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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: From Foxborough. The last game played the final game on
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  Speaker 1: a Wildcard Sundays. One game left in the playoffs, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll begin with the Chargers visiting the Commonwealth, a playdate
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  Speaker 1: with the Patriots, and a trip to the divisional round.
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  Speaker 1: On line up Mike Tarrico and Chris Collinsworth. Well, tough
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  Speaker 1: night for Collinsworth man, he loves him, Sir Justin Herbert.
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  Speaker 1: That is a hard one. That is a tough night
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  Speaker 1: for Collinsworth. Have to watch Justin Herbert go out there
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  Speaker 1: and play in a playoff game. Anyway, that was the
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  Speaker 1: game is an island game, of course, all these playoff
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  Speaker 1: games are island games now. And so I don't know
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  Speaker 1: you saw it or not. Maybe you're not watching. We
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  Speaker 1: watched you not have to the story of this game.
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  Speaker 1: The New England defense absolutely manhandling the outclassed, pathetic, futile
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  Speaker 1: Charger offense, and Drake May getting a lot of love.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little confused by that. We'll get to that
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  Speaker 1: in a minute. He did throw a late touchdown pass,
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  Speaker 1: although it didn't really matter the outcome of the game.
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  Speaker 1: He threw the pass to former Charger Hunter Henry, who
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots signed a couple of years ago and has
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  Speaker 1: just kind of been hanging out there. That was in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Patriots get the sixteen to three win
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  Speaker 1: in a weekend of thrilling, riveting, mind blowing games. This
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  Speaker 1: was not that. This was not that on wild Card weekend.
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  Speaker 1: So Andy Boord Gallas, it's always great when you're kicker.
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  Speaker 1: Andy Boord Gallas is in the lead. He hit not one,
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  Speaker 1: not two, but three field goals. So the Patriots get
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  Speaker 1: another win. They had not won a postseason game since
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  Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl back in twenty eighteen the
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  Speaker 1: end of the twenty eighteen season, so they have now
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  Speaker 1: gotten back into the win come first time since Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady and Bill Belichick, where they they'll host the winner
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  Speaker 1: of the Monday Night game between the petspurg Steelers and
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans and the divisional round? Will that be
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  Speaker 1: a rematch? The Steelers went to Foxboro in the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: Will that be a rematch? Well, the better story, We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that all that stuff in a minute. The
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  Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room. And what
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  Speaker 1: a gag by the Bolts. What an absolute gag, just
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  Speaker 1: not competitive. Why do you even bother going to the game.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna perform like that? Pathetic and they deserve to
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  Speaker 1: get completely roasted. But in particular the Golden Boy. Oh
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  Speaker 1: what a fraud this guy is? Huh. So that's a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Is
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  Speaker 1: there a word? Is there a we love words? Is
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  Speaker 1: there a word for Justin Herbert's playoff performance for the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers in the Sunday night game in New England? So
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  Speaker 1: I've got my thoughts on this. I've got Shawshank, Redemption,
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  Speaker 1: Oregon Trail, and yoga stretch, and we'll put them all together.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna make spaghetti and meatballs, is what We're going
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  Speaker 1: to make, some delicious spaghetti and meat pulls. So a
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  Speaker 1: the word I have to answer the question, is there
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  Speaker 1: a word for Justin Herbert's playoff performance with the Chargers,
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  Speaker 1: not of this year, but all his entire career. The
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  Speaker 1: word is be draggled. That is my word. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: with the word be draggled there as in soaked, shaken
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  Speaker 1: and dragging himself off the field, a loser with the
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  Speaker 1: capitol l yet again. And what an absolute. I can't curse.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to curve. But my god, although sir
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  Speaker 1: scratch Off can curse, he can call up and curse
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  Speaker 1: because he's got a potty mouth. That truck drivers a
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  Speaker 1: scratch how that guy's got a dirty mouth. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, my god, like a dog that lost a
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  Speaker 1: fight with a lawn sprinkler, totally bedraggled in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And now we did check. I went to the American
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  Speaker 1: Kennel Club website, and it turns out that Justin Herbert
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  Speaker 1: is not a He's not a Golden retriever. He's not
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  Speaker 1: that he is not a poodle, according to I looked
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  Speaker 1: it up here. So he's not a poodle or a bulldog.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. According to my research, it might be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: The American Kennel Club Justin Herbert. The type of dog
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  Speaker 1: he is is a choking dog, That's what he is.
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  Speaker 1: All bark in September, no bite in January. What a fraud.
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  Speaker 1: What an absolute for the amount of ass kissing that
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  Speaker 1: he's got from football commentary. Oh, Justin Herbert, Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: he's the bee's knees and all that. My god, my god.
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  Speaker 1: And so you look at it and like, what an
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  Speaker 1: absolute message. The Chargers a couple of years ago, they
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  Speaker 1: blamed Brandon Staley. They said, well, Brandon Staley is not
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  Speaker 1: a good head coach. Justin Herbert needs a good head coach.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he needs. That's the problem they need. They
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  Speaker 1: got to bring in a new head coach. So the
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  Speaker 1: guy rid of Staley, the yoga guy, they fired his ass.
