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  Speaker 1: There has been one NFL exhibition game so far, and
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  Speaker 1: So we will play the hits, and we begin with
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback Injury Roulette for a thousand and a little rice
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  Speaker 1: crispy Snap crackle pop. Yeah. Where do we start? Let's
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  Speaker 1: see big money, big money, No whemies stop, all right,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna go to La That's what we're gonna start.
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  Speaker 1: We start in Los Angeles and problems for a former
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl hero, former super Bowl champion quarterback If you've
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  Speaker 1: not heard yet, as things are not looking particularly good
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  Speaker 1: for a quarterback that won the championship in la a
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  Speaker 1: couple years back there, and the coach is running interference.
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  Speaker 1: So if you didn't follow this, Sean McVeigh, the head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Rams, knowing you can ram it all day,
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  Speaker 1: ram it all night, and you can ram your quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: back into the ground where he's all messed up. So
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  Speaker 1: Sewan m walking the proverbial tightrope without a safety net
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  Speaker 1: here protecting or attempting to protect Matthew Stafford, his starting
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  Speaker 1: quarterback QB one. Remember the offseason when Tom Brady took
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford out in Montana and then a private enclave
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  Speaker 1: there and they were trying to whine and dine him
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  Speaker 1: and get him to go to the Raiders. And then
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady had to settle for Gino Smith, Holy crap,
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  Speaker 1: And there were other teams that were flirting with Matthew Stafford. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he ended up going back to the Rams. And now
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  Speaker 1: he's not able to play. Say what, yeah, not able
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  Speaker 1: to play? We are about a month about a month
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  Speaker 1: away from the start of the NFL regular season. Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Stafford's health a lingering cloud of doom over the Rams?
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  Speaker 1: Is this the end of his career as a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL? Stafford has continued to be absent from
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  Speaker 1: RAM training camp. And he has an issue on my
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  Speaker 1: aching back. That's his issue. He's got back sore on this.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: That prompted Sean McVay to describe the situationton as week
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  Speaker 1: to week now. There was no official setback, there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing stated. Might have been something, who knows, maybe he
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  Speaker 1: bent over to get something in the kitchen and the
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  Speaker 1: back snapped. But nonetheless, despite no official, no official setback,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, thirty seven has already now visited the spine specialists,
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  Speaker 1: a specialist on the back twice twice. Now, that certainly
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  Speaker 1: signals that this is not just a minor a minor bump.
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  Speaker 1: There's something else going on. So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Rams coach Sean McVay continuing to downplay to downplay Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Stafford's back issues with the Rams. What are your ears
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  Speaker 1: tell you? What are your ears tell you? On this?
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  Speaker 1: So I've we've got rocket fizz, piping hot and homecoming King,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make the Gabba ghul. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make the Gabba gool. So A, Now, what did the
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  Speaker 1: years say? I'll tell you my years. Hey, listening between
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  Speaker 1: the words, listening between the words here, it sounds like agony,
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  Speaker 1: absolute agony. A week to week to me, sounds like
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  Speaker 1: he's done, he's out. That's it, that's cod that's coach speak.
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  Speaker 1: I've been around too long. I've heard the coach speak for.
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  Speaker 1: We are praying to the gods to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we get something to happen. We need to go into
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  Speaker 1: the sorcerer's workshop here and cook up a spell for
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. We have to find something magical because that
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  Speaker 1: spine is toast and they know it. He's cooked. You
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  Speaker 1: do not visit a spine specialist multiple times unless there
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  Speaker 1: is something big time going on with that back there,
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  Speaker 1: and why not. You look at the supporting evidence for
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. He's in your seventeen, he's got the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl Championship there on his resume, he's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of touchdowns, a lot of broken body parts, and just
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  Speaker 1: clued together. At this point, we're going to assume his
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  Speaker 1: podcast wife there probably wants him to retire. So then
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  Speaker 1: you've got Sean McVay in this soap opera. You've got
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay who's candy coating everything like he's working at
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  Speaker 1: Rocket Fizz and he's, Oh, everything's good, everything I covered
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  Speaker 1: in sugar, We're good. Everything's all right here. And he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to feed the ram fan who's just trying to
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  Speaker 1: ram it all day and Raymond all night, trying to
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  Speaker 1: feed the ram fan jolly ranchers. And then they're like, well, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is not a jolly rancher situation. There's a hot Tomali.
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  Speaker 1: This is hot Tomali situation. Yeah, spicy, all right. So
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to walk the thin line. You're trying to
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  Speaker 1: walk the line from being optimistic pep by Sean McVay
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  Speaker 1: to wait a minute, this is a disaster, so I
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  Speaker 1: got to do disaster control. But actions do always speak
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  Speaker 1: louder than words. We've had that mantra for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of everyone's good should have that mantra. So
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford has in practiced, He hasn't thrown. He's essentially
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  Speaker 1: just walking around like he's just walking the aisles at
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  Speaker 1: home depot, looking at stuff. And if I hear week
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  Speaker 1: to week week to week one more time, I am
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  Speaker 1: going to rip my headphones off my head and throw
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  Speaker 1: them against the wall, is what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 1: Week to week, week two week. Oh my god, that
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  Speaker 1: is the phrase that you use as an NFL head
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  Speaker 1: coach when you don't want to admit your pork. You
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  Speaker 1: don't want to admit that. So yeah, week to week.
