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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: The mile-high bye-bye. The mile-high bye-bye. That is where we
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  Speaker 1: will begin as we have our in-depth team coverage. Breaking down...
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  Speaker 1: Week three in the NFL. There's one game left on
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  Speaker 1: Monday night as Chicago and Philadelphia will duke it out.
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  Speaker 1: But until then, this was the final game on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: an island game. You had Mike Tirico and Chris Collinsworth
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  Speaker 1: on the call there on NBC. The Peacock broadcasting the
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  Speaker 1: game there, painting the words picture as Matthew Stafford and
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  Speaker 1: the Rams squaring up with Bo Nix. And the Broncos,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this game or not,
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  Speaker 1: were you burned out from all the other football? Did
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  Speaker 1: you not watch football? Bad job by you if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't watch football. Shame on you. Well, don't worry. We watched.
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  Speaker 1: So you wouldn't have to. We have no lives. We
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  Speaker 1: sit our ass all day, watch football. So there we were.
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  Speaker 1: And it came down to the final minute in Colorado
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  Speaker 1: as Bo Nix, the quarterback keeper, From inches outside the
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  Speaker 1: goal line, the Broncos had 77 plays inside the red
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  Speaker 1: zone there to get that touchdown. 47 seconds left, and
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  Speaker 1: that turned out to be the difference, pushing the Broncos
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  Speaker 1: past the ramps 30-26 on a game that was highlighted
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  Speaker 1: by the referees. We'll get to that in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: A wild five minutes of this game included a 66-yard
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  Speaker 1: pick-six by Denver's defense. Then the Rams came right back,
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  Speaker 1: and they scored a touchdown. And then the referee said,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, boys. Hold our beer. We got you. We
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  Speaker 1: got you. So the Broncos go to 2-1. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: drop to 1-2 as Denver gets the final-minute win on
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  Speaker 1: the Bo Nix touchdown keeper. The better story is in
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  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. We'll get to the officials in
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  Speaker 1: a minute, but let's just look at the wide-angle lens.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good jumping-off point. So as we discussed, the question–
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  Speaker 1: Give me a word. Give me a word for Sean
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  Speaker 1: McVay's Rams who had a 16-point lead at halftime and
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos were doing nothing. Give me the word for
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay's Rams. So I've got pharmacy grade, 1099, and
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  Speaker 1: fruit basket. And we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we will turn to dust. like the Rams
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  Speaker 1: did at times defensively in the red zone there. Of
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  Speaker 1: course they did. have the Broncos, the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th.
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  Speaker 1: How many officials? Eight officials out there? That was like
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  Speaker 1: 19 against 11. All right, so my word, though, my
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  Speaker 1: word for the way the Rams played in the second
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  Speaker 1: half before the officials had to push the Broncos across
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  Speaker 1: the finish line, my word is bedraggled. The Rams played
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  Speaker 1: bedraggled football. They were bedraggled, bewildered, and bedeviled. especially in
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  Speaker 1: that third quarter. I don't know what the F they
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  Speaker 1: were doing there. They went from incomplete control of the game,
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  Speaker 1: and then it wasn't really a collapse by the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a controlled demolition to let the Broncos
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  Speaker 1: back in the game. And from the majestic mountains of
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  Speaker 1: Denver came the unmistakable aroma of the Rams team decomposing.
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  Speaker 1: right there in that third quarter. The two-point conversion thing,
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand. The Rams have to be the worst
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  Speaker 1: team in the NFL at defending the two-point conversion. It
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  Speaker 1: seems like I watch these other games, and most of
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  Speaker 1: the time they don't convert the two-point conversion. Against the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: it seems to happen all the time. And this has
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  Speaker 1: been some weird crap. We know the referees gave Seattle
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  Speaker 1: that game last year. We know that. And now the
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  Speaker 1: referees have given Denver this game. But before that happened,
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  Speaker 1: Before the Rams, who didn't play, they still should have
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  Speaker 1: won the game, as bad as they were. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, McVay's halftime adjustments included the Rams all huddling up,
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  Speaker 1: and they passed out a bottle of pharmacy-grade melatonin at halftime,
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  Speaker 1: and then they woke up just in time for the
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  Speaker 1: postgame handshake. Just in time for that sleepwalking in the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter in particular there. But you don't get outscored 30-10.
