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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: The frozen tundra. Not frozen yet. It's early November. Got
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  Speaker 1: to wait a little bit for it to be frozen.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't frozen. But it was a cool night in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: And there we were. Sweet home Chicago. The big game
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend. That's what everyone says. The Sunday night game.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest game, the final chapter of the Sunday card
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  Speaker 1: for Week 9 in the NFL. Baker Mayfield and the
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneer pirate ship entering the stormy waters around the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: And Caleb Williams there visiting the Bears' den. Mike Tirico
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  Speaker 1: not there. Out with some kind of mystery ailment. Who
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  Speaker 1: knows what that is? Hopefully it's nothing big. But he
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  Speaker 1: didn't do the game. And you had Noah Eagle, former
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  Speaker 1: Clippers broadcaster, Noah Eagle... Call the game with Chris Collinsworth
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  Speaker 1: on NBC. There they had the call. Not sure if
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  Speaker 1: you were watching or not. Perhaps you were staring at
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  Speaker 1: a wall. Seems like a fun thing to do. Not sure. Well,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry. We watch so you would not have to watch.
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  Speaker 1: And that is our public service to you. Our good
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  Speaker 1: mitzvah of the day. We checked it out. game was
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  Speaker 1: a blowout early until it wasn't the bears look like
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  Speaker 1: they're going to win this game by 30 points then
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  Speaker 1: they had to play the rest of the game and
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  Speaker 1: in the end chicago needed caleb williams to find colston
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  Speaker 1: loveland on a 38 yard blown coverage by the buccaneers
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  Speaker 1: setting up chip shot basically for a modern kicker chip
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  Speaker 1: shot field goal opportunity for cairo santos the 38-yard out
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  Speaker 1: field goal, 38-yard out field goal. Good time expires. The Bears,
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  Speaker 1: the Bears pick up a sloppy 27-24 victory over Baker
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  Speaker 1: Mayfield and the Buccaneers, a game that featured all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of turnovers. Now, you know how we operate in these parts.
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  Speaker 1: The better story is in the losing locker room, so
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  Speaker 1: we will start out. On the Tampa Bay side of things,
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. The Buccaneers did what many
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  Speaker 1: feel is impossible to do. If you are given the
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  Speaker 1: football as often, as the Tampa Bay football team is
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  Speaker 1: given on that night, you assume there's no way you
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  Speaker 1: can lose. And they somehow did it. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: who gets the biggest piece of the Cuban sandwich for
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  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles, Buccaneers, the Cuban sandwich of blame for Todd Bowles, Buccaneers,
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  Speaker 1: as they go down in flames in this game. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, a couple of interceptions, not nearly as many
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  Speaker 1: as the opposing quarterback, Caleb Williams, had in this game.
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  Speaker 1: There was one massive boner by Baker Mayfield, the pick six,
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  Speaker 1: which gave Chicago the touchdown on the ill-advised pass. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles pointing out that was not the greatest decision
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  Speaker 1: in the world.
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  Speaker 3: He had his mind made up. Probably should have thrown
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  Speaker 3: it somewhere else. Obviously, it's easy to say in hindsight, but,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we don't like turnovers. We've been doing a
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  Speaker 3: good job of not turning it over. We can't turn
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  Speaker 3: it over. He knows that. He understands that.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles. I like Todd Bowles. Not a good coach.
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  Speaker 1: He's a much better soundbite than coach. He's fun. Todd Bowles,
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  Speaker 1: he's not your normal BS artist. Here is Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 1: Good old Baker Mayfield. Couple of turnovers, gave up the
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  Speaker 1: pick six. Somehow was the starting quarterback of a team
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  Speaker 1: that was given the football five times and lost. What
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  Speaker 1: do you have to say for yourself, Baker Mayfield?
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  Speaker 4: Obviously the turnovers for us on intercept. Don't want to
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  Speaker 4: have them ever, but especially when it turns into immediate
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  Speaker 4: points on the pick six. You know, that obviously was
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  Speaker 4: the difference in the game. You know, defense, after they
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  Speaker 4: settled in, played amazing. So it's got to make the throws.
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  Speaker 4: You got to be more accurate. You know, first one,
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  Speaker 4: the guy made a good play on it, drove on
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  Speaker 4: the ball. So you either got to put it outside
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  Speaker 4: or move to the progression. And second one, yeah, location
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  Speaker 4: on the ball. Jalen Johnson right there.
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  Speaker 1: It just, it sucks. Oh, it sucks so bad. All right. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: let's discuss the question. Who gets, as we said, who
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  Speaker 1: gets the biggest piece of the Cuban sandwich of blame
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  Speaker 1: for Todd Bowles and the Buccaneers? So I've got Heinz ketchup,
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  Speaker 1: clogged toilet, and the Waze traffic app. And we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and be absorbed in thought.
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  Speaker 1: We will be absorbed in thought. So, A, let's start
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  Speaker 1: with the obvious. You heard from Baker Mayfield there. That's
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  Speaker 1: the obvious one. You're the quarterback. It's your job to
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  Speaker 1: not F up like that. He F'd up like that.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job by him. And the thing that kills me
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  Speaker 1: about Baker is that this is a guy that came
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  Speaker 1: out here and bitched and complained about his contract. The
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneers were skeptical whether to pay this guy. They've caved
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  Speaker 1: in to public sentiment, which I don't even know if
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  Speaker 1: that was real or not, social media manipulation. So Baker
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  Speaker 1: was out there complaining about his contract during training camp.
