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  Speaker 1: start out in Motown. It was week fourteen of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL season. Kicked off game ended not that long ago,
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  Speaker 1: a couple hours ago. Game over there in Detroit, and
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  Speaker 1: it was billed as a pivotal game. Oh Man Dak Prescott,
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys traveling circus, leaving Jerry's world and heading to
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  Speaker 1: Michigan for a playdate with Jared Goff and the Lions
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  Speaker 1: of the Great Indoors. They had Al Michaels and Herbie.
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  Speaker 1: They had the call on the amazon An Island game.
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  Speaker 1: Were you watching? You didn't watch? Okay, you missed it.
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  Speaker 1: So Jamiir Gibbs, I hear, he's pretty good. He ran
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  Speaker 1: for three touchdown. I had a thirteen yard run the
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  Speaker 1: Lions against the Cowboys there late in the game, Dallas
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  Speaker 1: needed their rework defense. I was told had arrived and
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  Speaker 1: looked like they had. That was false. That's a lie.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys defense complete frauds needed to make a play there
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  Speaker 1: late and it was like a three or four play drive.
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  Speaker 1: The Lions went right down the field, shoved it down
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  Speaker 1: their throat, and a thirteen yard run by Jamier Gibbs
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  Speaker 1: with two minutes and some change left on the clock,
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  Speaker 1: and that was all she wrote. The Lions get a
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  Speaker 1: two touchdown win over the same old sorry ass Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys forty four to thirty. The win. The Lions defense, well,
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  Speaker 1: he had some fun with Dak Prescott. Dak sacked five
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  Speaker 1: times as he decided to hold the ball for a
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  Speaker 1: long time many times, and also had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: interceptions and also the Lions defense recovering a fumble. So
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  Speaker 1: let's see five sacks, a couple of interceptions, fumble recovery.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good, Pretty good. Yeah. Lions get to eight and
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  Speaker 1: five on the season, which isn't a playoff team. However,
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  Speaker 1: they avoid losing consecutive games, so the first time in
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  Speaker 1: three years they are still on the outside. They're looking in.
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  Speaker 1: They're behind the velvet ropes. They're not inside the velvet ropes,
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  Speaker 1: they're behind de velopt ropes looking inside. There with four
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  Speaker 1: games left, that's it, four games left, for the Lions,
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  Speaker 1: and they did improve their odds. Dan Campbell was waxing
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  Speaker 1: loquacious after Oh they didn't panic. He said, he played
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  Speaker 1: the best game of the year. Blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the best game means, as we know on
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  Speaker 1: this show, it means as good as all the other games,
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  Speaker 1: because the legal definition of the term best is as
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  Speaker 1: good as all the rest in that category. So you
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  Speaker 1: could say that every single game is the best and
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't be wrong. You would not be wrong on
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  Speaker 1: that at all. So Detroit's playoff probability is now fifty
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  Speaker 1: four percent. Fifty four percent. The better story is in
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  Speaker 1: the losing locker room, where the Dallas Cowboys head coach
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  Speaker 1: Shoty Brian Schottenheimer is getting roasted for the decisions he
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  Speaker 1: made during the game. The Cowboys did not play a
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  Speaker 1: clean game at all, and there were some decisions to
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  Speaker 1: make on whether or not to go for it or
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  Speaker 1: not go for it, and Schottenheimer decided most of the time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, let's just kick a field goal here. And
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  Speaker 1: now he did say the loss would not deflate his team,
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  Speaker 1: he said, he said, so he's getting killed, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what happened. Cowboys played a bad game and everyone saw it.
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  Speaker 1: They suck, and they sucked at a time you can't suck.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss question.
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  Speaker 1: Does Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer deserve the bows and arrows
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  Speaker 1: being directed at him for his coaching performance in this game?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got my thoughts on this. I've got Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: mister Rogers, and Seesaw and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to make a big,
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  Speaker 1: giant tubba guts is what We're going to make, a
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  Speaker 1: big tub of guts. We're going, all right, So a
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  Speaker 1: I say fire away, fire the cannons, because Shoddy and
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  Speaker 1: his team are like toast. They're crispy, overdone, and served
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  Speaker 1: on a plate the Cowboys did not want to wash.
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  Speaker 1: There's a balance here, There's always this balance, and Schottenheimer
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  Speaker 1: does not have it. He fell right into the classic trap.
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  Speaker 1: And remember having conversations on these microphones about his dad,
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  Speaker 1: Marty Schottenheimer, who did many of the same things his
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  Speaker 1: kid did. I guess the coaching apple doesn't fall far
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  Speaker 1: from the tree, but it's it's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: when you have an elite kicker like Brandon Aubrey, you
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  Speaker 1: you end up in this situation where it's like field
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  Speaker 1: goals are tappings. It's like it's going down to the
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  Speaker 1: windmill at the putt putt course, and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm at the putt putt course. I can't go wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everyone makes the putts. It's it's a putt
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  Speaker 1: putt course. And that's great. So it's a blessing and
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  Speaker 1: a double edged sword, right. The blessing is automatica automatica points.
