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Speaker 1: So we're back at it again and busy night bouncing
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Speaker 1: around here. Did have a chance to attend most of
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Speaker 1: the Sunday night game. I was out there watching the
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Speaker 1: Sunday Night game Idalie a little early to make it
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Speaker 1: here to the Mothership to avoid the mass exodus, and
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Speaker 1: it was the daily double at sofar and as our
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Speaker 1: lead there Sunday Night football, Mike Tomlin and the Steelers
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Speaker 1: visiting SoCal to take on Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers
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Speaker 1: in a made for TV matchup. I did not get
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Speaker 1: to hear the broadcast. I imagine that Chris Collinsworth was
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Speaker 1: slobbering all over both quarterbacks, so very difficult to slobber
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Speaker 1: over Aaron Rodgers the way that he played, But there
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Speaker 1: they were at so far in the hood in Inglewood
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Speaker 1: and up to no good. That was Aaron Rodgers up
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Speaker 1: to no good, My god, horrific. So I'll get right
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Speaker 1: into it. Justin Herbert, who wasn't all that great either.
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Speaker 1: He had two hundred and twenty yards passing and a
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Speaker 1: touchdown and Aaron Rodgers a stumble bump performance for Aaron Rodgers,
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Speaker 1: his worst game with the pet sparkstif. Despite being surrounded
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Speaker 1: by nothing but black and yellow, black and yellow, black
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Speaker 1: and yellow, black and yellow, it did not matter as
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Speaker 1: the Chargers slapping around Aaron Rodgers, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: that was unforced mistakes by Rogers. Twenty five to ten.
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Speaker 1: Your final score saw the game, you know that on
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Speaker 1: Sunday night there for the third straight win. Show me
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Speaker 1: your lightning bolt. Now, the better story is in the
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Speaker 1: losing locker room. Aaron Rodgers completed barely over fifty percent
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Speaker 1: of his passes in this game. I'm told that's not good.
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Speaker 1: He averaged a little over five yards of pass which
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Speaker 1: was actually better than it had been most of the
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Speaker 1: game thanks to the fourth quarter and the garbage time
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Speaker 1: touchdown with less than three minutes to go. The game
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Speaker 1: well in the bag what's in the back. The win
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Speaker 1: is in the bag for the team from Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: the Chargers. There, Rogers also had an interception that he
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Speaker 1: sacked for a safety in the in the end zone, obviously,
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Speaker 1: and then also fumble, though that was recovered. So when
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Speaker 1: asked to assess Aaron Rodgers play, Mike Tomlin, the Steelers
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Speaker 1: head coach, seemingly dismissing the question there and he delivered
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Speaker 1: a death stare, a Mike Tomlin death stare to the porter.
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Speaker 1: Do we have that? I don't know we have that?
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Speaker 2: We have that?
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Speaker 1: I listened to Mike Tomlin here is asked the basic
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Speaker 1: question you're starting quarterback, went out there and wrote the comment,
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Speaker 1: what do you have to say for yourself? How would you?
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Speaker 1: How would you? All? Right? So that is a good
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Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss always like angry Mike
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Speaker 1: Tomlin's fun. It's fun angry Mike tom It was an
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Speaker 1: obvious question. Everyone knows the answer to that. It's like,
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Speaker 1: but you're not supposed to say it. So let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question what is your takeaway from Mike Tomlin
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Speaker 1: and the death stare? The death stare like the male
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Speaker 1: medusa right there, Mike tom about Aaron Rodgers and how
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Speaker 1: to assess his performance or lack thereof. So I've got
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Speaker 1: limited edition frosty mug and background noise, and we will
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Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
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Speaker 1: to pig out on ballpark food like stale popcorn, nachos,
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Speaker 1: hot dogs. There's a lot of ballpark food everywhere being tossed.
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Speaker 1: So hey, my first thought on this, I loved the
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Speaker 1: Tomlin desk there. Not quite to the level of Bill
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Speaker 1: Belichick back in his salad days with the Patriots, but Tomlin,
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Speaker 1: his blood was boiling. The blood was He's like, here
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Speaker 1: we go again, Here we go again. And Ben Roethlisberger
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Speaker 1: was not very good the end of his time in Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 1: They've had a revolving door of dumb and dummer at
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Speaker 1: quarterback ever since Roethlisberger left. And again he went very
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Speaker 1: good at the end there in Pittsburgh. And so they
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Speaker 1: went through a bunch last year was justin Fields, Holy
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Speaker 1: craped us. He sucked and you see what he did
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Speaker 1: for the Jets. Again they won, but not because I
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Speaker 1: am and then also Russell Wilson, so they're well, we
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Speaker 1: got better. And Aaron Rodgers has actually been better than
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Speaker 1: what they had got there in Pittsburgh. But this was horrific.
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Speaker 1: That was not the kind of performance you expected. Obviously
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Speaker 1: nobody expected that. And man Rogers looking like he belonged
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Speaker 1: in a museum, and not the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about like a museum where they look at dinosaurs.
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Speaker 1: Man ancient, ancient looking there for Rogers in the game.
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Speaker 1: And I was actually sitting kind of near the end
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Speaker 1: zone when Rogers stumbled and bumbled and fell down there
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Speaker 1: for the safety early in the football game there, and
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Speaker 1: any success he had in this game was in garbage time.
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Speaker 1: The game had already been decided. The outcome was going
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Speaker 1: to go to the Chargers, and then that's it. So
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Speaker 1: you'd think the way he was playing, there should be
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Speaker 1: some kind of spin off with Nike, a limited edition
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Speaker 1: Nike Orthopedic cleat. I get those special Orthopedic cleats with
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Speaker 1: the swooshot him and get him a walker, Holy canody man,
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Speaker 1: instead of just do it just now, We'll be the
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Speaker 1: phrase there for Rogers watching him play here, he looked
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Speaker 1: like forget forty one. He played like he was in
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Speaker 1: his late sixties there, plodding along slow there was really
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Speaker 1: no rhythm, no method to the madness here for Aaron Rodgers,
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Speaker 1: and we call the type of game Rogers had. It's
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Speaker 1: called the compass Rose. What is the compass Rose? Quarterback?
