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Hour 2 - Not Playing Tag · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: It's our number two. All right, So let me explain
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Speaker 2: to you here an hour two of the Ben mal Show.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna explain it to you like you're five years old.
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Speaker 2: What message the Seahawks are sending to Kenneth Walker. They
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Speaker 2: are not planning on franchise tagging the Super Bowl. MVP
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Speaker 2: will also check in in Houston. What is the temperature
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Speaker 2: in the room around Texans quarterback c J Stroud? There
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Speaker 2: are conflicting reports about him being on the trading block
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Speaker 2: this offseason. Also, can you put into context what this
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Speaker 2: report about the Vikings chopping down their playbook for JJ
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Speaker 2: McCarthy means. We will examine it great cost who leaked
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Speaker 2: the story and why the story was leaked. Now we'll
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Speaker 2: go there as well. Settle in on this Wednesday. It
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Speaker 2: is our number two. Well, it's a popular game on
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Speaker 2: the playground. We have decided that an NFL team has
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Speaker 2: decided we're not gonna play tag. We're not playing tag.
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Speaker 2: the world of Pro football and Seattle. Days after, just
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Speaker 2: days after a rollicking good time on the streets of Seattle,
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Speaker 2: a winner of the Lombardi Trophy there, the team that
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Speaker 2: represents the Pacific Northwest has made a decision here to
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Speaker 2: put the player most responsible in the Super Bowl for
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Speaker 2: winning the game into a place where they are twisting
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Speaker 2: in the wind. So I don't you saw this? Maybe
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Speaker 2: you missed it, perhaps not, but we learned that it
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Speaker 2: is highly unlikely that the Seahawks will use their franchise
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Speaker 2: tag on running back and Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker.
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Speaker 2: These Seahawks have multiple free agents they would like to
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Speaker 2: keep all of them. And so the way the story
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Speaker 2: was passed on by the team and representatives of the
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Speaker 2: team for fan consumption was it's all about paying Jackson
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Speaker 2: Smith and Jigba. That is what it's this is all about.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: Adam Schefter, one of the Messenger Pigeons, says that the
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl tax, I'm sorry, I'll do this. I'll do
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Speaker 2: this professionally. The Super Bowl tax is why they cannot
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Speaker 2: do the franchise tag on Kenneth Walker. That's essentially what
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Speaker 2: was implied by the reporting. Also a good jumping off point.
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Speaker 2: Let us discuss the question, can you explain to me?
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Speaker 2: I would like you to explain to me, like like
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Speaker 2: you're a child, right, what is the message the Seahawks
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Speaker 2: are sending to Kenneth Walker? So they go first, I'll
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Speaker 2: explain to you, and I'll just pretend you're like five
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Speaker 2: years old and I'll explain this to you. What's the
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Speaker 2: message to the Seahawks are sending in they let it out.
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Speaker 2: It was obviously coming from somebody in the Seahawks organization
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Speaker 2: that they are not going to give the franchise tag
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Speaker 2: to Kenneth Walker. So my observation, I've got Huggies, Mega Church,
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Speaker 2: and Alice Cooper and we will combine all of these
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Speaker 2: things together and we are going to do the two
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Speaker 2: man bobsled is what we're going to do. So number
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Speaker 2: it's a reminder life comes at you fast. Just a
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Speaker 2: few days ago that Kenneth Walker was seemingly trying to
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Speaker 2: convince an intoxicated Seahawks executive to give him a massive contract,
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Speaker 2: and now calmer heads have prevailed, and Kenneth Walker, who
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Speaker 2: was feeling like the king of the sandbox, the king
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Speaker 2: of the sandbox, Kenneth Walker big game in the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 2: didn't score a touchdown though, and now reality is knocking
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Speaker 2: at the door. So you got John Schneider, the GM
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Speaker 2: there in Seattle, who's essentially saying, hey, yeah, Kenneth Walker,
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Speaker 2: we really do thank you for what you did in
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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. It was really kind of cool. But
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Speaker 2: in order for you to stay, we need a coupon book.
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Speaker 2: We need a book of coupons. It's hometown discount or
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Speaker 2: go to the highway, get out of here. And they're
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Speaker 2: telling Kennatha Walker, even though you are the MVP of
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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl and all that, and you'll have that
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Speaker 2: title the rest of your life, in this chapter of
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Speaker 2: the book, you are like Huggies. You are Little Mover's
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Speaker 2: disposable diapers, is what you are. You're a diaper, a
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Speaker 2: disposable diaper. That's it. And you were great and it's wonderful,
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Speaker 2: but there's no way on God's green to Earth we're
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Speaker 2: paying you almost fifteen million dollars, which is what the
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Speaker 2: franchise tag is not going to happen. You just running
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Speaker 2: the piles. It's not about you, it's the running back.
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Speaker 2: Just to be clear, I wouldn't pay it running back
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Speaker 2: that much either. However, all I heard from my friends
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Speaker 2: in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest is they do things differently.
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Speaker 2: They're a classy operation, and they keep their guys around
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Speaker 2: like you all told me that. Okay, so you just
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Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl. You're pretty much telling Kenneth Walker, hey,
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Speaker 2: get out of here. That's the message, right, thanks, but
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Speaker 2: no thanks, we don't really want you. And so they're like,
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're they're leaking it out. We want JSN.
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Speaker 2: That's what we want. And and of cose he vanished
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Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl. He was a non factor. And
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Speaker 2: the guy that carried the Seahawks across the finish line,
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Speaker 2: they're telling him hit the road, Jack and that's it.