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  Speaker 1: The Bucs paid him three years, $ 165 million. And his
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  Speaker 1: quarterback skill, he specializes in swagger. That's his skill. He
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  Speaker 1: does commercials. Oh, he used to do commercials, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of commercials. And occasionally completes a pass. Last week, he
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  Speaker 1: completed no passes in the rain against the Atlanta Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: But Chicago wanted to give this game away. They really did.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't want the game. I don't know why they
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  Speaker 1: didn't want the game. It seems like a game they
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  Speaker 1: should want, but they didn't seem to want the game.
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  Speaker 1: And Baker wasn't having it. He was not going to
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  Speaker 1: allow the Bears to give the game away. Wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to do it. And the Bears were playing Santa Claus.
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  Speaker 1: It is almost the holiday season, but now it is.
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  Speaker 1: We had Halloween, Thanksgiving coming up in a few weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and then Christmas. So they were in the holiday spirit,
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  Speaker 1: the Bears with the Santa Claus, and then Baker Mayfield,
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  Speaker 1: he was the Grinch who stole Tampa Bay's victory and
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  Speaker 1: gave it to Chicago and said, here, you have it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want it. You can have it. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Knock yourself out. They said, okay, we will take it.
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  Speaker 1: The only guy who could find a way, Baker Mayfield,
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  Speaker 1: to lose a game The other team was literally begging
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  Speaker 1: you to win. It was ridiculous how many turnovers Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams had. It was insane. It was like every time
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  Speaker 1: I turned away from the TV, I looked up. There's
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  Speaker 1: another interception and another one and another one and another one.
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  Speaker 1: Another one bites the dust and another one bites the dust.
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's defense delivered a five-course gourmet meal. Five-course gourmet meal.
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  Speaker 1: And Baker Mayfield, the offense, showed up with an expired
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  Speaker 1: bottle of Of Heinz ketchup. And that's what they had. Well, no,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need that. And but I know, but we
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  Speaker 1: brought it. But, you know, you don't need it. And
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  Speaker 1: we know we brought it. So that's we're going to
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  Speaker 1: use it. That's what we're going to do. And it's
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  Speaker 1: like you're winning five free vacations in some raffle and
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  Speaker 1: then somehow ending up at a Motel 6. That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem right. Seemed all that great there. So this follows
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  Speaker 1: this El Stinko from Baker Mayfield following a zero completion
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  Speaker 1: game in the rain, as we said, against the Falcons.
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  Speaker 1: And so Mayfield serving up that 67-yard pick six to
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson of the Bears. And so Tampa Bay, who's
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  Speaker 1: still very much in the thick of everything, even though
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  Speaker 1: they got off to a miserable start because of the division, division, division, division, division,
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  Speaker 1: which is garbage. garbage. There must be a rule. They
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  Speaker 1: can't have good teams in the southern divisions, the AFC
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  Speaker 1: and the NFC. There's so many crap bag teams in
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  Speaker 1: the NFC and the AFC South. It's redonkulous. Meanwhile, to
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago side of things, where Caleb Williams survived the
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  Speaker 1: worst interception nightmare of his football life. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: the media dorks were having a field day with this.
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  Speaker 1: The four interceptions... for Caleb Williams, a historically bad performance
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  Speaker 1: by the Bears quarterback, but Chicago still escapes Soldier Field
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  Speaker 1: with a win. Now, Williams, postgame, he accepted responsibility. He
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  Speaker 1: blamed poor decisions, the throwaways, where generally if you throw
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  Speaker 1: the ball away, you want someone who's eating a hot
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  Speaker 1: dog to get the ball. He decided to throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball away to Tampa Bay, which doesn't seem to make
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  Speaker 1: a lot of sense, but he admitted that was a
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  Speaker 1: bad job by him. So there was a tip pass
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  Speaker 1: that was intercepted. It was one thing after another there
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  Speaker 1: for Caleb Williams, and he did attempt to accept responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: The 36-game streak of avoiding multiple interceptions has ended, and
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  Speaker 1: it ended with a bang. Kaboom! Kaboom, kaboom, kaboom. Yeah, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Williams did come up with the 38-yard pass play, as
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  Speaker 1: we talked about, if you saw the game, to Colston Loveland,
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  Speaker 1: which set up the really makeable field goal, which was
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  Speaker 1: made by Cairo Santos. So the Bears win anyway. Here
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  Speaker 1: is Caleb Williams pointing out that, hey, listen, no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do what I'm going to do. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I do.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to throw until I can't throw anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I live.
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  Speaker 5: I work my tail off to be in this position.
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  Speaker 1: I'll never not throw the ball.
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  Speaker 5: I could throw 100 picks in one game. i'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: if if it comes down to it i'm gonna throw
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  Speaker 5: that that pass that i threw to colston or or
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  Speaker 5: if it's a tighter window i'm gonna rip it in
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  Speaker 5: there and so that's how i grew up that's what
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  Speaker 5: i am uh i don't i don't get i don't
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  Speaker 5: get gun shy that's that's not me that's that's not
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  Speaker 5: my uh my identity that's not who i am and
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  Speaker 5: so uh with that i'm gonna keep ripping it keep
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  Speaker 5: ripping it and uh coach calls it it's time to
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  Speaker 5: go make a play go through my reads um if
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  Speaker 5: it's not there check it down the shots there take it.
