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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 Maler Show on
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  Speaker 3: So our lead this hour as well.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get started with the high speed Transaction wire, the
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  Speaker 1: sports wire blowing up if you will. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: an actual sound. We had an actual dynamite and it exploded.
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  Speaker 1: A very busy weekend. Now the legal tampering period, which
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  Speaker 1: I always look forward to it. We actually have it
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  Speaker 1: checked off on the calendar of my phone. It's always
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  Speaker 1: a special time in the Malor Household them in with
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  Speaker 1: legal tampering.
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  Speaker 3: What fun is that? So it's underway here the next
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  Speaker 3: couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: Free agency this week in the NFL, and musical chairs
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  Speaker 1: and everyone bouncing all over the place here, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of name brand players relocating people we've heard of in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. The biggest of the bunch, the news that
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  Speaker 1: came down in the last news cycle here. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: were not paying attention. Dk Metcalf has a new team.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you were tuned out, you didn't see it. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: you missed it. So we learned that the Seattle football
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  Speaker 1: team has said bye bye to wide receiver DK Metcalf.
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  Speaker 3: As he going? Now, where is he going? Good question?
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  Speaker 3: I know? You know, Okay, you know.
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  Speaker 1: DK Metcalf will be heading to Western Pennsylvania. He's a
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  Speaker 1: inser now going to the Steelers in exchange for a
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  Speaker 1: second round pick. The deal also includes a swap, the
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  Speaker 1: old swappy swap of draft picks, a sixth and seventh rounder.
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  Speaker 1: Who cares about that? So let us discuss the question
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  Speaker 1: in the big picture. Did dk Metcalf get what he
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  Speaker 1: wanted in this trade to the Steeers? Remember he and
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  Speaker 1: raised a hullabaloo? Did he get what he wanted? So
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  Speaker 1: I've got pot luck, dinner, whisker, and Sutter's mill, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to make a Traduccan. Yeah, that's right, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make it. Just put a chicken in turkey and
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  Speaker 1: throw it all together. Answered Traducant.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So to taled off here, I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna shake my head.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I'm not to know that. The answer is no,
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  Speaker 1: DK Metcalff did not get what he wanted. Now, that
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  Speaker 1: does not mean that it is a bad situation.
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  Speaker 3: We were led to believe that DK.
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  Speaker 1: Wanted out of Seattle because they were losers, and they
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  Speaker 1: are losers in Seattle, right.
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  Speaker 3: We were led to believe.
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  Speaker 1: That and dead end Street no chance at any postseason glory.
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  Speaker 1: And his wish list, if you believe the scuttle butt,
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  Speaker 1: was he wanted to play for a contender, not a
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  Speaker 1: pretender like Seattle. He wanted an established quarterback. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: a warm weather location. So if that was accurate, that
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  Speaker 1: that was the criteria. He wanted to play for a
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  Speaker 1: legit contender, not a pretender, warm weather, established quarterback. That
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  Speaker 1: strike one, strike two, strike three. Now, it's not to
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  Speaker 1: say the Steelers aren't a playoff team playoffs. Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers always known as a fox contender. They're a good
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  Speaker 1: regular season game, they played pretty disciplined football under Mike Tomlin,
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  Speaker 1: and they end up winning right around the sweet spot,
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  Speaker 1: which is nine ten eleven games that gets you into
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  Speaker 1: wildcard conversation every year, so most of the time they
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  Speaker 1: make the playoffs, they have at least he's the winning
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  Speaker 1: record pretty much every year. However, if you do a
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  Speaker 1: side by side comparison of the Pittsburgh football team to
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  Speaker 1: CANNSA City or even those other folk contenders in the
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  Speaker 1: AFC like Buffalo and Baltimore, the other teams are a
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  Speaker 1: country mile ahead of where the Pittsburgh Steelers find themselves.
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  Speaker 1: The y Insers, though, here's the biggest issue. They have
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  Speaker 1: no quarterback. DK knows about playing with a bum at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: He had that stiff Gino Smith, who was also traded
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  Speaker 1: more than that later over the weekend to the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: Well can you imagine, say, it's bad enough having Gino
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  Speaker 1: Smith as your quarterback and then imagining the team that
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  Speaker 1: traded for Gino Smith.
