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Speaker 1: Our lead this hour is from La Via the NFL
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Speaker 1: Owners meetings. A lot of good content coming out of
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Speaker 1: the Valley of the Sun adjacent at a luxury resort.
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Speaker 1: So Sean McVeigh the top coach in the NFL today,
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Speaker 1: No one will disagree with that. So Shawn McVay spoke
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Speaker 1: about the party hardy pass catcher who's been making headlines
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Speaker 1: in the tabloids for the last couple of months. That
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Speaker 1: would be Puka Nakoua. McVeigh had a lot to say
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Speaker 1: Among the comments from Sean McVay, he said that he
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Speaker 1: did have a talk. He had a talk with Pooka
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Speaker 1: Nicour this year about the activity being responsible and essentially
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Speaker 1: the stan Lee quote with the great responsibility comes blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. Gave him that whole thing as
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Speaker 1: he's representing the RAMS organization, and he said, McVeigh, he
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Speaker 1: trusts Pooka Noica is a good human being, and he's
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Speaker 1: not going to rush to judgment, he said. And he says,
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Speaker 1: McVeigh said, he trusts the kid's heart, he said, among
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Speaker 1: other things, and he's going to continue to help him grow.
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Speaker 1: McVeigh also mentioned the quote expectations for his receiver. Pooka
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Speaker 1: said that this is an opportunity for him to learn
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Speaker 1: and grow. All right, there you go. Okay says that
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Speaker 1: he thinks Pooka will be a RAM for a really
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Speaker 1: long time. What does that mean really long time? Your
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Speaker 1: definition of really long time and my definition of really
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Speaker 1: long time two different things. So that's a good jumping
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Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question, what's the meaning
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Speaker 1: if any that you're pulling out of RAMS Coach Sean
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Speaker 1: McVay as we parse the words of his comments about
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Speaker 1: Pooka and Akua on the future and what's been going
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Speaker 1: on here in Ramland. In Ramland, so I've got algebra,
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Speaker 1: evil twin and velvet curtain, and we will combine all
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Speaker 1: of these things together, and we're gonna make some chicken
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Speaker 1: palm chicken parmegan, that's what We're gonna make, a little
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Speaker 1: fetaccini on the side. So a, the takeaway on this
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Speaker 1: one is rather obvious. The takeaway from Sean mvay's comments
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Speaker 1: is the classic. It's a el classico exercise in what's
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Speaker 1: known as situational ethics, is what it is. We know
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Speaker 1: what's going on here. This We learned this from a
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Speaker 1: former Fox Sports radio contributor. I don't know if the
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Speaker 1: guys worked here or not. I know he did a
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Steve Kaim the general manager of
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals for a while, and they brought him in
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Speaker 1: to speak cliches during the drafts. Very good at that. However,
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Speaker 1: Steve Khan gave one of the all time great quotes
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Speaker 1: when he was with the Arizona Cardinals years ago, and
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Speaker 1: he famously said, if Hannibal Lecter ran a four to four,
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Speaker 1: the teams would call it just an eating disorder, as
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Speaker 1: they prepared to draft him. And that's it. And so
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Speaker 1: the Rams, I know what they're doing. It's obvious what
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Speaker 1: they're doing in the quotes. Good. So they're doing the
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Speaker 1: back of the Napkin what we call malar algebra, which
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Speaker 1: is p kt equals s M two squared. It's a
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Speaker 1: spinoff of Einstein's theory. And what is this, well, production productivity.
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Speaker 1: Productivity keeps talent as long as Sean Vey's ego can
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Speaker 1: square the talent. As long as that happens, we're good
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Speaker 1: now in the NFL. When you hear character concerns and quotes,
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Speaker 1: I think we know this by now, but it's a
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Speaker 1: fresher course. So if you hear character concerns, that is
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Speaker 1: often just a synonym for not talented enough yet. All right,
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Speaker 1: If you're talented enough, then it's all different. It's the
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Speaker 1: production buffer. As long as Pukainakua continues to put up
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Speaker 1: top five numbers for a wide receiver, historical numbers for
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Speaker 1: a player drafted in the middle rounds like he was,
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Speaker 1: his off the field fret boy antics are going to
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Speaker 1: be categorized as growing pains. It's just growing pains the
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Speaker 1: moment those one hundred yard games with one or two
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Speaker 1: touchdowns turned into forty yard games with no touchdowns. When
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Speaker 1: that happens, abra cadabra, suddenly the same teachable moments will
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Speaker 1: be cited as the reason that he has to be
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Speaker 1: shipped out of town. We cannot have him anymore. You
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Speaker 1: know that. I know that every man, woman and child knows.
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Speaker 1: That's how it works. It's so different in any business.
