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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: From the Sunday night NFL game in the Pacific Northwest,
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  Speaker 1: a made-for-television classic, which did not live up to the hype.
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  Speaker 1: It did not. The Week 7 NFL card, on a
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  Speaker 1: Sunday anyway, ending with what was supposed to be a
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  Speaker 1: humdinger of a matchup. You had... Patrick Mahomes, the 5-0
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs coming in, taking on Sam Darnold. And the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: who are 3-3 on the season. Mike Tirico, Chris Collinsworth,
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  Speaker 1: waxing loquacious on NBC. So I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: were watching or not. We watched, so you would not
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  Speaker 1: have to. And what we watched... was a one-man wrecking
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  Speaker 1: crew as Jackson Smith and Jigba putting on a show,
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  Speaker 1: zigging when the Chiefs were zagging, and zagging when the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs were zigging. As he got her done, nine catches,
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  Speaker 1: 150 yards, and a touchdown and a partridge in a
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  Speaker 1: pear tree. The Seahawks hand the Chiefs their first L.
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  Speaker 1: You eat the L! So Kansas City will not go 17-0.
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  Speaker 1: They lose the Sunday night game. Sam Darnold... Had 257
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  Speaker 1: yards to score and, as always, just a bonehead interception.
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  Speaker 1: He's good for that. He's really good for that. And
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks get to 4-3. Someone named Emmanuel Wilson. We don't
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  Speaker 1: know who that is, but he had 100 yards and
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown in the backfield for the Seahawks. The better story, though,
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room where Patrick Mahomes– was
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  Speaker 1: driving the struggle bus for the Chiefs offense there. Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: had just 165 yards passing, which I'm told is not good.
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  Speaker 1: And an interception. The Chiefs dropped to 5-1 on the season.
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  Speaker 1: And Kenneth Walker III, this was the Kenneth Walker III
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  Speaker 1: revenge game. Revenge! Revenge! Yeah. The Super Bowl MVP had
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  Speaker 1: a dud. Had a dud there. as he was held
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  Speaker 1: to 36 yards. That's it on 14 carries. And so
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid's Chiefs with a forgettable night all the way
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  Speaker 1: around there as they are into the loser's column. That
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: What is the word? What is the word for Patrick Mahomes'
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  Speaker 1: performance with the Chiefs' offense there on Sunday night NFL football?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got flippers... Rubik's Cube, and Flying J. And
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together. And we
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  Speaker 1: are going to give you a tongue lashing is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do. Well, literally, it's just radio. It's
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  Speaker 1: so simple. It's a radio show. Now, before we get
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  Speaker 1: into this, let's hear from Patrick Mahome. Mahomey! Patrick Williams,
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs quarterback here, and he points out that this was not,
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  Speaker 1: not a masterpiece by the Chiefs. You got your tail kicked.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't execute offensively, especially around that midfield area. Kept us
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  Speaker 3: away from a lot of points, or at least enough
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  Speaker 3: points to be competitive. But it's stuff you got to
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  Speaker 3: learn from. That's obviously a really good defense, and we
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  Speaker 3: didn't execute at a high enough level to have success.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, here's more from Mahomes. The Seahawks defense
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  Speaker 1: able to shove their will against the offensive line for
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs and in his result against Mahomes. Here's Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: on the pressure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously a little bit, but I thought
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  Speaker 3: especially early in the game, I thought my feet were
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  Speaker 3: kind of getting me into trouble where I could have
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  Speaker 3: maybe sat in the pocket and made some of the
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  Speaker 3: throws down the field. I got better a little bit
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  Speaker 3: later in the game. But at the same time, whenever
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  Speaker 3: you play a team like that, you can't let them
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  Speaker 3: get ahead and kind of get into a game they
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  Speaker 3: want to play because obviously they've had a lot of
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  Speaker 3: success doing that. And so you've got to be better
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  Speaker 3: starting faster, especially with me, and then try to do
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  Speaker 3: better throughout the entire game.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the good news is you can't start any worse.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't score in the first half of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like you have anywhere like, wow, you
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  Speaker 1: scored 10 points. No, you scored a field goal. You're
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  Speaker 1: better going forward. Anyway, here's Andy Reid. I'm sure Andy
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  Speaker 1: will be very satisfied with his performance. Right, Andy Reid?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: All three phases. We struggled.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to do better.