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  Speaker 3: Holy crap. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, the Pittsburgh what I've been to Pittsburgh before, beautiful city.
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  Speaker 1: Not exactly in the Sun Belt, though not exactly in
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  Speaker 1: the Sun Belt. The tropical conditions of Pittsburgh, it is tropical.
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  Speaker 1: If you're coming out of Antarctica or Siberia. It's very
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  Speaker 1: very tropical there. The average temperature in the month of
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  Speaker 1: December forty two degrees and it's not that bad. But
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  Speaker 1: it snows about half the time, about half the month.
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  Speaker 1: There'll be snow in the month of December. Now, nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: the malor report card on the DK Metcalf trade. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna give the Steelers a B and Metcalf I give
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  Speaker 1: a C minus. The only reason I'm giving them a
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  Speaker 1: C minus here is it's a pot luck dinner situation.
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  Speaker 1: It's a piecemeal for DK Metcalf, and you have to
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  Speaker 1: take the good with the bad. Now, the good is
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  Speaker 1: you got Mike Tomlin, top coach, one of the top
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  Speaker 1: coaches in the NFL. The really good is DK Metcalf said,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I would like to win. I want
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  Speaker 1: to plan on one weather city but quarterback. If I
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  Speaker 1: have enough money, I can buy a really nice heater.
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  Speaker 1: I can buy all kinds of bells and whistles and
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  Speaker 1: so it doesn't matter. I can make Pittsburgh tropical. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I put a sonic there and it's like I'm hanging
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  Speaker 1: out in Miami. For one hundred and fifty million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: That's the contract he agreed to to stay in Pittsburgh. Now,
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  Speaker 1: research finds, by the way, research does find that money
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  Speaker 1: can indeed buy happiness. Some people say that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: Songs have been written saying you can't buy happiness. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's proven you can. The more wealth you have, the
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  Speaker 1: happier you get. That's the reality.
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  Speaker 3: Now, meanwhile, we will now see if this mix actually happens.
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  Speaker 1: You've got George Pickens on one side, the diva with
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  Speaker 1: the capital D. You've got DK Metcalf on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: who always seems like he should be playing better, like
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  Speaker 1: DK always seems like he should be a better player
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  Speaker 1: than he actually turns out to be the average only
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  Speaker 1: six targets a game the final nine games it would
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  Speaker 1: turn out to be the final nine games in his
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks career. And you would assume that if you
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  Speaker 1: do keep Pickings and who trade George Pickens and get
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  Speaker 1: rid of his ass. But if they keep Pickens and
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  Speaker 1: DK Metcalf in Pittsburgh, that's a pretty lethal deep passing game. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: eighty five percent of modern football is not the deep
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  Speaker 1: passing game. It's the intermediate and the short passing game.
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  Speaker 1: That's where most games are won. They got to get
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback, and I keep seeing people tossing justin fields
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  Speaker 1: out there. I don't get it. The reason I'll get
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  Speaker 1: it is because Justin Fields blows.
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  Speaker 3: Now. Aaron Rodgers makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he also stinks, but at least he's had some
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  Speaker 1: success in the NFL. Justin Fields no no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some other names that have popped up here.
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  Speaker 1: The students don't have a quarterback, they do have some
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  Speaker 1: decent at least name guys at wide receiver now furthermore
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  Speaker 1: mentioned DK Metcalf. He's not the only pass catcher changing
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  Speaker 1: zip codes. The wide receiver known as Davante Adams is
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  Speaker 1: taking his talent somewhere else. If he didn't see this one.
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  Speaker 1: The news coming out that the wide receiver late of
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  Speaker 1: the Jets, late of the Jets later the Raiders. Former
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  Speaker 1: packer has decided that he will doc you sign with
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  Speaker 1: the La Rams. You can ram it all day and
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  Speaker 1: you can ram it all night. As DeVante Adams gets
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  Speaker 1: a two year contract forty six million.
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  Speaker 3: It's not really what it appears.
