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Speaker 1: Up's kind of obvious though. It's the twenty twenty five
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Speaker 1: Benny Awards, celebrating the people that make the Ben Malor
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Speaker 1: regular bits will be back tomorrow tomorrow, but not right now.
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Speaker 1: So tonight dedicated to the Benny is that we will
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Speaker 1: get real time feedback from people spurned. I'm sure we'll
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Speaker 1: to your show anymore. And there's other people that will
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Speaker 1: win that we'll say how great we are. So it
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Speaker 1: all evens out in the wash. But our lead this
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Speaker 1: hour is from the speculation machine. We are in the
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Speaker 1: midst of the silly season and the most important sport
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Speaker 1: in America professional football, the NFL. Some interesting chatter, some
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Speaker 1: noise out of the Pacific Northwest, the Emerald City there,
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Speaker 1: it's all about DK Metcalf. Now, if you've not been
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Speaker 1: paying attention, maybe you took the weekend off. The noise
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Speaker 1: around DK Metcalf is that Seattle. They don't a lot
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Speaker 1: of trade them. They're not looking to trade Dk Metcalf.
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Speaker 1: But you know they don't extend him. He's only got
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Speaker 1: one more year on the deal. I'm saying there's a chance,
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Speaker 1: and it takes force to the I was told the
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Speaker 1: math on this. It takes two to tango to make
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Speaker 1: a trade. Several teams, including the Green Bay Packers, the
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and Cansa City, are said to be lurking
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Speaker 1: in the shadows in the weeds trying to entice Seattle
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Speaker 1: to make a trade. So let us discuss. Do you
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Speaker 1: expect the Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf to end up
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Speaker 1: shopped around here and traded this offseason? So I've got
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Speaker 1: atmospheric River, Pink Fong and kissing booth, and we will
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Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we're going to
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Speaker 1: make a little trinket. Now, we are giving out virtual
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Speaker 1: trinkets during the Bennies throughout the overnight. But our first
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Speaker 1: thought on this in terms of do we expect Seattle
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Speaker 1: to put DK Metcalf on market and see what they
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Speaker 1: can get for him. I'm nodding my head. Yes, these
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Speaker 1: things generally come in waves. They generally coming waves. Dk Metcalf,
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Speaker 1: his wave has not arrived yet. But if you look around,
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Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel was traded over the weekend. More on that
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Speaker 1: in a second. Cooper Cup and DeVante Adams are next up.
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Speaker 1: They're in the on deck circle right now. And once
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Speaker 1: those things are sorted out, then you worked away and
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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf is in the waiting area over there, and
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Speaker 1: you just follow the atmospheric river. Is what you do.
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Speaker 1: You follow the river. And Metcalf is six seasons into
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Speaker 1: his NFL tur He's been around now six years. He's
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Speaker 1: got one year left on an extension he signed a
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Speaker 1: couple of years back. And the Seahawks they're satisfied at
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Speaker 1: this point, not being a real contender, right, it's pretty
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Speaker 1: sad franchise that had some really good teams about a
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Speaker 1: decade ago, and now they're fine living on the margins,
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Speaker 1: if you will. And you can't really take a team
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Speaker 1: seriously that continues to roll out the rotting carcass of
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Speaker 1: Gino Smith at quarterback. They're obviously a fraud. Real football
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Speaker 1: people know that they're not trying to win in Seattle.
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Speaker 1: And it's not that Gino is terrible, he's just not good, right,
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Speaker 1: He's not good. Everyone knows it. And so Seattle's okay
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Speaker 1: being a happy faux contender. Right, they're a faux contender,
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Speaker 1: and they don't have a lot of importance in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's not a lot of influence from Seattle
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Speaker 1: right now because everyone knows they're a fraud in terms
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Speaker 1: of actually trying to win. And again, they're not terrible,
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Speaker 1: they're just okay, and they'll will win seven or eight
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Speaker 1: games a year, and you can't really take them seriously
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And DK Metcalf is a luxury
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Speaker 1: item for a team that's not trying to win like Seattle. Again,
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Speaker 1: they're trying to be a worst team. They're not trying
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Speaker 1: to be the Cleveland Browns, right, they'll only be the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. There the Tennessee Titans. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: they're not trying to be what Kansas City has been
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Speaker 1: or Philadelphia teams like that. And so DK Metcalf is
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Speaker 1: like driving a Porsche if you're Seattle, but you're going
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Speaker 1: to eat at the soup kitchen having DK metcat like,
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Speaker 1: what's the point? You know, it's like, it's kind of
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Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. And so you look at the Chiefs and
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Speaker 1: the Bills in particular, I know Green Bay. You look
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Speaker 1: at the Chiefs and the Bills, and the Bills have
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Speaker 1: the thirtieth pick in the draft. Kansas City's at number
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Speaker 1: thirty one. So if they're drafting at the end of
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Speaker 1: the first round and you can get a proven commodity,
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Speaker 1: and then there's some debate about how proven dk Metcalf
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Speaker 1: is because he has been marginalized in the Seattle Seahawks offense.
