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  Speaker 1: Don't bury the lead, my man, that lead out of
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  Speaker 1: the Twin Cities. After being publicly flogged on national television
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  Speaker 1: by the Buffalo football team, the Minnesota Vikings went to auction.
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  Speaker 1: The final hours, the clock ticking down, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
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  Speaker 1: They were trying to avoid kaboom before the deadline, the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline. Desperate, desperate to find a quarterback. that would
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  Speaker 1: not poop his pants, and they made a deal. They
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  Speaker 1: made a deal. Who did they trade for? Did you
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  Speaker 1: see this? Did you hear about it? Were you out
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  Speaker 1: of the loop? Did they trade for Daniel Jones? Hell no!
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  Speaker 1: They didn't trade for Daniel Jones. Minnesota said, you know
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  Speaker 1: what we want? We want to be like that old
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  Speaker 1: band from 40 years ago that gets back together. So
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  Speaker 1: why don't we bring in, not my cousin, not your cousin,
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. He's back. He returns on a one-way flight
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  Speaker 1: from Lost Wages, Nevada. And the third-round pick goes outbound
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  Speaker 1: for Minnesota. Back to Nevada. So the Raiders get their
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  Speaker 1: little scratcher ticket, which a lot of their dumb fans like.
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  Speaker 1: And the Vikings get a quarterback. How good that is? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he steps into shoes. They're clown shoes that Carson Wentz
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  Speaker 1: wore and imploded. And Kyler Murray is going to be
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  Speaker 1: so happy. He can just fully dedicate himself to his
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  Speaker 1: video game career. And he can just stop pretending to
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  Speaker 1: be an NFL quarterback. He's never good. He was never good.
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  Speaker 1: And the Minnesota defense, which has been carrying the entire
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  Speaker 1: franchise this year, defensive coordinator Brian Flores, when he's not
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  Speaker 1: suing the NFL, he's putting together an elite defense. And
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  Speaker 1: in offense, in Minnesota, ranked 31st out of 32 teams
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  Speaker 1: in passing yards, 27th in scoring offense. So Cousins reunites,
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  Speaker 1: and it feels so good, with coach Kevin O'Connell. He could...
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  Speaker 1: possibly make his return this weekend. What an epic Midwestern matchup.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Minnesota and Green Bay, blood rivals. They'll get
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  Speaker 1: together there at Lambeau Field on Sunday. The not-so-frozen tundra.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about this trade. Minnesota gets a quarterback. The
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  Speaker 1: Vikings go out and they make a move. That is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. Who
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  Speaker 1: should be the most embarrassed player in Minnesota for reuniting
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  Speaker 1: with quarterback Kirk Cousins. Who should be the most embarrassed?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got catwalk, dating apps, and the great British bake-off.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll put all these things together and go hip, hip,
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  Speaker 1: hooray is what we're going to do. Hip, hip, hooray.
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  Speaker 1: So when you look at the scale of embarrassment and
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  Speaker 1: who's got the banana cream pie and on their face.
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  Speaker 1: This is, without a doubt, Kevin O'Connell. The quarterback whisperer.
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  Speaker 1: You people told me this guy is a genius. He's
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  Speaker 1: got the Midas touch. Well, when it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback position in recent years, he's had the Saddam touch.
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  Speaker 1: And he thought, along with the other geniuses there with
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings, and some of the names have changed, but
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  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell is a consistent, they thought they could do
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  Speaker 1: better than Kirk Cousins. They looked at him. They said, ah,
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  Speaker 1: he's getting older. He's injured a lot. We can do better.
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  Speaker 1: And now, now Kevin O'Connell's out there on the catwalk,
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  Speaker 1: and he's doing the walk of shame, and he's shaking
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  Speaker 1: his tushy and doing a pirouette, and that's it, admitting defeat.
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  Speaker 1: Admitting defeat. Minnesota's quarterback master plan, the smartest people in
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  Speaker 1: the room. Fans don't know what they're talking about. They're
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  Speaker 1: the smartest people in the room. Minnesota's quarterback master plan,
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  Speaker 1: the blueprint, was apparently written On an Etch-A-Sketch, they spent
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  Speaker 1: three years, three years auditioning a traveling circus. It was
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  Speaker 1: more like a freak show. J.J. McCarthy, Sam Darnold, Carson Wentz,
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  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. There were others. Seemed like everybody got a
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  Speaker 1: turn on the Vikings quarterback merry-go-round. Round and round and
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  Speaker 1: round and round on the quarterback merry-go-round we go. Turns
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  Speaker 1: out the next Kirk Cousins is.
