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- 2:04Speaker 1: from the trading block. We love trades now. I ran
- 2:09Speaker 1: for years long time ago. You don't know about this,
- 2:11Speaker 1: but I ran a gossip website in addition to the
- 2:14Speaker 1: radio stuff, sports, trade rumors and things like that, and
- 2:17Speaker 1: got pretty popular. A cult following, did pretty well. We
- 2:21Speaker 1: had success with it. We loved the rumor. We didn't
- 2:25Speaker 1: love the trade. The rumor was fun. The trade eh eh.
- 2:32Speaker 1: So we have a lot to dissect. Tuesday afternoon, depending
- 2:37Speaker 1: where you were, early afternoon on the West coast, late
- 2:39Speaker 1: afternoon on the East coast, the music stopped the game
- 2:43Speaker 1: of musical cheers. Here the twenty twenty five NFL Trade
- 2:46Speaker 1: deadline cup put did your team make a deal? I
- 2:51Speaker 1: don't know what your team is a lot to pick
- 2:54Speaker 1: apart though, and we like that that's fun to do,
- 2:56Speaker 1: to pick trades apart the good, the bad, and the ugly.
- 3:00Speaker 1: We're gonna focus in on the big names because it's
- 3:03Speaker 1: called broad casting, not narrow casting. We believe in broad
- 3:07Speaker 1: cast we have a broad audience even though we're really
- 3:10Speaker 1: only talking to you. It's amazing, we have a large audience,
- 3:13Speaker 1: but we're really only talking to one person. Shocking. So
- 3:15Speaker 1: we're gonna start with the biggest name traded, the biggest
- 3:19Speaker 1: on the block. A name is so good he goes
- 3:23Speaker 1: by a nickname, not his birth name. And if you
- 3:27Speaker 1: have not heard, I assume you have possibly not. The
- 3:31Speaker 1: New York Jets decided they were going out of business.
- 3:35Speaker 1: The one part of the team that was any good
- 3:37Speaker 1: was the defense. And they said, you know what, we
- 3:39Speaker 1: can't have a good defense. We don't need to do
- 3:41Speaker 1: good defense. We don't want a good defense, even though
- 3:44Speaker 1: we hired a defensive minded head coach. Let's get rid
- 3:48Speaker 1: of the guys on the defense that are gun And
- 3:51Speaker 1: so they said bye bye to Sauce Gardner. Get your
- 3:56Speaker 1: ass out of Jersey, Sauce. They sent Sauce Guardardner, the
- 4:00Speaker 1: All Pro defensive back to the Indianapolis Colts for a
- 4:05Speaker 1: first round draft pick in next year's draft, and then
- 4:10Speaker 1: another one another one in twenty twenty seven. So that's
- 4:14Speaker 1: back to back first round draft picks along with a
- 4:16Speaker 1: wide receiver who, if I remember, correctly fumbled the ball
- 4:19Speaker 1: before crossing the goal line in the game against the Rams.
- 4:23Speaker 1: And so he has also traded Donnie Mitchell going to
- 4:27Speaker 1: the Jets as well in that particular transaction. So the
- 4:33Speaker 1: reporting of it said sauce Gardner was stunned, stunned to
- 4:38Speaker 1: be traded to the Horseshoes from the Jets, and just
- 4:44Speaker 1: a lot to dissect. So let's stop there. We'll have
- 4:48Speaker 1: that as the jumping off point as we discussed the
- 4:51Speaker 1: question for the esteem panel, who got the best of
- 4:55Speaker 1: the Jets? Sauce Gardner trade to the Colts two first
- 5:00Speaker 1: round picks. Two? All right, So I've got on this one.
- 5:04Speaker 1: I've got claw machine, remote control, and Golden Horseshoe and
- 5:13Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we're
- 5:15Speaker 1: gonna make some delicious kettle corn. Gonna be really not
- 5:19Speaker 1: good for you. It's popcorn covered in sugar, but man
- 5:22Speaker 1: does it taste good? Man? Is it delicious? So a
- 5:26Speaker 1: this one does count as a stutter from down under.
- 5:32Speaker 1: I pay attention to this crap because I have a
- 5:34Speaker 1: daily talk show to do, and so you look for names,
- 5:36Speaker 1: and there's certain names that are mentioned. Did not have
- 5:40Speaker 1: sauce Gardener on my big board. Not a list for
- 5:44Speaker 1: Terry and England, not a list big Bore. Did not
- 5:47Speaker 1: see sauce Gardener being traded. Sauce Gardener was supposed to
- 5:51Speaker 1: be untouchable. He was supposed to be the guy that
- 5:55Speaker 1: you build your defense around, the cornerstone, shutdown defensive back
- 5:59Speaker 1: in the prime of his career another five or six
- 6:01Speaker 1: dominant years ahead two all pro nds locked up long term,
- 6:07Speaker 1: big money contract, long term, big money contract. That's not
- 6:12Speaker 1: the guy that you typically trade. That's a guy that
- 6:14Speaker 1: you build around. You showcase that player that like, oh
- 6:17Speaker 1: my god, we finally got a draft pick.
- 6:19Speaker 3: Right.
- 6:19Speaker 1: The Jets suck in the draft every year. They finally
- 6:23Speaker 1: did something smart. They drafted a player that knows what
- 6:26Speaker 1: he's doing and they signed him and then they said
- 6:29Speaker 1: bye bye and they traded his ass. It's so great
- 6:33Speaker 1: that it's again, not a guy that you should trade,
- 6:37Speaker 1: that's a guy you build around, and instead they they
- 6:40Speaker 1: got rid of him. So mal a report card. The
- 6:44Speaker 1: Colts get a B plus, not an A, not an
- 6:48Speaker 1: AA B plus. The Jets get a C minus. I
- 6:52Speaker 1: should have gone D, but I went C minus. I
- 6:54Speaker 1: was being generous. I went C minus. I should have
- 6:57Speaker 1: gone lower than that bad job by me, but I
- 6:59Speaker 1: went C minus on the Mouth report card. And the
- 7:01Speaker 1: Colts get a B plus Indy on my scorecard. And
- 7:07Speaker 1: if you look at the Kompu box stats, they absolutely
- 7:10Speaker 1: swindled the Jets. They absolutely swindled the Jets. And I'm
- 7:15Speaker 1: hearing a lot, Oh my god, I can't believe the
- 7:17Speaker 1: other way. And we'll get to that in a minute,
- 7:19Speaker 1: that the Jets won. But I don't see it that way.
- 7:22Speaker 1: If I'm sitting in Indiana right now and I like
- 7:25Speaker 1: the Colts, I don't know there's many Colt fans out
- 7:27Speaker 1: of Indiana. I'm smiling. I got a cheshire cat smile
- 7:31Speaker 1: from ear to ear right now at this trade. I
- 7:35Speaker 1: do you have a known commodity, Sauce Gardner. It's not
- 7:40Speaker 1: like you you're not sure. Can guy play? I don't
- 7:43Speaker 1: know you plug and play him? How good is he?
- 7:47Speaker 1: That's open to debate. He's been surrounded by crap with
- 7:50Speaker 1: the Jets will be not a great upgrade in talent
- 7:53Speaker 1: with the with the Colts, but the Colts defense is
- 7:56Speaker 1: the weak part of the team has been. But the secondary,
- 8:00Speaker 1: you slide him in to that Indianapolis coult secondary and
- 8:04Speaker 1: immediately Sauce Gardner is the number one defensive player for
- 8:10Speaker 1: Indianapolis when he puts on that uniform for the first time.
- 8:13Speaker 1: And so you put the Jets in the food process
- 8:16Speaker 1: there and you hit pure and there you go. That's
- 8:19Speaker 1: the Jets. They get two lottery tickets. We yeah, it's great. Uh.
- 8:27Speaker 1: And it is such a such a debacle with the Jets.
- 8:33Speaker 1: I just you just have to laugh. I mean, is
- 8:35Speaker 1: there a dumber fan base and the Jet fan base
- 8:38Speaker 1: with what these these guys the Jets organization does, and
- 8:41Speaker 1: how the Jet fan base always like, oh well, this
- 8:43Speaker 1: are so good. Oh my god, I got that pants down.
