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- 0:32Speaker 1: So it was a whirlwind if you love the transaction,
- 0:36Speaker 1: if you get all horny for the transaction, you needed
- 0:39Speaker 1: an ambulance. By midday. There was a lot going on,
- 0:43Speaker 1: lot going on. Am I gonna sit here and pretend
- 0:45Speaker 1: like I'm an expert on every single player?
- 0:47Speaker 2: God?
- 0:48Speaker 1: No, I mean I have no life, but I got
- 0:51Speaker 1: some life compared to some of these other jabbronis, who
- 0:54Speaker 1: I think are all fraudsters. Now I got into radio.
- 0:57Speaker 1: I worked for a guy in San Diego who claimed
- 0:59Speaker 1: he knew the answer to every name in like baseball.
- 1:02Speaker 1: People would call up with phony phone calls about names
- 1:05Speaker 1: of athletes that they just made up, and this guy
- 1:07Speaker 1: would say, well, I know that guy was in DOUBLEA
- 1:10Speaker 1: for the Cardinals or something. Like that, it's a bull crap.
- 1:13Speaker 1: And I look at a lot of these so called
- 1:14Speaker 1: geniuses who are out there breaking down the free agent pyramid,
- 1:19Speaker 1: and I'm like, that guy's a charlatan, that guy's a
- 1:22Speaker 1: con man and all that. But our lead from people
- 1:25Speaker 1: we've heard of, our lead from the quarterback mart on
- 1:28Speaker 1: the move again, on the move again, the high speed
- 1:31Speaker 1: sports wires smoking hot, smoking hot, developing dot dot dot,
- 1:36Speaker 1: and the legal tampering period is underway. The flag is
- 1:41Speaker 1: up and off to the races we go. And the
- 1:44Speaker 1: story came out early. The Dolphins said bye bye to
- 1:49Speaker 1: to a tongue of Iloa and the worst kept secret around.
- 1:53Speaker 1: The story had been out for sometimes. So then a
- 1:56Speaker 1: few hours later, just a few hours later, too was
- 2:01Speaker 1: swooped up in NFL free Agency's found a new employer.
- 2:05Speaker 1: I assume you know by now, however, there's a chance
- 2:08Speaker 1: that you actually have lived your life. You worked, have
- 2:12Speaker 1: you slept, You weren't paying attention, and you tune in,
- 2:14Speaker 1: you want to hear what's going on. So the story
- 2:17Speaker 1: we learned that Tua Tongue of Iloa taking his talents
- 2:22Speaker 1: to the atl dirty merds gone all the dirty birds.
- 2:27Speaker 1: There a one year contract for the minimum one point
- 2:31Speaker 1: three million, that's the veteran minimum. And how can he
- 2:35Speaker 1: do that? Well, he can do that because those suckers
- 2:38Speaker 1: in Miami are paying him money, mon of money and
- 2:42Speaker 1: then some. The deal was likely agreed to a long
- 2:47Speaker 1: time ago. It was just announced on Monday. So that
- 2:50Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
- 2:54Speaker 1: You've got quarterback to a tongue of eyeloa headed to Atlanta.
- 3:00Speaker 1: What exactly are the Falcons doing here? Is this an upgrade? Seriously? So,
- 3:06Speaker 1: I've got even life, We've got canned spam and Fisher Price,
- 3:13Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
- 3:15Speaker 1: we are going to pinky squear. This will be the
- 3:18Speaker 1: greatest monologue ever broadcast overnight on Fox Sports Radio on
- 3:22Speaker 1: this day. And if it's not, then I'm going to
- 3:26Speaker 1: blame Mike Harmon, who I just saw walk out of
- 3:29Speaker 1: the building. All right, So a the Falcons answer the question,
- 3:34Speaker 1: what exactly are the Falcons doing here? It's a box
- 3:38Speaker 1: checking exercise, that's my theory. It's a box checking exercise,
- 3:41Speaker 1: or go to checks, not one, not two, but three boxes?
- 3:46Speaker 1: All right? For Atlanta. He's cheap, he's available, and he's
- 3:51Speaker 1: got a pulse. We think he's breathing. We think he's breathing.
- 3:55Speaker 1: So that's it. Boom, rat tat tat. There you go.
- 3:59Speaker 1: That's the bar. That's the bar for the Atlanta Falcons.
- 4:03Speaker 1: And he comes with a warning label. Buyer beware, buyer beware.
- 4:09Speaker 1: Numbers are misleading. Stats are misleading. And so this continues.
- 4:15Speaker 1: What apparently is the new franchise charter in Georgia there
- 4:22Speaker 1: the Atlanta football team there. They've turned now to the
- 4:27Speaker 1: island life. The island life. What does that mean, Well,
- 4:31Speaker 1: the island of lost souls. They go play for the Falcons.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, fun for all ages
- 4:39Speaker 1: there Falcon football. Unless you're actually watching them, you can
- 4:42Speaker 1: reinvent yourself, rejuvenate your career in the Peach State. Unless
- 4:48Speaker 1: that doesn't happen, But you to go down there, hang out,
- 4:52Speaker 1: get some of that jerk chicken, that good southern food there,
- 4:55Speaker 1: get some collid greens, some grits and a corn bread
- 4:59Speaker 1: and all the other great foods they have there, and
- 5:02Speaker 1: enjoy that because you're not gonna enjoy playing quarterback for
- 5:04Speaker 1: the Falcons very much. Now, I will tell you on
- 5:06Speaker 1: a tablet if you look at a tablet and imagine,
- 5:10Speaker 1: use your imagination, you can be Benny Brightside. You look
- 5:14Speaker 1: at it, you're like, well, this looks pretty good. You've
- 5:17Speaker 1: got a dome stadium, a division filled with Southern teams,
- 5:23Speaker 1: so it's not your Northeastern coal or upper Midwestern cold
- 5:26Speaker 1: weather playmakers. And Drake London and John Robinson and Kyle
- 5:31Speaker 1: Pitts up the wazoo for TUA. So you got that.
