Mexico and Italy. That's that's my understanding of the hybrid scenario that the US needs to play out. So not sure it's going to happen again. I think next goes closer to the USA team than they are to Italy. So this could be a drumming and if that's the case, it'd be incredibly disappointing, where you've got Italy and Mexico both advancing when really it should have been USA and Mexico.

35:22Like those are the two teams in this particular pool. And so the USA for those keeping track, they would advance if Italy wins or if Mexico allows six or more runs or if Italy or Italy allows five or more runs. Like it's just the whole things a disaster. But the fact that your manager comes out before the game and kind of alludes to the fact that the guys all got banged up the night before because they were celebrating that they were dragging us and then doesn't know that they hadn't already clenched. You know, probably not a great look for everybody involved. But yeah, I'd also like to say this, you've ever been on social media and some random factoid will come up and you're like, why is that in my feed? And it's because somebody you follow retweeted it. I did, I did find it curious yesterday when I was on X, why there would be a random screenshot of the Cleveland Indians lineup from 1995 now that why is this anywhere near my feed?

36:23Then I realized that it was you that reposted it. So I just want to go back to my childhood and remember how good that 95 Cleveland Indians team was. So I saw going around out there on the post again, mind you a little fact toy that we got wrong. We did find the South NFL research. Remember we did play the trivia yesterday about the last time to left handed quarterbacks from the same game day, roster in the season. Yeah, the only time according to NFL research was actually the year two thousand, I believe or 2001. The Seattle sea ox had brought you or in my light. Oh, I believe Matt Lido ended up moving on after that season in Carolina, if I'm not mistaken. But that would have been the only other season where we had two quarterbacks, both left these that child rare. It is to see. So we'll see if they maybe had a third. Maybe they trade for Dylan Gabriel and we get another left in Atlanta. Seeks you asked that trivia question yesterday. Lavar said zero. I said one.

37:23Lavar was the winner in real time. But now upon further review, that's a big win for me. Take that and that also goes to show you folks. AI is not there yet. Okay. I used to rock for that. I've got the highest version of it. They're not it's not there yet. All right. So we're still safe. You know, our jobs are safe for now research everything else is safe for now. Although go check out the fact that meta, right? Mark Zuckerberg's meta platform bot mulbook, which if you don't know what mulbook is mulbook. Homebook is a social platform for AI agents, meaning it was built by AI agent. Right. Oh, there's no people involved, but meta just bought it. Like who they pay for. To buy a social platform for AI only. Okay, hold on a second. So is this like a like a Facebook for a eyes.

38:26Correct. They started their own like social platform. They started their own language. So humans can't decide. That's great. Apparently they were able to hack into a human phone. And then it kind of has spread from there as far as what exactly is happening. But don't worry. Mark Zuckerberg and meta bot mulbook. So I guess I guess we're all we're all safe for the time. And the thing about it with AI is that they're basically just going to do is make us close of resemblance to humans as possible without all the flaws. But the problem is even a eyes are horny. So you know these guys are going to be sending crank picks. I'm assuming the a eyes are guys. If they're not, you know, there's going to be crank picks and inboxes. There's going to be somebody's going to get offended by some political view. There's going to be an AI who's still going to take over. Yeah, because they're so far superior to your thinking, which always goes down the gutter every time we have these questions.

39:29They're not even thinking about whatever the hell you were just mentioned. They're looking at humans like Joseph Snotson saying, yeah, these people are going to be easy to take over. He still drives his old Toyota to come. Second, we're going to go ahead and figure out a way of just steering that thing into it. You know, I think it's rude for you to downplay the sexual appetite of AI. I think that's rude because you like they can't be horned up. They're above that. They're not out looking to get their rocks off and they see something like they're just it's everywhere we look. Nature, aliens probably do it. Bugs hump, turtles make noises, humans do it. But AI is above everybody. Dolphins definitely do. Dolphins are horny dolphins try and take out and take out their trainers. Sorry, my bad. I always bring up the one animal that doesn't even need a partner to do stuff. And they'll human like they don't care. I was at my trainer.

40:30That's more than my trainer now and they'll take liberties. So the fact that you're going to sit here and assume that AI is just above all of that when they can't even tell us whether or not one team had two left handed quarterbacks in the year 2000. I find that reckless on your on your. But they can drive us around on the car as you witness that in San Francisco. Yeah. Them are some guy from the Philippines who was using an RC to steer us around the street to San Francisco. Well, why don't you talk to him next time then? There will be not be a next time. I'll tell you that right now. It's not going to happen. I did it. I experienced it one time. I'm good. It's like skydiving. I went skydiving one time. I'm all right. That's it. It's snowboarding. We're not an advanced skydiver. You had to get a tandem, right? Yeah. That is correct. Yeah. The part that threw me off was him pulling my hair the whole time. Like that's I didn't get that. And I'm not really sure what that was all about. The story where he went up with a girlfriend and came down and you guys worked together anymore.

