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Hour 2 - Bear Jamboree · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: You can put it on the board. Oh, yeah. It's
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  Speaker 1: hour number two and a yabba-dabba-doo to you. And here
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  Speaker 1: in hour number two, a reminder of the Fifth Hour Podcast,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, if you missed it, great conversation with
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  Speaker 1: on one of the episodes of the 5th Hour Podcast,
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  Speaker 1: Hour Podcast. Here in hour number two is the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Johnson Bears 59-point offensive eruption, the birth of a juggernaut,
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  Speaker 1: or just Carolina making everybody look like the 99 Rams,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest show on turf. We'll take a look at that. Also,
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  Speaker 1: how would you grade Robert Sala's debut as Titans coach?
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of Tennessee, what are some things going on
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  Speaker 1: there with Cam Ward? How are things looking? How are
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  Speaker 1: things looking for Titans quarterback Cam Ward? My God. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about all that and more right now. And don't
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  Speaker 1: goof up. No, no, no. Keep listening. Here it is.
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  Speaker 1: Hour number two. Also, Mallard of the third degree. Here's
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  Speaker 1: hour two. It is a bear jamboree. Welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: And now to fill the time between live reads, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do the show. Okay. The most important part,
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  Speaker 1: most important part. All right, our lead this hour, though,
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  Speaker 1: from the Windy City via Charlotte. That's where the Bears were,
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  Speaker 1: the traveling roadshow for the Chicago football team. Did you
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  Speaker 1: see any of this game? This was not a high-profile matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Chicago was a slight favorite, slight favorite. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 3: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 1: <HAL> But jeebers. All right, so Ben Johnson, the very
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  Speaker 1: arrogant head coach of the Chicago football team, he set
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  Speaker 1: an outrageous target. You might remember we talked about this
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  Speaker 1: on the show, and I talked about that winning a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl game, That's not enough for Ben Johnson. He
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  Speaker 1: wants the Bears to produce the highest scoring offense in
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  Speaker 1: NFL history. That record currently held by the Peyton Manning
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  Speaker 1: Broncos back in the day. Now, Chicago, how did they start?
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  Speaker 1: They gave themselves enough space where they could have a
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  Speaker 1: stinker or two. They scored so many points in the
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  Speaker 1: first game. If you didn't see it, they scored not one,
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  Speaker 1: not two, not three, not four, not five, not six,
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  Speaker 1: not seven, eight touchdowns. The Chicago football team scored eight touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Rex Grossman, Batman. Eight touchdowns. 59 points. 59 points.
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  Speaker 1: They win 59-37 over the woe-be-gone Carolina football team. I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping I'd hear from Gunner. I don't know. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: his phone stopped working? Our buddy Gunner, the big Carolina fan?
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  Speaker 1: Where you at, Gunner? Defend your boys.
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: 59-37. That sounds like a lot. That is the most
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  Speaker 1: points we are told. The most points in a season
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  Speaker 1: opener in Bears history. And is tied for the second
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  Speaker 1: most ever. By an NFL team in week one. The Bears.
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  Speaker 1: How many yards do they have? 552 total yards. 291
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  Speaker 1: on the ground.
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  Speaker 4: The Bears.
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  Speaker 1: This is crazy. This is like playing on Madden on
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  Speaker 1: the rookie level. My God. They scored two touchdowns in
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  Speaker 1: every quarter. Was Carolina even trying? Let's hear from Dave Canales,
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  Speaker 1: the head coach there, not for long, if he keeps
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  Speaker 1: coaching like this, of the Carolina Panthers. Can you explain, Mr. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: how your team practiced all offseason, prepared for this game,
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  Speaker 1: and gave up 552 total yards and 59 points? What
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  Speaker 1: do you have to say for yourself, Coach?
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  Speaker 6: It was an incredible day by the Bears, and again,
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  Speaker 6: I can't wait to watch the film so I can
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  Speaker 6: get to the heart of what that was. What I
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  Speaker 6: do know is 17 points off turnovers doesn't equal 59 points,
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  Speaker 6: and we could have helped that. We could have not
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  Speaker 6: extended drives with penalties. There were some things that we
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  Speaker 6: gave a really good offense more opportunities.
