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  Speaker 1: on in here, but our lead this hour from the
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  Speaker 1: swamp land of Jersey. It is a done deal. A
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  Speaker 1: rumor from yesterday has now become reality. If you somehow
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  Speaker 1: missed the news, the Detroit Lions have lost their defensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn. He picks up the booby prize of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL coaching carousel. He was officially hired as the nineteenth
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  Speaker 1: non interim head coach. Of course, the Jets have had
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  Speaker 1: many many interim head coaches, but Aaron Glenn gets a
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  Speaker 1: five year contract and that ties him to the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: At least they'll be cutting him checks, assuming there's no
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  Speaker 1: out in the contract through twenty twenty nine. Chances that
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn is coaching the Jets in twenty twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: and twenty twenty nine slim and none. But hey, why not?
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  Speaker 1: The thought is nice. So did you hear what he said?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not? There was a prepared statement where Aaron Glenn
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  Speaker 1: waxed poetic in his prepared comments talking about his playing days.
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  Speaker 1: Much of what we thought he would say, the hemoglobin,
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  Speaker 1: it's in the blood there, that's why you want to
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  Speaker 1: coach the Jets, saying that the Jets organization has always
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  Speaker 1: felt like home. And Glenn played for the Jets and
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  Speaker 1: was one of their I don't want to say a
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  Speaker 1: star because he's he was a defensive guy, but he
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  Speaker 1: played on the defense from the mid nineties to the
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  Speaker 1: early two thousands. He made a couple of Pro Bowls.
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  Speaker 1: That was back before the Pro Bowl was hula hoop
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  Speaker 1: toss and and you know, water balloon and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see if you can go home again. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't always work so well. He's being celebrated Aaron Glenn
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  Speaker 1: as a Bill Parcells disciple. Okay, Bill Parcells, I think
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  Speaker 1: you can catch him at the local horse track there
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  Speaker 1: uh playing playing the ponies and among the fan base.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about that part of it, right because Glenn,
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  Speaker 1: you can sell. Hey, he played for the Jets. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's one of only two players to have played
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  Speaker 1: for the Jets that ended up coaching the team. But
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  Speaker 1: as we discuss what is the temperature in the room,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, the temperature in the room among the
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  Speaker 1: fan base, on how Jet fans are feeling about hiring
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn. So I've got crypto tupperware and murder hornet
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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 a nice tropical vacation. Which
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  Speaker 1: is what Aaron Glenn can plan every year during the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Is the Jets just don't make the playoffs. So my
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  Speaker 1: first thought here is you take Aaron Glenn as coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Jets. You give that a like a shoulder shrug.
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  Speaker 1: Is what you do, right, You give it a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a shoulder shrug. There, that's the proper reaction. You
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  Speaker 1: assume nothing and question everything. Now, I'm not a Jets fan,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, but I know what bunch of Jets
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  Speaker 1: fans and at this point, the real Jet fan has
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  Speaker 1: a feeling of numbness when it comes to coaching changes
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  Speaker 1: every couple of seasons. It's like spring cleaning. Every couple
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  Speaker 1: of seasons. The Jets get rid of a coach and
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  Speaker 1: they hire some hot shot coordinator who has all the
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  Speaker 1: answers and everyone says is the next great coach in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. They've got it all figured out. They're the
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  Speaker 1: smartest person on the block. And they come in there
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  Speaker 1: and they talk to talk, and then they have to
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  Speaker 1: walk and it's like Willy Walker and the Chocolate factory
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  Speaker 1: is they stumble over and fall down on the cobblestone.
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  Speaker 1: Unlike Willy Waka, they don't stand back up and they
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  Speaker 1: have the cane. All that. But coaching the Jets and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn will see what he has to say in
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  Speaker 1: the coming days here. But Aaron Glenn and all Jets
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  Speaker 1: coaches have the same thing in common. They come in
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  Speaker 1: there and they're Charlatan's is what they are. Right. It's
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  Speaker 1: like some fly by night pump and dump crypto scam.
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  Speaker 1: Hey you got to buy this new crypto man to
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  Speaker 1: the Moon, to the Moon, to the Moon, to the
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  Speaker 1: Moon to the Unfortunately, Yeah, the turnaround point bar is
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  Speaker 1: actually not that high, which is pretty good, right, It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty very low. I will give that to Aaron Glenn.
