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  Speaker 1: The end of the storyline, well kind of the end
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from just inside the Beltway,
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  Speaker 1: but they play outside the Beltway and so there's a lot,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts to this. It's a story
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  Speaker 1: that we talked about. I squeezed out no less than
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  Speaker 1: at least six Malard monologues, which I know made Rick
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  Speaker 1: and Maryland very happy and the Ostrich aunt in DC
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  Speaker 1: very happy. And the storyline has now come to an end.
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  Speaker 1: You can put the baby to bed now. I've been
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  Speaker 1: following this all off seas. What is that I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you if you have not heard, perhaps not because you
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  Speaker 1: actually have a life. You don't pay attention to this
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  Speaker 1: stuff all day, every day, every minute. You don't obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with it. You don't have a talk show to do.
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  Speaker 1: So we learned that wide receiver Terry McLaurin, who remember
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  Speaker 1: the guy, he asked for a trade. I ain't playing
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  Speaker 1: unless I get mine bro. He did the Blake snellfing
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  Speaker 1: that punk from the Dodgers. So Terry McLaurin asked for
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  Speaker 1: a trade, and the Washington Football Team has decided to
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  Speaker 1: not trade him. Instead, they have agreed to a mega
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  Speaker 1: MEGAMEGA three year contract worth ninety six million. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we'll wait till the fine print comes out how much
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  Speaker 1: of that is guaranteed. There's conflicting reports on that before
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  Speaker 1: we give that side of it. The Commanders, though, keep
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  Speaker 1: the player. McLaren essentially missed the entire offseason, lolly gagging
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  Speaker 1: around in the hold in, and he wanted that new contract.
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  Speaker 1: He turns thirty, Oh my god, thirty next month. A
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  Speaker 1: big three to zero and we'll be back on the field,
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  Speaker 1: back on the field here with a new contract. He
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  Speaker 1: gets a massive check, massive check from the Commanders. He
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  Speaker 1: will be able to play their Game one. The Washington
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  Speaker 1: Football Team opens against the sad Sack New York Football
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  Speaker 1: Giants to begin their season. I know Everyboddy Eddie in
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte loves the giants, but they suck. McLaren's average salary
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  Speaker 1: will now be I know you're very concerned about other
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  Speaker 1: people's salary. Mclarin's average salary be thirty two million, which
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  Speaker 1: is the same as AJ Brown, but less than Jamar Chase,
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  Speaker 1: less than Justin Jefferson, less than C. D. Lamb, the Cowboys,
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  Speaker 1: DK Met Keevin, Garrett Wilson. So listen, that's that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: That's about it. Seems about right, seems about right, and
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  Speaker 1: so that's where we are. So let us discuss did
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  Speaker 1: the commanders, though some are saying, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, you didn't want to pay him, he's
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  Speaker 1: too old. You paid him. So did the commanders overpay
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  Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin at thirty two million per year? Or is
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  Speaker 1: this a fair market deal for a player of his caliber?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got my thoughts on this about Netflix, spaghetti
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  Speaker 1: and launching pad and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to put the biscuit
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  Speaker 1: in the basket. Is what We're going to do. The
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  Speaker 1: biscuit in the basket. So a to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: was this and overpaid by the Washington Commanders. None. I
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  Speaker 1: am going to be Benny Brightside. I am Benny bright
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  Speaker 1: Side on this one. I am McLaurin. The safety blanket
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  Speaker 1: for Jaden Daniels, the prodigy. We'll see if he can
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  Speaker 1: follow up that amazing Final four run for the Washington
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  Speaker 1: football team and do it again this year. But he
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  Speaker 1: was a prodigy, Jaden Daniels, all those last second wins, dramatic,
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  Speaker 1: high flying, high falutin the synergery with Cliff Kingsbury, but
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that went in doubt. Throw the ball
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  Speaker 1: tot Terry McLaurin. That alone on my scorecard, that alone
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  Speaker 1: makes him worth the premium price tag, which is what
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  Speaker 1: Washington did pay it. And this is very similar to
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  Speaker 1: what we had advice, the advice, the unsolicited overnight radio
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  Speaker 1: advice that we had given to the Washington football team.
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  Speaker 1: They're listening, they can't sleep, they're listening. What was the advice?
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  Speaker 1: Short term contract, big money? Who cares? Short term contract?
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  Speaker 1: Big money? Who cares? Three It's not really a three
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  Speaker 1: year deal. Don't get fooled by the numbers. See people
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  Speaker 1: get fooled by the numbers. And we'll find out how
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  Speaker 1: much of that is guaranteed. But this is like Netflix
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  Speaker 1: or any other television network announcing that they've renewed. We'll
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  Speaker 1: just focus on Netflix. They've renewed a show for three seasons. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they've renewed the show for three seasons. You're all excited. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's great, But in reality, what they've actually done is
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  Speaker 1: giving you an eight episode deal and they're gonna then
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  Speaker 1: cancel the show the second nobody watches. That's it. But
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  Speaker 1: they announce it's a three year deal, and then when
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  Speaker 1: no one's actually paying attention, they just get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the show. That's it. And so this is really the
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  Speaker 1: way I look at it. A one and a half
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  Speaker 1: year deal. It's a one and a half year deal.