- 5:35Speaker 1: That's the kind of lineup that on a tablet looks
- 5:38Speaker 1: pretty pretty good. That looks gorgeous. The sales pitch like, listen,
- 5:45Speaker 1: this is the way to do it. These guys are
- 5:47Speaker 1: all young and hungry and the prime of their careers.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Are not even in the prime of their careers some
- 5:51Speaker 1: of these guys.
- 5:52Speaker 2: Now.
- 5:52Speaker 1: The reality is the scouting report on TUA says, keep
- 5:56Speaker 1: your distance, keep your distance here. It's one of those
- 6:00Speaker 1: moves that looks better than it is from the hallway
- 6:07Speaker 1: outside the theater, right outside the theater. Well, that's pretty
- 6:10Speaker 1: good outside the stadium, like, oh, that's not bad. That's
- 6:13Speaker 1: not a bad move. However, when you sit down at
- 6:18Speaker 1: your seat and watch it, you realize it's a low
- 6:21Speaker 1: budget student film is what it is now. The plot
- 6:24Speaker 1: twist here is this Atlanta now has two lefties at quarterback.
- 6:30Speaker 1: They're going all left handed there, Tua and Michael Pennex Junior, who,
- 6:36Speaker 1: for some reason the Falcon's drafted in the first round
- 6:38Speaker 1: because there are a bunch of country pumpkins and that
- 6:41Speaker 1: worked out really well. That was great. They should have
- 6:43Speaker 1: drafted Tommy in Atlanta, our caller and listener in Atlanta.
- 6:47Speaker 1: Tommy would have been better off there. But apparently the
- 6:50Speaker 1: Falcons are running the South Paw offense, which explains a lot. Now,
- 6:55Speaker 1: keeping the theme going here, but turning the page on
- 6:58Speaker 1: the Miami side of things. So the Dolphins were so desperate,
- 7:04Speaker 1: so desperate to get rid of to it, How desperate
- 7:07Speaker 1: were they, thanks for asking? They were so desperate that
- 7:11Speaker 1: they're going to take the greatest salary cap ding in
- 7:16Speaker 1: the history of the salary cap ninety nine point two million.
- 7:20Speaker 1: Do you understand how much one must suck and blow
- 7:25Speaker 1: to have a team say, rather than keep you, we
- 7:28Speaker 1: would rather take a hit of ninety nine point two
- 7:32Speaker 1: million dollars. Now we are told that will be spread
- 7:36Speaker 1: like chunky peanut butter over a couple of years. So
- 7:40Speaker 1: starting this year, sixty seven point four million, then the
- 7:44Speaker 1: following year thirty one point eight million of dead charges,
- 7:51Speaker 1: and then the Dolphins will have to deal with that,
- 7:54Speaker 1: and oh they are, Oh they are. So Miami hosted
- 7:58Speaker 1: a one minute sizzle reel as Tua was fired from
- 8:06Speaker 1: his job. Well, I guess laid off. You get ninety
- 8:07Speaker 1: nine million, You're not really fired, you're laid off. So
- 8:10Speaker 1: the Dolphins sent off this sizzle reel. I mean saw
- 8:12Speaker 1: it or not. It happened when I was sleeping. I
- 8:13Speaker 1: saw it when I woke up, and I wanted to
- 8:16Speaker 1: talk about that. So the question why why did the
- 8:19Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, a multi billion dollar football team, post a
- 8:23Speaker 1: highlight video of a guy in Tua tongue of Biloa
- 8:27Speaker 1: who they are going to pay ninety nine million to
- 8:32Speaker 1: not have on their roster. So what are you doing now?
- 8:37Speaker 1: This made me want to vomit. Not the vomit comet,
- 8:40Speaker 1: I just wanted to vomit, right, Like It's it's not
- 8:43Speaker 1: just dysfunction with the Dolphin. I mean they got that
- 8:47Speaker 1: going for him too. The Dan Dolphins also works for dysfunction,
- 8:51Speaker 1: but it's a sub basement level of loserdom. So you
- 8:54Speaker 1: go to the basement, and then you go below the basement.
- 8:57Speaker 1: That's loser, dumb. There's a portal right under there, and
- 9:01Speaker 1: you go in there and that's the board you're posting
- 9:04Speaker 1: a thank you video for Tua Tongue Bai looa like
- 9:08Speaker 1: he's Dan Marino. They didn't do that for Dan Marino
- 9:11Speaker 1: because he wasn't There was no social media when Dan
- 9:14Speaker 1: Marino retired and all that. But the guy Tua just
- 9:18Speaker 1: essentially pickpocketed the franchise and you're left with a ninety
- 9:24Speaker 1: nine million dollar charge. He dined and ditched, and you,
- 9:28Speaker 1: of course escorted him out of the building. The biggest
- 9:32Speaker 1: heist in NFL history. And the social media mods for
- 9:37Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins are out there and they're treating Tua
- 9:40Speaker 1: like he's some kind of war hero. What are you doing?
- 9:46Speaker 1: Just quietly let him go. That's it. Say hey, we
- 9:49Speaker 1: fed up and we'll move on. That's it. And Tua
- 9:54Speaker 1: turned out to be a fake, a phony and a fraud.
- 9:57Speaker 1: And some people I won't say who that may or
- 10:00Speaker 1: may not host an overnight show tried to warn the
- 10:02Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. Did they listen? Hell no, they didn't listen. No,
- 10:07Speaker 1: they did not. So Tua not only commits the perfect
- 10:11Speaker 1: crime because he got all that money without a gun,
- 10:14Speaker 1: without a knife, without a hand grenade, just the duke,
- 10:19Speaker 1: the duke, and that's it. So the Dolphins have already
- 10:23Speaker 1: paid to a by my malor math one hundred and
- 10:26Speaker 1: twenty four million to check the turf and see what's
- 10:32Speaker 1: going on there for structural integrities. He throws the ball
- 10:35Speaker 1: into the ground and or or better into the ear
- 10:39Speaker 1: hole of a receiver that wasn't looking for the ball,
- 10:42Speaker 1: and now you're eating that ninety nine million dollar cap
- 10:45Speaker 1: hit there just to get him out of the building.
