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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 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Don't bury the lead, my man. We're not going to
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  Speaker 1: bury the lead. Calm down. There's going to be no
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  Speaker 1: lead burying. Nothing will be buried in terms of the lead.
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  Speaker 1: So it's rather obvious here. The primetime Sunday night game
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  Speaker 1: made for television and made for overnight talk radio. So
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  Speaker 1: our lead is from the swamplands of Jersey there where
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  Speaker 1: the Sunday night cap for a very offensive defense Very
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  Speaker 1: offensive day of football here, the Giants and Cowboys. But
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  Speaker 1: we never get to see the Giants and Cowboys in
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night football. So rare, so rare that NBC would
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  Speaker 1: put that game in primetime. Just really odd. Anyway, if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't watch it, perhaps not. You might have been
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  Speaker 1: burned out. Maybe you lost your parlay or your big
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  Speaker 1: bet of the day there, and you feel like a dope.
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  Speaker 1: I had a very middling day myself there. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of backdoor things broke my mind. The Washington, not that
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  Speaker 1: you care about my bets, but the Washington-Philadelphia game, that
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  Speaker 1: late touchdown by Washington hurt. Also, Atlanta and Pittsburgh, that
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  Speaker 1: was a bit of a blow. considering the way the
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  Speaker 1: game had gone. But more on that later. And so
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  Speaker 1: we watched the Sunday night game, so you would not
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  Speaker 1: have to. It is our good mitzvah of the day.
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  Speaker 1: And Jackson Dart, like he was back in college, slicing
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  Speaker 1: up some low-level directional school, connecting with tight end Isaiah Likely,
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  Speaker 1: the former Raven, for not one but two, two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: And Devin Singletary had another. Cam Scataboo ran for one.
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  Speaker 1: In his first game back after that big injury there
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  Speaker 1: and really dressed for success, Cam Scadaboo, if you saw
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  Speaker 1: what he was wearing there as he walked into the game, like, wow. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the Giants opened up the season by rumbling and stumbling
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  Speaker 1: past the Cowboys. 28-20, the final of the game that
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  Speaker 1: did not seem that close in Sunday Night Football. John
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  Speaker 1: Harbaugh's New York debut right there. Free kickoff. turkey sandwiches
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  Speaker 1: at any bodega in new york for john harbaugh now
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  Speaker 1: you know how we roll in these parts it has
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  Speaker 1: been the mantra of the show all these years the
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  Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room and that's
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  Speaker 1: why we talk a lot about the cowboys i get
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  Speaker 1: emails what do you talk so much about the cowboys
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  Speaker 1: nobody even calls from dallas i don't understand well that's
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  Speaker 1: true we don't get a lot of calls from dallas
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  Speaker 1: but they're cowboy fans everywhere all right that's the first
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  Speaker 1: thing and then second thing We love talking about losers.
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  Speaker 1: And it's even more fun to talk about losers when
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  Speaker 1: they're expecting to be good. Boy, that's a good story, right?
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  Speaker 1: When a team's supposed to be good and then they're not. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome. So the Cowboys dropped another turd right there
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  Speaker 1: in the Jersey Swamp land. And that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. How do
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  Speaker 1: you describe Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys defense? Let's start with the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys defense here because I think that's the story. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do that. So we've got Toby Keith. We've got
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  Speaker 1: rapping as well. And if that was not enough, Martha Stewart.
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  Speaker 1: Three things that have never been put together. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do that, and we are going to strong-arm
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  Speaker 1: the microphones, the powerful microphones, the bully pulpit here of
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. So we begin with this. Again, the question,
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  Speaker 1: how do you describe Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys defense? So the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys defense is not rebuilt. It's re-airing last season.
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  Speaker 3: With new commercials.
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  Speaker 1: They just added new commercials. Now, we used to have
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  Speaker 1: these things called reruns, and then people realized, well, everything's
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  Speaker 1: on demand. You really needed reruns for the most part here.
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  Speaker 1: Just like a podcast. This show is saved. You can
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  Speaker 1: replay it. It's like a re-airing. Whenever you want, right?
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  Speaker 1: So eventually this will become a podcast. But Dallas spent
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  Speaker 1: all offseason, yet again, yet again, changing the ingredients and somehow...