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. This is the NFL's equivalent of trading in
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  Speaker 1: your very dependable 2018 Honda Accord that had 150,000 miles
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  Speaker 1: on it, buying not one, not two, but three lemons.
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  Speaker 1: You won't get a lemon. You got three lemons in
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  Speaker 1: a row. And then paying extra. to get that 2018
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  Speaker 1: Honda Accord back, but now it's got 175,000 miles on it.
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  Speaker 1: You're just happy to have it back. You really missed
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  Speaker 1: that bucket of bolts. You really did miss it. Also,
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  Speaker 1: we must save a little slice of embarrassment. We'll give
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  Speaker 1: them a little Pop-Tart, a little fun-sized Pop-Tart. Kyler Murray. Now,
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  Speaker 1: feel free to call up. I'm not going to give
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  Speaker 1: out the number yet, but I'll give out the number
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit. When I give out the number,
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  Speaker 1: feel free to call up and say, you know what, Mallor?
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  Speaker 2: You were right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need the applause. We did several monologues pointing
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  Speaker 1: out what the F were the Vikings thinking, but Kyler
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  Speaker 1: Murray gets the Pop-Tart of embarrassment, the little Pop-Tart of embarrassment.
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  Speaker 1: He has validated every criticism that I ever had. He's
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  Speaker 1: validated the Arizona Cardinals, who I believe paid almost $ 40
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  Speaker 1: million to get rid of him. And Kyler Murray, the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings are admitting, we failed, that guy blows. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they're saying. And now they've said yesterday's leftovers that we
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  Speaker 1: didn't think were all that delicious in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the refrigerator in the Chinese takeout box. Well, now that's
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  Speaker 1: the dinner we're looking forward to. That's the big dinner
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  Speaker 1: here in the Twin Cities. Who goofed? I've got to know.
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  Speaker 1: I think we know who goofed. All right, now to
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  Speaker 1: the big question and the big picture and the question here.
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  Speaker 1: Will things be different? Will things be different during Kirk Cousins'
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  Speaker 1: reunion tour? as the band is back together there with
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings. So is he going to be different? Is
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  Speaker 1: this going to end differently? So we always point out, like,
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  Speaker 1: when you go to the zoo and you look at
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  Speaker 1: the different animals in the zoo and you see the
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  Speaker 1: zebra out there, way out in the back there there's
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  Speaker 1: a zebra and it's eating, and you look at the zebra,
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  Speaker 1: you say, well, look at the zebra, that's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Can a zebra change its stripes? Of course not. Cousins
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  Speaker 1: is still captain almost. He's defined, his entire career has
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  Speaker 1: been defined by sporadic malfunction. Now, that does not mean
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  Speaker 1: this is not the right move. That does not mean
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  Speaker 1: that the Vikings made the smart move, and I give
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  Speaker 1: them an A for this trade. I give them an
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  Speaker 1: A for this trade. It was a trade that had
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  Speaker 1: to happen. That does not mean, though, that the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: have acquired their savior. They traded for the least offensive item.
