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Hour 4 - Coaches Say the Darndest Things · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom! Shakalaka! It's hour number four. Hour four of the
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. So here in hour number four,
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show stayed up all night for this.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Munkin said the Browns coaches watched Deshaun Watson's performance
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  Speaker 1: and saw really good things on film. Where does your
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  Speaker 1: mind go with that quote? Also, was Patriots offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels really clueless about A.J. Brown going on injured reserve?
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  Speaker 1: And where are you at on Cowboys executive Stephen Jones
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  Speaker 1: saying the expectations for his team were unrealistic? Of course,
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  Speaker 1: after they lost, they were unrealistic. We'll get to all
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  Speaker 1: of that and more right now. Here it is, our
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  Speaker 1: number four. Have a wonderful Tuesday. Another case of NFL
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  Speaker 1: coaches saying the darndest things. Welcome in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the crown... is yours. So we did have a Monday
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  Speaker 1: night football game, not much of a game. Kansas City
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  Speaker 1: took the Broncos to the woodshed, and the Chiefs, are
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  Speaker 1: they back? Well, Mahomes looked like poo-poo. The Chiefs, though,
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  Speaker 1: using the ground and pound. Kenneth Walker, the Super Bowl MVP,
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  Speaker 1: rumbling and stumbling. A throwback kind of a game for
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid. And Kansas City, 173 rushing yards for Kenneth
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  Speaker 1: Walker III. Chiefs win by three touchdowns over the once-powered Broncos.
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  Speaker 1: They get it done. And the fun factoid here, the
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  Speaker 1: fun factoid off the top.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Maller, fun fact.
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  Speaker 1: So the Chiefs as a team had 220 rushing yards.
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  Speaker 1: As a collective, they had zero rushing yards before contact.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll get to why they had zero rushing yards
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  Speaker 1: before contact happened. Also, Mahomes passing yards, 91% of Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: passing yards came after the catch. Yards after the catch.
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  Speaker 1: Yakety yak. Now, the reason that the Chiefs were able
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  Speaker 1: to do what they did was because of historically terrible tackling.
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  Speaker 1: by the once-proud Denver Broncos defense. It seemed, watching the game,
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  Speaker 1: like this was out of the ordinary how many blown
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  Speaker 1: tackles the Broncos had. They had defensive players in position
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  Speaker 1: to make plays. They repeatedly did not make plays, and
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  Speaker 1: it turns out our eyes were not lying. According to
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  Speaker 1: the nerds at NextGenStats, they tell us the Broncos defense
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  Speaker 1: missed How many missed tackles do you think they had?
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  Speaker 1: How many missed tackles? 20. 20. That's a lot. Coop,
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  Speaker 1: how many missed tackles for the Broncos? What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: I already know. The answer is 28 missed tackles. They
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  Speaker 1: allowed 247 yards off missed tackles. That is the most allowed.
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  Speaker 1: The most allowed by any defense in a game since
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  Speaker 1: at least 2018 season. I was a little boy in 2018.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long time ago. That's pre-pandemic. Pre-pandemic. So, there
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  Speaker 1: you go. Chiefs, are they back? A little too soon
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  Speaker 1: on that. Mahomes did not look good. The defense, pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Broncos have some problems. But our lead this hour. Play
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  Speaker 1: the hits, my man. Play the hits. There's nothing better
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  Speaker 1: than the Cleveland Browns until they start realizing they're really just,
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  Speaker 1: the season's over and we won't talk about them. For now, though,
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  Speaker 1: they're still relevant. It's only heading into Week 2. And
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  Speaker 1: the brownies are the gift that keeps giving. Every chewy
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  Speaker 1: bite is just wonderful. And I am a fan of
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  Speaker 1: their coach, Todd Munkin. Do I think Todd Munkin knows
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing? Hell no, but I love the guy.
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  Speaker 1: He makes my life easier, and I need more people
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  Speaker 1: like that. I always get worried when these coaches that
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  Speaker 1: are good, like Mike Tomlin was a really great coach
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  Speaker 1: for me. He gave me a lot to work with,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of material. He's now on TV. And Todd
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  Speaker 1: Munkin's picking up the slack, the Munk Man. Well, Todd
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  Speaker 1: Munkin confirmed that Deshaun Watson, yes, that Deshaun Watson is
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  Speaker 1: going to start week two against the Tampa football team
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  Speaker 1: despite Cleveland getting air fried in Jacksonville. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you saw this or not. Maybe not. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if we have any audio. I guess the
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  Speaker 1: editors might sleep during the day.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But Watson, his final numbers were bad. He had 205
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  Speaker 1: yards rushing. That's not good. 205 yards passing. But the
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  Speaker 1: numbers were skewed because he was a stat bandito in
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  Speaker 1: garbage time in the fourth quarter. The game was over early,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a 46-yard pass play that fattened up
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  Speaker 1: the stats in garbage time. Just anything in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter was extended garbage time. But don't bury the quote here.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless of that, Todd Munkin, this is where it gets next.