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  Speaker 7: They don't need any more opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: They were creating their.
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  Speaker 6: Own, and that's something that collectively we have to make
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  Speaker 6: sure we.
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  Speaker 2: Take care of.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my new favorite answer, every single coach. Got to
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  Speaker 1: watch the tape. Haven't watched the tape yet. Got to
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  Speaker 1: watch the tape. When I get a call from my boss,
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  Speaker 1: when Scott calls me and says, hey, Mallory, I've got
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you about something you said last night.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't listened to the show. I haven't listened to
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  Speaker 1: the tape. Let me listen to the tape and I'll
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  Speaker 1: get back to you. It's the greatest diversion. I've got
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  Speaker 1: to watch the tape. I've got to listen to the tape. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Leave me alone. Of course, then the next
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  Speaker 1: day you say, well, we've moved on. We've moved on.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to talk about that game anymore. The
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  Speaker 1: story here, though, is the Chicago Bears, clearly. They were
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  Speaker 1: so overwhelming in this performance. It's a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Is the Ben Johnson-coached Bears'
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  Speaker 1: 59-point volcanic eruption the birth of an offensive juggernaut? or
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  Speaker 1: just Carolina making everyone look like the 99 Rams, the
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  Speaker 1: greatest show on turf. So I've got Muhammad Ali, airlifted,
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  Speaker 1: and Paris Baguette. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to go down a
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  Speaker 1: blind alley is where we're going to go. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so number one. Number one. One, one, one, one, one, one, one, one.
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  Speaker 1: Number one. All right, this performance by the Bears. was a,
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  Speaker 1: I call it a Las Vegas showgirl performance. Feathers, sequins,
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  Speaker 1: and absolutely no subtlety. No subtlety. By the way, there's
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  Speaker 1: only like two places that have showgirls in Vegas anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They're pretty much extinct. Anyway, look, Ben Johnson, and I
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  Speaker 1: like it. I'm going to talk to him. Ben Johnson
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  Speaker 1: came out, talked like Muhammad Ali back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: all summer. And then the Bears showed up and showed out.
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  Speaker 1: They showed up. They were throwing punches, coming out, moonwalking
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  Speaker 1: while they did their thing. They nuked Carolina, a cardboard
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  Speaker 1: village of a defense for the Carolina football team. So
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  Speaker 1: good for them. That was orgasmic for my friend's tree
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, Yafimi, all the Bears fans. The Bears, who
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  Speaker 1: like to show. But 59 points. The Bears didn't just
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  Speaker 1: dip their toe into the season. They cannonballed into a pool.
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  Speaker 1: And they cannonballed. They were so fat, they emptied the pool.
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  Speaker 1: It's like Van Halen with the amps turned up to 11.
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  Speaker 1: Turn it all the way up. Somewhere, George Hallis is
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  Speaker 1: rolling over in his grave, asking what happened to three
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  Speaker 1: yards in a cloud of dust. Because it wasn't three yards.
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  Speaker 1: The Bears' offense... was insane after treating the end zone
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  Speaker 1: like a private property for decades at least on this
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  Speaker 1: day Chicago running an Airbnb baby man so the Bears
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  Speaker 1: used to be three yards cloud of dust that was
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  Speaker 1: the way Chicago operated for many many years The Bears' offense,
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  Speaker 1: forget three yards, how about seven and a half yards?
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  Speaker 1: That's how many yards the Bears average per carry. Per carry. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: they had some massive run, a 60-yard run here, a
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  Speaker 1: 29-yard scamper there, a 32-yard sprint. They averaged 7.5 yards
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  Speaker 1: per carry. Per carry. This is embarrassing. I mean, are
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  Speaker 1: you even trying if you're the Panthers? It's like running
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  Speaker 1: an Airbnb now, Chicago, offensively. And so when Ben Johnson
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  Speaker 1: said they wanted the scoring record, we laughed. We always laugh.
