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  Speaker 1: Well in pirate lingo, you'd say, there she blows. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL weekend underway in our lead this hour, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to start out in Tampa, week fifteen of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL season. They're kicking off at the stadium I think
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  Speaker 1: still called Raymond James Stadium. All these stadiums changed names
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  Speaker 1: in a million times, but fire the cannons e NFC
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  Speaker 1: South barn Burner between the visiting Falcons playing out the
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  Speaker 1: string against the Buccaneers who still have a lot to
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  Speaker 1: play for Falcons with Kirk Cousins, who's toiling away there
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  Speaker 1: in the atail and the Baker mayfield for the Buccaneers.
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  Speaker 1: You had al Michaels and Herbie in the Amazon on
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  Speaker 1: the call. So I don't know if you're watching this
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  Speaker 1: game or not. Perhaps you miss it. I don't knows
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  Speaker 1: you would be watching. Maybe he's weren't watching anything. But
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  Speaker 1: here's the deal, Kirk Cousins, wake up the echoes. Kirk Cousins,
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  Speaker 1: not one, not two, Three touchdown passes in a primetime game.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the curse of Cousins in primetime games back in
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  Speaker 1: his Minnesota days. But he looked good in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Three touchdown passes, a bunch of yards. Of the touchdown
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  Speaker 1: passes all to Kyle Pitts, the tight end, built like
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  Speaker 1: a Donnis. He often plays like a Pip Squeak, but
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  Speaker 1: not on this game. Not in this game. And Zane Gonzalez,
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  Speaker 1: the idiot kicker, booted a forty three yard field goal
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  Speaker 1: as time expired. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night,
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  Speaker 1: and Atlanta rallies from two touchdowns down and they get
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  Speaker 1: the one point win over the team from Floresta. Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: gets the win there and the highlight of the night
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  Speaker 1: was not on the field, Say well, what about that
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  Speaker 1: Zane Gonzales kicking no, no, no. For our purposes in
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  Speaker 1: talk radio, the highlight was thirty seconds. It's a postgame
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  Speaker 1: clip of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles has coached multiple NFL teams over the years,
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  Speaker 1: and none of them have been very good. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: occasionally will give us solid gold. He will, and he
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  Speaker 1: gave us that unleashing the beast as Todd Bowles. Every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while you get a coach that's at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the rope and decides to let you
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  Speaker 1: know what they really think of their football team. And
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the audio tape. Here is Todd Bowles
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  Speaker 1: breaking down what's wrong with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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  Speaker 3: It's an excuseable. You don't make excuses. You got enough words,
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  Speaker 3: you got care enough for it, got something to you.
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  Speaker 3: It's more than a job. How well do you know
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  Speaker 3: your job? How well can you do your job?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: You can't, sugar coach, it was a usable man, because
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  Speaker 3: it's for that's for no excuse for it.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're telling them. A look, yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who edited that, but way too too long. The
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  Speaker 1: bleeps were too long. But it's unfortunate. Go to social
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  Speaker 1: media get the actual cutakes. We're not we're not grown
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  Speaker 1: ups here in overnight radio to play the right butt.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, I know you can't to play bad words,
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  Speaker 1: but you can. There's ways you get edited. But he
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  Speaker 1: said the F word seven times, the S word four times.
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  Speaker 1: The key parts of that inexcusable, and it's your e
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  Speaker 1: fing livelihood. I mean, we couldnt even get a little
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  Speaker 1: taste of the F word in that. I mean, my god,
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  Speaker 1: just the F at the beginning. Holy crap. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: teach you editing now. I'll had that to my resume,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So that's a good jumping off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question what did Bucks coach Todd Bowles.
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  Speaker 1: You barely hurt any of it because of the tremendous
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  Speaker 1: editing job, but what did Bucks coach Todd Bowles postgame
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  Speaker 1: rant reveal? So my thoughts on this, I've got a
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  Speaker 1: three by three Walgreens and Pink Paradise, and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to make a Cuban sandwich, which is the sandwich of
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  Speaker 1: choice in the greater Tampa area, or so I am told,
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  Speaker 1: and some Cuban cigars, which is also very popular there
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  Speaker 1: in the greater Tampa Saint Pete area. So A, this
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  Speaker 1: wasn't coaching. What are you talking about, He's a coach.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't coaching. This was a hostage video by Todd Bowles.