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  Speaker 1: So question for the esteem panel, does this DeVante Adams signing.
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  Speaker 3: Move the needle for the Rams? So I would be.
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  Speaker 1: Pragmatic on this. You guys, well, you're a RAM for
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  Speaker 1: you think it's a great move. Do you shut up? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it moves it, but only a whisker. It moves the needle,
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  Speaker 1: but only a whisker. Davante Adams, I'm not gonna sit
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  Speaker 1: here and sing and celebrate and all that, because, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it had been four years ago and Devonte Adams was
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  Speaker 1: coming to the Rams.
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  Speaker 3: That would be a different story. That would be a
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  Speaker 3: different story.
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  Speaker 1: Got a new a heated debate with the Great Steve
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  Speaker 1: the saga on his way out of the building. We
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  Speaker 1: have virtual the Sega all night. But he was, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Devanta Adams can still play. He can play, but he's
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  Speaker 1: thirty two, and generally at that point there's either a
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  Speaker 1: slow decline or a rapid decline for ride receivers. But
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  Speaker 1: I'll give Adams an a plus. I give the Rams
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  Speaker 1: a seat plus because of the age thing. He's thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: and he did want to play on the West Coast,
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  Speaker 1: So last I checked the Rams.
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  Speaker 3: You can't get much closer to the West Coast than
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  Speaker 3: the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: You just go from Inglewood and you just drive a
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  Speaker 1: couple towns over Boom. You're in the Pacific Ocean. So
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  Speaker 1: twenty six million guaranteed for Devonte Adams and for the team.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, it's only money. It's not my money.
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  Speaker 1: You'll Stan Kronke's got more money than anybody.
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  Speaker 3: He can afford it. Who cares?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it gets upset about the money thing. I don't understand,
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  Speaker 1: but it is clear that the Rams believe that Cooper
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  Speaker 1: Cupp has cracked and he can't play anymore. That they
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  Speaker 1: wanted someone who's older but not as injury prone, even
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  Speaker 1: though Devonte Adams has had his share of injuries had
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  Speaker 1: five straight one thousand yard season.
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  Speaker 3: The Rams identity is defense.
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  Speaker 1: They've got Puka Naku as the clear number one, and
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  Speaker 1: now Devonte Adams, in his middle age to older age
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  Speaker 1: as an NFL receiver, will slide into the number two.
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  Speaker 3: The number two.
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  Speaker 1: Chair yeah, will you have a Leprechaun on his shoulder?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: And Stafford, Matthew Stafford will have one premium wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: and possibly too. Devonte Adams as a number two receiver
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  Speaker 1: should be all right.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing, we now moved to the quarterback room of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Money mane mane, Yeah, money, many money.
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  Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills, on a quiet weekend in early March, said,
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  Speaker 1: let's pay the man and pay the man they did
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  Speaker 1: and vade pay of the financial game. You see, the
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills have inked Josh Allen to a six year,
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty million dollars contract to play quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in Western New York. So how does this Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: massive extension with the Bills compute with you?
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  Speaker 3: All right? So it computes to me like.
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  Speaker 1: A paper shredder, because that's what the Buffalo Bills needed
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  Speaker 1: to do this. They needed a paper shredder. From what
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  Speaker 1: I understand, the Bills took the four years that were
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  Speaker 1: left on Josh Allen's contract and put it in a
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  Speaker 1: paper shredder. Is that that's it? And they started fresh.
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  Speaker 1: They said, you have four years left. You imagine what
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  Speaker 1: other business when you have four years left on your
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  Speaker 1: contract to They say, you know, we want to read
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  Speaker 1: it goes. We just want to pay you more money.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have to pay you more money. What we
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  Speaker 1: feel like paying you more money?