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  Speaker 1: Munkin noted that Watson only had a couple weeks left
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  Speaker 1: of full first-team reps. And he said, well, it's not fair.
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  Speaker 1: And then the part about the film is next level.
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  Speaker 1: This is where this just goes off the rocks here.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Todd Munkin. who says he does anticipate Deshaun
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  Speaker 1: Watson starting. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 4: It's only been two weeks. He's gotten all the reps.
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  Speaker 4: And there were some really good things on film, some
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  Speaker 4: things that you can build on. And there were some
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  Speaker 4: others that, you know, operationally we got to get better at.
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  Speaker 4: There's concepts that, you know, there's only so many looks
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  Speaker 4: you get from week to week, be it red zone concepts,
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  Speaker 4: third down concepts. And I did think that when he
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  Speaker 4: had time, when he understood the concepts, he didn't play tentative,
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  Speaker 4: that he let it rip. You know, even the touchdown
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  Speaker 4: at the end. Sure, that was garbage time, but that
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  Speaker 4: was on their one corner. I mean, that was one
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  Speaker 4: of their starters out there. And that was a communication
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  Speaker 4: between him and the receiver. So there was a lot
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  Speaker 4: of things to build on. Was it perfect? Of course not. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 4: we wouldn't have scored as few points as we did.
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  Speaker 4: But I'd like to see how we can build on that.
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  Speaker 4: I liked his week of practice last week, and I
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  Speaker 4: think he's only going to continue.
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  Speaker 1: To get better. Bull crap. All right, here's more from
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  Speaker 1: Todd Munkin. He claims, seemingly with a straight face, that
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  Speaker 1: the Browns locker room, they really like bad quarterback play
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  Speaker 1: from Deshaun Watts. Every one of those guys, you said 100%.
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  Speaker 4: And really, to be honest, I mean, they don't have
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  Speaker 4: a choice. I mean, this isn't a debate. I don't
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  Speaker 4: ask the players what every series, what play I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to call. There are jobs to play. Our jobs put
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  Speaker 4: the best player on the field that we think gives
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  Speaker 4: us a chance to win. And I love our guys.
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  Speaker 4: But the moment we get into that in terms of
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  Speaker 4: who this guy should be playing, what we're doing this,
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  Speaker 4: what we ought to be calling, we've lost sight of
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  Speaker 4: the target, which is to own it and fix it
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  Speaker 4: and try like hell to get better. And that's irrespective
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  Speaker 4: of what goes out there. But there's decisions that are
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  Speaker 4: made at every position. Quarterback just happens to be one
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  Speaker 4: of those. I don't blame people for having opinions, but
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  Speaker 4: ultimately it's for all of us to support who we
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  Speaker 4: put on the field that gives us the best chance
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  Speaker 4: to win.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine waking up and realizing Deshaun Watson is your...
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  Speaker 1: They're so bad. They're so bad. Oh, my God. Now,
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, our crack editing staff chose not to
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  Speaker 1: put the top quote in. I don't know why. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was an editorial decision. But the quote, which is
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  Speaker 1: what we call the money quote, for some reason we
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  Speaker 1: don't have, where Todd Munkin said the film showed some, quote,
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  Speaker 1: really good things. uh from deshaun watson so that is
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  Speaker 1: the quote i'm going to jump off on we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get it for whatever reason uh but that's the quote
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  Speaker 1: so let us discuss the question todd munkin seemingly an
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  Speaker 1: nfl head coach, said the Browns coaching staff watched Deshaun
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  Speaker 1: Watson's performance and saw, again, the quote, saw really good
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  Speaker 1: things on film. So where does your mind go based
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  Speaker 1: on that particular quote by the Browns coach, Todd Munkin?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Seinfeld, off-Broadway production, and Sleeping Beauty's Castle.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll combine all of these things together, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to dine on the baba ghanoush. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: have a little bit of the jambalaya from Benjamin in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans, and then we're going to have from Chilio
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  Speaker 1: in Florida, we're going to have the gabagool. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have all that big meal there. So first
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  Speaker 1: of all, Todd Munkin claiming that he saw some really
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  Speaker 1: good things. That's a quote, some really good things from
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson saying, So he must have been watching the
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  Speaker 1: director's cut or something like that. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: he was watching. If Watson looked good on film based
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  Speaker 1: on the Browns-Jacksonville game, then somebody must have slipped the
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  Speaker 1: Browns coach, not a roofie, must have slipped him a
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  Speaker 1: highlight tape from Clemson. Because I'm pretty sure that's the
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  Speaker 1: last time Deshaun Watson really looked all that good was
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  Speaker 1: when he was in college in Clemson. The man's performance...
