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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Mahler Show on
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  Speaker 1: When the luck of the Irish runs out?
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  Speaker 3: What do you do? Can you buy mores Aaron nil
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  Speaker 3: deal for luck? Apparently not?
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  Speaker 1: Wel come in not beginning of another night of the
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  Speaker 1: as we are, the only reasonable excuse to stay up
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  Speaker 1: we'll get started. Play the hits, mo Man, play the
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  Speaker 1: hits all right, one of our bosses likes to say that.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll start out in Atlanta. The curtain came down
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  Speaker 1: on the college football season. The good news is spring
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  Speaker 1: practice starting about two weeks, but the spring games will
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  Speaker 1: be there in about four weeks.
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  Speaker 3: But nonetheless, that was it.
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  Speaker 1: The college football Playoff championship game in Georgia, and you
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  Speaker 1: had Ohio State heavily favored taking on Notre Dame, a
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  Speaker 1: battle of blue bloods in collegian football for all the
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  Speaker 1: marbles all would Notre Dame write a storybook ending to
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  Speaker 1: their season. It was a confetti game. You don't get
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  Speaker 1: many confetti games. It was a confetti game. Cake and
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  Speaker 1: confetti goes to the winner of this game. And how
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  Speaker 1: did it turn out? Did you watch the game? Were
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  Speaker 1: you engaged in the game? I was, I said up
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  Speaker 1: my fat ass and watched the game. I did you
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  Speaker 1: know a coach football guy?
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I just talked more NFL because I'm not on Saturdays.
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  Speaker 1: We're on Sunday night after the NFL, so we talked
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  Speaker 1: most of the NFL in the show. But I watched
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  Speaker 1: college football. I checked this game out. I was watching,
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  Speaker 1: and what happened. So Sean Judkins not one, not two,
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  Speaker 1: but three touchdowns and the number eight seed, not that
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  Speaker 1: that really matters, but the number eight seed in that
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  Speaker 1: fugase playoff bracket. Ohio State built a mountainous lead and
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  Speaker 1: then held on a second half rally, an attempt at
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  Speaker 1: a rally by Notre Dame. The number seven seed on
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  Speaker 1: your bracket thirty four to twenty three to the final
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  Speaker 1: as Ohio State wins the College Football National Championship in
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  Speaker 1: its run through the first ever, first ever twelve team playoff.
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  Speaker 1: They'd never done this before. They'll eventually add more teams.
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  Speaker 1: The buck Geys become the fifth team in the history
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  Speaker 1: of college football on the ap year, which goes back
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  Speaker 1: a long time to have won a championship without winning
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  Speaker 1: their conference title. I'll keep in mind this is going
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  Speaker 1: to become the new normal because you have the mega
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  Speaker 1: meg a mega mega mega conferences now where they've added
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  Speaker 1: extra teams. It's just really the Big ten in the
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  Speaker 1: Southeastern Conference, and then everyone else is playing for third place,
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  Speaker 1: and so you've got all these mega teams, and these
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  Speaker 1: big conferencesn't, so you're gonna have teams regularly win the
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  Speaker 1: championship that don't win their conference. It is Ohio State's
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  Speaker 1: first championship, but over a decade. Over a decade, and
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  Speaker 1: if you're like ten years old, you really don't remember
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  Speaker 1: the Buck guys winning a championship. First for Ryan Day,
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  Speaker 1: much more on him coming up in a minute. But
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  Speaker 1: the better story, the better story is in the losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room, and so that is where we will begin
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  Speaker 1: the question for the esteem panel. What does this result?
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  Speaker 1: What is this result of this game, the championship going
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  Speaker 1: to Ohio State? What does it say about Marcus Freeman's
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame squad? Big dogs? They did not cover the number.
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  Speaker 1: So if you've been on Ohio State, you won the game.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got rubber checks, fires Wisher, and Charles Manson.
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  Speaker 3: That's an old killer or he didn't kill, but he
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  Speaker 3: had people kill for him.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So we'll combine all these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make some oxygen because the Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame defense needed some oxygen early on in this game.
