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  Speaker 1: to an end for the weekend on Monday Night Football,
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  Speaker 1: and that is where we will start off. And this
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  Speaker 1: Mallard monologue begins in southern Nevada. A vintage matchup. If
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  Speaker 1: only you had a time machine and you could go
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  Speaker 1: back thirty forty fifty years. Oh my god, what a matchup,
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  Speaker 1: bucking my day, all the old people. I remember when
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Raiders. Oh my god, that was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It was epic. Now, eh see, like, how did that
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  Speaker 1: game end up on Monday Night Football? The Cowboys and Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: They throwback to the vintage days there the days of
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  Speaker 1: your of course, these days a couple of dogs with fleas,
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  Speaker 1: but they were out there futzon around. You had Joe
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  Speaker 1: Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox refugees there on a
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  Speaker 1: b C. Now they're gonna get huge ratings for this game.
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  Speaker 1: Massive ratings for this game, certainly ratings that are not
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  Speaker 1: not worthy of the two teams that were dissipating in
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  Speaker 1: this game. I don't know if you were watching it
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  Speaker 1: or not. I watched it kind of have to. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I really want to watch NBA, so there's really nothing
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  Speaker 1: else to watch. It's pretty much that's it. So if
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  Speaker 1: you want to watch some sports, you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: watch this. So I watched, and what did we see? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott went out there against a bunch of tomato cans.
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  Speaker 1: Dak passed for two hundred and sixty eight yards and
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  Speaker 1: not one, not two, not three, but four a four
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  Speaker 1: pack of touchdowns thirty three to sixteen, Dallas vaporizing the
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  Speaker 1: I can't even say once proud Las Vegas Raiders. They've
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  Speaker 1: sucked ever since they got to Vegas, just like they
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  Speaker 1: sucked when they were at Oakland. Anyway, the Cowboys first game,
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  Speaker 1: if you watched any second of the Monday night game,
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  Speaker 1: you realize it was the first game the Cowboys had
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  Speaker 1: played since their defensive player marsh On Neeland's dath. He
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  Speaker 1: committed suicide last to a Ted eleven days ago. Was
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  Speaker 1: eleven days ago. Brian Schottenheimer, the Cowboys, coach, the players.
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  Speaker 1: All they wore, they wore stuff honoring There was the
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  Speaker 1: coach shot and I were t shirt. They were honoring
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  Speaker 1: Neil in there bowed their head. There was a moment
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  Speaker 1: of silence before the game. Cowboys are four to five
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  Speaker 1: and one on the season, and you could argue they
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  Speaker 1: played better than they have played all season. Some trying
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  Speaker 1: to sell the fact that Cowboys are a playoff contender.
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  Speaker 1: That is a lie. They are not. Dallas had lost
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  Speaker 1: three of their last four games coming up against Now
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  Speaker 1: they have Philadelphia, Kansas City in Detroit. Good afternoon, good evening,
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  Speaker 1: and good night for the Dallas Cowboys there. But the
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  Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room. So that
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  Speaker 1: is where we are going to begin. And for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: we see the Raiders in these primetime games way too often,
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  Speaker 1: considering how much they stink. But here they were again
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  Speaker 1: one more time, Gino Smith reminding everyone he can't play
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  Speaker 1: quarterback at a high level, and the Raiders in general
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  Speaker 1: played with a lack of edge. That was to me
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  Speaker 1: the most telling thing about So that's a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question for the room,
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  Speaker 1: and you're part of the room as we discuss here.
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  Speaker 1: The question is how would you describe Pete Carroll and
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders' effort in this game? Not the result. The
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  Speaker 1: result was they got their face smashed in, But the
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  Speaker 1: effort by the Raiders, that's the question. So on this one,
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  Speaker 1: I've got rumba, hoover, dam, and boilerplate, and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: make a chopped chicken sandwich, is what we're going to make,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see how it turns out. Now, A we
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  Speaker 1: were a little confused, a little confused watching this game.
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  Speaker 1: That why would we be confused, because we assume that
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  Speaker 1: we tuned in to watch a football game. It looked
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  Speaker 1: like some of the Raider defensive players are being held hostage.
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  Speaker 1: My god, they did not want to be there. They
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  Speaker 1: did not want to be there. Look at the way
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  Speaker 1: they were playing. The effort was nonexistent, non existent. By
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  Speaker 1: and listen, the Raiders are a bad team. All that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The Raiders look like they look like gunner our guy
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota clocking in at the walmart is what they
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  Speaker 1: look like. You know what I'm saying. They's just kind
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  Speaker 1: of going through it. Not Monday night football. They're just
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  Speaker 1: I gotta show up. I got my tuna fish sandwich
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  Speaker 1: for the break room. I'm good. It was the marching band,
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  Speaker 1: but it was the marching band with the drum line
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  Speaker 1: a little out of sync, just a little out of sink.
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  Speaker 1: Half the horns pointed backwards. That doesn't seem real good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not in a band. It doesn't seem
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  Speaker 1: real good. The baton twirlers asleep like they're a New
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  Speaker 1: York Giants rookie player. Off to the side, and you
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  Speaker 1: slow down the film, in this case the digital video,
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  Speaker 1: and what did we see? We saw on the Raider
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  Speaker 1: defense Pete Carroll defensive guy. You saw a lot of
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  Speaker 1: arm tackles, traffic cones, illusions of effort. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of llusions of effort making it appear that you're actually
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  Speaker 1: hustling when you're not actually hustling. Guys jogging towards the
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  Speaker 1: ball la la la la la la la la la
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  Speaker 1: la la, kind of like they were late to a
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  Speaker 1: brunch at the Belagio. They were just kind of jogging.
