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Joint rule and when we discuss the goal controversial topic and buckle the only coach go there with the country every Sunday at 5 pm leave free. Fall. Breaking down the latest sports news and yes you athletics and the professional sports realm it's 6 30 pm And this is bottom of the 6th grade. Good evening and welcome to bottom of the 6 on Blaze radio online dot com live from the Bill Austin radio studio studio in downtown Phoenix My name is Eric Ruby it is a new time for Obama 6 the correct time 630 and you may be a familiar voice right here on Thursdays I was here last Meserve on the 6 I've got 2 new faces joining me one unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances could not be here today but he will be here for the rest semester his name is Jesse Morris and he was on traffic jam before bottom of the 6 last semester now he's going to be on bottom the 6 now and I'd like to have my other host introduce himself right here . I'm Sam that is Senator says 1st on bottom of the 6 so we're going to jump right into Ella give a quick shout out to my other co-host Tyler Henry and Sky America from last semester if you can get enough of me and sky we are doing a specially show Tuesdays from 70 8 pm flying high with Eric and sky that is going to be a basketball new show so if you miss that last semester if you miss those voices that's got to merit a voice Don't worry we still got it Tuesday 7 day but now we're going to kick things off right that's right college football just and it's N.B.A. Season it's N.F.L. Season but 1st we're going to talk about a little and I'll be off season which unfortunately has been a little bit quiet not have. NEWS FROM after a great time of the season a great World Series you know free to see picked up Sam and you know she showed a side with the Angels who's Bobby one of the most revered international prospects in a while but we saw a lot of valuable names in the market and what's one name that really sticks out to you well the list of the players that are available is really insane it something from a video game and if you had put some of these players all together on some sort of fan it just fantasy team they would definitely be in the playoffs you have names like Adrian Gonzalez Jose Bautista Jason warthe. But if we're going to pick one who my favorite free agent in the end will be at this moment it's Jake area now Jake it is coming off a couple seasons with the Chicago Cubs He actually played about 5 seasons I believe 5 seasons with the Cubs this dude is great he may be over the peak of his career he's on the back end but his numbers are incredible 8 years in M L B He has a 3.57 eory. I don't care what team you are pitching staff that could help somebody so yes you have names like J.D. Martinez you Darvish Eric Cosmo those guys are on the market Jake area is going to be worth every dollar spent for him he could be a solid top of the rotation guy for any team in the league that's right and you can see WE CAN DO IS HE GONNA C.R.Y. All the way down 201772152 point 53 those are Grady already so you know what he's capable of and you know he's not the only guy on the market that you're like why is he still there and let me just break some news to you guys Sam is also a dime a back's fan and we're both absolutely confused as to why J.T. Martinez is not signed with the team now obviously we would like him to sign the Diamondbacks to since he got traded to the Diamondbacks they had this huge kick this playoff run hash tag our season that ended because of the Dodgers but he still has that would seem it was expected after he signed with his new age over the summer who's going to be pursuing a long contract upwards of almost $200000000.00 and they're thinking oh it's going to be the Red Sox something like that but he just hasn't signed so you know these fans are still holding out hope I mean he said he just came to dime backs and he showed what he could do often simply that he was a decent offensive player but often sadly those sparks those home runs he struck out a lot more but he was swinging for the fences and when you pair that with a hitter like Paul Goldman in Arizona that's that spark that Arizona needed now Sam if you had to guess where would Jake area go as of right now where do you think he's going to sign Well there I was reading an article earlier and some of the big names in baseball journalism league Buster Olney they were saying the Houston Astros' would be a good fit now the Astros haven't really showed as much interest in area they've shown more interesting new Darvish but he could also go to a team like Milwaukee or Minnesota 2 teams you might not really expect for someone to go but those are some squads that could use. A veteran. Who is accomplished in the league to go along with a rotation that's a little bit younger another team they threw out was the Philadelphia Phillies who have a young rotation they're trying to build adding Jake area who has experience could be beneficial to either of those teams so if you had to guess right now which one of those teams will sign Jake area by the start of the season if I had to guess right now it's a team that I didn't even mention a 2nd ago the Texas Rangers Texas Rangers they last year Darvish this