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  Speaker 1: lead this hour is from La La Land and update. Update.
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  Speaker 1: After refusing very oddly to answer questions about the status
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  Speaker 1: of Matthew Stafford over the weekend, which led some to
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  Speaker 1: conclude it wasn't good. It wasn't good. The Rams broke
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  Speaker 1: their radio silence. Hellllelujah, hellllelujah. So if you didn't see
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  Speaker 1: this or hear about it, maybe not. We've learned now
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  Speaker 1: that Super Bowl champion quarterback Matthew Stafford was a full participant.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, you saw that. No full participant. I know.
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  Speaker 1: It's a shocking revelation. In the hour or so that
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  Speaker 1: he did practice, he ran wait for it, twenty six
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  Speaker 1: plays oh my god. In team drills twenty six place
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  Speaker 1: now Stafford his return of the field, this being celebrated
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  Speaker 1: by Maddy. This is a great sign. It's a great mitchfoot.
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay, who did not comment over the weekend, McVeigh
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  Speaker 1: said Stafford quote look good in his return to Ram workouts.
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  Speaker 1: This is the big injury storyline of the exhibition season.
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  Speaker 1: McVeigh also, though, said that the Rams will continue to
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  Speaker 1: take things a day at a time. Well, I always
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  Speaker 1: try to take things three or four days at a time,
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  Speaker 1: but McVeigh is only going to take it a day
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  Speaker 1: at a time. And in regarding these status the back
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  Speaker 1: injury of Matthew Stafford. So let us discuss the question,
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  Speaker 1: how would you describe Sean mcvay's update on the health
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  Speaker 1: of Matthew Stafford with the Rams. So my thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 1: I've got Midas, wedding invitations and sand castle and we'll
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  Speaker 1: mix all of these things together and make some amazing sauce.
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  Speaker 1: Will it be barbecue sauce, Will it be honey mustard sauce,
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  Speaker 1: to zeke sauce. We'll just make some good sauce. Now
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  Speaker 1: A My first reaction to the update on Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. The plot thickens. It's like the
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  Speaker 1: old radio mystery theater that I'm so old. When I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, they still played reruns of that and
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  Speaker 1: my dad used to listen. They love that, that mystery
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  Speaker 1: theater on the radio. They used to do that at night.
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  Speaker 1: And Sean McVay is giving us a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: what that's right, a whole lot of nothing the old
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  Speaker 1: day by day day by dayline now using the Mallar
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  Speaker 1: Rosetta stone. And if you do talk radio, you need
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  Speaker 1: a Mallard Rosetta stone is what you need. So we
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  Speaker 1: just go through coach speak. We dissect coach speak. And
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  Speaker 1: what McVeigh said is the equivalent of when you visit Midas,
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  Speaker 1: and the mechanics says, well, keep an eye on it.
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  Speaker 1: Regarding Sean mcvay's like the mechanics, I mean, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. It's like, no, pal, I
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  Speaker 1: need the car to get me where I have to
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  Speaker 1: go to work, and I have to run some errands
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Uh, not to the junkyard, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to have a tow truck. And McVeigh
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  Speaker 1: says he doesn't, you know, he doesn't want to put
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  Speaker 1: the cart before the horse. That was one of the
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  Speaker 1: quotes I saw from mcvey's media session on Monday. And
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  Speaker 1: guess what. The cart is already wobbling, wobble, wobble, wobble.
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  Speaker 1: It's already wobbling it is. The horse looks like it's
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  Speaker 1: limping a little bit. It's got a bad leg. You
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  Speaker 1: know what happens to the horses that have bad legs,
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  Speaker 1: Elmer's glue. Yeah, that's right. And and mcvay's out there
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  Speaker 1: he's telling the fan base. He's like, hey, relax, relax, well,
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  Speaker 1: see where this goes. Let's see where this goes. It's
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  Speaker 1: like turning on your car in the morning. I just
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  Speaker 1: have a car like this. My I inherited, well, my
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  Speaker 1: grandfather was still about his old car and that was
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  Speaker 1: like my first car, and I look really cool because
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  Speaker 1: it's your car. Your first car is big thing. Back
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  Speaker 1: when I'm so old, I used to like driving. Like
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  Speaker 1: I guess the kids today don't want to even drive.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, I don't need to go anywhere. I get
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  Speaker 1: them on my phone. I don't need to go in.
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  Speaker 1: But I was like a big deal to drive. And
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  Speaker 1: so I got my grandfather's car, and it looked cool,
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  Speaker 1: and it seemed like it was perfect, and it didn't
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  Speaker 1: always start, and sometimes you turn on and make that that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of weird sound, and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get the engine going and all that, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I don't live in a cold place.
