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  Speaker 3: We go to Dallas. Why are you not starting with
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  Speaker 3: the Colts.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get to them later. Got four hours of talk
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  Speaker 1: radio to do. I gotta pace myself. It's like a marathon.
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  Speaker 1: It's a talk marathon, is what it is. So the
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  Speaker 1: gift that keeps giving status update, status update, and we
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  Speaker 1: go where the news of the day takes us. And
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  Speaker 1: right now that is deep in the heart of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And have you heard the latest on the Micah Parsons
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  Speaker 1: contract situation.
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  Speaker 3: With the Dallas Cowboys? Well no, I haven't. Okay, good,
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  Speaker 3: maybe you missed it.
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  Speaker 1: So we got you. So we are now here that
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  Speaker 1: there is zero indication bumpkis squad Douche that a deal
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen. Oh my god, Now, Adam Schefter,
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  Speaker 1: he passes on that at some point in time, whether that's.
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  Speaker 3: Now and now or.
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  Speaker 1: After the season or after another season, can Michael Parsons
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  Speaker 1: can He's under contract for this year and then there's
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  Speaker 1: a franchise tag the Cowboys can do, he says. Schefter
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  Speaker 1: tells us the two sides are headed towards a.
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  Speaker 3: Divorce. Interesting, so let us discuss the question for the
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  Speaker 3: esteem panel, which you are part of. Where are you at?
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  Speaker 1: Where are you at on this latest report that Micah
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  Speaker 1: Parsons is heading towards the divorce court from the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys and mister Jones keeping up with the Joneses. So
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts on this. I've got public broadcasting, etch a
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  Speaker 1: sketch and space heater, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and make a spicy stew is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to make. So a Michael Parsons, let me
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  Speaker 1: get up here on the top of the bully pulpit. Here,
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  Speaker 1: hold on a second step up here, bully pulpit. Michael
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  Speaker 1: Parsons is not going anywhere. He's not being traded. He's
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  Speaker 1: obviously not being released. Michael Parsons is not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry's not letting him walk away. He's not trading him
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of draft picks. He's not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry is playing cool hand Luke, and yeah he is.
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  Speaker 1: As he said a couple of weeks ago, don't lose
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  Speaker 1: any sleep over this. We never lose any sleep because
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  Speaker 1: we sleep during the day, so we work overnight. We
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  Speaker 1: don't lose any sleep over.
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  Speaker 4: Any of this.
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  Speaker 1: The translation is, Hey, I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's the messaging from Jerry Jones, classic dad energy.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I am not angry at you, but I am disappointed,
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  Speaker 3: and you never want to disappoint your parents.
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  Speaker 1: So the Cowboys have not picked up the phone allegedly
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  Speaker 1: since oh man, oh darn.
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  Speaker 3: That's not a cold shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: By by the way, If you don't pick up the
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  Speaker 1: phone or negotiates since April, that is full blown radio silence.
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  Speaker 1: That is what the death of radio dead, air dead
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  Speaker 1: air passive aggress Now there are passive aggressive leaks from
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  Speaker 1: both sides. Jerry Jones essentially going what I call Public
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting PBS and doing his mister Rogers impersonation. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: doing the whole mister Rogers, can you imagine user imagination?
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  Speaker 1: Radio is theater of the imagination. So today, children, matcham
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones wearn't a sweater and he walks out and
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  Speaker 1: he's got the he's got the closet right there, and
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  Speaker 1: he opens the closet, rabs a sweater and he says, today, children,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to learn about leverage. When someone wants forty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars a year, you smile, you nod, and quietly
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  Speaker 1: you activate the franchise tag while playing Won't You Be
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  Speaker 1: My Neighbor?
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  Speaker 3: On the jukebox? That's how you do it.
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  Speaker 1: And then Jerry walks away, and Jerry's got the franchise
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  Speaker 1: tag in his back pocket.
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  Speaker 3: So do need to do this? And things can change
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  Speaker 3: rapidly and all that stuff and won't.
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  Speaker 1: You be my neighbor? Won't you be my neighbor? So
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  Speaker 1: it's a real SOB story there, And I still maintain
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  Speaker 1: the malor position has not changed. That we will get
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  Speaker 1: a report from Jay Glazer the Sunday before kickoff that
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  Speaker 1: things changed dramatically in the last forty eight hours, the
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  Speaker 1: final forty eight, not the first forty eight, the final
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  Speaker 1: forty eight before the kickoff of the regular season. All
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden tut up deal got done, all right. Now,
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  Speaker 1: moving on, we head to Pittsburg, PA, the land of
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  Speaker 1: the Inser, where Steeler's defensive star Cam Hayward.
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  Speaker 3: He's back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he returned to a practice. I'm very concerned about that.
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  Speaker 1: There's a whole in situation that took place. He still
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  Speaker 1: does not have a new contract. I know he's very
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  Speaker 1: concerned about his finances. I know, I am. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about it here. So Cam Hayward does not have a
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  Speaker 1: new contract with the Steelers, but he did return after
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  Speaker 1: the hold in there. I began that on August seventh,
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  Speaker 1: he I guess ended for now on August nineteenth as
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  Speaker 1: he returned to practice. Now we are told from sources
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  Speaker 1: not close to the situation that Cam Hayward his participation
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  Speaker 1: does not signal any kind of step towards.
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  Speaker 3: A new de leoh. Nor is he.
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  Speaker 1: Accepting the reality that he must play for his current
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  Speaker 1: salary and hold a bake sale prior to the game.
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  Speaker 1: So the question on this one is rather simple. Cam
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  Speaker 1: Hayward says, he told the Steelers to expect him.
