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Hour 1 - Can You Digg It? · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here an hour number one on this twentieth day of March.
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Speaker 1: Free agent wide receivers Stefawn Diggs is in Foxborough to
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Speaker 1: meet with the Patriots. How do you assess this one? Also?
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Speaker 1: Why would the Patriots want a multi time bad actor
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Speaker 1: like receivers Defawn Diggs? And free agent offensive tackle Cam
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Speaker 1: Robinson has signed with the Texans. Do you find that significant?
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Speaker 1: and some movement on the flea market of football that
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Speaker 1: I thought was interesting and I have editorial control. So
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Speaker 1: maybe he saw it or heard about it, maybe not.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. But we've learned now that the controversial
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Speaker 1: wide receiver by the name of Stefan Diggs, who authored
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Speaker 1: up the Minneapolis Miracle and it's been downhill ever since then,
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Speaker 1: back in his Viking but Stefan Diggs, who was not
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Speaker 1: retained by the Houston football team. They didn't make any
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Speaker 1: effort to keep him. He's free to roam around the NFL.
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Speaker 1: And we are told that at this hour Stefan Diggs
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Speaker 1: has boots on the ground in Foxboro, Massachusetts, the Commonwealth.
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Speaker 1: He is visiting with the New England football team that
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Speaker 1: used to win Super Bowls, but now they're known as
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Speaker 1: the Patsies if you will here and walby Patriots and Digs.
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Speaker 1: They haven't agreed to a contract. They're gonna have a
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Speaker 1: little meat and greet there, maybe some eggs, possibly some bacon.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what else they're gonna be eating, but
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Speaker 1: it is supposedly headed that direction. Now, keep in mind
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Speaker 1: there was a story the other day and that Stefan
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Speaker 1: Diggs was talking to the Raiders and hadn't been too
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Speaker 1: much too much noise about Stefan Diggs. But part of
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Speaker 1: the reason for that, and part of the reason that
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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs is available and can be yours if the
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Speaker 1: price is not right. But the reason he's in the
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Speaker 1: New England area is because he's getting poked and prodded
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Speaker 1: medical exams. Because Stefon Diggs a knee went shredded, shredded ligaments.
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Speaker 1: Acl Boom goes to the dynamite and so that he's out,
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Speaker 1: and he's been out for four months post operation and
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Speaker 1: will be out much longer. So let us discuss the
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Speaker 1: question free agent wide receiver Stefawn Diggs in Foxborough at
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Speaker 1: this late hour to meet with the Patriots. How do
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Speaker 1: you assess this one? So I've got cookbook, garage opener,
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Speaker 1: and kindergarten, and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we are going to make a bowl of cherries,
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Speaker 1: is what we're going to make now. Very rarely adding
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Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs to your team is a bowl of cherries,
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Speaker 1: unless you happen to do a talk radio show, and
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Speaker 1: then Stefan Diggs is really good for business, really really
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Speaker 1: good for business. So my first thought on this is
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Speaker 1: that the plot thickens with New England being involved here,
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Speaker 1: and I would factor this part of the story as
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Speaker 1: a mixed messages story because if you remember, let's go
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Speaker 1: back in the hot up time machine, the EBB and
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Speaker 1: flow of the stories of the NFL offseason, the human
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Speaker 1: drama of gash, baggery and blowhards. So the story the
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Speaker 1: other day was that the Patriots could have had DK
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Speaker 1: Metcalf could have traded with Seattle. Certainly we're interested. If
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Speaker 1: they wanted DeVante Adams, they could have gotten him. They
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Speaker 1: chose not to sign those guys because they're alpha wide receivers.
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Speaker 1: They're alpha wide receivers, they're abrasive. They would not mix
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Speaker 1: well with Drake May, the neophyte quarterback of the Patriots.
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Speaker 1: So those guys are a glass. If you look at
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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf and DeVante Adams to was side by side
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Speaker 1: with Stefan Dicks glass of fat free milk compared to
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Speaker 1: a venomous cocktail for the player that's visiting town and
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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, the level of toxicity is insane. I still
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Speaker 1: get a kick. I flashed back to some of those
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Speaker 1: those calls from Andy the comic book guy, that Bill's
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Speaker 1: Mafia guy, who was trying to explain to me, oh no,
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Speaker 1: there's not Bills loves Stefan Digs. They could not wait
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Speaker 1: to get rid of his ass. They should have got
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Speaker 1: rid of me earlier. But Bill's Mafia, some of those
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Speaker 1: guys were completely hornswaggled by Stefan Diggs. But if you
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Speaker 1: look at his track record from Minnesota where he flamed
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Speaker 1: out there to Buffalo and then on to Houston. The
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Speaker 1: one common denominator in all of those locations is Stefan Diggs.