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  Speaker 1: I live in southern California. If I lived in like Appleton, Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 1: where my brother lives right now, my younger brother, and
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  Speaker 1: then I'd think, Okay, it's a little cold, get to
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  Speaker 1: warm the car up, like I don't. And and so
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  Speaker 1: some days it would start, and some days I did
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  Speaker 1: make the call of shame over the Triple A and
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  Speaker 1: get them out there with the tow truck and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. But that's Stafford right now. That is essentially
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  Speaker 1: the life and times of Matthew Stafford. And remember a
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  Speaker 1: couple weeks ago, the reason that this is so interesting,
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  Speaker 1: in the mystery of it all, is that the company
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  Speaker 1: line that was being fed to useful idiots in the media.
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  Speaker 1: I remember Adam Schefter, for example, was parroting Ram officials saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, nothing to worry about with Stafford, It's just
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  Speaker 1: a maintenance issue. There's zero panic in the RAMS organization,
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  Speaker 1: and now it looks like the RAMS are treating Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Stafford like a piece of fine china, and you just
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  Speaker 1: don't breathe on him too hard. He might crack, maybe
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  Speaker 1: break or toe. And the weekend silence, which turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be a case where it wasn't Stafford had a
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  Speaker 1: setback or anything like that, but it's still a bad sign.
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  Speaker 1: It's still a bad sign. It's like he who must
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  Speaker 1: not be discussed, Like are you paying him forty million
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  Speaker 1: or something like that a year, Matthew Stafford, and you're
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  Speaker 1: tiptoeing around like he's a sleeping toddler and you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to wake him up. I mean, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to upset him. I was like, really, what is that about.
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  Speaker 1: We're nothing about a sore hamstring. Here is just sitting
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  Speaker 1: and let it rest a little bit. You're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the back, Oh my aching back, that's what you talking about.
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  Speaker 1: And the back, as we have pointed out in previous
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  Speaker 1: episodes of this radio show, the back, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a doctor, but I can play one on the radio,
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  Speaker 1: is the engine that everything is connected to. Everything is
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  Speaker 1: connected to the back. Right. And if you're back screwed up,
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  Speaker 1: you're screwed right, You're screwed. It's the engine. You mess
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  Speaker 1: with the back, everything shuts down everything. And the backup
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  Speaker 1: plan at this moment is the fellow rotting carcass of
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo and Stetson Bennett. Now I am confident whoever
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  Speaker 1: plays quarterback for the Rams, they'll win at least ten games.
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  Speaker 1: The bar is ten. The defense is good enough, they'll
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  Speaker 1: get good special teams. McVeigh knows what he's doing. They'll
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  Speaker 1: win ten. The problem is, can you really catch lightning
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  Speaker 1: in a bottle and be a legitimate contender. You have
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  Speaker 1: to downgrade obviously, the Rams. You have to downgrade them
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  Speaker 1: until proven otherwise. And then the NFCS, which pretty wide open. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia's dynasty, now they're not. That was a nice year
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  Speaker 1: last year. Let's see what they got this year, the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. Anyway. So that's the dear with the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: And so for those of you in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the room, a little slow in the back of the
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  Speaker 1: room there, when the Rams say day to day, When
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  Speaker 1: McVeigh says day to day, that to me, that is
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  Speaker 1: a dead give it dead. Give it. That is code
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  Speaker 1: for we have no idea if he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to play or not, so we'll check back to
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  Speaker 1: my It's like the weather in the Midwest, right, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to change. Just wait a few minutes, it'll change.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just wait a day, it'll change. Now, speaking of
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  Speaker 1: the Midwest or the Atlantic States, well, I guess it
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  Speaker 1: is the Midwest, but it's like the lowest kind of
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  Speaker 1: the border of the South. I've been told, I've been
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  Speaker 1: yelled at by my friends that live in Cincinnati that
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  Speaker 1: it is not the South. But yet when I visited
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  Speaker 1: the airport in Cincinnati, it was in Kentuck, and I
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  Speaker 1: think of Kentucky as the South. But I was told
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  Speaker 1: that Cincinnati is not a Southern city. So that would
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  Speaker 1: mean it's a Midwestern city, I would assume. Anyway, we've
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  Speaker 1: learned the Bengals and pass rusher Trey Hendrickson have agreement.
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  Speaker 1: They have an agreement, well, not on an actual contract.
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  Speaker 1: They have agreed though, on the length of the hypothetical contract.
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  Speaker 1: They've got the outline on how long the contract will be.
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  Speaker 1: They also know the average annual salary. Well, that'll get
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  Speaker 1: you through the night. Now, speaking during an absolute dreadful
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  Speaker 1: Monday night football exhibition game that had Fox refugees Joe
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  Speaker 1: Buck and Troy Aikman calling the game. Hendrickson on the
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  Speaker 1: broadcast confirmed that those are dun skies. They have agreement.
