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Hour 1 - An Unpatriotic Performance · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: about that Thursday night NFL game. Week seven began. The
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears get by the Patriots. Who does Mike Vrabel
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  Speaker 1: give the biggest piece of the Boston cream pie of
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  Speaker 1: blame to? for the Pats losing to the Bears. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. Also, does wide receiver A.J. Brown deserve
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  Speaker 1: the heat that he's getting for his substandard play with
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots? He is not a premium wide receiver. And
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  Speaker 1: what is your read on Bears quarterback Caleb Williams randomly
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  Speaker 1: getting testy with Richard Sherman? on the Amazon Kiss Ass
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  Speaker 1: postgame show over the NFL Power Rankings. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: all that. Don't be a Johnny-come-lately. Settle in right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's our number one, and it's yours right now. An
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  Speaker 1: unpatriotic performance, if you will. Welcome in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: A programming note, we will open the lines up in
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  Speaker 1: our number two. So if you want to get in,
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  Speaker 1: if you're one of these professional callers, we have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of professional callers. Well, this would be the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: right now. This would be it. So do what you
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  Speaker 1: want with that. But in the meantime, don't bury the lead,
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  Speaker 1: my man. We're not going to bury the lead. Our
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  Speaker 1: lead story from the shores of Lake Michigan. It was
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  Speaker 1: the lid lifter on the new weekend, week seven card
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. You had a matchup of young upstart quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of guys drafted in the same draft class
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  Speaker 1: a couple years back. Would sparks fly? Drake May leading
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  Speaker 1: the Patriot Traveling Circus as they rolled in. To the
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  Speaker 1: land right there, Windy City. Matchup with Caleb Williams and
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  Speaker 1: Da Bears. You had Al Michaels. Da Bears. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Herbie was there and his dog, Peter. He's a grown
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  Speaker 1: man and has to take his dog with him everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It's slightly embarrassing. But they had the call on Amazon.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you were watching or not. Perhaps not.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know when else you would have been watching,
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  Speaker 1: but who knows? Maybe you were staring at a wall.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you. So Caleb Williams ended up going over
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  Speaker 1: 300 yards, had 308 yards, a couple of touchdowns, and
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  Speaker 1: the Bears put a big thing of ice water on
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  Speaker 1: Drake May and the Patriots with the win on Thursday night,
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  Speaker 1: a win by six points. Luther Burden was a burden
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  Speaker 1: for the Patriots. The Bears wide receiver had four catches,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of big plays in the first half, 130
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  Speaker 1: yards in Chicago. improves to 5-2, which is nice, but
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  Speaker 1: not as nice as the Minnesota Vikings record, which happens
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  Speaker 1: to be in their division. Colston Loveland, good name. He
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  Speaker 1: had a 12-yard touchdown reception for Chicago. You know how
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  Speaker 1: we roll here. The better story is in the losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room, and that is where we go, where Drake
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  Speaker 1: May had some sexy stats. However... Another loss for New England.
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  Speaker 1: They played a couple tomato cans, got a couple of wins.
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  Speaker 1: And now they go back and play a better team
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  Speaker 1: on the road. And the same bugaboo pops up for
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots as they go down in this particular game.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. It's rather simple. The answer, not so simple.
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  Speaker 1: The question is, Is this, who does Mike Vrabel give
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  Speaker 1: the biggest piece of the Boston cream pie of blame
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  Speaker 1: to for the Patriots losing to the Bears? Before we
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  Speaker 1: answer the question, why don't we hear from Mike Vrabel?
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  Speaker 1: Here is Vrabel commenting on his quarterback who made a
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  Speaker 1: really bonehead throw. Handicapped the game. We talked about the fact.
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  Speaker 1: that Drake may just don't turn the ball over. He
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  Speaker 1: got a good chance to win. He turned the ball over.
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  Speaker 1: Bears ended up cashing that in eventually for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: But here's Mike Vrabel on his quarterback. He gave us
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  Speaker 1: a chance.
