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Hour 1 - Orange Crushed · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Cowabunga, dude! It's our number one! Here we go! Our
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  Speaker 1: number one of the Ben Mathers Show, and we are
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  Speaker 1: here on this Tuesday, the 15th day of September, talking football!
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  Speaker 1: And we take a look back at the Monday Night
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  Speaker 1: Football game, which was a blowout. Domination situation by the
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  Speaker 1: hometown team there. What went wrong for Bo Nix and
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos' high-powered offense as it did not exist at Arrowhead?
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  Speaker 1: And how did you grade Jalen Waddell's debut in Denver,
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  Speaker 1: the big pickup from the Dolphins? And should Andy Reid
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  Speaker 1: be encouraged or discouraged with the play of Patrick Mahomes,
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  Speaker 1: his first game back, after nine months of rehab from
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  Speaker 1: a major injury for the Chiefs. We'll talk about all
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  Speaker 1: of that and more right now. Settle in. And here
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  Speaker 1: it is, our number one.
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  Speaker 1: and get... To work. So our lead this hour. Don't
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  Speaker 1: bury the lead, my man! We'll start with the Monday
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  Speaker 1: night football game. The final game of a week of
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  Speaker 1: football that began way back on Wednesday. I was barely
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  Speaker 1: alive on Wednesday. And they started the NFL season. They
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  Speaker 1: had that New England-Seattle thing that wasn't that great. And
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  Speaker 1: then they had the Rams in 49. That stunk. And
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  Speaker 1: then we had all kinds of college football and the
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  Speaker 1: NFL on Sunday. And now... Here on Monday night, we
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  Speaker 1: go to Kansas City. The only city where you can
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  Speaker 1: have the Ben Maller chicken fingers at the landing there
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  Speaker 1: in Liberty. I'm sure Andy Reid loaded up. I would imagine.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know for sure, but I've heard whispers that
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  Speaker 1: Andy enjoys those delicious Maller chicken fingers. So, yeah, Joe
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  Speaker 1: Buck and Troy Aikman. That was loud. Yeah, Joe Buck
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  Speaker 1: and Troy Aikman. On the call there on ABC in
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  Speaker 1: AFC West. Slobber knocker. The Chiefs and the Broncos at
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  Speaker 1: the iconic Arrowhead Stadium there. That stadium will be going
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  Speaker 1: away because it's not new enough. So they have to
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  Speaker 1: build a new palace. for the Chiefs. So Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: returning from injury. A big storyline here against Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much of this game you watched.
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  Speaker 1: You burned out on pigskin. What else were you doing?
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  Speaker 1: You watching baseball? No sports? You didn't watch any sports?
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  Speaker 1: It's a bad job by you. It's a bad job
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  Speaker 1: by you. So perhaps you did not watch, but the
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  Speaker 1: story of this game was not about Bo Nix. Well,
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  Speaker 1: kind of was about Bo Nix, but it was not
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  Speaker 1: about Mahomes. The main headline... It was a walk in
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  Speaker 1: the park, or at least a walker in the park,
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  Speaker 1: as Kenneth Walker rumbled and stumbled for 173 yards and
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  Speaker 1: not one but two touchdowns in his Chiefs debut. I'm
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  Speaker 1: told that's good. I'm told that's good. So he took
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  Speaker 1: the pressure off Mahomes in his first game back and
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  Speaker 1: all that. So Kansas City. with a body slam, body
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  Speaker 1: slam of the Broncos, 31-10. 31-10, Kansas City with a
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  Speaker 1: blowout win on Monday night. Walker carried the ball 23 times.
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  Speaker 1: Most of those, it seemed like, early in the game,
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  Speaker 1: they just kept handing the ball off to Kenneth Walker.
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  Speaker 1: And he had the most rushing yards by a Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: player since Jamal Charles. You remember him? Jamal is a
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  Speaker 1: good player. Long time ago. Jamal Charles there, 226 yards
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  Speaker 1: he had in the game against the Indianapolis Colts. And
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  Speaker 1: that was back in 2012, the year before Andy Reid
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  Speaker 1: ended up in Kansas City after his run in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: So we have that. And before we get into the
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  Speaker 1: meat and potatoes of this, let's hear from the key participants.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Sean Payton, the head coach, a very confident man,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton. explaining what went wrong for his football team.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they won really in every phase. Our third
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  Speaker 3: down numbers weren't good. Our rushing numbers weren't good. Pick
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  Speaker 3: your spot. We put our defense in some short fields,
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  Speaker 3: but collectively, you know, we didn't tackle well enough. Then
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  Speaker 3: the game became one-dimensional. Really the antithesis of how you
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  Speaker 3: beat a good team on the road. It's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that simple. All right, how about Bo Nix? This
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  Speaker 1: guy people thought was going to take off. Well, so far,
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  Speaker 1: not so good there for Bo Nix. This season, his
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  Speaker 1: only sample size this game was you want to get away,
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  Speaker 1: kind of a performance here for him. Here's Bo Nix
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  Speaker 1: pointing out, apparently the Chiefs forgot that they're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: suck like they did last year.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, you don't play good against a good team,
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  Speaker 4: and they're going to beat you pretty good. And we
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  Speaker 4: can act like all we want, but they're still the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: They're still a really good football team.