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  Speaker 1: In the quarterback lost and found bin, the Vikings officially
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  Speaker 1: entered the ABTT era. Anything but these turds. Carson Wentz
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  Speaker 1: and Kyler Murray were so bad. How bad were they?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for asking. They were so bad that Kirk starts
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  Speaker 1: looking like Joe Montana. combined with Thor. It's crazy. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Get him a cape. He's a superhero. This is the
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  Speaker 1: NFL equivalent, what the Vikings are doing here, of remarrying
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  Speaker 1: your ex-wife because you went on the dating apps and
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  Speaker 1: they were a nightmare. And you're like, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to deal with that. I'll just get remarried here. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to deal with the dating apps. For Kevin O'Connell, though,
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  Speaker 1: this is a gotta-have-it combo meal. You don't really want
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  Speaker 1: the burger. You really don't. You're not even craving some fries,
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  Speaker 1: but you're starving and the drive-thru closes in five minutes
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  Speaker 1: and you had to pick it up. Now, we assume
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  Speaker 1: that wide receiver Justin Jefferson rubber-stamped this transaction. It would
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  Speaker 1: make sense. If not, that wouldn't make sense. So we
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  Speaker 1: assume that Jefferson had a role in this. It is comforting, though,
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  Speaker 1: to know. That after spending millions on coaches and scouting
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  Speaker 1: and analytics, reading the algorithm, the smartest people in the room,
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  Speaker 1: the Viking Solutions, multi-billion dollar football team, the Viking Solution
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  Speaker 1: was to open up their black book and dial an
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  Speaker 1: old Flames phone number. That that was the solution. What
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  Speaker 1: happened to all the analytics? The analytics said that Kyler
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  Speaker 1: Murray and Carson Wentz were going to be great. I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. And J.J. McCarthy and all that. Now, we
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that if you look at Cousins and we've been
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  Speaker 1: very critical of Cousins over the years, not very good
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  Speaker 1: in big moments. That doesn't mean that Minnesota cannot win
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. They can't. This gives them at least
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  Speaker 1: a fighting chance. They did not have a chance. They
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  Speaker 1: had no chance with the Alligator Arms Murray and the
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  Speaker 1: guy that should be working at a bed and breakfast
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  Speaker 1: in North Dakota, Carson. wentz they had no chance at
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  Speaker 1: least now they have a chance and all he has
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  Speaker 1: to do easier said than done is not kirk cousins
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  Speaker 1: not burn down the barn don't burn down the barn
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  Speaker 1: let the defense and the special teams do their thing
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  Speaker 1: And even a blind squirrel, I was told, finds a
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  Speaker 1: nut once in a while. And in my lifetime, there
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  Speaker 1: have been some bad quarterbacks, some provably bad quarterbacks that
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  Speaker 1: have stood atop Football Mountain and looked down at the
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  Speaker 1: peasants as the champions of the NFL. And you only
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  Speaker 1: have to play well for a month. Joe Flacco, no
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  Speaker 1: one thinks Joe Flacco's all that good. For one month,
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  Speaker 1: that was the greatest playoff run I've ever seen when
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  Speaker 1: he played in Baltimore and he got paid $ 1. And
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens got played after that. And Flacco's still hanging around,
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  Speaker 1: collecting a check. Nick Foles, great example. Nick Foles, second-rate
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  Speaker 1: JV quarterback. However, for one brief moment in time, it
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  Speaker 1: all came together for the Philadelphia Eagles, and he's a champion.
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  Speaker 1: Another suck-bag quarterback in Seattle. The Seahawks fans are learning
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  Speaker 1: how bad Sam Darnold is this year. The real Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold has arrived. Some of the 12s are starting to
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  Speaker 1: realize that. I guess they got blindsided by that little
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  Speaker 1: bling-bling thingamajig that they got last year.
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  Speaker 3: Dave?
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  Speaker 1: Flacco and Foles and Darnold can win, then certainly Kirk
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  Speaker 1: Cousins can stand atop NFL Mountain as the king. They
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  Speaker 1: can certainly do that. Now, last word to the Vegas
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  Speaker 1: side of things. Lost wages, Nevada. So the Raiders have
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  Speaker 1: now officially pulled the ripcord on the Kirk Cousins parachute. Bye-bye,
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  Speaker 1: he has been decommissioned. And moving on up to a
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  Speaker 1: penthouse on the Upper East Side, that would be Fernando Mendoza.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the turbulence. So I looked at some of
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  Speaker 1: the reaction. It seems overwhelmingly positive, which always raises my
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  Speaker 1: eyebrows when I say, oh, it's overwhelmingly positive. Social media
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  Speaker 1: praising Tom Brady. Yet another win by Tom Brady. The
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  Speaker 1: GM by proxy. In Vegas, he liked the team so
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  Speaker 1: much he bought a piece of the team, but Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady is there in control of everything. And so he's
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  Speaker 1: being celebrated for flipping like a hot cake Kirk Cousins
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  Speaker 1: for a third-round pick. So here's the question. Is this
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  Speaker 1: trade of Kirk Cousins to Minnesota a feather in the
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  Speaker 1: cap of Tom Brady's run with the Raiders? So this
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  Speaker 1: seems to be the popular opinion. By people that claim
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  Speaker 1: to be popular. So I give that take a yawn
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  Speaker 1: and a shoulder shrug. I give it a yawn and
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  Speaker 1: a shoulder shrug. It's classic spin. It's hero worship with
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady. A third-round pick. Let me tell you about
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  Speaker 1: a third-round pick. A third-round pick is the kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing losing organizations and losing fans frame and hang over
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  Speaker 1: the fireplace. Oh, let me put that on the fireplace. Whoop-dee-damn-doe.
