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Hour 1 - Model of Consistency · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Bippity boppity boo. And how do you do? It's our
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  Speaker 1: number one. Here we go. Ben Maller Show. Brand new week.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Monday. It's the 14th day of September. We stayed
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  Speaker 1: up all night to provide fresh pod.
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  Speaker 2: You smell that?
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  Speaker 1: That's the smell of fresh pod. Now, here in Hour 1,
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  Speaker 1: how do you describe Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys defense in that
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night game? What a performance. Another memorable debacle for
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas football team. Now, Dak Prescott nicknamed the 2026
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys offense, Gotti.
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  Speaker 2: Greatest offense there is.
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  Speaker 1: Gotti. G-O-T-I. Did Dallas back that up on the field?
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  Speaker 1: I think you know the answer to that. And what
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  Speaker 1: is the word, your word, for Coach John Harbaugh's first
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  Speaker 1: real game.
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  Speaker 2: As the Giants head coach?
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  Speaker 1: We'll huddle up and give you the magic right now.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is, our number one. Well, the years change.
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  Speaker 1: They go by, and we come in here after NFL football,
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  Speaker 1: and there's some things that are consistent. The Dallas Cowboys, baby.
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  Speaker 1: They're the Cowboys. That's how they play. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. Welcome in the beginning of another week of
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere
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  Speaker 1: as we come out of the gates swinging. And we
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  Speaker 1: are where the wild things are in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night. Coast to coast, border to border, and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: On the vast and sizzlingly powerful microphones of FSR emanating live.
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  Speaker 1: Do it live! From the seat high atop the catbird
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  Speaker 1: in the nose. And MalapropGuy will drop a piano on
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  Speaker 1: my head. All of those things may happen unless they don't.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, we are here hanging out. Hope you had
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  Speaker 1: a great weekend. We have survived. We survived the first
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  Speaker 1: full Sunday of the NFL season. And might I add
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  Speaker 1: so our lead this hour, Don't bury the lead, my man!
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to bury the lead.
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  Speaker 2: Calm down.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be no lead burying. Nothing will be
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  Speaker 1: buried in terms of the lead. So it's rather obvious here.
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  Speaker 1: The primetime Sunday night game made for television and made
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  Speaker 1: for overnight talk radio. So our lead is from the
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  Speaker 1: swamplands of Jersey there where the Sunday night cap for
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  Speaker 1: a very offensive defense Very offensive day of football here,
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  Speaker 1: the Giants and Cowboys. But we never get to see
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  Speaker 1: the Giants and Cowboys in Sunday night football. So rare,
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  Speaker 1: so rare that NBC would put that game in primetime.
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  Speaker 1: Just really odd. Anyway, if you didn't watch it, perhaps not.
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  Speaker 1: You might have been burned out. Maybe you lost your
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  Speaker 1: parlay or your big bet of the day there, and
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  Speaker 1: you feel like a dope. I had a very middling
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  Speaker 1: day myself there. A couple of backdoor things broke my mind.
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  Speaker 1: The Washington, not that you care about my bets, but
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  Speaker 1: the Washington-Philadelphia game, that late touchdown by Washington hurt. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta and Pittsburgh, that was a bit of a blow there.
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  Speaker 1: considering the way the game had gone. But more on
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  Speaker 1: that later. And so we watched the Sunday night game,
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  Speaker 1: so you would not have to.
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  Speaker 2: It is our good mitzvah of the day.
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  Speaker 1: And Jackson Dart, like he was back in college, slicing
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  Speaker 1: up some low-level directional school, connecting with tight end Isaiah Likely,
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  Speaker 1: the former Raven, for not one but two, two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: And Devin Singletary had another. Cam Scataboo ran for one.
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  Speaker 1: In his first game back after that big injury there
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  Speaker 1: and really dressed for success, Cam Scadaboo, if you saw what.
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  Speaker 2: He was wearing there as he walked into the game, like, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, anyway, the Giants opened up the season by rumbling
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  Speaker 1: and stumbling past the Cowboys. 28-20, the final of the
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  Speaker 1: game that did not seem that close in Sunday Night Football.
