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On The Midday Show, Andy and Randy discuss the status of Falcons Edge James Pearce Jr. as training camp approaches. Will the highly touted pass rusher be on the field, and how important is camp participation to his development and impact in Year 2?
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00:00has has met with the media up there in flowery branch he's given some quotes on a couple of
00:05different things including whether or not michael pennix will be available at next week's mandatory
00:09minicamp um to be a part of the 11 on 11 sessions he said we'll see so good answer yes
00:17no no need
00:18to say one way or the other yes i guess if they knew that he was going to he'd probably
00:22say yes
00:22yeah but uh we'll see next week that was essentially the same answer given on whether
00:27or not james pierce jr will participate yeah he said uh that's a next week thing next week next
00:32week i don't i think there's a better chance for michael than james i just don't see him being out
00:37there but yeah i mean i there's no rush to get him out there 11 on 11 all right you
00:41still got a month
00:42before training camp so i mean let's like let's unless you want to like maybe cut last couple
00:48plays of them or something like that right now if he's not ready for because he keeps using that
00:52same word as far as milestones things like that where he's supposed to be at this point of his
00:56rehab uh and i mean remember we talked about this coming to this office i said he'll probably do
01:02everything except for 11 on 11 it makes no sense for him to be out there and doing it and
01:06then
01:06most uh 11 on 11 in these kind of settings is weak anyways because everybody pass rushing
01:12it ain't two steps of stopping slim and getting their sets and everything like that so they're
01:16really pointless to do it anyway that's my question is they're obviously not hitting either one of them
01:21no one's going to be hitting anybody he's doing seven on seven yes i mean i guess there's guys
01:26standing in front of them but that's the thing about it but even though we talk about the
01:30different uh the speeds of the up front it's a it's a faster process because when you're doing
01:36it like that because everything else is full speed the receivers the drops all those different things
01:41it's just not that in in the in the trenches right there you don't want you know somebody accidentally
01:46running somebody or something like that i like how they've handled it because they haven't
01:50done anything to me that seems like they care very much about the perception of it yeah they're just
01:55they're doing it in in the speed that they need to be doing right uh they're handling penix the way
01:59they're handling him obviously tua is on his own timeline with uh being healthy and being able to
02:05be a part of all of it so ultimately to me hopefully whatever hopefully everybody could be there next
02:11week and do what they need to do i i kind of doubt that penix is involved in 11 on
02:1411 and i kind of
02:15doubt that james pierce jr is there now by saying we'll worry about next week next week okay well
02:21probably gonna have to say something about it next weekend if james pierce jr isn't available
02:25to be a part of i'll be surprised i'll be a mandatory minicamp i would be surprised i would
02:28be surprised too but at the very least at that point you probably have to answer a question about
02:32it you know what i mean right and give some sort of timeline or thought or where we're at or
02:37something because it was last week right or maybe it was the end of two weeks ago but it was
02:41right
02:41right after you left there was an update to his his court situation yes again it didn't clarify
02:48anything and we still don't know what's going to happen with him but maybe they still don't know
02:52what's going to happen yeah i mean i don't know it could be a situation where they don't know what's
02:56going to happen with them i know a lot of times when you're in this situation we talked uh before
03:00i
03:00left um josh jacobs that sounded like something right right and so but he was at mandatory minicamp
03:05oh everything last week so i don't know i don't know how this goes i'd be shocked if he's i
03:09know
03:09they asked questions about billy bowman another milestone type thing where he's at where he needs to be
03:14and things like that but yeah i mean i think the more you can get michael on the field because
03:18i
03:18still think the interesting one is we talked about remember last year we were up there two years ago
03:22we were talking about who's going to build the pup is michael going to start i doubt michael starts
03:26in the pup but just because he's not on it doesn't mean that he will be doing everything that as
03:31far as
03:31for as far as team because he'll do everything except for that or or do you ease him back in
03:37because
03:37in training camp they i know you have the team aspect of it can he go nine on seven because
03:43all he's doing
03:43and hand the ball off do you want him in the blitz period because that's all that's team with
03:47blitzing so i mean those are those things where we'll have to wait till we get up there to see