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Speaker 1: That's where the passes go up and down and right
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Speaker 1: and left, and Rogers, it seemed, specifically, had mastered in
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Speaker 1: this game the art of the overthrow, the art of
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Speaker 1: the overthrow. There was vintage. This was like Jets era Rodgers,
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Speaker 1: although I felt like it was worse than that even
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Speaker 1: watching it in person. I've seen it on TV a bunch,
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Speaker 1: but to be there in the building and watch it
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Speaker 1: in person, I was like, oohah, Man, like, wait, I
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Speaker 1: gotta get more monologues in on Rogers. He's not gonna
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Speaker 1: be around very much longer. Holy crap, man alive. I've
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Speaker 1: smere the last twenty years of my life talking about
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Speaker 1: his cat Rogers and man and just grumpy, you know,
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Speaker 1: typical one. Things aren't going well, you're disengaged, you're not
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Speaker 1: fired up. Here. He's like trying to do a fill
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Speaker 1: in for a Sesame Street character, Oscar the grouch, grouchy, grouchy, grouchy,
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Speaker 1: grouchy grouchy man a lot. Let's say, were playing in
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Speaker 1: a swamp. The Steelers offense, nothing, nothing going on. Third
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Speaker 1: down for Aaron Rodgers, it was bad. So they had
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Speaker 1: that limited edition orthopedic shoe for Rogers, and you half
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Speaker 1: expected him in the third quarter just to crawl back
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Speaker 1: into the trash can the way that he was playing,
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Speaker 1: and you, of course what it was he distracted because
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Speaker 1: you know his imaginary wife was there, maybe his real wife.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who knows. He's in yours house in Malibu,
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Speaker 1: although I think he's moving. I don't know what's going
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Speaker 1: on with that. But it's week ten. There are no
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Speaker 1: more excuse like the first five weeks. Well, it's early,
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Speaker 1: we'll figure it out. Nothing to worry about. It's week ten.
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Speaker 1: We are past the midway point. What are you doing?
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Speaker 1: This is who you are. The trade deadline is over.
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Speaker 1: There's no reinforcements coming in to save the day. This
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Speaker 1: is what you got. Now are we discounting the Chargers? Here?
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Speaker 1: Are the Chargers a really good defense? Then we're they're
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Speaker 1: good defense. I don't know that. I would say really good,
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Speaker 1: and I would argue based on both watching the game
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Speaker 1: on the monitor and I'm flipping down with my own eyeballs.
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Speaker 1: It seemed more case of these were self inflicted wounds
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Speaker 1: by the Pittsburgh Steelers in this game. So, using the
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Speaker 1: Malor scale of concern, the Malor scale of concern one
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Speaker 1: to ten, with ten being the worst of the worst
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Speaker 1: of the worst, I'm at a nine. I'm out of nine.
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Speaker 1: Am I being a prisoner of the moment? Probably so?
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Speaker 1: Probably so? But I'm at a nine. I just I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you what I just watched. That is not a
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Speaker 1: guy that's gonna win a playoff game. That is not
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Speaker 1: a guy that looks like he's even gonna make the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: That was bad. That was bad No One game. Blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah. But that's all I
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Speaker 1: have to do this show right now, It's all I
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Speaker 1: have to go out. He sucked. Rogers was garbage in
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Speaker 1: that game, Okay, And if this keeps up, forget a quarterback,
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Speaker 1: coach or a wide receiver, He's gonna need a lifeguard
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Speaker 1: because he's drowning. The whole offense is drowning out. There
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Speaker 1: was a gigantic Turnberger is what they served up there.
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Speaker 1: And Rogers. Now, he said after the game that he
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Speaker 1: feels good, and that he'll play better and you know
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Speaker 1: he's gonna do better decision making and all that. Come on,
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Speaker 1: all right now, turning the page. As for the big
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Speaker 1: picture again, better story in the losing locker room now.
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin also said regarding the situation, this steelser and
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Speaker 1: he said, there's quote nothing mystical about it. He said,
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Speaker 1: he says we'll be back, he claimed, will be better.
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Speaker 1: We have to be close. Quote from the very verbose
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. A good SoundBite, really good sound bite, Mike
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Speaker 1: TOMPI sound bite coach. We don't do lists. I'm just saying,
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Speaker 1: top five sound bite coach. Big board, not list, big
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Speaker 1: board not list. So the question here it is how
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Speaker 1: much stalk? How much stalk do you put into Mike
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Speaker 1: Tomlin promising that these Steelers will be back, will be back?
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Speaker 1: Is the quote for Mike Tomlin. So my first reaction,
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Speaker 1: much like when Aaron Rodgers says, hey, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: I feel good, We'll play better, when Mike Tomlin says
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Speaker 1: something similar, it's like, well, what else are you supposed
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Speaker 1: to say? Like you imagine if Tomlin had come out
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Speaker 1: as the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers and say well,
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Speaker 1: we stink boys, We'll just shut it down. Get ready
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Speaker 1: for next year. Load management, lot management. He can't say that,
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Speaker 1: So it's coach speak. One oh one. You got to
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Speaker 1: say something and so we'll be back. Is just Tom
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Speaker 1: liniese What is tomlines It's a we're not going to
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Speaker 1: forfeit yet. Now we're not. We just decided not to forfeit.
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Speaker 1: We'll try to play the game. Congratulations. So the Steelers
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Speaker 1: are going to show up next week and the Steelers
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Speaker 1: can say hellllelujah, hellelujah. Now why can't they say hall?
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Speaker 1: The problem is not the pep talk. Pep talk really
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Speaker 1: means all that much. It's the quality control of the
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Speaker 1: product that has not been consistent. The defense was atrocious
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year. The defense has played a
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Speaker 1: little bit better now. The offense falls apart one thing.
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Speaker 1: It's like playing whack a mole, like you got one problem,
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Speaker 1: you slap that down, and then another one pops up
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Speaker 1: on me. Way, I only got two halves, I only
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Speaker 1: got two hours. What he's supposed to do, And so
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Speaker 1: Rogers looked like watching him play in the first half
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Speaker 1: of that game and into the third quarter, it looked
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Speaker 1: like he had gone out prior to the game and
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Speaker 1: he was tailgating with like Joe Rogan, even though Rogan
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Speaker 1: lives in Texas, but they some have maybe flew out
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Speaker 1: to La. They were tailgating. They had like a frosty
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Speaker 1: mug of ayahuasca. And Rogers went out there and he
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Speaker 1: was seeing demons to the right, and he was seeing
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Speaker 1: aliens to the left. And it was wild, wild goes spook.
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Speaker 1: It was a comedy of errors, is what it was.
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Speaker 1: And now the good news is and I said, hallelujah,
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Speaker 1: the good news is up next be ben Gals. They suck.
