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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour don't bury the lead my
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  Speaker 1: man we'll start with the monday night football game the
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  Speaker 1: final game of a week of football that began way
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  Speaker 1: back on wednesday i was barely alive on wednesday and
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  Speaker 1: they started the nfl season they had that new england
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  Speaker 1: seattle thing that wasn't that great and then they had
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  Speaker 1: the rams and 49er that stunk and then we had
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of college football and the nfl on sunday
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  Speaker 1: and now Here on Monday night, we go to Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: The only city where you can have the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 1: chicken fingers at the landing there in Liberty. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid loaded up. I would imagine. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: for sure, but I've heard whispers that Andy enjoys those
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  Speaker 1: delicious Maller chicken fingers. So, yeah, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.
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  Speaker 1: That was loud. Yeah, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. On
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  Speaker 1: the call there on ABC in AFC West. Slobber knocker.
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  Speaker 1: The Chiefs and the Broncos. At the iconic Arrowhead Stadium there,
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  Speaker 1: that stadium will be going away because it's not new enough.
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  Speaker 1: So they have to build a new palace for the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: So Patrick Holmes returning from injury. A big storyline here
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  Speaker 1: against Bo Nix. I don't know how much of this
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  Speaker 1: game you watched. You burned out on pigskin. What else
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  Speaker 1: were you doing? You watching baseball? No sports? You didn't
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  Speaker 1: watch any sports? That's a bad job by you. It's
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  Speaker 1: about Jeopardy. So perhaps you did not watch, but the
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  Speaker 1: story of this game was not about Bo Nix. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of was about Bo Nix, but it was
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  Speaker 1: not about Mahomes. The main headline was it was a
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  Speaker 1: walk in the park, or at least a walker in
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  Speaker 1: the park, as Kenneth Walker rumbling and stumbling for 173
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  Speaker 1: yards and not one but two, two touchdowns and his
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs debut. I'm told that's good. I am told that's good.
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  Speaker 1: So he took the pressure off Mahomes in his first
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  Speaker 1: game back and all that. So Kansas City with a
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  Speaker 1: body slam, body slam of the Broncos, 31-10. 31-10, Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City with a blowout win on Monday night. Walker carried
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  Speaker 1: the ball 23 times. Most of those, it seemed like,
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  Speaker 1: early in the game, they just kept handing the ball
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  Speaker 1: off to Kenneth Walker. And he had the most rushing
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  Speaker 1: yards by a Chiefs player since Jamal Charles. You remember him?
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  Speaker 1: Jamal is a good player. Long time ago. Jamal Charles there,
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  Speaker 1: 226 yards he had in a game against the Indianapolis Colts.
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  Speaker 1: And that was back in 2012, the year before Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid ended up in Kansas City after his run in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: So we have that. And before we get into the
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  Speaker 1: meat and potatoes of this, let's hear from the key participants.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Sean Payton, the head coach, a very confident man,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton. explaining what went wrong for his football team.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they won really in every phase. Our third
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  Speaker 3: down numbers weren't good. Our rushing numbers weren't good.
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  Speaker 1: Pick your spot.
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  Speaker 3: We put our defense in some short fields, but collectively,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we didn't tackle well enough. Then the game
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  Speaker 3: became one-dimensional. Really the antithesis of how you beat a
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  Speaker 3: good team on the road. It's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that simple. All right, how about Bo Nix? This
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  Speaker 1: guy people thought was going to take off. Well, so far,
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  Speaker 1: not so good there for Bo Nix. This season, his
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  Speaker 1: only sample size this game was you want to get away,
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  Speaker 1: kind of a performance here for him. Here's Bo Nix
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  Speaker 1: pointing out, apparently the Chiefs forgot that they're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: suck like they did last year. Like I said, you
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  Speaker 1: don't play good against a good team, and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to beat you pretty good. And we can act like
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  Speaker 1: all we want, but they're still the Chiefs. They're still
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  Speaker 1: a really good football team. And all the new guys
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  Speaker 1: acted like, you know, the new guys they had acted
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  Speaker 1: like they've been playing in that system for years and
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  Speaker 1: just did exactly what the old Chiefs have been doing. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you've got to give them credit, and they
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  Speaker 1: wore us out today. The better story, though, is in
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  Speaker 1: that Broncos locker room, so we're going to stay there
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  Speaker 1: because that's where the drama is. This team was on
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  Speaker 1: the brink of going to the Super Bowl, and they
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  Speaker 1: came out, and I'm told that's the worst performance ever
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  Speaker 1: by a team that had as good a record as
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos did the year before. Never before have we
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  Speaker 1: seen such a crap performance by a team coming off
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  Speaker 1: such a dominant season. And the main focus, as we
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  Speaker 1: discuss here, is about the guy you just heard, Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, what went wrong? What went wrong for
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix and the Broncos offense, which some thought was
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  Speaker 1: going to be high-powered with the additions that they made
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  Speaker 1: in the offseason? So my thoughts on this, I've got
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  Speaker 1: manager special, shrapnel offense, And pizzeria. And we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together, and we are going to
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  Speaker 1: turn into a whipsaw is what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: But we start with this. A, Denver, just the very beginning,
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  Speaker 1: both teams were kind of, you know, the Chiefs at
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  Speaker 1: least came out and just kept running the ball. They're like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we're going to come out and run the ball.
