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  Speaker 3: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: We break the weekend silence taking a look at what
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  Speaker 1: happened at the iconic venue, which is so great they're
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  Speaker 1: going to tear it down in a few years when
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs pull the new stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, that was the playground for the final game on
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  Speaker 1: the Sunday portion of the card in week two as
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  Speaker 1: the NFL steamrolled through the day. And Daniel Jones leading
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  Speaker 1: the Colts overall. Wagon into Kansas City trying to turn
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  Speaker 1: things around. Did not go so well last week for
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  Speaker 1: the team from Indianapolis there as they got mollywhopped by
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens, hoping for better luck against the Patrick Mahomes Chiefs.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you were watching this game or not.
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  Speaker 2: It was on NBC.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tirico and Collinsworth, who had his knee pads on,
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  Speaker 1: as always, for Mahomes.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe you missed it. Maybe you did not have
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  Speaker 2: it on as Harrison Butker kicking a pair of field
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  Speaker 2: goals in bonus time, overtime.
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  Speaker 1: And that included a 40-yard field goal as time expired,
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  Speaker 1: giving Kansas City a three-point victory over the Colts in the.
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  Speaker 2: Game that ended late into the night there. on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: So Patrick Mahomes finished the game with 382 yards passing
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  Speaker 1: and three touchdowns. More of a vintage performance by Mahomes.
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  Speaker 1: As he got her done, filled up the stat sheet.
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker did not get in the end zone. He
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  Speaker 1: did have 117 more yards on the ground. And Travis Kelsey,
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  Speaker 1: a sighting of Travis Kelsey, had nine catches, 101 yards,
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  Speaker 1: and a score. The Chiefs are now 2-0 Indianapolis. That's
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  Speaker 1: the better story, the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 2: They are now 0-2, 0-2.
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  Speaker 1: For the team from Indiana. So that is the jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. Did Indianapolis prove
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  Speaker 1: something by taking Kansas City to overtime? If you watch
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  Speaker 1: the NBC broadcast, Mike Tirico at the end was making
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  Speaker 1: it seem like this was some kind of great accomplishment
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  Speaker 1: for the Colts that they had chances to win the
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  Speaker 1: game losing in overtime. So did Indianapolis prove something by
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  Speaker 1: taking Kansas City to overtime? Or is that A consolation
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  Speaker 1: prize bull crap kind of statement to make. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so my thoughts on this. I've got bird's eye, morning breath,
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  Speaker 1: and courthouse. And we will combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to try not to get sidetracked. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to stay on course here. Let's not get sidetracked. So, A, Indy,
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  Speaker 1: you know what they get? They get an attaboy. They
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  Speaker 1: get the attaboy.
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  Speaker 2: Way to go. You didn't get blown out. You had
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  Speaker 2: a chance.
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  Speaker 1: You had multiple chances to win the game.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what you can do with that attaboy?
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  Speaker 1: You can wipe your tuchus with that attaboy, and then
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  Speaker 1: you can flush it down the toilet. The Colts' defense,
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  Speaker 1: starting 2026, these were two measuring stick games for Indianapolis, right?
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  Speaker 1: Two measuring stick games against Lamar Jackson and the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: and a rehabbing Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City. And what
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  Speaker 1: does the report card say for the Colts? They had
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  Speaker 1: two measuring stick games. That would be they get bupkis,
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  Speaker 1: squad douche, 0 for 2. They failed both tests. And
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  Speaker 1: talk about licking their wounds after a surrender.
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  Speaker 2: A barf bag worthy.
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  Speaker 1: The Colts defense, first two games of the year, they're
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  Speaker 1: averaging allowing 514.5 yards per game and 37 points per game.
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  Speaker 1: The Colts defense allowing on average. And you wonder how
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  Speaker 1: many weeks will we hear about the communication issues, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get that all figured out, before they finally admit
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  Speaker 1: that the defense is like a wrestler from back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, El Stinko. is the defense there in Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: But even Sauce Gardner, who they never throw the ball to,
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  Speaker 1: the other team, the Chiefs did attempt to throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball his way a couple times. There was one play
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  Speaker 1: in particular, game-changing play, he failed to make. And now
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  Speaker 1: this tattered and broken defensive unit heads to Jerry's World
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  Speaker 1: to face the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be next week.
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  Speaker 1: So certainly looking the way the Colts are playing defense
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  Speaker 1: right now, That'll be an 0-3 start to the year
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  Speaker 1: for Indianapolis. Now, offensively, it's not all that much better.
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  Speaker 2: It's, well, the Colts scored enough points to win the game.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the problem, though. They're passing offense.
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  Speaker 1: They're trapped in that mushy middle of captain mid.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Jones, even though the Colts scored some points in this.
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  Speaker 1: Game, Daniel Jones reminding Indy, that they paid premium dollars there.
