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Hour 3 - Not the New Normal · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Oh, what is going on? Welcome in. Happy early Friday morning.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Very early hours. Appreciate you checking out the show. A
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: lot going on over here. Brewers moving on to the
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: World Series. They sweep the Dodgers. Another come from behind win. Unreal, man.
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  Speaker 1: Got to give the Brewers a ton of credit. Bullpen
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  Speaker 1: was fantastic. Hit more homers than the Dodgers in the NLCS.
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  Speaker 1: And it seemed like when Otani hit a three-run homer,
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers have a 4-0 lead. It's like, well, looks like
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  Speaker 1: they're going to avoid the sweep, most likely. Nope. Think again.
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  Speaker 1: Not the case whatsoever. Timely hitting. Not there for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: And they crash and burn. I do think, and I
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: let off the show with this. I'll restate it real
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  Speaker 1: fast here. And feel free, if you have baseball thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: get on in here. Football thoughts. Anything beyond the water
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  Speaker 1: is inviting. Do a little cannonball into the maller militia
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  Speaker 1: fill in hours if you will you're more than welcome
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  Speaker 1: um the whole thing about payroll let's not go crazy
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  Speaker 1: all right the dodgers won the past two world series
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  Speaker 1: with a ridiculous payroll they fell short this year let's
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  Speaker 1: not act like You know, Moneyball wins out. Oh, look
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  Speaker 1: at the big bad Yankees. Look at them. They did nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the big bad Dodgers. Big payroll. They did nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the upstarts. Look at these teams with the
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  Speaker 1: minuscule payrolls. The Rays. The Brewers. The Guardians. All these
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  Speaker 1: teams are still left. They're still left standing. It's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's true. But you know as well as I do,
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  Speaker 1: more times than not, that's not the way it goes.
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  Speaker 1: There are always exceptions to the norm. But don't Don't
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  Speaker 1: confuse an exception with a new norm, okay? And this
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  Speaker 1: isn't me rooting for it. I would love for smaller
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  Speaker 1: payroll teams to be in the mix, for there to
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  Speaker 1: be real parity. That's what makes the NFL so great.
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  Speaker 1: It has real parity. You have things that happen that,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're five weeks in, right? This is week six.
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  Speaker 1: We have one game in week six so far. And
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  Speaker 1: so far this season, there are things that have happened
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  Speaker 1: where you're like, what if I told you before the season? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers are going to be winless. You'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: when they don't have one, they're probably going to be
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  Speaker 1: winless through week nine. Their first nine games are probably
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  Speaker 1: going to have zero wins. You know, and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: there are plenty of things that I could just tap
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  Speaker 1: you on the shoulder and be like, oh, yeah, actually,
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders, they've got three more wins than the Chargers
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  Speaker 1: at this stage. Raiders also beat them outright. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that that's going to be a thing. What else has
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  Speaker 1: been crazy that would be really surprising? The Vikings are
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  Speaker 1: going to be 5-0 with really no offense. It's like, wow, really?
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  Speaker 1: No kidding. That's where we are. There are crazy things
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  Speaker 1: that happen in the NFL. The Eagles stink. The Chargers stink.
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  Speaker 1: The defending champion Seahawks are now a 500 football team.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams, who were talked to be maybe a super team,
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  Speaker 1: they're 2-3. They've got a losing record right now. So
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  Speaker 1: there are crazy things that happen all the time in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. It's not the same thing that happens in MLB.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. Well, you can have the parody discussion
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  Speaker 1: all you want. I know my former partner, Rob Parker,
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  Speaker 1: I can almost hear him in my head. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there hasn't been a repeat winner since, you know, whatever
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  Speaker 1: is saying all that type of stuff. It's like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: we look, just look at the standings. Where can you
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  Speaker 1: point to some of the things that happened in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL happening in baseball? Who's the super team that has
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  Speaker 1: a losing record in baseball, right? That's what the Rams
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  Speaker 1: were supposed to be. They've got a losing record right
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  Speaker 1: now through five games. That's a chunk of the MLB season.
