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Hour 1 - Wonderful at F'ing Things Up · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Bippity boppity boo. It's how do you do in our
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  Speaker 1: number one hour one. And here we go. Who gets
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  Speaker 1: the biggest piece of the blame burrito for CD Lambs Cowboys,
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown favorite. They lose to the lowly Arizona Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about that here to lead off our one.
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  Speaker 1: In the new week of the Ben Maller Show, don't
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  Speaker 1: forget to check out the 5th Hour Podcast, including a
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  Speaker 1: very polarizing mailbag with these supervillains. Mike the Leprechaun and
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  Speaker 1: Poppy from San Diego on that mailbag on Sunday on
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  Speaker 1: the 5th Hour Podcast. Also here in Hour 1, what
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  Speaker 1: do you make of Jerry Jones giving Cowboys coach Brian
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  Speaker 1: Schottenheimer the dreaded vote of confidence? We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: Is Eagles GM Howie Roseman making a mistake by refusing
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  Speaker 1: to trade Saquon Barkley? At least that's what he's publicly saying.
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  Speaker 1: that Barkley's been told he will not be traded before
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  Speaker 1: the November 10th deadline, which is just eight days away.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about all that and more right now. Here
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  Speaker 1: we go. It's our number one. Well, say what you
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  Speaker 1: want about the Dallas Cowboys. They are wonderful, wonderful at
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  Speaker 1: effing things up, and that's great for talk radio. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning. of another week of the Ben Maler Show.
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  Speaker 1: That's ExpressPros.com. And I've been given this memo from Alf,
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  Speaker 1: the alien opiner, Fergdog, and Mal or Prop Guy. They said,
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  Speaker 1: we need more hot takes than ever before. So you
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  Speaker 1: give us a couple minutes, we'll give you multiple hot takes.
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  Speaker 1: Piping hot. Like the hottest of the hot takes. Alf
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  Speaker 1: said the weekend, he was so upset by hearing... Poppy
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  Speaker 1: and the Leprechaun, those two knuckleheads who popped up on
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  Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour Mailbag, and he said, we need to
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  Speaker 1: make up for that with many hot takes, so we
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  Speaker 1: will provide you. As many hot takes as we can
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  Speaker 1: possibly provide. That is our public service. Yeah, we might
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  Speaker 1: have to step back from the microphones. We might have
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  Speaker 1: to do that. But our lead, don't bury the lead,
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  Speaker 1: my man! Our lead story, they gave us a dud
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  Speaker 1: of a Sunday night game, so we don't have to
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  Speaker 1: start with that. Instead, we'll head over to Jerry's World,
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  Speaker 1: where Dallas was a touchdown favorite over the lowly Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: And they were high-stepping and running around, and things were
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  Speaker 1: going very well there. The Cowboys led 24-10, a two-touchdown lead,
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  Speaker 1: early in the fourth quarter. And then they had to
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  Speaker 1: play the rest of the game. How'd that go? Not good.
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  Speaker 1: Made for good talk radio, though. Chad Ryland.
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  Speaker 3: Who?
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  Speaker 1: A kicker. Chad Ryland kicked the game-winning 42-yard field goal
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  Speaker 1: in overtime. He had missed a point after touchdown that
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  Speaker 1: would have given the game to Arizona in regulation. Who goofed?
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know. The idiot kicker. That was with
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  Speaker 1: six seconds left in the game after Arizona had rallied.
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  Speaker 1: and gone down and tied the game. Thought they were
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  Speaker 1: going to win it. They had to go to overtime
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  Speaker 1: to win it. But in the end, they do win.
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  Speaker 1: So the Cardinals get a 33-30 victory over the once-proud
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  Speaker 1: Dallas football team. The Cardinals beating the Cowboys for the
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  Speaker 1: fifth consecutive time, we are told, and improved a 5-0
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  Speaker 1: on the road in AT & T Stadium in Jerry's World.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals... All these championships, that franchise has won since
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  Speaker 1: that stadium opened in 2009. It makes sense that the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys would be 0-5 against the Cardinals with that
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  Speaker 1: championship pedigree. So this was, you talk about crushing. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys, two-touchdown lead. They obviously lose. They drop to 3-5.
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  Speaker 1: They did not trail until the final kick. And they led,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, by two touchdowns early in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: That is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Who gets the biggest piece of the blame burrito for C.D.