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  Speaker 1: Eh yeah, week to week, my fat ass week to week.
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  Speaker 1: So the Rams are one and I gotta make sure
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  Speaker 1: I say this properly because this is the number one
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  Speaker 1: phrase that is messed up on people that give updates
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  Speaker 1: on medical conditions involving the back. But the La Rams
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  Speaker 1: are one bulging disc. I said it disc. They're one
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  Speaker 1: bulging disc away from Jimmy Garoppolo under center. So you
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  Speaker 1: talk about going from Frelemonreon to gas station beef jerky,
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  Speaker 1: That's what Jimmy Garoppolo is at this point. Now, can
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  Speaker 1: the Rams slap together a good season during the regular Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they can, of course they can. Do you expect them
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  Speaker 1: to go on a burner and to the championship unlikely?
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  Speaker 1: Can they beat crappy teams like Seattle and Arizona and
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Sure those teams suck down the
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  Speaker 1: line against the better opponents. That's the problem, right, you
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  Speaker 1: have to become a defense. The Rams better become a
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  Speaker 1: top five team. He's even a garoppolo place, He's a
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  Speaker 1: porcelain doll. We know that the guy slips on a
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  Speaker 1: wet leaf somewhere and he's in the injury tent, camping
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  Speaker 1: out and all that stuff. So the Rams have to
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  Speaker 1: have a dominant defensive team. As Stafford, it's not looking
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  Speaker 1: so good at this point today. We do the show today,
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  Speaker 1: and at this point today, based on the available information
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  Speaker 1: we have, things are not looking good. Meanwhile, speaking of
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  Speaker 1: not looking good, we go to Cleveland, where it never
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  Speaker 1: looks good in terms of the football team, and update
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  Speaker 1: a new update to the depth chart. I know nothing
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  Speaker 1: more exciting, more compelling on talk radio than the Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: Browns depth chart. Boy, we know how to keep you
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  Speaker 1: satisfied as a consumer of overnight talk radio. So the
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  Speaker 1: former Colorado star Shirdur Sanders is right now, Berry, He's
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  Speaker 1: buried on the Browns depth chart. He is currently listed
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  Speaker 1: as the fourth string quarterback. So how does that taste?
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  Speaker 1: How does that one taste? So that tastes like piping
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  Speaker 1: hot fresh out of the oven. Humble pie is what
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  Speaker 1: that is. Humble pie right there. You get a slice,
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  Speaker 1: You get a slice. You get a slice. So Schener
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  Speaker 1: Sanders the next big thing in college, the prodigy, the
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  Speaker 1: amazing Prince of Prime and the spawn of Dion, all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Four string on the worst team in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. You want to talk about an emasculation situation,
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  Speaker 1: that would be that. And that's what happens when the
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  Speaker 1: hype does not match the tape and you apparently do
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  Speaker 1: not get the red carpet rolled out for you because
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  Speaker 1: your daddy was flashy and worn sunglasses. If only Shirdhur
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  Speaker 1: Sanders had been an NBA player, then he'd be in
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  Speaker 1: really good shape, right Like Brownie James sucks and he's
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  Speaker 1: on the Lakers and all that. He can't play. Should Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: though there's no guarantee, even makes the Cleveland Browns at
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  Speaker 1: this particular point. And man, it appears that despite the
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  Speaker 1: social media clout Schauduur Sanders has, the coaches don't seem
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  Speaker 1: to care, his teammates don't seem to care very much.
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  Speaker 1: And it's billed as a meritocracy. Now we know that
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  Speaker 1: it's not always a meritocracy, at least it should be,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not. And Shoulder has flunked the eye test.
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  Speaker 1: So far, you get one shot. You get one shot
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  Speaker 1: to make a first impression when you start a new job,
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  Speaker 1: and it would appear, based on the outside looking in,
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  Speaker 1: that he has tripped over his own shoelaces, Shudur Sanders
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  Speaker 1: at this particular point. So, now I have watched some
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  Speaker 1: of the practice clips. Now, usually they only send out
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  Speaker 1: the good stuff, they don't send out the bad stuff
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  Speaker 1: and all that. But even from what they've sent out,
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  Speaker 1: which you know is heavily edited, and things are left
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  Speaker 1: on the cutting room floor that you probably should see.
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  Speaker 1: So there's nothing special from what I've seen. So kind
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  Speaker 1: of reads things slowly, doesn't have an amazing top flight
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  Speaker 1: arm and didn't see any of that in the practice clips.
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  Speaker 1: And so much like we were talking about the Rams
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  Speaker 1: sugar coating things with Matthew Stafford, we don't need to
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  Speaker 1: sugarcoat things with sugar Sanders. You've got Joe Flacco, who
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  Speaker 1: I just checked on his Pro Football reference page, just
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  Speaker 1: turned four hundred years old, So happy birthday, Joe. Flacco.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Kenny Pickett, who sucks, and then you've got
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel who's left handed, which should mean that you're downgraded.