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  Speaker 2: He competed, and I know he'd like to have that
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  Speaker 2: throwback to Eli, but I thought he really competed. Whether
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  Speaker 2: that was running around and scrambling and finding good places
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  Speaker 2: to go with the football. Gave us a chance. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I know he'd like to have that one back and
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  Speaker 2: he'll learn from it like he always does.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, I'm glad he's ours. Yeah, glad he's yours.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of learning this year. He's done
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  Speaker 1: a lot of learning. Every interception he learns, he's learned
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  Speaker 1: a lot, Drake May. More like Drek May on that
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  Speaker 1: particular throw. Patriot defense was unbecoming. Here is Vrabel talking
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  Speaker 1: about the inability to wrap up and tackle, which I
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  Speaker 1: believe is taught in Pop Warner football. Here's the Patriot
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  Speaker 1: coach on that.
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  Speaker 2: Tackling wasn't good enough, not against this team. We knew
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  Speaker 2: coming in, certainly tackling on Thursday night, but against this team,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's Swift, you know, burden, the quarterback, it, uh,
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  Speaker 2: It just leads to extra yards and conversions. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we fought.
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  Speaker 3: But I would say that.
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  Speaker 2: We need to turn the ball over and we have
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  Speaker 2: to tackle better, and those are fundamental skills. But I
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  Speaker 2: like the way they competed, and we certainly gave ourselves
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  Speaker 2: a chance. It wasn't a great one, but it was enough.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess they just competed. I thought this was
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  Speaker 1: pro football. Don't you get paid to, like, win? But
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  Speaker 1: they competed. They tried. They tried. That's where we are
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  Speaker 1: in 2026. They tried. The Patriots tried. They competed. All right,
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  Speaker 1: back to the question. So who does Mike Rabel give
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  Speaker 1: the biggest piece of the Boston cream pie of blame
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  Speaker 1: to for the Patriots losing here to the Bears? I've
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  Speaker 1: got Portuguese, Ernest Hemingway, and highly contagious. And we'll put
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  Speaker 1: these together. We are going to burn up the dance floor.
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. So, A, Mike Vrabel,
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  Speaker 1: you heard him there talking about compete, compete, compete. We
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  Speaker 1: gave ourself a chance, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You'd
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  Speaker 1: like to think that somewhere behind closed doors, Vrabel is furious.
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  Speaker 1: As the Patriots, the margins are thin. They were bedraggled, disheveled,
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  Speaker 1: and undisciplined on defense. It was football malpractice. And Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams doesn't really throw the ball down the field. The
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  Speaker 1: Bears don't trust him to throw the ball down the
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  Speaker 1: field very much. It's mostly dink and dunk, which is
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  Speaker 1: a bad sign for him being a big-time quarterback. And
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  Speaker 1: yet the Patriots, they fell right into it. The Bears
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  Speaker 1: are like, we're going to bet that you're going to
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  Speaker 1: miss a bunch of tackles, and we're going to chuck
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  Speaker 1: the ball within five yards of the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to miss a bunch of tackles, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get a bunch of yards. yards after
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  Speaker 1: the catch. And that's exactly what happened. And even with
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  Speaker 1: the messy play, the Patriots, it was still a winnable game.
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  Speaker 1: So the heavy play to the Boston cream pie of
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  Speaker 1: blame does go to Drake May and the defense. May
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  Speaker 1: gift-wrapped a touchdown opportunity, which should have gone touchdown New England,
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  Speaker 1: into a turnover. for Chicago he threw the ball right
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  Speaker 1: to the Bears defender at the goal line of Chicago
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  Speaker 1: would have been if you convert there you get a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown obviously a different setup in the game and while
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  Speaker 1: the defense had a highly highly highly um what's the
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  Speaker 1: word I'm looking for here ill-advised the case of miss
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  Speaker 1: a tackle itis miss a tackle itis here the patriots
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  Speaker 1: were not playing tackle football they were actually auditioning for
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  Speaker 1: a little side hustle we hear that the patriot defenders
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  Speaker 1: are looking to have another job in the offseason for
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  Speaker 1: the portuguese bullfighting circuit as matadors ole ole ole ole
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  Speaker 1: wave the cape wave the cape step aside let the
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  Speaker 1: Running back, go, or the wide receiver, and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Toss in the festival of stupid penalties, jumping off sides
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  Speaker 1: before this ball was snapped, which is fascinating. And this
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  Speaker 1: was not a talent issue. There were some guys out
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  Speaker 1: for the Patriots, but this was not a talent issue.