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  Speaker 1: They have agreement based on this update. I asked you
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  Speaker 1: on the esteem panel, I ask you, is the glass
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  Speaker 1: is it half full or is it half empty for
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  Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson with the Bengals. So I am going to
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  Speaker 1: go with half empty and cracked. That's what I wrote
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  Speaker 1: on my scorecard. Why could you say that You can't
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  Speaker 1: say that he's already got the agreement on the average
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  Speaker 1: annual salary and the years, and that's a big thing. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: mix may why I'm gonna I'm gonna hold your hand
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  Speaker 1: and I'm I'm explaining to you like you're five years old. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals and Hendrickson have not agreed on the issue
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  Speaker 1: of guaranteed money, which last I checked, is the most
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  Speaker 1: important part of the deal. It's kind of like they're
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  Speaker 1: at the point now where they have picked the font
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  Speaker 1: for the wedding invitations. Congratulations, you know what fonts you're
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  Speaker 1: going to use. Meanwhile, the bride and groom are fighting
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  Speaker 1: over whether the filemon is on the menu or not,
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  Speaker 1: or do they go chicken and fish and avoid the
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  Speaker 1: filet mignon because that's more expensive. And then you've got
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  Speaker 1: the mashed potato option and the green beans, but who
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  Speaker 1: wants green beans? And you have those annoying napkins that
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  Speaker 1: are decorated and folded in special ways. So they've got that,
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  Speaker 1: but the main course, no, no, no, that's guaranteed money, and
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  Speaker 1: so that's still frozen. They're not sure what they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: take out of the freezer. They don't know what they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do. And it's like agreeing to build a house
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  Speaker 1: and then refusing, for no apparent reason, refusing to pour
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  Speaker 1: the foundation for the house. It's like, oh, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: got the blueprints, we got the blueprints ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: We picked the paint color, and we went out and
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  Speaker 1: we bought some throw pillows, so we've got that for
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  Speaker 1: the house. We're ready to go. And we've got a
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  Speaker 1: coffee book table, and so we don't have a coffee
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  Speaker 1: table'll get that next. And the concrete though for the foundation,
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  Speaker 1: the thing that holds up the entire damn the house.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about that I'm not sure if we
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  Speaker 1: want to do that or not. We don't know if
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  Speaker 1: we want to have a foundation or not. And that
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  Speaker 1: is the Bengal wait. That is what they do. The
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  Speaker 1: Bengals have a stance. They do not provide secured guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: money after the first season of the contract. So that
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  Speaker 1: has created a impass, and so they continue to be
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  Speaker 1: an impass, which leads me to despite the average annual
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  Speaker 1: salary being agreed to, and despite Hendrickson indicating the amount
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  Speaker 1: of years has been agreed to, it doesn't mean the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing is the guaranteed money. Everything else is fluff.
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  Speaker 1: That's its cotton candy, and that's it all right now,
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  Speaker 1: last word. And then we get some calls and some nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go to San Francisco, positive reports, boots on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. This did not come from Ernesto the longtime
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  Speaker 1: forty nine or apologist, but it did come from one
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  Speaker 1: of our listeners that listens in the Bay area who said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: mister Rampant, he sent me a message that and I'm
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  Speaker 1: paraphrasing here. I did not write it down, but Mike
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  Speaker 1: is the guy's name him and it was somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: the Bay area I forget where, and he was saying,
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  Speaker 1: is that well, Matthew Stafford's hurt, but the Niners have
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  Speaker 1: McCaffrey back, They have him back, positive reports The Athletic,
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  Speaker 1: the Old Gray Lady behind a pay wall, telling us
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  Speaker 1: that if forty nine Ers star Christian mccafrey is not
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  Speaker 1: back to his twenty twenty three form, he's pretty close.
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  Speaker 1: Mike was very excited about this report, so he passed
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  Speaker 1: it on to me. Again, if forty nine er star
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  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey is not back to his twenty twenty three form,
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  Speaker 1: which he was an MVP type player, he's pretty close
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  Speaker 1: to it, believe it or not. So I'm gonna answer
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  Speaker 1: it this way. True, perhaps irrelevant, though true, perhaps irrelevant
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  Speaker 1: though And here's why I have this in the basket
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  Speaker 1: that I wrote, and I wrote on the basket, supter
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  Speaker 1: fuge is what I wrote on the basket, like you're
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  Speaker 1: selling the idea that McCaffrey is still the same guy
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  Speaker 1: right now starting the ear. Look, he's starting the year.
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  Speaker 1: He's healthy, he's great, he's fine. And to that, I say,
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  Speaker 1: whoop D damn do That's what I say, whoop D
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  Speaker 1: damn dude. The whole issue with this guy has never
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  Speaker 1: really been week one. It's week nine, it's week ten,
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  Speaker 1: it's week thirteen. It's being a dependable, reliable workhorse. Outside
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  Speaker 1: of a brief stretch which was a magical run of
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  Speaker 1: greatness like a video game cheat code, Christian McCaffrey has
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  Speaker 1: been more like a sand castle, a professionally made sand castle.
