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  Speaker 1: Well, if you thought the Cowboys were going to stay
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  Speaker 1: We'll help you. Had a great weekend. We're back at
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  Speaker 1: it again here all week no days off. If you
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  Speaker 1: of coming attractions. But enough of that, it's get right
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  Speaker 1: into it. Don't waste any time, waste anytime. So our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour from Jerry's World. That's whe We're going
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  Speaker 1: to start the Dallas Divas in Action hosting the Purple
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  Speaker 1: People Eaters. And I mean lying if I said the
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  Speaker 1: game had any juice. There was really no juice in
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  Speaker 1: the game other than the fact that you just put
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys on TV. They could be peeling oranges and
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  Speaker 1: people would watch. They could be chopping up onions like
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  Speaker 1: a line line cook and just people would be watching.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't matter. So he had Chris Collinsworth and Mike
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  Speaker 1: Tarico an Island game. They had the call on the
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  Speaker 1: peacock there and see. So I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: watched it or not. Maybe you were not watching, you
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  Speaker 1: were burned out from the other events of the day
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  Speaker 1: and you did not watch that. We are somewhat I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, directly paid to watch. But if we don't
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  Speaker 1: watch it, kind of what are we doing. So we
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  Speaker 1: watched and red Shirt rookie J J. McCarthy looking like
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  Speaker 1: he actually kind of knew what he was doing a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. That's not a it's crazy though. He threw
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  Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns, he ran for a score, and
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  Speaker 1: the great CJ. Ham just in time for the Christmas holiday. CJ.
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  Speaker 1: Ham had the go ahead touchdown on his first carry
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  Speaker 1: of the season. That's good efficiency there. And the Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: Vikings put a giant dent in the Jerry Mobile Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones playoff hopes there with a thirty four to twenty
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  Speaker 1: six victory over the once proud Dallas Cowboys. They say,
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  Speaker 1: once proud, that was back thirty years ago. They really
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  Speaker 1: haven't been proud since then. The Vikings get to their
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  Speaker 1: six wins, their six and eight sub five hundred, They
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  Speaker 1: win their second consecutive game, and they were eliminated, see
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  Speaker 1: you later, Bye bye, Nana na na hey, hey, good bye.
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  Speaker 1: Eliminated from postseason consideration before the kickoff of this game.
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  Speaker 1: But they didn't have a pity party. They didn't say,
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  Speaker 1: oh woe is me, We've been eliminated. And they went
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  Speaker 1: out there. They played that game. They played the game,
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  Speaker 1: and they ended up well winning but still losing in
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  Speaker 1: the end. So Minnesota was a fourteen win team a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, and now they do not qualify for the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Cowboys six seven and one, they have to win.
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  Speaker 1: Check this out. You want to just eliminate the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: for God's sakes, This is what the Cowboys have. So
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  Speaker 1: in order for them to make the playoffs, they have
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  Speaker 1: to win their three remaining games. And then in addition,
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  Speaker 1: but wait, there's more, they need the Philadelphia Eagles to
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  Speaker 1: lose all three of their games in order for Dallas
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  Speaker 1: to overtake the Eagles in the NFC East Philly. Mind you,
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  Speaker 1: they do play Buffalo, however, the other two games are
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  Speaker 1: against the Washington Commanders. Hello, yeah, so good luck on that.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the owner, he's the GM. You liked the
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  Speaker 1: team so much you bought it. Here's Jerry Jones commenting
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  Speaker 1: on another lost cow Boys season. Tiger was.
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  Speaker 3: We certainly didn't think we'd be here in this kind
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  Speaker 3: of shape with three games to go, and hacked be
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  Speaker 3: behind the eight ball the way we are. It's very disappointing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really obviously very disappointed for our fans. I'm disappointed
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  Speaker 3: for these players. I didn't expect that. I thought we
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  Speaker 3: could come out here and on both sides of the
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  Speaker 3: ball make a better accounting of ourself. Minnesota did the
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  Speaker 3: best job out there today on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: Of the low. Okay, so let me translate that for
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  Speaker 1: those of you who are a little slow. That's Jerry's
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  Speaker 1: way of saying we blow. That's his way of saying that.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good starting point to this. And
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  Speaker 1: I think the jumping off point would be George Pickens
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  Speaker 1: because that's the subplot to this. George Pickens was there,
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  Speaker 1: he played and did next to nothing. And this continues
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  Speaker 1: a recent theme for George Pickens as the Cowboys wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver who was the toast of the town a little
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  Speaker 1: while back, but not anymore. So let us discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question is this, how does this performance change things for
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens going forward. So I
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  Speaker 1: got warn Buffett, tea spoon, and wagon wheel, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to make some delicious corn bread is what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to make, with the proper amount of butter, a
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  Speaker 1: nice warm butter on top. That sounds like a delicious
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  Speaker 1: meal to me. Well, not a meal, it's a corn bread.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a meal, but it's an addition to a meal.
