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Hour 2 - The Ballard of the Ball · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: The Benny man can. The Benny man can. It's our
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  Speaker 1: number two. Our number two. And it's piping hot, fresh
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  Speaker 1: out of the oven on the Ben Maller Show. So
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  Speaker 1: curious what you think about the Colts general manager, Chris Ballard,
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  Speaker 1: the Ballard of the ball, calling the trend of NFL
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  Speaker 1: players trying to go back to college the stupidest blank
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  Speaker 1: he's ever heard. He used a naughty word. Also, can
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  Speaker 1: you defend Sean McVay naming not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 1: not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight,
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  Speaker 1: not nine. No, 11, 11 captains for the L.A.
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  Speaker 2: Rams.
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  Speaker 1: What message are the Rams sending with that? Also, what
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  Speaker 1: message are the Texans sending? C.J. Stroud with his contract deadline.
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  Speaker 1: No negotiations during the season today. from the Houston football team.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about all of that. Here we go. Geronimo,
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  Speaker 1: it's our number two. The Ballard of the Ball. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: lead story this hour is from the front office of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Well, it is an executive. It's not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: an NFL story. It's a hybrid story. It's about the bounce, bounce, bounce.
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  Speaker 1: The bouncy bounce is what it is. So we go
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  Speaker 1: to Indy where the Colts general manager, Chris Ballard, who
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  Speaker 1: clearly has, clearly has incriminating photos of multiple people, many
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  Speaker 1: assumed when Jim Irsay unfortunately met his demise in some...
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  Speaker 1: drug situation that the the daughter would say all right
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  Speaker 1: we got to get a new GM but no Ballard
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  Speaker 1: remains as he's produced mediocrity year after year there in
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis but he's a really good guy so Chris Ballard
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  Speaker 1: the GM of the Colts blasted the trend of NFL
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  Speaker 1: players trying to return to college football it's become a
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  Speaker 1: thing it's been the story we've talked about a lot
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  Speaker 1: the last couple weeks and it's Crazy. So you get
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  Speaker 1: waived by an NFL team, and then you're like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go to Louisiana State, or I would like to
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  Speaker 1: go somewhere else to play some college football. Well, Ballard
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  Speaker 1: was asked a question, and he did not bite his tongue.
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  Speaker 1: He did not go to sportscliché. com. He did not give
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  Speaker 1: the standard boilerplate answer. He gave you this. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to the audio tape. Did you have any rookies come
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  Speaker 1: to you wanting to go back and play college football?
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  Speaker 3: It's the stupidest shit I've ever heard Your entire life
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  Speaker 3: I know I'll catch crap for this But your entire
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  Speaker 3: life you fight to get up to the NFL Okay
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  Speaker 3: but now we're going to go back Okay that makes
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  Speaker 3: a lot of freaking.
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  Speaker 1: Sense All right, so that was it. That was the
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  Speaker 1: money quote, as you heard right there. The key part
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  Speaker 1: of that, the stupidest blank in my entire life. There
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  Speaker 1: you go. All right, so this is being played out
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  Speaker 1: in the court system. If you haven't been paying attention,
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  Speaker 1: bad job by you. The lawsuits are taking place in
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  Speaker 1: many jurisdictions over eligibility. There was some chatter I was
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  Speaker 1: reading the other day. This could go all the way
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  Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court. which seems rather absurd, but here
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  Speaker 1: we are. Leagues have put rules in to not allow
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  Speaker 1: the bounce-back players to go from college to the NFL
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  Speaker 1: and back to college football. The door is currently open
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  Speaker 1: at the moment, pending legal rulings, and Ballard is the
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  Speaker 1: first NFL general manager to actually say what he really thinks.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone else has been doing the dance. La-la-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la, being
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  Speaker 1: politically correct. Chris Ballard not being politically correct. So that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious what you think about the Colts GM here,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Ballard, calling the trend of NFL players trying to
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  Speaker 1: go back to college the stupidest blank he's ever heard.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so I've got PlayStation, Awkwafina, and rubber band gun.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to put the biscuit in the basket
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. But we always start
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  Speaker 1: out with our old friend, number one!
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  Speaker 3: Number one!
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  Speaker 1: Number one!
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  Speaker 3: Number one!
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  Speaker 2: Number one!
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  Speaker 1: All right! All right, so on the surface, making the
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  Speaker 1: NFL and then crawling back into the sewer of college football...
