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  Speaker 1: our lead story from Indianapolis, the final game of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Weekend. There are two weeks to go on the
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  Speaker 1: NFL schedule. The final game. They're Week sixteen. Christian McCaffery
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  Speaker 1: leading the forty nine Ers Traveling Road Show, paying a
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  Speaker 1: visit to Old Man Rivers, Old Man Rivers and the Colts.
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  Speaker 1: There you had the Fox refugees, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.
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  Speaker 1: They had the call on AB right there. I don't
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  Speaker 1: if you watched it not maybe not, Maybe you had
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  Speaker 1: something else going on. I don't know what you have
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  Speaker 1: going on. I watched it. I sat there, my fat
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  Speaker 1: ass watched this game the whole thing. So there was
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  Speaker 1: brock Purty making Terry and England smile. Brock perty forty
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  Speaker 1: nine a quarterback career high. Five touchdown passes, five of
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  Speaker 1: them brock per he was back at Iowa State. The
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  Speaker 1: sight closed, baby, five touchdown passes forty eight to twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven was your final score as the Niners get the win,
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  Speaker 1: the three touchdown win. The Colts had the ball down
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  Speaker 1: by two scores. There was enough time to come back
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  Speaker 1: and Philip rivers through the interception there So Niners win
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  Speaker 1: going away and San Francisco eleven and four. They have
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  Speaker 1: won five straight. I didn't play in the NFL, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's good. And so they are still alive,
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  Speaker 1: stand alive, staying alive in the NFC West race with
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks and the Rams, of course, and Rams top
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  Speaker 1: team in football, and the Niners and Seahawks have better records,
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  Speaker 1: but the Rams obviously the better team. We know that,
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  Speaker 1: and the conference's top seed also on the line, and
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  Speaker 1: so there you go. It also snapped. I saw this note.
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  Speaker 1: It snapped a five game losing streak in the series
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  Speaker 1: head to head, the last time, the last time that
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  Speaker 1: the Niners were able to take down the Colts in
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  Speaker 1: a similar situation was way back in November of twenty
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  Speaker 1: oh one when Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association member the
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  Speaker 1: Great Jim Mora went on that playoffs, playoffs, when the
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  Speaker 1: all time great rants. If you're old, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about there. That coach More worked here for
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  Speaker 1: a number of years after that when he coached the Colts,
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  Speaker 1: And of course I've told him this, I had him
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  Speaker 1: on my podcast a while back. But Jim Mora, the
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  Speaker 1: greatest rant was not the playoff rant. It was we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do Diddley Pooh when he coached the Saints. That's
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  Speaker 1: the better rant by Jim More. But still Indianapolis that
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  Speaker 1: lost there, that loss also clinching a playoff spot for
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  Speaker 1: here we go Buffalo. Jacksonville is in the playoffs. Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: is in the playoffs. Buy your lottery tickets. The Chargers
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  Speaker 1: are in. The Chargers are in in the AFC as well.
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  Speaker 1: The better story those could to the Niners and the Colts,
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  Speaker 1: the better story in the losing locker room. So that
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  Speaker 1: is where we will begin here. As down goes Indy,
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  Speaker 1: Down goes Indy. The Colts have now lost five straight,
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  Speaker 1: and they did something that mathematically is almost impossible. The
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  Speaker 1: Colts got off to a seven and one start this season,
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  Speaker 1: and while they're not eliminated yet, they're about to miss
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Here's Philip Rivers breaking down the math on
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  Speaker 1: the Colts. It's not looking good in Indy and.
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  Speaker 3: I know this locker room is hurting again. I've been
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  Speaker 3: a part of it for a short time, for two losses,
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  Speaker 3: and I know that it's been a it's been a
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  Speaker 3: long slide now for over a month, and I know
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  Speaker 3: that's tough. I've been a part of those slides and
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  Speaker 3: now I'm obviously a part of this right now. And
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  Speaker 3: we just got to find a way to dig deep
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  Speaker 3: and find a way to win a football game. And
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  Speaker 3: we can't worry about all the scenarios and all the
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  Speaker 3: things out there.
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  Speaker 4: I know they're all out there. I know what they are.
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  Speaker 3: But we got to find a way to win a
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  Speaker 3: football game or none of the scenarios coming to play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not happening. Colts have lost six of seven
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  Speaker 1: at this point, and with the playoffs all but over,
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  Speaker 1: there is a belief that Rivers might not even play
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  Speaker 1: again for the Colts that they took him out the
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  Speaker 1: game was over last series, they put the Golden domer
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  Speaker 1: in there. At the end, the question becomes will Rivers
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  Speaker 1: even play again? And the Colts it ain't looking good.
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  Speaker 1: It is not looking good. And let's hear one more
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  Speaker 1: from Philip Rivers before we advance in the monologue. Here
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  Speaker 1: is Philip Rivers on what it's been like for him
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  Speaker 1: being back in the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: I'm torn of how to express it because it's been
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  Speaker 4: a blast.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a blast to prepare and to go steak
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  Speaker 3: and get ready and go out there and warm up
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  Speaker 3: and do.
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  Speaker 4: All that with these guys again. But again, the name
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  Speaker 4: of the game is not, you know, go have a
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  Speaker 4: good time. It's helped find.
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  Speaker 1: Way to team no fun.
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  Speaker 4: And we've come up short here these first two.
