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- 0:39Speaker 1: Well, it turns out that not all, not all NFL
- 0:43Speaker 1: games are good. We've been very lucky on Thursday night,
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- 2:12Speaker 1: We're back at it again. And our lead this hour
- 2:17Speaker 1: don't bury the lead mo Man. Our lead this hour
- 2:20Speaker 1: is from what else? That's right? The Thursday night game? Why?
- 2:26Speaker 1: Why not? What the heck?
- 2:28Speaker 3: Uh?
- 2:29Speaker 1: So we'll start with the Broncos coming in great record,
- 2:33Speaker 1: all right, Broncos great record. Win against the Eagles was nice.
- 2:37Speaker 1: Some of the other wins not that impressive. So you're like, okay,
- 2:40Speaker 1: what's going on here? Who are the real Denver Broncos?
- 2:42Speaker 1: The Raiders of Morbid franchise. The Raiders have not been relevant.
- 2:47Speaker 1: You think about the Raiders, they have not been relevant
- 2:49Speaker 1: in a generation or two at this point. Certainly a generation,
- 2:54Speaker 1: I guess a little over a generation now, the last
- 2:56Speaker 1: time the Raiders had a competitive team on the field.
- 2:58Speaker 1: So that was the setup Mile High City, the Raiders
- 3:01Speaker 1: taking their oxygen tanks to the five and eighty feet
- 3:05Speaker 1: in the sky rocky mountain air there in Denver. It
- 3:09Speaker 1: was Pete Carroll's Silver and Black versus Sean Payton's Broncos,
- 3:13Speaker 1: and it was set to be a slabberd knocker, a
- 3:16Speaker 1: true slabber knocker. Now Vegas seemingly had no chance in
- 3:20Speaker 1: this game if you look at the gambling line, you
- 3:22Speaker 1: look at the way the Broncos defense is played. He said, well,
- 3:24Speaker 1: there's no actually, no way, no way that this game
- 3:27Speaker 1: will be close. If you saw the game or not,
- 3:29Speaker 1: maybe not, I've already said it's a sninker. So but
- 3:32Speaker 1: you didn't miss anything. You did not miss anything. The
- 3:36Speaker 1: Broncos now they do stay atop the AFC West. Their
- 3:39Speaker 1: defense played very well, although I don't know how good
- 3:42Speaker 1: they are because Gino Smith sucks. They sacked Gino Smith
- 3:45Speaker 1: not once, not twice, not three times, not four times,
- 3:48Speaker 1: not five, how about six times? Gino Smith was sacked
- 3:51Speaker 1: several of those because of his incompetence as a quarterback,
- 3:54Speaker 1: Las Vegas had ten first downs. That's it. Of course,
- 3:58Speaker 1: the Broncos were just as bad. Bo Nicks did connect
- 4:03Speaker 1: with Troy Franklin for a Denver touchdown, and the Raiders
- 4:08Speaker 1: were led by Ashton Genty, the rookie from Boise State,
- 4:12Speaker 1: who did have a touchdown. That was the only highlight
- 4:16Speaker 1: for the Raiders, who had a chance to tie the game.
- 4:19Speaker 1: This would have likely ended in a tie the way
- 4:21Speaker 1: both teams were playing on offense. But Daniel Carlson, whose
- 4:26Speaker 1: dad ran WKRP in Cincinnati, Daniel Carlson, they're missing a
- 4:30Speaker 1: game tying forty eight yard field goal with under four
- 4:34Speaker 1: and a half minutes to go in the game, So
- 4:35Speaker 1: Denver they get to win. They win their seventh straight game,
- 4:40Speaker 1: seventh straight game, the longest winning streak in a decade.
- 4:44Speaker 1: That's how pathetic the Broncos have been for a long time.