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  Speaker 1: The meatloaf appears to still taste like a Goodyear tire
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  Speaker 1: with a little extra salt and some pepper. Same factory
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  Speaker 1: settings for the Cowboys. Yeah, Vaughn Miller's a big name.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's at the end of his career, but
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  Speaker 1: Vaughn Miller brought him in. You know, a local guy
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  Speaker 1: from Texas comes back to play for the Cowboys. They
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  Speaker 1: hired this hotshot defensive coordinator from the Eagles, Christian Parker. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: young savant, the Sean McVay of defense, Christian Parker. And
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  Speaker 1: that performance, yet, first, Opportunity, the performance for the Cowboys defense,
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  Speaker 1: it was a Toby Keith song, Wacky Tabacky, the way
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  Speaker 1: they played their third and anything against Dallas. That turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be a rewards program for the opposing quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: in this case Jackson Dard, who completed overall 79% of
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  Speaker 1: his passes. There should be a tribunal. On the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys defense, Jackson Dart went out there and shoved it
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  Speaker 1: down your throat. 79% completion percentage, three touchdowns, a partridge
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  Speaker 1: in a pear tree. The Giants also ran for 165 yards,
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  Speaker 1: held the ball for nearly 37 minutes. I didn't play
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. I'm told that's good. I'm told that's good.
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  Speaker 1: And also, let's not forget the generosity of Dallas. They
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  Speaker 1: handed over. 10 penalties for 114 yards. The Giants gained
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  Speaker 1: 114 yards on the kindness of the Cowboys defense that
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  Speaker 1: had the discipline, watching this game, the discipline of a
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  Speaker 1: kindergarten class after somebody handed out the pixie sticks. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's no discipline.
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  Speaker 3: There's none.
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  Speaker 1: Now, did I have the Cowboys? Yeah. Did I expect
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys to play better? Yeah. Do I look like
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  Speaker 1: a donkey? Yeah, I look like a donkey. Hopefully I
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  Speaker 1: don't smell like one. The Cowboys here. I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: many times do I come on here? And usually the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys would get off to a decent start before they
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  Speaker 1: start imploding. And the Giants are one of those weird teams.
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  Speaker 1: Are they a good team? Have they crossed the Rubicon?
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  Speaker 1: We're not sure yet. They're kind of in that gray
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  Speaker 1: area where they could be good. We've seen a lot
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  Speaker 1: of bad football from the Giants over the years. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so listen, Brian Schottenheimer, the coach. After that performance, he
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  Speaker 1: should be answering questions under oath. Under oath because somebody
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  Speaker 1: needs to explain where the F the coaching went. You're
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  Speaker 1: either coaching the undisciplined football or you're just allowing it
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Either way, you're porked. So this is the Cowboys'
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  Speaker 1: eternal scam. And they've been doing it my entire time
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  Speaker 1: in sports radio. Now, believe it or not, I actually
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  Speaker 1: got it so long ago. The Cowboys were still winning championships.
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  Speaker 1: But for the most part, all right, this is the scam.
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  Speaker 1: The names change. There's new optimism, unbridled optimism for the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. And then the same malpractice. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: defensive malpractice. And the Cowboy fan, yet again, has now
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  Speaker 1: entered what we call the age of reason, which is
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  Speaker 1: when the regular season begins. The annual September ritual that
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  Speaker 1: the brochure that Jerry Jones showed you The brochure looks
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  Speaker 1: a lot better than the actual resort product.
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  Speaker 4: Understand?
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, meanwhile, on the.
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  Speaker 1: Offensive side for Jerry Jones' team, because this is also
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  Speaker 1: a great story. We talk about every year it's the
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  Speaker 1: eternal scam, the optimism, the hype, and there's no one better.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys are the most valuable franchise, not only in America,
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  Speaker 1: but in the world. They have.
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  Speaker 1: What they need in terms of creating buzz. So the
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott quote came to mind. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you thought about it when I was watching this game
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  Speaker 1: and I was thinking about my place in the universe
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  Speaker 1: and I'm watching the Cowboys really scuff it up, really
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  Speaker 1: scuff it up. And I was going back to training camp.
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  Speaker 1: And you remember the Dak Prescott quote because I flashed
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  Speaker 1: into my head. So we're going to frame it as
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  Speaker 1: a question. Okay, we're going to frame it as a question.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, Dak Prescott nicknamed the 2026 Cowboys offense GOTI, G-O-T-I,
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  Speaker 1: as in greatest offense there is. All right. Did Dallas
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  Speaker 1: back that talk from Dak Prescott up on the field?
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to answer this. I'm going to play
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  Speaker 1: the Wheel of Fortune. and play the Wheel of Fortune.
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  Speaker 1: So I would like an N, and can I buy
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  Speaker 1: a vowel?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, good.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to buy an O. Let's put them together.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. Gotti, more like gotta do better.
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  Speaker 1: Dak out there, this offseason, you know, Dak, he's usually
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  Speaker 1: pretty boring. And during training camp, randomly Dak talked like Jay-Z.
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  Speaker 1: and played like the guy handing out the mixtapes outside.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they do that anymore. Back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: they'd go, free, free. And then if you take it,
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  Speaker 1: they'd hit you up for money. That's their hustle. But
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott was out there rapping bars for the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: offense there. The performance was pure rap, rap as in
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  Speaker 1: replacement level average performer all right replacement level average performer
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  Speaker 1: uh that's it and uh by the way replacement level
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  Speaker 1: conjoined word that's how it works just work with me
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  Speaker 1: just work with me yeah thank you all right unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: listen the uh the album this album by dak prescott
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  Speaker 1: went absolutely platinum in that game on Sunday Night Football.
