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  Speaker 1: Well, it turns out these are not slim pickens. They
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from Dallas. The post
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  Speaker 1: Mortem on a win against a tomato can. The Raiders
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  Speaker 1: and Cowboys also a tomato can. They're just a little
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  Speaker 1: tougher tomato can than the Raiders so fresh off the
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  Speaker 1: cakewalk win in Vegas so good. A couple of the
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  Speaker 1: star players didn't show up to meetings because they were
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  Speaker 1: out at the Bellagio or doing whatever they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Cowboys doing the pirouett on the catwalk
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  Speaker 1: and shaking it all about having a great time. Now,
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens the talk of the town. One of the
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  Speaker 1: guys that was on the naughty list is he and
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  Speaker 1: cdee Lamb tweetled the and tweedled dumb not out there
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  Speaker 1: in the first series for the Dallas Cowboys, and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't matter. But they are the talk of the town.
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  Speaker 1: It was really George Pickens is the talk of the town.
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  Speaker 1: He had a huge game. If you had him on Fantasy,
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  Speaker 1: you're very happy about that. If you watch the game,
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  Speaker 1: he played very well. Now. Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer, when
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  Speaker 1: asked about George Pickens at the news conference on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: said possibility of Pickens staying in Dallas, he said, sign
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  Speaker 1: me up. Now there's a shocking take. Did anyone think
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  Speaker 1: that Brian Schottenheimer Shotzi would say, you know, hey, I'll
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  Speaker 1: I don't want the guy. But shot he said no,
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  Speaker 1: I said I love the firepower. He said, he and
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  Speaker 1: CD give us pinch myself at times I want to
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  Speaker 1: see a doctor. I'm very in favor of George having
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  Speaker 1: a long term future with us in Dallas. Close quote.
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  Speaker 1: So Jerry Jones also chimed in He's talked about George
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  Speaker 1: Pickens multiple times over the last month or so and
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  Speaker 1: is interested in a long term relationship between the player
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  Speaker 1: and the team. Olho. There have been no conversations at
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  Speaker 1: this point, leading many to believe that George Pickens would
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  Speaker 1: like to test the market. Well, George Pickens has an
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  Speaker 1: expiring contract. We know that former Dallas star Des Bryant,
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  Speaker 1: who knows the thing or two about playing for Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones as a wide receiver. So does Bryant went on
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  Speaker 1: social media and he gave some advice recently to George Pickens.
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  Speaker 1: He said to Pickens that his legacy will be worth
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  Speaker 1: more than being the highest paid receiver. He said, if
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  Speaker 1: you stay with the Cowboys, there's a lot more to
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  Speaker 1: the thought process, indicating that yeah, the money is great,
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  Speaker 1: but you you know, Cowboys, Come on, you can do
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  Speaker 1: autograph shows in Plano, Texas when you're seventy years old.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, now, all right, So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question should George
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  Speaker 1: Pickens take less for quote legacy reasons with the Cowboys?
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  Speaker 1: That is the question. Now my thoughts on this, I
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  Speaker 1: have TSA Texas Instruments and emergency app update, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to make a double cheeseburger with extra onions and
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  Speaker 1: garlic is what we're going to make. So a listen.
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  Speaker 1: We love the fact that Des Bryant, who has apparently
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  Speaker 1: lots of free time, he's got nothing going on. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know he's he must be bored out of
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  Speaker 1: his mind. Made a good amount of money. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he kept his money, just be bored out
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  Speaker 1: of his mind. So Des Bryant is out there giving
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  Speaker 1: career advice like he's the Dalai Lama of wide receivers.
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  Speaker 1: Is like it's just so great, just outstanding, just absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: I say, the Dali Lama of wide receivers. You think
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  Speaker 1: about your legacy, George, Ye, think about you? Like are
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  Speaker 1: you are we kidding? Like? What do what do we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Can we talk? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So this is the NFL. This is not some lifestyle drama.
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens is not taking a dime less, not a
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  Speaker 1: dime less, then the market will provide him. And you
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  Speaker 1: know why, let me tell you why. This isn't something
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  Speaker 1: about legacy, Okay, because his reputation, his legacy from his
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  Speaker 1: time in Pittsburgh, he already comes with a loaded suitcase.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, TSA has already flagged George Pickens when he
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  Speaker 1: was in Pittsburgh. He's on the do not flyless. So
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  Speaker 1: he's got to get screened when he goes to the
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  Speaker 1: airport extra because of what he did with Mike Tomlin.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's fair to say, based on what we know,
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  Speaker 1: based on what we know, he's not George Pickens walking
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  Speaker 1: into Jerry Jones office and saying, Okay, I'll take less.
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  Speaker 1: He's also not going in there and getting a ceedee
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  Speaker 1: lamb contract. No shot, no shot, that's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: So he's gonna have to take less than see the
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  Speaker 1: lamb and Jerry already shot his shot. That's the issue here.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas picked their Alpha wide receiver C. D. Lamb is
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  Speaker 1: the man in a lamb, That's who they picked. He's
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  Speaker 1: the guy. George, George, George George George George Pickens. He
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  Speaker 1: would have to be the number two. And there have
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  Speaker 1: been some wonderful number two receivers in my lifetime. I
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  Speaker 1: think even the Dallas Cowboys when they used to win.
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  Speaker 1: I'm old, so I remember when the collage Is actually
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  Speaker 1: had good teams they won. I'm old. I remember that.
