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You know, there's a lot of things that people complain about in the world of sports, but one thing, as it turns out is going to be coming a little bit more valuable as the season goes on. We'll get into that for you coming up here in just a couple of moments from now. Jonas Knox in for Colin here on the Herd here on Fox Sports Radio. You can find this show on the iHeartRadio app. You can also find us on hundreds of affiliates all across the country as we take you all the way up until 3pm Eastern Time, noon Pacific. And I was thinking about this as we are still in the midst of the college football Labor Day weekend extravaganza where you've got like 700 games over a four day span or whatever to five day span. And that's not to be disrespectful to Week Zero. All right, a lot of respect for Week Zero. That still counts. I don't know why it's called Week zero. It's kind of odd. But we've got this giant college football weekend and I was thinking about this. Thank God for the expanded College Football Playoff because man, there's a lot of teams out there that are like, you know what? We don't get a preseason kind of ran into a little bit of a difficult situation. At least we're going to have some time to sort through these things. And you're looking back at last year and you go, man, Ohio State won a national championship. If you would have told them on the field as Michigan is celebrating at the Horseshoe in Columbus that hey guys, don't worry about it, you're going to win a national championship. People probably wouldn't have believed you. They probably wouldn't have cared. But the expanded College Football Playoff has given teams an opportunity to maybe not be so punished for a loss. And God forbid a loss, when you go into a difficult situation like some of these teams went into this weekend, whether it's Texas going to the Horseshoe and taking on the defending national champions, whether it's Notre Dame going to Miami and taking on the Hurricanes, mean Brian Kelly credit to lsu, but do you really think looking at that game now, do you think Clemson, when it's all said and done, is going to be a forgotten team in the College Football Playoff? Who knows? Maybe they melt down. Maybe Kate club Nick suffers an unfortunate injury. Like, who knows? But the point is you've now got the opportunity to make up for your. Oh. That you lose. If you have the balls to take on somebody early in the season, that would be a difficult matchup. This used to happen in boxing all the time. Fighters would protect their O because it was looked at as like this ne. Oh, man, listen, if you are undefeated, it me. And then all of a sudden the UFC came around and we're like, yeah, whatever, things happen. Got caught in a choke, got clipped, got hit behind the ear. Yeah, what happened? You know, listen this, that's the way this stuff goes. And you now start looking back and going, who are the greatest fighters of all time? George St. Pierre's in the conversation. Losses. Everybody loved Conor McGregor, lot of losses, Daniel Cormier, losses. Jon Jones has got one by technical. But it's like you look at it and you go, yeah, a loss isn't the end of the world. It's not the end of the road. It's not the end of your career. It's why people loved Manny Pacquiao, maybe over Floyd Mayweather. Floyd Mayweather, undefeated, great career. Manny Pacquiao had balls, took chances, took fights he probably didn't need to take. Took dangerous fights, fought in a dangerous style because he wasn't so fixated on keeping his perfect record. And college football has now given teams an opportunity to do that. He got some people that were looking at it going, yeah, but if you expand the College Football Playoff, then you know it's going to diminish some of the impact of some of these games. No, it's not. No, it's not. So I gotta take away from the entertainment value. Did you watch this weekend? It was awesome. It was great to have college football back. And I got news for you. The quality of games weren't even that great. Ohio State, Texas Wasn't that great of a game? You want to know how good of a game Ohio State, Texas was? There were people trying to figure out whether or not Ryan Day had a nipple piercing. That's how. That's. That's the kind of. Kind of quality game we were talking about here. But it didn't matter. It was the atmosphere. It was finally back. People were starved for it, and in a lot of ways, it delivered. You did see sloppy games, but the atmosphere was there. And more than that, you saw teams take chances. Teams look at this as an opportunity to make a statement. But even if you come up short, you're not going to be punished unfairly to where it would have happened in years past. And as I mentioned, open up. Look, these guys don't get preseason games. That's why it looks like this. That's why the first game of the year in Dublin was awful. In the first half, turnovers, rain, great. It's like sloppy, sloppy. It's going to happen. So when you look at college football and you look at the landscape of college football, I know there may be some people who don't like the expanded playoff. They don't like