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  Speaker 1: is this. We react to this? What is this? If
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  Speaker 1: you did not hear, maybe not, maybe you're not following
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  Speaker 1: the Nevada court system. But it turns out that a
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  Speaker 1: Nevada court has cleared the way for a lawsuit that
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  Speaker 1: goes back not one, not two, not three, but four years,
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  Speaker 1: go back to the year twenty twenty one. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of craziness, a lot of people wearing masks and not
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  Speaker 1: going out and weird stuff going on. But in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, there was a lawsuit filed by John Gruden.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know that is that's an old NFL coach,
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  Speaker 1: John Gruden, he coached the Raiders. Yeah, so John Gruden
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  Speaker 1: file lawsuit. Well, a court Nevada has announced that that
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit now can proceed against the National Football League and
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Roger the Dodger, Goodell Roger, the Dodger, who normally
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  Speaker 1: dodges these type of lawsuits. Now, that suit alleged that
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  Speaker 1: a malicious and orchestrated campaign was used by the NFL
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  Speaker 1: to destroy John Gruden's career. You might remember the NFL
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  Speaker 1: famously strategically leaking all the emails that he had sent,
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  Speaker 1: including the things that hit all the big ones, racism,
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  Speaker 1: misogynistic activity, homophobic commons, the big three right there by
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  Speaker 1: John Gruden and old emails that were strategically leaked by
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  Speaker 1: the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: That's the claim.
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  Speaker 1: So the Nevada Supreme Court, that's right, the Nevada Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court did they cover area fifty one. Also, they ruled
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  Speaker 1: five to two, what even close? Five to two was
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  Speaker 1: the ruling, and they said that the arbitration clause in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL Constitution is let's just say non kosher, that's
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  Speaker 1: my term for it. But it does not apply to
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  Speaker 1: John Gruden. They claimed as a former employee. That Gruden
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  Speaker 1: was not an employee of the NFL at the time
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  Speaker 1: the emails were sent. There for he is not under
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  Speaker 1: the bylaws of the NFL. Now Gruden his lawyers react
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL. Their lawyers, they declined comment on this
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  Speaker 1: particular rule.
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  Speaker 3: He did not comment. Did not comment.
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  Speaker 1: John Gruden's lawyer say that this will help quote hold
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  Speaker 1: the NFL accountable. Okay, so let us discuss the question
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  Speaker 1: for the esteem panel.
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  Speaker 3: John Gruden. Certainly this is a win.
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  Speaker 1: Whether he wins the final battle, this is a win
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  Speaker 1: at this point for John Gruden. He wins this round.
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  Speaker 1: John Gruden winning this round against the NF fell in court.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on these latest developments the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court of Nevada siding against against the NFL and in
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  Speaker 1: favor of John Gruden. So I've got the Jenga Tower, Morgan, Spurlock,
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  Speaker 1: and cosplay, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and put a billboard up that says who hurt you?
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  Speaker 1: Because every time I drive one by one of those,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to laugh.
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  Speaker 3: I just laugh. I just truckle.
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  Speaker 1: I do uh anyway, so my first thought on this
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  Speaker 1: and the latest developments is the plot thickens.
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  Speaker 3: Do do do do Do Do Do Do do do doo?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's finger Byting time. It's finger Byton time for
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Now, I did send some correspondence out to
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  Speaker 1: people that work in that world. They don't seem too concerned.
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  Speaker 1: They don't seem too concerned. It's that hubris of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL and like, Wow, we'll ultimately win this. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: just going to delay the inevitable. So I would argue,
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  Speaker 1: though there is some finger biting going on because you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you don't know, and for right now,
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  Speaker 1: with worry about right now, this is a seismic shift
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  Speaker 1: the NFL was not counting on to the world order
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  Speaker 1: of the National Football League. John Gruden, the guy who
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  Speaker 1: they tried to have disappear from the face of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: is back. Yeah, and he's got a for now, a
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  Speaker 1: wrecking ball, a wrecking ball in his hand. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a Hollywood special, Worlds Collide, World's Collide. You got the
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  Speaker 1: little guy, the disgraced former hero John Gruden, who comes
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  Speaker 1: back from the dead, comes back from the dead, and
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  Speaker 1: now now he's got the villain, big, big football, big
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  Speaker 1: NFL on the ropes. It's if you combine like Rocky
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  Speaker 1: and then you're throw in some sopranos in there.
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  Speaker 3: It's got a little bit of that, a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell is in danger of getting the bitter taste
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  Speaker 1: of his own medicine. Like the NFL tried to erase
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  Speaker 1: John Gruden and now Goodell. You think there's anything in
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  Speaker 1: his emails? You think Goodell sent any text messages that
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  Speaker 1: might be considered I don't know, racist or misogynistic or
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  Speaker 1: homophobic anywhere along the way. I'm just asking, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not. He's perfect, He's the archangel, he would have
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  Speaker 1: never done anything like that at all. The reason I
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  Speaker 1: bring that up is because the discovery phase will.
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  Speaker 3: Be a hum dinger. A humdinger.
