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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: So the lead story here, rather obvious, a highly anticipated
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  Speaker 1: game on a Monday night. Our lead from the Twin Cities,
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  Speaker 1: as everyone keeping an eye on this game, a midseason
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  Speaker 1: rhubarb in the epicenter of the sporting world in downtown
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  Speaker 1: Minneapolis there. And I know I've been to a game there,
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  Speaker 1: but I've been to the stadium. I know there's a
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  Speaker 1: hospital with a lot of weird folks out in front
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  Speaker 1: that look to be down on their luck. At least
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  Speaker 1: the day that I was there. Did not go well.
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  Speaker 1: And it looked like in the stadium, some of those
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  Speaker 1: people were playing for the Minnesota football team. So you
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  Speaker 1: had Josh Allen and the Bills Mafia. They're wagons. The
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  Speaker 1: Bills wagons. And where did the Buffalo roam? Well, they
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  Speaker 1: roamed into Minneapolis, a wrestling match with the top-ranked Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: Viking defense. You had the Bickersons, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman,
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  Speaker 1: who appeared to hate each other, at least Aikman hating Buck.
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  Speaker 1: They had the call there on ABC, the heavyweight matchup.
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  Speaker 1: That was the hype above the marquee. Did you watch?
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  Speaker 1: Were you engaged? Did you spend hours of your time
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  Speaker 1: sitting there watching this? Perhaps not. Now, we watched, so
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  Speaker 1: you would not have to, and this is one of
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  Speaker 1: those events, surprisingly, where you didn't miss a damn thing
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  Speaker 1: if you missed this game. Consider yourself lucky if you
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  Speaker 1: weren't able to watch this game. Holy crap. Man, it
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  Speaker 1: was not a competitive game at all. It wasn't exciting.
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  Speaker 1: It was bad. Josh Allen, who wasn't great, he will
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  Speaker 1: be credited as great. He did have a touchdown pass with...
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  Speaker 1: A little less than a minute to go before halftime,
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  Speaker 1: and then they started cooking. They'd be in Buffalo as
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  Speaker 1: James Cook ran for 107 yards on a bunch of carries.
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  Speaker 1: He also had a late touchdown as the Buffalo football
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  Speaker 1: team stampeded past the Vikings 23-6. was the final score.
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  Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: And this was a humdinger of a performance. You talk
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  Speaker 1: about commandeering the Vomit Comet. Holy crap! Mike, that's one
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  Speaker 1: of the great Vomit Comet performances we've ever seen from
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  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, who took over as the QB1. In Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: And he turned that into a kamikaze mission for the
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  Speaker 1: Viking offense there. Had just nine first downs. The Vikings
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  Speaker 1: had nine first downs. A professional football team against the
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  Speaker 1: Bills defense. I didn't realize the Bills had a good defense. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. They don't have a good defense. You wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: know that from this particular performance. Carson Wentz, who did
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  Speaker 1: not convert a single third down for the Viking offense.
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  Speaker 1: I am told that is not good. Oh, you're being mean, Mallor!
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  Speaker 1: I know. I'm the bad guy. Holy crap. My God,
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  Speaker 1: that was painful. And what I did is make myself
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  Speaker 1: feel better. I went to my email, and there were
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  Speaker 1: several of you idiots in Minnesota that emailed me. I
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  Speaker 1: thought you were a friend of Minnesota. Why were you
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  Speaker 1: saying mean things about the Vikings? What's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Because they deserved it? Holy crap. My God,
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  Speaker 1: was that dreadful. Well, Kevin O'Connell is the head coach,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure he's very happy with the offense, right, coach?
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  Speaker 1: You're very happy, Mr. O'Connell, with the offense, yes?
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  Speaker 3: I wish he had performed. In no way, shape, or
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  Speaker 3: form was tonight acceptable. I told the team it starts
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  Speaker 3: with me, and 100% defense was on the field too much.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they battled.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we made some plays in the kicking game,
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  Speaker 3: just not even close offensively to what we want to be.
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  Speaker 3: Never got Carson in a rhythm. Tried a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: tools to see if we could help that happen, and
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  Speaker 3: just I didn't do a good enough job doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Put tonight 100% on me. It's not about any one
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  Speaker 3: particular player, but we've got to improve offensively at a
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  Speaker 3: rapid pace.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about the players because the players are so
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  Speaker 1: soft they can't be criticized. That's what Kevin O'Connell just
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  Speaker 1: told you. The Minnesota Vikings are such a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: pussy willows. They cannot be criticized. Cannot do it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do it. Unlike him, we've got the balls to
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  Speaker 1: do it. All right, so good jumping off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. What is your word? What is
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  Speaker 1: your word for how Carson Wentz ran the Vikings offense
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  Speaker 1: and the state of despair that Minnesota's offense find themselves in?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got the Caspian Sea, a frozen herring, and
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  Speaker 1: straight-A student. And we will combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to go to page 94. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll move ahead now on the broadcast to page 94. So, A,
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  Speaker 1: my word, my word for this particular performance, it's two words,
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  Speaker 1: poop fest. That was a poop fest. Big poopy for
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings. And Kevin O'Connell needed to actually go out
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  Speaker 1: and get a pooper scooper. This became a biohazard issue
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  Speaker 1: for those that were in attendance at this particular game. Seriously. Seriously. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we were, while watching this game, I was pointing, I
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  Speaker 1: was texting some friends of mine, and I was pointing
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  Speaker 1: at the screen, and I was humming bars of one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite songs, and you can sing along as well. Die, die, diarrhea!
