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- 1:18Speaker 1: hour from Double Header Action in the NFL on a
- 1:24Speaker 1: Monday night, and I was debating on the game that
- 1:28Speaker 1: ended not that long ago, as we crank up the
- 1:31Speaker 1: old audio box here in Vegas, was.
- 1:35Speaker 2: A not a very good game.
- 1:36Speaker 1: And b we are being covered up by some of
- 1:41Speaker 1: our affiliates for postgame coverage.
- 1:44Speaker 2: Believe it or not. Who the hell wants to hear
- 1:46Speaker 2: that crap.
- 1:47Speaker 1: But anyway, so I'm gonna wait on that. I'm gonna
- 1:49Speaker 1: wait on that till later. That's why we have the
- 1:51Speaker 1: iHeartRadio apps. I could have if the game was good,
- 1:53Speaker 1: I would have started with it.
- 1:54Speaker 2: They're good.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Start with the good game. Why talk about the bad game.
- 1:58Speaker 1: We'll talk about the good game. So that's what I'm
- 1:59Speaker 1: gona so our lead this hour is from Houston. That
- 2:03Speaker 1: was the undercard on the Monday night football doubleheader. You
- 2:08Speaker 1: had Baker Mayfield versus C. J. Stroud. Now, I don't
- 2:13Speaker 1: know if you were watching this game or not. It
- 2:16Speaker 1: was another full six hour, seven hour period with football activity,
- 2:21Speaker 1: and maybe you did not watch it.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Our old buddy cHj.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Reeves and the Tampa Bay Buccaneer st the sidelines on
- 2:27Speaker 1: the radio there for the Bucks. So the Buccaneers and
- 2:30Speaker 1: the Texans that the match up not a lot of
- 2:33Speaker 1: wow factor in this so we watched. Don't worry, you
- 2:36Speaker 1: did not have to watch. We watched so you would
- 2:38Speaker 1: not have to watch. And the game came down to
- 2:41Speaker 1: the bitter end. It was nail biting time. The Buccaneers
- 2:45Speaker 1: got the ball. They were trailing. They needed a touchdown
- 2:48Speaker 1: down by five, and Baker Mayfield he took his Samurai
- 2:54Speaker 1: sword and he worked his way, navigated his way down
- 2:57Speaker 1: the field an.
- 2:58Speaker 2: Eleven play eighty yard.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Drive capped off by a Rashad White two yard touchdown
- 3:05Speaker 1: run with just six seconds. That's it, six seconds to go,
- 3:09Speaker 1: and Tampa Bay said.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Turn out the last.
- 3:14Speaker 1: The parties over on the Texans who are oh to
- 3:17Speaker 1: two and have a chance to go owen seventeen. They
- 3:21Speaker 1: have a chance to lose every game this year. Tampa
- 3:25Speaker 1: Bay did go for two, they didn't get it, so
- 3:26Speaker 1: they end up winning game twenty to nineteen. The final
- 3:30Speaker 1: score Baker Mayfield not a sexy stat line. He only
- 3:33Speaker 1: had two hundred fifteen yards passing, did have a couple
- 3:36Speaker 1: of touchdowns, But the Buccaneers, who also won in the
- 3:39Speaker 1: final seconds thanks to the idiot kicker for the Atlanta
- 3:42Speaker 1: Falcons in Week one. So the Buccaneers now off to
- 3:45Speaker 1: the two and zero start and Baker Mayfield also had
- 3:49Speaker 1: a couple of big plays with his legt fifteen yard
- 3:51Speaker 1: scramble on a fourth and ten to keep the game
- 3:55Speaker 1: winning drive alive and they end up going on to
- 3:58Speaker 1: win the game. But the better story is in the
- 4:00Speaker 1: losing locker room. The Houston Sexans are off to the
- 4:02Speaker 1: zero to two start. Pee yeut what stick? So they
- 4:05Speaker 1: are five point leaders. We said it was nineteen fourteen.
- 4:09Speaker 1: Offense was lacking nineteen fourteen. They led because of they
- 4:14Speaker 1: couldn't run the ball all night until the end of
- 4:16Speaker 1: it when Nick Chubb.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Chubb a love love the old Cleveland round.
- 4:20Speaker 1: He sucks now, but he had a twenty five yard
- 4:23Speaker 1: run and it looked like he was gonna be the hero.
- 4:25Speaker 2: There were two ten to go in the game. Houston
- 4:28Speaker 2: goes for two. CJ.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Stroud, though, was sacked and that was the theme of
- 4:32Speaker 1: the night. Stroud threw for just two hundred seven yards
- 4:35Speaker 1: and a touchdown, and after the first couple of times
- 4:39Speaker 1: Houston had the ball, it was downhill, way downhill, and
- 4:45Speaker 1: failed to move the offense efficiently effectively.
- 4:48Speaker 2: For the balance of the game.
- 4:49Speaker 1: It was a snooze fest in the second half for
- 4:53Speaker 1: the Houston Texans who have some questions that must be
- 4:57Speaker 1: answered now, cause that was not could now I got
- 5:02Speaker 1: no skin in the game on this, but that was
- 5:04Speaker 1: not good at all. All Right, well, here's let's hear
- 5:07Speaker 1: from CJ. Stroud, the Texans quarterback. Then we'll slice and
- 5:11Speaker 1: dice mister Stroud.
- 5:12Speaker 2: But here's c J.
- 5:13Speaker 1: Stroud explaining that things offensively for Houston are not let's
- 5:18Speaker 1: cut to.
- 5:18Speaker 2: By the way, things are not going all that well.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Take a listen.
- 5:21Speaker 3: I think right now we need more confidences as an offense,
- 5:24Speaker 3: at least, just confident playing better together. I think that's
- 5:28Speaker 3: a big thing. We're all we haven't played together a
- 5:29Speaker 3: lot of us. So the more confidence that we build,
- 5:32Speaker 3: I think the better that we'll be.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Off Okay, so that was a whole lot of enoughing,
- 5:36Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question how are things looking
- 5:39Speaker 1: for the Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud two games in to
- 5:44Speaker 1: the seventeen game season here in twenty twenty five.
- 5:47Speaker 2: So my thoughts on this.
- 5:48Speaker 1: I've got YouTube, kidny table, and water supply, and we
- 5:53Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
- 5:56Speaker 1: going to make some tex mechs, which is likely better
- 5:59Speaker 1: than the Texans offense at this particular point, they she
- 6:02Speaker 1: just put a container of tex mechs under center and
- 6:05Speaker 1: that would actually be better. But hey, listen, the Texans
- 6:08Speaker 1: fans thought they were getting a bounce back season. The
- 6:11Speaker 1: assumption was, hey, we're getting a bounce back season the
- 6:13Speaker 1: year CJ. Stroud was really good when he came into
- 6:17Speaker 1: the NFL. Some said, well, beginner's luck. And then he
- 6:19Speaker 1: fell off a mountain, And of course I was the
- 6:23Speaker 1: bad guy. Not to make this all about me, but
- 6:26Speaker 1: I pointed out c J. Stroud not very good, and
- 6:29Speaker 1: then I got a lot of crap from the seven
- 6:32Speaker 1: Texans fans that exist.
- 6:33Speaker 2: In the world.
- 6:33Speaker 1: Well, you don't know what you're talking about. That's why
- 6:35Speaker 1: you're doing overrights. Okay, well let's see what we've got
- 6:38Speaker 1: right now. There's supposed to be a bounce back season.
- 6:40Speaker 1: You told me, you told me bounce back season for CJ.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Stroud.
- 6:44Speaker 1: You told me that two games in again, good as
- 6:48Speaker 1: a rookie, bad second year player, c J. Stroud. So
- 6:51Speaker 1: here we owe two games in year three and c J.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Stroud does he not look a lot like Zach Wilson.
- 6:59Speaker 1: That's not a compliment, not a compliment based on what
- 7:02Speaker 1: we have seen. We have a show to do today, right,
- 7:05Speaker 1: we have a showed tonight overnight. But based on that
- 7:07Speaker 1: what we have seen, do you believe in CJ.
- 7:10Speaker 2: Stroud?
- 7:12Speaker 1: Do be honest, don't lie to me. He's gone from
- 7:16Speaker 1: hotshot rookie to what's wrong with this guy? To now
- 7:20Speaker 1: the invisible man. The invisible man a pathetic performance, much
- 7:25Speaker 1: like he played against the Rams in the opener. Was
- 7:28Speaker 1: bad in that game and CJ. Stroud supposed to be
- 7:30Speaker 1: the alpha dog. Alpha dog didn't look like it looked
- 7:35Speaker 1: like a chihuahua. A lot of yappin, you know, tack
- 7:39Speaker 1: the mailman, all bark, no bite, a lot of that.