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  Speaker 1: He was gone. Then they hired Jim Harbaugh. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harball. They brought him in like he was doctor
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  Speaker 1: Phil for quarterbacks there and gonna unlock a higher platform
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  Speaker 1: plateau in the career of Justin Herbert. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: everyone said, We like, Jim Harball, gonna unlock some special
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  Speaker 1: stuff here for Justin Herbert. And instead Herbert brought the
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  Speaker 1: same pre exist in condition with him. And it's sf
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  Speaker 1: stage fright, stage right, It is wild. He is the
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  Speaker 1: closest comp we have to a football version of Clayton Kershaw.
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  Speaker 1: It's just perfect. It's the perfect comp Does anyone disagree
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  Speaker 1: with that? Now? I actually got into a heated argument
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  Speaker 1: with a Charger suck up that I know, a longtime
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  Speaker 1: Charger lapdog who was making every excuse in the book.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Herbert fall.
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  Speaker 3: It's not blame this guy, blame that, blame the offensive line,
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  Speaker 3: blame it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh tries me insane. I'm just not cut that way.
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  Speaker 1: It tries me bonkers. And it's just like Kershaw's, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not his fault, it's this guy's fall attack. And
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  Speaker 1: then one guy made a play here they would have
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  Speaker 1: won that game, or they blamed the manager for bringing
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  Speaker 1: him out in a game, and never his fault. Never
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  Speaker 1: for the jock sniffers, the brown nosers, and justin Herbert's
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  Speaker 1: got the same going. Even you'd think there's really nothing
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  Speaker 1: salvageable about that performance. The guy was just in over
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  Speaker 1: his head, deer in the headlights, the whole thing, hair
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  Speaker 1: brain quarterback play. And yet there are people, Oh no, no, Stu,
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  Speaker 1: his fault, No, no, no, no, no, no no no no
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  Speaker 1: no no no no no no no no no no.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to slap these people like god like
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of the QB a positive, but blame
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line. I just war shree you how to
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  Speaker 1: go to offensive line. I tried to explain to people
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  Speaker 1: that you know, I know, at some point football will
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  Speaker 1: be flag football and no one will ever get hurt
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  Speaker 1: and'll be here. But until then, it's the war of attrition,
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  Speaker 1: like you're supposed to win with what you have. And
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  Speaker 1: part of the reason you pay a quarterback I don't
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong on this two hundred and sixty million
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  Speaker 1: dollars is to uplift the players on the team. Like
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  Speaker 1: to uplift the player and yeah, you're not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: one hundred. Joe Burrow made the Super Bowl with the Bengals,
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  Speaker 1: had a terrible offensive line. Aaron Rodgers with the Packers
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  Speaker 1: the year that they the last time the Packers won
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  Speaker 1: and they had the most players on injured reserve. I
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  Speaker 1: believe in the NFL that year, remember talking about it
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  Speaker 1: right here, and they won. Have I ever seen I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I have. Justin Herbert in the playoffs uplift players,
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  Speaker 1: make them play better enhance the roster. No, and often
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  Speaker 1: he brings the roster down. He's it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: on a boat when you've got you're out in the
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  Speaker 1: ocean there and you drop anchor. That's Justin Herbert, right.
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  Speaker 1: So for those of you say, well, it's the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line's fault, Okay, tell me you didn't watch the game
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  Speaker 1: without telling me you didn't pay attention to the game
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  Speaker 1: and watch the game and all that stuff. Herbert was rattled.
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  Speaker 1: He ran into multiple sacks. It wasn't the offensive lives fat.
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  Speaker 1: He ran into them dazed and confused. That's on him.
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  Speaker 1: And it is still ultimately an execute or evaporate league
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and for Justin Herbert, I'm apparently a
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  Speaker 1: big fan of Shawshank redemption. And he vanishes like a
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  Speaker 1: fart in the wind when we get to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That's just Herbert is a big fart, big wet fart
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  Speaker 1: in the wind, just vanishing air in the playoffs. Two touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: four interceptions, passer rating below sixty five. Kershaw esque Clayton
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  Speaker 1: Kershaw esq. I guess you don't get a lot for
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty two million dollars A lot of
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  Speaker 1: funny money. They're flying out from the Chargers. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not so funny right now, is it? No, it's not. No,
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  Speaker 1: And there he was riding the vomit comet at warp
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  Speaker 1: speed Justin Herbert. Another playoff game and covered in maggots
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  Speaker 1: in just terrible. But he's got that nice flowing here.
