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

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Speaker 1: Well, we decided that what we do here is broadcasting,
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Speaker 1: not narrowcasting, so we're going to wait to talk about
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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays, a ratings killer, have advanced to
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Speaker 1: the Fall Classic, which you're going to have to change
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Speaker 1: the name of that. You can't call it the Fall Classic.
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Speaker 1: You cannot call it the Fall Classic, but that is
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Speaker 1: Brewers and Rays. If that was going on in your
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Speaker 1: front yard... You wouldn't even look out the window. You'd
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Speaker 1: close the lines. But that'll be the matchup in the
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Speaker 1: World Series. More on that later. Our lead this hour, though,
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Speaker 1: from the Bay Area, some 48 miles south of the
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Speaker 1: Tenderloin District in San Francisco there in Santa Clara. There
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Speaker 1: was football action. Jaden Daniels, who does not know when
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Speaker 1: to run out the clock and when not to run
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Speaker 1: out the clock. Jaden Daniels and the Commanders paying a
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Speaker 1: visit to Northern California. A little play date with the
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Speaker 1: undefeated 49ers trying to find some gold there, Washington. You
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Speaker 1: had the squabbling Fox refugees, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman,
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Speaker 1: who hate each other. Now, apparently, if you read the
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Speaker 1: tabloid reports, the trade papers. Oh, they don't like each other.
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Speaker 1: So they were on the call on ABC. Were you watching? No,
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Speaker 1: you were not watching. I don't know what else you
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Speaker 1: were doing. The 49ers, did they get a win or
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Speaker 1: did they finally lose? The answer? Winner, winner, winner! Chicken dinner!
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Speaker 1: The 49ers improve to 6-0. That's not one, not two,
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Speaker 1: not three, not four, not five, but six straight victories
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Speaker 1: as they survive the Commanders. What a dumb name that is. Rally.
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Speaker 1: They so want to be the Redskins. They're trying to
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Speaker 1: wear the old Redskins uniforms. They don't want to use
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Speaker 1: the logo. And so it's really ridiculous. At this point,
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Speaker 1: just go back. You're essentially wearing their uniform. Just put
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Speaker 1: the logo. It's so stupid. Anyway, the team formerly known
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Speaker 1: as the Redskins rallied down 20, had the ball, an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to take the lead, and did not get it done.
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Speaker 1: So the Niners hold off Washington 23-17. If you listened, listen,
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Speaker 1: we were. We were off in the dark at the
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Speaker 1: end of the week here, but on Penny vs. the Penny,
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Speaker 1: which was available on Instagram and Facebook, that was one
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Speaker 1: of the games we gave you. Washington plus the 7.5.
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Speaker 1: Got the backdoor cover. We loved the backdoor cover there.
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Speaker 1: As the Commanders, if you took the 7.5, you got
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Speaker 1: the win in that game. Now, Brock Purdy had one
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Speaker 1: touchdown pass, getting a lot of hype for the MVP.
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Speaker 1: He's not winning the MVP. All right, so Purdy had
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Speaker 1: a touchdown pass. Christian McCaffrey, fumble! He also scored two
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Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns for the Niners. So we mentioned San Francisco
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Speaker 1: had a 20-point lead at one point. And then in
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Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels, a couple of second-half touchdowns cut the deficit
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Speaker 1: to six. Washington did have the ball. Threatened to take
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Speaker 1: the game, snatch the game away. from the Niners, but
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Speaker 1: Malik Mustafa breaking up Jaden Daniels on a fourth down
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Speaker 1: pass play near the goal line with less than two
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Speaker 1: minutes remaining. And that's it. That's all she wrote. So
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Speaker 1: the Niners escape with another win. The better story, though,
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Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. Washington, while they did
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Speaker 1: make a late surge, In this game, they, however, came
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Speaker 1: up short, and a lot of the focus continues to
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Speaker 1: be on the head coach of the Washington football team.
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Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss
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Speaker 1: the question. The old thumbs-up, thumbs-down. Thumbs-up or thumbs-down on
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Speaker 1: this commander's comeback, even though they lost. Does this take
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Speaker 1: the heat-off coach, Dan Quinn... and take him off the
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Speaker 1: hot seat? Does it take the heat off Coach Dan
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Speaker 1: Quinn's hot seat? That's the question. So I've got Candid Camera,
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Speaker 1: AOL Dial-Up, and Cedars-Sinai. And we will combine all of
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Speaker 1: these things together, and we will attempt. to not be
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Speaker 1: bogged down. We're going to try not to be bogged down. So, A,
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Speaker 1: to answer the question, does this take the heat off
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Speaker 1: Dan Quinn's hot seat? So I'm going to go thumbs down.
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Speaker 1: Thumbs down is where I'm going on this one. Dan
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Speaker 1: Quinn's seat is not cooling off. In fact, we had
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Speaker 1: an expedited booth review of the commander's coach, and we
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Speaker 1: looked at the booth review, and his seat now is
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Speaker 1: actually sitting in a barbecue pit. We got the smoker
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Speaker 1: off to the side. And he is apparently the main
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Speaker 1: course there, Dan Quinn. So even though Washington played much
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Speaker 1: better in the second half, can't play any worse about
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Speaker 1: than they did in the first half. So they were
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Speaker 1: fashionably late. Now, how this happens is beyond me. A
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Speaker 1: NFL team fashionably late to its own game. An island game.
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Speaker 1: But there they were. Fall behind by 20 and then
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Speaker 1: get celebrated. because of a helter-skelter failed comeback attempt. Now,
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Speaker 1: the biggest indictment, the biggest indictment here is Dan Quinn
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Speaker 1: apparently thought the NFL was experimenting with a fifth down. What? Yes,
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Speaker 1: so if you're watching early in the second quarter, about
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Speaker 1: 13 minutes in the second quarter, and Dan Quinn was...
