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Hour 2 - Brock O'Clock · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Cowabunga, dude!
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  Speaker 2: It's hour number two!
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  Speaker 1: Hour two is ready for you. And how do you
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  Speaker 1: do in hour two?
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  Speaker 2: And we start out with that 49ers side of things.
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  Speaker 2: And how big was that win for Kyle Shanahan and
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  Speaker 2: the Niners over the big bad bullies, the Rams? Also,
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  Speaker 2: Coach Mike McDonald in the Pacific Northwest said the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: got really, really good news on Sam Darnold, even though
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  Speaker 2: he's not going to play in the next game for Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: How did you process that? And do you believe Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: coach Mike LeFleur, when he says he's feeling pretty good,
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  Speaker 2: Feeling good about Jeremiah Love and his chances of playing.
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  Speaker 1: We will go there as well. All of it coming
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  Speaker 1: So check out the Fifth Hour Podcast today as well.
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  Speaker 1: But here it is, hour number two.
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  Speaker 2: At the tone, the time will be Brock o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: Huh? What?
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  Speaker 2: And a reminder later this hour. Back where it all started.
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  Speaker 2: The great homecoming episode. Benny versus the Penny. We'll do
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  Speaker 2: the monologue and then you'll be on the receiving end
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  Speaker 2: of all the key games. We'll break them all. All
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  Speaker 2: the big matchups in the NFL. We're going to break
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  Speaker 2: them down. Not scientifically, but we'll break them down here
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  Speaker 2: on this show. We'll tell you who we like and
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  Speaker 2: why we like the teams that we like. So far,
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  Speaker 2: 1-0-1 this weekend to begin the NFL season.
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  Speaker 1: We took the Niners and the points. That worked out.
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  Speaker 1: They won.
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  Speaker 2: I thought they would lose and cover the spread. They
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  Speaker 2: won the game outright. And the Seattle-New England game, that
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  Speaker 2: was a push. Our lead, though, this hour is from Australia.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: More on the Game 2 matchup. Game 2 matchup as
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  Speaker 2: the 49ers and the Rams went at it. And if
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  Speaker 2: you saw this game, you know it was not much
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  Speaker 2: of a game in terms of competition here. The much-celebrated
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  Speaker 2: Ram defense allowed the Niners to convert. on almost 60%
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  Speaker 2: of their third downs, keeping possession of the ball for
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  Speaker 2: some sustained drives. If you look at the 49er offense,
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  Speaker 2: they started the game with a 15-play, 65-yard drive. They
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  Speaker 2: only got a field goal out of that. They held
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  Speaker 2: on to the ball for seven minutes of game time,
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  Speaker 2: controlling methodically, converting on third down. So they got a
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  Speaker 2: field goal on that drive. They also had an 11-play drive,
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  Speaker 2: a 9-play drive, And the Rams, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 2: they only had one somewhat meaningful drive. They had a 12-play,
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  Speaker 2: 72-yard drive. And they ended up turning the ball over
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  Speaker 2: on downs because Matthew Stafford, for some reason, they keep...
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why they would even think about running
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback key, but the guy can't... He can't move
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 1: And yet McVay called it dum-da-dum-dum-dum.
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  Speaker 2: And it got stonewalled at the goal line.
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  Speaker 1: The Niners defensive... front held.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that so that was it and then the
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  Speaker 2: rams had a drive and garbage time that also was
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  Speaker 2: 10 plays but that doesn't really count that doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: count so the niners win 27 to.
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  Speaker 1: 7 and while normally the.
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  Speaker 2: Better stories in the losing locker room we are going
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  Speaker 2: to focus on the winning side as i blatantly suck
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  Speaker 2: up to all of our listeners in northern california so
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  Speaker 2: there you go this is for you this is for
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  Speaker 2: ernesto And Jay Scoop and all the big Niner fans.
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  Speaker 2: All the big fans of the show that.
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  Speaker 1: Love the Niners. So that's a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 2: How big was this 49er win for Kyle Shanahan and
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  Speaker 2: company as they get her done and knock off the ramp?
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  Speaker 2: So my observations on this, I've got Operation Repo, Gift Basket,
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  Speaker 2: and Bounty Napkin.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 2: And you and I are going to have a date
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  Speaker 2: with destiny when Benny versus the penny returns shortly. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 2: So the Rams are, whether you like it or not,
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  Speaker 2: the measuring stick in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: They are the bar. Now, right now, that is a
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  Speaker 1: low bar to clear. It's not a high bar. It's
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  Speaker 1: a low bar.