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  Speaker 1: Lamb's Dallas Cowboys? So I've got Chevron, Italian Bistro, and
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  Speaker 1: Flea Market. And we will combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to try to avoid... Pocket book issues. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to try to avoid pocket book issues. So, A,
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  Speaker 1: when you look at this cowboy blunder at the very
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  Speaker 1: end there, we're starting with horticulture. We're going to start
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  Speaker 1: with horticulture here because the Cardinals said the game was over.
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  Speaker 1: They conceded defeat, the Arizona Cardinals. How do I know that?
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  Speaker 1: They benched their captain, El Capitan Jacoby Brissett. They took
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  Speaker 1: him out of the game to get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Cowboys were done in by, as I said, horticulture.
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  Speaker 1: And the ghost, Jerry Jones, planted a championship garden. A
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  Speaker 1: championship garden there. Loves to talk about all the moves
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys made to fix this, that, and the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing got watered down. The garden got watered down.
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  Speaker 1: $ 100 bills, Jerry Jones tossing those, making it rain and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And he ended up harvesting a bumper
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  Speaker 1: crop of poison ivy. My God. Minshew mania. Gardner Minshew.
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  Speaker 1: Too much for the Dallas Cowboys defense. The Cardinals say
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go to our backup. We're calling the game.
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  Speaker 1: And the Cowboys said, no, we want you to have
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  Speaker 1: the game, Gardner Minshew. We believe in Minshew mania. There's
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  Speaker 1: still a little mania left. Just a little left. And
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  Speaker 1: so that billion-dollar football cathedral, Jerry's World there, it.
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  Speaker 1: With Minshew, it turned into a haunted hayride the day
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  Speaker 1: after Halloween as Minshew mania. Getting it done there. Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 1: his defense could not stop a guy who looks like
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  Speaker 1: he should be selling used jet skis on Facebook Marketplace,
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  Speaker 1: and yet he led the Arizona Cardinals back, and it
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  Speaker 1: looked like he was playing against air. Wild. Absolutely wild.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't just Gardner Minshew who came off the
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  Speaker 1: bench like a Tasmanian devil for the Cardinals here. And
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  Speaker 1: it was like he had three double shots of caffeine
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  Speaker 1: and a bag of Halloween candy and then just lit
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  Speaker 1: up the Dallas Cowboys in the late stages of the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, the game started. which should have been the
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  Speaker 1: game-winning touchdown score with six seconds left. And how about
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Algier, the former Atlanta Falcon running back? I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know he was with the Cardinals because you'd have
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention to the Cardinals. He averaged 13.4 yards,
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  Speaker 1: not per catch. He averaged 13.4 yards per carry for
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Oh, man. P.U. What stinks? You talk about
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  Speaker 1: a defense riding the vomit comet. The Dallas Cowboys defense.
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  Speaker 1: One of the epic meltdowns you'll see all season long.
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  Speaker 1: And it happened. And it happened in glorious fashion as
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys go down there. But you're running back, averaging
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  Speaker 1: 13.4 yards per carry. That is getting a presidential escort
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  Speaker 1: through the Dallas linebackers and into the secondary and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. No, no, no, no. So Dak Prescott,
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  Speaker 1: he gets the sour cream of shame. and we're doing
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  Speaker 1: the burrito thing, and CeeDee Lamb gets extra guac of
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  Speaker 1: embarrassment there. It was bad. Dak Prescott in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter and overtime had a 50.2, 50.2 passer rating and
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  Speaker 1: 10 total passing yards in the fourth quarter and overtime combined.
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  Speaker 1: And then how about days after CeeDee Lamb came out,
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  Speaker 1: CeeDee Lamb and said no one can stop him one-on-one.
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  Speaker 1: He's unstoppable. Well, in the fourth quarter in overtime, CeeDee
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  Speaker 1: Lamb had one more catch than you and I had.
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  Speaker 1: One for two yards. Mr. Unstoppable, CeeDee Lamb. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: stop CeeDee Lamb. Can't stop him. Cannot stop CeeDee Lamb. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, he's so good. He's so good. Listen, it's
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  Speaker 1: the same Cowboys. I could go back to the archives
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  Speaker 1: from like 08, 09, any year you want, the last
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  Speaker 1: 20 years, and you could take a Mallard monologue. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty much the same crap. We just repackage it because
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys are the same. So why should we change?
