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Hour 1 - The Packers really are this bad · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: our number one, though, is Green Bay coach Matt LeFleur
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  Speaker 1: on the hot seat. The Packers were mollywhopped at home
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  Speaker 1: by Atlanta. Also, what is this stretch of football, which
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  Speaker 1: is not going very well, showing us about Packers quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love. We'll talk about that. Has Michael Penix Jr.
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  Speaker 1: saved the 2026 Falcons season? Is he the great messiah?
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour from the not-so-frozen tundra. Lambeau Field. The
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  Speaker 1: Natives were restless. Those nice Wisconsin people, not very nice.
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  Speaker 1: There's a playground situation there at Lambeau. The Packers hosting
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons in the lid lifter of the Week 3 card.
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  Speaker 1: NFL regular season Week 3. You had Al Michaels, Herbie,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't see him on TV, but I think
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  Speaker 1: that annoying dog Peter was there somewhere as well. I
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  Speaker 1: tuned out a lot of the pregame stuff, so that's
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  Speaker 1: usually where they show the dog. I'm wandering around. So,
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  Speaker 1: did you watch? Were you checking this out? No? I
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  Speaker 1: don't have Amazon Prime. I couldn't watch the game. Well,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry. We watched, so you would not have to.
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  Speaker 1: It's our good mitzvah of the day. And, oh, what
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  Speaker 1: a day it was. The woe be gone. Atlanta Falcons
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  Speaker 1: waking up from hibernation as Bajon Robinson. 194 yards on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. I did not play in the NFL. I
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  Speaker 1: am told that is good. He had two touchdowns. I'm
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  Speaker 1: also hearing from those that have great knowledge that apparently
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  Speaker 1: is good. And the Falcons taking advantage of having a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback that didn't ride the vomit comet, Michael Penix Jr.
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  Speaker 1: taking over, and the Dirty Birds vaporized the punchless Packers
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  Speaker 1: 35-14 Atlanta. At the beginning of all that was a
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  Speaker 1: 7.5-point road dog. It went down to 4.5 on DraftKings,
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  Speaker 1: and they end up winning the game by over 20
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  Speaker 1: points on Thursday Night Football. Atlanta gets their first win.
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  Speaker 1: They're 1-2. They fell behind 7-0 early on. It looked
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  Speaker 1: like this was going to be a debacle the other way.
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  Speaker 1: In the first part of the game, Michael Pennex Jr.
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  Speaker 1: started one of five passing, and there were balls sailing
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  Speaker 1: all over the place. But after that, the Falcons settled
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  Speaker 1: in there, and they had smooth flying, 27 straight points,
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  Speaker 1: as they took complete control, and the Packers were serenaded
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  Speaker 1: with boo! Boo! At Lambeau Field. The Falcons... Outrushed the Packers.
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  Speaker 1: This is so great. 242 to 17. That is so bad.
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  Speaker 1: That is so freaking bad. 17 rushing. That is so terrible.
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  Speaker 1: My God. They suck the Packers. What is going on?
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  Speaker 1: 17 rushing yards. So I'm going to attempt to do
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  Speaker 1: some Mallard math on the fly here. So one team
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  Speaker 1: had 242 rushing yards. And the other team had 17.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the math, again, this is Maller math,
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  Speaker 1: so it might not be completely accurate. I believe that
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  Speaker 1: is 93%, 92.9% more rushing yards or fewer rushing yards
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  Speaker 1: if you're looking at Green Bay than Atlanta. Oh, you're
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  Speaker 1: being mean, Maller.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I should be nice. I should celebrate the futility of
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  Speaker 1: the Green Bay football team. Now, the better story is
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room. And the Vultures are out
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  Speaker 1: circling around. The head coach in northern Wisconsin, the Packers,
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  Speaker 1: had won 13 straight home openers. And that is all over.
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  Speaker 1: They did share the NFL record with the Miami Dolphins,
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  Speaker 1: the Don Shula Dolphins back in the day, who had
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  Speaker 1: won 13 in a row. Yeah, believe it or not, kids,
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  Speaker 1: there was a time before you were alive the Miami
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  Speaker 1: Dolphins actually tried to win football games. Yes, not anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So we mentioned the boo's out and a lot of booing.