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  Speaker 1: It's an add on. It enhances the dining experience properly
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  Speaker 1: made corn bread. So the way we'll start, and obviously
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  Speaker 1: this changes things. It continues to change things big time, big, big,
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  Speaker 1: big time. For a few weeks. For a few weeks,
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens was I guess I amposter syndrome. Is that
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  Speaker 1: the way you discover he was playing like a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: number one wide receiver, number one in the entire NFL.
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  Speaker 1: There and Jerry Jones was out on his radio shows
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  Speaker 1: every week, very braggadocious. Jerry was celebrating how good George
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  Speaker 1: Pickens was and really congratulating himself in many ways for
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  Speaker 1: making the deal to acquire George Pickens. As many Cowboy fans,
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  Speaker 1: they're not that bright. I can't believe. How did we
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  Speaker 1: get this guy for a couple of late trappers. I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. Well, now you understand, dummy, Now you get it, dummy.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he was available, George Pickens. That's exactly why
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens. You could have gotten him for a cup
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  Speaker 1: of sand, which is what the Cowboys gave up to
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  Speaker 1: get George Pickens. This is it, you know, Jerry bragging
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. He pulled his shoulder muscle, Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones did, patting himself on the back. He was so
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  Speaker 1: proud of himself. Full on navel gazing from Jerry Jones.
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  Speaker 1: And now fast forward a couple of weeks and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, the costume is off. And as Warren
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  Speaker 1: Buffett famously said back in the day, when the tide
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  Speaker 1: goes out, you see who's swimming naked, And we now know,
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  Speaker 1: we now know that's Peckts and Stark naked there in
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones on the shoreline, right there in Jerry's world.
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  Speaker 1: And Mike Tomlin somewhere in the greater Pittsburgh area yet again,
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  Speaker 1: taking a victory lap for the Pitts sparg Steelers. There
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  Speaker 1: they play on Monday Night football against the Miami Dolphins,
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  Speaker 1: and Tomlin doing a victory lap there, sticking his tongue
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  Speaker 1: out and going no, no, no, no, boo boo, just like that,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what he's doing. And all the eld haters
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  Speaker 1: there told you so. The last three games, George Pickens
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  Speaker 1: has caught fifty percent of his passes, just fourteen catches
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  Speaker 1: in three games, one hundred and fifty eight yards, no touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: and has gotten worse by the week. If you look
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  Speaker 1: at the diagram, down down, down, down, down down down,
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  Speaker 1: just like that, just like that, and not a weapon,
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  Speaker 1: not a weapon, doing little cardio. I don't get my
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  Speaker 1: workout in. It's on television, the little cardio. And not
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  Speaker 1: even a decoy. He's not even involved enough as a decoy.
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  Speaker 1: He's not that like at this point, George Pickens is
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  Speaker 1: a ship. He's a ghost ship, is what he is.
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  Speaker 1: An empty vessel, just kind of drifting aimlessly on the
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  Speaker 1: Jerry world, see and just kind of floating along there.
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  Speaker 1: Now the bottom line, he's not in the bubble of trust,
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  Speaker 1: cannot be in the bubble of trust, not even close.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, if you have the Cowboys and Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 1: he runs the show. It's his world, as we all know,
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  Speaker 1: it's his world. So Jerry Jones, you can't you can't
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  Speaker 1: extend this guy, you can't trust him. Cannot do it now.
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  Speaker 1: I give him a one year deal or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But any more than that, forget about it. Forget about it.
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  Speaker 1: Are now on the Minnesota side of things. The question,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a burning question. Did quarterback JJ McCarthy play
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  Speaker 1: his way out of the Vikings dungeon? Did he play
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  Speaker 1: out of the Vikings dungeon? That's the question. So I
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  Speaker 1: would say not quite, is the way I would approach that,
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  Speaker 1: because he's got one foot out of the cell JJ
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy at this point. The rest of his body, though,
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  Speaker 1: is still chained to the wall on the brig. If
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, you feel me on that,
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  Speaker 1: all right? So the good news is, and I will
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  Speaker 1: be Benny Brightside a lot of great listeners in the
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  Speaker 1: Twin Seas, I would be Benny bright Side here that
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  Speaker 1: if you look at this JJ McCarthy's his Viking ship.
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  Speaker 1: The ship ain't be sinking at this moment. It's not sinking.
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  Speaker 1: The bad news, See, that's the good news. The ship
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  Speaker 1: is not sinking. The bad news is they're still bailing
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  Speaker 1: water out and all they have is a tea spoon.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's the odds are not good. The odds
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  Speaker 1: are not good here and McCarthy finally showing a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a pulse. We thought he was completely gone, completely gone.
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  Speaker 1: That not the case. There's a bit of a flicker.
