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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: We begin at the scouting Combine in Indianapolis, one of
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  Speaker 1: the great bull crap weeks of the year, and it
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  Speaker 1: is going on. It's all like don't get call. And
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned in a previous episode, previous episode of show
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  Speaker 1: that it's all you can eat nugs, a lot of nuggets,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of nuggets. Most of it is bullcrap and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it you have to decode, but it's
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  Speaker 1: all there. The Underwear Olympics are underway in Indianapolis. There
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  Speaker 1: now the feature that I want to start with because
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  Speaker 1: I thought this was extra foul, extra foul. The Raiders. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders, the laughing stock of the NFL. If they
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  Speaker 1: were to have a table of the last twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders would be sitting side by side, they'd have
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  Speaker 1: the Jets on one side and the Browns on the other.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the contemporaries. Now, back in my day, when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid, the Raiders considered themselves the gold
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  Speaker 1: standard of the NFL, the commitment to excellence. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: commitment to excrement. And so the Raiders have been garbage.
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  Speaker 1: Their top player is not happy and had a hissy fit.
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  Speaker 1: So the Raider GM, John Spytech decided to give an
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  Speaker 1: update what he was asked about. He didn't decide to
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  Speaker 1: give an update, but he spoke at the Underwear Olympics there,
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  Speaker 1: so if you did not see this or hear about it,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not. Spy Tech said he expects Max Crosby, the
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  Speaker 1: guy that's not happy there, to continue on.
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  Speaker 3: With the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: Now, just to prove I'm not making this up, let's
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  Speaker 1: go to the audio tape. Here is the Raiders GM.
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  Speaker 3: Which is really, let's be honest. Here, come on, it's Tom.
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  Speaker 1: Brady, but this is Brady's college buddy who gets to
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  Speaker 1: pretend to be the GM of the Raiders.
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  Speaker 3: He does some.
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  Speaker 1: Cosplay, and he was asked the question about Max Crosby,
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  Speaker 1: take you lis, Max.
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  Speaker 4: Is an elite player, and I've been very upfront from
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  Speaker 4: the from the start when I got here that, you
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  Speaker 4: know where, we're in the business of having really good
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  Speaker 4: players on the team, and we need we need a
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  Speaker 4: lot more of them. And you know, it's hard to
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  Speaker 4: build the great team with at elite players.
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  Speaker 5: You hold the first pick in the draft, teams are
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  Speaker 5: bound to come caller in the pool, because do you
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  Speaker 5: guys feel like the need to answer those calls and
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  Speaker 5: listen to.
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  Speaker 6: Offers right now?
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  Speaker 4: A lot I learned a long time ago. Always listening.
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  Speaker 3: I'm always listening. Yeah, all right, So that's great.
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  Speaker 1: So the juxtaposed the beginning of that and the end
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  Speaker 1: of that, as you could hear later on he would
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  Speaker 1: he did not say that Max Crosby was untradeable, as
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  Speaker 1: you just heard about the number one pick as well.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question how much stalk?
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  Speaker 3: Pretend you're on Wall Street.
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  Speaker 1: How much stalk do you put into the Raiders General
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  Speaker 1: manager John Spytech saying that he expects Max Crosby to
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  Speaker 1: stay in Vegas at least at the beginning of that soundpight,
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  Speaker 1: that's what he isn't someone else, but at the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: that's what he said.
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  Speaker 3: So my thoughts on this, I've got pottery, barn, tupperware,
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  Speaker 3: and seagulls law, and we.
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  Speaker 1: Will combine all of these things together, and we are
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  Speaker 1: gonna make.
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  Speaker 3: A Wiener mobile, is what We're going to make. Round
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  Speaker 3: and round and round and round.
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  Speaker 1: The Wienermobile goes all right, So a, this is a
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  Speaker 1: classic GM shell game. Now I say GM again, he's
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  Speaker 1: pretending to be the GM. We all acknowledge he's not
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  Speaker 1: the GM. That the GM by proxy is Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the one calling the shots here because Mark
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  Speaker 1: Davis just gave ob you know, twenty years of suck,
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  Speaker 1: twenty years of sewage. He's a let's just give Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady a little piece of the team and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: let him make all the decisions.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that sounds good. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: And then the low information part of the fan base,
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  Speaker 1: they won't understand what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: There's a murders anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So to address the issue, though, you heard spy Tech
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  Speaker 1: say that he expects Max Crosby to be there in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. He said that at the combine, I
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  Speaker 1: expect him to be part of the Raiders in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. Now, this is analos many of the fans
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  Speaker 1: who are on the spectrum dumb d dumb, dumb dumb.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: They hear that and they think the word and it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: As simple we all use it. Expect. They think of
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  Speaker 1: that like a marriage vow.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he said it, he said it. Okay, relax, relax
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The word expect is like a coop at pottery Barnen.
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  Speaker 3: The coupons expire, right, they expire.
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  Speaker 1: And this particular coupon for Max Crosby is already passed
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  Speaker 1: the date.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the best buy. You use it by this date,
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  Speaker 3: it's past that.
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  Speaker 1: Now spy Tech again, the guy pretending to be the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders dam a spy tech is looking at around the
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  Speaker 1: league and he's announcing, via the wink from Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I love my guy. I love my guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's a heart and soul player and he's just born
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  Speaker 1: to be a.
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  Speaker 3: Raider out of Central Casting.