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  Speaker 1: And the top receiver was a guy named Michael Irvin,
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  Speaker 1: the playmaker. The number two receiver was a guy named
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  Speaker 1: Alvin Harper. Not a bad player, Alvin Harper. You don't
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  Speaker 1: hear Alvin Harper's name very much these days, or really
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  Speaker 1: ever after he stopped playing. You always like the number
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  Speaker 1: two guy is forgotten. I'll give you some more evidence
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  Speaker 1: of that. Jerry Rice. In a different era in the
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  Speaker 1: eighties with the forty nine Ers, the all time greatest
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  Speaker 1: receiver of all time, the number two receiver a guy
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  Speaker 1: named John Taylor. Very good player, very good player. When's
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  Speaker 1: the last time you hear John Taylor's name? Right? The
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers had heinz Ward and the number two receiver
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  Speaker 1: was Santonio Holmes. Not a bad player. But that's the
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  Speaker 1: B side. People remember the A side, they don't remember
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  Speaker 1: the B side. All those guys great second bananas is
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers. They were great, but they weren't at the
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  Speaker 1: very top and they didn't get paid the top dollar.
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  Speaker 1: That's just the way it was. And so the idea
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  Speaker 1: of legacy, Oh, it's all about the legacy. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: please light you took us with your legacy there. And
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  Speaker 1: occasionally it may mean something if you've only played for
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  Speaker 1: one team and you buy into that dogma. That is
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  Speaker 1: not the case here with George Pickens. He is a
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  Speaker 1: now football mercenary. He worked himself out of Pittsburgh for
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  Speaker 1: being on the on the bad list and all the
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  Speaker 1: baggage and all that stuff, and Jerry got him for
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  Speaker 1: pennies on the dollar because the Steelers are like, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta get rid of this guy. He's a cancer. So
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  Speaker 1: they got rid of him. And we know Jerry loves baggage.
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  Speaker 1: We know that Jerry Jones loves baggage and he collects
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  Speaker 1: it like frequent flyer miles. And so don't confuse that
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  Speaker 1: with paying a premium. We don't think that's going to
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. So we know Jerry Jones is going
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  Speaker 1: to sell George Pickens when the time comes. Here on
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  Speaker 1: being a Dallas Cowboy, and he's going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: all the marketing opportunities you have when you're playing Dallas
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  Speaker 1: and the star on the helmet and they leave the
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  Speaker 1: light there in the stadium so God can look down
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  Speaker 1: because apparently God doesn't have X ray vision. All that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: the bright lights, it just means more when you play
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  Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, right, all that stuff, Sunday Night Full
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  Speaker 1: is just bigger when the Cowboys are in. But everyone's
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  Speaker 1: got a price tag. Everyone's got a price tag. And
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  Speaker 1: des Bryant can preach about legacy and all this nonsense
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  Speaker 1: and this rigamarole and all that stuff. But Legacy does
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  Speaker 1: not pay, does not pay for the extra private island
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  Speaker 1: in the Bahamas that he would like to have, right,
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  Speaker 1: And he guaranteed money typically does it, typically does, right,
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  Speaker 1: So should Pickens take less for the legacy? Yeah, if
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  Speaker 1: he wants to be a foot soldier for Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: and a made man, a made man in the football
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  Speaker 1: mob in the Death Star in Jerry's world, is he
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  Speaker 1: actually going to do it? No, he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: actually do it. Once those negotiations start, the Legacy goes
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  Speaker 1: out the window, right right out the window. And then
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  Speaker 1: they pull out the old calculator on the phone and
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  Speaker 1: they start crunching the numbers, and they go over the
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  Speaker 1: numbers and all that, and the legacy sounds nice, and
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  Speaker 1: then it is the NFL. You know, legacy is good.
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  Speaker 1: Direct deposits better. I kind of like the direct deposit.
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  Speaker 1: And you want to be the number one guy. You
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  Speaker 1: can't beat the number one guy in Dallas unless the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys would trade CD LAMB. That seems unlikely. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: trade CD LAMB. So what you're gonna do. What you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do, that's the question. All right. Now turn the
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  Speaker 1: pitch to page two. We go to Viva Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: Viva Las Vegas, where Raider coach Pete Carroll, good old
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  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll, continues to sing the virtues of Geno Smith. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that suck bag quarterback, Gino Smith, who proves on a
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  Speaker 1: weekly basis he cannot play as a starting quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. He listen to Pete Carroll here, you'd think,
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  Speaker 1: if you listen to this, you'd think that Geno Smith
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  Speaker 1: is God's gift to the quarterback position. Tagels.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I continue to really believe in him. I
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  Speaker 5: have no hesitation in telling you that he's an incredible
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  Speaker 5: player and he's busting his tail and he's working at
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  Speaker 5: it really hard. He has not backed off one step
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  Speaker 5: throughout the process, and so we're counting on on that.
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  Speaker 5: He's going to keep working and he'll come too for us.
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  Speaker 5: We just got to help him out more, got to
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  Speaker 5: protect him better.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So how do you process the Raiders coach?
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  Speaker 1: You just heard the sound bite there Pete Carroll and
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  Speaker 1: his endorsement of Gino Smith. Well, it proves that there
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  Speaker 1: is no correlation between hard work and performance. Because if
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  Speaker 1: he's working hard and these are the results he's getting,
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  Speaker 1: holy crap, you might want to not work hard because
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  Speaker 1: you're wasting your time. You suck, dude, You're terrible, right,
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  Speaker 1: Good old positive Pete, Good old positive Pete. There he is.