year but they have the potential they have the money Jake area is from Plano Texas so it could be kind of a homecoming so I could see him in the blue and red with the Rangers so for J.T. Martinez if you asked me like a month ago or maybe 2 months ago where he's going to sign I was like Boston Red Sox done deal signed it he's going to Massachusetts and now I want to take it back some think and if he was just going to sign there right away why is he on the market now I'm thinking that maybe he has some emotional attachment this Arizona Diamondbacks team I mean these fans were crazy loud for he came here he was that hero So right now if I did say I think he still go to the Red Sox but those damn facts I think they do have a greater chance than what I was thinking a few months ago but that's going to be enough and they'll be talked for now because while the end of the season is about to start we got the N.F.L. Season about to end things are just ramping up in the N.F.L. Playoffs after wildcard weekend we are now going to the A.F.C. Games and the N.F.C. Games that are really going to start deciding things here and me and Sam have both looked at these games we've decided there are 2 really interesting games and 2 games are really about not so interesting game by the way and I'm a start of the very bottom I think is going to be the worst game the upcoming week and the Tennessee Titans versus the New England Patriots you know I know every say oh and Mark has made it look good oh that's fine oh it's time to see they came back and they beat Kansas City but only Yeah this is the New England Patriots I don't care what article S.P.N. Puts out there's no you know little beef but Bell Jet Kraft and Brady and if anything that just made them more focused if you think that's a billboard material for a team that shouldn't have billboard material I'm. Tennessee Marial does look decent in the playoffs but just you can't stop New England especially a team like this I mean tennis is good but they're not great and you have to be great to be the pitchers especially in Foxboro with a chip on their shoulder somehow when they should even have a chip on their shoulders so you don't believe in the rumors that there is tension no New England I think there's probably tension with all sorts of football teams are grown men every has or opinions are rare Oh Tom Brady's trainer was banned just because of differences that they've had but I think at the end of the day the Patriots realize what they have what they have is a great quarterback a great coach and a willing to play along owner and when they all realize and they see eye to eye yeah they may not always get along but that's not going to be enough to split tensions anything now the only thing I could see really happening in the future is Bill Belichick is prone to getting rid of stars just one or 2 years before they're about to drop off but all that kind of worry went away when he traded Jimmy Gropple which what they said is that Jimmy grew up was kind of the reason that this was all a big problem inevitable Jimmie problem is gone whatever is whatever you still have the greatest quarterback of all time who Yeah he's declined from the don't to one of the greatest like he is still there and this New England team I mean now they just look at things like oh nobody thinks we're going to win nobody's going to and now they can just go out there and instead of being like oh it's doing the team again oh they everybody expects us to be there are people like oh people expect us to break down and now they're just not going to do that now this is you hate to call it this but I kind of wanted to tickle the idea could this be a trap game for the petri it's here in Foxboro it's Bill Belichick Tom Brady in the playoffs but there's Tennessee made the playoffs there's got to be some glimmer of hope is there any aspect of chance for as you see I mean I don't know if it's playoff Patriots really when you think everything go wrong for them goes right and rarely when you think everything can go right it goes wrong and this Tennessee team to show some great comeback against Kansas City but any read is known to blow leads . A lot a lot a lot and that they got I wouldn't say lucky but they play hard but it is a certain bit of luck to have that she's playing so good and they lose Travis Kelsey and then you come in the 2nd half and she just I'm going to play like garbage they put the garbage the 2nd half and they got lucky that Mariel didn't marry on a touchdown pass that's just not the kind of something having into England and if it does that's going to be crazy it will be an exciting game to watch I did all things going to happen now let's move over to the end of c sand what you think would be the least interesting game in the N.F.C. And then we'll go over back to have C.N.C. And had those interesting games you know I hate to call it least interesting because the N.F.C. Matchups are a little bit more intriguing you don't know exactly who the 2 teams in the conference championship will be like you could probably predict in the N.F.C. But the one that is kind of surprising. Most people can expect the outcome the Falcons in the Eagles game the Falcons are the 6 seed in the N.F.C. And the Eagles are the number one seed according to Vegas and