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Alright, so should John think who would be at practice? I think we both have come to the, I think the place where we're not saying at this point cut him. Right. Not that that's off the table or should be off the table by any stretch of the imagination.
But man, he shouldn't be there. He just shouldn't be there. I mean, I think there should be caution in both ways, right? Because if this comes out that this was a huge misunderstanding, even though I doubt that's going to be the case, if you can't, you can't come back from that.
You can't. It's like, but yeah, exactly you can't, you can't, you'll get that toothpaste back in the tube. If you integrate him back in fully and it comes out that this is much worse than what even we know now. But you're going to low, you're going to have a tremendous amount of egg on your face.
What we know right now is really bad. Yes. But you send him home, then you could go both ways. You send him home during OTA's, right?
Yeah. He wasn't around this team during. And the optics of this have only gotten worse since OTA. Exactly.
At first it was, well, he had gotten to a fight with his girlfriend and then he tried to call her and text her and they went to replace her. For a little altercation, he said, but now it's not good. You know, they both are running pretty hot maybe. And now it's like, no, you're getting the medical facts of what happened to her where she allegedly was choked out by Jonathan Cooper.
And I just don't think there's room for doubt. I mean, the medical report is what it is. The nurse examined her and deemed that to be the case. And you know that probably somebody else double checked that work as well.
Like I've said, she didn't do that to herself. But who did it to her? Right. Apparently it was Jonathan Cooper and he had the text lines getting to that on the commerce team line.
It doesn't matter what league you're in NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, hell, even the incident, you can play unless it's a murder in a place to play, unfortunately. That even let her little news that you can kill someone and you back and still be employed by the Rams. Yeah. Yeah.
I can. Dylan even if Cooper gets caught a team will pick him up and he'll play for them. That's that is what the NFL is. No matter what what crime or incident happens, you'll still get to play.
Yeah. That's true. But in case the Broncos, if you're, you're talking about this bar, this high bar that you said you have Kerry Walton, Peter, who is a key figure along with her husband, Greg, and running this football team. Kerry Walton, Peter is not just a passenger.
She's a very full and active participant in what they do. Yeah. If you're Kerry Walton, Peter, you can't be okay with this. You can't be all right with this.
You can't just be going, well, stuff happens. I just, I'm just a little, I'm just a little surprised that he that was not brought up. Let's, we did this with OTA's with him. We, you know, we, we send him away.
Yeah. Let's keep him out of camp for now. So we, so we kind of see where this goes. We get more information coming in on this and we see what direction this goes August 31.
Because he's going to get suspended. It's going to happen. Will be a full six games. Possibly.
It's a, it's a good likelihood. But I just think you want to err on the side of what's the right thing to do here, but optically also looks the best. And that's the thing that's going to look the best. That's the right way to approach this just from a human being standpoint.
I would love to hear from Kerry Walton, Peter on this. I really would. I'd like to hear how her feelings about this. Yeah.
How does she approach this being a woman helping running an NFL team where one of her, her employees. Because that's what Jonathan Cooper is. Yeah. He works for the Broncos.
He plays for the Broncos that your employee allegedly did this. Say this was somebody that just worked in the ticket office or in media relations or family was on the construction of the facility. Would you take a different approach to this? I would think yes, you would.
They would be gone. But Jonathan Cooper's not a guy working on the construction site or working in the ticket office or working in media relations. You know, second behind Nick Benito and Sax got that 18 and a half sacks last two years. But a major contributor to the Broncos defense.
That's where things are different about this as opposed to just random guy working for the Broncos in whatever capacity. So I don't know. It's I just think there's a better way to approach this. That's that's the best way to approach it right now.
In a degree that doesn't mean that you throw you through the wolves doesn't mean you don't support him. You can still have contact with him. I don't have a problem coming to the facility to the offices. He's got to come there.
Occasionally. But don't be on the practice field. Don't be working out with guys. Yeah.
Don't do that. Have another place to work out. You know, there's there are other places he utilizes. Oh, from what I'm told, there's no shortage of space inside the walls for him to do stuff.