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  Speaker 1: in 30 minutes of football. You don't get outscored by
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  Speaker 1: 20 points if you're focused. They got chewed up, spit out,
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  Speaker 1: and stepped on. And some of it was self-inflicted as
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford threw the pick six. And Stafford suffering from
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  Speaker 1: terminal flatulence yet again as he logged in the second
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  Speaker 1: half of this game a passer rating of 56.4%. 56.4,
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  Speaker 1: which is akin, when you include all the brain farts
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  Speaker 1: that he had, it's like he had more brain farts
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  Speaker 1: than a nursing home bingo tournament with our friend Dick
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  Speaker 1: in Dayton there in beautiful Dayton, Ohio. Meanwhile, you talk
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  Speaker 1: about a piecemeal effort in the red zone by the
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  Speaker 1: Rams defense yet again. And Chris Shula, the common denominator here,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams defensive coordinator, has his unit in the red
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  Speaker 1: zone turned to mulch uh yikes and uh pathetic gotta
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  Speaker 1: finish the job i know the referees certainly were on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the broncos at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: game but my god you still had shots to to
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  Speaker 1: make plays there at the end so it this keeps
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  Speaker 1: up though they're gonna i don't know if those don
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  Speaker 1: schuler steakhouses are still around those used to be popular
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  Speaker 1: back and they may have to reopen those and he
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  Speaker 1: can go, Chris Shuler can go run those steakhouses. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to the Komodo dragon in the room, the
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  Speaker 1: play that everyone will be talking about for the next
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  Speaker 1: couple days here involving the NFL as the Rams' backup
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  Speaker 1: defensive back, Josh Wallace, made a brilliant play and was
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  Speaker 1: punished for a brilliant play. He was flagged for a
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  Speaker 1: defensive pass interference play. that anybody with a functioning brain
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  Speaker 1: knows was a screw job by the referees in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And these games are bet on. There should be some
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  Speaker 1: kind of congressional investigation. What an F job. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: F you, F you, F you. We like the Broncos.
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  Speaker 1: Was he wearing his Bronco onesie, the referee that made
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  Speaker 1: that call? My God. He probably has more Bronco gear
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  Speaker 1: than Koopa Loop, that guy. Holy crap. So Josh Wallace
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  Speaker 1: was flagged for a defensive pass interference play that everybody,
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  Speaker 1: including the, you know it's bad when the NBC rules analysts,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are total shills for the referees. When the
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  Speaker 1: rules analyst on TV is like, boy, that was not
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  Speaker 1: a good call. You know that's a bad job by
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  Speaker 1: the referees, right? I mean, these guys, these rules analysts,
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  Speaker 1: they licked the toes of the officials in the game.
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  Speaker 1: And even that guy, Terry McCauley on NBC is like, well,
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't good. My God, he was just hand-fighting. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And it should have been interception. Rams get the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Broncos burn their timeouts. That's it. Game over, essentially. The
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  Speaker 1: Rams win the game at that point. And it didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: That call set up Denver. You talk about the door-to-door
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  Speaker 1: service by the referees. My God, for the game-winning touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Broncos at the Rams' 11-yard line were
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  Speaker 1: trailing by a field goal. So they trailed by a
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  Speaker 1: field goal. Bo Nix throws a short pass to wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver Pat Bryant on the right sideline. And then Josh
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  Speaker 1: Wallace came over, made a good play. He gets his
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  Speaker 1: knee inbounds, secured the ball, and game ending for almost
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  Speaker 1: game ending. Not guaranteed to be game ending. Certainly game changing.
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  Speaker 1: And the Broncos would not have kicked a field goal
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  Speaker 1: to tie the game. They wouldn't have scored a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams would have had possession of the ball. The
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  Speaker 1: penalty negated the turnover, and the crew flagged Wallace for
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  Speaker 1: defensive pass interference. This is so great. They claimed that
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  Speaker 1: the contact with Bryant while the ball was in the air.
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  Speaker 1: Which is great if you just make crap up. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's the way to go. Why not? So instead, gave
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  Speaker 1: Denver a first down from the seven-yard line. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the game-changing play. Congratulations to the Broncos. They certainly had
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  Speaker 1: their guardian angel on the side of that team. So
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  Speaker 1: the question here. We know it was a terrible, egregious
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  Speaker 1: felony pass interference call that should not have been made.
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  Speaker 1: It went against L.A. Can we stop pretending that the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos earned the win completely? Can we just stop that? Okay, good.
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  Speaker 1: We can stop that. I'm glad you agree. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: This was a quantum physics situation playing out in real time.
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  Speaker 1: Quantum physics. You have two completely opposing versions. existing in
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  Speaker 1: the exact same moment in time. Now, version number one,
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  Speaker 1: version number one, the Rams played like absolute lambs in
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  Speaker 1: the second half of that game. They didn't play well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sit here and say it. Unlike a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these frauds that were their team gear, I
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  Speaker 1: pointed out they didn't play well. All right? They didn't
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  Speaker 1: play well. Embarrassed themselves. That was embarrassing. Version two, which
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  Speaker 1: is also reactionary, is Denver did not deserve to win
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  Speaker 1: that game. They were handed a massive, shiny gift wrap
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  Speaker 1: in nylon yellow. Yellow nylon right there by the referees
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  Speaker 1: at the end of that game. Both are factually correct.