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  Speaker 1: Most knowledgeable people who have looked at the case will
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  Speaker 1: tell you that is more likely than not, based on
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  Speaker 1: the prepondence of the evidence that the NFL leaked to
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  Speaker 1: hand picked, hand picked friends of the NFL that are
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  Speaker 1: in that New York bubble, the Wall Street Journal and
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  Speaker 1: the New York Times, the emails. Now, now Gruden gets
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  Speaker 1: to go into discovery at this point, this is where
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  Speaker 1: we are. He's gonna go in discovery and see what
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  Speaker 1: skeletons are he can find in the closets at the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: And they have really big walk in closets, I mean massive,
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  Speaker 3: And the whole wing of the house is a closet
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  Speaker 3: and they man, is that a big closet.
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  Speaker 1: They can go in there and snoop around. And so
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  Speaker 1: at this point, Gruden not just knocking on the door.
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  Speaker 1: He's not knocking on the door. He's got the keys
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  Speaker 1: and he's gonna he's gonna have all the lights on,
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  Speaker 1: turn them all on, go through everything. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: just about John Gruden and some dirty emails. This is
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  Speaker 1: about the entire power structure of the NFL. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why this is so fascinating. This f's everything up. They
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  Speaker 1: for years have had a choke hold on anyone that
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  Speaker 1: dares fight them. And this is a look behind the curtain,
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  Speaker 1: if it goes the way it's going right now, where
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  Speaker 1: John Gruden can reveal a lot of warts, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of interesting imperfections in the NFL world. And so the
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  Speaker 1: Nevada Supreme Court, in so many words I'll sum it up,
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  Speaker 1: told the NFL you cannot be both the judge and
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  Speaker 1: the jury. That's essentially what they said. That's how I
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  Speaker 1: interpret it. You can't have your sock puppet Commissioner Roger
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  Speaker 1: Goodell arbitrate a case where he's one of the defendants
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  Speaker 1: in the case. Like, that's not how you do this here.
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  Speaker 1: And it's so simple, yet it is so beautiful at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. I don't know what your position is.
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  Speaker 1: My position is. It's simple, it's logical, and it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like in some shady neighborhood boxing match
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  Speaker 1: and you find out that you're watching the boxing match
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  Speaker 1: and it just turns out that the referee in the
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  Speaker 1: boxing match happens to be the uncle of the fighter
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  Speaker 1: who won the boxing match, Like.
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  Speaker 3: Just a coincidence, you know. It's just a weird thing.
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  Speaker 1: So the league's very bedrock, the very bedrock of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL is built on this, and so they do whatever
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  Speaker 1: they want whenever they want in NFL circles.
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  Speaker 3: And if you don't like it and you want to
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  Speaker 3: go to.
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  Speaker 1: Court and all that stuff, you can take it to
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  Speaker 1: their little kangaroo court and they always win.
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  Speaker 3: They always win. It's like going to Moscow and suing
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  Speaker 3: the government in Russia. Okay, you can do that. You're
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  Speaker 3: not going to win. You're not going to win.
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  Speaker 1: And so now the whole wobbly Jenga tower, the whole
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  Speaker 1: giant Jenga tower, is shaking.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit. It's shaking a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Right Gruden has for now because of this Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: in Nevada, he has kicked one of the main legs
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  Speaker 1: of the Jenga tower and he's kind of kicked it
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit. So the NFL is essentially a
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  Speaker 1: mob family, right, I mean, in so many words my
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  Speaker 1: understanding of what the old mob was. And it's still
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  Speaker 1: mobs around and all that, but essentially the mob, right,
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  Speaker 1: they do things, but they don't do things by the book,
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  Speaker 1: and they've got their own book there. And the great
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  Speaker 1: Brent Musburger Hall of Fame broadcaster, Brent musburg you're looking live,
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  Speaker 1: Brent Musburger said of John Gruden. He was the Raider
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  Speaker 1: radio play by play guy at the time all this
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  Speaker 1: went down, And Musburger said, of John Gruden's removal as
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders coach, he called it. This is Brent Musburger,
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  Speaker 1: a guy who worked in the NFL since like the sixties,
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  Speaker 1: he said, professional hit job. That's Brent Musburger. Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Famer Brent Musburger said the NFL took down John Gruden
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  Speaker 1: on a professional hit job by a paid assassin. Is
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  Speaker 1: how Musburger said it. They didn't use the usual media goombas. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the usual media goomba a state sponsored NFL media, the
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  Speaker 1: network the NFL gets sold to ESPN or anyone works
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  Speaker 1: at the ESPN ors in the tank for the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: So instead, as we mentioned, they went to the Wall
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  Speaker 1: Street Journal, they went to the New York Times. That's
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  Speaker 1: where they went to. And so now the tables have turned.
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  Speaker 1: So they've turned, and the NFL peeps, we would imagine
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna start singing like canaries some of the people
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  Speaker 1: involved in this if it gets to the discovery phase,
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  Speaker 1: because emails will get exposed and text messages and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to try to do the old cya cover your ass,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what everyone does now.
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  Speaker 3: Page two.