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  Speaker 1: The commanders were worried about mclaurin's age, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: because they got a bunch of dorks in there, and
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  Speaker 1: they look, it's like insurance. Now, I so you life insurance.
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  Speaker 1: They say, well, we're betting that you're gonna live this
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  Speaker 1: long and then eventually you're gonna die, but we're betting
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  Speaker 1: that we're gonna make this much money off your ass
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  Speaker 1: before you croak, and that way will be okay. But
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  Speaker 1: if not, if you have some underlying condition you might
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  Speaker 1: croak sooner. Well, then we don't want to do the deal.
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  Speaker 1: You got to pay more. And they're like, wow, we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to do the deal because you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: thirty and you look at the comps on this and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. But Washington is thinking, we don't want
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  Speaker 1: to pay this guy till he's thirty three. Well, spoiler alert,
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  Speaker 1: looks like until we see the fine print here, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be paying him close to that. The contract in theory,
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  Speaker 1: always in theory, locks up McLaurin through twenty twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: he would be thirty three. The new money thirty two
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  Speaker 1: million annually. Now the owner Josh Harris, who's one of
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  Speaker 1: these slick business dudes who wants to be famous. You
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  Speaker 1: don't buy a sports team unless you want you want
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  Speaker 1: people talking about you. You just why would you bother?
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  Speaker 1: So he owns the bunch of sports teams. With the
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  Speaker 1: Washington football team, this is a bullet you got to
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  Speaker 1: bite on. If you're Josh Harris, you got to bite
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  Speaker 1: on it because it's a PR move. The way I
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  Speaker 1: look at this, it's a PR move. There's no need
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  Speaker 1: for a go fundme. Harris is worth almost ten billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars in the estimate there, so that they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: sell stability and I would have kept a player too,
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  Speaker 1: Betty Brightside. It's good for all involved. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: massive commitment long term, and he's been very productive with
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  Speaker 1: some absolute puke quarterbacks in Washington. Now they finally have
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  Speaker 1: what appears to be a pretty good quarterback. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: see how this goes here. But it's really just a
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  Speaker 1: year and a half and they're either gonna cut him
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  Speaker 1: or restructure the contract, and that'll be that. Now to Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, the obligatory Mallor monologue about America's team, the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. So the latest developments on this the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Dakota Press Scott. That's his name, Dakota. They call
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  Speaker 1: him dak but he's his real name is Dakota. So
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  Speaker 1: Dakota Prescott has entered the chat on the big deal.
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  Speaker 1: So a couple of contracts agreed to holdouts or hold ins,
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  Speaker 1: ending Trey Hendrickson. We'll get to that later. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a four hour talk show to do. But Trey Hendrickson
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  Speaker 1: is going to stay with the Bengals for this season
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  Speaker 1: at least, and we mentioned the Terry mcclarn thing, but
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas they have not had any kind of settlement yet.
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  Speaker 1: So the Cowboys quarterback Dakota Prescott said that he is confident,
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  Speaker 1: confident that the disgruntled edge rusher Micah Parsons will be
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  Speaker 1: on the field a week from Thursday when the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: open up with Doctor Phila Delphia Eagles. In a made
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  Speaker 1: for Prime Time football extrava ganza, Dakota Prescott said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I've got confidence. I told you all just to prove
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  Speaker 1: he's actually living in Texas. You had to say, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: I told y'all that way back when Prescott yapped and
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  Speaker 1: snapped at reporters, he said, I'm just going to be
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  Speaker 1: going off experience, honestly, no different than mine, referring to
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  Speaker 1: the situation where his contract was also fed up until
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  Speaker 1: the very end. So question, can you decipher? Can you
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  Speaker 1: decipher what the Cowboys star dak Prescott in his vote
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  Speaker 1: of confidence with Michael Parsons means? So I spent several
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  Speaker 1: seconds deliberating on this one, several seconds, and Dak's out
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  Speaker 1: there yelling at the world. He's quoting Aaron Rodgers. Relax,
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  Speaker 1: he's saying, relax, I've got confidence and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He's following the script. The Dallas Cowboys again for the
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  Speaker 1: eighteen thousand dimes into these microphones. It is a spaghetti Western,
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. They are a spaghetti Western. You got
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones twirling his mustache like a villain. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: got a cartoon villain, Jerry Jones. Over there. You got
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  Speaker 1: dak Prescott, who's playing the wise old sage cowboy. Dakota
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  Speaker 1: Prescott sitting on his porch, sipping some sweet tea and
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  Speaker 1: telling everybody all calm down, now, you all calm down. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Mike's gonna be fine, just like that. So Prescott following
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom that we believe in. Obviously, this is not
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  Speaker 1: his first rodeo. Dak Prescott, He's been through the contract
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  Speaker 1: ringer Jerry's ringer for a while. A couple of times
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  Speaker 1: he's cashed in. He got two hundred and forty something million.
