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Hour 2 - From Champ to Chump · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Mama, there goes that man. It's our number two. Our two.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. We go eeny, meeny, miny, moe. What
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  Speaker 1: are we talking about? How about we go to Seattle
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  Speaker 1: where Sam Darnold is out as QB1 for the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: He will not be playing in week nine. Is this
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  Speaker 1: a medical decision disguised as a football decision or a
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  Speaker 1: football decision disguised as a medical decision? decision you make
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  Speaker 1: the call and how would you categorize texans defensive star
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  Speaker 1: will anderson jr praising chargers quarterback justin herbert who has
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  Speaker 1: been by any measurement horrific for the chargers they have
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  Speaker 1: the worst offense in the nfl he's one of the
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  Speaker 1: worst rated quarterbacks in the national football league and yet
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  Speaker 1: you've got defensive star will anderson jr licking the toes
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  Speaker 1: of Justin Herbert. And in Philadelphia, is Eagles quarterback Joe
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  Speaker 1: Milton getting a legitimate opportunity to become an NFL starter,
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  Speaker 1: or is he being set up to fail as he
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  Speaker 1: takes over as the starter in the Delaware Valley? All
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  Speaker 1: that and more right now. It's feast or famine. It's
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  Speaker 1: our number two. From champ to chump.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Rhode Island, the lovely Jerry there in Rhode Island, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was Kathy in Madison, they said, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: need to know what's going on with this Fox 1 thing.
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  Speaker 1: I said, don't worry about it. NFL Week 9 is here.
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  Speaker 1: I told them. I said, NFL Week 9 is here.
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  Speaker 1: Packers versus Patriots. It's Sunday's America's Game of the Week.
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  Speaker 1: That just means a little more. That just means a
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  Speaker 1: little more when it's Sunday's America's Game of the Week.
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  Speaker 1: Streaming live on Fox 1. Miss it live and you're
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  Speaker 1: just watching a highlight. Catch every play.
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  Speaker 3: As it happens.
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  Speaker 1: Packers, Patriots, live on Fox 1. So make sure to
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  Speaker 1: check that out. I'll remind you about that a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later. But our lead, our lead story from the
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  Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest, we're still waiting for the 12s to check in,
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  Speaker 1: the frontrunners, guys like J.J. and Renton and Nostradinus and
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  Speaker 1: Crying Craig and all the rest who have gone into hiding.
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  Speaker 1: I don't blame you. I don't blame you the way
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  Speaker 1: things went the other night. But our lead is from
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle area where Sam Darnold, Hang on! Sam Donald out,
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  Speaker 1: out for the Week 9 game against the division rival Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. Seattle calling it a quad injury. Wink, wink, nod, nod.
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  Speaker 1: Suffered against Chicago. That means back up Drew Locke. If
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  Speaker 1: he is able to play, and I was reading the
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  Speaker 1: injury report, and he is on the injury report. If
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  Speaker 1: he is able to play, he will take over as
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  Speaker 1: he helped Seattle win a couple of games earlier today. However,
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  Speaker 1: there is a conspiracy theory making the rounds, and that
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  Speaker 1: got my attention. I don't know if you heard about
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  Speaker 1: this or not. Perhaps not. It does tie into something
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  Speaker 1: we talked about in a previous episode of the show.
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  Speaker 1: There are some factions that believe that Sam Darnold... is
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  Speaker 1: damaged but not damaged goods enough to miss the game,
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  Speaker 1: meaning as a starting quarterback in the NFL, you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to play with bumps and bruises and you have to
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  Speaker 1: keep going out there and playing. That's the expectation, that
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  Speaker 1: he could battle through and play. Instead, Coach Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: is being.
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  Speaker 4: Accused of using the injury as a camouflage to cover
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  Speaker 4: up the good old-fashioned soft benching of Sam Darnold.
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  Speaker 1: And that is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. We know Sam Darnold is out this week
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  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks. They're claiming it's a quad injury. Is
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  Speaker 1: this a medical decision disguised as a football decision or
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  Speaker 1: a football decision disguised as a medical decision? So my observations,
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  Speaker 1: I've got grade three, IHOP, and Vanishing Hitchhiker. And we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to take your breath away. And we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do that because we're going to punch you in the
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  Speaker 1: gut is what we're going to do. No, I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Number one.