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  Speaker 1: They had to bring this guy back. God forbid you
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  Speaker 1: can go out and you– I don't know where you'd
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  Speaker 1: get a middle-of-the-pack quarterback in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Where can you find that?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, so Daniel Jones goes out there and reminds the
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  Speaker 1: front office of the Colts that they paid premium dollars
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  Speaker 1: for bird's-eye quarterback steamed veggies, and that's.
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  Speaker 2: What they got. And so there you go. The steamed
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  Speaker 2: veggies thing. It's fine. Nobody orders seconds of steamed veggies.
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  Speaker 2: It's like one, that's it. I don't even want that.
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  Speaker 1: So Indianapolis has a franchise quarterback in the exact same
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  Speaker 1: way that IHOP has fine dining. And I give Daniel
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  Speaker 1: Jones credit because this guy hornswoggled those dummies in the Colts'
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  Speaker 1: front office. He played all right for like four or
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  Speaker 1: five games early last year.
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  Speaker 2: He was starting to ride the vomit comet for the Colts.
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  Speaker 2: He got hurt before the vomit comet fully reached its
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  Speaker 2: cruising altitude. And then the Colts were like, well, we've
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  Speaker 2: got to bring him back. So they brought him back.
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  Speaker 5: And, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like we said, not a franchise quarterback. It's like going
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  Speaker 1: to IHOP and saying, well, that's fine dining. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: fine dining, I guess, but my God. Not exactly Picasso.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is the guy selling cheap prints outside of
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  Speaker 1: the art museum.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: And the ship be sinking in Indianapolis, and it does
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  Speaker 1: appear he is incapable of putting the team on his back.
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  Speaker 1: And granted, the defense is terrible for the Colts, but
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  Speaker 1: they're just not going anywhere interesting.
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  Speaker 2: It's another year.
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  Speaker 1: Without the playoffs there. For the Colts, and Jones, not
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  Speaker 1: the answer. He's just kind of what's.
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  Speaker 2: On hold when you hear that music in the background.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he is.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, meanwhile, to the Kansas City side of things,
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs win on the final play of the game,
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  Speaker 1: the Harrison-Butker field goal.
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  Speaker 2: At the end.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, how is Big Red, Andy Reid, feeling
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  Speaker 1: about the Chiefs at this point, his Chiefs?
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  Speaker 2: So Andy Reid is feeling it. Minty fresh. Mint Lister.
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  Speaker 2: Ultra clean. He's just feeling extra fresh.
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  Speaker 1: These wins are washing away the foul, foul taste, the
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  Speaker 1: bad taste that they had last season.
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  Speaker 2: The Chiefs are not fully polished yet. They're not.
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  Speaker 1: However, the championship cologne, they found it in the back
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  Speaker 1: of the locker room, and they've now taken that bottle
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  Speaker 1: of championship cologne out again.
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  Speaker 2: Mahomes knocking off another layer of rust. And he did confirm.
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  Speaker 2: I got some crap from these fanboys, these Chiefs fanboys.
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  Speaker 2: Very upset that I criticized Mahomes. Mahomes admitted that I
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  Speaker 2: was right with my analysis. But let's never let the
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  Speaker 2: facts get in the way of a fanboy.
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  Speaker 1: Because Mahomes knocking off some more rust in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And the factory machinery is officially warming up there. That
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  Speaker 1: was a more vintage performance. Even Travis Kelsey, who's looked
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  Speaker 1: washed up for two years... Apparently he located Ponce de
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  Speaker 1: Leon on the map, and he went from retirement watch material,
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  Speaker 1: at least for a night, right back to the security
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  Speaker 1: blanket of Mahome. And if you look at Kelsey, here's
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  Speaker 1: how incompetent Travis Kelsey's been the last two years.
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  Speaker 2: This is my fun fact here.
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  Speaker 1: So Kelsey now has 12 catches for 172 yards in
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  Speaker 1: two games.
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  Speaker 2: You say, okay, that's fine. That's a good start.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that is over 20% of his yardage
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  Speaker 1: from all of last season? We're two games in, and
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  Speaker 1: that is 172 yards is 20.2%, if my malware math
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  Speaker 1: is correct, of the production.
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  Speaker 2: From last year. I mean, my goodness. That's how pathetic
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  Speaker 2: he was last year. Now, add on, the add-on item,
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker, nice of Seattle not to bring him back.
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  Speaker 2: Why would they need him?
