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  Speaker 1: demand on the podcast, it's probably already a So our
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  Speaker 1: lead though, from the combine. Now, normally when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about the combine, you're talking about the shuttle drill, the
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  Speaker 1: forty yard dashtime, some kind of nice rumor about a trade. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this is new. I don't recall I've been doing this
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes. I don't ever recall talking
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  Speaker 1: about something like this. Now, this used to happen all
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  Speaker 1: the time back in the day, but there was no
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  Speaker 1: social media when this kind of stuff happened.
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  Speaker 3: So let me let me set it up this way, so.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of NFL reporters got into a verbal dust
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  Speaker 1: up at the combine say what yeah, Ian Rapaport, who
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  Speaker 1: works for the state sponsor at NFL Media, and Jordan Schultz,
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  Speaker 1: who has been hanging out out in the Fox Box
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  Speaker 1: that Rocks recently, And so they were.
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  Speaker 3: Fighting, if you will, arguing over a.
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  Speaker 1: Scoop scoopy mixed scoop over Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: in Montana but not Joe Montana.
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  Speaker 3: Did you follow a long No, you probably didn't follow on.
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  Speaker 1: Let me let me map it all out for you,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna I'm gonna draw a diagram here, point
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  Speaker 1: by point so point a. According to Jordan Schultz, Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady recently hosted Matthew Stafford at one of his many homes,
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  Speaker 1: this one in Montana, where they spent time together. They
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  Speaker 1: went skiing, because what else you do in Montana other
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  Speaker 1: thn go skiing?
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The reporting said that Brady has been actively trying to
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  Speaker 1: convince Matthew Stafford to turn down the Giants and turn
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  Speaker 1: down the Rams and play for our Raiders, who he
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  Speaker 1: happens to own a chunk of, but not a majority
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  Speaker 1: chunk of. And the discussions are ongoing, all right, so
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  Speaker 1: it seems rather benign.
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  Speaker 3: It's a harmless report.
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  Speaker 1: Off season, Stafford has permission to talk to other teams,
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  Speaker 1: so he went to Montana to hang out with Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: who cares. So shortly after that, well, rap Sheet cares,
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  Speaker 1: he punched back, and he violated the hippocratic oath of insiders.
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  Speaker 1: Rap Sheet said that he reported from sources that Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady and Matthew Stafford just randomly happened to run into
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  Speaker 1: each other at a ski resort in Montana. Rappaport said
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  Speaker 1: the meeting was unplanned. It was not extensive or in
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  Speaker 1: depth or anything like that, and did not include Brady
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  Speaker 1: hosting or recruiting Matthew Stafford, despite reports saying otherwise. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: shots fired, so you have dueling reports now. This also
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  Speaker 1: reportedly led to a humdinger.
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  Speaker 3: Of a story.
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  Speaker 1: So the story that's making the rounds now the echo
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  Speaker 1: chamber is that Jordan Schultz and Ian Rappaport engaged in
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  Speaker 1: a verbal altercation face to face, mano a mano, eye
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  Speaker 1: to eye, belly to belly. It happened on Wednesday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: at a Starbucks at the JW. Marriott in downtown Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: developing hot dot dot dot.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so let us discuss.
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  Speaker 1: You've got NFL insiders Ian Rappaport and Jordan Schultz sparring
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  Speaker 1: going nose to nose over a dopey Matthew Stafford scoop
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  Speaker 1: with Tom Brady, and we have a he said, he said, situation.
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  Speaker 1: Whose side are you on? You make the call. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got game show contestant, doggie bag and team consultant,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we were going to make a celebrity boxing matches.
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  Speaker 3: What we're gonna make now. I don't know if these
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  Speaker 3: guys qualify a celebrities don't.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, right, so my first thought here after eight
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  Speaker 1: minutes long Mallard deliberation, I stand on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the aisle with Jordan Schultz.
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  Speaker 3: This is not that difficult now.
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  Speaker 1: His rebuttal made sense, and I mentioned listen, Rapaport violated
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  Speaker 1: the oath of the insider that you don't take out
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  Speaker 1: the knees of a fellow insider. And well you might
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  Speaker 1: think Schultz is not is he doesn't have as much
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  Speaker 1: aura as some of these other guys.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's his gig.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he's in. That's what he does. He's done
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  Speaker 1: it for a while. So anyway, Schultz argument is, if
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  Speaker 1: you really think Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford just happened
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  Speaker 1: to run any into each other at a ski resort
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  Speaker 1: in Montana, as he says, of all places by chance,
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  Speaker 1: at the exact same time, I've got a bridge to
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  Speaker 1: sell you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So what do you think happened here? Now? I
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  Speaker 3: have a theory. This is my hypothesis.