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  Speaker 1: So my first thought here is that Notre Dame. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you like me watching the game, I said,
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  Speaker 1: oh wait a minute, we got something here. Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: guilty of the fake out opening. And I hate the
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  Speaker 1: fake out open. I don't even likes the fake out opening.
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  Speaker 1: It's like when you'll see a movie and the opening
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  Speaker 1: scene's really good and then the rest of the movie blows.
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  Speaker 1: Or you go on a date and the first date's
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  Speaker 1: kind of good and you like the other person and
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  Speaker 1: then you see him again.
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  Speaker 3: You hate their guts. I hate that. I hate it,
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  Speaker 3: and Notre Dame did that.
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  Speaker 1: They came out Riley Leonard looking like not Lamar Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, I don't know wh whatever running quarterback you want.
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  Speaker 1: Eight team play seventy five yard drive took out almost
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes a game plock. They hit the ball for
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  Speaker 1: nine minutes and forty five seconds. The fighting irish la
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  Speaker 1: la la la la la la methodically surgically going down
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  Speaker 1: the field, eating up as much time, shortening the game.
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame against the buck guys, it was a picture perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Leonard had nine carries on the eighteen plays. He carried
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  Speaker 1: the ball nine times and then he went over to
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  Speaker 1: the bench. Notre Dame's quarterback goes over to the bench
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  Speaker 1: and he dials up the Barfa Mattic. He literally rode
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  Speaker 1: the vomit comet. I'm not exaggerating. We talked about the
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  Speaker 1: vomit commet all the time. He barfed on the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: The guy puked on the sidelines. Inspired by that, the
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame defense, the Notre Dame defense came out there
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  Speaker 1: and after that amazing start, it was all downhill from
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  Speaker 1: that point. And then you have Marcus Freeman. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: all for talking to talk. I'm in talk radio. I
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  Speaker 1: talk a lot of talking, so I don't have a
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  Speaker 1: problem with talking, But if you're gonna talk, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: back it up.
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  Speaker 3: So Marcus Freeman, how do you caught this?
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  Speaker 1: I jotted it down on my little I say, my
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  Speaker 1: little notepad, but it's on my phone. I have that
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  Speaker 1: notes thing on my phone, so I typed this into
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  Speaker 1: my phone. Right, And he was asked the coach at
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame what his message was to his team pregame
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  Speaker 1: before they came out to the field there in Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: to take on Ohio State. Marcus Freeman said that Vegas
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  Speaker 1: got it half right. This is my message for the team.
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  Speaker 1: Vegas got it half right, we're not some underdogs, he said,
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  Speaker 1: But we're some dogs.
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  Speaker 3: He said what he said?
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's gone, man, that would have been all over
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  Speaker 1: T shirts and all that. The problem is Marcus Freeman's
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  Speaker 1: mouth wrote a check that his players weren't unable to cash,
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  Speaker 1: guilty of insufficient funds. The defense bouncing the rubber check
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  Speaker 1: like a basketball, bouncy bouncy bouncy a bouncy ball. There
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  Speaker 1: a lot of dogs on that defense, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: dogs with fleas. Clearly, the Irish went from up seven
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  Speaker 1: to nothing, picture perfect almost ten minute drive to start
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  Speaker 1: the game, to down thirty one to seven, down trying
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  Speaker 1: to drink out of a fire hose, down thirty one
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  Speaker 1: to seven, and the buck guys literally taking the football
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  Speaker 1: and shoving it down their throats four straight, seventy five
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  Speaker 1: plus yard drives in epic in epic pratfall.
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  Speaker 3: So what happened? Now?