Yeah, it's they built this brandy $1 or $75 million practice facility. I don't care if he's on run around in the underground garage. I don't care if he's there as far as at the facility. Just don't be a practice.
Don't be visible. Be on the same level as all the other guys who haven't been arrested for something. Yeah. Make yourself as invisible as you possibly can.
Yep. Until this gets resolved. Whatever that looks like. If you're the Broncos, you've got depth at that position.
Just just going from that standpoint. You can you're going to be okay without Jonathan Cooper. You'd rather have Jonathan Cooper there. But this point in time, you can live without Jonathan Cooper if you're Denver.
But can you live with a criticism that you're going to get. Yeah. For him being there. That's therein lies the question.
I just hope he doesn't play in the preseason game. He better. He shouldn't. Uh, Scott, good morning, fellas.
He should not be in practice. Horrible look. Also, I don't like the interview statements trying to justify the reasons he is. He has pretty lame.
Well, we're just doing what the legs tell us to do. Don't our lawyers are telling us to do. So we're doing we don't really control this. Yes, you do.
If you really wanted, you can tell him. Jonathan, bad look right now. Let's not have you here. Let's not have you practice.
It's going to be better for you and better for us. We're still paying you. We're not putting you on unpaid leave or something. You're still getting paid.
We just can't have you out there right now. And you can't tell me he is not aware of what it looks like based on the after the second arrest. He doesn't got me what it looks like. You have to be stupid.
What do you mean? What do you mean? What's wrong? There's a problem?
Yeah. I don't. I just, you know, if I was him, I would say I don't think I should be out here. I don't think this is probably a good idea.
I think I mean, somebody else needs to step up and be the adult in the room here. Correct. But I was like, I don't think it's good. Like, I don't think I should probably be out there till this gets resolved.
I mean, to be honest, if I was him, there wouldn't be any problem with me being out there practicing because I would not have been arrested for this in the first place. Mike and Scott, the other mobile app. Good morning with Chachos. That bar for the Broncos is lower with those two individuals at training camp.
Will wait, Michael, will wait the defensive assistant. That's the president moving forward. Do they want to be the Raiders? The evidence suggested Cooper should be in prison and not in a football field.
And that I agree, but also that specific word is going to be decided by somebody else. Right. We'll let the legal, the legal process. Yeah.
That this is a privilege you are granted, not a right you deserve until X happens. And I agree to Scott, the, we talked about it. The way it was approached from Sean Payton. The we don't control this.
A boy's been fantastic. It's been fantastic. The work he's put in away from here on himself. That bird was swung like a hammer.
Stop it. Say we're glad that he's putting the work in in light of what he's been accused of. We're encouraged to encourage to look at his positive. He's committed and he's focused on getting blah, whatever.
Fantastic. Cheese, Sean. And that's going to be an incredible press conference being better in terms of not having those long pauses. Yeah, he probably needed one there.
He needed to take a giant pause there and think, what am I going to say here about what Cooper's doing in terms of counseling and things like that? Fantastic is not the word that you use. It's depressing to hear. It felt pretty tone deaf, didn't it?
Yeah. I have no fan affiliation to the team, right? So it hit me different. But when he said that I was like, man, that's it was disappointing to hear that to hear that kind of approach from Sean.
All right. It's 9-11. I'll have Rick Lee, Phil, Connor, Sports Trivia coming up a little bit. It is a Barakos trivia question, by the way.
So make sure you stick around for John. No way. No. No.
So it is Thursday. Time for a little throwback Thursday today. We are going old school. It's throwback Thursday on the Jim TV show.
Bring us some of our Grand Valley greats also. Western football showdown interviews go back to 2020 during the pandemic. When we had our Western football showdown, Sean March joined us back then who coached the Grand Junction Tigers football team of the 2005 state championship game. Here's our conversation from back in at sea.
It was March of 20 March, 27th of 2020. We talked with Sean March on the Jim Davis show as a 2005 Grand Junction Tigers for a state runner-ups that year losing the title in the Thunder Ridge against the 2004 three state. Champion rifle bears. He was a defensive coordinator back when we wanted to say title, but David Wells now that coach rifle bears was coming up a little bit.