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Speaker 2: And they're really double dog daring. The Seahawks are double
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Speaker 2: dog daring Kenneth Walker. It's like, go out and see
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Speaker 2: if there's somebody else on the playground wants to give
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Speaker 2: you all the toys. So we don't want to give
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Speaker 2: you all the toys. But I'm the king of the sandbox.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't matter. Go see if somebody else will give you
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Speaker 2: all the toy but I want the toys here now.
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Speaker 2: If you're Kenneth Walker, as I understand, he wants to
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Speaker 2: stay in Seattle. Think he's been pretty open about that.
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Speaker 2: He wants to stay there. It's got a good thing
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Speaker 2: going all that. Blah blah blah blah blah. Don't you
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Speaker 2: have have to leave? If you were advising Kenneth Walker,
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Speaker 2: don't you have to leave? This is the high water
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Speaker 2: mark of the man's career. There's always a sucker out
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Speaker 2: there that will overpay a running back, whether that is
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Speaker 2: Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys. The Steelers need an
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Speaker 2: upgrade at running back. They don't normally do things like that.
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Speaker 2: There's a bunch of teams that have suspects at running back.
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Speaker 2: So if you're Kenneth Walker, I know all I want
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Speaker 2: to stay and on him. Don't you have to go
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Speaker 2: somewhere else? They don't want to pay it. The Seahawks
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Speaker 2: have said we don't want to pay it, So don't
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Speaker 2: you have to leave?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: I would think unless there's some kind of backroom deal
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Speaker 2: we don't know about, they're daring you to leave. And
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Speaker 2: that whole dopamine hit from winning the Super Bowl and
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Speaker 2: how great that was and the high which is addictive
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Speaker 2: of being the MVP, and just a few days later
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Speaker 2: it say yeah, we're good. We're good. So it's either
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Speaker 2: tighten the seatbelt a little bit and you can hang
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Speaker 2: out with Sasquatch for a couple more years, or go
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Speaker 2: out in the wild blue yonder and walk down the
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Speaker 2: winn A Mucker Road and see if you can find
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Speaker 2: somebody to pay. And that's that.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: Page two, we go to Houston, a developing story, and
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Speaker 2: I know mister irrigation loves this idea. So the Texans
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Speaker 2: are saying, hey, we're all on board, we like our quarterback,
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Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. However, we are
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Speaker 2: hearing chatter and I love my chatter. We're hearing chatter
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Speaker 2: that Texans quarterback c Jay Stroud can be yours if
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Speaker 2: the price is right. What are you talking about? That's outrageous?
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 2: Not really, not really. Now Todd McShay, who used to
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Speaker 2: be somebody and now he's like another podcast guy. But
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Speaker 2: Todd McShay claims it is a possibility, It is a possibility.
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Speaker 2: He used to be the NFL draft guru and then
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Speaker 2: they fight with mel Kiper and then they got rid
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Speaker 2: of him. He had some issues and so he's gone.
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Speaker 2: So mcshay's tossing it out there that CJ. Stroud could
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Speaker 2: be yours if the price is right. So the question again,
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Speaker 2: it's just a report. Texans are saying, we love our guy.
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Speaker 2: So what is the temperature in the room. What is
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Speaker 2: the temperature in the room around quarterback CJ Stroud for
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Speaker 2: the Texans going forward? So I looked and what I
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Speaker 2: did is I looked at the temperature in the mashed potatoes,
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Speaker 2: just some garlic mashed potatoes. And I looked at the
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Speaker 2: temperature of the garlic mashed potatoes. Lukewarm. That's the temperature
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Speaker 2: in the room. Lukewarm garlic mashed potatoes. That's it.
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Speaker 4: C J.
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Speaker 2: Stroud is at this point a false start career penalty.
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Speaker 2: He is guilty of a false start. Looked like he
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Speaker 2: had arrived and was the man, big man on campus
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Speaker 2: at the start. To use a horse racing analogy for
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Speaker 2: our friends at Churchill Downs who listen, well, we have
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Speaker 2: one guy at Churchill Downs that listen. It's like a
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Speaker 2: racehorse sprinting out of the gate. You look like Secretariat
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Speaker 2: and you're just running and you're leading everybody and you're
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Speaker 2: dominating it. And for a quarter mile c J. Stroud
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Speaker 2: was the BEA's knees. Oh my god. And then he
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Speaker 2: decided to pull over to the side of the track
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Speaker 2: and he wanted to take a nap, and so he
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Speaker 2: took a nap. C J. Stroud right on the rail.
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Speaker 2: And he's been taking a nap for two years in
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Speaker 2: a row in the playoffs and so you thought you
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Speaker 2: had your forever quarterback. It was skulduggery, is what it was.
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Speaker 2: It was just schoolduggery. In the last couple of years,
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Speaker 2: he's looked more like a guy c J. Stroud who
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Speaker 2: should be running a mega church as a full time televangelist.
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Speaker 2: He would be better at that, right, better at that
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Speaker 2: than being a franchise quarterback. He just looks like he
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Speaker 2: should That's what he should be doing. He should be
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Speaker 2: a televangelist and not a quarterback. That's the way he's
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Speaker 2: played now. I got a lot of crap for my
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Speaker 2: friends in Houston when I mentioned this prior to last season,
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Speaker 2: and you don't know what you're talking about. That's why
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Speaker 2: you're doing the overnight show, blah blah blah blah blah
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Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah, and your face. I didn't
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Speaker 2: hear for one of those losers because I was proven correct.