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  Speaker 1: So we're what five games in. So that's over a
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  Speaker 1: quarter of the way. What's a quarter. We're talking over
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  Speaker 1: 40 games. We're talking 40, 50 games. What rumored super
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  Speaker 1: team in baseball has a losing record in The first
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  Speaker 1: 50-ish games of the season. That's not a thing. It's
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  Speaker 1: just not a thing that happens. I'm all for parity
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. I think it's awesome for the sport.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's awesome for the league. I'd be all
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  Speaker 1: for parity in baseball. I want there to be a
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  Speaker 1: salary cap in baseball. It would absolutely lead to more
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  Speaker 1: real parity. Season in, season out. Not just one-off against
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  Speaker 1: the grain, outside the norm type stuff. You're getting outside
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  Speaker 1: the norm results in the baseball playoffs this season. That's
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  Speaker 1: not the norm at all. It's not like these payrolls
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  Speaker 1: that are in the 20s and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be smacking around teams that have $ 400
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  Speaker 1: million payrolls with tax implications. That's just not, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be reasonable here. So I just would not confuse
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  Speaker 1: this with being the new norm. With that being said,
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot's going to be made about the payroll.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that you have to consider the path,
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  Speaker 1: the wear and tear, the grind of the Dodgers trying
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  Speaker 1: to three-peat. I think it's very similar to what happened
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  Speaker 1: with the Chiefs. You can't sit here and tell me
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  Speaker 1: that the grind of three straight Super Bowl appearances didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a mammoth impact on on the Chiefs getting punked
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  Speaker 1: by the Eagles. That's exactly what played into it. It's
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  Speaker 1: not to take any credit away from the Eagles or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that. But you can't sit here with a
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  Speaker 1: straight face and say that had nothing to do with
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  Speaker 1: the outcome whatsoever. Of course it did. It had a
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  Speaker 1: lot to do with it. It had a lot to
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  Speaker 1: do with the Chiefs the very next season. Last season,
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  Speaker 1: they're 6-11. You don't think that had something to do
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  Speaker 1: with three straight Super Bowl appearances? Of course it did.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of wear and tear. So that's how I
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  Speaker 1: look at it, where the Dodgers, yeah, they have a
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  Speaker 1: crazy high payroll, but the grind of 162 games, the
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  Speaker 1: grind of a third straight deep run in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: I think that plays a role. It catches up with you.
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  Speaker 1: So the Brewers, they look great right now. They look fresh,
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  Speaker 1: don't they? They look really fresh. They look like they're young, invigorated.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers felt old and tired and just haggard. That's
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  Speaker 1: what the Dodgers felt like. So come talk to me
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  Speaker 1: if the Brewers win a World Series this year, they
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  Speaker 1: win a World Series next year, and they're in the
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  Speaker 1: NLCS in 2028.
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  Speaker 2: Then.
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  Speaker 1: The grind, the wear and tear, the fatigue, that's real
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  Speaker 1: at that point. So it goes beyond just the payroll,
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  Speaker 1: is my thought on that. 877-99-ON-FOX is your phone number
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: at the no-show on X. If you want to reach
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  Speaker 1: out to me, feel free to do so. I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: before the end of last hour, there's a terrible change,
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  Speaker 1: dreadful change, and any other adjective I could think of.
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  Speaker 1: On the spot. That's happening.
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  Speaker 2: Nasty.
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  Speaker 1: Did I go nasty? That's what you're going with.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm going with.
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  Speaker 1: Like that.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: What is it? Is it like Janet Jackson? What did
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  Speaker 1: she say? Miss Jackson, if you're nasty. Is that what
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  Speaker 1: she said?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she's got that nasty song. Yeah, I'll play that
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  Speaker 4: coming back. That's fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great song. Shout out to Janet Jackson right there.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: I hate the new 2014 college football playoff. It's an
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  Speaker 1: awful idea. It's a dreadful idea for numerous reasons over here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to pull up the records from last season.
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  Speaker 1: What the playoff, the 2014 playoff would have looked like
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  Speaker 1: last season, right? Because we're going to have teams in
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  Speaker 1: this thing. They've got no business being in the playoff.
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  Speaker 1: And some of the matchups are just dumb. Okay, the
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  Speaker 1: final rankings. Here we go. Okay, so we would have had,
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  Speaker 1: let's see, what would have been the 9-24 matchup? That's
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing now. We're doing the 9 seed versus
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  Speaker 1: the 24 seed. That's what we got going on. Are
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  Speaker 1: they not making enough money?