- 8:46Speaker 1: They got two first round draft picks of this trade,
- 8:48Speaker 1: and they got another one from the Cowboys. We'll get
- 8:50Speaker 1: to that later, Oh my god. Yeah. Okay, of course, again,
- 8:55Speaker 1: the vast majority never pan out. The vast majority never
- 8:59Speaker 1: pan out. Sauce is a legit, top level defensive back,
- 9:03Speaker 1: and you say it was not playing well this year,
- 9:05Speaker 1: and there's this that, and they'll come up with a
- 9:07Speaker 1: million stats whatnot. He's in his prime. He's made the
- 9:10Speaker 1: All Pro team twice in a row. Not the Pro
- 9:12Speaker 1: Bowl where they play tic tac toe and grab ass.
- 9:16Speaker 1: This is like a legitimate thing, All Pro status, which
- 9:18Speaker 1: means you're top one percent of the NFL. And so
- 9:22Speaker 1: you cannot replace that with a couple of rookies. And
- 9:25Speaker 1: remember these draft picks, you're more likely to get the
- 9:29Speaker 1: next d Milner. If you're Jets fan, you know that name.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Oh he was good at Alabama. D Milner. Good luck
- 9:35Speaker 1: on that the Jets are able to continue this this
- 9:41Speaker 1: long term con, the long term con which is the
- 9:45Speaker 1: Jets where they pull these kind of moves as far
- 9:50Speaker 1: as sauce Gardner, these contracts in the NFL unless you
- 9:54Speaker 1: got a full note trade fauser in this situation. But
- 9:56Speaker 1: the Jets fooled everyone. They foiled absolutely everyone with that
- 10:00Speaker 1: extension that Sauce Gardner got, total headfake. It was trick
- 10:04Speaker 1: ration by Aaron Glenn and the new regime with the Jets.
- 10:10Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn and those guys, they were the ones pumping
- 10:12Speaker 1: the tires on a sauce Gardener that he's a cornerstone
- 10:15Speaker 1: guy Psich psych Yeah, he's a cornerstone of the demolition,
- 10:21Speaker 1: the demo of the Jets defense there. So the Colts
- 10:24Speaker 1: are the big beneficiary of this. Now they're getting an
- 10:28Speaker 1: absolute dog. I don't need any cats. I want some dolls.
- 10:33Speaker 1: Are They're getting a dog here in the secondary. So
- 10:35Speaker 1: it's a B plus easy the Jets I mentioned a
- 10:38Speaker 1: C minus here. They're the guy the Jets who trade
- 10:43Speaker 1: a Rolex watch because they're at the carnival and they
- 10:48Speaker 1: trade their Rolex watch because they get a couple of
- 10:50Speaker 1: tokens to the claw machine. And they're really excited about
- 10:55Speaker 1: the claw machine because there's a really cute stuffed kangaroo
- 10:58Speaker 1: in there and they want to get the stuff kangaroo
- 11:00Speaker 1: and they might not get it, and it's only got
- 11:02Speaker 1: two tokens, but it's worth the shot. They give up
- 11:05Speaker 1: the Rolex, it's worth the shot to take two chances
- 11:08Speaker 1: of that nice stuffed kangaroo. And so the Colts win
- 11:11Speaker 1: this by a country mile a country mile. Now, in
- 11:16Speaker 1: another part of the trade, we break this down eight
- 11:18Speaker 1: million ways, page two, page two. Inspite, in spite of
- 11:24Speaker 1: the Malor report, card declaring Indy the winner here. All right,
- 11:31Speaker 1: we did give Indy the win. Many Jet fans, or
- 11:36Speaker 1: at least people masquerading those Jets fans, seem to think
- 11:39Speaker 1: that I'm wrong, that the Jets actually fleeced the Colts
- 11:45Speaker 1: by getting those two first round draftings. It was an
- 11:47Speaker 1: absolute fleece job. Two first round draft picks from Indy
- 11:50Speaker 1: for a sauce guard. Now, can you explain the mindset,
- 11:54Speaker 1: the different mindset here that I think Indianapolis clearly won
- 11:58Speaker 1: this trade. But there's a lot of people like, oh, no,
- 12:00Speaker 1: you don't know what you're talking about. They got two
- 12:01Speaker 1: draft picks. Oh my god, two draft picks. Let me
- 12:05Speaker 1: tell you something. There's a lot of dumb people out there.
- 12:07Speaker 1: Number one, number two. It's a suckers game. It is
- 12:11Speaker 1: an absolute suckers game. And these people have convinced themselves.
- 12:16Speaker 1: They've convinced themselves that the mystery box, what's in the box,
- 12:20Speaker 1: the mystery box of draft picks, whatever that might become,
- 12:25Speaker 1: is better than an actual all pro. It's like rich
- 12:30Speaker 1: people that gamble. It makes no sense. Dummy, you're already rich.
- 12:36Speaker 1: What are you doing? Remember Mark Davis, the Raiders owner
- 12:38Speaker 1: who never earned a dollar. He just wrote off the
- 12:41Speaker 1: daddy's money, family money. And yeah he's gamma playing slot
- 12:46Speaker 1: machines at the airport in Vegas. He won a jackpot. Like, dude,
- 12:49Speaker 1: you're already rich, You're you inherited in an NFL team.
- 12:52Speaker 1: What are you doing? And I look at the same
- 12:55Speaker 1: way when you have an established good player and you're like, ah,
- 13:00Speaker 1: I'd rather get something in the box. What's in the
- 13:03Speaker 1: mystery box? It just doesn't make any sense. And it's like,
- 13:07Speaker 1: what are you doing? You have an actual all pro
- 13:10Speaker 1: do you know how hard it is to get that right?
- 13:13Speaker 1: And the math against you. And that's what people don't understand.
- 13:16Speaker 1: They don't It's like the lotteries. You know, dumb people
- 13:19Speaker 1: play the lottery. They played a lot I play a lottery,
- 13:22Speaker 1: so I guess I'm dumb too. But if you played
- 13:24Speaker 1: a lot it's really just a stupid tax. And Sauce
- 13:27Speaker 1: is an elite player right now. But what if we
- 13:31Speaker 1: make the draft and we pick up two Sauce Gardeners.
- 13:35Speaker 1: Oh my god, we'll get two of them. Oh man,
- 13:38Speaker 1: come on. The Jet fans are right now in the
- 13:43Speaker 1: process yet again of being hoodwinked, bamboozled, and hornswoggled. It
- 13:48Speaker 1: happens every couple of years. Rinse, wash and repeat, Rinse,
- 13:52Speaker 1: wash and repeat. They're being led down the garden path
- 13:55Speaker 1: yet again, every couple of years, like clockwork. I've been
- 13:59Speaker 1: doing this job for a while. I can't tell you
- 14:01Speaker 1: how many monologues we've done about the Jets. The future
- 14:03Speaker 1: is right for the Jets. Oh my god. Just a
- 14:06Speaker 1: couple years ago, they had pre first round draft picks
- 14:08Speaker 1: and they suck right now, but they had pre first
- 14:12Speaker 1: round trafficks. Oh my god. Yeah, So every couple of
- 14:16Speaker 1: years they get a bunch of draft picks, they blow
- 14:19Speaker 1: that up. They sell the future, and remember they sell
- 14:24Speaker 1: the future, and people always buy the future being better.
- 14:29Speaker 1: It's like some sleazy politicians end up winning that way
- 14:32Speaker 1: because he's just say, well, the future is it's unrealistic though, right,
- 14:35Speaker 1: it's unrealistic. It's like promising everyone free food. Well, someone
- 14:39Speaker 1: has to pay for the food. Is no such thing
- 14:41Speaker 1: as free food. It's like, well, every draft pick is
- 14:44Speaker 1: going to be great. Well, actually the math on that
- 14:47Speaker 1: is not that that great, right, But it's easy to
- 14:50Speaker 1: say that stuff. It's easy to say that stuff. You know,
- 14:53Speaker 1: rebuild it is the easiest thing to sell in pro sports,
- 14:58Speaker 1: it is the easiest thing to sell. Well, you just
- 15:00Speaker 1: wait till next year. We have a plan. We have
- 15:04Speaker 1: a five year plan to put a bad product out.
