Latest / The Ben Maller Show / Hour 1 - Bring Out the Brooms!
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for listening to the Ben Maller Show podcast.
- 0:02Speaker 1: It's me, Ben.
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- 0:29Speaker 1: Oh, what is going on over here? Oh, Paul is well.
- 0:33Speaker 4: Wow, we got the departed on in studio.
- 0:37Speaker 1: This is beautiful. I'm over here in LA.
- 0:40Speaker 5: I can change it if you want me to.
- 0:41Speaker 6: No, no, no, no.
- 0:42Speaker 1: It's a good.
- 0:43Speaker 4: I am killing you. I could recite this whole movie. Coop,
- 0:47Speaker 4: you could do it too as well. You think he
- 0:50Speaker 4: was the only one? How does he say? You think
- 0:54Speaker 4: you were the only one he had on the inside?
- 0:57Speaker 1: I've only seen this movie like three times.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
- 0:59Speaker 7: I just watched this the first time like two days ago.
- 1:03Speaker 7: And then he's going to kill him. He's going to
- 1:05Speaker 7: shoot him when he gets out of the.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Oh, spoiler. I'm so disappointed in you, Coop. Only three
- 1:14Speaker 1: times for The Departed. Yeah, I know.
- 1:17Speaker 3: Wow.
- 1:18Speaker 4: That blows my mind. I can't believe it. Yeah, my
- 1:22Speaker 4: travels brought me here to L.A. Very excited to fill
- 1:26Speaker 4: in for Big Ben. You know, speaking of excitement, Lorena
- 1:29Speaker 4: was not exactly excited to see me in person here
- 1:32Speaker 4: this evening, Coop.
- 1:33Speaker 7: No, I really thought Dooch was lying. He was like,
- 1:35Speaker 7: Ryan's here in studio. I'm like, no, he's not.
- 1:37Speaker 5: He doesn't even live here.
- 1:39Speaker 6: I know.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Yeah, just I'm going to the Monday night game.
- 1:42Speaker 5: And, you know, I just feel like the no heads up.
- 1:45Speaker 5: It's a little rude.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Rude.
- 1:47Speaker 5: A little rude because Fridays are when there's no hosts here.
- 1:50Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying? This is my, this is
- 1:51Speaker 5: my downtime. And now I got to be up.
- 1:55Speaker 4: So you were prepared for no one to be here
- 2:00Speaker 4: live hosting.
- 2:01Speaker 3: Yes.
- 2:01Speaker 1: And I am here live.
- 2:02Speaker 7: Brian, a no-show would be more accurate. That would be better.
- 2:06Speaker 1: And you're upset. You're upset. It's fine. You're in your jammies.
- 2:09Speaker 1: It's okay.
- 2:10Speaker 5: I brought my stuffed pig and my blanket. And you're
- 2:13Speaker 5: just like, morning. I'm like, oh, my gosh.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Laid back evening. And no, no.
- 2:17Speaker 4: Now all of a sudden, lights, glitz, glamour, the whole thing.
- 2:21Speaker 4: The trash I was prepared for. to talk about Coop's
- 2:25Speaker 4: Fugazi Denver Broncos. And they go ahead and they just
- 2:30Speaker 4: are benefactors of Sam Darnold's suckiness. I mean, that's basically
- 2:34Speaker 4: what it is. If we just, we'll get to the
- 2:37Speaker 4: Dodgers and the Brewers in a couple of minutes, but
- 2:40Speaker 4: I just have to say off the beginning, the quarterback
- 2:44Speaker 4: play from Darnold and Bo Nix, they set the quarterback
- 2:48Speaker 4: position back at least 60 years tonight. At the very least,
- 2:52Speaker 4: it was atrocious on both sides.
- 2:56Speaker 1: I don't even want to look at the box score.
- 2:58Speaker 4: I'm scared to see what I'm going to find right here.
- 3:00Speaker 4: I know it's going to be incredibly ugly. Bo Nix,
- 3:04Speaker 4: not exactly prolific. Sam Darnold with two interceptions. Just awful,
- 3:09Speaker 4: awful quarterback play. Bo Nix threw for a buck 07.
- 3:13Speaker 4: 107 yards in an NFL game.
- 3:14Speaker 3: My gosh.
- 3:20Speaker 1: And you win a game.
- 3:21Speaker 4: You still, you got to give Denver's defense some credit
- 3:24Speaker 4: at the same time. It's this, it's this weird thing.
- 3:27Speaker 4: I think we live in this world where it's all
- 3:29Speaker 4: or nothing. Like you're either crushing Sam Darnold for his
- 3:33Speaker 4: suckiness or you're praising the Broncos defense for being fantastic.
- 3:38Speaker 1: It's a blend of both.
- 3:40Speaker 4: It is a blend of both where the Broncos defense
- 3:43Speaker 4: did play very well. No Pat Sertan out there, right?
- 3:47Speaker 4: Still did their thing. But Darnold, with the horrible play,
- 3:52Speaker 4: and some of it doesn't even show up in the stats.
- 3:54Speaker 4: I guess it does in terms of sacks and sack yardage,
- 3:57Speaker 4: but the timing, the situations.
- 4:01Speaker 1: We're in the fourth quarter. It's 14-3. Seahawks are in
- 4:05Speaker 1: field goal range. Granted, it would be a long field goal.
- 4:07Speaker 1: He takes a sack. They're out of field goal range.
- 4:10Speaker 1: It's like, bro... Like, what? Just throw it away. Kick
- 4:16Speaker 1: the field goal. Be down by one possession.
- 4:18Speaker 8: Nope.
- 4:19Speaker 4: Can't do that. Can't do that. That would make too
- 4:21Speaker 4: much sense. So it was just, it was a calamity
- 4:24Speaker 4: all the way around. We'll play some audio for you
- 4:27Speaker 4: from Ryan Fitzpatrick, who is on the Prime Video After Show.
- 4:32Speaker 4: I don't know what the official name of that thing is,
- 4:34Speaker 4: but doing the post-game show and just crushing Bo Nix.
- 4:39Speaker 4: Crushing our guy Bo Nix. And rightfully so, man. He
- 4:43Speaker 4: was yelling at one point. It was fantastic. It was outstanding.
- 4:47Speaker 4: But he deserved to get called out for an atrocious performance.
- 4:51Speaker 4: This is one of these deals, man, where the Broncos,
- 4:53Speaker 4: if you look at them at 4-2, after the start
- 4:56Speaker 4: to the season that they've had, this was an incredibly
- 5:00Speaker 4: difficult path for them. And to be 4-2, even though
- 5:03Speaker 4: it's looked atrocious at times, they're actually pretty good. Actually
- 5:08Speaker 4: pretty good. For the prospects of the season going forward.
- 5:13Speaker 4: When you start off at the Chiefs, and they didn't
- 5:15Speaker 4: show up for that game. Couldn't tackle anybody.