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  Speaker 1: Raiders are two and eight. They're like a turd circling
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  Speaker 1: the ball. This is what they're doing right there. And
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  Speaker 1: is it like a little rubber ducky surrounded by turds.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Raiders right there in the bathtub. And this
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  Speaker 1: is not so much coaching, it's the art of manifestation.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Pete Carroll's doing on this One's that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm going with. It's the art of manifestation, and he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to speak this into existence. Good luck. Pete's not
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  Speaker 1: visualizing a playoff run because that's that's over. He's visualizing
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  Speaker 1: therapist bills, is what he's doing. The shrink bills is
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  Speaker 1: that's where he's going. So essentially treating Geno Smith like
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  Speaker 1: a fragile porcelain tea cup, which is we all know
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  Speaker 1: genosaf if we learned that when he was at West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: He got into it with me on social media back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, so we know that. But it's just crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll will not publicly criticized Geno Smith. I challenge
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  Speaker 1: any man, woman, or child to find audio of Pete
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  Speaker 1: Carroll ripping Geno Smith. It has not happened, and it
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  Speaker 1: will not happen. Now, why is that? Because Pete Carroll
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  Speaker 1: understands that you cannot speak the truth to Gino Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot do it. He's not wired that way. He's soft,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't do it with a soft athlete. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot not you can't. You know, Pete's much rather rather
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  Speaker 1: than just be honest here, he's like taking the peanut
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  Speaker 1: butter and jelly sandwich, and he's cutting off the crust
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  Speaker 1: to make an uncrustable homemade and he's getting the blankie
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  Speaker 1: ready every week for Gino Smith, it's wild. Meanwhile, Gino's
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  Speaker 1: out there playing like he's a Texas Instruments calculator from
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, just real slow, real real slow of
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  Speaker 1: it doing his thing, and my god, takes forever, takes
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  Speaker 1: forever to get through reads. And there's a theme a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these bad quarterbacks. There's one common denominator, and
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  Speaker 1: they don't get rid of the ball quickly. They don't.
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  Speaker 1: And you watch the Raiders with Geno Smith, and it's
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  Speaker 1: always the same am like, well the offense all lunch,
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  Speaker 1: no good, Oh my god, because people are stupid. They
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  Speaker 1: don't understand that it's the quarterback most of the time
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  Speaker 1: that f's it up, not the offensive line. It's the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And people don't understand. They don't understand ball, they understand
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  Speaker 1: how that works. And so he holds the ball too long.
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  Speaker 1: He's waiting for deep roots or routes, and that's how
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  Speaker 1: you end up with almost thirty sacks in one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty five yards lost. He's the second worst in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Gino Smith and yards lost via sack. Congratulation
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  Speaker 1: that the brain takes the scenic route when he's playing quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: There he leads the NFL tied for the lead in interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: Can congratulations. He's the thirty first ranked quarterback in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: But he's working really hard. He's working really hard. And
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  Speaker 1: there's Pete Carroll. He's got now, he's got he bought
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  Speaker 1: this on Tiamu. He's got silver and black knee pads.
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  Speaker 1: When he talks about Geno Smith's wild he's wearing him
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  Speaker 1: right there, praising his effort and busting his tail and
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  Speaker 1: all that. Do I need to be the voice of
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  Speaker 1: reason here and point out that the Raiders gave that
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  Speaker 1: man seventy five million dollars of new money before he
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  Speaker 1: had ever played a game I ever played a game
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  Speaker 1: of the Raiders when they got him from Seattle. And
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  Speaker 1: you could have bought the entire XFL and one of
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  Speaker 1: those guys would have been better than Geno Smith, one
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  Speaker 1: of them. And so if Pete really believes in Geno Smith,
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  Speaker 1: which he doesn't, but he really believes in Geno Smith,
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  Speaker 1: he had a drive Gino to the Harry Reid Airport,
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  Speaker 1: the newly renamed Harry Reid Airport in Vegas, and personally
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  Speaker 1: buy him a one way ticket out of Vegas middle seat,
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  Speaker 1: just like Rob Parker likes on Spirit airlines. No carry on,
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  Speaker 1: that's it, get out of here. You're done, all right now?
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  Speaker 1: Last word to Nashville, Tennessee we go where Danny and
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  Speaker 1: Nashville is the only person left watching the monstrosity that
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  Speaker 1: is the Tennessee football team. So Titans offensive coordinator Nick
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  Speaker 1: Holtz chimed in on this, Holts saying that he was
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  Speaker 1: talking about the quarterback cam Ward and he told reporters,
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  Speaker 1: he told the staff here that they're working to reinvent
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  Speaker 1: cam Ward to raise his arm slot. Yeah. I know,
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  Speaker 1: just listen, they say, because the way cam throws the football,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a lower release, and that has led to
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  Speaker 1: a ton of passes being batted down at the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage. It happens at least a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: seemingly every game where cam Wore has passes that should
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  Speaker 1: be completed that don't even have a chance because they're
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  Speaker 1: getting batted down by the defensive players who know when
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  Speaker 1: cam Ward throws the ball jump up. Good chance you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get a hold of it. Good chances you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get a hold of it. Now, the question on
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  Speaker 1: this one, what does the latest update on Titans rookie
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  Speaker 1: quarterback cam Ward indicate to you? So this is not
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  Speaker 1: that difficult. Cam Ward we knew going in was never
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  Speaker 1: a plug and play guy. He was never that, And
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  Speaker 1: watching him play in college at Miami, you never got
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  Speaker 1: the vibe, well, this is a all time great player.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be an amazing clearly the number
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  Speaker 1: one player in the draft and all that stuff. This
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  Speaker 1: was not a microwave dinner. This was a raw piece
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  Speaker 1: of chicken and you needed to season it. It was
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  Speaker 1: unseasoned and you had to put in the oven for
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  Speaker 1: forty minutes and hope for the best, hope for the best.