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  Speaker 1: So he contradicted himself at the end, but the Bears
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  Speaker 1: are porked if that's the way he's going to play.
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  Speaker 1: They're cooked. They are so screwed. They're not going to
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  Speaker 1: win anything with this guy. They're done if that's the
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  Speaker 1: way he's going to approach it. He tried to couch
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  Speaker 1: it a little bit at the end. That sounds to
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  Speaker 1: me like a loser quarterback. You just threw four interceptions. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he tried, you know, with some of these sound bites
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  Speaker 1: I saw, he was trying to be accountable. Then he
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  Speaker 1: comes back and says, no, no, I'm going to continue
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  Speaker 1: to chuck the ball no matter what. That's a good
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  Speaker 1: way to get yourself a podcast and not play quarterback
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  Speaker 1: anymore in the NFL. All right. So the question is
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  Speaker 1: the Bears quarterback Caleb Williams becoming the NFL's ultimate high
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  Speaker 1: wire act. You got to, you know, what do you got?
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  Speaker 1: Equal parts Houdini and evil Knievel mixed in there. A
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  Speaker 1: little bit of this, a little bit of that. So
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  Speaker 1: based on that response that we heard, how do you
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  Speaker 1: not nod your head yes? Based on that, you said
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  Speaker 1: the numbers don't back that up. Now the Mallard diagnosis
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  Speaker 1: on this particular game. Let me make my elevator pitch.
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  Speaker 1: I came up with this on the long drive from
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  Speaker 1: the Northwoods here to the studio. So here is the
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  Speaker 1: Mallard diagnosis that I believe Caleb Williams is trying to
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  Speaker 1: impress an exotic bird. the Peacock, that this was an
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  Speaker 1: island game. Island game, NBC, national television, big audience, not
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  Speaker 1: regional coverage. This was the national broadcast. You had Chris
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  Speaker 1: Collinsworth there who was serving up, if you had the
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  Speaker 1: audio up the first half, serving up a supersized, mega, mega, mega,
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  Speaker 1: big gulp, 7-11 slurpee. Slurpee, slurpee, slurpee all over Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 1: It was X-rated that first quarter. My God, that was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: That was quarterback worship to a T from Chris Collinsworth.
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  Speaker 1: And then the game kept going, and that was where
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  Speaker 1: the problem settled in. Caleb, it seemed like he must
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  Speaker 1: not have been hearing the broadcast. It seemed like he did, though.
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  Speaker 1: He got a little drunk there with his own head.
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  Speaker 1: Superman syndrome, you want to call it? After weeks of
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  Speaker 1: relatively clean football for the Bears, the sporadic malfunctions popped
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  Speaker 1: off for Caleb Williams against Tampa Bay. Second, third quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and Williams hopping aboard. the express plane on the vomit comet.
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  Speaker 1: And he was right there forcing throws, chasing the highlight,
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  Speaker 1: real glory. As he talked about, he said, that's who
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  Speaker 1: I am. That's who I want to be. And that's
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  Speaker 1: who he's going to be. And the bears aren't going
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  Speaker 1: to win jack squat with him playing like that. So
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  Speaker 1: good luck. You're cooked. Bad job. Bad job. Unless somebody
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  Speaker 1: can somehow mess with the mind of Caleb Williams. Good
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  Speaker 1: luck on this. That is the worst possible scenario. I
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  Speaker 1: just threw four. Hey, Caleb, you just threw four interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: What are you going to do? I'm going to throw
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  Speaker 1: four more, baby. Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: way to go. Outstanding. Yeah. He played quarterback like a
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  Speaker 1: teenager trying to impress their prom date, you know, trying
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  Speaker 1: to put on a show. And I'm pretty sure based
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  Speaker 1: on the first, The first couple of interceptions, really just
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  Speaker 1: all of them, but the first two in particular, it
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  Speaker 1: was like Caleb giving the Bears fans some food poisoning,
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  Speaker 1: and then he, at the very end, was able to
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  Speaker 1: hand them some Pepto-Bismol on the final drive, which set
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  Speaker 1: up the game-winning field goal. So congratulations, you cleaned up
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  Speaker 1: your mess, and so you don't get the full wrath
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  Speaker 1: that you would have gotten had the outcome been different
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  Speaker 1: and Tampa Bay wins, but we are... true here on
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  Speaker 1: these microphones. We don't need the final score to dictate
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  Speaker 1: the commentary. We can give you the real commentary no
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  Speaker 1: matter what, and based on the soundbite and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, you don't get credit for winning a
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  Speaker 1: game you were favored by, what was it, six-point line?
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  Speaker 1: Chicago favored by six. They were up two touchdowns early
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  Speaker 1: and then needed to make a play late just to
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  Speaker 1: end up in a tie game in the final minute
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  Speaker 1: to win the game against an under-500 Tampa Bay team.
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  Speaker 6: So....
