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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 1: And we're back at it again. Hope life is treating you. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're hanging out talking about sorts, big sporty. What kind
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  Speaker 1: of kin we go? We go through the sports window.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from the confluence where the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio River is born.
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  Speaker 3: Right there, the Manhangahila and the Alleghany form the Ohio
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  Speaker 3: River and the island game. You know, I love my
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  Speaker 3: island games.
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  Speaker 1: I live the island life as Joe Buck and Troy Aikman,
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  Speaker 1: the Fox refugees.
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  Speaker 3: There had the.
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  Speaker 1: Call on ABC from Western Pennsylvania hanging out there the
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  Speaker 1: Dolphins and Steelers doing some wrangling to close out the
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  Speaker 1: weekend in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Did you watch any of this game? Did this interest
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  Speaker 3: you at all? Wasn't much of a game?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: You didn't watch it? What else were you watched?
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  Speaker 2: There?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing else on? Can't watch that NBA crap? That's terrible,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So maybe you didn't see it, old man
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  Speaker 1: Aered Rogers, as far as we know, not a grandfather
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  Speaker 1: and possibly a husband.
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  Speaker 3: We're not sure about that. The woman to be seen later.
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  Speaker 3: Do do do do Do Do do do, do do
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  Speaker 3: do do?
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  Speaker 1: What's she at the game? She could have been who knows.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody knows if it's really a person anyway. Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty four yards passing and two two
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns and the Steelers they molly wopped the Dolphins twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight to fifteen. They scored not indicative of the deciding outcome.
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  Speaker 1: The game was over a lot of garbage time in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter there on Monday night. So the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: are maintaining the top spot in the AFC North Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: at eight and six. They need one more win to
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  Speaker 1: continue the streak of above five hundred seasons. They also
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  Speaker 1: need one more win if it's the right win, to
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  Speaker 1: end up wrapping up the division. They'll get a home
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  Speaker 1: game on wild card weekend and for the second straight
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  Speaker 1: game Pittsburgh in the winners circle here and twenty third
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  Speaker 1: straight at home on Monday night football. She has went
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  Speaker 1: twenty three consecutive They brought this up. They had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of garbage time on ABC. They among the filler
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  Speaker 1: they used. They showed Joe buck going into the Baseball
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: They did that.
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  Speaker 1: They kept showing random weird people in the crowd to
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  Speaker 1: fill time. If you made a sign, you got on TV.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of filler, a lot of filler here.
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  Speaker 3: In this game.
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  Speaker 1: But these Steelers ended up overwhelming the once proud Dolphins. Course,
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  Speaker 1: anybody remembers the Dolphins good is old, like you gotta
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  Speaker 1: be an old geezer, like the teams that used to
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  Speaker 1: be good have sucked for a long time. They Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: blow that, Dallas Cowboys are embarrassment, the Raiders. Those teams
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  Speaker 1: were the staples of the NFL for many, many years.
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  Speaker 3: But long gone.
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  Speaker 1: As Ernie Harwell, another long gone broadcaster, would say, like
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  Speaker 1: a house on the side of the road there. So
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  Speaker 1: Miami's they're done. They're They're absolutely out. That's it. They're
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  Speaker 1: out of the playoff picture. There like they were.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna get in. They've been eliminated yet again.
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  Speaker 1: Nana na da goodbye. Not that you ever have a
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  Speaker 1: shot to really make it. A futile effort and you
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  Speaker 1: know we love losers. The Ben Malor Show loves losers.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about some losers. Good jumping off point,
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  Speaker 1: let us discuss and the quarterback getting absolutely charboiled here
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  Speaker 1: do you like Charbroyal Dolphin? Okay, well, the quarterback to
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  Speaker 1: a tongue of I Law getting destroyed. So the question
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  Speaker 1: what stood out or stood down about? To a tongue
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  Speaker 1: of Ilawo's play for the Dolphins. So on this one,
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  Speaker 1: I've got the shining Oscar Meyer and DC comics, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have some Iron City beer. As the Pittsburgh Steelers
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  Speaker 1: they kick the crap out of the Dolphin, they need
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  Speaker 1: to get some Iron City Beer on that flight back
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  Speaker 1: to Miami, which they're on right now.
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  Speaker 3: Hitting this for us. So hey, let's start with this.
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  Speaker 1: The Dolphins walked into Pittsburgh and it was like a
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  Speaker 1: magic tricks, like a more like a science trick than
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  Speaker 1: a magic trick. It's like a science science trick from
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  Speaker 1: like junior high school or it's like, okay, what temperature
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  Speaker 1: do things start freezing over? And then we turned we
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  Speaker 1: found out that dolphins actually they start freezing and they
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  Speaker 1: turned into push pops.
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  Speaker 3: They were teal push pops.
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  Speaker 1: The Dolphins there in the second late in the second
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  Speaker 1: quarter and the third quarter there absolutely gutless the cold weather.
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  Speaker 1: I think these guys, even though you live in Miami
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them are come from the Midwest or
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  Speaker 1: the East Coast, are not all from the West coast
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  Speaker 1: to the south where it's warm most of the time.
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  Speaker 1: And these guys collectively are just a bunch of softies.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just ridiculous here what happened. Cold weather hits
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  Speaker 1: and Miami goes cold. In fact, they don't even go cold.