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  Speaker 1: I believe. I think I'm right on that. So Jerry
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  Speaker 1: has a PhD. And the PhD is in drama from
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  Speaker 1: the University of Keeping the Cowboys Relevant. You might not
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  Speaker 1: have heard about that university. It's a small University. It's
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  Speaker 1: located in the death Star there in Jerry's world. And
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  Speaker 1: you think it's a coincidence that every off season there's
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  Speaker 1: a contract standoff every off season. In the last this
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  Speaker 1: is three years in Robley, three years in a row.
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  Speaker 1: We've got more twists than a burial race at the
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  Speaker 1: or one of those barrel races you know you see
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  Speaker 1: at the State Fair where they're racing the bar I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot going on. And and first it was
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  Speaker 1: Dak a couple of years back, then it was Ceedee Lamb,
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  Speaker 1: and now it's now it's Michael Parsons. So I think
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  Speaker 1: for three for three. Jerry's got his playbook. He does
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  Speaker 1: things his way and it's thicker than a longhorned steak.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones got that big playbook there. But he loves this.
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  Speaker 1: This is his go to act in the spaghetti western.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, sitting there in the owner's box,
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  Speaker 1: he's up there atop the stadium. He's just sipping whiskey
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  Speaker 1: and looking down at all the rubes and all the dopes,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, let's let this the simmer for a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and we let the cameras roll at all the debate
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  Speaker 1: shows all the gas bags, blowhards know it, alls, chime
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  Speaker 1: in on this, and you know what, it works. It
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  Speaker 1: does work. It absolutely works. Like we're talking about the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys here, we are. There's other stuff going on, but
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys in late August late August continue to
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  Speaker 1: move the needle, figuring things out while other teams are
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  Speaker 1: changing punters and releasing fat guys and all that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of that, there was one move that caught my attention,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the last where we go to Motown. Quarterback change.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback change. In Motown, the Lions have said bye bye.
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  Speaker 1: They have gotten rid of former third round pick Hendon Hooker.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get rid of a hooker. They put a
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  Speaker 1: hooker out on the street. What's up with that? So
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  Speaker 1: Hendon Hooker let go. Kyle Allen has officially won the
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  Speaker 1: Lions backup quarterback battle, whichans when Jared Goff gets hurt,
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  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions will have no chance to win unless
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  Speaker 1: they pitch a shutout on defense because Kyle Allen blows.
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  Speaker 1: He's terrible. So what is the lesson? Though I think
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  Speaker 1: there's a bigger lesson. This caught my attention, So what
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  Speaker 1: is the lesson here from the Lions dumping former Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Hendon Hooker getting rid of him. So this is
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  Speaker 1: a refresher course. It is a refresher course. The draft.
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  Speaker 1: What do we always say, fools gold, It's fools gold.
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  Speaker 1: It's a suckers game. And every draft there is a
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  Speaker 1: couple of quarterbacks drafted in the second, third, fourth round.
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  Speaker 1: And I got a here, all the geniuses. Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's going to be a steal of the draft.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, this guy's got amazing ability. Blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah to my ears. Blee.
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  Speaker 1: So Dan Campbell and the Lions took Hendon Hooker. He
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  Speaker 1: was raw, he was unpolished, He had a bat knee,
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  Speaker 1: He was twenty five years old, which is older than
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  Speaker 1: pretty much everyone in the draft, and they drafted him.
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  Speaker 1: And he was said to be a project. But the
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  Speaker 1: same people who've made the draft, the cottage industry, they
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  Speaker 1: love to tell you, oh, this guy's gonna be great, wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: And what happened. It went exactly the way we thought
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  Speaker 1: it was going to happen, the way we expected it
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  Speaker 1: to happen. The project at quarterback hen and Hooker. The
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  Speaker 1: lions blew up on the launching pad. C boom right
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  Speaker 1: there on the launching peck kaboom, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom kaboom
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  Speaker 1: ka boom, just like that, and did not even get
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  Speaker 1: off the ground. He's not a starter. They said, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'll be back up. He's nothing. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: Hooker's going through the checkout line with the old thank
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  Speaker 1: you come again sticker right on his forehead right there.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety five percent of these so called projects, they fail,
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  Speaker 1: all right, this was a third rounder. A third round.
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  Speaker 1: You might as well be lighting the pick on fire.
