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  Speaker 1: hour from the big made for TV matchup in Baltimore,
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  Speaker 1: the final act of Week three of the NFL. We
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  Speaker 1: are now almost twenty percent into the NFL season and
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  Speaker 1: it was a big time Inner conference matchup. Is this
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  Speaker 1: a preview of the Super Bowl in Northern California coming
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  Speaker 1: in February of twenty twenty six or merely just a
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  Speaker 1: matchup that will be forgotten in the large, wide angle
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  Speaker 1: lens of the NFL season. So anyway, I bring this
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  Speaker 1: up because you had Lamar Jackson and the Ravens taking
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  Speaker 1: on Dan Campbell and the traveling circus that is the
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  Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. They came in there I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you saw this game or not. We watched so you
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  Speaker 1: would not have to. And it was up set City
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens, who had been as big as a six
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  Speaker 1: point favorite in this game. They ended up at four
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  Speaker 1: and a half and they were back and forth for
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  Speaker 1: a while, but then the Lions pulled away. Jamir Gibbs
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  Speaker 1: and David Montgomery. There goes that man. Watch him run run, run, run, run, run, run,
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  Speaker 1: both of them as Jamier Gibbs and David Montgomery each
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  Speaker 1: ran for two touchdowns a piece, and Detroit doing something
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  Speaker 1: you don't normally expect the Lions to do. They bullied.
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  Speaker 1: They bullied, they played bully ball. They bullied the Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: football team thirty eight to thirty in a game that
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  Speaker 1: really wasn't that close when you think about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the Lions gave up that last touchdown, even though
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  Speaker 1: they had a two touchdown lee. It just kind of
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  Speaker 1: let up a little bit there at the end the
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  Speaker 1: final second, the Lions are two and one. They sacked
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, not once, not twice, not three times, how
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  Speaker 1: about not four, not five, not six, seven sacks, rushed
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  Speaker 1: the Baltimore football team two hundred and twenty four yards
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  Speaker 1: on the ground for the Lions and eighty five for
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  Speaker 1: the once proud Baltimore football team Detroit, scoring on drives
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  Speaker 1: of ninety eight and ninety six yards. They had drives
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  Speaker 1: of ninety eight and ninety six yards. Wow. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so let us discuss the question is this, who do
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  Speaker 1: you point the finger at? The better store in the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room? So who do you point the finger at?
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  Speaker 1: For John Harbaugh's Ravens. Who's the the one wearing the
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  Speaker 1: dunch cap? That's the question. Who is it? All right? So, well,
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  Speaker 1: before we get into this, let's hear from the aforementioned
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  Speaker 1: John Harball. And here's John Harball pointing out that the
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  Speaker 1: Ravens defensively, well, it's kind of obvious here. They're not
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  Speaker 1: very good against the run.
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  Speaker 4: The biggest problem is we didn't play good run defense.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we didn't as as a defense complete. We
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  Speaker 4: didn't do it. And that's not going to be good enough.
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  Speaker 4: There's nobody in that locker room that thinks that's good enough.
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  Speaker 4: That's disappointing. That's bad run defense. And that's not who
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  Speaker 4: we are. It cannot be who we are. It's not
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  Speaker 4: going to be good enough, it's not going to be
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  Speaker 4: acceptable and it's got to be better.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So again the question here, the jumping off point,
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  Speaker 1: is the question who do you point the finger at?
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  Speaker 1: For John Harbaugh's Ravens. He mentioned the run defense. There,
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  Speaker 1: I've got Rick Bettino, Bart Simpson and DNA and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we will
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  Speaker 1: throw them against the wall and we're going to make
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  Speaker 1: some delicious grilled chicken, is what we're going to make.
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  Speaker 1: So a, this is not who the Ravens have been,
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  Speaker 1: but it is who they are now. Is that a
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  Speaker 1: fair statements? That an accurate statement that Harbaugh's complaining about
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  Speaker 1: the run defense, which is true. But this is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be John Harbaugh's sweet spot. Sunday night, Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night, any kind of night, especially at home, and
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  Speaker 1: his team comes out there like Gangbusters. They do the
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  Speaker 1: monster mash, the monster mash. In this game, they did
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  Speaker 1: the opposite. They they're usually the ones that are pounding
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  Speaker 1: teams in submission, and on this night they were powdered
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  Speaker 1: and mashed potatoes, is what they were. It is soft
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  Speaker 1: and fake cream and no bite and that's it. That's
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  Speaker 1: all they were. A reminder though, as the iconic sportscaster
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  Speaker 1: Dick Stockton taught me years ago here at Fox Sports Radio,
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  Speaker 1: Stat's tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the reality of the situation. Here. They got
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  Speaker 1: they being the Ravens, got completely manhandled by the line.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the Lions were the right side. You watched
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  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Paint on YouTube. We did tell you
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  Speaker 1: to take the Lions. Did I think they were gonna
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  Speaker 1: play that? Well, no, absolutely not. I did not expect
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  Speaker 1: that at all. But this is not just losing a
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  Speaker 1: game for Baltimore. To me, it feels bigger than that. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're being too dramatic. I don't think it's like in
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  Speaker 1: an identity crisis for the Ravens. Like the Ravens have
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  Speaker 1: always been that team. In the last twenty years or so,
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  Speaker 1: with few exceptions, the Ravens have been that team that
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  Speaker 1: you'd circle on the calendar and it's like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be a that's gonna be a nasty game.