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  Speaker 3: This goes back a couple months.
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  Speaker 1: He told the Steelers to expect him back at the
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  Speaker 1: table if he made all pro status. Right, you've had
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  Speaker 1: big year last year, said you expect me back at
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  Speaker 1: the table. So the question continues to be in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: should the front office honor, for lack of a better term,
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  Speaker 1: the handshake clause for Cam Heyward, it's like, Hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: men as men. Listen, we're gonna I'm gonna go out
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  Speaker 1: there and I am gonna break balls. And when I
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  Speaker 1: break balls, you're gonna break a bunch.
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  Speaker 3: Of money, and you're gonna give it to me.
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  Speaker 1: And that's so I'm nodding my head yes on this one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head yes on this one. Now I
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  Speaker 1: realize that these Steelers are a buttoned up operation. I
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  Speaker 1: am aware that they are a buttoned up operation. So
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  Speaker 1: I get that part of it. But this is always
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  Speaker 1: a case by case basis, player by player by player.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not a one size fits all situation. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not a one size fits all.
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  Speaker 3: So Hayward, he.
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  Speaker 1: Just played this game not that long ago, as I
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  Speaker 1: remember doing the talk show where now he's back. It's
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  Speaker 1: you know what it's like. It's like he complained not
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  Speaker 1: that long ago about his contract. The Steelers gave him
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  Speaker 1: a little more money, and so now he's like the
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  Speaker 1: guy that bought the house and and he bought a
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  Speaker 1: house in a hot market, and now he wants to
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  Speaker 1: refinance because he went on Zillow and he's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's so worth more now, so I'm gonna I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: refinance and all this. But these NFL contracts in general,
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  Speaker 1: the longer you pay attention to this and the older
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  Speaker 1: you get, you realize how foo gazy these NFL contracts are.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like they're written on an etch of sketch.
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  Speaker 1: And the Steelers just shook the etch a sketch and
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  Speaker 1: they said, well, I don't want to shake it again.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, well, well no, Cam Hayber's I think
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  Speaker 1: you should shake it again. He's trying to redraw the
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  Speaker 1: lines on the etch of sketch, and you know, the
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  Speaker 1: market's already moved. It's it's great. I would love for
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  Speaker 1: the radio business to be like that. I think every business.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine whatever, I don't know what you're doing,
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  Speaker 1: but wouldn't that be great, whatever job you have.
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  Speaker 3: If things move like the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Playing in the NFL in the last ten years, it
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  Speaker 1: is akin to buying bitcoin, which is a source subject
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  Speaker 1: for me back in the day. It's very volatile, very volatile.
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  Speaker 1: It's irrational. You don't last that long. But it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: ever seem to go down. It's always trending up. And
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  Speaker 1: came Heyward in his career's thirty six, which last I
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  Speaker 1: checked is not old. But you know how it works
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL at thirty six, Oh my god, you're
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  Speaker 1: thirty six. He's on bonus time, bonus time, and so
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  Speaker 1: he knows it, and so he's trying to cash in
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  Speaker 1: before the wheels on the bus stop going round and round,
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  Speaker 1: the wheels on the bus come following off. He's trying
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  Speaker 1: to stop that, and I don't blame him. And Steel
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  Speaker 1: has got money to burn, you know. It's like if
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  Speaker 1: they don't spend the money, they'll just pocket the money.
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  Speaker 1: And that's fine. An NFL pays all all their bills
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  Speaker 1: based on television, and they have a surplus. They have
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  Speaker 1: an absolute fin surplus of money these NFL teams based
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  Speaker 1: on just television. And then there's all the other revenue
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  Speaker 1: that they have. All right, So last word we go
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  Speaker 1: to Washington debate. Topic tossed out sports radio debate. Topic
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  Speaker 1: tossed out by a future Hall of Famer and a
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  Speaker 1: champion with the l A. Rams von Miller Von Miller
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  Speaker 1: edge rusher von Miller. He explained this week. Von Miller
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  Speaker 1: explained why he does not.
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  Speaker 3: View Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 1: He does not view Tom Brady as the NFL's greatest
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  Speaker 1: quarterback of all time. Instead, who do you think he
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  Speaker 1: picked as the greatest quarterback of all time? Who do
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  Speaker 1: you think von Miller picked as the greatest quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Of all time?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think he a picked Joe Montana, you know
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes.
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  Speaker 3: No, how about options number three?
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. That's right, the same Peyton Manning who was
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  Speaker 1: his teammate in Denver ding ding ding ding Ding. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Von Miller said, for me, it's always going to be
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. He changed the quarterback position in terms of
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  Speaker 1: changing the play. He wasn't scrambling or doing none of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. He said, he did it all with his arm.
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  Speaker 1: Von Miller said, as he was smooching all over the
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  Speaker 1: legacy of Peyton Manning. He said it was beautiful man
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  Speaker 1: clothes quote. Okay, so that's von Mill now with the
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  Speaker 1: Washington football team.
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  Speaker 3: That's weird. So how much weight do you give von Miller?
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  Speaker 1: How much weight do you give Von Miller's selection of
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning as the greatest quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Of all time over time? Brady?
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  Speaker 1: Uh So, how about zero percent of the weight. It's
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  Speaker 1: absolute cronyism, it is. We all know it. We all
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  Speaker 1: know it. It's plain and simple. It's right there in
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  Speaker 1: front of your eyes there, even blind Scott, blind Emmett,
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  Speaker 1: the Inca Terror, Stevie meat Balls, they can all see it.
