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  Speaker 1: so our lead this hour, don't burn the lead my
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  Speaker 1: man art or not so the final game of the
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  Speaker 1: weekend in the NFL, it is all over, just a
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  Speaker 1: couple days off in the right back at it on Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: so it's just a brief pause in the NFL continues.
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  Speaker 1: But our lead this hour from Santa Clara, not San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: Santa Clara, that is where the forty nine ers play
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  Speaker 1: their home games, about forty five miles or so. As
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  Speaker 1: a crow flies south of San Francisco, wach only take
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  Speaker 1: you about three hours with traffic, so this was the
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  Speaker 1: site of the final game of the weekend. There came
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  Speaker 1: to an end. The curtain came down. You had Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Young and the Panthers skidding in to the Bay Area
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  Speaker 1: for a wrestling match with Brock Party. Oh my aching tow, Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's back. Brock Party and the forty nine prety missed
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of time with a messed up toe, but
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  Speaker 1: he's back. This game was billed as the Christian McCaffrey
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  Speaker 1: revenge Game. It's all about the revenge. Did you watch? No, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't miss anything. I'm not gonna sit here and
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  Speaker 1: light you. Oh you should have seen this game. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, No, I'm jealous. I mean I did get
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  Speaker 1: paid to watch it. In theory, plausibly got paid to
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  Speaker 1: watch it. But man alive. So Christian McCaffrey, he hits
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  Speaker 1: the billing. I think it was his greatest game. He
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  Speaker 1: had one hundred and forty two yards from scrimmage, touched
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  Speaker 1: the ball a ton, ended up with one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty two yards from scrimmage, scored a touchdown in his
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  Speaker 1: first matchup against the team that he played for that
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  Speaker 1: gave gave him away and give him away. They got
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  Speaker 1: draft picks. Scratch your tickets, but that was the deal.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of years back, McCaffrey went from Carolina to
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco after he got paid by the Panthers and
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  Speaker 1: then proceeded to get hurt on a regular basis, so
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  Speaker 1: his first game there three years ago. Niners haven't won
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  Speaker 1: any championships with Christian McCaffrey, and he's been very productive
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  Speaker 1: for them. The Niners get the ugly twenty to nine
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  Speaker 1: win the final over the Panthers. McCaffrey gets the Niners
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  Speaker 1: with his performance to eight and four on the season.
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  Speaker 1: They were able to overcome the systemic and competence of
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  Speaker 1: Brock Party, who threw not one, not two, but three
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  Speaker 1: interceptions earlier. Holy Ernesto in the Bay our guy there,
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  Speaker 1: Big forty nine er far not happy with Rock Party,
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  Speaker 1: but they are still in playoff position. The Niners with
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  Speaker 1: that eighth win heading into the stretch run of the
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  Speaker 1: regular season and down the stretch we go in the NFL. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the better story is in the losing locker room. Carolina
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  Speaker 1: had an opportunity, somehow, some way. Carolina had a shot
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  Speaker 1: to move into the penthouse of the Outhouse, which is
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  Speaker 1: the NFC South. If they had won this game. Ifs
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  Speaker 1: and butts were candy and nuts, it'd be Christmas every day.
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  Speaker 1: It's not so Bryce Young went out there and better
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  Speaker 1: store in the losing locker room. How did he do?
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Young failing yet again, yet again to get the
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  Speaker 1: job done. The former number one overall traffic had one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty nine yards, barely had that one touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: and not one but two interceptions. That is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off points. So let us discuss the question. How
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  Speaker 1: do you evaluate Bryce Young's performance for Carolina in a
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  Speaker 1: game that was certainly winnable. It's not like the Niners
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  Speaker 1: were that great. The game was right there for the
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  Speaker 1: taking in Carolina unable to take it. So my views
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  Speaker 1: on this, I've got Panda Express, Zoo Animal and Express
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  Speaker 1: pros and we will combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to put the biscuit in the basket,
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. Just put the biscuit
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  Speaker 1: in the basket. So hey, we'll start with this. The
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  Speaker 1: Carolina Pans watching them play, and I don't watch every game,
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  Speaker 1: and I flip around. They usually play in the early
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  Speaker 1: TV window on Sunday, But watching the Carolina Panthers play.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a Nantucket sleigh ride watching them play. They
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  Speaker 1: hooked the whale. They thought they hooked the whale, Bryce Young,
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  Speaker 1: and now they're getting dragged every week. Every week they're
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  Speaker 1: getting dragged. And this was another opportunity to prove the
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  Speaker 1: haters wrong and prove that you knew what you were doing. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he proved them right. He proved them right with this performance.
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  Speaker 1: It was an island game. Everyone was watching. Everyone was
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  Speaker 1: watching against a battle scarred, weather beaten defense. They did
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  Speaker 1: have Fred Warner and Nick Bosa in the stadium. They
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  Speaker 1: happened to be watching while eating nachos and popcorn in
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  Speaker 1: luxury boxes. They showed them on the TV. They were
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  Speaker 1: not playing. They were not playing in the game. And
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  Speaker 1: the Niners brock Perdy tried to and the game. The
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  Speaker 1: Carolina try to give him the game. Here's the game.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want the guy. Take the guy, take the guy.
