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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you had the Ravens making the postseason, which
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  Speaker 1: just about everybody, Dad, you are a loser. Well come
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  Speaker 1: I saw some cockroaches walked into well maybe as away
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit, so maybe they fixed the infestation,
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  Speaker 1: but no, they have not. They have not, So you're
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  Speaker 1: just kind of like seeing an old friend. When you
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  Speaker 1: see a little cockroach scirming around on the floor, You're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's where I belong here. Those are my insects right there.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of cool. So our lead this hour is
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  Speaker 1: from Western Pennsilvan. It's excited to be back here. We're
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to a lot of fun and we'll have
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  Speaker 1: some Mallard meet and greets during the course of the
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  Speaker 1: year in random places to be determined at a later date.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll make it the plan is to make it
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  Speaker 1: to an Ohio Meet and greet at some point this year,
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  Speaker 1: but that is all stuff we will talk about as
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  Speaker 1: we work our way through the overnight. We'll start out
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  Speaker 1: in Western Pa. It was the AFC North Championship game.
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  Speaker 1: There was the final game of the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: regular season. The NFL has jammed two hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: to regular season games into one hundred and twenty two days.
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  Speaker 1: This all started back on September fourth of last year.
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  Speaker 1: Way back in twenty twenty five. You might remember the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Eagles they got together. It was a
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  Speaker 1: real spinner, a slobber knocker. Literally. It started with a
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  Speaker 1: giant loogie flying out of the mouth of one of
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  Speaker 1: the Eagle players. And that's how the season began. And
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  Speaker 1: it ended with Lamar Jackson returning to lead the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: into Pittsburgh. Winner gets the playoffs. A wrangle against Aaron Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: So the winner gets the division. The loser goes on
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  Speaker 1: a nice vacation, nice tropical vacation somewhere, So there really
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  Speaker 1: are no losers, and there's either go on a vacation
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  Speaker 1: you go play a playoff game somewhere. So you had
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tarico Chris Collinsworth on NBC. They had the call. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't if you watched it or not. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: were not watching it. I don't know what else you're watching.
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  Speaker 1: It was really nothing else to watch. We watched it,
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  Speaker 1: and this was a roller coaster of a game, A
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  Speaker 1: roller coaster of the game. Aaron Rodgers gets the headline
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  Speaker 1: on it. He threw the go ahead touchdown to Calvin
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  Speaker 1: Austin with fifty five seconds left on the clock. However,
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers they missed the extra point, giving Baltimore an opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: and the Steelers ended up getting the I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how you say it here, they ended up getting the
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  Speaker 1: benefit of the idiot kicker in this game. They squeezed
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  Speaker 1: past the Ravens twenty six twenty four. All the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: need was needed was a field goal, and they did
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  Speaker 1: get into field goal range rather quickly. A complete meltdown
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  Speaker 1: by the Yinzers defense as Lamar Jackson, that was MVP
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  Speaker 1: Lamar in the fourth quarter as he sliced up the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers took Baltimore down the field. They're set up what
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  Speaker 1: in modern NFL is a chip shot field goal forty
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  Speaker 1: four yard field goal attempt by Tyler Loop. Who Tyler Loop,
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  Speaker 1: make the kick. You're in the playoffs. Miss the kick
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. You're done. And as time expired, the
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  Speaker 1: kick went up and yeah, he went to to the
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  Speaker 1: right side of the goalpost, not through the goalpost. Who goofed?
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know. And so with that, these Steelers
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  Speaker 1: have advanced. They will have a home game wild Card weekend,
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  Speaker 1: but not on Saturday, not on Sunday. Instead, on Monday
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  Speaker 1: Night they will take on the Houston Texans. That'll be
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  Speaker 1: the match up there on Monday Night. They had that
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, Monday Night football in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll be the story with thisburd Now. The better
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  Speaker 1: story though, for our purposes, is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens are dun Skis and the window for
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson to get her done. Now. He's been a
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  Speaker 1: terrible big game quarterback in his career and played really
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  Speaker 1: well down the stretch in this game. Didn't play this
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  Speaker 1: so well in the middle part of the game, but
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch played very well, but in the end
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  Speaker 1: not enough. And so Baltimore is done. Here is their
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  Speaker 1: head coach John Harbaugh. As we discuss, and he points
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  Speaker 1: out that even though the idiot kicker missed the kick,
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  Speaker 1: he says, apparently there were other people to blame. Thing
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  Speaker 1: as what you saw and this game is pretty much
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  Speaker 1: what you've seen all year from a heart etifort and
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  Speaker 1: fight standpoint. Just didn't play well enough to you know,
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  Speaker 1: close it out. Now. You hear the question in the
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  Speaker 1: answer on this one, and you know here John Harbaugh
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  Speaker 1: asked about the Ravens situation. Now, it's it's pretty, it's
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  Speaker 1: low hanging through. It's kind of obvious what Harball is
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  Speaker 1: going to say. But let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: This just happened. You feel you one another shots with
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  Speaker 2: these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm I love this guy. I love
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  Speaker 1: this guy. Say no, these guys suck. They're so bad.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so happy I never have to coach that team again.