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  Speaker 1: And to think, you've got CeeDee Lamb on one side,
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  Speaker 1: you've got George Pickens on the other. A couple of
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  Speaker 1: thermonuclear missiles as wide receivers. And somehow, someway, they got
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  Speaker 1: turned into possession receivers. Possession receivers. CeeDee Lamb and George
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  Speaker 1: Pickens are supposed to be fireworks in And they played
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  Speaker 1: like wet sparklers. Prescott averaged 5.1 yards per pass. Again, Gotti, Gotti, Gotti, Gotti.
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  Speaker 1: Greatest offense there is. Is that the great 5.1 yards
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  Speaker 1: per pass? Despite having all the horsepower. They need one
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  Speaker 1: of those little blue pills. They came up limp in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: And the offense lacked any real razzle-dazzle, making this less
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  Speaker 1: greatest offense there is and more get-off-the-internet type offense, like
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  Speaker 1: stay away from social media. And Dak completed under 60%
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  Speaker 1: of his passes to those two guys. Less than 60%.
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  Speaker 1: They combined, if you put side-by-side, Lamb and Pickens for
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  Speaker 1: a pathetic 75 yards total. Like, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: What are we doing? This is why people laugh at
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Nobody celebrates themselves harder before accomplishing less. Here
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  Speaker 1: is shoddy, by the way. What a shoddy performance by
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  Speaker 1: Brian Schottenheimer's team. And he's about to play the blame game.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: You know, one of the things, not excuse, guys, we
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  Speaker 6: did not play well. But you got young players. And
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  Speaker 6: a young player closes in Jackson Dart boots and gets outside.
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  Speaker 6: We don't push three different times to the flat route.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse my language. You know, like, those are going to happen.
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  Speaker 6: And we have to coach the young players better. But
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  Speaker 6: when you play young players, it's part of the deal.
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  Speaker 1: I like how he said no excuses. Then what word
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  Speaker 1: did he use? That's right. He used but, capital B.
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  Speaker 1: That was the pivot. That was the pivot point. That's
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  Speaker 1: where he started rolling off excuses. Play it again. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: you can hear him. He always said, oh, no excuses.
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  Speaker 1: And then he dropped a but in there. And then
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  Speaker 1: it was nothing but excuses. And you could tell. He's
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  Speaker 1: making excuses because he got upset and then said the
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  Speaker 1: F word. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: You know, one of the things, not excuse, guys. We
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  Speaker 6: did not play well. But you got young players. And
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  Speaker 6: young players closes in Jackson Dart boots and gets outside.
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  Speaker 6: We don't push three different times to the f * * *
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  Speaker 6: ing flat route. Excuse my language.
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  Speaker 1: Fly route.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 7: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, it's good to be back talking football here.
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  Speaker 3: I love these losers. I love losers.
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  Speaker 1: I love talking about losers. I get paid to talk
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  Speaker 1: about losers. All right, so last word. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: winners for a second. Let's change it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I like losers. I love losers. That's AI. So here's
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  Speaker 1: the question. What is your word? I love words. What
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  Speaker 1: is your word for John Harbaugh's first real game as
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  Speaker 1: Giants coach? So my word for John Harbaugh's Giants debut, tantalizing,
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  Speaker 1: capital T, tantalizing. Small sample size, obviously, one game, but
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  Speaker 1: we have a talk show to do right now. The
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  Speaker 1: arrow is pointing straight up. And as a part of
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  Speaker 1: Americana from many years ago, before my time even, Mark
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  Speaker 1: Twain would say, There's gold in them, their hills. There's
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  Speaker 1: gold in them, their hills. And Harbaugh did not rebuild
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  Speaker 1: the New York overnight. Obviously, he's not going to sit
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  Speaker 1: here and say that. However, for the first time in forever,
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  Speaker 1: you can see something that has a blueprint that can
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  Speaker 1: last for more than a couple of games. Nobody ever
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  Speaker 1: bought into Daniel Jones. That guy blows. And they've had
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  Speaker 1: some other turds that played for the Giants over the
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  Speaker 1: years and some really incompetent coaches. But this guy's like
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  Speaker 1: a grown-up in the room. The Giants have gone from
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  Speaker 1: football purgatory to football promising, which is not a bad
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  Speaker 1: first step. I am Benny Brightside on the Giants, which
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  Speaker 1: concerns me because their next game is against the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'll be at that game watching them in
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  Speaker 1: person a week from Monday here. or next Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: not obviously today, but the next Monday night. So this
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  Speaker 1: was a direct copy. What I saw from John Harbaugh
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  Speaker 1: was the Baltimore playbook. John basically packed up the Martha