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  Speaker 1: It's got that flowing here. In the last ten quarters,
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  Speaker 1: the last ten quarters of postseason play, Justin Herbert has
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  Speaker 1: completed barely fifty percent of his passes for one touchdown
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  Speaker 1: and four interceptions. He also guided the Chargers during a
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  Speaker 1: historic choke job in Jacksonville, and that playoff game also
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  Speaker 1: been sacked twelve times the last ten quarters. And that's
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  Speaker 1: three different teams, that's two different coaches lost in the plus. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he said, well, I give him a break because he's
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  Speaker 1: lost him A Homes and Josh Allen and these great
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the plus. No. No, no, he's lost to
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, C. J. Stroud and Drake may not exactly
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  Speaker 1: a murderer's role of franchise quarterbacks there at all, and man,
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  Speaker 1: but at least he's he's well groomed. He's well groomed.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got that going on. My goodness, my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I want to hear from Herbert's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a dope. Let's hear what he has to say. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, mister Holly would all right for Holly? You
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  Speaker 1: think that little actress lady, he's Dayton's gonna dump his
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  Speaker 1: ass now the way he played all right. Here is
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert on the fact that the defense, it's all
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  Speaker 1: about the defense and they did their job.
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  Speaker 4: It's a really touch to loose.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: We give everything we.
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  Speaker 5: Had and you did.
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  Speaker 1: It's good. That's all you have.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, I said, gave us every shot that we needed
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  Speaker 4: to and it's not enough.
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  Speaker 1: That's all you have. You gave everything you have. Really, man,
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  Speaker 1: you're worse than I thought. You suck dude. Here's more.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Justin Eberda media right away. He's got to be hurt.
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  Speaker 5: He's got to be hurt.
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  Speaker 1: God, every time he plays bad, it's got to be
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  Speaker 1: an injury. Are you hurt, Justin Herbry, are you hurt?
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  Speaker 4: You know, the training staff did a great job of
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  Speaker 4: getting me ready to go and okay, you know, as
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  Speaker 4: long as they felt safe and comfortable, and I did
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  Speaker 4: as well. You know there was there was no issues.
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  Speaker 1: I just have to do a better joble under the ball.
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  Speaker 1: You think, maybe, how about you don't run into sacks?
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  Speaker 1: How about? Is that too much to ask? Too much
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  Speaker 1: to ask? How dare you? Mallord? You're such a hater?
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? All right? Here's more, here's justin
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  Speaker 1: Herbert and the question being asked. I'm sure this will
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  Speaker 1: be asked underhanded, soft line of question, but it's Herbert's
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  Speaker 1: just a terrible playoff quarterback. There's no other way to
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  Speaker 1: say it. And he was asked about that.
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  Speaker 4: Was your confidence in yourself you will be able to
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  Speaker 4: get over to some potentially get a playoff run and
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  Speaker 4: make a playoff run. Yeah, I don't know. Hasn't happened.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll have to reevaluate and see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. I like that answer because he's
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  Speaker 1: admitting he has no answer, he has no clue, He's clueless.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Now, continuing the train of thought, so Jim
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  Speaker 1: Harbaugh the only Harbaugh currently employed by an NFL team.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh hinted postgame about firing Greg Roman, the offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator at the time for the Chargers Chargers scoring just
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  Speaker 1: three points and embarrassing the franchise yet again. In the
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  Speaker 1: wild card game against the Patriots, he was asked about
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  Speaker 1: the future of Greg Roman. Jim Harbaugh said, quote, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have the answer to that right now. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: look at that and everything close. Quote Okay, question where
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  Speaker 1: are you at on Jim Harbaugh and that vague answer
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  Speaker 1: on the future of the Chargers offensive coordinator Greg Roman.
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  Speaker 1: So it came across to some as vague. It came
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  Speaker 1: across as like Jim Harbaugh doing the shrug emoji on
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  Speaker 1: Greg Roman. However, having heard this stuff over the years,
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  Speaker 1: that is Jim Harbaugh going into garage and sharpening his machete.
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  Speaker 1: Is what that is. Someone has to be sacrificed, someone
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  Speaker 1: has to go. You must sacrifice someone to the football gods.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way this works. And so you score three
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  Speaker 1: points in a playoff game. The Chargers offense played like
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  Speaker 1: they were on the Oregon Trail, justin Herbert's an Oregon guy.
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  Speaker 1: They played on the Oregon Trail and they died of dysentery,
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  Speaker 1: is what happened there. The wagon broke down and they
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  Speaker 1: just they got dysenteries. Unfortunate. But Greg Roman, he can
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  Speaker 1: go somewhere else. It's again, they just shuffle these guys
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  Speaker 1: from team to team and they'll get a job somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: There's eight jobs open head coaching jobs in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: so he'll get one of those. And firing Greg Roman,
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  Speaker 1: it just looks like and feels like window dressing, Like
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  Speaker 1: justin Herbert, He's not going anywhere. They made that mistake.
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  Speaker 1: They paid a guy that doesn't have it. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have the it factor. They paid him a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: so they're stuck with that dead weight. He's not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And then you got Jim Harball. He doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: he wants to go anywhere. And what happened to Harball
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  Speaker 1: being the quick fixed guy that was always the book
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  Speaker 1: on Harball. You bring Jim Harbrough in right away, you
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  Speaker 1: win with Jim Harbaugh and then he wears out his welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Well not anymore. They got to bring in an exorcist
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  Speaker 1: is what they got to do here. My god, holy crap.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at the charge. You got obviously have
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  Speaker 1: a fall guy. Greg Roman sounds like he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the fall guy. That's the easy move to make
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  Speaker 1: The names have changed, though. Since Justin Herbert got to
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers, the names have changed. Shane Steichen was there
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  Speaker 1: his rookie Year's Offensive Corn, Mike Lombardi, Kellen Moore. Now
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  Speaker 1: they've had Greg Roman. In the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: The one common denominator has been Justin Herbert, the Duke
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  Speaker 1: of Pughke. When it matters, he's the Duke of Puke.
