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  Speaker 1: rundown up on the social media. So we'll get that
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  Speaker 1: up on the x feed in a little bit. So
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what's coming. I think you know what's coming,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe not. You have no idea what's coming. I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea anyway, all right, So our lead this hour,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think the lead story is? That's right,
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Pa. Underrated city hos in Pittsburgh years it go beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: shockingly nice Pittsburgh, PA. Good skyline. I'm a big skyline guy.
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  Speaker 1: It's cool because you get the water wrapped around the
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  Speaker 1: downtown there and all the bridges. Solid city. I got
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  Speaker 1: people like I'm like friends that live in PISSPA.
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  Speaker 3: They love it.
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  Speaker 1: They never want to leave. It's not that expensive compared
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  Speaker 1: to some other big cities anyway. Our lead from the
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  Speaker 1: Monday night football game, the last stop on wild Card weekend,
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  Speaker 1: c J. Stroud leading the Texans traveling party into Western
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  Speaker 1: PA for a matchup with Air Red Rogers and pat Spurgs.
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  Speaker 1: Hears the winner gets a date with the Patriots in
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  Speaker 1: the divisional round. Did you watch?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: Oh you did? Okay, Well if you didn't, we watched
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  Speaker 1: so you would not have to. Don't worry. It is
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  Speaker 1: our good mitzvah of the day. We've done that. So
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  Speaker 1: Sheldon Rankins, who you know, it's it's a weird night
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  Speaker 1: of a defensive guys getting the headline. But Sheldon Rankins, well,
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  Speaker 1: you don't follow defense. He returned a fumble, rumbling and
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  Speaker 1: stumbling a fumble by Aaron Rodgers thirty three yards to
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  Speaker 1: pay dirt touchdown early in the fourth quarter to put
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  Speaker 1: the cherry on top of the dominant defensive Sunday performance.
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  Speaker 1: Although it was on a Monday and the Texans end
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  Speaker 1: up the final score misleading, it looks like they molly
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  Speaker 1: wopped the Pittsburgh Steelers. They did win the game thirty
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  Speaker 1: to six on the wild card rounds, so they have
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  Speaker 1: advanced first ever road win. You always remember your first
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  Speaker 1: first ever road win for the Texans as they get
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  Speaker 1: her done. The Texans. Now we'll play, as we mentioned
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  Speaker 1: New England in the Division A round, that game on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night, Sunday Sunday Sunday. Well, I say Sunday night,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not as late as it was last week.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a late game on Sunday, effet. If you're
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  Speaker 1: on the West coast, it'll be like late afternoon on
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  Speaker 1: the West Coast. But CJ. Strout he turned the football
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  Speaker 1: over not once, not twice, but three times, and through
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  Speaker 1: a first half touchdown pass as well to Christian Kirk,
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  Speaker 1: the journeyman wide receiver there who had eight catches for
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty four yards. It was such a
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  Speaker 1: great night. Somebody named Woody Woody Marks. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: who that is, but he had one hundred and twelve
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  Speaker 1: yards on the ground for the Texans as a Houston
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  Speaker 1: who had been zero to six on the postseason run.
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  Speaker 1: But they are as a franchise, but they win. The
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  Speaker 1: better story don't come by a weekend. You think we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna say he gonn break down the Texans. No, the
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  Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room. So that
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  Speaker 1: is the conversation about the futures of Mike Tomlin and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. And was this it is this all? She wrote?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, melancholy, all these people getting in their fields. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sad. I'm not sad. I'm not said, of course,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have his skin in the game on this.
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  Speaker 1: I am not sad. But let us discuss So the
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  Speaker 1: let's start with Aaron Rodgers, because I think that's the
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  Speaker 1: story here. Rodgers has been playing at a high level,
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  Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame career for Aaron Rodgers. And plus
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  Speaker 1: he's just good for talk radio because some people love
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  Speaker 1: him and other people hate him, and that's good talk radio.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, Rogers, was this his final dance in the NFL? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he was asked about that. We have the audio. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to the audio tape. Here's Aaron Rodgers asked about
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  Speaker 1: whether or not this is.
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  Speaker 5: It is that game affect your decision for what to
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  Speaker 5: do next year in anyway?
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  Speaker 6: No, I mean, I'm not going to make any emotional decisions. Disappointed,
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  Speaker 6: you know, obviously, such a fun year. You know, a
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  Speaker 6: lot of adversity, but a lot of a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 6: Been a great year, you know, over all my life
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  Speaker 6: in the last day last year, and this is you know,
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  Speaker 6: a really good part of that coming here and being
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  Speaker 6: a part of this team. So it's disappointing to be
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  Speaker 6: sitting here with season over.
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  Speaker 1: Has anyone ever said, well, we had no adversity, it
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  Speaker 1: was a great year. Wouldn't a great year it be
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  Speaker 1: no adversity, wouldn't I mean, can't you say it about
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  Speaker 1: every year? Like the whole adversity word. I'm annoyed by that.