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  Speaker 1: My god, they're horrible. I think Sports with Coleman, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast guy in Baltimore do a better job playing defense
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  Speaker 1: to some of these stiffs. What else is gonna say?
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll hear from Lamar in a minute, but
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  Speaker 1: let's start with just the wide angle lens on the
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  Speaker 1: Ravens as they do not qualify for the playoffs. To question,
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  Speaker 1: as we discuss who do you blame, who do you
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  Speaker 1: blame for Lamar Jackson the Ravens not qualifying the bar,
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  Speaker 1: the very minimum bar and make the playoffs. Hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is the great, all time greats Hall of Fame quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, and they're not even in the playoffs. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this. I've got Flatulen's way back
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  Speaker 1: machine and trump card and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we're gonna present to you a
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  Speaker 1: combo meal deal. So that's the first ever combo meal
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  Speaker 1: deal that we're gonna give you year of sports take.
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  Speaker 1: So a we are going to blame a kindergarten song
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  Speaker 1: is who we're going to blame, all right, Crank up
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  Speaker 1: the old boone box. Damn Bones a classic song, demn Bones. Right,
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  Speaker 1: the headbone is connected to the neck bone, the neck
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  Speaker 1: bones connected to the backbone. Except in Baltimore, the whole
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  Speaker 1: skeleton system, the whole skeleton there was held together by
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  Speaker 1: duck tape and some Elmer's glue and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: wishful thinking. And in the end, Lamar who played thirteen
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  Speaker 1: games this season. Now the Ravens played seventeen. Lamar played thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: and he missed chunks of the games he did play
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  Speaker 1: in for the Ravens. A bunch of those games Lamar
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  Speaker 1: played in he was playing in a dingy, if you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying there. It was kind of like
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  Speaker 1: your phone was at twelve percent when they had Lamar
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  Speaker 1: out there twelve percent and then ends up dying at
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  Speaker 1: twelve percent. Well, of the phone's not supposed to die
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  Speaker 1: twelve percent. He should get down like five percent, seven percent,
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  Speaker 1: but it died at twelve percent unreliable when it actually mattered, unreliable.
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore was six and seven in games started by Lamar
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  Speaker 1: Jackson at a losing record. This year, they were two
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  Speaker 1: and two in games he did not play in. He
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  Speaker 1: also lost to three non playoff teams the Ravens did
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  Speaker 1: this year and got swept by the Pittsburgh Steelers. So
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  Speaker 1: that's a pretty good way to not make the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: and so you lose into non playoff team teams that
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  Speaker 1: did not end up qualifying for the postseason. There's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like trusting some cheap tires in a rainstorms. You
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  Speaker 1: could get away with it sometimes it doesn't really work
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  Speaker 1: all that much. There so seven games with one or
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  Speaker 1: zero touchdown passes for Lamar this year, seven of them
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  Speaker 1: played thirteen. Seven of them he had no touchdown passes
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  Speaker 1: or one touchdown. So this was not for most of
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  Speaker 1: the season. This was not the NVP version of Lamar Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: It was Lamar Light, caffeine free, low calorie, low calorie
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  Speaker 1: for Lamar. And so they played with their food all season,
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  Speaker 1: they being the Baltimore Ravens, and wound up thanks to
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  Speaker 1: the kicker there at the end, going to Detention instead
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  Speaker 1: instead of going to the postseason. So this is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like microwaving your leftovers and calling it gourmet. You
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  Speaker 1: should at least put it in the air frighter, don't
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  Speaker 1: put on the microw I don't know anything that tastes
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  Speaker 1: good other than popcorn in the microwaven, even that you
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  Speaker 1: can make it on the stove and it would taste better.
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  Speaker 1: That's just my hot food take that's my high. I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't like things in the microwave. I don't,
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  Speaker 1: sam I am, I don't. I just don't like them.
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  Speaker 1: So and now the postseason Boogeyman has a right things
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  Speaker 1: that go bumpity bump in the night for the Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: Lamar's name certainly will be floated through talk radio like
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  Speaker 1: ance floating through an elevator, and so we hear a
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  Speaker 1: lot about Lamar. Here's Lamar, here's his thoughts. He was
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  Speaker 1: asked about the future and no, here's what he had
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  Speaker 1: to say this offseason. There's a lot of questions about
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  Speaker 1: your contract, Solard cat number.
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  Speaker 3: Do you do you feel your you'll be back as
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  Speaker 3: the Raves for racing season?
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  Speaker 1: Brop.