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  Speaker 1: La la la la la la la la la, just
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  Speaker 1: like that. That's what it actually sounded like when they
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  Speaker 1: were jogging. It sounded like that. My god, it just
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  Speaker 1: it is. It is brutal, absolutely brutal. And I guess
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to try. The season's over, so they'll
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  Speaker 1: just kind of go through the motions and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: But man, all, I have no attention to detail. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the game plan was. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Did they even prepare? Did the coaching staff prepare? The
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  Speaker 1: players didn't look like they wanted to be there. And
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  Speaker 1: it's nights like this, this Monday night game here where
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  Speaker 1: you separate the people that really love playing football and
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  Speaker 1: the people that are there because they make a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money, insane amounts of money, money they could not
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  Speaker 1: make in any other business, like insane money, but they
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  Speaker 1: just happened to fall into it because they won the
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  Speaker 1: genetic lottery or whatever. And they're great athletes, but they
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  Speaker 1: don't really like football. And there's a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: on that, you know, the guys that are just kind
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  Speaker 1: of there for the team. Photo those guys floaters, coasters,
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  Speaker 1: the bus Riders, that group the hawksin's that affect every
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  Speaker 1: losing team, and you're two and eight now the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: You just put the whole league on notice. That record
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  Speaker 1: is not misleading. You stank, you do, and not only
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  Speaker 1: do you stink, your entire team appears to be okay
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  Speaker 1: with it. There's not a lot of fight. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fighting. Now pivoting, let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: curious case of Geno Smith. Here's Pete Carroll. Let's see,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard that Pete is not allowed to criticize Gino Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Gino is so soft? How soft is he? He can't
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  Speaker 1: take any criticism. If you criticis size Geno Smith, you
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  Speaker 1: will lose Geno Smith. So if there was ever a
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  Speaker 1: day to criticize Geno Smith, this would have been the day.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what Pete Carroll had to say. Thirty one
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  Speaker 1: dropbacks in that first half three runs? Is that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine that that's something that you like to
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  Speaker 1: look at.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't thirty one drop backs. It was a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of play action passes. And really I really wanted to
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  Speaker 4: see us do that and then and there's only one
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  Speaker 4: person to look at me because I was influenced on
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  Speaker 4: the game plan. I love the way we were chunking
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  Speaker 4: them and we made big plays. But as as and
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  Speaker 4: I didn't, I knew it was I knew what was happening,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and Chip and I knew what was going on.
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  Speaker 4: But we were trying to stay with it and to
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  Speaker 4: see if we could continue to get the big plays
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  Speaker 4: which we were getting, and then we just stalled in
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  Speaker 4: the red zone. And unfortunately, and I don't really care
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  Speaker 4: about pleasing people with our run past mix, I'm trying
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  Speaker 4: to move the football and when you come back to it,
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  Speaker 4: we were supposed to be ahead with that approach, and
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  Speaker 4: then we're supposed to come back and run the football
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  Speaker 4: in the second half and then later in the second quarter,
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  Speaker 4: but our inability getting the and to stop them, it
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  Speaker 4: didn't work out that way. So I'm totally responsible for
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  Speaker 4: how that happened.
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  Speaker 1: The extended dance remix. There nothing short from Pete Carroll anyway. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: he did say there, and that was kind of telling
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  Speaker 1: I'm not here to please people, and the Raiders haven't
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  Speaker 1: pleased anyone. So Pete was not wrong when he said
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not here to please people with my run
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  Speaker 1: pass breakdown. He's also not there to please people with
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  Speaker 1: the product on the field, which if this was if
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  Speaker 1: this was a Vegas show, if you put this at
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  Speaker 1: MGM or New York, New York, well, because it would
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  Speaker 1: have already closed it literally, it would have canceled the show.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. They're still going if they do. But Gino Smith,
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  Speaker 1: is he not one of the great swindlers of the NFL. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's fascinating to me that this has continued
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  Speaker 1: as long as it has a man built to where
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  Speaker 1: a headset and hold the clipboard and deliver packages for
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  Speaker 1: Amazon somehow has now started for four seasons, four seasons
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  Speaker 1: as a QB one. He has earned over one hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars and can't play as a starter. It's wild.
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  Speaker 1: It is like he's slipped through the cracks. Ginosmith, it
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  Speaker 1: really is one of the great I give him credit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not ripping him. I'm impressed. The guy that can't
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  Speaker 1: do the job has risen. It's the Peter principle. He's
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  Speaker 1: risen to his highest level of incompetence and he's staying,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about a shortage of quarterbacks. Well, this would
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  Speaker 1: indicate there is a shortage of quarterbacks there, my god,
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  Speaker 1: holy crap. And if Joe six Pack with seventeen burner
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  Speaker 1: accounts with different avatars on every one of them knows
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  Speaker 1: that Geno ain't it. And yet now he's started for
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  Speaker 1: multiple NFL teams, billion dollar, multi billion dollar franchises. Can't
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  Speaker 1: get the memo. Then you had Ashton Genty, the rookie
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  Speaker 1: running back who didn't get a lot of work, and
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  Speaker 1: when he did touch the ball, wow, did he stink.
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  Speaker 1: He was bad too, against a bottom five run defense,
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, against one of the worst defenses in football.
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  Speaker 1: And you didn't even try to run the ball. When
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  Speaker 1: you did, you couldn't run the ball. That's not just bad.
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  Speaker 1: That's an indictment of multiple people, is what that is.