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  Speaker 1: The curse is you start settling for field goals, and
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  Speaker 1: that is how you lose games on the road against
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  Speaker 1: an opponent that is at least as good as you,
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  Speaker 1: if not better than you. And you fall into that situation.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the Cowboys. Now, even if they had gone
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  Speaker 1: for it, it likely would have ended up in a
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  Speaker 1: loss because of the way that they played overall. However,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's not kid ourselves here. This wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: an offensive strategic problem. The Cowboys had a defensive implosion.
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  Speaker 1: Needed to make a play, make a play, make a play,
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  Speaker 1: but no, can't make a play, can't do it, can't
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  Speaker 1: do it, blocking intact and can't do it, so they're
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  Speaker 1: known as Big D, although I saw a lot of
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  Speaker 1: little D energy, if you know what I mean. Here,
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys looked bit draggled out of sorts. They played
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  Speaker 1: last thank you know, Thursday Thanksgivings, so it's not like
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  Speaker 1: they had a short week or anything like that. They
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  Speaker 1: were just a lot of mental mistakes, drop passes, blown coverages,
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  Speaker 1: bad tackling, and really just the special teams. The Lions
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  Speaker 1: have not had great special teams play, and it looked
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  Speaker 1: like they had all pros all over the kick return team.
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  Speaker 1: This was for the Cowboys, it was a hallmark and
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  Speaker 1: for Shotneimer it was a hallmark movie. Or go all
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  Speaker 1: the hallmarks of a poorly coach team right there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's it, hey and the Lions, to their credit,
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  Speaker 1: they cashed in. They got fourteen points off Cowboy turnovers
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  Speaker 1: and about a being by the boom just like that,
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  Speaker 1: after being snuffed out by the Lions. Now are the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys still a playoff contender? So on that one, the
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  Speaker 1: bunt cake is already baked and it tastes like sadness.
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  Speaker 1: If you think they're gonna make the best Dallas's playoff
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  Speaker 1: chances have plummeted to seven percent. But even if there
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  Speaker 1: were seventy five percent, the way that they played that
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  Speaker 1: is not a playoff football team knowing what was on
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  Speaker 1: the line, realizing the stakes of that game and that performance.
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  Speaker 1: They literally had skid marks all over the field there,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So forget about it. And the Lions did
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  Speaker 1: not just beat the Cowboys. They dropkicked them into the
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  Speaker 1: nearest drainage ditch that final drive when the Cowboys had
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  Speaker 1: come back and closed the gap, and well, here's this defense.
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  Speaker 1: We made a couple of trades at the deadline to
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  Speaker 1: shore things up, and they came out there and were
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  Speaker 1: completely discombobulated on defense. And you can hear the ghost
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  Speaker 1: of Dandy Don Meredith from behind the pearly gates crooning,
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  Speaker 1: turn out the lost the parties over, Stick a fork
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  Speaker 1: in them, Stick a fork in the Cowboys. Now, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of sticking a fork in the Cowboys, the wide receiver room,
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  Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb was having a monster game and then he
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  Speaker 1: had a booboo. He got a concussion and he was
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  Speaker 1: knocked out of the game. And so this is an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for George Pickens to step up, right, for George
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  Speaker 1: Pickens to step up, and I guess George didn't want to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, spend too much energy because it appeared he
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  Speaker 1: was running at about half speed on some plays here,
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  Speaker 1: and he just just was like the Pittsburgh Steelers version
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  Speaker 1: of George Pickens. He failed to deliver when the team
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  Speaker 1: needed him. He was not available. He had checked out
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  Speaker 1: of the hotel. I don't know why he had checked
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  Speaker 1: out of the hotel, but he had checked out of
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  Speaker 1: the hotel and just a pedestrian effort and lase fair
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  Speaker 1: play from George Pickens. Here is let's hear from Brian Schottenheimer.
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  Speaker 1: You'll hear the question and the answer, as this was
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  Speaker 1: a talking point on the broadcast, how George Pickens had decided.
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  Speaker 1: I want to show everyone the George Pickens from Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen. No, I don't think so. I want
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  Speaker 1: to look at it. I mean, he was being doubled,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Minute CD went out, they just decided to play everything
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  Speaker 3: two man over there and try to double him and
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  Speaker 3: take him away.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think so. I like that we left
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  Speaker 1: the question in which we couldn't understand. I love that
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  Speaker 1: it's good editing, solid, good good job boys, all right, Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: here's how about Dak Prescott. Here's Dak Prescott. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: Dak will say George Pickens sucked and will kill him
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  Speaker 1: and rip him right, Dak, Yes.