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  Speaker 1: And the fans not happy there. Oh, they don't boo
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  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. They boo everywhere. The great equalizer is social media.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone boos. It's all boo, boo, boo, boo, boo.
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  Speaker 1: Now postgame, Matt LeFleur, the head coach, was in the
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  Speaker 1: line of fire. Now I don't know what soundbites we have.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to say we have some. So I
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  Speaker 1: guess we'll just kind of figure this out. and listen together.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what we're about to hear, but
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  Speaker 1: here's apparently Matt LaFleur commenting on what happened for the Packers.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they had 500 yards of offense. We had
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  Speaker 4: whatever it was. It was a boat whooping, so I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to put it on one thing. You say boat?
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  Speaker 4: We definitely have to respond better, but that was at
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  Speaker 4: least three-quarters boat whooping right there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he said but there. Didn't it sound like he
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  Speaker 1: said boat? It did a little bit. Let's hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see. I want to hear this again. Did
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  Speaker 1: he say boat? But he said but at the end,
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  Speaker 1: but it sounded like the first time he said it,
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  Speaker 1: boat whipping. Let's hear it. Let's listen.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they had 500 yards of offense. We had
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  Speaker 4: whatever it was. It was a boat whooping, so I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Going to put it on one. Okay, I think you
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  Speaker 1: said butt. I heard boat that time. Oh, did you?
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  Speaker 1: Because I heard, the first time I heard boat, and
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  Speaker 1: then that time I kind of focused. I guess I
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  Speaker 1: was not focused. That's a bad job by me. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so there's LeFleur. Do we have any other Matt LeFleur here? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we got, you know, they're just all bad.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't want to put all the blame on
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  Speaker 4: the offensive line. I mean, there's plenty of blame to
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  Speaker 4: go around. We've got to catch the ball better. Certainly
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  Speaker 4: there's some throws that I think J-Love would love to
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  Speaker 4: have back. Just like there's some play calls I would
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  Speaker 4: love to have back. Most notably that we're still in
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  Speaker 4: the game, and we drive down to start the second half.
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  Speaker 4: We have a fourth and one, and it's gloved. So
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  Speaker 4: there's enough blame to go around to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that is the standard talking points memo, and
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  Speaker 1: I did see some of this Matt LaFleur comment. Refusing
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  Speaker 1: to point the finger of shame and blame at a
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  Speaker 1: specific player, he fell often on that crutch saying, without
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  Speaker 1: watching the tape, got to watch the tape, which is
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  Speaker 1: the go-to excuse, the alibi. I can't. Your Honor, I
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  Speaker 1: can't answer that question. I have to go watch the tape. Well,
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  Speaker 1: why can't you? I've got to watch the tape. I
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  Speaker 1: want to watch the tape. Let me watch the tape, please.
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  Speaker 1: Can I watch the tape? I would like to watch
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  Speaker 1: the tape. All right, so that is a good jumping-off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. And let's get right to it.
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  Speaker 1: Is Green Bay coach Matt LeFleur... on the hot seat
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  Speaker 1: so i've got boom box waffle house and cover band
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to melt butter We're going to melt
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  Speaker 1: butter is what we're going to do. So, A, to
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  Speaker 1: answer the question, is Green Bay coach Matt LaFleur on
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  Speaker 1: the hot seat? I am nodding my head yes. I
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  Speaker 1: am nodding my head yes. His tushy cheeks are starting
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  Speaker 1: to warm up a little bit. The Packers, if my
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  Speaker 1: math is correct here, have lost seven of their last
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  Speaker 1: eight games. They absolutely choked in a playoff game against
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, their supposed rival, which is embarrassing. And
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  Speaker 1: we're watching all of the hallmarks of a bad coaching job.