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  Speaker 4: And all the new guys acted like, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: new guys they had acted like they've been playing in
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  Speaker 4: our system for years and just did exactly what the
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  Speaker 4: old Chiefs have been doing. So, you know, you've got
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  Speaker 4: to give them credit, and they wore us out today.
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  Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in that Broncos locker room,
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  Speaker 1: so we're going to stay there because that's where the
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  Speaker 1: drama is. This team was on the brink of going
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  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, and they came out, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: told that's the worst performance ever by a team that
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  Speaker 1: had as good a record as the Broncos did the
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  Speaker 1: year before. Never before have we seen such a crap
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  Speaker 1: performance by a team coming off such a dominant season.
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  Speaker 1: And the main focus, as we discuss here, is about
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  Speaker 1: the guy you just heard, Bo Nix. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: what went wrong? What went wrong for Bo Nix and
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos offense, which some thought was going to be
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  Speaker 1: high-powered offense? with the additions that they made in the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got manager special, shrapnel,
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  Speaker 1: and pizzeria. And we will combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to turn into a whipsaw is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. But we start with this. A, Denver,
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  Speaker 1: just the very beginning, both teams were kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs at least came out and just kept running
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  Speaker 1: the ball. They're like, ah, we're going to come out
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  Speaker 1: and run the ball. The Broncos started with a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: Denver had very little rhythm. They never got any kind
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  Speaker 1: of a flow, a rat-a-tat-tat, to what they were doing
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  Speaker 1: in this game. And it was cover-your-eyes type of football.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the Broncos from years gone by, not last
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  Speaker 1: year's Broncos here. And watching on ABC, it became a
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  Speaker 1: bit of an interactive experience on ABC. And when I
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  Speaker 1: say interactive experience, I have a new gizmo. The gizmo
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  Speaker 1: was the smell-o-vision. So if you had the smell-o-vision on
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  Speaker 1: and you were watching the Broncos and the Chiefs on
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  Speaker 1: the smell-o-vision, when the Broncos' offense was on the field,
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  Speaker 1: you could smell... And you can smell it, and it
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  Speaker 1: smelled to me, and I don't know if your smell-o-vision
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  Speaker 1: is like mine, my smell-o-vision, it smelled like rotting seafood
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  Speaker 1: in a dumpster behind a Taco Bell in the summer,
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  Speaker 1: sometime in August, just baking in the summer sun. That's
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  Speaker 1: what it sounded like and smelled like. You know, that
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  Speaker 1: smell of it rotting, and then the kind of sound,
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  Speaker 1: it makes a little sound, I think. It's so nasty
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  Speaker 1: and so foul that it makes... A bit of a
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  Speaker 1: sound of it, just the poison going out in the
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  Speaker 1: air everywhere. That was the Broncos. So Sean Payton there
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  Speaker 1: coming off that great regular season and a deep playoff
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  Speaker 1: run in Denver. And how did that go? My God,
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  Speaker 1: as the former Fox Sports Radio talk show host Jim
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  Speaker 1: Mora would say, the Broncos offense could not do diddly-poo.
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  Speaker 1: They could not do diddly-poo offensively. Could not. And Sean
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  Speaker 1: Payton changed play callers offensively. Very concerned, very concerned that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to lose his his web, his beloved
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  Speaker 1: web to to another team. And so Davis Webb stayed
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  Speaker 1: and got promoted and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 1: And then it turned out that the Broncos on offense
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  Speaker 1: ordered the manager's special. And I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: looked at the menu board. The manager's special for the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos was a biggie-sized sloppy bow. That's right. Not sloppy Joe.
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  Speaker 1: This was a sloppy bow by Bo Nix, who managed.
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  Speaker 1: a paltry 131 yards passing that is less than five
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  Speaker 1: yards per pass attempt. Seven is average. Seven is average.
