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Hour 2 - Fading Down the Stretch · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom, shaka laka. It's our number two, our number two.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you make of quarterback Daniel Jones' performance
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  Speaker 1: for the Colts as he came up small late yet again? Also,
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  Speaker 1: how did Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud look in his first
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  Speaker 1: game in almost a month. We'll discuss that and give
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  Speaker 1: me a single word that described Shader Sanders' first home
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  Speaker 1: start for the Browns, the forty nine ers getting it
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  Speaker 1: done in rather easy fashion in Cleveland. All that and
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  Speaker 1: more right now here, it is our number two. It's
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  Speaker 1: like betting on a horse. They get off to a
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  Speaker 1: big start and then they can't finish the race. They
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  Speaker 1: fall apart, they fade as the season or the race
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  Speaker 1: this hour from Indy. We start there big AFC South matchup,
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  Speaker 1: and while we had a bunch of NFL games on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: there were only a few of them that really rose
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  Speaker 1: to the level of interesting. There were some epic mismatches,
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  Speaker 1: games that just had no juice, like Atlanta and the Jets,
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  Speaker 1: who the hell cares just nothing there mismatches like Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: and Tennessee and whatnot. So we're gonna focus in on
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  Speaker 1: a game that was he had the Texans defense was
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  Speaker 1: now top three in the NFL just about every category.
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  Speaker 1: Taking on Daniel Jones and the Indianapolis Colts. I don't
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  Speaker 1: if you saw this or not, maybe not. I had
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  Speaker 1: this game circle and if you watched Benny versus the
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  Speaker 1: Penny over the weekend, you know we told you about
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  Speaker 1: the Texans. We liked the Texas in this game, and
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  Speaker 1: it turned out to be the right side. Nico Collins
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  Speaker 1: ran seven yards for the tie breaking score that was
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  Speaker 1: early in the fourth quarter, and Nick chubblelub Lub added
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  Speaker 1: another touchdown run. Houston's defense making some plays there late
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  Speaker 1: in the game to wrap it up and the Texans
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  Speaker 1: preserve a twenty to sixteen victory over the slumping Indianapolis Colts.
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  Speaker 1: The better story is in the losing locker room as
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  Speaker 1: the Colts go down. They dropped their second straight game.
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  Speaker 1: That does not sound good. And for the first time
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  Speaker 1: this season, they have lost three of four and they
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  Speaker 1: have fallen into a tie. They have fallen into a
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  Speaker 1: tie with Jacksonville in the AFC South and they play
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars this coming Sunday. So that seems like kind
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  Speaker 1: of a big deal. It seems like, hey, what's going
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  Speaker 1: on a lot of close games, a lot of non
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  Speaker 1: performing late by the Indianapolis Colts. It seems to be
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  Speaker 1: a theme here that they're in the games and then
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  Speaker 1: they don't make plays late.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 1: Shane Steichen, that's the head coach of the Indianapolis football team,
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  Speaker 1: commenting on how the Colts keep screwing up these games?
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  Speaker 4: Do you lose these tight games? Sometimes you win the
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  Speaker 4: tight games, but when you lose tight games, it's frustrating
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  Speaker 4: because you're like, shoot, we can have that, we could
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  Speaker 4: add this, cauld add that. You look back, it's three
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  Speaker 4: or four plays when you lose the tight ones. And
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  Speaker 4: so we got to find a way to get those
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  Speaker 4: three or four plays when it is a tight game
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 1: So Daniel Jones, again he didn't want to say this,
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  Speaker 1: because you can't rip your quarterback. We lose as a team.
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  Speaker 1: We wines. Our team not so much. So Daniel Jones
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  Speaker 1: failed to deliver yet again. If you're a New York
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  Speaker 1: Giants fan, you're and you're nodding your head. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: know that you don't need to remind me, So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss. That's a good jumping off point. So the
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  Speaker 1: question what do you make of quarterback Daniel Jones and
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  Speaker 1: his performance here? For the colt soul, I've got e rythmics, airport,
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  Speaker 1: parking garage, and foggy bathroom mirror, and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to
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  Speaker 1: put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do. So number all right, enough, all right, So
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  Speaker 1: listen Daniel Jones, who for a couple of weeks there
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  Speaker 1: was being hyped as Indiana Jones, the iconic Indiana Jones
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  Speaker 1: we've seen as the season has gone on. Here, Daniel Jones,
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  Speaker 1: he's Indiana Jones. But he doesn't have the whip late
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  Speaker 1: in the game, doesn't have the right hat, doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: the right wardrobe, and certainly without the heroics that case.