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  Speaker 1: As you know, I am not a doctor. I'm also
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  Speaker 1: not a weather man. I'll tell you more about that
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  Speaker 1: in a minute. But I'm not a doctor, but I
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  Speaker 1: can play one on the radio. I can play a
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  Speaker 1: doctor on the radio. So my diagnosis. The Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: defense suffered from collectively a tight spinter. Yes, a tight
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  Speaker 1: spinter is my medical diagnosis. Here the stage a little
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  Speaker 1: bit too big, a little bit too big. By the
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  Speaker 1: time they calmed down, they were in a grand canyon
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  Speaker 1: looking up and they didn't have a donkey to take
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  Speaker 1: them up there. They didn't have any kind of way
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  Speaker 1: to get up there, to climb their way up there.
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  Speaker 1: Turn out the last the parties over. You even had
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  Speaker 1: to coach Marcus Freeman do do a very questionable thing
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  Speaker 1: early in the fourth quarter. Remember Notre Dame. They had
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  Speaker 1: the ball deep in Ohio state territory. They're down thirty
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  Speaker 1: one to fifteen at the time, and it was fourth down.
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  Speaker 1: Freeman tried a field goal. So your two touchdowns and
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  Speaker 1: two point conversions away from tying the game, you tie
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  Speaker 1: a field goal.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't make it. It poinked off the crossbar.
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  Speaker 1: He defended that move, which backfired spectacularly. He infened the horse.
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  Speaker 1: He going to defend the move, why not? Come on?
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  Speaker 1: Here's in fact, here's Marcus Freeman. Let's hear his own defense.
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  Speaker 1: This is what he said about the rather questionable decision
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  Speaker 1: making take a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I just thought, you know, instead of being down sixteen,
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  Speaker 4: let's try to go down thirteen, and I know it's
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  Speaker 4: still a two score game, but you have better probability
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  Speaker 4: of getting fourteen points, and you do sixteen points. And
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  Speaker 4: so if it was a shorter fourth and goal situation,
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  Speaker 4: I probably would have gone for. But I just felt
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  Speaker 4: fourth and nine was not a great chance for us
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  Speaker 4: to make that, and you know, and decided to kick it,
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  Speaker 4: and we didn't make it.
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  Speaker 1: The cynical part of me thinks that part of his
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  Speaker 1: decision making was based on keep the alumni happy, Keep
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  Speaker 1: the alumni happy. Cover the spread. Great coaches cover the spread.
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  Speaker 1: Good coaches win. Great coaches cover the spread. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: page two, let's get to the heal a monster in
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  Speaker 1: the room. So what does this win do now for
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  Speaker 1: the much maligned Ohio State football coach Ryan Day, What
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  Speaker 1: does this victory do? So today we all know this.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about it, not that we talk too much
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  Speaker 1: college football the show. We talked about it after the
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  Speaker 1: Michigan game.
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  Speaker 3: Briefly.
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  Speaker 1: It came up in conversation here that we call it
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  Speaker 1: a toasty tushy. He had a toast tushy after that game.
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  Speaker 1: And so this win is a nice fire extinguisher on
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  Speaker 1: the old hot seat for now, but I know the
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  Speaker 1: theme of the last twenty four hours in Washington, DC
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  Speaker 1: has been partons. Everyone's getting a part in preemptive Partons
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  Speaker 1: all that. So this is like a pardon, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a temporary pardon. It's a temporary pardon until until the
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  Speaker 1: Buck guys lose to the Wolverines again coming up in
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  Speaker 1: late twenty twenty five, and then we can get the
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  Speaker 1: laser printer and we're back to square one. But Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: I also want to point this out. I know he
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  Speaker 1: wears the baseball cap because he's probably bald or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but Ryan Day's beard reminds me of the great Billy Mays,
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  Speaker 1: the infomercial maestro who died several years back. But when
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  Speaker 1: you're a college football coach, you really are a salesman.