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Speaker 1: And you look around and the end of last year
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Speaker 1: was the dead give away, Dad giveaway that likely this
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Speaker 1: is not going very well if you're looking to get
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Speaker 1: paid a massive amount of money as a wide receiver.
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Speaker 1: The final nine games of the twenty twenty four regular season,
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Speaker 1: dk Metcalf averaged six targets a game over the final nine.
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Speaker 1: He's a twenty five million dollars a year guy getting
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Speaker 1: six targets a game. The math ain't mathing on that.
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Speaker 1: It's just not And you would think if he went
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Speaker 1: to a team like Kansas City or Buffalo, assuming that
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Speaker 1: the issue is not him and the issues what we
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Speaker 1: think it is Geno Smith and the incompetent boobs running
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks, that dk Metcalf could go next level, and
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Speaker 1: next level on a bigger stage with a better coaching
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Speaker 1: staff and a better quarterback to play with. Now, page two,
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Speaker 1: we mentioned the transaction that happened over the weekend, many
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Speaker 1: wondering how is that possible? Why? Why were the Washing
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Speaker 1: and Commanders able to get Deebo Samuel for peanuts pennies
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Speaker 1: on the dollar from the forty nine ers and many
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Speaker 1: stunned by this. I've already seen predictions that the Washington
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Speaker 1: football team is now the team to beat in the NFC,
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Speaker 1: and today have now ussurp Philadelphia, which seems a bit
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Speaker 1: premature to me, Just a bit premature to me. So, uh,
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Speaker 1: what's the line the market sets the price, right, the
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Speaker 1: market sets the price. So let's try to break this
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Speaker 1: down unscientifically because we're doing talk radio. So, for better
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Speaker 1: or worse, Deebo Samuel, his career is where not in
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Speaker 1: the toilet, His career is in the twilight zone. Do
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Speaker 1: do do do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
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Speaker 1: Do do do do do. Yeah, it's the gap between
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Speaker 1: perception and reality with Deebo Samuel. And I'll rephrase that
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Speaker 1: for those of you that have had too many octails
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Speaker 1: and you're a little slow. Deebo's got the name. He
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Speaker 1: does not happen to have the game. The game is
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Speaker 1: lacking at this point. Now the low information fan, many
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Speaker 1: of them raising a hullabaloo about this. I can't believe
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Speaker 1: Washington got this guy. It's not fair. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: Jayden Daniel's gonna take off with Deebo Samuel. Blah blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. All that right, all that noise. So
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Speaker 1: you do not grasp one small thing, which is kind
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Speaker 1: of a big thing. If you look at the full
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Speaker 1: body of work from Deebo Samuel, this concept is over yet.
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Speaker 1: But if you look at the full body work, Deebo
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Speaker 1: Samuel is the pink Fong, one hit wonder, baby Shark.
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Speaker 1: Remember baby Shark from a few years ago. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: essentially what Deebo Samuel is. He's baby Shark. He's a
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Speaker 1: one hit wonder and during the twenty twenty one season outstanding,
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Speaker 1: he was a maestro on the field. In fact, Deebo
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Speaker 1: Samuel had seventeen hundred and seventy yards all purpose from scrimmage.
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Speaker 1: From scrimmage, he had fourteen touchdowns. He was an All Pro.
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Speaker 1: That's that's good. That's not playing water balloon toss at
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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. That's all Pro. That's that's great, First
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Speaker 1: team All Pro. He averaged eighteen yards per catch. Game
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Speaker 1: breaker mode, absolute game breaker mode. And then Debo has
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Speaker 1: gotten progressively worse. He hit rock bottom last season. He
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Speaker 1: went from seventeen hundred and seventy yards from scrimmage to
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Speaker 1: eight hundred and six and he only had four touchdowns
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Speaker 1: last season. Now the numbers on this Deebo's yardage has
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Speaker 1: gone down fifty four point four percent from his peak
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Speaker 1: and his touchdowns by seventy one percent. And now you
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Speaker 1: know why the forty nine ers. Also, money was involved,
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Speaker 1: but now you know why the forty nine ers were
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Speaker 1: giving Deebo away for next enough because what you're getting
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Speaker 1: in Washington is next to nothing. Now, is he going
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Speaker 1: to have this great come to Jesus moment and this
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Speaker 1: epiphany and take off? At this point, all we know
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Speaker 1: Demo brings to Washington is the ability to walk out
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Speaker 1: of the locker room with a boom box and be
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Speaker 1: the coolest guy in the stadium. Now, when the game starts,
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Speaker 1: that aura goes away because he's he's unable to get
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Speaker 1: separation from defensive backs. And that's a problem. The rapid decline.