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  Speaker 1: It's the football version of an open book test. And
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  Speaker 1: you screwed it up. You had the teacher's book you
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  Speaker 1: had to copy with all the answers. You messed it up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's appropriate that if you've ever been to Vegas, the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders Stadium looks like a giant rumba. When you drive by,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like a big old rumba there on the
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  Speaker 1: way into Vegas from la And seriously, they actually needed
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders a robotic vacuum here because there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of mess, lot of debris that they got to clean.
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  Speaker 1: So get that giant rumba and crank it up there.
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  Speaker 1: At some point you could almost hear the Star Trek
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  Speaker 1: line from years ago, beat me up, Scottie, get me
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  Speaker 1: out of here. I want to go, please. And that's
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  Speaker 1: just the players, that's Pete Carroll, that's everyone involved here.
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  Speaker 1: Get me far far away from this planet, take me
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else, please. The effort was anemic. It was alarming,
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  Speaker 1: not surprising. This is the culture the Raiders have had
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  Speaker 1: for years, different coaches. It's toxic. It's absolutely toxic. They
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  Speaker 1: don't fight, they don't scratch and claw. There's a couple
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  Speaker 1: types of bad teams. There's the bad teams that know
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  Speaker 1: they're bad and don't give a crap, and then there's
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  Speaker 1: the bad teams that know they're bad and try. The
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  Speaker 1: Raiders are not that team. They're the Ladder, the team
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  Speaker 1: that knows they're bad and they don't really put a
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  Speaker 1: lot of effort into it. And so that's it, and it's
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  Speaker 1: been that way. It's unwatchable for a generation. Now the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders all right, now going to thirty thousand feet in
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  Speaker 1: the sky. Who's responsible? Who is responsible for this latest Raiders?
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  Speaker 1: I sore of a season? So this is easy. All
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  Speaker 1: you have to do is look at the DNA trail.
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  Speaker 1: There's a long DNA trail here. And if you peel
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  Speaker 1: back the onion and you look at the DNA there
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  Speaker 1: the layers of the onion. It kind of smells like
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady's aftershave. This is the Patriot Way gone wild,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. Now. Tom Brady is the patron
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  Speaker 1: saint of the NFL. Beyond criticism. The football media seems
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  Speaker 1: to refuse to criticize Tom Brady. I don't understand why
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  Speaker 1: Mark Davis basically handed Tom Brady the keys and said
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  Speaker 1: I can't figure this out, you fix it. He gave
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  Speaker 1: him the keys to the French. He's a big owner
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  Speaker 1: and the Raiders, and he's in on every major decision.
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  Speaker 1: And like Mark Davis, I listen, you drive, buddy. I've
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  Speaker 1: tried to drive this car, and all I've gotten his
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  Speaker 1: orange chicken at PF Changs. That's all. I've got good
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  Speaker 1: appetizers at Pfchase. But the team sucks come on, skinny pants,
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  Speaker 1: tom Brady, fix it. And Tom Brady said, okay, Mark Davis,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna fix it. And he took the keys and
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  Speaker 1: he drove the Raider Mobile right into the hoover Dam. Kurkflooey,
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  Speaker 1: right into the hoover dam. The man that had the
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  Speaker 1: miightest touch with the New England Patriots, the miightest touch.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, he's got the Sadam touch. And if you
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  Speaker 1: do know where that is, looking up, everything he touches
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  Speaker 1: turns to the dust at this particular point with the
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  Speaker 1: Sadam touch. And forget the goat. Oh, he's the goat.
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  Speaker 1: You can't rip Tom Brady. He's the goat. Oh you
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  Speaker 1: want to bet? Yeah? How about Tom the team killer? Wow?
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  Speaker 1: The Raiders actually are in a worse position now than
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  Speaker 1: when they had Antonio Pierce and a different front office
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  Speaker 1: last year, which is impossible, but they are. They're in
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  Speaker 1: a worse person edition now and nobody will talk about
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  Speaker 1: it in the media is like a blackout on talking
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  Speaker 1: about Tom Brady. What a terrible job he's done. He's
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, Charlotte Hornet's bad as an executive, legendary player, clueless,
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  Speaker 1: clueless at building a roster, hiring a coaching staff, the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. It's kind of like hiring Bob Ross because
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  Speaker 1: you used to watch him on PBS. He's dead now,
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  Speaker 1: But if you hired him to fix your plumbing, well
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  Speaker 1: I probably don't want Bob Ross to fix your plumbing.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe paint a mosaic or something like that, but that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So remember Brady handpicked the coach and the quarterback. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted Matthew Stafford as his quarterback. He took him to
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  Speaker 1: a retreat in Montana and tried to brainwash him into
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  Speaker 1: the colt of Tom Brady. Stafford said, I'm good. He
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  Speaker 1: then thought he was going to get Ben Johnson, who's
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  Speaker 1: coaching the Bears. That didn't work out either, So what
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  Speaker 1: did he end up with? He ended up with Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady ended up with a Kirkland brand version of the
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen well actually not even twenty thirty, twenty seventeen
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  Speaker 1: eighteen Seahawks Pete Carroll Light, Pete Carroll Light, Gino Smith
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  Speaker 1: without the spark, not that he ever had one. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like ordering a Flamennon and you get the
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  Speaker 1: plate and there's a Salisbury steak and you why didn't
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  Speaker 1: order the Salisbury stake? And why is it not on
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  Speaker 1: a play? Why is it on a styrofoam? Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: what it comes with. It's the Salisbury steak. But I
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  Speaker 1: wanted the for let mignon, but I know, but we
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  Speaker 1: ran out of that, so we just gave you the
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  Speaker 1: Salisbury steak. And it's really good. It's delicious, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't want the Salisbury but it just enjoyed, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't want the STYROFIM just eat it. That's it. The
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  Speaker 1: autumn wind is a raider. No, it's not. The autumn
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  Speaker 1: wind is a gas leak flatulence. That's the Raiders. That's
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders right here. And Tom Brady's fingerprints are all
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  Speaker 1: over the body, all over the body here. This is
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  Speaker 1: a forensic disaster, is what this is.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: The chalk outline goes right from the fifty yard line
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  Speaker 1: to TB twelve's front door right there. Pick his house.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of houses. But let's be real here,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Tom Brady believed he could just sprinkle on
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  Speaker 1: some Patriot pixie dust with the Raiders and that would
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  Speaker 1: be it. And unfortunately, you're a long way from Foxborough.