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  Speaker 1: So I could see him when I'm watching him on
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  Speaker 1: the sidelines. They kept showing me that thick beard, the
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  Speaker 1: nice beard and all that. So I'm watching this and
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  Speaker 1: I'm flashing back to when I used to be really
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  Speaker 1: into info Mershals years ago, Billy Mays, and it was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm imagining, I'm like channeling what would Ryan Day sound
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  Speaker 1: like if he was an infomercial guy if he was
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  Speaker 1: Billy Mays, are you tired of the buck guys losing
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  Speaker 1: big games? Do you wish that your team would win
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  Speaker 1: a championship? Hide, Billy Mays. I mean Ryan Day here
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  Speaker 1: with deep nil pockets, massive pockets with gold bullyon the fastest,
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  Speaker 1: easiest way to win a championship is to buy the
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  Speaker 1: trophy guaranteed order right now, operators standing by something like that?
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  Speaker 3: All right? Last word? How likely?
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  Speaker 1: How likely is Ohio State and for that matter of Noordrey,
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  Speaker 1: how likely are they to be back in this situation
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six college football playoff championship game? So
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  Speaker 1: you'd say both of them are likely to be in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. You'd say both of them are likely. Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame and Ohio State are big for television. It is
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  Speaker 1: a TV show. You try to get people watch TV shows.
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  Speaker 1: So having teams that have fans like Ohio State Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame certainly make a lot of sense. But the problem
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  Speaker 1: with college football and any kind of predictions in college
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  Speaker 1: football is that it is Charles Manson, Like right now,
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  Speaker 1: it's Helter Skelter.
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  Speaker 3: It's the wild Wild West. It really is.
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  Speaker 1: As pointed out, it's all about the Mankrel buddy of
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  Speaker 1: mine who loves college football, was texting.
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  Speaker 3: Me during the game.
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  Speaker 1: We're going back and forth, and he pointed out, he said,
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  Speaker 1: this is the thing that people are upset about in
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  Speaker 1: college football. Is like, you got the Kansas State quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Will Howard throwing a touchdown pass to the Old Miss
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  Speaker 1: running back Judkins. You had the quarterback for Wake Forest
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  Speaker 1: playing for a Notre Dame. You had out from FSU
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  Speaker 1: playing for Notre Dame. It's free agency, it's paid to play,
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  Speaker 1: it's advanced scouting, it's poaching players from mid majors, it's
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  Speaker 1: all of that. Those are all the building blocks to
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  Speaker 1: win a championship, which is which is good and bad.
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  Speaker 1: You could find somebody this conceivable. You could take a
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  Speaker 1: school like our old friend Eddie, right, Eddie's a Fresno
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  Speaker 1: State guy. So you could take Fresno State and if
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  Speaker 1: they had some guy or gal that went there that
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  Speaker 1: had a bug up there took us to get that
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  Speaker 1: team to win a championship. And they came up with
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  Speaker 1: an nil deal for like one hundred million dollars. They
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  Speaker 1: could buy all the good players and win a championship.
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  Speaker 1: That's the setup. That's how it works.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Benmallor Show.
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations to the Ohio State University. They dotted the I.
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeyes, the champions of college football, fell behind seven nothing,
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  Speaker 1: then scored the next thirty one points and they covered
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  Speaker 1: the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: So they win.
