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  Speaker 1: we're back at it here always enlightening time. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there are days you come in to the radio studio
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  Speaker 1: and you look around and you're like, all right, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be taking turds and throwing them against the wall
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  Speaker 1: and seeing what sticks. And then there's other days you
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  Speaker 1: come in and you're like, okay, we'll do like twelve
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  Speaker 1: hours of talk radio. This would be one of those days.
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  Speaker 1: But we're gonna start our lead this hour from the
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  Speaker 1: coaching carousel, round and round and round and round, the
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  Speaker 1: coaching carousel goes, and the Brownies have said bye bye,
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  Speaker 1: bye bye to their head coach. Now, the great thing
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  Speaker 1: about being the Browns head coach is you never really
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  Speaker 1: have to learn the name of the Browns head coach
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  Speaker 1: because they're never any good and they're not.
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  Speaker 4: There all that long.
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  Speaker 1: Now, by Brown standards, Kevin Stefanski had a pretty good run.
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  Speaker 4: Six years, six year, two winning seasons. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: But six years as coach of the Browns. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: most mind boggling part of that story is the incompetent
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  Speaker 1: GM Andrew Barry. Andrew Barry kept his job, He will
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  Speaker 1: remain in charge, and he will hire the next coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns. Because as our friend Strip Club
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  Speaker 1: John and Cleveland and others know, they Brown's ownership, Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Hasloman Company.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they don't.
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  Speaker 1: They know what's really going on.
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  Speaker 4: They don't.
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  Speaker 1: Now, here's Andrew Berry. If we'll hear from the man
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  Speaker 1: of the hour, here the GM who somehow kept his job.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to know how that conversation went. But here's
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Berry commenting on why the Browns have decommissioned their
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  Speaker 1: head coach.
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  Speaker 4: Coming into the season.
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  Speaker 5: We were realistic that, you know, we were a team
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  Speaker 5: and a roster in transition, and ultimately this decision is
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  Speaker 5: born from the fact that we've ultimately felt like we
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  Speaker 5: did not see enough progress in areas that we're controllable
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  Speaker 5: independent of certain game outcomes.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, the story is not so much that
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  Speaker 1: we'll have plenty of time to goof on the Browns.
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  Speaker 1: It's low hanging fruit, which is always delicious, The most
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  Speaker 1: delicious and just the juiciest fruit is the low hanging fruit.
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  Speaker 1: So the story here is the fact that Kevin Stefanski
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  Speaker 1: has now become the flavor of the week.
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  Speaker 4: In the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: If you believe the noise, if you hear the noise,
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  Speaker 1: you believe the noise, if you buy the noise. And
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  Speaker 1: who knows what's real or not, but there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of chatter either it's real or Stefanski's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of buddies in the media that are planting stories about him.
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  Speaker 1: So if you haven't heard yet, we've learned that Kevin Stefanski,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that just sucked as coach of the Cleveland Browns,
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  Speaker 1: is expected to be a top candidate. Will interview with
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  Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, who also suck, the Atlanta Falcons who blow,
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  Speaker 1: and the New York Giants who should go to the
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  Speaker 1: Canadian Football League. But all three of those teams are
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  Speaker 1: interested in Kevin Stefanski for their head coaching vacancy. Now
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  Speaker 1: the Giants, the New York Giants, a team that's been
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  Speaker 1: a laughing stock for about twenty years now. The Giants
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  Speaker 1: are said to be especially all horned up to get
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  Speaker 1: their hands on Kevin Stefanski. That is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. So let us discuss the question is the
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  Speaker 1: glass half full or is it half empty? With the
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  Speaker 1: Brown's former coach Kevin Stefanski being the center of attention
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  Speaker 1: on the coaching carousel, So my thoughts on this, I've
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  Speaker 1: got lazy susan.
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  Speaker 4: Mushroom and board games.
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  Speaker 1: We'll confide all of these things together and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make some chicken schwarma over some rice there and will
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  Speaker 1: enjoy that. That's somewhat healthy, somewhat healthy. So a Kevin Stefanski,
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  Speaker 1: there's no other way to say it. He was an
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  Speaker 1: abject failure in Cleveland. He didn't even get it done.
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  Speaker 1: And these other teams are about where Cleveland is. They suck,
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  Speaker 1: all of him. He was the boss. He was the
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  Speaker 1: one running the factory, the factory of sadness. That was
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski. He was the floor manager, the boss of
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  Speaker 1: the factory of sadness. And the glass is not just
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  Speaker 1: half empty, it's to the point where it's chip. There's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a crack right there, and it's
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  Speaker 1: starting to leak onto the carpet. You might want to
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  Speaker 1: get a towel and put the towel down, and then
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  Speaker 1: a bucket and a mop. Not that you'd use a
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  Speaker 1: mop on the carpet, but there's some flooring off to
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  Speaker 1: the side of the carpet. You might need the mop
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  Speaker 1: for that. So this isn't a love letter to Kevin Stefanski.
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  Speaker 1: What this is the fact that he's a lead candidate
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  Speaker 1: for three other jobs is a referendum. It is a
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  Speaker 1: referendum on what a lousy job market it is in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. And this has been the talk. It's been
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  Speaker 1: the chatter that be careful if you fire your coach,
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  Speaker 1: because there's other bad coaches. There's nobody really all that
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  Speaker 1: great out there. So Cleveland, here's the way you know
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  Speaker 1: that this is not a great hire. If you hire Stefanski.