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  Speaker 1: The Titans draft of this guy number one overall, and
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  Speaker 1: here we are, it's not even the middle of the season.
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  Speaker 1: We're getting kind of near the end of the season
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgivings right around the corner, and they're trying to patch
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  Speaker 1: the glitches in real time, in real time in season,
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  Speaker 1: that's the plan in Tennessee. Like they're pushing out an
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  Speaker 1: emergency app update in the app store bug fixes and
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  Speaker 1: performance improvements and all that. Now the release time, that
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  Speaker 1: is another issue. We talked about this with Gino Smith,
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  Speaker 1: same problem with cam Ward. Cam Ward two point eight
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: seconds seems like that's pretty quick, but in the NFL world,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: that is slow motion. That is dial up internet in
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: the NFL world. And that's a quarterback just like Gino
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: waiting to take the deep shot, not making quick decisions,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and as a result, you end up eating your lunch
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: is what you end up doing as you get sacked
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And now now his arm slot
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: is all messed up. That's the probably armslot that's the issue.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Great double whammy, that's the double whammy is what that is.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: And so not only is he late on his throes
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and his decisions, cam Ward, he's also got a wonky delivery.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: That sounds great. Where did you draft the guy the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: fifth round?
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: No?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Number one? Overall? That's what he says, So great, you
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: got the guy with the double whamy. Now, I do
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: like cam Ward. Don't treat this as some kind of
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: attack on cam mord. He's the only quarterback in my
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: life who is given the most honest answer with regarding
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: his team. When he said we asked, and he's right.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: He also could have said me ass is what he
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: could have said. He could have said that as well.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: And so if you want batted balls, if you want turnovers,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: if you want all that stalled drives, watch the Tennessee
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Titans with cam Ward. And that's the stuff to get
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: coaches fired. Oh by the way, cam Moore's already got
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: his coach fired, so they're on the interim coach there
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and from franchise savior, which is what you expect when
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: you have the top pick in the draft. And now
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: we're talking about doing demo on cam Ward, doing some demo,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: going back to studs, recreating things, because that always works,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that never goes wrong. Sure, reinvent the quarterback. Yeah, week
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: was it? We eleven? Week twelve, something like that. Just
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: redo it. Just that's it. You know, cam Ward not broken,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: He's just unfinished. He's just unfinished. Be sure to.
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• 22:46
  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from a heartache in case.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Well it's not hard ae get things are not going
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: particularly well if the playoffs started today. If the playoffs
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: started today, Kansas City would be watching on television like
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: you and I will be watching on television. So problems
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: in paradise developing. Hot dot dot dot. If you have
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: not heard, perhaps not warning warning, morning morning, morning warning.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid at Loggerheads say it ain't,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: so say it ain't. So this hasn't really popped up
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: at all in recent years. Why would it? The Chiefs
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: have been so good in this run of dominance. Well,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: now some picking apart on what's going on in Kansas City.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: So the relationship, there's it on the verge of cracking,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: breaking apart into little pieces, Andy Reid and Mahomes. Problems
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: more serious than anticipated with Kens City. So this all
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: because of some comments made by Andy Reid recently after
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the latest Chiefs loss, losing to the Denver Broncos, Andy
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Reid seemingly calling out Patrick Mahomes. He was asked about
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the lack of a running game for the Kansas City
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: football team and Andy Reid pointed out, well, I mean
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: calls were made. Now, let's go to the audio tape.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: We're calling the quite a few of the r pos.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: So yesterday they were giving us opportunities to throw the football.
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: So we utilized the opportunities there and those things end
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: up being as good as a run for you. We're
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: getting four plus yards and and you go with it.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: And but the runs are being called, it's just you know,
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: sometimes they they get turned into into passes in today's world.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: You know that's how it goes. So but we're getting
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: we're getting the man. Now we have some hard runs
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: where you just get up, lineup and go. Probably could
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: call more of those we're calling.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, so there's Andy Reid there, But any the gist
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: of that was, Hey, we're making the calls like as
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: a coaching staf, we are telling them to run the football.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: And in today's world, he said, you know, that's how
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: it goes. The runs are being called. It's just you
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes they turn into passes in today's world. Well,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that was the implication was that was a shot at
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes here as he would audible or change the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: play to accommodate the passing game for Kansas City. So
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the question you just heard the audio was was chief
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: said coach Andy Reid poking the bear? Was he poking
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the bear by essentially saying, Hey, I'm doing my job
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: as a coach. It's his fault. Mom's changing the play,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: abandoning the running game that we're making the calls. That's
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: all we can do, is coaches. That's what it sounded like.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: So my observations on this, I have Midwestern mom, hurts,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: rental car, and cocktail party, and we will combine all
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to make
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: some fetichini alfredo and some delicious garlic. Brother. That sounds good, right,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: It can't go wrong. I've only had bad fetichini alfredo
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: one time. Every other time it's been good. Every time
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: it's been good.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: So number wa, I said, number wa.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: That's right. So, based on a minutes long deliberation of
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the available evidence from Andy Reid and Mahomes, I have
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: determined the Court of the Ben Maller Show is determined
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: this was absolutely one hundred percent a shot at Mahomes
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: with a chuckle with a chuckle at the end of it.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: This wasn't subtle. This was read between the lines, kid,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: is what this was Andy Reid. Now, he might look
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: like Santa Claus, looked like Santa Claus, like he's a
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: jolly good fellow. Wish nobody can then, But on this one,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: that was a body blow, body blow, body blow over
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the play calling from Mahomes. And he said when we
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: called the runs is what he said, and Mahomes made
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: them passes. That's that's essentially what Andy Reid will say.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And that is the message. That is the message. And
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: it was wrapped in a nice little bow. It was
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: a red bow, just like the Chiefs colors had little
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: red bow there. Passive aggressive, passive aggressive, like a Midwestern
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: mom asking if you really need seconds, which is her
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: way of saying, you fat pig, why would you need
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: more food? Indirectly critical with a nice warm tone. Yes,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, would you really need seconds? Okay, I'll
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: get you, I'll get you some more pasta? Why not? Yeah? Look,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: when the audible's audible audible audible. When the audibles lead
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to touchdowns, nobody says a word why would you You're
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: not gonna say a word when they don't. The offense
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: is sputtering, and it wasn't. The Chiefs still had a
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: chance to win the game. Defense makes some plays there,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: they still they beat the Broncos. But the offense it
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: was kind of blah. It's kind of bla Broncos have
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: a good defense at all. That, but Kansas Cy's offense,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: if you look at the way things are going the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: last month or so, the Chiefs offense has gotten worse,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: not better, even though they've got their playmakers. And suddenly
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs look like a middle of the pack NFL team,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: which is, oh, by the way, what they are. And
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: they will be fighting with Jacksonville, it would appear, based
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: on what we're doing the show today, for one of
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the final playoff spots in the division or in the
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: in the conference rather. And they lost to Jacksonville because
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: one of their defensive players, their top defensive player, got
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: lazy and decided not to hustle. How great is that?