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  Speaker 3: Who does that? Not my business? I know that.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, I don't do that my business. Uh
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  Speaker 1: maybe they do that in your business, but not in
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  Speaker 1: my business. So the NFL, here's the way I look
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  Speaker 1: at Josh add four years left on the deal, and
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  Speaker 1: so now he gets instead of that six years, three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million, includes an all time record two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million guarantee guaranteed. So it's not my money,
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  Speaker 1: and that's fine. Bills want to burn money on Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 1: good for them. But the NFL has discovered and this
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  Speaker 1: has gone on for years, it's been blown up the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years that they've discovered there's new goal
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  Speaker 1: at Sutter's Mill. If you know about the history of California,
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  Speaker 1: Sutter's Mill is kind of a big thing. And so
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, they've got their pig skin gold rush going
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  Speaker 1: on right now. And the reason they can afford all
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  Speaker 1: these ridiculous contracts, well, they make money handover fish. But
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten billion dollar television deal, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ten billion dollar contract in television, and it's likely
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  Speaker 1: going to go up above that. And so this is
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  Speaker 1: a mixed bag situation with Josh Allen. The raining NFL MVP.
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  Speaker 1: Allen turns twenty nine in the month of May, so
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  Speaker 1: you're giving him, if my math is correct, you're giving
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  Speaker 1: him a contract that will be through his age thirty
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  Speaker 1: five season. So you've got that going for you a
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  Speaker 1: not ideal from a book keeping perspective, though it's not bad.
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  Speaker 1: Now why is it not bad? Because even with Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen getting this massive amount of money, the highest paying
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed contract in league history, and he actually will pass
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  Speaker 1: the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson in a total number of
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed dollars by like twenty million. But Josh Allen not
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  Speaker 1: to get caught up in the minutia. But we're about
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  Speaker 1: to get caught up in the minutia. So Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: fifty five million average annual value with the Buffalo Bills.
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  Speaker 1: That is nineteen point seven percent of the salary cap,
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  Speaker 1: which ranks thirteenth among quarterback deals. So it's number thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: which is and when you think about it, it's like
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  Speaker 1: that's he's one of the top five quarterbacks. Certainly has
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  Speaker 1: his weaknesses, but he's one of the top five quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. You've got absolute stiffs like Alligator Arms
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  Speaker 1: Murray in Arizona, the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson, Trevor Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: and his flowing locks in Jacksonville, and Tua Headache Khlova
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  Speaker 1: there in.
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  Speaker 3: Miami who have all all had higher.
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  Speaker 1: Percentages of their contracts against the cap than Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 3: So from that perspective, it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: And will the Bills win anything, Well, they've never won
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  Speaker 1: any in my lifetime. They've been close, they've been close,
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  Speaker 1: but they haven't been able to get over the hump.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see and then this will not last long. Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen got paid and now Mahomes will get new money
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  Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow and they'll just be
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  Speaker 1: passing around money, money, money, all right. It is the
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  Speaker 1: Ben Mahler Show. If you would like to be part
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  Speaker 1: of this, you can join us right now as we
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  Speaker 1: open up the lines for the new week and jump
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  Speaker 1: right in.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to do a belly whopper, Yeah, belly
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  Speaker 3: whopper would be great.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the legal tampering period,
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  Speaker 1: which is just really the starter free agency. It's a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a nonsense thing, right. There's a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: players have changed teams in the NFL, and if you
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  Speaker 1: love the transaction. It was an orgasmic kind of a day,
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  Speaker 1: an orgasmic kind of a day here, the feeding frenzy
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  Speaker 1: of the transaction in the NFL players going here, there,
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  Speaker 1: and everywhere around the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: All roads, all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Leading to massive piles of pesos, lots of money, money, money, money,
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  Speaker 1: including Sam Doerld, the one hit wonder Sam Darnald, who
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  Speaker 1: has departed the Twin Cities. We knew he was not
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  Speaker 1: going back there. Did you see where he ended up?
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  Speaker 1: I assume you know by now, but there's a chance
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  Speaker 1: you actually have a life and are not possessed by
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  Speaker 1: the football demons and pay attention NonStop. So if you
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  Speaker 1: missed it, we learned here at Fox Sports Rado that
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  Speaker 1: Sam Donald has agreed to take his talents wink wink,
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  Speaker 1: nod nod to the Pacific Northwest. The former Minutnesota Viking
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  Speaker 1: quarterback goes to Seattle, the team called the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: Not a lot of hawk there.
