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Hour 1 - Rough Waters · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: A pirate's life for me, well, not so much. Welcome
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Speaker 1: in the beginning of another hour and another edition of
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Speaker 1: the Ben Maler Show. Happy Monday to you. It is
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Speaker 1: all that. But in the meantime you got a full
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Speaker 1: week of the Ben Malor Show, No days off, no
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Speaker 1: days off. And we begin the new week in Inglewood
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Speaker 1: at SOFI Stadium, the Rams playing host of the Bucks
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Speaker 1: in the Island Game. As the game not much of
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Speaker 1: a contest a Rams win big. Does Bucks coach Todd
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Speaker 1: Bowles deserve to be ripped for Baker Mayfield's non contact
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Speaker 1: shoulder injury on a Hail Mary before halftime? Also, what
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Speaker 1: did the eyes tell you on Matthew Stafford's MVP campaign
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Speaker 1: for the Rams? Another perfect performance by Stafford in the
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Speaker 1: Sunday night game. And what does this five hundredth NFL
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Speaker 1: the week, we start with the Sunday Night NFL game
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Speaker 1: at so Far in the Hood in Inglewood and up
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Speaker 1: to No Good. Yeah, there a final game of the
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Speaker 1: Sunday portion. There's only one lonely Monday night game left,
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Speaker 1: but the last game on Sunday. There as Baker Mayfield
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Speaker 1: in Theory leading the Tampa Bay Football team the Pirate
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Speaker 1: Ship into the harbors. In Socar there a four round
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Speaker 1: heavyweight matchup against Matthew Stafford.
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Speaker 3: And the L A. R.
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Speaker 1: I Ams. You can ram it all day, you can
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Speaker 1: ram it all night. An Island game on in b
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Speaker 1: SE Island game. They had Mike Tariko and Chris Coylesworth
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Speaker 1: calling the game. More on that in a minute. But
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you watched it or not, if
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Speaker 1: you were checking this thing out, not much of a game.
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Speaker 1: Game was O v R at halftime We watched, so
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Speaker 1: you were not have to. And what did do we see? Well,
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Speaker 1: we saw Devonte Adams catch not one, but two of
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's not one, not two three touchdown passes for
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and the La Rams jump out early and
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Speaker 1: never look back. That's called a boat race, kids. Thirty
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Speaker 1: one point first half and for Tampa was turned.
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Speaker 4: Out the last.
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Speaker 1: The parties over as the Rams move into the Presidential suite.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much to the Dallas Cowboys for helping
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Speaker 1: out beating up the pathetically overrated Philadelphia Eagles thirty four
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Speaker 1: to seven the final. As the Rams get to win,
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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers go down extended garbage time. Game was over
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Speaker 1: at halftime. There and the better story in the losing
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Speaker 1: locker room. A lot of consternation on the Tampa Bay
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Speaker 1: side of things in this one, rubbing salt into the
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Speaker 1: wound on the final play of the first half, Tampa
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Speaker 1: getting their bell wrong, Baker Mayfield trying to make something happen,
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Speaker 1: and he got dinged up right before halftime. There. As
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Speaker 1: the second half coming to an end, Baker Mayfield decided
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Speaker 1: to launch the Hail Mary and it did not did
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Speaker 1: not work. It did not have enough velocity to get
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Speaker 1: it done. However, what he did have was a shoulder
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Speaker 1: that started barking earth just like there was barking sound
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Speaker 1: of it actually barking there, And so Mayfield launching the
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Speaker 1: Hail Mary. His shoulder did not appreciate the Hail Mary there,
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Speaker 1: and Baker Mayfield kneeling in agony, the agony of defeat,
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Speaker 1: as he was holding his left shoulder. And then at
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Speaker 1: halftime the Buccaneers decided the game was over anyway, and
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Speaker 1: they shut her there. They shut her down now freaking out,
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I can't believe that. Now. We don't
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Speaker 1: know all that much about how bad it is. It
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Speaker 1: might be fine. There's a chance it's perfectly fine. There's
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Speaker 1: also a dimension in the multiverse where it's a season
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Speaker 1: end injury for Baker Mayfield. Todd Bowles did not seem
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Speaker 1: too concerned postgame, Todd Bowles telling the media that as
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Speaker 1: of right now, it's just a shoulder sprain for Baker Mayfield,
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Speaker 1: who at one point was the darling in the MVP
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Speaker 1: race in the NFC. Todd Bowles says, they havn't MRII MRI.
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Speaker 1: That'll be coming up later on on Monday. The Buccaneers
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Speaker 1: making their way back to Florida, a long journey. They're
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Speaker 1: not traveling though by prop plane. They're actually gonna take
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Speaker 1: a big jumpbo jet to get back to Florida. So
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Speaker 1: there is that now, Todd Bowles being bashed the buccaneer
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Speaker 1: coach as why would you even bother? Why would you
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Speaker 1: put Baker Mayfield that situation? Oh my god, that's coaching
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Speaker 1: incompetence by Todd Bowles, blaming Todd Bowles. What's wrong with you?