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  Speaker 3: But I've been a part of less percentage chances of
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  Speaker 3: getting in and got in before. So you'll certainly won't
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  Speaker 3: hear me losing hope here as we prepare next week.
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  Speaker 1: You know that was he just took a shot at
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  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow if I was running a tabloid. Philip Rivers
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  Speaker 1: takes a shot at Joe Burrow by saying it's not
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  Speaker 1: about having a good time. Now, Joe Burrow, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: having fun. Boo hoo hoo. If it's not fun, why
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  Speaker 1: are we here? I'm Joe Burrow. Well, Philip Rivers just said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's not about having a good time. It's not all right.
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  Speaker 1: So the question if this is the end of this experiment,
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  Speaker 1: and who knows, let's find out. The Colts will decide
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  Speaker 1: whether they're gonna throw Rivers out there or not. The
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  Speaker 1: math ain't real good. So if this is the end
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  Speaker 1: of Philip rivers come backstory in Indie, how do you
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  Speaker 1: grade his performance? We're two games into this and this
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  Speaker 1: might be all So we have to worry about the
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  Speaker 1: talk show we do today, and so let's discuss I've
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  Speaker 1: got porky pig, hydro power, and paper cuts, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make some kettle corn, is what we're gonna make. So
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  Speaker 1: a listen, the Colts dragged Philip Rivers out of the backwoods.
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  Speaker 1: What a great movie this would be like all those
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  Speaker 1: old movies. Is dragon and see what we can we
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  Speaker 1: can find him? Well, I don't know where he's in
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  Speaker 1: a small town in Alabama. How do you get to Alabama? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's in the south, and so okay, we'll go to
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  Speaker 1: the south, and is it. No, it's not Georgia, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's the next You've got to move over a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've got Mississippi on one side there, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll go to Alabama and then we go to
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  Speaker 1: the backwoods out in the boondocks. And they went there
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  Speaker 1: and they found rivers like they were finding an emergency
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  Speaker 1: plumber at two in the morning because you're plumbing the
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  Speaker 1: pipe broke and you've got a major flood. And it
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  Speaker 1: was the ultimate Hail Mary by the Colts to go
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  Speaker 1: down this road. So they went down this road, and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't dial an agent. They called the athletic department
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  Speaker 1: at the high school in rural out Alabama and said, hey, Phil,
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  Speaker 1: you still got shoulder pads? You want to play? And
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  Speaker 1: Phil's say, well, I'm kind of fat right now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care. You want to play for the Colts. How
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  Speaker 1: would you like to start for the Colts? Okay? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: And guess what, he wasn't a disaster, which I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that's a compliment or not. Is that like
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  Speaker 1: a backhanded company He wasn't a disaster. He looked like
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  Speaker 1: a cross between and played like a cross between porky
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  Speaker 1: Pig and the Michelin Man. It appeared watching him play
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  Speaker 1: that he was often wheezing, he was wobbling, but he
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  Speaker 1: was oddly effective considering the very low expectations for Philip Rivers.
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  Speaker 1: In both games, Rivers gave the Indianapolis offense a puncher's
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  Speaker 1: chance and that's all they wanted. That's all they expected
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  Speaker 1: from Rivers. So he met the standard by doing that,
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  Speaker 1: he met the standard. You look at it, and he said, well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's look at that. They should have, could have, would
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  Speaker 1: have beaten Seattle. It came down to a Myers field goal.
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  Speaker 1: That's another sign the Seahawks on all that good. They
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  Speaker 1: the last two wins for the Seahawks. They needed a
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  Speaker 1: late field goal to beat a forty four year old
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  Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, and then they need the officials to give
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  Speaker 1: them two points in that ram Seahawks game. So the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are frauds. We'll get that out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: But then on Monday night, it wasn't a game lost
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  Speaker 1: by Rivers. The Colts defense look like a mix of
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  Speaker 1: traffic Cones and Mattadors o o O l ole as
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  Speaker 1: they were doing nothing there and Rivers was actually moving
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  Speaker 1: the ball. The Colts scored twenty seven points in this
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  Speaker 1: game on Monday night. That is more than enough to win.
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  Speaker 1: That is a de merit actually for the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers defense, and a puffy sticker for Grandpaul Philip Philip
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  Speaker 1: Rivers Grandpaul Rivers. The mal report card on the two
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  Speaker 1: games Philip Rivers is played, and again we don't know
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  Speaker 1: if they'll start another game. So the two games Rivers
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  Speaker 1: gets a B on the Malle report card. A B.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a playoff invite, not officially eliminated. However, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't drown, he didn't He was respectable. How about that
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  Speaker 1: respectable play by Philip Rivers. It's kind of like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: then't get the invite. But he went to a wedding.
