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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: That is the full Chicago Bears experience right there, big
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  Speaker 1: money coach, number one draft pick and wow that sucked.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the beginning. Come another night of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour to begin the night. We
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  Speaker 1: start out from sweet home Chicago, right there, the shores
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  Speaker 1: of Lake Michigan. Iconic Soldier Field, so iconic the Bears
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to leave there and go to a new
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  Speaker 1: stadium out in the suburbs. But for now they're still
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  Speaker 1: playing at Soldier Field. They'll be there for a couple
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  Speaker 1: more years until they build that new shiny TAIJ Mahall
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  Speaker 1: Stadium and then gouge people to go to the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way businesses done in the NFL anyway. So
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  Speaker 1: Soldier Field, that was the stage right there with the
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  Speaker 1: skyline of Chicago on one side, and then you had
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  Speaker 1: the lake on the other, Lake Michigan there and the
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  Speaker 1: final act of the opening weekend the NFL twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five season, Vikings and Bears and NFC North slaber knocker,
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  Speaker 1: slaber knocker. Now, this was an island game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we love our island games. We love island games. So
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  Speaker 1: if you were watching, you likely know what happens. It happened.
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  Speaker 1: If not, maybe if we were watching, you might not
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  Speaker 1: have paid attention. This game's over. Perhaps you missed it,
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  Speaker 1: but don't worry. We watched so you would not have to.
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  Speaker 1: In a very shaky beginning, there very wobbly Bobby beginning
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  Speaker 1: for JJ McCarthy, the rookie, even red shirt rookie, red
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  Speaker 1: shirt rookie JJ McCarthy, who then in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: went bonkers. He had not one but two fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: touchdown passes, ran for another score in his long awaited
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  Speaker 1: NFL debut, the former first round draft pick. The Vikings
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  Speaker 1: snapped out of the doldrums dreadful performance and they end
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  Speaker 1: up getting and when you'll only remember the outcome, you
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  Speaker 1: won't remember how bad the game was from the Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: side of things for three quarters. But they end up
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  Speaker 1: winning it on a big push twenty seven to twenty
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  Speaker 1: four over the Bears. So that's good for the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: for our purposes, though, the better story is in the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room. So that is where we are going
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  Speaker 1: to go, Sweet home Chicago Bear football right there. Holy crap.
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  Speaker 1: So the debut of Ben Johnson as the Chicago Bears
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  Speaker 1: head coach, the big coach who's spent time as the
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  Speaker 1: Lions offensive coordinator, and that's where he built his legacy,
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  Speaker 1: and so many teams wanted Ben Johnson to be the coach,
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  Speaker 1: and here's his opportunity in Chicago. And he inherited the
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  Speaker 1: former number one overall PERU in Caleb who Caleb Williams,
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  Speaker 1: who is bounced all over the place in college and
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  Speaker 1: now in the NFL. Looks like he should be bouncing
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else the way he played in this game. So
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  Speaker 1: with the better story being in the losing locker room,
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  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question for the esteem panel, how
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  Speaker 1: did you grade Ben Johnson's debut as a coach in
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  Speaker 1: the Windy City. So I've got utility, Bill, the coasters,
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  Speaker 1: and hearse, and we will combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to make the Baba Ganooshe. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make it early. We're gonna make the Baba ganooge here
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  Speaker 1: early on. So my first thought here as we connect
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  Speaker 1: all these things together, my first thought is, and I
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  Speaker 1: wrote this down, how do you grade Ben Johnson on
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  Speaker 1: the Mallor report card? How do you grade his debut
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  Speaker 1: as coach of the Bears? Ben Johnson the Malor report card?
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  Speaker 1: I wrote down. I didn't write down an A. I
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  Speaker 1: wrote down, s O b Now, not what you think,
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  Speaker 1: not what you I wrote down, Same old Bears. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I wrote. You probably thought it meant something else,
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  Speaker 1: Same old Bears. That's right. They dominated for three quarters.
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  Speaker 1: We're really dominated for two quarters defensively part of a third.
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  Speaker 1: The big interception there they did control. The Temple was
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  Speaker 1: a low scoring game. Minnesota could not get out of
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  Speaker 1: their own way. And yet when it was time to
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  Speaker 1: finish the opponent off the kill shot and put them
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  Speaker 1: six feet under. What happened? Not good. Chicago decided to
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  Speaker 1: slide into their snuggie. The Bears there and they went
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  Speaker 1: into hibernation mode, and it burned them. It burned them
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  Speaker 1: that there is no such thing as momentum. The Bears
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  Speaker 1: had all the momentum, should have won the game. Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: had no momentum. Why would the Bears give up momentum?
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  Speaker 1: It makes no sense because it's not real, you dummies, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so the Chicago Bears hired Ben Johnson, who is on
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  Speaker 1: the pulse of He's at the forefront of modern offensive
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  Speaker 1: NFL football. That was the selling point of Ben Johnson, right,
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  Speaker 1: slick agent, the whole thing. And so there we go.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of the next gen, which is all the nerd rage,
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  Speaker 1: the next gen and all that, this was the dormant Bears,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a Bear jamboree, a country bear jamboree. Here.