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  Speaker 5: That's my responsibility. I take full responsibility for this. We've
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  Speaker 5: got to play better as a team. It's a tough
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  Speaker 5: place to play, but this is all part of it.
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  Speaker 5: They're a good football team.
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  Speaker 6: They played well.
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  Speaker 5: My hat goes off to them. there's not a whole
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  Speaker 5: lot of stats that I can share with you that
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  Speaker 5: really make any sense maybe other than third downs both
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  Speaker 5: sides of the ball we can do a better job
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  Speaker 5: with those but we've got a great locker room here
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  Speaker 5: and the guys will get back in and get themselves
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  Speaker 5: ready to play against a good Denver team this next week.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought the Chiefs were going to quit and
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  Speaker 1: forfeit but apparently they're going to keep playing so that's
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  Speaker 1: good news we'd like to alert all the other NFL
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  Speaker 1: fans that the Chiefs are not going to give up,
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  Speaker 1: that a bad night is not going to end their season.
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  Speaker 1: So we can move on with that. Back to the question,
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  Speaker 1: what is the word? Again, what is the word for
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and the performance of the Chiefs offense on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night? So my word is alarming. Capital A, alarming.
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  Speaker 1: Every time the Chiefs offense takes the field, you expect
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  Speaker 1: to see a lot of magic. This year, not last year.
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  Speaker 1: Last year was a debacle. You thought, well, this year
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  Speaker 1: they've been the top offensive team in the NFL. And
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  Speaker 1: you say, okay. So you got the magic. And Sunday night,
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  Speaker 1: the rabbit was dead, and the magician lost his hat.
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  Speaker 1: That's not good. Mahomes is supposed to be match-up proof.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing that's a little annoying if you're following
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Mahomes is supposed to be match-up proof. The
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  Speaker 1: human cheat code. Seattle's a good defense. Yes, this is
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  Speaker 1: not new. We've known Seattle has a good defense. We
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  Speaker 1: got that. They also lost to Washington. That Seahawks defense
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  Speaker 1: lost to the team that doesn't even have a name.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a generic name. They used to be called
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  Speaker 1: the Redskins. That Seahawks team lost to that squad. So
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  Speaker 1: they got that in them. And you look at this
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, my God. So congratulations to the Seahawks defense.
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  Speaker 1: But that's why Kansas City pays Patrick Mahomes the GDP
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  Speaker 1: of small island nations with his contract and all that. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs offense was not doing anything. It was swimming
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  Speaker 1: against the tide is what they were doing here. And
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  Speaker 1: they went out and bought, went to Walmart. They bought
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  Speaker 1: some flippers. They bought concrete flippers, which I don't think
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  Speaker 1: is a good idea. I don't think it's a good
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  Speaker 1: idea to wear concrete flippers. And they sank to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of Pugin Sound with those on. And so the
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  Speaker 1: force field, whatever force field Mahomes has had, there were
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  Speaker 1: some cracks there in the windshield. And Seattle, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they exposed any secret formula. It's not like you
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  Speaker 1: can just repeat this. It was simply Mahomes looked very ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: Now we'll get to the wide receivers because that was
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  Speaker 1: part of the problem. But Mahomes is supposed to elevate Mahomes.
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers. That clearly did not happen. Now, meanwhile, the
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  Speaker 1: other part of this, the story of Mahomes looking ordinary
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  Speaker 1: and that's a big deal, but this wasn't a bad quarter.
