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- 0:31Speaker 1: We settle in for the brand new week, made it
- 0:34Speaker 1: back successfully from San Francisco, where they had a very unmemorable,
- 0:41Speaker 1: very unmemorable Super Bowl. Nonetheless, our lead is, and this
- 0:48Speaker 1: will be a super Bowl heavy show. Play the Hits,
- 0:51Speaker 1: ma Man, play the Hits ran into our old Boston
- 0:54Speaker 1: there in San Francisco. He said, my man, you got
- 0:58Speaker 1: play the hits. Mall Man, all right, We'll play the hits.
- 0:59Speaker 1: So our lead this hour in pretty much every hour
- 1:02Speaker 1: from the Bay Area, forty six miles south of the
- 1:05Speaker 1: heart of San Francisco, where the fentanyl is flowing and
- 1:08Speaker 1: Santa Clair a little cleaner. There to be exact a
- 1:11Speaker 1: location there, the forty nine Ers Stadium. They do not
- 1:14Speaker 1: pay us to name the stadium. It's if they want
- 1:17Speaker 1: to buy a commercial, they can contact the fine sales
- 1:20Speaker 1: department at iHeart. But the stadium named after a Denhim
- 1:23Speaker 1: jeans company, as the legend goes, Denim jeans were invented
- 1:27Speaker 1: in northern California during the gold Rush back in the day.
- 1:31Speaker 1: But there it was all the hype, all to build
- 1:33Speaker 1: up Super Bowl sixty. We spent a year of our
- 1:35Speaker 1: lives getting ready for this, planning it. Oh, my team's
- 1:38Speaker 1: gonna be in ah blah blah. So it ended up
- 1:40Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Seahawks. That was the matchup. You
- 1:43Speaker 1: had Mike Turco and Chris Collinsworth. They had the call
- 1:47Speaker 1: on and me, see, now, I don't know if you're
- 1:51Speaker 1: watching or not, perhaps not, What the hell else did
- 1:53Speaker 1: you have to do? And if you didn't watch, what
- 1:56Speaker 1: are you doing here? Anyway? Well, we watched so you
- 1:59Speaker 1: would not have to. It's our good mits for the day.
- 2:01Speaker 1: And you know, this was a Super Bowl a little
- 2:03Speaker 1: different than most other Super Bowls when the lead on
- 2:07Speaker 1: the game is the defense with Devin Witherspoon, Derek Hall
- 2:13Speaker 1: not the guy that's the president of the Diamondbacks, and
- 2:15Speaker 1: Byron Murphy and in the rest of that Seattle defense,
- 2:21Speaker 1: the defense dubbed the dark Side O scary for Mike McDonald,
- 2:27Speaker 1: and that defense getting all the love as the Seahawks
- 2:30Speaker 1: end up winning a dud of a Super Bowl over
- 2:33Speaker 1: the Patriots twenty nine to thirteen, and they win the
- 2:36Speaker 1: second Super Bowl trophy in that team's history. That is
- 2:39Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss did the
- 2:43Speaker 1: Seahawks defense win it or did the Patriots offense lose it?
- 2:49Speaker 1: In Super Bowl sixty. So my thoughts on this, I've
- 2:53Speaker 1: got commandeered brand ambassador and senior fellow and we will
- 2:59Speaker 1: combine all all of these things together and we are
- 3:03Speaker 1: gonna make some spaghetti and meatballs which will be more
- 3:05Speaker 1: enjoyable and more memorable than what we watched in this
- 3:09Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So a the answer to the question did
- 3:11Speaker 1: the Seahawks defense win it? Or did the Patriots offense
- 3:14Speaker 1: lose it? The arrow on the Malor scoreboard is pointing
- 3:19Speaker 1: towards the New England offense and particularly Drake May and
- 3:23Speaker 1: it's blinking red like a hazard light. Woo, that's what
- 3:28Speaker 1: it sounds like. Oo, it's blinking. Might want to get
- 3:32Speaker 1: that check. So the Mallard mantra if you've been with
- 3:34Speaker 1: me at all over the years. You know. One of
- 3:36Speaker 1: the malad mantras that we have here is the fact
- 3:40Speaker 1: that most games are lost, they're not one. Sway is,
- 3:43Speaker 1: most games are lost, they're not one. And on this
- 3:46Speaker 1: night in Santa Claric, Drake May he was there. He
- 3:52Speaker 1: commandeered the vomit comet. He commandeered the vomit comet. And
- 3:57Speaker 1: it was puke in the air everywhere. Three quarters of
- 4:00Speaker 1: the worst football you'll ever see in your life, on
- 4:02Speaker 1: the biggest stage, the biggest moment. The lights were too bright.
- 4:05Speaker 1: This guy choked. He choked. He looked seasick, dizzy and
- 4:09Speaker 1: unsure which galaxy he was in. Drake May, Holy canoley right,
- 4:15Speaker 1: turn the ball over off and pop gun throws, bad decisions,
- 4:19Speaker 1: panic in the air everywhere. That's Drake May. So let's
- 4:24Speaker 1: slow down, like this was not forced by the Seahawks defense.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Sales defense was good. This is not a mythological defense.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Let's let's not get careed of it. This is not
- 4:34Speaker 1: the legion of Boom. I'd rather have those guys. It's
- 4:37Speaker 1: not certainly the eighty five Bears, or that it was
- 4:40Speaker 1: the two thousand Ravens with ray Lewis, where's the white suit? Ray?
- 4:44Speaker 1: Back in the day, they didn't dominate history. They didn't.
- 4:48Speaker 1: They accepted gifts and nicely rapped gifts at that and
- 4:52Speaker 1: from Drake May, which I believe in my math is correct.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Two touchdowns courtesy of Drake May. Gifts to the Seattle Seahawks.