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  Speaker 4: We just lost a game, you know, a divisional game,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a game to put us in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not even thinking about that right now. To be
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  Speaker 4: honest with Johan, don't still caught up in what just happened.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's not my focus right now.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a guy that does not want to play
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  Speaker 1: for the Ravens anymore. The easy answer, the simple answer,
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  Speaker 1: is I love it here. I don't want to play
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  Speaker 1: aywhere else. Lamar didn't say that. Lamar said, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: thought about that, which means that in my mind, he's
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  Speaker 1: thought about playing somewhere else. He want to He don't
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  Speaker 1: give a straight answer, didn't give a straight answer. It
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a guy that does not want to play
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  Speaker 1: for the Baltimore Ravens anymore. That's the sound of Lamar Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a real debate. There's a real debate here
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  Speaker 1: about Lamar and he has been a batter ring ram
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  Speaker 1: type of quarterback for the Ravens. And so do you
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  Speaker 1: keep riding the horse, of course, until the horse collapses
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  Speaker 1: and goes to the glue factory, or do you decommission
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  Speaker 1: as a Raven Lamar Jackson a year or two too soon,
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  Speaker 1: and you do that before the wheels fall off. It
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  Speaker 1: sounds like Lamar's not real happy. I mean, the easy
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  Speaker 1: answer is I love it here. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: play whe else. I haven't thought about it, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to play. Why would I want to play
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else. I didn't say that. Instead, he gave the
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  Speaker 1: default answer, Well, you know, we just played a game.
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  Speaker 1: If you know you like it somewhere, don't you say
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  Speaker 1: you like it there? Am I wrong? Am I reading
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  Speaker 1: this wrong? I don't think I am. It's a simple
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  Speaker 1: thing to say. I love it here. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I want to go anywhere else. Listen. I love Fox
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  Speaker 1: Sports Tray, every cockroach that drops from the ceiling. I
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  Speaker 1: love it the smell of trash when I come in
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  Speaker 1: on a Sunday night into a Monday. I love the
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  Speaker 1: rum of the trash here because I love it here.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like, well, I don't know if I like you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I mean, think about it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just trying to do a show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get through the monologue. I'm just trying
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  Speaker 1: to get through the bloody monologue. That's all I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to come on now. As for John Harbaugh, the coach,
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  Speaker 1: he seems relatively safe. I don't think they're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: rid of him, he says. This is a this is
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  Speaker 1: a situation similar to Mike Tomlin, tenured professor at Harvard.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna get rid of John Harbaugh, not at
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  Speaker 1: this point. Now on the Pittsburgh side, the question for
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  Speaker 1: the esteem paddle are the Aaron Rogers Steelers a good
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  Speaker 1: team or just a fortunate team? All right? So the
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  Speaker 1: answer is yes, no, maybe so with a lot of pepto,
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  Speaker 1: just extra pepto. This feels a lot like every other
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin Steeler team post Ben Roethlisberger. Like it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: feel any and they like the names have changed slightly.
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  Speaker 1: The names are a little different. For the Steelers Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: they stumbled and they humboled. It was like a shopping
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  Speaker 1: cart with a bad wheel. There's a one hundred shopping
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  Speaker 1: carts in front of the store. You pick the one
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  Speaker 1: that has the bad wheel, and then you're like, what
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  Speaker 1: do I do? Do I put it back and give
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  Speaker 1: somebody else the one with the bad wheel? Do I
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  Speaker 1: try to push it? Do I try to find a
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  Speaker 1: different cart while I'm in That's my move. Go to Costco,
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  Speaker 1: I get the one with the bad wheel, and I
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  Speaker 1: take it. And then people just they leave their They
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  Speaker 1: leave their carts around the store, so I'll just grab
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  Speaker 1: someone else's car because they don't use anymore. This is
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  Speaker 1: leaving it on side. That's it. But you look at Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: this did not look like a playoff team. Did not
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  Speaker 1: sound like a playoff team. You look at the way
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  Speaker 1: they played this particular game. They stumbled and bumbled. As
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  Speaker 1: we said there, especially late in the game Lamar Jackson
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  Speaker 1: when we just did a serenade about Lamar in his situation.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at the play in the fourth corner,
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  Speaker 1: Lamar was really good, really good. He pulled out the
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  Speaker 1: butcher knife. Lamar Jackson had seventy two percent almost of
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  Speaker 1: his passing yards for the whole game in the final
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, one hundred and seventy one two thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of touchdowns, error free football for Lamar Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: and it was an oil painting. He was a museum piece.
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  Speaker 1: That was la Mar the Ravens had gotten when he
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  Speaker 1: was winning regular season the MVPs and it was still
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  Speaker 1: not enough. Why because Mike Tomlin went to the way
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  Speaker 1: back machine and it was a wonderful life for Mike Tomlin.
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  Speaker 1: Clarence the Angel had a terrible towel and the divine intervention.
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  Speaker 1: There was a full moon, I guess a few days back,
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  Speaker 1: their cosmic event, the whole thing there. Pittsburgh blows an
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  Speaker 1: extra point and then Baltimore says, all right, bal don't lie.
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  Speaker 1: You blew an extra point. So let's have our kicker
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  Speaker 1: do the old loop d loop and miss the kick
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  Speaker 1: face plant chip shot modern NFL field goal, and so
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  Speaker 1: that happens. Now, do the Steelers scare you if you
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  Speaker 1: are like the Texas. We're on in Houston you're in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Are you afraid of Pittsburgh? No, hell no, nobody's afraid
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  Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh. However, they are lethal at home. They have
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  Speaker 1: been lethal. Well that's what they have done in primetime games.