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  Speaker 1: You look at the place he came from. Is anyone
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  Speaker 1: who's a Cleveland brown fan of that little elf mascot crying?
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  Speaker 1: Are the Browns fans sitting shiva? Are they lighting candles
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  Speaker 1: in memorial for the ending, the decommissioning, the excommunication of
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski. No, In fact, what they're doing is they're
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  Speaker 1: calling Uber Black to get him to the airport a
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  Speaker 1: little faster, is what they're doing. You look at the resume.
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  Speaker 1: Six years coaching, four losing seasons. One of the years
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  Speaker 1: the Browns had a winning record was because of their defense,
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  Speaker 1: not because of their offense. Eight and twenty six, the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years. That is a white hot tire fire,
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  Speaker 1: is what that is for the Brownies, back to back,
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  Speaker 1: last place finishes. It's like a broken parking meter stuck
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  Speaker 1: on fail. And that's the Browns now the biggest bugaboo,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest bugaboo. The claim to fame for Kevin Stevanski
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  Speaker 1: offensive coach was with the Vikings offensive coach. Genius, smart
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  Speaker 1: guy knows offense. Yet the Browns offense often looked like
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  Speaker 1: it was your computer that was frozen. Updating, updating, do
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  Speaker 1: not shut off updating. So technically the offense was running
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  Speaker 1: like that computer. It was running, but nobody was allowed
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  Speaker 1: to touch anything. Stefanski, an offensive whiz kid, gave up
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  Speaker 1: the play calling multiple times, fired coordinators even though he
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  Speaker 1: was supposedly the coordinator, shuffled quarterbacks. It was like a
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  Speaker 1: lazy Susan on Red Bull. Round and round and round
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  Speaker 1: and round and round. Thirteen starters in six years. Thirteen
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  Speaker 1: starters in six years. Then don't forget Baker Mayfield, who
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  Speaker 1: had issues with el Beckham. But it's not like Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: Stefanski fought to keep Baker Mayfield in Cleveland. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's no good, we'll get rid of him. Then
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  Speaker 1: they brought in the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson, and that
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  Speaker 1: whole mess, and the pr spin cycle is underway on that.
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  Speaker 1: There are useful idiots I've seen in the media saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not Stefanski's fault he didn't want DeShawn Watson. Well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: as I remember, and I went back through my notes,
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  Speaker 1: that was not the way it was portrayed at the time.
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  Speaker 1: So do that, do with that what you want. Just
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  Speaker 1: look at the way innocent and nobody's really watching the Browns.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you They're just it's a bad product. You
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't watch a bad product. Why would you do that?
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  Speaker 1: That said, I do because I'm a loser. I do
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  Speaker 1: a gambling show on YouTube called Benny Versus the Penny,
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  Speaker 1: So I try to watch a little bit flip around
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  Speaker 1: all these games and all that. So you look at
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  Speaker 1: it the Browns with Stefanski. You want penalties, We'll give
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  Speaker 1: you penalties. You want special team disasters, We'll give you
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  Speaker 1: some of those. You want mental mistakes, unforced errors, will
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  Speaker 1: give you a lot of that. The Browns with Stefanski
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  Speaker 1: have been swimming in a boiling cauldron of suck soup.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they've been swimming in here. And so you,
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  Speaker 1: as we like to say, you're either coaching it or
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  Speaker 1: you're allowing it to happen. But either way, it's happening
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  Speaker 1: on your watch, and you can't I cannot wait if
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  Speaker 1: Stefanski gets one of these jobs, and it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: the Giants are all horny to get him. So if
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  Speaker 1: the Giants hire Kevin Stefans get this stuff changes by
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  Speaker 1: the hour.
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  Speaker 4: But I want to be there.
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear the bull crap coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the New York Giants news conference to welcome Stefanski. I
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  Speaker 1: cannot wait now, speaking of incompetence, Let's go to Vegas
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  Speaker 1: where people talk about Vegas not doing well right now,
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  Speaker 1: people not going to Vegas as much as they used to,
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  Speaker 1: even though every time I'm in Vegas it's pack no
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  Speaker 1: matter how much they rip off the people that go
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  Speaker 1: to that city with parking and bull crap fees as
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  Speaker 1: they totally try to destroy that town.
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  Speaker 4: The casino companies.
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  Speaker 1: But that said, the Raiders who are in worse shape
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  Speaker 1: than Las Vegas Proper.
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  Speaker 4: Which actually Paradise Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: The Raiders have said bye bye to Pete Carroll.
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  Speaker 4: He's gone.
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  Speaker 6: He gone.
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  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll ran out of the desert, just like he
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  Speaker 1: ran out of ideas. He was literally the oldest head
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  Speaker 1: coach in NFL history, Pete Carroll, and he didn't make
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  Speaker 1: old guys look good.
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  Speaker 4: He did.