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  Speaker 1: Why should we change? The Cowboys, every year, they have
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  Speaker 1: the same product. Every year it's the same product there.
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  Speaker 1: It's all sizzle, no steak, all talk, no tackling. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they've got right there. That's it. And the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: are America's team the same way that Chevron gas station
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  Speaker 1: bathroom is America's restroom. That Chevron bathroom. That's the way
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  Speaker 1: I always stop there because that's my America's bathroom right there.
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  Speaker 1: I always like to take a poo right there at
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  Speaker 1: the Chevron. That's where I go. But everyone knows... Everyone
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  Speaker 1: knows what's going on with the Cowboys. And it continues
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  Speaker 1: yet again. It's just wild. It is absolutely wild. And
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  Speaker 1: somehow Jerry keeps charging premium prices for this crapola. He
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  Speaker 1: had some great comments on the postgame. Now to page two,
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  Speaker 1: the Komodo dragon in the room. The Komodo dragon in
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  Speaker 1: the room. Dallas is, as mentioned, 3-5 on the year.
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  Speaker 1: We're told that's not good. And people are barking for
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  Speaker 1: a coaching change. We've got to make a change. Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones standing by Brian Schottenheimer, Cowboys owner, saying that he
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  Speaker 1: isn't considering firing his head coach during the season. Not
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  Speaker 1: a consideration despite Dallas with another embarrassing effort. Remember a
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  Speaker 1: couple weeks ago they lost at home to Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 1: and the undrafted quarterback who went in there and played
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  Speaker 1: better in the fourth quarter than Dak Prescott and made
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  Speaker 1: winning plays while Dak Prescott made losing plays. And so
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  Speaker 1: there's a pattern here going on. But Jerry Jones said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I will say that a lot of people let Brian,
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  Speaker 1: meeting Schottenheimer, down today, Jerry Jones said. He also invoked
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  Speaker 1: Wade Phillips, of all people. And he said he acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: that he did fire Wade Phillips midseason, saying that that
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  Speaker 1: was something he is, quote, not proud of it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see that here at all. Close quote. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So that was Jerry Jones speaking to the media in
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  Speaker 1: the bowels of the arena. Here is the aforementioned Brian Schottenheimer.
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  Speaker 1: And he's talking about his quarterback. Of course, why would
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  Speaker 1: you talk about Jerry Jones? Here is Schottenheimer on his
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  Speaker 1: terrible quarterback, Dak Prescott.
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  Speaker 4: I believe in Dak Prescott. I believe in Jamar James.
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  Speaker 4: I believe in Quinton Williams. I believe in those guys,
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  Speaker 4: and they should as well. We're going to work our
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  Speaker 4: asses off to get it right and fix it. Can
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  Speaker 4: you jump up 14-3, come out halftime, and you've got
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  Speaker 4: to have that killer instinct?
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  Speaker 1: And we didn't do that. You see, the thing is,
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  Speaker 1: you don't actually get paid for working hard. You get
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  Speaker 1: paid for winning hard. Like the work's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: part of the deal. It's kind of the way it works.
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  Speaker 1: So Jerry Jones saying, hey, I'm not going to change
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  Speaker 1: coaches at this point. Here's Dak Prescott on his head
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  Speaker 1: coach being in the crosshairs right now.
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  Speaker 5: It's all of us.
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  Speaker 6: It's all of us.
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  Speaker 5: Don't put the blame on one person. Simple as that.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's weak. I think that's cowardly. This game
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  Speaker 5: is about all, as I said, all 11 that touch
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  Speaker 5: the field and every person that has a part in it,
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  Speaker 5: coaches and support staff. And so it's never just one
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  Speaker 5: person's fault. Even if I go out there and throw
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of interceptions, it's never just truly one person's fault.
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  Speaker 5: And so, yeah, don't take the easy and cheap way out.
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  Speaker 5: This is about us, and it's about us backing him
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  Speaker 5: up and backing one another up. We'll have to show it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so what do you make of what Dak
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  Speaker 1: Prescott just said and Jerry Jones giving Cowboys coach Brian
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  Speaker 1: Schottenheimer the dreaded vote of confidence? Well, Dak Prescott, let's
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  Speaker 1: start with Dak. All right, let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, that's the perfect answer of a guy that
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  Speaker 1: has no clue what he's doing. And he's the perfect
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  Speaker 1: Cowboy quarterback. A real leader says, no, no, it's my fault.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the one to blame. There are people to blame.