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  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh's New York debut right there. Free throw. turkey
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  Speaker 1: sandwiches at any bodega in new york for john harbaugh
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  Speaker 1: now you know how we roll in these parts it
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  Speaker 1: has been the mantra of the show all these years
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  Speaker 1: the better story is in the losing locker room and
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  Speaker 1: that's why we talk a lot about the cowboys i
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  Speaker 1: get emails what do you talk so much about the
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  Speaker 1: cowboys nobody even calls from dallas i don't understand well
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  Speaker 1: that's true we don't get a lot of calls from
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  Speaker 1: dallas but they're cowboy fans everywhere all right that's the
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  Speaker 1: first thing and then second thing We love talking about losers.
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  Speaker 1: And it's even more fun to talk about losers when
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  Speaker 1: they're expecting to be good. Boy, that's a good story, right?
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  Speaker 1: When a team's supposed to be good and then they're not. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome. So the Cowboys dropped another turd right there
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  Speaker 1: in the Jersey Swamp land. And that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. How do
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  Speaker 1: you describe Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys defense? Let's start with the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys defense here because I think that's the story. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do that. So we've got Toby Keith. We've got
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  Speaker 1: rapping as well. And if that was not enough, Martha Stewart.
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  Speaker 1: Three things that have never been put together.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to do that, and we are going
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  Speaker 2: to strong-arm that.
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  Speaker 1: The microphones the powerful microphones the bully pulpit here of
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  Speaker 1: fox sports radio so we begin with this again the
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  Speaker 1: question how do you describe brian schottenheimer's cowboys defense so
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  Speaker 1: the cowboys defense is not rebuilt it's re-airing last season
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  Speaker 1: with new commercials they just a new commercial now we
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  Speaker 1: used to have these things called reruns and then people
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  Speaker 1: realize well everything's on demand.
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  Speaker 2: You really needed reruns for the most part here uh
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  Speaker 2: just like Like a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: This show is saved. You can replay it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a re-airing.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever you want, right? Eventually, this will become a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But Dallas spent all off-season, yet again, yet again, changing
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  Speaker 1: the ingredients and somehow... The meatloaf appears to still taste
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  Speaker 1: like a Goodyear tire with a little extra salt and
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  Speaker 1: some pepper. Same factory settings for the Cowboys. Yeah, Vaughn
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  Speaker 1: Miller's a big name. I know he's at the end
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  Speaker 1: of his career, but Vaughn Miller brought him in. You know,
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  Speaker 1: local guy from Texas comes back to play for the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: They hired this hotshot defensive coordinator from the Eagles, Christian Parker. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: young savant, the Sean McVay of defense, Christian Parker. And
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  Speaker 1: that performance, yet first opportunity, the performance for the Cowboys defense.
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  Speaker 1: It was a Toby Keith song, Wacky Tabaki, the way
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  Speaker 1: they played their third and anything against Dallas. That turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be a rewards program for the opposing quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: in this case Jackson Dart, who completed overall 79% of
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  Speaker 1: his passes. There should be a tribunal on the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys defense. Jackson Dart went out there and shoved it
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  Speaker 1: down your throat. 79% completion percentage, three touchdowns, a partridge
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  Speaker 1: in a pear tree. The Giants also ran for 165 yards,
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  Speaker 1: held the ball for nearly 37 minutes. I didn't play
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. I'm told that's good. I'm told that's good.
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  Speaker 1: And also, let's not forget, The generosity of Dallas, they
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  Speaker 1: handed over 10.
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  Speaker 2: Penalties for 114 yards.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants gained 114 yards on the kindness of the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys defense that had the discipline, watching this game, the
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  Speaker 1: discipline of a kindergarten class after somebody handed out the
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  Speaker 1: pixie sticks.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's no discipline. There's none.
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  Speaker 1: Now, did I have the Cowboys? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Did I expect the Cowboys to play better?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do I look like a donkey? Yeah, I look
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  Speaker 1: like a donkey. Hopefully I don't smell like one. The
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys here. How many times do I come on here?
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  Speaker 1: And usually the Cowboys would get off to a decent
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  Speaker 1: start before they start imploding. And the Giants are one
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  Speaker 1: of those weird teams.
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  Speaker 2: Are they a good team?
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  Speaker 1: Have they crossed the Rubicon? We're not sure yet. They're
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  Speaker 1: kind of in that gray area where they could be good.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of bad football from the Giants
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  Speaker 1: over the years. Anyway, so listen, Brian Schottenheimer, the coach.
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  Speaker 1: After that performance, he should be answering questions under oath.