- 7:43Speaker 1: And it's like a cryptos stock, but not a good one.
- 7:47Speaker 1: It's like, hey, one of your friends convinces you buy
- 7:50Speaker 1: some cryptos.
- 7:50Speaker 2: I didn't really want to do that.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Well you need to buy okyw buy some I got
- 7:53Speaker 1: this great one, right, So you thought you were buying
- 7:56Speaker 1: through the Texas. You're like, oh, we got some bitcoin, right,
- 7:58Speaker 1: that's to the moon and that you got doge coin.
- 8:01Speaker 2: That's what you got. Congratulations.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Yeah, Pump and dump, pump and dump, that's how it goes.
- 8:07Speaker 2: But a few of you knuckleheads. You know who you are.
- 8:11Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about mister irrigation because mister Irrigation's
- 8:14Speaker 1: already had enough of c J. Stroud based on some
- 8:17Speaker 1: comments that he posted on social media. But the other fanboys,
- 8:20Speaker 1: you'll give him time. It's not his fall. He doesn't
- 8:24Speaker 1: have a great offensive a line, give him protection, all
- 8:28Speaker 1: that crap.
- 8:28Speaker 2: Okay, so CJ.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Stroud stinks, you're telling me unless he has a great
- 8:34Speaker 1: offensive line and great playmakers and everything's perfect around him, Okay,
- 8:39Speaker 1: then he's not very good. You're admitting he's not very good,
- 8:41Speaker 1: because anyone will have success if they have a great
- 8:44Speaker 1: offensive line. Anyone will have success if they have a
- 8:46Speaker 1: great offensive line and great playmakers and all that stuff.
- 8:50Speaker 1: All so Dimiko Ryans can spin this and say all
- 8:53Speaker 1: he wants and the other people in Houston about it's
- 8:55Speaker 1: not CJ. Stroud's fault all this, and it's this guy
- 8:59Speaker 1: dropped a pass, so this guy didn't block, and it's
- 9:01Speaker 1: all that. But it's like the Irish rock band you
- 9:05Speaker 1: two and their classic tune. Guy's been over twenty years. Elevation, right,
- 9:10Speaker 1: you got to elevate the elite guys make it work.
- 9:13Speaker 1: They find a way to make it work no matter what,
- 9:15Speaker 1: they elevate those around him. That's the job description for
- 9:18Speaker 1: a top level quarterback.
- 9:19Speaker 4: Now, c J.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Strodd, you says average, Okay, he's average, fine, dime A.
- 9:23Speaker 2: Doesn't average, average, not elite. Elite makes it work. And CJ.
- 9:29Speaker 1: Strodd looks like he's floating on a dinghy out in
- 9:33Speaker 1: the Gulf of Mexico somewhere goulf America. What do you
- 9:35Speaker 1: wanna call it? Two games in, I don't see a
- 9:39Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. I don't see it. I see a jag
- 9:44Speaker 1: if you want to call him that, right, just a
- 9:45Speaker 1: guy and nothing spectacular. This keeps up.
- 9:48Speaker 2: CJ.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Stroud's not leading Houston anywhere except back to the quarterback quandary.
- 9:55Speaker 1: And he'll get coaches fired, whether it's the head coach,
- 9:58Speaker 1: Demko Ryans or the offensive coaching staff, and they'll be
- 10:01Speaker 1: we gotta fix this guy, so we got to change coaches.
- 10:04Speaker 1: He'll be a coach killer. That's what happens. Play like that,
- 10:07Speaker 1: you get your coach fired. Somebody's getting fired. Now, speaking
- 10:10Speaker 1: of the coach, well, we've got Demiko Ryans, who is
- 10:14Speaker 1: also feeling the raft of c. J. Stroud here's a
- 10:18Speaker 1: Demiko Ryan's pointing out, as far as this game on Monday, now,
- 10:21Speaker 1: you will when you have a chance to finish things
- 10:23Speaker 1: you might want to do that take a listen.
- 10:25Speaker 5: You let a good team like this stick around for
- 10:27Speaker 5: too long is what we did, and they ended up
- 10:30Speaker 5: making a play there Baker scrambling going fourth down, which
- 10:33Speaker 5: we knew. That's that's who he is, That's how he
- 10:36Speaker 5: make the plays of scrambling. He made a big time
- 10:38Speaker 5: play on fourth and ten. You know, we got to
- 10:40Speaker 5: find a way to tackle and get him down and
- 10:42Speaker 5: stop him there. Even on the goal line, we're in
- 10:44Speaker 5: position to make a tackle. We got the guy back
- 10:46Speaker 5: and make a tackle to win the game. That's what
- 10:49Speaker 5: the game comes down to. We had multiple opportunities to
- 10:52Speaker 5: win that game, and we didn't make the plays we
- 10:54Speaker 5: needed to make.
- 10:55Speaker 1: So he didn't name anyone specifically. It was a more
- 10:59Speaker 1: of a collect suck that an individual sucks.
- 11:01Speaker 2: So yeah, name everybody.
- 11:02Speaker 1: But here's the question, are there any positives? Are there
- 11:06Speaker 1: any positives for Texans coach Demiko Ryans based on the
- 11:11Speaker 1: Monday night game now Houston, Oh and two. So I
- 11:14Speaker 1: watched the entire game because I'm getting paid to watch it,
- 11:18Speaker 1: otherwise I probably wouldn't.
- 11:19Speaker 2: I did watch it, and so I saw.
- 11:23Speaker 1: Here's what I saw in terms of positive zero, n a, zilch, none, bumpkus.
- 11:31Speaker 1: That's what I saw, right. I can't find one positive
- 11:35Speaker 1: from the game itself. I cannot do it, not one positive.
- 11:38Speaker 1: Jmiico Ryans was brought in as a defensive mastermind check
- 11:42Speaker 1: right came over from the forty nine ers, and that's
- 11:46Speaker 1: his calling card. That's what he's known for. Meat and
- 11:49Speaker 1: potatoes all that. And this game came down to what
- 11:54Speaker 1: came down to defense. Came down to defense. Texans had
- 11:58Speaker 1: a five point lead. The other team has to score
- 12:00Speaker 1: a touchdown to beat you. All you need is a
- 12:03Speaker 1: defensive stand. And the Texans defense did they make the plays?
- 12:07Speaker 2: Obviously not.
- 12:08Speaker 1: They lost the game game on the line, Tampa matriculating
- 12:12Speaker 1: the ball down the field, and that Texans defense melting
- 12:16Speaker 1: faster than a KitKat that you leave on your dashboard
- 12:21Speaker 1: in August. You ever done that or September for that
- 12:24Speaker 1: missed the lot here right right, man, I don't know.
- 12:27Speaker 1: The KitKat gets all gooy, it kind of folds together.
- 12:31Speaker 1: To me, that melts more than any of some people
- 12:33Speaker 1: say Hershey's bar that that melts, But to me, it's
- 12:36Speaker 1: the kitcat like that. I've always had bad experiences with
- 12:39Speaker 1: melted KitKat. And that was the Texans defense late in
- 12:43Speaker 1: the game. You're at home, you're a slight favorite, you
- 12:46Speaker 1: lost Week one, so you got to come back here
- 12:49Speaker 1: and you gag demoralizing capital d for the Houston Texans
- 12:54Speaker 1: there and if you're the defensive guru, Dimiko Ryans, as
- 12:59Speaker 1: he said, you gotta finish the game. I'm not attacking,
- 13:02Speaker 1: and that's where he says his own words, you got
- 13:04Speaker 1: to finish the game. And instead they allowed Baker Mayfield
- 13:07Speaker 1: to convert on that fourth and ten and essentially Baker
- 13:12Speaker 1: punked them, which is embarrassing for the Texans defense, which
- 13:15Speaker 1: I played pretty well. Now there is a twisted silver lining,
- 13:19Speaker 1: so I will be Benny Bright's side. I am going
- 13:21Speaker 1: to be Benny Bright said on this one because pee.
- 13:25Speaker 2: Yeah, what stinks?
- 13:28Speaker 1: That would be the division the Texans find themselves in.
- 13:31Speaker 1: So despite being ozering two. The good thing about sitting
- 13:36Speaker 1: at the kiddy table in the NFL, when you're owing
- 13:39Speaker 1: to you're still very much alive.
- 13:41Speaker 2: The division stinks.
- 13:42Speaker 1: Jacksonville for Gayzy, right, They got the coach and the
- 13:46Speaker 1: quarterback fighting with each other. More on that later, Tennessee
- 13:50Speaker 1: stump bums.