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  Speaker 1: Just get some gasoline and a lighter or book of
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  Speaker 1: matches and just like the thing on fire, or use
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  Speaker 1: a blow torch. You just get blow torch out there
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  Speaker 1: like you're roasting marshmallows and delicious marshmallows and just going
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  Speaker 1: for it. So he's not Hooker. Hooker's not a clipboard guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a headset guy at this point, as he's
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  Speaker 1: a lost in the shuffle guy. Does anyone eat marshmallows
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  Speaker 1: without cooking them? I can't imagine eating marshmallows without cooking them.
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  Speaker 1: They're rather disgusting. You have to eat them cooked, right,
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  Speaker 1: There's no is there a market for people that just
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  Speaker 1: munch on marshmallows without them being roasted with chocolate and
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  Speaker 1: Graham crackers? Like, is there a group that that's into that,
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  Speaker 1: the people who do chubby Bunny competitions? The Chubby Bunny competition.
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  Speaker 1: When I was a I remember Thanksgiving, my mom would
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  Speaker 1: always make this big thing of yams. I think EAMs
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  Speaker 1: are just, oh, they're so good, horrific, But my mom
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  Speaker 1: would cover them with marshmallow, so I would just eat
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  Speaker 1: the marshmallows. My mom gets so upset. I did not
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  Speaker 1: eat the ams. I said, I just want the marshmallows.
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  Speaker 1: Oh need the ams. You can have the yams. You
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  Speaker 1: gonna eat both? No, I don't have to eat both,
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  Speaker 1: just the marshmallows. I'm just gonna eat the marshmallows. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe just make me a plate of marshmallows and that'll
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  Speaker 1: be the way to go. And never never really worked out.
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  Speaker 1: Get out your score cars, Get out your score cars
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  Speaker 1: right now. So a lot of moving parts, a lot
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: of moving parts here. Let's start with the disgruntled playmaker.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Disgruntled playmaker. If you have not heard, possibly not, possibly not,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: we learned that wide receiver Jacoby and Myers also a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: law firm in southern California. Jacoby Myers not happy. He
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: has requested a trade from Lost Wages, Nevada. He wants out. Upset.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I guess he's upset with Slug. He's like, I can't
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: be here anymore. Slug and Mark and David, all the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: guys there in Vegas just can't deal with it because
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: he could not agree to a contract extension. So he's
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: raising a hullabaloo, and the team says, na, Na, we're good,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: we're good. We're gonna keep you. We're not trading. So
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: it's a class NFL standout Classic, and we have one
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: of these every every season, at least one every season.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question on this one. Will
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Raiders came in to Jacoby Myers trade request or do
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: they write it out? Just write it out. He's under contract,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: you don't have to trade him. So I've got Costco,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Rusty Nail, and shadow boxing. Well, combine all these things together,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: like legos, and the legos the Babushka steps on because
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: you put them on the when the Babushka tries to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: clean them up and she's walking around at night, she
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: steps on, which is one of the worst pains a
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: human being can have, stepping out a lego. It's got
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: to be in the five worst pains a human being
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: can have, so number one, number right, that's right. The
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: writers are essentially running the world's saddest flea market right now.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: They just are right open for business. You got Tom
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Brady GM by proxy, but he doesn't want any credit
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: or blame because he's embarrassed by with these moves. So
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the Raiders are open for business, and they're essentially telling
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the neighbors listen, you can't have this lamp. This is
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: too valuable. And then the neighbors like, well, I mean
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: you're running a flea market and you the lamp is there,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and I'm not selling the lamp like buddy, it's it's
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: a target lamp. It's not Tiffany's okay, what are you doing? Uh?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: The Myers is not a bump. The guy's not a bum.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Joan Rode either, the guy's a bump. The guy's not
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: a bump. He's slightly above average. Jacoby Myers is the
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: costco version of a wide receiver number one. He just
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: did you know what you get? You're getting dependable. You're
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: getting dependable. You're getting decent quality, not flashy, not flashy.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You're certainly not bragging to your buddies. You're not bragging
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to your friends. Oh yeah, I bought that Kirkland brand
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: of Kolby Myers. You're not excited about that, You're not.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the numbers and you're like,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: all the numbers are fine. You know, fifty yards a game,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: fifty and a half in his career. Last year he
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: was up to sixty eight and a half, which is
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: not bad, not bad. It's not terrible. It's not not elite,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: it's not all time great. And to answer the question,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I expect him to be traded. I my position is
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: always the player who's unhappy is going to be traded.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And here's why this is the classic. We want volunteers,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: not hostages. Got It's an old line Mike Tomlin had
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: back in the day. And if you're not happy, if
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the dude wants out, if the dude's gonna raise a problem, fine,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: don't hold the player hostage. It's not there's only certain