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  Speaker 1: Even Kooper Loop over there, big Broncos suck up, he
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  Speaker 1: can see it as well. Listen, von Miller is riding
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  Speaker 1: that nostalgia train. True, he's riding the nostalgia train because Manning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure at one point in Denver they went out,
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  Speaker 1: they had the Mallard chicken sandwich together. Maybe Manning paid
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  Speaker 1: for that mail or chicken sandwich at the sports book
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  Speaker 1: bar and grill. There multiple locations in Denver, and it's
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  Speaker 1: possible that Manning showed up to some Von Miller charity
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  Speaker 1: events somewhere in Colorado and he took photos and kissed
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  Speaker 1: babies and all that stuff. It's classic locker room biased.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the problems when you have value placed
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  Speaker 1: on athletes. Quotes like von Miller is completely biased. The
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  Speaker 1: witness is biased.
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  Speaker 3: Your honor.
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  Speaker 1: You play with a guy like von Miller played with
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  Speaker 1: paid and he knows your kids' names, and he signs
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  Speaker 1: your cleats, and suddenly he's the messiah anybody that knows
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  Speaker 1: football and those Peyton Manning is not anywhere near that level.
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  Speaker 3: He's not one of.
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  Speaker 1: The great choke artists of all time. Peyton Manning absolute
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  Speaker 1: disaster in big games. The last guy you would want
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  Speaker 1: among the supposed top quarterbacks in a big game was
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning unless you wanted someone who was an expert
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  Speaker 1: at writing the vomit comet.
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  Speaker 3: And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Now people are trying to change history because Peyton Man's
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  Speaker 1: not played in them a number of years and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So there's going, Oh, Peyton Manning was logrudoals of all time.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me you don't know ball without telling me you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what ball. Peyton Manning was a regular guy.
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  Speaker 1: We ripped Dak Prescott, We rip all these guys for
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  Speaker 1: being frauds in big games. Peyton Manning is the personification
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  Speaker 1: of I'm a fraud in big games. I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: many times did we come in here and just laugh
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  Speaker 1: at Peyton Manning puking all over.
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  Speaker 3: Himself in a big game?
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  Speaker 1: Right, the antithesis of what Tom Brady was in big
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  Speaker 1: games in his team money.
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  Speaker 3: Now, many of it was you won two super Bowls?
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  Speaker 3: How many did you win?
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  Speaker 1: You're doing overnights, Okay, so let's break that down. The
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  Speaker 1: one he won in Denver, Peyton Manning he had a
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  Speaker 1: noodle arm.
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  Speaker 3: He was literally laying on a hospital gerdy and they
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  Speaker 3: pushed him.
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  Speaker 1: The defense with Von Miller pushed him across the finish
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  Speaker 1: line in that Super Bowl by hitting the Bronco defense,
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  Speaker 1: hitting Cam Newton so hard. He still hasn't recovered. He's
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  Speaker 1: still he clearly he's lost all. He hadn't blinked Cam
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  Speaker 1: Newton since that particular Super Bowl that was not Peyton
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  Speaker 1: Manning was one of the one of the worst Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl performances you can possibly have for the Broncos. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot tell the story of Peyton Manning properly. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: tell the story of Peyton Manning properly without talking about
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he suffered from extreme shrinkage. Northlake boys
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  Speaker 1: on the water.
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  Speaker 3: It happens. But for Peyton Manning was the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Manning in big games was like a space heater you
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  Speaker 1: cranked all the way up in a blizzard.
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  Speaker 3: Now what happens when you put a space heater in
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  Speaker 3: the blizzard?
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  Speaker 1: Technically it's working, right, It's not doing much, but it's on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where. So he had a Super.
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  Speaker 1: Bowl passer rating in his career, I believe, if I
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  Speaker 1: have the numbers right here, seventy eight point six, which
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  Speaker 1: was below his career norm.
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  Speaker 3: But wait, there's more.
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  Speaker 1: Right, he was statistically in the playoffs a worse performer
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  Speaker 1: than in the regular season by a wide margin.
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  Speaker 3: And so that is not goat material. You know what
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  Speaker 3: that is.
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  Speaker 1: That's goat cheese. So yeah, Peyton Manning was the goat.
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  Speaker 1: He was goat cheese in big games, soft and crumbly
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  Speaker 1: and only good on the right salad.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't need salad, So for me, I don't
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  Speaker 3: need goat cheese.
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  Speaker 1: Don't need it, don't need And so again this is
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  Speaker 1: just to wrap this up, Von Miller went sentimental, not statistical,
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  Speaker 1: not reality based his argument there, and it's like, it's
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  Speaker 1: like the guy that says, well, let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: My high school band, back in high school, back in
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  Speaker 1: my day, the high school band was better than the
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  Speaker 1: Rolling Stones because my buddy played bass in the band.
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  Speaker 1: Loyalty matters and all that stuff. But you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the all time greatest. It's Brady and there's no debate.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad for sports radio.
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  Speaker 3: There's no debate.
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  Speaker 1: And I used to be the Joe Montana guy because
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  Speaker 1: he used to slay the Rams every time, but I
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  Speaker 1: even I've given that up years ago. It's Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. Period. Stop now.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to get attention online, you'll scream and
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  Speaker 1: shout and say, hey, it's well, it's not it's not
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady. But everyone knows you're just doing that. Your
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  Speaker 1: trolling is what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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  Speaker 3: Is from Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 1: We're not gonna talk about the Indianapolis five hundred No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Quarterback carousel. Quarterback carousel update.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: If you have not heard the drama, I'm not gonna
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: say the drama orama because this was not drama Orama.