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  Speaker 1: And if you've ever seen one, they're majestic. You're like, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: that was made out of sand. How did someone do that?
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  Speaker 1: That is so artistic, It is so amazing, It is beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: You stare at it, you look at the ocean in
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  Speaker 1: the background. You're like, this is the greatest thing. How
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  Speaker 1: did they do this? I can't believe it. What a
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  Speaker 1: great talent that is. And it looks really great. And
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  Speaker 1: then what happens? The tide rises and where does that
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  Speaker 1: sand castle go? Right back to the beach. All that
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  Speaker 1: saying comes washing it's washed away, and that's it. And
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  Speaker 1: you look at the niners two and a hater. This
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  Speaker 1: is a teetering on the brink situation because you got
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  Speaker 1: you paid brock Purty. You had to pay them me,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, you had to pay so you paid him. Fine, Okay, great,
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  Speaker 1: it's a multi billion dollar business. You paid brock Purty
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  Speaker 1: and so he got paid. Are you about to get
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  Speaker 1: played here? He's a system guy. Even the biggest brock
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  Speaker 1: Purty suck ups will admit to you he's a system guy.
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  Speaker 1: And that means he's going to lean on Christian McCaffrey
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  Speaker 1: and George Kittle and got rid of some of their
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  Speaker 1: other playmakers and other guys are hurt. So those are
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  Speaker 1: the guys are going to lean on until they come
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  Speaker 1: tumbling down, down, down, down down. In Kyle Shanahan's offense
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  Speaker 1: with brock Purty, it is a training wheels offense, and
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  Speaker 1: it'll work fine until the playmakers end up in the
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  Speaker 1: injury tent and they're roasting marshmallows and making s'mores around
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  Speaker 1: the fire. Well, the games are going on, and then
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  Speaker 1: brock Purty is exposed, and then all of a sudden's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, I thought shanahan system was gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 1: And then well, you paid them all this money and
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  Speaker 1: he's a turn Burger brock party, And then questions will
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  Speaker 1: start about Kyle Shanahan, did they miss their opportunity? Yes
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  Speaker 1: they did, and they didn't win the championship. They got
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  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, they had a championship level team.
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  Speaker 1: They failed, So therefore, what are we doing here? And
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  Speaker 1: We go where the news of the day takes us.
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  Speaker 1: And we had three teams, three teams that had quarterback drama,
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  Speaker 1: O rama, drama, O rama, and one of them has
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  Speaker 1: announced their QB one and that would be the Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: football team. If you somehow missed this because pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to the Browns, perhaps you missed it. The Browns have
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  Speaker 1: named We've learned Joe Flaco. That's right, as old as
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: a dinosaur, Joe Flaco as the starting quarterback in week
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  Speaker 1: number one, against the He goes now, much to the
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  Speaker 1: annoyance of the fanboys, the Cleveland officion NATO's, who are
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  Speaker 1: very upset by this. I remember a couple of years ago,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Joe Flacco was the flavor of the month. It was anyone,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: anyone other than Deshaun Watson. Well, Flacco now is old news.
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  Speaker 1: But he has beaten out Kenny Pickett hard to believe,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and rookies Shader Sanders and Dylan Gabriel. But Sanders look
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: so good in those little practice games. Now. Flacco, when
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: he played for the Browns back in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: somehow led the team to a playoff appearance, and it
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: didn't have great individual statistics in five starts. He did
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: win the AP Comeback Player of the Year award, which
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: upset many people. They wanted Damar Hamlin, who the guy
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: that almost croaked on the field for the Bills. They
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: wanted him to win Comeback Player of the Year, but
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  Speaker 1: it was Joe Flacco. Now. Last season playing for the
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  Speaker 1: Horseshoes with the Colts, Flaco again had pretty middling numbers.
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  Speaker 1: You'll give you twelve touchdowns and seven interceptions and it'll
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  Speaker 1: play really well for one game or a half and
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  Speaker 1: then disappear for the next half or the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of games. So let us discuss the question why why
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  Speaker 1: did the Browns coach Kevin Stefanski go with Joe Flaco
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  Speaker 1: as QB one. So my observations, I've got tuxedo, Alan Wrench,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and Best Buy and we'll combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make some chow. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna make some chow. So number why My first answer,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and I'm the first answer is always the top answer.
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  Speaker 1: The answer I'm going with, I want to see if
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you agree or disagree? Is it starts with a d decorum? Right,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: football decorum. That's the ticket. You follow the protocol. When
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: in doubt, you go buy the book. When in you
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: go by the way. So in my head, Stefanski's looking
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  Speaker 1: at the quarterback depth chart. He says, well, this guy sucks.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: That guy blows, that guy's garbage and that guy's trash.
