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- 2:09Speaker 1: on our cool.
- 2:10Speaker 3: Night in the Delaware Valley.
- 2:13Speaker 1: You had Jared Goff leading the motorcade from Motown, the
- 2:17Speaker 1: Detroit Lions taken on the phil letdelphiingles with Jalen Hurts
- 2:22Speaker 1: and the Birds, the Birds, the thumb wrestling action and
- 2:26Speaker 1: how did that go? We had Mike Tarrico, you had Collinsworth.
- 2:29Speaker 1: They were calling the game for Petecock NBC doing their thing.
- 2:32Speaker 3: There an island game, living the island life.
- 2:35Speaker 1: And if you didn't see the game, if you missed it,
- 2:38Speaker 1: well don't worry. We watched so you would not have
- 2:41Speaker 1: to it as our act of kindness, our public service,
- 2:43Speaker 1: if you will. So, Jalen Hurts did score a touchdown,
- 2:47Speaker 1: he didn't throw a touchdown, he scored a touchdown, and
- 2:51Speaker 1: otherwise mostly bupkus for the team representing the state of Pennsylvania.
- 2:58Speaker 1: They were a feeble offense of effort, anemic. But yet
- 3:03Speaker 1: the Eagles offense despite not doing their job.
- 3:06Speaker 3: You're supposed to do your job. They didn't do their job.
- 3:08Speaker 1: However, it was enough for a sixteen to nine win
- 3:12Speaker 1: over the Lions, who failed on every fourth down attempt,
- 3:17Speaker 1: and they kept going and going and going and going
- 3:21Speaker 1: and going and going.
- 3:23Speaker 3: But we're going to.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Begin with the losing side. Jalen Hurt's not good, right,
- 3:28Speaker 1: we know that. But the better story is in the
- 3:30Speaker 1: losing locker room, as the team from Michigan an absolute stinker.
- 3:36Speaker 1: The Eagles offense was bad. The Lions offense, somehow was worse,
- 3:41Speaker 1: led by the quarterback Jared Goff and trickling down. The suck,
- 3:48Speaker 1: the gooey ooi suck was going everywhere in that Detroit
- 3:53Speaker 1: Lions locker rooms. On the offensive side, defensively, they were
- 3:57Speaker 1: not don't even know how good they were. The Eagles
- 3:58Speaker 1: were so bad on offense it's hard hard to tell
- 4:02Speaker 1: bad all the way around. But let us discuss good
- 4:05Speaker 1: jumping off point on that. So we start with the
- 4:07Speaker 1: quarterback Jared Goff. How do you measure Jared Goff's performance
- 4:14Speaker 1: for the Lions in this game? So on this one,
- 4:16Speaker 1: I've got software, punk rock and Tom Hanks and we
- 4:22Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
- 4:25Speaker 1: put them into a food processor.
- 4:27Speaker 3: And just see what we get. We'll just chop everything up,
- 4:31Speaker 3: make a pure is what we're going to do.
- 4:33Speaker 1: So ay, listen, we measure it like the famous review
- 4:39Speaker 1: years ago on the Internet of the Popeyes cheddar Babe
- 4:42Speaker 1: Butterfly shrimp thing.
- 4:44Speaker 3: Remember that video. It's gone.
- 4:46Speaker 1: It's a few years old, but still funny. Your disappointment
- 4:50Speaker 1: when you watch Jared Goff play, your disappointment is immeasurable
- 4:53Speaker 1: watching him try to play quarterback for the Lions, and your.
- 4:55Speaker 3: Day is ruined.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Your day is absolutely ruined watching Jared Goff tempic play football.
- 5:00Speaker 1: This was a VG situation, vintage golf, watching Jared Goff
- 5:07Speaker 1: on Sunday night, straight out of the vault from his
- 5:10Speaker 1: era with the Rams back in the day, and you
- 5:13Speaker 1: could ram it all day. You could ram it all night.
- 5:15Speaker 1: But when Jared Golf was there, you could not ram
- 5:17Speaker 1: it in cold weather. Couldn't do it, could not do it,
- 5:20Speaker 1: couldn't happen. It's so important for the Lions. They played
- 5:23Speaker 1: a dome. You I menagine if they played outdoors. Jared
- 5:25Speaker 1: Goff would be out of the NFL. Now, if they
- 5:27Speaker 1: had to play outdoors in Detroit, holy crap. In the dome,
- 5:30Speaker 1: he's fine, but there there it was the sequel that
- 5:34Speaker 1: nobody asked for. Watching Jared Goff futs around out in
- 5:36Speaker 1: the field. Now, Sean McVay, top coach in the NFL,
- 5:40Speaker 1: Sean mcvav r. Sean McVay was so fed up with
- 5:44Speaker 1: Jared Goff. How fed up was he he actually put
- 5:47Speaker 1: together a basket of first round draft picks and said, listen,
- 5:51Speaker 1: this guy blows so much. We're gonna give you multiple
- 5:55Speaker 1: first round picks to get take Jared Goff place. We
- 5:58Speaker 1: don't want to be haunted by the day means of
- 6:00Speaker 1: Jared Goff, and the Lions took him. Suckers, suckers, you
- 6:06Speaker 1: took Jared Goff. Aaa, he stinks. I'm not This is
- 6:11Speaker 1: a He's a little bit better than Sam Donald, who
- 6:13Speaker 1: also blows where all those Seahawks fans by the way,
- 6:15Speaker 1: where you're at.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Haha, he sucks anyway.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Listen, Jared Goff completed less than forty percent of his
- 6:23Speaker 1: passes in this game. He had one touchdown and one
- 6:27Speaker 1: interception and twenty six. I went back in, I count
- 6:31Speaker 1: twenty six negative plays for Jared Goff. Twenty six. That's
- 6:37Speaker 1: not a quarterback. Okay, that is a weather report gone wrong,
- 6:41Speaker 1: which is often the case when you watch Jared Goff play.
- 6:45Speaker 1: It's not one bit surprising if you happen to watch
- 6:47Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny on the YouTube. This last episode,
- 6:50Speaker 1: we broke down the Lions game and on that TV
- 6:54Speaker 1: slash YouTube show we talked about we talked about this
- 6:57Speaker 1: and the issues that Jared Goff has. When the it's
- 7:00Speaker 1: not some kind of secret. I'm not giving inside information here.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Anyone working, working brain knows this. When the thermist that
- 7:08Speaker 1: I mean tid works, When the thermist that drops before
- 7:12Speaker 1: what's called California comfortable anything below sixty degrees California comfortable
- 7:19Speaker 1: anying below that, you give this guy forty degree weather
- 7:22Speaker 1: and win like they had in Philadelphia at the start
- 7:25Speaker 1: of the game and got colder as the night when
- 7:27Speaker 1: I was like forty five degrees. Suddenly the software crashes.
- 7:32Speaker 1: It just crashes. He starts buffering. He needs an update.
- 7:35Speaker 1: There's a glitch, the thing of a jig's not working.
- 7:37Speaker 1: The watch, you might call it.
- 7:38Speaker 3: You can't fix it.
- 7:40Speaker 1: Watching Jared Golf play in cold weather is like watching
- 7:44Speaker 1: a preview of a horror movie. You know there's gonna
- 7:48Speaker 1: be some kind of jump scare somewhere in there. You're
- 7:50Speaker 1: not sure exactly where it's going to be, but it's
- 7:52Speaker 1: gonna be in there.
- 7:52Speaker 3: It's coming.
- 7:53Speaker 1: And with Jared Goff, is it going to be I
- 7:56Speaker 1: don't know. Is it gonna be a fumble? Is it
- 7:58Speaker 1: gonna be the horrific inner? What is it going to be?
- 8:02Speaker 3: Right?
- 8:02Speaker 1: The sack, the ill time sack? Which one is going
- 8:05Speaker 1: to be? You know it's coming, It's coming. Attractions with
- 8:08Speaker 1: Jared Golf outdoors cold weather. I'm wasn't even that cold.