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  Speaker 2: Goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see schools just hurting for money? There's not
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  Speaker 1: enough money around here. We have no money whatsoever in
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  Speaker 1: college football. We're not generating any money. We need money.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, no, you're getting plenty of cash. You just
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  Speaker 1: want more because there's no end to your greed. So
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  Speaker 1: we would have had Duke at number 24 facing number nine,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama seeding wise. These are all seeds, right? Now my
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame fighting Irish, they would have been in the playoff.
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  Speaker 1: which is good news. The bad news is it would
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  Speaker 1: have been the 11 versus 22 matchup. That would be
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech at Notre Dame is what we're looking at. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Iowa, they would have been number 23
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  Speaker 1: facing number 10 Miami. So instead of Miami playing Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State to start this thing off, no, Miami would play Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: They would host Iowa. By the way, let me see here. Iowa,
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  Speaker 1: four losses on the season. We've got a four-loss team
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  Speaker 1: in the college football playoff. I don't even know how many.
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  Speaker 1: I think we have eight three-plus-loss teams. That make sense?
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  Speaker 1: You lose at least three games. Iowa lost four. You
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  Speaker 1: have at least eight teams that lost three games last
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  Speaker 1: season in the 2014 playoff. We don't need that at all.
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  Speaker 1: And also what I hate about this, some of the
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  Speaker 1: great endings, some of the great games toward the end
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  Speaker 1: of last... regular season they don't mean anything there was
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  Speaker 1: a great game between Alabama and Auburn so it's the
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  Speaker 1: Iron Bowl obviously means a ton Alabama trying to sneak
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  Speaker 1: into the college football playoff and they're on shaky ground
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  Speaker 1: shaky ground And they were playing Auburn. Alabama blew a
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  Speaker 1: 17-point lead. They went for it on fourth down late
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  Speaker 1: in the game. They find a way to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: If they lost that game, they probably don't make the playoff.
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  Speaker 1: But now that there's 24 teams, even if they would
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  Speaker 1: have lost that game, they're a playoff team. That sucks.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that at all.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why are we just like, you know, let's just make
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  Speaker 1: game after game after game completely meaningless during the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want any part of this. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a horrible change. It's a complete money grab. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just going to water down so many regular season games.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the regular season... It's going to be like,
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  Speaker 1: wake me when the playoff starts. And the college football
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  Speaker 1: regular season is the most important regular season in sports,
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  Speaker 1: at least in this country. I don't know about soccer
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  Speaker 1: and other countries. I don't know. I'm talking about this country, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's the most important regular season we have. There's less
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  Speaker 1: margin for error. If you look at the NFL and
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: I love the NFL. So a team with a losing
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: record that won the NFC South, the Carolina Panthers, they're
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  Speaker 1: a playoff team. They're hosting a playoff game against the
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  Speaker 1: Rams with a losing record. They lost nine games. They're
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Can't do that in college football. You
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  Speaker 1: can't lose more games than you win and end up
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  Speaker 1: in the playoff. It just, it's not a thing. That's
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  Speaker 1: why the regular season means so much in college football.
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  Speaker 1: And now it's not going to mean half as much.
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  Speaker 1: You have so much more margin for error and you
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  Speaker 1: can still be a playoff team. As long as you're ranked,
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  Speaker 1: you're in. Basically. Outside of the team that's ranked 25th.
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  Speaker 1: You're in.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Bama. Take this in. Alabama has finished the season ranked
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  Speaker 1: for 18 years in a row. So they're a playoff
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  Speaker 1: team every single year. Ohio State. They finished ranked in
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  Speaker 1: 23 of the past 24 seasons. So for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of these teams, it's like, yawn, wake me up when
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  Speaker 1: the playoff begins. Seeding, yeah. Maybe you play on the
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: road if you're a lower seed. But you're in. But
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  Speaker 1: you're in. And as Miami showed last year, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be a high seed to end up in
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  Speaker 1: the national championship game. They almost won the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like you can sleepwalk through a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the regular season as long as you don't have four losses.
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  Speaker 1: If you're one of the big power four schools... You
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: can have three losses and be a playoff team. That's
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: so lame. Not a fan at all. I hate it.
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate it. I still hate it
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  Speaker 1: less than Frontier Airlines because they made me spend $ 99
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: on an oversized bag for a flight that was over
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  Speaker 1: two hours delayed. That's garbage. But I hate this 2014
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  Speaker 1: college football playoff, man.
