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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: We go to the Windy City, Chicago, Illinois. What a
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  Speaker 1: cool town to hang out in there and visit every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while. Good city there. And the, well,
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  Speaker 1: some parts of it are not great, but that's every city.
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  Speaker 1: So the final chapter, the final chapter of week number three,
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  Speaker 1: week three card. Number three. It all played out on
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  Speaker 1: television on the shores of Lake Michigan. At some point here,
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  Speaker 1: the Bears will, leave Illinois and Chicago and head off
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  Speaker 1: to Indiana. But for now, they're still the Chicago Bears,
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  Speaker 1: the real Chicago Bears. Jalen Hurts and the E-A-G-L-E-S. Suck, suck, suck.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles flew in to Chicago there, played the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: And we thought, well, maybe Tyson Bajent would play. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't play. No, no, he was not there. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he was there. He was a backup. And Case Keenum played.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know he was still in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You had Fox refugees Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Troy
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  Speaker 1: Aikman letting everyone know he's a lame duck. Does not
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  Speaker 1: have a contract next season. Wants everyone to know that.
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  Speaker 1: It should all feel bad for Troy Aikman. Just made
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars to give cliches on television for years.
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  Speaker 1: So they were calling the game there on ABC. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you were watching or not. Perhaps not.
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  Speaker 1: But we were. And oh my, it's our good mitzvah today.
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  Speaker 1: Case Keenum. rising from the ashes like the Phoenix. He
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  Speaker 1: went out there, made his first NFL start in nearly
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  Speaker 1: three years, and led Chicago to an easy win, 27-7.
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  Speaker 1: The game was not in doubt in the second half
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  Speaker 1: here as they absolutely manhandled the Bears, manhandled the Philadelphia Bears,
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  Speaker 1: And Case Keenum completed 24 of 34 passes for 247 yards.
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  Speaker 1: Two touchdowns filling in for Caleb Williams, who's still riding
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  Speaker 1: on a golf cart somewhere. Keenum scored on a one-yard
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  Speaker 1: QB keeper as well. And that was his first rushing
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  Speaker 1: touchdown since before the pandemic. It's been a minute. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a minute. That wrapped up a 13-play drive and
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  Speaker 1: burned more than eight minutes of the fourth quarter. Case
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  Speaker 1: Keenum played keep away with the Philadelphia Eagles defense. Case
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  Speaker 1: Keenum played keep away. My God. Khalif Raymond was the
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  Speaker 1: leading receiver for the Bears. He had six catches for
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  Speaker 1: 90 yards at a 41-yard catch-and-run touchdown there for the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: who ended up taking control of the game pretty much,
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  Speaker 1: it's like really never in doubt, as the Eagles did
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  Speaker 1: nothing on offense. The Bears improved 2-1 on the year,
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  Speaker 1: and I get that bad taste after that ugly, ugly
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  Speaker 1: loss to the Vikings in their previous game, and they
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  Speaker 1: had 24 first downs. The Chicago Bears, with the rotting
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  Speaker 1: carcass of Case Keenum, had 24 first downs. They also
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  Speaker 1: ran for over 120 yards against the Philadelphia defense. The
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  Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room. My, oh, my.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni, what do you have to say for your
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  Speaker 1: pathetic football team? Nick Sirianni, head coach of the Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: let me know.
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  Speaker 3: I think we all have to own that loss right there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody coached well. I don't think anyone
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  Speaker 3: played well. It was a true team loss. And when
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  Speaker 3: it's a true team loss, you know, I have to
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  Speaker 3: look at myself first. Like we, we weren't ready to coach.
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  Speaker 3: We weren't ready to play. And that ultimately starts and
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  Speaker 3: ends with me.
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  Speaker 1: Right out of the sportscliché. com textbook right there. My God.
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  Speaker 1: I've noticed doing this job over the years, there's certain
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  Speaker 1: crutches that these guys all use. Typically, got to watch
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  Speaker 1: the tape. He didn't say got to watch the tape.
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  Speaker 1: But you never can blame individuals. I love it, too,
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  Speaker 1: when individuals obviously cost you the game. Kicker misses a
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  Speaker 1: field goal. Quarterback misses a bunny throw that would have
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  Speaker 1: won the game. The game actually, there's a play in
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter. Shut the F up. Just shut the
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  Speaker 1: F up. Screw you. So this word is emasculating. That
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  Speaker 1: was an emasculating performance for Nick Sirianni's team. They're 2-1.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first halfway decent opponent they've played, and
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  Speaker 1: they did not answer the bell there. A lifeless offensive performance.
