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  Speaker 3: A Super Bowl rematch that was lacking the wow factor.
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  Speaker 1: with the Sunday Nike that was such a dud. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: my god, you all told me JJ McCarthy, all JJ McCarthy,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be better because he didn't play as a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: He got hurt, and he went to all the meetings
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  Speaker 1: and he learned everything, and oh man, he's so good.
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  Speaker 1: The guy blows Okay, two games in McCarthy sucks and
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  Speaker 1: it's bad television. How did that game end up in
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night football? How does Minnesota and Atlanta? What a
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  Speaker 1: clunker that was? In my opinion, that sucked. So in
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  Speaker 1: an active protest against this malfeasans by the NFL that's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to put the top teams in the Sunday night window,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna skip over that game till later we've got
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  Speaker 1: four hours and instead a rematch the game of the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: which also wasn't all that great, but it was at
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  Speaker 1: Arrowhead Stadium in Cannes City, and so that is where
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  Speaker 1: we will start, and that is our lead here. As
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, who have been consistently dominant even when they're bad,
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  Speaker 1: they get to the AFC Championship game. They're at the
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  Speaker 1: point now where mathematically it's not looking very good. Two
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  Speaker 1: weeks into the NFL season, it's not looking very good.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are zero and two. They
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  Speaker 1: are all and two, which I'm told is not good.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't play in the NFL. I know Ryan Clark
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  Speaker 1: probably doesn't want me to give a take on this,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think that's that good. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's not good. So oh and two after losing the
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  Speaker 1: much anticipated rematch there on America's Game of the Week,
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  Speaker 1: and if you saw this game or not, we're watching
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  Speaker 1: it was everywhere. Not a lot going on in the
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  Speaker 1: late television window. And if you didn't see it, well listen,
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  Speaker 1: we know the better stories in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: So that is where we're gonna focus here. Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the the outcome that is shocking. I picked on
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  Speaker 1: Benny versus the pay we had to be the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: on that. If you watch the YouTube show, we had
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles in that game on a few things we
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  Speaker 1: got right this weekend, so it's not shocking the Chiefs loss.
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  Speaker 1: This is only a second time Mahomes has been an
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  Speaker 1: underdog at home. And there's a reason he was an
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  Speaker 1: underdog because the Chiefs aren't very good right now. They're
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  Speaker 1: oh and two. Mahomes was asked about this. He said, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the start we wanted. Mahomes said he believes
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City is quote close he said, to figuring things out. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: I know it sucks to hear it for the fans,
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes said, but you know what butt means. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we're close. He said, we're We've got
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  Speaker 1: to keep working and get ready for the Giants next week,
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  Speaker 1: all right, close quote on that. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. Can you please decode the message within the
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  Speaker 1: message from Patrick Mahomes as the Chiefs are as he says, close,
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  Speaker 1: They're close to figuring things out, all right. So my
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on this, I've got Tutoring, Lightning and Marvel Comics,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make some delicious, crunchy Taketo's is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to make. We're gonna make those so
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  Speaker 1: a uh, there's not too deep to dig in this
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  Speaker 1: particular commentary from Patrick Mahomes. Here, here's what Mahomes is
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  Speaker 1: really saying. Keep it simple, stupid is what he's saying.
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  Speaker 1: He's saying that, hey, we've got he said it. We
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  Speaker 1: got the Giants on NBC coming up on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: That is the NFL's version of a layup line. That
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  Speaker 1: is a pitch and putt is what that is. That
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  Speaker 1: is homecoming opponent time when you play well. The Giants
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  Speaker 1: scored a lot of points against the Cowboys. How'd that
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  Speaker 1: turn out? Yeah, they scored their quota of points, which
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  Speaker 1: means the Giants are likely they're going to go back
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  Speaker 1: to scoring seventeen points or something like that next week.
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  Speaker 1: That is a pinata game. You want that game. That
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  Speaker 1: is a well scheduled game. It's show up, collect a win.
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  Speaker 1: And Moms is essentially admitting here that, hey, the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: are not right all right. The schedule maker, though, handed
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  Speaker 1: us a gift. And that's a nice soft served cone.
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  Speaker 1: That's a delicious soft serve cone. And so don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about it. We're gonna be back on track here and
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  Speaker 1: we'll be okay. We'll win the game. It's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be pretty, but we're gonna win the game. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants are exactly exactly what the Kansas City Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: need right now. And let's not kidd ourselves here. This
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs offense is lacking. They're lacking a lot. I mean
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  Speaker 1: they are. It's a hot mess. It's a stew, and
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  Speaker 1: not a good kind of stew. That's Simmary there there.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a lot of meat on the ball. Where's
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  Speaker 1: the razzle dazzle. There's not a lot of razzle dazzle.
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  Speaker 1: Where's the circus sole, the Circus act that used to
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  Speaker 1: terrify defenses and all that stuff. Where's that? It's gone?
