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Hour 1 - Sluggish in Seattle · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Well, butter my biscuit. It's hour number one. Hour one
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Speaker 1: of Bear Jamboree here on the Ben Maller Show. Happy
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Speaker 1: third day of November. this Tuesday and always a big day.
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Speaker 1: The third day of November is a selection day, but
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Speaker 1: that was my mom's birthday. So always a third day
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Speaker 1: of November. Very important day. Very important day. Anyway, here
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Speaker 1: in our number one, we start with the Monday night
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Speaker 1: football game. Has Sam Darnold turned back into a pumpkin
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Speaker 1: for the Seahawks? We'll talk about that. Did Jeffrey Simmons
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Speaker 1: justify the Bears blockbuster trade, giving up a couple of
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Speaker 1: the first round picks and, in just 48 defensive snaps
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Speaker 1: as he was manhandling that Seattle offensive line. And does
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Speaker 1: this win count as a signature victory for Caleb Williams
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Speaker 1: and the Bears as they go into Seattle and thump
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks? We'll talk about all that and more right now.
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Speaker 1: Here it is, our number one.
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Speaker 2: Enjoy.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you thought the Seattle Seahawks had figured things out,
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Speaker 1: You give us a few minutes, we will give you.
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Speaker 1: A live read. But our lead. Don't bury the lead,
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Speaker 1: my man. Don't bury the lead. We're not going to
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Speaker 1: bury the lead. It's kind of obvious what the lead is.
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Speaker 1: We start out just adjacent to Puget Sound. And turn
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Speaker 1: at the lights on the Seahawks offense. What was that? Man,
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Speaker 1: that was very enjoyable. Got to tell you, some of
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Speaker 1: these Monday night games, you're like, I don't know about that.
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Speaker 1: This was a good one. What was the final part,
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Speaker 1: final paragraph of week eight, the storybook in the NFL?
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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams driving the Bears jamboree into the Pacific Northwest.
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Speaker 1: They're a little wrestling match with Sam Darnold and the Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: You had the Bickersons, Troy Aikman and Joe Buck. I
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Speaker 1: love how everyone's like, oh, man, they look like they
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Speaker 1: really hate each other. They've always looked like they hate
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Speaker 1: each other. Even when they were in their heyday at
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Speaker 1: Fox and their salad days, they looked like they despised
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Speaker 1: each other. Now you're, oh, my God, they look like
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Speaker 1: they don't like each other. They look the same to me.
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Speaker 1: Maybe my TV is broken, but they look exactly the
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Speaker 1: same to me. My consultant, Stevie Meatballs, he said they
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Speaker 1: look the same, too. So there they were on ABC
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Speaker 1: calling the game. Aikman and Buck are right there. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you saw this or not. Maybe you
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Speaker 1: were not watching. I don't know what the hell else
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Speaker 1: you were doing, but that's your thing, not my thing.
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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams came out, and you talk about shoving it
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Speaker 1: down the throat of the once-proud Seahawks. They've actually changed
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Speaker 1: their name now to Seachumps is their new nickname there.
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Speaker 1: Over an eight-minute drive, matriculating the ball down the field
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Speaker 1: for the Chicago Bears on that opening touchdown drive. Jeffrey Simmons,
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Speaker 1: the big news of the last week, that transaction happened.
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Speaker 1: As he entered the transfer portal coming over from the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, he went out and dominated defensively. The Bears
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Speaker 1: curb stomped Seattle 34-17. 34-17 the final. It could have
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Speaker 1: been worse in the Monday night game as Caleb Williams
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Speaker 1: was more of a game manager. In this one, he
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Speaker 1: had 247 yards, completed 71% of his passes, did not
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Speaker 1: turn the ball over. And Chicago getting not one, not two,
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Speaker 1: but three. DeAndre Swift, touchdown runs, short touchdown runs. So
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Speaker 1: the Bears are back at 6-2. And in that loaded division,
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Speaker 1: when you look at Minnesota as a paper Viking, they're
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Speaker 1: not legit. The Lions are coming around a little bit.
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Speaker 1: And you look around, there's a Green Bay. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot going on there. The better story, though, is in
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Speaker 1: the losing locker room. I'm old enough to remember when
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Speaker 1: Seattle had a winning record. They don't have a winning
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Speaker 1: record right now. They're 500. Stuck in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the bell curve. The once Super Bowl champions proving more
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Speaker 1: and more like that was a fraudulent Super Bowl that
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Speaker 1: was fueled by a bogus two-point conversion that the NFL
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Speaker 1: gave Seattle that they did not deserve. And they're playing
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Speaker 1: like frauds. That is hot take validation, by the way.
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Speaker 1: Hot take validation. We were correct. But Seattle just four
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Speaker 1: and four. How embarrassing. This team was in the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl and won, and they're 4-4. That is mortification. Mortification.
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Speaker 1: It is. Man, what a mess. Well, let's hear from
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Speaker 1: the head coach of the Seattle football team, Mr. McDonald,
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Speaker 1: who's suddenly not as... graded genius as he once was
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Speaker 1: but he's putting on a happy face let me guess
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Speaker 1: he's gonna say his team played hard and i really
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Speaker 1: like my team we'll be okay and let's find out
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Speaker 1: here we go i mean.