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  Speaker 1: You're left handed. And he barely got drafted, but yet
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  Speaker 1: was drafted ahead of Sudar Sanders. So shdu has been
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  Speaker 1: unable to leap frog any of them. He's barely ahead
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  Speaker 1: of Deshaun Watson Ben Watson game in play this year,
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  Speaker 1: So man, what a mess. If Shoulder it was the
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  Speaker 1: real deal in practice, not a game, we would assume
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  Speaker 1: he'd be getting more opportunities, more chances, and would be
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  Speaker 1: higher up on the depth chart. But what do we know.
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  Speaker 1: We just do the overnight show. And so it turns
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  Speaker 1: out that at this point, despite all the big things
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  Speaker 1: on the socials, this is the NFL, not some kind
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  Speaker 1: of branding seminar. And you produce your fourth on the
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  Speaker 1: depth chart and in danger of being gonzo see you later.
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  Speaker 1: And he's not been the beacon of the Browns which
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  Speaker 1: some were anticipating. There, he's at this point a footnote.
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  Speaker 1: And right now that book is that book with the
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  Speaker 1: footnote there that's closing rapidly. All right now, last word
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  Speaker 1: to the gambling market we go. You know, we love
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  Speaker 1: the gambling market in these parts, and we can update
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  Speaker 1: update the gambling odds. A very popular storyline this time
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  Speaker 1: of the year. Who is going to win the most
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  Speaker 1: Valuable Player of the year. You know, they have that
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  Speaker 1: ceremony before the Super Bowl where they have a red
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  Speaker 1: carpet event and everyone gets all dulled up and they
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  Speaker 1: hand out all these awards and pat each other on
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  Speaker 1: the ass and say how great you are and all that. So,
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  Speaker 1: according to our friends at DraftKings, a big sponsor of
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  Speaker 1: this radio show, we're grateful for that. The people of
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  Speaker 1: a DraftKings sportsbooks say, the public has spoken, and you
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  Speaker 1: know who's the betting favorite according to the public to
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  Speaker 1: be the most valuable player? Do you know who this is? No,
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  Speaker 1: I want to take a guess. Who do you think
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  Speaker 1: it is? Now you're wrong? Now you're wrong. Yet, No,
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  Speaker 1: you're wrong. The correct answer if you said, if you
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  Speaker 1: said Josh Allen the Bills.
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  Speaker 2: You're wrong.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's Bengals. It's Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. That's the answer.
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  Speaker 1: There plus six fifty most popular pick by popular people
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL game market, Twenty two percent of the
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  Speaker 1: bets have come in for the Bengals quarterback Lamar Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: a multi time platinum MVP winner himself, plus fifty five
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  Speaker 1: point fifty is behind Joe Burrow at twelve percent. Then
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  Speaker 1: you've got Jayden Daniels of the Commanders, Patrick Mahomey. Patrick
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  Speaker 1: mahomes is next, and then on the big board a
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  Speaker 1: lot of dumb people in Philadelphia betting on Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: to be the MVP. Dumb d dumb, dumb dumb. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good luck on that. So Joe Burrow at the very top,
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson right behind Joe Burrow among the most popular
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  Speaker 1: NFL MVP bets at this particular point in time. What
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  Speaker 1: does that tell you? So I'll go first. It tells
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  Speaker 1: me the same thing it's told me every year since
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  Speaker 1: we started talking about this. It is a PC situation.
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  Speaker 1: Popularity contest is what it is. So you throw on
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  Speaker 1: a pair of Gucci shades and you show up with
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  Speaker 1: the cigar, got to have the stogy. You get the
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  Speaker 1: cigar there and boom, you are the people's champ, right,
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  Speaker 1: you are the people's Now listen, Joe Burrow, he's got
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  Speaker 1: the swag and all that. He's got the arm and
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  Speaker 1: when he is able to stay upright in Cincinnati and
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  Speaker 1: not get tackled by a bowl of Skyline chili thrown
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  Speaker 1: by just Josh or Justin in Cincinnati, when he's able
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  Speaker 1: to avoid that. Sure, things are pretty good. Things are.
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  Speaker 1: Things are pretty good. He's right there. And there's only
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  Speaker 1: a few quarterbacks that are at that upper echelon in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, and he's one of them. But here's the
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  Speaker 1: rub on this, here's the rub. The thing that bothers
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  Speaker 1: me is I was asked the other day who I
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  Speaker 1: like is the MVP, and I picked Joe Burrow. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be on the side of the public.
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  Speaker 1: The public is always wrong. I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the public. You're betting on Joe
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  Speaker 1: Burrow like he's already hoisting the trophy up in February,
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  Speaker 1: and listen, I don't want to be on your side.