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  Speaker 1: They go frozen is what they do here. And this
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  Speaker 1: was again steel team. If you didn't watch the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: all year, you think, boy, that pretty good. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I understand that is why they are leading the division. No,
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  Speaker 1: they suck. The Steelers are a bad team. They were
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth in the you're being mean, Meler, twenty eighth
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, and defense coming into that game twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: and yet Tua it looked like the greatest Hits album
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  Speaker 1: of Steelers defense. I thought I saw Troy Polamalo out there,
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  Speaker 1: the ghost of Kevin Green, Jack Lambert making tackles the
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  Speaker 1: whole Steel Curtain Reunion tour. Who was playing against the Dolphins, Tua.
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  Speaker 1: They showed him there was one shot and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: jot down. I think it was in the in the
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  Speaker 1: second quarter. I didn't jot down the time. But Tua
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  Speaker 1: look like Jack Nicholson in The Shining You know that
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  Speaker 1: it's been turned into a meme, but that famous.
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  Speaker 3: Scene, it looked.
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  Speaker 1: Like he was in ice and staring blankly and the
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  Speaker 1: thing of a jig was not working. It was Toua
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  Speaker 1: doing his cosplay of Jack Nicholson from The Shining Year.
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  Speaker 1: And plus the Dolphins defense, they allowed a middling Steelers
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  Speaker 1: offense to have four consecutive touchdown drives Good afternoon, good evening,
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  Speaker 1: and good night. As the Dolphins decided that tackling was optional,
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  Speaker 1: they quiet quit at halftime.
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  Speaker 3: We're not sure.
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  Speaker 1: The rumor is that they were just sitting around watching
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  Speaker 1: OnlyFans at halftime and they tossed in the sponge there
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  Speaker 1: when they came out all phases. Now, this also presents
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  Speaker 1: quite the predicament for the Dolphins here. And the Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: predicament is they have an underlying condition. That's the predicament
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  Speaker 1: here and you can remodel the roster and they likely
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  Speaker 1: will do that. You can get a new coach that
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  Speaker 1: actually knows what he's doing, they'll probably do that as well.
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  Speaker 1: And you can light candles, you can burn sage. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really matter because Tua, his underlying condition is he
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  Speaker 1: malfunctions when the weather gets cold. And that's just the
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  Speaker 1: reality of the situation, right, that's it. Under forty degrees,
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  Speaker 1: he's played eight games, one in seven, and the stat
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  Speaker 1: line on Tua horrific, horrific, and so it's not a trend.
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  Speaker 1: It's I mean, just look at the weather report we
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  Speaker 1: did Benny versus the Penny. At the time we did it,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't anticipate the weather being that nasty on Monday
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  Speaker 1: night in Pittsburgh. Well you know, it wasn't like snowing
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  Speaker 1: or anything of that, but it was cold. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what you'd expect in.
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  Speaker 3: Mid December cold weather.
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  Speaker 1: And you look around the Dolphins, if they ever got good,
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  Speaker 1: you look around the AFC, and you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: play outdoor games. The Patriots are pretty good this year,
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  Speaker 1: so if they continue to be good, they'll have outdoor
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  Speaker 1: home games. The Ravens will likely be there most of
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  Speaker 1: the time, the Steelers, Buffalo. These are all outdoor cold
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  Speaker 1: weather teams, not domes outdoor cold weather teams, and so
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go into those places and play
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  Speaker 1: unless you just have home field advantage in Tua. Either
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  Speaker 1: that or you can go on TEAMU and find something
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  Speaker 1: to fix the do hickey which keeps freezing over and
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  Speaker 1: going doink when the playoff games. I'm not playoff games,
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  Speaker 1: which is big nighttime games, cold weather games. It just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go well. And the total stat bandito from Tua
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  Speaker 1: in this game, we'll have more on that in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: And so the real question though for TUA is there
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  Speaker 1: is a way to get out of Tua's.
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  Speaker 3: Deal and to move on.
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  Speaker 1: Do the guys that own the team and Stephen Ross
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  Speaker 1: is the big one, he's pretty old and Michigan guy
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  Speaker 1: Steven Ross, does he have the machismo to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of Tua? Does he have the machismo? Now turn the
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  Speaker 1: Patriot but not far. The battled Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel
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  Speaker 1: went viral on his post game and he usually goes
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  Speaker 1: viral here he did go viral yet again. The Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: coach just addressing what happened. This was a one score
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  Speaker 1: game at halftime. The Dolphins actually looked somewhat decent very
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  Speaker 1: early in the game, and then as the game went
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  Speaker 1: on after halftime, the third quarter was a awakening for
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  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers and it was nap time for the
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  Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, and so that led I believe we have
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  Speaker 1: the right bite. All right, here's Mike McDaniel, and this
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  Speaker 1: is a SoundBite of him postgame trying to explain what
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  Speaker 1: happened to the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 3: And listen, this is a head coach.
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  Speaker 1: The leader of a multi billion dollar NFL franchise, trying
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  Speaker 1: to explain what went wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: As hard as we tried, that was a little too
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  Speaker 5: deflating because we knew that was an important area of
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  Speaker 5: focus that were we really wanted to be good coming
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  Speaker 5: out of that third quarter as a one score game,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, I thought that was a gigantic momentum swing.