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  Speaker 1: So where where does the NFL go now to avoid
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  Speaker 1: publicly being pansd publicly being panted by John Gruden in
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  Speaker 1: the discovery phase of a court case? So what does
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  Speaker 1: the NFL do here? So they have to get out
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  Speaker 1: the manny and the petty. They have to give the
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  Speaker 1: manny and the petty descotus. That is where this is
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  Speaker 1: going Next. The NFL will file a formal appeal, which
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  Speaker 1: means lawyers will get some more money. They're on retainer anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So the NFL is gonna file a formal petition I guess,
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  Speaker 1: not really appeal, but petition for appeal, which is an appeal,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a petition for a pick. So they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: file a petition to the United States Supreme Court, the
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  Speaker 1: highest court in the land.
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  Speaker 3: And if the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: Does not take the case, and they don't take most cases,
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  Speaker 1: they don't take most cases, all right, or if they
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  Speaker 1: do take the case and they rule in favor of
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  Speaker 1: John Gruden, meaning the NFL loses loser capitale l that
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  Speaker 1: means it is on like don't keet calng we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the discovery phase. So listen to the NFL. I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned i'd put some feelers out and I just I got.
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  Speaker 1: The early vibe I got was hubris. That's my word,
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  Speaker 1: that not their word. But there's an arrogance that they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna win in the Supreme Court and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL is not stupid. They're not smart, but they're
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  Speaker 1: not stupid. And they know that the discovery phase will.
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  Speaker 3: Be a blood bath for them and if we get there,
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  Speaker 3: and so they're gonna try to cut it off at
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  Speaker 3: the pass if they have to. Now they assume they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna win because they'll just do what everyone does in
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  Speaker 3: these cases and a massage some politicians and that's how
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  Speaker 3: it goes. And then at the other side of it,
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  Speaker 3: the other option would be to work out of court
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  Speaker 3: settlement with John Gruden a big bag of cash. I'm
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  Speaker 3: talking the late Morgan Spurlock and supersize me. I'm talking
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  Speaker 3: John Gruden's lawyers cooking up what do you want, John?
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  Speaker 3: You want thirty forty fifty million dollars whatever you want.
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  Speaker 3: The NFL is gonna pay it. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: tax for the NFL. They'll pay it.
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  Speaker 1: And Gruden, he had said the quote that it keeps
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  Speaker 1: coming up is he wants to burn the house down.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going to tell them to shove it. You
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  Speaker 1: would assume, right, I don't need your money. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: know Gruden's rich. You paid way too much money to
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  Speaker 1: do bad television and all that. So he's got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money. So if it's not about the money,
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  Speaker 1: it's about your reputation, it's about the principal. And he
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  Speaker 1: was humiliated and all that stuff, and he wants his
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  Speaker 1: pound a flash, And then what's the NFL going to do?
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  Speaker 1: He can't settle. Gruden cannot settle, right, he can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL made sure that he was radioactive. So what
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  Speaker 1: Gruden could do is make Roger Goodell radioactive. There is
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  Speaker 1: a scenario where Gruden, this lawsuit goes forward, Goodell ends
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  Speaker 1: up losing his job as the commissioner of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: That there's definitely some skeletons there somewhere if you dig
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  Speaker 1: deep enough in those nice walking closets, and you can
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  Speaker 1: get rid of Roger Goodell. And so at this point,
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  Speaker 1: John Gruden's got the league by the balls. He's got
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  Speaker 1: him by the balls. And just like the man said
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  Speaker 1: a famous quote, what do you do when you've got
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  Speaker 1: him by the balls? Wheez and you keep squeezing until
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  Speaker 1: their hearts and minds follow.
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  Speaker 3: And there you go. You're on your way.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck on that all right now, the last word
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  Speaker 1: on this. We'll put the baby to bed on this.
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  Speaker 1: John Gruden sor you will get your calls if you
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  Speaker 1: want to react to it, and comments and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But what kind last word, what kind of a package DELI? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of a package deal could get John Gruden
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  Speaker 1: who has said that he wants and again his quote was,
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  Speaker 1: he wants to burn the house down? So what kind
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  Speaker 1: of package deal could get John Gruden to take a
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  Speaker 1: settlement from the NFL. As a distant relative of Nostre
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  Speaker 1: Damis and friend of Nostradinas, he lives in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't really react to the show very much anymore.
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  Speaker 3: But I've done the investigative work. I've done the investigative work.
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  Speaker 1: So we're talking about Roger Goodell doing some cosplay in
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  Speaker 1: this world. I believe in the multiverse, So in this
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  Speaker 1: part of the multiverse, there's some cosplay and Roger Goodell
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  Speaker 1: he addresses up as the old Hollywood star Marlon Brando
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  Speaker 1: from back in the day in The Godfather and says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse John Gruden.
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  Speaker 3: And it's about.
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  Speaker 1: Gruden getting back in the game. The money's one thing.