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Speaker 1: That's how you end up getting traded for a fifth
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Speaker 1: round draft pick. But I digress.
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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from TV Land in
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Speaker 1: uh yeah. Now, if you remember the Super Bowl, it
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Speaker 1: was way back last month, like way back last month.
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Speaker 1: So during the Super Bowl festivities there was a lot
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Speaker 1: of pomp and circumstance around Jimmy Johnson. Well, Jimmy made
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Speaker 1: it official in the last few hours or so as
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Speaker 1: the crow flies. If he didn't hear maybe not Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Johnson announcing turn at the last, the parties over, that's
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Speaker 1: it done, hanging up the microphone. It's the kind of
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Speaker 1: job you really don't need to retire from. It's a
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Speaker 1: pretty easy job. But Jimmy Johnson, during an appearance here
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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio with Colin Cowhard, announced that's it.
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Speaker 1: He said he loved every minute of it being part
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Speaker 1: of the number one pregame show on Fox. All these
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Speaker 1: years they have dominated the ratings. He said he loved
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Speaker 1: every single minute of it. Best time of his GRIZ
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Speaker 1: is a career where he was a college champion, dominant
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Speaker 1: teams at Miami and also the Dallas Cowboys, and Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Johnson saying doing TV really cool. So the reason I'm
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Speaker 1: bringing this up to right, we actually have just to
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Speaker 1: prove I'm not lying. We have a little of this.
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Speaker 1: Here is Jimmy Johnson commenting on that's it. It's all over.
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Speaker 1: It's TV career done after all this amazing run at
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports.
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Speaker 3: Dig a listen, I've made an extremely difficult decision. I've
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Speaker 3: been thinking about it for the last four or five years,
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Speaker 3: and I've decided to retire from Fox and I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: miss it. I'm gonna miss all the guys and I'll
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Speaker 3: see them occasionally, but it has been a great run,
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Speaker 3: starting back thirty one years ago.
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Speaker 1: Imagine that thirty one years and then I say, wait
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Speaker 1: a minute, I'm getting not that far away from there.
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Holy crap, How the hell does that happen? Anyway,
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Speaker 1: it's not about me, So it's about Jimmy Johnson. But
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Speaker 1: it's really about that job that is one of the
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Speaker 1: plumb jobs in sports television, the Jimmy Johnson coaches job,
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Speaker 1: if you will, on the Fox pregame show, which is
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Speaker 1: the top pregame show out there. And so the immediate
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Speaker 1: speculation pivoted to who that's right, ding ding ding ding ding.
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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh, Yeah, you can ram it all day, you
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Speaker 1: can ram it all night, the Rams coach. And it
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Speaker 1: is interesting to note that Sean McVay popped up on
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Speaker 1: the Pat McAfee grab Ass Show and was asked about
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Speaker 1: whether or not he had any interest, not necessarily about
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Speaker 1: the Fox job, but whether McVeigh had any interest in
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Speaker 1: media gigs, and he said of course, McVeigh saying, but
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Speaker 1: I think we've got some more stuff we want to
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Speaker 1: accomplish meaning coaching, obviously, McVeigh said when asked about that,
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Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question for the Esteem Panel,
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Speaker 1: which you are part of. Would Sean McVeigh really leave
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Speaker 1: the Rams for the Jimmy Johnson chair at Fox? Was
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Speaker 1: just assuming McVeigh is gonna be back coaching the Rams,
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Speaker 1: and we're past the coaching carousel time and all that.
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Speaker 1: So I've got sounding board, Harley Davidson and White Elephant,
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Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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Speaker 1: we'll spin the wheel, is what we're going to do.
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Speaker 1: So ay there will go round and run and run
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Speaker 1: and run. So I'm nodding my head. Yes. Now do
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Speaker 1: I think it's likely to happen? Though? Is there a
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Speaker 1: chance in the multiverse, somewhere in the dimension where Sean
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Speaker 1: McVay says, you know what, this is my shot. I
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Speaker 1: want that job. I can have that job for the
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Speaker 1: next forty years. I don't have to worry about anything.