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  Speaker 1: That's all true, while simultaneously within less than thirty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: less than thirty seconds, essentially saying check the fine print
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  Speaker 1: on this, and if I can get a first round
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  Speaker 1: pick next year and a second round pick this year
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  Speaker 1: and a side of fries. They don't even have to
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  Speaker 1: be jumbo size. We got something right. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: a classic old fashioned two faced serpent, which of most
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  Speaker 1: of these people are. That's how they play the game, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, reveal your hand. Everyone's paranoid. They're all princes
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  Speaker 1: of paranoia in the NFL. So, first of all, he
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  Speaker 1: said that the Raider and I'm talking about the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: GM here, of course a fake GM, that he needs
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  Speaker 1: more elite players. He gave the whole cliche you got
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  Speaker 1: to have elite players and all that, and then he
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  Speaker 1: announced that he is willing to trade said elite player
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  Speaker 1: on the Raiders. Okay, so he is just a I
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  Speaker 1: guess he's a the Tom Brady has programmed him spy Tech.
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  Speaker 1: So he's like the programmed by Tom Brady, and Brady
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  Speaker 1: tells him what he wants and then he does it
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  Speaker 1: and hopes spy Tech that he gets a smiley face
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  Speaker 1: sticker that he can put on the window in his.
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  Speaker 3: Office in Henderson, Nevada. The Raider facility.
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  Speaker 1: Now to Cleveland, we go, well, actually the Combine, but
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  Speaker 1: the Brownies among the teams to address the media. More
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  Speaker 1: nugs from the Cleveland Browns. He laughing said, I love
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  Speaker 1: talking about bad sports, the Raiders, the Browns man. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so GM, Andrew Barry, this guy you talk about, how
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  Speaker 1: do you keep a job.
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  Speaker 3: How does Andrew f and Berry have a job. He's
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  Speaker 3: not good at his what does he do? Anyway?
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Berry said, it's quote too early to say if
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  Speaker 1: Shader Sanders will be the Browns Week one quarterback or
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson for that matter. So I guess we have
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. We'll play a little bit. This is
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  Speaker 1: we have some audio. So here is the Browns DM
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  Speaker 1: commenting on the quarterback position, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: So let's go to the audio tape.
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  Speaker 8: Right now, it's what February twenty fourth, So you know,
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  Speaker 8: we don't have to make.
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  Speaker 3: That decision almost twenty fifth most places.
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  Speaker 8: Player that we have in that room, we would expect to,
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  Speaker 8: you know, to compete to earn a role because he
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  Speaker 8: would be no different. I think the biggest thing that
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  Speaker 8: we want to see from Shador is just continue to growth.
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  Speaker 8: I think he grew a lot social media to start seven.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I think certainly, you know, playing more efficiency,
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  Speaker 8: not putting the play more efficiently.
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  Speaker 3: Turned the ball over dubbing.
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  Speaker 8: As much, you know, would be important, you know, while
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  Speaker 8: maintaining the you know, the ability to produce out of
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  Speaker 8: structure and generate explosive plays. You're not going to see
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  Speaker 8: all that in the upcoming months because we're not on
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  Speaker 8: the sield. So the biggest thing that you can do
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  Speaker 8: is learn the new offense. You know, get in when
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  Speaker 8: with the coach, your staff once our off season program starts,
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  Speaker 8: continue to work on his his body physically, and make
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  Speaker 8: strits when we actually get on the grass.
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  Speaker 3: Stop talking. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Barry Well, he refused to stamp any player as the
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  Speaker 1: starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. So question, question, what
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  Speaker 1: do you make of the comments? You heard a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them from the Browns general manager Andrew Berry regarding
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  Speaker 1: the status of Shadur Sanders. So, Andrew Berry just gave
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  Speaker 1: a masterclass in the Cleveland crouch bobbing and weaving. Bobbing
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  Speaker 1: and weaving is what he was doing here. So in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, as a rule of thumb, when you say
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  Speaker 1: it's too early to claim someone is in the lead
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  Speaker 1: on the depth chart, that is a corporate version of
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  Speaker 1: this guy blows ah there, she blows and I need
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  Speaker 1: to get somebody else, and I just haven't figured out
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  Speaker 1: who else I'm going to get. If Shadur Sanders was
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  Speaker 1: the undisputed heir to the poopy throne of Cleveland. If
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  Speaker 1: that was the case, then do you think Andrew Berry
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  Speaker 1: would be saying what he just said. Of course not,
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  Speaker 1: he'd be getting a boombox out to announce to everyone
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  Speaker 1: on the top of the terminal tower there in Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: we got our guide baby.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa. He's not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, he's treating the quarterback room like it's like a
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  Speaker 1: tupperware in the back of the fridge on the left
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  Speaker 1: hand side that's got bad meat loaf in it, and
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  Speaker 1: you're hungry, got nothing else in there except that tupperware
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  Speaker 1: with the bad meat loaf, And you're like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it's been in the back of the fridge for a while.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I should eat it. Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: can heat it up, it'll be okay. Then let me
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  Speaker 1: check the time I put that in not good.
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  Speaker 3: And so I get it. I'm not saying he's wrong,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, I'm not saying it's right. Just like
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  Speaker 3: the amount of words used.
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  Speaker 1: Could have been yeah, shit, her Sanders not that good. Next,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he can't say that. So he's treating the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback room there in Cleveland like a pair of worn
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  Speaker 1: out tires, hoping he can get on his phone, go
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  Speaker 1: to tire rack dot com and find a new set
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  Speaker 1: of white walls or some other kind of tire. But
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  Speaker 1: the read on this one is rather simple, Shouldar Sanders
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  Speaker 1: and we'll toss in Deshaun Watson as well. Those are options.