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  Speaker 1: Can I don't. I don't have time to get to
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  Speaker 1: my soapbox right now. I'll be able to do it later.
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  Speaker 1: But the whole adversity thing, like every season, the adversity
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  Speaker 1: is something didn't go exactly as plan. Nothing ever goes
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  Speaker 1: exactly his plan. Nothing ever goes exactly, but so every
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  Speaker 1: year there's adversity, all right, So the key part of that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to make any emotional decisions. Unemotional decisions
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  Speaker 1: fun though, when you make emotional decisions, can't they be fun?
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  Speaker 1: They could be fun? Right, You have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun doing emotional decisions, oh yeah, and then regret them later.
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  Speaker 1: But you can have fun while in the wall, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. Aaron Rodgers says he
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  Speaker 1: will not make any decisions on his future retirement until
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  Speaker 1: he takes some time away. Time away that must be nice.
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  Speaker 1: Should here's the question? Should Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers retire
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  Speaker 1: from the NFL? So my thoughts on this, I have
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  Speaker 1: Indonesia YouTube tutorial and chainsaws, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we're gonna make chicken Alfredo
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to make. Yum yum to my tumtumb.
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  Speaker 1: So he I have an unpopular opinion on this, and
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to confirm it, so I asked the magic
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  Speaker 1: eight ball. Went in doubt, pull the magic eight ball out?
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  Speaker 1: So I asked the magic gate ball, should Aaron Rodgers retire?
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  Speaker 1: And then I shook the magic eate ball, and the
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  Speaker 1: magic eight ball said to me, reply, hazy, try again.
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  Speaker 1: So I took the magic gate ball and I shook
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  Speaker 1: the magic gate ball again. I said, come on, come on,
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  Speaker 1: magic eate ball, you've never steered me wrong. And the
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  Speaker 1: magic gate ball said, don't count on it. O m G. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron could absolutely run away into the woods somewhere and
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  Speaker 1: that's it. You could do it, sure, why not? Here's
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  Speaker 1: what he ought to do. He got to run off
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  Speaker 1: to those lush jungles of Indonesia and hang out with
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of his hippie friends and meditate, and then
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  Speaker 1: come back to Austin, Texas and hang out with Joe Rogan,
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  Speaker 1: smoke a ball, drink some mayahuasca tea Joe and talk
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  Speaker 1: about the UFOs and the deep State and all that
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  Speaker 1: and have a fun time. And then go out and
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  Speaker 1: find a sucker with a checkbook. And should Rogers No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you should. I know it's an unpopular opinion.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, this is everyone's doing the eulogies for Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers right now, and he should retire. I say no.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're playing in the NFL and you're enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: You're having a good time, right, And some team's dumb enough,
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  Speaker 1: and there are a lot of dumb people that work
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  Speaker 1: in that business. If someone's dumb enough to pay you,
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  Speaker 1: why not keep the hustle alive? Why not? If he
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  Speaker 1: was worried about his legacy, he never would have gone
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  Speaker 1: to the Jets. He's already sullied. Whatever he had, whatever
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  Speaker 1: perfect resume Rogers had from Green Bay. He wore the
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  Speaker 1: Jets uniform. That's like dressing as a clown when you
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  Speaker 1: wear the Jets uniform. So he's done that, and he
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  Speaker 1: was pretty in Pittsburgh. Some of the numbers were good,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the numbers were not that good. But
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  Speaker 1: keep going. It's a get richer scheme, not a get
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  Speaker 1: rich scheme, because Rogers is already rich. But it's a
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  Speaker 1: get richer scheme for Aaron Rodgers, and he knows the
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  Speaker 1: menu by hard. And let's be honest here. That performance
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  Speaker 1: against the Texans that we saw on the Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: and that was hazardous waist is what that was. It was.
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  Speaker 1: It was terrible. I mean, they were bad for three
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  Speaker 1: quarters and then Rogers like, hold my beer, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: take this thing to the next level here, and he
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  Speaker 1: showed up to the boat show Rogers. He got the
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  Speaker 1: suck boat and he rowed that thing to Misery Island.
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  Speaker 1: And the great thing is Rogers was behind the steering wheel.
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  Speaker 1: He captained that thing by himself and sailed straight in
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  Speaker 1: to DMZ dead Man's zone, dead Man's zone, and Rogers
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  Speaker 1: was behind the wheel there on the boat. He looked slow,
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  Speaker 1: Yes he did. Was he plodding along? Absolutely plodding along,
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  Speaker 1: No question about it. Some would say even atomic waste
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  Speaker 1: Russias would fall into that. Nevertheless, this is the same
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  Speaker 1: business that dialed up Philip Rivers in his mid forties
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  Speaker 1: while hunting somewhere in the backwoods of Alabama, and said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: how would you like to play quarterback for the Colts.