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Speaker 1: And all that? All right, so let us discuss the
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Speaker 1: question on this one, right, does Todd Bowles deserve to
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Speaker 1: be ripped? Does he deserve to be ripped? A part
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Speaker 1: here for Baker Mayfield the hail Mary at halftime which
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Speaker 1: led to some kind of shoulder injury. How bad it
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Speaker 1: is we don't know yet. So on this one, I've
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Speaker 1: got Knickerbocker's brand ambassador and Jane Austen and we will
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Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we're going to
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Speaker 1: make many brisket sliders, which they may or may not
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Speaker 1: have had at Sofi Stadium, Those many brisket sliders. So
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Speaker 1: a to answer the question, does Todd Bowles deserve to
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Speaker 1: be ripped? This whole train of thought is week with
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Speaker 1: a capitol w that's not w E e ks w
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Speaker 1: e A k week is what it is here. Cheap
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Speaker 1: heat is what it is. Todd Bowles. There's things you
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Speaker 1: can rip Todd Bowles about this particular play. I would
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Speaker 1: not put that high up there. You cannot coach scared,
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Speaker 1: cannot do it, cannot do it, can't play scared, can't
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Speaker 1: play scared. And that's that's football. We're not doing some
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Speaker 1: kind of dance class or something along those lines. So
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Speaker 1: like when I see oh my god, gam no, listen.
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Speaker 1: Baker plays one way. It's the beauty of Baker Mayfel.
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Speaker 1: He plays one way. He's like Rambo out there playing
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Speaker 1: quarterback for the Buccaneers. Good, bad, or indifferent. That's how
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Speaker 1: he plays, full tilt. That's it. And so the idea
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Speaker 1: is of no, no, we're just gonna take a knee
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Speaker 1: and go on at halftime. That's not That's not who
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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers are with Baker Mayfield. They shouldn't play that
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Speaker 1: way with US's just call it off, Nana. I disagree
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Speaker 1: with that mindset here. And the reason Tampa's got a
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Speaker 1: pulse and they don't have much of one at this point.
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Speaker 1: They've hit the Schneide as we like to say, but
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Speaker 1: you look at Tampa Bay, the reason that they were
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Speaker 1: thought of the way they were early in the season
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Speaker 1: was because they scratching claw. That's how they play. And
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Speaker 1: the bigger issue is at this moment they appear to
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Speaker 1: be circling the drain, they being the Buccaneers. At this moment,
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Speaker 1: they've lost four of their last five. Tampa I didn't
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Speaker 1: play in the NFL. I don't think that's good. And
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Speaker 1: getting currently in a position where if Carolina is able
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Speaker 1: to pull an upset on the Monday night game and
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Speaker 1: the Niners are certainly beatable, they have a no name defense.
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Speaker 1: It's not the invincible forty nine ers of years ago.
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Speaker 1: So it's not out of the realm of possibility that
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Speaker 1: Carolina wins that game. And if that happens, then Carolina
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Speaker 1: plays leap frog and the Buccaneers go free falling, free falling.
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Speaker 1: So there you go, of all teams, Carolina, though now
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Speaker 1: bad at the Bucks, they're allowing Carolina to climb up there,
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Speaker 1: and Tampa might be left holding the bag at this
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Speaker 1: particular point wild And so the thing about that the
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Speaker 1: indictment is not because of the Hail Mary, though it's
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Speaker 1: not because of the Hail Mary. It's the trajectory of
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Speaker 1: the Bucks season right now. Got off to a good
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Speaker 1: start and as the iconic the late great New York
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Speaker 1: Knickerbocker legend Michael Ray Richardson once said, the ship be
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Speaker 1: sinking and for Tampa Bay, the ship be sinking at
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Speaker 1: this particular point, and Todd Bowles is the captain of
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Speaker 1: the SS Buccaneer, and the SS Buccaneer is going down
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Speaker 1: to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It's a shipwreck
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Speaker 1: site at this particular point, and there's water pouring through
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Speaker 1: every porthole. For the Buccaneers here, the offense has been sporadic,
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Speaker 1: the defense appears to be worn down and don't have
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Speaker 1: enough depth, so they're tired the urgency. While there is
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Speaker 1: still some urgency there, overall things are flatlining for the Buccaneers.
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Speaker 1: And the hell Mary issue that gets brought up there,
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Speaker 1: it's just the direction of things that's the issue there
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Speaker 1: for the Buccaneers. Tampa based problem is not the risk
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Speaker 1: or they won the Super Bowl. No risk at no
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Speaker 1: biscuit with the had Tom Brady at that particular point
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Speaker 1: and a different coaching staff for different head coach in
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Speaker 1: Bruce arians here, but the regression that's the problem. Todd
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Speaker 1: Bowles better plug the holes fast because the ship, as
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Speaker 1: we said, be sinking in Tampa. And that's a team.