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  Speaker 1: It's football in the desert, a losing culture. The man's
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  Speaker 1: out there planting roses. Tom Brady, he's a gardener and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: wondering why they're dying. Why they're dying the roses. Yeah, okay,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: So you can say as a quarterback he was Mozart
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and then as an executive, as the front office puppet master,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: he's essentially playing the kazoo. Now, I don't mind the kazoo,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: but you don't pay big money to watch the kazoo.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: And so welcome to the Tom Brady era in Sin City.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: With no winnings. No winnings, everyone's a loser. Everyone's a loser. Yea. Anyway,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: last word, we go to the Dallas side of things,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and the question is what did you think of the
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: media coverage and on the Monday night game coverage of
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys dealing with tragedy and where we are
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and on that the way it was handled and all
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: that stuff. So this was hallmark storytelling, is what it was.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I was actually texting a couple of buddies of mine,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: one of them former a sports writer. We were going
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: back and forth. But this game story was written before
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the game was kicked off Cowboys and Raiders. It didn't
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: matter if the Cowboys won the game thirty three to sixteen,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: which they did, if they won the game thirty three
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to thirty two. Marshawn Neeland, the young man whofortunately lost
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: his life at his own hands. According to the story,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: he was the lead. That was the story. The media
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: already had it ready. It was boiler plate ready is
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: what it was. Insert score, copy paste, and quick publish
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: and that's that. Now. In the multiverse, I do believe
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: in the multiverse, and the multiverse there is a dimension
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: where Dallas actually lost the game. Hard to believe the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: way the game went out, but they lost the game.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: And if the Cowboys had lost the game, the story
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: would have been the same. Headline would have been about
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the young man that lost his life, but the story
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: would have been, you know, Cowboys lose this game by
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: four touchdowns because they were emotionally drained. It turned out
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: they weren't emotionally drained. They won the game, so you
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: go away from that. And since they didn't lose, it's
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: inspired when playing for their fallen brother. All that stuff.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: But let's be real, though, Let's be real about just
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the State of the Cowboy. You don't get neon erasers.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: The teacher does not give you a Neon green or
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Neon pink eraser for beating the in a Monday night game.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: The Raiders are trash. You are garbage. When garbage beats trash,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: garbage doesn't become gold. It doesn't. So yeah, congratulated. The
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Cowboys are four or five and one. They are who
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: we thought they were. And if you want to crown them,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: then crown them. And here comes the gauntlet. Here comes
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the gauntlet, the doomsday prophecy for the Cowboys. They've got
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, Chiefs at home, Lions on the road. You
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: think there's suddenly a contender with that out in front
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: this Cowboy team, mark my words. And I'm never wrong
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: about this. They're gonna win seven or eight games. That's it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: They've got four wins right now. They'll squeeze out another
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: three or four wins and they'll be perfectly mediocre, perfectly mediocre.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And the questions will continue to linger about Dak Prescott
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: against good opponents. You look great against a bad opponent,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: but in big games down the stretch, we'll see how
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: how he does there. And I hope they enjoyed this
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: mom here the cowboys there because the calm before the
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: waterboarding starts there. And let's stop pretending I've already seen
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: some of the stories. Oh it's a turning point game, now,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I know it's not. This is not a turning point
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: game at all. It is just merely a calm. It's
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: like being in the eye of the storm and you
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: know that you've got the rest of the hurricane you're
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: gonna have to deal with. It's gonna be a bumpy run.
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• 24:47
  Speaker 1: We go to Cincinnati. We do not go back and
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: rehash the Monday night game, the Cowboys winning big over
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. But our leaders from Cincinnati where the phlem flies.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: The tall follows. When the phlem flies, the talk follows,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: follow up, follow up to a previous Mallard monologue. We
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: now have the Court of the NFL ruling on what happened.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: You might remember Bengals wide receiver Jalen Jamar rather Jamar Chase,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the Bengal wide receiver Jamar Chase, got into it with
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, the journeyman defensive back. They went back and forth.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Ramsey was ejected and he said Posting said listen, that
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: guy spat on me. That guy's a spinner, and uh
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: oh ma, oh my god. Well, the NFL's ruled like
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: because at the time Jamar Chase said, well, I didn't
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: do it. I didn't I didn't spit. No spit from
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: me didn't happen. Well, it turns out that Bengals wide
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: receiver Jamar Chase has been suspended for one game one
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: game for spitting on Jalen Ramsey. Chase can and appeal
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the NFL's ruling to suspend him. They say it's up
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in the air. I've heard he has already started the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: appeal process. The evidence is overwhelming, overwhelming evidence that he
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: did it, and barring some kind of eleventh hour plea deal,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: some kind of pardon from the NFL, Jamar Chase will
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: miss the week twelve game against the New England Patriots.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: If the suspension is upheld, he'll be out. So that
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: question did did Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase actions warrant
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the one game NFL suspension? So my observations this, I
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: have Planet Earth, Anthony Bourdain, and rotting barn in the woods,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: we are going to make some delicious kettle corn. Man,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: if you get kettle corn with just the right salt
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and sugar, it's one of the great things. Not good
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: for your teeth, but it's really good, all right. So
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: number wa number to answer the question, did Jamar Chase action?