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  Speaker 6: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's awful. It's terrible. And, man, when we got rivalry games,
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  Speaker 1: there was another one where, okay, Michigan. Alright, so this
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: is the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry. Ohio State was easily in
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  Speaker 1: the playoff last season. You had Michigan. They needed to
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: pull off a miracle. Needed to pull off a crazy
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  Speaker 1: upset win and they could possibly be a playoff team.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't. They lost to Ohio State. They didn't sniff
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. 24-team college football playoff? Yeah, they're in. Comfortably.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, We're going to get to these huge rivalry
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  Speaker 1: games at the end of the season, and a team
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  Speaker 1: that's comfortably in might think about resting their guys. What
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  Speaker 1: are we doing right now? It's just terrible. I hate it.
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  Speaker 1: You know my feelings on it. Let me go out
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  Speaker 1: to the phones here. Let's talk to Mike. He's in Minneapolis.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: Let's talk to some Vikings here over here. Five and
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  Speaker 1: O Vikings. What's going on, Mike?
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  Speaker 6: Hello, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Before I get to my Vikings question, I'm not a
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: delusional Minnesota sports fan. I'm 62, so I've seen it all.
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: The Timberwolves are going to be a lot of fun
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  Speaker 3: to watch this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. I don't know how effective
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: they're going to be, but they're going to be. They're
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: on a nationally televised game. It's like, oh, dude, you've
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: got to see Ant and LaMelo and company. You've got
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: to see how that works. I'm with you. I think
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: they're going to be really entertaining. Okay.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: You know, you're, you know, your NFL. So here's my question.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Am I crazy? The Vikings have the quote unquote quarterback
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: whisperer as a coach. They always, they always say a
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: change of scenery is good for a player. If they're
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: having a down season or down a few seasons and
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: the Vikings are not married to Kyler Murray, Do the
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: Vikings need to do some due diligence and call the
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: Chargers and see what it would take to get Herbert here?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, hey, I don't hate it. I've heard that
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  Speaker 1: rumor out there before. But that's the thing, man, is
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: you give them Justin Jefferson, you give them a legitimate
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: supporting cast. Yeah, I mean, I think it's worth exploring.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if the Chargers would make that move.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Would have made that move. If the Vikings didn't get
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: rid of McCarthy, that might've helped in the trade.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I, I, well, I hear you,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: the Jim Harbaugh thing. He loves him some.
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy, but I don't know, man. I think even
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: deep down. Harbaugh is like, yeah, right. I know what
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  Speaker 1: he says publicly, but after 10 starts and how horrible
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: it was with the Vikings, I just can't imagine even
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  Speaker 1: as crazy as Jim Harbaugh is. He's like, no, no,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: this guy could literally be a top flight quarterback. I
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: don't even think he deep down truly believes that. How
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: could you?
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  Speaker 3: And the other thing is I don't want to hear
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  Speaker 3: any other city saying that they're cursed. Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I'm 62 years old. I was five years old when
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: the Vikings played their first Super Bowl against the Chiefs.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: I was watching with my dad and uncles and that's
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: where I learned how to swear.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: So were they throwing around F-bombs and you're like, let
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: me try this on for size. Is that what happened there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, those were back in the days where the remote
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  Speaker 3: control was that were the kids.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah. Wow.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. They, they threw around F bombs and all
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. So yeah, that's where I learned
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  Speaker 3: to swear.
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  Speaker 1: I hear you. Well, good stuff. Mike is good to
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: talk to you. That's funny.
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  Speaker 3: You too, brother.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff. Nice. I like it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh man.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, being a Vikings fan, I hear you. Who did
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I say that about? Oh, the bills. And they actually won.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: On Monday night, I just said it where, you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: James Cook fumbles in overtime and I'm watching the game
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, man, these Bills fans, the Buffalo Bills
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: just drive you to drink. you know, like there are
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of bills fans fond of the sauce, right?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: They root for the bills, man. Like, Oh, the painful
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: defeats over and over and over and over. Oh, it's
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: just brutal, man. Just brutal. But yeah, the Vikings, listen,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: we could go down the archives. I still go back
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: to the 98 Vikings. That was an amazing, an amazing team.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: 15 and one just didn't have a great defense, but
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Randy Moss was electric, you know, and the rest of
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the crew, man. Chris Carter, Jake Reed, really good offensive line.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Randall Cunningham, throwing the deep ball, played really well. Just
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: not a great defense, but, oh, man. It was, of
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: all people, Gary Anderson missing the kick. Didn't miss a
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: kick all year. Missed like a 38-yard field goal, something
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: like that. Would have given him a 10-point lead. That's
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the type of stuff. You can't make that up. Happens
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: time and time again. The one thing I'll say is
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: real fast. The one thing, well, one of the things,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the few things that have happened that were legendary for
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the Vikings, the Minneapolis miracle. So, you know, down to
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: the very end of the game, and it was Case
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Keenum completes it to Stefan Diggs, and it was an
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Ole tackle. You rarely see Ole tackles. You see Ole blocks, right?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: You don't normally see Ole tackles. There was an Ole tackle.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Saint safety just whiffed. And there goes Stephon Diggs into
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the end zone. I had an in-game bet on the Saints. 4-1, right?