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  Speaker 7: Number one.
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  Speaker 3: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> Number one.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So as the good doctor of overnight talk radio, do
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  Speaker 1: we not have the greatest callers? My God, what an
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  Speaker 1: hour that was last hour. As the good doctor of
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  Speaker 1: overnight talk radio, we went to the medical journal. We
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  Speaker 1: studied the medical journal. If you look at page 37,
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  Speaker 1: page 37 of the medical journal, we are diagnosing Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold with a grade three case of clipboard itis. Clipboard
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  Speaker 1: itis for Sam Darnold. Now, the smart money says the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are simply treating their fans like idiots. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing here. This is the oldest magic trick around.
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  Speaker 1: The rabbit out of the hat. But in the NFL lexicon,
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  Speaker 1: when the coach doesn't want to make an unpopular announcement,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to shame someone, they use the trainer as
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  Speaker 1: the bad guy, as the fall guy. Trucker Joe knows
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  Speaker 1: about that. Mike McDonald does not have the stomach. To
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  Speaker 1: bench the Super Bowl winning... How embarrassing is this? Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold proving with every game what a fluke that was.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most outrageous championships in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Sam Darnold. Sam... This is the real Sam Darnold.
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  Speaker 1: This is it. But you don't want to embarrass him
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  Speaker 1: because he won a little Super Bowl thing, that hunk
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  Speaker 1: of metal. And so they are leaning into this soft
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  Speaker 1: tissue thing. A quad injury. We went and we referenced
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  Speaker 1: our research. We went back and looked at some of
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  Speaker 1: the stuff we could kind of dig around, soft tissue injuries.
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  Speaker 1: The quad injury is a direct relative of the lower
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  Speaker 1: back injury, which is very popular, and the hammy tightness. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my hammy! It's going to go whammy! That's what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with Kyler, Alligator Arms Murray in Minnesota. This is
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  Speaker 1: Seattle's Sam Darnold, though, with the quad injury. football's version
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  Speaker 1: of calling in sick on a Monday morning after a
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  Speaker 1: three-day bender. He's like, ah, yeah, I got my quad thing.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so Darnold's numbers have completely cratered. He is
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  Speaker 1: the 29th quarterback in the NFL, according to the statistics.
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  Speaker 1: He is ranked worse than Jacoby Brissett, who was just
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  Speaker 1: demoted from in Arizona to third-string status and is in
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  Speaker 1: the process of being relocated to hang out with Sports
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  Speaker 1: with Coleman, our friend in Baltimore. Then you've got Malik Willis...
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  Speaker 1: who stinks in Miami, and that's it. That's all. Those
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  Speaker 1: are the only quarterbacks that are– well, not the only ones,
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  Speaker 1: but they're the ones that are ahead of him that
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  Speaker 1: you're like, whoa, my God, Sam Darnold is behind those guys.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple players behind Sam Darnold, but Willis and Brissette,
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  Speaker 1: that really gets your attention. Nevertheless, we believe what's going
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  Speaker 1: on here is Sam Darnold gets to use the diplomatic
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  Speaker 1: passport for immunity– at least from public shame.
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  Speaker 7: Shame!
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  Speaker 1: Shame! Because he got that little Lombardi thing, and somewhere there,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Locke is like, I'm going to be able to play.
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be okay and I'll make sure to
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  Speaker 1: send the Seahawks medical staff and the coaching staff a
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  Speaker 1: massive edible arrangements basket and I'm going to get out
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  Speaker 1: there and get it done and if not the Seattle
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  Speaker 1: football team will be on to their third string quarterback
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  Speaker 1: all right page two to Houston Houston, we have a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Outrageous commentary from Texans pass rusher Will Anderson Jr.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Will Anderson Jr. raising some eyebrows. He declared that
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers quarterback, Justin Herbert, is playing out of his mind. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we actually have the audio on this, I believe.
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  Speaker 7: I hope we do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if we do or not. I think
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  Speaker 1: we do. Anyway, here is, I believe, Will Anderson Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to this commentary about the Chargers quarterback, Justin Herbert.
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  Speaker 1: Very quiet.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's still a really great quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I don't play sound here.