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  Speaker 1: And Tom Brady is like a game show contest in this.
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  Speaker 1: Once he saw the story get out, He's like, I
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  Speaker 1: got to play Who Wants to be a Millionaire? And
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  Speaker 1: I believe Brady absolutely is recruiting Matthew Stafford to the Raiders. However,
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to keep it on the DL right to
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  Speaker 1: down low because he did not want to get the
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  Speaker 1: hopes up of anyone. If Stafford burns Brady and then
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  Speaker 1: Brady looks like a dumb dumb and the Raiders end
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  Speaker 1: up with some turd at quarterback again. So Brady on
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  Speaker 1: Who Wants to be a Millionaire used the old phone
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  Speaker 1: of friend Lifeline from the game show to get some
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  Speaker 1: help with a tough question and if you follow the breadcrumbs,
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  Speaker 1: it makes sense. Now, this is just my opinion. You
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  Speaker 1: can't sue me for my opinion. But Ian Rappaport was
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  Speaker 1: born in Boston. He worked as a Patriot beat writer
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  Speaker 1: for three seasons at The Herald when Tom Brady was
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  Speaker 1: playing quarterback for the Patriots. So it's fair to say
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  Speaker 1: it's logical to believe it more likely than not. T
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  Speaker 1: Well and rap Sheet have a relationship. They know each other,
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  Speaker 1: They likely have each other's phone number. Would it be
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  Speaker 1: outrageous to think that Tom Brady, trying to put the
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  Speaker 1: cabash on the story, would have sent a text or
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  Speaker 1: called I Rapaport and said, hey, do me a solid
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  Speaker 1: on this. Okay, do me a solid. The irony that
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  Speaker 1: this verbal spat happened at a coffee shop if you
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  Speaker 1: don't know the backstory. Now Schultz, who's been doing this
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  Speaker 1: for a while as an NFL insider. He is the
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  Speaker 1: son of the former Starbucks CEO, the Big Cheese at Starbucks,
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  Speaker 1: Howard Schultz, who also I think screwed up the SuperSonics
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. But as we understand it, Rappaport
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  Speaker 1: was so taken aback. Someone say he was a Flower.
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  Speaker 1: He was a pussy Willow Rappaport is the one who
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  Speaker 1: called NFL security. If the reporting from what I reading
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  Speaker 1: here is accurate, so the plot thickens.
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  Speaker 3: Stay tuned.
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  Speaker 1: But of the two reports, that's the one that's much
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  Speaker 1: more plausible is the one that Brady and Stafford got
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  Speaker 1: together in Montana. Probably figured it's Montana. Who the hell
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  Speaker 1: is gonna know where in Montana? And somebody spotted them somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: and then it got out, and so then Brady went
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  Speaker 1: into damage call control.
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  Speaker 3: Keep in mind, Brady is doing a terrible job with
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  Speaker 3: the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: They got rid of Antonio Peers because Brady, supposedly, from
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  Speaker 1: what I've heard, told ownership, I'm gonna get the Lions
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Ben Johnson's gonna come in here to be
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  Speaker 1: a coach, And so they got rid of Antonio Peers
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  Speaker 1: to bring in Ben Johnson, and Ben Johnson went to
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  Speaker 1: the Bears, and so Brady had to hire the oldest
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  Speaker 1: coach in the NFL, Pete care And now, I like
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  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll. I think it'll work out. But that's not
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  Speaker 1: the plan. That was not the plan Brady got. He
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  Speaker 1: got stood up by Ben Johnson, all right, now turning
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  Speaker 1: the page. So there's a part of this Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: story which involved Aaron Rogers. So Aaron Rodgers has reportedly
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  Speaker 1: said under the table, I love how a stuff under
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  Speaker 1: the table, and then he's a big fan of Sean McVay,
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  Speaker 1: the Ram coach Sean McVay. However, at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: we are told that Rogers also has reached out to
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  Speaker 1: the Gia and ts the Giants. All right, so they've
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  Speaker 1: all talked, supposedly about possibly signing with the other New
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  Speaker 1: York team.