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Speaker 1: People get all worked up about football. Working radio. There
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Speaker 1: were some people that worked at places I've been that
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Speaker 1: were complete losers, but they got ratings and they made
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Speaker 1: the company money. So they put up with it. When
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Speaker 1: the ratings weren't there and they stopped making money for
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Speaker 1: the company. They're doing podcasts. That's how that works. That's
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Speaker 1: the game right there. That's the game. And so Sean McVay,
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Speaker 1: it's pretty simple here. McVeigh isn't managing the player Pookina.
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Speaker 1: He's not. He's managing the asset, pookin a coua, as
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Speaker 1: are the rams in this case. He will tolerate the
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Speaker 1: distraction as long as the ROI the return on investment
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Speaker 1: is high. And it's not about being a mentor or
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Speaker 1: anything like that. It's like just wins and losses, wins
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Speaker 1: and blankety blank losses, and who gets you closer to
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Speaker 1: that that point? And we're gonna have to pay pookin
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Speaker 1: a coua a ton a ton of money he'll be
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Speaker 1: the highest paid receiver in the NFL shortly now. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: to the Niners NFC West, we stay in the NFC
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Speaker 1: West where we have a he said, he said, situation,
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Speaker 1: not exactly on the same pace.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: This involves Kyle Shanahan, who regurgitated essentially the same talking
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Speaker 1: points that John Lynch, the general manager, had said regarding
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Speaker 1: Brandon Auk, the wide receiver who walked away from the
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers and I just didn't want to play.
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Speaker 1: And the consensus between Shanahan and Lynch is that Brandon
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Speaker 1: Iyuk has played his last snap with the forty nine ers.
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Speaker 1: At the same time, they're not in any kind of hurry.
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Speaker 1: They're not looking to get rid of anyone anytime soon.
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Speaker 1: Meaning there's this holding pattern which is going on. There's
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Speaker 1: like a holding pattern going on right now. And Shanahan
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Speaker 1: gave a long winded co respond He has said, I
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Speaker 1: don't have a date on this, he said. However, he said,
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Speaker 1: but I know eventually it'll be resolved. It will resolve itself.
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Speaker 1: He said, well, I bring the I said, it's a
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Speaker 1: he said, he said, situation. So a couple hours later,
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Speaker 1: walking in just dropping money because you know, he's a
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Speaker 1: rich guy that inherited the money. Forty nine Ers owner
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Speaker 1: Jed York, who was born on not just third base,
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Speaker 1: he was born halfway to home plate. So Jed York
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Speaker 1: singing a much different tune. The aristocrat owner of the
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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, even going as far as to imply
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Speaker 1: that there is a possibility that Brandon Ayuck will remain
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Speaker 1: in the Bay Area for another NFL season. York said, quote,
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Speaker 1: I think anything, Anything's possible, right, he said. We want
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Speaker 1: to make sure that we have as talented today roster
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Speaker 1: as possible. First and foremost, York said, he meaning Auck
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Speaker 1: needs to get healthy and be able to reform. Blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah. He's a really good
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Speaker 1: football player. All right, question here it is, how do
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Speaker 1: you decode that? He said? He said, situation mixed messages
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Speaker 1: between Kyle Shanahan and the owner and regarding wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Brandon Iok in his future there in the Northern California region.
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Speaker 1: So on this one, this is a classic case of
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Speaker 1: right hand versus invisible hand and the owner talking out
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Speaker 1: of his tookis you got Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch,
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Speaker 1: who are in Lockstown, right, they're just regurgitating the same
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Speaker 1: talking points, which means they're in agreement on this. And
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Speaker 1: then you've got the owner coming in here and he's, oh, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I'm gonna go with Shanahan
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Speaker 1: and Lynch because they're the ones that are in the
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Speaker 1: fox hole, if you will. And they've pretty much acted
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Speaker 1: throughout this offseason like morticians who are already measuring the
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Speaker 1: pine box for auk with the forty nine ers. That
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Speaker 1: that's how that's going. And we've seen enough, we can't
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Speaker 1: handle anymore all that stuff. He played his last snap,
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Speaker 1: all that rigamarole, and they're just waiting for the NFL Draft,
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Speaker 1: which is still about a month away. And then at
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Speaker 1: that point, unload cargo, unload cargo at that point. And
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Speaker 1: so you've got that. And I just love the fact
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Speaker 1: that Jed York is acting like a total jackwagon in this,
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Speaker 1: tossing out a word salad and clearly not either not
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Speaker 1: paying attention to what Shanahan and Lynch have said or
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Speaker 1: just completely oblivious. Either way, it's the same thing. And
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Speaker 1: so so there you go, and give me a break.
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Speaker 1: This is the tail, It's the tail of the twins.
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Speaker 1: You've got Brandon Auk, who's become Casper's evil twin, Crisper,
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Speaker 1: you know, the unfriendly ghost haunting the franchise, and in
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Speaker 1: all and the guy was a QQ, not q bert QQ.