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  Speaker 1: That late penalty was not pass interference. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: how many times you can show it. It wasn't pass interference.
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  Speaker 1: That's two grown men fighting for the ball. That's what
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  Speaker 1: that is. And was Pat Bryant playing wide receiver or,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, was he auditioning for the community theater
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  Speaker 1: there in suburban Colorado. Outside Denver. I don't know. But apparently,
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  Speaker 1: defending a pass. I didn't know when this happened. You
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  Speaker 1: can let me know. But let me know when defending
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  Speaker 1: a pass now requires written permission from the target. That
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  Speaker 1: was NBA level. NBA level showmanship by the Broncos wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver there. I thought I was watching LeBron floppy McFlop. Embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: All you Bronco fans, I'm embarrassed for you. I'm embarrassed
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  Speaker 1: for you. That's your guy right there. Flopping. That's your guy.
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  Speaker 1: He flopped. Embarrassing. Gutless. Absolutely gutless is what that play was.
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  Speaker 1: And then, again, I go back to the TV rules analyst.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how often you pay attention to these bozos.
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  Speaker 1: These guys are insiders to make the officials look good.
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  Speaker 1: Almost never do they disagree with the referees, the calls
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  Speaker 1: on the field. They almost always agree. And you had
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  Speaker 1: this guy, that was bad. That was bad. When the
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  Speaker 1: rules expert says that was bogus, okay, what are we
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  Speaker 1: actually doing here? It's ridiculous. And the Zebras delivered that
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  Speaker 1: flag like Amazon Prime. It was delivered like Amazon Prime
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  Speaker 1: at just the perfect time. Tremendous job there. Free express
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  Speaker 1: shipping directly to Denver's doorstep. The Rams, again, they collapsed. However,
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  Speaker 1: the officials finished the job. They finished up. Rams had
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  Speaker 1: a get-out-of-jail-free card, and the officials said, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to give that to the Broncos. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: that was such a generous situation from the referees that
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  Speaker 1: the Bronco front office is going to receive a 1099 form.
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  Speaker 1: That's how charitable this was here. So Denver gets the
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  Speaker 1: win and a giant yellow asterisk. is hanging over the end.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of reminded me a little bit of that Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: Western Michigan college football game where you're like, well, the team,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they've won that. But just like college,
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  Speaker 1: they won't take the win away and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And there'll be some message, well, the referees, that call
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  Speaker 1: should not have been made or some bull crap like that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: last word, let's focus in on the Denver side here.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is this, how is Broncos coach Sean
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  Speaker 1: Payton feeling about his team after this I say this
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  Speaker 1: in air quotes, victory, which, as we know, was very questionable.
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  Speaker 1: So if I'm Sean Payton, I'm relieved. I'm not reassured.
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  Speaker 1: There is a pattern here of the Broncos not being
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  Speaker 1: prepared to play football. Three games into the year, and
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  Speaker 1: they have had three duds in the first half to
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  Speaker 1: begin the year. And you're playing around. In this game,
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  Speaker 1: you need the referees to bail you out. Last game,
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville had to bail you out. And there's only so
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  Speaker 1: many bailouts that you get, and you've already used a
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  Speaker 1: couple of them. You've already used a couple of bailouts
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  Speaker 1: if you're the Broncos at this point here. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: win the game so much as they stumbled across a
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  Speaker 1: bag of cash from the very generous referees here. Dropped
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  Speaker 1: right on the sidewalk, and there you go. Pick it up.
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  Speaker 1: Why not? Found money. So Bo Nix, again, he spent
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  Speaker 1: the first 30 minutes of this game playing quarterback like
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  Speaker 1: the remote controller battery had died. And it's like, whoa,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? I mean, nothing's working. Maybe the battery's
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  Speaker 1: just not plugged in. I don't know. The Denver allegedly
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  Speaker 1: vaunted Bronco defense got absolutely panicked. You know the Rams
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  Speaker 1: had almost 500 yards of offense in this game? Without,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, their top player, Puka Nikua, who was injured. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about gutless Bronco defense giving up almost 500
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  Speaker 1: yards of offense without Puka Nikua. Then came the second
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  Speaker 1: half resurrection, right? The resurrection aided by the gift-wrapped pass
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  Speaker 1: interference call. with a bow on top. So spare me
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  Speaker 1: the Bronco chest thumping. I don't need it. Listen, you
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  Speaker 1: put your tail between your legs, you walk away, you
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  Speaker 1: got your little gift. Congratulations. NFL gave you a solid.
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  Speaker 1: They gave you a win. Way to go. And the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Denver needed the Rams to gag and, in addition,
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  Speaker 1: have the referees help them as Santa. It's like Santa's workshop.
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  Speaker 1: Holy crap. And my God, and Bo Nix, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Rams playing like they were in a coma. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix also in the first half and then able
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  Speaker 1: to crawl across the finish line after they had like
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  Speaker 1: 77 plays in the red zone there at the end.