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  Speaker 1: They are the options of last resort, Dick's last resort.
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  Speaker 1: Right if Barry can land a shiny new toy, wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: that be great?
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  Speaker 3: Boy?
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna waste another draft pick on a quarterback. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they did trade, they got extra picks and all that
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  Speaker 1: from Jacksonville. But the point, he's gonna circle back if
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  Speaker 1: he can't find somebody and then be all lovey dovey
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  Speaker 1: with Shouldar Sanders as Oh yeah, he's really had a
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  Speaker 1: great offseason. He picked up seventy five million followers on
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  Speaker 1: TikTok was really productive.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, but can he throw the flock?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 1: But he had a lot of followers on Instagram. Okay, great,
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  Speaker 1: but what about his ability to read a defense? But
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  Speaker 1: did you know he's even on Facebook. He's he's a
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  Speaker 1: young guy on Facebook. He got a lot of followers
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  Speaker 1: on there too, But yeah, he can't really control the huddle. No,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Do you know he's also on x Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a lot of followers on there. That's the
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  Speaker 1: shred Ear Sanders story right there. So it's the saddest
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  Speaker 1: quarterback carousel you can have this out of the Jets.
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  Speaker 3: And there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland's just try not to get dizzy because they know
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  Speaker 1: when the season starts to're going to get dizzy. All right,
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  Speaker 1: last word, We now pivot to pro bouncy ball where
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  Speaker 1: the lowly Orlando Magic beat the Lakers. Who cares about
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  Speaker 1: that regular season game? But Orlando got the win, and
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  Speaker 1: prior to the game, the new Laker President of Basketball
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  Speaker 1: Ops Lon Rosen, who used to be Magic Johnson's agent.
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  Speaker 3: By the way back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Lon Rosen says he the plan is for Rob Polenka,
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  Speaker 1: the incompetent stumblebum GM of the Lakers.
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  Speaker 3: To continue.
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  Speaker 1: This is so good, Bravo, keep him there forever, sign
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  Speaker 1: him a lifetime contract. Rob Polinka, who has no clue
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing, and he's going to continue in the
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  Speaker 1: front office for the Lakers. Pelinka has explained to the
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  Speaker 1: media that the plan is to have an expanded front.
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  Speaker 3: Office this summer. That is not good. That is not good.
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  Speaker 1: Fact, we've learned the Gugenheim Group that's absolutely given the
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  Speaker 1: screw job the Laker fans, and I love it. I
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  Speaker 1: think they should keep raising the prices of Laker tickets
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  Speaker 1: so nobody can afford to go. I think that would
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  Speaker 1: be just great, like the real Laker fans, like the
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  Speaker 1: real ones that have regular job, like they can't go.
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  Speaker 1: The Hollywood people be but I mean that's all he wants,
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  Speaker 1: the Hollywood people. So that's good. Anyway, the Lakers and
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  Speaker 1: the Gougenheim Group are bringing in did you hear this? No,
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Friedman, who is that? That's the Dodgers GM and
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  Speaker 1: far hand Zaidi the former Giants GM, who's back with
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's what you do, You go back to where
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  Speaker 3: you used to work.
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  Speaker 1: There'll be adviser's Magic Johnson. While not an official capacity,
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  Speaker 1: Magic will be also giving advice because his former agent
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  Speaker 1: is now the president of the Lakers. All right, question,
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  Speaker 1: So Rob Polinka sticking around La La Land as the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers general manager Rob Polink is sticking around with help
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  Speaker 1: from multiple Dodger executives. What dimension does this belong to?
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  Speaker 1: What dimension does this belong to? All right, so this
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  Speaker 1: belongs in the shadow realm. It belongs to the shadow realm.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking upside down bizarro world, Twilight Zone, throw little
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  Speaker 1: Twilight Zone in there, get some Star Trek, beam me up,
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  Speaker 1: Scottie Territory, all that stuff. So you got Rob Polinker
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  Speaker 1: who's been bad at his job. Everyone agrees in that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't one other than maybe his family that thinks
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  Speaker 1: he's done a good job. So he's incompetent and he
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  Speaker 1: keeps his job. But now you're going to have baseball
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  Speaker 1: people meddling. Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Said
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  Speaker 1: no one, said no one. And it makes you want
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  Speaker 1: to just Rob Polinka have compromising photos? Legitimate question? Does
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  Speaker 1: he have some kind of photographs that they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to get out of There's some hidden files there that
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  Speaker 1: they have to keep him on the payroll. Polinka, Now
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  Speaker 1: he was Lebron's guy. Supposed that the word is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he would do what mostly what Lebron wanted, and then
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  Speaker 1: he'd make a few of his own moves and it
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  Speaker 1: all backfired and it was all a mess. So you
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  Speaker 1: had that, and so he was kind of the sock puppet,
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  Speaker 1: but not totally for Lebron. And now he got a
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  Speaker 1: satellite office for the Dodger guys. Andrew Friedman and far
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  Speaker 1: Han z AIEDI there there there. So the Lakers going
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  Speaker 1: from the pick and roll offense to the pick and
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  Speaker 1: pitch offense? Is that like, I don't know on how
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  Speaker 1: that works, and I have heard over the years. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it to be true. It goes back many, many
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of years. Too many chefs spoil the broth. You've
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  Speaker 1: heard some version of that, I'm sure over the years.
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  Speaker 1: And this appears to be basketball by blue ribbon panel,
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  Speaker 1: a committee, corporate group think. And I am reminded of
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  Speaker 1: seagulls law. It can look it up seagulls law. A
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  Speaker 1: man that has one watch knows what time it is.