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  Speaker 1: You play the Ravens. They're gonna push you around, they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna punch you in the mouth, they're gonna poke your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a good football team, that's a physical
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  Speaker 1: football team, and you're not gonna be able to push
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  Speaker 1: them around. And so here we are in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: We are about twenty percent into the NFL season, and
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens are lightweights, They're pushovers. These are not your
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  Speaker 1: daddy's Ravens. They're not John Harball, you know what you
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  Speaker 1: got to bring in here? I got advice here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell my guys sports with Coleman, who's boots on
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  Speaker 1: the ground in Baltimore. John Harbaugh needs to bring in
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  Speaker 1: Rick Patino because Rick Patino can give these guys on defense,
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  Speaker 1: say pep talk here and say listen, now, rally the
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  Speaker 1: team around. He said, listen, boys, Lewis is not walking
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  Speaker 1: through that door. He's not all right, And just tell
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  Speaker 1: the fan Ray Lewis is not walking through that door.
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  Speaker 1: Terrell Suggs is not walking through that door, and Ed
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  Speaker 1: Reid is not walking through that door. And if you
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  Speaker 1: expect them to walk through that door, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be gray and old. Boom, drop the mic. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: The Ravens have the worst defense in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: Put that in the pipe and smoke it of hard
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  Speaker 1: to believe stuff. The Ravens are dead last. They are
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  Speaker 1: thirty second in the NFL. That's not my opinion, it
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  Speaker 1: is a fact I've done the mother of math. The
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  Speaker 1: Ravens have allowed an average of four hundred and fifteen
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  Speaker 1: yards per game and that includes a laugh or a
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  Speaker 1: blowout win courtesy of Joe Flacco who gave the game
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  Speaker 1: to Baltimore in Week two. It's embarrassing with the capital
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  Speaker 1: leave for the Ravens, and then on Monday Night Football
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  Speaker 1: they allowed that running in and Jared also made some
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  Speaker 1: key third down plays as well. But Dan Campbell, those guys,
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  Speaker 1: they were able to do whatever the hell they wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Four hundred and twenty six yards four one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty six yards for the team representing Michigan, the Detroit Lions.
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  Speaker 1: They're fifty percent conversion on third down, they were perfect
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  Speaker 1: on fourth down and nearly perfect in the red zone. Wowsers.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like they were playing at some stretch of
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  Speaker 1: that game. It was like seven on seven. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a walk through. It was insane. And you know, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: you have Lamar Jackson, yes, mister multi time MVP of
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and if you look at the box score
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  Speaker 1: for Lamar, you're like, wow, he played pretty well. Look
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  Speaker 1: at the numbers there. You can't rip Lamar Jackson what
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  Speaker 1: to bet? So you gotta dig a little deeper. And
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  Speaker 1: this is like, if you didn't watch the game, you think, wow, Listen,
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  Speaker 1: Lamar was fine. I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: You're just bring a short drug. He needed to be better.
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  Speaker 1: He needed to be better. He needed to be better.
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  Speaker 1: And if you dig deeper, the numbers he put up
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  Speaker 1: are misleading. I'll tell you why, all right. So he
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  Speaker 1: averaged ten point seven yards per pass attempt two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty eight yards. Seventy eight of those yards and
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown pass came when the game was already decided.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned the Lions laid up after they went up
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  Speaker 1: by two touchdowns late in the game in garbage time.
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  Speaker 1: That is a stat bondito performance that Dak Prescott will
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  Speaker 1: be impressed with. So the Lions were up thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, and then Lamar on a few pass plays,
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  Speaker 1: led them all the way down the field the Ravens,
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  Speaker 1: and they went down and scored a touchdown. But there's
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  Speaker 1: only like twenty seconds or something. Left in the clock.
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  Speaker 1: The game was over at that particular point. And then
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  Speaker 1: you've got the HeLa monster in the room, the HeLa
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  Speaker 1: monster and the Komodo dragon in the room, and that
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  Speaker 1: is the negative place, and that is what loses games.
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  Speaker 1: It's a simpleton's way to look at a football game.
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  Speaker 1: But if you just look at the quarterbacks side by side,
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  Speaker 1: and roughly ninety percent of the time, the quarterback that
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  Speaker 1: makes fewer mistakes his team will win the game. Now,
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  Speaker 1: those negative plays, A negative play is a sack, a fumble,
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  Speaker 1: an incompletion. Those are negative plays. And if you look
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  Speaker 1: side by side in this game, Lamar Jackson had fourteen
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  Speaker 1: negative plays in this game, seven sacks, seven of them.
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  Speaker 1: He had a fumble that was recovered in incompletions left
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  Speaker 1: and right. He had six incompletions in the game. So
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  Speaker 1: you do the math on that, it works out to
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  Speaker 1: be fourteen. The sack number is rather shocking. That is
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  Speaker 1: tied for a career high. Hey, Lamar, you've just been
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  Speaker 1: sacked seven times. What are you gonna say for yourself,
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, I think there were sacks seven times tonight.
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  Speaker 1: That rarely, rarely happens with you. What were you seen
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  Speaker 1: back there that was causing problem.
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  Speaker 5: Oh man, gods are doing stunts and they had a
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  Speaker 5: a spy and sometimes the spy was they were grabbing
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  Speaker 5: my leg and that's just what it was. You know, guys,
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  Speaker 5: they were dropping the coverage. You got three safeties back there,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm just not gonna throw a hair mary ball,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'm gonna read the coverage out and try
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  Speaker 5: to make something happen.
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  Speaker 1: Spy spy versus spy, that's the issue there. So Jared Golf,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, while Lamar had fourteen negative plays,
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  Speaker 1: Golf had nine, which is said, well, that's not that
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  Speaker 1: big a difference, but in a game that's closed, it
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  Speaker 1: is a big difference. Zero sacks. Jared Goff had zero sacks.