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  Speaker 1: I doubt say it. Do you see it? I don't
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  Speaker 1: see it. Maybe my eyesight's going back. I do not
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  Speaker 1: see it when I watch the Chiefs play, I don't
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  Speaker 1: see that in the first two games. And this is
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  Speaker 1: a plodding team. It is a paint drying type team. Offensively.
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  Speaker 1: When you watch this team go about their business, there
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  Speaker 1: is just not Eliza. Well, they're good. Injuries. Okay, as
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  Speaker 1: far as Mahomes say, we're close to figuring it out.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't the whole job to figure it out when the
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  Speaker 1: when the games begin, and not a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: into the season. That isn't the whole thing to come
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  Speaker 1: out here. You've been around, you've got the championship pedigree
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and you just come out of
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  Speaker 1: the gates and and get it going. Well. Andy Reid
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  Speaker 1: chimed in on this big riot, Andy Reid, and do
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  Speaker 1: you think Andy Reid is blaming Mahomes? Do you think
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  Speaker 1: he's blaming Travis Kelcey, or do you think he's doing
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  Speaker 1: what every else coach, every other coach in the world does, say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the guy, blame me, I'm the guy. Let's take
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  Speaker 1: it us.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take four responsibilities for the game, all right. I
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  Speaker 4: probably say too aggressive on that, and that's my responsibility.
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  Speaker 4: My guys played their tail off and played hard and
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  Speaker 4: aggressive football, and and they stuck together throughout the game.
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  Speaker 4: And and they'll pay for us down the road when
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  Speaker 4: as we continue to grow.
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  Speaker 1: So you're never ever there's a couple of cardinal rules
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  Speaker 1: in sports. One of them is you can never ever
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  Speaker 1: say your team is lazy and they don't play hard.
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  Speaker 1: That is a capital offense, right, that gets you fired.
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  Speaker 1: So even when your team is terrible, you have to
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  Speaker 1: say they're playing hard. You have to say that, But
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  Speaker 1: you look at the offense. I keep going back to this.
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  Speaker 1: It's a paint drying type situation here. But there is
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  Speaker 1: a lot of playmakers that are more like traffic cones
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  Speaker 1: when you watch them go about their business. There there
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  Speaker 1: is nobody that really scares you. Nobody that scares you you.
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey's continued to get he's old, he's an old player,
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  Speaker 1: and he's more worried about podcast and is a little
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  Speaker 1: lady friend that he's gonna marry. And that's fine, that's
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  Speaker 1: his life, but doesn't help the Chiefs out right now.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about what he was, not what he is
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  Speaker 1: anymore because he's a shell of what he used to be,
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  Speaker 1: and that's normally how that works. But he's still out
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  Speaker 1: there that can't get rid of him because he's Travis Kelsey.
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  Speaker 1: You got to keep throwing his rotting carcass out on
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  Speaker 1: the field in every game. But you look around. The
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  Speaker 1: defense is legit in Kansas City, so you figure they
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  Speaker 1: just got to get a little bit more, just a
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  Speaker 1: little slightly more on offense and they can be okay.
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  Speaker 1: But at the moment, and we do the show today
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  Speaker 1: and at the moment that is a yawn fest, that
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  Speaker 1: is an absolute yawn fest. And let's not gloss over
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  Speaker 1: this that Patrick Mahomes himself has not been good enough.
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  Speaker 1: So well, we don't know the playmakers, all right. Wasn't
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  Speaker 1: it the quarterback that makes the players around him better?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that always the argument that we make that the
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  Speaker 1: elevate the quarterback elevates the people around him. And the
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  Speaker 1: early placement exam a couple weeks into the regular season
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  Speaker 1: and Kansas City needs some tutoring is what they need?
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  Speaker 1: They do. The Eagles are a measuring stick game. Every man,
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  Speaker 1: woman and child knows that. And Kansas City they got
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  Speaker 1: measured and they got weighed and they were found wanting
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  Speaker 1: is the way it was? Right? The game was again,
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  Speaker 1: it was not they had a chance. They did have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to win the game. And you know the
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  Speaker 1: mathematically in the fourth quarter and you can do the
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  Speaker 1: math on that. But with offenses looked like they were
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  Speaker 1: slogging through the mud. And I didn't seen any mud.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see mud? I didn't see mud. Did you
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  Speaker 1: see I didn't see any mud? Some of homes saying
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  Speaker 1: we're close, and using that line is really like, hey, please,
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  Speaker 1: you loyal minions, you loyal minions, do not freak out. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: nothing to see here. We've got the Giants, and that's
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  Speaker 1: a feel good opponent. That is a feel good opponent
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  Speaker 1: when you play the Giants, feel good. But the week
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  Speaker 1: after that, the Ravens, they come a call in at Arrowhead.
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  Speaker 1: So you gotta beat the Giants. You don't beat the
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  Speaker 1: Giants the way the unless the Chiefs get a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of guys back that all of a sudden can run
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  Speaker 1: and catch passes and run through the defense, then you're looking.