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  Speaker 1: Every time they had a chance, and there were multiple
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to deliver the knockout punch and just end the game,
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  Speaker 1: they tapped out, I can't do it, cannot do it,
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  Speaker 1: not gonna happen. Instead, they landed, They landed some little jabs.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't land the haymaker, could not land the haymaker,
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  Speaker 1: and Ben Johnson's team pulling punches, which you generally don't
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  Speaker 1: want to see. Listen, I have no skin in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a Bears fan or anything like that. But
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  Speaker 1: the power went out and they forgot to pay their
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  Speaker 1: utility bill, and then he needed it most. They're late
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  Speaker 1: in the game, just make one or two plays who
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  Speaker 1: win the game, and they had nothing, so they forgot
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  Speaker 1: to pay the utility bill. There at Soldier Field, the
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  Speaker 1: power went out. And this is not just a loss,
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  Speaker 1: mind you, this is two losses for the Chicago Bears,
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  Speaker 1: because not only lose at home, but you lose a
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  Speaker 1: divisional game in what figures to be a pretty close
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  Speaker 1: nip and tuck division. So now you've really lost two
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  Speaker 1: games at home and in the division for the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: That's a double gut punch, is what that is. And
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  Speaker 1: this is supposed to be the new Bears, right, the
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  Speaker 1: new Bears, all that crap that we read and heard about.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's going to be different now, Oh yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be different. Okay, So the job was to protect
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  Speaker 1: home field advantage Soldier Field. Instead, you hand the w
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  Speaker 1: to the Vikings. Because as much as we're gonna rip
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  Speaker 1: the offense with the Chicago Bears, the defense also what
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  Speaker 1: happened there to the Chicago Bears defense. I guess Dennis
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  Speaker 1: Allen's back to being a moron after we were really
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  Speaker 1: just kissing his ass on the TV brought toes, Oh
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Allen's defense and all that stuff for three quarters
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  Speaker 1: and then in the fourth not so much. Now as
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  Speaker 1: for the inevitable, what are you doing. It's it's only
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  Speaker 1: one game. Why do you have all these strong opinions
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  Speaker 1: after one game? You know that crowd spoiler alert, spoil
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  Speaker 1: Guess what, Guess what. It's a daily talk show. I am.
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  Speaker 1: I asked to give my opinion as things unfold. They
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  Speaker 1: don't ask me to wait to the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: I've told management, I said, listen, why don't you just
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  Speaker 1: pay me a lot of money. I'll have no opinions.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be boring. There's a lot of people that do
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  Speaker 1: this that are very boring, don't know a strong opinion,
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  Speaker 1: And I'll just do that and then just give me
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  Speaker 1: like a big bag of money. In the end, I'll
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  Speaker 1: never get an opinion wrong. It'll be wonderful, it'll be glorious.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. But this is all we have to judge
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  Speaker 1: the Bears on. All we have is one game, one
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  Speaker 1: game to judge Ben Johnson on and the other factor.
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  Speaker 1: And I noticed this watching the way the Bears were
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  Speaker 1: throwing the football around, like the margin for error in
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  Speaker 1: that style of offense for Ben Johnson and the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Bears is razor thin. And it's a pass happy offense.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they do. They incorporate the running game via
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  Speaker 1: short passes and all that stuff. But you're playing outdoors.
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  Speaker 1: You're not playing in a dome like you were with
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  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. You've got that win from Lake Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Swirling around when it gets later in the year becomes
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  Speaker 1: a big problems like a blender goes swirling around. You've
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  Speaker 1: got that to deal with. You've also got the occasional
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  Speaker 1: dormant weather, whether it's fog or snow when you get
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  Speaker 1: late in the year, assuming you even have a mathematic
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  Speaker 1: chance of winning those games and having them mean something.
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  Speaker 1: If you're the Chicago Bears and you're struggling in September
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  Speaker 1: weather and I mean just you think about what's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like down the line in Chicago, and it's like wow,
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  Speaker 1: and and so that's why you can't call it progress.
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  Speaker 1: They lost the game. They rode the vomit comet and
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  Speaker 1: they crashed it into the side of the building there. Man,
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  Speaker 1: it was bad. It's a piecemeal effort to close the game.
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  Speaker 1: Did they think they were gonna play with a running
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  Speaker 1: clock or something like that, I don't know. Well, here's
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, the man of the hour. Here is the
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Chicago football team, pointing out the key
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  Speaker 1: to wins and losses.
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  Speaker 4: Disappointing way to start the season there for us. You
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  Speaker 4: think you can have a seventeen to six lead, that's right, yes,
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  Speaker 4: go the way it did there in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we said going into week one that the
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  Speaker 4: team that would make the least number of mistakes would
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  Speaker 4: win the game, and unfortunately we were on the wrong
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  Speaker 4: that we made too many there late in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Myself included Yeah, So the coaches always have to include
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  Speaker 1: themselves in that. You can never say to the players.
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  Speaker 1: You always have to say, well, I'm part of that
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  Speaker 1: when you most coaches are like, well, no, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: That's These are the idiots that screwed up. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: screw up. They screwed up. They have to up. I
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  Speaker 1: had a good game plan, they didn't listen. It's a
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  Speaker 1: bad job by the so shame on them. The new
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  Speaker 1: shiny offense right looked looked shiny for but ten of
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  Speaker 1: ten to start the game for Caleb Williams. And then
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  Speaker 1: and then things started popping up that weren't supposed to
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  Speaker 1: pop up.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 1: The Bears teased you, they gave some hope there were
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  Speaker 1: people excited that, oh this is great, Bears are going
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  Speaker 1: to get off to the one and oh start and
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  Speaker 1: then they pulled the rug right from underneath you. And
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams is a debut in the new offense. Not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fireworks, and for the balance of the
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  Speaker 1: game there it was more like a sparkler, not explosive pyrotechnic.
