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Hour 1 - Toothless Bengals · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one, our one.
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Speaker 1: A Monday night football doubleheader will start with the late game.
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Speaker 1: We were up all night on the Ben mother Show
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Speaker 1: to provide witty sports takes from the two Monday night games. Now,
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Speaker 1: the late game was in Colorado. Well, you wouldn't know.
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Speaker 1: That wasn't much of a game, no show for the
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati football team. So question, did the Bengals quit on
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Speaker 1: coach Zach Taylor? We'll talk about that. What did you
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Speaker 1: make of Jamar Chase getting into a shouting match with
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Speaker 1: the Bengals coach on the sidelines and our Sean Payton's
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Speaker 1: Broncos back after pollaxing the Bengals in that Monday night
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Speaker 1: football game. We'll talk about all of that and more
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Speaker 1: right now here. It is our number one. We'll call
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Speaker 1: him the toothless Bengals. Wow, was prime time NFL football
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Speaker 1: We had two Monday night football games. We'll start with
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Speaker 1: the late Monday night game which ended not all that
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Speaker 1: long ago before we cracked open the powerful microphones here
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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. So the lead from the mile
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Speaker 1: High City from Denver. That is where the Broncos reeling
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Speaker 1: after losing to the Colts and the Rams and now
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Speaker 1: taking on Cincinnati in an island game, the island life.
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Speaker 1: Not a lot of islands in Denver, but they had
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Speaker 1: an island game. You had Joe Back and Troy Aikman
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Speaker 1: call this game. And the reason they were calling this
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Speaker 1: game because it was the lesser of two evils. The
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Speaker 1: other game was the winless Dolphins and the winless Jets,
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Speaker 1: so instead they put the Broncos and the Bengals in
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Speaker 1: the late TV windows. So I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: saw this game or not, it wasn't It wasn't much
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Speaker 1: of a game. I'd be honest. What you're doing here?
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Speaker 1: Uh gotta sit here in polish turds. So bow Knicks
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Speaker 1: if you didn't see it, bow Knicks looking like he
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Speaker 1: was back at Oregon, playing some lightweight as the Denver offense,
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Speaker 1: matriculating the ball up and down the field. After somewhat
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Speaker 1: sluggish beginning, which lasted about I don't know half the
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Speaker 1: first quarter, but anyway, bow Knicks not one but two touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: He also ran for another to a tone for his sin,
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Speaker 1: where he threw a end zone interception. That is a
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Speaker 1: no no, You're not allowed to throw an interception in
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Speaker 1: the end zone. So the Broncos snapped the two game
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Speaker 1: el skiddoo and they beat the Bengals. Didn't just beat them,
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Speaker 1: they sent them back to Siberia with a twenty eight
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Speaker 1: to three loss. That is back to back belly to
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Speaker 1: belly blowout losses for the team from Cincinnati. Somewhere Cardiac
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Speaker 1: Stanley is not very happy right now at his hometown Bengals.
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Speaker 1: But the better story is in the losing locker room.
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Speaker 1: So it's always fun to talk about the Bengals because
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Speaker 1: they're losers. So it's fun to talk about the Bengals here.
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Speaker 1: So the question, based on my viewing of this game,
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Speaker 1: the thing that I noticed, having watched sports my entire life,
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Speaker 1: and certainly as a long suffering gas bag for many
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Speaker 1: many years now, I noticed something about Cincinnati here, and
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Speaker 1: I want to pose the question as we discuss did
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals players quit on Coode Zach Taylor. Let
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Speaker 1: us discuss the question as we said, did the Bengal
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Speaker 1: players quit on Zach Taylor? So I've got chronic New
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Speaker 1: York Times and Pfizer, and we will combine all of
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Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to make some
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Speaker 1: delicious Mediterranean chicken is what we're going to make. And
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Speaker 1: cider rise somewhat healthy. I'm told that's somewhat healthy. Probably
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Speaker 1: not that healthy, but what the hell? All right? So
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Speaker 1: a to answer the question, did the Cincinnati Bengals quit
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Speaker 1: on coach Zach Taylor? That is a rhetorical question. I
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Speaker 1: am nodding my head. Yes, you can't see unless you're
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Speaker 1: watching the YouTube feed, which is on YouTube dot com
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Speaker 1: slash at Benmather Show. You can actually watch these monologues. Unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: There's all these cameras. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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Speaker 1: seven cameras in here for a radio show. Seven cameras
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Speaker 1: for a radio anyway. All right, So the Bengals flat
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Speaker 1: out quit on Zach Taylor, no if sands or butts
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Speaker 1: about it. And every man, woman and child that watched
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Speaker 1: that game that has any ledge, even the rudimentary knowledge
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Speaker 1: of how sports work, would agree with that take. That's
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Speaker 1: not an outrageous take. They quit on their coach.
