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Ben Maller Show Best of The Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's debating whether to start with the baseball, but
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  Speaker 1: this is such an epic choke job by the Atlanta Falcons.
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  Speaker 1: It is worthy of the leadoff spot. And plus, it's football.
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  Speaker 1: And let's be honest here, as much as I love
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  Speaker 1: my baseball, football is king in these parts. So we begin.
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  Speaker 1: With the game on Sunday night, we start out in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: the final chapter of the NFL Sunday card in week
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  Speaker 1: number five. That's right, number five. Out in the ATL,
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  Speaker 1: you had Lamar Jackson out left ankle. Uh-oh, goes to
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  Speaker 1: left ankle. Sideline, Tyler Huntley, the career backup, moved on
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  Speaker 1: up to a penthouse in the sky there as Huntley.
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  Speaker 1: He said this the other day. He said taking over
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  Speaker 1: as QB1 would be like riding a bike. He claimed
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons were like, okay, fine, riding a bike. Great.
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  Speaker 1: Falcons are like, we're going to shove the bike into
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  Speaker 1: the lake is what we're going to do. And the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons are trying to go three for three in primetime.
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  Speaker 1: And there was all this angst about, oh, no, the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons in primetime. By the way, Coop has arrived. We
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  Speaker 1: can announce Coop has arrived. So the Falcons looking to
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  Speaker 1: go three for three in primetime games with Michael Penix Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: taking over there. And here we go. So Mike Tirico
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  Speaker 1: and Chris Collinsworth had the call on NBC. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: was doing some double duty here. flipping back and forth
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  Speaker 1: between the NBC broadcast and the NLCS game on Fox. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, I had the volume down on both because
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  Speaker 1: that's how I operate most of the time. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you were watching or not. Perhaps not.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you were doing something else. But Tyler Huntley leading
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore to a game-tying touchdown and two-point conversion in the
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  Speaker 1: last minute of regulation and then– And then a lengthy
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  Speaker 1: drive in overtime, a one-yard QB keeper. Touchdown in overtime,
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  Speaker 1: and the Ravens rally to stun the Birds in a
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  Speaker 1: battle of the Birds. The Falcons go down 30-27 in
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  Speaker 1: the Sunday night game. Derrick Henry ran for over 100 yards,
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  Speaker 1: and the Falcons' top-ranked run defense proved to be fraudulent
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  Speaker 1: as they were unable to consistently stop Derrick Henry. And
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  Speaker 1: so the Ravens go to four and one on the year.
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  Speaker 1: And Michael Penix Jr. suffered a. Rib injury late in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Tua Tungabailoa took over there at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: How'd that go? Don't ask. Don't ask for the Falcons
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  Speaker 1: who are now back under. 500 at 2-3 as Tua
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  Speaker 1: Tungabailoa passed for Drake London. Picked off by Kyle Hamilton
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  Speaker 1: in overtime. Turn at the last. The party's over.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: See you later. All right, so the Falcons blow an
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  Speaker 1: eight-point lead there in overtime. Here's Kevin Stefanski trying to
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  Speaker 1: put some lipstick on this pig of a performance. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen. We can be better in those moments, and
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  Speaker 1: then you can put a good football team away late,
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  Speaker 1: which we did not do. And then, again, give them credit.
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  Speaker 1: They came back and scored and did a nice job.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll learn from it. Disappointing, frustrating, all those things,
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  Speaker 1: but we will learn from it. Kevin Stefanski, his teams
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  Speaker 1: must learn more than any other team. And he coached
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  Speaker 1: the Browns, and now he's coaching the Falcons. That's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of learning. They learn a lot from losing. They learn. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski coached teams learn the most. They do. They
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  Speaker 1: just do. All right, that's a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Is this loss more damaging
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  Speaker 1: for Bajon Robinson and the Falcons' reputation? Then the final
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  Speaker 1: score suggests, well, they lost in overtime to the Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: That's not that big a deal. If you're a cockeyed optimist,
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  Speaker 1: you'll say, ah, who cares? So I've got Rolex number
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  Speaker 1: five special and DNA test. And we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together. And we are going to say
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  Speaker 1: hello to Common Sense. It's your Common Sense Sports Talk
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  Speaker 1: radio show. So, A, in terms of the question, is
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  Speaker 1: the loss more damaging for the Falcons than the reputation,
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  Speaker 1: than it is just the final score, losing a close
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  Speaker 1: game in overtime? Absolutely. Absolutely. Nodding my head yes on
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  Speaker 1: that one. Atlanta's win over Green Bay and New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of games here in primetime, created this
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  Speaker 1: false sense of security. And there were people jumping on
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  Speaker 1: the Falcon bandwagon. It's like, you know, that train, that
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  Speaker 1: famous train in India, they have some religious pilgrimage and
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  Speaker 1: there's people standing on the roof of the train. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen the video or heard about it.