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  Speaker 1: If they don't beat the Giants and you're going to
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  Speaker 1: zero and four, then's doomsday prophecies. So you gotta beat
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  Speaker 1: the You've got to beat the Giants, and then maybe
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  Speaker 1: are pulling upset against Baltimore. You are at home, But
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  Speaker 1: that's a wood chipper game after that. So yeah, close
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  Speaker 1: in Chiefs verbiage saying you're close. You know, we're close
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  Speaker 1: to getting a get well game, get well game. You're
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  Speaker 1: close to that there, and then we get slapped back
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  Speaker 1: in the face right after that. Now, meanwhile, the story
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  Speaker 1: within the story here, the subplot from this particular game.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know where I'm going with this. It
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  Speaker 1: involves one of my favorite things to talk about, the
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  Speaker 1: tush push. That's right the touchboard. So instead of everyone
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  Speaker 1: focused in on Mahomes, I started with Ohlmes. But instead
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  Speaker 1: of most people focusing in on Patrick Mahomes and Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid and even Nick Sirianni, it's all the conversation, all
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  Speaker 1: the rage, all the rage. It's all about Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: and the caboose being pushed. Push the caboose, push the caboose,
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  Speaker 1: push the caboose. Just like that, you're being shoved across
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  Speaker 1: the line to gain the line of scrimmage here. So
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  Speaker 1: there was a famous play, I say famous relatively speaking,
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of this game. Tom Brady was
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  Speaker 1: on the call on Fox and he still stinks as
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  Speaker 1: a broadcaster. But Tom Brady was crying a foul, crying
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  Speaker 1: a foul about the Eagles offensive line moving early, which
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  Speaker 1: is they obviously did you You don't have to have
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  Speaker 1: seen the play, even are blind listeners know they moved early.
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  Speaker 1: So the question on this one, it's not just that
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  Speaker 1: particular play that was the ignition point, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not just that play. That was the ignition point.
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  Speaker 1: But the question, give me your reaction, give me your
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  Speaker 1: reaction to the latest kerfluffel over the Eagles. Jalen hurts,
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  Speaker 1: push push, as this is now like the swallows returning
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  Speaker 1: to Capistrano, and it's it's a nons It's a story
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  Speaker 1: that every year, every single year, becomes a talking point
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  Speaker 1: here and a couple of times a year. And so anyway,
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  Speaker 1: here's Andy Reid again. Here's Andy Reid his take on
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  Speaker 1: what appeared to be a clear violation that was not
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  Speaker 1: called by the referees. The Eagles jumped off side stakes.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you try to get penetration as what you
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  Speaker 4: try to do and be a will stop it. That's
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  Speaker 4: a pretty rough one.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I might have a couple of them that they got
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  Speaker 4: off a little early on. But we'll look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what is there to look at. We all saw it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't look at it. It's gonna change anything, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So the NFL spends all this money on replay, and
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  Speaker 1: they spend all you all this. Yeah, and we got
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  Speaker 1: every call right, every call right, of course, not the
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  Speaker 1: human elements part of it was obvious. It's like three
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  Speaker 1: guys jumped off sides at least two, probably three, and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't call it. So on the play in question,
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  Speaker 1: the obvious off sides. The officials it was like Ray
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  Speaker 1: Charles and his friends were all there as we had
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  Speaker 1: Stevie Meatball's blind Emmett. We had that guy used to
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  Speaker 1: call a show that quits like a lunatic every other week,
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  Speaker 1: Blind Scott. They all, they all did it. They were
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  Speaker 1: all the referees there. Clearly we we had in terror.
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  Speaker 1: He was the lead official in this. So the Zebras
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  Speaker 1: they need to go out to lens crafters is what
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  Speaker 1: they do here. And a multiple bird brain linemen who
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  Speaker 1: were doing the cha cha cha before they were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be doing the cha cha cha before the snap.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, people lose their minds, Oh my god, lose
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  Speaker 1: their minds because this was supposed to be America's Game
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  Speaker 1: of the Week, right, get the calls right, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes versus Hurts, a Super Bowl rematch for the ages
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  Speaker 1: two time Super Bowl rematch. Instead, it's another mcmillion scandal,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is for the Philadelphia football team. Some
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  Speaker 1: shady business. Instead of stealing the McDonald's monopoly piece, one
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  Speaker 1: of the great documentaries of all time, that mcmillion documentary
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  Speaker 1: from a few years ago. But Nick Sirianni, Nick Sirianti,
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  Speaker 1: the very pompous, arrogant, a hole coach of the Philadelphia Egos.