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  Speaker 7: You talk about a big guy who has a big
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  Speaker 7: arm that can run around, that can throw the ball deep,
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  Speaker 7: makes a lot of plays with his legs. He's still,
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  Speaker 7: you know, a very respectable player in this league, and
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  Speaker 7: we have a ton of respect for them. As far
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  Speaker 7: as scheme, you know, we're going to probably see a
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  Speaker 7: lot of bounce. You know, McDonald, he's went against this
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  Speaker 7: defense a lot of times, coached against this defense at
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  Speaker 7: San Fran, I believe. So we know what to expect
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  Speaker 7: a little bit. But Herbert, man, he's playing out of
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  Speaker 7: his mind. They have a really great solid O-line as well.
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  Speaker 7: And it's a really good running back that can get downhill,
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  Speaker 7: that can hit the perimeter. So it's going to be
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  Speaker 7: a good challenge for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, real good challenge. Anderson, as you heard, playing out
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  Speaker 1: of his mind. He was talking about Justin Herbert there,
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  Speaker 1: insisting that Herbert remains an elite talent. And really great
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in this league. Oh, my God. So Houston does
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  Speaker 1: play L.A. this weekend, as we mentioned. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: how would you categorize Texans defensive star Will Anderson Jr.
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  Speaker 1: praising Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert? All right, so part of
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  Speaker 1: me wants to give Will Anderson a pass because he's
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  Speaker 1: busy on Sunday. He's not watching the Chargers because the
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  Speaker 1: Texans play on Sunday, so he's not watching the L.A.
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  Speaker 5: Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: But Will Anderson is giving Justin Herbert a verbal massage
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  Speaker 1: with a complimentary hot stone treatment is what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: This is a textbook case of what we called back
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  Speaker 1: in the day Lou Holt syndrome. This ancient football ritual
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  Speaker 1: of turning your suck bag opponent into a recreation of
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  Speaker 1: the 1985 Chicago Bears before kickoff. Kill them with kindness.
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  Speaker 1: Kill them with kindness. Smother them with compliments. Give them
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  Speaker 1: so much sugar that they develop diabetes before the opening whistle.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Chargers are 0-7. They are, at the very bottom,
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  Speaker 1: they are dead last in scoring in the NFL. They're
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  Speaker 1: averaging 14 points a game. This is junior varsity football.
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  Speaker 1: And yet, Will Anderson came out there and claimed that
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert is playing out of his mind. Apparently, we're
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  Speaker 1: grading quarterbacks on a curve. So generous. How generous is it?
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  Speaker 1: It is so generous, it's become a complete circle. If
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  Speaker 1: that's playing out of your mind, what is Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: doing in Buffalo? performing open heart surgery with one hand
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  Speaker 1: and solving nuclear fusion with the other hand. That's what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing. Everybody's elite. Everybody's so special. And nobody gets
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  Speaker 1: judged on their performance. That's it. That's classic Lou Holtz syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: Just once I would like a player to admit that
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  Speaker 1: the other guy stinks. That guy's a bum. That guy's
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  Speaker 1: a bum. Instead, we get Will Anderson who's pouring so
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  Speaker 1: much syrup on the Justin Herbert pancakes that the people
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  Speaker 1: over at IHOP are considering legal action. There's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a supply chain shortage of syrup. All right, now
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  Speaker 1: final point. To Philadelphia we go. The pipeline of quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: The changing of the guard. As the Eagles, E-A-G-L-E-S, suck, suck, suck.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles have decided to bench Tanner McKee, the pride
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  Speaker 1: of Irvine, California. Tanner McKee being benched for backup Joe
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  Speaker 1: Milton III. Not to be confused with Joe Milton II
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  Speaker 1: or Joe Milton I. That'll be against the gigantes of football,
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  Speaker 1: the Giants. That's after the Philadelphia football team has now
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  Speaker 1: lost six straight games. Six straight games. So you've got
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  Speaker 1: Coach Nick Sirianni insisting back on Monday that McKee was
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  Speaker 1: his guy. I stand by my guy. That was the
