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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: The Week 7 NFL card, on a Sunday anyway, ending
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  Speaker 1: with what was supposed to be a humdinger of a matchup.
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  Speaker 1: You had Patrick Mahomes, the 5-0 Chiefs coming in, taking
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  Speaker 1: on Sam Darnold. And the Seahawks, who were 3-3 on
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  Speaker 1: the season. Mike Tirico, Chris Collinsworth waxing loquacious on NBC.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if you were watching or not.
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  Speaker 1: We watched. So you would not have to. And what
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  Speaker 1: we watched was a one-man wrecking crew as Jackson Smith
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  Speaker 1: and Jigba putting on a show, zigging when the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: were zagging and zagging when the Chiefs were zigging. As
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  Speaker 1: he got her done, nine catches, 150 yards, and a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown and a partridge in a pear tree. The Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: hand the Chiefs their first L. You eat the L!
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  Speaker 1: So Kansas City will not go 17-0. They lose the
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night game. Sam Darnold had 257 yards to score. And,
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  Speaker 1: as always, just a bonehead interception. He's good for that.
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  Speaker 1: He's really good for that. And Seahawks get to 4-3.
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  Speaker 1: Someone named Emmanuel Wilson. We don't know who that is.
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  Speaker 1: But he had 100 yards and a touchdown in the
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  Speaker 1: backfield for the Seahawks. The better story, though. is in
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  Speaker 1: the losing locker room where Patrick Mahomes was driving the
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  Speaker 1: struggle bus for the Chiefs offense there. Mahomes had just
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  Speaker 1: 165 yards passing, which I'm told is not good. And
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  Speaker 1: an interception. The Chiefs dropped to 5-1 on the season.
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  Speaker 1: And Kenneth Walker III, this is the Kenneth Walker III
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  Speaker 1: revenge game. Revenge! Revenge! Yeah. The Super Bowl MVP. Had
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  Speaker 1: a dud. Had a dud there as he was held
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  Speaker 1: to 36 yards. That's it on 14 carries. And so
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid's Chiefs with a forgettable night all the way
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  Speaker 1: around there as they are into the loser's column. That
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: What is the word? What is the word for Patrick Mahomes'
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  Speaker 1: performance today? with the Chiefs offense there on Sunday night
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  Speaker 1: NFL football. So I've got Flippers, Rubik's Cube, and Flying J.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to give you a tongue lashing is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. Well, not literally. It's just radio.
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  Speaker 1: It's so simple. It's a radio show. Now, before we
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  Speaker 1: get into this, let's hear from Patrick Mahome. Mahome! Patrick Mahome,
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs quarterback here, and he points out that this was not,
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  Speaker 1: not a masterpiece by the Chiefs. You got your tail kicked.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't execute offensively, especially around that midfield area. Kept us
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  Speaker 3: away from a lot of points, or at least enough
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  Speaker 3: points to be competitive. But it's stuff you got to
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  Speaker 3: learn from. That's obviously a really good defense, and we
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  Speaker 3: didn't execute at a high enough level to have success.
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  Speaker 1: Here's more from Mahomes. The Seahawks defense able to shove
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  Speaker 1: their will against the offensive line for the Chiefs and
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  Speaker 1: in his result against Mahomes. Here's Mahomes on the pressure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously a little bit, but I thought
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  Speaker 3: especially early in the game, I thought my feet were
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  Speaker 3: kind of getting me into trouble where I could have
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  Speaker 3: maybe sat in the pocket and made some of the
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  Speaker 3: throws down the field. I got better a little bit
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  Speaker 3: later in the game. But at the same time, whenever
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  Speaker 3: you play a team like that, you can't let them
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  Speaker 3: get ahead and kind of get into a game they
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  Speaker 3: want to play because obviously they've had a lot of
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  Speaker 3: success doing that. And so you've got to be better
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  Speaker 3: starting faster, especially with me, and then try to do
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  Speaker 3: better throughout the entire game.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the good news is you can't start any worse.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't score in the first half of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like you have anywhere like, wow, you
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  Speaker 1: scored 10 points. No, you scored a field goal. You're
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  Speaker 1: better going forward. Anyway, here's Andy Reid. I'm sure Andy
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  Speaker 1: will be very satisfied with his performance. Right, Andy Reid? Yes?