But with us right now, former Grand Junction Tigers head coach, former former one head coach, central head coach and now the coach and Eagle Press. Sean March joins us on the Chick-fil-A breakfast team phone line. Sean, how are you doing? I hope you and the family are well.
We are. Yeah. Thank you, Jim. And it's getting long.
It's getting long. But I've been busy. We've got, you know, it's been really actually good football wise for me because, you know, there's a lot of things that I've really wanted to do as far as getting stuff online for the kids and character to play. And I've been busy for the kids and character development and the mental part of the game.
And I've really been forced to do that. And so, you know, we've got, it's been really good as far as that. So I think our teaching for the game of football as far as me and my staff is getting better and gotten better because of the, you know, because of the be enforced to do stuff online. See if I was still relying on this whole thing.
It'll be time to do some of those things you didn't have the time to do before. That's great. Yeah, and really be enforced into it. You know, I think that you got to take advantage of these things and do try to find the positive in it.
And the positive for us has been that we now have our playbook on a platform. That the kids can look at on their phone. And so I think we've, I think we've updated and are doing some stuff that's turned out to be for me and my programs turned out to be okay. Well, congratulations on a very successful season at Eagle Crest last year.
Didn't want to stay title, but still a really, really good year football program. Yeah, it was and it was definitely different. It was fun. It was I ended up I had a great group of coaches that I was able to work with and really enjoyed the kids.
And they were very receptive to a new head coach. And you know, at Eagle Crest, I went in and I was the fourth coach in three years there. And so a great group of kids and really had an enjoyable year. And I was really lucky because Pete Cypress went with me and you know, that makes when you have somebody like Pete that's your rock that you coached with forever that really makes it nice in your transition.
And then I had to I had Max with me also. So those two things made a big difference. And Shawn Emerson, who of course is from here in the Valley, Shawn's been over at Eagle Crest for a while as a teacher and coach and that helped to have him part of that group as well. Well, yeah, Shawn was a graduate at Grand Junction High School and Shawn's student taught with me at Grand Junction High School and coached with me way back when we were working for Rocky.
And so Shawn's been at Eagle Crest now for 18 years and and what a solid, solid, great guy. And he's one of my favorites and he's back in Grand Junction right now with his family over the during this time. And then another guy that I hadn't worked with for years that was from Cortez used to be the head wrestling coach at Cortez, Sparky Adair and Sparky's a teacher over at Eagle Crest. And so it's really neat how many reconnections that you end up having and when you work with a different group like that.
Former Grand Valley coach Shawn Mars, John Mars, at the 05 Tigers in a moment. I don't want to ask about your son Max, who's your quarterback of course at Central and last year at Eagle Crest. So the blend still everything. How's it shaping up for him to go to Kansas State?
That's the place that he said he'd go and play his college football. That's how is this? Certainly had an impact on him. Hasn't it in regard to his preparations for that?
It has. He left. He actually was an early grad. And so he enrolled at Kansas State the first part of January, graduated one week and enrolled at Kansas State the next week.
And then he was it's really been okay for Max too. He was able to be there for nine or ten weeks. He came home for spring break and they were going to start spring football the next week and and came home with a backpack full of clothes and wasn't able to go back. The great thing is that he already had you know he spent nine or ten weeks in the program.
Knows the coaches and they really they do a great job at teaching online also and and they the NCAA's bumped up their time. They can spend with kids. I think they get eight eight eight hours a week now and and his quarterback meetings. He meets twice a day for you know for an hour on each of those each of those meetings and they go through the playbook and it's been really good for Max.
He's he really he loves it and he's really excited and the coaching staff there. I just I couldn't say enough about him the way they the way they bring kids in and make him feel make him feel at home. And that's a big key to being successful in colleges like and where you're at and being able to stay there for the long haul. We wish him the very best of luck now to Kansas State with their football program Sean Marsh joining us today on the gym Davis on the team.