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  Speaker 1: And they tossed Kenneth Walker into the kitchen. And that's
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  Speaker 1: another burner for Andy Reid that he didn't have before. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it is not perfect. I'm not going to sit here
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  Speaker 1: and just do a pep rally for the Chiefs. Steve
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  Speaker 1: Spagnuolo's defense that looks so good against the incompetent Broncos
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  Speaker 1: last week. Well, in this game against the Colts. There
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  Speaker 1: were stretches of this game. They had morning breath. They
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  Speaker 1: need some of that Listerine, mint-flavored, ultra-clean. They need that
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  Speaker 1: because they had the morning breath there, letting Indianapolis hang
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  Speaker 1: around until the final second of overtime. And they gave
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  Speaker 1: up 30 points in this game, even though it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: much from the quarterback. That's not vintage Chiefs defense.
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  Speaker 2: In this game. That's playing with your food and nearly
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  Speaker 2: choking on your food try to avoid that so how
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  Speaker 2: does andy reed feel encouraged and coaches are never satisfied
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  Speaker 2: but you're encouraged and the chiefs are not yet the
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  Speaker 2: finished product they're a construction site And there are many
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  Speaker 2: people optimistic that this thing will get done. You can
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  Speaker 2: see the luxury penthouse taking.
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  Speaker 1: Shape like it used to be there for Mahomes and
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  Speaker 1: friends there in Kansas City. And they play the Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: next week, which is like having a bye when you
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  Speaker 1: play the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 2: That's a bye. All right, last word.
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  Speaker 1: To the Beltway major injury update. Tests confirming that quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels has had a nice big bowl of snap, crackle, pop.
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  Speaker 2: He suffers a dislocated elbow. Oh, my elbow!
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  Speaker 1: 37-20 loss to Dallas in a game that was close,
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  Speaker 1: in a game that you spend your time handicapping, and
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  Speaker 1: then the quarterback gets hurt before halftime, and then that's it.
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  Speaker 1: X-rays showed, according to Dan Quinn, who will be a
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator somewhere next year.
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  Speaker 2: He will not be the coach of the Commanders. He's toast.
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  Speaker 1: This team's going to finish near the bottom in the NFC. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Quinn, x-rays showed no fracture. According to the coach
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  Speaker 1: of a team formerly called the Redskins, Daniels will undergo
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  Speaker 1: additional testing when the sun rises later on on Monday
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  Speaker 1: to determine whether or not there is a significant ligament
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  Speaker 1: damage and surgery is still likely a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: So he's going to be out for a while if
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  Speaker 2: he plays again this year.
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  Speaker 1: The question, Commander's quarterback, Jaden Daniels, has a dislocated left
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  Speaker 1: elbow yet again. Why does this keep happening to Jaden Daniels?
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  Speaker 2: All right. So Daniels, listen, when he plays, he is spectacular, right?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Where have we seen this before? We've seen this movie before.
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  Speaker 1: When he's out there and when he plays it, he's great.
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  Speaker 1: The health thing is the devil, and he can't say healthy. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: he went down to the courthouse at this point. We've
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  Speaker 1: determined that Jaden Daniels, he went down to the courthouse
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  Speaker 1: and And Wen Healthy has become part of his legal name.
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  Speaker 1: He's now got four names. It's Jaden Wen is one
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  Speaker 1: of the middle names, Healthy, the second middle name, and
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  Speaker 1: then the last name is Daniels. So that's his full name.
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  Speaker 1: His now legal name in the courthouse is Jaden Wen
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  Speaker 1: Healthy Daniels. He plays quarterback like the human body comes
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  Speaker 1: with unlimited replacement parts. Wouldn't that be great? Wouldn't that
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  Speaker 1: be awesome if we just had unlimited replacement parts? Oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: I just, I got a headache. All right, we'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a new head. All right, no problem.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good. My knees, my right knee is kind of
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  Speaker 2: hurting a little bit. Okay, we got another knee. What side?
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  Speaker 2: You want a bigger knee? We'll give you a bigger. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you want a smaller? Okay, we'll give you a smaller knee.
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  Speaker 2: No problem. Be great. Right? Just why not?
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  Speaker 1: At some point, unlucky becomes a pattern. Peter says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's unlucky and all that. Daniels is collecting injuries. Like,
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  Speaker 1: Frequent travelers collect the miles, those.
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  Speaker 2: Air miles when you're traveling around. People that travel for work,
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  Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, I get some of those miles. Watching
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  Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels run.
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  Speaker 1: When he's in the game, and I'm not a Commander's fan.
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  Speaker 1: I was flipping around all the games. But watching Daniels
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  Speaker 1: in particular when Washington plays an island game, because we
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  Speaker 1: love our island games, Daniels, watching him run, it's like
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  Speaker 1: watching a toddler carry your expensive laptop And then he's
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  Speaker 1: holding up a thing of water on top of the laptop. Now, technically,
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  Speaker 1: everything is fine. Everything is fine, technically. But you're already
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  Speaker 1: preparing for an absolute disaster. So forget about QB1 for
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels. Washington needs EMT1 standing right next to him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: some are saying full conspiracy that this is all tied
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  Speaker 1: to Jaden Daniels and what happened at LSU, and it
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  Speaker 1: was all tied together.