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be the perfect for the Chiefs not to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs? That keeping up with the Joneses couldn't
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: get off his fat ass to go make a play,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: and he was walking while Trevor Lawrence stumbled and bumbled,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: got up, stumbled and bubbled again, got up and scored
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: a touchdown, while Chris Jones is like, la la la
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: la la la la la la la la la la
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: la la la la la just like that. So there
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: you go. This is officially based on the data. This
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: is officially the first time since Patrick Mahomes became the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: man the QB number one, since he took over the number,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: that missing the playoffs is a legitimate possibility for the Chiefs,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: like they're gonna have to overperform. They've underperformed so far,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: They're gonna have to overperform to get into the playoffs.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: And that's not gas baggerie, it's media nonsense. No, it's
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: not that. That is reality with a capitol R. Is
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: what that isn't Andy Reid. We know he's not a rookie.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: He's only got a little time left as an NFL coach.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Who knows. If this continues to go the way it's going, Andy,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: we could be forced out at the end of the year.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: This could be his final season as coach of the Chiefs.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: If they don't make the playoffs, theyll say, oh, he's
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: too old. They need a change. It's time to replace
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Andy Reid a big red. Come on, go to retirement,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Go go to Dana point there in so cal knock
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: yourself out. And it was a shot, Andy Reid. That
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: was his way of saying, and went on, roll it
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: back a little bit. Stop stop freelancing. It's not a
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: freelance job. Stick to the script. Do that kind of
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: stuff in the moment because mahomes he keeps checking out
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: of runs and setting up because of the inefficiency of
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the passing game quite a bit these days. It sets
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: up third and long and then they'll they'll be watching
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, hanging out eating delicious kettle corn like we
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: are watching the playoffs. So Andy Reid again, he didn't
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: just poke the bear. This is not just a poke
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the bear situation. He yanked its tail and rang the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: dinner bell is what Andy redid with that. And so
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the pressure gets cranked up. There's sound of the actual
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: actual bear, very hungry bear. It's not a bear and underwear. No,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: it is not all right now page two to seeaattle
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: we go. That's right. The Seahawks still licking their wounds
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: after losing because the Rams can ram it all day
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and ram it all night. So one veteran NFL coach
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: making a statement recently about the Seattle Seahawks and their
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: situation with a stout defense and pretty good special teams,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and this unnamed, unnamed NFL coach, NFL coach giving a
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: reminder of the many limitations that Seattle has with Sam Darnald.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: With Sam Darnald, So this NFL coach told the athletic
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: behind a paywalt, the old gray lady said, quote, Sam
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: is just going to have that in him for life.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Of course, that would be the four interceptions he gift
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: wrapped to the Rams. He's going to have that in
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: him for life, the coach said to the athletic, he said,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: he will play great Sam Donald. He will play good
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald. Then he is going to have those plays.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Problem is, quote continues, problem is when you get established
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: as a playoff team, everyone is scared to death that
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: is going to happen. Close quote and oh, by the way,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: we touch up his work there. It often does happen.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: It happened last year, It's going to happen again this
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: year for Sam Donald. So that's the deal. The question
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: on this one, what do you make of the Sam
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Donald quagmire that the Seattle Seahawks find themselves in. Yeah,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I know it's a cartoon character. Did they find themselves
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: in a quagmar? So Seattle, this is a great reality check.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Things are going great. Think everything wonderful. You're a big
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: man on campus. Everything's so just glowing the football gods.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: The football gods are smiling until they're not. And Seattle
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: has put a team together that has a built in
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: liability they do. The liability is called Sam Donald. That's it.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: And you knew that moment was gonna happen when you
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: signed up for Sam Donald because it's part of the
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald package. That's what it is. It's an underlying
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: condition you signed up for it. I know, JJ and
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Rent's not happy about it. I see crying Craig out there.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: He's upset, and Nosterdines' is like, oh my god, what
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: am I gonna do to What kind of lies am
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I gonna spread to Mallard here to try to defend
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald? What am I gonna do? Yeah, so you
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: can have the greatest defense in the world. You're gonna
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: have good special teams, and if Sam Donald does that,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: you're going to lose you're going to lose, and eventually
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to play in big games. It's
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: just gonna happen. A guy, We'll play, and the lights
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: will get cranked up in the stadium there, it'll be
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: national TV. The crowd will get a little bit louder,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and his brain, the Sam Donald brain, will start doing
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: geometry and then realize he went to USC so he
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't know geometry. Donald is like a Hurts rental car
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: or any other rental car. I just happen to use Hurts.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I like a rental car that you get at the
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: airport and then it's got to check engine light on.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: And they said, well, that just always has it. I
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: don't worry about that. We checked everything. Everything's good. And
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: they say, okay, you're sure about that because it says
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the check engine light. I don't know if I feel
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: comfortable driving the automobile. And they say, don't worry about it.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: We've rented this car one hundred times. There have never
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: been any issues. It's always on. It's just a glitch
