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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: They gave us a dud of a Sunday night game,
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  Speaker 1: so we don't have to start with that. Instead, we'll
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  Speaker 1: head over to Jerry's World, where Dallas was a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: favorite over the lowly Cardinals. And they were high-stepping and
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  Speaker 1: running around, and things were going very well there. The
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys led 24-10, a two-touchdown lead, early in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: And then they had to play the rest of the game.
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  Speaker 1: How'd that go? Not good. Made for good talk radio, though.
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  Speaker 1: Chad Ryland. Who? A kicker. Chad Ryland kicked the game-winning
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  Speaker 1: 42-yard field goal in overtime. He had missed a point
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  Speaker 1: after touchdown that would have given the game to Arizona
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  Speaker 1: in regulation. Who goofed? I've got to know. The idiot kicker.
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  Speaker 1: That was with six seconds left in the game after
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  Speaker 1: Arizona had rallied and gone down and tied the game.
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  Speaker 1: Thought they were going to win it. They had to
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  Speaker 1: go to overtime to win it. But in the end,
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  Speaker 1: they do win. So the Cardinals get a 33-30 victory
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  Speaker 1: over the once-proud Dallas football team. The Cardinals beating the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys for the fifth consecutive time, we are told, and
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  Speaker 1: improved a 5-0 on the road in AT & T
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  Speaker 1: Stadium in Jerry's World. The Cardinals... With all these championships,
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  Speaker 1: that franchise has won since that stadium opened in 09.
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  Speaker 1: It makes sense that the Dallas Cowboys would be 0-5
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  Speaker 1: against the Cardinals with that championship pedigree. So this was,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about crushing. Oh, man. The Cowboys, two touchdown lead.
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  Speaker 1: They obviously lose. They drop to 3-5. They did not
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  Speaker 1: trail until the final kick. And they led, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: by two touchdowns early in the fourth quarter. That is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. Who
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  Speaker 1: gets the biggest piece of the blame burrito for C.D.
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  Speaker 1: Lamb's Dallas Cowboys? So I've got Chevron, Italian Bistro, and
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  Speaker 1: Flea Market. And we will combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to try to avoid... Pocketbook issues. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to try to avoid pocketbook issues. So, A, when you
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  Speaker 1: look at this cowboy blunder at the very end there,
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  Speaker 1: we're starting with horticulture. We're going to start with horticulture
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  Speaker 1: here because the Cardinals said the game was over. They
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  Speaker 1: conceded defeat, the Arizona Cardinals. How do I know that?
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  Speaker 1: They benched their captain, El Capitan Jacoby Brissett. They took
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  Speaker 1: him out of the game to get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Cowboys were done in by, as I said, horticulture.
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  Speaker 1: And the ghost, Jerry Jones, planted a championship garden, a
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  Speaker 1: championship garden there. Loves to talk about all the moves
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys made to fix this, that, and the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing got watered down. The garden got watered down.
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  Speaker 1: $ 100 bills, Jerry Jones tossing those, making it rain and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And he ended up harvesting a bumper
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  Speaker 1: crop of poison ivy. My, my God. Minshew mania. Gardner Minshew.
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  Speaker 1: too much for the Dallas Cowboys defense. The Cardinals say,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go to our backup. We're calling the game.
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  Speaker 1: And the Cowboys said, no, we want you to have
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  Speaker 1: the game Gardner Minshew. We believe in Minshew mania. There's
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  Speaker 1: still a little mania left, just a little left. And
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  Speaker 1: so that billion dollar football cathedral, Jerry's world there. It's a,
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  Speaker 1: With Minshew, it turned into a haunted hayride the day
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  Speaker 1: after Halloween as Minshew mania. Getting it done there. Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 1: his defense could not stop a guy who looks like
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  Speaker 1: he should be selling used jet skis on Facebook Marketplace,
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  Speaker 1: and yet he led the Arizona Cardinals back, and it
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  Speaker 1: looked like he was playing against air. Wild. Absolutely wild.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't just Gardner Minshew who came off the
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  Speaker 1: bench like a Tasmanian devil for the Cardinals here. It
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  Speaker 1: was like he had three double shots of caffeine and
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  Speaker 1: a bag of Halloween candy and then just lit up
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys in the late stages of the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: the game which should have been a game-winning touchdown score
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  Speaker 1: with six seconds left. And how about Tyler Algier, the
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  Speaker 1: former Atlanta Falcon running back? I didn't even know he
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  Speaker 1: was with the Cardinals because you'd have to pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to the Cardinals. He averaged 13.4 yards, not per catch.
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  Speaker 1: He averaged 13.4 yards per carry for the Cardinals. Oh, man. P.U.