- 5:18Speaker 1: It was awful. They lose that game. Come back and
- 5:21Speaker 1: win against the Jags. You outlast the Rams.
- 5:24Speaker 4: Granted, shaky pass interference call that was not pass interference
- 5:29Speaker 4: at all.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Swung the game. But you win that game.
- 5:32Speaker 6: Whatever.
- 5:33Speaker 4: Lose at the 49ers. They barely hold on to beat
- 5:37Speaker 4: the Chargers. And then they get a win in overtime
- 5:41Speaker 4: at home against the Seahawks. But if you look at
- 5:44Speaker 4: that path, Chiefs, Jags, Rams, Niners, Chargers, you know, asterisk
- 5:51Speaker 4: with the Chargers being terrible. Seahawks, that's a tough path.
- 5:55Speaker 4: And to be 4-2, I remember talking to some of
- 5:57Speaker 4: my Bronco fans before the season. I'm like, where are
- 6:00Speaker 4: you guys going to be? Some of them were like,
- 6:02Speaker 4: if we're 3-3, I'll take that. So to be 4-2...
- 6:06Speaker 4: Against that, you know, schedule to start off the season,
- 6:10Speaker 4: I think you would take it. The way it's looked
- 6:13Speaker 4: and the way things have to improve dramatically for them
- 6:16Speaker 4: to get anywhere of note, that's obvious. That has to happen.
- 6:20Speaker 4: You can't throw for 107 yards, you know, consistently and
- 6:24Speaker 4: expect to win games in the NFL. I don't care
- 6:26Speaker 4: how good your defense is. You got to play some offense.
- 6:30Speaker 4: And that did not happen. I can't wait to get
- 6:31Speaker 4: you the audio of Ryan Fitzpatrick. That'll be on the way.
- 6:35Speaker 4: I'm Brian Noe in for Big Ben Maller. Now we
- 6:37Speaker 4: get to the baseball. We get to the Dodgers. Speaking
- 6:41Speaker 4: of suck, right? We started off with the sucky quarterback
- 6:44Speaker 4: play on Thursday night. How about the Dodgers in the NLCS? Now, listen,
- 6:49Speaker 4: this is not going to be just bash the Dodgers
- 6:52Speaker 4: and give the Brewers minimal props. No, the Brewers deserve
- 6:56Speaker 4: a lot of praise. They played great. Completely outplayed the Dodgers.
- 7:00Speaker 4: Their bullpen was outstanding. The Dodgers had a runner at
- 7:06Speaker 4: third base in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings.
- 7:10Speaker 1: No runs.
- 7:11Speaker 4: That's wild to me. So you have to praise the Dodgers.
- 7:14Speaker 4: I'm sorry, the Brewers' bullpen. The way they outslugged the Dodgers.
- 7:20Speaker 4: The way they manufactured runs against the Dodgers. Brewers hit
- 7:24Speaker 4: more home runs in this series than L.A. And then
- 7:28Speaker 4: they also play, you know, they manufacture runs. They steal bases.
- 7:31Speaker 1: They bunt. They put a lot of pressure on you.
- 7:34Speaker 4: And so, listen, they earned it to have comeback wins
- 7:38Speaker 4: in all four games. It's crazy to me. I saw
- 7:42Speaker 4: the score, so I was flying here from Vegas to LA.
- 7:46Speaker 4: More details on that and how Frontier Airlines is dead
- 7:50Speaker 4: to me going forward. There are things I hate in life.
- 7:57Speaker 4: Frontier Airlines is shooting up the list. I mean, just
- 8:01Speaker 4: rapidly rising in the power rankings of hatred right there.
- 8:04Speaker 4: But when I was flying over to LA, I looked,
- 8:11Speaker 4: I saw, I had an update, Fox Sports, little update.
- 8:15Speaker 4: And they're like, yeah, Shohei Otani, three run homer. Dodgers
- 8:19Speaker 4: up four nothing. And I'm sitting on the plane and
- 8:22Speaker 4: I can't be the only one who was thinking, well,
- 8:24Speaker 4: you know, maybe they found a little offense. Maybe this
- 8:27Speaker 4: will wake up Shohei Otani. Their pitching is outstanding. Maybe
- 8:32Speaker 4: you win a couple of games, you get a little momentum.
- 8:35Speaker 4: All of a sudden, maybe the Brewers are starting to
- 8:38Speaker 4: press a little bit. I started thinking like that. They
- 8:41Speaker 4: didn't even win game four. The Dodgers didn't even win
- 8:45Speaker 4: game four. Series done.
- 8:48Speaker 2: Unreal.
- 8:49Speaker 4: Now, I also think this because we'll get into the
- 8:52Speaker 4: whole payroll thing. There's a lot that's made about that.
- 8:57Speaker 4: Of course, the Dodgers have this huge payroll. The Brewers,
- 9:00Speaker 4: a very, very modest payroll. And a lot of it's
- 9:03Speaker 4: going to be, hey, I guess payroll doesn't. Oh, I guess,
- 9:08Speaker 4: you know, it's going to be all that silliness. Listen,
- 9:11Speaker 4: can we be reasonable here? A huge payroll. It doesn't
- 9:16Speaker 4: guarantee anything, but it gives you consistently a.
- 9:21Speaker 1: Better chance than the lower payroll teams.
- 9:24Speaker 4: OK, with the Brewers sweeping the Dodgers, it doesn't like
- 9:29Speaker 4: thus mean these meager payroll squads. There's going to be
- 9:35Speaker 4: crushing the big payroll squads left and right. It's like,
- 9:39Speaker 4: let's be reasonable about this.
- 9:41Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 9:41Speaker 4: Are there years where the small payroll teams win? Yeah,
- 9:44Speaker 4: we just saw it. Tampa just swept the Yankees. The
- 9:48Speaker 4: Brewers just swept the Dodgers. It can happen. Is it
- 9:52Speaker 4: going to happen on the regular? This time and time again?
- 9:55Speaker 6: No.
- 9:56Speaker 4: So let's not act like this is the new norm.
- 9:59Speaker 4: You can just spend, you know, basically a dollar 95
- 10:03Speaker 4: and just, you know, win the world series, win the pennant,
- 10:06Speaker 4: you know, just print championships left.
- 10:08Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Oh, you've got a high payroll.
- 10:10Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
- 10:10Speaker 4: That's, that's old news, man. Money ball, money ball all
- 10:13Speaker 4: the way around. That's the way you want to do it.