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Speaker 2: They did.
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Speaker 1: They played like they had a chronic case of I
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Speaker 1: don't give an f I'm not allowed to say what
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Speaker 1: that F stands for. I think you can imagine what
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Speaker 1: it stands for. This was not just a bad game.
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Speaker 1: This was now back to back belly to belly coach
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Speaker 1: killing performances by the Cincinnati football team. Now it's embarrassing
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Speaker 1: to lose. The Carson Wentz and the Viking get blown
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Speaker 1: out in that game, and then Minnesota the following week.
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Speaker 1: They go across the Atlantic Ocean and they lose to
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Speaker 1: a mediocre Pittsburgh team. So they say, okay. Normally the
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Speaker 1: rule is everyone's gonna have a stinker, right, every team's
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Speaker 1: gonna have a bad game. You can't stack them. You
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Speaker 1: can't stack them like hotcakes. Cannot do it. Cannot do it.
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Speaker 1: And so you can stick it up. But you can't
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Speaker 1: do a back to back games there. And that's two Sundays, well,
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Speaker 1: Sunday and a Monday now in a row. You do that,
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Speaker 1: you're trying to send a message. And what is the message?
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Speaker 1: The message is we are dune Skis with this guy.
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Speaker 1: He h't my coach. The guy's a bad coach all right. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you watch the game, this is such a mismatch.
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Speaker 1: It's like those early season college football games where their
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Speaker 1: money games, and you cut a giant check to the
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Speaker 1: other team that come be fodder so you can beat
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Speaker 1: them up. The ben Gals had nine first downs. An
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Speaker 1: NFL team that plausibly practiced all week, that is paid
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Speaker 1: a lot of money, it's their job, had nine first downs.
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Speaker 1: They had eight punts, they almost had one for one
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Speaker 1: punt to first down one hundred and fifty nine yards.
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Speaker 1: Denver put up twenty nine first downs and five hundred
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Speaker 1: and twelve yards of offense. Now that is not football, Okay,
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Speaker 1: that is not football. That is varsity scrimmaging against not
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Speaker 1: even the JV that's like varsity versus freshmen, is what
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Speaker 1: that was. And the Cincinnati players were lollygagging. La la
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Speaker 1: la la la la la. That's what it sounds like
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Speaker 1: when you lagag la la la la la la la.
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Speaker 1: You're lollygagging. You're lollygagging around like it was some kind
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Speaker 1: of seven on seven walkthrough and OTAs or something like that.
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Speaker 1: And I see this. I have seen this a lot
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Speaker 1: in basketball. It's more of a basketball thing than a
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Speaker 1: football thing. It's the I guess the NBA affication of
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Speaker 1: the NFL. What I saw here. You see this kind
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Speaker 1: of thing in basketball. I used to when I got
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Speaker 1: into radio. One of my early jobs, I covered the
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Speaker 1: professional basketball and I was around some really bad teams
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Speaker 1: and some teams that did quit on their coach, that
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Speaker 1: wanted to get the coach fired. So I know back
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Speaker 1: then what it was like, and it's obviously the same thing.
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Speaker 1: It's just with social media now and you look at it,
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Speaker 1: it's again something that's usually reserved for basketball, not something
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Speaker 1: you see in football that much, where guys on purpose
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Speaker 1: try to get the coach canned. And because of the
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Speaker 1: physicality in football, it's not as common a situation. But
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Speaker 1: when it happens, it's unmistakable. It's absolutely unmistakable. Strike three strikes.
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Speaker 1: You got Strike one, you're lazy, Strike two your lack
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Speaker 1: of passion, and strike three your lack character. And that's
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Speaker 1: good afternoon, good evening, and good night. And that appears
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Speaker 1: to be the Cincinnati Bengals. Watch what happens next. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what the next move is. It's not about
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Speaker 1: the scheme, it's not about that. In the I guess
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Speaker 1: that the move would be. And we'll see. With some
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Speaker 1: of the quotes coming out of the Bengals, locker room
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Speaker 1: following the Monday night game. But the generally the move
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Speaker 1: is publicly you say one thing, privately you say something else. Publicly,
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Speaker 1: you'll say it's on us, it's not the coach's fault.