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Speaker 1: Dan Quinn, pants down, candid camera, gobsmacked after his quarterback,
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Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels, the first-ever quarterback to run out the clock
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Speaker 1: in a tie game in field goal range. That was
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Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels in the previous game. So Daniels, in this game,
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Speaker 1: threw the ball away, which would not have been a
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Speaker 1: problem had it not been fourth down in field goal range.
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Speaker 3: Who goofed?
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Speaker 1: I've got to know. Right there, in relatively deep 49er territory,
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Speaker 1: field goal range. And Jaden Daniels said, you know what?
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Speaker 1: Let me just get rid of this thing. Let me
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Speaker 1: throw this ball away. I don't want the ball. I
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Speaker 1: don't need the ball. But the thing that was great
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Speaker 1: is they cut to a shot of Dan Quinn on
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Speaker 1: the TV broadcast, and Quinn was preparing to kick a
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Speaker 1: field goal. He was going for it. On fifth down,
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Speaker 1: he was going to kick a field goal. And it's like, well,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute. There's only four downs. This is not
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Speaker 1: Colorado football back in the day when they were giving
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Speaker 1: a fifth down. He's like, well, yeah, yeah. He's waiting
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Speaker 1: for that fifth down to kick the field goal. Like
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Speaker 1: waiting for the Easter bunny to deliver a tax refund. No,
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Speaker 1: you're just getting some chocolate eggs or a chocolate bunny.
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Speaker 1: That's all you're getting. That's it. And so the brain
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Speaker 1: fart was so big. How big was it? It was
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Speaker 1: such a big brain fart. It actually registered on the
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Speaker 1: Richter scale. That's how big a brain fart it was.
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Speaker 1: Another moment of situational malfeasance from Dan Quinn, the head
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Speaker 1: coach there. My goodness. Now, here's Quinn, who's about to
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Speaker 1: lie to you. Here's what he said to the media,
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Speaker 1: which is opposite, I believe, of what actually he said
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Speaker 1: in the moment. Take a listen.
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Speaker 4: No, I definitely knew it was fourth down.
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Speaker 1: We were going for it.
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Speaker 3: And I was thinking about.
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Speaker 1: It before, too.
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Speaker 4: I was probably saying, like, with the little shift, there's
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Speaker 4: not a penalty to go for a field goal. Like,
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Speaker 4: it doesn't go– like, it's the turn on downs. Like,
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Speaker 4: I think somebody had asked me, can we kick a
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Speaker 4: field goal? So, no, we were going for it. We
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Speaker 4: knew we had to go for some fourth downs to
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Speaker 4: be bold in the game. I didn't think it was
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Speaker 4: going to be a 17-14 game. Like, I probably thought
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Speaker 4: it was going to need– 28, 30 to score, you know,
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Speaker 4: to go win it. And so it was by design
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Speaker 4: that we were going to go. But I knew what happened.
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Speaker 4: I think I was probably just commenting that I remember,
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Speaker 4: at least on the headset, somebody asked me after an
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Speaker 4: illegal shift, like it was turnover on downs.
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Speaker 1: Jaden saw the foul too. I think he also came
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Speaker 1: out and saw the penalty. All right, so that was
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Speaker 1: a lot of words to say. I didn't know. I
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Speaker 1: effed up. But God knows I ain't admitting to that,
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Speaker 1: you losers.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Lip readers. Lip readers. Listen, I'm not a great lip reader.
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Speaker 1: Even I could tell what Dan Quinn was saying. I'm
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Speaker 1: an amateur lip reader. And even I knew exactly what
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Speaker 1: he said. And even some of our blind listeners, blind
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Speaker 1: sea bass in Tennessee is like, I knew that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Stevie Meatballs, I'm aware of that. Come on now. What's
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Speaker 1: up with that? So Dan Quinn is living proof, apparently,
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Speaker 1: that you can make millions as an NFL coach without
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Speaker 1: mastering basic kindergarten math. It's fascinating. Get this man to
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Speaker 1: the tattoo shop. Get a forehead tattoo of a down marker. Oh, no,
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Speaker 1: I knew the situation. Of course you did. Yes, that's
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Speaker 1: why you said, no, I'm fourth down. We'll kick the
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Speaker 1: field goal. We can kick the field goal. All right,
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Speaker 1: now to the winner's side. Not as good a story.
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Speaker 1: A number of you reached out to me based on
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Speaker 1: the events in recent days while I was away from
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Speaker 1: my post in the Watchtower. And you said, hey, what's
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Speaker 1: going on with your Rams, Baylor? Like somehow I work
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Speaker 1: for the team. It blows me away. Anyway, the 49er thing,
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Speaker 1: a lot of my friends in Northern California love the show.
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Speaker 1: We thank you for listening. You guys have been with
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Speaker 1: me a lot. You've been with the show for a
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Speaker 1: long time. We go way back on different stations we've
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Speaker 1: been on in San Francisco over the years. And so
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Speaker 1: you've been with me a long time. And you know
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Speaker 1: that I'm not very... high on the 49ers. But they
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Speaker 1: keep winning, Mallard!
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 1: So here's the question. Have you now changed your position
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Speaker 1: on the 6-0 Kyle Shanahan Niners? So I have two letters.
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Speaker 1: N Oh, no, no, no, no. The Niners are playing great.
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Speaker 1: I'm not buying. I'm not buying this. I believe it's
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Speaker 1: fool's gold, even with a six game winning streak and
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Speaker 1: a shiny bow on top of that. I'm still not there.
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I certainly would not give them credit for
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Speaker 1: failing to cover the spread against the Washington Commanders who blow.
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Speaker 1: You're not going to get style points. And even if
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Speaker 1: they'd won that game by 30 points, you would have
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Speaker 1: gotten style points because this is a game against an
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Speaker 1: inferior opponent. You're at home, East Coast, West Coast, all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. And so now are the Niners better than
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Speaker 1: I expected? And to be sure, absolutely. I'll concede that. However,
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Speaker 1: do not confuse a perfect record. with a perfect team.