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  Speaker 1: They're stealing first das by shoving Jalen Hurds, shoving his
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  Speaker 1: Badonka Donk over the line to gain and so it's
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  Speaker 1: infuriating the many. That's the whole point of this. People
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  Speaker 1: a very upset by this. And here's why. Because nobody,
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  Speaker 1: nobody does it like Philadelphia. We've had these conversations the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years. This thing's been around for several years,
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  Speaker 1: and it's for the Eagles. It's going to Disneyland. It's
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  Speaker 1: the lightning it's the Lightning Lane. You got to pay
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  Speaker 1: a little extra for it. But you go to Pirates
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  Speaker 1: of the Caribbean, it's lined up around the block. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Straight to the front of the line, right,
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  Speaker 1: go right to the front of the line. There. It
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  Speaker 1: works every single time. And the Eagles, they are the
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  Speaker 1: unstoppable locomotive. The unstoppable locomotive the Philadelphia Eagles. When they
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  Speaker 1: run that play, it's a freebie for Jalen hurts, and
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  Speaker 1: it's shocking how often they have a third and one
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  Speaker 1: or a fourth and one right, and its wild. It's
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  Speaker 1: like trying to win the electoral college. They can't get
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  Speaker 1: an enough votes Roger Goodell in terms of they tried
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of it the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: They came a few votes short. But the electoral college,
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  Speaker 1: too many teams are like, ah, we don't care, we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get rid of it. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: same old argument. The argument against the torch pushes. It's clear,
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  Speaker 1: it's unsafe, it's unfair, it's ruining the purity of the game.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same argument back in the day. I've read
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  Speaker 1: about in college basketball when for a few years in
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties they got rid of the slam dunk
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  Speaker 1: because a guy named Luel Sinder who would change his
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  Speaker 1: name to Kareem Abdul Jabbar was a dunking and they
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  Speaker 1: had to get rid of it and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But the same exact argument, the same exact argument. It's
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  Speaker 1: a different decade years later, and the whining is extreme.
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  Speaker 1: So here's my take. My take is, don't ban it.
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  Speaker 1: Do I like the bottle, love to play, but I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't ban the play just like I would. That's the
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  Speaker 1: cowardly thing to do. That's what baseball does. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to be like baseball. Right, the shift,
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  Speaker 1: we got to ban the shift. No, you don't need
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  Speaker 1: to ban the shit, but they did because they're dumb.
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  Speaker 1: They're weak. Don't be dumb. Don't be weak. Don't be dumb.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be weak. That's what baseball is. Don't be that,
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  Speaker 1: don't be that, don't do that. Don't do that. NFL
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  Speaker 1: so I wouldn't ban it, right, I'd copy it. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the thing. These teams are so stupid in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles have spelled out an unstoppable play, and you're
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  Speaker 1: so you're so worried about your high yere David quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: you can't run the play. Seriously, like you look at
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  Speaker 1: the Andy Reid. Do the Chiefs ever run the Toush push?
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  Speaker 1: I don't see it. Kyle Shanahan and San Francisco, Sean
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  Speaker 1: McVay with the Rams, Dan Campbell run it yourself. You
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  Speaker 1: on a Monday night, I was debating on the game
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  Speaker 1: not a very good game, and b we are being
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  Speaker 1: Believe it or not, Who the hell wants to hear
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  Speaker 1: that crap? But anyway, so I'm gonna wait on that.
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  Speaker 1: was good, I would have started with it very goods.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Start with the good game. Why talk about the bad game.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I'll talk about the good game. So that's what I'm
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: gonna do. So our lead this hour is from Houston.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: That was the undercard on the Monday night football double Edder.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: You had Baker Mayfield versus C. J. Stroud. Now, I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: don't know if you were watching this game or not.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: It was another full six hour, seven hour period with
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: football activity, and maybe you did not watch it. Our
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: old buddy TJ. Reeves and the Tampa Bay Buccantis the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: sidelines on the radio there for the Bucks. So the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Buccaneers and the Texans that to match up. Not a
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: lot of wow factoring this. So we watched. Don't worry,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you did not have to watch. We watched so you
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: would not have to watch. And the game came down
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: to the bitter end. It was nail biting time. The
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Buccaneers got the ball, they were trailing. They needed a
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: touchdown down by five, and Baker Mayfield he took his
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: samurai sword and he worked his way, navigated his way
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: down the field an eleven play eighty yard drive capped
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: off by a Rashad White two yard touchdown run with
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: just six seconds. That's it, six seconds to go, and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay said, turn out the last the parties over
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: on the Texans who are oh and two and have
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a chance to go owen seventeen. They have a chance
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: to lose every game this year. Tampa Bay did go
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: for two, they didn't get so they ended winning game
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: twenty to nineteen. The final score. Baker Mayfield not a
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: sexy stat line. He only had two hundred fifteen yards passing,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: did have a couple of touchdowns. But the Buccaneers who
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: also won in the final seconds thanks to the idiot
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: kicker for the Atlanta Falcons in Week one. So the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Buccaneers now off to the two and zero start, and
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield also had a couple of big plays with
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: his legs fifteen yard scramble on a fourth and ten
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: to keep the game winning drive alive and they end
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: up going on to win the game. But the better
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: story is in the losing locker room. The Houston sections
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: are off to the zero to two start. Pee Yeah
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: what stack. So they had a five point lead. As
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: we said it was nineteen fourteen. Offense was lacking nineteen fourteen.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: They led because of they couldn't run the ball all
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: night until the end of it when Nick Chubb Chubb
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: a love love the old Cleveland round. He sucks now,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: but he had a twenty five yard run and it
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: looked like he was gonna be the hero. There were
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: two ten to go in the game. Houston goes for too. CJ. Stroud, though,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: was sacked, and that was the theme of the night.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Stroud through for just two hundred seven yards and a touchdown,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and after the first couple of times Houston had the ball,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: it was downhill, way downhill, and failed to move the