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Speaker 2: C J. Stroud validated the Malar monologue. And now two
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Speaker 2: years in a row, and so we have now reached
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Speaker 2: a fork in the road and they changed coordinators. Right,
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Speaker 2: They've had a championship level defense in Houston. They've gone
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Speaker 2: through a couple offensive coordinators there. The common denominator is c. J. Stroud,
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Speaker 2: and Houston is inching closer in they're inching closer to
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Speaker 2: the Tua zone or the Kyler Murray trap. Year three
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Speaker 2: entering year four. So you're already done with three years
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Speaker 2: in the NFL. You got to decide that fifth year
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Speaker 2: option thing and whether you want to keep him if
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Speaker 2: you pick up the option. Those are all decisions that
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Speaker 2: have to be made, right, and then you have to
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Speaker 2: scay to see the guy that we're gonna sign to
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Speaker 2: a big contract. And this is the mistake so many
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Speaker 2: of these teams make that haven't shown they're the guy.
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Speaker 2: They get paid because you think they're gonna be the guy,
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Speaker 2: and then you get stuck. You get stuck with a
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Speaker 2: stiff So the doomsday clock on the future of c. J.
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Speaker 2: Stroud continues. Is he worthy of a massive paid it No?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: If you're related, I guess, but I'm not related to him.
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Speaker 2: I don't know the guy. No. Like I said, he
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Speaker 2: placed quarterback like you should be at televangelist and at megachurch,
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Speaker 2: And there's plenty of them in Houston, so he can
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Speaker 2: pick which one he wants to work at. But that's fine.
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Speaker 2: And so is he worth aristocrat money? No bueno? No,
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Speaker 2: can I do it now? Privately, my theory on this,
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Speaker 2: it's like politicians. It's like politicians. You've got the public
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Speaker 2: versus private. Privately, the Texans are all ears. Send us
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Speaker 2: a text, use your burner phone. We'll figure this out.
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Speaker 2: We'll figure this out together. Publicly, we love our quarterback,
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Speaker 2: We stand by our guy, We support our quarterback. Way
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Speaker 2: to go, We believe in you and all this stuff.
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Speaker 2: So at some point you have to wake up and
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Speaker 2: be the adult in the room and realize that you're
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Speaker 2: not that guy. Pout, You're not that guy, and that's
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Speaker 2: the problem, and that until proven otherwise, CJ. Stroud is
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Speaker 2: a flash in the pan. That's it. And the other
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Speaker 2: problem is, even if he comes back and plays well
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Speaker 2: next NFL season, you still can't trust him because you
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Speaker 2: said two terrible seasons. So is that an aberration? You
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Speaker 2: gotta play consistently, Well, you're gonna have a couple of
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Speaker 2: bad games in a row. Whatever you gotta. You can't
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Speaker 2: have back to back stinkers. And he's not a big
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Speaker 2: game quarterback. Did you see he puked all over himself?
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Speaker 2: He rode the vomit comet in the playoff games? All right? Now,
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Speaker 2: final point? Seeing right in vomit commt we go to
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Speaker 2: Minnesota and there's a convoy of vomit comets in Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: And now CJ. Stroud's bad. But if you do a
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Speaker 2: side by side cole the challenge, he is an all
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Speaker 2: pro compared to JJ McCarthy. God is McCarthy back. His
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Speaker 2: inability to run the offense in Minnesota has come to
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Speaker 2: light a dramatic report claiming the Vikings mid season dumped
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Speaker 2: their playbook, much of their playbook. Did you see this?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 2: So the reporting is that McCarthy was so bad. How
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Speaker 2: bad was he? He was so bad that the Vikings
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Speaker 2: removed almost all of the over the middle passing concepts
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Speaker 2: during the season to dumb down the playbook because even
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Speaker 2: though McCarthy played all those games at Michigan and all this,
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Speaker 2: he's a dumb dumb so they had water down the playbook.
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Speaker 2: So the question, can you put into context what this
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Speaker 2: report of the Vikings chopping down the playbook getting read
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Speaker 2: of the over the middle passing plays for JJ McCarthy means.
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Speaker 2: So I will put it in a context. Crank up the
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Speaker 2: old boombox here, as the Great Alice Cooper screeched back
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Speaker 2: in his day. No more, mister nice guy. That's the Vikings.
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Speaker 2: No more, mister nice guys. What they're saying, it's exactly
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Speaker 2: what the Viking report. That report sounds like to me.
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Speaker 2: That's what it sounds like to me. It's like, Hey,
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Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell and the Viking coaching staff, they took that
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Speaker 2: playbook and they walked into the room with the paper
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Speaker 2: shredder and they shredded it. They did a bunch of delete, delete,
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Speaker 2: delete on the tablets, the files they had to get
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Speaker 2: rid of, and they said, hey, JJ, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: what we're gonna need the Fisher Price version for you.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna use the Fisher Price playbook for JJ McCarthy
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Speaker 2: what they put training wheels on a Harley Davidson. You
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Speaker 2: don't draft a quarterback in the first round. I don't
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Speaker 2: need to tell you this. And he sits out his
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Speaker 2: first year as a red shirt, and then you have
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Speaker 2: to dumb down the playbook because he's incompetent, Like that's
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Speaker 2: so embarrassing. My god, they bubble wrapped the quarterback. You
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Speaker 2: got hurt anyway. So as far as the leak, we
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Speaker 2: always ask the question who leaked it? Why leak it? Now? Well,
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Speaker 2: who leaked it? You think JJ McCarthy's people leaked the
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Speaker 2: fact that he's a moron and doesn't know the plays.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go know, So it's the Vikings. Why would
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Speaker 2: you leak it? Not Well, you're leaking it now to
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Speaker 2: let people know that you're gonna bring in another quarterback
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Speaker 2: and that the reason you're doing that is because your
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Speaker 2: current quarterback is a Dodo bird and that's why you
17:38
Speaker 2: have to do it. So it was not accidental. I
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Speaker 2: don't believe the leak was accidental. It was the organization
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Speaker 2: in Minnesota quietly turning off the star Trek deflector shields.
