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  Speaker 1: night bouncing around here. Did have a chance to attend
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  Speaker 1: most of the Sunday Night game. I was out there
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  Speaker 1: watching the Sunday Night game, I believe a little early
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  Speaker 1: to make it here to the Mothership to avoid the
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  Speaker 1: mass exodus. And it was the daily double at SOFI
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  Speaker 1: and as our lead there Sunday Night Football, Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: and the Steelers visiting so Cal to take on Jim
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  Speaker 1: Harbaugh and the Chargers in a made for TV matchup.
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  Speaker 1: I did not get to hear the broadcast. I imagine
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  Speaker 1: that Chris Collnsworth was slobbering all over both quarterbacks, so
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  Speaker 1: the very difficult to slobber over Aaron Rodgers the way
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  Speaker 1: that he played. But there they were at SOFI in
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  Speaker 1: the hood in Inglewood and up to no good. That
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  Speaker 1: was Aaron Rodgers up to no good. My god, horrific.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll get right into it. Justin Herbert, who wasn't
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  Speaker 1: all that great either. He had two hundred twenty yards
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  Speaker 1: passing and a touchdown and Aaron rod a stumble bump
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  Speaker 1: performance for Aaron Rodgers, his worst game with the Pet sparkstiff.
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  Speaker 1: Despite being surrounded by nothing but black and yellow, black
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  Speaker 1: and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, it did
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  Speaker 1: not matter as the Chargers slapping around Aaron Rodgers, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that was unforced mistakes by Rogers. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: five to ten. Your final score saw the game? You
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  Speaker 1: know that on Sunday night there for the third straight win.
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  Speaker 1: Show me your lightning bolt. Now, the better story is
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room. Aaron Rodgers completed barely over
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  Speaker 1: fifty percent of his passes in this game. I'm told
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  Speaker 1: that's not good. He averaged a little over five yards
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  Speaker 1: of pass which was actually better than it had been
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  Speaker 1: most of the game thanks to the fourth quarter and
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  Speaker 1: the garbage time touchdown with less than three minutes to
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  Speaker 1: go the game. Well in the bag, what's in the back?
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  Speaker 1: The win is in the bag for the team from
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, the Chargers. There, Rodgers has also had an
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  Speaker 1: interception that he sacked for a safety in the in
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  Speaker 1: the end zone, obviously, and then also fumble, though that
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  Speaker 1: was recovered. So when asked to assess Aaron Rodgers play,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, the Steelers head coach, seemingly dismissing the question
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  Speaker 1: there and he delivered a death stare, a Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: death stare to the reporter, do we have that? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know we have that? We have that? I listened
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  Speaker 1: to Mike Tomlin here as asked the basic question you're
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  Speaker 1: starting quarterback, went out there and wrote themit comment, what
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  Speaker 1: do you have to say for yourself? How would you?
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  Speaker 1: How would you?
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  Speaker 2: All?
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  Speaker 1: Right? So that is a good jumping off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss always like angry Mike Tomlin's fun. It's fun
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  Speaker 1: angry Mike Tomlin. It was an obvious question. Everyone knows
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  Speaker 1: the answer to that. It's like, but you're not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to say it. So let us discuss the question what
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  Speaker 1: is your takeaway from Mike Tomlin and the death stare?
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  Speaker 1: The death stair like the male medusa right there, Mike
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  Speaker 1: tom about Aaron Rodgers and how to assess his performance
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  Speaker 1: or lack thereof. So I've got limited edition frosty mug
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  Speaker 1: and background noise, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to pig out on
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  Speaker 1: ballpark food like stale popcorn, nachos, hot dogs. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ballpark food everywhere being tossed around. So hey,
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  Speaker 1: my first thought on this, I love the Tomlin death.
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  Speaker 1: Stare not quite to the level of Bill Belichick back
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  Speaker 1: in his salad days with the Patriots, but Tomlin, his
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  Speaker 1: blood was boiling. The blood was He's like, here we
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  Speaker 1: go again, here we go again. And Ben Roethlisberger was
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  Speaker 1: not very good the end of his time in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: They've had a revolving door of dumb and dumber at
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  Speaker 1: quarterback ever since Roethlisberger left. And again he went very
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  Speaker 1: good at the end there in Pittsburgh. And so they
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  Speaker 1: went through a bunch last year was justin Fields, Holy
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  Speaker 1: crapt us. He sucked. And you see what he did
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  Speaker 1: for the JETSA they won, but not because of him.
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  Speaker 1: And then also Russell Wilson, so they well, we got
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  Speaker 1: better and Aaron Rodgers has actually been better than what
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  Speaker 1: they had gotten there in Pittsburgh. But this was horrific.
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  Speaker 1: That was not the kind of performance you expected. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: nobody expected that. And man Rogers looking like he belonged
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  Speaker 1: in a museum, and not the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about like a museum where they look at dinosaurs,
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  Speaker 1: may ancient, ancient looking there for Rogers in the game.
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  Speaker 1: And I was actually sitting kind of near the end
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  Speaker 1: zone when Rogers stumbled and bumbled and fell down there
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  Speaker 1: for the safety early in the football game there, and
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  Speaker 1: any success he had in this game was in garbage time.