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  Speaker 1: And what happened. Well, the quarterback there, Bryce Young's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, it's very polite, it's very pro out
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  Speaker 1: of you try to give us the game. You know what,
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  Speaker 1: we don't really want that big road win. No, we
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  Speaker 1: why would we want that to come on Bryce. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we're good, We're here's here's another punt. We're gonna punt
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  Speaker 1: the ball. Knock yourself out, enjoyed the ball. My god,
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  Speaker 1: what a debacle, What an absolute debacle watching Bryce Young
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  Speaker 1: try to play quarterback. And then, as many have pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: he's very robotic. You can tell he's been schooled. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know whether it was Nick Saban or the people
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  Speaker 1: that are riding his coat tails making their living off
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  Speaker 1: his performance and his you know, his posse of people
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  Speaker 1: that are around him. All these athletes have groups of
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  Speaker 1: people that are hangers on, and somebody gave him these
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  Speaker 1: sports cliche one oh one, right, Reiki, I saw his
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  Speaker 1: news con be. Very robotic is the word I keep
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  Speaker 1: going back to. Anyway, here's a little taste of Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Young talking about the trip back to North Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Playing right back's gonna suck. I don't even know if
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  Speaker 4: we have the twenty four hour luxury now when it's
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're all competitors. It sucks to have this
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  Speaker 4: outcome again. We don't have luxuries to think about big
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  Speaker 4: picture you think of that's that's not a good recipe
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  Speaker 4: for this league. Everyone demands our most intention so we'll
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  Speaker 4: fill the page and go next week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he reminds me of a zombie. He's saying
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  Speaker 1: things that you would determine or write. You don't feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's legit, Like you know what I'm saying. You
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  Speaker 1: ever talk to him his phony. I do a podcast
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  Speaker 1: on the weekends. I used to do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: interviews on the podcast, and then I realized almost all
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  Speaker 1: of them are terrible, So what am I doing? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: wasting my time? So I stopped doing them. But I
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of people on over the years on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. One of the ones that stand out is
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  Speaker 1: this guy named Tim Donahey. Now I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you know who Tim Donnie is or not. Tim Donahey
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  Speaker 1: is the guy that was fixing NBA games and got caught.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I'm sure he's not the only one
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  Speaker 1: as far as referees. He just happened to be the
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  Speaker 1: one that got busted years ago, and he wrote a
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  Speaker 1: book about it. There's been documentaries about Tim Donnie. So
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  Speaker 1: I had him on my podcast, very excited to get
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  Speaker 1: him on, like this is big Tim Donnie. This guy's
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  Speaker 1: big scandal on the big scandals of my life, and
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  Speaker 1: this guy was a central figure in it, involving like
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  Speaker 1: the mob, and so we had him on and asked
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  Speaker 1: him a bunch of questions and he just was lifeless.
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  Speaker 1: He answered the questions like a zombie. And that I
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  Speaker 1: watched Bryce Young interview and it's like, there's no real emotion.
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  Speaker 1: I just like, here's what I'm supposed to say. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna say it. I'm not gonna put any feeling, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't believe any of it. And that's that
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  Speaker 1: you talk about blowing an opportunity. I mean, this was it.
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  Speaker 1: And here's a refresher course, by the way, on Bryce Young.
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Young is not a super nova. He is not
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  Speaker 1: a super nova. He's the Panda Express. Sweet and sour
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  Speaker 1: chicken is what he is. He's a that's that's that's
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  Speaker 1: essentially what he is. Right, And you think you're getting
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  Speaker 1: something flavorful. You gown a Panda Express and I used
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  Speaker 1: to eat there all the time back and they go
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  Speaker 1: in there, Panta get that. You get that sweet and
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  Speaker 1: sour chicken, and then you find out that it was
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  Speaker 1: made two hours ago. It's lukewarm, it's soggy in five minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, holy crap. What happened? Consistently inconsistent. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so a week ago, somehow the Atlanta Falcons should be
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  Speaker 1: sent to the Canadian Football that we should trade the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. They allowed Bryce Young
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  Speaker 1: to throw for four hundred and forty eight yards in
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  Speaker 1: the previous game, this week one hundred and sixty nine yards. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we did expect this to happen, right, We expected him
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  Speaker 1: to have a worse performance. Of course, because he had
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  Speaker 1: a career game. You're gonna be worse. And this is
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  Speaker 1: more of the standard performance for the quarterback there, Bryce Young.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that is a sixty two decline from
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  Speaker 1: his previous performance. The two interceptions, now, brock Purty gift
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  Speaker 1: wrapped three possessions in a row ended with interceptions for
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers in the first half, three straight.
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  Speaker 1: That is literally, as we said, giving you the game.
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  Speaker 1: And what did Carolina do. They turned those three interceptions
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  Speaker 1: into three points one field goal. That's it, that's all three.
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  Speaker 1: That's criminal. In fact, this entire game was an FCC
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  Speaker 1: warning obscenity and decency and profanity watching this particular game.
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  Speaker 1: And hey, we were never really in on this guy,
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  Speaker 1: the little fella. We're definitely out on the quarterback, Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Young if you haven't figured out that part of the story.
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  Speaker 1: This and the Carolina Panthers, they swung big, They traded
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  Speaker 1: for the wrong guy. They gave up the family jewels
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  Speaker 1: to the Bears to get their hands on this other
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  Speaker 1: worldly quarterback, and they ended up getting a country bumpkin.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't want a country bumpkin. They got a country
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  Speaker 1: bumping that is regular mouthfeasance with him out there, quarterback
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  Speaker 1: that you get in Carolina. They need competence, and they've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of confusion, a lot of confusion with
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  Speaker 1: him out there. And you cannot have a quarterback, cannot
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  Speaker 1: have it who plays real suite one week and then
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  Speaker 1: sour the next two or three. And that's what happened.