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  Speaker 1: So if they're doing that, and you look at some
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  Speaker 1: of the turds that started games this year for the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: somebody named Brady Cook, I'd rather have a line Cook
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  Speaker 1: from Applebee's start than Brady Cook who started for the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: So Brady Cook, Kenny Pickett who can't play, Marcus Mariota
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  Speaker 1: who shouldn't be playing, And it's just a island of
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  Speaker 1: misfit toys in the NFL playing quarterback, So Rogers could
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  Speaker 1: absolutely bamboozle one more season. Why not go out to Vegas?
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady doesn't know what he's doing. No one wants
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  Speaker 1: to talk about that because it's tamboo, because it's Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 1: But he's terrible at his job. So I can see
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady say, oh, sign Aaron Rodgers is a bridge quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: The Raiders are going to draft a quarterback with a
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  Speaker 1: top pick, and they'll bring Rogers in for one year
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  Speaker 1: and then he can have a Vegas residency. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Who says no to that? Or go out to Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know what they're doing there. Great place to
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  Speaker 1: retire Arizona and hang out. It's a retirement community with goalposts.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great time. And plus he's married. Now, wink wig,
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  Speaker 1: he's married. I'm surprised I didn't get any of those
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  Speaker 1: cheesy sideline reports about Aaron Rodgers' wife struggling as he
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  Speaker 1: tries to decide whether he's going to keep playing or not. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: his mystery wife, Brittany. So I had an epiphany while
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  Speaker 1: I was making the trip in from far far away,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, is there a chance that Brittany is
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  Speaker 1: a tree. Is it possible that Aaron Rodgers named a
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  Speaker 1: tree Brittany, a giant sequoia tree, and he married the
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  Speaker 1: tree name Brittany, and the tree can't go to Packer games,
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  Speaker 1: or in this case, Steeler games can't go to Malibu
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  Speaker 1: because it's a tree. In order for that to happen,
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to kill Britney the tree and shop Britney
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  Speaker 1: the tree down and take Britney the tree to your home.
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  Speaker 1: So right, hey, prove me wrong?
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Now past true? So turning the pitch here, let's get
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  Speaker 1: to the Mike Tomlin story. Mike Tomlin was asked about
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  Speaker 1: his future. He tap danced around that. He was also
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  Speaker 1: asked about his message to the fans. His message of
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  Speaker 1: the fans is what Tomlin had to say regarding these
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  Speaker 1: Steelers embarrassment in the game on Monday night.
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  Speaker 4: Again, when you don't get it done, words are cheap.
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  Speaker 4: It's about what you do or you don't do. And
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  Speaker 4: so I appreciate the question. But people talk too much
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  Speaker 4: in our business, either, do you don't.
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  Speaker 1: I think we prove on a nightly basis that words
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  Speaker 1: are cheap, and we also talk too much. I believe
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  Speaker 1: both those things are factually true. Anyway, the question is
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  Speaker 1: do the Steelers get out of the Mike Tomlin business?
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  Speaker 1: Was this it for Mike Tomlin? Is that all he wrote?
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  Speaker 1: Is that it? So there's a lot of people right
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  Speaker 1: now engagement farming. It's a business you can make some
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  Speaker 1: money in, you know, screaming Tomlin's out, This is it.
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  Speaker 1: He's done. Fire Tomlin. You know, shop, go out and
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  Speaker 1: shop for the mystery box. It's like on a game show,
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  Speaker 1: do you want door number one, door number two, door
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  Speaker 1: number three? Every every door has a clown behind it,
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  Speaker 1: So do you want to hire a clown? Well, come in,
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  Speaker 1: it's the it's the circus. Yeah. So Mike Tomlin, last
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  Speaker 1: I checked, is a known commodity. He's a touchstone in
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  Speaker 1: the coaching world. He's been dependable and reliable. And think
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  Speaker 1: of it like this. You have to have an operation.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is a surgeon. He's a surgeon that has
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  Speaker 1: study hands. Your other options are some guy that watched
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  Speaker 1: a YouTube tutorial and has a rusty scalpel. Are you
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  Speaker 1: going to pick the depend surgeon? Are you going to
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  Speaker 1: pick the rusty scalpel scalpel guy that has really good YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: What are you gonna pick? So? And now some others
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  Speaker 1: want to you know, they want to lie down on
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  Speaker 1: the operating table. They're the ones that say, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just cut me open. It's insanity. And like, listen, I've
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  Speaker 1: fired Tomlin multiple times over the years, but at this point,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like looking at the field, looking at the card.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't get rid of Tomlin. That would be insanity,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely insanity. He's never had a losing season. The fact
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  Speaker 1: that that team, the way they played in the Money
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  Speaker 1: Night game, was able to win as many games as
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  Speaker 1: they did ten wins during the regular season, as a
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  Speaker 1: testimonial to good coaching. That's coaching guys up. That roster
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  Speaker 1: is not very good, and Tomlin coached that team up.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're looking for. You looking for a guy
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  Speaker 1: that coaches players up, and Tomlin appears to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do that still. And so you look at the
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  Speaker 1: the years he's been there, in the success of making
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs and all that stuff. That's institutional excellence is
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  Speaker 1: what it is here. It's big mac level of consistency.