young sports the Falcons are favored by 3 points. There they're the favorites but they're the lower seed. I kind of think this is absurd I mean we had to get me to go to a field they lost their star quarterback and Carson went OK that's a good point I understand there are whole other team but who is their backup Nick Foles who has good experience especially with the Eagles often so it's not like he hasn't played in it at all he had a good bit of success not too long ago a couple years ago where he was able to take them to the playoffs Nick Foles obviously he's on the downside of his career but he's been there before I have faith in Nick Foles even though he's from you have a faith in Him That's right and I am saying I don't think that the Falcons should be favored but this isn't the focus and we saw them again this season they change they've got that Super Bowl hangover kind of blown back behind them they had a good game against Iran's rise and good their office is looking good they still have Julio Jones who is one of the best receivers in the league I do think that Philadelphia will win this game because Nick Foles is if you're going to have a backup quarterback you want to have a Nick Foles there so now going back to the A.F.C. And if you told me a few years ago I'd be saying one of most exciting games in the A.F.C. Playoffs would have to watch would have the Jacksonville Jaguars in it I'd call you crazy and if you told me that Blake Bortles was a quarterback tell you that you're crazy but Steelers versus Jag wires people pointed to earlier in the season the Jaguars beat the Steelers kind of wiped the floor with them and that's because this Jacksonville defense this accident Jacksonville defense is absolutely wild 10 times a season they have held their opponents to 10 or fewer points when all of this 2 of those were last week in the wildcard playoff tickets Buffalo and against the Steelers However the Steelers are different than earlier in the season they're completely different to the 1st 8 games of the season they averaged just about $20.00 points per game and they never pass a 30 point mark in the 2nd half of the season polar opposite the office had $29.00 points per game and were never held below 20 points this is a completely different Steelers team hopefully Big Ben is healthy and the only thing. Keeping in my mind is is Antonio Brown really healthy and why is levy on Bell coming out right now saying that he won't play its franchise tag next year now that may not be a huge deal because he has come out and said that his main goal is winning a Super Bowl what happens next year happens next year but why would you come out and say that why is that on your mind so let's go over quickly to that as he gave Sam the sickest of the N.F.C. All right well the other matchup that maybe could be a little more intriguing is the New Orleans Saints taking on the Minnesota Vikings this game will be held in Minnesota in the stadium the stadium that's going to host the Super Bowl the Vikings have a legit shot at playing in their own stadium for the Super Bowl if you ask me. These 2 teams just like in the Pittsburgh and Jacksonville matchup these 2 teams are Viking in Saints played each other in week one of the playoffs the Vikings came away with the when it was 2919 and it was in the home in the home stadium however I hate I hate to compare week one to now in the N.F.L. Absolutely just because of how they're 2 different worlds when teams are getting the hang of their often so you have all these rookies all these new players getting the hang of the getting the hang of the playbook and Sam Bradford was the starter for the Vikings in that game we have 2 quarterbacks in this one that are just as hot as you can be Drew Brees just absolutely came alive the 2nd half this season he is a leading front runner for the M.V.P. And then you have a Case Keenum who took over the job from Sam Bradford held the job when Teddy Bridgewater came back and now he's playing like we have never seen from him before if you had to make me pick a winner for this game I was good I'm going to go with the Vikings they're the home team they're on a They're on a run their fans haven't seen success like this in a. Couple years so if I got to pick the Vikings for this one well you read my mind Sam because I was about to ask you let's go through the picks of the entire team so you have Vikings I'm also to go with Vikings I think that if the Saints running game shows up like they didn't in. Carolina then they have a real shot of winning but the running game wasn't great for New Orleans which is something that they actually had a great job of doing that the entire season of establishing a running game along with your Brees freeing him up Tennessee New England New England by 30 it's just it's got to happen Chris Hope it's back to the Patriots the other way receiver for Brady and Steelers Jags. Chad Myers in a very low scoring game in a very cold Pittsburgh and then and Atlanta in Philadelphia I'll go thought if you had a very close game high scoring I'll go about 30 to 24 I like the Steelers in the game of the A.F.C. The we like I'd love to see the Jaguars I'm rooting for the Jaguars a lot of people root for the Jaguars you know they've been bad for so long and their helmets are so