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  Speaker 1: It happens like once or twice a year, and it's—I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even sure. I remember reading about it, but I've forgotten,
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  Speaker 1: but it's some kind of religious pilgrimage, and everyone— there' s like
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  Speaker 1: one train from this remote part, and everyone has to
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  Speaker 1: catch the train. And so people stand on top of
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  Speaker 1: the train. That was essentially the Falcon's bandwagon. It was
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  Speaker 1: like filling up faster than a Waffle House after midnight.
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  Speaker 1: On a Friday night, man, they wanted those waffles. And
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  Speaker 1: they won. And then the Ravens, they drove that bandwagon
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  Speaker 1: for the Falcons straight into the ditch. Atlanta not exposed
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  Speaker 1: as a terrible team. Terrible. They were exposed as a
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  Speaker 1: team that is not nearly as good as some of
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  Speaker 1: you people wanted to believe. That's the reality of the situation.
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  Speaker 1: And the Falcons are the NFL's version of a counterfeit Rolex,
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  Speaker 1: is what they are. They look expensive. They've got some
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  Speaker 1: big parts to it, like big-time players. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: time correct a couple times a day for sure. And
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  Speaker 1: in this case... It fell apart late. It did. And
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  Speaker 1: then Baltimore showed up with a backup quarterback. Backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And knocked the entire Happy Days narrative down a couple
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  Speaker 1: of notches. Just down a couple of notches. Now, but
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  Speaker 1: John Robinson... who looks like he should be unstoppable all
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  Speaker 1: the time. He had 86 rushing yards. 38 of them
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  Speaker 1: came on one run. That's 44% of his rushing total
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  Speaker 1: for the day for the Falcons. And it does remind
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  Speaker 1: you a bit of Barry Sanders. Some of you were
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  Speaker 1: not alive when Barry Sanders played for the Lions. He's
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  Speaker 1: considered the all-time... craziest video game style running back. There
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  Speaker 1: were many games with the Honolulu Blue Lions where Barry
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  Speaker 1: Sanders was like under 50 yards and not particularly great.
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  Speaker 1: And people forget about that because you block that out.
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  Speaker 1: You only remember the good. You don't remember the bad. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: not exactly a game wrecker on this day, but John
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  Speaker 1: Robinson there. So Atlanta, a little overrated, certainly overpraised. I
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  Speaker 1: think we can all agree on that. Overpraised and thoroughly
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  Speaker 1: outclassed at the end of the game. in fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: and then overtime. That defense. Defense. My God, talking about
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  Speaker 1: riding the vomit comet defensively. Meanwhile, to the Baltimore side
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  Speaker 1: of things, and the question here, what does the Ravens'
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  Speaker 1: victory do for Derrick Henry and friends? What does it do?
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  Speaker 1: So it's a trip to the pharmacy. It's a booster shot.
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  Speaker 1: Big time booster shot for the confidence of the Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: football team, who didn't look all that great. They were
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  Speaker 1: not exactly dominating in offensive football here for most of
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  Speaker 1: the game, for about three quarters of the game. It
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  Speaker 1: was not going particularly well there. But in the end,
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  Speaker 1: they pulled it out. I'm told the elite teams, the
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  Speaker 1: better teams in the NFL, win these kind of games.