- 15:07Speaker 1: It's like a restaurant to serve food with cockroaches for
- 15:09Speaker 1: five years, but in year six, mane is that food
- 15:12Speaker 1: gonna be good? Just eat the cockroaches, eat them, eat
- 15:17Speaker 1: the cockroaches. It's the same green goblin circus. And so
- 15:22Speaker 1: here we are again. By the way, the malor math
- 15:25Speaker 1: I fell down a rabbit hole. He did the malor
- 15:26Speaker 1: math here. So the last twenty years, I feel like
- 15:28Speaker 1: that's a good sample size. That's a generation of generation's
- 15:31Speaker 1: twenty years. By the time you're born, you grow up,
- 15:35Speaker 1: you get out of school, you have a job, you
- 15:37Speaker 1: start to settle up, you're settling in your life. Twenty
- 15:40Speaker 1: years is a generation. So the last twenty years, what
- 15:44Speaker 1: percentage of first round draft picks have become all pro players?
- 15:48Speaker 1: Like sauce card, you want to take your guess, give
- 15:51Speaker 1: me a percentage, all right? The answer is it forty percent? No,
- 15:59Speaker 1: how about you gotta be thirty percent, three out of
- 16:02Speaker 1: three out of at least twenty five percent? Right? No,
- 16:09Speaker 1: how about sixteen percent. You have a sixteen percent chance
- 16:14Speaker 1: of getting what you just traded away. That's it. That
- 16:18Speaker 1: is a one sixty one batting average, which by the way,
- 16:21Speaker 1: is better than Mookie Betts hitting the World Series. I'm
- 16:23Speaker 1: just saying, but a one to sixty one batting average.
- 16:26Speaker 1: You'd get demoted if you batted one sixty one unless
- 16:29Speaker 1: you're making thirty million dollars a year, and then you'd
- 16:31Speaker 1: be in the lineup every day. My god. Uh even
- 16:35Speaker 1: top ten picks, you say, well, not all first round
- 16:38Speaker 1: picks are the same. So what about the top ten?
- 16:39Speaker 1: All right, So the top ten picks hits about two
- 16:41Speaker 1: ten hit about two ten twenty one percent, and the
- 16:46Speaker 1: Jets fans are drunk on the green kool aid of
- 16:49Speaker 1: the draft and some faceless, nameless player, he's got a
- 16:53Speaker 1: high upside. Okay, it's great. And most of these guys
- 16:58Speaker 1: who are draft in the first round, you know, supposed
- 17:00Speaker 1: to say this part out loud. They'll become backups in
- 17:03Speaker 1: the NFL. Journeymen NFL players. Some of them will sell
- 17:08Speaker 1: you insurance there'll be complete bus. Some of them will
- 17:12Speaker 1: kill young women and dogs that burn up in their
- 17:16Speaker 1: cars and go to jail in Nevada. That happens. Ask
- 17:19Speaker 1: the Raiders about that. Yeah, and you'll draft occasionally, you'll
- 17:22Speaker 1: draft a great talented player who will turn out to
- 17:25Speaker 1: be great and wonderful. But you had that you draft,
- 17:28Speaker 1: you got it right once and a fan favorite with
- 17:31Speaker 1: a cool name and the whole thing and locked up
- 17:33Speaker 1: under contract. Then you said bye bye. And it really
- 17:37Speaker 1: is backwards thinking too, when you think you hired a
- 17:40Speaker 1: defensive coach in Aaron Glenn and if you have a
- 17:45Speaker 1: top defense, you don't have to be great on offense.
- 17:48Speaker 1: You just have to be middle of the road on
- 17:50Speaker 1: offense if you have a truly great defense. And that's
- 17:52Speaker 1: a formula to become a playoff team. Now the Jets
- 17:56Speaker 1: are like, well, no, we want to get really bad, bad,
- 17:59Speaker 1: bad bad. We want bo. We want really nasty bo
- 18:03Speaker 1: is what we want. So the Jets are like, all right,
- 18:05Speaker 1: let's grab the remote control and we're gonna hit the
- 18:08Speaker 1: pause button and then we're gonna hit the mute button
- 18:11Speaker 1: to block out all the noise and no results needed,
- 18:13Speaker 1: just kick the can down the road and go, ah,
- 18:15Speaker 1: we need more time, We need more time. Okay, good, wonderful,
- 18:20Speaker 1: all right, last word here, so on the indie side
- 18:23Speaker 1: of things, the question we go back to the Colts.
- 18:26Speaker 1: The Colts are being hyped up now as AFC super
- 18:33Speaker 1: Ball favorites by many on social media. After these Sauce
- 18:36Speaker 1: Gardener trade do you think they measure up? Do you
- 18:41Speaker 1: believe the Colts measure up to that lofty status? Is
- 18:44Speaker 1: now the team to beat, not Kansas City, not Buffalo,
- 18:48Speaker 1: but instead Indianapolis, not any of the other teams in
- 18:51Speaker 1: the FC. So under the Malard microscope, which is always right,
- 18:56Speaker 1: never wrong, the Malard microscope, under the maln microscope. With
- 18:59Speaker 1: apologies to the Blue and White Horseshoe fan base, let's
- 19:04Speaker 1: pump the brakes now or in I guess the better
- 19:06Speaker 1: phrase would be coolier jets. Coolier jets would be the
- 19:10Speaker 1: phrase here. So the Sauce is a baller, no question.
- 19:14Speaker 1: We like the player. That is an upgrade. He becomes
- 19:17Speaker 1: the face of your defensive football team. They believe they
- 19:20Speaker 1: got a shutdown defensive back. Otherwise you don't trade two
- 19:23Speaker 1: first round back draft picks. However, unfortunately, this is not Madden.
- 19:29Speaker 1: You're not playing Madden here, and you don't just plug
- 19:32Speaker 1: in one guy and all of a sudden become the
- 19:34Speaker 1: favorites overnight here. And the biggest problem for the Colts
- 19:39Speaker 1: is not the defense. Defensen't great. That's not the biggest
- 19:42Speaker 1: problem here. It's Daniel freakin' Jones. That's the problem. That's
- 19:47Speaker 1: why I can't say that Indianapolis is the favorite in
- 19:51Speaker 1: the AFC. I can't do it. You can slap lipstick
- 19:54Speaker 1: on that horse, of course you can do that. They're
- 19:57Speaker 1: in any and that's what they've done so far. He
- 20:00Speaker 1: had a dud of a game against Pittsburgh. Daniel Jones.
- 20:03Speaker 1: You can do all that you want, but you still
- 20:05Speaker 1: got a ride. Ultimately, at some point to get to
- 20:07Speaker 1: the super Bowl, you're gonna have to win a game
- 20:09Speaker 1: on the back of Danny Dimes. Danny Dimes at quarterback,
- 20:14Speaker 1: and that dude is not a Thoroughbred. He turns into
- 20:18Speaker 1: a Clydesdale. He's a plotter in big moments there. And
- 20:23Speaker 1: he's got the nickname now Indiana Jones. Now that's cool nick. However,
- 20:28Speaker 1: he's doing cosplay's an impersonator of Indiana Jones. And the
- 20:31Speaker 1: problem is, in crunch time, the Indiana Jones the places
- 20:36Speaker 1: quarterback for the Colts. He doesn't have the whip. It's
- 20:40Speaker 1: not allowed. He doesn't have the brain power, doesn't have that,
- 20:43Speaker 1: and he's fumbling the relics all over the place, for
- 20:47Speaker 1: better or worse, for better or worse. Though the Colts
- 20:50Speaker 1: have basically staple gunned themselves to Daniel Jones going forward
- 20:55Speaker 1: here for the next couple of years. They are guaranteed
- 20:58Speaker 1: to offer him a good size contract. They probably already
- 21:01Speaker 1: have the outline of the deal done. I would imagine
- 21:03Speaker 1: at this point here there is no other option, there
- 21:07Speaker 1: is no Plan B. It is all about Daniel Jones.