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  Speaker 1: There are people to blame. And Shottie's one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's one of them. Oh, by the way, Dak,
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  Speaker 1: as we mentioned, Dak Prescott in the fourth quarter and
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  Speaker 1: overtime had a 50.2 passer rating. Ten yards. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like somebody would come out and say, well, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's a collective. It's cowardly to blame one person. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when you're one of the people to blame, I'd say
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  Speaker 1: the same thing if I was Dak Prescott. As far
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  Speaker 1: as the level of surprise, what do you make of
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones coming out and saying, well, no, no, I
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  Speaker 1: don't see a Brian Schottenheimer change here. The dreaded vote
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  Speaker 1: of confidence for Brian Schottenheimer. I'm not surprised. No one
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  Speaker 1: should be surprised by this. Jerry Jones is running a
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  Speaker 1: football team like it's a family-owned Italian bistro. And the
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  Speaker 1: food is terrible. There's cockroaches in the salad. The reviews
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  Speaker 1: are horrific. But nobody's firing Cousin Brian. It's a family bistro,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't care if there's ants in the linguine.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to continue with Brian. Cousin Brian's not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if he's a shoddy chef. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to stay. He's going to stay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you know why Jerry Jones will not fire Schottenheimer.
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  Speaker 1: It's rather obvious, because then he would have to admit
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  Speaker 1: he hired the wrong guy again. And he didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do that. He's not ready to do that. Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones would rather swallow a cactus. He'd rather take a
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  Speaker 1: cacti and swallow that than say, oh, yeah, I F
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  Speaker 1: this one up, too. I totally F this one up.
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  Speaker 1: And the Cowboys, they don't really have a coaching tree
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  Speaker 1: at this point. They don't. They've got a coaching shrub
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  Speaker 1: is what they have. So you've got that shrub. And
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  Speaker 1: Jerry keeps watering the dead branches on the shrub. Remember
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  Speaker 1: Jason Garrett? Jason Garrett lasted longer as the Cowboy coach
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  Speaker 1: than some European monarchs. And his greatest skill set as
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  Speaker 1: a head coach when he was there back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: Jason Garrett, was.
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  Speaker 7: Clapping.
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  Speaker 1: Clap on, clap off the clapper. That was it. As
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  Speaker 1: I remember, that's what he did. Schottenheimer could lose 14 games.
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  Speaker 1: Schottenheimer could lose 14 games, and Jerry Jones would compliment
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  Speaker 1: Brian Schottenheimer on his posture because he's found the one
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  Speaker 1: thing valuable. Actually, more valuable than winning. Forget it. Winning
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  Speaker 1: is one thing. The thing more valuable than winning, though,
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  Speaker 1: for Jerry Jones, a coach who never says, you know, Jerry,
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  Speaker 1: you screwed this up. That's a bad job by you.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on you.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Schotty's done a shoddy job. As mentioned here, but Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones has mastered the art of selling failure. And as
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  Speaker 1: long as people continue to buy it, it's a great
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  Speaker 1: long-term investment opportunity. The Cowboys. Oh, it's so good. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: last word. To Landover, Maryland. Very rarely does the NFL
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  Speaker 1: serve up slop on Sunday Night Football. That was slop.
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  Speaker 1: You almost always lead with Sunday night football because it's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest game of the weekend. That was El Crapo.
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  Speaker 1: That was Washington and Philadelphia. My God, those teams both suck.
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  Speaker 1: And they played each other. Washington won 27-10. Turns out
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  Speaker 1: that backup quarterback for the Eagles, if it was in
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  Speaker 1: pirate lingo, we'd say, there she blows! That guy sucks.
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  Speaker 1: And so Philadelphia goes down 27-10. You're just run-of-the-mill, lackluster
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night game. The story here was after the game.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles have, according to the Eagle beat writers in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room, the Eagles have assured Saquon Barkley that
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  Speaker 1: he will not be traded, that he will not be traded.
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia is 2-6. The collapse is on. They've got a
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  Speaker 1: six-game losing streak. And Barkley, for what it's worth, he's like, oh, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I want to stick around. I want to fix the mess.
