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Hour 1 - Mile High Bye Bye · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Zippity-doo-dah! Zippity-day! It's a brand new week of the Ben
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Speaker 1: Maller Show. Happy Monday, the final Monday of September, the
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Speaker 1: 28th day of the month. And we are united for
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Speaker 1: fresh sports talk. And we stayed up all night. to
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Speaker 1: give you a fresh pod. And we start out Hour
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Speaker 1: 1 with the big Sunday night game. Give me a
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Speaker 1: word for Sean McVay's Rams blowing a 16-point lead in
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Speaker 1: the second half in Denver. Also, there was a terrible,
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Speaker 1: egregious pass interference call that went against L.A. late in
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Speaker 1: that game that handed L.A. the game to Denver. Can
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Speaker 1: we stop pretending the Broncos completely earned this win? And
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Speaker 1: how is Broncos coach Sean Payton feeling about his team
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Speaker 1: after this type of victory? We'll talk about that as well.
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Speaker 1: And who knows what else? Give it up for our
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Speaker 1: number one. Well, depending on which side of the aisle
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Speaker 1: you're on, it's either a mile-high miracle or a mile-high screwjob.
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Speaker 1: So our lead story this hour, the mile-high bye-bye. The
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Speaker 1: mile-high bye-bye. That is where we will begin as we
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Speaker 1: have our in-depth team coverage. Breaking down week three in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. There's one game left on Monday night. as
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Speaker 1: Chicago and Philadelphia will duke it out. But until then,
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Speaker 1: this was the final game on Sunday, an island game.
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Speaker 1: You had Mike Tirico and Chris Collinsworth on the call
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Speaker 1: there on NBC. The Peacock broadcasting the game there, painting
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Speaker 1: the words picture as Matthew Stafford and the Rams squaring
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Speaker 1: up with Bo Nix and the Broncos. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you saw this game or not. Were you burned
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Speaker 1: out from all the other football? Did you not watch football?
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Speaker 1: Bad job by you if you didn't watch football. Shame
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Speaker 1: on you.
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Speaker 3: Well, don't worry.
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Speaker 1: We watched. So you wouldn't have to. We have no lives.
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Speaker 1: We sit our ass all day, watch football. So there
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Speaker 1: we were. And it came down to the final minute
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Speaker 1: in Colorado is Bo Nix, the quarterback keeper. From inches
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Speaker 1: outside the goal line, the Broncos had 77 plays inside
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Speaker 1: the red zone there to get that touchdown. 47 seconds left,
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Speaker 1: and that turned out to be the difference, pushing the
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Speaker 1: Broncos past the ramps 30-26 on a game that was
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Speaker 1: highlighted by the referees. We'll get to that in a minute.
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Speaker 1: A wild five minutes of this game included a 66-yard
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Speaker 1: pick-six by Denver's defense. Then the Rams came right back,
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Speaker 1: and they scored a touchdown. And then the referee said,
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Speaker 1: hold on, boys. Hold our beer. We got you. We
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Speaker 1: got you. So the Broncos go to 2-1. The Rams
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Speaker 1: drop to 1-2 as Denver gets the final-minute win on
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Speaker 1: the Bownicks touchdown keeper. The better story is in the
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Speaker 1: losing locker room. We'll get to the officials in a minute,
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Speaker 1: but let's just look at the wide-angle lens. It's a
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Speaker 1: good jumping-off point. So as we discussed, the question– Give
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Speaker 1: me a word. Give me a word for Sean McVay's
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Speaker 1: Rams who had a 16-point lead at halftime and the
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Speaker 1: Broncos were doing nothing. Give me the word for Sean
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Speaker 1: McVay's Rams. So I've got pharmacy grade, 1099, and fruit basket.
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Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together and
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Speaker 1: we will turn to dust. like the Rams did at
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Speaker 1: times defensively in the red zone there. Of course, they did.
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Speaker 1: have the Broncos, the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th.
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Speaker 1: How many officials? Eight officials out there? That was like
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Speaker 1: 19 against 11. All right, so my word, though, my
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Speaker 1: word for the way the Rams played in the second
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Speaker 1: half before the officials had to push the Broncos across
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Speaker 1: the finish line, my word is bedraggled. The Rams played
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Speaker 1: bedraggled football. They were bedraggled, bewildered, and bedeviled. especially in
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Speaker 1: that third quarter. I don't know what the F they
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Speaker 1: were doing there. They went from incomplete control of the game,
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Speaker 1: and then it wasn't really a collapse by the Rams.
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Speaker 1: It was like a controlled demolition to let the Broncos
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Speaker 1: back in the game. And from the majestic mountains of
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Speaker 1: Denver came the unmistakable aroma of the Rams team decomposing
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Speaker 1: right there in that third quarter game. The two-point conversion thing,
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Speaker 1: I don't understand. The Rams have to be the worst
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Speaker 1: team in the NFL at defending the two-point conversion. It
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Speaker 1: seems like I watch these other games, and most of
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Speaker 1: the time they don't convert the two-point conversion. Against the Rams,
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Speaker 1: it seems to happen all the time. And this has
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Speaker 1: been some weird crap. We know the referees gave Seattle
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Speaker 1: that game last year. We know that. And now the
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Speaker 1: referees have given Denver this game. But before that happened,
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Speaker 1: Before the Rams, who didn't play, they still should have
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Speaker 1: won the game, as bad as they were. And I
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Speaker 1: don't know, McVay's halftime adjustments included the Rams all huddling up,
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Speaker 1: and they passed out a bottle of pharmacy-grade melatonin at halftime,
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Speaker 1: and then they woke up just in time for the
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Speaker 1: postgame handshake. Just in time for that. Sleepwalking in the
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Speaker 1: third quarter in particular there. But you don't get outscored 30-10.