- 13:52Speaker 2: I don't know, they're not even trying. It's just a
- 13:55Speaker 2: developmental year.
- 13:56Speaker 1: And maybe by the end of the year, cam Ward
- 13:57Speaker 1: will know what he's doing and they'll find a couple
- 13:59Speaker 1: offensive in and that's it. They get another top ten pick.
- 14:03Speaker 1: And then you have the Colts, which right now look amazing.
- 14:07Speaker 1: They got Daniel Jones out there two weeks in a
- 14:10Speaker 1: row painting the Mona Lisa. Haven't punted yet in the
- 14:13Speaker 1: NFL this season. The Indianapolis Colts, so that's pretty good.
- 14:17Speaker 1: I'm told didn't play, So I don't know if I
- 14:19Speaker 1: can comment on that. I'll have to check with Ryan Clark.
- 14:21Speaker 1: But give them a month. I give them a month,
- 14:23Speaker 1: Give the Colts a month there, and then that masterpiece,
- 14:26Speaker 1: methinks is, see we have this conversation by late October
- 14:32Speaker 1: about Halloween. The masterpiece will turn into a Denny's kids menu.
- 14:40Speaker 1: You know how they give you the crayons and then
- 14:42Speaker 1: the kids draw on the crayon. Yeah, like that, and
- 14:44Speaker 1: then with ketchup on it. That's what it's gonna look like.
- 14:47Speaker 1: And as so as much as the Texans are in
- 14:51Speaker 1: a bad spot right now and they are the redheaded
- 14:54Speaker 1: step Jo And that's always like the most embarrassing division
- 14:56Speaker 1: for the NFL because that team that wins that division
- 14:59Speaker 1: has to play the first that early Saturday window on
- 15:02Speaker 1: wild card weekend where they It's like in the NBA,
- 15:05Speaker 1: if the Toronto Raptors ever make the playoffs, the always
- 15:07Speaker 1: put them in that early window because they want to
- 15:09Speaker 1: hide the team they're kind of embarrassed about. They're shamed
- 15:12Speaker 1: by the team that's whoever wins that AFC South Division.
- 15:15Speaker 2: The Texans, though still mathematically very.
- 15:17Speaker 1: Much alive because the Cults are gonna lose plenty of
- 15:19Speaker 1: games and all that stuff, and one of these bad
- 15:21Speaker 1: News Bears franchises is going to make the playoffs and
- 15:25Speaker 1: they'll be cannon fodder for one of the better teams
- 15:27Speaker 1: to play. By then you know, somebody's backing into January,
- 15:32Speaker 1: into the postseason, whether they deserve.
- 15:34Speaker 2: It or not.
- 15:35Speaker 1: So there's still that So I will be Benny Brightside
- 15:37Speaker 1: in that regard. Now that the Texans look like they're
- 15:39Speaker 1: a playoff team, of course not. They're zero and too
- 15:41Speaker 1: and the offense looks completely limp at this point. We
- 15:44Speaker 1: do have advertisers will help you out on that, and
- 15:46Speaker 1: so listen, congratulations though because of location, location, location, the GPS,
- 15:51Speaker 1: the zip code, all that stuff, you're still still okay.
- 15:55Speaker 1: All right, now, last word, we go to the other
- 15:57Speaker 1: side to Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the cardiac kids off to
- 16:02Speaker 1: the two and on start now as they get it
- 16:04Speaker 1: done again. Another gutty performance by Baker Mayfield, who appears
- 16:09Speaker 1: to have that junkyard dog in him as opposed to
- 16:13Speaker 1: the other kind of dog. Uh yeah, and laying the
- 16:16Speaker 1: game down the stretch. Baker Mayfield, he looked like he
- 16:20Speaker 1: was in aerobics class out there, huffing and puffing and
- 16:24Speaker 1: bouncing around off defenders, sometimes getting stomped on by defenders,
- 16:28Speaker 1: sweating it out like he's on a StairMaster at a
- 16:30Speaker 1: gym at three in the morning doing all that and
- 16:34Speaker 1: and somehow, some way he drags Tampa across the finish
- 16:38Speaker 1: line with the help of his friends. So what stands
- 16:42Speaker 1: out about Baker Mayfield's late game heroics for the Buccaneers
- 16:47Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay football team, So I continue to be missing.
- 16:52Speaker 1: When Baker got to Tampa, I was like, well, this
- 16:54Speaker 1: is good, but it's not gonna last. And here we are.
- 16:56Speaker 1: How many years he's been there. A couple of years,
- 16:57Speaker 1: now three years, he's still going.
- 17:00Speaker 2: And so what.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Stands out about Baker Mayfield is the fact he's like
- 17:04Speaker 1: the NFL's Robert Downey Junior left for dead after Cleveland
- 17:10Speaker 1: and that experience. He was so bad in Cleveland, Baker
- 17:13Speaker 1: Mayfield's dad was used at by Baker or Odell Beckham's
- 17:18Speaker 1: dad rather, was used by the kid to get messages
- 17:23Speaker 1: out on social media so he could get away from
- 17:25Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. O'Dell Beckham wanted to get away from Baker Mayfield.
- 17:29Speaker 1: He went to Carolina garbage, went to the Rams, had
- 17:33Speaker 1: like a one night stand with the Rams. And now
- 17:35Speaker 1: he's found himself and it's he's iron Man in Tampa Bay.
- 17:39Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield's Robert Downey Junior's iron Man, and he's building
- 17:43Speaker 1: a suit out of scraps in a cave somewhere and.
- 17:46Speaker 2: It's going pretty well. It's going pretty well.
- 17:48Speaker 1: And that's Baker Mayfield in a buccaneer uniform at this
- 17:52Speaker 1: particular point, supposed to be at this time, you'd say,
- 17:54Speaker 1: based on what he did in Cleveland and Carolina, you'd
- 17:57Speaker 1: say it By this time, Baker Mayfield should have been
- 18:00Speaker 1: put on the cast of Dancing with the Stars and
- 18:04Speaker 1: doing Bad a Bad podcast like every other hack Jock
- 18:07Speaker 1: does and washed Up Jock. But instead, instead he's out
- 18:12Speaker 1: there beating a team that was in the playoffs in
- 18:15Speaker 1: the fourth quarter making plays. And so I would say,
- 18:17Speaker 1: check the water supplies what I would say, because Ponce
- 18:20Speaker 1: Deli own's fountain of youth there in Tampa. I remember
- 18:24Speaker 1: Tom Brady when he went to Tampa. Tom Brady, we
- 18:27Speaker 1: thought he was toast, he was done in New England,
- 18:31Speaker 1: and then suddenly he's chugging the avocado tequila and winning
- 18:35Speaker 1: a super Bowl in Tampa. And Baker's obviously we know
- 18:39Speaker 1: he's not Tom Brady.
- 18:40Speaker 2: We know that, we know that, we know that, we
- 18:41Speaker 2: know that, we know that, we know that, we know that,
- 18:43Speaker 2: we know that.
- 18:44Speaker 1: However, he has reinvented himself, and the reinvention vibe very similar.
- 18:49Speaker 2: There continues to be the you.
- 18:51Speaker 1: Thought I was washed. He really rides that you thought
- 18:54Speaker 1: I was washed, and think again, you think again.
- 18:58Speaker 2: It's been a total rebrand, total rebrand.
- 19:03Speaker 1: It's like our caller in Vegas, big Balls Bob. In case,
- 19:07Speaker 1: big Balls Baker getting it done there at the end
- 19:10Speaker 1: of the game there, and so good for him, good
- 19:13Speaker 1: for him right against the defense that was supposed to
- 19:17Speaker 1: be pretty good, was pretty good most of the second
- 19:20Speaker 1: half of that game until the very end there in
- 19:21Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield like an NFL cockroach and it's nuclear winter.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Doesn't matter.
- 19:26Speaker 1: He's still out there crawling around. He does that and
- 19:29Speaker 1: can't kill him and shows up and a head butt
- 19:32Speaker 1: a lineman here and do all that and knock you out. Anyway,
- 19:35Speaker 1: it is the Bang mallor show you want to come
- 19:38Speaker 1: in on that or the late Monday night game.
- 19:41Speaker 2: Let's saw the.
- 19:43Speaker 1: Chargers dominate the Raiders. How's that Gino Smith working out
- 19:48Speaker 1: for your Raider fan?
- 19:49Speaker 2: You like that? You enjoy that? Yeah? You like the
- 19:51Speaker 2: taste of that. Yeah you like down car? You do? Oh? Yeah?