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  Speaker 3: When you're the type of player that he is, I'll
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  Speaker 3: be the first to say it's hard to do that
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  Speaker 3: weekend and week out. I know George believes he can,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he would just say that this game
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  Speaker 3: wasn't up to a standard, and I'm sure he'll loan
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  Speaker 3: it and I know he'll be better.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So we also learned prior to the game that
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens has been disciplined multiple times by the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: since coming over from Pittsburgh in the trade, and that
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  Speaker 1: he's missed the team buses, he's shown up late to meetings.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of sounds like a New York Giants rookie the
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  Speaker 1: way that he's handled that, and the Cowboys, though, have
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  Speaker 1: put up with it. You only had that one incident
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas where he missed the first offensive. There is
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens. So the question are you surprised that here
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  Speaker 1: we are it's week fourteen. This was the feel good
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  Speaker 1: story of the football season. George Pickens, all you cowboy
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  Speaker 1: fans were pointing like Nelson from The Simpsons at Mike Tomlin, going, aha,
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  Speaker 1: you dubbies, you trained us Jerry Rice for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of day, two or three picks you, Lizis. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: here we are at week fourteen, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: well look looky looking now the skeletons are starting to
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  Speaker 1: come out of the closet and they're dancing. They're dancing,
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  Speaker 1: they're dancing. Listen. Of course I'm shaking my head. No,
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  Speaker 1: not surprised that the red flags are popping up here.
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  Speaker 1: If that's the question, are you surprised? I'm not. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a shock, it's not a stunter. It's not even
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  Speaker 1: really a plot twist. It's the football version of the
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  Speaker 1: same movie, different theater. So did you really are you
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  Speaker 1: that gullible where you really thought that George Pickens just
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  Speaker 1: because he changed laundry suddenly turned into mister Rogers with
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  Speaker 1: shoulder pads on, come on? Are you that naive? Of
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  Speaker 1: course not. They got in Dallas the same guy Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: shipped out like an Amazon return. All the quirks, the tardiness,
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  Speaker 1: the great athletic ability. The only difference appears to be
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  Speaker 1: now that for most of this year, this game aside,
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  Speaker 1: most of this year, George Pickens has been catching passes
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  Speaker 1: like heat seeking missiles locked into a Jerry Jones smoker
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  Speaker 1: in Jerry's work, Like this is this is how the
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  Speaker 1: NFL does business right. And it's one of those amazing
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  Speaker 1: questions that has to be answered because you know, this
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  Speaker 1: was a really big game and George Pickens played it
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  Speaker 1: like it was an exhibition game. The effort was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: why am I out here? Don't you know who I am? Well, George,
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of a big game, but I'm George Pickens.
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  Speaker 1: I can't be bothered to hustle. What's wrong with you? You schmuck? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's the vibe he gave up, and so it again
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  Speaker 1: becomes and Pittsburgh didn't want to pay him. Pittsburgh was
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  Speaker 1: fed up with him. Tomlin said, I somewhere Tomlin poured
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  Speaker 1: one out to celebrate this performance, like, hey, your losers,
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  Speaker 1: you rip me? How about that? Look at this dope?
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  Speaker 1: How do you like him now? Dallas? How do you
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  Speaker 1: like him now? But the Cowboys have had that look
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  Speaker 1: the other way. That's the NFL, that's how they do
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  Speaker 1: business right. They used to look the other way. Production
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  Speaker 1: is the ultimate deodorant. And as long as Pickens is
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  Speaker 1: a top ten receiver and all these different categories, explosive
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  Speaker 1: plays and all this, then you tolerate the guy missing
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  Speaker 1: a bus or a team meeting or showing up late,
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  Speaker 1: and you know they'll even warm up the engine for
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  Speaker 1: him of the team bus. Is there a correlation between
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  Speaker 1: the story coming out prior to the game that George
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  Speaker 1: Pickens is still the same old George by George, and
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  Speaker 1: then him going out there and proving to everyone he's
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  Speaker 1: still got that steeler George Pickens in him. Is there
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  Speaker 1: some kind of core between those two things. Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: gotten fined a couple of times and all that, but
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  Speaker 1: fines are just the coin slot of the diva receiver arcade,
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  Speaker 1: the fund zone, the kind of all if you will,
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  Speaker 1: and my positions. People don't fundamentally change. Whatever's baked in
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  Speaker 1: stays baked in. That's just kind of the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: You can't untoast it, you know, once it's there. And
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  Speaker 1: Brian Schottenheimer did not fix George Pickens, obviously not. He
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  Speaker 1: went out there and had a vintage George Pickens game.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys mantra has been Ah, let's just give him
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  Speaker 1: a chance. You know, well, we'll do something a little different.
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  Speaker 1: And when the juice tastes good, you know my little pulp.
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  Speaker 1: Well you had a lot of pulp. If you're the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys in this game on Thursday night, and does Pickens
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  Speaker 1: make a couple more plays, a couple more hustle plays,
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  Speaker 1: you win the game. You could make that argument as
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  Speaker 1: a compelling argument to make. Now last word on the
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  Speaker 1: winner's side. We have cranked up the the overreaction machine
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  Speaker 1: and it's all about the Detroit Lions. And the Lions
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  Speaker 1: are back. It's all downhill now in a tough stretch.