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  Speaker 1: It's akin to being promoted to the assistant regional manager
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  Speaker 1: and then begging for your old internship back. It would
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  Speaker 1: kind of only be like me. Like, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: interned at the mighty 690 in San Diego. I would
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  Speaker 1: like to leave this job and go back and check
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  Speaker 1: out the high-speed sports wire with Lee Hacksaw Hamilton. I
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  Speaker 1: want to do that again. Why not? What the F? No!
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  Speaker 1: So I understand the logic behind what Ballard said, and
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  Speaker 1: you look at it that way, it makes sense. However,
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  Speaker 1: we don't live in that world, and you have to
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  Speaker 1: look at this through this set of bifocals here, just
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  Speaker 1: keeping it real. Because what we do is we keep
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  Speaker 1: it real. Do I like the fact that players are
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  Speaker 1: trying to go back to college? No, I think it's dumb.
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  Speaker 1: That being said... we're not talking about established all pro
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  Speaker 1: NFL players here that are abandoning the NFL life. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about roster spam is what we're talking about. And
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  Speaker 1: these guys are staring into what many would call the
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  Speaker 1: soul crushing abyss. The reality is that they're not good
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  Speaker 1: enough for the NFL. They're good enough for college there.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a four a player in baseball. They used
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  Speaker 1: to call it where you're, You're too good for AAA,
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  Speaker 1: and you're not good enough for the majors, so you're
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  Speaker 1: stuck in the twilight zone, where these guys would appear
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  Speaker 1: to be that type of player, where they're good enough
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  Speaker 1: to get a look from the NFL. They're not good
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  Speaker 1: enough to do anything to make a name for themselves
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, or they haven't been given the right opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: And so the top scenario for these type of players
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  Speaker 1: is to become what? A practice squad guy, fall into the...
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  Speaker 1: The Purgatory. Now, I would say that's a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: life for a little bit. You don't last very long
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  Speaker 1: on the practice squad. But times have changed. It's purely business.
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  Speaker 1: It's called profiteering is what it's called. And if you
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  Speaker 1: make the practice squad, which is no guarantee. You know
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  Speaker 1: that and I know that. It's no guarantee to make
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  Speaker 1: the practice squad. That gig, if you're a first-time young
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  Speaker 1: player on the practice squad, pays about $ 250, 000.
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  Speaker 4: Now....
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  Speaker 1: For most people, if I said you're going to make $ 250, 000,
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  Speaker 1: you'd say, oh my God, I've done very well. That's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing. $ 250, 000 a year. That's great. Way to go. However,
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  Speaker 1: if an NIL sugar daddy who lives in a bayou
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in Louisiana and loves LSU football and Tiger Man,
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  Speaker 1: who calls the show, and that... Sugar Daddy, who likes
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  Speaker 1: eating crawfish, says, you know what? You can make $ 250, 000
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  Speaker 1: roughly playing on a NFL practice squad. I will double
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  Speaker 1: or triple that, and you can go back to college
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  Speaker 1: where the women are very attractive and life is good,
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  Speaker 1: and you can go play right there. So you get richer.
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  Speaker 1: You make more money. You get guaranteed playing time. They're
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  Speaker 1: not bringing these guys in to have them walk up
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  Speaker 1: and down the sidelines and get 10,000 steps. And you,
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  Speaker 1: in theory, would rebuild your draft stock. So win, win, win. Winning,
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  Speaker 1: it is not, in their eyes, a retreat. It is
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  Speaker 1: hitting the reset. Kind of like you're playing on PlayStation.
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  Speaker 1: You hit the reset thing, and then you blew the
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  Speaker 1: first game. It didn't go very well for you, so
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  Speaker 1: you hit the reset button, and you get another new life.
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  Speaker 1: And bigger bag. It's all about the bag. What's in
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  Speaker 1: the bag? And another crack at the boss level. So
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  Speaker 1: that's there. Again, if it's allowed, it shouldn't be allowed.
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  Speaker 1: It's rather stupid, but it's allowed right now, and so
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  Speaker 1: we'll see how this plays out. And there we go. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: to L.A., a number of you reached out and said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're such a holler for the Rams. Anything negative, you
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  Speaker 1: don't mention it. Which, A, is not true. I am
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  Speaker 1: skeptical of how good Aaron Donald's going to be. I've
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  Speaker 1: said that. I did some monologues about that. This is
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  Speaker 1: not about Aaron Donald, though. This is about... I know
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  Speaker 1: two of these guys who email me regularly are Seahawks fans.