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  Speaker 2: I don't buy that. That mumbo-jumbo, because whether Jaden Daniels
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  Speaker 2: tried to bully LSU or not, by the way, nice
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  Speaker 2: job by Lane Kiffin losing to Ole Miss over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: How embarrassing was that? Anyway, Daniels, my God.
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  Speaker 1: He would have got hurt whether he had threatened some
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  Speaker 1: kind of action against LSU or not. He doesn't need
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  Speaker 1: another standard offseason defense. strength and conditioning program based on
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  Speaker 1: a minutes-long review of Jaden Daniels. He needs a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of bubble wrap, some rhino skin, and an extended warranty.
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  Speaker 2: Hell, at this point, I don't know if you can
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  Speaker 2: get this. I think you can get anything you want
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  Speaker 2: on the internet.
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  Speaker 1: But you should just find a way to buy some
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  Speaker 1: armadillo plating for Jaden Daniels.
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  Speaker 2: See if you can get that. And a roll cage.
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  Speaker 2: That would be well. If you can get him armadillo plating.
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  Speaker 1: some rhino skin and a roll cage then he'll be
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback in Washington for the next 10 years you
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  Speaker 1: don't get him those things He'll be doing a cheesy
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  Speaker 1: jock podcast somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: That's what these guys do, right?
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  Speaker 1: These ex-jocks, the ex-ball players, they get hurt.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do a podcast. That's what I'll do because everyone
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  Speaker 2: loves audio content. I've been saying it. I loved it
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  Speaker 2: when I was a kid, and I'm an adult.
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  Speaker 1: I've worked in the audio business my entire life. People
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  Speaker 1: love audio content. All these athletes, they want to do
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  Speaker 1: the audio content thing.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 3: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific on
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  Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 7: Welcome to Football Doesn't Lie.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, I'm Bill Parcells.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm Catherine Zazzora.
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  Speaker 4: I have a lot of experience in the game of football, Catherine.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
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  Speaker 7: we're going to talk about the NFL slate through the
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  Speaker 7: lens of Bill's expertise as he coaches me from novice
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  Speaker 7: fan to football expert over the course of the season.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm looking forward to this show, Catherine, and
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  Speaker 4: hopefully we can give our audience a little in-depth look
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  Speaker 4: into the inner sanctum of pro football that they can't
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  Speaker 4: get anywhere else.
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  Speaker 7: Tune in every Thursday for unfiltered stories from Coach Parcells,
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  Speaker 7: analysis on the state of the modern game, and education
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  Speaker 7: on how football really works.
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  Speaker 5: Continuity is very important but what happens when you get
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  Speaker 5: good coaches on your staff and people begin to recognize
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  Speaker 5: them then they want to hire them and then you
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  Speaker 5: can't stop a guy from trying to improve himself but
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  Speaker 5: you have to replace.
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  Speaker 7: Them Because once you understand what's going on inside the
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  Speaker 7: mind of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
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  Speaker 4: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
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  Speaker 4: haven't done, because I didn't have enough money, I don't
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  Speaker 4: own the team. I never owned a team.
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  Speaker 7: Listen to Football Doesn't Lie on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
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  Speaker 7: or wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: There is no story more compelling right now than the
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  Speaker 1: downfall of the Chargers. Man, who knew? The Chargers. Jim Harbaugh, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: I-know-how-to-coach-I-can-poop-and-win-10-games Jim Harbaugh.
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  Speaker 2: Well, times have changed now, and if you have not heard,
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  Speaker 2: Dateline LA, that is our lead.
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  Speaker 1: The Chargers playing the softest schedule you can possibly have
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  Speaker 1: and gagged it away.
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  Speaker 2: Show me your lightning bolt. The Chargers now play two games.
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  Speaker 2: They are 0-2. 0-2, losing each game by the same score, 26-14.
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  Speaker 2: Outscored 52-28. combined by the Raiders....
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  Speaker 1: And the exact same score back in Week 1, 26-14,
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  Speaker 1: at the hands of the lowly Arizona Cardinals. The game
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, though, the Chargers and the Raiders, all these
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  Speaker 1: old guys that are Raider fans that remember when the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders used to be good.