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  Speaker 1: He was at 4.7 yards per attempt. He had one
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  Speaker 1: touchdown and one interception and three fumbles for Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 1: Could have had a fourth fumble. four sacks, and a
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  Speaker 1: passer rating below 70. And, but wait, there's more, a
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  Speaker 1: partridge in a pear tree for Bo Nix, who looked
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  Speaker 1: like he needed his own Bronco-branded Rosetta Stone to try
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  Speaker 1: to decipher the Davis Webb offense. I didn't know it
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  Speaker 1: was that complex, that Davis Webb was such a X's
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  Speaker 1: and O's savant that he made it impossible to understand
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos' offense. And it's not just the offense, which
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  Speaker 1: was offensive indigestion. For the Broncos here, you went out
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  Speaker 1: against an AFC West rival, a team that got their
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  Speaker 1: balls kicked in last year, Kansas City. They're at home.
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  Speaker 1: You had a chance to stuff everyone into a you-know-what
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  Speaker 1: by winning that game. And this was not just merely
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  Speaker 1: a bad first impression for the 2026 vintage of the
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  Speaker 1: Denver Broncos there. It was wicked bad. Wicked bad here.
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  Speaker 1: Industrial strength wretched. football for the Broncos on both sides,
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, because the defense ends up,
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  Speaker 1: now some of this was on Bo Nix's mistakes, but
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  Speaker 1: you have 31 points to Kansas City. 31 points. I
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  Speaker 1: know everyone's scoring except the Rams and the NFL this year,
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  Speaker 1: but still, 31 points defensively, that's not good. The guy
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  Speaker 1: that is on trial for beating up a chick, he's out,
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  Speaker 1: so they're blaming it all on him, I guess. The
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  Speaker 1: other players on the defense just get to get a
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  Speaker 1: pass on that. Is that how that works? They don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about it? Okay, fine. So now outside
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  Speaker 1: of the offense for the Broncos here, the Davis-Webb, we
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the offense not great with the new play call.
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  Speaker 1: Where did the Broncos' defense go wrong? There wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stoppage by the Denver defense in this game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was a specific... Kind of suck
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  Speaker 1: for the Broncos. I don't think there was like one person.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was, as the line goes, an all-encompassing
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  Speaker 1: type of suck for the Broncos defense who played soft,
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  Speaker 1: lacked the basic Pop Warner fundamentals of football, wrapping up
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  Speaker 1: the tackling, the line of scrimmage. They got manhandled. The
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  Speaker 1: Broncos got manhandled. by the big fat guys on Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City that were better than your fat guys. So fat
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  Speaker 1: against fat, and they're fat better than you're fat. You
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  Speaker 1: lose the fat game. That's it. That's my analysis. All right, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of bad, and we're highlighting Bo Nix, the Broncos defense,
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  Speaker 1: the much-ballyhooed debut of the new torpedo defense. the new
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  Speaker 1: torpedo for the Broncos, and had a night to forget,
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  Speaker 1: the question, how do you grade? Give me the grade
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  Speaker 1: here on Jalen Waddell's debut in a Denver Broncos uniform,
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  Speaker 1: the wide receiver coming over from South Florida. So the
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  Speaker 1: Mallard Report Card. For Jalen Waddell, his first game, first
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  Speaker 1: real game as a Bronco, and I'm not going to overreact.
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  Speaker 1: It's only one game, and I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: that guy. You know, I'm not a shock jock. I
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  Speaker 1: would be on during the day if I was a
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  Speaker 1: shock jock. I'm a lowly overnight guy, just a part
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  Speaker 1: of the wheel here, just a spoke in the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: So after a minutes-long deliberation of the available information... We
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  Speaker 1: have determined that Jalen Waddell's debut, he gets an F-.
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  Speaker 1: An F-. We would give him lower than that, but
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  Speaker 1: we're told that's the lowest we can give him. So F-
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  Speaker 1: for Jalen Waddell, and we recommend he goes to summer school.
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  Speaker 1: We would recommend that he goes out and goes to
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  Speaker 1: summer school. We would recommend that. So the Broncos, they
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  Speaker 1: would have been better off in this game having an
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  Speaker 1: actual emperor penguin waddle out there, right? Because at least
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  Speaker 1: that penguin would waddle with purpose. And you'd like to
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  Speaker 1: see the penguin. You'd laugh at the penguin. You'd point
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  Speaker 1: at the penguin. You'd say, look at that funny penguin.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 5: Why not? Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Jalen Waddell. And I liked him
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  Speaker 1: in Miami, but man alive. Denver's shiny new $ 76 million.