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Speaker 3: It's pretty pretty cut and dry we didn't do the
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Speaker 3: things on offense that we need to be able to
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Speaker 3: do to, to play Seahawk football. That's the time for
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Speaker 3: like studying or is this a, Hey, let's, let's make
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Speaker 3: sure we're all on the same page on one accord
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Speaker 3: when we show up on Wednesday and, and let's go,
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Speaker 3: you know, we don't, we don't have time to be
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Speaker 3: looking at our wounds or anything like that. Well, it's, it's,
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Speaker 3: it's a, it's time to move forward.
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Speaker 1: So they didn't play Seahawk football. What were they playing?
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Speaker 1: Brown's football. Was it jets football, Raiders football? It wasn't
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Speaker 1: Seahawk football. So what football were they playing? Does anyone know?
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Speaker 1: Let me know. Send me a message. All right, so
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Speaker 1: here's the question. Let's get down to the quarterback, because
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Speaker 1: this is the thing nobody wants to address. Nobody has
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Speaker 1: the balls to address, but we'll do it. Who cares?
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Speaker 1: We're not part of the mainstream football cartel that have
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Speaker 1: their little talking points memo. So as we discuss what
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Speaker 1: happened in the Monday night game, the question, has Sam
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Speaker 1: Darnold turned back into a pumpkin again? For the Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: Has Sam Darnold turned back into a pumpkin for the Seahawks?
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Speaker 1: So I've got Stevie Wonder, Thor's Hammer, and Peacock. And
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Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together. And we
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Speaker 1: are going to scramble some eggs is what we're going
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Speaker 1: to do. And hopefully not split the ticket. Because you
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Speaker 1: hate when that happens. You don't want to split the ticket. So, A,
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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. I'm going to push back. He is not
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Speaker 1: turning into a jack-o'-lantern, Sam Darnold. He has been a
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Speaker 1: jack-o'-lantern all along. So it's not like all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden he morphed into somebody. Somebody just kept changing the
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Speaker 1: candle in the jack-o'-lantern. But he's always been the same guy.
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Speaker 1: He's always been the same guy. And for some of you,
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Speaker 1: the low-information fan, you drive by and you say, well,
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Speaker 1: that's pretty impressive. It's like you drive by the street
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Speaker 1: and you look and say, well, that's not bad. But
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Speaker 1: then when you get up close, you realize, well, it's
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Speaker 1: hollow and rotting, the Jack-O-Lantern. It's hollow and rotting. Seattle's offense,
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Speaker 1: that was like a bowl of pumpkin guts in this
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Speaker 1: particular game here as they were stringy, slimy, and nobody
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Speaker 1: really wanted to touch it. Just 252 yards of total
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Speaker 1: offense against the Bears. And that's it. 1 of 11
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Speaker 1: on third down. 1 of 11 on third down. That
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Speaker 1: is a 9% success rate. Now, I didn't play in
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Speaker 1: the NFL, but I'm told that blows. That blows. But
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Speaker 1: we must address Sam Darnold, who apparently has the Trojan
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Speaker 1: horse virus, if you know what I mean. And Seattle,
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Speaker 1: I did the math on this, so they're 2-4 in
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Speaker 1: games Sam Darnold has started and finished. They're 2-4. That's
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Speaker 1: a two-game under. 500 record. Meanwhile, the Seahawks have a
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Speaker 1: perfect record with Drew Locke running the operation. But you're
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Speaker 1: not supposed to talk about that. Why would you bring
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Speaker 1: that up? uh darnold supposed to be the main event
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Speaker 1: he'd killed all the demons you told me you idiots
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Speaker 1: oh yes super bowl champion sam darnold yes killed all
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Speaker 1: the demons all the demons and right now the understudy
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Speaker 1: drew lock who's not even that good However, with the
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Speaker 1: same players around him, the same coaching staff, Drew Locke
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Speaker 1: has been a much better, efficient quarterback than Sam Darnold.
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Speaker 1: Put that in your pipe and smoke it. It's kind
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Speaker 1: of like paying to see Stevie Wonder and discovering that
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Speaker 1: the Stevie Wonder tribute group puts on a better show.
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Speaker 1: It's like, well, that's disappointing. I need to spend thousands
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Speaker 1: of dollars to watch Stevie Wonder, who's, I guess, back
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Speaker 1: on tour or whatever. My God. Sam Darnold's success... Whatever
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Speaker 1: success he's had in Seattle, it's pretty obvious, is a
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Speaker 1: byproduct of Jackson Smith and Jigba. That's it. The Venn
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Speaker 1: diagram is practically one circle. And that's all. And when
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Speaker 1: JSN makes plays, Sam Darnold looks like a functional NFL quarterback.
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Speaker 1: But we saw in the third quarter and a chunk
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter in the game Monday night, the
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Speaker 1: Bears were able to box up Jackson, Smith, and Jigba,
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Speaker 1: and Sam Darnold might as well have been wearing a
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Speaker 1: Jets helmet. Might as well have been wearing a Jets
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Speaker 1: helmet watching him go out there. He was lost at sea, Darnold,
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Speaker 1: waving his arms, screaming for Baywatch to send a time
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Speaker 1: machine to bring back the 90s version of Pamela Anderson
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Speaker 1: there to rescue him, get a buoy, and rescue Sam Darnold.