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  Speaker 1: A man with two watches is never sure. How about
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  Speaker 1: a man with four watches?
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  Speaker 3: How many? How many? No chance?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 3: All right, anyway, So the Lakers are set. Now let
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  Speaker 3: me do the math.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got you got Palinka, you got Andrew Friedman,
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  Speaker 1: Farjans Aedi, Magic Johnson, and you know Lon Rosen's gonna
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  Speaker 1: meddle too. So that's five five watches, all right, five watches,
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  Speaker 1: all in different time zones, or so it seems. What
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  Speaker 1: could possibly go wrong? Got Magic out there whispering sweet
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  Speaker 1: nothing's in the hallway. Bureaucracy, basketball baby, That's why the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers had to raise ticket prices. They gotta You think
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Freeman's doing that for free, You think far Hans
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  Speaker 1: Aedi's doing that for free? No, no way, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: pay those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Gotta pay him. Get out these scrubbing bubbles, because you
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  Speaker 3: gotta do something there. Torch that thing. That's a mess.
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  Speaker 1: That is a mess, and we will be here every
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  Speaker 1: night to document it during the upcoming months and years.
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• 18:11
  Speaker 1: So I leave this hour from the scouting combine. We
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: continue our in depth team coverage all night long. And
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: when I see, when I say team coverage, we've got
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: many people fast asleep right now that are giving us
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: inside information while they're sleeping. So Texans GM, Nick Cassario
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: and ex pat who Nick Casario, he addressed the Komodo
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: dragon in the room.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Talked about the future of his quarterback, not a good one.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Not a good one.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Been mentioned in multiple places that it appears that CJ.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Stroud his days are numbered in Houston. That's been the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: rumors been bouncing all over the echo chamber here for
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the last month or so that the Texans are going
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to look to get rid of CJ.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Stroud. Most people would say that's a good idea.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: The guy's not not very effective as a quarterback in
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: big games.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: By the way, let's get to the audio tape.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: If you didn't hear it, here is Nick Cassario, the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: GM of the Texans, addressing the Komodo dragon in the room,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: his quarterback CJ.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Strout. It's Maroni, Like, we're not trading a guy.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: He's a quarterback, so he's gonna be playing quarterback if
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: he's the Texans in twenty twenty six. So anything beyond that,
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: I mean again, like that's that's your world. You guys
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: can expect it. Many like, we're not trading c Strout.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: He said, it's moronic.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: That was the money quote, and we're not trading the
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: guy and all that.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: So that is a good jumping out point.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question Texans GM, said Nick Cassario,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: saying it would be quote.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Maronic Maronic to trade quarterback c J. Strout.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Is that how you see it? So I have abstract art,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Fisher Price and the Mightiesultar, and we will combine all
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to play
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Connect three, not connect one, not connect two, connect three.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: So number one. So Nick Cassario, the GM there, I
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: love the fact that this is the mountain he wants
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: to stand on and he wants to die on, right,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the failed quarterback mountain, and he's waving a flag on
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: top of failed quarterback mountain, like he's conquered Mount Everest.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: It's just outstanding. It's just fricking great. And of course
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: he thinks he's conquered Mount Everest. He's really drowning in
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a puddle at this point. It's the arrogance. It's an
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: extra strength dose of hubris by the GM of the Texans.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Imagine looking at what CJ. Stroud has put on tape
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years and saying, that's.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: My guy, that's my guy. Who would ever do that?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Right, Well, I know who would do it. Nick Cassario
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: would do it. The dumb dumb with the Texans. Seriously,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: my vision chart says that if you were to shop CJ. Stroud,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the word I would use is pragmatic. That would be
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the word I would use, not moronic. Pragmatic would be
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the word I would use. It would be wise to
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: put him on.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: The fleet market. Why well, c J.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Stroud had this amazing rookie season, look like he had
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the back of the NFL defenses, of the defense on
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: his back hand, back of his hand.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: There was so good CJ. Stroud.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: But that is a distant memory and you've got back
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: to back stack like hotcakes garbage, and so three years
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: ago is ancient history. The way the NFL works, The
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: league has figured some things out. The book has been changed.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: There's a new book out and the sequel for CJ. Stroud,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: he's been unable to read. He needs a Rosetta stone.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: He has been unable to read what the defenses are
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: doing at this particular point. And you're getting closer and closer,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: inch by inch to a point where you're gonna have
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to give this guy one of those dumb contracts like
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray got in Arizona and to a tongue of Iloa,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: got these guys that aren't very good, and you know
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: they're not very good, but you're afraid they're going to
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: become good, and you give them a contract and then
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: they go out there and they have projectile vomit and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: you've paid them a ton of money.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Happens all the time.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And this idea that these people that run sports teams
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: are that smart.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Not always.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of dumb dumps that get in there,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and this would be an example of one of them.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: And then Nick Cassario, this Sugarna, he had the gall
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to say when he was asked about the issues that CJ.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Stroud has had, he said, well, he's had his ups
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and downs. No no, no, no, no no. He had
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: an up that would be his rookie season, and then.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Down down, down down, down, down down down down.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: To Dante's inferno, where he's been so sugarcoating it. I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: guess you must think your fans are not that bright.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe they aren't. I don't know, but anyone with half
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: a brain would say, in Houston and who likes that team?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I think only people in Houston like that team or
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: people from there. That's not it. That's not the answer.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And I have learned from watching CJ. Stroud in these
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: big games the last couple of years that this guy
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: is a big donor for abstract art in playoff games.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: His favorite type of art is abstract art. He likes
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the he likes being a choke artist. He enjoys that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: And but wait, there's not just a choke artist. But
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: he uses finger painting, not Bob Ross. He's using finger
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: painting and that's what he's doing here.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: How bad is he? Well?