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: in the car. But the car runs fine. You're going
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: to enjoy the car, thank you very much. All right,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: So you get in the car, you put your suitcase
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: in there. You put a couple of bags in the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: car at the Hurts rental car and then you leave
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the airport and then everything's cleaned. The car smells good,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: drives fine. And then suddenly right when you get on
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: the highway there the interstate, the transmission drops out of
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the car. That's Sam Donald. That is Sam He's fine
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: on surface streets, and then you get on the highway
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't go very well. There interceptions. That is
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: a personality trait of Sam Donald in big games. And
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: this is why coaches are terrified, absolutely terrified of having
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald. And you can have Superman for fourteen or
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: fifteen games, and then at some point somebody brings some
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: kryptonite to the stadium. How'd they get that into the stadium?
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Did that get through the metal? Detectivele I don't know
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: how it got in, but there's kryptonite? Uh oh yeah.
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: So you don't just downgrade Sam Donald. You downgrade the
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: entire Seattle Seahawk twenty twenty five team with Sam Donald.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: You just do all right, whatever you think they're going
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: to do, just downgrade a couple of slots. You just
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: have to downgrade it. There there's a cap on how
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: far you can go for Seattle here with a quarterback
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: who can spontaneously combust and Donald's good enough to put
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: up some gaudy stats in random one o'clock games on
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: a Sunday, and he's flawed enough to ruin your whole
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: football viewing experience for the twelves. It's football purgatory, is
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: what it is. And that is the Sam Donald experience
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: is what it is. All right now, final point to Chicago.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: We go. We go to Chicago despite a seven and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: three record. I believe that is their record. My computer
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: like brain tells me. There are some around the NFL
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: who are questioning the relationship between the head coach, Ben Johnson.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Show me your Ben Johnson and the quarterback Caleb Williams. Well,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: how could that be? Hey, I don't understand the Bears
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: are good. I don't get it. Well, the athletic again,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the old gray lady there. They recently had a defensive
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: coach who was played against the Chicago Bears, an unnamed
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: defensive coach who suggested that Williams, Caleb Williams, that his
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: style of play does not suit Ben Johnson's coaching, that
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: it's a mismatch here. Despite the team having a good record,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: it's a bit of a mismatch and Johnson is still,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: of course in the early stages. This his first year
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: as a head coach. He's trying to trying to help
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the Bears take the next level. If you look at
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the record, everything's going great there and all that make
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams a reliable starter. I was the top pick
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: in the draft in twenty twenty four. The quote was
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you. This is from the unnamed
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: defensive coach. To be honest with you, I think Ben,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: meaning Ben Johnson, is frustrated with him. Caleb doesn't play
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: on time and doesn't do the things that allow the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: offense to get to the next level that Ben is
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: used to said. Ben Johnson was able to scheme up
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: max protection things for Jared Goff in Detroit and run
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: guys open. This guy can't do that. So now it's
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: all off schedule ball, which is uncontrollable for a coach.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Close quote question, Bear's coach Ben Johnson frustrated with Caleb Williams.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Up and down, up and down play? Is this fair
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: or is this foul? Is it fair or is it foul,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: that's the question. So based on an expedited review, fair ball,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: fair ball, both feet inbounds fair ball. All right, now
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the lesson here, You don't judge a book by its cover.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: That's what they said, don't don't judge a book by
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: its cover. Okay, we're not gonna judge a book by
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: its cover, but we're gonna look at the book based
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: on the pages. The pages. We've opened the book. The
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: pages got bent in the book, and there's some coffee stains.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't drink coffee. There's some coffee
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: stains there. And someone tried to make an art piece
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: on page twenty seven with broken crayons. So there's that.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: So that's how we're going to judge the book. Listen,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, what a cocktail part of this guy is?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, You got five game winning drives? I think
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: that number is right, five game winning drives. Yet the
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: internal clock, if you look at the clock, tick tick tick,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: tick tick does a common bond on the overnight tonight.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: The clock it's broken. The clock is not right there.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: He's finger he's the fingernail painter at quarterback. If you
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, and looks great on the gram
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: social media looks very good there. But when it's third
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: down and eight and Ben Johnson needs a timing and
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: rhythm play, not so much. He's out there freelancing like
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: he's at Lincoln Park playing some pickup ball at seven
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: A grand old time there, beautiful Lincoln Park. Now, what
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: is my evidence? What is my evidence here? Now? He's
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: late much. We talked last hour about Geno Smith and
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: some of these other guys who do the same thing. Well,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: this is another example of holding the ball for two
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: long three point three four seconds on average, which is
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: an eternity for an NFL quarterback. Williams completion rate is
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: below sixty percent. He's bottom five under pressure, twenty fifth
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: in red zone touchdown rate, which I'm told is not good.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I'm told that's not good. And then when his nails
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: get chipped inside the twenty yard line in the red zone,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: receivers have to be making circus catches for the Bears
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: because he cannot seemingly place the football outside of five
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: yards with any kind of consistency when you watch the