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  Speaker 1: They get the Monday night slot, the Steelers, and they're
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  Speaker 1: like a giant anaconda that doesn't look that fast until
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  Speaker 1: until it's too late. And so you got a dome team.
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  Speaker 1: You got a dome team from Houston going to frigid
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh with temperatures around freezing the long term forecast for
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  Speaker 1: a week from this Monday here, So the weather math
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  Speaker 1: looks good. With the malor math CJ. Stroud's not very good.
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  Speaker 1: Although these teams played in the regular season in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: lost by seven thousand points, but that was the regular
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  Speaker 1: season and the playoff team. So this is a playoff
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  Speaker 1: team obviously, much different situation. You're so good team, eh, now,
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  Speaker 1: fortunate team Pittsburgh, Absolutely fortunate team, and sometimes that's all
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  Speaker 1: you need. Right. Meanwhile, to La we go, La la Land.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams procured the number five seed and the closest
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  Speaker 1: thing you can get to a bye without actually having won,
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  Speaker 1: the losers of Carolina. What a suck team that is
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  Speaker 1: who got into the playoffs backed in. They lost their
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  Speaker 1: game on Saturday, and then because of the Atlanta victory,
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  Speaker 1: the Panthers, a losing franchise, is in the playoffs. So
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  Speaker 1: the Rams get the half by there, that's not the story.
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay comenty about Matthew Stafford postgame. Now he was
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  Speaker 1: asked about the MVP award. Stafford in the running for
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  Speaker 1: the MVP award. They're finished up completing twenty five of
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  Speaker 1: forty passes two fifty nine, four touchdown passes for Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Stafford to fatten up the stat sheet against that pathetic
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal team, which actually have a lead late in that game.
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  Speaker 1: Rams pulled away though in the final part of the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, but nonetheless so question Rams head coach Sean
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  Speaker 1: McVay saying that Matthew Stafford is the MVP. What say you?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So on this one, this was Sean McVeigh grabbing the
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  Speaker 1: megaphone and working in the room, is what it was.
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  Speaker 1: I was working the room here and I think we
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  Speaker 1: have we have Here's listen to mcgae. Here's a McVeigh
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  Speaker 1: commenting about Matthew Stafford. And this is just a little
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  Speaker 1: sound bite, but little give you a flavor of the coach.
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  Speaker 1: Take a list. Yes, I think Matthew's the MVP of
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: the league. He played that way. Wouldn't want anybody else
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: leading the way. Got a lot of respect for a
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: bunch of people in this league. But there's nobody I'd
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: rather have being the quarterback of the La Rams than
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. His uh, his place speech for itself. Keep
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: in mind the Rams did look elsewhere last offseason, but
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: they bought them back. He played well. So that was
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: a stump speech by Sean McVay, not a sermon, not
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a sermon. It was a little stump speech. His handshakes, backslaps.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Politicking is the term that you could use there, politicking. Uh.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: And you know you got to defend your quarterbacks, you
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: got to sell your quarterback to win the MVP and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: and all that. And you know Saffron's argument it's no
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: one and is wrapped up. I mean, we're at the
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: end now, this is it right, It's a regular season
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: war and there's no clear MVP even as we sit
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: here hours after the final NFL regular season game was played.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Stafford's argument is he's thirty thirty seven. I believe he's
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: played quarterback the season. Veteran, He's played like a They
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: used to say cab driver, I can say uber drivers now.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: The guy that knows every back alley, every short cut,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: every trapdoor, no look passes, parlor tricks, and only a
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: couple of duds during the season. He did all that
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: with some gray whiskers. And the numbers, they're MVP number.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: You say, just based on the numbers, he's the MVP.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I don't have as much debate on that. Stafford end
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: of the season with the top yardage, show led the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: NFL in passing yards, he led the NFL in passing touchdowns.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: That seems kind of like a big deal. I don't know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: maybe not. And only eight interceptions by Matthew Stafford. That's
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: a tremendous accomplishment for to only have eight interceptions so
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: high mileage, low wear, and tear carved up legitimate defense
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: is not paper tigers like the guy he's going against
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: for the MVP. And this still I believe will be
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: a photo finish with Drake May of the Patriots, the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: shiny new efficient munster quarterback. There, he's got the legs,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: he's the tool threat quarterback Drake May, and he's got
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the launch codes for the Patriots offense and all that stuff.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: But Stafford his trump card. This is the trump card
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: for Matthew Stafford. The MVP voters love the storyline. They're
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: all almost all a bunch of washed up sports writers, right,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: so they still hang on a bunch of old people
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and they love the storyline. So the storyline is, oh,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford after all these years, and it looked like
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna play this year, and he played. He
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: led the league, led the entire league in touchdown passes
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and yardage. And that's an MVP's dotting the I like
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the Ohio State Marching band. That's just wrapping the whole
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: career up. You win the MVP and you send him
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: off to the Hall of Fame, and that's it. So
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: that's the story. Now the Drake May thing as well, Yeah,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: he'll have plenty of time to win an MVP. The
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: argument against Drake May as well, Yeah, the Patriots, goody
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: played a bunch of tomato cans. It's hard to argue
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: against that. The easiest schedule in NFL history. Now, to
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Drake May's credit, he took advantage of it, and the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Patriots won a bunch of games beating bad teams, which
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: they were. That's what you're supposed to do, so that's great.