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  Speaker 4: All three phases.
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  Speaker 5: We struggled.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to do better.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. And that's my responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I take full responsibility for this. We've got to play
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  Speaker 4: better as a team. It's a tough place to play,
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  Speaker 4: but this is all part of it. They're a good
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  Speaker 4: football team, and they played well. My hat goes off
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  Speaker 4: to them. There's not a whole lot of stats that
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  Speaker 4: I can... share with you that really make any sense
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  Speaker 4: maybe other than third downs both sides of the ball
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  Speaker 4: we can do a better job with those but we've
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  Speaker 4: got a great locker room here and the guys will
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  Speaker 4: get back in and get themselves ready to play against
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  Speaker 4: a good Denver team this next week.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought the Chiefs were going to quit and
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  Speaker 1: forfeit but apparently they're going to keep playing so that's
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  Speaker 1: good news. We'd like to alert all the other NFL
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  Speaker 1: fans that the Chiefs are not going to give up,
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  Speaker 1: that a bad night is not going to end their season.
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  Speaker 1: So we can move on with that. Back to the question,
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  Speaker 1: what is the word? Again, what is the word for
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and the performance of the Chiefs offense on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night? So my word is alarming. Capital A, alarming.
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  Speaker 1: Every time the Chiefs offense takes the field, you expect
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  Speaker 1: to see a lot of magic. This year, not last year.
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  Speaker 1: Last year was a debacle. You thought, well, this year
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  Speaker 1: they've been the top offensive team in the NFL. And
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  Speaker 1: you say, okay. So you got the magic. And Sunday night,
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  Speaker 1: the rabbit was dead, and the magician lost his hat.
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  Speaker 1: That's not good. Mahomes is supposed to be match-up proof.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing that's a little annoying if you're following
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Mahomes is supposed to be match-up proof. The
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  Speaker 1: human cheat code. Seattle's a good defense. Yes, this is
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  Speaker 1: not new. We've known Seattle has a good defense. We
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  Speaker 1: got that. They also lost to Washington. That Seahawks defense
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  Speaker 1: lost to the team that doesn't even have a name.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a generic name. They used to be called
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  Speaker 1: the Redskins. That Seahawks team lost to that squad. So
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  Speaker 1: they got that in them. And you look at this
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, my God. So congratulations to the Seahawks defense.
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  Speaker 1: But that's why Kansas City pays Patrick Mahomes the GDP
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  Speaker 1: of small island nations with his contract and all that. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs offense was not doing anything. It was swimming
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  Speaker 1: against the tide is what they were doing here. And
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  Speaker 1: they went out and bought, went to Walmart. They bought
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  Speaker 1: some flippers. They bought concrete flippers, which I don't think
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  Speaker 1: is a good idea. I don't think it's a good
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  Speaker 1: idea to wear concrete flippers. And they sank to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of Pugin Sound with those on. And so the
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  Speaker 1: force field, whatever force field Mahomes has had, there were
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  Speaker 1: some cracks there in the windshield. And Seattle, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they exposed any secret formula. It's not like you
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  Speaker 1: can just repeat this. It was simply Mahomes looked very ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: Now we'll get to the wide receivers because that was
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  Speaker 1: part of the problem. But Mahomes is supposed to elevate Mahomes.
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers. That clearly did not happen. Now, meanwhile, the
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  Speaker 1: other part of this, the story of Mahomes looking ordinary
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  Speaker 1: and that's a big deal, but this wasn't a bad quarter.