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  Speaker 1: So Sean Payton, first thing in the morning on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: what Sean Payton should be doing is have his assistant.
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  Speaker 1: order up a nice fruit basket with some nice bananas
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  Speaker 1: and oranges and apples and strawberry, and then a box
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  Speaker 1: of chocolates, and then you could possibly even a timeshare.
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  Speaker 1: They just gave you a win. That should be like
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  Speaker 1: a timeshare situation, right? So definitely not a statement win.
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  Speaker 1: You think beating the Rams would be a statement win.
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  Speaker 1: That was not a statement win by the Broncos. Not impressed.
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  Speaker 1: Not impressed that you needed the officials to bail you out.
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  Speaker 1: to win that game, even though the Rams played like
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  Speaker 1: crap in the second half. You still needed help from
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  Speaker 1: the referees. Pathetic.
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  Speaker 3: Stugatz here, pleased to be hosting college football with Stugatz
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  Speaker 3: and the Bear. We do it two times a week,
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  Speaker 3: every Monday, every single Friday throughout the college football season.
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  Speaker 3: You can expect a little bit of this. Will Stein,
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  Speaker 3: the head coach at.
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky, joins us.
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  Speaker 1: Open bar at a wedding, ordering a Shirley Temple. Will
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Will not. Ketchup on steak. Will or will not? Will
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  Speaker 2: Will not.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of this.
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  Speaker 3: Reese Davis, host of College Game Day, is with us now.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm going home to the BBC, and they're
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  Speaker 2: saying Jockovich instead of Jokovich.
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  Speaker 1: Right, because you can't say Jockovich. If you do, you
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  Speaker 1: know the blowback.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to get from the American audience.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And a whole lot of this.
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  Speaker 1: In our nation's capital, unless you're in Canada or Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: then it's not your nation's capital, but Washington. Dunning, Seattle. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember when the Seahawks were the
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  Speaker 1: class of the NFL. Now they're just the ass of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Washington stunning the once-proud Seahawks, 33-31, and the
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  Speaker 1: reigning Super Bowl champions, thanks to some help from the referees.
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  Speaker 1: The 12-game winning streak is kaput. They might not win
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  Speaker 1: a game again. The Seahawks might not win a game again.
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  Speaker 1: They are now 2-1. They are reeling. They have just
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  Speaker 1: completely fallen apart. The Seahawks did something that many felt
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  Speaker 1: was impossible. They lost a game to Marcus Mariota.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I know. A lot of people going to bed.
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  Speaker 1: Even Sasquatch has gone to bed early here in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: so upset by what happened. But Seattle losing to Marcus Mariota,
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  Speaker 1: filling in for the injured Jaden Daniels. He had three
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns as Washington gets their first win of the year.
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  Speaker 1: And the once-proud Seahawks have to wear that on the chin.
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  Speaker 1: Seattle committed not one, not two, but three touchdowns Self-inflicted wounds.
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  Speaker 1: Three turnovers, including El Clasico from Sam Darnold. That is
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  Speaker 1: the Sam Darnold we know and love. That is our
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold right there. The killer came late when somebody
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  Speaker 1: named Kane Medrano returned a Sam Darnold interception 50 yards
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  Speaker 1: for a touchdown, giving Washington a nine-point lead. They would
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  Speaker 1: end up winning by two points. as they were a
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  Speaker 1: big underdog over a touchdown dog at home. So that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Why should anybody believe Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold has actually changed?
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  Speaker 1: That's the question. So I've got factory settings, the Little Mermaid,
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  Speaker 1: and Salvation Army. And we'll combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll give you the ABCs. and the 1-2-3s. So
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  Speaker 1: we always start with number one! Number one! 1-1-1-1-1! Number one!
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  Speaker 1: Now some of you were fooled, and you can wear
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  Speaker 1: the dunce cap. I tried to tell you. You wouldn't listen.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Bad job by you. Bad job by you. For a
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: minute there, you thought that Seattle had cracked the code.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: That the Sam Darnold software update had downloaded successfully. Nothing
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: to see here. We're all good. But turns out there's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: still malware in there. There's still malware in the Sam
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Donald software up yeah yikes still hiding somewhere in that
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: hard drive Good luck getting that out.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Well, look, you can call it one bad game. I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: already got an email from one of our listeners in
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest who said, Mal, I know you're going
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: to kill the Seahawks, but it's only one bad game.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: And Darnold still had four touchdowns. Okay. All right. Four touchdowns.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: That makes up for the. Game-changing mistakes. I know.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, it doesn't? Okay, that's right. It doesn't make up
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: for the... Yeah, I got you. Okay, it doesn't make
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: up for the game-ending mistakes. So I call this evidence
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: entered into the record, is what I call this here.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: So Seattle ordered the new and improved Sam. Sam, Sam, Sam. Bam, bam, bam. Yes,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and occasionally they still get that factory settings edition of
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. That's a Debbie Downer when that happens, right?