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  Speaker 1: But the news for our purposes is from the coaching
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  Speaker 1: carousel dateline Windy City. After Detroit was rudely excommunicated from
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  Speaker 1: the NFL postseason by the Washington football team formerly known
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  Speaker 1: as the Redskins. Another domino has fallen. Another domino has
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  Speaker 1: fallen in the game of musical chairs. If you have
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  Speaker 1: not heard by now because you've been living down by
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  Speaker 1: the river in a van, well, big news here the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. The Bears have hired hot shot, whiz kid
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  Speaker 1: offensive genius, the mensa of x's and o's and a
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  Speaker 1: fellow ben Ben Johnson. They've got their Johnson, the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Bears their new head coach. Johnson, who had been celebrated
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  Speaker 1: by NFL talking promoted for a couple of years on
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  Speaker 1: television as a boy wonder, and he is now the
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  Speaker 1: head coach of the Bears. Past three years, he has
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  Speaker 1: been at the helm of the offense in Motown. He
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  Speaker 1: will feel the job filled. He will fill the role
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  Speaker 1: of the departed. Not that he's dead Matt Eberflus, although
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  Speaker 1: he is dead as far as being a head coach
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. The Bears have been around for one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and five years. And this will be their nineteenth
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  Speaker 1: head coach to walk into Hellas Hall and try to
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  Speaker 1: wake up the echoes of Bears gone by, bring back
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  Speaker 1: the magic of Sid Luckman and the Chicago Bears of
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  Speaker 1: years ago. This is an offensive hire. The Bears normally
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  Speaker 1: hired defensive coaches. So let us discuss the question. Put
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  Speaker 1: a grade. Put a letter grade on Ben Johnson's hiring
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  Speaker 1: as coach of your Chicago Bears. So I've got French onion, soup, Johnny, appleseed,
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  Speaker 1: and poultry, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and try not to have a tamper tantrum. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So as far as the report card, the malor report
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  Speaker 1: card on this hire, I'm not feeling it like I
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  Speaker 1: want this to work out. I like other people with
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  Speaker 1: the same name that I have.
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  Speaker 3: I relate to that.
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  Speaker 1: When I was a little kid, there was really nobody
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  Speaker 1: named ben I'm at the age like, well, it just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't It was a dog. I've told the story. When
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid, there were these movies about Benji
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  Speaker 1: the dog.
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  Speaker 3: That was it.
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  Speaker 1: They were like no other Ben's. There's nothing that's a
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  Speaker 1: fair amount of people. It's not a very common names
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  Speaker 1: There's more people named Ben now than back then, so
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  Speaker 1: I want to see from the naming standpoint, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like all Ben should be united. You know Ben for Ben,
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  Speaker 1: you know Ben stands for Ben. But as a talk
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  Speaker 1: show host, I grade this a C on the Malor
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  Speaker 1: report card. Ben Johnson to the Bears gets a C.
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  Speaker 1: He runs a high falutant offense, which works well.
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  Speaker 3: In a dome. How's it gonna work when.
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  Speaker 1: It's cold outside at Saltier Field in December and plausibly January?
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  Speaker 3: Is that gonna work? Yeah? I don't know about that.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: He's got an incomplete resume. You always have an incomplete resume.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: If you've never been a head coach and the Bears
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: are doing what they often do, it's a starter job.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: This is someone there gambling is going to ascend. If
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: you look at the history of the hot shot coordinator
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: that gets the head coaching job, it isn't very good.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Like most of them have not won Super Bowls. You
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: look at the coaches that have been the most successful.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Andy Reid was never a coordinator, went to Philadelphia, was
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: a quarterback coach in Green Bay. Mike Tomlin was never
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: a coordinator. Pretty good code not a great com I
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: mean they have won the Super Bowl. Sean McVay was
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: never the guru, never the coordinator, but he ended up
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: becoming a head coach and there you go.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: So you look around, it's like, well that's the resume.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Is nice if you like the x's and o stuff.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: But the Bears dub. He said he took it because
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: of a gut feeling. You know how many times my
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: gut is wrong. I don't you know what I'm saying.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And I thought they were gonna hire Mike McCarthy, which
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: would have been also a Sea hire Mike McCarthy's buddies
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: with the GM they have the same agent.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I assume that's where they were gonna go. So they
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: do not go that direction.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Instead they pivoted to essentially Ben Johnson being the He's
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: like French onion soup. He's the soup of the day.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: He's the flavor of the month in the NFL coaching cycle.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: And he's the dime a dozen hot shot play caller
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: that has all the x's and o's. And again, the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: vast majority of those type of coaches do not succeed.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: And if you look at what the successful coaches are.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I think Dan Campbell is pretty good head coach, right.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: How much of the Lion's success is because of Dan Campbell?