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  Speaker 1: You need a driver. Gotta have a driver, right, You
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  Speaker 1: gotta have a driver, and you got a passenger. You
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  Speaker 1: got somebody to buy, ticking the back of the bus,
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  Speaker 1: high pick, low impact. That's pretty much it. And the
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  Speaker 1: Panthers now that they have to hit the flea market,
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  Speaker 1: they have to get either another reject from somebody else
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  Speaker 1: or draft somebody and start this whole thing over. This
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  Speaker 1: is not the guy, and you're not gonna pay him.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you pay him? He sucks, So there's no
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  Speaker 1: reason to pay him, and you're gonna have to move on,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Meanwhile, on the other side, the San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: side of things, So what is your appraisal, here's the question,
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  Speaker 1: what is your appraisal of the other quarterback, brock Perdy
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  Speaker 1: and his play for the Niners in this Monday night game.
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  Speaker 1: So I have an unpopular opinion, unpopular opinion, alert, unpopular opinion.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here's my unpopular opinion. We just slayed Bryce Young.
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  Speaker 1: How bad Bryce Young was? Brock Purdy was more humiliating.
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  Speaker 1: He actually was worse than Bryce Young. If that's possible
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  Speaker 1: that brock Purty could be worse than Bryce Young. He was.
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  Speaker 1: And here's why Bryce Young is still in the beta
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  Speaker 1: testing mode. He's in the beta testing mode. He's still
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  Speaker 1: running on the pre release software. They have not signed him,
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  Speaker 1: they have not given him the bag in Carolina, Brockhurdy,
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  Speaker 1: brock Purty, Hurdy, rock Purty, Freudian slip. Brock Purdy got
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  Speaker 1: the loot, he got the train heist from the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers. So he's not the trial version they've signed
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  Speaker 1: up for the full subscription model. The forty nine ers
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  Speaker 1: with Brock Purty, John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan, the smartest
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  Speaker 1: people in the room, did the full background check. They
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  Speaker 1: dated for a while, had a cute little romance. It
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  Speaker 1: was wonderful, puppy dog eyes, the whole thing, little netflix
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  Speaker 1: and chill. They were friends with benefits for a while,
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  Speaker 1: and they Niner said, let's put a ring on it.
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  Speaker 1: So they put a ring on it. And they gave
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  Speaker 1: him one hundred and eighty two million. They gave that
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  Speaker 1: guy one hundred eight too billion, one hundred eight too big.
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  Speaker 1: I can't play. They gave a guy who can't play
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  Speaker 1: all right, too billion. Even Terry in England, the big
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  Speaker 1: forty nine er fans crying right now, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: forty one million dollars per per year. It's gonna go off.
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  Speaker 1: That's where he is right now. Forty one million dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year for this guy. And what do they get
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  Speaker 1: if brock Perty was a zoo animal. If he was
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  Speaker 1: a zoo animal, what would rock pretty be. He would
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  Speaker 1: be a donkey, but he would be a swamp donkey,
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  Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. And man, did that
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  Speaker 1: look like a forty one million dollars a year quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. One hundred and sixty nine yards
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  Speaker 1: and three picks I jotted down. I was writing some
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  Speaker 1: notes on my notes thing on my phone while I
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  Speaker 1: was watching the game. And he should have had three
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  Speaker 1: more interceptions. The Panthers drop two, and I'll say two
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  Speaker 1: for sure. The third other one was iffy, but they
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  Speaker 1: could have six interceptions of the game. Panthers defensively, they're
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  Speaker 1: not that great. They're okay, they're not that great. And
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  Speaker 1: they turned him into a sock puppet brock Party and
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  Speaker 1: my god, he was like, he was daring Carolina, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: pick me off. I'm gonna just throw it. I'm gonna,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, I'm Stevie Meatballs, I'm gonna be blind
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  Speaker 1: and just chuck the ball up. We'll see what happens here.
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  Speaker 1: And so the ugly truth is, and people don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say it, brock Purty is just a system guy.
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  Speaker 1: If everything's great around him, he's fine. Well, everything's not
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  Speaker 1: great around him right now. He's clearly not fine. The Niners,
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  Speaker 1: they were thinking they were gonna get a Ferrari, They
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  Speaker 1: ended up getting a Kia. They paid for a Ferrari.
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  Speaker 1: They paid a Ferrari price, so they got a Kia.
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  Speaker 1: And he's just the middle of the pack guy, that's
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  Speaker 1: all he is. And now they're seemingly stuck with him.
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  Speaker 1: And I was thinking, convince another dumb team like the
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  Speaker 1: Jets of somebody to take brock Party off their hands.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck, all sales are final in terms of the contract.
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  Speaker 1: The Panthers defense, making Brock Purty look bedraggled, a big
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  Speaker 1: draggled Brock. That should be his nickname be draggled brock
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  Speaker 1: rattled and all of that, like he was searching for
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  Speaker 1: his Stuffy in the middle of the game. I need
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  Speaker 1: my support, Stuffy. Where's my Stuffy? Uh? Yeah? And this
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  Speaker 1: is who he is. That's that's the that's what we
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  Speaker 1: tried to warn. The Niners say, oh, you're just a
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  Speaker 1: ram fit. Well you do the Overnight show you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna listen to you. I tried to tell you, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I tried to help you out. Did you listen.