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  Speaker 1: Under oath because somebody needs to explain where the F
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  Speaker 1: the coaching went. Like you're either coaching the undisciplined football
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  Speaker 1: or you're just allowing it to happen. Either way, you're porked. OK,
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  Speaker 1: so this is the Cowboys eternal scam. And they've been
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  Speaker 1: doing it my entire time in sports radio. Now, believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not, I actually got it so long ago.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys were still winning championships. But for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: This is the scam. The names change.
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  Speaker 1: There's new optimism, unbridled optimism for the Dallas Cowboys. And
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  Speaker 1: then the same malpractice, in this case, defensive malpractice. And
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboy fan, yet again, has now entered what we
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  Speaker 1: call the age of.
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  Speaker 2: Reason, which is when the regular season begins.
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  Speaker 1: The annual September ritual, that the brochure that Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: showed you, the brochure looks a lot better than the
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  Speaker 1: actual resort product.
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  Speaker 2: Understand?
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, meanwhile.
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  Speaker 1: On the offensive side for Jerry Jones' team, because this
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  Speaker 1: is also a great story. We talk about every year
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  Speaker 1: it's the eternal scam, the optimism, the hype, and there's
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  Speaker 1: no one better. The Cowboys are the most valuable franchise,
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  Speaker 1: not only in America, but in the world. They have
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  Speaker 1: what they need in terms of creating buzz. So the
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott quote came to mind. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you thought about it when I was watching this game
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  Speaker 1: and I was thinking about my place in the universe,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm watching the Cowboys really scuff it up, really
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  Speaker 1: scuff it up. And I was going back to training camp,
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  Speaker 1: and do you remember the Dak Prescott quote? Because that
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  Speaker 1: flashed into my head. So we're going to frame it
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  Speaker 1: as a question. Okay, we're going to frame it as
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  Speaker 1: a question. So the question, Dak Prescott nicknamed the 2026
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys offense GOTTI, G-O-T-I, as in greatest offense ever.
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  Speaker 2: There is.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Did Dallas back that talk from Dak Prescott
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  Speaker 1: up on the field?
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to answer this. I'm going to play
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  Speaker 1: the wheel of fortune and play the wheel of fortune.
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  Speaker 1: So I would like an N. And can I buy
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  Speaker 1: a vowel?
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  Speaker 2: OK, good.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to buy an O. Let's put them together.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. Gotti, more like gotta do better.
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  Speaker 1: Dak out there, this offseason, you know, Dak, he's usually
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  Speaker 1: pretty boring. And during training camp, randomly Dak talked like
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  Speaker 1: Jay-Z and played like the guy handing out.
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  Speaker 2: The mixtapes outside. I don't think they do that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the day, they'd be like, free, free. And
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  Speaker 2: then if you take it, they'd hit you up for money.
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  Speaker 2: That's their hustle.
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  Speaker 1: But Dak Prescott was out there rapping bars for the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas offense there. The performance was pure rap, R-A-P, as
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  Speaker 1: in replacement-level average performer.
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Replacement-level average performer. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: And, by the way, replacement-level conjoined word.
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  Speaker 1: That's how it works.
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  Speaker 2: Just work with me. Just work with me. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, this album by Dak Prescott went absolutely platinum in
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  Speaker 1: that game on Sunday Night Football. And to think, you've
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  Speaker 1: got CeeDee Lamb on one side. You've got George Pickens
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  Speaker 1: on the other. A couple of thermonuclear missiles as wide receivers.
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  Speaker 1: And somehow, someway, they got turned into possession receivers. Possession receiver.
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  Speaker 1: CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens are supposed to be fireworks,
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  Speaker 1: and they played like wet sparklers. Prescott averaged 5.1 yards
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  Speaker 1: per pass. Again, Gotti, Gotti, Gotti, Gotti. Greatest offense there is.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the greatest? 5.1 yards per pass? Despite having
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  Speaker 1: all the horsepower. They need one of those little blue pills.
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  Speaker 1: They came up limp in Dallas. And the offense lacked
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  Speaker 1: any real razzle-dazzle. Making this less greatest offense there is
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  Speaker 1: and more get-off-the-internet type offense, like stay away from social media.
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  Speaker 1: And Dak completed under 60% of his passes to those
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  Speaker 1: two guys. Less than 60%. They combined, if you put side-by-side...