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  Speaker 1: It was not like it was a bad quarter. This
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  Speaker 1: was an entire evening of constipation by the offense for
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City. So they might want to get out and
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  Speaker 1: get some Metamucil and try to get that system flowing
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, get some Fiber. The offense looking like
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  Speaker 1: they were trying to win the Indianapolis 500, except they
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  Speaker 1: were racing in a Frigidaire refrigerator. Good luck winning the
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  Speaker 1: Indy 500 if you're racing in a Frigidaire refrigerator. Now,
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  Speaker 1: on the Seattle side, page two. Did the Seahawks solve
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  Speaker 1: their problems? The Seahawks offense under Sam Darnold. Did the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks offense under Sam Darnold solve things? I'd say that's
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  Speaker 1: a premature celebration because this is the same exact Seattle
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  Speaker 1: team that we've seen in this last couple of years here. Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they fixed anything. They found a matchup
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  Speaker 1: that they could exploit, and they took advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: Good for them. There's a massive difference. The Seahawks did
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  Speaker 1: not solve the Rubik's Cube, if you will. Jackson Smith
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  Speaker 1: and Jigba just peeled off the stickers, and he rearranged
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  Speaker 1: the colors on the Rubik's Cube. But he's always been
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  Speaker 1: that guy. The last couple of years, that's it. We
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  Speaker 1: go back to the point. Great quarterbacks are supposed to
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  Speaker 1: elevate average wide receivers. And average quarterbacks need great receivers
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  Speaker 1: to elevate them. We know which one Sam Darnold is.
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  Speaker 1: We know that. Darnold is the guy who looks great
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  Speaker 1: when the restaurant has a five-star chef. It's like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is great. I love this. You take away that
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  Speaker 1: five-star chef. from the restaurant, and Sam Darnold's serving up
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  Speaker 1: microwaved frozen dinners. A little TV dinner for you. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you got. And Jackson Smith and Jigba continues to
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  Speaker 1: be the engine. Can you imagine if he got hurt? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. Seattle might not win the game.
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  Speaker 7: Game.
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  Speaker 1: They might not win a game if he misses an
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  Speaker 1: extended period of time. That's it. But this is the
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba experience featuring Sam Darnold. He's like
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  Speaker 1: an opener. You go to a comedy club, you got
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  Speaker 1: the opener and the main comedian is the one that
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  Speaker 1: comes on later. That's JSN at this point. And the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs secondary, my God. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: But he does get an assist from the Kansas City
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  Speaker 1: secondary that made him look like a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Rice, a little bit of Randy Moss, Calvin Johnson, T.O.,
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  Speaker 1: all mixed together, all rolled into one. Nice casserole. And
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  Speaker 1: he put a spell, Jackson Smith-Jigba, on the KC defense.
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  Speaker 1: They did play like they were in goblin mode. It
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of goblin mode. Anyway, here's the head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Seattle football team, Mike McDonald, who apparently
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  Speaker 1: believes that everything's coming up roses there in Seattle.
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  Speaker 8: I'm really proud of our team.
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  Speaker 1: Just really proud of the attitude. People being great teammates,
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  Speaker 1: having each other's backs, pushing each other.
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  Speaker 8: And I think we got better.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: But the opportunity, there's a sense of urgency now to
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  Speaker 3: take another step as a football team. So it'll be
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  Speaker 3: fun next couple of days and we'll get to work
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  Speaker 3: on Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess they didn't have urgency before when they
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  Speaker 1: lost to the Broncos and the 49ers and the Commanders.
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  Speaker 1: But now they have urgency. Can I ask why they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have urgency earlier? We're not supposed to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: That's taboo. Apparently we're not allowed to talk about that. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Again, before we get too carried away here,
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  Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs secondary, which is new and improved.
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  Speaker 1: There's some new names there, and they've been doing fine.
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  Speaker 1: But on this particular night, disheveled, staggered, and bedraggled are
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  Speaker 1: words we can use to describe the Chiefs secondary there.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like they had spent three nights sleeping on
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  Speaker 1: the floor at a Greyhound bus station. the way they
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  Speaker 1: attempted to tackle Jackson Smith and Jigby. Everyone knew where
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  Speaker 1: the ball was going, and they still couldn't stop him,
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  Speaker 1: which is a pathetic performance by the Kansas City secondary. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the last word here. Considering how inept the wide receivers
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  Speaker 1: were for the Chiefs, and we're inching closer to the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline. November 10th is the trade deadline today. In
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, the question is bouncing around the echo chamber.
