Speaker 1: In the sports page with The Orlando Sentinel and FM
Speaker 1: ninety six to nine in the games Mike the Bulldog
Speaker 1: Beyond on jr. R.
Speaker 2: Bulldog Sports Page brought you by a Rhythm on a
Speaker 2: Ruby Street, downtown Tavaris is coming weekend free event, right.
Speaker 3: Yes, Saturday is gonna be a good party out there.
Speaker 3: Gates are at four. It's free to get in. They
Speaker 3: suggest that you bring a blanket or something to sit
Speaker 3: on because there's you know, limited seating and two stages
Speaker 3: of music, food, beer. It's gonna be a damn good time.
Speaker 3: We'll see you out there, City of Tavari's this Saturday,
Speaker 3: starting four. I'm gonna be out there starting sick. You'd
Speaker 3: be bringing some bw O goodies, right, Yes, I definitely
Speaker 3: will have stickers. I don't know if we have any
Speaker 3: more koozies. I'll look today.
Speaker 2: Well, Bulldog the process Wick, Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful down there in downtown Tavari's right there on
Speaker 4: the Harris Chain of Lakes is awesome.
Speaker 5: Oh you go boating out there?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Absolutely? I love boating.
Speaker 2: Hey, Bulldog. The process of stripping the Detroit Lions coaching
Speaker 2: staff for parts contain.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Aaron Glenn, the defensive coordinator, is now gone.
Speaker 4: He's the new coach of the New York Jets. Of course,
Speaker 4: Ben Johnson, the offensive coordinator, the most highly thought after
Speaker 4: a coaching candidate out there. He became the coach of
Speaker 4: the Chicago Bears earlier this week. And speaking of coaching
Speaker 4: searches and all of that, my Jacksonville Jaguars are buffoons.
Speaker 4: They are buffoons. I don't know if you saw what
Speaker 4: they did yesterday. They fired their general manager Trmp Balky.
Speaker 4: All right, Why did they fire Trent Balkey because he
Speaker 4: had become a hindrance in trying to hire a coach,
Speaker 4: as they Ben Johnson might have wanted to coach the Jaguars,
Speaker 4: but he didn't want to work with Trent Balky. And
Speaker 4: then yesterday Liam Cohen, the offensive coordinator of the Tampa
Speaker 4: Bay Buccaneers, was scheduled to come to an interview for
Speaker 4: the Buccaneers and he withdrew to stay with the Buccaneers
Speaker 4: the offensive coordinators. So what did the Jaguars do? They
Speaker 4: fired Trent Balkey yesterday that he should have fired him
Speaker 4: two weeks ago when they fired Doug Peterson, the head
Speaker 4: coach the Jaguars. I don't know what their owner shot
Speaker 4: Khan is thinking, it's just Befuneri going up there, going
Speaker 4: on up there in Jacksonville. Why didn't they fire this
Speaker 4: guy when everybody said he should have been fired two
Speaker 4: weeks ago. And maybe they could have had Ben Johnson,
Speaker 4: Maybe they could have had Aaron Glenn, maybe they could
Speaker 4: have had Liam Cohen. And now they're scrambling to hire
Speaker 4: a head coach up there because they wouldn't fire their
Speaker 4: general manager.
Speaker 2: They failed to follow the simple rule that we repeat
Speaker 2: on this ship. What must be done eventually boldog should.
Speaker 5: Be done immediately.
Speaker 4: Absolutely so anyway, that's the Jaguars travails. And I've been
Speaker 4: saying this for years now. Hire Tony Basselli, the Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame player, as the general manager. The guy loves
Speaker 4: the franchise, he knows the NFL. So hired Tony Boselli.
Speaker 5: And go from there. Anyway where what else we got? Oh?
Speaker 4: You wanted the College Football National Championship rankings not good?
Speaker 5: They weren't good. It was announced yesterday. Ratings. What did
Speaker 5: I say? Yeah? College football TV ratings not good?
Speaker 4: Twenty two point one million viewers average for Michigan for
Speaker 4: I'm sorry for Ohio State Notre Dame. That was down
Speaker 4: twelve percent from last year.
Speaker 5: When Michigan Michigan be last.
Speaker 4: Year, I can't remember now anyway, it was down twelve
Speaker 4: percent last Michigan beat Alabama last year. It was down
Speaker 4: twelve percent from last year. And you had a marquee matchup,
Speaker 4: you had, you had Ohio State Notre Dame, maybe the
Speaker 4: two biggest brands in college football, and you're down twelve
Speaker 4: percent from last year.