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  Speaker 1: The other one, I don't know what team they like.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming it's not the Rams. So I had three
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  Speaker 1: people reach out to me and say, you buried this story.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't mention it because it's a negative... So if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see this, the LA Rams, which is an
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  Speaker 1: NFL team that is the favorite to win the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: they announced who their captains are. Now, have I ever
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  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time focused on captains of NFL teams?
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  Speaker 1: Hell no! However, this made news. Now, the reason it
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  Speaker 1: made news is how many captains do you think the
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  Speaker 1: Rams have? It's like that joke. How many people does
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  Speaker 1: it take to screw in a light bulb? How many
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  Speaker 1: captains does it take to have for Sean McVay's Rams?
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  Speaker 1: So not one, not two. Not three, not four. Not five,
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  Speaker 1: not six. Not seven, not eight. Not nine, not ten. Eleven!
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  Speaker 1: The L.A. Rams have eleven team captains. Eleven! One, one,
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  Speaker 1: oh the fun! Eleven! It's a mix of established veterans
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  Speaker 1: and younger players, some new people on the team. Captains
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  Speaker 1: are led by The reigning MVP, Matthew Stafford, the timeless wonder,
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  Speaker 1: Devontae Adams, Miles Garrett, and Trent McDuffie, the Chiefs defensive
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  Speaker 1: backer they traded for in a big trade back during
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  Speaker 1: the draft or before the draft. But here's the thing, though.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, not a captain. Puga Nakua, not a captain,
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  Speaker 1: although he'll bite your ass or your shoulder or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. if you're into that kind of thing. So
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  Speaker 1: the 11 captains, that sounds like a lot, right? Is
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  Speaker 1: it true? Is it true that the 11 captains for
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  Speaker 1: the 2026 LA Rams believed to be the most, the
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  Speaker 1: most in modern pro football history that there's never been,
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  Speaker 1: never been an NFL team that has had more captains
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  Speaker 1: than the LA Rams. Well, that's what the story says.
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  Speaker 1: So the question and, I'll just go right into it.
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  Speaker 1: Can you defend? Here's the question. Can you defend Sean
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  Speaker 1: McVay naming 11 captains for the 2026 Rams? And the
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  Speaker 1: answer is, I just have two letters, N-O. And if
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  Speaker 1: you want to make it four letters, N-O-P-E. Nope. I
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  Speaker 1: can't defend this. And Sean McVay deserves to wear the
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  Speaker 1: dunce cap on this one. What are you doing? Knock
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  Speaker 1: this crap off. It's unbecoming. The Rams must have gone
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  Speaker 1: down to the haberdashery and they saw there was a
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  Speaker 1: sale sign. If you buy in bulk those sea patches, OK,
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  Speaker 1: we'll buy in bulk. Why not? Eleven captains. It's like
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  Speaker 1: that famous episode of when this woman who used to
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  Speaker 1: be famous, Oprah Winfrey. A lot of people don't even
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  Speaker 1: know who that is anymore. she was very popular at
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  Speaker 1: one point in pop culture and she had a thing
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  Speaker 1: called a TV show. And on one episode, you get
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  Speaker 1: a car, you get a car, you get a car,
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  Speaker 1: you're a captain, you're a captain, you're a captain. Everyone's
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  Speaker 1: a captain. So this is the part where I say,
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  Speaker 1: if everyone's a captain, nobody's a captain. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the people we rant about, like when everyone claims racism,
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  Speaker 1: then nothing's racism, right? Well, everyone can't be a captain, right?
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  Speaker 1: If everyone has the seat, what are you doing? You've
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  Speaker 1: watered down the beer so much, Sean McVay. You're basically
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  Speaker 1: serving Aquafina with a foam thing on top is what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing. If my math is right, almost 23% of
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  Speaker 1: the active game day roster for the Rams will walk
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  Speaker 1: around as Captain Crunch on the sidelines. Seriously, what are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? At most, I would say you need, what,
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  Speaker 1: three captains. You need an offensive captain, a defensive captain,
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  Speaker 1: and a special teams captain. That's it. That's all. Am
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  Speaker 1: I wrong on that? I don't think I'm wrong on this.
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  Speaker 1: You need three. That's leadership. You need to have, who
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  Speaker 1: are the leaders? You establish the leaders, and you don't need,
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  Speaker 1: in a team dynamic, to have everyone wear the C.
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  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Eleven captains. Welcome to a participation... situation. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I think they have assistant captains. They have deputy captains.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Emeritus. They've got every type of captain. Seriously, what
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  Speaker 1: is going on with the Rams? Why are you doing this?