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  Speaker 1: But we're going to start on the defense. That's a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping-off point. So let us discuss the question. Let's
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  Speaker 1: dust off the Mallor Panic-O-Meter. The Mallor Panic-O-Meter. Where are
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  Speaker 1: you at on Vic Fangio's Eagles defense getting carved up
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  Speaker 1: by a 38-year-old third-string quarterback named Case Keenum? So I've
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  Speaker 1: got 1990s TV star, bird's-eye view, and Van Gogh. And
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together, and we
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  Speaker 1: will stop and smell the roses. And we'll also stop
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  Speaker 1: and smell the poo-poo from the Philadelphia Eagles. So the
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  Speaker 1: Maller panic meter, 1 to 10. You know how this works,
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  Speaker 1: 1 to 10. I am at a 9.5 for the Eagles. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're overreacting, Maller. I don't think I am. Let me
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  Speaker 1: make my case. I'll tell you why I'm at a
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  Speaker 1: 9.5 for the Philadelphia Eagles defense. The Eagles did not
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  Speaker 1: just lose this game. They got smacked around by the
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  Speaker 1: running game, by an old man quarterback, a quarterback who
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  Speaker 1: I believe is old enough to still check his Hotmail account.
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  Speaker 1: He might even have an AOL account. Oh, my God! Yes!
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  Speaker 1: And this is the personification of a team that was
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  Speaker 1: not ready to play. Completely lethargic. It looked like they
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  Speaker 1: were playing in wet mud, but the Bears were not.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles' defense was playing like that. And Case Keenum,
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  Speaker 1: at age 38, comes out there, makes his first start
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  Speaker 1: in almost three years, and he turned into a 1990s,
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  Speaker 1: early 90s TV star. He was straight up Doogie Howser MD.
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  Speaker 4: He was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a surgical slicing of the Philadelphia Eagles there.
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  Speaker 1: as they took out all the bones of the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: and then chopped up the meat into little bite-sized pieces there.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know Case Keenum, against the blitz from the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia football team, they blitzed 11 times. Case Keenum, how
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  Speaker 1: many passes do you think he completed out of 11
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  Speaker 1: blitzes where they threw? You think he went like 6
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  Speaker 1: of 11? That'd be good, right?
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  Speaker 2: 6 of 11.
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  Speaker 1: How about 7? 7 of 11, like the The store. No,
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  Speaker 1: it was not. How about 11 out of 11? Now,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't play in the NFL. I just think that's good.
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  Speaker 1: 11 out of 11 against the Blitz. It's tied for
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  Speaker 1: the fourth most completion since the nerds started tracking that
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  Speaker 1: statistic without an incompletion. And that goes back a couple
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  Speaker 1: of decades. They've been keeping track of that stat. As
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  Speaker 1: Uncle Vic's guys were dragged, they were dented and demolished.
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  Speaker 1: defensively here, they could not get the Bears off the field,
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  Speaker 1: which seemingly is problematic. You know? Oh, you can't say that!
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  Speaker 1: You're being mean!
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  Speaker 4: I know. I know.
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  Speaker 1: And up front, Philadelphia, my entire life, they've always prided
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  Speaker 1: themselves on having this physical defense. They haven't always been good,
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  Speaker 1: but they're like, hey, we're physical. We can get this done.
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  Speaker 1: And they were pushed around. Bears had 128 yards. on
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  Speaker 1: the ground, and it was nice and soft like Play-Doh.
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  Speaker 1: Nice and soft like Play-Doh against that Chicago offense. And
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  Speaker 1: the Birds, they appear to have a leak in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the defense. From what I've seen here, they
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  Speaker 1: have some problems there in the middle. It's a trend now.
