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- 0:37Speaker 3: Well we've heard over the years of the stars shine
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- 0:44Speaker 3: so much. Welcome in the beginning of another night of
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- 1:55Speaker 1: the playoff game on the holiday Monday night, a national
- 2:00Speaker 1: holiday and America Moral Day, and some pro bouncy ball.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Not a good one. Not a good one. Now I
- 2:07Speaker 1: admit I have no skin in the game on this.
- 2:09Speaker 3: I don't.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Obviously we talk about it doesn't matter whose plays in
- 2:12Speaker 1: these games. We come in here and we break them down.
- 2:16Speaker 1: But there is just no juice at all in this series.
- 2:21Speaker 1: There just isn't. My God, And it continued again on
- 2:25Speaker 1: a Monday night, not a blowout, but not exactly a
- 2:30Speaker 1: game that you thought Minnesota was going to win at
- 2:34Speaker 1: the end. And so our lead is from the land
- 2:36Speaker 1: of ten thousand Lakes. And as we have pointed out
- 2:38Speaker 1: in previous episodes of the show, that is just a
- 2:41Speaker 1: marketing term. There are actually eleven eight hundred and forty
- 2:46Speaker 1: two lakes in Minnesota that are ten acres or more.
- 2:49Speaker 1: But people love round numbers, So it sounds better to
- 2:53Speaker 1: put on the license plate the Land of ten thousand Lakes.
- 2:56Speaker 1: It doesn't sound as good if you say the Land
- 2:58Speaker 1: of eleven eight hundred forty two Lakes. It just doesn't
- 3:01Speaker 1: have the same Rasmataz, so they go with the Land
- 3:04Speaker 1: of ten thousand Lakes. Nevertheless, that was the playground for
- 3:08Speaker 1: game number far.
- 3:10Speaker 3: Between the Thunder and the Wolves.
- 3:14Speaker 1: In a series that has been one blowout after another blowout,
- 3:18Speaker 1: this was a pivot point game, a pivot point game.
- 3:23Speaker 1: It was a two to one series going in so Minnesota.
- 3:26Speaker 1: They win this game and it's now a best of
- 3:29Speaker 1: three series. We square the books up, mono a mono,
- 3:33Speaker 1: eye to eye, and here we go. And how did
- 3:36Speaker 1: that turn out? Well, hopefully you did not watch. We
- 3:40Speaker 1: did for you. It's our public service, it's our good
- 3:42Speaker 1: mits for the day. And so the newly crowned recently
- 3:45Speaker 1: as of a few days ago most valuable players shay
- 3:49Speaker 1: Jogis Alexander forty points, ten rebounds, nine assists, a partridge
- 3:54Speaker 1: in a pear tree as Okac snapping back and bringing
- 3:59Speaker 1: the hand down goes the hammer. After getting a forty
- 4:03Speaker 1: two point shahalacking over the weekend. They come back and
- 4:09Speaker 1: beat the Minnesota Timberwolves six year final in Game four,
- 4:19Speaker 1: and so that's where we are three to one, and
- 4:22Speaker 1: using the Mather math on this, the team from Oklahoma
- 4:26Speaker 1: needs one more win. They can close it out back
- 4:30Speaker 1: in the dust Bowl, they are close out Game five
- 4:32Speaker 1: on Wednesday. They do that and it's onto the NBA Finals.
- 4:38Speaker 1: But the better story here is in the losing locker room,
- 4:41Speaker 1: and so that is where we will direct our focus,
- 4:44Speaker 1: the losing locker room as we discuss the question for
- 4:48Speaker 1: the esteem panel here, how do you explain the diminishing
- 4:53Speaker 1: returns of Anthony Edwards of the Timberwolves? And you can
- 4:59Speaker 1: sit here, take it down, and we normally do the
- 5:01Speaker 1: blame pie. It's rather obvious there's not a lot of
- 5:05Speaker 1: debate here. Julius Randall gets an assist, but the headliner,
- 5:10Speaker 1: mister I dominate. I'm the man. Anthony Edwards was not
- 5:14Speaker 1: the man at all. So let us discuss how do
- 5:17Speaker 1: you explain Anthony Edwards and the diminishing returns in this
- 5:21Speaker 1: particular performance. So my thoughts on this, I've got state Farm,
- 5:25Speaker 1: cool mint, and saloon, and we will combine all of
- 5:31Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to make a delicious,
- 5:35Speaker 1: juicy lucy, which is really good, much better than the
- 5:39Speaker 1: performance of the basketball team through much of this game.
- 5:43Speaker 3: But hey, listen the story here. Don't bury the lead
- 5:47Speaker 3: mom man.
- 5:47Speaker 1: The story in this game is the rising star, Anthony Edwards,
- 5:53Speaker 1: the headliner. And these playoff games or opportunities, they're launching
- 5:57Speaker 1: pads to go up in the heavens of basketball chatter
- 6:02Speaker 1: and have people lick your toes and all that if
- 6:05Speaker 1: you play well. And so here's Anthony Edwards, who've been
- 6:09Speaker 1: dazzling people for most of the season and certainly earlier
- 6:13Speaker 1: in the playoffs, has had some big moments here and
- 6:15Speaker 1: now he finds himself in the slump at the time
- 6:20Speaker 1: you cannot slump, which is like, right here, what are
- 6:23Speaker 1: we doing? So Anthony Edwards, we enjoy watching a play.
