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Hour 4 - Problem Identified · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Mama, there goes that man. It's our number four. Our
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  Speaker 1: four is ready to go here. It's the Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday, the 29th day of September. And here in
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  Speaker 1: our number four, we take a look at the fallen Patriot.
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  Speaker 1: who will be an expat if he continues to play
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  Speaker 1: like this, the quarterback that was in the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: last year and looks like he should be selling cars
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  Speaker 1: this year. Well, Patriots coach Mike Rabel has apparently figured
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  Speaker 1: things out. He says that his quarterback is pressing and
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  Speaker 1: needs to, quote, relax. He used a golf analogy. Is
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  Speaker 1: Drake Mays' slump a pothole, a sinkhole, or the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of a quarterback career crater? We'll take a look at that.
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  Speaker 1: And with Baker Mayfield out, is there any realistic path
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  Speaker 1: for Tampa Bay to stay afloat with someone named Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Daniels at quarterback? Or is it all over for the
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  Speaker 1: 2026 vintage of the Buccaneers. And also in Wisconsin, what
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  Speaker 1: changed between Tucker Kraft's original comments where he took shots
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  Speaker 1: at the Lambeau crowd and his walk back, his thinking,
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  Speaker 1: did it change his thinking or did the Packers messaging
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  Speaker 1: strategy change? We'll examine that and get to it right
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  Speaker 1: about now. Here it is. Give it up for our
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  Speaker 1: number four. Have a wonderful Tuesday. Well, as the saying goes,
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  Speaker 1: just because you've identified a problem does not mean you're
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  Speaker 1: any closer to solving it. Welcome in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: Our lead story, not from the Monday night game, not
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  Speaker 1: much of a game. as the rotting carcass of Case
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  Speaker 1: Keenum stepped out of the crypt and shoved it down
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  Speaker 1: the throat of the Bears, or the Eagles opponent, or
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  Speaker 1: the Bears opponent of the Eagles. There you go. If
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  Speaker 1: the guy could talk, that would help. The Bears destroying
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  Speaker 1: the once-proud Philadelphia Eagles after Chicago had a tough time
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  Speaker 1: of things against the Vikings, and Case Keenum, who... really
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  Speaker 1: dominated considering there were no expectations. Outplayed Jalen Hurts. The Eagles'
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  Speaker 1: defense looked like they were stuck in the mud. So
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  Speaker 1: that was not much of a game blowout. Eagles scored
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  Speaker 1: just one touchdown and a 20-point win for the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Bears in that game. So our lead this hour continues
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  Speaker 1: to be the fallen star. Don't let a falling star
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  Speaker 1: fall on you. And right now in New England, there
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  Speaker 1: is a falling star falling on top of of the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a woe-be-gone quarterback blues. If you have not
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  Speaker 1: heard the latest on this, Patriots coach Mike Vrabel, Mike
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  Speaker 1: Vrabel saying that Drake May is pressing too hard. He
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  Speaker 1: needs to relax. Gotta relax. famous drop from Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, says that he's forcing plays. According
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  Speaker 1: to Mike Vrabel, he's got all this figured out. All
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  Speaker 1: these things are wrong. Vrabel compared May, if you didn't hear,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not, he compared May to a golfer gripping the
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  Speaker 1: golf club too tightly, becoming so obsessed with making something
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  Speaker 1: happen that everything goes sideways, goes kerflowy. All right. But wait,
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  Speaker 1: there's more. His message says, Mike Vrabel's message, stop trying
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  Speaker 1: to choke the life out of every play and take
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  Speaker 1: what the defense gives you. All right, so that is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Patriots coach Mike Vrabel saying that his quarterback
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  Speaker 1: is pressing and needs to relax. That's a quote. Is
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  Speaker 1: Drake Mays' slump a pothole? A sinkhole or the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of a quarterback career crater? That is the question. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got Dr. Phil, Quantum Leap, and tomatoes. And we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and have some gabagool.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have the gabagool. We'll have the baba
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  Speaker 1: ganoush and some jambalaya. No gumbo, just the jambalaya. So
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  Speaker 1: this is at... This moment, a giant sinkhole, and it
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  Speaker 1: is in danger, stranger danger, of becoming a Dante's Inferno
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  Speaker 1: type situation. Keys pressing is a classic cliche. It's just
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  Speaker 1: coach speak. Mike Rabel's really saying, hey, our quarterback is
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  Speaker 1: currently screwing everything up. And remember, just because you've identified
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  Speaker 1: Dante The problem does not mean you are any closer
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  Speaker 1: to solving the problem. There have been plenty of quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: that have been trying too hard, pressing too hard, and
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  Speaker 1: currently they're selling insurance. They're not playing in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: because they couldn't figure out how to fix the problem.