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  Speaker 1: How low can you go? How low can you go?
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  Speaker 1: The Jets are coming off their fourteenth straight season out
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  Speaker 1: of the plus, which means if you're like a going
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  Speaker 1: into your freshman year in high school, coming up your
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  Speaker 1: entire life, the Jets have not made the playoffs. The
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  Speaker 1: longest active drought in the big time industrial complex of
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  Speaker 1: American sport. I mean you talk about the big sports leagues,
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  Speaker 1: the four major men's sports leagues and they have the
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  Speaker 1: longest drought. So we are setting the Malar odds, very
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  Speaker 1: important measuring tool, the malarodds. That Aaron Glenn makes the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs with the Jets. I'm gonna set the odds at
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  Speaker 1: plus five hundred. That implies a about a fifteen percent chance,
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  Speaker 1: roughly so a one fifty hitter in baseball. The NFL
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  Speaker 1: will be expanding the playoffs in the next few years.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to keep adding teams because TV wants more
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  Speaker 1: playoff games. So if you follow the Malord math, there
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  Speaker 1: is this sweet spot where if you keep adding teams,
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  Speaker 1: eventually eventually the Jets will get in. They'll get in
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  Speaker 1: because they'll they'll win. The bar will be seven and
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  Speaker 1: ten and that gets you in the playoffs. And so
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  Speaker 1: at some point they'll go seven and ten. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: believe it when we see it. Now. Furthermore, some wild,
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  Speaker 1: wild chatter coming out of the Tri State area over
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  Speaker 1: the last few hours or so. There's some weeks out
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  Speaker 1: there that claim Aaron Glenn, the new coach, has made
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  Speaker 1: it be known to people around him that he would
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  Speaker 1: like to keep Aaron Rodgers under center. Now has seemed
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  Speaker 1: all but guaranteed that Rogers will not play for the
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  Speaker 1: Jets in twenty twenty five. So let's discuss is Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Glenn really considering a return of Aaron Rodgers as the
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  Speaker 1: Jets QB one. So you can't see me unless you're
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  Speaker 1: watching the video. I'm going I'm going no, I'm shaking
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  Speaker 1: my head.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm even I'm wagging my finger. No as well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing that. But it's like going into a new
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  Speaker 1: apartment and there's some stuff left behind. You open the refrigerator,
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  Speaker 1: you're a little hungry. You see some tupperware in the
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  Speaker 1: back there, and you notice it's got some ravioli that
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  Speaker 1: looks like it's been in there for several months. The
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  Speaker 1: ravioli is just sitting around there and it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: looks a little weird. The color's not right. It's got
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  Speaker 1: a little freezer burn on it because it was in
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  Speaker 1: the freezer and then put in the fridge. And do
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  Speaker 1: you eat it or throw it away and get some
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  Speaker 1: fresh ravioli? Aaron Glenn to take back Aaron Rodgers. It's
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  Speaker 1: the Aaron and Aaron Law Firm. You wouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: You want a blank slate, you want to bring your
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  Speaker 1: guy and you want fresh ravioli, homemade ravioli. You do
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  Speaker 1: not want to bring in leftover freezer burned food that
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  Speaker 1: was already sitting around, So good luck. Like every other
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  Speaker 1: Jets coach, you go into this and it's like the
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  Speaker 1: fairy tale. You start kissing frogs trying to find a prince.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last word. So, as we moved to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, as Buffalo gets ready for the game
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  Speaker 1: of the decade, like every other game, the AFC Championship
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  Speaker 1: Game at Arrowhead in Kansas City, just down the street
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  Speaker 1: from the Ben Mather Chicken Fingers to the landing there
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  Speaker 1: in Liberty, Missouri. One of the storylines has been about
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  Speaker 1: the vanishing act of the big pickup for the Buffer
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  Speaker 1: football team. Well, they already went away from going back
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  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl to lose again. Wide receiver Amari
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  Speaker 1: Cooper has been nowhere to be seen. He has vanished
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  Speaker 1: off the face of the playoff map. And he was
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  Speaker 1: asked about that. Now, Mark Cooper says he has no complaints,