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  Speaker 1: He had this vision that he was going to go
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  Speaker 1: in there and recreate his days in Seattle, his final
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  Speaker 1: nine to eight team. Imagine that the goal was to
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  Speaker 1: go nine and eight. Pete Carroll's goal was, let's recreate
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  Speaker 1: the nine and eight Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: We right, rah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how'd that work out? So they brought in Gino Smith,
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  Speaker 1: who we all know. Anyone of those ball knows this
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  Speaker 1: guy blows. And so they brought in Geno Smith, dead
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  Speaker 1: on arrival, DA DA. The highlight of the Raiders season
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  Speaker 1: was Gino Smith jogging off the field giving the bird
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  Speaker 1: to the fans in Vegas.
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  Speaker 4: That's Raider football with Pete Carroll.
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  Speaker 1: If there's one moment that sums up what Pete Carroll
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  Speaker 1: and Gino Smith brought to Vegas, it was given the
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  Speaker 1: bird the people that paid way too much to watch
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  Speaker 1: a crap bag Raider team. So anyway, the Raiders archaic offense,
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  Speaker 1: and he had the firing of multiple coordinators, of course
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  Speaker 1: not his kids who were hired as offensive line coaches
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot. There, Pete Carroll didn't fire them, why would he?
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  Speaker 1: And so the Raiders supposed to the at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of they had Brock Bauers a generational tight end and
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  Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers a solid possession receiver, and Gino Smith was
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  Speaker 1: so bad they couldn't even get those guys the ball regularly.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind the person that chose chose the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and the coach, Tom Brady, you're not supposed to say
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  Speaker 1: that part. Don't say that he's Tom Brady. He's Jesus
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  Speaker 1: on football. You can't say anything bad about Tom Brady. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he sucks as a GM. I can't say that. That's
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  Speaker 1: not my opinion, it's a fact based on his resume.
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  Speaker 1: So now these Silver and Black are back on the
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  Speaker 1: market and they're trying to find another head coach and
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  Speaker 1: this is great. So the rumor, the early and these
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  Speaker 1: things again they changed, But the early rumor making the
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  Speaker 1: rounds is that Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 4: Is a smitten shitten.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to bring in Brian Flores. Yeah, that guy,
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings defensive coordinators, making his case to Mark the
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  Speaker 1: DA to hire Brian Flores as the next head coach
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  Speaker 1: in Las Veigs. Keep in mind, last year tom Brady
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  Speaker 1: had no interest in Brian Flora. Now a year later,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I kind of.
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  Speaker 4: Like that guy.
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  Speaker 1: I want that guy, all right, So question tom Brady
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  Speaker 1: said to be targeting the Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores
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  Speaker 1: as the next Raiders head coach. Are you intrigued by
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  Speaker 1: this story? Are you intrigued by this story?
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  Speaker 2: So?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm nodding my head if you're watching on the
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  Speaker 1: YouTube feed later, I'm nodding my head. Yes, it's like
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  Speaker 1: one of those dashboard bobbleheads.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's you're driving on a pot hole filled highway somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: You're nodding because it does check out, like we can
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  Speaker 1: see Tom Brady. Another case where I'd like to be
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  Speaker 1: a fly on the wall there as Tom Brady makes
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  Speaker 1: his case whispering sweet nothings to Mark Davis, and you
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  Speaker 1: also trying to flirt with Brian Flores at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Brady and and Brian Flores go way back their old
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  Speaker 1: Patriot Way guys, right.
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  Speaker 4: Brian Flores was hired.
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  Speaker 1: As like a twenty three year old guy with the Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: worked his way up grinding the film working as an intern,
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  Speaker 1: and then no lunch breaks and all that climbed the
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  Speaker 1: Belichick ladder rung by wrong while Tom Brady was winning
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowls. No elevator, by the way, and when Belichick
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  Speaker 1: was there, they had just stairs and there was no
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  Speaker 1: parking valley, so they didn't have that. And don't forget
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  Speaker 1: Brian Flores once tried to bring Tom Brady to Miami
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  Speaker 1: as a quarterback. Brady also attempted to own part of
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  Speaker 1: the team, which is part of the reason that didn't
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  Speaker 1: really work out. So this is Brady and Flores getting
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  Speaker 1: together is kind of like that old flame you used
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  Speaker 1: to hook up with that was like a booty call
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  Speaker 1: that slides into the DMS there at two in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Hey stranger, how would you like to coach the Raiders?
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to curse me?
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  Speaker 3: Tom?
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  Speaker 4: You want to curse me? You want me to coach
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  Speaker 4: the Raider?
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  Speaker 6: What's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: I do respect the hustle, I do, I do, but
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  Speaker 1: let's not ignore it. The snuffleu fagus in the room,
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  Speaker 1: as Alf the alien opineter would point out, and that
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  Speaker 1: would be the mushroom, the toxic mushroom cloud lawsuit. Brian
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  Speaker 1: Flores is in active litigation. He is suing the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing the race card from the bottom of the deck,
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  Speaker 1: all right, which means his name is on the NFL's
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  Speaker 1: no fly list. You know you can be a head
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  Speaker 1: give me a coach, but you give me a head coach.
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  Speaker 1: It's right next to do not resuscitate a head coaching career.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little note there as well, and hiring him
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  Speaker 1: would be like bringing a skunk to a garden party
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  Speaker 1: if you bring Brian Flores in there, and it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the unwelcome outhouse breeze that just shows up
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  Speaker 1: because the wind changes, and I don't want to smell that.
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  Speaker 1: But we know Mark Davis loves PF changs and hates confrontation.