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  Speaker 1: But watch out, the Lions have arrived. This was like
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  Speaker 1: their bar mitzvah and a big deal. They're all men
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  Speaker 1: now they're men again, and it's great, wonderful. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: are Dan Campbell's Lions back? Are they back to biting
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  Speaker 1: knee caps? So I would advise you to hold your
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  Speaker 1: horses right, I mean, what do you what are you doing? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: This wipes away some of the halatosis. It does. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a crest mouthwash thing of majig right for for
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  Speaker 1: a fan base that has been recently breathing dragon fumes
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  Speaker 1: for about a month and it feels pretty good. I'm
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  Speaker 1: puzzled about aman Ross Saint Brown playing. I was told
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  Speaker 1: he likely wouldn't play and went out there and did
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  Speaker 1: his thing. But as far as the old were all
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  Speaker 1: big picture, yeah, it feels good for the moment. Did
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  Speaker 1: they fix everything? No, Cowboys, even with George Pickens not
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  Speaker 1: that interested in playing in Ceedee Lamb not available after
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  Speaker 1: he had a big start. You know, the Cowboys still
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  Speaker 1: put up a bunch of points in this game, but
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  Speaker 1: this was a mode Joe Rental. I jotted down Mojo
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  Speaker 1: Rental on my scorecard. A little Mojo Rental there for
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They didn't purchase it. It's one night only.
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  Speaker 1: There's still the NFL's human seesaw up and down, up
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  Speaker 1: and down, no consistency, no reliability. You spin the wheel
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  Speaker 1: every week and you hope it doesn't land on face plant.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, you can bully teams and push him around.
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  Speaker 1: And Jamiir Gibbs is dynamic, he's explosive, he's elite, he's premier,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. That's the maddening part though about the Lions,
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  Speaker 1: Like the ceiling is a is a pen house, and
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  Speaker 1: they do have an underlying condition and there's really nothing
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  Speaker 1: you can do about it. You were born with it.
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  Speaker 1: Jared Goff sucks in big games. It's a problem, but
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  Speaker 1: if everything else is great. Hey, we've seen suck bag
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks win super Bowls. Nick Foles is a Super Bowl champion,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Flackoll won a Super Bowl. Those guys blow, and
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  Speaker 1: certainly Jared Goff's as good as those guys. Everything else
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  Speaker 1: has to go right for you and Dan Campbell smashing
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  Speaker 1: energy drinks and promising kneecap buffets for everyone, And we'll
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  Speaker 1: see how this goes here. But for this particular night,
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  Speaker 1: it was lipstick on a lion, not a makeover. Not
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  Speaker 1: a makeover. We'll see what the future holds here. For
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  Speaker 1: the Lions are still not in the playoffs. They win
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  Speaker 1: out and have some other teams stumble and bumble, and
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  Speaker 1: then they'll they'll be back in what is a wide
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  Speaker 1: open appears to be a wide open NFL or right
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  Speaker 1: about now.
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night, goes to the Detroit Lions. They get a
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  Speaker 1: two touchdown win. The Dallas Cowboys look good for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. They beat the Eagles, they beat the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: and now a ice bucket right to the face. Right
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  Speaker 1: to the face for the Dallas Cowboys. But that is
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  Speaker 1: not our lead story this hour. Instead, we go to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia and there are multiple reports suggesting that one of
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the issues that the philadel Fhi Eagles have had this
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  Speaker 1: year is that quarterback Jalen Hurts has wanted to run
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  Speaker 1: the ball less this season and because of injuries he's
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: sustained while running the football in recent USI saw this
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  Speaker 1: or not, maybe maybe you missed it. So, when asked
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  Speaker 1: if these reports were true, Hurt said, quote, I've always
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  Speaker 1: been focused on doing whatever it takes to win, and
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  Speaker 1: I've always put my energy trying to bring the game
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  Speaker 1: plan and the strategy that week, he said to life,
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  Speaker 1: So I'll continue to do that. Close quote that was
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of nothing. Okay. Then earlier this week,
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  Speaker 1: Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was also asked if Jalen hurts
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  Speaker 1: rushing numbers have dipped because he wants to run the
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  Speaker 1: ball less, and what do you think Sirianni did? Do
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: you think Sirianni A said, that's absolutely correct. Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: does not want to injure himself. He's a wuss. B
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  Speaker 1: no comment or C. That's preposterous. Well, Sirianni did not
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  Speaker 1: answer the question either, so he deflected. He deflected, So
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: neither Jalen Hurts or Nick Sirianni would confirm or deny
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  Speaker 1: that Jalen Hurts want wants to run the ball. They
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: did the run around the rosie is what they did,
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. Jalen Hurts based on reports out of Philly,
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  Speaker 1: refusing to give a straight answer. That part's not a report.