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  Speaker 1: was a total box office bomb. And it tells you
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  Speaker 1: the Browns, they don't trust. How bad is Shadur Sanders?
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  Speaker 1: If they would rather send that dirty diaper out to
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  Speaker 1: Sean Watson, whose theme song is die, die, diarrhea. Cause
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  Speaker 1: every time he plays, he either has diarrhea or the
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  Speaker 1: people watching wish they had diarrhea. Cause at least they'd
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  Speaker 1: be on the toilet and wouldn't have to watch him
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  Speaker 1: play quarterback. Anyway, so the Browns are like, well, this
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  Speaker 1: is our guy. But it's week to week, and Shadur
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  Speaker 1: Sanders must be so bad, they'd rather play this guy
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  Speaker 1: than that guy. It's wild. He bombed. And Todd Munkin's
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  Speaker 1: out there pitching a sequel. Now, you hope that he's lying,
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  Speaker 1: and he's a coach, and they all lie, and that
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  Speaker 1: two days from now, the Browns are going to say, well,
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  Speaker 1: we decided to make a change. Psych! We'll see. At
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  Speaker 1: this point, the Browns are a sitcom. They are. The
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns are– and they are– it's like a remake
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  Speaker 1: of Seinfeld, and Todd Munkin is George Costanza. If Costanza
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  Speaker 1: was an NFL head coach, he would be Todd Munkin.
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  Speaker 1: He would. Praising the tape is pure George.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a lie, if you believe it. Not a lie,
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  Speaker 1: which is every coach's mantra. It's not a lie, if
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  Speaker 1: you believe it. Munkin has officially entered the– was that wrong? No.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the sitcom. Was that wrong? Should I have
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  Speaker 1: not done that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's the phase the Browns are in right now with Deshaun.
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. Oh, so great. Welcome to the... What is this?
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  Speaker 1: You're like 87 of the Orwellian football where bad is
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  Speaker 1: good in Cleveland and failure is progress. And everyone just
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  Speaker 1: needs to keep watching the tape. And we know better
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  Speaker 1: than you. And yes. All right. Now, secondly, we go
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  Speaker 1: to New England where Josh McDaniels made some headlines recently.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this one or not. McDaniels,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator, that's the highest level of incompetence he
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  Speaker 1: can reach while staying there. Terrible head coach. He must
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  Speaker 1: have some. compromising stuff on robert craft he always goes
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  Speaker 1: back to the patriots he's left multiple times always goes
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  Speaker 1: back failed with the st louis rams went back uh
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  Speaker 1: failed with the broncos failed with the raiders he got
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  Speaker 1: the colts job and then said psych i'm not taking
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  Speaker 1: the colts job so at all that anyway josh mcdaniels
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  Speaker 1: appeared unaware in a recent interview that wide receiver a.j
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  Speaker 1: brown had been placed on injured reserve, seemingly completely oblivious
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  Speaker 1: during a recent radio interview. Brown suffered a high ankle sprain.
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  Speaker 1: You might remember in that season opener there against the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle football team he will miss the next month, at
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  Speaker 1: least asked how Brown's absence changed the offense. McDaniels on
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  Speaker 1: a live radio appearance said, quote, that's interesting. We weren't
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  Speaker 1: in today, so I haven't quite heard all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: close quote. That clip, of course, went viral. Many people
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  Speaker 1: blasting the apparent lack of communication with the New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, was the Patriots offensive coordinator, Josh McDaniels,
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  Speaker 1: really clueless, completely unaware of A.J. Brown going on injured
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  Speaker 1: reserve or not? So the only plausible answer is police.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. I'm going to throw the challenge flag. on
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  Speaker 1: the clueless routine from Josh McDaniels. I'm going to do that. A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Brown disappears onto injured reserve. Abracadabra, hocus pocus, you're gone.