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  Speaker 1: It was more of a sparkler and it fizzled out
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  Speaker 1: before the game ended. Bad job by him, all right? Now, secondly,
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  Speaker 1: speak him that wide angle ents wide angle, Lentz. What
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  Speaker 1: did you make of Caleb williams maiden voyage as the
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  Speaker 1: new Chicago Bears offense gets put into place? So what
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  Speaker 1: do you think? So it was a tune that topped
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  Speaker 1: the Hot one hundred back in the day from the
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  Speaker 1: Coasters called yackety yac and the song goes yackaty act,
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  Speaker 1: don't talk back. In this case it was yackety act
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  Speaker 1: don't fight back. That's the Bears. They just they had
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  Speaker 1: the lead. The Vikings said we want this. The Vikings
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  Speaker 1: took it and the Bears were but that's what they did.
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  Speaker 1: And Caleb Williams, it turns out he's multitasking. He's actually
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  Speaker 1: moonlighting Caleb Williams as an elevator operator. I know they
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  Speaker 1: don't have many of those left. I know if you
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  Speaker 1: go down to the Hotel del Cornado there in San Diego,
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  Speaker 1: they have elevator operators. And so he was leaving the
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  Speaker 1: elevator door open. He hit the button that says leave
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  Speaker 1: doors open, and he left it wide open. He said,
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  Speaker 1: come on in, come on in Minnesota, Vikings. I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a ride right to the penthouse where there's serving w's.
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  Speaker 1: You can have one. Knock yourself out. So here is
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, a man that always has the best looking
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  Speaker 1: nails on the football field, and here is him talking
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  Speaker 1: about a bunch of gibberish about this, that and the other. Mentality.
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  Speaker 1: We'll take all this that mentality.
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  Speaker 5: Mentality, have something that we you know, that we preach.
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  Speaker 1: And does that work it out?
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  Speaker 5: And I'm not it's not a play call thing, it's
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  Speaker 5: not anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's just being able to.
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  Speaker 5: Go out there and execute the players that are called
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  Speaker 5: and be able to you know, executeim at a high level.
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  Speaker 5: And that's something that that we take pride in. And
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  Speaker 5: you know today that didn't happen, and we're going to
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  Speaker 5: get back to it.
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  Speaker 1: The good news is Caleb went out, he found in
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  Speaker 1: all night parlor. He got a manny and a petty
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  Speaker 1: after the game, so he's feeling a little pressed, but
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  Speaker 1: he got the manny in the petty, so he's in
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  Speaker 1: good shape. All right. Now, How bad was Caleb to
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  Speaker 1: allow the Vikings to come back, right, because it's not.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just come back and win game. Let's set
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  Speaker 1: the team sucks. Remember we talked about this in the
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  Speaker 1: Sunday Night game where the Bills cannot mathematically come back
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  Speaker 1: without the Thumbo bug on the rug by Derrick Henry. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in this game, it was just consistent suck in the
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  Speaker 1: second and third quarters where the Bears had opportunities. Talked
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  Speaker 1: about that to close the game out, for example, I
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  Speaker 1: went back, I did the Malard math. In the second
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  Speaker 1: and third quarter, Caleb Williams attempted seventeen passes. He completed
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  Speaker 1: less than fifty percent of them. He averaged less than
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  Speaker 1: five yards per attempt. He was horrible, and so what
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  Speaker 1: was missing? Well, after a minute long deliberation on the
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  Speaker 1: difference between the offense the Lions had with Ben Johnson
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  Speaker 1: and the offense we saw from the Chicago Bears. The
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  Speaker 1: thing that was missing, the secret sauce for Ben Johnson
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  Speaker 1: and the Lions was the yards after the catch of
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  Speaker 1: the yak at the yac and they didn't have that right.
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  Speaker 1: Detroit would turn and he's still I didn't do it
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  Speaker 1: much against Green Bay, but they'll turn that. Those little
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  Speaker 1: swing passes and the big chunky Peter peanut butter plays
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  Speaker 1: and all that good stuff you'll stick to your mouth
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  Speaker 1: kind of peanut butter. Hard to defend. The Bears. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they did have a couple of big plays, but not
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  Speaker 1: enough and more smooth peanut butter. Smooth peanut butter, creamy,
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  Speaker 1: easy to swallow and no bite, there's really no bite
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  Speaker 1: to it. And a few extra yards. But it was
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  Speaker 1: mostly catch and crash is what it was, all right now,
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  Speaker 1: final thought. So we go now to the winning locker
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  Speaker 1: room where it looked pretty bleak. It looked pretty bleak
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  Speaker 1: for a long stretch of time, but in the end,
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings came back. And so give me your
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  Speaker 1: reaction to JJ McCarthy in his first start with the Vikings,
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  Speaker 1: Is the glass half full or is the glass half empty?