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  Speaker 1: You've ruined that analysis for me that now he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be brittle Joe Burrow, and he's gonna get hurt and
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  Speaker 1: it's your fault. And now I'm gonna have to jump
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  Speaker 1: away from Burrow. And as far as Lamar Jackson, listen,
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  Speaker 1: Lamar's he's got the Hall of Fame regular season numbers,
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  Speaker 1: not so much in the playoffs. But Lamar Jackson, two
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  Speaker 1: time Platinum MVP, he's second in bets. But you look
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  Speaker 1: at the AFC North, the quarterbacks in the AFC, nor
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  Speaker 1: two of them here, that division turning into the Roman
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  Speaker 1: Colosseum with two of the top picks to win the
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  Speaker 1: most valuable. And then you've got like washed up Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers and then the slop the Cleveland Browns are thrown
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  Speaker 1: out there. But man, those two. So the betting public,
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  Speaker 1: the betting public loves a good story. They love a
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  Speaker 1: good story, and they love the swagger, the electricity of
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and all that stuff. However, the MVP voting,
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  Speaker 1: it is not the homecoming King situation. You do have
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  Speaker 1: to stay relatively healthy for the balance of the seventeen
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  Speaker 1: week regular season that you play in. And again, we
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  Speaker 1: love Burrow. We went with Burrow when we were asked
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  Speaker 1: a while back, and so we've been Benny bright Side
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  Speaker 1: on Joe Burrow for the MVP. The public writing this
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  Speaker 1: one does bother it, bothers us bothers me a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it might be time to fade the
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  Speaker 1: hype on that one. So MVP betting, MVP betting, the
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  Speaker 1: Ultimate Instagram Contest. Right Instagram contest. You know, a little
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  Speaker 1: football mixed in. They're just a little bit of football,
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  Speaker 1: just a teeny bit. And you're always not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: bet with your heart. You're not supposed to bet with
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  Speaker 1: your heart. And of course the casinos want you to
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  Speaker 1: bet with your heart because you're a loser. When you
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  Speaker 1: bet with your heart, you lose who's much more than
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  Speaker 1: go to the quarterback derby and oh what a derby
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: is Indianapolis, Indiana known for the Indy five hundred and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: mediocre football and we have a quarterback competition we so,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: so it's time now for the obligatory mallor monologue on
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the high drama in Colts Camp. So you have on
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: one side of the aisle you have Daniel Jones, the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: stumble bum. On the other side you have Anthony Richardson,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: built like a Dunnis and he plays like hollering James
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  Speaker 1: from Minnesota. So they are listed as co QB one.
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  Speaker 1: So no, I didn't play in the NFL. However, if
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: you have co starting quarterbacks, wouldn't that be great? If
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the Colts said we're gonna use both guys under center.
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  Speaker 1: We're just gonna have both of them out there at
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the same time, and we'll see what we're gonna do
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: at that point. Maybe we'll have Anthony Richardson in the backfield,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: then he'll run out to the slot receiver, we'll have
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, he'll go to the slop. But we're gonna
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: start the mote. So isn't that special? Now that's not
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the story here. It did the lead to an absolute
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: gem of a quote from Anthony Richardson. So if you
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: didn't hear this, and perhaps not, Richardson commenting about his
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: situation from top five draft pick to now having to
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: be in a dogfight with a literal dog in Daniel Jones,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: who sucks? So Richardson said, quote, even if they meaning
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the Colts brought Tom Brady in here, he's the greatest,
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  Speaker 1: but I just have to work and try to beat
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  Speaker 1: him out. Richardson stated, he said, here's the key part
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  Speaker 1: of the quote. It's a me versus me type thing.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: It's a me versus me type thing. That is what
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: we call the money quote. That's a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: calling the QB competition in Indianapolis with Daniel Jones. A
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: quote me versus me thing? How do you decode that quote?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: So I've got hot blonde, Cia level and fat kid,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: three things that have never been thrown together, and we
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: will throw them together and say abra cadabra, hocus pocus.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. So number I said, number one umber
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  Speaker 1: just like QB one. This one smells like delusion. Now
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: what does delusion smell like? Similar to rotten eggs, similar
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to sulfur, rotten eggs, that whole thing delusion. So you
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: are in a quarterback battle royale and you're brushing off
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the guy who's right there with you, breathing down your neck.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Is what you're doing for Anthony Richards in a year.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: So Daniel Jones, and I'm certainly not going to sit
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: here and praise Daniel Jones. You know how I feel
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  Speaker 1: about him. If you've heard the show over the years,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: we've done many amoult of monologue about the many frailties
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of Daniel Jones, how flawed he is, and we believe
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: he's covered in maggots. However, however, he's neck and neck
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: for the starting job in Indianapolis. So what that tell you?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: It's the old Bill Parcell's line about Anthony Richardson. That
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: potential potential means you haven't done anything yet. And as
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: we like to say, a prospect is a suspect and
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: to proven otherwise. And Anthony Richardson has been very suspect
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: when he's played. That's Richardson in a nutshell, is what
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: it is. Richardson. I'll tell you what Richardson is, the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: hot blonde at the bar that looks amazing and then
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: that kind of flirts with you, you know a lot
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: of contact, oh flirty and get you excited and then
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: ghost you. That's what Anthony Richardson is, right, that's Richardson
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: in a nutshell. That's what he is. All tease, no please,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: no results, nothing. And Richardson, who has a highlight reel,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: if you want to call it, that of a little
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: bit of brilliance, a little bit of brilliance, heavily edited,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of bonehead mistakes, a lot of those quitting,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: taking himself out of the game. You don't you don't
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  Speaker 1: outlive that, you don't short change that. And every time