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Speaker 2: They turn them off and that's it, and they're preparing
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Speaker 2: to bring in somebody else, and whoever they bring in
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Speaker 2: is also gonna stink most likely. So you'll get that.
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Speaker 2: But you don't simplify unless you have no other options. Like,
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Speaker 2: that's a total panic move, right, that's an I mean,
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Speaker 2: everyone agree, that's a panic move by the Viking. You
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Speaker 2: don't dumb things down unless the test scores are coming
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Speaker 2: back in crayon and you're like, why, man thinking about
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Speaker 2: McCarthy had justin Jefferson, top five receiver in the NFL,
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Speaker 2: who was neutered Jordan Addison, great player, right, good player,
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Speaker 2: And the Vikings ranked twenty ninth in passing offense, twenty
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Speaker 2: ninth in passing offense. That is not development. That is demolition.
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Speaker 2: That is a dereliction of duties, is what that is.
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Speaker 2: And so the message is rather clear. The gloves are off,
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Speaker 2: the kid gloves are off, and the Vikings are in
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Speaker 2: the quarterback market, whether that's Kirk Cousins coming back or
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Speaker 2: taking a flyer on two, a tongue of my lower
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Speaker 2: is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we continue through the
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Speaker 2: overnight hours here, we thank you for hanging out with us,
21:07
Speaker 2: and we want to react to the Mallard monologue at
21:10
Speaker 2: the top of the hour as we yapped about the Seahawks,
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Speaker 2: letting Kenneth Walker know, hey get out of here and
21:19
Speaker 2: we're good you get go away, and the future of
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Speaker 2: c J. Stroud and also of JJ McCarthy, a couple
21:26
Speaker 2: of quarterbacks who have failed so far in their NFL careers.
21:29
Speaker 2: So if you would like to comment on that on
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Speaker 2: appearing at the Louver in Peri, right next to the
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Speaker 2: Mona Lisa. There you go, all right, and that's right.
21:54
Speaker 2: Well you get the Loraina Theater down the street and
21:55
Speaker 2: Koober loop at a Bronco fan that's uh Bronco, and
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Speaker 2: your comments will be used against you by the court
22:05
Speaker 2: of the Mallord Militia, the kangaroo court. Back to it,
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Speaker 2: ferk dog rights and says, if I was in charge
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Speaker 2: of the Vikings, I'd stick with JJ McCarthy. The Seahawks
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Speaker 2: just prove you can win with a stiff at quarterback.
22:18
Speaker 2: That is true. That's true. The Seahawks prove you don't
22:21
Speaker 2: need a great quarterback. You can win with a substandard quarterback.
22:24
Speaker 2: If the Vikings improve the defense and benefit from the
22:28
Speaker 2: worst two point conversion call of all time, they could
22:32
Speaker 2: be in the Super Bowl next year. Yeah. So that
22:34
Speaker 2: is a good formula. It is a copycat league. That's
22:37
Speaker 2: a great point. So all you need is the NFL
22:39
Speaker 2: to give you two points you did not get, and
22:42
Speaker 2: then get home field because of those two points, and
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Speaker 2: you're on your way. And then make sure that the
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Speaker 2: one of the playoff games you play the forty nine
22:50
Speaker 2: Ers on the road of the Super Bowl have like
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Speaker 2: half their team out with injury. That'll be good. You're
22:55
Speaker 2: on your set. Absolutely, I agree that's what they should do.
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Speaker 2: Femi in Minnesota says, hey, Ben, Kenneth Walker may finally
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Speaker 2: learn that in the NFL, no good deed goes unpunished.
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Speaker 2: Now he's gonna get paid. Somebody will pay him. He'll
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Speaker 2: get a good amount of money. Someone will pay him
23:15
Speaker 2: late night, whether it's the as I mentioned the Cowboys,
23:18
Speaker 2: because that's a Jerry Jones type move where the Steelers
23:21
Speaker 2: need a running back. I think he's from the state
23:23
Speaker 2: of Tennessee. So the Tennessee Titans for Kenneth Walker, they
23:27
Speaker 2: need to make some kind of splash, and they have
23:29
Speaker 2: a bunch of bad football players in Tennessee, so that
23:32
Speaker 2: could happen late night. Drug tester says, dumb down playbook
23:36
Speaker 2: for a Michigan man. Maybe the Vikings can ask for
23:40
Speaker 2: some of hollering James pills to keep him awake and study. Hello,
23:45
Speaker 2: what else, do you have an idea? It definitely is
23:48
Speaker 2: an idea. No, Stridina says a contrary to the song title,
23:53
Speaker 2: Alice Cooper is in fact a very nice guy and
23:56
Speaker 2: a scratch golfer. Two. I noticed how no Strydinis ignored
24:01
Speaker 2: the Komodo dragon in the room as his team does
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Speaker 2: not want to play Kenneth Walker. So there is that.