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  Speaker 1: But I got to name a starter. So what do
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  Speaker 1: you do? What do you do? You followed the protocol,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski, it's the safe pick. If Flacco sucks, you say,
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  Speaker 1: I was just going by the book. I was just
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  Speaker 1: going by the book. That's it. You're not reinventing anything here.
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  Speaker 1: You're just polishing the hupcap. You're not inventing the wheel.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: The wheel has already been invented. You're just polishing the hubcap.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Now, Joe Flacco has more mileage at this
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  Speaker 1: point than a rusted out nineteen ninety four Taurus. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of miles and a lot of rust. It's been
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  Speaker 1: left outside, it hasn't been parked in the garage. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on here. Is the guy you start
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  Speaker 1: when you want to give the illusion you're a competent franchise,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: right that you're you're actually competent, and but you're not
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  Speaker 1: committing to the few you're worried about. Now. You're living
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  Speaker 1: in the moment, and it's it's kind of like if
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  Speaker 1: you put on a tuxedo to have a nice frozen dinner.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have a nice microwave dinner, but you're getting
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  Speaker 1: all dressed up here. Listen, I can go to a
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  Speaker 1: five star restaurant where a tuxedo. I can sit here
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  Speaker 1: and eat my one pound of fish sticks and the
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  Speaker 1: potato on the side there. I can do that. And
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: so that is what they're doing here. They're like, well listen,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get all dressed up. This is a Super
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Bowl champion quarterback, Joe Flacco. The single greatest postseason run
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: of my lifetime was Joe Flacco for the Baltimore Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: It'll never be matched. Well, I'm around and Joe Flacco
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  Speaker 1: did it. Uh, and he got paid a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money and then he stole that money and that was it.
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  Speaker 1: But the TV dinner thing as well, it looks good, right,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you run, the tuxedo looks good, the food looks good,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and then you start eating in it. It's like, well
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: it's a little robbery. That's not very good and all
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: that stuff. So they're going with the VHS option. The
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Browns are saying, we'll go via. I know everyone's doing streaming,
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  Speaker 1: but we like that old school that click, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you put the VHS tape. You're old enough to
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: remember VHS to you put that in. Thathing locks in
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  Speaker 1: there and you're like, I'm in, I got a movie.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I got a movie and that's it. Now. The streaming,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: of course, you dependent on the Wi Fi and all
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: that stuff. And Joe Flacco is he outdated? Absolutely? It
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: still occasionally works, much like a VCR. Occasionally it'll still work.
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  Speaker 1: And he's the analog quarterback and in a digital league.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: And that's what Joe Flacco is. And you're going with
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: that the way I approached this. Now, I am not
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a Cleveland brown fan. I was for one year. I
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: was forced. I switched teams every year, and you idiots
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: voted me a Cleveland Browns fan for one year. So
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I do have some Browns merch at the Malor mansion.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Although I did. I lost the one piece of Browns
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: merch I wish I had. I cannot find it. Somebody
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: sent me. They thought it was the ugliest Cleveland brown
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: hat and it had the Brown's Elf mascot on it,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and I thought it was so ugly. It was good. Look.
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  Speaker 1: I actually wore that, and I wore it so much.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I never lose hats, and I can't. I cannot find
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  Speaker 1: the hat. I don't know what happened to it. It was
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: like his orange hat and it had these ugly brown
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: leprechaun the mascot. But I had, I had Brown's jersey.
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  Speaker 1: I've had all this stuff. I had all this stuff. Anyway,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: back to the story, So I look at this. I'll
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: be Benny bright Side. I am Benny bright Side. The
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Browns are using these first couple games of the regular
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  Speaker 1: season as a showcase. That's what they're doing. And Flacco
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: is not the Browns quarterback. He is the available asset
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  Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Browns. They'll trot him out there and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: they'll let him sling the duke pass the football around
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  Speaker 1: for the first three or four weeks of the season
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and they're just gonna wait and there'll be some voodoo
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: bugoaloo that'll pop up. And not that you want Mahomes
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to twist an ankle or Josh Allen to get a
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: case to the yips, or Lamar Jackson to pull a
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: hammy and have it go whammy. You don't want any
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: of that. However, if any of that does happen, Boom
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: goes to dynamite. Boom goes to dynamite, and then you
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: look at I need a starter and this let me
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: get a classic. I want a vintage. I want a
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: stratocaster at a pawn shop. That's Joe Flacco. I want
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the stratocaster from the pod shop. Boom, Joe Flacco, done, undone, done,
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  Speaker 1: all right now, Page two. So what is the text message,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, What is the text for Brown's rookie
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  Speaker 1: Shadur Sanders and Dylan Gabriel. What is the message the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Browns are sending for them not getting the starting job
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and being who knows third four string? So Kevin Stevanski
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: is sending the text message. The text message that he
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: is sending is that hey said, listen, Shadur Sanders, Dylan Gabriel.
