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  Speaker 3: Gone in a purple haze to the NFL Playoffs. Well
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  Speaker 1: I got nothing right all weekend on the TV show
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  Speaker 1: until Monday night, and so there was a little salvation
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  Speaker 1: from Monday Night football, the last leg of Wildcard Weekend.
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  Speaker 1: That is our lead from the Valley of the Sun,
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  Speaker 1: not La, La.
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  Speaker 4: The Valley of This' not.
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  Speaker 1: For only the second time in NFL history, a neutral
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  Speaker 1: site playoff game Playoffs now the last time there was
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  Speaker 1: a neutral site The only other time there was a
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  Speaker 1: neutral site playff game. The owner of the Boston Redskins
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  Speaker 1: moved the game because he was planning on moving the
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  Speaker 1: franchise to Washington, DC. He moved it to New York
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  Speaker 1: because he wanted to get out of Boston. This because
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  Speaker 1: of the wildfires. The Rams chased out of La that fire, Tornado.
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  Speaker 1: The wins back here we do the show from La.
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  Speaker 1: The winds are back and the Rams spent the weekend
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  Speaker 1: at part of it anyway in the Greater Phoenix. There
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  Speaker 1: at Glendale, Arizona wild Card Showdown with the Vikings, Troy Aikman,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Buck, They were there. I don't know you watched
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  Speaker 1: it or not. Maybe you were not watching, watching something
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  Speaker 1: else going on. I have no idea, but we do
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  Speaker 1: know that we watched the game and Matthew Stafford throwing
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  Speaker 1: not one, but two touchdown passes, and the Ram, the
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  Speaker 1: La Rams, the team that won the NFC West, taking
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  Speaker 1: on a fourteen win Viking team. The Rams defense, of
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  Speaker 1: all things, disemboweled the Vikings, sacking Sam Donald not once,
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  Speaker 1: not twice, not three times, not four, not five, not six,
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  Speaker 1: not seven, notin eight, how about nine an NFL playoff
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  Speaker 1: record tying nine times, many of those out of the
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  Speaker 1: generosity of Sam Donald being completely incompetent, devoid of the
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  Speaker 1: ability to succeed at the quarterback position at a big spot.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams win twenty seven to nine, the final and
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  Speaker 1: the Monday night NFC Wildcard game. They've been playing these
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  Speaker 1: Monday Night wild Card games for a few years now,
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  Speaker 1: and every one of them has sucked. None of them
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  Speaker 1: have been good. And the Rams winning year leaving, of
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  Speaker 1: course because of the devastation of the wildfire.
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  Speaker 4: So they go to Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: They win the game, rookie Jared Verse returning a fumble
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven yards, the scoop and score for the Rams
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  Speaker 1: who ended up boat racing the Purple people eaters. You
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  Speaker 1: know why, because you can ram it all day and
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  Speaker 1: you can ram it all night. The Rams are into
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  Speaker 1: the divisional round and they have a date in the
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  Speaker 1: land of the Tasty Cake and the cheese steak and
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  Speaker 1: all that. So let us discuss the question, what is
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  Speaker 1: your opinion. Let's get right to the villain for the
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. What is your opinion of Sam Donald's performance
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  Speaker 1: to end the Viking season, not only on the wild
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  Speaker 1: card game, but also the Week eight team member. The
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  Speaker 1: Vikings had a shot here. The Vikings had a big
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  Speaker 1: time chance to get the number one the overall scene,
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  Speaker 1: number one overall see in the NFC, and they lost
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  Speaker 1: that game. So what was your opinion of Sam Donald's
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  Speaker 1: performance to end the Viking season. I've got finger lakes, typewriter,
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  Speaker 1: and elevator, and we will combine all of the these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we'll tell you. The wheels on the
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  Speaker 1: bus go round and round. The wheels on the bus
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  Speaker 1: go round and round, and that bus is going to
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  Speaker 1: take Sam Donald out of Minnesota. He's gonna go on
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  Speaker 1: a bus and they're gonna drive his ass out of
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota after that performance. Now, Sam Donald had one of
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  Speaker 1: the great smoking mirror seasons in the history of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You could argue, considering how good he actually is as
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback, this was the greatest smoke and mirror season
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  Speaker 1: in NFL history. There were people who claim to be
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  Speaker 1: knowledgeable football people that were campaigning for that guy to
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  Speaker 1: be the MVP of the end of it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Sam Donald should be conversation.
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  Speaker 1: My fat ass, Sam, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 4: You talk about premature? We sell pills for that on
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  Speaker 4: the radio. My god.
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  Speaker 1: And then when the lights are the brightest, like Donald
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to prove people like me wrong. He
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  Speaker 1: had an opportunity to go out there and shove it
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  Speaker 1: down my throat, and instead, in the Rams defense, shoved
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  Speaker 1: the football down his throat. God, you talk about the
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  Speaker 1: double whammy. The double whammy for Sam donal. Not only
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  Speaker 1: flop sway he had that, he then had stage fright
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  Speaker 1: on top of the flop sweat, he had those sweaty palms.