the fact that we've got so many teams. Dude, it's going to save seasons and give teams an opportunity to make up for, God forbid, suffering a loss. It's no longer boxing. You're not going to be punished or judged differently. If you suffer a loss, especially early in the season, you're going to have an opportunity. And the expanded playoffs is giving these teams an opportunity they would have never have had in years past. At the Jonas Knox on X is where you can find us. By the way, you can follow along on Instagram as well, too. At Jonas Knox. Show on Instagram is where you can find us. All right, so now, speaking of the college football weekend. All right, let's go back to Columbus and no, we're not talking about Ryan Day's nipple piercing. We're not. We're not getting into that. Some people have said that's a fake photo. It looked like a bar. It didn't even look like a hoop. It looked like a bar. Which, look, you know, guys getting after it a little bit. Maybe he polishes his beard, maybe he doesn't. You know, the great Petros Papadakis was the first to point that out. I'm not here to judge. I've got. I've made awful decisions. I've had piercings. I got dumb tattoos. I'm not here to judge. Ryan Day wants to go get his nipple. Pierce. Go get his nipple. Pierce. But maybe it was a fake photo, maybe it wasn't. The other story to come out of that game, outside of whether or not Ryan Day hit up a piercing shop in Columbus and got his breast stabbed by a guy with 35,000 tattoos, the arch Manning reaction. Now, to be fair, let's give the man an opportunity to talk. Let's listen to Arch Manning. Here he was following the difficult performance and difficult game and difficult setting he was in in Columbus. Yeah, it didn't start fast enough. Took a whole half for us to kind of even the ball down the field. So that starts with me. Get back to square one and get back Monday and go prepare for San Jose State. Yeah, Ultimately not good enough. Obviously, you don't want to start off the season 01. They're a good team, but I thought we beat ourselves a lot. And that starts with me, and I got to play better for us to win. Can't wait till the second half to kind of get things going. All right, that was Arch Manning. I don't know who did this. I don't know who's responsible for this. And look, I'm not trying to blame other people in the industry or in media, all right? I'm just pointing out the fact that I was not one of these people. I felt like I had a more rational understanding of what the expectation should be. My expectations were a little different, but I don't know what people thought they were going to get from a guy who has two starts in his career, who's going on the road against the defending national champions at their house in front of a hundred plus thousand people in his third start in week one, when, as I mentioned, things are going to be a little sloppy, not just for Arch Manning, but for a lot of teams in college football, because, as I mentioned, you don't get a preseason. And I'm seeing, like this referendum on Archman and. Oh, my God. The. The Heisman odds have dipped. The. The Heisman odds have dipped. Okay, do you want to talk about some of the other things that you could gamble on throughout the course of time? All right, anybody else want to talk about. You want to talk about the fact that people were betting on where was the next place a sex toy was going to be thrown on the court at a WNBA game? Okay, like. And that got more action than a futures bet on who was gonna win the WNBA championship? You can bet on a lot of things. All right, so let's take that with a grain of salt. And that's not to insult my friends in the gambling industry. I'm a degenerate. Proud of it. Okay. But let's not look at it. Go. Oh my God. The. The Heisman odds. Who, who set the odds? Who perpetuated this story? Who's the one that was pushing Arch Manning out there to be the next big thing on two starts? And I got news for you. Maybe he turns things around, maybe against San Jose State or some of these other schools, he's going to find his rhythm. He looked a little better in the second half, but yeah, he's going to struggle. My guess would be a lot of quarterbacks would struggle in that environment against that team. And credit to Matt Patricia, the defensive coordinator for Ohio State. But this idea that all, like, all. Yep. The book is written on Arch Manning. Really? Who wrote the first one? We got two pages in and everybody was like, oh, this is the greatest novel I've ever seen. You're two pages in. He started two games. Who pushed that out there? I didn't. Cuz it doesn't make sense. We've seen this when it comes to college football in the past. Nobody was talking about Johnny Manziel. Nobody was talking about Johnny Manziel. I can remember the one guy, there was one guy who was trying to tell people about Johnny Manziel and he kept calling him Johnny Football. I'm like, dude, John Fricky, former Fox Sports radio host, I remember working with Fricky and I remember him saying, johnny Football. Gotta watch out for Johnny Football. Nobody else was talking about Johnny Manziel. You couldn't even get an interview with the guy. I tried