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  Speaker 1: We don't do on the job training, not right now.
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  Speaker 1: We're not into that. That's not what we're going for.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: This is not a some kind of school. It's not
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: a Montassory school in the it's the AFC North and
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: we're not willing to give the keys to one of
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: you rookies. So you're sorry. That's it. We're not doing it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: So Sanders and Gabriel they're still in the IKEA phase
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: of their careers. Now what does that mean? That means
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: some of you believe there is endless hope because you
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: think every young player is going to be great. You
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: do you tell me that when I rip prospects, you said,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: oh my god, you were so wrong. The two things
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: that I get ripped apart most for are I would
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: trade every draft pick. I would be like, there's this
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: guy named Mike Ditka. You don't know who that is,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: but he used to coach the football team in Chicago,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and then he coached the team in New Orleans. He
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: traded all of his draft picks one year to get
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: this running back named Ricky Williams who loved weed more
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: than football, which was a problem. But you know they
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: went for and I had no problem with that. I
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: was like, trade all the picks. So I get ripped
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: for that, Well, you know, what are you doing? Prospect
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: is a suspect, that's my go to. And also I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: get ripped for pointing out there is no such thing
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: as momentum. People get very upset, very upset because they've
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: been raised on Uncle Moe. And I say, well, Uncle
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Mo lives in New Jersey. He used to live in Brooklyn,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: and Uncle Moe moved from Brooklyn to New Jersey. So
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I know Uncle Ma. I've not met Uncle Moe. But
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Uncle Mo is that's a person. That's not That's not
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: a thing. Anyway. Get back to the point. So Sanders
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: and Gabriel, the rookies, they're in the IKEA phase of
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: their careers. What does that mean there's a lot of
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: hope and all that stuff, but you need an Alan wrench.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: You need an Alan wrench, and you got to work
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: your way through the Swedish instructions because for some reason
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: they didn't include the English instructions. So you've got to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: read the Swedish instructions to make it all work. And
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Stefanskyn saying, well, we're get a build for the future,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: but were you want these guys to watch, We want
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: them to observe what is going on and all that stuff.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: And right now we're going with not the Ikea sofa.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: We're going with the sofa that we got from the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: thrift store, the Joe Flacco sofa from the thrift store.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: It's not about winning. It's more about optics and doing
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do. As we mentioned the word protocol,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: you're following the protocol. It's also about those I believe showcasing.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: This is the mannequin in the window and you're putting
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Joe Flacco out there, and you're like, all right, we'll
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: put him out there, and he's a relic and maybe
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: he'll be okay for a couple of games and all that,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and he's also been to more quarterback meetings Joe Flacco
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: than Shadura Sanders has college starts by a country mile.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: And he's not flashy, he's not good, he's not fast. However,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: he's familiar. It's kind of like that as you get older.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: There's certain clothes that you keep. It's a pair of
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: shorts or some old shoes. It's just stuff that we
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: keep that fits right. It doesn't necessarily look right, but
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: it fits right. You kind of keep it around and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you keep that till you check out, and then somebody
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: else has to get rid of it. But you keep
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: that to the very end of the road, when you
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: reach the end of the line. There, you keep that stuff.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: And we've got to get all these Browns monologues in.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Got to get them all in. And the reason we
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: have to get them all in is because once the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: season starts, those will be poison. And we're trying to
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: get them all in right now, and then we'll meet
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the quota that we have for our friends in Cleveland
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and whatnot. And did get an email from God? What
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: did you stop doing the you who's listening to the
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: podcast thing? I don't know. We should do it everyone,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: but maybe we'll do it later, all right. Final point
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: to the high speed transaction wire, the sports wire. Couple
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: of veteran name brand, name brand defensive players on the move.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: People you've heard of, people you've heard of, on the move.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Zaban Howard, a longtime Miami Dolphin defensive back. He goes
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to the Colts on a one year deal. Matthew Judan,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: an ex pat of the last year he played with
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the Falcons. He is off to Miami Miami, Miami Miami
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: on a one year deal. So toss up question, Zavin
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Howard to the Colts, Matthew Judan to the Dolphins. Who
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: is more likely to make some noise in twenty twenty five?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So the answer to this is both of these guys
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: are dunskies. Okay, however, all right, despite the fact they've
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: got more cooties and miles than a Motel six bedspread,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, there's a reason they
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: were both unemployed and they just agreed to contracts here
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: a couple weeks before the regular season is the Over
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the Hill Gang. It's kind of like arguing and having
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: some kind of debate over whether or not you want
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: to go with the commodore sixty four or the Atari
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: twenty six hundred. If you're an old school computer historian,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. But you I'm not