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  Speaker 1: The Broncos started with a mistake. Denver had very little rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: They never got any kind of a flow, a rat-a-tat-tat
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  Speaker 1: to what they were doing in this game. And it
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  Speaker 1: was cover your eyes type of football. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos from years gone by. Not last year's Broncos here.
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  Speaker 1: And watching on ABC, it became a bit of an
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  Speaker 1: interactive experience on ABC. And when I say interactive experience,
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  Speaker 1: I have a new gizmo. The gizmo was the smell-o-vision.
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  Speaker 1: So if you had the smell-o-vision on... and you were
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  Speaker 1: watching the Broncos and the Chiefs on the Smell-O-Vision, when
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos' offense was on the field, you could smell,
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  Speaker 1: and it smelled to me, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: your Smell-O-Vision is like mine, my Smell-O-Vision, it smelled like
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  Speaker 1: rotting seafood in a dumpster behind a Taco Bell in
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  Speaker 1: the summer, sometime in August, just baking in the summer sun.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it sounded like. And smelled like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that smell of it rotting and then the kind of sound,
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  Speaker 1: it makes a little sound, I think. It's so nasty
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  Speaker 1: and so foul that it makes a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: sound of it, just the poison going out in the
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  Speaker 1: air everywhere. That was the Broncos. So Sean Payton there
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  Speaker 1: coming off that great regular season and a deep playoff
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  Speaker 1: run in Denver. And how did that go? my God,
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  Speaker 1: as the former Fox Sports Radio talk show host Jim
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  Speaker 1: Mora would say, the Broncos offense could not do diddly-poo.
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  Speaker 1: They could not do diddly-poo offensively. Could not. And Sean
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  Speaker 1: Payton changed play callers. Very concerned, very concerned that he
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  Speaker 1: was going to lose his web, his beloved web to
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  Speaker 1: another team. And so Davis Webb stayed and got promoted
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And And then it turned out
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  Speaker 1: that the Broncos on offense ordered the manager's special. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you looked at the menu board.
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  Speaker 1: The manager's special for the Broncos was a biggie-sized sloppy bow.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Not sloppy Joe. This was a sloppy bow
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  Speaker 1: by Bo Nix who managed a paltry 131 yards passing
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  Speaker 1: that is less than five yards per pass attempt. Seven
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  Speaker 1: is average. He was at 4.7 yards per attempt. He
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  Speaker 1: had one touchdown and one interception and three fumbles for
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix. Could have had a fourth fumble, four sacks,
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  Speaker 1: and a passer rating below 70. And, but wait, there's more,
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  Speaker 1: a partridge in a pear tree for Bo Nix, who
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  Speaker 1: looked like he needed his own Bronco-branded Rosetta Stone to
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  Speaker 1: try to decipher the Davis Webb offense. I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: it was that complex, that Davis Webb was such a,
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  Speaker 1: X's and O's savant, that he made it impossible to
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  Speaker 1: understand the Broncos' offense. And it's not just the offense,
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  Speaker 1: which was offensive indigestion for the Broncos here. You went
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  Speaker 1: out against an AFC West rival, a team that got
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  Speaker 1: their balls kicked in last year, Kansas City. They're at home.
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  Speaker 1: You had a chance to stuff everyone into a you-know-what
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  Speaker 1: by winning that game. And this was not just merely
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  Speaker 1: a bad first impression. For the 2026 vintage of the
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  Speaker 1: Denver Broncos there, it was wicked bad. Wicked bad here.
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  Speaker 1: Industrial strength, wretched football for the Broncos on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: Both sides of the ball, because the defense ends up... Now,
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  Speaker 1: some of this was on Bo Nix's mistakes, but you
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  Speaker 1: have 31 points to Kansas City. 31 points. I know
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  Speaker 1: everyone's scoring except the Rams in the NFL this year,
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  Speaker 1: but still, 31 points defensively, that's not good. The guy
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  Speaker 1: that is on trial for beating up a chick, he's out,
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  Speaker 1: so they're blaming it all on him. I guess the
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  Speaker 1: other players on the defense just get to get a
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  Speaker 1: pass on that. Is that how that works? They don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about it? Okay, fine. So now outside
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  Speaker 1: of the offense... For the Broncos here, the Davis-Webb, we
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the offense not great with the new play call.
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  Speaker 1: Where did the Broncos' defense go wrong? There wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stoppage by the Denver defense in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think it was a specific kind of
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  Speaker 1: suck for the Broncos. I don't think there was like
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  Speaker 1: one person. I thought it was, as the line goes,
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  Speaker 1: an all-encompassing, all-encompassing type of suck. for the Broncos defense
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  Speaker 1: who played soft, lacked the basic Pop Warner fundamentals of football,
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  Speaker 1: wrapping up the tackling, the line of scrimmage. They got manhandled.
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  Speaker 1: The Broncos got manhandled by the big fat guys on
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City that were better than your fat guys. So
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  Speaker 1: fat against fat, and they're fat better than you're fat.
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  Speaker 1: You lose the fat game. That's it. That's my analysis.
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  Speaker 1: All right, meanwhile... Speaking of bad, and we're highlighting Bo Nix,
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos defense, the much-ballyhooed debut of the new torpedo.