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  Speaker 1: Should the Chiefs be looking to trade for receivers? Should
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  Speaker 1: they be trying to upgrade at the receiver position? And
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  Speaker 1: the only plausible answer, the only plausible answer is, hell yes, yeppers.
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  Speaker 1: You got to do it. I'm nodding my head like
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  Speaker 1: a Hawaiian girl dashboard bobblehead. On an old Cadillac. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Do it. I'm not a Chiefs fan, but Kansas City
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  Speaker 1: had six catches. Now, they got a couple guys out
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  Speaker 1: that are injured, but Rashi Rice and a couple other
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  Speaker 1: guys dinged up. But six catches, 39 yards from the
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  Speaker 1: receivers that played in this game. That is not a
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  Speaker 1: winning formula. Fair to say.
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Fair to say. And that's bad. That is bad
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  Speaker 1: to the bone. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
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  Speaker 1: Just nothing. And yeah, Mahomes is supposed to elevate those guys,
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  Speaker 1: but if he can't elevate them, if they're so bad
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes can't elevate them, then go get somebody else in there.
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  Speaker 1: And there was some serious stagnation. It's like a clogged
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  Speaker 1: drain of at a Flying J truck stop bathroom. It
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  Speaker 1: was bad. There was a lot of hair and gunk,
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  Speaker 1: and I think truck stop fungus. Our guy was in there,
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  Speaker 1: and he stuffed it up. But the Mahomes does need
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  Speaker 1: some artillery here if the guys that are hurt aren't
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  Speaker 1: going to be back anytime soon. So they're definitely lacking
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  Speaker 1: the wow factor. Not a lot of that going on.
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  Speaker 1: So you're asking Mahomes, listen, turn the chicken feathers into
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  Speaker 1: chicken salad. On this night, he was unable... But if
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  Speaker 1: you're Brett Veach, the GM in Kansas City, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to go out and go to the Superstore and see
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  Speaker 1: what you can find. And the cupboards are bare. There's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot out there. The names that are being
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  Speaker 1: bandied about are not the most exciting names. They're just not.
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  Speaker 1: The issue is the Chiefs receiving room is being held
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  Speaker 1: together by a little bit of duct tape and some
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  Speaker 1: bubble gum. And I think they've got some of Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid's mustache wax from... A couple years ago, it was
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  Speaker 1: laying around for some reason. They're using that to help
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  Speaker 1: prop up the wide receiver room. But the names, the
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  Speaker 1: biggest names that are out there are Jerry Judy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Judy from the Jetsons. And then Brian Thomas Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: an epic bust from Jacksonville. Those are the two names
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  Speaker 1: that are most prominently mentioned. So good luck. Those seem
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  Speaker 1: like squirt guns to me, and the Chiefs have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of squirt guns right now.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, I'm Bill Parcells.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm Catherine Zazzora.
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  Speaker 4: I have a lot of experience in the game of football, Catherine.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm looking forward to this show, Catherine, and
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  Speaker 4: hopefully we can give our audience a little in-depth look
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  Speaker 8: Tune in every Thursday for unfiltered stories from Coach Parcells,
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  Speaker 8: on how football really works.
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  Speaker 6: Continuity is very important but what happens when you get
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  Speaker 6: good coaches on your staff and people begin to recognize
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  Speaker 6: them then they want to hire them and then you
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  Speaker 6: can't stop a guy from trying to improve himself but
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  Speaker 8: Them Because once you understand what's going on inside the
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  Speaker 8: mind of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
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  Speaker 6: So all aspects can be discussed.
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  Speaker 4: The only thing I haven't done, because I didn't have
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  Speaker 4: enough money, I don't own the team.
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  Speaker 1: I never owned a team.