- 8:13Speaker 1: It's gonna get a lot worse, right, And here's the
- 8:17Speaker 1: lion's only hope. And they actually had this last year
- 8:19Speaker 1: and he still left it up. But the lion's only
- 8:22Speaker 1: hope is home field advantage and stay relatively healthy and
- 8:26Speaker 1: then do some kind of deep meditation, something.
- 8:31Speaker 3: Along those lines.
- 8:32Speaker 1: And if you do all that, you'll still probably end
- 8:35Speaker 1: up screwing this thing up. But if you go on
- 8:37Speaker 1: the road, forget about it. You know, imagine if the
- 8:39Speaker 1: Lions have to play on the road in the playoffs
- 8:41Speaker 1: in Philly or Detroit or Green Bay or somewhere like that.
- 8:44Speaker 3: Oh man, that's not gonna end.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Well, it's not anywhere outside where the breeze goes above
- 8:50Speaker 1: eight miles an hour. It's not going to be a
- 8:55Speaker 1: pleasant situation for the team that wears the Honolulu Blue.
- 8:58Speaker 1: There you can say it would be O v R over.
- 9:03Speaker 1: He just fizzles and shrivels, Jared Goff, and it just
- 9:07Speaker 1: you know it's gonna happen. Well, here's Jared Goff, in
- 9:10Speaker 1: his own words, the man that's stunk it up for
- 9:14Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions in golf. Here, let's jump the cut
- 9:18Speaker 1: two here pointing out that he did not get the
- 9:20Speaker 1: job done.
- 9:21Speaker 3: Take a list six and.
- 9:22Speaker 4: Four right in the middle of the season, got three
- 9:24Speaker 4: home games coming up, got a lot to look forward to,
- 9:26Speaker 4: got a lot of a lot of us. Ever, things
- 9:28Speaker 4: in front of us. We got a good veteran unit.
- 9:30Speaker 4: We respond the right way, we will respond the right way,
- 9:32Speaker 4: and yeah, it sucks as stings. You want to come
- 9:34Speaker 4: out here and play well. And he did a really
- 9:35Speaker 4: good team and be able to have, you know, a
- 9:37Speaker 4: kind of hallmark win of the middle of the season,
- 9:39Speaker 4: but didn't get a tone and got to move on
- 9:41Speaker 4: to find a way to win next week. We had
- 9:42Speaker 4: to do our job and try to score. Wow, we didn't.
- 9:44Speaker 4: He still goes horrible. It's worse. You know, our defense
- 9:47Speaker 4: plays well and feel like you let them down, and
- 9:49Speaker 4: you know, I know, I certainly do. And it sucks.
- 9:52Speaker 1: I think that might take the right I don't know.
- 9:54Speaker 1: That seemed like the record center for most cliche. That
- 9:57Speaker 1: was pretty good.
- 9:57Speaker 2: Here.
- 9:58Speaker 3: That's how long was that sound?
- 9:59Speaker 4: By?
- 9:59Speaker 1: What are we looking at you? Thirty seconds? Thirty seconds?
- 10:03Speaker 1: I wasn't counting at the beginning. I want to play
- 10:07Speaker 1: the cliche game. Do we have what do we have?
- 10:09Speaker 3: The standard? Do you give me some Scott pod Sednik
- 10:11Speaker 3: to get me in the mood? Here? This is the
- 10:13Speaker 3: all time king of the cliches. Here.
- 10:15Speaker 1: This is a guy used to be a baseball player. Well,
- 10:17Speaker 1: he guess a former baseball player played for the Dodgers
- 10:20Speaker 1: at the end of his career as long as a
- 10:21Speaker 1: White Sox. He was on the White Sox team that
- 10:22Speaker 1: won the World Series twenty years ago, and he played
- 10:25Speaker 1: for the He bounced around, played with the Mariners, play
- 10:28Speaker 1: with the Dodgers. Anyway, he was doing the Dodger post
- 10:30Speaker 1: game thing, and he gave us the gold standard for
- 10:32Speaker 1: most cliches.
- 10:33Speaker 3: Take a list, it's z it right here.
- 10:35Speaker 5: Well, they're all important. We got to win as many
- 10:37Speaker 5: as we can. A lot of baseball we played. Anything
- 10:40Speaker 5: can happen. Yeah, we're gonna come to the yard each and
- 10:42Speaker 5: every day, bottle each night and look up at the
- 10:44Speaker 5: end of see what we say, and we know our work.
- 10:46Speaker 3: Is cut out for us.
- 10:47Speaker 2: We got a lot of work to do.
- 10:48Speaker 5: Hopefully we can all come together, realize what we have
- 10:51Speaker 5: here and try to get something done.
- 10:52Speaker 3: That's the gold standard.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Let's hear now, we will juxtapose what you just heard,
- 10:57Speaker 1: and now we will do the count. Before we count, though,
- 11:00Speaker 1: Let's play a little game. You can play along as
- 11:03Speaker 1: well as you listen here and try to stay focused
- 11:05Speaker 1: on what you're doing. Let's try thirty second sound bite.
- 11:08Speaker 1: Let's try to guess how many cliches Jared Goff worked
- 11:10Speaker 1: into a thirty second SoundBite. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna
- 11:15Speaker 1: go fourteen.
- 11:16Speaker 3: I'm gonna go fourteen. Anyone else went in on this
- 11:18Speaker 3: a lot? That is a lot.
- 11:19Speaker 6: I'll go half of you.
- 11:20Speaker 3: Half to seven.
- 11:21Speaker 1: Oh, it's more than seven. It's gotta be more than seven.
- 11:23Speaker 1: All right, cool for a thirty second SoundBite. And he
- 11:27Speaker 1: doubled up on some, but we're gonna count those.
- 11:29Speaker 7: So I think he's closer to Loraina. I think there
- 11:33Speaker 7: was a lot of talking with them out without saying much.
- 11:36Speaker 3: So okay, all right, I don't know. All right, here
- 11:39Speaker 3: we go.
- 11:39Speaker 1: We're playing the Jared Goff cliche game. This is the
- 11:42Speaker 1: suck bag quarterback of your Detroit Lions. Let's go to
- 11:45Speaker 1: the audio tape. Here we go, play.
- 11:46Speaker 4: Again, six and four, right in the middle of the season.
- 11:48Speaker 4: Got three home games coming up, got a lot to
- 11:50Speaker 4: look forward to, got a lot of football ahead of us.
- 11:52Speaker 4: Everything's in front of us. We got a good veteran unit.
- 11:55Speaker 4: We respond the right way, we say spawn the right way,
- 11:57Speaker 4: and yeah, it sucks his things. You can come out
- 11:59Speaker 4: here and play well. And he did a really good
- 12:01Speaker 4: team and be able to have, you know, kind of
- 12:02Speaker 4: hallmark win of the middle of the season, but didn't
- 12:04Speaker 4: get it down and got to move on final way
- 12:06Speaker 4: to win next week. We had to do our job
- 12:08Speaker 4: and try to four points and we didn't it. It
- 12:09Speaker 4: feels horrible.
- 12:10Speaker 3: It's there, it's worse.
- 12:11Speaker 4: You know, our defense plays well and feel like you
- 12:13Speaker 4: let them down, and you know, I know I certainly
- 12:15Speaker 4: do and it sucks.
- 12:17Speaker 1: I think that's I think I had thirteen. I counted thirteen.
- 12:21Speaker 1: He was like he was at seven. I feel like
- 12:23Speaker 1: he was at seven in like twelve seconds.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Yes, it was. It was. It was a rapid fire
- 12:29Speaker 3: playing a guy. Play the guys playing the guy.
- 12:32Speaker 4: Okay, six and four right in the middle of the season,
- 12:34Speaker 4: got three home games coming up, got a lot.
- 12:37Speaker 6: We're right there.
- 12:38Speaker 3: We got home games. We got home games coming up.
- 12:40Speaker 4: All that.
- 12:43Speaker 6: D that's not a cliche.
- 12:45Speaker 1: You don't win all your home games. It's a cliche.
- 12:49Speaker 1: It's laziness, is what it is. Plan a guy, Gladdy guy.
- 12:52Speaker 4: Four, right in the middle of the season, got three
- 12:54Speaker 4: home games coming up.