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Speaker 1: If you don't have success on offense against the Cincinnati Bengals,
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Speaker 1: then you might want to go and get your pulse
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Speaker 1: check because you might be dead. Okay, they suck. So
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Speaker 1: that's the good news. That's the silver lining playbook for
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin and for Aaron Rodgers. You got Cincinnati their
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Speaker 1: easy mark. You still got to show up. You gotta
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Speaker 1: win the game. You'll get a focused Pittsburgh team next week.
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Speaker 1: The question is is this going to be what Rogers
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Speaker 1: is the rest of the way. Who knows. But Mike
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Speaker 1: Tomlin can talk about and he loves the quote the
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Speaker 1: standard is the standard. It's the iconic Mike Tomlin quote
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Speaker 1: from his time in Pittsburgh with the if you look
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Speaker 1: at the drive through menu board right now, if you
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Speaker 1: look at the drive through menu board there, it says
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Speaker 1: here and you can look it up. It says a
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Speaker 1: standard lately has been mediocrity. And then they've got a
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Speaker 1: side dish with the combo on the drive through menu.
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Speaker 1: You've got mediocrity and then a side of false hope
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Speaker 1: aside of false hope. So you've got a little bit
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Speaker 1: of that, a little bit of this. It's all kind
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Speaker 1: of mixedgether now. The last word among and I did
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Speaker 1: see this was multitasking, and people were telling me old
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Speaker 1: stories that they didn't really want to hear, but they
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Speaker 1: kept on me anyway. The other storyline was the crowd,
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Speaker 1: and it's not new. It's been this way ever since
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Speaker 1: the NFL left Los Angeles for a generation. Came back.
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Speaker 1: Certain teams that have a rich history packed the stadium,
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Speaker 1: in this case the Pittsburgh Steelers. It might as well
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Speaker 1: have been in the confluence there where they formed the
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Speaker 1: Ohio River, the Monongahela and the Allegheny give birth to
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Speaker 1: a baby. I might as well have had that. They
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Speaker 1: had a little man made lake out front so far
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Speaker 1: that they have there. But the NBC cameras you couldn't
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Speaker 1: help but miss it. You couldn't, You couldn't avoid it,
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Speaker 1: is what I'm trying to say. The cameras showed, Now
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Speaker 1: we were shocked by it, shouldn't be shocked by. It
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Speaker 1: was happens every time they play a legacy team like
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Speaker 1: the Packers, Steelers and the forty nine Ers, teams that
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Speaker 1: have huge followings. So the cameras kept showing these Steeler
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Speaker 1: fans waving the terrible towels, and a buddy of mine
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Speaker 1: in the press box is like, hey, did they give
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Speaker 1: those out? I said, why would they give out terrible towels?
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Speaker 1: That's a Pittsburgh thing, you dummy. They don't give those out,
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Speaker 1: but it looked like it. It was like a promotion.
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Speaker 1: Everyone had one. Everyone had a Terrible towel. At one point,
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Speaker 1: I think the Charger fans started holding them up there
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Speaker 1: were like, hey, they're yellow, we'll make it about that.
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Speaker 1: So you had Mike Tariko on the broadcast. He said,
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Speaker 1: and he was being generous when he said, sixty five percent,
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Speaker 1: he estimate a pro Steeler crowd at sixty five percent.
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Speaker 1: Other estimates said seventy percent. I did the malor math
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Speaker 1: and I was there, so boots on the ground, I
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Speaker 1: said seventy five percent. Steeler fans seventy five percent. The
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Speaker 1: place was packed. It was absolutely packed, everyone in the
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Speaker 1: house there with the black and yellow, black and yellow,
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Speaker 1: black and yellow, black and yellow, all that. So the
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Speaker 1: question is this embarrassing for the NFL that you have
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Speaker 1: an island game, island game Sunday night football. Yet again,
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Speaker 1: Chargers there and they've been in LA for a while
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Speaker 1: now and they have not been able to develop a
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Speaker 1: fan base in LA. And here's the latest example example
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Speaker 1: A your honor the defense now rest, so listen. It
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Speaker 1: is I would not say it's embarrassing. I'm looking. I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna use the word embarrassing. The word that should
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Speaker 1: be used to you, and I like words. Inevitable is
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Speaker 1: the word I will use. So I'm gonna use the
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Speaker 1: word inevitable. And the reason I'm using the word inevable
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Speaker 1: the Chargers ghosted San Diego. You know how you're saying
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Speaker 1: you a date and you might just you know, you
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Speaker 1: go out and date, you get a free meal, you
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Speaker 1: blow the other person off it, I'm gonna contact them again.
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Speaker 1: So the Chargers ghosted the city of San Diego. Now
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Speaker 1: you know some of you know, I started in radio
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Speaker 1: in San Diego. I was there as a young lad.
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Speaker 1: The Chargers got to a Super Bowl. The town was electric.
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Speaker 1: It was a loyal fan base of Charger fans in
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Speaker 1: San Diego, and the franchise, the Spanos family, said screw you,
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Speaker 1: We're done and that's it. And so they they and
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Speaker 1: I know this guy, I've had this explained to me
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Speaker 1: by some people that work for the Chargers years ago.
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Speaker 1: When they first came to LA, they said, listen, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna get a certain percentage of people that are going
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Speaker 1: to drive up from San Diego, and they're gonna make
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Speaker 1: the drive every Sunday. It's gonna be a thing. And
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Speaker 1: then they're gonna go back. And so they figured they'd
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Speaker 1: have that, and then they'd add slowly, they'd add fans
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Speaker 1: in LA. Could not have been more wrong, couldn't not
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Speaker 1: have been more wrong. I love when really educated people
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Speaker 1: who have gone through all of academia have had all
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Speaker 1: that crap and they just are complete morons. People. There's
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Speaker 1: a few Charger fans that make the trip up in
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Speaker 1: San Diego very few. The town's pretty much like, screw you,
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Speaker 1: we hate all things LA. We're not going up there.
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Speaker 1: You people come down here on the weekends and run
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Speaker 1: amok in our city. So we're out. And so you
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Speaker 1: can't just reboot a fan base like you can reboot
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Speaker 1: a computer or a phone. It's not the way it works. Obviously.
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Speaker 1: You certainly can't get all of a sudden loyal large
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Speaker 1: numbers of loyal fans. There are loyal Charger fans, just
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Speaker 1: not many, not many of them. And you know, San
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Speaker 1: Diego say what you want, military towns, surf for town,
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Speaker 1: all that. But they did love the Chargers. They did,
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Speaker 1: and they were rewarded with the bird from the NFL
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Speaker 1: and from the Spanos family. So the reality is hardly
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Speaker 1: anybody cares about the Chargers in LA. They're just kind
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Speaker 1: of background noise, if you will, in between commercials and
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Speaker 1: they pop up and you're like, why is the Charger game?