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  Speaker 1: What stinks? You talk about a defense riding the vomit comet.
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  Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys defense. One of the epic meltdowns you'll
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  Speaker 1: see all season long. And it happened. And it happened
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  Speaker 1: in glorious fashion as the Cowboys go down there. But
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  Speaker 1: you're running back, averaging 13.4 yards per carry. You know
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  Speaker 1: what that is? That is getting a presidential escort through
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas linebackers and into the secondary and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. No, no, no, no. So Dak Prescott,
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  Speaker 1: he gets the sour cream of shame. and we're doing
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  Speaker 1: the burrito thing, and CeeDee Lamb gets extra guac of
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  Speaker 1: embarrassment there. It was bad. Dak Prescott in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter and overtime had a 50.2, 50.2 passer rating and
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  Speaker 1: 10 total passing yards in the fourth quarter and overtime combined.
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  Speaker 1: And then how about days after CeeDee Lamb came out,
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  Speaker 1: CeeDee Lamb and said no one can stop him one-on-one.
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  Speaker 1: He's unstoppable. Well, in the fourth quarter in overtime, CeeDee
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  Speaker 1: Lamb had one more catch than you and I had.
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  Speaker 1: One for two yards. Mr. Unstoppable, CeeDee Lamb. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: stop CeeDee Lamb. Can't stop him. Cannot stop CeeDee Lamb. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, he's so good. He's so good. Listen, it's
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  Speaker 1: the same Cowboys. I could go back to the archives
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  Speaker 1: from like 08, 09, any year you want, the last
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  Speaker 1: 20 years, and you could take a Mallard monologue. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty much the same crap. We just repackage it because
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys are the same. So why should we change?
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  Speaker 1: Why should we change? The Cowboys, every year, they have
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  Speaker 1: the same product. Every year it's the same product there.
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  Speaker 1: It's all sizzle, no steak, all talk, no tackling. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they've got right there. That's it. And the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: are America's team the same way that Chevron gas station
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  Speaker 1: bathroom is America's restroom. That Chevron bathroom. That's the way
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  Speaker 1: I always stop there because that's my America's bathroom right there.
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  Speaker 1: I always like to take a poo right there at
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  Speaker 1: the Chevron. That's where I go. But everyone knows... Everyone
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  Speaker 1: knows what's going on with the Cowboys. And it continues
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  Speaker 1: yet again. It's just wild. It is absolutely wild. And
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  Speaker 1: somehow Jerry keeps charging premium prices for this crapola. He
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  Speaker 1: had some great comments on the postgame. Now to the
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  Speaker 1: page two, the Komodo dragon in the room. The Komodo
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  Speaker 1: dragon in the room. Dallas is, as mentioned, 3-5 on
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  Speaker 1: the year. We're told that's not good. And people are
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  Speaker 1: barking for a coaching change. We've got to make a change.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones standing by Brian Schottenheimer, Cowboys owner, saying that
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  Speaker 1: he isn't considering firing his head coach during the season.
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  Speaker 1: Not a consideration, despite Dallas with another embarrassing effort. Remember
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  Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago they lost at home to Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 1: and the undrafted quarterback who went in there and played
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  Speaker 1: better in the fourth quarter than Dak Prescott and made
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  Speaker 1: winning plays while Dak Prescott made losing plays. And so
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  Speaker 1: there's a pattern here going on. But Jerry Jones said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I will say that a lot of people let Brian,
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  Speaker 1: meeting Schottenheimer, down today, Jerry Jones said. He also invoked
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  Speaker 1: Wade Phillips, of all people. And he said he acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: that he did fire Wade Phillips midseason, saying that that
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  Speaker 1: was something he is, quote, not proud of it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see that here at all. Close quote. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So that was Jerry Jones speaking to the media in
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  Speaker 1: the bowels of the arena. Here is the aforementioned Brian Schottenheimer.
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  Speaker 1: And he's talking about his quarterback. Of course, why would
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  Speaker 1: you talk about Jerry Jones? Here is Schottenheimer on his
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  Speaker 1: terrible quarterback, Dak Prescott. I believe in Dak Prescott. I
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  Speaker 1: believe in Jamar James. I believe in Quinton Williams.
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  Speaker 3: I believe in those guys.
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  Speaker 1: And they should as well. We're going to work our
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  Speaker 1: asses off to get it right and fix it. Can
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  Speaker 1: you jump up 14-3, come out halftime, and you got
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  Speaker 1: to have that killer instinct? And we didn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: You see, the thing is, you don't actually get paid
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  Speaker 1: for working hard. You get paid for winning. The work's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of part of the deal. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the way it works. So Jerry Jones saying, hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to change coaches at this point. Here's Dak
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  Speaker 1: Prescott on his head coach being in the crosshairs right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's all of us.