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Speaker 1: in 30 minutes of football. You don't get outscored by
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Speaker 1: 20 points if you're focused. They got chewed up, spit out,
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Speaker 1: and stepped on. And some of it was self-inflicted as
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford threw the pick six. And Stafford suffering from
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Speaker 1: terminal flatulence yet again as he logged in the second
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Speaker 1: half of this game a passer rating of 56.4. 56.4,
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Speaker 1: which is akin, when you include all the brain farts
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Speaker 1: that he had, it's like he had more brain farts
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Speaker 1: than a nursing home bingo tournament with our friend Dick
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Speaker 1: in Dayton there, in beautiful Dayton, Ohio. Meanwhile, you talk
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Speaker 1: about a piecemeal effort in the red zone by the
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Speaker 1: Rams defense yet again, and Chris Shula... The common denominator here,
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Speaker 1: the Rams defensive coordinator, has his unit in the red
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Speaker 1: zone turned to mulch.
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Speaker 4: Yikes!
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Speaker 1: Pathetic. Got to finish the job. I know the referees
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Speaker 1: certainly were on the side of the Broncos at the
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Speaker 1: end of the game, but my God, you still had
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Speaker 1: shots to make plays there at the end. This keeps up, though.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if those Don Shula steakhouses are still around.
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Speaker 1: Those used to be popular back in the day. They
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Speaker 1: may have to reopen those. And he can go, Chris
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Speaker 1: Shuler can go run those steakhouses. Now, meanwhile, let's get
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Speaker 1: to the Komodo dragon in the room. The play that
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Speaker 1: everyone will be talking about for the next couple days
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Speaker 1: here involving the NFL as the Rams backup defensive back,
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Speaker 1: Josh Wallace, made a brilliant play and was punished for
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Speaker 1: a brilliant play. He was flagged for a defensive pass
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Speaker 1: interference play. that anybody with a functioning brain knows was
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Speaker 1: a screw job by the referees in this game. And
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Speaker 1: these games are bet on. There should be some kind
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Speaker 1: of congressional investigation. What an F job. I mean, F you,
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Speaker 1: F you, F you. We like the Broncos. Was he
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Speaker 1: wearing his Bronco onesie, the referee that made that call?
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Speaker 1: My God. He probably has more Bronco gear than Koopa Loop,
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Speaker 1: that guy. Holy crap. So Josh Wallace was flagged for
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Speaker 1: a defensive pass interference play. You know it's bad when
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Speaker 1: the NBC rules analysts, these guys are total shills for
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Speaker 1: the referees. When the rules analyst on TV is like, boy,
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Speaker 1: that was not a good call. You know that's a
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Speaker 1: bad job by the referees, right? I mean, these guys,
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Speaker 1: these rules analysts, they lick the toes of the officials
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Speaker 1: in the game. And even that guy, Terry McCauley on
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Speaker 1: NBC is like, well, that wasn't good. My God, he
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Speaker 1: was just hand-fighting. That's it. And it should have been interception.
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Speaker 1: Rams get the ball. Broncos burn their timeouts. That's it.
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Speaker 1: Game over, essentially. The Rams win the game at that point.
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Speaker 1: And it didn't happen. That call set up Denver. You
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Speaker 1: talk about the door-to-door service by the referees. My God.
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Speaker 1: For the game-winning touchdown. And so the Broncos at the Rams'
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Speaker 1: 11-yard line were trailing by a field goal. So they
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Speaker 1: trailed by a field goal. Bo Nix throws a short
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Speaker 1: pass to wide receiver. Pat Bryant on the right sideline.
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Speaker 1: And then Josh Wallace came over, made a good play.
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Speaker 1: He gets his knee inbounds, secured the ball, and game
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Speaker 1: ending for almost game ending. Not guaranteed to be game ending.
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Speaker 1: Certainly game changing. And the Broncos would not have kicked
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Speaker 1: the field goal to tie the game. They wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: scored a touchdown. The Rams would have had possession of
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Speaker 1: the ball. The penalty negated the turnover, and the crew
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Speaker 1: flagged Wallace for defensive pass interference. This is so great.
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Speaker 1: They claimed that the contact with Bryant while the ball
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Speaker 1: was in the air. Which is great if you just
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Speaker 1: make crap up. I mean, that's the way to go.
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Speaker 1: Why not? So instead, gave Denver a first down from
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Speaker 1: the seven-yard line. And that's the game-changing play. Congratulations to
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Speaker 1: the Broncos. They certainly had their guardian angel on the
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Speaker 1: side of that team. So the question here. We know
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Speaker 1: it was a terrible, egregious felony pass interference call that
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Speaker 1: should not have been made when against L.A. Can we
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Speaker 1: stop pretending that the Broncos earned the win completely? Can
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Speaker 1: we just stop that? Okay, good. We can stop that.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you agree. Thank you. This was a quantum
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Speaker 1: physics situation playing out in real time. Quantum physics. You
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Speaker 1: have two completely opposing versions. existing in the exact same
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Speaker 1: moment in time. Now, version number one, version number one,
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Speaker 1: the Rams played like absolute lambs in the second half
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Speaker 1: of that game. They didn't play well. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: sit here and say it. Unlike a lot of these
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Speaker 1: frauds that were their team gear, I pointed out they
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Speaker 1: didn't play well. All right? They didn't play well. Embarrassed themselves.