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: C J Stroud owns. Congratulations CJ. The NFL record the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: first player in the one hundred year history of the
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: NFL to have five interceptions and five fumbles in a
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: single postseason. Way to go, and for that. The general
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: manager of the Houston Sections said, it would be moronic
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: to get rid of this guy.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: So bad. Oh, it's so bad. It's good. I am
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: so happy I'm here.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: If people did the right thing, then what we talk
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: about we'd just be boring. It'd be so boring. Think
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: these idiots in sports, it's wild.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: He has been. The word for c J.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Stroud in the playoffs is bedrackled. He has been bedrackled.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And even when the Texans have won the I think
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: they've won three games with CJ. Stroud, he's gotten the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: federal bailout from the White House. He's gotten the bailout. Right,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: it's the defense. When the lights get bright, it's always
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Halloween for CJ.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Stroud. He turns into a pumpkin he does. And your
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: waste and this is.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Why you should be offended, the hutzpah of the Texans.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: You're wasting what has been a generationally good defense, at
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: least statistically the last couple of years. And when you
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: have a defense like that, you just need a guy
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: to stay out of the way. And they can't even
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: get that. They can't even get the bear necessities out
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: of out of CJ strets wild. You just need a
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: custodian for the offense. Right guy, sweeps up the floors,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: mops the floors, don't burn down the damn building. Make
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: sure the toilet paper rolls are in there, clean behind
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the toilet.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: That's what you need. Yeah, don't need the hero. He's
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: not very good.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: He's not so I would say you would unload him now,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and rather than give him a big contract, which is
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: what you're ultimately looking at, if this does not go
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: well this year, or you know, you just can eventually
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: give him that that contract. Maybe he'll cut you a
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: little bit of a deal, but you're still gonna pay
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: them a ton of money and he's not worth it.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: And any sensible football observer would say that you don't
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: want to be anchored to this player. You do not
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: want to be anchored to this player. And yet you're
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: getting closer and closer to it. It sounds like the
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Texans is gonna triple down. Normally, you're allowed one bad year.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: You can't have back to back bad year. C J
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: strats ad back to back bad years, and they're gonna
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: give him a chance to have a third bad year.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: The issue is, what if he's not bad? What if
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: he's just average? Next year? What do you do with him?
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: Then?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: What do you do?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: So he said, one good year, two bad years, and
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: then an average year.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: You're gonna give that guy the big contract? Are you?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Okay? Who's moronic? Then all right, toss me and moronic.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Arizona. Arizona, that is where the Cardinals GM.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Monty Austin Fort, that's a mouthful. Monty austen Fort said
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that he's had conversations with Kyler Murray about how the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Terrible twenty twenty five season unfolded. So then some reporter
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: went to somebody with Kyler Murray and said, okay, what
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: did this?
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: What happened? How did this go?
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: And so the people around Kyler Murray who are writing his.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Co tails there are little cottails.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: They said that the two have not talked since the
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: season ended.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: So then he said, oh, this guy lied. Austin Ford,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: the Cardinals GM lied. He's a liar. Got all excited.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Here's a liar, okay.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Austin Ford also said that those conversations about Murray's future
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: are happening daily.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Boy, that must be really exciting. Wow.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: And he reiterated the Cardinal GM Monte ousen Ford reiterated
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: that all options are on the table, all options, all right,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: So question yet the Cardinals GM monty ousen Ford saying
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: that all options are on the table with the little
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: fella Kyler Murray and his future. So how does that
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: lane with you? How does that land with you? So
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: this is not a declaration, this is not a statement.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: It is a talking points memo that he was just
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: repeating the talking points here.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: And it's like going to the Disco Tech.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: You go down to the Disco Tech and you get
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: to Bell Bottoms, you get the hippie boss. You drive
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that down there and you drive straight in to a
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: game of he said, he said, because you got the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: GM said, hey, I talked to the player, somebody with
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, who might have been Kyler Murray said we
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: haven't talked.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: We have not talked.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: And so my theory on what happened, I got theory,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the malord theory is that the GM Austin Ford claimed
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: he said he talked to Kyler Murray, but he meant
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: his agent. Agents are the conduit, the conduit between the player,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the middleman between the player and the team. So a
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: little who may or may not be flying through the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Valley of the Sun tells me it's almost impossible to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: get a hold of Kyler Murray this time of the
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: year because he's a two sport athlete. A lot of
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: people don't know this, but he's a two sport athlete
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: and it is in the middle of Call of Duty season.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Do you expect Kyler to put down the joystick, to
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: get off the Twitch stream and talk to his part
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: time boss? Come on, come on, he's a brand ambassador,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: brand ambassador for Call of Duty. You think he's gonna
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: worry about a little side hustle. I don't care if
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: they're paying like forty or fifty million dollars a year,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: whatever it is. I don't care about that. It'd be
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: nice if the Cardinals just said, hey, we're getting rid
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: of me. They don't want to do that until they
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: trade him. Obviously, Well we decided it's better we go
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: our separate way. So for now they're playing the game
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: good luck. At some point I guess they realize, well,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: he's not very good and he needs a Fisher Price
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: plastic Toddler step stool in the huddle.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: That's not great. And so he'll be wearing some different laundry.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: It'll be kid laundry, but he'll be wearing some different laundry.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Kyler Murray.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Next years he go to the Dolphins, the Falcons, the Vikings,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the Steelers, or my favorite mystery team. I love the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: mystery team. So it s it's a dry heat in Arizona.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Dry heat doesn't sting quite like the humidity in most
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: other places, but you're still turning into dust.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Last point, we go to Cincinnati. We go to Cincinnati
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and they've got some issues. The GM there, Duke Tobin,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the duke good name, not a good gym. So Duke
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Tobin was asked about the future of defensive end Trey Hendrickson,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: and what did he say at the scouting combine. Well,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the GM there, the Cincinnati Bengal said.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: I don't throw anything on or off the table.