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  Speaker 1: A report was he doesn't want to run the ball
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  Speaker 1: as much, and he's asked the Eagles to not have
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  Speaker 1: him run as much. So Jalen Hurts refusing to give
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  Speaker 1: a straight answer when asked if he wanted to run
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  Speaker 1: the ball less this season. So what do you read
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  Speaker 1: into this? What do you read into this? So my
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  Speaker 1: observations on this, I've got tiny house, living peekaboo, expired trimp.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Those are the things I have, and I will put
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  Speaker 1: them all together and we will unscramble. What that means,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: we will unscramble. And those things have never been put together.
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  Speaker 1: They've never been put together quite like that. You're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna hear that anywhere else, anywhere else. So number on,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts gets asked a simple question and suddenly he
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  Speaker 1: he besides, he's at a Wetzel's pretzel and he does
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  Speaker 1: like a pretzel yoga type thing. It was like an
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  Speaker 1: old school Gumby routine, is what it was. From Jalen Hurts,
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  Speaker 1: the man twisted himself into shapes that we didn't know
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  Speaker 1: existed in the human handbook, and that, to me says everything.
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  Speaker 1: So we'd like to say, Dad, give what? Give what?
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  Speaker 1: It's the classic non answer answer. Now, there was a
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  Speaker 1: guy that I became decent friends with near near the
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: end of his life, the great TJ. Seimers. TJ was
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: a columnist back when newspapers mattered, and it was a
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  Speaker 1: talk show host and just a real flamethrower of a man.
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  Speaker 1: And TJ explained to me, so, you know, as a columnist, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go into the locker room and I will ask
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  Speaker 1: the question. I will allow the athlete to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: and if they don't answer the question, then I have
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the freedom to give the answer because I've given them
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity and they've chows him not to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really what Jalen Hurts and Nick Siriani did
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  Speaker 1: on this one. They gave a non answer answer. In
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  Speaker 1: the NFL that usually means the quiet part is actually
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  Speaker 1: the loudest right that it hurts. Essentially told you without
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  Speaker 1: telling you, he told you that he doesn't want to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: be a battering eagle anymore. He's saving mileage like he's
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  Speaker 1: driving a lease car and you don't want to go
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  Speaker 1: over the mileage limit and you don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: on the highway, so you just want to drive around
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  Speaker 1: the city and you just kind of want to work
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  Speaker 1: that way. Now, what is my evidence. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: the numbers. So he got the numbers. Eighty four carries
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  Speaker 1: through twelve games or Jaalen hurts. That is what's known
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  Speaker 1: as in his world. And he's different than other quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: because the running game is a big part of the
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  Speaker 1: arrangement on how he's been good. So eighty four carries
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  Speaker 1: through twelve games, that is tiny house living. Tiny house
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  Speaker 1: living is what that is. And this is a guy
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  Speaker 1: who used to run like someone litz took us on fire,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and now he's he's still running, but it's not the same.
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  Speaker 1: It's just something a little haywire. It's not quite right,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: like it's he's not fully putting himself in bubble wrap,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: much like part of him is. You know what I'm
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: saying you feel me on that. So he's gone from
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: dual threat to dual thought, constantly deciding whether that one
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: hit is worth the headache and making what we call
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  Speaker 1: business decisions. He's been to the rodeo a few times.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: He's trying to make some business decisions as as the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: line goes, as the line goes, and so because he's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: hyper aware of the narratives. Though, here's the part of
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: it that's interesting, right, He's gone from the you know,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the dual threat to the dual thought. But the hyper
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: aware part is interesting because he's probably this weekend. The
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Eagles are in LA don't play until Monday, and he's
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: gonna hear all about this, and he's already read about it,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and he's got a long flight and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be shocked if he goes out there
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  Speaker 1: and he starts running around like a shopping cart with
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a busted wheel, just despite everyone the classic overreaction machine
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: or go NFL ego all right now, Page two to
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the High Speed Sports Wire. A shake up after a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: full Mallard myolog on a transaction that seemed like an
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: alley oop oop oop, well, the other shoe was dropped
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: and we revisit this Darius Sleigh. Remember Darius Lay who
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: was claimed off the dumpster from the Buffalo Bills. He
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: was put on the pink slip papers by Pittsburgh. They said,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: we don't want you, you suck. And well now we've
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: learned that Darius Lay is I don't know if I
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: want to play. Eh, you know, maybe not. I don't know.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know I want to play. He's unsure whether
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: he wants to continue playing. Do you see this? Yeah,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: he's not going to be reporting to Buffalo. I'm sure
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with not wanting to live in Buffalo. Now,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Slay's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, the bull crap artist, he attempted
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: to spend the story. Now, the question, did Darius Slay
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: do the Buffalo Bills dirty? Did he do him dirty
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: with this particular move? So the only acceptable answer on this,
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  Speaker 1: the only one is y es. So I'm nodding my head.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head yes on this one. This wasn't
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: a curveball. This was a spitball. It was doctored up,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: it was greased with pine tar and hurled right at
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo forehead. Now, the good thing about that is
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo is so big it doesn't really notice. It's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: so big, it doesn't really worry about that, and it
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: will go to the garbage heap of history when you
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: think about this now, the argument can be made that
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the Bills should have checked in with Darius Lay and said, hey,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: how would you like to play in Buffalo? We're thinking