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  Speaker 1: Like you go to eat a big man in any
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  Speaker 1: part of the world, that's going to taste pretty much
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  Speaker 1: the same because that's the consistency of the Golden Arches. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin's teams during the regular season always win nine,
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  Speaker 1: ten eleven games, even when they have washed up players,
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  Speaker 1: they still find a way to get that done. So, yeah, dude,
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers want to go out and do coaching roulette.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you want to do that? Why why would
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  Speaker 1: you want that? You don't need to you don't need
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  Speaker 1: to spin the wheel and all that stuff. And you've
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  Speaker 1: got a reliable option. Now, the malarods are not zero
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  Speaker 1: that Tomlin's out. The malarods are. I crunch the numbers here.
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  Speaker 1: It's a two fifty. It's a two, which it's like
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  Speaker 1: a two fifty hitter twenty five percent. Two fifty hitter
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  Speaker 1: is the is the number you don't designate for assignment
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  Speaker 1: A two fifty hitter, especially when your farm system is
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  Speaker 1: full of scarecrows. You don't worry about that. And again
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  Speaker 1: I go back to the whole mystery prize thing and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. It's like Tomlin is fifty three in
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  Speaker 1: that profession. When you're a coach, you're not that old.
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  Speaker 1: He could go another fifteen years, another fifteen years as
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  Speaker 1: a coach. He's still got the fire in his belly.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're Tomlin, why would you leave? You can
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  Speaker 1: go do TV and replace herb Street or Tony Romo
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  Speaker 1: and make a lot of money for a couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: but eventually you're gonna still want to come back and coach.
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  Speaker 1: The only one that's really never done that has been
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  Speaker 1: Bill Kawer, and he continues to haunt us on television
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  Speaker 1: week after week with boring TV. But Tomlin think he'd
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  Speaker 1: be good. You never know, though. I always thought Tony
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Goose of the late Tony Sarah Gouosu would be
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  Speaker 1: amazing on television. He sucked, but nice guy, just bad
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  Speaker 1: on TV. All right, our last thing to the Houston
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  Speaker 1: side of things, quick, right, all right, to the Houston
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  Speaker 1: side of things. So everyone's all excited now the Texans
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  Speaker 1: are going to go win the Super Bowl because they
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  Speaker 1: blew out the Pittsburgh Steelers in Monday night. Is that
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  Speaker 1: how that works?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Of course not, of course not. I'm not getting worked
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: up into a lather by the final score of this game,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: because I saw the game. It was seven to six
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: going to the fourth quarter, so one point game, A
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: one point game. Going to the fourth quarter. The Steelers
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: then imploded and Aaron Rodgers decided he was done there
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: and that was it. But the bigger issue to me
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: going forward for the Texans is they get ready for
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the Patriots next week? Is the quarterback play in Houston?
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: So the question was c. J. Stroud a liability or
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: an asset for the Texans? Considering they won in a blowout.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Most who didn't pay attention would say, well, he was clearly,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: clearly an asset. He wasn't a liability. What are you
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: talking about. Well, the scales of football justice, the scales
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: of football justice tilting towards dead weight dead weight, and
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: that was not quarterback greatness obviously, was it. I mean,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: nobody was saying that he played great. But this was
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: like walking in walking through the ocean, or walking swimming
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: through the ocean, and you drop an anchor somewhere out
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the golf there and you drag
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the yacht down into the bottom. I guess we'll go
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Galvinston Bay because it's close to Houston. Whatever. So, but
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: when your defense is that good and the defense is
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: getting embellished because of the final score, when your defense
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: is that good, all you have to do is drive
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the bus and don't crash it into the waffle house.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: And instead CJ. Stroud's out there juggling chainsauce, juggling chainsaws
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: for much of this game. He had five fumbles. The
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Texas won in a blowout and ce J. Stroud had
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: five fumbles, he lost two of them, he threw an interception,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: He did all of that. He did everything he could
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to lose the game. And the Steelers are so bad.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers said no, no, no, let us go Chernobyle.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: So we'll go Chernoble there and they did two defensive
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: touchdowns by the Texans, one of them just a gift
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: by Aaron Rodgers. And so it was a coin flip
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: going to the fourth quarter, which should give the Patriots
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: some optimism going forward. Here. CJ. Stroud was a live
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: grenade in this game. The pin was half pulled on
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the live grenade. The Texans defense had to grab it
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and throw it out the window before it went tob boom.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: And the Texans won in spite of their quarterback. And
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of this with CJ. Stroud in
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, where he hasn't looked all that good and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: He's another one of these younger quarterbacks that just doesn't
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: seem to have it in the playoffs, it would appear.