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  Speaker 1: That was Carson Wentz. It was straight diarrhea. You could
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  Speaker 1: feel it in the back of your legs. You could
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  Speaker 1: feel it dripping down on the back of your legs.
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  Speaker 1: That was Carson Wentz's performance there. The Purple People Eaters...
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  Speaker 1: Purple people eaters turning Monday night football into a medieval
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  Speaker 1: torture chamber for their offense. The numbers are unbelievable. I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the Vomit Comet. Commandeering the Vomit Comet. Straight up,
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  Speaker 1: as Cam Ward would say over there in Nashville, straight up,
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  Speaker 1: we ass. That's the Vikings. We ass. Eight completions. Eight
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  Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz. Eight completions. Eight of 25 completions. 32%.
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  Speaker 1: He had 81 yards passing on 32 pass attempts, an
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  Speaker 1: average of 3.2 yards. Both the leading rushers for the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings averaged at least 3.2 or better. Not one, but
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  Speaker 1: two interceptions, a lost fumble, an 8.9 passer rating. That
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  Speaker 1: is Nathan Peterman-like from Carson Wentz. 8.9 passer rating. He
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  Speaker 1: could not hit water if he had fallen out of
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  Speaker 1: a boat at Lake Minnetonka. That's how bad he was.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we love the stat. We'll bring it up again.
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  Speaker 1: We bring it up every time we see a performance
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  Speaker 1: like this, which happens a lot. If Carson Wentz had
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  Speaker 1: taken every snap and spiked the ball into the turf
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  Speaker 1: in the dome there in Minnesota, every single snap, he
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  Speaker 1: would have had a passer rating of 39.6. His passer
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  Speaker 1: rating was 8.9. Who goofed? I've got to know. And
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  Speaker 1: even running what appeared to be a dumbed-down elementary offense
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  Speaker 1: that Kevin O'Connell put out there for the Vikings, that
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  Speaker 1: offensive unit looked like a group of strangers from Azerbaijan
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  Speaker 1: who got together and they were out and tossed into
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  Speaker 1: the Caspian Sea and told to figure out how to
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  Speaker 1: score some points. That's what it looked like. Carson Wentz,
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  Speaker 1: at one point, It appeared to me, and maybe I'm
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  Speaker 1: wrong on this, it looked to me like Carson Wentz
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  Speaker 1: was having a father-son catch with the Bills linebackers. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know how you go out when you're a kid,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you play catch with your dad or a relative
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  Speaker 1: or something like that, an uncle? That's what it looked like.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wow, I didn't realize that the linebackers
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  Speaker 1: for the Bills were the kids of Carson Wentz. It
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  Speaker 1: looked like he was having a nice catch with his pops,
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  Speaker 1: who happened to be wearing a Bills uniform. It was wild.
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  Speaker 1: You'd think the Bills are great here. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: The great Bills defense.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: They came into that game 24th in defensive rating as
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  Speaker 1: far as scoring defense is concerned. And it was Minnesota's
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  Speaker 1: worst passer rating, Carson Wentz, since Tommy Kramer, friend of
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  Speaker 1: the show back in 1984. If you were at the
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  Speaker 1: Mallard meeting we did in Minnesota years ago, Tommy Kramer
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  Speaker 1: was at that event. Very nice man. He's going through
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  Speaker 1: a lot of medical problems, but Tommy Kramer was a
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  Speaker 1: very nice man, and he was part of those 1980s
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  Speaker 1: Viking teams a million years ago, and he was the
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  Speaker 1: last quarterback to be worse than Carson Wentz. That was
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  Speaker 1: before the internet. That's a long time ago. So after
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  Speaker 1: finally going, what was it, one of eight in the
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  Speaker 1: second half, those halftime adjustments, nothing's changed more in my
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  Speaker 1: lifetime than halftime adjustments. So Carson Wentz was greeted by booze,
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  Speaker 1: the raspberries. They came down. Even Minnesota Nice has its limits.
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  Speaker 1: They were booing the hell out of Carson Wentz, and
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  Speaker 1: he deserved every one of those boos. They should have
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  Speaker 1: booed louder. They should have booed louder. Should have piped
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  Speaker 1: in boos. Yeah. You suck! Yeah, he did suck. So
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  Speaker 1: finally he got benched, and Max Brosmer came in, the
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  Speaker 1: third-string quarterback. As the Minnesota football team reached a new low,
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  Speaker 1: Vikings ended up going 0-7 on third down. They had
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  Speaker 1: 176 total yards of offense. It was total malfeasance by
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings, malpractice, however you want to say it, and
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  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz did earn the title as the Duke, as
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  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz was the Duke of Puke. All right, so now,
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  Speaker 1: turning the page, page two. Let's look here. From 30,000
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  Speaker 1: feet up, looking down, you're flying the friendly skies and
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  Speaker 1: you're looking down at the carnage that is the... Vikings
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  Speaker 1: offense there in the Twin Cities. What are you going
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  Speaker 1: to do now? You can't keep throwing that out there,
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  Speaker 1: so what are you going to do? Here's the head coach,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell. The trade deadline is just hours away. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: Here's Kevin O'Connell on that situation. I'm sure he'll say nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but let's listen anyway.