- 12:55Speaker 3: Got a lot to look forward to, to look forward
- 12:56Speaker 3: by a lout of us.
- 12:57Speaker 4: Everything's in front of us. We got a good vetters unit,
- 13:00Speaker 4: were respond me south, not here and play well. And
- 13:05Speaker 4: he did a really good team.
- 13:07Speaker 1: Okay, he's empty. The man's got no soul. There's Jared Goff.
- 13:10Speaker 1: I can't wait till his cheesy radio show in Detroit.
- 13:12Speaker 1: I'm sure that'll be amazing anyway, all right, now move
- 13:15Speaker 1: turn the page. The other issue, the will the beast
- 13:19Speaker 1: in the room, if you will, for the Detroit Lions.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Here the Lions who entered the game averaging thirty one
- 13:24Speaker 1: point four points per game. Of course, that was mostly
- 13:28Speaker 1: in domes and against bad opponents.
- 13:30Speaker 3: They turned the ball over five times on downs.
- 13:34Speaker 1: They didn't punt the ball away, they didn't they didn't
- 13:37Speaker 1: throw interceptions and fumble. They turned it over on downs. Okay,
- 13:43Speaker 1: which is not ideal.
- 13:45Speaker 6: Was not their.
- 13:46Speaker 3: Record, but it was close to the record.
- 13:48Speaker 1: And so that's where we are here is let's hear
- 13:51Speaker 1: from Jared GoF This is a cut one on Jared Goff.
- 13:53Speaker 1: Here's Jared Goff on the fourth quarter or the fourth
- 13:56Speaker 1: down players.
- 13:58Speaker 3: What do you have to say?
- 13:59Speaker 4: I don't think it's any thing to do with him
- 14:00Speaker 4: and I. I think there was just tight coverage and
- 14:04Speaker 4: just didn't connect. There's a few I'd like to have
- 14:06Speaker 4: back that I that I just missed on slight miscommunication
- 14:09Speaker 4: on our end on one or two of them, maybe,
- 14:12Speaker 4: but it should never be that bad. It really shouldn't.
- 14:15Speaker 4: It wasn't good enough.
- 14:16Speaker 1: Okay, And now here's Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell just in general,
- 14:21Speaker 1: forget just the fourth days, but here's Dan Campbell pointing
- 14:24Speaker 1: out that, well, this did not go as planned.
- 14:27Speaker 8: We were just a little off. I mean, it really
- 14:29Speaker 8: was kind of one of those days. I hate saying that,
- 14:31Speaker 8: but it was just a little bit of one of
- 14:32Speaker 8: those days. And Golf and Saint Brown don't connect more
- 14:37Speaker 8: than that. You know, that's just a rare thing because
- 14:40Speaker 8: those guys, those guys have such a good connection. But
- 14:43Speaker 8: you know, there again, man, we're all involved in this.
- 14:45Speaker 8: We all got hand in it for me, the coaches,
- 14:49Speaker 8: all of us. Man, everybody that's part of this offense.
- 14:52Speaker 8: You know, we got to be better, especially in a
- 14:53Speaker 8: day like today when you're playing that kind of defense,
- 14:56Speaker 8: that kind of team.
- 14:57Speaker 3: Yeah. So that Dan Campbell took over as the play caller.
- 14:59Speaker 1: Continue that. So the question, let's just focus in on
- 15:02Speaker 1: the fourth down. I will focus in on the fourth down.
- 15:05Speaker 1: So why does Dan Campbell continue to be a unhinged
- 15:10Speaker 1: daredevil on fourth down? So the obvious answer is because
- 15:14Speaker 1: this is who he is, this is who he has become.
- 15:17Speaker 1: He loves punk rock. He's a big fan of punk rock.
- 15:20Speaker 1: Dan Campbell his favorite band all time is Bad Religion.
- 15:23Speaker 1: Big fan of Bad Religion. And this is nerd approved.
- 15:26Speaker 1: I can't think of a more meat head coach than
- 15:29Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, and.
- 15:30Speaker 3: I like the guy. I don't hate Dan Campbell. The
- 15:31Speaker 3: guy's a meathead. The guy's an absolute meathead. I don't
- 15:35Speaker 3: have a problem with it.
- 15:36Speaker 1: But some nerds said, okay, go for it on fourth down,
- 15:38Speaker 1: and Dan Campbell's like okay. So he grunted like the
- 15:41Speaker 1: caveman and said, okay, I'll just go for it on
- 15:43Speaker 1: fourth down every single time. No logic, no rhyme, no reason.
- 15:47Speaker 1: I'll just keep going for it on fourth out over
- 15:49Speaker 1: and over and over and over, and it gets approved
- 15:51Speaker 1: and the geeks like it and the smart people like it.
- 15:54Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep doing it. I can't stop. Dan Campbell
- 15:58Speaker 1: wakes up every morning, all right, every morning, and he
- 16:02Speaker 1: pounds a coffee the size of a fire extinguisher and
- 16:05Speaker 1: then whispers to himself.
- 16:07Speaker 3: Live by the sword, Die by the sword, and Sunday Night,
- 16:11Speaker 3: if you watch the game.
- 16:12Speaker 1: That was a bloody crime scene, very violent death for
- 16:15Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, zero for five on fourth down, a
- 16:18Speaker 1: lot of stuff spilled everywhere. And as a result, because
- 16:22Speaker 1: of this, the Detroit Lions find themselves in the eighth
- 16:26Speaker 1: spot in the NFC. You want to take a guess
- 16:28Speaker 1: how many teams make the playoffs in the NFC.
- 16:31Speaker 3: In ain't eight.
- 16:32Speaker 1: Right now, the Detroit Lions are a non playoff team.
- 16:36Speaker 3: Let me repeat that for those of you in the
- 16:38Speaker 3: back round. The Lions are not a playoff team at
- 16:40Speaker 3: this point. They're out. They're out of the playoffs. Seven
- 16:44Speaker 3: in their number eight.
- 16:46Speaker 1: That's your twenty twenty five Detroit Lions six and four
- 16:49Speaker 1: and watching from the kids table when the playoffs start
- 16:53Speaker 1: if the Lions do not pick things up. Here Dan Campbell,
- 16:56Speaker 1: he coaches like every game is a bar fight at
- 16:59Speaker 1: a awful house at two point thirty in the morning.
- 17:03Speaker 1: And look when it works, and it has worked a
- 17:06Speaker 1: lot the last couple of years.
- 17:07Speaker 3: Of the lines.
- 17:08Speaker 1: He's the folk hero, he's the macho man, Dan Hampbell,
- 17:11Speaker 1: biting kneecaps and all that stuff and lifting weight, you know,
- 17:16Speaker 1: weight up, and like he's like a Superheroick picking a
- 17:18Speaker 1: school bus up off of somebody that fell on top
- 17:21Speaker 1: of He's just that's who he is. But when it doesn't,
- 17:24Speaker 1: it becomes biblical, and not in a good way. Right,
- 17:27Speaker 1: the Lord giveth, the Lord take it away for the
- 17:29Speaker 1: Detroit Lions here and on Sunday night, he took it.
- 17:31Speaker 3: Away hard, hard, hard heart.
- 17:32Speaker 1: And the best part I love the shots of Dan
- 17:35Speaker 1: Campbell when he seems genuinely shocked that that fourth down
- 17:38Speaker 1: play didn't happen, Like it didn't work. Oh my god,
- 17:40Speaker 1: I can't believe it didn't happen. It's amazing. What is
- 17:43Speaker 1: up with that?
- 17:44Speaker 3: All right? Last word?
- 17:45Speaker 1: We go now to the Philadelphia side of things, where
- 17:49Speaker 1: the Eagles win without any style points. What is here's
- 17:54Speaker 1: the question, what is the most puzzling thing about the
- 17:57Speaker 1: Eagles offense under Jalen Hurts? A super Bowl winning quarterback?
- 18:03Speaker 1: You could never criticize Jalen Hurts?
- 18:05Speaker 3: What to bet? Stay tuned?