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  Speaker 2: The Rams, as the measuring stick in the NFL going
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  Speaker 2: into the season, and make no mistake, for the 49ers,
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  Speaker 2: this was a placement test. And San Francisco walked out
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  Speaker 2: of Australia. They boarded their jet back to America with
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  Speaker 2: a puffy sticker and a juice box. Not just a
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  Speaker 2: puffy sticker, not just a juice box. They got both.
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  Speaker 2: They got both.
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  Speaker 1: How about that? Yeah. They didn't just beat L.A.
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  Speaker 2: The 49ers went Operation Repo is what they did. The
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  Speaker 2: Niners were repo men. And they actually and I didn't
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  Speaker 2: show this for some reason on Netflix. They didn't show this,
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  Speaker 2: but they repossessed the hype machine. from the Rams and
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  Speaker 2: then they changed the locks on it. Now, Brock Purdy's
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  Speaker 2: getting a lot of love. He had three touchdown passes
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  Speaker 2: and a passer rating of over 100 and people are
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  Speaker 2: fired up about Brock Purdy and all that. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: will be the voice of reason here. I reached my
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  Speaker 2: boiling point when I kept seeing all this amazing commentary
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  Speaker 2: about how Brock Purdy shoved it down the Rams' throats
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  Speaker 2: and all that. Purdy was obviously not Joe Montana. He
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  Speaker 2: wasn't Steve Young. He wasn't Jeff Garcia. He was Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Checkdown with a hall pass. Brock Purdy averaged six yards
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  Speaker 2: per throw. This is not some kind of aerial warfare
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  Speaker 2: by the 49er offense. It's essentially going house to house
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  Speaker 2: and putting flyers on everyone's door, house to house.
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  Speaker 1: He dinked and dunked.
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  Speaker 2: He threw an interception and still ended up using enough
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  Speaker 2: paper cuts to beat the Rams. And it was essentially
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  Speaker 2: football oatmeal that Brock Purdy was serving up, and the
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  Speaker 2: Rams choked on the oatmeal. And to think about the
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  Speaker 2: Niner franchise, they had that 11-day scandal with Kyle Shanahan,
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  Speaker 2: the faux accident. the police cover-up, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: funny business, right? That's definitely not kosher, what was going
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  Speaker 2: on with Shanahan. It makes you wonder, why would you
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  Speaker 2: not release the video? What are you hiding? Why did
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  Speaker 2: you wait 11 days? The NFL has been known to
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  Speaker 2: cover a lot of things up over the years, so you.
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  Speaker 1: Wonder if there was some payouts that took place. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. You don't know for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And so that happened, radio silence for 11 days, and
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  Speaker 2: then the gold standard, the billionaire owner, looking to get
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  Speaker 2: a little nookie in a double-wide trailer at an Ohio
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  Speaker 2: mobile home park there. And the 49ers, so they desperately
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  Speaker 2: needed a normal night, or I guess a normal morning,
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  Speaker 2: because this game was played at 1030 in the morning
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  Speaker 2: there in Australia at local time, and they got it.
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  Speaker 1: It's alarming for the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: It is a booster shot for the 49ers' confidence, and
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  Speaker 2: the Niners will be fine if everyone stays out there.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, the NFL injury rate is 100%, so Check
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  Speaker 2: back midseason when McCaffrey's dinged up and Bosa's.
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  Speaker 1: Out and Warder's got a bump over here and Brock
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  Speaker 1: Purdy misses a couple of games.
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  Speaker 2: And then we'll see how the Niners are at that
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  Speaker 2: particular point. Now, one of the other teams that you
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  Speaker 2: got to look at in the NFC West would be
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  Speaker 2: in the Pacific Northwest. So we hop, skip, and jump
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  Speaker 2: to Seattle. We have a follow-up update. Follow-up update. The
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  Speaker 2: injured Seahawks quarterback, Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold will be right
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  Speaker 2: back on the field this upcoming weekend for week two
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  Speaker 2: of the NFL. No. Sam Darnold is expected to miss
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  Speaker 2: at least week number two. The Seattle football team.
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  Speaker 1: Has a bye.
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  Speaker 2: They play Arizona. Play Arizona, which is not a real
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  Speaker 2: NFL team. Darnold went out with a right hip injury.
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  Speaker 2: If you saw the game on Wednesday night, you know that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: despite the news that Darnold's going to miss at least
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  Speaker 2: one game, Mike McDonald had a farm EIEIO, and Mike
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  Speaker 2: McDonald called the MRI results, quote, really, really good news. Really,
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  Speaker 2: really good news. He said that Darnold's hip is intact.