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Speaker 1: He quiet quit on the forty nine Ers, ghosting almost everyone,
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Speaker 1: Which what do I know. I just see the Overnight show.
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Speaker 1: I'm generally speaking, that's not something that goes over very well.
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Speaker 1: Am I wrong on that? I mean, okay, I don't
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Speaker 1: think I am. I don't think. I mean failed to
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Speaker 1: meet the even the minimum standards of professional lism. That's it,
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Speaker 1: And and the main reason that Brandon will not be back.
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Speaker 1: He's not going to renegotiate his contract. He s already
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Speaker 1: lost millions of dollars for this power play. Brandon IUC
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Speaker 1: and you look about it, look you look around, and
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Speaker 1: you're like, well, okay, so he's got a twenty five
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Speaker 1: million dollar or something like that roster bonus through September first.
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Speaker 1: So there's a better chance that I get twenty five
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Speaker 1: million dollars from the forty nine ers and that Ornesto
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Speaker 1: is there to take a picture of me while I
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Speaker 1: get the check, the oversized check four to twenty five
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Speaker 1: million dollars from the Niners while wearing a Rams hat.
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Speaker 1: There is a better chance of all that happening than
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Speaker 1: Brandon Iyuk getting that roster bonus from the forty nine ers.
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Speaker 1: So forget about it. Forget about it. Not gonna happen now,
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Speaker 1: Brandon who is on the naughty list, So we expect
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Speaker 1: him to finally be set free. Now the shot that
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Speaker 1: he gets traded for a conditional late round Kino card,
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Speaker 1: it is more likely than not, though, that he will
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Speaker 1: be just let go and then sign one of those
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Speaker 1: proven one year contracts with some horny, desperate wide receiver
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Speaker 1: team like the Chargers of the Commanders or somebody like that,
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Speaker 1: or a mystery team, the mystery team, because he ain't
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Speaker 1: going back to the Niners. All right. Now, the last
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Speaker 1: word here, the last word on this is we go
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Speaker 1: to the bending of the rules. The bending of the
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Speaker 1: rules is where we go here. So we are told
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Speaker 1: that the NFL, which has been steadfast and we have
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Speaker 1: all these guardrails up to protect players and all this stuff, well,
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Speaker 1: the NFL now is considering a special exemption to let
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Speaker 1: certain teams, certain teams play more than two short weekends.
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Speaker 1: You know, those games where you play on a Sunday
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Speaker 1: and then boom, right back at it on a Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Back at it all right, So they're gonna suppose to
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Speaker 1: expand that and allow more teams to play. Now, the
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Speaker 1: question is why why would Roger Goodell and the big
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Speaker 1: bosses there at the NFL. He's the biggest boss, but
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Speaker 1: he's just a conduit, a messenger, pigeon, a useful idiot
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Speaker 1: for the owners. So why would Roger Goodell's NFL bend
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Speaker 1: the short week schedule rules give exemptions to certain teams.
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Speaker 1: So this is the old abra cadabra magic set, is
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Speaker 1: what this is. It's street magic. Right there on Park
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Speaker 1: Avenue in midtown Manhattan. We're all of the major head
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Speaker 1: of the industrial sports complex have offices within a couple
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Speaker 1: of blocks. I did that walk. I walked past the
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Speaker 1: baseball headquarters, then I went over to the NBA and
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Speaker 1: the NFL. They're all within a couple of blocks of
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Speaker 1: each other on either Fifth Avenue or Park Avenue there
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Speaker 1: in the concrete jungle of Manhattan. So anyway, the point
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Speaker 1: is publicly, the NFL puts on the white lab coat,
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Speaker 1: and they do that very well. They talk about concussion
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Speaker 1: protocol and player longevity and independent medical professionals and all
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Speaker 1: that safety first blah blah blah blah blah. I like
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Speaker 1: they're running some kind of monastery. They're really into it.
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Speaker 1: And then it's a masterclass on what we call corporate
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Speaker 1: flimflam is what it is. They'll look you right in
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Speaker 1: the eye and right straight there, right the lot of
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Speaker 1: your face is what they will do. And they'll say
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Speaker 1: the shield is a suit of armor for the players
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Speaker 1: and all this, and of course not the crash test dummies.
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Speaker 1: You know it, I know it, we all know it.
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Speaker 1: That's way it is. And privately, behind the velvet curtain,
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Speaker 1: if you will, the story is the player. The players,
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Speaker 1: like the disposable paper plate at the billionaires barbecue in
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Speaker 1: the Hamptons and at the billionaire buffet. They're at the
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Speaker 1: barbecue buffet in the Hamptons and all that. You got
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Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos over there, like he's looking at that flea
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Speaker 1: bitten Week fourteen schedule matchup and he's like, well, why
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Speaker 1: are we broadcasting a garage sale. We're like the largest
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Speaker 1: company in the world. Why are we broadcasting this trek?