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  Speaker 1: And you want to know the truth, the word here,
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  Speaker 1: the word is underwhelming with a capitol U. That's my
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  Speaker 1: word for Daniel Jones. You're both the box score and
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  Speaker 1: the eyeball test tell the same story here. Jones fourteen
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  Speaker 1: of twenty seven so a little over fifty percent of
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  Speaker 1: his passes, just over two hundred yards passing, did have
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  Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns. It sounds all right, it sounds okay,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds okay. You actually watched the game though, you're like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So he does okay early in the first half, and
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  Speaker 1: then as the game progresses on, it gets harder and
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  Speaker 1: harder and harder. With this game was a litmus test.
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  Speaker 1: Can we all agree on that? Everyone agrees? So it
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  Speaker 1: was a litmus test for the Indianapolis Colts. You're playing
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  Speaker 1: a top defensive team, you're at home, your favorite to
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  Speaker 1: win the game, all right, So that's all important stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So this was a test and against the Texans defense.
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  Speaker 1: And how did Daniel Jones do? He failed the lab exam?
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  Speaker 1: He failed the lab exam unfortunately. And the quarterback apologists,
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  Speaker 1: which drive me bonkers. You know who they are, the
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  Speaker 1: fanboys in the media. Oh it's never the player's followed, never,
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  Speaker 1: even though they're the ones that actually play the game.
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  Speaker 1: So the quarterback apologists, the softies, the mister softies out there,
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  Speaker 1: they're already rolling out the excuses, the red carpet of
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  Speaker 1: excuses here. You know, he had that the fibular injury.
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  Speaker 1: He's not one hundred percent. Come on, give him a break,
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  Speaker 1: give me back. No, he was medically clear Daniel Jones
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  Speaker 1: to play in the game. And if you're medically cleared
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  Speaker 1: to play, you're allowed to play. Not gonna let him
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  Speaker 1: go out there and play if he's going to injure
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  Speaker 1: himself more because that's a liability and the NFL has
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  Speaker 1: been sued up the wazoo in the last twenty years
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  Speaker 1: by doing stuff like that. So Danie Jones was medically
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  Speaker 1: clear to play. He's on the field. You are accountable
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  Speaker 1: for your own actions. Period. End of story. Now, as
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  Speaker 1: for the Colts, the soundtrack for the Cold it's starting
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  Speaker 1: to change as the season has gone on. We've determined it,
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  Speaker 1: say you rhythmics classic. Here comes that sink and feeling
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  Speaker 1: for Indianapolis, that sink and feeling bringing some Annie Lennox
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  Speaker 1: here and get her singing there. You could have called
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  Speaker 1: this one from the booth, all right, how you could
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  Speaker 1: have called her from your sofa. You could have called
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  Speaker 1: this one. Let's go to the fourth quarter. That's winning
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  Speaker 1: time in the fourth quarter there and I got that
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  Speaker 1: sink and feeling. Yeah, you got that sinking feeling here
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  Speaker 1: a big money quarterback. That's where you're earning your money. Right,
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  Speaker 1: make place down the stretch. Down the stretch we come.
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  Speaker 1: So in the fourth quarter, Daniel Jones had a passer
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  Speaker 1: rating of forty nine point three, which I don't think
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  Speaker 1: is good. You're being too mean, all right, how about
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  Speaker 1: this last week in Kansas City, last game Colts play
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City. There he was even worse. Three of nine
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  Speaker 1: that's in overtime and regulation, three of nine seventeen yards
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  Speaker 1: last week, late game situations. So this is not some
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  Speaker 1: kind of one off. In fact, if you look at it,
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  Speaker 1: there's patternicity. There's a trend with Daniel Jones. And when
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  Speaker 1: the moment gets big, big big, big, big, big, big big,
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  Speaker 1: this guy has a tendency to shrink. It's just the
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  Speaker 1: way it is. So he's in the Indiana joneson for
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  Speaker 1: answers right now. The pattern is developing. Whether you want
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  Speaker 1: to admit it or not, the pattern is there, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not pretty. And the Colts have put themselves into
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  Speaker 1: a cord. Now, Sauce Gardner was hurting, this game's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be out. Looks like for a couple of weeks. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a season aiding injury. The guy the Colts traded for.
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  Speaker 1: And I got some people saying I told you, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, I love the I told you guy. I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the I
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  Speaker 1: told you guy, I told you. Guy emailed me and said, well,
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  Speaker 1: I told you. They shouldn't have done that. Another sauce
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  Speaker 1: guard resort. Did the Colts gave up all these draft picks?