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  Speaker 1: This was a complete execution of failure by the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: And the injuries are an explanation. They're not an acquittal.
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  Speaker 1: And people were freaking out about the Patriots' offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: and the offensive line was not the reason that this
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  Speaker 1: game went the way to Chicago. That was not why
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  Speaker 1: the game went the way it was. Drake May was
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  Speaker 1: sacked a couple of times in the game. He converted
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  Speaker 1: on a couple of big chunk plays. They adjusted the
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  Speaker 1: offense as we thought they would, which is what you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do in the big boy football, and they
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  Speaker 1: figured out a couple of things. But you had the
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  Speaker 1: penalties and all that, and so You're collecting an NFL paycheck.
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  Speaker 1: Do your job, as the old Patriot coach years ago
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  Speaker 1: used to say. Now, staying with the Patriots, A.J. Brown.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of valuable talk radio real estate was used
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  Speaker 1: on A.J. Brown when he came to the Patriots from Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: He was up on the auctioning block, and this was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, the Patriots got the guy, and watch out now,
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Well, another night, another quiet performance
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  Speaker 1: for the big pickup of the offseason, A.J. Brown. Six targets,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Six targets, just three catches, 48 yards. The
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  Speaker 1: word for his performance is hum, drum. Hum, drum. Which
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  Speaker 1: led to a lot of finger pointing. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it, like, what's going on? Like, dude, you used
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  Speaker 1: to be good. You're not good. What happened?
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  Speaker 3: Well, A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Brown was asked about why he all of a sudden sucks,
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  Speaker 1: and here's what Brown had to say why he's garbage now.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand how the game goes. It's just kind
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  Speaker 4: of how the game is. I know what type of
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  Speaker 4: player I am, and I know that that's always the case.
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  Speaker 4: Every time I line up, I get a lot of attention,
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  Speaker 4: so team charting takes me away. It gives a lot
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  Speaker 4: of opportunities for other guys to make plays and soften
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  Speaker 4: that up for me, and then whenever I get my shots.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to make them. All right. Question. Does wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver A.J. Brown deserve the heat that he's getting for
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  Speaker 1: his substandard play with the Patriots. So the only proper
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  Speaker 1: answer here is yeppers. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact he said, well, I'm a decoy. Okay, timeout.
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  Speaker 1: Don't all the great wide receivers get boxed up by
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  Speaker 1: the defense yet they still make plays? Isn't that the
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  Speaker 1: whole point? That's the point of demarcation that separates the
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  Speaker 1: truly great wide receiver from the average wide receiver that
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  Speaker 1: The teams try to take them away, but the great
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  Speaker 1: ones still make the plays.
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  Speaker 5: A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Brown is not making the plays right now. And New
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  Speaker 1: England has to be suffering from a chronic case of
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  Speaker 1: buyer's remorse. They thought they were getting a MacBook Pro, sleek,
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  Speaker 1: high-performance machine with all the bells and whistles. And instead,
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  Speaker 1: they opened up the box, and what they found up
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  Speaker 1: until this point, for the most part, has been an
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  Speaker 1: Ernest Hemingway Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter. He's got the sticky
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  Speaker 1: space bar, and there's a missing ribbon. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: you've got. And Brown, again, this guy was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be a luxury item, franchise-altering player, a supernova, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of receiver who keeps the opposing defensive coaches awake at night,
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  Speaker 1: popping tums like Tic Tacs. And instead, he has been
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  Speaker 1: a guy that can't get open and is now saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a decoy. That's all I am. I'm a decoy.
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  Speaker 1: He's a store brand receiver. Store brand receiver masquerading as
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  Speaker 1: a premium product. And I go back to the point,
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  Speaker 1: we've asked this several times, where's the fear factor? Where's
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  Speaker 1: the intimidation? Nobody's trembling in their cleats against Patriots version
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  Speaker 1: of A.J. Brown. He's not keeping defensive coordinators up all
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  Speaker 1: night listening to the overnight talk show. They're sleeping like babies.