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Speaker 1: What is that? He wants? Theater like they spent a
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Speaker 1: lot of money. They want Lamar Jackson, they would like
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Speaker 1: the cannon arm, Josh Allen, they would like to see
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Speaker 1: magic Man, Patrick Mahooney and all that, and they want
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Speaker 1: to see it. And then they're limited on how many
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Speaker 1: games they can play, So why don't we get more
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Speaker 1: of them? And what sugar Daddy wants, Sugar Daddy gets.
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Speaker 1: The NFL is treating the player longevity like stale brand.
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Speaker 1: And of course they have to just keep Amazon happy
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Speaker 1: because they want more of Amazon's money. So Amazon can
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Speaker 1: raise prices. I got an email from a guy complaining.
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Speaker 1: He said, Netflix is raising prices. I said, and I
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Speaker 1: guess YouTube would raise prices. I'm like, yeah, this is
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Speaker 1: what happens. Professional sports gets involved and the price of
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Speaker 1: everything goes up. One of the main reasons I was
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Speaker 1: told years ago. One of the reasons, like I was
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Speaker 1: just in Vegas this weekend, one of the reasons they
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Speaker 1: started charging for parking is because of the hockey team,
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Speaker 1: the arena they put behind New York New York. They
15:35
Speaker 1: got to make some money from parking, and so let's
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Speaker 1: just charge everyone thirty five dollars to part. We'll screw everybody. Wait,
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Speaker 1: till the a star plane. They'll raise the price of
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Speaker 1: parking right there in the strip in Las Vegas, and
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Speaker 1: everything gets more expensive.
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Speaker 1: The gift of NFL activity. As we head into the
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Speaker 1: Perfect day, perfect day for this show. Technically on the
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Speaker 1: West Coast, it is still March thirty first, but everyone,
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Speaker 1: except for Dorko the comedian in Hawaii and a few
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Speaker 1: stragglers that listen in the Hawaiian Islands and a couple
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Speaker 1: of dudes up in Alaska, we will all be together
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Speaker 1: in April Fools Day. How exciting is that. Oh my god,
16:56
Speaker 1: it's April almost April fools for everybody. You reford that
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Speaker 1: day of fools a day for us, and we'll certainly
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Speaker 1: have some fun with that. But our lead this hour,
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Speaker 1: as the owner's meetings continue to feed the content machine
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Speaker 1: over and over and over, as they get together strategically,
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Speaker 1: as they know when to feed the George Michael sports machine.
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Speaker 1: That's a dated reference, but still a legend. Rest in peace,
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Speaker 1: long ago, George Michael. Yeah, not the there was a
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Speaker 1: singer by the name too. Anyway, Our lead from the Rogers,
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Speaker 1: watch the Steelers. That is a football team, not a
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Speaker 1: good one. These Steelers have made it be known that
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Speaker 1: they want to continue they're romance with Aaron Rodgers. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the Ayahuasca Totin Joe Rogan Lovin quarterback. However, however, he
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Speaker 1: is not publicly announced that he is a smitten kitten
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Speaker 1: for the Steelers and has not said that he plans
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Speaker 1: on playing in twenty twenty six. Now, there was a
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Speaker 1: big revelation in this story. Oh give me the details.
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Speaker 1: Do you know what they are? No? Okay, good, good, okay. So,
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Speaker 1: at the NFL's annual league meetings at a ridiculous resort,
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Speaker 1: I believe they're at the Biltmore in Arizona, a desert oasis,
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Speaker 1: and they have massages, likely not the kind that Robert
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Speaker 1: Kraft likes. At that establishment, you can go down the
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Speaker 1: street and get one of those. So at the annual
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Speaker 1: league meetings there in Arizona, the Steelers owner Art Rooney,
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Speaker 1: Art Rooney the Second, not to be confused with Art
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Speaker 1: Runey the First or later on Art Ruoney the Third,
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Speaker 1: he implied that a decision on Rogers is coming soon.
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Speaker 1: Do do do do do do do doo. Now we're
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Speaker 1: soul that the Steelers have given an ultimatum, an ultimatum
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Speaker 1: to Aaron Rodgers. Is it true that Rogers has twenty
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Speaker 1: three days, just twenty three days, to decide whether or
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Speaker 1: not he will continue his NFL career in the black
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Speaker 1: and yellow, Black and yellow, black and yellow. Yes. Little
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Speaker 1: Birdie tells us that April twenty third, which is the
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Speaker 1: start of the NFL Draft and just days away from
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Speaker 1: the Malor Meet and Greet in Cincinnati at a two
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Speaker 1: B determined location and time, that that is the date
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Speaker 1: that Thursday, the first round of the NFL Draft. If
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Speaker 1: Rogers decides to go to the Big ayahuasca in the
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Speaker 1: sky and hang up the cleats and all that. Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: at this point would be stuck with what they have.