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Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about the stress of coaching
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Speaker 1: and replacing quarterbacks and receivers and defensive players, and I
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Speaker 1: can just right off into the sud. Yes. And I
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Speaker 1: also believe there's a book written, not very good movie,
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Speaker 1: but the book was pretty good, The Magic Christian years ago,
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Speaker 1: and say everyone's got their price, right, everyone's got their price,
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Speaker 1: And so yeah, there is a cartoon check that could
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Speaker 1: be written big enough, like those old publisher clearinghouse checks
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Speaker 1: that McVeigh would take, and then he would leave the
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Speaker 1: rain Ms. Now you gotta remember think of this, like
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Speaker 1: for McVeigh, television is like the cute girl at the bar.
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Speaker 1: McVeigh has been flirting with the cute girl at the bar,
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Speaker 1: buying or drinks and things like that, and it's just
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Speaker 1: wetting his appetite. Like, for example, he appeared on the
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Speaker 1: Fox pregame show last month at the Super Bowl. You
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Speaker 1: think that's a quinkie dink. McVeigh just popped up there
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Speaker 1: and was on the pregame festivities there before the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: showed up at the game there in New Orleans. You
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Speaker 1: think that mean? Yeah, I don't know. So eventually he's
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Speaker 1: going to make them. I'm convinced of it. I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to enjoy every second here. McVeigh eventually will leave the
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Speaker 1: RAMS and whether it's Fox or Amazon or some future
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Speaker 1: media partner that hasn't had media rights, eventually it's gonna happen,
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Speaker 1: and if you look at him eventually consummating the relationship
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Speaker 1: and going full time, McVeigh to television very enticing because
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Speaker 1: it's easy street, right when you do TV. And I
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Speaker 1: got a little taste of it, you know, on a
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Speaker 1: just a very small weekend taste the last couple years
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Speaker 1: doing TV. Man, is it easy? You got a staff
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Speaker 1: of producers and directors and people that their sole purpose
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Speaker 1: is to make you look good. Right, you get paid
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Speaker 1: big money and a guy like Sean McVay. You're just
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Speaker 1: a sounding board, that's all. You're like a sounding board.
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Speaker 1: You just throw out a bunch of cliches and platitudes
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Speaker 1: and meatthead sports fans ooh ahoh, they get so excited
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Speaker 1: like the dumbest things. But if you have a resume
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Speaker 1: as a coach or a player, it's like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: he's so smart. And then you think about but that's
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Speaker 1: the stupidest thing I've ever heard. But he's got the resume,
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Speaker 1: so you're like, ooh, ooh la la, just like that.
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Speaker 1: That's wild. I mean, think about Jimmy Johnson's life at
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Speaker 1: Fox in all these years, and different quarterbacks and coaches
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Speaker 1: have come and gone and all that, and he really
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Speaker 1: retired Jimmy Johnson from retirement. He really did. Are you
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Speaker 1: retired from? That's a job you work once a week,
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Speaker 1: half the year. And the hardest part for Jimmy Johnson
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Speaker 1: was the commute planes, trains and automobiles that was ours bar.
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Speaker 1: He lives in Key West, Key West to LA. That's
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Speaker 1: a pretty long commute on a weekly basis, and so
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Speaker 1: that was the issue there. And he didn't always go
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Speaker 1: back and forth. He would stay in LA for a
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Speaker 1: month at a time whatever. But Nate McVeigh is thirty nine, right,
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Speaker 1: and so you'd think at that age, that's a young
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Speaker 1: age for coaching that McVeigh still has the passion and
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Speaker 1: the perseverance to keep going. But you keep hearing the
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Speaker 1: noise from people that are around that world that McVeigh
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Speaker 1: wants to do television. Eventually, McVeigh is going to do
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Speaker 1: television full time. The RAMS. I thought he was done
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. I thought McVeigh was gonna leave,
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Speaker 1: and then you know, it worked it out. He came
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Speaker 1: back and one of the great coaches of this era
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. And we'll see how long it lasts.
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Speaker 1: I know it's not gonna last very now. If Sean
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Speaker 1: McVay says no, reno to that job, and I'm sure
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Speaker 1: they'll have some back channel conversations with the TV executives
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Speaker 1: at Fox and McVeigh And if he says no, what
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Speaker 1: are some of the other candidates for that Jimmy Johnson chair.