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  Speaker 1: Lamb and Pickens for a pathetic 75 yards total. Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are we doing? What are we doing? This is
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  Speaker 1: why people laugh at the Cowboys. Nobody celebrates themselves harder
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  Speaker 1: before accomplishing less. Here is shoddy, by the way. What
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  Speaker 1: a shoddy performance by Brian Schottenheimer's team. And he's about
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  Speaker 1: to play the blame game.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: You know, one of the things, not excuse, guys, we
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  Speaker 3: did not play well. But you got young players.
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  Speaker 1: And a young player closes in.
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  Speaker 3: Jackson Dart boots and gets outside. We don't push three
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  Speaker 3: different times to the flat route. Excuse my language. You know, like,
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  Speaker 3: those are going to happen. And we have to coach
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  Speaker 3: the young players better. But when you play young players,
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  Speaker 3: it's part.
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  Speaker 2: Of the deal.
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  Speaker 1: I like how he said no excuses. Then what word
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  Speaker 1: did he use? That's right. He used but, capital B.
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  Speaker 1: That was the pivot. That was the pivot point. That's
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  Speaker 1: where he started rolling off excuses. Play it again. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: you can hear him. He always said, oh, no excuses.
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  Speaker 1: And then he dropped a but in there, and then
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  Speaker 1: it was nothing but excuses. And you could tell he's
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  Speaker 1: making excuses because he got upset and then said the
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  Speaker 1: F word.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: You know, one of the things, not excuse, guys. We
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  Speaker 3: did not play well. But you got young players. And
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  Speaker 3: young player closes in Jackson Dart boots and gets outside.
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  Speaker 3: We don't push three different times to the flat route.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse my language.
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  Speaker 1: Fly route.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: All right, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, it's good to be back talking football here. I
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  Speaker 2: love these losers. I love losers.
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  Speaker 1: I love talking about losers. I get paid to talk
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  Speaker 1: about losers. All right, so last word. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: winners for a second. Let's change it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I like losers. I love losers.
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  Speaker 2: That's AI.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the question. What is your word?
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  Speaker 2: I love words.
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  Speaker 1: What is your word for John Harbaugh's first real game
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  Speaker 1: as Giants coach? So my word for John Harbaugh's Giants debut, tantalizing,
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  Speaker 1: capital T, tantalizing. Small sample size, obviously, one game, but
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  Speaker 1: we have a talk show to do right now. The
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  Speaker 1: arrow is pointing straight up. And as a part of
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  Speaker 1: Americana from many years ago, before my time even, Mark
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  Speaker 1: Twain would say, There's gold in them, their hills. There's
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  Speaker 1: gold in them, their hills. And Harbaugh did not rebuild
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  Speaker 1: the New York overnight. Obviously, he's not going to sit
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  Speaker 1: here and say that. However, for the first time in forever,
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  Speaker 1: you can see something that has a blueprint that can
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  Speaker 1: last for more than a couple of games. Nobody ever
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  Speaker 1: bought into Daniel Jones.
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  Speaker 2: That guy blows.
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  Speaker 1: And they've had some other turds that played for the
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  Speaker 1: Giants over the years and some really incompetent coaches.
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  Speaker 2: But this guy's like a grown-up in the room.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants have gone from football purgatory to football promising.
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  Speaker 2: Which is not a bad first step.
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  Speaker 1: I am Benny Brightside on the Giants, which concerns me
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  Speaker 1: because their next game is against the Rams. I think
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  Speaker 1: I'll be at that game watching them in person a
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  Speaker 1: week from Monday here. or next Monday night, not obviously today,
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  Speaker 1: but the next Monday night. So this was a direct copy.
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  Speaker 1: What I saw from John Harbaugh was the Baltimore playbook.
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  Speaker 1: John basically packed up the Martha Stewart cookbook when he
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  Speaker 1: left the Ravens, and the recipe is physicality, smash mouth,
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  Speaker 1: got a little bass in their voice now. They're no
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  Speaker 1: longer squeaking. No longer squeaking. And forcing the Cowboys, a
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  Speaker 1: high-powered offense, to eat a casserole of crow. That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem very tasty. A casserole of crow. Was it perfect?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Far from it. The Giants had nine penalties.
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  Speaker 1: They had four fumbles. They only lost one of them.
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  Speaker 1: So Lady Luck was on their side. Regardless, Jackson Dart,
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  Speaker 1: I was impressed. I hate to say that. You know
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  Speaker 1: I don't like to praise anyone, but Jackson Dart really
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  Speaker 1: did impress me.