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Speaker 1: This is far from a perfect team. They're lacking. Listen,
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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings are awesome. I don't think there's anybody that
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Speaker 1: good in the NFC. I think they all stink. Top
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Speaker 1: to bottom. They're not one team I would bet on.
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Speaker 1: Whoever wins the AFC is going to win the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. Period. Stop. And the Niners are...
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Speaker 1: Here's my beef with the Niners. The Niners are operating...
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Speaker 1: With an AOL dial-up processor. It's AOL dial-up in a
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Speaker 1: fiber optic world. That seems problematic. That seems problematic to me.
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Speaker 1: But what do I know? The wiring is really messed up.
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Speaker 1: They might want to hire an electrician to come in
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Speaker 1: here and rewire the thing. You get that electrical substation.
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Speaker 1: And just one power surge away from a complete meltdown.
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Speaker 1: Evans knocked out of this game. The Niners downplaying Mike Evans' injury.
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Speaker 1: How many times has he been dinged up already? You
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Speaker 1: look at the older players on the 49ers here. And
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Speaker 1: then you look at this game. There's a patternicity situation
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Speaker 1: with Kyle Shanahan teams. But Brock Purdy, who's getting a
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Speaker 1: lot of hype. I guess there was a talking points
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Speaker 1: memo sent out to the broadcasters. Brock Purdy, MVP, MVP, MVP. Stop. Stop. Stop.
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Speaker 1: All right. I don't trust him. When the lights get bright.
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Speaker 1: And the stakes are high. I don't trust Brock Purdy.
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Speaker 1: I don't. And in the second half of this game,
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Speaker 1: after coming out, lighting up the scoreboard in the second half,
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Speaker 1: Brock Purdy completed all of four passes, four completions after halftime,
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Speaker 1: a passer rating below 80. That's your MVP. Okay, that's
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Speaker 1: your MVP, not mine. And so San Francisco, much like
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Speaker 1: a toddler playing with their food, and that's what they
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Speaker 1: were doing in the second half. And there's Kyle Shanahan's trademark.
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Speaker 1: This is what he's done, his teams have done. They
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Speaker 1: get a comfortable lead, and they start going into cruise control.
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Speaker 1: They're the Niners, and suddenly you're driving a clown car
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Speaker 1: with three flat tires. Even Ernesto, our buddy Ernesto in
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Speaker 1: the Bay is screaming. He knows, and those are not
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Speaker 1: championship habits for the 49ers here, and they're bad habits
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Speaker 1: wearing a Halloween costume is what they are at this
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Speaker 1: particular point. Halloween, not that far away. Less than two
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Speaker 1: weeks away. So that's where we are. I'm still waiting.
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Speaker 1: I know the Niners are going to win a bunch
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Speaker 1: more games. They'll probably win 14 games this season. Look
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Speaker 1: at the schedule. But still, ultimately, we don't buy it. Now,
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Speaker 1: last word, to L.A., we're the Rams. What did they
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Speaker 1: eat for breakfast? Snap, crackle, pop. Snap, crackle, pop. Rams
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Speaker 1: suffered another. Body blow, body blow, body blow. Wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Devontae Adams. He gone. Oh, the hammy. Went whammy for
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Speaker 1: Devontae Adams. A ruptured hamstring. That sounds painful. And the
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Speaker 1: loss to the field goal kicker for the Cardinals. Rams
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Speaker 1: lost the game. They did not give up a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Sean McVay announcing Adams. Devontae Adams will miss six to
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Speaker 1: ten weeks. And you do the math on that, most
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Speaker 1: likely a season-ending injury for Devontae Adams. And so the
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Speaker 1: Rams lacking one of the star players. Another star player out.
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Speaker 1: It's the year of players not performing. Miles Garrett. He's
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Speaker 1: enjoying the L.A. nightlife, from what I understand. My friends
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Speaker 1: who are out and going around to social events in L.A.
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Speaker 1: say Miles Garrett getting a lot of time out and about.
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Speaker 1: Playing football, not so much. In fact, he hasn't played
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Speaker 1: a game for the Rams in North America. He's missed
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Speaker 1: all the games in North America for the Rams. But
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Speaker 1: this is about Devontae Adams as he's out. Also, a
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Speaker 1: couple defensive tackles, including Kobe Turner knocked out. That little
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Speaker 1: fun-sized kicker, the guy that weighs like 90 pounds, he
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Speaker 1: got hurt. Shocking, a 90-pound kicker would get hurt. Might
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Speaker 1: be a little more than that. And Miles Garrett not
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Speaker 1: coming back. And these guys, listen, that's one thing I've
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Speaker 1: learned as I've gotten older. The more money these guys
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Speaker 1: get paid, the less they try to hurry back, mostly.
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Speaker 1: They're like, ah, but I'm going to take an abundance
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Speaker 1: of caution. I'm going to sit back and relax and
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Speaker 1: just kind of wait things out and all that. So
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Speaker 1: the Rams are a hot mess at this point. They're 2-4.
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Speaker 1: Refs took two games, Cardinals game, another crap call went
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Speaker 1: against the Rams. And then the Bronco game, the NFL
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Speaker 1: admitted Broncos didn't deserve to win that. But it is
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Speaker 1: the situation the Rams find themselves in at this point.
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Speaker 1: The question here, is the Devontae Adams injury– A death
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Speaker 1: sentence for the 2026 Sean McVay Rams. Is this a
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Speaker 1: death sentence? So I am going to shake my head
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Speaker 1: no on this one. It is not a death sentence
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Speaker 1: for the Rams. It should not be. The Rams, I'm
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Speaker 1: already tired of all the excuses. I'm not an excuse guy.