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Did the Niners listen?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: Well, good luck. I'm actually happy you didn't listen. And
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  Speaker 1: I laugh at you. I laugh at you because this
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  Speaker 1: ain't the guy this ain't the guy. You're not the guy, Poalp,
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  Speaker 1: You're not. It's the boondoggle by the Bay, the boondoggle
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  Speaker 1: by the Bay with Brock Party. That's what it is. Here.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen better turn on investment by sir scratch
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  Speaker 1: Off going out and buying seven thousand Scratcher tickets. You
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  Speaker 1: get more bang for your buck. Okay, we've seen that.
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  Speaker 1: Party's not overrated. He's not. He's not overrated. He's just
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  Speaker 1: poorly rated and overpaid is what he is. All right. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: last word, we go to the broadcast booth on a
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  Speaker 1: B Robert Salah, the defensive coordinator of the forty nine ers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't know Robert Sala was the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers defensive coordinator, you knew everything about him by the
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  Speaker 1: end of the broadcast. Okay, they featured him. He was
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  Speaker 1: the star of the broadcast. They showed him, they gave
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  Speaker 1: him more screen time. Robert Salah the former Jets coach
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: than Kyle Shanahan, the actual head coach of you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: the NFL team in Northern California. So the question, what
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: did you take away from the forty nine ers defensive
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: coordinator Robert Sala getting the spotlight on Monday Night football.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: So the ABC broadcast turned into the Robert Sala Showcase.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: It was like a job fare for Robert Sala. They
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: showed him over and over and over and over, and
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox refugees over there
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: at NBC. They were full slobber chops, saber slapper slabbert.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: They gave him the manny in the first half and
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the petty in the second half. Very nice. It sounded
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: like they were lobbying for this guy to get another
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: head coaching job. It felt like an Express Pros commercial
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: that we do every once in a while here on
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, not a football games. Oh look at Roberts.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: You knew that they had crossed the rubicon when Carolina
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: missed a field goal and they got a reaction shot
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: of Robert South. He's the he's not a special team's coach.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: He's the defensive coordinator. And they wanted a reaction shot
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: of the defensive coordinator when Carolina fed up a field goal. Hello,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: what are we doing, dummies? Dumb dumb? What are you doing,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: dum dumb? He's a divisive coordinator, all right, listen, we
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: get it sala. He was on TV more than brock
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Perty in this game, and he was fist pumping and
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: chest bumping and gyrating and all of that like he'd
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: taken three smelling salts or snorted something. I don't know what,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: but he was jumping up and down. And they've done
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: this before. They did this when he was with San
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Francisco before, the same thing. Right, the legend of Robert Salah,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: The legend of Robert Salah. Animated celebrations, awkward sideline interactions,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: miked up meme material. He's become over his coaching career.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: He's a sideline spectacle, is what he is. He's a
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: walking gift factory Robert Salad. When he's on there coaching
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the forty nine defensively, you'd think with that kind of
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: television time that he's got Sean McVeigh like credentials and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: just amazing. Then you read the fine print. Let me
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: see her. So he coached let me see fifty six
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: games with the Jets and had a three point fifty
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: eight winning percentage. I don't think that's good. Never made
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, not once. Was an abject failure as head
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: coach of the Jets. So there is that now. Regardless,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the broadcast on ABC treated him like he was the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: next hot thing in coaching, like the next big thing,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and Buck and Aikman right there on the broadcast they
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: were greasing the skids for a second act. Give this
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: man or another opportunity and NFL teams, you got to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: take a look at this guy. That was the vibe.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: That was the vibe they were given out. And it's
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: like Kyle Shannan, the actual coach, looked like an extra
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: in the movie. It was so absurd. Am I the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: only one that noticed this? But maybe I'm the only
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: one that notices. I just it was one of those things.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: The game was sucked, and I was like, I'm watching
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the game, like, buy this really stinks, man. And then
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: they kept showing Salad. Why they're showing him he sucked
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: as a head coach. What are they doing? And the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: tipping point and I was gonna bring this up later,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: but the tipping point was when they missed that Carolin
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: missed the field goal which went him close. And then
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: they cut to a reaction shot from Robert Sala. This
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: is so perfect. He's even a special teams coach. They
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: cut to a reaction shot. It's great. He sells the emotion,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: he sells it. He must be a great guy in
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: those production meetings, very photogenic on TV, and there is
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: clearly a shortage of good coaches, So who the hell knows?
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Would it shocked me if Robert Sala got another opportunity somewhere,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: because it's well, he just needs a second chance. You
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: gotta have a second chance.