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  Speaker 3: We've had dialogue about a lot of different positions, and
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  Speaker 3: Ted turned around, obviously, playing the Monday night game before that,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll get right to work on any potential moves
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  Speaker 3: that can be there. Really just focused on the game tonight,
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  Speaker 3: which was not good enough in.
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  Speaker 1: Any way, shape, or form. So that was a non-answer.
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  Speaker 1: His real answer is, holy crap, we've got to make
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  Speaker 1: a trade. That's his real answer. What he gave you
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  Speaker 1: was a PC answer. So the question... Here's the question
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  Speaker 1: for the esteemed panel. How does this dud, not a
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  Speaker 1: milk dud, an absolute dud of a performance, change things
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  Speaker 1: for Kevin O'Connell's Vikings now that we are at the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline? So the doomsday clock is a ticking for
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  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, and it's running out of batteries. It's a problem.
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  Speaker 1: It's like your smoke alarm. When that starts running out
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  Speaker 1: of batteries, it starts beeping, and it's really, really annoying.
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  Speaker 1: if the Vikings do not make a trade and do
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  Speaker 1: not get someone that's better than what they have, Kevin
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  Speaker 1: O'Connell is going to be fired. He'll be doing a
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  Speaker 1: podcast at Barstool. That's what he's going to be doing, okay?
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  Speaker 1: He will not be coaching in the NFL. This is
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  Speaker 1: a fireable offense. Everything that he has touched, the legend
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  Speaker 1: of Kevin O'Connell and the reality of Kevin O'Connell are
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  Speaker 1: two totally different things. O'Connell has gone from the offensive genius,
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback whisperer, to a guy desperately searching Google and
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  Speaker 1: typing in quarterbacks available near me. And that's it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just like, my God. Now, I remember when I
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  Speaker 1: was in school, I didn't pay very much attention when
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  Speaker 1: I was in school, but one of the things I
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  Speaker 1: remember reading about, I think I might have read about
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  Speaker 1: this after I went to school, was the legend of
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  Speaker 1: the actual Vikings from the old world that conquered Europe
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  Speaker 1: using things like axes and swords and long ships. The
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  Speaker 1: legend of the Vikings, a ruthless group. the real Vikings,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL version in Minnesota, they would get more offensive
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  Speaker 1: production from a Scandinavian warrior throwing a frozen herring. They
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  Speaker 1: would cause more damage if they could get an actual,
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  Speaker 1: like somehow go back in the time machine and the
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  Speaker 1: hot tub time machine, bring back a Scandinavian warrior and
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  Speaker 1: and have them throw a red herring. Carson Wentz actually
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  Speaker 1: should try to throw a red herring. Throwing a football
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  Speaker 1: he sucks at. My God. The Viking quarterback room needs
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  Speaker 1: to be condemned by the health department and fumigated ASAP.
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  Speaker 1: The whole quarterback room. Carson Wentz completed, as we said,
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  Speaker 1: eight passes in a professional game against a bad defense.
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  Speaker 1: Eight completions. I mean, do I need to expand on that?
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  Speaker 1: Eight completions. Right now, Femi, the Uber Eats driver who's
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  Speaker 1: a big super fan of the show in Minnesota, he
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  Speaker 1: makes more deliveries and he has more completions delivering hoagies
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  Speaker 1: and burgers and whatnot around the Twin Cities than Carson
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  Speaker 1: Wentz had in that game against the Buffalo Bills. And
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  Speaker 1: that's just before midnight. Femi is out there delivering all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. So Carson Wentz should never start another game
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Is that too much of a shock
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  Speaker 1: jock position? That performance was so bad. by Carson Wentz,
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  Speaker 1: that he should be running a nice bed and breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: a family-owned bed and breakfast in the Badlands, and he
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  Speaker 1: can tell the tourists that visit him about his glory
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  Speaker 1: days back when he played quarterback. Of course, I was
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  Speaker 1: there at the end of Carson Wentz. It was against
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  Speaker 1: the Rams at the old Coliseum before they renovated, and
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  Speaker 1: he got injured, and some backup guy came in and
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  Speaker 1: led the Eagles to the Super Bowl. Yeah, Carson Wentz
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  Speaker 1: was the favorite to win the MVP that year and
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  Speaker 1: has never been any good But ultimately, this is what
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  Speaker 1: we call an ABTT situation. Anybody but these turds in
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback room. That's it. You've got to go out
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  Speaker 1: and get somebody else. And the Vikings, it is so
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  Speaker 1: bad in Minnesota right now that I'm going to do
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  Speaker 1: something I've never done before. I'm going to advocate for
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  Speaker 1: somebody that is a mortal enemy of this show and
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  Speaker 1: quarterback play. Things are so terrible. for the Minnesota Vikings
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  Speaker 1: at this point that I am endorsing. Now, they obviously
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  Speaker 1: have to make a move. No ifs, ands, or buts
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  Speaker 1: about it. But I am endorsing that they go out
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  Speaker 1: there and get a pint of vanilla. And when I
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  Speaker 1: say no ifs, ands, or buts about it, talking about
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Vikings have to make a trade for
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback, I want to focus in especially on the
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  Speaker 1: buts because what they've been playing is pure tushy at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: It's stinky, and it's not good. But Daniel Jones... I'm
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  Speaker 1: not proud. This is not a proud moment. That's how
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  Speaker 1: bad the Vikings are. I'm endorsing Daniel Jones. The guy blows,
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  Speaker 1: and he's better than what the Vikings have. Lord have mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel effing Jones would be an upgrade for the Vikings. Seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Vanilla Vick. Is he great?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Is he good? Not really. He's not even good. However,
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  Speaker 1: at least occasionally, he can complete a pass to a
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver. Without a GPS, he can complete a pass.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd make the move. Daniel Jones is not going
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  Speaker 1: to win any kind of a beauty pageant ever. Compared
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  Speaker 1: to Carson Wentz, though, and Kyler Murray, Daniel Jones, if
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  Speaker 1: you put him in the Viking quarterback room, he's Miss
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  Speaker 1: Universe compared to those stiffs that they've got at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last word. Now we go to the Buffalo side.