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  Speaker 1: little weasel. Yeah, little weasel Nick Sirianni. And then 48
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  Speaker 1: hours later, psych, he did the old okey-doke and decides
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  Speaker 1: to go to Joe Milton, the backup quarterback. McKee went
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  Speaker 1: 0-3 as a starter. He had just two touchdown passes
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of interceptions. The offense managed 45 points
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  Speaker 1: in three games, which I'm told is not good. Milton
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  Speaker 1: was signed off the Cowboys practice squad back in mid-October,
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  Speaker 1: and now he is the man for the moment in
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  Speaker 1: the Delaware Valley. So the question, is Eagles quarterback Joe
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  Speaker 1: Milton getting a legitimate opportunity to become an NFL starter,
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  Speaker 1: or is he being set up to fail? You make
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  Speaker 1: the call. So the way I approach this, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: for a bit of a tangent here.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Macho Man, Nick Sirianni, has officially entered the throw spaghetti
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  Speaker 1: at the wall phase of his Eagle coaching career. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a big handful of those spaghetti noodles and there's
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  Speaker 1: a little marinara and he's tossing it against the wall
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  Speaker 1: to see what's going to stick. This is the Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: casting call for Joe Milton. That's it. It's American pigskin
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  Speaker 1: idol Joe. They might as well bring in Ryan Seacrest
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  Speaker 1: as the quarterback coach there and make some magic. The
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  Speaker 1: Eagles are simply providing the stage.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: You get to go on the stage. The lighting and
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  Speaker 1: the complimentary humiliation. For several years, we have been hearing
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  Speaker 1: about Joe Milton, who's going to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: try to. impress 31 other teams. Joe Milton, the legend
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  Speaker 1: of this guy, it's an urban legend. He's like the
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  Speaker 1: vanishing hitchhiker of the NFL. Everyone has heard stories about
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  Speaker 1: Joe Milton. Very few have actually seen him play in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. He played a lot in college football, but
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  Speaker 1: the bazooka Joe legend has attracted a cult following. It's
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  Speaker 1: the story, Bazooka Joe, Joe Milton, his arm is a
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  Speaker 1: campfire story told by NFL fans, coaches, and scouts. They
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  Speaker 1: say that he can throw a football over them mountains,
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  Speaker 1: right over them mountains out there. And Milton has an
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  Speaker 1: arm like a rocket launcher. Of course, the problem is
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't really matter anymore. I'd much rather have a
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  Speaker 1: very accurate passer between the line of scrimmage or behind
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and, say, eight yards past the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. That is a much more valuable skill
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  Speaker 1: than throwing Hail Mary passes and just cranking up Bazooka
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  Speaker 1: Joe and chucking the ball down the field. That is
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  Speaker 1: not nearly as important as the ability to complete the
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  Speaker 1: basic pass, but you already knew that. And so the
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  Speaker 1: question is, can he hit a target that is not
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  Speaker 1: 45 yards down the field joe milton is the football
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  Speaker 1: equivalent of a monster truck with no steering wheel what
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  Speaker 1: good is that you watch him throw a football the
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  Speaker 1: legend on the internet is this guy throws the ball
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  Speaker 1: 70 75 yards and you think my god this guy's
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable those dopes like danny in nashville who is a
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  Speaker 1: fan of Tennessee. Milton spent some time at Tennessee. He's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, Joe Milton. So you watch him throw the ball,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, well, this guy's unbelievable. And then you
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  Speaker 1: ask him to complete a seven-yard slant, and suddenly you're
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  Speaker 1: negotiating with the laws of physics. The iconic baseball movie Major.
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  Speaker 6: League, where.
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  Speaker 1: Serrano was up there. They were throwing fastballs and he
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  Speaker 1: was hitting the ball a million miles. Throw him some curveballs.
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  Speaker 1: Throw him some breaking balls. Swing and miss. Swing and miss.
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  Speaker 1: Swing and miss. Swing and miss. Swing and miss. Jumping
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  Speaker 1: through hoops. Swing and miss. Swing and miss. Swing and miss.