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  Speaker 1: This is why I do this job, Like these kind
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  Speaker 1: of rants. If everyone just said the same boring crap,
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  Speaker 1: which they do ninety eight percent of the time, what's
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  Speaker 1: the point of doing this? Every once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: someone's loud and proud, and that would be Todd Bowles. Here.
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  Speaker 1: It was thirty seconds of pure, uncut rage rage. I
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  Speaker 1: love it. No pr polish, no media training, just Todd
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  Speaker 1: Bowles and a microphone. And it was cartoonish. As we
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  Speaker 1: like to say on this show from time to time
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  Speaker 1: when someone has a rant like this, say it's just
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  Speaker 1: like Popeye. That's all I can stands and I can't
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  Speaker 1: stands no more. Now, what did it reveal? What did
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  Speaker 1: it real Well, it revealed simply that Todd Bowles just
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  Speaker 1: let you know that behind the curtain, behind the locker
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  Speaker 1: room doors, he believes his players are lazy. He's not
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  Speaker 1: coaching them to play that way. They've checked out. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I took from that. That's what I took Todd
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  Speaker 1: Bowles is announcing, listen, these guys are so stupid. My
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  Speaker 1: players I tell them to do, they don't listen to me.
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  Speaker 1: The Marans, I don't know what they're doing. And it's
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  Speaker 1: because of that. He just finally was at the end
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  Speaker 1: of it. And you know, if guys were doing what
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  Speaker 1: they were supposed to do and grinding away, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to scream about their effing livelihood. You don't. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you scream about someone else, you'll scream about that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's we know they take this seriously, that this is
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  Speaker 1: a last ditch flare gun fired straight up in the
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  Speaker 1: dark night sky, and it's it's a three by served
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  Speaker 1: up piping hot by Todd Bowles. You've got the unfiltered meltdown, crude,
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  Speaker 1: raw and soaked and desperation. That's the three by three crude,
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  Speaker 1: raw and soaked in desperation, and Todd Bowles is fed up. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: he blew up a gasket because he knows the math.
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  Speaker 1: And they do have some games coming up with Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: There's only three games to go for the Buccaneers where
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  Speaker 1: they have a couple of games I believe still both
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  Speaker 1: games with Carolina. So there's no sugar coating, no corporate speak.
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  Speaker 1: He cut through. He took his the chainsaw and he
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  Speaker 1: just cut through the bull crap is what he does. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and here's the irony, Like, I really wish Todd Bowles
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  Speaker 1: was a good coach. I do. He's been around for
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  Speaker 1: a long time, coach the Cardinals and the Jets, and
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  Speaker 1: I wish he was good because he's a hell of
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  Speaker 1: a sound bite. He really is good. Good sound That's
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  Speaker 1: all I care about. I'm a talk shows. I care
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  Speaker 1: about sound bites. He's really good. Unfortunately, bites don't win
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  Speaker 1: championships and they don't fix game management. And people were
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  Speaker 1: ranting and raving about the time out strategy. There were
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  Speaker 1: four options that Bucks had on that Falcons final drive
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  Speaker 1: and he picked the worst possible one. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like grabbing the mystery box on let's make a deal,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what he did. You bought fourteen point lead,
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  Speaker 1: a fourteen point lead against that Atlanta team. Wow, wow,
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  Speaker 1: you and you was back to back at home to
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  Speaker 1: the Saints and the Falcons. That is a fireable offense,
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  Speaker 1: is what that is? Atlanta, they tried to give wrap
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  Speaker 1: the game. They had a turnover palooza. Well not by
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  Speaker 1: the penalty. Turnovers were also a little spice on top
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  Speaker 1: of mostly penalties and the whole NBA jam combo and
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  Speaker 1: Tampa went. They went like NBA jam. They rejected it
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  Speaker 1: like spam mail and fans are angry, right, Oh, he
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  Speaker 1: should be gone defense. He's a defensive guy. The buck
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  Speaker 1: defense is twenty fourth in points allowed. The microwave is on,
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  Speaker 1: the heat is up in the microwave. And that rant.
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  Speaker 1: That was a man who knows he is coaching for
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  Speaker 1: his job and not his team. You know, his team
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  Speaker 1: will have jobs in the NFL. He's not gonna have
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  Speaker 1: that job if this continues the way it's going there
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  Speaker 1: in Buckland. Because wow, I mean, yeah, you're in control
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  Speaker 1: and then you lose at home to the Saints and
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons and you blow a lead to the Atlanta Falcons.