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  Speaker 1: And if Justin Herbert were an appetizer, he would be
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  Speaker 1: the art of choke because he's mastered the art of
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  Speaker 1: the choke. That's what he does, and so looks great
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  Speaker 1: in the regular season, much like Clayton Kershaw looks great
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  Speaker 1: in the regular season and then in the playoffs. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we know how, we know how that goes. Not good?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Now, last word to the New England side. The better
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  Speaker 1: stories in the losing locker room. But we will go
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  Speaker 1: to the winning locker room, the New England side of things.
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  Speaker 6: Here.
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  Speaker 1: The headline all over the place. Headline reads that Drake
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  Speaker 1: may carries Patriots the wild card win over the Chargers,
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  Speaker 1: big bold headline all over the interweb. So the question
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  Speaker 1: with the headline reading Drake may carries Patriots to wild
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  Speaker 1: card win of the Chargers. Is that how this went down?
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  Speaker 1: Is that how this game went down? And so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who wrote the headline. I'm not sure who
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  Speaker 1: did that, but whoever wrote the headline there already polishing.
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  Speaker 1: The Drake May statue carries the Patriots police with a
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  Speaker 1: capitol P. Come on, this is classic media myth making,
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  Speaker 1: is what This one is the kind of a fairy
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  Speaker 1: tale that you write after a downward dog yoga pose.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing that yoga stretch, you know, you do the
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  Speaker 1: downward dog and you gotta get a little limber. The
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  Speaker 1: reason you get limber is because you have to get
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  Speaker 1: limber to bend the truth is what you have to do.
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  Speaker 1: You have to bend the truth. And this was not
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  Speaker 1: exactly scaling Mount Everest for Drake May. This was the
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  Speaker 1: Bunny The bunny hill on the ski slope is what
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  Speaker 1: this was here. It's not black diamond two black dimons. No,
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  Speaker 1: it was wide. It was very gentle. This game good
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  Speaker 1: soft launch for Drake May. As a playoff quarterback, there
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  Speaker 1: groomed and ready to go. After three quarters the game
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  Speaker 1: was a riveting ninety three through seventy five percent of
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  Speaker 1: the game was nine to three. The Patriots won this
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  Speaker 1: game because of the defense playing whack a mole with
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers. And also that's we just talked about it,
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback, Justin Herbert being completely in over his head
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  Speaker 1: in a playoff game and the charger showed up. Justin Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we left everything out there essentially what he said. The
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  Speaker 1: charger showed up. It's like they had one on their battery.
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  Speaker 1: No charger, and they took a nap. It was easy
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  Speaker 1: street for the Patriots, the paved road, no potholes, and
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  Speaker 1: there you go. And may he he didn't. All he
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  Speaker 1: did was not set the kitchen on fire. Do you
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  Speaker 1: really need the headline carries the Patriots when the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: just didn't set the kitchen on fire, Like, seriously, whoopee
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  Speaker 1: dam do I que the bronze statue and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the hero ball. It was definitely not hero ball.
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  Speaker 1: It was just don't burn the house down. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: burn the house down. Okay, he didn't burn the house down.
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  Speaker 1: Let's give him a statue. Okay, fine, we'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll I'll have all the fanboys call up and lick
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the toes of Justin Herbert or Drake May in this case,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: not just the those guys are also calling up to
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: rip or praise rather Justin, Justin Herbert, both quarterbacks. But
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: in terms of Drake May, Drake May he had through
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: three quarters right the seventy five percent of the game,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Drake May had no touchdowns, one interception, couldn't have a touchdown.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Nobody scored a touchdown for the Patriots or the Chargers.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Fumbling around. It was like he had greased his hands
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: with butter and he was out there fumbling around and
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And so it was survive, advance and
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: all that. And the defense did the cooking. The defense
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: did the cooking and all that. And now they play
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the they being the Patriots, play the Steelers or the Texans,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: and that should be difficult. Although I'm not overly impressed
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: with the Steelers or the Texans offensively, the Texans with CJ. Stroud,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: very impressed at all.