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  Speaker 1: The news is in. The decision has been made. And
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  Speaker 1: if you thought that Anthony Richardson was going to continue
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  Speaker 1: as QB number one in Indianapolis, you're a loser. As
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson has done the walk of shame. He has
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  Speaker 1: been demoted, benched. See you later. Alligator coach Shane Steiken
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: in a moment that no coach wants to highlight, named
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  Speaker 1: Giants trash Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones as the starting quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 3: That's it, that's the story.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones beats out Anthony Richardson, who was a top
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  Speaker 1: five draft pick a couple of years ago and has
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: now been usurped by Daniel Jones. All Right, so let
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 3: Let me check the.
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  Speaker 1: Water temperature if you will, uh, for the colt fan?
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  Speaker 1: What is the temperature for the colt fan? On Daniel
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  Speaker 1: Jones being named QB one? You excited about this?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So my observations, I've got Morton's fork, snuffle upfagus, and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: tinder date, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make some grilled chicken
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  Speaker 1: and rice is what we're gonna make eat healthy.
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  Speaker 3: So number that number.
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  Speaker 1: Number goes out to Sherwin. That's for that. Number one
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  Speaker 1: was for Sherwin. So the water temperature here is lukewarm. Lukewarm,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: that's the water temperature. If you've got a tingly sensation
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  Speaker 1: about Daniel Jones.
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  Speaker 3: Being named QB number one, If you've got.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: That, that's not excitement, Okay, it's not. That's something you
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: should probably call the doctor about. If you've got a
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: tingling feeling about that, this is a Morton's fork situation.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't know what that is, google it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: That's where you're stuck choosing between two equally unpleasant unpleasant alternatives.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: And so it got me thinking, it's like when I
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: was seven years old, little fat Benny at the dinner
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: table with Mama Malor and my pops and my brother,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you know. And at seven, I didn't have another I
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: have a younger brother. I was the youngest kid, and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: my younger brother came after that, a little seven year
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: old kid there. And I'm sitting down at dinner and
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  Speaker 1: the mom says, my mom said, hey, yea, Ben, good news.
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  Speaker 1: We are done trying to get your fat ass to
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  Speaker 1: eat broccoli at dinner.
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  Speaker 3: And I light up. I smile at my mom.
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  Speaker 1: I say, finally, here, I am seven years old, seven
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  Speaker 1: years old, and my mom is giving me respect. That's
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a good mom. And so I sit there and I
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  Speaker 1: got a smile, kind of a smirk. I say, thank god, mom,
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  Speaker 1: this is so great. You're my favorite mom. You're my
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: only mom, but you're my favorite mom. And then my
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: mom said, well, we're gonna start serving cauliflower instead.
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  Speaker 3: I inside, I die.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely die, right because that blows too right, that sucks.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what this is. That that's what this is. Right.
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  Speaker 1: This is not this is not a ribbi. This is
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: not a ribbi. This is the steam vegetables that you
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  Speaker 1: don't want. That's what this is. And don't forget like
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate embarrassment, the ultimate You name Daniel Jones, You're
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: starting quarterback in Indianapolis, and this is the guy that
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: lost his job with the Giants to Tommy DeVito. Okay, now,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: remember Tommy DeVito is like a character actor in the Sopranos.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Is what he's like? You say, is Tommy Cutlets.
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  Speaker 1: That's the guy that ended up being the quarterback for
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  Speaker 1: the Giants with Dan Jones left town, demoted for Tommy Cutlets,
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  Speaker 1: and Jones could not hold off the immensibility of Tommy DeVito,
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  Speaker 1: who looked and still to this day looks like he
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: should be serving chicken palm at his uncle's restaurant somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in Hobulk of New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: But yet he was the quarterback for.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants and replaced Daniel Jones. And so has now
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: has Danny Dimes ever? Let me ask you this, has
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  Speaker 1: he ever made anyone better that he played with?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 1: He has been sputtering for years, and the Giants kept
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: playing him because they were like, well, we have to
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: salvage Daniel Jones. So they changed players around him, they
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: changed coaches. The whole thing right, and the one consistent,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the common denominator in Daniel Jones, is the bonehead play
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: very good at that his internal clock has been broken.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: It runs about as fasts. He processes the defensive alignment
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: about as fast as you move through the line. Without
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a reservation of the DMV. It doesn't go very well.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: And so you know, there's just no warm and fuzzy.
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  Speaker 1: There's no warm.
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  Speaker 3: There's no good way this could come out for the Colts.
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  Speaker 3: There's not. You can try to talk yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Into it, be a big fanboy and say, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is great. Now does this quarterback decision? Does it
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: change the Colts ceiling in twenty twenty five? No, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: They're still barreling down the highway. The highway to Hell
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  Speaker 1: is where they're going.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they just are. And if everything.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Breaks perfectly, I mean the running game is good and
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: they stay relatively healthy. No one stays completely other, but
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: you say relatively healthy. You somehow put a pretty good
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: defense together there in Indy. The offensive line doesn't fold
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: up like a beach chair on a fat guy sitting
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: on a beach chair. Then what do your max out at?
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: What's the on that? What is this?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: This is a average avenue? You're driving down average avenue.
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  Speaker 1: You get to eight wins.
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  Speaker 3: Woo, you got eight wins.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, nine wins, maybe nine wins, Okay, nine and eight.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's the tops right there. Of course your ceiling
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  Speaker 1: is nine and eight. Okay, So let's let's think this
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  Speaker 1: through the basement. What is the basement. It is possible
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: this team does not win a game.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like your quarterback is gonna bail you out.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's there is a world, the dimension of
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the multiverse where the Colts don't win a game, all
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: right now, page two. So there's been a lot of
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: this is unfair, this is not right commentary for Anthony Richardson.