- 5:00Speaker 1: There were guys open. I'm telling you there were guys
- 5:02Speaker 1: open my TV. Maybe it was my TV. There were
- 5:04Speaker 1: guys open. And May's compass was broken, his internal clock
- 5:08Speaker 1: needed some new batteries and as a result, the Patriots
- 5:12Speaker 1: offense ended up running on fumes in this game. Now
- 5:17Speaker 1: there were a bunch of garbage time completions. That doesn't
- 5:20Speaker 1: really do anything for me. Maybe for you it does.
- 5:23Speaker 1: But that's window dressing. You've wrecked the car, the cars
- 5:26Speaker 1: of Jalapi. It's all torn up, it's disheveled, and now
- 5:30Speaker 1: congratulations and put some window dressing on it. So Seattle
- 5:34Speaker 1: did not steal, right, did not steal the Lombardy. They
- 5:39Speaker 1: did not. New England left it on the curb and
- 5:41Speaker 1: they put it on offer up and said here take that.
- 5:43Speaker 1: There's some trash out there. Until a piece of metal,
- 5:45Speaker 1: as Rob Manford would call it the baseball commissioner, So
- 5:48Speaker 1: go pick it up. Okay, I'll pick it up. Why not?
- 5:51Speaker 1: What the heck? What do you have to do? All right, now,
- 5:54Speaker 1: here's Drake May. We'll play one of these years. Cut one,
- 5:57Speaker 1: Cut one from Drake May on being un able to
- 6:01Speaker 1: sustain the offensive rhythm of the day. Take a list,
- 6:05Speaker 1: you know, credit to them. We were moving.
- 6:07Speaker 3: To soilid in the first couple of drives and just
- 6:09Speaker 3: have a couple of negative plays that would kind of
- 6:11Speaker 3: push behind the chains. And then from there we just
- 6:13Speaker 3: you know, couldn't you know, stay ahead of the chains
- 6:15Speaker 3: and and and.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Third and short.
- 6:17Speaker 3: We couldn't pick up some first downs and they had
- 6:20Speaker 3: brought some some pressure where you know, they got us
- 6:22Speaker 3: a few times. And it's gotta be better with the football.
- 6:24Speaker 3: Make better decisions, and I gotta make better throws when
- 6:26Speaker 3: one of the game is uh, you know, it was
- 6:28Speaker 3: like that. I gotta make some throws to help us
- 6:29Speaker 3: move the football.
- 6:32Speaker 1: Holy holy Kenoly, my goodness, how boring is see? All right?
- 6:36Speaker 1: But wait, there's more page two here. Keeping the beat
- 6:39Speaker 1: going and going and going and going. We keep the
- 6:42Speaker 1: beat going here and here's more from Drake May and uh,
- 6:47Speaker 1: talking about this as a learning opportunity. Take a list.
- 6:52Speaker 1: That's a fuse.
- 6:53Speaker 3: And I think that's the biggest thing about my life
- 6:55Speaker 3: is gonna have times like this and tell.
- 6:57Speaker 1: You bounce back.
- 6:58Speaker 3: And I think, you know, all those guys in the
- 6:59Speaker 3: locker room are gonna use this as fuel. And I
- 7:01Speaker 3: think you'll go to war with those guys anytime, any day, anywhere.
- 7:06Speaker 3: Have mentioned to get back here and not have this
- 7:08Speaker 3: feeling and have what they're feeling out there.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Yeah, well you want to go to don't just not
- 7:16Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. You do not want to go
- 7:17Speaker 1: to war with him in the Super Bowl. Now and
- 7:19Speaker 1: now the question I noticed this At the end of
- 7:21Speaker 1: the broadcast. NBC's Chris Collinsworth described the Patriots quarterback Drake
- 7:27Speaker 1: May's performance as a quote learning experience. Is what he said,
- 7:31Speaker 1: is that how you see it? Is that how you
- 7:33Speaker 1: see it? So and you heard what Drake May said.
- 7:37Speaker 1: Drake May also said that in the postgame, but during
- 7:39Speaker 1: the broadcast, Chris collins Worth it was like, wow, you
- 7:41Speaker 1: know it was a learning, learning experience. So my reaction
- 7:44Speaker 1: to that, this is not summer school, It is not right.
- 7:48Speaker 1: This was Super Bowl sixty. It's finals week, it's the
- 7:52Speaker 1: final exam, and Drake May showed up without a pencil. Well,
- 7:56Speaker 1: you got to have a pencil, but it's twenty twenty six.
- 7:59Speaker 1: I don't care you have to have a pencil. You
- 8:02Speaker 1: didn't have a pencil, numb nuts. Learning experience is what
- 8:06Speaker 1: you say when your kid spills a juice on the carpet.