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  Speaker 1: The offense ran the ball a lot, so you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have too many opportunities to get sacked. And generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: this was a even though Lamar had good Fantasy numbers
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  Speaker 1: thanks a lot to that last drive there, overall not good. Then.
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  Speaker 1: The Ravens normally the ones that are doing the steamrolling,
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  Speaker 1: and in this game they were not. They were soft, certainly,
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  Speaker 1: defensively uninspired, defensively, dazed and confused. In this game, and
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore now desperately trying to get their mojo back as
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  Speaker 1: they have a losing record, and they go to Arrowhead.
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  Speaker 1: How about that for a plot twist. You've got the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs sitting at one and two, the Ravens at one
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  Speaker 1: and two. One of those two teams will be at
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  Speaker 1: five hundred, the other one to be one in three,
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  Speaker 1: a quarter of the way into the NFL season. Who goofed,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know. But right now, we do the
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  Speaker 1: show right now, and the Baltimore Ravens look like a
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  Speaker 1: middle of the pack AFC team. They have a bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the league defense, They have an offense that will
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  Speaker 1: be fine against most anyone and certainly will beat up
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  Speaker 1: on the Tomato Cans of the NFL. But man, all
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  Speaker 1: right now turning the page on that, The other big issue,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, for Baltimore is do the Ravens have
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  Speaker 1: a Dereck Henry problem? And that's the question. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna nod my head yes on this. Derrick Henry had
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  Speaker 1: a very mediocre stat line in this game, but he
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  Speaker 1: also had a signature fumble yet again for Derrick Henry,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not in my ask you look at the
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  Speaker 1: circumstantial evidence on this, and it is piling up. And
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  Speaker 1: it's the same evidence that we have seen for many,
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  Speaker 1: many years doing this job, where you're since the dawn
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  Speaker 1: of time, when you're a running back of a certain age,
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  Speaker 1: and things all of a sudden stopped working, right, It
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  Speaker 1: goes pretty quick. But before we get into the meat
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  Speaker 1: of that, let's hear from We'll hear from Henry in
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  Speaker 1: a second, but let's hear from the aforementioned John Harbaugh.
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  Speaker 1: Here's John Harbaugh talking about what was a backbreaking fumble
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  Speaker 1: late by Derrick Henry. It happened again. Here's the coach.
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  Speaker 4: We got to get it fixed. I mean, that was
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  Speaker 4: kind of a blind shot there. I thought he had
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  Speaker 4: the ball in good position, you know. I thought the
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  Speaker 4: defender got a good look at it though, because it
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  Speaker 4: was kind of a pretrace cutback play. So a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of perfect storm. But still, I mean, we just
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  Speaker 4: want to protect football, you know, all our guys do,
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  Speaker 4: and we gotta we gotta do it. We gotta be
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  Speaker 4: good at it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a perfect storm, except it's happened three games in
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  Speaker 1: a row. Three games in a row. All right, here's
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  Speaker 1: the man of the hour here Derrick Henry. You're the
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  Speaker 1: running back. You were right there among all the top
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  Speaker 1: players in the NFL last year, a great renaissance in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: And now what do we got here? Well, explain for
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  Speaker 1: yourself what happened on that fumble Craiser.
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  Speaker 6: Right now, three games straight, having to my in my
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  Speaker 6: career st fumbles being critical moments.
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  Speaker 5: Just yeah, I ain't gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Go for I apologize, so flat Nation and I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just keep.
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  Speaker 6: Working and get the shirts.
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  Speaker 1: It's a flock Nation. It's a cheesy name the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: marketing department came up with. You could do better, Flock.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like sounds like you say that too many times.
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  Speaker 1: You'll say the effort. Yeah all right, So I'll want
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  Speaker 1: to go back though to the argument, my argument here
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  Speaker 1: with Derek Henry, and I was skeptical, I was, I
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  Speaker 1: was completely wrong. Last year. I said, what are the
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  Speaker 1: Ravens doing here? And we bring in Henry. He was
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  Speaker 1: showing some signs of regression in Tennessee. They brought him
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  Speaker 1: in and he shoved it down my throat. But here
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  Speaker 1: we are a year later and three games in and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, well, this is the thing that we have
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  Speaker 1: seen from running backs since the dawn of time. As
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned here, once they hit that magic age of thirty,
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  Speaker 1: they run into a wall. It's not a gentle fade.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like you're fading out from a scene in
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  Speaker 1: a TV show or a movie. It's oh, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: useful in certain spots. It's not that it's a cliff dive.
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  Speaker 1: You're free diving off the side of the Grand Canyon
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  Speaker 1: and you're just diving. There's a rope or a parachute
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that. You're just diving and you don't
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  Speaker 1: get a warning flare. It's not like they said, well,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, here's a warning. You're running backs starting
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  Speaker 1: to get worse and worse that you don't get a
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  Speaker 1: caution sign. They don't send that out. It's bam. You
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  Speaker 1: go from King Henry to court Jester Henry overnight, just
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  Speaker 1: like that, Just like that. Now one second you are
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  Speaker 1: the wrecking ball and then the next your toast, your toast.
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  Speaker 1: He's thirty one, which is not old, but in sports
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  Speaker 1: when you're running back, that's an issue. Birthday is coming
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  Speaker 1: up in early January, and the numbers tell the story.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at it three point one yards per
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  Speaker 1: carry combined the last two games against the Browns and
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  Speaker 1: now against the Detroit Lions. That is plotting. That is ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: And fumble that's the scarlet letter, the fumble things the
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  Speaker 1: scarlet letter. Three straight games, three straight fumbles, lost two
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  Speaker 1: of them in key matchups. The Buffalo Bills don't come
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  Speaker 1: back and win that game without the generosity of Dereck Henry.