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  Speaker 1: And one of my pet peeves, every time a young
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  Speaker 1: quarterback stinks, somebody inevitably reaches for the psychology textbook 101.
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  Speaker 1: And they reach out, they grab the textbook, And it
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  Speaker 1: always requires psychological dissertations and mumbo jumbo and all this nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel saying that Drake May needs to relax and
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  Speaker 1: all that. Well, great. Perhaps New England can install a
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  Speaker 1: meditation room if they don't already have one there next
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  Speaker 1: to the film room. And sounds like he wants to
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  Speaker 1: have Mike Vrabel wants to have his quarterback enjoy a
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  Speaker 1: nice lavender candle and a weighted blankie. And some nice
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  Speaker 1: exotic tea. And that'll calm him down. That's all Drake
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  Speaker 1: May needs. So everyone wants to play Dr. Phil. And
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  Speaker 1: treating these quarterbacks. In this case, we're talking about Drake May.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, well, let's treat Drake May like he's
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  Speaker 1: eight years old. And he forgot his mouth guard. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's not exactly what's going on right now. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't think this is Pop Warner. I might be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Pop Warner where everyone gets a little baggie
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  Speaker 1: of a little Ziploc bag of orange slices. That's not
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  Speaker 1: quite how this works. And so I'd like to think
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  Speaker 1: the NFL is not a developmental daycare situation. Although I
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  Speaker 1: question that based on what I see with many of
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  Speaker 1: these teams. And so nobody should care if Drake May
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  Speaker 1: needs to find his happy place. That's not your concern.
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  Speaker 1: That's not my concern. It's the Patriots' concern here. But
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  Speaker 1: you're either solving problems or you're becoming a problem. And
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  Speaker 1: at this point, there is no other way to say it.
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  Speaker 1: Drake May went from, hey, we found the next great
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  Speaker 1: franchise quarterback to, wait a minute, is this a one-hit
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  Speaker 1: wonder situation? Well, it's only been a few games. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this actually goes back to last season, which seems ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: because the Patriots got to the Super Bowl. without Drake
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  Speaker 1: May being a force multiplier. And so it's a mess.
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  Speaker 1: It's an absolute mess. And I'm just of the mindset, like,
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  Speaker 1: enough with the excuses. If Drake May is that effed
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  Speaker 1: up in the head, you got Tommy DeVito, put Tommy
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  Speaker 1: DeVito out there, and why not? And just hand the
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  Speaker 1: ball off most of the time and just run a
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  Speaker 1: dumbed-down offense and see if you can make it work.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. So sometimes, this is actually going to
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  Speaker 1: shock you, Sometimes a bad interception is just a bad interception.
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  Speaker 1: It's not because of the fact that you're trying too hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's because you're a bozo. It made the wrong play.
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  Speaker 1: That does happen. It's shocking. I heard the same crap
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  Speaker 1: about Kyler Murray in Arizona. We're hearing it now about C.J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud in Houston. Everyone loves to make excuses for quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't enjoy making excuses for quarterbacks. It
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  Speaker 1: makes me want to puke in my mouth when I
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  Speaker 1: hear these people, these morons. And more times than not,
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  Speaker 1: they're wrong. But we're not supposed to talk about that part. Now, secondly,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of quarterback snafus, we go to Tampa where Buccaneers
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  Speaker 1: coach Todd Bowles says that Baker will not be baking
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  Speaker 1: anytime soon. Baker Mayfield will miss at least three weeks,
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  Speaker 1: likely more than that, after dislocating his throwing hand against
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota football team. The MRI showed no fracture, no
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  Speaker 1: ligament or tendon damage. And they are not expected to
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  Speaker 1: have an operation. Mayfield will have a second opinion. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: What the hell? And Tampa Bay, though. They believe the
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  Speaker 1: injury primarily just needs time to regain strength and then
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  Speaker 1: function and he'll be good. And so the Buccaneers will
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  Speaker 1: not be placing Baker Mayfield on injured reserve. So they're
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  Speaker 1: saying he'll be back in like three weeks. So, okay.