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  Speaker 1: Gruden not need the money. He's rich, He's made a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money for a long time, so he's financially
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  Speaker 1: set in that regard. In the multiverse, though, you get
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  Speaker 1: not only the cartoon sized check for say fifty million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: that's after taxes, after taxes, fifty million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: You look around. You got Pete Carroll who's beginning his
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  Speaker 3: first year with the team in Las Vegas, and he's
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  Speaker 3: the oldest coach in the NFL. He clearly has lost it.
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  Speaker 3: He brought Geno Smith in, who sucks as the Raiders quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: So and we like Pete. Pet's you a nice guy
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  Speaker 3: and all that, Pollyanna Pete. However, however, John Gruden, what's
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  Speaker 3: the one thing he would love to have more than anything?
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  Speaker 3: The job that he had that he thought he was
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  Speaker 3: gonna have for another seven or eight years. He signed
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  Speaker 3: that ten year contract to be the coach of the Raiders.
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  Speaker 3: So John Gruden, with that big greasy smile on his
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  Speaker 3: face from ear to ear, cheshire cat smile, heads back
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  Speaker 3: to Sin City coach of the Raiders, and Goodell can
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  Speaker 3: make it happen?
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  Speaker 1: Is Avis do us a solid here. We'll give you
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  Speaker 1: the money, We'll get you the Raider coaching job. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get you whatever job you want in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You what job do you want? It makes too much sense.
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  Speaker 1: John Gruden returning as coach of the Raiders, And you
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  Speaker 1: can see it now, the charismatic John Gruden saying bygones
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  Speaker 1: be bygones. Back on the sidelines there with Mark Davis
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  Speaker 1: giving him a hug. They go out to dinner at PF.
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  Speaker 1: Chang's and they get the orange chicken. They have a
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  Speaker 1: great time. Remember Mark Davis said he never wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of John Gruden. In fact, if I remember
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  Speaker 1: Carrefi doing the show and being in the watchdower at
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  Speaker 1: that time. The first email dump happened on like a
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  Speaker 1: Thursday or a Friday, the John Gruden email dump. Gruden
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  Speaker 1: coached the Raiders against the Chicago Bears, and then a
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  Speaker 3: We react to the news of the day, and yet
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  Speaker 3: again our.
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  Speaker 1: Plate is filled filled with a quarterback drama, Orama, drama
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: oramo follow up to the follow up, follow up to
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the follow up. Quarterback Matthew Stafford filling up the football
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: headlines yet again. The Super Bowl champion from a couple
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: of years ago. Great a super Bowl my lifetime, Rams Bangles.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't think anyone can disagree with that,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Sayway Stafford. If you didn't see this, maybe not because
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: you actually have a life. You have a job, you
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: have a family, have things you have to do, and
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: so you missed it. So Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford did
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: not did not practice on Monday after being you know,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the expectation was he was going to practice. Why was
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the expectation because the couch said it. So he was
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: supposed to take part in individual drills in his return
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to practice, the oh my aching back. He has an
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: aggravated disc. Gotta say that carefully and slowly. Aggravated disc
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: in his back. Now, over the weekend, Sean McVay puffed
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: his chest out, smugly and arrogantly and announced to the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: media that he was coming back on Monday. He being
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, and McVeigh had said, Seth had a quote
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: great workout, those were his words, not mine, felt good
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, and then he said he didn't feel good
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: enough though to throw the football on Monday. The Rams
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: didn't think this is according to McVeigh. He said, quote,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the Rams didn't think practicing was the right thing to do,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: based on how he was feeling, how he woke up feeling,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: macveagy said. Now, instead, Stafford was spotted in his street clothes,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: like somebody for your favorite NBA players street clothes, Anthony
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Davis players like that. So Stafford was in street close
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: during practice wall walking into a truck that was for rejuvenation.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: They had a truck there that was parked next to
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the Ram practice field. Some of this new age sciencey stuff.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: They essentially convinced the NFL teams, Hey, let's put a
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: truck there. And we'll put like some kind of weird
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: chambers in there and then it'll be like the Haunted House.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: But it'll it'll make the players better.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: All right. Anyway, let's discuss the question for the esteem panel,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: which you are a part of. You're on the Esteem panel. Congratulations,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford did not did not practice, did
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: not practice despite his expected return. Now what does that
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: mean in the big picture?
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: All right? What does that mean in the big picture?
