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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Our lead from Chicago, Sweet Home Chicago, Dump Bears and
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  Speaker 1: the Rams final game of the weekend. Here chance to
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  Speaker 1: go to the Final four. And you had Mike tar Rico,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth, they had the call on and me see
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  Speaker 1: a blustery day on the shores of Lake Michigan, the
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  Speaker 1: mighty Lake Michigan. Temperatures in the teens, although it felt
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  Speaker 1: like it was below ten. Now I knew that the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Marching in Chowder society was fired up for this game.
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  Speaker 1: My great friend from Radio Gone By, Mike North, one
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  Speaker 1: of the all time great radio talk show hosts sports
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  Speaker 1: radio guys who did a morning show here, sent a
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  Speaker 1: message out on social media Northey with he was walking
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  Speaker 1: his dog in the suburbs of Chicago and ranting and
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  Speaker 1: raving about the weather and all that. So you knew
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  Speaker 1: I was all fired up here. Surely a California team,
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  Speaker 1: you all tell me how soft these California teams are,
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  Speaker 1: had no chance in those conditions, zero opportunity unless they did. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the game or not.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we're busy. I don't know what hell you were doing.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you weren't there. But the game came down to
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  Speaker 1: overtime when the Great Harrison Mavis, better known as the
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  Speaker 1: Thicker Kicker, booted a forty two yard majestic field goal
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  Speaker 1: in overtime and the Rams gettered one Cam Curl who
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  Speaker 1: Cam Curl had picked off Caleb Williams and the Bears
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  Speaker 1: first postseason possession, first overtime possession in this game, not
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. Obviously, they played the Packers last week, but
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  Speaker 1: that was it. Bears got the ball, Rams did not
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  Speaker 1: do anything with it on their first possession. Bears get it,
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  Speaker 1: go down, kick a field goal, win the game. Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams had other ideas. He said, you know what, I
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  Speaker 1: went to SC I want to see an LA team
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  Speaker 1: do well because I couldn't do it do well for
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  Speaker 1: an LA team, so I'll help an LA team. And
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  Speaker 1: he did, and I'd like to thank Caleb Williams. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't do squad at USC in terms of helping
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  Speaker 1: the Trojans win anything, but and very impressive of helping
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  Speaker 1: the Rams win. So game ball goes to Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 1: There the Bears quarterback Matthew Stafford, who didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown but was captain Clutch, completed three passes for first
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  Speaker 1: downs on that final drive, a sixteen yarder to Puka
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  Speaker 1: Nakula to set the Rams up in field goal range
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  Speaker 1: and give them the chance to win the game. So
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  Speaker 1: the Rams are off to Seattle now and they can
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  Speaker 1: send Sam Darnold in the Seahawks home. That'll be coming
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  Speaker 1: up on Sunday. But the better story is in the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room. The better story losing the lockos of
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  Speaker 1: the Bears are back in hybernation mode as the play
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  Speaker 1: that it was all party about, the pants down, was
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams throwing a fourteen yard game tying chuck it
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  Speaker 1: and duck throw in the final seconds to Cole Clement
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  Speaker 1: the tight end. It traveled over fifty yards because he
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  Speaker 1: kept running backwards. What are you doing? Why are you
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  Speaker 1: You're going the wrong way, You're going the wrong way,
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  Speaker 1: and anyway, he just chucked it up. The longest completed
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  Speaker 1: pass by air distance in the red zone since they
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  Speaker 1: started tracking, since the Nerds took over football statistics, and
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  Speaker 1: that was back in twenty sixteen, so it's been a
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  Speaker 1: decade that had a completion PROBA variability. The Caleb Williams
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  Speaker 1: game tying touchdown pass of less than twenty percent. That
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question for the esteem panel. What happened to all
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  Speaker 1: of the Bear's momentum? Where did it go? Where did
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  Speaker 1: it go? After that late touchdown by Caleb Williams. Collinsworth
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  Speaker 1: had his knee patch out. He was so excited for
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, and Tarika sounded like he had grew up
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  Speaker 1: a Bears fan the way he was describing the blood
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  Speaker 1: like the greatest they've never seen. So clearly the Bears
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  Speaker 1: couldn't lose that game. It was a fade accompany. How
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  Speaker 1: did they do it? How did they not win that game?
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  Speaker 1: What happened to the momentum? So I've got fajitas freestyle
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  Speaker 1: jazz and spit on your hands, and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're going to make
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  Speaker 1: some delicious deep dish pizza, which is still outstanding, and
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  Speaker 1: the Bears can drown their sorrows in big slices of
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  Speaker 1: deep dish pizza. Absolutely, all right. So first of all,
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  Speaker 1: all right, the Bears momentum. I'll tell you where the
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  Speaker 1: momentum is. It's the same place you can find Bigfoot,
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  Speaker 1: the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny. They all hang
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  Speaker 1: out together, their roommates momentum Uncle Moe, which I thought
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  Speaker 1: lives in Jersey, but Mo and the Tooth Fairy best friends,
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  Speaker 1: Bigfoot and of course better known as Sasquatch and the
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  Speaker 1: Easter Bunny. It just never existed. It's like it never existed.