• 21:34
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• 24:01
  Speaker 1: As the coaching carousel goes round and round and round
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and round, the coaching carousel, round and round and round
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: and round, rounding around. Man, the wins have change blowing.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Oh man, make our own sound effects around here, so
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the strong breeze. Thank you. We used to have a
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: guy wo worked here named Coolbrees, but he didn't work
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: anymore anyway. The Falcons have whacked their head coach. They've
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: fired Raheem Morris. Hey going he gone? If you did
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: not hear, maybe not. Raheem Morris and the GM a
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: two for one combo as Terry Fontineau got the no no,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: as he's gone two straight clunker seasons in the atl
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and the exits confirmed. Just hours after Atlanta wrapped up
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: a losing season with a win, they took down the
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints to help the suck bag Carolina Panthers
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs. So the Falcons finished the season by
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: winning four straight games. What de damn do the headline players?
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Many of them came out very vocal, full throated endorsements
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: for their head coach, including Drake London, the wide receiver
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and Vijehon Robinson, the mustard man in the backfield, both
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: endorsing endorsing the head coach, and it did not matter.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Morris is not going to be back for a third
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: season at the Helm. He's out and Fontineau is right
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: behind him. Make sure that the door don't hit you
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: where the Good Lord split you when you leave the building. There.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: So the Falcons have not made the playoffs since twenty seventeen,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: which is doesn't seem like it's that long ago, but
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: it's been been a while. That's back when the ass
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: one thousand and two, one thousand holes were cheating in
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the World Series and got away with it because Baseball's
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: got a spineless, gutless commissioner. But I'm not here to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: talk about that anyway. So it's been a minute. Falcons
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: suck second longest drought for the playoffs in the league.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Atlanta also has not had a winning record in eight seasons,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: which seems to be problematic. I didn't play in the NFL.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I don't work in the NFL. It seems like if
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: you can't even win more games than you lose that
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: something is not going right there. And Morris and the
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Falcons in two years went sixteen and eighteen. That is
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: a losing record and a good jumping off point. So
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question did the Falcons do Raheem
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Morris dirty, not giving him a third season and dumping
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: him after two full years in Georgia. So my observations,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I've got second Scoop Rancero and President's Award, and we'll
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we're gonna play
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Connect three is what we're gonna do now. Number so
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: on my scorecard, the malor scorecard. Two words. It's absolutely
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: not in terms of Raheem Morris getting some kind of
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: raw deal. Did the Falcons do him dirty? No, they
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: did not. This was not some kind of hit job
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: by Arthur Blank, the home depot guy that owns the
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. This was more of a youth in Asia situation,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: if you will. Morris already face planted one of the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: worst coaching runs in NFL history the first time around.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: When he was in Tampa. You might remember Raheem Morris
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: was partying with the players and the bucks that they
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: were reports saying that he was just one of the guys.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: He was about the age of the players. He was
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: out having a great time chasing girls and drinking and
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, which would have been fine if the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: team hadn't sucked in Tampa Bay, which they did, and
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: so as well, he was a young guy. He's older. Now,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: let's give him another opportunity. They like twenty years ago.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Let's give him the guy. All right, We'll give Hi
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: an opportunity. So Atlanta gave him a mulligan. They said,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you know what, We're gonna take you down to the
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: ice cream stand. We're gonna get to his second scoop
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: of ice cream. And here you go, here's your second school.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: And he said, oh man, I really like that, Thank
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you so much. And so Morris proved that as a
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: head coach, he's a really nice guy. He's a really
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: nice guy. And as a head coach, blah blah blah
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: what he is, right, And so somehow the geniuses in
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Atlanta hired Raheem Morris, who had already shown that he
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: wasn't a good head coach, but they gave Hi another
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: opportunity instead of Bill Belichick, who at one point was
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: in line for that. Oh Belichick sucks at North Carolina.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: He does. He did stalk at North Carolina. And he's
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: got that little fluozy chase. He's chasing on. I still
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: would have hired Belichick instead of Raheem Morris. I'd still
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: hire Belichick because I have a talk show to do
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: every night, and hire Belichick. Yeah, they'll probably suck anyway,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: but they don't know how to win in Atlantas. Who cares?