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: So I've got cucumber slices, Facebook Marketplace, and naked mole rats,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: three things that have never ever been put together, but
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: they will be here for this monologue. And we're gonna
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: make some Mediterranean chicken. When we have some chicken swarma
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and some rice and there there you go. All right,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: So number one number So Matthew Stafford supposed to be
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the ring leader of the RAM circus, right, he's out there,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the ring leader. There, the guy that the Rams brought
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: in and they brought back. There was some talk. Stafford
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: went to Montana and was whined and dined by Tom Brady,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: white white pants Brady there in Montana and decided to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: go back to the Rams. And so he was brought
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: in yet again as the ring master for the Rams
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to ride the elephant at the circus under the big
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: top there and do the trap peez. Of course you
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: got to do that, the whole thing. And so there
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: he is the day he's supposed to get out there
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and prove all the critics wrong and go out there
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and practice, and he's in street clothes. Now, can you
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: play an NFL game in street clothes? I don't believe
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you can. I don't think that's allowed. I don't think
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: you can do it. So he's not practicing, not after
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh put his his name on it. He'd put
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: his name on it, you know, the guy who's the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: puppeteer of the Rams told everyone he's coming back.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Baby.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Are you critics? Are you you overnight gas bags? He's
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: coming back, you losers. Well, he didn't practice, didn't practice.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: McVeigh said he was going to do individual drills. Stafford
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: didn't do it, didn't do it. He's not there. He
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: wasn't there. Instead, he walked into some restorative and rejuvenation chamber,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: which sounds like something you'd be sentenced to by a court.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Uh, And I guess this is a.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Hyper barrack chamber that they brought in that truck. The
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Rams had it there some outside third party. They had
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a truck there. I'm sure they probably had like a
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: side hot tub in there somewhere. And Stafford went in
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: there with the towel. He had some cucumber slices and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: there was a loofa so he could take a shower.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: And he's done, get all soapy and all.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: So Stafford is quickly you know I'm wrong on this,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: quickly becoming the poulter Geist for the Rams. And they
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: haven't even gotten to the schedule yet, Like this is
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a preview of coming attractions here, haunting the Rams. Like
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: this is not the the thing of a jig, right,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the thing of a jig or the watch you might
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: call it break, Because the thing of a jig or
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the watch you might call it break.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: And you can deal with that.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: We're talking about the back, okay, And now I'm pretty
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: sure you have one. I've got one. We all have one, right,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: everyone listening has back. So the center of the universe
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and the human body the back, oh my aching back.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Think about playing professional sports or just living life, like
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: everything you do, every movement you make in the case
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: of a football player. You're talking about throwing a pass,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you're talking about taking a couple of steps, back handing
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the ball to the running back. You're talking about sneezing,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: you're talking about wiping your tukas your back is involved.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: There is movement in the back.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And I've thrown my back out a few times over
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the years, and every time I throw my back out,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I think, well, that's it, it'll never come back, and
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: eventually it does come back. But I'm not a professional athlete.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I'm a professional gas bag. It's slightly different, I'm told
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: in these parts. So think about back into it. There's
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: no frame bending, can't do it. Every movement hurts, you know.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: And so this is this is like the chassis on
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the car cracking. Like everything you do is involved in
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the back, right. This is not just a ding bumper,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: it's the chassis like ding bumper, bumper. You can you know,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: slap some tape on it and you know, take the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: bumper off whatever. This is the chassis on the car.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Ranking that's where we are. He had an epidoral last week, Stafford,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: and so Sean McVay can say, well, this surgery, the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: surgery hasn't been discussed. He can say that all he wants,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure he will, but you don't talk about
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: rebuilding the engine. You don't talk about rebuilding the engine
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: there until you've got oil pouring out all over the driveway,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: and then you're like, oh crap, we got a problem.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: The Rams, listen the Stafford trade. They won the trade.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: The Lions lost the trade. The Rams won a super
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Bowl with Matthew Stafford. They've been a consistent playoff team
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: with Matthew Stafford. Jared Goff is the same guy he
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: was with the Rams. He's mediocre. He chokes in big games.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: That's Jared Goff. So the Rams won that trade. That's fine,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and the Super Bowl has been a couple of years.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: The Rams have a young, upstart defense they're excited about.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: They think that's a defense that's good enough to get
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to a super Bowl. But if you're honest right now
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: looking at Rams and and you've got your quarterback who's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: currently being held together with duct tape and going into
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: hyperbaric chambers, and who knows what other stuff he's got
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: going on there trying to trying to keep the car
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: on the road, right, that's that's where we are. And
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: so you don't know what you don't know, and you
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: don't know when he's going to go kaboom and blow,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: and you know, you don't know when the back is
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: going to say bye bye, I'm done. And every time
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Stafford drops back, every time Sean McVay is on the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: sidelines and he's saying, you know, prayers, oh father, you
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: know all that, the hail Mary's uh, you know, hoping
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: that he takes another snap after that.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Staff And so this is a tough spot.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: To be in for the Rams, and it's it's gonna
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: follow them because at some point I would imagine Stafford's
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: going to actually practice, doesn't matter does he practice one
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: day and then take three days off or four days off?