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Speaker 1: Just do what you're supposed to do. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to hear the excuses. It drives me bonkers. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of people running interference for Sean McVay, and McVay's
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Speaker 1: not done a good job coaching this team. At some point,
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Speaker 1: I'll rant and raver about that. Maybe not today, but
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Speaker 1: McVay's not doing a good job. And the whole situation
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Speaker 1: reminds me of like a politician. They have so many excuses,
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Speaker 1: the Rams. It's like a politician caught leaving one of
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Speaker 1: those sleazy motels that charge by the hour with a
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Speaker 1: floozy at three in the morning and caught on camera. Well, OK,
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Speaker 1: you see, you got all these excuses and all that.
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Speaker 1: And that's wonderful. And the thing that we've often said,
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Speaker 1: it's an old saying in sports that adversity doesn't create character,
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Speaker 1: it reveals it. If anything, the Rams are the model franchise,
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Speaker 1: the single greatest OMG in the history of professional sports.
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Speaker 1: A guy named Kurt Warner, Kurt Warner, grocery bagger, Kurt Warner,
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Speaker 1: who became an MVP and the star of the greatest
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Speaker 1: show on turf ever. Now, the difference was that Ram team,
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Speaker 1: this was years ago, they had a guy named Trent Green,
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Speaker 1: the old St. Louis Rams. And Trent Green was not...
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Speaker 1: was not expected to be the man to lead the
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Speaker 1: Rams anywhere. So they had low expectations, and then Kurt
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Speaker 1: Warner took off and all that. So it can be done,
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Speaker 1: but we'll see what kind of character this team has.
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Speaker 1: If losing one star receiver on top of everything else
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Speaker 1: that has happened destroys your season, then you were never legitimate.
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Speaker 1: You were a fraud. You weren't a legitimate Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: heavyweight team and all that. You were just a house
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Speaker 1: of cards with a nice roof and good marketing. That's it. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't think the Rams are dead. I don't. I
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Speaker 1: will tell you the Rams at this point are lying
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Speaker 1: in a hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai, and they're arguing with
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Speaker 1: the doctor about whether or not they should be there.
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Speaker 1: And Devontae Adams is good. I'm not going to say
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Speaker 1: he's not. He's obviously a good player. But his loss
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Speaker 1: should not take the entire season and have it just
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Speaker 1: burn up and all that stuff. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: games to go. And McVay is the offensive maestro. The
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Speaker 1: Rams statistically are great. The one statistic they're not great
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Speaker 1: is the final score on the Jumbotron at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day. We always hear about McVay. I believe it.
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Speaker 1: The brain power, the X's and O's, maestro and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. He can light up. He's got more brain power.
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Speaker 1: He can light up Times Square. You figure out that
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Speaker 1: the Rams can do something with what they have. One
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Speaker 1: door closes, another one opens up. Now, the twisted logic
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Speaker 1: and a lot of dumb football aside, which is what's
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Speaker 1: been going on for the Rams and not the Brightest
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Speaker 1: team in the world here, the Rams. They still have
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Speaker 1: the talent, even without Devontae Adams. They can go out
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Speaker 1: and make a trade. The trade deadline's coming up here
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Speaker 1: in November. And if they want, they can get somebody
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Speaker 1: else's problem like that Jerry Judy, who's no good from Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: The Browns love to make trades with the Rams. So
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Speaker 1: he can make that. Jacksonville's got Brian Thomas Jr., who
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Speaker 1: was drafted high and apparently can't play. So there's a
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Speaker 1: guy that will be available at the trade deadline if
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Speaker 1: they want. And there'll be plenty of other names as
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Speaker 1: teams continue to suck. And as long as the Rams
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Speaker 1: are in the wild card race, and they're certainly not
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Speaker 1: out of that, then you have to go for it.
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Speaker 1: You have to go. You brought back Aaron Donald, all
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Speaker 1: these guys. I guess at some point, Miles Garrett will
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Speaker 1: get off his fat ass and get out there and
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19:36
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19:40
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19:42
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19:46
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19:49
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19:52
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19:55
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19:59
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20:02
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Speaker 1: Our lead is from Gotham. Home game for LeBron James. Remember,
21:03
Speaker 1: he lives in New York. He didn't want to live
21:04
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Why would you want to live there? So
21:07
Speaker 1: he commutes, and every time the Sixers play in the
21:10
Speaker 1: New York area, that's a home game for LeBron. So
21:13
Speaker 1: there they were, the Sixers and the Knickerbockers, the beginning
21:17
Speaker 1: of the NBA regular season. Now, it technically began with
21:20
Speaker 1: the Celtics riding the Vomit Comet and blowing a 22-point
21:24
Speaker 1: lead against the Pistons, but... That was played while we
21:27
Speaker 1: were sleeping, so who cares about that? The Knicks and
21:30
Speaker 1: the Sixers in prime time, in prime time, the curtain
21:34
Speaker 1: going up on the NBA regular season. And while we
21:39
Speaker 1: will certainly not be talking a lot on a daily
21:42
Speaker 1: basis about regular season basketball, why would we? There's no
21:46
Speaker 1: reason to do that. This is the rare and appropriate,
21:50
Speaker 1: rare and appropriate conversation that we're going to have. So
21:53
Speaker 1: the Knicks got their bling bling. Actually, when I saw
21:57
Speaker 1: the Knicks ring, I laughed. I said, boy, that's going
22:00
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time in safety deposit boxes.
22:03
Speaker 1: No one's going to wear that. You can't wear it.
22:05
Speaker 1: So everyone talks about, oh, you got to win the ring.
22:07
Speaker 1: You got to wear the ring. No one's wearing that.
22:10
Speaker 1: It's going directly into a safety deposit box somewhere. And
22:13
Speaker 1: I still remember the rant years ago. There was this
22:15
Speaker 1: coach named Phil Jackson. I don't know what happened to him.