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  Speaker 2: So apparently he didn't leave it on the field. He
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  Speaker 2: did not lose his hip while he was playing football
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  Speaker 2: against the Patriots. So Darnold's hip is intact, and the
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  Speaker 2: injury appears to be a muscular problem rather than a
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  Speaker 2: structural problem, meaning the pillar of the hip. Darnold did
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  Speaker 2: spend the night resting comfortably at a Seattle area hospital
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  Speaker 2: after experiencing a large amount of discomfort. So McDonald said
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks don't yet know exactly how long Sam.
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  Speaker 1: Darnold will be sidelined.
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  Speaker 2: But we're hearing whispers around the echo chamber that he's
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  Speaker 2: likely going to miss more than one game. And they say, well,
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  Speaker 2: he'll be back sooner rather than later. And then there
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  Speaker 2: was a quote going around by the coach that they.
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  Speaker 1: Dodged a bullet Okay, so, question.
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  Speaker 2: You got the coach, Mike McDonald, who said the Seahawks got, quote, really,
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  Speaker 2: really good news on Sam Donald, even though he's going
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  Speaker 2: to be out. So how did you process this? How
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  Speaker 2: did you process this? On this one, Seattle is ringing
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  Speaker 2: the church bells because Sam Darnold did not get sentenced
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  Speaker 2: to injured reserve.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: They have diagnosed nothing, right, in terms of the prognosis.
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  Speaker 2: I should phrase that differently. They have a diagnosis, but
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  Speaker 2: they don't have a prognosis. which is seemingly the part
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  Speaker 2: that tells.
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  Speaker 1: You when the players are going to come back. So, again,
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  Speaker 1: they have a diagnosis. They don't have a prognosis.
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  Speaker 2: And muscular rather than structural is NFL medical jargon. It's
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  Speaker 2: the kind of gift-wrapped, gift basket, happy talk slop that
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  Speaker 2: you get. Teams shovel this happy talk slop into little baskets.
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  Speaker 1: And the actual answer is we have no effing idea.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And then he tossed in a sooner rather than later,
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  Speaker 2: which is beautiful. Put that right next to day to day,
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  Speaker 2: which is also classic in the Museum of Meaningless Football Phrases. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if they initially feared and this is the chatter that
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  Speaker 2: Seattle thought this was a grade three tear for Sam Donald.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor.
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  Speaker 2: I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express a few
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  Speaker 2: days ago. So Sam Donald, they thought was a grade three.
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  Speaker 2: That would have meant he would have been out for
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  Speaker 2: eight to 10 weeks at minimum, if not season ending.
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  Speaker 2: If not season ending. So they were thinking it was
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  Speaker 2: a grade three. And now it's either a grade one
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  Speaker 2: or a grade two.
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  Speaker 1: The hammy. Did it go whammy? So that's the deal
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  Speaker 1: of that.
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  Speaker 2: So Darnold could still be out for one to five.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's obviously about one week, but up to five weeks.
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  Speaker 1: If it's a grade two.
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  Speaker 2: So where I sit on this side of the microphone,
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  Speaker 2: despite all the propaganda from JJ and Renton and our
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  Speaker 2: buddy Nostradinas, I'm looking at this and I'm like, OK,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't think that's dodging a bullet. That's hearing
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  Speaker 2: gunshots and realizing nobody has checked to see if there's
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  Speaker 2: any holes in your body. So you got the backup,
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  Speaker 2: Drew Locke, who gets the football. And Seattle, as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: they've got a bye this week.
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  Speaker 1: They play the Cardinals. who are not trying to win.
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  Speaker 1: They've got them.
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  Speaker 2: And so Washington, this is in week two, and they
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  Speaker 2: play the Washington Commanders, which is a dumb name for
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  Speaker 2: a team.
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  Speaker 1: It should be the Redskins. So they can send thank-you
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  Speaker 1: baskets to Arizona and Washington.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you have to wander into quarterback purgatory, at least–
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  Speaker 2: you have scheduled a minibar which is loaded, an absolutely
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  Speaker 2: loaded minibar.
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  Speaker 1: So that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Now, final point to a team we mentioned that's not
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  Speaker 2: trying to win, and that's the Arizona football team. So
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  Speaker 2: Cardinals coach Mike LeFleur, Mike LeFleur.
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  Speaker 1: Wonder how he got the job. Oh, that's right, his
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  Speaker 1: brother coaches the Packers.
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  Speaker 2: So Mike LeFleur is trying to ease concern about the
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  Speaker 2: rookie star running back, Jeremiah Love. who suffered a high
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  Speaker 2: ankle sprain in mid-August, the next great savior of the
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  Speaker 2: woe-be-gone Arizona Cardinals. Now, Love has not practiced or played
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  Speaker 2: since the aforementioned injury, although the Arizona rookie head coach
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  Speaker 2: says he has begun moving around.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: On the practice field, LeFleur offered really no detail on
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  Speaker 2: what the plan was describing LeFleur, The player, Jeremiah Love,
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  Speaker 2: as simply progressing and saying that the picture should become
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  Speaker 2: clearer once official.