- 10:48Speaker 1: That's an FBI situation, is what that is here. This
- 10:51Speaker 1: isn't the salary cap hit. That's a ransom payment, is
- 10:55Speaker 1: what that is. And Tua's got another one hundred some
- 10:59Speaker 1: million dollar that he's going to be getting by the
- 11:02Speaker 1: time this is all done, So he's got much more money.
- 11:05Speaker 1: And for that, you got one playoff appearance and no
- 11:09Speaker 1: playoff wins with Tua. He was also hurt quite a bit.
- 11:14Speaker 1: That turned out to be a superpower, and he's shown
- 11:18Speaker 1: to be Tua, based on his relatively long NFL career,
- 11:23Speaker 1: a front runner who collapses the very moment, the very
- 11:29Speaker 1: split second the temperature drops below fifty degrees, he literally
- 11:33Speaker 1: turns into a popsicle. He turns into a popsicle. He's
- 11:36Speaker 1: essentially just canned spam under center, if you will. That
- 11:42Speaker 1: cost a quarter of a billion dollars. That's some very
- 11:46Speaker 1: expensive can spam. That's what it is. And so that's
- 11:50Speaker 1: what the Dolphins did. And they should have just posted
- 11:53Speaker 1: a video of him leaving Miami and said, okay, happy
- 11:56Speaker 1: days are here again. That's the only highlight that the
- 12:00Speaker 1: Dolphins should have posted to a left and just erase
- 12:04Speaker 1: everything else. All right, now, last word, So to the
- 12:06Speaker 1: replacement we go. We already have his replacement. The new
- 12:09Speaker 1: head coach Jeff Haifley has a deal with former Titans
- 12:14Speaker 1: and Packers quarterback Willis.
- 12:18Speaker 3: Now.
- 12:18Speaker 1: The overnight rumor was Willis was going to the Cardinals.
- 12:21Speaker 1: The Dolphins supposedly stepped in and offered him a little
- 12:25Speaker 1: bit more money, toss in the Florida taxes and saving
- 12:29Speaker 1: some more money on top of that. So Malik Willis
- 12:31Speaker 1: going to Miami. The question what stands out? What stands
- 12:36Speaker 1: out about Malik Willis of all people, who's now the
- 12:40Speaker 1: QB one for the Miami Dolphins. So this is great.
- 12:44Speaker 1: The reason I wanted to talk about it not that
- 12:46Speaker 1: in Miligue Wills I think he'll be okay. I want
- 12:49Speaker 1: to see if he can bloss him. However, however, this moment,
- 12:55Speaker 1: this little polaroid, captures the absurdity of the business of football,
- 13:02Speaker 1: the economy of the NFL. And this is the bully
- 13:05Speaker 1: pulpit where I have been screaming down from the bully
- 13:08Speaker 1: pulpit about the salarycap as crap and all that stuff,
- 13:11Speaker 1: and going on and on and on. So this should
- 13:15Speaker 1: end all debate. This should be the moment that it's
- 13:18Speaker 1: all debate about those that preach at the altar of
- 13:21Speaker 1: the salary cap. So Miami is playing a ninety nine
- 13:24Speaker 1: million dollar dead cap hit for two of the go away. Okay, fine,
- 13:27Speaker 1: we've established that get out of here, go away. So
- 13:31Speaker 1: that's not a buyout. It's not a buyout. It's a
- 13:35Speaker 1: yacht and a helipad. And there's still all a bunch
- 13:39Speaker 1: of guaranteed money and all that. And somehow with that
- 13:42Speaker 1: amount of money tied up, they were still able to
- 13:45Speaker 1: sign another quarterback. Like you'd think that Dolphins would have
- 13:50Speaker 1: to play with ten players on the field. They wouldn't
- 13:52Speaker 1: have to full eleven on offense or defense. They'd have
- 13:55Speaker 1: ten on offense, ten on defense, maybe only nine on
- 13:58Speaker 1: special teams. Oh, they still found a way to get milite, Willison. Now,
- 14:03Speaker 1: why is that? Because the cap is crap? Say it
- 14:05Speaker 1: with me now, kids, Cap is crap. Cap is crap.
- 14:09Speaker 1: That's right. It's all part of the Fisher Price cash register.
- 14:14Speaker 1: That is the NFL salary cap that even come with
- 14:17Speaker 1: six little toy coins, blue, yellow, green, all those coasts
- 14:21Speaker 1: and the salary cap. It's like the points on whose
- 14:25Speaker 1: line is it? Anyway? None of it matters, None of
- 14:29Speaker 1: it matters. Right, And also, Malie Willis, this is also
- 14:33Speaker 1: a great thing about life and gentle in sports. I
- 14:35Speaker 1: don't know if this works anywhere else. He became more valuable,
- 14:38Speaker 1: Malie Willis, by doing less, by not working that much.
- 14:43Speaker 1: His value skyrocketed to the moon to the moon. The
- 14:48Speaker 1: last two years he has started three more games than
- 14:53Speaker 1: I have, and you have three. That's it. The last
- 14:57Speaker 1: two years he's attempted, I completed, attempted eighty nine passes.
- 15:02Speaker 1: Malik Willis, He's barely played. And yeah, did he show
- 15:07Speaker 1: a flicker here and there for Green Bay?
- 15:09Speaker 2: Sure?