- 10:15Speaker 4: And like, No, man, there are going to be exceptions
- 10:18Speaker 4: to the rule. There are going to be things that
- 10:21Speaker 4: ebb and flow. The high payroll teams are not always
- 10:24Speaker 4: going to win. But let's not go the complete other
- 10:27Speaker 4: direction and recorrect. And all of a sudden, I guess
- 10:32Speaker 4: having a big payroll doesn't mean anything. They just won
- 10:35Speaker 4: two World Series. Let's not forget about that. I also
- 10:38Speaker 4: think that's something else you got to consider. And this,
- 10:43Speaker 4: I don't want this to sound too Pollyannish, right?
- 10:46Speaker 1: Too foo-foo.
- 10:47Speaker 4: I don't mean it like that. But trying to three-peat
- 10:51Speaker 4: is incredibly difficult. The path, the long path toward three-peating,
- 10:59Speaker 4: the grind of that, the wear and tear of that.
- 11:02Speaker 4: Look at the Dodgers, man. They just look like an old,
- 11:06Speaker 4: just out-of-gas squad. They're just completely out of gas. And
- 11:11Speaker 4: I think there is something to be said about, if
- 11:14Speaker 4: you look at the Dodgers trying to three-peat and how
- 11:16Speaker 4: that blew up in their face, look at the Chiefs
- 11:20Speaker 4: and how they tried to three-peat a couple of years back.
- 11:24Speaker 4: And they got crushed by the Eagles. And then last year,
- 11:29Speaker 4: the wheels came completely off the tracks. And they're winning, what,
- 11:33Speaker 4: six games?
- 11:35Speaker 1: Unreal.
- 11:37Speaker 4: So it takes a ton out of you. And, uh,
- 11:41Speaker 4: That's what we saw on this NLCS.
- 11:43Speaker 1: I really do. Like, think of it like this.
- 11:46Speaker 4: Anybody who's talking about the brewers. My gosh, I don't
- 11:49Speaker 4: know what's going on with my voice right now. I've
- 11:51Speaker 4: got like this.
- 11:53Speaker 5: Clear it out. Clear it out.
- 11:54Speaker 4: It's like this stinging feeling in my trachea right there.
- 11:58Speaker 5: You know, do you need a throat lozenge? I can
- 12:00Speaker 5: go get you one out of the medical case.
- 12:02Speaker 1: Man, that's very nice of you, Lorena. I might need
- 12:05Speaker 1: a throat lozenge.
- 12:06Speaker 6: I'll go get you one.
- 12:06Speaker 1: I might need that.
- 12:07Speaker 4: But yeah, there's a fire in my throat for a second.
- 12:10Speaker 4: I think it's better now, bud.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Yeah, like trying to three-peat. Look at the Brewers.
- 12:15Speaker 4: Just to show how it's not just the payroll that's
- 12:19Speaker 4: an uneven playing field. Dodgers had a huge payroll. Brewers didn't.
- 12:24Speaker 4: What's also an uneven playing field is the Dodgers trying
- 12:29Speaker 4: to three-peat and the Brewers just trying to get to
- 12:33Speaker 4: the World Series for the first time in 44 years.
- 12:37Speaker 4: That's not the same thing. Let's put it like this.
- 12:40Speaker 4: If the Brewers win a World Series this year, they
- 12:43Speaker 4: win a World Series next year, and then they're in
- 12:46Speaker 4: the NLCS in 2028. That would be a more even
- 12:51Speaker 4: playing field to what the Dodgers were just doing right now.
- 12:55Speaker 6: Right.
- 12:56Speaker 4: So let's not make it only about payroll. Let's also
- 12:59Speaker 4: consider the wear and tear of trying to go for
- 13:02Speaker 4: a three-peat because that matters. And again, I don't want
- 13:05Speaker 4: to make it sound like, oh, the poor Dodgers. I'm
- 13:08Speaker 4: not making it sound like that, but you've got to
- 13:10Speaker 4: be reasonable. And the wear and tear, the grind of
- 13:14Speaker 4: trying to three-peat, that directly ties into them getting swept
- 13:18Speaker 4: and not being able to hold one lead. They're up
- 13:21Speaker 4: 4-0 in Game 4. They don't even win that game.
- 13:26Speaker 4: So look, you've got to give the Brewers a ton
- 13:28Speaker 4: of credit. They completely outplayed the Dodgers. They earned it.
- 13:31Speaker 4: They didn't just barely win. They didn't get a fluky
- 13:34Speaker 4: win here or there. Weird call there. They swept them
- 13:38Speaker 4: and came back every single time. They deserve praise. At
- 13:43Speaker 4: the same time, there's a little bit of nuance to this.
- 13:45Speaker 4: And the Dodgers going for a three-peat, the wear and tear,
- 13:48Speaker 4: that's obviously playing into the outcome of that series.
- 13:52Speaker 1: There's no doubt.
- 13:53Speaker 4: Hey, 877-99-ON-FOX is your phone number. Love to hear from
- 13:58Speaker 4: the Belisha. especially in person over here in L.A., the L.A.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Studios.
- 14:03Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, they've done a great job with
- 14:05Speaker 4: this place. And I see that we can play audio, too.
- 14:08Speaker 4: You got a little spot to hook up your audio
- 14:11Speaker 4: stuff and bada bing, bada boom. You can play stuff
- 14:14Speaker 4: on the show. This is outstanding. I was I was
- 14:18Speaker 4: thinking I was going to have to email Coop. the
- 14:22Speaker 4: Ryan Fitzpatrick sound of him crushing Bo Nix. And the
- 14:26Speaker 4: whole show is going to be like, Hey Coop, do
- 14:27Speaker 4: we have that in the system yet?
- 14:29Speaker 1: Not yet, Brian. Not just not yet. We don't have
- 14:31Speaker 1: that just yet.
- 14:32Speaker 6: Nope.
- 14:32Speaker 4: Not, but no, I believe I can play it. I
- 14:35Speaker 4: believe that's, that's going to happen. Very excited about that.
- 14:38Speaker 4: Very excited about that. Also on X at the no
- 14:42Speaker 4: show is where you can find me. Feel free to
- 14:44Speaker 4: tweet me early, often all throughout the show. Love being
- 14:47Speaker 4: interactive with the militia. I have missed you. So, So
- 14:51Speaker 4: plenty to do. I will get to the power rankings
- 14:54Speaker 4: of hate right around the corner, a little bit of
- 14:56Speaker 4: story time, and also the militia. You want to check in?
- 15:00Speaker 4: Story time can wait. We get right to the militia.
- 15:03Speaker 4: Militia wants in. Bob in Seattle wants to crush Sam Darnold.
- 15:08Speaker 1: Let's go, Bob. Let's go.
- 15:09Speaker 6: Get on.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Get in here. You know, that's how we'll do it.
- 15:12Speaker 6: All right.
- 15:14Speaker 4: We will get to the power rankings of hatred coming
- 15:16Speaker 4: up next. I'm Brian Ngo. And for Big Ben Maller,
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- 16:01Speaker 4: I'm Brian Noe in for Big Ben Maller here on
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- 16:08Speaker 1: Crazy evening. By the way, you know, there's something I
- 16:13Speaker 1: learned that I hate.