- 6:26Speaker 1: He's obviously a star. How big a star? How bright
- 6:30Speaker 1: a star? That's open to interpretation. That's opening to debate
- 6:35Speaker 1: yet again, though he looked rattled with a capitol R.
- 6:40Speaker 1: He looked rattled with capitol R here, and that was
- 6:43Speaker 1: not the moment to do that. That was not the
- 6:45Speaker 1: game to do that, That was not the situation to
- 6:47Speaker 1: do that. And that was not the performance you give
- 6:50Speaker 1: your team, but he did.
- 6:52Speaker 3: He did it.
- 6:54Speaker 1: He was five of thirteen from the floor, did not
- 6:58Speaker 1: even shoot, I think only took a couple of shots
- 7:01Speaker 1: in the first half.
- 7:02Speaker 3: He won like the first ten to eleven twelve minutes
- 7:04Speaker 3: something like that.
- 7:04Speaker 1: That was like ten minutes without taking a shot in
- 7:07Speaker 1: the game, which I didn't play in the NBA.
- 7:09Speaker 3: I don't think that's ideal. I don't think that's ideal.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Sixteen points, five turnovers for Anthony Edwards.
- 7:16Speaker 3: That is a chicken feathers performance.
- 7:20Speaker 1: I can't say what I'd like to say, so instead
- 7:21Speaker 1: I will substitute the word I would like to use
- 7:24Speaker 1: is an S word, but I will instead use the
- 7:26Speaker 1: word feathers. So it's a chicken feathers performance there by
- 7:29Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards. Now, so we thought, hey, this is a
- 7:32Speaker 1: chance you even up the series here, best of three.
- 7:35Speaker 1: You win this game. Man, you're in really good shape.
- 7:38Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you're the Cape Crusader. Right, you
- 7:40Speaker 1: can go out there, you're the Cape Crusader. But that
- 7:43Speaker 1: was not the version of Anthony Edwards you got. Instead,
- 7:47Speaker 1: he was what a decoy for much of this game,
- 7:51Speaker 1: a decoy unacceptable and The commercial which gets shown a
- 7:57Speaker 1: million times during these basketball games is the State Farm commercial.
- 8:01Speaker 1: That was appropriate because you had Anthony. Originally, this guy's
- 8:05Speaker 1: the cape crusader out there, and no, you're it's like
- 8:08Speaker 1: getting Baitman when you wanted the protection of Batman, and
- 8:12Speaker 1: that's what they got.
- 8:13Speaker 3: They got Baitman. They didn't get Batman. And man, what
- 8:16Speaker 3: a night.
- 8:17Speaker 1: You're supposed to put your cape on, go out there
- 8:19Speaker 1: and fly around and all that, and man, instead the
- 8:23Speaker 1: Minnesota got a counterfeit version and just look like a
- 8:28Speaker 1: brain frog. Usually what happens if you go by the book,
- 8:32Speaker 1: we've been doing this for a couple of minutes over
- 8:34Speaker 1: the years, and so usually when a player plays that pathetically,
- 8:38Speaker 1: there'll be some kind of phantom injury that they will
- 8:42Speaker 1: chalk it up to when the series ends.
- 8:43Speaker 3: Well, he was knealing with so and so, and it
- 8:47Speaker 3: would have killed seven of ten players, but he stayed
- 8:51Speaker 3: and played.
- 8:52Speaker 1: They'll make some kind of bull crap excuse. He just
- 8:55Speaker 1: looked like his mind was wandering. I don't know, maybe
- 8:57Speaker 1: he's got some more kids on the way. We don't
- 8:59Speaker 1: know about very prolific in that area as well. I
- 9:02Speaker 1: don't know what's going on, but he was pressing and
- 9:05Speaker 1: did not get the job done. And you know, he
- 9:09Speaker 1: was bragging to the historians in La that he had
- 9:12Speaker 1: the big D and did not look he looked like
- 9:16Speaker 1: he had more of a micro D in this game here,
- 9:18Speaker 1: not a big D, a micro D.
- 9:20Speaker 3: And the moment he.
- 9:22Speaker 1: Was small, he was small, passive, way too passive, spectator
- 9:28Speaker 1: like spectator like here. And so there you go, no
- 9:34Speaker 1: no rhyme or reason why that would happen in this
- 9:37Speaker 1: particular game. But he was was there, and then he wasn't.
- 9:43Speaker 1: I was there that he wasn't just a spectator, very
- 9:45Speaker 1: passive and not a compelling lead.
- 9:50Speaker 3: Character at all.
- 9:52Speaker 1: And then you've got Julius Randall, the yin to the Yang,
- 9:56Speaker 1: and well he does not get as much crap old
- 9:58Speaker 1: look because he's not as big a deal in the
- 10:02Speaker 1: universe of basketball. Julius Randall showing everyone why he keeps
- 10:06Speaker 1: changing teams. And a couple days ago there was a
- 10:10Speaker 1: question that was asked about, Wow, he's arrived. Now he's
- 10:12Speaker 1: proved the doubters wrong. Well, methinks you spoke too soon.
- 10:17Speaker 1: The regression to the mean water seeks its own level,
- 10:21Speaker 1: and also extreme outcomes are followed by more moderate ones
- 10:24Speaker 1: or in this case, more normal ones, as this is
- 10:27Speaker 1: the player that we have seen in the past from
- 10:29Speaker 1: Julius Randall. This is the enigma. This is the guy
- 10:33Speaker 1: that looks really good and then goes out there and
- 10:38Speaker 1: vomits all over himself. Writing the vomit comment one of
- 10:41Speaker 1: seven from the floor for Julius Randall, he had five points.