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Speaker 1: I don't want to watch the Charger game. Why don't
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Speaker 1: we get another game? Well, that's the game because they're
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Speaker 1: in LA, so you get to charge again, but I
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Speaker 1: don't want the charge of it. But that's the game.
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Speaker 1: That's what you get. Nine years they've been back. It's
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Speaker 1: been nine years already. The Chargers have been back in
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Speaker 1: LA and most of the time they're playing road games
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Speaker 1: and it doesn't affect the outcome. And I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: say people make a big deal about it. They love
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Speaker 1: to talk about home field, ev it doesn't. The Chargers
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Speaker 1: won this game. It was a Steeler home game. The
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Speaker 1: Rams win most of their home games. When there's other
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Speaker 1: fans from other teams, it doesn't matter. It feels good
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Speaker 1: if you're a fan of another team, Like I know,
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Speaker 1: the Niner fans love when they come to LA to
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Speaker 1: play the Rams and it's like a Niner home game.
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Speaker 1: They love it. Lin Ms win most of the time.
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Speaker 1: When the other team has more fans than the Chargers,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't affect them. But it does take at least
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Speaker 1: a generation, at least a generation to cultivate to grow.
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Speaker 1: If you're a farmer, it takes a generation to grow
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Speaker 1: on fan base. Right, twenty years, it's been nine So
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Speaker 1: if you do the math on that, eleven more years,
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Speaker 1: Holy crap, we're looking at twenty thirty six. Twenty thirty
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Speaker 1: six Before you start to feel any kind of local,
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Speaker 1: local family. And that's the kids that became charge of
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Speaker 1: fans that now have become adults and then they're starting
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Speaker 1: families and crap like that. That's what that is. Now
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Speaker 1: you can fast track it. You can fast track it
19:25
Speaker 1: the way you would fast track it is to win
19:27
Speaker 1: a couple of super Bowls, because everyone's a front runner.
19:29
Speaker 1: Everyone's a band wagner, as Blair and Maine likes to say,
19:32
Speaker 1: and so you can zip things along a little faster.
19:35
Speaker 1: The Chargers don't look like a super Bowl team to me.
19:38
Speaker 1: Do they look like a super Bowl team to you?
19:39
Speaker 1: They don't look like a super Bowl team to me.
19:40
Speaker 1: They like a typical middle of the pack good team,
19:43
Speaker 1: not great team where five things happen, right, meaning a
19:47
Speaker 1: couple of quarterbacks break their ankles or whatever. You could
19:51
Speaker 1: go to the super Bowl. Other than that, eh, you know,
19:55
Speaker 1: they'll win their ten or eleven games, and they'll be
19:57
Speaker 1: a playoff team and they're losing the first or the
19:59
Speaker 1: second weekend of the NFL playoffs, and that'll be that.
20:02
Speaker 1: And so meanwhile, the Steeler fans generation, which under the
20:05
Speaker 1: mathot so nineteen seventies, the Great Steeler teams with Terry
20:10
Speaker 1: Bradshaw on that great defense. And so you fast forward
20:13
Speaker 1: out for those people in the seventies had kids, so
20:17
Speaker 1: then they became adults in the nineties. So then those
20:21
Speaker 1: people they had kids maybe in the twenty tens, right,
20:26
Speaker 1: So now we're on to another generation of Steeler fans.
20:29
Speaker 1: And it was crazy, man. I was looking around. I
20:32
Speaker 1: saw her buddy, Eddie, the Great Eddie Garcia caught up
20:34
Speaker 1: with him, had a little pow wow with Eddie down there.
20:36
Speaker 1: He had full Steeler gear on. I couldn't find him
20:39
Speaker 1: because he had full Steeler gear. If you want to
20:41
Speaker 1: stand out, you should want to charge your jersey. I
20:42
Speaker 1: would have found him right away. Was King EDDI right there.
20:45
Speaker 1: But it was like a black and yellow, black and
20:47
Speaker 1: yellow circus. It was like Halloween had continued here and
20:51
Speaker 1: it was like a pajama party mixed with Halloween. There
20:55
Speaker 1: were dudes with homemade costumes. It was pretty pretty intense.
20:59
Speaker 2: Man.
20:59
Speaker 1: These guys spent a lot of time and effort to
21:01
Speaker 1: come up with the right look. And some of it
21:04
Speaker 1: was store bought, you know. Some of it was just
21:05
Speaker 1: what you can find online. But it looked like there
21:07
Speaker 1: were some things I had never seen before. I saw
21:11
Speaker 1: a lot of Steely McBean, which is I thought that
21:13
Speaker 1: was kind of a mascot. Eddie hated the mascot, but
21:16
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of shirts with Steely McBean on
21:17
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21:58
Speaker 1: Let's go to the coaching care So round and round
22:00
Speaker 1: and round and round and round and round the coaching carousel.
22:03
Speaker 1: So on a giving year, anywhere from seven to ten
22:06
Speaker 1: coaches typically get whacked in the NFL. That's normally how
22:11
Speaker 1: this goes. Seven to ten coaches typically get whacked in
22:14
Speaker 1: the NFL. And so it got cranked up on Monday.
22:18
Speaker 1: We anticipated that somebody was going to lose their job
22:20
Speaker 1: when the sun rose in the east on Monday. We
22:22
Speaker 1: talked about this in the Overnight Show in a previous episode,
22:25
Speaker 1: and it turns out that we were correct. We weren't
22:28
Speaker 1: sure whether it would be the head coach or one
22:29
Speaker 1: of the coordinators. But it turns out if you did
22:31
Speaker 1: not hear by now, perhaps not. We have learned that
22:35
Speaker 1: the gat alright, hey and t s Giants they fired
22:40
Speaker 1: coach Brian day Ball. He gon' he's out here, Na
22:45
Speaker 1: La day go bye. He's out. Brian dave Ball moving
22:52
Speaker 1: on from the coaching ranks. There head coach of the Giants,
22:58
Speaker 1: and he's out way through his fourth season of suckage
23:03
Speaker 1: with the Giants two and eight record, two and eight.
23:07
Speaker 1: Oh Man offensive quarner Mike Kofka will take over as
23:11
Speaker 1: the interim coach at one point, a up and coming
23:15
Speaker 1: star and the coach he ranks and not lately, but
23:18
Speaker 1: he'll be the interim coach. Always watch out for that
23:21
Speaker 1: interim coach. You always want to avoid giving the full
23:24
Speaker 1: time job to the interim coach. If you don't believe me,
23:27
Speaker 1: look up Romeo Crennell. Anyway, so the move made by ownership.