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  Speaker 1: Momentum is sports talk. MSG is what is you sprinkling
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  Speaker 1: on anything? Sprinkle sprinkle, sprinkle sprinkles. Yeah, and suddenly dumb
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  Speaker 1: people think it enhanced the flavor. It doesn't. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: The Bears didn't lose momentum. They confirmed the diagnosis. Is
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  Speaker 1: what they did in this game. The touchdown that was
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  Speaker 1: like the firework finale, That late touchdown by Caleb Williams
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  Speaker 1: where he just threw it up in the air and
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  Speaker 1: define intervention took over there, and then the overtime happened
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  Speaker 1: for Chicago, and the Bears needed some oxygen and permission
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  Speaker 1: to use said oxygen at that point. So the cardiac
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  Speaker 1: kids they were until the unfortunately the heart monitor flatline,
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  Speaker 1: and now they're just see you later, bye bye, You're
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  Speaker 1: gone out of here. Yeah, so there they were set
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  Speaker 1: up in overtime. Rams fetched around on their first possessions.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bears got it and did nothing with it
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  Speaker 1: other than give it back, other than give it back
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  Speaker 1: to the Rams and set them up there. So momentum
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  Speaker 1: just one of those words that sportscasters like to use
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  Speaker 1: when they just want to explain. Use it for anything. Momentum.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I walked in the street, I had momentum. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I walked down to the toilet, I took a one.
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  Speaker 1: I had a lot of momentum and flushed the toilet
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  Speaker 1: a lot of mo, lot of mo. Absolutely, yes, clearly,
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  Speaker 1: it's just mumbo jump. It's like word fahitas. You just
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  Speaker 1: throw out the word momentum and just toss it up
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  Speaker 1: there and put some onions and some bell Pepper and
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  Speaker 1: you're good to go. If momentum were read, all the
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  Speaker 1: Bears right now would be getting ready to head to
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  Speaker 1: Seattle for the NFC title game. Alias, they're not so,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson. It's all about the magic, the magical season
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  Speaker 1: for the Chicago Bears. So the Bears ought to go
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  Speaker 1: on Amazon Prime, Ben Johnson, and I think they still
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  Speaker 1: have some old, amazing Cresken magic kits and they can
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  Speaker 1: get one of those magic kids Amazon Prime have it
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  Speaker 1: delivered there because they clearly need some more abracadabra, hocus
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  Speaker 1: pocus and presto at Hallas Hall because they ran out
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  Speaker 1: of tricks now. Secondly, as for Caleb Williams, the man
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  Speaker 1: with the nicest fingernails in the NFL, So the circus
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  Speaker 1: throw that everyone was goga for, he just ran back.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you're not supposed to do, everything you're not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do he did, and for that particular play it
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  Speaker 1: worked and so he runs back and they were all
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  Speaker 1: excited about that. However, Williams ended this game with three
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  Speaker 1: inner SEPs, three interceptions in this game, backbreaking for the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears opportunity to win this game. So the question
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  Speaker 1: as the Bears do inventory. Their season is now dune
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  Speaker 1: skis Is the glass half full or is the glass
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  Speaker 1: half empty? On quarterback Caleb Williams at this particular point,
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  Speaker 1: So I would be I'm not gonna be totally Benny
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  Speaker 1: bright Seid, but I'll be I'll be fair here. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: the glass, for Caleb Williams is half full. However, it's
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  Speaker 1: got these little microscopic hairline cracks. Just can't even see
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  Speaker 1: them to the naked eye, but you put them under
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  Speaker 1: the Mallord microscope and there's some hairline cracks there. And
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  Speaker 1: so the glass starting to sweat a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the on the table. But the tables built
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  Speaker 1: by a guy who just kind of eyeballed it and
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  Speaker 1: then shrugged and blamed the floor because it's not quite stable.
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  Speaker 1: So I just eyeballed it. I didn't Why didn't you
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  Speaker 1: follow the instruction? Well, I didn't need to follow the instruction,
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams. Din'tall the instructions. There is no coach on
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  Speaker 1: Gods Green Earth that tells you on a fourth down
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  Speaker 1: you've got to have it play, to run as far
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  Speaker 1: back as you possibly can and then just chuck the
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  Speaker 1: thing up in the air, all right, nobody tells you
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  Speaker 1: to do that. He did it and it worked that time.