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Speaker 1: So the initial thought is that it's so late in
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Speaker 1: the game now that they're gonna have to put some
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Speaker 1: some stooge in there, some filler like Mike McCarthy. You
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Speaker 1: can sit there in the corner eat donuts on the
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Speaker 1: pregame show or something like that. But eventually it's the
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Speaker 1: Harley Davidson campaign from years ago, go big or go home, Right,
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Speaker 1: that's marketing campaign, go big or go home. So if
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Speaker 1: not McVeigh, you immediately say what about Mike Tomlin's another
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Speaker 1: guy whose name has popped up for big time media
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Speaker 1: jobs from the Pittsburgh searies. The pop problem there, and
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Speaker 1: you know this is the Steeler job is a it's
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Speaker 1: a tenured professor job. It's lifetime employment. It's lifetime employment.
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Speaker 1: You know, everyone brings up the number they've liked three
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Speaker 1: coaches since like the sixties. It's insane, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: absolutely wild. But do I think Tomlin would be great
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Speaker 1: at television? Sure? Because Tomlin just we love Tomlin on
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Speaker 1: this show. Every week we get during football season, some
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Speaker 1: dopey statement of the week for Mike Tomlin. He's a
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Speaker 1: smooth talker, he's charismatic, he oozes confidence, he's a leader
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Speaker 1: of men. He's a perfect keynote speaker. He would dominate.
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Speaker 1: And he's a little older act. She's a lot older
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Speaker 1: than Sean McVay. Tomlin's in his early fifties, he's fifty two.
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Speaker 1: But he's again, he's got that sweetheart deal. He can
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Speaker 1: have that steeler job as long as he wants in
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Speaker 1: western Pennsylvania. Will he be swayed by the quality of
20:40
Speaker 1: life any of these guys? And if not Tomlin will
20:44
Speaker 1: the next one you immediately pivot to is Andy Reid
20:47
Speaker 1: big rant? Why would Andy ever leave Kansas City? Well,
20:50
Speaker 1: at some point he's going to get too old? Will
20:53
Speaker 1: that be after he breaks Don Shula's wins record with
20:56
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes Stay tuned. And then outside of that wild
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Speaker 1: card name, wild card name, how about Dan Campbell. Dan
21:05
Speaker 1: Campbell's established himself as a legit coach with the Lions
21:08
Speaker 1: the Lions have been a playoff team. Something in my childhood.
21:12
Speaker 1: I never thought whatever happened where the Lions would be
21:14
Speaker 1: consistently a playoff team. It has happened. And Dan Campbell's
21:18
Speaker 1: the ultimate meat heead coach. Couldn't you see him pop
21:21
Speaker 1: up on TV and just just kind of roar in
21:25
Speaker 1: the corner there and like Gronkowski, like Gronkowski, you meathead,
21:30
Speaker 1: kind of caveman commentary. Could absolutely see that.
21:34
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21:39
Speaker 1: All right, let's welcome mar Contesta. It's no need for
21:43
Speaker 1: the imaging. We have a Tyler in Boston. Hello, Tyler, welcome,
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Speaker 1: hello to you. Tyler. Are you ready to shake it
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Speaker 1: up a little bit here? Yes? Ready to do it?
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Speaker 3: Man?
21:55
Speaker 1: All right? Tyler? And what are you doing, Boston.
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Speaker 4: Laborer?
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Speaker 5: I'm building a bridge.
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Speaker 1: The man's that is a masculine job, all right, That
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Speaker 1: is hair on your chest. That is manly man work,
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Speaker 1: building a bridge. Okay, no woos is build bridges, all right, men,
22:15
Speaker 1: men build bridges. All right? Tyler, who do you want
22:18
Speaker 1: to partner up with? You got me or you got Cooper,
22:21
Speaker 1: Loop or Lorena, but probably not Lorena. So all right,
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Speaker 1: very good, Tyler, you and Coop you want to lose? Okay,
22:31
Speaker 1: I'll take all the compliments back I said about you.
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Speaker 1: Hold on a second. We have a Mark in Ithaca.
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Speaker 1: Hello Mark? Yes? Hello, good morning? Hello Mark? Yes? Who
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Speaker 1: do you like to partner up with? Mark?
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Speaker 5: Let me flip a penny?
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Speaker 1: Uh No, you gonna go with me? All right? Coop,
22:54
Speaker 1: I'm guaranteeing victory of this game. I don't think. I
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Speaker 1: don't think so. If I don't win this game, okay,
23:01
Speaker 1: I will pay you twenty bucks right now. I have
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Speaker 1: twenty dollars miles.
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Speaker 6: Do you know something that I don't know?
23:05
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm telling you. I when a win and
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Speaker 1: all you have, all you have to pay me is
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Speaker 1: like two dollars twenty versus two? How about okay? We're in.