- 15:11Speaker 1: Surrounded by competent grownups. He looked like he had some
- 15:14Speaker 1: kind of a clue. And now now he goes to
- 15:18Speaker 1: the daycare center in Miami, and yet I said, Wow,
- 15:22Speaker 1: he's a blue chip stock waiting to happen. Okay, well,
- 15:25Speaker 1: I hope he does well, but certainly seems like a
- 15:28Speaker 1: quite the overpay. Meanwhile, you look at what the Dolphins
- 15:31Speaker 1: plan is. And we were discussing the Jets the other day,
- 15:35Speaker 1: tanking for Arch Manning. Well, the Miami Dolphins. At this point,
- 15:39Speaker 1: can we do a wellness check on Stevie Meatballs and
- 15:41Speaker 1: some of our great dolphin fans that are part of
- 15:44Speaker 1: the show. Because it looks like an exclusion zone. You
- 15:46Speaker 1: know that eighteen mile area around Chernobyl, that's the dolphins,
- 15:51Speaker 1: right And here, Malik, there's a lot of nuclear stuff
- 15:56Speaker 1: going on. We want you to blossom. We want you
- 15:59Speaker 1: to blossom there so radiation soaked environment, that's the dolphins.
- 16:05Speaker 1: Good luck.
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- 17:17Speaker 1: All right, so our lead this. I had plenty of
- 17:19Speaker 1: opportunity to go several different directions, and I did watch
- 17:24Speaker 1: a good amount of what happened here. Saw the Bam
- 17:28Speaker 1: out of Bio, the most bogus eighty point game in
- 17:30Speaker 1: the history of pro basketball. My God, oh my god.
- 17:33Speaker 1: And I really thought about doing that, but that would
- 17:36Speaker 1: reward the Miami heat for the Shenanigans that took place
- 17:39Speaker 1: in that game, as if they had a real commission
- 17:42Speaker 1: with balls, that there would be some kind of mark
- 17:44Speaker 1: on that. It was ridiculous. It was embarrassing for the NBA,
- 17:47Speaker 1: but most things that happened the regular season are embarrassing.
- 17:49Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later. Also, Aaron Judge playing like
- 17:53Speaker 1: it's the World Series for Team USA. Who goofed? I've
- 17:57Speaker 1: got to know. But we begin with this lead story
- 18:00Speaker 1: from Lost Wages Nevada, which is also Lost Trades Nevada. Yeah,
- 18:06Speaker 1: so the story. I think this is by far the
- 18:10Speaker 1: biggest football story. The biggest football story. The second day
- 18:15Speaker 1: of what I love is the legal tampering period for
- 18:19Speaker 1: the NFL. The Silver and Black continue to be in
- 18:23Speaker 1: the headlines. I know our buddy Purto's we're upset and
- 18:26Speaker 1: a lot of the Raiders who their fan base, I
- 18:28Speaker 1: will say this for their their fan base has more
- 18:31Speaker 1: passion than the team does. It's almost like they still
- 18:34Speaker 1: think they're good, which is hilarious to me. They blow
- 18:37Speaker 1: they're the Browns of the Jets. They just have a
- 18:39Speaker 1: different logo. So yet again a stunter from Sin City
- 18:44Speaker 1: and man alive. This is why. So if you didn't
- 18:46Speaker 1: hear I assume you've heard by now you never know.
- 18:48Speaker 1: Maybe you don't pay attention. Perhaps you've been off the
- 18:51Speaker 1: grid and you've been away from all forms of media.
- 18:54Speaker 1: So the Raiders, who a couple of days ago, it
- 18:57Speaker 1: was announced with much fanfare, with much fanfare, had said
- 19:01Speaker 1: bye bye to Max Crosby. They sent his ass out
- 19:05Speaker 1: of Vegas and send him to Maryland. Well, now, psych
- 19:12Speaker 1: the Raiders announced that the Ravens had backed out of
- 19:16Speaker 1: the agreement to acquire Edge rusher Max Crosby. What does
- 19:22Speaker 1: that mean? That means ix nay on the trade, a
- 19:27Speaker 1: no trade. Now this did not It is interesting to
- 19:30Speaker 1: point out also this did not come from the normal
- 19:33Speaker 1: Jabbronis Adam Schefter didn't have it. The rap sheet didn't
- 19:37Speaker 1: have it that the NFL media. This was a story
- 19:41Speaker 1: that was not leaked. It was delivered by the Raiders
- 19:45Speaker 1: on social media. Normally these things are just given to
- 19:48Speaker 1: the insiders to get out there. It was just a
- 19:50Speaker 1: random social media post. Once so random, there were people
- 19:54Speaker 1: that truly believed that the Raiders account had been hacked,
- 19:59Speaker 1: and so the previou he is agreed deal, the deal
- 20:01Speaker 1: that previously had been agreed to where the Raiders were
- 20:04Speaker 1: sending Crosby to Baltimore and then they got some crab
- 20:08Speaker 1: fries and two first round draft picks in return, and
- 20:11Speaker 1: that was set to become official officially, I mean kosher
- 20:14Speaker 1: in under twenty four hours. And it turns out no turnout.
- 20:20Speaker 1: The loads's the parties over. Yeah, So the word is
- 20:26Speaker 1: Crosby failed the physical. His representation ran to the microphones
- 20:34Speaker 1: or this gut social media this Oh no, no, no,
- 20:37Speaker 1: he's it'll be good to go. I was gonna this summer.
- 20:40Speaker 1: Everything will be good, Everything will be good, all right.