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  Speaker 1: We know that about Mark Davis. So if he's choosing
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders' owner, even though Tom Brady is the one
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  Speaker 1: that's doing this by proxy, however, if he's choosing between
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  Speaker 1: coaches who are suing the NFL, doesn't it make more
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  Speaker 1: sense If you're Mark Davis, you're gonna hire somebody who's
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  Speaker 1: suing the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't you bring back Chucky?
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  Speaker 1: You're paying him anyway, he's futzing around playing grab ass
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  Speaker 1: at barstool.
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  Speaker 4: Why not bring in John.
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  Speaker 1: Gruden and have a family reunion, have a big barbecue
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  Speaker 1: and knock yourself out there. Just pretend nothing happened. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that. And so this story, it does have legs
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  Speaker 1: that Tom Brady Brian Flores stuff, but they're wobbly and
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the malor math on this, is
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  Speaker 1: it intriguing?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's intriguing. Sure?
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  Speaker 1: Is it realistic?
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  Speaker 4: Eh?
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  Speaker 1: That's another sandwich entirely all right. Meanwhile, to Miami, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of coaches and nonsense, the Miami Dolphins, Mike McDaniel, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the weirdo. Mike McDaniel said that he is going to
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  Speaker 1: be part of the Miami Dolphins interview process to find
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  Speaker 1: AGM say what, Yeah, And he says he will remain
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  Speaker 1: the head coach until he's told he's not that coach.
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  Speaker 1: I guess there's no one to fire him because they
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  Speaker 1: got rid of the GM now. McDaniel also confirmed that
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  Speaker 1: there will be a quarterback competition in twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: and the team will be, he said, diligent in finding
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  Speaker 1: their next starter, whatever that means, whether it's someone on
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  Speaker 1: the outside or someone on the inside and all that. So, question,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: how does this Mike McDaniel story sound to you with
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins where he's claiming he is a seat, he
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: has a seat at the table. He has a seat
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: at the table. So, Mike McDaniel, he's what he's doing here.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: He's playing board games. He's not playing monopoly, he's not
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: playing scrabble. This is not trivial pursuit. This is guess who,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Guess who? The ultimate blame, the ultimate blame game, South
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Florida edition. And McDaniel what he's doing here, as he's
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: shifting the finger of blame.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: The finger of blame.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: And he's doing it faster than a local hack politician
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: dodging taxes and all that stuff. So, as Chris Carter,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: my professor, Chris Carter taught me, and he taught you
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: as well. In the NFL, you gotta have a fall guy.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: And it sounds right now like the fall guy is
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Tua tongue of Iolawa.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: That McDaniel, the hipster genius head coach in Miami who,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: let's not forget, or maybe we should forget, was hired
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: to fix Tua as Tua was under the tutelage of
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the aforementioned Brian Flores for a couple of years. That
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: didn't work out, and so then they brought in the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: hipster forty nine er offensive genius Mike McDaniel to fix
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins and Tua and all that stuff. And what happened, well,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: that ended up with him benching to a tongue of
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Ioa by week fifteen, trotting out the seventh round rookie
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Quinn yours and now declaring an open quarterback competition in
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, which is him washing his hands a
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: whole mess. It's gonna scrub a dub dub and that's it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And you look around, it's the McDaniel twisting in the
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: wind situation. There's a lot of bureaucracy. Rich guys love bureaucracy.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: They do.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: And Steven Ross, the owner of the Dolphins, is a
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: rich guy. So there's a lot of bureaucracy there. You've
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: got red tape in the air everywhere. You hired a
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: head hunting firm that has got to be the biggest
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: scale head hunting firm pay.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And I mean I could do that for half the money,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a quarter of the money, and I have the same
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: success rate these high falutin front anyway. So they bring
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: in these consultant They have consultants up the wazoo. And
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: you might remember Troy Aikman. Troy Aikman, mister Dallas Cowboy
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: TV guy. Troy Aikman has a gig there meddling. And
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you've got Dan Marino selling you Isotona gloves. He's also
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: in the mix. Now the top GM cannonates we are told.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Most of them are people that have ties to the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: forty nine ers, and McDaniel that could be the saving grace.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: There could a weasel word, McDaniel came from the forty
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: nine ers, and so they all know each other, everyone's
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: in bed with everyone else, and so there you go.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: But either way, my position is that Mike McDaniel ain't
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: out of the danger zone yet. You would think, if
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you're a new GM coming in, you want to hire
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: your coach. You don't want the leftover coach. You want
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: to bring your coach in, not the guy that was
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: already there. So he's pointing the blame cannon McDaniel at
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Tua tongue of Ilo. But the ship be sinking, the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: ship be sinking, and the fall guy might flip. The
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: fall guy very well might flip here. So hold on
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: to your fins. It's gonna get good. It's gonna get good.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: The drama O rama cranked up there. It's heating up
• 22:11
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• 22:52
  Speaker 1: So I lead this hour from Western Pa, pet Spurg.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: To be exact, the confluence of the Ohio River is born,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the relationship right there, they make sweet love there and
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the Ohio River is born. So thanks to the idiot
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: kicker for Baltimore doing the Loop de Loop, the chip
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: shot field goal which got shanked. Well, the Black and Yellow,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow are in the playoffs,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh a home game on Monday night. They'll take on
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans and the playoff card there and they're
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: getting their star player back, their offensive dynamo. I know
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you're excited to hear what he had to say. No,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: all right, maybe not, we got you. So Steelers wide
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: receiver DK Metcalf, he is back and better than ever,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: DK Metcalf was away from the team for a couple
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: of games because he got into a rhubarb with a
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Lion fan at Ford Field in Detroit. Two game suspension served.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: He is now eligible to turn as the postseason gets going.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: So what did DK Metcalf have to say? Well, he
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: get he was asked a lot of questions, He was
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: peppered a lot of questions, and well, here's how he
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: handled the line of questions.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: Can you explain to us what happened in Detroit?