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  Speaker 1: That is embarrassing. That is I mean even people that
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  Speaker 1: know football. No, that's embarrassing, right, that is bad? All right,
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  Speaker 1: now turning the page, but not very far. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep with the theme of the hour. Baker Mayfield has
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  Speaker 1: entered the chat. Yep, that Baker Mayfield. It's a time
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  Speaker 1: honored tradition. When a team loses, you play the SoundBite
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  Speaker 1: of their quarterback as well as their head coach. We've
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  Speaker 1: already done the head coach thing. So Baker Mayfield attempting
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  Speaker 1: to shoulder literally shoulder the blame as he had had
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  Speaker 1: a gut punch interception in late in the game, he
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  Speaker 1: did ride the vomit comet. And here is Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 1: who's trying to take full ownership of his part of
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  Speaker 1: the blame. Pie for the Bucks. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Disappointing obviously, but falls on my shoulders. Can't can't turn
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  Speaker 4: the ball over, can't have that interception, got to hit
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  Speaker 4: mecans tride on that third down. Listen. You can say
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  Speaker 4: what you want about being up two scores and the
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  Speaker 4: defense right there, but we have to be better on offense.
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  Speaker 4: And it comes down to how I play this one.
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  Speaker 4: This one's gonna haunt me. This this falls on my shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: So some pearls of wisdom there. The question Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 1: saying that his Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost the loss he
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  Speaker 1: quarterback there is going to haunt him? Is that inbounds
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  Speaker 1: or out of bounds? So the pearls of wisdom from
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield after a minutes long Mallard deliberation are totally inbounds.
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  Speaker 1: This was a textbook quarterback confessional, is what this was.
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  Speaker 1: The quarterback steps in front of the firing squad. You're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to eat the blame, enjoy the blame. You're responsible.
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  Speaker 1: You hope the bullets stopped flying. The boilerplate. It was
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  Speaker 1: that sure, it was a boilerplate response. Nevertheless, this one
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  Speaker 1: does have a long receipt alongside. Like Baker Mayfield earned
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  Speaker 1: every ounce of the Haunted House talk. And again we
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  Speaker 1: like the gumption, the grit and all that stuff. Baker
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  Speaker 1: the old lunch pale guy, and he's a sledgehammer out there.
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  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. However, on this night,
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  Speaker 1: and really the last month plus, Baker Mayfield has been
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  Speaker 1: Baker the headache maker and needs to go down to
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  Speaker 1: Walgreens and get a large container of pharmacy grade ibuprofen
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  Speaker 1: to hand out to the buccaneer backers. I hope I
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  Speaker 1: got TJ. Reeves is okay? The Bucks sideline guy there,
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  Speaker 1: My goodness. I did see him on TV briefly. It
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  Speaker 1: was wringing the full ensemble. The Bucks were dressed for success.
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  Speaker 1: They had the creamsicle uniforms on the classic throwback uniforms.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately they did not perform up to that standard, which
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  Speaker 1: you generally don't like. You generally don't like that. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the Bucks, they get twenty eight points to say, that
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  Speaker 1: should be enough to win. They still left points on
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  Speaker 1: the table and they left those around like abandoned luggage
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  Speaker 1: at pick your favorite airport JFK or Hare or Lax
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. And Mayfield, I wouldn't say it was bad.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't bad. He wanted to bundle of joy. He
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  Speaker 1: was okay, he was fine, just fine, nothing screenshot worthy,
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  Speaker 1: nothing to put on the gram or TikTok or any
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. And when the lights got hottest late in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, Baker melted like cheap wax. He was
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  Speaker 1: not up for the combat, the hand to hand combat,
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  Speaker 1: and to be outplayed by the fossilized remains of Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 1: You were out performed by Kirk Cousins. Let that settle in. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I think Cousins I saw at one point there, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe it was my imagination, he actually had a walker
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  Speaker 1: between snaps, he hit a walker. Cousins had fifteen bad plays.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen bad plays in this game. Baker Mayfield had twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a minus six swing in a what turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be a razor thin margin game. And so
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  Speaker 1: six more negative plays by Baker Mayfield, especially the late
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  Speaker 1: interception which set the dirty Birds up to get the
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  Speaker 1: ball back and to go down knowing they were only
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  Speaker 1: down by two points and they could end up winning
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  Speaker 1: the game with the field goal. But that that's the
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  Speaker 1: malord math on that kid's now the Petridge Farm remembers
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  Speaker 1: moment of the night. I'm old enough, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you're old enough. You're probably not old. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember when Baker Mayfield was the
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  Speaker 1: front runner after Week four for the Most Valuable Player
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  Speaker 1: award in the NFL. Now, let's take a look. Let's
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  Speaker 1: peak at Baker Mayfield. So Baker Mayfield the last five games.