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  Speaker 1: It was not like it was a bad quarter. This
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  Speaker 1: was an entire evening of constipation by the offense for
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City. So they might want to get out and
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  Speaker 1: get some Metamucil and try to get that system flowing
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, get some fiber. The offense looking like
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  Speaker 1: they were trying to win the Indianapolis 500, except they
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  Speaker 1: were racing in a Frigidaire refrigerator. Good luck winning the
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  Speaker 1: Indy 500 if you're racing in a Frigidaire refrigerator. Now,
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  Speaker 1: on the Seattle side, page two. Did the Seahawks solve
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  Speaker 1: their problems? The Seahawks offense under Sam Darnold. Did the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks offense under Sam Darnold solve things? I'd say that's
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  Speaker 1: a premature... because this is the same exact Seattle team
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  Speaker 1: that we've seen in this last couple of years here. Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they fixed anything. They found a matchup
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  Speaker 1: that they could exploit, and they took advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: Good for them. There's a massive difference. The Seahawks did
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  Speaker 1: not solve the Rubik's Cube, if you will. Jackson Smith
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  Speaker 1: and Jigba just peeled off the stickers, and he rearranged
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  Speaker 1: the colors on the Rubik's Cube. But he's always been
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  Speaker 1: that guy. The last couple of years, that's it. We
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  Speaker 1: go back to the point. Great quarterbacks are supposed to
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  Speaker 1: elevate average wide receivers. And average quarterbacks need great receivers
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  Speaker 1: to elevate them. We know which one Sam Darnold is.
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  Speaker 1: We know that. Darnold is the guy who looks great
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  Speaker 1: when the restaurant has a five-star chef. It's like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is great. I love this. You take away that
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  Speaker 1: five-star chef. from the restaurant and sam donald's serving up
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  Speaker 1: microwaved frozen dinners little tv dinner for you that's what
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  Speaker 1: you got and jackson smith and jigba continues to be
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  Speaker 1: the engine can you imagine if he got hurt oh
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  Speaker 1: my god seattle might not win a game they might
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  Speaker 1: not win a game if he's if he misses an
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  Speaker 1: extended period of time that's it but this is the
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  Speaker 1: jackson smith and jigba experience featuring Sam Darnold. He's like
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  Speaker 1: an opener. You go to a comedy club, you got
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  Speaker 1: the opener, and the main comedian is the one that
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  Speaker 1: comes on later. That's JSN at this point. And the Chiefs'
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  Speaker 1: secondary My God. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: But he does get an assist from the Kansas City
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  Speaker 1: secondary that made him look like a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Rice, a little bit of Randy Moss, Calvin Johnson, T.O.,
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  Speaker 1: all mixed together, all rolled into one. Nice casserole. And
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  Speaker 1: he put a spell, Jackson Smith and Jigba, on the
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  Speaker 1: KC defense. They did play like they were in goblin mode.
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  Speaker 1: It was a lot of goblin mode. Anyway, here's the
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  Speaker 1: head coach of the Seattle football team, Mike McDonald, who
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  Speaker 1: apparently believes that everything's coming up roses there in Seattle.
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  Speaker 6: I'm really proud of our team.
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  Speaker 1: Just really proud of the attitude.
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  Speaker 3: People being great teammates, having each other's backs, pushing each other.
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  Speaker 6: And I think we got better.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: But the opportunity, there's a sense of urgency now to
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  Speaker 3: take another step as a football team. So it'll be
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  Speaker 3: fun next couple of days and we'll get to work
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  Speaker 3: on Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess they didn't have urgency before when they
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  Speaker 1: lost to the Broncos and the 49ers and the Commanders.
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  Speaker 1: But now they have urgency. Can I ask why they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have urgency earlier? We're not supposed to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: That's taboo. Apparently we're not allowed to talk about that. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Again, before we get too carried away here,
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  Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs secondary, which is new and improved.
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  Speaker 1: There's some new names there, and they've been doing fine.