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  Speaker 3: Let's hear from the the man himself.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Here. Here's Anthony Richardson, the former starting quarterback for the
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts, the chosen one, who has now been the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: demogent one.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Here's his take on being kicked to the curb.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: You like the better fit for the team, benefit for
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: al chemos are winning, so you've got to respect it.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: And the sheep work that doesn't under my other work
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: out putting, doesn't, you know, but say that I have
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: to improved, you know, my product improvement I made, saying
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: the dogs on a prod of that. So you gotta
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: keep stacking on that and keep getting better.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: So we had the microphone. Who was actually placed in Gary, Indiana?
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Not in Indianapolis? Or was that South Bend, Indiana? Okay,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I'm wearing headphones. I could barely make that out. That
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: was bad. Why do we play it because we had it?
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: That's why we played it. We played it because we
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: had it, and we played it because we had.
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  Speaker 3: It, all right. I don't even know what he said.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I do know that Richardson's agent reacted with disappointment. Shocking.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: He would be just disappointed as client has been benched.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: So he was upset, said that he's unsure of Richardson's
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: future with the Colts.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Well, so are the Colts take a number now? The age?
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Derek Wash Derek Jackson, Derek Jackson, I believe that's his name.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I've never heard of him.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: So he wondered aloud whether or not to Shane Steikin's
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: quarterback decision. His decision might have been predetermined when the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Colts signed Daniel Jones back in March to a one
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: year contract for fourteen million dollars. So let's discuss. That's
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Did Anthony Richardson get a
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: raw deal? Did he get a raw deal from Indy?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: So let's think about that.
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  Speaker 3: Right, the jury is in and I've got two letters
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  Speaker 3: to the judge. N oh no.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Now this was predetermined, but it was not predetermined when
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones signed the contract. In fact, as a distant
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: relative of Nostre damas friend of Nostradinas. He lives in Seattle,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Seattle area. This was predetermined. It was not because of
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Daniel Owns signing on the dotted line.
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  Speaker 3: This.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you, they could have signed, as my
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: advisor Alf would say, the alien pinter. They could have
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: signed mister Snuffalopogus, right, signed mister Snuffalopagus, and he would
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: be named the started quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. I
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: know the exact date. It was October twenty seventh, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. It was week eight of the NFL season,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred ninety seven days ago exactly from that point
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to the time the Colts made the decision, So two
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: hundred ninety seven days it was in Houston, Texas. That
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: was the moment, just a moment in time, just a snapshot.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: And in that moment in time, that is when Anthony
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Richardson himself asked to be demoted as the QB number
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  Speaker 1: one in Indianapolis. He tapped out, he said, no, Moss,
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  Speaker 1: I'm done, Skis, I'm out of here. I can't play.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: He wasn't injured, he was gassed, he was not in shape.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: He pulled himself out of the game. That in that
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: business is a capital offense. And he did it, and
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: he didn't hide it. He talked about it openly. He
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: didn't try to pretend like he did something else. He
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: just said, this is what I did. Can't do it,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: cannot do it. That's a no fly zone. And you
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: did it. That's high crimes and misdemeanors. That's you know,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: that's a felony, is what that is. And you incriminated yourself.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And once you quit, once you say that's it. Once
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: you quit on yourself like that in that profession the coach,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: but more importantly your teammates, you're done, because they also
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: would like to come out of the game like the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: people playing it, like it's paining the ass man. You
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: get to the second half of an NFL game, you're
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: getting your ass, you know, handed to you, and you'd
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: like to step out of the game, but you have
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: a job to do and you're paid to be a
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: top flight professional athlete. And it's all about the grind, right,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that's the whole point, the war of attrition. But you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: don't take yourself out of the war because you're tired
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and he did it. You can't forget that, you don't.
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  Speaker 1: It's like when you call in sick. It's like the
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: equivalent in the real world.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: If you call in sick, it's oh, man, I'm dying, dude,
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: and you call your boss.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I'm your texting me. I can't show up. Just I'm
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: not doing good and I feel horrific. I gotta go
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: to the doctor. I got to get some medicine. And
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: then they see you. They're scrolling on Instagram and they
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: see you in a swimsuit on the beach and you're
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: dricking a cocktail. They don't look at you the same.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: They don't believe you. Yeah, they don't trust you. You're
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: out of the bubble of trust. And so that's the issue.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: You're out of the bubble of trust. And look, Jerry Glanville,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: is you probably is if you're of a certain age.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: But he was this old NFL coach, you a million
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: years ago coach the Atlanta Falcons and some other teams.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And Jerry Glanville said decades ago, the NFL stands not
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: from all and certainly when you do that, Richardson leaning
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: leaning into that, and he learned the hard away. He
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: learned the hard way, a tough love. Richardson was never
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: ever supposed to be the guy. That's the thing about this,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Like everyone talks about, there's a lot of people get oh,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: this is not fair, this is not right, blah blah
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah bah. He was never supposed
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: to be drafted there in the first place. He should
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: have been picked in the fourth or the fifth round,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: and he ended up going in the top five. It
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: was a total project from the beginning. Now you know
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: how I feel about the draft. I'd rather have dysentery
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: than do draft shows. At this point, it's all the scam,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: it's all the hustle. And instead of being drafted where
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you'd say, well, he's a developmental player. Now, Jim Mersey,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the late Jim Mrsays oh we'll take him. It's like
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: a make a wish situation, and let's take this. Get
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: all give him a shot at quarterback.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: They did.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: They give him a shot, and Richardson played like a
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: guy that won a raffle, you know, at a country fair.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Uh you know, it's like, congratulations, way to go, You're
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback of the Indianapolis Coast. The only problem,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: of course, this was not a raffle. It was the NFL.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: The results bear out. Now, there were two things that
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson was truly a leade at. There were two
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: things Anthony Richardson was elite at getting hurt. That he
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: was next level superstar, next level superstar getting hurt. And
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: what's the old line, You could not hit the broadside
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: of a barn, you have no accuracy. He was essentially