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  Speaker 1: Richardson rolls out in the pocket, and there's a lot
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: of people that go ooh and ah and all like
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: he's the second coming, and then you look at the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: actual results of that, and I guess accuracy does matter.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It does matter. He's a compass rose co North, south, east,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: west and anywhere else in between. You want to turnover,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: he'll give you a turnover. You want zero, ability to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: stay on the field, He'll give you that as well.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: He's got that. Richardson is. I believe he's in year
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: three now if I'm not mistaken, although really based on
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: games played a lot less than that, and yet this
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: far into his career, the conversation about Anthony Richardson is
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: still well, let's talk about the traits that he has.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Traits that's you know what that is. That's what dopey
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: sports radio hosts like me talk about. In the NFL
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: draft season in March and April, we talk about the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: traits of quarterbacks, right, well, the combine in the NFL draft,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: not in August of year three of your career. We're
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: not talking about your traits unless you blow Okay. So
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: that's where we are. That's where we are, and I
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: hate to break it to Anthony Richardson, but it's not
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: me versus me. That's not a me versus me situation
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: based on a minutes long deliberation. It's you versus reality
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: is the situation. Right, You are in a dead heat.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: You are in a dead heat. Anthony Richardson with a
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: guy the Giants ran out of town and they had
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: nobody else other than Tommy Cutlet's they've ran your ass
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: out of town, right, And you're acting like you're baggling
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the ghost of Peyton Manning or something like that at
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: quarterback in Indianapolis. It's amazing, like the clock is ticking
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: on both these guys. Now, listen, Daniel Jones. I know
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: he has to stopover in Minnesota and he didn't play
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. But the Colts front office, okay,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Jim Hersay left this mortal coil. Jim had a hard life,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of sex, drugs, rock and roll. He's gone out.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: So now the daughter's running the team and so there's
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: a changing of the guard there. You ain't even sit around. Wait, well,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the upside upside, upside, upside upside, how about your upside down?
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And your took us is what you want? Bill Parcells.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Another quote you lose with potential. You lose with the Naville,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you win with performance. And that's that's the Colts in
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: a nutshell. You got Shane Steichen who's still hanging around there,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and does he really want to go six and eleven
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: or seven and ten again while waiting for something to change.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Get that full Anthony Richardson experience there, and maybe he'll
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: finally show up and this will be the year. Yeah,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: he's due, he's due. Right when you're the guy with
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the most talent in the room, okay, you're the player
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: with the most talent in the room, gets a little
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: bit brighter on your ass.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: That's the way it works. So when you flame out,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: and that's what Richardson's doing right now, it does burn
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: a little bit bigger. The fire is a little bit bigger,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and so the bar is higher for Richardson, as it
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: should be, as it should be. So instead of embracing
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: it and say I've sucked. You know, I'm terrible, and
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I gotta be I gotta be better. And it seems
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: just sounded like a deflection to me this quote, as
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: we parse the words, it sounds to me like a
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: deflection like, well, the pressure just doesn't apply and if
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: you would like to impress gas bags like this one me,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: then then don't give don't give me the zen, don't
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: give me the zen quotes about me versus me and
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: all that stuff that sounds like a bad morning radio show,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: me versus me. Uh, get out there, take care of
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the football, Take care of the football, maybe win some games.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Don't take yourself out of a game. Don't quit on
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: your team because you're a little gas because everyone's gassed
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  Speaker 1: in second half of games, and all that stuff. Until
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: then you're just another failed draft pick clinging on getting
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: opportunities still because of the scouting report and based on
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: things you haven't actually done, but things you're supposed to do,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and it hasn't translated into on field success. Now, speaking
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: of on field success, we go now to Denver. Another
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: interesting quote. This one comes from Sean Payton, the former
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Fox broadcaster current head coach of the Denver football team.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: So Sean Payton thinks that Bronco quarterback Bownicks will be
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: a quote superstar soon. What is your verdict on this one?
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: From Sean Payton made this comment recently in Colorado that
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Bownicks will be a superstar. So we need a verdict
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: on this one. So my weasel word detector started vibrating,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: just like that's what sounds. So he said superstar Sean
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Payton soon, bow Knicks soon? Like, how soon? What are
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: we looking at? Like the end of this season? Superstar? Tomorrow? Tomorrow?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is another day? How about next year? Maybe next
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: year will be the year he's a superstar? So this
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: is you know, I guess to be plays right, Oh,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you'll play, You'll be fine, He'll play. Soon is a hedge.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Soon is a hedge. It is c I a level
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: plausible deniability. I said soon. It's vague enough. It's vague
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: enough where if bow Knicks goes out there and plays
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: like flatulence, Sean Payton can say, well, I didn't mean
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: this season. I said soon. Why did you expect me
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: to him to be great this year? I didn't say
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it being superstar this year? I said. So. You know,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: soon as a relative term. If you're a turtle, If
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: you're a turtle, you lived like two hundred years, right,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: soon could be you know, fifty years soon for a
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: turtle that's not that long, live two hundred and fifty years.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is. If you're a tree, you lived two
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: thousand years on those big sequoia trees that live fifteen