23:32
Speaker 1: It came a day after the Giants did the impossible.
23:38
Speaker 1: They've been a laughing stock of a franchise and they
23:40
Speaker 1: embarrassed themselves some more with that double digit blown lead
23:45
Speaker 1: yet again against the man that has the manny and
23:49
Speaker 1: the petty down Pat Caleb Williams and Chicago as the
23:52
Speaker 1: Bears came back down ten and we talked about Greg Olsen,
23:56
Speaker 1: the Fox broadcaster who put the coach, Brian day Ball
24:00
Speaker 1: on blast. Normally, when a broadcaster goes after a coach
24:05
Speaker 1: or a player, they've been given the green light to
24:07
Speaker 1: do that. So Olsen, it turns out he blasted Brian Daball.
24:11
Speaker 1: He must have known if the Giants did not win
24:14
Speaker 1: that game that the coach was going to be fired,
24:16
Speaker 1: and he was. He was whacked. That's it. So Joe Shane,
24:21
Speaker 1: the most amazing part of this is this guy, Joe Shane,
24:25
Speaker 1: not spelled like that, will remain as the general manager
24:29
Speaker 1: of the Giants. Yeah. John Mara and the other ownership
24:34
Speaker 1: people there said that the GM will lead a search party.
24:39
Speaker 1: It's a rescue and recovery mission for the franchise, which
24:42
Speaker 1: sucks now. Day Ball. The second coach number two that
24:47
Speaker 1: has been has been let go as Brian Callahan, whose
24:55
Speaker 1: team as to quote cam Ward we asked that was
24:59
Speaker 1: his quote about to tell Titan. So the we ass
25:02
Speaker 1: coach got let go. He was let go after six games.
25:05
Speaker 1: Titans started out one in five and they have not
25:08
Speaker 1: won since then. So as far as the Giants not
25:11
Speaker 1: everyone is pleached, which blows me away, like this seemed
25:14
Speaker 1: like one of those moves in sports that no one
25:17
Speaker 1: would have a problem with. How would you possibly justify
25:22
Speaker 1: keeping Brian day Ball as the coach? It makes no sense.
25:26
Speaker 1: But sure enough, there are people of some prominence depending
25:30
Speaker 1: on who you give prominence to, that are on the record,
25:35
Speaker 1: on the record stating that this is not a good move.
25:39
Speaker 1: Some of the commentary coming in from the NFL, the
25:42
Speaker 1: poor Brian day Ball crowd, it's not fair. It's not fair,
25:48
Speaker 1: led by who else but that dunce Dan Orlovsky, the
25:52
Speaker 1: man that famously playing for the Ohen sixteen Lions decided
25:57
Speaker 1: to run out of the back of the end zone.
25:59
Speaker 1: That guy is now giving football commentary on television. That's right, yes, anyway,
26:03
Speaker 1: Dan Olasky and the usual other NFL pity Party crew.
26:07
Speaker 1: They're like, oh man, this is a mistake. This is
26:10
Speaker 1: a mistake, saying the Giants should have let Brian day
26:14
Speaker 1: Ball finish what is essentially like a love story with
26:19
Speaker 1: Jackson Dart, the coach and the player Jackson Dart there
26:24
Speaker 1: because they had I love this good chemistry bull crap,
26:30
Speaker 1: all right, So that is a good jumping off point.
26:33
Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question did Brian day Ball deserve
26:38
Speaker 1: more time? Did the Giants not give him enough time
26:43
Speaker 1: to coach Jackson Dart the prodigy from Old Miss, and
26:49
Speaker 1: did he not get the fair shake with the Giants?
26:51
Speaker 1: So on this one, I've got tender Muppet babies and
26:54
Speaker 1: Windy's and we will combine all of these things together
26:59
Speaker 1: and we're going to put that in a deep frier
27:01
Speaker 1: because anything in a deep fryer just tastes good. Just
27:03
Speaker 1: anything fried just as delicious. So number number, you can
27:12
Speaker 1: tell who Brian Dayball's buddies are in the media. It's
27:17
Speaker 1: not that hard to test. I'm not that bright. I
27:19
Speaker 1: do an overnight show, but I know the people right
27:21
Speaker 1: now that are advocating and that are preaching and singing
27:25
Speaker 1: the gospel about Brian Dayball. They are in the tank.
27:30
Speaker 1: They are in the tank. They're all his media buddies.
27:32
Speaker 1: And like I said, the word on the street is
27:34
Speaker 1: that Brian Dave Ball is a great guy. Everyone loves
27:36
Speaker 1: hanging out with him, which is how he was able
27:38
Speaker 1: to keep the job that he was unfit for for
27:41
Speaker 1: as long as he kept the job with the Giants
27:44
Speaker 1: and all these guys trying to convince you, you and
27:48
Speaker 1: me that the Giants were building something. What were they building?
27:53
Speaker 1: They were building an outhouse is what they were building. Okay,
27:57
Speaker 1: there's one problem with his building the offense up. The
28:00
Speaker 1: offense was dial up Internet. That was the Giants offense.
28:05
Speaker 1: But what about that game when he scored a lot
28:06
Speaker 1: of plays? Okay, what about the other games? What about
28:09
Speaker 1: the other games? I don't have any skin in the game,
28:13
Speaker 1: But it was past time for the Giants here to
28:16
Speaker 1: go on tender and swipe left, not right, not right,
28:20
Speaker 1: swipe left unattractive. Brian day Ball has been living off
28:24
Speaker 1: borrow time. There's only so many days you get. Well,
28:29
Speaker 1: I'm the guy that coached up Josh Allen. I'm the guy.
28:31
Speaker 1: What about me, George Allen? No, shove it up your tuckers,
28:35
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen living on borrow time in that Fluke
28:40
Speaker 1: fugase playoff situation a couple of years ago. You go
28:43
Speaker 1: two and eight this year, uh, and since Coach of
28:47
Speaker 1: the Year he somehow won that eleven and thirty three.