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  Speaker 5: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. I would have done it. I like
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Colts went for it. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. I'm not gonna him for that hasn't worked
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  Speaker 1: out yet. I don't have a problem. I thought that
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  Speaker 1: this is opportunity and they're still in first place, although
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  Speaker 1: they're tied now with Jacksonville on the other side. We
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  Speaker 1: now go to the winning locker room question. The quarterback returned.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is how did Texans quarterback cee J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud look in his first game in almost a month?
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  Speaker 1: His first game in almost a month, so how did
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  Speaker 1: he look? Here? So watching this while flipping around other games,
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  Speaker 1: Stroud stepped back onto the grid iron. He looked like
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  Speaker 1: a guy that was walking out of a four week
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  Speaker 1: nap that he had literally been napping for four weeks,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't think is good. And he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to find his car at the airport parking garage and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't remember where he parked, and he was taking
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  Speaker 1: the shuttle from garage to garage to garage to garage.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, hey, dude, where's my car. That was an
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  Speaker 1: old dude, where's my car? First quarter? That was not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of polish in the first quarter. There that
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  Speaker 1: was oxidation, oxidation, no touchdowns, just hiccups and homework that
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  Speaker 1: you didn't do, homework that you didn't do. And then
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  Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, what's going on here? And then look
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  Speaker 1: all that great. There's some mental mistakes. For example, he
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  Speaker 1: threw the football beyond the line of scrimmage. That's a
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  Speaker 1: no no. There was an overthrow if he saw the game,
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  Speaker 1: got gift wrap for the Colts defense from CJ. Stroud.
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  Speaker 1: Two turnovers on downs by the Texans offense. And so
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  Speaker 1: it's like leaving the restaurant without paying the bill, dining
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  Speaker 1: and ditching. That's what that had. That's what that was.
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  Speaker 1: So a couple of those. Here is Demico Ryans, the
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  Speaker 1: head coach of the Houston Texans here and his comment
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  Speaker 1: on his car. I'm sure he's gonna rip c J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud right say it was terrible. Let's see, let's.
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  Speaker 6: Find out did a really nice job coming back, really
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  Speaker 6: missing a lot of time. I know some throws he
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  Speaker 6: would like to have back, but overall thought he managed
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  Speaker 6: the drives really well.
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  Speaker 7: We drove down.
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  Speaker 6: Of course we want to score on some of those.
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  Speaker 6: We get down, had kick field goals. But overall, for
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  Speaker 6: him coming back, not having played in a few weeks here,
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  Speaker 6: I thought he did a really nice job. If this
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  Speaker 6: is where he started, it's only up for him. So
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  Speaker 6: I'm excited to see how he continues to progress.
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  Speaker 1: You want to bet it's not only up for him,
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  Speaker 1: because I'll bet I'll take that bet right now. You
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  Speaker 1: want to bet he keeps getting better, I'll bet he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't keep getting better. I'll take the other side on that. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing I will concede, I'm not a total schmuck.
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  Speaker 1: I will concede that TJ. Strod did a very good
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  Speaker 1: job the Texans offense. On third down, he was pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: He was pretty good on third down. On third down,
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  Speaker 1: he was Johnny Paycheck six of seven seventy nine yards
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  Speaker 1: passing a one hundred and thirteen point seven passer rating,
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty good, which is pretty good. And when
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  Speaker 1: the house lights were dimmed, dim dim dim dim dim.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud was like piano man. He was third downs engineering
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  Speaker 1: some things for Houston in the second half on that
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  Speaker 1: touchdown they got, so it's kind of like they tilted
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  Speaker 1: the pinball machine a little bit as the game went
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  Speaker 1: on for him on those third down plays. He was
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  Speaker 1: not great overall. You have to judge him on the
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  Speaker 1: full body of work. He was not great. So they
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  Speaker 1: was They won the game, and he did get sacked
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  Speaker 1: a couple times, but it wasn't as bad as it
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  Speaker 1: has been when CJ. Stroud was in there before and
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  Speaker 1: Davis Mills took over, and just all he did was
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the ball quickly and that was enough.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the defense is so good in Houston, they
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  Speaker 1: were able to win those games all right. Now, final point,
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  Speaker 1: we go to Cleveland, Ohio and the forty Niners road
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  Speaker 1: show in Northern Ohio and you talk about getting it
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  Speaker 1: done on third down. The Niners converted sixty five percent
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  Speaker 1: of their third downs. I'm told that's good. They get
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  Speaker 1: a twenty six to eight win without any real gaudy
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  Speaker 1: offense from anybody. Brock Purdy, Christian McCaffrey, noe of those
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  Speaker 1: guys had big days against the Brownies defense on a
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  Speaker 1: very chilly Cleveland kind of a day. But don't bury
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  Speaker 1: the lead, my man. We're not gonna bear lead. So
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  Speaker 1: this was all about the spawn of Dion, the spawn
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  Speaker 1: of Dion. So question, give me a single word, Give
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  Speaker 1: me a single word that describes Shaduur Sanders first home
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  Speaker 1: start for the Browns. All right, So my word is dip.