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  Speaker 1: On the first go round of JJ McCarthy. So, what
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  Speaker 1: a juxtaposition. Why don't we start with that? What a
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  Speaker 1: juxtaposition because the first three quarters of this game, I
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  Speaker 1: was texting some friends and we were going back and
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  Speaker 1: forth and say, Wow, this is one of the worst
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  Speaker 1: performances I can remember, Like, this guy looks like he'd
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  Speaker 1: never played football before. Holy crap. You could literally see
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  Speaker 1: him urinating down his leg. It was wild. And so
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  Speaker 1: you go from that where he was having a nice
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  Speaker 1: meal at the Shaky's Pizza parlor and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: the sticky floors, kind of the low quality pizza, the
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  Speaker 1: mojo potatoes, and the picture of flat soda had all
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  Speaker 1: that going for him, and he's just sitting there, not
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  Speaker 1: even close to looking like he knows what he's doing
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  Speaker 1: as an NFL quarterbacks. Like, wow, it was like he
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  Speaker 1: was living in Pukesville. And how bad was he? I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad you asked. So the first three quarters of an
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  Speaker 1: NF game, JJ McCarthy was at seven of twelve passing,
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  Speaker 1: which is not good average less than five yards per
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  Speaker 1: pass attempt, had fifty six total yards passing through three
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  Speaker 1: quarters of the game. One interception that was a pick
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  Speaker 1: six to give the Chicago Bears an extra score a
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  Speaker 1: passer rating of thirty five point four going to the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. That was the passer ready, So that means
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  Speaker 1: that they they being the Minnesota Vikings, would have been
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  Speaker 1: better off calling up a hearse and holding a mock
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  Speaker 1: funeral procession for the duke and burying the duke, putting
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  Speaker 1: the duke, putting the duke down in the ground, right,
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  Speaker 1: and then just ordering some tombstone pizza, and that's it,
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  Speaker 1: see you later. Because the fun fact, and we will
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  Speaker 1: use this from time to time, if McCarthy had just
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  Speaker 1: spiked the ball every single time he had snapped the ball,
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  Speaker 1: if he'd spiked the ball every single time into the ground,
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  Speaker 1: his passer rating would have been thirty nine point six. Statistically,
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  Speaker 1: he was actually worse by attempting to pass than if
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  Speaker 1: he had not passed. And it wasn't just bad, It
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  Speaker 1: was historical bad for McCarthy for three quarters. Like it
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  Speaker 1: was worse than just don't screw up, just kind of
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  Speaker 1: be a game manager. That's the baseline. Like the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: essentially played three quarters of an NFL game with a
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: mannequin at quarterback. That's what they had, and it didn't
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: matter that the Bears still left the door open. We
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: talked about this, Caleb Williams leaving the door open, the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: opportunity there, and they took advantage of it. Now, Kevin
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: O'Connell is the Viking head coach. I'm sure he's not
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: going to say anything negative about the first three quarters
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: of JJ McCarthy. Instead, we'll focus on the end of
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the game. Is that correct, coach.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: JJ McCarthy. For him to make some of the plays
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: he did, I told him at halftime, you are going
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: to bring us back to win this game. And the
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: look in his eye was fantastic. The best thing is
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: just a belief I felt from the team unit and
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: ultimately that doesn't get done without him in the second half,
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: two passing touchdowns and then the critical rushing touchdown.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: You smell that. Yeah, bull crap, that is bull crap.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: That is hot bull crap by Kevin O'Connell. Holy crap,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: what a dummy? I told him. Yeah, Is that why
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: he went out after halftime and threw a pick six
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: in the third quarter? Is that why, coach? Because you
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: had told him, let's make it even worse, let's dig
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a bigger hole. Why not? Why not? Oh man, Well
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: he did light it up in the fourth quarter, but
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: man alive. It was like a cheat code there late.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: But the first three quarters Greek tragedy goes from it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: We talk about a rewrite. It goes from a Greek
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: tragedy where everyone's dead the stage is covered in blood
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: to a Shakespearean comedy. All's well, that ends well like
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: that there, and unfortunately there is a problem. You cannot
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: just live like that in the NFL, obviously, right. You
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: can't stink for forty five minutes and then expect to
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: play Superman in the fourth quarter. That generally doesn't happen.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: It's not Disneyland, it's not like that, and it's not sustainable.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: So good luck. We'll give him credit for the comeback
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: hell of a rally there for the Vikings to come
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: back and win it. But the narrative, i'm sure will
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: be praising JJ McCarthy and how great he was and
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the resiliency and all that stuff. To me, though, you
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: cannot ignore the first three quarters of the game that
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: he was at the salad bar and he was serving
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: up suck salad and that's what it was. So that's
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: a bit of a reality check. I would think he's
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: a rookie. So yeah, there's gonna be some bumps on
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the road and all that, But man, the vikings, if
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: that's the way it's gonna go, you talk about a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: roller coaster situation.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, we'll get back to football
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and we certainly revisit if you want. Monday night, the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears blew an eleven point lead. They gagged choking Bears,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and they lose to the Minnesota Vikings, who come back
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: after playing miserable football for three quarters. But our lead
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: is from South Beach. That's where our lead is. The
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. The story that's still bouncing around the echo chamber,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: absolutely gutless football by the Miami Dolphins, with the Colts
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: down thirty to zero to a mediocre Indianapolis Colts team
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and Daniel Jones and so the vultures are out circling
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: around the Miami Dolphins at this point. So if you've
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: not heard the latest on this, perhaps not not even
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: not even a full week end of the season, because
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: this report came out prior to the Monday night game.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: There is chatter, and we can say now radio chatter
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: because we're on the radio. So this radio chatter that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: a trade of disgruntled, malcontent wide receiver Tyreek Hill is
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: a very real possibility, very real possibility. The cheetah who
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: famously announced his departure from the Dolphins at the end
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of last season, only to be caught surprise, you're back
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: and the Vortex have sucked. They're in Miami. So there's
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: some noise that the Dolphins are going to try to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: facilitate a trade and they're going to ask Tyreek Hill
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: to try to rework his contract to accommodate a team
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: that would be willing to acquire him. So let us
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: discuss the question how much truth is there in the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Dolphins Tyreek Hill trade rumors? Then how much truth is
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: there in that? So I've got Cosmos, Whole Foods and
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Penn and Teller, and we will combine all of these
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: things together and we're gonna make your Babushka's favorite tuna
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: fish salad. And I don't know if your babushka has
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: a favorite tuna fish salad, but if she does, she's
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: gonna make it. So number why what said?