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  Speaker 1: Practices begin, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, which I believe.
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  Speaker 2: They already have, asked directly about Love's chances of playing
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  Speaker 2: week number one against the aforementioned Chargers. Number one.
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  Speaker 1: This Sunday, LeFleur said, yeah, I feel good about that.
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  Speaker 1: He said, all right, close quote. Question.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe rookie Cardinals coach Mike DeFleur when he
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  Speaker 2: says he feels good about Jeremiah Love, the next great
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  Speaker 2: running back in the NFL's chances of playing this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: So this is pure, unadulterated coach speak. Gobble the gook.
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  Speaker 2: Built entirely around what we like to call in these
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  Speaker 2: parts the Holy Trinity of of vagueness progressing and i
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  Speaker 2: feel good yeah this show is progressing it's progressing the
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  Speaker 2: only way the show goes backwards is when you download
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  Speaker 2: the podcast and then you can rewind the show in
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  Speaker 2: real time the show is progressing and i feel good
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  Speaker 2: the word progressing one of the great weasel terms in
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  Speaker 2: the english dictionary a corpse is technically progressing towards.
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  Speaker 1: Breaking apart into bite-sized.
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  Speaker 2: Pieces and all that. Lorena was telling me a story
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  Speaker 2: about it. She gave me a good corpse story earlier,
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  Speaker 2: so it was in my head here. as the body decomposes.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, I feel good. That quote, I feel good,
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  Speaker 2: is not a medical diagnosis. It is in no medical journal.
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  Speaker 2: I feel good. In fact, our old buddy Jed Who Fled,
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  Speaker 2: who I believe is currently not available to call the show,
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  Speaker 2: Jed Who Fled felt great after a plastic baggie of
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  Speaker 2: the good stuff, but nobody was out there clearing him
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  Speaker 2: out of the swampland in Florida to take handoffs.
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  Speaker 1: For the Buccaneers in the backfield.
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  Speaker 2: So the injury update, this particular injury update has the
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  Speaker 2: nutritional value of a soggy bounty napkin.
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  Speaker 1: Yum, yum to my tum tum.
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  Speaker 2: And at this point, NFL injury news conferences are not
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  Speaker 2: even updates anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They're not.
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  Speaker 2: They are just organized misinformation sessions set up in front
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  Speaker 2: of a wall of microphones. Mike LeFleur is standing up
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  Speaker 2: there slinging pure snake oil straight out of the Arizona
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  Speaker 2: Cardinals traveling medicine show.
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  Speaker 1: Around the country.
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  Speaker 2: So that's like one guy I want to see is
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  Speaker 2: this guy Jeremiah Love.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the name of a star.
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  Speaker 2: Do we all agree on that? That's a name of
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  Speaker 2: a star, Jeremiah Love. It sounds like one of those
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  Speaker 2: fake names they'd come up with. Back when Hollywood used
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  Speaker 2: to make movies that were actually good and not just
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  Speaker 2: Marvel movies, that they would come up with a script
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  Speaker 2: and they'd have that star running back who went to
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame and his name is Jeremiah Love. Oh, man,
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  Speaker 2: that would be a great name. They don't really do
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  Speaker 2: that anymore. I'm still curious to see if this guy
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  Speaker 2: can be good. It's very difficult to be a successful
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  Speaker 2: running back on a dog food team. Because what happens,
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  Speaker 2: they box you up.
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  Speaker 1: They make the.
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  Speaker 2: Crappy quarterback, in this case, Jacoby Brissett, throw the ball,
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  Speaker 2: which leaves little room to run the ball, which becomes problematic.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 2: Now, one thing that is not problematic is Benny versus
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the Penny. We have handpicked the top matchups in the NFL,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: the ones that we are most interested in. We've got
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the grade eight, and we will break them down. If
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: you've never heard Benny versus the Penny before, that means
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: you're kind of new to the show.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: We've been doing this for.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Many, many decades on the radio. And then it was
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: so popular it went on television. It was on national
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: television for a couple years, on regional cable TV.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: But it was on nationally for a couple of years.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: And we did it on YouTube last year. But we're
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: returning it to its roots, at least for now. It'll
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: be on the radio. And you'll get it straight ahead.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: No calls this hour. You can comment if you want
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: to add on. to what I'm analyzing in terms of
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: what I think is going to happen in these games.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: You are more than welcome to chime in on the
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: X Machine at Ben Maller. But no calls this hour.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: It'll be Benny versus the Penny for the rest of
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: the hour.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that and we will do it.