24:09
Speaker 2: There's that. Let's go to the phones. It is a
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Speaker 2: call in show and we will say hello to Eenie Meenie,
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Speaker 2: miney mo. Let's go to Andre who's in the Commonwealth
24:18
Speaker 2: and he's on break. It's the winter break there for
24:21
Speaker 2: the school kids in the Commonwealth, so we get to
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Speaker 2: talk to Andre all week. Hello Andre and his dog Willis.
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Speaker 1: Are you doing Ben?
24:29
Speaker 3: It's good to be with you.
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Speaker 6: I think Willis uh As has checked in. He's called
24:34
Speaker 6: it h but I'm I'm still locked in for this
24:38
Speaker 6: episode of the Ben Mallie show, him watching the reruns
24:41
Speaker 6: of the Winter Olympics here.
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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, what are you? Are you watching the short
24:47
Speaker 2: program the Bob Slid? What are you? What do you watch.
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Speaker 3: The short program?
24:54
Speaker 6: Ben?
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Speaker 2: Like? Are they are you if you're tall or are
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Speaker 2: you allowed? You have to be a short woman to
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Speaker 2: be in that. Can you be tall in this short program?
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Speaker 6: I don't believe they discriminate. I mean, I don't know
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Speaker 6: if I've seen any of the skaters that don't.
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Speaker 2: You have to be you have to be short, right,
25:09
Speaker 2: you can't really be tall and do all those spins
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Speaker 2: and all that.
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Speaker 6: They might be able to. You know, we got we
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Speaker 6: got phenomenal athletes of you know, all heights and you
25:19
Speaker 6: know and sizes. But I haven't as of yet seen
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Speaker 6: one of the skaters that's over six foot.
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Speaker 3: But I did you know this?
25:27
Speaker 6: Alyssa lou is an American.
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Speaker 2: She's fantastic, It's tremendous.
25:34
Speaker 6: Won the championship at thirteen years old, and then at
25:37
Speaker 6: seventeen she said, I'm going to retire. Ben retired at seventeen,
25:42
Speaker 6: and then they came back out of retirement at the
25:44
Speaker 6: tender age of like nineteen or twenty, and she's doing
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Speaker 6: some more winning already had a gold medal.
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Speaker 2: Wow, I've read. Yeah, I know, I retire of I
25:54
Speaker 2: retired drinking soda when I was like twenty five years old.
25:57
Speaker 2: I stopped drinking soda. That was my last and.
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Speaker 6: Then you've always as I understand, I had skills in
26:03
Speaker 6: the kitchen, you know, so you took up the cooking
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Speaker 6: and you know.
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Speaker 2: You're making your own and not always. Man, when I
26:08
Speaker 2: was a bachelor, I didn't know how to cook. I
26:10
Speaker 2: get those TV dinners, man, I love that, and that
26:13
Speaker 2: was about all I did. But thank you Andre there.
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Speaker 2: You're enjoying the Olympics. You got that going for you.
26:18
Speaker 2: You're ready to go. And do you ever decide, you
26:22
Speaker 2: know you're in education, do you think you should just
26:23
Speaker 2: like some of the kids, should just tank and not
26:25
Speaker 2: try and then maybe they'll just get some free stuff
26:28
Speaker 2: or something. I guess I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm I'm a top Timodau, Tom Thibodau is my coach, Ben,
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Speaker 6: you know, so we don't believe in tanking.
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Speaker 2: Not for you all. I don't believe in tanking.
26:38
Speaker 1: It.
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Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. The dumbest thing we started the show. Mark
26:41
Speaker 2: Cuban is endorsing tanking. It's and I know he did
26:44
Speaker 2: it and all that, and the Mavericks tanked and I
26:47
Speaker 2: hate it. I can't stand it.
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Speaker 6: Mark Cuban needs to back off some of these hot takes.
26:52
Speaker 6: This is the same guy that said two months after
26:55
Speaker 6: the pandemic. The NBA was going to be back in
26:57
Speaker 6: a couple of weeks in May, uh, you know, and
26:59
Speaker 6: and overhead to you know, pump the brakes on that.
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Speaker 2: We should have been back in a couple of weeks.
27:04
Speaker 2: But in hindsight it should have been back, but it wasn't.
27:07
Speaker 2: But yeah, I hear you.
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Speaker 3: Right, right right.
27:10
Speaker 6: And and David Stern the lake red David Stern had
27:12
Speaker 6: to drop the de lightning boats on him with a
27:14
Speaker 6: million dollar fines could because he kept storming the court.
27:16
Speaker 6: So Mark Cuban, he should be happy. The NBA is
27:20
Speaker 6: probably gonna get his mind right. He got some other investors.
27:22
Speaker 6: Looks like he might be buying back into the Dallas
27:24
Speaker 6: Mavericks if they have stand ownership, and he can he
27:28
Speaker 6: can leave it at that. But Ben, you make a
27:29
Speaker 6: very good point, right, the folks out there right, we
27:33
Speaker 6: have this what do you want to call it? A
27:35
Speaker 6: Foustian bargain? I think is what we're calling it between
27:39
Speaker 6: the sports league, the NBA, and the gambling houses. Okay,
27:42
Speaker 6: it's a it's a tenuous agreement. Everybody's making money, but
27:46
Speaker 6: it's not. It's very difficult, very thin ice. Okay, but listen,
27:51
Speaker 6: this tanking the Utah Jazz. What are you doing sitting
27:54
Speaker 6: your players in the fourth quarter? The whales out there
27:56
Speaker 6: where near where you are, you know, out there in Vegas.