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: players you hold hostage. He's not one of those players, right,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: You ship them on somewhere else and that's it. Now
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: where you ask, well, we can spin the malor wheel
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: of speculation on where Jacoby Myers will in a good, quick,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: quick finger push there by the rent. So I've got Patriots, Vikings,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and Steelers as the most likely destinations for Jacoby Myers.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: The Patriots he already played there. Josh McDaniels is back
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: as the offensive coordinator, so there's a connection to the Patriots,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and he is considered to be a dependable player. The
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Patriots don't have a dependable wide receiver. They've got slop
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: at wide receivers. Myers was fine when he played there,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and we assume that if he went back he would
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: be fine. They have Stefan Diggs who's coming off an injury,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: and then they've got a bunch of other drek. They're
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: literally putting drek out there at wide receiver, and I
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: don't think that's going to go well. Now the Vikings, well,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: what the Vikings there? They're loaded, they got jail, they're
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: loaded wide receiver. They go, oh, this guy, well, Jordan
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Addison is suspended because he liked to do things in
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: his car involving alcohol and whatnot. So uh, he's suspended
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: to start the year, and Myers slots in as a
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: at least a temporary number two, as a slot wide
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: receiver there as a babysitter until Jordan Addison's suspension is over,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: because remember he's gonna he's gonna miss the first three games, Addison,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And then you've also got the will he be ready
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to play in the fourth game? Is there gonna be
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: a setback? Do you miss time, you're more likely to
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: get injured. The Steelers, I look at those wide receivers
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: and I know they got they got DK Metcalf. Okay,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: that's good. The rest of those Jimoke's not so much.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And Mike Tomline, this seems like a Mike Tomlin guy
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Jakobe Myers, right, and also throw like Niners in there
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: if you want the Niners. Uh, they've got wide receivers
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: who think they're better than they are, and they've got
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: guys that are hurt. So they've got a hodgepodge there,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: you know. And here's the other thing. Right, You look
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: around and you're like, all those teams, what's the price tag? Well,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the price tag. If the Raiders were offered a fifth
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: round draft pick, that's about what he's worth. Now, if
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: somebody gets all excited, I want this guy, I'll give
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: you more than that. Okay, fine, but a fifth round pick.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: It's like if you're the Steelers of the Vikings or
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the Patriots, you trade a fifth round pick. A fifth
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: is like giving away a Chili's gift card. You know
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: you'd like it, but you're not gonna miss it. You know.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: It's like, if I have it, it's great, but I
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: guess somebody else can go to Chili's and enjoy the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: gift card. I don't need it. It's that kind of thing. Now,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: if the Raiders somehow get a fourth round pick, they
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: should go out to Fremont Street, right near the iHeart
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: studios there and dance and have a great time. Right.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: That's Ocean's eleven type high stuff if they get that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: But at the bottom line, Jacoby Myers is useful, he's
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: above average slightly. He's reliable. He's just not Elite's not
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: He's not happy. He's not happy. And the stories are
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: connected because page two here mentioned it's a Raider heavy hour.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: We'll get back to the calls in a little bit,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: but the Raider heavy hour here. While Jacoby Myers is
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: having a conniption fit and would like to be traded,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: he wants out, says, I would like to go somewhere else,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: one way ticket out of Sin City. Well, we had
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: a reunion. The Raiders brought back a blast in the past.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Ten years ago. The Raiders first round of the draft
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: picked Amari Cooper and Mary Cooper was really good at
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: dropping passes with the old Oakland Raiders. Man was he elite.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: He was an elite pass dropper with the Raiders. And
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: he's back, baby, He's back, but now the Las Vegas Raiders. Cooper,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: thirty one, he played for the Brownies and the Bills
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: last season, was one of the big pickups before the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: trade lined by the Buffalo football team was considered the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: top available veteran pass catcher on the street at this point.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: So Pete Carroll is selling and the Raiders are selling
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: that this is a veteran presence that he's been around
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the block. He just knows how to get the job done.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Maybe there's a little leadership in there. The Raiders have
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: a young wide receiver room and he will be someone
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that can go in there and fill in one of
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the question marks on the Jeopardy board. And that's that.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: So question question to you, does this addition of wide
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: receiver Amari Cooper actually moved the needle for the Raiders.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: So the way I look at this, this is not
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: a needle move. There is no movement of the needle.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: It is a rusty nail, is what it is, jammed
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: into the side of a sigate ship. Okay, do you understand. Listen,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the Raider wide receiver room is a dizzy disaster with