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  Speaker 1: We go to Sin City, Lost Wages, Nevada. where they've
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  Speaker 1: never experienced good football. No, they have not. The hockey
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  Speaker 1: team wins every once in a while in Vegas. The
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  Speaker 1: football team, there she blows! At it again. At it again.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams in town, I don't know if you saw
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  Speaker 1: this game or not, part of the Fox Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: Alumni Association, Chris Myers had the call on Fox. So
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and the Rams left for dead. All the
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  Speaker 1: injuries piling up. Miles Garrett only playing one game. He's out.
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  Speaker 1: Puka Nakua got hurt on Friday. He ended up playing
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  Speaker 1: in the game. The Rams, would they be able to
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  Speaker 1: survive in Vegas? Well, yeah, they did. Matthew Stafford, 195 yards,
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  Speaker 1: not one, not two, but three touchdown passes. And he
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  Speaker 1: became the L.A. Rams career leader. in passing touchdowns as
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles beat the snot out of those pathetic Raiders
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  Speaker 1: 35-21 on Sunday. So if you didn't see it, you
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  Speaker 1: missed some of the activity there. Matthew Stafford has one
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  Speaker 1: of the quirkiest stats that will be almost impossible to
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  Speaker 1: duplicate anytime soon in our lifetime. Matthew Stafford. is now
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  Speaker 1: the Rams and the Detroit Lions all-time career leader in
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  Speaker 1: passing touchdowns. There's only 32 of these teams, and Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Stafford is leading two of them, and neither one of
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  Speaker 1: them is an expansion team. It's not like the Houston
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  Speaker 1: Texans or the Jacksonville Jaguars. No, no, the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of expansion teams years ago, these teams have been around
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  Speaker 1: for a while. Lions have been around for a long,
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  Speaker 1: long time. So have the Rams. And yet, you look
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  Speaker 1: at it, and Matthew Stafford, The king, the L.A. Rams
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  Speaker 1: career leader in passing touchdowns, also the Detroit Lions career leader. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the headline, I want to react to the headline here
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: that's bouncing around. The New York Post, I guess they've
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: got the California Post now. I don't know anyone that
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: reads that, but they get a couple of newspapers. They claim,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: big headline here, the claim was that this was a, quote,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: statement win. Statement win. for Sean McVay's team. So the question, does,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: we'll keep it simple. It's a good jumping off point.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss. The question, does this count as a, quote,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: statement win for Matthew Stafford and the Rams? So my observations,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I've got inflatable palm trees, campaign bus, and Chef Boyardee.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: we'll give you the ABCs and the one, two, threes.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Now, number one. Number one.
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: One, one, one, one, one.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I said number one. One, one, one, one.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Number one.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Two words.
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  Speaker 10: No way.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Those are the words.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: No way. Stafford.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Was not exactly climbing Mount Everest in this particular game.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: He was not. He was like taking an escalator across
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the street from us at the Sherman Oaks Galleria is
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: what he was doing. Okay, that's it. To quote the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Pepsi principle, for the Rams, this game was the Pepsi principle.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: What is the Pepsi principle? It's a gotta-have-it-win game. Not
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: a gotta brag about it win. There is a difference.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: You gotta have it, but you don't have to brag
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: about it. You don't gotta brag about it. The Rams
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: did not go out and slay a dragon. They beat
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: a tomato can. That should not be newsworthy. The fact
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that you lost to a pathetic Cardinal team the week prior,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: that's the story. So as we say, the dog bites man,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: not a story. Man bites dog, that's a story. So
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: they stepped on a cockroach that was already upside down.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: There's one in here right now. That's what the Rams do.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: They're just like that. They just beat them like that.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: And let's face it, the Raiders, remember they were 3-0.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: We tried to tell you. Oh, you're just the overnight guy.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: You don't know what you're talking about, Maller.