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: So he didn't lose his confidence, Sam Darnold. He briefly
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: lost track of which color jersey he was wearing. And
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: that pick six, that was the Sam Darnold we all
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: came to know and love in the NFL. That pick six,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: my God. That was not just a throw by Sam Darnold.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: That was a family heirloom. It was. That's who Sam
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Darnold has been and continues to be at his core.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Somewhere there's a guy in New Jersey somewhere, an old
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Jets fan, who watched that and whispered, Thanks for the memories. Yeah,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: thank you, Sam. Thank you, Sam. Wham, bam, thank you, Sam.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: That's what Washington was saying as the Washington Commanders get
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the win there. or their backup quarterback, and the Seahawks
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: won the stat sheet. That was a refresher course, though,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: that no matter how many touchdowns Sam Darnold has and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: how many yards he racks up, it doesn't matter. Because
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you can say, oh, he's a championship quarterback. He's got
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the championship pedigree. You can shove that up your tuckus
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: all you want. Still, there is a manufacturer's warning label
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: on Sam Darnold. The shocking thing is he didn't play
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: like that in the Super Bowl with all those mistakes.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: We were waiting for that to happen. It didn't happen,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: but that was a fluke, and typically flukes don't happen
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: more than one time. Now, page two. We go to Buffalo.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Buffalo. They tried to do it. The
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills said, we want to help out Harbaugh. We
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: want to give Harbaugh a win. Let's help out Harbaugh.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And Harbaugh's team said, no, no, no, no, no. We
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: don't want that help. We don't need that help. We
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: don't want to win a game. Hell no, we don't
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: want to win a game. So, yeah, they didn't. The
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Chargers somehow lost the game. They're 0-3 now. They lose
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: by eight points to the Buffalo Bills. as their disastrous
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: start rolls on. And that, not even the story here,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the Chargers given not one, not two, not three, not four,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: but actually five gifts by the Bills. Five gifts. We'll
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: get to that in a second. Now, Jim Harbaugh defending
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: yet again his quarterback and his offensive coordinator, Mike McDaniel,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the embattled wokester, who looks like he should be drinking
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: a kombucha tea doing a podcast for the public radio,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and there he is, offensive coordinator of the Chargers. Things
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: are not going very well right now for Mike McDaniel
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: or Tua Tungabailoa, for that matter, his old quarterback. They
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: used to be together there in Miami. So Harbaugh defending
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, insisting there is, quote, no disconnect between McDaniel
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: and the players. So if there's no disconnect, that means
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: they're all just bad. If there's no disconnect, they all
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: just suck. That's it, right? Okay, the comment came as
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the vultures are out now. And they're saying, wait a minute,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: someone's going to have to lose their job. The situation
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: is ugly for the Chargers offense. They cannot score consistently. L.A.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: managed to 16 points against Buffalo, which is not a lot,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: especially when you consider the generosity of the Buffalo Bills.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: And despite all of the criticism, And all the hemming
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and hawing about what a fraud, what a fraud, what
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a fraud. Jim Harbaugh pushing back against the many suggestions
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: that Mike McDaniel's offensive system or his communication is responsible
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: for the quagmire that the Chargers find themselves in at
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: this point. So the question is this. Is Chargers coach
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh's loyalty to offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel becoming a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: liability at this point? We're three games in. to the season.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So there's only one acceptable answer here, and I'm nodding
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: my head yes. That's it. There's only one. Loyalty is
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: absolutely wonderful in a marriage, a friendship, if you have
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a golden retriever, a dog, an English bulldog named Moxie.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Loyalty is very important. But offensive coordinators have this job.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: They're judged by how many points their teams score. Oh,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: that's mean, Maller! That's mean!