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Speaker 1: There's only one team that's gonna get into the playoffs
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Speaker 1: you would think out of that division. So if Tampa
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Speaker 1: continues to lose, Carolina's got a shot to get in there. Now,
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Speaker 1: turning the page on the Rams side, we'd like to
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Speaker 1: circle back. Now, let's circle back to a conversation we've
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Speaker 1: had in previous episodes of the show. As the Rams
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Speaker 1: blow the doors off the Buccaneers in this Sunday night game,
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Speaker 1: came over at halftime, and the question must be asked,
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Speaker 1: what do your eyes tell you about the Matthew Stafford
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Speaker 1: ENVP campaign for the Rams after this latest masterpiece by
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. So, Stafford, I've pointed this out in previous
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Speaker 1: editions of the show that I was not completely on
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Speaker 1: the Matthew Stafford MVP campaign. That was critical. I didn't
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Speaker 1: want to be a prisoner of the moment and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. But Stafford just walked into the MVP arcade
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Speaker 1: and he's got full control of the joystick at this
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Speaker 1: particular point, Matthew Stafford and that Sunday night beat down
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Speaker 1: of Tampa Bay. That was an info mercial, is what
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Speaker 1: that was for the Matthew Stafford Marching and Chowder Society
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Speaker 1: for the Most Valuable Player award. That was it. It
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Speaker 1: was an island game. You're playing Tampa at the time
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Speaker 1: you played him. They're a playoff team themselves. You're at
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Speaker 1: home and what did you do? Well, you went out
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Speaker 1: there and slice them up, is what you did. Here
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Speaker 1: is a Sean McVeigh celebrating slap slap slapber all over
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Speaker 1: his quarterback take.
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Speaker 5: As I think it feels like the game's slowing down.
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Speaker 5: I feel like he's in total command. I think he's
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Speaker 5: got a lot of trust in the teammates that he's
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Speaker 5: playing with, and you know, there's a true ownership and
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Speaker 5: it's I think he's just totally and completely present and
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Speaker 5: he's really just enjoying the opportunity to compete week in
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Speaker 5: and week out. You know, even just when he does
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Speaker 5: the breakdown with the team, he loves being a part
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Speaker 5: of this team. You can feel that he instills a
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Speaker 5: belief every time that we go out on the field,
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Speaker 5: we feel like good things are going to happen because
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Speaker 5: he's leading the way, and so I think he's getting
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Speaker 5: more and more comfortable with just the skilled players. You
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Speaker 5: could really see. I thought that was on display tonight.
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Speaker 5: But I'm really happy for him as a cool stat
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Speaker 5: that artist gave me, you know, twenty seven touchdowns in
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Speaker 5: a row without an interception, Tyan Tom. But he's playing great,
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Speaker 5: and we'll just continue to stay in the moment. But
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Speaker 5: I'm loving every second of this.
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Speaker 1: All right, that was a lot of fluff, is what
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Speaker 1: that was by Sean McVay. How long was that? That
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Speaker 1: was pretty long?
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Speaker 4: Second?
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Speaker 1: Forty three seconds? My god, did he mention Stafford's name?
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Speaker 1: I don't think he mentioned his name at all. I
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Speaker 1: think he just he's just kind of ramble. He could
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Speaker 1: have been talking about me. I could have bet it's
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Speaker 1: Ben Maller, the Matthews Stafford. Forget about him, let's go
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Speaker 1: to Sean mean. But here's McVeigh on quarterback Ben Maller.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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Speaker 5: I think it feels like the game's slowing down. I
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Speaker 5: feel like he's in total command. I think he's got
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Speaker 5: a lot of trust in the teammates that he's playing with,
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Speaker 5: and you know, there's a true ownership, and it's I
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Speaker 5: think he's just totally and completely present and he's really
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Speaker 5: just enjoying.
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Speaker 1: The opportunity to compete week in and week out.
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Speaker 5: You know, even just when he does the breakdown with
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Speaker 5: the team, he loves being a part of this team.
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Speaker 1: You can feel that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he instills a belief every time that we go
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Speaker 5: out on the field. We feel like good things are
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Speaker 5: gonna happen because he's leading the way, and so I
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Speaker 5: think he's getting more and more comfortable with just the
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Speaker 5: skilled players. You could really see. I thought that was
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Speaker 5: on display tonight. But I'm really happy for him as
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Speaker 5: a cool stat that artist gave me, you know, twenty
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Speaker 5: seven touchdowns in a row without an interception, tyme, Tom.
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Speaker 5: But he's playing great and we'll just continue to stay
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Speaker 5: in the moment. But I'm loving every second of this.
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Speaker 1: All right, there you go? All right, My god, that
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Speaker 1: was that was a lot. There's a lot of fluff there,
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Speaker 1: a lot a lot of fluff from Sean McVay. Here's
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, and here is Stafford who's was asked about
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Speaker 1: the way he's playing right now. I'm sure he said
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Speaker 1: he sucks. Yes, No, I'm not trying to label it.