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  Speaker 1: Patriots paid for lobster. Lobster, as they say in Maine.
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  Speaker 1: And they're getting canned sardines right now. And Brown has
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  Speaker 1: gone from A certified game record to a jar. Not
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  Speaker 1: Jerry in a jar. Just another receiver. A jar. Just
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  Speaker 1: another receiver. All right, last word here. To the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Bears side of things. Bears feeling good about themselves. They
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  Speaker 1: get to win. They're 5-2 on the season. You feeling
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  Speaker 1: that great if you're the Bears here? Eh.
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  Speaker 3: Eh.
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  Speaker 1: Eh. So much. I was not overwhelmed by the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: It was fine. It was fine. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: like the greatest thing I've ever seen. It was a
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night game. And one of the things that stood out,
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  Speaker 1: I thought this was on brand for the Bears. Quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, I don't know if you stayed watching that
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  Speaker 1: terrible postgame show they have on Amazon Prime. My God,
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  Speaker 1: does that suck. I left the TV on. It happened
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  Speaker 1: to be on. It was a mistake by me. Bad
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  Speaker 1: job by me. Shame on me. They put the ex-jocks
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  Speaker 1: on there, and they just giggle and laugh and say nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So Caleb Williams, he was on there. He raised some
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  Speaker 1: eyebrows when he popped up on, I guess it's called
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  Speaker 1: the Amazon Prime Video something-something post-game thing. So he was
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the set, and Williams called out Richard Sherman.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Richard Sherman used to be good back in the day? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Called out Richard Sherman for not having Chicago. This is great.
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  Speaker 1: Called out Richard Sherman for not having Chicago in his
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  Speaker 1: top five on his power ranking on some podcast, apparently
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  Speaker 1: Richard Sherman does. And then Williams said, I see it all.
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  Speaker 1: He said that was his quote. I see it all.
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  Speaker 1: All right, question. What is your read on the Bears
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Caleb Williams getting testy With Richard Sherman on the
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  Speaker 1: postgame show over his NFL power rankings. So good. He
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  Speaker 1: got upset about the power rankings. Can I say totally clueless?
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  Speaker 1: These post-game show interviews are a trip to the country
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  Speaker 1: club where the athlete is placed on a pedestal while
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  Speaker 1: everyone else just plays grab ass and gives the mani
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  Speaker 1: and the pedi. The Mallor verdict on this one, manufactured outrage.
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  Speaker 1: Manufactured outrage. The quarterback of the Chicago Bears is apparently
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  Speaker 1: conducting a daily audit, a daily audit of who's saying
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  Speaker 1: nice things about him and the Bears. Capital E. Embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: So the Dr. Maller diagnosis. I'm not a doctor, but
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  Speaker 1: I can't play one on the radio. The Dr. Maller diagnosis.
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams suffering from a highly contagious and chronic case
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  Speaker 1: of Google Me Syndrome. GMS. Google Me Syndrome. There really
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  Speaker 1: is no cure. There really is no cure. Caleb Williams
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  Speaker 1: needs to be put outside, take the phone away, touch
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  Speaker 1: some grass, go out there, breathe some fresh air, and
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  Speaker 1: stop treating every friends and family podcast opinion like a
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  Speaker 1: declaration of war. And we have to remind these guys
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  Speaker 1: sometimes this is the National Football League. Last we checked,
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  Speaker 1: not the National Feelings League. Not that. So you're Playing
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, Caleb, calm down. Criticism is not a
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  Speaker 1: personal foul. It's part of the price of admission. That's
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  Speaker 1: part of the deal. And Richard Sherman tossed a pebble
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  Speaker 1: into the pond, and Caleb Williams is reporting, that's a tsunami.
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  Speaker 1: That is a, no, it's just a pebble. Trust me, Caleb,
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  Speaker 1: many more people now know that Richard Sherman, A, has
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  Speaker 1: a podcast, and B, did not include the Bears, than
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  Speaker 1: if you had kept your mouth shut, because I promise you,
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  Speaker 1: It's mostly friends and family that are listening to his
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  Speaker 1: little podcast that he's got. It is the Ben Maller Show.