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  Speaker 1: And that's his public position. that he wants to be
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  Speaker 1: part of the solution. He's looking for that. He wants
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  Speaker 1: to be part of the solution there. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: And so there's all kinds of concerns about Barkley going
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  Speaker 1: forward here. And he had that magical season a couple
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  Speaker 1: years ago in 24 for the Eagles, was the greatest
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  Speaker 1: running back in the NFL. And he's a shell of
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  Speaker 1: what that guy was for Philadelphia. He's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money left on his contract. So the question is,
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  Speaker 1: Is Eagles General Manager Howie Roseman making a mistake by
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  Speaker 1: refusing to trade Saquon Barkley? All right, so I got
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  Speaker 1: to believe there's some gamesmanship going on here. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be some gamesmanship. I'm going to go with gamesmanship
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  Speaker 1: on this. General Manager Howie Roseman is supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: the loyal executive now? Come on. Give me a break.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to puke in my mouth. This is not
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  Speaker 1: how Howie Roseman is. This is not it. This has
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  Speaker 1: to be El Clasico in terms of posturing. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be posturing. And if it's not, someone might need
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  Speaker 1: to test the water at the Eagles facility. Saquon Barkley
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  Speaker 1: checks all of the boxes, not some of the boxes,
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  Speaker 1: all of the boxes of a guy that you would
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  Speaker 1: unload if you're in Philadelphia's situation. You're going nowhere, right?
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  Speaker 1: And that's the player you get rid of. He is
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  Speaker 1: the epitome of a guy that should be on the
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  Speaker 1: flea market. for the Philadelphia Eagles he's pushing 30 running
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: backs fall off the map typically when they turn 30
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: hobbled by lower body injuries the last couple of years
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and he's got a bloated contract on top of that
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: $ 35 million remaining on his contract, Saquon Barkley, through 2028.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: So he's got a lot of cash coming his way. Now,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: not all that is guaranteed money. The point is, all
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: of those things, it's like the Eagles are effectively waving
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the white flag. They're 2-6, they have no quarterback, and
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: their defense is not very good either. It's a hot mess.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: So what are we doing here? Howie, all the media
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: loves you. They lick your toes, Howie Roseman, say how
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: great you are. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Drops down faster than a lead balloon. We always hear
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: that when running backs get to about the age of 30.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: You've got a prime window of opportunity. And you can get, listen,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you're not going to get much in return because of
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the contract and the age and all that, but you
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: get something. and it's not that difficult to replace who
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Barkley is right now. He's not very good at this
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: particular moment. So the wheels on the bus are starting
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: to not go round and round. They're starting to fall off.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: So why would you not trade? The Eagles want to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: have their cheesesteak, apparently, and they want to eat it too,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I guess. They need a complete, ground-up renovation. Not a demo.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: This is not a demo. This is a renovation. You
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: never do full demo in the NFL unless you're the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Jets or the Browns, and they do that every couple years.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: But the teams that are actually competitive, they don't do
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the full demo. They do a renovation is what they do.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: So you got to do a renovation. But, my God,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: this is pretty wild. You got to think that's posturing.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: It would be insane. Now, listen, you can work with Barkley.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: If I'm the Eagles, I know it's taboo to make
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a trade with the Giants, but I would trade him
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: back to the Giants. The Giants have some running back.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: issues it's spotty the running back play i would send
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: him to the giants because then he becomes the giants
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: problem at that particular point it is the ben maller
• 22:06
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• 22:09
  Speaker 1: going to be 30 a lot of miles a lot
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: of wear and tear big contract that'll actually work out
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: in the long run better for philly to keep him
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: in the division with the giants Because, like I said,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the more he plays, the age goes up. He's not
• 22:24
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• 24:21
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• 24:29
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• 24:34
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• 24:41
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• 25:06
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• 25:08
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• 25:12
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• 25:18
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• 25:23
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• 25:26
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• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and let's see here page down a king rory Right,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: since my wife said your guess on the Fifth Hour
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Mailbag sounded like two stray cats in heat. I didn't
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: think they were that bad myself, but I would have
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: taken Weed Man Hippie and his Obama phone on the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: mailbag instead. The leprechaun's a choice, Ben. The leprechaun and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Poppy side by side there. What a dynamic duo that
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: was to get both of them at the same time.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: We spared no expense. No expense. And Poppy is such
• 26:07
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• 26:10
  Speaker 1: So Poppy's like, oh, he really wanted to be on
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the mailbag. He's been bugging me to be on the
