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  Speaker 1: the number ten thousand. So our lead this hour is
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  Speaker 1: from the legal tampering period, which is just really the
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  Speaker 1: start of free agency. It's a bit of a nonsense thing, right.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of players have changed teams in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and if you love the transaction, it was an orgasmic
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  Speaker 1: kind of a day, an orgasmic kind of a day here,
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  Speaker 1: the feeding frenzy of the transaction in the NFL. Players
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  Speaker 1: going here, there and everywhere around the NFL, all roads,
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  Speaker 1: all of them leading to massive piles of pesos, lots
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  Speaker 1: of money, money, money, money, including Sam Donald, the one
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  Speaker 1: hit wonder Sam Donald, who has departed the Twin Cities.
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  Speaker 1: We knew he was not going back there. Did you
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  Speaker 1: see where he ended up? I assume you know by now,
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  Speaker 1: But there's a chance you actually have a life and
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  Speaker 1: are not possessed by the football demons and pay attention NonStop.
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  Speaker 1: So if you missed it, we learned here at Fox
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  Speaker 1: Sports Rado that Sam Donald has agreed to take his
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  Speaker 1: talents wink wink, nod, nod to the Pacific Northwest. The
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  Speaker 1: former Minnesota Viking quarterback goes to Seattle, the team called
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Not a lot of hawk there. The Seattle
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks get Sam Donald a three year contract for one
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars, includes double nickels in guaranteed millions, fifty
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  Speaker 1: five million garonteed and somewhere you heard crying Craig in
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  Speaker 1: Seattle crying he was so excited about this move. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven and a half million for Sam Donald coming up
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  Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty five. So he gets a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cash. Not the greatest contract for a quarterback, but
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  Speaker 1: considering his very flimsy resume, Sam Donald laughing at the
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  Speaker 1: amount of money that he's getting. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question what stands out about Sam Donald? Now QB
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  Speaker 1: one in Seattle. So I've got amnesia, Fortnite and cupcake,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make some amazing gobbaghool. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make the gobagool, all right. So a the first thing
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  Speaker 1: that stands out, it's hard to argue at this point
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  Speaker 1: the stubborn nature of the Seattle football team. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be the team that signs the one hit wonder,
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  Speaker 1: because most of the time the one hit wonder, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: One hit and that's all. And Sam Donold we mentioned
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  Speaker 1: he's laughing. He's laughing all the way to the bank.
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  Speaker 1: Here fifty five million gar on teed and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: even have the complete season. They had some good numbers
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  Speaker 1: and all that. And you look at his resume of
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  Speaker 1: failure with the Jets and then he bounced around. His
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  Speaker 1: passport has been stamped at places like Carolina, San Francisco, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: and he went to all those places trying to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the stank that he had from his time
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  Speaker 1: with Jets. And all it takes is one sucker, and
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  Speaker 1: the sucker is the Seattle Seahawks. They're the sucker. And
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  Speaker 1: it's confusing because it doesn't seem like they really are
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  Speaker 1: trying to win. They weren't trying to win when they
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  Speaker 1: had Geno Smith. They're certainly not trying to win. When
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  Speaker 1: you signed Sam Donald, you're announcing to the world we're
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  Speaker 1: out of trying to win. You don't sign Sam Donald
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  Speaker 1: to win. That's not the player you signed to win.
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  Speaker 1: You don't touch Sam Donald if you're trying to win.
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  Speaker 1: But I just love the amnesia aspect of this story
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  Speaker 1: that you're overlooking a clear design defect. There's a defect
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  Speaker 1: with Sam Donald. There is when the game is on
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  Speaker 1: the line, right when it's nut cutting time, you know
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  Speaker 1: what happens. He pukes. He pukes all over himself is
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  Speaker 1: what he does. Game on the line. We saw it
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota Vikings and Lions final game. Chance to be
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  Speaker 1: the number one see number in the NFL. And what
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  Speaker 1: does Sam Donald do. He gets a seat in the
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  Speaker 1: cockpit on the vomit comet right there in the vomit
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  Speaker 1: comet payout. He puked all over the field, Sam Donald,
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  Speaker 1: he did, and then he did it again against the Rims. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed that. I liked the Rams. I enjoyed when
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  Speaker 1: he rode the vomit comet against the Rams in that
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  Speaker 1: playoff game. Was wonderful. Had his tail between his legs.