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  Speaker 1: Do we go full spark? I don't know that we
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  Speaker 1: want to go full spark. I'm not ready to go
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  Speaker 1: full spark. I can't go full spark. Not gonna go
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  Speaker 1: full spark. Will not do full spark. Not gonna happen,
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  Speaker 1: Not full spark. Sorry no. And here's he's drifting out
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy of the Purple Haze, like a groggy boxer making
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  Speaker 1: it to his knees in that scene in every boxing movie,
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  Speaker 1: we make it to your knees right before the ten
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  Speaker 1: count and the referees all sweaty and leans in to
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  Speaker 1: count you out, and then you kind of get up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. That's McCarthy at this point. However, let's
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  Speaker 1: not throw a parade right in front of hollering James
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  Speaker 1: group home in the greater Minneapolis area there because this
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  Speaker 1: came against the last couple of games commanders who really
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  Speaker 1: looked spent. I mean they just looked the bad anyway,
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  Speaker 1: and they played an overtime game of the Broncos the
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  Speaker 1: week prior, and then this Cowboy team a couple of defenses.
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  Speaker 1: If you were to say, what is the the toughness
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  Speaker 1: level of the Cowboys defense and the Commander's defense, it's
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  Speaker 1: very similar to Coolwhip if you've ever tried to stop
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  Speaker 1: a train with cool whip, it you need a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cool whip to stop the train. I really like
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  Speaker 1: a ton of cool web. It's it's a problem. Uh
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  Speaker 1: it is, so anyway, list and there's there's still some
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  Speaker 1: warning flares out there, several of them for JJ McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: here that are shining shooting off into the night sky
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, well, what's going on with that, McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: And the big one for me is you have the
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  Speaker 1: top wide receiver in the game. You all told me
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  Speaker 1: that JJ McCarthy gets to throw the ball to Justin Jefferson.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's a total stud. He's being paid
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  Speaker 1: like a total stud, and yet they're speaking different languages.
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  Speaker 1: Someone needs to get them a Rosetta stone because it's
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  Speaker 1: not it's not good, mister wonderful. I mean, Justin Jefferson
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  Speaker 1: had two catches for eight on two guys eight targets.
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  Speaker 1: You had twenty two yards but eight targets. That means
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  Speaker 1: six of the targets did not connect if my mal
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  Speaker 1: or math is correct on that, which is essentially the
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  Speaker 1: witness protection level witness protection level statline, the Vikings went
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  Speaker 1: two for nine on third down. Kevin O'Connell treated the
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  Speaker 1: passing game like it was radioactive. For the Vikings only
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  Speaker 1: twenty four pass attempts, that's it, and it worked a
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  Speaker 1: full game in modern NFL football, where you play hide
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  Speaker 1: and seek with your quarterback. You know what. That reminds
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  Speaker 1: me of Jim Harball when he was coaching at Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: And so, yeah, it's progress. For jj McCarthy, it is progress,
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  Speaker 1: but it's baby steps in mid December, which is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like learning to crawl during a marathon. Like that's
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  Speaker 1: usually not how that goes. You're not supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: doing that, but here we are. And so it's desperation.
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  Speaker 1: They got to find a lot from McCarthy in the
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  Speaker 1: next few weeks or they're going to go back to
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  Speaker 1: market they being the Vikings and try to get somebody
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  Speaker 1: else in there. And so it's not really growth, it's
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  Speaker 1: just there's something else going on there. And the dungeon
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  Speaker 1: door is cracked, as we said, for McCarthy, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's still kind of hearing the jailer's keys Jinglin a
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  Speaker 1: little bit there on the side, and it's not great.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, last word, let's just get right to
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  Speaker 1: the story of the weekend. If there's one word that
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  Speaker 1: would sum up the Sunday in the NFL, it would
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  Speaker 1: be the I word, as in injury, Yes, injury and
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  Speaker 1: the man alive. What a what a hot mess? That
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  Speaker 1: was the Three Musketeers. He had quarterback Patrick Mahomes the
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  Speaker 1: snap suffered a torn ACL and that's it. That's all
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  Speaker 1: she wrote. He's out for the year. Only a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, Chiefs have been eliminated. The Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 1: lost star edge rusher Micah Parsons shortly after Mahomes went down.
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  Speaker 1: Parsons went down. That's the crackle. NFL's highest paid non quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: highest paid defensive player in the NFL. He tore his ACL.
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  Speaker 1: He's out for the year. And wide receiver Davonte Adams
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  Speaker 1: the hammy went whammy for the Rams, although the injury
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  Speaker 1: report not as bad as the other two. Here the
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood style kind of like NFL injury. In Hollywood, they
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  Speaker 1: say celebrity DEAs. Rule of three is the theme there,
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  Speaker 1: and one star dies, then two more tend to follow,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how the common wisdom goes. Apparently with NFL
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  Speaker 1: injuries it's a similar thing. So the question of the three,
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  Speaker 1: you've got Patrick Mahomes, Michael Parsons and Davonte Adams, three
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  Speaker 1: big names, household names in the NFL if you care
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  Speaker 1: about football, all hurt. Which one is the biggest? So
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  Speaker 1: I preface this for Terry and England. We do not
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  Speaker 1: do lists. We do not believe in list on this show,
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  Speaker 1: as Terry knows, and he's the gatekeeper that we don't
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  Speaker 1: do this. But on Big Ben's Big board, which is
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  Speaker 1: not a list, as Shannon de Moine knows, not a list,
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  Speaker 1: but on Big Ben's Big board. Here's how it shakes out.