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Plus $ 400. $ 100 bet. Would have won $ 400. I mean,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: make a tackle and cash it. And instead, I'm seeing
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Stephon Diggs score a touchdown, throw his helmet in the air.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what just happened? What just happened? So the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: point is, the Vikings with... A horrible history of heartbreak
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: after heartbreak found a way to break my heart. That's
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the way it goes sometimes. That's the way it goes
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: in betting. It's a fun thing, that betting. Let me
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: tell you. 877-99 on Fox. All right, the militia is
• 19:26
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• 19:28
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• 19:32
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• 19:36
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• 19:39
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• 19:42
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• 19:46
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• 19:47
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• 19:47
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• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller here on Fox Sports Radio. There's no time
• 21:01
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• 21:06
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• 21:11
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• 21:14
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• 21:21
  Speaker 9: That was so good.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Halfway there. Halfway there. As far as the amount of reads.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Some people are like, half, what is it?
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Need to read that three more times. Half of those ones.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: We still got others.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's true.
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Three more of those. Three more of other things outside
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: of the two main ones.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: We're all on the same page.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones. Big Ben? Is Big Ben
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: calling into the Big Ben show? No, I think it's
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a different Ben. Ben is in Missouri. Let's talk college
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: football players. What do you think of this, Ben? I
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: hate it. 24 teams, garbage. What do you think?
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Uh... I hate it too. Different perspective. All these big
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: schools are going to be playing against more better teams,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: just like them, which is good. But my team is
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: Missouri state university here in Springfield and we're in conference
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: USA and those big schools are not going to play
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: our little schools anymore, which funds our whole athletic department.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. Why wouldn't they play them anymore? Like,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: no one's going to play a group of six school?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: That's going to happen. They're still going to play some
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: of the little guys.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe not those FCS schools, but we might get one.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you definitely would.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: Homecoming game.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, right. Yeah, you'll get that. That'll still change.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: But what I hate is that school up north, Mizzou,
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: is going to be so happy because they're in top
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: 25 every year and never qualified for the college football playoffs,
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: so they're sitting there thinking they can be something now.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe this is the Missouri Tiger playoff expansion thing. Is
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: that what we should unofficially call it.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Here, Ben? Yeah, and they're going to be ecstatic up there. Yeah.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Listen, man, I hear you.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: I hear you.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I like that you brought up the ripple effect,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: because it does. It goes beyond what I brought up.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's... I don't know, man. You're going to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: see more and more and more of the haves versus
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the have-nots. Because you know how it goes, right? The
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: kids that are playing well on the G6 level, they're
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: mostly going to get gobbled up and be on power
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: four teams. That's just the way it goes. It's going
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to happen more and more often. So that's frustrating, right?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: We always talk about the Oakland A's.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Our players leave.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Ben, it's like the Oakland A's, right? We talked
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: about that for years. Anybody good was gone. Welcome to
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: being a fan of a G6 school. It's the same concept.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: There you go. There's Ben. in Missouri. Appreciate that. He
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: just stopped talking.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Ben was like, yeah, I think we, that's all.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I think we, uh, we nailed that.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: We, we nailed that. So he's like, yeah, we can
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: move on to other things. Oh, I want to talk
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: about dumb things real fast. Let me get back to
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the militia in a second. But, um, so, um, I
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: went to the gym last night and, uh, where was,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I was in Vegas. So I went to the gym
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: last night and, um, I put my stuff down, and
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I looked around. I'm like, man, it's really clean. This
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: gym is really clean. Thankfully, I hadn't gotten undressed. I
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: was changing clothes and all that. I see this girl, thankfully,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: walk out of the bathroom and not see me. For
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a second, I'm like, what is she doing? I'm like, oh, no.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: What am I doing in the women's bathroom?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: It was perfect she didn't even see me it was
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: like I was a ghost and she just she was
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: looking toward the exit and didn't even see me and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I just quickly like scooted out of there and was
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: like yep it says women right there And that's where
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I went in.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I love that you're like, why is it so clean
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: in here?