22:18
Speaker 1: He probably lives near the Unabomber house in Montana somewhere.
22:21
Speaker 1: But Phil would rant about that years ago, 20 years ago.
22:24
Speaker 1: He's like, these rings are ridiculous. Then they've only gotten worse.
22:27
Speaker 1: But that aside, that aside, so the Knicks got their
22:30
Speaker 1: bling bling and they played Philadelphia. So I don't know
22:32
Speaker 1: if you were watching this game or not. It was
22:34
Speaker 1: on either NBC or Peacock. I don't know. They're all
22:36
Speaker 1: the same. So the pundits insisting that what the Sixers
22:42
Speaker 1: did in this game, they sent a message because we
22:45
Speaker 1: all know what happens in October matters in the summer
22:50
Speaker 1: of 2027. Damn right. Damn right. No. Anyway, the message
22:57
Speaker 1: apparently was sent as the Sixers rallied back, rallied back now,
23:02
Speaker 1: rallied back, and they get a 106-100 win. Behind LeBron
23:06
Speaker 1: James and Jalen Brown. But really, it was Tyrese Maxey.
23:11
Speaker 1: The Maxey pad game. Tyrese Maxey there had the big
23:15
Speaker 1: man on campus stat line at 28 points. Brown, 19,
23:19
Speaker 1: 8 rebounds and 6 assists for Philly. Helicopter James opened
23:25
Speaker 1: his NBA record-setting 24th season career. with all of 14 points,
23:31
Speaker 1: 9 rebounds, and 6 assists. Whee! All right, so that
23:37
Speaker 1: is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question.
23:41
Speaker 1: How would you sum up LeBron James' first night wearing
23:46
Speaker 1: a Sixers uniform? We don't watch exhibition games, so for
23:49
Speaker 1: our purposes, this is the first time he ever wore
23:51
Speaker 1: a Sixers uniform. So I've got HGTV... Roman candles and grapefruit.
24:01
Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
24:04
Speaker 1: we are going to cut and run is what we're
24:06
Speaker 1: going to do. So, A, as they say over at
24:10
Speaker 1: the Union Pacific Railroad Yard, LeBron James is no longer
24:16
Speaker 1: the steam engine. No, he's not the steam engine, not
24:20
Speaker 1: the locomotive there. pulling the championship train. No, instead, LeBron,
24:26
Speaker 1: we saw this with the purple and gold historians last year. LeBron,
24:30
Speaker 1: at this point, is more like the caboose most of
24:32
Speaker 1: the time. He's the caboose along for the ride. Choo-choo! Yes,
24:37
Speaker 1: waving at the tourists, the whistle-stop tour for LeBron James,
24:41
Speaker 1: occasionally blowing the whistle while somebody else shovels the coal.
24:47
Speaker 1: That's the LeBron story at this point in his career. Maller,
24:51
Speaker 1: you should be kissing his ass like every other hack
24:53
Speaker 1: in the media. Okay, maybe I will. Unless I won't. Listen,
24:58
Speaker 1: I spend a lot of my time behind microphones talking
25:01
Speaker 1: about LeBron James. He's good for business. And whether you
25:06
Speaker 1: like him or not, he's good for business. And when
25:08
Speaker 1: he's gone, it's like next generation. There's no one really there.
25:12
Speaker 1: Someone will step up, but there's no one really there
25:15
Speaker 1: that moves the needle. We have very few people. despite
25:19
Speaker 1: social media that really moved the needle legitimately. And LeBron's
25:23
Speaker 1: one of those guys. At this point, the Sixers are
25:26
Speaker 1: not getting the vintage LeBron James. They're getting a commemorative
25:31
Speaker 1: edition of LeBron James. There is a difference there. And
25:34
Speaker 1: when LeBron goes out and scores 38 points in a game,
25:39
Speaker 1: it's a national holiday. It's a national holiday. Now, when
25:43
Speaker 1: LeBron drops 14 points, everyone gets the same talking points memo.
25:47
Speaker 1: It's like, well, you got to praise his high basketball IQ.
25:50
Speaker 1: That's what you have to do. So, yeah, LeBron is
25:53
Speaker 1: still capable of producing a masterpiece tonight. But they've become
26:00
Speaker 1: special occasions instead of regularly scheduled programming. So LeBron, we're
26:05
Speaker 1: not saying he's washed up. We're just saying if you
26:08
Speaker 1: go into the laundromat, LeBron is on the delicate cycle,
26:12
Speaker 1: which means what? Cold water, low spin rate, handle with care.
26:18
Speaker 1: In his 24th season in the NBA, he is on
26:21
Speaker 1: borrowed athletic currency. And if this was an HGTV show.
26:29
Speaker 1: They would call LeBron an accent wall on the Sixers.
26:32
Speaker 1: Is that a fair take or not? That LeBron James
26:35
Speaker 1: is like an accent wall. Nice to look at. Diverts
26:39
Speaker 1: attention from other things in the room. But nobody, nobody
26:45
Speaker 1: is confusing LeBron James as a load-bearing wall. That's not
26:50
Speaker 1: part of the foundation of the house at this point.
26:53
Speaker 1: And he's like a very expensive throw pillow. Very expensive
26:57
Speaker 1: throw pillow. Or I guess a better way to look
27:00
Speaker 1: at it, like a basketball scarecrow. LeBron James, that the
27:04
Speaker 1: reputation keeps the birds away. Got to keep those birds away.
27:08
Speaker 1: Very important. Now, to the helicopter. The blades on the
27:14
Speaker 1: helicopter spinning around. just like that. So prior to the Knickerbockers,
27:21
Speaker 1: by the way, Jalen Brunson had a dud as far
27:23
Speaker 1: as the game's concerned. We're not going to break the
27:25
Speaker 1: game down. But prior to the game, NBA commissioner, half man,
27:29
Speaker 1: half alien, from somewhere outside the Milky Way, Adam Silver
27:33
Speaker 1: got off his spaceship and defended LeBron James. Now, LeBron
27:39
Speaker 1: is living in New York because, again, why would you
27:42
Speaker 1: want to live in Philadelphia where you're working? So he's
27:44
Speaker 1: commuting to And he's taking a helicopter. Helicopter commute, which
27:49
Speaker 1: costs thousands of dollars each time you get into a helicopter.