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  Speaker 1: The new torpedo for the Broncos. And I had a
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  Speaker 1: night to forget the question, how do you grade? Give
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  Speaker 1: me the grade here on Jalen Waddell's debut in a
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  Speaker 1: Denver Broncos uniform, the wide receiver coming over from South Florida.
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  Speaker 1: So the Mallory report card for Jalen Waddell, his first game,
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  Speaker 1: first real game as a Bronco, and I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to overreact. It's only one game, and I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be that guy. You know, I'm not a shock jock.
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  Speaker 1: I would be on during the day if I was
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  Speaker 1: a shock jock. I'm a lowly overnight guy, just a
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  Speaker 1: part of the wheel here, just a spoke in the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: So after a minutes-long deliberation of the available information, We
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  Speaker 1: have determined that Jalen Waddell's debut, he gets an F-.
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  Speaker 1: An F-. We would give him lower than that, but
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  Speaker 1: we're told that's the lowest we can give him. So F-
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  Speaker 1: for Jalen Waddell, and we recommend he goes to summer school.
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  Speaker 1: We would recommend that he goes out and goes to
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  Speaker 1: summer school. We would recommend that. So the Broncos, they
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  Speaker 1: would have been better off in this game having an
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  Speaker 1: actual emperor penguin waddle out there, right? Because at least
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  Speaker 1: that penguin would waddle with purpose. And you'd like to
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  Speaker 1: see the penguin. You'd laugh at the penguin. You'd point
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  Speaker 1: at the penguin. You'd say, look at that funny penguin.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: Why not? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, wow, wow. Jalen Waddell. And I liked him in Miami,
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  Speaker 1: but man alive. Denver's shiny new $ 76 million. He's their
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  Speaker 1: new toy for Sean Payton. And he had one more
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  Speaker 1: catch than you did and two more yards than you
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  Speaker 1: and I combined had on three targets. That's it. That makes,
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  Speaker 1: by my analysis, and I don't think I'm wrong on this,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Waddell, less of an offensive dynamo for Sean Payton's
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  Speaker 1: Broncos and more like a very expensive decoy. What is
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  Speaker 1: up with that? Was he camouflaged? Was he painted like
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos uniforms and they couldn't see him when they
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  Speaker 1: were going out? I mean, I don't understand. Maybe he
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  Speaker 1: was camouflaged in with the offensive linemen. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what was going on. But my God. And now the
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  Speaker 1: good news is that Jalen Waddell can pull up a
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  Speaker 1: chair and sit next to A.J. Brown and Miles Garrett
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  Speaker 1: in the corner of the room in the VIP section
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  Speaker 1: of high-priced players, big off-season pickups, who went out and
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  Speaker 1: performed like flatulence. And the question now is, will Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Waddell join A.J. Brown and Miles Garrett in In the
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  Speaker 1: injury tent, those guys claimed, oh, I couldn't play because
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  Speaker 1: I'm hurt. So they're out with injuries. Does that mean
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Waddell, who's also as bad as both those guys,
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  Speaker 1: does that mean he's got to come up with one
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  Speaker 1: of those fake injuries and get out for a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Then you had the Komodo dragon in
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  Speaker 1: the room. What was the Komodo dragon in the room
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  Speaker 1: for Jalen Waddell? For many, it was a comment that
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  Speaker 1: was seen as benign by Troy Aikman. However, I have
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  Speaker 1: a higher level of hearing than you from years and
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  Speaker 1: years of using headphones. So I have determined that this
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  Speaker 1: is something, not nothing. Now, what am I talking about?
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  Speaker 1: So Troy Aikman delivered what seemed like a rather mild line.
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  Speaker 1: And it actually turned out to be shrapnel, shrapnel directed
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  Speaker 1: at Jalen Waddle. He had a drop pass. I think
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  Speaker 1: this was in I think I wrote on my notes.
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  Speaker 1: It was in the second quarter. So I think it
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  Speaker 1: was in the second. He dropped a pass. And Aikman,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to paraphrase here. He essentially said, terrific player,
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  Speaker 1: minor problem. And then he said his problem was catching
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  Speaker 1: the football. And I said, well, that's just a throwaway line.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing to that. I say no. Because you've got
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  Speaker 1: to remember the context here. Troy Aikman is just not
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  Speaker 1: a broadcaster. Troy Aikman is double dipping. Troy Aikman is
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  Speaker 1: on the Miami Dolphins payroll, the team that unloaded Jalen Waddell.
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  Speaker 1: Things that make you go, hmm, is it true that
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  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman was actually just regurgitating, regurgitating what he had
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  Speaker 1: heard in meetings with Dolphin Brass when they were deciding
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  Speaker 1: who to get rid of when they had the little
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  Speaker 1: fire sale, their bonfire in Miami? Is it also true
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  Speaker 1: that that line was used, used by Miami insiders to
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  Speaker 1: describe Jalen Waddell? That that's his weak spot here. And
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  Speaker 1: it makes you wonder, right? Like some exit interview when
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  Speaker 1: Waddle was let go and sent off to Denver. And
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  Speaker 1: they said, well, this is something you don't do that well.
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  Speaker 1: Catching the ball! You gotta catch the ball. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it sounded like to me. And this is one of
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  Speaker 1: the issues. The NFL, they don't care anymore. Everything's changed.