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Speaker 1: That was embarrassing. Version 2, which is also reality, is
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Speaker 1: Denver did not deserve to win that game. They were
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Speaker 1: handed a massive, shiny gift wrap in nylon yellow. Yellow
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Speaker 1: nylon right there. By the referees at the end of
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Speaker 1: that game, both are factually correct. That late penalty... was
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Speaker 1: not pass interference. I don't care how many times you
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Speaker 1: can show it. It wasn't pass interference. That's two grown
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Speaker 1: men fighting for the ball. That's what that is. And
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Speaker 1: was Pat Bryant playing wide receiver or, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: was he auditioning for the community theater there in suburban Colorado,
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Speaker 1: outside Denver?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: But apparently, defending a pass. I didn't know when this happened.
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Speaker 1: You can let me know. But let me know when
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Speaker 1: defending a pass now requires written permission from the target.
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Speaker 1: That was NBA-level. NBA-level showmanship by the Broncos wide receiver there.
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Speaker 1: I thought I was watching LeBron. Floppy McFlop. Embarrassing. All
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Speaker 1: you Bronco fans, I'm embarrassed for you. I'm embarrassed for you.
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Speaker 1: That's your guy right there. Flopping. That's your guy. He flopped. Embarrassing. Gutless.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely gutless is what that play was. And then, again,
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Speaker 1: I go back to the TV rules analyst. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how often you pay attention to these bozos. These
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Speaker 1: guys are insiders to make the officials look good. Almost
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Speaker 1: never do they disagree with the referees, the calls on
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Speaker 1: the field. They almost always agree. And you had this guy,
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Speaker 1: that was bad. That was bad. When the rules expert
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Speaker 1: says that was bogus, okay, what are we actually doing here?
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Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. And the Zebras delivered that flag like Amazon Prime.
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Speaker 1: It was delivered like Amazon Prime at just the perfect time.
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Speaker 1: Tremendous job there. Free express shipping directly to Denver's doorstep.
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Speaker 1: The Rams, again, they collapsed. However, the officials finished the job.
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Speaker 1: They finished up. Rams had a get-out-of-jail-free card, and the
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Speaker 1: officials said, no, no, no, we're going to give that
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Speaker 1: to the Broncos. In fact, that was such a generous
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Speaker 1: situation from the referees that the Bronco front office is
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Speaker 1: going to receive a 1099 form. That's how charitable this
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Speaker 1: was here. So Denver gets the win and a giant
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Speaker 1: yellow asterisk is hanging over the end. It kind of
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Speaker 1: reminded me a little bit of that Michigan, Western Michigan
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Speaker 1: college football game where you're like, well, the team, I
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Speaker 1: don't think they've won that. But just like college, they
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Speaker 1: won't take the win away and all that stuff. And
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Speaker 1: there'll be some message, well, the referees, that call should
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Speaker 1: not have been made or some bull crap like that. Now,
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Speaker 1: last word, let's focus in on the Denver side here.
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Speaker 1: So the question is this, how is Broncos coach Sean
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Speaker 1: Payton feeling about his team after this I say this
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Speaker 1: in air quotes, victory, which, as we know, was very questionable.
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Speaker 1: So if I'm Sean Payton, I'm relieved, I'm not reassured.
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Speaker 1: There is a pattern here of the Broncos not being
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Speaker 1: prepared to play football. Three games into the year, and
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Speaker 1: they have had three duds in the first half to
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Speaker 1: begin the year. And you're playing around. In this game,
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Speaker 1: you need the referees to bail you out. Last game,
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville had to bail you out. And there's only so
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Speaker 1: many bailouts that you get, and you've already used a
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Speaker 1: couple of them. You've already used a couple of bailouts
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Speaker 1: if you're the Broncos at this point here. They didn't
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Speaker 1: win the game so much as they stumbled across a
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Speaker 1: bag of cash from the very generous referees here. Dropped
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Speaker 1: right on the sidewalk, and there you go. Pick it up.
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Speaker 1: Why not? Found money. So Bo Nix, again, he spent
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Speaker 1: the first 30 minutes of this game playing quarterback like
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Speaker 1: the remote controller battery had died. And it's like, whoa,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? I mean, nothing's working. Maybe the battery's
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Speaker 1: just not plugged in. I don't know. The Denver allegedly
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Speaker 1: vaunted Bronco defense got absolutely panicked. You know the Rams
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Speaker 1: had almost 500 yards of offense in this game? Without,
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Speaker 1: by the way, their top player, Puka Nkua, who was injured. Man,
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Speaker 1: you talk about gutless Bronco defense giving up almost 500
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Speaker 1: yards of offense without Puka Nkua. Then came the second
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Speaker 1: half resurrection, right? The resurrection aided by the gift-wrapped pass
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Speaker 1: interference call. with a bow on top. So spare me
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Speaker 1: the Bronco chest thumping. I don't need it. Listen, you
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Speaker 1: put your tail between your legs, you walk away, you
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Speaker 1: got your little gift. Congratulations. NFL gave you a solid.
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Speaker 1: They gave you a win. Way to go. And the
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Speaker 1: fact that Denver needed the Rams to gag and, in addition,
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Speaker 1: have the referees help them as Santa. It's like Santa's workshop.
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Speaker 1: Holy crap. And my God, and Bo Nix, you're talking
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Speaker 1: about the Rams playing like they were in a coma. Well,
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Speaker 1: Bo Nix also in the first half, and then able
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Speaker 1: to crawl across the finish line after they had like
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Speaker 1: 77 plays in the red zone there at the end.
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Speaker 1: So Sean Payton, first thing in the morning on Monday,
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Speaker 1: what Sean Payton should be doing is have his assistant
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Speaker 1: order up a nice fruit basket with some nice bananas
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Speaker 1: and oranges and apples and... Strawberry and then a box
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Speaker 1: of chocolates. And then you could possibly even a timeshare
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Speaker 1: like that was they just gave you a win. That
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Speaker 1: should be like a timeshare situation.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 1: And so definitely not a statement when you think beating
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Speaker 1: the Rams would be a statement when that was not
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Speaker 1: a statement win by the Broncos. Not impressed. Not impressed
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Speaker 1: that you needed the officials to bail you out. To
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Speaker 1: win that game. Even though the Rams played like crap
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Speaker 1: in the second half. You still needed help from the referees. Pathetic.