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• 23:35
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• 23:54
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• 23:57
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• 23:59
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• 24:02
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• 24:06
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• 25:03
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• 25:04
  Speaker 1: right now the people would like to speak and let's
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: head to las vegas right now and a man hanging
• 25:11
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• 25:15
  Speaker 1: hello to Wild Bill. Hello, Wild Bill in Sin City. Hello,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Wild Bill. Welcome.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Man, now we're number one.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you for calling. Oh, you got more to say. Okay, yes.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I thought that was it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I got more to say. Okay, here's my message
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: for you, man. Man, that was long. for Ben Phuong
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: and Jack Ma from China will donate to Ben Merritt
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: one billion dollars.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: What is going on with you?
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: I work for NASA.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: You work for NASA? It sounds like you came from
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: another planet, it sounds like.
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: I am from Mars.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: You're from Mars. How's Mars? What's Mars like?
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: Mars is cold, cold, cold.
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Do you live out at Area 51? Is that where
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: you live?
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I live at Area 51 in Nevada. I work
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: for NASA, and I'm an astronaut.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Well, you sound like an astronaut. You sound highly educated
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and really very impressive.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: Well, I was on the moon when I was four
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: in 1973 with Skylab, and Edward Gibson was the boss.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Somebody wants to say hello to you. Hold on a sec.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: You want to say hello? There's a fan of yours
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: that's called in. You want to say hello to him?
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: All right. Wild Bill, say hello to your new friend
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: from Boston, Scott. Blind Scott. Blind Scott, say hello to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Wild Bill.
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: Hey, Wild Bill. You in the Vegas stretch now? Hey,
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: Wild Bill, how many cocktails did you have tonight?
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Twelve?
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Are you mixing it?
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: I'm a Mormon.
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: I don't drink.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Have you ever done meth before? You sound like you're
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: a meth head, dude. Hey, one more thing.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm a meth head. Yeah, I'm a meth head.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: I'm in rehab. You're not in rehab right now. Hey,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: one more thing, Waldo. Have you ever tried the rose?
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: You know the rose that you buy in the little
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: glass tube?
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Is that your go-to?
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: You pull the rose out of the glass tube, right?
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: I've never done that before.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Hey, Walter, you ever been with a woman before?
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: You ever hear.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Of a genie in Medford?
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: I'm a don't build the home. I've been with me.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to put you on. Yeah, women,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I hear your voice. They melt, I'm sure. All right,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: thank you. I'm going to move on from you. Scott,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: are you still there, Scott? Blind Scott. Will you hang
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: up on him, too?
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Is he going?
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: I'm going to waste it on that.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, there he is right there. Blind Scott's our Patriot insider.
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: Can I go on? Hey, did Vegas cover the spread
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: because the Patriots were the underdogs? So the bookies have
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: been going crazy in Boston, dude.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: The Bears covered the spread. The Bears were favored by three.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: You should see the bookies.
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: Dude, you should see the bookies walking around the North End.
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: Last weekend was a bookie weekend. Everybody's like flying high
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: right now. So that means all the bettors are losing
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: if the bookies are patting their pockets right now. Because, dude,
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: the Patriots fans, like Mike DeLeprecon, they just always bet
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: the Patriots. So the bookies win so much money. But
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: when the Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2001, they
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: were the underdogs against the Rams. And if you look
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: at the Italian-American club in Quincy, it's a famous story.
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: They busted them for gambling. Dude, all the bookies got
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: whacked after that. Dude, like 20 bookies got whacked after
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: the Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2001.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Hey, Scott, it's a good story and all that, but
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: with all the online, like DraftKings and all the other
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: sports books, why are the neighborhood bookies still a thing?
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: People are betting bookies because they don't know how to
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: use technology, and the states take so much money.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Well, that is true. The states do take a lot
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: of the money.
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, but the bookies don't understand a push. So I've
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: seen fights on the street with gamblers. They don't understand
• 29:03
  Speaker 9: if the game pushes who you pay out or who wins,
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: and then you have to pay the money back.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Well, no, if it's a push, you get the money back.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Nobody wins. You get the money back. But you still
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: have to pay the VIG, right?