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: That's how the women's bathroom is here, too. It's so clean.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: So clean.
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: You just need a nice, clean bathroom. You can go
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: and look at mine, but you still have to use
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: the men's.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I know you've done this in your life. Wherever
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: you are, you're at a gas station. You've got to
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: take care of business. Some stupid guys in the bathroom.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: And there's the women's bathroom. And it's like, I could
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: scoot in, scoot out. No one will know. Whenever I've
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: done that, it's pristine. Every time. It's like, it's the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: cleanliest of clean in a women's bathroom compared to men's bathrooms.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: There has never been more of a difference slash discrepancy
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: than right here at Fox Sports Radio.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I would believe that. It's disgusting. It's bad, huh? Yeah,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: it's bad. Not good. The other dumb thing I wanted
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: to mention to you guys. I was thinking about this.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Are you like me? Do you get the same type
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: of drink depending on the fast food restaurant that you
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: go to? Do you switch it up? Do you go
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: with different drinks? Or do you go with the same
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: drink every time at certain locations?
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: I usually go with the same drink if I have
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: a flavor profile that I'm going for.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: So like a specific drive in that I go to
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: in my hometown, I always get a cherry Coke.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Like non-negotiable.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: And a little top burger and a side of homemade fries.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: You coop, you switch it up. Same drink. What do
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: you do?
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, more often than not, I don't get a
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: drink because I have, because I'm usually taking it home
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: and I have drinks at home.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: You sound like my dad.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: We have drinks at home.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Why would I buy a soda?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: We have water and milk.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: No, I have soda at home. Why would I buy
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: a soda when I have soda at home?
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: That's true.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Are you that close to these places? Like your stuff
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: is still warm, still fresh.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. I mean, I've got like every fast food
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: place that you can think of within five minutes of
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: my house.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: What if when you're on the road? What about that?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: So when I'm on the road and I am ordering
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: a drink. If Diet Dr. Pepper is available, that's what
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: I'm ordering.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Okay. No matter what? From place to place? Correct. If
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: it's there, that's what I'm getting.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: If it's not, I will get Coke Zero or Pepsi Zero,
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: whatever the equivalent is.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Okay. Interesting. I don't mind your approach to this. Me, personally?
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I go with a specific drink... At a specific fast
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: food place. I don't know why. I'm sure it would
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: be fine if I switched it up. Maybe I'm just
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a creature of habit. Subway? Sprite. If I'm at Subway,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: it's going to be Sprite. If I'm at... Is that like.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Like, I don't know, visual conditioning because the Subway logo
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: is green and yellow.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: And Sprite is green and yellow. I don't know. So
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you just have to get Sprite.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: It just goes well. It just goes well with the Sub, personally.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: You mentioned Wingstop earlier, Lorena. Always like a red, whatever,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: fruit punch. Red fruit punch.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: That would be good for cooling down your tongue, though.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Very good. Works very well with the wings. This
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: is weird. Burger King, Coke. Every time.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: At Burger King, I like.
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: To do their frosties, like their little icies.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, nice. I've never done that.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: When I go to Burger King, I like to throw
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: it in the trash because it's terrible.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: I love Burger King. They're so good.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: By the way, I had Burger King tonight before the show.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Did you try their new nuggets?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I did not. But I opened a ketchup packet. Have
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you done this? Or instead of doing it like very
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: slightly at the top, you accidentally opened the whole thing
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: down the side and it just made a run for it.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: It's like, ah, it's just, it was bad. It's not good.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: It's not good. What else do I do? Oh, Chick-fil-A.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Ice water. Lemonade. No, ice water. And cookies and cream shake,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: if I'm feeling crazy.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: This is very strange.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: It is kind of weird. McDonald's, I don't go there
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: very often. But if I do, Orange Hi-C. Every time.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: I used to love that as a kid. As an adult,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: it's a little too thick.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: No.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: It's very syrupy.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: No, it's fantastic.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: As a kid, I would do a suicide at every.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, every single soda.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, really? Yeah, yeah.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Have you ever gone to... I went to the Coke,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they call it, museum or whatever
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: it is in Atlanta a long time ago. And it's cool, Coop.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: You can, they have fountains of like international. So it's like, oh,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: let's see what they have in Brazil. And you just like,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: you'd sample all. It was really cool. Very cool. But, yeah,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you could.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: Kind of like one of those fancy machines that they have.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: What do they call those?