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Speaker 6: Would you know this Tyler person?
23:16
Speaker 1: I don't know, understand. I don't know anybody from Ithaca.
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Speaker 1: I don't know anybody from Ia.
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Speaker 6: We're talking about, Tyler?
23:21
Speaker 1: What are the what are the categories? All right?
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Speaker 7: This is Mallard's amount of money. Jason Newstead Edition. He
23:26
Speaker 7: turns sixty two years old today.
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Speaker 1: All right.
23:28
Speaker 7: Former basis from Metallica. The categories are one sad but true,
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Speaker 7: wherever I may roam, and the memory remains. Tyler, which
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Speaker 7: category would you like?
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Speaker 1: Wherever I may roam?
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Speaker 6: All right? And Mark, how about you.
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Speaker 4: Pick one?
23:45
Speaker 6: Okay? Pick just say one? Two or four?
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Speaker 5: Four?
23:52
Speaker 6: Okay?
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Speaker 1: What is that?
23:53
Speaker 6: The memory remains?
23:54
Speaker 1: All right? Everyone, hold on, We're gonna have in its
23:56
Speaker 1: entirety Mallard's amount of money. We'll get to that. I'm
23:58
Speaker 1: guaranteeing when I'm garing to win here. I got twenty
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Speaker 1: bucks on the line. Coop's only got two bucks. We'll
24:03
Speaker 1: get to that. We'll do it next.
24:04
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Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top?
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Speaker 1: Probably not? Play right here? Twenty bucks? If you beat me,
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Speaker 1: it's your all right, Tyler?
24:31
Speaker 6: Are you ready?
24:33
Speaker 1: You gotta make it? Let's go cool?
24:36
Speaker 6: All right, Tyler.
24:36
Speaker 7: We need the first and the last name of the
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Speaker 7: athlete in order to get points. Our category is wherever
24:42
Speaker 7: I may roam. These athletes won championships with multiple teams.
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Speaker 1: Don't show Coop.
24:47
Speaker 7: Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Quarterback for
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Speaker 7: the Colts and the broncos Man. Yes, this guy was
24:55
Speaker 7: the Big Diesel. He won a championship with the Lakers.
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Speaker 1: Are many?
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Speaker 6: Yes?
24:58
Speaker 7: Uh? This guy's nickname was Shady running back for the Eagles,
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Speaker 7: but he won the Yes, this guy's name was big Shot.
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Speaker 7: He was a power forward for the Lakers. But yes,
25:10
Speaker 7: this guy was a defensive end for the Cowboys and
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Speaker 7: the forty nine ers.
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Speaker 6: He had like five Super Bowl rings. All right.
25:18
Speaker 7: This guy was a bald forward. He won three championships
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Speaker 7: with the Bulls. Then he was on the first couple
25:26
Speaker 7: of championships with the Lakers. Bald guy, Yes, very good.
25:33
Speaker 7: This guy was a picture.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 1: I didn't even get the hundred point one? All right?
25:37
Speaker 1: What was that Loretta one of the Biggins.
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Speaker 2: Oh?
25:39
Speaker 6: I just I was just excited. Do you want any
25:45
Speaker 6: all right?
25:45
Speaker 1: Are you there? Mark?
25:47
Speaker 4: I am here.
25:48
Speaker 1: I got twenty bucks on the line with Koop. These
25:51
Speaker 1: sports figures recently passed away. Are you ready? Mark? All right?
25:55
Speaker 1: Forty five seconds here we go. Known as the Juice,
25:58
Speaker 1: the Heisman, winner killed two people. Okay, what's his last name? Yes,
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Speaker 1: Charlie Hustle, he Rose, Yes, the logo in the NBA. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the say Hey kid in baseball for the Giants. Actor.
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Speaker 1: He played Apollo creed In in the Rocky Movies. No.
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Speaker 5: Oh uh.
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Speaker 1: Broadcaster Bryan's brother Brian, Yes, wide receiver for the Ravens.
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Speaker 1: Had one hundred and eight yard kickoff return in the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Yes. Uh. A boxer played Apollo creed In.
26:35
Speaker 1: Uh in the Rock's name. Well that doesn't help. Come on, walk,
26:40
Speaker 1: Come on, all right, that's uh Carl Weathers. Who's who
26:47
Speaker 1: we're looking for? So I think we have to lead there?
26:48
Speaker 1: You do?
26:49
Speaker 6: All right, Tyler? Would you like one? Or sad? But true?
26:55
Speaker 3: That?
26:58
Speaker 1: All right?