28:52
Speaker 1: That is a brown bag situation, as in brown backett,
28:56
Speaker 1: pack your stuff up in a brown bag and get
28:59
Speaker 1: out of here. And enough. Brian day Ball overall forty losses,
29:04
Speaker 1: twenty wins and one time twenty games under five hundred,
29:08
Speaker 1: a three thirty six winning percentage for the now former
29:12
Speaker 1: head coach of the Giants. Now what does that mean
29:14
Speaker 1: in Layman's terms? So that means if you look at
29:17
Speaker 1: the NFL since the merger, there have been one hundred
29:21
Speaker 1: and sixty six coaches, one hundred and sixty six coaches
29:24
Speaker 1: that have met the criteria, and Brian day Ball has
29:30
Speaker 1: in that group one hundred sixty sixties, ranked one hundred
29:33
Speaker 1: and fifty fourth, So he's in the ninety third percent tile,
29:36
Speaker 1: which means ninety three percent of all coaching hires have
29:41
Speaker 1: been better than Brian Dayball. But yet his buddies get
29:45
Speaker 1: on television. Who's not in full and Jackson Darden, Oh
29:50
Speaker 1: my god, they're acting like the these day Ball stands
29:54
Speaker 1: are acting like they just the Giants just got rid
29:56
Speaker 1: of Sean McVeigh two point zero. You combine Sean McVay
30:02
Speaker 1: and the late Steve Jobs or someone along that isa, well,
30:05
Speaker 1: no no, no, no, no no no. Even the movie
30:09
Speaker 1: Man Moving Man matchs like, well, this is ridiculous. Guess what.
30:13
Speaker 1: Brian day Ball is not innovating anything. I'm sure he's
30:16
Speaker 1: great over a prime rib dinner that's paid for by
30:21
Speaker 1: the Giants and a nice bottle of alcohol and the
30:24
Speaker 1: whole thing at a dinner. Do I want him coaching
30:27
Speaker 1: an NFL team? No?
30:29
Speaker 3: No.
30:30
Speaker 1: The Giants offense for the most part, you're gonna judge
30:32
Speaker 1: him by the full body of work has been prehistoric,
30:36
Speaker 1: prehistoric with Brian day Ball as the coach. And as
30:40
Speaker 1: far as the whole chemistry experiment, this is not junior
30:44
Speaker 1: high school chemistry. And I don't know where that's coming from.
30:48
Speaker 1: I don't see it. Do you see it? I don't.
30:51
Speaker 1: I must be missing something. There's got to be a disconnect,
30:54
Speaker 1: because I don't see any sign that this is going
30:58
Speaker 1: as good as some of these idiots are saying. So
31:01
Speaker 1: pump the breaks, Pump the break, Jackson Dart, whether or
31:05
Speaker 1: not he makes it or not, will have nothing to
31:07
Speaker 1: do with Brian Dayball nothing. And they're making it seem
31:12
Speaker 1: like he's a top five quarterback in the NFL right now.
31:14
Speaker 1: It's because of the scheme for Brian day Ball the coach,
31:18
Speaker 1: and everybody's being held back. And now this evil ownership
31:21
Speaker 1: in the front office is involved in all this stuff.
31:23
Speaker 1: It's like, is he a top ten quarterback? No? Is
31:26
Speaker 1: he a top fifteen. No, He's right in the middle.
31:29
Speaker 1: He's an average NFL quarterback. Jackson Dart is ranked eighteenth
31:32
Speaker 1: in the NFL. He is right now, he's in a wedgie.
31:35
Speaker 1: He's wedged between Jaden Daniels, who's always hurt these days,
31:40
Speaker 1: and CJ. Stroud, who's also missing games because of concussions
31:45
Speaker 1: and other things here. So those are the two guys
31:48
Speaker 1: right there. On one side, you got Jayden and Daniels.
31:50
Speaker 1: On the other side you got c J. Stroud there,
31:52
Speaker 1: And for the most part, those other quarterbacks have been
31:55
Speaker 1: like day Old Seltzer. It's just not that great for
31:59
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels or CJ. Stroud. Now, as far as Jackson Darty,
32:04
Speaker 1: jury is obviously still out there. Is no formal decision
32:07
Speaker 1: that has been made here, and they'll say, oh, he'll
32:10
Speaker 1: figure something out. But the whole chemistry thing, I was like, dude,
32:13
Speaker 1: come on, that tells you that they have no argument
32:16
Speaker 1: to keep the coach, because there'd be no reason, absolutely
32:20
Speaker 1: no reason to bring that up, no reason if there
32:24
Speaker 1: was something tangible like chemistry is just made up sports gibberish.
32:29
Speaker 1: It's something that dumb people say. It's like momentum, chemistry, momentum.
32:33
Speaker 1: It's all bull crap that people just get taught when
32:36
Speaker 1: they're kids and they just couldn't get They repeat it
32:38
Speaker 1: because they're lazy and all that stuff. And so yeah,
32:41
Speaker 1: I always bring this up because I used to cover
32:42
Speaker 1: the NBA a lot, and I covered the Clippers in
32:44
Speaker 1: the nineties, and they those guys, they loved each other.
32:47
Speaker 1: Late nineties, early two thousands. They had a guy named
32:49
Speaker 1: Darius Miles and oh he was the life of the party.
32:52
Speaker 1: Quentin Richardson, those guys hung out together all the time.
32:55
Speaker 1: They were playing video games on the road. They went
32:57
Speaker 1: out to dinner and meals and all that. And they
33:00
Speaker 1: not play basketball to save their life. They sucked, but
33:02
Speaker 1: they got they got along while that great chemistry, Greg chemistry.
33:06
Speaker 1: Oh Man Anyway, turning the page, So the question now
33:12
Speaker 1: becomes Who's got next? Who's got next? Lane Kiffen has
33:17
Speaker 1: entered the chat. Lane Kiffen and Clint Kubiak. Huh who Yeah?
33:23
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin and Clint Kubiak are among the betting favorites
33:28
Speaker 1: as the body is not yet cold for Brian day
33:31
Speaker 1: Ball in terms of coaching the Giants, and already the
33:34
Speaker 1: talk is Lane Kiffin and Clint Kubiak among the favors
33:37
Speaker 1: to be the next head coach of the Giants. So
33:40
Speaker 1: how would that play? How would that play with the
33:43
Speaker 1: bass with the Giants? If this assume for the purposes
33:46
Speaker 1: of this monologue that those are the two guys. So
33:49
Speaker 1: how would that play? So what you have here, you
33:53
Speaker 1: have the Muppet babies is what you've got? You've got,
33:55
Speaker 1: or actually the net Bole Babies would be a better
33:57
Speaker 1: way to discribe. You've got the net Bole babies. You've
33:59
Speaker 1: got the sons of former NFL big shots Monty Kiffen
34:04
Speaker 1: and Gary Kubiak. Monty Kiffin, the father of the Tampa two.