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  Speaker 1: Chronically unprepared. Penalties up the wazoo. Mistakes here, there, and everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Lousy situational football on third down. Rinse and repeat. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the only saving grace for Matt LaFleur is the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Green Bay Packers aren't like any other team in
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  Speaker 1: the industrial complex of sports. They're not owned by an individual,
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  Speaker 1: and they're really not owned by the people either, because
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  Speaker 1: you have stock in the Packers, but you have no
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  Speaker 1: say in whether or not they fire Matt LaFleur. I
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  Speaker 1: could right now give out the phone number and have
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  Speaker 1: a board full of Green Bay Packers owners. They're listening
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  Speaker 1: to me right now. I'm reaching the Green Bay Packer ownership. Unfortunately...
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  Speaker 1: That stock that you got does not allow you to
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  Speaker 1: decide the fate of the coaching staff or anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay right now is in a sinkhole. And hallelujah
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  Speaker 1: for LeFleur that the Jets sucked more at the end
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  Speaker 1: of that game last week and that Aaron Glenn pulled
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  Speaker 1: his magic out of his tuchus to give the game
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  Speaker 1: to Green Bay there in overtime. The fact that you
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  Speaker 1: had to go to overtime was... embarrassing against the jets
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  Speaker 1: but in in hindsight not so much because you're about
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  Speaker 1: where the jets are the green bay packers and the
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  Speaker 1: jets are about the same and now you played atlanta
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  Speaker 1: and my god and even with this which is rather
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  Speaker 1: obvious to anyone who's got a brain that the packers
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  Speaker 1: stink right now the matt lefleur defenders are out in
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  Speaker 1: force In fact, they've got more excuses than the Packers
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  Speaker 1: had rushing yards. Help! Yeah, no, it's true. The Packers
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  Speaker 1: have become an excuse warehouse. They work around the clock.
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  Speaker 1: They're operating three shifts, three shifts, and the excuses are, well,
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  Speaker 1: Micah Parsons is out. He's out. You got some linemen,
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  Speaker 1: offensive linemen that are dinged up. Josh Jacobs is on
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  Speaker 1: the commissioner's naughty list. He's on the exempt list, and
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  Speaker 1: So in rebuttal to the many excuses that are being
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  Speaker 1: tossed out to try to cope, it's a little copium
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  Speaker 1: for the Packer apologist, I would like to turn up
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  Speaker 1: the boombox. It's a classic tune from Frank Sinatra who crooned,
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  Speaker 1: that's life, and that's life in the NFL. If your
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  Speaker 1: entire operation collapses because a couple of star players are out,
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't much of an operation. It just wasn't. It
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  Speaker 1: was all a fraud. It was all an illusion. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: Matt LeFleur's system requires perfect health, favorable weather, and mercury
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  Speaker 1: in retrograde. If those things happen, we're good. You're not
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  Speaker 1: paid to win with a perfect roster. That's not how
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  Speaker 1: it works. You're paid to drive around speed bumps and
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  Speaker 1: potholes and circumnavigate The word adversity comes to mind. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: healthy in Madden and on PlayStation, so you should stick
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  Speaker 1: to that. In the NFL, you actually have to coach
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  Speaker 1: guys up. Believe it or not, there are ways to win.
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  Speaker 1: You can have a halfway decent running game with backup linemen.
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  Speaker 1: If you coach them up, is anyone doing that for
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  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers? It doesn't seem that way. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look like that. And if your backup offensive linemen
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  Speaker 1: are no good, then go find some. Go contact the
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  Speaker 1: Edmonton Elks, who should still be called the Eskimos, or
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  Speaker 1: the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, or the BC Lions, or the
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  Speaker 1: Toronto Argonauts. Go through the entire Canadian football league. Just
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  Speaker 1: go through them all. The Alouettes. Anybody want to play
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  Speaker 1: offensive line for the Green Bay Packers? Now, keeping the
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  Speaker 1: cheesy talk going, page two. So the question here, what
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  Speaker 1: has this stretch of football shown us about Packers quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love, who did not play well in this game?
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  Speaker 1: Some of you who are stat effers will say, well,
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  Speaker 1: he had 300 yards. 8,000 pass attempts to get to
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  Speaker 1: 300 yards. Oh, yeah. Anyway, Love, here's what he has done.