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  Speaker 1: And Josh McDaniels reacts like someone just informed him that
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  Speaker 1: Amelia Earhart is missing.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. We weren't in today was the
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  Speaker 1: quote that Josh McDaniels gave. And that is a beauty.
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  Speaker 1: Because apparently... Major NFL injury news observes standard business hours.
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  Speaker 1: And since he wasn't on the clock, that's it. So
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  Speaker 1: this is the coaching equivalent, if Josh McDaniels is to
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  Speaker 1: be believed, of I have read the terms and conditions
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  Speaker 1: without reading a single word of the terms and conditions. Now,
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  Speaker 1: McDaniels did not plead the 5th. There was no pleading
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  Speaker 1: the fifth. He pleaded the Foxborough, is what he pleaded. Deny, deflect,
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  Speaker 1: and pray that the next question arrives. It's an old
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  Speaker 1: playbook left over from Bill Belichick back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: and so he suddenly developed selective amnesia. Josh McDaniels on this,
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  Speaker 1: and the exact sound of... You can almost hear his mind...
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  Speaker 1: Spinning around there. The second the microphone turned on, he's like,
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  Speaker 1: what did Bill used to say back in the day
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So this was not plausible deniability
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  Speaker 1: by Josh McDaniels. It was implausible stupidity is how we
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  Speaker 1: will describe that. And the key is this. In the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You're always just a couple of steps away from going
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  Speaker 1: to the box office. It's a little off-Broadway production. Little
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  Speaker 1: off-Broadway production. It's called Kabuki Theater, where everyone knows something.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone knows something. And everyone knows that everyone else knows something.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody ever admits to knowing anything. That's the way
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  Speaker 1: they do business. Now, final thought, to Dallas, where the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys were eaten by the Jersey Swamp Dragon. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: fun fact, you might not remember this, but the basketball
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  Speaker 1: team that used to play in New Jersey called the
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  Speaker 1: Nets wanted to change their name to the Jersey Swamp Dragons.
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  Speaker 1: And they had the logo designed and all that. And
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  Speaker 1: at the last minute, they pulled the plug. There would
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  Speaker 1: have been an NBA team named the Swamp Dragon. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm all for it. I like that. That's an original name,
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  Speaker 1: the Swamp Dragon. They didn't do it. Anyway, the Giants bullied.
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  Speaker 1: They played bully ball on the once-proud Dallas Cowboys. And
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  Speaker 1: now management, it sounds like, is lowering the bar. And
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Jones, the spawn of Jerry, who won the genetic lottery,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Jones called the loss to the Giants, quote, a
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  Speaker 1: tough pill to swallow, close quote. He also admitted the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys entered the season with, quote, a little unrealistic expectations. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Jones' explanation for the stank bomb the Cowboys put
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  Speaker 1: on the field Sunday night, he said, a rebuilt defense
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  Speaker 1: featuring eight new starters, a new defensive coordinator in the
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  Speaker 1: new prodigy Christian Parker, and several inexperienced players learning on
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  Speaker 1: the fly. So the question... Where are you at on
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys executive, Stephen Jones, saying that the expectations for
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  Speaker 1: his Dallas team were unrealistic? Where are you at on
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  Speaker 1: this one? So, spare me. Last I checked, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I'm wrong on this, Stephen Jones, you people...
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  Speaker 1: That are in charge of the Cowboys. You people created
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  Speaker 1: the expectations. Jerry and the son and the other people
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  Speaker 1: involved there. Stephen Jones admitting that expectations, he said, were unrealistic.
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  Speaker 1: Those are his words, not mine. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: Disneyland admitting that Sleeping Beauty's castle is not real. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. What are you talking about? Yeah, it's not real.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fake. Don't say such things. It's a facade
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  Speaker 1: is all it is. It's fake. You can walk through it.
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  Speaker 1: Unrealistic expectations. Unrealistic expectations. Stop being unrealistic when you deliberately,
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  Speaker 1: deliberately manufacture them every single offseason. Every single offseason. And
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  Speaker 1: especially in the month of August when training camp is
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  Speaker 1: going on. My God. The Cowboys are not victims of that.