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  Speaker 2: So you have to be old to remember when the
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  Speaker 2: Raiders used to be good. That's the rule because anybody
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  Speaker 2: young doesn't like the Raiders because the Raiders have sucked
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  Speaker 2: their entire life. Anyway, get to the point, please. So
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  Speaker 2: the Chargers lose by double digits in a game that
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: wasn't even that close. And that means, for the first
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: time ever, Jim Harbaugh, in his coaching career, has started 0-2.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: That spans a career that goes big stages, like Stanford,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: back when they used to have a good football team. Michigan,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: the 49ers and the Chargers.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Never before has this happened for Jim Harbaugh, even during
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Harbaugh's back-to-back suckbag seasons at Stanford. Many, many years ago,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: if you remember the 07-08 vintage of Stanford Cardinal football,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: his teams won at least one of the first two games.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: The reason, because they often scheduled a lightweight in one
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: of those two games. And the Chargers have two lightweights
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: in this situation. And my God, they're terrible. Let's hear
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: from the man himself as the Chargers are off to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the 0-2 start. The most embarrassing team in football, the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers, who should be in San Diego. Here
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: is Jim Harbaugh. Do you think Harbaugh is beaten and broken?
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: That's option A.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Do you think Harbaugh gave no comment about the state
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: of the Chargers? Or do you think that Jim Harbaugh
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: is fired up to the challenge of trying to come
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: back from an 0-2 hole?
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Let's go to the audio tape. Let's take a listen.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Not deterred. No one in that locker room is deterred.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: Why not?
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: And that's what it's going to take. We're going to
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: have to find our way out of this. The why
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: is what we're talking about. That's what we're... We'll look
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: at the tape. We'll go back to work. That's all
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: I know how to do. That's all we know how
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: to do. Find our way. Find the way. And we'll
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: move forward. It's a one-week league.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a two-week league, and you're 0-2. So that
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss. So the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: question is this. Is the Chargers 0-2 start a September
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: speed bump, or is this clear evidence that Jim Harbaugh's
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: program is going backwards into a sinkhole in Malibu? All right,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: so my observations, I've got Spirit Halloween, Collar.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: 89 and fajitas.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together and
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: we are going to go whoopsie because that's what the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Chargers have done. They've gone whoopsie is what they have
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: done here.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: So number.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: One.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: The Chargers are not just experiencing a September bumpity bump.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh got behind the wheel.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Of the struggle bus.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: And went over the curb, through the flower bed, and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: straight into the neighbor's swimming pool.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where the Chargers are. They're playing like they're
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: in wet sand, even though they're on that field turf
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: in L.A.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Harbaugh went down to Spirit Halloween. And he said, Halloween's
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: coming up, and I would like to do some nice cosplay.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: And he said, OK, what do you want? I'm here
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: at Spirit Halloween. What do you want? OK, yeah, let
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: me get that Michael Jackson outfit.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I want to moonwalk directly into mediocrity meadows.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Sure, why not? So on the Malheur scale of panic,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: 0 to 6, 0 to 6, the Malheur scale of
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: panic for Jim Harbaugh's Chargers, I am sitting at a
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: crisp 5.5. On the Mallard scale of panic, 0-6. Cowabunga, dude!
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: You might want to take up surfing because football's not
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: your thing.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Now, if you look at it, the.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Bolts are 0-2 at home against the Cardinals and the Raiders.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Two teams that last season combined had a 176 winning percentage.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: They went 6-28 last season. And that feels statistically disrespectful.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: You're like, well, they're so bad right now.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: If they scheduled Bishop Sycamore, they'd lose to Bishop Sycamore.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And now you look ahead, and they've gotten rid of
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the lightweights. Now they're playing the heavyweights. They've got them
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: lined up. Here's the upcoming schedule for the Chargers at Buffalo,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: at Seattle, Broncos.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: At home, Chiefs on the road. And then the Rams.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: That's 0-7. Forget 0-6. That's 0-7. They're having an upset somewhere.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: My God.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh and Justin Herbert are staring down an 0-7 start.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: An 0-7 start, barring some kind of out-of-body experience here.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: And they earned it.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you give a game away where
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the Chargers prove that the Raiders aren't very good?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I'll get to that in a minute. These Raider guys
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: think they're good. I mean, God.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Tell me you don't know ball. So the Chargers had
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: six fumbles against Las Vegas.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: There was no rain. I went outside during the game.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: There was no snow. There was no sleet. It was
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: a picture-perfect.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce 75-degree day there at SoFi Stadium in
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the hood in Inglewood. And Jim Harbaugh's squad looks like
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: somebody unplugged the intensity machine. That's the thing that's the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: most damning. You get upset every once in a while.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: But the Jim Harbaugh product had always been that you're
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: going to fight to the death. That was always the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: mantra of the Jim Harbaugh coach teams. And this team
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: just looks like they're lacking intensity. They're California cool. And
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: that's not a compliment. That is not a compliment. And
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: once again, transforming enormous expectations the Chargers had. Yet again,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: bounce back year. They fired up about their new offensive coordinator.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: And it's just some expensive sludge. That's the Chargers serving
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: up expensive sludge. All right, now, page two. Digging a
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: little deeper into this power outage for the Bolts here
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: as they've gone to airplane mode. So the question, is
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: it fair to question the new offensive coordinator, Mike McDaniel,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the former Dolphins head coach, after only two games? Is