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  Speaker 1: The whole thing, No ifs ands or buts about it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback apologies, who's on his vault?
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  Speaker 4: Played?
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  Speaker 3: The fat guys played the fat guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're gonna come up with all these excuses. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings had injuries on their offensive line. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: modern football. Welcome to the way the NFL has played
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  Speaker 1: a ragtag offensive.
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  Speaker 4: Stop to stop with that nonsense.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Sam Donald was visited by his imaginary friend. And when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend named Bob.
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  Speaker 1: Sam Donald's imaginary friend is a boogeyman, a literal boogeyman.
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  Speaker 1: Visit Sam Donald in these spots. Why he closed the
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  Speaker 1: season like he was at Finger Lakes Racetrack in New
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  Speaker 1: He was Zippy Chippy. Do you know who Zippy Chippy is?
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  Speaker 1: Are you aware? Zippy Chippy is considered the worst racehorse
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  Speaker 1: of all time, raced one hundred times and lost all
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  Speaker 1: one hundred races, many of them down the stretch, faded
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. In fact, this is actually about twenty
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  Speaker 1: years ago, give or take, but Zippy Chippy is considered
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  Speaker 1: by many in the horse racing business as the modern
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  Speaker 1: definition of fading down the stretch. You just say Zippy
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  Speaker 1: Chippy and that's it. Darnald played the Lions for the
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  Speaker 1: number one seed in the entire NFC. They would have
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  Speaker 1: had the bye week, they would have the Vikings would
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  Speaker 1: have been in the divisional round. I didn't have short
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  Speaker 1: so number one seed, then the Rams in a playoff
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  Speaker 1: game to advance to the divisional round. In those games, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota goes zero to two. Darnald had a sixty six
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  Speaker 1: point four passer rating. He was sacked eleven times, through
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  Speaker 1: an interception, fumbled, and generally looked like he had never
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  Speaker 1: picked up a football in his life prior to these games,
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  Speaker 1: completely flummixed by pressure, not only defensive pressure, but just
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  Speaker 1: the pressure of the moment, Anxiety, self doubt set in.
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  Speaker 4: All that now, turning the page on that.
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  Speaker 1: Wide angle lens, wide angle lens, any thoughts do we
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  Speaker 1: have any thoughts here on Minnesota coach Kevin O'Connell's getting
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  Speaker 1: absolutely slayed for his approach to the wild card game.
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  Speaker 1: So many thoughts on his approach, the Minnesota mindset going
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  Speaker 1: into the wild card game. So the Viking coach treated
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  Speaker 1: this like it was election night and not all precincts
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  Speaker 1: had reported in so the election was not over. But
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  Speaker 1: yet O'Connell roughly midway through the third quarter threw in
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  Speaker 1: the sponge he was sitting at the typewriter and he
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  Speaker 1: typed off a concession speech. That's the only plausible explanation
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  Speaker 1: for the way the Minnesota Vikings approached this game.
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  Speaker 4: There was no sense urgency. It's do or die, it's
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  Speaker 4: win or that's it.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to come out with an amazing hocus pocus
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  Speaker 1: ending to that game. You gotta hope that Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: rides the vomit comet, since your guy's riding the vomit comet,
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  Speaker 1: and you can get back in the game instead. Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: conceded defeat. Very rarely do you see that? Very rarely?
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  Speaker 1: Reminded me of the Pittsburgh Steelers over the weekend. They
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  Speaker 1: look like they were just content to lose the game
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  Speaker 1: against Baltimore. And here's Minnesota. There no effort at all.
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  Speaker 1: They won fourteen games, and that is one of the
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  Speaker 1: great modern miracles. They're running the ball on offense down
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  Speaker 1: multiple scores. La la la la la, la, la, la
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  Speaker 1: la la la. What are you doing like I'm sitting
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  Speaker 1: on my fat ass. I even I know you can't
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  Speaker 1: be doing that. You've got to hurry up. The game
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  Speaker 1: is getting away from you. Time is of the essence,
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  Speaker 1: and that is how you, and I'm like, obviously like
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  Speaker 1: the Rams and the games.
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  Speaker 4: I was happy for the Rams. Who I was like,
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  Speaker 4: that's a competitor.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you compete if you're the Minnesota Vikings. And
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  Speaker 1: why'd you waste the money flying out to Arizona to
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  Speaker 1: play the game? To play like that? But there needs
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  Speaker 1: to be a Netflix docu series done on how Sam
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  Speaker 1: Donald was able to navigate a fourteen win season for
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Now why should maybe be Benny bright
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  Speaker 1: side here for a second, don't tell anybody and be
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  Speaker 1: Benny Bright's side. So why should Viking fans actually be
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  Speaker 1: happy that Sam Donald played like this? Why should they
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  Speaker 1: be happy with his suck bag playoff performance by Sam Donald?