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  Speaker 1: Stewart cookbook when he left the Ravens, and the recipe
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  Speaker 1: is physicality, smash mouth, got a little bass in their
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  Speaker 1: voice now. They're no longer squeaking. No longer squeaking and
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  Speaker 1: forcing the Cowboys, a high powered offense, to eat a
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  Speaker 1: casserole of crow. That doesn't seem very tasty. A casserole
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  Speaker 1: of crow. Was it perfect? Absolutely not. Far from it.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants had nine penalties. They had four fumbles. They
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  Speaker 1: only lost one of them. So Lady Luck was on
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  Speaker 1: their side. Regardless, Jackson Dart, I was impressed. I hate
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  Speaker 1: to say that. I don't like to praise anyone, but
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart really did impress me. How much of that
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  Speaker 1: was the Cowboys defense, but he was out there performing
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  Speaker 1: surgery like he was Drew Brees carving up. carving up
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  Speaker 1: the dallas defense and then the giants defense themselves muting
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  Speaker 1: cd lamb and george pickens so listen the giants obviously
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  Speaker 1: did not hire john harbaugh to win news conferences in
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  Speaker 1: september and he's made some headlines here last week there
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  Speaker 1: was the not playing along with the injuries and the
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  Speaker 1: New York Riders and all that, which went viral and
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  Speaker 1: which was cool. But the Giants obviously hired him to
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  Speaker 1: change the DNA because they have bad DNA there. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of medical problems for the Giants. And you could
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  Speaker 1: see that mutation starting. You could kind of tell there's
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  Speaker 1: something going on. And I'm never wrong about these things.
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  Speaker 1: I'm never wrong. You'd see that there's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a turn there. And that division is winnable. The
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  Speaker 1: Eagles are not as good as they've been. Washington's still
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  Speaker 1: a mess. And the Cowboys appear to be the same
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  Speaker 1: old Cowboys. So the opportunity is there for the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Will they take advantage of it? We'll see as the
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  Speaker 1: season plays out. But they got a shot. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: have their own issues. They just lost. We'll talk more
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  Speaker 1: about this later. But Miles Garrett is out now for
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  Speaker 1: the next month at least. And so the Rams, who
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  Speaker 1: looked like they were Weekend at Bernie's in Australia, and
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  Speaker 1: now they come back. They'll play the Giants next week,
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  Speaker 1: so that'll be a more intriguing matchup.
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  Speaker 1: The Monday night football game, the final game of a
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  Speaker 1: week of football that began way back on Wednesday. I
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  Speaker 1: was barely alive on Wednesday, and they started the NFL season.
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  Speaker 1: They had that New England-Seattle thing that wasn't that great,
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  Speaker 1: and then they had the Rams in 49. That stunk.
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  Speaker 1: And then we had all kinds of college football and
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  Speaker 1: the NFL on Sunday. And now here on Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: we go to Kansas City. The only city where you
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure Andy Reid loaded up.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine. I don't know for sure, but I've
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  Speaker 1: heard whispers that Andy enjoys those delicious Maller chicken fingers. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.
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  Speaker 3: That was loud.
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  Speaker 1: on ABC in AFC West. Slobber knocker. The Chiefs and
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos. At the iconic Arrowhead Stadium there, that stadium
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  Speaker 1: will be going away because it's not new enough. So
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  Speaker 1: they have to build a new palace for the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: So Patrick Holmes returning from injury. A big storyline here
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  Speaker 1: against Bo Nix. I don't know how much of this
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: game you watched. You burned out on pigskin. What else
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: were you doing? You watching baseball?
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: No sports?
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: You didn't watch any sports? That's a bad job by you.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: It's about Jeppe. So perhaps you did not watch, but
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the story of this game was not about Bo Nix. Well,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: it kind of was about Bo Nix, but it was
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: not about Mahomes. The main headline was it was a
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: walk in the park, or at least a walker in
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the park, as Kenneth Walker rumbling and stumbling for 173
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: yards and not one but two, two touchdowns. and his
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: chiefs debut i'm told that's good i am told that's
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: good so he took the pressure off mahomes and his
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: first game back and all that so kansas city with
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: a body slam, body slam of the Broncos, 31-10. 31-10,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Kansas City with a blowout win on Monday night. Walker
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: carried the ball 23 times. Most of those, it seemed like,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: early in the game, they just kept handing the ball
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: off to Kenneth Walker. And he had the most rushing
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: yards by a Chiefs player since Jamal Charles.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: You remember him?