- 20:42Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
- 20:44Speaker 1: discuss the question the Ravens pulling out of the Max
- 20:49Speaker 1: Crosby trade with the Raiders because of what is the
- 20:52Speaker 1: claim is a failed physical. How realistic does that report
- 20:58Speaker 1: come across. That's what's being tossed out there that the
- 21:01Speaker 1: Ravens said, no, no bad knee. It's a bad knee
- 21:06Speaker 1: for Max Crosby. So my views on this, I've got
- 21:09Speaker 1: house band, champagne, and PlayStation and we'll throw all of
- 21:16Speaker 1: these together and we're going to drop a brand new album,
- 21:20Speaker 1: and whether you like it or not, we're just gonna
- 21:22Speaker 1: have a bunch of bots download the album. Isn't that
- 21:24Speaker 1: what all the people do today, all the kids. You
- 21:25Speaker 1: just have bots downloaded, so it doesn't matter if it's
- 21:27Speaker 1: good or not. You just have artificially fake downloads. All right. Anyway,
- 21:31Speaker 1: first of all, this entire episode, if you are on
- 21:36Speaker 1: the side, well, the Ravens are in the right. Another,
- 21:38Speaker 1: I believe the Ravens doctors. I have bad news. This
- 21:44Speaker 1: is a stupid test and you've just failed. Sorry, not sorry, Okay,
- 21:49Speaker 1: you are gullible? Just how gullible are you? If you
- 21:53Speaker 1: believe this is an accurate story that's being fed to
- 21:55Speaker 1: us that the Ravens physical was the reason that Max
- 22:00Speaker 1: Crosby's trade was declined. This is one of the oldest
- 22:05Speaker 1: open secrets in the NFL and all of sports. Even
- 22:10Speaker 1: when I was a little kid, and I'm so old,
- 22:12Speaker 1: I was around before the internet. But even then, when
- 22:14Speaker 1: I was growing up, I knew about this the past.
- 22:17Speaker 1: The physical dance is political as much as anything. It's
- 22:24Speaker 1: not really medicine. It's not medicine, it's political. The mix
- 22:29Speaker 1: plain for those of you a little slow in the
- 22:31Speaker 1: back of the room. Here, the team doctor. Whether you
- 22:34Speaker 1: work for the Ravens or the Patriots or the Vikings, whoever,
- 22:37Speaker 1: the team doctor is all right. They work for the team.
- 22:43Speaker 1: They don't work for the Mayo Clinic. They're more like
- 22:48Speaker 1: the house band. They're the house band. Whether it's on
- 22:52Speaker 1: a boat or a casino, they're the house band, and
- 22:55Speaker 1: they play whatever they are told to play. That's works.
- 23:00Speaker 1: And if the GM wants Max Crosby, if the ownership
- 23:05Speaker 1: in Baltimore says we want Max Crosby, what happens. Then
- 23:10Speaker 1: the story is well, listen, the doctor gave him a physical.
- 23:14Speaker 1: He's got some minor wear and tear. It's perfectly normal.
- 23:18Speaker 1: The guy's played a lot of snaps in the NFL,
- 23:20Speaker 1: Max Crosby, And it makes sense if you suddenly don't
- 23:24Speaker 1: want the player because you've had a change of heart,
- 23:26Speaker 1: because you realize that wasn't such a great trade for
- 23:29Speaker 1: you for whatever reason. If you believe that, then the knee,
- 23:33Speaker 1: the structural instability. We just can't make the trade. We
- 23:39Speaker 1: just can't. We just cannot do it. Should the doctor
- 23:42Speaker 1: push back again, the house bann Should the doctor push
- 23:46Speaker 1: back The Ravens would then fly to Chicago. They visit
- 23:51Speaker 1: lou mal Noddies. They get a Deep Dish pie and
- 23:55Speaker 1: then have lunch with Doc Mike, who will then sign
- 23:58Speaker 1: off on it. Our caller, Doc Mike from Chicago.
- 24:00Speaker 4: Right.
- 24:01Speaker 1: They say, yeah, no problem ergo uh. The Ravens change
- 24:05Speaker 1: their mind. They say, well, we don't want to give
- 24:08Speaker 1: up that many draft picks. That's not what the Ravens do,
- 24:11Speaker 1: first round draft picks like that, that's out of our culture.
- 24:14Speaker 1: So we we have a chance here because the trade
- 24:16Speaker 1: hasn't been sent through the league. So we're gonna bow
- 24:19Speaker 1: out of it, and we're gonna use the physical as
- 24:22Speaker 1: a fall guy. Everyone's got to have a fall guy,
- 24:25Speaker 1: all right. So secondly, keeping the rhythm of this hour,
- 24:30Speaker 1: going the hour of Max Crosby. So Max Crosby goes
- 24:34Speaker 1: back to Vegas for now and Baltimore does the old mutambo.
- 24:39Speaker 1: They reject Max Crosby. So which part of this story
- 24:45Speaker 1: feels the most uncomfortable, because there's a lot of uncomfortable
- 24:49Speaker 1: things about this There's a lot of things that are
- 24:52Speaker 1: very odd. There's oddities to this story which makes it
- 24:55Speaker 1: so good, just great. So the Raiders I'm gonna start
- 25:00Speaker 1: with them. They tried prematurely. We have pills. If you've
- 25:03Speaker 1: got premature issues, listen to the Overnight Show. But the
- 25:06Speaker 1: Raiders tried to celebrate prematurely the breakup. The divorce papers
- 25:13Speaker 1: had not yet been signed, but they were already having
- 25:16Speaker 1: a party to celebrate the divorce and all. That's classic mistake.
- 25:19Speaker 1: You never pop the champagne ever, don't pop the champagne
- 25:24Speaker 1: until the paperwork clears the league office. You don't measure
- 25:27Speaker 1: the drapes before you win the election. Okay, so bad
- 25:30Speaker 1: job by them, the Raiders. And then they did this
- 25:32Speaker 1: just ridiculous victory lap. Because the Raiders don't win during
- 25:36Speaker 1: the regular season. They suck. They're the Jets of the Browns.
- 25:39Speaker 1: So when they make a move a transaction in the
- 25:42Speaker 1: off season, they celebrate like they're good at something. It's like, hey,
- 25:46Speaker 1: we blow, but we're good at this. Of course, anybody
- 25:49Speaker 1: can say they want a transaction because you won't know
- 25:52Speaker 1: for months and months and months. They don't pay U
- 25:53Speaker 1: till September. We're sitting in March. They don't play till September.
- 25:58Speaker 1: So the Raiders go around like, look at us, man,
- 26:00Speaker 1: let me like peacocks with their feathers in the air everywhere.
- 26:03Speaker 1: The Raiders we got two first round picks. We so excited,
- 26:10Speaker 1: high fiving, chest pumping Tom Brady probably in the back
- 26:15Speaker 1: polishing the Lombardi right there. Of course he has one
- 26:19Speaker 1: one with the Raiders, twirling his mustache like every cartoon villain.