Speaker 2: Twenty two million. Don't don't get us for that's great
Speaker 2: numbers for any most any show would take that if
Speaker 2: they had numbers. Well, when it comes to an event
Speaker 2: like this, that's definitely soft.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was overshadowed. There was so much other stuff
Speaker 3: going on. I want to break it down a little
Speaker 3: more for you that that twelve percent I believe that
Speaker 3: comes out to almost three million viewers shaved off.
Speaker 5: It's a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and again, this was a marquee matchup. ESPN's blaming
Speaker 4: the fact that Ohio State jumped out to a big
Speaker 4: lead thirty one to seventy.
Speaker 5: I think it's more than that. I think it's more
Speaker 5: than that.
Speaker 4: I you know, I think it's obviously overshadowed by the
Speaker 4: NFL you mentioned overshadowed by Inauguration day layoffs take Yeah,
Speaker 4: the playoffs take too long for crying out loud, and yeah,
Speaker 4: I do think there was a lingering effect that fans
Speaker 4: aren't sort of protesting where college football is headed right now.
Speaker 4: They hate pay for play, they hate any they hate
Speaker 4: all of this stuff. I think they may be protested protesting.
Speaker 2: They hate unless their team is reaping the benefits of
Speaker 2: it at the time.
Speaker 5: Let's be honest, Well, how State fans don't hate it.
Speaker 4: But I think in general college football fans are disenchanted
Speaker 4: with their sport right now.
Speaker 2: Agree or disagree, I think there's an element of truth
Speaker 2: to that. It's I don't know if it's disappointed or
Speaker 2: aggravation might even be a better term.
Speaker 5: Yeah, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you who else is aggravated right now, Miami
Speaker 4: Heat fans because Jimmy Butler, their star player, has been
Speaker 4: suspended from.
Speaker 5: The team again. He misses a flight.
Speaker 4: To Milwaukee and the Heat who he just came back
Speaker 4: from a seven game suspension. Now he's been suspended twice.
Speaker 4: Of course, he's trying to pout and malinger his way
Speaker 4: out of town, like many NBA stars do, and the
Speaker 4: Heat are suspending him. I want to know where Adam Silver,
Speaker 4: the NBA commissioner, is on this. This is an embarrassment
Speaker 4: to the league, and Silver is a whimp. He wants
Speaker 4: to be all buddy buddy with the players. He needs
Speaker 4: to come out with a statement and say this sort
Speaker 4: of player behavior won't be tolerated. You can't just this
Speaker 4: guy's making fifty million dollars this year to play professional basketball.
Speaker 4: He needs to start acting like a professional instead of
Speaker 4: a spoiled brat.
Speaker 3: Here's a question, how do you miss a flight where
Speaker 3: you're flying with the team like you and I commission.
Speaker 5: He's trying.
Speaker 4: He's trying to force his way out of town, and
Speaker 4: we saw it here in.
Speaker 5: Orlando, Miami.
Speaker 2: Miami traffic's a bitch.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, Orlando traffic's pretty heavy too. Palo's never missed
Speaker 4: a flight. Franz Wagner's never missed a flight.
Speaker 2: But if you're running that team and you got to
Speaker 2: go who clearly doesn't want to be there, what do
Speaker 2: you do?
Speaker 4: Like, you gotta try of trading, but teams aren't gonna
Speaker 4: give you a lot because they know they know that
Speaker 4: the Heat are desperate. So yeah, it's unfortunate that NBA
Speaker 4: players have this much power that they can, you know,
Speaker 4: essentially hold a team hostage, hold a fan base hostage,
Speaker 4: and drive their value down so they can be traded.
Speaker 5: I don't get it, all right, Magic or back home tonight?
Speaker 2: Got Portland coming in dog.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ne, obviously they need to win that. Portland's not
Speaker 4: a great team, and don't think the Fronds or Jalen
Speaker 4: Suggs will be playing tonight. So we'll see if the
Speaker 4: Magic can get up off the snide tonight. They really
Speaker 4: need to, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Mike the Bulldog Byonkey, host of Open Mic on AM
Speaker 2: seven ninety six ninety Game, very generous with his time
Speaker 2: to accommodate us with the sports page here on j
Speaker 2: r R each morning.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Bulldog Out the Lynching Taco Off the Air podcast. New
Speaker 1: episodes posted every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, downloaded for
Speaker 1: free at WJRR dot com