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: mailbag for a long time. So if you listen to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the Sunday Mailbag on the Fifth Hour Podcast, so Poppy
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: comes on there with the leprechaun. So I knew that
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Poppy's full of crap and doesn't listen to the Fifth
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Hour Podcast. So I quizzed him on the podcast. I said, well,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: what do you like about the podcast? And I'm paraphrasing,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: but he said he brought up Danny G radio. Now,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Danny quit the podcast a long time ago, months ago, many,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: many months ago, almost a year ago. Exactly. And like,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: cause the last like months he was doing, he was
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: checked out. You know, when people leave, they check out
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: before they actually leave this thing. So he hadn't really
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: been part of it. An active member of the fifth
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: hour podcast in like a year. And Poppy's like, Oh yeah,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Danny G. I love what Danny G's on. I mean, really?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: You love what he's on. It's been like a year. Anyway,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I just thought that was amusing. Femi writes in from
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the Twin Cities, says, I knew Ben would be giddy
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: with excitement when his favorite quarterback, Gardner Minshew, bailed or balled, rather,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: against Dallas. If Minshew played against the Rams, it would
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: be hard for you to pick a side.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Listen, I'm about to go to war with the Rams.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I'm this close to going to war with the Rams.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: So Minshew's my guy. Minshew mania. There you go. Scrooge
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: writes in from Northern California. He used to be in
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the Younger demo. Now he's an old fart. He says
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: it's official. The mailbag has gone to blank. I remember
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the glory days, but now we had the two worst
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: callers on the podcast. Time to make Robbie full time. Well,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the problem, we don't have a budget to pay Robbie.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: That's the issue. There's no budget, so nobody's going to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: be full-time on that. Tom from Fullerton writes in in SoCal.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: He says, hey, Ben, how about my Chargers? Giving the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: merely just bad Rams a tough half and then folding
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: like paper in the second half. The Chargers are chasing perfection. Texans,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you're up next. And the Chargers, you figure they're going
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: to win one game just by dumb luck. They're going
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: to win a game. Certainly doesn't look like it the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: way they're playing. They have no offense, haven't scored a
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: touchdown offensively in forever. And I got that Jets game
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: November 22nd. That appears to be the most winnable game.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: And they play the Raiders again. The Raiders suck, so
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: they could beat the Raiders. Those are the two games
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: that are obvious. And they also have Miami. So there's
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: three winnable games. They should win one of those, right?
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: At least one of them. I think the Jets game
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: at home, that would be the game, although it's a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: little bit of a shorter week. The Chargers have a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: primetime game against the Ravens, November 16th. Can they flex
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: out of that? They've got to get out of that, right?
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's not going to play. He's out for the year.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Chargers are done for the year. That's a 8 o'clock.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I believe that's a Monday night game. Can they flex
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: out on Monday night? I don't think so. No? Are
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: they stuck with that? Wow, that's bad. Chargers actually have two. Wait,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: let me do the math. Oh, my God. They have
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: three more primetime games. They can't have those, right? There's
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: no way. Yeah, I was wrong.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: They can flex out of Monday night games.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Okay. Applies to week 12 through 17. So what do
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: you say? Week 12. That's the Monday night game. That
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: game's gone.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: So there we go. That'll move that till Sunday afternoon.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: And then we'll see what the week 12. Let me see.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Look at the week 12 schedule. We're going to do
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the work for the NFL. We're now going to schedule
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: for the NFL. Let's see here. I got to click this.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Let me look at the week 12 schedule. So we'll
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: bump the Chargers game back to Sunday afternoon. And then
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: what game gets bumped back?
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: There's not. I guess Seahawks 49ers? Eh? Move that to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Monday night? Yeah. That's a late game.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: Oh, man.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: That is. Actually, it's a Sunday night game. Excuse me.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: It's Sunday night. I thought it was Monday night, but
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: it's Sunday night. The Patriots at the charge. Oh, that's
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: easy then. You can just move that to an afternoon
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: game and then 49ers Seahawks or what else is there?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Vikings Falcons? Eh? I don't think so. Oh, this is
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: a bad week. Oh, Chiefs and Bills? You could do
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: something like that, right? Although that's a Thursday. You can't
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: move that. That's a Thanksgiving. You're not moving that. Well,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving's going to be here in a few weeks. That's crazy.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: All right, it is the Ben Maller Show. If you
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: would like to be part, let's say hello. 877-99 on Fox,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: by the way. Let's go to Sam, who's in the
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Valley of the Sun. Hello, Sam. Welcome. He might not be.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: He's in Arizona. I don't know what part of Arizona
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you're in there, Sam. Where are you at, man?