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  Speaker 5: You know, had a couple opportunities on that drive and
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  Speaker 5: the following drive to make some plays, and we didn't
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  Speaker 5: make the plays they did.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, can we get that man a tissue? Can we
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  Speaker 1: get him a nice tissue to clean his nose?
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  Speaker 3: Out.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a head coach of an NFL franchise. So question,
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  Speaker 1: can you unscramble the latest gibberish from the Dolphins coach
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel. As you just heard there, we played pretty
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  Speaker 1: much all over it. There were some other bites as
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  Speaker 1: well that we're pretty pretty out there. So I ran
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  Speaker 1: this through the Mallard Dakota ring, and I take this
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  Speaker 1: job very seriously. I don't just come in here in
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  Speaker 1: half asset. I have a Mallard Dacota ring and I
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  Speaker 1: use the Mallard decoder ring. And the word that kept
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  Speaker 1: popping up the official translation on the Mallard Dakota ring
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  Speaker 1: whack a doodle. That's the word. So and the Decota
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  Speaker 1: ring is never wrong if it says whack a doodle, doodle,
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  Speaker 1: wackadoodle do is what.
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  Speaker 3: It is here.
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  Speaker 1: So this was wasn't some deep philosophical perspective from the
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  Speaker 1: Dolphins coach. He was not doing a deep dive on
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  Speaker 1: the state of the Miami Dolphins.
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  Speaker 2: He was not this.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, this was standard chow. This is standard chow.
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  Speaker 1: Here's some reheated leftovers from Mike McDaniel. There, half baked,
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  Speaker 1: foggy like he's speaking pig Latin, but only after he
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  Speaker 1: fell off the back of a wagon.
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  Speaker 3: And then he's speaking pig Latin.
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  Speaker 1: And his superpower, I believe everyone's got a superpower hollering.
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  Speaker 1: James superpower is sleeping his blind Scott's superpowers annoying people.
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  Speaker 1: He's really good at that jet who fled. His superpower
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  Speaker 1: is talking so fast you don't understand what he's saying.
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  Speaker 1: And in the case of the Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel,
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  Speaker 1: his superpower is marblemouth. Marblemouth and it sounds like a
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  Speaker 1: guy when he's talking and saying um and awe, the
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  Speaker 1: um and ahs of the world, it sounds like he's
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  Speaker 1: driving the Oscar Meyer Wiener will be a lot of filler.
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  Speaker 1: Those are filler phrases, um and awe. People at study language,
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  Speaker 1: when you don't know what you're going to say, or
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  Speaker 1: you're pausing to try to buy time to find out
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  Speaker 1: what you're gonna say next, you say um and awe.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of filler.
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  Speaker 1: There's from some preservatives in there as well, empty calories.
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  Speaker 1: Just like a nice processed hot dog. Um and awe
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  Speaker 1: are the hot dogs of the spoken word. They are
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  Speaker 1: and here's the thing. A big part, whether you like
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  Speaker 1: it or not, a big part of the job as
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  Speaker 1: head coach of an NFL team or any sports team
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  Speaker 1: professionally is you are the spokesman of the franchise.
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  Speaker 3: That's your job.
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  Speaker 1: You're the face of it, you're the front man, you're
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  Speaker 1: the Carnival Barker, all of those things mixed together. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel keeps rambling like a GPS that lost its satellites,
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  Speaker 1: ignal and foot and mouth disease every time they lose.
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  Speaker 1: Even when they win, we just don't play it when
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  Speaker 1: they when they lose, we play it. And he's tongue tied,
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  Speaker 1: exasperated and circling the drain verbally on a weekly basis.
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  Speaker 1: If only the Dolphins could play the Jets again, or
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  Speaker 1: play the New Orleans Saints, one of those type teams,
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  Speaker 1: they'd be in good shape.
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  Speaker 3: Thus they are not.
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  Speaker 1: It's always the same movie, though with Mike McDaniel. We've
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  Speaker 1: been doing this for a couple of minutes and McDaniel
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  Speaker 1: comes in there and a lot of pauses. It's the
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  Speaker 1: same movie, long pauses, no payoff, and then, just like
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins often punting on fourth down because they did
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  Speaker 1: not get the line to gain there, and in some
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  Speaker 1: strange odd way, I'm gonna miss this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna miss this.
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  Speaker 1: He's not gonna last as Dolphin coach unless the Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: are a fraud franchise.
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  Speaker 3: Merely are just assuming that they'll get rid of him,
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  Speaker 3: try to hire a.
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  Speaker 1: Real coach, and so McDaniel slide back into the I
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  Speaker 1: some NFL team and that'll be that, and we won't
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  Speaker 1: get these soundbites anymore. He won't be a head coach,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll miss it. He'll go back to OC duty
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  Speaker 1: and some meatthead will come in there and replace him
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  Speaker 1: an orator of the franchise. Now, the last word on
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  Speaker 1: the Petsburg Steelers side of things, the yinsers. The question,
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  Speaker 1: now that Pittsburgh got a dominating win to get to
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  Speaker 1: eight and six on the year, are you back on
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  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers Aaron Rodgers bandwagon or bandwagoneer, as Blair
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  Speaker 1: and Maine said many many years ago, are you back
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  Speaker 1: on the Steelers Aaron Rodgers bandwagon? Here after this dominating
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  Speaker 1: win over the Miami football team. So I'll go here first,
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  Speaker 1: shake him my head. No, if you can see me
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  Speaker 1: in live real time.