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  Speaker 1: You're such a boomer, Maller! Well, hey, I'm not a boomer.
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  Speaker 1: That's not true. I was raised, clearly in inappropriately to
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  Speaker 1: think that leadership was an exclusive group. That is something special.
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  Speaker 1: It mattered to be a leader, a leader of men.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't for everyone. It wasn't for everyone. And
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  Speaker 1: when almost a quarter of your active roster gets to
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  Speaker 1: wear the title and that little patch with the C there,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you could say that captain for the Rams
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  Speaker 1: does not sound, it doesn't stand for captains. In Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: it stands for congratulations. Everybody gets one. Everybody gets one.
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  Speaker 1: All right, final point. Contract stalemate. We go to Houston.
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  Speaker 1: The Texans have announced they will not negotiate. Will not
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  Speaker 1: negotiate with C.J. Stroud on a contract extension during the
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  Speaker 1: regular season. This is according to Their general manager, Nick Casario,
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  Speaker 1: who says, Ixnay on the talk, eh? If no deal
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  Speaker 1: is done, that's it. Houston's deadline is effectively September 13th.
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  Speaker 1: Today is September 2nd, so that means as we're doing
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  Speaker 1: this in real time, my computer-like brain tells me that's
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  Speaker 1: 11 days. 11 days before it begins the opener for
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  Speaker 1: Houston against Here We Go Buffalo in Houston without a
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  Speaker 1: deal by then. We are told negotiations will be tabled.
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  Speaker 1: They'll go on the back burner until the offseason. There
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  Speaker 1: appears to be no imminent situation where a contract's about
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  Speaker 1: to happen. If you believe the whispers out of Houston,
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  Speaker 1: there will be no agreement anytime soon. So Houston already
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  Speaker 1: exercising C.J. Stroud's fifth-year option, keeping him under team control
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  Speaker 1: through the 2027 season. So here's the question. What message,
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  Speaker 1: give me the message, what message are the Texans sending C.J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud with this contract deadline, hardline deadline by the Texans?
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  Speaker 1: So the way I read the room here, the Texans
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  Speaker 1: are saying, welcome to... An episode of Let's Make a Deal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's make a deal. Behind door number one, you have
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  Speaker 1: a team-friendly discounted contract. That's your option right now. You
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  Speaker 1: can take it or leave it. Team-friendly contract. Behind door
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  Speaker 1: number two, you are betting on yourself. And you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get all of the Bitcoins you can possibly get.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck on that. Now, the Texans, this is something
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  Speaker 1: that they're creating. And we talked about this with the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers and Joey Porter Jr. And my position is pretty
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  Speaker 1: much the same. If you really want the player, you'll
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  Speaker 1: negotiate whenever to keep the player. You're not going to wait.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's pretty obvious. And the Texans shouldn't sign C.J.
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  Speaker 4: Stroud.
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  Speaker 1: They should not. They shouldn't pay him. Because he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: earned the money. And Casario's like, well, he just put
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  Speaker 1: a padlock on the room of negotiations. And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: The naked truth is that C.J. Stroud, he didn't even
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  Speaker 1: deserve a payday candy bar. Forget the big payday. You
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  Speaker 1: know what he's like? He's like a rubber band gun.
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  Speaker 1: It's an old toy people used to play with back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. And the first shot is, when you
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  Speaker 1: get as a kid... Maybe not now because of the
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  Speaker 1: information age and all that, but when I was back
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  Speaker 1: in my day, when I was a kid, you give
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  Speaker 1: a kid one of those rubber band guns, and it
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  Speaker 1: is freaking so cool. The first shot, bam, fired up.
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  Speaker 1: And he was a great rookie of the year, franchise savior,
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  Speaker 1: the great messiah of the Texans, C.J. Stroud. The second shot,
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  Speaker 1: second year, meh, meh. The third shot, he ran out
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  Speaker 1: of ammo, C.J. Stroud, and the third year, they're crawling
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  Speaker 1: on the floor like a medieval peasant trying to find
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  Speaker 1: the rubber bands. Where did the rubber band go? I
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  Speaker 1: broke one of them. Mom! Mom! Where's the rubber bands, Mom?