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: offense efficiently effectively. For the balance of the game. It
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: was a snooze fest in the second half for the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Houston Texans, who have some questions that must be answered
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: now because that was not good. Now, I got no
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: skin in the game on this, but that was not
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: good at all. All right, Well, here's let's hear from CJ. Stroud,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the Texans quarterback. Then we'll slice and dice mister Stroud.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: But here's c J. Stroud explaining that things offensively for
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Houston are not let's cut to by the way, things
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: are not going all that well. Take a listen.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: I think right now we need more confidence as an offense,
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: at least just confide playing the better together. I think
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: that's a big thing. We're all we haven't played again
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: a lot of us. So the more commonence that we build,
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: I think the better that we'll be off.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that was a whole lot enough thing, So
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question. How are things looking for
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud two games in to the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: seventeen game season here in twenty twenty five. So my
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: thoughts on this. I've got YouTube, kiddy table, and water supply,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: we are going to make some tex Mechs, which is
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: likely better than the Texans offense at this particular point.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: They just put a container of text Mechs under center,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and that would actually be better. But hey, listen, the
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Texans fans thought they were getting a bounce back season.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: The assumption was, hey, we're getting a bounce back season year. CJ.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Stroud was really good when he came into the NFL.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Some said, well, beginner's luck, and then he fell off
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a mountain, and of course I was the bad guy.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Not to make this all about me, but pointed out
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: c J. Stroud not very good, and then I got
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of crap from the seven Texans fans that
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: exist in the world. Well, you don't know what you're
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: talking about. That's why you're doing overnights. Okay, Well let's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: see what we've got right now. There's supposed to be
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: a bounce back seaton. You told me, you told me
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: bounce back season for CJ. Stroud. You told me that
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: two games in again good as a rookie, bad second
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: year player, c J. Stroud. So here we owe two
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: games in year three and c J. Stroud does he
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: not look a lot like Zach Wilson. That's not a compliment,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: not a compliment. Based on what we have seen. We
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: have a show to do today, right we have showed
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: it tonight overnight. But based on that what we have seen,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: do you believe in CJ. Stroud? Do be honest, don't
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: lie to me. He's gone from hotshot rookie to what's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: wrong with this guy? To now the invisible man? The
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: invisible man a pathetic performance much like he played again
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the Rams in the opener. Was bad in that game
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and c J. Stroud, supposed to be the alpha dog
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: or alpha dog didn't look like it looked like a chihuahua.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: A lot of yappin, you know, tack the mailman, all bark,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: no bite, lot a lot of that. And it's like
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: a crypto stock, but not a good one. It's like, Hey,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: one of your friends convinces you buy some cryptos. I
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: don't really want to do that. Well you need to
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: buy ohky, I'll buy some. I got this great one, right,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: So you thought you were buying you through the texts,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you're like, well, we got some bitcoin, right, that's to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the moon. Instead you got doge coin. That's what you got. Congratulations. Yeah,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Pump and dump, pump and dump. That's how it goes.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: But a few of you knuckleheads, you know who you are.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about mister irrigation because mister Irrigation's
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: already had enough of c J. Stroud based on some
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: comments that he posted on social media. But the other fanboys,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you'll give him time. It's not his fall. He doesn't
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: have a great offensive a line. I ain't give him
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: protection all that crap. Okay, so CJ. Stroud stinks, you're
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: telling me unless he has a great offensive line and
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: great playmakers and everything's perfect around him. Okay, then he's
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: not very good. You're admitting he's not very good, because
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: anyone will have success if they have a great offensive line.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Anyone will have success if they have a great offensive
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: line and great playmakers and all that stuff. All right,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: So Dimiko Ryans could spin this and say all he
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: wants and the other people in Houston about it's not CJ.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Stroud's fault all this, and it's this guy dropped a
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: pass or this guy didn't block, and it's all that.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: But it's like the Irish rock band you two and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: their classic tune that's been over twenty years. Elevation, right,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: you got to elevate the elite guys make it work.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: They find a way to make it work no matter what.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: They elevate those around him. That's the job description for
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: a top level corpack. Now, c J. Stroud, you say
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: is average, Okay, he's average, fine, dim A doesn't average, average,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: not elite. Elite makes it work. And c J. Stroud
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: looks like he's floating on a on a dinghy out
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: in the Gulf of Mexico, somewhere Golf of America. What
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: do you wanna call it? Two games in I don't
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: see a franchise quarterback. I don't see it. I see
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a jag if you want to call him that, right,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: just a guy and nothing spectacular. This keeps up. CJ.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Stroud's not leading Houston anywhere except back to the quarterback quandary.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: And he'll get coaches fired, whether it's the head coach,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Demico Ryans or the offensive coaching staff, and they'll be
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: we got to fix this guy, so we got to
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: change coaches. He'll be a coach killer. That's what happens.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: You play like that, you get your coach fired. Somebody's
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: getting fired. Now speaking of the coach, well, we've got
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Demiko Ryans who is also feeling the wrath of c J. Stroud.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Here's a Demico Ryan's pointing out as far as this
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: game on Monday, now, you well, when you have a
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: chance to finish things, you might want to do that.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: He let a good team like this stick around for
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: too long.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: It's what we did.