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I'm a schmuck. I know. Believe it or not, this
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: is supposed to be a results-based business. What are you
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: talking about? Yes, so Mike McDaniel has helped. make what
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: some say is a franchise quarterback. And all the broadcasters
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: like Collinsworth and Aikman and those guys who have their
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: knee pads on for Justin Herbert, they love Herbert, franchise quarterback,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and he is measurably worse. Now, is it McDaniel? Is
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: it the fact that you've got a Yoko Ono situation
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: going on here with his lady friend, the not-very-talented musician
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: woman there?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. All I know is
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: it's an absolute mess. Here is Jim Harbaugh commenting on
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the situation. Take a listen.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: What gives me hope is the people, our team. No
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: denying that the want to, the fight is there, and
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: we just keep building on that and chipping away at it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: But no question, we haven't been good enough yet. So
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: that's what we have to push through.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Check back sometime in May. They'll be really good in
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: May of 2027. They'll have a great month. This reminds
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: me of when I covered the L.A. Clippers in the 90s.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: They had a bunch of young guys, and they loved
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: each other, and they played video games. They hung out.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: They chased girls together on the road. They just sucked
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: at basketball. But they really got along. They really got
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: along well. They enjoyed each other's company. Couldn't play basketball,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: but they were really friendly. Good people. Good people. So stupid.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: So McDaniel is on the hot seat. Chargers is a
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: rather cheap franchise, so who knows about that. But what
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: exactly is Harbaugh watching? Like, seriously, what is he checking out,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh? Buffalo tried to hand this game away. Even
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Bill's monster thought this was going to be a loss.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: He's part of Bill's mafia there. So the Bills gave
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: away five turnovers. So the Chargers got the ball five
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: times courtesy of their defense and turnovers on the side
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: of Buffalo, and the offense was unable to take advantage.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: At 0-3, we have now reviewed the medical chart. We've
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: looked at the medical charts, and this isn't loyalty anymore.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: It's not about loyalty. It's football stubbornitis is what it
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: is for Jim Harbaugh. And Harbaugh... He's got to stay
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the course. And the reason you'd say he has to
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: stay the course here with Mike McDaniel is because he
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: hired Mike McDaniel. So by firing Mike McDaniel, that would
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: mean admitting that Harbaugh screwed the poach when it came
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to hiring this guy. And there's also the fact that
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Harbaugh has said every possible nice thing you could possibly
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: say about this guy, including he sees him as a
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: young Jim Harbaugh, Mike McDaniel. Okay, that's not going very well.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: So you've got to stay the course. Now, unfortunately, kind
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: of like the song from The Little Mermaid, Under the Sea,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: it appears that the path for the Chargers this year
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: leads directly to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. And
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the loyalty card has been punched not once, not twice,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: but three times right now by Jim Harbaugh. Enough already.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: The Harbaugh-McDaniel buddy comedy. as it was supposed to be here.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: You got Hardo, Jim Harbaugh, and hipster Mike McDaniel. And
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: this buddy comedy is turning into a disaster film is
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: what's happening in front of us here. And again, there
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: is an expiration date on the loyalty, and you look
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: around at the Chargers here and what's ahead. The Chargers
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: are 0-3. They have a date at Seattle, and outside
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: of Sam Donald giving that game to the Chargers, and
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: even if he does, the Chargers might not take it.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: because Buffalo tried to give the game to the Chargers.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: So that'll be a loss. Denver, good luck on that.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: That is a home game in Englewood, in the hood
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: at Englewood. You figure that'll be a loss. Kansas City,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that'll be a loss. The Rams, that's a loss. So
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: that's 0-7. The Texans is a winnable game. However, not
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a guarantee. And then the Ravens after that. The first
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: real winnable game for the Chargers, the way they're playing,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: is Week 11 against the Jets. So they do have
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: a bye in week seven. They could lose that. Somebody
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: could get arrested. That's how you lose a bye week.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Somebody gets arrested. So we'll see what happens with that. Anyway,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: that's it. a mess. That is an absolute effing mess,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the Chargers. Meanwhile, to the bayou we go. We must
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: address the wildebeest in the room, the Raiders. The Raiders
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: improve to 3-0. And this is how pathetic that franchise
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: has been. We're told just their second 3-0 start since 2002.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: That's so bad. That is so bad. 2002, that's a
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: generation of suck. Bottled suck. It's why the only real
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Raider fans are old dudes. Because anybody young didn't become
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: a Raider fan. Because they suck. Anyway, the Raiders are 3-0.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: They rallied from an 11-point second-half deficit to... The Raiders
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: did to get the win. Las Vegas trailed 27-22 entering
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. They get the win in Louisiana there
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: as Kirk Cousins had 248 yards passing, three touchdowns, becoming
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the first Raider quarterback ever with at least three touchdown
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: passes in each of the season's first three games. Brock Bowers,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I will credit the Raiders for this. You only have
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: one decent playmaker. You might want to throw him the ball.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: And the Raiders threw Brock Bowers the ball early and often.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: He ended up with 10 catches for 116 yards to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the tight end as he got her done. And he
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: did have a touchdown. 13 targets for Brock Bowers, the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: tight end, as he gets the win. So the question is,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Here's the question. The Raiders sit here at 3-0. Are
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: we impressed with Kirk Cousins and company yet? For some reason,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: many of you are very concerned about my opinion on
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. I'm flattered that you want to know what
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I think of the Raiders. And to answer the question,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: are we now impressed that the Raiders went to... And
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: we're able to get the win against the Saints. So
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: that would be a no for me. Dog. That would
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: be a no. And again, I'm not, you know, a
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: lot of you guys, I get it. You watch your
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: little Raider guys with their Raider polo shirts on with
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: their Raider logo in the background. And I got you.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: It's state-sponsored media. We don't do that here. I'm not
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: on the payroll for the Raiders. If I was, I
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: would say this is the greatest start of all time. Unfortunately,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I live in the real world. I'm not impressed. Oh,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: you should be impressed. Why are you not impressed?