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  Speaker 1: They're not victims of unrealistic expectations. They are the world's
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  Speaker 1: largest manufacturer in the industrial complex of professional sports of
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  Speaker 1: those unrealistic expectations. The Cowboys don't win. enough football games.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: They don't.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: They don't win their football games, but nobody has ever
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: accused them. No man, woman, or child has ever accused
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys of losing the offseason. They do not
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: lose the offseason. When they make a lot of moves,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: they win the offseason. When they don't make a lot
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: of moves, it was a sneaky good offseason because they
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: didn't make a lot of moves. Whatever they do, whatever
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: they do, it's the right move. That's it. So they're
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: undefeated every February through Labor Day. The Dallas Cowboys own
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that part of the year, crowned champions at the summer
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: invitational of good PR for the Dallas football team. But
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: nobody has been able to monetize false hope better than
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones is the maestro, and when
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: he's gone and he crosses over the pearly gates, it'll
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: never be the same. Somebody down the line will come
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: along that'll be a bullcrap artist like Jerry Jones. But
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: it'll be many, many years before that happens. So the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Cowboys are like the Amazon prime of football delusion. They
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: sell these crazy, all-inclusive championship dreams. And they then deliver... Well,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: what do they deliver? They deliver convenience store malt liquor results,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: is what they provide there. And Jerry, of course, not
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: in the football business. He's selling... football-flavored carnival bark. And
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: he sells a lot of football-flavored carnival bark. People seem
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to love it. So the Cowboys are the Broadway show.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: They're the Broadway show, the Cowboys, that feature actors who
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: keep selling out despite the fact that they're stumble bums,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: they don't know how to dance, and they forget the
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: words to the songs, and yet people still buy tickets
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and jerseys and merch. Step right up. Step right up.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Fun for all ages. In the offseason, anyway. It is
• 21:47
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• 21:49
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• 21:52
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• 21:56
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• 22:01
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• 22:05
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• 22:08
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• 22:11
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• 22:15
  Speaker 1: say that has people losing their minds saying this guy
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: is not long for the NFL and it's not Todd Munkin.
• 22:21
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• 22:23
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• 22:28
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• 22:50
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• 23:01
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• 23:03
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• 23:06
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• 23:12
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• 23:17
  Speaker 1: if you're with us the full hour, coming up in
• 23:19
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• 23:22
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• 23:26
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• 23:30
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• 23:34
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• 23:41
  Speaker 1: You can say hello to Lorena. Let's see. FSR Tech Queen. Hi, Bill.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Killed our lavish life of Little Debbie cakes and key
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: lime pie. No, it wasn't me. It's her fault. How
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: dare you? I long for the days. My waistline does
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: not long for the days, but I long for the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: days of those delicious treats. Koopaloop is here at a
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Bronco fan. He has not changed his name yet. He's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: considering it after that performance on Monday Night Football. For now, though,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: he's still a Bronco fan, UH Bronco fan on X.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Your comments can and will be used against you in
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the court debate. of sports radio. A couple of baseball things.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: We haven't touched on baseball. We talked about Pete Alonzo
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: a little bit earlier going back to New York. There
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: was a little meet and greet on the field with
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the Mets owner, Steve Cohen, and he said, this is
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: your home. And people were wondering, well, why did you
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: kick him out of his home and not give him
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the contract? Some other stuff in baseball, the Mariners, five
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: straight winning seasons. That streak is now over. The Mariners
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: lost their 81st game on, was that Monday night? So
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: that means if they lose one more game, They will
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: have their first full losing season since back in 2019.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: So there is that. The Padres on the other end
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: of the spectrum. The Padres wrapped up a fifth straight
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: winning season. That's the first time ever the Padres have
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: had five straight winning seasons. Holy Tony Gwynn, Batman. Where
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: have you gone, Bip Roberts? The Padres getting that done.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: What else? Rafael Devers, I saw his season's over now
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: for the Giants. They're shutting him down out of an
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: abundance of caution. Devers had the greatest season no one
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: cares about for the Giants. Nobody watched the Giants. Nobody cared.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: We talk about Dak Prescott and some of these guys
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: in football who are stat banditos, Deshaun Watson. Well, the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: baseball equivalent of that would be Rafael Devers, who played
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: on a dog food team that was eliminated, hmm, sometime
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: in may and then when no one was watching in
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the second half put up monster stats and he ends
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: his year with 37 home runs 98 runs batted in
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: in 148 games for the san francisco baseball team and
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: could not have had less impact could not have had
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: less impact uh if you had tried so There is that.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Let's take some calls. It is a call-in show. Very quickly. Yes,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Lorena would like to speak. Yes, Lorena. I got a
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: message from Perrito. Hi, Perrito.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: He would like us to let Billy know that 8 p.m.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow at Outback Steakhouse will be coming his way.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: So there's a couple things wrong with that. First of all, Perrito,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: why are you buying Weed Man Hippie Outback? And then
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: number two, assuming that he's actually listening to the show.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: He is a caller. He does not listen. So there
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: is a difference there. I just want to point that out. Well,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: if you would like to let him know.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll give him a bus. But if I call him,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: it's like a 20-minute conversation. You can't get off the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: phone with him. It's a 20-minute conversation. He loves you.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I know, but I just want a quick, hey, that's it.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Here's what's going on. Hey, a steak's coming. Goodbye. And
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I'll hang up. I could do that. Let's go to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the phones. Let's say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the king of curds. Not the prince
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of curds. The king of curds. Hello, Mr. King.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Hello, Bud Mallis. Sorry, I've got to take your speakerphone.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I'm a little raster right now. One second.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: You kind of sound like Todd Munkin a little bit.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I don't even know who the heck that is. I
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: just heard a lot of blasphemous talk about Wisconsin sports
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: that got me riled up, but I just wanted to
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: check in.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know what you're talking about. I mean,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: your Green Bay Packers are choking cheese. There's that.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's week one, bud. You sound like a freaking
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: cowgirl spin.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: A Cowgirls fan. Is this your first time listening to
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the show here, pal?