Texas A and M said, no, he's a freshman. We don't let freshmen do interviews. The point is RG3 being a Heisman. Nobody had RG3 winning the Heisman. And then he lit everything up. The first week of the season, everyone's like, oh, that guy might be a contender, but this idea that going into the season off two starts, oh, he's the Heisman favorite. He's this, he's that. He's first off. I'm not going to say it's unfair to him. His last name is Manning. We know that comes with the territory. But who pushed this notion out there? It was unrealistic, the entire idea that Arch Manning was going to be out there and he was going to light up Ohio State. And they got, they got problem, dude, it's the first week, it's his third start and that's Ohio State. This doesn't mean that all of a sudden he's a bust. It doesn't mean that you know, Arch Manning. No, it's gonna take some time. And maybe he wasn't as good as everybody built him up to be yet. But whose fault is that? Arch Manning, it's not his fault. His granddad's talking about, well, he wants to stay in school. He wants to stay in this. People are talking about, well, you know, the Saints are trying to take form or tank form. And Arch Manning's like, I, like, I don't know where anybody's getting this from. Like, I haven't made any decisions like what is happening here. So for everybody out there who all of a sudden is, has decided on what their opinion of Arch Manning is after one game, maybe we should revisit your opinion before that game, after he started two games to get a better understanding as to how realistic the idea of what you thought was going to happen really was. Jonas Knox in for calling here on the Herd on Fox Sports Radio, by the way, brought to you by Rocket Mortgage, the home you've worked so hard for is ready to work hard for you with a home equity loan from Rocket Mortgage. 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Now, I, I do appreciate, you know, people that, like, very successful people that are always trying to learn. Like that's important. Like you're always trying to learn, like, hey, what's somebody else doing? Maybe I could take something from them. Maybe their idea is a little better than mine. I don't want to be so set in my ways, okay? I don't want to be so set in my ways. And I got to give credit where credit's due. I don't know who's pushing the PR for the Dallas Cowboys. I don't know who's doing it. All right? I'm not sure, but whoever had the thought of, you know what, why don't we just hit up the Mavs and see how they handle the Luca trade, right? Remember that? Remember when the Mavs trade Luca, you know, they trade Luca to the Lakers and nobody could figure it out. And then all these reports come out afterwards where they're basically fat shaming Luca, you know, like they, they. The Dallas Mavericks made a concerted effort to make it seem like Luka Doncic was lard ass from Stand By Me like, like he wasn't practicing his jump shot. He was in a pie eating contest. Like that. That, if you want to believe the Mavs, that's basically what the Dallas Mavericks are doing. And so the Dallas Cowboys and I, again, I don't know who's doing this, all right? But this according to the great Albert Brear, all right, Who's a. A frequent contributor on Two Pros and a Cup of Joe with myself and Lavar Arrington and Brady Quinn, who are both enjoying the day off today. But Albert Breer said this quote, Zach Martin, CD Lamb and Dak Prescott are and were very popular in the locker room. That's not the case with Parsons, who has rankled teammates in different ways, seen by some as egotistical and self centered. His podcast has Created issues, too. That goes all the way up to quarterback Dak Prescott. All right, now, maybe all that's true. Maybe Micah Parsons is a bit of a pain in the. All right, we've heard that that's not the first time Albert Breer has reported that. All right, he's been on that before. Anybody that, you know, listen, things maybe were a little different. Different and difficult behind the scenes dealing with Micah Parsons. You had Jerry Jones kind of make mention of this when he had that, you know, awful press conference a couple of days ago where he said, well, you know, we wanted Micah to take on, you know, be more of a. Take on, more of a leadership role. That was the expectation. Like, there's been some rumblings about that. Right. But the idea that Micah Parsons ego is what led to the potential split between the Cowboys and Micah Parsons is comical. Now, Dak Prescott did speak about the decision to move on from Micah Parsons, and it sounded like this. I definitely didn't think he was going to get traded, I'll say that. But just with the way that their negotiations went down, obviously, to some extent, I mean, hell, y' all were asking me questions. It seemed like it got personal on their ends. So, like, that's why I wasn't surprised. So that's Dak Prescott. And Dak Prescott may be one of those guys who thought Micah Parsons was a pain in the ass. Dak Prescott may have been one of those guys who was like, yeah, this guy's a little bit of a headache, et cetera, et cetera. But this notion that that was what the real issue was