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  Speaker 1: We're three weeks into the season, and the linebackers and
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  Speaker 1: the safeties are not exactly getting her done at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Now they've got the Rams up next. So that's two
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  Speaker 1: teams coming off a loss. We'll see how that goes. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: page two. Now to the offense of the Birds, which
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  Speaker 1: was very offensive. The question, can we stop protecting Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Hurts and admit that he was terrible against Chicago? Can
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  Speaker 1: we just stop? A lot of people say, well, he
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  Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. They always give you the yabbit, yabbit, yabbit, yabbit,
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  Speaker 1: the yabbit rabbit. Yabbit, he won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley had 5,000 yards rushing that year. Defense was elite,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Jalen Hurts, yet again, looking like a
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  Speaker 1: guy that does not elevate the people around him. This
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  Speaker 1: is something we see quite often with Jalen Hurts. And
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  Speaker 1: he was playing quarterback like somebody had replaced the playbook.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, hey, let's play a joke on Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of giving him the playbook, let's give him the
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  Speaker 1: Cheesecake Factory menu. And so he was trying to run
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  Speaker 1: plays off there. Can I get the chicken littles? Can
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  Speaker 1: I get the chicken? No, no. Okay. Can I get
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  Speaker 1: the the burger and fry? No, no, no. How about
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  Speaker 1: the mozzarella? No, I can't get the mozzarella. How about,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Oh yeah. Can I get the, the
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  Speaker 1: Mac and cheese balls? No, we can't get that. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So up first for Philadelphia this year, they,
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  Speaker 1: they talk at a soft launch. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a college team. You know how these college teams plays,
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  Speaker 1: play these directional schools, their paycheck games. where they just
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  Speaker 1: cut a check to some pathetic school who takes the
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  Speaker 1: money to get beaten to a pulp. And that's essentially
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  Speaker 1: what the Eagles had. They had a soft launch to
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  Speaker 1: start the year. They still almost effed up against Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: But they played Washington week one. That's a bad team. Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: a bad team. And so they were in the kiddie
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  Speaker 1: pool to start the year. And then the Eagles go
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  Speaker 1: against Chicago. And Chicago's like, oh, we're in the deep
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  Speaker 1: end here. And it turns out Jalen Hurts did not
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  Speaker 1: bring his floaties. And so it was a problem. The
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  Speaker 1: Bears putting Jalen Hurts into a maze. They said, let's
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  Speaker 1: toss him into a maze here. So he was in
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  Speaker 1: a corn maze and he spent about three hours of
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  Speaker 1: time running into the hedges and thoroughly baffled by the
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  Speaker 1: defensive strategy of Chicago. And it's like, man. It's like
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  Speaker 1: they tossed him a Rubik's Cube and they said, all right, Jalen,
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  Speaker 1: solve the Rubik's Cube. And he said, okay, I'll solve it.
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  Speaker 1: And then he just started chewing on it. Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: not going to get it done. That's not it. And
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  Speaker 1: we were surprised that Jalen did not trip because he
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  Speaker 1: appeared to tie his shoes properly, which I think is
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  Speaker 1: the only thing, the only thing that he did well
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  Speaker 1: was tie his shoes prior to the game. Because, man,
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  Speaker 1: everything else was pure quarterback detention without recess and They
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  Speaker 1: had three straight three and outs in the second half there.
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  Speaker 1: That's run a play, run a play, run a play, punt.
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  Speaker 1: And that means now they've done that nine times this season.
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  Speaker 1: Nine times the Eagles have gotten the ball and not
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  Speaker 1: been able to get a first down and nine times
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  Speaker 1: had to punt after three plays. That's it. And so
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  Speaker 1: it's a mess. It is a mess. And Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: went up in weight class here, and the Eagles offense did,
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  Speaker 1: and immediately looked for the white towel. Body blow, body blow,
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  Speaker 1: just like that. And ultimately, Jalen Hurts, he ended up
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  Speaker 1: having a bird's eye view from the cockpit as he
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  Speaker 1: flew the Vomit Comet for the Eagles offense there, a
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  Speaker 1: nonstop flight destination loser's lounge. And they landed right there.
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  Speaker 1: They went into the loser's lounge. They had a cocktail.
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  Speaker 1: And you're supposed to be better than that. And, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is one of those teams to keep an eye on.
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  Speaker 1: You look down the line, teams that could go kerfluey
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  Speaker 1: and blow things up. Tampa Bay is on that short list.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles are certainly on that short list of teams
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  Speaker 1: that could say, okay, this is not going well. Let's
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  Speaker 1: change the coach. Let's change the quarterback. And the winds
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  Speaker 1: of change will start howling. Now, speaking of winds, we
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  Speaker 1: go to the Chicago side, the winner's locker room. The
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  Speaker 1: better story is in the loser's locker room. But we
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  Speaker 1: go to the winner's locker room there. And with Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams still away for likely a couple more weeks for
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  Speaker 1: Da Bears, Case Keenum, as he upstaged everybody. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about Case Keenum, the story here. He stole the show.
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  Speaker 1: So the question going forward, should Case Keenum remain the
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  Speaker 1: Bears starter until Caleb Williams returns? So I'm nodding my head.