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: play fantasy. Should I do my fantasy on the Commodore
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: or the Atari? Neither one of them. Dude is connecting
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: you to the Internet in twenty twenty five. So you're
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: shopping at best Buy and you're in the scratch and
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: dent aisle at Best Buy. You're like, there's something good
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: in there? See what's in there? What is that? What
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: is that thing of a jake? What's the watch? MC call?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Now that said, if I got to pick knife to
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the throat, gun to the head, god do it. I'm
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: going with Judon. I'm going with Matthew Judon. Now, I
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: think Miami is gonna fall off the cliff this year,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: but I'm still taking Matthew Judon. He doesn't have to
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: be the star. They actually have some decent players on
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: that defense in Miami. Not that they are a great defense.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: They are an average defense. You don't have to go
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: in there and be Batman. He'd be Alfred the Butler
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: in Miami. He's just another body in the dolphin rotation.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: And if he gets a couple of sacks now, and
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: again that's great for Judon, and he'll go down there
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: in Florida and to find Ponce de Leon and on Craigslist.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: He'll meet with Poncetelli on the parking lot of a
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: waffle house and he'll have some water there and boom,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: good to go, all right at Judon is actually older
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: than Xavion Howard. He's thirty three. He just had a birthday.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: We don't do shout outs, so if you want a
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: shout out, go to Cameo. Judon's thirty three. His last
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: good year was in twenty twenty two, and this is
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the one last spin around the track before the wheels
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: on the bus go off the bus. The wheels on
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the bus go off the bus, and then you got Howard,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: who's younger. However, I have spent minutes, long minutes of
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: my time debating this, and I've determined, after a brief deliberation,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: that it is way harder, way harder to age as
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: a defensive back than it is as an edge rusher.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Meaning once you lose half a step as a defensive back,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: forget about it, forget it, buy your toast and trying
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: to cover Justin Jefferson with a Walker it doesn't go well.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: And Judon at least he moves the needle like there's
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: just age is better. It's one of those things that's
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: just your pass rusher, a situational pass rusher. It's like
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: von Miller, right, von Miller, who's not an every down player,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: and he's with Washington now he's assuming he's somewhat healthy,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: and you put him out there occasionally he'll get your
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: two sacks in a game. And like, I look at Judah,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: who's not as good as von Miller, but he's the
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: situational edge rusher, and he can be that guy and
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: get a couple more years out of his career.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Miller
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Here we go, It's Miller. How about that to the
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• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is one big Ben gets Graill.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: So the Bills got beat up thirty eight nothing by
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: the Bears in a preseason matchup on Sunday, and no,
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: it means nothing. One of my closest friends, a Bills fan,
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: is convinced that the entire AFC East is going to
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: take a step forward while the Bills are going to
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: take a step backwards. He's a pessimist, Ben, you agree with.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Any of that. I would not base any decisions based
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: on an exhibition game and the I watched some of
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: that game. It was on national television for some reason,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills had the chronic case of id GAF.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: If you know what I mean, I don't give an
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: f and so I know, like, I think the Bills
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: will be good in the regular season, the Jets will
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: be mediocre, the Dolphins will get worse. I think the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Patriots will be better. So I think that's how the
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: AFC East is going to go. And they're not going
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: to fall off the map there in Buffalo, although if
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: they have that attitude, if they come out flasted like that,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: sure Next.
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: Speaking of that thirty eight and o win by the Bears,
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: I got a lot of people excited about the Ben Johnson,
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: Caleb Williams parent.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: You're Gene in Chicago so excited, right Yeah.
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: After Williams had a few quote big time throws.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: G manas also fired up. Is this year? Is this
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: year gonna look better for the former Trojan Well.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I don't buy the Bears. I'm not on board with
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the Bears. I'm not like he had good numbers other
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: than the sack thing last year. I think the Bears
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: will be a mediocre team. I think they'll be about
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: where they were when they had Mitch Trubisky, where you're
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: in that nine eight, nine, ten win area where you're
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: kind of a fringe contender for the playoffs, where you're
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: not really next.
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  Speaker 6: So the Bengals aren't the only ones listening to trade offers,
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  Speaker 6: as it was reported that the Commanders are shopping. They're
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: starting running back Brian Robinson junior benjam Commander's fans start
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: to worry about the developments in DC.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: No, they should be I'm okay with this, Like the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: running back thing is a replaceable position, coop. Brian Robinson's
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: in the last year, coming up on the last year
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: of his contract, so they want to get rid of
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: him now and they just keep it's evolving though he's
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: not a game changing running back. I get it. How
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: did we do? He passes say when I've got Oh
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: my god, I'm a Kirk dog.