- 21:10Speaker 1: He just got the golden horseshoe stuck right up his
- 21:15Speaker 1: tukis congratulations, right, And because they have no others. And
- 21:18Speaker 1: that's why I gave the Colts less than the full
- 21:22Speaker 1: top grade, because for this to work, Daniel Jones has
- 21:27Speaker 1: to be good in order for this all to work here,
- 21:29Speaker 1: So regardless, I will give Indie credit. We have made
- 21:33Speaker 1: some jokes of Carly Ursay Jordan or Carl Ersay, Carli
- 21:38Speaker 1: er Jordan, carl Ersa Gordon, the daughter of Jim Ursay
- 21:44Speaker 1: who passed away, died from the drugs and stuff a
- 21:48Speaker 1: while back, and he's out there on the sidelines doing
- 21:51Speaker 1: her thing whatever. But this is cool. I like it.
- 21:54Speaker 1: This is I can get on board with this. This
- 21:56Speaker 1: is cool, right, And she's trying to make waves, honoring
- 22:00Speaker 1: the family tradition, the Ursa family tradition of doing ridiculous things,
- 22:03Speaker 1: crazy things. Jim Ursay's final act as Colts owner was
- 22:07Speaker 1: to hire an ESPN broadcaster as coach, which I thought
- 22:10Speaker 1: was great because I'm a broadcaster. I could coach an
- 22:13Speaker 1: NFL team. Why not Jeff Saturday did? I could do it.
- 22:16Speaker 1: So it's a bold move. It's a hey, it's our
- 22:19Speaker 1: time type move. You don't make this move if you
- 22:21Speaker 1: don't think you can get to a super Bowl's fun.
- 22:24Speaker 1: I'm all about the fun. It's great. We need more
- 22:26Speaker 1: teams to act like the Colts and make the big move.
- 22:30Speaker 1: Who cares about the draft picks? Man? Losers care about
- 22:32Speaker 1: draft picks? And again, so the problem is they have
- 22:35Speaker 1: an underlying condition. That's the only problem here, and that's
- 22:40Speaker 1: why I gave him a B plus and not an
- 22:42Speaker 1: A plus. Is Daniel Jones, and I know he wasn't
- 22:45Speaker 1: part of the transaction, but again I give him a
- 22:46Speaker 1: B plus because ultimately for this to work, you have
- 22:49Speaker 1: to overcome your underlying pre existing condition. Here and it's indigestion.
- 22:53Speaker 1: Every time Daniel Jones has the ball in his hands,
- 22:57Speaker 1: close and late, close and late, big spot, you know
- 23:01Speaker 1: it's not gonna work out for it.
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- 26:18Speaker 1: We talked about the Sauce Gardner trade from the Cowboys
- 26:21Speaker 1: and the Colts. We will not revisit that here. Instead
- 26:24Speaker 1: we will turn the page and go to Dallas. How
- 26:27Speaker 1: about them Cowboys? Jerry Jones and the Cowboys A man
- 26:31Speaker 1: of his word. Jerry said on Monday that there was
- 26:35Speaker 1: a trade that had been worked out, they just hadn't
- 26:37Speaker 1: announced it yet. The Cowboys technically made two trades, but
- 26:41Speaker 1: one of them we're not gonna talk about. We're gonna
- 26:42Speaker 1: talk about the other one. This after they got mollywopped
- 26:46Speaker 1: by the Cardinals. Do you know embarrassing? This get mollywopped
- 26:50Speaker 1: by the Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals are one of those
- 26:53Speaker 1: spam teams for the good teams to play. You're not
- 26:56Speaker 1: supposed to lose to a spam team, but here we are.
- 26:59Speaker 1: So Jerry said that he would get a deal done,
- 27:01Speaker 1: and Jerry's a man of his word. All right, man,
- 27:03Speaker 1: it was worse if you didn't hear. Maybe not. The
- 27:05Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys pulled off a second blockbuster trade in barely
- 27:13Speaker 1: a couple of months here, as they might remember the
- 27:16Speaker 1: Micah Parsons trade to the Green Bay Packers for a
- 27:19Speaker 1: bunch of scratcher tickets. Well, the Cowboys said, we have
- 27:23Speaker 1: too many scratcher tickets. We don't need all these scratcher tickets.
- 27:25Speaker 1: We don't want all these scratcher tickets. So they have
- 27:28Speaker 1: now a They've traded some of their own draft picks
- 27:30Speaker 1: in order to get defensive tackle Quinn Williams from the
- 27:35Speaker 1: j e t s suck, suck, suck. The Jets have
- 27:38Speaker 1: announced they're going out of business. Everything must go. It's
- 27:41Speaker 1: a liquidation sale. And so the Cowboys acquired Quinn Williams
- 27:45Speaker 1: from the Jets, all pro defensive tackle for a gaggle,
- 27:50Speaker 1: a gaggle of draft picks, including a twenty six second
- 27:54Speaker 1: round pick. Oh my god, they give up a second
- 27:57Speaker 1: round pick and a twenty twenty seven first round pick.
- 28:00Speaker 1: Oh no, another draft PICKO. Yeah. So a few hours earlier,
- 28:07Speaker 1: on trade deadline Day, Dallas also acquired a linebacker from
- 28:11Speaker 1: the Bengals because they said, hey, Cincinnata is the only
- 28:14Speaker 1: team worse than us defensively, so why don't we trade
- 28:17Speaker 1: for one of their guys. That's not a name, so
- 28:19Speaker 1: we won't worry about that. Instead, we focus on the
- 28:21Speaker 1: big name. You got to focus on the big name.
- 28:25Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
- 28:27Speaker 1: discuss the question, did Jerry Jones finally, after all these years,
- 28:32Speaker 1: did Jerry Jones finally nail the trade deadline? Did he
- 28:36Speaker 1: make the big splash, the proper splash at the deadline
- 28:39Speaker 1: here or is this another cowboy overpay? So keep in
- 28:44Speaker 1: mind the early read from Joe Schmow is holy overpay, Batman.
- 28:50Speaker 1: That's the word of the street. So on this one,
- 28:52Speaker 1: I've got Bubblegum, Amazon and beach front bungalow, and we'll
- 28:58Speaker 1: combine all all of these things together and we're gonna
- 29:03Speaker 1: make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the perfect sandwich
- 29:07Speaker 1: with lots of jelly and lots of peanut butter. You
- 29:10Speaker 1: put on one side, you put the peanut butter. On
- 29:12Speaker 1: the other side, you put the jelly, and then they
- 29:13Speaker 1: come together and they have a delicious baby called the
- 29:15Speaker 1: peanut butter and jelly Sandwich. It's just wonderful. So number one,
- 29:21Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this on the Mallard score card, the
- 29:24Speaker 1: Malor score card. A splish splash trade, a splish splash trade.
- 29:31Speaker 1: Now the scales are leading, I'm going in favor. I'm
- 29:34Speaker 1: going against the mob because the Mob's always wrong, and
- 29:38Speaker 1: I'm gonna stand with my guy, Jerry Jones. Good job
- 29:41Speaker 1: by you, Jerry. I support Jerry's world on this one. Now,
- 29:45Speaker 1: some Dallas fans are panicked, just like the Jet fans.
- 29:48Speaker 1: Oh I can't believe we gave up these draft picks.
- 29:50Speaker 1: Oh my god, get a life. You lose her. That's
- 29:53Speaker 1: what I have to say. Listen, you should be happy.
- 29:56Speaker 1: This is a celebratory moment. You should a good trade.
- 30:00Speaker 1: How often do I say the Cowboys made a good move.
- 30:02Speaker 1: This is a good move. F them pecks. F them pecks,
- 30:07Speaker 1: That's what I say. And finally, teams like the Jets
- 30:11Speaker 1: and the Well not the Jets, the Colts and the Cowboys.
- 30:14Speaker 1: These teams are doing what they should be doing. Who
- 30:17Speaker 1: cares about draft picks? Draft picks are losers. You're always
- 30:20Speaker 1: gonna be a loser with your stupid little draft picks.
- 30:22Speaker 1: The same teams are at the top of the draft
- 30:24Speaker 1: every year because they suck. They're terrible, and you idiots
- 30:27Speaker 1: fall for this scam, this hustle. So I'm glad that
- 30:30Speaker 1: Jerry did this. Now the Cowboy's still plenty of draft
- 30:32Speaker 1: picks even with this trade. It's it's a zero sum game, essentially.
- 30:38Speaker 1: Traded Micah Parsons because he was He was a doge
- 30:40Speaker 1: and his agent was a doche and Jerry didn't want
- 30:42Speaker 1: to deal with him. He's like out on the team.