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  Speaker 1: The last five games, Baker Mayfield one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: one yards per game on average, six touchdowns, five interceptions,
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  Speaker 1: a passer rating which I think is slightly above a
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  Speaker 1: gas station microwave, I think. And yeah, so this loss
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  Speaker 1: will be the Haunted Mansion and it's not over. The
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  Speaker 1: Bucks still have two couple of matchups with Carolina and
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  Speaker 1: they can take care of that. And certainly Carolina is
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  Speaker 1: no good. They're not a great team or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not Melo drama. That's more of an accountability
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  Speaker 1: from Baker Mayfield. All right, Now, last word, we go
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  Speaker 1: to the winning locker room, which is not not the
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  Speaker 1: better story, but it is a story. It is a story.
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  Speaker 1: And the question what does this dramatic last second win
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  Speaker 1: do for the equally and battered Falcons coach Raheem Morris.
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  Speaker 1: So they can't tank to get a higher draft pick.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have a first round pick, so you're not
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  Speaker 1: doing that. You're trying to play to win the game
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and so it but it does
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  Speaker 1: on my scorecard, and you can chime in when we
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  Speaker 1: give out the number in a few but on my scorecard,
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  Speaker 1: it buys Raheem Morris. A weekend pass, not a season ticket.
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  Speaker 1: A weekend pass like this is a temporary reprieve from
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  Speaker 1: the Pink Paradise, which is known as the Pink Slip
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  Speaker 1: is in the mail for right now. The package has
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  Speaker 1: been delayed. The package has been delayed. But this was
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  Speaker 1: an island game and Atlanta got bonked on the head
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  Speaker 1: with a coconut and they still won the game anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So let's not throw a parade down Petche
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  Speaker 1: Street yet because the Falcons. If anything, this game was
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  Speaker 1: more of a reminder of what a terrible job Raheem
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  Speaker 1: Morris has done as a head coach. Let me make
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  Speaker 1: my elevator pitch on that. You look at how the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons were moving the ball, and a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: was because of the Bucks defense, but still there were
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  Speaker 1: legitimate flashes that this could have been a fairy tale
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  Speaker 1: season in Atlanta and instead it's like a broken strobe
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  Speaker 1: light in a dive bar. That's the fact, Kyle pits
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  Speaker 1: we've mocked many a night. The draftis, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: they got all horney of their pants down because Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Pitts is built like a Donnis and he finally looked
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  Speaker 1: like the unicorn all you idiots said he was going
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  Speaker 1: to be. He looked like the player that he was
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  Speaker 1: advertised as. Eleven catches on twelve targets, eleven out of
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  Speaker 1: twelve on the targets, one hundred and sixty six yards
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  Speaker 1: and three touchdowns. And if you look at the box score,
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  Speaker 1: a partridge in a pear tree, so a grown man
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  Speaker 1: playing against it looked like a bunch of middle schoolers
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  Speaker 1: who were on sleeping medication. And he had Jon Robinson
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  Speaker 1: Electric Electric one hundred and seventy five total yards in
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  Speaker 1: this game, dancing through defenders like it was open mic Knight.