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Speaker 1: You'll give that speech. You'll have a team meeting, as
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a team meeting, players only meeting, and
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Speaker 1: publicly you'll defend Zach Taylor. That's the move. You publicly
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Speaker 1: defend Zach Taylor in front of the cameras and the microphones,
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Speaker 1: and then privately you stick a butcher knife right in
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Speaker 1: his back, right there, big bloody butcher knife right in
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Speaker 1: the back. There you go. How's that going? But it's
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Speaker 1: the NFL player's guide to getting a coach fired. I
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Speaker 1: think that's on page twelve. And if the Bengals had
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Speaker 1: real ownership that really cared about winning, which they don't,
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Speaker 1: it's good money. It's a family, good amount of money
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Speaker 1: you can make. You gets a family business there in Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: they had legitimate ownership that was passionate and cared. Zach
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Speaker 1: Taylor would be left at the airport in Denver. He
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Speaker 1: would have to take a Greyhound bus back to Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen because they don't really care that much.
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Speaker 1: They're more obsessed with pinching pennies than they are winning
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Speaker 1: football games and all that stuff. It's a mom and
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Speaker 1: pop shop. That's how they operate. There's something unique and
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Speaker 1: cute about that that there's a few family ownership groups
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Speaker 1: left in the industrial complex of American sport and they're
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Speaker 1: one of them. And the family who currently runs the team,
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Speaker 1: Paul Brown's the owner, but he's not doing everything day
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Speaker 1: to day. They just happen to get the right DNA
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Speaker 1: and the right line and or they married well and
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Speaker 1: they're running the franchise and all that stuff. But they've
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Speaker 1: been running this franchise the same way since the Reagan administration.
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Speaker 1: It's been a minute. And there you go, so always
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Speaker 1: out there counting their dollars and cents and whatnot, and
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Speaker 1: good luck. So Mike Brown can count more Nichols and
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Speaker 1: that'll go well for him and the team. The locker
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Speaker 1: room waving the white flag here for sure. And so
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Speaker 1: the Bengels did not just lose to Denver. There's no
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Speaker 1: shaman losing. And every weekend half the teams lose in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. You quit, that's the thing. They quit. They quit.
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Speaker 1: The Denver Broncos are quitters on that night, on Monday night,
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Speaker 1: they quit. That's the story. That's your story. And that
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Speaker 1: is a coach killing performance. That is a no show.
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Speaker 1: And effort is the one thing. You're not to be talented.
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Speaker 1: You're goin'ta be the most talented, etcetera, etcetera, et cetera.
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Speaker 1: If you put the work in, that's just the that's
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Speaker 1: the baseline. That's the baseline all right now. Page two.
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Speaker 1: So more on this zombie Island game for the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by it. Now. This was a scene right
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Speaker 1: out of our friend Hayes in Minnesota. It was like
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Speaker 1: a Morgue scene there watching these Cincinnati Bengals more than
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Speaker 1: a football game. I bring this up. The whole league
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Speaker 1: is watching with these Island games. Everyone's tuned in in
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Speaker 1: theory anyway. Some of these guys who play football, she
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Speaker 1: hate football, so they're not watching. But those that actually
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Speaker 1: care about football, that are playing and coaching, they're watching. Yep,
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Speaker 1: probably at Applebee's somewhere watching eating some appetizers and watching
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Speaker 1: the game. So I bring this up because everyone's watching,
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Speaker 1: and the Bengals are going through the motions like the
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Speaker 1: kids in the back of gym class. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to be there, you know, and we all know. And
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Speaker 1: so the epitome of this was Jamar Chase, the one
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty one million dollar pass catcher for the Bengals,
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Speaker 1: and he lost his mind. This video went viral, a
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Speaker 1: clip of him getting into it with Zach Taylor, which
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Speaker 1: is actually a good thing because it shows he's passionate.
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Speaker 1: He knew the camera was on. He did it for
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Speaker 1: the camera. I'm convinced of that. Everyone knows, Hey, if
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Speaker 1: your star receiver is going to confront the coach, there's
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Speaker 1: gonna be seven different camera angles on it. So he
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Speaker 1: knew exactly what he was doing. Jamar Chase, he knew
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Speaker 1: that would be talked about. Things were not going well
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Speaker 1: for the Bengals, and he confronted Zach Taylor on camera,
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Speaker 1: yelling at him. So what did you make the question,
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Speaker 1: what did you make of Jamar Chase getting into a
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Speaker 1: screaming match, a shouting match with the Bengals coach as
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati football team got into the fetal position and
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Speaker 1: started sucking their thumb. So on this one, it's actually
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Speaker 1: bad Bunny's cousin, which is bad body language. That's a
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Speaker 1: second cousin of bad Bunny. Bad body language is what
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Speaker 1: this is. And it paid a visit, which is always
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Speaker 1: part of the crumbling of the walls of teams that
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Speaker 1: suck Jamar Chase and t Higgins. There was also a
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Speaker 1: clip that a couple of you idiots sent me of
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Speaker 1: them sitting on the bench during the game, sitting there
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Speaker 1: like they were waiting for Femi to deliver a bag
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Speaker 1: of uber eats, some onion rings, possibly some fries, but
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Speaker 1: maybe just onion rings and some mazzarella sticks. And they
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Speaker 1: were just waiting on that and they had the slump
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Speaker 1: shoulders and then we all know the bad body line
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Speaker 1: language there and there is kind of a man they
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Speaker 1: were doing Matador blocks. Hooray yo layolay. They were doing that.