between Micah Parsons and the Cowboys is laughable, considering this is the same organization that was willing to overlook the egos and maybe odd behavior of guys like, I don't know, Greg Hardy. Ever heard of him? You know, stuff in the past that was okay. I mean, I don't know anybody ever, you know, looked into, you know, behavior in the locker room from Charles Haley. All right, Anybody ever look into that? You know, I'll put it this way. Cause I want to keep it clean. Right. If this was. This was another time slot, maybe I could go a little bit more in depth. But Charles Haley thought it was the perfect opportunity to have his own batting practice. We'll just put it that way. You can look that story up. Odd behavior, creepy behavior, weird behavior, all of that. Acceptable. Apparently Deion Sanders had an ego. Apparently. Wasn't too much to where they were. Like, ah, now we can't. No, the problem is trying to make sense of absolute nonsense. And it's a waste of time. It's a terrible move and a terrible trade. It's terrible. And anybody trying to find the reasoning why you just can't. Sometimes you can't. I've said this before. You can't argue with or fix crazy from time to time. You just can't do it. Who listening here right now has ever dated somebody who was crazy? Just crazy, Right? Lee, I'm not even. I'm not even going there, okay? But the point is, at first, you defend him. Like, your buddy pulls you aside and goes, hey, man, she's a little. Little crazy, okay? There's. There's something going on there. No, no, you just don't. Like, you don't know, man. You know, it's like behind the scenes and. No, no, no, you don't. Yeah, you don't get it. You don't. You don't see what it's like. She just had a couple of drinks. That's all. It's not that big of a deal. She just, you know, she was a little uncom. Will be not. And then, like, it happens. It happens. It happens. And then, you know, a couple months later, a couple years later, who knows, 30 years after you last appeared in a conference championship game, somebody pulls you aside and you look at them and go, yeah, yeah. It's just nuts. Just. Just crazy. Yeah, there's. Yeah, you're right. You're right. And you were right the whole time. That's where we're at with Jerry Jones and the Cowboys. It doesn't make sense. None of it makes sense. You can't make sense of the nonsense. It's crazy. It was a crazy decision to trade Micah Parsons. It was a crazy decision to not get a deal done sooner. All of it was crazy. And so whatever story that's coming out where Micah had an ego and Micah. Dude, who cares? It's the NFL. If somebody can play, you're willing to overlook whatever issues they have off the field to a certain extent. Look at Deshaun Watson, okay? The what, 60, a hundred different accusations from massage therapists. And Jimmy has them. And the Browns are like, yeah, I don't care. He could play quarterback. They thought. So let's. Let's make a move and get it done. Yeah, we'll deal with the suspension. We'll deal with all that. So this idea that Micah Parsons ego was. Was part of the reason that they didn't get a deal done, or Micah, man, there's been a lot of guys that have blown through Dallas. No pun intended. All right? We're not bringing up the White House and all the other stories from the past, but there's been a lot of guys who have played for the Cowboys who had at best, at worst, something far beyond that, and they were willing to overlook that. You can't make sense of any of this. There's a reason why nobody cares about the packers side of this trade. You wanna know why? Because there's nothing to discuss. There's nothing to debate. Oh, yeah, he's a great player. Maybe the best player at his position. They paid him a lot. They brought him in. Cool. They're chasing Super Bowls. No. Like, nobody's talking about the packers side. You notice that? Nobody's having a discussion about it because everybody knows that the Green Bay packers did exactly what they should have done. They wanted to get better. They identified a. An opportunity to get better at a position of need. They got aggressive and they called up the loony. The NFC eased and said, hey, are you. Are you serious about this? You really want to trade them? Cool. Like, yeah. Yep. Okay. Yeah, we'll take him. Sure. 47 million a year, whatever the guarantees are. Whatever, Whatever. That's fine. Send them to Green Bay. Yeah, listen, there's not as much to do there as in Dallas, but you know what? Maybe he'll be playing for a Super bowl, which he was never going to do with the Cowboys. So I don't care about. And this is, you know, not a knock on Albert Brier. He's been fantastic through this entire. As far as reporting that side of it. But if that really is part of the explanation, then that ought to tell you, you can't explain it because you can't explain away crazy. Despite what people are trying to do with the Micah Parsons trade in Dallas at the Jonas Knox NX at Jonas Knox show on Instagram is where you can find us here on the Herd on Fox Sports Radio. And right now, it is time for lead to laugh with the Herdline news. No, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the her. What up, Lee?