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Tim Tebow level accuracy. He was unplayable in the modern NFL,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: like fifty percent completions are below most of the games.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: And that's it. So it's not a raw deal. It's not.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a natural conclusion that anyone with
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: half a brain who's not a fanboy would have made.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: He didn't get screwed. In fact, if anything, he was
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: given an opportunity he did not deserve. Richardson that he
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: should have never been a QB one for the Colts
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: because he didn't deserve that based on his crappy college career.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: And then he proved that the people that were critics
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: were right. The critic was right on this one. Could
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: never throw accurately, couldn't stay healthy, and pulled himself out
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: of the game. Strike one, strike two, strike three, batter out,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: batter out. So Richardson didn't get screwed by the Colts.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: He screwed himself. He's essentially what he did all right now,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: final points, staying with the horseshoes.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Why not? So a couple of you idiots sent me
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: this quote.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: It's just going I guess it's been going around last
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: couple because I didn't see it until in the nighttime hours.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: So Andrew Luck popped up again. I haven't really thought
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: about Andrew Luck in a long time.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Why would I washed up athlete?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I don't really think about those guys much anyway, Anthony
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: richards or Andrew Luck. Why I think Richardson soon enough
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: will be the washed up athlete. But Andrew Luck get
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: your crappy Colts quarterbacks right. So Andrew Luck popped up again.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: He was talking about his retirement, and this was behind
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: a paywall on the Athletic and he said, quote, I
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: was going to play until forty or fifty. I thought
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I was invincible. And then he said, I fell out
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: of love. I always have guilt. He said, I let
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: my teammates down. Close Quote Andrew luck who famously you
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: talk about the Colts have really done good at getting
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: guys that quit, like Anthony Richardson quit. He quit during
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: a game. Andrew luck Well kind of quit during a
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: game too. It was a preseason game, but he quit.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: They're really good. They lead the NFL and quitters Colts football.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: We's raft guys that quit, all right, So that'd be
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a good slogan. H So, is Andrew luck saying that
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: he let his teammates down justified all these years later
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: on his Colt's retirement. So I'm nodding my head. Yes,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I'm nodding my Yes. He's one hundred percent right in
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Luck did let them down.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: He did. This is what I said. I got killed
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: for this. Take.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: This is take validation. That's why I'm bringing this up.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: It's Mallard take validation. So I said this at the
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: time as his quitter. What you can't do that? What
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: are you doing? And you step away in March, you
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: say I'm done in April, even if you wait till May.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I'm good.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I'm fine, you know, because I'm really the judge jury
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: and execution, and I'm fine with that. When you have
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the overnight bully pulpit, those are those are decisions you make.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: So I'm okay with that.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: But at the eleventh hour, just a couple of weeks
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: before the season kicks off, is not the time nor
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the place to say I'm out, see you later, suckers. No,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: that's like telling your fiance on the way down the
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: aisle with everyone. They're all dressed up in their their
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: church clothes, right, everyone's all dressed up.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: And by the way, surprise, I'm out. Good luck. You
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: know you can't know luck.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: And by the way, there was a basketball player named
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Richard Jefferson who I thinks on network television now who
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: did that. He famously did that anyway, So he didn't
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: just Luck, didn't just screw over. He didn't just screw
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: over the team, the coaching staff, the fan. That's the
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: part that I had a problem with. Do you announced
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: that you have to pay a lot of money for
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: these season tickets. Now I'm not a season ticket older,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: but I have friends of mine to buy the tickets
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: in the very expensive right, you got to give deposits
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And he basically ghosted the entire
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: franchise like the Colts. It was like a bad tender date.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: And he's like, I ain't gonna ghost this person. And
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: don't even give him the excuse that you had to
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: dog sit or something like that. You're just like I'm out,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I'm done, and you just ghost, just disappear. So no
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: SOB story as so far as it's I don't want
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: to hear about guilt. That to me, that's a SOB store.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: The whole guilt things a SOB story.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Boo.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Andrew and people were trying to make him the victim.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I know we live in the age, not as much
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: anymore the last couple of years, but it was like everyone's.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: A victim for like ten years. Everyone's a victim.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I my God, drives me nuts, but there are real victims.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: But Andrew Luck was not the victim right. In fact,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: anything the guilt he should have guilt. He was the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: guy at the bar, right he was out there with
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: his teammates at the bar, and uh he ducked out
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: of the restaurant before the check showed up, after having
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: a bunch of booze and a bunch of apps appetizers
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: and all that's I'm out.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: And the franchise has never recovered.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, they are still feeling the facts all these
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: years later. There were years ironed from from boots on
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the ground that Jim, the late Jim Mersey was convinced
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: that Andrew Luck, yeah, he'd come back in two years,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: and he didn't come back, and they tried to They
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: were like, well, well, just Andrew Luck has a house.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he still does. I know he's
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: doing stuff for Stanford. But he lived in retirement down
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: the street from the Colts practice facility because he thought,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: you know, they thought, well he lives here, he's.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Gonna come back and play quarterback fos and he never did.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: And so they've had this like Broadway casting call the
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Colts where they had Philip Rivers and they had Carson
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Wentz and Matt Ryan and they had this suck bag
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson who quit. Now they have Daniel Jones, who
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: people hope will quit. And so it's like those guys
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: don't belong on Broadway. They belong at like the Fargo Theater.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Shout out to our guys in Fargo, North Dakota. Come on,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: you know these are not leading, legitimate and you have
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: a bunch of washed up guys and never was, never
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: were good players. And those are the guys at the front.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, the franchise is still chasing its tail because
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: one guy quit at the most inconvenient possible time to quit.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: And that's Andrew Luck's legacy.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: That's the legacy of Andrew Luck. Forget the stats, forget
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: all the promise, and oh he's going to be amazing.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: The full monte.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: He bailed at the worst possible time and left everyone
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: else holding the bag. Fans, teammates, coaches, everyone.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 39:50
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• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Here we go, It's mallard. How about that?