We're having our Western school football show to have a match up today as your 2005 grand junction Tigers Sean against the 2004 rifle bears. And back in 2005 your team went 13 and one that they only lost unfortunately for the Tigers was in that state title game or an basketball field of mile high against Thunder Ridge. But when you look back to that team I say quickly quarterback could throw it all the place really great the quarterback run game Chris means was just such a bull for running back spot for you had to really stand out receiving a lot of time. And that was a that was an offense loaded with weapons for you back in 2005.
You know we were we were really a good football team and and in that group it started with that group with their lifting efforts and stuff. I remember when we that was when we were first when those guys came in as freshmen and we got them into the weight room and they loved the weight room and they got in the weight room and they competed. You know I remember Isaiah the quarterback and he was strong and just loved the weight room and and they were they were a group that had a lot of confidence. They were they were confident and many people would say they were very arrogant but but they played with confidence and they truly believe that they could beat everyone and and they were a very tight close net team and you know you always hear that there's got to be something special and I remember that year just like it was yesterday I remember starting at the beginning of the year and and as we came up with our core values and we did our permitted success and I even remember the lesson when we went through and get all the because that was definitely a special year and the way those kids worked made it special.
I mean average over 40 points per game and with those guys that I just mentioned understandably so but but also obviously never really talented offensive line in front and those guys and certainly had that back in 2005 with that unit. We did we had big kids and they were strong the first play of the game of our season we were playing against our bad and and at that time we were running the shotgun and we were running the spread off and and you know I remember starting that with Rocky helping me do it from Glenwood and and Rocky was was friends with head coach with Urban Meyer and and anyways it so I think it was somewhat unique at that point even you know that and and I'll remember our first play of the game was a was a bubble screen that we threw to Mark Novotny for like 65 yards against our bad and then I think we came back in the second play of the game was another 60 semi yard touchdown so right at that point I thought and this could be a this could be an okay season. Sean Marsh former Grinchum Shuntiger football coach with us today on the gym day with Sean the team mentioned Mark Novotny what a talented athlete he was but but unfortunately injury that season cut his season shorter than you planned on a beam. Yeah and and you know Mark had a Mark had a great high school career and he was went up to see issue and played football issue and it's very successful right now and but he was he was an athlete and then I just think of all those all the athletes.
I think of the coach that we had and you know Jake Simonson was was one of the fastest kids and I've never been able to coach and and Jake could run and Josiah and you know Shea and Justin Murray and and then up front we had big kids do that were big kids that were strong and and you know it was neat because one of the kids Justin Justin Reed and Chris Means both coach for me at Central and I love that being able to coach kids that played for me and and Kevin Ballard he played and he was on that team and he's a teacher at Central High School so those kind of things are really neat for me to watch the kids as they grown up and then they and then the ones that want to come back and coach that that says a lot and I love that part of it. So I'm just going to go with this today on the gym. They were showing the team and as much as that that that offensive unit you had was so explosive average over 40 points per game Sean. Let's look to the defensive side because it was not exactly chopped liver either.
I mean you that are bad a game you mentioned you won that first game of the season 46 and nothing held really central to attach down leveling to attach down found for Carson to just 13 points. Chatfield is 14 points. Sand Creek to just seven Durango to seven down four to 10 Montrose. He played twice that season once person regular season.
Plaps held them to 14 points in that regular season matchup and in league play that defensive unit in many ways is everybody as good as your offensive group. All championships are one on defense and the offensive part of it was fun but boy Darrell was our defensive coordinator and Darrell just very aggressive and we had kids at play man coverage and in our secondary. Justin Reed was one of the well probably the strongest high school kid I've ever met. Justin played up front for us and just very very very strong and it was Clay Gertman.
We were very good up front and then we had means and Nabotny and those kids as linebackers and so we could do a lot of things and we could put a lot of pressure on people. And and count wise I was just you know I was going to look back on it man. It was a it was one of the most talented teams I've ever been able to coach it was it was something and defensively it was very fun because boy they they got after it and they left playing defense and and that was one of the times that the kids they play both ways too. I've looked at that picture.