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Speaker 6: I just know him having fun, okay, and you know,
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Speaker 6: my body feels pretty good. Great at the moment. Like
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Speaker 6: I said earlier, the guys up front are doing a
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Speaker 6: hell of a job. Were keeping me clean. Shaan's got
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Speaker 6: great game plans weekend and week out for us to
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Speaker 6: you know, do what we need to do to be
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Speaker 6: successful on our side of the ball. And it's it's
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Speaker 6: been a lot of fun.
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Speaker 1: Okay, congratulations. You see with brevity, he used brevity unlike
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Speaker 1: Sean McVay. So back to the point. So this was
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Speaker 1: an infomercial for the MVP campaign of Matthew Stafford. It
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Speaker 1: just just was the national spotlight, everyone watching and all that.
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Speaker 1: So I am now ready to go down to the
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Speaker 1: train station and I'd like to buy a ticket, and
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Speaker 1: I want to be on the hype train because I'm
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Speaker 1: there now at that game. Now he's in the lead,
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Speaker 1: he's in the pole position. And Stafford, who used to
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Speaker 1: throw interceptions like he was a brand ambassador for Turnovers
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Speaker 1: r US and now all of a sudden, that's a
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Speaker 1: spinoff of tooisr US. It was called Turnovers r US.
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Speaker 1: It didn't really do that well, I don't know why
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Speaker 1: and now he is a smooth operator all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: in the twenty seven consecutive touchdowns without an interception, three
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Speaker 1: hundred and eight straight passes for Stafford without an interception,
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Speaker 1: just the eighth time that has happened in this century
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Speaker 1: that a quarterback has done what Stafford has now done
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Speaker 1: for the Rams and Aaron Rodgers that's like Rogers back
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Speaker 1: in Green Bay back in the day, or as McVeigh mentioned,
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady level discipline for Matthew Stafford, a guy that
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Speaker 1: we thought would be hurt by week five. He didn't
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Speaker 1: even practice and play in the exhibition. In the preseason games,
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Speaker 1: he was dinged up and all that. And here we
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Speaker 1: are Stafford looking relatively spry, moving around as well as
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Speaker 1: you can expect someone with his age and his back
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff, seeing the field. And Devonte Adams,
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Speaker 1: who looked like he was done skis with the Raiders
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Speaker 1: and the Jets last year, all of a sudden, now
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Speaker 1: lighting it up on a weekly basis for the La Rams,
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Speaker 1: and we'll see you with the rest of the season
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Speaker 1: provides so the Rams at this point we do the
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Speaker 1: show today. We have to worry about the show right now,
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Speaker 1: So at this point, everyone else stumbling. I think there's
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Speaker 1: no one. Who else? Who is number two? Drake may
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Speaker 1: forget about that Colts lost to Kansas City. They blew
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Speaker 1: a game. They had eleven point lead in the fourth quarter,
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Speaker 1: So that's that's no good. Who else is there? I
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Speaker 1: don't know. There's no one else at this point. There's
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Speaker 1: no one. It's Matthew Stafford. If he plays a couple
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Speaker 1: more games like this in a row. We are talking
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Speaker 1: about a Secretariat type breakaway in the MVP race as
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Speaker 1: we are coming up to Thanksgiving, and he certainly it's
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Speaker 1: not over yet, but he's in the pole position at
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Speaker 1: this moment here another month or more. This was the
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Speaker 1: Eureka game for Matthew Stafford, the moment where everything firmly
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Speaker 1: clicked in for everyone to see as Stafford has mastered
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Speaker 1: what McVeigh wants him to master. Considering that this was
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Speaker 1: not a guarantee, Stafford went out and was whined and
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Speaker 1: dined by Tom Brady. They went to Montana. Brady begged them,
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Speaker 1: He said, please come save the Raiders, and Stafford said, ah,
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Speaker 1: I'm good. And then the Pittsburgh steel has wanted Matthew
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Speaker 1: Stafford and he chatted with him and we want you
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Speaker 1: to come to Pittsburgh. I'm good, and he goes back
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Speaker 1: to LA And now look at this all right now
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Speaker 1: the last word to the press box we go. If
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Speaker 1: you're watching the Sunday Night game, you noticed that NBC's
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Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth was feature there. He called this five hundredth
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Speaker 1: NFL game. Hey, we five hundred NFL games. As the
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Speaker 1: Rams took down the Buccaneers in the Sunday Night Game
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Speaker 1: and Collinsworth brought back the iconic classic collins Worth slide.
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Speaker 1: He brought it back, the slide returned. Used to do
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Speaker 1: that with al Michaels back in the day. The slide
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Speaker 1: was back. So the question here is the five hundred.
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Speaker 1: We love round numbers. Nobody cares about four ninety nine,
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Speaker 1: nobody cares about five oh one, but five hundred. Oh man,
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Speaker 1: we got all horny for five hundred. So the question,
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Speaker 1: what does the five hundredth NFL TV broadcast for Chris Collinsworth?
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Speaker 1: What does that say about Collinsworth? So on this one,
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Speaker 1: it is a It is a reminder that Collinsworth knows
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Speaker 1: exact how this game works. I'm not talking about the
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Speaker 1: game of football. I'm talking about the game of television.