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Speaker 1: It was not good. Not good. Darnold, not exactly the engine, true, true,
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Speaker 1: driving the Seattle offense. He's the fuzzy dice guy. It's
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Speaker 1: hanging around there. And Jackson Smith and Jigba is the
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Speaker 1: one obviously getting it done. Now, meanwhile, on the Chicago
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Speaker 1: side of things, we have a developing situation in the
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Speaker 1: Windy City there as Jeffrey Simmons, in his Bears debut,
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Speaker 1: played 48 defensive snaps. This was the big move Chicago
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Speaker 1: made with Tennessee. And they claim they're not going to
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Speaker 1: F them picks, but they went F them picks. They said,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to F them picks, but you went
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Speaker 1: F them picks. They went F them picks. They traded
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Speaker 1: two first-round picks. That's F them picks to get Jeffrey Simmons.
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Speaker 1: And two first-rounders go to the Titans so they can
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Speaker 1: botch those picks. And how did Simmons do? He had
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Speaker 1: not one, not two, not three, not four, not five.
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Speaker 1: How about six tackles, five pressures? That led the Bears.
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Speaker 1: Two tackles for loss, one sack, one quarterback hit, one
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Speaker 1: batted pass, and a partridge in a pear tree. So
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Speaker 1: he had all that going on. So the question, did
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons... Defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons. Did Jeffrey Simmons justify
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Speaker 1: the Bears' blockbuster trade, giving up all that draft capital
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Speaker 1: in just 48 defensive snaps? So this was not a
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Speaker 1: debut by Jeffrey Simmons. It was more than that. This
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Speaker 1: was a hostile takeover of the frazzled offensive line of
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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks there. So I would like to use
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Speaker 1: my Latin, and I beg for you to excuse my
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Speaker 1: Latin here, but this was a Carp Diem situation. Seize
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Speaker 1: the day. He seized the day. Big time. And it's
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Speaker 1: been said by many wise people over the years that
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Speaker 1: you never get a second chance to make a first impression.
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Speaker 1: And Jeffrey Simmons... Went out there. He showed up and
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Speaker 1: showed out. It was like he was wearing a tuxedo,
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Speaker 1: and he went to Spirit Halloween, and he got on
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Speaker 1: sale a hammer. It was Thor's hammer, and he was
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Speaker 1: carrying that around in his tuxedo. The stats, impressive. And
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Speaker 1: that's a defensive lineman making a grand entrance, and it's
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Speaker 1: nice to see. Now, I'm not going to sit here
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Speaker 1: and say we're sending him to the haberdashery to get
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Speaker 1: a gold jacket. We're not doing that, obviously. However, Simmons
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Speaker 1: has put the Bears' GPS set down the yellow brick road.
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Speaker 1: So it's down the yellow brick road we go, and
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Speaker 1: they're skipping towards the Emerald City, which is in the
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Speaker 1: hood and in the wood and up to no good.
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Speaker 1: And that'll be, of course, in early 2027 on Valentine's Day.
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Speaker 1: But here's what you say about Jeffrey Simmons. Two words.
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Speaker 1: As advertised. As advertised. No bait and switch. No bill
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Speaker 1: of goods. Chicago ordered a wrecking ball. And they didn't
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Speaker 1: get some rip-off, miniature wrecking ball off Teemu. They got
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Speaker 1: a real wrecking ball. And it's nice to see. They
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Speaker 1: got an actual wrecking ball. They ordered it, and that's
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Speaker 1: what they got. Unlike, not that I'm bitter, that fraud
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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett with the Rams. Simmons, it turns out, Jeffrey
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Speaker 1: Simmons did not require a six-week orientation program, a medical excuse,
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Speaker 1: and instructional manual. He didn't need those things. He did not.
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Speaker 1: He showed up, punched the clock, and started rearranging the furniture.
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Speaker 1: for the Bears, who gave up a lot of goodies
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Speaker 1: to get him. And we're all about that. F the draft,
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Speaker 1: F them picks. Good for the Bears. That's the way
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Speaker 1: to do it. That's the way to do it. You
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Speaker 1: went for it. That's why you pay a premium. It's
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Speaker 1: nice when this happens. Meanwhile, the last word. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to the big picture now for Ben Johnson and the
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Speaker 1: Bears as they get another win. They're bird-dogging the Vikings.
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Speaker 1: in the division, and among all the teams. You look
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Speaker 1: at those overall standings in the NFC, and the Chicago
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Speaker 1: Bears are breathing down the necks of not just the
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Speaker 1: top teams in the NFC, but the entire NFL. And
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Speaker 1: you look right now, Buffalo at 6-1. There's a couple
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Speaker 1: of teams, Denver, Pittsburgh at 6-2 in the AFC. And
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Speaker 1: then in the NFC, you've got the 49ers and the
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Speaker 1: Vikings at 6-1, but the Bears at 6-2. And they're
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Speaker 1: lurking in the shadows like the boogeyman out there lurking around.