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  Speaker 1: They don't curl up in the fetal position and start
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  Speaker 1: sucking their thumb just because their franchise quarterback happens to
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  Speaker 1: be wearing street clothes. And that didn't happen here. So
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  Speaker 1: no Lamar Jackson. Not that it was no problem, but
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  Speaker 1: it didn't turn out to be a fatal problem for
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens here. And this will undoubtedly... confuse and annoy
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  Speaker 1: many television talking heads who insist every single one of
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  Speaker 1: these wins is a direct result of the franchise quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: That without your franchise quarterback, you cannot do anything. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: the entire game of football stops if you don't have
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  Speaker 1: a big-time quarterback. That's always been the argument. Now, somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: Lamar's probably saying, wait a minute, guys, you're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: miss me a little bit there at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game. That's a bad job by you. What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? And sure, backup Snoop Huntley was wobbly for
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  Speaker 1: stretches of that game. And then in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't wobbly. And certainly in overtime, that overtime thing,
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  Speaker 1: my God, that was a masterpiece for the Falcons to
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  Speaker 1: watch a team, the Ravens, shove it down their throat
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  Speaker 1: at the end there as they Tyler Huntley became Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Smooth Operator. A 14-play, 60-plus-yard drive. They took off over
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  Speaker 1: seven minutes. The overtime's only 10 minutes. They had the
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  Speaker 1: ball for over seven minutes, creating a hurry-up situation for
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons, who were clearly... not prepared for that. And
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  Speaker 1: it was like a bulldozer of a drive for the
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore football team. And in the end, the Ravens taking
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  Speaker 1: the team bus, they actually went through drive-through. They ordered
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  Speaker 1: the number five... special. And he said, well, what is
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  Speaker 1: the number five special? Well, the number five, I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: you asked. The number five special is where the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: took the Falcons and the Dirty Birds and they deep
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  Speaker 1: fried them and got a supersized bucket of extra crispy falcon.
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  Speaker 1: Tastes like chicken. Tastes like chicken. So they had that.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought of our friend Big Balls Bob in
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  Speaker 1: Vegas there. That was a Big Balls type performance there
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  Speaker 1: for the team from the Baltimore area. Sports with Coleman's
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  Speaker 1: proud somewhere. My buddy from Baltimore there who annoys Lamar
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  Speaker 1: Jackson and all the coaches there in Baltimore. Very happy
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  Speaker 1: about that. Meanwhile, the last word. Let's go back to
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons. I must bring this up because I watched
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  Speaker 1: this game and I thought, well, here we go again.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go again. I bet you had the same
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  Speaker 1: reaction checking this game out. Because the Falcons quarterback, Michael
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  Speaker 1: Penix Jr., as we said, suffered a rib injury. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my ribs! It was not Tony Romas. It was ribs.
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  Speaker 1: The actual ribs in the body there. He was sacked
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  Speaker 1: by a Ravens linebacker, Tavius Robinson, late in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: And he came out of the game. He was unable
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  Speaker 1: to finish the game. Penix said he was hopeful to
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  Speaker 1: return to play in the overtime. But the Ravens took
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  Speaker 1: so long on offense, Penix claimed he just cooled down.
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  Speaker 1: And God forbid he go back in the game, he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it. And so he stayed out and Tua
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  Speaker 1: Tungabailoa did what Tua Tungabailoa does. And so that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, here it is, where does Michael Penix Jr.
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  Speaker 1: 's rib injury leave the Falcons at this point? So
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  Speaker 1: some are saying, well, it's a minor deal. It's no
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  Speaker 1: big deal. We don't know that, first of all. And
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  Speaker 1: the one thing about the multibillion-dollar industrial complex of the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be MRIs up your wazoo. There'll be second opinions
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  Speaker 1: and third opinions and fourth opinions. How about five opinions?
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  Speaker 1: What about six? Do I hear seven opinions? Can I
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  Speaker 1: get more and more opinions? Why not? What the hell?
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  Speaker 1: But the words for this are soul-searching. Like that's a
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  Speaker 1: soul searching moment because the Falcons got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of mojo going. You guys got all horny for the Falcons.
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  Speaker 1: You got all excited. They got the quarterback. They're ready
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  Speaker 1: to roll. And then you're like, well, wait a minute here.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. All right. And then when you
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  Speaker 1: flash back, you're like, well, yeah, Atlanta bought. They bought
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  Speaker 1: the sports car, Michael Penix Jr., but they knew the
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  Speaker 1: Carfax report looked like police blotter with all the marks
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  Speaker 1: on it. And you're like, whoa, what's going on with that?
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  Speaker 1: And the thing that made scouts nervous coming out of Washington,
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  Speaker 1: we loved him in college. Michael Penix Jr. was the
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  Speaker 1: ACL tears and the shoulder surgeries at Indiana and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. And it was like, oh, full medical miracle.