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  Speaker 1: So at number three, Devonte Adams coming in at number three.
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  Speaker 1: Here we mentioned the hammy went whammy for Devonte Adams,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not a season ending injury, at least not
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  Speaker 1: at this point. So they'll attempt the Rams to rub
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  Speaker 1: some dirt on it. They'll try to rub some dirt
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  Speaker 1: on it, and then they'll duct tape the hammy and
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  Speaker 1: then after that they'll put some icy hot on it,
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  Speaker 1: give it a couple of advil, and then call it aday,
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  Speaker 1: call it a day after that. So that's the plan there.
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  Speaker 1: It is code read for the Rams. They going to
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  Speaker 1: Seattle and that's a very beatable team with Seattle. How
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing was that Seattle needing a late field goal to
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  Speaker 1: beat Grandpa at quarterback? Holy crap. Seattle's worse than I thought.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if they had to they need a
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  Speaker 1: field goal, their top three defensive guys were out and
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  Speaker 1: they had forty four year old. The Colts had forty
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  Speaker 1: four year old you know, mister Rivers out there, and
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  Speaker 1: they still had to lead the final second. Unbelievable. How
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  Speaker 1: bad is that Seattle team is? But anyway, the Rams
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  Speaker 1: going to Seattle. And listen, the secret weapon for the
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  Speaker 1: Rams this year has been in the red zone. Devonte
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  Speaker 1: Adams has been the man, the myth, the legend. And
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  Speaker 1: so now more pressure on Puka Nakua to get her
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  Speaker 1: done there. And they still have a bunch of torpedoes
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  Speaker 1: the Rams, so they should be all right. At number two,
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  Speaker 1: Patrick mahomey, have we done a wellness check on keg
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  Speaker 1: our keg drinking friend in Kansas City? Nor so? Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes torn to acl season cooked burnt toast for Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: The Chiefs were already moving like the drunk uncle at
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  Speaker 1: the wedding and Patrick Mahomes sending the season to the well,
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  Speaker 1: he was out by the time the season ended, but
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  Speaker 1: they weren't winning that game anyway. So Patrick Mahomes there
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  Speaker 1: will spend his off season getting a lot of quality
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  Speaker 1: time with rehab clinics in Kansas City and wherever he
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: travels to and all that, and they'll stitch him back
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: together and they'll give him some terminator parts and some
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: wizard dust and he'll be back and we'll likely miss
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: half of next season. Though this is gonna spill over
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: based on what I've been hearing, this is gonna spill over,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: just on timeline. Mahomes will not be ready to go
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: next September when the NFL season kicks off. So that
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Mahomes magic, that hocus pocus, the Abra cadabra temporarily unplugged.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: And again that leaves us with number one. That would
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: be Micah Parsons, and Micah Parsons that injury, and I
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: don't want to be too dramatic, that is a kick
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: to the testicles for the green Bay Packers. It is
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: that's a right to the cheese kurds for green Bay.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: They went out of character. They went out of character
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: green Bay. They decide we're gonna somebody almost never do.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: We're gonna go all in this season. We're gonna trade
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: some draft picks, and we're gonna get the player and
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: pay him the highest contract ever given to a defensive player.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Michah Parsons, you shot, you shoot your shot. They shot
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: their shot there, and they put Michaeh. Parsons right in
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the center of the wagon wheel, right there in the middle,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: right in the middle of the wagon wheel. And now
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the wagon wheel is sinking in the quicksand outside Sherboygan,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: it's not it's not going very well at this point.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: So the whole advantage that you had where you all
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: love to brag to me when Parsons would have a
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: bad game, I would point that out and the packer
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: stockholders would get very upset with me, and they said, well,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you know, it's because he's getting double teamed. Okay, well
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you know have to worry about that. No more double teams,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: no more fear, no more chaos on that side there,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: that's all down the drain there, Michael Parsons, he's out,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and a year of Parsons prime, a year of his
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: prime wasted. And it's also a dead giveaway that this
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: is an indictment on Jordan Love, that Jordan is simply
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: not good enough. That that's really the lesson. Based on
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: what I've been hearing from the Packer stockholders out there,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: they're like, we're cooked. Now. If you had a truly
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: great quarterback, you could make up for that. You could
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Jordan Love could play out of his mind bonkers football
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: for a month and could win a championship. And as
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: he showed late against the Denver Broncos, he's not that guy.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: You're not that guy, Pal, You're not that guy. And
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: he can't carry the team. And so really the Packers
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: are they're double cooked because not on his Parson is
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: going to be out also part of next year. You
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: also got a quarterback and you've given a decent amount
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: of money to who's not an alpha, he's an omega.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: That's problematic. And so as for the people claiming it's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: not fair, oh my god, it's not fair. Stop star power.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: It happens, Guys get hurt. This is why it's not
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: flag football, even though the NFL would love for this
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: to be flag football. People get hurt in that anyway.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: The NFL regular season. Again, this is the way I
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: was taught oh, you're old malor.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: It was, Hey, a war of attrition. Like you play
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the regular season with integrity, you play it to your
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: fullest ability, and then oftentimes the team that wins the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: championship is the one that has the fewest injuries. And
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: so that's really what this is. Green Bay is not
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: going to be that team. They're not. It sucks rocks.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question it sucks rocks and all that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: You're not dealing with robots, even robots would get hurt.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: You're dealing with plausibly human beings, and so there's no
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: load management. And if this is with the NBA, then
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Micah Parsons wouldn't have played. He would have just waited
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to the playoffs, because that's what NBA ballers do, right.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I then don't want to play. God forbid we play,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: we might hurt ourselves. So that's not yet fully the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: mindset in the NFL, and I'm happy about that.