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  Speaker 1: That means... Undrafted rookie Jalen Daniels. Not Jaden Daniels. He's
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  Speaker 1: the guy that can't play for the Washington football team.
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  Speaker 1: This is Jalen Daniels will start Sunday against the equally
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  Speaker 1: effed up Green Bay Packers. Yeah, the Packers are a
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  Speaker 1: hot mess. And now they take on the Bucs. They say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: hold our beer. So the question, with Baker Mayfield out
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  Speaker 1: and Tampa Bay off to the 0-3 start, is there
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  Speaker 1: any realistic path to for the Buccaneers, the creamsicles, to
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  Speaker 1: stay afloat with someone named Jalen Daniels at quarterback. So
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  Speaker 1: we're three games in, not a lot, and I am
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  Speaker 1: now ready to declare. that even in a suckbag division,
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  Speaker 1: which is the NFC South, the Buccaneers season is effectively O-V-E-R.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm never wrong about these things. I am never
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  Speaker 1: wrong about these things. You can stick a fork in them. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: don't stick a fork in them. Why don't you stick
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  Speaker 1: one of those big, giant barbecue thermometer things? Stick that
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  Speaker 1: in the Buccaneers, because they're porked. They are absolutely porked.
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  Speaker 1: They are wandering through the football wilderness in Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: with a compass... They have a flashlight and they have
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  Speaker 1: pants which are halfway down. They've got that plumber crack
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  Speaker 1: right now. You've got Baker Mayfield and the injury. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they have an excuse. The injury thing is, oh, if
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  Speaker 1: only Baker Mayfield hadn't been hurt.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you're 0-3.
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  Speaker 1: So does that really work? Does that really work? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck. You're out in the wilderness. Your GPS isn't working.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have cell reception. It's a problem. So don't
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  Speaker 1: hold your breath because the only way The only way
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  Speaker 1: that Todd Bowles can make this thing work is if
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  Speaker 1: he can find the Quantum Leap TV show and recreate
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  Speaker 1: that with Dr. Sam Beckett. And if Dr. Sam can
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  Speaker 1: jump into Jalen Daniels' body and turn him into Nick Foles,
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  Speaker 1: we got something. Does anyone think that's going to happen? No? Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I don't either.
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  Speaker 1: Daniels, by the way, was undrafted, which doesn't mean you
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  Speaker 1: can't play. It just means the NFL scouts don't think
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  Speaker 1: you can play. He was undrafted. And I looked up
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  Speaker 1: the scouting guide on Jalen Daniels because I don't really
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  Speaker 1: remember watching him play much because he played at Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: And who the hell's watching the Jayhawks play? He wants
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  Speaker 1: to play basketball. He wants to play football. And it's
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  Speaker 1: Mark Mangino was there. The great Mark Mangino.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So the point is, Daniels wasn't drafted. The scouting report
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  Speaker 1: says inconsistent mechanics, limited arm velocity, and major medical concerns.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night for Jalen Daniels here.
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  Speaker 1: He did not just go to college. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: spent six years playing for the Kansas Jayhawks. Six years.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he was tenured as a quarterback. It's hard
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  Speaker 1: to be tenured as a quarterback, but he was tenured
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  Speaker 1: as a quarterback. Six years. So the Bucs right now
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  Speaker 1: are riding the monorail. Not the Disneyland monorail. It's the
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  Speaker 1: mediocrity monorail at this point. And there are no stops
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  Speaker 1: along the way. It's the express train to nowhere at
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  Speaker 1: this point. That's it. So Todd Bowles, I recommend updating.