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  Speaker 1: We're not laughing now, even if Carolina's coaches... If I
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  Speaker 1: was coaching Carolina, I'd have those guys run gassers until October.
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  Speaker 1: They were so bad defensively. But it is only week one,
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  Speaker 1: and week one is where September Hall of Fame busts
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  Speaker 1: are made. So it was great. The problem the Bears
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  Speaker 1: are going to have is the same old problem every
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  Speaker 1: team that plays outdoors in the cold weather is going
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  Speaker 1: to have. At some point, you're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: play a bunch of sloppy games in bad weather. That's
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  Speaker 1: just the way it is. Bears play at Soldier Field
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  Speaker 1: until they move off to Indiana, and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be playing at least a couple of cold-weather games. Now, fortunately,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about Minnesota or Detroit, but
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  Speaker 1: you have Green Bay outdoors, cold weather, so I haven't
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  Speaker 1: looked at the Bears' schedule that far ahead. Man, that
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  Speaker 1: was a mushroom cloud, and I don't believe they passed
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  Speaker 1: any protective goggles out to anyone. Now, someone that should
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  Speaker 1: have passed something out would be the team that plays
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  Speaker 1: in Nashville. Page two here. Robert Sala. Robert Sala. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be different. Yep, yep. Mr. Optimism. Mr. Rah-Rah.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Sala made his Titans regular season debut. And how
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  Speaker 1: did that go?
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  Speaker 3: Whew.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tennessee went out and lost by a couple of
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  Speaker 1: scores to Robert Sala's former team. The J-E-T-S, suck, suck, suck.
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  Speaker 1: So Robert Sala opens his tenure with a capital F
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  Speaker 1: frustration performance there. So quarterback Cam Ward. looking like he
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  Speaker 1: needed to be working at some kind of Montgomery Ward.
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  Speaker 1: That's an old store back in the day. How bad
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  Speaker 1: was Cam Ward? Just a terrible performance. And the numbers
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  Speaker 1: were even skewed because he put up some of those
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  Speaker 1: numbers in the fourth quarter, which was a theme here
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  Speaker 1: of guys stinking it up. Deshaun Watson did the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: They were terrible for three quarters. That only counts if
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  Speaker 1: you win because Arch Manning, I was watching the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State-Texas game over the weekend, and Arch Manning sucked for
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  Speaker 1: three quarters and then everyone's kissing his bootay because of
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  Speaker 1: what happened in the fourth quarter with an assist by
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes of Ohio State. That's a different story. But
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of that going on where guys put
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  Speaker 1: up terrible numbers for three quarters, and then in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, they get it done. Robert Sallow acknowledged the frustration.
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  Speaker 1: He refused, though, to have a temper tantrum, which didn't
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  Speaker 1: really work for our purposes. We would have loved a
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  Speaker 1: nice tantrum. A conniption fit by Robert Sallow would have
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  Speaker 1: been great. And what do you think Robert Salah said? Ding, ding, ding, ding. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he said, got to watch the tape. Robert Salah, got
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  Speaker 1: to watch the tape. He said he'll make rational, educated
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  Speaker 1: football decisions. That'll be a first. Adding that he could
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  Speaker 1: throw podiums. Oh, we have some. Rather than me just
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  Speaker 1: kind of throw it together, here's Robert Sala, the new coach.
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  Speaker 1: You excited there, my friends in Nashville? You excited? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 8: You get used to playing football. You play, you play,
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  Speaker 8: you play. You watch the tape. You learn.
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  Speaker 1: You practice.
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  Speaker 8: And you get better from it. Teams have improved. Teams
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  Speaker 8: have gotten better during the season. Teams have started slow,
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  Speaker 8: finished fast. Teams have started fast, finished slow. And our
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  Speaker 8: intent is to finish as fast as we possibly can.
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  Speaker 8: And like I said, we'll go back to this. We'll
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  Speaker 8: watch it all. We'll grow from it and hopefully put
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  Speaker 8: on a better performance next week.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's hard to be much worse. It's hard to
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  Speaker 1: be much worse. All right, question. How would you grade
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  Speaker 1: Robert Sala's debut as Tennessee Titans coach there? So we
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  Speaker 1: went to the Malheur report card. Now, I am not
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  Speaker 1: going to give Robert Sala an F.