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  Speaker 1: He wore jeans, maybe a Bolo tide. It's not the
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  Speaker 1: greatest look, but you showed up, and you were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to show up, and you showed up. And so so
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  Speaker 1: there was that. And now Philip one of the nicknames,
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  Speaker 1: sure Indianapolis's naptown, and so now he can take a
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  Speaker 1: nap and relax and the Cinderella of the rust Belt,
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  Speaker 1: as it's been called there. The mission certainly did not
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  Speaker 1: get completed by Philip Rivers. Nevertheless, though nevertheless, if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the wide angle lens here, Rivers played well
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  Speaker 1: enough where this opens up the old geezer rollodecks, meaning
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  Speaker 1: this is not going to discourage in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven, in the next couple of years. Here,
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  Speaker 1: when you're starting quarterback, your franchise quarterback, or even your
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  Speaker 1: reclamation project who plays over his head, over his head
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  Speaker 1: gets hurt mid season, then when that happens, all right,
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  Speaker 1: you don't mind. You don't mind going out and getting
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  Speaker 1: some guy off the scrap heap. The NFL's recycling program
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  Speaker 1: is OPE. So if you got a pulse and you
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  Speaker 1: used to be good, they'll give you a call. Now,
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  Speaker 1: staying with Indy, there has been a dog pile, dog
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  Speaker 1: pile on top of the Colts here as everyone's being
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  Speaker 1: a Monday morning quarterback, as the Colts traded multiple first
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  Speaker 1: round draft picks to the Jets for Sauce Gardener. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Gardner did not play in this game. He's been hurt
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  Speaker 1: lately for the Colts. He missed the Monday night football game.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, and this is a people, how could
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  Speaker 1: the Colts do this? This is Malfeasan's trading two first
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  Speaker 1: round draft picks for sauce Gardener. That's what dumb teams do,
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  Speaker 1: all the experts, So question, do the Colts deserve to
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  Speaker 1: be barbecued for trading all those draft picks to get
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  Speaker 1: a couple of games out of sauce Gardener. So I
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  Speaker 1: am shaking my head. No, I am shaking my head
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  Speaker 1: no on this. This is what's known as revisionist history,
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  Speaker 1: which is my favorite kind of history because you're never wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But I like to trade at the time, the whole
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  Speaker 1: fake outrage thing. It is like revisionist history served cold
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  Speaker 1: with a side dish of a fake outverage. At the
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  Speaker 1: time you made the trade, the Colts were seven and two,
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  Speaker 1: seven and two. They were riding high. They were going
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  Speaker 1: around like a peacock. They had their feathers in the
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  Speaker 1: air everywhere, you know, they think they had found something.
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  Speaker 1: They were playing very very good football at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when the front office feeling, you know, smell themsells,
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  Speaker 1: feel themselves a little bit, and they went for it.
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  Speaker 1: They swung for the offences they did. And you don't
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  Speaker 1: clutch draffick these so many people have been brainwashed, they've
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  Speaker 1: been indoctrinated into the draft picks. Oh my god, you
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  Speaker 1: need the traffic. Shut up, you loser. You're a loser
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  Speaker 1: with these draft picks. You treat them like they're the
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  Speaker 1: family jewel. Stop. Draft picks are a renewable resource. You
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  Speaker 1: know what draft picks are. Their hydro power is what
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  Speaker 1: they are, right. Draft picks are abundant. Every year you
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  Speaker 1: get slotted a certain number of draft picks. They are abundant.
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  Speaker 1: Draft picks are abuddy. As I said, they're hydro power.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at the energy. It's like think of
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  Speaker 1: the water. You think of the energy you can get
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  Speaker 1: from rivers and dams and tides and waves and all that.
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  Speaker 1: That's draft picks. That's it. And you can use them
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  Speaker 1: anyway you want. And you can't coach scared. You can't
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  Speaker 1: run a front office scared. You can't do that. FM picks.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you fade into the oat meal, all right,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to fade into the oatmeal. And I
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  Speaker 1: love the fact the Colts were feeling their mojo. They
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  Speaker 1: were looking pretty good and all that stuff. And we
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  Speaker 1: never thought Daniel Jones was legit, but they did, and
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  Speaker 1: they bought into Daniel Jones at the time, the whole
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  Speaker 1: Indiana Jones thing, cracking the whip, dodging snakes, like the
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  Speaker 1: real Indiana Jones and the movie and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So the iron was hot. The iron was hot, and
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  Speaker 1: so they took a hammer to it and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: let's go. And that's called conviction. It's not malpractice. It's
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  Speaker 1: not Now it didn't work out, clearly, sauce Gardner didn't
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  Speaker 1: do what they thought he was gonna do with the
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  Speaker 1: offense fell apart, and it's a hot mess. It's a
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  Speaker 1: hot mess. So but there's no give backs and you
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  Speaker 1: just move on and you make your work and you
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. You know, rain no rain checks or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that like that in the NFL. So the
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  Speaker 1: Colts are like, they're kind of like the Hinds Company
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  Speaker 1: at this point. They're in the sauce business for better
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  Speaker 1: or worse, and there's no need for an apology tour
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that. And when he plays Gardener's been
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. We'll see if that continues when he comes
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  Speaker 1: back from injury. But with this season melting into a
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  Speaker 1: nice horseshoe puddle for the culture, it doesn't change that.