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: You still pay the VIG, right?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: No, no, you get the whole thing back. That's it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: If it's a push, whatever you bet, you get it back.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: This is a hardcore gambling conversation.
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: You pay the big because the book he serviced.
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: You for that.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: No, you only pay, you know, obviously if you win
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: or lose, you pay. But if the game ends up,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: it's like a seven-point line. It ends at seven. You
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: get your money back. Whatever you bet, you get your
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: money back.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: In the North End, they don't do that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: They make you pay the VIG no matter what.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Nobody would bet with them. Why would anyone bet with them?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Makes no sense. You're not even gambling. What are you
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: talking about? You're not even a gambler. Why am I
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: even talking to you? You're not a gambler.
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: The North End is the most famous neighborhood for organized
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: crime in the world. They make the most money here
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: in organized crime.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: That's wonderful. Is there a trophy for that? Do you
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: get an honor to Congress for making the most money?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I know you don't gamble. You're talking out of your ass.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: I've seen people get whacked.
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: I've looked at their face dead, you know, after gambling.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, your blind Scott looked at them
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: while they were dead. Yes, I'm sure you watched that
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: whole thing happen, 100%. I was scared.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: To start running around the neighborhood, you know, on heroin,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I understand. How many times have I seen.
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: People in their catalog, all their heads blown off? You know,
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: you've got to watch out around.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: That's why you're blind. You saw that stuff, and you
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: lost your vision. You were, like, taken aback by everything
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: that happened. Yeah, I've been through it my whole life.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: I'm a hardcore gangster.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: You're a very gangster, yeah. In fact, one of the reasons,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know this, one of the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: reasons Whitey Bulger left to go, left from Easton to go,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: because of you. He was afraid of you.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: I knew Whitey Bulger.
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: One time he told my dad he was a bad parent, actually.
• 30:47
  Speaker 9: That's a true story, you know.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: What I mean?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that happened.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Whitey Bulger was a better father than my father, you know?
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I did get an email from Jonathan in Delaware. Let
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: me see here. Jonathan sent.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know Jonathan in Delaware.
• 30:59
  Speaker 9: Is he going to trash me because I just don't
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: feel like fighting with that guy because I like him?
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: No, he's not online, though. He said, I really get
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: annoyed by Blind Scott. But he said, I hope he
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: gets the help that he needs.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Dude, I don't need the help.
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: I'm autistic.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Dude, I'm autistic.
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: Like, what type of help do they want?
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: This is who I am. You know what I mean?
• 31:16
  Speaker 9: If I'm not telling you I want to kill you
• 31:17
  Speaker 9: or whatever, that means I'm, God help, you know, I'm cured.
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: But dude, Alex the vegan, I like eating vegan because
• 31:24
  Speaker 9: it clears out my backside.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: He's not a vegan anymore. He's formerly a vegan. He
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: said he had a nice piece of meat.
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: If you're a vegan, you treat your backside like a playground.
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: I thought maybe he was gay, so I was asking
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: him on a date.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm going to move on. There it is.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Blind Scott, who told us yesterday he was back on
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: his meds. Smart Money says, not back on the meds.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Not back on the meds. That's where the Smart Money
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: is right there. Well, Caleb Williams made some plays on
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the field. Bears get the win after the game. He
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: called out Richard Sherman on the postgame show. He also
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: did the Swappy Swap. Caleb Williams doing the Swappy Swap
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: postgame Bears-Patriots. And who do you think Caleb Williams on
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the field, on the field. I love how this is
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the most annoying, ridiculous things that happens in football and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: in basketball. The Jersey swap. The jersey swap. You know
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about? Like, hey, we just played a game.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Why don't we exchange jerseys? Although this is odd because
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Christian Gonzalez was injured, so Gonzalez unable to get her
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: done in terms of performing and all that stuff at
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: a high level. Anyway, he asked both, Caleb Williams asked
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: both Drake May and Christian Gonzalez for their jerseys postgame.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: like trying to build this massive man cave and all that.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: It's always odd because in baseball, at least back in
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the day, I don't know what happens these days in baseball,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: but when I was around baseball a lot, what they
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: would do is they'd have the clubhouse guy run over
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: to the other clubhouse and say, hey, Joe Blow wants
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: to get that guy over there's jersey. Can we do
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a jersey swap? It's not done for the cameras. It's
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: just done in the bowels of the arena, and that's it,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: and that's how it goes. So be it. Let's go
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: back to the phones. Let's go to Andre, Andre, Andre,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: who's in the Commonwealth, and his dog, Willis. Hello, Andre. Welcome.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: There's Willis. I hear Willis. I hear Willis.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Willis is not happy.