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  Speaker 3: You're a loser.
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  Speaker 1: You can watch on YouTube. I'm shaming my no, so
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  Speaker 1: let's slow down here. Hit the pause button on I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna hit the pause button on the remote control.
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  Speaker 3: Hit the pause button there. Do not overreact. Do not overreact.
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  Speaker 1: Like you just found five bucks in the back pocket
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  Speaker 1: of your favorite blue jeans. You were watching that you
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  Speaker 1: had you washed them, but you hadn't washed them in
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  Speaker 1: a while, and you found five bucks, and you're like, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's probably cool. I don't use use cash. I normally
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  Speaker 1: use a credit card. And just calm down. Calm down,
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  Speaker 1: as Aaron Rodgers would say. Relax, that's what he would say.
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  Speaker 1: And so did the Steelers look shiny?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? They did. They look good? They did they look good.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers had some vintage throws in this game, had
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  Speaker 1: some zip on a few of those intermediate throws, which
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  Speaker 1: he normally does not throw. Check that box. However, let's
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: not confuse a as the kids say a heater. Let's
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: not confuse that with a heat wave. The phrases are different.
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  Speaker 1: You have a heater and then you have a heat wave.
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  Speaker 1: And Pittsburgh tickling the funny bone.
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  Speaker 3: For those that are like, oh, man, they're back. I'm giddy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm laughing at all. They're really just.
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  Speaker 1: Ticking up a little bit, just a little bit in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction. I'll grant you that they are headed
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  Speaker 1: that way. I didn't hear any fire Mike Tomlin chance
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  Speaker 1: after that game, as the Steelers have that one game
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  Speaker 1: lead in the AFC Norse, so I didn't hear any
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  Speaker 1: of that. And the defense was crushing skulls for some
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  Speaker 1: of this game. Demolition, derby style football, helmets, flying dolphins,
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  Speaker 1: playoff dream shattered, all of those things, all of those
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: things regardless, though this particular game was less about the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Steelers ascending and more about the Dolphins turning into frozen
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: skid marks on the side of the turnpike there as
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: they were horrific. They didn't just lose, they got thawed
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: and evaporated. They just vanished. And that's it now Rogers again.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: He looked good, not great most of the night. The
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: key phrase, though, he's thirty's forty thirty forty two, and
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: so we know.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: That Father Time is undefeated. I heard that years ago.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Father Time on defeas Even if you bring some crystals
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: from Andrea in the Bay Area, and you can have
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: a party, have some crystals. You can also bring the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Farmer's Almanac and a bunch of supplements from Tijuana and
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: then get together at a darkness retreat and.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Do all of those things. Good luck.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: My advice to Mike Tomlin is to go to DC
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Comics bring in a super villain, mister Freeze. Bring in
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: mister Freeze here for the playoffs because cold weather Rogers
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Magic saw a lot of that in Green Bay, a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: lot of those type of games in green Bay. However,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: it only works in these short little bursts. There is
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: a scenario where the Steelers win division, they play a
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: home playoff game, and there's a chance they play a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: second playoff game in the division round. Could it be
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: in Buffalo? Maybe two cold weather games. The Bills are
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: not invincible. There's no one that's invincible in the NFL
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: this season. And remember, all you need is if tom
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: that can bring in mister Freezer from DC Comics and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: get that going for the last month. You only need
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a month and a half. You need January and half
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: of February to get the bling, bling, the ring ring,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: That's all you have to do. I play well in
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: January and February if you get in. However, let's be real,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: it is much more likely, if you were to look
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: at the wheel of possibilities, it is much more likely
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers in mid February will be sitting in Austin,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Texas talking about lizard people with Joe Rogan, then getting
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: ready to play the La Rams in the Super Bowl
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: in Northern California. It's much more likely that happens. So
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: let's pump the breaks. Pop the breaks, now, pup the Okay,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: they're work. Got that NASCAR old school restrictor plate on
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the Steelers that get the playoffs and they can play
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins in the playoffs. They're in good shape. I'm
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: told the Dolphins will not be in the playoffs. That's
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Comment away. So our lead this hour not from the
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Monday night game, a though some holestill want to yap
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: about that.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: We are more than welcome to discuss the events that
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: took place in Pittsburgh as the Steelers went again on
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Monday night. But our lead this hour from Dallas, well,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the Greater Dallas area, as the Cowboys debacle continues, all
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: but eliminated, left for dead on the side of the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: road as the Cowboys got smacked around by J. J.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: McCarthy.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Anyway, Dak Prescott some quotes he made recently making the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: rounds and bouncing around the echo chamber.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: They caught my attention on the radar, so I thought
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: we'd discussed.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: So Dak Prescott said he was more surprised than he
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: has been in years past at the Cowboys' failures to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: get it done here, and he pointed out that the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the way things have gone just stings a little bit
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: more than some of the recent abject failure Dallas Cowboy
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: teams the money. Quote from Dak Prescott, he said, quote,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: it's tough. I'm definitely surprised, hurt, pissed off, and frustrated.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: But all I can do is get better tomorrow. Tomorrow.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is another day, I said Dak Prescott. I added
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: that last part. He didn't actually say that last part.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I sang that that was an old song. I sang that,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: all right, So.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Let us discuss that is the jumping off point. Let's
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: discuss the question.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott says that he's surprised, hurt, pissed off, and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: frustrated at where the Cowboys are right now, more so
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: than in previous years. How is this possible? How is
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: this possible? So my observations, I've got teleprompter, boiled zucchini,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and fifty shades, and we will combine all of these
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make some Texas
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: toast delicious when made properly.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Well, anything made properly is pretty good, but Texas Toast
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: is the way to go. So number why.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Number one?