- 26:24Speaker 1: Tom Brady there, we're genius, says, Oops of Daisy, Oops
- 26:29Speaker 1: of Daisy. Tom failed physical and the trade is D
- 26:35Speaker 1: E A D with Baltimore. So Crosby boomerangs back. And
- 26:42Speaker 1: since this is the portion where we talk about the
- 26:45Speaker 1: shame game, so Crosby goes back on the old boomerang.
- 26:50Speaker 1: He bounces back to the Raiders and kind of like
- 26:55Speaker 1: bad calls on this show that just keep coming back
- 26:58Speaker 1: every day, whether you want them or not, they just
- 27:00Speaker 1: pop up. And I'm not naming it, Lauren, I'm not
- 27:03Speaker 1: going to name Michael Leperground. I'm not doing it. I'm
- 27:06Speaker 1: not I didn't say no, I'm not going hollering James.
- 27:10Speaker 1: I'm not saying that name it. No, definitely not, definitely
- 27:12Speaker 1: not no. But here's the point. So the Raiders get
- 27:16Speaker 1: the player back, which you'd say, well, this guy was
- 27:19Speaker 1: born to be a Raider. This is great and all
- 27:21Speaker 1: that stuff. It's wonderful. The plan would be just to
- 27:25Speaker 1: flip crossbeagind. They rady to spent a bunch of money
- 27:28Speaker 1: on some marginal players in free agency, and now they
- 27:33Speaker 1: lost the two first round picks they were all excited
- 27:35Speaker 1: about and all the all jazzed up for, and they've lost.
- 27:40Speaker 1: I don't really care about the salary cap flexibility. Some
- 27:42Speaker 1: people are worked up into a ladder about that. I
- 27:44Speaker 1: don't really worry about that. The leverage part of it
- 27:47Speaker 1: is where they're screwed, because now the teams that were
- 27:51Speaker 1: interested in Max Straussy, a number of them have filled
- 27:53Speaker 1: the void, and those that haven't filled the void, well,
- 27:57Speaker 1: we don't have to pay that much. You guys are screwed.
- 28:00Speaker 1: You got to work with us now, all right? And
- 28:03Speaker 1: then how about Crosby, the most awkward of them all,
- 28:07Speaker 1: Max Crosby. This dude posted a thirteen minute could buy
- 28:15Speaker 1: video to the Raiders thirteen minute heartfelt message to Raider Nation.
- 28:24Speaker 1: Max Crosby, ik umba, My god, it's like quitting your job,
- 28:30Speaker 1: giving a very dramatic speech about how your bosses suck
- 28:34Speaker 1: and the morale at work is terrible, and nobody ever
- 28:37Speaker 1: gets raises here and people are very upset, and then
- 28:41Speaker 1: Hr walks in and says, oh, by the way, you know,
- 28:44Speaker 1: actually that transfer thing didn't go through, so you got
- 28:47Speaker 1: to come back to work tomorrow. What say what? Now
- 28:50Speaker 1: the Raiders still have time to make this okay? For now,
- 28:56Speaker 1: it's the walk of shame, the walk of shame, you
- 28:59Speaker 1: know what's late night booty call there at three in
- 29:02Speaker 1: the morning, walking out and a couple of people, for
- 29:05Speaker 1: some reason awake. They look at you like, what are
- 29:06Speaker 1: you doing? You know what you're doing? All disheveled and
- 29:09Speaker 1: all that stuff. So everyone knows that Crosby wanted out,
- 29:14Speaker 1: He wanted people with the Raiders. He didn't like Alice
- 29:15Speaker 1: Guerrero or Tom Brady thinks he's a phony, and Brady
- 29:19Speaker 1: does appear to be a phony as an executive. So
- 29:21Speaker 1: Crosby want it out and so fine, and now he's
- 29:26Speaker 1: got to again. For now he's got to go back
- 29:28Speaker 1: and pretend, pretend that the breakup thing didn't happen, all
- 29:33Speaker 1: that stuff. So all right, now final thought on this
- 29:37Speaker 1: flipping forward. So question here is where does this Max
- 29:43Speaker 1: Crosby story go next with the Raiders? So on this one,
- 29:50Speaker 1: you should pull up a chair and get some popcorn. Cauz.
- 29:54Speaker 1: This is good. This is where it becomes a late
- 29:56Speaker 1: night infomercial. But wait, there's more are but wait, what
- 30:02Speaker 1: are you talking about? What? Wait there's more? What are
- 30:04Speaker 1: you yapping about? Yeah? Yay? So think about like this,
- 30:07Speaker 1: the PlayStation you're playing, you're doing your thing. You're like
- 30:11Speaker 1: Kyler Murray whatever, you're playing games. And then he's my
- 30:14Speaker 1: favorite gamer, Kyler Murray, little guy. So the PlayStation gets
- 30:17Speaker 1: turned off and nothing got saved. The memory card is toasted,
- 30:24Speaker 1: and so the Raiders have to start the game from
- 30:27Speaker 1: the beginning level. They go back to the start this
- 30:32Speaker 1: is my nightmare and the Ravens they hit the big
- 30:35Speaker 1: red failed physical box. What's in the box?
- 30:40Speaker 2: Hit that?
- 30:40Speaker 1: And so suddenly the whole deal goes poof like a magician,
- 30:45Speaker 1: and congratulations to Max Crosby. Here he won the shammy whammy.