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the capital of the What is Tom Brady smoking over there?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Is he he's on the drinking the ayahuasca? What do
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: we got going on over there? That is a FEMA
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: zone the Raider wide receiver room. Now you have somebody
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: named Dante Thornton who's unprocessed, and Trey Tucker and they
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: are projected to be starters for the Raiders. You also
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: have Jacoby Myers who wants out asap, and those are
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the top three wide receivers at this point. They're hoping
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: that Amari Cooper can come in there and stabilize things. Unfortunately,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: if you watched the NFL, or even if you're blind
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: and listen to the NFL on radio last year, you
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: know that Amari Cooper looked and sounded sounded like a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: player that was running in molasses. At the end of
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: last year. He was the big pick up by the
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Buffalo football team to put them over the top. How
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: did that work out? Yeah, he showed showed Amari Cooper
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: that he had the separate skills of a refrigerator magnet
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: when he played for the Buffalo Bills there and it
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: looked like he was in a Lake effect blizzard the
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: entire time. He was a decoy. They didn't trade for
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: him to be a decoy. But that's what Amari Cooper
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: was with the Buffalo Bills. And so you know what
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: this is. This is the the Raiders walking in to
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the emergency room. And saying, you know, doctor, doctor, give
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: me the news. And the doctor says, well, I'm sorry
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: to tell you you've got a broken femur. And the Raiders say, well,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: that's I just don't have time for a broken femer.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Can you just put a band aid on it and
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: we're good to go. That's just the way to do it.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: It's a panic move, like Pete Carroll is out here
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: trying to I guess he's trying to recreate the Legion
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: of Boom. I know the Legion of Boom was defense here,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: but it's like the ghost of Christmas past, the ghosts
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: of Raider past, and all that stuff. The Raiders are
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: admitting though this is a confessional by the Raiders. The
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Raiders are admitting that the wide receiver room sucks rocks.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: They're admitting that, and so instead of building a new
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: foundation and all that stuff, they're trying to duct tape
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the lava lamp to the wall. And they're calling you
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a schandelier. They said, well, it's a chandler. No, no it's not,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: it's a lava lamp. That are our friend Andrea the
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: insider the astrology and said she put up a lava
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: lamp and then it fell down. Then you picked it
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: up and you taped to the wall. You said, it's
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: a chandelier. It's a lava lamp. Bad job are you?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: But you look there and the Raiders have brock Bowers,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: who's going for the Raiders to make the playoffs. Brock
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Bowers is going to catch, by my math malor math,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: two hundred passes for the Raiders to find a way
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. They are the definition of av
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: all Ridge acts. An average football team. That's a that's
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: a six seven, eight win, nine win team somewhere in there.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: That's it. Faux contender at most, faux contender for the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Raiders in a division that is stacked with the Chiefs,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the Chargers, and supposedly the Broncos. On the on to
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: come all right final point, the Raiders also made another
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: oh my god, it's all Raiders. The Raiders addressed the
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: backup quarterback position. You might remember any previous episode of
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the show, there was speculations for the Raiders were interested
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: in Ryan Tannehill. Well, they woke up and realized he blows.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: So let's go out and get a younger quarterback who
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: just sucks. And so that's what the Raiders did. Vegas
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: acquired Kenny Picket. Yes that no, you know who that is,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett from the Browns in exchange for a fifth
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: round pick. So question, is Kenny Pickett's third trade now
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: of the Raiders in eighteen months a sign that he
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: is a bust? Or is he just a victim of
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: bad situations? Just bad situations. So for the kool aid drinkers,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: they'll say Kenny Pickett just wasn't given the proper runway
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: to take off off that if you look at his career,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: he's started twenty five games, He's five games above five hundred.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Kenny pick is fifteen and ten as a starter. However,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: any kind of due diligence on the career of Kenny Picktt,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: any kind of objective analyzing what's going on here, the
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: arrow is pointing to bust with a capital B. Bust
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: with a cavalry. He was the quarterback of the future.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: The Steelers with Mike Tomlin, drafted this guy in the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: first round, and Mike Tomlin had him for a couple
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: of seasons and it's like, this guy's not that good.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: This the whole they had, the whole backstory. Ride Guy
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: went to college at pitt goes over to the Steelers,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the whole thing and a couple of seasons in. After
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: being picked in the first round, Pittsburgh brought in Russell
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Wilson to compete with Kenny Pickett. And what did Kenny
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Pickett do when they brought Russell Wilson in to compete?