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  Speaker 3: So what does all of this signal to you?
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  Speaker 1: So for me, and this is really the only note
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  Speaker 1: that I have on this, it is a doggie back,
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  Speaker 1: as in, Aaron Rodgers is ready to dine on leftovers.
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  Speaker 1: He is perfectly fine and realizes his place in the cosmos.
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  Speaker 1: If the Rams send Matthew Stafford to Jersey and the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: Rogers will slide on into the penthouse apartment in the
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  Speaker 1: Ram facility. If Stafford stays with the Rams, he then
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  Speaker 1: heads over to the Giants. Now, this also does confirm
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  Speaker 1: that despite chat that Rogers will not be able to
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  Speaker 1: find work and he's going to retire. At least he
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  Speaker 1: wants to play. The plan is for him to play
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  Speaker 1: another season in the NFL. Otherwise, why would he be
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  Speaker 1: out there job hunting if he didn't intend to play
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Now another player who does intend
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  Speaker 1: to play but is looking for a new team. We
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  Speaker 1: cartwheel our way now to the Bay Area, well, actually Indianapolis,
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  Speaker 1: but that is where forty nine Ers GM John Lynch
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  Speaker 1: is to work for his dad in radio. But John Lynch,
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  Speaker 1: his dad ran a cluster of radio stations in San
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  Speaker 1: Diego when I started the business. Anyway, John Lynch is
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  Speaker 1: the GM there in the forty nine Ers camp, and
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  Speaker 1: he says the team will quote try to honor Tries
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  Speaker 1: a weelword. They're going to try to honor Deebo Samuel's
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  Speaker 1: trade request. Lynch the big geese there with the Niners,
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  Speaker 1: allowing Deebo to wander around the country and play foot
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  Speaker 1: see with interested in NFL team. Now, Deebo Samuel is
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  Speaker 1: leaving San Francisco, that much we believe to be true.
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  Speaker 1: You decide where he ends up. So on this we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna spend the mallor wheel of speculation. We dust off
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  Speaker 1: the mallor wheel. There go rounding round big Bunny, big.
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  Speaker 3: Money, no Webby, no Webby.
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  Speaker 1: Stop all right, the wheel has stopped on a four
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  Speaker 1: leaf clover.
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  Speaker 3: So I in the wheel. Listen. The wheel's never wrong.
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  Speaker 3: It's never wrong.
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  Speaker 1: We've got commanders, Chargers, Broncos and Patriots.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now the way this would work out now, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago I had PTSD from Deebo sam As
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  Speaker 1: you might know if you listened to the show regularly.
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  Speaker 1: The team of my youth, as Tom Looney, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: the guy do the TV the TV show with is
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  Speaker 1: the Rams and Deebo Samuel haunted the Rams not much anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but for a couple of years he just killed the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: And if you look at what's happened recently, if you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get them, whether it's Washington, I think the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: would be perfect for him because they need some help,
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  Speaker 1: and he's under contract and he can't really go anywhere
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  Speaker 1: unless the Niners release him, et cetera. So I think
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  Speaker 1: Pats would be the top there. But does he want
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  Speaker 1: to play in New England? Who knows? But you got commanders, charges,
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  Speaker 1: Broncos on Patriots.
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  Speaker 3: But you have to.
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  Speaker 1: Bring in a special team. Consulting an advisor if you
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  Speaker 1: can track him down across the Pearly gates. Ponce Delyon,
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  Speaker 1: if you can bring in Ponce de Lyon man alive,
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  Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel, what a great pickup. You're in really good
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  Speaker 1: shape because Deebo right now his only elite skill. If
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  Speaker 1: you look at all the tools in his toolbox, the
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  Speaker 1: one that is the superpower for Deebo in recent years
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  Speaker 1: has been walking onto the field with a boombox.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody does it better than Deebo. Pregame warm ups when
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  Speaker 3: he comes out of.
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  Speaker 1: That locker room and stretch down onto the field and
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  Speaker 1: he's got that boom box pumping tunes.
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  Speaker 3: That's the way to do it. Play on the field,
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  Speaker 3: eh E.
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  Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel has just eight hundred and six yards some scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: I had it just last year, second lowest mark in
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  Speaker 1: his career. The forty nine ers likely need some barbecue sauce.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to have to eat thirty one point six million.