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  Speaker 1: But on this particular night, disheveled, staggered, and bedraggled are
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  Speaker 1: words we can use to describe the Chiefs secondary there.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like they had spent three nights sleeping on
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  Speaker 1: the floor at a Greyhound bus station. the way they
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  Speaker 1: attempted to tackle Jackson, Smith, and Jigme, everyone knew where
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  Speaker 1: the ball was going, and they still couldn't stop them,
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  Speaker 1: which is a pathetic performance by the Kansas City secondary. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the last word here, considering how inept the wide receivers
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  Speaker 1: were for the Chiefs and were inching closer to the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline, November 10th is the trade deadline today, In
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, the question is bouncing around the echo chamber.
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  Speaker 1: Should the Chiefs be looking to trade for receivers? Should
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  Speaker 1: they be trying to upgrade at the receiver position? And
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  Speaker 1: the only plausible answer, the only plausible answer is, hell yes, yippers.
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  Speaker 1: You got to do it. I'm nodding my head like
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  Speaker 1: a Hawaiian girl dashboard bobblehead saying, On an old Cadillac. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Do it. I'm not a Chiefs fan, but Kansas City
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  Speaker 1: had six catches. Now, they got a couple guys out
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  Speaker 1: that are injured, but Rashi Rice and a couple other
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  Speaker 1: guys dinged up. But six catches, 39 yards from the
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  Speaker 1: receivers that played in this game. That is not a
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  Speaker 1: winning formula. Fair to say.
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Fair to say.
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  Speaker 1: And that's bad. That is bad to the bone. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
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  Speaker 1: Just nothing. And yeah, Mahomes is supposed to elevate those guys,
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  Speaker 1: but if he can't elevate them, if they're so bad
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes can't elevate them, then go get somebody else in there.
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  Speaker 1: And there was some serious stagnation. It's like a clogged drain.
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  Speaker 1: at a Flying J truck stop bathroom. It was bad.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of hair and gunk, and I
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  Speaker 1: think truck stop fungus. Our guy was in there, and
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  Speaker 1: he stuffed it up. But the Mahomes does need some
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  Speaker 1: artillery here if the guys that are hurt aren't going
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  Speaker 1: to be back anytime soon. So they're definitely lacking the
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  Speaker 1: wow factor. Not a lot of that going on. So
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  Speaker 1: you're asking Mahomes, listen, turn the chicken feathers into chicken salad.
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  Speaker 1: On this night, he was unable... But if you're Brett Veach,
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  Speaker 1: the GM in Kansas City, you've got to go out
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  Speaker 1: and go to the Superstore and see what you can find.
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  Speaker 1: And the cupboards are bare. There's not a lot out there.
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  Speaker 1: The names that are being bandied about are not the
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  Speaker 1: most exciting names. They're just not. The issue is the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs receiving room is being held together by a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of duct tape and some bubble gum. And I
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  Speaker 1: think they've got some of Andy Reid's mustache wax from...
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  Speaker 1: A couple years ago, it was laying around for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: They're using that to help prop up the wide receiver room.
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  Speaker 1: But the names, the biggest names that are out there
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  Speaker 1: are Jerry Judy. Yeah, Jerry Judy from the Jetsons. And
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  Speaker 1: then Brian Thomas Jr., an epic bust from Jacksonville. Those
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  Speaker 1: are the two names that are most prominently mentioned. So
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  Speaker 1: good luck. Those seem like squirt guns to me, and
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs have a lot of squirt guns right now.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Bill Parcells.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm Catherine Zazzora.
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  Speaker 7: I have a lot of experience in the game of football, Catherine.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
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  Speaker 5: Continuity is very important. But what happens when you get
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  Speaker 5: good coaches on your staff and people begin to recognize them,
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  Speaker 5: then they want to hire them. And then you can't
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  Speaker 5: stop a guy from trying to improve himself, but you
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  Speaker 5: have to replace them.
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  Speaker 6: Because once you understand what's going on inside the mind
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  Speaker 6: of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
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  Speaker 7: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
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  Speaker 7: haven't done... because I didn't have enough money. I don't
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  Speaker 7: own the team. I never owned a team.