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Speaker 1: They had the kind of like a half speed jog
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Speaker 1: kind of routine going on there, and it's the classic
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Speaker 1: gay we're out on this coach. We do not like
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Speaker 1: the coach. We do not want to be here. I
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Speaker 1: don't like this altitude, I don't like the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: I'm not happy. And again that's out of the New
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Speaker 1: York Times bestseller which is The Idiot's Guide to Losing.
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Speaker 1: That is on page thirty three if you check your notes,
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Speaker 1: page thirty three of The Idiot's Guide to Losing. As
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Speaker 1: we discuss here on Fox Sports Radio, star players moping
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Speaker 1: on the sidelines, coach staring into space, wondering why he
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Speaker 1: chose this profession. You've got that, check that box. You
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Speaker 1: get the backup quarterback who's out there futzing around looking
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Speaker 1: like he won a contest at a Kroger, a national contest,
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Speaker 1: not just a local contest in Cincinnati. He won a
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Speaker 1: national contest, and he was given the helmet. We're talking
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Speaker 1: about Jake Browning here, who actually looked somewhat decently the
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Speaker 1: last time he got some extended playing time when Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow got hurt a couple years back, and now looks
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Speaker 1: like he doesn't know whether a football is puffed or
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Speaker 1: stuffed when he's out there. And again it looks like
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Speaker 1: he won a raffle at Paul Brown Stadium or whatever
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Speaker 1: corporate name it has now. And hey, how would you
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Speaker 1: like to play quarterback for the Bengals? All right, I'll
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Speaker 1: play quarterback for the Bengals. Why not? What the heck?
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Speaker 1: All right now, don't sell me on losing builds character.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about losing builds character. But
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Speaker 1: my belief on losing has been pretty consistent over the years.
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Speaker 1: Losing does not build character. It exposes character. And without
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, what are we seeing from the Bengals here?
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Speaker 1: What are we seeing? Are we seeing a team that's
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Speaker 1: going next man up? We got to unite together, we
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Speaker 1: got a lock in here, we got a lock in
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Speaker 1: and go on the warpath or or are we seeing
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Speaker 1: a team that is filled with a bunch of show ponies.
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Speaker 1: They're not the Bengals of the show ponies and front runners,
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Speaker 1: because that's what it looks like to me, that's what
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Speaker 1: it's not. Hey, whoever's there, we're gonna win I with
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Speaker 1: Burrows here or not. It's like no, no. The minute
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow went snap, crackle, pop and his toe exploded,
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Speaker 1: the whole season went right into the shredder, right into
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Speaker 1: the shredder, and they know they're cooked. They've got no fight,
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Speaker 1: They're gutless, they're toothless. That's the Bangles, that's what they
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Speaker 1: look like right now. I'm just merely reacting to what
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Speaker 1: I'm watching and if they're embarrassed by that, and they're
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Speaker 1: offended by that, how about you do better, play better,
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Speaker 1: don't play like that, don't play gutless football. All right? Now,
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Speaker 1: last word to the Denver side the winning locker room.
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Speaker 1: So I had a chance to see the Broncos in person.
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Speaker 1: In the previous game. They played the Chargers a game
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Speaker 1: they had in the bag, and then they cut a
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Speaker 1: hole in the bag and the Chargers came back in
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Speaker 1: the final part of the fourth quarter and won a
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Speaker 1: game that the Broncos seemingly we're going to win. Just
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Speaker 1: by executing down the stretch. They would have won that game,
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Speaker 1: just like the Cincinnati or the Indianapolis game the week
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Speaker 1: prior where they screwed up with special teams and they
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Speaker 1: could have should have won that game. So the question
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Speaker 1: is rather simple. Here are Sean Payton's Broncos now back
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Speaker 1: after they pull axed the Bengals on Monday night? Forel
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Speaker 1: are they back? Are they back? They don't? All right,
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Speaker 1: here's the deal. I'm sorry, but I realized my producers
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Speaker 1: like he's working for the Bronco pep squad over there.