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: And they ended up making a play there Baker scrambling
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: going fourth down, which we knew that. That's who he is,
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: that's how he make the plays of scrambling. He made
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: a big time play on fourth and ten. You know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: we got to find a way to tackle and get
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: him down and stop him there. Even on the goal line,
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: we're in position to make a tackle. We got the
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: guy back and make a tackle to win the game.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: That's what the game comes down to. We had multiple
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: opportunities to win that game, and we didn't make the
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: plays we needed to make.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: So he didn't name anyone specifically. It was a more
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: of a collective suck than an individual suck, So he
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: didn't name everybody. But here's the question, are there any positives?
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Are there any positives for Texans coach Demiko Ryans based
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: on the Monday night game now Houston, oh and too.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: So I watched the entire game because I'm getting paid
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: to watch it, Otherwise I probably wouldn't. I did watch it,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: and so I saw. Here's what I saw in terms
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: of positive oh na a zilch none bumpkis That's what
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I saw, all right. I can't find one positive from
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the game itself. I cannot do it, not one positivet Jmiico.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Ryans was brought in as a defensive mastermind. Check right
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: came over from the forty nine ers, and that's his calling. Card.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: That's what he's known for, meat and potatoes all that.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And this game came down to what came down to defense.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Came down to defense. Texans had a five point lead.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: The other team has to score a touchdown to beat you.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: All you need is a defensive stand. And the Texans
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: defense did they make the plays? Obviously not. They lost
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the game game on the line Tampa matriculating the ball
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: down the field. And that Texans defense melting faster than
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a KitKat that you leave on your dashboard in August.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: You ever done that or September for that missed a
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: lot here, right, I don't know. The KitKat gets all gooy.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: It kind of folds thee. To me, that melts more
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: than any of Some people say Hershey's bar, that that melts.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: But to me, it's the kit cat like that. I've
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: always had bad experiences with melted kitcat. And that was
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the Texans defense. Late in the game. You're at home,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: you're a slight favorite. You lost week one, so you
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: got to come back here and you gag demoralizing capital
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: D for the Houston Texans there and if you're the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: defensive guru, Dimiko Ryans, as he said, you got to
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: finish the game. I'm not attacking. And also he says
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: his own words, you got to finish the game. And
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: instead they allowed Baker Mayfield to convert on that fourth
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and ten and essentially Baker punked them, which is embarrassing
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: for the Texans defense, which I played pretty well. Now
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: there is a twisted silver lining, So I will be
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Benny Bright's side. I am going to be Benny bright
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: side on this one because pee, yeah, what stinks? That
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: would be the division the Texans find themselves in. So
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: despite being owing to, the good thing about sitting at
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the kiddy table in the NFL, when you're owing to,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: you're still very much alive. The division stinks. Jacksonville for Gayzy, right,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: they got the coach and the quarterback fighting with each other.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: More on that later, Tennessee stump bums. I don't know,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: they're not even trying. It's just a developmental year and
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: maybe by the end of the year, cam Ward will
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: know what he's doing and they'll find a couple offensive
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: linemen and that's it. They'll get another top ten pick.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: And then you have the Colts, which right now look amazing. Right,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: they got Daniel Jones out there two weeks in a row,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: painting the Mona Lisa. Haven't punted yet in the NFL
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: this season. The Indianapolis Colts, so that's pretty good. I'm
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: told didn't play, so I don't know if I can
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: comment on that. I'll have to check with Ryan Clark.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: But give them a month. I give them a month,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Give the Colts a month there, and then that masterpiece
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: me is see we have this conversation by late October
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: about Halloween. The masterpiece will turn into a Denny's kids menu.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: You know how they give you the crayons and then
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the kids draw on the crayon. Yeah, like that and
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: then with ketchup on it. That's what it's going to
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: look like. And so as much as the Texans are
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: in a bad spot right now and they are the
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Redheaded step Show, and that's always like the most embarrassing
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: division for the NFL because that team that wins that
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: division has to play the first that early Saturday window
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: on wild Card weekend where they It's like in the NBA,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: if the Toronto Raptors ever make the playoffsy always put
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: them in that early window because they want to hide
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the team. They're kind of embarrassed about. They're shamed by
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the team that's whoever wins that AFC South Division. The
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Texas though still mathematically very much alive because the culture
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: gonna lose plenty of games and all that stuff, and
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: one of these bad News Bears franchises is going to
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs and they'll be cannon fodder for one
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: of the better teams to play by then you know,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: somebody's backing into January, into the postseason, whether they deserve
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: it or not. So there's still That's why I will
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: be Benny Brightside in that regard. Now the Detexans look
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: like they're a playoff team, of course not. They're zeroing
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: to and the offense looks completely limp. At this point,
• 34:17
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• 34:20
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• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the GPS, the zip code, all that stuff, you're still
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: still okay. All right, now, last word, we go to
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the other side to Tampa Bay where the Buccaneers, the
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: cardiac kids off to the two and on start now
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: as they get it done again. Another gutty performance by
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, who appears to have that junkyard dog in
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: him as opposed to the other kind of dog. Yeah,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: and lay in the game down the stretch. Baker Mayfield,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: he looked like he was in aerobics class, out there
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: huffing and puffing and bouncing around off defenders, sometimes getting
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: stomped on by defenders, sweating it out like he's on
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: a StairMaster at a jam at three in the morning
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: doing all that, and and somehow, in some way he
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: drags Tampa across the finish line with the help of
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: his friends. So what stands out about Baker Mayfield's late
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: game heroics for the Buccaneers the Tampa Bay football team?