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  Speaker 2: I am not.
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  Speaker 1: On the Malheur report card, Robert Sala gets a DV.
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  Speaker 1: What is a DV? That is a deja vu situation.
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  Speaker 1: Not the showgirls, not the strip club. Well, it is
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  Speaker 1: kind of a strip club. New uniform, new logo, new city,
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  Speaker 1: and that is a very similar product to That Robert
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  Speaker 1: Sala put out in the field. That's a Robert Sala
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  Speaker 1: coach football team right there. When he's a head coach,
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  Speaker 1: that's the product you're going to get. Covered in mold.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Sala was hired, in theory, to change the culture
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  Speaker 1: in Tennessee. And on the opening day performance, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like somebody, I'm not sure who did this, had airlifted
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  Speaker 1: one of his old Jets games straight into Nashville. And
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  Speaker 1: they just did some AI stuff and they moved around
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  Speaker 1: the logo and the colors and all that. The Titans
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  Speaker 1: didn't merely lose 23-10. They were out gained 367 yards
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  Speaker 1: to 195. They squeezed out a pathetic 11 first downs.
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  Speaker 1: Possessed the football for barely 21 minutes. Against the Jets!
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  Speaker 2: The Jets!
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  Speaker 1: This was not the sack exchange from back 40 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets! Sloppy football? Check that box. Tennessee started with
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  Speaker 1: a kickoff, I believe, out of bounds. They burned early timeout.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't know what they were doing. They had too
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  Speaker 1: many people on the field. They coughed up a kickoff return.
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  Speaker 1: It was a mess. And Robert Sala can talk about
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  Speaker 1: watching the tape and making rational, educated football decisions. However...
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  Speaker 1: We have seen this movie before. Robert Sala as a
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  Speaker 1: head coach, his head coaching career is basically control C,
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  Speaker 1: control V. That's it. The theater may have changed. Now
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  Speaker 1: they're instead of Broadway, it's the Grand Ole Opry. The show,
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  Speaker 1: the lousy product did not. And Tennessee didn't hire a
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  Speaker 1: turnaround specialist. Imagine the bull crap he must have sold
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  Speaker 1: those idiot ownership people in Tennessee to get this job.
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  Speaker 1: They hired a rerun specialist. They wanted a turnaround specialist.
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  Speaker 1: Robert's kind of like Starbucks of NFL coaches. You can
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  Speaker 1: find him in any city and know exactly what you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get. Burnt coffee, in this case. All right,
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  Speaker 1: last word. We got to chat for a second about
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  Speaker 1: the former number one overall pick a couple years back
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  Speaker 1: here in the NFL draft. The Cam Show. How's that
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  Speaker 1: working out? Cam Ward. Cam, Cam, Cam, Cam, Cam, Cam, Cam.
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  Speaker 1: They'd be better off with an actual camera at quarterback
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  Speaker 1: at this point. So what direction are things looking here
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  Speaker 1: for Titans quarterback Cam Ward? How's that all working out?
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  Speaker 1: So this is where this game was where you would
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  Speaker 1: think Cam Ward would come out and say, here I
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  Speaker 1: am marking your territory. I'm announcing my arrival. If that
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  Speaker 1: is Cam Ward and Tennessee's idea of a soft launch,
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  Speaker 1: I would really hate to see a hard launch. So
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  Speaker 1: much for the much ballyhooed pairing of Cam Ward with
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  Speaker 1: the new offensive coordinator, Brian Dayball. Everybody spent much of
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  Speaker 1: the offseason selling the fact that Cam Ward was about
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  Speaker 1: to go to the moon, to the moon, to the moon,
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  Speaker 1: to the moon, to the moon. With Brian Dayball's expertise...