- 18:07Speaker 1: All right, So what is the most puzzling thing about
- 18:09Speaker 1: the Eagles offense with Jalen Hurts? How about everything with
- 18:12Speaker 1: the capitally, everything with the capital It's like Tom Hanks
- 18:17Speaker 1: line from Forrest Gump Life and the Eagles offense like
- 18:20Speaker 1: a box of chocolate. You never know what you're gonna get.
- 18:23Speaker 3: You just don't. And the Eagles they.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Seem fine to the low information fan. Everything's great, all right,
- 18:30Speaker 1: and it's working right now. They're eight and two. They're
- 18:32Speaker 1: on top of the NFC because of the tiebreaker, the
- 18:36Speaker 1: blocked field goal by the Eagles against the Rams. They
- 18:39Speaker 1: own the tiebreaker with the Rams, who beat a bad
- 18:43Speaker 1: Seattle Sam.
- 18:44Speaker 3: Dartle in that game. More than that later, But the
- 18:46Speaker 3: Eagles are in the presidential suite right now. They are.
- 18:48Speaker 1: They've got the room service going, they got the maid
- 18:51Speaker 1: service they've got to turn down.
- 18:52Speaker 3: So they got everything you need all right there.
- 18:54Speaker 1: All while they're quarterback Jalen Hurts is delivering the minimum
- 18:59Speaker 1: viable effort, do the bare minute. I say, you might
- 19:02Speaker 1: as well work at the DMV watching him to play quarterback.
- 19:05Speaker 3: My god, what happened? Where's the vertical passing game? Where
- 19:09Speaker 3: did he go? Where was it? Ever?
- 19:11Speaker 1: I thought that was a superstar quarterback. You told me
- 19:13Speaker 1: all Jalen Hursts needed to win the super Bowl. Superstar
- 19:16Speaker 1: quarterback boom done. Okay, won the Super Bowl, and this
- 19:18Speaker 1: is what you get. That's a super Bowl winning quarterback. There,
- 19:22Speaker 1: I thought offensive player of the year, that kind of guy.
- 19:24Speaker 1: Where's that guy? You want checkdowns, He'll give you a checkdown.
- 19:28Speaker 1: A lot of checkdown misthrows. Who sailing over the head
- 19:32Speaker 1: or bouncing on the ground avoiding risk like it's gluten.
- 19:36Speaker 1: There's a lot of that. That seems to be the
- 19:37Speaker 1: biggest issue. That Jalen Hurst is afraid to throw balls
- 19:41Speaker 1: into tight windows because he's gonna get picked off, and
- 19:43Speaker 1: so rather he'll check it down. And the result is
- 19:45Speaker 1: you score less than fourteen points most games. And so
- 19:49Speaker 1: that's your franchise quarterback. And you look at the play mixer,
- 19:52Speaker 1: it was squamp Barkley and the background in the background
- 19:54Speaker 1: and backfield rather but aj Brown think at these guys
- 19:58Speaker 1: they have on offense in Philadelphia, and it's like watching
- 20:01Speaker 1: someone drive a Nascar in the right lane going forty
- 20:04Speaker 1: eight miles an hour. Well, no, the goal is not
- 20:06Speaker 1: to go forty eight miles an hour in the right lane. No, no,
- 20:09Speaker 1: You've got to do something more than that. That's not good.
- 20:11Speaker 1: And Philly, listen, they keep humming along, right, they keep
- 20:13Speaker 1: humming along. Everything's great here.
- 20:15Speaker 3: They win.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Ugly builds, character builds great. They win sloppy games, and
- 20:19Speaker 1: they win in the mud. Of course, there's no mud
- 20:22Speaker 1: on these games, most of these fields, because they're all
- 20:24Speaker 1: field turf.
- 20:24Speaker 3: But they win ugly. They win ugly.
- 20:27Speaker 1: And the Eagles offense really the football version of a
- 20:32Speaker 1: student that didn't study the night before an exam and
- 20:35Speaker 1: then rolls in there bleary eyed, hungry, thirsty, and they
- 20:42Speaker 1: get it done. They get it done and somehow get
- 20:44Speaker 1: an anus That just seems to work out for them.
- 20:47Speaker 1: I don't know how they do it. The defense in
- 20:49Speaker 1: this case is bailing out. The last couple of games,
- 20:51Speaker 1: the Eagles defense is absolute, build them out against Green
- 20:54Speaker 1: Bay and now this week here, this is another island
- 20:56Speaker 1: game against.
- 20:57Speaker 3: The Detroit Lions.
- 20:59Speaker 1: The run game does dust enough with Barkley just enough,
- 21:02Speaker 1: and Hurts just does the bare minimum not to lose.
- 21:06Speaker 1: And that's the recipe right now for the Philadelphia Eagles.
- 21:09Speaker 1: It shouldn't work, but it does work.
- 21:12Speaker 3: It is working.
- 21:12Speaker 1: And that's the paradox with the Eagles, because Mark my Worth,
- 21:16Speaker 1: you look at that puzzle, he said, well, the puzzle's working.
- 21:19Speaker 1: I can hear Fats and Philly and Jonathan and Delaware
- 21:22Speaker 1: and those guys and Fry Daddy o all our Eagle fans,
- 21:25Speaker 1: they oh, it's working.
- 21:26Speaker 3: You those aret, you, those are Mallard's working. Okay, okay,
- 21:30Speaker 3: all right, for now, for now, sooner.
- 21:34Speaker 1: Or later, sooner or later. It catches up to you.
- 21:37Speaker 1: It always does. It always catches up to you.
- 21:39Speaker 2: For now.
- 21:39Speaker 3: It's clicking. It's not sustainable, it's.
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- 22:55Speaker 3: Now.
- 22:55Speaker 1: That is the Sam Darnold we all know and love.
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- 24:26Speaker 1: is from the showdown in Inglewood, in the Hood and
- 24:32Speaker 1: up to No Good so far NFC West matchup Battle
- 24:38Speaker 1: Royale Battle Royale NFC West. He had Sam Darnold leading
- 24:43Speaker 1: the Seattle football team into SoCal for a playdate against
- 24:48Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and the La Rams.
- 24:51Speaker 3: Did you watch?
- 24:52Speaker 1: For some reason this was not America's Game of the Week.
- 24:56Speaker 1: I guess that's because CBS had the exclusive window, or
- 25:00Speaker 1: not the fully exclusive window. But they had Romo and
- 25:03Speaker 1: Nance doing the Chiefs Broncos game. But Tom Brady was
- 25:06Speaker 1: calling with Burkhart. They were calling the game in Minnesota,
- 25:11Speaker 1: Bears and Vikings. This is a much bigger matchup, much
- 25:14Speaker 1: bigger matchup, and if you didn't watch it, well, you
- 25:18Speaker 1: missed a turnover Paloosa as Cameron Kinchins had not one,
- 25:23Speaker 1: but two two interceptions. The Rams had four interceptions as
- 25:28Speaker 1: a team, and Cam leading the way there. Matthew Stafford
- 25:32Speaker 1: did not play particularly great, but he had a pair
- 25:35Speaker 1: of touchdown passes and the Rams held on. They beat
- 25:40Speaker 1: an overrated Seattle team twenty one to nineteen, five consecutive
- 25:44Speaker 1: wins for the Rams, five wins in a row, and
- 25:47Speaker 1: Jason Myers, Jason Myers had a chance at the end
- 25:51Speaker 1: there to play hero the idiot kicker. It was a
- 25:55Speaker 1: sixty one yard field goal attempt to win the game.
- 25:59Speaker 1: And how did that go? Yeah, just a little bit
- 26:02Speaker 1: wide right, and the Rams get to eight and two
- 26:07Speaker 1: and they are tied. They lose the tiebreaker to Philadelphia
- 26:10Speaker 1: for the top record in the NFC, but they survived
- 26:14Speaker 1: the Seahawks' futile efforts to come back and win this game.
- 26:18Speaker 1: As Sam Donald was the problem, he was the problem.
- 26:22Speaker 1: And that is a good jumping off point. So let
- 26:25Speaker 1: us discuss the question how concerned, how concerned should the
- 26:30Speaker 1: Seahawks be with Sam Donald and his performance against the Rams.