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  Speaker 1: There's really no other answer. I don't even know why
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  Speaker 1: this is a debate. Yet it seems everything is a
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  Speaker 1: debate these days. But I am Benny Brightside on the
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  Speaker 1: old Rams quarterback, Case Keenum. I am Benny Brightside here.
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  Speaker 1: And I say you keep that old jalopy. with 150,000
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  Speaker 1: miles on it. You keep that car on the highway
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  Speaker 1: until the transmission falls out. And yeah, that's what I
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  Speaker 1: would do. Case Keenum was that impressive. Of course, we
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  Speaker 1: had no expectations for Case Keenum. The fact that he
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  Speaker 1: was able to breathe and walk and chew gum, we
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  Speaker 1: were like, wow, that's pretty impressive. Man, it was a,
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  Speaker 1: by the standard we had for Case Keenum, that was
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  Speaker 1: a virtuoso performance. It was. Keenum did not merely hold
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  Speaker 1: down the fort, and he wasn't just a game manager.
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  Speaker 1: He actually installed the new kitchen, which was unexpected. He
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  Speaker 1: installed the new kitchen. Yeah, 38 years young, and apparently
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  Speaker 1: preserved the last three years in football goo to keep
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  Speaker 1: him fresh and all that stuff. And yeah, listen, Tyson Bajent...
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  Speaker 1: had been designated the QB number two, and he's making
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  Speaker 1: $ 5 million a year. Supposedly a premium backup. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you all say, premium backup, Tyson Bajent. But last I checked,
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  Speaker 1: this is the results-based business, right? This is the results-based
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  Speaker 1: business and all that. So you don't bench Van Gogh.
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  Speaker 1: You don't bench Van Gogh halfway through the starry night
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  Speaker 1: because the other guy has a nicer contract. You don't
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  Speaker 1: do that. And Keenum has earned another start. Now, it's
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  Speaker 1: more likely than not, based on his track record with
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  Speaker 1: all these teams he's played for, that Case Keenum will
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  Speaker 1: go out and poop the bed. Because that's normally what happens.
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  Speaker 1: He'll have a game like this where he looks really good.
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  Speaker 1: And then you'll be like, okay, he can do that again.
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  Speaker 2: And no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: He'll have like one or two good games in a row,
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  Speaker 1: and then it goes sideways. It goes sideways fast. But
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  Speaker 1: this is not Little League. Last I checked, it is
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  Speaker 1: not Little League. Everybody does not get an inning. So
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  Speaker 1: if Case Keenum is the guy, which he appeared to be,
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  Speaker 1: you just send him back out there, and the depth
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  Speaker 1: chart is written in pencil. Not pen. In pencil. For
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  Speaker 1: a reason. So Case Keenum, the football equivalent. For the
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  Speaker 1: Bears here, it's kind of like finding $ 20 stuffed in
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  Speaker 1: that little weird pocket. You know how the jeans have
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  Speaker 1: that little weird pocket in the front there? And you
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  Speaker 1: found $ 20 in there. You're like, wow, that's kind of weird.
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  Speaker 1: And it's great. I'm not going to complain. It's nice.
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  Speaker 1: I know they're old jeans. I'm not going to complain
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  Speaker 1: about that. You keep Cinderella in there. At the ball.
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  Speaker 1: You say, all right, Cinderella, you're at the ball. Keep
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  Speaker 1: going there until the slipper breaks and turns back into
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  Speaker 1: a crappy Skechers sneaker, and then you make the change.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit of this.
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  Speaker 4: And then I'm going home to the BBC, and they're
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  Speaker 4: saying Jockovich instead of Jokovich.
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  Speaker 1: Right, because you can't say Jockovich.
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  Speaker 4: If you do, you know the blowback you're going to
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  Speaker 1: From just outside Gotham in New Jersey, we gotta trade!
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: We gotta trade! In the NFL, after watching Jameis Winston
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  Speaker 1: stumble and bumble and ride the Vomit Comet, In that
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  Speaker 1: nail-biting win, the only reason the Giants won is because
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  Speaker 1: Cam Ward sucked a little bit more than Jameis Winston
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  Speaker 1: and threw the interception into no-man's land in the end
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  Speaker 1: zone for the Tennessee Titans. So after seeing that, the
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  Speaker 1: Giants have made their move to go with someone who's
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  Speaker 1: going to eventually replace Jackson Dart. Did you see this? No,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't hear?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: How did you not hear about this? Bad job by you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you. So we have learned that the New
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  Speaker 1: York football giants have acquired quarterback J.J. McCarthy. Insert laugh
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  Speaker 1: track here. They got him off the discount rack as
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings making that deal. New York sending Minnesota. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think? Like a second round pick for J.J.