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams is a fun zone type of quarterback. He's
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  Speaker 1: a one man band. He's got the drums to the right,
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  Speaker 1: he's got the guitar to the left. Little smoke machine
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  Speaker 1: got that over there as well. Occasionally that smoke machine
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  Speaker 1: sets off the fire alarm, and so Caleb also has
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  Speaker 1: it appears to be an underlying condition. It's the old
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  Speaker 1: double edged sword here for the Bears. He is the
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  Speaker 1: gunslinger quarterback. And if it was music, think of it
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  Speaker 1: like freestyle jazz. You know, sometimes freestyle jazz is just
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  Speaker 1: a masterpiece, it's genius. And then there's other times it's
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  Speaker 1: the solo nobody wanted, nobody asked for. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I've got a headache. I've got a migraine headache from
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  Speaker 1: what you called freestyle jazz. It was terrible. And so listen,
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  Speaker 1: big plays, big thrills, all that for Caleb Williams in
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  Speaker 1: this game, and the turnovers that make your fan base
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  Speaker 1: age like dog in Dog Gears watching this happen. There
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  Speaker 1: so no ifs ands or butts about it. It was
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  Speaker 1: reckless and in this game it ended up costing the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. The Rams do not win this game without
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  Speaker 1: the assist of Caleb Willing. He does get a game
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  Speaker 1: ball from the Rams. Caleb Williams tremendous job finally helping
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  Speaker 1: an LA team win a big game. He couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: that at sc again, so good job by him and
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago If Caleb just kind of held on to
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more look close to the best, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they're getting ready to go to the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 1: But the Holster, he couldn't holster the Cape. He had
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  Speaker 1: to use the Cape, and he used the Cape and
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  Speaker 1: all that. That's the deal. It's the old line for
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  Speaker 1: better or worse. You take the good with the bad,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what the Bears are going to have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with with Caleb Winns. The problem with the Bears,
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  Speaker 1: I see is you've got Ben Johnson who does things unorthodox,
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  Speaker 1: and you combine that with Kayvid Williams. That does not
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  Speaker 1: seem like that's going to have a lot of success
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. One of those two guys is gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to change all right. Going forward on fourth down
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  Speaker 1: as often as the Bears did, and short yardage situations
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  Speaker 1: not being able to get that done. And so you
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  Speaker 1: buy the fireworks, and the Bears bought the fireworks. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna you can't complain when things start exploding. So the
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  Speaker 1: Bears like the fireworks of Ben Johnson and they like
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Wait, did I get it? But they had a
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  Speaker 1: big time year by Bear standards. You gotta tweak some things.
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  Speaker 1: The thing of a jig needs to be moved around
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  Speaker 1: a little bit to the right in order for this
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  Speaker 1: to work. So and again, the glass is half full,
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  Speaker 1: glasses half full. I just don't lean on that table
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  Speaker 1: because the guy eyeballed it and put that thing together.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that that's gonna work all right now,
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  Speaker 1: final thought on the Rams side of things. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: side of things, So La wins a game at Soldier
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  Speaker 1: Field in a game played in ice box conditions without
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford having a touchdown pass. The MVP this year
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  Speaker 1: did not have a touchdown pass against the Bears in
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  Speaker 1: that game. So the question is this, what message did
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  Speaker 1: the Sean McVay Rams send by winning at Soldier Field
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago. So it was a reminder, it was a
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  Speaker 1: refresher course, rather simple here, these are not your daddy's Rams.
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  Speaker 1: These are not your granddaddy's Rams. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is not the old Ram tropes of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: That these guys, they're just doing pilates on the beach
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  Speaker 1: and soy lattes and soft serve West Coast Football. Now now, now, now, now,
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  Speaker 1: that was a knuckle sandwich. They gave the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 1: Here lunch pail spin on your hand. Kind of a
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  Speaker 1: win for the Rams in Chicago. And the only team
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  Speaker 1: to win this weekend was the La Rams. All the
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  Speaker 1: other home teams were able to win their games, the
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  Speaker 1: Rams the only road team to get it done. And
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  Speaker 1: so the Rams find themselves in a situation where they
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  Speaker 1: are in position, the Rams to go back to a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and all that's standing in their ways the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, who without the officials helping them, they would
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  Speaker 1: have swept the season series and this game would be
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  Speaker 1: in La. It doesn't matter. The officials had to send
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  Speaker 1: pookin nakoula message in that game in Seattle, where, if
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  Speaker 1: you remember, they just handed the Seahawks the the two points. Unbelievable,
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  Speaker 1: still one of the most egregious calls in NFL history,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone just kind of forgets about that. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll just give it to them. Well we didn't get it,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll just do it. We'll just well that's fine,
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  Speaker 1: all right anyway, So I went back and I checked
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  Speaker 1: my my inboxes. I wanted to make sure that I
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  Speaker 1: thought maybe I was having a dream. So I went
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  Speaker 1: back and I looked at my inbox and I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so what were all those messages my friends in Chicago
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  Speaker 1: and the Bears fans were sending me? So I got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these. The Rams are soft. That came
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  Speaker 1: up a lot on the inbox. They play in a dome. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of a faux dome. It's not a real dome.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL says it's not a dome. There's a roof
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  Speaker 1: on it, but it's open on the ends. So like
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  Speaker 1: everything else in LA, it's fake. It's a fake dome.