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  Speaker 1: that's a quote, no complaints about a very diminished role
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  Speaker 1: in the Bill's offense. Do you believe him so on
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  Speaker 1: this one? Yeah, I'm giving it a bit of side
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  Speaker 1: out here. He's playing the good soldier, he's following orders
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  Speaker 1: and all that. But regardless, if he's satisfied with his role,
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  Speaker 1: then there's something messed up. I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical. I
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo brought this guy in, Marko. Remember they were not
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  Speaker 1: playing that well on offense. They they were talking about
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  Speaker 1: how great everything was without Stefan Diggs. But the real ones,
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  Speaker 1: not the cool aid drinking Bill's mafia losers. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about the real people, all right. They knew there was
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  Speaker 1: a problem. The Bills knew there was a problem, so
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  Speaker 1: they went on and got a Mark Cooper to fix
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  Speaker 1: the problem. They brought him in. And the main reason
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  Speaker 1: they brought him in is well, when playoffs were gonna
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  Speaker 1: need a guy like a Mark Cooper, He's a twenty
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  Speaker 1: million dollar receiver who's a decoy at this point, right
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  Speaker 1: he's doing the the okie doke. He's an afterthought. Cooper
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  Speaker 1: has been at times at times in his career, he's
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  Speaker 1: been a murder hornet, and right now he's a murder
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  Speaker 1: hornet with no stinger. For the Buffalo Bills. There's just
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  Speaker 1: a lot missing there. There's a lot missing, and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like swimming in cold water. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of shrinkage that is going on right now. Either
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  Speaker 1: the Bills offense has decided that Cooper is just not
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  Speaker 1: good enough that they can't feed him the ball, or
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  Speaker 1: he's heard, or they're going to say he's heard, or
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  Speaker 1: he's simply just underperforming and he can't get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: He's only been targeted four times in two games. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: million dollar receiver has targets in two games with Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: He's got two catches for all of eight yards. That's it. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper is supposed to be a wide receiver one, right
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver one, and he's playing like like he won
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  Speaker 1: a raffle. Hey, how would you like to play receiver
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  Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs? Is that kind
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  Speaker 1: of a vibe. It's that kind of a vibe. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: the weather is bad, the football is bad, the basketball
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  Speaker 1: is bad, the hockey's bad, the baseball's bad. Everything's bad
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  Speaker 1: right about now in terms of Chicago sports. But the
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  Speaker 1: the Bears, the folks, they rolled out the orange carpet. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: very exciting, the orange carpet there in Chicago, welcoming in
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, he's your new coach. I know you're excited.
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  Speaker 1: He was introduced to a gala news conference at Hallis Hall,
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  Speaker 1: the nineteenth head coach in the one hundred and five
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  Speaker 1: year history of the Chicago Bears. Johnson thirty eight years old,
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  Speaker 1: and he has hailed as the great savior, the great
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  Speaker 1: Messiah of the team there in the Windy City, in
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  Speaker 1: architect of offensive genius with the Lions and called up
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  Speaker 1: all the right plays for Jarrett Golf. Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: Lions did not succeed in the playoffs. Playoffs, Yeah, did
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  Speaker 1: not work out so well. But if you didn't catch
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  Speaker 1: any of this, and maybe he didn't, let me give
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  Speaker 1: you some of the highlights here, Ben Johnson. Let's jump
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  Speaker 1: the cut two. Here there's Ben Johnson talking about what
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  Speaker 1: the job in Chicago entails in terms of where the
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  Speaker 1: Bears franchise is. They're sleeping right now.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently going into this season, I felt like this place
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  Speaker 4: was a sleeping giant. To be honest with you, I
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  Speaker 4: personally was more concerned about the Chicago Bears than was
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  Speaker 4: anybody else in this division. Now, there's a number of
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  Speaker 4: reasons why that did not unfold, all right, Which that's
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  Speaker 4: why I'm here. I'll get to the bottom of that
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  Speaker 4: and we'll see if we can't get that corrected and cleaned.