- 26:35Speaker 1: So I've got goodyear, blimp funions and dental floss, and
- 26:40Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
- 26:43Speaker 1: are going to make the Baba ganoosh. The Baba ganoosh
- 26:46Speaker 1: would have done a better job than Sam Darnald. Do
- 26:48Speaker 1: you understand that if you would put a plate of
- 26:50Speaker 1: baba ganoush out there, it would have done better the
- 26:53Speaker 1: egg plant and all that than Sam donals so.
- 26:55Speaker 3: Number number the beat it witting me.
- 27:00Speaker 1: Now, this is who Sam Donald is. This that's right,
- 27:06Speaker 1: all right, this is the Sam Donald experience trademarked right there.
- 27:09Speaker 3: That's it.
- 27:11Speaker 1: And f O LWSD The facts of life with Sam Donald.
- 27:17Speaker 1: The facts of life with Sam Donald. You take the good,
- 27:21Speaker 1: you take the bad, you take them both, and there
- 27:23Speaker 1: you have the facts of life with Sam Donald. And
- 27:27Speaker 1: the bad is when he's playing a good team. That's
- 27:30Speaker 1: the bad, right, that's the bad. And man alive. What
- 27:35Speaker 1: a stumblebum? What an absolute stumblebum? Panic froze by Sam Donald?
- 27:41Speaker 1: And it's the oh my god, don't do that while
- 27:46Speaker 1: you're watching do what're you doing.
- 27:48Speaker 3: Why would you do that? By God? Bite jump by you.
- 27:51Speaker 1: The Seahawks didn't lose this particular game, they got a reminder.
- 27:57Speaker 1: It's a nice reminder that their quarterback. It's kind of
- 28:01Speaker 1: like we used to have this guy, Butch auto Bon
- 28:03Speaker 1: Butch called.
- 28:04Speaker 3: Us from Germany. He's not back in the States, so
- 28:06Speaker 3: I guess he doesn't need our show anymore. But he
- 28:08Speaker 3: used to call us up from Germany, auto Bon Butch.
- 28:11Speaker 3: It would be like going on.
- 28:12Speaker 1: The autobon in Germany on an e bike and saying, okay,
- 28:16Speaker 1: that's Sam Donald is your quarterback. When you're going against
- 28:19Speaker 1: a good team. With Sam Donald, you're trying to win
- 28:22Speaker 1: and trying trying to just keep up with traffic on the.
- 28:24Speaker 3: Autobon on your e bike. Good luck, you know.
- 28:29Speaker 1: The the Rams defensively, they weren't perfect in this game,
- 28:33Speaker 1: but Sam Donald certainly helped them out a lot with
- 28:35Speaker 1: those four interceptions. Donald helping getting Cameron Kinchins a new contract.
- 28:42Speaker 1: There look like Ed Reid out there playing for the Rams.
- 28:45Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, He's not that good yet. The Rams who
- 28:49Speaker 1: were plumped for the taking, right, the Rams were plumped
- 28:52Speaker 1: for the taking, and Seattle could not take advantage because
- 28:55Speaker 1: they have an inferior quarterback and his game. Sam watching
- 29:00Speaker 1: this guy play his game is the Goodyear Blimp. It's
- 29:05Speaker 1: a message on the Goodyear Blimp, and it says, Sam Darnald,
- 29:09Speaker 1: you're not that guy. Pal, You're not that guy. Sam Donald,
- 29:13Speaker 1: You're not that guy. Pal, You're not that guy. Right now,
- 29:17Speaker 1: he is this guy. He's the guy that went out
- 29:19Speaker 1: there and would puke call over himself.
- 29:21Speaker 3: He's the dude.
- 29:22Speaker 1: Sam's the guy that you call when the restaurant host says,
- 29:26Speaker 1: we don't have any more tables. We have no more tables,
- 29:30Speaker 1: but we can squeeze you in at the bar. Okay, nice,
- 29:34Speaker 1: serviceable against weak opponents, elite no. And this is the
- 29:41Speaker 1: same issue. We're watching a deja vu situation. We saw
- 29:45Speaker 1: this last year in Minnesota where the Vikings got some
- 29:49Speaker 1: solid play out of Sam Donald and dumb people said,
- 29:52Speaker 1: there's the real Sam Donald. And then at the end
- 29:55Speaker 1: against the Lions and against the Rams, he rode the
- 29:57Speaker 1: vomit comet and that was turned out to be the
- 30:00Speaker 1: real Sam Donald. And so in the big moment in
- 30:03Speaker 1: the pressure cooker, he's Omega Man, not Alpha, not Alpha,
- 30:09Speaker 1: He's Omega Man. When the pressure ramps up, and it's
- 30:14Speaker 1: time to get it done. Gotta get her done, get it,
- 30:16Speaker 1: get her done. There's been the The argument has been
- 30:20Speaker 1: made over there is that the great quarterbacks, when the pressure's.
- 30:24Speaker 3: On, they make diamonds, right, they make diamonds.
- 30:27Speaker 1: When you're a great quarterback, Sam Donald, when the pressure's on,
- 30:31Speaker 1: he makes dirt. Okay, compost yard waste. That is what
- 30:36Speaker 1: Sam Donald does. Seattle should be very concerned. I all
- 30:39Speaker 1: you guys are putting up, putting off the oh, and
- 30:41Speaker 1: everything's gonna be fine. Don't worry about it. We're we
- 30:44Speaker 1: just got a few things to clean up. No, no, this
- 30:45Speaker 1: is not a little clean up. This is not a
- 30:47Speaker 1: spill on an aisle three where supermarket Steve comes over there. No,
- 30:52Speaker 1: this is more than just a minor situation. This is
- 30:56Speaker 1: what's known as an underlying condition, meaning we've already seen this.
- 31:01Speaker 1: We've seen this exact same thing. There's a hidden leak
- 31:04Speaker 1: in the ceiling. Drip drip drip, drip, drip drip, and
- 31:08Speaker 1: you kind of ignore it, and then suddenly your living
- 31:11Speaker 1: room collapses into the basement because you were not paying attention.
- 31:15Speaker 1: It's a bad job by you. The rams scored fourteen
- 31:18Speaker 1: of their twenty one points because of gifts from Sam Donald.
- 31:24Speaker 1: Sam Donald helped the Rams offense score fourteen of their
- 31:26Speaker 1: twenty one points. You cannot have a team fighting and
- 31:31Speaker 1: clawing and playing pretty good on defense and then have
- 31:35Speaker 1: your quarterback turn into a pinata. Every time the malma
- 31:40Speaker 1: gets too big, everyone gets a hit. He just kind
- 31:42Speaker 1: of crumbles down.
- 31:43Speaker 3: Now, is it true? Is it true?
- 31:47Speaker 1: The Seahawks quarterback plan is a house of cards, a
- 31:51Speaker 1: house of cards one thousand percent. And it doesn't matter
- 31:55Speaker 1: how many regular season wins the Seahawks pile up. And
- 31:57Speaker 1: I don't doubt they'll bounce back and win a few
- 31:59Speaker 1: games here in row and add up the wind total
- 32:02Speaker 1: Seattle's ceiling. When you look at the ceiling for Seattle
- 32:06Speaker 1: this year, it is not determined by the roster. It's
- 32:10Speaker 1: not determined by the coaching staff. It's determined by Sam Darnald.
- 32:14Speaker 1: Like the defense is great, it doesn't matter. Right, they've
- 32:17Speaker 1: got Jackson Smith and Jigba and some other weapons on offense,
- 32:21Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. That is a low ceiling. When you
- 32:25Speaker 1: got Sam Donald, that is a low ceiling. And I laugh,
- 32:29Speaker 1: and I am saving all these quotes that it's gonna
- 32:32Speaker 1: be different this time. We love Sam, He's great, all
- 32:35Speaker 1: that nonsense, because I know how this works out. I've
- 32:38Speaker 1: seen this before. It'll happen again. I know exactly how
- 32:42Speaker 1: it works. Now here's Sam.