- 30:43Speaker 1: I'm worth a gazillion dollars. I don't deal. You're you're
- 30:45Speaker 1: an a hole. I'm gonna send you to northern Wisconsin.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Enjoy yourself. I hope you have wolf socks. Good luck.
- 30:52Speaker 1: And so that's it. And Jerry Jones, the old oil baron,
- 30:56Speaker 1: he's an oil baron here. And he finally did something
- 31:00Speaker 1: Cowboys a couple years ago. It's been a few years.
- 31:02Speaker 1: They traded for a wide receiver Amari Cooper. Pretty good player,
- 31:06Speaker 1: not a great player, pretty good player. There's a splash move.
- 31:08Speaker 1: This is a splash move also, and so he found
- 31:11Speaker 1: himself somem Gloria hole. And we are not circumcising the
- 31:15Speaker 1: mosquito when we break this trade down at all. Quinn
- 31:19Speaker 1: Williams is the whole Enchilada, just what they need on
- 31:24Speaker 1: defense and perfect slide them right in. And so when
- 31:29Speaker 1: you look at the Cowboys now defensively upfront, they're still
- 31:32Speaker 1: not great. They have improved dramatically after the trade deadline.
- 31:36Speaker 1: And that's why you have the trade deadline to improve
- 31:38Speaker 1: the roster. And so you look at it the Cowboy defense,
- 31:42Speaker 1: which has been absolute Swiss cheese since they shipped out
- 31:46Speaker 1: Micah Parsons and the guys that were given opportunities. What
- 31:49Speaker 1: a great opportunity to make a name for yourself in
- 31:52Speaker 1: the NFL, and these guys have all proved they suck, right,
- 31:55Speaker 1: I mean, it's so embarrassing for these guys. What a
- 31:57Speaker 1: great opportunity of make a name for yourself in the NFL,
- 31:59Speaker 1: and these guys have been abject failures across the board.
- 32:03Speaker 1: So now they have a new opportunity with new players
- 32:05Speaker 1: here and side by side, right, Jerry's been sitting on
- 32:09Speaker 1: draft picks. Cows very rarely make traits like this. They
- 32:12Speaker 1: just don't. That's not what they do here, And they
- 32:15Speaker 1: sit on these draft picks like they're sitting on gold bars, right,
- 32:18Speaker 1: gold bars. Meanwhile, the defense ranked thirty first in the NFL.
- 32:22Speaker 1: Only the Bengals had a worse defense so far this year.
- 32:25Speaker 1: And so to me, it makes sense you brought in
- 32:28Speaker 1: a big time force at his position on defense, and
- 32:35Speaker 1: Quinn Williams is not only the whole Enchilada, he's built
- 32:38Speaker 1: like a tank. So good for him. And Jerry's going
- 32:42Speaker 1: with the old bubble gum mantra here, the bubble gum philosophy. Now,
- 32:46Speaker 1: what does that mean? Double mintgum, double your pleasure, double
- 32:49Speaker 1: your fun because you put Williams in there in the middle.
- 32:53Speaker 1: You put Quinn Williams in there, and you put him
- 32:57Speaker 1: right there, plug him next to Kenny Clark, who you
- 32:59Speaker 1: got in the Ika Parsons trade from Green Bay, and
- 33:02Speaker 1: suddenly that should make things easier on the rest of
- 33:07Speaker 1: the defense. The trickled down economics of defensive football where
- 33:11Speaker 1: your linebackers don't look like they're running in quicksand because
- 33:16Speaker 1: the two guys up front are doing their job, and
- 33:18Speaker 1: then makes it easier on everyone across the board. So
- 33:21Speaker 1: for once, the Cowboys are not chasing some shiny white
- 33:24Speaker 1: out or a running back or some other skill guy.
- 33:28Speaker 1: They went out there and they bought themselves some trench warfare,
- 33:33Speaker 1: which is good. That is a good thing. Could this
- 33:35Speaker 1: go sideways? Could Quinn Williams go out in his first
- 33:38Speaker 1: game and break his ankle and be out for the
- 33:40Speaker 1: your sure, could happen. Could happen? You can't run a
- 33:44Speaker 1: team that way and say, oh my god, this could happen.
- 33:46Speaker 1: That could happen. Oh, oh, the worst thing in the world.
- 33:48Speaker 1: Oh my god, that first round draft picks a gonna
- 33:50Speaker 1: come out and bite us in the ass in a
- 33:52Speaker 1: couple is who cares about that? I don't worry about
- 33:54Speaker 1: that and regard compared to the usual just draft and
- 34:00Speaker 1: developed nonsense, which is what the Cowboys have been doing here.
- 34:03Speaker 1: They've been feeding that slop to their fans for a
- 34:07Speaker 1: number of years. It hasn't worked. I'm gonna take this,
- 34:09Speaker 1: and I'm not a Cowboy fan. But Jerry Jones is
- 34:12Speaker 1: eighty three. God bless him. His face is only about thirty,
- 34:15Speaker 1: but the rest of him is eighty three years old.
- 34:18Speaker 1: So Jerry's in his eighties. He's not building a team
- 34:21Speaker 1: for twenty thirty. He's not planning well. I hope the
- 34:24Speaker 1: team's good when I'm eighty eight years old. No, by then, Jerry,
- 34:31Speaker 1: if he's lucky, he will be living at leisure World. Okay,
- 34:33Speaker 1: I mean, so what are we doing here? He didn't
- 34:36Speaker 1: overthink this one. The defense was a white hot tire fire.
- 34:43Speaker 1: They brought in an all pro fire extinguisher. That's what
- 34:47Speaker 1: this guy is, right, and so that's why I call
- 34:49Speaker 1: it a splash splash success for the Dallas Cowboys on
- 34:54Speaker 1: this trade. I don't care about draft picks. You can
- 34:56Speaker 1: love your draft picks. I'm over it. I'm done. I've
- 34:59Speaker 1: seen way too many of these guys. Can't miss guys
- 35:01Speaker 1: that suck. If you don't believe me, go watch Trevor
- 35:04Speaker 1: Lawrence play football. He blows. Oh, but he was a
- 35:08Speaker 1: generational player. Can't miss quarterback Trevor Lawrence until he actually
- 35:12Speaker 1: had to play for Jacksonville and now he's a coach. Killer.
- 35:15Speaker 1: Can't play. Guy sucks. Guy stinks, all right. So anyway,
- 35:20Speaker 1: turning the page on that to Seattle, we had other moves,
- 35:24Speaker 1: not just the Cowboys, other moves. Saints said bye bye.
- 35:28Speaker 1: They traded wide receiver and returned specialist Rashid Shaid to
- 35:33Speaker 1: the Seahawks in exchange for a fourth round draft pick
- 35:37Speaker 1: and a twenty twenty six fifth round draft pick. So
- 35:42Speaker 1: question for the esteem panel, what does now former Saints
- 35:47Speaker 1: wide receiver Rashid Shahid do for the Seattle Sex offense
- 35:53Speaker 1: as he heads to the Great Pacific Northwest to hang
- 35:55Speaker 1: out with sasquatch and drink coffee. So, Mike McDonald, who
- 36:01Speaker 1: doesn't have that much influence on the player movement, but
- 36:03Speaker 1: I'll just use him as the coach, and so I'll
- 36:05Speaker 1: use him as a reverend. The Seahawks what they did
- 36:07Speaker 1: here on this trade is they went down to the
- 36:10Speaker 1: Amazon liquidation warehouse. They went down to the Amazon liquidation
- 36:15Speaker 1: warehouse and they were rummaging, and they're like, well, we
- 36:18Speaker 1: don't want to we don't want to make a big
- 36:20Speaker 1: trade for aj Brown or Jalen Waddle. We're not going
- 36:22Speaker 1: to make that big a move. But somehow they found
- 36:25Speaker 1: themselves a brand new iPhone still in the box which
- 36:30Speaker 1: wasn't even opened, Like, what are the odds of that?