ugly that you got to live. With the black and gold you can really go into Pittsburgh with that Jaguars team I know their defense is good but I can expect the Jaguars often to produce enough to get the win no faith in the running quarterback duel threat quarterback Blake Bortles he can either run or not . Yeah exactly they won't be able to put up enough points in that one New England Tennessee New England Yes That one's easy hot take hopefully what if Tennessee pulls it off though they'll make them look stupid I mean that they may care but I mean it's happened before there's a reason why like March Madness and Matt March Madness you know the difference sport is so huge because upsets happen in sports but I just don't think it's going to be the Tennessee team over this Patriots team not this one Marcus Marriott is good but he's not the he's not a Hawaiian God you know he's not to talk of tongue no via Loa Yeah. Well no Marcus Mariano is yeah he was the man before he was he gave to a pair of his shoes when he was in high school so. You want to take a break yes so we're going to go. We're going to take a break really quick when we come back we're going to get this we're going to talk about some basketball both college and professional talk some All-Star game so players some new players some comeback some wins so stay tuned right here ablaze ready to fly from the Austin radio studio this is bottom of the 6 We'll see you guys very soon. Blazon in the morning about how this morning show in the nation is back. I deejays even hotter segments and the hottest music with D.J. One more chance and D.J. Coco we're bringing the heat every Wednesday from 10 to 11 live in the bill Austin studio streaming on periscope Instagram and Facebook live and make sure you follow us on blazon in the AM for updates giveaways and more tune in. You want some country music in your life and we got it for you blaze radios per mirror country music show Blazing Saddles is back for a whole new series from the big stars to the up and comers we have all of your favorite tunes join Steven on a bass blame a cardigan Alex Ellis LIVE FROM THE BILL LAWSON radio studio as they bring you throw back some 330 in studio interviews and a whole lot more Wednesdays 3 to 4 on your local station plays radio. Welcome back to LIVE FROM the boss or radio studio you are listening about of the 6 live on Blaze radio online dot com alongside Sam Brennan My name is Eric Ruby and if you missed the last 15 minutes we were just talking a lot of N.F.L. a Little bit of M. A B. Now we're going to jump in some N.B.A. A lot of N.B.A. Action going on but we're not for to we're going to go into the future next month N.B.A. All star game the votes are in for so far and Le Bron is your leading vote getter out of all players for by your honest kind of combo Steph Curry Kevin Durant's I mean these are players that you expect to see their one player win to really fight to be their manager nobley monitor nobody has not gone there is that you deserve a star of all star games to All Star games appearances there and now why would I buy the all star game because different this year it's not just the All-Star selection there's an All-Star draft too where the 2 top the vote getters for the Western Conference if these are conference Well then select their teams the only problem is Sam They're not televising this event this would be huge T.V. To see Le Bron James going to pick Steph Curry I think he's going to say he's going to Kyrie Irving and I think one of his other teammates is going to pick somebody else or is Steph Curry going to be picking Kevin to rant or if Kevin rank is a top vote C. I think Russell Westbrook I mean this is some of the people want to see and Adam Silver came out and he's somehow a little bit concerning about this whole things and when you say Well Adam Silver said that it's not going to be televised basically the way it sounded was Adam Silver is not going to let this draft be open to the public because he doesn't want other players feelings getting hurt he doesn't want to seal Braun picking Kyrie but Le Bron makes doing Wade feel bad because I mean one way he's not going to be in the All-Star Game but you know some someone like that like makes another player feel bad because he didn't pick them but I like where you're going with the amount of stories that could come from this you could have rumors like oh Le Bron wants to Le Bron wants to go to Boston because he picked Kyrie you know and you can have all these different story lines lining up of who are the. Who are the friends in the league where do these stars want to go just there's so many different ways you could look at it if this were to be public I mean even just storylines for the weekend I mean if you talk about it like I was over the everybody on Twitter hash tag televise the draft all this stuff I mean this is just off people want to see why do you think people watch the regular draft because oh it's who's going to one who's going take who the rockets and this guy you know this guy said he don't want to play for the Rockets Oh well Kevin Durant's Russell Westbrook even though they're not friends but remember last All-Star game when they can and if the all you and everybody went crazy I mean you guys have the opportunity to generate