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  Speaker 1: The Seattle Seahawks get Sam Donald a three year contract for.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Includes double nichols in guaranteed millions, fifty five million garon
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  Speaker 1: teed and somewhere you heard crying Craig in Seattle, crying,
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  Speaker 1: he was so excited about this move. Seven and a
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  Speaker 1: half million for Sam Donald coming up here in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: So he gets a lot of cash.
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  Speaker 1: Not the greatest contract for a quarterback, but considering his
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  Speaker 1: very flimsy resume. Sam Donald laughing at the amount of
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  Speaker 1: money that he is getting. So let us discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question what stands out about Sam Donald? Now QB one
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle. So I've got amnesia, Fortnite and cupcake, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to make some amazing gobbagool. We're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: the gobbagool, all right. So ah, the first thing that
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  Speaker 1: stands out It's hard to argue with this point the
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  Speaker 1: stubborn nature of the Seattle football team. You don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be the team that signs the one hit wonder
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  Speaker 1: because most of the time I'm the one hit wonder.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: One hit and that's all Sam Donald we mentioned. He's laughing,
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  Speaker 1: He's laughing all the way to the bank.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty five million gar on teed gar, and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: even have the complete season. They had some good numbers
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  Speaker 1: and all that, and you look at his resume of
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  Speaker 1: failure with the Jets, and then he bounced around. His
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  Speaker 1: passport has been stamped at places like Carolina, San Francisco, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: and he went to all those places trying to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the stank that he had from his time
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  Speaker 1: with the Jets. And all it takes is one sucker,
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  Speaker 1: and the sucker is the Seattle Seahawks. They're the sucker.
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  Speaker 1: And it's confusing because it doesn't seem like they really
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  Speaker 1: are trying to win. They weren't trying to win when
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  Speaker 1: they had Geno Smith. They're certainly not trying to win.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: When you signed Sam Donald, you're announcing to the world
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: we're out of trying to win. You don't sign Sam
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  Speaker 1: Donald to win. That's not the player you signed to win.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: You don't touch Sam Donald if you're trying to win.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: But I just love the amnesia aspect of this story
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: that you're overlooking a clear design deffect.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: There's a defect with Sam Darnald. There is when the.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Game is on the line, right when it's nut cutting time,
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  Speaker 1: you know what happens.
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  Speaker 3: He pukes.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: He pukes all over himself is what he does a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: game on the line. We saw it in Minnesota Vikings
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and Lions final game, chance to be the number one
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  Speaker 1: seat in the entire NFL. And what does Sam Darnald do.
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  Speaker 1: He gets a seat in the cockpit on the vomit comet, right.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: There in the vomit comet. Payout hey puked all over
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  Speaker 3: the field, Sam Donald, he did, and.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Then he did it again against the Rims. Now, I
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: enjoyed that. I like the Rams. I enjoyed when he
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: wrote the vomit comet against the Rams, and that playoff
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: game was wonderful. Had his tail between his legs. It
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: was so good.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Now, continuing with this theme of the hour here, but
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: we turn the page. Have the Seattle Seahawks upgraded, going
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: from Geno Smith, who they unloaded unceremoniously to the Raiders.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Sit here, take our trash. We'll make it look all pretty.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: You're gonna have our trash, and you're going to Sam Darnald,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: So I'm shaving him.