27:53
Speaker 1: And he lives in the New York City area. And
27:56
Speaker 1: he's playing basketball in Philadelphia. So Adam Silver called it, quote,
28:01
Speaker 1: perfectly appropriate. That was the quote. LeBron has a corporate
28:07
Speaker 1: aviation agreement with Fanatics. And he's traveling between Manhattan and Philly.
28:16
Speaker 1: His residence in New York in the Sixers practice facility.
28:21
Speaker 1: And I assume he'll be doing that three or four
28:24
Speaker 1: times a week. Now, the critics are out, of course.
28:27
Speaker 1: There's always critics questioning whether the luxury transportation circumvents the
28:32
Speaker 1: NBA salary cap rules. Of course, the commissioner does not
28:36
Speaker 1: appear too concerned about that. Silver insisting there's no violation.
28:41
Speaker 1: Because the agreement is independent of the Philadelphia basketball team.
28:45
Speaker 1: All right. Question. You got Commissioner Adam Silver who says
28:50
Speaker 1: LeBron's helicopter deal. Perfectly appropriate. That's the quote. Perfectly appropriate.
28:56
Speaker 1: What say you? Well, thanks for asking. So LeBron is
29:02
Speaker 1: using a helicopter which is provided by, I believe, an
29:07
Speaker 1: official NBA business merchandise partner. Am I incorrect on that?
29:13
Speaker 1: I believe Fanatics is the big merchandise. They've got a
29:17
Speaker 1: monopoly on all the sports so they can make crappy
29:20
Speaker 1: products and charge full price. Actually, not over full price,
29:24
Speaker 1: just ridiculous prices. That's what you all tell me, that
29:28
Speaker 1: Fanatics is not very good in terms of the quality
29:30
Speaker 1: of the product and the overcharging, which I think happens
29:33
Speaker 1: quite a bit in professional sports. Anyway, listen, so LeBron's
29:37
Speaker 1: in bed with a business partner of the NBA. And
29:42
Speaker 1: it's all just a remarkable coinkydink. All of this stuff, right?
29:46
Speaker 1: That the guy that runs Fanatics used to own part
29:49
Speaker 1: of the Sixers, and I'm sure that's just all water
29:53
Speaker 1: under the bridge. All water under the bridge. So Adam
29:56
Speaker 1: Silver's gone full naked gun here, standing in front of
30:00
Speaker 1: the exploding Roman candles at the firework shop there, and saying,
30:05
Speaker 1: nothing to see here, please disperse. Nothing to see here,
30:08
Speaker 1: that's it. And so we've We've seen more convincing investigations.
30:13
Speaker 1: Back when I was younger, I used to watch, there
30:15
Speaker 1: was a cartoon called Scooby-Doo. You probably don't know what
30:17
Speaker 1: that is, but there was a popular cartoon years ago
30:19
Speaker 1: called Scooby-Doo. And they'd investigate these pothead. You had a dog.
30:25
Speaker 1: There was, I can say some other things. I won't,
30:29
Speaker 1: but that interesting group of people. And they would investigate.
30:32
Speaker 1: And Scooby-Doo, their investigations would have gotten away with it
30:36
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for you meddling kids. Absolutely. Absolutely. So
30:39
Speaker 1: the commissioner might as well have come out and said,
30:42
Speaker 1: Adam Silver, that LeBron James can do whatever the hell
30:45
Speaker 1: LeBron James wants. And if you don't like it, suck it, buttercup.
30:50
Speaker 1: They could have said that. And so Silver activating the
30:54
Speaker 1: LeBron protective cocoon. Bulletproof glass, Kevlar lighting for LeBron, and
31:02
Speaker 1: a helicopter landing pad. You got to have all that stuff. Now,
31:05
Speaker 1: the Malheur Rosetta Stone translates perfectly appropriate, which is what
31:10
Speaker 1: Adam Silver said, perfectly appropriate... into hey dumb dumb lebron
31:16
Speaker 1: prints a lot of money you idiots keep buying tickets
31:20
Speaker 1: even though he's a shell of what he had been
31:22
Speaker 1: we're not slaughtering the golden goose that malo rosetta stone
31:28
Speaker 1: does not disappoint it was on point another example rules
31:34
Speaker 1: for the peasants exceptions for the king it's always been
31:38
Speaker 1: the case right remember back during the pandemic our political
31:40
Speaker 1: leaders were out having nice meals at different restaurants, and
31:43
Speaker 1: we were told not to leave our homes. That's the
31:45
Speaker 1: way it is. So the NBA's got a salary cap,
31:48
Speaker 1: but apparently LeBron, he has a salary helicopter. It's all
31:53
Speaker 1: part of the deal there. And we hear there's a
31:56
Speaker 1: couple of different NBA rule books. You've got one for
32:00
Speaker 1: the roughly 449 other players, and then there's one For LeBron.
32:06
Speaker 1: And that's how it is. So the LeBron edition of
32:10
Speaker 1: the NBA rulebook is printed on Charmin Ultra Soft. It's
32:15
Speaker 1: a little side deal there. It's two-ply. It's quilted and
32:21
Speaker 1: designed to wipe away any controversy. Well, that's good. Meanwhile,
32:26
Speaker 1: the New York Knickerbockers celebrated their championship by going back
32:32
Speaker 1: and reminiscing about the good old days when the Knicks
32:34
Speaker 1: played like that on a regular basis, played like a
32:37
Speaker 1: bunch of stiffs. Jalen Brunson was terrible. It's hard to
32:40
Speaker 1: play when you've got that big, not really ring, whatever
32:44
Speaker 1: that thing was that they had there, they called it
32:46
Speaker 1: a ring. So the Knicks had a dud, but the
32:49
Speaker 1: story here is that they decided... to do a 180,
32:52
Speaker 1: the Knicks. I don't know if you saw this or not,
32:55
Speaker 1: but they celebrated not one but two championships at Madison
33:01
Speaker 1: Square Garden before they went out and lost to the Sixers.