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: To the third degree is one big Ben gets great.
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: Titan's number one pick cam Ward found himself in the
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: middle of a practice scuffle after he shoved and taunted
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: Pro Bowl defensive lineman Jeffrey Simmons. However, cornerback Jarvis brownly
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: liked seeing that from Ward, saying it shows he's got
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: that dog in him. Yeah, Ben, do you want to
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: see your quarterback getting into the middle of those kind
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: of things?
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I know people are freaking out your panties are bunched
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: up on the internet, but I don't mind it, you know.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: And that's the kind of stuff that once you established
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: that you're that kind of guy, like your teammates love you,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: the offensive lineman love you and all that, there's always
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: some pencil nose poindexter that gets all upset. You don't
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: do it all the time, but rare and appropriate. I like, Yeah,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: it's good. I like it, cam Ward, you know. I
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: hope he's okay. He'll be good for the show next.
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: Mets legend Jose Reyes talked to TMZ recent jse Jose Jose, Jose,
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: that's right. He said that he thinks people have been
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: too hard on one Soto and that he's done pretty
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: good for his first year with the team.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ben, do you expect so to improve next year?
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, he's gonna be with the Mets the rest
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: of my career, So I would assume he's going to
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: get better. But no, that's a that's a bad take
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: by Jose Reyes. Now you're in New York, there's high expectations.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: You signed the biggest contract in baseball history.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Oh you've been too hard. Oh what kind of loser
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: take is that? That's like the worst take I've heard
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: in a long time. Next, suck.
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: It's being reported that the Houston Rockets are reluctant to
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: give Kevin Duranty contract extension and that they aren't going
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: to go all in on any potential extension.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Ben. Could his stay in Houston be short lived?
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's a nomad, He's a hobo. That's what Durant does.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: He changed his ta as soon as things go bad,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Durant looks to leave. He doesn't want to make it better.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: He wants to leave. That's what he does.
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: There.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: It is maleo third degree? How do we dow? He passes?
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: I won, Andre, I won.
• 41:52
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• 42:04
  Speaker 3: I see hollering, James, James, Are you there? James hollering,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: James is fronting.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Ready, y, you sound like your voice is ready to die.
• 42:17
  Speaker 9: I can just see it right, all.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Right, calm down, keep your pants on. Let's play the game.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: It's another Ben Mallard game.
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: We've endured too many of this.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Is it too much or not enough?
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Enough?
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: Already? Let's see here we ago? Too much or not enough?
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: You gotta get three questions, right, James, you won this game,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: the greatest moment in show history, in a game show
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: fastest me.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: I was not on this sleep man, and I'm not.
• 42:43
  Speaker 9: A creep man.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, you won the game while sleeping. One of the
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: great moments in the history of radio that should have
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: gotten more publicity, should have gotten more publicity.
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: But you know how.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Fifty way hurry if you're wasting time, Let's play the game.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Here we go. Three questions. All the answers are too
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: much or not enough? Question number one.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Tarak Schooble just became the first pitcher to reach two
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: hundred strikeouts this season. Now, last season, eight pitchers reached
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: that mark. Is that too much or not enough?
• 43:21
  Speaker 10: Uh?
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: Let's find out. Hey, look at that, James, you got
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: you got it right now. The answer is not enough.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: There were eleven.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Pitchers with at least two hundred strikeouts last year, hollowing James.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Question number two.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: John Wall announced his retirement on Tuesday. He is one
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: of only five players ever to average over nine assists
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: per game in the postseason in the NBA? Is that
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: too much or not enough?
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: Too much?
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: All right, let's find out unbelievable. Look at this guy
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: hollering James? Is there a full moon?
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Okay. The answer is too much.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: He's one of three players, along with Irvin Magic Johnson
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and John Stockton. Question number three d Daniel Jones will
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: be the cold six different week one starting quarterback within
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the last ten years. Is that too much or not enough?
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Not enough?
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Fight out? Wow? James?
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: You you.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Won the game? James? Not enough?
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Know you well?
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: You won?
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: You want me to keep going? I'll keep going. You
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: want to win another one? Okay? Here we go.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Question number four for Bryce Hart He already won. But
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: question for Bryce Harpert is twenty of home run of
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: the season earlier this week. It is his tenth career
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: season with twenty or more home runs. Is that too
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: much or not enough?
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: My God, that's right again. Holy crap, it's eleven. No,
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: there's no way you're gonna get this last one?
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: No, got no, yeah, you got one.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: More before you give them another one. There were twenty,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: by the way, that was his eleven season, eating twenty more.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Question number five for hollering James trying to
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: run the board. That means we have to call the game.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: The hollering James. I know he's about to die, but
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: he he's on his deathbed. All that, baby, there were
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: twenty quarterbacks to throw for more than thirty five hundred
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: yards last season to sweep the board. James get another
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: golden ticket? Is that too much or not enough?
• 45:33
  Speaker 9: Too much?
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, he is swept.