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Speaker 1: Politics in television, and it's every media business very political,
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Speaker 1: but TV in particular. And nobody kisses tushy quite like
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Speaker 1: Chris collins Worth. Let's get it. Bravo to the as
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Speaker 1: kissing ability of Chris collins I'm jealous. And he's not
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Speaker 1: just calling football games. He's working. It's like he's working
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Speaker 1: at the cracker barrel and he's buttering biscuits. Is what
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Speaker 1: he's doing down at the cracker barrel, because that's why
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Speaker 1: he's he's what he does is as good as anyone
20:44
Speaker 1: else in terms of the as kissing. Nobody is able
20:48
Speaker 1: to get to that level that Collinsworth is able to
20:51
Speaker 1: get to. He's built a career as a politician in
20:56
Speaker 1: many ways. In the broadcast booth, you look at it,
20:59
Speaker 1: you take a couple of steps back. Collinsworth played one
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Speaker 1: hundred and seven games for the Cincinnati Bungals, one hundred
21:05
Speaker 1: and seven games. He's now suited up and been the
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Speaker 1: lead commentator on five hundred NFL broadcast. Not to mention
21:12
Speaker 1: the time that when I met Collinsworth years ago, he
21:15
Speaker 1: was doing the studio show with Bradshaw, Howie Long and
21:19
Speaker 1: James Brown and those guys that they were doing the
21:21
Speaker 1: studio show on Fox. Collinsworth was the last person in
21:24
Speaker 1: there and then he went back to calling games on television.
21:28
Speaker 1: But when Collinsworth is out calling a game, it's it's
21:32
Speaker 1: like he's watching you. When you have him in the booth,
21:36
Speaker 1: it's like he's watching. It's like he's watching Michael Angelo
21:40
Speaker 1: paint Assistine Chapel. While he's calling a game. He doesn't
21:44
Speaker 1: break down the game per se. Collinsworth has this ability.
21:47
Speaker 1: He's like he's like Jane Austen in the fact that
21:51
Speaker 1: he romanticizes it. Right. It's persuasion, is what it is.
21:54
Speaker 1: It's all that the NFL clearly loves it, or Collinsworth
21:58
Speaker 1: would have been long gone. The slide move that slid
22:03
Speaker 1: on in that is a signal to the NFL say, hey, fellas,
22:07
Speaker 1: i'p I'm still the good soldier. I know how to
22:10
Speaker 1: play nice slapper slapper slabber. Yes, jezus, the NFL protects.
22:17
Speaker 1: The NFL protects the guys who protect the shield. Now,
22:23
Speaker 1: there was a point there was a broadcaster long ago.
22:25
Speaker 1: You don't know who this is, but there was a
22:26
Speaker 1: guy named Howard coast Sell real arrogant sob Howard coast Sell,
22:31
Speaker 1: and he didn't play nice. He would take shots at
22:34
Speaker 1: the NFL and he would be very critical, hold them accountable.
22:38
Speaker 1: And that's a different generation. That's when people expected the
22:42
Speaker 1: media to attack. Now the fanboys want the media to
22:46
Speaker 1: wear their knee pads, is what they want. And Collinsworth
22:49
Speaker 1: is really good at that, right, So he's not someone
22:52
Speaker 1: who's gonna challenge the coaches and the players and be
22:55
Speaker 1: overly critical there. It's almost like he's hosting a nice
22:58
Speaker 1: dinner party. He's doing the games and so there you
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Speaker 1: go Sunday night. He'll be doing that till he's what
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Speaker 1: eighty five ninety years old, Just same old rhetoric and
23:08
Speaker 1: all that. And he's in Mayes like he's the Captain
23:12
Speaker 1: America of butt kissing. That's what he is. And business
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Speaker 1: and an involved Little Finger Foods. If you will little
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Speaker 1: finger food fun for you. Yeah, we'll get to that
23:48
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Speaker 1: Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben mather Show.
24:37
Speaker 1: As we settle on in for the brand new week,
24:41
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24:45
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Come in on the end of a
24:48
Speaker 1: weekend and things are aped up just a little bit.
24:53
Speaker 1: Wouldn't have it any other way. Wouldn't have it anyway.
24:56
Speaker 1: I love coming in here professional broadcast and having everything
25:00
Speaker 1: fed up. Can't get enough of it. It's a tradition
25:04
Speaker 1: unlike any other. Oh, the beat just keeps going on
25:08
Speaker 1: and on and on and on. We sucked, and we
25:12
Speaker 1: sucked at a time that you can't suck. We played
25:14
Speaker 1: bingo on what will be fed up when we come
25:17
Speaker 1: back to work, and never fails, never fails, never fails.