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  Speaker 1: And Tom Brady's Running the Raiders while broadcasting. Troy Aikman's
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  Speaker 1: working for the Miami Dolphins while broadcasting. So when Brady
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  Speaker 1: says anything about a Raider or former Raider, and he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't say anything interesting, so you don't have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about that. But Aikman occasionally does. And so when Aikman
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  Speaker 1: says something about a Dolphin or former Dolphin, it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute here. What's going on with that? All right,
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  Speaker 1: now last word. We go to the Kansas City side
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  Speaker 1: of things as the Chiefs get a three-touchdown win at home.
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  Speaker 1: And the question for the Chiefs is this. Should Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid be encouraged or discouraged with the play of Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes for the Chiefs in his return to the lineup?
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  Speaker 1: So this one gets a capital D, Discouraged. What are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about, Maller? The Chiefs won by three touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: All right, tell me you didn't watch the game without
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  Speaker 1: telling me you didn't watch the game. The idea was
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  Speaker 1: that Mahomes would hit the ground running, and that did
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  Speaker 1: not happen. He hit the ground and face-planted. Mahomes hit
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  Speaker 1: the ground and he face-planted here. This was a pizzeria performance.
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  Speaker 1: A pizzeria performance. There's a pizza chain in California called Shakey's.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a Shakey's type performance with extra mojo, uh-oh, potatoes.
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  Speaker 1: Great buffet. Yeah, yeah. So Andy Reid was sleep shopping.
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  Speaker 1: Here's my theory. So Andy Reid was sleep shopping late
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  Speaker 1: at night, and he went to the wrong website, and
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  Speaker 1: he actually ordered, he for some reason decided to order
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  Speaker 1: off this kind of shady website, and he ended up
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  Speaker 1: getting the Timu version of, And that's a few flashes,
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  Speaker 1: just a few flashes of magic. The old Mahomes magic,
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by a whole lot of cosplay as Jared Goff.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing cosplay as Jared Goff. And that is not
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  Speaker 1: a compliment, by the way. That is not a compliment
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  Speaker 1: at all. The warm and fuzzy type feelings do come
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  Speaker 1: from Kenneth Walker, the former Seahawk, the crowned and pound attack.
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  Speaker 1: I certainly think Seattle could use him. Bad job by
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  Speaker 1: somebody there in the Seattle front office to let that
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  Speaker 1: guy go when he wanted to stay. Who goofed? I've
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  Speaker 1: got to know. And the Seahawks not retaining the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl MVP, Kenneth Walker, who looked amazing. And this was
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  Speaker 1: what we call high testosterone football by Kansas City here.
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  Speaker 1: Cock-a-doodle-doo for Andy Reid and the Chiefs as they played
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  Speaker 1: with machismo, which is encouraging. And that first half and
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  Speaker 1: the success they had on the running game was absolutely
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  Speaker 1: smash-mouth football for Kansas City here. And you can see
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  Speaker 1: that working. You know, in the cold weather in January,
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  Speaker 1: a game at Arrowhead, when the players are out there
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  Speaker 1: running around, you can see your breath. That kind of day.
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  Speaker 1: And in the multiverse, and we do believe in the
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  Speaker 1: multiverse in these parts, this has to be part of
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the new reality. Now, they can't win every game like this.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: That's not sustainable in the era that we're in right now. However,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: if you have that ability and Mahomes is going to
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: play the way Mahomes played, you really have no other
• 19:06
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• 19:08
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• 19:13
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• 19:16
  Speaker 1: used to be and maybe never getting back to that player. Plus,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you got Travis Kelsey, who's busy working the room with
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift and her bestie, Tom Cruise, schmoozing, a little
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: schmooze fest going on there. So Kansas City, they're going
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: to have to become a chameleon here. They're going to
• 19:33
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• 19:36
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• 19:39
  Speaker 1: this point, based on what we saw from Mahomes, you
• 19:41
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• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It was a mess. It was a hot mess is
• 19:47
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• 19:52
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• 19:55
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• 19:58
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• 20:02
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• 20:47
  Speaker 1: So I was not planning on talking college football here,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and then this thing just popped up right in my face.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I had no choice. This is such a good story.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I had to talk about it. It's a microcosm of
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the times we're in. So our lead story now from Austin, Texas,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the capital of the Lone Star State, where the Longhorns
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: moved into the top spot in college football. They're in
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the catbird seat. If you didn't see this year, they
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: are the new number one team in college football. The
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: number one. AP top 25 after rallying back, playing bad
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: football for three quarters, one good quarter against the Buckeyes
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of Ohio State. So Texas ends up at the top
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: spot for what that's worth in collegiate football there. And
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: just in time for Steve Sarkeesian's team to be sucked
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: into the vortex of controversy. Controversy. Did you hear about this?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: No?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Okay. The golden boy of college football, he's no longer
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: in the charm circle. What happened? Our beloved Arch Manning,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: he's now a bad guy. Arch Manning became a bad guy. Oh, no!
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: So the Texas quarterback, Arch Manning, what did he do? Please,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: calm down. This is very offensive. I don't even know
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: if I'm allowed to say it on the radio. It's
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that offensive. Arch Manning, 22 years old, college student, laughed
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: at an AI video. Why? Why would you do that, Arch?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Why would you laugh at something designed to make people laugh? Why?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: How could you do that? What's wrong with you? Our
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: heroes breaking our heart. Yeah. So anyway, stupid, stupid. There
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: was a time and every generation you go through life. And,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: you know, when I was growing up, my parents would
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: tell stories about stuff that didn't exist when I was,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: you know, when that was in my world. And I
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: can tell of a world where there was a time
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: that we just ignored dumb people. Now dumb people have
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: a megaphone, and they can bitch and complain about everything.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: That's the world we're in right now. And for some reason,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: certain people listen to dumb people. There's a lot of
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: dumb people up in arms right now. Arch Manning did
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: laugh at an AI-generated video depicting his coach Steve Sarkeesian slapping...