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty much it. Houston is not insulting C.J. Stroud
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  Speaker 1: with this. they're challenging him. They're like, hey, if you
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  Speaker 1: play well, you're going to cost us more money. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't play well, we'll get rid of your ass
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  Speaker 1: and you'll go play for the Vikings. Get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. So you want franchise money, C.J. Stroud, go
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  Speaker 1: out there, do a pirouette on the catwalk. Otherwise, the
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  Speaker 1: Texans are playing the game of we really like this
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  Speaker 1: 2023 scrapbook of photos you gave us. But we're not
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  Speaker 1: paying that. We're not going to pay for that. Because
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  Speaker 1: you're not that guy, pal. You're not that guy. It
• 20:14
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• 20:29
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• 20:35
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• 20:38
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• 21:50
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• 21:52
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• 21:58
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• 22:01
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• 22:06
  Speaker 1: You know? They're creatures. I think it makes sense. Part
• 22:10
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• 22:17
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• 22:19
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• 22:24
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• 22:33
  Speaker 1: 877-99 on Fox, on X, at Ben Maller. A hodgepodge
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: this hour. We started yapping about a number of things,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: including the Colts GM, Chris Ballard, and his rant. The
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Rams with 11 captains and the Texans in Ixnay on
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the contract day for CJ Stroud. Lorraine is here, FSR
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Tech Queen. Always here. Well, not always. Always. And Koopaloop
• 23:04
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• 23:07
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• 23:08
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• 23:13
  Speaker 1: That's right. And an extra blah to you. Mark the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Walker says B plus on the Mallard monologue. You were
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: absolutely correct in ignoring the very definition of a non-story,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: which is the number of captains the Rams have. Trying
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: to think of something less important. and or interesting, coming
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: up pretty empty. That's from Mark the Walker. Thank you.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Nature Boy says, make that 12 captains on the Rams roster.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Very funny. This is 11 captains, a sign of weakness,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: he says. Rebecca the Ram fan says, me thinks you're
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Gen X, Ben, like myself. Not a boomer. Not a boomer.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: But in regards to the Rams, I read that the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: players voted for or picked the captains themselves. Well, that's
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: where Sean McVay as the head coach says, okay, you
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: can vote for the captains. The top three are the captains.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. The top three are the captains,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: not the top 11. It's like when you have a
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: presidential election, the top 11, well, they don't even have
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: 11 candidates, but the top person wins, not the top
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: two or three people. They don't all get to become captains.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I'm getting some blowback. We played some audio from Angel
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: fans chanting goodbye to Artie Marino at the Big A
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday night in the game against the Yankees. Well, Fergdog.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Says you should not play clips, Ben, from the tarps
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: off section. Remember that conspiracy guy? The tarps off movement
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: is apparently sexist and full of pedophiles.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: According to Fergdahl. Yeah, we had that guy from Tucson
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: that called up and gave us the inside skinny on that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: It was pretty wacky. Pretty wacky. Wacky tobacco is what
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: it was. Very much so. And let's see. What else
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: do we have? This is Kathy and Madison. She is
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: listening to the Ben Maller Show. She loves the iHeartRadio app.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: You can listen to all these different stations. And I
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: think she's using that. I don't know if she's using
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: something else. She says, I'm listening on 95.7 in San Francisco.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: How about that, Kathy? One day she's listening from the L.A. station,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: San Francisco. She said, never the Madison station. It's very odd.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Anyway, let's take some calls. Let's say hello to Saints
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: fan Al, who's in Dallas. Hello, Saints fan Al. Welcome.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Hello, Ben. How is everybody doing? I hope everybody's doing great.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Al, are you originally from New Orleans? Did
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: you relocate to Dallas?
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: Yes, I am.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: I'm born a Saints fan.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Okay. Born into it. I got you.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: You know, move around a little bit.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: You know, Katrina just placed us, you know. I mean,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: I've just been here.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: For a little while.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. How old were you when Katrina happened?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I was in my 30s.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: And you had to move your whole life. You had
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: already established your life in New Orleans.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: And you had to relocate and run out to, wow,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that's crazy. That's wild, man.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: I know, right?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Life is life.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I want to blast Goodell. He killed my dream for
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: the Pro Bowl.
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: I wanted to go to that thing in Hawaii.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: If he would have left it alone, I think it
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: would have survived.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: So it hasn't been in Hawaii in years, though.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: He killed it.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: That's how come players didn't want to play in it
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: no more.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: It went from bad to worse to even more worse.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: And then it started to suck.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: It did suck even more. And then now, how you
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: playing flag football in the tackle football league? I mean,
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: I don't get it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Well, I want you to know here, buddy. Al, I
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: actually did go to a Pro Bowl at Aloha Stadium
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: years ago. You didn't really miss anything. Just go to Hawaii.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Enjoy Hawaii. Go sit on the beach.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: I know, but if you've got the game, it's just
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: an extra reason to go.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: No, no, you don't need to. Just go. You don't
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: need to watch the Pro Bowl. You can play a
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: game of flag football on the beach and have a
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: good time.