- 10:45Speaker 1: He was a five for five five five points, five turnovers,
- 10:51Speaker 1: so very impressive.
- 10:52Speaker 3: And way to go, Way to go. That was a
- 10:56Speaker 3: manure like performance.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Now on the other side, the winning locker room, which
- 11:01Speaker 1: is not as good as story. How do you juxtapose
- 11:05Speaker 1: OKAC and the way they were able to play with SGA.
- 11:11Speaker 1: There's a lot of letters there. You got OKAC and
- 11:13Speaker 1: then SGA need some more vowels. But that's that's where
- 11:17Speaker 1: we are. So this was a Listerine cool Mint performance.
- 11:22Speaker 1: After suffering from halatosis in that game three, really bad breath,
- 11:29Speaker 1: they get their mojo back in a large way. Here
- 11:32Speaker 1: they went a wall in game three, and when you
- 11:36Speaker 1: compare and contrast, when you can compare and contrast the
- 11:41Speaker 1: way the Thunder played in game three where they just quit,
- 11:45Speaker 1: they did the thing that was gutless OKAC Championship possible
- 11:51Speaker 1: team quit in a playoff game.
- 11:53Speaker 3: They did. They gave up, which is wild to me.
- 11:58Speaker 3: It's it's just so, But they did.
- 12:01Speaker 1: And when you look at that and compare it to
- 12:03Speaker 1: where we are right now, where they didn't give up.
- 12:05Speaker 1: I was in the game, they played with the lead
- 12:08Speaker 1: most of the game, it makes you wonder. Those are
- 12:11Speaker 1: the kind of nights where you're like, what happened? Like
- 12:16Speaker 1: it's one thing to lose by twenty, but to lose
- 12:19Speaker 1: by forty you got to put work into losing by forty.
- 12:23Speaker 1: So what kind of funny business was going on? I
- 12:27Speaker 1: don't get either way. On this particular night, while ant
- 12:32Speaker 1: man on the Minnesota side was drowning in the soup,
- 12:36Speaker 1: you had Sga shay Yogis Alexander out there who was cooking,
- 12:41Speaker 1: controlling the game for the most part, the merchant of doom,
- 12:46Speaker 1: the merchant of doom and made mostly the right decisions,
- 12:51Speaker 1: put up big fantasy stats and all that stuff, and
- 12:55Speaker 1: played the way you thought your star player was gonna play.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Minnesota star player didn't play like that, obviously, And so.
- 13:02Speaker 3: That is where we are.
- 13:03Speaker 1: And so the thunder who gave up in Game three,
- 13:05Speaker 1: and now they come back they win again.
- 13:07Speaker 3: And are they good for basketball?
- 13:09Speaker 1: No, they're not. They're boring. They're not good for talk radio.
- 13:13Speaker 1: They're not good for the conversation Oklahoma City. They're good
- 13:16Speaker 1: at basketball, but in terms of the conversation around it,
- 13:19Speaker 1: there's no theatrics there. There's nothing that really just moves
- 13:24Speaker 1: the needle. They're an efficient team. They come at you
- 13:27Speaker 1: in waves. It's just not entertaining to talk about. There
- 13:31Speaker 1: is nothing really that compelling. SGA is pretty boring, and you.
- 13:37Speaker 3: Go down the list. I mean, that's where we are
- 13:38Speaker 3: all right now. Last word, So.
- 13:41Speaker 1: The Wolves are on the brink of extinction. The Timberwolves
- 13:46Speaker 1: are on the brink of extinction. Is this series over.
- 13:50Speaker 3: At three to one? Is it? Ov are over?
- 13:56Speaker 1: So it certainly feels over. Technically it's not. They have
- 13:59Speaker 1: to play on other game and there will be another
- 14:01Speaker 1: game that is broadcast coming up back in Oklahoma. If
- 14:04Speaker 1: this were a film for the Timberwolves, if it was
- 14:07Speaker 1: a film, it would.
- 14:09Speaker 3: Be called Timberwolves the Western Collapse.
- 14:13Speaker 1: It's a sequel. Actually, it's a sequel to last season.
- 14:19Speaker 1: You might remember when the Mavericks with Fat Luca were
- 14:23Speaker 1: able to beat Minnesota. That was in five games Dallas.
- 14:26Speaker 1: One of the first three. A little different this year
- 14:29Speaker 1: because it was two to one and Minnesota has shot
- 14:32Speaker 1: to end up tying the series as opposed to last
- 14:35Speaker 1: year it.
- 14:35Speaker 3: Was three to one and then they lost Game four.
- 14:38Speaker 1: But it's a deja vus situation where it's highly unlikely
- 14:41Speaker 1: that the Wolves are going to come back in this series.
- 14:45Speaker 1: Now technically can they sure? I mean technically they could, right,
- 14:48Speaker 1: Minnesota can claw back into this. You and I both
- 14:51Speaker 1: know that you have to scratch and you have to push,
- 14:54Speaker 1: and you have to have that determination, that target determination.
- 14:58Speaker 1: And are they the type of team that is willing
- 15:02Speaker 1: to get into the mud, neck deep into the mud?