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  Speaker 1: So this is this is gonna be very deep. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna cut very deep here, yet it's not that deep
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. So it's deep but not that
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  Speaker 1: deep because the agony of defeat. But the chances of
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  Speaker 1: ever seeing Sam Donald in a Viking uniform the only
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  Speaker 1: way you'll see that is if you watch highlights of
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  Speaker 1: this season. That's it, right. So, because your front office
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  Speaker 1: realized and they didn't get bullied into signing Donald Duras
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  Speaker 1: and we had talked about it a couple times. We
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  Speaker 1: had mentioned it in Mallard monologues. There were people saying
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  Speaker 1: that Viking should sign Sam Donald, and we said at
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  Speaker 1: the time that clearly the Viking front office did not
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  Speaker 1: believe that this was real. It was all an hallucination.
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  Speaker 1: What Sam Donald was doing. It was wish upon a
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  Speaker 1: star type stuff. And sure enough in the end that
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  Speaker 1: theory proved correct.
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  Speaker 4: It was fake. It was phony.
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  Speaker 1: Sam listen, Donald's a good guy, I guess, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: He's a total frog though. He absolutely was able to
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  Speaker 1: bamboozle the NFL during the regular season. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: you should be happy if you're a Viking fan is
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  Speaker 1: you're not handcuffed to Sam Donald. You didn't give him
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  Speaker 1: another couple of years on his contract. He's free to
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  Speaker 1: roam around the NFL. Donald, by rough estimates, has cost
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  Speaker 1: himself using malar matth here anywhere between eighty five and
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty million dollars. You think you had
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  Speaker 1: a bad couple weeks at work, Sam Donald just went
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  Speaker 1: out there with the entire football world watching all over
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  Speaker 1: and he vomited. Projectile vomited all over the field, not once, twice,
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  Speaker 1: project dile vomit from Sam Darnald.
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  Speaker 4: He calls himself like a hundred twenty million dollars. There
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  Speaker 4: is no.
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  Speaker 1: Team in the NFL that can sell Sam Donald to
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  Speaker 1: their fan base. He's he is a guy. Even he
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  Speaker 1: plays well during the regular season. You know in the
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  Speaker 1: end how the story is going to go. You know
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  Speaker 1: the ending. You know the ending. That's the real Sam Darnald,
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  Speaker 1: all right, not last word on the other side, the
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  Speaker 1: winners locker room. Let's focus in on the Rams here.
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  Speaker 1: So who is the biggest winner? Who are the biggest
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  Speaker 1: winners for the Rams?
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So the obvious one is Sean McVay, who will get
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  Speaker 1: another bouquet of flowers the winning his coach in Ram
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  Speaker 1: history already and with all the built in distractions. And
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  Speaker 1: I heard from some Charger fans over the weekend, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the reason the Chargers lost to the Texas is because
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  Speaker 1: the fires at LA. That's why they lost. They were distracted. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams all live in LA, right, They're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: us everyone else who has work. We have our job here.
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  Speaker 1: We do the show from LA. The whole place is
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  Speaker 1: on fire around here, but we come in here, we
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  Speaker 1: do the show. There's a show to be done right.
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  Speaker 1: So you look at that, and the Rams went out there.
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  Speaker 1: They could have easily folded like the Chargers did that
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  Speaker 1: pathetic performance by Jim Harbaugh's team. But instead, under McVeigh,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams went out there. They didn't use the wildfires
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  Speaker 1: as an excuse. The game was moved. They went out there,
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  Speaker 1: they won the game. Another winner would be Chris Schuler. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you watch the game on Monday night, there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of slobbery, slapper slap slaughter during the broadcast
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  Speaker 1: from Aikman and Buck for So, Chris Shuil is the
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator of the Rams, and he is in the
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  Speaker 1: Otis elevator, the Otis elevator, and.
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  Speaker 4: The elevator is going up, up, up and away it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's going up up on the way the LA defense
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  Speaker 1: swarming Minnesota like locusts. And if the Rams end up
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  Speaker 1: compete already this point that he's moved up a couple
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  Speaker 1: of notches Shuler. But assuming they don't completely fall apart
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  Speaker 1: against Philadelphia next week, you look ahead here, and as
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  Speaker 1: a distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of nos Radinas,
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  Speaker 1: it is not hard to imagine a set of circumstances
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  Speaker 1: where the Miami Dolphins in twenty twenty five go out
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  Speaker 1: there and drown, and so Mike McDaniel's ass is grass,
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  Speaker 1: he's out. Dolphins need a new coach all of a sudden, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's go back down memory lane, get all those old
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  Speaker 1: Dolphin fans all horny, and bring in Don Shula's grandson,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Shuler.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that Justin Jefferson, the greatest receiver in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Justin Jefferson was just a guy.