• 21:37
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• 21:40
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• 21:43
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• 21:48
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• 21:51
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• 21:55
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• 21:58
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• 22:02
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• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Or wherever you get your podcasts. So I had a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: dud of a Monday night game, so We're not going
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to revisit that the Niners win a clunker over the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. But I'll lead this hour from the Bronx.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? Why would you do this? It's
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a good story, that's why. So the Yankees are owned
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: by the spawn of the Boss, George Steinbrener, long gone
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: from this mortal coil. So he gave the team to
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the kids. And the Yankees are being run on the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: day to day by hal Steinbrenner, who shocked a lot
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: of people recently. When we need an interview behind a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: paywall at the Athletic and hal Steinbrenner expressed, quote can
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: about the Dodgers winning back to back championships. So did
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: you see this? No, no, you did not, Okay, he said,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of course, it's a concern, hal Steinbrenner moaned behind a
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: paywall at the Athletic. He went into detail on the
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Dodgers playing to their potential, that's the way he phrased it,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: to their potential when they needed to. He also made
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: an erroneous statement that the Dodgers got healthy at the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: right time, which is incorrect. They were not healthy in
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the World Series and they still won anyway, he said,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: of course, it's always a concern. Here's the money quote,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: It's always a concern. How Steinbrenner said, when you feel
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: that one team is pulling away from the other twenty
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: nine or selfishly pulling away from me close quote mean
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: being the Yankees. So that is a good jumping off point.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Yankees owner House Brenner has
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: quote concern over the Dodgers payroll and the fact that
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: they've won now back to back World Series. How does
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: that one hit you? How does that one hit you?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: So I've got Goose, Red Bull, and iron Man, and
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: are going to hit the bullseye right there, bang bang,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: right in the bullseye. So number on. My first thought
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: is boo freaking who You've gotta be kidding me, right,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I thought? When I saw these quotes, I initially thought, Okay,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: this has got to be like Sports Talk Berry the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Onion butt Crack Sports, one of the parody sites, one
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of the gag sites that Goose sends fake stuff up.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: So I read it again, and then I read it again,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and then another time I went back and late I said,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: let me do that one more time, just about I
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: don't want to get punked here. Yeah, this hits you,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: It's real. It hits you like a fifty pound cartoon
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: anville of Hutzba. It just boom right at the top
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: of your head of hutsba. His old man, George, George
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: George George George George George Steinbrenner. He'd said, well, ifs
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and butts were candy nuts and all that, but if
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Steinbrenner was still around, it is more probable than not
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that George Steinbrenner would have gone to the Winter Meetings
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: this year, which haven't happened yet. He would go into
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the Winter Meetings. He would kick down the door and
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: then enter like the kool Aid man and going there
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and he'd sign not one, not two, but three, three
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: All Stars out of pure spite because the Dodgers have
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: won back to back World Series. He'd signed a starting pitcher,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: he's signed a closer, and he'd sign high Swarber. Yeah, yeah,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: he'd do it. He'd do it. The kids not so much,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: not so much. Why it's old family money. They inherited
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the cash machine. All right, this is the golden goose.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: You don't want to give away any of the golden
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: eggs any more than you have to when you have
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: a golden goose. So they talk about fiscal responsibility, the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: New York Yankees talking about fiscal responsibility. Does it get
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: any zanier than that? Come on, now, we're not at
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the dentist office here, We're not doing some dental hygiene.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: It's the damn New York Yankees. And you're going down
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: that avenue. You should never go down that avenue. Cry
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: me the Hudson River howl, all right, or even the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: East River. The Dodgers spend and spend and spend. Some
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: of the Yankees they should spend the same amount. The
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Yankees have a choke hold on the Japanese market. They've
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: got Tokyo covered in Dodger blue. It's a haze of
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Dodger blue and all that stuff. However, what a concept
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the Yankees. The Dodgers are what the Yankees used to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: be when the old man owned the team. That's the
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: same thing is Dodgers. That the Yankees never had Japan
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: even though they had some Japanese players, they never owned
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Tokyo the way the Dodgers own it. So you're in
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a fork in the road the way I look at it,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: if you're the Yankees here to fork in the road,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: you can you can either stop whining and figure it
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: out how to beat the Dodgers, or you can do
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: what losers do and complain and boo hoooo its not fair. Yeah,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: just like that, Like the Mets, They've entered the chet.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: The Mets were the only team in the top seven
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: in payroll that didn't make the playoffs. And to that,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I say good, I say good, you spend big, you
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: should be rewarded with the playoff spot. Why would we celebrate?