33:05
Speaker 1: New York rather quietly said, you know what, on second thought,
33:09
Speaker 1: why don't we hang that 2025 NBA Cup championship banner
33:15
Speaker 1: thingamajig And then we'll raise the actual legitimate NBA championship banner.
33:23
Speaker 1: So the Knicks had become the first, and I say
33:27
Speaker 1: this in air quotes, NBA Cup winner to refuse. I
33:32
Speaker 1: remember we talked about some monologues about it months ago.
33:36
Speaker 1: They were not going to put up the commemorative banner anymore.
33:40
Speaker 1: We applauded the Knicks. We celebrated the Knickerbockers. We said, bravo. Finally,
33:44
Speaker 1: someone with balls that said, no, we're not doing this.
33:48
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. And New York had declined to celebrate something
33:55
Speaker 1: that really doesn't deserve to be celebrated. Only stupid people
33:59
Speaker 1: take that seriously. So anyway, they said, hey, we're trying
34:03
Speaker 1: to win a championship, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A
34:04
Speaker 1: real championship, not a fake championship. Okay, fine. So the
34:08
Speaker 1: question is, What is the word? What is the word
34:13
Speaker 1: for the Knicks doing an about face here and hanging
34:17
Speaker 1: an NBA Cup banner in the rafters at the iconic
34:24
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden? The world's most famous arena, they like
34:28
Speaker 1: to say, because New Yorkers love to brag about how
34:31
Speaker 1: great they are. They love to tell the world we're
34:32
Speaker 1: better than you because we're from New York. Yeah, I
34:35
Speaker 1: look around New York when I visit my brother. My
34:37
Speaker 1: brother's like, you're not better than anyone. It's terrible. A
34:42
Speaker 1: lot of it. Anyway, to answer the question, what is
34:45
Speaker 1: the word for the Knicks hanging an NBA Cup banner
34:49
Speaker 1: in the rafters at the world's most famous arena, Madison
34:53
Speaker 1: Square Garden? So my word is eyesore. That's my word. Eyesore.
35:00
Speaker 1: It's painful to look at. That's it. Now, I'm told
35:05
Speaker 1: I have to expand my thoughts on that, so I will.
35:07
Speaker 1: I will expand my thoughts. So it's a visual raw
35:10
Speaker 1: sewage spill is what it is. It's just an absolute
35:15
Speaker 1: aesthetic disaster, an absolute assault on all good taste. And
35:21
Speaker 1: to think they almost got it right. They almost got
35:26
Speaker 1: it right. The Knicks, they certainly had it right the
35:29
Speaker 1: first time. We know that. And they refused to hang
35:32
Speaker 1: the banner, that Fugazi NBA Cup. And then, of course,
35:36
Speaker 1: reversing course, bad job by James Dolan and the Knickerbockers.
35:42
Speaker 1: This is the equivalent. Hanging an NBA Cup banner is
35:46
Speaker 1: akin to the Yankees hanging a banner for winning the
35:50
Speaker 1: Grapefruit League. Do you understand? The NBA Cup is like
35:53
Speaker 1: winning the Cactus League or the Grapefruit League. And yet
35:57
Speaker 1: the league is like, well, you got to put it
35:59
Speaker 1: up in the rafters. Come on. The Knicks actually won
36:03
Speaker 1: a real championship, like legitimate, like the real McCoy. They did.
36:09
Speaker 1: I'm shocked. I didn't think I'd live long enough to
36:11
Speaker 1: see that. They did. They won a real championship. And
36:13
Speaker 1: now they're giving the NBA's glorified participation trophy thing a
36:20
Speaker 1: seat at the grownups table. That's the basketball version. of
36:26
Speaker 1: like you have the Hope Diamond, and right next to
36:30
Speaker 1: the Hope Diamond, you put a cubic zirconia. What are
36:34
Speaker 1: you doing? You had the moral high ground, and you
36:39
Speaker 1: gave it all back. What are you thinking? Dumbo? Seriously.
36:45
Speaker 1: You told the NBA cop to take a hike, hit
36:48
Speaker 1: the road, Jack, and don't you come back, right? And
36:51
Speaker 1: now you surrendered. Without firing a shot. Now, the smart
36:55
Speaker 1: money says it is more likely than not that Adam
36:58
Speaker 1: Silver and his henchmen strong-armed the Knicks to do this. Like,
37:03
Speaker 1: just do it. Nobody will even notice. Just put the
37:07
Speaker 1: little thing up there, and that's that. Just do it.
37:11
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Speaker 1: Good Lord, that's a lot of money. Do you have
37:22
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37:26
Speaker 1: all right to the game we go we'll start out
37:29
Speaker 1: with our contestants quickly scotty on the pike a regular
37:33
Speaker 1: hello scotty welcome hello ben how are you all right
37:38
Speaker 1: thanks for asking scotty who do you want to partner
37:40
Speaker 1: up we don't have a lot of time so who
37:41
Speaker 1: do you want to partner up i'll go with you
37:45
Speaker 1: can you sound a little more excited.
37:46
Speaker 3: Yeah he knows he's gonna lose so no no.
37:49
Speaker 1: I'd like a little more excitement I'd enjoy a little
37:51
Speaker 1: more excitement. I want to go with Big Bad. There
37:53
Speaker 1: we go. All right. Tyler is just down the road
37:56
Speaker 1: from you there. He's in Boston. Hello, Tyler. You're on
37:59
Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. Welcome, Tyler. You love these games also.