a lot of intrigue to I would say one of the worst All-Star games out of all professional sports and I'm a huge N.B.A. Fan I don't want to see 20200 I love highlights but it don't ever ever go if the that ever being completely honest you need to generate more intrigue for this and yeah you know you always have the who got snubbed the Damian Lillard of the of the world the now and probably going to Devon Booker's of the world who gets not from the all star game and then I think the dunk contest has been great last year was OK shots of my boy Barry Jones Jr But Duncan has been pretty good as of late especially at the end Gordon came back to 3 point contest as always entertaining when you have guys like Steph Curry and Clay THOMPSON It seems like during the light of All-Star weekend is the All-Star game itself if we're being honest now you have a chance you've already redone the entire thing to where it is now a draft and you have to capitalize fully on that it just seems like bad business so you can protect grown man's feelings it's it's fun to see all those names on the same floor at the same time working together. The N.F.L. Did something like this where they drafted players of course it was accent of Phil legends who were the coaches and they drafted the current N.F.L. Players if you look at the way that this draft is going we're going to know who picks who we're going to know because we'll see oh Bronson captain. These are all the people he picked we just won't know what order it was in we won't know who's sympathy pick because who he really wanted to pick got taken before him I mean we'll still know but it does add a little bit of like suspicion and drama that could have been really great for numbers Yes So let's let's do about role playing here let's pretend we are the top vote getters I am abroad James you are Steph Curry in a perfect world. So with my 1st pick I want to pick Kyrie I think it's going to be entertaining really I would want to pick Irie if he's entertaining is going to generate storylines there are still friends I'm pretty sure they just weren't getting along in a business setting and I think there's a certain way to let people know that Picower you're having possible M.V.P. Candidate leaving the Celtics one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference I think is just a sign that I would do just to show people like look we're grown men like this is fun but you are Steph Curry who are you picking Well if I'm stiff current for the All-Star game not thinking about drafting a franchise player to start a franchise with I would pick Russell Westbrook because he's a great all star game player he's a great player he is yeah but he's gotten a couple All-Star Game M.V.P.'s and if I actually want to win this game Russell Westbrook knows how to win the All-Star Game and he looks good doing it now if we were taking a franchise player and picky honest that's easy but Russell Westbrook is a good all star game player I would take him we could be the ultimate back court the ultimate back or the explosion of the 3 point shooting so we're talking about a 3 point shooting let's transition from the N.B.A. To the N.C. Double a local basketball I would say phenomenon here in Arizona are the Arizona State stunned devils who have a game tonight against Oregon now they had a pretty interesting break Sam started off a little bit of rough against you have a December 30 if you go into McHale center you play em tough but you just don't put your best game and you end up losing not by a lot but you end up losing and. That's your undefeated season that's gone you were the last remaining undefeated team because a few teams lost earlier that day and then you come back and you play Colorado team in August you're supposed to be that Colorado team but I guess you got a little bit down themselves and they lost a really close overtime game against Colorado and then come back and win a very close game gets you to I'd say probably one of the better ones that because of the foul trouble they got and now one consistent thing throughout all of these games is the Pac 12 refs the Pats what grabs not the best performance for them I mean Mickey Mitchell is going clean steals they're calling fouls and I think that's what he was taking them out of it but what does the sun double team really need to work on Sam in order for them to get back to that top 5 standing that they were at were called guard you they're going with that slogan I'm sorry if I say we go to. They're using that guard you slogan they're going to have to overcome size differences that's one of the biggest things that I saw in the last year they were swallowed up by their big Yeah especially him she's so the Sun Devils have to survive in their losses their 3 point shooting just wasn't as hot as it needed to be you have a they missed a couple 3 that should have gone in Cody just as kind had a rough night you in threes if they want to keep on their winning streak of one game to make that 2 tonight they just need to keep get the 3 ball going to get that hot. Maybe in this match up get a lighter to Kwan late the ball down because Oregon doesn't have as much size of some A's be a U. Of their Utah Yeah they're Romo white and a quad Lake I think they've done great for some undersized big.