34:09
Speaker 1: All right back in the day, Gary Kubiak, John Elway's caddie,
34:14
Speaker 1: who hold he held the clipboard for John Elway. Both
34:17
Speaker 1: dads coached a long time in the NFL, and certainly
34:23
Speaker 1: Monty Kiffen considered roy he died, I think it was
34:25
Speaker 1: last year, but he considered royalty because of the Tampa
34:28
Speaker 1: two defense, which is still mimicked by a bunch of
34:30
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL, and not so much Gary Kubiak.
34:33
Speaker 1: But if you look around, all right, both of them
34:35
Speaker 1: NEPO babies, So we know that going in. What is
34:38
Speaker 1: an internet meme and the other ones just kind of there.
34:43
Speaker 1: I think we know who the internet meme is. The
34:45
Speaker 1: other guy, Clint Kubiak, is like a carbon neutral coach.
34:50
Speaker 1: He's a carbon neutral coach. Now what does that mean.
34:53
Speaker 1: That means there's no real carbon footprint, no noise, no headlines,
34:59
Speaker 1: nothing gets you all excited. Just a guy with the
35:02
Speaker 1: right last name who went into the family business and
35:05
Speaker 1: because his dad he got him connections. He was able
35:08
Speaker 1: to get some jobs and he's currently working in Seattle
35:12
Speaker 1: and things are going well for the Seahawks. And Sam Darnold,
35:15
Speaker 1: who played well last year in minnesota's playing well again
35:17
Speaker 1: in the regular season until it's a big game, and
35:19
Speaker 1: then he rides the vomit comet and so because of that,
35:22
Speaker 1: and there's really a supply chain shortage of coaches. The
35:25
Speaker 1: name Clint Kubiak has been mentioned for the Giants. Now
35:29
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin. Meanwhile, all right, so Lane Kiffen would bring
35:34
Speaker 1: the full circus parade, and I'm there for I Am
35:39
Speaker 1: talking elephants, camels, zebras, clown cars, the whole shebang. There'll
35:46
Speaker 1: be a thing of a jig and watch you m
35:48
Speaker 1: call Oh, I'm all for it. He's the ultimate look
35:52
Speaker 1: at me coach? Is there any coach more about looking
35:55
Speaker 1: at me than Lane Kiffen. Everything he does is for
35:58
Speaker 1: the matrix. He's full immersed in the fake world of
36:02
Speaker 1: social media. He is. He's the ultimate look at me
36:05
Speaker 1: guy in college football. He could get any college football
36:10
Speaker 1: job he wants. Really, he's like the big name that
36:14
Speaker 1: could get any job he wants. But you'd much rather
36:16
Speaker 1: a coach in the NFL. College football is a joke
36:18
Speaker 1: compared to the NFL. You'd much rather coach in the NFL.
36:20
Speaker 1: All these guys want to coach in the NFL. And
36:22
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, though, here's the thing. He would turn the
36:24
Speaker 1: Giants into a reality show. It would be a content superstore.
36:31
Speaker 1: For those of us that do sports talk radio, man, Now,
36:35
Speaker 1: would it work? Probably not? Probably not, wouldn't work, but
36:38
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I don't care about that. It'd be
36:40
Speaker 1: a fun thrill ride, be pretty cool, right, you know,
36:43
Speaker 1: lots of loopty loops and maybe a few barf bags
36:47
Speaker 1: mixed in. For Lane Kiffin with the Giants, the problem,
36:50
Speaker 1: he's got to get the job. The Giants are so
36:53
Speaker 1: buttoned up as a franchise, so conservative, that's the family
36:59
Speaker 1: brand for the New York Giants. Doesn't seem like they'd
37:02
Speaker 1: go for Lane Kiffin striking a pose at the thirty
37:06
Speaker 1: five yard line and they wouldn't liked it all right,
37:10
Speaker 1: So there you go. And the fact that the Giants
37:14
Speaker 1: are going to allow this guy, Joe Shane allegedly to
37:19
Speaker 1: continue as the gym. We'll see if that actually happens
37:21
Speaker 1: when we get to the end of the year. Feeling
37:23
Speaker 1: there could be a switch roo on that one that
37:27
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem like he's willing to go off off
37:30
Speaker 1: the grid on a coach, and so you're going to
37:32
Speaker 1: bring in another coach, but you're going to keep the
37:34
Speaker 1: general manager, which means the coach and GM are not aligned.
37:38
Speaker 1: And so you're essentially rearranging the furniture on the Exxon Valdize.
37:45
Speaker 1: It's not going very well. It's gonna be a big
37:46
Speaker 1: oil spill there, and so so much for the full reboot.
37:50
Speaker 1: You know, turn the computer off, turn it back on.
37:52
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, blah blah blah, blah blah. Now someone's
37:55
Speaker 1: gonna take the job. It pays very well. It's New
37:56
Speaker 1: York while it's New Jersey. And yeah, you get paid
37:59
Speaker 1: a lot in taxi and I guess you can get
38:01
Speaker 1: free free bus rides. If he coached the Giants, you
38:04
Speaker 1: get free cheese at the government store. So that'll be good.
38:07
Speaker 1: And there's only thirty two of the jobs, So there
38:09
Speaker 1: you go. You know, so somebody will take it. And
38:11
Speaker 1: if it's laying kiffing, buckle up, I'm there for it.
38:14
Speaker 1: Why not. It's gonna be gonna be loud, and it'll
38:18
Speaker 1: be fast and will likely crash and burn spectacularly. But
38:22
Speaker 1: that's fine, all right. Final point. So, now that Brian
38:25
Speaker 1: Dayball has been decommissioned as the coach of the Giants,
38:29
Speaker 1: what do you think happens? Suddenly he becomes hot to trot.
38:34
Speaker 1: He becomes the hottest offensive mind on the market, the
38:38
Speaker 1: guy that just proved he can't get the job done
38:42
Speaker 1: as a head coach. He was horrific in that job,
38:46
Speaker 1: one of the worst coaches in the ninety third percent
38:48
Speaker 1: tile as a head coach, and his resume actually got
38:53
Speaker 1: better from getting canned, actually got better from getting canned. Yeah,
39:00
Speaker 1: So okay, that's that's the way it is. So they
39:03
Speaker 1: asked the Buffalo Bills he used to work in Buffalo.
39:07
Speaker 1: His claim defend the reason he got the Giants job
39:09
Speaker 1: is because he was credited with Josh Josh Allen could
39:13
Speaker 1: not even eat his food without being being cut up
39:16
Speaker 1: and all that, and he was eating baby food until
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Speaker 1: Brian Daball came in and so Buffalo coach Sean McDermott
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Speaker 1: was asked about this and basically said, now, we're good.