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• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Hell, do you have what it takes to get to
• 37:02
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• 37:06
  Speaker 1: And let's welcome in David in Lost Wages, Nevada. Hello, David, welcome.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I've been wanting to play this for a long
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: time because I'm playing at home. When you do it,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I do real well, and I just know it's one
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: of these deals.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: And now that I'm actually on the radio, I'm gonna
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: have stage right. No, no, you're not. No one's listening.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Look what time it is. Everyone's sleeping, no one's awake.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: All right. And then David, you're gonna be at the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: meet and read on Saturday.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: We're gonna meet you absolutely right there.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: All right, who do you want to partner up with? David?
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: Let's go with you.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Start at the top here, that's right. All time wins, king,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: by the way, all time wins. All right, and hold on. Second,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: we have Stephan who's in Denver. Hello Stephan, Welcome, Wait Dad, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this guy to your guy, Coop, this is your guy.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: This is Stephane.
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  Speaker 2: Bring it back.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well you know Denver fan. I assume
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: maybe not. I grew up here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a fan's horse.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Oh he's a Colts fan. Oh man, cool Denver. You're
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: not even from Denver, Coop and you're all right? All right?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Coop's always complains he thinks he's gonna win if somehow
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: he has more time.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exact, hurry up, hurry up, all right, top drops,
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: I'm both on here, David. The category is are this
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: is the Edward Nordan addition, he turned fifty six on Monday?
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: Fight Club, moon Rise Kingdom, Birdman or Motherless Brooklyn? Which
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: category would you like?
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: David? Let's Moonlight Kingo moon Like moon Rise Kingdom?
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: Alright, right, and then Stephen, do you want fight Club,
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: Birdman or Motherless Brooklyn?
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Let's go Birdman? All right? All right? Did you go?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Good luck on that? Okay, here we go, h David, David,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Here we go, and you picked moon Rise Kingdom. These
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: athletes were all boys. Are you ready? Okay? Forty five
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: seconds on the clock. We're on our way. We need
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: first and last name, the all time home run king
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: prior to Barry Bonds. That is that is correct? Now
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the forty nine ers after Joe Montana. He
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: was Montana's backup with the Niners. What do you say,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Eastern Stevie? Okay, all right, quarterback for the Washington Redskins.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: He has legs snapped in half by Lawrence Taylor. All right,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: we'll skip ahead here. How about running a tight loan linebacker?
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Linebacker for Notre Dame. He had a fake girlfriend. He
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: played for the New Orleans Saints. That is, correct guard
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: for the New York Knicks. He played with the Lakers.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: His last name is like Romance, like a Valentine type
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: last name. Now the fly in Hawaiian Philadelphia Phillies star
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: you missed Josh Hart and Shane Victorino went total, go ahead,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: there you go ahead, one toy? Did you know who?
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Did you know who the flying Hawaiian was? David? He did?
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: All right, a little slow on it, All right, Stephan,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: we have birdman. Uh need the first and last name
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: of the athlete.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: These athletes all jump so high they seem to fly
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: h forty five seconds in the clock.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Let's begin. Current running back for the Eagles.
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: Just rush for two thousand Yardsley, Yes, this guy was
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: the kid for the Mariners back in the day. Okay, Okay,
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: don't curse, don't this guy one? That's all right. This
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: guy is on the Memphis Grizzlies. He jumps out of
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: the he loves guns. He loves to shoot guns.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Even fake one.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I'm having such a right all right.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: How about the human highlight reel in the NBA?
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: Yes, John Rant, that's correct, human highlight reel, gonyboard.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: This guy?
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: How about a really short guy he used to dunk
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: back in the day. His last name is this? The
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: thing of spider lives in. You gotta got better than that, Coop.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe taking longer with the last sleeping call, then maybe
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: I should have done last last name. That's the spider
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, Coop. Go ahead again, Go ahead again. What
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: do you want? Alright? Motherless Brooklyn or fight club? Yeah? No,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: he got the thirty one two? Yeah? So for oh
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: yea yeah? Yeah, all right, Stephan, do you want motherless
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn or fight club? All right?
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: These athletes have all been in notable fights. Forty five second,
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: let's begin. The best basketball player of all time? Yes,
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: this guy is a defensive end on the Browns. He
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: bashed Mason Rudolph with the helmet. Yes, This guy had
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: the one handed catch for the New York Giants back
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: in the day. Okay, what's what's that?
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: I think it's no his sigh? Are you there, Stephan?
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Oh cool? Oh god? All right, let's run it up here, David.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Let's show Matt's done here, David. Are you ready? David?
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Where's David? Okay? Here we go. Motherless Brooklyn stuff. These
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: athletes weren't raised by their biological mothers, right. They were
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: adopted or raised by film Uh, a quarterback who started
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: a protest movement in the NFL with the forty nine ers.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Oh all right, the bambino for the New York Yankees. Yes,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: point guard. He played for the Golden State Warriors and
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the Clippers back in the early two thousands. It doesn't matter.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: We wanted to have it, Baron Davis. We want the guys.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: David the wind all time waits king, all time waits
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  Speaker 1: k