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Jamal is a good player. Long time ago. Jamal Charles there,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: 226 yards he had in the game against the Indianapolis Colts.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: And that was back in 2012, the year before Andy
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Reid ended up in Kansas City after his run in Philadelphia.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: So we have that. And before we get into the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: meat and potatoes of this, let's hear from the key participants.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Here is Sean Payton, the head coach, a very confident man,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton. explaining what went wrong for his football team.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I thought they won really in every phase. Our third
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: down numbers weren't good. Our rushing numbers weren't good. Pick
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: your spot. We put our defense in some short fields,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: but collectively, you know, we didn't tackle well enough. Then
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: the game became one-dimensional. Really the antithesis of how you
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: beat a good team on the road. It's that simple.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, that simple. All right, how about Bo Nix? This
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: guy people thought was going to take off. Well, so far,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: not so good there for Bo Nix. This season, his
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: only sample size this game was you want to get away,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: kind of a performance here for him. Here's Bo Nix
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: pointing out, apparently the Chiefs forgot that they're supposed to
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: suck like they did last year.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Like I said, you don't play good against a good team,
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: and they're going to beat you pretty good. And we
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: can act like all we want, but they're still the Chiefs.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: They're still a really good football team. And all the
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: new guys acted like, you know, the new guys they
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: had acted like they've been playing in that system for
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: years and just did exactly what the old Chiefs have
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: been doing. So, you know, you've got to give them credit,
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: and they wore us out today.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: All right, the better story, though, is in that Broncos
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: locker room, so we're going to stay there because that's
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: where the drama is. This team was on the brink
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: of going to the Super Bowl, and they came out,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and I'm told that's the worst performance ever by a
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: team that had as good a record as the Broncos
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: did the year before. Never before have we seen such
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: a crap performance by a team coming off such a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: dominant season. And the main focus, as we discuss here,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: is about the guy you just heard, Bo Nix. So
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the question, what went wrong? What went wrong for Bo
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Nix and the Broncos offense, which some thought was going
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: to be high-powered offense? with the additions that they made
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: in the offseason. So my thoughts on this, I've got
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: manager special, shrapnel, and pizzeria. And we will combine all
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: of these things together, and we are going to turn
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: into a whipsaw is what we're going to do. But
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: we start with this. A, Denver, just the very beginning,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: both teams were kind of, you know, the Chiefs at
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: least came out and just kept running the ball. They
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: were like, ah, we're going to come out and run
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the ball. The Broncos started with a mistake. Denver had
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: very little rhythm. They never got any kind of a flow,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a rat-a-tat-tat to what they were doing in this game.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And it was cover your eyes type of football. Those
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: are the Broncos from years gone by and not– last
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: year's Broncos here and watching on ABC, it became a
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: bit of an interactive experience on ABC. And when I
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: say interactive experience, I have a new gizmo. The gizmo
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: was the smell-o-vision. So if you had the smell-o-vision on
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and you were watching the Broncos and the Chiefs on
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the smell-o-vision, when the Broncos offense was on the field,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: you could smell the And you can smell it, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: it smelled to me, and I don't know if your
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: smell-o-vision is like mine, my smell-o-vision, it smelled like rotting
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: seafood in a dumpster behind a Taco Bell in the summer,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: sometime in August, just baking in the summer sun. That's
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: what it sounded like and smelled like. You know, that
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: smell of it rotting, and then it kind of makes
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: a little sound, I think. It's so nasty and so
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: foul that it makes... A bit of a sound of it,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: just the poison going out in the air everywhere. That
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: was the Broncos. So Sean Payton there coming off that
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: great regular season and a deep playoff run in Denver.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: And how did that go?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: My God, as the former Fox Sports Radio talk show
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: host Jim Mora would say, the Broncos offense could not
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: do diddly-poo. They could not do diddly-poo offensively. Could not.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And Sean Payton changed play callers. Very concerned. Very concerned
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: that he was going to lose. his web, his beloved
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: web to another team. And so Davis Webb stayed and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: got promoted and all that stuff. And then it turned
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: out that the Broncos on offense ordered the manager's special.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if you looked at the menu board.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: The manager's special for the Broncos was a biggie-sized sloppy bow.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Not sloppy Joe. This was a sloppy bow by Bo Nix.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: who managed a paltry 131 yards passing that is less
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: than five yards per pass attempt. Seven is average. Seven
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: is average. He was at 4.7 yards per attempt. He
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: had one touchdown and one interception and three fumbles for
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Bo Nix. Could have had a fourth fumble. four sacks,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and a passer rating below 70. And, but wait, there's more,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: a partridge in a pear tree for Bo Nix, who
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: looked like he needed his own Bronco-branded Rosetta Stone to
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: try to decipher the Davis Webb offense. I didn't know
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: it was that complex, that Davis Webb was such a
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: X's and O's savant that he made it impossible to
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: understand the Broncos' offense. And it's not just the offense,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: which was offensive indigestion. For the Broncos here, you went
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: out against an AFC West rival, a team that got
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: their balls kicked in last year, Kansas City. They're at home.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: You had a chance to stuff everyone into a you-know-what
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: by winning that game. And this was not just merely
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a bad first impression. for the 2026 vintage of the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Denver Broncos there. It was wicked bad. Wicked bad here.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Industrial strength, wretched football for the Broncos on both sides.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Both sides of the ball because the defense ends up,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: now some of this was on Bo Nix's mistakes, but
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: you give up 31 points to Kansas City. 31 points.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I know everyone's scoring except the Rams and the NFL
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: this year, but still, 31 points defensively. That's not good.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: The guy that is on trial for beating up a chick,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: he's out, so they're blaming it all on him. I
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: guess the other players on the defense just get to
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: get a pass on that. Is that how that works?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: They don't have to worry about it.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Fine.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: So, now, outside of the offense... For the Broncos here,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the Davis-Webb, we mentioned the offense not great with the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: new play call. Where did the Broncos' defense go wrong?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: There wasn't a lot of stoppage by the Denver defense
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: in this game. I don't think it was a specific...