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Speaker 1: When asked whether or not Brian da Ball would be
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Speaker 1: joining the Giants joined the Bills from the Giants and
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Speaker 1: some kind of fluff, no show consulting job which all
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Speaker 1: these guys get, you know, paid a lot of money,
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Speaker 1: fly in, you know, text a few times a day,
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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So when asked about a reunion,
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Speaker 1: he essentially said, we're good. So the question is this
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Speaker 1: with Brian Dable on the market the Buffalo Bills underachieving
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Speaker 1: this season. What was that response by McDermott about why
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Speaker 1: would you not at least text and say come buy sometime.
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Speaker 1: I'll get you a creampuff. You can have a cream
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Speaker 1: puff and watch Josh Allen practice. So my theory on this,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think I'm wrong on it, is this
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Speaker 1: is personal to totally dismiss this is a personal situation,
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Speaker 1: like the old marketing campaign for Windy's back in the day.
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Speaker 1: Where's the beef. Where's the beef? Now here's the beef.
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Speaker 1: There's clearly a beef there. And if there was no beef.
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Speaker 1: If there was no beef, then you'd say, well, we'll
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Speaker 1: talk to him, but we like our coaching staff, we'll
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Speaker 1: see you never know, he might not want to coach.
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Speaker 1: He didn't say anything. McDermott and day Ball, I remember
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Speaker 1: if I'm doing monologues about this back in the day,
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Speaker 1: and went back and I checked some of my notes
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Speaker 1: and they were not they were not best buds at
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Speaker 1: the end. In fact, there was a lot of chatter
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Speaker 1: that you're not gonna see McDermott and day Ball splitting
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Speaker 1: chicken wings at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo. It's not
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Speaker 1: gonna happen. They were loggerheads, didn't really like each other
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Speaker 1: all that much. And McDermott was, I believe, jealous of
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Speaker 1: the amount of attention that the day Ball coaching genius
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Speaker 1: was getting and getting credited by all the TV guys
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Speaker 1: for propping up Josh allen Wood above me and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. So day Ball now he has been type cast.
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Speaker 1: He has been type cast as a good coordinator and
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Speaker 1: a bad head coach, the kind of a guy that
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Speaker 1: will keep getting gigs year after year after year after
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Speaker 1: year until the next offensive fad comes along and then
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Speaker 1: he will be persona non grata. Brian David that's the
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Speaker 1: NFL's comfort food. It's saying, well, we want he's got
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Speaker 1: coaching experience, head coaching experience. Yeah, but he suck. Doesn't matter,
41:53
Speaker 1: he's got coaching experience. You know, same names. They just
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Speaker 1: get reshuffled around the NFL and there is a apply
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Speaker 1: chain shortage on available coaches. But you just microwave the resume.
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Speaker 1: That's it. Serve it up again. Go to a new
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Speaker 1: town like the carpet baggery that you are.
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Speaker 4: Not?
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Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. Here we go. We have
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Speaker 1: our matchup here. We have Grant in Kansas City and
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Speaker 1: Jed who fled? I believe Jed deferred? Is that correct?
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Speaker 1: He chose not he didn't choose a category right away.
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Speaker 1: I'm hearing a lot of feedback which is not particularly
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Speaker 1: great here. So what are the categoyies again? Coop here?
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Speaker 1: What are we doing here?
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Speaker 4: We have regulate and you don't stop game, don't wait?
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Speaker 4: And I want it all you have? I won it
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Speaker 4: all with Grant?
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Speaker 1: All right? I want it all? Are you ready there, Grant?
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Speaker 1: Let go? All right? For these athletes all won MVP
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Speaker 1: and championships in the same season. We'll put forty five
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Speaker 1: sections on the clock. Were on our way and go.
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Speaker 1: He was Larry Bird's rival with the Lakers in the eighties. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the greatest running back, leading all time leading rusher in
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Speaker 1: NFL history for the Cowboys. Yes, play just won the
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Speaker 1: World Series with the Dodgers. He was traded from the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox. He's played shortstop this year. Was an out
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Speaker 1: it was an outfielder, all right. Greatest Bronco running back
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Speaker 1: of all time. He helped John Elway win two Super Bowls
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Speaker 1: late in Lway's career. No close. Nicknamed Pops for the
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers in the nineteen seventies. A giant home run
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Speaker 1: hitter for the Pirates. We are family, all right. Brooklyn
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Speaker 1: Dodger Catcher was in a car accident, was paralyzed. No A,
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Speaker 1: thirty points, thirty points.
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Speaker 4: Mookie Betts was who he wanted, and Terrell Davis not to.
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Speaker 1: Willie Starge was Pops and Roy Camp all.
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Speaker 4: Right, Jed, we have regulate. These athletes are all from
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Speaker 4: Long Beach, California.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure Jet's familiar with Long Beach.
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Speaker 4: For the LBC forty five seconds on the clock, let's begin.
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Speaker 4: This guy was the triple double guy. He started his
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Speaker 4: career with Oklahoma City. Yes, butt fumble quarterback for the Jets.
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Speaker 4: Mark Yes, mister Padre best Padre ever. This guy is
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Speaker 4: a forty two year old tight end who's still in
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Speaker 4: the league. He started with the Jaguars out of u
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Speaker 4: c l A. Yes, uh, this guy was a linebacker
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Speaker 4: for the Patriots and the Tom Brady era.
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Speaker 1: He beat somebody up in a nightclub.
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Speaker 4: Nope, nope, all right, the female tennis player, she had
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Speaker 4: the square glasses. She's a lesbian marking. No billy Jeane King.
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Speaker 1: All right, great, we need seven, we need over seven.
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Speaker 1: Grant you want and you don't stop or game? Don't
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Speaker 1: wait wait, Okay, these athletes did not bother playing in college.
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Speaker 1: It didn't matter. Are you ready? Forty five seconds? Run
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Speaker 1: away and go?
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: The star for the Lakers out of Akron, Ohio. He
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Speaker 1: played with the Cavaliers in the Heat. All right, yes,
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Speaker 1: what an MVP with Orlando. He was a center, not
45:32
Speaker 1: Shaquille O'Neill, though out of Georgia. Played high school ball
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Speaker 1: in Georgia. Played with the White Yes, that is correct.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: He was a number two pick by the Chicago Bulls.
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Speaker 1: Out of Southern California. He was a center. Played in
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Speaker 1: the early two thousands with Chicago. Nope, all right, Uh,
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Speaker 1: we're out of time. We want we congratulations, grant. Maybe
45:58
Speaker 1: you'll learn nokie Betts. Maybe you'll learn about milky bets
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Speaker 1: next time. All right, milky bets