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Speaker 1: So the question, though, for Ben Johnson's team, and specifically
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Speaker 1: the quarterback, because quarterbacks are more important people. So does
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Speaker 1: this count as a, quote, signature win for Caleb Williams
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Speaker 1: and Doberz? So you know I am reluctant to say
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Speaker 1: signature win, and I don't usually do that. On this one, though,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say break out the Hawaiian shirts, get
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Speaker 1: the Hawaiian punch, fire up the tiki torches, get that
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Speaker 1: going on, go to a tiki bar, pour yourself a
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Speaker 1: tropical beverage, and why not? I'm Benny Brightside on this.
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Speaker 1: It's the island life for me. It's the island life
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Speaker 1: for the Bears. Bears are now 2-0 against the teams
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Speaker 1: that played in the Super Bowl last year, Seattle and
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Speaker 1: New England, both under the bright lights, the island life,
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Speaker 1: the bright lights on national television there. So Caleb Williams
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Speaker 1: was a smooth operator. He was a smooth operator for
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Speaker 1: the Bears in the Monday night game. And he wasn't
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Speaker 1: cheat code good. We've seen some cheat code stuff. He
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Speaker 1: wasn't that good in that department. But it wasn't like
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Speaker 1: he was playing Madden on rookie mode. He just simply
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Speaker 1: avoided butterfingering the game away, making Sam Darnold matriculate the
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Speaker 1: ball down the field, which obviously he's incompetent, can't do
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Speaker 1: that unless he gets some help. And we saw that
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Speaker 1: on display here. No turnovers, only took, I believe, one sack.
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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams kept the offense moving down the field. And
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Speaker 1: as a result, Chicago gets itself a peacock victory. So
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Speaker 1: the Bears can strut around the barnyard and have those
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Speaker 1: glorious tail feathers spread wide for the entire NFL to admire. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I know Lucky Tony's very happy about this. Lucky Tony's smiling.
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Speaker 1: He's like, oh, that's my Bears. In fact, he might
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Speaker 1: even stop watching porn online now. He's so excited, at
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Speaker 1: least for a day. He's so excited about the Bears.
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Speaker 1: They're Lucky Tony. But there they are. Strutting around there. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course, they still have to prove this in January,
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Speaker 1: which is always the kick to the nuts. They have
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Speaker 1: to show that this is legit. But we have the
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Speaker 1: show to do today, as we like to say. And
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Speaker 1: since we have a show to do today, this was
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Speaker 1: a bedazzled rhinestone-covered victory for Caleb Williams and the Bears.
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Speaker 1: You can paint your nails with that kind of win
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Speaker 1: for Chicago there. The reigning champions were totally zonked. In
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Speaker 1: the second half, really most of this game, it was
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Speaker 1: a domination. Seattle scored before halftime, but before that it
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Speaker 1: was a domination situation. And Seattle looked like somebody slipped
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Speaker 1: some NyQuil into their Gatorade. They played like, eh, it's
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Speaker 1: a little off, just a little bit off there. So
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Speaker 1: this does count, again. Benny Brightside, signature win for the
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Speaker 1: Bears to go and win there. Caleb Williams, again, he
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Speaker 1: didn't paint the Mona Lisa. He did not have to
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Speaker 1: paint the Mona Lisa in this game. He just stayed
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Speaker 1: inside the lines, just paint inside the lines. He didn't
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Speaker 1: spill the pain on the carpet, didn't get any pain
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Speaker 1: on the dog or his shirt or anything like that,
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Speaker 1: and so Chicago wanders away back to the Midwest, feeling
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Speaker 1: pretty good about themselves. All right, it is the Ben
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Speaker 1: Maller Show. You want to talk about that? Anything else
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Speaker 1: regarding this? How about Seattle needs to go out and
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Speaker 1: trade for a wide receiver? Sam Darnold cannot uplift the
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Speaker 1: players around him. He is not that quarterback. He's not.
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Speaker 1: And if you don't have great players around him, you're porked.
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Speaker 1: And he is El Capitan of the Vomit Comet. Sam
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Speaker 1: Darnold and it's so dependent on Jackson Smith and Jigba
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Speaker 1: And say, well, everyone's, hey, Maller, everyone needs a top receiver, dummy.
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Speaker 1: I understand that. But there are quarterbacks who can uplift players,
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Speaker 1: can elevate players. And Darnold's definitely not, from what I've seen,
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Speaker 1: not that guy. 877-99 on Fox. 877-996-6369 if you'd like
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Speaker 1: to be part as the Bears get the win there.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about that. And your calls and comments on X.
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Speaker 1: At Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller. So are the
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Speaker 1: winds of change howling? In Philadelphia, the Eagles have lost
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Speaker 1: six games in a row. Who's paying the price in
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia for the Eagles having all kinds of issues? We'll
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Speaker 1: get to that, and we will do it next.
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Speaker 2: I have a lot of experience in the game of football, Catherine.
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Speaker 5: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
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Speaker 5: we're going to talk about the NFL slate through the
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm looking forward to this show, Catherine, and
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21:43
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21:51
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21:57
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22:01
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22:04
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22:07
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22:12
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Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio as we
22:37
Speaker 1: hang on heading into an election day. The red-eye flight
22:43
Speaker 1: has not reached our full cruising altitude yet. We'll get
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22:52
Speaker 1: the Monday night game, Seattle. Helter Skelter. They got some
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Speaker 1: explaining to do. Well, it's getting a lot of crap
23:04
Speaker 1: from Seahawks fans, but the Rams are cooked. The Rams
23:07
Speaker 1: are done. I'm looking at the standings here. It looks
23:10
Speaker 1: like Seattle and the Rams have exactly the same record.