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Bears play there, and so I get it now. Publicly,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: everything's going great. The Bears are winning some games and
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, although Ben Johnson did call out the
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: work habits of some of the Bears players earlier this year.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: But they're winning, and yet you think Ben Johnson is
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: frustrated that things are not completely clicking, Like you win
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: enough of these close games you think, Okay, that's great,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: but it's not a sustainable formula. And to think that
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: you're longing for Jared Goff, who has to be spoon
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: fed everything that Jared Goff is like beautiful sheet music
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: on time and all that stuff, and it's like, what
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: are we doing? And Caleb turning the Bears offense into
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: a jazz improv night with a couple of people that
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: have never even heard of jazz music performing. What are
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: we doing here? And it's at a bowling alley down
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the street. Well, that doesn't seem like it's going to
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: be very good at all. It doesn't seem good at all.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: It's all off schedule, all that stuff all over the place.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: And I buy it, Ben Johnson, you got the public
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: and the private. Publicly, everything's great. The Bears are winning. Privately,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I thought this guy would be better. I don't understand
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I could have had any job I wanted, and I
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: took this job because of this guy, and this guy's
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: helter skelter. It's the Caleb Williams, who's very talented. However,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: a roller coaster, a roller coaster with loose bolts, is
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: what he is, and the Bears are winning often despite him. Well,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: how could you say.
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: That you don't know ball?
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: You don't know ball? Well, okay, field goals, lucky kickoff returns,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: special teams, blunders either by the other team or defensive blunders.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: And again, you're not gonna live like that long term.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: So the malar panic meter is rising. The malar panic
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: meter is rising. The Bears better pray that the nail
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: polish dries before the playoffs start, because right now you
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: don't want to play with wet nail polish. You gotta
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: let that drive for a few minutes.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Show days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, but here we go,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Here we go, gets grilled, Here we go, cool boy, Ben.
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: Yes, the Indianapolis Colts are eight and two, and you're
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: then they're coming off a buy and they face again.
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: They face off against a five and five Chiefs team
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: this week. Yes, yet they're currently three point underdogs. Now
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: Colds wide receiver Michael Pittman Junior said he prefers when
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: people underestimate them. Ben, are you among these people?
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Uh Am, I under estimate. I don't think I'm underestimating.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I have the Colts as a team that's gonna be
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: a fraud team because Daniel Jones is going to kill
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: them in the playoffs. They're gonna have to need it.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: They're gonna need a touchdown drive and he's progressed and
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: everyone's all excited about that. But I don't buy it.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm on that team. If that's the team,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I want to be on that team. That's the side.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: And there's a reason the Chiefs are favored is because
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: the people that make the odds in Vegas believe they're
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: the better team next.
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: All week leading up to the game against the Chiefs,
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: analysts and fans alike, we're calling the Broncos frauds. Well now,
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: analysts done in about face and they're all saying Denver
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: deserves respect after their latest win.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Then do you agree? Uh? Well, I was not on that.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: I picked the Broncos in that game, as you know,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: cool because you watch Benny versus the Pan on YouTube.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: So I had the Broncos in that game and all that. Whatever,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: here's the way the meter works. Whatever happens, they just
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: react to and that's what whoever won they love.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: Next, the ballots for the twenty twenty six Baseball Hall
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: of Fame class have been announced. Some analysts are saying
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: that only Andrew Jones and Carlos Beltran would get in
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: next year.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: What do you think now? Beltran can't get in. He
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: was part of the cheating Astros. And Andrew Jones became
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: a whale when he played with the Dodgers, so I
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: wouldn't put him in either. So no, neither one here.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: You all right? You passed. That's a win. Cheata, Cheeta, cheetah,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Carlos Beltran, cheetah.
• 44:53
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• 45:05
  Speaker 4: It's of It Bizz with Lorraine at ten nine, Clean Up,
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• 45:17
  Speaker 9: Dear Ry, you heard the man It's officially time for
• 45:21
  Speaker 9: love again here on the Ben Mallors Show. Sorry you
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: guys had to miss me last week.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: You're back there, I'm back, You're back.
• 45:27
  Speaker 9: All right, The love Queen is back.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, your night mirror is over. Let's get right to it. Lorena,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: I'm ready late night, your Accester writes in hashtag Queen
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: of Hearts, He says, is it ever too early to
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: have my lady wearing holiday lingerie?
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 45:44
  Speaker 9: The best thing about holiday lingerie is it's usually red,
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: and red is a very versatile color. You can use
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: it all the time. But with lingerie, you usually want
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: to get your girl a new set every time.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Oh really, so one and done situation? Is that right? Yeah?
• 45:57
  Speaker 9: Just like a prom dress, you're not gonna wear it twice.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: That like you have to buy a new TV every year?
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: The same thing, right, Friday sales coming up?
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, I can't wait for the video of the people
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: getting the fights at Walmart for the eighty inch television.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: So I can't wait.
• 46:13
  Speaker 9: You know about Christmas lingerie? I love the idea of
• 46:16
  Speaker 9: like role playing Missus Claus and like Santa Claus. I
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: think that's super fun for a festive time of the year. Yeah,
• 46:22
  Speaker 9: you know, take your sleigh.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Eh right, yeah, absolutely, all right, let's hear those. Shane
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Shane in The Moine writes, and he says, you own
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: one of your ex's shirts and still wear it.