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Obviously not, because I've called in.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I know, but you think I'm a Cowboy fan. That
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: seems a little odd that.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: You would say that.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, just a little bit. Who has choked
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: away more big leads recently in the NFL than the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, literally every NFC championship.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, because I remember watching the game against the Bears,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: and it seems like the Bears had a massive second-half comeback.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: It seemed like the Vikings shoved it down your throats
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the other day. Am I missing something?
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Especially with Carson Wentz, that one really hurt.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where you question your decisions.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: But nonetheless, I wanted to check in with Coop to
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: see his feelings on Bill Romanowski.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Well, that's one thing I was hoping for. Did I
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: not say, Coop, my bingo card? I was hoping Bill
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Romanowski talk would happen. I said that before the show, yes.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: The one thing Sports Talk Radio is missing in 2026
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: is talk about Bill Romanowski. Is he in the news
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: As long as it's not his voice.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, Bill Romanowski, who played football back in the old
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: days and is 60 years old now. Very relevant. Go ahead, Coop.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Hot take.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: It's a Broncos card I was going to send to Coop,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: but I know there's a lot of hatred behind him.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: So I didn't know if Coop liked him or not,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: and if he wanted that Bill Romanowski Broncos signed card.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Hell yeah.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, apparently he would enjoy that. He would like that.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. What kind of alcohol are we drinking
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: What do we got? All sorts of stuff, bud.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: It's Wisconsin. Sounds like it. Yeah, the more... Is it
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: more bars per capita or more drunks per capita or
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: all of the above?
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a culmination of both.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Congratulations. And you're keeping those numbers up. Civic pride.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: That's a horrible pat on the back.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Way to go. You're keeping the alcoholic numbers alive and
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: well there, part of community pride in Wisconsin. All right, well,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: thank you. I'm hanging up on you. Go back to
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: your alcohol. Let's say hello to, boy, there's some legends
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: lined up here. Let's say hello to Frank the Tank.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the man, the myth, the legend, Frank
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the Tank in Iowa. Hello, Frank. Welcome, Frank.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: How's it going, Bill Miller?
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: The one and only Frank the Tank, about to dazzle
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: us here with some Viking propaganda.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it actually is because I think your boy, Alligator
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: Arms Murray's days are numbered. I think he's done it
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: because he's on a one-year deal.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Want to bet on that?
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: I'd be shocked if they give him an extension.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, they're going to play him is what I'm saying,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: whether they give him.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: An extension or not. Yeah, I know they're going to
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: play him, but then, too, you've got one other guy.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: What about Carson Wentz?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: They might get rid of him, too. I would play
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. Against the Bears this weekend, if I'm coaching
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the Vikings, I'm putting Carson Wentz back out there.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: Okay, then you've got one other option, one other little
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: bad pill with them.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: J.J.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: McCarthy, he should be red-shirted because he hurts so much.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Tell him to go back to Michigan. Michigan needs a quarterback.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Tell him to go back. Lane Kiffin would have to
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: be coaching the Wolverines for that to happen, but he
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: can go back to Michigan.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're in bad shape.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: They beat Oklahoma. I guess they're not in that bad shape.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: But yet what?
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: They could trade him to the Titans or the Jets.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Why would those teams trade for Kyler Murray?