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  Speaker 4: What was that?
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  Speaker 1: Five catches fifty eight yards for Justin Jefferson. Now, can
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  Speaker 1: the Rams win in Philadelphia? It's a tricky little dance. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they can win in Philadelphia. They're not favorite. These teams
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  Speaker 1: played back in week twelve and Saquon Barkley put the
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  Speaker 1: Rams defense in a body bag.
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  Speaker 4: He gouged them.
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  Speaker 1: I went for two fifty five, two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: five yards rushing in that game. But that was then, right,
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  Speaker 1: that was back in week twelve.
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  Speaker 4: This is now. Obviously it's not gonna be the same situation.
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  Speaker 4: The Rams.
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  Speaker 1: The way I look at the Rams are playing with
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  Speaker 1: house money. They're a soft West Coast team going to
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  Speaker 1: a cold weather environment to a team in Philadelphia that
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  Speaker 1: already kicked their ass. So they're playing with house money.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be sizeable dogs in this game. The pressure is
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  Speaker 1: on Nick Sirianni and the Eagles in that spot. And
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  Speaker 1: we have seen teams with that kind of pressure. They chowk,
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  Speaker 1: they chowk. How sweet would that be?
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  Speaker 1: the Rams poll as the Vikings in the game on
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  Speaker 1: Monday night, but are lead this hour from Jerry's world.
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  Speaker 1: The other shoe has dropped in the never ending soap
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  Speaker 1: opera involving how about them Cowboys?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not heard and perhaps not the Monday
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  Speaker 1: morning surprise on wild Card weekend, Mike McCarthy turn in
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  Speaker 1: your key card. Your services are no longer needed. McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: out as Cowboy coach. He will not return. In twenty
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  Speaker 1: two twenty five. He gone Jerry Jones, who many thought
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  Speaker 1: would not want to go through a whole coaching search
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  Speaker 1: again after at his age having to deal with all that.
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  Speaker 1: So but Jerry's going to do it. Jerry Jones and
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  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy were at impass to not work out a
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  Speaker 1: new agreement, unable to find common ground. So now Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones has told Mike McCarthy to go walk on that
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  Speaker 1: ground and go somewhere else. Jones is trying to spin
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  Speaker 1: this story, issuing a prepared statement saying that this was
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  Speaker 1: a mutual parting of the ways, a mutual parting of
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  Speaker 1: the ways, and they decided to go their different directions,
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  Speaker 1: and so this is known as the spin Zone, the
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  Speaker 1: spin Zone by the Dallas Cowboys. Now, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different theories that are bouncing around the echo chamber
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  Speaker 1: on why this went down, how this all went down.
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  Speaker 1: So let us toss our couple of shekels in on this.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's do that. So let us discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question Cowboys owner Jerry Jones saying that he and coach
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  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy mutually agreed to go there different directions, just
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  Speaker 1: decided that's it. We're going in different directions. Is that
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  Speaker 1: how this actually went down? So my observations, I have
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  Speaker 1: alternative rock, Harry Potter, and polyester tracksuit. We'll combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to play
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: beachside bingo is what we're going to play. Because Jerry Jones,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: when he's not on his yacht, when he's laying out
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: on the beach there he plays beachside bingo.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Doesn't he look like a guy that played bingo? Now,
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: No bur w.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: To answer the question, was this actually a mutual parting
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: of the ways as described by the Cowboys GM and owner.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'm shaking my head, very passionately, shaking my
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: head with my eyes closed. No, the answer is no.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: This is not my first trip to the circus. Maybe
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: it's your first trip to the circus. I've been doing
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: this before and so I so if you've listened at
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: all over the years we've been here, that you know
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: my position on this that I call it the myth
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: of the mutual breakup, the myth of the mutual breakup.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And this is both in relationships and also in business. Right,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: business relationship. We're talking about a business relationships, so we'll
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: focus in on that. So a business relationship ending because
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: both parties at the same time mutually decided they didn't
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: want to work together.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: It does not happen right.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: One of the parties made the determination that they did
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: not want to work with the other party. And from
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: what we are hearing boots on the ground in the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Dallas area there, Jerry Jones did did offer Mike McCarthy
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: a contract to come back as coach of the Dallas Cowboys,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't up to what McCarthy wanted. That's the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: word on the street. So McCarthy rejected it, thinking there
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: would be a better offer to come down the line,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and no better offer came.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: It was one of those take it or.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Leave it moments, that's what we're hearing, and so McCarthy