- 8:10Speaker 1: You say, wow, I was a learning experience. Don't do
- 8:12Speaker 1: it again. Okay, not when your quarterback turns the biggest
- 8:15Speaker 1: stage into a slipping slide, which is what Drake May
- 8:18Speaker 1: did in this game. May wasn't just bad. He wasn't
- 8:22Speaker 1: just bad. He was a white walking caution sign. May Day,
- 8:26Speaker 1: may Day, may Day. I'm telling you balls were behind
- 8:30Speaker 1: receivers that were catchable. They were open. It wasn't shut
- 8:34Speaker 1: down Seattle defense. Lack of awareness in terms of like
- 8:38Speaker 1: a like a house cat the clock awareness of house
- 8:41Speaker 1: You gotta know you gotta get rid of the ball,
- 8:43Speaker 1: and you shouldn't be getting sacked as often as Drake
- 8:46Speaker 1: May get sacked. That's a bad sign for the future
- 8:48Speaker 1: of Drake May holding the ball like he you know,
- 8:52Speaker 1: get owed him money or something like that, and he
- 8:54Speaker 1: sucked at a time you cannot suck. The lights were
- 8:57Speaker 1: nuclear bright. We all know it, right, I mean, there's
- 8:59Speaker 1: not a great, not a sexy matchup. Nobody gets all
- 9:01Speaker 1: horny to watch Seattle in New England. These teams lacking
- 9:04Speaker 1: star power, and the game went the way we thought
- 9:07Speaker 1: it would goes boring. But Drake May became a brand
- 9:11Speaker 1: ambassador in this game for dude wipes because there was
- 9:14Speaker 1: a lot of popo on the field. There stinky, messy
- 9:17Speaker 1: situation really from soup to nuts. And let's stop the
- 9:22Speaker 1: pop Warner excuses. Like the Patriots, we knew going in
- 9:26Speaker 1: they played a cream puff schedule and even with that,
- 9:29Speaker 1: this was still a winnable game. They just decided to
- 9:33Speaker 1: give it to Seattle. Right, You played the cream puff
- 9:36Speaker 1: schedule all year, and here's another opportunity against Sam Darnald,
- 9:39Speaker 1: who didn't even play well. You played worse than Sam Darnald,
- 9:43Speaker 1: for God's sakes. That's embarrassing. That should be a felony
- 9:46Speaker 1: for Drake May. Sam Darnald didn't suck as much as
- 9:50Speaker 1: you did. Now, Drake May got a bunch of stats
- 9:52Speaker 1: in the fourth court, the game was already over, but
- 9:54Speaker 1: come on, now he was a net negative. And then
- 9:57Speaker 1: Collinsworth wants to call it growth, and I call it
- 10:01Speaker 1: stepping into a ditch. Wearing concrete cleats is what I
- 10:04Speaker 1: call it. There, it was not a lesson. It was again,
- 10:07Speaker 1: it was a warning situation here, As the great philosopher
- 10:10Speaker 1: Eminem taught me years ago, you only get one shot,
- 10:15Speaker 1: and there's no guarantee at all that the Patriots will
- 10:17Speaker 1: be back with Drake May. And Drake May could be
- 10:19Speaker 1: selling insurance within five years. You never know. Opportunities are
- 10:23Speaker 1: short lived. Drake May blew his he blew it. He
- 10:27Speaker 1: was terrible. And I don't want to hear any excuses.
- 10:30Speaker 1: That guy sucked. Okay, Drake May was an embarrassment to
- 10:33Speaker 1: the quarterback position. That guy he couldn't handle the moment,
- 10:37Speaker 1: just like he sucked in these other games. And all
- 10:39Speaker 1: my guys in Boston were like, well it's okay, you
- 10:42Speaker 1: you'll before Oh yeah, okay, Well he wasn't fine. Okay,
- 10:45Speaker 1: he wasn't fine, you losers, all right? Last word here
- 10:48Speaker 1: to the coaching ranks. So the question here is what
- 10:52Speaker 1: does this Super Bowl win do for the legend, for
- 10:57Speaker 1: the resume of Seattle Seahawks coach McDonald? What does this
- 11:02Speaker 1: win do you are now for the rest of your career,
- 11:06Speaker 1: a champion on your Wikipedia page, or it'll say super
- 11:09Speaker 1: Bowl Champion coach on your Pro Football Reference page, it'll
- 11:12Speaker 1: say super Bowl Championship coach. So what does this do well?
- 11:17Speaker 1: It does that. It's a puffy sticker for Mike McDonald.
- 11:22Speaker 1: It's a puffy sticker. That's it. You move along. Everyone's
- 11:25Speaker 1: acting like this turns him into the reincarnation of Vince
- 11:30Speaker 1: Lombardi or something like that. It doesn't. And McDonald he
- 11:35Speaker 1: wins the game. And even during the broadcast they were
- 11:38Speaker 1: talking about Tariko was talking about the fact and he
- 11:41Speaker 1: was saying this on the broadcast late in the game,
- 11:44Speaker 1: that he's a nice guy. And essentially the way I
- 11:47Speaker 1: interpreted it, they were saying, he's a nice guy with
- 11:50Speaker 1: the personality of drywall, of absolute drywall. So Mike McDonald,
- 11:57Speaker 1: even with this, is not a brand. He's not a presence.
- 12:01Speaker 1: I know, no Stradina gonna shrine to him. I'll calm down, Okay,
- 12:08Speaker 1: he's iceberg, lettuce, no dressing, no crew tons. That's what
- 12:13Speaker 1: Mike McDonald is. And even with this, when you forget
- 12:16Speaker 1: he's on the plate halfway through the meal, he doesn't know,
- 12:20Speaker 1: he doesn't move the needle, and this does not make
- 12:23Speaker 1: him a household name. And unless I'm mistaken, I believe
- 12:27Speaker 1: I'm correct on this. Mike McDonald, the Seattle's coach, is
- 12:30Speaker 1: still a senior fellow at the Dolesmore Society. He's pleasant,
- 12:35Speaker 1: he's polite, he's completely anonymous. And history is littered with
- 12:41Speaker 1: coaches that have won Super Bowls and yet failed to
- 12:45Speaker 1: really establish themselves as a household name as a brand.