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Speaker 1: the air. Well, Sean McVay did something very interesting post-game
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Speaker 1: after the Rams and Broncos game, something that he does
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Speaker 1: not normally do. What did Sean McVay do that he
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Speaker 1: And yet again, so many of you have reached out
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Speaker 1: Five times, not one answer. What's up with that? So anyway,
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Speaker 1: we reached out to a bunch of people. And then
21:04
Speaker 1: the only people that answered the phone were, of course, Robbie,
21:06
Speaker 1: always reliable Robbie, the Mariner fan. So he was on there.
21:09
Speaker 1: And yes, Weed Man Hippie. He answered the phone. So
21:15
Speaker 1: that's the way it works. You don't answer your phone,
21:16
Speaker 1: you get a shot. You give me a buzz, that's it.
21:18
Speaker 1: Or I email you, you don't respond, and you don't
21:20
Speaker 1: get to do it. So deal with it. So we
21:24
Speaker 1: had them on the mailbag. If you want to be
21:27
Speaker 1: part of this show, 877-99 on Fox. That's 877-996-6369 at
21:34
Speaker 1: Ben Maller. Mark is here. He's wearing his White Sox gear.
21:38
Speaker 1: He's hitting the buttons tonight. Say hello to Mark at
21:41
Speaker 1: Mark with a C Ramsey 64950 and Koopa Loop in
21:45
Speaker 1: full Bronco gear. And you can say hello to him
21:48
Speaker 1: at a Bronco fan. That's UH Bronco fan. So Figure
21:54
Speaker 1: that out. Yes? All right, back to it we go.
21:59
Speaker 1: And we have some more on the post-game flavor. The
22:03
Speaker 1: flavor as the Broncos given a gift from the referees there.
22:10
Speaker 1: What a finish that was. My God. And Sean McVay
22:14
Speaker 1: did something that I don't recall him doing. And we'll
22:20
Speaker 1: explain what he did that's different than all other nights.
22:24
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Let's see. We've got Late Night Drug
22:27
Speaker 1: Tester says, Not sure the OC is the problem for
22:31
Speaker 1: Denver's slow start. Bo Nix just isn't that good. Yeah, well,
22:35
Speaker 1: he's certainly not established as a good quarterback, Bo Nix.
22:38
Speaker 1: Even last year, the Broncos were doing things not because
22:42
Speaker 1: of Bo Nix. There were a couple of games he
22:44
Speaker 1: played well, but... A lot of times he was along
22:46
Speaker 1: for the ride. Rod, the ambassador of Bakersfield, writes, and
22:49
Speaker 1: he says, great opening monologue, man. The Rams got hosed
22:52
Speaker 1: and the Ravens almost got hosed as well. The referees
22:55
Speaker 1: have got to get better. No, they don't, Rod. The
22:58
Speaker 1: NFL doesn't care. If the NFL cared, they could make
23:01
Speaker 1: things better. They don't care. They like the fact that
23:04
Speaker 1: these things happen because you're talking about the NFL, and
23:07
Speaker 1: they don't really care. If they cared, they would have
23:10
Speaker 1: fixed this. I've been doing this job a long time.
23:13
Speaker 1: It's always been like this. It's never been different. They
23:16
Speaker 1: have all kinds of replay, and they can shove this
23:19
Speaker 1: up your tuckus and see what's in there, but they
23:21
Speaker 1: still screw this up. Because ultimately, there's a lot of
23:24
Speaker 1: judgment calls. Rod says, that's why I don't bet pro sports.
23:28
Speaker 1: I did make $ 850 on college parlays. All right, well,
23:31
Speaker 1: good for you. What else do we have? Let's see.
23:33
Speaker 1: Page down. I can't read that. Luke writes and says,
23:36
Speaker 1: if Josh Allen was the Broncos quarterback tonight, they would
23:40
Speaker 1: anoint him King of England. There you go. That's from Luke.
23:45
Speaker 1: Are you saying there's a love affair for Josh Allen?
23:48
Speaker 1: Double O Mexican in San Diego writes and says, 8.1
23:52
Speaker 1: on the Malheur monologue. Are we going to get a
23:53
Speaker 1: classic Malheur? versus Koop. When Koop's team wins, Mahler gives
23:59
Speaker 1: an excuse for the... Well, there's no excuse. It's just
24:01
Speaker 1: calling it as it happened. That's really nothing else to say.
24:05
Speaker 1: Just like that. Let's see. What else do we have?
24:08
Speaker 1: Page Dan. We'll skip over that. Nature Boy says the
24:14
Speaker 1: Rams got screwed and should have beaten the Broncos. They
24:17
Speaker 1: did beat the Broncos without the officials. I agree with you,
24:19
Speaker 1: Nature Boy. Good take by you. Bill's Monster writes in.
24:23
Speaker 1: He says, the way you're talking about the Rams game,
24:26
Speaker 1: I'm expecting a congressional investigation by sunrise. Apparently the referees
24:30
Speaker 1: didn't just blow a few calls. They personally destroyed the
24:33
Speaker 1: Rams season, stole their lunch money, slashed their tires, and
24:37
Speaker 1: made L.A. traffic worse. I don't know about all that.
24:41
Speaker 1: It's just another crappy call at the end of an
24:44
Speaker 1: NFL game, something we should be used to at this
24:46
Speaker 1: particular point. Just kind of expect it, and you have
24:49
Speaker 1: to have a comfortable lead late and not allow the
24:51
Speaker 1: referees to impact the outcome of the game because they
24:55
Speaker 1: almost always will impact the outcome of the game. Now,
24:59
Speaker 1: we actually have some postgame sound that we didn't play.