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: ends up pounding sand and walking out of the Cowboy facility.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: So why did Mike McCarthy decide to play hardball with
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones and the Cowboys? So my theory is he's
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: a fan of alternative rock and this is alternative rock
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: for Jerry Jones, for Mike McCarthy with Jerry Jones, meaning
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: that Mike McCarthy has options. He has alternatives that he
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: thinks rock. Right, He's got al turns. He's got an
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: agent working the back channels through intermediaries, negotiating with the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: teams that are not allowed to talk to Mike McCarthy.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Happens all the time. So they were testing the waters
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and what they heard better must have been pretty good. Right,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: He's got an inside track. He has the same agent
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy as the gam manager of the Bears. Everyone's
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: in bed with everyone, nepotism and all that uh fratization.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: So you've got that connection there's also the Saints that
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: are said to be interested in Mike McCarthy. Imagine how
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: much gumball McCarthy's gonna eat if he goes to New Orleans.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: My guy, Now, McCarthy is a football lifer, right, football lifer,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: meat and potatoes, meatthead football guy.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: And so he's one of these guys. He does not care.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: About all the glitz and glamour, the pop and circumstance
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: of the Dallas football team. For him, he's like, you
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: can go coach somewhere. I've coach in New Orleans. I'll
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: go wherever. I don't care. I'll coach in tim Buck two.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: As long as I'm getting a lot of money, I'm
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a head coach. That's it. He'll be the exciting new
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: coach in whatever city he goes to, whether that's Chicago
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: or New Orleans, and that's that. And you'll win some
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: regular season games and you'll disappoint and that'll be that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: with whoever he ends up, Mike McCarthy, that's what you
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: get with Mike McCarthy.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Page TEO.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: So, following the dismissal of the rotund Cowboy sideline boss
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, Troy Aikman entered the chat. The group chat
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: and Troy Aikman criticized that Cowboys Troy Aikman Dallas Royalty.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Following the removal the departure of Mike McCarthy.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Aikman questioned whether or not the Dallas Cowboy head coaching
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: job is a coveted job. How does that one hit you,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman, Not so sure. It's a coveted job coaching
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboy So this is for Troy Aikman, it's
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Harry Potter like Harry Potter like for Troy Aikman. Aikman
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: using the tickle belt. If you will hear tickling the
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: dragon's tail, tickle tickle, that's what he's doing for Jerry
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Jones here, And no matter how bleak things look, no
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: matter how pathetic things are, for the team with the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: star on the side of their helmet, it doesn't matter.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: The cowboy job today and for as long as Jerry
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Jones there is a plumb job for a couple of reasons, right,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: A couple of reasons is.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: A plumb job.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: First of all, you're coaching professional football and the most popular,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the most popular football league in America. Right, most popular
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: sports league in America. You're coaching the most popular team
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: in that league, the team worth the most money. And
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones can be the biggest stumblebum around and I'm
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: not gonna argue with that. Jerry's had thirty years. The
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Cowboys are celebrating their thirtieth anniversary, the last time they
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: were any good. And yet it doesn't matter. Right you
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: do the arithmetic on the situation for the Cowboys and
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: things like this. With the Cowboys, it just moves the needle.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: They are the straw that stirs the drink in the NFL.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: And when their games are on Fox, Fox has the
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: highest TV ratings. When their games aren't on Fox, they
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: don't have the highest TV ratings. Very rarely do those
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: two things not coincide with each other. But it's really
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: one of those things. If you build it, they will come.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And if you can be the guy, and all these
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: coaches have giant egos, if you can be the coach
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: that ends up turning the misery around, then you will
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: be canonized around the Cowboys.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Now everyone wants that.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: It's a giant hit for your ego, a positive hit
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: if you can do it. And so that's where we
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: are now final point. Let's get to the Komodo dragon
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: in the room. So coach exit stage right. You then
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: have to bring in a coach stage left. What are
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you gonna do? All right, let's take a look at it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: So the reports that are circulating, dramatic reports.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: I'm assuming you've heard about these if you pay attention,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: but maybe not so.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: The story is that Jerry Jones has had conversations with
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Dion's coach Prime from Colorado. So what do you make
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: of the GM slash owner of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Jones having a chit chat with Dion Sanders about coaching
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys?