- 19:54Speaker 2: You got how many more? Fifteen more games of that?
- 19:57Speaker 4: Yell me?
- 19:58Speaker 2: What did they think was going to happen when acquired
- 20:00Speaker 2: Gino Smith?
- 20:01Speaker 1: Like?
- 20:01Speaker 2: What were they expecting?
- 20:02Speaker 1: Like do you think they were getting a good quarterback?
- 20:04Speaker 1: Because he's like sucked? Like did they actually think he
- 20:07Speaker 1: would be good because he put on different laundry?
- 20:09Speaker 2: Is that where they thought? My god, is he so bad?
- 20:12Speaker 1: That's one of the great stories. They should do a
- 20:14Speaker 1: documentary how Geno Smith has started for this many years
- 20:17Speaker 1: in the NFL not being any good. It's wild like
- 20:22Speaker 1: it's it's creating a multi billion dollar business. There's such
- 20:25Speaker 1: a shortage of quarterbacks. So the guy like Baker Mayfield,
- 20:27Speaker 1: who we know is an abject failure as an NFL quarterback,
- 20:31Speaker 1: and yet he bounces around and it's like they move
- 20:33Speaker 1: him to different.
- 20:34Speaker 2: Teams and he's just bad, bad to the bone.
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- 21:53Speaker 2: So our lead this.
- 21:54Speaker 1: Hour as we continue our all night coverage of Monday
- 21:58Speaker 1: Night football. So the marketing campaign was what happens in
- 22:02Speaker 1: Vegas stays in Vegas unless it's broadcast on television. Then
- 22:07Speaker 1: other people see it. See that's the problem, and that
- 22:10Speaker 1: was the problem with the second half of the Monday
- 22:13Speaker 1: night doubleheader. The first game was not aesthetically pleasing, However,
- 22:18Speaker 1: the finish was rather dramatic. Tampa Bay down by five,
- 22:22Speaker 1: matriculated the ball down the field, Baker Mayfield completed a
- 22:25Speaker 1: fourth and ten with a fifteen yard run. They got down,
- 22:28Speaker 1: got a rushing touchdown with less than ten seconds ago.
- 22:31Speaker 2: They won the game. That's exciting.
- 22:33Speaker 1: What happened in the second half. There was just no juice.
- 22:37Speaker 1: There was no juice there.
- 22:39Speaker 2: Now.
- 22:40Speaker 1: Some of that is a credit to the Chargers who
- 22:42Speaker 1: played lockdown defense, and they also got a couple of touchdowns.
- 22:46Speaker 2: If you didn't see the game, perhaps you missed it.
- 22:49Speaker 1: I don't know what you were doing staring at the
- 22:51Speaker 1: wall watching some baseball, watching the fight and Fills beat
- 22:55Speaker 1: the Dodgers.
- 22:56Speaker 2: That hard to believe the Dodger bullpen would screw things up, huh.
- 22:59Speaker 1: Anyway, Justin Herbert passed for two hundred and forty two
- 23:02Speaker 1: yards and a couple of touchdowns and the.
- 23:05Speaker 2: Chargers they get it done.
- 23:07Speaker 1: Twenty to nine. It's like a Hollering James Special. Twenty
- 23:12Speaker 1: to nine, the final over the Raiders on Monday nights.
- 23:16Speaker 1: So the Chargers improved to two and oh, the Raiders
- 23:18Speaker 1: dropped to one and one, as LA coach Jim Harbaugh
- 23:23Speaker 1: beating his mortal enemy and his longtime enemy maybe a
- 23:28Speaker 1: Las Vegas coach Pete Carroll. They've been rivals going back
- 23:31Speaker 1: to the USC Stanford days and then the Seattle Seahawks
- 23:36Speaker 1: and the forty nine ers, and they've haven't gone against
- 23:39Speaker 1: each other on the grid iron in over a decade.
- 23:41Speaker 1: But now they have in just a few hours ago.
- 23:44Speaker 1: The win goes to the team from La. The Chargers
- 23:47Speaker 1: did lose the Mac attack Khalil Mack.
- 23:52Speaker 2: Oh, my aching elbow. Well, I'm not a doctor.
- 23:58Speaker 1: I can tell you though, that the left elbow, it
- 24:00Speaker 1: would appear as going to cause Khalil Mack to miss
- 24:03Speaker 1: an extended period of time. He left late in the
- 24:05Speaker 1: first quarter and he went to the locker room. He
- 24:07Speaker 1: did return and he had his arm in a sling.
- 24:11Speaker 1: Generally not a good sign. So let us discuss the
- 24:15Speaker 1: question what jumps out to you about the better story
- 24:21Speaker 1: in losing locker room? What jumps out to you regarding
- 24:23Speaker 1: Geno Smith and his performance for the Raiders. Now to
- 24:28Speaker 1: put in perspective just how bad I can give you
- 24:30Speaker 1: the numbers. The numbers till part of the story. Gino
- 24:33Speaker 1: Smith completed a little over fifty five percent of his
- 24:37Speaker 1: passes for one hundred and eighty yards. He averaged a
- 24:42Speaker 1: little over four yards per pass attempt and was sacked
- 24:47Speaker 1: three times. The Raiders had it on a fourth down,
- 24:51Speaker 1: needing to get the yard to gain to keep a
- 24:53Speaker 1: drive alive, keep the game alive, and Gino Smith threw
- 24:56Speaker 1: the ball away out of bounce that Gino Smith. He had.
- 25:02Speaker 2: Let me see how many touchdowns he had to see?
- 25:05Speaker 2: Is what is less than zero? Do we have that?
- 25:08Speaker 1: No touchdowns and not one, not two? Three interceptions? Again,
- 25:14Speaker 1: I didn't play in the NFL, so I don't know
- 25:16Speaker 1: if I'm qualified. Off to check with Ryan Clark, but
- 25:18Speaker 1: I think that blows. But it was a pirate there,
- 25:22Speaker 1: she blows Gino Smith.
- 25:25Speaker 2: Wow. All right, So that's what his home debut. Home
- 25:29Speaker 2: debut and one of the.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Only games the Raiders play where there's more Raider fans
- 25:33Speaker 1: than fans of the other team. There were a couple
- 25:36Speaker 1: dozen Charger fans, but mostly Raider fans right the Raiders
- 25:39Speaker 1: stadium famous for the hostile takeover. It is a destination situation.
- 25:44Speaker 1: Your team goes to Vegas, your fan base takes over
- 25:47Speaker 1: the Raider fans seats because the season ticket holders sell
- 25:51Speaker 1: the tickets because they make a killing on the secondary mark. Anyway,
- 25:54Speaker 1: So what jumps out to you about all this. I've
- 25:56Speaker 1: got fifty cent family guy and Michael Myers. We'll keep
- 26:00Speaker 1: it all in entertainment and we'll put all those ingredients together.
- 26:03Speaker 1: We're gonna make your Babushka's favorite matza ball soup is
- 26:06Speaker 1: what we're gonna do, So number wa, I said, number one.
- 26:12Speaker 1: So I have seen this act for years. I have
- 26:15Speaker 1: been to the circus. I have seen the circus acts.
- 26:19Speaker 1: It is not my first dipe. It is not, and
- 26:23Speaker 1: I chuckle. I also was a little upset because I
- 26:26Speaker 1: did take the Raiders on Benny versus the Penny. If
- 26:28Speaker 1: you saw the YouTube show this week. I thought the
- 26:30Speaker 1: Raiders could at least keep it close, and they did
- 26:32Speaker 1: keep it close. I was hoping that Gino Smith would avoid.
- 26:36Speaker 2: Pooping his pants in.
- 26:38Speaker 1: This game, but alias that was not the case. But
- 26:41Speaker 1: you know he has it in him. And I've mentioned
- 26:43Speaker 1: this earlier in the show, but going back to when
- 26:45Speaker 1: Gino played in Seattle, and I would spar with No Stradinas,
- 26:49Speaker 1: who lives not No stra Damas. That's a I'm a
- 26:52Speaker 1: distant relative of no stra Damas, but No Stradinis lives
- 26:54Speaker 1: in Seattle. And we would go back and forth here,
- 26:57Speaker 1: and I said, this guy is a Turk.
- 27:00Speaker 2: He's not He's got you don't know what you're talking about,
- 27:03Speaker 2: crying Craig and all those guys in Seattle, and Gino Smith.
- 27:08Speaker 1: Is garbage, that's what he is. I like there's no
- 27:11Speaker 1: other way to say it. I'm not being mean. I'm
- 27:13Speaker 1: not being mean. He's not a good NFL quarterback like
- 27:18Speaker 1: he's not. And so this idea and something. Unfortunately, a
- 27:22Speaker 1: lot of the Raider fan base is kind of level headed.