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  Speaker 1: They play Also at Stafford is going to turn into
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  Speaker 1: a human popsicle. A lot of you told me that
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  Speaker 1: at Soldier Field and the Rams can't win unless Stafford plays, Well,
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  Speaker 1: well that's a lie. So who goofed? I've got to
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  Speaker 1: know who Goofed? I've got to know. Listen was this
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  Speaker 1: a sizzle real game for Matthew Stafford. No, it was
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  Speaker 1: not a sizzle real game. No pirouette on the catwalk.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to be doing that, No glamour shots,
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  Speaker 1: no posting on social media. It wasn't that kind of
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  Speaker 1: a day. It was not for Matthew Stafford. This was
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  Speaker 1: the Rams defense. Even though the Bears had a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of yards, they score munch points like the Bears moved
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  Speaker 1: the ball between the twenties pretty well. The Rams defense
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  Speaker 1: and the running game physicality, punching the time card, getting
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  Speaker 1: it done, clocking out with a win, and now again
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  Speaker 1: one step away from the football version of the Promised Land.
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  Speaker 1: Here and so as far as toughness short yardage football,
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  Speaker 1: and there are old Chicago Bears players rolling over in
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  Speaker 1: graveyards because the Chicago Bears on short yardage oftentimes got
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  Speaker 1: pushed back by the La Rams. How embarrassing is that
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  Speaker 1: for Ben Johnson and the Chicago Bears. The Bears needed
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  Speaker 1: a crowbar and still couldn't move the pile most of
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  Speaker 1: the time on short yards third and one, fourth down
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  Speaker 1: and one, the Rams were able to bottle them up
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  Speaker 1: like expired hot sauce. It was machiese mal intestinal fortitude,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff making plays in key moments there. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: it takes, whatever it takes, and so the Rams win
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  Speaker 1: with grease under their fingernails. That's a grease under the
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  Speaker 1: fingernails type of win there, Chicago, rather embarrassing. That's a
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  Speaker 1: cold weather. You're at home. You plan a West Coast team.
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  Speaker 1: All that's second road game in a row. Some of
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  Speaker 1: you idiots think they travel by stagecoach and not luxury
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  Speaker 1: chartered flights and police escorted buses and stay at five
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  Speaker 1: star hotels. But I digress. So the Rams get it
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  Speaker 1: done and the Bears now go back and get ready
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  Speaker 1: for the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh in less than one
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  Speaker 1: hundred days.
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  Speaker 1: and coming away. So our lead this hour from Western
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  Speaker 1: New York. And if you thought the Grim Reaper, a
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  Speaker 1: grim Reaper of coaches was done, the Grim Reaper had
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  Speaker 1: gone back, you know, you know, like Santa Claus works
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  Speaker 1: one day a year and then and then that's it,
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  Speaker 1: just on Christmas. Well, the Grim Reaper of football coaches,
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  Speaker 1: they work a few days a year, normally in January.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty much it. That's you're done. And yet here
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  Speaker 1: we are past the midway point of January. And ta.
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  Speaker 1: If you thought the Grim Reaper was done, you're wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You're wrong. You're wrong. You're wrong. Another one bites the dust,
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  Speaker 1: and another one, and another one, and another one and
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  Speaker 1: another one. If you did not hear, perhaps not. Coach
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  Speaker 1: Sean McDermott has been pull axed fired by the team
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  Speaker 1: owner Terry Pagoula after a nine year run in Western
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  Speaker 1: New York. The Bills have said bye bye to their
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  Speaker 1: head coach the Buffalo football team a perennial contender. However,
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  Speaker 1: they found new and creative ways to choke in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: There they did not reach a super Bowl under Sean McDermott.
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  Speaker 1: Despite having teams that were at times favored to get
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  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. They found ways to screw it
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: up so that the move came two days two days
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: after the game in Denver where the Buffalo Bills did
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the thing you can't do at the time. You can't
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: do it there a couple of times ended up losing.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: So a number of players are beside themselves. They are bewildered,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: thunderstruck because of the move to get rid of Sean McDermott.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Fans also outraged over this decision by the ownership there
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: in Buffalo. That is a good jumping off points. So
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question for the team panel, did
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: which Sean McDermott. Did coach Sean McDermott get a raw
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: deal in Buffalo? Did he get a raw deal? So
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I've got flippers, hamburger, helper, and cloverleaf intersection, and we
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we were
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: going to make some chicken Alfredo is what we're going
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: to make. So first of all, to answer the question,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: was this a raw deal for Sean McDermott, The answer
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: is no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: with an explation point in fact, he was given a
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: sweetheart deal. In most places, McDermott would have been fired
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: three years ago. He got three extra years to prove
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: he shouldn't have been coaching the last three years Sean McDermott.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And so no, the opposite of that, this was a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: move that should have been made a while ago. It
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: had to be made now. It was inevitable. Now that
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: being said, I didn't think they would have the balls
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to do it in Buffalo, so I'm surprised that they did.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: And we did a Mallard monologue in a previous episode
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: of the show saying that, yeah, you should get rid
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: of this guy. Of course you should get rid of
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Sean McDermot. The twenty twenty five season, it turned out,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: was indeed the last dance. That was it, And the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: folding tables snapped in half. Bill's Mafia jumped on it,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: and the table snapped in half, and that's it. You
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: can only jump through so many flaming tables, Okay, and
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: before you realize that you're stuck on like level thirteen,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: but you want to get to level fifteen, but you're
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: stuck on level thirteenth. Well, how do I get to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: level fifteen? Now we are skeptical. We are skeptical that
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the Bills know what they're doing right, considering that they
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: gave this guy three extra years, three extra years Sean
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: McDermott got. And the reason that we didn't think this
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: was gonna happen is because foc fear of change, right,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: fear of change, fear of the unknown. And the Bills
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: were were comfortable. They'd been bad for twenty years, and
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: so they were comfortable. The ten plus wins, playoffs, snow