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Number?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Why? The truth? How much truth is there? This is
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the naked truth. It is the naked truth. Tyreek Hill
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: is finished in Miami. Dun skis cooked. Take it, it's
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: all over right, stick a fork in, and whatever kind
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: of cliche you want to use here. We've seen this
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: movie before. In fact, we saw this movie last year
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: with Devonte Adams who was sending these vague comments out
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: with the Raiders and then ended up getting traded to
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the Jets. How that workout? So this movie is a repeat.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: The names have changed a little bit, the story is
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the same. You got a big name, wide out, big
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: money wide out, who's still living off the brand. Got
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: to live off the brand, right, living off the reputation.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: But the reality of the situation, Tyreek Hill, the last
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: time he had a one hundred yard game in the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: NFL was over a year ago. Holy Cheetah Batman, Yes,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a year. You could have grown a beard, you could
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: have raised a child from conception. You could have turned
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to the Cosmos, the space time Odyssey, and you could
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: have watched Earth's orbit for a year. Since the last
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: time Tyreek Hill cracked the one hundred yard barrier, it's
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: been now over a year and Tyreek also has a
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: nice fat salary of thirty six million dollars. Good for him,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the way he's playing over the last year, Tyreek Hill.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: That is bank robbery, bank robbers, it really is. I mean,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Dolphins the one they've got the gun to their head
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: on this one. They gave him the contract man, so
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: they they've got to do something sooner than later. If
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you're the Dolphin, you know you should have, could have
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: would have traded Tyreek Hill. We advise you yet again
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the counsel of the Overnight not listen to bad job
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: by the Miami Dolphins. They think they're smarter than everyone else.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: You could have traded Tyreek Hill in February. You could
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: have traded him in March. You could have worked out
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: agreement in April before the draft, and instead here we
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: are in September and nothing. Who goofed? I've got to
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: know now the Chiefs and Steelers, as you might have suspected,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: are being tossed around as the most likely suitors, the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: most likely suitors for Tyreek Hill. Now, if I was
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, I would be attempting to acquire
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the promise Hills washed up though. See that's the thing,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: like if you're getting the good Tyreek Hill, Okay, and
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: there's that dead count dead cat bounce, where if he
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: goes to a new team, he might play well for
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: a week or two or something like that, but the
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: teams he's an acquired taste with the amount of money
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: he's making. You look around the NFL, and the Steelers
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and the Chiefs are the most likely because the Steelers
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: they're going for it. They're all excited because they looked
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: pretty good against the Jets on offense. Their defense was
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: all messed up, and so the Steelers and the Chiefs
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: are like hyenas and they're waiting for the carcass to
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: fully rot and then they're going to go in and
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: have a nice meal, and Kansas City could celebrate Union
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Tour and everyone's feeling giddy and all that. The Chiefs
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: need some help on offense the way they played in
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the opener against the Chargers. But there's sound of them
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: right there. But buyer beware though it is buyer beware right.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: It's the old falling star thing we talk about that
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: don't let a falling star fall on you, and that
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: is the person of of Tyreek Hill at this particular point. Now,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the speed not the same. He's still fast beat me
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: in a race. I'm guessing he could beat you. So
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: he's still fast. It's just not the same. The big
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: plays are drying up. And that's the reason you have him.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: You're not having him because he's Prince Charming Tyreek Kill
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: on your roster. It's not because he's gonna win some
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: community award for being a good person. Not at all.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: The big plays drying up. It's got the name. You
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: got the name, Tyreek Kill. That's a good name. It's
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: smoke without the fire. It's smoke without the fire. And
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: this is how it ends for the top level receivers
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. You start getting shuttled around from team
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: to team to team. They all think they're irreplaceable, every
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: one of them. Then eventually reality comes slapping them across
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the face. There's just another jersey guy that can go
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: somewhere else and sell some merch and all that, and
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the next guy comes along. And that's the way it
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: goes all right now, Page two. So it has been
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: dogpile time for the Miami Dolphins, and we stay with
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the theme of the hour as we love bad football
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: makes for good talk Radio. Former NFL head coach for
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: multiple teams, the Jets and the Bills and Gas bag
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Rex Ryan. He called Mike McDaniel, the head coach of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the Miami football team. He called them quote nerd boy
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and said that the Dolphins are soft across the board.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: So again nerd boy, and the Dolphins are soft across
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the board. So the question is where are you at
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: on this one? So it is certainly great theater. It
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: is wonderful television to have a very strong opinion. And
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I ran it through the light detector and no lies
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: were detected. There was no light detected here. The Dolphins
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: are a hot mess. Now we know that everyone knows that, right,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: and they play football like they're on vacation. I went
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: back and I watched because I'm a loser, so I
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: was flipping around early on Sunday and I didn't focus
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: too much on the Dolphin game because it wasn't very competitive.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I went back and watched some of the clips that
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: are online. I was like, Wow, they look like they're
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: in vacation mode. Is what they look like, right, Instead
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: of blocking and tackling the Dolphins, it's like coconuts, hammocks
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and palm trees is what they were focused in on.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: That's their identity. And Mike McDaniel not exactly Bill Parcells
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: or some of those old school coaches that just ooze
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: confidence and the adult in the room right the whistle
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: and the scowl. There is none of that with the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel looks like the kind of guy
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you'd go up to it Whole Foods because he makes
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: a mean charcuterie board. And you want advice on how
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: to make a charcuterie board. And you say, you look
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: like the kind of guy that knows to make a
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: good charcuteri board, and McDaniel says, yes, I do know
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: how to make a good charcotery board. I'll help you