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  Speaker 1: It's all of us.
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  Speaker 3: Don't put the blame on one person. Simple as that.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's weak. I think that's cowardly. This game
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  Speaker 3: is about all, as I said, all 11 that touch
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  Speaker 3: the field and every person that has a part in it,
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  Speaker 3: coaches and support staff. And so it's never just one
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  Speaker 3: person's fault. Even if I go out there and throw
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of interceptions, it's never just truly one person's fault.
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  Speaker 3: And so, yeah, don't take the easy and cheap way out.
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  Speaker 3: This is about us, and it's about us backing him
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  Speaker 3: up and backing one another up.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to show it. All right, so what do
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  Speaker 1: you make of what Dak Prescott just said and Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones giving Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer the dreaded vote of confidence? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, let's start with Dak. All right, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you something. Dak Prescott, that's the perfect answer of
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  Speaker 1: a guy that has no clue what he's doing, and
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  Speaker 1: he's the perfect Cowboy quarterback. A real leader says, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's my fault. I'm the one to blame. There are
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  Speaker 1: people to blame. There are people to blame. And Shottie's
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  Speaker 1: one of them. Dak Prescott's one of them. Oh, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, Dak, as we mentioned, Dak Prescott in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter and overtime had a 50.2 passer rating. Ten yards.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That sounds like somebody would come out and say, well, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's a collective. It's cowardly to blame one person. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when you're one of the people to blame, I'd say
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  Speaker 1: the same thing if I was Dak Prescott. As far
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  Speaker 1: as the level of surprise, what do you make of
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones coming out and saying, well, no, no, I
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  Speaker 1: don't see a Brian Schottenheimer thing. change here the the
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  Speaker 1: dreaded vote of confidence for brian shot and i'm not
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  Speaker 1: surprised no one should be surprised by this jerry jones
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  Speaker 1: is running a football team like it's a family-owned italian
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  Speaker 1: bistro and the food is terrible there's cockroaches in the
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  Speaker 1: salad the reviews are horrific But nobody's firing Cousin Brian.
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  Speaker 1: It's a family bistro, and I don't care if there's
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  Speaker 1: ants in the linguine. We're going to continue with Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Cousin Brian's not going anywhere. I don't care if he's
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  Speaker 1: a shoddy chef. He's going to stay. He's going to stay. Yeah. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you know why Jerry Jones will not fire Schottenheimer. It's
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  Speaker 1: rather obvious, because then he would have to admit he
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  Speaker 1: hired the wrong guy again. And he didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: do that. He's not ready to do that. Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: would rather swallow a cactus. He'd rather take a cacti
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  Speaker 1: and swallow that than say, oh, yeah, I F this
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  Speaker 1: one up, too. I totally F this one up. And
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys, they don't really have a coaching tree at
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  Speaker 1: this point. They don't. They've got a coaching shrub is
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  Speaker 1: what they have. So you've got that shrub. And Jerry
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  Speaker 1: keeps watering the dead branches on the shrub. Remember Jason Garrett?
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  Speaker 1: Jason Garrett lasted longer as the Cowboy coach than some
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  Speaker 1: European monarchs. And his greatest skill set as a head
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  Speaker 1: coach when he was there back in the day, Jason Garrett,
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  Speaker 1: was clapping. Clap on, clap off the clapper. That was it.
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  Speaker 1: As I remember, that's what he did. Schottenheimer could lose
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  Speaker 1: 14 games. Schottenheimer could lose 14 games, and Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: would compliment Brian Schottenheimer on his posture because he's found
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  Speaker 1: the one thing valuable. Actually, more valuable than winning. Forget it.
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  Speaker 1: Winning is one thing. The thing more valuable than winning, though,
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  Speaker 1: for Jerry Jones, a coach who never says, you know, Jerry,
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  Speaker 1: you screwed this up. That's a bad job by you.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on you.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Schotty's done a shoddy job. As mentioned here, but Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones has mastered the art of selling failure. And as
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  Speaker 1: long as people continue to buy it, it's a great
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  Speaker 1: long-term investment opportunity. The Cowboys. Oh, it's so good. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: last word. To Landover, Maryland. Very rarely does the NFL
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  Speaker 1: serve up slop on Sunday Night Football. That was slop.
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  Speaker 1: You almost always lead with Sunday night football because it's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest game of the weekend. That was El Crapo.
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  Speaker 1: That was Washington and Philadelphia. My God, those teams both suck.
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  Speaker 1: And they played each other. Washington won 27-10. Turns out
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  Speaker 1: that backup quarterback for the Eagles, if it was in
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  Speaker 1: pirate lingo, we'd say, there she blows! That guy sucks.