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  Speaker 1: And you can make the same argument that the Lions don't.
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  Speaker 1: They don't win that game without the help of Derrick Henry.
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  Speaker 1: That he's doing more to help the other team right
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  Speaker 1: now than he is to help his team. And so Henry,
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  Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out, if this continues here, he
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  Speaker 1: can at least replace Bart Simpson and be the new
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  Speaker 1: face of Butterfingers, right because at three games in a row,
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  Speaker 1: and that's as many as he had all of last year.
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  Speaker 1: For Derrick Henry, you can't be that guy. You're not
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  Speaker 1: that guy, Palp, You're not that guy, certainly, not now,
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  Speaker 1: not ever in your career. Like at least he used
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: to be good. Ramandre Stevenson fumbles all the time for
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the Patriots, but he's you know, he's not that good
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: and So if you're Baltimore, though, what do we always say,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Don't let a falling star fall on you. Don't do it,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: You just cannot do it. Don't sit there on the
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: ground and look up and the falling star falls onto.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: The Ravens historically have prided themselves on a lot of things,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: but there always a smart team, and they're a physical
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: team and all that stuff. And Henry is not looking
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: right now like much of a centerpiece. Now. He did
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: for three quarters in that game against Buffalo in Week one,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: but that's three weeks ago now, and it doesn't appear
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: to be just a pothole. It does not appear to
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: be just a pothole at this point. And now you
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: go against Kansas City at Arrowhead, a stout Chiefs defense
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: coming up next week, and if Henry does not look
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: like his old self, then and you start We'll wait
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a minute here. Now it's like a quarter of the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: way into the NFL season, and does he fumble again here?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: And running backs generally at age thirty one heading into
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: age thirty two don't just bounce back. It's not a
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: bounce back situation. They usually fall apart pretty quickly. And
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry who has always been that he's got that
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: fear factor where he scares the other team, and it
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: doesn't the only thing he's scaring right now is the
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: raven fan base, flocked nations as he called it. There
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: all right, last word, quickly to the winner's locker room
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: we go where we were very critical. I got an
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: email from John who lives in He says he lives
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: outside Detroit, so I'll say the suburbs of Detroit. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: John said he wrote me immediately after the game, which
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I knew was one of those oh no, no, no, no, no no.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Anytime you get an email right after a game is no, no, no, no,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: no no, your opinion sucked. You know. That was that
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: kind of thing. It was like, I remember what you
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: said after that game in Green Bay. I remember wash
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: your mouth out? You know that coming. So question, does
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: this count as a statement victory for Dan Campbell's Detroit
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Lions to sasheer their way into Baltimore and get the win.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll nod my head. Yes, Listen, I reacted.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: The job is to read and react. That's the job.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: You read. It's like playing defense. You read and react
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: in basketball whatever, and in certain elements of football you
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: read and react, and so I'm not in my yes, yes,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Detroit was strutting into what is supposed to be a
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: hostile environment and they didn't blink. They did not blink
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: in this game. After the no show, which is dope
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: from outside Detroit who emailed me all worked up into
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a ladder there. The Lions deserve to be ripped for
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the way they played against green Bay, especially considering how
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: they played against Baltimore. What do you? And then they
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: destroyed the Chicago Bears as well the green Bay game.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: We were on after the green Bay game, they deserved
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a lashing. We gave them a lashing. And there were
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: some lingering questions about whether or not they were going
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to be as good. They had changed the roster a
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: little bit, the coordinators were different. Those were legitimate questions.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: This is the kind of a win for the Lions
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: on the road, on the road against a brand name
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: franchise like the Ravens that helps answer those doubts. It's
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: not just that they won the Lions, it's how they won. Physical, aggressive,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Now they're always fearless on fourth down and all that
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: stuff that'll come back to bite. Dan Campbell in the ass.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: But that's his DNA, that's in the Dan Campbell DNA
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And what happened was soft Dome team.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I thought all these dome teams is soft. Well, maybe
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the Ravens. I might as well play Adulton the way
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: they're playing right now. So there you go. It was
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the Ravens defense that was soft. Around the edge is
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: a very jello like in this particular performance here, and
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: so there you go. The Lions on the catwalk there
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: they flexed. They did a pirouette right there on the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: catwalk for everyone to see, and they made their little
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: statement and they shook their tushy and they walked away. Congratulations.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: There you go. They are legit, and so they proved
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: it in this particular game. Unless the Ravens turn out
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to be total frauds, then we visit this. But we
• 22:37
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• 22:39
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  Speaker 1: them or not. Anyway, our lead this hour. We talked
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: earlier about the Monday Night game, a surprising result as
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions kicking the tukis of the Baltimore Ravens.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: So it was only an eight point game. But if
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: you saw the game at the line of scrimmage in
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the trenches, trench warfare, dominate, blocking and tackling, blocking and tackling,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: blocking and tackling, and the Lions did better there. But
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: we move on from that. We have a developing story
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: out of Jerry's world, and that is where star defensive
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: end and former Dallas player Micah Parsons, who was one
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: of the faces of the Dallas Cowboys defense for four seasons,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: barely remember this, but apparently didn't do quite enough, quite
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: enough to get one of those Jumbo Tron video tributes,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the thing of a jigs on the Jumbo Tron, the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: what you mightna call it. Now, what is my evidence?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: My evidence is the Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: said that the team will not will not have a
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: tribute video for Micah Parsons when he returns to the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: scene of the crime in Jerry's world this weekend. Do
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: you agree or disagree with the Dallas Cowboys position that
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: they will not will not be putting one of those
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: video tributes up on the scoreboard. So I've got tractor Supply,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: tow truck and kiss and we will combine all of
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: these things together, and we are going to make some
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: chicken wings, just like the ones moving Man Matt made.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: He told me in his truck right here out in
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: front of the studio. So why not live the life.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: That's a as Lurina pointed out, that truck is bigger
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: than most studio apartments, at least in Manhattan. I don't
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: know about in La. But it's a massive, massive, huge,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that's what she said. All right, So number one, all right,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: unpopular opinion to some, but the proper opinion to most.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones got this one right. Don't cave, Jerry, don't