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: So it's like turning down a Hall of Fame surgeon
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and letting your barber do your heart surgery. I need
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: heart surgy rather than use the top rated first in
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: his class at medical school the surgeon. I'm gonna hire
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Mike Barber. Why not? What the hell are right? Anyway?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: So the Falcons also traded a future number one overall
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: pick a first round picture to the Rams, and they
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: beefed up the roster they went for. It also does
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: not hurt that Michael Pennix, the quarterback, was supposed to
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: take off in year two and did not work out
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: so well. And so despite beefing up the roster and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: having what everyone says is a great set of playmakers
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and all that, Atlanta tripped over their own shoelaces in
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the division, which is softer than microwave marshmallows. Could you
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: be in a more sucky division than the NFC? South
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: where Carolina who stinks made the playoffs at seven and nine.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: All right, so any Jean Robinson and Drake May and
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: all these guys who everyone says blue chip talent. This
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: guy's a stud, that guy's a stud, and yet the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: results on the field like Luke leftovers, chronic underachievers, same movie,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: different Sunday, but you're watching the same movie there. And
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: rahee Morris, who you gotta think is never going to
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: be a head coach again? Why would you other than interim,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: why would you ever hire Raheem Morris as head coach?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: That's it. So he ends his run with thirty seven
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: wins and fifty six losses, a less than four hundred
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: winning percentage as a head coach. That's not exactly progress progress. No,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: that is the GPS recalculating forever, recalculating stand by, recalculating
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: recalculating standby. And that's it. And in the legendary words
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: of a former Atlanta Falcon head coach, Jerry Glanville, who
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: said it best, the NFL means not for long, certainly
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: not for long when you have losing records and you
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: have already failed your first attempt. So they didn't do
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: him dirty. The Falcons with Raheem Morris, this was overdue housekeeping,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: overdue housekeeping. You got the broom. On one hand, you
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: got the dust pan. This is a reality check, is
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: what it is. Right Meanwhile, being in reality checks now,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: we're still waiting overnight. If anything breaks overnight, we will
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: have it for you. But as of this hour, no
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: news out on the future in Jersey. For the Jets,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: who completed a seventeen game this is mind boggling. Seventeen
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: game regular season, seventeen games and a defense that did
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: not get one interception. You'd think, just by dumb luck,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: a quarterback would have thrown a pass that bounced off
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: somebody's helmet and then landed in the arms of a
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: safety for the Jets or a linebacker. They the first
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: team in NFL history to complete a seventeen game season
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and not get one interception. Just insane. First team ever
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to go that far and never do it with a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: defensive interception, So tremendous work there. They hired the Defensive
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Coordinated Alliance. Also, the Jets were outscored one hundred in
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: eighty eight to fifty four. If you watched Benny versus
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the Penny on YouTube this week. You know that even
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: before this last game where they got smashed by the
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, the Jets it was already the single worst
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: close to a season in NFL history. They added on
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: to that by getting just smushed by Buffalo's backups. There
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: outscored one hundred and eighty eight to fifty four the
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: final five games, all of course, five losses and not
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: competitive at all, a team that had obviously just given
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: up on their head coach. And so the question does
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn? Does Aaron Glenn deserve a second season with
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the Jets? All right, so how about not just no well,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: not just gonna go No, how about no way, no how,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: no chance, no chance. All those things the scales of
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: sporty justice. And we are big believers in sporty justice.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: So the scales of sporty justice are hipping hard towards
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the off ramp, the exit ramp for Raheem Morris, get
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: out of here to see you later. This performance as
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a coach, Aaron Glenn belongs in the pen, not the bullpen,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the penitentiary of football. My god, one of the worst
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: coaching jobs I've ever seen. It's unbelievable and masquerading as
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: a head coach. Aaron Glenn. He had the clipboard, he
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: had the scow. My favorite was when he was he
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: was educating the beat writers for the Jets on how
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: to do his job and then went out and just
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: got smooth, just smacked around by everybody, just so good.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Aaron was not really a coach. No, he walked around.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: He was like walking around the Jets complex there at
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: florm Park like mister know it all. He had all
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the answers right, and he had all everything. He knew
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: all the problems that Jets had how to fix. Him
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and the Jets player on the field, they played like
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: they had never been given a game plan, and if
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: they had been given a blank a game plan, it
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: was written in Chinese and they didn't know how to
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: read Chinese. So no adjustments, no teaching, no scheming anyone up.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: That's it and so not a coach. Aaron Glenn was
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: a rancero and the Jets were lambs to the slaughter.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Every time they took the field on Sunday gift rapped
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: or Thursday or Monday gift rapped and delivered to who
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: they played. So unless this was intentional, which is of
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: course a violation of NFL rules that this was a
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: tank job and management had said we want you to tank.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: And even that was the case, the Jets didn't end
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: up with the number one pick, so they f that up.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: So anyway, other than it being a take, if the
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Jets were actually if Aaron Glenn was coaching and the
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Jets were trying, and this was the result, nobody, not
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: a single player overperformed, nobody was able to level up.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Didn't happen coaching malpractice from Aaron Glenn. Outside of it
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: being an intentional act of malfeasance that was orchestrated by
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the Johnson and Johnson group that owns the team, it
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: was some kind of performance art. Yeah, he's gotta go,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: he can't coach the guys sucks. Get rid of him.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: He blows. So you can't be that unprepared on a
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: weekly basis and essentially give up the last month of
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the season. Normally you say, well, you want to impress
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the coach because the guy's gonna be back next year.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: You want to put on a good show. No, they
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: look like they could. They wanted to go away. We
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: don't want to be here. Why are we here and
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the Jets season. It became a meme with Aaron Glenn
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: It was our expectations were low, but holy fan by
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the jetst like, we know you're gonna suck, but that
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: is the next level of suckage is what that is,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: my goodness, and so congratulations. Yeah, they didn't get the
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: number two pick. They wrapped that bad boy up up
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: and that will be a bad boy. So that means
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the Jets will put the whammi on some hot shot
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: defensive linemen or linebacker offensive lineman, a blue chip college
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: player who's been making a bunch of nil money in
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the SEC or the big ten will slide into the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: green waters of the Bermuda Triangle, which is where the
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Jets facility is there, and that's where careers go to
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: vanish advantage. They just they disappear like socks in the dryer.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: So maybe they'll burn some sage and they'll have a
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: ceremonial situation where man, they are just as being a
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: bad Congratulations, our final stop, we head to Nevada. Then
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the Raiders are officially on the clock. Congratulations. A little
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: over one hundred days away from the twenty twenty six
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: NFL Draft, and even before they took the field against
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs. That was it. That was it, that was all.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: See you later, Bye bye. The Giants beat the Cowboys.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Good effort by the Cowboys. There way to close the
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: year on a winning note unless they didn't. So the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Giants won, and that meant that the Raiders hold the
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the twenty twenty six NFL
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: College Draft. It is the first time the Jets are
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the Raiders rather picked number one since twenty seven. I
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: was barely alive back in twenty oh seven, So question
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: should Raider Nation? Should Raider Nation be excited? Woo excited?