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• 20:32
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• 20:35
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• 20:37
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• 20:40
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• 20:43
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• 20:45
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• 21:00
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  Speaker 8: Continuity is very important but what happens when you get
• 21:06
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• 21:10
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• 21:13
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• 21:16
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• 21:17
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• 21:21
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• 21:24
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• 21:27
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• 21:30
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  Speaker 1: The Ben Mathers Show on Fox Sports Radio as we
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• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the Overnight. Get back to it later this hour. Benny
• 21:54
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• 21:59
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• 22:02
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• 22:05
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• 22:17
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• 22:23
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• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Hey, Ben, how you doing?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: That's right, Anthony. That's talking football. That's what we do here. Now, also,
• 22:49
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• 22:53
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• 22:58
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• 23:04
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• 23:14
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• 23:18
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• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Baltimore game. That is what Benny versus the penny was
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: made for the line on draft Kings. Jacksonville is a
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: 10 point road favorite. I don't, when's the last time
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville was a 10 point road favorite. I'm gonna have
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: to look that up. I bet you it's been a minute.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I bet you it's been a minute. Man, oh, man.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: All right. JJ from Renton writes in. He says, you're
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: not getting paid for tonight, Ben. Can't even drive your
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: ass to work, he says. All right. JJ complaining. The
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Baltimore Freeloader account says, trust me, Al Michaels did not
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: eat biscuits in Baltimore. Probably had an overcooked steak with
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: some jumbo lump crab cakes. Although a source told me
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: once Al ordered crab cakes in L.A., that's a no-no. Meanwhile,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: that's Peter. What's Peter the dog going to eat? What
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: are the Benny versus the Penny odds on Peter the dog?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Peter's going to eat better than I am. Peter Herbstreet's
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: going to eat better than me. Guaranteed.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: 100%.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Al, and the thing about Al Michaels, he's part of
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the brotherhood of well done. The well done brotherhood. Puka Nakua,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Al Michaels, Kenny Albert And myself, we enjoy a hearty meal,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: well-done food. And we have that in common. Fergdog writes in, says,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold sucks. I heard a stat recently that he
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: committed an NFL high 28 turnovers since the start of
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: last season. I wonder where you heard that from. If
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I was coaching the Seahawks, I'd lock Darnold in a
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: dungeon and throw away the key. It's a good idea.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Not a burner, says Al Michaels, had a decent Thursday
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: night football game. This season, yeah, we've had some decent games.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think off the top of my head.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: What's been the top game? I'd have to go and look.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I don't have the Thursday night schedule in front of me.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: We had a couple of good matchups that lived up
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: to the billing and whatnot. All right, let's go to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the phones, and let's say hello to Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mojo Risen. who's in the Bay Area. Hello,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Mojo Risen.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Wow, child, full of grace, the savior of the human race.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Listening to the Ben Maller Show is never a disgrace. Mr.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Godfather of Overnight Radio, how are you, Mr. Ben? It's
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: been so long since I called in. I miss you guys.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: I listen all the time. I want to call in,
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: but I got to get up at 5 o'clock in
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: the morning, so here I am just like, oh, man.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: So I just told myself... I took a nap earlier.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: I powered through. I'm calling in to talk to my
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: favorite overnight, the godfather, Mr. Ben Maller.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Hey, that's dedication. I respect the hustle. It's not easy
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: working in the morning shift. That was the worst. I
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: worked morning radio for a year. It was the worst
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: year of my life. I hated it. I couldn't stand it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not a morning person. I just can't. I'm much
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: more awake at night. The money's much better.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Technically, I'm not either, but you know what, Ben?