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  Speaker 1: That is a dead cap charge if they trade Deebo Samuel,
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  Speaker 1: and so they'll lose a bunch of salary cap space.
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  Speaker 1: We think they will still feel the team. Sources close
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  Speaker 1: to the Ben Malor show tell us the Niners will
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  Speaker 1: not be filing for Chapter eleven bankruptcy if they do
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  Speaker 1: end up having to trade Deebo Samuel, but stay tuned
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  Speaker 1: things may change.
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  Speaker 3: So our lead this.
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  Speaker 1: Hour is from the Grading Book, which is really just
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  Speaker 1: about ratting out the people that you work for. This
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  Speaker 1: has not become a yearly tradition. It is going to
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  Speaker 1: be here the rest of our lives. The NFL Players
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  Speaker 1: Association released their annual now it's annual team report Cards,
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  Speaker 1: a survey of almost seventeen hundred NFL players who decided
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  Speaker 1: to put a grade on it, put a grade on it,
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  Speaker 1: put a grade on it. They graded their respective teams
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  Speaker 1: in various categories, and then some nerds compile all the numbers,
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  Speaker 1: and then they waited until the combine here in late
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  Speaker 1: February to release the information. So if you you didn't
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  Speaker 1: see this by chance, maybe it slipped under your radar
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  Speaker 1: for the second year in a row. The top two
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  Speaker 1: teams in the NFL to work for are who do
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  Speaker 1: you think they are? The Miami Dolphins and the Minnesota Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: According to the NFL Players Association's annual Survey Evaluating Workplace Environment.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Man.
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  Speaker 1: So, the NFLPA claims that they received responses from seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven percent.
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  Speaker 3: Of its membership.
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  Speaker 1: So of the sixteen one hundred and ninety five players,
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  Speaker 1: a seventy seven percent responding, averaging fifty two responses per team.
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  Speaker 3: All players, all players.
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  Speaker 1: Including those who aren't really real NFL players on the
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  Speaker 1: practice squad, could have participated in this. So let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss what stands out about this. What stands out about
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  Speaker 1: this annual NFLPA report complaining about NFL facilities, That's really
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  Speaker 1: what this is about. It's about complaining publicly shaming the
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  Speaker 1: aristocrats that own the NFL teams to fix things. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got Hall and Oates, Geneva Convention, and Cotton Candy,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to mollywop this story.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna mollywop this story.
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  Speaker 1: So A, I'm trying to determine whether I have an
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  Speaker 1: unpopular opinion or I have a popular opinion, because I
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  Speaker 1: do believe that social media is the matrix, and I
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  Speaker 1: was reading some of the feedback here and many people
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  Speaker 1: were just shaming the teams that didn't grade well on this,
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  Speaker 1: and my takes a little different. And I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 1: you my take here and then you can call up
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  Speaker 1: and send your messages in if you want on X
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  Speaker 1: as well. But my take on this, reading about NFL
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  Speaker 1: players whining about the team facility, the amenities, the perks,
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  Speaker 1: the creature comforts, makes me want to puke in my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: It does, I will literally puke in my mouth. And
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  Speaker 1: here's why. The whole thing is the theater of the absurd.
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  Speaker 1: And it's one of those things that has changed in
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  Speaker 1: my lifetime.
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  Speaker 3: Where there the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Player used to use use it as a badge of
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  Speaker 1: honor that they were grizzled, they were tough, they were
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  Speaker 1: weather beaten, that adversity was a wonderful thing, and that
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  Speaker 1: it made them tougher, right, put some hair on their chest,
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  Speaker 1: that whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: And you talk to.
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  Speaker 1: The old school NFL guys, they're like, well, we practiced
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  Speaker 1: at high schools, we traveled commercial, we weren't giving any
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  Speaker 1: food or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: There was one trainer for the whole team and that
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  Speaker 3: was that.
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  Speaker 1: And now you have these spoiled athletes, the modern athlete,
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  Speaker 1: the wussification of the athlete, that they are put on
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  Speaker 1: a pedestal, that they have no problem that.
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  Speaker 3: I would be embarrassed if I worked.