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  Speaker 1: Good luck on that. Caleb Williams is like the guy
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  Speaker 1: that clogs the toilet. You clog the toilet, and then
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  Speaker 1: you demand a standing ovation because you found the plunger,
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  Speaker 1: which was in the other room for some reason, and
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  Speaker 1: you had to go looking for the plunger. And so
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  Speaker 1: you want credit because you found the plunger. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: don't get credit for finding the plunger. You clogged the toilet.
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  Speaker 1: A bad job by you. All right, last word. So
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  Speaker 1: big picture here. Big picture now. Question, where do the
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson-coached Bears sit among the NFL's big boys? Where
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  Speaker 1: do they sit? So I have Chicago on Big Ben's
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  Speaker 1: big board. Not a list. We used to have this guy, Terry,
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  Speaker 1: in England who quit the show. But when he was
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  Speaker 1: a regular listener, he would complain about lists. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a list. This is a big board. It's a big board, right?
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  Speaker 1: And so Chicago, if you look at the big board there,
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  Speaker 1: Chicago is in the good, not great category. The Maller
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  Speaker 1: report card on the state of the Bears as we
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  Speaker 1: are at the midway point, week nine of the NFL season.
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  Speaker 1: It's an 18-week season. So the Maller report card, the
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  Speaker 1: Bears are, it's promising. However, the report is an I. Incomplete.
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  Speaker 1: Gold star for effort. Seven and two, sexy record and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And then the occasional stupidity of the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: So Ben Johnson, certainly they've upgraded from where they were
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  Speaker 1: before Ben Johnson got there. There's no question about that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still not convinced. Now, on a positive note, I
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  Speaker 1: will be Benny Brightside. Yeah, the jury's out on Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams and his soundbite made you think they're never going
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  Speaker 1: to win anything because that's the kind of stuff that
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  Speaker 1: loser quarterbacks say. I'm not going to change. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to keep doing what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. So not. Mr. Smooth. He just needed to
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  Speaker 1: dump the ball off and play conservative. He had a
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  Speaker 1: two-touchdown lead. Tampa's not doing much of anything. And he
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  Speaker 1: went for the razzle-dazzle is what he went for. But
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  Speaker 1: the positivity is this. When you look at the traffic
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  Speaker 1: situation in the NFL halfway through the season, I looked
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  Speaker 1: at the Waze traffic app. They have a special NFL
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  Speaker 1: feature on that. So I looked at the NFL feature,
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  Speaker 1: and it showed right there the Bears– are right in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of what's called a gridlock situation on the highway.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of gridlock here. There's nobody that I've looked
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  Speaker 1: at that I say is head and shoulders above everyone
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  Speaker 1: else in the NFL at this point. Do you see anybody?
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  Speaker 1: It was supposed to be the Rams. And the Rams
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  Speaker 1: won again. They're over 500 and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Meh.
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo is 6-1. They've got a really nice record. One loss,
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  Speaker 1: all that. Terrible defense. Absolute god-awful defense. Horrific defense. However,
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  Speaker 1: they are the top team in the AFC. The Broncos
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  Speaker 1: don't have a quarterback, and they're 7-2. Jacksonville plays in
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  Speaker 1: a suck-bag division. They're 6-2. Pittsburgh's a plotting team. They're 6-2.
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City has been up and down a couple of
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  Speaker 1: bad losses, and then they bounce back and beat up
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  Speaker 1: the Jets. So they got a couple of losses. And
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  Speaker 1: then the 49ers have to deal with that electrical substation
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC. That's a problem. The Minnesota Vikings, they
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  Speaker 1: don't have a quarterback. The Giants play in a suck
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  Speaker 1: bag division. Nobody takes them seriously. Carolina right now would
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• 18:01
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• 18:06
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• 18:08
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• 19:19
  Speaker 1: So, lead story. We continue our in-depth team coverage. NFL
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Week 9. There's one game left on Monday night, but
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: we are continuing to put under the Malheur Microscope the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: games that took place on Sunday. One of those games
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: in Landover, Maryland. Where Miles Garrett actually played a game
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: for the Rams again. First time he's worn a Ram
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: uniform in North America. Remember that sham game the Rams
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: played in Australia where they didn't show up? Well, they
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: did show up, but they didn't show up. if you
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, losing to the 49ers. Well, Myles
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Garrett returned from, oh, my knee! He had a knee operation,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: and he came out a man on a mission. Vengeance. Vengeance.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: He had not one, not two, but three sacks, six pressures,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and a partridge in a pear tree. The Rams... end
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: up winning 20-13, just 20 points for the Rams, 20-13
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: over Jaden Daniels and Washington. And Myles Garrett only played. 60%
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of the defensive snaps. So he was not a full-time player.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Barely over half the snaps, Myles Garrett able to play.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: He said it was a weight off his shoulders as
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: he was out there causing some heartache to Jaden Daniels there,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the commander's quarterback. He had a strip sack on one
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: of his key defensive plays there for the Rams. Two
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: fourth-quarter takedowns. And he paired up with Aaron Donald. The
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, Aaron Donald tag team. Donald and Garrett, the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: law firm. I don't think they're ambulance chasing lawyers, but
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: they were out there. And providing immediate fireworks. Kaboom! Right there.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: So Garrett... In his career, going back to his Cleveland
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Brown days, 128.5 career sacks. And he says, I am
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: nowhere near where I need to be. I am not
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: even close to full strength. He let the media know
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: after the game. His message to the opponents, he, of course,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: was very calm, cool, and collected and not arrogant at
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: all when he said he is the Rams' closer. Okay.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: But you only have that in baseball. I didn't realize
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: he had a closer name. That is a good jumping
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. Is Miles Garrett
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the missing ingredient that turns the Rams into legitimate Super
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Bowl contenders as they were supposed to be before the season?