27:59
Speaker 3: The we don't like this.
28:00
Speaker 6: We don't like this, mister Silver. So he did get
28:02
Speaker 6: the call in the middle of the night, you know.
28:04
Speaker 6: And who knows what his butler looks like. Maybe he's
28:06
Speaker 6: a reptilian. Who knows, but he got the call. And
28:09
Speaker 6: that's I think, I think you're right on it.
28:10
Speaker 3: You know.
28:11
Speaker 6: Now, all of a sudden, had him Silver wants to
28:12
Speaker 6: be right out front, and this is unacceptable, and we're
28:14
Speaker 6: gonna be dropping the hammer. This is the same guy
28:16
Speaker 6: didn't want to drop a hammer when we found out
28:18
Speaker 6: Steve Bomber had you surfed the salary cap and was
28:21
Speaker 6: paying hundreds of millions of dollars on the side. Didn't
28:23
Speaker 6: want to drop the hammer then. But all of a sudden,
28:25
Speaker 6: now he's stepping in Ben You know, hey, hey, you know,
28:28
Speaker 6: the house always wins. But if Danny Age wants to
28:31
Speaker 6: sit his players in the fourth quarter of the house,
28:33
Speaker 6: they win. That's so good for anybody. So Adam Silver,
28:35
Speaker 6: get your mind and right you're right on tr tech rack.
28:38
Speaker 6: There I don't want to take too much time. I
28:40
Speaker 6: got to get back to the Winter Olympics, all right,
28:41
Speaker 6: locked in all week though, Ben.
28:42
Speaker 2: All Right, the week of Andre.
28:45
Speaker 3: Tak a call.
28:46
Speaker 2: It's the week of Andre the Giant right here on
28:48
Speaker 2: the Ben Malors Show. So as far as the whole
28:52
Speaker 2: Kawhile Leonard thing getting money under the table, like, from
28:55
Speaker 2: what I understand, the issue is that it's you're gonna
28:59
Speaker 2: open up Pandora's box here and that if you think
29:04
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard is the only player getting the money uh
29:09
Speaker 2: under the table, good luck. It's just not not based
29:13
Speaker 2: in reality. Now listen, if you you want to, I'm
29:15
Speaker 2: fine if you want to punsch the Clippers at this point,
29:17
Speaker 2: I'm done. They they they're gonna be mediocre probably for
29:20
Speaker 2: the next couple of years. And if they broke the rules,
29:23
Speaker 2: you should punish them. But you're just gonna have a
29:25
Speaker 2: bunch of other people ratting out the Knicks and the
29:27
Speaker 2: Lakers and the other teams because they've been doing this
29:29
Speaker 2: for a long time. I think he's been standard practicing.
29:31
Speaker 2: There's side deals and whatnot. Now the Clippers might have
29:34
Speaker 2: taken it to a new level, depending on who you believe. Well,
29:39
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens with that. Let's go to Jola,
29:42
Speaker 2: who's deep in the there's days in Dallas. There's always
29:48
Speaker 2: smiling this guy that's going.
29:52
Speaker 1: It's like, I'm gonna say, man, you're about to go
29:54
Speaker 1: on vacation soon.
29:55
Speaker 2: Why would I Why would I go on vacation?
29:58
Speaker 4: Yeah?
29:59
Speaker 3: For the people.
30:02
Speaker 2: No, I don't have any I don't have any vacation.
30:04
Speaker 2: I don't think I might take a random day or
30:06
Speaker 2: something like that.
30:08
Speaker 1: All the daytime guys, big time guys, they laugh at
30:10
Speaker 1: what on vacations right after put off evils.
30:13
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't I'm sleeping when they're on.
30:18
Speaker 2: So I don't know what's going on there. But the
30:19
Speaker 2: company has to force men to take vacation days. Yes,
30:22
Speaker 2: I have too much vacation. He has a work ethic.
30:24
Speaker 2: The company does not want to fire me because then
30:27
Speaker 2: they have to pay me my vacation days. It would
30:29
Speaker 2: cost them a lot of money. I've acquired a lot
30:31
Speaker 2: of I've been here twenty five years. I have a
30:33
Speaker 2: lot of vacation days. I could take the rest of
30:36
Speaker 2: the year off if I wanted to, and they would
30:39
Speaker 2: have to pay me. There's a lot of vacation days.
30:42
Speaker 1: So let me tell you this is what I'm gonna say.
30:45
Speaker 1: I'm taking out of your book. Have the joker, I
30:48
Speaker 1: have much sugar enough and then I have incompetent. The
30:52
Speaker 1: joker is h NBA commissioner. This guy has no back
30:58
Speaker 1: both first ball. Why do you think we're not seeing
31:02
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley and them? As soon as they went to NCS,
31:05
Speaker 1: he and tennis in the pockets of this guy. He said,
31:07
Speaker 1: suppress them. He canceled their show. Then this guy getting
31:12
Speaker 1: bullied by Danny ain't. He doesn't know what to do.