- 15:05Speaker 1: It doesn't appear that way, it does. I mean, you
- 15:08Speaker 1: couldn't even get Anthony Edwards to show up and lock
- 15:11Speaker 1: in in a game that would have tied the series
- 15:14Speaker 1: up at two two. He just decided, for whatever reason
- 15:18Speaker 1: to not perform. And I should have gotten him a
- 15:22Speaker 1: bucket of popcorn at one point early in the game.
- 15:25Speaker 3: My god.
- 15:27Speaker 1: So the other issue here is the saloon, and that's
- 15:32Speaker 1: the other issue because it's the last chance saloon.
- 15:36Speaker 3: And again it goes back to how much fight are
- 15:38Speaker 3: they willing to.
- 15:38Speaker 1: Put in here, and you have no wiggle room at
- 15:41Speaker 1: this particular point. It's like the NCAA Tournament, single elimination.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Now the rest of the way in this series for Minnesota,
- 15:49Speaker 1: and it's going to take perfection for three consecutive games.
- 15:54Speaker 3: It really is one game, and then you have to
- 15:55Speaker 3: do it again and again, and you also need a
- 15:59Speaker 3: voodoo doll would help, Like a good voodoo doll, like
- 16:02Speaker 3: a twisted ankle here or a sprained a knee ligament
- 16:06Speaker 3: over there.
- 16:07Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, like things flip around,
- 16:10Speaker 1: like things get much different, and things change around quite
- 16:14Speaker 1: a bit. And I know I'm not going popped Achilles.
- 16:16Speaker 1: We've already had a couple of those who were not
- 16:17Speaker 1: doing that, but dependsulum can't swing that direction.
- 16:20Speaker 3: But you have to have the fight.
- 16:21Speaker 1: And I have not seen any real evidence here, based
- 16:24Speaker 1: on what I just saw a few hours ago, that
- 16:26Speaker 1: Minnesota's got that fight in him.
- 16:28Speaker 3: I just don't. I don't see it.
- 16:30Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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- 16:39Speaker 3: Well that is very Jerry of you. Welcome in the
- 16:43Speaker 3: beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller Show.
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- 17:59Speaker 1: And yet again and here we are holiday weekend and Teta,
- 18:05Speaker 1: Oops it happened again. Oops it happened again. Some more
- 18:10Speaker 1: chatter about the relationship between wide receiver George Pickens, who
- 18:16Speaker 1: was decommissioned thrown overboard by the Pittsburgh Steelers, and how
- 18:21Speaker 1: he fits in with Cowboys in Dallas, the X Steeler
- 18:26Speaker 1: pass catcher now part of Jerry's universe, and how's that going. Well,
- 18:31Speaker 1: I hadn't played a game yet, so it's fine. I
- 18:33Speaker 1: hadn't played a game yet. Everything's great. They are planting
- 18:36Speaker 1: stories in the media that he's been a model teammate,
- 18:39Speaker 1: everything is wonderful.
- 18:40Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. There was one
- 18:45Speaker 3: a dendum to this that I thought is worthy of
- 18:47Speaker 3: some talk, and I don't know if you saw it
- 18:49Speaker 3: or not. It happened recently. The word on the.
- 18:52Speaker 1: Street out of the Dallas area is that not only
- 18:57Speaker 1: is Dak Prescott planning on hell helping out here, but
- 19:01Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, that Dak Prescott and Jerry Jones both are
- 19:05Speaker 1: going to shield George Pickens from the criticism. But wait,
- 19:12Speaker 1: there's more.
- 19:13Speaker 3: Okay, So that's fine. You expect them to help out.
- 19:17Speaker 1: There's been some chatter that they're even going to be
- 19:20Speaker 1: calling on the media in Dallas to back off criticism
- 19:25Speaker 1: of George Pickens to allow.
- 19:26Speaker 3: Him to grow to blossom like a flower.
- 19:31Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question, how does the Cowboys
- 19:34Speaker 1: plan to protect wide receiver? George Pickens sound to you? So,
- 19:41Speaker 1: I've got handholding, lobster, and flight school, and we will
- 19:46Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
- 19:51Speaker 1: to drive away in a station wagon. Now they wh's
- 19:55Speaker 1: the last time they made a station wagon? They don't
- 19:57Speaker 1: make those anyway. I haven't made those in thirty years
- 19:59Speaker 1: at least. Why did they stop making the station wagon?
- 20:03Speaker 1: Would anyone buy the station wagon if they had? I
- 20:06Speaker 1: know it was replaced by the minivan, but and then
- 20:08Speaker 1: the suv. But if they had the station wagon. I
- 20:10Speaker 1: know these people collect him. Why don't they make him
- 20:12Speaker 1: any things that make you go anyway? To get to
- 20:15Speaker 1: the point, how does the Cowboys plan to protect wide receiver?
- 20:20Speaker 3: George Pickens sound you so?
- 20:22Speaker 4: Number? I said, Number.
- 20:28Speaker 1: Jerry Jones has decided to use a carbon copy. Now
- 20:34Speaker 1: I would say he would have used a laser printer
- 20:36Speaker 1: to recreate this, but it's Jerry, So he's using a
- 20:38Speaker 1: carbon copy of Cowboy Season gone by. And you might
- 20:44Speaker 1: remember the famous stories that are part of internet lore
- 20:48Speaker 1: that des Bryant famously had a babysitter. He was on
- 20:54Speaker 1: the knucklehead spectrum, and so in an effort to fully
- 20:58Speaker 1: monetize fully monetize it performance. The legend of the Internet
- 21:01Speaker 1: is Jerry Jones hired a round the clock babysitter to
- 21:05Speaker 1: keep Des Bryant's nose clean. Now, whether that's true or
- 21:09Speaker 1: not is open for debate. However, it is not open
- 21:13Speaker 1: for debate that Jerry Jones will do whatever he has
- 21:16Speaker 1: to do in terms of taking a diminished asset and
- 21:20Speaker 1: trying to get that diminished asset squeeze some extra toothpaste
- 21:25Speaker 1: out of the tube heer, And that sounds like things
- 21:27Speaker 1: are not that.