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  Speaker 1: Up, all right. So he's really selling hard, the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the Bears, who won five games with a team
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  Speaker 1: that scared him the most in the division. Okay, Johnson
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  Speaker 1: said the job was particularly intriguing because of Caleb Williams
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  Speaker 1: right building Calebs. We'll talk more about that in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes, but he said having a quarterback obviously helped.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question, how did you judge
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson's opening act as Chicago's coach dealing with the media.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Joel Olstein, Sugar Coated and Geneva conventions,
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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 cause double trouble, is what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to cause. So, Na, Ben Johnson was laying on
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  Speaker 1: the salesmanship, very very thick, right, very very thick. And
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  Speaker 1: we've watched so many of these opening news conferences over
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  Speaker 1: the years. They're always pretty much the same in terms
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  Speaker 1: of it's a cookie cutter format, paint by numbers, it's
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  Speaker 1: come out. You got a photo op with the jersey,
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  Speaker 1: the helmet, it's I want to thank my family, I
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  Speaker 1: want to thank the owner, I want to thank the fans.
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  Speaker 1: These fans deserve a winner. This team is ready to win.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just the person that's going to come in
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  Speaker 1: there and make the spectators happy. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: so good, hot diggity dog, right, this one like all
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  Speaker 1: of them, but even even more so listening to Ben
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  Speaker 1: Johnson talking, it was like a religious revival. Imagine, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, the new coach of the Chicago Bears, Ben Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: He's talking like he's a televangelist, like watching Joel Olstein,
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  Speaker 1: not talking about the Bears and what's gonna happen in
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  Speaker 1: the future, giving a shout out from the from the pulpit.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a sermon from the pulpit, is what it was. There.
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  Speaker 1: He was doing a sermon and spreading the message in
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  Speaker 1: positivity and hope for the Chicago Bears and franchise and
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  Speaker 1: player empowerment and all this stuff through his teaching. And
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  Speaker 1: all he needs, all Ben Johnson needs is a few disciples.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's it. Now we played the sound by sleeping
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  Speaker 1: Giant of a franchise. Now, I would argue, based on
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  Speaker 1: many years of analyzing the Bears from behind these microphones,
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  Speaker 1: that the Bears are not a sleeping giant. They're obviously
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  Speaker 1: a hibernating bear in a medically induced coma is what
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  Speaker 1: they're in. And Ben Johnson has tasked with molding Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams into Jayden Daniels, who, by the way, the Bears,
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  Speaker 1: if they know they knew what they were doing, they
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  Speaker 1: would have taken Jayden Daniels with the number one pick,
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  Speaker 1: but instead they said, no, no, we've got to bug
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  Speaker 1: up our ass, and we want to take Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 1: And Caleb Williams is so far away from being good
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  Speaker 1: it's not even funny. So good luck to Ben Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's more. Page two. The rhetoric continues. So Ben
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  Speaker 1: Johnson said that he's leaving the Lions playbook back in Motown,
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  Speaker 1: that he's not taking away him, that Chicago's offense is
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  Speaker 1: going to be calibrated or Caleb Williams. So in fact,
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  Speaker 1: here he is talking about caler Williams. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: This offense will be calibrated with him in mind. We're
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  Speaker 4: going to build this thing. This is not simply a
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  Speaker 4: dropping of a previous playbook down on the table and
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  Speaker 4: starting there. No, we're ripping this thing down to the
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  Speaker 4: studs and we're gonna build it up with him first
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  Speaker 4: and foremost.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So what do you make you just
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  Speaker 1: heard the sound bite. What do you make of Ben
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  Speaker 1: Jonson saying that he's ripping the Bears offensive playbook down
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  Speaker 1: to the down to the studs for Caleb Williams. So
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  Speaker 1: this is a stay it with me now, dead dear
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  Speaker 1: white to dead dear white. If you are a pigeon
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  Speaker 1: eared listener, you know what I'm talking about right now.
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  Speaker 1: He certainly was sugarcoating things here, Ben Johnson. But Kayleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams rookie season was a total waist, a total waste.
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  Speaker 1: No ifs ands or butts about it. There's nothing you
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  Speaker 1: can say. There's nothing you can salvage. The plumbing, no,
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  Speaker 1: the doors, the cabinry, the appliances, the hardware, complete and
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  Speaker 1: total zero, a waste of time, there's nothing left. You're
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  Speaker 1: tearing things down all the way to the studs. Because
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  Speaker 1: that's how big a mess kyl Williams is. And so
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  Speaker 1: amazon I took the job because of Kayleb Williams and
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  Speaker 1: not you would not have to bring the playbook down
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  Speaker 1: to the studs if Caleb Williams was a stud. But
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  Speaker 1: he's not. He holds the ball way too long. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a very low football IQ. He's obtuse during games.