• 31:00
  Speaker 10: Sounds like the default answer at the combine is everything's
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: on the table. That must be one fin big table
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: the combine for the NFL, everything's on the table.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I went on to say that we are excited
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: about attacking this offseason. See his nose growing when he
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: said that we have resources, not many resources, to attack
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the offseason in a big way, and we want.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: To do that. Rah rah. I added that other part.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I added that other part. All right.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: So there has been speculation that the Bengals, the Bengals
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: will use these redded Franchise tag yet again on Trey Hendrickson.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: You're gonna lock him down now.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Tobin did not clarify on that issue, whether or not
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the team would.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Actually do that.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: He said, quote in terms of how we're going to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: deploy the tag, if we are going to, that's not
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: something I'm going to talk about here.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Why not? Who cares? Anyway?
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: All right?
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: So let us discuss this the question what is the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Bengals message regarding Trey Hendrickson?
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: So?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: What is the Bengals message regarding Trey Henderson? So this
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: is a what I call a SOOP situation in Cincinnati,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: a shop situation in Cincinnati, Standard operating procedure SOP, that's
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: what it is. So you got the GM there, Duke
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Tobin who gets up at the dais at the combine
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and it's like he's speaking in pungs. He's acting like
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: he's trying to sell you a funnel cake at the
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Ohio State Fair. Or more likely, I guess the analogy
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: would be, it's like oatmeal, but it's corporate GM oatmeal,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: which is warm room temperature.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: It's bland. It fills the bowl and there's really nothing there.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: There's really nothing there.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Trey Henderson would like a nice Mealia the great steakhouse
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: there that is Jeff Ruby's I believe in in Cincinnati
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: all the baseball writers go to.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: You want to go there and get that big steak.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: The Bengals are like, listen, if you want to stay here,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: need a discount code. We need a discount code. It's
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: like they're shopping on the clearance rack here. So the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: franchise tag it's thirty million over thirty million. That's a
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: nice neighborhood. If they give that to Trey Hendrickson, they
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: could tag him. That's option number number one is to
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: tag him. So they could do that. They could tag
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: him and trade him that's option number two. Or they
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: could do none of the above and just say bye bye,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: get out of here.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Out now.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: We did check with the Mighty Zultar for some Council
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: on this. No other radio show has access to the
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Mighty's Altar, and the Mighty Zultar told us that all
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: things end. That's a message from the Mighty's Altar, all
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: things end. This does feel like the final scene that
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Hendrickson is going to raise a hullabaloo if he is
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: not traded, and the Bengals don't seem like they're wired,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: they don't have that thick rhino skin to handle the criticism,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: because then it'll be a dog pile. You'll have Joe
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Burrow and Jamar Chase and these guys will pile on
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So it's more likely than not
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: that Hendrickson will pack up the station wagon and go
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: up on I seventy one there, maybe head to Baltimore,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: see what's going on in Baltimore or Chicago or Detroit
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: or anywhere, and then.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: The Bengals will get a gonna get a back. It's
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: not a big bag.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: It's more like a fanny pack, like a fanny pack
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: of draft picks. They'll get a classic nineteen eighties fanny pack.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: And Cincinnati that is where ambition and trying to win
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: goes to take a nice nap, take a really nice
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: nap and have a good time. And it's the same
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: issue the Raiders have and so many of these teams.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: It's old family money. It's the Great Gatsby old family money.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Every dollar that the Ben Gals do not spend on
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: player payroll goes back into the Brown family piggy bank.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: So if you get to take that money that you
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: don't spend on that extra linebacker or that offensive tackle,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: and that goes into your vacation funds, so you can
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: afford an extra private jet.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So just the plan is.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what the Bengals plan is. As a
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas, I think
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: we're back being friends.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: He lives in Seattle. I think we're back being friends.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: So the Bengals plan is that just do the very
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: minimum sees get degrees, just get a C grade, and
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: then hope that Joe Burrow is Superman.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 35:50
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• 35:57
  Speaker 5: How about that to the third degree.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets quick.
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: Joey Bosa is a free agent, and many have been
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: pushing the idea that he should sign with the forty
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: nine ers and team up with his brother Nick and
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: Santa Clara. Ben, do you think Bosa would be a
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: good addition for the forty nine ers?
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, for they'd sell some T shirts, They'd sell a
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: lot of the hats and crap like that, Bosa and
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Bosa and for four games, those guys would dominate the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: NFL for four games.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, play seventeen.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: Next, Urban Meyer was asked on a recent podcast about
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: the NC Doublea's repeated legal defeats. Meyer went on to
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: deem the NC Double A quote a powerless organization right now, Ben,
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: is he right?
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Well, they don't have any teeth, they don't have a backball,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: and they have no balls.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Other than that, they're fine. I don't even know what
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: they do. I really don't know what they do.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: The Big Ten in the Southeastern Conference, they run college sports.