• 20:06
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  Speaker 3: Radio as we continue on on a very important day
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  Speaker 3: here to remember 25th anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. 25th anniversary of September 11th, and we're doing what
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: many people need on this day, overnight talk radio.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Very important, yes. Sports radio.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Reminder, later on, we've got the fifth hour podcast, and
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  Speaker 2: that'll be a spinoff, obviously, of this show and a
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: chance to catch up.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Just an excuse to talk to one of the people
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that helped influence.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: My career in radio, the great Ross Porter, a longtime
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Dodger broadcaster.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Let's play baseball trivia on Dodger Talk. The great Ross
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: will stop by and he'll be on the fifth hour
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: later on today.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: So here's some stories. He's had an amazing life in
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: broadcasting whatnot. So you'll hear tales that have never been
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: told before on the fifth hour podcast. So check it out. Meanwhile,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: let's strike up the band. Let's not waste any time.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: You know what time it is. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: We get the big, big imaging thing here to get
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  Speaker 1: the party started. Here it is. Two seconds. All right.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: A little razzle dazzle. I know it's a surprise. I
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: didn't promote Benny versus the Penny. But here it is.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: It's a complete shock that we're doing it here. And
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. Well, that's a good time.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome, players.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: You're welcome.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Are you up for more Malheur Mayhem?
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah!
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: It's time now. Benny versus the Penny.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: And it is back.
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  Speaker 2: I would say by popular demand.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know that that's the case. But it is back.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny, the iconic bit. and we don't
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: really have music playing or whatever. I don't know. We'll
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: work out the kinks here eventually.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I did get a message from one of my key
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: insiders who was demanding, absolutely demanding, said we cannot do
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Benny vs. the Penny without the classic tune from back
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: in the day, or it's not the authentic Benny vs.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: The Penny.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: So we'll have to go in there and find Pink
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Floyd's Money and then play that.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: But in the meantime.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: If you're new to the show, this has been off
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: and on radio for many, many years. It's a hobby
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: that I have. I like to handicap NFL games against
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: the spread. Makes it more enjoyable for me when I
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: watch the games. I've been doing this many years. Some
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: years I've done really well. I've gotten killed some years
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: against the spread. And I was doing really, really well
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: on the podcast version of this, on the Fifth Hour podcast.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: And then we went on television and I just... pooped the.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Bed on television, which was very, more embarrassing than radio
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: because people could see me drowning on a weekly basis
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: over there on NBC. But we're back on radio, so
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: back to winning. And so far we have not lost.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: We are 1-0-1 against the spread. Had a push on
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the Patriots-Seahawks game. The three points there, that game finished
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: with a three-point line. Took the Patriots, so that didn't
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: work out. blown 10-0 lead by the Patriots, a bunch
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: of patsies. And then we gave you the 49ers plus
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the points in Australia, and that worked out to be
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: an outright win.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Didn't need the points.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: We thought the Rams would win, but the Niners would cover.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: So we have handpicked eight games. The way this works
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: is if you're, again, someone that's not heard the bit,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Koopaloop will be representing the penny, so he will flip
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the penny in the air everywhere, and that's how that works.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: And Benny versus the penny, very simple. Now, they've tried
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: to get rid of the penny, which is a bad
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: job by them.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, here we go. Here we go. Now I'm in
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the mood. See, you had to get me in the mood, Lorena.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Now I'm in the mood.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Why wouldn't you tell me this was your song days ago?
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: Like I've never played this.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I assume everyone knows everything.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Anyway, so we flip the penny in the air and everywhere.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: And you say, well, what is heads?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: You know, heads.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Well, what is that? Well, that's the home team. Tails
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: is the road team because you sit in your tuchus
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: when you go on the road.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: And so that's how that works.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: And these are all lines from our friends over at DraftKings.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: So factor that in. Lines are subject to change. So
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: this is as of when we started handicapping these games. Again,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: eight hand-picked games. So let's get the party started. First
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  Speaker 2: up on the board, the Atlanta Falcons and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: This game in the land of the yinzer. It's on Fox.
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  Speaker 2: You better watch.
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  Speaker 1: You're not... I'm telling you, you better watch. You're not gonna... No?
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this game featuring, I believe, Joe Davis and Greg Olson.
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  Speaker 2: have the call, if I'm not mistaken, on this game
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  Speaker 2: on the Fox box that rocks.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: So they will have a call there.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: And Steelers were a three-point favorite, and they have now
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: gone all the way up to five-and-a-half-point favorites for Pittsburgh
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: at home with Aaron Rodgers in what is going to be,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: he says, his final season as quarterback in Pittsburgh.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Now, the reason for this line movement is an injury.