25:23
Speaker 1: All Right, If Ferg Dog says, I've got three hot
25:26
Speaker 1: takes for you, Ben, the Rams are the best team
25:29
Speaker 1: in football. Matthew Stafford the MVP, and Gunners Panthers will
25:34
Speaker 1: win the NFC South Boom. Yeah, Well, Ferg Dog, lay
25:39
Speaker 1: off the sauce, all right, layoff the sauce. Bad job
25:42
Speaker 1: by you, Scrooge, right since says What I took out
25:45
Speaker 1: of the Sunday Night game was that Teddy Bridgewater, a
25:50
Speaker 1: name I haven't heard in a while. Watching him play
25:52
Speaker 1: the second half, now I remember why he's been irrelevant.
25:56
Speaker 1: Teddy looked slower, unable to move in the pocket, and
26:00
Speaker 1: it seemed like he forgot how to play the position. Well.
26:03
Speaker 1: He did retire to coach high school football. He was
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Speaker 1: high school football coach, and then there were some Shenanians
26:08
Speaker 1: there and he ended up leaving that to come back
26:11
Speaker 1: to the world of backup football play. The number one
26:15
Speaker 1: burner account is Collinsworth wearing the Brian Finley knee pads.
26:20
Speaker 1: A hard pass on my big board, big board, Big board,
26:25
Speaker 1: Ryan writes and says, I rewrote the starting lyrics of
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Speaker 1: the autumn win for the Raiders. The autumn win was
26:33
Speaker 1: a Rader daddy. We used to win and it was fun.
26:37
Speaker 1: Now we are a tire fire and all Raider fans
26:41
Speaker 1: heads are upside down. Another damn team just conquered us
26:46
Speaker 1: and won The Raiders. Yes. Terry in England says, no doubt,
26:52
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford is in the pole position for the MVP.
26:55
Speaker 1: He's playing lights out. The Rams have to be the
26:59
Speaker 1: most likely NFC Super Bowl representative. It's from Terry forty
27:04
Speaker 1: nine er fan, Terry checking in Joe the Ghost Hunter.
27:08
Speaker 1: Terry's in England. Joe the Ghost Hunter says, Moneyball Mallard
27:12
Speaker 1: for MVP. Well, thank you, there you go. Black Conrad says,
27:18
Speaker 1: the interview about your quarterback's performance was fantastic. Of course,
27:23
Speaker 1: uh that, Let's see what else do we have sh
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Speaker 1: page nin uh Terry in England also ranting and raving
27:32
Speaker 1: about some kind of list nonsense, which is which is ridiculous.
27:36
Speaker 1: We are on ex at Ben Mallory the show Rundown.
27:38
Speaker 1: We'll be coming down momentarily. We are working out some
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Speaker 1: kinks here, so a few glitches along the way, but
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Speaker 1: there there is that. We will take some phone calls here.
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Speaker 1: Let's see you do we have any meany miney mole,
27:54
Speaker 1: Let's go to Let's go to Kaz. Who's in O
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Speaker 1: High and so cal California. What's going on? Chas? Welcome? Yes, Cass, Hey,
28:05
Speaker 1: what's up? Cass.
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Speaker 4: I'm from Ohi, California. Cas is like Zach spell backwards.
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Speaker 1: Okay, congratulations and you're spelling. I'm very proud of you.
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Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, thank you. Who so uh oh oh
28:22
Speaker 4: so Safford is I mean, yes he is. But he
28:25
Speaker 4: will explain his pinky and that will happen before the
28:29
Speaker 4: playoffs are in the playoffs or something. It always happens
28:31
Speaker 4: to him. He gets like a little hand injury.
28:34
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with a lower back injury. First first
28:38
Speaker 1: game of the playoffs for the Rams. He'll suffer a
28:40
Speaker 1: back injury just before just before halftime, and that'll.
28:44
Speaker 4: Be hand He'll he'll sprain his ring finger.
28:48
Speaker 1: No, he'll get sacked, blindsided, and then he'll be grabbing
28:54
Speaker 1: his back and withering in pain on the field, withering.
28:57
Speaker 4: It is pretty amazing, though, those paths are I'm he
29:00
Speaker 4: throws them, you're like holy smokes, and Drake May is not.
29:05
Speaker 4: He's starting to he's getting wobbly.
29:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had a very ugly beginning to that game,
29:11
Speaker 1: the Patriots one, obviously, but it's not a great He
29:15
Speaker 1: looked like Joe Flacco for that to pick six deal.
29:18
Speaker 1: What was that?
29:19
Speaker 4: FAA wants to be Stafford next year. He's like someone
29:22
Speaker 4: gonna hire me. I thought, Drake May misses all the
29:26
Speaker 4: short passes. You've got the little short passes, but he
29:28
Speaker 4: just he looks too downfield.
29:31
Speaker 1: He need to miss all of them. But he's not well,
29:33
Speaker 1: he doesn't throw it.
29:34
Speaker 4: He doesn't throw the short passes.
29:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Patriots have a weird offense. It's working. You
29:40
Speaker 1: can't rip it. It's working. You're not allowed to rip
29:42
Speaker 1: it because they're winning. You can't take shots of it
29:44
Speaker 1: because they're successful and all that crap. That's how that works.