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: Not happy about that late interception becoming a trend with Mr.
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: Drake May, who was on a hot streak. Forty-five points
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: he put up against... The Raiders, right, last couple games,
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: multiple touchdowns, limiting the interception.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: He plays well at home.
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: He's really strong at home. And I think the silver
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: lining here in the Commonwealth and the Patriots fans is
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: that the schedule is amenable, right? They're going to take
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: a trip. They're going to get jiggy with it, party
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: with the city where the heat is on all day
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: through the night. They're heading to Miami on the road.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: So that's a trap game, also known as like a vacation, right,
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: get some sunshine, hit the beach, right.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Do his woosah, Well, it's only a trap game if
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: you get sun poisoning. Then it's a trap game. Other
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: than that, it's not a trap game. Have you seen
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins? My God.
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: They're in the march for Arch until they realize Arch.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Manning's not their guy. If they were in the march
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: for Arch, they'd be trying to win because they don't
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: need to draft Arch in the first pick in the draft.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: You can get him at the end of the sixth round.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: You can get Arch Manning the way he's playing. He's
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: going to get benched.
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: He's going to be on the Tom Brady plan now.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: All the way in the sixth round, you know, try
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: to find himself.
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: I have to sit out his eyes first year.
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: Maybe to get Mensah.
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: Get Mensah down there to you. That's why this trip
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: to the Dolphins, like, this discuss. Willis is getting frustrated here.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Willis wants to comment. Can we ask? Let's ask Willis. Willis,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: what do you think of Peter Herbstreet, the dog Peter Herbstreet?
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Your thoughts on that, Willis? Oh, hey. Look at that, Willis. Oh,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: calm down, Willis. I know you're jealous.
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: He's very favorable to Herb Street. Also favorable to the Snackerooties.
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: And it's getting late, but you can get him out.
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: We got this wind here.
• 35:18
  Speaker 9: They're predicting, which is.
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: I don't know. It's a little bit of a catch-22.
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: I know we've got to get to sports. But they're
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: saying it's going to be warmer but more rain and wind,
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: which is challenging for us on the coast here because
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: that sometimes knocks out the power.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, you've got to have a generator. You've got to
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: stay inside. Make sure you have some supplies there. You'll
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: be good to go.
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: Indeed. Peanut butter and jelly, you know what I mean?
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: Your flashlight, you know, your old comic books. You're good
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: to go. Rather than the three feet of snow that
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: we had last year usurping the blizzard of 78. So
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: I'm a little bit, you know, which I prefer the wind.
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: You know, at least you're not buried in snow.
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: So on and forth.
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: To the Patriots. Drake, come on. He is who we
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: thought he was. It's not that you lose. It's how
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: you lose, Ben. First game of the season, all this moxie,
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: the chutzpah. Darnold goes down after three plays. It's a
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: winnable game.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: What does he do?
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: Throws an interception late. Ball game over. Same thing. On
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: the road, in the shy. Good ball game back and forth.
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: The good people in Chicago, again, what are you talking
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: about moving the stadium to Indiana? Get your mind right.
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: I know there's politics, but it makes no doggone sense.
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: Never mind. Just keep it in Chicago. But the late,
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: great Mike Ditka, all right? Let's do it again, right? Okay,
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: you can't do the Super Bowl shuffle in Indiana. It
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: has to be in Chicago.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: You know this.
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: So let's get that straightened out. But Patriots, again, he
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: can't get out of his own way. So the schedule,
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: it's tough because you have the trap game, a.k.a. vacation
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: in Miami. Then you have the Vikings. And, oh, no,
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: the Packers and the Vikings. Packers, both teams that.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Are playing themselves. What are we doing? The schedule breakdown?