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  Speaker 1: And next year they're gonna have to go back to
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  Speaker 1: market and become salvage dogs. And whether it's Mac Jones
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  Speaker 1: or Zach Wilson or some other reject quarterback that they
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  Speaker 1: will bring in off the scrap heap and they will
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  Speaker 1: be the salvage dogs and they will be prowling the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback junkyard to try to find another quarterback that they
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  Speaker 1: can prop up and coach up to play well as
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  Speaker 1: well as Daniel Jones was playing at the time. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's it. But again we don't rewrite history. We
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  Speaker 1: like the sauce gardener trade at the time. We still
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  Speaker 1: support the sauce gardner trade. We liked it then, we
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  Speaker 1: like it now. That's the malormath on that all right,
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  Speaker 1: last word to the winners side. So I checked my inbox,
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  Speaker 1: which you should never do as a talk shows riding
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  Speaker 1: back to people. But occasionally I'll go in there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: usually once a day, and I'll check my inbox and
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  Speaker 1: see what's going on with that. And so I went
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  Speaker 1: in there and it was a lot chuld you. So malor.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna give the Niners props. You're a ram
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  Speaker 1: suck up, you know all that crap. Is there anyone
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  Speaker 1: more neutral than me? Seriously? My middle name is neutral? Anyway? Question,
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  Speaker 1: does this win count as a signature win for brock
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  Speaker 1: Party and the Niners? Does this count primetime game Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: Monday Night football? Does this count as a signature win
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  Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers? So I give this side,
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  Speaker 1: and God I help, I hope not. If this is
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  Speaker 1: a signature win for the Niners, they're really not that good.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just call like it. If you think this is
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  Speaker 1: some kind of big, big notch in the belt, then
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  Speaker 1: there's something wrong with you. How about that? All right,
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  Speaker 1: that's not exactly here. Let's not go there. Let's not
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  Speaker 1: turn what was a Delta Airlines snack box into a
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  Speaker 1: five course meal. It was not. Yeah, did brock Purty
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  Speaker 1: look like a doctor from Grey's Anatomy back in the
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  Speaker 1: day with surgical precision, like what was that guy's name,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Shepherd? Yeah, just just slicing up the Indianapolis Colts. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and the Niners had four hundred and forty yards. They
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: had forty eight points. Seven of those coming from a
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: turnover by Philip Rivers, but forty one points by land,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: by air, by sea for the forty nine ers. And
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: yet context does matter, and that's that's the problem. The
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Niners were touchdown favorites on the road against a flea
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: bitten Indianapolis defense. They were supposed to win this game
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: by a lot. They won this game by a lot. Therefore,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: you don't get credit for doing what you're supposed to do.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: That's the cold reality of the situation. And let's not
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: forget also that brock Purty, well he did have five touchdowns.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: He also had a fumble and an interception. And you
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: look at those things, and those are paper cuts in
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: a regular season game, they're paper cuts against bad teams
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and the culture bad team right now. Against good teams
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: in playoff games, those are amputations. So fright right now,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: it's paper cut, big deal, who cares, put a band
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: aid on it, put some new skin on it. You're
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: good to go. But then in the playoffs it becomes problematic.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: That's playoffs, playoffs, trying to win a game. Of course,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the bigger concern for the Niners is defense. Do we
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: know they don't have their top two players and all that.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: That defense though built like a sand castle at high tide,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: it's not going very well for that forty nine or defense.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Robert Salo Does he not get more TV time than
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel? Holy crap, they love showing him. Is it
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: possible at Robert Salad and Joe Buck are related and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: we don't know it? Or possibly eightman? Do they get
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: paid each minute they show Robert Salah on the television? Anyway,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: You're at the Niner defense and Grandpa Philip Rivers went
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: out there and looked like, yeah, he looks like a
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: sumo wrestler, but he was matriculating the ball down the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: field for Indianapolis in this game. And you let the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: high school coaching forty four year old grandpa average pretty
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: much eight yards of pop. That's the Niners defense. They
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: get seven point nine yards per pass for Philip Rivers.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Is that a championship defense? Methinks not so much. You
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: such a critic, Balor, But yeah, I got Niner fans
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: in my inbox. Well it's a signature win. But you okay,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: seven point favorites on the road. I guess the forty
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: four year old grandpa and that's your signature. Win you
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: guys blow. They're in it. I said it.
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• 21:06
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• 21:09
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• 21:10
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• 21:10
  Speaker 5: But instead of us telling you how great we are,
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: here's how Dan Patrick described us when he came on
• 21:15
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• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Quick, knowledgeable and funny, opinionated. What what are you doing? We were
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: interrupting our promo. Yeah, it wasn't talking about you. You
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: took those clips totally out of context.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Well after this promo, I'm gonna take you
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: out and beat you.
• 21:30
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• 21:33
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• 21:36
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• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Ye, So play the hits, mom man, play the hits hard.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: This hour, we move away from the Monday Night football
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and we go to the shove or punch or attempted shove,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: attempted punch Herd round the foot Ball World follow up
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: follow up to a previous edition of the show. In
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the previous episode, we talked about it. So we go
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: to Park Avenue now in Midtown Manhattan. The Justice League
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: of Football has ruled. If you have not heard yet,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the NFL has brought the hammer of Goodell down, down, down, down,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: down on Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf. DK not okay.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: He has been suspended for not one, not one, but
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: two two games for his in game altercation with a
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: blue wig wearing, blue wig wearing Lions fan during the
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: win in Detroit. Yeah, the league rule that Metcalf's actions
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: violated the league policy of not attempting to punch customers
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: who bought a ticket. What a us see that is?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Why don't they do that on Broadway? Right? You go
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: see a Broadway show and they kick in the face
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: in the front row, and we'll do a lot. We'll
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: do We'll kick our legs up in there and see
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the rock Cats at Radio City. We're gonna have the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: rock Cats kick the people in the front row. Why not?