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Alright?
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So this is adorable with the capital A. Adorable with
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the capital A. It's also fiction. It's just fiction, is
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: what it is. And so the Cowboys are exactly who
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: we thought they were. In fact, the Dallas Cowboys of
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five have followed the preseason script.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: So nobody knows anything. We always hear. The odds makers
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: are pretty good. They know roughly where teams are going
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: to be.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: If you look back to the spring, when the odds
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: came out right around the NFL Draft, the odds on
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: win totals for the upcoming season. The script for the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys said that they would have a tough year.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And they're having a tough year. They're stuck in traffic
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: on Boondoggle Boulevard and they can't get off Boondoggle Boulevard.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Now it pays very well.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Boondoggle Boulevard. Hazard lights are blinking, No tro truck is
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: anywhere around. So this is not betrayal, it's not it's confirmation.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Vegas set the twenty twenty five win total at eight
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and a half for the Cowboys.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Eight and a half.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: There are three games left. Dallas is hovering around five hundred.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: They're right there, and they've got they're rotting meat with flies.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: It's got a piece of brisket Texas barbecue brisket laid outside,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: and there's flies who are hovering around right now. So
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: it's not a collapse. It's not the Cowboys are meeting expectations.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: There were very low expectations. They're meeting expectations with a
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: slight limp. Slight limp. They'd have to win a couple
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: of these games here to go over the total. More
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: likely they'll finish half a game under the total. Dak Prescott, though,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: let's address the HeLa monster in the room when it
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: comes to Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott lives in that Derek Jeter,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan media cocoon.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: He just does.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: He's sanded down. When I hear Dak Prescott speak, it's
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: shrink wrapped media trained to death. It just is every answer.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Have you noticed this? When Dak Prescott speaks, every answer
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: sounds like it came from the corporate teleprompter.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: It just does.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: And I do a show with a guy that loves
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the teleprompter, teleprompter Tom we call him Looney Tunes. So
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: in this case, Dak is always very polished. That's a
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: word I was polished. He is professional, also utterly lifeless.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Utterly lifeless and a walking sound bite vending machine is
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: what it is. Insert question and you will be given
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a nice platitude with no attitude. That's a platitude with
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: no attitude, and it pays pretty well. It pays pretty well.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: To be very vanilla. It pays very well. You don't
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: upset anyone, You don't say anything any very interesting. He
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: worked for Jeter, work for Jordan. They were better than
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. However, Dak Prescott in pretty good shape, in
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: pretty good shape here he has made roughly I'm not
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: gonna say he embezzled the money. You can say he
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: embezzled the money. I'm not gonna say that. You can
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: say he embezzle it. I'm not saying he inbezzled the money.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Roughly three hundred million dollars Dak Prescott has earned on
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the field. He is the Cowboys all time stat compiler,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: not their elevator operator. The elevator operator brings people up
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to a higher level. They also bring them down to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a lower level. But for the metaphor in the monologu,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: we're gonna say the elevator operator raises people up, take
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the elevator to the upper floors, and that's how that works.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: And in big moments, Dak Prescott is nowhere to be seen.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: He fills the box score a lot of empties, a
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: lot of empties, capitally empties.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: For Dak Prescott. There's a lot of those. And when
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: the room gets hot, Dak gets cold. That's what happens.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Seven playoff games in all these years as Cowboy quarterback,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: a two to five record, and he will become the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: answer to who am I game question? No one has
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: sucked as long as Dak Prescott has in terms of
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: wins and losses in the postseason and continued on as
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback. Dak Prescott is the gold standard, the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: absolute gold standard for that incompetence and one win over
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the if you les playoff here two playoff wins, one
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: win over the rotting carcass of Tom Brady at the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: end of his career's final game with Tampa when he
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: was washed up was against the Cowboys, So Dallas won
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that game. The other game was when I remember this
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: is we did some stuff after the game. It was
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I think a Seattle, so Seattle game, Cowboys and Seahawks playoff.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I believe Russell Wilson was the quarterback for Seattle and
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott had very beige.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Numbers. His performance didn't really stand out. They won the game.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: So Dak, he's not shocked.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: He's not shocked. He's not He's doing performance art is
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: what he's doing. It's the Cowboys. The theater is opened
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day. In Jerry's world. It's cowboys, Kobookie.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Theater is what it is, and he's doing it. Never closes,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: it's open all night. The snack bar gets some popcorns.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: They get some popcorn, they serve alcohol. Knock yourself out now.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Page two to Indianapolis We Go. Follow up, follow up
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: to Old Man Rivers follow up. Old Man Rivers started
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: almost beat the highly overrated Seattle Seahawks. Highly overrated Seattle Seahawks.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: So I bring this up because Philip Rivers it was
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: announced will remain the starting quarterback for your Colts in
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: week sixteen Monday Night Football, a week away from Monday
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Night Football to matchup as the forty nine Ers and
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the Colts, and coach Shane Steichen made the announcement. Now,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: some people seem puzzled by this move.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: I don't undersna why are they playing Philip Rivers again?