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: He had the ultimate hissy fit. I'm not doing it.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I am Kenny Peggott, scraw you out. I want out.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: He gave up, He gave up. He ran from the grind.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: He just run. He run the other he ran the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: other direction from the grind, and that's the thing you
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: can't do, and he did it. The guy's a quitter.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett's a quitter. Rather than compete, you're telling me
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: you can't beat out a rushed up, a rushed up
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and washed up Russell Wilson. You can't beat out Russell Wilson.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: If you're Kenny Pickett, come on. And rather than try,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: he says, I want out. I want to trade. So
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh traded him to Philadelphia and he had all stop over.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: There was never going to play. That was quarterback rehab
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, and then I think he was traded for
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: like a third round pick or something like that. So
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I think they got something of value for Kenny Pickett,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: they being the Philadelphia football team. But that quitting on
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the Steelers is something that is shadow boxed Kenny Pickett.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: And now he went to Cleveland. That's even more emasculating
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: than what happened in Pittsburgh. He just ran away from
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the Seer says, I don't want to compete with mister unlimited.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Mister unlimited. He goes to Cleveland and he could not
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: would not beat out a forty year old Joe Flacco
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and a couple of neophyte rookie quarterbacks, including a fifth
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: round flyer that picket in a supposed open competition, a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: meritocracy where Joe Flacco ended up winning. He lost out
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: and he was so bad that they don't even think
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: he's a good backup in Cleveland, like we gotta trade him,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: get rid of him. He can't even be in a backup.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: That's a quarterback devoid franchise. It is a Permuta triangle
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: where quarterbacks go to die, and they're looking for anyone
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: that's got a pulse. And they got rid of Kenny Pickett.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: They got rid of him. So will Kenny Pickett ever
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: get a shot to start in Las Vegas or is
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: he destined to be a career backup. Well, the Raiders
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Aidan O'Connell is hurt, He's going to come back at
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: some point, So there's no guarantee that Pickett even makes
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the roster the whole year with the Raiders, and Gino
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Smith is best. He's with Pete Carroll as a Pete
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Carroll picked Gino Smith. Tom Brady wanted a good quarterback.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: The Raiders couldn't get a good quarterback. They wanted Matthew Stafford.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: They tried to get some other players, and all the
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: good players ran away from the Raiders, So the Raiders
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: then were forced to get some slop. And Pete Carroll says,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: that's the slop. I like, that's the crap out of Seattle.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I want that Gino Smith. Sure, we'll get you, Gino Smith.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Why not? So Gino goes to the Raiders. He's a
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: fraud as a number one quarterback, we all know that.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: But if he stays healthy, then he's going to play
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: the entire year, and Kenny Pickett will get hemorrhoids sitting
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: on the bench and despite that glittering record which we mentioned,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: five games over five hundred as a backup Kenny Pickett
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: because he played on good defensive teams in Pittsburgh and
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: they didn't really play much at all in Philadelphia. But
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: in his career thirty games, twenty five starts, Kenny Pickett
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: has the grand total of fifteen touchdowns and fourteen interceptions.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Is that good? Because if that's good, I wish I
• 37:20
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  Speaker 4: Goo TMZ caught up with former USC running back Lendale
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  Speaker 4: White over the weekend. He was the thunder to the
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  Speaker 4: Lightning and Thunder duo there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, I remember he was a fat one.
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  Speaker 4: Yes exactly yeah where Lendell White said that he thinks
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  Speaker 4: that USC will make the college football Playoff for the
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  Speaker 4: first time and that he has faith in Lincoln Riley.
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  Speaker 4: Ben does Riley need a college football Playoff appearance to
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  Speaker 4: keep his job?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of money tied up. I'm one
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  Speaker 1: of a couple of people I know over there. They
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  Speaker 1: are boosters at USC and they thought that was there.
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  Speaker 1: They had won the lottery when they got Lincoln Riley,
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  Speaker 1: and they suck. The problem Wingan Riley has Coop is
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: this teams are soft and they play in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna play cold weather games late in the season,
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  Speaker 1: and they're just not built for that. They're soft West
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  Speaker 1: Coast teams. And that's on Lincoln Riley. That's on his
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  Speaker 1: coaching step. I don't see a way that they win,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at the end. And I think he'll be
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  Speaker 1: around for at least another year next.
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  Speaker 4: Texans wide receiver Nico Collins raved about having CJ. Strouded
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  Speaker 4: as his quarterback, saying that their connection is like bread
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  Speaker 4: and butter. Oh nice, and that they plan on shocking
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  Speaker 4: the world.
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  Speaker 1: I like MC and cheese more. Ben.
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  Speaker 4: The Texans have kind of flown under the radar this offseason.
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  Speaker 4: What's their ceiling?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so their ceiling is there'll be a good regular
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  Speaker 1: season team. They play in a division nobody cares about.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you fly under the radar. The AFC South
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  Speaker 1: is terrible. You've got the Texans, who are the top
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  Speaker 1: team Jacksonville, Indianapolis. The Titans. It's a terrible division. They'll win,
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  Speaker 1: They'll make the playoffs. Will be the first playoff game
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, because nobody wants to watch them play.
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  Speaker 4: Next Major League Baseball announcement, We'll be returning to the
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  Speaker 4: Field of Dreams in Iowa for a game in the
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty six regular season. Then, what are some other
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: special locations you think would be good for a game?
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: I'm on the Pacific. There's this this trash circle of trash.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Why don't they build a stadium in the middle of
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the Pacific on that trash island out there? And wouldn't
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: that be cool? The floating trash and then clean it up?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Why not? What do you say, Cooplaw? Do we do?
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I like it? You pass? There is That's a win
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  Speaker 1: trash island baby.