- 27:25Speaker 1: We had Mike from Tucson called up last hour. He's
- 27:27Speaker 1: a big Raider fan. His kids are giving him a
- 27:28Speaker 1: hard time, Dad, why are you a Raider fan? We
- 27:30Speaker 1: don't want to be Raider fan. And he'said, well, you know,
- 27:32Speaker 1: he's tried to explain it to him. But here's the thing, right,
- 27:35Speaker 1: when you know, you know when something is too good
- 27:39Speaker 1: to be true, like you just know it. Like, for example,
- 27:43Speaker 1: the Raiders haven't had a quarterback. I don't count car
- 27:46Speaker 1: because he's average. He's not good. Derek Carr was not good.
- 27:51Speaker 1: He's average. So the Raiders haven't had a top level
- 27:54Speaker 1: quarterback since rich Gannon. It's like a generation to go
- 28:00Speaker 1: so uh so, when you know, going in when something
- 28:03Speaker 1: seems too good to be true, Probably, so the Raiders
- 28:05Speaker 1: went out and acquired a quarterback, a veteran quarterback that
- 28:08Speaker 1: had started a bunch of games in the NFL and
- 28:12Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. When you When you break it down,
- 28:14Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks traded Gino Smith their starting quarterback there
- 28:18Speaker 1: QB number one. They traded traded him, right, and then
- 28:24Speaker 1: signed Sam Darnold, who also stinks. So what does that
- 28:29Speaker 1: tell us, right? NFL teams don't trade good quarterbacks. They don't.
- 28:35Speaker 1: And Gino Smith is not even a jag. It's not
- 28:39Speaker 1: that JAG's just a guy. He's not that, just a
- 28:42Speaker 1: not not that not just a guy. Right, Gino is
- 28:45Speaker 1: an Ei S type of quarterback. He's an enigma in
- 28:48Speaker 1: shoulder pads. That's what Geno Smith is, an Ei S
- 28:52Speaker 1: type of quarterback, enigma in shoulder pads. It's the Geno cycle, right,
- 28:57Speaker 1: This is the Geno cycle. I've seen it. We know,
- 29:00Speaker 1: oh how this goes. It's like the seasons of the year.
- 29:03Speaker 6: Right.
- 29:04Speaker 2: You go through the different parts of the calendar.
- 29:06Speaker 1: And you know, if you live in a place that
- 29:08Speaker 1: actually has different seasons, you know, fall, beautiful time of
- 29:11Speaker 1: the year, and then it gets into the nasty winter time,
- 29:14Speaker 1: and then you have the spring, and you go through
- 29:17Speaker 1: all the different seasons.
- 29:18Speaker 2: Right.
- 29:18Speaker 1: So here's the Geno cycle. If you're new to the
- 29:21Speaker 1: Gino Smith game. For six games, Geno Smith will be
- 29:26Speaker 1: a top shelf NFL quarterback. That's right, top shelf NFL quarterback.
- 29:30Speaker 1: For six games, Geno will either be elite level quarterback
- 29:34Speaker 1: or very very good six games. For six games, Gino
- 29:39Speaker 1: Smith will be average. He will be filler. He'll be
- 29:44Speaker 1: just a guy. He'll be out there. He won't cost
- 29:47Speaker 1: you the game, but he's not going to lead you
- 29:48Speaker 1: to a victory. For six games. The rest of the time,
- 29:52Speaker 1: Gino will be the worst player you have ever seen.
- 29:57Speaker 1: Gino will be the kid that tries out for the
- 29:59Speaker 1: football ta that you say, hey, the band's over there.
- 30:03Speaker 2: That's Gino Smith, right, That's how he is.
- 30:06Speaker 1: And Sunday in Vegas, he was in the third Monday night,
- 30:11Speaker 1: not even Monday night. He was in that third category, right,
- 30:14Speaker 1: the Raiders first home look with mostly Raider fans, the
- 30:19Speaker 1: first home look there on Monday night.
- 30:20Speaker 2: They're shiny new quarterback.
- 30:22Speaker 1: They opened up on the road last week, and you
- 30:25Speaker 1: could not have a worse opening night of your Vegas residency.
- 30:30Speaker 2: You could not have three interceptions. Four years.
- 30:34Speaker 1: He threw the ball away on a fourth down. You
- 30:37Speaker 1: gotta keep possession to have a chance to win the game.
- 30:39Speaker 1: He threw the ball out abouts. You know he did
- 30:43Speaker 1: that because I'll throw He was like, oh man, I'm
- 30:45Speaker 1: gonna throw another interception.
- 30:46Speaker 2: We just throw it out of bouts. I was so good.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Now I have been told I don't live in Vegas,
- 30:51Speaker 1: so some of my guys in Vegas can back me
- 30:53Speaker 1: up on this. But I've been told in the history
- 30:55Speaker 1: of Las Vegas, the single worst residency in Vegas history
- 31:00Speaker 1: was fifty cent, that it was the worst of the worst.
- 31:04Speaker 1: I don't know why it was the worst of the worst.
- 31:06Speaker 1: I've just been told. Of all the performers that have
- 31:08Speaker 1: gone to Vegas to try to entertain people, no one
- 31:11Speaker 1: was quite as bad as fifty cent, the worst in
- 31:14Speaker 1: the history of that city that has had just about
- 31:16Speaker 1: every two bit entertainer when they're washed up go to
- 31:19Speaker 1: Vegas and try to make some extra money. And so
- 31:22Speaker 1: Gino like a bad street musician or one of those
- 31:25Speaker 1: people that shake you down on Fremont Street when they're
- 31:28Speaker 1: dressed up as Elmo. You know, one of those people,
- 31:31Speaker 1: so like a bad magician trying to pull the quarter
- 31:34Speaker 1: out and they can't. They futs it around and all
- 31:36Speaker 1: that stuff behind their ear. Gino Smith is not a
- 31:40Speaker 1: mystery box he's not you know what's inside. It's not
- 31:44Speaker 1: Jack in the box, it's Gino in the box. And
- 31:47Speaker 1: to quote former Fox Sports radio personality for about a
- 31:50Speaker 1: month before he got a TV job, the late great
- 31:52Speaker 1: Dennis Green, who sat just down the hall in the
- 31:55Speaker 1: old studio and opined about the NFL, he is who
- 32:00Speaker 1: we thought he was, Gino Smith, he was, and it
- 32:04Speaker 1: just think this is the first inning, the first inning
- 32:07Speaker 1: of the season.
- 32:10Speaker 2: Really is a game number two.
- 32:12Speaker 1: So buckle up, Bukeroo, It's gonna be a bumpy ride,
- 32:14Speaker 1: bumpity bumpity bumpity bump with Gino Smith. Gino Smith is
- 32:19Speaker 1: the used car that the Charlatan put a fresh coat
- 32:23Speaker 1: of paint on, put new upholstery on the seats, and
- 32:27Speaker 1: looked really good. You're all excited about mass. Smells good,
- 32:30Speaker 1: looks good. And the second you pull that thing onto
- 32:34Speaker 1: the freeway, onto the highway, the check engine lights starts
- 32:39Speaker 1: flashing like Christmas lights.
- 32:41Speaker 2: And you're like, holy crap, what happened?
- 32:44Speaker 1: And so this certainly felt less like a debut a
- 32:47Speaker 1: home debut for Gino Smith and more like a deja vu.
- 32:51Speaker 1: But not the strip club for Gino Smith. We've been
- 32:54Speaker 1: there now Pete Carroll. We like Pete Carroll. He famously
- 32:57Speaker 1: used the malardphone when he was coaching at USC back
- 32:59Speaker 1: in the day, and I've washed the phone since. Of course,
- 33:02Speaker 1: I like three phones past that at this particular point.
- 33:04Speaker 1: But there's Pete Carroll, good old Pete, positive Pete on
- 33:09Speaker 1: the sidelines and trying to trying to work this out.
- 33:12Speaker 1: So here is Pete Carroll commenting on his quarterback throwing
- 33:16Speaker 1: not one, not two, but three interceptions.
- 33:18Speaker 2: Take a list three by the quarterback.
- 33:20Speaker 3: That's usually a non starter.
- 33:21Speaker 2: What was the any anything that took a put your
- 33:23Speaker 2: finger on it.
- 33:24Speaker 6: Yeah, well, he took a couple of shots. You know,
- 33:26Speaker 6: he threw a couple of bombs down there, and one
- 33:30Speaker 6: was on about the two and the other one was
- 33:31Speaker 6: in the end zone I think, if that's right. Yeah.