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Speaker 1: But here's the deal. Pump the brakes on that you
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Speaker 1: cannot get too worked up by the Broncos and their
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Speaker 1: domination situation. That's not the story. You beat up a lightweight,
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Speaker 1: you beat up a team that didn't want to be there.
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Speaker 1: That is it. This was not some grand decree. This
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Speaker 1: was not an announcement by the Broncos. We're back, baby,
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Speaker 1: We're back. This was not it. It's like sparring with
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Speaker 1: someone who does not have their their gloves, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, you're spartagas somebody that didn't bring their gloves. Congratulations.
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Speaker 1: This was a Pfizer booster shot, is what it was
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Speaker 1: for the Broncos. That's all it was. Congratulations. He didn't
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Speaker 1: really cure anything. It gives you the illusion that you're
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Speaker 1: in better shape and all that. But bo Nicks threw
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Speaker 1: for three hundred plus YARDSS is great, a couple of touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: he ran for a touchdown. He made up for the
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Speaker 1: interception in the end zone. So it's got a little
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Speaker 1: more pep in his step, which is nice and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff, and you need a confidence booster every now
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Speaker 1: and again. But yeah, you feel good, congratulations on that,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't really count for the big picture down
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Speaker 1: the line. When you play better teams. Oh, they beat
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Speaker 1: up the They beat up the Bengals who didn't want
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Speaker 1: to beat there. Oh man, that's impressive. Bess I did
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Speaker 1: the mak because they had this opening drive. They came
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Speaker 1: out and they scored early on. They kicked a field goal.
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Speaker 1: The Bengals had seventy one yards of offense in the
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Speaker 1: first quarter. The final three quarters of the game, they
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Speaker 1: had eighty eight yards over the that eighty eight yards
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Speaker 1: the final three quarters of the game, which is seemingly
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Speaker 1: hard to do, but they managed to have less than
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Speaker 1: thirty yards on average the final three quarters of the game.
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Speaker 1: They basically tapped out. As we've said, they tapped out
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Speaker 1: there and the Broncos defense, listen, God, they locked the
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Speaker 1: doors all assed up. But it was more about what
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Speaker 1: the Bengals didn't do. Didn't play with fight, didn't play
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Speaker 1: just lazy, just floating on the lazy river there. And so,
20:29
Speaker 1: as the great comedian Chris Rock taught me years ago,
20:32
Speaker 1: you do not get extra credit for doing what you're
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Speaker 1: supposed to do. That was a game the Broncos were
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Speaker 1: favored by over a touchdown. They were supposed to win.
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Speaker 1: They did. So let's not pretend like Sean Payton's now
20:42
Speaker 1: figured out time travel or something like that. That's not
20:46
Speaker 1: it at all. So it's not the resurrection of the
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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. Now they have a chance. They played Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: next week, and so I'm assuming Philadelphia is not going
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Speaker 1: to quit in that game like the Bengals. They're actually
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Speaker 1: going to be competitive, be professional, and not be gutless
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Speaker 1: like the Cincinnati Bengals. And so the other thing is
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Speaker 1: there's no such thing as momentum. So it's not like, oh,
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Speaker 1: the Broncos have all the momentum doesn't exist, all right,
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Speaker 1: It's just some crap dumb people buy into in sports,
21:17
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Speaker 1: it up years ago and it just gets repeated and
21:24
Speaker 1: idiots buy into it. Here. So we'll see what happens
21:27
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21:31
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21:34
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21:38
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21:52
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Speaker 1: surprised the Bengals just quit tonight, but they were just
25:22
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25:26
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Speaker 1: a quitter. Tom from Fullerton writes and in solcases, imagine getting
25:35
Speaker 1: paid eighty six million guaranteed and not having to have
25:40
Speaker 1: Tua as your quarterback anymore. No wonder Tyreek was happy
25:44
Speaker 1: on the cart. Yes, several people pointing out Tyreek did
25:48
Speaker 1: not look too upset that he had suffered a career
25:51
Speaker 1: threatening injury, did not appear too damaged by that, seemed
25:54
Speaker 1: to be in good spirits. There, let's see here, super
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Speaker 1: Marcus Steve says, it's been a while since I heard
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Speaker 1: that Chris Rock bit. He says, and always trying to
26:09
Speaker 1: get credit for stuff they're supposed to do, like taking
26:12
Speaker 1: credit of the kids and paying their taxes. Yes, that
26:15
Speaker 1: was part of the routine. Supermarcuts Steve there, but I'm
26:19
Speaker 1: sure it's on YouTube. Can go back and check it
26:22
Speaker 1: out if you're into it. But it's a good line.