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Globe games on National TV, Chicken Wings in the air, everywhere,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia breaking furniture like it's a home improvement show
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: gone bad, all of that stuff that's not Bills. That's
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the essence of the Buffalo Bills and Sean McDermott coaching.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: This team had built up a nice ranch house, a
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: nice ranch home Sean McDermott had built up, and it
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: was working. They were winning some games and all that stuff,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and it was wonderful and they were all excited and
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: was great and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. However,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: what ended up happening every January. Every January, the ending
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: was the same. It was four of the past five
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: four of the past five years. How has this thing
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: ended for the Buffalo Bills. Well, they've ended it in heartbreak,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: fag And so when you keep crashing out, when you
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: get to that level thirteen, you can't get past it.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: You don't yell at the controller, you change the strategy.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: And so McDermott they gave him another chance, and another
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: one and another one, and it didn't work out. So
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: they could ban his head against the wall and all
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: that stuff. They couldn't find the right cheat code, couldn't
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: figure out warp zone. There was no warp zone for
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Here, just more frostbite and oh my god,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: we suck again. And at some point you stop mashing
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: those buttons on the remote control and you go to
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: YouTube or the dark web and you say, okay, we
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: got to figure something else out. And so that's what
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: they're going to do. And now the bills job prime Rib.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: The Bill's job is prime Rib. You've got the lunatic
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: fan base check small town insanity. You check that box.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: You've got Josh Allen, who's got two more years of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: athletic prime, so two more years of Josh Allen before
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the slow decline. So you've got so that's all good stuff, right.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So you get those things and you're looking around, you're like, okay,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: so you've got this kind of set up, and where
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: is this headed. So you've got the job. That's team
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that's contender, just already a contender, we know that. And
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: so you go in there. Whoever gets the Buffalo Bill's job.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about this more as we go through this
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: hour here, but whoever gets that job, you're not rebuilding, right,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: and you should never be reballying. You're installing. Essentially, a
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: booster seat is what you're doing. You get a booster
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: seat in there and you floor it, pedal to the metal,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and you just go for it here. And we have
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: seen that this can work. It doesn't work all the time,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: it has worked. The most famous example, Tony Dungee built
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers into a really good team years
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: ago in Tampa and then couldn't get it done. And
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: then they brought in John Gruden who the check that
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: was set up by Tony Dungee. So it's like HGTV
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the Pigskin House Flippers addition, and so you go in
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: there and McDermott he turned he didn't do some flipping.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: He turned the house the outhouse into not quite a penthouse,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: but it's like a level below the penthouse. So he
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: did that and he ran out of money, or in
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: this case, he ran out of time. Time is money,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: So he ran out of time McDermott. And so someone
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: else will go in there, and if the Bills don't
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: screw this up, they will be the ones to hang
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: up the Lombardi trophy on the shelf and they'll put
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: that up in the house that McDermott built. Now. Secondly,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: so now Buffalo is back on the market, they need
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: to hire a new coach. We know that they need
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: a new sideline jockey. So the question with the Bills
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: out shopping for someone to guide them on the sidelines.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Here for the first time in almost a decade, the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Bills are in the market for a head coach. Who
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: do you recommend? You are now the headhunter, you are
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: now the advisor. Who do you recommend for the Buffalo job.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: So this one is a no brainer. It's not that
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: difficult here if the Bills are serious and if they
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: really want to go for it here, and that's a
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: big if with the Buffalo Bills, it's a big if.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: But if that's the case, you do whatever you have
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to do, including handing over the keys to Niagara Falls,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: to get Mike Tomlin. Hold my god, what you're talking about.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Tomvin didn't win it pittsbot He's been bad for ten years.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Shut up. You lose there. That makes mine all right.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: The argument against Tomlin is he didn't get it done
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: for a while in Pittsburgh, and all that I say
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: for Geyze absolutely forgezy. The problem Tomlin had he had
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: substandard rosters, inferior quarterbacks and was able to make the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: playoffs most of the time in Pittsburgh. If you give
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin a legitimate thorough bred quarterback and that team
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: is going to punch their ticket to the Promised Land there,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: it'll be like muscle memory for Mike tom I'm telling
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: you it's gonna be like muscle memory. The standard is
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the standard that fits that bull crap fits in Western
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: New York like thermal underwear in January just fits you
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: need it, And so that job the Buffalo Bill's job.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Now I recommend Mike Tomlin. That's my unsolicited overnight device.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: But the Buffalo Bill's job is a Hamburger helper job.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: It is. It's in terms of coaching, ready made contender
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: right now, playoff team consistently, big time quarterback. This is
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: a just add water situation. You are great, are You're
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: nodding your head, Yes, it's a just add water situation.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Dinner is served, You've got the protein Josh Allen and
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you'd like to see him stop burning down the kitchen
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: with turnovers like he did against the Broncos and all that.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: But the early chatter chatter is not The early chatter
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: is not Mike Tomlin. The early chatter is that the
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: team from Buffalo is going to look to pacify Josh
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Allen and hire Brian Dayball. He's the early favorite, not
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, the human boomerang Brian day Ball there who
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: failed spectacularly with the Giants. But hey, for he's a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: jolly goodfellow which nobody can and I why not buy
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: him a beer by everyone beers past the mashed potatoes Grandma,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: way to go the old boys Club. That's the logic, right,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: there's always the way you go. Default position. It's not