- 30:50Speaker 1: So congratulations on that. You get the shammy whammy. And
- 30:53Speaker 1: now the Raiders are back to where they start. As
- 30:55Speaker 1: we said, and that's the interesting story here is they're
- 30:57Speaker 1: wandering through the flea market of the NFL here and like, okay,
- 31:02Speaker 1: this is the NFL's trade bizarre. And they're holding Crosby
- 31:05Speaker 1: up like a slightly dented antique lamp. And they got
- 31:10Speaker 1: this lamp. It's classic. It might be worth a lot
- 31:12Speaker 1: of money. However, we don't know. And antiques roadshow is
- 31:17Speaker 1: what it is and it works great. A little wear
- 31:20Speaker 1: and tear, no problem, no problem, use a little bit
- 31:24Speaker 1: pre owned. So there's the catch. Now entering the conversation here, Baltimore,
- 31:31Speaker 1: very publicly red tagged Max Crosby is damaged at a
- 31:36Speaker 1: garage sale, So true or not, that label is going
- 31:41Speaker 1: to follow Crosby around. So now Tom Brady and the
- 31:46Speaker 1: puppets underneath Tom Brady, who do nothing but just follow
- 31:50Speaker 1: the instructions of Tom Brady in the Raider front office,
- 31:52Speaker 1: they now have to adjust the price. The market has spoken.
- 31:55Speaker 1: They have to adjust the price. The dancing shoes are on.
- 31:59Speaker 1: The dancing shoes are on there, and they're doing the limbo. Dude,
- 32:03Speaker 1: the limbo? How low can you go? You look around?
- 32:07Speaker 1: You got buffalo out there in New England, Chicago, Dallas
- 32:12Speaker 1: is lurking around there. They're all circling like bargain hunters
- 32:17Speaker 1: on a Monday morning when the new supplies come in
- 32:19Speaker 1: at the Amazon liquidation store and they're trying to find
- 32:24Speaker 1: some good stuff there that's in the box. And Crosby's
- 32:26Speaker 1: still a star. Just now he's on the not the
- 32:31Speaker 1: full discount rack, but a lot less than he was
- 32:35Speaker 1: the other day. So slightly scratched box now for Max
- 32:38Speaker 1: Crosby and the Raiders are hoping someone still wants to
- 32:42Speaker 1: purchase the Max Crosby package.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 32:48Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 32:51Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our contestants. Who we have here. Let's
- 32:54Speaker 1: see we've got Trent in which it tall? Hello Trent, welcome, Hello, Hello,
- 33:01Speaker 1: hello Tren. Welcome you. Who do you want to partner
- 33:04Speaker 1: up with? It's the John Hamm edition of Mallard's Mount
- 33:06Speaker 1: of Money. Lorena, you want to be my partner? All right?
- 33:11Speaker 1: That ought to be Go ahead, Loren, Yeah, let me
- 33:13Speaker 1: go over some of the bs and see. Okay man
- 33:17Speaker 1: in the NFL. Oh, you won Mallard's amount of money
- 33:19Speaker 1: with Loraina? Is that Lorena is not an option? She's
- 33:21Speaker 1: never an option. I always I always win all these games.
- 33:27Speaker 1: You're lying. You're lying. Uh, you are lying, you never
- 33:32Speaker 1: played with Lorena on this game. Now, Coop, you're gonna
- 33:34Speaker 1: complain to me because the clock and it's not my fault.
- 33:38Speaker 1: This guy can't pick Ben or me.
- 33:41Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Me, Coop?
- 33:47Speaker 1: He has no idea? Who are all right? I'm gonna sure,
- 33:50Speaker 1: all right? You want to hang up on it? No, No,
- 33:52Speaker 1: it's fine, we'll do it. Okay, you has no okay,
- 33:54Speaker 1: all right? Put him on hold and then uh because
- 33:57Speaker 1: I know this guy's going to sabotage of the game,
- 33:58Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna play with him. So let's go
- 34:00Speaker 1: to Brian in Minneapolis. Hello Brian, Brian, Welcome, Brian, welcome.
- 34:07Speaker 3: How are you doing?
- 34:08Speaker 1: All right? Brian? You want to play the game?
- 34:10Speaker 2: I'll you Ben?
- 34:12Speaker 1: All right? Well you really have no other choice, all right, Cooper?
- 34:16Speaker 1: Are the carigory? Where you? Where are you driving to? Brian?
- 34:19Speaker 1: By the way, what are you up to?
- 34:20Speaker 2: All right?
- 34:20Speaker 1: No?
- 34:20Speaker 5: These are the categories? Categories are the ten mad Men, Landman,
- 34:26Speaker 5: and Tour de Pharmacy? Trent, which category.
- 34:29Speaker 1: Would you like? Tour de Pharmacy? All right? And Brian,
- 34:34Speaker 1: how about you? All right? All right, hold you on,
- 34:38Speaker 1: hold on, We're gonna have Mallor's Mountain of Money in
- 34:41Speaker 1: its entirety. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
- 34:44Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
- 34:46Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
- 34:52Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it
- 34:56Speaker 2: takes to get to the top? Probably?
- 35:00Speaker 1: Sure, here we go, we saylo to Trent in Wichita
- 35:03Speaker 1: teamed up with Coop and Brian in Minneapolis teamed up
- 35:06Speaker 1: with me and Troop.
- 35:08Speaker 5: I believe you're going first. Yes, that is correct, Trent.
- 35:12Speaker 5: We have toured to pharmacy. These athletes have all been
- 35:16Speaker 5: busted for peds. I need the first and the last
- 35:19Speaker 5: name of the athlete in order to get points, Trent.
- 35:21Speaker 1: Are you ready?
- 35:22Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 35:23Speaker 5: All right, forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin.
- 35:25Speaker 5: Former Yankee he was with j LO for a while. Yes,
- 35:31Speaker 5: this guy was a wide receiver on the Giants. He
- 35:33Speaker 5: had the famous one handed.
- 35:34Speaker 2: Catch, the one handed skate, the Odell Beckham.
- 35:40Speaker 5: Yes, this guy was David Ortiz's partner on the Red
- 35:44Speaker 5: Sox broke the curse. Yes, this guy was a wide
- 35:49Speaker 5: receiver for the Texans for a long time. He played
- 35:51Speaker 5: with the Ravens last year he's kind of old.
- 35:53Speaker 1: Now he has dreads dere Hopkins.
- 35:55Speaker 5: Yes, this guy was a longtime second baseman for the Yankees.