29:47
Speaker 1: I guess he scheduled though.
29:49
Speaker 4: I mean they beat the Bengals by not as much
29:51
Speaker 4: money as I thought.
29:51
Speaker 3: They beat him by.
29:53
Speaker 1: Yes, well they didn't cover the spread, which is means
29:56
Speaker 1: if you don't cover this, great teams cover the spread,
29:58
Speaker 1: they're not a great team. They didn't cover the spread.
30:00
Speaker 1: Rams covered the spread. That's a great team. They covered
30:02
Speaker 1: the spread.
30:04
Speaker 4: I was suspicious and I looked at this bet, I'm like,
30:06
Speaker 4: that should be higher. Well, I guess I should have
30:09
Speaker 4: gone with my gun and then said they weren't going
30:11
Speaker 4: to cover it because it looked lower than it should
30:13
Speaker 4: have been.
30:13
Speaker 1: But yeah, if it looks if it looks odd, it
30:16
Speaker 1: usually is odd. Yeah, you usually like that. Now in Indianapolis,
30:21
Speaker 1: depends what line you got. But Indianapolis and Kansas City,
30:24
Speaker 1: the Chiefs were favored by three and a half in
30:27
Speaker 1: some places. I think originally it was like three. They
30:29
Speaker 1: won by three, but they didn't want by three and
30:31
Speaker 1: a half. But people thought the Colt should have been
30:34
Speaker 1: favored in that game, and they absolutely gagged it that game.
30:37
Speaker 1: Late We'll talk more about that later, but the Colts
30:39
Speaker 1: absolutely blewed all right, listen, Cash, you.
30:41
Speaker 4: Know wh wh why why why why?
30:43
Speaker 8: Why?
30:43
Speaker 7: Why?
30:44
Speaker 8: What?
30:44
Speaker 1: Why?
30:46
Speaker 4: Well, you were talking about collins Worth and how he
30:48
Speaker 4: trow like you know, he abides by the book, right,
30:51
Speaker 4: So I was gonna be like, do you want to
30:52
Speaker 4: play can we say that on the radio?
30:55
Speaker 1: Can we say? Well, if you have to ask, if
30:57
Speaker 1: you can say it, chances are you don't. You're not
30:59
Speaker 1: able to say it, right.
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Speaker 4: No, it's not that bad.
31:01
Speaker 1: It's like what we'll try. We'll try one and then
31:05
Speaker 1: we'll probably dump it and then I'll be.
31:07
Speaker 4: That Okay, So I'm going to go with this controversial.
31:12
Speaker 4: I can't listen to Michael jackson songs anymore, gotta.
31:16
Speaker 1: Dump it, okay, can't Michael Jackson's song.
31:21
Speaker 4: All love songs like little Boys and good Beat.
31:24
Speaker 1: But I mean that is a false accusation, sir, Well
31:27
Speaker 1: he is dead also, so you know he's dead. Separate
31:30
Speaker 1: the art from the artists.
31:31
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, for real, No, I know, I know, I know,
31:34
Speaker 9: and you realize though if you judge, I mean, everyone's
31:37
Speaker 9: got like there's no mother to even mother Teresa probably
31:40
Speaker 9: did some bad stuff we don't know, but like there's
31:43
Speaker 9: no one you know's.
31:44
Speaker 1: I know and I know people when you know Kobe,
31:48
Speaker 1: when Kobe died, they put it was like it was
31:50
Speaker 1: like god dying. But you know, Kobe had some he
31:54
Speaker 1: had some skeletons. But people forgot.
31:56
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I don't think he was a very good guy.
31:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, people forget I mean a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
32:01
Speaker 1: People are people are people are COMPLI how about this?
32:04
Speaker 1: People are complicated? How about that? They're complicate. You're gonna
32:09
Speaker 1: have to You're gonna have to hang up because we're
32:11
Speaker 1: playing What are we playing here? Oh my god, run away?
32:16
Speaker 3: Hang up.
32:16
Speaker 4: You's gotta go.
32:17
Speaker 1: There, he goes, I'm sorry in the call like that,
32:21
Speaker 1: but I had to do it. There you go. Who
32:25
Speaker 1: owns the Michael Jackson Musical Library?
32:29
Speaker 3: I don't know.
32:30
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Didn't somebody buy it? Did he
32:32
Speaker 1: sell it? Sony owns the majority of Michael Jackson's music.
32:36
Speaker 1: You can sell it to Sony when he was alive, though,
32:38
Speaker 1: I feel like he sold it. I remember hearing something
32:41
Speaker 1: like he sold the rights to his music.
32:43
Speaker 3: In ninety one, Jackson and Sony merged their catalogs to
32:46
Speaker 3: form Sony ATV, with both owning fifty percent.
32:49
Speaker 1: Right, that's a long time, long time ago. Is the
32:52
Speaker 1: Ban Mallor Show? So there was a theme of the week.