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: that what's her name holly roll whoever that is that
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: annoying sideline reporter uh the clip was following texas's comeback
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: win over the buck as you saw the game you
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: likely saw it or heard about what happened sarkeesian essentially
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: blew off the customary post-game tv interview and ran away
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: gave the hook them horn sign and ran away and
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: then that was that uh so arch manning was asked
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: about all the hullabaloo and all that stuff, and he
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: said he had seen a few AI edits, and he laughed,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and this.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Is, again.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Very offensive for some. So he laughed at the Sarkeesian
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Hollyro video, called it, quote, a good one. Oh, how
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: could you do that, Arch?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And said it was hilarious. Said it was hilarious. And
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: then the other thing that upset the mob there, the
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: other media people chuckled in the room. That was another
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: dagger right to the heart. Right to the heart. These poor,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: tortured souls. So, of course, this triggered a bunch of critics,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: people demanding apologies. And how could Texas allow this to happen?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: The University of Texas, a dark day for the Longhorns.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: All the usual bull crap these idiots come up with.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: So that went on and that was a thing. And yeah,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: so as of this hour, there have been no apologies whatsoever.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the mob saying it's a bad look for Arch Manning
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: to laugh at an AI video and for the University
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: of Texas. So that is a good jumping-off point. Let
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: us discuss. And the question, was the rage directed at
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Texas quarterback Arch Manning enjoying an AI video warranted? So
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I have the Selective Service System, Pigeon, and Madonna. And
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together, and we're
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: going to give you the ABCs and the 1, 2, 3s,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: but we always start with number one. Number one. 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Number one. Oh, yeah. Number one. All right, so I'm
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: obviously giving this whole thing side eye, and this happens
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: way too much. way too much, where I see stories
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: like this and I think, well, this just must be
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: just nonsense, just absolute malarkey, and I'm not going to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: use the story because it's fake. I try to believe
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that we don't live in a world where there's people
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: living amongst us that overreact to things like this, but
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: yet here we are. So it's just a sad testimony
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to how certain people are wired, which is disappointing. So
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Texas survives Ohio State. Apparently, though, They have fallen into
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a booby trap, Laughgate. They're now involved in Laughgate, and
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: this is now a thing. Now, I believe that most
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: of this, if not all of it, was just performative outrage.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: There are people that make their living being outraged by things.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: And of course, it's always selective outrage. And these people
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: auditioning to be the most offended person online. It's a
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: urinating match. I'm more offended than you. I've worked my
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: entire life to be in sports media. And these people
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: laughed at this radio, this woman being beat up. Well,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: it actually was AI. Nobody got hit. No one was hit.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: It was all fake, dummy. Yes. And if you were
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: all worked up about the NFL draft and where Arch
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Manning's going to go and all that stuff, well, Arch
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Manning got a taste of the draft, the selective service system,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and he was drafted into the battlefield. of the culture war.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: They paused at the WNBA, so the culture war has
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: now moved to college football. And Arch Manning is the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: marquee star of this particular battle royale of the culture war.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: He accidentally stepped on a woke landmine. He did. He
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: stepped right on it. Congratulations, Arch. Way to go. You
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: have been handpicked as the star of the moral outrage
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: industrial complex. So offended by what you did. How dare you? Apparently,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: we live in a world where a 22-year-old college kid
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: chuckling at a stupid AI video now requires some kind
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: of congressional inquiry. Yes. Dum-da-dum-dum-dum. I know. It's insane. So
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: he laughed. Apparently someone called 911, and the tone police
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: showed up. They didn't like the tone. Bothered by the tone.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: And they arrived with the sirens blazing. They did. Now,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the culture referees, they threw a flag. And they determined
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: it was unnecessary amusement by Arch Manning. 15-yard automatic apology.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Automatic apology for Arch Manning. Gotta do it. Now, Arch
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: committed the unforgivable sin of enjoying something that some branches
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: of the media decided he was not allowed to enjoy.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: And so he must pay a price. Gotta pay a price.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: The outrage machine... Does not require victims anymore. Because there's
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: no victim.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: It was AI.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: It was a fake video. Anyone with that, even Marcel
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. No, it was it was ridiculous. And so
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you don't need a victim. It just they manufacture this wholesale.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And maybe the funniest part to me of the whole thing.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: And I thought it was fake. I thought I don't
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: want to live in a world where these people are
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: amongst us, but they are. And and just freaking out
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: about everything. And it's funny, a lot of the female media,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: they're very upset about this. They were very quiet about
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Diana Rossini. making alleged whoopee with an NFL coach. They
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: didn't have a lot to say about that, but this
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: is very offensive, this AI video. Very upsetting here. But
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I love watching the people online who pretend they live
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: in that world. Like that's their world, that online world.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And they pretend like they've never laughed at anything inappropriate
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: and demanding college quarterback. Not only play quarterback, but then
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: also work as like a middle-aged corporate spokesman for Nabisco.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: And as far as the other media people laughing at
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: what Arch Manning said, the greatest soundtrack, greatest laugh track
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: is awkward media people interviewing coaches and players. They will
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: literally laugh at anything. Anything. and very few athletes and
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: coaches are funny. Most of them are very boring people.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: They don't have anything interesting to say. They're meatheads, most
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: of them. And yet, in front of a bank of microphones,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: they're the funniest people in the world. Every one of
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: these writers and the radio guys and the TV people,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: they all laugh at everything. It's the funniest thing in
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the world. I mean, what? We now go to the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Big Apple. Now, it would take something extra special for
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: me to talk about a Mets-Orioles game sitting here in September.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: And yet, here we are. A couple teams under.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: 500.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: The Mets way under. 500. The Orioles, they still mathematically
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: have a chance because the American League is going to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: put a couple of bad teams in the playoffs because
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: there's not enough good teams in the American League. Anyway,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I bring that up because Pete Alonzo, Pete Alonzo returned
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: to Citi Field as an Oriole, and he received a
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: huge ovation. Massive ovation for Pete Alonzo. from the long-suffering
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Mets fans. Alonzo, how did he do? Did he reward
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the Mets fans? Hit a home run for Baltimore?