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  Speaker 1: It was so good. All right. Now, continuing with this
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  Speaker 1: theme of the hour here, but we turn the page.
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  Speaker 1: Have the Seattle Seahawks upgraded, going from Geno Smith, who
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  Speaker 1: they unloaded unceremoniously to the Raiders. Sit here, take our trash.
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  Speaker 1: We'll make it look all pretty you gonna have our trash,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to Sam Darnald. So I'm showing him
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  Speaker 1: I had no on this. This is clearly not an upgrade,
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  Speaker 1: and they've managed to do them possible. You would think
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  Speaker 1: if you got rid of Sam Darnald, there's a very
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  Speaker 1: low percented chance you were gonna get somebody who's worse. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know the nerds like Sam Darnald and anything the
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  Speaker 1: nerds like, I like to go away from in sports.
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  Speaker 1: So if the nerds are on that side, I go
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  Speaker 1: away from that. But just as a general rule here
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  Speaker 1: you say, well, the Seahws are going to improve at
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback position. But no, no, Sam Donald. It's like
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  Speaker 1: the Fortnite emote, the sideway shuffle. They're doing a little
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  Speaker 1: sideway shuffle here the Seattle Seahawks. And it turns out
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  Speaker 1: the sequel is about the equal, about the equal. Here
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  Speaker 1: Donald leaves Minnesota, and last I checked, the Seahawks did
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  Speaker 1: not acquire Justin Jefferson or Jordan Addison from the Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: And so Seattle is in the process of reshuffling the deck.
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  Speaker 1: And so they got rid of DK Metcalf. They kicked
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  Speaker 1: his ass out of Seattle. He was traded at Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett. I guess they said he was too old,
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  Speaker 1: so they got the fire his ass. And the Seattle
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks right now have Jackson Smith in Jigba and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I mean, I don't make there's other names.
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  Speaker 1: I don't recognize these names. They got one guy. They
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  Speaker 1: got one guy and Sam Donald. We've seen Sam Donald
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  Speaker 1: with one guy that can catch passes. And you know
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  Speaker 1: what happens to Sam Donald. He starts seeing ghosts. It's
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  Speaker 1: Poultergeist here, there and everywhere. It's poulter geyst for Sam Donald.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's like Seattle's like they not really want
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  Speaker 1: they don't want to win. You don't sign Sam Donald
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  Speaker 1: if you're trying to win. And yet they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to completely embrace the suck, which I'm okay, I don't
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  Speaker 1: like teams that embrace the suck completely. But it's a
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  Speaker 1: very odd situation here, and it's like not a total demo.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to do some slight improvements here and there,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't want to tear the whole house down,
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  Speaker 1: but there's infestation of vermin in the house. And then
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  Speaker 1: you've got his Vestis and so there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on now. Last word, so the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cawboys. Normally we were not talking about this move,
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  Speaker 1: but it's the Dallas Cowboys, and we are contractually obligated
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  Speaker 1: for obligatory mention of the Dallas Cowboys at some point
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  Speaker 1: through the overnight. And so I thought we'd just get
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  Speaker 1: it right out there in the open, right now, because
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys made a move. The Dallas Cowboys made a move.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Jerry Jones, Ah, we don't need free agency.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you want to bet, Jerry? Want to bet? Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 1: who belittled free agency, went out there with a humdinger
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  Speaker 1: of a move. Now, I don't if you saw it
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  Speaker 1: or not. The Dallas Cowboys did sign a free agent
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  Speaker 1: or agreed to a deal. It can't sign it until Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: The Boys are making a move. What did they do? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Move over EMMITTT Smith the new running back of running
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  Speaker 1: backs for the Dallas Cowboys. They have signed former Bronco
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  Speaker 1: running back Javonte Williams to a one year contract. Way
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  Speaker 1: to go, unbelievable. What a bold move by Jerry Jones.