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, the freestyles.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, the freestyles.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow, yeah, yeah.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Where you can like Arnold Palmer it or something. Well,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: it's like, it's any soda.
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: It's, it's like one of these fancy soda machines and
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: you can pick a soda.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: You can choose a flavor to add to it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Got like the computer screen or yeah.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: It's like, um, five guys. That's one of the places
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: that has, has that.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: Movie theaters, AMCs.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: They have them. There you go.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Disneyland even has them.
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, very nice.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I like it. I'll just get back to the militia here. Uh,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: let's see. Really?
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: Right. Okay.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Give him a little something. Give him it. Tell him
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: about it.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Lorena, the football season.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, I love it.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: It's heating up.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: It's so hot.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Did you see the offensive fireworks on Thursday Night Football?
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: Huh?
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: I didn't watch it.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Bo Nix, Sam Darnold.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: What an aerial display. But outside of that, the football
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: season is actually heating up. And every week feels bigger
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• 31:25
  Speaker 1: get out to the militia here. Mike is in Dallas.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: How about them Cowboys? What's going on, Mike? You're on
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio.
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: We're a bunch of losers. If you don't mind, we're
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: going to need to play a little bit.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to hear it, Mike. What do you got?
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: What are we dressing up for Halloween?
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Man is okay is this like uh a mallard joke
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: right here what are you dressing up as.
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: No i'm being okay yeah.
• 31:50
  Speaker 9: He wants to know what you're gonna be brian oh.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: What you want to know what i'm gonna be i
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: don't man i don't know i don't know what i'm
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: gonna be when i was a kid i was always
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a football player you know every year it's kind of
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: like would.
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: You wear the same uniform you had when you were
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: a kid I can't answer.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I switched it up or it might have been the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: same one every time. I couldn't tell. I don't remember
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: that far back.
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: My mom didn't have a lot of money, too. One
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: week I was Darth Vader. The next week I was
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: Luke Skywalker. You know, you got the force with you.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, the cowboys seem like they're really dragging you
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: down here, Mike, is what I'm gathering here.
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: I mean, I've given up, but you heard we got
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: a new coach. Yeah.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike Pettin's in there trying to get this defense going.
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: What do you think could happen to get us going?
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, like a legitimate defensive scheme would help.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: You know, like it's Christian Parker's first year as a
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. So he's had some growing pains, no doubt
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: about it. I go back to that first game against
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the Giants before halftime. It's all these defensive breakdowns. It's horrible.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: It's like Jackson darts completing passes against air. It's terrible.
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: And then, uh, what was that guy that, uh, he
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: was a rookie. Uh, it never played in the NFL
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: in his life. Uh, never, uh, not Jalen Daniels, not
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: the one from, uh, not the Redskin, but the other one.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Um, yeah.
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: You're talking about, I call him Zach Galifianakis.
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You're yeah. I think you're talking about that guy
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: where he came in the, the Colts game. Is that
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: what you're talking about?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no. Um, In the Cowboys game last week, we
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: were an eight-and-a-half point favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh, you're talking about Tampa. You're talking about
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Jalen Daniels. Right, yeah, out of Kansas.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, are we really that bad? Do we just lose
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  Speaker 7: to guys that have no name?
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you are. That's exactly what's happening right now. Yeah,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: you are that bad.
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  Speaker 7: Tanking for arc.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Man, I don't know what Arch is going to do
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, honestly.
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  Speaker 7: You think he's going to go this year or he's
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: going to wait until next year?
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's going to do, man. He's
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: got to pick up his play. I'd say he's not
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: number one right now. Yeah, some people still have him
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: number one. I'm like, how? How can you have Arch
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Manning number one? That's crazy.
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: Hey, if his last name was my last name, he
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: wouldn't even be playing at Texas.
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mike. Good stuff, buddy. I hope the Cowboys
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: do better, especially defensively, for your sanity right there. There
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: he is, Mike. I like it. Talking to some Cowboys.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: It's good for the soul, isn't it? I think it is.