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  Speaker 1: All you need to know is watch that Thanksgiving Day game,
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  Speaker 1: go back and watch the end of it when the
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  Speaker 1: Bears were in position and he turned in to a
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  Speaker 1: giant turkey. So Ben Johnson will do the same thing
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  Speaker 1: he tried to do for Jared Goff. He will spoon
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  Speaker 1: feed Caleb Williams. That's what all these coaches do. But
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: ultimately the problem is that only gets you so far
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: because at some point you've got to take the training
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: wheels off and in crunch time you're not going to
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: be able to spoon feed plays. Everything changes and then
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you're exposed, and you're exposed in playoff games. Like Jared
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  Speaker 1: Goff has been absolutely terrible in the biggest games he's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: played in with the Lions. No matter that Ben Johnson
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: is there or not, it doesn't matter. He can't handle it.
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  Speaker 1: He's completely zapped in big moments Jared Goff. And so
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  Speaker 1: why would anything be different with Calebwims. Now, we'll wait,
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  Speaker 1: We'll give him the usual grace period, little grace period,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, We'll see what happens. I. As I said
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  Speaker 1: in a previous episode of this program, it's he's the
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  Speaker 1: flavor of the month, he's the soup of the day,
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  Speaker 1: and he's the hot shot coordinator. And I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: know how this works. Is there like a committee, a
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  Speaker 1: blue ribbon panel somewhere at the NFL headquarters where they're like,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: all right, let's move this guy up to the top
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of the totem flow where this is the hot hot
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to trot assistant coach. It's like, how do I actually
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  Speaker 1: in the lines? Had a lot of regular season success.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of smoke smoke for the Lions offense,
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  Speaker 1: but unfortunately the flame was not there in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: They lost to a rookie quarterback at home despite having
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: a bye week. That's embarrassing. That is absolutelymbarrasing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Final point, So many are saying that the Bears head
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  Speaker 1: coach Ben Johnson poked at the Green Bay Packers when
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  Speaker 1: he said I take pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice
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  Speaker 1: a year. Now, he was kind of singing the praises
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  Speaker 1: of the other coaches in the division, but he said,
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  Speaker 1: I take pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice a year.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: So where does this rank on the cheap shot scale?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Where is that rank from the cheap shot scale? For
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson taking a little pot shot at Matt Lafleur. So, boy,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I saw this headline. I got
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: a little excited. I did. I saw the headline, and
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: then I watched the news conference and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really remember him taking any shot at any
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: other coach, but I saw the headline. I was like, Wow,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: that's pretty good. I'm gonna click on that. And I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: clicked on it and I was like, what so on
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  Speaker 1: the Malard scale of insults coach the coach Ben Johnson
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: saying I take pleasure in beating Matt Lafleur twice a year.
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  Speaker 1: That ranks just ahead of being given a time out
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  Speaker 1: where you're sent to the corner of the room and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: your parents giving you an earlier bedtime. Draconian, absolutely draconian.
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  Speaker 1: Taking pleasure after beating a division rival twice a year.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: That is cruel and unusual punishment. That is a violation
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: of the Geneva conventions. It is how dare you despotic? Despotic?
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Can someone in Green Bay, and we're on in Green Bay,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: can somebody go to a well check on Matt Lafleur.
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  Speaker 1: See how he's doing. Yeah, so Ben Johnson wants the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Bears fans obviously fired up. Cruise up I ninety four there,
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  Speaker 1: stop at the Cheese Castle and Kenosha on your way
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  Speaker 1: to lambeau Field. And it's fair to say, though, if
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the Bears don't at least break even against the Packers,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: then Ben Johnson will be decommissioned from coaching the Bears.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Is that fair to say that he's not gonna last?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: You only had so many opportunities in the division. The
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: easiest path to making the playoffs playoffs is to win
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the division. Now what he should have done, Ben Johnson
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: is gotten out on the dais and channeled the mayor
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of Philadelphia. Can you give me I want to hear
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: what I haven't heard the mayor in like an hour.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Give me the mayor of Philadelphia the dor That's what
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson shooted them like a Bears chant and tried
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to spell Bears. And then after it, let me hear
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  Speaker 1: you all saying he ow me me.
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  Speaker 5: No bird.
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  Speaker 1: That is so good God. That's how you fire up
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  Speaker 1: a fan base, right there, Ben Johnson here was all right,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: But you gotta be like the mayor of Philadelphia. That's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: how you really fire people up.