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  Speaker 1: That's my word, dip, dip as in declining impact performance dip.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I say. And it's exactly what Shadur Sanders
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  Speaker 1: delivered in his first home start wearing those ugly Browns uniforms.
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  Speaker 1: That was This was a chamber of commerce kind of
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  Speaker 1: a day in northern high You don't need to talk
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  Speaker 1: to strip Club John or Ohio Al or any other
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  Speaker 1: legends in the Cleveland area. This was absolutely a chamber
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  Speaker 1: of commerce kind of day. Right on the shores of
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  Speaker 1: Lake Erie. They're thirty five degrees, damp and breezy, the
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  Speaker 1: type of weather that historically West Coast teams go into
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland and they start hibernating because of the weather, and
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  Speaker 1: so the forty nine ers they showed up and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't do that. They didn't have Again, we say this
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  Speaker 1: all the time without their two headliners on defense, Nick
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  Speaker 1: Bosa and Fred Warner not participating this season. They're out
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  Speaker 1: with injuries. And Shader Sanders still look like he was
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  Speaker 1: reading the playbook through a foggy bathroom mirror. It's like
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  Speaker 1: looking through the foggy bathroom mirror trying to make out
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  Speaker 1: what was going on there. Now, Cleveland had nine offensive possessions.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. They only had nine in the game. They
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  Speaker 1: had four punts, three turnovers on downs, one fumble, and
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  Speaker 1: one interception and a partridge in a pear tree. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they had there. That's not a stat line, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, that is a confession. Okay, outside of a
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  Speaker 1: single broken play miscoveraged by the forty nine Ers for
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  Speaker 1: thirty four yards. On the other twenty four pass attempts
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  Speaker 1: by Shreder Sanders, he averaged less than five yards per
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  Speaker 1: pass attempt, and as the game went on he faded
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  Speaker 1: away there. So not exactly the Mike Leech air raid
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  Speaker 1: offense from back in the day. That's more like an
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  Speaker 1: air leak, is what that was? Flatulence. The Browns were
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  Speaker 1: three of eleven on third down, which I'm told is
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  Speaker 1: not good, zero for four on fourth down, which I
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  Speaker 1: know is not good. I don't have to be told
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  Speaker 1: it's not good. And that is not a conversion rate.
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  Speaker 1: That is a clearance sale. And it is Cyber Monday,
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  Speaker 1: so please buy our takes. They're on sale. And yet
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  Speaker 1: he'll start again. The Browns already said, oh, he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: start against Tennessee because Cleveland has decided, well, they suck.
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  Speaker 1: They're treating the regular season like it's a pilot episode.
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  Speaker 1: They're just doing some testing, beta test thing. Here is
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  Speaker 1: seeing what they got. And meanwhile, Dionz media buddies, we
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  Speaker 1: know who they are. They're the ones licking the toes
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  Speaker 1: of Shuder Sanders. They'll keep talking about Schaudur Canton Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: that Hall of Fame performance, all that stuff. We're two
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  Speaker 1: weeks in as a starter, two weeks in and we
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  Speaker 1: have an early verdict for Shudur Sanders. He doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look like the guy. Doesn't look like the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Two weeks into this year, so again, do the dip
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  Speaker 1: declining impact performance for Schudur Sanders, and these two starts
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  Speaker 1: he's made for the Browns are one in one overall.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the wind has an asterisk. It was against
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders, the old Raiders, all right. Anyway, it is
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• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Andrea Areek writes in from Minnesota's Great Monologue. As sad
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: as this sounds, I'd take Jones on the Vikings Men's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: needs to watch his backside. Even though he signed an
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: extension before the season, this season has been a disaster
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: and it's all on the GM there the quarterback whisper
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: also koc that is that was real disgusting there, and
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: to get blown out like that to not embarrassing and no.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Tradina says, today was my first perfect day of the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: NFL season, basking in the glory of those Rams losing
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and watching my bets on San fran and the good
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: guy Seahawks cover No studious, Nobody cares about your bets
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: number one, number two, number two, No stradinas Okay, it's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: very important here. I'm convinced now that you despise the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Rams more than you like Seattle. I think you're at
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the age you're around my age, and I think you're
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: you're enjoying shotenfreude is what you're doing. Let's go to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the phones alt right now. We start out in northern
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Minnesota and we say hello to the man, the myth
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: and a legend in his own head, Gunner, Hello, Gunner, welcome.