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: out on that, and then I'll get you a salad.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: But not just any salad. I'm gonna get your chickapee
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: salad because that's a good salad. I know how to
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: make that. So you'll get the charcuterie board and the
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: chickapea salad. You're good to go. However, the problem is
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: in the locker room. People smell weakness. They do, especially
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: alpha people smell weaknesses right these They smell that's weakness,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and they take advantage of weakness here, and so you're
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: trying to create a team that has machismo and that's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: not his jam, right, that's not what he does. McDaniel
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: is the epitome of the hipster coach. And when you're
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the hipster coach, you take the good, which is the
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: play calling, the x's and o's, and you have to
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: take the bad. And when things go bad, that's when
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: it goes next level turbo time. It goes turbo time.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: It's like he's one of those dudes you see at
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the park who's sitting cross legged in the park and
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: he's like vaping lavender and then he goes like hugs
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: a tree and you can't really have that as your
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: head coach. And then when he's like, instead of drinking Gatorad,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: he's drinking kombucha tea, and that's it. I mean, it
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: just needs to smash people. It's not smashing mount football football.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: It's about violence, it's confrontation. It's about intimidation, and that
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: is not it. The Dolphins, they're out there looking like
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: they just got back from a long weekend yoga retreat.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: They flew down to Costa Rica and they were hanging
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: out of a hot yoga retreat somewhere out in the jungle.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: There and Rex Ryan. Now, say what you will about
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Rex and we've said a lot about Rex Ryan over
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: the years. His brother actually worked here, Rob Ryan, who
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: always looks like he's pregnant. But Rob Ryan was a
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: weekend talk show host for a little bit. And Rex Ryan,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: who you know, he's got the foot fetish low heard
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, but you got you gotta give him
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: credit where credit is due, right, He understands toughness. The
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: defenses he coached with the Ravens and with the Bills
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and the Jets, they did have an edge to them.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: They did. They scared some people. Mike McDaniel Miami Dolphins,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: just in general his football team. It appears most of
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the time they get out physical. They do. They get
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: out competed, so out competed out physical on the regular okay,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: on the regular teams, just do not. They don't feel
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: any extra pressure that there's no respect factor there. If
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: you will, and Rex is right. Players smell that weakness
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: in the Miami Dolphin locker room and they don't respect
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the coach and they don't fear him. It's bad combination.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: It's playing out right now. It's fine when everything's great
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: and you're you're winning and you're running up the score
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: and all that, but right now Miami is like like
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: soft tofu the Miami Dolphins, and you're supposed to be ribbi,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: real fatty Ribi and there's soft tofu and mc daniels
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: over there, he's like, I can fix this. Don't worry.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: What are you gonna do, coach. I'll tell you what
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna sprinkle chia seeds right on
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: top of the playbook. And there we go. Just put
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: some chia seeds on top, and I don't understand why
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the players are not responding. These are great chia seeds,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: really good. All right, final point. We go now to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Indianapolis and a viral SoundBite Zavin Howard, defensive back of
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts and a former Dolphin who's hanging out
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: with the Colts. As we said there now, he came
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: right out and said the quiet part out loud following
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the blowout, blow out, blowout victory over the Miami football
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: team is former team, and he said, hey, listen, this
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: was our plan. The plan was rather simple. If you
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: take away to a tongue of iloa, first read option,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: if he has no first read, he goes into panic
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: mode is what he does, right, Those are his words,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Those are his words. He said. Once we took away
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: that first read, Zavon Howard said it was panic mode
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: after that close quote. So question, does the Colts defensive
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: back Xavon Howard his criticism of his former quarterback to
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: a tongue of Iloa going into panic mode? Does it
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: pass the eyeball test? So I'm nodding my head, Yes
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: it does. In perfect vision, absolutely perfect vision, twenty twenty vision.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: This is to his soft underbelly. It is. It is
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: the flaw in the thing of a jig. And the
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: fact that the Dolphins paid him a big contract just
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: shows you the complete systemic disc function of the Miami
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Dolphin organization. Like the whole thing with Tyreek Hill, Like
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: do they have a general manager? Is there someone that's
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: a grown up in the Miami Dolphins organization? Holy crap?
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: So they paid to a Now they didn't give him
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the biggest contract in NFL history. It's a tremendous holly
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: overpay for what they're getting and we've seen it for years.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: His whole entire setup as an NFL quarterback is catch it.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: One read boom, just like that, balls out real quick,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: rat of tad tat. Now if not yipity yip, you
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: get the yips, you get the yips, right, that's what
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you get. And so there's this old baseball movie way
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: way long ago called Major League, and it's really unfortunate.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: The Wolkesters don't like it because it's about a baseball
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: team named the Cleveland Indians, so they get very offended.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: But there was famous scene in that movie. There was
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: a player named Pedro Serrano and could just absolutely crush
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: fastballs just to the moon, right to the just killed
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the fastball. And and then what happened was after that,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: well they changed it up a little bit. So for
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: twoa he can crush fastballs like Sorano from Major League
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Meeting those scripted one time throws really good. If you
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: give him a curveball or a breaking ball, he swings
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: out of his shoes right, he's way too fast. That
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: goes fly in one direction, the helmet goes spinning the
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: other direction, and that's it. He looks helpless. And so
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the Colts they threw him a steady diet of breaking pitches,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: and so let's see if he can hit the breaking
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: ball and he couldn't now Zam and Howard spilled the tea.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: He did the rooster. He walked like a rooster with
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: his chest out, was very excited about that. He spilled
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the tea. And that's the scouting report. It's like people
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: are like, well, you shouldn't have said that. Why the
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: chances of the Coltson Dolphins meeting again are almost zero