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• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. And I'm
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: so happy that this happened this year and not last
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: year because I would have been blamed, you know, it
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: making all about me. I was able to go to Arrowhead.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I saw the Chiefs last year last November against the Broncos,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: one of the craziest games I've ever been at. That
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: was the game the Broncos had the game winning field
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: goal blocked and the Chiefs won and they end up
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: going to the Super Bowl before they fell apart and
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the hangover has continued. So Kansas City playing host to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the Charger in an AFC West Brew ha ha in
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: this key game for Kansas City, Stand Alive, Stand Alive,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: taking on the Chargers. I don't know if you watch
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the game or not. Now, if you had Kansas City
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: winning this game and staying alive in the playoff race
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: in the AFC, you are a big fat loser, You're
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a loser. As the Chargers said, turn out the last
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the parties over. They eliminate Kansas City from playoff contention.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: They are d E A D debt debt debt Derwin
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: James picking off a pass from Gardner Minshew. Yes, Gardner Minshew,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: number seventeen in your program, but number ninety nine in
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: your heart. Gardner Minshew was in there. He had taken
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: over for an injured Patrick Mahomes. As we mentioned earlier
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: in this program, Mahomes done for the season. He was
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: injured late. The game was already over pretty much at
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: that point, closing seconds, and so Cans City goes down.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Chargers get a win. They won by three, and the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: reigning AFC champions are no more as they have been
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: exterminated and decommissioned from the playoffs. Justin Herbert had two
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: uttered ten yards. Modest numbers, and so the quarterback apologist
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: will say he's had he's hard. What's long with Yeah? Okay,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: fine two uttered ten yards and a touchdown for the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: team from SoCal. The Chargers get to ten wins, ten
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and four consecutive ten win seasons for the first time
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: since they were the old San Diego Chargers. Show me
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: your lightning bolt way back in six seven. My god,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: So the rare season sweep, very rare season sweep for
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the Chargers over the Chiefs. The story here, though, is
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: clearly in the loser's locker room. This is a pivot point,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: is it not? At least it feels like a pivot
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: point that here we are. The Chiefs have been eliminated.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: They have been excommunicated from the NFL postseason after all
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: of these years, first time in ten years, ten years,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs will not be hanging out in playoff football.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: No wild card game. You don't have to worry about
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game. You don't have to worry about
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: going to the Super Bowl in San Francisco, although I
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: imagine many of those guys that go out there to
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: sell all the crap they're trying to sell you on
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: radio row. That's usually what happens. But let us discuss
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the question, and we're gonna get into this right now
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: we're going to focus on Andy Reid. All right, So
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the question is who gets most of the blame for
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Andy Reid's Chiefs missing the plauf. Who's most to blame
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: for Andy Reid's Chiefs missing the playff? So I've got
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: sewing machine, swamp water, and Applebee's and we will combine
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we will punch you
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: right in your intestines, is what we're gonna do. So
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: before we get into this, let's hear from Andy Reid.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Everyone's very concerned about the morale, the morale of Kansas City.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Here's it what Andy Reid had to say on that top.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, guys are down the bust of their butt
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: to win the game, you know, and I wouldn't expect
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: anything less. So you know, it's not a great feeling.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't expect it to be after losing a game.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, was anyone expecting any other feeling they think they
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: were gonna have like a Chuck E Cheese party, go down,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: play some ski ball or something like that, Like what
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: are we gonna do? So as far as who's most
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: to blame for the Chiefs missing the playoff under Andy Reid,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: number one. Let's start at the very top. The snake
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: rocks from the head down. Let's start with mahomes magic.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: It went poof, Oh my god, you can't say that. Yeah,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: you can absolutely say he ends the year in the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: injury tent, which is a bummer. However, let's not let
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: that cloud the reality of the situation. You watch the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: NFL this year, Long before Mahomes suffered the season ending injury,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes went to the candy shop and he ordered
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: fun dip. Except it wasn't so fun. The fun Dip
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't fun. Normally, Mahomes has been a wizard, the wizard
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: of Arrowhead and under pressure pulling rabbits out of the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: helmet and this guy's magic wand and all that. And
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: this year he turned on the sewing machine and he
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: stitched together a bunch of overthrows and bad wreaths and
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: ill timed giveaways and passes bouncing off receivers, hands and
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: helmets and all that stuf and on the deep ball
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: for Mahomes, it has been the Rocky Mountain horror show,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: is what it's been here and more picks than touchdowns
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: for Mahomes, barely completing a third of those deep passes
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: for the Kansas City Chiefs offense. Now, is he still
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: an elite player?