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And then where were now? Page two to Arizona we go.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Why I like talking about bad teams. I love bad teams.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: And the Cardinals suck. There are some reports out in
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: recent days here that predicting they are predicting the Cardinals.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: That's a bad football team. The Cardinals will trade Alligator
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Arms Murray Kyler Murray before the twenty twenty seven season,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: rather than offering him he yet another contract extension. Now
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Murray would be thirty. At that point, the Cardinals would
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: be trying to get something, anything in return. In terms
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: of draft I love they say draft capital.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: I love that draft capital.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, wonderful, all right, So thumbs up or thumbs down,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Thumbs up or thumbs down on Kyler Murray having a
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: short shelf life in Arizona.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: See what I did there, So I am going to
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: go thumbs up.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going thumbs up on this. Uh Now, listen, the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: clock is ticking. You can hear it if you listen closely,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: that's the clock ticking.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Just like that.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: You can almost hear it. And we believe it's not
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: gonna be till twenty twenty seven. It's going to be
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: after this year. We believe it'll.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Be after this year.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: You do the math on that, there's like one year left,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: and you know the contract and the guaranteed money, and
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: it was always complicated. If you want to move a player,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: you can move a player. Arizona foolishly gave Kyler Murray
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a massive contract, like they were buying the dream yacht.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: They always wanted this yacht. They got the yacht. They
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: thought they'd be cruising, not for a bruising. They thought
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: they'd be cruising to the super Bowl.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: And right there at sunset, beautiful weather, and you're in
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: this yacht and you got the air, the ocean air
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: there and oh man, it's just amazing wind in their hair,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: the whole thing champagne. And instead reality check, they thought
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: they were getting a yacht. They actually mistakenly they went
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: on Facebook Marketplace and they bought a dingy, not a yacht,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: not a yacht. They bought a dingy okay and a
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: little outboard motor.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Normal dingy outboard motor. There sputters after about ten minutes,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: about ten minutes of use. It's sputters a little bit.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: It's got expired registration. And they've got a captain for
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the dinghy alligator arms who get seasick in calm water.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's what we got here.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And so now, of course at Arizona, immediately had the
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: buyers were morse.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: We talked about this many times here.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: How bad was it? It was so bad. It was
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: so bad that they're likely awake right now. Executives like,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: what did we do? Why did we do that? Why
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: didn't we just rent? Why did we buy? I don't understand,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL are kind of like cars. I'll
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: use the Annalygy're like they're Arizona financed their car. However,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: they realized it's got a four cylinder engine. And unfortunately
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: there's a speed governor that kicks in anything, you know,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: anything sixty five miles an hour, so you can't go
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: past sixty five miles an hour. And I know when
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I'm driving on the highway and I see one of
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: those they're always company cars, and they say, well, this
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: vehicle is being monitored by GPS and will not go
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: over a certain I immediately zoom past that vehicle. That's
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. That's Kylmer.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Every year.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Keep in mind also seven to ten teams, seven to
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: ten teams every year trade in their car or quarterback
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: for a newer model. And looking ahead into my crystal ball,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: would be someone that would be interested in Alligator Arms
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Murray going forward after this upcoming twenty twenty five regular season.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: So if you look in the crystal ball, you've got
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the Petsburg Steelers, the ins Aaron Rodgers.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Like one year and then he'll be gone.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: The Jets because Justin Fields blows the Giants because Russell.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Wilson sucks and Jackson darts. Probably not all that good.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: The Dolphins, they'll need somebody. They'll get rid of the Brownies.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: They always change quarterbacks every year, the Raiders because you
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: know Gino Smith come on. So the thing about the showroom,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: it's always open. The quarterback showroom is always open. The
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: sales people, they are always smiling. They're always smiling. They
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: have some lemonade and some snacks you can get there.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: And the Cardinals they're about to roll. It's not a
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: big ball, but they're gonna roll Kyler back onto the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: lot there.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Kyler at this point's got about seventy thousand hard miles
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: hard miles, and it's a car that leads the race
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: after ten laps and then falls apart the rest of
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the race. There there's a dent on that fender. If
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: you look, there's a little dent there on the fender,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: and the check ego light on the dashboard is flashing
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: check ego right there. And Kyler a guy who is allergic.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: We've learned over the years he's allergic to watching film.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I don't like watching film either, but I do a
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: talk show. I don't have to watch him, and he
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: doesn't like standing in the pocket very long.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: We've learned about that.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Also allergic to looking over the offensive line unless you
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: get him an NFL branded step stool. Then he can
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: look over the offensive line. So you can a little NFL.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: He got the NFL logo officially branded NFL and Cardinal
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: logo on the step school stool, and then he can
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: see over the offensive line and the extension. It's kind
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: of like the way I would describe it, it's like
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: buying a home gym for someone who is a couch potato,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Like why.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Would you do it?
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: And you realize you're like, well, that guy doesn't he
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: doesn't get off the couch. Why do we buy a
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: home gym that's just gonna collect furnit, you know, shirts
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: and stuff. It's gonna be over there and it's gonna
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: be like a laundry basket and that's it. So the
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Cardinals will try to get rid of Kyler Murray at
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the end of this year, not till twenty twenty seven.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the end of the twenty twenty five season,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: and that's the Yang they want. In terms of I
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: guess Kyler at this point was he where the mid
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  Speaker 1: round draft pick. He's not that good and people have
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  Speaker 1: I used to get pushed back when I would rip
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  Speaker 1: Kyler early on. So you don't know what you're talking about.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: And now everyone's in agreement. You know, it's it's not
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: much fun to talk about alligator armsmorried because everyone's agreed.