• 45:37
  Speaker 11: Holdly crap, hollering, jab You have just witnessed a man
• 45:42
  Speaker 11: who takes thirty six bills in the morning and thirty
• 45:46
  Speaker 11: six bills at night.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: Who is just now all right? The great thing about this?
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I shut up. You've won the two? Are you gonna
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: keep them or give them to somebody else?
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: James?
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: You know they should.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, see, you don't have to worry about it. Coop,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: He's just gonna give him to Tammy. Montez. He doesn't
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: matter if he says that, he's still gonna call it.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to use congratulations. Oh I don't care. I don't.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: I don't listen good. I love Tammy, She's a wonderful woman.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be Sure to catch live editions
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: eleven pm Pacific.
• 46:30
  Speaker 10: It's up, it does with Little rain An clean up,
• 46:35
  Speaker 10: Hawks going to help you. Gear Rye, gear Rye to night,
• 46:39
  Speaker 10: gear Rye to night.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: Dear ry.
• 46:43
  Speaker 12: You heard the man.
• 46:44
  Speaker 13: It's Tom for love here on the Ben Mallards Show.
• 46:48
  Speaker 13: And oh my goodness, summer has come to an end.
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: Is it over now? I think so because I know
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: in La gets hotter in September.
• 46:57
  Speaker 13: Yes, but everyone's back in school, so now everyone's going
• 47:00
  Speaker 13: back into like marriage.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: That sucks, dude, because it starts. Summer should be longer,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: it really should. I think it's because parents complain. That's
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: why it's got Seriously, I think parents complained, so they
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: got babysitters.
• 47:13
  Speaker 12: And all that, so you know, yeah, definitely, for sure,
• 47:16
  Speaker 12: for sure, I got don't forget. Once your kids go
• 47:19
  Speaker 12: back to school, you got time for you and your love. Yeah,
• 47:24
  Speaker 12: take that time. Get back in bed.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: Okays in bed?
• 47:28
  Speaker 12: Say what are we having?
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: We have questions, Lorraine.
• 47:31
  Speaker 12: I'm sorry.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Andy in Line Lakes, Minnesota says, uh, I can't wain Loraina.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: So my girlfriend says, I don't spend enough time with her.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: So I bought her some lingerie and she said I
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: could do anything I wanted to her for the weekend.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: So I tied her up and went fishing with my buddy.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: She's never happy, so that's uh.
• 47:51
  Speaker 12: You should have taken her with you in the boat.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Well, the cops might have shown up if seeing that
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: they would not go over Well, yeah, all right, let's go.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: We have a calls for you, Lorraine. We have a
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: pat in Tampa has called in for the Queen of Hearts.
• 48:07
  Speaker 12: Hi Pat.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: So I drop my phone like a real professional over here.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: How do I handle it if I'm concerned that my
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: radio producer is sending you inappropriate dms?
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Oh no, oh this is I think I know who
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: this is.
• 48:25
  Speaker 12: Make sure you tell him that's inappropriate.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: H Oh, tell me keep his pants on? How about that?
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Keep your pants on?
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: He's convinced he's okay because he thinks his questions are
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: not as weird as the other dms you get, Lorena.
• 48:41
  Speaker 12: I mean we could have a competition. I could post
• 48:43
  Speaker 12: that online.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know that. I want to look at your dms, don't.
• 48:46
  Speaker 12: I don't want to see it be a little scary.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: You can only imagine what you're getting, especially on bikini days.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, I tell your producer to knock it off. Pat
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: please come on. You're a big star. You don't need that.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: What's wrong with you? Bring your brain down.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Let's go to blind Scott, who's on the north in
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: the Boston Blind Scott, Hey, thanks.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: For taking the call.
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: So I haven't talked to my dad in seven years,
• 49:06
  Speaker 9: and I talked to him yesterday. I had like a
• 49:08
  Speaker 9: very trying day yesterday where I just decided to lash
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: out at everybody. So I reached out to my dad
• 49:13
  Speaker 9: and I said very friendly to him. I said, you know,
• 49:15
  Speaker 9: in the past seven years, I've been every letter of
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: the LGBTQ alphabet. I was like, Dad, I'm gay. You
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: know I'm gay. And I said all this stuff about
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: being gay and stuff, and he never rolled me back,
• 49:26
  Speaker 9: but I could see he read all the messages. What
• 49:28
  Speaker 9: do you think the outcome is going to be this.
• 49:29
  Speaker 9: I'm going to take the questions off here. Thank you.
• 49:32
  Speaker 12: I think he's just a little speechless.
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 49:34
  Speaker 12: It can be a lot to take in.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, maybe his phone got lost.
• 49:41
  Speaker 12: Maybe he dropped it like the previous caller into the toilet.
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: People get older, maybe things will change, who knows. JT.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: The wing Man says, I'm trying to help Fergdog find
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: a woman. Do they make capri pants? Or do do
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: capri pants look good on single men?
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: That's from JT the Wingman.
• 49:57
  Speaker 13: I love capris and if you have nice ankles, they
• 50:00
  Speaker 13: can look good on anything.
• 50:02
  Speaker 12: And also you can turn any pair of pants into capries.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: Ferd says, what's the Ferduces? What's the most romantic ride
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: at Disneyland?
• 50:10
  Speaker 12: Oh, that's the hard It's got to be Pirate.
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: Pirates of the Car. Being the lighting so dark in there,
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: you could do mischievous really the restaurant.
• 50:17
  Speaker 12: Or haunted mansion. But there's cameras on that one.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: There's cameras on the one they can see you. There's
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: cameras also on the Pirates of the Cara. There's cameras Disneyland,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: there's cameras everywhere, a lot of cameras