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: How much of it is Ben Johnson? Like the job
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: as the head coach. You've got to be charismatic, you've
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: got to be mesmerizing, you've got to be a leader
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: of people. I don't get that vibe. I don't know
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson. Maybe he is. I haven't heard much of him.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I just know from what I've seen on TV. He
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: usually stands around by himself, futzing around with his play sheet,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: and he's lost in thought, like he's daydreaming on the sidelines.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I don't see a lot of players around him. Eh,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: we'll see.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: This is not mister excitement over there, Ben Johnson. Now
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: page two. Does Ben Johnson bring the magic touch, the
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Midas touch, or does he bring the Sadam touch with
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: him to the Motor City? Because this hire was made
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: for one player, even though there's a roster full of
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: fifty plus players on the Chicago Bears. You're kidding yourself
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: if you don't think the Bears are already trying to
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: salvage Caleb Williams, that they look like country Bumpkins in Chicago.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: They passed over Jaden Daniels, who is in the final
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: four of the NFL, a win away from the Super Bowl,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and the Bears had that number one overall, and they
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: took a dud in Caleb Williams. And the real ones
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that know football know that Caleb Williams as a rookie
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: was a hot mess. And Johnson, Ben Johnson coming in there,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: and he's being promoted as like a Johnny appleseeed type
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: character here, and you know, watch Caleb Williams blossom the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: way that Jared Goff supposedly blossom, blossomed under his tutelage
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: with the lines. But the shine is off the apple
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: if you're Johnny Appleseed, and you wonder how much of
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: that is fluff, media fluff, and how much of that
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: is substance. The last time there was a coordinator they
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: got this level of attention was Robert Salah with the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: forty nine You remember Robert Salah was a defensive fordinator.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: You could not watch a forty nine er game without
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the broncasters licking the toes of Robert smok. Oh my god,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: let me give him a bubble bath. Holy crap. They
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: were so excited. Then he got the job with the
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Jets and Britt Yeah, it was. It was a comic
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Coze mission. So I'm always skeptical of these things. And
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: as far as Jared Goff and the connection and how
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: much better Jared Goff was with the Lions, his numbers
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: fun fact is a maler show fun fact. In big Games,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Jared Goff did not live up to the hype. He
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: did not play well in big games. If you look
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: side by side also, I did the side by side
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: blind taste test. If you compare what Goff did with
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh and the Rams versus Ben Johnson and the Lions,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: they're actually mirror images. It doesn't seem like that perception
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: is reality, and the perception is that Goff was much
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: better with the Detroit Lions. But Goff with the Rams
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: averaged seven point five yards per pass attempt. With the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Detroit Lions in his career in Detroit, he's averaged seven
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: point six yards per passe attempt, So he's point one
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: better with the Lions, which is in the margin of error.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: That's in the margin of error. And as far as
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, again I'm the concern is that this Ben
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Johnson guys is just a product of skullduggery, that he
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: doesn't have the magic place and the magic playbook. Supposedly,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams has a multitude of sins as a quarterback,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the biggest one being that he has a slow processor.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like a Commodore computer from back in
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the day, very slow America, online dial up Internet in
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: a high speed. To be a great quarterback, you have
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: that high speed Wi Fi and he's dial up, he's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: connecting to the server and it's not really working out
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: so well. He was sacked Caleb Williams sixty eight times.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Now sack as a quarterback stat and a sack is
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: worth half a turnover, so that means just on sacks alone,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Kayla Williams turned the ball over thirty four times. If
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: you consider a sack half a turnover, meaning that most
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: of the time you get sacked, the drive ends that
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: you have to either punt the ball.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Back or you turn it over on downs. That's it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And I don't know any magic play with Maybe Harry
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Potter has something where that'll turn things around.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Now, Furthermore, the.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Worst part of going from Lions assistant coordinator offensive guru
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: to Chicago Bears head coach is you don't get to
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: play the Bears twice a year, right, you don't get
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to play the Chicago Bears twice a year.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: That hurts your your accomplishments, all right?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Now, final point with Ben Johnson off the board, heading
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: off to Chicago to live with Doc Mike and eat
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Deep Dish pizza and talk to Eugene and all the
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: characters you're Fomi and everybody there in the Windy City.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: With him going out of Detroit into Chicago, how are
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: things looking at the rest of the NFL coaching carousel
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: at this point?