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  Speaker 1: The game had already been decided. The outcome was going
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  Speaker 1: to go to the Chargers, and then that's it. So
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  Speaker 1: you'd think the way he was playing, there should be
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  Speaker 1: some kind of spin off with Nike, a limited edition
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  Speaker 1: Nike Orthopedic cleat, Like get those special Orthopedic cleats with
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  Speaker 1: the swooshot them and get him a Walker, Holy canoy man.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of just do it, just nap will be the
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  Speaker 1: phrase there for Rogers watching him play here, he looked
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  Speaker 1: like forget forty one. He played like he was in
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  Speaker 1: his late sixties there, plodding along slow. There was really
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  Speaker 1: no rhythm, no method to the madness here for Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 1: and we call the type of game Rogers had. It's
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  Speaker 1: called the compass Rose. What is the compass Rose? Quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: That's where the passes go up and down and right
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  Speaker 1: and left. And Rogers, it seemed, specifically, had mastered in
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  Speaker 1: this game the art of the overthrow. The art of
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  Speaker 1: the overthrow. There was vintage. This was like Jets era Rodgers,
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  Speaker 1: although I felt like it was worse than that even
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  Speaker 1: watching it in person. I've seen it on TV a bunch,
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  Speaker 1: but to be there in the building and watch it
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  Speaker 1: in person, I was like, oh yeah, man, like, boy,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta get more monologues in on Rogers. He's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be around very much longer. Holy crap, man alive.
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  Speaker 1: I've spent the last twenty years of my life talking
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  Speaker 1: about his cat Rogers and man and just grumpy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: typical one. Things aren't going well, you're disengaged, you're not
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  Speaker 1: fired up here. He's like trying to do a fill
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  Speaker 1: in for a Sesame Street character, Oscar the Grouch, grouchy, groutchy, grouchy,
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  Speaker 1: grouchy grouchy man a love Let's They were playing in
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  Speaker 1: a swamp, the Steelers offense, nothing, nothing going on. Third
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  Speaker 1: down for Aaron Rodgers, it was bad. So they had
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  Speaker 1: that limited edition orthopedic shoe for Rogers, and you half
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  Speaker 1: expected him in the third quarter just to crawl back
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  Speaker 1: into the trash can the way that he was plague.
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  Speaker 1: And of course you what it was. He distracted because
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  Speaker 1: you know his imaginary wife was there, maybe his real wife.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who knows he's in your house in Malibu,
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  Speaker 1: although I think he's moving. I don't know what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with that. But it's week ten. There are no
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  Speaker 1: more excusely like the first five weeks. Wow, it's early,
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  Speaker 1: we'll figure it out. Nothing to worry about. It's week ten.
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  Speaker 1: We are past the midway point. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: This is who you are. The trade deadline is over.
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  Speaker 1: There's no reinforcements coming in to save the day. This
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  Speaker 1: is what you got. Now are we discounting the Chargers? Here?
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  Speaker 1: Are the Chargers a really good defense? Then we're they're
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  Speaker 1: good defense. I don't know. I would say really good,
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  Speaker 1: and I would argue based on both watching the game
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  Speaker 1: on the monitor and I'm flipping down with my own eyeballs.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed more case of these were self inflicted wounds
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  Speaker 1: by the Pittsburgh Steelers in this game. So using the
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  Speaker 1: Malord scale of concern, the Malor scale of concern one
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  Speaker 1: to ten, with ten being the worst of the worst
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  Speaker 1: of the worst. I'm out of nine. I'm out of nine.
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  Speaker 1: Am I being a prisoner of the moment? Probably so?
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  Speaker 1: Probably so? But I'm at a nine. I just I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you what I just watched. That is not a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's gonna win a playoff game. That is not
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  Speaker 1: a guy that looks like he's even gonna make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That was bad. That was bad. That's one game. Blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah. But that's all I
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  Speaker 1: have to do this show right now, It's all I
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  Speaker 1: have to go on. He sucked. Rogers was garbage in
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  Speaker 1: that game, okay, And if this keeps up, forget a quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: coach or a wide receiver. He's gonna need a lifeguard
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  Speaker 1: because he's drowning. The whole offense is drowning out. There
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  Speaker 1: was a gigantic turn Berger is what they served up there.
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  Speaker 1: And Rogers Now, he said after the game that he
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  Speaker 1: feels good and that he'll play better and you know
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna do better decision making and all that. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: all right, now, turning the page as for the big
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  Speaker 1: picture again, better story in the losing locker room now.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin also said regarding the situation the Steelers are,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, there's quote nothing mystical about it. He said,
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  Speaker 1: he says we'll be back, he claimed, will be better.
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  Speaker 1: We have to be close. Quote from the very verbose
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. A good SoundBite, really good sound bite. Mike
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  Speaker 1: tom Top five sound bite coach. We don't do lists.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, top five sound bite coach. Big board
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  Speaker 1: not list, big board not list. So the question here
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  Speaker 1: it is how much stalk? How much stalk do you
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  Speaker 1: put into Mike Tomlin promising that these Steelers will be back,
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  Speaker 1: will be back? Is the quote for Mike Tomlin. So
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  Speaker 1: my first reaction, much like when Aaron Rodgers says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I feel good, We'll play better, when Mike
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin says something similar, it's like, well what else you
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  Speaker 1: supposed to say? You imagine if Tomlin had come out
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  Speaker 1: as the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers and said, well,
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  Speaker 1: we stink boys, We'll just shut it down, get ready
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  Speaker 1: for next year? Looan management, loot management. He can't say that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's coach speak one oh one. You gotta say something.