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  Speaker 1: For the NFL Players Association to send this out, I'd
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  Speaker 1: be like, Mike, this is so unbecoming, this is so emasculating,
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  Speaker 1: and they have no problem with it. It's now a
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  Speaker 1: yearly thing. They're complaining like they work in a sweatshop
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. I try getting a real job
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  Speaker 1: and see what's life. You know, life's like when you're
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  Speaker 1: not coddled. They just come across as as spoiled. So
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  Speaker 1: we should get out the world's smallest violin and we
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  Speaker 1: can play some music for example. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: saw this or not. The Bengals and Saints. Can you
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  Speaker 1: believe they can play that they were not provided three
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  Speaker 1: meals a day at work. They're not provided three meals
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  Speaker 1: a day and they had the hoods, But a complain
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  Speaker 1: about that?
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  Speaker 3: What in the world. Now, Cincinnati took a beating on this.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati is the only team that does not offer daycare
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: or a family room during home games.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, you have to watch your own children.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: You have to have somebody watch your kids, like a
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: relative or hire a babysitter.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine a world where that takes place? What
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: are we doing?
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Also, the Bengals took some crap because they only have
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: a part time nutritionist two times a week.
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  Speaker 3: That's why they lost.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: They didn't have a full time nutritionist. They would have
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: made the playoffs if they had a full time nutritionist.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Blasphemy. Arizona took some in this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Arizona turns out does not give pregame sideline passes to
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  Speaker 1: family members. Boohoo, you talk about cruel and unusual punishment. Now,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, the Indianapolis Colts, the Philadelphia Eagles, and
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. I hope you're sitting down for this,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: because this is going to really upset you. This is
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: going to really cause you some heartache. The Bills, Colts, Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: and Panthers make players sit in coach and the coaches,
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  Speaker 1: in the in the personnel for the team sit in
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  Speaker 1: first class. Sweet baby Jesus, let me repeat that. The Bills, Colts, Panthers,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and Eagles make their players sit and coach and the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: coaches and the staff sit in first class.
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  Speaker 3: And we all say a prayer. All right.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Thirty seven percent of the Commander players report ongoing plumbing problems.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine working somewhere where the plumbing's not perfect?
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Forty four percent of Bucks players also say they've got
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: plumbing problems, and they say there's a persistent bad odor
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: that remains around the team facility.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Holy crap on a cracker. How about the Jets?
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: The Jets, I'm not done by the mean The Jets
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: players complain the locker room carpet is stained and worn out.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: It's been there for too long. The Bolts, they have
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the balls the Chargers to charge because they're the Chargers.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: They're players for daycare. They offered daycare. You gotta pay
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: for it. Can you imagine what are we doing?
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Even worse, the Kansas City Chiefs home game.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: They stay at a hotel. All they seem to stay
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: at a hotel at home. But the Chiefs hotel they stay
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: at for home games is so dirty? How dirty is?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: It's so dirty that some players say, I don't even
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: know if I can say this on terrestrial radio. Some
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: of the Chiefs players claim they had to wear shoes
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  Speaker 1: in their room. Oh, mg, Jimminy Christmas, they needed slippers.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine what kind of vermin these players have
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to live in?
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I can go on and all. I mean,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: there's tons of this stuff.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Now, all of this plays like the old Hall and
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Oates song because there's no new Hall and Oats song.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Out of touch? Right, we should start a GoFundMe for
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the fellas. It's real hardship, real hardship in the NFL today.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: You know what, I might have to stop watching the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: NFL because of the fact that certain teams don't get
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: three meals a day and certain players have to sit
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and coach on flow. Of course, they leave out the
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: part they each get like two or three seats to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: lay down on.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: But anyway, all right now page two.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Does anything in the player report actually demand attention? I
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: gave you a bunch of crazy stuff, so yes, yeah,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not a total douche. Okay, there's some stuff in
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: here that I am sympathetic with.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: And I've got the daily double, the daily double. I've
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: got the daily double.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Like, for example, the New Hyland Patriots players belly achd
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: about having to fly in a outdated team plane, and
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I don't really.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Care about that. They were complaining because they have ashtrays.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: You haven't been allowed to fly on a flight in
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: at least a generation in the United States and internationally,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I think banned also, So I don't care that they
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: have a plane that has ashtrays. It's an older plane,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and usually older planes are made better than the newer planes.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: But they also complained that the plane lacks Wi Fi,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and that is a legitimate complaint that I do sympathize
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: with the Patriots in twenty twenty five. That is a