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: what you know. And this is not just football, this
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: is just life in general. It's not what you know,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: it's who you know. And so not exactly great leadership,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: it's not. It's more like, hey, I'm on LinkedIn, let
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: me see what they can find, or I'm on Express
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Now. Either way, outside of replacing and the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: read which that job is not open at this point
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: in Kansas City, no word that that job will be open.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: So we're going to assume the position that that is
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: not happy that that job will not open up. So
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: outside of that job, the Andy Reid chiefs job, this
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: is the job. This is the job. Don't overthink it.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I would advise to not hire a friend. Don't hire
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: a friend. You're not running a bake sale here in Buffalo,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: you're not. I just go ahead and hire Thomas. Everyone
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: says Tomlin's not going to coach, he wants to take
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: a year off. Unless there's something that we don't know
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: about that hasn't been disclosed, Tomlin will be coaching again.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: So if Tomlin's planning on going back to coaching. By
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the time you get back, this job is not gonna
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: be open. So like, come on, what are you doing?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Just do what it takes. Everyone's got a price. Hire
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Thomlin right now. Final thought as for the guy. As
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: for the guy who just got dumped, we know how
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: this works in the NFL too, with the recycling. The
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: NFL ahead of their time when it comes to recycling.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: So the question where does former Bills coach Sean McDermott
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: end up. Where does McDermott end up? Well, McDermott is
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: not unemployed, but I think unemployed. I think, well, I
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: don't have any money coming. He's still getting paid by
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the Bills. He had time left on his contract. He
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: wasn't a lame duck coach from what I understand. So
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I think of this in the context that Sean McDermott
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: is at the intersection, the blinker is on, the blinker
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: is on the station wagon is idling the McDermott station wagon.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: The kids are in the back asking dad, where are
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: we there yet? Where we going? Dad? Where we go? Okay?
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Calm down? Shot up? Kids, all right? So he dropped
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a token. He dropped a token into the NFL arcade
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: and boom the coaching mayor go around, fired up, round
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and round and round the big wooden horse brass pole,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: up and down, the same song every coaching cycle, every
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: coaching cycle, the same song. And mcdermot's resume it says
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: one thing. It doesn't say I'm gonna win you a championship.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: It says I will make you respectable where the capital
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: are right. And if you look at these terrible franchises
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: like the Raiders and the Browns and the Cardinals, these
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: teams and there are others that have jobs open. Although
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: it appears the Tennessee Titans have decided on another terrible coach,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Robert Sala. One of why certain teams always end up
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: in the same spot, Well, there you go anyway. He
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: would put you in the respectable category. And so that's
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: not a bad thing. And one man's trash there is
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: another man's treasure. It's always the way this is in
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the NFL here and so it's the other thing about
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: mcdermoid is he's not he's not a TV guy. He's
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: got a really boring person. He doesn't have much of
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: anything to offer other than coaching football. He's meeting potatoes.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: There's no garnish. There, there's no razzle dazzle. He's not
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: gonna go off and do a Barstool Bros. Podcast and
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: play grab ass with the bros at Barstool. He's not
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: doing that. That's not how he's wired. Okay, you're not
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: gonna go eat chicken wings and drink beer and do
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: that while doing some fugazi podcast. That's not gonna So
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: he's just one of these guys that rolls up his
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: sleeves and you got a sink that's leaking, he'll fix that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: He'll you get the thing over there that's not quite
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: working right on the on the door, he'll fix that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: as well. And so the the option do you take
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: a gap year? Some people say, wow, you take a
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: gap year and then you go back to the market
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, And that would be a big mistake.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: A sabbatical by Sean McDermott. You know, that's what the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: rich guys that can do TV too. He's not that guy,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: as we said, he's not that type of coach. He's not.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: And so you don't do this about so currently Sean
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: McDermot ACENTU, she's at the intersection. This is a clover
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: leaf intersection. He's at the clover leaf intersection, Sean McDermott.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: So if you turn left, turn left. If you turn left,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: you take a year off and battery recharge. That's not
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: what you should do. You should not turn left. If
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: you go straight, you grab one of these flea infested jobs,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: like the Raiders, the Cardinals or the Browns, and you
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: go there. That's like the roach motel. You go to
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: one of those teams. Now, the other option at the
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: clover Leaf intersection is to turn ride, turn ride. You
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: head to Jerry's world where Cowboys' defensive coordinator. That job
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: opened up right now. Noise hasn't hired anyone, unless say
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: they hired some of the last hour, so that job
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: is open. So the defensive coordinator job is open for
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. You go there. If you're Sean McDermott,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: that would be the fallback. It's not a full sabbatical
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: because you're still coaching. But you go to the Cowboys.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Jerry turns on the circus music, the spotlight. Jerry's barking
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: like a carnival barker. There. He's got the clown makeup
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: on the whole thing. He's a carnival huckster, and he
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: tries to hype up your value and all that stuff.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: And you do that for a year, You go to
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys for a year, and suddenly mcdermot's back in
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the front of the line and you can get one
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: of these top jobs that will pop open. Every year,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: seven to ten jobs open up. And of course, the
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: great thing about the coaching carousel, as you know, the
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: ride does not stop. It does not. You just got
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: to pick the right horse. That's the problem. You got
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: to pick the right horse.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maler
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific over
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: takes to get to the top? Probably not?