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: So I continue to be missing when Baker got to Tampa,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, this is good, but it's not
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: gonna last. And here we are. How many years he's
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: been there? A couple of years now, three years? He's
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: still going. And so what stands out about Baker Mayfield
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: is the fact he's like the NFL's Robert Downey Junior
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: left for dead after Cleveland and that experience. He was
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: so bad in Cleveland. Baker Mayfield's dad was used at
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: by Baker or Odell Beckham's dad rather, was used by
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the kid to get messages out on social media so
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: he could get away from Baker Mayfield. Beckham wanted to
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: get away from Baker Mayfield. He went to Carolina Garbage,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: went to the Rams, had like a one night stand
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: with the Rams. And now he's found himself and he's
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: iron Man in Tampa Bay. Baker Mayfield's Robert Downey Junior's
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: iron Man, and he's building a suit out of scraps
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: in a cave somewhere and it's going pretty well. It's
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: going pretty well. And that's Baker Mayfield in a buccaneer
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  Speaker 1: uniform at this particular point, supposed to be at this time,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: you'd say, based on what he did in Cleveland and Carolina,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you'd say it by this time, Baker Mayfield should have
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: been put on the cast of Dancing with the Stars
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: and doing a bad podcast like every other hack Jock
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: does and washed up Jock. But instead instead he's out
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: there beating a team that was in the playoffs in
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter making plays. And so I would say,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: check the water supplies what I would say, because Ponce
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: dellly owns Fountain of Youth there in Tampa. I remember
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady when he went to Tampa Tom Brady. We
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: thought he was toast, he was done in New England,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: and then suddenly he's chugging the avocado tequila and winning
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  Speaker 1: a super Bowl in Tampa. And Baker's obviously we know
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: he's not Tom Brady. We know that, we know that,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: we know that, we know that, we know that, we
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: know that, we know that, we know that. However, he
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: has reinvented himself, and the reinvention vibe very similar. There
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: continues to be the you thought I was washed. He
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: really rides that you thought I was washed, and think again,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: you think again. It's been a total rebrand, total rebrand.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: It's like our caller in Vegas, big balls Bob in case,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: big balls Baker getting it done there at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game there and so good for him, good
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  Speaker 1: for him right against the defense that was supposed to
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: be pretty good, was pretty good most of the second
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: half of that game until the very end there in
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield like an NFL cockroach, and nuclear Winter doesn't are.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: He's still out there crawling around. He does that and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: you can't kill him, and shows up and head butt
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a lineman here and do all that and knock you out.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Let's meet our contestants for the game. Don't play the imaging.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Who do we have here? We've got Tyler in Boston's
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: gonna be one of our contestants. Hello, Tyler, welcome. What's
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: going on? Benny? Oh? You got you got the pipes? Tyler?
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: You got the pipes? Yeah? All right? Shut up? Who
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: do you want to partner up with? You? You pick
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: who you want to play with you, Tyler, that's right.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: We're in it to win it, all right? Hold on
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: a second, and then Lorena picked door number one or
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: door number two number too? Oh, you've picked Brian and Iowa. Hello,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Brian and Iowa. Howdy partner, that's not Iowa. How dare you?
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? I know? What are you doing
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: in I Are you working right now? Driving truck? What
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: do you got going on?
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm driving home from doing door dash make any money? Yeah?
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: What are people buying? What's the number one? Doordabd? What
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: are the mostly potheads? Right? More than likely? Yeah? And
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: what are they buying? What kind of fast donald? Yeah,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: that's authentic Mexican food there and I've had so much
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: taco bell in the last it's unbelievable. That's good for you.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: All right, Brian, you're gonna play. You want to part
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: up with Coop? Yes? Sure, okay, he's fine with it.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: What are the categories? Quickly, Coop? Quickly? Quickly?