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour, what do you think the lead
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: story is? That's right, pet Spargan PA. Underrated city house
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh years ago. Beautiful, shockingly nice Pittsburgh, PA. Good skyline.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I'm a big skyline guy. It's cool because you get
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the water wrapped around the downtown and all the bridges.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Solid city. I got people like I'm like friends that
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: live in Pisball. They love it. They never want to leave.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: It's not that expensive compared to some other big cities anyway.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Our lead for the Monday night football game, the last
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: stop on wild Card weekend c J. Stroud leading the
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Texans traveling party into Western PA for a matchup with
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Air Red Rogers and pitt Spurgs. Hears the winner gets
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a date with the Patriots in the divisional round. Did
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you watch? No, oh you did? Okay, Well, if you didn't,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: we watched so you would not have to. Don't worry.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: It is our good mitzvah of the day. We've done that.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: So Sheldon rankins, who you know, it's it's a weird
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: night of a defensive guys getting the headline. But Sheldon rankins, well,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: you don't follow defense. He returned a fumble, rumbling and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: stumbling a fumble by Aaron Rodgers thirty three yards to
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: pay dirt touchdown early in the fourth quarter to put
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the cherry on top of the dominant defensive Sunday performance.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Although it wasn't a Monday and the Texans end up
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the final score misleading, it looks like they molly wopped
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. They did win the game thirty to
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: six on the wild card rounds, so they have advanced
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: first ever road win. You always remember your first first
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: ever road win for the Texans as they get or
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: done the Texans. Now we'll play, as we mentioned, New
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: England in the Division A round. That game on Sunday night, Sunday,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday. Well, I say Sunday night, but it's not
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: as late as it was last week. It's just a
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: late game on Sunday, efect. If you're on the West coast,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: it'll be like late afternoon on the West coast. But CJ.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Strout he turned the football over not once, not twice,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: but three times, and through a first half touchdown pass
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: as well to Christian Kirk, the journeyman wide receiver there
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: who had eight catches for one hundred and forty four yards.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: It was such a great night. Somebody named Woody Woody Marks,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: not sure who that is, but he had one hundred
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and twelve yards on the ground for the Texans as
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a Houston who had been zero to six on the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: postseason run. But they are as a franchise, but they win.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: The better story don't come by a weekend. You think
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: we're gonna say he gon break down the Texans. No,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the better story is in the losing locker room. So
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that is the conversation about the futures of Mike Tomlin
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers. And was this it is this all?
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: She wrote? Oh my god, melancholy, all these people getting
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: in their fields. Oh I'm so sad. I'm not sad.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not said, of course, I don't have a skin
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: in the game on this. I am not sad. But
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: let us discuss So the Let's start with Aaron Rodgers,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: because I think that's the story here. Rogers has been
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: playing at a high level, a Hall of Fame career
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers. And plus he's just good for talk
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: radio because some people love him and other people hate him,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and that's good talk radio. So anyway, Rogers, was this
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: his final dance in the NFL. Well, he was asked
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: about that we have the audio. Let's go to the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: audio tip. Here's Aaron Rodgers asked about whether or not
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: this is it your decision for what to do next year?
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: In anyway? Oh, I mean, I'm not going to make
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: any emotional decisions. Disappointed, you know, obviously, such a fun year,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: you know, a lot of adversity, but a lot of a.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Lot of fun.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Been a great year, you know over all my life
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: in the last day last year, and this is you know,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: a really good part of that, coming here and being
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: part of this team. So it's disappointing to be sitting
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: here with season over.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Has anyone ever said, well, we had no adversity. It
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: was a great year. Wouldn't a great year be no adversity,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: wouldn't I mean, can't you say that about every year?
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Like the whole adversity word. I'm annoyed by that, can
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have time to get to my
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: soapbox right now. I be about to do it later. But
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: the whole adversity thing, like every season, the adversity is
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: something didn't go exactly as plan. Nothing ever goes exactly
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: his plan, nothing ever goes exactly. But so every year
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: there's adversity, all right. So the key part of that,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to make any emotional decisions. Unemotional decisions
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: fun though, when you make emotional decisions, can't they be fun?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: They could be fun? Right, You have a lot of
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: fun doing emotional decisions. Oh yeah, and then regret them later.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: But you can have fun while in the wallmant all right,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. Aaron Rodgers says he
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: will not make any decisions on his future retirement until
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: he takes some time away. Time away. That must be nice.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Should here's the question? Should Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers retire
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: from the NFL? So, my thoughts on this. I have
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Indonesia YouTube tutorial and chainsaws, and we will combine all
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: of these things together and we're gonna make chicken Alfredo
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: is what we're going to make. Yum yum to my
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: tum tumb. I have an unpopular opinion on this, and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I wanted to confirm it. So I asked the magic
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: eight ball. Went in doubt, pull the magic eight ball out.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: So I asked the magic gate ball should Aaron Rodgers retire?