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: What are you making it? So? My first thought is
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: it's on brand. It's on brand.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: It's something that needs to happen for the drama o
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: rama of the Dallas Cowboy. Jerry Jones, we can all
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: shake our head in agreement is the ultimate or not
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: our head and agreement. He's the ultimate look at me guy,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the ultimate look at me guy. Grandstanding. That's what Jerry's
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: great at. He's a carnival barker. And I just imagine
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones walking around the Cowboy facility.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: When he's not on camera and he's.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Wearing a vintage Al Davis like polyester tracksuit and he's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: he's doing that check me out, jog, You know that,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: check me out, jog.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: If I look at me.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Posing and preening and all that, and all those coach
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: prime would be right up Jerry Jones' sleeve. With one caveat,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: because the only issue here the showmanship wonderful, the boastfulness outstanding,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the bravado, the charisma of Dion Sanders are all perfectly
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: in line with the Dallas Cowboys. The issue is rather
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: obvious that Jerry Jones has never wanted anyone to upstage
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. One of the reasons that he had a
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: big issue with Jimmy Johnson years ago, if you're old
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: enough to remember that, is because Jimmy Johnson was getting
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: all the credit. That annoyed Jerry Jones. He said, what
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: about me? They tried to hire Bill Parcels. He did
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: work for the Dallas Cowboys and a couple of roles
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: for the team, and that annoyed Jerry Jones.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Although they didn't win.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: In that situation, he must rather have a guy like
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Dave Campo as the coach of the Cowboys or the clapper,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: clap on, clap off the yeah, Jason Garrett, He'd much
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: rather have that kind of a coach. But he would
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: bring Dion in because you'd win the popular vote. The
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: casual fan would celebrate Deon Sanders and say, re we
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: got Dion. He's a big name, and Dion will feed
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the beast. He will feed the machine that is the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: marketing arm of the Dallas Cowboys. So from that perspective, now,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: whether or not he wins or not, eh, But is
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: that enough to overcome the fact that Jerry would have
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to allow the stage to have Dion on it, meaning
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: is he.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Willing to share share the sugar? We don't know.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: And if not Deon, does Jerry have a plan B?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: And the names that are out there do not really
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: get you all, Tingley. The names that are out there
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: are Kellen Moore, who Jerry Jones sided with Mike mccarthur.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore is the offensive coordinator in Philadelphia. He went
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: to the Chargers for a year. Now he's in Philadelphia.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: But there was a power play between McCarthy and Kellen Moore,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and Kellen Moore was sacrificed and they kept Mike McCarthy.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: So now you got rid of McCarthy, Now you're gonna
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: bring Kellen Moore. When you chose McCarthy over kelling Moore.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: The other options are like Cliff Kingsbury. He's got ties
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to Texas, the state of Texas, and he's the hot
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: name right now because Jayden Daniels happens to.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Be good, So there is a possibility that that happens
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
• 29:26
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• 29:32
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• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Is one Big Ben gets Grall and Kobolo.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: So with the recent news of the firing of Mike McCarthy,
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: this is still not out of the realm of possibilities,
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: you know, per se. But former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: had a wild proposal on Sunday. He suggested that since
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: things have gotten stale for both the Cowboys and the Steelers,
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: that the team should swap head coaches. Yes, Ben, how
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: do you think McCarthy he would be on the Steelers
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: and Tomlin on the Cowboys.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Of course, the coup that's impossible because McCarthy's no longer
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: employed by the Cowboys. So I'm glad Jimmy Johnson got
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: that in the on TV because the rumor died the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: next day. McCarthy's he's no longer employed by the Calboys
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and Mike Thomas going to be traded next.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: I mean not a trade, But how would.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: They if Jimmy Johnson said there would be a trade?
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's it's a whole report, but on each team.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: Despite drawing interest from teams as head coaching candidate, reports
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: that Cliff Kingsbury may turn down interview requests as he's
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: still being paid by the Cardinals and is happy in Washington.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: But are you buying this report?
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Well, no, he's no. You don't turn down a job.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: He's got another year or so because he's being played
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: by the Cardinals. Fine, that's right, but now you only
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: have so many chances to be a head coach. Do
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: you take the opportunity? So I don't believe that report
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: he would become a head coach. He take the job,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: assuming they don't low ball him next.
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: Earlier in the weekend, vlad Garreo Junior and the Blue
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Jays agreed to a one year, twenty eight and a
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: half million dollar deal to avoid arbitration.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Ben, do you think this ends any trade speculation.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: No, Toronto's a middling team. They're a bad team. And
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: you know, baseball starting in like first spring training games
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: like a little over a month from today, the Cactus
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: League in the Great Fruit League.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: But yeah, the Blue Jays.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: If they get off to a bad start, all bets
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: are off and great, he could be traded before opening day.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: It's not off the table. How do we know you failed?
• 31:20
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• 31:20
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• 31:23
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• 31:43
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• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Or do you want to you want to get on
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: the air right now? You know what do you want
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: to do?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Here?
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: I'll play man? You know what's all right?
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Hold on?
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Say do we we have Manuel? We have Kelly in
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the Nashville is gonna play mat Manuel? Who do you
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: want to partner up with?
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: You got me then? Or the Cooper Loop?
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna go with you again, man, all right, good,
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: last time I kind of underachieved.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: All right, hold on a sec.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: You're gonna play and Kelly in Nashville Slash Iowa. Hello,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Kelly formerly known as Donut Kelly. But she's out of
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the Donut game now she's now in the baby making
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: game at this point, that's the game.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: She's in, right, Wow, Okay, yeah, I mean I don't know.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Am I wrong? I don't know everything? All right? Everything good?