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  Speaker 2: How much of that was the Cowboys' defense?
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  Speaker 1: But he was out there performing surgery. Like he was
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  Speaker 1: Drew Brees carving up, carving up. the Dallas defense and
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  Speaker 1: then the Giants defense themselves, muting CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens.
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  Speaker 1: So listen, the Giants obviously did not hire John Harbaugh
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  Speaker 1: to win news conferences in September. And he's made some
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  Speaker 1: headlines here. Last week, there was the not playing along
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  Speaker 1: with the injuries and the New York writers and all that,
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  Speaker 1: which went viral and which was cool. But the Giants
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  Speaker 1: obviously hired him. To change the DNA, because they have
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  Speaker 1: bad DNA there. A lot of medical problems for the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: And you could see that mutation starting. You could kind
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  Speaker 1: of tell there's something going on. And I'm never wrong
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• 19:23
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• 19:25
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• 19:27
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• 19:32
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• 19:35
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• 19:37
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• 19:38
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• 19:39
  Speaker 2: The Rams have their own issues.
• 19:41
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• 19:43
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• 19:46
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• 19:49
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• 19:53
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• 19:55
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• 20:03
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• 20:06
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• 20:09
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• 20:13
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• 21:15
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• 22:39
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• 22:43
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• 22:49
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• 22:50
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• 22:53
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• 22:57
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• 23:00
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• 23:02
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• 23:05
  Speaker 1: on the mailbag. He gave Coop his number. I dialed
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: up Hollering James. And what do you think happened?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take a guess what happened when I
• 23:15
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• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: He was sleeping.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: No.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: The number was disconnected.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he gave Coop the wrong number
• 23:24
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• 23:28
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• 23:31
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• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Incorrectly or whatever.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Anyway, so we had Robbie on. And I was going
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: to have Robbie and Hollering James, but Robbie was on
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: for the mailbag yet.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Again because he answers his phone. That's why. Even when
• 23:44
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• 23:45
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• 23:49
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• 23:55
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• 23:57
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• 23:58
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• 23:59
  Speaker 1: A Bronco fan. Some AI audio there.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Come on now.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Rod, the ambassador of Bakersfield, writes in... Not many people
• 24:10
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• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Rod says, usually I'm sleeping, but I'm talking to Jack Daniels.
• 24:18
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• 24:22
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• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Alf the Alien O'Piner writes in and says, you better
• 24:28
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• 24:32
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• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, look, he's threatening to punch me. That's not right, man.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Why am I wearing a Seahawk bat, by the way?
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Take that off, Alf. Come on. It's a bad job
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: by you. King Rory writes in, says, is the Kyler
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Murray era in Minnesota already over? Also fire Matt LeFleur. Yeah. Boy,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: that could not have.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Gone worse for Kyler Murray.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: How could it have gone worse? So Kyler Murray goes in,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: plays a couple plays, gets dinged, gets knocked out with
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a headache, concussion. And then Carson Wentz comes in. Didn't
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: really do much for the first part of the game,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and then goes absolutely bonkers in the fourth quarter, and
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Minnesota comes back. We'll talk about that a little later.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: But my God. My God. What else do we have?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Let's see.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Realist writes in and says, shout out picking with Poppy.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: That must be Poppy's burner account. No one's ever sent
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: me something like that before other than Poppy. from a
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: burner account. Analog Al writes in, it says, it seems
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: like they just let the Giants go down and get
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a touchdown just before the end of the first half. Well,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys, even if they were trying to stop the Giants,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: it didn't seem they knew what they were doing. Doug
• 25:51
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• 25:54
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• 25:55
  Speaker 2: We're a daytime show there.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: He says, Ben, I don't have a hot take, but
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: NFL Week 1 sure didn't disappoint. Makes dragging myself out
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: of bed at 2 a.m. Korea time to watch the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: 1 p.m. games totally worth it. My sleep schedule, that's
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: another story. Well, I'm right there with you. I was
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: at the Charger Cardinals game, which was the biggest upset
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: of the day in the NFL. The Chargers were nine,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: nine and a half point favorite on DraftKings. And the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Cardinals won the game. They won the game outright. By
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the way, I did run into Eddie, my guy, Eddie.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: He was there, you know, Charger season. Eddie says hello
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to everybody. He misses y'all. And we had a good
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: conversation with Eddie there. at the game.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, the Chargers.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Go, King Eddie! Did you check in on Karen afterwards?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Poor Karen. Eddie's wife, Karen, she's like a celebrity Charger fan.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: And she was on the NFL draft during the pandemic, remember?