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  Speaker 1: What has this stretch of football shown us? Love was promoted.
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  Speaker 1: He was billboarded as Atlas in Greek mythology, that he
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  Speaker 1: would put the team on his back, and when things
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  Speaker 1: got tough, he would be okay. In reality, right now,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love is not putting anything on his back. He's
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  Speaker 1: carrying a lunch tray, not the franchise. He's a Waffle
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  Speaker 1: House quarterback. Now, what does that mean, a Waffle House quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: He's a ham and egger, scattered, smothered, and covered. That's
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love, who has enough talent. Y'all tell me this.
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  Speaker 1: He has enough talent to make you believe that he's
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  Speaker 1: the guy. He got paid a decent contract, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got enough inconsistency for you to get a Lemon Law
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  Speaker 1: lawyer on the phone. Say, hey, listen, I got a lemon.
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  Speaker 1: You won't get a lemon. We got a lemon. We
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  Speaker 1: got a lemon. So great quarterbacks. This take is going
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  Speaker 1: to blow you away. Nobody else has this take. I'm
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  Speaker 1: the only one with this take. It's my original take.
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  Speaker 1: Great quarterbacks elevate compromised teams. Nobody else has ever said
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  Speaker 1: that in talk radio. Love too often blends in with
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  Speaker 1: the comatose part of the team. And you know who
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  Speaker 1: needs perfect circumstances? As a quarterback, average, average quarterbacks. Love, again,
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be the rising tide that lifts all boats. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's standing around looking down saying, why is there water
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  Speaker 1: around my ankles? Why am I in ankle-deep water? What
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  Speaker 1: is going on with that? And when the going gets tough,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love goes into the basement and he takes a
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  Speaker 1: cat nap in the fetal position, sucking his thumb is
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  Speaker 1: what he does. All right, so elevate your teammates. At
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  Speaker 1: some point, All that potential has to stop being a noun,
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  Speaker 1: and it has to become a verb. Do better and
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  Speaker 1: be better. And you know how I feel about the
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  Speaker 1: word potential. It's a weasel word. All right, last word
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  Speaker 1: for us to the Atlanta side of things. Was anyone
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  Speaker 1: else shocked that there were that many Falcon fans in
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay? I didn't even know there were that many
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  Speaker 1: Falcon fans in the United States. Man, I was surprised.
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  Speaker 1: So after the 0-2 start, the Dirty Birds are in
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  Speaker 1: the win column thanks to some tremendous play by Berron
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  Speaker 1: Robinson and Drake London who brought the razzle-dazzle. And yet
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  Speaker 1: everyone is focused on the quarterback play. So it must
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  Speaker 1: be asked, and we will do the asking. The question,
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  Speaker 1: has Michael Penix Jr. saved the 2026 Falcons season So
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  Speaker 1: I've actually contacted the general contractor, and I've let them know,
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  Speaker 1: do not build the Michael Penix Jr. statue yet. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: don't do that. This game was more about Green Bay
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  Speaker 1: volunteering to be defensive crash test dummies than it was
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  Speaker 1: about the quarterback. The naked truth is Michael Penix did
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  Speaker 1: not perform CPR on the team. He just stopped Cooper
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  Speaker 1: Rush from pulling the plug. Cooper Rush was in the cockpit,
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  Speaker 1: and not only on the vomit comet, it was a
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  Speaker 1: kamikaze mission with him at quarterback. Now, regardless of that,
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  Speaker 1: while I'm not ready to put a statue out for
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr., I am Benny Brightside, and this goes
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  Speaker 1: with my hypothesis. We handicapped the game. We had Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the game would be much closer than this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm shocked how pathetic the Packers are that they really
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  Speaker 1: gave up on this game. You don't get outscored 27
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  Speaker 1: points in a row. if you're doing things to try
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  Speaker 1: to win the game. So that's on all of them.
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  Speaker 1: My God. But the hypothesis was that you just needed
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  Speaker 1: someone with a pulse. Cooper Rush was a headliner at
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  Speaker 1: a concert. It was the Puka Palooza with Cooper Rush,
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  Speaker 1: and he was the lead performer. And then Michael Penix
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  Speaker 1: came in, and he was just a cover band. Just
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  Speaker 1: a cover band. And suddenly everyone's dancing. No one was
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  Speaker 1: dancing when Cooper Rush was there. They had They had dysentery.