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Speaker 1: There's other people that have said it. I just give
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Speaker 1: Chris Rock credit because he's a funny person and I
26:29
Speaker 1: remember him doing shtick, and there's other people I could
26:33
Speaker 1: quote that have said similar things over the years. I
26:35
Speaker 1: just choose to give the credit to Chris Rock. Just
26:39
Speaker 1: Josh in Cincinnati writes and says, thank god you watch
26:43
Speaker 1: this Monday night suckfest. So the rest of us didn't
26:46
Speaker 1: have to Just Josh has because when players don't give
26:49
Speaker 1: an F, I don't give an F. Zach Taylor is
26:53
Speaker 1: and he's quoting here. Cam Ward is ass, the offensive
26:57
Speaker 1: line is ass, and the ownership is According to just Josh,
27:01
Speaker 1: thirty plus years of building that losing character, blow it up,
27:05
Speaker 1: blow it up, blow it up, blow it up, blow
27:06
Speaker 1: it up. You really are a man of the people.
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Speaker 1: The work that you do, yes, clearly. Now when the
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Speaker 1: game is that bad, yes, what do you resort to?
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Speaker 1: Do You start twiddling your thumbs? Do you have a
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Speaker 1: crossword puzzle?
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Speaker 2: Do you like lay upside down?
27:18
Speaker 1: Start doing yoga? Yeah? Well it's really and I know
27:21
Speaker 1: in the military they have a purple heart. What do
27:23
Speaker 1: we have in sports media when you have to watch
27:25
Speaker 1: a terrible game? Every bad game? Yeah, like all the
27:28
Speaker 1: bad games, like it's just one bed. Oh my gosh,
27:33
Speaker 1: it's so bad. Now I did get a little I
27:35
Speaker 1: got a little twinge. I got excited because the Bengals
27:37
Speaker 1: were falling apart, Lorena, and that makes for good talk
27:40
Speaker 1: radio because I do get I'm not gonna lie here.
27:43
Speaker 1: I get a little excited when a team's losing, and
27:45
Speaker 1: then it's when they're losing and they're just bad that sucks.
27:49
Speaker 1: But when they quit on the coach, I kind of
27:50
Speaker 1: like it. I think that's cool. And then when you
27:53
Speaker 1: have the star receiver screaming at the coach on the sidelines,
27:56
Speaker 1: Oh that's good. That is good, right, Jesus that solid.
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Speaker 1: I like that. Just in time, Davis writes and says, Hey, Mallard,
28:03
Speaker 1: are the Ben goals related to the Dolphins? When their
28:07
Speaker 1: quarterback goes down, the whole ship goes too. Does that
28:10
Speaker 1: mean both coaches suck? Sure? Yeah, Fat Daddy writes in
28:18
Speaker 1: a long suffering fan of the Angels in baseball, says,
28:22
Speaker 1: Big Ben the monologue was on fire, a lot of passion.
28:26
Speaker 1: Let's just hope that the Ben goals don't play in
28:29
Speaker 1: prime time anymore. What a freaking joke. He's the daddy.
28:33
Speaker 1: It's not good, not a not a real great situation
28:38
Speaker 1: there at at all. All right, let's go to the
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Speaker 1: phones and eeny meenie miney mo let's say hello to
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Speaker 1: MGM John A blast from the past in Vegas. I
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Speaker 1: did not see MGM John at the Big Mallard meet
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Speaker 1: MGM John, welcome.
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Speaker 4: Mister Ben Maler, j E ts just and the season
29:04
Speaker 4: it's over. The Jets will miss the playoffs for the
29:08
Speaker 4: fifteenth year in a row after starting a disasters er
29:12
Speaker 4: and four starts. We have seen it live on primetime television.
29:16
Speaker 4: It is a disaster in the making.
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Speaker 1: No, No, you got the new hotshot coach there, Aaron Glenn,
29:23
Speaker 1: and the media likes Aaron Glenn. He's a passionate guy
29:27
Speaker 1: and everything will be fine there. Everything's going to be fine,
29:30
Speaker 1: although I did like he was screaming at his players
29:32
Speaker 1: after the game. The good news is you can already
29:34
Speaker 1: start preparing as a Jets fan, MGM John. You can
29:37
Speaker 1: start preparing for the twenty twenty six NFL Draft, So
29:41
Speaker 1: start getting your draft stuff ready. You can wait for
29:44
Speaker 1: the combines and when really you need to just watch
29:47
Speaker 1: college football on Saturdays because that's where that's where it's at.