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  Speaker 1: He's their new toy for Sean Payton. And he had
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  Speaker 1: one more catch than you did and two more yards
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  Speaker 1: than you and I combined had on three targets. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That makes, by my analysis, and I don't think I'm
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  Speaker 1: wrong on this, Jalen Waddell, less of an offensive dynamo
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  Speaker 1: for Sean Payton's Broncos and more like a very expensive decoy.
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  Speaker 1: What is up with that? Was he camouflaged? Was he
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  Speaker 1: painted like the Broncos uniforms and they couldn't see him
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  Speaker 1: when they were going out? I mean, I don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he was like camouflaged in with the offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what was going on. But my God.
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  Speaker 1: And now the good news is that Jalen Waddell can
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  Speaker 1: pull up a chair and sit next to A.J. Brown
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  Speaker 1: and Miles Garrett in the corner of the room. in
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  Speaker 1: the VIP section of high-priced players, big off-season pickups, who
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  Speaker 1: went out and performed like flatulence. And the question now is,
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  Speaker 1: will Jalen Waddell join A.J. Brown and Miles Garrett? In
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  Speaker 1: the injury tent, those guys claimed, oh, I couldn't play
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  Speaker 1: because I'm hurt. So they're out with injuries. Does that
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  Speaker 1: mean Jalen Waddell, who's also as bad as both those guys,
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  Speaker 1: does that mean he's got to come up with one
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  Speaker 1: of those fake injuries and get out for a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Then you had the Komodo dragon in
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  Speaker 1: the room. What was the Komodo dragon in the room
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  Speaker 1: for Jalen Waddell? For many, it was a comment that
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  Speaker 1: was seen as benign by Troy Aikman. However, I have
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  Speaker 1: a higher level of hearing than you from years and
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  Speaker 1: years of using headphones, so I have determined that this
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  Speaker 1: is something, not nothing. Now, what am I talking about? So,
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  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman delivered what seemed like a rather mild line,
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  Speaker 1: and it actually turned out to be shrapnel. Shrapnel directed
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  Speaker 1: at Jalen Waddle. He had a drop pass. I think
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  Speaker 1: this was in... I think I wrote on my notes
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  Speaker 1: it was in the second quarter. So I think it
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  Speaker 1: was in the second quarter. He dropped a pass. And Aikman,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to paraphrase here, he essentially said, terrific player,
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  Speaker 1: minor problem, and then he said his problem was catching
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  Speaker 1: the football. And I said, well, that's just a throwaway line.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing to that. I say no. Because you've got
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  Speaker 1: to remember the context here. Troy Aikman is just not
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  Speaker 1: a broadcaster. Troy Aikman is double dipping. Troy Aikman... is
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  Speaker 1: on the Miami Dolphins payroll, the team that unloaded Jalen Waddell.
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  Speaker 1: Things that make you go, hmmm. Is it true that
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  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman was actually just regurgitating, regurgitating what he had
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  Speaker 1: heard in meetings with Dolphin Brass when they were deciding
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  Speaker 1: who to get rid of when they had the little
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  Speaker 1: fire sale, their bonfire in Miami? Is it also true
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  Speaker 1: that that line was used, used by Miami insiders to
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  Speaker 1: describe Jalen Waddell, that that's his weak spot here? And
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  Speaker 1: it makes you wonder, right? Like some exit interview when
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  Speaker 1: Waddle was let go and sent off to Denver, and
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  Speaker 1: they said, well, this is something you don't do that well.
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  Speaker 1: Catching the ball! You gotta catch the ball. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it sounded like to me. And this is one of
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  Speaker 1: the issues. The NFL, they don't care anymore. Everything's changed,
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  Speaker 1: and Tom Brady's running the Raiders while broadcasting. Troy Aikman's
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  Speaker 1: working for the Miami Dolphins while broadcasting. So when Brady
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  Speaker 1: says anything about a Raider or former Raider... And he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't say anything interesting, so you don't have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about that. But Aikman occasionally does. And so when Aikman
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  Speaker 1: says something about a Dolphin or former Dolphin, it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute here. What's going on with that? All right,
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  Speaker 1: now last word. We go to the Kansas City side
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  Speaker 1: of things as the Chiefs get a three-touchdown win at home.
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  Speaker 1: And the question for the Chiefs is this. Should Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid be encouraged or discouraged– with the play of Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes for the Chiefs in his return to the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: So this one gets a capital D discouraged. What are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about, Maller? The Chiefs won by three touchdowns!