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Speaker 1: So I guess that means the Seahawks are done too.
23:16
Speaker 1: Isn't that how that works? Kids?
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Speaker 6: Yes?
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Speaker 3: Hmm.
23:33
Speaker 1: I don't fully trust Caleb Williams. Big game, Caleb Williams.
23:37
Speaker 1: I'm not quite there yet. I might get there. I'm
23:40
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Speaker 7: Happy Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: The exterminator. Have they fixed the cockroach problem?
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Speaker 7: No, and I'm forcing Coop to keep the lights on
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Speaker 7: in here until they do.
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Speaker 1: So the cockroaches do not like the light. They go
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Speaker 1: running away.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, they prefer not to see the light of day.
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Speaker 1: So in many ways, I'm like a cockroach. I don't
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Speaker 1: like to see the light of day.
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Speaker 7: You said it, not me.
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Speaker 1: And Koobaloop is here at a Bronco fan. That's a
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Speaker 1: Bronco fan. Your comments can and will... be used against
24:30
Speaker 1: you in the court of the Malibu so please act
24:32
Speaker 1: accordingly wow and back to it we go curmudgeon Wayne
24:39
Speaker 1: in Duluth says there's no way you're going four hours
24:42
Speaker 1: without talking about LeBron James that's from curmudgeon Wayne well
24:49
Speaker 1: Wayne if you want me to talk about LeBron James
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Speaker 1: you brought him up I didn't bring him up you
24:52
Speaker 1: brought him up dummy if you want me to talk
24:54
Speaker 1: about LeBron I'll do a whole four hours I'll do
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Speaker 1: an infomercial for LeBron if you want I don't care Now,
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Speaker 1: Michael in Tulsa writes in. He says, Ben, who's the
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Speaker 1: better quarterback, Sam Darnold, Kyler Murray, Daniel Jones, Brock Purdy,
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Speaker 1: or that other absolute fraud, Bo Nix, according to Michael
25:13
Speaker 1: in Tulsa? All right, so Kyler Murray should be a gamer.
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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones should be selling insurance. Sam Darnold remaking the Ghostbusters.
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Speaker 1: I guess by default you're going to make me say
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Speaker 1: something nice about Brock Purdy. Bad job by you, Michael.
25:32
Speaker 1: Shame on you. Baltimore Freeloader account writes and says, while
25:35
Speaker 1: I love free food and great sports talk, I do
25:38
Speaker 1: have an issue with pocket dials. Don't you find those
25:43
Speaker 1: people annoying, especially when they don't follow up with the text?
25:47
Speaker 1: What's the protocol here? Well, I find it very annoying
25:50
Speaker 1: when you call people, they don't answer your phone. They
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Speaker 1: don't answer the phone. I was like, well, very odd
25:54
Speaker 1: to me that somebody would not answer the phone. Someone
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Speaker 1: that claims to not sleep. and is always awake, and
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Speaker 1: yet they don't answer the phone. And two non-answers. One non-answer,
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Speaker 1: you're like, that's okay. But two non-answers, that's a tough one.
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Speaker 1: Jerry in a Jar writes, and he says, all these
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Speaker 1: mud ducks in Minnesota that should have kept Sam Darnold
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Speaker 1: are the same ones who would be calling for his
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Speaker 1: head right now. A bunch of losers. Hooger Bill from
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Speaker 1: his heart's in Indiana, but he's in SoCal, says, it's
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Speaker 1: Monday night. You got to tease going to the phones
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Speaker 1: at the top of the hour, my man. Tuesday is
26:33
Speaker 1: too late. Football fan reaction. Football fan reaction.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 1: Coach Cliché Guy writes in, says, at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, when the rubber meets the road, you're killing
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Speaker 1: it out there, giving it 110% A-plus on the Mallard Model. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's nice to feed me nothing but clichés. I appreciate that.
26:52
Speaker 1: And Mr. Irrigation writes in from deep in the heart
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Speaker 1: of Texas in Houston. He says, hey, Maller, are you
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Speaker 1: putting your money on the AFC to win the Super Bowl?
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Speaker 1: I don't see a dominant team in the AFC. I'm
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Speaker 1: still waiting to see the Texans' Super Bowl defense like
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Speaker 1: you media guys said they had. Hey, don't include me
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Speaker 1: in that. I'm not part of the mainstream media. I
27:16
Speaker 1: was reminded of that this weekend by some PR hack
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Speaker 1: for the LA Rams that I am not part of
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Speaker 1: the mainstream media. So I like that. I like that
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Speaker 1: we are not part of the mainstream. But there's nobody
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Speaker 1: that is convincing in the AFC. Like, you don't trust
27:31
Speaker 1: Bo Nix in Denver. That's not legit. Pittsburgh's not legit.
27:35
Speaker 1: Buffalo's defensively, they don't certainly give you a lot of
27:38
Speaker 1: confidence there. I would agree. However, Mr. Irrigation, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of football left, and if you're getting value with
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Speaker 1: the AFC in a one-game situation on any given Super
27:50
Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday, bizarre things end up happening. I'm just saying.