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  Speaker 1: And so Philadelphia goes down 27-10. You're just run-of-the-mill, lackluster
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night game. The story here was after the game.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles have, according to the Eagle beat writers in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room, the Eagles have assured Saquon Barkley that
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  Speaker 1: he will not be traded, that he will not be traded.
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia is 2-6. The collapse is on. They've got a
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  Speaker 1: six-game losing streak. And Barkley, for what it's worth, he's like, oh, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I want to stick around. I want to fix the mess.
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  Speaker 1: And that's his public position. that he wants to be
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  Speaker 1: part of the solution. He's looking for that, wants to
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  Speaker 1: be part of the solution there. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: And so there's all kinds of concerns about Barkley going
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  Speaker 1: forward here. And he had that magical season a couple
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  Speaker 1: years ago in 24 for the Eagles, was the greatest
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  Speaker 1: running back in the NFL. And he's a shell of
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  Speaker 1: what that guy was for Philadelphia. He's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money left on his contract. So the question is,
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  Speaker 1: Is Eagles General Manager Howie Roseman making a mistake by
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  Speaker 1: refusing to trade Saquon Barkley? All right, so I got
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  Speaker 1: to believe there's some gamesmanship going on here. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be some gamesmanship. I'm going to go with gamesmanship
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  Speaker 1: on this. General Manager Howie Roseman is supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: the loyal executive now? Come on. Give me a break.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to puke in my mouth. This is not
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  Speaker 1: how Howie Roseman is. This is not it. This has
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  Speaker 1: to be El Clasico in terms of posturing. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be posturing. And if it's not, someone might need
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  Speaker 1: to test the water at the Eagles facility. Saquon Barkley
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  Speaker 1: checks all of the boxes, not some of the boxes,
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  Speaker 1: all of the boxes of a guy that you would
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  Speaker 1: unload if you're in Philadelphia's situation. You're going nowhere, right?
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  Speaker 1: And that's the player you get rid of. He is
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  Speaker 1: the epitome of a guy that should be on the
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  Speaker 1: flea market. for the Philadelphia Eagles. He's pushing 30. Running
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  Speaker 1: backs fall off the map typically when they turn 30.
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  Speaker 1: Hobbled by lower body injuries the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got a bloated contract on top of that.
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  Speaker 1: $ 35 million remaining on his contract, Saquon Barkley, through 2028.
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  Speaker 1: So he's got a lot of cash coming his way.
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  Speaker 1: Not all that is guaranteed money. The point is, Like,
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  Speaker 1: all of those things. It's like the Eagles are effectively
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  Speaker 1: waving the white flag. They're 2-6. They have no quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And their defense is not very good either. It's a
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  Speaker 1: hot mess. So what are we doing here? Howie, all
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  Speaker 1: the media loves you. They lick your toes, Howie Roseman.
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  Speaker 1: Say how great you are. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: Drops down faster than a lead balloon. We always hear
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  Speaker 1: that when running backs get to about the age of 30.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a prime window of opportunity. And you can get, listen,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to get much in return because of
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  Speaker 1: the contract and the age and all that, but you
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  Speaker 1: get something. And it's not that difficult to replace who
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  Speaker 1: Barkley is right now. He's not very good at this
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  Speaker 1: particular moment. So the wheels on the bus are starting
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  Speaker 1: to not go round and round. They're starting to fall off.
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  Speaker 1: So why would you not trade him? The Eagles want
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  Speaker 1: to have their cheesesteak, apparently, and they want to eat it, too,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. They need a complete, ground-up renovation. Not a demo.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a demo. This is a renovation. You
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  Speaker 1: never do full demo in the NFL unless you're the
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  Speaker 1: Jets or the Browns, and they do that every couple years.
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  Speaker 1: But the teams that are actually competitive, they don't do
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  Speaker 1: the full demo. They do a renovation is what they do.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to do a renovation. But, my God,
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  Speaker 1: this is... It's pretty wild. You've got to think that's posturing.
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  Speaker 1: It would be insane. Now, listen, you can work with Barkley.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm the Eagles, I know it's taboo to make
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  Speaker 1: a trade with the Giants, but I would trade him
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  Speaker 1: back to the Giants. The Giants have some running back issues.