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: about adding you. But the player ultimately is more at
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: fault here. The adult thing, the professor thing to do
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: would have been, hey, guys, I know I'm thinking about
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: unplugging the jukebox here for a bit, maybe just don't
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: don't nobody claim me, And instead Darius Lay decide, you
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna play peak Baboo with retirement Pikaboo,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I see you, and left the Bills holding an empty
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: lunch pail. Now the ripple effect, to me, that's the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: most interesting part. The guy didn't want to play, you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: he's quit, fine, whatever, But that part is brutal because
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Buffalo had major issues in the secondary. Do I think
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: that Darius Lay would have solved the issues? No, I don't.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I made that perfectly clear in a previous episode of
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the show. That's my opinion. It's one man's opinion, But
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Buffalo claimed Darius Lay. They thought he would be an
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: upgrade value added even as we question the impact from
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the bully pulpit, and then boom goes to dynamite. They
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: waived someone named JaMarcus Ingram. We don't know who that is,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: but he was on the roster and he plays in
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the secondary. The tech since of course, then said okay,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: they're like, it will be like a seagull here. The
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Texans came in there and a seagull lunchtime, a picnic
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: there at the beach, and they came in and gobbled
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: up the player. And so the Bills ended up trading
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a live body. They got rid of the live body,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: JaMarcus Ingram. They picked up a poltergeist, a ghost spooky
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: that is malpracticed by circumstances. What that is now there
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: have been some rumblings, there's some chatter that there's something
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: more nefarious going on. If you've heard the conspiracy that
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Darius Slay assumed that he would only be picked up
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: by the Philadelphia Eagles, who did make a waiver claim
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: on him. He wanted to go back to Philly. He
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: won a super Bowl in Philadelphia. The Eagle maniacs love
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: him and that the reason he doesn't want to go
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: to Buffalo Darius Lay is that they're trying to finagle
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: away to get the Philly with agent Drew Rosenhouse trying
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to pull some strings as the puppet master behind the scenes.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: We'll see if there's anything to that, but that's what's
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: bouncing around now. This is the NFL. I don't think
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: it is a pajama party, and pretty much like any job,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's much different. Whatever you do. If
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: you want to be good at your job and take
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: pride in your product, you have to be one hundred
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: percent committed. You have to show up on time, you
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: have to put the work in all that stuff, and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: you have to want to be great at whatever that is.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Whether you're working in a factory or warehouse, you're cleaning toilets,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: making donuts, or a cop or a robber, whatever you
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: might be. You want to be at the very top
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: of your profession. And so you look at this, it's like, okay,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: so when a guy starts pondering retirement and you're like,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I might play, I might take a nap, I had
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a big lunch. You know, it's like you know, you
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: start pondering retirement. That's code for my duffel bag is
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: already packed. And see a suckers, you know, see a
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: suckers and Slay. He didn't just check out mentally, he's
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: he's physically checked out as well. That's why the Steelers
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: got rid of him. And he handed the Bills a
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: malor approved screwjob, Darius Slay he did. This is a
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: drive through special screwjob by Darius Lay. No player, no production,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: no refund, All sales are final. It's oh v over,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: stick a fork in it. That's it. It's all over,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: all right, final point. We now go to Louisiana. That's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: right there. Reports that the New Orleans Saints head coach
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore's job would be safe. The Saints are a
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: bad football team. They were supposed to be a bad
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: football team, and they've lived up the expectations this year
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Now, things though, have changed, despite some
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: reports saying nothing to see here Kellen Moore, He's not
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: in any kind of danger. He's putting the blood, sweat
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and tears in and they're not going to make any
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: kind of a change, no change at all. Well, now,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the plot thickens. There's some buzz
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: out of a byo that Kellen Moore is not not
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: out of the woods. No, no, no, no, no, something's going
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: on there, some something's going on. So the question what
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: are the eyes and the ears tell you of what
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: appears to be now a conflict of interest? What are
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the eyes and ears tell you about Kellen Moore and
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: his status with the Saints? So the by you be boiling, boiling,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and Kellen Moore is standing there in the cartoon bubble
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: on the right side, not the left side, the right
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: side of my head, in the right side of my head.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore is standing there like a chef who just
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: realized that he had grabbed the expired shrimp, but he
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: had already put the shrimp in and the food must
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: be served, like nothing is safe, it can't be safe.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Like why would you say, he's saying if the Saints
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: fans have started to put the brown paper bags back
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: on their heads, that's not a fashion situation. That is
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: a cry for help. I'll give you an example. My guy,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: cashless clay. And we don't do shout out, so I
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: can't wish cashless clay a happy birthday. I could do
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: a mention, but I've chose not to. I've chose not
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to do a mention. I can't do a shout out.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I won't do a mention. But this guy Cashless Clay
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: is a big fan of the show, and his lady there, Carly,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and the family dog Ginger. They all, from what I understand,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: where brown bags. When they watch the Saints, they have
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the family all has matching brown bags. Isn't that romantic?