38:03
Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with, Tyler? Well,
38:06
Speaker 1: you know, me and Coop generally win this, so we'll
38:08
Speaker 1: do it again. That's a lie. Some cheating. All right, quickly, Coop.
38:11
Speaker 1: What do we got? Quickly, quickly.
38:12
Speaker 3: All right, this is the Snoop Dogg edition. He turns
38:14
Speaker 3: 55 years old today.
38:15
Speaker 1: Oh, man.
38:17
Speaker 3: Categories are Nothing But a G-Thang, Gin and Juice, I
38:20
Speaker 3: Love My Mama, and Drop It Like It's Hot. Scotty,
38:24
Speaker 3: which category would you like?
38:26
Speaker 1: Drop It Like It's Hot.
38:27
Speaker 3: Drop It Like It's Hot. All right, and Tyler, how
38:29
Speaker 3: about you?
38:29
Speaker 1: Nothing But a G-Thang. All right. All right, let's go, Scotty.
38:35
Speaker 1: You picked Drop It Like It's Hot, and these sports
38:38
Speaker 1: figures all have had notable blunders in their careers. Are
38:43
Speaker 1: you ready?
38:44
Speaker 4: I am.
38:47
Speaker 1: All right, 45 seconds on the clock. We need the
38:48
Speaker 1: first and last name. Good luck. Here we go. We're
38:51
Speaker 1: on our way. Quarterback for the Washington Commanders, he ran
38:54
Speaker 1: out the clock in a tie game. Coach of the
38:59
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks decided to run the ball, or throw rather
39:03
Speaker 1: than run, yes. Called a timeout for Michigan with no
39:05
Speaker 1: timeouts left in the final four. No, basketball player. Fab four.
39:13
Speaker 1: Fab five, rather. No, how soon we forget. Wide receiver
39:18
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. Fumbled before he crossed the goal line.
39:21
Speaker 1: Slot wide receiver. Played with a bunch of teams, but
39:24
Speaker 1: mostly played for the Eagles and the Commanders. How about
39:26
Speaker 1: the basketball player? Dribble out the clock in the NBA
39:29
Speaker 1: Finals for the Cavaliers in a tie game. Oh, come on!
39:35
Speaker 1: Cowboy players, go! Okay, that's fine, but these are basketball questions.
39:41
Speaker 2: J.R.
39:42
Speaker 1: Smith, Deshaun Jackson, Chris Webber.
39:46
Speaker 3: That basketball player, Deshaun Jackson. We've got 30 points.
39:49
Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
39:50
Speaker 3: Tyler, we have nothing but a G.
39:51
Speaker 1: How do you not know Chris? How old are you?
39:54
Speaker 1: I don't want to know. You're probably too young. Go ahead.
39:56
Speaker 3: Tyler, we've got nothing but a G thing. These athletes
39:59
Speaker 3: all have a first name that starts with a G.
40:01
Speaker 3: 45 seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
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Speaker 1: Christ does not start with a G.
40:06
Speaker 3: The Greek freak for the Milwaukee Bucks.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 2: All right.
40:11
Speaker 3: The tight end for the 49ers.
40:15
Speaker 1: George Kendall. Yes.
40:16
Speaker 3: The current quarterback for the Jets.
40:19
Speaker 1: Geno Smith.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
40:20
Speaker 3: Ace pitcher for the Yankees. He used to be on
40:23
Speaker 3: the Pirates.
40:25
Speaker 1: Jared Paul. Yes.
40:26
Speaker 3: Running back for the Bears. Back in the day.
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Speaker 1: Back in the day, yeah. Okay.
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Speaker 3: A white guy that was on the Utah Jazz and
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Speaker 3: later the Celtics. He was like.
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Speaker 1: Gordon Hayward. Yeah! Oh, come on!
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Speaker 3: Offensive lineman who later became the director of the.
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Speaker 1: White guy in the Jazz. One of the great clues
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Speaker 1: of all time. And the Celtics.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: And the Celtics. They don't have any white guys in
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Speaker 1: the Jazz or the Celtics. That's for sure. Oh, my God.
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Speaker 3: You got 180.
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Speaker 1: So 180 to 30. All right, we're going. Here we go.
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Speaker 1: Scotty on the pike. What do we got? Gin and juice?
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Speaker 3: Gin and juice or I love my mama?
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Speaker 1: Scotty? Gin and juice.
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Speaker 3: Gin and juice.
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Speaker 1: All right. All right, here we go. These sports figures
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Speaker 1: all have gotten a DUI arrest. Bad job by them.
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Speaker 1: All right, here. 45 seconds. We're on our way. Go.
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Speaker 1: Former CBS commentator and Cowboys quarterback.
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Speaker 4: 31-1.
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Speaker 1: Yes, former Mavericks coach. He was a star for the
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Speaker 1: Nets and the NBA.
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Speaker 3: Point guard.
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Speaker 1: Yes, quarterback who barfed in the Super Bowl for the Eagles. Yes,
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Speaker 1: a wide receiver mostly known for the Chargers. He got
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Speaker 1: a DUI after signing with the Colts this season. Slot
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Speaker 1: wide receiver. All right. How about this? A Steelers wide receiver.
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Speaker 1: Last name, kind of a famous last name. Like the
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Speaker 1: booze about 10 years ago or so. Antonio Brown? No,
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Speaker 1: it's another wide receiver. Terrible. Yeah, please. He doesn't know basketball.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I couldn't do Zach Randolph. He killed somebody.
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Speaker 1: Great news for Coop. Oh, my God. The other category
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Speaker 1: was like a 60-minute game.
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Speaker 3: We win again.
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Speaker 1: We win again. No, I think I won because we
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Speaker 1: ran out of time, so I won.