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: They have not been that. Does this move solidify? Sean
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: McVay's Rams, Miles Garrett back in the lineup. So I've
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: got Hobnobbing, Scatterbrain, and El Monterey. And we will combine
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: all of these things together, and we are going to
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: strike a blow, blow, blow, blow. That's what we're going
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: to do. All right, so to answer the question, number one.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Number one, number one, number one.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Number one.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I am nodding my head yes. That's my answer to
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the question. I'm told I have to expand on that.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure when the Rams made that deal
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: with the factory of sadness, they ordered out of the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: catalog the Terminator. That's what they want. I want the Terminator.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I'll give you all my draft picks. I don't care.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Have this other guy your teammates hate there in Cleveland.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: You can have him too. I want the Terminator. That's
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: what they ordered out of the catalog. And for weeks
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and weeks and weeks, the Rams got a Roomba with
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: a dead battery. That's what they got. That was Miles Garrett.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: A whole lot of nothing. But there he was on Sunday.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: The Terminator finally arrived. Just in time for the coolness
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: of the November part of the calendar there. And let's
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: be honest here. The Rams, when they made that transaction,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: and they went all in on this season, which we
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: don't have a problem with, but when they made the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: deal with the Factory of Sadness to get Miles Garrett,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: they did not trade. The Rams did not trade all
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: those draft picks for Miles Garrett to become a Hollywood
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: socialite and hang out at those cocktail parties and... And
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: sipping that cucumber water and hobnobbing with the Kardashians. That
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: is not why they made the deal. They wanted the cyborg.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: That's what they wanted. The human wrecking ball. The exterminator.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: And that's what they got, at least in this game. Now, granted,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Washington's offensive line provides really good customer service. Really good
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: customer service. Better customer service than, like, the Ritz-Carlton. They're
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: very kind to people that visit. Really nice there. The Washington,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: what used to be called the Redskins. Very nice. Practically
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: escorting Miles Garrett to the quarterback. Ole, ole, ole, ole.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Matadors on the offensive line. So there you go. Now,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and give Miles Garrett
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a standing ovation. A lot of the media, they're puckering
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: up and they're licking the toes of Miles Garrett and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: all that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: We don't.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Do that here. He did what he's paid an obscene
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: amount of money to do. Good for him. Nevertheless, the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Rams offense, that's the thing. They're continued despite having the
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: reigning MVP from last year, the Rams offense, traveling by
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: covered wagon down the Oregon Trail. And they're going to
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: get some kind of illness here. Good luck on that.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, supposed to be the SpaceX rocket, at least
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: for the defense. And if you have a great defense,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: you can get by scoring 20 points like the Rams
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: did in this game. And so you've got Miles Garrett
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and Aaron Donald, the NFL's version of a double root
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: canal for the opposition. And there's no anesthesia, so you
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: just got to deal with it. And there's no insurance,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: so you don't have to worry about that. And the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: quarterback gets the bill. All right, meanwhile, to L.A. we go.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: The other team in L.A., the Chargers. They're so bad.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: How bad are they? They're the worst team in the NFL,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the Chargers, who had that on their big board before
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the season. Chargers' nightmare season rolls on. They hit yet
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: another pothole. Our buddy Mr. Irrigation smiling from ear to
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: ear deep in the heart of Texas there in Houston.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: It's his Texas. Molly whopped the Chargers. Justin Herbert injured
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: his left middle finger. That's his non-throwing hand. As the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Texans doubled up the Chargers 44-22. The final, a public
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: humiliation yet again at the hands of Houston. As the L.A.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: defense turned C.J. Stroud into Peyton Manning 2.0. As the
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Bolts quarterback injured, that's the headline getting a lot of attention.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh overruled Herbert. He said he wanted to stay
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in the game. And Harbaugh said, no, we're going to
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: take you out. Possible fractured finger. Herbert did say he
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: expects to play against Baltimore on a game that is
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: for friends and family only. Might as well be put
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: on a different channel a week from today, a week
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: from this Monday here, next Monday. Chargers and Ravens. Why
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: are they putting that game on TV? Because it was
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: scheduled to be on TV. Because those teams looked like
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: they were going to be good today. a couple months ago. Unfortunately,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: that's why they play the games. Anyway, the other storyline
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: here is Mike McDaniel, the kombucha tea drinking, nut job
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator there, former Dolphin coach Mike McDaniel, who moved
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to the coaches box. We talked about this at the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: end of last week and talked about getting a different
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: perspective on the game, having a bird's eye view on
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: what was going on here. This is going to change
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: things up for the Chargers. And how'd that go? Well,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: he did have a bird's eye view of the latest debacle.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: The latest debacle here for the Chargers. In fact, they
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: trailed 31-9. entering the fourth quarter. I didn't play in
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the NFL. I don't think that's good. I do not
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: think when you're down 31-9, that is particularly good. We
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: have some audio? Who do we have? All right, here
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: is Jim Harbaugh, who's asked every week about his offensive coordinator,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, and here's the latest bullcrap answer by Jim Harbaugh.