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Nothing?
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, everything's great, man, I'm good.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: I don't want to jinx anything. So everything all right? Good?
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: Stupid questions, just stupid.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, you will team up with Cooper Loop
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: coop one of the categories quickly so we can set
• 32:46
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• 32:48
  Speaker 1: time to play the game. Let the game breathe a
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: little bit, be a lot of fun. Cannot wait for
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: This is Malard's Mountain of Money, the Liam Hemsworth Edition.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: Oh he turned and I think it was thirty five.
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: I have seventy one written here, and that's not accurate.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure he's not. Even the little knowledge I
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: have coup He's not seventy one.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Yes, thirty thirty five, that's the correct age.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, even I know that, Coop. You didn't get that
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: one past me.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: The categories are neighbors, the Hunger Games, Empire State, and
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: isn't it romantic?
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: Hmm?
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: Manuel, you run first? Which category?
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: No?
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: No, man, between Shane Kelly and the baby Mallard baby,
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: they have to kick first? Oh deforey, I see that interesting.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: Kelly, which category would you like?
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: Is romantic?
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: All right? And what about you man?
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: Will Bennie pick it?
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: He didn't hear the category.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: I wasn't listening.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Neighbors, the Hunger Games or Empire State.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Well, me and Bennie have both been fat bastards in
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: our time.
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: We're gonna go a hunger.
• 34:00
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• 34:03
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• 34:07
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• 34:07
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• 34:41
  Speaker 4: But who you picking?
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Me?
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Picking myself?
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Ben?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: With Manuel and Guardina or Coop and Kelly. We'll find
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: out we will have a winner. It is about to begin.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Mallard's amount of money.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: We'll get to that. We will do it next.
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• 35:09
  Speaker 2: to get to the top? Probably not? In a way
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: we go.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Manuel was on the air first, but he deferred, So
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I believe donut, Kelly and Coop, you guys are gonna
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: go first.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: I think that's what do you want?
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: It?
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Interesting?
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: He waited till the second half. He's like, hey, I'll
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: defer the kickoff to the second half. I don't want
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the ball to start the game.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: That's fine, we can do that. You ready, Kelly?
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm ready?
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: All right? We have isn't it romantic?
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: These athletes all married their high school sweethearts. Okay, forty
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: five seconds on the clock, let's begin. Quarterback for the
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, this guy won a Super Bowl
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: with the Ravens. He's super old. Now quarterback in the NFL.
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: He's He was with the Brown's last year. I think
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: it was at the Colts this year, but he won
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: j yes.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: Uh. This guy was the closer for the Yankees. The Sandman.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: Oh god, we'll skip it.
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: It is not got one of the best regular season
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: pitchers of all time for the Dodgers.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: He's still on the Dodgers right now.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: It's a bad klue coop.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: Oh wow, he's terrible in the postseason and he has
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  Speaker 6: long blonde hair shrowning right.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god. All right, white ride receiver.
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  Speaker 4: For the Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Well you did it pretty well. I was impressed. You
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  Speaker 1: got thirty points solid. He did not know who Mariano
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  Speaker 1: Rivera is. Clayton Kershaw interesting, All right, we're.
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  Speaker 4: Up, man. Well you're excited here, man.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Well in Guardina, another opportunity you picked the Hunger Games.
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  Speaker 1: These athletes are all at the end of their career,
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  Speaker 1: still looking for that elusive ring.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready and I love Kelly and I love Shane.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock. We're
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  Speaker 1: on our way go. He was benched this quarterback of
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons this season. Yes, guard Lob City Clippers. He's
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  Speaker 1: on the Spurs now, but he's washed up. Point guard
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  Speaker 1: Chris Yes, guard for the Toronto Raptors. He's played for
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  Speaker 1: Side Antonio. He's bounced around from l A. He's an
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  Speaker 1: l A guy along time. Yes, last player to win
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  Speaker 1: an MVP Award for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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  Speaker 4: He's an outfielder. He's back with the Pirates. He will
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  Speaker 4: played with the Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: First name, all right? How about this tight end from
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  Speaker 1: u C l A. He's played nineteen seasons in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: He was on the Bears this year, played in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: First name is like a car. Yes, center center for the.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Andrew McCutchen was Lawrence McCutcheon. You're dating yourself,
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence mcusson. Holy crapeh yas still got one? And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well right the area coop, You're right in the game, all.
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  Speaker 6: Right, Kelly, would you like uh the would you like
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  Speaker 6: neighbors or Empire State.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Empire State.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: These athletes are all from New York, born in New York. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: forty five seconds on the clock.
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  Speaker 5: Let's begin.
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  Speaker 6: He was the leading rusher in the NFL for the Eagles.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Uh, he's a boxer that bit somebody's ear off.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, he just fought I get fifty years old. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: This guy was a slugger for the Yankees. He was
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  Speaker 6: married to j Low.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Alec, yes, yeah, Alec. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: This guy was a basketball player for the Lakers. He
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: almost died in a whorehouse.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, all right, it could be so many people. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so many guys are almost Yeah. Well you did well there, Coop.