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  Speaker 1: All right, tell me you didn't watch the game without
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  Speaker 1: telling me you didn't watch the game. The idea was
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  Speaker 1: that Mahomes would hit the ground running, and that did
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  Speaker 1: not happen. He hit the ground and face-planted. Mahomes hit
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  Speaker 1: the ground and he face-planted here. This was a pizzeria performance.
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  Speaker 1: A pizzeria performance. There's a pizza chain in California called Shakey's.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a Shakey's type performance with extra mojo, uh-oh, potatoes.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: Great buffet.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So Andy Reid was sleep shopping. Here's my theory.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: So Andy Reid was sleep shopping late at night, and
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: he went to the wrong website, and he actually ordered,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: he for some reason decided to order Off this kind
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: of shady website. And he ended up getting the Teemu
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: version of Mahomes. And that's a few flashes. Just a
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: few flashes of magic. The old Mahomes magic. Surrounded by
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of cosplay as Jared Goff. Like he's
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: doing cosplays. as Jared Goff. And that is not a compliment,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: by the way. That is not a compliment at all.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: The warm and fuzzy type feelings do come from Kenneth Walker,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the former Seahawk, the ground and pound attack. I certainly
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: think Seattle could use him, I assume. Bad job by
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: somebody there in the Seattle front office to let that
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: guy go when he wanted to stay. Who goofed? I've
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: got to know. And the Seahawks not retaining the Super
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Bowl MVP, Kenneth Walker, who looked amazing. And this was
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: what we call high testosterone football by Kansas City here.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Cock-a-doodle-doo for Andy Reid and the Chiefs as they played
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: with machismo, which is encouraging. And that first half and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the success they had on the running game was absolutely
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: smash mouth. football for Kansas City here. And you can
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: see that working. You know, in the cold weather in January,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: a game at Arrowhead, when the players are out there
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: running around, you can see your breath. That kind of day.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And in the multiverse, and we do believe in the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: multiverse in these parts, this had... This has to be
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: part of the new reality. Now, they can't win every
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: game like this. That's not sustainable in the era that
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: we're in right now. However... If you have that ability,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: and Mahomes is going to play the way Mahomes played,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you really have no other choice than to have to
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: try to lean on Kenneth Walker and ride him into
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the ground, essentially. And that's just it, because with Mahomes...
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: not yet the magician he used to be, and maybe
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: never getting back to that player. Plus, you got Travis Kelsey,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: who's busy working the room with Taylor Swift and her bestie,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, schmoozing, a little schmooze fest going on there.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: So Kansas City, they're going to have to become a
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: chameleon here. They're going to have to find some other
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: people that will make plays because you can't depend on Kelsey.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: And you certainly, at this point, based on what we
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: saw from Mahomes, you can't really depend on Mahomes either.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: He was throwing behind receivers. It was a mess. It
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: was a hot mess is what it was. And so
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: if Showtime Mahomes, Mahomey, Patrick Mahomes is not going to
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: come back. then Andy Reid is going to have to
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: learn how to win with the Mahomes matinee. Not to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: be infused with the Showtime, above the fold, that type
• 22:08
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• 22:11
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• 22:17
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• 22:20
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• 22:21
  Speaker 1: We always say we're going to do one all the time,
• 22:23
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• 22:24
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• 22:26
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• 22:28
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• 22:30
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• 22:30
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• 22:33
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• 23:27
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• 23:30
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• 23:33
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• 24:35
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• 24:39
  Speaker 7: That's Burger King, isn't it?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They changed their nuggets. Have you had the new
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: nuggets at Burger King?
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: No, but I saw they changed their recipe.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: I'm a big fan of the nugget.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: You know how bad your chicken nuggets have to be
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: for a company as large as Burger King to change
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: their chicken nuggets?
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: It's not called Nugget King. It's Burger King.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I understand, but think how much they must have sucked.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: And they realize, I give them credit for realizing they
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: weren't any good, but it's rather... Listen. Listen.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: If you go to Burger King, you got to get
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: chicken fries, not chicken nuggets. The chicken fries is where
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: it's at.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Those are actually more like, I would say- Styrofoam? Skinny
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: chicken fingers. They're just called chicken fries.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: It's their- Yeah, okay.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: It's their way of doing things.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: So about, I don't know, maybe like 15 years ago,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: I remember Burger King had a special. It was 10
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: nuggets for $ 1.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of nuggets for $ 1.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: And I remember eating those nuggets thinking, I overpaid.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's also a sign that things aren't going well.