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: Go to that microcosm of the game, moving the ball.
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: We weren't as good in the third down as the
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: Texans were. defensively. We're as good as the Texans were
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: offensively on third down, and we weren't as good defensively
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: on third down. That was another part of the game
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: that we just got beat.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's one way to say, yes, you got beat.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: There you go. So Mike McDaniel moves to the coach's box,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and El Stinko continues there for the Chargers. Houston sacking
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert eight times. Herbert threw his NFL-leading 11th interception.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Congratulations on that. Chargers did end their 8th touchdown draft,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: which is, I believe, a couple games without a touchdown.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: They remain winless. 0-8 on the year. They have the
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: imperfect season in their sights. They can do it. I
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: believe in this team. I think they're just bad enough
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: they can pull off the 0-17. Now, Dumb luck says
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: they'll win at least one or two games. But here
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: we are halfway home and they haven't won anything. So
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the Chargers, is this rock bottom? I think they can
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: go lower. I think they haven't reached bedrock yet. I
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: don't think this is rock bottom. So the question, what
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: is the bigger problem for the Chargers? Mike McDaniel's offensive
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: scheme or Justin Herbert's crap bag decision-making strategy? Just a
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: dysfunctional offensive line. They've got all this stuff going on.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: And so you make the call here. What is the
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: bigger problem? So reveal answers. The answer is all of
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the above is the answer. That's it. All of the above.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh changed the seating arrangement, as we pointed out here. Unfortunately,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: they forgot to change the offensive play calling. And McDaniel,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: as we said there, bird's eye view offensively. of the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: latest debacle down by 22 points going to the fourth
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: quarter of this game. The press box experiment for the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Chargers offensive coordinator. That's essentially cosmetic surgery on a corpse.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: It's really rather pointless at this moment here. Now, we said,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and I maintain this, that you've got to keep going now.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Make this entertaining. I want to see Mike McDaniel in
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the Goodyear blimp, and I want to see him calling
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the plays from the blimp in the next Charger home game.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Or road game, for that matter. I don't care. Do
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: it home, do it road, doesn't matter. Now, meanwhile, Justin Herbert...
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: We'll say the quiet part out loud. This guy is
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: an epic scatterbrain, Justin Herbert. You talk about suffering from
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: amnesia on how to play quarterback at an elite level,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and this guy, whoo-wee, P.U., what stinks? My God, yes,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: is the offensive line good? No, it's not good for
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the Chargers. I'm not going to sit here and advocate
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: for the offensive line for the Chargers. Pressure happens in
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the NFL. It does all the time. But instead of adjusting,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: instead of realizing, hey, wait a minute, this offensive line's
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: not very good, and we might have to adjust, make
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: some quick throws here, run the layered root tree concept,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: and try to neutralize the pass rush. Instead of doing
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that stuff, no, no, no, let's just stand there and
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: suffer panic attacks. That's what we ought to do. Yeah,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: that makes sense. Why not? Herbert, there's a skill that separates,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: one of the skills that separates the good quarterbacks from
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the great quarterbacks is called sack avoidance. Justin Herbert appears
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: to have no ability to avoid sacks. He might as
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: well be a statue, like the Statue of Liberty or something,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: put him out there. He can't avoid sacks. What happened
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: to sack avoidance? Where did that skill go? Just a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: deer in the headlights yet again. Throw the ball away, dude.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Throw the ball away. You're supposed to be able to
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: feel pressure. Now, some of those sacks, I get it,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: but not all eight sacks. In fact, maybe there were
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a couple of them that you say, okay, that's on
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the offensive line. There's nothing Justin Herbert could have done.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: The other ones, a lot of them are on him. And, oh,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: you can't rip him. He's the quarterback. He's the pretty boy. Oh,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: my God. Now, that doesn't mean Josh McDaniels is doing
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: a great job. But you're the franchise quarterback, and you
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: don't know what you're doing. My God, throw the ball away. Now,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the other thing, too, watching the Chargers, and you're reminded
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: that the ownership there has gone to Wendy's. They got
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: a giant Frosty there, and they've eaten it too fast
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: because they're suffering from permanent brain freeze. No one... No
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: one loses their job. We live in the age of
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: professional sports where it's common knowledge if you don't succeed,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: if you fail at this level, people lose their job.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: People get traded. The trade deadline's tomorrow, so we'll see
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: if any of that happens. But at this particular moment,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you look at that situation with the chart. Where's the ownership? Well,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh's making a lot of money. Can't fire Jim Harbaugh. Okay,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: what about McDaniel? McDaniel's getting paid by the Dolphins. From
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: what I've heard, he's still getting paid a lot of
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: money from Miami, so it's not like the Chargers are
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: paying him a lot of money. Why do you have
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: loyalty to him? And Justin Herbert, how many more of
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: these games does he have to have? He's already been
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: a choke artist in the big moments in the playoffs,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: and he's gotten a mulligan for that. This is just terrible.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Eight for eight in losses. And they just have this
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: brain freeze. Nothing changes. Now, meanwhile, we head to the Bayou.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And what happened there? Well, Tyler Schuch connected with Jawan Johnson,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: who 15-yard touchdown pass in overtime. And the Saints able
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: to stave off defeat on the final play of the game.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: A wild finish. They beat Cleveland 23-22. Backup quarterback Schroeder.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Sanders getting the start there for the Brownies. He had