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: And she was on there with Goodell and all that. Yeah,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the Chargers looked horrific. And the Cardinals suck. And the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Cardinals looked like they.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Knew what they were doing.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: What happened to this hot shot, boy wonder offensive coordinator,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the old Dolphin coach?
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Who took over the Chargers offense.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: They had less than 270 yards of offense.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: They were terrible on third down, the Chargers.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And both teams had a lot of penalties called in
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: this game. I've got to go back to Doug, though,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: because the thing about it, and I was up early, whatever,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: who cares? That's part of life.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: You've got to enjoy life.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Because it'll be gone before you know it.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: The Chargers, the mess there and all that, and Doug
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: was talking about how these games were good, and that's true.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I was expecting a bunch of crappy games.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I was like, well, these games are going to blow.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And, yeah, there were some games that were clearly lopsided
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and not that great, but we had some really, really
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: fun games, you know, which is... which is great.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: That's what you want. You want a bunch of both.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: The Jacksonville killing Cleveland, which actually turned out to be
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a good story. The Vikings come back against the Packers.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: The Raiders look good as long as they can play
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins a few more times, win a few more games.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: So there was that. You had the Ravens absolutely take
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the Colts to the woodshed, which was a blowout. The
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Bears was such a bad lopsided thing. It was actually
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: close for a while, but the Bears kept scoring and scoring.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: How bad is Carolina's defense?
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: My God.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot to talk about, obviously, as we
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: go through the overnight. Let's go to the phones right now.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Let's start out with Hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Hello, Hollering James. Is he already sleeping? He's already sleeping.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: How is it possible that he could already be sleeping?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I took him first because I wanted to yell at
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: him for not giving me a proper phone number. And
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I can't even yell at him because he's sleeping. When
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I answered his call, he said, I have limited time
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: left on my phone battery. I need to get on soon.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: So you can't get on any sooner than this, James.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: You're the first call that we've taken. James.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I don't even hear him snoring. Is he okay?
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: James.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: James.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: James.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: James.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: This is hollering James. A man that can sleep anywhere. James.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: James.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: James.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Well, put him.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: He'll call back anyway. Who do we care?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Anthony, who's in Louisiana.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: I know he's got some hot football takes.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Hello, Anthony. Welcome.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Hey, man. How you doing?
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, Anthony, and I know you're
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: very concerned about how I'm doing. If I was any better,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I'd be a Saint, but not a New Orleans Saint.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: What a hard luck loss. I know you're not a
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Saints fan, though, so you don't really care about it.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: I'm a Cowboys fan.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Well, they lost, too.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Can you play defense for the Cowboys?
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: What position would you play?
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I play safety. Safety.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Well, you might want to call the Cowboys. They could
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: probably use you.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: You had a good weekend, man?
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Well, thanks for asking.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that, Anthony. Yeah, it was good.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I kind of flew by. Hey, cuz.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I was kidding. Hi, Anthony.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: How you doing, Lorraine?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I'm good. I love you. Don't cry.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Don't get that.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: Don't go home and cry. Guess what, Lorraine? What?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I cheated on you at church.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Oops.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Wait, what?
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: What?
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Someone else gave you a hug?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, Lorena, are you upset?
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Wow, I can't believe you would do that. I still
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: love you.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: I don't know how I feel about that.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Lorena, you see other women here.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: You can only have eyes for me. He's cheating on you.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's offensive.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: I still love you.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Sure. You say that to all the girls, don't you?
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Come on. You're just a ladies' man. Are we talking
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: to an AI bot? What is going on here? What
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: is going on? What if there's a soundboard?
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe there's like an Anthony in Louisiana soundboard.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: That would be hilarious. If he wasn't actually real, he
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: was like an AI robot. Wouldn't that be great?
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, I will definitely pray for you.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Good luck.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, you have surgery? Okay.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: What, you want to share with the class?
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: What was it, like dental surgery? Or is it like
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: something else? Yeah, I got to have two teams taken out,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: so I'm going to talk to.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: You for a while.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: No, you're not going to call. Oh, come on.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: You can still talk. Or you can have your mouse.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: What?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Lorraine?