• 25:46
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• 25:48
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• 25:51
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• 25:56
  Speaker 1: So please, please act accordingly as we are rolling in here.
• 26:01
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• 26:06
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• 26:08
  Speaker 1: King Rory writes in, says Denver looked more like a
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Apple than a majestic white Bronco. That's not great.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Late Night Drug Tester says Mahomes tried to get Denver
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: back in the game, throwing a pick from his own
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: end zone. The Broncos were lucky to get a field goal.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Peyton takes over play calling by the second half next week,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: according to the Late Night Drug Tester. Fergdog writes in,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: from that winter wonderland in Fullerton. They're preparing for more
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: snow in Fullerton. FergDog says anyone with a clue knew
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the Broncos were a flash in the pan as a
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: team last year like the Patriots. The AFC will go
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: right back to being run by the traditional powers like
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, Bills, and Chargers. Sell your Bo Nix stock
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: while you can. Signed, FergDog. I feel like you're trying
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: to incite someone, Fergdog. I feel like you're trying to
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: get someone all worked up. I feel like that's what
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: you're doing. Bob writes in. He says, Hey, Ben. The
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Finn's Brass didn't have to tell Aikman that Waddle drops
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the ball. He put on a demonstration when they needed
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: it most. Hey-oh! That's Bob from Glen Allen, Virginia. Cowboy
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Drew writes in. He's the keeper. of the Malheur Cow.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: And he says, Malheur used to have a Shakey's in
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Minnesota up until, he says, specifically 89. Stopped at one
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: on Sunset Boulevard when we were out there. Awesome food.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: He's a big fan of the Shakey's. They should buy
• 27:47
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• 27:49
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• 27:52
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• 27:57
  Speaker 1: writes in, says Media Freeloader, says, can we get a
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: welfare check on Coop after the orange crushed? They really
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: slowed down Mahomes. Meanwhile, I look forward to your dedicating
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: a full hour to the polar bear return to New York,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: or will that be overlooked in favor of Arch and
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: his tremendous sense of humor? So there you go. Yeah,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: people demanding commentary, Coopaloop. You're the spokesman for the Denver Broncos.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Defend your squad. Go ahead. Defend your team, Coop. What
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: do you got? I hate when you do this. Well,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I have to talk about my teams when they lose.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I have to come in here.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but you never defend them. So why do you
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: always like when your team sucks?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I call them out. You do.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: And then anytime my team sucks, you're like, go ahead,
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: defend your team.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Defend them.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: What am I supposed to say? I don't know what
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: you're supposed to say.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: But people always accuse me of being a houseman. They're like, oh,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you're a houseman. Remember years ago when I had some
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: days off scheduled and it just happened to coincide with
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs? And people thought I was not showing
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: up because the Clippers lost a playoff game or something
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: That's exactly what happened.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I'm a grown-ass man. You think I'm not going to
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: show up to work because a team I like lost
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: a playoff game?
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: What is this?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: We're like fifth grade.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: What are we doing?
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: No, they were terrible.
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: They couldn't tackle anybody.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: That was the most maddening thing.
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: At least you could be able to tackle somebody.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: I don't understand what was happening there.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: They got shoved around. Their defensive line got shoved around.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: The play calling was bad. Mr.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Guy, though.
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Webb. Davis Webb. Had to keep him from becoming the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: head coach somewhere. Hey, I'd want him to be a
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: head coach if he coaches like that. Send him a
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: car service. Get him out of town.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: Kenneth Walker looked like Barry Sanders.
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: It was.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: He was great. Eloy from Compton says, Ben, do we
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: need to do a wellness check on Coop? Hopefully he's okay.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Are you okay, Coop? Everything all right? You're fine? Yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm trying not to overreact. It's week one. Yeah.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Well, at least your team looked a little better than
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the Rams. There's that. That going for you.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: And you know what? I mean, I'm not going to
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: say they looked better, but the Chargers also looked terrible.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they lost to the Cardinals, which is more embarrassing
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: than what the Rams and the Broncos did to lose
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: to the Cardinals at home. Right, right. A team not
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: trying to win. You know you're not trying to win.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: The universal sign. This is all agreed upon by every
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: NFL executive. The sign you're not trying to win is
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: when Jacoby Brissett's your quarterback. That is a sign. And
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: they've chosen Jacoby Brissett. That's their announcement. The Cardinals were
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: not trying to win, and they still won. So, Truck
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Stop Fungus writes in from Parts Unknown. He says, I
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: chuckle every time Sean Payton loses. He should have been
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: banned from the NFL over his Bounty Gate shenanigans. That
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Bounty Gate thing, I think, was... blown out of proportion
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Jerry in a jar writes in says Bo Nix look
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: like JJ McCarthy out there poor Coop he must be
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: devastated Kathy in Madison writes in says this is Kathy
• 30:54
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• 30:59
  Speaker 1: in beautiful Bismarck North Dakota in the air everywhere Kathy
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: every night picks a new affiliate and she's got a
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: lot to choose from and she just tries to find
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: a different station every night yeah OG Art Puffin writes
• 31:12
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• 31:17
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• 31:22
  Speaker 1: How about the SoFi duos start to the season, huh?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: That's got to make for great sports talk radio, right?