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Did his actions warrant the suspensioned I'm gonna go a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: hell to the yeah with a giant chunk of mucus,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: big gooey green gob of mucus. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the tape don't lie, the tape, don't lie. We saw it.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: It wasn't ai. You spin on a guy, you're out.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: You spin on a guy, you're right now. In the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: old days they would encourage spinning, but not right now,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: not right now. There's really no gray area on this.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Like I was saying about as I was driving in,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: was there any really out on this that you can
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you can go to. It's the single most disrespectful thing
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: that one can do on a football field outside of
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: kicking someone in the nuts, like kick him in the pills.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: That's pretty bad, I would say, spitting a giant lugie
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: right there in your face. Man, that's it. And it's
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: it's on four K video. It's not like who's a
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I really okay, crystal clear pristine video. And it looks
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: like someone shot the video on a brand new iPhone
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: like the you know how you watch those commercials like
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the iPhone and they show like Yeah, they slow down
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: everything and they show you how good the camera is.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: It was. It was that kind of thing. It was like,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: oh man, that's really good. Look at that camera. Wow,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: that's expensive, but that's a good camera. I can see
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: look at I can see that. I can see the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: little flem, the pieces of phlam. I could see it
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: coming out of the mouth of the player. You can
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: literally see the lugie, the launch angle. Baseball people love
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: launch angle. You could see the launch angle on the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: lougie and as it approached you, Allen Ramsey and his
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: shoulder pads, you could see it the launch angle. We'll
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: have to check with the Elias Sports Bureau, but it
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: looked like one of those nature documentaries. I'm a big
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: documentary guy, so I watched even nature documentaries because that's
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: exciting life that I live as a middle aged man.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: So I watched these nature documentaries and it's like Planet Earth,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the migration of the saliva wad and you get some
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: big voiceover guy there with a deep voice, and you
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: do the voice over. There the giant blob just gliding
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: through the air on a thermal current right to the player. Boom.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: President has been set. We know that we talked about this.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: This is the at least the second spinning monologue that
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: we've gotten. Remember the first game of the NFL season
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia in Dallas, there was the there was Originally it
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: was like Dak Prescott spit, but he you're allowed to
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: spit as long as the phlem does not touch another
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: human being. You can spin on the which proves the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: NFL does not respect Mother Earth because the NFL allows
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: you to spit giant wads of mucus onto mother Earth.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: But if you spin on another human being, it becomes problematic.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: So Jalen Carter got tossed before the game. That counted
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: as a He was like on the field, but he
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: didn't play in a play, an actual snap, and so
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: that counted as a game suspension. So actions create consequences,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: we all know that. And you do the crime and
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: you have to do the time. In this case, if
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you spit crime, you spit time. You have to do that.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: You have to do that. So and what would the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: defense be Let's try to workshop that. What do you
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: think the defense would be for Jamar Chase, the Bengal
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: wide receiver, Like, what would the defense be? Uh, sorry,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: your honor, I'm sorry to have to go over this
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: with you. I missed the bullseye. The lugi actually drifted,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: and since the lugi drifted, I should only be suspended
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: for the first half. Well don't we don't do it.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: We do full game, we don't do first time. But no, no, no,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I did not hit Ramsey in the face with the phlem.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I did not, like, what are we doing? It's you
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: don't get leniency because your spit had bad wind resistance,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: which is what happened to Jamar Chase here is he
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: hit the shoulder pad the jersey, but not it did
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: not appear. There might have been some shrapnel, mucus, little
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: bits of bacteria that hit Ramsey, but the main lugie
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: and I watched this about one hundred times, the main
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: lugi hit the jersey, shoulder pad area of Jalen Ramsey.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: You know, so just listen, just own it. You hawk
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: to it, and that's what you did. And you know
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: my bet.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: That night.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Now the good news I'll be Benny bright Side because
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I'm not just a negative overnight gas bag. I will
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: be Benny bright Side here and as Benny Side, the
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: good news is Jamar Chase now has dinner reservations with
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: legends like Roberto Alamar and Carl Everett and who else
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: a Jalen Carter, Bill Romanowski, the greatest, Rojon Rondo. I
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: remember when he spat on some of you had a
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: monologue about that. Reggie Miller a spinner. Do you know that? Yeah,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Reggie Miller, suppose you spat on a fan back in
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the day with the Pacers. So now, how cool is
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: that Jamar Chase can pass the breadsticks around the table,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: have some Fetecini Alfredo with Roberto Alamar and Carl Everett
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and Jalen Carter and Bill Romanowski and all those guys. Rondo,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: that's a holy trinity of flem. It's great, all right.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile to La we go another wide receiver in the headlines,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: but for different reasons, that would be Pooka and Nakua.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: It was a breakout star a little while back for
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the Rams and has continued to be a very efficient
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: player for the Rams. Now, he played some grab ass
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: with Pat McAfee, because that's all you can do is
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: play grab ass with Pat McAfee. But in this particular
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: interview on Zoom, Pat McAfee was they were playing grab
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: ass and Pooka Nicua said that stepping out of bounds
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: with the ball is soft with a capital asset's soft,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: and he's never going to do it. He's never gonna
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: do it. And this of course created some Oh my god,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Sean mcvain needs to talk to him. He's gonna get
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: himself killed. Oh my god. Yeah, people that panic over
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: everything you lose. There is fake Papa. All right, question,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: what's the message? Do you have a message to the
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: people concerned about rams wide receiver Pooka Nkoua and the