25:02
Speaker 1: I didn't see it, so we'll play some of it
25:04
Speaker 1: right now. Here is, let's hear from the postgame festivities here.
25:09
Speaker 1: We have Sean McVay commenting on an obvious egregious call
25:15
Speaker 1: and the fact that, well, this is kind of, I guess,
25:18
Speaker 1: life apparently. Take a listen. Yeah, it's tough. You know what?
25:22
Speaker 1: But this is sports. You sign up for all of it.
25:24
Speaker 1: And love our group. Just came up short. Give the
25:27
Speaker 1: Broncos credit. They found a way to get it done.
25:29
Speaker 1: We'll look at ourselves and figure out how we can improve.
25:32
Speaker 1: That sounded like McVay didn't have a lot to say. Well,
25:34
Speaker 1: it turns out that Sean McVay, that was, I believe,
25:38
Speaker 1: the only question that he answered. That's it. McVay answered
25:43
Speaker 1: one question and he took off. That's it. And he
25:49
Speaker 1: came out to meet with the media, stepped to the
25:51
Speaker 1: podium 10 minutes after the final whistle had blown. He
25:55
Speaker 1: answered one question and left before the Rams traveling beat
26:00
Speaker 1: writers had even entered the media room. much to the
26:03
Speaker 1: annoyance of the beat writers, I'm sure, that were devastated.
26:06
Speaker 1: But I know the Rams PR department will still take
26:08
Speaker 1: care of them, so it's okay, because they're out there
26:09
Speaker 1: all the time, and so they'll get taken care of
26:11
Speaker 1: by the Ram PR people. So good for them. Here
26:15
Speaker 1: is Matthew Stafford, who goofed through a pick six that
26:22
Speaker 1: turned the game around for Denver, helped them out. Here
26:26
Speaker 1: is Stafford on what has been a bugaboo his entire life,
26:29
Speaker 1: those interceptions.
26:31
Speaker 5: Didn't get the result we wanted, like he said. Fought
26:33
Speaker 5: our ass off, which was awesome. You know, obviously don't
26:36
Speaker 5: want to.
26:36
Speaker 1: Have a pick six.
26:37
Speaker 5: I'm hot there, trying to pick one of my two hots.
26:40
Speaker 5: If I'm going to make some good play, I can't
26:41
Speaker 5: get them on the ground. That's points to them there.
26:43
Speaker 5: Bounce right back, throw a touchdown pass. They go down,
26:45
Speaker 5: do their thing. You know, had a chance at the
26:47
Speaker 5: end of the game. I mean, that's a tough one.
26:48
Speaker 5: They forced the ball out more than we had to block.
26:50
Speaker 5: Tried to put one up. You know, it's kind of
26:52
Speaker 5: glorified Hail Mary from the whatever, 30, 35-yard line at
26:55
Speaker 5: that point.
26:55
Speaker 1: You know what I love is that somebody in our
26:58
Speaker 1: editing department heard that soundbite and heard the horrific quality.
27:03
Speaker 1: Of that soundbite and decided to put that in the system.
27:06
Speaker 1: I think that's freaking great. I think that is wonderful.
27:09
Speaker 1: That that is not broadcast quality. And somebody at this
27:12
Speaker 1: company decided that we need to hear that. And with
27:15
Speaker 1: that speaker kickback, right? There was obviously a speaker right
27:18
Speaker 1: there and it was right near the microphone or something.
27:20
Speaker 1: There was definitely feedback. And yet... They said, you know what?
27:25
Speaker 1: Let's play that on 600 radio stations. Why not? What
27:28
Speaker 1: the F? Who cares? My God.
27:30
Speaker 3: All right.
27:31
Speaker 1: Here is one more. Why not? Let's see if this
27:33
Speaker 1: is crappy, too. Here is Sean Payton commenting on the
27:37
Speaker 1: fact that Bo Nix has decided he does not need
27:41
Speaker 1: to show up to the first half of these games.
27:43
Speaker 1: Here's Payton on that.
27:44
Speaker 4: We're trying to sort through this first quarter, meaning he's
27:49
Speaker 4: obviously the moments aren't too big and he moves and
27:53
Speaker 4: escapes and makes plays. But it leads us to like
27:57
Speaker 4: that first part of the jigsaw, which is, man, we
28:00
Speaker 4: have to find a way to play better earlier. Now,
28:03
Speaker 4: we've had a couple of halves that have been real
28:05
Speaker 4: low numbering halves like week one and this week. I
28:08
Speaker 4: think it's more difficult to play defense if you look
28:11
Speaker 4: at time of possession. And so that area needs to
28:13
Speaker 4: get better.
28:15
Speaker 1: All right, so let me clean that up. What Sean Payton,
28:17
Speaker 1: I've got my Maller Rosetta Stone. Sean Payton said that
28:21
Speaker 1: Bo Nix blows in the first half of games, but
28:24
Speaker 1: he used some other words there to kind of clean
28:26
Speaker 1: that up. So that's what he meant to say. He
28:28
Speaker 1: just didn't want to say it. Yes, Coop, I hear
28:31
Speaker 1: like you said something, Coop. You want to chime in
28:33
Speaker 1: on this?
28:34
Speaker 9: No, I mean, I think you're probably right about that
28:38
Speaker 9: Sean Payton cut right there. But I think in your monologue,
28:42
Speaker 9: you did kind of contradict yourself a little bit.
28:45
Speaker 1: You were right. Are you sucking on a lollipop or something?
28:49
Speaker 1: What's going on here? I feel like you have a
28:50
Speaker 1: throat lozenge or something. Doesn't it seem like you have
28:51
Speaker 1: a throat lozenge?