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Speaker 1: Dread Pie writes in, says, could it be that the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks are trying to find their way with a new
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator? It does seem that from time to time
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Speaker 1: with the just right mixes of coaches and players, it
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Speaker 1: wins it all. Seattle's new offensive coordinator may not have
28:11
Speaker 1: the magic of their last OC. Well, if you're still
28:15
Speaker 1: trying to figure things out, it's week eight in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Now we're heading into week nine. So now we're hitting–
28:21
Speaker 1: how many more weeks? Why don't we wait until, I
28:23
Speaker 1: don't know, week 32, and then we'll see if you
28:26
Speaker 1: figured crap out by then. My God. All right, let's
28:28
Speaker 1: go to the phones. Let's see. What do we got?
28:30
Speaker 1: I'm going to move this over here. Let's say hello
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Speaker 1: to Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe. Let's go to Chicago. And
28:37
Speaker 1: a man who's smiling from ear to ear right now,
28:40
Speaker 1: he can smell success down the line. Let's say hello
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Speaker 1: to Tree, who's in Chicago. What's going on, Tree? Welcome. Oh, man.
28:48
Speaker 6: What a night, man.
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Speaker 4: What a night.
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Speaker 6: What's up, Benny? Way to start the show. Benny, before
28:53
Speaker 6: I get to talking about my beers, man, when you
28:55
Speaker 6: come to Chicago to see your brother... You get an
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Speaker 6: ounce of time, man. It'd be a pleasure to take
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Speaker 6: you to one of my favorite restaurants for lunch or dinner.
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Speaker 1: All right. Send me an email. I'm on a tight schedule,
29:07
Speaker 1: but if I can work it in, I'd be happy
29:09
Speaker 1: to see you guys. We were talking about doing a
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Speaker 1: meet and greet, but we don't have a venue, so
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Speaker 1: it's probably not going to happen. But let me know.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that'd be a pleasure, man. But, man, Ben, I'm turning, what,
29:20
Speaker 6: my birthday is next month. A month from today, I'll
29:23
Speaker 6: be 44 years old.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my God. You're a young man, 44. What are
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Speaker 1: you talking about, Drew?
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Speaker 6: Come on, man. I'm getting up there, man. I'm getting
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Speaker 6: up there.
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Speaker 8: I feel good.
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Speaker 3: I feel good.
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Speaker 1: As long as you feel good, that's all that matters, dude.
29:37
Speaker 1: The age thing doesn't really matter. As long as you
29:38
Speaker 1: feel all right, you're good.
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Speaker 8: You're fine.
29:40
Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 6: That's the goal. That's the goal. I was in diapers
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Speaker 6: when we won at 85, so I don't remember that.
29:48
Speaker 6: I hear that McMahon was okay. So to finally have
29:53
Speaker 6: a real quarterback, man, it feels so good, man. I
29:56
Speaker 6: feel like you got a chance. I feel like you're
29:58
Speaker 6: a contender. Because I never bought into Rex Grossman. I
30:02
Speaker 6: never believed it all those years when we had him
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Speaker 6: and Lovie Smith. So to have a young superstar, man,
30:09
Speaker 6: I feel good about my guys and who he's going
30:11
Speaker 6: to win tonight. So I think we got a shot,
30:13
Speaker 6: didn't you, man? I really do, man. I really do.
30:16
Speaker 6: Some guys coming back. The running game is legit. I
30:20
Speaker 6: love this Simmons guy. Man, I feel good. That's a
30:24
Speaker 6: good feeling, man. So I like where we're heading, man.
30:28
Speaker 6: I like where we're heading. I think we can do it, man.
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Speaker 6: Just got to stay healthy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you should feel good. I'd like to rain on
30:35
Speaker 1: your parade. You know how I operate, Tree, but there's
30:37
Speaker 1: nothing really I can point to and say that that
30:39
Speaker 1: sucked and that was bad. I tried to find negative things.
30:42
Speaker 1: I did. I tried to find some negative stuff, but
30:44
Speaker 1: I really struggled to find anything negative about the Bears' performance.
30:47
Speaker 1: That was a dominating win in pretty much every phase
30:51
Speaker 1: of the game. There's a couple things here and there,
30:54
Speaker 1: but that's nitpicking. They could have scored a touchdown on
30:57
Speaker 1: that five. They could have won 41-17. I think so.
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Speaker 6: I think so. And I'm with you, Benny. Never, you know,
31:05
Speaker 6: I try not to talk bad about pros. They are 1%ers.
31:09
Speaker 6: I never care for Sam Donald, man. He never scares me.
31:13
Speaker 6: I never was like, oh, man, here comes Sam Donald.
31:15
Speaker 6: He's going to bring him back. I was just always confident.
31:18
Speaker 6: I cared about their defense more than about what he does.
31:21
Speaker 6: You shut down Njigbo, man. I believe that's the blueprint.
31:24
Speaker 6: I don't believe, I don't understand why more teams don't
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Speaker 6: do it.
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Speaker 1: Well, everyone tries to do it, but they do try
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Speaker 1: to do it. But it's amazing because against Kansas City,
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Speaker 1: it's like Jackson, Smith, and Jigba was open every play.