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: Well, they're in bad shape.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: The Jets just won their biggest win. I saw Jason Smith,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: who works here in the hallways. He was all excited,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: like the greatest win the Jets have had in like 15,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: 16 years or something like that. He was all fired up.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: That's right. It's absolutely true. All right, Frank, another tremendous one.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Frank. You continue to dazzle. Let's say hello
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: to Mike the Leprechaun, who is coming up next year.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And he's in the Commonwealth. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun. By
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the way, Sean McVay. I haven't seen this. He was
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: on 60 Minutes. I used to watch that show. I
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: haven't watched it in a while. But McVay admitted that
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: he is, quote, tormented with the Rams when they don't
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: play well, they don't practice well. He said that his
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: self-worth has become closely tied to the Rams' wins, losses,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and overall performance. And he admitted that he was, McVay
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: said he was, quote, not in a good place and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: unhappy about how practice has gone. This sounds like McVay's
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: planting the seed to work television. That sounds like he's
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: trying to get a TV job. I didn't think he
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: was long for the Rams, but it's nice that he's
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: been there as long as he has. And it's been great.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: And they'll hire a parade of idiots when he leaves. Mike,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: are you alive? Mike the Leprechaun. Hello, Mike. I don't
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: think he's there. I believe we've lost Mike the Leprechaun.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Your dreams have come true, Lorena. He's punched up. Do
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: we have to put him in? Let me try.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: No, that line is... Yeah, he's not there. Is that
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: a sign from the heavens? You think that's a sign
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: from above? Oh, and then he can't call tomorrow because
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: it's movie night?
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Devastating. Oh, that sucks. You know, I just realized, I
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: don't think I paid off the tease from earlier. Did
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you see that Sean Payton, they mentioned this on the broadcast,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton... Troy Aikman repeated this. He said that Sean
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Payton told his wife to draft Jalen Waddell in fantasy.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: That that would have been a good pickup for fantasy.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: So if you didn't see the game last night because
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: you're just getting up early and you went to bed
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: and you're a grown-up and you don't stay up to
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: watch sports. So Jalen Waddell in his first game as
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: a Denver Bronco had one more catch than you had
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: for two yards. And Sean Payton advised his wife to
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: draft Jalen Waddell in fantasy. I don't think that worked
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: out very well for the wife. I don't think that
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: if she did end up with him, I don't think
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: that's all that great. What do I know? What do
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I know? There's already people demanding that Davis Webb lose
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: his play-calling gig, the new offensive genius of the Broncos there.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: And there's a lot going on with that Bronco team.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: And I saw that Patrick Sertain said that they got
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: served humble pie, which is... I don't think that's strong
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: enough for the way the Broncos played it. That is
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the worst performance in NFL history by a team that
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: won 14 games the previous season. The first team to
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: lose their season opener by 20 or more points after
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: having 14 or more wins... The previous season.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: The leprechaun has called back. Hello, Mr. Leprechaun. Welcome.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: That was very mysterious.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I was talking and Lorena must have put a jinx
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: on me. But anyway, I'm here.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: If I put a jinx on you, you wouldn't be
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: on the air right now. Wow.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Come on, Lorena. Anyway.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: He's going old school, though, Mike the Leprechaun. I said,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: when in doubt, blame a woman. That's the key.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Donald Trump was in Ireland for the weekend.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: What's that? He was in Ireland?
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Donald Trump. Yeah, we got to pay for his trip.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Good.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Good for him.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: Notre Dame is going to go perfect this year?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: No, they're not.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: Well, the big game is Miami for them. Week six.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Okay. They made rice pudding this past weekend.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Ben, you haven't mentioned Nassau Mickey for.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: A long time.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry. I... I miss him.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: That's why you went to Worcester.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I know we went to Worcester because I was
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: given the honor as an honorary Masshole, the Maller Masshole.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: That was our buddy Mickey gave me the nickname there.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: So, yeah. Did you notice Talay's Immaculate.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Inning, the first inning? No. Do you know what that is? No.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Nine pitches, nine.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: No, I know what.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: An immaculate is. I've been watching football. I haven't really...
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll scan during commercials. I'll watch baseball, but
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I'm mostly watching football. I guess Tuesday there's no football,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: so I'll watch baseball. Get back to baseball.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: I might send Loretta some holy water.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: So that I can sprinkle it on you every time
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: you call? Wow. I feel like there's tension between you.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Lorena.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: Lorena.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Hold on a sec. James, you want to add something hollering, James?