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Sure?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Has he had an elite season. No, he did not
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: have an elite season, and a lot of butter fingers
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: around him. Butter fingers, a lot of butterfingers at the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: worst possible moments, which is part of the story. And
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: he didn't get much help. But ultimately a lot of
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: that is on Mahomes though also for not there were
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: some terrible games, he said the last month here, as
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: things continued to go the wrong direction. You also have
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: to point out the drops were often drive killers. They
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: were Rashie Rice. I hope he is better now at
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the driving than he was before, because he's not very
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: good at football these days. My god, Travis Kelsey, who's
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: thirty six, I believe he moves like a cell phone
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: maybe older than that now, like a cell phone on
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: low power, like you know, the batteries on a loan
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and it says, all right, you plug your phone in,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you got ten percent power. And he caught passes the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: way you'd expect a podcast, like if we put Joe
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Rogan out there and said, hey, Joe, catch some passes. Okay,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Joe would catch passes the way Travis Kelsey caught passes
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of bricks brick house like the Combodoor's there
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: no separation, no vertical threat at all. The front office. Now,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the other indictment here is on the Chiefs front office,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: like they just assume we're gonna get some guys back,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and you know what happens when you assume, and we'll
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: be okay, and everything'll be fine there. And they sat
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: on their hands at the trade deadline. They refused to
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: give up any draft picks to try to complete the roster.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: They just kind of waited. It was like, it's like, well,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: we're out of samples at Costco. Let's wait until they
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: fill up the sample trae. Okay, we'll wait. Well they
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: never did. They went home. The people that put the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: samples out their day was done. That was it. And
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: so you look at everything. Yeah, the defense, Chris Jones,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: keeping up with the Joneses. If there's one mall to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: me that sums up this entire season for the Chiefs,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: it was the game against Jacksonville was I believe a
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Monday night game, and you remember Trevor Lawrence fell down
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: a couple of times and Chris Jones, mister all everything
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: defensive star face of the franchise, his effort, his lack
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: of hustle was next level and just caught on tape
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and then got all defensive about it and all that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Like that kind of sums up this season, just like
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the offense had the thing of the jigs that weren't working,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the watching mccollegs. But the defense, the numbers weren't terrible,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: but then there were these little things like they couldn't
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: get the do hickey to work, and it was just
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: a big It was a big mess bottom third and
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: sacks bottom third and pressures third down stops were not
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: great for the Chiefs defense, and they couldn't get off
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the field. Often when they needed to get off the field,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: they couldn't get off the field. So the ma if
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you do the Malet math crunch the numbers on the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Chiefs here it's shared blame, which is never fun. But
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the buck ultimately does stop with Mahomes because he's he
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: was able to elevate the players around him, and this
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: year he did not elevate the players around him on offense,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: and the defense wasn't good enough to pick up the
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: slack and now they find themselves watching the playoffs when
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that comes around here in January. All right now, page two,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: So continuing the theme of the hour, the theme of
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the hour, The question here is Chiefs coach Andy Reid,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: big Rad. Is Andy Reid in danger of being whacked?
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Is he going to be collateral damage from the Chiefs
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: being failures this year, not even making the playoffs? So
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: in terms of Andy Reid being in danger, is he
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: about to get fired? No? Is he in stranger danger?