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  Speaker 1: It's spotty, the running back play. I would send him
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  Speaker 1: to the Giants because then he becomes the Giants' problem
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  Speaker 1: at that particular point. It is the Ben Maller show,
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  Speaker 1: meaning even if he plays well this year, he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be $ 30, 000. A lot of miles, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: wear and tear, big contract. That'll actually work out in
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  Speaker 1: the long run better for Philly to keep him in
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• 19:21
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• 19:23
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• 19:39
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• 19:44
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• 19:46
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• 19:49
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• 19:52
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• 19:57
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• 20:01
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• 20:11
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• 20:18
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• 20:22
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• 20:25
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• 20:28
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• 20:30
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• 20:33
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• 20:36
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• 20:39
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• 20:54
  Speaker 1: It's kind of obvious what the lead is. We start
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: out just adjacent to Puget Sound and turn at the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: lights on the Seahawks offense. What was that? Man. That
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: was very enjoyable. Got to tell you, some of these
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Monday night games, you're like, I don't know about that.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: This was a good one. What was the final part,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: final paragraph of week eight, the storybook in the NFL?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams driving the Bears jamboree into the Pacific Northwest there,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a little wrestling match with Sam Darnold and the Seahawks.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: You had the Bickersons, Troy Aikman and Joe Buck. I
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: love how everyone's like, oh, man, they look like they
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: really hate each other. They've always looked like they hate
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: each other. Even when they were in their heyday at
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Fox and their salad days, they looked like they despised
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: each other. Now you're, oh, my God, they look like
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: they don't like each other. They look the same to me.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Maybe my TV is broken, but they look exactly the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: same to me. My consultant, Stevie Meatballs, he said they
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: look the same, too. So there they were on ABC
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: calling the game. Aikman and Buck are right there. I
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: don't know if you saw this or not. Maybe you
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: were not watching. I don't know what the hell else
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you were doing, but that's your thing, not my thing.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams came out, and you talk about shoving it
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: down the throat of the once-proud Seahawks. They've actually changed
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: their name now to Seachumps is their new nickname there.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Over an eight-minute drive, matriculating the ball down the field
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: for the Chicago Bears on that opening touchdown drive. Jeffrey Simmons,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the big news of the last week, that transaction happened.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: As he entered the transfer portal coming over from the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, he went out and dominated defensively. The Bears
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: curb stomped Seattle 34-17. 34-17 the final. It could have
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: been worse in the Monday night game as Caleb Williams
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: was more of a game manager. In this one, he
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: had 247 yards, completed 71% of his passes, did not
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: turn the ball over. And Chicago getting not one, not two,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: but three. DeAndre Swift, touchdown run, short touchdown runs. So
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the Bears are back at 6-2. And in that loaded division,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: when you look at Minnesota as a paper Viking, they're
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: not legit. The Lions are coming around a little bit.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And you look around, there's a Green Bay. There's a
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: lot going on there. The better story, though, is in
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. I'm old enough to remember when
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Seattle had a winning record. They don't have a winning
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: record right now. They're 500. Stuck in the middle of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the bell curve. The once Super Bowl champions proving more
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and more like that was a fraudulent Super Bowl that
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: was fueled by a bogus two-point conversion that the NFL
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: gave Seattle that they did not deserve. And they're playing
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: like frauds. That is hot take validation, by the way.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Hot take validation. We were correct. But Seattle just four
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and four. How embarrassing. This team was in the Super
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Bowl and won, and they're 4-4. That is mortification. Mortification.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: It is. Man, what a mess. Well, let's hear from
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the head coach of the Seattle football team, Mr. McDonald,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: who's suddenly not as great a genius as he once was,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: but he's putting on a happy face. Let me guess.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: He's going to say his team played hard and I
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: really like my team. We'll be okay. Let's find out.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: It's pretty cut and dry. we didn't do the things
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: on offense that we need to be able to do to,
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: to play Seahawk football. That's the time for like studying
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: or is this a, Hey, let's, let's make sure we're
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: all on the same page on one accord when we
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: show up on Wednesday and, and let's go, you know,
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: we don't have time to be looking at our wounds
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: or anything like that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Well, it's, it's, it's a, it's time to move forward.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: So they didn't play Seahawk football. What were they playing?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Brown's football. Was it jets football, Raiders football? It wasn't
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Seahawk football. So what football were they playing? Does anyone know?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Let me know. Send me a message. All right, so
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: here's the question. Let's get down to the quarterback, because
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: this is the thing nobody wants to address. Nobody has
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the balls to address, but we'll do it. Who cares?