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: And said the dumb person in the back of the room.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: All right, So the question why are people confused? And
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know how many people.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: As I've pointed out a thousand times, social media is fake.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: It's the matrix. We've seen story after story about just
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: bought armies attacking celebrities and politicians because it's not real.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: It's all just it's all big illusions. I don't know
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: what's real with not I do know there are people that,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: at least some some people that seemed to be bedraggled
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: by what's going on. So the question why are people
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: confused with this decision? For the Colt sticking with Philip Rivers,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: this is like that Doors song. People are strange and
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: apparently allergic to actually paying attention.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I know you got stuff going on. I got it.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: So let's review the menu. Here's what the Colts have here.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: You're Shane Steichen, you're the chef. You're going into the kitchen.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Here are your ingredients. Your other quarterback options are Riley Leonard,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: who's undercooked, Brett Rippon who's overcooked, and maybe Trent Richardson.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: There were some whispers he's able to come back now
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: dusting off the shoulder pads.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: His claim to fame as an NFL quarterback is quitting.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: He took himself out of the game.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: So your options are a guy who's clearly not ready
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: and may never be ready, Riley Leonard, the old golden domer,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Brett Rippin, who, if only he was good as his relative,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the better ripping. And then you've got Trent Richardson, who's
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: claim to be famous quitting. Now you know why Philip
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Rivers is back in. That is not a depth chart. Okay,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: that is not a depth chart. That is bleak, bleaker
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and bleakest is what. That is a quarterback buffet where
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: everything tastes like boiled zucchini and carrots. If you feel
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: me on that from the cafeteria, that soggy, unappetizing, disgusting appearance. Yes,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: was Philip Rivers sexy. No, he did not bring sexy back.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Philip Rivers did not bring sexy back.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: He didn't.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: He was brought in to calm the waters. Calm the waters,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: drive the speed limit, use your blinker when you change lanes,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, keep the car between the lanes, between
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the lines in the lanes, that's what you're supposed to do.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: So Grandpa Rivers went out there. He didn't show up
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: in a Ferrari. He is that here, I am, boys,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I got my Ferrari. He showed up in a reliable
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Buet with two hundred thousand miles on it and an
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: engine that still starts every Morning's very reliable.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: And that's what that's the car he used. That's it,
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: and its method over madness. You keep chugging along, Chugglu
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: chugg with chucclt Chugglu chugg a lagga. Yeah.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: And as long as the Colts have a playoff pulse,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: and they don't have much of one, Jacksonville's legitimize themselves.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: The Texans appear to be very good.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And Indianapolis is in that mix. They're on the outside.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: They're on the outside. They're in the mix, but they're
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: on the outside. So as long as they have a pulse,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Philip Rivers will be under center. And the moment they
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: are decommissioned, the moment they are sent to the glue factory,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and that's it. And you say Nana la na na
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: la da good by when that happens. Philip Rivers is
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: on the first concord, that smooth supersonic flight out of
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: wherever the Colts are, and he's headed directly back to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the backwoods. In fact, they won't even land the plane.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: They'll drop him in a parachute into the woods, is
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. It's shocking.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Our final point to Vegas we go during the offseason.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll, good old Pete Carroll. He was very Braggadocia's confident.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: He thought his poo poo didn't stink stink, and he
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: was going to Vegas and the Raiders were gonna return
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: to glory because he knows how to coach, and everyone
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: else is the village idiot.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: And Pete Carroll's going to go in there and he's got.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: His little magic hocus pocus abracadabra and watch out, watch out.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: So how's that working out?