- 21:28Speaker 3: Extreme with George Pickens.
- 21:30Speaker 1: And nevertheless, I would file the information that we have.
- 21:36Speaker 1: I would file this under the overprotective.
- 21:41Speaker 3: Handholding category. Right, Like, what do we do, Like Jerry
- 21:45Speaker 3: Jones and Dak Prescott, how's this gonna work? Like they're
- 21:48Speaker 3: gonna play big.
- 21:49Speaker 1: Brother here and Y're gonna like put up what They're
- 21:53Speaker 1: gonna put up a human firewall around George Pickens' locker.
- 21:57Speaker 3: Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. It ain't gonna work, dude, It's
- 22:00Speaker 3: not gonna work. This is the the NFL. You're not
- 22:03Speaker 3: on the playground at elementary school. You're not doing recess,
- 22:06Speaker 3: you're not on the swing set, You're you're not playing hopscotch,
- 22:09Speaker 3: You're not playing you know whatever.
- 22:11Speaker 1: You just it's not gonna work. You play for the
- 22:13Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. The Steelers have a lot of media. The
- 22:16Speaker 1: Steelers are a high profile profile team. They have a
- 22:19Speaker 1: national following the Dallas Cowboys. They make the Steelers seem
- 22:23Speaker 1: like they're a Canadian Football League team the way the
- 22:25Speaker 1: amount of attention that they get and you're living under
- 22:28Speaker 1: the microscope, and especially a guy like George Pickens, who
- 22:32Speaker 1: you know, if you're covering the Cowboys and you want
- 22:35Speaker 1: to get a story George pickketts, who are you gonna call?
- 22:38Speaker 3: You call George Pickens up. He's very emotional, right, He's unpredictable,
- 22:44Speaker 3: but he's unpredictable in a way where he's predictable, where
- 22:47Speaker 3: you know he's at any moment, it's it's the fuse
- 22:50Speaker 3: is going to reach the end and then kaboom with
- 22:54Speaker 3: with Pickens. So Hey, I'm in it, good talk radio.
- 22:58Speaker 3: I'm excited about.
- 22:59Speaker 1: This and I will enjoy all the efforts made by
- 23:03Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, and what's that puppet coach Schottenheimer's kid? And
- 23:08Speaker 1: then who shouldn't be the coach? And then Jerry Jones?
- 23:11Speaker 1: So why not all right now?
- 23:12Speaker 3: Page two, page number two to the schedule we go?
- 23:17Speaker 3: Always a fun topic. Now Joe Burrow.
- 23:24Speaker 1: Somewhat recently, Joe Burrow got on the bully pulpit and complained, complain, complain, complain, complain.
- 23:33Speaker 3: Did you you remember the complaints?
- 23:36Speaker 1: So he was upset because the Bengals don't get to
- 23:38Speaker 1: play international games. He wants to play international games. The
- 23:41Speaker 1: main complaint, though, he was grumbling about the Cincinnati football
- 23:44Speaker 1: team having to play prime time yet again in Baltimore.
- 23:50Speaker 1: Fourth straight season, fourth straight season, the Bengals will play
- 23:55Speaker 1: a primetime game against their blood rival the Ravens. There
- 24:00Speaker 1: in front of sports with Coleman in Baltimore. So the
- 24:03Speaker 1: NFL vice president of broadcast Planning, how much do you
- 24:08Speaker 1: think that job pays? How much has that been?
- 24:11Speaker 3: Two?
- 24:12Speaker 1: Three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand? How much is that
- 24:14Speaker 1: job pack? So the guy's name Mike North. When I
- 24:18Speaker 1: think of Mike North, I think of a proud Chicagoan,
- 24:22Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame, lifetime Achievement Award winning radio man
- 24:26Speaker 1: Mike North. But this is Mike North, the NFL Vice
- 24:29Speaker 1: president of Broadcasting and Planning, who told the state funded
- 24:33Speaker 1: Team website that the message from Joe Burrow has been received,
- 24:39Speaker 1: even if it did not change anything this year. The
- 24:43Speaker 1: empty suit for the NFL said, when trends like that emerge,
- 24:48Speaker 1: we probably have to adjust at some point.
- 24:53Speaker 3: Close quote.
- 24:54Speaker 1: Okay, so the NFL admitting it quote probably had to
- 25:00Speaker 1: adjust following Joe Burrow's complaints about the schedule. What is
- 25:04Speaker 1: your reaction to this news? So this is the rare,
- 25:09Speaker 1: the rare, very rare confession. It is a confession.
- 25:13Speaker 3: Uh.
- 25:14Speaker 1: And it's a multi billion dollar entity, the NFL. And
- 25:19Speaker 1: here they are, and what are they doing. They are
- 25:23Speaker 1: doing something truly remarkable. They're confessing, They're admitting they're gonna change.
- 25:29Speaker 3: This is not good. Well, it's sort of right.