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  Speaker 2: And the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, not expected to play.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: In this game as of the time we're doing Benny
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  Speaker 1: versus Penny.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Tua Tungabailoa injured during practice, and that means that Cooper
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Rush is expected to start at quarterback for the team
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  Speaker 2: from Atlanta, and that is why... There are such big points.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: But it's not that Tua's that much better than Cooper Rush.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: It's just that Cooper Rush is that much worse than
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: every other quarterback in the NFL. The wise guys are
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: leaning towards the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: However, remember, the numbers, most of the bets by the professionals.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: As I understand, are done early on. They get their
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: money in when they like the line. The line has moved.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: So the Sharps liked Pittsburgh at minus 3. The line's
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: inflated now. I'm going to take the line value here.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I am going to take the Atlanta Falcons plus the 5.5.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think Pittsburgh's good enough to blow anybody out.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: And I do believe Atlanta will have a pretty good defense.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: And they have Bajon Robinson, who should be able to
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: make a couple of plays here. Atlanta trying to shorten
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the game. Pittsburgh's not going to score that many points because...
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: they have a plodding offense. They don't have too many
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: playmakers there in Pittsburgh unless they picked up somebody I
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: didn't see on my depth chart here. And Tua's dealing
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: with an oblique injury.
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  Speaker 1: He was limited.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: So as I mentioned, Cooper Rush is going to play quarterback.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: So you feed the ball to Bajon Robinson, get out
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: of the way. And the Falcons do have some decent
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: playmakers with Drake London and Kyle Pitts and whatnot. So
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: you can just throw that quick passing game, screen plays,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: play action, get the ball to those guys. And not
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: that Cooper Rush is all that good, So I'm going
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: to take the Atlanta Falcons. I'll take the point spread
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: value with the five and a half. And the penny picks.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Koopa Loop flipped the penny in the air everywhere. Let's
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: see where that penny lands.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Ben, when you did this on TV, did you guys
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: lie about the penny or did you really flip a penny?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: No, not only did we flip the penny, my buddy,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: one of the big executives at NBC, he lives in Philadelphia,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: and he made sure he was the keeper of the penny.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know who the penny picked before the show.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Are you saying this is not a fine oil machine, Coop?
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying?
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying I feel bad because, like, I— Again,
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: we've got the penny picks, the Atlanta Falcons.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. All right. Well, that's not.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's just it.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I'm flipping an actual penny here.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: That shows you it's authentic. He really did. He really did. But, no,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that's good, though. That shows you it's authentic.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And it makes it easier, Coop, when I'm
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: watching these games because then I don't have to worry
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: about 8,000 games. There's only a couple that were different.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Next up, we have the Chicago Bears and the Carolina Panthers.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: And this game is on Fox as well. We didn't
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: pick the game just because it's on Fox, but it
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: is on Fox. Adam Amin and Drew Brees have the call.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: And you say, well, what's the weather going to be like?
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: You always worry late in the year about the snow
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: and the bad weather and all that. Well, early in
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: the year, you worry about the heat. And it is
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: going to be toasty on Sunday at 1 o'clock in Charlotte.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: 87 degrees, a slight chance of thunderstorms there. In the
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Charlotte area, so some hot summer weather for Carolina and
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: The Bears again, the road team.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Bears a three-point favorite in this game. And where is
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: the wise guy money on this? The sharp money pointing
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: towards the Chicago Bears here as they're getting most of
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the money, most of the bets. on DraftKings based on
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: the information that we have at this time. Now, the
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: reason for that is injury. The main reason the Bears
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: are getting the pick from the wise guys is the injury. Now,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take the Bears also, and I like
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: the logic of this. Carolina is opening the season without
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: both of their starting tackles. That seems to be a
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: bad thing for me. I didn't play in the NFL,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: but it would seem to me if you're playing both
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: your backup tackles against a pretty good Chicago defense, that's
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: not going to end very well. We know Bryce Young's
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: not very good. Even when he gets protection, he's not
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: very good. Can you imagine what it's going to be
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: like when the Bears' defense collapses on the edges and
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: forces Bryce Young to speed up his already crappy clock
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: and what a debacle that's going to be and get
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears defense forcing Carolina into those third and
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: long situations where You're for something. I'm not betting on
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: the Bears because of Caleb Williams.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big Caleb Williams fan.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Even though many of my friends in Chicago worship at
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: the altar of Caleb Williams.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Bottom line here, the Bears will win.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: They will cover, and they'll turn that Carolina offensive line
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: into mashed potatoes.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Take the Bears. Take the Bears. The Petty Picks. All