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: No.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: He went hitless. He did have a walk and a
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: strikeout as Baltimore won a game between two teams who
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: are really realistically going nowhere, and the fans had all
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the welcome back energy All the welcome back gifts. They had,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: what did they have? They had the signs, a lot
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: of signs. There was the rhythmic chanting for Pete Alonzo.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: We got some rhythmic chanting for Pete Alonzo, which is
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: all I love, a good rhythmic chant. Love it, love it,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: love it. The story, though, happened that's good for talk radio,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: happened during batting practice. Not a game, not a game.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: We in here talking about batting practice. So batting practice,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo had a brief on-field conversation with Steve Cohen,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the trust fund... Well, not trust fund. He's the hedge fund.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Hedge fund. Much different than trust fund. Hedge fund. Hedge
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: fund guy and Met fanboy, Steve Cohen, who liked the
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Met so much, he bought the team. So they had
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: an on-field conversation, and that means lip readers were involved, so...
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: According to the lip readers, Steve Cohen delivered a heartfelt
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: message to the former Met Pete Alonso on the field
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: wearing an Orioles uniform. He said, this is a quote
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: from the lip readers of Steve Cohen said, this is
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: your home. Appreciate you, Pete. And then they went their
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: separate ways. This is your home. Appreciate you, Pete. Close
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: quote from the Mets owner. So the question, how would
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: you classify Mets owner Stephen Cohen telling Pete Alonzo on
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the field, this is your home? All right, so looking
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: at this particular story, Stephen basically walked up to Pete
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Alonzo wearing sandwich board that said, mistakes were made. All caps,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: mistakes were made here. And the Mets let the polar
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: bear escape. And now Steve Cohen, realizing the team blows,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: they bet on the wrong horse, and that's on them.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: And so now he's standing outside the zoo wondering why
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the cage is empty at the polar bear retreat there.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: What happened? And it's odd, though, because it seems like
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the Mets owner wants credit for the emotional reunion. However,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: he helped create the breakup in the first place. So,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and he didn't, the Mets owner did not fully admit
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: that the front office blew it. But he did leave.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Enough breadcrumbs. And there's a lot of breadcrumbs. If you
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: look at the breadcrumbs, he could feed all of the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: pigeon population in Queens. And there's a lot. As you know,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: pigeons are the rats of the sky. And he can
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: feed all those airborne rats, all of them. And when
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Steve Cohen says, this is your home, I use the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Malheur Rosetta Stone. And that translates directly in billionaire speak
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: to home. Oops-a-daisy. That's what that means. Oops-a-daisy. We screwed
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the pooch. Love ya. Steve Cohen. That's what that means.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: It does take extra chutzpah, as my grandfather would say
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: back in the day, to preach family values and then...