I still have that team picture and and I looked at it and I saw most kids play both ways didn't come out of the game and and they love the game football and that was what was that was fun. First open up the playoffs with the one against Adam City 48 to 12 one of Montrose 41 to 25 the Ralston Valley here in the semi final at the Stoker 36 to 16 and then you got the the honor to be one of the first two teams along with Thunder Ridge to score off at the Invesco field of Mile High before a state championship game first time ever that the state title game was played at Invesco field. And what an awesome thing and there were so many there were so many things about that weekend that I'll remember forever and my family will remember and it was so cold and I remember the bus was the bus was planning on going over the Saturday for the to take the band and a bunch of things. The kids from the high school and stuff and and because of the roads they could make it over and so lots of unique things and one of the things I'll never forget is we went in for a pre pre game type of meeting on.
I think it was Monday or Tuesday and and Dave Logan was there with his team and and Douglas County he was with Mullen and Douglas County and Thunder Ridge and they were talking about how many kids they were bringing in and they were each having each Friday and like 100 kids to the game and then they asked how many we were bringing. We're 45 that's what we travel. It's so you know that was that was that was unique but it was really it was cool for our kids to be able to be in that atmosphere and we were the first team that ever played high school team since under Ridge in that stadium and and we'll always have that. Sadly the game did not go as they're calling it that they didn't go the way we hope to put for football team Thunder Ridge of the 51 21 victory they got up on top early Sean and you guys just couldn't recover from that.
Yeah we couldn't and there were I still remember and I don't know if you remember we had a we had a fleet with her at the beginning of the game and and if we were within inches and completing that past the just a merry and I think if that would win I think it could end up being being a different out of the you know you always you always hope but there were it just didn't it just didn't work out for us that day and Thunder Ridge was a good team they were a great team actually and and I still think that in that for a game that Thunder Ridge or Grand Junction we could have played with either the five eight teams at that you know at that time that's how that's how strongly I believed in our kids and and Thunder Ridge was was they had great athletes also and they were very well coached and and they were like our kids they were confident and and I think part of it is they you know they were able to play in their backyard they got on a chartered bus and and rode from Highlands Ranch down to down to In Vesco and our kids we had a little bit of a more of a challenging challenging night and stuff trying to get there and get ready for that game but but it was it didn't turn out even close to how we wanted but our kids never did give up and and they thought it was their effort was awesome. So right from March of March 27 to 2020 one of our Western football show down interviews with Grand Junction High School coach Sean March was now the athletic director for District 51. Another one coming up top of the hour nine o'clock next Thursday another throwback Thursday Jim along with the Buckeye boy it's 927 and time right now to play a Wrigley Field Colorado Sports Trivia brought to by Wrigley Field Grand Junction's original sports bar at 1810 North Avenue Hall by the 15-minute lunch guarantee from get your lunch in 15 minutes or less. It's at Brice Wrigley Field just east of Stoker and Sam Splegzio Field.
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So there we go. Graduation, Steven, job well done. Let's get into four down territory this morning. We're into four down territory on the Jim Davis show on the team.
First down, we've talked about the Buffalo Bills and Nichols City alternate uniforms. Wow, they suck. They're not good. All great uniforms with the just the bills stripe a big giant stripe on the back of the helmet.
Even the Buffalo. The silhouette of the Buffalo. And so why do you think they're calling it Nichols City? Because that's the amount they pay the design personally.
So it's true. They tribute to the Buffalo nickel collectible coin that was minted by the US government in the early 20th century. So that's the reason why. Well, everybody hates the uniform.
Bills fans hate it, but their star quarterback, Josh Allen is trying to encourage people to to like the uniform. Okay, to, you know, be okay with it. Don't hate it so much. Here is Josh Allen's plea to the fans in Buffalo to love the nickel city union.
Stop hating on the jerseys, guys. I don't know if you guys hate. I don't know. I don't see anything, but they're they're they're great.
I honestly like speaking anew, right? It's a new look. It is. I understand that, but in we got it.
We got to be new and I think these jerseys kind of are symbolic of that. And I'm excited to wear them. It symbolizes a lot of newness and that I'm excited about. I've heard a lot of comments about the jerseys.