31:14
Speaker 1: He has no backgo. Danny ain't take backing down from
31:16
Speaker 1: this guy. Besides the joker, he's ruining his league and
31:19
Speaker 1: wild and he's lucky that when Beyama is a batman,
31:23
Speaker 1: he's lucky that he has the tallest spare in this
31:25
Speaker 1: league that's willing to play hard and to say his
31:27
Speaker 1: lead and then let's go to the sugar. But sugar is
31:31
Speaker 1: the is the Minnesota Vikings. We were told that this
31:34
Speaker 1: coach could be the quarterback, which burg when saw Dadey McCarthy,
31:38
Speaker 1: he didn't do anything in college. He was handing the
31:40
Speaker 1: ball off hand of the ball off going little out
31:43
Speaker 1: routs of coach in Lovelin. This guy's putent to Hall
31:46
Speaker 1: of Famer. Okay, okay, let's talk about how they got
31:50
Speaker 1: the GM fire. This is a good GM. He dropped
31:53
Speaker 1: and they had the bench probably the best head coach
31:55
Speaker 1: and defensive coordinator Chandam in the league, probably with Flores.
32:00
Speaker 1: So I don't even understand how they could say, oh man,
32:03
Speaker 1: they had plenty of quarter, they had Daniel Jones in
32:05
Speaker 1: the building. It's my sugar enough. And then they'll say
32:08
Speaker 1: they shot down them to dor Tander's doing his interview process,
32:12
Speaker 1: saying he can't read the board. Now they're trying to
32:14
Speaker 1: put JJ McCarthy under the bus, saying he doesn't know
32:17
Speaker 1: how to read the defenses. It's my sugar enough. And
32:20
Speaker 1: then the incompetent part. I'm gonna say at the end,
32:23
Speaker 1: it's just all these guys complain in about low management,
32:26
Speaker 1: and it was a getting pretty soft out here when
32:28
Speaker 1: they're making all this money. I'm not saying to hear
32:30
Speaker 1: any of it and get into a competent you know
32:32
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's like, man, y'all making way too
32:34
Speaker 1: much money, complaining too much. I'm ready to go out
32:37
Speaker 1: vay Cas like Loren and go to Paris like they
32:39
Speaker 1: go to Paris all the time.
32:40
Speaker 2: And man, oh my gosh, I plan on going to
32:42
Speaker 2: Paris this year. How funny was that?
32:44
Speaker 3: Right?
32:44
Speaker 1: Really, you're gonna go to the loops.
32:46
Speaker 2: You go in to the loop, right, that's right. Well,
32:49
Speaker 2: she's gonna she's gonna have an unveiling at the louver
32:51
Speaker 2: and there'll be the art will be on display there
32:54
Speaker 2: and a fox strine. What you do is you bring
32:56
Speaker 2: that piece of paper. You go in there with some
32:58
Speaker 2: scotch tape and you put it up on the wall
33:00
Speaker 2: and move and then you you can't say.
33:02
Speaker 1: You were there. He took all of that.
33:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well listen, we love you, Joelo. I'm
33:07
Speaker 2: so glad that.
33:09
Speaker 1: Come out there to summer.
33:11
Speaker 2: All right, Well, come by say hello, we'll be let
33:13
Speaker 2: me know. We'll make sure here, all right, buddy, great Joela.
33:16
Speaker 2: There he goes our friend Jola from Dallas. Let's salo
33:18
Speaker 2: to Glenn in New Mexico. We have coming up there.
33:23
Speaker 1: He is.
33:23
Speaker 2: I hear the man right there with a birthplace of
33:28
Speaker 2: the nuclear Bob.
33:30
Speaker 3: What this is the actual Ben Mallard. I've been listening
33:33
Speaker 3: to every night since he took this illustrious spot. And
33:37
Speaker 3: I'm not even a sports fan anymore. I got this
33:42
Speaker 3: enchanted when I was in charge of of thinking third
33:48
Speaker 3: party annually does the revision every ten years of the
33:54
Speaker 3: NCAA Handbook, and I could see in nineteen ninety vision
34:00
Speaker 3: that I was just disenchanted. I didn't want to.
34:06
Speaker 2: So you saw, I think what you're saying here, Glenn Is.
34:08
Speaker 2: You saw how they make the sausage, and you no
34:11
Speaker 2: longer want to be a sausage. I got you, I
34:13
Speaker 2: got you, I understand, I got you.
34:14
Speaker 3: And so that led me and my older brothers and
34:18
Speaker 3: all my my, my friends and colleagues eventually to this
34:23
Speaker 3: quit attending to professionals for us as well, because I
34:30
Speaker 3: think that what dear Larry Cuban was saying so frankly, well.
34:37
Speaker 2: I might Mark Cuban, Larry's uncle, work for Larry Cuban.
34:42
Speaker 3: I'm in Mark, I always, I always get the name.
34:45
Speaker 3: The two fellas confused because I happen to work have
34:49
Speaker 3: worked with both of them anyway. I won't tell you
34:52
Speaker 3: who market anyway, no man, I I just I'm delighted
34:58
Speaker 3: to make your acquaintance on.
34:59
Speaker 2: The well, let's I'm glad. And what an endorsement. Let
35:02
Speaker 2: me tell you something, the fact that you hate sports
35:04
Speaker 2: and you listen to a sports show. I don't know
35:06
Speaker 2: if I should take that as a compliment or be
35:08
Speaker 2: offended by that, but either way, I will take that
35:10
Speaker 2: as a compliment, Glenn, that you enjoy the show and
35:15
Speaker 2: we plausibly talk about sports unless we have Jed who Fled?