32:56
Speaker 1: You had Aaron Rodgers, who did not play for the
33:00
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Did not play, but he did make some
33:05
Speaker 1: headlines the pregame move as he came out there. He
33:09
Speaker 1: was out before the game doing his thing, and he
33:12
Speaker 1: was like, well he's gonna plays, He's not gonna play.
33:14
Speaker 1: And Rogers, nursing a injury to his wrist, did not
33:21
Speaker 1: end up playing, but moments before being ruled out against
33:25
Speaker 1: the Bears, Rogers did a lap around Soldier Field in Chicago,
33:31
Speaker 1: and the quarterback saluting the Bears fans as he said,
33:36
Speaker 1: you know what, Chicago, your pizza is number one. Yes,
33:42
Speaker 1: he gave him the bird as he was making his
33:44
Speaker 1: way around the field and he used his right hand
33:50
Speaker 1: to flip the bird and was caught on camera. So
33:54
Speaker 1: we had that my right hand was getting a workout.
33:56
Speaker 1: So I'm saying that's a bad omen. As the Steelers
33:59
Speaker 1: ended up losing to Chicago or Rogers in a grumpy mood,
34:03
Speaker 1: then you had we had Rogers doing that before the game.
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Speaker 1: Geno Smith more on this later. Gino Smith making his
34:12
Speaker 1: way off the field after completely gutless one. Is there
34:17
Speaker 1: any one left not related to Gino Smith that thinks
34:21
Speaker 1: this guy's any good? Other than maybe Pete Carroll. Oh
34:24
Speaker 1: my god, holy crap, does he suck? And have I
34:29
Speaker 1: ever been more right about a quarterback than Gino Smith?
34:32
Speaker 1: I don't think I have. I nailed that one. And
34:35
Speaker 1: Gino Wow, he got an extra thirty seven and a
34:38
Speaker 1: half million per year for two years from the Raiders.
34:41
Speaker 1: The guy can't play anyway. He was leaving the field,
34:43
Speaker 1: he gave the Raider fans the sign of your number
34:47
Speaker 1: one as he was making his way off the field.
34:50
Speaker 1: Of course, caught on a camera, so hey go a
34:53
Speaker 1: couple of quarterbacks giving the salute to the fans as
34:56
Speaker 1: they made their way off the field. Time now though,
34:59
Speaker 1: for the who am I? Game? This is where we
35:01
Speaker 1: pretend to be somebody else. Let's we call it the
35:03
Speaker 1: who am I? Game. Viking quarterback JJ McCarthy is now
35:08
Speaker 1: ranked eight hundred and fifty first out of eight hundred
35:12
Speaker 1: and fifty two quarterbacks in EPA per dropback among all
35:17
Speaker 1: qualified passers. That goes back to the last twenty five years,
35:22
Speaker 1: and I'm the only player below JJ McCarthy. Who again,
35:26
Speaker 1: Viking bust. JJ McCarthy ranked eight hundred and fifty first
35:30
Speaker 1: out of eight hundred and fifty two in EPA and
35:35
Speaker 1: that's per drop back among qualified passers since the year
35:39
Speaker 1: two thousand. The only player below McCarthy is me. Who
35:44
Speaker 1: am I? That is the question, the answer the player
35:46
Speaker 1: of to day. We'll get to it, we'll do it next.
35:48
Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
35:51
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35:54
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35:55
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Speaker 1: back to we go? Ill the show has been on
36:47
Speaker 1: for a while, dummy, I've been here for fifteen minutes already.
36:50
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37:15
Speaker 1: would that be? They worked their way back into the
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Speaker 1: game and then ended up going to overtime and some
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Speaker 1: Whoa my goodness? All right? The Lions guys having orgasms
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Speaker 1: This is where we pretend to be somebody else, as
38:40
Speaker 1: we call it the who Am I? Game? Viking quarterback
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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy now ranks eight hundred and fifty first out
38:46
Speaker 1: of eight hundred and fifty two in EPA per dropback.
38:51
Speaker 1: That's not good. This is among all qualified passers since
38:54
Speaker 1: the year two thousand, that's a while ago. The only
38:58
Speaker 1: player McCarthy is me. The only one below McCarthy is me.
39:03
Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
39:08
Speaker 1: And let's see does anyone know the answer? We go
39:12
Speaker 1: to the great unwashed, the mall of militia, who have
39:15
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39:19
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39:29
Speaker 1: Who am I has got to be? Blind? Scott from
39:31
Speaker 1: Andy and lion O Lakes, Minnesota. The King of Rock,
39:34
Speaker 1: Jed who fled from Scrooge in Northern California. Mike the
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Let's see page down EPA
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39:55
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40:05
Speaker 1: Bad job by him? Lorena, do you have an answer? Lorena?
40:08
Speaker 1: Mister Schmie, mister Schmie, No, that isn't correct. The correct
40:11
Speaker 1: answer none other than JaMarcus Russell. J. J. McCarthy's second
40:15
Speaker 1: worst to JaMarcus Russell.
40:17
Speaker 3: JaMarcus Russell.
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Speaker 1: The Vikings have JaMarcus Russell