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, Scott is in the Commonwealth. He has called up.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: He wants to be one of barkingtestants. Hello Scott, welcome.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Hey Ben.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: How's it going, guy, Scott? If I was any better,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I would be a Texan, But not a Houston Texan
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: cause they froze when they played the Patriots over the weekend.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: He cool, All right, who do you want to partner
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: up with them? My man? You got me or cool?
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I won't.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Can I tick Lorena?
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: What do you get a golden ticket?
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Oh no no, come on, no, no, no, no, no,
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: no no.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: No, that's not all right. You gotta play with Lorraino.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: It's fine. You're in you and Loraina. All right, we'll
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: have that as a team. All right, you're you and Loraina. Okay,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: hold on, second, Arraina, your first time playing the game.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: We have Jimmy in Saint Paul. Hello, Jimmy going, that's
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: going on? Jimmy? What's that? Oh?
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: What are you doing outside? Oh? I'm doing my cardio
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: outside and you can call the Minnesota How many? How many?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: How many layers you got on there? Three? What's the
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: what's the temperature in St? Paul today? Negatives eight? And
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: it feels like twenty perfect weather.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Perfect.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: We the jim and I jogged back home.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Do you see anybody outside? Do you see anybody like
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: anybody outside?
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: All right, who do you want to partner up with? Their? Jimmy?
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: Also, we need another contestant because Scott's not serious. So
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: if somebody else wants to calling to replace Scott.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: What's that? Okay? All right, very nice. Hold on a sec.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: So you're saying that Scott is not you don't think
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: you serious? Do you think he's a prankster?
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: He picks Lorena as his partner. He's not serious, Scott?
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Are you a prince? Scott? Lorena? Yeah, so it seems reasonable.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: Lorena hasn't heard of ninety five percent of the names.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: On this list. Chance, Coop, you know, no, we're not
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: giving you just hate women. We're not. Yeah, Yes, that's true,
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: that's true.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Lorena, let's.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Go, let's go.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I said, he's not serious.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Coop seems genuinely upset. All right, if somebody else wants
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: to play, we'll let Scott pick the category. How about that?
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: If somebody else wants to play, because we had to
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: move on, Coop? Yes, yeah, that's all right? All right?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: What a categy?
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: This is the Orlando Bloom Edition.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: How about Scott in someone else? Team up?
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: How about that is the Orlando Bloom Edition.
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  Speaker 4: The categories are Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean,
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  Speaker 4: the Three Musketeers, and Bran Turismo.
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  Speaker 3: Which category would you like? Scott?
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  Speaker 2: I would say three, Lorena, I would say three Musketeers?
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  Speaker 1: All right, quite the wordsman there, and we have my
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  Speaker 1: man Jimmy walking in the Arctic winter wonderland of Saint
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  Speaker 1: Paul and Jimmy pick a category if you remember them.
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  Speaker 1: I remember pirates of the Caribbean. Pirates of the Caribbean.
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  Speaker 1: All right, very good everyone, thank you for that. Hold on, Jimy,
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  Speaker 1: do not hang up, Do not hang up. So Scott
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  Speaker 1: likely will be replaced. But we got Jimmy and me
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  Speaker 1: and Scott. I think, who knows, we'll get to that.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have Mallard's amount of money in its entirety.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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  Speaker 1: Back to here we go. It's Mallard's mountain of money
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  Speaker 1: that's welcome in our contestants we have see here, we
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  Speaker 1: have Scott in the Commonwealth and Jimmy in the same.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting rid of Scott in the Commonwealth.
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  Speaker 1: Oh we are, yeah, Okay, well, I guess we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: who are we're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: In Scott and Kentucky. Instead, we're getting a new Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Very rude Scott in CommonWell.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Scott, the Commonwell's an idiot. Seems like a nice man,
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  Speaker 4: all right, Scott.