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: it fair to poke and prod the new offensive coordinator,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, the former Dolphins coach after only two games?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get a capital Y, Yeppers. Capital Y, Yeppers.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Enough with the offensive genius label. Show me the genius.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I see the label.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Where is it?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: McDaniel was hired to install a turbocharger. And we're two
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: games in. So far, you know what he's installed for
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the Chargers?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: A cup holder. Who needs a cup holder? You don't
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: need a cup holder. Stop. And that's what he's added.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Not the turbo charger. He's added a cup holder. He sold,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: and the Chargers sold, offensive, sophistication, innovation, wizardry.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: Wizardry.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Right now, the, quote, genius, genius label is doing more
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: work than the Chargers offense.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: And they hired him, again, for innovation. And they look like.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: They're running Windows 95. It's not 95 anymore. The offense
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: is not cutting edge. They'd be better off cutting coupons.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: They might actually save some money. And you get to
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: call plays for Justin Herbert, who's completely out of sorts.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: What happened to this guy? What happened to Justin Herbert? Like,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I've never been a big Justin Herbert fan. At least
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: he's put up some empty numbers against bad teams. He
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: can't even do that right now. And so Herbert, the
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: guy that you all told me, oh, he's got a bazooka,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: bazooka Joe.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Or in this case, bazooka Justin. Get that bazooka attached
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: to his shoulder. Right now, when I see him, he's spitting,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: he's shooting spitballs out of that bazooka. That's what he's doing.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: All right, so he's wandering through the wilderness right now.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: And what's he got, three interceptions in a couple of
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: games here, getting outplayed by.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins and Jacoby Brissett. That is a felony.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: You lost to Cousins and Brissett. McDaniel, you know what
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: he looks like on the sidelines?
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: He looks like Caller 89. Caller 89, you're going to
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: win tickets to the iHeart Music Festival. Come on down. Okay,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I won tickets.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, in this case, no, we didn't have tickets to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the iHeart Music Festival because that was this weekend. So instead,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: we're going to let you call plays for the Chargers. Okay,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I'm Caller 89. My name is Mike McDaniel. I'd like
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: to call some plays.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Whee!
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: The whole thing looks like the Chargers need roadside assistance.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: They need a tow truck. You got the hippy-dippy-doo, and
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you wonder, like, did he get some bad devil's lettuce
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: or something like that? The Dolphins, the argument was always, well,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: McDaniel couldn't run what he wants because of Tua. Well,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Tua's not around anymore, not with McDaniel. And should somebody
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: check the Chargers playbook for bongs, water stains on there?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Maybe they can't read the plays. That's what's going on here.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: All right, now, final point. To the Vegas side of things.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: To the Vegas side of things.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: So the overreaction machine is about as high as it
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: can get when you talk about the situation with the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: football team representing Vegas. So the question, does this 2-0
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: start now for the Raiders and this win over the Chargers,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: does this win over the Chargers count as a huge
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: statement victory for Clint Kubiak's Raiders?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: So my response would be three words. Easy there, Sparky. Okay,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: calm down, Sparky. Calm down now, Sparky. It is a
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: nice divisional road win to get to 2-0, but you
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: know what that means. Clint Kubiak did not all of
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: a sudden discover penicillin here. He did not.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And I have an unpopular opinion. I'm not very impressed
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: with the Raiders beating the Dolphins.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: And The Chargers. I'm not.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: You people have your pants down, you Raider aficionados, which
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: shows you.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: How pathetic the Raiders are. You don't even realize it.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: You're so obtuse.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: You're sending me all these nasty messages and emails about, oh,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you were wrong about the Raiders.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, wow. I mean, Al Davis is rolling
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: over in his grave that this is how sad, how
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: pathetic the Raiders are that the fans are gaga because
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: you beat the Dolphins and the Chargers. That's considered historic? Really?
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: You embarrass yourself is what you do. You've embarrassed yourself.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: This was not some magic potion, by the way. The
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Chargers just drank their own poison, okay?
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: They just like they did against the cardinals the week
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: before there's some internal things going on with that charger
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: team and had nothing to do with the brilliance of
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the raiders and remember most nfl games are not won
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: they're lost and often they're lost by pure stupidity just
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: absolute stupidity and The Chargers serving up a hot mess
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: fajita plate on a flaming platter. Eight penalties, six fumbles,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: and two interceptions. And they spent four quarters stepping on
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: garden rakes, the Chargers did. And this looked radioactive right now.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: And Clint Kubiak's Raiders did not pull off a master class.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: They just found a wallet. lying on the sidewalk and
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: they were smart enough to pick it up do you
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: get credit for that oh i found a bunch of
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: i gave it a bunch of money well you you
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: found it anybody could walk by and found the wallet
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: stuff with cash you just happen to be the person
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you don't get extra credit for that it's not like
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: you did something brilliant to earn that money you just
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: happen to be in the right place at the right
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: time you say a win is a win but let's
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: hold off the coronation of The Raiders, my goodness, because
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I do believe if you look around the corner there,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: there's a.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Little thing called reality that's going to step up here.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And the Raiders up next have the Saints, Chiefs, Patriots, Bills,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: and Rams.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Which is looking like these two wins.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Remember when the Raiders were 2-0, and then they lost
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: their next five games in a row to be 2-5?