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Speaker 1: Will Howard they got him, and they could also make
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Speaker 1: a run at Ty Simpson. Wink wink, nod nod or
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Speaker 1: the mystery bag. I like the mystery bag at quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Who is the mystery bag at quarterback? Who knows? So
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Speaker 1: we're told Rogers would like more money. I think we
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Speaker 1: all would. He wants thirty million, you know, thirty million
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Speaker 1: in the NFL's average. Would we all like to work
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Speaker 1: I think we all would. I'm gonna speak for you.
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Speaker 1: We would all like to work in a business where
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Speaker 1: the average salaries thirty million dollars per year at your job?
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be great? Yeah? Anyway, that is all a
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Speaker 1: good jumping off point. So let us discuss the question
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Speaker 1: what are the odds? What are the odds that Aaron
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Speaker 1: Rodgers ends up playing for the Steelers again in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six, given that he has been provided a drop
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Speaker 1: dead date, a line in the sand the beginning of
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Speaker 1: the NFL draft. So I've got Chihuahua, red sticker, and quagmire,
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Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together, and
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Speaker 1: we will scrub the data. We're gonna scrub a lovelove
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Speaker 1: the data. So A we go right to the malor
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Speaker 1: prediction market, the malor prediction market, and the sportsbook odds
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Speaker 1: on Rogers playing for the Steelers going to camp, showing
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Speaker 1: up at minus two thousand, minus two thousand, and Now,
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Speaker 1: if you're not good with the numbers, you're not familiar
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Speaker 1: with the numbers, that implies a ninety five percent chance
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Speaker 1: night isn't a five percent chance he doesn't come back?
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Speaker 1: Ninety five percent chance Rogers plays Aaron Rodgers. We know
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Speaker 1: this using some psychobabble. He is not in a hurry.
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Speaker 1: He's never in a hurry. He's the kind of person
21:29
Speaker 1: you don't want to drive behind when you're in a
21:31
Speaker 1: hurry to get somewhere. La la la la la la
21:34
Speaker 1: la la la la la la. Now on the road
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Speaker 1: we go. Yeah, he's a noher. Rogers is one of
21:41
Speaker 1: those people that works on his own timeline. And these
21:44
Speaker 1: people are called schmucks, is what they're called. And he continues,
21:49
Speaker 1: if you believe Mike McCarthy coaches never lie, do they.
21:52
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, they do lie. McCarthy's making it seem
21:54
Speaker 1: like Rogers and McCarthy talk every day. If that's the case,
21:58
Speaker 1: Rogers must be like, I don't want to I don't
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Speaker 1: want to come back. This guy's already annoying me. Mike McCarthy,
22:03
Speaker 1: go eat a HOGI and leave me alone. So Rogers
22:06
Speaker 1: is just kind of moseying along here like time is
22:10
Speaker 1: just a suggestion, that's all it is. And he's taking
22:13
Speaker 1: the scenic root right through a straight line, which that's
22:20
Speaker 1: really what you need to do. But here we are, Now,
22:22
Speaker 1: why is he doing that? I'm glad you asked. Thank
22:25
Speaker 1: you for asking. So I have a theory. This is
22:28
Speaker 1: a Mather theory on why Rogers continues to take the
22:31
Speaker 1: scenic root rather than just say okay, I'm in. He's
22:36
Speaker 1: like a Chihuahua. Aaron Rodgers is at Chihuahua playing keep away.
22:42
Speaker 1: You ever had a dog that plays keep away? The
22:45
Speaker 1: most maddening thing. Stupid dog. What do he doing? Fortunately,
22:49
Speaker 1: my dog Moxy's so lazy that she will not play
22:52
Speaker 1: keep away because that takes too much effort. But I
22:55
Speaker 1: have had dogs in the past that not at Chihuahua,
22:58
Speaker 1: the dogs that play keep away, and they supposed to
23:02
Speaker 1: do that to show dominance like they're the dominant dog.
23:05
Speaker 1: They had the alpha dog Earth just like that. So
23:09
Speaker 1: that's Rogers. Rogers like, well, listen, I don't want to
23:12
Speaker 1: deal with the bull crap. I just want to show
23:15
Speaker 1: up to training camp. I don't even really want to
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Speaker 1: do that. I would just like to play. And if
23:20
Speaker 1: I signed the contract or say I'm gonna come back,
23:24
Speaker 1: the moment that happens, I got every douche Canoe football
23:29
Speaker 1: writer and every blogger and social media influencer who will
23:34
Speaker 1: all expect me to show up and work out and
23:37
Speaker 1: attend meetings and off season stuff and be part of
23:41
Speaker 1: the team and the leader and all that bulk crap.