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And then I shook the magic eight ball, and the
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: magic eight ball said to me, reply, hazy, try again.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: So I took the magic eate ball and I shook
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the magic gate ball again. I said, come on, come on,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: magic eight ball, you make it. You've never steered me wrong.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: And the magic gate ball said, don't count on it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: O m G.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Listen, Aaron could absolutely run away into the woods somewhere
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and that's it. You could do. Sure, why not? Here's
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: what he ought to do. He got to run off
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: to those lush jungles of Indonesia and hang out with
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: a bunch of his hippie friends and meditate, and then
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: come back to Austin, Texas and hang out with Joe Rogan,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: smoke a ball, drink some mayahuasca tea joe and talk
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: about the UFOs and the deep state and all that
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: and have a fun time and then go out and
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: find a sucker with a checkbook. And should Rogers? No,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think you should. I know it's an unpopular opinion.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: It's like, this is everyone's doing the eulogies for Aaron
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Rodgers right now, and he should retire. I say no.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: And if you're playing in the NFL and you're enjoying it,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: you're having a good time, right And some team's dumb enough,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and there are a lot of dumb people that work
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: in that business. If someone's dumb enough to pay you,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: why not keep the hustle alive? Why not? If he
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: was worried about his legacy, he never would have gone
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to the Jets. He's already sullied. Whatever he had, whatever
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: perfect resume Rogers had from Green Bay. He wore the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Jets uniform. That's like dressing as a clown when you
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: wear the Jets uniform. So he's done that, and he
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: was pretty in Pittsburgh. Some of the numbers were good,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: A lot of the numbers were not that good, but
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: keep going. It's a get richer scheme, not a get
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: rich scheme because Rodgers is already rich. But it's a
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: get richer scheme for Aaron Rodgers. And he knows the
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: menu by hard. And let's be honest here. That performance
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: against the Texans that we saw on the Monday night,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and that was hazardous waist is what that was. It was.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: It was terrible.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I mean they were bad for three quarters and then
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Rogers like, hold my beer, I'm gonna take this thing
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to the next level here, and he showed up to
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: the boat show. Rogers he got the suck boat and
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: he rowed that thing to Misery Island. And the great
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: thing is Rogers was behind the steering wheel. He captained
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: that thing by himself and sailed straight in to DMZ
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: dead Man's Zone, dead Man's Zone, and Rogers was behind
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the wheel there on the boat. He looked slow, Yes
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: he did. Was he plodding along? Absolutely plodding along, no
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: question about it. Some would say even atomic waste Russias
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: would fall into that. Nevertheless, this is the same business
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: that dialed up Philip Rivers in his mid forties while
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: hunting somewhere in the backwoods of Alabama and said, hey,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: how would you like to play quarterback for the Colts.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: So if they're doing that, and you look at some
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: of the turds that started games this year for the NFL,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: somebody named Brady Cook. I'd rather have a line Cook
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: from Applebee's start than Brady Cook who started for the Jets.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: So Brady Cook, Kenny Pickett who can't play, Marcus Mariota
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: who shouldn't be playing, and it's just an island of
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: misfit toys in the NFL playing quarterback. So Rogers could
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: absolutely bamboozle one more season. Why not go out to Vegas?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady doesn't know what he's doing. No one wants
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: to talk about that because it's tamboo, because it's Tom Brady.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: But he's terrible at his job. So I can see
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady sayd oh, we'll sign Aaron Rodgers is a
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: bridge quarterback. The Raiders are going to draft a quarterback
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: with a top pick and they'll bring Rogers in for
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: one year and then he can have a Vegas residency.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Why not? Who says no to that? Or go out
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to Arizona. They don't know what they're doing there, great
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: place to retire Arizona and hang out. It's a retirement
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: community with goalposts, have a great time. And plus he's
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: married now wink wigg, Yeah, he's married. I'm surprised I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: didn't get any of those cheesy sideline reports about Aaron Rodgers'
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: wife struggling as he tries to decide whether it's going
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: to keep playing or not. Yeah, his mystery wife, Brittany.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So I had an epiphany while I was making the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: trip in from far far away, and I'm thinking, is
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: there a chance that Brittany is a tree? Is it
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: possible that Aaron Rodgers named a tree Brittany, a giant
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: sequoia tree, and he married the tree name Brittany, and
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the tree can't go to Packer games, or in this case,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Steeler games can't go to Malibu because it's a tree.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: In order for that to happen, you'd have to kill
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Britney the tree and shop Britney the tree down and
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: take Britney the tree to your home. So right, hey,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: prove me wrong, all right now, pastue, So turning the picture,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Let's get to the Mike Tomlin story. Mike Tomlin was
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: asked about his future, tap danced around that he was
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: also asked about his message to the fans. His message
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to the fans is what Tomlin had to say regarding
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: these Steelers embarrassment in the game on Monday night.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: Again, when you don't get it done, words are cheap.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: It's about what you do or you don't do. And
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: so I appreciate the question. But people talk too much
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: in our business either, do you don't.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I think we prove on a nightly basis that words
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: are cheap and we also talk too much. I believe
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: both those things are factually true. Anyway, the question is
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: do the Steelers get out of the Mike Tomlin business?
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Was this it for Mike Tomlin?
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: Is that?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: All he wrote is that it? So there's a lot
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: of people right now engagement farming. It's a business you
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: can make some money in, you know, screaming. Tomlin's out,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: This is it. He's done. Fire Tomlin. You know, shop,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: go out and shop for the mystery box. It's like
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: on a game show. Do you want door number one,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: door number two, door number three? Every every door has
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: a clown behind it, So do you want to hire
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: a clown? Well, come in, it's the it's the circus. Yeah,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: So Mike Tomlin, last I checked, is a known commodity.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: He's a touchstone in the coaching world. He's been dependable
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and reliable. And think of it like this, you have
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: to have an operation. Mike Tomlin is a surgeon. He's
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: a surgeon that has study hands. Your other options are
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: some guy that watched a YouTube tutorial and has a
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: rusty scalpel. Are you going to pick the depend surgeon.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Are you going to pick the rusty scalp scalpel guy
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: that has really good YouTube what are you gonna pick?