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Kind of suck for the Broncos. I don't think there
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: was like one person. I thought it was, as the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: line goes, an all-encompassing, all-encompassing type of suck for the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Broncos defense who played soft, lacked the basic Pop Warner
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: fundamentals of football, wrapping up the tackling, the line of scrimmage.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: They got manhandled.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: The Broncos got manhandled by the big fat guys on
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Kansas City that were better than your fat guys. So
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: fat against fat, and they're fat better than you're fat.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: You lose the fat game. That's it. That's my analysis.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: All right, meanwhile, speaking of bad, and we're highlighting Bo Nix,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the Broncos' defense, the much-ballyhooed debut.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Of the new torpedo.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: The new torpedo for the Broncos, and had a night
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: to forget, the question, how.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Do you grade? Give me the grade here on.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Jalen Waddell's debut. in a Denver Broncos uniform, the wide
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: receiver coming over from South Florida. So the Maller report
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: card for Jalen Waddell, his first game, first real game
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: as a Bronco, and I'm not going to overreact. It's
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: only one game, and I don't want to be that guy.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a shock jock. I would be
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: on during the day if I was a shock jock.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I'm a lowly overnight guy, just a Just a part
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: of the wheel here. Just a spoke in the wheel.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So after a minutes-long deliberation of the available information, we
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: have determined that Jalen Waddell's debut, he gets an F-.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: An F-. We would give him lower than that, but
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: we're told that's the lowest we can give him. So F-
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: for Jalen Waddell, and we recommend he goes to summer school.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: we would recommend that he goes out and goes to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: summer school we would recommend that so the broncos they
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: would have been better off in this game having an
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: actual emperor penguin waddle out there right because at least
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: that penguin would waddle with purpose and you'd like to
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: see the penguin you'd laugh at the penguin you'd point
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: at the penguin you say look at that funny penguin
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: that's kind of cool why not yeah so wow wow
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: wow wow jalen Waddell. And I liked him in Miami,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: but man alive. Denver's shiny new $ 76 million. He's their
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: new toy for Sean Payton. And he had one more
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: catch than you did and two more yards than you
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: and I combined had on three targets. That's it. That makes,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: by my analysis, and I don't think I'm wrong on this,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Jalen Waddell, less of an offensive dynamo for Sean Payton's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Broncos and more like a very expensive decoy.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: What is up with that? Was he camouflaged?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Was he painted like the Broncos uniforms and they couldn't
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: see him when they were going out?
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't understand.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe he was camouflaged in with the offensive linemen. I
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: don't know what was going on. But my God. And
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: now the good news is that Jalen Waddell can pull
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: up a chair and sit next to A.J. Brown and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett in the corner of the room in the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: VIP section of high-priced players, big off-season pickups, who went
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: out and performed like flatulence. And the question now is,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: will Jalen Waddell join A.J. Brown and Miles Garrett in
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: in the injury tent, those guys claimed, oh, I couldn't
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: play because I'm hurt. So they're out with injuries. Does
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: that mean Jalen Waddell, who's also as bad as both
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: those guys, does that mean he's got to come up
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: with one of those fake injuries and get out for
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: a little bit? I don't know. Then you had the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Komodo dragon in the room. What was the Komodo dragon
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: in the room for Jalen Waddell? For many, it was
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: a comment that was seen as benign by Troy Aikman. However,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I have a higher level of hearing than you from
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: years and years of using headphones, so I have determined
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: that this is something, not nothing. Now, what am I
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: talking about? So, Troy Aikman delivered what seemed like a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: rather mild line, and it actually turned out to be shrapnel.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Shrapnel directed at Jalen Waddle. He had a drop pass.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I think this was in... I think I wrote on
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: my notes it was in the second quarter. So I
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: think it was in the second. He dropped a pass.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: And Aikman, I'm going to paraphrase here, he essentially said,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: terrific player, minor problem. And then he said his problem
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: was catching the football. And I said, well, that's just
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: a throwaway line. There's nothing to that. I say no.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Because you've got to remember the context here. Troy Aikman
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: is just not a broadcaster. Troy Aikman is double dipping.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman is on the Miami Dolphins payroll, the team
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: that unloaded Jalen Waddell. Things that make you go, hmmm.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Is it true that Troy Aikman was actually just regurgitating,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: regurgitating what he had heard in meetings with Dolphin Brass
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: when they were deciding who to get rid of when
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: they had the little fire sale, their bonfire in Miami?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Is it also true that that line was used, used
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: by Miami insiders to describe Jalen Waddell, that that's his