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: I work 6 to 2.30, so honestly, I've done it
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: almost my whole life, and I love it because I
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: get off in the afternoon, I get home by 3,
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: and then I got the whole afternoon to watch all
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: the sports, you know, like recently when you had the baseball.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: And a quick congratulations to the Golden State Valkyries that's
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: down here in the Bay Area. They had that big
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: parade today in San Francisco. The weather was spectacular, and
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: You've got to give them credit. Only in their second year,
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: I think it's the fastest team in any sports history
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: to win a championship. So let's congratulate the Valkyries. They
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: did a great job and all this kind of stuff.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: My main reason for calling in, Ben, is I have
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: to agree with everything that you ever say on the radio,
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: especially when it comes to the Raiders. Gen T, I'm
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: going to be the person to say it. Gen T
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: is a bust. I mean, at the sixth pick, like
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: if you would have got him in the fifth or
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: the sixth round, okay, fine. But at the sixth pick,
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: this guy, he can't run. Like people say, oh, I
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: talked to the Raiders last week. Oh, give him a break.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: He's going to be good. No, he's already in his
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: second year. If he can't run by now, he ain't
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: ever going to be able to run. And not that
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: the Raiders offensive line is that great, because honestly, they're
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: really not. and they're really just a fraud i'll be
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: the first one to say that the diehard raider fight
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: even though we're four and four they're mainly a disgrace
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: man like you said the only reason that they won
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: is because they played all the worst teams than them
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: the jets miami you know the chargers which going into
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: the season they had the fifth best odds to go
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: to the super bowl so i don't know how they're
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: oh and seven but you know that that stuff happens
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: you know the injuries whatever you know but I agree
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: with everything you say, Ben. The Raiders, they're not a
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: good team. I mean, their defense is terrible. They're just terrible. Like,
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: if they can't stop the Jets, what's going to happen
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: to this weekend against the 49ers? Which, by the way,
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: I think that besides your team, I think the Rams
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: still have a chance to get there. But I think
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: right now, the best teams in the NFC are probably...
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: The Niners, and believe it or not, Chicago. Then the AFC,
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Buffalo's there. Coops Broncos are right there, too. And Jacksonville,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: the team that's going to be playing tonight. Those are
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: the teams that I think out of all six of those,
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: someone will end up in the Super Bowl. I predicted
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: earlier in the season that you're Rams. Coups-Broncos, which it
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: could still happen because the Rams are really a good team.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: They just start out slow. They've had so many injuries.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Garrett hasn't even played. Donald's still working his way back.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: Now Devontae Adams is hurt, but they've got Puka and
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: Stafford at quarterback. The guy, he can throw dimes. He
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: always has. He's one of the better quarterbacks in NFL
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: history that when you think all the best quarterbacks ever,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: will people mention Stafford? He kind of deserves it, man.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: He's been good his whole career.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Stafford's not going to get mentioned among the all-time greats.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: He won't. He'd have to win multiple Super Bowls here
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: coming up for that to happen. All right, get some sleep.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: You got it. Mojo rising. You need to sleep, my man.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: You got to go.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Up in a few hours. All right.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Be well. There is a Mojo rising. Checking in from
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the Bay Area.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Some Mojo potatoes sound good.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Is there a bad potato? Unless it's covered in worms.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: That's a fantastic point.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Thank you. That's my take of the day right there.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Because you can make alcohol out of potatoes. You can
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: have potatoes au gratin. You can have wedge potatoes. You
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: can have curly fries. Twice-baked potatoes. That's right.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Tater tots.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I could get rid of a lot of other things.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: If I had the vegetable, I feel like because the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: way you shape the vegetable and the way you cook
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the vegetable and you can make a drink out of it,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: it really is the perfect food, the potato.
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, seriously.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Even its cousin is delicious, the sweet potato.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Not as big a fan of the sweet potato.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Wait, you say you're not a fan of the sweet potato?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Not as big a fan. I feel like they're trying
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: to market it. They tried to market it as a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: healthy potato, as a healthy thing. And I don't know
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: that it's actually all that healthy. I'm not sure about that. Anyway,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: let's go back to calls. It is a call-in show,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and we'll say hello to Tim, who's in Austin, Texas.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: What's going on, Tim?
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: Welcome.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: Man, y'all get me through my work night. I just
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: want to say I appreciate y'all. I love Lorena. I
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: love Coop. I love you, Ben. I love you guys.
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: You make me laugh while I'm at work. So much
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: appreciation to all y'all and the guests that you have on.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. What kind of work do you do
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: there in Austin?
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: I do quality control for this company called XQ. We,
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: I guess, supply the car, interior car parts for Tesla
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: and Range Rovers.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: You got to make sure everything's working properly and people
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: aren't getting duds. I got you.
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty much.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Can I ask you a question?
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Lorena would like to ask you a question. Is that okay?
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: All right. Lorena, I've gotten permission. You can now ask
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: my friend Tim a question.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: You said you work for Range Rover, right?
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: No, Range Rover. We supply the interior car parts for
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: Range Rover.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: Oh, okay.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Because Lady London's, hers blew up. It caught on fire
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: with her and her sister in it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: She's a rapper.