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: a 39-yard catch-and-run touchdown pass in overtime. But Cleveland said,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: we're going for two. I don't have a problem with it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Not my job. They went for two. They gambled on
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the two-point conversion and did not go well. They came up.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: With Snake Eyes, when they needed a couple of sixes,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: they got Snake Eyes. That's a problem. And so New
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Orleans gets to three and five. They're bad. The Browns
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: drop to five and four. They're bad. Their record doesn't
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: show it quite yet. Now, the story, obviously, is Shadur Sanders.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: And you had Bill Cowher come out here and announce
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: that Mr. Boring over there at CBS, Bill Cowher, about how,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Shadur Sanders should be the quarterback going forward for the Browns.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: So here's the question. Thumbs up or thumbs down? Did
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Shadur Sanders show enough to earn another shot as the
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Cleveland quarterback? So thumbs up, thumbs down. I'm going to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: go thumbs down. Now, as a talk show host, I
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: go thumbs up. But just watching as a quarterback, I
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: go thumbs down. I realize that's an unpopular opinion, that
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the algorithm loves Shadur Sanders and he's beloved. I didn't
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: watch every second of this game. Now, when I flipped
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: over to this game, the play that I saw from
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Shadur Sanders, he was the same guy that he had
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: been last year. And that's not good. That's not good. Now,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the numbers were a little better, and there were a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: couple of big plays that he made, and so you say, well,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: it is a lot different. I didn't get the sense
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: it was all that much different. The same reasons that
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the Browns went to the creepy quarterback, Deshaun Watson, are
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: still there, that there's not a lot of trust with Schroeder, Sanders,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and all that. The hype train, though, is down the tracks. Choo-choo!
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Way down the tracks there. It is, and we get it.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Everyone's all excited and all that. They get the two wheels,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: and he's the conductor on top, and he's blowing his
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: own whistle and that whole thing. Shooter saying to me
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: is the same El Monterey microwaved bean and cheese burrito
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: from last year. It's the same thing. We sampled that
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: last year, and it wasn't all that good. Just inconsistent.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Put some different. Different paper, little wrapper. Changed the wrapper
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: on that. The ingredients still, you know, not that great.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Not overwhelming. Now, he gave Cleveland a couple of fireworks.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that he didn't. There were
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: some big, big pass plays. Big pass plays there for
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Shadur Sanders. And then the Browns, though, they need someone
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: who can complete the short passes consistently and not just
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: light a Roman candle there. Every now and then, two
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: or three Roman candles, and then the rest of the time,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of duds. A lot of duds here. Now,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I realize the Marching and Chowder Society for Shadur Sanders,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the fan club, they're celebrating those big pass plays like
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: NASA just landed a man on Jupiter. I don't think
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: that's the same. I might be wrong on that. I
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: don't believe that's exactly the same here. He had a 31%
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  Speaker 1: success rate, Shadur Sanders, on dropbacks. That is the second
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  Speaker 1: worst for the Browns all season, which I don't think
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  Speaker 1: is good. Oh, you're being mean, Maller! I know. I'm
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: being a schmuck. You can't build an NFL offense around
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: waiting for the opposing secondary to have a meltdown. Now,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: when you play the Saints, okay, I get it. That's
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: a suckbag team, the Saints. And they do make their
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: fair share of mistakes. But you live by the home
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: run and you die by the strikeout. And it's like
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  Speaker 1: getting a couple of slices of cheesecake and saying, I'm
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: going to survive on that until March. I'm just going
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: to eat the two pieces of cheesecake and that's all
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do. So despite what Bill Cowher said
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  Speaker 1: on TV, I'm not there. The Browns quarterback of the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: future is some kid in college somewhere. It is not
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  Speaker 1: Shadur Sanders. It certainly isn't Deshaun Watson. It's a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: to be named later. So Shadur did not lock himself
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: into the job, did not handcuff himself. to QB1 status.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: Pacific. Here we go, here we go, here we go,
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  Speaker 1: here we go, here we go, here we go.
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  Speaker 5: It's Maller.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go. To the third degree. Here we go.
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  Speaker 7: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
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  Speaker 7: And earlier this weekend, it was reported that Lamar Jackson
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  Speaker 7: told his teammates that he plans to return this season.
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: Do you think that would be a bad idea by him?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: No, not necessarily. If he can't come back, assuming the
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Ravens are actually a playoff team, which at this point
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: it's a toss-up, Coop. Yeah, I think it would be
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  Speaker 1: cool if he came back because he's got some demons.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: As you know, the playoff Lamar Jackson is a real thing.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: He rides the vomit comet in big games in the
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: playoffs more times than not. And that's a stigma that
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: he's acquired over the years. So if he can come
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: back and play, I'm all for it. I'd much rather
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: watch him play than Jacoby Brissett.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: Next! The Michigan Wolverines had an ugly loss at home
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: to Michigan State. It caused them to fire their offensive coordinator,
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: Jason Beck.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Ben, how much longer do you think Kyle Winningham has?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Well, they just hired him, Coop. I mean, he literally
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: just got the job. He sucks. He's not doing a
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: good job. Didn't they cost that guy, it was like
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: $ 10 million, I read, that that's how much they got
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: to pay for the offensive coordinator. As we say with
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: all these things, Coop, it comes down to can you
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: find a booster to cut a check? Adam Schefter is
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: a Michigan booster. Maybe he can cut a check. I
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: don't know. There's a bunch of Michigan guys. All they
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: need is somebody to cut a check, and then they'll
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: have a new coach.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Next!