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Speaker 1: Now in two of those locations, the team actually was
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Speaker 1: better off when Diggs left town Minnesota better off, and
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Speaker 1: also Buffalo better off when dig Exitage Stage left. But
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Speaker 1: and for all the individual success, there's a former All
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Speaker 1: pro is at a bunch of thousand yard seasons. When
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Speaker 1: you look a little bit close, a little bit close,
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Speaker 1: you ask the question, why does the player keep bouncing around?
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Speaker 1: Why does he bounce from side to side to side
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Speaker 1: to side. And then you look at the cookbook and
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Speaker 1: you're like, oh, why is there a cookbook here? But
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Speaker 1: you look at the cookbook and you see the ingredients
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Speaker 1: in the recipe and it's it's equal parts temperamental. You've
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Speaker 1: got a little mild content over there. You've got classic
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Speaker 1: mood swings, look at me, diva, activity in fighting, and
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Speaker 1: then dissension. All of those things and you put them
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Speaker 1: all on the pot and what you get is a
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Speaker 1: hot mess. You get a hot mess. And he was
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Speaker 1: also a terrible playoff performer in Buffalo, I mean he
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Speaker 1: was bad. So you put this all together, and pretty
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Speaker 1: much everywhere he's been it's wash, rinse and repeat. You're
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Speaker 1: like going at the laundromat there and you're doing the
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Speaker 1: laundry now turning the page, but not turning the page.
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Speaker 3: Four.
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Speaker 1: So why since this is the flavor of the day,
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Speaker 1: why would the Patriots want a bad actor likes the
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Speaker 1: fawn Diggs on their team, knowing the track record that
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Speaker 1: Diggs is a volcano, and you know it's going to erupt.
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Speaker 1: You're not sure exactly when it might be in week four,
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Speaker 1: it might be in week eight, maybe it's twelve, maybe
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Speaker 1: it's sixteen, maybe to the playoffs, but at some point
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Speaker 1: there'll be molten lava, kaboom, the volcano go. There's an
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Speaker 1: actual sound of the volcano. But Robert Craft is shopping.
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Speaker 1: That's the owner. He likes the orchids of Asia Day
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Speaker 1: spat there in Florida. But Robert Craft is shopping at
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Speaker 1: the discount rack. Er go. The player is priced to sell.
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Speaker 1: And I actually got an email from one of our
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Speaker 1: p ones there in the Boston area. Actually's out of
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Speaker 1: the sticks.
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Speaker 4: But he sent me said, but I know you're gonna
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Speaker 4: talk about Stefan Diggs of the show, make sure you
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Speaker 4: mentioned the only reason they want him is because he's
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Speaker 4: gonna work cheap, and that's definitely part of the stow.
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Speaker 4: Stefan Diggs is at a fork in the road, the
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Speaker 4: old crossroads here.
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Speaker 1: He's thirty two. Next season, he suffered the season inning
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Speaker 1: ACL injury, played eight games with the Texans, and prior
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Speaker 1: to that injury, in Week eight, Stefon Diggs had forty
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Speaker 1: seven catches. He had about five hundred yards receiving in
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Speaker 1: three touchdowns. It wasn't amazing. It was okay, it wasn't amazing,
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Speaker 1: But there was also some underlying tension between the player
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Speaker 1: and the quarterback CJ. Stroud. It was going down a
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Speaker 1: similar path to the issues that Josh Allen had in Buffalo.
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Speaker 1: So when you think diplomacy, you do not think you
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Speaker 1: do not think Stefon Diggs. Now. Nevertheless, the Patriots can
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Speaker 1: give Stefon Diggs something that few other NFL teams can
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Speaker 1: give him, and that is the garage opener that opens
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Speaker 1: up the back room, which is the wide receiver room.
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Speaker 1: So he just clicked the little clicker they're in the
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Speaker 1: garage door opener, and he would immediately be at the
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Speaker 1: very top of the totem poll for wide receivers in Foxborough.