28:53
Speaker 5: No? No.
28:54
Speaker 1: Somebody does?
28:54
Speaker 3: I don't.
28:56
Speaker 9: No, I don't have a throat lozenge.
28:59
Speaker 1: It sounds like you do. It does.
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Speaker 9: I don't.
29:03
Speaker 1: Does it not, Mark?
29:04
Speaker 3: No?
29:05
Speaker 1: Am I making that up? A little bit. There's something,
29:08
Speaker 1: but it's not what you think. I don't know. Okay,
29:13
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Go ahead. I apologize.
29:15
Speaker 6: Yes.
29:16
Speaker 9: No, anyway, I'm saying that you contradicted yourself because you
29:19
Speaker 9: said that the Broncos didn't win the game and, you know,
29:22
Speaker 9: the refs gave it to them.
29:24
Speaker 1: That is correct.
29:24
Speaker 9: But then the next thing you said proves that they
29:28
Speaker 9: did win the game because what happened on that play
29:32
Speaker 9: was great acting, award-winning acting.
29:35
Speaker 1: Don't even start, dude. The credit goes to the Broncos there.
29:38
Speaker 1: Don't even start, dude. How many years when the Clippers
29:41
Speaker 1: had Chris Paul and I had to hear with you, oh,
29:44
Speaker 1: they're all acting. Oh, my God. I mean, my God,
29:48
Speaker 1: you spent four or five years yelling at me because
29:51
Speaker 1: these guys were embellishing calls. And now you're all, oh,
29:54
Speaker 1: they deserved it because they were good acting there. Yeah.
29:58
Speaker 9: What is that?
29:59
Speaker 1: That's bullcrap. You can say the same thing about you.
30:03
Speaker 9: You defended the Clippers back then. That's just how it
30:07
Speaker 9: went down. They should have never been in the position
30:11
Speaker 9: to lose the game on a single call.
30:13
Speaker 1: I agree with you on that. But at the same time,
30:16
Speaker 1: you understand how rare it is for a rules analyst
30:18
Speaker 1: on TV. These guys are all former referees. OK, they're
30:22
Speaker 1: all they all hang out with each other. They're all buddies.
30:24
Speaker 1: They don't rip the referees. It's the biggest waste of
30:28
Speaker 1: time having a rules analyst in the booth because they
30:30
Speaker 1: don't want to rip the referees because it's all part
30:33
Speaker 1: of the good old boys network. They're all in bed
30:35
Speaker 1: with each other. And even the rules analyst was like, well,
30:37
Speaker 1: I was bad.
30:38
Speaker 9: Well, look, I'm not I'm not going to lie. I
30:40
Speaker 9: said in the moment to my wife, I was like, oh, that's.
30:44
Speaker 9: That's not defensive pass interference.
30:45
Speaker 10: But I don't know that you can blame the ref
30:50
Speaker 10: because when the play happened, because before you watched the replay,
30:56
Speaker 10: like when it happened live, I screamed pass interference.
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Speaker 1: How about this? Why not just get rid of replay?
31:02
Speaker 1: If you can't correct that call, why not just get
31:05
Speaker 1: rid of replay? How about that? No, you're right about that.
31:10
Speaker 1: Why are we wasting our time for seven minutes to
31:12
Speaker 1: review these stupid calls?
31:13
Speaker 9: It's weird that you can review some things and can't
31:15
Speaker 9: review others. You should be able to review everything or
31:18
Speaker 9: nothing at all. It's very convenient that certain calls.
31:23
Speaker 1: Like the Seattle call, the two-point conversion last year, which
31:26
Speaker 1: was a gift to the Seahawks. Well, this is good, Coop.
31:29
Speaker 1: The last team to get a gift like this from
31:31
Speaker 1: the Rams won the Super Bowl. So the Broncos, this
31:33
Speaker 1: could be their year. The Seahawks, they didn't deserve to
31:36
Speaker 1: go last year. They got the gift. By the way,
31:38
Speaker 1: where's all those Seahawks fans? Oh, I guess their phones
31:41
Speaker 1: stopped working after they lost to Marcus Mariota. Frauds! Frauds!
31:46
Speaker 1: Bunch of frauds. He lost to a backup quarterback, and
31:50
Speaker 1: the team doesn't even have a nickname.
31:52
Speaker 2: The Commanders!
31:53
Speaker 1: What a dumb nickname! They don't even have a real name!
31:55
Speaker 1: That's a filler name, the Commanders!
31:57
Speaker 2: It's a woke name!
31:58
Speaker 1: It's so stupid! They don't even have a name. You
32:01
Speaker 1: lost to a team with no name and a backup quarterback. Seattle,
32:05
Speaker 1: where you at, Seattle? Oh, I had to go to bed.
32:07
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Ben. I had to go to sleep early.
32:09
Speaker 1: I couldn't stay up for your show. Let's go to
32:14
Speaker 1: Mike in Tucson. It is the Ben Maller Show. Hello,
32:17
Speaker 1: Mike in Tucson.
32:18
Speaker 3: Welcome. I'm the big barbecue guy in Tucson. Big shout
32:24
Speaker 3: out to my family, Brandon, Anthony, my friends that helped
32:28
Speaker 3: me out with the desserts. Nicole, but I called tonight
32:32
Speaker 3: to vent about the Raider Nation. Ben, we all heard
32:35
Speaker 3: the YouTube. A lot of YouTube people talk about they
32:37
Speaker 3: played the clip. You talk about the Raiders so bad, Ben.
32:41
Speaker 1: I didn't talk about the Raiders bad. I don't like
32:43
Speaker 1: the suck-ups that give you-know-what to the Raiders. I actually
32:48
Speaker 1: call it like it is. These frauds. These absolute fraud
32:52
Speaker 1: fanboys with their little YouTube channels.