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  Speaker 1: And so we'll be back as just Tom lines. What
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  Speaker 1: is tomlinies? It's ay, we're not gonna forfeit. Yeah, now
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  Speaker 1: we're not. We just decided not to forfeit. We'll try
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  Speaker 1: to play the game. Congratulations. So the Steelers are gonna
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  Speaker 1: show up next week, and the Steelers can say hellllelujah, hellllelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Now why can't they say halluyah. The problem is not
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  Speaker 1: the pep talk. Pep talk really means all that much.
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  Speaker 1: It's the quality control of the product that has not
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  Speaker 1: been consistent. The defense was atrocious the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 1: The defense has played a little bit better now the
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  Speaker 1: offense falls apart one thing. It's like playing whack a mole,
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  Speaker 1: like you got one problem, you slap that down, and
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  Speaker 1: then another one pops up over he wa, I only
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  Speaker 1: got two albs, I only got two rs. What he's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do? And uh so Rod just looked like
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  Speaker 1: watching him play in the first half of that game
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  Speaker 1: and into the third quarter, it looked like he had
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  Speaker 1: gone out prior to the game, and he was tailgating
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  Speaker 1: with like Joe Rogan, even though Rogan lives in Texas,
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  Speaker 1: but they some maybe flew out to La. They were tailgating.
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  Speaker 1: They had like a frosty mug of ayahuasca. And Rogers
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  Speaker 1: went out there and he was seeing demons to the right,
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  Speaker 1: and he was seeing aliens to the left. And it
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  Speaker 1: was wild, wild goes spook. It was a comedy of errors,
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  Speaker 1: is what it was. And now the good news is
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  Speaker 1: and I said, hallelujah, the good news is up next
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  Speaker 1: the ben Gals. They suck. If you don't have success
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  Speaker 1: in offense against the Cincinnati Bengals, then you might want
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  Speaker 1: to go and get your pulse checked because you might
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  Speaker 1: be dead. Okay, they suck. So that's the good news.
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  Speaker 1: That's the silver lining playbook for Mike Tomlin and for
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. You got Cincinnati, they're easy, Mark. You still
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  Speaker 1: got to show up. You got to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: You'll get a focused Pittsburgh team next week. The question
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  Speaker 1: is is this going to be what Rogers is the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the way. Who knows. But Mike Tomlin can
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  Speaker 1: talk about and he loves the quote. The standard is
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  Speaker 1: the standard. It's the iconic Mike Tomlin quote from his
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  Speaker 1: time in Pittsburgh with the if you look at the
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  Speaker 1: drive through menu board right now, if you look at
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  Speaker 1: the drive through menu board there, it says here and
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  Speaker 1: you can look it up. It says a standard lately
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  Speaker 1: has been mediocrity. And then they've got a side dish
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  Speaker 1: with the combo on the drive through menu. You've got
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  Speaker 1: mediocrity and then a side of false hope aside of
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  Speaker 1: false hope. So you've got a little bit of that,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of this. It's all kind of mixed together.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The last word among and I did see this. It
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  Speaker 1: was multitasking and people were telling me old stories that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't really want to hear, but they kept on
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  Speaker 1: me anyway. The other storyline was the crowd, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not new. It's been this way ever since the NFL
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  Speaker 1: left Los Angeles for a generation and came back. Certain
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  Speaker 1: teams that have a rich history packed the stadium, in
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  Speaker 1: this case the Pittsburgh Steelers. It might as well have
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  Speaker 1: been in the confluence there where they formed the Ohio River,
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  Speaker 1: the Monongahela and the Allegheny. Give birth to a baby
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  Speaker 1: might as well have had that they had a little
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  Speaker 1: man made lake out front so far that they have there.
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  Speaker 1: But the NBC cameras you couldn't help but miss it.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't. You couldn't avoid it, is what I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to say. The cameras showed, Now we were shocked by it,
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be shocked by it. Happens every time they play
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  Speaker 1: a legacy team like the Packers, Steelers of the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers, teams that have huge followings. So the cameras
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  Speaker 1: kept showing these Steeler fans waving the terrible towels, and
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  Speaker 1: a buddy of mine in the press box is like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: did they give those out? I said, why they give
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  Speaker 1: out terrible towels? That's a Pittsburgh thing, you dummy. They
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  Speaker 1: don't give those out, But it looked like it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a promotion. Everyone had one. Everyone had
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  Speaker 1: a Terrible towel. At one point, I think the Charger
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  Speaker 1: fans started holding them up. They were like, hey, they're yellow.
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  Speaker 1: We'll make it about that. And so you had Mike
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  Speaker 1: Tariko on the broadcast. He said, and he was being
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  Speaker 1: generous when he said sixty five percent he estimated a
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  Speaker 1: pro Steeler crowd as sixty five percent. Other estimates said
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  Speaker 1: seventy percent. I did the malor math and I was there,
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  Speaker 1: so boots on the ground, I said seventy five percent.