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  Speaker 1: And we mentioned Kirk Cousins dusting off the Minnesota Sizzle
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  Speaker 1: reel from Back in the Day throwback performance by Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 1: And yet even with that, they were down fourteen, they
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  Speaker 1: being Atlanta in the fourth quarter and needed Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 1: to f up Baker the headache maker for you to
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  Speaker 1: have a shot to kick a field goal to win
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  Speaker 1: the game. And nineteen penalties, So what do we like
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  Speaker 1: to say, you're either coaching it or you're allowing it
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Nineteen penalties a record for this season. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe a franchise record for the Falcons, and they've
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  Speaker 1: had some really bad teams. Nineteen penalties, one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy five yards. It's like a team that can't walk
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  Speaker 1: in chew gum at the same time, and they still
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  Speaker 1: won the game. So even though Rawhie Morris gets a
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  Speaker 1: tempt reprieve when you do inventory at the end of
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the season and you look back, you're like, well, wait
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: a minute, we've got some real prime rib talent, and
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: why are we serving beyond burger? Who wants a burger
• 19:11
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• 19:12
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• 19:13
  Speaker 1: We're prime rib? What are we doing? It was the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: this team is the quintessential meh team m eh matt
• 19:22
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• 19:27
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• 19:29
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• 19:32
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• 19:37
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• 19:42
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• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Had a compelling Thursday night NFL game to kick off
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Week fifteen, and had no skin in the game. We
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: did give the right pickout on Benny versus the penny.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: We're happy about that. We did not expect Atlanta actually
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: win the game. We thought they would just cover the spread,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: but they won the game outright on a last second
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: field goals time ran out there. So Atlanta playing the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: role of spoiler and now Carolina controls their own destiny.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: So I'm told, if Carolina beats the Saints in Louisiana
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: this weekend, if they win that game and they only
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: have to win one of the two against the Tampa
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers and then they're in they win the division.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: So that's where it's at in terms of the NFC South.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles had a potty mouth ramt which I loved,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: loved Todd Bowles, which he was a better coach. But
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from Cincinadi, where the Bengals
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: are playing out the string on another failed season wide receiver.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Jamar Chase like a knight in shining armor, running to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: save his damsel in distress, or in this case, his quarterback,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and he believes the narrative that Joe Burrow is losing
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: his love of football is false. Now, how do we
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: know Jamar Chase believes that is a false narrative. If
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you didn't see this, perhaps not Chase his weekly media availability.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: He attempted to put the fire out. He wanted to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: set the record straight. Here is Jamar Chase explaining that
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: all those stories that are all over the interweb and
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: social media about Joe Burrow not being happy, I don't
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: know if i'd believe that. Take a listen, he smiles
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: every day.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Like the narrative that y'all trying to paint on him.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Right now, I don't see it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: At the end of the day, he's the same person
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: every day he comes to work.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: He loves work, he loves the guy in the locker room.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: So he's pretty positive to me.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Arts we'll just ask some questions, just with them for
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit of narratives. That's okay, Okay, just asking questions.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Don't be upset to me. I love you. I have
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: all your your football cards. Okay. So that's a good
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question, Jamar Chase,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: you heard it blaming the media for making it seem
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: like Joe Burrow is not happy with the Bengals, saying
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: that's the narrative there. How much weight does this have?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: So I've got deck, Picasso, and carrot top, and we
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: going to make some spaghetti and meatballs, is what we're
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: going to make. So number Jamar Chase is attempting with
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: this interaction with the fourth estate. He is attempting to
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: play human for Breeze. What He's going to clean the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: air around the Ben Gals franchise because if you if
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you sniff, there's a bit of a stench around there. Now,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Chase implies, the media is out there stirring the pot.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: You media troublemakers. If it wasn't for you, meddling media losers,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: then none of this would happen. So it's like they're
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: stirring the pot. They being the media because I'm not
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: part of the mainstream. I do overnight. Overnight's not part
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: of the mainstream. Mainstream is daytime. I'm not daytime. I'm overnight,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: so I'm not part of the media. I'm overnight radio,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: not mainstream media. So anyway, Chase is this saying, Oh,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: you guys are stirring the pot. You're splitting some hot
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: sauce on Joe Burrow. Every syllable that Joe Burrow rows
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: out blah blah blah blah blah. So corner Chase, Joey
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: b is smiling and skipping and whistling in the locker rooms.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Zippity dude, das zippity day. Hey, I love playing with
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the Bengals because we blow. Yeah, it's like he's starring
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: in a Disney musical. Everything's fine, nothing to see here. Yeah, Unfortunately,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not a country bumpkin, so I don't buy it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe cardiac. Stanley buys it, but I don't buy it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: This carries the weight of a feather in a hurricane.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: It does, and so Chase, I know what he's doing,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Jamar Chase. He's playing the blame the media spin card
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: from the bottom of the deck right, a classic deflection,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: classic deflection grade a victimhood developing hot dot dot dot.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Distrust of the media is the easiest scapegoat since blaming
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the dog for not turning in your homework. The dog
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: ate my home work. Okay, but here's the rub dumbo.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow said the quiet part out loud. In a
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: previous episode of The Ben Mathers Show, we highlighted some audio.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: The man literally walked up to a hot microphone surrounded
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: by reporters in a news conference environment, unprovoked. Unprovoked, okay,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: and he delivered a Shakespearean in cleete soliloquy about joy
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: fading and football not being fun? Why am I doing this?