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• 23:35
  Speaker 1: post mortem on the playoff dud heard around the pigskin world,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: around the pigskin world, Justin Herbert, who twisted himself into
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: a soft pretzel in that loss to the Patriots in
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the game on Sunday night. Now, if you've not heard
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the latest on this, it's quite good. It's quite entertaining.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: So after being bashed for the flop roo, the whoopsie
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: whoop see performance, there there was a groundswell of support
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: saying it's not fair, it's not fair to put it
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: all on Justin Herbert. In fact, he really didn't play
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: that bad. Some have said the jocksniffers riding in like
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: knights and shining armors and saving overrated quarterback in distress,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and the offensive line failed Justin Herbert. That's the most
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: popular one. That's the most popular. Well, it's the offensive
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: line's fault, dummy. No quarterback could have had success against
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the New England defense running for their lives lives, all right.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: So now that is a good jumping off point. Let
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Does Justin Herbert get a playoff
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: pardon for that stink bomb because of the Chargers offensive line.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: So I've got mythbuster's house cat and jumbo sized, and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together, and we
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: are going to connect this like ABC and one two three,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and we'll lock it all together. So number one, number one,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: number one number alright. So the Justin Herbert fanboys, I
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: love bearying fanboys. So the Justin Herbert fanboys are writing
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the excuse caboose chub, Yeah, the excuse caboose, and they're
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: yelling bad offensive line, Blame the fat people. It's the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: fatti's fault. Blame the fat people. That's what they're yelling,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: all right. So that's that's their move, that's their move,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: blame the offensive line. Meanwhile, Justin Herbert standing back there
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: getting a shoulder massage and seeing ghosts in the pocket
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: against the New Zeland Patriots. Now, the numbers don't lie.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: The numbers don't lie, and they don't look good for
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. He committed football malpractice on national television. So
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I would like to play MythBusters. I used to watch
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that show. I don't think is it not anymore? I
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: don't think it's not anymore. But this should call myth Buck MythBusters,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: and I liked it. I thought it was a good show.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: So we will now using the myth Buck myth Busters mythology.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: If I could talk that the myth Busters mythology, we
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: are going to harpoon popular opinion. What is the popular
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: opinion blaming the offensive line? That is the popular opinion,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: So the eyeballs. I was watching the game, it was like, well,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: it's not the offensive line's fault, not in that game,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: not the offensive line's fault. And the numbers back that up.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: The numbers don't lie, not in this case. They don't lie.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: The numbers tell you what happens. So is it true
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: MythBusters style? Is it true that Justin Herbert's average time
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to throw average time to throw versus the Patriots was
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: three point four to three seconds, according to the nerds
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: at Pro Football Focus. Is it also true that that
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: is the highest number of seconds available to Justin Herbert
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: in his entire career. Is that also true? Yeah, not
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: in my head. I'm not in my head. Yes. So
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: he had more time in this game than he's ever
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: had in his entire career, and he literally urinated down
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: his leg and people, this is how great it is
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: when you're an athlete. The fanboys, the jock sniffers and
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: all that, they got their knee pads out. Faults thoughts, fault,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Well it was his fault. No, it's not his fault.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: It was wild. It was wild. So again, it turns
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: out that the charges offensive line, that ragtag offensive line,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: much maligned, gave Justin Herbert a king size mattress and
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: a mint, one of those little mints on the pill. Hello,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: and he still woke up screaming and he was having
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: night tremors. Justin Herbert embarrassing, new level of embarrassment. But
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: this is a liberty valance situation. When the legend becomes
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the fact, you go with the legends. The legend is
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert's good offensive line is bad. So that's the legend,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: even though that's not what happened in this game. The
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: man who shot liberty valence takes over. When the legend
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: becomes the fact, you go with the legend. So this
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: is the legend. Most of this game, Justin Herbert had
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: plenty of time. He just stood there like he was
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: waiting for a bus, and the bus never showed up,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: and like, what the hell, where's the bus? And it
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: wasn't some kind of Mike Rabel wizardry that took place here.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: It was just Justin Herbert's self sabotaging the Charges offense
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: in this game, and the Patriots they didn't do anything exotic,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and Herbert still got short circuited in this game. The
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: internal wiring is messed up. You gotta futs around with
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the wires and all that. From the one to eleven
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: mark of the second quarter to the five to thirty
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: nine mark of the fourth quarter. So the pretty much
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: all of the second quarter except for a minute and eleven,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and then the entire third quarter and a good chunk
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter, the Chargers offense with Justin Herbert
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: did not record a single passing yard. That's twenty five
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: minutes and thirty two seconds of game time with no
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: passing yards. And that's your two hundred and sixty two