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be footballs, peanut butter, and jelly. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we got our first look at this peanut butter and jelly.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out there was no peanut butter. There was
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  Speaker 1: no jelly. It was a little toothpaste and then some
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  Speaker 1: orange juice. And that was together. And this was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be a, again, soft launch, right? Soft launch and
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  Speaker 1: all that. And it turned out, instead of going to
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  Speaker 1: Paris Baguette and ordering a cream puff, which is what
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  Speaker 1: the Jets are, instead, Cam Ward ordered Got a Jets
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  Speaker 1: defense that instead of having that sweet, creamy pastry filling
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  Speaker 1: turned into a jawbreaker. It's like biting on a hockey puck.
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  Speaker 1: So the optimism tank. Right now, if you look at
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  Speaker 1: that optimism tank, it's on fumes. In fact, it's not
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  Speaker 1: just on fumes. Some thug came over and stole the
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  Speaker 1: catalytic converter. So the optimism tank is not working. It's
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: on fumes, and it does not have the catalytic converter,
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  Speaker 1: which seems to be a problem with the product. So
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  Speaker 1: over three quarters of this game, against the Jets, Cam
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  Speaker 1: Ward put up a dismal. 59.5 quarterback rating. And they
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  Speaker 1: were rhythmically chanting and booing and the whole thing. And
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  Speaker 1: Cam Ward said he understood the hostility, claiming fans who pay,
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  Speaker 1: they want to see a show. It's all about the show.
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  Speaker 1: And they did. They wanted to see a show. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: they got community theater is what they got. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they got. They got Shakespeare, Shakespeare. by a bunch of
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• 24:00
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• 24:04
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• 24:07
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• 24:10
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• 24:13
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• 24:15
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• 24:20
  Speaker 1: please act accordingly. So some expensive fish. How about this?
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: The Dolphins opened up the NFL season with a loss
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to the Raiders, which is hard to do. They did it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: And if you look at the roster management of the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, the most expensive contract on the Miami Dolphins
• 24:41
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• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Tua Tungavailoa. He is the highest-paid player on the Dolphins,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: which is a problem because he's not on the Dolphins.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Of course, he's not really playing anywhere. He's in Atlanta,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: but he, oh, I can't play against the Steelers. So
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Tua no longer part of the Dolphins. $ 55. 4 million allocated.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: And that's more than every active offensive player on the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Dolphins combined. Who goofed? I've got to know. Who goofed? Well,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: clearly whoever decided to pay two of the money, they
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: should have listened to our show. Yeah, exactly. What do
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: we have? Fergdog writes in, says, way to take the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: penny to school this week, Ben. I believe you only
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: had a difference of opinion on the Viking Packers game,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and you wisely took Carson Wentz, led Vikings. The penny
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: did not stand a chance. Well, we'll go over that.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: There's one game to go. There's one game to go.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? A late-night drug tester says, sure,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the Bears put up 59 points, but is there any
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: concern the Panthers scored 37 on them? Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: And there's no chance the Bears are going to set
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the record because, as I said, the weather's going to
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: turn nasty there and they'll slow down. But it's a
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: great start by the Bears. They did give up, as
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you referenced there, 478 yards, late-night drug tester, to the
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. 478 yards for the Carolina Panthers. Imagine when
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: they play a good team, right? Young, Bryce Young had
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: 361 yards, averaged almost 10 yards per pass. He actually
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: averaged more yards per pass than Caleb Williams did. And
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: three touchdowns for Bryce Young, who stinks. At his peak,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: he's average. So that's a fair point. But 59 points
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: is rather crazy. I'm getting some nonsense gibberish from Mark,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the full-name guy. He's a retired caller. He couldn't handle
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the grind as a caller, so he hides behind his
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: device and sends rude comments. Kathy in Madison writes in, says,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: say hey, Benny the Jet and the militia. And Kathy
• 27:06
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• 27:08
  Speaker 1: our affiliate in Charleston, South Carolina. So, well, thank you
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: for that, Kathy. Say hi to my niece there. My
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: friend's in Charleston. I got a niece that lives in Charleston.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: She went to college there. She loved it so much.