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  Speaker 1: Penix was not ready to start the year. And they
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  Speaker 1: had to play their third string quarterback to Falcons. So
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't ready. And the medical file starts popping back up.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, well, wait a minute. And the injury bug
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  Speaker 1: does not knock on Michael Penix's door. It's got the
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  Speaker 1: pass key to get in the building and it's got
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  Speaker 1: the key to get into his home. The whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And every setback for the Falcons now, the quarterback position,
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  Speaker 1: every setback turns the Atlanta Falcon coaching staff, the medical staff,
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  Speaker 1: into amateur meteorologists. Maybe this will pass. Maybe it's no
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  Speaker 1: big deal. Nothing to see here. Why not? It could
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  Speaker 1: be nothing. Yeah, okay. And they get the exact experience
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  Speaker 1: they signed up for. Michael Penix Jr. tantalizing enough to
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  Speaker 1: believe in, fragile enough to terrify. Now, we did do
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  Speaker 1: a radio DNA test. It's our public service for the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. We felt bad for them losing because Tua
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  Speaker 1: came in and did what Tua does. So we felt bad.
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  Speaker 1: So we did a radio DNA test, and it's more
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  Speaker 1: likely than not Michael Penix Jr. is a first cousin
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  Speaker 1: of Humpty Dumpty. Yes, they're related. Blood-related. Humpty Dumpty and
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr. Side by side. Of course, Atlanta just hoping.
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  Speaker 1: and praying that all the Kings trainers can put him
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  Speaker 1: back together yet again. So that's how it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be for the Falcons. So imagine your whole season is
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  Speaker 1: depending on the health of Michael Penix. Holy crap. That's
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  Speaker 1: not good.
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  Speaker 1: The real story isn't told on the field.
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  Speaker 4: It's written in the lives of the people who left here,
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  Speaker 4: who started as students in Happy Valley and became forces
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  Speaker 4: in the world. This is Who We Are, Penn State,
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  Speaker 1: So we start out in the hood in Englewood and
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  Speaker 1: up to no good. The final chapter, the final chapter
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  Speaker 1: of week number five in the NFL as an epic
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  Speaker 1: made-for-TV matchup. A couple of MVPs going at it there.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen leading the Bills Mafia. They rode the bus
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  Speaker 1: and the wheels on the bus go round and round,
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  Speaker 1: round and round, round and round. So the Bills Mafia
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  Speaker 1: rolling into SoFi, a matchup with Matthew Stafford and the L.A. Rams.
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  Speaker 1: You had Joe Bach, Troy Aikman spewing cliches on television,
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  Speaker 1: as they often do on ABC. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching this or not. I can't imagine you were
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  Speaker 1: locked in on the Guardians and the Rays. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Holy crap. They're actually playing that. They're in the Final Four.
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  Speaker 1: My God. Anyway, we were watching the football. We did
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  Speaker 1: flip over to the baseball. There were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: timeouts in these NFL games. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: know about that. There's a lot of downtime in the NFL. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there are. So we watched, so you would not have to.
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  Speaker 1: And Josh Allen, not exactly lighting the world on fire
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  Speaker 1: through the air. However, he ended up with 331 total yards.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of that on the ground. A couple of touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: And Buffalo... Gave the game away and still ended up
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  Speaker 1: winning the game. They gave the game away. And the
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  Speaker 1: Rams said, we don't want the game. We can't handle
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  Speaker 1: the game. We don't need the game. We'll give it
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  Speaker 1: back to you. And so the Bills, by the skin
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  Speaker 1: on their chinny-chin-chin, edge the Rams 37-34 in overtime. Allen
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  Speaker 1: had 210 yards. It didn't seem like he even had
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  Speaker 1: that many. 121 yards on the ground. And for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in Josh Allen's career, he's actually not lost
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  Speaker 1: an overtime game. He's lost every overtime game. Finally won
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  Speaker 1: an overtime game. Somebody named Greg Rousseau was credited with
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  Speaker 1: a block, a blocked field goal attempt. The Rams were
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  Speaker 1: set up to win the game in overtime. And then
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  Speaker 1: they're crediting him with a block. The kick would have
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  Speaker 1: missed anyway. It was very, if you saw the, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of you are blind, but for those of you
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  Speaker 1: that were able to watch the game-winning field goal attempt
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  Speaker 1: by the thicker kicker, who will soon be the unemployed kicker,
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  Speaker 1: the kick was shanked so much, the block actually made
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  Speaker 1: it seem less ugly. Ha ha ha ha! Anyway, Buffalo's
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  Speaker 1: kicker apparently doesn't suck. Tyler Bass drilled a 45-yard field
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  Speaker 1: goal with 155 remaining in overtime. And turn at the lights,
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  Speaker 1: the party's over. So despite Matthew Stafford throwing for almost
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  Speaker 1: 400 yards against that pathetic Bills defense, that is not
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  Speaker 1: a championship defense in Buffalo. 383 yards, three touchdowns. The
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  Speaker 1: better story is in the Rams' locker room, so we're
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  Speaker 1: going to start with that. My God. Sean McVay, the
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  Speaker 1: genius coach of the Rams, Sean McVay. What was that?