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I guess somebody forgot in payroll to pay the money.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Steve Cohen had such a chubby for the Mets GM
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: there that whatever the Mets GM wanted, he did. So
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: they broke up the roster, got rid of all the
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: people the fans liked. They kept the malcontents. And now
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: you look at it, and they're no better. They're worse, actually,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: than they were a year ago. It's a pure case,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: not of buyer's remorse. This is seller's remorse for Steve
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Cohen there. The polar bear returned to his natural habitat.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: And now, of course, he's wearing the pumpkin uniform of
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: the Baltimore baseball team. Now, final point. I'm going to
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: go back to the NFL, back to Denver. We had
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: a Monday night game, which was a route or route.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Kansas City, not because of Mahomes, because of the running game,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: shoved it down the throat of the once-proud Broncos. A
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: three-touchdown win for Kansas City at Arrowhead. Mahomes, not very good.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Bo Nix, worse. And the story, though, is prior to
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the game, we learned that it is true that the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Broncos reached out to try to get... A guy almost
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: 50 years old to play quarterback earlier this year. So
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: remember when Bo Nix went snap, crackle, pop, and fractured
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: his ankle in Denver's overtime playoff win over Buffalo? And
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: then it was like that weird thing. It was announced
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: after the game. And it was like, what's going on?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: And then he would miss the AFC championship game and
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Well... A story confirmed. It had been
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: bouncing around the echo chamber. It's been confirmed now that
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a couple of Bronco assistants, Joe Lombardi and Pete Carmichael,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: reached out to then 47-year-old Drew Brees and said, Hey, Drew,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: how would you like to play for the Broncos? And
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Drew said, don't know i got some guy in the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: other line to buy some white walls i don't know
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: about that uh anyway they reached out to drew breeze
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: about coming out of retirement and breeze was said to
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: be intrigued enough to work out and test whether his
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: body could handle an nfl comeback spoiler alert spoiler alert
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: uh turns out that was not not going to happen
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: that was not going to happen the experiment ended rather
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: abruptly breeze experienced an injury while working out. He had
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: a wrist problem. He had previously teased on some podcast
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: that no one listens to that he was offered a
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: chance to come back. Now, there are reports saying that
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: he would not have legally been allowed to come back.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Of course, we know the NFL likes to bend rules
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: from time to time, so just because there's a rule
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean the NFL can't bend it. The question, what
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: does this Drew Brees workout confirmation with the Broncos before
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the AFC title game at the end of last season
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: tell us? So it's more of a reminder. It's more
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: of a reminder than anything. It is profoundly mortifying for
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback room to that the coaches, when the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: starter gets hurt, the first thing the coaches do is
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: start sending text messages to people that have been retired
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: for years. Hey, how would you like to play quarterback
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: for the Broncos? That only. They're shopping immediately their first
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: default move. Rather than just say, hey, we've got a
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: backup for a reason, Sean Payton and the coaching staff
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: are like, hey, let's go out and we'll check the
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: waiver wire, but not the normal waiver wire. We have
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: a special AARP waiver wire. And it just shows you
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: how little confidence the Bronco coaching staff had for their backups.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: And rightfully so. As Sean Payton knew, he was porked.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: And he was. He was right. Because the backup sucked.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Jared Stidham was terrible. Coughed up a furball. in a
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: very winnable game against the Patriots in the AFC Championship
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: game with a halfway decent quarterback, just an average quarterback,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: the Broncos would have reached the Super Bowl and played
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks and instead New England went there. But nevertheless,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: this goes on all the time. And right now... You
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: can pick any team, whether Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore. There
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: are coaches that have guys like Peyton Manning, Kurt Warner,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Drew Brees, all these guys numbered just in case. Just
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: in case. Right? It's wild. It is great these coaches
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: keep convincing themselves that their system can magically abracadabra turn
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: back the biological clock on some of these quarterbacks and
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: it's classic nfl arrogance by the coaches is what it
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: is and so here we are uh you know forget
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: The veteran experience, it's more than just veteran experience at
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: this point with these guys. Teams are straight up doing
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: senior citizen outreach is what they're doing here. And so
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: just take a spin. I've got a driver for you. Drew,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Drew Brees, come on out. I'll give you my driver's name,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Doc Brown. He's got this classic DeLorean. Got to get
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: it up to 88-something miles an hour, and then you're
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: on your way. That's it. Right back to the future.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Right back to the future. You're on your way there.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: And if you're opening... As a coach, if you're opening
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: the football retirement home, shouldn't the Broncos have reached out
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: to John Elway? I know Elway's 66 or whatever, but
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: why not reach out to John Elway? Say, John, at
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: least give a courtesy call. How'd you like to come
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: back and play quarterback for the Broncos? I know you're
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: almost 70, but who cares? Come on, man. And most
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: of these guys, you look around, most of these guys
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: reject the temptation. I remember Kurt Warner, when he was
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: several years removed from playing in the NFL, he... talked
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: about getting phone calls from teams to come out of retirement.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: He didn't do it. Every once in a while, there's
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: a sucker that'll do it. Phillip Rivers, sucker, he did it.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: But remember, Phillip Rivers and Drew Brees were teammates with
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: the old San Diego Chargers. So they probably figured in Denver, well,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Rivers did it, and Drew Brees will probably do it.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Why not? You know, like, Rivers couldn't resist the Colts' opportunity,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: and so it's like that old Madonna song, Oh Father,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: except they've changed this. It's not about that. In this case,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: it's Father Time always wins in the end. Be sure to.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific. Cheater, cheater, cheater.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: It's 14-0 against the Lions.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Third degree.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: At Lambeau, 14-0 against the Lions at Lambeau.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: This is when Big Ben gets grilled. Koopaloop.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: After the Bengals win over the Buccaneers, coach Zach Taylor
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: said that they, quote, felt the presence of their defensive additions. However,
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: linebacker Barrett Carter said we haven't answered any questions. Ben,
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: do you think any any questions were answered?
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: No.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: The game was a gift from the Buccaneers. Baker Mayfield
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: fumbled three times. Tampa had four total fumbles. They lost. Okay,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: so how good are the Bengals? How much of that
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: was the Bengals' defense? How much of that was just
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: malfeasance by the Buccaneers in that game? Tampa did put
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: up 27 points even with all that, so I'm not
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: convinced of anything. They won. That's great. They still got
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: 27 points, and without the turnovers, you know, who knows. Next!
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: Ashton Genting told the media after the Raiders' win on
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: Sunday that they are building a new culture, and that culture.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Is going to win football games.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Ha ha ha!