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Speaker 1: That is one of the more depressing things. You can
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Speaker 1: look at the depth chart at wide receiver for the
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Speaker 1: Patriots who used to be good. I'm old enough to
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Speaker 1: remember when the Patriots used to be the class of
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Speaker 1: the NFL. They suck. They're back to being the Patriots
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Speaker 1: when I was a kid. The Patsy's Kashawann Boody, Kendrick
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Speaker 1: Bourne sounds like a James Bond character. De Mario Douglas.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound like an old school taxi driver. Those
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Speaker 1: are the top wide receivers on the depth chart. So
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Speaker 1: needless to say, Stefan Diggs could walk in there or
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Speaker 1: hop in there on one leg and he'd be the
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Speaker 1: number one wide receiver in that wide receiver room for
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Speaker 1: the New England papers A right now, last word here,
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Speaker 1: So we quickly, we quickly go to Stefan Digg's old
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Speaker 1: team in Houston, and the Texans made a roster move. Now,
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Speaker 1: normally we try to avoid talking about offensive linemen at
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Speaker 1: all costs. It's a futile act. But I thought this
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Speaker 1: was interesting. The coverage it got was rather bizarre to me.
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Speaker 1: So the Texans signed a left tackle by the name
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Speaker 1: of Cam Robinson who played in Jacksonville and Minnesota. He
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Speaker 1: finished up last year with Minnesota sound a one year contract,
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Speaker 1: so it's a one year contract. And the coverage on
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Speaker 1: this was rather bizarre. I use the b word bizarre.
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Speaker 1: I saw any of it or consumed any of it,
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Speaker 1: but really glowing stories about what a savvy move this
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Speaker 1: was for the Houston football team. So, free agent tackle
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Speaker 1: Cam Robinson landing with the Texans, do you find that significant?
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Speaker 1: Is this significant that Cam Robinson is going to the Tech?
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Speaker 1: And so it is significant in that it is a
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Speaker 1: warm body. Okay, it's a warm body. In an effort
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Speaker 1: to plug a glaring hole that they got Rial Laramy Tunzel.
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Speaker 1: I thought he was getting too old or was going
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Speaker 1: to be too old soon. They wanted to be proactive,
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Speaker 1: not reactive, so they got Rial Laramy Tunzel and he
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Speaker 1: didn't have a great year last year, so they traded
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Speaker 1: him to the Commanders for a haul of draft picks
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Speaker 1: and Cam Robinson. His addition is like a kindergarten project.
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Speaker 1: It's a scissors and pace job for the offensive line.
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Speaker 1: Because when I saw these shorts, the reason I bring
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Speaker 1: this up is because I thought maybe my memory was
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Speaker 1: going you know, I'm doing overnight radio here and not
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Speaker 1: sleeping that Well, maybe my memory is going away, because
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Speaker 1: I very clearly remember Robinson playing in Minnesota and being
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Speaker 1: a turnstile. He was a matador olay oleo lay ole
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Speaker 1: as he was trying to block defensively, and so it's like,
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Speaker 1: what are we doing? And I went back and I
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Speaker 1: went through some of the numbers that are that are
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Speaker 1: out there, and Cam Robinson allowed the highest one on
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Speaker 1: one pressure rate among all offensive tackles in the NFL
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Speaker 1: last year once he got to the Twin Cities. In fact,
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Speaker 1: from the time he put on the Viking uniform to
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Speaker 1: the end of the year, he allowed seventeen percent on
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Speaker 1: he got beat seventeen percent of the time. So well,
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Speaker 1: that's not that much. The league average nine point eight percent,
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Speaker 1: So he was eight point two percent higher if my
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Speaker 1: math is correct. According to the Nerd stats there, that
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Speaker 1: is a chicken product. That is chicken fertilizer. That is
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Speaker 1: chicken fertilizer is what that is. So congratulations, you did
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Speaker 1: sign a warm body, Houston Texans. You signed Cam Robinson.
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Speaker 1: And occasionally maybe he'll block someone. It's possible he'll block someone,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, even with that, I still maintain my position
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Speaker 1: that most sacks, most not all, but most sacks are
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Speaker 1: on the quarterback, not the offensive line, although you can't
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Speaker 1: have bad offensive lineman, and that's certainly part of the equation.