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: The Raiders just quit on Pete Carroll in Philadelphia gutlass football.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: They are two and twelve, two and twelve. They are
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: worse this year than they were last year. When everyone
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: told me that they you know, the guy didn't know
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: what he's doing was coaching the team. So they hired
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: this proven, savvy veteran with a great resume from Express pros.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Pete Carroll. They got him, and they might as well
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: have just kept Antonio Pierce.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Antonio Pierce actually had them playing better football than Pete Carroll.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: So Pete was asked about like what's going on, and
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: he was asked whether or not he's coaching for his job,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: whether that is a thing or not, and Pete said, quote, no,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I don't feel like that at all. I really don't,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Pete said at his news conference on Monday. I'm well
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: beyond that. I don't feel like that. Close quote from
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: So the question.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Does Pete Carroll deserve to return as the Raiders coach
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six a topic that we will broach
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: many times when we get to the silly season of
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the NFL. So I found Pete's response.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Charming. I'm gonna use the word charming.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: I was around Pete a lot back in the old
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: days when he was coaching at USC and so I
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: know all the bull crap that Pete serves up. I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: heard it all when he was coaching these amazing teams
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: with Reggie Bush and Matt Lionert and Mark Sanchez and
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: all those guys. At SC so I understand all that.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: On this one, Pete Carroll, we know what he's having
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: for breakfast. He's cuckoo for cocoa puffs, is what he is.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Absolutely the Raider season, if you were to do, if
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you were to do a NFL film style documentary, you
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: would title it fifty Shades of puke.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: That would be fifty shades of puke, is what you
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: would do. That's the thing.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: It's a rainbow of bad decisions. That's the Raiders and
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: blown coverages to the right players mailing it into the
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: left and expired coupon for success from Pete Carroll. Those
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: coupons have run out right now, so good luck on that.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: You are what your record says you are. The Raiders
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: are a two win team. They suck and when they
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: don't suck, they blow, and that's it. And they are
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: right now a floating tire fire. They're a floating tire fire.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: There at the burning man out in the Nevada desert,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and our friend, the mouthwashed Mike is walking by looking
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: at the fire, saying, am I allowed to look at
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the fire? Have I been banned from the fire like
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I'm banned from Caesar's? And MGM, I don't know. I
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: don't know now if you didn't watch the Eagles game,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: and I only watched part of it, all I needed
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: to do was watch part of it.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: I saw a team quit. I saw it.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I've been around a couple of times, not my first rodeo,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and you can tell. You can tell when the team
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: quits on their coach. It's more obvious in the NBA
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: than it is in football. However, the Raiders made it
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: clear and it was clear as vodka, clear as vodka.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: In that game thirty one nothing out gained by over
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: three one hundred yards. That tells you that you are
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: floating on the lazy river that was too cold. You
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: didn't prepare, You gave up all of those things, all
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: of those things. That is not a lost. That is
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: a hasty retreat. Under Pete Carroll, white flag is a flappin'.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: The white flag is a flapping. That is a surrender.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: It's like a boxing match. You tossed in the sponge.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: That team quit, Capitol Q.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: They quit. That's it. That's an unforgivable sin.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: And now the Raiders have a double mess on their
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: hands because Mark Davis, he likes to spend his money
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: on PF changs. That's about it, and you got Tom Brady.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: How dumb does Mark Davis looked at He's like, okay,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: let's let let's let Tom Brady be the de facto
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: general manager and make all the plays for the football
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: ops department and decide who the coach and the players are,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: and you know all the key people and every decision
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: tom Brady has made his men a disaster and nobody
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: wants to talk about it. Conversation people aren't ready to
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: have and they love Tom Brady and Tom Brady's a
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: hero and you're not supposed to say it. It's odd though,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: because when Michael Jordan was a terrible executive in the NBA,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: people had no problem pointing out how terrible Michael Jordan was. Like,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: for some reason, Tom Brady is getting an exemption. He
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: is the GM by proxy of the Raiders. He hand
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: picked Pete Carroll, he hand picked now Grant. He didn't
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: want Pete Cary, wanted Ben Johnson, but he took Pete Carroll.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: And he didn't want Geno Smith, but he took Geno Smith.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: He wanted Matthew Stafford. And what the Raiders ought to
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: do is a two for one special. Send Pete Carroll
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: and Geno Smith together put him on a dusty stage coach.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Down the winnemuck A Road and get him out of there.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: This, as the famous quote goes from a late NBA player,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: the ship be sinking. In fact, the ship is already
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: sunk at this point, so you can cue the Tony
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Bennett fly me to the Moon because the ra and
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll's.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Halfway there anyways, big moon bat.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: He's halfway to the moon at this point, So oh yeah,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: you don't have Pete Carroll be the rebuild guy.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Can you see this? Mid seventies and I hope Pete
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: lives to be one hundred and twenty.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: But if you look at the comps, p Hee's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be alive by the time the Raiders are any
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  Speaker 1: good again.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
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• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Josh Allen said that the love that the Bills have
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: for each other fueled their comeback against the Patriots and
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: that wins like these have them quote battle tested heading
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: towards the playoffs?
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Ben, Were the Bills written off too early?
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: No?
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: No, they were not.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Is that like woodstock in the locker room like for
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: the Bills? Are they all like, you know, hanging out
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: loving each other?
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: You know some over shoulders?
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, I don't know.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a fire. They're singing cool by Eye.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Uh No, if the Bills don't win this year, Mahomes
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: isn't in the playoffs. Lamar Jackson may not be in
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, right, Uh you look around. Joe Burrow not
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: in the player like Josh.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: This is it.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Everything's clear that it's like the parting of the Red Sea.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: For Josh Allen. They got to win this year. They
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: gotta win the AFC this year. They got to be
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: in the super Bowl, all right next?
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: So this has undoubtedly been a down year for the
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: AFC North, But the two teams still in playoff contention
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: are both led by former MVPs. You've got the Steelers
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: and the Ravens. Who do you think would be more
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: dangerous than the playoffs? Who do you not want to see?