• 36:53
  Speaker 11: Next, it was reported that a that avoiding of Kawhi
• 36:57
  Speaker 11: Leonard's contract with the Clippers is on the table as
• 36:59
  Speaker 11: a potential punishment or the team's a legend salary cap
• 37:02
  Speaker 11: circumvention scandal.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, then what are the chances that this happens. It
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: doesn't seem like they're in a hurry to do it.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: If he's everyone.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Thinks he's gonna go get released and sign with like
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the Knicks or something like that. But he they have
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: to release him by March first. I don't think that's
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: gonna happen. I think Clippers, if they did something, they
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: should be punished. But I know the president is to
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: get rid of Kawhi Leonard if they did do what
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: people are saying.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: So if that's the case, he'll be gone. I'm fine
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: with it. How do we do coop? You pass the
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: seconds they went?
• 37:34
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• 37:44
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• 37:47
  Speaker 3: We've endured too many of this. Is it too much
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: or not enough enough? Already here we go too much
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: or not enough.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I got an email from somebody saying that the I
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: think this was Mike.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know where Mike is.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Send me an email the other day saying that the
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: biggest competitor for Caller of the Year on the show
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: is SpongeBob, who's only made a couple of phone.
• 38:09
  Speaker 12: Calls, but he's so impactful when he does call.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: That would be a massive upset, Loraina of SpongeBob. Where
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: to win?
• 38:16
  Speaker 12: Who else gets to call from under the sea?
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: I know? Will he have Patrick start with him? Who knows?
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Let's say hello to SpongeBob SquarePants.
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: Hello, SpongeBob morning, everyone to know of my loyal constituants
• 38:30
  Speaker 9: out there, ben coopen, Hey, Lorena.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Look at that SpongeBob stealing Anthony and Louisiana's act. Now
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: SpongeBob Anthony said he likes going down to impress a woman,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: takes her to outback. Where does SpongeBob take a lady
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: to impress her?
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: Dah, we go to the chum Bucket and then we
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: blow it up, and then we go back to the
• 38:54
  Speaker 9: krazy Krad because I can make a mean democratic supreme.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. All right, well I'll.
• 39:04
  Speaker 9: Make sure that Swinward's not there because he's a he's
• 39:07
  Speaker 9: a mean old part.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right, well here we go, alright, calm down, SpongeBob,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: all right, here we go too much or not enough?
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: And all you have to do is get three questions.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Right now you're getting help from mister Crabs. Is he
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: helping you on this? Or what are we what are
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: we looking at?
• 39:24
  Speaker 9: No, he's still at home. I'm at the Groscy Crab
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: getting it ready for the day. Patrick just says, a big,
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: big honking one, and I'm cleaning it up.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: But it's not okay, alright, alright, here you are. Question
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: number one, Victor Wemba Nyama. That's a basketball player.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: He had He's had down eight games with five or
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: more blocks so far this season.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Too much or not enough? Too much or not enough?
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: Well, I'm gonna say, because he's like ten feet tall,
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: that is not enough.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Fright out.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: That's right, okay, SpongeBob very excited. I love how excited
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: SpongeBob is.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: I was thought when I was watching.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I don't watch SpongeBob is pretty much after my time,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: but when I when I've seen a few episodes, I
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: was thought he'd be one of our fans, you know,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: he'd be a fan of show.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Question number two.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: There are seven running backs making ten million dollars more
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: annual average salary. Is that too much or not enough? SpongeBob,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: M Well.
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: There's three two teams with everyone has a running back.
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna say that's not enough.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's find out right again, right.
• 40:36
  Speaker 9: Again, waiting, ready, ready?
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Is this SpongeBob or Sheldon J. Plankton the genius? I
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: Hey, eat my name Ben out of your mouth? Watch
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: all right?
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, come down. Question three. You're doing great.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Here's a SpongeBob and you listen to a live I
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: wouldn't like that too much or not enough?
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Get it in my computer wipe. Question number three.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: There are five players in the NBA with one hundred
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: or more steals so far this season.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Is that too much or not enough?
• 41:14
  Speaker 9: SpongeBob, Well, there are thirty semidd teams in the NBA. Yeah,
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: lots of players. I am going to say. For well,
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: I say it too much.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Okay, SpongeBob, let's find out La Marina. You know you
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: got it right? You got it right. I have a shock.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: I fuddy, I thuy, why you say my name for something?
• 41:42
  Speaker 12: I j car.
• 41:47
  Speaker 13: Bring it around town.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: I thought it was gonna get wrong.
• 41:49
  Speaker 9: No it coun bring it hey, great one warling and
• 41:52
  Speaker 9: I forgot about that one.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Okay, calm down, let's let's keep going here. Question four.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: You've already won the game. But question for Jerry Allen.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Of the Cavaliers has thirteen double doubles so far this season?
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: Is that too much or not enough? SpongeBob, he had.
• 42:09
  Speaker 9: Double double, He had a double double cratic Aatdy Supreme. Well,
• 42:12
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna say that is pactic? What can I say?
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, not enough? Let's find out? Oh right again? Right again, SpongeBob,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: what amazing? One more to get right, one more to
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: get right? Here we go. Number seventeen not enough? Was right? Seventeen?
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: Here we go. There are ten NFL.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Teams that currently have over fifty million dollars in cap space.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Is that too much or not enough to sweep the board? SpongeBob, Oh.
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: Crab isn't too much or not enough?
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: He said?
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: Well, I say it is not enough?
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: You sure about that? Are you sure about that? SpongeBob?
• 43:09
  Speaker 9: Yes?