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So the Raiders. Celebrate a win against the Raiders. That's
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: got to be about as pathetic as it gets. The
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Raiders at one point, though, they were 3-0. And they
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: had more props propping them up than a carrot top
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: show in Vegas. Smoked machines over to the right, trap
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: doors underneath. They had inflatable palm trees. The whole production.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: To get off to that 3-0 start. The Silver and Black. Now,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: for those of you that have forgotten, the Raiders, when
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: they were 3-0, they had beaten the Dolphins, Chargers, and
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Saints to begin the season. Those teams have a combined
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: 3-16 record. That is a 158 winning percentage. And yet,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: this is how pathetic that franchise fan base is. The
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Raider fanboys were celebrating. Now, we tried to be the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: voice of reason. They were having none of it. Oh,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: you don't know what you're talking about.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Okay. Losers. Yes, the Raiders' early record was obviously inflated
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: like those inflatable palm trees against the very weak competition.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: The market correction was inevitable, and here it is. And so, yeah,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay's dinged up. Ram squad just confirmed what anyone
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: with two working eyeballs already knew. It's not about the Rams.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: The Raiders stink. And now they're talking about just giving
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: up on the season and playing that developmental quarterback, Fernando Mendoza,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and playing him. They're getting ready to bench. There's chatter
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: about benching Kirk Cousins. All right, meanwhile, to Atlanta we
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: go where Michael Pennex Jr., Through not one, not two,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: but three touchdowns. And Atlanta taking advantage of the very
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: generous 49er team as the Niners. Most games are lost,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: not won. The Niners gave that game away. Four turnovers.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Atlanta scored 13 points courtesy of the generosity of San Francisco.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And so the Falcons get a legitimate win. 29-20 the final.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: And the previous unbeaten 49ers at 6-1 now. And they
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: had committed just six turnovers the previous six games. And
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: now they turn the ball over four times in this game.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And already thin at receiver. They lost Christian McCaffrey for
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: much of the first half. There's varying reports about how
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: bad his injury is going to be going forward for
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the 49ers. But either way, the question. Let's look at
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the quarterback position. We had some people chiming in this
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: past week talking about how the 49ers had an MVP quarterback.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: So let's address that. So the question, how is the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: MVP campaign going for 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy following the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: loss to the Falcons? So let's see. Let's try to think.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: What did we tell you in a previous episode of
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show? What did we say?
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: What did we talk about Brock Purdy? Do you remember?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Do you want to go back and check your notes?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: You don't take any notes? All right, that's fine. That's fine.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: So the MVP coronation of Brock Purdy, well, that was
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: a wee bit, just a wee bit premature, just a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: little premature. It's a little bit. So it appears our
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: skepticism was more than justified here as Purdy went out
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: there and rode the Vomit Comet couple of interceptions, no
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: touchdown passes, and enough sloppy football to fill a landfill
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: somewhere outside of Atlanta. So Brock Purdy, that's more of
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: what we thought. This guy's a system quarterback. That's fine.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Makes a lot of money. System quarterback guy. And you
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: have to prove that you can overcome when things aren't
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: going well, and very rarely does Brock Purdy do that.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: MVP quarterbacks, as a rule, elevate their teams. When everything's
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: going sideways, they make a couple of plays to win
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the game. Brock Purdy, you're not that guy, pal. You're
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: not that guy. You're not that guy. Things go sideways there.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: And the 49ers played like somebody put sweet tea in
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: their Gatorade bottles. It was a hot mess for the Niners.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: But Brock Purdy, you're supposed to be the calming force,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the force multiplier and all that. You were not that.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: And here is Brock Purdy blaming his teammates. Take a listen.