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't I don't take the Ravens seriously. Their
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: defense is not very good.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: And Lamar Jackson, who usually is great in the regular
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: season and then sucks in the playoffs.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: He's been terrible.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: So the Steelers are actually the team that you don't
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: want to play. You want to play the Ravens at
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: this point. You don't want to play the Steelers, which
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: I'm shocked I'm saying, but that's the reality. Like, Steelers
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: haven't really played anybody, played the Ravens and the Dolphins,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: and they look good in these games. I'd still rather
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: avoid the Steelers and play the Ravens the way Lamar
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: is played all year.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: Next, the Cleveland Cavaliers are one of the top teams
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: in the East. Last season, on Sunday, they lost to
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: the Hornets without LaMelo ball to Falldo mediocre fifteen to
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: twelve on the year. The home crowd booed them as
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: the clock ran out, and Donovan Mitchell told reporters that
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: he would boot. And is this just a stumble or
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: more serious problem for Cleveland?
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: I would say it's just a malaise.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: You have a great year, you focus all year, and
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: then the NBA you come back and you're thethargic and
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: you just kind of get through the dol drums of
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the regular season.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: That's what I would put that on. How did we do? Koubalo?
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: You pass? U say? W oh my god? I won?
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: I won the game. I'm a runner, I won the game.
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  Speaker 1: have Jed who fled Who's somewhere in the redneck riviera
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Jed who fled? Bennie versus Penny's a real great
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• 43:39
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  Speaker 3: I heard cool. Oh my god, all right up, I
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: You're in.
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  Speaker 3: And Mike is in Wisconsin. Hello, Mike, welcome. Hello, let's
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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• 44:09
  Speaker 2: What do you recommend?
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  Speaker 3: I think Lorena would be very entertaining. I have not
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: been picked. I have not been picked. All right, Yeah,
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: I looking at that. I'm real close. I thought I
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: was going to get picked that.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: I was hoping.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: I was hoping you would. But Mike came to his senses.
• 44:28
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  Speaker 3: Who fled? You were on first category? Head and chokey
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: by breaking bed?
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: Okay, breaking bad and Mike, how about you? Which Cindgrey
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  Speaker 5: Vegas?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, alright, everyone, hold on there, we'll have Mallard's Mountain Money.
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  Speaker 3: Not? All right, Right to the game we go. Let's
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  Speaker 3: welcome in our contestants. Hello. I believe that's that Jed,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: Jed who fled? All right, Jed, we have breaking bad.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: The category is these athletes have all had drug problems.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin in Hall
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  Speaker 4: of Fame quarterback for the Packers War number four. Yes,
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: this guy loved cocaine. Linebacker for the Giants. Yes uh,
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: this guy also loved cocaine. Wide receiver for the Cowboys.
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: Yes uh, this guy almost died of an overdose in
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: a Brothels Hamilton no NBA player. He was married to
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: Chloe Kardashian. Yes uh, this guy liked weed too much.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: He was a wide receiver for the Browns.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: He was very good. But yes uh.
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: This guy was a quarterback for the USC Trojans and
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: the Raiders. He smoked a lot of weed.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Uh what the hell?
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: How really? Uh like eighties? Please standing dance remix on this?
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: This guy? Okay?
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: Todd Moranov Marinovitch, okay, Uh.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: My board froze here. Coop So I don't know who's
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: a Yeah, yeah, that's your partner. Mike.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: All right, Mike, are you there? Mike, I'm here, all right,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: very good. We're gonna play the game you picked?
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: What do you pick?
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: What happens in Vegas? These athletes have all been arrested
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: in Vegas.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Are you ready, Mike? Yes, all right, forty five seconds
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: on the clock. We need the first and last name.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: We're on our way go. Uh. He killed two people
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: in La played running back for the Bills, Buffalo Bills,
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Sir McDonald's god.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: A little bit before that. Yeah, well nobody knows who
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: that is. Boxer nicknamed money. Lloyd Yes, running back for
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints, got into a dust up at
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: a casino in Vegas.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: He's currently on the Saints right now. I can't think
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Pat Okay, running back for the Green Bay Packers. He
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: played with the Raiders. Had some problems in Vegas when.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: He was with the Raiders. Sure, I'm trying to blink,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: aren't you in Wisconsin?
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: I can't believe it?
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, you're choking? How about that? All right?
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: Wow, I mean I.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: OJ's been dead for a while, so I guess not
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: maybe people to OJ Simpsons.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: Simmons there, Okay, Alvin Kamara and Josh Jacobs is the
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: current running back?
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: All right, we get to go again. How ex is that?
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Don't cuss the movie? Right, I don't don't trust the
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: b or whatever? And uh dexter, which one do you want? Decor?
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, these athletes have all unretired. Here we go, forty
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: five seconds on the clock. First and the last name
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts right now, former Charger. Yes,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: he played. It was a start with the Lakers in
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: the eighties. While Larry Bird was with the Celtics, he
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: was with the Lakers. Now guard guard out of Michigan State. Yeah,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: all right, tight end for the Patriots. He's on Fox
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: right now every sun days like a meathead, dumb guy.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: But he people like him because he used to be
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: good at football. No, all right, baseball player nicknamed the
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Rocket for the Red Sox in the eighties, played with
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: the Yankees as well in the nineties.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know that. Okay, all right,
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: what you what you have for breakfast?
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, Magic Johnson is not a household name. No, that
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: was good job, Jed, tremendous job by Thank you, Mike.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Never never play again, Mike, please s