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  Speaker 1: Whoop-dee-damn-do in your little third-round traffic. Since Tom Brady took
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  Speaker 1: over as the de facto general manager and the hands-on
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  Speaker 1: minority owner of the Raiders, the Raiders are 11-32 under
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  Speaker 1: the leadership of Tom Brady. They have a 256 winning percentage.
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  Speaker 1: He is just as bad as an executive as Michael
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  Speaker 1: Jordan was, except he doesn't get nearly the criticism. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get nearly the criticism. that Jordan got in his days
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  Speaker 1: with the Washington Wizards and the Charlotte basketball operation and
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  Speaker 1: all that. And despite that terrible record, Raider Nation, celebrating
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  Speaker 1: the third-round draft pick while their supposed franchise quarterback, Fernando Mendoza,
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  Speaker 1: has spent nine weeks... in quarterback daycare. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to hear any kind of excuse about Mendoza if
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  Speaker 1: he comes out there and rides the vomit comet. You
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  Speaker 1: sat his ass for nine weeks. He's got to come
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  Speaker 1: out guns a-blazin'. Guns a-blazin'. It is unbecoming of a
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  Speaker 1: number one pick. The Raiders tanked last year to get
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  Speaker 1: the number one pick. You play the number one pick
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  Speaker 1: right away. And there is no guaranteed payoff At all.
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  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza has been watching football from the bench and
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  Speaker 1: getting those hemorrhoids out there. Very educational. Very educational. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's so educational. You know what you're talking about, Mahler. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah. You know what's also educational? Watching the
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  Speaker 1: great British bake-off. It doesn't mean you can make those
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  Speaker 1: nasty British desserts and become a chef. It doesn't mean that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as for Tom Brady... He spent his glory days winning
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  Speaker 1: championships with the Patriots and even in Tampa Bay. And
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  Speaker 1: now he's collecting these draft picks like a babushka, collecting
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  Speaker 1: coupons back in the day for the grocery store. And
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  Speaker 1: that's his big contribution. And it's a great shell game.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great three-card Monty game, the hoarding of draft picks,
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  Speaker 1: because you never have to show any tangible results. You
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  Speaker 1: just keep talking about, well, these draft picks are going
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  Speaker 1: to pay off at some point. Oh, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: We are back at it. Our in-depth team coverage here continues.
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  Speaker 1: NFL trade deadline. And while there were a gaggle of
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  Speaker 1: trades that happened on the final day before the music stopped,
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  Speaker 1: we go to Indianapolis. For weeks and weeks, the vultures
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  Speaker 1: have been circling over the rotting horse carcass, picking apart
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  Speaker 1: the horse carcass, picking it clean. And they left some
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  Speaker 1: horseshoes around. So Indianapolis held an NFL-level garage sale. They
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  Speaker 1: sold off their plumbing. They ripped out the copper wiring.
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  Speaker 1: That's gone. However, they refused to part with some expensive furniture.
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  Speaker 6: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, after firing the general manager, Chris Ballard, they unloaded
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  Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson to Seattle. He's already hurt. DeForest Buckner went
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  Speaker 1: out to the Niners. Keenan Allen... Also went out to
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  Speaker 1: the Niners. And Josh Downs goes to the, he goes
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  Speaker 1: out of town as well to the Chiefs. So the
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  Speaker 1: Colts kept Jonathan Taylor. You see this? Yeah. They kept,
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  Speaker 1: Taylor already announced his goodbyes. He said, that's it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's an honor to be here. And he was getting ready.
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  Speaker 1: Probably had all his stuff packed up in boxes, ready
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  Speaker 1: to go.
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  Speaker 5: Psyche.