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  Speaker 1: You got another fifty points, so that's you're.
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  Speaker 5: Up to eighty. Wow. We could not get Mike Tyson.
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  Speaker 4: I'm yon I know, I know.
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  Speaker 5: Lorena knew that one.
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  Speaker 4: Wow. Yeah, if Lorena knows it, now, that's not good.
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: If you don't know they have been pregnant before, Kelly,
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: it's called pregnancy brain.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: Are you using the pregnancy Excuse my brain?
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  Speaker 7: My brain is rough right now.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: It's mush. Okay, not allowed back on the game show.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: You know what, how many more months is the kid
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  Speaker 1: in the oven for? How many more once we gotta wait,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know anyway. In August, oh Man missed the
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  Speaker 1: game shows all year. Well man, Man, well, would you
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  Speaker 1: like to run up the score?
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  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 2: You know we would.
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  Speaker 7: We loved him, but.
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  Speaker 2: We got you.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The only category leftist neighbors. These athletes grew up near
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  Speaker 1: their eventual pro team. We'll put forty five seconds on
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  Speaker 1: the clock.
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  Speaker 4: We did.
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  Speaker 1: The first and last name are on our way, the
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  Speaker 1: pride of Akron, Ohio.
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  Speaker 4: He's playing for the Lakers.
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  Speaker 2: Game.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Cincinnati Charlie Hustle, the greatest hitro. Yes, Chicago Bulls guard.
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  Speaker 1: He's just just announced. I' gonna have his number retired. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls Guard. I'm gonna have his number retired. His
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: last name is like a flower now all right? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: defensive star for the Lions. He's missed most of this
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: year out of Michigan. He's injured right now for the
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. How about this Chicago Bears defensive player first name. Similarly,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: we'll call her from Dayton, Ohio. Legend from Yes, cheating
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  Speaker 1: cheating Astroid's on the Padres right now, starting pitcher for
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: the Padras.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: No, it's a Joe Muskrove was on the Cheating a
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Holes back in twenty seventeen.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: Stro Yes, all right, well we we won going away
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  Speaker 4: a domination situation. You did not get a Hutchinson.
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  Speaker 7: I know their damn last names. I don't know their
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: first Well.
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  Speaker 1: Either way, it doesn't matter. We limited the first name ability.
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  Speaker 1: We still won the game. That's all that matters here.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: You beat a pregnant woman. How do you feel?
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: Congratulations like that? I know, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you manwell appreciated. There's a Manuel and Kelly.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to we have time to take called.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Jed who fled is in the Sunshine State. Hello, Jed
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: who fled?
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: Heel from Calabama. The way you said he's being a pregnant.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Woman, I mean, lame jokes are on what jokes are
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: on Friday?
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: Lames are on top of you, dude, and they're just
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: they're just rooting.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know what's on top of you. The cops.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: They're on top you right now. They're coming to get you.
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: I'll tell you, I wish they get valid. Oh my god,
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: Hey Jerome and Charleston, you got issues, man, you got issues.
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: Philadelphia your freedom. I don't think they won't that you
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: want to be associated with that at all, Like that
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: is not the record when you're talking about football game
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: team going tracking up to Philadelphia. Ver says, day for
• 42:18
  Speaker 7: the next week, mat Chell, what's the background? Uh, helthy
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: your freedom? Football player? Is they like hero stuff? I'm
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: not saying nothing negative. Hey, Briskie's a good person. You
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: look at me, he's good. Look at Dallas even. Why
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: why did you get into D block? Dude?
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Hey, what do you complain?
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: You complain?
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: You complain when I talk. I'm not talking. I'm allowing
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: you a monologue. It's a jetu fled monologue. You are
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: so ungrateful you what is and it's not?
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: Listen? Is this the C block? This is We don't.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: We got rid of the D block. We don't have
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: the D block anymore. We got rid of the D.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: All we have is the seed.
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: What did the what did the chickens say? A chicken
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: chicken bar clothing times? He said, that's your life, Deny.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Is that you you're limited. There's a supply chain, shortage
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: of material.
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: Give me your best fight cartoon last.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not, I'm not.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I'm a profeton I'm a grown man. I'm an adult.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I'm a voice in the night here.
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: I can't be doing that.
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: Why did you need to say it five times? If
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: you're a grown man as an adult.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: You're you're out of material. That's all. That's all. That's it.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: That's all, folks. That's all folks. That's all, folks. Can
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: you hang Can you hang up on yourself now? Please
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: do the right thing. Hang up on yourself. I'm not
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: hang Yeah, there you go. Another classic moment on The
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  Speaker 4: Ben Mathers Show.