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Conflicting reports, Ben.
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: Jonathan Taylor delivered what sounded like a goodbye, but they're
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: saying that they're not going to trade him.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: They will trade him. What's going to happen? Oh, and
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: he got a trade. What's the point of keeping him?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: The trade deadline's on Tuesday. The Colts suck. He's a
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: running back. Give me one reason to keep him. How
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: do we do, Kubalu? That is a win. Put it
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: on the board. Winner, winner, winner.
• 40:18
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• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Hey, you sports figure guy or girl. Who the hell
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: are you talking to, son? Here's some instant advice. Hold
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: that thought.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: No one's paid attention to me for 10 whole seconds.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: And if you don't like it, screw you. All right,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: away we go. It's the instant advice line. And I
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: think Sean Payton needs some advice here. He got upset
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: with a reporter. We talked about this earlier here. Sean
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Payton upset with a reporter. who he thought was smoking
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: a cigarette during a news conference. It turned out it
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: was not a cigarette. It was a pencil. So any
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: advice to Sean Payton? And let me point out here,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: our guy Andy, the bluegrass radio man, who I met
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: at the great event we did there in Kentucky yesterday,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Slash Cincinnati. Earlier this year. He thought maybe Sean Payton's
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: got some kind of smoking thing. He's upset. So any
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: advice to Sean Payton? 877-99 on Fox. Sean Payton snapping
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  Speaker 1: at a reporter he thought was smoking a cigarette. Turned out.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: It was a pencil. Pencil. Line one, you're on the air,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: line one. Instant advice line, on-screen radio. The safety net
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  Speaker 1: is off. You're live on the air. It's a good
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: way for us to fatten up our call totals. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: line two. You're on the air, line two. Yeah, morning time. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Rick in Maryland. That's right, morning time.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, look, I ain't got nothing, but.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: If you can't beat them, the eggs must be too hard.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. That's the problem. Line two, you're on
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  Speaker 1: the air, line two. Advice to Sean Payton. He snapped it, reporter.
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  Speaker 1: He thought smoking a cigarette was just a pencil. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: line number two. Line two is not there. We're going
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: to line three at 877-99 on Fox. A lot of calls. Hello,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: line three. Now that Bill Belichick's no longer in the league,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: does he think he needs to be the D-bag coach?
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: There's a fair amount of D-bags. That guy in Philadelphia
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: is a bit of a D-bag. Hello, line three. You're
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: on the air, line three.
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  Speaker 8: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: I say hey. Okay. Hello. Yes, call. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 1: It's the instant advice line for Sean Payton at 877-99
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  Speaker 1: on Fox. Hello. Line number four.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: We'll go over to line two. Line two is ringing.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: We're giving advice to Broncos coach Sean Payton, who asked
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: a reporter to stop smoking a cigarette. Unfortunately, the reporter
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: was apparently smoking a pencil. Hello. Line two. Don't come
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: to the desk because they suck.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: I couldn't understand that, but I don't know what he said.
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  Speaker 1: But it's probably all right. Yes, line three. You're on
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  Speaker 1: the air, line three.
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  Speaker 8: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yellow cigarette.
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  Speaker 7: What you thinking about, Sean?
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Exactly. What kind of cigarette is that? Come on, man.
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  Speaker 1: Line four. You're on the air, line four. Hello. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for that. Was that the original? Was that
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: an impersonator? I think it was the original. Go ahead,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: line five. You're on the air, line five.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Line five, going once, going twice. We're going to line six.
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  Speaker 1: Line six, hello.
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: The autumn wind is a crop-dusted midget.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you for that. Line one, you're on
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: the air. It's the Insta advice line on screen radio.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Broncos coach Sean Payton snapping at a reporter he thought
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: was smoking a cigarette, but it was just a pencil.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: So advice to Sean Payton. Hello, line two. Don't knock
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: it until you try it. Okay, thank you. Yes, line three.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: You're on the air, line three.
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  Speaker 8: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Best radio show ever. That's right. There you go. Line four. Hello,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: line four. You're on the air. We're giving advice to
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton, the Broncos coach who thought a reporter was
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: smoking a cigarette. It turns out it was just a pencil. Hello.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: You're on the air, caller. Chill out and smoke a
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: bowl with Koopaloop.
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  Speaker 7: Hey!
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  Speaker 1: Loser.
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  Speaker 3: Broncos.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: That's the mashed potato man, Slug. That's Slug right there, Koop.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: That's the man, the myth, the legend. Slug's... He sounds
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: upset about his team. Yeah, that's tough. You know, you thought...
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Taking out on the Broncos. All right, one more quickly, Koop.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Last one. Pick the call. Line six. Line six. You're
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: on the line six. Go! I said don't come to
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: the Jets because... All right, don't go to the Jets.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Stay away from the Jets. All Jets.