- 25:32Speaker 1: And having documented for many, many years behind these microphones
- 25:36Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio and other places, but mostly Fox
- 25:39Speaker 1: Sports Radio, having documented the NFL, you know how rare
- 25:43Speaker 1: it is for the NFL to ever admit they f
- 25:46Speaker 1: anything up at any point. There is a better chance
- 25:49Speaker 1: of going out on a dingy out in the Atlantic
- 25:53Speaker 1: and catching a blue lobster. There's a better chance of
- 25:56Speaker 1: that happening right, one in two million, or something like that.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Joe Burrow made the simple observation, very simple, that the
- 26:07Speaker 1: NFL current scheduling model there's a glitch, and the Bengals
- 26:11Speaker 1: are not a glamour team. The NFL worries about the
- 26:14Speaker 1: teams that get big ratings. The Bengals don't get big ratings.
- 26:17Speaker 1: The Cowboys get ratings, the Steelers, the usual suspects who
- 26:21Speaker 1: have national followings get ratings. The Bengals don't. They don't
- 26:24Speaker 1: get bad ratings. But they're they're not moving the wrecking
- 26:27Speaker 1: ball around in the in that department. So in a moment,
- 26:32Speaker 1: a rare moment of clarity or perhaps confusion, the NFL responded,
- 26:38Speaker 1: and of course they use the word probably, which is
- 26:40Speaker 1: a weasel word, corporate speak for we might change something.
- 26:45Speaker 1: We're not guaranteeing it. We probably, we might, we might not.
- 26:48Speaker 1: Probably it's leaning that direction, And so like Joe Burrow,
- 26:53Speaker 1: he's onto something.
- 26:54Speaker 3: So probably I probably will help you move your so
- 26:59Speaker 3: far I might not, but probably I will.
- 27:03Speaker 1: My final point to the Bayou, we go to New Orleans,
- 27:09Speaker 1: where veteran wide receiver Brandon Cooks, he's back. Brandon Cooks
- 27:14Speaker 1: is back in Louisiana. He played for the Saints and
- 27:18Speaker 1: then went to the Patriots and the Rams and a
- 27:19Speaker 1: bunch of other teams. But he's worked his way back
- 27:21Speaker 1: to Louisiana, and the veteran wide receiver says the quarterback
- 27:26Speaker 1: battle in the Bayou between Tyler Shuck and Spencer Rattler
- 27:31Speaker 1: is quote going to be fun to watch your thoughts,
- 27:37Speaker 1: all right? So fun to watch? That would not be
- 27:41Speaker 1: the word I would use. I look at that quarterback
- 27:45Speaker 1: competition in New Orleans, and I have no skin in
- 27:48Speaker 1: the game. Obviously we know that. However, it sounds like charity.
- 27:55Speaker 1: It's like make a wish, Hey you want to play quarterback.
- 27:58Speaker 1: It's like that scene from Major Leaue. Hey, how would
- 28:00Speaker 1: you like to play quarterback for.
- 28:01Speaker 3: The Saints this year? Brandon cook you on even work
- 28:06Speaker 3: for the team.
- 28:06Speaker 1: You're one of the veteran leaders here, so you've got
- 28:09Speaker 1: to get the polish out and some you're polishing turds,
- 28:11Speaker 1: is what you're doing here.
- 28:12Speaker 3: And so he's polishing some turds.
- 28:14Speaker 1: But man saying the right thing, right, Gota say the
- 28:17Speaker 1: right thing and that's corporate speak, trying to hype up
- 28:21Speaker 1: the young guys and all that stuff. Does anyone think
- 28:25Speaker 1: that's good? Maybe a bet against the Saints that's a
- 28:27Speaker 1: good thing, because you think whoever plays quarterback, you talk
- 28:30Speaker 1: about a battle of futility. Holy crap, unless you're somehow
- 28:34Speaker 1: related to Tyler Shuck or Spencer Rattler, and not even
- 28:40Speaker 1: like friend related. I'm talking like blood relations. Welcome to Dolesville.
- 28:47Speaker 3: So the Saints trying to figure stuff out.
- 28:51Speaker 1: I guess they're just throwing pasta against the wall and
- 28:53Speaker 1: there's still the wild card. They go out in trade
- 28:56Speaker 1: for another quarterback. But if you go with Tyler Shuck,
- 28:59Speaker 1: the like thirty seven year old rookie from Louisville who
- 29:03Speaker 1: was in transfer portal a million times, or Spencer Rattler,
- 29:06Speaker 1: it's akin to going to flight school and saying, hey,
- 29:10Speaker 1: fly the plane while you're reading the manual, Like why
- 29:13Speaker 1: don't you take take the plane off, read the manual
- 29:16Speaker 1: and just kind of fly.
- 29:17Speaker 3: And then land the plane and all that stuff. Good luck,
- 29:20Speaker 3: good luck.
- 29:21Speaker 1: That's a developmental situation, which means a wasted season is upcoming.
- 29:28Speaker 1: A wasted season. Get out the paper bags. The ants
- 29:30Speaker 1: are back. The ants are back trying to catch lightning
- 29:35Speaker 1: in a bottle here outside of lightning in a bottle
- 29:37Speaker 1: or a trade man. And yet you look at the
- 29:40Speaker 1: NFC South, and am I wrong to say there was
- 29:43Speaker 1: there was no one there that's head and shoulders above
- 29:46Speaker 1: everyone else. I look at that division as pretty much
- 29:48Speaker 1: wide open. Atlanta a flawed team, Tampa Bay a flawed
- 29:51Speaker 1: football team. Carolina they suck, but they're supposed to be
- 29:55Speaker 1: on the come, as they say in poker, And so
- 29:57Speaker 1: it doesn't look like anyone's gonna run away with that division.