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  Speaker 1: We start out with the Monday night football brouhaha that
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  Speaker 1: took place in the Delaware Valley. I know Jonathan and
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  Speaker 1: Della were very excited about that. As Philadelphia, the site,
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  Speaker 1: the battered and broken birds, hosting Dakota Prescott and the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: So were you watching? Even if you weren't watching, chances
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  Speaker 1: are once the World Series game got to 10-0, you
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  Speaker 1: flipped on over to see what was going on. Let's
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  Speaker 1: be realistic here. So Dak Prescott, 212 yards, three touchdown passes.
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  Speaker 1: As the Cowboys favored on the road here, two of
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  Speaker 1: them to C.D. Lamb. And the Cowboys manhandled the once-proud
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia football team. They win by 17-0. It was a
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  Speaker 1: one-score game going into the fourth quarter, and then the
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  Speaker 1: afterburners turned on for the Cowboys on Monday night. So
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles now have lost not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 1: not four, but five straight games. Javante Williams running and
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  Speaker 1: stumbling and bumbling in the Cowboy backfield for 155 yards
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  Speaker 1: and a touchdown. I'm told that's good. And the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: remain alive. They're not dead yet. As the NFC least
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  Speaker 1: is up for grabs, the Gigantes, the Giants, lead the
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  Speaker 1: division 4-2-1. The Cowboys get their third win of the season.
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  Speaker 1: And the focus, we'll get to the losers. The Eagles
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  Speaker 1: are such a mess, it's not even fun to goof
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  Speaker 1: on them. We'll get to them in a minute. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to the Cowboys, though. We'll start there. And Jerry Jones' team.
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  Speaker 1: The state of the Cowboys. A lot of excitement. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of excitement. The Cowboys win. They were favored. They
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  Speaker 1: win by a large margin here. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss. The question, is
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  Speaker 1: this Dak Prescott Cowboys victory on Monday Night Football a
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  Speaker 1: season-changing victory? So I've got favorite doctor, NASCAR, and Peacock.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together. And
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: we are going to put the biscuit in the basket
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. Just put the nice
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: little biscuit there, put some butter on it, and then
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: put it in the basket. And that's the way to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: do it. So is this Dakota Prescott Cowboy win a
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: season-changing victory? So I'm giving this premise a bit of side-eye.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing here. You want credit. For beating
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: a wounded Eagles team, you were favored on the road
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: to beat. There is a word for that. It starts
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: with a capital E. Embarrassing. You cannot have a season-changing
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: victory by doing what you were supposed to do. Hello?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: That's what you were supposed to do. It's kind of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: like your kid taking the trash out of And then
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: coming back from taking the trash out, taking the garbage out,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and they're like, all right, I would like a nice
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: standing ovation. Well, no, you little loser. That's your choice.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to do that, dummy. You're supposed to take
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the trash out. What's wrong with you? So you did
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: your chores. Congratulations. Of course, now, with everything with the Cowboys,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: now it's like, well, people are singing the Beach Boys'
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: good vibrations after a couple of clunkers for the Cowboys.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: They're like, we're back. The Cowboys are back, which every
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: time they win, they're back. And Jerry Jones, what he
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: did here, this win, is a trip to the doctor.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Jerry called up his favorite doctor, Dr. Feelgood. And all
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, everything's cured now. We're all cured. Dr. Feelgood.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I'm a doctor. That's right. Dr. Feelgood came in. Everything's good.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I look at the Cowboys, the same shaky wagon. They
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: just put a nice new coat of paint on it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Here is Dakota Prescott, the Cowboy quarterback, better known by
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: his nickname, Dak. Here is Dak explaining that there's a
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: lot to look forward to in that division. Take a listen.
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: It's all right there in front of us. We've got
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: to play New York again, who's got the lead right now.
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: We've got to play every team in our division one
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: more time. So it's right there in front of us.