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Yes? You got my phone number?
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Be sure to call me and check on me.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Do you have his number?
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I do not have Anthony's number.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll put you on hold, Anthony.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: You can leave your number. How long are you going
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: to be on the injured list for?
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: No.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: But I am praying for you, and as soon as
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: your mouth is done being swollen, call back and check in, please.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I'm just curious how long he's going to be away.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: About a couple of days.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: That's nothing. Come on. You're fine.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: At least you're not in jail like some of our
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: other listeners who can't call for a long time because
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: they're locked up.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Tell my friend Andrea I said hey.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I'm going to write a note down here for Andrea.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: You and her are very similar. She's having some dental
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: work done, too. Why don't we have a dentist sponsor
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the show?
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: We can all get dental work.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: It's a great idea.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: All right, come on.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: You take care, Coop.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Go away.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: All right, there you go. Oh, my God.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I didn't hear much from JJ and Renton or Nostradinus,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and I was like, I wonder where they are. I mean,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I know the Seahawks played the other day and all
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: that to begin the season. Well, did you see that
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: one-week Sam Darnold injury?
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: It sounds like it's.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Going to be a lot longer than one week.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: And you hear the guys were trying to tap dance
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: around what the injury was. Apparently the injury is actually
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: he hurt his buttocks. He injured his buttocks in the game,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. They're using it as a, they're calling it
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: all kinds of different things, but it's a booty injury.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold has an injured booty, and he will be
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: out now. According to Jay Glazer, Fox NFL. He's got
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the cleanest ass. Well, apparently not a clean ass. Jay
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Glazer of Fox reporting. That it's a glute tendon injury.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: And that the Seahawks are gathering up to four second
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: opinions on the injury. However, the echo chamber indicating this
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: is looking like a four to six week injury. Oh
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: my God! Oh no! Boo hoo hoo! Everyone's getting hurt.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett's out. Brown's out for the Patriots. They're all,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: everyone's out. But the Seattle Seahawks, let's see, how many
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: games will the Seahawks win? If Drake May plays quarterback
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: for the other team, they'll win every game. It's a
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: manageable schedule.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: For the Seahawks. They play the Cardinals. I saw the Cardinals.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: They look good, actually. And they have a running back
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: who can play.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: You still take Seattle. That game is in Arizona.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Got Washington. That's a mid-level team. The Chargers don't look
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: very good. The 49ers, by week five, half that team
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: will be hurt because of the electrical substation. And then
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: they play the Broncos after that. So there's some wins
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: in there for Seattle. So we'll see how that plays out.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: All right, here's the Ben Maller show as we are
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: working our way through the overnight hours here. And it's
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: time now for the Who Am I game. This is
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: where we pretend to be somebody else, thus we call
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: it the Who Am I game.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: You see how that?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: That works. So Detroit running back Jameer Gibbs had a
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: massive day if he's on your fantasy team. 186 scrimmage yards. Who?
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: 156 rushing, 30 receiving, and two rushing touchdowns. Now Gibbs
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: overall has 51 scrimmage touchdowns, 41 rushing, 10 receiving, and
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: 50 career games. He becomes the fifth player, just the
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: fifth player in NFL history, Jameer Gibbs, with at least
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: 50 scrimmage touchdowns in his first 50 games. He joins
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Foreman. Back in the old days for the Vikings,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Foreman, Jim Brown, Marcus Allen, and me. Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: That is the question, the answer. We'll get to it,
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  Speaker 1: All right, here's the Ben Maller Show, and we'll pay
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  Speaker 1: off the Who Am I game. Let's take a call, though, quick, before.
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  Speaker 2: The Who Am I game.
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  Speaker 1: And let's say hello to Zach, who's in Nashville. Hello, Zach.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on, Zach? Hey, man.
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  Speaker 6: What's going on? First-time caller, long-time listener.
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  Speaker 1: First-time caller, long-time listener. Yeah, what's going on? I know.
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  Speaker 1: What you got?
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  Speaker 6: My work schedule changes a lot. But I just wanted
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  Speaker 6: to call and say how much I love your show
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  Speaker 6: and you are– A warrior, man.
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  Speaker 1: I love you, dude. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Very kind of you to say that. Can you possibly
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  Speaker 1: apply to management here at Fox Sports Radio? Do you
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  Speaker 1: want to change careers here? You can kind of run
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  Speaker 1: the company.