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: physical style of football which he appears to enjoy. So yes,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: to those in the corner of the room, back right
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: hand corner of the room, that's You's the back left
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: handed corner of the room. The out of an abundance
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: of caution crowd as I like to call them, clutching
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: their pearls in the fetal position. They've got pearls in
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: one hand. They're sucking their thumb. But they should be. No,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: they shouldn't be doing that because the bad hygiene. Give
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: me a break, Okay, Please come on. I know that
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: you've tried to change, and you have succeeded in changing.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: This is not the game of football. I grew up
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: with the game of football. I'm watching now I realize that.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: And if you want finesse, if that's what you're gunning for,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I would like finess. I recommend you go on the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: YouTube and watch some pickleball highlights. Very exciting. Watched the pickleball.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: The injuries, Eh, what about the longevity? Oh my god,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the wear and tear, the blankety blank blank blank blank blank.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Spare me, spare me now. This is this is Poogain
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Nakuru's identity, this is his brand, this is how he plays,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: it's who he is. Good for him, you know, he's
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: a bit of a throwback. I used to use those
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: words gamer whatever you want to say. Not a gamer
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: like today, but one of the few guys in the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: NFL that likely drives around with like a lionel Richie
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Cassette stuck to the tape deck there. And he also,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: much like myself and al Michaels, is anti vegetable, so
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: we have that in common. There's a kinship I have
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: with pookin Nakua. He's taking a strong anti vegetable position
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: and that's working and this is working as well. He's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: third in the league and catches thirteen yards. I'd believe
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: he's fourth in touchdowns, pookin the coua. And if that
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: is a reckless style of football, which you knuckleheads, some
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: of you, I'm talking to a very small percentage of
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: the people listening, but you know who you are. You know, Hey,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: that's reckless. Can I get a roster full of reckless players?
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I would like to have that. I love the way
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: he plays. Good for him. And as the late great
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Anthony Bourdaine, one of the all time wonderful TV chefs
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: in my life, Anthony Bourdaine said, your body is not
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: a temple. It is an amusement park. It's an amusement
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: park ride and might as well enjoy it. And yeah,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: he's doing it. And you get on the ride and
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: you buckle up and all that. You scream your lungs out,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and you hope the bolts don't fall off the ride
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: because the carnival, the guy the carnival, the carneie was
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: doing meth in the back. You hope that doesn't have
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: But I listen, they're worried to be worried about Puka
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Nikua not stepping out of bounds. Oh my god, he's
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: gotta step out of bounds. Yea half the league gets
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: hurt getting out of bed. The other half get hurt
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: on walkthroughs. So life in the NFL is short. Whether
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: you're tiptoeing through the tulips and whether you're trucking a
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: safety a truck stick to a safety, it doesn't matter.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: And as the great Huey Lewis one of the great
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: lines in musicret said, we're not here for a long time,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: We're here for a good time. And Pooka is living
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: that out. Good for him. We don't need no catch,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: we need dolls, we need dog. We got He's a dog.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: He's a dog. He wants he wants the smoke. Now
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: he better not run out of bounds this week or
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: everyone's well, you said you were gonna run out of
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: a buckle, You run out of bound. So I just
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: let the guy play his way. It's working. The Rams
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: are tied for the top record in the NFC, although
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: they're behind the Eagles because of the tie breaker. And
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: plus this listen is Pooka's story. It's not your story,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: it's his story, and he's clearly doesn't have an anxiety. Pooka
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Nicole based on what has happened here and he's out
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: there stiff arming people and whatnot. You know, that's that's
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: just how he is. He's in a different zip code
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: than a lot of the guys that are playing today,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: like Justin Jefferson of the Vikings, who makes business decisions
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: and you all you kiss his ass. Oh, he made
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a good a couple of interceptions that Ravens game, and
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: he didn't even bother to try to make a play.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Because that's him, that's that's in his DNA. Justin Jefferson,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: He's not He's not a dog. No, no, no, he's
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: a kitty cat. Kitty cat. Get it cat here, kid,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: kitty kitty here, kitty kitty. Meanwhile, to college football, that's right.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Don't tell anyone the rare and appropriate mention of college football.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I bring this up because it's a good story, and
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: you know the mantra. Maybe you don't know the mantra.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: We have a mantra. You know, I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: one of the things. So how can you do a
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: talk reader. I've been doing this for a long time.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: I hat to do this every day, so every day
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: it's different. If I was talking about the same stuff
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: every day, I would lose my freaking mind. In fact,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: I don't even do what all the good talk shows.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: You know, these big time guys like Cowhard and Dan Patrick,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: they do like one topic for three hours. They don't
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: even do four hours. They'll do one topic. That's what
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: most of the shows do. Get bored out of my mind.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: If I did one topic, Okay, I can't do one topic.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I gotta change it up every hour anyway. So college
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: football get to the point, please, so the big news out.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: It's not done done. I don't believe the docu sign
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: has gone through. However, it appears James Franklin has found
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: a new job. The old Penn State coach has a
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: new gig. So question, James Franklin to Virginia Tech. Is
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: this a good landing spot or not for James Franklin.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: So after a minutes long deliberation of the available jobs
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: and looking at the resume of James Franklin, I have
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: determined yes with a capitol Y, Yes with a capitol Y.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Here's why. Because James Franklin is walking out of a
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: big time job at Penn State, which he clearly failed
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: at against top opponents, and now he is going to
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: one of the ultimate fixer upper gigs in college football?