- 33:36Speaker 6: The reason that he got there because we had time
- 33:38Speaker 6: to hold the football, so we protected okay, and we
- 33:40Speaker 6: didn't get the ball thrown underneath. That's that's what I
- 33:42Speaker 6: wish we would have done. I wish we would have
- 33:44Speaker 6: not taken those shots. You know, they looked like like,
- 33:48Speaker 6: you know, we've had to score quick or something. I
- 33:51Speaker 6: don't feel like that when we play is the way
- 33:52Speaker 6: we should ever play. But so we got to take
- 33:55Speaker 6: what's there and we got to take a look on
- 33:56Speaker 6: the film and I guess see why that happened like
- 33:58Speaker 6: that just surprised. We haven't looked like that at all
- 34:01Speaker 6: at any time. So it's the first time that came up.
- 34:04Speaker 2: Coached him in Seattle. He did the same thing with
- 34:06Speaker 2: the Seahawks. He said, what is that.
- 34:08Speaker 1: I love the coach saying, well, the reason we throw
- 34:10Speaker 1: those interceptions our offensive line protected the quarterback. That's why
- 34:14Speaker 1: we threw those interceptions. Who that's great. Let's hear from
- 34:19Speaker 1: Geno Smith. I've got to hear what Gino has to say.
- 34:21Speaker 1: Here's Geno Smith. Gino, You've just thrown three interceptions in
- 34:24Speaker 1: your Raiders home debut.
- 34:27Speaker 2: Here's the question, here the answer.
- 34:28Speaker 7: The spot decision making, especially the ones where he took
- 34:30Speaker 7: shots downfield. Can you just sort of summarize what took
- 34:33Speaker 7: place and where you were at, you know, in the
- 34:36Speaker 7: game at the moment and taking those shots, especially the
- 34:38Speaker 7: ones that got picked.
- 34:39Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, the first play of the game is
- 34:41Speaker 8: a play that you know we designed. You know, had
- 34:44Speaker 8: had an open guy, let him a little bit too
- 34:46Speaker 8: far up front. Ball gets tipped up, gets interception. You know,
- 34:49Speaker 8: a play that I you know, obviously you want to
- 34:51Speaker 8: have those plays back.
- 34:52Speaker 5: You can't.
- 34:52Speaker 8: I mean, it's the reality of it. You know, took
- 34:54Speaker 8: a shot to Dante or you know before before the half.
- 34:57Speaker 8: You know, I thought he had a safety on him,
- 34:59Speaker 8: thought he had a shot. I gave him a chance.
- 35:00Speaker 8: Obviously didn't work out in our favor. And then you
- 35:03Speaker 8: know the one to Jacobe, you know, had a DV
- 35:06Speaker 8: with his back turned. They were playing Tampa two. You know,
- 35:09Speaker 8: thought I could fit it in there. Obviously we need
- 35:11Speaker 8: to score seven points in that situation. You know, a
- 35:13Speaker 8: field goal would have helped us, but you know seven
- 35:15Speaker 8: points would have put us in a better position. Ball
- 35:17Speaker 8: gus tipped up again. You know, I thought I'd put
- 35:19Speaker 8: it in a decent squad where our guy can make
- 35:21Speaker 8: a play, ball get tipped up, they make a play
- 35:23Speaker 8: on it, and you know we don't get points.
- 35:26Speaker 1: That is a forty million dollar quarterback right there. The
- 35:29Speaker 1: Raiders are paying him forty million dollars to give the
- 35:31Speaker 1: other team the ball. All right, Moving on from that,
- 35:38Speaker 1: so page two here the B squad on ESP. How
- 35:41Speaker 1: bad were those announcers? Holy crap? Man dan Orlofsky. He
- 35:47Speaker 1: must have photos of people compromising goes. Anyway, the b
- 35:50Speaker 1: squad there on ESPN showed Tom Brady shadowing chip Kelly.
- 35:55Speaker 1: The Raiders wrote ton to offensive quarter, the man that
- 35:58Speaker 1: saw the light at UCLA and ran away from those
- 36:01Speaker 1: gutty little bruins. Get me out of here anyway, chip
- 36:04Speaker 1: Kelly's now toiling in the NFL.
- 36:06Speaker 2: Is the Raiders offensive corner.
- 36:08Speaker 1: There was Tom Brady sitting in the booth and he
- 36:11Speaker 1: had a headset on the whole Dale, the whole thing
- 36:15Speaker 1: of a Jake question. How weird was it? How weird
- 36:20Speaker 1: was it to see the minority owner of the Raiders,
- 36:24Speaker 1: the Fox broadcaster Tom Brady's sitting in the Raiders coaching
- 36:27Speaker 1: booth as Gino Smith drowned on television. So this was
- 36:33Speaker 1: peak surreal sports TV is what this was? Right, It
- 36:38Speaker 1: was perfect. It was deserving is a word I will use.
- 36:42Speaker 1: Tom Brady is the GM by proxy. Every man, woman
- 36:45Speaker 1: and child knows it. Everyone knows this. Tom Brady is
- 36:48Speaker 1: the GM by proxy with the Raiders. He's got plausible nihability.
- 36:53Speaker 1: That's what he wants.
- 36:54Speaker 2: Right.
- 36:54Speaker 1: If the team's bad, it's not my fault. I'm not
- 36:56Speaker 1: the GM. I'm just hanging out at the country club
- 36:59Speaker 1: drinking tails and doing my yoga. So he's got plausible deniability.
- 37:05Speaker 1: He's there in the room, he's got the headset on,
- 37:09Speaker 1: he's got a bird's eye view of what's going on
- 37:12Speaker 1: from atop the stadium. Tom sitting there, he can literally
- 37:15Speaker 1: smell the suck. Yeah, that's Raider football, baby, smell the suck.
- 37:20Speaker 1: The commitment to blow the Raiders. Now, you cannot wash
- 37:25Speaker 1: off the silver and black goo that Gino Smith put
- 37:30Speaker 1: all over the field there. It was all over everything.
- 37:32Speaker 1: And listen, this is to be expected. Tom Brady, mister
- 37:36Speaker 1: big shot out there. He went out and got leftovers.
- 37:39Speaker 1: That's not who he wanted. It's not who he wanted.
- 37:43Speaker 1: It's not Tom Brady wanted Ben Johnson. That's not looking
- 37:47Speaker 1: very good either, Ben Johnson with the Bears, and he
- 37:50Speaker 1: got Pete Carroll. Tom Brady wanted Matthew Stafford to be
- 37:54Speaker 1: the Raiders quarterback. He winding done Stafford at a Montana resort,
- 38:00Speaker 1: treated him like he was the king of the world.
- 38:02Speaker 1: And Matthew Stafford said, thanks very much, Tom, I'm not
- 38:05Speaker 1: going to play for you, and went back to the
- 38:07Speaker 1: Rams and so he ended up with Gino Smith the
- 38:10Speaker 1: consolation prize. Gino Smith. That's not team building, that is settling.
- 38:16Speaker 1: And Brady, what he has done is recreate the twenty three,
- 38:20Speaker 1: not twenty nineteen, twenty twenty three, and I believe the
- 38:22Speaker 1: twenty twenty two Seattle Seahawks. And is that some kind
- 38:27Speaker 1: of trailblazer activity. It's it's like the family guy cutaway
- 38:32Speaker 1: Tom Brady's quagmire in the booth.
- 38:36Speaker 2: Giggity giggity giggity giggity right, that's Tom Brady, right, what
- 38:39Speaker 2: have I done? What have I done? Gigg giggy giget gigey.
- 38:44Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Gino Smith's out there sinking in quicksand it's just
- 38:48Speaker 1: so good. The Raiders can't pick up a first down
- 38:53Speaker 1: or it's the guy you get a touchdown. They got
- 38:54Speaker 1: some first downs, but they have a lot of bass hits,
- 38:57Speaker 1: not any doubles, not any triples, ou any home Russ Tom.
- 39:00Speaker 1: They're taking notes like a professor who brought the wrong
- 39:03Speaker 1: lecture binder and all that stuff. And oh, by the way,
- 39:06Speaker 1: how the hell did the Patriots lose?
- 39:08Speaker 2: The Raiders?
- 39:08Speaker 1: All my guys in the in the Northeast, what's going
- 39:11Speaker 1: on with your team. You lost to that Raider team,
- 39:13Speaker 1: you lost to Gino Smith. If I'm Robert Kraft, I
- 39:17Speaker 1: am throwing up in my mouth that that Patriots lost
- 39:20Speaker 1: to the Raiders with that combination. Man, it's it's Seahawk
- 39:24Speaker 1: cosplay from a couple of years ago. And that is
- 39:27Speaker 1: an indictment on the Patriots, because that's a different conversation.