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: I'm not.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: The resume of the Raiders. Do you understand? If you
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: look at the resume of the Raiders, it's like a
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: three-story mansion built on styrofoam. It's not impressive at all.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Here's a fun fact. You ready for a fun fact?
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Fun fact! Fun fact! Mallard, fun fact! Fun fact! The
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Raiders here, the combined record of the three teams the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Raiders have beaten to begin the year. 1-8. That is
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: a 1-11 winning precision. But oh, you've got to be impressed, Maller!
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? You're such a hater! Not a hater.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: This is how effed up the sports media world is. Again,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: filled with guys wearing Raider polos and they've got their
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Raider pom-poms and their Raider logo in the background. I
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: don't have that. I'm just calling it like it is.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I'm giving you the truth. This is not impressive. I'm
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: not sitting here saying, well, I'm blown away by anything
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: the Raiders are doing. I'm not. Should we alert the
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: people over in Canton, Ohio, that the Raiders have beaten
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: three tomato cans? Okay, so you're not a tomato can anymore. Congratulations.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: That's the bar for the Raiders? We're no longer at
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the very bottom. We're just close to the bottom. Against
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: New Orleans, a team not projected to have a winning record.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: The Saints had more yards. They had more first downs.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: They were 100% in the red zone against the Raiders.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: But the New Orleans Saints decided, we want to give
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the game away.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: And they did.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter, this was a Salvation Army red
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: kettle game. Salvation Army red kettle game. And the Raiders
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: kept ringing the bell. And the Saints said, okay, we'll
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: give you another donation. You want another donation? We'll give
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: you another donation. Tyler Schuch, which now turned into Schuch
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: in this game, Tyler Schuch, the quarterback, he actually earned
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: a silver and black game ball for his performance late
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: in this game. You talk about clutch late football. As
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: he had a coughing fit, he kept coughing up the furball,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: or unfortunately for the Saints, the football, as he did
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: it in clutch time. The last four New Orleans drives,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: three fumbles and an interception. Three fumbles and an interception.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: That is a tax-deductible donation, is what that is here.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And that was not the game of football, the game
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I love, the game of football. That was a going-out-of-business sale.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: And you don't get credit if you're the Raiders if
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: the other team gives the game away. And that's exactly
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: what the Saints did. So the Raiders happened to be
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: there and they accepted it. And Vegas now. As Kansas City,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: surely the Raiders at 3-0 are favored at home against
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Kansas City. I'm sure the gambling market has adjusted, and
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: much like you fanboys, the gamblers know that the Raiders
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: must be favored. They have home field advantage. I'm sure
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: that won't be Arrowhead, Nevada. When the Raiders play the Chiefs. Oh,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. What's that? Oh, that's right. Vegas has
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Kansas City as a 5.5 point favorite. It would be
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: 8.5 if it was a neutral field or back in
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Kansas City. You get three points at home. So the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Chiefs are a 5.5 point favorite. That is reality. So
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you can yell at me and get your little nasty
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: comments out there. You hide behind your phone like a
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: tough guy. The reality is that the gambling market agrees
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: with me. The Raiders are not very impressive. They're a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: five and a half point dog at home. That's a
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: real game. That's a legitimate opponent. Go out and beat
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs. You want to get your little flowers? Like
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Mike in Tucson who called up last hour, big Raider fan.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: If you want your flowers, go beat Mahomes and the Chiefs.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: You're at home. Go beat them. Kansas City is the
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: airport security checkpoint. And we'll find out what's actually inside
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the Raider luggage. And so, okay, we'll see. But am
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: I impressed by beating teams that are combined one and eight? No,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not. Oh, you should be, Mallard. I know. If
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I had my Raider polo on, I would be very,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: very happy.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallard
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Here we go.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: It's Mallard.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: To the third degree.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Are you ready?
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: This will not be a boondoggle kubaloo.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: Ben, Steph Curry signed a two-year extension with the Warriors
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: and left nearly $ 20 million on the table. People think
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: it's so that they can sign a big star like
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Giannis or a Carl Anthony Towns.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Do you think the Warriors are actually going to do that? No,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: and I've learned from watching professional basketball, it doesn't matter
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: the contract. If Steph Curry wakes up today and says,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I don't want to play for the Warriors anymore, he'll
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: be traded to the Charlotte Hornets or whatever. So it
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. And it's great to say you're going to
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: bring somebody in, but they have to want to play
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: for the team. And that team is not going the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: right direction. Next!