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Anyway, that's a good jumping off point. So let us
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: discuss the question for the esteem panel is as follows.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf suspended for the two games
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: without pay for some kind of conduct detrimental to the NFL. Now,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: when you first saw this or heard about it, what
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: did you think? That's the question. Keep it simple. It's
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: not that deep. It's overnight talk radio. So when you
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: first saw the dk Metcalf suspension for two games, what
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: did you think?
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: So?
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I've got pep Boys, Butterfingers, and venture capital, and we
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we are
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: gonna put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: going to do. So Number I said number one. The
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: lawyers have now entered the chat. The lawyers have now
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: entered the chat. So this is the NFL being extra
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: extra cautious is what this is. Bubble wrapped knee brace
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: cautious is what we're talking about here from the NFL. Now,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: once both sides have lawyered up, that's where we are.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Both sides have lawyered up. You've got the attorney for
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the guy wearing the blue wig, the Blue Man group.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: That guy. His attorney said the matter will now likely
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: be subject to formal legal proceedings. Well, the League of
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: course saw that, and they heard about that, and then
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: DK's got his representation and so okay, the league, they're like, oh,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: we got to do something about it. What are we
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: gonna do? I don't know. Roger Gell's like, I gotta
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: act like an insurance adjuster at that point. I gotta
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: limit liability. And so it's not NFL anymore. It's like
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: going down to Pep Boys and you pull into the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: bay there and you say, all right, can we install
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the blame air bags. We'd like to blame air bags.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: We want to rotate the tires there. Okay, we'll rotate
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the tires. We want the full legal inspection on how
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: we can limit our liability. Okay, we got you on that.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: No problem. Two games, no pay, Boom goes the dynamite.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Boom goes to the dynamite. That is preventative maintenance by
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Preventive maintenance by the NFL. Now ambulance chasing lawyers,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and I don't know how it is in your time.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: We do the show from Los Angeles and there are
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: more ambulance chasing billboards for these lawyers chasing chasing the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: insurance companies. It is next level all right, Literally, I
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: count them on board. It's like some people count cheap.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I got a long drive home to the north Woods
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and I count. I count the billboards and it's it's wild.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: They must make so much money. Think about how much
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: that's a small percentage they're spending on advertising. I love
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the spending on advertising, but it's a small percentage. Imagine
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: how much money they're making. It's wild. It's absolutely wild.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: So you got these ambulance chasing lawyers who love this
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You got the slip and fall with
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions Steeler game, which was the big game
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: on CBS. You had Jim Nantz and Tony Romo. So
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: DK's got counseled both. Everyone's drawn a line in the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: sand here. And once that happens, the NFL hits the button.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: They press the button and they go to full shield defense,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: protect the shield, and they're trying to not get posterized.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: They don't want some kind of discovery, trying to avoid discovery, emails, texts,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: security logs at the stadium. Suddenly it becomes a Netflix
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: true crime documentary. And have we you've seen the guy
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: with the blue wig. Is he wearing a neck brace.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Now is he going my neck, my back, my neck
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: in my back? Is he doing that? No, one of
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the great lines in cinema of all time. He isn't
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: doing that? All right? Well, anyway, So the NFL chose
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: to be proactive here and suspend wide receiver DK Metcalf.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: They will, they wave wolf, they wave the accountability flag quietly,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: assuming that the appeal will knock down the suspension from
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: two games to one game. Metcalf's already appealed, so they're like,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: all right, we'll get that down to one game. He'll
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: miss one game and then he'll be back. He's got
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: no priors, he's got a clean resume. And so this
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: isn't so much discipline, if you will, it's DC, not
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: DC comics. It's damage control, is what. The NFL isn't angry,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: they're just nervous. They don't want to have to pay
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: out any money in some kind of settlement. The guy
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: will see because you don't just sue the stadium. You
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: don't just sue the Lions. If you're a good ambulance
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: chasing attorney, you sue the NFL. You go where the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: money is and you say, this is a big problem.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: The NFL did not have proper security at the stadium
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and the fan was allowed to run amok and the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: video of DK Metcalf coming down. Now, I did see
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: DK throw a useful idiot in the media. I believe
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: that was Ocho. Sinko did use the race bomb. He
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: used the race card from the bottom of the deck.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I'm a little skeptical if that's true, based on the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: fact that he didn't use it right away, and that
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: is the ultimate get out at jail free card. You
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: would think if that happened that DK Metcalf would have
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: said that right away, or would have had Mike Tomlin
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: say that, or some pr hack for the Steelers would
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: have said, yeah, but yeah, DK might have taken a
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: shot at him, try to throw a little jab at him. Yeah,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: but the guy said his mama was a big lard