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  Speaker 1: So does Dallas adding running back Javonte Smith count as
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  Speaker 1: a splash move that count well only if you're deep
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  Speaker 1: inside the tushy of the Death Star where the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: practice at there the Death Star. We imagine that Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 1: when he eventually does talk to the media, will sing
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  Speaker 1: the praises wax poetic about this running back from the Broncos,
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  Speaker 1: And it's akin to if you have a cupcake and
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  Speaker 1: you want frosting, don't spit on the cupcake and say
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  Speaker 1: you put frosting on it. But that's what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: And my supporting evidence on that, I will tell you
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  Speaker 1: that Jamonte Adams broke Jamonti Williams rather broke a tackle
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  Speaker 1: on just five point seven percent of his carries last season.
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  Speaker 1: There were only eleven running backs who saw at least
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  Speaker 1: seventy five rushes that had a lower rate in the
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  Speaker 1: entire NFL. So he's in the bottom percentile at breaking tackles.
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  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. Ramandre Stevenson to the Patriots and
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  Speaker 1: a journeyman running back Alexander Madison, the only running backs
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  Speaker 1: in the entire NFL we are told who had a
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  Speaker 1: lower rush EPA than Jamonte Williams who is now a
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy, So Jerry Jones continuing to build up that
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy team. Oh my, what a move.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the Game of
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  Speaker 1: Musical Chairs, our in depth team coverage all night. We
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  Speaker 1: do not shut down the trains of Fox Sports Radio,
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  Speaker 1: keeping you company talking about players getting paid money, money, money,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money, a lot of money. Business is
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  Speaker 1: good in the NFL, and you never have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about the NFL people saying, well, we can't really afford
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  Speaker 1: to pay you. We don't have the money. They've got
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  Speaker 1: the money. They have the money, and then they have
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  Speaker 1: even more money, and more money, and more money and
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  Speaker 1: more money. But the roster shuffle. You gotta do the shuffle.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the Game Green edition. Now we knew
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  Speaker 1: that they kicked Aaron Rodgers out of the Jets facility.
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  Speaker 1: He's no longer able to commandeer the plane there in
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  Speaker 1: the swampland of New Jersey, and so they have now
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  Speaker 1: replaced him. We have learned that the j e ts. Suck, Suck, suck.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets have the new pilot of the kamic Cozi mission.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets have agreed to terms with Justin Fields. Oh man, no,
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  Speaker 1: laugh track, Lorena, No, really, Justin Fields is now a Jet,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, all right, Well they're perfect. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields gets a two year deal. Now it's forty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars, which in modern NFL is not that much.
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  Speaker 1: You imagine forty million dollars not being that much in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL today, my Ron, all right, anyway, by here
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  Speaker 1: we are. The deal includes thirty million dollars guaranteed. So
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  Speaker 1: it is a bit of a proven deal, something that
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields knows a thing or two about because he's
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  Speaker 1: usually on these proven deals. But they pay pretty well,
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  Speaker 1: they pay pretty well. And so he will be going
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  Speaker 1: into the season as QB No burn, that's right, QB
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  Speaker 1: number one going into training again. And there's no one
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the just roster, there's no one
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  Speaker 1: breathing down his neck. There there's no one's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that guy's gon take his job as QB number one.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question, right, do you have
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  Speaker 1: a word Do you have a word for the type
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  Speaker 1: of skill set that Justin Fields brings to the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Gypsy, m Behold and wheel of Fortune,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make a nice tropical vacation to
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  Speaker 1: can Kun when the playoffs begin. Because Justin Fields ain't
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  Speaker 1: that guy. You're not that guy, Pal, You're not that
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  Speaker 1: guy and certainly will not be in the playoffs as
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  Speaker 1: the Jets QB. So you don't have to worry about
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  Speaker 1: that and then plan accordingly. When it comes to January
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty six, the Jets will not be in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. So my first thought, I guess you could
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  Speaker 1: say number Justin Fields is just a My word is teas.