- 16:15Speaker 4: What do you hate? I'm curious what you guys hate first.
- 16:19Speaker 4: What's something that you hate, Lorena? Anything off the top
- 16:21Speaker 4: of your head?
- 16:23Speaker 5: Bad smells.
- 16:24Speaker 1: Bad smells. That's a good one.
- 16:26Speaker 5: Can't stand them.
- 16:26Speaker 1: Okay. Coop, you? Anything you hate off the top of
- 16:30Speaker 1: your head? coffee you hate coffee yeah.
- 16:34Speaker 5: He never drinks my coffee when i bring it.
- 16:35Speaker 9: Okay i hate everything about it the smell i mean
- 16:40Speaker 9: the taste obviously disgusting really yeah no it's i will
- 16:47Speaker 9: gag Have you.
- 16:48Speaker 5: Tried different coffees?
- 16:49Speaker 7: Like you've tried flavored coffees, mochas, lattes, or have you
- 16:53Speaker 7: just tried like straight black coffee?
- 16:55Speaker 1: No, I've tried any, any flavor.
- 16:59Speaker 5: I feel like you're stubborn. I feel like you're stubborn
- 17:02Speaker 5: enough to taste it once and be like, I don't
- 17:04Speaker 5: like that.
- 17:04Speaker 7: And then just never taste anything that has to do
- 17:06Speaker 7: with coffee ever again.
- 17:07Speaker 9: I've had, I've accidentally eaten coffee, jelly beans, disgusting, coffee, coffee,
- 17:12Speaker 9: ice cream, disgusting, disgusting.
- 17:16Speaker 5: But I like a caramel latte.
- 17:18Speaker 1: No, no.
- 17:20Speaker 4: So, but you've tried real coffee though, right?
- 17:22Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 17:23Speaker 1: And the same thing. Yeah, no, it's gross. So what
- 17:25Speaker 1: was the order of the coffee intake? You know what
- 17:28Speaker 1: I'm saying?
- 17:29Speaker 4: Did you start off with ice cream and then you
- 17:30Speaker 4: went with the jelly beans and then.
- 17:33Speaker 5: You sipped your mom's coffee as a kid.
- 17:35Speaker 9: No, my mom didn't like coffee either. I think my
- 17:39Speaker 9: grandma loved coffee, was like a coffee all the time person.
- 17:43Speaker 9: So I probably had some there. I can't remember the
- 17:45Speaker 9: first time I had it, but- I know there was
- 17:49Speaker 9: plenty of times where I accidentally like drank coffee and
- 17:52Speaker 9: it's just gross.
- 17:55Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I'm surprised. Okay. So we got bad smells.
- 17:58Speaker 1: Lorena doesn't like the bad smells. Coop doesn't.
- 18:01Speaker 6: Okay.
- 18:01Speaker 1: Sorry.
- 18:02Speaker 4: Lorena hates bad smells. Coop hates coffee to be accurate here.
- 18:08Speaker 4: So that's different. Um, I have learned that I hate
- 18:13Speaker 4: frontier airlines.
- 18:14Speaker 1: I hate frontier. Oh, they're the worst.
- 18:16Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 18:17Speaker 1: I didn't realize this, but, uh, Yeah.
- 18:19Speaker 5: They're the new spirit.
- 18:21Speaker 6: They are.
- 18:22Speaker 1: But they're not even as cheap as spirit was. I
- 18:23Speaker 1: like spirit better.
- 18:25Speaker 4: The bag like toll road girl. I don't know what
- 18:28Speaker 4: you would call it. You know, like the toll booth
- 18:31Speaker 4: or whatever.
- 18:31Speaker 1: The old school.
- 18:33Speaker 4: She was like, you go down this mini path and
- 18:36Speaker 4: she'd be like, check your bag for me, please. And
- 18:39Speaker 4: you try to fit this mammoth bag into this small
- 18:43Speaker 4: little space. And I'm just like, it's not happening. And
- 18:47Speaker 4: some people, they had bags where they could kind of
- 18:50Speaker 4: like fold it in half and jam it down.
- 18:53Speaker 1: And they passed the test. Not me.
- 18:56Speaker 4: Like this, I have just a book bag that is
- 18:59Speaker 4: packed to the freaking gills. And it was not going
- 19:02Speaker 4: to pass the test whatsoever. So it's like, all right,
- 19:06Speaker 4: I got to whatever, pay for the bag. Guess how
- 19:09Speaker 4: much it was. You tell me if I'm out of
- 19:11Speaker 4: line here.
- 19:12Speaker 6: All right.
- 19:12Speaker 1: So it's a big. I'm excited to guess.
- 19:14Speaker 5: I'm ready to guess.
- 19:14Speaker 6: Okay.
- 19:15Speaker 1: Do you have to check your bag?
- 19:17Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 19:18Speaker 1: Well, whatever. You have to pay for the bag. It's
- 19:20Speaker 1: the same thing. It wasn't oversized. It was just too
- 19:22Speaker 1: big to be a carry-on. It was an oversized carry-on.
- 19:25Speaker 6: Okay.
- 19:26Speaker 4: Right?
- 19:27Speaker 1: So what do you think they would charge for that? $ 60.
- 19:29Speaker 1: What do you say, Lorraine? $ 85.
- 19:31Speaker 4: $ 99 American dollars.
- 19:33Speaker 1: Wow. $ 99.
- 19:35Speaker 4: And this freaking flight was over two hours late. If
- 19:39Speaker 4: you're two hours late, bro, you got to let it slide.
- 19:42Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
- 19:43Speaker 6: Nope.
- 19:43Speaker 4: Nope.
- 19:45Speaker 7: I had that issue with an airline before. I always
- 19:47Speaker 7: take the same bags on every flight. And all of
- 19:50Speaker 7: a sudden, they're like, that bag isn't going to work
- 19:52Speaker 7: in the overhead. And I'm like, actually, it fits under
- 19:54Speaker 7: my seat in front of the feet in front of me.
- 19:57Speaker 6: Right.
- 19:57Speaker 7: And they're like, no, sorry, you have to check that.
- 19:59Speaker 7: And they charged me $ 60. It wasn't that airline.
- 20:02Speaker 5: It was a different one. So I had to pay
- 20:03Speaker 5: for two bags to be checked that day. I was
- 20:05Speaker 5: so mad. I was like, that's more than the tickets.
- 20:07Speaker 1: Do you hate that airline now?
- 20:09Speaker 5: Yeah, well, they're not here anymore. I wish they still were. Avalo,
- 20:11Speaker 5: I miss you. Please come back to the West Coast.
- 20:13Speaker 7: I want to fly to Oregon for $ 60 instead of
- 20:15Speaker 7: $ 250 to $ 500.