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: It's fine. It's fine. Jim Harbaugh said some stuff. We'll
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: talk about that later. It's on my big board to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: get to at some point later. But Harbaugh making some
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: comments about why he thought the Chargers didn't play very
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: well to start the year, which is very maddening, very
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: maddening when you hear what he had to say. But
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: let's go to the phones, and we'll say hello to Vince,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: who's in Tampa. What's going on, Vince? You're on the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. How you doing, Vince?
• 31:58
  Speaker 9: Well, let's call it this, the trilogy. So I've had
• 32:01
  Speaker 9: an opportunity to speak with folks at 95 WDAE in Tampa.
• 32:06
  Speaker 9: I've spoken with Dan Patrick, and now I've finished the
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: trilogy with you.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: What do you win with that? What do you get
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: for doing that? Is there like a prize, like a
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: gold coin or something that you get?
• 32:20
  Speaker 9: Yes, I give myself gold coins all the time.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: It's perfect.
• 32:24
  Speaker 9: But I want to comment on your sarcasm, your comedy.
• 32:30
  Speaker 9: And do you have live shows? You should probably do
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: live shows with the hot chick next to you and
• 32:38
  Speaker 9: just go around the country.
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: Coop, you're a hot chick.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Well, no, he almost had one of these, except the
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: hot chick was Weed Man Hippie, and it was going
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: to be called Benny and the Weed Man.
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Weed Man came into some money, and he wanted to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: do a show on the Vegas Strip. He wanted to
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: rent out a theater on the Vegas Strip. And he
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: was going to charge, what, $ 500 a ticket? Something ridiculous
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: I would pay $ 500 to see.
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: The trilogy, you guys.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you were very kind. You know, we do
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: do Maller meet and greets. You're more than welcome. I
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: don't think Dan Patrick does those.
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: I was going to say, he said Dan Patrick's in
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: the trilogy, so $ 500 is not going to be enough
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: for that entry fee.
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: I will say the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, so they've fired
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: six assistant coaches, but maybe they should fire the head coach, possibly.
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: cobbles uh... not sure uh... they have great talent their
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: arm have potential, but it's kind of like back with
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: prior to John Gruden, um, he had a great coach
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: and could not get over the goal line to a
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: Superbowl and brought in John Gruden about the Superbowl. And, um,
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: so I feel we're in the same position, uh, with, well.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I, I, you know, great, I don't know, great talent. You, you,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: fumbled the ball four times and it's not getting too crazy.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: That was a messy beginning.
• 34:11
  Speaker 9: I've got you. I mean, he's a little sloppy, but
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: he's a baller.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: He's a baller. Well, as long as he's a baller.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: And he got paid. Yeah, Todd Bowles, you might want
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to apply for that job. You're right there, Vince. You
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: don't have to relocate, so you should contact the Buccaneers
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and say, hey, if Todd ends up leaving, maybe you
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: can be the interim coach. Would you like to do
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: that as an interim coach? That would be good, right?
• 34:31
  Speaker 9: No, absolutely not. I would not be good at all.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: All right, but you get paid a lot of money,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: and the guys they hire aren't good, so who cares?
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: But I could be the GM. I can do the GM,
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: and then I can control some things from top down.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: And more importantly, how did this experience compete with the
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: other shows that you called into?
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: This is the best.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: That means as good as all the rest. You know,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the legal definition in advertising, did you know this? The
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: legal definition of the term best is as good as
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: all the rest. It's the reason restaurants can say they
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: have the best turkey sandwich or the best meatball sub
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: because the best the legal definition in advertising means as
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: good as all the rest so legally we're as good
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: as all the other shows according to you I.
• 35:15
  Speaker 9: Would say that your stretch meaning you reach everyone and anyone,
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: and that is the best quality that your program has.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: You're very kind here.