32:55
Speaker 3: Ben, I'm not coming for your head, Ben. I'm coming
32:57
Speaker 3: for Coop's head because I'm in a bed with Coop.
32:59
Speaker 3: I told him the Raiders will have a better record
33:02
Speaker 3: than the Broncos. Bo Nix is not the real deal.
33:04
Speaker 3: And Coop, okay, Coop, chime in, Coop, because he's about
33:07
Speaker 3: to chime in. The Broncos are so bad. A lot
33:10
Speaker 3: of those passes tonight should have been intercepted. The Broncos
33:13
Speaker 3: are so bad. The Raiders will finish before the Broncos
33:16
Speaker 3: first place. Everybody laughed at me. I'm a diehard Raider fan.
33:20
Speaker 3: The Raiders will finish before the Broncos. No, I believe that. But, Ben,
33:23
Speaker 3: I heard your take last week. When we beat the Chargers, nobody. Ben,
33:27
Speaker 3: the Raiders, give us our flowers, Ben. Give us our flowers.
33:30
Speaker 9: When I screened the call, I asked him, who have
33:32
Speaker 9: the Raiders beat? And he said the Chargers. Chargers are
33:35
Speaker 9: a good team.
33:35
Speaker 1: That's what he said. Chargers are 0-3. Chargers are 0-3.
33:37
Speaker 3: The Dolphins are 0-3.
33:38
Speaker 1: And the Saints are 1-2. That's who you've played. The
33:45
Speaker 1: Saints were projected to have a losing record this year,
33:47
Speaker 1: and they will have a losing record. You don't understand.
33:50
Speaker 1: I know it's been a long time since the Raiders
33:52
Speaker 1: had a good team. They're not a good team. They
33:54
Speaker 1: haven't beaten anyone. I feel sad for you. I feel
33:59
Speaker 1: sad for you.
34:00
Speaker 3: I just still hate it. I'm not hating.
34:02
Speaker 1: I'm just calling. Again, you're used to listening to fanboys
34:06
Speaker 1: that do the little Raider blogs. I'm not on the
34:09
Speaker 1: payroll for the Raiders. I don't have to wear a
34:11
Speaker 1: Raider polo when I do the show.
34:14
Speaker 3: And, Ben, I love you to death, Ben. And you
34:16
Speaker 3: keep it real as real. And that's why I love
34:18
Speaker 3: you to death. You keep it real. And everybody doubts us.
34:21
Speaker 3: Everyone doubts us. I know you doubt us, too. Everyone
34:23
Speaker 3: doubts us.
34:24
Speaker 1: Go ahead and beat the Chiefs. Go ahead and beat
34:26
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and I'll say nice things. How about that?
34:28
Speaker 1: Beat the Chiefs, and I'll say nice things. How about that?
34:30
Speaker 1: Beat a real team. Beat a real team. Or even
34:33
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, for that matter.
34:35
Speaker 9: I don't see the Raiders beating the Jaguars.
34:37
Speaker 1: No, they won't beat Jacksonville. Down the line, we'll be like,
34:41
Speaker 1: do you remember when the Raiders were 3-0 and their
34:43
Speaker 1: guys were calling up all excited, all horny? It's like
34:46
Speaker 1: the funniest thing in the world. But listen, enjoy it.
34:49
Speaker 1: I know you're a bunch of old dudes because nobody
34:50
Speaker 1: young likes the Raiders because they've sucked. Anybody under the
34:53
Speaker 1: age of like 30, you're not a Raider fan because
34:54
Speaker 1: they've been embarrassing for 30 years. So why would you
34:57
Speaker 1: be a Raider fan? So everyone's like old dudes that
34:59
Speaker 1: like the Raiders. Nobody young likes the Raiders because they're
35:01
Speaker 1: an embarrassment. And I get it. I totally understand. All right.
35:06
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Page down. Scrooge, who's no longer in
35:10
Speaker 1: the younger demo in the Bay Area, says the refs
35:12
Speaker 1: got the call wrong. The Rams should have won by
35:15
Speaker 1: at least three touches. Some people are saying that I'm
35:18
Speaker 1: upset because of Benny versus the Penny, but you didn't listen.
35:21
Speaker 1: I took the Broncos. I won the bet on Benny
35:24
Speaker 1: versus the Penny. It's not about that. That's a separate thing.
35:29
Speaker 1: So I should be happy that the referees helped out
35:32
Speaker 1: because that was one of the games they got right.
35:34
Speaker 1: They got killed in the early TV window. Did better
35:36
Speaker 1: in the late TV window on Benny versus the Penny. Anyway,
35:39
Speaker 1: it is the Ben Maller Show. Time now for the
35:43
Speaker 1: Who Am I game. Very odd thing happened in that
35:47
Speaker 1: 49er Cardinal game. 49ers wide receiver Debo Samuel had 80
35:52
Speaker 1: receiving yards without a catch. That is a new NFL record,
35:56
Speaker 1: breaking my previous record of 65 receiving yards without a catch. Again,
36:02
Speaker 1: 49er wide receiver Debo Samuel, 80 receiving yards without a catch.
36:08
Speaker 1: That is a new NFL record breaking my previous record
36:12
Speaker 1: of 65 receiving yards without a catch. Who am I?
36:15
Speaker 1: The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
36:18
Speaker 7: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
36:20
Speaker 7: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
36:24
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show, Fox Sports Radio. Don't forget, check out
36:26
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour Podcast. Three new episodes dropped over the weekend.