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: ass or you know, he said this and then he
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: used the N word or something like. He didn't say
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: that he snuck out the back door like Travis Kelcey
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: when the Chiefs lose, he snuck out the back door,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: and so that leads me to leave. That's kind of like,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that's kind of bogus because you say that right away
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, everyone runs to your defense and say, okay,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: well yeah, you attack the guy whatever. But we know
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: he deserved it, and so there you go. All right now,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Page two money, money, money, It's all about the money.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: It's all about the money. And so with this punishment,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: DK Metcalf the two game suspension for violating the tenants
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: of the NFL rule book. It's gonna cost him five
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five thousand dollars if the appeal is
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: not overturned. So imagine every two weeks you get five
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five thousand dollars. You'd probably show up
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to work a lot, so five hundred and fifty thousand
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: dollars in salary. However, but wait, there's more. But wait
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: there's more. We are also told that because of this violation,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: DK Metcalf has now voided with a capital V, he
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: has voided forty million dollar in future guaranteed money. So
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: that's forty point five million if my malor math is correct.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: That is an ouy gooey mess, is what that is? Wow?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: All right, So question DK Metcalf Steeler wide receiver losing
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: forty million dollars in garanteed money is blank. Fill in
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the blank. So my word is gad zukery with a
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: capital G. Gadzukery is my word here, DK Metcalf. The
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: forty point five million dollars in guaranteed money. That's it.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: This is a This is not a parking ticket. This
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: is a I spent too long parking in the loading zone. No,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: this is not that. No, no, no, this is much more.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: This is a generational fumble territory for DK Metcalf if
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: this works out. Now, you didn't just drop the football,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: all right, You punted your wallet into the harbor somewhere,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: is what you did. I would like, what are we
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: doing here? And two games, five hundred and fifty five thousand,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: as we said, and then wham the guaranteed money. The
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: language in the contract evaporates like beer foam at last
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: call for alcohol. This is butter fingers economics. Butter fingers economics.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: The NFL contract is a bit of a mouse trap.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: It's the standard verbiage in every NFL contract. You touch
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the cheese and snappity snap, it goes. There goes the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: golden goose. Now, the conduct violation by DK Metcalf, that
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: is the catch all guillotine. It's the garbage disposal of
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the NFL High Crimes and misdemeanors. Territory is what it is,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and the hurt feelings all wrapped up there and all
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: that stuff, and so you go. You had all that
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: mixed together. Imagine losing forty million dollars. Possibly this is
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the worst case scenario. It's kind of like when somebody
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: comes up kind of say, well, you're facing up to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: up to fifteen years and jet well, no one really
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: gets the maximum sentence, so you're not really facing that,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: but you're facing some time. You're facing some time. So
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: it's it's obviously financial malpractice if it comes down to that.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: You don't read the fine prince one of these things.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: You sign the DOCU, sign your initial here, and you
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: sign there, and then that's it and you face planted
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: into it is what it is here, And so in theory,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: you could choke the golden goose. Now, the good thing
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: for DK metcalf is he's really talented, and typically if
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you're really talented, they kind of look the other way
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: and they're like, no, we're not gonna we're not gonna
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: do Even though he could have choked the golden goose.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: He did not do that, and so because of that
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the damage will be limited. We'll see what happens on
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the appeal. All right, now, final point to Jacksonville. We
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: go don't look now, but the Juguars are the talk
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: of the NFL. They're the it team. Despite leaning in
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to the fank that nobody thought we could win and
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: we suck and we're small market Jacksonville and all that.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Despite that, the Jaguars are playing pretty well and that
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: led to defensive end Travon Walker, big first round pick,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Travon Walker, who had a message for the band wag Nurs.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: The band wag nurs who are flushing. They're running down
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: to the train station. They're trying to catch on the
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: on the bandwagon. They'll jump on there. True, true, that's
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the Jags bandwagon. So his message is two words, stay away,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: stay away, stay away. He said, quote everyone gonna try
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: to hop on this bandwagon. Travon Walker said, everyon's gonna
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: try to jump on the bandwagon. Now, we don't want nobody.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Stay where you're at. And then he went and then
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: he worked blue. He said, f everyone but us. But
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: then he apologies. He said, listen excuse my language. Well,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: when you'd say the F word, you say, exchoose my language. Okay,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: all things are forgiven. So he said, excuse my language, mom,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and dad and grandma. But then he said if everybody
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: but us, all right? Close quote. So he he said
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: excuse my language to his mama, daddy, and grandma and
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: then used bad, bad language again. All right. Question, how
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: does Travon Walker's rant about keeping the Bandwagon fans far
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: away from the Jaguars? How does that hit you?