- 20:16Speaker 5: Thank you.
- 20:18Speaker 1: So you hated them.
- 20:20Speaker 5: I hated them at that moment because I flew with
- 20:22Speaker 5: them so often. That was what was so frustrating.
- 20:24Speaker 7: I'm like, I've done this flight a million times with
- 20:27Speaker 7: a million people and a million children.
- 20:29Speaker 5: I bring people to you and you're going to charge
- 20:31Speaker 5: me for this bag that I've already taken on these flights?
- 20:34Speaker 6: Stop. Stop.
- 20:35Speaker 5: And I get so sassy. It's bad.
- 20:39Speaker 1: I bet that happens.
- 20:42Speaker 5: I don't appreciate your sarcasm.
- 20:47Speaker 4: I got sassy in Vegas one time to the point
- 20:51Speaker 4: where the girl she was trying to help me And
- 20:54Speaker 4: I wasn't mad at her, but I was in a,
- 20:57Speaker 4: you know, like a very like, come on, like, let's,
- 21:00Speaker 4: I could still make it. A guy came over to help.
- 21:02Speaker 4: She said, don't help him. She said that to the guy.
- 21:05Speaker 5: I'm sure she did.
- 21:07Speaker 7: Brian, I adore you, but my sass is different than
- 21:10Speaker 7: your sass. Your sass can be aggressive. My sass is like, okay,
- 21:16Speaker 7: you're a tiny girl.
- 21:16Speaker 5: What are you going to do?
- 21:17Speaker 2: You know?
- 21:20Speaker 1: I can be aggressive? I'm an aggressive sasser, huh?
- 21:23Speaker 5: You're a little more, you know.
- 21:24Speaker 1: Okay.
- 21:25Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 21:25Speaker 1: Yeah. That's true.
- 21:28Speaker 6: Strong.
- 21:28Speaker 5: I'm going to call you a strong sass. Let's call
- 21:30Speaker 5: you a strong sass.
- 21:31Speaker 1: I'm strong-willed.
- 21:32Speaker 5: There we go.
- 21:33Speaker 1: That's what I am. I'm strong-willed.
- 21:34Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 21:35Speaker 1: Yeah. That does happen from time to time. So, yeah.
- 21:39Speaker 4: I might get over it. I might not. There are
- 21:41Speaker 4: times where I'll hold a grudge for a decade. No problem.
- 21:45Speaker 6: You know?
- 21:45Speaker 4: So, this might be a decade-long grudge. I was trying
- 21:49Speaker 4: to think of the things that I hate. Not to
- 21:51Speaker 4: make this a whole thing about Tool, but Coop, you
- 21:53Speaker 4: know I hate Tool. I don't hate Tool half as
- 21:56Speaker 4: much as I hate Frontier Airlines right now.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Man, I hate them.
- 21:59Speaker 4: I hate this new goofy 24-team college football playoff way
- 22:04Speaker 4: less than I hate Frontier Airlines.
- 22:07Speaker 1: And I hate the goofy 24-team playoff.
- 22:10Speaker 9: Last time I flew Frontier was right before the Broncos
- 22:16Speaker 9: divisional round against the Bills.
- 22:19Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
- 22:19Speaker 9: Yeah, I was supposed to land in Denver around midnight,
- 22:23Speaker 9: like the night before the game. And I had the
- 22:28Speaker 9: VIP tailgate party tickets. You know, it's supposed to get
- 22:32Speaker 9: there at like, you know, 11 a.m. for that to start.
- 22:35Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 22:36Speaker 9: So it was get to the hotel, relax for a
- 22:38Speaker 9: couple hours, go to sleep, wake up eight hours later,
- 22:41Speaker 9: go to the game.
- 22:42Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 22:43Speaker 9: And we get there and Frontier has the I've never
- 22:46Speaker 9: had a flight delayed five hours. We didn't we didn't
- 22:50Speaker 9: land in Denver until 4 a.m.
- 22:52Speaker 3: Wow.
- 22:53Speaker 5: That was me with Boston.
- 22:55Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 22:55Speaker 5: Remember, you called me on the show in the morning
- 22:57Speaker 5: when I got there.
- 22:58Speaker 1: I remember talking to you.
- 22:59Speaker 5: When I fell down the stairs.
- 23:00Speaker 1: Yours was American though, right? I'm going down. I'm going down.
- 23:05Speaker 1: That was the best.
- 23:07Speaker 5: That was scary.
- 23:08Speaker 1: You might not be here if that guy didn't catch you.
- 23:10Speaker 5: Honestly, I might be like still healing from broken legs
- 23:13Speaker 5: and ribs.
- 23:13Speaker 1: Literally. That could have been a whole thing.
- 23:15Speaker 5: And I'm so glad he was a big man too.
- 23:17Speaker 5: He wasn't like a small, you know, small guy.
- 23:19Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
- 23:19Speaker 1: There's the replay of Darnold playing horrible football. That's crazy. Interception.
- 23:24Speaker 5: That was well-timed right there.
- 23:27Speaker 4: Coop, do you want to hear my sob stories of
- 23:29Speaker 4: prop bets gone wrong?
- 23:32Speaker 1: You might get some enjoyment out of this.
- 23:35Speaker 4: It was beyond disgusting on Thursday Night Football. I won't
- 23:39Speaker 4: bore you to death with the whole long story, but
- 23:43Speaker 4: it was two guys. It was Rashid Shaheed. So this
- 23:48Speaker 4: is a crack play. And these are great plays. They
- 23:51Speaker 4: all should have won. But he had Rashid Shahid over
- 23:55Speaker 4: two and a half rushing yards. He had one carry
- 23:59Speaker 4: for two yards and fumbled. He's done carrying the football.
- 24:05Speaker 4: No more rushing attempts for Rashid Shahid. But a glimmer
- 24:09Speaker 4: of hope. They threw a backwards pass to him, right?
- 24:13Speaker 4: It was a four-yard gain. It said in the stats, Coop,
- 24:18Speaker 4: we're on the Sunday text chain, right? I do the
- 24:21Speaker 4: Sunday morning show countdown to kickoff. And it's like, hey,
- 24:24Speaker 4: he got there. Two carries for six yards. It's like beautiful.
- 24:29Speaker 4: And I'm like, they better not change it. It's happened
- 24:31Speaker 4: to me before. Guess what, Coop?
- 24:33Speaker 1: It happened to me again on Thursday night. They changed it.
- 24:36Speaker 1: They called it a... Reception?
- 24:38Speaker 4: Called it a reception, which I think was the right call.
- 24:41Speaker 4: But they teased me. They put it in the stats like, no,
- 24:44Speaker 4: that was a rushing attempt. He's got six rushing yards
- 24:46Speaker 4: right now.
- 24:47Speaker 1: Nope. Psych. Didn't happen.