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  Speaker 1: The Falcons simply upgraded from quarterback malpractice with Cooper Rush
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  Speaker 1: to quarterback competence, but not quarterback greatness. And Atlanta does
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  Speaker 1: not need Josh Allen 2.0. They just need competent quarterback play.
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by some really expensive and shiny toys. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they need. And what Michael Penix does is change the
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  Speaker 1: geometry of the Atlanta offense and suddenly you can get
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  Speaker 1: the ball to Drake London Kyle Pitts and Bajon Robinson
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  Speaker 1: and they occupy the space defenses actually respect that nobody
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  Speaker 1: respected anything with Cooper Rush so again Michael Penix Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: think of it like this. He's the average-looking girl hanging
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  Speaker 1: around some very homely ladies, very homely ladies. Suddenly, everybody
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  Speaker 1: thinks the average-looking girl is Miss America because of that.
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  Speaker 1: And so we have seen Penix have some terrible games.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not all in yet. And he has an injury
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  Speaker 1: history which reminds you of Kawhi Leonard or Anthony Davis
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  Speaker 1: from basketball. So the Falcons, he's not Picasso. The Falcons
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  Speaker 1: don't need Picasso. They don't need Picasso. Just give FedEx
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  Speaker 1: a box of crayons and tell them don't color outside
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  Speaker 1: the lines and everything else will take care of it.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's where we are on the Falcons. And
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  Speaker 1: looking forward here and saying, well, what's going to happen
• 20:51
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• 20:54
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• 21:02
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• 21:06
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• 21:09
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• 25:17
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• 25:19
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• 25:26
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• 26:22
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• 26:26
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• 26:27
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• 26:28
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• 26:31
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• 26:35
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• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Doesn't work? You don't think they're not, they're too intoxicated
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to figure that out?
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: It's like the, uh, Bronco fan with Coop.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I feel like it's just hard to find.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Why didn't he change that? Why wouldn't he change that? Like,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: you know, not necessarily. Anyway, all right. Late Night Drug
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Tester writes in and says, at least Wisconsin has plenty
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: of comfort foods to ease the pain. I'm sure the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: custard and cheese curds are flying off the shelves at Culver's.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Sounds pretty good to me. Yeah. JJ from Renton in
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the great Pacific Northwest writes in. He says, how the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: hell did the Falcons beat them down like that with
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: a left-handed quarterback? Jerry in a Jar writes in. He says,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: this makes no sense. The NFL is fining Kyle Juszczyk
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Almost $ 15, 000 for chugging an air beer.
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: I saw that.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: During last week's game, Roger Goodell has to go. Yeah,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: we will address that, Jerry, in a jar. We will
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: absolutely address that coming up in a little bit. The
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: King Rory writes in, it says, at least I still
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: have the brewers to distract me from this poop fest
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: in Green Bay. Chip in the Q's checks in. He says,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: A plus on the Malin monologue with Michael Penix Jr.,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: As their starter, absolutely nobody outside his extended family should
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: be shocked if the Falcons draft their next franchise quarterback
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: in the 2027 draft.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Well, even if Penix is playing well, it's only a
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: matter of time before he ends up in the injury tent,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and then Tua will be in there and playing quarterback,
• 28:15
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• 28:18
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• 28:22
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• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Bay is my NFC team. I'm proud to say I
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: unintentionally avoided watching that absolute embarrassment. But I'm not grinding
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: up my cheesehead just yet. Well, you don't have to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: grind up anything. It is only week three. We have
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: to react in real time. You talk about what has
• 28:47
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• 28:50
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• 28:53
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• 28:56
  Speaker 1: A minus on the Mallard monologue, he says, I'm a
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: small market fan, so I have a soft spot for
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Green Bay. But the best thing about that state right
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: now are the brewers and beer cheese soup. And yes,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: you top it with popcorn. Otherwise, you're a savage. You know,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I've not had beer soup. I've not had beer cheese soup.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: It just looks like cheese. It's just a bowl of cheese.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Do you like broccoli cheddar soup? No. I don't. I'm
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: not a huge soup guy. My favorite soup is like
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: a matzo ball, I like that French onion. A good
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: French onion is solid.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: With the cheese perfectly crispy on top.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: As I've gotten older, don't tell anyone, but I occasionally
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: will even put up with tomato bisque if there's extra
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: bisque part in it. What about the chowder? Are you
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a fan of the chowder? No, I'm not a fan
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: of the chowder. No, I don't like that. Chowder, chowder.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Not a chowder head. I'm going to get that.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: I promise I'll practice.