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  Speaker 1: Your resume at this point, because you are going to
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  Speaker 1: be one hell of a hot defensive coordinator candidate in
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  Speaker 1: 2027 when you are let go by the Buccaneers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: final thought, follow-up, follow-up to criticism of the fans. We
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  Speaker 1: go to Wisconsin, where the Green Bay Packers, they're tied in.
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Kraft, I am old enough to remember when he
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  Speaker 1: used to be good. So Tucker Kraft has changed his
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  Speaker 1: position on the Green Bay fans. Do you see this?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: All right. Now, initially, you might remember last week the
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  Speaker 1: Packers were mollywhopped by the Dirty Birds, the Atlanta Falcons,
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  Speaker 1: in the Thursday night game. And after the game, Tucker
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  Speaker 1: Craft was disappointed that the hometown fans rained down raspberries. Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo.
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  Speaker 1: Very upset. Booing the hometown team after they played gutless
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  Speaker 1: football against Atlanta. How dare you? Now, Kraft changed his position.
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  Speaker 1: He now acknowledged that the Packers were out of there,
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  Speaker 1: or were out there on the field not going, or
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  Speaker 1: not doing the greatest, he said. This is a quote.
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  Speaker 1: Were out there on the field not doing the greatest,
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  Speaker 1: he said. He now, Tucker Kraft says, he understands the
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  Speaker 1: fans spent significant time and money attending the game. He
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  Speaker 1: clarified that his earlier quote involving disappointment was directed at
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  Speaker 1: the entire day and outcome, not specifically at Packer fans
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  Speaker 1: the Packer backers so the question what changed what do
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  Speaker 1: you think changed between Tucker Kraft's original comments condemning the
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  Speaker 1: hometown fans and his walk back clear walk back do
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  Speaker 1: you think his thinking changed or the Packers messaging strategy
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  Speaker 1: changed what do you think riddle me this Batman All right,
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  Speaker 1: so Kraft's initial comments sounded raw. They were organic. What
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  Speaker 1: he had to say there, now the follow-up sounded like
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  Speaker 1: somebody from the Green Bay Packers PR department. They started knocking, right?
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  Speaker 1: And then they say, hey, Tucker, it's Joe Blow from
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  Speaker 1: the PR people. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm taking a nap. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to slide this thing under your door. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: slide it under the door. No problem. It's a little folder. Okay, good,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Okay, I'm going to go back to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: So he took a nap, and then he woke up,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a folder across from him, and it said, Tucker,
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  Speaker 1: we need to talk. Uh-oh, we need to talk. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: So he walked in to the PR office, the walk
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  Speaker 1: of shame. He walked in, though, Tucker Kraft is like
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  Speaker 1: Dirty Harry, the iconic Dirty Harry. Everybody's very excited, all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. So he walked in, and then he walked
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  Speaker 1: out like Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: Holding a shareholder certificate, and that was his thing here.
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  Speaker 1: So somebody at Lambeau, we're not sure exactly who, but
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  Speaker 1: the smart money says somebody higher up sat Tucker Kraft,
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  Speaker 1: the tight end of the Packers, down and explained the
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  Speaker 1: birds and the bees. More importantly, they said, hey, Tucker,
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  Speaker 1: you don't throw rotten tomatoes at the people who buy
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the tomatoes. Bad job by you. How dare you?
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  Speaker 4: So he is.
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  Speaker 1: He has been given the talk, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: that's what happened. You get sent to public relations obedience school,
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  Speaker 1: and you broke the cardinal rule. Tucker Kraft broke the
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  Speaker 1: cardinal rule. You can criticize the media. You can criticize yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You can criticize your teammates. You can criticize your coaches,
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  Speaker 1: but you never criticize the paying customer. Cannot do it.
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  Speaker 1: Can I do it? And so now he's giving the
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  Speaker 1: whole song and dance about, oh, you know, I live
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  Speaker 1: in Green Bay. You're right. I'm a true Wisconsinite and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: Smells like a corporate cleanup on aisle 85. Corporate cleanup
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  Speaker 1: on aisle 85. And his teammate, Christian Watson, gave the
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  Speaker 1: time-tested cliche. This is essentially, I'm going to paraphrase here.