- 39:30Speaker 1: But listen, Tom Brady wants to play genius owner, but
- 39:32Speaker 1: he wants plausible deniability and he's got to snank all
- 39:35Speaker 1: over him. I hope he enjoys that He's not the
- 39:37Speaker 1: greatest quarterback of all time anymore.
- 39:40Speaker 2: He's a former NFL.
- 39:41Speaker 1: Quarterback who's in very poor broadcaster and apparently a very
- 39:44Speaker 1: terrible GM at the same time. All right, now, final point.
- 39:47Speaker 1: We go to the winners locker room. Quickly, we go
- 39:50Speaker 1: to the winners locker room. Is this Jim Harbaugh Chargers
- 39:53Speaker 1: defense the real deal?
- 39:55Speaker 2: Are they the real deal?
- 39:57Speaker 4: So?
- 39:57Speaker 1: I am not sold yet? Okay, I am not so
- 40:00Speaker 1: oh yet? Now the jury is still out. The numbers
- 40:02Speaker 1: are stunningly good for the charges right now. They handed
- 40:06Speaker 1: it to Mahomes in Brazil on that Friday NFL opener,
- 40:11Speaker 1: the Chiefs offense, however, is lacking these spark plugs. They
- 40:15Speaker 1: don't have any real playmakers, and so it's not the
- 40:18Speaker 1: same Chiefs of years gone by right now. And then
- 40:21Speaker 1: you go out and you beat Geno Smith and the
- 40:25Speaker 1: Raiders police Gino is child's play. It's Michael Myers with
- 40:30Speaker 1: a NERF knife, is what it is. You're not as
- 40:33Speaker 1: intimidated if Michael Myers with a NERF knife. You think
- 40:35Speaker 1: you can take Michael Myers with the Nerf ffer. But
- 40:37Speaker 1: the Seahawks got rid of them right as we talked
- 40:41Speaker 1: about and all that stuff, and that's all you need
- 40:42Speaker 1: to know. And so now the Chargers do not have
- 40:46Speaker 1: the most difficult schedule. They don't play the Ravens, they
- 40:48Speaker 1: don't play the Bills. But down the line, if they
- 40:50Speaker 1: get to the playoffs, they're gonna have to be match
- 40:52Speaker 1: up with Josh Allen, and if they can hogtie Josh Allen,
- 40:55Speaker 1: if they can slam the door on Lamar Jackson, which
- 40:58Speaker 1: both those guys not as good in the plufs Lamar's
- 41:00Speaker 1: definitely not as good in the playoffs. But that's when
- 41:03Speaker 1: I will start to buy into the Powder and Blue
- 41:04Speaker 1: hype and Justin Herbert, who you know not not a fan,
- 41:09Speaker 1: you know not. Everyone loves this guy. I've seen this
- 41:12Speaker 1: guy sucking big games for several years now, and.
- 41:16Speaker 2: I like Jim Harbaugh.
- 41:18Speaker 1: I'm a fan of hardball, and certainly they're playing aggressive,
- 41:23Speaker 1: crushing people on defense, and it's the power hour down
- 41:27Speaker 1: at sofar. I get their home opener against Coops Broncos
- 41:30Speaker 1: next weekend, so that's a big that's a big turning
- 41:32Speaker 1: point game. You win that game, you start start barying
- 41:36Speaker 1: people in the division, and you start opening up some
- 41:38Speaker 1: space if you're the Chargers, if you can beat the
- 41:39Speaker 1: Broncos at home next week, and at that point maybe
- 41:42Speaker 1: you start saying show me your lightning bolt like my
- 41:44Speaker 1: old mentor Hacksaw back in the day. But until then, eh, yeah,
- 41:47Speaker 1: it's a nice September story. It's a good September story.
- 41:51Speaker 1: Wake me up, though, when they do this in December
- 41:54Speaker 1: in January, all right, then then I'll be okay, it's legit.
- 41:58Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions.
- 41:59Speaker 2: Of the here we go, Here we Got How about that?
- 42:04Speaker 4: Degree is one gets grilled cool book.
- 42:11Speaker 9: The Arizona Cardinals are two and oh after another win
- 42:13Speaker 9: that was closer than it should have been Kyler Murray
- 42:16Speaker 9: admitted to the media that if they keep playing around,
- 42:18Speaker 9: they're gonna get bit.
- 42:19Speaker 2: Ben, when do you think they get bit? Well, this
- 42:21Speaker 2: is the worst two and oh team in NFS three.
- 42:24Speaker 2: They beat the Saints and the Carolina Panthers. All right,
- 42:26Speaker 2: they're frauds.
- 42:27Speaker 1: And now they play another suspect team, the forty nine
- 42:30Speaker 1: ers with Mac Jones this week, So they could be
- 42:32Speaker 1: three and oh and still not good. They have the
- 42:35Speaker 1: softest schedule. They play Seattle and Darnald he blows the Titan.
- 42:41Speaker 1: They are looking at possibly five and oh and still
- 42:43Speaker 1: not a good team, So I don't believe him.
- 42:45Speaker 9: Next, Drake May was getting nothing but praise from his
- 42:48Speaker 9: Patriots teammates after his three touchdown performance against the Dolphins.
- 42:52Speaker 2: Ben, do you think May has turned a corner? No.
- 42:55Speaker 1: The fact that Miami has basically quit on their head coach,
- 42:59Speaker 1: and yet the Patriots needed to make some amazing plays
- 43:02Speaker 1: late in that game to win the game is not
- 43:06Speaker 1: a great side. The Dolphins had a lead in the
- 43:09Speaker 1: fourth quarter in that game. That is not any particularly.
- 43:11Speaker 1: I'm not overly impressed with Drake me. He looked very
- 43:14Speaker 1: average to me.
- 43:15Speaker 2: Next.
- 43:16Speaker 9: Over the weekend, Salvador Perez of the Royals became just
- 43:18Speaker 9: the eighth catcher to hit three hundred homers and the
- 43:21Speaker 9: fifteenth to get one thousand rbi. Ben, do you think
- 43:24Speaker 9: Perez will get into the Hall?
- 43:26Speaker 1: He's not for me. He's not a Hall of Famer.
- 43:28Speaker 1: He's going to get into the Hall of Fame. Nine
- 43:29Speaker 1: time All Star, five Gold Gloves, World Series MVP. He's
- 43:32Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. I wouldn't put him in,
- 43:34Speaker 1: but he's in the Hall of Fame. He's got all
- 43:37Speaker 1: the accolades. It's a Lifetime Achievement Award.
- 43:39Speaker 2: How'd we do? Seaperg Dog?
- 43:45Speaker 4: I won the game for Fox Sports Radio has the
- 43:48Speaker 4: best sports talk lineup in the nation.
- 43:50Speaker 1: Catch all right, let's meet our contestants for the game.
- 43:52Speaker 1: Don't play the imaging. Who do we have here? We've
- 43:55Speaker 1: got Tyler in Boston's gonna be one of our contestants.
- 43:58Speaker 2: Hello, Tyler, Welcome.
- 44:00Speaker 5: What's going on?
- 44:01Speaker 6: Benny?
- 44:01Speaker 4: Oh?
- 44:02Speaker 2: You got you got the pipes? Tyler? You got the pipe?
- 44:05Speaker 2: All right? Shut up? Who do you want to partner
- 44:09Speaker 2: up with?
- 44:10Speaker 1: You? You pick who you want to play with you, Tyler,
- 44:14Speaker 1: that's right, We're in it to win it, all right.
- 44:15Speaker 1: Hold on a second, and then Lorena picked door number
- 44:18Speaker 1: one or door number.
- 44:19Speaker 2: Two number too? Oh, you've picked Brian in Iowa. Hello,
- 44:23Speaker 2: Brian and Iowa? How partners? Howdy partner? That's not Iowa?
- 44:29Speaker 2: How dare you? What are you doing? I know? What
- 44:34Speaker 2: are you doing in in i Are you working right now?
- 44:36Speaker 2: Driving a truck? What do you got going on?
- 44:39Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 44:39Speaker 2: I'm driving home from doing door dash make any money?
- 44:45Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 44:45Speaker 2: What are people buying? What's the number one door?
- 44:48Speaker 1: Dad?
- 44:48Speaker 2: What are the mostly potheads? Right?
- 44:52Speaker 7: More than likely?
- 44:53Speaker 2: Yeah? And what are they buying? What kind of fast McDonald.