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: weak spot here? And it makes you wonder, right? Like
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: some exit interview when Waddle was let go and sent
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: off to Denver. And they said, well, this is something
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: you don't do that well. Catching the ball! You got
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: to catch the ball. That's what it sounded like to me.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: And this is one of the issues. The NFL, they
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: don't care anymore. Everything's changed. And Tom Brady's running the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Raiders while broadcasting. Troy Aikman's working for the Miami Dolphins
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: while broadcasting. So when Brady says anything about a Raider
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: or former Raider... And he doesn't say anything interesting, so
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about that. But Aikman occasionally does.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: And so when Aikman says something about a dolphin or
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: former dolphin, it's like, well, wait a minute here. What's
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: going on with that? All right, now last word. We
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: go to the Kansas City side of things as the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Chiefs get a three-touchdown win at home. And the question
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: for the Chiefs is this. Should Andy Reid be encouraged
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: or discouraged with the play of Patrick Mahomes for the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Chiefs in his return to the lineup? So this one
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: gets a capital D discouraged. What are you talking about, Maller?
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs won by three touchdowns. All right, tell me
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: you didn't watch the game without telling me you didn't
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: watch the game. The idea was that Mahomes would hit
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the ground running, and that did not happen. He hit
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the ground and face-planted. Mahomes hit the ground and he
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: face-planted here. This was a pizzeria performance. A pizzeria performance.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: There's a pizza chain in California called Shakey's. And it
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: was a Shakey's type performance with extra mojo, uh-oh, potatoes.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Great buffet.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: So Andy Reid was sleep shopping. Here's my theory. So
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Andy Reid was sleep shopping late at night, and he
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: went to the wrong website, and he actually ordered, he
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: for some reason decided to order off this kind of
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: shady website, and he ended up getting the Timu version of,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: And that's a few flashes, just a few flashes of magic.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: The old Mahomes magic, surrounded by a whole lot of
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: cosplay as Jared Goff. He's doing cosplay as Jared Goff.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: And that is not a compliment, by the way. That
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: is not a compliment at all. The warm and fuzzy
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: type feelings do come from Kenneth Walker, the former Seahawk,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the crowned and pound attack. I certainly think Seattle could
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: use him. Bad job by somebody there in the Seattle
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: front office to let that guy go when he wanted
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: to stay. Who goofed? I've got to know. And the
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Seahawks not retaining the Super Bowl MVP, Kenneth Walker, who
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: looked amazing. And this was what we call high testosterone
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: football by Kansas City here. Cock-a-doodle-doo for Andy Reid and
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs as they played with machismo, which is encouraging.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: And that first half and the success they had on
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the running game was absolutely smash-mouth football for Kansas City here.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: And you can see that working. You know, in the
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: cold weather in January, a game at Arrowhead, when the
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: players are out there running around, you can see your breath.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: That kind of day. And in the multiverse, and we
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: do believe in the multiverse in these parts, this had...
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: This has to be part of the new reality. Now,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: they can't win every game like this. That's not sustainable
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: in the era that we're in right now. However, if
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: you have that ability and Mahomes is going to play
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the way Mahomes played, you really have no other choice
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: than to have to try to lean on Kenneth Walker
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and ride him into the ground, essentially. And that's just it,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: because with Mahomes, not yet the magician he used to
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: be and maybe never getting back to that player. Plus,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: you got Travis Kelsey, who's busy working the room with
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift and her bestie, Tom Cruise, schmoozing, a little
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: schmooze fest going on there. So Kansas City, they're going
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: to have to become a chameleon here. They're going to
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: have to find some other people that will make plays
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: because you can't depend on Kelsey. And you certainly, at
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: this point, based on what we saw from Mahomes, you
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: can't really depend on Mahomes either. He was throwing behind receivers.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: It was a mess. It was a hot mess is
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: what it was. And so if Showtime Mahomes, Mahomey, Patrick
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Mahomes is not going to come back, then Andy Reid
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: is going to have to learn how to win with
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the Mahomes matinee. Not to be infused with the Showtime,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: above the fold, that type thing here, above the marquee. No, no, no.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: This is something else.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: Pacific.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Maller's Mountain of Money.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, that's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: And it is Mallard's Mountain of Money. Let's welcome in
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  Speaker 1: our contestants. We have, who do we have here? Jason
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  Speaker 1: is representing the entire state of Arizona. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: be one of our contestants. Hello, Jason. Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Howdy, Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Try to control your emotion, Jason. I know it's a
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  Speaker 1: big moment. I'm super excited to be here. I know.