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: hundred two thousand years and soon. That's a relative term.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: So again, now on the flip side, if bow Knicks
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: does go out there and play well, and then Sean
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Payton can say, hey, I told you, told you so.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I told you guy. Nobody likes I told you guy.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: He could be I told you guy. It's again, coach
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: speak is what it is. It's a good time of
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the year for coach be it is and pumping the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: tires Sean Payton, they're pumping the tires on his hand
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: picked quarterback they got rid of. They chased out Russell Wilson,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: mister unlimited. It was stunk up the joint in Colorado,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and so they had to get somebody. This is the
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: guy they got. And you're the pr director of the Broncos.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: But it's not really like analysis. It's not analysis, and
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: you don't take talent talent evaluations from a head coach
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: because the way I always look at these things, like
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: if bo Nicks is terrible, is Sean Payton gonna says terrible. No,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: he's not gonna say that. Nobody ever says it. Now,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I would take these comments as the gospel. If I
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: got coaches to say, boy, we got a quarterback who
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: is a bag of suck and that's our guy right now,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: But they never say that New Orleans Saints have suck
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: bag over there. They have got a dog a poo
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: that's one of their quarterback options. And then they have
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: a bag of cockroaches that's the other option. Those are
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the three options at quarterback there in norms. But you
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: don't hear that. He said, well, this guy's got a
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: lot of love sign blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Now,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: how does one classify the superstar? What is a superstar
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: in the NFL? So you obviously have to dominate. It
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: goes without saying there's a domination situation. You have to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: be a player that people go out of their way
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: to watch, meaning that if you have more multiple games on,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: you know the red zone, which he has beens about
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: to kill, But if you had the red zone on,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: you would tune out of the red zone to watch
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the player because he's that good. He's a superstar. Okay,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: so you fill the stadiums, people tune in big ratings
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: on television, and it's like the magic Johnson quot is
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: that you have to inspire the city a little much.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: But he said it. You know, superstars changed the mood
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: of the whole building and all that, and so I did.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: There's something to that. There's something to that that I
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: buy into. And at this point, based on today, bo
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Nicks is not that guy. You're not that guy, Palt,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: You're not that guy. He will give you lots of
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: bubble screens and system stats and all that stuff, and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you'll never be a superstar just being a system guy.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: That will not be the case, just like Brock Purty's
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: never going to be the guy a superstar because he's
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: just a system quarterback in San Francisco. He got paid
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. Congratulations, but you're just a system guy.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Bo Nicks last year was the seventeenth ranked quarterback in
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the NFL. So now I know I'm being just a
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: hard oh and a jackass and you're being too mean.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: But that's not superstar, you know, it's not. Now you
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: know what that makes you? By the way, average that
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: is right in the same category with Geno Smith. Does
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: anyone think Gino Smith is a superstar? No, Gino Smith
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: is a placeholder at the Academy Awards. When you go
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: to take a whiz, somebody has to fill your seat.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: That's Geno Smith, That's what he is. Certainly not anywhere
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: near you talk about the upper echelon, which is Mahomes
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow and players like that. But man, so
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: you don't exactly become a superstar because your head coach
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: says you're you're going to be that at a news
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: conference in the month of August. So we'll see. By
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: dragging your team deep in the playoffs, that certainly changes
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the narrative. And we'll see if BO knows, If BO
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: knows how to do that in Denver hasn't done it yet,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: only one year, small sample size, but that's all we
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: have to go on now. Final point to La La
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Land we go follow up to the follow up to
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the follow up to the follow up Coach Jim Harbaugh.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Coach Jim Harbaugh said, Chargers running back Nasei Harris one
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: eyed nase that's too me. Naji Harris, who was playing
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: with fireworks and got the wrong end of the fireworks
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: on the fourth of July at Stravaganza in Northern California. Well,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: some bad news here, Jim Harbaugh saying that Charger running
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: back Naji Harris, he said he's getting better, And then
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: in the same breath, he said, right now at Charger
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: training camp preparing for a National Football League season, Naji
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Harris is currently walking laps as part of his rehab.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: He still has no timetable, no timetable to return to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: the field in uniform. So where are you at on
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: this one? Where are you at on this one? So
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: that is wild. So Jim Harbin's, Oh, he's making progress.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: He's walking laps around the field. There's no timetable for
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: him to put on pads and all that stuff. So
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I keep going back to the calendar. We're now in
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: early August. We're doing this on August fifth, and the
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Chargers have already played a preseason game. They have another
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: exhibition game coming up this weekend, so they've got another
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: exhibition game to look forward to. You here, and you've
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: got Jim Harbaugh out there. He's like, well, no, he's
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: getting better. He's uh, he's getting better. He's so how
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: exactly how does that work? Remember, the agent for Najie
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Harris said, but he suffered a superficial eye injury playing
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: with fireworks, and here we are in training camp and
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: he's still walking laps. Yeah, yeah, there's a Does that
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: help your eye? By the way, I should have great eyes.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I walk a lot. I should have really good eyesight.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: My eyes should be freaking great. Why am I wearing glasses?