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  Speaker 1: Steeler fans seventy five percent. The place was packed. It
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  Speaker 1: was absolutely packed, everyone in the house there with the
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  Speaker 1: black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, black
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  Speaker 1: and yellow all that. So the question is this embarrassing
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  Speaker 1: for the NFL that you have an island game island
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  Speaker 1: game Sunday night for well, yet again, Chargers there and
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  Speaker 1: they've been in LA for a while now and they
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  Speaker 1: have not been able to develop a fan base in LA.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the latest example example A your honor the
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  Speaker 1: defense now rest, so listen. It is I would not
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  Speaker 1: say it's embarrassing. I'm looking. I'm not gonna use the
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  Speaker 1: word embarrassing. The word that should be used here, and
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  Speaker 1: I like words. Inevitable is the word I will use.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna use the word inevitable. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: I'm using the word inevitable the Chargers ghosted San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: You know how you're sending your date and you might
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  Speaker 1: just you know, you go out and date, you get
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  Speaker 1: a free meal, you blow the other person off. It
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna contact them again. So the Chargers ghosted the
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  Speaker 1: city of San Diego. Now you know, some of you
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  Speaker 1: know I started in radio in San Diego. I was
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  Speaker 1: there as a young lad. The Chargers got to a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. The town was electric. It was a loyal
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  Speaker 1: fan base of Charger fans in San Diego, and the franchise,
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  Speaker 1: the Spanos family, said screw you, We're done. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And so so and I know this. I've had this
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  Speaker 1: explained to me by some people that work for the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers years ago. When they first came to LA, they said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get a certain percentage of people that are
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  Speaker 1: going to drive up from San Diego, and they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make the drive every Sunday. It's gonna be a thing.
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  Speaker 1: And then they're gonna go back. And so they figured
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  Speaker 1: they'd have that, and then they'd add slowly, they'd add
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  Speaker 1: fans in LA. Could not have been more wrong, could
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  Speaker 1: not have been more wrong. I love when really educated
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  Speaker 1: people who have gone through all of academia have had
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  Speaker 1: all that crap and they just are complete morons people.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: There's a few Charger fans that make the trip up
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: in San Diego very few. The town's pretty much like,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: screw you, we hate all things LA. We're not going
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: up there. You people come down here on the weekends
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and run amok in our city. So we're out. And
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: so you can't just reboot a fan base like you
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: can reboot a computer or a phone. It's not the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: way it works, I'll be you certainly can't get all
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: of a sudden loyal large numbers of loyal fans. There
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: are loyal Charger fans, it's just not many, not many
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: of them. And you know, San Diego, say what you want,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: military town, surf for town, all that. But they did
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: love the Chargers. They did, and they were rewarded with
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the bird from the NFL and from the Spanos family.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: So the reality is hardly anybody cares about the Chargers
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: in LA. They're just kind of background noise, if you will,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: in between commercials and they pop up and you're like,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: why is the Charger game? I don't want to watch
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the Charger game. Why don't we get another game? Well,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: that's the game because they're in LA, so you get
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: to charge again. But I don't want the charge of it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: But that's the game. That's what you get. Nine years
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: they've been back. It's been nine years already. The Chargers
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: have been back in LA and most of the time
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: they're playing road games and it doesn't affect the outcome.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna say people make a big deal
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: about it. They love to talk about home field event
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: it doesn't. The Chargers won this game. It was a
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Steeler home game. The Rams win most of their home games.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: When there's other fans from other teams, it doesn't matter.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: It feels good if you're a fan of another team,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Like I know, the Niner fans love when they come
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to LA to play the Rams and it's like a
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Niner home game. They love it. May just win most
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of the time. When the other team has more fans
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: than the Chargers, it doesn't affect it. But it does
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: take at least a generation, at least a generation to
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: cultivate to grow. If you're a farmer, it takes a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: generation to grow on fan base. Right, twenty years, it's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: been nine So if you do the math on that,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: eleven more years, Holy crap, we're looking at twenty thirty six,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: twenty thirty six before you start to feel any kind
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of local, local family. And that's the kids that became
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: charge of fans that now have become adults, and then
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: they're starting families and crap like that. That's what that is.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Now you can fast track it. You can fast track
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: it the way you would fast track it is to
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: win a couple of super Bowls, because everyone's a front runner.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Everyone's a band wagner, as Blair and Main likes to say,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: and so you can zip things along a little. The
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Chargers don't look like a super Bowl team to me?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Do they look like a super Bowl team to you?