- 36:34Speaker 1: And so, hey, this is not a scrub. He's not
- 36:39Speaker 1: a top guy. He's in the middle, the man in
- 36:41Speaker 1: the middle. He's got legit, big time speed as a
- 36:45Speaker 1: Shahid runs a four point three. So if you want
- 36:48Speaker 1: him in track and field for the Olympics, which is
- 36:50Speaker 1: coming up in a couple of years, you can get
- 36:51Speaker 1: him out there and put him in the Olympics. That's fine, uh,
- 36:54Speaker 1: and so good. He's got he's got a you know,
- 36:56Speaker 1: speed to burn, basically a turbo charger for Sam Donald.
- 37:02Speaker 1: And of course Sam Donald's like a used Honda Civic
- 37:05Speaker 1: putting up numbers which are not sustainable for the Seattle
- 37:08Speaker 1: Seahawks here and so no Serdinis knows that. But really
- 37:11Speaker 1: that's the only issue now to me. The only issue
- 37:13Speaker 1: with this trade is much like the Colts trying to
- 37:17Speaker 1: double down on Daniel Jones, Sam Donald's the guy who
- 37:22Speaker 1: has the check engine light on, but he does it
- 37:24Speaker 1: this year he's an MVP candidate. Okay, we'll see what happens.
- 37:28Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time. It's only amount of time.
- 37:30Speaker 1: You're gonna have to call it tow truck because he'll
- 37:33Speaker 1: be pulled over on I five there on the side
- 37:34Speaker 1: of the road with his flashing lights on. The emergency
- 37:37Speaker 1: lights will be flashing and all that stuff. But regardless,
- 37:40Speaker 1: Seattle got in theory a dynamic playmaker. Again, it's the
- 37:46Speaker 1: trickle down, much like the Cowboys makes other players better.
- 37:49Speaker 1: And for Seattle, you look at their depth chart and
- 37:52Speaker 1: they've got Jackson Smith and jigbub the Crown Jewel having
- 37:56Speaker 1: that breakout season. He's there, Puka Nakoa there, they're Jamar Chase,
- 38:00Speaker 1: that big time receiver. And then you put behind him.
- 38:04Speaker 1: You've now got Shaid and you put him out there,
- 38:07Speaker 1: Tory Horton, and you still have the often injured, almost
- 38:13Speaker 1: always injured Cooper Cup who inevitably will have another big
- 38:15Speaker 1: injuries out right now he's supposed to come back soon
- 38:18Speaker 1: and all this stuff. So it's like adding a shot
- 38:20Speaker 1: of caffeine, nice big shot of caffeine, and you've already
- 38:26Speaker 1: already got a pretty shaky hand because you're drinking that
- 38:29Speaker 1: really powerful gas station coffee, really powerful stuff, and so
- 38:34Speaker 1: you a little bit of a caffeine buzz going. You
- 38:37Speaker 1: got that going for you, and just don't expect it
- 38:39Speaker 1: to taste too good for too long, you know what
- 38:42Speaker 1: I'm saying. So the Malor report card on the Seattle
- 38:44Speaker 1: New Orleans trade, I'm gonna give the Seattle Seahawks on
- 38:47Speaker 1: the Malard report card an A plus. That's right, and they
- 38:50Speaker 1: give up nothing who cares about a mid round traffic
- 38:52Speaker 1: for a player that can help them right now, that's
- 38:54Speaker 1: an eight plus trade. The Saints they get the D.
- 38:58Speaker 1: They get the D because they have maybe three or
- 39:00Speaker 1: four players that are any good on the team. They
- 39:02Speaker 1: just traded one of them away, So good luck, but
- 39:06Speaker 1: we'll suck more and we're going to a higher draft pic. Okay,
- 39:08Speaker 1: good congratulations. So Seattle adds speed. They have a guy
- 39:11Speaker 1: that can put out there on the special teams as well,
- 39:14Speaker 1: and they got someone who's a proven somewhat. I don't
- 39:18Speaker 1: I don't want to say fully proven, but a somewhat
- 39:20Speaker 1: proven commodity. And they got that, and uh, guy, that
- 39:25Speaker 1: can be a couple times a game break the game open,
- 39:29Speaker 1: explosive chunk plays, which is what you're looking for, and
- 39:33Speaker 1: a little red bull on cleats, which is not bad.
- 39:36Speaker 1: And if Darnold can just stay out of his own
- 39:39Speaker 1: way and not get tackled by the Boogeyman the Boogeyman,
- 39:43Speaker 1: then Seattle can can make some magic. I'm not betting
- 39:47Speaker 1: on that, I would bet against that. I'm just saying
- 39:49Speaker 1: there is a dimension in the multiverse where that does happen.
- 39:53Speaker 1: So that's the ultimate what about ism? What about this?
- 39:58Speaker 1: What about that? What about? What about? What about? What about?
- 40:00Speaker 1: What about? What about? What about? What about?
- 40:02Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 40:02Speaker 1: All right, so uh turning on, turning the page again, Sam.
- 40:06Speaker 1: Just for the record, Sam on my nauty list until
- 40:08Speaker 1: he's off the Natilist. Very rarely do you get off
- 40:11Speaker 1: the nautalist. He's on the nauticalist all right. Now, moving
- 40:13Speaker 1: on final point to Jacksonville. We go to Jacksonville where
- 40:17Speaker 1: the Jags made the trade with the Raiders. The Raiders
- 40:20Speaker 1: said Nandaalana, na Alana, good bye. They traded away, Jacoby
- 40:27Speaker 1: Myers sounds like an ambulance chasing law firm. Jacoby Myers
- 40:32Speaker 1: traded away to the Jaguars. That's right. So a couple
- 40:37Speaker 1: of mid round draft picks exchange there, the Raiders get
- 40:39Speaker 1: a couple of filler draft picks, and Jacksonville gets the player. Question,
- 40:45Speaker 1: what is the big takeaway from wide receiver Jacoby Myers
- 40:50Speaker 1: going from Vegas to Jacksonville. Keep in mind, we've talked
- 40:55Speaker 1: about Jacoby Myers a couple of times. His name has
- 40:57Speaker 1: been in the echo chamber. We've discussed his situation. He
- 41:01Speaker 1: was not happy with the Raiders. To me, the big
- 41:04Speaker 1: takeaway with Jacoby Myers is be careful what you wish for.
- 41:08Speaker 1: Be careful what you wish for. So he was pretty
- 41:10Speaker 1: open about the fact he didn't want to play for
- 41:12Speaker 1: the Raiders anymore. Why would you? The Raiders are embarrassment.
- 41:15Speaker 1: He don't want to play there anymore. But Jacoby Myers
- 41:17Speaker 1: spent half the summer whining because he wanted out. Clearly
- 41:23Speaker 1: realized that Geno Smith is a fraud at a quarter
- 41:26Speaker 1: As a quarterback, if I'm going to be on a
- 41:27Speaker 1: bad team, I'd rather be on a bad team and
- 41:29Speaker 1: a better quarterback than that, and so he was unhappy
- 41:32Speaker 1: with Geno Smith that if you're happy with your quarterback
- 41:34Speaker 1: and you know it, you don't ask for a trade.
- 41:36Speaker 1: If you're happy with your quarterback and you know it,
- 41:38Speaker 1: you don't ask for a trade. He asked for a trade.
- 41:40Speaker 1: So there's that, and so he complained and all that stuff.
- 41:42Speaker 1: And so he thought, he assumed, he assumed that he
- 41:46Speaker 1: was going to go to a team like his old team,
- 41:48Speaker 1: the Patriots or the Steelers, somebody who's at least a
- 41:51Speaker 1: mid level contender, like at least a mid level contender
- 41:55Speaker 1: and all that. Instead he was given a one way
- 41:58Speaker 1: ticket to Myers, a one way ticket on the Siberian
- 42:02Speaker 1: Express Jacksonville, du All County. Yeah, that's also fun. Why
- 42:11Speaker 1: not good times? Also for football, it's in that camp
- 42:16Speaker 1: of Siberia. It's like Siberia beachfront Bungalows. It's Siberia with
- 42:23Speaker 1: beachfront bungalows is what it ad better weather. So there
- 42:26Speaker 1: you go there in your career pretty much vanishes. That's it.
- 42:31Speaker 1: And so Myers, who has been reliable, he has been reliable.
- 42:35Speaker 1: He has only dropped four passes, I believe in three seasons.