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Speaker 1: Great Unwashed have a lot to say, as they always
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Speaker 1: do Gunner Rights and says why are we talking about
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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs In the opening monologue. Gunner's upset, he's washed up,
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Speaker 1: he sucks f Yeah, you're right, Gunner, I made a
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Speaker 1: mistake there. I should have talked about the Minnesota Timberwolves,
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Speaker 1: the frauds from Minnesota to your team that lost to
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Speaker 1: the New Orleans Pelicans, embarrassing, pathetic franchise. You're right, I
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Speaker 1: should have talked to Anthony Edwards. Aunt Edwards played like
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Speaker 1: an ant five of nineteen from the floor. Five of
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Speaker 1: nineteen from the floor for Anthony Edwards. Bad to the bone,
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Speaker 1: bad to the bone for Anthony Edwards. It was almost
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Speaker 1: all those points coming from the foul line. And I
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Speaker 1: should have started that, Gunner. I should just pointed out
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Speaker 1: how embarrassing what a fraud the Minnesota Timberwolves are. That
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Speaker 1: would have been a better monologue than the Stefon Diggs monolo. Now,
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Speaker 1: mister Luciano, though he disagrees, He says ten out of
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Speaker 1: ten on the top of the hour Liddle lifting Mallard monologue.
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Speaker 1: As sorry as the fawn Diggs is, He says, I
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Speaker 1: am not surprised that he might sign with the Pages.
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Speaker 1: to classic monologues. I think the archive goes back. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't go all the way back to the early days,
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Speaker 1: but it goes back like twenty seventeen. There's podcasts up.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing more interesting than listening to a podcast from
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Speaker 1: a rant about something that happened in twenty seventeen. Late
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Speaker 1: night drug tester right since says Free Agents Left likes
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Speaker 1: the fawn digs. It's like the Dog Show. And he
20:54
Speaker 1: may look nice, but that beach isn't winning any awards. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you don't need to be an experienced judge to see
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Speaker 1: his flaws. Yeah, there's a there's a fair amount. Berg
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Speaker 1: Dog says, I have hated regulation all my life and
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Speaker 1: I will never change. I will never change. Okay, we'll
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Speaker 1: land of the cheeseball and not the US version. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about the really good Canadian version, because they know
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Speaker 1: how to make cheese snacks much better, much much better
22:03
Speaker 1: in Canada than they do here, not even close. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's go to the phones and in the leadoff chair.
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Speaker 1: I will likely regret this, but let's say hello to
22:13
Speaker 1: Keg drinking Steve in Cannes City. Hello, Keig drinking Steve.
22:21
Speaker 2: Sprung Man.
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Speaker 3: We're another season, we got we got it all going on.
22:27
Speaker 3: I'm getting a little bit strung myself right now with
22:30
Speaker 3: the with all the wonderful action about to happen. Don't
22:34
Speaker 3: don't you think that America Aaron Rodgers is an American
22:40
Speaker 3: hero man all these all these dumb fan bases like
22:44
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh and Minnesota. Someone is about to become a Super
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Speaker 3: Bowl contender when he makes his his magical decision.
22:55
Speaker 1: He's right.
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Speaker 5: He's the epic.
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Speaker 3: Gunslinger of our one of the greatest, if not there
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Speaker 3: his talents in NFL history. No one gives this guy
23:05
Speaker 3: his his new No one gives this this man who
23:08
Speaker 3: could be our president, Aaron Rodgers. The he does what
23:13
Speaker 3: he wants when he wants, at all times. And if
23:16
Speaker 3: you don't like it, you can you can stick it.
23:19
Speaker 3: And and you're gonna be You should be on your knees.
23:23
Speaker 3: You should be on your hands and knees begging Aaron
23:27
Speaker 3: Rodgers to come to Minnesota or come to Pittsburgh and
23:32
Speaker 3: and grace his presence in your gods forsaken town and
23:37
Speaker 3: bring you to the to the next, to the next level.
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Speaker 3: This guy told Danica Patrick she wanted children and and
23:45
Speaker 3: and and Aaron said, hit the hit the hit the bricks. Woman,
23:49
Speaker 3: You're not gonna tell me what to do for poor
23:52
Speaker 3: tom Brady. Tom Brady uh been over backwards for that woman.
23:57
Speaker 3: And then took time off of practice and and then
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Speaker 3: she went and slept with the jiu jitsu instructor and
24:04
Speaker 3: had a kid. Man. He's not Aaron Rodgers is not
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Speaker 3: a Beta male like like like Tom Brady. We need more,
24:13
Speaker 3: We need more men in this country who are not
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Speaker 3: going to take crap from anybody, and and we should
24:21
Speaker 3: be valuing we should be valuing Aaron Rodgers.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think I think you've just given him a
24:27
Speaker 1: hawk too on the radio. I mean, what more can
24:29
Speaker 1: you do? I mean, you just I mean we spent
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Speaker 1: like three minutes. I mean, my god, I don't think
24:34
Speaker 1: you missed anything. You looked at all. Holy crap.