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: This is a huge road win in the division. Now
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: we get to go home for a couple of weeks,
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: and we've got to continue this win.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Huge. Favored against a backup quarterback. That's your Cowboys. That's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: your Cowboys in a nutshell. Celebrating beating a team that
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: had three wheels off of the car. And you're celebrating that.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: That's your 2026 Dallas Cowboys right there in a nutshell.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Holy crap. Holy crap. Yeah. The Cowboys are the NFL's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: version of a used car dealership. Fresh wax. Some new...
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: New air freshener, put that in there on the windshield,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: you know, on the front there. And then the transmission's
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: all messed up, but who cares about that? So Dak
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Prescott is the patron saint of temporary optimism. He's paid
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of money, and he'll fail when you need
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: him most. That's what he does. Have him play the
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: backup quarterback of the Eagles, and the Eagles missing a
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: bunch of guys defensively, and you're off to the races. Congratulations. Now,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: on to the Philadelphia side. So Saquon Barkley... Played limited
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: amount of action. Didn't have an early touchdown for the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, who are now 2-5. And they are on
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: a death spiral at this point. And it's about time
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to say, turn at the lights. The party's over. Longest
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: losing streak since 2016. As a little kid back in 2016.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: That's how long it's been. 10 years. 10 years. My God.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Ten years, five straight losses for the Philadelphia football team.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: So the question regarding the E-A-G-L-E-S, suck, suck, suck. Can
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni, can Coach Nick Sirianni keep the Eagles from
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: disappearing into the NFL's black hole of irrelevance? All right,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: so there's a couple ways to approach this. First of all,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the Eagles are in a big media market. They have
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a passionate fan base, so they're never going to completely
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: fall off the map. However, is Nick Sirianni the guy
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to put in the big chair and to lead you
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: back into relevancy and avoid falling off into the abyss?
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Hell no! Hell no! Nick Sirianni is the type of coach...
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: who is built for a victory parade, not a rescue mission.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: He's not that kind of coach, pal. He's not that
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: kind of coach. He's a luxury automobile, and you're going
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to ask him over the next couple of months, as
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the Eagles are going to have a tattered roster the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: rest of the year, you're asking him, instead of driving
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that luxury car, can you please drive the bulldozer? Well, no,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I don't drive a bulldozer. I drive a luxury car.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: But we need you to drive a bulldozer. Well, I
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: can't drive a bulldozer. I drive a luxury car. I
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: understand that, but we need this, and the team's not
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: very good, and so these are the moments where you
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: earn your money. But I don't want to earn my money. Okay, fine.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: It's like a country club golfer, Nick Sirianni, asked to
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: dig ditches. Well, that's not going to go very well.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I don't care how much Gatorade you have, how much
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: sweet tea you have. That's not going to go very
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: well at all. And so Sirianni, we say this a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: couple years back, and I maintain the take. I've not
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: gone away from the take. The Nick Sirianni is a
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: show pony. And right about now, he's a show pony
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: trying to survive a rodeo. That's not going to go
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: well at all. And you know, the moment that bull
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: starts bucking, With a B, by the way. I said
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: bucking with a B. He is going to go, bye-bye,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: get out of here, see you later. Sirianni's gone. So
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: we'll find out if Sirianni is truly an elite coach,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: which several prominent media dopes said that Nick Sirianni is
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: this all-world, all-great, one of the top coaches in the NFL,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and not just a guy given great talent. Okay, fine.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: So if Sirianni... is truly an elite coach, shouldn't he
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: be able to manufacture a couple of wins without having
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: an elite roster, which the Eagles currently do not have
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: an elite roster. So this is the part where you
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: have to roll up your sleeves and get some dirt
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: under your fingernails and all that stuff. And Sirianni, in
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the cartoon image in my head, Nick Sirianni, he's got
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: this sinking feeling right into the bubbling, boiling cauldron of goo.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And it's NFL misery for the Eagles. And there's no
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: one there, not Howie Roseman or anyone else, or Dom,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the big Dom guy on the sidelines. No one is