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: do it. Don't cave Jerry Jones. Good job by you. Listen,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Michah Parsons, he didn't want to be a Cowboy anymore.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Otherwise he would have stayed there, right, So the Cowboys
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: ended up trading him to Green Bay. Now, all of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: a sudden, he loves lambeau Field and all that, and
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I hope he enjoys that. But Michael Parsons was a
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: He was a box score stuffer, is what he was.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: We talked about it at the time he was playing
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. This is not revisionist history. We're talking
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: about it right now, but hollow numbers, s p stat padding,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of stat padding there. Now, this is not
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: some Super Bowl darling that was the MVP and dominated
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl for the Dallas Cowboys. In the big picture,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you look at He's said, well, Jerry Jones and the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys look at Micah Parsons so like it was
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: like a what' even a cup of coffee And wasn't
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: even a cup of coffee his time in Dallas and
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Parsons is basically a guy who loads up garbage time
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: fantasy points and he did it time after time after time,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and it's all the kind of guy like the equivalent
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: would be in basketball, where the guy will go out
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: there and drop twenty two points in the fourth quarter
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and like, wow, that's impressive, and they're like, well they
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: were actually down by thirty at the start of a quarter,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: and it said, well, it doesn't really matter, it's not
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: that big a deal. So Jerry Jones is actually shockingly
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the grown up in the room on this Micah Parson's
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: video tribute thing, because the thing that so many people
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: in sports do, they're all a bunch of SAPs, and
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: it's heartstrings marketing and all that, and we've got to
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: give everyone a video tribute and all that. I love
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the fact that Cowboys are not doing it. I love it.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is saying, Hey, you might not think we
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: have standards, but we have standards. Here were the Dallas Cowboys.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: And we're not just gonna throw a state funeral every
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: time some guy leaves and we trade him to another team.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: That's not how this operates. Right. Thank god, there's somebody
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: in sports unlike that damn Dodgers, right with Clayton Kershaw,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: who they had a losing record when Kershaw started the playoffs,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and the damn Dodgers they went down to track their supply,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: got some shovels and they started digging the pitching rubber
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: up for Clayton Kershaw like it was some kind of
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: religious experience. It was so stupid, so dumb. I mean,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: nobody did anyone over there say what are you doing?
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: You morons? Look how stupid we look. He's not dead.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: What do you do? At least the Cowboys aren't like
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, so good for them. Good for them. And
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Michael Parsons is the Dak Prescott of defense. He is
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: right all sizzle, no steak. It's a junk stat machine,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: is what it is. Parsons. You know, a better cop
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: would be I got this NFL's Russell Westbrook. NFL's Russell Westbrook.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Where you look at the numbers and you're like, WHOA,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: get a little turned on here? Those are good numbers, right,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: And then you're like, well, wait a minute, another triple double,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: another triple double, another triple double, meaningless, meaningless, empty, empty,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and Jerry Jones, of all people, of all people, Jerry
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Jones drawing a line in the sand, good old Jerry
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Jones here. Imagine that Jerry freaking Jones acting like the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: adult at the table. Yeah, that's things I cannot believe,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: things I cannot believe. There tells you all you need
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to know, all you need to know about the Micah
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Parsons experience there in Jerry's world. And if Jerry of
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: all people, who loves a promotion as much as anybody,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: but he's like, well, the Cowboys don't retire numbers. They
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: they're not going to do a sizzle video for a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: guy that didn't want to be with the cowboys and
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: then took off. Be a trade and you know, not
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: like the Cowboys miss him. They would have sucked if
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: he had stayed there. Now they sucked without him, But
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: they're the same team they would have been, whether Parsons
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: is there or not. A bad team. Now, speaking of
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys, we have wide receiver C. D. Lamb, who
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: could miss now three to four weeks because of a
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: high ankle spraine. Oh my ankle. Yeah, he suffered that
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: in the loss to the chicag Go Bears over the
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: weekend there in Chicago. So coach Brian Schottenheimer did not
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: did not put a timetable on the possibility of Ceedee
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Lamb returning. He said, quote, he'll miss some time, but
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: CD is a guy who heals quickly and blah blah
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, he'll do everything in this
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: power blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. Alright, So how do you see
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: things working out for the Cowboys without Ceedee Lamb for
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: let's say the next month. The next month, the Cowboys
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: without Ceedee Lamb so much like the Cowboys with Michael
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Parsons or without Michael Parsons. I don't see much of
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: a change. I don't see much of a change looking
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: at the Dallas Cowboys there and they have been serving
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: up hum drum football. Now, the Giants game was exciting
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: until you realize it's embarrassing that the Cowboys had to
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: go overtime neck and neck with Russell Wilson and Jackson
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Dart to get the win. That's embarrassing. And then you
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: look at the Cowboy rosters said, well, humdrum and all that.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: When you look at the Cowboys set up outside of
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb and Dak Prescott a lot of generic, lot
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: of generic brands. Now, I'm okay with generic brand because
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you save a little money, save a little money, I'm
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: okay with that. And the moneyball adage has always gone
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: when any time, anytime a star player gets hurt. The
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: adage from moneyball is it is impossible to replace the player,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: but it is possible to recreate him in the aggregate.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: That's the big nerd word they use in the aggregate.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: So multiple people step up and then the collective will
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: end up in a situation where they they're in better
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: shape or at least as good as shape. But again,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: you look at the roster, and there's a lot of
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: flotsam and jetsam on the roster. It just is that's
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: the way this team has been put together. And you
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: take Ceedee Lambs had some issues. He didn't play particularly
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: well in Game one against the Philadelphia Eagles. We ripped
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: him on a mal of monologue after that game. But
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you look at everything, and so you do the math
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: on this. You got a quarterback who's good but not great,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, good but not great. You've got a running
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: game which is just average, nothing special, just average running game.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: You've got a bunch of receivers who could not separate
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: from a folding chair at this particular point. So you've
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: got the secondary receivers for the Cowboys are Jalen Tolbert
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: and Cavante Turpin. Those are the receivers for the Cowboys.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: So Jerry Jones needs a tow truck, is what he needs?