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: All right, gentlemen. This is Meler's Mountain of Money, the
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: bb King edition. He would have been one hundred years
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: old today.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: If you were still alive here. He's not. He's dead, yeah,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: died ten years ago.
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: But the categories are you upset me baby every day
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: I have the blues sweet sixteen, and you're gonna miss
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: me Tyler?
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Which category would you like? Skill? Sweet sixteen, sweet sixteen?
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: All right, Brian, that leaves you with you upset me baby,
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: every day I have the blues, or you're gonna miss.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Me every day I have the blues? All right? All right?
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Everyone hold on there, thank you, gentlemen. You will don't
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: hang up, you'll lose your spot. All right, There you go.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Those are the categories, and we'll get to it. Mallard's
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Amount of Money. We will do it next.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: to get to the top? Probably not.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Here we go.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: We got Tyler in Boston and Brian in Iowa. Brian
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: just finishing work, Tyler. Are you at work right now?
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Tyler on his way?
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: All right, boy, what a terrible time to start work. Okay, alright,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: very good here and we're gonna go first, it's the
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Bbking edition. We picked you picked every What did you pick? Here?
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: You picked sweet sixteen? Sweet sixteen? All right, sweet sixteen.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: These athletes all ware or War number sixteen. Are you
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: ready to go? Here? Tyler?
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: We need the first and last name and quiet on
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: the set. Forty five seconds on the clock.
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  Speaker 1: We're on away. Go. A quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: right now, Yes, quarterback, greatest of all time for the
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: forty nine ers before Tom Brady obviously, yeah for you. Yeah,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: he was Kobe Bryant's teammate after Shack. He was the
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: big star. Yes, Doctor k for the Mets. Also played
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: for the Yankees in the eighties. Strikeout King African American
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: pitcher he was with the Mets. Yes, what's his first name?
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I think we'll take that. Quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Also played for the Denver Broncos. His last name was Mike.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: If you have if you have a problem with your pipes,
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: you might call him up there. Yes, quarterback wide receiver
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: for the Seahawks. What cheap, cheap clue? That wo our clue?
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, listen, it's good, thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: They're high five. All right, Brian, are you ready? Sure?
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: All right? He doesn't seem ready to me. All right,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: we have every day have the blues.
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: These athletes have openly talked about dealing with depression. We
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: need the first and last name. Forty five second, let's begin.
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: Current quarterback for the Cowboys. Yes, this guy's the top
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: wide receiver on the Eagles. His first name is initials.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Hey Brown.
• 42:42
  Speaker 8: Yes, this guy used to be on the Pacers and
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: then on the Clippers. I think he's on the seventy
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: six ers now. He always gets hurt. Where's number thirteen?
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Is it? Kawhi Leonard? No? His teammate the other guy? Yeah,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: Okay, the best swimmer of all time Olympics Michael Philp. Yes,
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: this guy I was a wide receiver for the Denver
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: Broncos then later the Jets, worn number fifteen.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: He was kind of crazy. Oh, I don't remember his name,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: This guy got a bunch of rebrowns, but he can't shoot.
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: Spent most of his career with the Pistons. No, no, newer.
• 43:15
  Speaker 8: He's still playing with terrible clues.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: That's embarrassing. I think they're pretty good. Seventy seventy al right,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: down by ninety. Yes, that means we're back up. You
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: what do you want you? You upset me, baby, or
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: you're gonna miss me. Mike and Brian rather brow what up? Yeah?
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: You upset me baby, or you're gonna miss me. You're
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: gonna miss me? All right, perfect, all right.
• 43:41
  Speaker 8: These athletes recently retired forty five seconds us begin He
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: he was the quarterback of the Raiders.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: He just retired. Derek Carr.
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: Yes, this guy was the best ride receiver in Atlanta
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: Falcons history.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, I should know who that is, but I don't.
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: All right, this guy played for the Wizards for a
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: long time. Point guard. He just retired. Yeah, that to
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: his last name is like a divider, like a fence.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Cool, that's dirty. He shouldn't do that. Yeah, I don't remember.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: All right, this guy was a Chinese guy.
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: Everybody went crazy with this his upcoming in the New
• 44:20
  Speaker 8: York Knicks.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Last name Yang.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: No, my god, oh no, I think we all right?
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I think he was was he? I thought he was
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Taiwanese by Jeremy Lynn. He was Chinese, wasn't he? I
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: thought he was Taiwanese? Oh my god, are you right?
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: You're right? Oh my god, Oh my god.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: All right, we'll tell well, why don't we run up
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: the store. Tyler, you want to try a few more?
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Tyler?
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Tyler? Tyler there, Tyler. Yeah, yeah, might as well keep
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: going real quick. These athletes recently retire. Now you did
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: that one? What are we doing? You upset me? Baby?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: All right? He was a home run king. He broke
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Babe Bruce record for home runs in a single season. No,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: it's Roger, Roger Marrit. We want the game, we want
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: the game, We want the game. Were good thing, A
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: good thing. You didn't have to go again.