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: As his quote was, if it's not fun, then what
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: am I doing it for? That wasn't taken out of context,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Jamar Chase. It was the context that was literally the context.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: So spare me the media boogeyman. Bull crap. This is
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. That's what he said. That's the essence of
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. This is a Burrow problem. It's not the
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: beat writers problem. It sounds like the beat writers are
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: fanboys the way they attempted to I'm just asking questions,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: just asking question all right now, Page two to Indianapolis,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the game that everyone will be watching like we're rubbernecking
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: driving down the highway and there's an accident and you
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: can't stop. Look so Indy going to Seattle and Philip
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Rivers back in the NFL with the Colts after five
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: years on the sidelines as a high school football coach
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: in Alabama, and that means that he is back in
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the game. EA Sports. The EA Madden rating is out.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: They revealed this week that Rivers will have a seventy
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: overall rating in Madden NFL twenty six. A seventy rating,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: He'll have an eighty three throw power rating, a eighty
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: six short throw accuracy rating, and a fifty nine rating
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: for speed. If that does something for you, congratulations, Now
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the question Let's just look at the big picture here.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: So Philip Rivers with a seventy overall rating in the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: updated Madden NFL twenty six game. Are you okay with that? So, yeah,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I'm fine with I think of this like a like
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: a Picasso hanging crooked in a dimly lit bar in Gary, Indiana,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and then they moved it over to French Lick, Indiana.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: So can't close the deal. Neil and his relatives can
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: go check it out. Like opinions are paintings. I you me,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the Madden rating adjusters, whoever comes up with that. We're
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: all staring at the same brushstrokes and all that, and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: somehow we see different different things. Much like I've pointed
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: out in the past, which upsets people like Justin and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati and Robbie the Mariner fan and others, that a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: social media post is like a painting. It is a
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: subjective situation. Now, objectively, Rivers has not thrown an NFL
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: pass since people still were buying NFTs. Remember it when
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: like for a year people, Oh, I gotta buy an
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: NFT It's the biggest thing in the world. And when's
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the last time you heard about NFTs? Now subjectively, subjectively,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Philip Rivers strolls back in the league with a higher rating.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: How about this? He has not played in five years,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: he's forty four years old. He's a grandfather. And Philip
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Rivers has a higher rating than Russell Wilson, should Dur Sanders,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Shaud Dur Sanders, and Tyrod Taylor, and also Kenny Pickett,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: who's expected to start for the Raiders this weekend. So
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: that's not analytics, that's just EA Sports firing up the
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: nostalgic machine. And it's like a leaf blower at six am.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Now you're not supposed to use that until like nine am.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Why you're doing it at six am? Rivers is essentially
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite, and he's slinging memories and
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: not missiles, talking about how he could have taken state
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: at a at a house somewhere in the sticks out
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: in Indiana and tossing a nice steak across the yard.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: But what the Madden ecosystem. It's a cocktail of math myth.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: There's marketing involved, so you got to take that into account.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: And I use malor math. They use their own math there.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: But the ratings methinks are inflated. I believe they're inflated. Now,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: final point to Vegas we go, that's right, to Vegas
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Viva Las Vegas, the Raiders. Are we going to talk
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: about Geno Smith being sent to the showers? No, no,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: we're not. It's an injury, allegedly an injury. But the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: second consecutive year, the Raiders have done something right. They
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: have done something right. What have they done well? They
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: certainly haven't brought the razzle dazzle to the field. They
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: don't have that. The season has been yet aget a
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: boondoggle in Vegas. But for the second consecutive year, the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: people that build Board magazine, yes, that's apparently still in business.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: They have ranked a llegiant stadium, the Rumba on your
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: way into Vegas. The Rumba in Vegas as the top
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: grossing stadium in the United States from the Atlantic to
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the Pacific. It is at the very top. It is
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: number one. The home of the Las Vegas Raiders is
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the top grossing stadium in the US. The report indicated
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: that they the gross revenue they made over gross revenue
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: over two hundred and eighty one million between October of
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and September of twenty twenty five. That
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: figure also placed the venue second in the world. As
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: in the Blue Marble, we all share every man, woman
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: and child. The matter of your religion, doesn't matter, your makeup,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: your language. We all share it, right, We all share
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the same dumb plan. So the question the Raiders the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Raiders Allegiant Stadium, I mean, I know Scrooge is very happy.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Manuel and Guardina, they're beaming with pride. Just great moments
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: in Raider history. Great moments in Raider history. The Raiders
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Allegiant Stadium, though, being named the highest grossing US venue
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: for the second year, is blank. I need a word
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: or words to fill in the blank. So the Raiders
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Allegiant Stadium being the second highest grossing US venue for
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the second year is blank. I need a blank or blank?