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: road teams all the time, Ben.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: But the penny also likes the Bears.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. This is absurd. This is illogical.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: All right, next up, we got to move on. All right,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: next up for us, let's go down to the Baltimore Ravens.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: A new coach here for the Ravens as Harbaugh took
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: off to the Giants.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: They fired him.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Ravens opening up here a three-and-a-half point favorite. Ravens minus three-and-a-half,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: minus three-and-a-half over the Indianapolis Colts. This game being played.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: in Indianapolis, which means who cares about the weather? Because
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: it's in a dome. It'll be 85 outside, but perfect
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: conditions inside there at the dome in Indianapolis. And the
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: wise guys, the sharp money backing the The team from Indianapolis,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: the public likes Baltimore, so we have a split on
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: this game. I'm going to take the Indianapolis Colts plus
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: the three and a half. And the reason for this,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: I don't trust the Ravens are all the way back.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: A lot of changes there in Baltimore. I don't know
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: what to make of this new coaching staff. I want
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: to see what they've got there. Jonathan Taylor is really good.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Should be able to shorten the game there. Keep Lamar
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Jackson on the sidelines there. And hide Daniel Jones, pick
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: your spots with that. And it's not like the Colts
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: have to stop Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: They don't.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Just force the game to be close, long drives, methodical
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: drives here and whatnot. And so I'm going to take
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: the Indianapolis Colts here at home plus the 3.5.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: And....
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: The penny picks. Let's see here. Put the penny in
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the air everywhere like you don't care. Come on. Don't.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Come on. Come on, Coop. Don't do this to me.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: Penny pick the Colts.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: So we've done now five games, three here and then
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: two the other. And the pennies pick the same thing
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I've picked every game.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: Every time.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: What's the point of the pick?
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Do you want the penny to go first next time? Yeah,
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: you know what?
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Maybe we will. How about that?
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Let's do one more game real quick here. Buccaneers and the–
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: this is absurd. Buccaneers and the Bengals– This game is
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: on Fox. You've got Kevin Kugler and Daryl Moose Johnston
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: on the call. So that is the broadcast matchup here.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: The Bengals, a three and a half point favorite at home,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: partly cloudy, 83 degrees in that beautiful city. of Cincinnati
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: right on the shores of the Ohio River on Sunday afternoon.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: I normally go first, but I'll let the penny pick.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Coop. Let the penny pick. Go ahead. Let's
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: see who the penny likes.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: La, la, la, la, la, la, la.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: The penny likes the Bengals.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Stop it. We're going to get canceled from radio. This
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: is so stupid. This is like the worst bit in
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the history of radio bits. Yeah, I like the Bengals too, Coop.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Here's why.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Jeez. All right, listen.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Is it Benny and the Patriots?
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Is it the penny or it's penny versus the penny?
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: It's just Benny picking games and the pennies agreeing with me.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: It's the amen choir. It's the amen choir.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: The penny is so devastated from being canceled by the
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: United States government that they're like, all right. Anyway, listen, Tampa,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at Joe Burrow here, should be able to
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: attack the Bucs secondary. The Bucs much better last year
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: anyway against the run versus the pass last season.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I know it's a new year.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: There's new players and all that. The Bucs not as
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: good as they were last year. They're not– They're lacking
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: playmakers on offense, mainly Mike Evans. A couple other guys
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: left in the offseason. And I'm looking at Cincinnati, and
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: they're healthy for the most part right now. And you've
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: got two big play bazookas out there, Torpedoes and Jamar
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Chase and T. Higgins, who were full participants of practice
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: on Thursday. And Tampa, they're secondary. And good luck. You're
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: going to give up some chunk plays. And that's a problem.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: We like the moxie of Baker Mayfield and all that,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: but he turned the ball over a ton last season.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: He's very erratic, and you do that, good luck.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Now, Cincinnati historically in recent years has not been very
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: good early in the season.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: But that tells you what has happened, not what's going
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: to happen.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Bottom line, I am going to take the Bengals just like.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: The stupid Petty. So, so far, one, two, three, four, five, six.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: We're six for six. Will we continue?
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Up next, we've got a showdown between the Bills and
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: the Texans.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: We've got that. And real quick, I will give the
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: instant trivia.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Then we've got to get back to the games because
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: we are up against it, as we say in the
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: radio business.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Here's the instant trivia.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Blank leads the NFL with 34 touchdown receptions on go-slash-fade
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  Speaker 2: routes or routes since 2018. Seven more than the next
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, time now
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  Speaker 1: for the Insta Trivia. Quickly, and we'll get back to
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  Speaker 1: Benny versus Penny.