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  Speaker 1: They did the old okey-doke. And the story is that
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  Speaker 1: multiple teams offered a second round pick for Jonathan Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Indy said, no, I want a first round pick. And
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  Speaker 1: the NFL said, phooey, we don't want to give you
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  Speaker 1: a first round pick. Now, they also held on to
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. He's still throwing interceptions and collecting dust. So
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback and the running back stay in place. That
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss. The question,
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  Speaker 1: do you find it significant that the Colts failed to
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  Speaker 1: trade their star running back, Jonathan Taylor, and their suck
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  Speaker 1: bag quarterback, Daniel Jones? So I've got Washington Irving, Chicken
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  Speaker 1: Pot Pie, and Dick Dastardly. And we will combine all.
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  Speaker 1: All of these things together. And we are going to
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  Speaker 1: play an old-fashioned game of whack-a-mole. We're going to play
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  Speaker 1: a game of whack-a-mole. Now, number one.
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  Speaker 2: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: Number one. All right, this is, I wrote on my
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  Speaker 1: scorecard for the Colts. I wrote down not A, not B,
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  Speaker 1: not C, not D, and not even F. I wrote
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  Speaker 1: down U-E is what I wrote down. Unforced error. This
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  Speaker 1: is an unforced error. Indianapolis, it's like they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: be pregnant and not pregnant at the same time. You
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  Speaker 1: can't be both. You can't be both. They fired the GM,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Ballard, who was a tenured professor. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: could not fire him. I didn't know it was allowed.
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  Speaker 1: They finally got rid of him. A relic of the
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  Speaker 1: Jim Ursa era. But apparently, the ghost of Chris Ballard,
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  Speaker 1: the ghost of the Ballard ball, is still making personnel
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: decisions in Indianapolis. They hoarded mid-round picks. All of these trades...
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And they got a bunch of canned beans, like they're
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: doomsday preppers, stockpiling canned beans in the war chest. They
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: got two picks in the fourth round, two in the
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: fifth round, one third-round pick, and one sixth-round pick. And
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the fourth-round and fifth-round picks, which is what they mostly got,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and a sixth-round pick, those are what's known as frequent
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: flyer picks. They're flyer picks. Shopping for a diamond in
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: a rough. You try to find that diamond, the needle
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: in the haystack, and you look around and say, well,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Minnesota needed a quarterback, and they said, we don't want
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: your guy. We don't want him. We'd rather have the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: other guy. We don't want your guy. Then you have
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the curious case of Jonathan Taylor. So the Colts have
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: held for the last couple of weeks here a liquidation
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: sale of However, Jonathan Taylor is locked, apparently, in the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: manager's office, not actually on the floor to be sold.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Taylor is 27, and running backs, as you know from
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: watching the game of football, and unless you've got some
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: other harebrained idea, running backs notoriously have very short shelf lives.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: It's like guacamole. Once guacamole is exposed to the air,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: it doesn't last very long, and Turns colors there after
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: it's been out in the air for a day or so.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: That's it. A second round pick plus additional compensation. Well,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I don't love draft picks. In fact, I despise draft picks.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: That seemed like a reasonable path. By the time the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Colts are even sniffing relevance, Jonathan Taylor will be past.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: his athletic prime as a running back. So you'd rather
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: go down that road. The real indictment isn't even that
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Indianapolis kept Jonathan Taylor, though. It's that the Colts have
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: no direction. No direction. It's Washington Irving's The Legend of
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Sleepy Hollow. The Headless Horseman. Imagine, if you will, a
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: world where... You're too bad to contend. Even in a
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: suck bag division, you're too bad to contend. You're too
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: stubborn to completely blow the thing up. And you're too
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: attached to a star running back to fully embrace tomorrow.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: You are stuck in the twilight zone. That's not football philosophy.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: That is an organizational gridlock situation with a nice horseshoe
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: on the helmet. You can shove that horseshoe up your tuchus.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: All right, now the La La Land, the Rams, did
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: they go out and ram it all day and ram
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: it all night and make that big, sexy trade? No.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: The Rams apparently ate ice cream too fast. They got
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: a brain freeze. They got a brain freeze here. They
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: were boxed into a corner. And with Puka Nakua out,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Devontae Adams also out. Les Snead twiddled his thumbs and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: did bupkis.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Nothing.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Squadoosh for the Rams. Matthew Stafford is now going to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: be expected to elevate the play of some substandard wide receivers.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: as the contenders across the NFL made moves in the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: NFC anyway over the last couple of weeks, and the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Rams in limbo, they decided not to make any transaction
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: at the deadline. The question, what was Rams general manager