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: You had to be the one to ask him. No,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I can't process. Like as far as the appeals.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: And talking with the nflogist, how can you walk us
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: through that process?
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, walk out? It's doing nothing to happen.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Were surprised at the appeal was about?
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's all I can say.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: I respect that you don't and can't really go into a.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Lot of it. Is there anything you would like to
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: clarify about misinformation?
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Right now?
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I can't say nothing about what happened? Is that because
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: there I can't say anything about what happened for the
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: fifth time.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, I can't say anything that happened for that fifth time. Now,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Metcalf as you heard there. He did say he was surprised.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Later on he said he was surprised the appeal did
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: not work. His suspension in appeal was denied, and he
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: was upset by that. He says, excited to be back blah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Al right, so that's a good jumping off point. Let
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: us discuss the question Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf kept
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: his lips completely sealed on his curve fluffel with a
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Lions fan. Is this an overreaction by DK Metcalf or
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: smart silence? So I've got seagulls, looney tunes, and leftovers,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: we're gonna make mac and cheese. You can't just have mac,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: you can't have cheese, but you can't have mac without
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the cheese. You gotta have the cheese with the max.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: We'll have that all right now. Number One, what DK
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Metcalf did here was he went to full monastery mode.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Is what he did. Silent.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: It was a monk mode if you want to call
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: it that. There a it's not confusion. This was legal
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: counsel legal We obviously right, I mean, did that not
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: sound like someone that had a little pow wow with
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: some lawyers and said, okay, what can I say? What
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: can I not say? Well, don't say this, that or
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the other thing. And if you talk about the do hickey,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: that'll be a problem, the thing of a jig, and
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you can't talk about that. Now, maybe you can talk
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: about to what you might call it, but probably not.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Probably can't talk about the watch.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: McCall.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: This is not an overreaction, all right. Not an overreaction
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: is calculated silence is what this was. And this is
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: a guy who has been handed DK metcalf the legal
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: version of the red challenge flag, and at this point
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: anything he says can and will be used against him
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: via replay assist. They'll pull out a dusty VHS machine
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: in the courtroom.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Is all right?
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I saw you said that?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right? When in doubt I learned this at
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: iHeart College. Win in doubt, leave it out, win in doubt,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: leave it out. Very important. Now this smells like lawyers
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: whispering yeah and yeah, they're whispering sweet nothings into into
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: his ear. DK metkev say nothing, do nothing, sign nothing,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: think nothing, and then be very careful.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: How you blank blank blank blank blank blank blank.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Why well, it's rather obvious if you you've seen what's
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: going on here, paid attention, if you've heard what's going
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: on with the Lions fan. Even Stevie Meatballs knows the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: blue haired guy, the Lions fan.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a lawyered up. And if you look at the.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Clips that are bouncing around online and all that, he's
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: lawyered up like a used car salesman with a class
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: action coupon, and he's he's all about it.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: There.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Now you've got ambulance chasers who are circling like seagulls
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: at a landfill. Hey, oh this is great. And we
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: checked with the optometrist on these lawyers and the attorneys.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: If you look at their eyes, they're not blue, they're
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: not brown.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no, they are they look like
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: dollar signs. They're green with dollar signs right in the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: eyes there. And so this isn't about justice. It's not
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: about justice. It's about turning Dk Metcalf's bank account into
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: a penyata, a penyata. So Dk hits the mute button
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: and he saves some of his four oh one k.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: He saves that and lives to fight another down, which
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: is the smart thing. It's not fun. It'd be much
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: more fun if DK Metcalf came out and said, Oh,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: that guy with the blue hair, what a loser, What
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: a loser that guy was, Oh my total schmuck. Douche nozzle.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: That's his nickname in the locker room, douche nozzle. He
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: didn't say any of that, all right, And so saved
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: some money and all that. And the silence in this
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: case is not weakness. It is a financial defense play,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and it is the prevent defense, preventing the loss of
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: more funds. Now, page two we go to Indianapolis, where
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the owner of the Colts made some headlines. The question
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: on this one Colts owner. The owner there, Carlely ers Gordon.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: She's the woman that walked around the sidelines with the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: dress on, and she was the smartest woman in the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: NFL for the first eight games and then the dumbest
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: woman in the NFL the final part of the NFL
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: regular seasons, the Colts fell apart. She says, this is
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: from Colts owner Carly ERSA.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Gordon.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: She said, this sense of urgency there is now for
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: GM Chris Bald. There's a big sense of urgency for
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Chris bal of the GM and coach Chaine Steichen.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: It's never been higher, she said, never been higher.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: They are going to keep the Colts, both the GM
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and the coach after the historical free fall, the biggest
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: choke job in NFL history. And so how do you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: translate this? How do you translate this? So it reads
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: like alarm bells, smoke and Colts chaos. Even who's your
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: bill is concerned? Except nobody's really running. There's no running.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Indy is talking tough and this woman Carly Ursa Gordon
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: talking tough while sitting on the hands. There the smoke
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: detectives got dead batteries and that's it.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: That's it now.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: The Great General George Patten said that say what you mean,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and mean what you say.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: That was the quote there.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: This Colt franchise is it must be something about Indian like, Look,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I think of the Pacers. I know they were in
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the finals last year, but I think of the Pacers
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: as like the definition of average in the NBA, Like
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: they were always a round five hundred. They're never that