I enjoy them. I think it's very symbolic of what we want to do and what we want to be. I understand people want the old jerseys and the old helmets and all that, but at some point too, we are moving forward. We have to do something new and that's.
But it's also to pay tribute to a coin. They're who we want to be, which is bland, apparently, which is bland and yeah, being an ugly uniform, but it was supposed to pay tribute like said to the Buffalo nickel that was minted back in the early 20th century. So how is that entirely new? I don't I don't get that either.
That's a guy trying to tell the company line, right? Oh, 100% right moving on to second down. It's our cooler garage doors for Dan territory. That's cooler with the K.
It's always been the players don't better sport, right? You just don't do that. The hero's got banned from baseball as a manager for betting on his sport. Alex Cara, some ball, warning got suspended for over a year for betting.
I never was exactly on the NFL back then, right? Just for gambling in general. So that's kind of a giant no, no line you can't cross if your player betting on sports betting on your own betting on your own team betting on your own lead. It was a Calvin Ridley with the fantasy football.
Then got to spam WNBA though. They're okay with it. WNBA posted a video of star players, page Becca's and Angel Reese from the All-Star weekend before their two teams were set to play. With the Atlanta dream taken on the Dallas wings.
The video showed Becca's and Reese placing what appears to be personal $400 wage between the two over which team would win the game. It was initially presented by fun and lighthearted message, the caption reading, We did with a laughing emoji followed by page Becca's on the Betche made of Angel Reese at All-Star weekend on tonight's matchup. But soon after that, the WNBA went, uh-oh. That's probably not a good look and quickly took it down as fast as they possibly could.
The league's new CBA clearly states that any kind of wagering is strictly prohibited and the players could be fined, suspended, even disqualified from the WNBA at the sole discretion. Or WNBA at the sole discretion of the commissioner. Well done, WNBA. Well done.
You mean they screwed something up again? Again? Man. Gary Bem is looking at them like, wow, you guys don't know what you do?
We gotta give Gary Bem an credit. Rob's man, Fred is looking at them and going, what a screw up. Gary Bem is coming a long way. He really has.
Alright, third and fourth down. Third down, NBC is doing a first for Sunday night baseball. They are flexing games. They remember they announced their schedule for the entire season.
Well, not so much because they're starting to move games. They're going to say August 30th. They're switching Reds Cubs from three o'clock to seven and Astros Mets are going to three o'clock rightfully so because that game is going to be a dog. And then September 6th, NBC is flexing out Blue Jays Royals in favor of White Sox twins, which is very interesting, especially for those of us in the American Central.
Now that's a third down also streaming sports ball news. Remember we talked yesterday? Yes, and MSG are moving all of their local broadcast to D'Zone. Well, so are the Minnesota Timberwolves.
The exclusive home of local T-wills telecast this season will be D'Zone. Oh, so there you go. Games will be housed within a team branded subscription service set to launch later this month. D'Zone costs $35 a month monthly, $25 a month.
They've paid for a full year in front, which is a nice little cost savings at $140. It's not immediately clear whether the Timberwolves service would cost an additional fee on top of that. But D'Zone will make 15 games available to watch for free. It's interesting.
D'Zone, your new place for sports. So get that wallet out because you're going to have to pay for another streaming team. Great. Thanks.
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All right. Go back to 1954. Bob Kennedy hit the first Grand Slam for the Baltimore Orioles franchise. 1959, Willie Mccovey made his Major League Baseball debut.
Pretty impressive. He went four for four. In his debut. Not bad.
1978, the Montreal Expo's Beat the Atlanta Braves 19 to nothing Montreal Square had 28 hits and tied in a record with eight home runs in that game. 1988, John Franco. Mostly with the Mets, but this one was Greece with the Reds, said a Major League record by achieving 13 saves in a single month. All said, he was pretty good.
He was really good back in the day. 1995 Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Richie Eishburne and Mike Schmidt. And on this day, 2012, Chevrolet signed a seven-year $559 million sponsorship deal with Manchester United. That's a state and sports history.
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Actually, a week off and then I'm heading to, I'll go with a week after that. Excuse me. Yeah. That's the next destination.