• 27:21
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• 27:23
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• 27:27
  Speaker 7: There you go.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Beautiful city. What else do we have? Let's see. Page down.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to read that one.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Let's take a call. It is a call-in show. And
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: let's see. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Pick a caller by
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: their name. Where shall we go here? My board is
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: currently being reset. Oh, here it is. All right. Let's go.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: But now I have it. It says blind guy from Philly.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: is what it says. Hello, blind guy from Philly.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: What's going on, brother man? First blind quarterback to ever
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: play in college. You know, I go by blind guy
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: from Philly, so.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Hold on, let me test. Hold on a sec, blind guy.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Let me see here. How many fingers am I holding
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: up right now?
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  Speaker 2: Two and a half.
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  Speaker 7: Two and a half.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: You almost got it right. I'm holding two up. If
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: you had said two, I would have said you're not blind.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: You're lying. But you said two and a half, so
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: that tells me.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: First time listener. I think the show was great. I
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: just want to ask you a quick question before I
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: get to my ego's point. That Anthony guy, second caller,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: is that AI or was he really trying to get
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: at Lorraine?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: No, believe it or not, blind guy, if you listen
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: more often, Anthony is one of our regulars. He has
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: nothing to say. He calls up to flirt with Lorena
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: pretty much twice, two or three times a week, Lorena?
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: At least two or three times a week.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: At least two or three times a week. He just asks,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: he has to be polite to me, blind guy. So
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: he'll say like, hey, how you doing, Ben? How's your week?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: He doesn't care about me at all. He doesn't give
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: a rat's ass about me. His only agenda is to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: talk to Lorena. That's it.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Listen, listen, listen. From a blind guy to Anthony, that's
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: a good play, brother.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: He's blind also, by the way. And I want you
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: to know, blind guy, that you might think you're special
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: as the blind guy from Philly. But we are the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: top show in all of radio, sports radio, when it
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: comes to the blind. It's a fact. We dominate the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: blind community. In fact, we have more blind people that
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: love the show than people that can see.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I'm going to have all my blind friends start calling
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: you guys from now on.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: You better. You better. We have Blind Emmett. We have
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Blind Seabass, Inca Terror. This guy, Inca Terror, you don't
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: know who that is, blind guy. He's a classically trained musician.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: in New York. He's played all over the world. He
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: plays the piano, completely blind.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: Very talented.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Completely blind. Gifted.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I think I might know who you're talking about. His
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: real name is Matthew Ellis, if I know who you're
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: talking about.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's his name. There might be another
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: blind guy, but this is our blind guy.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: So I want to talk about the Eagles and I
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: want to talk about the game. There's a lot of
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: people that are getting on the Eagles because of, you know,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: kind of how that game ended and kind of, you know,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Jaden Daniels being able to, you know, march the commanders downfield.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Here's how I kind of feel about it. There's only
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: a few Jaden Daniels in the NFL as far as
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: being able to escape the pocket, make plays with her
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: legs and then keep your eyes downfield. That is a
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: very hard quarterback to maintain. So the fact that we
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: were able to keep him to 18 to 34 yards
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: passing under 180 passing yards, I think our defense actually
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: performed very well today.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: You don't seem like a real Eagle fan to me.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: You're very positive. That's not a real Eagle fan. You're
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: supposed to be more negative. That's the first point. The
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: second point is the reason, I think you know this
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: blind guy, the reason people were pissed, and I was
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: one of the people pissed with the Eagles. The reason
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I was pissed is because before that drive there late
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: in the fourth, that 12-play, 63-yard drive, the Eagles were
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: up 24-16. Do you know what the point spread was
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: in the game? Do you know?
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: You're not a gambler.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: You're not a gambler. If the Eagles had won by
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: eight points, they would have covered the spread?
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Well, they wouldn't have covered it because they were favored
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: by six going into the game.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, exactly. That's my point. I think the line by
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the time the game kicked off, what did we get
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: on DraftKings? We had, let me see here, eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: pick a game. Yeah, the Eagles were five and a
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: half point favored. So if they won by eight, everyone
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: who bet on the Eagles would have won the bet. Instead,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: they lost, and that's why people are pissed.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Well, here's how I felt about it. Because I'm an
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Eagles fan, but I'm a realistic. And I've said it
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: all over social media, all throughout my text groups. I
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: said the Eagles will win this game, but the Commanders
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: will cover. Just take a look at their, you know,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: going back to when Jalen Hurts first started playing the Commanders.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: The Commanders keep it close.