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  Speaker 4: McCarthy?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Third round pick? No.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy goes from New York to Minnesota for a 2027.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: Fifth round pick. Fifth round pick for McCarthy. McCarthy was
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: the number 10 overall pick in the 2024 NFL draft.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: The trade now gives the Giants another body, another warm
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: body in the quarterback room after Jackson Dart's season-ending injury.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: And so you've got Jameis Winston, who for now will
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: remain the starter for the Giants, but we know that's
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: just temporary. So that is a pretty good jumping off point.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Let us discuss the question. Who has more to explain here?
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: The Vikings for giving up on J.J. McCarthy and just
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: giving him away, or the Giants for wanting J.J.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: McCarthy? My observations. I've got Pond Stars, Cinnamon Swirl Coffee,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and Aladdin's Cave. And we will combine all of these
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: things together. And we are going to connect three is
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. Connect three. So, number one.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: one one one one one one number one all right
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: from the frozen tundra from the land of ten thousand
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: lakes in minnesota comes the curious tale of j.j. as
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: in just jettisoned. That's what J.J. stands for, just jettisoned
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: out of the Twin Cities there. The Giants merely took
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: a flyer on J.J. McCarthy. And the better story, though,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. This is not selling
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: low by the Minnesota football team. This is not selling low.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: What this is, is leaving the merchandise out in front
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: of your house on the curb and putting a piece
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: of paper taped with scotch tape to the merch and
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: you write in there with a sharpie four letters. F-R-E-E.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Freight.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: And you leave it there, and then somebody drives by
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and says, oh, I want that. Okay, I'll take that.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I'll take that chair. Oh, I want that chair. Why not?
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: So the purple people eaters became the purple draft pick
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: eaters here. How do you turn a number 10 pick? Overall,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: in the 2024 NFL Draft, how do you turn that
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: into a fifth rounder? Well, they swallowed that number 10
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: overall pick. The Vikings swallowed that number 10 overall pick,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and they burped back up a fifth round pick. You
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: know what that is? Capital B, boondoggle. Boondoggle is what
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: that is. So even the boys over at Pawn Stars
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: are applauding the Vikings' negotiation success To work out a
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: deal here, the technique that they use, like somewhere Rick
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Harrison and Chum Lee are very impressed here. They're like, oh,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: my God, that's so good. Somebody in Minnesota completely blew
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: their evaluation of J.J.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: McCarthy.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Remember, that was the draft that had all these quarterbacks. Oh,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: they're all so great. They're all amazing. I don't know
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: about that. Now, we were always surprised that McCarthy was
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a darling for NFL talent evaluators, considering the fact that
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: we actually watched him play at Michigan. What was J.J.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: McCarthy at Michigan? Decoy. He was a decoy. That's what
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: he was? Yes, he was a decoy. That's it? And Michigan,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: very conservative with Jim Harbaugh as the coach, and so
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of handing it off and not a lot
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: of throwing the football. So the Vikings ordered a franchise quarterback,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and they ended up receiving the floor model. It did
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: not have instructions, and that's what they got. So they
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: fell in love with the... Quote, intangibles, the things you
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: cannot touch, you cannot see the intangibles. Oh, I fell
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: in love with the intangibles. Then here's the problem for
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the Vikings. They had to actually watch him play tangible football.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: And that's where this became problematic. Watching J.J. McCarthy out
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: there who hadn't played very well yet somehow had mastered
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the art of showboating. pick up taunting penalties, air mail
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: basic passes into coverage. And you're saying, who goofed? I've
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: got to know. And now J.J. McCarthy has a standing
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: dinner reservation at the Bust Brewery. He can have a
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: nice beer there on tap at the Bust Brewery. Table
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: for one, table for one for J.J. McCarthy right next
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to the emergency exit. And you better tip your waiter.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: All right. Meanwhile, page two. Now to the Giants side
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: of the equation. And the rather obvious connecting of the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: dots here. That J.J. McCarthy, the reason he's with the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Giants is not just because Jackson Dart got hurt. Obviously,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the Giants needed a quarterback. But there were plenty of
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: other options out there. They didn't have to get J.J. McCarthy.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: McCarthy had... a friend or two that helped facilitate this trade.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Does anyone disagree? So the question, how much did former
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Michigan man and current coach of the LA chargers, Jim Harbaugh,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and how much of his, how much of his endorsement,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh's endorsement influenced his brother, giants coach, John Harbaugh
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: to trade for JJ McCarthy. So after a minutes long discussion,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Deliberation of the available information. It is everything. Does anyone disagree?