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: It was my dream for retirement. I was going to
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: do the whole NFL scene. Hall of Fame games, Super Bowl,
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: Pro Bowl, everything.
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: Game, home, man, road.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, that just was my dream.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I hear you. So, Al, just for the record, Roger Goodell,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: dream killer. Right. Dream killer. That's it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: And wasn't NFL Europe supposed to be the global expansion?
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: I mean, I heard it was losing money at the
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: time they had it, and now we got all this
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: international game stuff.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't put a team over that.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: How are we going to play that?
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: They set it up. They only play once a week, right?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: So the problem is, I've heard, is the.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: The logistics of it all, you know?
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. You know, the biggest problem is going
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to be, like, the families of the players. They're not
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: going to want to all move to European countries and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: all that.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, who wants to go? I mean, you live in,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: you know, pick any city, you know what I'm saying?
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: And now you've got to go to.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: No, it is an issue.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: It's not.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: If they left it alone, I think it would have survived.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: It even made money eventually. At the time, I heard
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: it was losing money.
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: That's why he killed it.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Well, even now.
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: It's growing the game globally is what it was doing.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: But even now, Al.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Those teams over there.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm saying even now, like those games they
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: play in these different countries, it's a novelty act is
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: what it is. It's a lot of expatriates. I think
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: you should bring.
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: It back and do it like it was.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: Be like a developmental league and, you know, the guys
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: will play.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: I used to like it. Plus, it was football all
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: year round.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: There you go. All right, Al. Look, I like your complaints.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, listen to my man, Saints fan Al. You've
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: got to call me more often, Al.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy. The great Al. Well, more than once.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: There he goes. Let's say hello to a retired caller,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: a celebrity caller who retired from the show, and he's
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: back for a rare and appropriate appearance. Which retired caller
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: is it? Is it A, Pete in Pittsburgh? Is it B,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Jeannie in Medford calling from the other side? Is it C,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: our guy from Tampa? a legend, or is it none
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: other than Sir Scratchoff? Let's find out right now. Let's
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: see right now. Who is it? Oh, look at that!
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: There he is! Retired caller Sir Scratchoff!
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: No, but I'm retired, but I'm still here listening in, brother.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Still listening in. You doing okay?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Well, I want to tell you, we had such a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: great time at the Arkansas meet and greet that we did.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. La had so much fun in Arkansas.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: And Koopa Loop said it was the most exciting trip
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: he's ever been on there. And it was all because
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: of you. And I want to thank you so much
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: for that. Sir Scratchoff.
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: You're always in my prayers, man. I thank a lot
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: of you guys, man. A big old shout out to Alec.
• 29:57
  Speaker 9: I want to thank my man out there. He needs
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: to come out to Arkansas. We can eat some alligator, boy.
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: I tell you what, I get in that seafood cooking,
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: you know.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're all about the fish now. You moved on.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: What's your favorite? What's your fish of the week here?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I like catfish, man, but I like alligator and shrimp.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I like to eat the crap out of shrimp. I
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: like to put me a big old bowl of little
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: small corn on a cob with shrimp, some small potatoes,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: and some Polish sausage. Put a little of that bay
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: seasoning on there and put it in the oven. Oh,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: that's some good eating right there when you're watching football. Yeah.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Well, eating the crap out of the shrimp, I think,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: is what happened when the other side of that is,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: you know, eat the crap, you know, the crap.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Hey, I've got that Rams pick. I pick four teams
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: every year, a non-SEC, which is Red Bulls there at Joanborough,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: and I've got my Tennessee Vols going for seven and over.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I've got those.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Rams picked for 11 and over. And I think we're
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: going to be okay unless we run into a snow
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: and have to play the Eagles. We might have to
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: be up against the wall. But I believe we're going
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: to have a good season. We really don't have a
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: big old bunch of teams that I'm really worried about. But,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: you know, Seahawks, you never know what they're going to do.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: You know, they're just kind of crazy. And Cardinals, I
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: want to beat them every year because of my two brothers,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: And I believe we're going to be okay. I believe
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: we're going to have a good year. We don't have
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: to be whooped up on the Saints just for the
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: hell of it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Can you send that out, Coop? Nobody else has that take.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: My man, Sir Scratchoff, thinks the Rams are going to
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: have a good year this year. Put that on the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio social media accounts. Coop's on that right now.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: They're going to send that out. That's the way we go.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: You're not worried about losing on Netflix in Australia? next Thursday?