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: They cover.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Eagles win.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Well, you should have called me before the game. That
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: would have helped me out a little financially. You know,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: you're my insider guy. Yeah, the Eagles only had 10
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: first downs. That's not great. You know, that's not ideal, though.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Just to make a quick point before I let you
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: guys go, man, I just think this Sean Manion offense is.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: Going to work.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: You've seen some things that he was doing in Green Bay.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: We're getting a tight end open on that over route
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: to Dallas Goddard, a deep route to Devontae Smith. trying
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: to get some pi calls downfield what i want to
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: see is i want to see them get back to
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: that mauling hand the ball off to saquon barkley 20
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: 25 times a game because even if those first 4
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: to 15 carries only go for 2 to 3 yards
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: you know eventually like we've seen with the 45 yarder
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: eventually he's going to pop one and he's going to
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: take it to the end zone or get close to
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: it all.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Right now listen to I want you to get every
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: one of your blind friends. I don't even care if
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: they're not your friends, your enemies, and have them call
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: our show. Have them listen. You better become a regular here,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Blind Guy. We're here every night during the week, five
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: nights a week.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: A lot of people got ops, too. I'll have my
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: enemies call.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: In, too.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: All right. Get your homies. All right. Thank you, Blind Guy.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: There's the Blind Guy from Philly right there. That's some
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: hot football talk right.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: There.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: That's a solid call. You can tell he's never heard
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the show before because that was a good call. He's fascinated.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike in Dallas. How about them Cowboys? Hello,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Mike in Dallas.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Welcome.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: What's going on, Mike?
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, Ben. Before we hit on Lorena, you had the
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: guy calling from Philly. I have an antidote. Hear me out.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: It was draft day maybe about six years ago. And
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: there was an old pioneer of the craft, Norm Hitchkiss.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: He's been around for a long time.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Sports talk legend in Dallas, Norm Hitchkiss, yes.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: And when they drafted, the Philly drafted Jalen Hurst, they
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: already had Carson Wentz. And you know what he said
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: his call of the pick was?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: What's that?
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Well, Philadelphia drafted Jalen Hurts, and they got always hurt.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Hey-oh, hey-oh.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: That's pretty cute, right?
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: That's a good line. That is a solid line. And
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: he has been hurt most of his career.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Can you put me on the breathalyzer for my Cowboys?
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I was about to do that. Are you reading my
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: script here? Are you reading my notes here? I believe
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: what we're calling you is you're self-medicating. Is that correct, Mike?
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: You're self-medicating, yes?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm going to be off probation in about two weeks.
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: Oh, okay.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: So many of our listeners, they love when they're off probation.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see here, Lorena. Blow into the phone, please, Mike.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Let's see the blood alcohol level of Mike in Dallas
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: self-medicating after another stink bomb performance by the Dallas Cowboys.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Get a blow into the phone. Get a blow into
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the phone! Oh, gosh.. 06 and he needs a breath mint. Oh,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: my God.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: That's why they gave me, what is that, a liquor
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: shot call?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Wait, wait, hold on a second. You said.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: 06.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: That is not, I think that's below the legal limit.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Can you blow into the phone again, I believe? You
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: need to blow into the phone. More spit next time.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Rumpel, rumpel, rumpel makes your.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Breath smell good. Legally, 0.08, that is, I believe, the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: point of you're drunk. I believe that's accurate. So you
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: said he's not drunk.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Well, if y'all think I'm drunk, I won't get a bottle.
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: Well, just because it's not a. 08 doesn't mean you're
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: not drunk.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so why don't you get a bottle of liquor?