41:33No. And another to do with that. I really said I don't think it anything to do with that. But yeah. I thought you said you guys jumped out your together. And by the time you guys both got to the ground. But yeah. But yeah. Her partner was smoking a cigarette and she was laying down somewhere. Yeah. It was very uncomfortable. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But they. So I've done it. You know, I did it once. I way more than one time. And I'm good. I don't need to way more again. You know, I went. I went snowboarding once. I'm good. If I just do it once, I'm. That's it. You know, that's my thrill. I'm going to do anything once. You know, that can get you in trouble. Yeah. That's fair point. All right. So that a wrap up our coverage of the WBC going to Lee and make things easy on this math majors. Yeah. Come on. I'll grab the tie breakers there. Let's go. That looks. It is two pros in a cup of Joe here on Fox Sports radio Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox here on FSR coming up next though. We are going to have a Wednesday tradition. It's our midweek awards.

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47:44Well, I'll tell you what, Sheriff, the good right now. We're going to call an audible. I'll tell you what, you sheriff knocks have the good right now. Well, the good is the world baseball classic. I have been thoroughly impressed with the product. I think that baseball, in particular, Major League Baseball, does the exhibitions and special events better than anybody because I think it's the most like the actual product. It's why the MLB All-Star game is the best. I think the home run derby of all the special events when it comes to All-Star breaks and what not is the best. I think the WBC is delivered again. The ratings have been fantastic. And the longer the US can stay in this thing, I believe the Dominican Republic is the favorite to win it all. And the longer the US can stay in it and the longer you can get those stars shown and showcased in an event like this. I think it's better for the sports of my good for the week is the WBC, the world baseball classic.

48:48And hopefully the Italians, you know, Brady relatives can help help push the US forward. That's a story for another day, but yeah. Well, I'll tell you what, we have up next. We have Sheriff Quinn with the bag. Sheriff Quinn, the floor is yours. I'm not sure which way to go here when we talked about it a lot earlier. The bam at a bio, I'm I'm happy for him. He seems like a really good guy, good player. But the way that was orchestrated last night, the amount of fouls to get him to the free throw line to eclipse Kobe Bryant 81 points. To me, it just stumped. It wasn't fun to watch. It was like someone trying to help someone along, you know, break a record that they probably didn't have any business breaking under normal circumstances and an uncompetitive game. So I just I can't go along with this. I grew up in an era watching Michael Jordan watching Kobe Bryant, the way they those guys attacked the game of basketball and their opponents.

49:56And how they went about scoring and the pride they took in competing for championships. This league feels like it's not a serious league anymore. And that's the bad is what the NBA has become in celebrating a guy scored 83 points. That's great. How many of those points though came off free throws 20 some whatever it was. 36. 36. 36. 36. 43. It's just it all feels like there's going to be an asterisk next to it. If I'm out of silver, I've got to step in and do something about this review this. You talked about it from a gambling perspective earlier too. That's a legitimate concern. And the one that I would have where again, you have players cropping up another player from an opposing team. I've none of that seems right. It could be considered ugly, but it's downright bad. Yeah, the the free throw numbers. The wizards had 29 attempts as a team. Bam on a bio had 43 himself.

50:58And we're celebrating that. Yeah. We're celebrating. That's great. What was the most that shack act back in the half a shack or I don't know that he ever took 43. I don't think so. I can't imagine. No, I don't I don't think so. But I'll look into that. Yeah, that's a good good question. All right. Sure. Sure. What do you got? All right. So I'm the ugly. So we got, you know, the whole charges with Darren Lee with the whole charge with murdering his girlfriend. Well, we have a bit more to this. Apparently, Darren consulted chat GPT for advice was saying things saying she was self-inflicted injuries when the logistics of it. And even said in chat GPT, I didn't do anything. It was self-inflicted. Ask what do I do in the situation? So he, uh, AI had to get through a murder to cover it up pretty much. Oh, you know, I mean.

51:58Brady, you're all that AI, man. So yeah. Well, you think they're too busy just trying to, uh, you know, pleasure each other. I mean, I'd rather, you know, I'd rather have him send me a crank pick than cover up a murder scene. I'll be honest. Get it, get it, get it, get it. That's that's that's that's that's that's that. Hey, it's Jonas Knox. So the show prep game is changed with Claude. No surface level takes. It digs in challenges. You're thinking pulls research. You wouldn't find on your own. And now Claude has a new live sports functionality that shows real-time scores, standings and players stats across all major leagues. Stats and analysis in the same place. Try Claude for free at Claude.ai slash two pros for problems worth solving. Claude, you're thinking partner. Hey, it's Jonas Knox and O'Reilly Auto Parts who are in the business of keeping your car on the road. O'Reilly Auto Parts offers friendly, helpful service and the parts knowledge you need for all your maintenance and repairs. They've got thousands of parts and accessories in stock in store or online so you never have to worry if you're in a jam.

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