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: Hello, I'm Bowie Carolina taking it on the Rams. It's
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: about time you eat your own words. You said they
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: had no chance and they beat them like I told you, Oh,
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: they have no chance. So I told you they were
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: not I told you, tell her I wasn't going to win.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: You know what your name? Your name is? Your name is?
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I told you guy, you're like. I told you guy,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: that's what you do you're doing. I told you. I
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: told you. I told you. I told you. I told you.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I told you. I told you. I told you. Now,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: did I assume you watched Benny Versus a Penny like
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: a real fan? Right? You watched Benny Versus the Penny?
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: Yes?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Okay? And who did I pick on the Carolina Ram game?
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Who did I pick on that game?
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: No?
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I told you didn't even watch it. You're fraud.
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: You're fraud.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I took I took Carolina plus the points. I said
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the line, it's too big, it's inflated ten and a
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: half points. I said, that's too big a line. Don't
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: do it. And you didn't watch, and you just got outed.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: You just got outed. Bad job by you. You got
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: out it. No, no, no, it's still on YouTube. Go
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: back and watch. I didn't make it up. I picked
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Carolina plus the points on the youtue on Betty versus
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the penny. But Gonn, you are you are? You are
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: so short? You are so sharp, Gunn, it's unbelievable, it's amazing.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: You're a legend. You are a legend.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: Gunner.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Are you at work right now.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: On lunch?
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah? What's for lunch today? You want to play the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Gunner food game? What do you think a guy like
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Gunner at a Walmart in I've been to the Louth.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: But you're you're you're way past the Luther. How far
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: past the Luth?
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Are you.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: An hour? Okay, that's not too bad? All right, so
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: very northern part he's at he's in the break room
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: at the Walmart. Try to guess what Gunner is eating?
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: And you did eat? Yes, Okay, I'm gonna say that
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: he had a tuna fish sandwich. I'm gonna say you
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: had uncooked top ramen, just smashed up in the bag
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: with seasoning on it. It's a great guess. That's a
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: good guess. Yeah, cool, I'm gonna say a hot pocket.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Hot pocket? All right, everyone locked your bets in right
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: now we're playing the what did Gunner eat on the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: break room at the Walmart in Northern Minnesota? Reveal? Answers
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: what do you say? What'd you say? Gunn Are you
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: on speakerphone?
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: Like?
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: What is happening?
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: No?
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I'm this is the worst game ever. We don't know
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: what he is some kind of sandwich? Was that a hummus?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: You said? Hummus? Oh? Ham and cheese. I don't know
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: how you heard that ham and cheese? Did you get
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that phone? Is that an Obama phone? Or is that
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: did you pay for that phone? It's a refurbished phone.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like a refurbished phone at all. Sounds
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: like a wonderful phone. All right, well listen, uh I
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: continue talking, but we can't understand. Enjoy your win, the
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: greatest moment in Carolina Panther history. So congratulations Gunner. Okay,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: there he goes man, if many were quality amazing. Let's
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: go to a good story. Yes, the calls are as
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: good as they've ever been. Let's go to Van the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: one legged Bama Man. Hello, Van the one Legged Bama Man.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Never heard of him? Hello?
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: There he is the man myth had the rams and
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: my taser. So my boy cos.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Money, sorry about that day.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: I mean, man, you know he had interception in ten waits. Yeah,
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: so I ain't worried about the Rams.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Or definitely I'm worried about the Rams either.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: Is my top feet fifteen to win the Super Bowl? Yeah,
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: that's the They've got it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: But the bad bait was the Begham Denver game. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: had under fifty and if they never scored both teams
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: a touchdown and over town.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, I know I won that. I took
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the points spread. I took Washington plus the points. But
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I if if Denver had ended up winning by a touchdown,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: would have lost the game. It was a six point line.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: But since Washington scored the touchdown, I won even though
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: they have lost that game.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: So all right, Well you did good this week?