24:36
Speaker 3: I know, I know been all of your boot looking
24:39
Speaker 3: SICKA fans will never say a bad, bad word about
24:43
Speaker 3: about it.
24:44
Speaker 1: You know that's that's not true. But by the way
24:49
Speaker 1: you're bearing, you're bearing the lead here. I don't blame
24:52
Speaker 1: you for bearing the lead. There was a mass exodus
24:57
Speaker 1: from the Kansas City Chiefs cheerleading squad. Defend your defend
25:01
Speaker 1: your cheerleaders. Defend them. They all quit, nine of them,
25:04
Speaker 1: quick tag drinking Steve, nine nine women quit, nine of them.
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Speaker 1: Are you gonna be Are you gonna become a cheerleader
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Speaker 1: next year? Are you going to become a cheerleader?
25:14
Speaker 3: I told you, I told you Spring is sprung. That's
25:17
Speaker 3: nine more angels get their nine more angels get Daddy's
25:21
Speaker 3: wings to good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure, yeah, I definitely become a you become
25:27
Speaker 1: an you know, I can't.
25:29
Speaker 3: I can't wait until we have a fresh, new, fresh,
25:33
Speaker 3: new crop of talents, uh, coming from the hinterlands, fresh
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Speaker 3: off the turnip truck. Daddy likes some young and Daddy
25:41
Speaker 3: likes some like some talented.
25:44
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm sure, all right, all right, thank you,
25:47
Speaker 1: go away. You're you're annoying me. You were on long enough,
25:52
Speaker 1: it was that was We're good. The rare inappropriate phone
25:56
Speaker 1: call in the NFL offseason from Keg drinking Steve making
26:01
Speaker 1: his appearance felt well, the Baker's dozen get out, Well,
26:05
Speaker 1: not quite get the scar out, but get the scars ready.
26:08
Speaker 1: Congratulations to the forefather of the next generation of Americans.
26:14
Speaker 1: That would be Miami Dolphin wide receiver Tyreek Hill, who
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Speaker 1: has now a big announcement there on the TikTok. He
26:21
Speaker 1: and his wife they are excited because Tyreek Hill is
26:26
Speaker 1: planning to have his thirteenth child. That's right, the thirteenth child.
26:32
Speaker 1: That's a Baker's dozen. Congratulations mazele tav to that Sugarna
26:37
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. Now, if you're keeping short, now he is married,
26:40
Speaker 1: but that's only going to be his second child with
26:43
Speaker 1: his wife. Hill had a very productive twenty twenty four
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Speaker 1: according to the Internet Tyreek Hill in I guess he
26:52
Speaker 1: really had a productive twenty twenty three and early twenty
26:55
Speaker 1: twenty four because if they did the math on this
26:58
Speaker 1: and Tyreek Hill, he actually scored more touchdowns off the
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Speaker 1: field than he did on the field. As it is
27:05
Speaker 1: said that he had five kids with five different women
27:10
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. That's the five by five are
27:15
Speaker 1: not the five guys, the five gals, I guess is
27:17
Speaker 1: a new restaurant. But so Tyreek very busy there. So
27:19
Speaker 1: congratulations the thirteenth child for Tyreek Hill on the way,
27:25
Speaker 1: which means if my malor math is correct, that Tyreek
27:29
Speaker 1: is going to have to keep playing football until he's
27:31
Speaker 1: about sixty five years old about retirement age. He's going
27:35
Speaker 1: to have to keep playing or Tyreek Hill will be
27:38
Speaker 1: on the updated documentary of Broke so well on the math,
27:43
Speaker 1: what's the man, he gotta play another eighteen years because
27:45
Speaker 1: you got the child support payments and all that, so
27:47
Speaker 1: you got to you gotta go. Joe the ghost Hunter says, Ben,
27:51
Speaker 1: bad job by you. You should have had Steve blow
27:54
Speaker 1: into the phone and tests his blood alcohol level. But
28:00
Speaker 1: we don't need to test Joe the ghost Hunter when
28:02
Speaker 1: it comes to Steve. I mean, we know going in,
28:05
Speaker 1: we know what's happening here. We were fully aware when
28:10
Speaker 1: Keig drinking Steve. It's in his name. When Keg drinking
28:13
Speaker 1: Steve comes on, you know what you're getting. You're fully
28:16
Speaker 1: aware of what you're gonna get. It is no surprise
28:19
Speaker 1: at all. All right, let's go back to the phone.