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Can we all agree to anyone disagree with that? Does
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: anyone disagree that the Virginia Tech job is a great
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: fixer upper? The thing has been sitting on cinderblocks since
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Frank Beemer retired. And the porch is collapsing a little bit,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: you know, drive by. It's it's really tough to look at.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: The porch is collapsing, The roof leaks, there's raccoons living
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: in the in the attic. It's a real mess. And
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: it's like James Franklin comes in here. This should be
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: a reality TV show, one of those HGTV shows where
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: full gut rehab with James Franklin, quirky fun you know,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: go down to home Depot, go down to Low's, buy
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: a bunch of lumber, and Blacksburg, Virginia has not mattered
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: for years, for years, it hasn't better. The last ten
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: win season twenty sixteen, the last ACC title. It's been
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: almost a generation. It's twenty ten, so we're about fifteen years,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: twenty years as a generator, so another five years it
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: will have been a generation. And the program is essentially
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a time capsule. It's kind of like
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I was having some conversations with someone who's a friend
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: of mine, and we were talking about how like you
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: tell somebody who's under the age of like twenty that
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the Raiders and cowboys used to be a big deal.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: And they said, what are you talking about. Will you
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: tell someone under the age of like thirty, You say, well,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Virginia Tech used to matter, And they said, no, you're
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: out of your mind, you boomer. But they did. I
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: remember it was like a time capsule when Michael Vick
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: was there for a couple of years. You kind of
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: dust it off. You squint really hard, and you might
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: see a highlight from nineteen ninety nine. My god, it's
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: been a while. But that's why this is a perfect
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: fit for James Franklin. The blessing of low expectations and
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: a guy who's still got a old juice. James Franklin
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: go out in the recruiting trail. Of course, get these days,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: you got to have a big booster to cut checks.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: But he knows the region. That's the point. He knows
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: the region, the same pipelines that Penn State looked at
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: to get offensive lineman, defensive lineman and all that Virginia Tech.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: They they do the hokey pokey and they're doing the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: same thing. And the other thing is, Franklin does not
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: have to build a spaceship here. You're not trying to
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: go to Mars. You just have to have the Hokies
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: look like a respectable program, something other than a rotting
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: barn out in the woods, which is what they look
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: like right now, a rotting barn out in the woods.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: And it's a great bounce back job. It's the old trampoline.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Franklin doesn't have to win a national title. That's not happening.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: He's win nine games, have a couple of nine win
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: seasons at Virginia Tech. Sniff just the expanded playoff. Something
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: smells weird, but just sniff it and boom boom boom
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: boom boom boom. He's back, baby, he's back on the
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: coaching seesaw. You're down, you're up, you're down, you're up,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: and he'll get floated for some big money jobs again.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: So well, Franklin, he went down to Virginia Tech, and
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: now he's ready to bounce back up to a big
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: ten or an SEC job. And there you go. The
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: minute some athletic director, panics and all that, and we
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: gotta hire this guy Franklin, and they'll forget. They'll have
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: amnesia about everything that happened at Penn State. And so
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: it's the classic real estate play. You buy the rundown property,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: you slap some pain on it, you fix the issues
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: with the foundation, you do enough there that you stop
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: the tilting, and then you flip it, and you flip
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: it real good, you flip it up in the air everywhere.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: And Virginia Tech. It's a good marriage because they need relevance.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: They've been off the grid at Virginia Tech for a while.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Franklin needs redemption. So it's a transactional relationship, is what
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: it is for James Franklin. It's a bit cynical, it's
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: not a bad thing, and it's perfect because the Hokies again,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: they're worn down. They're a time ravaged relic that was
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: good twenty five years ago. But if James Franklin, if
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: he can just get them from ramshackle to respectable ramshackle,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: the respectable, get them out of the Tenderloin district, then
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: he becomes a hot name again and a good gig
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: will find him with a great escape route, which is
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: out of Virginia Tech. Everyone will be happy until he leaves,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: and then the people of Virginia Tech will be upset
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: and the best laid plans of mice and men. This
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be Michael Vick's job, remember, except Michael
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Vick done a terrible job in his coaching debut. But
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: the idea was that vic would go down coach at
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the lower level for a couple of years, and they
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: end up at Virginia Tech. He could still end up
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: at Virginia Tech if he figures out how to coach
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Michael Vick, because Jane Franklin, if he's any good, will
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: not be at Virginia Tech very long. And if he sucks,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: he won't be at Virginia Tech very long because they'll
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: get rid of him.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Meller Show.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Weaked in. He said, two am Eastern, eleven pm Pacific.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: we go, Here we go, Here we go down.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: To the third degree. This is one big Ben gets
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: grilled cool.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: Bryce Young has had an up and down career so far.
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: In an up and down season multiple times this year,
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: he seemed close to losing his job, but on Sunday
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: he beat Cam Newton Panthers single game passing record. Does
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: this game prove that the jury is still out on Young.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: No, because he'll have a three hundred or four hundred
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: yard passing game, then'll come back and throw for one
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards and two interceptions or an interception
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: here and a fumble there, and he's I believe he's
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: been under two hundred yards in every game other than
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: two this year where he's had breakout games. That is
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: not something you can build a football team around. He's not.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Every time I watch him, he sucks. I didn't see
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: much of the game against Atlanta. He looked good. Fine
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: now that the jury is still out.