- 12:49Speaker 1: If you want to go somewhat recently, Doug Peterson in Philadelphia,
- 12:54Speaker 1: a Super Bowl winning coach and not very memorable. Gary
- 12:58Speaker 1: Kobiak won with the Broncos, doesn't stand out. You want
- 13:01Speaker 1: to go back a few more decades, George Seaffert with
- 13:04Speaker 1: the forty nine ers one I believe a couple with
- 13:06Speaker 1: the Niners inheriting great Hall of Fame players, but nothing
- 13:10Speaker 1: really memorable about George Seffert in that era. So yeah,
- 13:14Speaker 1: you got a ring on the finger and dust on
- 13:17Speaker 1: the legacy and all that. So that's great. This Super
- 13:19Speaker 1: Bowl sixty, it doesn't to me. It doesn't elevate Mike McDonald.
- 13:25Speaker 1: It just laminates the resume. If you will, and you
- 13:31Speaker 1: know what your congratulations, you won. But I don't think
- 13:35Speaker 1: there's anything memorable that we will take from this game.
- 13:39Speaker 1: If you can tell me one thing memorable about Mike McDonald,
- 13:45Speaker 1: i'll wait for that. Just a game in general, but
- 13:47Speaker 1: him in particular. I didn't see anything, and I watched
- 13:52Speaker 1: the whole thing. The commercials weren't very good. The pregame
- 13:56Speaker 1: stuff was really annoying. I had that on in the background.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Was this kind of okay, it was fine. It was
- 14:01Speaker 1: a super Bowl, and we'll move on and we'll hope
- 14:04Speaker 1: for better super Bowls in the years to come, because
- 14:06Speaker 1: this was not it. This is not a good product,
- 14:09Speaker 1: and just the whole thing from beginning to end. It
- 14:12Speaker 1: was not necessarily because of the broadcasters. It was just
- 14:14Speaker 1: the teams that were playing very unmemorable. For the casual
- 14:19Speaker 1: observer of the Super Bowl, it is the Ban Mahlor Show. Now.
- 14:23Speaker 1: If you would like to be part, you can join
- 14:25Speaker 1: us right now and say hello on the phone. It's
- 14:28Speaker 1: like a lot of calls here reaction to the Super
- 14:31Speaker 1: Bowl as Seattle is the winner in spite of Sam Donald,
- 14:35Speaker 1: as we were correct on that. To carry the rotting
- 14:38Speaker 1: carcass of Sam Donald across the finish line. He sucked. Unfortunately,
- 14:43Speaker 1: Drake May sucked more than Sam Donald. I did not
- 14:45Speaker 1: expect that to happen, but it did. But we were
- 14:48Speaker 1: correct in our analysis of Sam Donald. And he's not
- 14:51Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback. He's not very good, and he played
- 14:54Speaker 1: like a guy who's not very good in the Super Bowl.
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- 16:08Speaker 1: So our lead story this hour, we continue our all
- 16:11Speaker 1: night coverage of some football game they played in northern California,
- 16:16Speaker 1: and we turned our attention to the Most Valuable Player
- 16:19Speaker 1: Award the Seahawks the winner. They take down the Patriots,
- 16:23Speaker 1: and so they get that piece of metal, as the
- 16:26Speaker 1: Baseball Commissioner calls these championship trophies. The point of consternation though,
- 16:32Speaker 1: the point of consternation for many the MVP Award. Did
- 16:35Speaker 1: you see who won it? Did you hear who won
- 16:37Speaker 1: the MVP Award? Maybe not? Maybe you were not paying attention.
- 16:40Speaker 1: You fell asleep. The game was so boring. Well, it
- 16:44Speaker 1: wasn't a defensive player, although the defense was credited by
- 16:47Speaker 1: many of carrying Seattle, carrying the Seattle team to the
- 16:53Speaker 1: victory tent. Instead, it was Kenneth Walker who once again
- 16:59Speaker 1: was the true engine of the offense. He had one
- 17:03Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five yards added twenty six more, receiving
- 17:06Speaker 1: third straight one hundred yard game from scrimmage in the postseason,
- 17:10Speaker 1: and in doing so, Kenneth Walker of the Seahawks became
- 17:14Speaker 1: the first running back since Terrell Davis to get an
- 17:19Speaker 1: MVP or twenty eight years ago TD for the Broncos,
- 17:23Speaker 1: the last running back to win an MVP award. And
- 17:26Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. And then let
- 17:30Speaker 1: us discuss the question are you gonna go thumbs up
- 17:33Speaker 1: or are you gonna go thumbs down? Did voters get
- 17:37Speaker 1: it right? Giving Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker the Super
- 17:42Speaker 1: Bowl sixty NVP trophy? Is that the correct decision? So
- 17:47Speaker 1: my observations, I've got root canal, baby carousel and coordinated chaos,
- 17:55Speaker 1: and we'll line these up and go one, two, three
- 17:59Speaker 1: and eight EBC. But number wa alright, alright, So I'm
- 18:10Speaker 1: gonna go thumb down, down, down, down, down, down from
- 18:15Speaker 1: way down on this one. Stop the music. Kenneth Walker
- 18:19Speaker 1: as your Super Bowl MVP? Are we serious that this
- 18:22Speaker 1: is like the participation ribbon at Chuck E Cheese? Congratulations
- 18:28Speaker 1: you're good at ski ball. Walker he had one hundred
- 18:31Speaker 1: and sixty one yards from scrimmage, which is not nothing. However,
- 18:37Speaker 1: you know what, he didn't have a touchdown. It was
- 18:41Speaker 1: zz top zip bow zero on the touchdown. So when
- 18:47Speaker 1: you look at that, a big fat doughnut, he's like,
- 18:51Speaker 1: whoa whoop beee. How can you be the Super Bowl
- 18:55Speaker 1: MVP if you're an offensive player and you didn't score,
- 19:01Speaker 1: in this case a touchdown. You didn't cross the goal
- 19:03Speaker 1: line when your job is plositive to cross the goal line.