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: You're not worried about that?
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: No, man.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: You know, when you play another season, another go across
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: the country and play, I don't know sometimes, man.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: That's not across the country. That's around the world, my man.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: You know, the Rams, they've been unpredictable since the late 1970s.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I fired them after I left California in 66. I
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: went to St. Louis, Missouri. Then all of a sudden
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: they came to St. Louis for a little meantime, so
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: they didn't get no new ball field. They took off
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: back to California, and then we won a Super Bowl.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: So it's just one of them things, buddy.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I hear you. All right, well, go back to retirement,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Sir Scratchoff. So thank you. I'm driving, man.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I'm driving.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I'm still out here, brother.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: God bless.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Be safe. There is a great Sir Scratchoff. And we
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: say hello to Mojo Risen in the Bay Area. Hello,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Mojo Risen.
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: Come on, baby, light my fire. The Ben Maller Show.
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: Everybody will always desire. And it's so great, you will
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: never tire. How you doing, Mr.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Godfather?
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: It's been a while, man. I tried to call in
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: a few weeks ago, and you're such a popular show
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: that I couldn't get in, man. The phone just kept
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: ringing and ringing and ringing, and I was like, God,
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: I feel lost. I'm like, oh, my God, I'm lost.
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: I can't get into the bed. Mallardville, man.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I miss you guys, man. Well, we're here, and the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: good news is I looked at the police blotter. I
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: looked at the high-speed sports wire, and it appears no
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: 49er players were arrested or injured yesterday. So things are
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: going in the right direction. for the 49ers, which I'm
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: very happy to hear about that. So congratulations on that. Now,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: there was some interesting news out about the Hall of
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Famer Emmitt Smith. Did you see Mojo Risen, the all-time
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: leading rusher in NFL history? Emmitt Smith has been accused
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: in a lawsuit of being a con man and cheating
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: out an investor of $ 2. 5 million. It was some kind
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: of solar project in Texas. How about that?
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: Wow, no, I hadn't heard it. It's crazy, Ben, because
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: these days, man, you just never know what the heck's
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: going on out there. And that leads me to another point.
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: When I call into the Bay Area show, which is
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: no longer, I always tell people to praise their lives,
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: enjoy their lives, and love ones. Because especially now in
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: this crazy world that we live in, we have to
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: enjoy and embrace every moment, Mr. Ben. And listening to
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: your show gives us hope.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Gives us peace.
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: And for my buddy Coop, I mean, I really think
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: his Broncos are probably the team to beat in the
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: AFC this year. You know, they got Waddle. I mean,
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: they were one game away from the Super Bowl last year.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: And honestly, they really should have won it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: He was right.
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: They got killed by Stidham. And the NFC, the odds-on favorite,
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: as you know, is your Rams. And honestly, I think
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: they're probably going to do it, Ben. They're pretty stacked.
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: Barring injuries, I think it could be the Rams.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Well, you can't say barring injuries because the injury rate
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: in the NFL is 100%. So there will be two
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: or three named Ram players that get hurt for the Rams.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Guaranteed that's going to happen.
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: Well, let's hope not, Ben.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: No team has ever made it through a season without
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: having major injuries. It happens.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: And one other thing, one of the last times I
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: called in, we discussed this before, and I have to
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: agree with you. I tried to say, oh, no, I
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: think it's going to be okay. But I think you're right, Ben,
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: about Mr. Mendoza, the number one overall draft pick for
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: the Raiders.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Number one.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: I didn't see anything.
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: I didn't see anything.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Number one.
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: In the preseason.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, you can't say that. You can't say that. You're
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: right about Mendoza.