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Yes. Anyway, it is the Ben Maller Show. The Ben
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Maller Show, if you would like to be part of
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: this fine, fine program, we will take your calls at 877-99-ON-FOX.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: That's 877-996-6369. I at least want the Chargers to be
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: somewhat competitive. I go to some of those games. I mean,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: they're going to be sitting there and owning seven. And then,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: how about this? All right, let's do a little hypothetical
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: sports talk radio fun. Let's say the Chargers, this thing
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: completely falls apart. Herbert plays like this. He gets hurt.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Chargers are 0-7, 0-8, 0-9. And then it's over.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: They're fighting for the top pick in the draft, let's say.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: that they end up with the top pick. Can you
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: imagine if Arch Manning's like, I don't want to play
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: for the Chargers. My uncle Eli didn't want to play
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: for the Chargers. I don't want to play for the Chargers.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And the Chargers are like, we're going to trade Justin
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Herbert's lazy ass. We're going to trade him somewhere else,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and we're going to draft you. No, no, I don't
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: want to play there. But that was San Diego.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: This is L.A.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Is it different in L.A.? But the Chargers, the way
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: they look right now, if you lose to the Cardinals
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: and the Raiders, you're in position to get– the number
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: one pick in the draft. Do you understand that? That's
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: how bad it is. And I'm not being a shock jock.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not being a gas bag man over here. That's reality.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: If you lose to the Raiders and the Cardinals, you
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: can lose to anyone.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: You should lose to anyone.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Wow. Wowzers.
• 32:54
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• 32:56
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• 33:02
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: To the third degree. This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: Ben, before the Seahawks win on Sunday, it was reported
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: that Sam Darnold is recovering faster than anyone had anticipated
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: and that he could be ready by week four. But
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: with Drew Locke actually playing well and the Seahawks doing well,
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: do you think they should not rush him back?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would bench Sam Darnold. He's not that good.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I think this is proving what Seattle's done is proving
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's a fraud.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: And these two wins by the Seahawks, they validated my take, Coop.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: That's what they've done. They validated my take. that you
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: could put anybody in there with that defense.
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: Next!
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: So I didn't even know this was a thing, but
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: apparently the Patriots used to put a reverse image of
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: the uprights behind the kicker when the opposing team tried
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: to kick. And now the NFL's nixed that. They said
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: they're not allowed to do that anymore. Ben, how do
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: you feel about this type of gamesmanship?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't have a big problem with that. Here's
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the problem we have, though, in sports.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Because of the interweb and everyone's got cameras, like all
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the tricks that made sports fun back in the day,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the gamesmanship tricks.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Are not allowed because they're called offensive.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Like the things the Celtics did back in the day
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: where they'd paint the locker room pink and they wouldn't
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: provide air conditioning, now it's an HR violation.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: People complain and bitch. So you can't do that stuff anymore.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: It sucks. It's all corporate, and I don't like it.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Next!
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: So Caitlin Clark was just in Europe with Team USA,
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: and she thinks that they're itching for female basketball over there,
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: and she thinks that the commissioner, the new WNBA commissioner,
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: will have an international game next season. Ben, do you
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: think that will be the case for the WNBA? They're
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: going global?
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Well, good luck.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's certain places they could have professional women's
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: basketball where it would work.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, there are women's games elsewhere, but Most of
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: the world, like most of America, doesn't really care about
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: women's basketball. I hate to say it, but that's the
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: reality of the situation. We speak the truth here, Koopaloop,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: so good luck.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: There it is, Mallard to the third degree as we
• 35:09
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• 35:11
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• 35:13
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• 35:36
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• 35:39
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• 35:41
  Speaker 8: Hold that thought.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: No one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds.
• 35:44
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• 35:46
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• 36:03
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• 36:06
  Speaker 1: needs our advice? Well, there's a team that just had
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: the worst two-game stretch to begin an NFL season this
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Since the 1920s, been about 100 years, I believe, the
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Chargers losing back-to-back games to the lowly Raiders and the Cardinals.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: And that sounds bad. That sounds bad. And it doesn't
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: just sound bad.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: It is bad for Jim Harbaugh's team, who's saying all
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the right things and then going out and riding the
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: vomit comet when his team takes the field. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: How far back?