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: million dollar quarterback. Now, based on the postseason play the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: resume of Justin Herbert. You are judged by the body
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: of your work. Justin Herbert does not have that dog
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: get him or no, no, no, And we mentioned this.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: He's more of a dog with fleas if anything. Here scratching,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: nervous and running in circus. Now, the evidence is in
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the three playoff games. Each one has been a different
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: kind of suck. You know how those like different flavors
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of suck. Well, the first playoff game, Justin Herbert blew
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: a twenty seven nothing lead to Jacksonville. And that lead
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: was not because of Justin Herbert. That lead was because
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: of the incompetence of Trevor Lawrence. But still Herbert did
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: nothing in the second half and as the reason the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Chargers lost that game. Then threw four interceptions, four of
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: them in a playoff loss to the Texans, and now
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: puts up three points, three lonely points against the New
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: England Patriots, heartburn City for the Chargers and their fans.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: They bet on the wrong horse, and that's it. Justin
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Herbert's gonna be indicted based on this performance. Now, page two,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: continuing the theme of the hour at least at the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: beginning here. So question now is what should Jim Harbaugh
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and the Chargers do with Justin Herbert? They know that
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: he's not the man. You can't be the man when
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you're not the man, and he's not the man, So
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: what do you do with him? So I have an
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: unhinged thought I would like to share with the class,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna workshop this right now. Here's my move.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: If I'm the Chargers and I activate the Mather think take.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: If I'm the Chargers, what I do is I make
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: a There used to be the things called long distant
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: phone calls. So I make a phone call to the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: state of Ohio and I call Cincinnati, and I say, listen,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: let's make a deal. You got a problem at quarterback.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: We got a problem at quarterback. Let's do it Justin
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Herbert for Joe Burrow, who says, no, Herbert can go
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and get all you can eat Skyline chili and stare
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: lonely at the Ohio River. And Joe Burrow gets to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: go out to la and live in the hood in
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Inglewood and get some sunscreen there and get a surfboard
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: and go Cowabunger dude, and all that and Joe Burrow,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: who famously dragged a cardboard box offensive line to the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: AFC championship in the Super Bowl a few years ago,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: losing to the LA Rams, a better team in that game.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: But Justin Herbert, he needs a silk pillow and a
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: lullaby if anything goes wrong. It's a It's a bit
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: like Jim Harbaugh did not come back to the NFL
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: and picked the Charger job to coach Garfield the cat
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: he did. He came back. He wants to hunt down
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the Tigers and the Lions and all and winning Lombardy.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Suppose he win a Lombard. And right now, right now
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, Justin Herbert looks like a declaude house cat,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: not exactly a Tiger, a declaude house cat. And it's
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: just stuck outside and it's raining, and just a big message.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: And Jim Harbaugh has had two years now, two years
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to work with Justin Herbert and to unlock Justin Herbert
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and to fix him. And Herbert is measurably worse now
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: in playoff games than he was before Jim Harbaugh got there.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: So go full Ninja. My advice the Malard think tank,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: You go full ninja, get a burner, phone back alley
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: if you have to trench coat in the rain, the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: whole thing. Call Cincinnati, go to a speak easy if
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: you have to dial up the Bengals first, and just say,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: let's get this thing done. Justin Herbert for Joe Burrow,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: old fashioned football trade, no crypto, no emojis. That's it.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: And we know Burrow has been pouting. He wants to
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: be happy. He wasn't happy in Cincinnati. Was bitching about that.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: The guy you know, richer than rich, he's complaining. And
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Herbert is just completely discombobulated with the Chargers in these
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: playoff games. And he's just just a mess all right now.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Final point to the playoff injury tent. Injury update, injury
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: update the Rams head coach Sean McVay. Do you see this,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: So Sean McVay revealed that quarterback Matthew Stafford is out
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: for the playoffs. No, that's a lie. No, Stafford is
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: good to go. Those are the words, good to go.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: And the will play in the divisional round of the
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: playoffs in Chicago after suffering a sprained index finger, and
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: he looked fine on that heroic final drive, which everyone
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: impressed the most impressive drive of the NFL playoffs, Matthew Stafford,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: with the season on the line, matriculating the ball down
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the field and get it done. So the question on
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: this one on the scale of believability. On the scale
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: of believability, how confident are you in the mangold finger
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: of rams quarterback Matthew Stafford. So on the Malor scale
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: of confidence, the Mallor scale of compass one to ten
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: with ten b gear on teet gear on teet. All right,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: so Matthew Stafford busted index finger. I am at a six.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: So it's not pristine, it's not terminal. It's kind of
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: like sometimes you're driving down the highway and a rock
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: or something will hit your windshield. There's a little crack
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: in your windshield. Well, you keep driving the car because
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: it's a little crack, and you drive it. And then
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: every time you hit a bomb or something else flies
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: up in the road or you flinch a little bit