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: You didn't have the chowder when you were in the Northeast.
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: No.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Bad job by you.
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: I chose crab.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Bisque at the restaurant we went to.
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: I should have gotten the chowder. I can't say it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: I don't deserve to eat it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: If you'd just gone up to Maine, you know, Boston
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: is very close to Maine. You could have just gone
• 30:16
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• 30:19
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• 30:22
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• 30:30
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• 30:32
  Speaker 7: Hey, Mona.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's her right there. That's the great Kathy. She's
• 30:37
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• 30:40
  Speaker 1: bigger for us than that Taylor Swift. She's a much
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: more famous musician in our world than Taylor. Exactly. Come on.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the phones. It is a
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: call-in show, and let's say hello.
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: Hello.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: To Andre, Andre, Andre. What's going on, Andre?
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Welcome.
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: How you doing, Ben? Willis hears you. He's working on
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: his control. But listen, you got to park the car
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: in Harvard Yard, Ben. You know, I hear you chowder, chowder.
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: You got to park the car.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: In Harvard Yard. I've been to Harvard Yard. I didn't
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: see any cars parked on Harvard Yard. I didn't see any.
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: You didn't see any cars, but you keep looking around.
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean? You'll fit right in. We
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: love Matty D, right? Good Will Hunting, classic movie, Ben. Original,
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: like yourself.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: How do you like them apples? How do you like
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: them apples? Right.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: That's right. Authentic Boston. Blue collar, gritty. You know, we're
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: looking forward to the next. I know Willis is really
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: looking forward. He's upset he was excluded when I drove
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: to Worcester. But next time, we're going to get the cage. Because,
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: you see, I need a cage. You know, he's not
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: showing that he can sit in the front seat. But
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: the next Mallard meet and greet, I'm going to make
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: a campaign promise that Willis is going to be there.
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: And they're doing this on the air, so I'm going
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: to have to follow through. But I don't know if
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: he's not. If he's barking like this, he might have
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: to be out front. Now, look, Ben, what a difference
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: a week makes. Okay, the Atlanta Falcons, I mean, they
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: were marching for Arch. They didn't know what to do.
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: They were in a conundrum. You have all this offensive talent, B.
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: John Robinson, Drake London, Kyle Pitts, if he can get
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: himself together, and the other way to deliver the ball.
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: And you saw what Kyle Pitts said or how he
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: reacted when people were saying, oh, Pennix is back, so
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: you have your quarterback. He gave him the side eye.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: Not a confident assertion that our fearless leader is returning
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: to bring this franchise back to competitiveness and, dare I
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: say it, Super Bowl. But, yeah, Michael Penney, he wasn't
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: much confident. Listen, I'm not saying– I don't feel like
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: they're going to be world beaters. I'm not going to
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: be all in. But if their offensive line– I thought
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: the Green Bay Packers were supposed to be three yards
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: in a cloud of dust. Don't let anybody in the
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: Lombardi extended family know that this game even happened. The
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: Atlanta Falcons are going to come to Green Bay and
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: push them around? Like they're a JV or a freshman team,
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: absolutely dominate. B. John Robinson averaging seven yards a carry.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: If the Falcons can play physical football and everything can
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: be off of B. John, so all Michael Penks really
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: has to worry about is play action and hitting his
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: guys when he's supposed to, how their offense is built,
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: that bodes well in that conference. I mean, in that division,
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: that they can go ahead and win the division because,
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: you know, the Buccaneers allowed the creepy quarterback to come
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: down and steal their thunder, and the Panthers don't really
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: have much of an identity. So it's really between my view–
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: the Falcons, and the Saints for the NFC South and
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: them to have an opportunity. So what a difference a week.