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: It's been Texas Longhorns defensive end Colin Simmons, five sacks
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: against Tennessee over the weekend.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, and he's got a big, you know what.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: After his fifth one, he celebrated by pretending to urinate
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: on the field.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Sark blamed society for this. Society. Do you think
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: it's society's fault? No, I do not believe it's society's
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: fault because how many other players have pulled out their
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: fake giant you-know-what? Don't recall that being a regular occurrence.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to go no. I'm going to go
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: that's a he problem, not a societal problem. And I
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: do like the fact he did it. And I think
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the president was at that game, too, I believe. Anyway,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: probably wasn't watching the game. Next, quickly. Ben, the Angels
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: have finally got 100 losses. Congratulations. Last franchise to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: I'm back on the Angels, you know, bandwagon now. Sure.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: How long do you think I'm going to need to
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: wait before I start enjoying Angels baseball again?
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Well, there'll be no season in 2027, so it's going
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: to be a while, Coop. There you go.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: How'd we do?
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: How'd we do? How'd we do? You pass. I pass.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: I pass. All right. I pass. I pass.
• 38:11
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• 38:25
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• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Who the hell are you talking to, son? Here's some
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: instant advice. Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: me for ten whole seconds. And if you don't like it, it's...
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: And away we go! It's the INSA Advice Line Unscreened Radio.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: The safety net is off. Who needs the advice, the wisdom,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: the knowledge of the Malheur Militia? Well, this week's rather
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: obvious if you saw the Sunday night game. An egregious
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: felony call that gave the game to the Broncos. Bo
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Nix threw a game-ending interception, and the referee said, you
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: know what? That's pass interference. Except it wasn't pass interference.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: A terrible call as the Ram defensive back, Josh Wallace,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: was engaged with Pat Bryant, who looked like LeBron James,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: the way that he put on a thespian-like performance there.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: And the referees, it's like the NBA. They bought the tank.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Or they bought the acting job. and they fell for it.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: So your advice to the NFL officials to not hand
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: a game to the Denver Broncos again with a ridiculous
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: pass interference call. You're live on the air when you
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: hear my voice, 877-99-ON-FOX. Let's go to line one. You're
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: on the Insta advice line for the NFL referees. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: line one.
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  Speaker 2: Take the referee to the chopping block.
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  Speaker 1: Line two, you're on the air. It's the instant advice line,
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  Speaker 1: unscreened radio for the referees, line two.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: You don't need a star chart, ladies, to know the
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: man of your dreams is right here.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: That's right, Fergog, clearly. That's why you're still single. Yes,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: line three, you're on the air, line three.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, morning time.
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  Speaker 3: If money talks, my wallet is whispering.
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  Speaker 1: I'm right there with you, brother. That's Rick in Maryland,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: my man Rick in Maryland. 877-99 on Fox. We're giving
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  Speaker 1: advice to the officials in the NFL after they gave
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the game to the Broncos last night. Line three, you're
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: on the air. Line three. Oh, that sounds like hollering James.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Fast asleep. Let's go to you. You're next. Caller advice
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: to the referees. Caller, you're on the air. Hello. Any
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: advertising for Benny versus a penny yet?
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: No.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: You want to advertise? You want to be my title sponsor?
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I got to save up for his bearers. Okay, thank
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: you for that. Yeah, let me know on that. Caller,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: you're on the air. It's the Insta advice line for
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: the NFL officials. They handed a game to Denver. You're
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: not there. Screw you. You're next. Hello, Caller. You're on
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the air. Hello. You know Denver don't like Los Angeles.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Still a gang. All right, there he is. The Steelers
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: are back. Sean the Hood guy. What happened to the Bengals? Hello, Caller.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air. Line three. Hello, line three. Keep
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Eddie's name out, your mother. Okay, thank you. Yes. Caller,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hello, caller. All right, thank you
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: for that. You are next. It's the instant advice line
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: for the referees. Caller, hello. Line six. Hello, line six.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: And the officer goes to... Yeah. Oh, yeah, the receiver
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: for the Broncos. That was pretty bad. Supermarket, Steve. It
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: was line number one. Hello, line one. You're on the air,
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  Speaker 1: line one.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the Cowboys lost.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Lorraine is not there.
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  Speaker 5: Morning time.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: I noticed. You think that's related, that Lorraine is not here?
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: There's no chance she watched a second of that game,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: by the way. No chance. Line two. You're on the air,
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  Speaker 1: line two.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Jason Giambi, slum buster, fatty.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: There you go. That's what they need, a fatty. All right.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Line three. You're on the airline three. Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Two hands, $ 20.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you for that. We'll do one more.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: If it's good, I'll take credit. If not, I'll blame
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: the Koopa Loop. The final call, the instant advice line
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: for the NFL referees.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Koopa Loop.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Line six. Line number six. You're on the airline six.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Hello. Yes, anything for Coop.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Anything for Coop. There you go. No, that wasn't Angry Bill.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: They're looking out for you, though, Coop. Anything for him.