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: Next, Miles Garrett is a generational talent on a really
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: bad team. He got four more sacks on Sunday against
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: the Ravens to get to fifteen on the season. Do
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: you think he breaks straight hand in TJ. Watts record?
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Well, the records really not straight hands because of what happened.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Now here's what I'd like to see happen. I want
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: to see history repeat itself. Coop the Brown's final game
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: of the season, is against the Cincinnati Bengals. I would
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: like to see Joe Flacco take a dive if he's
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: playing there and allow allow the record, But no, I'm
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna go. No, Miles Garrett, there'll be some
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: kind of injury. He'll miss out next.
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: Lebron James is close to returning to the Lakers, and
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: so far the team has been pretty good without him.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Do you think Lebron's return will help or hurt the team?
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: They'll inevitably lose a game they're supposed to win with Lebron.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Lebron won't play well and then it'll be killed Lebron.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: That'll be here that goes so the Lebron get back? Yoh, Lebron,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: he's so good without Lebron? What do oh? That's how
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: that's gonna go? There? It is Mallardy third degree? How
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: did we do? He passes that as they went played
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: on the buck up the game. That's right, good milkman
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Mike in Colorado, I won the game. I want it
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: for him.
• 47:06
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• 47:24
  Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top? Probably not.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Let's do it real quick. Let's welcome in our contestants.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: We have Eenie meenie, miney moe. We've got Nick in
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Washington's gonna play. Hello, Nick, Welcome. That's Dave puture right,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: our Dave. You're gonna play Hello, Dave, Welcome, Dave, Hi, Ben, Hello, Dave.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with? Dave?
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: I like to defer to Nick?
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, fine? Uh Nick, who do you want
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: to partner up with? Quickly?
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Give me Ben?
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Give me Ben? All right, I'll give you Ben, fine,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: very nice and far out, Dave. Yeah, you're with Coop?
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Okayad four? All right, very good. Let's play the game
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: coop quickly? Please? All right?
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: This is the Martin Scorsese. The addition, he turned eighty
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: three years old yesterday, same birthday as me. Category one,
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: Italian American, Category two, casino thank you, Category three, the
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: Wolf of Wall Street, and category four the fifty year argument. Uh, Nick,
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: you were on or I guess day was on?
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: First?
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: Dave?
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: You want Italian American? All right? And Nick, which category
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: would led him to that? Catego, I feel like you
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: led him to that category. Nick, Yes, we are in
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: a hurry, Nick, which category would you like? Okay?
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: Nick, which category you want? Casino, Wolf of Wall Street
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: or the fifty year argument?
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah Wolf?
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, we're gonna go. Are we going first?
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. David and I are
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: gonna go for go. All right?
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: We have Italian American Dave. These athletes all have Italian backgrounds.
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: We need the first and last name. Forty five seconds,
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: let's begin. He was the best quarterback ever before Tom Brady.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give no. It's Dave is the anthem, David's
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: and it's end. He's for the forty nine ers.
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: Don't answer, Nick, Yes, okay, now, the the one that
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: Nick just said.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, turn no, yes, it
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: doesn't count, all right. The Italian catcher for the Mets.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Shut up, that's bull crap. The Italian catcher for the Mets.
• 49:32
  Speaker 6: No, he was, Oh my godness, he was. He was
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: on the Dodgers and they got traded to the Mets. Okay, yes, uh,
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: this guy is a backup quarterback for the Patriots.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: He dated a porn star.
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: I think I should get fifteen more seconds because Ben.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Shot. That is cheating. All right, you're done? All right, Well,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: well go ahead. Well hold he put it this because
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: I know Dave's gonna to it. I don't want that.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: All right? All right, Nick? Are you ready? Nick? All right?
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: These athletes are avid investors. All right, we need first
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: and last name, forty five seconds on the clock, and
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: here we go. A quarterback curly for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: the greatest cheating. Oh my god, you're cheating. You're cheating.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: That's not cheating, the great cheating Yankee short stuff. But
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Coop's losing his cheating. That's cheating. You're cheating. Envy p
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: finals for the Golden State Warriors. But a couple of
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: years back against Cleveland, had a big block shot, uh
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: six man, kind of backup guy for Golden State. All right, linebacker,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: you have to Coop is now right? Coop has now
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: ruined the game ruined. You tried to cheat?
• 50:54
  Speaker 7: You got I was playing by the rules. Cool was
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: the rules? Did you say? That was an illegal?
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Dud? It was against the bylaws if you read because
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: you was answering. Not an idiot. You cheated you. That
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: is a legal act. It's against the rules of malus.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Not the money. That's not the rule. The rules. What is?
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: What's the rule? What's the rule?
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: The rule is you can't do what you did since
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: we're not allowed.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: All right, Dave, we're gonna win this right now. You're
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: not gonna win it right now. Yes we are. You're not.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Do you want casino or the fifty year argument? All right?
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: These athletes all have gambling issues. All right.
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: He was the picture for the Indians who just got indicted.
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: All right, he is a white or so. Oh he
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: put him on hold?
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Wow? What he is the picture of what you're telling
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: He's a picture the Indians that just got indicted.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Put him on hold, don't all right?
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: He's the wide receiver for the Lions. Oh sorry, Coop,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: you don't get Oh yeah, yeah, real mature. There you go.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: You ruined the game. He ruined the game.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: He ruined the game.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: What