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Les Snead thinking by standing pat at the trade deadline
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: with his top two offensive players in terms of wide
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: receivers out injured? What was he thinking? All right, so
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: we have a plot twist. Les Snead, on this particular
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: trade deadline, went from F them picks to F it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. That's his new mantra is, ah,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: let's F it. Let's see what happens. Yeah, I'm sure
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Rebecca the Ram fan is not happy about it. But
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: if you look at the depth chart, you have 2-2 Atwell.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and Kanate Mumfield as your top two receivers. Let me
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: repeat that for those of you in the back of
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the room. You have Tutu Atwell, that's a good name,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and Kanate Mumfield, also a good name. Good name, good game,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and not so much. Those are your top two receivers.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And Les Snead, what he needs to do now is
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: go out and buy a shipping container from China filled
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: with prayer candles because the Rams offense is out here
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: fishing for a Lombardi trophy with a bent paper clip
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and an expired thing of worms. They really need MacGyver's
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: pocket knife and some duct tape is what they need. Now,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay, one of the top coaches in the NFL,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay, is being deputized here to turn chicken manure
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: into chicken pot pie. Turn that into chicken pot pie,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and even if he does, you're going to call the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: health department. You've got to reach out to the health department.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: So Les Snead has clearly determined he's unimpressed with what
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: was available at the deadline, and a little birdie says
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: that there are people over there with the Rams gambling
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: that San Francisco is going to release Brandon Ayuk in
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the next 10 days. And he will be a street
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: free agent. They can't trade him now that the deadline
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: is gone. So we imagine that Les Snead is traveling
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to the Bay Area. He's hiding out right near the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: electric substation. He's out there doing that. And he's outside
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the Niners headquarters like a seagull waiting for a dropped
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: french fry. Just waiting. And have to convince Brandon Iook
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: to come to L.A. And if they pull that off,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: McVay would then need to activate the Svengali effect in
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: order to hypnotize Brandon Iook back into the form that
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: he showed flashes of to get that big contract, which
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: turned out to be a frivolous amount of money from
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the 49ers. So good luck. Good luck on that. Now,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: final point, we do go to the Bay Area where
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the Niners have added a new body to their banged-up
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: receiver room. The 49ers adding veteran, longtime star wide receiver,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Keenan Allen. Oh, yeah, Mr. Charger. He was with the Colts.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: His big contribution with the Colts was driving under the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: influence arrest when he got to Indianapolis. That was, I think,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: his main contribution so far in years. But he is
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: now heading off to Northern California. Also played for the Bears,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: mostly a charger. Show me your lightning bolt. Now, the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: 49ers are going to send a sixth-round draft pick to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Indy in 2027 to get their hands on Mr. Allen. Question,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: how do you evaluate the 49ers' wheeling and dealing for
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Colts wide receiver Keenan Allen? So this is a classic
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: example of name, Over game. Name over game. And that's it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Keenan Allen sounds really good. Like that name, that's a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: good ball player. That is a good ball player, Keenan Allen.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: That's a good name. It's a great name. Until you
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: remember what year it is. Ah, crap. Ah, crap. I
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: don't want to sit here and rain on our friends
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: in the Bay Area there who so many great fans
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: of the show who love the 49ers. The Niners, what
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: they have done, and I know they didn't give up anything,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: but it's not like they added anything. They have added
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: another past his prime relic to their collection of aging,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: injury-prone antiques that happen to play football. They should open
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: up a shop. They should sell some of these things.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: We swear, the electrical substation saw this trade. They got
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: a message on their phone at the electrical substation and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: they started going dick dastardly. They started rubbing their hands
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: together like that cartoon villain, licking their chops. They were
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: so excited. The 49ers are feeding another aging player. It's
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: like a sacrifice to the electrical gods at that substation.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Keenan Allen is 34 years old. He has the medical
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: history of a Civil War veteran. He's seen a thing
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: or two. in his career. Allen's top availability, his best
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: availability these days, is his availability for physical therapy. He's
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: really good. He's on time. He's on time for physical therapy.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: He's always there. He's there when he needs to be.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And that's important. So the 49ers need healthy bodies. So
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: what do they do? They bring in a guy whose
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: body has been sending out distress signals for almost a