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  Speaker 1: He's a teas is the word I will use here,
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  Speaker 1: and he rarely lives up to that. Now, there's some
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  Speaker 1: highlights that go viral online, and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: low information fans that get all horny watching Justin Fields.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is the point of demarcation. The line
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  Speaker 1: of demarcation is consistently performing at a high level, not
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  Speaker 1: one out of every five plays or two out of
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  Speaker 1: every seven plays. You have to do it more often
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  Speaker 1: than occasionally, and that has been the bugaboo for Justin Fields. Right,
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  Speaker 1: and if we go right to the judges' scorecards on
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  Speaker 1: the Malor report card for the Jets, the Jets get
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  Speaker 1: a small D and Justin Fields gets a B. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give be a B plus to Justin Fields
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  Speaker 1: on the Mallet report card. The fact that Justin Fields
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  Speaker 1: is still pulling this off is impressive, right. He is
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  Speaker 1: getting a third bite of the apple. He's a two
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  Speaker 1: time loser, and just like the laws, three strikes, you're
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  Speaker 1: out for Justin Fields. When you take a look at
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  Speaker 1: the big picture here, the fact that Fields is getting
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  Speaker 1: another opportunity as a starter, He's given the keys to
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  Speaker 1: the castle there and in this case, the keys of
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  Speaker 1: the cockpit with the Jets. He is akin to a
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  Speaker 1: traveling gypsy at this point. He's a confidence man. Justin
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  Speaker 1: Fields is traveling around the NFL. He flopped with the Bears,
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  Speaker 1: he did a belly whopper in Pittsburgh, and now he's
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  Speaker 1: on to his next hustle. He's just going from team
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  Speaker 1: to team to team, and now he heads to the
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  Speaker 1: demilitarized zone that is the Jets and the gypsy contractor
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields, he does poor quality work on a weekly
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  Speaker 1: basis during the NFL season, and he's essentially burglarizing money
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  Speaker 1: from these NFL teams and then valuables, pillaging NFL quarterback
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  Speaker 1: rooms one after another, and whatever hustle you gotta do
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  Speaker 1: to keep that money coming. In occasional highlight, I guess
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  Speaker 1: he must have a good Madden score, aren't The Jets
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  Speaker 1: run by Woody Johnson's kid who likes Madden ratings, And
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  Speaker 1: so I guess he does well on Madden. As long
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  Speaker 1: as you do well on Madden, you got a chance
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  Speaker 1: to go play for the Jets. That's it. Why not.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of dough to be made, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of dough out there. You can get that money, and
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  Speaker 1: why not? And lasted three years on his first team,
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  Speaker 1: the Bears, and was benched on his second. The one
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  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh is really ile. They don't add anybody, They
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  Speaker 1: have no one. The Steelers took a sampler on Justin Fields.
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  Speaker 1: They actually had a good record with Fields, and again
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  Speaker 1: dumb fans thought, well, they have a good record. I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand why they would get rid of Justin Fields.
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  Speaker 1: And then you look a little closer and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: imagine how much he must have been stinking up the joint.
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  Speaker 1: If you're Mike Tomlin and you roll out the rotting
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  Speaker 1: carcass of Russell Wilson and then Russell Wilson starts playing
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  Speaker 1: like you expect Russell Wilson to play not good, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't even think about going back to Justin Fields.
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  Speaker 1: You have so little confidence in Justin Fields you continue
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  Speaker 1: to roll out in the hospital journey Russell Wilson. Man,
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  Speaker 1: that is a dead nib.
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  Speaker 2: What dead ni what?
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  Speaker 1: That things are not going well?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: The problem Pittsburgh's offense, if you want to call it
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  Speaker 1: that with Justin Fields extremely limited and they had the
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  Speaker 1: catered to fields and that's usually the problem that Jets
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  Speaker 1: will have to do the same thing. And so he'll
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  Speaker 1: give the illusion of being better than he is, but
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  Speaker 1: the reality is you're not winning anything. The struggles to
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  Speaker 1: make progressions in the offense. I mean, these are problems
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  Speaker 1: going back to his days in Chicago that he has
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  Speaker 1: not been able to solve. Now, page two, So how
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  Speaker 1: should the Jet fan base, the New York Jet fan
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  Speaker 1: base feel about Justin Fields coming to town to save
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  Speaker 1: the day? I am here. It's like Mighty Mouse, here
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  Speaker 1: to save today. Yeah, so I'm more of the same.