28:21
Speaker 1: A very controversial caller. Also, people have very strong opinions
28:26
Speaker 1: about this particular person. Let's say hello to Andre and
28:30
Speaker 1: his dog Willis Is it a real dog or Now
28:33
Speaker 1: I believe it's real. There are still skeptics out there
28:36
Speaker 1: and Andre and the Commonwealth and his dog Willison. Now Andre,
28:41
Speaker 1: is it true, Andre, that you drove down to the
28:45
Speaker 1: airport to pick up Stefon Diggs and drive him over
28:49
Speaker 1: to Foxboro.
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Speaker 6: Good evening, Ben that that cannot be substantive that drove
28:56
Speaker 6: down to pick up Stefan.
28:59
Speaker 1: No I did.
29:00
Speaker 6: I did not, based on the fact that I was
29:03
Speaker 6: surprised but hopeful that Stefan Diggs was making his way
29:08
Speaker 6: to the common Wealth. Based on how the season started
29:11
Speaker 6: with the Houston Texans when he was healthy across from
29:13
Speaker 6: Miko Collins. It was working, but Stefan dig as they
29:18
Speaker 6: say for me, want shame on you for me twice
29:20
Speaker 6: shame on me. This is not the first stop where
29:25
Speaker 6: he's had a talented quarterback but wasn't able to see
29:27
Speaker 6: eye to eye. Right in Buffalo, the true frandom, the
29:31
Speaker 6: Bill's mafia out there after the games, you know, kind
29:34
Speaker 6: of power bombing innocent tables. Some some might have been guilty,
29:39
Speaker 6: but many I felt were innocent. But nonetheless, in the
29:41
Speaker 6: freezing cold, they're out there is dropping, you know, the
29:44
Speaker 6: the macho man Randy Salvage elbow on those tables. So
29:47
Speaker 6: a very proud fandom. But him and Josh Allen were
29:50
Speaker 6: friends for a time and then next thing you know,
29:52
Speaker 6: is cursing the mountain sideline when things went sideways against
29:56
Speaker 6: Joe and Joe Burrow. So the bottom line, U, thank
30:00
Speaker 6: you for mentioning willis a little bit late. He's resting
30:03
Speaker 6: right now, He's resting, and he's uh so next episode,
30:07
Speaker 6: I'm gonna make theft. But I made it clear he's
30:09
Speaker 6: got to get get the Snacker Rudies and we're gonna
30:11
Speaker 6: get him on the air barking, having a good time,
30:13
Speaker 6: but for right now resting. But Ben listen, this is hope,
30:17
Speaker 6: This is hopeful and conclusion dig in New England, we
30:21
Speaker 6: need playmakers.
30:22
Speaker 3: We we we we it's not.
30:24
Speaker 6: The system, it's the talent within the system that wins.
30:27
Speaker 6: We've learned that the hard way. So I'm hopeful that
30:30
Speaker 6: he can come to an agreement with Mike Rabel. Drake
30:34
Speaker 6: Maye is capable and we can get this thing roll
30:37
Speaker 6: because never mind the game that we wanted, we shouldn't
30:40
Speaker 6: want to end the season. But the empire, uh is
30:44
Speaker 6: pretty far off in the review. Patriots are in a
30:47
Speaker 6: spot right now. But I think I think everybody would agree.
30:49
Speaker 6: Never mind the fact that builds out there doing yoga
30:51
Speaker 6: with his you know, uh a team assistant girlfriend.
30:55
Speaker 1: That yoga thing that was like something to do with
30:58
Speaker 1: a little kid, like that was a is that yoga?
31:00
Speaker 1: Does that count as yoga? Isn't that what you do
31:02
Speaker 1: like a little kid? You put the kid on your
31:04
Speaker 1: on your legs and do they the helicopter thing in
31:06
Speaker 1: that like a yoga move or not a yoga it's
31:09
Speaker 1: like a kid thing you're playing with like a parent
31:10
Speaker 1: playing with a kid is what I meant to say
31:13
Speaker 1: on the beach, and that.
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Speaker 6: It's not like it was posted as yoga. It was
31:17
Speaker 6: posted by the young leaders.
31:18
Speaker 1: Well, you say whatever, you say, whatever you want. I mean,
31:20
Speaker 1: it's fine and say what you want. But I don't
31:22
Speaker 1: believe that is I mean, I'm not a yoga expert.
31:25
Speaker 1: We can go next to there's a yoga studio right
31:27
Speaker 1: next door. Maybe we go ask them, but I do
31:29
Speaker 1: not believe that is yoga. I believe that something something
31:33
Speaker 1: different there.