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: I don't think he's going to really be that good.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Well, nothing's been decided yet. However, you can't criticize Mendoza
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: or all these very sensitive Raider fans. You're very upset.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: But I've got to leave it there. Thank you. The
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  Speaker 1: great Mojo Risen from the Bay Area. Check it. That
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  Speaker 1: Emmett Smith story, I don't know what's going to happen
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  Speaker 1: with it. It is a civil allegation. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: Emmett's in any kind of criminal trouble. As we like
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  Speaker 1: to point out, you can always sue anybody at any
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  Speaker 1: time for anything. It's called a frivolous lawsuit. Time now
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  Speaker 1: for the Insta trivia. Mets star Francisco Lindor has completed
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  Speaker 1: his 10th season. Not done yet, but he's already reached
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  Speaker 1: this milestone. His 10th season with 15 or more home
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  Speaker 1: runs while primarily playing shortstop. That's second for shortstops all-time
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  Speaker 1: to Cal Ripken. Lindor broke a tie with Derek Jeter,
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  Speaker 1: Corey Seager, and Blank. And he's alone in second place.
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  Speaker 1: That is the Insta Trivia, the answer, and Mallard to
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  Speaker 1: the third degree. We'll get to that, and we will
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  Speaker 1: do it next.
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  Speaker 1: time now for the payoff on the Insta trivia. And
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go to Major League Baseball, where Mets
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  Speaker 1: star Francisco Lindor has had his 10th season with 15
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  Speaker 1: or more home runs while primarily playing shortstop. That is
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  Speaker 1: second all-time to Cal Ripken. Lindor broke a tie with
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  Speaker 1: Derek Jeter, Corey Seager, and blank. That is the question.
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  Speaker 1: What is the answer? Alf the Alien O'Piner going with
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  Speaker 1: Alex Cora.
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  Speaker 7: Yikes.
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  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Robin Yount from Analog Al.
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  Speaker 1: Rabbit Ranville from Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. Bill Miller from
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Dat Dude. He's a weapon. Kathy and Madison going with
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  Speaker 1: Sir Scratchoff's truck. Nice beaver. Breakdancer Ray Gunn, who is
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  Speaker 1: 39 today from Late Night Drug Tester. Sophie Cunningham from
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  Speaker 1: JT the Wingman in Tennessee. Who else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Not two-time World Series champion David Eckstein. Or Billy Gubarkowitz
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  Speaker 1: from Fat Daddy. Tony Soprano, guess by chance. He's the daddy.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Elster from Mediocre Kabuki. What say you, Lorraine? Tina Turner.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Tina Turner? No. Darn it. That's unfortunate. No,
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  Speaker 1: the correct answer would be Miguel Tejada.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Here we go.
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  Speaker 7: Here we go. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
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  Speaker 6: In a statement on Monday, Odell Beckham Jr. talked about
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  Speaker 6: being happy to make the Giants 53-man roster and said,
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  Speaker 6: I have an opportunity to rewrite some of the last.
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  Speaker 1: Bit of the chapter.
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  Speaker 6: Now, Ben, even with a good year for the Giants,
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  Speaker 6: does that change OBJ's story?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: And what would a good year be? He's the fourth
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  Speaker 1: or fifth receiver on the Giants. He's not a starter
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  Speaker 1: unless Malik Neighbors is unable to play here. So he's
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  Speaker 1: just a guy on the roster. He's like, no. And
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what he does. Giant fans love him.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a romance story. The guy's number 13 back.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that yesterday, so they're all excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, he's there, and he'll maybe make a
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  Speaker 1: few plays, but he's not a major player for the Giants.
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  Speaker 6: Next! Eagles GM Howie Roseman was asked about the likelihood
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  Speaker 6: of a reunion with Zach Ertz, who is still a
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  Speaker 6: free agent after tearing his ACL last December. Roseman essentially said... no,
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  Speaker 6: but called him one of the greatest tight ends to
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  Speaker 6: play the game. Would you agree with that statement, Ben?
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  Speaker 1: No. Listen, Dallas Goddard's a good player. Zach Ertz was
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: a good player, but he's not like an all-time... Great.
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  Speaker 1: He was a good, solid NFL tight end. Let's not
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: get carried away with hyperbole. Next!
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  Speaker 6: In an interview this week, Billy Donovan explained his decision
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: to step down as head coach of the Bulls, saying,
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: I just felt like with a new front office coming in,
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: that person should have the freedom to choose their coach
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  Speaker 6: and build out the organization how they see fit, which
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: was fine.
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  Speaker 1: Are you buying that explanation? No! They said, hey, Billy,
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  Speaker 1: don't let the door hit you where the good loads
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  Speaker 1: spit you. Get out of here with that. So, no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it. I don't think you leave those jobs.
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  Speaker 1: How did we do? You passed the decision. That is
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  Speaker 1: a way to put it over!
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  Speaker 2: Hollering James.
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  Speaker 1: I won the game, James. I won the game.