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I did, all right? Yeah I did. I got it
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: for great. So I won all the Thursday and Friday games.
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: I was.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I got off to a four to oh start on
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the weekend too. It was great. Yeah it was what
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: if I took all the underdogs? I was happy about that.
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: And yeah I one Thursday Friday so good. I only
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: had two plays yesterday one more portly.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: How's your health? Everything okay? With you doing better?
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: I turned sixty six yesterday.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Happy happy birthday. Don't we don't shout out to We're
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: not on the morning show, So I can't I can't
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: wish you happy to do that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: Oh I did basically sleep all day.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: So that's what sixty six is like. So you can
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: just sleep all day.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: You go to police.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: There you go.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: It's making the sixty six. You just sleep all day.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: You're good. That's it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, buddy.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you. Van get somewhere all right, the
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: great Van, the one legged Bama Man.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Let's go now to a man who is wrapped himself
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: in black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: black and yellow, and his football team when they when
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: they play, they vomit black and yellow, black and yellow,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: black and yellow showing the hook guy. Hello, Shawn the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: hook guy.
• 26:39
  Speaker 10: Man. I'm stuck here on this vomit comet.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: I don't know what is going on. I mean, I'm
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: still a fan and not understanding what's going on this.
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: Uh what's he called the coordinator? He needs to be gone.
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: People that the gang hollering Mike Common should be fired. Yeah,
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: that's a bad time. They were chanting people that the
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: game is boring. The song renegade. They don't want to
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: hear that because there's nothing to be renegade.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: About Yeah, yeah, it's pretty tough when you're getting shut
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: out in the second half and you're getting your ass kicked.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: It's like, couldn't somebody, somebody that controls the in stadium
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: entertainment realize maybe that's not a great idea.
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: You know, that wasn't a great idea that that made
• 27:22
  Speaker 10: everybody seem like even matter man, And it's an embarrassment
• 27:25
  Speaker 10: because this is not still a football We had a chance,
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: so many chances to win this division, and we keep
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: falling behind, up and down. Like I told you before,
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: up and down, up and down. I to mess them
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: up my blood pressure. There's too many, too many roller
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: coaster riots with it. Man, it's not working well.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: It is just bad. I mean, it's just bad. That's what.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: They're not a good team. They're just average. I guess
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: if you say they're they're not terrible. They not the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: worst team. They're not like Tennessee or anything like that.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: But they're just kind of in the middle. It's like
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: where they've been, this is where they've they've been with
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the different players over the year. You know that they're
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: right around five hundred. They're exactly five hundred right now.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Twelve games in the season, they're six and six. That's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: that's where they are. That's that's a typical Pittsburgh Steeler team.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: And you know, last last month has not been kind
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to them.
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: Though.
• 28:13
  Speaker 10: We haven't had a good season ever since Big Band
• 28:16
  Speaker 10: being gone. I'm just here to tell you we have
• 28:18
  Speaker 10: they have not found a quarterback to replace those shoes.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And well, good good news is you'll be back on
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the market for a quarterback after the season, so we
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: get to do a lot of Steeler talk shown the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Hood Guy. Will they get the little fella Kyler Murray?
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Is he gonna be there? Gino Smith, you can get you,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Geno Smith will be available if you want. Gino kirk Cousins.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I look at the stiffs that are gonna be available
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: on the on the quarterback market after the season.
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: Your trash truck back and then and trying to be quarterback.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: That's the sound of it. It's backing up just like that.
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: That's that's gonna give you amusement for your entertainment. I
• 28:58
  Speaker 10: know you, so that's no.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: No, I'm already planning my off season shows. Sean the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Hood Guy, I'm already I'm getting ready for the day
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: that Kyler Murray ends up in Pittsburgh so I can
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: do all my material. I'm ready.
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah, what's your favorite word? Alligator?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Alligator arms Murray. That's right, hey, listen. The good news though,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: if you bring him to Pittsburgh, the video game guys
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh will love that because he's he's an epic gamer,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: not a very good quarterback. He's really good at gaming
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: from what I understand, really good. Now he doesn't want
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: to watch film and he doesn't really want to learn
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the playbook, but he's really good Kyler Murray. When if
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: you need him to win a Call of Duty tournament
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: on a Friday night, he's going to kill it for you.
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: I told you that that's your entertainment right there. Man,
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: you're gonna have a lot of entertainment.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: But I like Tom and I love Tom. I don't
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: want Tom. He's a great SoundBite. I want him to stay.