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Like I said, it's like Queen Creek, Gilbert. It's a
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: suburb right outside, probably 30, 40 miles out of Phoenix.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: All right, well, that's good. Well, welcome. How can we
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: help you? What's going on with you?
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: I called back on Newbie Night earlier in the week
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: and go Brewers!
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Woo!
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: So happy we're World Series champions. I'm originally a Wisconsinite,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: so I really am happy about that. But, Dan, the
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: team you just talked about, man, I went 11 or
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: 12-1 on my picks. I would be 13-0 right now
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: if not for you-know-who.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I hear you.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: From my NFL picks this week.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you actually, well, if you bet single bets,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: you made a ton of money, though. Did you bet?
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I wish. I wish. No, man, I've been doing Uber
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Eats all weekend, and it's been raining here. So last
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: night during Halloween, it was raining all night.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: The whole night, just rain, rain, rain.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: It won't go away. And then even today, it's been
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: raining a little bit, too, so.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I got you. I got you. All right. Well, people
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: want more food, I would think. When it rains, they
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: don't want to go out of their house, right? It's
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: good for you, right?
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Just got done delivering some alcohol from 7-Eleven to a
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: lady not too far away.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, that is a sign you've got a problem. When
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: you're too lazy to go get your booze, you've got
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: to get somebody to deliver the booze to your house.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: You might have a problem. If you can't get off
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: your ass to go get the alcohol. They might already
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: be drunk, though.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: I'm a safe courier. I've got to make the money
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: where I can if they're too inebriated to go get
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: what they need.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: No, it's good for you. I'm just saying. I just say,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: come on now. What are you doing? Get up there
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and get your booze.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: You say, well, I'm sorry your perfect weekend went away,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: but that's why they call it gambling.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: No, no, it was cool, but it's just funny because
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: I'm in Arizona, and that's the team that beat the
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: damn Cowboys. Like, what the hell? Like, Cowboys can never frickin'
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: just act like America's team. They just are America's stinkiest team.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they're consistent, though, which is great because it's really,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: really good. All right, well, good luck. Be safe out
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: there in the rain. Thank you, Sam. There's Sam. We
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: found him on newbie night. And I'll go back to
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals because this is great. So Gardner Minshew goes
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: out there and lights it on fire, right? He goes crazy,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: does great, whatever. And the Cardinals are like, I don't
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: know if we're going to keep playing Gardner Minshew. We
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: might just probably go back to Jacoby Brissett. And they're like, well,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: we're going to trade Gardner Minshew. We'll trade him. We're
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: going to get a seventh round draft pick for Gardner Minshew.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: That'll work out well. What could possibly go on with that?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mark, who's in Queens, but he's from Queens.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's in Queens anymore. What's going on, Mark? Welcome.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Ben, thanks for taking the call. I'm going to do
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: what a lot of people do. Everybody calls and kisses
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Lorena's ass here. Lorena, you're a great young lady. You've
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: seen your pictures. You're cute. I'm not flirting with you.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I'm 60. But everybody kisses your ass. Lorena, why the
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: hell are you a Cowboys fan? You are from Oregon.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: You have ties to California. Shame on you.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Well, well, well. Now, time out, Mark. Lorena, how much
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: of the Cowboy game did you watch on Sunday? None. Okay,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: so she's not, I mean, she says she likes the Cowboys, Mark, but,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Now, Mark, let me just say, it is because my mother,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: who passed when I was 13, was a Cowboys fan,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: so I only do it for her.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: You're blaming.
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: Not because I.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Love the Cowboys. I have no, you know, like, ah,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Cowboys are just the, no, no, no. You don't want
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of Cowboy gear. Don't be so, meh. Does
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: it bug you?
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: Does it really bug you that much? No, no.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: He just wanted to call up and have something to say.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: That's all. He needed some content.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: And if I may, I don't want to end my
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: call on that. Lorraine, not to rub salt in the
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: wounds with that, please. I had no idea for that.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: But please, you can still rethink this decision. Please change teams. Ben,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: I moved here in January of 96.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: So that goes.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Well, you've been there a long time. You've been there
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: since 96. That's a long run.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: But if I may, I moved here two weeks later,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys won the Super Bowl, and then somehow or
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: another a hex, maybe my presence has put a hex
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: on them. I mean, my favorite team is who plays
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: against them. I mean, I can almost see the stadium
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: from my house. I mean, the fans are very loyal,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: but all of the out-of-town Cowboys fans, I don't get it. Okay,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: LeBron James is a fantastic basketball player, but you know what?