- 19:05Speaker 1: That's how bad Sam Donald was in this game that
- 19:08Speaker 1: he wasn't even the conversation and a guy that didn't
- 19:11Speaker 1: score a touchdown and Sam in this Kenneth Walker guy,
- 19:14Speaker 1: he ended up trumping Sam Donald and being the MVP.
- 19:19Speaker 1: So who should have gotten it? Who should have gotten it?
- 19:23Speaker 1: I jotted down on my scorecard as I was watching
- 19:27Speaker 1: the game. My vote went to, of all things, the
- 19:29Speaker 1: idiot kicker, Jason Myers. Five field goals, five of them
- 19:35Speaker 1: by Jason Myers. And that's the story of this Super Bowl.
- 19:39Speaker 1: It was such a zero super Bowl that the kicker
- 19:42Speaker 1: should have been the MVP, not football to military operation.
- 19:46Speaker 1: Five field goals. The game was that special. It was
- 19:52Speaker 1: special like getting a root canal. And when the game
- 19:55Speaker 1: is that special, and this one was. You give the
- 19:59Speaker 1: trophy to an idiot kicker? Yeah but yeah, but yeah
- 20:02Speaker 1: but yeah, but yeah, but you have it. Kickers should
- 20:04Speaker 1: never win the MVP, yeah but yeah, but yeah but yeah,
- 20:06Speaker 1: but who cares. Myers was the most dominant weapon that
- 20:10Speaker 1: in the punter on the field for the Seahawks in
- 20:13Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixty. No individual defensive player did enough to
- 20:17Speaker 1: warrant did enough to warrant defensive MVP honors. So no
- 20:23Speaker 1: quarterback sees the moment. We know that it was a
- 20:25Speaker 1: survival game and Myers was the life raft. The voters
- 20:29Speaker 1: blew it. They blew it. They should have given it
- 20:33Speaker 1: to the kicker. I know, it's shocking. I'm what am
- 20:36Speaker 1: I doing? I believe that though Jason Myers should have
- 20:40Speaker 1: been the MVP, right, the voters blew it like a
- 20:43Speaker 1: leaf blower in a wind tunnel. Give the kicker his flowers.
- 20:47Speaker 1: This and that would have been perfect. This game was
- 20:50Speaker 1: so bad it deserved to have a kicker be the MVP.
- 20:53Speaker 1: It was so unentertaining that a kicker should have been
- 20:58Speaker 1: the MVP.
- 20:59Speaker 2: All right.
- 20:59Speaker 1: Meanwhile, to the announcement post game, So Seattle, you have
- 21:03Speaker 1: just won Super Bowl sixty. Congratulations the Seahawks offensive coordinator
- 21:10Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak confirming moments after the game, confirming that he
- 21:16Speaker 1: will be coaching another NFL team. Let's go to the
- 21:20Speaker 1: audio tape. Here's Clint Kubiak with the confirmation. Take a listen.
- 21:23Speaker 3: What does the future look like as a head coach
- 21:25Speaker 3: in this league for you?
- 21:26Speaker 1: Because it's gonna happen.
- 21:27Speaker 3: Yeah, that's up to gud and I'm gonna We're gonna
- 21:30Speaker 3: enjoy tonight.
- 21:31Speaker 1: So no answers on the network.
- 21:33Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you guys know, I'm going to Las Vegas,
- 21:36Speaker 3: So I'm fired up about it.
- 21:37Speaker 1: But well tonight one more for one more night. Hell yeah,
- 21:40Speaker 1: I'm going, of course, I'm going. Yeah, just confirm it
- 21:43Speaker 1: right here? Yeah? Okay? Was he stupid and we all
- 21:45Speaker 1: knew it? I mean, come on, what do we dumb? Anyway?
- 21:48Speaker 1: Questioned he, Kubiak said he was fired up about it.
- 21:52Speaker 1: How excited should the Raider fan base be with Clint
- 21:56Speaker 1: Kubiak coming to Vegas? All right, So let me start
- 22:00Speaker 1: out by saying that I have in my circle a
- 22:03Speaker 1: bunch of guys that are Raider fans that are in
- 22:06Speaker 1: my circle, and I see you I understand. I know
- 22:12Speaker 1: that you're revving the engines up, you're polishing the eye patches,
- 22:15Speaker 1: you're getting fired up, right, But if you keep it
- 22:17Speaker 1: real here at this point, if you're a real Raider fan,
- 22:22Speaker 1: you have to be emotionally numb. You have to be
- 22:25Speaker 1: emotionally numb. You haven't. If you're not, you haven't been
- 22:29Speaker 1: paying attention. There has been a conga line, dude, the
- 22:32Speaker 1: conga of coaches that have come through the Raiders, and
- 22:36Speaker 1: they will have been in Vegas a short time in comparison,
- 22:39Speaker 1: and you're being sold a bill of goods wrapped in
- 22:42Speaker 1: a vintage nineteen eighties starter jacket, back when the Raiders
- 22:45Speaker 1: actually mattered and they were relevant. And here comes another
- 22:50Speaker 1: guy getting on the job training Clint Kobiak, the latest
- 22:54Speaker 1: offensive guru. I say that in air quotes, the latest
- 22:57Speaker 1: offensive guru to grace the desert. So let's call it
- 23:01Speaker 1: what it is. The NFL's got this, this pathway to
- 23:06Speaker 1: becoming a head coach, and a lot of it goes
- 23:08Speaker 1: through Las Vegas. They're no different at this point than
- 23:11Speaker 1: the Browns of the Jets. They've been so bad for
- 23:13Speaker 1: so long. They're very similar. It's like the NFL's version
- 23:16Speaker 1: of a golden ticket. You got a golden ticket. You
- 23:19Speaker 1: got a golden ticket. And while you're working for your paycheck,
- 23:23Speaker 1: you know, most of us are out there doing your thing,
- 23:25Speaker 1: trying to as a coach, you're trying to earn your
- 23:26Speaker 1: way up. A guy like Clint Kubiak was born with
- 23:29Speaker 1: the playbook in his crib. And it's another one of
- 23:31Speaker 1: these situations, the ultimate coaching cheat code, as we like
- 23:35Speaker 1: to say, the NEPO baby carousel, the NEPO baby carousel
- 23:39Speaker 1: and the NFL. The easiest path to the headset isn't
- 23:44Speaker 1: through putting your work in in the film room. It's
- 23:48Speaker 1: through the birth certificate. It's not a meritocracy when it
- 23:51Speaker 1: comes to coaching. It's a family dynasty. And Kubiak is
- 23:56Speaker 1: the latest next gen there, yeah, next gen model off
- 24:03Speaker 1: the assembly line. He's unproven as a head coach. He's untested,
- 24:06Speaker 1: and he's riding the slipstream of his father's legacy and
- 24:11Speaker 1: happening having to be in Seattle and a good defensive
- 24:14Speaker 1: team and Sam Darnold, who led the NFL in turnovers
- 24:19Speaker 1: under the tutelage of Koubiak, and now he gets to
- 24:22Speaker 1: take that and leapfrog to the head coaching ranks the Raiders.