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: going to throw him a life preserver at this point
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: for Nick Sirianni. So good luck. Good luck on that.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: And it's kind of like if Nick Sirianni, coach of
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, was a NASCAR driver... and you took away his,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: you know, he looks really good, and then you take
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: away his 800-horsepower engine, and he doesn't look so good anymore.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: He's struggling. Buggety, buggety, buggety, buggety. Exactly. Now, you think
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: this is bad. The trade deadline is a couple weeks away,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: and you wait. The birds are bad now. Wait until
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: they start unloading. Howie Roseman's going to trade two or
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: three of these guys. that are key players for the Eagles,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: and then they're going to have to finish out the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: year with whatever's left. They're looking at a top 10 pick.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Right now the Eagles have the sixth pick in the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: NFL draft. They don't have a quarterback, so will they
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: draft a quarterback to replace Jalen Hurts? That's an offseason
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: storyline to keep an eye on. This is a big-time mess.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I did want to go back to the Cowboys one
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: more time. And there was a viral video that bounced
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: around the echo chamber on social media. It got into
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the algorithm. The bots were doing a little dance there.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: They were very excited about this. So the viral video
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: clip did involve Jerry Jones. And no, this is not
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: him with some young lady there. Of course, Jerry's 84
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: years old, so every woman's young to Jerry at this
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: particular point. Anyway, the viral clip of owner Jerry Jones...
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and ABC's Troy Aikman engaged in a very animated, almost 10-minute,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: almost 10-minute conversation on the sideline prior to the Monday
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: night football game in Philadelphia. They were right there, side-by-side, face-to-face,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: having a very personal conversation on the field. So the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: question is, What stands out about the Cowboys owner and GM,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, having an on-field powwow with Troy Aikman prior
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to the game on Monday? So look at the clip.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: There's several different angles to this. There's some still photography
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: of Jerry and Troy side-by-side here. Jerry Jones and Troy
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Aikman having a private conversation about at midfield in front
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: of a stadium filling up with 70,000 people and at
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: least 40 television cameras and a bunch of people with
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: their paparazzo cell phone. Very discreet. Very discreet by Jerry
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys and Troy Aikman and all that stuff.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: And this just in, by the way, to Fox Sports Radio,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: we believe that Troy Aikman and Jerry Jones have each
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: other's phone number. What does that mean? That means they
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: don't need to be standing at midfield. You don't have
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: to conduct your business at midfield with the ABC cameras
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: rolling and all that stuff. But this is the NFL's
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: version of a Hollywood red carpet photo op for Jerry.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: It's all about the photo op. And listen, Jerry Jones,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: we know, thank God for Jerry. Jerry's great. Jerry's never
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: met a camera he did not want to make sweet
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: love to. Jerry just wants to make out and tongue
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: every camera, and he usually does. He usually does. And
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: so he doesn't just stir the pot, as he's pointed out,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. He's not a pot stirrer. He owns the pot.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: He manufactures the spoon, and he sells tickets so you
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: people can watch him stir the pot. That's how he
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: operates there. He's the P.T. Barnum of professional football, and
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: he's getting up there. And not many more years of
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Jerry with us doing this kind of nonsense. So we're
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: going to enjoy every single ridiculous Jerry Jones moment. And
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the great thing about him being P.T. Barnum, he proves,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and the Cowboy fan base proves, that Jerry's like, hey, listen,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: there's a sucker born every minute. And about 50% of
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: them wear Cowboy jerseys. So we're very happy about that.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. eastern 11 p.m pacific now
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: maller's mountain of money do you have what it takes
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: to get to the.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Top Let's do it. Welcome in our contestants. And we
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: just talked to him a few minutes ago. He demanded
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: to play the game from New York. We say hello
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: to Skilly. Hello, Skilly. Welcome.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: What up, man?
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy. Who do you want to partner up with, Skilly?
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: You.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: All right. We're in it. Don't mess this up, Skilly.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: And then Lorena picked one or two, Lorena, one or two.