• 25:27
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• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Here we go, how about thanks degree? This is one
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: big Ben gets grilled who outed.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: On Tuesday, it was reported that and NFC personnel executive
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: expects the Dolphins to send Tyreek Hillton to the New
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: England Patriots this offseason?
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Ben, could you see that happening?
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: So here's the deal. There's only two ways Tyreek Hill
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: ends up being traded from Miami ME to the New
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: England Patriots. Number one is he's completely washed up and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins want a sucker the New England Patriots into
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: taking Tyreek Hill. That's the first way. The second way
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: would be Tyreek Hill is like a trojan horse that
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: he still can play, but he's such a disruptor, he's
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: such a problem child that he'll f up the Patriots
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: even more. Those are the only two ways. I remember
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Belichick years ago traded Drew Bledsoe to Buffalo because he
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: knew Bledsoe was done and so he's like, I'll trade
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: him in the division and he did. That's the only
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: way Tyreek Hill should end up in a Patriot uniform.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I think Cooper Cup is more likely for the Patriots next.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: And another report an NFL insider suggested that there is
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: a chance that Mike Tomlin could decide to go with
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Justin Fields heading into next season. Ben, do you think
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: that's even a remote possibility?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: So you're saying there's a chance, I go know, because
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson sucked for several games at the end of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the year, and Tomlin could have gone back to Justin
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Fields he chose next.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: The Bills Ravens game drew forty two point two million viewers.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: It was the largest audience this season, but it was
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: also down over sixteen percent from last year's Chiefs Bills matchup. Overall,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: the divisional round was down eight and a half percent, Ben,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: do you think it's strictly the quality of the matchups? Say?
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Is there something deeper to be read into here?
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many deeper It's called Taylor Swift coop.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift was not involved in that. If Taylor Swift
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: did it involved would have been a different outcome.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: How do we know you pass the s edition?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: That is a win?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Lorena, I won Lorena, I'm a little out of me, Ben,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate that. I'd like my flowers.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: Shipped out right now.
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  Speaker 1: Hurry, hurry, I can hurry wait ask Bed. Twitter said
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• 28:12
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• 28:14
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• 28:16
  Speaker 5: All right, Ben, We're gonna start with a question for you,
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: fra right from Tammy in Montana.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Hi Tammy and Montana, Hello Tama.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: She wants to know how many times a night do
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: you go into the surrender cobra with callers?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Pretty much twice an hour on average. I think I've
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I've done the math, Tammy in Montana, and it's usually
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: every time angry Bill gets on hollering, James Marcel and Brooklyn,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: all the regulars, all the regulars. But it's onward and upwards.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: So I do get in that surrender cobra quite a bit.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: What is next year? Cool? What do we have? We're
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: gonna hear from Tammy and Montana a fan favorite. Everyone
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: loves Tammy in Montana.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: Emmett would like to know, hi, Emmett, what is your
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: favorite gas station for food?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Food? Well, back in the day when I would go,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I would love the the am PM would go there
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and a whole cadre like nachos. That was my big thing.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Seven eleven there was like a seven eleven connected to
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: a gas station, big slurpy guy. Back in the day,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: love the slurpy. I would would fill it up, drink
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: it in the store, fill it up again, then pay
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: for it so I get two for one. I love that?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Is that for everyone? Drink it that fast back.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't know me, didn't a brain freeze, you.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Didn't know me. I had amazing. My superpower was consumption
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: of massive quantities of food. Wow, although that doesn't really
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: count as food right it's just no icy water.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Sugar water, But yes, that is for everybody.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Lo rain my favorite fast food. We're not fast food
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: gas station like nachos hot dog, those disgusting like green
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: hot dogs. That's funny.
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: I absolutely refuse to eat them now, but I'm somewhere.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: I think the gas station corn dogs were always my favorite.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Always better elementary school corn dogs are gas station.
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: Gastation corn dogs because I have the halapino cheese ones,
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: the ones that you go to, Yeah, and I like
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: the crispy around the stick, you know, the little wooden
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: party go Yeah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: But I I like the Arco hot dogs too.