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: He's a freaking Cowboys fan. That wouldn't turn people off.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: He's also a Yankees fan, too. So, I mean, I'm very,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: very anti-bandwagon. I love seeing the Cowboys suck. It is beautiful.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: And they're disgusting fans to just rot in hell. Thank
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: you very much.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: That's a great final. That's a good final line right there.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Rot in hell. Because you like the Dallas Cowboys. That's
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: our buddy Mark from Queens, who I guess he's 60,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: so he's actually spent more of his life in the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Dallas area than he has in New York. He said 96. Well, no,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I guess it's even. I guess it's 50-50. Next year,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: he will have been in Texas longer than he was,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I assume, if he grew up in Queens and all that,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: then he would be there until he was 30, moved
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: to Texas. All right, so about 50-50, about 50-50. Well,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the war of words, the rhetoric cranking up. Remember Josh Jacobs,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the Packer running back? He scored the touchdown back on
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the Thursday night game and then did the mock handcuff celebration.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Well, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know. It might not have been the wisest choice.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: And he, of course, said. No, it was no fake handcuffs.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. Shame on you.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Why would you think I'll be doing fake handcuffs and
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: all that? Well, over the weekend, it seems a bunch
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: of random women stepped up here. Three other women have
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: now stepped up and accused Josh Jacobs of misconduct, physical misconduct.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Going back to 2021-2022... Josh Jacobs' attorney insisting that he
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: has substantial physical and documentary evidence contradicting all three accounts.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: So it's hard to buy. I thought the lawyer would say, yeah,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: these women are right. He did it. But the lawyer
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: denied the allegations. And now the NFL said to be
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: snooping around. The NFL's investigation remaining open. And Jacobs could
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: face additional discipline despite already returning to the field. So
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. The attorney says the league
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: investigated one of the women's allegations and then determined no
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: action was warranted. So we'll see what happens going forward.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: It is the Ben Maller Show. Packers might want to
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: trade for a running back. I'm just saying. Here's the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Who Am I game. This is where I pretend to
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: be somebody else. We call it the Who Am I game.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has thrown at least one interception.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: and suffered a loss in each of his team's first
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: seven games of the season since 1950. I am the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: only other, or the last quarterback, to have endured the
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: same seven-game nightmare. Again, Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has thrown
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: at least one interception, suffered a loss in each of
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: his first seven games of the 2026 season since, Since 1950,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I am the last quarterback to have endured that same
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: seven-game nightmare. Who am I the answer next?
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  Speaker 7: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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• 39:00
  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio as we
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: continue on. If you have not heard the 5th Hour Podcast,
• 39:06
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• 39:08
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• 39:11
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• 39:14
  Speaker 1: You got the mailbag. You can hear that and very
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: polarizing with Poppy and the Leprechaun. And we had other
• 39:22
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• 39:26
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• 39:28
  Speaker 1: briefly years ago. I did some shows with Dale Brown.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: He was the guy that found Shaquille O'Neal in Germany
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: at an Air Force base. So long ago, it was
• 39:39
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  Speaker 1: new episodes every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. All right, back
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: to it. Time now for the Who Am I game.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Here it is. Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has thrown at
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: least one interception and suffered a loss in each of
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: his first seven games of the 2026 season. Since 1950,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I am the last quarterback to have endured that same
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: seven-game nightmare. Who am I? That is the question. What's
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: the answer? Mike the Leprechaun. Guest by Malapropguy. Jim Harbaugh
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: from Femi. Tim Couch. Guest by Nick. That's his answer.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Rex Grossman. Sexy Rexy from Alf the Alien O'Piner. Michael
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Pennex Jr. That was Robbie the Mariner fan's pick to click.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: How's that working out? Eddie Munster from Truck Stop Fungus
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  Speaker 1: eating chili in his tighty-whities at a truck stop in Arkansas.
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  Speaker 1: Jake Locker from Larry reporting from Nashville. That's his answer.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Do you have an answer, Lorena? The Exterminator. The Exterminator. No,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: that is incorrect. The correct answer, 1985's Steve Dibberg. Steve
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Dibberg is the answer. That's a while ago. That's a
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: long time ago.