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: Number one. All right.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: You have picked JC from down the street here in
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks. Hello, JC. Welcome. Hey, how are you? And
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: who do you want to partner up with, JC? I
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: want Cooper because I play to win the game. That's right.
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: JC squared.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I'm the all-time wins king at the game show. One more. Okay,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: what are the categories? Quickly, Coop, please.
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: All right, this is Mallard's Mountain of Money, the Roberto
• 30:45
  Speaker 9: Benigni edition. He turned 74 years old today.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday.
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: The categories are Tigers and Lipstick, Son of the Pink Panther,
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: Life is Beautiful, and Pinocchio. Skilly, you were on first.
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: Which category would you like?
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Life is Beautiful.
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: Life is Beautiful.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 31:02
  Speaker 9: And JC, how about you?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Pinocchio.
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: Pinocchio.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: All right. All right, here we go. 45 seconds on
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the clock. And these athletes are Jewish or converted to Judaism.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Life is beautiful. Category number three. We'll put 45 seconds
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: on the clock. Are you ready, Skilly?
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: I think so.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Let's get it. All right, here we go. The greatest
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Jewish baseball player of all time for the Dodgers.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Brad Carew.
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: No.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Patriots wide receiver, slot receiver during the Tom Brady years.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Julius Edelman.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll give you that. New York Knicks star, also
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: played for the Phoenix Suns. He's now a police officer
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: in Miami.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Amari Stoudemire.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Good job. Third baseman for the Cubs. He was a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: star for the cheating Astros.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: All right. Quarterback for the Chicago Bears back in the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Stone Age in the 1940s. Helped invent the modern quarterback position.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Very Jewish name.
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: No?
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: You got 60 points.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: That's a... Well, Rod Carew, make sure to save that.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: We need to bring that back. That is... That is outstanding.
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: Who?
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Sandy Koufax. Sandy Koufax.
• 32:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that was a tough category.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Yes. All right.
• 32:24
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Really, I'm Jewish.
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: Well, you're... Wait, he didn't get Sandy?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: No, he did not.
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: Okay, then you only got 50 points.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: You didn't get the greatest Jewish baseball player of all time,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Sandy Gomez.
• 32:36
  Speaker 9: All right, that's fine. JC, we got Pinocchio. These sports
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: figures have all been caught in a lie. Got it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: 45 seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Greatest quarterback of
• 32:47
  Speaker 9: all time, Deflategate.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady.
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: Yes. This is the coach of Alabama. He lied and
• 32:53
  Speaker 9: said he wasn't going to Alabama. football coach the best
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: football coach of all time in sport and college rock
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: and roll never the hit king in MLB he rose
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: yes the cyclist who had cancer in his balls oh
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: my okay first baseman for the Orioles he lied about
• 33:18
  Speaker 9: taking steroids.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Eddie Murray nope.
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: The ref in the NBA that tried to rig the games.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Who?
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: The ref in the NBA that tried to rig the games.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 33:31
  Speaker 9: I don't know how this is possible. You only got 40.
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: Ben is in the lead.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Okay. What do you want, Skilly?
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: No, I'm first.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: No, I go.
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: You're in the lead.
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: You have 50.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: He has 40.
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: JC, do you want Tigers and Lipstick or Son of
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: the Pink Panther?
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Son of the Pink Panther.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: These athletes all followed in their father's footsteps. 45 seconds.
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: Let's begin. Best basketball player for the Lakers. He died
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: in a helicopter crash.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: This guy's nickname is The Kid. Played for the Mariners.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Ken Griffey Jr.
• 34:04
  Speaker 9: Yes. This guy is the quarterback for the Texas Longhorns.
• 34:08
  Speaker 9: His dad was the failed brother of Peyton and Eli.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: Archie Manning.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: This guy is the bad wide receiver that just got
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: traded from the Cardinals. His dad was on the Colts.
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: Oh, I know.
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: That's okay. We win anyway.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: We're going to have bonus time next hour. We're going
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: to have bonus time next hour. The game is not
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: over yet. Not over.