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: So and now some others want to you know, they
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: want to lie down on the operating table. They're the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: ones that say, oh yeah, just cut me open. It's insanity.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And like, listen, I've fired Tomlin multiple times over the years,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: but at this point, I'm like looking at the field,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: looking at the card. I wouldn't get rid of Tomlin.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: That would be insanity, absolutely insanity. He's never had a
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: losing season. The fact that that team, the way they
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: played in the Monday night game was able to win
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: as many games as they did ten wins during the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: regular season is a testimonial to good coaching. That's coaching
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: guys up that roster is not very good, and Tomlin
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: coached that team up. That's what you're looking for. You
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: looking for a guy that coaches players up. And Tomlin
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: appears to be able to do that still. And so
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: you look at the the years he's been there in
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the success of making the playoffs and all that stuff.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: That's institutional excellence is what it is here. It's big
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: mac level of consistency. Like you go to a beat
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: a big man in any part of the world, that's
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: going to taste pretty much the same because that's the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: consistency of the Golden Arches. Well, Mike tomlins teams during
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: the regular season always win nine, ten, eleven games, even
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: when they have washed up players, they still find a
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: way to get that done. So, yeah, Doe, the Steelers
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: want to go out and do coaching roulette. Why would
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: you want to do that? Why why would you want that?
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: You don't need to you don't need to spin the
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: wheel and all that stuff. And you've got a reliable option. Now,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the malarads are not zero that Tomlin's out. The malarods are.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I crunch the numbers here, it's a two fifty. It's
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: a two, which it's like a two fifty hit twenty
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: five percent. Two fifty hitter is the is the number
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: you don't designate for assignment A two fifty hitter, especially
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: when your farm system is full of scarecrows. You don't
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: worry about that. And again I go back to the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: whole mystery prize thing and all that stuff. It's like
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Tomlin is fifty three in that profession. When you're a coach,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you're not that old. He could go another fifteen years,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: another fifteen years as a coach. He's still got the
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: fire in his belly. And if you're Tomlin, why would
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: you leave? You can go do TV and replace herb
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Street or Tony Romo and make a lot of money
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: for a couple of years, but eventually you're gonna still
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: want to come back and coach. The only one that's
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: really never done that has been Bill Kauer, and he
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: continues to haunt us on television week after week with
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: boring TV. But Tomlin think he'd be good. You never know, though.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I always thought Tony Sarah Goosa, the late Tony Sarah Gousu,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: would be amazing on television. He sucked, but a nice guy,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: just bad on TV.
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Our last thing to the Houston side of things.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Quick?
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Why all right to the Houston side of things. So
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: everyone's all excited now the Texans are going to go
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl because they blew out the Pittsburgh
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Steelers in Monday night. Is that how that works?
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: Well?
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Of course not, of course not. I'm not getting worked
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: up into a lather by the final score of this game,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: because I saw the game. It was seven to six
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: going to the fourth quarter, so one point game, a
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: one point game going to the fourth quarter. The Steelers
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: then imploded and Aaron Rodgers decided he was done there
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: and that was it. But the bigger issue to me
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: going forward for the Texans as they get ready for
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: the Patriots next week, is the quarterback play in Houston.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: So the question was CJ. Stroud a liability or an
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: asset for the Texans considering they won in a blowout.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Most who didn't pay attention would say, well, he was
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: clearly clearly an asset. He wasn't a liability. What are
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: you talking about? Well, these scales of football justice, the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: scales of football justice tilting towards dead weight, dead weight,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: and that was not quarterback greatness, obviously, was it? I mean,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: nobody was saying that he played great. But this was
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: like walking walking through the ocean, or walking swimming through
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: the ocean, and you drop an anchor somewhere out in
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the middle of the golf there, and you dragged the
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: yacht down into the bottom. I guess we'll go Galvinston
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Bay because you know it's close to Houston whatever. So,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: but when your defense is that good and the defense
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: is getting embellished because of the final score, when your
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: defense is that good, all you have to do is
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: drive the bus and don't crash it into the waffle house.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: And instead CJ. Stroud's out there juggling chainsauce juggling chainsaws
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: for much of this game. He had five fumbles. The
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Texas won in a blowout, and c. J. Stroud had
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: five fumbles. He lost two of them, he threw an interception,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: He did all of that. He did everything he could
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: to lose the game. And the Steelers are so bad.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers said, no, no, no, let us go Chernobyle. So
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: we'll go Chernoble there, and they did two defensive touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: by the Texans, one of them just a gift by
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. And so it was a coin flip going
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter, which should give the Patriots some
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: optimism going forward. Here CJ. Stroud was a live grenade
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: in this game. The pin was half pulled on the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: live grenade. The Texans defense had to grab it and
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: throw it out the window before it went cob boom,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: and the Texans won in spite of their quarterback. And
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of this with CJ. Stroud in
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: the playoffs where he hasn't looked all that good. And
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: he's another one of these younger quarterbacks that just doesn't
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: seem to have it in the playoffs, it would appear.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: Nowho Malor's Mountain of Money?