- 24:49Speaker 4: And the other guy was George Helani, the backup running back.
- 24:53Speaker 4: We had under four and a half carries and under
- 24:56Speaker 4: 14 and a half yards. George Helani did nothing all
- 25:02Speaker 4: game long. I don't know if he even had an
- 25:05Speaker 4: attempt before. And then in the fourth quarter, they gave
- 25:09Speaker 4: it to him, and he ripped off a 13-yard gain
- 25:12Speaker 4: near the goal line. They gave it to him again.
- 25:15Speaker 4: He scored a touchdown. So the under 14.5 is dead already.
- 25:19Speaker 4: And to pour salt in the wounds, I was in L.A.
- 25:23Speaker 4: with the shuttle bus to the rental car, and the
- 25:26Speaker 4: girl next to me was overlooking, a Seahawks fan. And
- 25:30Speaker 4: when George Helani scored, she's like, we scored! I'm like,
- 25:33Speaker 4: that just killed.
- 25:34Speaker 1: My prop bet. No big deal.
- 25:35Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 25:37Speaker 4: I didn't say anything. I'm just like, that would happen, right?
- 25:40Speaker 4: Just to make it as gross as possible, that would happen.
- 25:43Speaker 4: And that we're still good, right? He's at four carries.
- 25:47Speaker 4: What happens, Coop? The game goes into overtime. Of course,
- 25:50Speaker 4: George Helani gets one more carry in overtime. The whole
- 25:54Speaker 4: thing goes to hell.
- 25:55Speaker 1: Oh, it was brutal. It was bad. It didn't work out.
- 25:58Speaker 1: It's basically what happened on Thursday night.
- 26:00Speaker 9: I fell one Cortland Sutton reception short of a four-leg.
- 26:06Speaker 9: What were the other legs?
- 26:08Speaker 1: Broncos money line to win. Uh-huh. Jackson Smith and Jigba,
- 26:12Speaker 1: 80 yards or more. Oh, geez. Easily, yeah. And Jalen Waddell,
- 26:18Speaker 1: four catches.
- 26:19Speaker 5: That's the one where you almost had all of them, right?
- 26:21Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. It's... Yep, just the one. That's how it goes.
- 26:27Speaker 4: I was so hoping you took a Bo Nix under. Gosh,
- 26:30Speaker 4: I was hoping you were like, yeah, just, you know,
- 26:33Speaker 4: spot play, Seahawks defense. You know, I took Bo Nix
- 26:37Speaker 4: under passing yards. I was just hoping you were.
- 26:38Speaker 1: Going to say that. I never do anything like that.
- 26:41Speaker 4: I don't blame you. Listen, it's your team. I love
- 26:44Speaker 4: Notre Dame football. I'm not going to bet any unders
- 26:48Speaker 4: on player props. No, that's not happening whatsoever. You know,
- 26:52Speaker 4: one thing I wanted to talk about, Coop made me
- 26:54Speaker 4: think of it right there, was in overtime, I think
- 26:59Speaker 4: that we've gotten to the point where it's like, well, hey,
- 27:02Speaker 4: both teams get a shot. The coin toss, it doesn't
- 27:05Speaker 4: mean really anything anymore, or at least it doesn't mean
- 27:09Speaker 4: what it once did.
- 27:10Speaker 1: The coin toss means.
- 27:12Speaker 4: A ton, a ton, especially if you're talking about Either
- 27:17Speaker 4: player props, the betting angle, point spread in the game.
- 27:21Speaker 1: For sure, when it comes to that.
- 27:23Speaker 9: But I think when you talk about winning the game,
- 27:27Speaker 9: now it's not anywhere near as meaningful as it used
- 27:30Speaker 9: to be, obviously.
- 27:31Speaker 1: No, but it's still very meaningful.
- 27:35Speaker 9: So far this season, it's kind of been even as
- 27:37Speaker 9: far as coaches deciding whether or not to to receive
- 27:40Speaker 9: or kick in overtime, right? And has there really been
- 27:43Speaker 9: any pattern one way or another proving that one works better?
- 27:47Speaker 1: I think kicking works better. I agree. I agree.
- 27:53Speaker 4: Especially tonight. That's what I'm trying to say is, no,
- 27:57Speaker 4: it doesn't mean what it once did, right? Even when
- 28:01Speaker 4: we got away from the old school, it was really
- 28:04Speaker 4: what the 0-9 season was. When the Saints beat the Vikings,
- 28:10Speaker 4: when Brett Favre threw that interception with the Vikings, that's
- 28:13Speaker 4: what really changed it. The Saints got the ball in overtime,
- 28:18Speaker 4: went down the field, kicked a field goal.
- 28:20Speaker 1: That was it. They changed the rule right after that.
- 28:24Speaker 1: I had no problem with the old school.
- 28:27Speaker 4: It's like, play special teams and play defense. I don't
- 28:31Speaker 4: want to hear the tears. The sudden death? You liked
- 28:34Speaker 4: the sudden death? I had no problem with a field
- 28:37Speaker 4: goal and sudden death.
- 28:38Speaker 1: I really didn't. I think it's so much better now.
- 28:41Speaker 1: I do too. I think it's better now, but I
- 28:43Speaker 1: didn't have a problem with old school. I don't have...
- 28:47Speaker 1: No fair! We didn't get a turn to play defense
- 28:49Speaker 1: and you'll get a turn. How about that?
- 28:51Speaker 4: I didn't have a problem with it. But yeah, I'll
- 28:53Speaker 4: admit it's more entertaining now. But even when we went to...
- 28:59Speaker 4: Both teams don't get a guaranteed possession, but you got
- 29:03Speaker 4: to score a touchdown to end the game. Even when
- 29:05Speaker 4: we got to that realm, the coin toss obviously still
- 29:09Speaker 4: means a lot. I still think the coin toss means
- 29:12Speaker 4: a lot. Tonight's game is the perfect example where, listen,
- 29:16Speaker 4: be reasonable. I'm not saying it's a joke win for
- 29:19Speaker 4: your Broncos, Coop, at all.
- 29:21Speaker 6: I wouldn't.
- 29:21Speaker 4: I'm not saying that. But the coin toss had a
- 29:24Speaker 4: big impact tonight. These offenses are doing nothing. Sam Darnold's
- 29:28Speaker 4: turning the ball over left and right. You know, he's
- 29:31Speaker 4: taking sacks to knock him out of field goal range.
- 29:34Speaker 4: He's a disaster, right? Because if you start with the ball,
- 29:36Speaker 4: you need to be trying to score a touchdown. But
- 29:39Speaker 4: if you kick the ball away and you stop them,
- 29:41Speaker 4: you know, all you need is the field goal.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Yeah, it's right. You know, in this situation, kicking is
- 29:47Speaker 1: definitely the right move, right?