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Ceede Lamb was the guy the last couple years, at
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: least in games against lesser opponent. Ceedee Lamb would win
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: one on one matchups and stretch the field and make
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: a play and break a play open from the benign
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: of the normal Cowboys. Now, he said a little about
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: George Pickens by George, and that is true. George Pickens
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: is there, and the scouting report on George Pickens is
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: talented but moody, talented but moody. You also have tight
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: end Jake Ferguson, who's essentially a glorified safety valve, so
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: he's in the offense as well, and yeah, that'll work
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: out great, right, Well, what could possibly be wrong? And
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: then you've got Brian Schottenheimer and you're like, well, what's
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: going on here? And we know he's a sock puppet
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and all that. This guy has been fired more times.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: He's had more jobs around football. He's been fired more
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: than a cannon at a Revolutionary War re enactment. Okay,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: he has had by my count, twelve jobs around big
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: time in college football and the NFL, from the Saint
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Louis Rams to the Kansas City Chiefs owner of his
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: dad hired him, Syracuse, USC Georgia, the Redskins, they were
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: called the Redskins. Then we're allowed to say at the
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers, the Colts, the Seahawks, the Jaguars, and
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: now the Dallas Cowboys. So he is going we're supposed
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to think that he's going to scheme up George Pickens
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and some of those other receivers to make up for
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb. Police. Now maybe Jerry Jones will. Of course,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Jerry is saying everything's fine. So let's assume the position.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Let's assume the position that Ceedee Lamb is going to miss.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Let's say he misses four games, four games. So if
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: he misses four games, the Cowboys going, where are they going?
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: One in three? If everything goes right, they go two
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: and two? Defense. I say the defense bails them out.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Is that even possible the way the Cowboys are playing
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: defense at this particular point. Now that being said, let's
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: be honest here though. All right, this is a soft,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: marshmallowy football team. This is a soft football team. They
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: have a soft coach, and they have a soft quarterback,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and it's it's all the same. And so even with
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb, things were bad. They were not good. When
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: they had Cede Lamb, they were bad. And so now Lamb,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you take him out of the equation, and now they'll
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: get exposed more. And so they're flashy, fragile, all of that.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: And when the lights get bright, when it's light bright
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: and they'll shrink again, shrink again, sure enough, because that's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: what they do all right.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Final point, so, staying with the theme of the hour,
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  Speaker 1: and we mentioned the Baltimore Ravens the worst defense in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL this season. Following Week three. These games, which
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  Speaker 1: ended on Monday, Monday Monday, a just an absolute horrific
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  Speaker 1: performance by the Ravens. They give up thirty eight points
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  Speaker 1: and the Lions did what they want.
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  Speaker 6: Well.
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  Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys are not much better at this particular point.
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  Speaker 1: They're not much better than the Baltimore raven In fact,
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys right now, if you look at the
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  Speaker 1: overall standard, Cowboys are thirtieth in the NFL in defense.
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  Speaker 1: In total defense, they're thirtieth out of thirty two teams.
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  Speaker 1: That's not good. I didn't play in the NFL, but
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: where I come from, that's not good. That is not good. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I bring this up because you've got some underlying conditions
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  Speaker 1: here that the Cowboys hired a high falutant, supposedly defensive genius.
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  Speaker 1: The guy got a head coaching job in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: based on his defensive pedigree. Matt Iberflus, who was the
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Chicago bear. So did you see that
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer encouraging, encouraging the defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus to simplify, to simplify the playbook, to try
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: to fix this terrible defense. So what is Shatzi What
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  Speaker 1: is he really saying? What is the head coach of
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys really saying with all so, if you just
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: take your machete and you just cut through the crap,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: just cut through the crap with the machete. There Schottenheimer
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  Speaker 1: is essentially spelling it all out for you don't really
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  Speaker 1: have to dig that deep. There's not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: nuance to it. When a coach says that he wants
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  Speaker 1: to simplify the approach. When that is said, okay, he's
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  Speaker 1: telling you my players are dumb, the dumb, dumb, dumb.