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: In the back of the room? Nope, nobody disagrees. Forget
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: trust your scouts. It's trust your bloodline is what this
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: is all about. A family referral with serious NFL consequences. Now,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the Giants didn't give up anything to get this guy.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: There's no way, though, no way that John Harbaugh makes
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: this trade without Jim Harbaugh standing on the table, jumping
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: up and down. Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay. Just like that.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Can you see Jim Harbaugh, Mr. Harto, standing on the table?
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: So the Giants... They didn't get the resume. You wouldn't
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: trade for J.J. McCarthy based on his resume. They bought
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the recommendation letter from Jim Harbaugh. That's what the Giants bought.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And so McCarthy's brand has been completely poisoned in only
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: a couple years with the Vikings. Remember, he missed the
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: first year with injury. And then, unfortunately for him, he
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: actually played in the second year. And then they realized,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, we got the guy that can't play.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: What's up with that? And so now after that brand
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: had been poisoned, they get him for a late throwaway
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: draft pick, a late round throwaway draft pick. And New
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: York is able to afford the hazmat suit that one
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: needs to coach J.J. McCarthy. And so essentially Minnesota went
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: out and paid five grand for a mystery box. What's
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: in the box? And they got the mystery box. And
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: then New York found that same mystery box at a
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: yard sale for five bucks. So the Vikings turned a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: $ 5, 000 mystery box into a $ 5 yard sale box is
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: what they found, the Giants. And so the Giants, we
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: know they're not marrying McCarthy. This is not a marriage
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: with J.J. McCarthy. What's going on here is they're meeting
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: at a Starbucks outside the city, and they're going to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: order the cinnamon swirl coffee cake, and they're going to
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: keep separate checks. So that's how that's going to go.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And Jim gave his brother... It's like giving a restaurant recommendation,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and now we'll find out whether John Harbaugh ends up
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: getting food poisoning from coaching J.J.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: McCarthy.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Or was this merely a Minnesota problem where there was
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: just no connection between McCarthy and the coaching staff, and
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, J.J. McCarthy turns out to be
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the bomb, bombity, bombity, bombity, bombity.com. All right, now, meanwhile,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: final point. To the incumbent, to the incumbent we go,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart. was supposed to be the man in the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Big Apple. And then he got hurt. So it appears
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: that he is now out of the inner circle now.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: The way I'm reading the room here, we know he's
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: out for the year. Jameis Winston flopped with his audition.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: which led the Giants to make this trade for J.J.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: McCarthy on Monday. The question is this. What does the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Giants trade for J.J. McCarthy say about the status of
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart? All right, so it's kind of self-explanatory here.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I think you can figure this out. You don't have
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: to be some kind of NFL insider like Anthony in Louisiana.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Trading for J.J. McCarthy tells you everything. Everything, everything you
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: need to know about John Harbaugh's belief in Jackson Dart.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: But what are you talking about, Maller? Jackson Dart's hurt?
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: That's not fair.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: You shouldn't lose your job to injury. Oh, you want
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to bet?
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: There's clearly a trust issue here. And it's not even
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: so much about performance, because Jackson Dart, when he's played,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: has shown, he's shown more when he's played that he
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: could be good than J.J. McCarthy's shown. You feel me
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: on that? When I've seen Jackson Dart play, I'm like, well,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: there's some things that he does pretty well. And I
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: could see him having some success in the NFL. You
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: can't stay on the field.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: You can't do it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: And so Jackson Dart, you know what he is? He's
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: like a cyber truck for quarterbacks. He's the cyber truck
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: of quarterbacks, Jackson Dart. A lot of hype. A lot
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: of hype. They gave you this futuristic sales pitch about
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart, and everybody keeps asking, why is that Cybertruck
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: in the shop? Why is it in the service center?