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: violation of the Geneva convention. You have to have functioning
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Wi Fi. And I don't fly that much. I usually
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: fly two or three times a year, maybe sometimes less
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: than that. But when I fly in you know, every airlines,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Oh I'll get Wi Fi or whatever you have certain phone,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you get free Wi Fi. And I've taken some flights
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and the Wi Fi is broken and it is a nightmare.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: It is a freaking nightmare. You gotta have the Wi Fi.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Somebody needs to be court martialed. Now. My favorite of.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: All stories that came out of this, and every single
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: business has someone like this. The Atlanta Falcons had the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: most on brand grit you can possibly have. So apparently
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: one of the Falcon players has been how can we
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: say this, they've had the Tennessee Trots, they've had dysentery.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: They have been blowing up the bathroom at the team facility.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: So badly, how badly, so badly that.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: At least one or two players, maybe even more than that,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: needed to mention it in the survey. But they don't
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: call them the dirty birds for nothing. And that does
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: sound like a TikTok challenge right a few years back.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: And what they should do is find the guilty Falcons
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: player and charge them with criminal mischief, right, I mean,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: my guy, we have someone at our place at Fox
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio that also is noted for destroying the bathroom
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and it's a no fly zone for at least an
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: hour once this person goes to the bathroom. All right, now,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: last word, So thumbs up or thumbs down? Is there
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a correlation between grading highly NFL players and winning championships
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: winning playoff games? So the data is a thumbs down,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go thumbs down. This whole story cotton candy.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: It is cotton candy. It is fluff Fluffy mcfluff.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Is what it is.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: The Dolphins, for example, were the NFL's highest ranked team.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: How much of that you think is.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Miami living in South Florida and how much of that
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: is the Dolphins. Well, the Dolphins were the NFL's highest
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: ranked team when it comes to pampering players, They had
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a losing record, they missed the playoffs. The top five
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: graded teams, which include the Vikings who won fourteen games,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: The top five teams on this went oher and two
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. The bottom five graded teams went oher
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: to one in the playoffs, and the Chiefs and the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Eagles were not in the the very top.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: The Chiefs were pretty low.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Now, as far as the coaches, Dan Quinn was ranked
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: as the number on head coach.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: He was the top head coach in the survey.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Followed followed by Raheem Morris who was number two.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Number. Of course, the Falcons at many points this year
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: took a number two also granting highly.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell in Minnesota, Andy Reid in Cannes City, Dan
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Campbell and Motown and Mike McDaniel also did well. Now,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the lowest graded coaches they got to see now sees
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: get degrees, but they don't normally keep their jobs. That
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: would be Kevin Stefanski, Doug Peterson, and Matt Eberflus. Now
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: two of those three coaches are no longer head coaches.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Doug Peterson has been excommunicated from Jacksonville and Matt Eberflus
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: is now the defensive coordinator of the Dallas Cowboys.
• 27:51
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• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Here we go, here, We're going to no third degree.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: This is one Big Ben gets grilled cool.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: In a recent interview, Eagles GM Howie Roseman said that
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Sakwon Barkley had the best season of a skilled position
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: player in NFL history. Now. He pointed to Barkley having
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: seven rushes of sixty plus yards and that being more
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: than anyone in the history of the NFL, and the
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: fact that he won a championship. Ben, is he right?
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: No? I no, he's not.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna expand them this more later, But I disagree
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the Barkley was wonderful.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: I feel like most of that was against the Rams.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I think he had four to sixty plus yard runs
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: against the Rams and the playoffs in the regular season,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: he was wonderful. Well, let's not get crazy. It wasn't
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the greatest season of all time by a non quarterback.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Next, well, Aden Hutchinson may want to team up with
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Miles Garrett and the Lions. The Lions GM Brad Holmes
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: said that the team is quote probably not in a
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: position to add a star edge rusher in the immediate future. Ben,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: do they need one or will the return of a
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: healthy Hutchinson be enough?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, the defense sucked last year even with Hutchinson, they
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: weren't that great defensively.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: This is the window of opportunity for the Lies now.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: They do have a handicap with Jared Golf, so they
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: need all the help they can get because Golf's not
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: a big game quarterback. So yes, this true cares about
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: draft picks. Get a good team, get good players.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Next shake Gildess.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Alexander is currently the front runner to win NBA MVP,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: but Nikola Jokic has been on a tear already has
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: more triple doubles than he did in his MVP seasons. Ben,
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: how do you think this awards race plays out?