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  Speaker 2: Blank leads the NFL with 34 touchdown receptions on go-fade
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  Speaker 2: routes or routes since 2018, seven more.
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  Speaker 1: Than the next closest player. That is the question. What's
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  Speaker 1: the answer?
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  Speaker 2: We don't have a lot of time to give bogus answers.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll just pick a couple here.
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  Speaker 1: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Hell, I don't have time for
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  Speaker 1: any of them. Go ahead, Lorena. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: the answer is, Lorena?
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  Speaker 5: It's a me, a Mario.
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  Speaker 1: Mario. No, it is Mike Evans now of the 49ers.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Evans of the 49ers. Back to the games. We go.
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  Speaker 2: Next up, we've got the Buffalo Bills and the Houston
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  Speaker 2: Texans on Benny versus the Penny. The Bills, a one
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  Speaker 2: and a half point favorite on the road. This game
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  Speaker 2: in Houston, it is on CBS, Iron Eagle and Ross Tucker,
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  Speaker 2: who I at.
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  Speaker 1: One point worked with years ago in another gig. And
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  Speaker 1: they will have the call here.
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  Speaker 2: And the game in a dome, you mean 92. So
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  Speaker 2: it's good in domes. Chance of thunderstorms there in Houston
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday. The sharp money.
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  Speaker 1: Is actually on Houston as a small home.
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  Speaker 2: Dog, public liking Buffalo. I'm going to take the Texans
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  Speaker 2: in this game. I'll take the Texans here as that defense.
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  Speaker 2: I certainly don't like the Texans offense, but the defense
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  Speaker 2: should cause problems. A lot of problems for Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 2: who historically has been terrible. Hadn't won a game as
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  Speaker 2: a starter yesterday. In that building in Houston, that tells
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  Speaker 2: you what has happened, not what's going to happen here.
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  Speaker 1: Low scoring, close game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to take the better defense, which is the
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  Speaker 2: Houston Texans and the Penny Picks.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Will it be seven for seven?
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  Speaker 5: It is seven for seven, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, come on!
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  Speaker 2: No!
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  Speaker 1: How is this possible?
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  Speaker 5: I'm telling Lorena the pennies picked before you even say yours.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even care.
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  Speaker 2: Astronomical odds. The Packers at the Vikings on CBS. Jim
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  Speaker 2: Nance and J.J.
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  Speaker 1: Watt. I wonder if Tony Romo is going to watch
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  Speaker 1: this game.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, it's in the Twin Cities this weekend, so that
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  Speaker 2: means it's obviously in a dome, which means the weather.
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  Speaker 2: Who gives a rat's ass about the weather because it's
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  Speaker 2: in a dome, and so you don't have to worry
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  Speaker 2: about it and all that, but it will be in
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  Speaker 2: the 60s, so nice cool weather there. in Minnesota for
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  Speaker 2: this game. In terms of where the sharp money is,
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  Speaker 2: that would be on the side. of the Vikings as
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  Speaker 2: a small favorite. Green Bay actually opened a one-and-a-half point
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  Speaker 2: favorite in this game. The Everything flipped around, so the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings are now a small favorite. You know I don't like,
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  Speaker 2: do not like Kyler Murray. Not a big Kyler Murray fan. However,
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  Speaker 2: you look at that Green Bay offensive line, and that
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  Speaker 2: is some Swiss cheese right there.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of injuries there.
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  Speaker 2: The Packers entering with three starting offensive linemen on the
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  Speaker 2: injury report. So even if they play, how effective are
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  Speaker 2: they going to be? And you don't really know what's
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  Speaker 2: going on there with the quarterback, Jordan Love.
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  Speaker 1: Inconsistent.
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  Speaker 2: And certainly against Brian Flores, one of the better defensive coordinators,
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  Speaker 2: that's problematic. So I am going to take the Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: Vikings and the Petty Picks.
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  Speaker 1: We did it, Ben. The Penny Picks, the Packers.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We got limited time here, so it's going
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  Speaker 2: to go real quick. Giants and Cowboys. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: take the Cowboys minus three on the road on NBC.
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  Speaker 2: The Penny Picks quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Coop, no imaging. Who's the Penny Pick? And the Penny Picks.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys. All right.
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  Speaker 2: We agree on that. And Chiefs Broncos Monday night on ABC.
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  Speaker 2: Chiefs minus two and a half. I'm going to take
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City at home. The Penny Picks.
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  Speaker 5: Kansas City at home.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on. There was one. Oh, no. There's no way.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be joking as weed men would say,
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  Speaker 1: come on.