- 24:26Speaker 1: I do not believe the Raiders are hiring a savior.
- 24:30Speaker 1: I believe they are participating in the NFL's program involving
- 24:37Speaker 1: coaches sons. It's high stakes musical chairs and the music
- 24:42Speaker 1: never seems to stop for the right last names and
- 24:47Speaker 1: did the music It just it just kind of rolls around,
- 24:50Speaker 1: and they put these guys in there, and he's like, well,
- 24:52Speaker 1: this guy he had, but so and so he's related
- 24:55Speaker 1: to this guy, and he's next in line. And that's
- 24:59Speaker 1: just how they do it in the NFL. Right now,
- 25:00Speaker 1: final point to the halftime show. The halftime show, I
- 25:08Speaker 1: put it on mute. I went and got some snacks,
- 25:12Speaker 1: That's what I did. And there was a lot of
- 25:14Speaker 1: people very upset with the halftime show. I didn't really
- 25:18Speaker 1: pay much attention to it at all, but I guess
- 25:20Speaker 1: Bad Bunny was. I'm more of a fan of Bugs Bunny,
- 25:24Speaker 1: but Bad Bunny was out there doing his thing whatever,
- 25:26Speaker 1: and people very upset. He had trashed America in the
- 25:31Speaker 1: weeks and months leading up to the Super Bowl, and
- 25:33Speaker 1: it turns out that that did pay. There was a
- 25:35Speaker 1: price to pay for that, and it's not a small price.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Over six million. One report indicated over six million people
- 25:44Speaker 1: were watching an alternative halftime show, and it was actually
- 25:48Speaker 1: more than that. It was actually probably millions more than
- 25:51Speaker 1: that by the time they get the final numbers. So
- 25:53Speaker 1: a bunch of people that boycotted Bad Bunnies halftime show
- 25:57Speaker 1: to watch the Kid Rock All America halftime show. I
- 26:00Speaker 1: didn't even know what channel that was on either. They
- 26:03Speaker 1: watched that instead. So the question what did you make
- 26:08Speaker 1: of what appears to be a rather large audience who
- 26:11Speaker 1: decided to stick it to Bad Bunny and leave the
- 26:14Speaker 1: NFL halftime production and watch alternative programming at halftime of
- 26:20Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixty. So let me start by pointing out
- 26:23Speaker 1: this was not your Aunt Sadie flipping channels by accident.
- 26:28Speaker 1: When you get to that number of people, they didn't
- 26:32Speaker 1: just wander off the reservation, right, They went somewhere specific,
- 26:37Speaker 1: and in this case, I guess it was the Kid
- 26:39Speaker 1: Rock All American halftime thing. And that is coordinated chaos
- 26:46Speaker 1: is what that is. I mean, you know how hard
- 26:50Speaker 1: I cannot stress how hard it is to get a
- 26:53Speaker 1: couple of million of people to do anything at the
- 26:56Speaker 1: same time. It is so difficult, and to try to
- 27:00Speaker 1: get them to leave the biggest TV event on Earth,
- 27:04Speaker 1: at least in America, middle of the game. And you know,
- 27:09Speaker 1: some people said, well I have to drop in the bucket,
- 27:11Speaker 1: and there were still many more people watching Bad Bunny,
- 27:14Speaker 1: And yeah, that is true, that is true. I'm sure
- 27:17Speaker 1: when the numbers come out, they'll say the NFL will
- 27:19Speaker 1: pump their chest out and say one hundred and ten
- 27:22Speaker 1: million people whatever watching Bad Bunny. But that's to me,
- 27:26Speaker 1: that's not the point. To me, that's not the point.
- 27:29Speaker 1: If you took the population in the city of Chicago,
- 27:34Speaker 1: San Francisco, and Houston, combined population of those three cities,
- 27:40Speaker 1: and every man, woman and child watching television in those
- 27:44Speaker 1: cities said, you know what, we don't want to watch
- 27:46Speaker 1: the halftime show in the NFL. We want to watch
- 27:49Speaker 1: something else. That's what this is. If you get to
- 27:52Speaker 1: six over six million people, you're combining the population in
- 27:56Speaker 1: the city of Chicago, San Francisco, and Houston who all
- 27:59Speaker 1: tuned out the Bad Bunny performance to watch this other one.