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  Speaker 1: This is the entertainment business. So put on a better
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  Speaker 1: show because you're not very entertaining. That's it. It is
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. If you would like to comment
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  Speaker 1: about but we did not talk about, we will get
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: to that. Curmudgeon Wayne is clearly on the sauce again.
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  Speaker 1: He says the Vikings are Super Bowl bound. Wait until
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: he gets the full version of the little fella Kyler Murray.
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  Speaker 1: He will not be saying that. Defense is a Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl defense in Minnesota. Special teams are Super Bowl worthy. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: I'm told you have to have an offense, which seems
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  Speaker 1: to be the problem for the Vikings at this particular point.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck with that. So believe it or not, it was, well,
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• 19:31
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• 19:34
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• 19:40
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• 23:38
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• 23:52
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• 23:54
  Speaker 1: named Zion Williamson who was the prodigy at Duke? He
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: didn't play very much at Duke, and then he got hurt,
• 23:58
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• 24:00
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• 24:06
  Speaker 1: that Joe Dumars. If you're old, you know who that is.
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  Speaker 1: He used to be good with the Pistons. Joe Dumars
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and the Pelicans, what a dumb name that is, bragging
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  Speaker 1: that Zion Williamson lost seven pounds. I don't think I've
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: ever heard anyone brag about someone who's kind of overweight,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: which is Zion, that they lost seven pounds. Usually it's
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: 20 pounds or 30 pounds or 40 pounds or something
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: like that. But no, they're bragging about Zion Williamson losing
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: seven pounds and Joe Dumars saying he's in impeccable shape.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: impeccable shape and zion admitted his career is not where
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: he wants to be bradley beal explained why he's wearing
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: number three for the clippers after chris paul retired said
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: there's no disrespect john morant who used to be a
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: big star with the grizzlies he's now in portland he's
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: going to be coming off the bench and he claimed
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: he's okay with it he said i want to win
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: You know somebody told him to say that. Steph Curry
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: says he's in disbelief because of the terrible expectations. There
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: are no expectations for the Golden State Warriors. And he
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: apparently walked away from the media huffing and puffing, annoyed
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: that they're not expected to be any good. Back to
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the old Mike Montgomery Warriors in the Bay Area where
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: they suck. They might want to bring back a Donald
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Foyle and some of those guys back in the day.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Baron Davis. And Ben Simmons says he wants to dominate
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: with the Kings. Doesn't he say this with every team
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: he plays for and then he actually has to play
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and then there's the problem. My favorite story from media day.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Remember a couple of weeks ago when there was that
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: controversy with Arch Manning and forget the woman's name from ESPN.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: The fake video that people got offended by because they're
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: stupid and they get offended by fake stuff. And all
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: these female sideline reporters came out and they got all upset.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. It was a calculated, orchestrated attack. Very upset. And,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: you know, come on, leave us alone. Well, a couple
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: of ladies who cover the Sacramento Kings were caught on
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: a hot mic. And I guess their role model is
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Diana Rossini because they were caught talking on a live
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: stream during the Kings Media Day there. speaking about the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: players on the Kings. And, yeah, they were really apparently
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: very thirsty there for Ben Simmons and Zach Levine. The
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: ladies caught on camera commenting about the appearance of both. Well,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: not on camera. It was actually just audio. You don't
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: see who they are. And this, of course, went viral.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: And I promise you, if that had been a dude
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: talking about chicks, that guy would have been fired and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: would have been never allowed to work again. I'm pretty
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: sure these women will be fine. You know, there's a
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: bit of a double standard on that, but they were
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: totally thirst-strapping, these guys. It was pretty funny. And LeBron James!