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Speaker 7: These Hall of famers never won a championship. Forty five
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Speaker 7: seconds on the clock. Let's begin, all right. He was
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Speaker 7: the quarterback for the Miami Dolphins for a long time.
27:12
Speaker 7: All right, the mailman, yes the answer, Yes, quarterback for
27:20
Speaker 7: the Bills, lost.
27:20
Speaker 6: Four Super Bowls in a row.
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Speaker 1: Jim Kelly running back.
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Speaker 7: For the Oilers. His nickname was the Tyler Rose. How
27:29
Speaker 7: about mister Cubby?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
27:36
Speaker 4: Uh.
27:36
Speaker 7: This guy was the first pitcher to win a Cy
27:38
Speaker 7: Young in the American and National League.
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Speaker 6: His first name is kind of like a slur for
27:44
Speaker 6: homosexual people.
27:48
Speaker 1: Well, you didn't get to finish the game, and sorry,
27:51
Speaker 1: game it goes not no, you didn't win. The game
27:53
Speaker 1: is The game is boy. The game nobody wins. The
27:56
Speaker 1: game is boy. Nobody. I did not get my second rab.
28:00
Speaker 1: The game is voided. The game is voided.
28:03
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
28:05
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific time.
28:09
Speaker 1: Now for another Venny Award. All boy, this is this
28:13
Speaker 1: big one. This is a big one time. Now for
28:17
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five beer Drinking Brian Worst Call of
28:20
Speaker 1: the Year. And now, if you're new to the show, rest
28:22
Speaker 1: in peace. Beer drinking Brian. He called up with half
28:25
Speaker 1: pint out in the sticks in Missouri and absolutely horban
28:30
Speaker 1: originally from Minnesota. We love him. He loved our show,
28:34
Speaker 1: could not stop drinking. Unfortunately that did him in. But
28:37
Speaker 1: beer Drinking Brian, we named the award for the worst
28:40
Speaker 1: call of the show because he really is the epitome
28:43
Speaker 1: of suck as a call and he knew it, but
28:45
Speaker 1: he still loved calling the show. And that's what we
28:46
Speaker 1: love about him, and we remember him and honor him
28:49
Speaker 1: with this award for the Worst Caller of the Year.
28:52
Speaker 1: The nominees are Gunner in Minnesota. Well, he certainly earned
28:57
Speaker 1: a lot of votes this year. Gunner with some terrible
29:01
Speaker 1: phone calls from that Walmart breakroom hollering, James in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
29:10
Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechon, who was the rookie Caller of the Year,
29:14
Speaker 1: Poppy in San Diego, and Jerome in Charleston. Those are
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Speaker 1: the nominees. The envelope please gol, thank you, thank you
29:29
Speaker 1: very much. Shall arena here? I hold in the envelope.
29:32
Speaker 1: I will now open the envelope. The winner will be named.
29:34
Speaker 1: Here we go and the winner, the benny goes to
29:46
Speaker 1: Poppy in San Diego. Congratulations Poppy, the winner of the
29:54
Speaker 1: Beer Drigging Brian Worst Caller of the Year job.
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Speaker 6: Poppy second nomination and second win for Worst Caller of
30:03
Speaker 6: the Year.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations Poppy. Back to back another dynasty here. As Poppy
30:08
Speaker 1: stands out now, it was I would say close, but
30:12
Speaker 1: I'd be lying it was. It wasn't really close. Poppy
30:15
Speaker 1: dominated the voting. So congratulations to all the nominees and Poppy,
30:21
Speaker 1: you earned it one bad phone call after another. I
30:24
Speaker 1: don't know how you do it. The consistency of suck
30:27
Speaker 1: that you bring to the show on a nightly basis.
30:29
Speaker 1: God bless you. So you get two golden tickets which
30:32
Speaker 1: will make the show even worse. So congratulations, Poppy ticks. Unbelievable. No,
30:40
Speaker 1: another great speech from a winner. We wing in the
30:44
Speaker 1: believe he won the Benny for Game Show Contestant of
30:47
Speaker 1: the Year. We'll say hello quickly to Manuel in Guardina.
30:50
Speaker 1: Congratulations men well in Gardena on your win.
30:53
Speaker 4: Oh, Benny, Man, I want to thank the militia, want
30:56
Speaker 4: to think Moms, Pops Raider, Joe, Annalisa, and I want
30:59
Speaker 4: to dedicated to the memory of little Manuel from Guardina.
31:05
Speaker 1: Absolutely, my man. Absolutely, Our thoughts are with your pal.
31:08
Speaker 1: Congratulations with other the fans of the show. They love
31:10
Speaker 1: you man, well they do, and they.