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: They don't look like a super Bowl team to me.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: They like a typical middle of the pack good team,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: not great team where five things happen, right, meaning a
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: couple of quarterbacks break their ankles or whatever. You could
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: go to the super Bowl. Other than that, eh, you know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: they'll win their ten or eleven games, and they'll be
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: a playoff team and they'll lose in the first or
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the second weekend of the NFL playoffs, and that'll be that.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: And so meanwhile, the Steeler fans generation which runner the
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: mathot so nineteen seventies, the great Steeler teams with Terry
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Bradshaw on that great defense. And so you fast forward
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: out for those people in the seventies had kids, so
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: then they became adults in the nineties. So then those
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: people they had kids maybe in the twenty tens, right,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: So now we're on to another generation of Steeler fans.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: And it was crazy, man. I was looking around. I
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: want to I saw her buddy Eddie, the Great Eddie
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Garcia up with him. Had a little pow wow with
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Eddie down there. He had full Steeler gear on. I
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: couldn't find him because he had full Steeler gear. If
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you want to stand out, you should want to charge
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: your jersey. I would have found him right away. Was
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: King Eddy right there. But it was like a black
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and yellow, black and yellow circus. It was like Halloween
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: had continued here and it was like a pajama party
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: mixed with Halloween. There were dudes with homemade costumes. It
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: was pretty pretty intense. Man. These guys have spent a
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: lot of time and effort to come up with the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: right look. And some of it was store bought, you know.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Some of it was just what you can find online.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: But it looked like there were some things I had
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: never seen before. I saw a lot of steely McBean,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: which is I thought that was a mascot. Eddie hated
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the mascot, but I saw a lot of shirts with
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Steely McBean on it and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: hour from Sweet Homeshiticago, where yet again it looked like
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the Bears were going to blow it and they needed
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: some cardiac help, not like the kind Jed who fled.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Got more on that later this hour, Jed revealing a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: senior member of the Mallem Militia that he had a
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: heart attack. Anyway, the Giants blew another doubled lead. Where
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: have we seen this before? Hmmm, I don't know, almost
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: every road game. Anyway, The Giants put another double digit lead,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: losing twenty four to twenty. Jackson Dart also leaving this
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: game with injury. Now, the better story is in the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: losing locker room in Chicago. So they very rare, very
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: rare that an NFL coach gets put on blast by
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the TV people. Just almost never happens because everyone's in
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: bed with everyone else. When you're part of the cabal,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: you don't mess with the cabal. And every once in
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: a while somebody steps out of mounds. Now normally when
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: that happens, they are allowed to do it. You might
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: remember after the Cardinals took down the Cowboys in that
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Monday night game. During the game and then the postgame,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Joe Back and Troy Aikman revealed that they didn't think
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray would keep his job as QB one in Arizona. Well,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the next day it was announced that Kyler Murray had
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: been demoted. He had been losing his rank excommunicated, if
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: you will, And that really helped the Cardinals, by the way,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: that really did really well in Seattle without him. But anyway,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: they said it, they put their name on it, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: they put their name on it because they were allowed
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to do it. I bring that up because Greg Olsen,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the Fox broadcaster Greg Olsen was essentially doing the same thing.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: He was attacking Brian Dayball, the formerly row Ton coach
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: of the Giants, did essentially a job review on the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: boob Tube of the New York Giants coach. Now the Giants.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: To set this up, the Giants had a touchdown lead.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: They were at the one yard line. So at the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: one yard line you're up by a touchdown and you
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: got to decide it's fourth down. Do you kick the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: field goal? Do you go for the touchdown? He kicked
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the field goal. Now you figure two score lead in
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. You think, okay, we're still going to
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: win this game, until you realize the Giants defense isn't
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: very good. And then Caleb Williams he put down the
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: nail polish and stormed back and Chicago ended up getting
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the win. There Yourphemi tree in Chicago, all those guys
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: very happy, Eugene in Chicago. So on the broadcast, greg
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Olsen ripped Brian day Ball on Fox, took up shot
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: at him, say, well in the grasspies, coach diok conservatively
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and that is a good jumping off point. Much discussion.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Will we see another coaching change in the NFL? When
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the sun rises in the east, Will Brian day Ball
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: be setting as coach of the Giants? Developing hot dot
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: dot dot. So the question all right, how many more?
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: How many more of these epic choke jobs does Brian
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: day Ball get before the Giants hand him a nice
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: parting gift, a big pink slip? How many more does
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: he get? So my observations on this one, I've got Hanukkah,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: grilled asparagus, and Corner Bakery, and we will combine all
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: of these things together and we're gonna make We're gonna
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: make the Gabba Ghoul is what we're gonna make, all right.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: So before we rant and rave, here let's hear from
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the man of the hour, a man who has mastered
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the art of the choke job, yet for some reason,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: can't seem to be removed as coach of the Giants.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Here's Brian day Ball, asked yet again about his tenuous
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: future as coach of the Giants. Take a listen. Pretty
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: worried about.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Your job too? Any Yeah, I'm just focused on you know,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: these guys in the locker room. You know, they're tough losses, Dan,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: they really are. Everybody puts so much into it, the
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: coaches put so much into it, the players, you know,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: and it's painful when you have when you have these endings,