- 30:01Speaker 1: They're all though, likely going to run away from the
- 30:03Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints, the headless Saints, the headless Saints running
- 30:07Speaker 1: around there, and if only they had a quarterback, If
- 30:10Speaker 1: only they had a quarterback, they'd have a chance.
- 30:12Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
- 30:14Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 30:18Speaker 3: About that to the here we go, this is one
- 30:24Speaker 3: big Ben gets.
- 30:25Speaker 5: Graillbl So since Lebron left Cleveland from Miami fifteen years ago,
- 30:30Speaker 5: it sparked an NBA player empowerment movement that so many
- 30:33Speaker 5: superstars leave their small market teams for the big city.
- 30:36Speaker 5: Now we have three budding superstars and three small markets,
- 30:39Speaker 5: all vying for the championship. Been out of a SGA,
- 30:42Speaker 5: Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Halliburton.
- 30:44Speaker 6: Who do you think is most likely to eventually leave
- 30:46Speaker 6: for a big market?
- 30:47Speaker 1: All right, so I don't do this, but I will
- 30:49Speaker 1: tell you on my big board. The most likely is
- 30:52Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards. Like this guy's get ties to Atlanta. Big
- 30:55Speaker 1: city guy. You know, I just not that minnesot is
- 30:58Speaker 1: not a big city. It's just not as big as
- 30:59Speaker 1: I think he wants. So I put him at the top.
- 31:02Speaker 1: Halliburton second SGA. He seems fine in Oklahoma. I don't
- 31:07Speaker 1: get any sense he's dying to leave there. So that's it.
- 31:10Speaker 5: Next show, hal Tani threw to live batters for the
- 31:12Speaker 5: first time since his elbow surgery and a twenty two
- 31:15Speaker 5: pitch Live BP on Sunday, drawing lots of spectators. But
- 31:19Speaker 5: how important is it to the Dodgers success this season
- 31:21Speaker 5: for Atani to return to form on the mound?
- 31:23Speaker 3: Everyone's hurt, Coop, They're all hurt. The entire effing rotation
- 31:28Speaker 3: is on the injury list. They need someone who actually
- 31:32Speaker 3: wants to pitch and is somewhat heavy, but the problem
- 31:35Speaker 3: is Otani. I don't expect much to Tommy John's come
- 31:38Speaker 3: up next.
- 31:39Speaker 5: Jim nance said in a recent interview that he thinks
- 31:41Speaker 5: the Cowboys Chiefs game on Thanksgiving Day will set new
- 31:44Speaker 5: viewership records for the NFL.
- 31:45Speaker 6: Do you agree with him?
- 31:46Speaker 1: Well, I expect the Cowboys should be a mid level team,
- 31:49Speaker 1: but they always get pretty good ratings. And if I
- 31:51Speaker 1: was Jim NaNs and I was working for CBS, I'd
- 31:53Speaker 1: say the same thing. I say, close, but not on
- 31:55Speaker 1: an all time record.
- 31:55Speaker 3: How did we do?
- 31:56Speaker 6: He passes it?
- 31:57Speaker 3: That is a weg.
- 32:01Speaker 4: I love the game.
- 32:02Speaker 3: Don't go Lorena coughing. I won the game.
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- 32:16Speaker 2: listen live. Now Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have
- 32:23Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top? Probably not,
- 32:27Speaker 2: by let's do it.
- 32:28Speaker 1: Welcome into our contestants. We have Kevin in Ithaca. Hello, Kevin,
- 32:35Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning, Kevin. You ready to play?
- 32:40Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 32:41Speaker 3: Okay? Man of many words?
- 32:44Speaker 6: Confidence?
- 32:45Speaker 3: All right, Hold on, say Kevin, who do you want
- 32:47Speaker 3: to partner up with Kevin. Lorena would be good, but yeah,
- 32:55Speaker 3: I'll coop, oh man, and we have who do we
- 33:02Speaker 3: have about?
- 33:02Speaker 1: Patrick in South Carolina?
- 33:06Speaker 3: Hello? Patrick, Welcome, Good morning guys. How's it going? Welcome?
- 33:10Speaker 3: Good to have you. We want to partner up with
- 33:12Speaker 3: the Rain on this. Yes, yeah, go ahead, all right?
- 33:17Speaker 5: No, No, he's not gonna partner up with why not?
- 33:21Speaker 5: Rena doesn't know who any of these people are.
- 33:25Speaker 3: All well, apparely you stuck with me? Okay, hurry up,
- 33:28Speaker 3: hurry up.
- 33:29Speaker 5: All right, gentlemen. This is the Lenny Kravitz edition of
- 33:31Speaker 5: Mallards Amount of Money. He turned sixty one years old
- 33:33Speaker 5: on Monday.
- 33:34Speaker 3: Uh.
- 33:35Speaker 5: The categories are it ain't over till it's over? Are
- 33:38Speaker 5: you gonna go my way? Fly away? And again?
- 33:42Speaker 3: Kevin?
- 33:42Speaker 6: You were on first? Which category would you like? Fly away?
- 33:47Speaker 5: All right? And Patrick? You got it ain't over till
- 33:50Speaker 5: it's over? Are you gonna go my way? Or again?