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: All right about procuring the number one overall pick, number one?
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: So no chance, no chance. If you are a Raider
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  Speaker 1: officionado excited about this, you're a bad fan. You're a
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: bad fan. You are This is the walk of shame.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: This is not something to be excited about. You got
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the hoodie up, you got the head down. You're sneaking
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: out of Caesar's Palace hoping that mouthwash Mike doesn't see
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: you as you're walking out of Caesar's Palace at sunrise.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't want stop the music. There's no confetti.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: You don't get confetti for this. Congratulations, Raider Nation, You've
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: won the President's Award at the Football Parade of Horribles.
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  Speaker 1: You're the most horrible of the bunch. Congratulations there the
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: loser Lombardi, the Raiders picked it up. There, your EBT
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: card is loaded. Congratulations, you royally stink. Way to go.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: As cam Ward would say, we ask talking about the Raiders.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: There.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: So the franchise which is made circling the drain a
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: right of passage this time of the year, and so
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: same mistakes, different names, different players, different executives. And now
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: you've got that bit owner Skinny Jeans, Tom Brady the
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: GM by proxy, Tom Brady pulling the strings like it's
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: a Vegas puppet show and he's the puppeteer pulling the strings. There,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Brady chose Pete Carroll's coach. It sounds like they're gonna
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: do the same thing the Seahawks did where they made
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Pete claim that he was retiring even though he is
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: not retiring. Fact, here is Pete Carroll here the question
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: and the answer. He was asked about that because the
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: rumor is that the Raiders can say, hey, Pete, we're
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: going to fire your ass. So just claim you're retiring,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: and then we won't say you were fired. And here's
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: the quote. You'll hear the question would you like to
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: come back next year? And do you to be a best sure?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Of course? On that note, group question to start with
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: real quick, Pete, Just on that note, there have been
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: some reports that you're considering retirement, are walking.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Away those actor.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Nobody's talking to me about that. I haven't said a
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: word to anybody that would indicate the Raiders will fire
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll's what that indicates there, But we'll see or
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: he'll play along, play mister nice guy. He didn't really
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: want to leave the Seahawks, and they picked the other guy,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: and then then the executive. There was a bit of
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: power play and all that. But remember Tom Brady picked
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll. He then signed off on Gino Smith, who
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: sucks those ingredients which Tom Brady select do not make
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: a gour meal mea or gourmemial. They don't. I mean
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: they absolutely, It's like a leftover thing a majig. And
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know I could do Hickey's in there. I
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: don't know what that is. And so and then comes
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: the fairy tale. I admit I am anti draft. I
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: can't stand the draft. It's one of the annoyance and
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I talk about it, but it's just insane, the amount
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: of bull crap for the draft. And I guarantee you
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: that Fernando Mendoza, the new Savior who sliced up Alabama
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena a couple of days ago,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: and he's the new Savior, the new darling there, the
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Indiana Hoosiers quarterback who will be most likely the very
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: top of the draft. And Cinderella incleutes the hype for
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: this guy, next level Heisman Glitter just put him in Vegas.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Mama's boy visits Vegas. What could go wrong? Now, we've
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: seen the Raiders with the number one pick. If you're
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: old enough to remember a guy named JaMarcus r Now,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of top picks get endorsement deals. They'll sell
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: you insurance, they'll sell you gambling websites. These days, they'll
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: sell you cars and all kinds of beverages. Well, JaMarcus Russell,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: he was an all pro at the Purple Drank. The
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: stories that are still told all these years later about
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: the malfeasance of JaMarcus Russell now that was then. Obviously
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: everyone's different. However, the early scouting report which went viral
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: about Fernando Mendoza is he has the talent of a
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: fourth round quarterback. Yeah, and that's who The Raiders are
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: going to most likely draft a fourth round talent at
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: the number one overall pick in the draft. Let's they
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: trade it, which is also possible. We have plenty of
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: time to break all of that down. We have lived
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: in the era where fourth round talents are regularly drafted
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: at the very top in recent years. Baker Mayfield was
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the first pick by the Browns. He was projected as
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: a mid round pick. Kyler Murray, the little fella, fun
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: sized alligator arms Murray, should have been drafted the fifth round.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Cardinals loved his gaming ability and they drafted him. They said,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: we can get a guy that's really good on twitch.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: We'll take that guy. Why not? So they drafted him
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: at the top pick in Arizona. He can't play. You
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: go down the list. I mean a bunch of these