23:43
Speaker 1: But I don't want I just want to tear up
23:44
Speaker 1: the dance floor. I don't want to practice dancing. I
23:47
Speaker 1: want to tear up the dance floor. I don't want
23:48
Speaker 1: to practice. I meanwhile, to lost Wages, Nevada, which at
23:54
Speaker 1: this point is like a suburb of LA was just
23:56
Speaker 1: there over the weekend, where the parking is expensive, the
23:59
Speaker 1: game is not very profitable, and the football is bad
24:04
Speaker 1: bad the moone bad, bad, bad bad bad to bone.
24:07
Speaker 1: So I read that Fernando Mendoza, who by all accounts
24:12
Speaker 1: is resting up in the clubhouse. He will be the
24:15
Speaker 1: number one draft Mendoza going to the Raiders. They just
24:21
Speaker 1: have to wait till April twenty third to announce that
24:23
Speaker 1: Will Mendoza will not start right away for the Raiders.
24:27
Speaker 1: If coach Gary Clint Kubiak is Dad Gary Clint Kubiak
24:31
Speaker 1: has his way. Do you see this now? Why would
24:35
Speaker 1: you keep up with the Raiders? I don't blame you, So,
24:36
Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak said recently, the Raiders don't want the player
24:42
Speaker 1: they pink a pick, Wink wink, the player they pick,
24:45
Speaker 1: which is of course going to be, barring some kind
24:48
Speaker 1: of arrest with hookers and cocaine, Fernando Mendoza to start
24:53
Speaker 1: from day number one. So that's what they're saying. So
24:56
Speaker 1: the question, let's navigate the may We're gonna navigate the maze.
25:02
Speaker 1: What do you make of the Raiders' plans to not
25:05
Speaker 1: use the default number one pick Fernando Mendoza as the
25:11
Speaker 1: starter at the beginning of the season. That's what Clint
25:14
Speaker 1: Kobiak said, the new head coach. So this is capital
25:18
Speaker 1: J joke, Capital J. I'm gonna get my take in
25:21
Speaker 1: prematurely Capital J joke for the Raiders the whole point
25:28
Speaker 1: of being that bad. And the Raiders tanked. They embarrassed
25:30
Speaker 1: the legacy of Al Davis and the greatness of our Raiders.
25:34
Speaker 1: They absolutely tanked. And all you losers that love you
25:37
Speaker 1: little tanking and you're losing on purpose. This is what
25:39
Speaker 1: you got. You got the number one pick in the draft.
25:42
Speaker 1: When you get that, Okay, this is the way it works, right,
25:46
Speaker 1: it's not in a perfect world. We're not talking about
25:49
Speaker 1: a perfect world. The reason you had the top pick
25:51
Speaker 1: was because you are. You're far from a perfect war, right. Uh.
25:55
Speaker 1: The players should not say no no, no, no no, no,
25:58
Speaker 1: no no no. If you're picking first overall, especially like
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Speaker 1: the Raiders who intentionally were tanking to get to that pick,
26:05
Speaker 1: that guy should come with a red sticker, no assembly required,
26:11
Speaker 1: ready to use, right out of the box. Get what's
26:15
Speaker 1: in the box, get it out of the box, and
26:18
Speaker 1: ready to go, Ready to go. Instead, the Raiders are
26:23
Speaker 1: essentially telling every man, woman and child that Fernando Mendoza
26:28
Speaker 1: is not not no assembly required. He's more like ikea furniture,
26:35
Speaker 1: some assembly required. I'll give you a little crappy Alan
26:37
Speaker 1: wrench and instructions that are written in some weird language
26:41
Speaker 1: that you don't know how to read. That's not what
26:44
Speaker 1: the number one pick. It's not Mendoza. The top pick
26:50
Speaker 1: is supposed to be like going to Jerome's furniture and
26:54
Speaker 1: it's just delivered. Everything's ready to go here and set
26:59
Speaker 1: up and enjoy your Sunday supper with your new kitchen
27:03
Speaker 1: table and your TVs and all that, or your soul
27:06
Speaker 1: for whatever. He's a weekend pet project, it would appear
27:11
Speaker 1: at this point. That's the problem. You don't take a
27:14
Speaker 1: guy at the very top. If he needs more seasoning,
27:20
Speaker 1: that tells you that he's not the guy. If you
27:23
Speaker 1: need a red shirt ear, that means you are about
27:27
Speaker 1: to make a mistake, and you're so stupid that you
27:31
Speaker 1: don't even realize it. This is pre damage control. Does
27:35
Speaker 1: anyone else in the room realize? Does anyone else in
27:37
Speaker 1: the room realize? This is pre damage control? And it
27:41
Speaker 1: is a dead giveaway. It tells you that the Raiders
27:44
Speaker 1: know this guy is not really the pedigree of a
27:47
Speaker 1: top pick. It's just that they need a quarterback and
27:50
Speaker 1: he had the nice resume, and so they're gonna take
27:54
Speaker 1: him and then hopefully get some rosary beads and that'll
27:57
Speaker 1: work out all right. Last word here, so putting up
28:00
Speaker 1: ball on all this with the Raiders, who will be
28:03
Speaker 1: the stars of April that NFL draft here in late April.