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: They're new guys and stuff, so it's like, yeah, you've
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: got to learn how they run routes and how they
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: play and stuff. For sure, that's a real thing. But
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: I think just with our preparation and how Kyle goes
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: about the week with getting us ready as an offense
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: and stuff, I think it's pretty not easy, but he
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: makes it pretty smooth for these guys to come in
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: and learn what they need to do and be on
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: time and all that kind of thing.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, sounds like he's blaming other people. The campaign bus.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: We looked, actually. There's a big sign on the side
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that says the Brock Purdy campaign bus there for MVP.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: It actually hit a pothole out in the sticks outside
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Atlanta there in Georgia, and one of the wheels fell
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: off on the campaign bus there. So that's not good.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: And the driver's actually blaming the electrical substation, the driver
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: of the campaign bus for Brock Purdy. Well, it's not
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: his fault. It's the electrical substation's fault. Okay. Now, I'm
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: not going to sit here and say Brock Purdy's eliminated
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: from MVP conversation. I'm not saying that. However, the campaign
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: headquarters for the Brock Purdy MVP campaign, turn out the lights.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: They're going on holiday right now. They're going on a
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: little holiday. That's it. So the MVP candidacy for Brock
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Purdy downgraded. I will give him Employee of the Month. See,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I'm Benny Brightside, Brock Purdy, Employee of the Month. Way
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: to go, Brock. You get a gift certificate for a yogurt,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: a nice yogurt. Enjoy that. Enjoy that. Employee of the Month.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: So the 49ers play the way they played on Sunday,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: as we often say here. Should have been sponsored by
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Tide because everything needs to be cleaned up there. That
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: was El Stinko for the Niners. Brock Purdy, he's the
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: face of the franchise, y'all. Tell me that. Face of
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the franchise. Didn't go so well. All right, final point,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: speaking of not going well, to Baltimore for the hometown team.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: And nobody gags up more leads than Baltimore. Did it again.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow had not one, not two, not three, but
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: four touchdowns as Cincinnati rallied down 13-0 at halftime, and
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: they ended up bringing the hammer to the once-proud Baltimore franchise, 35-13. 35-13.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: The Bengals scored touchdowns on their first five second-half positions. Touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. However,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the better story is in the losing locker room, where
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens, are down and out at this point here.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: The Ravens, without Lamar Jackson, dropped to 4-3 on the season.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: They blew a double-digit second-half lead for the second consecutive
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: week and the 10th time since 2022. They lead the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: way in gagging up games. The Baltimore football team, the Ravens,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: second consecutive divisional loss now for Baltimore. And another spectacular
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: choke job in the second half. Same old story. The
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: coaches have changed. The players have changed. The common denominator
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: is what the Ravens do in these spots. So the question,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: without Lamar Jackson, are the Ravens already out of the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: AFC North race? Back-to-back division losses for the Baltimore football team.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to nod my head yes, because it
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: doesn't seem like Lamar Jackson is going to be playing
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: all that much. Now, they say he may come back
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: in the next Ravens game. And even if he does
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: come back, do you trust that he'll be out there?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Lamar does not have a contract past this particular season.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: So you wonder how motivated he's going to be. to
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: be to get back out there let's wait let's wait another.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: Extra week here let me just see make sure i
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: want to make sure i'm all the way back yes
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: that's what i want to do and no one can
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: question this you're not allowed it's taboo to question that
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: So mathematically, the Ravens are not out of any kind
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: of a race, but realistically, the division is on life support.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: You lose back-to-back divisional games. And the Ravens have gone
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: from Edgar Allen Poe to Edgar Allen No. Real quick,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: without Lamar Jackson, Baltimore's offense, with Tyler Huntley serving up
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: a bowl of Chef Boyardee, They've got the mini spaghetti rings,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and that's it. No meatballs, no spice, no explosiveness. None
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: of that stuff. And just a bunch of checkdowns floating
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: around in tomato sauce. And it's like a cheesy spinoff
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: movie for the Ravens. You've got Honey, I Shrunk the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Offense starring Tyler Huntley. Way to go. Now, where's my evidence?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I'll give you my evidence. In 14 quarters with Lamar Jackson.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: When he's played, the Ravens have scored 116 points and
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: 14 offensive touchdowns. When Lamar has been out 14 quarters
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: with Tyler Huntley, Baltimore has scored just 53 points and
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: five touchdowns. For those of you not really keeping track
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: because you're doing something else. That means with Tyler Huntley
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: instead of Lamar Jackson, the Ravens offense is measurably worse.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: How much worse? 54.3% less productive in terms of points
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: scored for the Ravens offense from Lamar Jackson to Tyler Huntley.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And in terms of touchdowns, they're 64% worse side by side.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: So that is what happens when your entire offensive identity,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: everything that you are, the ethos of the Ravens, is
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: dependent on one guy staying healthy. That's it. That's all.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Lamar is the guy running the fireworks factory in Maryland,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and Tyler Huntley operating a discount candle shop. And that's
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the difference.