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  Speaker 1: They're so stupid, the Dallas Cowboy players. They can't understand
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  Speaker 1: the scheme, cannot do it, they don't understand. They're not
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  Speaker 1: that right. That's what he's saying. That's it. Forget all
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the coach speak and all. It's when you say simplify, Fine,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: what you are saying is you're really saying, my guys
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  Speaker 1: are unable to process what we are trying to get
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: them to do. Cannot get it. Well, that's what they're saying.
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  Speaker 1: So they're turning to the thing that came out of
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  Speaker 1: the military. It's called the Kiss method, and that's keep
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: it simple, stupid, the Kiss method. And we've seen this
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  Speaker 1: movie before, sitting in this chair over the years, we've
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: seen this from time to time and went, in doubt.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: You always strip it down, down, down, down, down down.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: You strip it down, and you handhold, and you do
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  Speaker 1: the ABC's and the one two threes, and you treat
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  Speaker 1: them like they're playing pee wee football. Professional football players.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Treat it like they're playing pee wee football. And don't
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: bury the lead, mo Man, We're not going to bury
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the lead. This all comes right after, right after, of course,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the famous Micah Parsons trade, who will not be honored
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: on the jumbo Tron when he goes back with Green
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Bay this weekend. But the argument for where Michael Parsons
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: is he's the eraser. Of course, we pointed out a
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  Speaker 1: lot of empty stats on that, a lot of empty stats.
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  Speaker 1: So Dallas, we mentioned now thirtieth in well, they're thirtieth
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  Speaker 1: in total defense, they're twenty eighth in scoring defense, Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: allowing thirty point seven points per game this season. The
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: only teams averaging more points on average are the Chicago Bears,
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  Speaker 1: the New York Jets, the Titans, and the Dolphins. That's it,
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  Speaker 1: and even worse in as we mentioned in the total defense.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: So you've got Shani who's doing a shawnee job as
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: the head coach there. He knows it's bad, he knows
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: it stinks, and so that's why he's talking about we
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: need to quote simplify. It's all about simplifying the playbook there,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: because right now, you are trying to polish a turd
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: is what you're trying to do. You're trying to polish
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: a turd. That is what you are attempting to do.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: That is the reality of the situation. You can spray
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: cologne on it if you want little split splits just
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: like that. You do that. You can wrap it in
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: tinfoil if you choose to do that. Whatever, it still stinks,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. It does not smell good. And Dallas's defense,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: they look like a bunch of guys that just met
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: each other, and they just met each other and they're
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: trying to solve advanced calculus, but they can barely get
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: through long division. So they're cooked. They're absolutely cooked. And
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: it's not about scheme. It's not about that. It's about survival.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: At this point, well, just dumb it down. We'll play
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: a basic defense and instead of getting completely embarrassed, we'll
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: only get partially embarrassed, and that'll be good.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
• 41:41
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• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Good name about that? To the third degree, this is
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: one thing.
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  Speaker 8: It seems every year the Chargers are a popular sleeper
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: pick in the NFL, only to ultimately disappoint. Well after
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: they win over the Broncos, we're seeing it again, headline
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: saying that this will be the year that the Chargers
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: justify the hype, and it's because of Justin Herbert.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: Ben, do you think they're finally legit contender?
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: No, I don't trust Herbert. He's had two playoff games,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: did nothing in the second half, they got killed by
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville and then this Houston game last year. I don't
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: trust him. I don't care how many games they win.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I gotta see him perform under the pressure of the playoffs.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I don't next Baker.
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: Mayfield admitted after the Bucks went over the Jets on
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: Sunday that he took a little extra pleasure in beating
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: their defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes, who Baker pointed out was
• 42:28
  Speaker 8: the one who cut him in Carolina. But how much
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: better do you think things would be going for the
• 42:32
  Speaker 8: Panthers right now if they had kept Baker?
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Well, they don't have a quarterback, so he couldn't be
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: much worse. By the way, you need some garlic, Coop,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: he needs some garlic. I just lost my voice. I'm
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: not sick, all right.
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: Kevin O'Connell refused to say that he started JJ McCarthy
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: over Carson Wentz when he's healthy.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: What do you think that's a dead giveaway. He's not
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: happy with JJ McCarthy. It's an easy thing to say, Yes,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: JJ my starter. He didn't say it. Trouble in Minnesota.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: How'd we do? How'd we do? Passes? You will get
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: some garlic, get some tea and honey and honey.
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• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I think we have some contestants here that have
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: answered the call, and let's see who we are. We
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: say hello to Kevin, who's in I believe southern California?
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: What's going on? Kevin? Welcome? Welcome, Hello, Kevin? What's going
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: You want to play the game? Yes, you know how
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: the game works?
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: I think, so I do good?
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: I listen, but okay I might so. Well, all right,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: that's all right, that's fine. I'm sure you find out.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with here? Kevin? Yeah,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: me me, all right, Well we're in it to win
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: it very good. Hold on a shocker.
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: They always choose you, Ben if.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: You want, I can have someone choose you. Still working
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: on my sports knowledge, maybe in like five years, five years,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. So Kevin's gonna play alongside me. We've
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: got Tyler in Boston. Who's going to play? Hello? Tyler? Welcome?
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: What's going on? Beny? You out working right now? Tyler?
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: On my way on your way in? I got you
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: all right, Well I've already been picked, Tyler. So who
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: do you want to partner up with here? You want
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: to go with the Rena or Coop. As much as
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I love Lorena, I'll have to take Coop on this song.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry not picked again? All right, fine, now you
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: know my life in elementary school when I wasn't picked
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: for kickball? All right, now you know what it's like.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: You see you have that that pretty girl privilege. But
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: right now you don't. You see that that's ugly people.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Privilege is what we have. All right?