35:19
Speaker 2: Or Halloween james On and you've been listening. What part
35:22
Speaker 2: of New Mexico are you in? There's only a few
35:23
Speaker 2: cities where people live in New Mexico.
35:25
Speaker 3: So really, I'm really from from California. I'm from Balboa,
35:29
Speaker 3: which no longer exists, and from San Francisco. And I
35:34
Speaker 3: love getting to know your regular callers, you know, and
35:38
Speaker 3: look after that.
35:39
Speaker 2: That's right, these are there. I don't know you respect.
35:42
Speaker 3: I love what you said to the to the veteran.
35:47
Speaker 3: Just keep it. Don't keep it light, not too deep,
35:52
Speaker 3: not too shallow, wait Kel would say, but keep it real, man.
35:56
Speaker 2: That's right, we keep it real. Respect, that's right, Glynn.
36:00
Speaker 2: All right, listen, I love it. I gotta I'm by
36:03
Speaker 2: the clock, four the clock. I love you, man, give
36:05
Speaker 2: me your you can be a regular gun. Call me
36:07
Speaker 2: once a week, call me every night, I don't care.
36:09
Speaker 2: We'll give you a nickname. It's Overnight Talk Radio. If
36:12
Speaker 2: you're every day Glenn or every week Glen or something
36:15
Speaker 2: like that, we'll come up with a name for you
36:17
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36:19
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36:21
Speaker 2: show is so good that you don't have to like
36:22
Speaker 2: sports to like the show. We'll push back the story
36:25
Speaker 2: we were gonna do. We have Mallard of the third degree.
36:27
Speaker 2: Here's the insta trivia. Blank joined Hakeem Elijahwon as the
36:33
Speaker 2: only NBA players to record three or more games with
36:36
Speaker 2: at least five points, five rebounds, five assists, five steals,
36:39
Speaker 2: and five blocks, better known as a five by five. Again,
36:42
Speaker 2: Blank joining Elijah Won as the only players with three
36:45
Speaker 2: or more five by fives in NBA history. That's the
36:49
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36:51
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37:32
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37:40
Speaker 2: three or more games of a five by five, five points,
37:44
Speaker 2: five rebounds, five assists, five steals and five blocks. Yes,
37:48
Speaker 2: there is a stat for everything in every sport. That
37:51
Speaker 2: is the question. What is the answer? Nerlin's Noel from
37:56
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Speaker 2: from FEMI. Who else? Reggie Jackson mister October for Scrooge,
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Speaker 2: Bobby Benia from Shannon Way. What's that you, Lorena? I'm
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Speaker 2: going with Kenneth Walker. Uh nickname was a K forty seven.
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Speaker 2: You know who that is? No Andre carolinco Andre Andre Holo,
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Speaker 2: It's Mallard. How about that? To the third degree, this.
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Speaker 4: Is one big Ben gets Grail all.
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Speaker 2: Right, googloop.
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Speaker 5: Mike Vrabel said this week that the Patriots have quotes
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Speaker 5: built the foundation, but need to improve.
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Speaker 2: Where do you think they need to improve the most?
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Speaker 2: They need better wide receivers. They need at least one
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Speaker 2: stud wide receiver and really that's it. A little bit
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Speaker 2: better of an offensive line, and they set the foundation.
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Speaker 2: They have to prove and validate this following year against
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Speaker 2: when they when they play a tougher schedule that they're
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Speaker 2: not fraus. They're not gonna have as good a record
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Speaker 2: next year, but they have to. They have to legitimize it.
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Speaker 2: So I would go out and get a you know,
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Speaker 2: AJ Brown, someone like that. Next.
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Speaker 5: It is being reported that Jason Tatum will potentially make
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Speaker 5: his return to the court for the Celtics on March first, Ben,
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Speaker 5: do you think Tatum's return has these Celtics points for
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Speaker 5: a finals round?
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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, they're already in position. There is
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Speaker 2: no one I am. I'm a glutton for punch. My
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Speaker 2: I rip the NBA all the time, but I have
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Speaker 2: it on the background, and I don't see anyone in
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Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference that is invincible. So they're right in
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Speaker 2: the middle of it already. So yes, assuming Tatum's actually
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Speaker 2: gonna be able to stay healthy and play and all that,
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Speaker 2: the Celtics have a shot to get to the NBA Finals.
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Speaker 2: There's no dominant team in the Eastern Conference, and he's
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Speaker 2: doing that for NBC next. So Steven A.
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Speaker 5: Smith recently took a shot at Ben Simmons, who's no
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Speaker 5: longer in the NBA, and they were asked why he
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Speaker 5: keeps taking shot to them. He said he will keep
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Speaker 5: catching strays as long as he's alive. He said, there's
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Speaker 5: no bigger thief in the history of the NBA than
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Speaker 5: that man, Ben. Do you agree with that, no bigger
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Speaker 5: thief financially?
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Speaker 2: You would say Ben Simmons is at the very top
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Speaker 2: money wise. I mean, there's been a lot of guys
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Speaker 2: stealing money in the NBA. Made of them played for
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Speaker 2: the Clippers as Ben Simmons did. How about Steven A
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Speaker 2: running for President Cook? How about that? I'd vote for him,
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Speaker 2: You vote for him? I just want somebody I know
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Speaker 2: to be president. I know him. I'd be cool. Now
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Speaker 2: he's not gonna win, all right,