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: We're not part of the mainstream football cartel that have
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: their little talking points memo. So as we discuss what
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: happened in the Monday night game, the question, has Sam
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Darnold turned back into a pumpkin? For the Seahawks. Has
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold turned back into a pumpkin for the Seahawks?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: So I've got Stevie Wonder, Thor's hammer, and Peacock. And
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together. And we
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: are going to scramble some eggs is what we're going
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to do. And hopefully not split the ticket. Because you
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: hate when that happens. You don't want to split the ticket. So, A,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. I'm going to push back. He is not
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: turning into a jack-o'-lantern, Sam Darnold. He has been a
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: jack-o'-lantern all along. So it's not like all of a
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: sudden he morphed into somebody. Somebody just kept changing the
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: candle in the jack-o'-lantern. But he's always been the same guy.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: He's always been the same guy. And for some of you,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the low information fan, you drive by and you say, well,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: that's pretty impressive. It's like you drive by the street
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and you look and say, well, that's not bad. But
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: then when you get up close, you realize, well, it's
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: hollow and rotting. The Jack-O-Lanterns, hollow and rotting. Seattle's offense,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that was like a bowl of pumpkin guts in this
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: particular game here. As they were stringy, slimy, and nobody
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: really wanted to touch it. Just 252 yards of total
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: offense against the Bears. And that's it. One of 11
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: on third down. One of 11. on third down. That
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: is a 9% success rate. Now, I didn't play in
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the NFL, but I'm told that blows. That blows. But
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: we must address Sam Darnold, who apparently has the Trojan
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: horse virus, if you know what I mean. And Seattle,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I did the math on this, so they're 2-4 in
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: games Sam Darnold has started and finished. They're 2-4. That's
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: a two-game under. 500 record. Meanwhile, The Seahawks have a
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: perfect record with Drew Locke running the operation. But you're
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: not supposed to talk about that. Why would you bring
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: that up? Darnold, supposed to be the main event. He
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: had killed all the demons, you told me, you idiots. Oh, yes,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion Sam Darnold. Yes, killed all the demons,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: all the demons. And right now, the understudy, Drew Locke,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: who's not even that good... However, with the same players
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: around him, the same coaching staff, Drew Locke has been
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: a much better, efficient quarterback than Sam Darnold. Put that
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: in your pipe and smoke it. It's kind of like
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: paying to see Stevie Wonder and discovering that the Stevie
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Wonder tribute group puts on a better show. It's like, well,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: that's disappointing. I need to spend thousands of dollars to
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: watch Stevie Wonder, who's, I guess, back on tour or whatever.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: My God. Sam Darnold's success... Whatever success he's had in Seattle,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious, is a byproduct of Jackson Smith and Jigba.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: That's it. The Venn diagram is practically one circle. And
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: that's all. And when JSN makes plays, Sam Darnold looks
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: like a functional NFL quarterback. We saw in the third
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: quarter and a chunk in the fourth quarter in the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: game Monday night, The Bears were able to box up Jackson, Smith,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: and Jigba, and Sam Darnold might as well have been
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: wearing a Jets helmet. Might as well have been wearing
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: a Jets helmet watching him go out there. He was
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: lost at sea, Darnold, waving his arms, screaming for Baywatch
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: to send a time machine to bring back the 90s
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: version of Pamela Anderson there to rescue him, get a buoy,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and rescue Sam Darnold. It was not good. Not good. Darnold...
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: not exactly the engine true true driving the seattle offense
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: he's the fuzzy dice that's hanging around there and jackson
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: smith and jigba is the one obviously getting it done
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: now meanwhile on the chicago side of things we have
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: a developing situation in the windy city there as jeff Simmons,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: in his Bears debut, played 48 defensive snaps. This was
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the big move Chicago made with Tennessee. And they claim
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: they're not going to F them picks, but they went
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: F them picks. They said, we're not going to F
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: them picks, but you went F them picks. They went
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: F them picks. They traded two first-round picks. That's F
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: them picks to get Jeffrey Simmons. And two first-rounders go
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to the Titans so they can botch those picks. And
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: how did Simmons do? He had not one, not two,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: not three, not four, not five. How about six tackles,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: five pressures? That led the Bears. Two tackles for loss,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: one sack, one quarterback hit, one batted pass, and a
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: partridge in a pear tree. So he had all that
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: going on. So the question, did Jeffrey Simmons, defensive tackle
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons, did Jeffrey Simmons justify the Bears' blockbuster trade,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: giving up all that draft capital in just 48 defensive snaps?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: So this was not a debut by Jeffrey Simmons. It
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: was more than that. This was a hostile takeover of
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the frazzled offensive line of the Seattle Seahawks there. So
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I would like to use my Latin, and I beg
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: for you to excuse my Latin here, but this was
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: a Carp Diem situation. Seize the day. He seized the day.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Big time. And it's been said by many wise people
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: over the years that you never get a second chance
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: to make a first impression. And Jeffrey Simmons... Went out there,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: he showed up and showed out. It was like he
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: was wearing a tuxedo and he went to Spirit Halloween