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Ben, do you think Clint Kubiak is building a new
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: culture in Las Vegas? Yes, as long as they can
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: play the Miami Dolphins a few more times. They got
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: a really good shot there. If they can get Malik
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Willis like six or seven more times, they got a shot. No,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: come on. That was for draft positioning that game between
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins and the Raiders, and right now the Dolphins
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: are in a better position. It's the Dolphins, Browns, and what,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the Titans for the Eli, or not Eli, Arch Manning sweepstakes. Next!
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: TJ Watt joined Julius Peppers as the only players in
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: NFL history to have 100 sacks and 10 interceptions. Ben,
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: do you think TJ will prove to be the superior
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: Watt brother before it's all said and done?
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Well, it's pretty clear at this point, based on the
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: career JJ Watt's already done, he's going to be in
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, and his brother's going to be
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. So then it's like you're...
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: They're both going to be Hall of Famers, so you're
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: really nitpicking on who's better. But statistically, since this guy,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: the Steelers watch still playing, he's got a pretty good shot.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: How do we do, Kupalu? You pass this edition. It
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: is valid. What the game? Winner, winner, winner. Chicken dinner.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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• 43:32
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• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Mallard's Mountain of Money.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Lord, that's a lot of money.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: And it is Mallard's Mountain of Money. Let's welcome in
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: our contestants. We have... Who do we have here? Jason...
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: is representing the entire state of arizona he's going to
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: be one of our contestants hello jason welcome howdy ben
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: try to control your emotion jason i know it's a
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: big moment.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Who do you like excited to be here i know
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: who would you like who.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Would you like to partner up with you got me
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: coop or lorena Got to pick the champion, Ben. That's right.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Hold on a sec. That would be Coop, isn't it? Yeah,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: I think I won last week. I'm all-time wins king.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Mike is in Boston.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Hello, Mike.
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: Welcome.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Mike. You want to play with
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Coop or Lorena, Mike?
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: I'll play with Coop.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: All right, Coop. All right, go ahead.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: All right, gentlemen, this is Mallard's Mountain of Money, Nas edition.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: He turns 53 years old today.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday.
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: The categories are New York State of Mind, One Love,
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: If I Ruled the World, and Nothing Lasts Forever.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Jason, you were on first. Which category would you like?
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: Nothing Lasts Forever.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: All right. And Mike, how about you? I'll go with
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: the song, If I Ruled the World. All right. All right.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Very good. We are up first here. Jason, you picked
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Nothing Lasts Forever. These team legends ended their careers with
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: another team. We need first and last name. Are you ready, Jason?
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: All right. Here we go. Greatest quarterback of all time
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: for the New England. 45 seconds, Lorraine.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Start the clock.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Quarterback for the Patriots. He went to
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: the Bucs at the end of his career.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: I'm Brady.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Yes. A greatest running back in NFL history in terms
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: of rushing yards. He was with the Cowboys. He entered
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: with the Cardinals.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Emma Smith.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Yes. French guard for the San Antonio Spurs.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: In the 2000s.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: No? Little guard? All right. The star from Kansas played
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: for the Boston Celtics and then bounced around the NBA
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: with the Clippers and the Nets and all that.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: All right. Knuckleball pitcher in the 70s and the 80s.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: His brother was named Joe. He threw a knuckleball.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: No.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Safety for the. You got 30 points. All right, Jason,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: you missed Tony Parker and Paul Pierce. Paul Pierce. And
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Phil Necro. That's N-I-E-K-R-O. Necro. All right, Mike.
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: We have If I Ruled the World. These athletes went
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: on to become GMs. 45 seconds on the clock.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Let's begin. Best quarterback in Broncos history.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: John Elwick.
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: This guy was the logo, the NBA logo.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Jerry West.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Yes. The best point guard in Detroit Pistons history.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Isaiah Thomas. Yes.
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: This guy was a great safety for the Bucks and Broncos.
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: He's the GM of the 49ers now.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: John Lynch. Yes.
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: This guy was a tight end for the Browns. He
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: was a GM for the Ravens for a couple of
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: Super Bowls.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Ozzie Newsome.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: This guy was the Hebrew Hammer. He later became GM
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: of the Giants.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Harmon Killebrew.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: No, it was a different Hebrew Hammer. Or hammering? I
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe I'm wrong about that one. You're confusing
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: your two.
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: I am.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: I am.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: You got 160. Ryan Braun, I thought. Wasn't he?
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: 160?
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Jason and Ben, it's back to you.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: What do we got here? New York State of Mind
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: or One Love, Jason? All right, Jason. Al Rosen was
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: also the Hebrew hammer. I guess every Jewish baseball player.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: One love. One love. All right. These athletes played for
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: only one team their whole career. You better get more
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: than 30, Jason. I'm going to track you down. Here
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: we go. 45 seconds. Quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. Greatest
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Dolphins quarterback of all time in the 80s. Yes. Greatest
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: point guard for the Utah Jazz with Carl Malone. Point guard? Yes.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Linebacker for the Ravens. Where's the white suit? Where's the
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: white suit? Ray Lewis.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: The Sandman. Closer for the Yankees. The Hall of Fame closer.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: First guy to ever be a unanimous Hall of Famer. Oh,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: my God.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: What's his name?
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You got to tell me. Slugger for
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: the Rockies he played. We're out of time. We win.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: God damn it.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: We win again. Oh, come on. He only got 30
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: the first round.