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  Speaker 3: Sucks all right.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Now, final point to Philadelphia we go where the Eagles. Hey, gee,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: el the Birds there Pro Bowl guard Landon Dickerson. We
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: don't talk about offensive linman unless A they're drafted right
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: for NFL draft. People get all horny for offensive lineman.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: B they miss a block and the quarterback gets killed
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  Speaker 1: or see they get hurt. That's this would be see,
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  Speaker 1: So Landon Dickerson will undergo. They say it's a minor procedure.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Minor procedure. The Eagles guard on a meniscus injury to
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  Speaker 1: his right knee. That's gonna happen in the coming days. Now. Dickerson,
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  Speaker 1: who was considered one of the elite offensive linement in
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the NFL, he will be considered week to week, not
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: day to day. Week to week with the goal of
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: returning for the NFL season up the less than a
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: month away. On a sleepy Thursday night in early September.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: It all begins, all regular season over they Eagles and
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: that Dallas Cowboys.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: How many points of the Cowboys gonna lose by that game? Anyway?
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: So left guard Landon Dickerson having surgery on his knee.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: The Eagles are downplaying this. What is the level of
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: worry for the Eagles? So it's not zero a scale
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: of one to ten, it's not zero, it's not one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna beat a two. And the reason I'm going
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: to it is discomforting. However, it is Toleran Dickerson a
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  Speaker 1: central part. The Eagles are not a passing team. They're
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: a running team. They don't throw the ball. They just
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: don't do it. They don't have a quarterback that can
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: throw the ball consistently down the field. So it's all
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: about Sequon Barkley and the pushy pushy with Jalen Hurts.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: So minor knee surgery is still last I checked knee surgery,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: all right. So once they cut you open. I learned
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  Speaker 1: this from my grandfather, you know, as a little boy.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: He said, no Ben, little Benny, little fat Benny. Once
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  Speaker 1: they cut you open, it's not minor anymore. Now, regardless
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: of that, here's the thing I've learned from years opining
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: on sports behind these microphones. When it comes to offensive lineman,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: they're not human. They're kind of like Adam Silver. They're
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: from somewhere else out in the cosmos. They're like the
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: last gladiators. Even in the NFL, even in the Mighty NFL.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Quarterbacks get a hangnail and they miss two weeks, they're out.
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  Speaker 3: See you later.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Wide receivers have a little twinge in their hammy and
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: they're worried it's gonna go whammy, and they go on
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  Speaker 1: the injured reserve list and that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: The offensive lineman a little different. See the offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 1: They follow the Caveman medical plan.
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  Speaker 3: What is that.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that is the Caveman medical plan,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: which is rub some dirt on it. Just throw some
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: dirt on it, grunt a couple of times, then take
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: a couple of pharmacy grade ibuprofen and get back in
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: the middle. That is the Caveman medical plan of the NFL.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: That's the way it is. And so they're like those
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: naked mole rats. I remember learning this years ago. The
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: naked mole rat has a freakish pain tolerance. Freakish pain
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: tolerance don't even have the same pain receptors that we
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: have the rest of us have, right They just they
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: can just get absolutely shred the naked mole rat and
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: they're not really bothered by anything. Normal person tears the
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  Speaker 1: meniscus and hobbling around on crutches. This guy Dickerson, Uh,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: he's a good old Southern boy from Hickory, North Carolina.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: And so I imagine Landon Dickerson probably walking around right
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: now at the Eagles Complex there in Philadelphia, eating a
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: hogi from wah Wahs and just not really worried at all.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Just a nice hogy and good to go.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: And maybe he'll have lunch tomorrow with Jonathan over in
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Delaware and they'll have a great time.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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• 41:44
  Speaker 2: how about that to the third degree?
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: This is one big Ben gets grailled all right.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: A lot has been made about the Bengals slow starts
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: under Zach Taylor, and some of that has been attributed
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: to lack of participation in the preseason by since he starters. Well,
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: Joe started and did well last week. Do you think
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: the Bengals will avoid these slow.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Start this year.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: No, this is their thing. This is what they do.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: They get off the bad start. They have a crappy defense,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: so they won't stop anybody, and they're gonna have to
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: outscore the opponent. Now, the good news is they're playing
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: two Tomato Cans, so you should at least.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: When one of them.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: They're playing Cleveland and Jacksonville to start the year. They
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: suck so but it's not gonna because they played in
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: the preseason.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: It's they're not. The Bengals are a bad defensive team.
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: Next, reports now say that Trey Young is resigned to
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: finishing off his contract with the Atlanta Hawks and testing
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: free agency in twenty twenty six. However, the Hawks made
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: some moves in the offseason and the East isn't exactly daunting.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: Do you think a playoff run could keep Young in Atlanta?
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: So this is all part of the master plan. The
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: Hawks are like, well, we don't know what we want
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: to do here, Well, Trey Young, everyone's slow playing this. Ultimately, though,
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: Trey Young can get more money from the Atlanta Hawks,
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: so even though the Hawks also are pathetic. You go
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: where the money is, and there's more money in Atlanta,
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: so you'll remain there, and they're just gonna drag this
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: out to the very next Jags kicker Cam Little hit
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: his seventy yard field goal in the team's preseason debut
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: over the weekend would have been an NFL record, beating
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: out Justin Tucker by four yards, but it won't count. Ben,
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: do you think kickers will be giving a ton of
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: chances to erase Tucker from the record books?