31:33
Speaker 6: So yeah, I can cur I need a little bit
31:36
Speaker 6: of yoga, you know. I got to make sure my
31:38
Speaker 6: agility isn't what it used to be. Bench So I'm
31:40
Speaker 6: all for you know, the poses and staying loose and
31:43
Speaker 6: limber and healthy and all the rest of that. But
31:45
Speaker 6: that looks like the game that you play on in
31:47
Speaker 6: the elementary school playground, you know, with you know, you
31:50
Speaker 6: have to put them up and you have a good time.
31:52
Speaker 6: But it appears to be working, you know, for for them.
31:55
Speaker 6: You know, I'm go ahead. But the fact of the matter,
31:57
Speaker 6: the point that mister Belichick was brought up, is because
32:00
Speaker 6: we've learned the hard ways, right, it's players not programmed
32:03
Speaker 6: that at the end of the day, make the difference.
32:05
Speaker 6: We we haven't had the players, so we haven't had
32:07
Speaker 6: the program here in New England. So Diggs, regardless of
32:10
Speaker 6: the gusty he kicks up in other destinations, if Rabel
32:14
Speaker 6: can get through to him some kind, somehow, some way,
32:16
Speaker 6: we need him here. We need him here in the Commonwealth. There,
32:18
Speaker 6: it's gonna be another year in the lottery. From me
32:20
Speaker 6: and Willis, who's sleeping right now, we're gonna be back
32:23
Speaker 6: with the malin Militia. Benz, thanks so much for taking
32:25
Speaker 6: the time.
32:25
Speaker 3: But we're gonna see with the spirit spirit next time.
32:28
Speaker 1: All right, Right, there were Diggs left. He left the
32:31
Speaker 1: stadium early after one of those Bills playoff games, like
32:34
Speaker 1: he he didn't even go a lot if I remember correctly,
32:37
Speaker 1: and it was a couple of years ago, so I'd
32:39
Speaker 1: have to go back and and check my notes, but
32:41
Speaker 1: I'm I'm pretty sure that he just left the stadium
32:44
Speaker 1: and didn't even go into the locker room, like just
32:47
Speaker 1: went in his uniform and went to the parking lot
32:50
Speaker 1: and took off like I don't even think he changed.
32:53
Speaker 1: I think he just he skid at all out of there,
32:55
Speaker 1: like it was done. I think it was that was
32:57
Speaker 1: that the twenty he said that must have twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: two or twenty two must have been twenty twenty two.
33:02
Speaker 1: I would think that's one of the bad playoff performances,
33:06
Speaker 1: and he had a couple of them with the Buffalo Bills.
33:08
Speaker 1: He vanished. He was not a big game player in
33:12
Speaker 1: Buffalo at all. All right, it is the Ben Mahler show.
33:16
Speaker 1: Not in the playoffs. He wasn't. Here's the who am I? Game?
33:20
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33:23
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33:28
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33:34
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33:37
Speaker 1: three or more assists, one or more steals, and one
33:39
Speaker 1: or more blocks in a quarter in NBA history. Again,
33:43
Speaker 1: there's a stat for everything, and this is proof there is.
33:46
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33:51
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33:55
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33:58
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Speaker 1: the who am I? Games? Who timd somebody else? Yes?
35:23
Speaker 1: The who am I? Game? Who? All right? Here we go.
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Speaker 1: Luca Donzik joined Devin Booker, that's a basketball player for
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Speaker 1: the Suns and me as the only players with twenty
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Speaker 1: or more points, three or more rebounds, three or more assists,
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Speaker 1: one or more steals, and one or more blocks in
35:41
Speaker 1: a quarter the NBA history. Who am I that the question?
35:46
Speaker 1: What's the answer? Scrooge in the Bay Area going with
35:49
Speaker 1: the tin Man as his answer, The King Rory says,
35:52
Speaker 1: Vincent Kennedy McMahon, Yeah, I saw that he's had a
35:56
Speaker 1: lot of work done. He was at the Knicks game,
35:58
Speaker 1: Vince McMahon Nixon Heat game the other night on Saint
36:02
Speaker 1: Patrick's Day. That was the Tracy Morgan game where he
36:04
Speaker 1: puked all over the court and they delayed the game
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Speaker 1: for ten minutes because there was barf everywhere. As the
36:09
Speaker 1: same game celebrity row Man, there you go, mister nice guy,
36:14
Speaker 1: going with Dick Drago as his answer. Who else do
36:17
Speaker 1: we have? Charlie Hull, who's twenty nine today from late
36:20
Speaker 1: Night drug tester Patient zero, guest by Alf the Alien
36:24
Speaker 1: ol Pine of the Great Rudy Gobear of your Utah.