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  Speaker 1: It's starting yet again. The pride and joy of Western
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  Speaker 1: New York. The Bills move to 7-1. I know Mark
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  Speaker 1: the Walker and all the Bills Mafia guys for Lexus
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  Speaker 1: and got a lot of Bills Mafia that love the show.
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  Speaker 1: They're all excited. Bill's monster. He's listing. I know. Seven
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  Speaker 1: and one record for Buffalo. Four consecutive victories now. And
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  Speaker 1: that eight game start, the top eight game start for
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  Speaker 1: that franchise since the glory days of Jim Kelly and
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  Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas and Andre Reed and Marv Levy, who's still alive,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. Marv's literally older than dirt. God bless him.
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  Speaker 1: Used to work here at Fox Sports Radio back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. When I worked alongside Marv, I remember sitting
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  Speaker 1: next to him a few times. I thought, boy, Marv,
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  Speaker 1: a very nice man, very old. That was 25 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: He's still going. Good for him. Anyway, so that was
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  Speaker 1: back then. So the Bills off to the top start
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  Speaker 1: in over 30 years. Here's the question. Does this win?
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  Speaker 1: Does this win count as a statement victory for Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen and the Bills? All right, so I would like
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  Speaker 1: to pump the brakes here. On that, I would like
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  Speaker 1: to pump the brakes on that statement. This is some
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  Speaker 1: kind of dramatic turning point, a Waterloo moment for the
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Now, I do know, based on looking at
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  Speaker 1: the calendar app on my phone, that we are approaching
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  Speaker 1: the annual holiday tradition. You know what the annual holiday
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  Speaker 1: tradition is in the NFL? This is about the time
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  Speaker 1: of the year where everyone declares, this is finally Buffalo's year.
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  Speaker 1: Finally Buffalo's year. This is it. Is it the what
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  Speaker 1: the bills are? The bills are the straight A student
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  Speaker 1: who keeps flunking the final exam. That's the bills. Now,
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  Speaker 1: another way to look at it, there were some people
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  Speaker 1: I worked with in radio who were really bad at radio,
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  Speaker 1: like make you want to just like bang your head
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  Speaker 1: against the wall and think, my God. However, they were
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  Speaker 1: really good at interviewing. So they got the job. They
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  Speaker 1: just couldn't do the job. And the Bills are able
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  Speaker 1: to rack up a lot of wins, and they have
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  Speaker 1: some razzle-dazzle. They didn't have any razzle-dazzle in this game.
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  Speaker 1: This was a workmanlike win for the Buffalo Bills. And yet,
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  Speaker 1: I just still don't think it's all there. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: positive is nobody really has all of that in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL this year, if you look around. But in terms
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: of this game, Vegas had the Bills as a 3.5-point
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: favorite by the time they kicked off on Monday night.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: So the Bills did what they were supposed to do.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Generally speaking, you don't celebrate that. I'll give you a
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: puffy sticker if you want. You can pick out a
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: scratch and sniff sticker if that helps you out. And
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the Bills were missing a couple of their starting offensive linemen,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and they did have a... couple of really long drives.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: They dominated time of possession. The Bills had the ball
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: for over 42 minutes of game time. The Vikings were
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: just over 17 minutes of game time ahead. So was
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: it impressive? It was moderately impressive. However, again, Minnesota was
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: captained by, it was a ghost ship, captained by Carson Wentz,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: who's a ghost at this particular point, a junior varsity
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: quarterback who went full goblin mode. He was on an
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: island and somehow drowned on the island. The island life.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: So he played about as well as a manufacturing toaster.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Not good there. The Bills defense, you look at the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: numbers as well, that was great defense. Was it really
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: great defense? There were a couple more interceptions that were
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: just flat out dropped by the Buffalo defense. Beating Carson
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Wentz is like prime Mike Tyson back in the day
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: beating up a department store mannequin. It's not that impressive.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: The Bills did not slay the dragon. They did not.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: They stepped on a garden snail. And so we're going
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: to hold off on the ticker tape parade right now
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: through Buffalo, but never, you know, it's, there's no dominant team.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: There is no one that you look at and say, well,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: that's clearly the team to beat. Rams were supposed to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: be that team. They're not.