36:30
Speaker 1: Had a good conversation with longtime MLB, NBA, even NFL
36:35
Speaker 1: announcer Mel Proctor. who called games in Baltimore for the Orioles,
36:41
Speaker 1: the Washington Bullets, and the NBA. I got to know
36:44
Speaker 1: him a little bit with the Clips. He did some
36:46
Speaker 1: games there, did the Padre games. Mel, a good dude,
36:49
Speaker 1: good guy. And he checked in with us on the
36:52
Speaker 1: 5th Hour Podcast on Friday, so check that out. He
36:57
Speaker 1: tells quite the tale about some of his travels in
37:00
Speaker 1: Hawaii doing minor league baseball and recreating the broadcasts because
37:04
Speaker 1: they were too cheap to send the broadcasters on the road.
37:08
Speaker 1: even back in the day when they had money. They
37:10
Speaker 1: still were too cheap. So it's good to see nothing's
37:12
Speaker 1: changed in broadcasting over the years. Anyway, that's over the weekend.
37:15
Speaker 1: Check that out, Fifth Hour Podcast. Thank you, thank you,
37:18
Speaker 1: thank you. We'll pay off the Who Am I game
37:24
Speaker 1: in a minute. But first, let's say hello to Andre,
37:29
Speaker 1: who's in the Commonwealth. And Andre is up next year
37:33
Speaker 1: to break down the NFL. Hello, Andre, Andre, Andre.
37:37
Speaker 5: Welcome.
37:38
Speaker 1: And it's Dog Willis.
37:41
Speaker 6: Yes, Willis is not behaving. And he's going to be
37:46
Speaker 6: subject to discipline. I think the referees, again, Ben, that's
37:50
Speaker 6: where I am on that situation. I didn't quibble with
37:56
Speaker 6: the pass interference.
37:57
Speaker 3: I thought he guided him.
37:58
Speaker 1: Out of bounds.
37:58
Speaker 6: He had his off arm on him. He kind of
38:00
Speaker 6: pushed him. He bumped him. But the hands to the face,
38:03
Speaker 6: I thought that was just the quarterback defensive back and
38:06
Speaker 6: the wide receiver.
38:07
Speaker 3: Getting out of their break.
38:08
Speaker 6: I didn't think it affected anything. I thought the throw
38:10
Speaker 6: was long. It didn't hurt anything. So in those instances,
38:15
Speaker 6: I don't know why they decided to go with the
38:18
Speaker 6: letter of the law rather than the spirit of the
38:20
Speaker 6: law in a game. What was gained by that? The
38:23
Speaker 6: Broncos had three third downs to go to get a
38:27
Speaker 6: score before having.
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Speaker 3: To kick a field goal.
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Speaker 6: But if they kick a field goal, game goes into
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Speaker 6: overtime or the Rams come down and possibly have a
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Speaker 6: chance to win the game, I mean, you just get
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Speaker 6: a better product, and that's going to be something that
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Speaker 6: just defines the game. Beyond this, Ben, the other teams
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Speaker 6: out in Los Angeles, so the Rams, they got hosed.
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Speaker 6: The Chargers, okay, they can't take the hose off their
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Speaker 6: own head for anything. They're walking out of the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: They don't want to be in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Hey, they're playing for a top-five draft pick. And, hey,
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Speaker 1: I hope they get the first pick. They can get
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Speaker 1: a real quarterback, get rid of Herbert and draft somebody
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Speaker 1: else who can actually play. The way they're going, they're
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Speaker 1: going to get a top-five pick in the draft. They're terrible.
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Speaker 1: They're going to lose their next six games or so.
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Speaker 1: I mean, 0-9 to begin the year. Good luck. Yeah.
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Speaker 6: And Mr. Harbaugh, who came in with his khakis, staying
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Speaker 6: in his RV. You know, launching all, as much as
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Speaker 6: Willis is.
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Speaker 3: Growling and misbehaving, this is how.
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Speaker 6: Many compliments he has heaped upon Justin Herbert.
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Speaker 3: Crown jewel, greatest quarterback of all time.
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Speaker 7: I know.
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Speaker 1: He lays it. He's got his knee pads on for Herbert.
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Speaker 1: And also McDaniel. He's said nothing but kind things about McDaniel.
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Speaker 1: Imagine if he was good as an offensive coordinator, what
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Speaker 1: Harbaugh would say. He'd really be over the top. I've
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Speaker 1: got to leave it there, Andre, because we're up against him.
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Speaker 1: I've got to pay off the who am I game
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Speaker 1: to Andre. I had to get him on. I used
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Speaker 1: to get up early, so he's got a day job.
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Speaker 1: Here's the Who Am I game. 49er wide receiver Debo Samuel,
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Speaker 1: 80 receiving yards without a catch. It's a new NFL record,
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Speaker 1: breaking my previous record of 65 receiving yards without a catch.
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Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question. What is the answer?
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Speaker 1: And Mallard Prop Guy says it's Robbie the Mariner fan
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Speaker 1: is the answer. Rick Riz, that was from Robbie, the legend,
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Speaker 1: a Mariner broadcaster retiring. Uncle Roger from Scrooge. Randy Moss,
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Speaker 1: guest by Femi. Rip Van Maller from Alf the Alien. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I did have to fall asleep because I was driving
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Speaker 1: and didn't get enough sleep over the weekend. Natron in
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Speaker 1: Stockton says, Timmy Brown is the answer. What else do
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Speaker 1: we have? Page down. Doki Williams from Kyle. The Darling
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Speaker 1: Hotel from Michael in Tulsa. It's good to see you
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Speaker 1: boys are listening to the podcast. To the pod, George
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Speaker 1: Takai from Nature Boy. Who else do we have? Burgess
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Speaker 1: Meredith from Kev Atomic. The correct answer, none other than
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Speaker 1: Eagles running back. It was Timmy Brown back in 1961.
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Speaker 1: 65 receiving yards without a catch.