28:07
Speaker 1: So Clint Kubiak said he wanted Fernando Mendoza to sit
28:10
Speaker 1: behind a quote mature adult, mature adult to watch how
28:15
Speaker 1: to run the show. So that leads to the obvious question,
28:19
Speaker 1: how do you process the Raiders Clint Kubiak's plans to
28:24
Speaker 1: find a mature adult at quarterback. So this is also
28:30
Speaker 1: a tell. It is also a tell. And my eyebrows
28:35
Speaker 1: were raised a little bit. It's a tell. The Raiders
28:37
Speaker 1: are firing up the old bat signal for the Island
28:41
Speaker 1: of misfit quarterbacks, and there's.
28:43
Speaker 4: Not a lot.
28:44
Speaker 1: There's there's several guys wearing Dunce caps right now and
28:48
Speaker 1: they're whispering. And that's it. And so what this leads
28:54
Speaker 1: me to believe is we are looking at a discount
28:56
Speaker 1: shopping spray, a discount shopping sp read Blue Light Special.
29:01
Speaker 1: The Malar scale of confidence that this will go well
29:04
Speaker 1: for the Raiders a one to ten. I am at
29:08
Speaker 1: a two on the Malar scale of confidence. I'm at
29:11
Speaker 1: a two, and I mean generous. This is a quagmire
29:17
Speaker 1: with a capitol Q. Quagmar the NFL equivalent. What the
29:21
Speaker 1: Raiders are planning on doing is visiting a dusty Amazon
29:25
Speaker 1: liquidation warehouse, you know those places where they have the
29:29
Speaker 1: bins and coming on Tuesday there everything's twenty dollars, and
29:35
Speaker 1: on Wednesday everything's ten dollars, and then everything's like five
29:38
Speaker 1: dollars on Thursday or Friday. Those Amazon liquidation warehouse places
29:43
Speaker 1: so slightly used, missing some buttons or some screws or
29:48
Speaker 1: something's a little dinged up there. Instructions are not included.
29:53
Speaker 1: Now here's who's available. Kirk Cousins coming off the warranty.
29:58
Speaker 1: You've got Kirk Cousins. Jimmy Garoppolo, who's held together with
30:03
Speaker 1: duct tape and he has been hanging out in La
30:06
Speaker 1: La Land recently. Is the backup Russell Wilson, who is
30:12
Speaker 1: yesterday's WiFi and forget wife, I'm more like AOL dial
30:18
Speaker 1: up at this point, Russ mister unlimited buffering in real time.
30:24
Speaker 1: And they are hoping, they being the Raiders, hoping that
30:29
Speaker 1: something in there, one of the watcher mc college or
30:32
Speaker 1: the thing of a jig still works. And all this
30:35
Speaker 1: because the Raiders gagged the season to try to get
30:37
Speaker 1: the top pick when there was no blue chip quarterback
30:40
Speaker 1: in the draft. For Nanda, Mendoza is not that. If
30:42
Speaker 1: the Raiders are not ready to playhim, he's not the
30:45
Speaker 1: guy and they don't want to admit it. They don't
30:46
Speaker 1: have the balls to admit it. We'll admit it for them.
30:48
Speaker 1: They don't have the intestinal fortitude to admit it. That's fine.
30:54
Speaker 1: We'll do it for you. We will absolutely do it
30:56
Speaker 1: for you. That's fine. It's just a logical somersault to make.
31:02
Speaker 1: Is that the Raiders by coming I said, Well, a
31:05
Speaker 1: perfect world, Mendoza would now play right away. No, he's
31:09
Speaker 1: the top pick. I know that the comps are he's
31:12
Speaker 1: got fourth round talent or fifth round talent. You're gonna
31:17
Speaker 1: take it with the topic.
31:18
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
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Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of Money?
31:29
Speaker 1: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
31:33
Speaker 2: Probably not.
31:35
Speaker 1: Let's get to it. Let's welcome in architesesss, We've got
31:37
Speaker 1: what do we have here? Sam is in Rhode Island. Sam. Hello,
31:41
Speaker 1: welcome Sam. Who do you want to partner up with?
31:42
Speaker 2: You?
31:43
Speaker 1: Eddie is in here? Still our buddy Eddie Garcia visiting
31:46
Speaker 1: a special night. You can pick Eddie, me Ben or Coop.
31:50
Speaker 2: I want to play Eddie's Pile of Pato.
31:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not the name of it it is. That's
31:56
Speaker 1: not the name. It's false advertised. I want to play
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Speaker 1: a mount of money with Eddie. All right, that's all right.
32:03
Speaker 1: We have one, two or three? Then I'm a feeling
32:07
Speaker 1: love Sam. Let's say hello too. Who do we have here?
32:11
Speaker 1: Let's go to Jordan, who's in Canes City. Hello, Jordan, Welcome,
32:17
Speaker 1: okay Man, welcome back Eddie?
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Speaker 4: Thank you?
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Speaker 1: All right Jordan. Who do you want to partner up with?
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Speaker 2: Jordans Well, I do want to say you last time
32:26
Speaker 2: I played the last person to win with Eddie.
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Speaker 1: I hate to he already picked. Oh, thank you Ben.
32:30
Speaker 1: Let's go all right, classic man, Megan, just knock him
32:33
Speaker 1: out of the All right, let's play.
32:34
Speaker 5: The game here, we all right, gentlemen. Words the Eric
32:37
Speaker 5: Clapton addition, he turns eighty one years old today. Category
32:40
Speaker 5: is are Cocaine Forever Man, My Father's Eyes and Sweet
32:45
Speaker 5: Home Chicago Sandwich. Category would you like?
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Speaker 1: Cocaine?
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Speaker 5: All right? Good choice, Jordan, which category would you like?
32:54
Speaker 1: My father's? All right, what do you pick?
32:57
Speaker 5: My father's Okay, all right, that's fine, all right, Sam
33:00
Speaker 5: and Eddie first year category is cocaine?
33:03
Speaker 4: All right? All these athletes were known to have cocaine problems.
33:07
Speaker 1: I put forty five seconds on the clock. You're on
33:10
Speaker 1: your way and.
33:10
Speaker 4: Go the playmaker Number eighty eight wide receiver the Cowboys.
33:17
Speaker 1: Sam's Bryant Bryan.
33:20
Speaker 4: No farther than that back in the day with EMMITTT.
33:22
Speaker 4: Smith and Troy Aikman. Wow, all right. One of the
33:27
Speaker 4: all time great linebackers, number fifty six for the New
33:30
Speaker 4: York Giants.
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Speaker 2: Taylor.
33:33
Speaker 4: Yes, he was a baseball player for the New York
33:36
Speaker 4: Mets and Yankees. An outfielder, and his last name is
33:38
Speaker 4: a fruit. Yes, his nickname was Rock. He was a
33:44
Speaker 4: baseball player for the Montreal Expos Chicago White Sox. Great
33:48
Speaker 4: bass stealer in the eighties.
33:53
Speaker 1: Okay, how about Michael Oh did not get that in? Unfortunately?
33:58
Speaker 5: I think he did got he did get Mike Leervn
34:00
Speaker 5: in there.
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Speaker 4: Oh did it?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Right in the end, he said, Michael, he did
34:03
Speaker 1: not say that does not count the job. It does
34:05
Speaker 1: not count. Who's giving you points?
34:10
Speaker 4: Tim Rain Rains, Tim Rain Rock Raine, And wasn't the
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Speaker 4: rock nickname because it's supposed.
34:17
Speaker 5: Slidhead first, so he wouldn't crushed the vial.
34:19
Speaker 4: Yeah all right, ladies, that's all right, second round, we'll
34:22
Speaker 4: come back.
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Speaker 5: Jordan and Ben my father's eyes.
34:25
Speaker 1: All right, These athletes all have pro athlete fathers. Are
34:29
Speaker 1: you ready? Jordan's all right? Forty five seconds o'clock, run
34:33
Speaker 1: away go, running back star for the forty nine ers.
34:36
Speaker 1: His dad played for the Broncos. Yeah, yeah, that's correct,
34:42
Speaker 1: star guard for the New York Knickerbockers. He came over
34:45
Speaker 1: from the Dallas Mavericks, point guard, scoring guy for the
34:50
Speaker 1: next scoring all time home run king, steroid cheat for
34:58
Speaker 1: the Giants in San Francisco. Very bond, that is correct.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 1: His father was minute, very tall basketball player from Africa. Yes,
35:14
Speaker 1: that is good job for you. I love you for that.
35:18
Speaker 1: All right, that's all we needed right there?
35:21
Speaker 5: All right, Sam, do you want forever man or Sweet
35:24
Speaker 5: Home Chicago?
35:26
Speaker 1: Sweet home Cha? All right? Go all right?
35:29
Speaker 5: Uh?
35:30
Speaker 4: He played, He won championships with the Heat and with
35:33
Speaker 4: lebron James and he's a guard.
35:35
Speaker 1: You're no. He said it. He said it.
35:37
Speaker 5: I want won the game, and he know I won
35:41
Speaker 5: the game.