• 21:16
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• 21:26
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• 21:29
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• 21:30
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• 21:33
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• 21:36
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• 21:39
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• 21:42
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• 21:53
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• 21:59
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• 22:01
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• 22:03
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• 22:05
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• 22:06
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• 22:25
  Speaker 1: From Los Angeles, where big injury news in the hood
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: and in the wood and up to no good. If
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you have not heard, perhaps not. Based on my email,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: my inbox, a number of you are taking great joy
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: out of this. Some serious news. schadenfreude have your fun
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it's all good star wide receiver puka nakua down for
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the count it would appear puka nakua expected to miss
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: several weeks of game time this after an mri mri
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: revealed an mcl and pcl it's all initials mcl and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: pcl sprain in his right knee What? Whoa. Nakua also
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: has turf toe, which sounds pretty harmless. Turf toe sounds
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: pretty harmless. It's not. It's bad. It's bad. People have
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: lost their careers because of. Extreme turf toe. Anyway, so
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: he's got the turf toe. He's got the this thing,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the that thing, the doohickeys all messed up, the MCL,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the PCL, and all that. And we are told he
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: will be going on injured reserve. Yikes. Now, Sean McVay,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I'm told that is still the Rams coach, soon to
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: be Amazon's Sean McVay. But Sean McVay said at least
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: a month that Nakua will be out at least a month.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: And he was pressed for a timeline on when he
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: could possibly return. Nakua suffering the injury. This is the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: part of the story that's the story where you're like, oh,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: my God. So Nakua suffered the injury while blocking on
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the Rams' final offensive snap in the victory over the
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Washington football team on Sunday. That's the part of the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: story where you're like, whoa, wait a minute. The Rams
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: seemingly had the game in a good position. What was
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Puka doing out there? This, of course, led to criticism
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: of head coach Sean McVay. What are you doing leaving
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Puka Nakua in the game? Have you lost your bloody mind?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Your bloody roo?
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: I'm a doctor.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: All right, so that is a good jumping-off point. Let
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: us discuss the question for the panel, which you are
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: part of. Here it is. Does Rams coach Sean McVay
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: deserve to be called out for his decision to to
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: keep Puka Nakua in the game late. So I've got
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Bounce House, Grand Canyon, and Dairy Queen. And we will
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we are going
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to pull out all the stops. Not some of the stops.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: We are going to pull out all the stops. So number.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: One!
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Number one!
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Number one!
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: What are we doing here? Seriously, what are we doing?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Are we playing professional football, or is this another example
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: of a daycare operation? And I bring this up because,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: yet again, we are reminded that the social media platforms
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: are both good and bad. You have given a voice
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: to dumb people on social media. You do not have
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to listen to dumb people, but you've given them a voice.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: You've given them a megaphone. I'm talking about the dumbest
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: of the dumb people. And the people complaining, oh my God,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: what was McVay doing? What was he doing, McVay, leaving
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Puka to coo in the game? Come on. The outrage
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: industrial complex, which I guess I'm part of doing a
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: talk show, but I'm not that part of it. The
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: outrage industrial complex has discovered another victim. Common sense, right
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: out the window. Now, I looked it up. I thought
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: maybe I was wrong. It turns out I'm right. Sean
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: McVay was hired as a football coach... For the Rams.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: As a football coach, he was not hired as the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: director of risk management for State Farm Insurance. You cannot
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: coach scared. Can't do it. Cannot coach scared. It's the NFL.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: It's the National Football League, not the National Fear League,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: which some of you nitwits seem to think it is.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And look, it obviously backfired. It did. Puka Dikus can
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: be out for a month. At least a month. It
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: backfired spectacularly. However, it was the right call. It was
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the right call. This is a classic case of confusing
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a bad result with a bad decision. It was not
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a bad decision. It was fine. The injury itself does
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: not make this the wrong decision. It does not. That
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: is intellectual dishonesty is what it is involving hindsight. So
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: let's call it what it is. And the critics who
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: are out there, the dumbest of the dumb, oh, I
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: can't believe McVay would leave Puka Naku in the game
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and all this stuff. What, are we supposed to play
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: these games in a giant inflatable bounce house? Get rid
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: of all the stadiums. Giant bounce houses. Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Let's play NFL football in bounce houses. That's what we
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: ought to do. And this is a throwback to the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: pandemic because it still drives me nuts today. Out of
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: an abundance of caution. Shove it up your tuckus. Abundance
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: of caution. Those are the five most dangerous words in
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: modern sports. Out of an abundance of caution. You keep
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: going down that rabbit hole. And many of you love
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: that rabbit hole. You keep going down that rabbit hole
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: of precaution. And eventually your product starts to grow mold.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: And if you don't believe me, go ask the NBA,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: which is an unwatchable product during the regular season, much
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: of it. And they go by the mantra, out of
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: an abundance of caution, no back-to-backs. Star players can't be
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: expected to play back-to-back. Because, you know, the regular person
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: can't work back-to-back, God forbid, but out of an abundance
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: of caution. That what you want in your football? Okay.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Hope you enjoy that. Let me know how that goes.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: All right, now page two. Let's go to the big
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: picture now. And here it is. The question, are the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Rams absolutely porked without Puka Nakua? Let's assume he's only
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: out for a month. I'm always skeptical of these injury
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: things because typically it's a lot longer. So are the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Rams porked without Puka Nakua for the next month? So
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going no on this. This should not be the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: end of the Rams season. It should not. Now, I
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: will tell you the patient is currently being wheeled into
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: intensive care in a wheelchair, which is not great. The
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Rams medical report, if you look at the Rams medical report,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: it's starting to look like the menu over at the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Cheesecake Factory is It just keeps going and going and going.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: When I go to Delicatessence or the Cheesecake Factory, I'm
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: always wondering what item never gets ordered. There must be
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: stuff on there that no one ever orders. Like, what
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: do they do with it? Why is it on there? Like,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: these delicatessens, the delis, big, massive menus, too. A lot
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: of them. But Cheesecake Factory, the same thing. Anyway, the
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Rams this season are living... the football version of Murphy's Law.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Anything that can go wrong eventually will go wrong. So
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the Rams played most of the season without their defensive MVP,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett. Now they're going to play without their offensive
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: game changer in Puka Nakua. So he'll be out. Devontae