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: What is going on with that? And you really don't
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: have an answer. Lately, Jackson Dart has been majoring in rehab,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: which generally you don't get a lot of value if
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: you're top class. Contribution to an NFL team is spending
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: time in the trainer's room. Generally, that is not looked
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: upon kindly in that particular business. And he's got a
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: minor in football with the Giants. So Harbaugh did not
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: even draft Jackson Dart. We know that. He inherited Jackson Dart.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: And so it's kind of like Jackson Dart was the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: sofa that came with the house. It's like, all right.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I'll keep the sofa for a while. Eventually I'll get
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a new sofa, but I'll keep it for now. And
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: so the Giants have officially updated their quarterback relationship status online.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: And they went from Jackson Dart is our guy, Jackson
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Dart is our guy, to two words, it's complicated. It's complicated.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: And so instead of taking a flyer, and this is
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: where the disconnect is, because some people say, well, J.J.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: McCarthy was no, good in Minnesota, and it's true. I
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: agree with you. J.J. McCarthy sucked in Minnesota. He was terrible.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you on that. But my issue
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: is this. The reason this is a vote of no
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: confidence for Jackson Dart, it would have been very easy
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: for the Giants to go out and get Gardner Minshew
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: or Joe Flacco, a longer-in-the-tooth quarterback... Except New York said, OK,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Let's go full Young Buck reclamation project.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: And so here we are. And McCarthy arrives carrying so
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: much baggage, they barely could afford the Giants to send
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: him to New Jersey to end up. They sent him
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: to Newark, and the baggage fees were extreme here. So
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of baggage in the old line. This
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: is a city where everybody believes, you know, go to
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: New York, you deserve another act, you can make it there,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: you can make it anywhere, all that bull crap. And
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: so for McCarthy, New York is Aladdin's cave. The Giants
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: are Aladdin's cave here for J.J. McCarthy. You rub the lamp,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: and you hope there's one career wish left. And McCarthy's
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: going to play. I would say he plays within the
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: next three weeks. He's going to start. and he'll replace
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Jameis Winston. And from that point forward, that is the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: casting call. You have 10, 11, 12, whatever games it
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: will be by the time he gets in there, to
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: show that you can play. And if he does well,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden Jackson Dart gets demoted, and
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: then McCarthy's got the opportunity. It's right in front of him.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: He's got the opportunity.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific. Here
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: we go.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: It's Maller. How about that?
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Here we go.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It's when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: The Bengals 2-0 start had people feeling like Joe Burrow
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: was on to something when he was cranking up expectations
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: this offseason. Now a loss to old man Rodgers. Ben,
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: does the loss to the Steelers prove that the Bengals
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: aren't Super Bowl contenders?
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Well, obviously, yeah. Aaron Rodgers looked like he was playing
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers, and it was like 2010
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: or 12 or something like that. He averaged almost nine
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: yards a pass. What happened to the new improved Bengals defense?
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Where did that go? Where did that end? By the way,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow? I love Joe Burrow, but he's not exactly
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Captain Clutch. He doesn't usually lead teams back. He had
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a chance. He blew it.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Next! The Cleveland Browns are above. 500 for the first
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: time since the 2023-2024 season. Deshaun Watson has had back-to-back
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: solid outings. Is it time for the Browns fans to
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: get excited? I disagree that Watson was solid in the
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: game this past weekend. He averaged less than five yards
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: a pass. I'm going to go no because you're the Browns.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: It's a factory of sadness, so I'm going to go no. Next,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence being accused of funny business, kneeling down before
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: reaching the end zone with nine minutes left in the game.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: He said he's trying to help support the tootin' fantasy
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: people out there. Are you buying that explanation, Ben? No!
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: No, but it was great disrespect to the Patriots that
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: he did. It was pretty funny to mock the Patriots
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: like that. How do we do, Coop? He passes it.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: That is a win. Put it on the board!
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: What a, what a, what a!
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Chicken dinner.
• 32:50
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• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I believe we have our contestants. If these guys don't
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: hang up, if they hang up, we'll need somebody else.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: But we're going to have, I want to do this
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: real quick, Coop, and introduce them. Is that what you
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: would like to do? Okay, let's do that. Why not?
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Here we go. We have Slug in Vegas. Hello, Slug,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the master of mashed potatoes. Hello, Slug. All right. Fair enough. Slug.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Good luck, Coop.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with, Slug?
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Come on, Ben.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's do it. We're in it to
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: win it. And Sean is in North Dakota. Hello, Sean. Welcome.
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: Hey.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Hey. Hey.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Sean, who do you want to partner up with, Sean?
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Coop?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Coop Loop?
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Let's do it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: It's the matchup. What are the categories you're cool? Please, quickly.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: This is the Halsey edition of Mallard's Mountain of Money. Oh,
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: I love her. She turns 32 years old today.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: The categories are bad at love, sorry, ego, and lucky. Slug,
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: which category would you like?