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Is that what we're doing? I don't know if I
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: want to do the schedule breakdown. I'm not sure I want.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: To do that.
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: Forget the schedule breakdown. For me and Willis, break May.
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: Stop throwing interceptions.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: End it.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Grow up.
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: Throw it out of bounds so we can win some
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: of these games, hopefully, possibly. We'll see you next week, Ben.
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: Thanks for taking the call.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: There he goes. Andre, Andre, Andre from the Commonwealth. You
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: see the Patriots head coach caught on camera, candid camera
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: during the game. And he was apparently there was a
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: water bottle which had some contraband in it. And they're.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: The Internet investigators are convinced the Patriots coach, now trust me,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: there was no Diana Rossini in the water bottle, but
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the Patriots coach, he supposedly had some banned substance in there. However,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: it is believed it was just smelling salts, which I
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: think are not allowed. The NFL outlawed smelling salts. You
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: can do cocaine, but you can't do smelling salts, I think.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I might be wrong on that. Who knows?
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: But Rabel appeared to be sniffing some smelling salts. He
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: might want to have given that to the Patriot defenders
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: who played like matadors. The cameras on Amazon cut to
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the sidelines there at one point in the first half,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: and there was Rabel sniffing from a water bottle, and
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: he held the bottle to his nose, took a big whiff,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: moved it, brought it back, took another whiff, and there
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: he was.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: I was wondering how long it was going to be
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: before we saw something like that, because They said they
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: can still use smelling salts. They just can't have them. Like,
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: the team can't provide it, right? Is that what it was?
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. They have to bring their own. It's pot luck.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: You've got to bring your own smelling salts. I should
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: get some smelling salts. That's good. Wouldn't that be good?
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: When we do the overnight show, sometimes you get a
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: little tired. Just sniff some smelling salts.
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: I've never tried that before.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Have you done that? Years ago, I was in high school,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: so it's been a long time. But yeah, it was
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: definitely smelling salts because there's no liquid in it.
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: It's just the smelling salts right there. I'm assuming it works. Otherwise,
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: they wouldn't do it, right? They'd just give you a
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: quick jolt of energy?
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. You take a big sniff and you wake up.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: It works better for some people.
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: It's not bad.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: All right, look at the time. All right, it is
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. Time now for the Who Am
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I game. Here we go. Kansas City running back Kenneth
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Walker leads the NFL with 665 rushing yards this season.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: He's just the third player in the Super Bowl era
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: with at least two touchdowns in four of his team's
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: first five games of the season, joining Lions legend Calvin
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Johnson and me. Who am I? The answer next.
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 39:35
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• 39:38
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• 39:42
  Speaker 1: continue on. And an answer to the Who Am I
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: game coming up momentarily. It is a Benny versus the
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Penny kind of a day. So make sure to check
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: out that coming up next hour. Also, the fifth hour
• 39:56
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• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I know you're not sure where to check out the
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: big game tonight, so there's no time like October. And
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: this is what it's all been for. The World Series
• 40:10
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• 40:13
  Speaker 1: versus the Royals. Baseball's biggest stage. Stream it live on
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Fox 1. Coming up tonight. All right, time now for
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the Who Am I game. And this is where we
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: pretend to be somebody else. Here we go. Chiefs running back.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Chiefs running back. Kenneth Walker leads the NFL with 665
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: rushing yards this season. He's just the third player in
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl era with at least two touchdowns in
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: four of his team's first five games. Joining Lions legend
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson and me. Who am I? That is the question.
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: What is the answer? And let's see here. Who knows
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the answer? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Check and answer by
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: their name. And who do we have? Bam Adebayo from Femi.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: We've got Lloyd Bridges from Alfie Alien Operator. Nick Bosa,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: who's 29, from Late Night Drug Tester. Rocky Blyer from
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Eileen in San Francisco.
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: Who?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Ed Ott from Mr. Nice Guy. Buddy Biancolana from Steeler Nasty.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: What say you, Lorena? Doja Cat! No, that is Emerson
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Boozer of the Jets in 1967. Emerson Boozer. Boozer!