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  Speaker 1: What was that special teams performance by Sean McVay? Holy
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  Speaker 1: crap on a cracker. It was bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
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  Speaker 1: Here is McVay. explaining some of the emotion of the night.
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  Speaker 3: This one is, this is the one, this stings. And
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  Speaker 3: it's going to hurt, but we can't afford to let it,
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  Speaker 3: we can't let this team beat us twice. And we're
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  Speaker 3: going to have to regroup and reset ourselves. And it's
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  Speaker 3: been a while since I've been this pissed after a
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  Speaker 3: game two. I'm proud of the effort, but none of it,
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  Speaker 3: none of how I feel is positive other than I'm
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  Speaker 3: proud of the resilience, the guts that our team displayed.
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  Speaker 3: But there's no, you know, I don't even know what
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  Speaker 3: you want to call it. But, you know, congrats to
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: the Bills, and I'm excited about how we freaking move forward.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Freaking move forward. I'm excited about that. All right. I
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: feel like he's given a similar sentence, very similar to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni. Sirianni says the same thing after the Eagles lose.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay says the same thing after the Rams lose.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: It's been a while since I've been this pissed. At
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: least the Rams didn't fly into the game. They didn't
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: fly out to Alaska and fly back right before the game.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. What
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: does Sean McVay do about the latest Rams special teams debacle?
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: And make no mistake, they are very special there, the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Rams special teams. They drive the little bus. The little bus,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: little bus, little bus. All right, so I've got Ray Charles,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: La Brea Tar Pits, and DoorDash. DoorDash. And we will
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together. And we are going
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: to put foot in mouth, much like the Rams kicker
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: would have been better off if he put his foot
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: in his mouth rather than on the football. So my
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: advice here to Sean McVay and the Rams regarding the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: special teams is to practice horticulture. What are you talking about, Maller?
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Let me explain. Cut out the deadwood. cut out, even
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: if you're not a green thumb, cut out the deadwood.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: This is not complicated. Sean McVay needs to become a
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: landscape architect. The Rams special teams are not a department.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: They're not. They're a government-funded disaster relief program at this point.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And anything good the Rams do on offense and defense
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is null and void when you look at the The
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: special teams. Now, listen, the Rams should be 3-2. We
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: all know that. The NFL gave the Broncos a win.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: They didn't deserve them for whatever reason. That's the reality.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: The NFL is a corrupt organization, so they're okay with that.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Most organizations would correct a wrong like that. The NFL
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: does not, much like the big footy, college football. They
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: don't do that anyway. But the point is not that.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: We're talking about the Rams special teams here. So if
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: you're McVay, you go down to Home Depot or Lowe's,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you get some pruning shears, you fire up the wood chipper,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and you start removing the dead branches from the Rams
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: special team operation. And we're looking at a two-for-one special here.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: unsolicited overnight talk radio advice to Sean McVay and the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Rams two for one termination special.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: You bring out the Turk and you say, Hey Turk,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: go get me. Can you get me Bubba Ventrone? Who
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the F is Bubba Ventrone? Apparently that is the special
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: teams coordinator for the Rams. and get him, can you
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: get me the thicker kicker? Okay, we'll bring him in.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Harrison Mivas, who's just ass, as Cam Ward would say.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Get both those guys and invite them into Human Resources.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And you say, okay, we have a nice big severance
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: package for you. We thank you for your service. And
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: we're going to give you the thicker kicker, a bigger
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: severance package because you're thick. And get your cardboard box.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: You got 30 minutes to get all your belongings and
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: leave in an orderly fashion. And as an added bonus, though,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: we're going to crank up some Ray Charles playing over
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the speakers while you clean out your stuff and leave
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to never be seen again. And we're going to play
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: hit the road, Jack. And don't you come back no more.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Get out of here. We would rather see, at this point,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Bubba Gump coach the Rams special teams. That's how pathetic
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: these losers are on special teams for the Rams. Bring
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: in Bubba Gump to coach the special teams. Why not?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: At least he knows how to run a shrimp boat. Okay,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: that's better than the Rams special teams coach. Holy crap. Like,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: what do you practice? Are the players too good to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: play special teams? They can't be bothered? Do they even
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: coach it? Like, what are you doing? It's been every week,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: five weeks of this crap. And the kicking's bad. How
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: about the coverage units? It's Pop Warner. Go cover. You
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: should not be allowing the amount of return yardage, the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: punt return, the kick return. It's embarrassing. absolutely embarrassing. The