• 34:43
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• 34:46
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• 34:52
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• 34:54
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• 34:57
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• 35:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So there, there was a ruling on Wednesday. I don't
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: know if you saw this, but, um, so the Rams
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: left tackle Alaric Jackson. He decided to just punch the bills. Um,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb after the Monday night loss and, uh, We'll
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: get to Chubb's comments about his side of what was
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: said that led to the punch, right? So, Alaric Jackson,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: he hauls off and punches Bradley Chubb. So, Jackson gets
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: a two-game suspension for it. Well, on Wednesday, hearing officer
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Derek Brooks. Remember Derek Brooks? Great NFL linebacker. He jointly
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: is appointed by the NFL and the NFLPA. And he
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: reduced it from a two-game suspension to a one-game suspension. Now,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: the funny thing to me is this. The league initially
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: said Jackson violated a rule. We'll just call it. It's
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: like Rule 12, Section 3, Article 1. It's typical NFL-type stuff.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: So the rule, it applies to, quote, any act which
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: is contrary to the generally understood principles of sportsmanship. I
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: think that qualifies, right? Just haul off and smack someone
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: in the face after a loss. I think that qualifies
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: as violating the generally understood principles of sportsmanship. Well, Derek
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Brooks is like, yeah, let's reduce that in half right there. Now,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: the funny thing is this. Bradley Chubb, who was the
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: guy who got punched in the face, his side of
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: what was said is this. He said, quote, I've heard
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I was talking about his mom. That's not true at all.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I said, we're going to see y'all's ass again. And
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: when we see you again, all that chirping ain't going
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: to save you. That tight end and guard is not
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: going to save you. He said, what'd you say? I said,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: that chip's not going to save you. The guard's not
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: going to save you. And then boom, he gets smacked
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: in the face. That's Bradley Chubb's side. He finished with this,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: which I also think is humorous. We're going to learn
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: from it. Me personally, I learned I'm either going to
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: have my hands up or wear a helmet. You might
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: get smacked in the face. Might happen. You're talking smack.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: But there he is. Alaric Jackson took exception to it
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: and just punched him right in the face. But only
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: a one-game suspension. And that's this week against Arizona. Not
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the worst game to miss if you're going to miss
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: one right there. So no Alaric Jackson. He's just punching
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: people after games right there. We got time. Poppy is
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: in San Diego. Listen, I need some winning picks over here.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: My picks did not cash in the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: It's terrible. Poppy, you got some winners for us here?
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I got some winners for you. What's going on, Brian?
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: Some winners for you guys.
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: We're going to pick on, it's going to be Sunday's game,
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  Speaker 7: Ravens versus the Browns. That's a rivalry game. And I'm
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: liking the Ravens.
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: They have a good defense.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: Lamar Jackson, I know he's a little bit questionable, but
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: we're going to trust Lamar Jackson coming back this week.
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: So do you know what the spread on that is, Brian?
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I can check it for you. It's somewhere around like
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: four and a half-ish, right around there.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 7: I love that. And we're going to take that and
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  Speaker 7: on to the next game.
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: The next game is going to be the Chargers versus
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: the Chiefs.
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: And look, you don't mind saying the line on that game?
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was eight and a half. It's
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: seven and a half now. Perfect.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: We're going to pick seven and a half with the Chargers.
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: Put seven and a half.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: They always play tough against.
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  Speaker 7: The I think it's going to be a close game.
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: And sooner or later, Justin Herbert has to win and
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: save the best for last.
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: We've got the Commanders versus the 49ers.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: Brian, do you know the line on that one?
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Let me double check. It was 7.5.
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: 7.5.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Seven and a half. I'll be at that game, Poppy.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I'll be there. I'll be in attendance right there.
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah. And I'm liking the 49ers. I like Brock Purdy.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: He'll have over 1.5 passing touchdowns.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: Prop bet on that.
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: And 49ers will dominate. Take the 49ers, guys.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Ride them all they're hot.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: Let's make that bling bling.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, Poppy. Appreciate it. So you got Ravens. It's actually
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: minus three and a half. Got Chargers plus seven and
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: a half. Niners minus seven and a half. is what
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Poppy says right there.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: 52-10 Chiefs.
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: That would be something right there. Six touchdown win, right?
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, this is the dumbest thing
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: you can do in the NFL.