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: And this is the thing that blows me away. And
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I've known this job a long time, and I've taken
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of calls from people that love cheap bosses.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I can't stand cheap bosses. They drive me nuts. Okay,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I can't stand them. I want to work for someone
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that spoils their employees. I want to work for someone
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: that takes care of their employees. That would be teams
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: like the Dodgers and the Mets, and teams like the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Phillies that spend a lot of money. That's why I
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: want to reform you people. You want to work for
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the tightwad owner that's who you want to work for.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: So I don't get it. I don't understand why you
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: would want to work for that person. But you celebrate cheapness,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: You romanticize the minor league system, they prospect, you go
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: on and on and on. So why should we celebrate?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: And some makes mine. I'll listen. You explain to me
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: why we should celebrate the penny pinching tightwad owners in
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: sports like this is not a coupon clipping contest. It
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: should not be a coupon clipping contest. It should not
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: be that. And as the ratings have shown here in
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the World Series that the Dodgers being the bad guys,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: gotta have a fall guy. I gotta have a bad guy.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers are the bad guys, and that's good. Bad
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: is good. The Dodgers are the bad guys in every
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: league needs a villain, and right now that's the Dodgers,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and they lean to it into it. Dave Roberts after
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: winning the series against the Milwaukee Brewers, when he got
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: up to the dais and said, let's ruin baseball. He's
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: leaning into the heel character for the Dodgers, and they
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: got Shohil Tani and Yoshinobu youam a Moto and Moki
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Pets and Freddie Freeman, all these guys. They're the nWo
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: of MLB is what they are, the Dodgers at this point.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: And you don't beat them by moaning behind a paywall
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: on the athletic website. There beat them by matching the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: energy you have, the money, you can flex around, the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: money and all that stuff. And Hol's out here wringing
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: his hands and complaining like he's worried about the price
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: of gasoline and the amount you're paying for eggs, eggs
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and milk. He's very concerned about all that. So be
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: more like your dad. Be more like your father and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: less like the guy you've been. And the payroll isn't
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the problem. The payroll is not the problem here. It
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: is not. The mindset is. And hal did take a shot.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: There was a subtle shot at Brian Cashman and the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: players that he's brought in when hal Steinbrenner said they've
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: played to their potential when they needed to, which is
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: a sign of Hey, the Yankees haven't played to their
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: potential when they needed to. So it's a little subtle shot,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: a little nuance, a lot of you don't even get it,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: but that's what he said. That's what he said, So
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I thought that was that was interesting. It's capitalism in cleats,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: is what it is, and I'm fine with it. The
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Dodgers are predators. The Yankees are They kind of sound
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: like pray is what they sound like? All right now,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Page two two Queens. We go stand in the New
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: York metropolitan area and we go across the way. There
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: was a big trade that happened over the weekend. Nobody
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: paid attention to it because of the NFL, but we
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: mentioned it briefly in passing in a previous episode of
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the show. Well, the Mets made a decision to trade
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: a fan favorite, Brandon Nimmo is bye bye. They traded
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: his ass for Marcus Simeon over the weekend. The Rangers
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the team getting Brandon Nemo and the New York Mexic
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Hall a choir Marcus Simeon in the trade. So that
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: was the deal. David Sterns, the general manager of the
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: New York Metropolitans, addressed all this. He said that last
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: year talking about the Mets last year, he said last
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: year wasn't good enough and running it back with the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: exact same group, wasn't the right thing to do? He
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: then put it out at Marcus Simeon balances our lineup
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: from the right side, which is something we were seeking
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: to do. Close quote a right. Let's jump off on
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: that point question for the esteem panel. Do you expect
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Marcus Simeon to make a big difference, a little difference
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: or no difference in compared to Brandon Neimo for the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five vintage of the New York Mets. So
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the arrow on this one, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the arrow on this trade it is pointing towards a
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: little difference, just a little tick, little tick, that's all.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: That's all, not much, not much at at best, and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: we know best means as good as all the rest.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: You're not getting the twenty twenty Marcus Simeon. You're not
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: getting that guy. He's not that guy. Pal, He's thirty
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: five years old now, been around the block. It's been
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: around the block more than the mailman, our buddy in
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Nebraska now delivering the mail, listening to the podcast, and
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: not just that on like a double shift, like a
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: mailman on a double shift, doing that kind of thing.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Three straight seasons. If you look at the law of
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: diminishing returns, three straight years, home runs, down doubles, down runs,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: batted in down down, down, down, down, down, down, downtown,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: down down down. Now he's headed to the back nine
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of his career and he's now a New York Met. Congratulations,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of mild. He's a journeyman, productive player. Still
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: a journeyman player. Productive. Yeah, it's been productive. And it's
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: like that. He's a jumper cable, Marcus said, men a
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: jumper cable that barely sparks, barely sparks. And we categorize
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: this transaction as a red bull trade. Say it's a
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: red bull trade. It's not about baseball. It's about caffeine.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: It's about caffeine. Here, it's corporate adderall for the New
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: York Mets that they had to do something to shake
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: it up. This is a wake up call. So wake
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: up call to the well paid New York Mets clubhouse.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Guys got comfy. That's the argument the Mets front office
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: is making that they underachieved. And when you underachieve, and
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: you're very happy with underachieving, you go out there and
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you make a move that screams and this move screams
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: nobody is safe with the Mets other than Juan Soto
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: who's got the forever contract, but everyone else so right,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Brandon Nimmo was the sacrifice and he was the lamb.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: He was the lamb, That's what he was. And so
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: they sent him out the pasture. Now think he's from Wyoming,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: so I guess he's cool with going to the Rangers
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and all that. And clubhouse accountability is now a thing
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: for the New York Mets. And this is the message.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: You trade more than just it's just more than a
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: baseball trade. It's like it just is. That is a
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: move that said, well, on theory, they wanted just a
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: right handed bat. Okay, they want to balance the lineup.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. It's not about balancing the lineup.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: You're really naive if you think it's about balancing the lineup.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: This is about balancing the ego and keeping all of
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: that stuff in check. This isn't a remodel. It's not
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: a remodel. It's a rearranging the furniture before company comes over.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: You know, like you have your relatives, especially this week
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: right with Thanksgiving, people visiting family and you come into
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: town and like, oh, your house is really neat. Well
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: that's because they just spent an hour and a half
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: cleaning the house before you showed up. Or if you
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: have people coming in from your in laws or your family,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: you come, they come over, they clean up. You're let's
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: let's clean this thing up. Man, Come on, we got
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: to clean it up. Is what we got to do.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: And that's how it works. So will Simeon help the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Mets a little? I mean he's going to help the
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Mets a little bit, but it's more about the noise.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: You're trying to You're trying to change the noise in
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the substance. Wake up call. Not a cure. Not a cure,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: certainly for the Mets. All right, now, final point. We
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: go to New Orleans. We go to New Orleans. Well,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore, that's a head coach. I bet you didn't
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: know Kellen Moore a head coach, right, probably didn't. Well,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Keller Moore the head coach of the football team in
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: New Orleans. Obviously not a good Let me just do
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: this real quick. This we have a computer that resets,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: it goes to sleep mode. The companies decided that we
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: need to do this, so I have to hit this
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  Speaker 1: button or else it's going to cause a big so
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore, that's the back to the point. Kellen Moore,
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  Speaker 1: the coach of the Saints, defending the team's decision to
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  Speaker 1: have the tarnished creepy kicker Justin Tucker in for a tryout. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: that Justin Tucky, thirty six years old. Big fan of
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  Speaker 1: the the Robin Tug massage, A big fan of that.