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I walk a lot. I should have really good eyesight.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: So there is no timetable, no drills, no contact, just laps.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: And that's what the fat kid at junior high school
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: has to do in Pe when they forget their sneakers.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: You know, I know that I was the fat kid.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I was the fat kid that had to walk laps
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: in Pe. So I guess I could be an NFL
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: player because I can walk labs. I could play for
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the Chargers. I could rehab for the Charge. The fat
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: kid walking laps, that's me. And that's Naje Harris, your
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: big free agent running back pick up. There. It's great.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: It's not rehab. It's like a liability waiver. Well, you can't.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: We can't put you in pats. You can't see out
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: of one of your eyes, unfortunately, and we can't give
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: you cleats and a helmet and all that stuff. If
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Nasee could see I would assume he'd want to be
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: out there and be cutting and exploding and taking handoffs
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and he's you can't actually play
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: with one eye, that's the thing. And there was a
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the reason we have the combine is there was a
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: guy drafted by the Jets that was blind, legally blind
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: in one of his eyes and got drafted in the
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: second round. Actually had a good career with the Jets,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: but they were so upset they drafted a blind guy
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: that they started the combine to test people's vision and
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: to see whether or not they could see or not
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: things like that. But anyway, listen, so Naji, he's pacing
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: the sidelines and wandering around like he's waiting for a
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: delay in the terminal or Spirit Airlines to get their
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: act together and all that stuff. So not safe. Not saying,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: but that's the chargers, baby, show me your lightning bolt
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: can take the Chargers out of San Diego. And they
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: left years ago. But that's the that's the charge. That's
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: the charge. I remember the old Chargers right. And if
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: something goes sideways, if something can go wrong for the Chargers,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: they they will will figure out a way. If it
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: can't go wrong, they'll find a way for it to
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: go wrong. And so fourth of July completely goes off
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  Speaker 1: the rails. And now this player's career hanging in the balance,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: hanging in the balance here, and then you've got Harball
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  Speaker 1: over here giving coach spik. Yeah, he's getting better, and
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  Speaker 1: he's currently walking laps as part of his rehab. He's
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  Speaker 1: walking laps as part of his rehab. Okay, is that
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  Speaker 1: what they record? Like if you're an eye doctor, do
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: you recommend Okay, you've got a bad eye, just walk lapse,
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  Speaker 1: that'll make it better. No. But he's getting ten thousand
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: steps a day, which I'm jealous of. So he's got
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: he's got his he's got his Apple watch. There he's
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: getting the ten thousand steps a day or whatever. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go. So, based on just reading the t
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  Speaker 1: leaves here, I think he's gonna be coming back. I
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  Speaker 1: hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. I hope he
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: comes back and is able to play and all that stuff.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: But he's a running back. This was kind of a
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  Speaker 1: second chance. The Steelers dumped him. He's just a plo
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: odding running back. When he can see they got other
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: guys there It's not looking good for Nachie Harris at
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: this point if you look at the long range forecast.
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  Speaker 2: This is one gets grilled.
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  Speaker 4: So another thing Sean Payton said over the weekend was
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: that the short term goal for the Broncos is winning
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: the division, but that he thinks this team is capable
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: of winning the Super Bowl. Ben, do you think the
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Broncos are capable of either of those things this season?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: No? Well, not the super Bowl, And the only way
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: they'll win the division is a proper knee ligament tear
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: and twisted ankle at the right time. Like, the Broncos
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: will be a good team. There'll be a middleweight contender,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: but not a heavyweight contender next.
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  Speaker 4: DK metcalf told reporters that the Steelers defense is the
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: best that he has ever seen. Last year, they were
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: eighth in the league in scoring defense. Do you expect
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: a big improvement from them this season?
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: So it's nice of DK metcalfe to urinate all over
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: the Seattle defenses that he had there. It's nice of
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: him to say that, but but no, listen, Pittsburgh will
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: be around that area. They the big additions. They picked
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: up Darius Slay who was with Philadelphia, and Jalen Ramsey
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: from Miami. Those are the two big additions on defense,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: So they're there. Are both players who have been around
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: a while, good players. I believe they will end off
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: right around that seven to ten range defensively, so they'll
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: be in that same department. But it's good that DK
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: metcalf is the hype man for the Pittsburgh defense. Has TJ.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Watt gotten paid yet? I don't think so.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Next, Chad Johnson recently told TMZ that Jamar Chase is
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: the best wide receiver ever to play for the Bengals
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: and actually the best player in the NFL right now, Ben,
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: do you agree with either of those statements?
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Well, he's better than Chad Johnson. I was a big
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Chad Johnson fan. But Jamar Chase is better than Chad Johnson.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: So Chad Johnson was considered the top receiver with apologies
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: to Chris Cowns in Bengals history. So yes, Jamar Chase
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: better than Chad Johnson. Uh No, he's not the greatest
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: receiver in the NFL, as a certain guy in Minnesota
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: right now who has that title as the top receiver
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. I do like the word best coop,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: as you know, the best means as good as all
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: the rest. So he's really just as good as all
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: the rest. But there is Mallard to the third degree.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: How did we do you failed this edition? What are
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: you heavy? West? Such a horseman? No, they're not. They're
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: middleweight contender, middleweight content. That's all they are, middleweight contender.
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• 42:49
  Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top?
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Probably not, Fi soue. Here we go. It is the
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: always pop Malor's Mountain of Money, and we are about
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: to play that game right now. We'll get our contestants
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: lined up and let's see who do we have here?
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Amy meany miney mo see. And we've got Jacob in
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Delaware wants to play. He just called about Jacob. Are
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: you there? Jacob? All right? Jacob, and you're gonna play.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up? Have you got
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: me or Cooper? All right? Hold on a second, and
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: we have a sears c meany money more? I think
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Scott wants to play. Let me punched the right line
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: up here? He blew me off on a holder. No, no,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: that's not that Scott. Hello Scott in the are you
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: called earlier? Are you the same guy? Scott? Yes, you
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: called back? You had nothing else going on?