- 29:48Speaker 4: So the Broncos won the toss and they decided to kick,
- 29:52Speaker 4: which was great strategy, but And listen, if the coin
- 29:57Speaker 4: toss goes the other way, I'm not sure we're talking
- 30:00Speaker 4: about a Broncos win tonight. I don't think that's unnecessary
- 30:04Speaker 4: hatred and withdrawing props or withholding props. I think that's
- 30:08Speaker 4: the way it might have gone down. That's how bad
- 30:11Speaker 4: the offenses were. Bo Nix was awful. It was so
- 30:15Speaker 4: bad on Thursday night. He threw for 107 yards. He's
- 30:20Speaker 4: like throwing the ball away when he should have kept
- 30:22Speaker 4: the clock running.
- 30:23Speaker 1: He was just so bad.
- 30:25Speaker 4: So if the Broncos start off with the football, I
- 30:28Speaker 4: don't know that you can expect that offense to do anything.
- 30:31Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean, probably, probably not.
- 30:33Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 30:34Speaker 4: And maybe the Seahawks only needed a field goal to
- 30:37Speaker 4: win that game. It very well could have worked out
- 30:39Speaker 4: that way, but the Broncos won the toss. They kicked
- 30:42Speaker 4: off Sam Darnold through an interception in overtime and Broncos
- 30:46Speaker 4: moved the ball a little bit, kicked a long field goal.
- 30:50Speaker 1: It's over. They win.
- 30:51Speaker 9: Do you remember when they changed the overtime to you
- 30:56Speaker 9: get a chance to answer if they only score a
- 30:58Speaker 9: field goal, but if you score a touchdown, it's over?
- 30:59Speaker 9: Do you remember the first game that came into play?
- 31:02Speaker 1: To play. I couldn't tell you. No, I'm sure you do.
- 31:05Speaker 1: Is it Broncos related? It was the Tebow passed to Demarius.
- 31:10Speaker 2: Wow.
- 31:10Speaker 1: That's what did it.
- 31:12Speaker 4: The worst defensive game plan of all time. Dick LeBeau,
- 31:18Speaker 4: who otherwise was fantastic, was just like, yeah, let's just
- 31:22Speaker 4: not have safeties against Tebow.
- 31:26Speaker 1: Tebow threw for 316, didn't he? Did he really?
- 31:30Speaker 4: I think that's what he did in that game. That
- 31:33Speaker 4: was the thing. It was like, I don't know if
- 31:35Speaker 4: he just completed 10 passes for 316.
- 31:38Speaker 1: But you know, the whole, you know.
- 31:40Speaker 5: Oh, you're right.
- 31:41Speaker 1: It's called the 316 game.
- 31:43Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 31:44Speaker 1: Did he complete just 10 passes? Is that what?
- 31:47Speaker 6: Yes.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. 31.6 yards per completion.
- 31:50Speaker 4: So that was it where, you know, because of the
- 31:54Speaker 4: Bible verse three 16, right?
- 31:56Speaker 1: Like that was the whole thing with, I didn't even
- 31:57Speaker 1: know that that was the thing that they called it
- 31:59Speaker 1: the three 16.
- 31:59Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 32:00Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
- 32:00Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 32:01Speaker 4: But they're like, even his average was three 16. It's like,
- 32:05Speaker 4: that's just math. That's like, you know, divide three 16
- 32:10Speaker 4: by 10. It works out that way is actually what happens.
- 32:14Speaker 4: Nothing to do with Tebow right there.
- 32:16Speaker 1: It's just math.
- 32:17Speaker 4: But yeah, 10 completions for 316 yards.
- 32:22Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
- 32:23Speaker 4: Dick LeBeau is just like this quarterback sucks. We don't
- 32:28Speaker 4: need safeties at all. Trust me. And it did not
- 32:32Speaker 4: work whatsoever.
- 32:34Speaker 1: That's interesting.
- 32:35Speaker 4: I didn't know that was the first, first overtime game where,
- 32:39Speaker 4: you know, a touchdown in OT, that was it. And
- 32:41Speaker 4: the other team didn't get the ball. Good stuff.
- 32:44Speaker 1: Yeah, I had no idea.
- 32:45Speaker 4: Because I think what changed it going forward, it was
- 32:50Speaker 4: the 13-second game, right? It was the Chiefs beating the Bills.
- 32:55Speaker 4: The Chiefs were down with 13 seconds remaining.
- 32:58Speaker 3: Yes, yeah.
- 32:58Speaker 4: The Bills are dumb enough not to squib kick it, right?
- 33:02Speaker 4: Just squib it and force them to use some time. No,
- 33:06Speaker 4: the Bills are like, let's not do that. Let's just,
- 33:07Speaker 4: you know. Kick it in the end zone. That would
- 33:10Speaker 4: be good. That would save them some time. And then
- 33:14Speaker 4: the Chiefs move the ball downfield enough. A little completion
- 33:17Speaker 4: to Kelsey. Gets them in field goal range. Game goes
- 33:19Speaker 4: into overtime. Chiefs get the ball right down the field.
- 33:23Speaker 4: Hot knife through butter. Score a touchdown.
- 33:25Speaker 1: That's it. So, yeah, wow. Little memory lane right there.
- 33:29Speaker 1: Very good.
- 33:31Speaker 4: Okay, 877-99-ON-FOX. That is your phone number. You want to
- 33:35Speaker 4: get in here, Militia, feel free to do so. Love
- 33:38Speaker 4: being interactive with you. And we will get to you
- 33:41Speaker 4: right around the corner if you so desire.
- 33:45Speaker 1: Oh, man. Shame on me.
- 33:47Speaker 4: I didn't even do the Who Am I game. How
- 33:49Speaker 4: about this? I royally sucked in a game on Thursday night.
- 33:55Speaker 4: My stats were anemic. And my team still won.
- 33:59Speaker 1: Who am I?
- 34:01Speaker 6: Who?
- 34:02Speaker 4: Coop's got an idea who that is. Your answer right
- 34:05Speaker 4: around the corner. I'm Brian Noe in for Big Ben Maller.
- 34:08Speaker 4: Keep it locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
- 34:10Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
- 34:12Speaker 3: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
- 34:16Speaker 4: It is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian Noe in for
- 34:19Speaker 4: Big Ben Maller. There's no time like October. The World
- 34:23Speaker 4: Series begins next Friday. Streaming live on Fox One. The
- 34:28Speaker 4: National League champion Brewers. We'll take on either the Rays
- 34:31Speaker 4: or Guardians live from Milwaukee next Friday for Game 1.
- 34:35Speaker 4: Stream the World Series live on Fox 1. Okay, we're
- 34:42Speaker 4: hooking up our audio playing situation over here. Oh, it's
- 34:48Speaker 4: getting hooked up one way or the other. Very excited
- 34:51Speaker 4: about this to play. Ryan Fitzpatrick crushing Bo Nix. Very
- 34:55Speaker 4: excited about this.