- 28:03Speaker 1: So that is defiance. And that's a bunch of people
- 28:06Speaker 1: planting the flag like, yeah, you don't get us anymore,
- 28:09Speaker 1: and anyone who's in broadcasting the real ones anyway, know
- 28:14Speaker 1: that that is not you know, six million is not
- 28:17Speaker 1: just random background noise. It's not. And the way this
- 28:22Speaker 1: works a lot of the time, it's much easier to
- 28:24Speaker 1: keep a customer than to get a new customer. Right,
- 28:28Speaker 1: It's like, I'm trying to get you to listen, and
- 28:31Speaker 1: it's easier for me to keep you listening rather than
- 28:33Speaker 1: get some other jackwagon who's not listening to come over
- 28:37Speaker 1: and be part of the show. It's easier if I
- 28:40Speaker 1: just have you continue on. And that's with any one
- 28:42Speaker 1: of these platforms. It's the same concept. So in that
- 28:48Speaker 1: TV business where they really they've been bleeding trying to
- 28:51Speaker 1: get people to watch a lot of this stuff. That
- 28:53Speaker 1: is a warning shot. And you can argue taste and
- 28:56Speaker 1: politics and all that stuff and get into it, but
- 28:59Speaker 1: you can't. Are you the math on this? Like, Hey,
- 29:01Speaker 1: they're the same in the on the YouTube stream there
- 29:03Speaker 1: was over six million people that peaked at six point
- 29:06Speaker 1: one on one of the streams. There was another stream
- 29:08Speaker 1: that had an estimated million people. And we'll see how
- 29:11Speaker 1: many of these numbers are legit or not. I'm not
- 29:14Speaker 1: the one keeping track of it. I'm just telling you
- 29:15Speaker 1: what I've heard. That is a statement. That is a statement.
- 29:19Speaker 1: And my statement is I hate all halftime shows. That's
- 29:22Speaker 1: my statement. I don't know whether it's bad Bunny or
- 29:25Speaker 1: kid Rock. I don't need that. If I want music,
- 29:28Speaker 1: I'll go listen to music. And I want football, I'll
- 29:31Speaker 1: watch football. And by the way, might I add when
- 29:35Speaker 1: I'm watching the Super Bowl halftime, a really long break,
- 29:40Speaker 1: much longer than every other NFL game, and a chance
- 29:42Speaker 1: for us to enjoy some nice snacks. And so I
- 29:45Speaker 1: go with the snacks. That's my move. I stand with
- 29:48Speaker 1: the snacks. Snacky mcsnack.
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- 29:52Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 29:56Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Here we go again? How
- 29:58Speaker 1: about that? To the third degree? This is one big event.
- 30:04Speaker 1: Gets grilled.
- 30:06Speaker 5: Krupa loop And it was reported this weekend that the
- 30:09Speaker 5: Atlanta Falcons plan to release Kirk Cousins and some people
- 30:13Speaker 5: are saying that a reunion with the Vikings makes a
- 30:16Speaker 5: lot of sense.
- 30:17Speaker 1: Could you see that happening? Well, it makes sense in
- 30:20Speaker 1: the standpoint. They don't have a quarterback. JJ McCarthy sucks.
- 30:23Speaker 1: He got the GM fired because he's so bad that
- 30:26Speaker 1: they went. And again, if you're gonna rip Minnesota for
- 30:29Speaker 1: letting Donald go, the move the problem was not letting
- 30:31Speaker 1: Donald go. The problem was trusting JJ McCarthy. They got
- 30:35Speaker 1: to get somebody and the other. There are not a
- 30:37Speaker 1: lot of great options out there, so and Cousins is
- 30:40Speaker 1: not a great option, but it is. It does make
- 30:43Speaker 1: sense because they cannot go into the year with JJ McCarthy.
- 30:45Speaker 1: The guy blows next.
- 30:47Speaker 5: So after the Bill Belichick snub, the Pro Football Hall
- 30:49Speaker 5: of Fame is contemplating adjustments to its voting process, like
- 30:53Speaker 5: reverting to in person voting and discussion so that there's,
- 30:57Speaker 5: you know, a more talk about what they do. Do
- 31:00Speaker 5: you think this will fix these issues?
- 31:02Speaker 1: Ben No, What they need to do is not have
- 31:04Speaker 1: guys like Tony Dunhee vote. Dungee he wouldn't even he
- 31:08Speaker 1: didn't have the balls to talk you about who he
- 31:10Speaker 1: voted for because he obviously didn't vote for Bill Belichick.
- 31:13Speaker 1: I heard some of these guys like Randy Moss like,
- 31:15Speaker 1: we shouldn't we should only have players and coaches vote. No,
- 31:18Speaker 1: don't even have those guys vote. Have no one they
- 31:20Speaker 1: didn't nobody knows anything. They're all stupid. Next.
- 31:23Speaker 5: All right, so last week during this segment, you said
- 31:26Speaker 5: that you could see Lebron going back to Cleveland if
- 31:28Speaker 5: you lose the Lakers. Now, Kendrick Perkins says that Donovan
- 31:32Speaker 5: Mitchell and James Harden are starting to recruit Lebron. What
- 31:36Speaker 5: do you think the ceiling is for that team? The Cavaliers, Yes,
- 31:40Speaker 5: if that were to happen.
- 31:41Speaker 1: Oh, they're not gonna as long as Harden's there. Forget
- 31:44Speaker 1: about it. They're not winning anything. Listen, we know James Harden.
- 31:47Speaker 1: I've seen it.
- 31:48Speaker 5: Now.
- 31:48Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about James Harden. The guy
- 31:51Speaker 1: blows in the play. I don't want to hear about it.