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Philadelphia, LeBron, now with the Sixers. And in
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: true LeBron fashion, he made it all about him by
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: essentially saying he did not really plan on playing for
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia 76ers. He says that he had visions of
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: playing for the Knickerbockers, finishing his career with the Knicks.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: LeBron claims that once the Knicks won the championship, he decided,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I guess not to, I'm paraphrasing, but he decided not
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to play in New York because he wanted the glory.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: LeBron wanted the glory of being the guy that won,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and they didn't win, and so anyway. Or they already won,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and he wouldn't be part of it. Let's go to Scott,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: who's in the Commonwealth. What's going on, Scott? It is
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. Welcome, Scott.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Well, good morning to you, my friend Ben.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Hello, Scott. What's up?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, hey, Lorena.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Nice to hear you're back on the air.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Glad to be here.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: All right, cool.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: All right, so what I wanted to talk about was
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Drake May. Now, obviously, the first three games, he hasn't
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: played well. But if we go back to last season,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: he didn't play well in the playoffs. So we now have... what,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: a good six, seven games straight where he's not playing great.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: And it occurred to.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Me yesterday when I listened to sports media here in Boston,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: maybe that's why they didn't play him in the preseason,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: because there's something physically wrong with the guy.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, I don't buy that. How come any
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: time anyone doesn't play well, they've got to be hurt?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: What happened to people just not playing well, just not
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: being ineffective and not being able to get the job done?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Well, see, the other day you were talking about there's
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: something upstairs with the guy. Maybe that's it. You said
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: he's got the yips.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Well, he looked like he had the yips. He's a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: complete and total mess. But in the playoffs last year,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: he had, what did he have, six touchdowns, four interceptions. But, yeah,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: he wasn't particularly good. Like, he wasn't– the pitcher's offense
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: was not– not dominant or anything like that. They just
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: kind of, they were there. There was some, they played
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a bunch of, CJ Stroud gave that game away. There
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: were a couple of games that were just, were just, right?
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, there were games that were just given to
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: them or given to him. So.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: So, so you think it's more upstairs than physical?
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's fine. He just, for whatever reason,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: his confidence is gone and that's it. Once you lose
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: your confidence, it's hard to get it back in anything,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: whether it's sports or anything in life, you lose your
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: confidence and you're, not in good shape there. He had
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: all these great numbers against bad teams last year and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: fattened up the stats, beaten up on the Jets. He
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: had that five-touchdown game late in the season against the
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Jets last year. Remember that?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: That's a long time ago. So what's your solution here, Scott?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: You think he's hurt. You're going with the injury card.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Well, a guy called up yesterday in the Boston Sports
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Media and said, is there any kind of a, like
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: with a pitcher, you know, they use a radar gun.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Is there something like that in football where they can
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: actually clock.
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: The guy's velocity?
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: And let's see if his velocity is down. And if
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: his velocity is down because he's under throwing and he's
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: like throwing it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't buy that. No, it's not like pitching.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't have to throw the ball hard. In fact,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: you actually are penalized for throwing the ball hard. You've
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: got to put some English on the throw. You've got
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: to drop it in. Drop it in the bread basket.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's a valid point. But what the guy
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: was trying to say was where he's underthrowing the receiver
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: is his velocity down, meaning he just can't throw it
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: as hard as he used to. And I know he's
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: not like an old veteran, but you see the point
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the guy was trying to make.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I got you. I got you. All right, we'll leave
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: it there, Scott. There you go. Scott from the Commonwealth.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Mark on the north end. Hello,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Marky Mark on the north end. Welcome, Mark. Welcome.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: I'm Ben. How's it going, brother?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be a Bruin, but
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: not a Boston Bruin. I see you want to talk hockey.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: They're not going to be very good this year.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: I know the NFL's in full swing now. You've got
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: MLB playoffs starting tonight. But, you know, you don't give
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: my NHL any love at all. You've got two great
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: matchups tonight. Two original six matchups. Bruins, Rangers, Maple Leafs,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Canadians tonight. That's hockey, my friend.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but none of those teams are– isn't it like
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the top teams are supposed to be Florida and Colorado
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: and all that and Carolina, right? Aren't those the top
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: teams in hockey this year?
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Well, like they say in the NHL, anything can happen.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: And except for the Rangers right now, those four teams
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: I mentioned are pretty much playoff teams.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Well, let me know. You watch. I'll be watching the
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: baseball today.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: I'll be flipping back and forth to watch my Yankees
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: destroy the Red Sox.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. You are the Yankee fan, even though
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: you live in Boston.