- 32:43Speaker 3: Donald, who threw not one, not two, not.
- 32:45Speaker 1: Three, but four interceptions. What do you having to say
- 32:48Speaker 1: for yourself, Sam Donald?
- 32:49Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean they do a good job of disguising.
- 32:53Speaker 11: I feel like, you know, a lot of defenses do
- 32:56Speaker 11: the same thing. I feel like, yeah, they're you know,
- 32:58Speaker 11: their past rush, their linebacker, their safety, just being all
- 33:01Speaker 11: on the same page and playing really good football.
- 33:04Speaker 6: They do it at a high level.
- 33:05Speaker 4: They seem like.
- 33:05Speaker 11: Really smart players. So but again, I just you know,
- 33:08Speaker 11: those are self inflicted ones. Turn the ball over like that,
- 33:11Speaker 11: and sometimes you know it's better just to try to
- 33:14Speaker 11: throw the ball away or even take a sack when
- 33:16Speaker 11: nothing's there.
- 33:17Speaker 1: The problem is that people tell Sam Darnold he just
- 33:20Speaker 1: throw the ball away.
- 33:21Speaker 3: Yeah, what happens.
- 33:24Speaker 1: Muscle memory. Muscle memory when the pressure's on, that's what
- 33:28Speaker 1: he does. He doesn't listen to the other voices in
- 33:32Speaker 1: his head. He just that's his natural reaction is to
- 33:35Speaker 1: chuck it, chuck it and duck it, and that's that's
- 33:38Speaker 1: how he operates. Now on the other side, on the
- 33:40Speaker 1: Rams side, you can ram it all day, you can
- 33:41Speaker 1: ram it all night. Matthew Stafford, he made some comments
- 33:45Speaker 1: after the game. He said that winning this close game,
- 33:48Speaker 1: I was asked about winning against Seattle close game like that,
- 33:50Speaker 1: he said, quote, we did just enough was his quote
- 33:54Speaker 1: to Pam Oliver after the game.
- 33:55Speaker 3: So the question what does this win.
- 33:58Speaker 1: Do for Sean McVeigh l Rams, Well, it keeps them
- 34:04Speaker 1: bird dogging the Philadelphia Egles, that's the obvious thing. And
- 34:07Speaker 1: it's really mission accomplished for the Rams. Here. The Rams
- 34:10Speaker 1: basically played the Seahawks in a rock fight in Sofi
- 34:14Speaker 1: in the loading dock underneath the stadium, and it wasn't
- 34:18Speaker 1: the greatest show on turf two point zero for the
- 34:21Speaker 1: La Rams offense, this was try not to puke and
- 34:25Speaker 1: hope that Sam Donald gives you the game, and he
- 34:28Speaker 1: did he did. I don't really think very kind of Sam.
- 34:31Speaker 1: Sam's a socow guy. I went to San Clemente High School.
- 34:34Speaker 3: Back in the day. So I want to thank Sam
- 34:36Speaker 3: Donald for giving back to the Rams. Good job by you.
- 34:39Speaker 3: It worked.
- 34:40Speaker 1: The Rams plan of just waiting around for Sam Donald
- 34:43Speaker 1: to give the game away was great. The Rams much
- 34:46Speaker 1: bally Hood offense didn't do much anything. Stafford had just
- 34:51Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty yards passing. That's about a quarter
- 34:54Speaker 1: for him. It seems like in some of these games recently,
- 34:58Speaker 1: and the Rams as a team finished with they finished
- 35:00Speaker 1: with two hundred and forty nine yards of offense, and
- 35:04Speaker 1: he said, well, that's not good. Well it's not good.
- 35:06Speaker 1: That's like Jeff Fisher's back coaching the offense for the Rams.
- 35:08Speaker 1: It's like Jeff Fisher cosplay watching that offense and still
- 35:11Speaker 1: they won.
- 35:12Speaker 3: Now why do they win?
- 35:13Speaker 1: Because that's how bad Sam Donald is. He's basically a
- 35:18Speaker 1: mind sweeper who's blindfolded. That is what Sam Donald is
- 35:22Speaker 1: in these big games. It's like trying to clean up
- 35:24Speaker 1: the mine. You got the mines there, but you're gonna
- 35:28Speaker 1: wear a blindfold. Okay, good luck, good luck on that.
- 35:31Speaker 1: Now turning this into a defensive statement for the Rams
- 35:36Speaker 1: and McVeigh kind of takes a back seat on this.
- 35:39Speaker 1: This was defensive coordinator Chris Schuler. When you look at
- 35:44Speaker 1: the next round of coaching hires another NEPO baby, Chris Shula,
- 35:50Speaker 1: and he's saved the Rams Bacon, although I think I
- 35:53Speaker 1: could have run the defense with the way Sam Donald.
- 35:55Speaker 3: Played and it would have been fine.
- 35:57Speaker 1: Eight passes defended against Sam Donald by the Rams defense.
- 36:01Speaker 1: They baited Donald like they were dangling funions over a
- 36:06Speaker 1: raccoon trap. And Sam Donald turns out likes funions and
- 36:10Speaker 1: he kept biting. Nineteen negative plays for Sam Donald nineteen.
- 36:16Speaker 1: Now Stafford had thirteen, but that plus six for the
- 36:19Speaker 1: Rams turned out to be the difference in this game,
- 36:21Speaker 1: and the Rams proving that you can win as a
- 36:25Speaker 1: two headed monster. They were the defensive side here, and
- 36:29Speaker 1: they won when the offensive side was asleep. Despite having
- 36:33Speaker 1: Puka Nicoua and DeVante Adams, who did score a touchdown there.
- 36:37Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford was pretty much bottled up. But it doesn't
- 36:40Speaker 1: matter the Rams. You want to play the Seattle every game.
- 36:43Speaker 1: As long as they're gonna start Sam Donald, you're in
- 36:45Speaker 1: good shape. You're gonna beat them nine out of ten times,
- 36:48Speaker 1: nine out of ten, you're gonna win with Sam Donald,
- 36:50Speaker 1: he sucks that much. And it really reinforces that the
- 36:54Speaker 1: Rams are are not just this offensive juggernut that they
- 36:58Speaker 1: can win. You know, they can win track meets and
- 37:00Speaker 1: they can also win these kind of games, which is
- 37:03Speaker 1: more of a slug sludge fest or used to be slugfest,
- 37:07Speaker 1: but it was like kind of a sludgy game. It
- 37:08Speaker 1: just was more importantly the stark reality is there and
- 37:12Speaker 1: I love again. I love that you are all ignoring it.
- 37:15Speaker 1: It makes me smile. I have a teshire cat smile.
- 37:19Speaker 1: I will get the last laugh and it is going
- 37:21Speaker 1: to be so great. Sam Donald is Sam Donald. There's
- 37:24Speaker 1: no other way to change it. He is just crap.
- 37:27Speaker 1: And you cannot out bad play. You cannot out bad
- 37:32Speaker 1: play your opponent every week and good luck so for
- 37:36Speaker 1: the Ramso it's an ugly win, right, great grown up
- 37:39Speaker 1: win all that stuff. Sean McVay did not out scheme
- 37:43Speaker 1: anyone with his offense, and he was just in the
- 37:46Speaker 1: right place. Since like somebody gives you a gift, you
- 37:48Speaker 1: accept the gift. It's kind of like when weed man
- 37:50Speaker 1: hippie's panhandling on the side of the road and somebody
- 37:53Speaker 1: gives you money.
- 37:53Speaker 3: You don't say I don't want the money. You take
- 37:55Speaker 3: the money. I'd say it, you take that. He took
- 37:57Speaker 3: the money.
- 37:58Speaker 1: That's all right. Now, final point. We head now to Madrid,
- 38:02Speaker 1: we go to Spain.
- 38:04Speaker 3: And what are we doing there?
- 38:06Speaker 1: So in Madrid the early game, this was an early
- 38:10Speaker 1: Island game, you had Jack Jones, Remember the guy that
- 38:14Speaker 1: brought guns to Logan Airport and got away with it. Yeah,
- 38:17Speaker 1: loaded guns because he Patriots made some phone calls allegedly. Anyway,
- 38:22Speaker 1: Jack Jones, who then was with the Raiders suck there.