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: They had a Division II quarterback, you know, and now
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: all of a sudden things are good. Ben, I know
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: you got a number of callers, you know. Thanks for
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: getting me on early. Okay, we are looking forward to it. Hey,
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: what did we learn also from the departed, huh? Right?
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean? You know nothing. When Leo
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: DiCaprio was in there, you know less than nothing. You know?
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: You're a kid. He was an affluent kid, and now
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: you're in the Big Fat Southie Project and you're dropping
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: your eyes. You are a different person.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: Ben, we're looking forward to you coming back. I'm going
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: to be a different person because Willis is going to
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: be more better behaved. We'll see you next time.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: There he goes. Andre from the Commonwealth. We met him
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: at the event we did there in Worcester.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: But we did not meet Willis.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: No, Willis. Willis was not there. Was there a dog?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: There was, yes. Jerry's sister brought her dog. Jerry brought
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: her dog. Yeah, there was a dog. So you could
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: have had a dog. You could have had a dog. Oh,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: and there was another little dog.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: One of the guys had a mini dog, remember, that
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: was being passed around.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Well, that sounds... Wasn't that the lady's dog? Was that
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: his dog? No, that was his dog. Yeah, he kind
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: of adopted it.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: It got like left with him and then he kept it.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Why not bring the dogs?
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think you're allowed to ask if it's a
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: service dog. I don't think... They're all service dogs at
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: this point. I mean, you're not legally allowed. Like, no,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: most of those dogs are not service dogs. Emotional support animals, Ben.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: That's not a service dog. There's a difference, but you're
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: like legally not allowed to ask. It's like this weird area.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Andrea. She's the astrology insider and she
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: is in Berkeley and she's got all the cosmic news.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: We have a full moon. I did see during the
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: game Al Michaels was fascinated by the moon. They showed
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: it on Amazon and He pointed out it was not
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: all the way full, but it was like 97% full. Hello, Andrea. Welcome.
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: Hello, Ben. How are you?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be a packer, but
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: not a Green Bay packer because they poop the bed
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: big time.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: Bad, bad, bad, bad.
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: Well, you were right about the full moon. We have
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: a full harvest moon. You know, we both like the
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: Farmer's Almanac. And it's called the Full Harvest Moon, Saturday,
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: the 26th of September at 5.05 p.m. I'm actually scheduled
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: earlier that day to have a tooth extraction.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: So please think good thoughts.
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: I know there could be some more bleeding around the
• 36:05
  Speaker 8: full moon. So we'll just prayers up for that. And
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: the Full Harvest Moon is basically the first full moon
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: after the fall equinox. So we like the Farmer's Almanac,
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: Harvest Moon, also known as the Corn Moon. And it's
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: the full moon in Aries, Sun and Libra. And it
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: will be full on Saturday exactly at 5.05 p.m. So basically,
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: you're right, Ben, it's waxing to full. It's getting full
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: as we speak, and it will culminate on Saturday, the
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: 26th of September at 5.05 p.m.
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: Full Harvest Moon.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: All right. Check that out. And also, I did check
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: my inbox here. I got, it says here in the headline,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the Fall Equinox Astrology Newsletter. From Andrea. So if you
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: want that, go follow, send a message to Andrea on X, right?
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Virgo in service.
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes. Thank you, Ben. I appreciate that. Yes, happy
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: to send my free astrology newsletter. It has all the
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: Mercury retrograde dates, and it has, you know, the full moons. Yeah,
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: Mercury is not retrograde until October 24th, until November 13th.
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: So we've got some time.
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: All right, yeah.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Well, actually, before you hang up real quick, Andrea, we
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: have someone that wants to say hello. Let's see if
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: we can do this here. Anthony in Louisiana. Hello, Anthony.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Are you there, Anthony? Hey, Ben.