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: and he got on sale a hammer. It was Thor's hammer.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: And he was carrying that around in his tuxedo. The stats, impressive.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And that's a defensive lineman making a grand entrance to
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: And it's nice to see. Now, I'm not going to
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: sit here and say we're sending him to the haberdashery
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to get a gold jacket. We're not doing that, obviously. However,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Simmons has put the Bears' GPS set down the yellow
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: brick road. So it's down the yellow brick road we go.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: And they're skipping towards the Emerald City, which is in
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the hood and in the wood and up to no good.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And that'll be, of course, in early 2027 on Valentine's Day.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: But here's what you say about Jeffrey Simmons. Two words.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: As advertised. As advertised. No bait and switch. No bill
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: of goods. Chicago ordered a wrecking ball. And they didn't
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: get some rip-off, miniature wrecking ball off Teemu. They got
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: a real wrecking ball. And it's nice to see. They
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: got an actual wrecking ball. They ordered it, and that's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: what they got. Unlike, not that I'm bitter, that fraud
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett with the Rams. Simmons, it turns out, Jeffrey
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Simmons did not require a six-week orientation program, a medical excuse,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and instructional manual. He didn't need those things. He did not.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: He showed up, punched the clock, and started rearranging the furniture.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: for the Bears, who gave up a lot of goodies
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: to get him. And we're all about that. F the draft,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: F them picks. Good for the Bears. That's the way
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to do it. That's the way to do it. You
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: went for it. That's why you pay a premium. It's
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: nice when this happens. Meanwhile, the last word. Let's go
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: to the big picture now for Ben Johnson and the
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Bears as they get another win. They're bird-dogging the Vikings.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: In the division and among all the teams, you look
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: at those overall standings in the NFC and the Chicago
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Bears are breathing down the necks of not just the
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: top teams in the NFC, but the entire NFL. And
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you look right now, Buffalo at 6-1. There's a couple
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: of teams, Denver, Pittsburgh at 6-2 in the AFC. And
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: then in the NFC, you've got the 49ers and the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Vikings at 6-1, but the Bears at 6-2. And they're
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: lurking in the shadows like the boogeyman out there lurking around.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: So the question, though, for Ben Johnson's team, and specifically
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the quarterback, because quarterbacks are more important people. So does
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: this count as a, quote, signature win for Caleb Williams
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and Doberz? So you know I am reluctant to say
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: signature win, and I don't usually do that. On this one, though,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say break out the Hawaiian shirts, get
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the Hawaiian punch, fire up the tiki torches, get that
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: going on, go to a tiki bar, pour yourself a
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: tropical beverage, and why not? I'm Benny Brightside on this.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: It's the island life for me. It's the island life
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: for the Bears. Bears are now 2-0 against the teams
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: that played in the Super Bowl last year, Seattle and
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: New England, both under the bright lights, the island life,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the bright lights on national television there. So Caleb Williams
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: was a smooth operator. He was a smooth operator for
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the Bears in the Monday night game. And he wasn't
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: cheat code good. We've seen some cheat code stuff. He
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: wasn't that good in that department. But it wasn't like
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: he was playing Madden on rookie mode. He just simply
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: avoided butterfingering the game away, making Sam Darnold matriculate the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: ball down the field, which obviously he's incompetent, can't do
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: that unless he gets some help. And we saw that
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: on display here. No turnovers, only took, I believe, one sack.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams kept the offense moving down the field. And
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: as a result, Chicago gets itself a peacock victory. So
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the Bears can strut around the barnyard and have those
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: glorious tail feathers spread wide for the entire NFL to admire. Absolutely.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I know Lucky Tony's very happy about this. Lucky Tony's smiling.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: He's like, oh, that's my Bears. In fact, he might
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: even stop watching porn online now. He's so excited, at
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: least for a day. He's so excited about the Bears.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: They're Lucky Tony. But there they are. Strutting around there. Now,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: of course, they still have to prove this in January,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: which is always the kick to the nuts. They have
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: to show that this is legit. But we have the
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: show to do today, as we like to say. And
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: since we have a show to do today, this was
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: a bedazzled rhinestone-covered victory for Caleb Williams and the Bears.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: You can paint your nails with that kind of win
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: for Chicago there. The reigning champions were totally zonked. In
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the second half, really most of this game, it was
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: a domination. Seattle scored before halftime, but before that, it
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: was a domination situation. And Seattle looked like somebody slipped
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: some NyQuil into their Gatorade. They played like, eh, it's
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: a little off, just a little bit off there. So
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: this does count, again, Benny Brightside, signature win for the
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Bears to go and win there. Caleb Williams, again, he
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: didn't paint the Mona Lisa. He did not have to
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: paint the Mona Lisa in this game. He just stayed
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: inside the lines, just paint inside the lines, and he
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: didn't spill the paint on the carpet. didn't get any
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: pain on the dog or his shirt or anything like that,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: and so Chicago wanders away back to the Midwest feeling
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: pretty good about themselves. Alright, it is the Ben Maller show.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: You want to talk about that? Anything else regarding this?