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Wrong, No, we were so close to having We're gonna
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: get sued. Naming the game after you next week by SpongeBob. Congratulations,
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: you won the game.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: You got four rights and a tremendous job, and thank you,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: thank you, and you do get a golden.
• 43:26
  Speaker 9: Tickets and guys, had a wonderful night to the toilet.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, there he goes our friend SpongeBob, a big winner
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: there on too much or not enough?
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: I okay.
• 43:39
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• 43:42
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• 43:46
  Speaker 12: It's love It Boys with Little Rain at nine clean
• 43:50
  Speaker 12: up Hearts going to help you.
• 43:52
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• 43:57
  Speaker 3: Dear Rye.
• 44:00
  Speaker 12: Yes, it is time for love here on the Ben
• 44:02
  Speaker 12: Malice Show.
• 44:04
  Speaker 13: I know you were all some hopeless.
• 44:06
  Speaker 12: Romantics out there, really, Oh yes, oh yes, with booming
• 44:12
  Speaker 12: love lives.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: All right, we have we have questions here, we we
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: got all right BP rights in He says, what is
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: the appropriate number of dates before your significant other can
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: let one rip? Is the number different for the man
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: than the woman? There a sweet spot, Lorena, Yeah, No, I.
• 44:32
  Speaker 12: Mean it depends on who you ask, okay, because I
• 44:35
  Speaker 12: would just I just don't.
• 44:36
  Speaker 13: I would never.
• 44:37
  Speaker 12: I could never it just unless I'm like dying and
• 44:40
  Speaker 12: you I don't know what happened, like I'm asleep.
• 44:41
  Speaker 13: I just would never. But I know men who do
• 44:43
  Speaker 13: it all the time. They have no shame.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: See you think there's probably women that do it too,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: but you don't know any women like that.
• 44:51
  Speaker 12: Well, I do have some friends who, you know, they've
• 44:54
  Speaker 12: been married seven plus years, and I'm pretty sure they
• 44:57
  Speaker 12: also no longer care. Yeah, and maybe after a seven
• 45:00
  Speaker 12: year marriage, Mark, maybe I wouldn't care either, Ben, do you?
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Uh? Well, I try. I try not to in the hotel,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I end up. I'll go to the lobby sometimes.
• 45:11
  Speaker 13: Walk around, so you go somewhere that but sometimes.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: But sometimes you know it happened. Yeah, I try not to.
• 45:19
  Speaker 12: But also using the hotel lobby if you have to,
• 45:22
  Speaker 12: like explode the bathroom.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, this big proponent of the hotel lobby bathroom.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, bird Dog says.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: My friend Robbie just got dumped by his longtime boyfriend.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Can you cheer him up?
• 45:34
  Speaker 13: Oh, I'm so sorry about that.
• 45:36
  Speaker 12: You know, the best way to get over someone is
• 45:38
  Speaker 12: getting under someone else.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Ello, My friend Robbie has a crush on a girl
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: way way out of his league.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: How do you tell him to give up on her?
• 45:47
  Speaker 13: Oh, that's a that's a good one.
• 45:49
  Speaker 12: Don't give up because no one's ever really out of
• 45:52
  Speaker 12: your league. It's a matter of how you conduct yourself.
• 45:55
  Speaker 12: So yeah, yeah, I've dated some interestingly, like really Lorena,
• 46:00
  Speaker 12: that one type man men.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: So you know, okay shot Late night drug Tester says,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: instead of getting a tattoo to honor your woman, is
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: a message shaved in your hair a good substitute.
• 46:13
  Speaker 12: Oh, I think that's so much better. For one, it's
• 46:15
  Speaker 12: giving me hocus pocus vibes, you know when he has
• 46:19
  Speaker 12: the ice in the back of his head. But also
• 46:21
  Speaker 12: it's not permanent, so a tattoo is usually cursed. If
• 46:25
  Speaker 12: you put a tattoo of someone's name on you, it's
• 46:28
  Speaker 12: not gonna end with Yeah, the relationship is bound to end.
• 46:30
  Speaker 12: So I think doing something more removable or you know
• 46:33
  Speaker 12: what else would be fun hennah tattoos. Going get some
• 46:36
  Speaker 12: henna tattoos and then every what three weeks you could have.
• 46:40
  Speaker 13: A new girlfriend.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: There you go. You can change it up, and then.
• 46:44
  Speaker 13: You'll be like, look what I got for you?
• 46:45
  Speaker 12: Make it seem so thoughtful every time.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Now, what if you don't tell him it's a henna tattoo?
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: What if you say this.
• 46:51
  Speaker 13: Is just a brown tattoo. I like that idea.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Shane and boy And says, how does the Queen of
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Hearts feel about the us hockey US women's hockey team
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: winning the gold.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: Watch any of that, Lorena, I did not watch it,
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: not a second, no, not a not interest you at all. No,
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: you did not care at all about that. I got you.
• 47:10
  Speaker 13: Sorry, Sorry, ladies. Jaj I heard you did.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: JQ Wingman says, what's the best compliment you can tell
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: your woman?
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 47:19
  Speaker 13: Oh gosh, Oh that's a good one. So many good compliments.
• 47:23
  Speaker 13: You smell good, you look smell good.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: That's a good one.
• 47:26
  Speaker 13: You feel good, Me feel good?
• 47:29
  Speaker 12: Oh man, oh honey, you make the best food.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Okay, let me taste.
• 47:34
  Speaker 13: Never mind, all.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Right, it's a family show at this time of the morning. No,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: not really, No kids are away.
• 47:41
  Speaker 13: Good, Queen of Hearts.