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: Yes, I am.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I forgot about that. That's right. Yeah, that's an early game. Oh,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: somewhat early.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Are you surprised, Ben, that they're not going with Sonny
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Gray and they're going with Peyton Tolley tonight?
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I am, but then there's teams doing bullpen games. I
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: can't stand bullpen games. It feels like a spring training
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: game in the playoffs. There's like four teams doing that,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I think, today, if I read correctly. That's a mess.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: So we're not going to see Garrett Crochet at all,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: are we?
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like it. I guess it depends what
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: goes on. But here's the thing, too. For the Red Sox,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: you're saving Sonny. Sonny Gray does not have a big
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: game reputation. I know he pitched great this year, but
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: his reputation is that he doesn't pitch well in those
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: kind of games. We'll see. All right. Thank you, Morgan.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike the Leprechaun. Hello, Mikey the Leprechaun.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: He's back. I know you missed him. He's back.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: I wasn't really gone for long, but I had technical issues,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: as I told you. Anyway, I was guarded. Absolutely guarded. Okay,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: so the Bruins are going to be.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Good this year.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: They have a new.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Captain, Pasternak.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: From what I've read, nobody thinks they're going to be good.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Why do you think? Because you're a homer. That's why. Okay.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Anyway, so the Sox and Yankees, I'm excited for that.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: I didn't get to talk to Marcel yesterday. Did he
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: put a bet on? I don't think he did.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: No, there's no bet.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: No bet.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Did you hear about the Yankee fan who really bashed
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Peyton Tully's mother? He has a symbol on his glove
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: for his mother who passed away. Although the fan did
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: shoot some cats afterwards by saying he didn't realize what
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: He apologized.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Well, there's always a certain percentage of a-holes. Have you
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: been online? There's a lot of a-holes out there.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: What do you think?
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: I'm perfectly well aware.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: And as for Drake May, I do think he's having,
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: what did you call it, the sophomore stump? I mean,
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: he had his big come up. He had his radio
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: last year. But this year, I mean, one time he
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: was trying to throw the ball forward, and the ball
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: fell out of his hand. Did you see that play?
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: It literally fell out of his hand like a bottle
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: of soap.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's not a sophomore slump. It
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: would be impossible for it to be a sophomore slump.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Do you know what a sophomore slump is?
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: I do, absolutely.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: What is a sophomore slump?
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: So you show up as a freshman, and you shoot
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: the lights out, and then everyone says what a big
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: star you are, and then the next year you come back,
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: and you're not quite as good.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: So wouldn't this be like a junior year slump? Wouldn't
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: this be because he's already played?
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, technically you're right.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Technically, no, it's not technically right. I'm correct. So your
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: phone's working now. You're good. You're good to go. All right. Congratulations.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: All right. Hold on a second. Cowboy John Brad is
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: in Windsor, Ontario, and it's time for the classic Cowboys Corner. Hello,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Cowboy John Brad.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: Hello, Ben. Well, Ken Norton Jr. is 60 today. Happy birthday.
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: Former heavyweight champion father died September 18, 2013.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: My condolences.
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: After a series of strokes. That was my oldest great nephew,
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: Jesse Turner's 13th birthday.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: You know, Cowboys related to Tony Dungy and also Ferguson Jenkins.
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he'll be 71 next Monday, Tony Dungy.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Are you proud that I remember that you're related to
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Dungy and Ferguson? Ferguson Jenkins, a legendary pitcher back in
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the days.
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: Oh, of course. Well, anyway, another Yankee legend, Yogi Berra,
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: died September 22, 2015. Wow, has it.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Been 11 years since Yogi died?
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was just about five weeks before I moved
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: into my present residence. And Miller Huggins, the... Ray Yankee,
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: manager of the 20s, died September 9, 1929 at age 51. Oh,
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: that's young.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: Also, the baseball commissioner, Rob Manford, was 68 yesterday. I
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: wish him a happy birthday. Oh, I do, yeah. And
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: 49 years ago yesterday, Sugar Ray Leonard won his first
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: title in the North American Boxing Federation Welderweight Championship when
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: he knocked out Andy the Hawk Price in the first round.