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  Speaker 1: The Jet fan does not need my advice, but I'll
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  Speaker 1: give it anyway. A cynical fan handbook that this is
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  Speaker 1: the personification what the Jets do and really what the
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  Speaker 1: Jets fan base does of the tune that was popular
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  Speaker 1: from m behold a couple of years back. There a
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  Speaker 1: numb a little bug. When you're a Jets fan, You're
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  Speaker 1: like a numb little bug, you are. And the Jets
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  Speaker 1: backers they know this, They've been through this every couple
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  Speaker 1: of years. Here that your body is in the room
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  Speaker 1: as a Jets fan, but you're not really there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just you're empty. There's a lot of emptiness there
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  Speaker 1: and you just don't really care. You pretend like you care,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't really care. And you always expect whoever
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  Speaker 1: you get to screw up, and you're rarely wrong. You're
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  Speaker 1: rarely wrong in that situation. Now, justin Field since the
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  Speaker 1: start of the twenty twenty two season is the twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh in a completion percentage over expected out of
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  Speaker 1: forty four quarterbacks, So he's in the bottom tier of
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in a completion rate over expected, which is one
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  Speaker 1: of those nerd stats. Last season, he had the third
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  Speaker 1: worst accuracy rate on intermediate throws, and the only quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: that were worse than Justin Fields was last year at
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: those intermediate throws. The middle throws were Aaron Rogers who
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: did it with the Jets, and Anthony Richardson, who was
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: so bad. How bad was he? He's so bad he
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: should be sent to the Canadian Football League right now.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: And I don't even know if there's any good quarterbacks
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: in the Canadian Football League, but see was on the
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Winnipeg Blue Bombers will make that happen now. Still, he's
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: going to get another chance, despite that resume of being
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: one of the worst quarterbacks in the NFL since twenty
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: twenty two. Last season he was in the bottom three
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: in the intermediate throw got replaced by an old, washed
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: up Russell Wilson, and the Jets are so desperate. It's
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: like the bars closing. There's one person left, not really
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that attractive, but you're like, I want some companies, so
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I'll take them home. And I know they're not really
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: attractive and all that, but I just need someone to
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: hang out with. And so Justin Fields is that person now?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Final point, we had a running back another running back
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: changing teams. Jim Harbaugh and the Lightning Bolts have made
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: a move in NFL free agency. The Chargers have agreed
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to terms with running back Nasee Harris. So he's leaving Pittsburgh.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: There's a theme here to the last couple of hours.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: You got Justin Fields leaving Pittsburgh to go to the Jets.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: You also have now Nasee Harris leaving the city of
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh going to Los Angeles. He gets a one year contract.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: That's it, a one year contract with the Chargers. So
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: does the former Steeler running back Najee Hair flip the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: tables for the Chargers offense? Does it flip the table
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: in any way? So this is like the wheel of fortune.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Imagine if you will spinning the wheel of fortune. Now,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: can I get an N and an oh? I would
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: like an N and and oh? Yeah, I need an
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: N and oh. All right, and let's slap those. Let's
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: slap the N and the oh, and I'll solve the puzzle.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: The puzzle is no. The answer to the puzzle is no. Yes,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: thank you. Now, realizing that this isn't in an exact science,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: we did a rant about Harris the other day here
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: ranting and raving on the radio, and it does not
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: appear that this is the kind of a player that
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: has the wow factor to them. And that is one
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: of the reasons that Harris gets a one year contract
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Najee Harris with the Chargers because the general consensus is
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he's not that guy. He's not. He is a lumbering
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: running back, a plodding style that does not translate to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the Rasmtaz does not those game breaking runs. And my
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: evidence on that if you missed it in a previous
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: episode of the show, we went over the numbers here
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and I was like, I watched the Steelers play a
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: fair amount. They're usually in some big games on television
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: during the NFL season, primetime games and big Sunday late
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: afternoon TV games and whatnot. So Harris, well, he has
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: had the marching and shout of society. Will say, well,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: he's had four years of thousand yards, so all four
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: years he's gone over thousand yards, but he's never gone
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: past one thousand and forty three yards. So it's like
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: right at the number, right, just at the number one
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: thousand and forty three rushing yards. And despite all those
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: thousand yard seasons mentioned his style of play a very slow,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: methodical style. He's averaged three point nine yards per carry.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: He's never had one of those breakaway runs, never had