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: you know, you stick together and you know that's what
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: that's what you have to do.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: How's that working out? You're sticking together? Because what else
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: is you going to say in that situation. So it's
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the same every week when they go on the road
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: at home most of the time too, same old story.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Double digit lead, Saya nara to the double digit league
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: gone conservative play calling. Yeah, no, It's one thing if
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you're trying to protect a big lead or something like that,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: trying to nurse a lead and you've got a good team.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: It's another thing if you have nothing to lose because
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: you blow. That's the Giants like like, why are you
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: coaching conservative? Your team sucks? Like what are you trying
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to accomplish? I don't understand it. So anyway, Brian day
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Ball is standing there on the sidelines looking like he's
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: trying to solve a Ruby's cube and he's blindfolded. You know,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: check that box right there, Check that box. That's about right.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: So there you go, and the man's team, he's been
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: there long enough. We now know the book on Brian
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: day Ball. He's not making them better. He's not making
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: anyone better. That's the same old sorry ass Giants, So
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: why exactly is he there right? You look at him,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: It's like his teams have consistently committed crimes against competitiveness,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: which is just bonehead turnovers and poor coaching decisions and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: all of that, And so you'd think he would have
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: never been brought back this year in the first places. Obviously,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: you would think on borrowed time, although the Giants seem
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: to want to keep him around there it doesn't make
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: any sense. The doomsday clock should be at kabboom. It
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: should be a kaboom here. Tick tick tick tick tick
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: tick tick. Giants have played now four games on the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: road when leading by ten or more points, and they
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: have lost all four. That is not bad luck. That
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: is systemic incompetence is what that is from the coaching
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: all the way down. In this game, you're at the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: one yard line, you're at the one yard line, you're
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: up seven, and you decided to kick a field goal.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna kick a field goal. Okay, you know what
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: that is? That is lf Loser football is what that is?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: That is loser football. That is I hope on a
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: wing and a prayer that my defense can make a
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: few plays, even though they rarely make many plays, and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: then meanwhile, Caleb Williams of all people, Yes, that Caleb
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Williams goes video game mode. Boom, just like that, another
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: blown lead for the Giants. You can stack it on
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: top of the other hotcakes there. So unfortunately, Brian dables.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: So what do we know about how does he keep
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the job? What we know about him is he seems
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: to be a nice guy. It seems like he's a
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: nice guy, big personality guy and football guy and all
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: that stuff there doesn't win, mind you, doesn't win. But
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: really good guy, really good guy. And it's like a
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Hanuka classic. He's the mench on the bench, although he
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be on the bench anymore. He is the mench
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: on the bench. There. That would be Brian day Ball.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Great for the holidays, unless you want to actually win
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: football games in crunch time, and then not so good.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: And if you do an idiot check, do you ever
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: do the idiot check? If you do an idiot check
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: on Brian day Ball? There the consistent thing here, the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: common denominator is the coach. The roster has turned over,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks have turned over, and the meltdowns have continued.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: So the constant there. You always looking to chop down
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: possibilities with the constant is forget the injuries. And he said, well,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart got hurt and all that. Forget that. Yeah,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson socks and he was in there. I get
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: it at the end, but most of this is self
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: inflicted wounds. So you either go for the touchdown. If
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: you don't get it, you make the Bears go ninety
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: nine yards against your team, and that's just to tie
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: the game, and you feel like you're in pretty good ship. Now. Meanwhile,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: we turned the page to San Francisco, actually Santa Clara
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: that it was an NFC West Brew ha ha. A
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: couple rivals. They were there, the Rams and the forty
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: nine ers, and it was all Rams. You could ram
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: it all day, you could ram it all night. The Rams, Baby,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't think they were gonna win this game by
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: that much. They did made me look bad. Seven and two.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Now the Rams record, matt if you watched Benny versus
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the Penny, I was like, oh, the Rams usually struggle
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: on the spot and all that stuff. Well they didn't struggle.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: They boat raced the forty nine Ers in this game.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Domination situation. Matthew Stafford getting hyped up as an MVP candidate.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I'll believe it when I see it. Stafford, though, torched
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers rag tag defense in this game.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: As the Niners go win lost win loss, win lost
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: win lost win lost, win loss, and forty two. They
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: put forty two points off the Rams against the Niners
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: defense there as Stafford at two hundred and eighty yards
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: passing and four touchdowns. I didn't play in the NFL.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna check with Ryan Clark. I think that's good.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Many pundits and officia nachos of the NFL now losing
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: their minds because of this domination situation by the Rams,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: that this is a Super Bowl team and Stafford's the
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: ENVP and everything is great, and oh my god, it's
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: so good. All right, So question question for you, do
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford in the Rams get style points for clocking
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. So I saw the raw ross stuff,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: super Bowl Stafford MVP and to all of it in
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: terms of that in the style points, I am shaking
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: my head. No, you can't see me, but if you're
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: watching on the YouTube, I'm shaking my head no. And
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: if I do this any longer I'm I'm get dizzy,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to get dizzy. But the answer
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: is no, like slow your row, what are you doing here?