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  Speaker 2: Would that be good?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, that would be great.
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  Speaker 5: I would love to.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm sick and tired of working for the
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  Speaker 6: airline that I work for, so, I mean, oof.
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  Speaker 2: I hear you.
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  Speaker 6: But it is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, don't you get some good perks, though, if you
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  Speaker 1: work for the airline?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you get some good perks?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the only reason why I do the job.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, that's good. Every job has a couple of perks,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got a good perk. I don't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time, so what you got for me, Zach?
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  Speaker 1: What do you got?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so I grew up in Nashville. Obviously, Tennessee Titans fan, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not a Cowboys fan. I currently live in Dallas,
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  Speaker 6: but I know when to say, okay, my team sucks.
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  Speaker 6: Dallas Cowboys fans, they are like.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're going to win this year. We're going to win.
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  Speaker 6: It, Titans. You lose to the Jets.
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  Speaker 3: That's what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Not only do you lose to the Jets, you're not
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  Speaker 1: even competitive with the Jets. How do you not be competitive?
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  Speaker 1: You got less than– here's how bad. Let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you how bad the Titans were. They're so bad, Zach.
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  Speaker 1: They make good talk radio. I'm going to actually talk
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  Speaker 1: about the Titans, believe it or not. That's how bad
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  Speaker 1: they were. So stay tuned, Zach. And Cam Ward, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness. You suck so bad to get the number
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  Speaker 1: one pick, and that's your guy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and then I was going to say with the Titans,
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  Speaker 6: I'm always a Derrick Henry fan, and I'm still a
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  Speaker 6: Henry fan. You know, look at what he did today, man.
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  Speaker 6: He's third in touchdowns. You know, let's go. Let's go,
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  Speaker 6: Derrick Henry.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, not wearing your laundry anymore, though.
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  Speaker 1: He's moved on to somebody else's.
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  Speaker 6: Well, no, actually, fortunately. He needs to go and win
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  Speaker 6: a chip somewhere. He's not going to win a chip
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  Speaker 6: in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Derrick Henry, if you didn't see the Ravens' call,
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  Speaker 1: he had three touchdowns, 144 yards on the ground for
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  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. All right, thank you, Zach. Call more often, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Time now for the Who Am I game. Jameer Gibbs,
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  Speaker 1: he had a big day, too. 186 yards scrimmage. Jameer
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  Speaker 1: Gibbs plays for the Lions. A couple of rushing touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Gibbs has now 51 scrimmage touchdowns. in 50 career games.
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  Speaker 1: He's the fifth player in NFL history to do it.
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  Speaker 1: He joins the likes of Chuck Foreman. Back in the
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  Speaker 1: old days with the Vikings. Jim Brown in the old
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  Speaker 1: days with Cleveland. Marcus Allen and me. Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? Rod is
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: going with hamburger as his answer. The new Costco chicken
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  Speaker 1: strips from Ostrich Ant. We're getting shortchanged here in America.
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  Speaker 1: In Vancouver, they have fries and the chicken. We only
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  Speaker 1: get the chicken. We're getting screwed. I love Costco, but
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  Speaker 1: they're giving us the screw job there. Bad job by them.
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  Speaker 1: How can they give you both in Vancouver, but here
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  Speaker 1: you only get one? Bad job by them. Elizabeth Shue
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  Speaker 1: from Rolfe. That's his answer. Mark Johnson from Shane in
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  Speaker 1: Des Moines. Josh Allen, guest by Robbie, the Mariner fan.
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  Speaker 1: Benny Bunker from ALF, the Alien O'Piner. Adrian Peterson, guest
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  Speaker 1: by Femi in Minnesota. Dr. Crude. Going with Derrick Henry,
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  Speaker 1: the aforementioned Derrick Henry. James Cook from Mr. Irrigation in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Arik in Minnesota is going with the Danian Thomason. What
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  Speaker 1: else do we have?
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  Speaker 2: Page down.
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  Speaker 1: You have an answer, Lorraine, quickly. The depressing Dak Prescott. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's Larry Johnson from the old Kansas City Chiefs, who's
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  Speaker 1: gone a little wackadoodle on the Internet over the years,
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  Speaker 1: but Larry Johnson was a beast in Kansas City with
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  Speaker 1: the old Chiefs. They didn't win when he was there,
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  Speaker 1: but put up big numbers.