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: a run of forty or more yards in his NFL career. Ever,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: over one thousand carries, almost eleven hundred carries in his career,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: he's never broken one, never taken the hand off at
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the fifteen yard line and gone all the way to
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: pey dirt or anywhere twenty thirty forty yard line. None
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: of that just does not have that breakaway ability where
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: even if you get through the line, he's gonna get
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: tackled from behind. It's going to happen. So more of
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the same for the Lightning Bolts and Harris comes from Pittsburgh,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: he'll take over as the RB one for the Chargers. JK.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Dobbins has not been re signed, and Gus Edwards was
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: given the pink slip. He was fired by Jim Harbaugh
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and let go. So Harris can make up to remember
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: those are the most powerful weasel words in sales. Is
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: up to you look online, you do some shopping, and
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: they say up to And anytime it says up to
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna get close to the up to number anyway,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: weasel term nine point two million, and then he'll hit
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the open market again. Go to market after the twenty
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: twenty five season.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 25:13
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• 25:17
  Speaker 1: We're all we go, It's Maller. How about that? To
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the third degree?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grilled.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Cooble loop and so.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Earlier this month, the Yankees were listed as the Vegas
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: favorite to represent the American League in the World Series again.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: But their depth will be testing.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: It was announced that Garrett Cole is gonna be undergoing
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Tommy John surgery. Ben is the Yankees season ending before
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: it even starts?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Oh God, no, No, the Yankees will still be a
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: playoff team and maybe they'll find somebody will actually cover
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: first base in the World Series and hustle. Unlike Garrett Cole,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: who couldn't hustle in Game five of the World I'm
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: grateful he chose not to hustle. But the real hustle
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: is Garrett Cole, who likely knew months ago that he
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: needed Tommy John surgery, but took that one hundred and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: forty four million dollars from the Yankees and all that.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: But no, the Yankees will still be right in the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: mix in the America League.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Next, it is being reported that Ray's owner Stu Sternberg
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: is being pressured by Rob Manfred and other owners to
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: sell the team amid continued failed negotiations to get the
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: team a new stadium. Now, Baseball apparently wants the Rays
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: to stay in Tampa, believing the market can support them.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Ben, do you agree. No, I don't think baseball really
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: wants the Rays to stay there. They want the greatest
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: sweetheart deal they can get, whether that's from Nashville or
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Charlotte or some other city. They like to keep the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Rays on the East coast in the South, that's for sure.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: There's no evidence that it's gonna work. The Marlins got
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: a new stadium. Nobody goes to those games. They suck,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: they don't spend any money. The Rays actually make the playoffs,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and nobody gives a rats ass. They're just worried about
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the early Bird special. So I see no evidence is
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: going to work there.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Next, the Denver Broncos had their best season since winning
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl in twenty fifteen. You're looking to do
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: even going even deeper into the playoffs this season? Sure,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: what do you think is the most important need for
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: the Broncos? Have they already addressed it?
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Well I saw they signed a green law from
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the forty nine right right, So obviously Sean Payton's saying
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: they need defense Coople Loop, I say they need more
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: explosive plays on office. That's what I would be going for.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: How do we do Cooper up? Cooper Cup? By the way,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: that's good. He's gonna be a Bronco. No you fail
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: this edition. Cooper Cup's gonna be now. No Cooper Cup.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: He's going to the Broncos. You heard it here first, Hi, teamwork.
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• 27:51
  Speaker 1: All right, that's welcome our contestas we have Manuel in Guardina.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Who's going me off? Going to play? Hello? Manuel in GUARDENA, Yeah, welcome.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Hey, Benny Helo Man, his boss the Scott still talking
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: that guy rambles man, Holy smoke.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: He's a rambling man. Who do you want to partner
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: up with Manuel quickly please? All right, Well that's a
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: good choice. All right, very good. Hold on a sec now,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Loraina picked door number one, door number two, or door
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: number three? Go ahead, Loraina number three. All right, Well
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you picked Ron, who is also in southern California. Hello, Ron, Welcome,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: big Ben.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: How you doing? Ron?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be sleeping, But I'm not.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I'm here talking, which is fine. I'm happy to be here.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: And Ron, welcome here. It sounds like you're driving around,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: is that correct? Yes, I'm way home from work, all right?