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: How about Seattle needs to go out and trade for
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: a wide receiver? Sam Darnold cannot uplift the players around him.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: He is not that quarterback. He's not. And if you
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: don't have great players around him, you're porked. And he
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: is El Capitan of the Vomit Comet, Sam Darnold. And
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: it's so dependent on Jackson, Smith, and Jigba. Everyone needs
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: a top receiver, dummy. I understand that. But there are
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks who can uplift players, can elevate players, and Darnold's
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: definitely not, from what I've seen, not that guy.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific. Now,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Maller's Mountain of Money.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Lord, that's a lot of money.
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: Lord.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top? Lord, Lord, Lord.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Mallard's amount of money real quick.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our contestants. We have BJ the Bear Hater,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: it says here. Hello, BJ the Bear Hater. Hello, Ben.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Welcome in, BJ.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Got bears.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Got bears suck. All right, BJ, who
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: do you want to partner up with? You got me
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: or Coop? What do you want?
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: You.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Can you show a little more excitement? All right. That's good. Lorena,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: pick either one, two, or three.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: Number three.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, you have picked Rod, the ambassador of Bakersfield,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: who called back to play the game. Hello, Rod. Welcome. Oh,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I don't hear him.
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: Uh-oh.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Is he potted up? I guess not. Okay, number two.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: All right. Rod has got phone issues. You picked number two.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: That is Tyler in Boston who did not hang up.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Good job by you, Tyler. Hello, Tyler. I held my
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: breath for a minute just in case. I understand. You're
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: going to be teamed up with Coop. Quickly, Coop. We
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of time. All right.
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: This is the Nelly edition. He turned 52 on Monday.
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: The categories are St. Louis, Ride With Me, number one,
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: and Highlander.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: In Here. BJ the Bear Hater, which category would you like?
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: Hot in Here.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Hot in Here, all right. And Tyler, how about you?
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Number One.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Number One, all right. All right, these athletes are or
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: were regulars at the club. The club. Are you ready,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: BJ the Bear Hater?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: All right. Very good. We need first and last name.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Good luck to you. And here we go.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Known as the Bambino. Babe Ruth. Yes. Tight end for
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: the Patriots with Tom Brady, the guy that didn't kill anybody.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski. The 76ers star in the early 2000s, The Answer.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Allen Iverson. Correct. Texas A & M, Heisman guy, played
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: for the Browns, did the money sign quarterback. Johnny the
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Deuce Manziel. All right, that is correct. Mr. Miami Heat,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: longest tenured member of the Miami Heat. I believe he's
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: an assistant coach right now. Not at all. No. Basketball
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: player had two girlfriends at the same. You got 100.
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: Udonis Haslam, you missed.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Lou Williams. Yeah, Lemon Pepper Lou. All right. That's right.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: Tyler, we have number one. These athletes all have a
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: number one spot in record books. Are you ready, Tyler?
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: There you go. All right, here we go. The all-time
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: scoring leader in the NBA. Will Chamberlain?
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: No.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: He's the king. He's on the 76ers. LeBron, sorry. Full name, please.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: LeBron James. Okay. The best wide receiver of all time
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: from the 49ers. Jerry Rice.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: The guy you said earlier, you scored 100 points in
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: a game. Will Chamberlain. Yes.
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: This guy has the most hits in a season. He's
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: a Japanese player, not Shohei Otani.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, Ichiro. Yes, last name. Suzuki?
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: This guy was a coach of the Cowboys. He wore
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: a fedora. Jimmy Johnson?
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Nope.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: This guy was a quarterback. That was it. Yeah, this
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: guy was a quarterback. You got 160. Ben, you're lower.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: You go next. Okay, we have, what do we got?
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Ride With It, Ride With Me, and St. Louis. Which
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: one do you want, BJ the Bear Hater? Let's go
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: to St.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: Louis.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: All right. These athletes are all from St. Louis, that area.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Are you ready? Here we go. Star for the Boston
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Celtics right now. From St.
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: Louis?
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's correct. Former Cowboy running back, played at Ohio State.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: He had loved to show off his belly button.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: No. Keith Byers.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Wow. That's a terrible answer. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles' boyfriend,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: NFL player.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Pass.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Our husband, I guess. All right. What else do we have?
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Cowboys kicker. The Cowboys kicker right now. The international sensation
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: of Cowboy Nation. All right. Pitcher with two different colored eyes.
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: Ah!
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Crap! We win again! Come on, BJ! BJ the Bear Hater!
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: That's a bad job by...