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: much over five hundred. They're never that much under five hundred.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: It's always like average. And I think the Colts the
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: same way, Like the Cults are just kind of an
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: average teater usually right around eight wins or solid.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Seems like they're kind of in that area.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: And then that's it, right, They just they keep saying
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the right things, the Colts, but doing next to nothing,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: doing next to nothing. And it's urgency theater is what
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: it is. It's it's urgency theater. High school drama club
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: stuff is what You've got a lot of Shakespearean level drama.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: And early in the year they were there, they flirted
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: with relevance. The Indianapolis Colts. They had Daniel Jones who
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: looked like he had dropped down manna from heaven and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: then at one moment he woke up and realized, wait
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: a minute, my name is Daniel Jones. I'm a Mama luke.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And he started playing like well, Daniel Jones a Mama luke.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: And then he got hurt and the injuries piled up,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and the Colts, like a bad nineteen eighties comedy, they
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: called up Philip Rivers in the Boone Docks and said, hey,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: how would you like to play quarterback for the Colts.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: He said, ah, sure, why not?
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Why not? What the hell?
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: So that all went down and the Colts did this
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: cartoon barrel roll right off.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: The cliff, think Looney Tunes, the.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Y League Coyote, pause and then splat, just like that,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: and Shane Stiken plausibly highed to make sure that didn't happen.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Shane Styken could not stop it, couldn't do it. No parachute,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: no soft landing, no eject button.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: They went right in there.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: That was a kama Kazi mission to close out the year.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: And just a lot of crushed dreams and broken hearts
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: and scattered all over the turf there. And what a
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: choke job that was. INDI's operating manual for the Colts
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: now reads like the classic Marine slogan, Embrace the suck.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Shane Steikeen a losing record as a head coach in Indianapolis.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Ballard the GM.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: His teams have averaged seven and a half wins per
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: year and he's been there a while. That's not exactly progress.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: That is the treadmill of mediocrity is what that is.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: And then you look at Shane Steikeen a little deeper.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: He's coached twenty two games against teams that are above
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: five hundred and lost seventeen of the twenty two. I
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: don't think that's good, but what do I know. I
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: just do the overnight show, and two of ten against
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: divisional opponents, I believe is Shane Steichen's record. I saw
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: that number bouncing around, and yet nobody is losing their job.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: But we're gonna have more urgency. That's what we're gonna do. Yeah.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: The only plausible explanation for the GM Ballard keeping his
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: job is that he's got some incriminating photos of certain
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: people with zoo animals. And that's about it. But we
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: thought that might be Jim Mercy, but he's not around anymore,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: so it must be somebody else.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: It's hr approved concern, is what it is, all right now.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Final point staying with the Horseshoes, and we mentioned Philip
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Rivers coming out of the Backwoods and going zero to
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: three as the Colts quarterback. Well, Philip Rivers says that
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: he could that's what we is. The word could be
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: a head coach in the NFL someday, just not right now.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: He is returning to Alabama and he'll hang out there
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: coach his son, one of his many kids in his
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: senior year and then that's it. After that, who knows,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: who knows what he will be doing, but he will
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: not He will not be doing that after next year,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: most likely. And so he's talking about being a head coach.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: But he is back in the you know, off the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: winter Muckle Road, if you will, if that went all
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the way down to a suburb, it's actually a suburb
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: of mobile. It's in this nice looking bay, which is
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: really nice until the big storms come in. They probably
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: don't look so nice anymore.
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: So the question former Colts quarterback Philip Rivers, the guy
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: with the Bolo tie, believes he can be a head
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: coach in the NFL. What's your read on this? Sit
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: you way, Shandon, that's the question. So did anyone, by
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the way, expect Philip Rivers to come out and say, oh, no,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I can't coach in the NFL. Those guys are so good,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: they are so good. I couldn't handle it. I can't
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: do it. Nah, I'm not good enough. Of course not.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: This is classic Jack Hubris is what this is. Former
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: players never think the latter's too high.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: They never do.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: They think it's broken and they should be allowed to
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: jump the line. And I gotta tell you there have
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: been some real dumb dumbs who have been head coaches
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: in the NFL.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: I'm not that bright. I think I could do the job.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: I don't know much.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I believe that there's so many bad coaches in the NFL.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: It's wild, it really is. And so whether or not
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: you jump in line or not, I mean, the coaching
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: pipeline is a mess.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: It is a hot mess. Here you see the same assistance.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Robert Salah, who failed miserably with the Jets, is up
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: for coaching jobs again.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Brian Flores who failed with the Dolphins.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Stefanski who just the body's not even cold yet after
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: he sucked with the Browns. His name's being floated around.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: It's the same names. It's the recycled resumes, same flotsam
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: and Jets them that get recycled. Here, the teams higher,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: the normal higher. Well, he's got the nice resume and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and you end up getting these rather
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: blob results. Vanilla ice cream results is what you get.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: And it's running on fumes, running on fumes like a lawnmower,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: and you yanking the cord praying it turns on and
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: it is not turning on and all that stuff, and
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: so you see it. The assistance, the buzzwords are the same.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Stale bubblegum is what it is under the desk and
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Rivers he would certainly be different. It would be non traditional.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: It would be unconventional to go that direction. Coloring outside
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the lines, which can be good everyone so on, not
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: with crayon, using a sharpie. Got to use that sharpie
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: coloring outside the lines. And is anything intimate, No, it's
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: a thought. You file the thought away, and then a
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: year from now it's Philip.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: Rivers calling people up.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Saying, hey, how would you like to have Philip Rivers
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: as the head coach?