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: decade now. And you kind of wonder what John Lynch
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: is thinking. Now, you may know that I worked for
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: John Lynch, his old man. John Lynch comes from a
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: radio family. His dad ran the cluster in San Diego
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: at the mighty 690 when I started in radio. His
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: old man was the general manager. And I remember when
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: John was a young lad and his dad would go
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: in there and he'd talk to Hacksaw whether John was
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: going to make it someday in the NFL. He'd not
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: only make it to the NFL, he's a Hall of
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Fame player, one of the great safeties of his time.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: As an executive, you're like, what are you doing here?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: You're collecting another washed-up receiver. It's like a hoarder collecting
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: broken televisions, like the handsome hoarder, Cowboy John Brad back
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: in the day. And so this is not roster construction.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: The Niners have a really sexy record. Really, really sexy.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: But that roster, it's like assisted living. The roster. And
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: you look at those key performance indicators, KPI, and they're
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: not very good for the Niners. Despite the record, the
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: key performance indicators indicate that this is not going to
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: go well down the line for the 49ers. But Keenan Allen...
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: We went and checked. He's got more mileage than an
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Amazon delivery truck, and the 49ers just bought him without checking,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: without a tune-up. They just bought, didn't even check under
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the hood, said, I don't need to check the thingamajig
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: or the whatchamacallit or the doohickey or whatever. I'm just
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: going to get the item. Well, I don't know if
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that's a good idea. Well, we need the receiver. Keenan Allen,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, he signed late. He could have
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: signed with anyone. Nobody really wanted him because of his
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: age and all that. Again, the Niners didn't give up
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: much to get him. I just saw some of these
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: stories talking about how amazing he is. And I was like, well, yeah,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: he was. I was a big Keenan Allen fan. We
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: used to do the NFL Pick'Em on the show years ago,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: one of the bits that's been retired. And you always
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: wanted to get Keenan Allen. He was indispensable. You knew
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: you were going to get like six to ten catches
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: a game, right around 85 to 100 yards or more.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: and you were going to get one-plus touchdown per game
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: from Keenan Allen. That's what he did. Really, game after
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: game for the old Chargers. Show me your lightning bolt.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: But now he's a 49er back in the Golden State,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: so we'll see how that goes.
• 32:12
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• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Well, there was a shot of Bill's running back James
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Cook yesterday where it looked like he may have had
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: a bit of an accident.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: He responded on social media and said, this is wild.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I did not S on myself. Ben, what do you think?
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Do you think he asked on himself?
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to get into this later, Coop, but yeah,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: he did. Just own it. He started the game, there
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: was no brown streak, there was no skid mark, and
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: then by the end of the game, there was a
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: skid mark. So, you know, do the math. Next!
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: So, reportedly Jimbo Fisher is pushing hard for a return
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: to Florida State. Do you think that could actually happen?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes. He was there, had some success, and he
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't need that much money because Texas A & M,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I believe, is still paying him. So, yeah, I think
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: there's a better chance of that happening than Deion Sanders. Next.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: The Braves say they are not training Ronald Acuna Jr.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Put it in bold.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Do you believe that?
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: No!
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: No one's getting traded for a while, Coop. There's going
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: to be a work stop. It's a work stop. It's
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: December 1st, so no one's getting traded for a while,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: but he'll be traded. There he is. How'd we do?
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: How'd we do? I passed. I passed. I passed.
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• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Exciting and new.
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: Queen of hearts She wants to talk to you Lorena.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: Consumes you'll be making.
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: Your hearts be one Lorena.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: It's true.
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: Love is out there for anyone. You just have to
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: get outside and find it.
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: Or online.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you don't actually have to go outside.
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: I've seen a couple people who have successful online marriages
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: and love lives.
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: It can happen.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Well, I think most people these days probably meet on
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: apps and things like that, right?
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I've tried it a couple of times. It just
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: never works out.
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: I'm more of a I-gotta-meet-you-in-person type of gal.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're more of a social... You're not an introvert.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: You're an extrovert. So for you, it's not a big deal, right?