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: You need to drink a little more. According to Lorena,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: you're not hammered. You're not drunk enough. Don't leave your house,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: whatever you do. Don't drive. Do not drink and drive.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Just stay there. Okay, just stay there and act like
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: a fool. But don't hurt anyone. I thank you. All right,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: go away. You won't remember this at all. You will
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: not remember this. When you sober up, you will not
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: remember this. It is the Ben Maller Show. Time now
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: for the Insta Trivia. And then we'll get to Maller
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: to the third degree. We'll get to that coming up
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: in a bit. Here's the... Here it is, the Insta Trivia.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: So Cardinals tight end Trey McBride. He now has 38
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: career games with at least five receptions. That is tied with...
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famers Antonio Gates, the Charger legend. Kellen Winslow Sr.,
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  Speaker 1: second most games by a tight end with at least
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  Speaker 1: five in the first five seasons of their career. Trailing
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  Speaker 1: only blank. Again, Trey McBride of the Cardinals currently tied
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  Speaker 1: now with Hall of Famers Antonio Gates and Kellen Winslow Sr.
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  Speaker 1: for the second most such games by a tight end.
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  Speaker 1: In his first five seasons, that's five receptions at least.
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  Speaker 1: time now for the payoff on the Insta Trivia. Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: tight end Trey McBride now has 38 career games with
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  Speaker 1: at least five receptions. Tied with Hall of Famers Antonio
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  Speaker 1: Gates and Kellen Winslow for the second most such games
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  Speaker 1: by a tight end in the first five seasons of
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  Speaker 1: 37 today from Late Night Direct. Did you have an
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  Speaker 1: answer on the radar? Yeah, I'm going to go with
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  Speaker 1: Orange Julius Thomas. Oh, I used to love Orange Julius
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  Speaker 1: when I was at the arcade as a kid. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's Jimmy Graham. Jimmy Graham, the preacher.
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  Speaker 4: Jimmy Graham.
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  Speaker 1: With the Saints back there. It's Maller. How about that?
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  Speaker 4: To the third degree. This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
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  Speaker 1: Ball loop.
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  Speaker 7: Now, Ben, you like to use the phrase coaching malpractice.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I do like that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's what several people were saying about Ryan Day
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  Speaker 5: over the weekend for his decision to not allow the
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  Speaker 5: Longhorns to score a quick touchdown against to give the
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  Speaker 5: Buckeyes time to set up a game-winning field goal. Ben,
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  Speaker 5: do you think that was coaching malpractice?
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  Speaker 1: I was watching the game, and I just assumed that
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State was going to allow Texas to score.
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  Speaker 7: You know what it is?
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  Speaker 1: The word I will use is hubris. Ryan Day was
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  Speaker 1: so arrogant. He was so convinced that his defense, he
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  Speaker 1: bet on his defense. How'd that work out, Coop? Not good.
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  Speaker 1: Not good. I think the move would have been to
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  Speaker 1: let him score. I was telling my buddy, I was
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  Speaker 1: watching the game with my gambling buddy, I said, let
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  Speaker 1: him score. He didn't do it. Next!
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  Speaker 5: Speaking of coaches under fire, people are saying that Dan
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  Speaker 5: Lanning has done the least with the most over his
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  Speaker 5: time in Oregon.
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  Speaker 7: They had a shocking loss over the weekend. Ben, do
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  Speaker 7: you think he makes it to the end of the season?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he will, but the people at Nike are going
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  Speaker 1: to start complaining, Coop. That's not money well spent. They've
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  Speaker 1: got all those blue chip players. They need some more
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  Speaker 1: players with grit. They've got a lot of spoiled babies
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  Speaker 1: on that Oregon team, it would appear. How do you
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  Speaker 1: lose to Oklahoma State?
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  Speaker 4: Next!
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  Speaker 7: Steph Curry has sold two houses in the Bay Area.
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  Speaker 5: Ben, are you the type that thinks that real estate
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  Speaker 5: sales are something to look into?
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  Speaker 1: It is, and keep an eye on the Charlotte Hornets
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  Speaker 1: or the San Antonio Spurs for Steph Curry's next team.
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  Speaker 1: How did we do, Koopaloop?
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  Speaker 7: You passed this edition.
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  Speaker 1: That is a win. Put it on the bar.
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  Speaker 5: Woo-hoo!