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Well, not because it's Tucker, but it's it's gonna have
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: to be right before the end of the game or
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: the end of halftime, although.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: It's not not because it's Tucker. No, I don't care
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: about to how we do. How many pass this edition? Hey,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: I won the game, but gay unbelievable. I'm all.
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• 43:49
  Speaker 1: As Wageo markettestants for the game, we have some people
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: standing by here. John is in Paradise. Someone to assume
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: that's Nevada or all casinos are no California. Paradise, California.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Where's Paradise? Where's Paradise California?
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Where is that.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: North of Chico?
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: Oh? When you think paradise, you think Chico, north of Chico.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: That is paradise. Yeah, absolutely, yes, absolutely? All right, Well John,
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: welcome and let's see here. Now what are you up to?
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: You working? Are you just driving around randomly? What's going on?
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Just left my girlfriend's house.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Oh look at that, that sounds like a booty called
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: to me late night fun there, you know, took care
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: of business, your big stud John, Right.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Come on, maybe maybe the exact opposite that way, chicked
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: out of the house at two in the morning.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Almost that sucks. That's all right, I understand, I got you.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Well it happens, so but we'll see. Now, John, would
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: you like to play with myself Ben as your partner
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: or coop a loop.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Moody one, then I'll play with you.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: That's how I played.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: I played with Eddie. We did good. If you really
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: want to make your girlfriend mad, you can play with me. Yeah, right,
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: hello John. Unfortunately Eddie is not available.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: He's not working here right now, so he's not we
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: I did invite Eddie to the Malor Meet and greet.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna go. I said you can
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: come and hang out. And we have him, you know,
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: in Vegas, and I don't think he's gonna show up,
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: but I did invite him.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: All right, John, we'll partner uphold on a second. We
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: have Steve in the Bay Area. Hello Steve, quickly, Steve
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: pig Thicket. Well, Steve in the Bay Area, welcome out.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: You want to play with Coop?
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, Coop quickly? All right, Coop quickly one of
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: the category. Hurry up?
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: All right, this is the casey Affleck edition. We have
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: two hundred cigarettes Ocean's eleven. I'm still here in Manchester
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: by the Sea.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: John, what do you want? Quickly? I'm sure I'm still here. Steve,
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: what do you want? All right? Hold on, we'll get
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: to Malor's mount of Money. We'll get to it. We
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: will do it next.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Now, Malor's Mountain of Money?
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Probably not?
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: And right to the game we go. We have John,
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: who's a little north of Chico and Paradise, California, teamed
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: up with me. He just had a disagreement with his girlfriend,
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: and so now he's calling sports radio and we have
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: Steve in the Bay Area. We don't know what Steve's
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: up to, but he's with Coop. So let's get to
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: the game right now. Here we go and it is
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: the Casey Affleck edition turned to fifty today. All right,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: so you picked.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: I'm still here, Yes, John, These athletes have all all
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: been professional athletes for fifteen plus years.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: They're still playing. Are you ready? I'm going to be
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: all right, John, forty five seconds on the clock. We're
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: on our way go. Starting quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes, Cory,
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: he won a Super Bowl. It was called the Elite
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: with the Ravens. He's the Browns quarterback right now.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. Longtime Detroit Tiger
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: played for the cheating Astros. Yes, last name is like Romance.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: He played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Miami Heat, the
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: He's a forward white guy out of U C l
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: A U. Yes, that's right. A closer for the Angels,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: he used to play with the Dodgers, played with the
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Red Sox.
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: All right, center for the ah You did hundred points.
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: You didn't get Wenley Jansen Jens. All right, Steve, we
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: have Manchester by the seed. These athletes are off from
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: Matt to choose. It's are you ready, Steve?
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I'm ready?
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: All right, forty five seconds. Let's begin.
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: Famous professional wrestler in movies, not the Rock. You can't
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: see him? No, all right, a professional wrestler. He's in movies,
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: but not the Rock. Yes, all right. This guy is
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: Terry Bradshaw's partner on the NFL on Fox. He was
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: a defensive end for the Raiders. Yes, this guy was
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: part of the Killer Bees in Houston. Not Craig Beegie
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: the other guy. Well say that the whole name. Yes,
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: this guy was a He led the Seahawks to the
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: Super Bowl in two thousand and five with yes, yes,
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: good job. This guy was a white guy on the
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: Bad Boy Piston?
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Was that? Loreen?
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: I think it's funny. All right, we go next quickly, John,
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: what do you want? You want? Oceans eleven or two?
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Order cigarettes? John? All right? These athletes were all known
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: to smoke. Forty five seconds were on our Way Center
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: for the nineteen eighties Lakers. He played for the Sacramento Kings.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: He's got a beard. Was the GM of the Kings.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: That is correct, manager of the Pirates. He was chained smoking.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Back in the eighties when he had Barry Bonds. He
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: managed the Detroit Tigers. Ben Che did not want that
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: we won the game. Another win you congratulations John, the
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: all time win