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: this year, right unless they meet in the playoffs, which
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: is highly unlikely. And everyone and their mother knows. That's
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the scouting report on Tua. Step one, you smother the
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: first option. Step two, Tua, just wait for him to panic,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: and that's it. Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato, get
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: rid of the football. It's not rocket science. It's not
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: that hard.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: To do it is hard, but to know what's going
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: on is not that difficult. Like that's kind of out
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: there in the open. And when that happens, when the
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: aforementioned happens there, the whole Miami offense falls down like
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: a house of cards. Right. They're built around that one rhythm,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: that one trick pony, and once people have seen the trick,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: they don't want to pay to go watch the pony again.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: They don't want to see that. When it's working, it
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: looks brilliant. You can run up the score in the
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Denver Broncos like they did a while back. When it's not,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: you suddenly realize there's nothing else there. There's absolutely nothing
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: else there. It's like watching Penn and Teller on that
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: show fool Us when they have a really crappy magician
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: on there just for giggles and the magician can't get
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: the rabbit to come out of the hat and you're like, man,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: that's embarrassing, and it's well, it's an amateur magician. You're like,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: give them a break there. But they're just standing there.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: They've got their goofy gloves and their top hat and
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: it looked like just the country bumpkin. It's just embarrassing.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: So that's Tua. When he doesn't have the first read,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: that's it. It's it's not new, and it also is
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: in Big Games it shows up. He gets tight took
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: a syndrome, chronic case of tight took a syndrome in
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Big Games and Miami I like that they're still pretending
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: that this is not the case. And so Tyreek Hill
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: will be traded by the trade deadline. And I think
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: late October, so he'll be gone and you gotta move
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: on from tour, right, you got to try to wiggle
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: out of that contract and read the fine prints. Even
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: get on, get away from Tua. They're all going to
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: be gone. The coach will be gone, the quarterback will
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: be gone, the wide receiver will be gone. Everyone's gone.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: You're gone, You're gone, You're gone. It's the reverse of
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: the Oprah. You get a car, you get a car.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: You get a pink slip. You get a pink slip,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: You get a pink slip.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 41:12
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• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Fuck it's Mallar. How about that?
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: To the third degree?
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: This is one big gets graled, all right, Googleloo.
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: After the Bengals win over the Browns on Sunday, Jamar
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: Chase told the media, worship my defense right now?
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Uh Ben?
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: Last year, since he's defense was a huge problem that
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: caused them to miss the playoffs. Were you encouraged by
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: what you saw against Cleveland?
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Well, no, the Browns actually moved. They had over three
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: hundred yards of offense. I only scored sixteen points and
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: all that that's a great trickeration move is what that is? Well,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: our offense, you realized the Bengals offense in that game
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: had I think they had less than a hundred and
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: fifty total yards of offense. So of course you're not
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: gonna bring up look at but worship my offense. No,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: until I see more, I'm not going there. The Browns
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: had opportunities to score they affed up. That is some
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: creative spin job by the ben Gals.
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: Next number one overall pick, cam Ward made his debut
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: for the Titans and a loss against the Broncos. The
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: general consensus after the game was that Ward was impressive
• 42:22
  Speaker 8: but was let down by his coaching staff and his teammates.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Ben do agree. No, I think he was sacked six times.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Most of those were not you know, you got to
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: get rid of the ball the fun there's a sweet
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: spot there. So the sacks, you can't blame all that
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: on his teammates. You got to know when to get
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: rid of the ball. And the receivers I was flipping over.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: They seemed like they were dropping passes on a semi
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: regular basis. That was an issue. But no, cam Ward
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: let's hold the offense. It's everyone else's fault but him.
• 42:50
  Speaker 8: Next, Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Bucks needed a
• 42:53
  Speaker 8: last minute touchdown to come away with the victory against
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: the division rival Falcons. Do you think Atlanta could actually
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: challenge them for the division crown? Yes, because I don't
• 43:00
  Speaker 8: think Tampa's all that could. I don't think any one
• 43:02
  Speaker 8: of that division's all that good. Carolina blows, New Orleans blows,
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: so it's either Atlanta or Tampa, one of those two teams.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: So I think it'll be neck and neck all the
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: way through. How did we go? You pass that? As
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: they went, Oh my god, I won. I've won, blind Scott,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: I won.
• 43:16
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• 43:28
  Speaker 1: That's no imaging. Let's welcome in our contestants for the game.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: We have Jed, who fled? Who's gonna play? Maus amount
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: of money? Hello, Jed? Welcome.
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: I don't know what the news is, but I've always
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: got my thinking head on.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: All right, who do you wanna? Yeah?
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner with Cooper? I just
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: said my thinking caps on just a Gooper all right?
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: And uh, boy, blind Scott, Yes, blind Scott, you want
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: to play maus amount of money?
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: Yes? Yeah, partner with you.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Ben. You're my hero. I'm your hero. I thought I
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: thought Fred Tutcher was your hero. I didn't realize I
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: was your hero.
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: It he likes me that much.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Anyone trying to win him back? So you okay, we'll
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: just send him money, all right, very does well? What
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: are the keatedgies? Quickly? Coople's I picked the first category.
• 44:09
  Speaker 8: Now this is the easy e addition, he would have
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: been sixty one years old on Sunday.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: The categories are boys in the hood, still talking, nobody move,
• 44:19
  Speaker 8: and creeping crawl.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: All right, and hold on, I say here, let me
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: punch him in and I'll punch him in. Jed, Which
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: one do you want?
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: Jaed?
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Eric right, I ain't no comptent Buster duve, he's a
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: child the hero. Uh just give me that boy.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Nobody move, I'll give you creep crawl all right, creeper
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: crawl all right?
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Scott? Which one do you want? Scott? I'll take easy
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I'm taking the tribute to medication.
• 44:45
  Speaker 8: There is no there is no Do you want boys
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: in the hood still talking or nobody move?