31:12
Speaker 4: And I love them right back.
31:14
Speaker 1: Man, all right, you dominated that you got. I mean
31:17
Speaker 1: it was not even close to that category Game Show
31:19
Speaker 1: Contesting the Year, buddy, Thank you, man, appreciate it.
31:22
Speaker 4: Thank you.
31:22
Speaker 1: All right. There's the great Man Well and Guardina. He
31:24
Speaker 1: won Game Show Contest in the Year, beat out coach
31:26
Speaker 1: Russell Kelly and Des Moines, Chris and the Commonwealth, Chris
31:30
Speaker 1: and Boston, Mitch and man Cato. And there's one category
31:34
Speaker 1: left and it's the biggest of them all, the final
31:40
Speaker 1: piece of cake. The biggest piece of cake, The twenty
31:43
Speaker 1: twenty five Genian Medford call of the Year will be
31:47
Speaker 1: revealed next.
31:51
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32:02
Speaker 1: This is the the big finish. Here we go. We
32:06
Speaker 1: have been giving out honors all night into the wee
32:08
Speaker 1: hours of the morning. The final category, the twenty twenty
32:16
Speaker 1: five Genie and Medford Memorial Caller of the Year, the
32:19
Speaker 1: highest honor in overnight sports talk radio, the most coveted prize.
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Speaker 1: The nominees are Andre in the Commonwealth, Marcel, that's right,
32:33
Speaker 1: Marcel in Brooklyn. I'm a doctor whoopee pie Blair from
32:41
Speaker 1: the Great State of Maine. Jed who fled I have
32:45
Speaker 1: a satin nightgown. On earlier, Jed won the Intoxicated Caller
32:51
Speaker 1: helmet Man.
32:53
Speaker 5: Damie, you want to hang out with me?
32:56
Speaker 1: Giving me that good stuff. Helmet Man has been covering
32:59
Speaker 1: the OJ Trial, which is thirty years old as a
33:01
Speaker 1: new event. We'd man hippie from Miami. We've been always
33:08
Speaker 1: a good sport despite having a really crappy life. He's
33:12
Speaker 1: just so happy. It's wild. Manuel in Gardendina, who is
33:18
Speaker 1: the game show contested the year, was just at Manuel
33:20
Speaker 1: on a second ago and Tony in the Bay Area,
33:25
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. I love Tony's work. Those are
33:28
Speaker 1: the nominees and the envelope. Please, Lorena, please.
33:34
Speaker 6: Here's the envelope.
33:35
Speaker 1: I thank you for that. Here we go, a lot
33:38
Speaker 1: of emotions. The benny goes to Marsalad Brookard. Oh my god,
34:01
Speaker 1: Marcel in Brookland is the caller of the year. Marcel
34:07
Speaker 1: got it doneckats, I'm gonna it's unbelievably close voting and
34:16
Speaker 1: Marcel picks up.
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Speaker 6: This is Marcel's fourth caller of the year.
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Speaker 1: Oh snap, yeah, Marcel impact unbelievable. Marcel is actually on hold.
34:29
Speaker 1: Congratulations Marcel, you have won yet again. Four time champion
34:35
Speaker 1: Marcel and broke. Anything you want to say, Marcel, absolutely, sir.
34:38
Speaker 5: Oh I have to say. I'm gonna say Blair hater
34:41
Speaker 5: sucks and I guarantee with the game win, and I'm
34:50
Speaker 5: definitely beating the ARTI Mortersta, I know you will.
34:54
Speaker 1: You're going down next time, Marcel. Marcel when you argue
34:57
Speaker 1: that that win over Larina more impressive than call over
35:00
Speaker 1: the year four times?
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Speaker 5: Oh absolutely. I have to say thank you to all
35:08
Speaker 5: of the Fox Sports radio family.
35:10
Speaker 1: No, no, who cares about them? Only us? We are
35:12
Speaker 1: only us. You don't care about the red of the day.
35:13
Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you, Marcel. Tremendous job, what a win, time,
35:17
Speaker 1: four time champion. Hey, all right, there, prove again again Marcel.
35:25
Speaker 1: And I'm sure i'll get the email from the anti
35:27
Speaker 1: Marcel crowds. Well, I can't believe that guy. What is
35:29
Speaker 1: your worst caller? But Marcel won and he he suck
35:32
Speaker 1: Coulby only edged out weed Man Hippie by what seven votes?
35:35
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was very close, and I was watching throughout
35:39
Speaker 7: the whole week and it was it was pretty cool
35:41
Speaker 7: back and forth.
35:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, congratulations to all the winners and the losers.