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  Speaker 1: Who isn't But he got accused of a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: massage therapists accused him of being a touchy feely and
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  Speaker 1: all that got sued, No krim charges, nothing criminal. Eight
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  Speaker 1: different Baltimore area massage parlors. They got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: massage parlors in Baltimore, and this happened. Last incident happened
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  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, so it's been about a decade, about
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  Speaker 1: a decade since all this went down. Anyway, he was suspended.
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  Speaker 1: NFL investigated and they suspended him after a probe for
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  Speaker 1: ten games. Justin Tucker and he was released by the
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  Speaker 1: Ravens back in May after thirteen seasons in Baltimore answering
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  Speaker 1: questions from sports with Coleman, and they claimed it was
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  Speaker 1: a football decision at the time. So the question why
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  Speaker 1: on earth would the nor Lands Saints be taking a
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  Speaker 1: look at Justin Tucker at this point would make it
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  Speaker 1: make sense. He's thirty six years old. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of baggage there, so why even bother going down this
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  Speaker 1: lane if you're the well, the Saints have officially if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't know this by now, they have officially hit
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  Speaker 1: the rock bottom buffet, the rock bottom off. They serve dirt,
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  Speaker 1: they serve little pebbles and it's really delicious, just absolutely. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They're six feet under the Saints franchise, all of New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans is under, but this season they're on hospice care.
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations on that. And this is the team as
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  Speaker 1: the lights go out on the season. Yet again, they're
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  Speaker 1: turning over every stone at that rock Bottom Buffet, every stone,
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  Speaker 1: even the slimy ones. They're doing all of that and
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  Speaker 1: it's not about the moral compass. I always loving people.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's about the morality. No, it's not. They sell
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  Speaker 1: you a lot of slogans. The NFL is very good
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  Speaker 1: at slogans, and they're very good about giving the illusion
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  Speaker 1: that they care about certain things. But I've learned over
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  Speaker 1: the years that they don't. They talk the talk, they
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  Speaker 1: don't walk the walk. The NFL. It's like, let's just
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  Speaker 1: give out some pins. We'll do. We'll just put messages
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  Speaker 1: here and there, and dumb people like messages, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: just go with the messages and that's that, and that
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  Speaker 1: will appease the dumb people. But they're really the Saints
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  Speaker 1: are back to be in the eights in more ways
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  Speaker 1: than one. Right, they're desperate, they're rummaging through the NFL's
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  Speaker 1: bargain bind at this point. Welcome to the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: And the greatest quote of all time about this topic
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  Speaker 1: of conversation from a brief Fox Sports Radio employee. They
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  Speaker 1: hired him for the NFL draft a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: He's more known as the Cardinals general manager Steve Kim,
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  Speaker 1: who famously said if Hannibal Lecter could run a four
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  Speaker 1: to four, the NFL would call it an eating disorder
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  Speaker 1: is what they would call it. For Hannibal Lecter, there's
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  Speaker 1: that so and it really sums up the entire NFL
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  Speaker 1: in one quote. Like it or not. Football. The game
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  Speaker 1: of football is a bottom line business. And the Saints
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  Speaker 1: need a bottom the bottom lines. They need a field
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  Speaker 1: goal kicker. And they figured, no one's watching our games anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we'll bring this guy in and if he's kickers, can
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  Speaker 1: kick till their mid forties, can play another ten years.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Tucker in a dome in New Orleans, although he
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  Speaker 1: was slipping last year. So it's really simple. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that hard. If guy makes the kick teams hold their nose.
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  Speaker 1: They signed the paperwork and all that. And there's some
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  Speaker 1: really good massage parlors in New Orleans, I've heard. I've
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  Speaker 1: not been to any of them, but I've heard they're
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  Speaker 1: really good. There's a lot of debauchery in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, yeah, that really good time there for
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  Speaker 1: Justin Tucker. Yeah, hell, that man a lot. So it
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  Speaker 1: is performance over principles and all that stuff. This cover
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  Speaker 1: your nose, signed, the DOCU sign and that's it. And
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: for the NFL, they always go in the answer, do
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  Speaker 1: the same thing they use the Iron Man playbook is
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  Speaker 1: what they do deflect and absorb. And here's what they're
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: gonna say. They signed Tucker. They haven't signedim yet, but
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  Speaker 1: if the Saints signed Justin Tucker, it's going to be Listen,
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  Speaker 1: we did our due diligence, we believe in second chances.