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: and you're like, well, I hope that doesn't break it more.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay saying, good to go, GTG. Good to go.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: That is football's version of just put some glue on it,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: rub some dirt on it, and we're good to go,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and it holds until it doesn't, until it doesn't. So
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: this is a sneaky good situation for Matthew Stafford. And
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: let me tell you why that's sprained index finger. I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: guarantee you will be highlighted on the TV broadcast this weekend.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And it is a jumboo jumbo sized monopoly get out
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: of jail free card. Let me tell you why. If
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Stafford goes out into Chicago and turns Lake Michigan into
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: a vomit repository, just a big lake of vomit, then
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: he just flashes his finger. Postgame, he just holds the
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: finger up literally and says, hey, it was injured. That
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: is the golden parachute. It is. It just shrug a
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: little bit and you say, hey, let me point to
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: my booboo. Here's my boo boo, and there you go. Now,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: back in August, if you've been listening to the show,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: you know that we did many a mall of monologue
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: about Matthew Stafford's messed up back and the weird exotic
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: treatments that Stafford was getting. He wasn't practicing with the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: ram we were doing endless Mallard monologues that sounded a
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: lot like obituaries. And we were giving eulogies to Matthew Stafford.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: We were polishing up Jimmy Garoppolo's nameplate, getting ready for
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: him to play quarterback. And then Stafford clearly was hanging
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: out with Ponstevion and he's about to win the most
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Valuable Player award in the NFL. And the Bears fans
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: now they're convinced that Stafford's going to turn into a
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Nestley's drumstick in the cold weather there in Chicago. Of course,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: well that's possible. Remember that Caleb Williams not exactly a
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: macho macho man. He did also spend a couple of
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: years in SoCal at usc and Williams the nail polish
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that he wears could conceivably freeze at Soldier Field. I
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: know Trees worried about that. And then if his nail
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: polish freezes, then he's going to start fumbling, and that's
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: a problem. And listen, the Rams going into this game
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: have a better coach, they have better receivers, they have
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a better quarterback, they have more talent on both sides
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: of the ball, and I don't really know about big
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: game DNA. I don't really pay attention to that stuff
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: because that doesn't really matter. However, Matthew Stafford's finger well,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: wobble wobble wobble. It might wobble wobble wobble. The team
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: should still be able to win the game? Is are
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: they going to cover the squab? But they are favored.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: The reason they're favorites because they're the better team. The
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  Speaker 1: better team is favorite. The Rams are the better team
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  Speaker 1: according to the oddsmakers in Vegas, not the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 1: It's mallar, how about that?
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  Speaker 2: To the third degree?
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  Speaker 1: This is one big Ben gets grill who doll loop.
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  Speaker 5: Mike McDaniel is out in Miami, but he already has
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: a number of interviews lined up, including Cleveland, Baltimore, and Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think he'll actually land another head coaching job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's not enough candidates, and from what I understand it,
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  Speaker 1: he's very loquacious. So it's amusing because he sounds terrible
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  Speaker 1: when he talks to the media. However, he's a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a schmoozer. He's likable in person, he's got a
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: magnetic personality and that all that stuff. And he did
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: work in Cleveland as an assistant coach years ago, So
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: there is a connection with the Browns. So I'm gonna
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: say the Browns are the job that he's gonna be.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine the Ravens are gonna hire him, or
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: even Atlanta, but the Browns I can see that.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Next, speaking of the coaching carousel, there are a number
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: of current coordinators set to interview for the big chair.
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  Speaker 5: Are there any that you think are a lock to
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  Speaker 5: get a head coach in the job?
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: So, first of all, just based on watching NFL games
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: and seeing how much the broadcasters slobber all over certain
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: assistant coaches, Robert Salah. Every time I watch a forty
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: nine er game, you'd think Robert sala cured cancer the
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: way he's talked about on these broadcasts. And if you
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: were watching the I don't know if you saw the
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: game with the Steelers coup on Monday night, but Troy
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Aikman and Joe Buck were ball washing Nick Kayley, the
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Texans offensive coordinator, in the first half, which seemed very
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: odd to me. Because the Texans offense doesn't seem that good,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: but they kept talking about him, all right.
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: Next, the number two ranked wide receiver in the transfer
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: portal is cam Coleman, and on Sunday he committed to
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: the Texas Longhorns. Do you think his presence will help
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: arch Manning get back into the projected number one draft pick?
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't matter. As long as arch Manning plays
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  Speaker 1: pretty well, he'll be the number one thing because of
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  Speaker 1: his name? Cool, it does, It's all that matters.
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  Speaker 2: How did we go?
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: You passed a session?
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Say? Wait, I won the game. I have a winner.
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  Speaker 2: I won the game, won the game.
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  Speaker 1: I won the game.
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  Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
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  Speaker 6: Not?