- 44:58Speaker 1: Yeah, that's authentic Mexican food there, or I've had so
- 45:00Speaker 1: much taco bell in the last weeble.
- 45:04Speaker 2: That's good for you. All right, Brian, you're gonna play?
- 45:06Speaker 2: You want to part up with Coop? Yes? Sure, Okay,
- 45:10Speaker 2: He's fine with it. One of the categories quickly Coop
- 45:12Speaker 2: quickly quickly?
- 45:13Speaker 9: All right, gentlemen, this is Malar's Mountain of Money, the
- 45:15Speaker 9: bb King Edition. He would have been one hundred years
- 45:17Speaker 9: old today if.
- 45:19Speaker 2: You were still alive. He's not. He's dead. Yeah, died
- 45:21Speaker 2: ten years ago. Yeah. But uh, the categories are you
- 45:24Speaker 2: upset me? Baby? Every day?
- 45:27Speaker 9: I have the blues, sweet sixteen, and you're gonna miss me? H, Tyler?
- 45:32Speaker 2: Which category would you like? Sweet sixteen? Sweet sixteen? All right, Brian?
- 45:38Speaker 9: That leaves you with you upset me, baby, every day
- 45:41Speaker 9: I have the blues, or you're gonna miss me.
- 45:44Speaker 2: Every day I have the blues? All right? All right
- 45:47Speaker 2: everyone hold on there, Thank you gentlemen. You will don't
- 45:49Speaker 2: hang up, you'll lose your spot. All right. There you go.
- 45:52Speaker 2: Those are the categories, and we'll get to it. Malar's
- 45:56Speaker 2: mount of Money. We will do it.
- 46:00Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
- 46:02Speaker 4: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
- 46:08Speaker 4: Malor's mountainum money. Do you have what it takes to
- 46:13Speaker 4: get to the top? Probably not.
- 46:16Speaker 2: Let's do it. Here we go.
- 46:17Speaker 1: We got Tyler in Boston and Brian in Iowa. Brian
- 46:21Speaker 1: just finishing work, Tyler? Are you at work right now?
- 46:23Speaker 1: Tyler on his way?
- 46:26Speaker 2: All right? What a terrible time to start work? Okay, alright,
- 46:30Speaker 2: very good. Here and we're gonna go. First, it's the
- 46:34Speaker 2: bb King edition. We picked you picked every year? What
- 46:37Speaker 2: did you pick here? You picked Sweet sixteen? Sweet sixteen?
- 46:39Speaker 2: All right, sweet sixteen.
- 46:41Speaker 1: These athletes all where or war number sixteen? Are you
- 46:46Speaker 1: ready to go?
- 46:47Speaker 2: Here? Tyler?
- 46:49Speaker 6: Ready?
- 46:49Speaker 1: All we need the first and last name and quiet
- 46:52Speaker 1: on the set. Forty five seconds on the clock.
- 46:54Speaker 2: We're on our way.
- 46:56Speaker 1: Go.
- 46:56Speaker 2: A quarterback for.
- 46:57Speaker 1: The Jacksonville Jaguars right now, Yes, quarterback, greatest of all
- 47:01Speaker 1: time for the forty nine ers before Tom Brady obviously,
- 47:05Speaker 1: Yeah for you. Yeah, he was Kobe Bryant's teammate after Shack.
- 47:11Speaker 1: He was the big star, Yes, doctor k for the Mets.
- 47:16Speaker 1: He also played for the Yankees in the eighties. Strikeout
- 47:18Speaker 1: King African American pitcher. He was with the Mets.
- 47:24Speaker 2: Yes, what's his first name? Well, I think we'll take that.
- 47:27Speaker 2: Quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals. Also played for the Denver Broncos.
- 47:31Speaker 1: His last name was like if you have if you
- 47:34Speaker 1: have a problem with your pipes, you might call him
- 47:36Speaker 1: up there. Yes, quarterback wide receiver for the Seahawks. What cheap,
- 47:44Speaker 1: cheap clue, our clue. Listen, it's skilled. Thank you, Loraina,
- 47:49Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, high five?
- 47:53Speaker 2: All right, Brian, are you ready?
- 47:55Speaker 4: Sure?
- 47:56Speaker 2: All right? He doesn't seem ready to me? All right?
- 47:59Speaker 9: We have every day have the Blues these athletes have
- 48:02Speaker 9: openly talked about dealing with depression. We need the first
- 48:04Speaker 9: and last name. Forty five second. Let's begin. Current quarterback
- 48:08Speaker 9: for the Cowboys, Jacott Yes.
- 48:12Speaker 8: Uh.
- 48:12Speaker 9: This guy's the top wide receiver on the Eagles. His
- 48:14Speaker 9: first name is initials.
- 48:18Speaker 2: Yes.
- 48:19Speaker 4: Uh.
- 48:19Speaker 9: This guy used to be on the Pacers and then
- 48:21Speaker 9: on the Clippers. I think he's on the seventy six
- 48:23Speaker 9: ers now. He always gets hurt. Where's number thirteen?
- 48:26Speaker 1: Is it?
- 48:27Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard? No? His teammate the other guy?
- 48:30Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know, Okay, the best swimmer of all
- 48:33Speaker 9: time Olympics Michael phil Yes, this guy was a wide
- 48:37Speaker 9: receiver for the Denver Broncos, then later the Jets wore
- 48:39Speaker 9: number fifteen.
- 48:40Speaker 2: He was kind of crazy. Oh, I don't remember his
- 48:43Speaker 2: name all right.
- 48:44Speaker 9: This guy got a bunch of Rebrowns, but he can't shoot.
- 48:46Speaker 9: Spent most of his career with the Pistons.
- 48:50Speaker 2: No, no, Newer. He's still playing terrible. It's embarrassing.
- 48:54Speaker 9: I think they're pretty good. Seventy seventy al right down, Yes,
- 49:00Speaker 9: that means we're back up.
- 49:00Speaker 2: You Uh, what do you want? You? You upset me, baby,
- 49:04Speaker 2: or you're gonna miss me? Mike. Uh what, Yeah, you
- 49:11Speaker 2: upset me, baby, or you're gonna miss me. You're gonna
- 49:16Speaker 2: miss me? All right? Perfect, all right?
- 49:18Speaker 9: These athletes recently retired forty five seconds us begin he
- 49:23Speaker 9: he was the quarterback of the Raiders.
- 49:27Speaker 2: He just retired. Derek Carr.
- 49:29Speaker 9: Yes, uh, this guy was the best ride receiver in
- 49:31Speaker 9: Atlanta Falcons history.
- 49:35Speaker 4: Oh, I should know who that is, but I don't.
- 49:38Speaker 2: All right. This guy played for the Wizards for a
- 49:40Speaker 2: long time. Point guard. He just retired.
- 49:44Speaker 9: Yeah to his last name is like a divider, like
- 49:47Speaker 9: a fence.
- 49:48Speaker 2: Cool. That's dirty. You shouldn't do that. Yeah, I don't remember,
- 49:52Speaker 2: all right. This guy was a Chinese guy.
- 49:54Speaker 9: Everybody went crazy with this his upcoming in the New
- 49:57Speaker 9: York Knicks.
- 50:01Speaker 5: Last name Yang.
- 50:02Speaker 2: No, my god, oh no, I think we all right?
- 50:09Speaker 2: I think he was was he?
- 50:11Speaker 1: I thought he was Taiwanese Ti by Jeremy Lynn.
- 50:16Speaker 7: Oh No, he was Chinese, wasn't he?
- 50:19Speaker 2: I thought he was Taiwanese? God, are you right?
- 50:22Speaker 9: You're right?
- 50:23Speaker 2: Oh my god? Oh my god? Even all right? Well, Tyler, well,
- 50:29Speaker 2: why don't we run up the score? Tyler? You want
- 50:31Speaker 2: to try a few more?
- 50:32Speaker 7: Tyler?
- 50:34Speaker 2: Tyler, hold on Tyler.
- 50:36Speaker 1: You're there, Tyler, yeah as well, Keep real quick.
- 50:40Speaker 2: These athletes recently retired. Now you did that one. What
- 50:43Speaker 2: are we doing? You upset me? Baby? All right?
- 50:45Speaker 1: He was a home run king. He broke Babe Bruce
- 50:48Speaker 1: record for home runs in a single season.
- 50:51Speaker 2: No, it's Roger, Roger.
- 50:53Speaker 4: Mary.
- 50:54Speaker 2: We want the guy. We want the guy, We want
- 50:55Speaker 2: the guy. Good thing, A good thing. You didn't have
- 50:57Speaker 2: to go again, Jeremy. Lene