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: defense is not great, but the special teams is worse.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: The offense is pretty fine for the Rams. My God.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Just fire them. Fire everyone. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Get out of here. Now, as for who replaces the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: thicker kicker, this is what becomes a quagmire for the Rams,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: because there is a bunch of slop out there at
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the kicker position. There's one guy who's probably washed up,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: but his head and shoulders above everyone else, but he's
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: so taboo, you can't touch him. But would they? Would
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: they do it? Justin Tucker, late of the Ravens, decorated
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: kicker in Baltimore. And his career ended because of some massages,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: which apparently went sideways. And he didn't get as much
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: publicity as Deshaun Watson, but there was a lot of
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: massage activity there. Yeah, Tucker had quite the nicknames there.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: So he's the top kicker. He's the top guy available.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: And would the Rams go there? Is Sean McVay desperate
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: enough to not have to go for it on fourth down?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: The other thing is they knew their kicker stinks, and
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: they still went for, oh, let's just kind of not
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: go for the touchdown. We'll just try to kick a
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: field goal. In overtime. And, of course, they said it
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: was blocked, but he would have missed it anyway and
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So does McVay own a hazmat suit
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: to go out and bring in Justin Tucker? And would
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: he do that? Would he venture down Radioactive Highway? Tucker,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: by the way, lives in a nice one-bedroom apartment in
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Chernobyl at this particular point in the eyes of the NFL.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: All right, now as for the big picture, the Rams,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: who should be 3-2 but are not 3-2 thanks to
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the NFL, they are instead 2-3. Remember they mentioned the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: game in Denver, which was gifted to the Broncos. They
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: did not earn it. So, question, is this 2026 Rams
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: season a lost cause for Aaron Donald and friends? Is
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the 2026 season, the Rams are under 500, we're five
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: games into the season here, a lost cause for Aaron
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Donald's So I'm shaking my head no. And there are
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: many of you, based on the email that I briefly opened,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: which was a mistake. It's a bad job by me.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Many of you are preparing the funeral. You're making the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: funeral potatoes. You've got that ready to go here. However,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: we checked with the L.A. County Coroner's Office, and the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: corpse is still breathing. Much to the dismay of J.J.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and Renton and Nostradinus, who I'm sure popped a chubby.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: He was so excited. All the haters out there. Oh,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: they love it. I get it. Schadenfreude. You guys all
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: rip me. But Schadenfreude is really fun. Schadenfreude is so
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: much fun. Taking joy out of the misery of others.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: It's just great. But everyone acting like, hey, the Rams
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: fell into the La Brea Tar Pits and there's no
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: getting out. That's it. Relax. We are 30% through the
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: NFL season. So, yeah, the Rams can forget about being
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: an all-time great NFL regular season team. That's off the table.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: You don't lose three out of your first five and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: become an all-time great team. So this is not going
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to be a story of legendary soup-to-nuts domination for the Rams.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: That's it. Somehow... The Rams have done the impossible. They
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: went from, will they go undefeated? Bill Plaschke, long-in-the-tooth, washed-up
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: sports writer, said they'd go 16-17. 17-0, there's only 16
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: games a few years ago. So 17-0, made that bold decree.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: And they've gone from everyone picking them to win. Now
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: they're the underdogs. Nobody believes in the Rams anymore. It's
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: all over. It's all over for the Rams. Even though
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: literally every man, woman, and child picked the Rams to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl a month and a half ago. So,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and friends there, I recommend going now to Costco,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the optical department at Costco. Go down there. Read the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: vision chart. Keep your eye on the Lombardi Prize. The
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Rams do not need... to win the NFC West beauty contest.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: They do not need to worry about that. They just
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: need to make sure they're in the playoffs. I don't
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: think you've put yourself in position to win the Super
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Bowl if you're not in the playoffs. So you have
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: to be in the playoffs there, get a ticket to
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the dance party. And unlike the 49ers, who are clearly
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: peaking too soon, the Rams don't have to worry about
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: peaking too soon. They're not. They got their eye on
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the prize, the Lombardi there, and you cannot win it
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: in September or October. Of course, you could argue you
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: could lose it in September and October, but the Rams
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: are right in the middle of the pack. Right in
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the middle of the pack right there. Meanwhile, on the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Buffalo side, there's a lot of Bills propaganda. Going around
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: right now as the Buffalo Bills get the win that
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have been a win but was a win and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: all that. Everyone's all excited. So the question, does this
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: victory over the LRMs validate Josh Allen and the Bills