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: When you said Arco, I was like, Oh, when I
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: was a kid, I eat those all the time.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: My dad loved taking us to Arco to eat lunch.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I used to eat everything back in the day,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: so I would go to a gas station. It was
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: my favorite. But you know, I love those late like
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: here in La those late night Mexican fast food places
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: that are kind of like somewhat like Albertos and places
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: I ate ransoid meat from Alberto's last night actually Barrata
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: that said that, Lawyers Cupolo.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: I like the the taketosos are good.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've never had the taketos.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Taketo's one of those foods. It's hard to have off.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and they've got like different kinds. Like some of
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: them were like buffalo chicken and cheese. About the pizza sticks,
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: did you guys ever have the pizza sticks? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you'd make me hungry.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not in the middle of the fast okay, killing me.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: You're always I know it's a problem. It's my Mischer
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: gossip King.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Rory would like to by Rory what would be worst?
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Going skydiving in your parachute not opening, or going bungee
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: jumping in the cord breaking.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I would think skydiving because that's that's one hundred percent.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: It'd be quick. So I guess that's so. I guess
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the bungee you'd survive. Possibly, right, you could see the water. Yeah, okay,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: So the bungee thing's worse then, because if you jump
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: out of a plane the parachute doesn't open, you're dead.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: But it's a kind of a quick thing. Now, probably
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: not while you're falling and you smash into the ground.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: It probably doesn't feel that quick, but you're relatively dead fast.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: The bungee thing, you might end up in the hospital.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: Lorena, but you'd be alive.
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but you I mean, but you could be paralyzed, crippled,
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: or you could have a really cool story.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Right, here's the thing. Would you rather die or live
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: and have everything?
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  Speaker 7: I think I think life is cool no matter which
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: experience you're taking.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: So I think I would rather vegetable. You'd be okay,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I'd be okay.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: I could have still really cool dreams.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Really, I don't know about that. I don't know a
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: little tough, tough situation.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a really it's a good question. I think
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I got to agree with you, Ben.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, it is all right, quick painless death,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: relatively speaking. What is next year? It is asked, Ben,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: your questions are answers.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: This is a good one. JT. The Wingman. He would
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: like to know.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Did you have any magazine subscriptions as a kid growing up?
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm old. I had Sports Illustrated. I always loved
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the Swimsuit Issue when that came out every holiday season.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: And then I had the Sporting News because they had
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: all the stats in there. The Sporting News, I waited
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: for that every week. My dad was a big Mad
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Magazine fan, so he had Mad Magazine. So that was
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: around the house. My mom here weave those elementary school things.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: When I was I'm of the age where you could
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: sign up for all these different magazines and whatever and
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: so to help support the school, and so we had
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: so much crap come into the house. There was this
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: thing called Sport Magazine that we had at one point,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: and it was looking back on I was like, why what,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: It's terrible compared now everything's just online. What about you, Loraine?
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: My grandma had so many magazines. They were under tables
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: and on the sides of everything.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Was it those like entertainment like People magazine was at home
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: and was at home housekeeping? Right?
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: No?
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: They were all fashion like Cosmopolitans.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Girl, Did you have any magazine collection?
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: Well, no, I went through hers. Okay, I didn't need
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: to get my own, and I don't yeah know.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: But she had a Cosmopolitan.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: She never got rid of them. She'd hold onto the
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: ones from the seventies. She had them from the seventies.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Ooh, a Playboy.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: You just don't even get rid of them. Yeah, playboy collection, Yeah.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Old school playboy all right. Yeah.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: So when I was a little kid, I had Highlights.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Do you remember that?
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I do not?
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Was that was? I don't know?
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: I thought that, Yeah, I thought that went like way back,
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: but maybe it's.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: Just my you see him at.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes I had that, and then later on into
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: my preteen era, I had w w F magazine.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Oh that's big. Well, all right, what's the next year?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: To ask? Ben? Your questions are answers.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Late night Drug Tester would like to know if you
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: had a paid year off from work, what would you
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: do so fully paid?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I would go crazy probably I'm used to working, so no.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I would love to travel, drive across the country, visit
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: places I've never been, see people I don't see very often,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: do that kind of stuff. What about you, Lorain?
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: Well, first I'd want to do nothing, Ben, I would
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: want to I don't.
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: Do nothing well, responsibility, and then yes, I want to travel.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Cool.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: I would spend half of it traveling and the other
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: half playing in poker tournaments.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: That's your dream, right, the professional poker player. People loop