- 38:26Speaker 1: So he's now in Miami, and he intercepted Marcus Mariota
- 38:31Speaker 1: on the first offensive play of overtime and that set
- 38:35Speaker 1: up Riley Patterson twenty nine yard field goal and the
- 38:42Speaker 1: Dolphins get a sixteen thirteen victory over the Washington Commanders.
- 38:46Speaker 1: Now after that pick, if you're watching the early feed,
- 38:51Speaker 1: the early feed, you had Jack Jones there doing a
- 38:54Speaker 1: celebration to try to try to bond with the people
- 38:57Speaker 1: of Madrid. And he stretches arm wide out there and
- 39:01Speaker 1: you know, twisting jump right in front of his teammates,
- 39:05Speaker 1: see of course, imitating Cristiano Ronaldo with the soccer stadium
- 39:11Speaker 1: where they were playing at. Miami's now won three of
- 39:13Speaker 1: four games, and that has led to some chatter about
- 39:17Speaker 1: what's going on there with the head coach? Is he
- 39:20Speaker 1: going to stick around? Here's Mike McDaniel, the head coach
- 39:23Speaker 1: of the Dolphins, on things looking up all of.
- 39:26Speaker 4: A sudden, very much needed.
- 39:28Speaker 12: I think we have some guys on schedule to potentially return,
- 39:34Speaker 12: and I think you build momentum into the bye week
- 39:37Speaker 12: and then you have some guys return, and I think
- 39:40Speaker 12: that momentum is felt throughout the team.
- 39:45Speaker 1: I'd fire him right now because momentum does not exist.
- 39:47Speaker 1: He's full of crap. But Miami has won three of
- 39:49Speaker 1: their last four. This comes a mid reports on the
- 39:53Speaker 1: pregame shows on Sunday that the Dolphins owners Steven Ross.
- 39:58Speaker 1: Steven Ross reported looking to try to find reasons to
- 40:02Speaker 1: keep Mike McDaniel, not reasons to get rid of Mike
- 40:07Speaker 1: McDaniel for the twenty twenty six NFL season. So the
- 40:11Speaker 1: question is in battled head coach Mike McDaniel saving his job,
- 40:18Speaker 1: saving his job with the Miami Dolphins. All right, So
- 40:23Speaker 1: I'm gonna go first. This is a tremendous overreaction, is
- 40:28Speaker 1: what this is. Mike McDaniel is not saving his job.
- 40:31Speaker 1: Let's slow down the parade. Okay, slow down, slow down
- 40:34Speaker 1: that pump the brakes, pump the break. This game means
- 40:37Speaker 1: absolutely nothing, nothing regarding the long term outlook for Mike
- 40:44Speaker 1: McDaniel and his job security, zero zilch, nada. And here's
- 40:49Speaker 1: why that makes money. Who are the Miami Dolphins. There
- 40:53Speaker 1: are a team that has beaten some bad opponents here
- 40:55Speaker 1: of late. That's it, all right, the Jets, the Falcon,
- 41:00Speaker 1: the commanders among the wins. And well what about the
- 41:02Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Buffalo's bipolar We all know it. The Buffalo Bills.
- 41:08Speaker 1: They run hot, they run cold. And the Dolphins are
- 41:12Speaker 1: still the same clown show they were we thought a couple.
- 41:16Speaker 3: Of weeks ago.
- 41:17Speaker 1: Three of those wins, three of the last four wins
- 41:20Speaker 1: have been against teams that will be picking in the
- 41:23Speaker 1: top ten. Now Atlanta will not be picking in the
- 41:26Speaker 1: top ten. As taptain Tommy knows, Tommy from Atlanta there,
- 41:30Speaker 1: he knows that the reason the Falcons will not be
- 41:34Speaker 1: picking in the top ten is because they traded their
- 41:36Speaker 1: pick to the Rams. But you're not exactly running the
- 41:38Speaker 1: gauntlet here. Congratulations, congratulations, you beat Marcus Mariota in overtime
- 41:44Speaker 1: in a neutral site game, and you had Rinaldo highlights.
- 41:50Speaker 3: I think most people thought Ronaldo might be playing.
- 41:51Speaker 1: The people that attended the game, they were not there
- 41:54Speaker 1: to see the Dolphin offense which underachieved against a terrible
- 41:58Speaker 1: Washington Commanders defense. This is not a resume builder. When
- 42:04Speaker 1: you go to express employment, you're not gonna put this
- 42:06Speaker 1: at the very top.
- 42:07Speaker 3: You're not in Miami.
- 42:08Speaker 1: They're four and seven now, there's still three games back
- 42:11Speaker 1: of a playoff spot after week eleven. I know there's
- 42:15Speaker 1: one game left in week eleven, but they're three games
- 42:18Speaker 1: back as we flip the page soon to week twelve,
- 42:21Speaker 1: and so you look around and the season is hanging
- 42:25Speaker 1: by dental flaws at this point, they're holding on. And
- 42:28Speaker 1: as for Stephen Ross looking for reasons to keep the
- 42:31Speaker 1: head coach around, that tells everything. That tells everything. That
- 42:35Speaker 1: does a tell What does it tell you? That means
- 42:37Speaker 1: that Stephen Ross has already determined that he's halfway out
- 42:42Speaker 1: the door when it comes to the head coach, that he's.
- 42:47Speaker 3: Just about done.
- 42:49Speaker 1: And if you look at it, you do inventory and say, Okay,
- 42:52Speaker 1: the Dolphins, it's the same thing we all see that
- 42:55Speaker 1: they're beating up a bunch of tomato cans here and
- 42:57Speaker 1: they fold up like pop ten. It's you know, there's
- 43:00Speaker 1: a chance to take the beach that pop up against
- 43:04Speaker 1: anyone with a pulse, and that's it. You don't save
- 43:07Speaker 1: your job by taking down the Washington Commanders and Marcus
- 43:13Speaker 1: Mariota or beating the Jets.
- 43:16Speaker 3: You don't.
- 43:16Speaker 1: You save your job by beating good teams and consistently
- 43:19Speaker 1: providing quality football and being relevant, legitimately relevant. In the
- 43:26Speaker 1: Thanksgiving period of time. We're only a couple weeks away
- 43:28Speaker 1: from things, even a littless than that now, and I
- 43:31Speaker 1: don't see it. I don't see them being relevant. They're
- 43:34Speaker 1: not a real threat. They're under five hundred by several games.
- 43:38Speaker 1: So if Miami convinces themselves that this little mini run
- 43:43Speaker 1: is proof of some kind of progress, they are out
- 43:46Speaker 1: of their bloody minds. They are out of their bloody minds.
- 43:49Speaker 1: This is not job saving football for Mike McDaniel. It's
- 43:54Speaker 1: window dressing. It's too little, too late. It's paint a
- 43:59Speaker 1: condemn building. It's still a condemned building. It just looks
- 44:03Speaker 1: a little bit better. And that is the truth.
- 44:06Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 44:08Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 44:12Speaker 3: It's maller, how about that?
- 44:14Speaker 2: To the third degree. This is one big Ben gets Gray.
- 44:20Speaker 3: I was gonna use with the Cardinals. By the way,
- 44:21Speaker 3: guys Coobolo Ben.
- 44:22Speaker 7: During the Sunday night game, we finally saw the refs
- 44:25Speaker 7: call some false dart penalties on the Eagles tush pushes. Yeah,
- 44:28Speaker 7: and we also saw the Lions stop a few of them.
- 44:31Speaker 7: Do you think we're going to start to see less
- 44:33Speaker 7: of these from the Eagles?
- 44:34Speaker 4: No?
- 44:35Speaker 3: I was confused.
- 44:36Speaker 1: Also the Eagles, there was a third and two I
- 44:39Speaker 1: think it was, and they decided to run a traditional
- 44:41Speaker 1: running play.
- 44:42Speaker 3: They did not. They did not run the toush bush.