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Isn't that the family that brown bags? It is the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: family that loves it. And that's the NFL's version though,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: of I'm not mad, i am numb and I'm disappointed,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and that is the real The numbness is the real
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: swamp monster. That's the real swamp monster. Because, as I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: have pointed out for many many years here, the cheat
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: code in sports is not anger. People don't get up saying,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: oh I don't like they're saying mean things about my dream.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: They don't get upset about that the real profession. There's
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: some amateur people that work in sports that are you know,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: they have thin skin, their weasels, they get upset. Most
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: people don't. Anger means you're still engaged. It's the other
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: a word apathy. That's code three light sirens, paramedics sprinting
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: in with life saving equipment because the fan base just flatlined,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: is what that is. And you know it's bad when
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Gail Benson, who's older than dirt, breaks out the she
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: breaks out of the billionaire bunker she's living in somewhere
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: in the Louisiana there to talk to the local newspaper,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: because why not, that's what old people do, They talk
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: to newspapers. But billionaires generally don't grant inner unless something
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: smells just not right and you know, a toxic kind
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: of odor in the air, like that kind of thing.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: So the mal report card of this is a big
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: old a and again it's for apathy. It's the kiss
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: of death. It is the kiss of death. And you
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: can't sell season tickets to zombies. They've tried. They don't pay.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore was supposed to be the boy Wonder of
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: offensive football. At one point, he was the coach and
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: waiting for the Dallas Cowboys. Imagine that the Dallas Cowboys
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: at one point were like, we got to hire this guy.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: We we think this guy is amazing. And then now
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: you look at where we are, and it's like he left,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: he went to the Chargers, went to the Eagles, bounced
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: around the whole thing, all right though, the whole thing,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: and now you're like, okay, so you're serving up right now,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: you're serving up spoiled gumbo with maggots and a side
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: of cornbread with crunchy cockroaches. That's her offense twenty six
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. That's not an offense. That is like
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: a crime scene with that yellow tape wrapped around it
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: is what that is. And so the malar malfeasance meter
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: is redlining. The mallor malfeasance meter is redlining on this one.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: If More doesn't fix this, he is going to be
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: gumbo canned right out of the Big Easy. So I
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: do believe that that is legit. There's something to that
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: particular story.
• 37:37
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• 37:44
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• 37:46
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• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Coobler.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: Thravens signed tight end Mark Andrews to a three year
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: contract extension that makes him the sixth highest paid tight
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: end in the league, and this had a lot of
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: fans scratching their heads, as many think Andrews was on
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: the decline. Ben, was this a mistake by Baltimore?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it seems like something that didn't have to happen.
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  Speaker 1: And after he blew the playoff game when he dropped
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  Speaker 1: a two point conversion, he imploded. I thought, there's no
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  Speaker 1: way he's going to come back. He must be so
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  Speaker 1: tight with Harball and the executives in Baltimore that that's
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  Speaker 1: part of the deal. They gave him the extra you know,
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  Speaker 1: he only got a couple of years left. They give
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  Speaker 1: him the big money. He's been a great player for them.
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  Speaker 1: But it doesn't seem like it. It's not worthless, but
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like that's a smart move. Next.
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  Speaker 5: Prior to Giannis and Tetakumpo getting injured in the Bucks
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  Speaker 5: game on Wednesday, Doc Rivers denied reports that the team
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  Speaker 5: has been talking with Giannis about a potential exit from
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  Speaker 5: the franchise, saying Giannis has never asked to be traded. Ever,
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  Speaker 5: I can't make that more clear. Do you believe him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, the only problem with Doc and I was
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  Speaker 1: around Doc a lot with the Clippers. Is the reason
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe him is because his lips were moving.
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  Speaker 1: That's why no used to come on stalk ever been honest? Ever,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, why would he be honest? Now? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe that at all. If Jannis is gonna
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  Speaker 1: get traded eventually, it's just a matter of when trade deadlines.
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  Speaker 1: February fifth, next.
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  Speaker 5: Ben The Oklahoma City Thunder off to it and a
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  Speaker 5: historic start, winning just twenty one of their first twenty
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  Speaker 5: two games and winning their games by an average of
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  Speaker 5: fifteen points. Domination has led some to believe that they
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  Speaker 5: could challenge the Warriors record of seventy three wins.
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  Speaker 1: Are they that good? They already have twenty one wins
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  Speaker 1: in twenty two game yesterday. They're they're not that good,
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  Speaker 1: They're not that popular. But the answer is yes, they
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  Speaker 1: can challenge the record. How do we know you pass
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  Speaker 1: this edition? All Right, that's a win. I got another win.