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: guys that were drafted who were supposed to be mid
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: round picks, but they have an agent does a good
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: marketing campaign and they hyped the guy up. They got
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: all these college awards in there you go, so good
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: luck on that. The argument against Fernando Mendoza is that
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: he is he's a shotgun only guy. And yeah, they
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: run the shotgun in the NFL, but that's all he
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: can do. And he uses a clap cadence, which is problematic.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: He telegraphs throws and whatnot, and so it didn't look
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: that bad at Indiana, but you're playing in Indiana. It's
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: much different in the NFL. So the point is, even
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: if the rails tape, he's not a just add water quarterback,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: He's not. He's not the franchise savior that walks in
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: to the facility there in Henderson, Nevada and fixes everything.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a powerball ticket that's run through the wash.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: It's like, well maybe probably not so anyway, listen, you
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: don't celebrate that you didn't hit the jackpot. Here, you
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: got some store credit, and that's it.
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• 43:19
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• 43:30
  Speaker 5: Over the weekend, Lions coach Dan Campbell vowed that the
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: Lions have hit rock bottom and that they're only going
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: up from here.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I'm and ross Saint.
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: Brown said he is confident with the players they have
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: and that they will bounce back. Yeah, Ben, do you
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: think they will bounce Backers are a deeper problem.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Well, they have to improve the roster. They were teetering
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: on the brink. It looked bad at times earlier. They
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: just look, there's a little They've lost some players, the
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: coaching wasn't as good. The whole thing is bedraggled in Detroit.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: So this is a pivot in the row. You're at
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: the fork in the road. You can go right or left.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: This is that kind of off season for the lines.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: They will be back to being the Lions of my
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: childhood if they screw this thing up next.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: So South Carolina coach Shane Beemer has a problem with
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: Lane Kiffen. Apparently Kiffen hired away one of their defensive
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: assistants and didn't give them a call to kind of
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: let them know that it was going to happen.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Said he'd broke an unspoken rule. Yeah, I'm sure, yes.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Was this a bad form by Lane Kiffin. Well, I've
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: learned while I was away from my post coup that
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin is the biggest douche nozzle in all of
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: college football. He's a Schmendrick, He's a dingle Berry. Everyone
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: hates Lane Kiffin. He's a bad human being. That's what
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I learned. I've only dealt with Lane Kifn a few times.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: He did seem a little phony to me, but he's
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: totally played the system. He's played the system.
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: So next you kind of talked about it a little
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: bit with some of the listeners, But a lot of
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: people say that Sam Darnold has proved the doubters wrong
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: by flipping the script from last season. Yeah, yeah, in
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: the last game season.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Do you think he's proved them wrong? Or is he No? No,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: he is a he has been a what He's got
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: to play well in the playoffs because that's the problem
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: in big games. And he's been very mediocre the last
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: eight games of the season for Seattle and they've been
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: able to win in Spider him. How do we do that?
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Is they went I was what I was say, he's
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: left the ball and he walked out.
• 45:22
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• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Was you talking to? So hear some interesting advice? Hold
• 45:44
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• 45:46
  Speaker 1: whole seconds, and if you don't like him.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: And away we go.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: See instid of ice slide Advice to Lamar Jackson and
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: the Ravens who missed the playoffs because they are idiot
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: kicker shanked a kick against the Steelers as time ran out.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: So advice to Lamar Jackson. You're live on the air.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: When you hear my voice at eight seven, seven ninety
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: nine on box line one, you're on the airline one.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Advice to Lamar Jackson.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Lots of hookers and cocaine.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, line too, you're on the airline to advice to
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Please make a new.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Year's resolution to give up after dick to seven.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very nice. That sounded like Ferg Dog caller.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: You're on their advice to Lamar Jackson caller. Okay, thank
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: you for that. Your next caller advice to Lamar Jackson. Hello,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: good morning time. You know, a rose by any other
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: name is still too damn expensive? Am I right?
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: The right?
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  Speaker 5: That is?
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the very right, verys the great, the Rick and
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Maryland making his debut. Line five, you're on their advice
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: to Lamar Jackson. Line five, kip of.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: My Bears, head to the Chicago.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Bears, dump Bears. Line six, you're on the air line six. Hello,
• 46:54
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• 46:56
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• 47:03
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• 47:08
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• 47:11
  Speaker 1: That was a hot mess.