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Who the hell is Halsey?
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Some British chick, I think.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Give me the first one.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Bad at love. All right. And Sean, do you want sorry, ego,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: or lucky? Sorry.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: All right, those are the categories. Gentlemen, do not hang
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: up or you will be disqualified from playing the game.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: We will have Mallard's Mountain of Money in its entirety.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that, and we will do it next.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maler
• 34:33
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• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Maler's Mountain of Money. Lord, that's a lot of money.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Sluggo, my buddy. The master
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: of the mashed potatoes. Are you ready, Slug?
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Slug?
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I don't hear you, Slug. Hello, Slug.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: I turned on my mic instead of theirs.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. All right. Hello, Slug. Are you there, Slug?
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I'm here.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: I'm here.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: All right, Slug.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Here we go.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: You picked bad at love. These athletes have all been
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: divorced multiple times. Are you prepared here, Sluggo?
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: They're just like me.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Here we go. 45 seconds on the clock. We're
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: on our way and go. He's a quarterback. He was
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: a quarterback for the Cowboys. He's Joe Buck's partner. Yes.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Quarterback for the Steelers in the 70s. He's on Fox
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: NFL pregame. Did a radio show. Blonde hair. All right.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Gap-toothed defensive player for the Giants. He's also... Yes. Charles
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Barkley's sidekick on the NBA on TNT. Played for... First name.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Shaquille O'Neal.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: No, I said the second. All right. Catcher for the
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Big Red Machine.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: What's his last name? Smith. All right. Catcher for the
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Reds in the 70s. Sonny Benz. Yes. He hosted the Mets.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: You got hooked up on Kenny. Ben choked there.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: He said Kenny Jet. He didn't say Kenny Smith. No,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: you choked.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: No, I didn't choke. He choked.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: He said Kenny Jet.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Sean, we've got the category sorry. These sports figures all
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: had to issue public apologies. Are you ready, Sean? Yes.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Don't choke.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: 45 seconds. Let's begin. Best golfer of all time.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Tiger Woods.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: This quarterback killed dogs.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Michael Vick. Yes.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: This guy is a point guard for the Mavericks right now.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: He believes in the flat earth.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Yes. This is a center. He used to play for
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: the Jazz. He touched all the microphones during COVID. He's French.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: Greg Ostertag? This guy's a running back for the Ravens.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: He punched his wife in an elevator.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, um... Doggone it, I can't... All right.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Coach for the Cardinals. He has the same last name
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: as a quarterback. Greg Ostertag is one of the funniest answers.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: We've ever gotten. French guy, touched all the microphones.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: Rudy Gobert is who we were looking for there.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. You couldn't get less French than Greg Ostrich.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Ray Rice. Ray Rice.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: What's the score, Lorena?
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: I'm sad to say, Coop, you guys got 60. All right.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: And Ben got 140. So we're up again, Sean. You
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: said I choked. You did choke. You should have got more.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: You choked more than me. No, Greg.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Hurry up. You're wasting time. All right.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Do you want ego or lucky?
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Lucky.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Ego. Okay.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: So that worked out well.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Sean, ego. These athletes all have huge egos. 45 seconds.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Let's begin. Best basketball player of all time.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: His nickname is Primetime. He's the coach of Colorado. Deion Sanders. Yes.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: This guy is the wide receiver for the Eagles and
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: the Cowboys.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Terrell Owens.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Terrell Owens.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, shut up, slug!
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: This guy is the outfielder for the Red Sox.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: He played with David Ortiz. He had dreads.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: Yes. This guy was the all-time stolen base king. Talked
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: about himself in the third person.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: This guy shot free throws underhanded, like grandma style. White guy.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: This guy is like the glue guy. Ben always calls
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: him the glue guy and trash talker.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: What's the score? 220, Coop.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Where are we at?
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: 140.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: All right, here we go.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Slug, you picked Lucky. These athletes were all part of
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: some of Lucky's plays in sports history. 45 seconds.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: We're on our way.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Go.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Steeler running back in the 1970s. The running back for
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Terry Bradshaw.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: I know. Skip it.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Go.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: All right, he threw the forward pass for the Tennessee Titans,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the miracle in Music City. Tight end for the Tennessee Titans.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: He died. No, I'm too drunk.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Go.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: All right, helmet catch guy for the Giants in the
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Tyree.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: It was his first time. Tyree.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: That's a winner.
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: Even drunk Slug was able to remember David Tyree.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Winner, winner, winner.