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  Speaker 3: I had no on this.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: This is clearly not an upgrade, and they've managed to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: do the impossible. You would think if you got rid
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: of Sam Donald, there's a very low percented chance you
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: were going to get somebody who's worse Now I know
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the nerds like Sam Donald and anything the nerds like,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I like to go away from in sports. So if
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the nerds are on that side, I go away from that.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: But just as a general rule, here you said, well,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the see Us are going to improve at the quarterback position. No,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald, It's like the Fortnite emote, the sideway shuffle.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: They're doing a little sideway shoffle here the Seattle Seahawks.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: And it turns out the sequel is about the equal,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: about the equal. Here Donald leaves Minnesota. And last I checked,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks did not acquire Justin Jefferson or Jordan Addison
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: from the Vikings. And so Seattle is in the process
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: of reshuffling the deck. And so they got rid of
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: DK Metcalf. They kicked his ass out of Seattle. He
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: was traded at Pittsburgh Tyler Lockett. I guess they said
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: he was too old, so they got rid of They
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: fired his ass. And the Seattle Seahawks right now have
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Jackson Smith in Jigba.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: And that's it. I don't I mean, I don't make
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: there's other names. I don't recognize these names.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: They got one guy, they got one guy, and Sam Donald.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: We've seen Sam Donald with one guy that can catch passes.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: You know what happens to Sam Donald. He starts seeing
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: go it's Poultergeist here, there and everywhere. It's Poulter Geys
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: for Sam Donald. And so it's like Seattle's like they
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: not really want they don't want to win.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: You don't sign Sam Donald if you're trying to win.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: And yet they don't want to completely embrace the suck,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: which I'm okay, I don't like teams that embrace the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: suck completely. But it's a very odd situation here, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: it's like not a total demo. They're trying to do
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: some slight improvements here and there, and they don't want
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to tear the whole house down. But there's infestation of
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: vermin in the house. And then you've got as vestis
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and so there's a lot going on. There's a lot
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: going on now. Last word, so the Dallas Cowboys, and
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: normally we were not talking about this move, but it's
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, and we are contractually obligated for obligatory
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: mention of the Dallas Cowboys at some point through the overnight,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and so I thought we'd just get it right out
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: there in the open right now, because the Cowboys made
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a move. The Dallas Cowboys made a move. That's right,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. Ah, we don't need free agency. Oh you
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: want to bet, Jerry want to bet? Jerry Jones, who
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: belittled free agency, went out there with a humdinger of
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a move.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Now, I don't if you saw it or not.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys did sign a free agent or agreed
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: to a deal. That can't sign it until Wednesday. The
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Boys are are making a move.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: What did they do?
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Well, move over Emmett Smith the new running back of
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: running backs for the Dallas Cowboys. They have signed former
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Bronco running back Javonte Williams to a one year contract.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Way to go, unbelievable. What a bold move by Jerry Jones.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: So does Dallas adding running back Javonte Smith count as
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: a splash move? That count well only if you're deep
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: inside the tushy of the Death Star where the Cowboys
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: practice at there the Death Star. We imagine that Jerry Jones,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: when he eventually does talk to the media, will sing
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the praises wax poetic about this running back from the Broncos,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: And it's akin to if you have a cupcake and
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: you want frosting, don't spit on the cupcake and say
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: you put frosting on it.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: But that's what's gonna happen.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: And my supporting evidence on that, I will tell you
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: that Jamonte Adams broke Jamaday Williams rather broke a tackle
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: on just five point seven percent of his carries last season.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: There were only eleven running backs who saw at least
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: seventy five rushes that had a lower rate in the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: entire NFL. So he's in the bottom percentile at breaking tackles.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more, Ramandre Stevenson to the Patriots and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a journeyman running back Alexander Madison. The only running backs
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: in the entire NFL we are told who had a
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: lower rush EPA than Jamonte Williams, who is now a
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy. So Jerry Jones continuing to build up that
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy team.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Oh my, what a move.
• 25:19
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• 25:21
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• 25:24
  Speaker 3: All right, that's welcome our contestants.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: We have Manuel in Guardina, who's going me off, going
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to play Hello?
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Manuel in Guardina. Welcome, Hey, Benny, Hello, man, he is
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: bossor Scott?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Still talking? That guy rambles man?
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Holy smoke, he's a rambling man. Who do you want
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: to partner up with? Manuel? Quickly? Please? All right? Well
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: that's a good choice. All right, very good.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second now, Loraina picked door number one,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: door number two or door number three?
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Lorena number three? All right?
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Well you picked Ron, who is also in southern California.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Hello, Ron, Welcome, big Ben.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: How you doing Ron? If I was any better, I'd
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: be sleeping, But I'm not. I'm here talking, which is fine.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I'm happy to be here. And Ron, welcome here.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: It sounds like you're driving around, is that correct? Yeah,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: I'm way home from work, all right? Ver? And what
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: kind of work do you do in the health food?