03:51where he is but i i don't think it'd be a big deal if he doesn't do 11 i don't
03:54either um all right
03:55let's get to the big story of the day here to kick off the one o'clock hour oh yeah
03:59the bears
04:00gonna be playing in indiana yeah what a joke uh brought to you by qc kinetics non-surgical treatment
04:07for joint pain we thought they were gonna put the texas tech judge in there texas tech judge is
04:13going to hear the ncaa and go that's cute what do you want to do okay you want to play
04:16ball for
04:17texas tech yeah sweet you're in it seemed like you know of course it would be super corrupt judge
04:21recuses himself university of houston judge comes in they got a fort worth texas now we're getting a
04:27ruling just one day after the ncaa basically comes out and says this guy's not allowed okay this is not
04:32we're not doing this this judge comes out and says actually can play yeah and the judge put it in
04:39the stipulation in his ruling that the ncaa basically can't do nothing about this so it's
04:44a done deal yeah so brendan soresby is granted granted his temporary injunction um his lawyers
04:50by the way are like all time undefeated against ncaa and leagues in general they these are the guys
04:56you hire when you want to get something like this done apparently he demonstrated this is from the uh
05:01from the filing demonstrated that he will suffer a probable imminent and irreplaceable injury
05:06if this court does not issue the temporary injunction because he would be unable to
05:11participate as a member of the texas tech university 2026 football season oh so he you know okay he's
05:16got a oh hold on because he suspended those first two games he's got to bet on because that was
05:20the
05:20reason he bet on the games in indiana because that he didn't feel like he was a big enough part
05:25of the
05:25team so absolutely he needs to bet on those games and clearly it doesn't matter if he does so he
05:30should do that judge yeah that would i mean if brendan's when i don't even say if they'll probably wait
05:36till he's done at texas tech but when brendan soresby shows up in a draft kings commercial
05:40and gets paid for this too i mean that just is going to be brings it does this hard no
05:49i don't
05:51think so i don't know if he plays good i don't know no one will care it's gambling seriously that's
05:55some serious stuff man yeah but they'll just say that he's better you know all right he's handled it
06:01all right i think if he plays well enough but i mean but yeah probably but again we are but
06:06i
06:06said earlier when you you know you can't you can't you know put the toothpaste back in the tooth
06:11whatever that is yeah you can yeah they'd figured out how to do it they invented the new toothpaste tube
06:18yeah they figured it out well done texas yeah they figured it out and now it's going to set that
06:22but that person's already set as far as if we need something done or we don't like the ruling
06:28or if we want to play an extra year at age 28 we'll just sue them we'll get the injunction
06:33because
06:33think about it as long as we have an injunction we can still go there play exactly yeah and the
06:36ncaa can try to appeal or whatever i know you said that there was there was stuff in there that's
06:41going to make it really hard um it feels to me like they have to fight this one tooth and
06:45nail
06:45because it's such a they have it's so embarrassing for them that they can't because this is not like
06:50some of them is a little bit of gray area it's like well you know he was hurt that year
06:53in junior
06:54college and maybe this guy bet on his own team yes admitted that he did it yes did it 40
06:59plus times
06:59and that is like i don't know of all the stuff that everybody knows you're not supposed to do
07:04that's kind of the number one thing on the list in sports right yes you can't gamble on your own
07:09team
07:09charlie baker here uh charlie baker there is no better example of why targeted intervention from
07:16congress is necessary when you have schools and deep-pocketed supporters willing to look the other
07:22way on the glaring integrity threat uh betting on your own team and judges who rulings effectively
07:27strip away the ability to stop them yeah right there's no there's no rules or if there are if
07:33we don't like them we just get an injunction temporary injunction is the uh the the term for
07:40the 2026 college football season it's first team all sec quarterbacks playing on a temporary injunction
07:47this guy here five million dollar nil deal where where where where where was his at
07:51where did uh for that his court rule i believe that was in oxford mississippi where he did that one
07:56yeah
07:59now i'm not gonna i'm not gonna sit here and try to be holier than thou because my quarterbacks only
08:03played for my school because we sued his ass to stay he sued his ass too it was reverse
08:07yeah these guys are suing the ncw to get to play for the team we sued him to make you
08:11say oh uh you've got a contract son i got i got a contract points me and you that says
08:18you do
08:19what i tell you to do therefore don't say oh man this is where we're at
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