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Ver And what kind of work do you do?
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Food?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: All right? Coop? Yes, no, it's not for we've learned
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: enough about all right, Hey, Coop does not care about you.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: You're gonna play with Coop? And what are the categories? Quickly?
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Coop?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: This is the John Hamm edition. He turned fifty four yesterday.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Categories are early Bird, Special, mad Men, the Town, and
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: thirty Rock.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Manuel, you were on first? Which category would you like?
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: We're going mad Man?
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: And Ron?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: How about you? All right? All right? Everyone, hold on,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have Mallor's amount of money. It's entirety. We'll
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: get to that. We'll do it next.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: takes to get to the top. Probably not.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: It's the John Ham edition and we'll get right to it.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So we have time. Manuel and Guardina your teamed up
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: with me. Yes, you picked mad Man? Is that correct?
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: All right? These athletes were known for having a short temper.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: We need the first and last name, first and last name,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and here we go, forty five seconds on the clock.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: We're on our way.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Go.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Quarterback of the Patriots to the glory years. He's on Yes.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: MVP for Oklahoma City, played for the Lakers and the Clippers.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: He's with Denver now Yes, a wide receiver traded from
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Seattle to Pittsburgh this week. Yes. Quarterback for the Rams
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties, he got happy feet against the
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Yes uh the closer for the Atlanta Braves. He had
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: problems with the new Yes choked his coach out for
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors. In the Yes pitcher for the Cubs,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: he kept attacking gatorade bottles and Yeah, my man. All right,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: we got we ran the Barn's that's why you are
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the game show contestant of the year last year. Man, well, unbelievable.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: All right, Ron, it's all over, Coop. You might as
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: well quick. We got now thirty rock You're cooked. These
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: athletes all war or war number thirty. Are you ready
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: roun go for it?
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Forty five seconds, let's begin splash brother on the Warriors
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: right now, pretty toptin. No, the guy who's still on
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: the Warriors best three point shooter of all time? Yes, okay,
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: this guy is the all time leading strikeout pitcher.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: Uh. This guy was the running back for the Broncos
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: when they won the Super Bowl with John Elway.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Yes uh. This guy's son was the kid for the Mariners. Yeah,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: but the Dad King Junior King jor Yes uh.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: This guy got a lot of technical fouls for the
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Pistons and the Trailblazers.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: No, the other one, the other one, jeez, the one,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the other Wallace? Wait, I was offended by that, justin,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and Cincinnati's offended by that too. No, you didn't, It
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: was right, Rashid Wallace. Both teams played hard by man
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Rashid Wallace. And all right, well, all right, so that's
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: one hundred points, so we're back up again. Ron. Would
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: you like Early Bird Special or the Town Special Birds Special? Alright?
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Hold on, hey, I need to read the description.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: These athletes all won a championship their rookie season. Forty
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: five seconds. Yeah, how does it feel? Forty five seconds?
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Begin? All right?
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: This guy is the best point guard of all time
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: for the Lakers. No, yes, the captain for the Yankees,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: the captain. Yes, this guy plows from Argentina. He was
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: on the San Antonio Spurs when they won o their championships.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: What's his full name? Uh?
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: What?
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Running back that got to two thousand yards for the
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Baltimore Ravens, Henry Nope?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Oh no, all right, basketball player nicknamed Silk. Yeah, I
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: didn't get enough. I don't think you want to try
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: to run it up quickly. Manuel And all right, all right,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: these are some of the best athletes to play in Boston,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a city you hate, I know, Manuell, but here we go.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: H tight End a similar name to mine. The last
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: name is like a jacket in the in the two thousands,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and tight End for the Patriots.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: No.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Boxer nicknamed uh marvelous yes, outfielder with very long last name.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: A lot of weird letters in there for the Red
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Sox in the sixties and seventies. No Carl, we won though,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: we won, so there you go. Yeah, they called them
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: yeaz