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I need two words or one word. So my words
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I jotted down here bargain shopping, as in a Faustian bargain,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: meaning that Mark Davis and we talked about this last
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: night with our buddy from the Bay Area. That Mark
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Davis strolls up to the crossroads. There he hands over
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the franchisees soul and he tells the dark Lord. He says,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: back up the brains truck, Bang bang. Two hundred and
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: eighty one million dollars later, the mission has accomplished. The
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: place is printing money. However, the Raider identity, like the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Raider identity, the black Hole menace, the grit, the grime,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the prison yard aura of the Raiders, gone gone gone.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: It vaporized in my life, my entire childhood, growing up
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and as an adult. The Raiders were always just They
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: were the baddest sobs around. They were, and that fan
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: base has gotten old. They've been replaced by tourists and influencers,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the worst possible people. Influencers, guys who think a turnover
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: chain is something you can buy at the gift shop
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: at Caesar's Palace. You walk around a Legion stadium now
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and it feels less like the Oakland Raiders or even
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the la Raiders, and more like you're waiting for Carrot
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Top to come roaring out with a trunk of props
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: all kinds of crap and holding it up right, or
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: for Penn and Teller to make the defense disappear. Which, oh,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: by the way, I think they've done that already. The
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Raiders beat Penn and Teller, They've already made their defense disappear.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: So is it a commercial success? Apps are freaking loutely
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: off the charts. Off the charts for Releegian Stadium. The
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: soul of the franchise, what was the Raiders? What made
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the Raiders great? The fans commitment to excellence, that's gone,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: that's on the clearance rack. And you got Tom Brady
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: who doesn't know what he's doing, but everyone's afraid to
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: rip Tom Brady because he's a god in football. You
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: can't criticize Tom Brady even though he's done worse than
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan did when he ran NBA teams. And so
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: what Mark Davis did. He cashed in and he's like, again,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: it made a Faustian bargain. He cashed in. You're not
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: a football team anymore. The Raiders are a Vegas residency.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: That's what they've become. Yeah, they wear shoulder pads and
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: they wear a helmet, and they have cleats on and
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: things like that, but they're Vegas residency. The residency doesn't
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: settle in the Vegas. They're just passing through Vegas and
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: given enough time, we might not make it. You know,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: twenty thirty years down the line, a Legion Stadium will
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: be old and the Raiders somebody will be like, hey,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: why do you come back to La or go back
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: to Oakland, or somebody will be I want to I
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: grew up a Raider fan, and I don't want the
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Raiders back. And that's what the Raiders do every thirty
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: years or so. They just moved to a new town,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: and that's how they're gonna I imagine Mark Davis will
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: be gone by them. But somebody else. I don't know
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: if he has any know he can't. Do you have kids?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I don't think he has kids. Someone's going to get
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: the team and they'll be like, Hey, I want to
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: go back down memory Lane and go someplace else.
• 34:51
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• 34:53
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• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: we how about that? To the third degree? This is
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: one big Ben gets quilled Google loop.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: It was reported on Wednesday that there are people around
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: the league who believe that Eagle GM Howie Roseman could
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: draft a quarterback quote fairly early in the twenty twenty
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: six NFL draft.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Ben, are you buying that? Yeah? It makes sense. If
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you have a good quarterback, you draft one, and then
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: if you need him, that's great. If not, you can
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: trade them. And the Green Bay Packers used to do
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: this when they had Brett Farb and even Aaron Rodgers.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: So it's it's smart business. I don't know why you
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: wouldn't draft a quarterback.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: Next, as the Bears prepared to face off against the
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Browns this weekend, Caleb Williams told reporters that he's gonna
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: try to make sure that Miles Garrett doesn't get the
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: sack record on us and on me. Ben Garrett is
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: at twenty he needs three more to have sole possession
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: of the record. Do you think he does it against Chicago?
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Well? Not if they run the ball every play. There
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: is a way to avoid Miles Garrett getting sacks. Just
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: don't throw the ball. He can't get a sack. And yeah,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I know he's gonna get the record, but if Caleb
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: willum should get ride a ball quickly that's what you're
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: supposed to do, he will not get it against the Bears.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: Next, the NFL CBA with the officials expires this offseason,
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: and something we're heading towards replacement refs again. The NFL
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: is reportedly pushing for performance based contracts and the referees
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: associations pushing back on that. How do you think this
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: plays out?