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Boy?
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah? You think the hood? You think Blind Scott? Yes,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: all right, very good, gentlemen, Do not hang up, do
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: not make sure you feed them down a right, we
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: will have that's the matchup. It's Malar's Mountain of Money
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: in its entirety. We'll get to that and we will
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: do it next.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malor
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: to get to the top? Probably?
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: Not?
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: All let's do this. Here we go. We welcome in
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: our contestants. We have Blind Scott who teamed up with me,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Jed who fled with Cooper Loop from the swamp lands
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: of Florida, and Jed, you were on the air first,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: so you will go with Coople Loop. It is the
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Easy E edition. Which category did you pick? There? Creep
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: and crawl? All right, creep and crawl? Very good? All right, Jed.
• 45:51
  Speaker 8: These athletes were on wild card teams that went to
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: win it all.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Do you know what a wildcard team is?
• 45:58
  Speaker 8: Jeded forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Uh,
• 46:03
  Speaker 8: Broncos quarterback that looks like a horse, Yes, big poppy
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: from the Red Sox. Yes, gap tooth defensive lineman from
• 46:16
  Speaker 8: the Giants.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 46:17
  Speaker 8: Uh, crazy haired safety from the Steelers from the back
• 46:21
  Speaker 8: of the day. Yes, let's uh, we're gonna skip ahead.
• 46:26
  Speaker 8: This guy had the last name of a fish. He
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: was on the Angels team that actually.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Won it all.
• 46:32
  Speaker 8: Jim getting No, you're close, No with.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: The different letter, We'll skip it. Uh. This guy was
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: a yes, yes, yes, got. This guy was a lot
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: of time, way too much salmon, A lot of salmon.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: You took a long time with samon.
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: I was playing the call game, dude, do you have any.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Jim Salmon dancing around that? Okay, Blind Scott, you're not
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: going to sabotage this game, right Scott. You're in it
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: to win it. Yes, No, I'm ready. Let's show. Okay,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: these athletes you pick boys in the hood, which is
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: so appropriate, and you think North end of Boston, you
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: think the hood. All right, here we go. These athletes
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: are all from south central Los Angeles. Blind Scott, forty
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: five seconds on the clock. Ball Piers, He's not he's
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: from Inglewood. No, we're not forty five seconds on the clock.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: We're on our way and here we go. He had
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: a triple double every game during an NBA season for
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. James Hardy, No, I play with the Clippers,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: all right, legion to Boom, defensive mac, defensive back. He's
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: got a big mouth. He's on television on Amazon. Okay,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Orioles first basement in the nineteen eighties, black guy hit
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of home run switch hitter with Calkin. He
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: was the other star of the Orioles. That would be
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Freddie Murcury. Okay, all right, you're done, get out of here.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: You you, Dennis, Dennis and Ramonti. You there, Dennis, Dennis,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: you're going to the bench. Dennis first basically the nineteen eighties,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Orioles in the nineties. Yeah, that's one hundred porter, all right,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: wide receiver. Let's see here. No, the greatest female tennis
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: player of all time, the greatest female tennis player of
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: all time, African American Jerry Right, I said, the greatest
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: tennis player of all time. Oh I'm sorry, I'm glad
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: that we have all this time. Oh, thank you. All right, Well,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: we got one hundred. We got a hundred?
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: Is that?
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah? You got a hundred points? All right, Yo, Dennis,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: I'm glad I went to the bench. Good job in
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: my my you're my closer. Dennis. You're gonna get about seconds?
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Can I be the I stop you're bitching? All right,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: let's go, Dennis. You what do we I guess we
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: get to go again? Right because we all get a
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: hundred on so we have nobody move or still talking?
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Which one do you want? Dennis? Mom man? Nobody moved,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Nobody move? All right, Dennis is in VERMONTI just how's
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: your home? Your you have no guard. It's just a
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: little small talk.
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: We'll put forty five seconds in the cock of these
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: athletes own records that have stood a long time. Are
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: you ready, Dennis, I'm ready? All right? Yeah, the here
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: we go. The NFL's all time leading rusher. Yes, the
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: greatest wide receiver of all time? Right, yeah, Yankee player
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: nicknamed Joelton. His nickname was Jolton with a J played
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: in the sixties. Yes, the greatest picture of all time.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: The top pitcher in baseball gets this award with his
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: name on it. Uh, ship, that's not quite the award.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: If they got that, how about this nickname night train?
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Nickname night Train.
• 50:30
  Speaker 8: I don't think you quite made it up to the one. Yeah,
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: you got some of them, cy Young, is the award
• 50:36
  Speaker 8: name that you're looking for? Yours was more interesting, though
• 50:39
  Speaker 8: your award?
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: And if he didn't get the point, no more question.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Dick Dick Lane. Dick Lane was a night train nick
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Dick Lane's real name is night Scott.
• 50:51
  Speaker 8: Do you want to run up the score here? Nobody
• 50:53
  Speaker 8: Scott them Scott gone.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Yea, he told you Blood Scott, Jed Jed Coop call you.
• 51:01
  Speaker 8: You picked Cooby Peter because it was just on the phone.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: He was not he said, Freddie Mercury was the answer.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, he wasn't even trying. That was
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: a stupid, cheesy radio bit by Blind Scott. What he said,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: are you telling no no, you can talk me?
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: He answered not.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: He answered the word note he did.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But there's a lot of layers of who to
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: blame on that. The good news is we don't have
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: to take Blind Scott's call the rest of the show.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: He's out of the show now, that's great, right. He's
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: been on the air and he ruined the whole thing,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: and that's the way to go.