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Adams is already in mothballs. He's out probably for the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: rest of the year. And so you look at the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: depth chart for the Rams. Matthew Stafford's receiving core looks
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: like the clearance aisle over at Big Lots. It's not
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: that impressive. Now they're not dead, though. I maintain, despite
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the Puka Nakua injury, the Rams are not dead. However,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the margin for error.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Just went from a comfortable king-sized mattress all of a
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: sudden now it's a tightrope over the Grand Canyon and
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: there is no safety net watch out for the donkey
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: below good luck so Sean McVay I believe in McVay
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I think he knows what he's doing and And that's
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: an outrageous take. He's supposed to be the offensive wizard,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay and all that. And here we go, buddy. Abracadabra.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Let's see what you got. And go down to the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Sorcerer's Workshop there and figure it out. Now, even if
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the Rams do not add any reinforcements, as we're doing
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: this in real time, the trade deadline is hours away.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: The whole franchise has to shift now. The identity of
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the Rams has to shift for this to work. I'm
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: going to use some psychobabble. But the Rams are going
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to have to do a 180. They're going to have
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: to go from what was supposed to be a really
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: good offensive team, which, by the way, has not been
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: a good offensive team this year. They've been okay. They
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: have been good. And they have to now lean into
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald anchoring that Rams defense. And
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the Rams are going to have to win ugly. Ugly.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about a double bagger. They've got to win
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: every game like a double bagger. without Pukunuku until he returns.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: And you have some tough games. Now, they play the Cardinals.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: It looks like Gardner Minshew is going to be out
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: for the season, so they'll be playing a rookie at
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: quarterback there in Arizona. That should be a win. You've
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: already lost to the Cardinals, though, so who knows. And
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: then you've got the Packers, the Chiefs, and the 49ers.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: That does not look promising up ahead. So really for
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: this to work, the Rams have to upset one of
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: those three. Beat the Cardinals and win one of those three.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: And then you're treading water until Puka Nakua comes back.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: You also have a bye week in there. So you're
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: just going to have to play meat grinder football is
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: what you're going to have to do. And that's really
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: what the Rams have been doing most of the time.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: They haven't scored a lot of style points in these games.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: The scoreboard, I looked up at the scoreboard, and also
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the standings, they do not grade on aesthetics. They don't
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: give you extra credit because you look really sexy and
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you blew a team out. That's not how that works.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: All right, final point. To the Bay Area we go.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: He's back! Well, not really, but kind of. Brandon Ayuk
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: has done the impossible, the unimaginable. And for the moment,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: as we're doing this in real time, he has been
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: officially reinstated by the National Football League. The guy that
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: went AWOL, had a conniption fit, cost himself millions of dollars,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: and has been persona non grata from the NFL for
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: a couple of years. He's back. However, we looked, and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: the 49ers' marriage remains highly toxic. It's a toxic relationship.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Coach Kyle Shanahan... says that essentially he couldn't care less
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: about the news that Brandon Iok is back, declaring, quote,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: it means absolutely nothing to our team. Close quote. Dismissed.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Brandon Iok returning, called it administrative stuff. The San Francisco
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: football team gets a two-game roster exemption, which does sound
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: like administrative stuff. I'll have to check with Eileen again.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: in San Francisco for information on that. But anyway, it's
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: a two-game roster exemption through November 23rd. They have that
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: time to either trade or release or retain the player.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Of course, we're going to trade him. The trade deadline
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: is this afternoon. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> Kerfooey!
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Got to make a trade. The receiver claims, player Brandon Iok,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: that he is fully healthy. Of course, it took two years.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: He had a knee injury in 2024. Kerfooey, His agent,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the most powerful agent in the NFL, Drew Rosenhaus, is
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: trying to massage a happy ending. It's not going so
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: well right now. All right, here's the question. How do
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: you read 49er coach Kyle Shanahan and his reaction to
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the NFL reinstating Brandon Iyok. So what is your read
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: on the 49ers head coach, Kyle Shanahan, really good at
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: driving a Tesla in the Bay Area, his reaction to
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the NFL reinstating wide receiver Brandon Iyok? So the reaction,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the way I read the body language and the comments,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the words of Shanahan, it's rather obvious. Brandon Ioke is Dunskies.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: It's over. O-V-E-R, over. Shanahan went down to Dairy Queen,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: and he said, can I get a couple of scoops
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: of indifference? Sure, we'll give you a couple scoops of indifference, Ryan.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: You want any sprinkles? No, I don't need any sprinkles. Uh, well,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: you want some, some syrup. We got some chocolate. There's some,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: some caramel over there. No, I don't need that. I
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: just want two scoops of indifference. Okay. We'll give you
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the two scoops of indifference. Fine. Enjoy it. Even Stevie
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: meatballs can see this and he's blind. Okay. The, the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: 49ers have already broken up with Brandon. I look, apparently
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: nobody told him or they told him and he didn't
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: believe it. He'd show it up. And, uh, after going Dodd,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: that is the dereliction of duties, Dodd dereliction of duties, uh, Iook,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: it is done. He can't come back. You didn't just
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: burn the bridge when you do that. It's kind of
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: like Anthony Richardson in Indianapolis. He quit on the team.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: He took himself out of the game. That is an
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: unforgivable sin. Well, what Brandon Iook did in San Francisco
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: or Santa Clara where they play is the same thing.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: The same exact thing. Now, if he had just played
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: up the fact that, oh, I got hurt because of
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: the electrical substation, then they would have put pity on
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: him and all that stuff. But he didn't do that.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: He just vanished and stopped returning phone calls and all that.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: So he didn't just burn the bridge. He went out
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: and bought a couple gallons of unleaded gasoline. He poured
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: it all over, and then he lit it, and then sang, burn, baby, burn,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: is what he sang. That's what he did. And so
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: now technically Brandon Iyok is back in the NFL for
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: the moment. And he finds Kyle Shanahan has already packed
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: up all of his belongings and put them in a
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: cardboard box right outside the facility. They also changed the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: access code to the 49er facility there. So good luck
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: on that. And the reunion with all the warmth. of
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: a nice Divorce Court episode. Remember that show? Is that
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: still on, Divorce Court? It used to be one of
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: those judge shows on TV. I used to love that show.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's still on or not, but
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: it was on for a while. It was entertaining. And
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: then you found out that they got paid either way.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: It was a little inside Divorce Court stuff. Anyway, the agent,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Drew Rosenhaus, he can bring a bag, and in the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: bag he can have, over here he can have smelling salts.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: He can have a defibrillator, and he can bring the entire...