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're asking me today Today, I believe the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: former Clipper shay yogas Alexander.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Will win, and.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Jokic has won a couple of these things, so I
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: think there's voter fatigue.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: He will not win this year. How did we do
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: you pass this edition? That is a win? You get
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Putter on the guard and the rain is still in
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Take jail. He's still in take jail.
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• 30:05
  Speaker 3: It's now time for time for Harry ask bad Twitter said,
• 30:11
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• 30:14
  Speaker 1: And it is asked Ben. Your questions are answers for
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the rest of the hour. Over to the kooperoo the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: reading of the question.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: All right, JT. The Wingman would like to know, Hi, JT.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Other than the Earth, what's your favorite planet in our
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: Solar system?
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah? The favorite planet?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I would go Mars because I think that in my
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: lifetime there'll be people on Mars.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: So I think that's kind of cool.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: So I think that's the one they say is available
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: for life, you know whoever they are, So I'm gonna
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: go Mars. I think Mars when I was a kid,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: it was Jupiter because I was stupider.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: But now I like Mars. What about you, Lorena?
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: That's really funny, Ben. I'm a sailor moon fan, so
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: my preference of moons and stuff goes off of the
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: sailor Scouts, and sailor Jupiter and Sailor Neptune were actually
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: my favorites.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: All right, what about you? Cool?
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna go with Venus because it has
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: like a cool cloud system and it's also the brightest,
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: like one when you look up into the sky.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: How many moves is Venus? I have no idea, not enough,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: not enough? What is next? What is next? Here we go,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: let's see what's next? Ass Ben?
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: All right, Tony in the bay, Hi, Tonydann. He wanted
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: me to ask this.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: He called in for this.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he said, would you rather have your eyes glow
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: like stop lights or have smoke slash steam come out
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: of your nose and mouth every time you breathe?
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: So I've never had the eye thing.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I think in the winter time, when you go to
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: a place whe's really cold, you do anytime you breathe, there's.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: You see what's that's like? And I don't think that's
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: that bad.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: That would be weird if it wasn't cold, but the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: eye thing would be really awkward, so I'd go breathing.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: What about you, Loraina, I thought you were going to
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: ask if I wanted to have my eyes glued shut,
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: and I think I'd prefer that over the other two.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Well, the listeners would have your mouth shut, but not
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: what about you?
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: I'm with you, Ben. I think the stoplight eyes glowing
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: thing that could be seen as demonic. And I mean,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: I know the smoke and the steam coming out is
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: also demonic, but I just feel like, you know, people
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: could also see it as like being like kind of
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: like a dragon, and people love the dragon.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: He's just the key to that is just be where
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: it's cold, and then people just think, well you're cold.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: There you go, that's it, there you go. All right,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: What is next? It's ask Ben? Your questions are answered.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Cowboy Killer would like to know what is your favorite
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: fast food burger of all time?
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Favorite fast food burger? So back in the day, I
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: had a rotation. I had Carl's Junior.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Which is partiase if you're east of the Mississippi.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: In and out burger, and uh, I've done the five
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  Speaker 1: guys thing. I guess the cliche thing would be in
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and out. But I love that six dollars burger when
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: it came out. I don't even know if they still
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: have it. Carls Junior, that was my go to back
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: in the day.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: What about you, Lorena? Nothing really, you're a vegan, you know,
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: like you don't eat meat.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Oh cool?
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Are you throwing a tantrum right now?
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Though?
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: No, I'm just doing what is told with me.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Oh see, like I okay, Karen k back in the
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: same thing.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Sorry, that's my train of thought. Burger favorite burger of
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: all time.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Everyone's just in and out? What but something else?
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Well some I would say in the past it was
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Carls Junior had It was like a limited time thing.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: They brought it back like every like years two. But
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: they had a pulled pork burger. I don't know if
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: you remember that one. That one was delicious. And then
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: also the uh the one with the onion rings, the
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: western bacon Western.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, last week that was great. What's next? It's ask
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Ben and Coop not Lareda. What's next? Uh?
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Somebody named Chicago Bears twenty four wants to know what
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: kind of breakfast food is your favorite?
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, pancakes, waffles. I'm not a big breakfast guy,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: but I always go pancakes or I.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Love What is it like hash hornby pash What about you?
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Cool French shows? Lareda good answer, Larada good answer. Big money,
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: big money,