• 29:46
  Speaker 10: He talks a good talk. But man, come on, man,
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: enough is enough?
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Well he'll get a job too, I mean he's got
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: He'll end up on television or he'll end up coaching
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: somebody else. I mean that guy will Hey, Tennessee, Tomlin
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: to Tennessee. I can see that of the Steeler. He's
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: not gonna get fired, though he'd have to leave on
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: his own, right. He's not gonna they gonna fire him.
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: Something gotta happen, man, because it's not working. And and Rogers,
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: he's on the end of his career.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, you think you think you think you think
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: he's Dunsky's Rogers. Holy crap.
• 30:14
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, if he didn't play the last game
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: in Chicago, why would he play this game? And he's
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: out there looking like he just didn't want to throw
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: the ball, and it was embarrassment.
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: He should have been gone when Big Band was gone. Man.
• 30:25
  Speaker 10: So that right there, he hanging on till trying to
• 30:27
  Speaker 10: get a check, leave it alone, doing to sell up
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: into the sunset because it's not working for you no more.
• 30:33
  Speaker 10: Everybody else that they came in that class with you
• 30:35
  Speaker 10: and doing that year when you first came in. Everybody's gone.
• 30:38
  Speaker 10: So you should have been gone too.
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I hope his I hope his wife cansole him after
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: Rogers.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: And she's a lovely lady. I'm sure I've never seen her,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: but she's I'm sure a lovely woman. So I hope
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: his wife took good care of him, took pity on him,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and all that in the past.
• 30:51
  Speaker 10: I thought Danica Patrick was still his girlfriend.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, he got married.
• 30:55
  Speaker 10: He got well, hey, that's hey, everybody got their own
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: business band.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Well you got. But nobody's seen the person, so we're
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: still waiting. But okay, all right, there you go Sean
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the hood guy where he goes she's not real. You'd
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: think she's not. She's not. It's impossible. You can't hide
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: someone that long. Yeah you think that. The math on that,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: like somebody would rack to TMZ and take a check
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: for thirty thousand dollars are real? Okay, he could very
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: well see her when he gets home. Well, yeah, it's conceivable.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: He also married some kind of AI like, oh yeah,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: that out could be doing that. It's possible. There's a
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: lot of different scenarios there. Or it's all part of
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: a documentary, a Netflix documentary, Aaron Rodgers fake wife. You
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: could do that. A Netflix series, they could do that.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Tree. He's driving around Chicago. He's
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: got a big smile on his face right now, Tree,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Because if you look at your NFL standings, the Chicago
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Bears Chego Bears at the very top of the NFL.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: Goo man and man, we haven't hand me in these moments, man,
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: some of the I'm gonna have the gay right now.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Man looking good. We got a coach man because Caleb
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: is still trying to figure it out, but we got
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: a coach man. So well, football, I believe in coaching.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Man, you gotta you gotta coach. He's like a Chippendale's
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: dancer there Tree taking his shirt off in the in
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the locker room after the game on Friday's going on?
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: You relate to these young guys.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Didn't he don't you get like a free hot dog
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: or something? Wasn't that why he did it? I thought
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: that some places. Now, seriously, I saw I did a
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: rant on my podcast on Saturday about it. I think
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: there's a Chicago hot dog place giving away free hot dogs.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: They said, if if your coach, the coach of the Bears,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: takes his shirt off in the locker room, everyone gets
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: a free hot dog, you might want to take the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: kids over there and the wife and have a free
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: hot talk.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Man, we've been so bad as a sports TV as
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: far as winning, except for my cub then we're doing
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: anything to get the fans hype.
• 33:02
  Speaker 10: Man so, and even the.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Even the Cubs has been about ten years right since
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the Cubs, it's it's time goes fast because.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: It's going on ten years.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: But for most people, a lot of people dad in
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: between them last championships. Man, So I'm okay with ten years. Yeah,
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: right now?
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Right now the Bears Tree. First round matchup for the
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Bears is the bye week. Hopefully they don't lose to
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the bye week in Round one, that would be their
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: match up.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: Now, y'all said the best team, Man, I don't know
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: who y'all got next on the schedule. I was telling Goop,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: I wanted to talk to you about the Rams. Y'all
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: stay the best team in the NFC. To me, I
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: don't know if y'all was looking forward to next week
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: or something.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: No, no, they definitely we're not looking for they played
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals next week. No one's looking forward to playing
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals. So they were definitely not looking ahead to
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals. They were not so, but it was it
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: was a letdown spot for the Rams because they'd won
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: a couple of big games, is the Seahawk Game and
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: then they played Tampa on that Sunday night, and they
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: won that game. And so nobody gets up for the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers other than Gunner. Gunner in Minnesota gets up.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: But that's about it. So cool, cool, well, good man,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: be safe, be safe, drive around Chicago. Man, all right,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the Great Tree, Thank you, buddy, the Great Tree, very hospital, hospitable,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: so great when he came in, very nice man, very nice,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and would have come out and visited us again if
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the Cubs had played the Dodgers in the playoffs, but
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: they unfortunately did not, did not take care of the
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers, so it did not work.