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  Speaker 3: So I am your partner.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that Cooper the rained kick to the Cide
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  Speaker 1: the Rain. We did a test run.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she couldn't even say who Russell Wilson. Oh, well, crowd.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so Scott, we have we have.
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  Speaker 3: The Free Musketeers. We already can't do the ten point
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  Speaker 3: one because I just blew that. But we're gonna win anyway.
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  Speaker 4: All right, this category, all these athletes where or wore
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  Speaker 4: number three forty five seconds on the clock.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready, Scott, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's begin, all right, the answer from the
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  Speaker 4: seventy six ers.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy was the the Bambino. Yes uh.
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  Speaker 4: This guy was the point guard for the Clippers, the
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  Speaker 4: Lob City Clippers. Yes, this guy was a Defensive Player
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  Speaker 4: of the Year for the Pistons when they were winning championships. Yes, uh,
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  Speaker 4: this guy was. He spent like most of his twenty
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  Speaker 4: two career with the Twins, won an m VP. Big slugger, no.
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  Speaker 1: Hammering.
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right, this guy was a longtime Detroit Tiger.
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  Speaker 4: He just recently got int the Hall of Fame. Cowboy,
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  Speaker 4: and Windsor was always campaigning for him to get into
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  Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 5: Alright, alright, Heavy and Alan Trammel, you got one family,
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  Speaker 5: all right.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy are you there? Jimmy? Have you? Oh boy? What
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  Speaker 1: is going on here? You? Are you there? Jimmy? I'm
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  Speaker 1: right here. Ben all right, you haven't frozen or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. You're good to go. No, I'm not lifted now, okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, here we go. That's a man's man right there,
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  Speaker 1: the random man's lifting weight. That's right. That's not some win. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: here we go. We'll put forty five seconds. You pick
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  Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caribbean. Is that correct? Yeah? I guess so.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even remember. All right, these athletes all in
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  Speaker 1: they all enjoy sailing. Are you ready? Yeah? All right? Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He was Larry Bird's rival in the NBA in the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties. Yes, guard from France played with the Spurs,
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  Speaker 1: won a bunch of championships. He's forty. Yes, the other
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: splash brother not Steph Curry. The other guys with the
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Mavericks now Thompkins. Yes. A wide receiver was famous for
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. He played in Kansas City basement in Baltimore. Recently,
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  Speaker 1: he's still playing in the NFL, kind of older pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: His name has become synonymous with a surgery in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Ligament replacement surgery is called this guy's name. Yeah, there
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  Speaker 1: you go. French basketball player played with the won a championship.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's all right, all right.
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  Speaker 3: So you guys are back up again. Jimmy, do you
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  Speaker 3: want to Lord of the Rings or Grand Turismo?
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  Speaker 1: Lord of the rings? All right, Lord of the wing rings.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. These athletes all have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: championship rings. Will put forty five seconds on the clock
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  Speaker 1: and we are on our way and go. A Yankee
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  Speaker 1: hero in the nineteen sixties won two Purple Hearts, played
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  Speaker 1: with the Yankees, won seven World Series titles as a player,
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  Speaker 1: fought in World War Two. How about that blue gret No,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know, if you don't know, you don't
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: know what. A linebacker for the Green Bay Packers back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. I think he's in his sevent he's
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  Speaker 1: still alive. Nicknamed the Mad Stork for the Green Bay Packers.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, mister big shot for the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: played with the Spurs, the Rockets, NBA player game winning
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  Speaker 1: shots back up on some great teams in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: Tall guy African American shot a lot of three point shots. Nothing,
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  Speaker 1: come on, oh man.
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  Speaker 3: Good good strategy there, going for the tough ones first.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, by the way, you didn't get Ted, well, Hank,
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  Speaker 1: Hank Bauer was the guy we were looking for, a
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  Speaker 1: Yankee legend and Ted Ted Hendricks and Robert Dorry. Keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind that these categories I've been given much much
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  Speaker 1: more difficult than the ones.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: Coop, it's radom, your totally totally random teammates category.
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  Speaker 1: Ted Hendricks koop, Ted Hendrix, Okay, he won.
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  Speaker 3: Hendrick.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know who that is. Hank Bauer. I
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: knew him as a broadcast Hank Bauer, Hey, what are
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  Speaker 1: you doing?
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  Speaker 4: He He led the Ools to their first champions as
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  Speaker 4: a manager.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: But seriously, like Boris d Ow back up, it was
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  Speaker 1: one of the answers Boris the how Alan Trammels his sabotage.
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  Speaker 1: Alan Trammell is a household man. That's a whole fame.
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  Speaker 1: It is Jimmy. You know, no, he's not Jimmy. You
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  Speaker 1: know who Alan Trammel is, right?
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  Speaker 4: Ye?
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  Speaker 1: See that right?
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  Speaker 3: He broke.
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  Speaker 1: We win, Scott, Scott, you chickened out. You don't get
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: to win. No win for you.