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Like seriously, I don't give them any extra credit. The Ram.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I'm a Ram. I do like the Rams. You guys
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: know that. I like the Rams. I want to see
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the Rams do well. I don't give any extra credit.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Stafford was sharp. Four touchdowns obviously was great. They kept
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: scoring touchdowns. It was insane with a six touchdowns something
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: like that. It was insane. So they spread the ball around.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: He spread the ball around and it was it was great.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Its hold off on the parade. We don't have to
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: have a parade here. This wasn't the Niner eighty. I
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: didn't see Nick Bosa out there. I didn't see Fred Warner.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't see brock Purty, although I'm not a big
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: brock Purty guy. Mac Jones is fine. He had some
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: empty stats there, misleading stats as the Rams jumped out
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: to a big lead, and then mac Jones made some
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: garbage time plays. But the Rams, the Rams beat essentially
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the cover band for the Niners. That was the cover band.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: That was not the original. That's what that was there,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: And so let's not get too excited. They didn't have
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: their headline. It's kind of like going to the cheesecake
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: factory and you're like, oh, I'm gonna go to the
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: cheesecake factory, and then you realize, well, I didn't order
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the main dish. I got the grilled disparagus and I
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: got that off the Skinny Delicious menu, and that's not
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: really the full meal. You're not getting the full experience there.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: So it was the Niners light. It was the Niners light.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: A lot of flotsam and jetsam on defense. Guys you've
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: never heard of in the front seven, a couple guys
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: in the secondary there. And the Rams are good. We
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: know the Rams are good. We know that if you
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: look around the NFC, everyone is beatable. There's no one
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: that you look at and say that's the immovable object.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: You can't beat that team. And so congratulations, they can
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: beat anyone in the NFC, anyone, Seattle, Philadelphia, you look
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: at the top teams there, whoever you think the top
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: team is, the Rams can beat them. And so as
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: far as this game, it was Bachmann Turner overdrive. It
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: was just taking care of business is what this was.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: And Sean mcvay's team showed up, they punched the clock.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Good for them. They cashed in the check and that's it.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: And so you don't get any extra credit as you
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: don't get style points, at least not on this side
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: of the microphone. You don't do that. And it was
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: like doing a shift at the factory. You do your job,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: You go home and maybe you crack open a cold one,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: and then you kind of wind down and go to bed,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: and then you get back up and do it again
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the next day. All right, now, final point. We go
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: now to Charlotte, North Carolina. We go to Charlotte where
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the lowly Saints, many believe the worst team in the NFL.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: The lowly Saints. They knocked off the upstart Carolina Panthers.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: All that talk to Carolina was back, baby, they were back,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Well not so much. Now. The story here, the better
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: story in the losing locker room, how bad Carolina played
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: against just a total tomato can in the New Orleans Saints.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: And following the game, the head coach Dave Canalis of
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Carolina raised some eyebrows there as he refused to criticize
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: in any meaningful way. Bryce Young, that's a quarterback. Not
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: a good one. Not a good one. Bryce Young the quarterback,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the little fella and under center. A really just miserable
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: performance by the quarterback. And yet Dave Canalis would not
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: go there. Here's a little taste of his postgame newscomers.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen. I think he's throwing the ball great.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Some plays that he would tell you that he would
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: like to have back. But in general, this is not
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: about Bryce.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: This is about me.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: This is about our group.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: This is about us taking the steps so we can
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: be a balance offense. Okay, so that money quote right there,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: you heard it. This is not about Bryce. This is
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: about me and our group. Close quote. We'll leave the
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: rest on the cutting room floor. So question, what is
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: your reaction? What is your reaction to coach Dave Canalis
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: saying that Carolina's problems are on offense, obviously, but they're
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: not on Bryce Young. It's on the group, not on
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Bryce Young. So on this one, oh please, like seriously,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: like I know you're supposed to say that and all
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Spare me. This is absolutely on the very
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: small shoulders of Bryce Young. It is the arrow is
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: pointing directly at Bryce Young. Every man, woman, and child
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: knows it. And he went out there and drowned against
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the Saints. He just sunk. And if you play like
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: that against the Saints, right, that's a team that is
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: in the same realm of the NFL. If you look
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: at the ven diagram of the NFL, in the little quadrant,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: the team from New Orleans. Their contemporaries are the Browns
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: and the Jets. Carolina had one hundred and seventy five
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: yards of offense one hundred and seventy five against the Aints. Okay,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: they had thirteen first downs the entire game, and a
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: couple of those were because of penalty by New Orleans.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: So really eleven first downs that they earned that they
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: were not given. And so what is Dave Canalys the coach,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: what is he telling us? He's telling us that Bryce
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Young is a mister softy, that he can't handle criticism.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: A real coach, a real leader of men, comes out
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: and said, that's not good enough, that's not what we need.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: We have to get better quarterback playing. If we don't
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: get better quarterback play, none of this is going to work.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: It's all gonna feel. But no, you can't say that
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: because Bryce Young can't handle it, And that's the takeaway here.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Dave Canalis knows that he's got a soft quarterback that
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: cannot handle criticism, and so you have to say, it's
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: not about him, it's about the group and all that stuff.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: And he's essentially like, hey, listen, our quarterback. We can
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: change our quarterback. Go down to Corner Bakery and get
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: a creampuff and we'd have the same personality at quarterback,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Bryce Young or a creampuff one, and the same interchangeable
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: every word from Dave Canalis, the coach there in Carolina
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: is essentially but please don't, don't wound his confidence. Everything's
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: gonna be okay. Blah blah blah blah blah. This is
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: what happens when you're what is he five nine, five
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: four whatever, I don't know, fun size, fun sized quarterback.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: And not only that you trade it up to get
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: the guy doesn't elevate anybody. The only thing he elevates
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: is the other team's defense. They feel pretty good about
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: themselves when they play Bryce Young. They're like, oh man,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: we're better than we are. You don't see teammates of
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Bryce Young playing extra hard for him. You don't see
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: that there's no real fire there. When you watch Carolina's offense,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: you don't see any real leadership, So what else is there?
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: I see a bunch of dump off passes and a
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: lot of blank stares most of the time. And when
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Carolina has had some success this year, it's been because
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: mostly the running game. Dowdell has been a revelation in that.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: But they think the Panthers they traded a duffel bag
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: of scratcher tickets to Chicago DJ Moore a whole kitchen pantry,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: if you will, to get a franchise quarterback. They assumed
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: they were getting one. And what did they get? You
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: won't get a lemon. They got a lemon. They got
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: a lemon. That guy went and what does he do?