- 42:40Speaker 1: That seems pretty good. I didn't play in the NFL
- 42:42Speaker 1: off to check with Ryan Clark, but I think that's
- 42:43Speaker 1: pretty good. So three, three seasons, four drop passes. If
- 42:47Speaker 1: my maven math is correct, and he's about to find
- 42:50Speaker 1: himself in a whole new world. As Jacobe Myers walks
- 42:53Speaker 1: into Jacksonville where Trevor checked down, Lawrence is the quarterback.
- 42:57Speaker 1: Good old Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence, if you're keeping track
- 43:00Speaker 1: at home, Jacksonville leads the entire NFL and drop passes.
- 43:06Speaker 1: There is no quarterback that has had more of his
- 43:09Speaker 1: passes dropped than Trevor Lawrence. Now there's an assumption, Well,
- 43:12Speaker 1: that's the receiver's fault. They don't have good receivers. Much
- 43:15Speaker 1: like sacks. I don't have time to get into this now,
- 43:18Speaker 1: but a lot of the sacks are because of malfeasan's
- 43:21Speaker 1: by the quarterback. They don't get rid of the ball
- 43:22Speaker 1: fast enough. They hold the ball too long. It's hot potato,
- 43:24Speaker 1: get rid of the ball. They don't do that. Bad
- 43:26Speaker 1: job by them well, also dropped passes, if the throw
- 43:32Speaker 1: by Trevor Lawrence is too high or behind the receiver,
- 43:34Speaker 1: it will look like a drop pass in the box
- 43:37Speaker 1: score when really it was in competence by the quarterback.
- 43:42Speaker 1: So congratulations to Jacoby Myers. You complained, you got your wish.
- 43:47Speaker 1: You crow barred your way out of lost wages Nevada,
- 43:50Speaker 1: and you went to the Harry Reid Airport, got on
- 43:52Speaker 1: a plane and went to Jacksonville. And now you're going
- 43:54Speaker 1: to be playing your home games in front of a
- 43:57Speaker 1: swimming pool and roughly ten thousand empty seats. Good luck,
- 44:03Speaker 1: they're teal seats, so they look good. The teal seats
- 44:05Speaker 1: are pretty nice. Those are good to look at, right,
- 44:07Speaker 1: they're not bad. There you go. So the Raiders meanwhile
- 44:10Speaker 1: traded a known commodity, traded a known commodity for roster
- 44:15Speaker 1: spam a couple of mid round draft picks, fourth and
- 44:18Speaker 1: sixth round pick. The chances of either one of those
- 44:21Speaker 1: picks being as good as Jacoby Myers is right now
- 44:23Speaker 1: slim and none. And as the line goes, none has
- 44:26Speaker 1: has gone off the reservation and has left the building there,
- 44:30Speaker 1: So the Raiders continue to be like a toilet, a
- 44:33Speaker 1: clogged toilet, and Tom Brady does not own a plunger.
- 44:37Speaker 1: There you go.
- 44:38Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Meller
- 44:40Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 44:44Speaker 1: It's maller how about that?
- 44:46Speaker 2: To the third degree, this is one big vent gets grilled.
- 44:53Speaker 5: So the Chargers are six and three and in second
- 44:55Speaker 5: place in the FC West, but the vibe among Chargers
- 44:58Speaker 5: fans don't really match the team record. They struggled against
- 45:01Speaker 5: the lowly Titans the last Sunday, and they also lost
- 45:05Speaker 5: left tackle Joe Ault for the season. Ben is Herbert
- 45:08Speaker 5: good enough to keep the Chargers afloat amid all their injuries.
- 45:10Speaker 1: Well, he did make a trade for an offensive lineman
- 45:12Speaker 1: I've never heard of who was apparently drafted in the
- 45:15Speaker 1: first round, Trevor Penning from New Orleans, and the Chargers
- 45:20Speaker 1: will be in the mix. I wouldn't bet on him.
- 45:23Speaker 1: I'm not a big Trevor Lawrence or Trevor Lawrence a
- 45:26Speaker 1: fan of their quarterback who you know. You look at
- 45:29Speaker 1: the play of Justin Herbert and he's been very shaky,
- 45:35Speaker 1: So I am not a believer. Next.
- 45:38Speaker 5: After a disappointing twenty twenty five season, a lot of
- 45:41Speaker 5: people expected to shake up in the Braves Clubhouse. Instead,
- 45:44Speaker 5: the team has hired Walt Weiss, who has been the
- 45:47Speaker 5: team's hitting coach since twenty eighteen, to be the new manager. Ben,
- 45:50Speaker 5: you think this is a big mistake for Atlanta.
- 45:52Speaker 1: I don't think it matters. He's a little bit younger
- 45:54Speaker 1: of actually a lot younger than the last guy. A snicker.
- 45:57Speaker 1: And just have to make sure that Ronald who Junior
- 46:00Speaker 1: likes you and the other star players on the Atlanta Brids,
- 46:02Speaker 1: because as far as the meat and potatoes of managing
- 46:05Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves, that's done just like all these other
- 46:07Speaker 1: teams by the nerds day to day during the season.
- 46:10Speaker 1: So you pretty much have to talk to the media
- 46:12Speaker 1: and you have to make sure that the star players
- 46:14Speaker 1: like you. If you do those two things, Walt Weiss
- 46:17Speaker 1: will be fine as the manager in Atlanta next.
- 46:20Speaker 5: MLB revealed the finalists for major awards on Monday. Tiger's
- 46:23Speaker 5: pitcher Tarik Schooble is favored to win his second straight
- 46:26Speaker 5: AlSi Young Award. The Red Sox medom Garrett Crochet is
- 46:28Speaker 5: in the running after winning eighteen games and leading the
- 46:30Speaker 5: league in strikeouts with two hundred and fifty five. Do
- 46:32Speaker 5: you think he has a chance, Well, he's.
- 46:35Speaker 1: In the running, but no, Schooble's gonna win the Cy
- 46:38Speaker 1: Young Award. He's the top pitcher in the American League.
- 46:40Speaker 1: He's gonna take home the title. There it is Maloy
- 46:42Speaker 1: the third degree? How do we die? You pass them?
- 46:47Speaker 1: Buzzer pasted it, pasted it.
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- 47:04Speaker 1: It's up it buzz with lir Rain a tennin clean up.
- 47:08Speaker 1: Hearts going to help you gear right, get right to
- 47:12Speaker 1: I get right to night. Dear ry ooh you.
- 47:17Speaker 6: Heard the man.
- 47:18Speaker 7: It's time for love here on the Ben Mallor Show.
- 47:22Speaker 7: We're gonna start out with a little bit of you know,
- 47:26Speaker 7: this is what not to do if someone is not
- 47:28Speaker 7: texting you back, just know they probably don't like you
- 47:31Speaker 7: that much. Stop trying so hard.
- 47:34Speaker 1: Sounds like something personal, Rena, You like.
- 47:36Speaker 6: It always sounds personal, but it's never personal.
- 47:39Speaker 1: Like listen like it's somebody blowing up your phone.
- 47:43Speaker 6: There is that everyone always blows up my phone?
- 47:45Speaker 2: Really?
- 47:46Speaker 1: Okay? Popular? All right? First question from Elloy from Compton.
- 47:51Speaker 1: He says, why is it always one sided when it
- 47:56Speaker 1: comes to Valentine's Day or anniversaries.
- 47:58Speaker 6: Oh, it sounds like you been in bad relationships.
- 48:01Speaker 1: No, he said, he's been married for twenty three years.
- 48:03Speaker 1: I'm always doing everything. Hell, I want flowers and chocolate.
- 48:08Speaker 8: Two.
- 48:08Speaker 7: Well, why doesn't your lover note that you want flowers
- 48:11Speaker 7: and chocolate? Why is your lover not spoiling you just
- 48:14Speaker 7: as much?
- 48:15Speaker 2: You know what?
- 48:16Speaker 7: They could even do something fun and like get you
- 48:18Speaker 7: edible chocolates that you could eat right from little places
- 48:21Speaker 7: that you know. Maybe the you can get a little
- 48:24Speaker 7: kinky with it. Yeah, if your person loves you, they
- 48:26Speaker 7: should know that you want that.
- 48:27Speaker 1: I did see. I don't remember where I stap, but
- 48:31Speaker 1: I said, men on average spend fifteen thousand dollars in
- 48:35Speaker 1: courtship on a woman.