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: Nice interior.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Luxury.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I feel like you were trying to blame Tim on that, Lorena.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: That's a bad job. I just wanted.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: To know if it was a common thing that happened.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: That's kind of a jerk move by you, Lorena. I mean,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: You got to have somebody to blame, right? Like how
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: we blamed Sam Darnold for the losses in Seattle.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Well, you've got to have a fall guy, right, Tim?
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: You've got to have a fall guy. The key to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: employment is to know who to blame and not yourself.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You've got to blame somebody else. That's the key. All right, well,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: thanks for listening, Tim. Be safe, man. Enjoy. Call anytime.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: We're here. I like that you called. It wasn't a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: newbie night. That's pretty cool because normally these guys only
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: call in on newbie night. They don't call in other
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: than that. Well, hello, Dolly. How about this one? The
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Nashville Predators. You know what that is? What sport is that, Lorena,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the Nashville Predators? Yeah. Just take a guess. Go ahead.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Let's go with ice hockey. Whoa.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, look at you, sporty Lorena. Yeah, I think so.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: The Nashville Predators, are you going to fly to Nashville
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, this Saturday, a couple days away? They're playing
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the St. Louis Blues. And they are going to honor
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: who else but Dolly Parton, the native daughter of the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Nashville area, the state of Tennessee. So Dolly Parton will
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: be honored. They'll have special jerseys. Players are going to
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: be wearing a hometown remix jersey during warm-ups featuring Dolly
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: on the nameplate instead of the surnames. They're also going
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: to be wearing a butterfly patch, a commemorative patch. I'm
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: sure they will not be charging for that at the
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: gift shop. Gold butterfly, which was, I guess, Dolly Parton's
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: symbol going back to the 70s. And the goaltender for
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the Nashville Predators, you say Soros will be wearing a
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: specially designed mask featuring a portrait of Dolly Parton. All
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: that's going on. It is. But it's also I don't
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: want to trash it. And this is the part where
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I trash it, Lorena. See, I don't want to trash it.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: And this is the part. This is the part where
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I say, wait a minute here. What are we doing here?
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: You know, Dollywood on ice and all that. Because I
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: look at this and I'm like, well, it's a marketing gimmick. Like,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: it's cool. I'm not disagreeing. It's cool. But it is
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: a marketing gimmick, right? It's a heartfelt tribute, which is
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: morphed into, hey, a marketing thing. I'm pretty confident they'll
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: be selling some Dolly stuff at the gift shop. Don't
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you have to get permission to like maybe they did?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Even though Dolly's dead, the people own her her rights, right?
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Because like Michael Jackson, people have been dead for a while.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: They still make money off their likeness. Their families do.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how all that works, but there you go.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: So Dolly Parton, big celebration there. As jerseys and the sticker,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: the patch, the whole thing.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: And she's got the airport, too.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Is that actually happening? Yeah, they renamed it. They've already
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: done it? They already did it. It's done. Oh, I
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: didn't realize that. Okay, I thought that takes a long
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: time to do that. I didn't realize you could do
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: that that quick.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: They expedited the process.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: I think she's wrong. I'm not wrong.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: The guy who owns the airport said it.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: It's in the process of being released.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I know, but you understand when you– there's like federal
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: red tape when you change the name of an airport.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Like around the world, people fly to Nashville. So it's
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: like the whole world has to be on– like anyway.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: We got Benny versus the Penny. Benny versus the Penny.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that coming up. And here is the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Insta trivia. With at least 140 scrimmage yards this weekend,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Lions running back Jameer Gibbs would join Jim Brown, Christian McCaffrey,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: and Blank as the only players under age 25 to
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: record at least 140 scrimmage yards. in six of their
• 36:14
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• 36:17
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• 36:21
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  Speaker 1: Maller monologues and other features. So check. that out all
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: right time now for the who am i game or
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  Speaker 1: the instant trivia rather instant trivia quickly and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to benny versus the penny with at least 140
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage yards this weekend lions running back jameer gibbs we
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  Speaker 1: join jim brown and christian mccaffrey and blank as the
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  Speaker 1: only players under age 25 to record at least 140
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage yards in six of their team's first eight games
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  Speaker 1: of a season that's the question what's the answer alf
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  Speaker 1: the alien opiner going with Hal Morris is his answer.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. JT the Wingman checks in from Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: with Eric Dickerson. Charlie in Wisconsin from Mallard Propriet. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: happened to Charlie? We had two Charlies call for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie in Dallas and Charlie in Wisconsin. Earl Campbell from Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Irrigation.