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Probably not all right? Here we go, it's timing out
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: for mallards amount of my I probably should plug this
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: computer and it's gonna die here on I think I
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: can find it. Let's play the game. Hold on a sec,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: we'll play the game. Let's welcome in our this thing
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: is about to die. Let's say hello to who do
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: we have we've got Jed who fled, Who's in the
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: redneck riviera in Florida? Hello, Jed who fled? Welcome.
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: I've got a plug too, but I think it's a
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: different kind of plug.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Whatever you do in your personal business is your business.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I don't mind that, all right? Who do you? Who
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: do you want to partner? You want part of Jeff Cooper,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the guy who knows what'll plug?
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: Is okay?
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: And we have Eli from Fresnel or we sed to
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: work with a guy named Eddie's from President. What's going on? Eli? Welcome?
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Sound excited to be here? Eli?
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: Absolutely as am?
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: I be alive?
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: It is good to be alive. I'm pretty sure it
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: beats the alternative, but who knows, maybe the alternative is better.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: All Right, Anyway, here we go, Eli. You're gonna play
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the game. You're gonna partner up with who do you want?
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: You want the Lorena or me? Wow?
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: I want a winner?
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: Let's do it then?
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: All right, but we're gonna say LORAINO. I'm sorry, Lorraine,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: no one ever pictured for this game.
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: I'm a loser. It's fine, Well.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Let's play the game. Cool? What are categories here? Please?
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: All right? Gentlemen.
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: This was supposed to be the Orlando Bloom edition, but
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: due to technical difficulties, we're doing the Howard's Turn edition.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: No, it's because I got called woke, So Howard's woke.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: That's right, Okay, yeah, good point.
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: He turned seventy two years old yesterday and birth. The
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: categories are Baba, Booie, Robin Quivers, stuttering, John, and private parts.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: Jed, which category would you like.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: Hearing Garcia say, if you're gonna be dead, be grateful
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: mother and booie?
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: All right? And Eli, how about you? What category would
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: you like? I'm sorry out when you were naming them.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: I'll take the second one though. Robin Quivers Robin Quivers?
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Alright, do you know who that is?
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: Probably?
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: All right, Jed, you and I are up first.
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: These athletes all had funny sounding nicknames.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Right, Robin Quivers?
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. This guy
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: is a wide receiver. He used to be on the Steelers,
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: then he was on the Kansas City Chiefs. His first
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: name is like a candy.
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: Dude.
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: All right, that's fine. This guy has the most championships
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: of anybody in Major League Baseball. He was a catcher
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: for the Yankees. Yes, uh, this guy more jersey number
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: eighty five for the Bengals wide receiver. I hear you're
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: no no, yes, uh yeah, Okay. This guy's nickname was Boogie.
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: He was a center for the Kings. Yes, this guy
• 40:53
  Speaker 8: was a defensive powerhouse for the Ravens. Not Ray Lewis,
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: but he was on the defensive line. Peter, No, no,
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: Swaggy p for the Lakers.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: Nick, how many.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Points is that? Ninety? Chit? You gotta get back on
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: the drugs man. All right, Young, Nick Young, Nick Young? Okay,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: we're up here, Eli, Robin Quivers. These were some of
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the best sidekicks in sports. Okay, sidekicks you allow, you're
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: ready to go? Yeah, all right, forty five second o'clock.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: We're on our way and go. Michael Jordan's sidekick with
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the Bulls. Yes, Karl Malone's point guard for the Utah Jazz. Yes,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: he played with Babe Ruth and the Yankees. He said
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: the all time Yes, play by play guy, you had
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: John Madden, but the play by play guy was blank.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay. Peyton Mannings go to receiver for
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts, plays for the Cardinals.
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: For the Cardinals.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Oh god, all right, not god. It is Jerry Rice's
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: other wide receiver for the Niners in the eighties with
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Joe Montana. I'm in my twenties.
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: All right, well, I don't know how you managed the
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: other They got sixty. The other one was actually her.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: All right, we gotta keep going. Hurry up, pick a
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: guy stuttering, John, are private parts, Jenny?
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: Oh no, no, the private parts.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: He's had private party.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: All right. These athletes have all revealed their private parts
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: over the years. All right, forty five seconds of the clock.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Run away go the King of the Lakers.
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: The King of the Lakers.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, A tough guy for the Golden State Warriors.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: He's a forward, not Steph Curry, the other guy center,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: come on the Warriors. Yeah, he's like a forward center.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah there, all right. Quarterback for the Packers before Aaron Rodgers. Oh, Brett, yes, uh,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: let's see. Pitcher he was with the Giants. Is year
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: played for the Tigers and the cheating Astros starting pitcher
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: in baseball. Yeah, yeah, there you go. All right, that's good,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: and I think that's enough. We're out of time. You
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: lose cool, you lose another cheater again.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Movies.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: That's called coaching coop, that's coaching