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Not in the back, because it won't fit in the back.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: He can bring the entire Ohio State marching band, which
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: is not just a band. The Ohio State marching band.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: The best damn band in the land, they like to say.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: They're the ones that dot the I. And it still
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: won't matter. It will not matter in the end. This
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: relationship is not coming back. It ain't coming back. It's
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a matter of when... Likely today, the 49ers will take
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: pennies on the dollar. Conditional draft pick, I would imagine.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Couple of conditional draft picks and all that for Brandon Ayaka.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Of course, there's the $ 13 million check that supposedly, I
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: saw some stories over the weekend, they want $ 13 million
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: from Ayaka. Either way, he's polaxed in terms of the 49ers.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: And for him, you say, oh man, there's the guy.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Tie these stories together. Puka Nakua Hurd. And not that
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Brandon Iyok is dependable. When he's played, he's been somewhat productive.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: That would be a guy the Rams, if they get him,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: holy crap, and he's motivated and in shape and able
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: to play, that would be the perfect addition for the Rams.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I would think the 49ers would rather trade that man,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Brandon Iyok, to Timbuktu or Walla Walla Washington before they
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: send him to to the Rams. So they can go
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: out to Kalamazoo, Michigan and play there.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maler
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. How
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: about that? Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Or shizzle. All right, Kubalu, what do we got?
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: Ben, after this past weekend, the odds for Jordan Love
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: to win NFL MVP have dramatically improved.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Josh Allen and Joe Burrow are the co-favorites, then Brock Purdy,
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: then Love. Who do you like for MVP so far
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: this season?
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: All right, so no one is establishing as clearly the MVP.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: If you look at based on the offensive production, it's
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Joe Burrow. They should be the top two.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I think you said they are the top. Is that correct?
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: They are the top. They deserve to be the top two.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Those are the top two offensive teams in the NFL.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: This is going to come down to the stretch, Koopa Loop.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Gun to the head right now. I'm going to go
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: with Josh Allen.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Next.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Well, it's official.
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: We knew it was going to happen, but ESPN and
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: college football have struck a deal to expand the college
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: football playoff to 24 teams.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Do you think this is going to ruin college football? No,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: it's not going to ruin college football. It's just not
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: going to be that interesting. We're going to get a
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: lot of crappy matchups, mismatch, blowout games. Once in a
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: blue moon, one of these suck bag schools will win,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: but most of the time it's going to be games
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: that are not worth watching. They're non-competitive. That sucks. That's
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: not good.
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: Next!
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Next!
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: The Cavaliers made it to the Eastern Conference Finals last year,
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: but so far this year, they're kind of meh.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you think their window has already passed? I
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: don't think they ever had a window. I don't think
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: that was legitimate. No, I don't think it was legitimate
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: what they did, but it's way too early, Koopaloop. What
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: are we, 11 games into the NBA season?
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: How did we do?
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: You passed us. That is a win. Put it on
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: the board. Winner, winner, winner. Chicken dinner.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Woo.
• 40:41
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• 40:49
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• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Mallard's Mountain of Money.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Lord, that's a lot of money.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Here we go. Welcome in our contestants.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: We have from the Redneck Riviera, a man who has
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: dodged successfully incarceration. Jed, who fled. Hello, Jed. Welcome. I
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: always dodged his phone call.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: I was in there wiping my anus in the bathroom,
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: and now I'm ready. I'm done wiping my anus. I'm
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: ready to be the defecation for this game. I'm the spit.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with?
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: The other person who is also golden defecation, Justin Cooper.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: All right, then. We have Steve in Cincinnati. What's going on, Steve?
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Welcome.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: How you doing, Ben? Long time, first time. Long time,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: first time. Welcome, Steve. Did I meet you? You didn't
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: go to the event that we did there, did you?
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: You didn't show up to that, did you?