29:52
Speaker 2: Yep.
29:52
Speaker 4: And I can tell you if this is gonna be
29:54
Speaker 4: the most New York Jets take will be We will
29:56
Speaker 4: get the number one overall pick, and our number one
29:59
Speaker 4: overall pick will be Arch Manning quarterback.
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Speaker 1: He's not gonna be the number one pick. Have you
30:07
Speaker 1: watched him play at Texas. He's not that good. Yeah,
30:13
Speaker 1: I know. And by the way, most of the Manning suck.
30:16
Speaker 1: They do, right if you rent to talk about this,
30:19
Speaker 1: I mean they think they're funny and all that. But
30:21
Speaker 1: Eli Manning was a mediocre NFL quarterback. Cooper Manning never
30:25
Speaker 1: made it, and Peyton Manning used performance and dancing drugs.
30:28
Speaker 1: That's the Manning family. Yeah, okay, and he was a
30:34
Speaker 1: five hundred quarterback. Okay, he's a couple of fluke runs.
30:37
Speaker 1: That's not that good. I'm not that impressed.
30:39
Speaker 4: All I think is one super Bowl and the.
30:42
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, Joe Flacco, MGM John one
30:45
Speaker 1: of the all time great quarterbacks. Why are the Browns
30:48
Speaker 1: fans try to bench him? He's a super Bowl sha
30:50
Speaker 1: Nick Foles? Right, Nick Fole. You wouldn't have Nick Foles
30:54
Speaker 1: wipe your ass. But he won a super Bowl.
30:55
Speaker 4: Okay, come on, it's gonna be a long seat for
31:01
Speaker 4: the Jets.
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Speaker 1: It's not gonna be It's not gonna be any different
31:03
Speaker 1: than any other season. And we've got right now. We
31:05
Speaker 1: have a three way tie, well not a three way
31:08
Speaker 1: tie because it's based on winning percentage, but strength of schedule.
31:11
Speaker 1: The Saints, Jets and Titans all on and four, neck
31:16
Speaker 1: and neck for the top pick. Get your mock draft
31:19
Speaker 1: ready for twenty twenty six. The Saints are on the clock,
31:22
Speaker 1: living up to expectations. There the New Orleans Saints at
31:25
Speaker 1: oh and four, and you need to study now, MGM John,
31:28
Speaker 1: Someone named Leonora Sellars. I'm not sure who that is?
31:32
Speaker 1: What what what what?
31:34
Speaker 5: What?
31:34
Speaker 1: What? What?
31:34
Speaker 2: What?
31:35
Speaker 5: What Sellers?
31:40
Speaker 4: He's a proud id rather get there, no timer than
31:45
Speaker 4: Lonor Sellars out of South Carolina? Do we not, Saron,
31:49
Speaker 4: that's happening in New Orleans WITHFT.
31:52
Speaker 1: I gotta go. I'm glad you're back. Is this we're
31:54
Speaker 1: talking in like six months? MGM John?
31:56
Speaker 4: Yes, eleg But one more thing. The AH shows are
32:01
Speaker 4: not in the playoffs thanks to my ring.
32:02
Speaker 1: Now, you didn't say that the proper way. You gotta
32:05
Speaker 1: say nda da da da da da. Hey, good bye,
32:11
Speaker 1: see you later. A holes, You're not in the playoffs,
32:14
Speaker 1: you losers. Hey, one of those dope be hacked daytime
32:17
Speaker 1: talk show host in Houston gonna do? What are they
32:20
Speaker 1: gonna do? They?
32:20
Speaker 2: Oh?
32:21
Speaker 1: My god, all those blowhards who suck ITT radio? My god, Anyway,
32:25
Speaker 1: I think away. Cameron is in Indiana. Hello Cameron, he's
32:30
Speaker 1: a day late and a dollar short. Hello Cameron. Welcome.
32:34
Speaker 5: So I was gonna talk about Colin Cowherd, but I
32:38
Speaker 5: will just.
32:38
Speaker 1: Say, well, why would you know? Why would you talk
32:40
Speaker 1: about Cowherd is on? He's an overnight show for me.
32:43
Speaker 1: I sleep while he's on. I don't know Cowherd show.
32:46
Speaker 1: I know he gets paid a lot more money than
32:48
Speaker 1: I get paid, but I'm sleeping when he's on the air.
32:51
Speaker 5: So I cannot talk about Cowherd now since you've just
32:54
Speaker 5: been insult with my quarterback. So I'm getting there. A
32:57
Speaker 5: Brady fan Who's the biggest cheat of all time?
33:02
Speaker 1: Who? Who's your court? Peyton Manny's your quarterback? Is that?