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: What would you like to ask, Mr.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Ben Muller?
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Very serious, James. You gave me a number. I tried
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: calling the number. That number didn't work. You didn't answer
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the phone. What's up with that?
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: I was in a limbo.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, nobody cares. We are moments away. from Sight the Bite,
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to Sight the Bite, and we will do it.
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  Speaker 2: Next.
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  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio as we
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  Speaker 1: continue on. Dante says the Rockies will lose 100 games
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  Speaker 1: four years in a row this season. Last time that happened, 1965.
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  Speaker 1: Very impressive. Fun fact about the Rockies. It is the
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. You can hear everything you miss. We've
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  Speaker 1: been here all night barking into microphones, ranting about things
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  Speaker 1: like Arch Manning. Oh, they're very upset. He laughed at
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  Speaker 1: an AI video. Oh, my God. I am so offended.
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  Speaker 1: I love these. So many people that spend their time
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  Speaker 1: being offended. Anyway, there's that. And Monday night recap, all that.
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  Speaker 1: You can listen to the Ben Maler Show podcast. It'll
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  Speaker 1: Check that out there. Ben Maler Show podcast, whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: bits and pieces, sliced and diced, the best of version
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  Speaker 1: from Ryan in Maine. And let's see here. That'd be
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  Speaker 1: 2.1 seconds. Ooh, long. By the way, Ryan says it's
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  Speaker 1: 42 degrees, and he's inviting us to Maine. He says
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  Speaker 1: perfect for a last-minute meet and greet. No?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like being cold. It's not cold. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: much colder. Here we go. Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 5: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: It's time.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Here we go. The Bite, where we
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  Speaker 1: play random generic sound bites.
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  Speaker 2: You know, inane.
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  Speaker 3: Sports and entertainment cliches spoken by so-called experts. And you
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  Speaker 3: try to tell us who's doing the talking.
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  Speaker 1: Cite the Bite, the great sports radio mystery. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: to it. Play the audio tape. Some of them swore
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  Speaker 1: it's the last seven to ten days. I'm like, he's
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  Speaker 1: super tough. Play it again. I'm like, he's super tough.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Do you know who that is? I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go caller five.
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  Speaker 2: Lorraine?
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  Speaker 1: Caller three.
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  Speaker 3: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Five. He says five.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Play it again.
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  Speaker 3: Play it again.
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  Speaker 1: Play it again. Play it again. Play it again. He's
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  Speaker 1: super tough. Start out. This guy, he might get it
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  Speaker 1: right off the top here. Let's go to Rick in Maryland.
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  Speaker 1: Find out. Hello, Rick in Maryland.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Tom.
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  Speaker 3: Is that the boo of Scatter?
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  Speaker 2: Scatterboo?
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  Speaker 1: Is that Cam Scadaboo of the New York football? No,
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  Speaker 1: that is not. I think we're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: replay this. I think there was a technical difficulty there.
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  Speaker 1: Let's play it again here.
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  Speaker 2: Take our chances.
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  Speaker 1: There we go. That's the right one. That sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a different person. Wait a minute. You can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: You can't change the game. There was only one guess
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  Speaker 1: so far. You want to guess again, Rick?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, Rick.
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  Speaker 3: Is that the jury? quote of Junior?
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  Speaker 2: No. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Take our chances.
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  Speaker 1: It's never happened before. Let's go to the Pizza Papa,
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  Speaker 1: who is my caller number two. Hello, Pizza Papa.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Ben.
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  Speaker 2: That was obviously Fuzzy Zeller.
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  Speaker 1: Is that Fuzzy Zeller? But a great name, great golf name,
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  Speaker 1: Fuzzy Zeller. Thank you. Let's try Chris. Oh, we have
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  Speaker 1: a clue. What's the first clue here, Coop? What do
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  Speaker 1: we got there? Met his wife when they played together
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  Speaker 1: on the same t-ball team as children. Oh, how sweet.
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  Speaker 1: I love a romance. Let's see what 1986 Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get. Take our chances. Chris in Boston.
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  Speaker 1: Who is it, Chris?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's former Red Sox right-handed pitcher Dennis Boyle-Campboy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Dennis, a legend. Love that. No, incorrect. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to caller four, Scott in the Commonwealth. Who is it, Scott?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say it's Kurt Warner.
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  Speaker 1: Who is it? No. It's Ryan Day. Oh, Ryan Day
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  Speaker 1: of the Buckeyes of Ohio State. The Ohio State University. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it.