Okay. What about this Corey Heine guy? What's up with him? Yeah.
When's the Brickyard 400 in his debut as a 24-year-old driver course at the win out in San Diego out in that road course, but gets the win at the Brickyard. Christopher Bell, kind of a hard luck guy in regard to getting victories this year. Comes in second. Joy Lagano though.
Joy Lagano made up a lot of ground and he made it kind of interesting the last 15 laps. Yeah, he did. You know, like we were talking about last week, it looks like Joy Lagano was back. Whatever problems they were having.
They were hanging there and now they're back in full strength. I think it was a good track coming up for them. And you know, what three races, Joy's gone from eight points below the cut line to, oh gosh, 50 of over, 65 above the cut line. So that's a tremendous thing.
And just the right time to it. Only four races left until the chase cut off. Corey Heine though. This guy has run 15 cup races.
That's all. And he's won two of them. That's phenomenal. We knew the guy was good the last year.
He was in the truck series. He won the champion, he won 12 of 25 races in the truck series. Almost half the races. And nobody's ever done that before.
This guy is a freak in nature. He's going to be and just taking so quickly to the cup cars. That's something that really, that really gets a lot of guys. So they move up from the floor series to the cup series.
They have a hard time adjusting to the car. So there's so much different. But Corey, he's taken to the cup cars like a fish for water. So watch out for him.
I think it's impressive to me. He wins out in San Diego in a road course. And then he goes to the brickyard and wins on a pretty wide open track like the Indy 500 track. It's his versatility.
He can handle both challenges. Right. And a top ten on an intermediate track too. So yeah, he's not just good at one particular kind of thing.
This guy's just got the skillsets. And he's going to be full time next year driving for 23-11. So he's only 24 just turned 24 years old. And what's fun too is he and Carson also are.
They got a little bit of a feud going here. It actually started about three or four years ago when they were both in the truck series. And they had some run ins and started really not liking each other very much then. And now they're both running in the cup series and they really don't like each other even more.
So that's going to be a fun one to watch. They're both so good. They're both going to be winning races. They're both going to be around for years.
So that'll be a fun one to a little fun backstory to keep track of. Or in the garage and ask our friend brought you by Montrose Fort Kneeson. It's not my and see them today or go to the website Montrose Fort Kneeson.com. So Danny Hamlin continues to lead in the points and then getting certainly did not hurt himself on Sunday at the backyard taking fifth in their race.
Right. Actually extended his points lead now. Redic is in second place. 84 points back.
Laney in 30 was up to about 65 points back. Now he's 120. We do want to mention the in season challenge that finished up speaking of morning. He came out on the short end of that stick.
And he said, you want to John Hunter and even check house and say, man, you owe me a million dollars. There's a bit of an incident, you know, John Hunter here to try to make him open, got inside of Laney and turned him in and Laney was running top down before that ended up finishing two spots behind David Gilliland for the million bucks in the in season challenge. And you know, so it goes. Well, not much you can do about it except that, you know, go on.
Absolutely. So the T&T, of course, out of coverage of the brickyard. And right now, I know that the viewership has been really good. He reached with HBO Max True TV and TNT 16.6 million viewers through five races.
That's a 4% increase over 2025. So the races that TNT has aired, they've done quite well with them. Yeah. And, you know, it's kind of aggravating.
I think because there's six, I think it's six different platforms during the course of an NASCAR season. You've got Fox works and Fox works one, then you've got prime video, then you've got TNT, then for the rest of the season, you've got USA and NBC. So I would rather than just be on one, I won't call your long, but to, you know, understand, it's pretty, pretty big loopier pie that they got to slice up. I think it looks like the viewership is following, you know, the race is to do whatever platform may happen to be on including prime videos.
So that's good. I guess. All right. So so we should mention, I think we probably talked about this before, but guy Max March the played football here at Central High School.
Yeah. And his dad is Sean Marsh. And I think I think Max money got married this last weekend and then we searched me correctly. But he played college football for a little while at Kansas State.
He was on, he's a pick crew guy. He's made that transition from being a college football player to being on a pick crew. And he was on the pick crew. I remember who he was pitting for this last week at the Brickyard 400, but have a cool story with Max March on that.