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: as a legit heavyweight? So that's going to be a no.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: On this side of the microphone, I didn't look at
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: that Bills team and think, boy, this team is ready.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: They are ready for a playoff matchup with Kansas City,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: somebody along those lines. I didn't see that. So that's
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: going to be a no from me, dog, regarding the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: elite status of the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo, I felt like
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: this was a wobbly performance by the Bills. And if
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I was in Bills Mafia, I would not be very
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: happy right now. Now, you're probably too intoxicated to realize
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: that at this point. I get it. I understand. You're
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: feeling happy and all that. Joe Brady, the new head
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: coach there, not impressing anyone. At least not on this side.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe you're impressed, but we're not impressed there. The Bills
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: are an undisciplined football team. They committed 13 penalties for
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: 112 yards. That is a systemic problem that will absolutely
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: kill you. Mark my words, you're cooked if you can't
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: straighten that out before the end of the year. So
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: they're not disciplined. And they got that problem. Buffalo is
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: like a football team. It's like the guy that has
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the $ 200, 000 sports car and goes out and does these
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: drag races and wins the drag races because the other
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: guy's car keeps blowing a tire. That's essentially what happened here.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: The Rams blew a tire is what happened. James Cook
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: ordered up a Ram victory on DoorDash. He said, listen,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: let me go on my phone. I got my app here.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go on DoorDash and I'm going to
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: get you a very nice, solid victory. All right. Right
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: down to the V for victory right there. James Cook
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: ordered it up on the app and the DoorDash delivery
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: guy showed up to the door, knocked on the door
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and then rang the doorbell just like that. And then
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: for some reason, the Rams refused to answer the door.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: It's a bad job by them. So, meanwhile, the Buffalo
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Bills offense, it's like a three-ring circus. You've got the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Lion Tamer. Josh Allen's not only the Lion Tamer. He's
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the trapeze artist. He's the human cannonball. It's a one-man show.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: He only had 12 completions. Josh Allen had 12 completions
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: in a game that went late into overtime. 50% of
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: his passing yards. He had 210 passing yards. 50% came
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: on a couple of broken plays in this game. And
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: so you look at that, all the rushing yards, it's
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: like the Rams' containment was terrible, but Josh Allen's a
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: heavyweight running back masquerading as a quarterback. At least he
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: was in this game on Monday night against the Rams.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: And if it hadn't been for the generosity of the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: thicker kicker, we'd be having a much different conversation right
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: now about the Buffalo Bills. It's just not sustainable. So
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not impressed with the Bills here at this point.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: They're not going to win anything, so don't worry about that.
• 32:10
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• 32:12
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• 32:15
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• 32:19
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• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to be one of our contestants. Hello, Slug. What's up,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the king of mashed potatoes? Hello, Slug.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: What's up? You got the master recipe, right?
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I do. I thank you for that. I have not
• 32:32
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• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I need to get on that because I did harass you.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: You know who else just had it the other night?
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Who's that? Kirk Cousins. Oh, really? He came by?
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: That's cool.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, no Cabroni that I worked with even recognized him.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Well, he does look like a regular. He looks like
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: a tourist, probably.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: But you think that the VIP chit that said cousins
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: would give.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: It away, but apparently it didn't. Not sports people?
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: No.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Not a lot of people. All right, well, who would
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: you like to partner with? Slug, you got me, Coop,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: or Lorena?
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: I've got to go with the master.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: All right, we're in it. Very good. Lorena, pick one, two,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: or three, Lorena. Number one. All right, you have picked
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Brian in Minneapolis. Hello, Brian. Welcome. Hi, how are you
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: guys doing? What's going on, Brian? Welcome to the show.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Good to have you here. What do you do in
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the Twin Cities, real quick? I'm a demolition. I'm the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: demo guy. Oh, the demo man. I got you. All right, well,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: who do you want to partner up with? Coop. Bad choice.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Good choice. Bad choice. I love that again. All right, gentlemen.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: That's the winning recipe right there.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: No, it's not.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: That's what it is. It's a loser's recipe. I've won
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: like the last five weeks in a row. Slug makes
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: the greatest match.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: Mallard's Mountain of Money, the Paul Simon edition. He turns
• 33:47
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• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: Categories are The Sound of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Water,
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: The Boxer, and Homeward Bound. Slug, which category would you like?