33:05
Speaker 1: Is that your your guy?
33:07
Speaker 2: Yeah?
33:07
Speaker 5: So it's that guy all right? But anyway, it's not
33:12
Speaker 5: I can predict the future. And let me just tell
33:14
Speaker 5: you A J. Brown is going to be crying on
33:16
Speaker 5: the Dolphins sideline now with Tyreeks injury, let's tell you
33:20
Speaker 5: that much.
33:20
Speaker 1: Really, how is a J. Brown gonna be crying on
33:23
Speaker 1: the Dolphins sideline? How's that going to work? Does he
33:26
Speaker 1: is going to like leave the Eagles and just walk
33:29
Speaker 1: over to Miami. Is that what's going to happen?
33:32
Speaker 5: How could happen? But now I'm just bus miss Josh.
33:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's an amazing take. I gotta tell you,
33:39
Speaker 1: that's an original take. That's your own take, right, Yes.
33:43
Speaker 5: All right, it's not any worse than Colin Coward's sake.
33:46
Speaker 5: I'll tell you that.
33:47
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what he's he's got going
33:49
Speaker 1: on over there. You can. You could call and complain
33:51
Speaker 1: to him, but I don't think he takes calls. So
33:53
Speaker 1: I think you could call him up. I don't does
33:55
Speaker 1: he take calls? I don't know he is not. Yeah, well,
33:59
Speaker 1: most of the you know, the big time talent gets
34:01
Speaker 1: spent a lot of money. They hide from the people
34:03
Speaker 1: that listen, which I don't blame them. If I made
34:05
Speaker 1: a lot of money, i'd hide from you too. I
34:07
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to talk to you. I made real money.
34:09
Speaker 1: Come on, please, you think I'd want to talk to
34:11
Speaker 1: the unwashed? God know, I'd live in my mansion in Chicago,
34:15
Speaker 1: I Coward. I wouldn't be out and about with you losers.
34:18
Speaker 1: My god, no way. I thank you, Kim amazing contribution
34:24
Speaker 1: to the show. So the reporting on Micah Parsons. I
34:29
Speaker 1: love this, So you think it's over now? The Packers
34:32
Speaker 1: and Cowboys played to a tie. They played to a tie,
34:37
Speaker 1: Well not so much. Apparently Micah Parsons is bitter and broken.
34:43
Speaker 1: The tabloids reporting that Parsons not real happy, bitter and
34:51
Speaker 1: broken with Jerry Jones and the Cowboys ownership, and that
34:55
Speaker 1: was only reinforced. His resentment towards Jerry Jones intensified after
35:00
Speaker 1: playing in Dallas on Sunday, and much of his angs
35:05
Speaker 1: directed towards the billionaire Jimmy Jones. Good old was he
35:10
Speaker 1: eighty two? His face is about thirty five or something
35:13
Speaker 1: like that. But yeah, so they're supposedly some bad blood,
35:19
Speaker 1: some stuff happened prior to the game, and not not happy,
35:24
Speaker 1: not happy Mike Caparison, but very vague. The report is
35:27
Speaker 1: very vague. What possibly happened? I don't know. I need
35:30
Speaker 1: more details to have an opinion. No, no, good talk
35:33
Speaker 1: shows does not need a lot of details to have
35:35
Speaker 1: an opinion. Just go with the opinion, just feel the opinion.
35:38
Speaker 1: And you've just got to soak in the opinion and
35:41
Speaker 1: just go with the opinion. Anyway, time now for the
35:45
Speaker 1: who am I game? This is where I pretend to
35:47
Speaker 1: be somebody else. You can answer this on X at
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35:54
Speaker 1: be part of the program. And here we go. The
35:57
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Jake brown and Joe Burrow Benals are
36:02
Speaker 1: the first team since A Blank was the quarterback of
36:06
Speaker 1: a different NFL team to lead a team to fewer
36:09
Speaker 1: than two hundred yards of offense in three of their
36:12
Speaker 1: first four games in a season. Happened very often, so
36:17
Speaker 1: Jake Browning and Joe Burrow combined. Burrow hurt his toe
36:23
Speaker 1: before that he wasn't playing very well. So Jake Browning
36:25
Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow the Bengals quarterbacks. They are the first
36:28
Speaker 1: team since Blank was the quarterback to lead a different
36:31
Speaker 1: team with fewer than two hundred yards of offense in
36:34
Speaker 1: three of their first four games in a season. Who
36:38
Speaker 1: am I? That is the question. The answer will get
36:40
Speaker 1: to it, and we will also have the very riveting
36:44
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36:46
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