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: I'm available.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: He's absolutely trying to cut in line. He's planting the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: seed and sometimes you end up cutting in line because
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: the line stinks. And that would be the case right now.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: This would take an owner, some random NFL aristocrat who's
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: wired a little bit sideways, just a little bit sideways,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: and someone who looks at the coaching menu and says,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I'd like to order on the secret menu. It's like
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: some people go to in and out Burger and they
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: get the cheeseburger and the double cheeseburger in the fries.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: And then some people get the animal style right. Some
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: people just take they take the regular onions, but people
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: know that you can ask for the grilled onions, which
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: tastes better than the regular onions. You should ask for
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: the grilled ones. It takes all kinds so high risk,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: high noise, all that stuff, high volume.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: But Philip Rivers.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Imagine him, if you will, in that little cartoon bubble
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: above your head, as a head coach. It would kind
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: of be like eating leftovers you've forgotten the fridge.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: You know, always a little questionable. You're hungry. That thing
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: you put in the back of the fridge.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: You're not sure what it was, but it was right there,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: and it's kind of tempting as it looks okay, and
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: then look at that bad doesn't that freezer burn or refrigerator,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: you know, any kind of damage done there, And it's tempting,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: and so you.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't ignore it. You don't ignore it.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I stare at it a little bit, you move your
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: fork around, and I see what you know, the backside
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: looks on it and all that stuff, and maybe you
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: take a bite, take a bite. That's it, And it
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: would obviously take a whack a doodle a whack a
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: doodle head coach, and I would say Carly Ursa Gordon
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: micro managing the Colts would be on that short list.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Haslam, who famously drafted Johnny Manziel because a homeless
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: person told them to draft Johnny Mitzel. I would say,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: he's on the spectrum. And then how about my guy,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Mark Davis, who knows nothing about football, knows nothing about
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: football and just likes eating the orange chicken at PF
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Chang's and he loves that, and just hired Tom Brady
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: and said, Tom, do what everything you want. So Tom
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: hired the oldest coach in NFL history and a quarterback
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: that can't play because Mark Davis said, I don't know
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: what I'm doing, so just hired and Tom said, I
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: don't know what I'm doing either, but I look better.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I've got more money, and people kiss my ass because
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I'm Tom Brady.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: It's okay. There you go.
• 39:47
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• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Here is one I think gets grilled Koop.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: A loop So on Sunday, Cam Little Hit a sixty
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: seven yard field goal to set a new record for
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: longest outdoor field goal. He already set the record for
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: the longest field goal overall earlier in the season. Yeah,
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: but do you think kickers are becoming more valuable?
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Well, here's what I think is gonna happen, Coop.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: First of all, they're making these ridiculous kicks pretty much
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: every weekend in the NFL.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: So what's gonna happen is the.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Rules committee is gonna step and they change the rules
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: to make it easier for kickers. They get to massage
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: their balls all week and all that and so, which
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: guys do anyway, But the kickers had the special kicking balls,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: and so they're going to change the rules.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: Mark my words, Coop.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: There. This is not great for the sport to see
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: all these long field goals, and they will change the rules.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: But they are valuable right now until those.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: Rules are changed.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: Next, there are reports that the Chiefs are looking to
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: bring back former offensive coordinator Eric b. Enemy. Do you
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: think a return to the pass can fix what's wrong
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: with Kansas City?
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Now? They need better players. They need better players, is
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: what they need.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: Enemy went out of.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: His own He wanted to prove people that he could
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: do things on his own. He was an abject failure.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Everywhere he went. He sucked. You know, Andy Reid is
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: so hands on. When you look at the Chiefs anyway,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: it sounds like Kelsey's going to retire.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: We're going to talk about him more.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: He's got a big offer coming his way. And Mahomes
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: is going to be out at least half of next season.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: So the Chiefs, whether the enemy's there or not. Andy
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Reid's the hand on guy, hands on guy and all
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: that stuff. They got to find a way to get
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: some more impact players on that offense because it seemed
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: like they had those guys, but they didn't live up
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: to expectations.
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: Right next, former Texas quarterback Quinn ew Weers told reporters
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: of the Weekend that he turned down a huge nil
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: offer to go pro and he did it because he
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: didn't want to tarnish the legacy and relationships he had
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: built a Texas to chase money elsewhere? Are you buying
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: that boy? Wit?