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: It includes everyone.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: You're giving me a big ego now. I'm going to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: have to adjust my headphones here. My head's getting a
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: little bigger. But thank you. All right. Look at that, Vince.
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  Speaker 1: They made the whole circuit there, the Sports Talk Radio
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: circuit from Vince. Good for him. We'll get to the
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: NFL coaching malpractice. Time now, though, for the Who Am
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I game, and here it is, the Who Am I game.
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  Speaker 1: Eagles wide receiver Makai Lemon had a minus-five receiving yard
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  Speaker 1: performance there. That was the fewest in Week 1 for
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  Speaker 1: a first-round wide receiver all time. There had never been
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  Speaker 1: a wide receiver draft in the first round who sucked
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  Speaker 1: more than Makai Lemon of the Eagles. I am the
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  Speaker 1: only other first-round wide receiver. to end my debut with
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  Speaker 1: negative receiving yards? Who am I? That's the question. The answer,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: we'll get to it. And we will do it next.
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  Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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• 36:26
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• 36:29
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• 36:34
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• 36:38
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• 36:40
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• 36:46
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• 36:49
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• 36:54
  Speaker 1: All right, back to it. We'll pay off the Who
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Am I game in a minute, but let's take a
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: call right now. Let's say hello to Andrew, who's in Bakersfield, California. Hello, Andrew. Ben,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: how's it going? It's been a minute. It's been a
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: minute for you.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, where is Keg Drinking Steve, Ben, the Kansas City fan?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Well, he's back. That's an admission by you that you're
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: not listening. He has called in a few times in
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: recent weeks. He is back. He had some medical problems,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: but he has returned. And you're not listening to the
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: whole show. It's a bad job by you.
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: Well, I've missed some shows, but I wanted to comment.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: What have you been doing? What's more important than our show?
• 37:33
  Speaker 9: Well, it's been a bit stressful at times for me.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to talk it out? Everything okay? You
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: want to share with the class? Everything all right?
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: I'm okay.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Have your takes improved?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I turned on the Dodger game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations.
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: I was able... to find it on the TV, and
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: we clinched a spot in the playoffs, and Kyle Tucker
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: hit a home run and stole second base in the
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: top of the ninth inning. What do you think about that?
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  Speaker 1: So you want me to praise him? Is that what
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for? Yeah. Why would I do that?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I.
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  Speaker 2: Will.
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  Speaker 1: Good job, Kyle Tucker.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so your takes haven't improved. You do know he's
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: being paid $ 70 million, and he hit a home run.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: He's batting. 227 for the Dodgers. Kyle Tucker is on
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: pace this season to finish with, what is he on
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: pace with, 16 home runs and 71 runs batting in.
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  Speaker 9: He's a fighter.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's not a fighter. He's a ham and egger
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  Speaker 1: is what he is.
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  Speaker 9: All right, good job, Dodgers. Talk to you soon, Ben.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Thanks. Here's the payoff on the Who Am I game,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: and this is where we pretend to be somebody else.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: So the Eagles rookie wide receiver out of SC, Makai Lemon,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: had minus five receiving yards in his debut against the
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Washington football team, the fewest in week one for a
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  Speaker 1: first-round wide receiver all time. I am the only other
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  Speaker 1: first-round wide receiver to end my debut with negative receiving yards.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question.
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  Speaker 2: Who?
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: And what is the answer? And let's see. Does anyone
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: know the answer? Adrian Monk from Scrooge. Blind Scott. Tramp
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Stamp from Truck Stop Fungus there. Who else? Benny Hanna
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: from Alf the Alien. O'Piner. Laquan Treadwell. Good reference there
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: from Femi, the Uber Eats driver. And we have Reverend
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Hollering James from Not a Burner. Madison Beer tossed out
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  Speaker 1: by Ferg Dog. What else do we have? Paige Dan.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I can't read that. Heidi Montag, who is 40 today
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: from Late Night Drug Tester. Who else do we have?
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Troy Williamson. That's a good name, too, from a reek
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Clifford Franklin. Bonus point, if you know who
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: that is, that's from Not Blind Austin. Gene Washington, guest
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: by Nature Boy. What's your answer, Lorraine?
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  Speaker 7: Brain, from Pinky and the Brain.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Brain? No, it's not Don Lemon, yes, by
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Inca Terror, or Tori Holt from Chip and the Q's,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: or Lizzo from Johnny Q, or Harold Carmichael from Fat Daddy.
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  Speaker 1: The correct answer would be none other than Kadarius Tony.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Remember Kadarius Tony? I think he's a rapper now. I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good luck.