- 33:53Speaker 6: It's not over till it's not over till it's over
- 33:56Speaker 6: all right?
- 33:56Speaker 3: Ain't it ain't over? Yeah, it ain't over.
- 34:00Speaker 5: All right, Kevin, I need the first and last name
- 34:04Speaker 5: of the athlete in order to get points.
- 34:07Speaker 6: We have fly away.
- 34:08Speaker 3: Here.
- 34:09Speaker 5: These athletes retired in their prime. Are you ready, Kevin?
- 34:13Speaker 3: All right?
- 34:14Speaker 5: Forty five seconds begin. He was a quarterback for the
- 34:17Speaker 5: Indianapolis Colts. He had a really big beard. Yes that's right.
- 34:24Speaker 5: This guy's nickname was Megatron for the Lions. Yes, this
- 34:29Speaker 5: guy was the best running back of all time for
- 34:31Speaker 5: the Lions. Yes that's correct. This guy was one of
- 34:36Speaker 5: the best football players of all time. He played for
- 34:39Speaker 5: the Browns.
- 34:41Speaker 6: That's right.
- 34:42Speaker 5: This guy was one of the best left handed pictures
- 34:44Speaker 5: of all time. Played for the Dodgers. He's Jewish, Yes,
- 34:50Speaker 5: all right. This guy is a linebacker. Was a linebacker
- 34:53Speaker 5: for the forty nine ers. He retired early. He just
- 34:55Speaker 5: made it into the Hall of Fame.
- 35:00Speaker 3: I am no, wow, I guess he's not a ringer.
- 35:03Speaker 6: There's Patrick Willis.
- 35:04Speaker 3: Oh bad. That's pathetic, dude, this guy's embarrassing to all right,
- 35:11Speaker 3: all right, Patrick, here we go, let's do it. Here
- 35:12Speaker 3: we go. H he picked fly away. We know you
- 35:15Speaker 3: picked over so it's over right.
- 35:17Speaker 1: These athletes were involved in some of the greatest comebacks
- 35:19Speaker 1: of all time.
- 35:20Speaker 3: Are you ready, Patrick? Sure? Okay, you sound very confident.
- 35:25Speaker 3: Forty five seconds on the clock.
- 35:26Speaker 1: Here we go, greatest comeback in Super Bowl history by
- 35:29Speaker 1: the Patriots quarterback who retired.
- 35:31Speaker 3: He's on TV now, yes.
- 35:33Speaker 1: Uh, the point guard for the Indiana Pacers. He's having
- 35:36Speaker 1: a big playoff run. Here is last Yes, yes, big
- 35:42Speaker 1: Poppy for the Red Sox, the designated hitter with all
- 35:46Speaker 1: his great red Yes, running back his last name is
- 35:50Speaker 1: like like a chef or something like that.
- 35:52Speaker 3: Uh. In the NFL, he's playing currently for I don't
- 35:57Speaker 3: know who's played for the Vikings. A bunch of different teams.
- 35:59Speaker 1: No, Buffalo Bill's backup quarterback led one of the great
- 36:02Speaker 1: comebacks of all time out of Maryland back in the nineties,
- 36:06Speaker 1: back up to Jim Kelly now Toronto Blue Jay second
- 36:10Speaker 1: Basement played for the Orioles.
- 36:11Speaker 3: He spit a loogie and.
- 36:13Speaker 6: Sixty point. Those were terrible clues, man, those were great clues.
- 36:18Speaker 3: No, they were not running back. They'd like a chef,
- 36:20Speaker 3: a Dalvin Cook. Come on, Bill's quarterback that had a
- 36:23Speaker 3: great comeback. Is it fines? Let's go okay, we can
- 36:26Speaker 3: do again? All right, Patrick, we have what do we have?
- 36:29Speaker 3: We have? Are you going to go my way? Or again?
- 36:34Speaker 3: Let's do again? Okay.
- 36:35Speaker 1: These athletes have all won multiple MVPs forty five seconds
- 36:38Speaker 1: on the clock.
- 36:39Speaker 3: We're on our way.
- 36:40Speaker 1: Go basketball player. This guy slept with twenty thousand women.
- 36:43Speaker 1: He's scored one hundred points in an NBA game. Oh okay,
- 36:50Speaker 1: third baseman for the Phillies at five hundred home runs
- 36:53Speaker 1: seventies and eighties. All right, how about the greatest Baltimore
- 37:01Speaker 1: cult quarterback of all time?
- 37:05Speaker 3: All right, we'll take that. Uh so, what's his name?
- 37:09Speaker 3: You know that's he said his name? No, he didn't.
- 37:11Speaker 1: Orioles shortstop all time consecutive game record.
- 37:21Speaker 3: Are you Patrick? Did you give up? I've given up up.
- 37:24Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm flad.
- 37:28Speaker 3: Oh man, Patrick, you don't give up? I mean, what
- 37:30Speaker 3: are you doing?
- 37:31Speaker 6: That's just just your clues are so bad. He couldn't
- 37:33Speaker 6: work with anything.
- 37:34Speaker 3: Scored one hundred points game, slut with twenty thousand women,
- 37:38Speaker 3: Get jock, Kevin Wae should have been anybody who has
- 37:40Speaker 3: to stopp with twenty thousand women and scored one hundred
- 37:42Speaker 3: points in an NBA game, that's like seven hundred people
- 37:44Speaker 3: have done that. Come on,