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Uh... The first one. The Sound of Silence. Yeah, that one.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Brian, you got the Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Boxer,
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: or Homeward Bound?
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: The Boxer. All right. All right, everyone hold on. We'll
• 34:12
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• 34:15
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• 34:18
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• 34:32
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• 34:37
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• 34:40
  Speaker 1: All right, right to it. Slug, are you ready? This
• 34:42
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• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I believe, yes?
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. All right.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I'm with Slug. Coop is with Brian, the demo guy
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: from Minnesota. These athletes let their play do the talking
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: for them. 45 seconds on the clock. We need the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: first and last name Slug from Vegas. We're on our
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: way and go. Japanese star for the Dodgers who's not
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: playing well now.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, Tommy.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Yes. The star of the Denver Nuggets. He loves horses
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: and won a bunch of MVPs. Nikola Djokic. Yes.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Star, the claw. He was with the Clippers. He got
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: in trouble with the salary. Why loser Leonard? Yes. Greatest
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: wide receiver in Arizona Cardinals history. Larry Pitcher. Yes. Fear
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the Fro with the Pistons back in the early 2000s.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Center for the Detroit Pistons.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Doug Wallace.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Yes. Greatest defensive shortstop for the Cleveland Indians. Played with
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners from Venezuela. Carlos Villegas. No. Oh, geez.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: All right. Washington Nationals legend, played with the Angels, second baseman,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: won the World Series. I'm sorry. 160. It was Howie
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Kendrick and Omar Vizquel. Omar Vizquel. I should have got Vizquel.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't. All right. Go ahead. All right, Brian. We've
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: got the boxer.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: These athletes never hesitate to throw hands.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Are you ready? I'm ready. All right. 45 seconds. Let's begin.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Long time a warrior. He kicks people in the balls.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: uh uh raymond green yes all right.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: Uh this guy's a wide receiver for the giants he
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: just got let go uh he had the one-handed catch
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: odell backham jr yes uh this guy's nickname was the
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: worm he was like the enforcer on the bulls dennis
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: rodman yes uh this guy is on the san diego
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: padres he started his career with the baltimore orioles uh
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: third baseman.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I'd pass.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: This guy was a wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers,
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: their best wide receiver of all time.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Steve Smith. Yes.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: This guy was a cornerback for the Patriots and the Broncos.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: He snatched the chain off Michael Crabtree.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: All right. What was that? 120.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: 120. All right.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: You're up again.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Coop. What do you want? All right, Brian.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Do you want bridge over troubled water or homeward bound?
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Homeward Bones.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: These athletes all return home to play for their hometown team.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: 45 seconds. Let's begin. The King from Cleveland.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: LeBron James. Yes. Beast Mode running back for the Seattle Seahawks.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Marshawn Lance.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: The all-time hit king for the Cincinnati Reds. Pete Rollins. Yes.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: The Rocket, pitcher for the Yankees and the Astros. Roger Clements. Yes.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: This guy was the Glide. He played for the Trail
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: Blazers and the Houston Rockets.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Clyde Drexler. Yes.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: This guy was a slugger for the Cleveland Indians. He
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: played for the White Sox also. Big white guy.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Jim Tomey.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: This guy was a Laker. He has like a female's name.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: All right. Long hair in the 70s? No chance. No.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Gail Goodrich, but good job. All right. 360. All right,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: here we go, Slug. Bridge over troubled waters. These athletes
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: are all considered great teammates. Are you ready, Slug? Yes.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, 45 seconds. Greatest quarterback in
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Saints history. Yes, Big Poppy for the Red Sox. Somebody
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: turn down the radio. What else do we have? The
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: star for the San Antonio Spurs after David Robinson, the center.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Big fundamental, Tim Duncan. Yes. The guy for the Phillies.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: White guy for the Phillies. Hits all the home runs.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: He played for the Red Sox and the Cubs. Came
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: up with the Cubs.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Go next.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: All right. Great. Longest tenured royal of all time. Dominican catcher.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: He's still with us. No chance. All right. Guard from UCLA.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Played for the Celtics. Won a championship with the Bucs,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I believe, as well. In the NBA right now, defensive
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: star guard, no? Oh, that's too bad. Oh, Slug, you
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: didn't get Salvador Perez, Drew Holiday, Kyle Schwarber. How do
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: you not get Kyle Schwarber? Kyle Schwarber! Kyle Schwarber!