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Ben, I kind of understand why they're coming up. It's
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: very subjective officiating, so I understand why the officials referee,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: like the Referee Association is upset by that. Because the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: NFL is a crooked operation. There'll be some funny business.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: They'll work it out, obviously in the end they'll get
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: a deal done. But man, it's a mess. How do
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: we doubt you pass?
• 36:35
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• 36:35
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• 37:25
  Speaker 1: That's that's a good joke. George and Uvalde, Texas bringing
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: the heat this week. Why did the homeless Weedman hippie
• 37:36
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• 37:39
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• 37:40
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• 37:43
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• 37:45
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• 37:53
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• 37:59
  Speaker 1: unfortunately he offered and entered into he entered into joint
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  Speaker 1: ventures that went up and smoked. That's a George and
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Yuvaldi textas FedEx Mike just sent this one in at
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the last minute. FedEx Mike asked, why did weed Man
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: get fired from the eminem factory? You remember why you
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: got fired from the eminem factory? Why you kept throwing
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: away all the w's man? What's up with that? Dude?
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Oldie but a goodie has weed man hip? He ever
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: received any ceremony awards or distinctions or any peace prize
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: medallions for his earnest attempts to change the world? Wow,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I really should Well you haven't, weed Man, because you
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: don't have an address, So that's why you've not received
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: that's the hut Hut specialist. But did you hear the
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: news this week that Philip Rivers was asked head to
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. Yeah, And a related story, weed Man
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Hippie was asked ahead to the Miami Better Business Bureau.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: That's from Gordon. Could to see Gordon's name again in
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the jokes? Gordon, a prolific joke writer over the year,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: is gonna see his name still in the mix there?
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Why is weed Man the smartest person in the room.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Why because he's the only person in the room. That's why.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: That's Noah in Austin A right, Well, what did the
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: genie in the bottle grant weed Man when he asked
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: for BMW's Wow, what Ben Mahler weed and the show?
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Let's see what Ben Maller weed? That's Chip in Maine.
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  Speaker 1: Who sent that one? And who is weed Man's favorite
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  Speaker 1: all time actor? Who Humphrey beau Guard bow Garden? That
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: was not from That was not from blond Scott. That
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: was Brendan from Boston. Brandon from Boston. Uh see, I
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  Speaker 1: think this one's not bad. What is weed Man's version
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: of a pill fight. What two homeless dudes hitting each
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  Speaker 1: other with cardboard boxes over the head. That's a that's
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  Speaker 1: a that's Mike the Leprechaun out of Boston. Who sent
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  Speaker 1: that one in? Why did Santa skip weed man Hippies
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  Speaker 1: place last year? Why? Because weed Man's feet were still
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: in his Christmas stockings? That's why. That's a Gordon in Tacoba.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's lame jokes league. What's the difference between
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: e dogg and blind Scott? What E dog gets women? Oh? Wow,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: all right, that's a Noah in Austin. Why didn't a
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: young Ben Maler like to play with tops during Hanukkah? Why? Well,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: he thought it was very dre dole. That's a minute.
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: He got his jokes over there, coup Uh. Yeah, they're
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: the same ones that you have. But I don't think
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: you didn't read this one yet. It's from Mike the Leprechaun.
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: Why did weed Man vote for Obama?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: Obama promised he would bring some change to the country.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: How about this one. I think it's a pretty good joke.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I think this is a joke that the boys will
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: be repeating this week. Who is the best fit for
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Sharon Moore's next job. The former Michigan coach the USC Trojans. Trojans,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: that's Chip and Maine. Who sent that one? Well, apparently not.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: But when I was earlier, my raider caer Tony Bruno
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: sent me to the USC Oregon State game because it
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: was the Trojans versus the Beavers, and he wanted to
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: do the joke. So I always an Oregon State was
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: terrible in those days, but I always did the joke.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Let's see here, did you hear that Blind Scott's blind
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: wife finally left him. It's bad news, but at least
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: she's not seeing anyone news, so there's not you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's that. That's Michael Michael Lepper. All right, I think
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: we'll get out on that. Thank you so much, Weed Man,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Good job by you. Big Ben's lame
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  Speaker 1: jokes of the Week.