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: So?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Walker, I thought this is amusing. I was. I brought
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: it up on the show, so I thought it was interesting.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: A Walker out there acting like he's the bouncer at
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the NFL Fan nightclub and it's like kind of like
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: a dive bar, the NFL Fan Nightclub, and there's like
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: sticky floors. You don't know what that is. You hope
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: it's just spilled alcohol, not something else that could be sticky.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: And then you've got the broken jukebox, got that going
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: on over there, and we don't want nobody. You just
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: stuck behind the velvet ropes. You're not coming in here.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: And of course the response to that is hey, buddy,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: bye bye to bat Hey buddy, this is not some
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: kind of underground punk show. It's the NFL, the world's
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: biggest strip mall, is what it is here. And so
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: winning means foot traffic, right, you want the foot traffic.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: This means foot traffic. My word though, for this, for
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the star defensive players Rovron Walker saying we don't want
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: any bandwagon fans, my word is it's an o word. Obtuse.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: That is my word here. Obtuse is the word because
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: it is obtuse. It's silo thinking, is what it is.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: It's for the those uneducated on how the economics of
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: all this work in the entertainment business. Now, last I checked,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jags are not let me say not Apple.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: They are not Apple, they are not Microsoft. It's a
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: startup trying to pitch venture capital. Now they want some
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: venture capital with a PowerPoint that just says trust us Bro.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: That's the Jaguars manstra trust us Bro is the mantra.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: So winning games has always been universally accepted as a
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: marketing plan. It just is you don't dead bolt the door.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: You don't dead bolt the door and not allow customers
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: in when they finally show up. And that's it. Every
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: fan base, you know, every single fan base was built
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: on the back of the bandwagon. The fumes of the
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: bandwagon created every fambush. When I was a kid, the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: teams that were really good most years, the Cowboys, the Raiders,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: and the Dolphins and those little kids. And it's still
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: this case, you know, nine to twelve years old, those
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: that still love sports as kids, you jump on to
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: a bandwagon between the ages of nine and twelve whatever
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: team's winning, because every kid wants to be a winner,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: and you want to be a front runner and all
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: that stuff. So there you go, and then you find yourself.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: You do that when you're like nine or ten, and
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: then you find yourself in your late forties and all
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're still emotionally damaged because you made
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: a decision when you were nine or ten years old,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: and you're buying throwback jerseys and all that stuff. And
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: so I had The Niners have a lot of fans,
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  Speaker 1: and many of those fans are cause forty years ago
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  Speaker 1: in the in the nineteen eighties, they had a guy
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  Speaker 1: named Joe Montana and it's spuilding in the nineties with
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  Speaker 1: Steve Young and they won a lot and so those
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  Speaker 1: people grew up and now they've got kids and it's
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  Speaker 1: like a family thing and all that stuff. That's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: So Travon Walker wants some kind of purity test to
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  Speaker 1: be a Jacksonville fan, which is really cute, isn't that cute?
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: That's cute, man. But this is not a monastery. It's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's a business, and so if you want growth in
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  Speaker 1: that business, it would be like us, we only want now.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like the only seven people call the show
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  Speaker 1: because for some reason everyone's intimidated unless we do a
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  Speaker 1: newbie night to call the show. But we always want
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  Speaker 1: new people to come to our store. Our stores open
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  Speaker 1: all night. We want people you forgot something, come down
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  Speaker 1: to the overnight audio shack and we're the radio shack
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  Speaker 1: over here. We'll take care of it. But you want growth,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you want in any business in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You want the casuals. You need the casuals, you need
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  Speaker 1: the low information fan, you want the tourists, you want
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: the front runners, you need all of them, all right.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: You want people breaking ankles, jumping on the band wagon.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Is that's the goal. That's what you want. And this
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  Speaker 1: rant hit me. It's like a guy standing in front
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  Speaker 1: of the Walmarts and if you don't live within three
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: blocks of the Walmart, do not come in. Well, no,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: it's a big box store. They need people from all over.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: So congratulations, Jacksonville's won a few games. Here, they're feeling
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: good about themselves and you're sabotaging the storefront. I would
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: love to have been a fly on the wall in
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: the marketing department for the Jaguars. So one of your
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: top defensive players is telling people who don't really like
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: the team not to support the team. Okay, really, but
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: that's asset winning is a secret society. It's like the
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Cross and the skulling Bones, and it's a secret society.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: It's a billboard. It is a billboard, is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Weet Mallard to a third degree. Here we go hit that,
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  Speaker 1: How about that to the third degree. I know this
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  Speaker 6: So the Broncos lost for the first time since September twenty.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: First they got your ass kick, Coop. They lost, They
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: got their ass kick.
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  Speaker 6: They lost, And after the game, bo Nix said that
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: the l could be a good reset for the team, saying,
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: you'd rather have it you now than in the first
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  Speaker 6: round of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben, does he have a point. Well, first of all,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: it's a great point. The Raiders have had a lot
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: of recess, The New York Giants have a lot of recess.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: The Jets have had a lot of recess. It really
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: works out well for those teams. Yes, no, it's not
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  Speaker 1: good and there's no guarantee just because you've lost the
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: game with two weeks ago in the season, that you're
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: gonna win a bunch of games. That's you know, that's
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: fool logic, is what that is. It was the Broncos
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: looked bad. Their defense got sliced up by Trevor Lawrence,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: and they couldn't do enough on offense to keep up
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: with Jacksonville. It was not a good day. It doesn't
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: mean that Broncos are not gonna win the Super Bowl.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: But don't tell me because you had lost in Week
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: sixteen that's somehow something to brag about. It's not next.
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: During Saturday's game between the Eagles and Commanders. Philly was
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: up seventeen points with about four minutes to go in
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: the game and went for a two point conversion that
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: led to a scuffle between the players.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: And after the game.
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: Commanders coach Dan Quinn did not seem too thrilled by
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: the move, Ben, do you think it was disrespectful?
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Well? I think what was disrepectful is the way the
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Commanders have played since Week six. They have one since
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Week six, one win that was against the Giants. That's it.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: That's all. They've lost every other game since week six,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: So that's this. No, this stuff's kind of non play.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Better do better. Don't give me that crap. Come on,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: it's not Pop Warner football. Stop your professionals.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: Next, the Saint Louis Cardinals are currently in a full
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: full tear Dome mode, and on Saturday, they traded all
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: star ketcher Wilson Contreras to the Red Sox.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Ben, how big of a get is this for Boston?