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• 39:48
  Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: And right to the game we go. Let's welcome in
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: our contestants. We have Who do we have here? We
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: have Uncle Mo, who's in Jersey now no longer in Brooklyn,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: he's moved over to Jersey. What's going on, Uncle Mo?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Ben?
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  Speaker 4: Looking forward to the football season, hoping to make bounds
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  Speaker 4: fast as legal, Jets might go seventeen to no.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, if the other team only plays with ten players,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: they might go seven seventeen And Uncle moh, who do
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  Speaker 1: you want to partner with the great Uncle Mo?
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  Speaker 2: I hope, I'm not rusty, Ben.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with you. All right. It spin a while,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: it's been a while. All right, you're gonna play. And
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: we have JJ in Renton. Hello, JJ, oh man, have
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: been a long time, big man. It has been too long. JJ.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: You work the dreaded swing chip. But you're back. You're
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: gonna be with Cooper Loop all right, JJ, right, yes,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: all right, I don't have time to do small talk. Alright.
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  Speaker 1: It like the Broncos though. That's fine. All right, let's
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: let's play the game here. Lock everyone in? What the categories? Quickly? Cool?
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: This is the Melissa McCarthy addition. She turns fifty five
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: years old today. Categories are the third Wheel, the Nines, bride'smaids,
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  Speaker 4: and this is forty. Uncle, though you're on first, which
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: category would you like? Third wheel?
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: The third wheel? Alright? And JJ how about you.
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: So what is the object? Do you want the nines
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  Speaker 1: bride's maids? Or this is forty? This is forty? Okay,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: all right, all right, there we go. Let's go forty.
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  Speaker 1: What are forty five seconds o'clock? These athletes were typically
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: overshadowed by a duo of teammates. Uncle moll, are you ready? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all right, here we go. Known as the Beard. He
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: plays with the Clippers. Now he was with the Rock Yes,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: he was with the Miami Heat with Dwayne Wade. Yes,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: voyt guard from France for the Spurs when they had Duncan. Yes,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Patriots. He's on Fox now slot
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: wide receiver. Yes, running back for the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 1: Also the same name of the manager of the Giants
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: in the eighties, that San Francisco Giant. It's a running
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  Speaker 1: back for the Knights with Joe Bartana all right? What no,
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Packers. Last name is like a
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: salad with Brett Farb and Aaron Rodgers last names like
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: a salad. The Scooter for the Yankees in the nineteen Yes,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: all right, you got that one wide receiver for the
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. Last name like a famous.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Hen season again, man, because I could family here here, man,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: he's done the robot.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Roger Craig was what you missed and Randall Ky, I
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: like that. JJ knows he's going to lose.
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  Speaker 4: All right, JJ, JJ, We've got this is forty. These
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: athletes are currently forty years old. Whether retired or active,
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: they're forty years old.
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  Speaker 1: Right now? Are you ready? JJ?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Joe?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: Forty five seconds to begin quarterback for the Falcons. He
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: threw to Julio Jones. He's retired now. Matt Ryan, Yes,
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: this guy was one of the all time great running backs.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: He was on the Vikings, ran for two thousand yards.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: He hit his son with a stick. Yes, all right.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: This guy was the point guard for the Lob City Clippers.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: He's still in the NBA.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: It's not Clay Thompson.
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  Speaker 2: It's uh, I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: He's on State farm commercials.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: All right, all right, all right, this guy, this guy
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: was Powe's brother, Powe from the Lakers.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Kyle. No, all right, this.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: Guy had the same name as pac Man in the NFL,
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: but he was named me an MLB player.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Terrible.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Cheating man.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: JJ just wants to say I'm cheating, all right, he
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: sucked at the game, Chris, Chris Paul is who you missed?
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: A right?
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: You want that? You want the nines or bridesmaids. You
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: want nines or bridesmaids.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: JJ, I'll go to nine.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: All right. Athletes all were number nine. Let's go. Current
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  Speaker 1: quarterback for the Bengals. Uh.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: Yes, this guy was the quarterback for the Saints. He's
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: gonna be in the Hall of Fame.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: This guy was the kicker for the Ravens. He likes
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: the massage Parlors.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: This guy was the point guard for the Celtics championship
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: team with Kevin Garnett.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: It was uh uh.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: He later came to the Lakers hit the point guard.
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  Speaker 1: Board.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: Jeez, guy hit for last guy to hit four hundred
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: in baseball, the last guy to hit four Yeah.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: We had a little time. You sucked. You sucked, jaed
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: you never never played this game again. I didn't she
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: you didn't get any right brides may here we go.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: These athletes all made it to the championship game. But
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: number one. Uh, here we go quickly. We have a
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: full board. But let's go. Uh Uncle Mo play with
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox was a rookie year played with the
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: California Angels. Also hit the first Grand Slam in an
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: All Star game in the No White Guy, No Redland.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah you gotta ride, President. We want the game. We
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: want the game. Uncle