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  Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with? You got me, Coop,
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  Speaker 1: or Lorena?
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  Speaker 3: Got to pick the champion, Ben.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on a sec.
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  Speaker 3: That would be Coop, isn't it? Yeah, I think I
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  Speaker 3: won last week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all-time wins king. Mike is in Boston.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: What's up?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Good morning to you, Mike. You want to
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  Speaker 1: play with Coop or Lorena, Mike? I'll play with Coop.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Coop. All right, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: All right, gentlemen, this is Mallard's Mountain of Money, Nas edition.
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  Speaker 3: He turns 53 years old today. Happy birthday. The categories
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  Speaker 3: are New York State of Mind, One Love, If I
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  Speaker 3: Ruled the World, and Nothing Lasts Forever. Jason, you were
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  Speaker 3: on first. Which category would you like? Nothing lasts forever.
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  Speaker 3: All right. And Mike, how about you? I'll go with
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  Speaker 3: the song, If I Ruled the World. All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Very good. We are up first here. Jason,
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  Speaker 1: you picked Nothing Lasts Forever. These team legends ended their
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  Speaker 1: careers with another team. We need first and last name.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready, Jason?
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Here we go. Greatest quarterback of all time
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  Speaker 1: for the New England. 45 seconds, Lorraine.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Start the clock. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback for the Patriots. He went to the Bucs at
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  Speaker 1: the end of his career.
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  Speaker 6: Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Greatest running back in NFL history in terms of
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  Speaker 1: rushing yards. He was with the Cowboys. He entered with
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 6: Emmitt Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. French guard for the San Antonio Spurs in the 2000s.
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 7: Little guard.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: The star from Kansas played for the Boston Celtics and
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  Speaker 1: then bounced around the NBA with the Clippers and the
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  Speaker 1: Nets and all that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Knuckleball pitcher in the 70s and the 80s.
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  Speaker 1: His brother was named Joe. He threw a knuckleball. No.
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  Speaker 1: Safety for the.
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  Speaker 3: You got 30 points. All right, Jason, you missed Tony
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  Speaker 3: Parker and Paul Pierce. Paul Pierce.
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  Speaker 1: And Phil Necro. That's N-I-E-K-R-O.
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  Speaker 3: Necro. All right, Mike. We have If I Ruled the World.
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  Speaker 3: These athletes went on to become GMs. 45 seconds on
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  Speaker 3: the clock. Let's begin. Best quarterback in Broncos history.
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  Speaker 1: John Elwick. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: This guy was the logo, the NBA logo.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry West.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the best point guard in Detroit Pistons history.
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: This guy was a great safety for the Bucks and Broncos.
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  Speaker 3: He's the GM of the 49ers now.
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  Speaker 1: John Lynch.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. This guy was a tight end for the Browns.
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  Speaker 3: He was a GM for the Ravens for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 1: Ozzie Newsome.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. This guy was the Hebrew Hammer. He later became
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  Speaker 3: GM of the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: Harmon Killebrew?
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  Speaker 3: No, it was a different Hebrew Hammer. Or hammering? I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. Maybe I'm wrong about that one.
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  Speaker 1: I think that you're confusing your Jewish.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 1: You got 160. Brian Braun, I thought. Wasn't he the Hebrew?
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  Speaker 7: 160?
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Jason and Ben, it's back to you.
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  Speaker 1: All right. What do we got here? What do we got?
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  Speaker 3: New York State of Mind or One Love, Jason?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jason.
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  Speaker 3: Al Rosen was also the Hebrew Hammer.
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  Speaker 1: I guess every Jewish baseball player. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: All kinds of things.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Go.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. One Love.
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  Speaker 1: One love.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: These athletes played for only one team their whole career.
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  Speaker 1: You better get more than 30, Jason. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: track you down. Here we go. 45 seconds. Quarterback for
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  Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. Greatest Dolphins quarterback of all time in
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  Speaker 1: the 80s. Yes. Greatest point guard for the Utah Jazz
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  Speaker 1: with Carl Malone. Point guard. Yes. Linebacker for the Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: Where's the white suit? Where's the white suit?
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  Speaker 7: Ray Lewis.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. The Sandman, closer for the Yankees. The Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame closer. First guy to ever be a unanimous Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Famer.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: What's his name?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. You got to tell me. Slugger for
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  Speaker 1: the Rockies. Slugger for the Rockies. He played. We're out
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  Speaker 1: of time. We win. God damn it.
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  Speaker 3: We win again.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on. He only got 30, the first ref. DraftKings. DraftKings.