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: He's he's a good player. I don't know he's a
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: great player, But you're adding another good player if you're
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: depending on him to lead you. If you're the Red Sox,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be disappointed. I think he's proven he's not
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: that guy. You're not that guy, pal, But Contreras in
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: a secondary role is pretty lethal actually, And he's a
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: guy that you don't expect him to lead the way.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: But if he's just adding, it's like adding extra candy
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: that you don't really need the extra candy, but just
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: nice to have it. And it's it's not a bad
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: thing there. It is cool. Mallarly, third degree, how did
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  Speaker 1: we do?
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  Speaker 6: You almost auto failed that, but but you did say
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: that it doesn't mean that they're not going to win
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: the super Bowl, So so you've passed this in there.
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  Speaker 1: It is I want again closing out the year in
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  Speaker 1: the win column.
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  Speaker 1: Robin Maine is going to play our game. Hello, Rob, Welcome, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Benny black Shallo, happy my friend, thank you. It's all
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  Speaker 1: over now for another year. But Rob, who do you
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  Speaker 1: want to partner with? Rob? You got me you got.
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  Speaker 5: Kober loop oh me and gonna fend you off with
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  Speaker 5: the logs.
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  Speaker 1: Then that's that's right, that's incorrect. Hold on a sec
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: and we have Josh and Orlando. Hello, Josh, welcome, What
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: up man? How you doing all right? Josh? I'm good.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: What do you got going on? Let's play the game.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: We don't have a lot of time, so I would
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: normally small talk, but you know how it is, Josh.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: We got a game to.
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: Play, all right, gentlemen. This is the Ralph Findes edition
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: of Mallags Mount of the Money. He turned sixty three
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  Speaker 6: years old on Monday. The categories are Shindler's List, Harry
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: Potter and the Goblet of Fire, No Time to Die
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  Speaker 6: and twenty eight years Later? Rob, which category would you like?
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Twenty eight years later? All right?
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: Twenty eight years later? And Josh, how about you?
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: No time to die?
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Alright?
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  Speaker 6: So Rob, you and I are up first. Our category
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  Speaker 6: is twenty eight years later. These athletes all wore number
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: twenty eight forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin,
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  Speaker 6: all right. This guy was the best running back ever
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  Speaker 6: for the Minnesota Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: Adrian Pacinson.
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: Yes, this guy was the best running back for the
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: Saint Louis Rams Macha fault.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: This guy is the greatest catcher of all time for
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: the San Francisco Giants.
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  Speaker 1: There's a there's a rule named after him. All right.
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  Speaker 6: This guy was a defensive back in the NFL. He
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  Speaker 6: played like twenty years for the Washington Redskins.
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  Speaker 1: There we go.
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: This guy, who was a shortstop, played a long time
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  Speaker 6: for the Colorado Rockies, then he went over to the
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  Speaker 6: Saint Louis Cardinals. Yes, this guy was an All Pro
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: defensive back for the Cowboys when they were winning championships.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Darren Woodson was who he wanted sixty.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: It's not that good.
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  Speaker 5: Should have said, jail dude.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, okay, Josh, are you ready, my man? Josh okay? Uh.
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  Speaker 1: These athletes all almost died, but thankfully didn't. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready? Josh against rock? All right? Forty five
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: seconds on away go. Greatest golfer of all time almost
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  Speaker 1: had in a car accident, Tiger Wood. That is correct.
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  Speaker 1: He was a star for the Boston Celtics. Abed at
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  Speaker 1: a nightclub in Boston. He played in the era with
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  Speaker 1: the Well They won a championship together. Kevin Garnett and him. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: greatest female tennis player of all time, damn Mark Martin,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: African Americans, Oh, Venith Walliams, no somebody else? Yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 1: quarterback for the forty nine ers. His leg was snapped
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  Speaker 1: in half when he played for the Washington Redskins. No
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: another one play, no terrible clues, terrible clues. Job Ben
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: playing for the Commanders, was with Redskins, was leg snapped
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  Speaker 1: in half? Sixty Yeah, yeah, all right, what is that sixty? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You guys are back up, Josh.
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: You want Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire or
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: Shindler's List.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's right, uplifting. Okay, these athletes have all
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: committed a heroic act. Are you ready, Josh? Great career,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: go ahead now, not on the big board. All right,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: here we go forty five seconds. Here we go, running
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  Speaker 1: back for the forty nine ers. Right now. The white
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: guy at Kritan McCaffery boxer, some consider with the greatest
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: heavyweight of all time, very quotable, sting like a be
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: that back. Yeah, Mexican American tight. And he's on Amazon
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: right now. I played for the Falcons and the Chiefs.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Hernandez.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: No, that's the other.
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  Speaker 5: Tony what's the name?
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: Say it?
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Say the name? How about this? A hero? White guy
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: he went to the military, was killed by friendly fire.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Played for the Cardinals in Arizona. Yes, white running back
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: for the Broncos and the Browns and whatnot in the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: two thousands. What's what's the score?
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: Ny on? That one's.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: That's not enough enough? I feel like it isn't I
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: feel like it is. I don't think you did. I
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: think that's some funny math by Lorraine. I don't know
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: you trusted. That's a one category win. That's what I
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: call dominant. I was not impressive, Rob, you didn't run
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: the board, not impressive at all. And my guy didn't
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: even know his tight ends. Bad job by you. Come on, Josh,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: you gotta do better. Josh, come on, man,