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, it's timing out for Mallers
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: mounta of Mike. I probably would plug the computer and
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: it's gonna die here. I think I can find it.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Let's play the game. Hold on a sec. We'll play
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  Speaker 1: the game. Let's welcome in our this thing is about
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  Speaker 1: to die. Let's say hello to who do we have?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: We've got Jed who fled? Who's in the redneck Riviera
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  Speaker 1: in Florida? Hello, Jed who fled? Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a plug too, but I think it's a
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: different kind of plug.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Whatever you do in your personal business is your business.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I don't mind. All right, who do you? Who do
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: you want to partner j just.
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  Speaker 2: Cooper, dude, the guy who knows what plug is?
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: And we have Eli from Fresnel or we sued to
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: work with a guy named Eddie. That's from President. What's
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: going on? Eli? Welcome?
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: What's going on?
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Sounds excited to be here?
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: Eli?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely as I am.
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  Speaker 3: I alive.
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  Speaker 1: It is good to be alive. I'm pretty sure it
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  Speaker 1: beats the alternative, but who knows, maybe the al is better.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, anyway, here we go, Eli. You're gonna play
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: the game. You're gonna partner up with who do you want?
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: You want the loreno or me? Oh?
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: I want a winner.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: Let's do it.
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: Ben.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna say Loraino, I'm sorry, Lorraine. No
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: one ever picture for this game, and I'm a loser.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: It's fine.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Well, let's play the game. What are the categories here? Please?
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: All right, gentlemen, this was supposed to be the Orlando
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: Bloom Edition, but due to technical difficulties, we're doing the
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: Howards Turn Edition.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: No, it's because I got called woke, So Howard's woke.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: That's right? Okay, yeah, good point.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: He turned seventy two years old yesterday. The categories are Baba, Booie,
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: Robin quivers stuttering, John, and private parts.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Jed? Which category would you like?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Gary?
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: Goa say, if you're gonna be bad, be grateful?
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Bob and Booie?
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: All right? And Eli, how about you? What category would
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: you like?
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry you cut out when you were naming them.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: I'll take the second one though.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Robin quivers Us all right?
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: You know who that is? Probably all right?
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: All right, Jed, you and I are up first.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: These athletes all had funny sounding nicknames.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: That Mike right right, Robin Us all right?
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. This guy
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: is a wide receiver. He used to be on the Steelers,
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: then he was on the Kansas City Chiefs. His first
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: name is like a candy.
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: Dude.
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: All right, that's fine. This guy has the most championships
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: of anybody in Major League Baseball. He was a catcher
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: for the Yankees. Jog be Yes, this guy wore jersey
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: number eighty five for the Bengals wide receiver. Well, I
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: hell your no, no, yes, uh yeah, Okay. This guy's
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: nickname was Boogie. He was a center for the Kings. Yes,
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: this guy was a defensive powerhouse for the Ravens.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Not Ray Lewis, but he was on the defensive line.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Peter Boy No no, uh, Swaggy p for the Lakers. Nick,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: how many.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Points is that? Ninety ninety? Chit? You gotta get back
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: on the drugs man.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: All right, Young Nick Young.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Nick Young? Okay, we're up here, Eli, Robin Quivers. These
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: were some of the best sidekicks in sports. Okay, sidekicks
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: you like you ready to go?
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: All right, forty five seconds on o'clock. We're on our
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: way and go. Michael Jordan's sidekick with the Bulls. Yes,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Karl Malone's point guard for the Utah Jazz. Yes, he
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: played with Babe Ruth in the Yankees. He said the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: all time Yes, play by play guy, you had John Madden,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: but the play by play guy was blank.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Okay. Peyton Mannings go to receiver for the Indianapolis Colts,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: plays for the Cardinals.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: For the Cardinals, Oh god, all.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Right, not god. It is Jerry Rice's other wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: for the Niners in the eighties with Joe Mont. I'm
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: in my twenties.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I don't know how you managed.
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  Speaker 3: They got sixty.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: The other one was actually uh earl. All right, we
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: gotta keep going. Hurry up. Pick a guy stuttering? John,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: are private parts, Jenny?
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Oh no, the private parts? He's at private party.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: All right. These athletes have all revealed their private parts
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: over the years. All right, forty five seconds of the clock.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Run away go the King of the Lakers.
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: The King of the Lakers.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, a tough guy for the Golden State Warriors.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: He's a forward, not Steph Curry, the other guy center,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: come on the Warriors. Yeah, he's like a forward.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: Son.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah there, all right. Quarterback for the Packers before Aaron Rodgers.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, uh, let's see picture. He was with the
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Giant this year, played for the Tigers and the cheating Astros,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: starting pitcher in baseball. Yeah, yeah, there you go. All right,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: that's good, and I think that's enough. We're out of time.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: You lose cool, you lose another seater again. That's called
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: coaching coop, that's coaching