• 31:56
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• 31:58
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• 32:05
  Speaker 10: Ben, um, North Carolina State fired their coach for over
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: 14 seasons.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what was his name? Dave Doran. I don't know
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: how to guess how you pronounce it.
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: Yeah, probably not. The top candidate to replace him, Phillip Rivers.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: There you go. Why not?
• 32:26
  Speaker 10: Do you think he's going to end up head coach
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: of the NCAA program?
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why not? You know, these college teams at this point,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: they're just throwing crap against the wall because of NIL. Yeah.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: So people know who Phillip Rivers is, I guess. He
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: just played last year for the Colts. Why not?
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Next. All right.
• 32:42
  Speaker 10: Now, earlier this weekend, they said that Arch Manning might
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: forego the NFL draft and possibly leave Texas. Do you
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: think that'll be the case?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I think that's a long shot. I think if he leaves,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: he goes to the NFL. Oh, he's making a lot
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: of money in college, though. And this NIL changes everything.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: But I would think you'd want to go to the NFL.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: He's not ready for the NFL, but I think you'd
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: just want to go to the NFL and get that
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: life started. Next.
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: A little too early NBA talk. People are saying that
• 33:08
  Speaker 10: Anthony Davis makes the Wizards a playoff contender.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Do you think that's the case? Everyone makes the playoffs, Coop.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: It's the NBA. Everyone gets in. That's easy. How'd we do?
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: You pass. That's a win. Put it on the board. Winner, winner, winner.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Chicken dinner.
• 33:23
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• 33:31
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• 33:37
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• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Who the hell are you talking to, son? Here's some
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: instant advice. Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to
• 33:45
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• 33:48
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• 33:55
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• 33:58
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• 34:01
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• 34:04
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• 34:07
  Speaker 1: are multiple games this weekend in the NFL with incompetent
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: stooge officiating. What is your advice? to NFL referees who
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: are impeding on our football on a weekly basis. They
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: should be non-playable characters. What is your advice to the
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: NFL referees? You're live on the air when you hear
• 34:30
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• 34:35
  Speaker 1: line number one. Hello, line one. You're on the air,
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  Speaker 1: line one.
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  Speaker 3: I think they need to get some cocaine in them.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: All right, line two, you're on the air. Advice to
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the NFL referees, line two.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: The Browns are five and two, and the Lakers are
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: full of white guys.
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: I believe that's a six and seven.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: All right, Supermarket C, very long-winded. Line three, you're on
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the air, line three. Hello. Line three's not there. We'll
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: go to line four. Line four, you're on the air.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Advice to the NFL referees, line four.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Ask Lorena for advice.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: All right. Line number five. Hello, line five. You're on
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the air, line five. Advice to the NFL referees, line five.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Morning time. Hey, look at that ref.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: The reason why they got that full moon, I can't
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: find my pants.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a problem. You might want to go look
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: for those. Line 6, you're on the air, Line 6.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: That was great. Rick in Maryland. Line 6, hello. The
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Chargers didn't lose this week. Leave Justin Herbert alone. Okay, yes.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Great weekend for the Chargers. I did see Herbert in
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the California Post going to buy beer. I'd get hammered, too,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: if I was playing like he is. Hello, Line 1,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you're on.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: The air, 1. Hello.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: All right. Big voice guy, line one. Line two, you're
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: on the air. Line two, hello.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Sean the Hood guy checking in.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Line three, hello.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Line three.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Line three's not there. We'll go to line four. Hello,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: line four. Hello, line one. All right, line four's not
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: paying attention.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: One more, one more.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Corey, hurry up! Line two. Line two, you're on the go! Oh,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: line two! You screwed up line two! Bad job, line two!