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: You've got to go back. The nerds have looked it up.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: The last time something like this happened in the history
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: of the NFL, you've got to go back. To 1926,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: a team called the Racine Tornadoes in 1926. So it's
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: 100 years.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: The charge to the second team in NFL history to
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: lose back-to-back games by double digits with both coming at
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: home against teams that had sub-200 winning percentages in the
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: previous season. And the Tornadoes, the other team to do
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: it back in 1926. So advice to Jim Harbaugh. And
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Herbert and the Chargers, your advice to the Chargers.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: And Mike McDaniel, the offensive coordinator.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: You're live on the air when you hear my voice
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: at 877-99 on Fox.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: We'll start with you on line one. Hello, line one.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: You're on the air, line one.
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  Speaker 6: Go.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: All right, hollering James, still able to snore away.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you, James. Line two, you're on the air. It's
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: the instant advice.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Line for the Chargers off to the 0-2 start.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Worst start in 100 years in the NFL. Hello, we're
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: on the air. Line two, go.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: If a cockroach jumped in my window, I'd be like,
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: fuck yeah.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go. Line three is next.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: It's the Insta advice line, unscreened radio.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: And for the charges, of course, you're on the airline three. Hello.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: It could be worse.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: You could be an angel fan, too.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, that would be that would be brutal. I'm talking
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: about a nightmare. Like you. You, of course. Ferg Dog. Fergie.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: By the way, Fergie, I tried to get him to
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: do the mailbag. He says, there's not enough money. We
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: don't have enough money to pay him to do the mailbag.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: How about that? Ferg Dog said no to the mailbag.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Let's go to you. Line four. You're on the air.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Line four. Advice to Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers. Line four. Yeah,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: morning time.
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: They said he put on 10 pounds of muscles.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: When? When?
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Look at that. Rick and Marilyn right there. Let's go
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: to line five.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: It's the instant advice line, 877-99 on Fox. These are
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: unscreened calls. We're giving advice to Jim Harbaugh and the
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Chargers as they're in a rough patch right now.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Hello, caller. You're on the line five. Go line five.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Isn't it nice to see Cam Akers fumble a ball
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: for another team other than yours?
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I don't want to talk about Cam Akers. Ah,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: that's Supermarket C, though. Let's go to Line 6. You're
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: on the air, Line 6.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: It's the instant advice line, unscreened radio for Jim Harbaugh
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: and the Chargers and Justin Herbert and the entire group.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Boy, what a mess they happen to be. Hello, you're
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: on the air, Line 6.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Go! You ought to get struck on the butt by
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: the lightning bolt of the strike of their helmet.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: All right, yes, that's what they need, clearly. Clearly, that's
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: the one thing that they're missing.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: By the way, fun fact here, Tua and McDaniel, these
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: two guys, since 2022, when Mike McDaniel has had Tua
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: as his quarterback, they've averaged 25.3 points per game.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: His team. Anyone other than Tua.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel's teams have averaged less than 15 points a
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: game in 15 games without Tua. So the Chargers clearly
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: have to trade for Tua Tungabailoa.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Line one, you're on the air, line one. Hello, line one.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Line one is not there. We'll go to line two.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: It's the instant advice line, unscreened radio.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: We're giving advice to the Chargers off to the worst
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: start in the NFL in 100 years.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Line two, you're on the air, line two. Go.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Big Lou's just like you. He's a little sticky, too.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: That sounds kind of like slug in Vegas.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Let's jump over to line.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Five at 877-99 on Fox.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Line five, you're on the air.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: We're giving advice to the Chargers off to the worst
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: start in 100 years in the NFL.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: I had no idea they was that old.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: I know, right? They don't look that old. Jim Harbaugh
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: looks kind of– actually, he does kind of look old,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh, but not 100 years old.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: At all.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Let's go over to line six. It's the Insta advice line.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: You listen to our live coverage. We are trained professionals.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Do not attempt this at home. Line six. You're on
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: the air, line six.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Hello. Yo, the cheerleaders need to shave their cookies.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Let's go to line one. We'll go over to line one.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Boy, there must be some kind of cosmic event here,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: what's going on here.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Line one. You're on the air, line one. Hello, line one.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: The autumn wind is a raider.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: No, that's not as good. See, what I do, my
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: version's better than that. You got to work on your,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: you got to go a little deeper, all right? You
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: got to go a little deeper there. Let's do a
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: few more. It's the instant advice line for the Chargers
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: off to the 0-2 start. And based on opponent record
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: from the previous year, worst start in 100 years. We'll
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: do one more. I'll take credit. If not, I'll blame
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: the coop. Last call. It's an advice line. Line five.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Line five. You're on the airline. Five.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: Go.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Is that true?
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: The Ramblers are down to minus six and a half versus.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: There it is. A little quicker, sir. You got to
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: go a little quicker on that. Bad job by you.