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: How are things looking? So?
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Imagine if you will, a poultry farm. That's right, a
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: poultry farm. Imagine a poultry farm. And NFL teams that
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: need coaches are right now running around like the headless chicken.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: They're trying to figure out where. It's a mad scramble,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: it's musical chairs. The Patriots already hired their coach, Mike Rabel,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: so the Bears have Ben Johnson. So that's two spots
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: on the tote board that are gone. The Cowboys. It
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: seems like the Dion Sanders talk has calmed down. We'll
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: see if that picks up in the next twenty four
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to forty eight hours. I know Jerry was busy with
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the presidential stuff, so he didn't have time to futz
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: around with hiring a new coach. So Deon Sanders. Kellen
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Moore his name is what a what a buzzkill? That
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: would be the guy that you got rid of because
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: you picked Mike McCall arthy. You're going to bring back
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: as the head coach. Kevin Moore.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn has been mentioned for the Jets and the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Saints job. The Lions defensive quarter you talk about a
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: tough hire. Imagine hiring Aaron Glenn after that defense allowed
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback to go and up and down the field.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, my god. You talk about coughing up a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: fur ball.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: They did.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: They coughed up a fur ball right now. The Raiders
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: they wanted Ben Johnson, so now they're scrambling and Steve
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Spagnolo Chiefs defensive coordinator, Pete Carroll, Cliff Kingsbury. He's been
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: mentioned for the Cowboys job and the Raider job. The
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Saints have no idea. Mike McCarthy has been mentioned Aaron Glenn,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the Jets, Robert Salah, the former Jets coach up for
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the Jacksonville job.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: What is going on? What in the web? What in web?
• 27:52
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• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: we go, Here we go, we go, Here we go,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Here we go, Here we go.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: This is one gets grilled.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: So Ben, it's it's been Uh, it's been a little
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: bit since the Kansas City Chiefs Houston Texans game.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Yes on Saturday, Saturday afternoon.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Yes, And there's still still a lot of people complaining
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: on Twitter. And there's a there's a term I've been
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: seeing going around Chiefs derangement syndrome. Ben, do you think
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: this is a real thing?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Uh? Yes, it's been the same thing the Dodgers are experiencing.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: People upset with the Dodgers because they're spending all this money,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and people upset with the Chiefs as they win and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: they're jealous that their teams.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Don't win and all that.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: And the good thing is people watch no matter what
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and don't really judge things on social media because the
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: only reason people go on social media is to complain,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: So you should never judge anything off social media. But yeah,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: people are upset. They're annoyed anytime the Chiefs are perceived
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: to get a call because of my homes. The fixes
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: in because we all, Oh, the NFL is really worried
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: about the Kansas City market.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: They want to fix it for the Kansas City market.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Next. Eagles edge rusher Josh Sweat admitted after the win
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: on Sunday that he does not like playing in the
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: snow and would rather play on the terrible Brazil field.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Ben, do you think there will ever come a time
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: when all NFL teams playing domes? Uh?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll all be dead, but yeah, eventually that'll be
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the case. It's they charge a lot of money for tickets.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: It's much better experience to sit indoors than sit in
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Whether I know, lunatics in Buffalo and Green Bay don't
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: mind it, but it's a much better experience. Next.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Over the weekend, it was reported that Steve Sarkisian turned
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: down two interview opportunities for NFL teams and instead signed
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: an extension with the Longhorns.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Ben, does this surprise you? Yeah, I don't believe that
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: he was up for NFL jobs. I think that was
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: just tossed out to make him seem more attractive to Texas,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: like he could have got an NFL job.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Steve Sarkisi, Come on, I'm not a fan. I'm not
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: a fan.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: How do we go?
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: You pass?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: That is a pass on the bar from Masaua.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: I ranted a sauna.