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: I wanted to get there, but I did not make it, Ben.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Bad job by you. All right, well, you're going to
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: play our game. Who would you like to partner up
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: with here? You got Lorena or me? You are the man.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: That's right. See that, Lorraine? One day I will be picked.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I can't wait for that day. All right. Let's play
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: the game here. Hold on a second. You're on the air.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: That's Steve in Cincinnati. We've got... Oh, no.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, no. Oh, no.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: Ben Maller said, the guy said first time, and then
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: you ask him if he ever met you.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: You're stupid.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Well, let's wait for Steve to call back.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: See, I thought I should have punched the line real quick.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Did you hang up on him, Ben? The phone malfunctioned, Lorraine. Anyway.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: So this is the Brittany Murphy edition of Maller's Mountain
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: of Money. She would have been 49 years old today.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Rest in peace. It's hard to tell. All right.
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: So the categories are eight mile, just married, happy feet
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: and tribute.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. Let's see if this guy's. Hold on.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Hold on. Call it. Hello. Call it. You're on the air.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Who is this caller? Steve.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Thank God.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: You're back. All right, Jed. So did you hear the categories?
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Which one would you like?
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: Spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, eight mile.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Eight mile, all right. Eight mile, and you were not online, Steve. Yeah, Steve,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: would you like Just Married, Happy Feet, or Tribute?
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: Steve wants the hardest category.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going with Happy Feet. Happy Feet, all right. Happy Feet,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: all right, Happy Feet.
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: All right, Jed, you and I are up first. Our
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: category is eight mile. These athletes all wear or prominently
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: wore number eight. 45 seconds on the clock.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Let's begin. He's the always hurt quarterback for the Ravens. No.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: He is the Super Bowl, the last Super Bowl winning
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the Cowboys. Yes. This guy was the Iron
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Man for the Baltimore Orioles.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: This guy is the dad of Peyton and Eli. Yes.
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: This guy was a left fielder for the Red Sox
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: for like 23 years.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: No.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Before that. I'll give you more of that.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Okay. Try Nixon.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: No, we'll skip it. Try Nixon. This guy is a
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: forward on the New York Knicks. He helped them win
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: the championship. He came from the Raptors.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: That was fast. Hey, Ben Mallard. Not that good. Not
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: that good. All right. Carl Yastrzemski was who we... All right,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: let's play.
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: Here we go.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Steve, we've made sure he's on hold not to interfere
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: with our game. You picked happy feet. These athletes have
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: all appeared on Dancing with the Stars. Are you ready, Steve,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: in the Cincinnati area? We'll get it. All right, here
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: we go. We need first and last name, and we're
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: on our way. 45 seconds and go. The NFL's all-time
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: leading rusher for the Dallas Cowboys. Emmitt Smith. Yes, the
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Skyhook in the NBA for the Lakers. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Yes.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Great sack master for the Broncos. He's played with Buffalo,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: the Rams. He's on the Cowboys this year. Big star.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Bob Miller.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Yes. The QB killer for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers back
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: in the day. Defensive lineman. Part of their Super Bowl
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: glory days. Big guy. All right. Boxer had his ear
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: bitten off by Mike Tyson. Evander Holifield. Yes. Forward was
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: friends with Kobe Bryant, played with the Lakers and the Celtics,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: was a TV guy, married to a famous actress.
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: 120. What was that? 120. All right, we're in the lead.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: 120.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: We got the lead.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: Jed, we are back up. Do you want Just Married
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: or Tribute?
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: If I was Ben Maller, I'd be just married to cheating,
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: so I'm going to go with tribute.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Why would you say cheating? I mean, I
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: put you on hold because you talk over us. These
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: athletes all have a button. That's why she put me
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: on hold, because you have control of the button. Okay,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: they all have a statue. They all have a statue. Okay.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: 45 seconds, let's begin. HIV point guard for the Lakers.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Magic Johnson. First black baseball player. Jackie Robinson. Yes.
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: The best running back ever for the Cleveland Browns.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Jim Brown. Yes. This guy was the best player on
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: the Pirates. He died in a plane crash.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: Roberto Clemente.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: The human highlight reel. Give me a team. The Atlanta Hawks.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Dominic Wilson. Yes.
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: This guy played for the Cardinals. He died overseas in
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: the Army.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Pat Tillman.
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: Yes. This guy was like a Hall of Famer for
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: the Washington Senators back in like the early 1900s.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: He's got a statue at National Park. Jim Thorne? No,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: that's Walter Johnson. You're at 240. All right, here we go.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Let's go, Steve.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Ben, Ben, really quickly. Ben, really quickly.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: All right, you got, here we go. You got just married.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: These athletes all recently got married. Are you ready, Steve?
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: All right. Here we go. 45 seconds on our way.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Go.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Starting quarterback for the Seahawks. He's hurt right now. He
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl last year. Sam Donald. Tight end
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: for the Chiefs. He's married to that famous singer.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Yes. Wide receiver for the Patriots. He's hurt right now.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Got him from the Eagles. A.J.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Brown. A.J.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Brown. New York Knicks starting center on their championship team.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Former Minnesota Timberwolves.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Carl Anthony Towns.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Good job. Point guard for the Indiana Pacers. He got hurt.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: They were in the finals a couple years ago. Tyrese Halliburton. Yes.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Pitcher for the Dodgers. He came over from Tampa Bay
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: in a trade. He was part of their rotation the
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: last couple years. He gets hurt a lot. Starting pitcher? Uh...
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: A journeyman wide receiver. He's got like three names. It
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: was Tyler Glass now. You didn't get in. Juju Smith-Schuster. Congratulations.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Good job, Jed. You got a golden ticket. I've got
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: a golden ticket. Keep him off the air because he
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: won't shut up, that guy.