36:28
Speaker 1: Jazz Andy in lion Ol Lakes, Minnesota says the answer
36:32
Speaker 1: has to be mister perfect Kurt Henning, Shane and the Moynes,
36:36
Speaker 1: says former Fifth Hour podcast guest omar Vis Skel said
36:43
Speaker 1: to be the answer from Shane in Des Moines, Elton
36:46
Speaker 1: Brand guest by Rob in Minnesota. Who else you have?
36:49
Speaker 1: Terry in England going with Satchel Page and remember the
36:56
Speaker 1: late great Vin Scully telling the story about how Satchel
36:58
Speaker 1: Paige got his nickname. Great, great story. He was working
37:01
Speaker 1: like child labor and carrying I think it was there
37:04
Speaker 1: a train station or a bus station, carrying bags around,
37:08
Speaker 1: and that's how he got the name Satchel Page. Who
37:11
Speaker 1: else do we have? Payems not his real first name, obviously,
37:14
Speaker 1: DJ Spin going with Lou Brock as his answer. Mickey,
37:19
Speaker 1: who is locked in in State forty eight, says Danny Tartable.
37:25
Speaker 1: That's it. You're dating yourself, Mickey with the name Danny Tartable.
37:29
Speaker 1: That's old school. That's like nineties baseball right there. That's
37:32
Speaker 1: a while ago. Gil in San Diego says Barbara Streisan's
37:36
Speaker 1: yoga instructor is the correct answer? All right? Who else
37:41
Speaker 1: do we have? Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, going with Earl
37:45
Speaker 1: the Pearl Monroe as his answer, mister Luciato, who's completely
37:51
Speaker 1: caught up on the podcast, says, Carlo Gambino is the answer?
37:58
Speaker 1: All right? Who else? Page? And I don't know if
38:01
Speaker 1: we want to read that on the air, Lizzo was
38:05
Speaker 1: guessed there not unfortunately not Lizzo. Lizzo. Did we save
38:09
Speaker 1: Lizzo for the jokes? Will should be coming up later?
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Speaker 1: All right, Mary, do you have an answer? Married?
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Speaker 3: Do you?
38:14
Speaker 1: Actually?
38:14
Speaker 2: Mary stepped away as her cousin Marie, but she actually
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Speaker 2: told me to say mugsy bows Mexi bogussy.
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Speaker 1: That was actually pretty good. I kind of felt like
38:26
Speaker 1: I was somewhere in England like Terry. Probably Terry in
38:29
Speaker 1: England's like oh man, one of my neighbors. No, it
38:31
Speaker 1: is not muggsy bogues, but pretty solid. No, Luca Doncik,
38:37
Speaker 1: joining Devin Booker and me the only players with twenty
38:39
Speaker 1: plus points, three plus rebounds, three plus assists, one plus
38:43
Speaker 1: deal and one plus block in a quarter in NBA history.
38:46
Speaker 1: The answer would be none other than Fred van Vliet
38:51
Speaker 1: van Velit. Anyway, I can get Fred van Vliet's name
39:00
Speaker 1: on the on the show. But he got paid, he
39:02
Speaker 1: on one of those big contracts, right He was He's
39:05
Speaker 1: bounced a little bit around the NBA, but he got
39:06
Speaker 1: paid a bunch of money, and so he's good. And
39:09
Speaker 1: he didn't care if we mentioned his name randomly on
39:11
Speaker 1: the are He had one big quarter back in the
39:13
Speaker 1: day and and there you go. So I saw the
39:17
Speaker 1: menu the randomly popped in. I had the Master's dinner,
39:22
Speaker 1: the champions dinner Scottie Scheffler threw together because if you
39:26
Speaker 1: win the Masters the next year, you put together the menu.
39:28
Speaker 1: And I recall mentioning a messaging my friends sports with Coleman.
39:32
Speaker 1: This is like one of the first times I'd actually
39:33
Speaker 1: eat the menu. Like most of the menu they had
39:36
Speaker 1: like cheeseburger sliders on there. They had meatball raviolie bites,
39:39
Speaker 1: like that's that right. I didn't even eat the chili.
39:42
Speaker 1: It's like it's like corn chip chili. I'd eat that.
39:46
Speaker 1: And they had ribbi. It's like right in my wheel.
39:48
Speaker 1: A good job by Scottie Scheffler. That's my kind of
39:51
Speaker 1: menu me rare and golf