Yes. And the pick crew guys have become a lot more high profile, you know, than they used to be. I mean, just like when they do the all star race, they have the pick crew challenge and every race team they have, you know, real serious, you know, ongoing program training program and whatever for four to fit that from physical training to just practicing the pitch stops over and over and over again. It's just the bar has been raised so high in that it's a.
Yeah, that's that's really a prestigious thing. I'm still trying to remember who it's a picture of me, but I can't tell who's color she's wearing. Hello. And anyway, I was trying to remember Team Hendrick tire changers, what he says.
So, yeah. Okay. Michael McDowell. Okay.
Yeah. That's a, that's a, you know, top right team that's fired. They're hot this year. Michael McDowell is running through and the top down a lot.
So, yeah, that's that's a prestige deal. That's a big time. It's got a lot of turkeys on his Instagram page too. Also, a lot of Max, they had the fastest pit at Indy and then Central High School, another Central High School guy Joe Carroll.
He's on the 60 while he was on the Corey Heimste. So he's on that pick crew. So he got a couple of local. It's him not Corey.
I'm necessarily. Yeah. It's Joe Carroll. Yeah.
That's what I'm saying. That made it happen. So, yeah, a couple of local guys that went to Central High School and Max March and Joe Carroll that they weren't pick crews. At the break yard this last weekend.
All right. So, as you mentioned, I was getting ahead of myself. We're off the race. They're in NASCAR's office weekend before they go to Iowa.
One thing we want to talk about very quickly though before we wrap it up today, and we'll of course break it all down next week and get ready for Iowa. NASCAR friend looking for ways to reduce caution laps. Can you tell us about that a little bit? Yeah.
That's a little bit interesting. I mean, like particularly at a place like Indianapolis where, you know, it takes two and a half minutes to run a one lap under caution because, you know, two and a half mile track. Especially the situation that they're looking at is, what's happened at least once at Indy, where you have a caution come out with just like three or four laps to go into the next. And really don't have time to get part together.
I get the pits open, let everybody get back out, rack them up and get started again in time to finish the stage on the green. So I don't know, you know, there's a limit to how quickly you can get that whole process done. So I don't know really what they're going to do. That's, you know, what's his name, Mike Ford from the Vice President of Racing Communications.
And that's where he says it's something that's on their radar. It's important for them to be able to get back green as quickly as possible. And it's kind of, you know, kind of different for every time. It's a whole different deal saying it's Bristol than it is at Indianapolis, a coconut or something like that.
So what they're doing everything they can. And I don't know if both, you know, end up going to like a green white checker situation for the stage finishes like to do at the end of the race. So it's sort of the will finish on the green. I don't know.
That's one thing that might be under consideration. But, you know, they're aware of that trying to tighten things up and keep those costumes as short as possible. What do that takes? All right.
Well, Fred, enjoy an off weekend, a bi-week, if you will. And then we'll talk to you of course next Thursday about Iowa coming up. So appreciate the time, Fred. All right.
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Oh, I remember we were talking to Ford Antaritor about Page Becker's and Angel Reese. Yeah. Yeah. They're gonna back together and on the game.
They're gonna play against each other. Mm-hmm. They look all friendly and cozy. Well, that's until they got on the floor because Angel Reese and Page Becker's got into it during the first quarter of their game.
Becker's got switched under Reese in the post. Reese drove down the lane on Becker's who's smaller. Becker's held her own, forced Reese to give up the ball while Becker's is whistled for a foul in the play. Um, you know, she was, she was hyped, hyped up in her defensive stand and started loudly clapping in Reese's direction.
That led to Reese approaching Becker's and exchanging some heated words with her. So not quite as cozy as they were during the All-Star weekend. They didn't have any money on it. That's exactly got into a little bit there.
So anyway, one moment there, get along and they're okay in the next moment. Oh, not quite so much. All right. Of course we had Chris Johnson recently was diagnosed with ALS.
Now we're finding out that Parkinson's diagnosis for running back. I'm on green. By the way, sadly, right? That's our show.