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head. Yes, I'm gonna nod my head. Yes,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: on Andy Reid. I don't see him being fired, just
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: like you get out of here. However, the massage goodbye,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I call it the massage, whether he's finesse, you know
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Like this whole thing smells right now,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: And it doesn't smell like delicious barbecue at the tailgated arrowhead.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: It doesn't smell like that. It's musty, it's funky, and
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: it's kind of like the equipment. If you've ever been
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: around hockey, the goalies equipment smells like ass just horrible.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Or I guess any gym bag, any gym bag on
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: a hot, hot day. You know, sitting out there in
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the sun during the summer just smells really gnarly bad
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and terrible. And Andy Reid you talking about Mahomes being
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the wizard of Arrowhead, Well, Andy Reid was the maestro
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: of offensive play calling. And this season the Chiefs attack
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: it looked like his spell book. The spellbook for Andy
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Reid was soaked in swamp water and the pages were
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: sticking together. There was no real creativity, just kind of
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: reheated leftover and it wasn't working and so and this
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: didn't just pop up one overnight for the Chiefs. Now,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: this has been festering. You remember last year in the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: second half there were some signs that things were not
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: going well, and then it bottomed out in the Super
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Bowl when the Chiefs got smoked by the Philadelphia Eagles,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and so Big Red was unable to find the source
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: of the mildew, couldn't find it. And Mahomes, as good
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: as Mahomes has been this year, he could not find
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: a can of fabreeze big enough to take care of
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: the flatulence in the phone booth that was taking place here.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: And normally you get a mulligan when you're a legend.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: We're gonna give that person a mulligan. They're a legend
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: of the game that the whispers out of Kansas City
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: are that there are some factions saying it's time to
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: make a change, and it's the perfect time now with
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Mahomes being hurt, because you bring in a new coach,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: you'll let them settle in. There'll be no expectations for
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the chiefs. Kelsey's going to retire. Mahomes will be out
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: at least probably half the year. Next year, you bring
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: a new coaching staff in, they don't have any real
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: pressure on them. They go in there kind of set
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: up their own thing. And these are grassroots whispers, is
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: what they are. You know, pitchforks padded in bubble wrap,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: if you will, and all that stuff, and people gonna
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: lean into the age game. We saw what happened with Pete.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll was not fired by the Seattle Seahawks, although
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: he was fired, they just made it seem like he
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: left to take an advisor's role. We know that's bull
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: crap because he immediately came back to coach the Raiders,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: if you want to call what he's doing coaching the Raiders,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and so it'd be like, well, Andy Reids, old, let's
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: just send Grandpa to the retirement home at midnight when
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: no one's looking, and I just can watch. My advice
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: now is to watch for leaks, watch for the league
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: source behind a paywall on the athletic watch for someone
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: connected to Mahomes questioning Andy Reid, and useful idiots in
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the media pushing the Andy slipping stories in the media
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: that he's not doing this right and he's screwing this
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: thing up. And then the Mahomes needs a new voice.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: As we said and read now, the saving grace for
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Andy Reid, and there is a saving grace is there
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: are no obvious replacements. It's just no obvious name that
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: they say, Okay, we get that guy and we're gold.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: The only one that would make a little bit of
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: sense would be Cliff Kingsbury, who's the OC of the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Washington Commanders, and he coached Mahomes in college at Texas Tech.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: And there's a guy. How about Cliff Kingsbury was a
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: hot he was hot, hot to trot last year Washington
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: got to the final four in the NFL playoffs, and
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: then he didn't take a head coaching jobs are arrogant.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: He didn't like the jobs that were open. And now
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: you think anyone's gonna go out of the way to
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: hire Cliff Kingsbury after the Washington offense tank this year.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Come on, he had a chance and he set it out.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: But that would be the only one. Arrowhead mahomes Cliff Kingsbury.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: There's a connection there. And so unless he leaves the
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: beltway and heads over and with a whiteboard in hand
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and drop plays for Patrick mahomes the loyalty, so that
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the malord math on Andy Reid. He's in the danger zone.
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  Speaker 1: The good news is there's no one who's really stepping up.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, that guy's gonna get the job, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Final point now to the pop star in the corner
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  Speaker 1: of the room, question, what does the storyline of the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs being eliminated from playoff considerations? What does this do
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: for the Taylor Swift fueled NFL conspiracy theories that have
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: been going around for several years. So I'll address this.
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  Speaker 1: This is the snuffleophagus in the room. This is what
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  Speaker 1: happens when a conspiracy theory runs out of oxygen. There's
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  Speaker 1: no more auction here. The Taylor Swift fueled NFL rigging crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Can we do a wellness check on them? Are they
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  Speaker 1: doing okay? Are they quietly right now? They're slipping out
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  Speaker 1: the emergency exit at the Applebee's, and they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to pay the check. They're like, I was just going
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  Speaker 1: to get out of apple as we go through the
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  Speaker 1: emergency exit, We're not paying the check. That's it. For years,
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  Speaker 1: those that partake not farmer John, Their engagement farmers is
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: what they are. They're doing engagement farming. And they've got
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  Speaker 1: their tinfoil sombreros on and they swore up and down
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  Speaker 1: on the Holy Bible that the NFL was greasing the skids,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: that it was all a rig deal for Kansas City.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: It was the Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift romance. It was
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the Golden Boy Patrick Mahomes, a scripted love story. And
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: if it was a scripted love story, wouldn't it end
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: with the Super Bowl confetti in the air everywhere, drippling down, down, down,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: down down the confetti just like that February retirement. Then
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  Speaker 1: sometime in the spring wedding vibes with the biggest wedding
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  Speaker 1: in America in many, many years. There instead Travis Kelcey
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  Speaker 1: couldn't I guess we could say couldn't shake it off.
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  Speaker 1: He was unable to shake it off this year and
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: it was just a bad year. And he limped off
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  Speaker 1: Arrowhead and with a bit of a blank space. He
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  Speaker 1: had a bit of a blank space where the magic
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: used to be, and he was kind of frozen there.