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: He makes the other defense look good. And the secret
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: weapon for Carolina is there punting. Okay, that's their most expive,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: explosive offensive play is punting the football to the other team.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: It's great and so essentially Bryce Young and you watch
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: him play for Carolina and he's like cork Everyone's able
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: to cork him up like he's boxed wine. They just
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: box him up and all that stuff, and man just
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: shake him and it's just bad. It's all bad, and
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Carolina came out there like this game was an inconvenience.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: They were favored by over five. That's a game I
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: flipped on. If you watched Benny Versus the Penny this
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: week on YouTube, that was a game that originally I
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: was going with Carolina, and I said, well, that's that
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: line is too big, that the Carolina is that they're
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: not that much better than the Saints. And sure enough,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: they went out and played like it and very little aggression,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: really no juice. The only juice there was from the
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: way they were playing as far as where they were
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: sitting watching. And I didn't watch the entire game, but
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: when I flipped over to the Carolina New Orleans game,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: it gave the fumes I imagine in my head the
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: fumes there were from like a porta potty that had
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: been out in a really hot September day early September,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: and it's really hot and nasty and all that stuff,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: and just the smell of that. That's what Carolina played
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: like that. And Dave Canalis knows it, Yeah, he knows it.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: He just doesn't want to admit it because his quarterback
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: can't handle it. And that it's on me line is
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: the standard answer. That's the boiler played answer for all
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: of these coaches. It's also code for my quarterback cannot
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: take any real criticism and if we criticize him, I'll
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: lose him in the room and then he'll fold up
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: like a lawn chair, which he does anyway, So why
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: does it matter? That's what he does most days. And
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Bryce Young again just doesn't make people around him better.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: That's my hypothesis on this. He makes them often worse
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: the way that he approaches the games here and good
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks are able to hide flaws. It's usually how that works.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: And the bad ones put a spotlight like you're at
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: the Hollywood Bowl on them and there you go. And
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: so Bryce Young, needless to say, does not look particularly good,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: and the Panthers look like hell you Yet they have
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: one good number of games, winning ugly but man alive.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Carolina's problem is not the group. It is not is
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: the guy that they built the team around, the franchise
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: quarterback Bryce Young.
• 45:26
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• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Here we go, how about that?
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grilled.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Ben the Browns lost to the Jets, and Dylan Gabril
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: hasn't exactly been good as a quarterback for the Browns.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: He sucks. Guy sucks, he does. Yes, do you think
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: kevin'ste fancy is gonna stick with him? Well, he said
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: he's gonna stick with him. That doesn't mean anything. There
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: must be something more that we don't know about Shuder
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: saying he must have really pissed some people off in
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: that building. Otherwise, what's the point. Dylan Gabriel averaged five
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: yards of pass against the Jets defense, who just got
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: rid of their two top players. He sucks. They should
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: just play shitter Sandas for talk radio purposes next.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Well, speaking of the Jets, they now have five first
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: round selections over the next two years, and some analysts
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: thinks that they could use those to trade for somebody
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: like Joe Burrow and Adam Sfer didn't exactly shut that
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: rumor down.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah you think that could ever happen? Ben, Yeah, that
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: would be what I would do. I would trade all
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: of those picks. If the Ravens are dumb enough to
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: trade Lamar Jackson, that would be the guy I would
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: go after. If I'm the Jets, absolutely. That would be
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: the only reason I would support the Jets if they
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: just draft those guys.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: No.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Next, Lincoln Riley has been doing pretty well with the
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: USC this season, so there's a lot of rumors that
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: he might leave us for another head coaching John He said,
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: I'm where I need to be.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Do you believe that? Well, he has a contract, so yes,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: right now, it's where he needs to be. So I
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: talked to some people over the weekend who said, Lincoln's
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: just trying to get more money out of sc This
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: is just a money grab. He wants to stay, but
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: he wants more money. So that's how that usually works.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: How did we do you pass us? How as they win?
• 47:08
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• 47:13
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• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Who get here? Were you talking to songs?
• 47:32
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• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Some interestant advice?
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: Hold that thun No one's paid attention to me for
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: ten whole seconds.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: And if you don't like it, you who needs our advice?
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: How about the Buffalo bills? They need our advice and
• 47:44
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• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Bills got smacked around by the Dolphins. We're not ready
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: to play that game. And Buffalo said to be a
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: heavyweight contender in the AFC. They've now lost to Atlanta
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: and the Patriots, who they are said to have more
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: talent then and now the Dolphins. So advice to Josh
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Allen and the Bills. You're live on the air when
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: you hear my voice eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Line one, Hello, Line one, Good morning ten.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Next, just just told me that a happily married couple
• 48:13
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• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay, thank you, Stephen Maryland. Now your next
• 48:17
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• 48:21
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• 48:25
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• 48:30
  Speaker 1: and the Bills, Line.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: For how do you get beat by a coach with
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: such a patchy beard?
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Is his beard ever going to grow in? No? I
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: think he's too old for that now. He might need
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: to see some kind of get some pills or something. Yes,
• 48:42
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• 48:46
  Speaker 1: If you greet Lorena before Ben, you should get hung
• 48:48
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• 48:51
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• 48:56
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• 48:59
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• 49:03
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• 49:05
  Speaker 1: and number three, Hello, and three. We're giving advice to
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen the bills. Line three, he give everybody the cardinal. Okay,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: everyone sucks. Yes. Line four, you're on the airline for Hello.
• 49:18
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• 49:21
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• 49:34
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• 49:38
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• 49:41
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