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: How you doing?
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Say hello to Andrea. Garrett hung up
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: on Andrea. Oh, no. Oh, that's a bummer. All right.
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: We tried.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: The effort was made. I can't control that.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: Hi.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: Hi.
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: How you doing?
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: I'm good.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I was trying to get you to be able to
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: say hi to Andrea.
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I wanted to say hey to her. Well, hopefully
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: I'll catch her next time.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be good. Yeah, next week. Well, she's having...
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: You both are having dental work next week, though. She's
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: having it this weekend. Yeah, okay. I guess you got
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: a little time. You got a little time.
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but it's coming next Friday after my surgery.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that I got a call. This is great.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: You know, I will call you. I don't care. I'll
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: call you. I don't mind. I'll give you a bus.
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: Call me, Lorraine. Call me, Lorraine.
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: We're all going to call you. We'll talk to you soon, Anthony.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you. I'll just give out your number
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: on the air, and everyone can call you. I'll have
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog. I'll have Malaprop Guy. Everybody. It is the
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. We'll push back that story. It's a
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: good story. Performative cheerleading. We'll get to that. And time now, though,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: for the Who Am I game. This is where we
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: pretend to be somebody else. We call it the Who
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Am I game. And here it is. Falcon running back
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Bajon Robinson joining Jerry Rice, Derrick Henry, and me. in
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: a tie for the most primetime games with 200 yards
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: from scrimmage. That goes back since the merger over 50 years, 1970.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Falcon running back Bajon Robinson joining Jerry Rice, Derrick Henry,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: and me in a tie for the most primetime games
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: with 200 yards from scrimmage since the 1970 merger. Who
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: am I? The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: it now. Be sure to catch live editions of the
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show, Fox Sports Radio. As we continue on,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: a reminder that the 5th Hour Podcast is up. New
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: episodes will be, well, it's not up yet, but it'll
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: be up later today on Friday. Check it out. Special
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: tribute to our newest home in Baltimore. We brought in
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Mel Proctor, a long-time Oriole broadcaster. He's called games for
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the Rangers and the Washington Nationals and even the Clippers
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: and the Washington Bullets back in the day. Yeah, there
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: was an offensive team called the Bullets and he called
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: the games and So he'll pop on the fifth hour today,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: so check that out. And thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: All right, back to it. Let's sneak a call in,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: then we'll pay off the Who Am I game, and
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: let's go to a man who's enjoying some schadenfreude as
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers lost. Lucky Tony is in the
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Bay Area. Hello, Lucky Tony. Welcome.
• 40:30
  Speaker 9: Hey, Ben, has there been any news with Benny versus
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: the painting sponsors?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: No, it's on the radio now. You want to sponsor?
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Would you like to sponsor?
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: I'm kind of broke, man. I don't have that. But
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: if Jinx Maze was having a muffin-eating contest, why would
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: I be 4'6?
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: Because my ears would be pinned back.
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: Thanks, Ben.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Here's the Who Am I game. This is where we
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: pretend to be somebody else. Falcons running... Just don't even
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: encourage him. Falcons running back Bajon Robinson joined Jerry Rice,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, and me in a tie for the most
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: primetime games with 200 yards from scrimmage since the 1970 merger.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: That is the Who Am I game question. What is
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the answer? And let's see. Does anyone know the answer?
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: We go to the great unwashed Johnny Utah, I guess,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: by Mr. Irrigation. That's his answer. Random Ryan says Matt
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: LaFleur's boat. Muggity, muggity, muggity, muggity. Oh, big news. Eileen
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: in San Francisco has been let out of Twitter jail.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: What a great week for the militia. Jet Who Fled
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: let out of real jail. And Eileen in San Francisco
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: led out of social media jail. O.J. Simpson guessed by Femi.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss from Just Josh. You know it's Friday if
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: it's Alexa Bliss. Who else do we have? Mack Tonight
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: from ALF, the alien upon her. Lorena, what say you, Lorena?
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Paul McCartney. No, it's Sean Alexander. Sean Alexander, good player
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: for Seattle back in the day. The great Sean Alexander.