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: No, Well I'm here play.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Loc all right, man? Can I play with I would
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: love for you to play with Lorena? You want to
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: give a sho Lorenda. That's a pure death card for you, sir?
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: You want to play? I think we should do it? Yeah?
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah, Loreno, let's all.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Lorena. Well, you don't want to play with this guy,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Scott me. Scott's a big fan of yours. That's a
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: great guy.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: I can't even print out a sheet for Lorena because
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: the printer doesn't work here.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: What is wrong with the printer? Why is this just?
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: It freezes anything that I try to print from Remlins.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: It happens.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: It happens.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Computers do one thing very fast.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: They they make you very frustrated.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: All right, Scott, this guy's an expert.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: You're gonna team up with Ben Scott.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Scott, that's not Scott. I don't want you to half
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: around Scott. I I am the all time wins king. Okay,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: you're about to play with cy Young? Do you understand
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: that I am Cy Young?
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: I am Albert?
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's enough, all right?
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: This is Malar a mountain of money, Adam Yacht Condition
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: Yauk Condition from BC Boys. He would have been sixty
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: one years old today. He passed away several years ago. Jacob,
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: you were on the air first. The categories are Paul Revere,
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: no Sleep till Brooklyn, Fight for your Right or sure Shot?
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: Which category would you like? Like?
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Well, now it's you, But now you can pick one? Scott. Okay,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna okay, all right, I thinks that's
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: a hometown pick. Jacob.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: You and I are up first, so Scott don't answer
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: this time. It's me and Jacob. Right now, I need
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: the first and last name of the athlete in order
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: to get points. The categories fight for your Right? These
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: athletes are known to love to party. Are you ready, Jacob?
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: All right, let's begin this guy Timer. This guy, this guy,
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: This guy was shut up, Scot. This guy was the
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: quarterback for the Jets. He got drunk all the time. Yes,
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: this guy's nickname was the worm in the NBA. Yes,
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: this guy was the playmaker. He loved cocaine. Wide receiver
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: from the Cowboys. Yes, this guy's the nickname was money.
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: He was a quarterback in Texas, A and M. Yes,
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: this guy was a baseball player with the last name
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: of Fruit. He also loved cocaine. Yes, this guy was
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: a third basement for the Red Sox. He loved beer.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: This guy was a tight end. He was on the Saints.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: He had long blonde hair. Yes, all right. The other
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: guy I think he also went to the Tampa Bay
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: raised dobaas.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: I know you didn't get Wade bog Wade Boggs was
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: the one that we were missing. All right, here we go, Scott,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Well you picked the Paul Revere. These athletes are all
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: known to own horses. Are you ready there? Are you
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: ready there? Scott? Yes, Okay, forty five seconds on o'clock,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: we're on our way. Go center for the Denver Nuggets.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: Multi time MVP tight end for the Chiefs. He's sleeping
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: with the most famous woman in the world.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, Kelsey, Kelly, kill kelthy, kealthy?
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: What's this? What's his first name?
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: All right, we'll get We'll give it to you twenty.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: This sounds like a leperon, doesn't it is?
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: This?
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Are you the leper gun? Pan? You're the leper gun? Right?
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: My gosh? Is that why he's buttering up to me? Oh?
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: We got punked, man. This guy's a fraud. This guy's
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: a fraud. You got a second phone? All right? Hanging
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: up on that guy? All right? That ends the game.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Games we win, Jacob, good job. You don't win anything
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: that was a fraudulent the game you win as much
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: as the a holes win. You get a golden tick, Jacob.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Do you want to run up the score? Do you
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: want to do another category?
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: No?
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: The game's all a little done with the game. All right,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: let's go, thank you, Let's go to Uh do know Tony?
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Is this Tony? Tell her? Tony? What's going on? Tony?
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: Hey?
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Yes? Can I help you? Tony? Oh?
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: Wasn't I earlier?
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Why did you call back?
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: I was trying to talk to Koop?
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: But what do you want to talk? You talk to him?
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Now on the air. Go ahead, What do you want
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: to talk to him about? Go ahead?
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: So the other day I try to sing a song.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second, Yeah, take your time.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: You don't mind you no, no, no. So I tried
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: to sing a song and you guys thought I cursed,
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: but it was Sam Cook. Lord, remember me. I was
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: trying to sing for the Bears because they blow for
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: the last freaking what forties, fifties, sixties.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: You love the Bears. You're not supposed to say they blow.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: You're a big Bears goot your bear's backer. You love
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: the Bears.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: I'm not a homer man.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: But they don't.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: They don't.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: The way we look at it in our family in Chicago,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Tony is the Bears don't suck. They're just hibernating.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: That's a long hibernation, man.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it has been a long time. It's been a
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: very long since. Like George Hallis and and all that,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: what can we do to make Mallard's amount of money
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: good again? I feel like the game blows. We need
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: to get rid of it. Is it too hard a game?
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Or people so stupid they don't know how to play
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: the games. We just banned the game. I don't know
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Mad