- 48:38Speaker 6: That's a lot. Fifteen should be more.
- 48:40Speaker 1: We could have that be more on the women. Spend
- 48:43Speaker 1: some My women are working. Come on, spend some of
- 48:46Speaker 1: your money. JT. The Wingman rights and says, do women
- 48:49Speaker 1: find men with gout sexy?
- 48:52Speaker 6: What's up?
- 48:52Speaker 9: Far?
- 48:56Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
- 48:57Speaker 6: I was talking through Disney today.
- 48:58Speaker 7: And someone said something about that my planner fasci itis
- 49:01Speaker 7: is flaring up.
- 49:02Speaker 6: I'm like, that's sexy. Yeah, you know, some people like feed.
- 49:07Speaker 1: So you know, Blan scotspin on hold the whole show
- 49:11Speaker 1: to ask you a very important question. Hello Blind Scot
- 49:14Speaker 1: the Queen of Hearts with Lorena right, I.
- 49:16Speaker 3: Said to the information about what she said back to me.
- 49:19Speaker 3: I guess I'll have to just go for it because
- 49:20Speaker 3: we're up against it. But so I reached out to her.
- 49:23Speaker 3: She said, she's a farm girl. She lives in the
- 49:25Speaker 3: western part of the state. She said, she's one to
- 49:28Speaker 3: have a relationship with me, but I got to be patient.
- 49:30Speaker 3: She's a manager at a big box store. The thing is,
- 49:33Speaker 3: we were dating the year ago, my own partners. So then,
- 49:35Speaker 3: you know, I get her down here and I find out,
- 49:37Speaker 3: you know, usually when you're a woman on social media,
- 49:39Speaker 3: you assume you're going to be a woman when you
- 49:41Speaker 3: meet them.
- 49:41Speaker 2: You know.
- 49:42Speaker 3: And then when I meet her, she's a dude, you know.
- 49:44Speaker 3: And she's still ten years younger than me. So, like,
- 49:47Speaker 3: we dated a little bit, and I don't.
- 49:50Speaker 1: Think there's a question. Is there a question?
- 49:52Speaker 6: I was curious, where's the question?
- 49:53Speaker 1: He just wanted to tell a story. Let's go to
- 49:55Speaker 1: James in. I mean, get to the point, dude, James
- 49:59Speaker 1: is in to call James Queen of hearts with Lorraina.
- 50:01Speaker 1: What's going on, James?
- 50:03Speaker 3: Yes, So when buying someone to your house, do you
- 50:06Speaker 3: want your shoes on or off? Because, let me tell you,
- 50:08Speaker 3: my sticky feet is much better than my dirty shoes
- 50:11Speaker 3: on your carpet.
- 50:12Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that's a hard one. And also if you
- 50:14Speaker 7: take your shoes off, it makes it harder to leave faster,
- 50:17Speaker 7: so if you need to get out, I had to
- 50:19Speaker 7: do that. One said my shoes were half off my feet.
- 50:21Speaker 7: I was like, I'm not even going to take the
- 50:22Speaker 7: time to tie these.
- 50:23Speaker 1: And have you thought about buying some soap?
- 50:25Speaker 2: Sir?
- 50:27Speaker 6: Okay, you can just lick your toes clean. It's better
- 50:32Speaker 6: that way.
- 50:33Speaker 1: Great to advice, all right, thank you. A firg dog says,
- 50:37Speaker 1: if a woman makes eye contact with me, does that
- 50:39Speaker 1: mean she likes me?
- 50:41Speaker 8: Oh?
- 50:41Speaker 6: I hate that. Oh my gosh. That's why I never
- 50:44Speaker 6: look at people anymore. I only look at the ground.
- 50:46Speaker 1: Yes.
- 50:47Speaker 7: No, if you make eye contact with someone, they get
- 50:49Speaker 7: the wrong idea and they're like, oh, she likes me.
- 50:51Speaker 1: I mean women have been It's like in the DNA
- 50:53Speaker 1: of women, they never make eye contact unless the guy's hot.
- 50:56Speaker 6: They'll I'm not hot, so then it's like don't look
- 50:59Speaker 6: at me.
- 51:00Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean that's like a big issue. There's
- 51:02Speaker 1: no eye contact. I wonder back in the day, did
- 51:04Speaker 1: women you think years ago used to make eye contact?
- 51:06Speaker 7: That used to be the way, like you make eye contact,
- 51:08Speaker 7: then you look away and look back again, and.
- 51:10Speaker 1: That not anymore. Now that's over weekends. Oh wow.
- 51:16Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 51:18Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
- 51:23Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot.
- 51:28Speaker 1: Password the word Game of the Stars.
- 51:31Speaker 2: Here's Ben Meller.
- 51:32Speaker 1: Yeah, we welcome in the Milkman, Mike from Colorado, one
- 51:36Speaker 1: of our contestants. Old Milkman they.
- 51:39Speaker 3: Often imitated, but never duplicated. Good morning everybody.
- 51:43Speaker 1: Yes, the man of many, man of many voices. Who
- 51:45Speaker 1: do you want to partner up with? Do you got me?
- 51:47Speaker 1: Lorena or Coop?
- 51:49Speaker 4: Oh?
- 51:50Speaker 3: I gotta go with a champion. Let's go with Coop?
- 51:52Speaker 1: All right? So you want to be a loser, you
- 51:53Speaker 1: can be a loser. We have one tour or three
- 51:56Speaker 1: Lorena picked one too or three? Number two? Hey, you
- 52:00Speaker 1: have picked Mike in New Hampshire. Hello, Mike, welcome, Good morning,
- 52:06Speaker 1: Good morning, mister Mallard. Good to have you. Who do
- 52:09Speaker 1: you want to partner up with?
- 52:11Speaker 3: We're winning this thing, so we're gonna go with you.
- 52:14Speaker 1: That's right, all right, let's play the game one to
- 52:15Speaker 1: ten here, Sorry, Loreni, you're out of the show.
- 52:17Speaker 6: It's okay.
- 52:18Speaker 1: List the words one to ten and then let's see
- 52:22Speaker 1: who was on first. That would be the milkman. Milk man, Mike,
- 52:26Speaker 1: go ahead, pick a number please. Now, let's go with
- 52:29Speaker 1: number four, number four, number four, all right, cool, should
- 52:34Speaker 1: be easy, I think. Okay. Let's see here. Uh, let's
- 52:39Speaker 1: go with hurry up, chop chop.
- 52:43Speaker 9: Let's go with I'm I'm gonna do malar engagement. Yeah,
- 52:55Speaker 9: yes's my move.
- 52:57Speaker 1: That's my proprie Terry Blain, I go ahead there. Please
- 53:00Speaker 1: pick a number, Mike in New Hampshire, go six, number six,
- 53:07Speaker 1: number six, all right, I could do a malamed easy.
- 53:13Speaker 1: Uh no, how about hm hm be fuddled?
- 53:25Speaker 3: You should have went with the malameduver?
- 53:28Speaker 1: Come on, be fuddled, you're be fuddled? No nothing, God,
- 53:37Speaker 1: all right, go ahead, h coop, go ahead, let's go
- 53:41Speaker 1: with hurry off bewildered. Oh it was easy, yeah, got
- 53:52Speaker 1: he's got too easy? Shut up, go ahead, up milkman.
- 53:55Speaker 1: Pick a number. Hurry up, number one, he go, hurry up, Coop,
- 54:01Speaker 1: hurry up. Let's go with Billfold.
- 54:08Speaker 8: You came, you gave, You gave him the words he
- 54:13Speaker 8: gave the way. He gave him the words. You know what,
- 54:15Speaker 8: pig a number Mic, Come on, we get the blowout.
- 54:20Speaker 1: You cheated, Coop a loop cheated. I'm gonna call the
- 54:22Speaker 1: f c C. He cheated. He gave him the answers.
- 54:26Speaker 1: You talked to him all.
- 54:27Speaker 4: I know what you did.
- 54:28Speaker 1: You talked to him off THEOS connection. It was all
- 54:32Speaker 1: a con.
- 54:32Speaker 2: It was.
- 54:33Speaker 1: It was all a rip off job. We got screwed.
- 54:35Speaker 1: Mike in New Hampshire,