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  Speaker 1: We're focused on football, and they'll do what about is him?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: What about Deshaun Watson? What he did was worse than
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Justin Tucker. And Deshaun Watson's one of the highest paid
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  Speaker 1: players in the NFL, has got guaranteed Money's on the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. You know he's worse. So that's what about is?
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: What about him? What about this guy? So the Saints
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: aren't really interviewing Justin Tucker, They're interviewing their own desperation,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: and they figure they can get away with it because again,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: who's watching the Saints. The Saints go marching into irrelevancy
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: and they got no quarterback, they got no star players. There.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: It's a faceless franchise, it really is.
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  Speaker 6: Ravens have won five games in a row and somehow
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  Speaker 6: find themselves was back in first place in the AFC
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  Speaker 6: North with a two time MVP at the helm. Are
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  Speaker 6: the Ravens a team we have to look out for?
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: They're not going to the super Bowl, They're definitely gonna
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: be a playoff team, I would say at this point.
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  Speaker 1: But Lamar's actually not even played all that well. I
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: would say the Ravens are a team that'll be a
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  Speaker 1: playoff team, But Lamar sucks in the playoffs. He's dinged
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  Speaker 1: up seemingly every week. So big picture. No next.
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  Speaker 6: Former Browns player Lee Bonden, whoever that is, spoke with
• 42:30
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• 42:32
  Speaker 6: perfect time for the cleaf for the Cleveland Browns to
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  Speaker 6: move on from Kevin Stefanski.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that they should replace him with Dion Sanders.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts, Ben? Has this guy seen Colorado
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  Speaker 1: play football this year?
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• 42:43
  Speaker 1: What are we doing here? Colorado's terrible? So I don't
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  Speaker 6: Next seems every day we get a new report that
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  Speaker 6: you have to take a guess on where he ends up,
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  Speaker 6: where would that be?
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  Speaker 1: How many stays in Texas and goes to the Spurs
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  Speaker 1: You got me? Or cool? Let me get you? All right, Dave,
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  Speaker 1: to far out Dave. Hello, far out Dave? Hey, hey Ben,
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  Speaker 1: All right? And far Out Dave?
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  Speaker 6: That leaves you with we Can't Stop the or the
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  Speaker 6: best of both worlds?
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  Speaker 1: All right? All right, very good. We'll put forty five
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  Speaker 1: last name. Dave Socow Dave? Are you ready? Sokow? David Nzino?
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  Speaker 1: All right? These athletes have all had a reputation as
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  Speaker 1: locker room cancers. We'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
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  Speaker 1: We're on our way go. He is a star receiver
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  Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's currently facing charges in Miami
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver.
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  Speaker 3: Over.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that is correct. The how about this agent zero
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: for the Washington Wizards, NBA player, also in trouble with
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: the law right now? Former NBA player? All right, he
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: was a third baseman, five hundred home run guy or
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: close to it. Was traded for Mike Piazza from the
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  Speaker 1: Marlins to the Dodgers back in the nineties. Played with
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: the Yankees and the Mets and the Brewers, and was
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: a journeyman, hit a lot of home runs. No, how
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  Speaker 1: about this legends he slept with Lebron's mom. Internet legend
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  Speaker 1: says this guy slept. You didn't get that one? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course, all right, ten points, good job, tremendous job.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't get Gary Stratfield Delante West Gilbert reads, yes, all.
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  Speaker 6: Right, far out, Dave, we have We can't stop that.
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  Speaker 6: These athletes are part of some of the biggest winning
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  Speaker 6: streaks in their sports.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready? Far out Dave?
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  Speaker 6: Get there, sorry right now. No, the other Dave Dave
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  Speaker 6: from Ohio not not soak out, Dave. You're not playing
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  Speaker 6: right now, not right now? All right, Dave. Forty five
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  Speaker 6: seconds on the clock, begin all right. The best quarterback
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  Speaker 6: of all time in the NFL. No, no, no, for
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: the Patriots, Tom Brady. Yes, this guy is the enforcer
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  Speaker 6: on the Warriors. He likes to kick people in the nuts.
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  Speaker 4: Green.
• 47:05
  Speaker 6: Yes, this guy scored one hundred points in an NBA game.
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  Speaker 1: Well Chamberlin, yep.
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: This guy was the wide receiver on the Colts for
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: Peyton Manning after Marvin Harrison. Ahead, Okay, this guy was
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: on the Cleveland Indians. He's now on the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: He was shortstop.
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Francis Francisco Lindor. Yes, this guy was the center
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  Speaker 6: on the Indian Appris All right, day, we're up at
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: socowed David and Cino. You've got the climb, the or
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: the best of best. Both worlds were a climb.
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  Speaker 1: Which one you want? Okay, why not? Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Forty five seconds on the clock. We need first and
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  Speaker 1: last name. These athletes are in both college and pro
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  Speaker 1: football Hall of Forty five seconds. Here we go. Greatest
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: tackle in Rams history from Ohio State, played for the
• 48:05
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• 48:10
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• 48:15
  Speaker 1: wide receiver for the wide receiver for the Chargers nicknamed
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Bambi in the nineteen sixties and seventies, Bambi, Bambi wide receiver.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Do you like sports? You enjoy sports? I like you
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: like Bambi? We should? Should we ask Bamby questions a
• 48:36
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: A primetime Colorado coach from prime primetime God twenty points? Yeah, Orlando,
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