• 30:00
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• 30:21
  Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top? Probably not.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Let's play the game right now. We welcome in our contestants.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: We have let's see here. We have Art puffin Hello,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Art welcome. Who do you want to partner up with? Art?
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: So good? So good?
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, he's not paying attention.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Let's try Jacob Jacob in Delaware. Who do you want
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: to partner up with? Jacob welcome? Well, cue, all right,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: you're gonna lose.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: And we have Andrew in Maine. Let me make sure
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: I punched the Ryan line up there Andrew, Who do
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: you want to partner up with? Andrew?
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: I look to part with you.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: All right. We're gonna win, so that's all. That's all
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: we're gonna do. Hold on, hold on, sek you, let's
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: punch the right line up? All right? What are the categories? Quickly? Cool? Please?
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: This is the Steve Perry addition of Mellers amount of money.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: He turned seventy six years old today. The categories are
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: don't stop believing, faithfully captured by the moment, and only
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: the young?
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Jacob, which category would you like?
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Don't stop believing?
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: All right, and Andrew, how about you?
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: I'll take the ladder.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Well, there's three of them, faith faithfully captured by the moment,
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: or only the young?
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Which one do you want?
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Oh? Sorry?
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Alright, alright, alright, go ahead, chep job. All right, Jacob,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: forty five seconds? Don't stop believing.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: These athletes were on teams that ended long championship droughts.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: First and last name, please forty five seconds. Let's begin,
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: all right.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: He is the King.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: He's on the Lakers, but he was on the Calves.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Uh. This is a wide receiver that was on the Chiefs,
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: but he is now on the Dolphins.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: He's probably gonna leave.
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: Yes, a big poppy of the red Socks. He was
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: the tight end for the Eagles when they won their championship.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: He's on the Commanders now, Zach rd Yes.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: This guy was a pitcher on the Orioles. He was
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: terrible with them, but then he won a World Series
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: with the Cubs. All right, This point guard was on
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: the Milwaukee Bucks. He just won a championship with the
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: Boston Celtics right now. No, he just won a championship
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: with the Celtics. His first name spelled weird. What's that?
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Yes? This picture for the All right, well, you wouldn't
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: gotten hundred one anyway. That was not good. I'm not
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: sure did you? I think you won ninety? Let's go
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: all right?
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Oh my guy? I think my guy's gone. I think
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: my my. That means no, Art Puffins. You want to say, Art,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: you're in the other guy?
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Hung up?
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: All right, here we go. Only the young. These athletes
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: died young. Are you ready? Art Puffin? All right? Forty
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: five seconds? Here we go.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Died in a helicopter crash. Laker legend, Yes, tight end
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: for the Patriots.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: He killed. Somebody went to jail. What's his first name?
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Oh my, alright, you're an idiot. Alright, yeah, this is
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: that you picked me your team. Then here's my backup.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: That was my backup. Why don't you try line five
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: as a backup? Line five? You want to step in
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: line No, that's line six. Hold on line fire you there,
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: line five? You see you? All right?
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: What else?
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Iron horse for the Yankees, Iron Neck, uh safety for
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: He died in the military. He was killed by friendly fire.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: What's his first name?
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Celtics Celtics stars drafted Hi did a bunch of cocaine?
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Died after the NBA draft in the eighties. And oh man,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: cool mics on too. I mean, it's obvious what's going on.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, you had.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: Like a minute and a half in this category.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: The first guy hung up, I'm on the third doc,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: I'm on the third guy.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: The first guy hung up, The second guy said the
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: F word, And now I have got on the poppy.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: You would say, you would have said, Okay, the freaking
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: game is over.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: The game is over. Three people we win, Jacob, you
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: gotta go to take it.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: My god, that's so. So I went I went to
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: art puffing. He wasn't paying attention. Then I go to
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: that guy Andrew. I don't know, maybe a moose ran
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: into him in Maine. I have no idea. So then
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I had to go to Poppy and I know.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: His first day. You gotta know the first and the
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: last time.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: That's how you.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Play the game. That's a bad job by you.