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Speaker 1: Like Kansas City didn't even stop them, I think, once
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Speaker 1: in the same, it was ridiculous in the same way.
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Speaker 1: All right, listen, Tri, be happy. Send me a message.
31:42
Speaker 1: If I have time, I'll make sure to message you
31:45
Speaker 1: and we'll hang out. All right, thank you, Tri.
31:46
Speaker 6: Okay.
31:47
Speaker 1: You're a great Tri in Chicago. Let's go to Andrew.
31:51
Speaker 1: who put the Bible down, picked up the phone, and
31:53
Speaker 1: called in right now. Hello, Andrew. Welcome.
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Speaker 8: You are correct, Ben. Did you know that the Apostle
31:59
Speaker 8: Paul was of the tribe of Benjamin?
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Speaker 1: No, I didn't. I didn't know.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 8: So I'm a UCLA fan and a Rams fan, but
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Speaker 8: you're going to love this take.
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Speaker 1: How many UCLA games have you been to this year?
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Speaker 8: Well, I was watching or listening to their win.
32:22
Speaker 1: How many games have you been to UCLA?
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Speaker 8: I don't think I've been to any.
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Speaker 1: That means you're a real UCLA fan because I've seen
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Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl. No one goes to those games, so
32:34
Speaker 1: you're a true Bruin fan.
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Speaker 8: Well, I don't know if your qualifications there really apply.
32:43
Speaker 1: What are you talking about, qualifications? I just said you're
32:45
Speaker 1: a legitimate UCLA fan if you don't go to games.
32:48
Speaker 1: Because I've seen UCLA football games, and no one goes
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Speaker 1: to the games. The stadium's empty.
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Speaker 8: And we get the ba-doom.
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Speaker 6: What?
32:56
Speaker 7: I think he wants my joke button.
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Speaker 1: Oh, he's doing a joke?
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Speaker 7: Was there a joke in there?
33:01
Speaker 1: I don't know. Are you having a medical issue right.
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Speaker 8: Now, Andrew?
33:07
Speaker 1: Is everything okay?
33:08
Speaker 8: I'm a doctor today.
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Speaker 1: What did you say?
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Speaker 8: It's going to be your favorite take of the year, probably.
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Speaker 1: Is this going to be as good as the Dodgers
33:16
Speaker 1: are going to win the World Series? Is that going
33:17
Speaker 1: to be your Dodgers are fine, everything's okay?
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Speaker 8: So Sam Darnold, okay, as you're discrediting him, I think
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Speaker 8: it's unfair.
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Speaker 1: What did I say that was incorrect?
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Speaker 8: You have to include, and I was thinking it was
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Speaker 8: 17-2 at Minnesota. That's not right. 15-2 at Minnesota. before
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Speaker 8: the Super Bowl championship. You can't leave that out.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's fair. I think at the same time,
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Speaker 1: and I think you'll agree with me on that because
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Speaker 1: we're being fair, right? You said fair. Is that correct?
33:54
Speaker 1: You want to be fair? So let's be fair. So
33:57
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's playoff game with the Minnesota Vikings, he had
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Speaker 1: nine sacks and an interception and a fumble. Is that
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Speaker 1: fair to point that out?
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Speaker 8: I just think that you've got to include that.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think we have to include the fact that
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Speaker 1: he rode the vomit comet in a playoff game.
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Speaker 8: Okay, but then if you take the comparison.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think that one playoff game, by the way,
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Speaker 1: trumps all those meaningless regular season games.
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Speaker 8: Then he won the Super Bowl?
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Speaker 1: He averaged five yards per pass in the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: There are running backs that have averaged more than five
34:32
Speaker 1: yards per pass in the Super Bowl. It wasn't good.
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Speaker 1: They won in spite of him. I don't know how
34:38
Speaker 1: many different ways I can say it. He's not good.
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Speaker 8: Well, I think the book is still open on that.
34:46
Speaker 8: Thank you. Talk to you soon.
34:47
Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Anthony in Louisiana. Hello, Anthony.
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Speaker 6: Welcome. Hey, man.
34:52
Speaker 1: How you doing? If I was any better, I'd be
34:55
Speaker 1: a Darnold, but not Sam Darnold.
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Speaker 8: Sam Dunn, he a fake.
34:59
Speaker 4: Look at this.
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Speaker 1: That's a hot take. That's a hot take. That is
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Speaker 1: a hot take. We got a hot take from Anthony
35:05
Speaker 1: in Louisiana. There's a hot take. Hey, cuz.
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Speaker 7: Hey, Anthony.
35:12
Speaker 6: I hope you had a good weekend.
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Speaker 7: Oh, it was fantastic. I was at Grand California and
35:18
Speaker 7: Disney all weekend.
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Speaker 6: How's your daughter doing?
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Speaker 1: She's good.
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Speaker 7: Oh, my gosh. She did a haunted thing at her
35:25
Speaker 7: high school where she got to be a clown and
35:27
Speaker 7: scare kids. It was great. She did?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Are you afraid of clowns, Anthony?
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Speaker 8: Sometimes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: All right. It's good to hear from y'all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. Well, tremendous. That was a great hot take, Anthony.
35:46
Speaker 1: I'll let her know.
35:47
Speaker 6: All right.