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Isn't he the guy that went to Ohio State first
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: and took the bag from Ohio State and then went
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: to Texas.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: So you've already you tarnished everything.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: You just like signed.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: I want to be a Longhorn. I want to play
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: in Austin.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: No, you already went to Ohio State and then you
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: left Ohio State to go play.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: For the Longhart.
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: No.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, do you see there's four thousand, almost like
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: one third I think it is of all college football
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: players in the transfer portal.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: It's insane. It's fine boggling. That's a. That's a I'm
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: not buying. Yeah, it's pretty bad. How do we know?
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Then? Jerome Charleston, I won Jerome and Charleston.
• 42:28
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• 42:45
  Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top?
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: Probably not a sener.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: We say hello to John who's living in Paradise.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: Hello, John?
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: How's paradise?
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: You know what?
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Very good? Who do you want to partner up with? John?
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: It's Malord's amount of money? The Maryland Manson addition, who
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: do you want to partner up with?
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Ben?
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: All right? Very good? John?
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Hold on a sec Loraina picked door number one or
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: door number two?
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: Number two?
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Oh man, Well, Coop's very happy you picked number two,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: and that is a Jordans in Cansau City. Hello, Jordan, man,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: there's nothing going on in January football here in Kansas City.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: You can start scouting for the you can start scouting
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: for the draft.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Jordan. That's a good quickly, all right? Who you're gonna
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: play with? Coop? Alright?
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Alright, very good, Coop?
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: Please?
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: All right? Maryland Manson turned fifty seven on Monday. So
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: the categories are sweet Dreams, the Beautiful People, the Dope Show,
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: and Deep six. John, you were on first. Which category
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: would you like?
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: Deep six?
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: All right? And Jordan, how about.
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: You beautiful people?
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: John? And Ben you were up first?
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: These athletes all war? Or where the number six? Are
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: you ready?
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: John? All right?
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Forty five seconds were on our way. Go star with
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the Lakers right now. He's forty years old. Yes, a
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers currently not in the playoffs. Yes,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: the greatest winner of all time for the Boston Celtics
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: of the nineteen sixties.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, that's correct.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Wide receiver currently for the Philadelphia Eagles, number six. He
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: won the Heisman at Alabama. Yes, nicknamed the man for
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the Saint Louis Cardinals back in the nineteen sixties.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: What.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Yes, MVP for the Philadelphia Phillies when they won the
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: World Series. We played with Jimmy Rollins. First basement African
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: American hit a lot of home runs for the Phillies. Ryan, Yeah, well,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I think you said.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: He didn't say the last name. He just said, Bryan,
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: you got one sixty on that Ben.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you live in Paradise because your phone
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: doesn't live in pace.
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: Ryan Howard was who you were looking forward. All right, Jordan,
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: we have the beautiful people.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: These athletes all appeared on the cover of GQ magazine
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: forty five Seconds on the Clock begin former quarterback for
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: the Cowboys. He is currently a broadcaster. No, the younger one.
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: It's currently yes, all right.
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: This guy was the flash for the Miami Heat. Yes,
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: this guy was a usc quarterback. He played at the
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: Cincinnati Bengals and then the Raiders Carton.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, yep, yep.
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: Uh, this guy had the sack record until it was
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: just beaten by Miles Garrett. Nope, he has a gap tooth. Yes,
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: this guy's another USC quarterback, but he sucked in the NFL.
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: He was with Reggie Bush. That was right there, but
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: it wasn't it?
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: A right?
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: So we have one hundred points? Right? Yeah, you guys
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: got all right? Jordan? Do want Sweet Dreams or the
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: Dope Show? All right?
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: These athletes all have sweet sounding nicknames. Forty five seconds
• 46:27
  Speaker 6: on the clock. Let's begin the Juice running back for
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: the Buffalo Bills. He killed people. Yes, his nickname was Sweetness.
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: Running back for the Bears. Yes, this guy's last name
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: is a fruit. He was on the New York Mets. Yes,
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: this guy's nickname was the honey Badger. Yes, this guy
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: was chocolate thunder. Oh all right, how about white chocolate?
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: He was on the Kings, played street ball.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Sounds like you're an agony here?
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: Okay? How about a pitcher named the candy Man for
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: the Pirates in the seventies? No, probably not?
• 47:10
  Speaker 7: No?
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: You know forfeiting?
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: How many points are the guy?
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: What do they got learned? That's another one hundreds. You
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: guys got too.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: Forty to win? Yeah? Are you ready there?
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: John in Paradise? We need forty to win. I'm going
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: for the kill shot right away.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: Are you ready? All right?
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: These athletes all have caught, all were caught doping or
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: taking PDS. Yeah. Here we are, forty five seconds on
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: the clock.
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: We're on our way.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: A great defensive player for the San Diego Chargers, nickname
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: lights Out.
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: He was the defensive.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year for the San Diego Chargers. All right,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: slot wide receiver for the white guy for the Patriots.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: He's a podcaster now. He does some television stuff like
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: a Jewish guy wide receiver. No, another white guy for
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: the Patriots, a slot receiver.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead, all right, all right, Oh my god,
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: oh my god. All right, Julian Edelman and Sean Merriman.
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: He didn't do anything.
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: You did not do anything.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: There was nothing done at all.