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: You'd rather do that.
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: That's true. Yeah, I can meet people anywhere.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: A lot of people that are introverts or kind of
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: on the spectrum.
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: Sometimes I even meet people when I'm on a date.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: That's a term for that, but... What's the line, Coop?
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: You got to dance with the one that brought you
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: or something like that? That's an old football line, actually.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: That's a Texas football.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Coach, I think.
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: Was that back in the dinosaur days, Ben?
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, I'm a dinosaur. That was my dinosaur nose.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Dance with the, yeah, that's it. It's it's, that's the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: quote dance with the one that brought you. That is,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: that is Daryl Royal. The old coach in Texas came
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: up with that. All right, here we go.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: I have a, I have a question from somebody that
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: called in and did not want to be.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. What's your question?
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: Uh, it was, I don't know if I was supposed
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: to say who asked me the question or ask the question, but,
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: or wants to ask Lorena. Uh, He said that is
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: it a bad approach or is it a good approach
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: to try and pick up on a woman by giving
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: her his phone number rather than asking for hers?
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: I love that approach because it puts the power in
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: the female's hands.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: So sometimes I don't like giving out my number because
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: you're just going to pester me. And if I give
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: you the wrong number, there's a chance you're going to
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: call me out on the spot. So by giving your number,
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: you're leaving the cards in her hands.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: That's a terrible idea. You're never going to get a
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: call back. So don't even bother. You might as well
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: not even waste your time.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: It depends on who you are. You could get a
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: call back. Let's be optimistic here.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's see here. Anonymous wrote in. Oh, man,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: this is a long question, Anonymous. I want to read it,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: but it's very long. You got a shorthand version? I'm
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: trying to do this on the fly, and it's like
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: a whole paragraph... I might have to wait on that
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: FergDog says how was your weekend Lorena I noticed Anthony
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: asked Ben but forgot to ask you great.
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: Question FergDog he did ask me when I answered his
• 37:04
  Speaker 9: phone call the first time and my weekend was amazing
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: I went to the Magic Castle for the first time
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: which is why I wasn't here Sunday into Monday because
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: I was at the Magic Castle until 1 in the
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: morning 1.30 in the morning.
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: It was fantastic I love magic And great food.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of magic. Thanks for the invite.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Michael in Tulsa writes in, says, when
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: looking into someone's eyes, at what point do you actually...
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: You see the actual color of their eyes.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: I hate eye contact. I just, I never make eye contact.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's funny because- Isn't that part of love?
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I thought women loved looking in the eyes.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: No, even when I'm like in the process of like,
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: you know, I'll keep my eyes closed.
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: I don't, I do not make eye contact. It is
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: so bad. I've had men be like, look at me.
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: And I'm like, no. All right.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: No.
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: Like, I'm like, like this?
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Well, Coop explained there's an industry over in Chatsworth where
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: that's required, I think. JT the Wingman writes in, says,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: in an attempt to up my ladies man game before
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: the holidays, which Malheur Militia member should I emulate more?
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Robbie the Mariner fan, Ferg Dog, Marcel in Brooklyn, Anthony
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: in Louisiana, Jed who fled, or Weed Man Hippie?
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: I would go somewhere between Weed Man Hippie, Jed Who Fled,
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: and Anthony in Louisiana, because together you get a chill
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: guy who you know is attentive, Weed Man.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Well, Robbie's very attentive, too. I mean, I would say
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Robbie's very attentive, but you know.
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: Okay well you know I haven't had a whole lot
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: of interaction with Robbie on the phone.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Didn't you meet him he was in.
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: Vegas yes yes but as for like callers that I
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: know Anthony's a romantic he's like I'm gonna take you
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: to a restaurant I'm gonna feed you a blooming onion
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: and he always checks on your weekend so also very
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: attentive and then you have Jed who's like I could
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: love you up and down and side to side and
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: over and under you know what I'm saying so like
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: I feel like the combination of those three would be
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: perfect so that's what you're yeah don't just pick one
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: You didn't have multiples.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Well, look at the time, Lorraine.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, is it already timed?
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Another edition of the Queen of Hearts right there.
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: Unbelievable.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: By the clock, for the clock, all about the clock.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 39:30
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