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: All right? Coop? Yes, no, it's not for we've learned
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: enough about all.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Right, coop does not care about you. You're gonna play
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: with the coop? And what are the categories?
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Quickly?
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Cool?
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: This is the John Hamm edition. He turned fifty four yesterday.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Categories are early Bird, Special, mad Men, the Town, and
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: thirty Rock.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Manuel, you were on first? Which category would you like
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: you know, we're going mad man? All right? And Ron,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: how about you? All right? All right? Everyone, hold on,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: we're gonna have Malo's amount of money. It's entirety. We'll
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: get to that. We'll do it next.
• 26:47
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• 26:53
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• 26:57
  Speaker 2: listen live. Now, Mailer's Mountain of money? Do you have
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top? Probably not.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: It's the John Ham addition. And we'll get right to it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: So we have time.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Manuel and Guardina your teamed up with me? Yes, you
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: picked mad men?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Is that correct? All right?
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: These athletes were known for having a short temper. We
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: need the first and last name, first and last.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Name, and here we go, forty five seconds on the clock.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: We're on our way.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Go.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Quarterback of the Patriots to the glory years. He's on.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, MVP for Oklahoma City, played for the Lakers and
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the Clippers. He's with Denver now. Yes, a wide receiver
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: traded from Seattle to Pittsburgh this week. Yes, quarterback for
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the Rams in the nineteen eighties. He got happy feet
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: against the yes uh picked the closer for the Atlanta Braves.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: He had problems with the new Yes choked his coach
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: out for.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: The Golden State Warriors.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: In the Yes pitcher for the Cubs, he kept attacking
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: gatorade bottles and bron y'ah my man, all right, we
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: got we ran the Barn's that's why you are the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Game show contestant of the Year last year.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Man, well, unbelievable. All right, Ron, it's all over, Coop.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: You might as well quick.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: We've got thirty, Rob You're cooked. These athletes all ware
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: or war number thirty. Are you ready, ron yep?
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Go for it?
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: All right, forty five seconds, let's begin splash brother on
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: the Warriors right now.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Pretty Copton.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: No, the guy who's still on the Warriors best three
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: point shooter of all time hurt? Yes, okay, this guy
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: is the all time leading strikeout pitcher.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: No.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, this guy was the running back for the Broncos
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: when they won the Super Bowl with John Elway. Carl David. Yes,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: this guy's son was the kid for the Mariners Jr.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the dada here.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, this guy got a lot of technical fouls for
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: the Pistons and the Trailblazers.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Nope, the other one. The other one, Jesus on the
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: other Wallace. Wait, I was offended by that, Justin, and
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati's offended by that too.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: No, you think it was right, Rashid Wallace. Both teams
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: played hard by man, Rashid Wallace.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: And all right, well, all right, so that's one hundred points.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: So we're back up again, Ron. Would you like Early
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Bird Special or the Town.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Special? Early Bird Special? Chop up? All right? The hold on? Hey,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I need to read the description.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: These athletes all won a championship their rookie season. Forty
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: five seconds? Yeah, how does it feel? Forty five seconds?
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Begin? All right?
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: This guy is the best point guard of all time
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: for the Akers? No, yes, the captain for the Yankees,
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: the captain. Yes, this guy plays from Argentina. He was
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: on the San Antonio Spurs when they won other championships.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: What's his full name?
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: What?
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Running back that got to two thousand yards for the
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Baltimore Ravens.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Henry?
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Nope? No, all right? Basketball player nicknamed silk.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't get enough, did I don't think you
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: might try to run it up quickly?
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Manuel?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And all right, all right, these are some of the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: best athletes to play in Boston, a city you hate.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: I know, Manuell, but here we go. Uh tight End
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: a similar name to mine.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: The last name is like a jacket in the In
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the two thousand's tight End for the Patriots. No boxer
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: nicknamed uh Marvelous. Yes, outfielder was very long last name,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of weird letters in there.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: For the Red Sox and the sixties and seventies. No Carl.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Yes we won though we won, so there you go.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Yeahes They called them yaz