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  Speaker 7: Out so well.
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  Speaker 1: Well, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
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  Speaker 1: At least that's the mantra of Justin Jefferson, who was
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  Speaker 1: completely invisible on the field for the Vikings in Seattle
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday and then decided, like all great leaders of men,
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  Speaker 1: when the going gets tough, let me leave the locker
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  Speaker 1: room without answering any questions, because that's what real leadership is.
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  Speaker 1: For the Minnesota Vikings wide receiver who had him easily
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  Speaker 1: four yards on two catches in the twenty six to
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  Speaker 1: zero shutout loss to the Seattle football team, and then
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  Speaker 1: postgame reporters were trying to get some reaction, and the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings announced that Justin Jefferson had decided he didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like talking to the media because he wants to only
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  Speaker 1: talk apparently when they win. So I guess he won't
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  Speaker 1: talk to him anytime soon. And that's the first time
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  Speaker 1: that has happened since he arrived a few years. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he's done that since maybe ever or twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. Maybe. I mean it's it's been a few years.
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  Speaker 1: He has not done that. So anyway, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson, he always loved the show Ponies. The show
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  Speaker 1: ponies are the ones when they win, Like Nick Siriana
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  Speaker 1: is kind of like that. When the Eagles win, he's
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  Speaker 1: he goes into hiding and does that whole thing. Time
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  Speaker 1: loss record in divisional games in NFL history minimum fifteen games. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Coach Blank owns the best NFL win loss record in
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  Speaker 1: loss record in divisional games in NFL history, minimum fifteen games.
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  Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? And let's
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  Speaker 1: Is that the son of Lenny Kravitz. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick from Andy and Lionel Lakes Hayden Fox from
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  Speaker 1: Ernie from Cheers. Do you have an answer? I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go with Peter Piper, who picked a peck of pickled peppers. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you say that propably. No, it's Demico Ryans
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  Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans thirteen and four divisional games and
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  Speaker 1: that's the top record in the NFL. It's Maller, Texans
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  Speaker 1: coach to the third degree this, yeah, I'm sure Cooper
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  Speaker 11: Well, Ben, you just talked to Tree in Chicago about
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  Speaker 11: his Chicago Bears. Yes, how much credit does Ben Johnson
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  Speaker 11: deserve for their success?
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Well? A sizable amount of credit, Coop. The Bears have
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: been chronic underachievers for years. He's apparently simplified things here
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  Speaker 1: and the Bears have surpassed where they normally have been.
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  Speaker 1: And he's the difference is the coach. So you guys
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  Speaker 1: say that this is actually helping out And it's not
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  Speaker 1: like Cabb Williams is playing great, because he's not. He's
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  Speaker 1: not playing all that well, and the Bears are still
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  Speaker 1: winning these games, so good job by him.
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  Speaker 11: Next, So the Chiefs are a five hundred team and
• 39:41
  Speaker 11: they might miss the playoffs playoffs. Over the weekend, Patrick
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  Speaker 11: Mahomes said, our ceiling is playing in the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 11: We can beat anybody, but we've shown that we can
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  Speaker 11: lose to anybody. Ben you agree with all that.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds good, but you got to look at what
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  Speaker 1: you are this year and what you are this year.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: There's been a constant monsoon that has taken over the
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City chief ves. I kept saying, well, this is
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: gonna be the week they turn things around, This is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the week. And no, they're just this is
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  Speaker 1: who they are. They're not that good. They're just not
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  Speaker 1: I don't see I don't see them turning things around.
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  Speaker 11: Next, there was a report over the weekend that three
• 40:12
  Speaker 11: teams are being linked to a trade for LaMelo Ball.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think he's somebody that you want to go
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: for heild your team around. Oh, he's a good player.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: You don't know with guys like that because he's on
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: a crappy team. And it's easy to put stats on
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: a crappy team. It's it's hard when you're winning. They
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  Speaker 1: put up says, I'm skeptical. How do we doubt I
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