- 35:58Speaker 5: Then he got traded to the Seattle Mariners. I believe
- 36:01Speaker 5: signed as a free agent.
- 36:04Speaker 1: God, it's not God, I forget. Yes, Yes, I don't know. Yeah,
- 36:11Speaker 1: he said, I said Robert. He said Robert. Robbie said
- 36:15Speaker 1: Robert Cano. He said Robert. You said Robert's Robin. You
- 36:19Speaker 1: said you got one? Are you sure about? Is that
- 36:22Speaker 1: Loreino math or is that real math?
- 36:24Speaker 3: Yes?
- 36:25Speaker 1: That is the truth.
- 36:25Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 36:26Speaker 1: All right, Brian, Brian, are you ready? Brian?
- 36:31Speaker 2: I'm ready?
- 36:31Speaker 1: All right, landman. These athletes were all born in Texas.
- 36:35Speaker 1: Here we go. Forty five seconds. We're on our way.
- 36:37Speaker 3: Go.
- 36:38Speaker 1: Third baseman for the Dodgers, big fat white guy hits
- 36:41Speaker 1: a lot of home runs.
- 36:43Speaker 2: Monthy.
- 36:44Speaker 1: What's what's his first name? Come on? Say it? Said, sayad?
- 36:52Speaker 1: All right? Quarterbacks for the Chiefs right now, Yes, Atlanta,
- 36:58Speaker 1: brave legend play with the cub is not Smold's not Glavin.
- 37:02Speaker 1: But how soon we forget Hall of Fame Pitcher wide
- 37:13Speaker 1: receiver for the Seattle Seahawks right now, their top wide
- 37:16Speaker 1: receiver from Ohio State.
- 37:25Speaker 5: I have to say that was one of the worst
- 37:26Speaker 5: performances of Mount Money history.
- 37:30Speaker 1: Yeah, fat third basement for the Dodger.
- 37:33Speaker 3: And he said his name?
- 37:34Speaker 1: You just don't know, Max Munsey. Man say his name,
- 37:40Speaker 1: Max Mund say you could have said mad Dog or no, sir,
- 37:45Speaker 1: you want me to cheat? You? I don't cheat? That's you.
- 37:47Speaker 1: You're the cheat.
- 37:48Speaker 3: How is that?
- 37:48Speaker 1: You're a cheater? All right? Anyway? Yeah? Ten points up again? Ben?
- 37:53Speaker 1: All right, we'll play the slow game. We're gonna play
- 37:55Speaker 1: the four corners offense here. Well, Brian, you did so good.
- 37:58Speaker 1: We get to go again. So amazing this you got?
- 38:01Speaker 1: You didn't get Greg, Brian, Greg Madden? The ten Madmen,
- 38:06Speaker 1: the greatest picture in the nineties.
- 38:10Speaker 2: What yeah?
- 38:12Speaker 1: What what Brian? Brian? Do you want the Brian? Do
- 38:16Speaker 1: you want the ten? Or mad Men?
- 38:21Speaker 3: Mad Men?
- 38:24Speaker 1: Alright, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock. Are
- 38:29Speaker 1: we need the first and last name? Are you ready?
- 38:32Speaker 5: I'm ready?
- 38:32Speaker 1: We got all right, here we go, We're on our way.
- 38:34Speaker 3: Uh.
- 38:34Speaker 1: Picture for the Cubs back in the two thousands from
- 38:37Speaker 1: Venezuela had a very big temper named El Toro or
- 38:41Speaker 1: the Big z. No. All right, a white guy linebacker
- 38:47Speaker 1: for the Raiders and the forty nine ers in the
- 38:50Speaker 1: nineties as well. Crazy guy like punch somebody at practice.
- 38:55Speaker 1: It was dirty. He just hung off. Man, Oh yeah,
- 39:02Speaker 1: oh my guy. Cub pitcher, who was created Carlos Sambrano
- 39:07Speaker 1: and Bill Romanowski was who we were looking. Come on,
- 39:09Speaker 1: at least hang off like that like you're six and oh,
- 39:13Speaker 1: oh my god, that's so embarrassed. All right, do you
- 39:17Speaker 1: want to do you want to just go through the
- 39:18Speaker 1: cat the score? He wants that trend. No blind Scott
- 39:22Speaker 1: is online. He wants to play. I think are you there?
- 39:26Speaker 1: Are you there, Trent? Yeah, I'm here, dude. All right,
- 39:29Speaker 1: I told you didn't win. That's not a win. The
- 39:34Speaker 1: other guy gave up. The guy quit.
- 39:36Speaker 3: You might have been guying with me, the guy said.
- 39:38Speaker 3: The guy said, no, Moss. He didn't know who Max
- 39:41Speaker 3: Muncey was.
- 39:43Speaker 1: Carlos Sambrano, Bill Romanowski didn't know who he was. Greg
- 39:47Speaker 1: Maddox Hall of Fame pitcher, greatest pitcher Baseball seen the
- 39:52Speaker 1: last sixty years. Greg Maddicks had no idea who he was.
- 39:55Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm the bad guy and he said Munsi,
- 39:59Speaker 3: but he couldn't say Max, Like how do you know
- 40:02Speaker 3: Munsie and not Max?
- 40:03Speaker 1: How many of them monthsies are there? Hey, Trent?
- 40:06Speaker 5: Would you would you know a shortstop with number ten
- 40:09Speaker 5: retired for the Rangers?
- 40:11Speaker 1: No chance?
- 40:13Speaker 2: Number?
- 40:14Speaker 1: No?
- 40:14Speaker 3: No I know?
- 40:16Speaker 5: You know?
- 40:16Speaker 1: Is it place? The generic white guy? Come on place?
- 40:20Speaker 2: No chance?
- 40:21Speaker 1: See he doesn't no coop, So that means I win,
- 40:24Speaker 1: it doesn't You don't know who.
- 40:26Speaker 3: Michael Young is.
- 40:27Speaker 1: I got a Goldman deecket, I got a whoo