- 31:53Speaker 1: Coop stop, how do we do? He passed this decision.
- 31:55Speaker 1: That's what we put it on the ball. I won
- 31:57Speaker 1: the game. I won the game, Popeye, I won the game.
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- 32:20Speaker 5: Sons?
- 32:20Speaker 1: Here some incident advice? Hold that thought.
- 32:23Speaker 5: No one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds
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- 32:40Speaker 1: maul or militia. Could be a prominent coach, a media member,
- 32:44Speaker 1: an athlete. Well, I think it's appropriate that we go
- 32:48Speaker 1: with Drake May. One of the worst performances you'll ever
- 32:53Speaker 1: see in a sewer bowl. The guy was in over
- 32:54Speaker 1: his head. He frowned for the new Inman Patriots. It's
- 32:58Speaker 1: being called generation only, bad playoff performer. Drake May, who
- 33:03Speaker 1: some of these geniuses told me was a head of
- 33:05Speaker 1: schedule and then went out and had one of the
- 33:08Speaker 1: worst postseason runs, if not the worst, in NFL history,
- 33:12Speaker 1: considering they got all the way to the Super Bowl.
- 33:13Speaker 1: So he's in the same conversation with legends like Carrie Collins,
- 33:20Speaker 1: for example, who was terrible, Peyton Manning that twenty fifteen
- 33:25Speaker 1: season was horrific, Rex Grossman. These are the contemporaries for
- 33:30Speaker 1: Drake May. So your advice to Drake May on how
- 33:33Speaker 1: to recover from this performance as the quarterback in Nashville
- 33:38Speaker 1: would say, He asked, that's what Drake May was. He asked,
- 33:42Speaker 1: eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox the number if
- 33:44Speaker 1: you want to be part eight seven seven nine nine
- 33:46Speaker 1: sixty six three sixty nine. It is the instant of
- 33:48Speaker 1: ice and I. We'll start with you on line one.
- 33:50Speaker 1: Hello A line one, you're on the air, advice to
- 33:51Speaker 1: Drake May. Line one.
- 33:54Speaker 3: I wonder where all those callers are saying May should
- 33:56Speaker 3: have been MVP this year.
- 33:57Speaker 1: I don't know. They disappeared a supermarketsy. Line two, you're
- 34:00Speaker 1: on the air. Hello, line two, your advice to Drake May.
- 34:03Speaker 1: Line two.
- 34:05Speaker 3: Hey, man on a long rigid dollars?
- 34:08Speaker 1: Okay, thank you? Yes. Line three, that's every buddy from
- 34:11Speaker 1: the Bay area Tony line three, you're on the airline three.
- 34:14Speaker 2: Yeah. In morning time he had Drake May. He was
- 34:17Speaker 2: listening to you go control the three some just roll
- 34:20Speaker 2: the weed up and wait time.
- 34:21Speaker 1: Get me some Oh okay, morning time, Rick and Maryland line.
- 34:26Speaker 1: Let's go to line for your next up line for us,
- 34:28Speaker 1: the instant advice line for Drake May had one of
- 34:31Speaker 1: the worst playoff performances you can possibly have this year. Hello,
- 34:34Speaker 1: you're on the air. Caller the Super.
- 34:36Speaker 2: Bowl NBC should have gone to the rest for giving
- 34:38Speaker 2: me a new Seahawks two points against the Rams.
- 34:40Speaker 3: Work.
- 34:40Speaker 1: That's right, history, great job for a dog. Good call.
- 34:44Speaker 1: Do you get a golden ticket? You get a golden
- 34:47Speaker 1: take it?
- 34:48Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 34:49Speaker 1: Yeah for you? I guess. Line six, you're on the
- 34:51Speaker 1: air line sex. Hello, thank you for that. Line six.
- 34:54Speaker 1: We're giving advice to Drake May eight seven, seven ninety
- 34:58Speaker 1: nine on Fox. You see end up winning the Super Bowl.
- 35:02Speaker 1: Drake May horrifically bad throughout the game. They got some
- 35:05Speaker 1: garbage time stats in the fourth quarter. Caller, let's go
- 35:09Speaker 1: to line two. Your next line too, Hello, Hey.
- 35:11Speaker 2: Who would win in a night fight between OJ and
- 35:13Speaker 2: Mark Sanchez?
- 35:15Speaker 1: All right, I don't know and I don't care a
- 35:17Speaker 1: Line three, you're on the Airline three. Hello you another
- 35:21Speaker 1: box parent? Watch Line four's next? Hello, line four, you're
- 35:26Speaker 1: on the air advice to Drake May. Line four cool
- 35:30Speaker 1: jacket crafting.
- 35:31Speaker 2: It isna paid the Repivoll fake May is nex on
- 35:34Speaker 2: two point.
- 35:34Speaker 1: Zero by al right, believe the most sacks in NFL
- 35:40Speaker 1: playoff history for a single season, Drake May. Very impressive
- 35:44Speaker 1: there in this postseason. Way to go, Drake. Line one,
- 35:48Speaker 1: you're on the airline one. Hello, Line one is not there.
- 35:52Speaker 1: We'll go to line three. Line three. You're on the air.
- 35:54Speaker 1: Advice to Drake May Line three. Yeah yeah, you want
- 35:57Speaker 1: number ten in the morning time. One more coop. One
- 36:02Speaker 1: more advice to Drake May on how to recover from
- 36:05Speaker 1: a horrific postseason. Picked the call coop line number one.
- 36:09Speaker 1: You're on the airline one, go yo ol. Drake May
- 36:13Speaker 1: need to wipe his well with a dude. Yeah, dude,
- 36:16Speaker 1: he needs a great tie in there. Dude wipes Yes,