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  Speaker 1: That's a win for me. Gotta win. That's a win. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: listen live. Knock knock, who's there? Blame week? Blame week too.
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  Speaker 2: It's Big Man's late joke of the week.
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  Speaker 1: By the way we go, it's Big Ben's lame jokes
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  Speaker 1: the week. Each and every week at about this time,
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  Speaker 1: it's Big Ben's lame Jokes the week. And we welcome
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  Speaker 1: in my sidekick two segments a week. What a big star.
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  Speaker 1: This man is weed Man, hippie from Hollywood, Florida. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: weed Man Man, Thank you so much with Monday nice.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. Mondays with the weed Man Mondays into
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  Speaker 1: Tuesdays kind of technically early as we swing the balance
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  Speaker 1: over there to early on the on the Tuesday. All right,
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  Speaker 1: are you ready to laugh? Weed Man? Are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: All right? I hope you're happy that so many people
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  Speaker 1: from coast to coast and around the world love busting
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  Speaker 1: your balls weed Man. They just love it. They love
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  Speaker 1: goofing on you. I love it, all right. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: that's the great thing. You can laugh at yourself. And
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: that's a great gift if you can laugh at yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go, because he has long hair. What did
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  Speaker 1: weed Man say when someone asked if he was bisexual?
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  Speaker 3: Ah?
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  Speaker 1: What he said, Nope, I've never paid for it ever
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  Speaker 1: never Surfer Todd the comedian. Why is weed Man's belief
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  Speaker 1: that he can change the world? What is what is
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: weed Man's belief that he can change the world based
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  Speaker 1: on what high hopes? That's a chip in Maine. These
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  Speaker 1: are actual jokes by actual listeners. If it's an overnight success,
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  Speaker 1: if you would like to send jokes in care of
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  Speaker 1: Ben Mahlor show Ben Mallor Show at gmail dot com.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Why was weed Man walking around Miami with a limp
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  Speaker 1: in a cane? Why he was promoting lame jokes? That's
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  Speaker 1: Joe in Virginia Beach. You sent that one in? Well,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: this is interesting. I don't think we've gotten any jokes
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  Speaker 1: from this guy before The hut Hut specialist rights and
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  Speaker 1: he says, why did weed Man hippie? Why did his
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: toy store in New York clothes? Why? Well, apparently weed
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  Speaker 1: Man had no concept that he was supposed to order
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  Speaker 1: new toys once they were sold. That's at you saw
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  Speaker 1: that one. You sold that one cabbage patch doll in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, and you forgot to order more. Why
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  Speaker 1: did we Man? Why did all right, we'll see what.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't weed Man? Why didn't weed man get any
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  Speaker 1: turkey on Thanksgiving even though he only had two guests.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, why not? Well, apparently your guests were Bartolo
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Cologne and Lizzo. That's from Brendan from busting lame jokes
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: over the years, we used to just bust Bartolo Colone's balls.
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  Speaker 1: Then he retired, Then we moved to Lizzo. Now we've
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: moved to weed Man. How do you know when life
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: is tough? Oh, because you catch yourself being jealous of
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: weed Man having his own segment on the radio show.
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  Speaker 1: That's a Noah in Austin. Then why why should weed
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  Speaker 1: Man create an email? Why? Well, he'll never go hungry
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  Speaker 1: with all the spam he's going to get. That's Noah
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  Speaker 1: in Austin. Then they even have a folder a spamful er.
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  Speaker 1: Why did weed Man leave New York City? Uh, there's
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  Speaker 1: actually three reasons. Why how about that?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the team sucked, the weather sucks, and there are
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: no hurricanes there either. That's Mike the Leprechaun. What what
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  Speaker 1: kind of hippie is weed Man? What come he's a
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: dang dirty hippie. That's Drue in Minnesota. Why what is
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: the weed Man's favorite thing about the romantic novels. What
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  Speaker 1: besides all the pipe he really likes the hair owin Heroin? Right,
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  Speaker 1: but Drew and I screwed up Drew in Minnesota? You
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  Speaker 1: got the joke? What else do we have this here?
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  Speaker 1: What is and Coop hoping to find at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the rainbow? What a gold of pot is that
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  Speaker 1: they'd like to find there?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 1: The most? It is interesting. The most popular girl's name
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five was Olivia. And what was the
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: most popular boy's name? What? Tyreek Hill Junior? That's uncle Uncle.
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  Speaker 1: What's the saddest part of Scott's dating life? Unfortunately every
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: single date it's a blind date. That's a Bobby in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: How cold is it in Minnesota?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Cold? It's so cold that hollering James claims that he's
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: an Eskimo. That's econ Roseville, Minnesota. What's Jed who Fled's
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: favorite place to spend Christmas? Yea, his favorite place Jed
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: who fled? The little town of meth Laham. That's Dan
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  Speaker 1: in South Carolina. Baker weaed Man. Lame jokes of the
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