• 44:45
  Speaker 8: Well, anyway, gentlemen, this is Malard's mount of Money, the
• 44:48
  Speaker 8: Joan Jet edition. She turned sixty seven years old on Monday,
• 44:53
  Speaker 8: Happy birthday. Yes, the categories are you don't know what
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: you've got? Bad reputation. I love rock and roll and
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: everyday people. Kevin, you were on first, Which category would
• 45:05
  Speaker 8: you like?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: I think? All right, man loves rock and roll?
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: And Tyler, how about you?
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Bad reputation, bad reputation?
• 45:15
  Speaker 9: All right, like that might be you, Tyler. All right,
• 45:17
  Speaker 9: A hold on, gentlemen, do not hang up. We will
• 45:19
  Speaker 9: pause for the cause, and then we will have in
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: its entirety, we will have the game. If you're on hold,
• 45:26
  Speaker 9: you're our backup in case one of these two guys
• 45:29
  Speaker 9: hangs up. But we'll have Malord's Mountain of Money. We'll
• 45:32
  Speaker 9: get to that, and we will do it.
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: Next.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: to get to the top? Probably not.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Let's do here we go. We've got Kevin who's hanging
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: out in a beautiful Joshua tree in California. He's matched
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: up with me. And we've got Tyler on his way
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: to work in Boston, and he is matched up with
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Cooper Loop. But is the Jones, Jededish and and Kevin?
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: You picked? I love rock and roll? Is that correct? Kevin?
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: All right? These athletes have all performed in or with
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: rock bands. We need the first and last name. Do
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: you understand? Yes? All right? Forty five seconds on the clock.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: We're on our way. Go. Greatest nineteen eighties professional wrestler.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: He just passed away blonde hair. Yes, Steelers quarterback in
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: the seventies. He's on the NFL on Fox right now
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: on the weekend. Yes, he had a serial named after him.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: He was a star at Boston College. A little short
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: quarterback hit a hail Mary pass. He's played with the Patriots. Yes,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: very angry. Nineteen eighties white guy tennis player yelled at Yes,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: the Flying Tomato was his nickname. He was a snowball
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: in the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: What's his name?
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: All right? Picture for the White Sox of the Yankees.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: White guy named black Jack, starting pitcher in the in
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: the nineties. Yeah, yeah, ok, I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I mean you said his first name. I said Blackjack.
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: That's the That's not his name. His name is part
• 47:20
  Speaker 8: of his names in the nickname. That's questionable, questionable?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: How many points is that?
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: It should be? One hundred? Cheating again?
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Shut up?
• 47:30
  Speaker 8: Okay, Kevin some garlic? Okay, Tyler, Tyler, We have bad reputation. Uh,
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: these sports figures all have a bad reputation.
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: Are you ready?
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Will Coop's voice maker? Ready?
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 47:45
  Speaker 8: Forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin. Bill's running
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: back killed two people? Yes, Patriots tight end killed one person.
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: This guy was the head coach of Penn State. He'd
• 47:59
  Speaker 8: let I'm bad.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 48:02
  Speaker 8: This guy was a running back for the Ravens. He
• 48:04
  Speaker 8: beat up his wife in an elevator.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: Yes, this was a figure skater.
• 48:08
  Speaker 8: She had her ex husband take a crowbar to the
• 48:11
  Speaker 8: Nancy Kerrigan's knee. Yes, this guy was a wide receiver
• 48:15
  Speaker 8: for the Raiders. He drove like one hundred and ten
• 48:17
  Speaker 8: miles an hour. Yes, this guy was a on the
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: Tampa Bay Rays. He was in a relationship with a
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: fourteen year old in the Dominican Republic.
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: Let's go.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: So that was so easy? God, it's not easy.
• 48:36
  Speaker 6: That's right, that's right, good job, that's you. Shut up job, Tyler.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Come on, Kevin ran the Kevin.
• 48:42
  Speaker 6: That's what I call domination.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Get how about you get a throat, lawson? How about that?
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Get a damn throat losing? Do you sound like Doc
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Rivers over there? All right, Kevin? What do you want? Yeah,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: you don't know what you got? Or everyday people, you
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: don't know what you got? All right, you don't know
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: what you good? Forty five seconds on o'clock. These athletes
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: were all traded before they reached superstardom. Are you ready, Kevin?
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: I hope?
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, all right, here we go. He was known
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: as the chief of the nineteen eighties Boston Celtics, the
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: center alongside McHale and yes, uh, mister big shot. For
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: the Pistons. He was drafted by the Celtics guard. Yes,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: a closer for the Padres and the nineties, one of
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: the all time great Hall of Fame closers. Yeah, keep talking.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Yes uh. The pitcher for the Reds, for the Red
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Sox and the Expos was traded by the Dodgers for
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: the Lino Deshields. Yes.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Forty nine ers quarterback after Joe Montana, there was yes, uh,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: the Bambino for the Yankees. Yes, and the and the
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Beard for the Clippers. Yeah, I get that.
• 49:55
  Speaker 8: We read all right, easy category, All right, Tyler, let's
• 49:58
  Speaker 8: go every day, even Tyler, let's go. These athletes all
• 50:01
  Speaker 8: got regular jobs after their playing careers. Forty five seconds,
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: let's begin, all right. He was a center for the
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: Milwaukee Bucks and the SuperSonics. He's an assistant coach on
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: the Bucks right now. His last name is like what
• 50:12
  Speaker 8: you do to cookies. Yes, all right, you're a cheater.
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: You were a cheater, Tyler.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: You were a cook