• 46:35
  Speaker 9: I did keep one of my ex's shirts for a
• 46:38
  Speaker 9: long time. It was a little comforting thing. But no,
• 46:40
  Speaker 9: not anymore.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: You've given that up. You have, yes, so you don't
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: need that anymore. You've determined you.
• 46:46
  Speaker 9: Have enough current boyfriends. I can wear their clothes.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Oh all right. Uh, ferg Dog says, how do I
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: get that special someone to notice me? That's kind of
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: creepy for Dog. I don't know if you want to Well, it.
• 46:56
  Speaker 9: Depends on how you want to go. Do you want
• 46:57
  Speaker 9: to be like stocker Ish? Do you want to be
• 47:00
  Speaker 9: a normal person? Because you know, you could pull a
• 47:03
  Speaker 9: Michael Leprechaun and stand outside someone's window. Wow, you could
• 47:05
  Speaker 9: do a mail order bride, you could do you could
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: do like regular Instagram reaches out, which is a little harder,
• 47:12
  Speaker 9: especially if they're more of a personality. But there's a
• 47:15
  Speaker 9: lot of ways to be noticed.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Next question from Mike, he says, speaking of friends with
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: benefits after going and doing the business Is it bad
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: for the man to immediately nod off and or go
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: for a cigarette.
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: No, No, I don't mind it at all. No, once
• 47:34
  Speaker 9: you're done, do in the business whatever you need to do, right,
• 47:37
  Speaker 9: So I see it as like an energy release, right,
• 47:39
  Speaker 9: So after that you should calm down, you should go
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: into more relaxed date. I would love to nap after that.
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: If you need to go and h you know, smoke
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: a cigarette and get that mental high that you like,
• 47:49
  Speaker 9: that's good too. Whatever tops off your.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Or gather from mike there. And I don't think I
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: don't recommend sleeping and smoking at the same time.
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: I don't think no, not in bed either. Well, some
• 47:57
  Speaker 9: people do smoke in bed, you know.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: I'll coiled up all right. Dave writes this is an email.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: He says he's thirty four years old. He thinks he's
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: good looking, at least decent looking, he said. He says
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: he's been on about eighty first dates the past four
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: years and zero second dates. He says. He says he
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: thinks people women think he's boring. She says, should he
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: give up any any advice?
• 48:26
  Speaker 9: If you really do want companionship and love, I wouldn't
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: give up.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: But I would brought a Russian bride, but yeah, I would.
• 48:32
  Speaker 9: Also look at how you're approaching these women. What kind
• 48:34
  Speaker 9: of dates are you taking them onto? You know, are
• 48:36
  Speaker 9: you taking them to McDonald's. Are you just walking in
• 48:37
  Speaker 9: the park like.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I think you gotta go another twenty because they say
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: one hundred, right, at least one out of one hundred
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: is going to give you a second date. Right, maybe
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: if you're I can't be. The guy's got to be long, right,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: there's no way you're oh for eighty, that is impossible
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: to be oh for eighty?
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Or else?
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: I mean so much finer bag over your head?
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Fine? Blind women? Right, come on, do something?
• 48:59
  Speaker 9: You can do this.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, there's guys. I don't believe. I think I got
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: no way. That guy's over eighty LA, no way right,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: suppressing it? Come on, you can't be over eighty.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meler.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. And we have America's favorite
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: crossing guard, Daniel in Fort Wayne, who's gonna play. Hello Daniel,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: good morning, bank.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: You have to forgive me.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: I'm eating my breakfast right now. Oh I don't want
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: to interrupt your bregy. Why do you eat your breakfasts?
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Will have you playing another time? How about that?
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: No?
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no no no. I'm done now
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: I'm done. Okay, all of a sudden, he's done.
• 49:44
  Speaker 9: All of u.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, calm down. What who do you want to partner
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: up with? Quickly?
• 49:48
  Speaker 9: Daniel, day, I gotta go with you.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: I gotta win today.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, you're gonna win, and we have Mike the Leprechaun
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: is gonna play. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Good morning, the morning.
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: I'm going to the bathrooms.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Who do you want? Okay? Lareya? All right? She took
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: her headphones off. All right, well you're gonna play. Oh
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: what's she doing?
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: She?
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Where does she go? I don't see her?
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll do.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Somebody's got a Daniel. We have a list of words
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: one to ten. Please pick a number. Hurry up, please,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: you're going down. You're going down.
• 50:28
  Speaker 9: Hot.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go number three, number three. All right, let's
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: go with let's see here, let's go with any meanie moneyment.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: How about M dependence depending No dependence d E P
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: E N D E n c E dependence.
• 50:56
  Speaker 9: No, okay, Leprachaun. Let's go with habit.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Ritual No, Daniel, how about crack?
• 51:08
  Speaker 9: No, let's go with craving.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Desire.
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: Think of all the words that have been saying, not
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: just the most.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: They're not they're not listening, Coop, Let's show the word out. Quickly,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: pick another number. Mike quickly picked the number, but the
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: word was addiction. Addiction, Yeah, okay, okay, number number two,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: number two.
• 51:30
  Speaker 9: Go ahead, okay, let me think, let me think.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Oh she said it all right, Daniel was sort it's
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: a very good, cool arena, very good clue. Daniel, pick
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: what a disaster this game? It turned out to be.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: My god, I think it's fine.
• 51:48
  Speaker 9: What are you talking?
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: A sword to the heart is what that was? A
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: sword to the heart.