- 34:56Speaker 1: It's a whole.
- 34:57Speaker 4: The whole enterprise that's undertaking going on right now. Hey,
- 35:01Speaker 4: before we get to the Who Am I game, we
- 35:03Speaker 4: got calls right here. Don is in Atlanta. He's got
- 35:06Speaker 4: some thoughts on Thursday Night Football.
- 35:08Speaker 1: What's going on, Don? You're on Fox Sports Radio.
- 35:12Speaker 6: How's it going? Interesting take that you had on the overtime.
- 35:17Speaker 6: It made me think about, you know... both of those
- 35:25Speaker 6: teams had really horrible offense. Yeah. But why the hell,
- 35:32Speaker 6: I don't know, because Denver had no time of possession in, uh,
- 35:38Speaker 6: you know, the fourth quarter and they, the Seahawks came
- 35:42Speaker 6: back and obviously tied it and you give them the ball.
- 35:45Speaker 6: That was taking a big chance. I think it was
- 35:47Speaker 6: taking a big chance. Uh, if he didn't do that interception,
- 35:52Speaker 6: maybe they go down, score a touchdown and then, you know,
- 35:54Speaker 6: Denver can't do anything. I don't know what your take
- 35:56Speaker 6: is on that. And the other thing is, do you
- 35:59Speaker 6: think the Seahawks now are not going to be able
- 36:03Speaker 6: to catch the Niners? Um, and they're going to lose
- 36:08Speaker 6: the West. What do you think? Yeah.
- 36:10Speaker 4: Um, listen, man, I appreciate you checking in Don. Um,
- 36:14Speaker 4: I think a couple of things, uh, I would like
- 36:17Speaker 4: to say it's a long season. We got a long
- 36:20Speaker 4: way to go. And I do believe that, but man,
- 36:25Speaker 4: we haven't even gotten into divisional play a ton yet.
- 36:28Speaker 4: Still a lot of divisional games left in the NFC West,
- 36:32Speaker 4: but I like, would you put your money on Seattle
- 36:36Speaker 4: catching the Niners?
- 36:37Speaker 1: Hell no.
- 36:38Speaker 6: Right.
- 36:39Speaker 4: The way Darnold is playing it. I said this to
- 36:43Speaker 4: Mike Harmon when the, their show was ending. mike and
- 36:46Speaker 4: i were talking a little bit um while i was
- 36:49Speaker 4: getting ready and i'm like if you if you just
- 36:52Speaker 4: look at seattle minus kenneth walker and look at the
- 36:55Speaker 4: chiefs with kenneth walker that's huge the difference that he
- 37:00Speaker 4: has made on both teams look at the chiefs were
- 37:03Speaker 4: they six and eleven last season undefeated this season.
- 37:06Speaker 1: This is just more fuel for the uh the resurgence
- 37:10Speaker 1: of the running back position, the value in running backs.
- 37:14Speaker 4: Well, Hey, there's some truth to that coop where you
- 37:17Speaker 4: can't let the market sway you too much where the,
- 37:20Speaker 4: the running back market, we know what it is, right?
- 37:23Speaker 4: Where these running backs don't get paid. That doesn't mean
- 37:26Speaker 4: they aren't a big part of, of, of teams offenses,
- 37:30Speaker 4: but And they don't make a big impact in the
- 37:33Speaker 4: game because they clearly do. You look at the top guys,
- 37:36Speaker 4: Bijan Robinson making a huge impact with Atlanta. Can you
- 37:39Speaker 4: imagine Bijan Robinson on an actual talented team? He would
- 37:43Speaker 4: be like Saquon joining the Eagles. He'd literally be a
- 37:46Speaker 4: 2,000-yard back.
- 37:48Speaker 1: Right, or the Falcons would be winless without him. Right, right, yeah.
- 37:52Speaker 4: Yeah, even so, right? You can credit him for the
- 37:55Speaker 4: way he went off against the Saints.
- 37:56Speaker 1: He's unbelievable.
- 37:57Speaker 4: He's an awesome back. Look at Derrick Henry with the Ravens.
- 38:01Speaker 4: The list goes on and on, but Kenneth Walker not
- 38:04Speaker 4: being on the Seahawks, and all of a sudden, you
- 38:07Speaker 4: saw it on Thursday Night Football. Denver was smart. They're like,
- 38:10Speaker 4: anybody but JSN. And JSN still ate, but nobody else did.
- 38:15Speaker 4: And there were times where it's like, all right, Number
- 38:18Speaker 4: 11 is not available. And Darnold takes a sack and
- 38:21Speaker 4: they're out of field goal range.
- 38:22Speaker 6: Right?
- 38:23Speaker 9: Like it was crazy though. Cause I feel like, I
- 38:25Speaker 9: feel like JSN had like 38 yards at like the
- 38:30Speaker 9: fourth quarter.
- 38:31Speaker 1: And then, and then you blinked and he's over a
- 38:33Speaker 1: buck 25. You're like, what? It's crazy. He's so good.
- 38:38Speaker 4: But when teams just are like, all right, even situationally
- 38:43Speaker 4: is that are still off the chart. But they still
- 38:48Speaker 4: stopped him in those key moments. So, yeah, I think
- 38:51Speaker 4: if teams are smart and they're just like, we're just
- 38:53Speaker 4: not going to let JSN kill us. I'll get to
- 38:55Speaker 4: his thoughts about overtime and what if Seattle scored. But first,
- 39:00Speaker 4: the Who Am I game. This was impromptu, so I'll
- 39:03Speaker 4: try to remember it word for word. Might be a
- 39:05Speaker 4: little bit off, but I am hot garbage. I had
- 39:09Speaker 4: stats that were anemic on Thursday, and yet my team
- 39:13Speaker 4: bailed me out.
- 39:15Speaker 1: And we got another goofball win. Who am I?
- 39:17Speaker 3: Oh, I know.
- 39:19Speaker 1: Do you know who it is?
- 39:20Speaker 5: Oscar the Grouch. He's hot garbage.
- 39:22Speaker 4: That's that's a great guess right there thanks fantastic guess
- 39:26Speaker 4: uh let's see the other guesses here anthony and anaheim
- 39:30Speaker 4: um i don't know if it's an actual guess oh
- 39:33Speaker 4: no it's at the no show hashtag meller up i
- 39:38Speaker 4: don't know those are props or not it doesn't look
- 39:41Speaker 4: like props exactly uh eileen with ghost face let's see
- 39:46Speaker 4: the king rory with bob euchre Eloy with It's the
- 39:51Speaker 4: Sucky Dodgers bullpen.
- 39:52Speaker 6: No!
- 39:54Speaker 1: It is Bo Nix! Hot garbage bailed out yet again.
- 39:57Speaker 9: Unbelievable.