35:48
Speaker 1: Thank you. Hang up on yourself. Hoosier Bill says Andrew
35:53
Speaker 1: was in a car accident and it is still going. Yeah,
35:58
Speaker 1: that was his phone call. Every time he calls, we
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Speaker 1: call him a car accident. His nickname is Fender Bender.
36:03
Speaker 1: Hoosier Bill also says Tree got good energy and Da
36:07
Speaker 1: Bears new acquisitions are on fire. Respect to Tree in Chicago.
36:14
Speaker 1: From Hoosier Bill. I'm surprised we have not heard from
36:15
Speaker 1: Lucky Tony. It's possible he's on a bender right now.
36:18
Speaker 1: We're on X. At Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller.
36:22
Speaker 1: So the Philadelphia Eagles, they suck. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
36:27
Speaker 1: Six losses in a row. So clearly they're going to
36:31
Speaker 1: change quarterbacks, change offensive coordinators.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. Head coach Nick Sirianni planning
36:40
Speaker 1: on making no changes, no drastic changes. So they are
36:45
Speaker 1: settling into Suckville, USA in Philadelphia. The Eagles, after this
36:51
Speaker 1: run of success, and they're like, no, no, no, we
36:53
Speaker 1: want to get back to our roots. The old school birds.
36:56
Speaker 1: All right, time now for the Who Am I game.
36:58
Speaker 1: This is where we pretend to be somebody else as
37:00
Speaker 1: we call it the Who Am I game. Titans quarterback
37:02
Speaker 1: Cam Ward has done something that's almost impossible to do.
37:05
Speaker 1: Cam Ward is the first quarterback since me to start
37:10
Speaker 1: his team's first eight games without throwing a touchdown pass
37:14
Speaker 1: in the first three quarters. Every one of Cam Ward's
37:20
Speaker 1: touchdown passes this year have been in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 6: Who?
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Speaker 1: Most of them in garbage time. Again, Titans quarterback Cam Ward,
37:26
Speaker 1: the first quarterback since me to start his team's first
37:29
Speaker 1: eight games without throwing a touchdown pass in the first
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Speaker 1: three quarters of any of those games. Who am I?
37:36
Speaker 5: Who?
37:36
Speaker 1: At Ben Maller on X. If you know the answer,
37:38
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Speaker 1: Here in Mallertown, where the mayor of Bakersfield can be found.
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Speaker 7: Blair and Rachel tell me something wild.
38:34
Speaker 1: Another Malheur Militia classic, the work of J. Scoop and
38:39
Speaker 1: Just Josh and the Milkman, all those guys teaming up
38:43
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38:47
Speaker 1: know if they all deserve credit.
38:48
Speaker 6: I know J.
38:48
Speaker 1: Scoop and Just Josh and that group. J.
38:52
Speaker 7: Scoop might be one of my new favorite musicians.
38:54
Speaker 1: He's really good.
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Speaker 6: He's so talented.
38:55
Speaker 1: Very talented man, yes. And I've seen him a lot.
38:59
Speaker 3: He was.
39:01
Speaker 1: At the meet and greet we did there, the last one,
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39:33
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39:37
Speaker 1: That'll be coming next hour, so a lot to look
39:39
Speaker 1: forward to. Unless you hate that and then forget about it.
39:42
Speaker 6: All right.
39:42
Speaker 1: Back to it. Time now for the Who Am I game.
39:45
Speaker 1: And this is one of the more bizarre Who Am
39:47
Speaker 1: I game questions we've ever had. Titans quarterback Cam Ward.
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Speaker 4: Who?
39:51
Speaker 1: Cam Ward. The number one pick in the draft a
39:55
Speaker 1: couple years ago. He is the first quarterback. since me
39:58
Speaker 1: to start his team's first eight games without throwing a
40:01
Speaker 1: touchdown pass in the first three quarters. All of his
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Speaker 1: touchdowns have come in the fourth quarter, most of those
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Speaker 1: in garbage time. Let's see. Rod, the ambassador of Bakersfield,
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Speaker 1: who's just getting off the injured list there. Good luck, Rod,
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Speaker 1: with your... Return to health. We're pulling for you. Theo Epstein,
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Speaker 1: guest by Alf, the alien opiner. Who else do we have?
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Speaker 1: Matthew Murdoch from Scrooge in the formerly the younger demographic.
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Speaker 1: Doc Dan going with Bob Avellini as his answer. Spud
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Speaker 1: Webb from Lego Chuck. in the Tampa area, if I
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Speaker 1: remember correctly.
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Speaker 6: Who else?
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Speaker 1: Joe Dirt from Dread Pie. That's his answer. Poppy and
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Speaker 1: Mike from Shane in New Orleans. Look, you got a
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Speaker 1: photo of them together. Poppy and Mike the Leprechaun, side
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Speaker 1: by side. Mr. Irrigation says Andrew, the UCLA fan, is
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Speaker 1: the answer. Who else do we have? Page down. Trunk Ghost,
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Speaker 1: Lorena from Larry D. What say you, Lorena?
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Speaker 7: I'm going to go with Nathan Peterman.
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Speaker 1: Is it Nathan Peterman?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: It's someone named Lamar McCann of the 1954 Chicago Cardinals.
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Speaker 6: It's been a minute.
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Speaker 1: It's been a minute.