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  Speaker 1: Ouch, Charlie, that hurt. What else do we have? Stump Mitchell.
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  Speaker 1: There's a good name from Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. The
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  Speaker 1: official sandwich of the Ben Mallard Show. The Pickle Witch
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  Speaker 1: from Not a Burner. That's not true. Jerry Jones from
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  Speaker 1: Chip and the Q's. Barry Sanders from Johnny Q. Ricardo
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  Speaker 1: going with Raleigh Fingers. Solid name. Nashville Predators. Chris Hansen's
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  Speaker 1: favorite team from Not a Burner. Do you have an answer, Lorena?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going with Jake from State Farm.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's Ricky Williams is the answer. Ricky Williams of
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  Speaker 1: the 2000. Lawland Saints with that jambalaya. Here we go.
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  Speaker 5: Time to roll.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome in, militia.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of winners.
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  Speaker 2: Can you handle more Malheur mayhem? Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 8: It's time now for.
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  Speaker 5: Step back.
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  Speaker 2: Benny versus the Penny.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. Benny versus the Penny. Week
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  Speaker 1: nine kicks off on a Thursday night in Maryland. The Jaguars,
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  Speaker 1: the road team, taking on Baltimore. DraftKings has this game
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  Speaker 1: at minus 10 in favor of the road team, the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: That is a massive win. Point spread for the road team.
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  Speaker 1: It's on Amazon, Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreet, and Peter the Dog.
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  Speaker 1: Peter Herbstreet the Dog will be there. Should rain at
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  Speaker 1: some point tonight in Baltimore. Temperatures in the 60s for
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  Speaker 1: this particular game. And I tried my darndest to come
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  Speaker 1: up with a reason to take Baltimore. I'm a points whore.
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  Speaker 1: I love taking points. Ten points is a huge amount
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  Speaker 1: of points in an NFL game. So I crunched all
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  Speaker 1: the numbers. I looked at every possible scenario. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking Baltimore. Jacksonville. I would either bet on Jacksonville or
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  Speaker 1: not bet this game. We bet every game on Benny
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  Speaker 1: versus the Penny. So I'll lay the 10 points. If
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  Speaker 1: I lose, I'm fine losing. I just can't bet on
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  Speaker 1: Joe Fagnano and the Ravens, the undrafted rookie. This is
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  Speaker 1: a huge mismatch. Trevor Lawrence facing a Baltimore team that
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  Speaker 1: is lacking their quarterback. The Ravens managed 10 points in
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  Speaker 1: their loss to Baltimore. Their offense is on life support.
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  Speaker 1: And you look around here, Baltimore's also been a betting disaster.
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  Speaker 1: They're 2-6 against the spread, 0-3 against the spread at home. Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 1: 4-3 against the spread, but they're an NFL best, 10-4
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  Speaker 1: as a favorite. Going back to 2025, the Jags defensively
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  Speaker 1: have been pretty good at stopping the run. So if
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  Speaker 1: you neutralize Derrick Henry, you figure you're in pretty good shape.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that will kill Jacksonville is turnovers. And
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence does have that bug from time to time.
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville leads the NFL, though, in turnover differential so far
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  Speaker 1: this season. Again, every key indicator. Everything says take Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 1: lay the points. That's the way to do it. And
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  Speaker 1: there's really not much else to think about in this game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the Ravens, if they get some turnovers and
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  Speaker 1: some special teams plays, they can hang around for a while.
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  Speaker 1: This is a really good matchup for Trevor Lawrence and Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: Koopaloop is representing the Penny. And who does the Penny
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  Speaker 1: like in this game, Koop?
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  Speaker 3: Ben, we have a disagreement. The penny is going with
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  Speaker 3: the Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Good luck to the penny. Godspeed. Jacksonville should
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  Speaker 1: win this game at minimum 27 to 10. It should
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  Speaker 1: be worse than that. Minimum 27 to 10. Jags will
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  Speaker 1: win that game tonight. There it is. Benny versus the penny.