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  Speaker 1: And that stench that the Chiefs had on offense there.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: You know, it's just bad bad blood. There's another one
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: bad blood. So did not go well here, and the
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  Speaker 1: wizardry of the Chiefs obviously away. Kelsey's magic gone, the
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  Speaker 1: plot armor ripped away for the conspiracy theory. And this
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  Speaker 1: was not cinema. This was definitely not cinema. It was
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  Speaker 1: a documentary, but not the documentary Taylor Swift's been in
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  Speaker 1: here recently. No refs with Q cards, we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: any of that. No Lombardi delivery service on demand, we
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: didn't get that. Just a football boone doggle. It was
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: a boone doggle. And now Travis kelce can look at
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift and mutter, look what you made me do?
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: It's another one. By the way, I think that's a
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: that's a song. Look what you mean it is anyway,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: all right, So the conspiracy is dead for now. Now
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: the big story is, will Taylor Swift dump Travis Kelsey?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: She's a winner, she's only married a loser. Will Taylor
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Swift Willy break up before the wedding? And will she
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: whoever wins the Super Bowl, will she latch onto that
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: team's tight end. Inquiring minds would like to know, But
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I do expect a spin off conspiracy, and here's my
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: my expectation using the Mallard crystal ball. As you know,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I am a distant relative of Nostre damas friend of Nostradinas.
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  Speaker 1: He lives in Seattle, but not his wife. She's a vegan,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: but anyway, she's a nice woman, but she's a vegan.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: So the conspiracy theory would be that Taylor Swift wanted
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs to lose so her husband to be Travis
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Kelsey will have more time to plan the wedding, and
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: so she wanted to make sure and he's healthy relatively speaking,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So it's worked out well on me.
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  Speaker 4: Ben Trevor Lawrence had a historic performance on this Sunday,
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: first player in NFL history with five passing touchdowns, a
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: rushing touchdown, and fifty plus rushing yards in a single game.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Are we buying the Jaguars yet? I'm not. They're obviously
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: playing very well, They're good. I'm not quite fully on board.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like looking at the train and I'm seeing the engine.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: There's some steam engines there. There's you know, locomotives that
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: look pretty impressive. I'm not. I just it's gonna take more.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: They play the Jets, coop. You know they're supposed to
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: win that game when you play the Jets. So I'll
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: hold off on that next.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: So you kind of alluded to it during your phone
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: call with Andrea, But a lot of people have been
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: making this connection. Tom Brady tore his ACL in his
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: ninth season. This is Patrick Mahomes' ninth season. They both
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: had three Super Bowls at the time of the torn ACL.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: Of course, Tom Brady came back and won four more.
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: Do you think Patrick Mahomes is gonna come back and
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: have you know, at least somewhat kind of a similar success.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, if he's gonna have to commit himself and
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: you get in great shape, and that's part of his job.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: He's selling his body. That's what you do. You're a
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: professional athlete, You're selling your body. That's your product. There.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: So Tom Brady was always in pretty good shape. My homes.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: It was a little chubby. Any little chubby. He's enjoying.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: He's gonna father likes donuts. I like donuts too, But
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I don't play quarterback in the NFL. So get in
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: good shape, I can. Why not they can win another
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: couple of Super Bowls in Kansas City. This is not
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady two point zero though.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Next, Fernando Mendoza became the first ever player from Indiana
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: to win the Highestman Trophy over the weekend, and now
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: he is the favorite to be the number one overall
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: pick in the NFL draft. I don't believe I was
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: gonna say, do you think that's gonna happen?
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Though I've seen him play obviously Andianism one of the
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: top teas. I just doesn't even look like an NFL
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: quarterback to me. I don't am I missing something like
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: he's just like he's fine. He's got the height, he
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: just doesn't there's nothing magical about his game. I'm gonna
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: say he will not be then a more pick. How
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: did we doubt he passes? Adition? That is, he went
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: put away. Not a great year for quarterbacks, though in
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: the draft doesn't look great.
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  Speaker 2: Take ninety minute showers. It'll help you sell boot Lake
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just like the Great helmet Man Sofa Stadium. Also Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Line four, you're on the airline for we're giving advice
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  Speaker 1: morning time.
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  Speaker 2: And look at it, Ben, Did you know Henry Ford
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  Speaker 2: was a driven man?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? I see you. There you go. It's a card
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Andy Reid celebrates making the playoffs with a cheeseburger.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: And he celebrates and I'm making the playoffs. That's a
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  Speaker 1: great way to live life. Live life, cheeseburgers to paradise.
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  Speaker 1: Line number one, you're on the airline one, eight seven,
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  Speaker 2: Hello, line one, Yeah, boyor time Philepercawns, Yippie.
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  Speaker 5: My advice is just start another dynasty, Am Lisa.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, pull your pants back up your dope.
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  Speaker 1: Line four, you're on the air line four. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: eating barbecue and enjoy playing football. That's wonderful advice. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's our friend from Iowa. I believe I Line up five.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Daniel Mallards. You coming to the hood this year?
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'll be. You don't invite met me, invite
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  Speaker 1: me over man, I'll come down, I'll hang out.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: I want more.
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