- 44:44Speaker 9: No.
- 44:45Speaker 1: I would run it. I would run it now. The
- 44:47Speaker 1: other argument is they're sandbagging here so the numbers go down,
- 44:50Speaker 1: so that way they keep the toush push in. That's
- 44:53Speaker 1: the conspiracy theory. But if I'm the Eagles, I keep
- 44:55Speaker 1: running it.
- 44:55Speaker 3: This was an off night.
- 44:56Speaker 13: Next, Fernando Mendoza of Indiana I had a big night
- 45:01Speaker 13: over Wisconsin. He had twenty two or twenty four for
- 45:05Speaker 13: three hundred yards and four touchdowns a.
- 45:07Speaker 3: Day game, I believe. But yeah, yeah.
- 45:08Speaker 6: Did did he seal his heisman with that performance?
- 45:11Speaker 3: No, there's still I don't believe.
- 45:14Speaker 1: He's obviously near the top if you look at the
- 45:16Speaker 1: Heisman numbers and all that.
- 45:18Speaker 3: I'm not there yet.
- 45:19Speaker 1: I know there's only a few more weeks of the
- 45:20Speaker 1: college football season, which blows my mind that we're almost
- 45:23Speaker 1: at Thanksgiving. But I'm gonna say no, it's not over that.
- 45:27Speaker 1: The uh it's I feel like there's no one that's
- 45:30Speaker 1: got a choke hold on it.
- 45:31Speaker 3: I don't think he does. The quarterback from Ohio State.
- 45:34Speaker 1: I mean there's some there's some other actors at the
- 45:37Speaker 1: at the table here, but there there's no there's not
- 45:39Speaker 1: a dominant year for college football. Next.
- 45:42Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I'm gonna do an NBA question.
- 45:44Speaker 3: Oh, come on, hurry up.
- 45:45Speaker 7: The New Orleand Pelicans fired their coach after only twelve
- 45:47Speaker 7: games to the season.
- 45:48Speaker 3: Yeah, what's his name? Willie Green? Okay, never heard of.
- 45:52Speaker 6: Do you think do you think it was too early
- 45:53Speaker 6: to fire a coach?
- 45:55Speaker 1: Well, it's it's a It's essentially like taking a cup
- 45:58Speaker 1: of sand off the beach and saying, Okay, we've cleaned beaches.
- 46:00Speaker 3: Sam. I mean, they don't as they suck. They're gonna
- 46:02Speaker 3: suck whoever their coach is. It doesn't matter. How do
- 46:04Speaker 3: we do. Coople passes there. It is put it on
- 46:06Speaker 3: the board, run the game.
- 46:08Speaker 2: I've got the game.
- 46:09Speaker 3: He dog a dog.
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- 46:22Speaker 2: listen live.
- 46:25Speaker 3: Hey you sports figure, guy or girl? Who got here
- 46:28Speaker 3: with you talking to Son? Here some interesting advice?
- 46:32Speaker 6: Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
- 46:34Speaker 6: ten whole seconds.
- 46:35Speaker 3: And if you don't like it, you get away.
- 46:38Speaker 1: We go the insta advice line on Screen Radio.
- 46:43Speaker 3: Who needs our advice?
- 46:45Speaker 1: Why?
- 46:45Speaker 3: I think Sam Darnald needs our advice more than anybody
- 46:48Speaker 3: Sam Donald.
- 46:49Speaker 1: Every time this guy plays in a semi big game,
- 46:52Speaker 1: he vomits all over himself.
- 46:54Speaker 3: He rides the vomit comment.
- 46:55Speaker 1: So any advice to Sam Darnald who threw four interceptions
- 47:00Speaker 1: Seahawks quarterbacks Sam Donald four interceptions, So we're giving advice
- 47:05Speaker 1: to him eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. When
- 47:08Speaker 1: you hear my voice are live on the air eight
- 47:11Speaker 1: seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We'll start out with
- 47:13Speaker 1: you on line one. Advice to Sam Donald? Line one,
- 47:17Speaker 1: don't take draft.
- 47:18Speaker 2: Advice or mel kiper sr Door just proved he's a stupid.
- 47:21Speaker 3: All right, thank you for that. Yes, your next caller.
- 47:23Speaker 1: We're giving advice to Sam Darnald at eight seven seven
- 47:27Speaker 1: ninety nine on Fox on how not to suck?
- 47:30Speaker 2: Can you need to go back to bad news bears?
- 47:32Speaker 1: Screw on a hot fat probably.
- 47:33Speaker 5: Winning firt ball?
- 47:34Speaker 3: Yes, clearly. Line three, you're on the air. Line three,
- 47:37Speaker 3: we're giving advice to Sam Donald on how not to
- 47:41Speaker 3: suck in morning time?
- 47:43Speaker 4: Stop looking at clear day.
- 47:45Speaker 2: She changed her name the great Dane.
- 47:47Speaker 3: Okay, thank you for that's my Rick and Maryland.
- 47:49Speaker 11: There.
- 47:49Speaker 1: I recognized that voice and the famous catchphrase. Linees six,
- 47:52Speaker 1: you're on the air.
- 47:52Speaker 3: Hellout line six fifty five say a lot? Okay, thank you,
- 47:57Speaker 3: screw you a. Line one, you're on the air.
- 47:59Speaker 1: We're giving to Sam Donald on how not to suck.
- 48:03Speaker 1: The Seahawks quarterback had four interceptions.
- 48:06Speaker 2: I'm fucking line.
- 48:10Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you ship that sure Scott does
- 48:14Speaker 1: as well. Line number two, Hello, line two, you're on
- 48:17Speaker 1: the air.
- 48:18Speaker 3: Line two.
- 48:19Speaker 5: Aren't wearing the pants for man?
- 48:20Speaker 12: Hey? There you go.
- 48:21Speaker 3: That's a Sean the hood guy. We're giving you advice. Yes,
- 48:24Speaker 3: we'll give you advice to Sam Donald. Yes, sir, you
- 48:27Speaker 3: want to go go ahead?
- 48:28Speaker 2: Go ahead. This man some value and there's something.
- 48:32Speaker 1: Okay, there you go, all right. You jumped the gun
- 48:34Speaker 1: on that. Seahawks had four interceptions by Sam Donald. We're
- 48:37Speaker 1: giving advice to Donald and how not to suck. Line six, Hello,
- 48:41Speaker 1: line six, Line six is not there. We'll go to
- 48:45Speaker 1: line one. Hello, line one. Line one is not there.
- 48:49Speaker 1: We'll go to line three. We'll jump over to line three. Hello,
- 48:51Speaker 1: line three. We're giving advice to Sam Donald on how
- 48:55Speaker 1: not to suck. Had four interceptions.
- 48:58Speaker 3: Hello, line number four, pepto bisbalk. Okay, thank you, that's
- 49:03Speaker 3: a good one. Yeah, not a sponsor, not a spot.
- 49:05Speaker 3: They should be line number four, Hello, line four.
- 49:09Speaker 4: Do you think the Rams were laughing in jubilation when
- 49:12Speaker 4: they saw that the Raiders were going with.
- 49:14Speaker 12: Gino Smith and the Seahawks were going with Sam Donold
- 49:16Speaker 12: this year?
- 49:17Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty the win for the division.
- 49:18Speaker 1: It was pretty pretty funny. Very nice of them to
- 49:21Speaker 1: give back those teams in the division. Hello, line number six,
- 49:25Speaker 1: Hello line six.
- 49:27Speaker 2: Have you seen my wiino?
- 49:29Speaker 3: Uh no, and I don't think you have you. Let's
- 49:31Speaker 3: do well, we do one more, only one more. If
- 49:33Speaker 3: it's good. I'll take credit and I'll blame the coop
- 49:35Speaker 3: Coop on your birthday. Go ahead, hurry up, fine, three,
- 49:37Speaker 3: line three, you're on the air line three.
- 49:38Speaker 1: Go.
- 49:40Speaker 4: Don't tell anybody the Jets drafted you.
- 49:42Speaker 3: All right there you go, something about the Jets and
- 49:45Speaker 3: the draft and something like that.