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: And anyway, I hope to get a hold of you
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  Speaker 7: on Sight to Bite. Remember, you've got to be a
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  Speaker 7: boy to be a cowboy. We have a bite.
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  Speaker 1: There he goes, Cowboy John Brad. We do have Sight
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  Speaker 1: to Bite, the great sports radio mystery. If you would
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  Speaker 1: like to be part of that, we'll play an audio clip.
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  Speaker 1: You have to figure out who it is. No clues
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  Speaker 1: to start. We'll mix in some clues, and we'll get
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  Speaker 5: Sight the Bite, where we play random generic soundbites. You know,
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  Speaker 5: inane sports and entertainment cliches spoken by so-called experts. You
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  Speaker 5: try to tell us who's doing the talking.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Here we go. Sight the Bite, the
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  Speaker 1: great sports radio mind bender.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Go to the audio tape. There's somebody from sports the
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  Speaker 1: last seven to ten days. Let's see if we can
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  Speaker 1: figure out who it is. A sad ending. Only sad ending.
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  Speaker 1: A sad ending. Hmm. Who could that be? Let's see here.
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  Speaker 1: I think I might know who it is, actually. Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: A sad ending. I think I know who it is.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of recognize the voice a little bit. All right, well, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: get it right. I say caller five will get it right. Lorena? Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you think it's easy, I'm going to go with
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  Speaker 1: caller three. It's always wrong.
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  Speaker 7: Coop?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with caller number five.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Caller five. Play it again. Play it again. A sad ending. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: will anyone get this right? Let's find out right now.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. 877-99 on Fox if you recognize that voice.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start out with a nice slice of pizza. The
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  Speaker 1: Pizza Papa. Who is it, Pizza Papa?
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Ben.
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  Speaker 2: That sounded a lot like Oda B. McDowell.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there's a good name. Oda B. McDowell. If you're
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  Speaker 1: an old guy like me, that's a great name, Oda B.
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  Speaker 6: McDowell.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Rangers legend. Not Oda B. McDowell. All right. Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Chris in Boston is my caller, too. Hello, Chris.
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  Speaker 1: 877-99 on Fox. Play it again, Lorena. Play it again
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  Speaker 1: if you know who it is. A sad ending. Sight
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  Speaker 1: the bite. Go ahead, Chris. Let me guess. A sad ending.
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  Speaker 1: 1987 Red Sox coming right now. Go ahead there, Chris.
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  Speaker 2: That's former Red Sox third baseman Scott Cooper.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Scott Cooper. Generic name. Not a great player. The
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox have had some really good third basemen. He
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  Speaker 1: was not one of them. Let's see. Who's next? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we have a clue. Only the fourth player in NFL
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  Speaker 1: history to break 100 rushing yards on three or fewer carries.
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  Speaker 1: Play it again, Lorraine. Sad ending.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Sad ending. Let's go to Cowboy John Brad in Windsor. Ontario.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboy John Brad, you are my caller number three.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, is that Bobby Chadson, the oldest former Major League,
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  Speaker 7: living Major League baseball player, who was 101 last Saturday?
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  Speaker 1: Is that Bobby Chadson?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, Cowboys. Really good guess. I mean, that's... Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Hang up on yourself, please. All right, let's go to caller...
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  Speaker 1: What are we at? Caller four? Let's try three again.
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  Speaker 5: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Caller four. Let's go to Rick in Maryland. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what time it is.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, John. That's right. I don't know. Is that
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  Speaker 7: Cam Scataboo?
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  Speaker 1: Cam Scataboo.
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  Speaker 7: Or we.
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  Speaker 1: No, not the... What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but... Tremendous guest there. All right. His cousin
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  Speaker 1: plays linebacker for the Buffalo Bills, Danny DeVito in Boston.
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  Speaker 1: You are caller five. Bring it home, Danny DeVito.
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  Speaker 4: This is my game, Ben. That is Nicholas Chubb.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah!
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  Speaker 4: Yeah! That's a winner!
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  Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, former Brown. You get a golden ticket. That's
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  Speaker 1: a winner!
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  Speaker 7: Woo!