- 4:48Speaker 1: And they extend their home winning streak to ten. I
- 4:51Speaker 1: know milkman Mike in Colorado and his wife very excited
- 4:54Speaker 1: about that, but the chatter is not about It's not
- 4:58Speaker 1: about the Raiders. Here. The Raiders, We'll get to them
- 5:00Speaker 1: in a second. The better story here is actually in
- 5:02Speaker 1: the Broncos. It's very bizarre that you have the record
- 5:05Speaker 1: that the Broncos have and yet you're in a situation
- 5:08Speaker 1: they're in where they just didn't look very good, I guess,
- 5:11Speaker 1: one of the worst franchises in Pro football and they
- 5:15Speaker 1: needed a miskick to avoid likely going to overtime. So
- 5:18Speaker 1: rather pathetic. So that's what everyone's happening about, and specifically
- 5:22Speaker 1: bow Knicks. What's going on with bow Knicks? What's up
- 5:26Speaker 1: with this guy? You look at what Drake May has
- 5:29Speaker 1: been able to do for the New orleand Patriots this
- 5:30Speaker 1: year in the same draft class, and I don't think
- 5:33Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy's anything to write home about. But the way
- 5:37Speaker 1: that Broncos were bragging about bow Knicks, you'd think these
- 5:41Speaker 1: are the kind of games you fill up your statuet,
- 5:43Speaker 1: and instead bow Knicks booed off the field booooooooooo for
- 5:50Speaker 1: bow Knicks as he was serenaded in the Rocky Mountains
- 5:55Speaker 1: with the booze. People very upset with the way that
- 5:59Speaker 1: the Broncos were matriculating the ball down the field ball,
- 6:02Speaker 1: Let's start with that. And here is bon Nicks, in
- 6:05Speaker 1: his own words on being booed by the hometown fans.
- 6:09Speaker 1: Take a listen, but you think about some of their
- 6:11Speaker 1: reaction to booze and that kind of thing.
- 6:14Speaker 4: Well, I've been booed before, and I'll be booed again,
- 6:17Speaker 4: so I'm not gonna be the last time. It's obviously unfortunate.
- 6:21Speaker 4: You don't want your own fans booing you, but you know.
- 6:24Speaker 1: It's part of it, all right. So that is a
- 6:27Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question thumbs
- 6:30Speaker 1: up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down, does
- 6:35Speaker 1: bon Nicks deserve the heat for his play with the
- 6:38Speaker 1: Broncos now summer, Say it's only one game. The weather
- 6:40Speaker 1: conditions were not great because it was windy and all
- 6:42Speaker 1: that stuff. So on this one, I've got Checkmate, Iron
- 6:45Speaker 1: Maiden and Masquerade Ball, and we will combine all of
- 6:50Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to make a
- 6:53Speaker 1: nice fast because I'm on one right now. So I'm
- 6:57Speaker 1: not eating anything, so I'm not gonna cook anything. I'm
- 6:59Speaker 1: not gonna bake anything. I'm just gonna fast, all right.
- 7:01Speaker 1: So Hey, to answer the question thumbs up or thumbs down,
- 7:05Speaker 1: does bow Knicks deserve the heat for the way he's
- 7:08Speaker 1: playing or played in this game anyway with the Broncos.
- 7:10Speaker 1: So it big thumbs up, big fat thumbs up, big
- 7:15Speaker 1: fat thumbs up. You're the quarterback. You're in the big chair.
- 7:18Speaker 1: As our old morning guy used to say back in
- 7:20Speaker 1: the day, you get the credit when it's good. Everyone
- 7:23Speaker 1: licks your toes when things are going well, and you
- 7:25Speaker 1: get to blame when it goes bad. And it's really bad,
- 7:28Speaker 1: bad to the bone. That's how this works. That's how
- 7:31Speaker 1: all of this works. And I get so annoyed. As
- 7:35Speaker 1: I'm not a Bronco fan. Obviously, I don't really spend
- 7:37Speaker 1: too much time thinking about the Broncos, but I see
- 7:40Speaker 1: some of the stuff that's out there. It's like the
- 7:42Speaker 1: excuse making. Already the body on the game is not
- 7:46Speaker 1: even cold, and already some of these Bronco apologies are like, wow,
- 7:49Speaker 1: the wind conditions were not particularly good. You know what
- 7:53Speaker 1: are we doing? You're telling me that bow Knicks gets
- 7:57Speaker 1: a mulligan because of the weather conditions. Like you you
- 8:00Speaker 1: played the Raiders, you played the Las Vegas rat that's
- 8:04Speaker 1: like a powder puff football team. They suck. They suck
- 8:10Speaker 1: in altitude, they suck on sea level. They just suck. Okay,
- 8:15Speaker 1: and so so what's it? Only bow can play well
- 8:19Speaker 1: in perfect conditions? Is that?
- 8:20Speaker 3: What?
- 8:21Speaker 1: You don't play the dome. There's no dome, there's no
- 8:24Speaker 1: roof over the stadium. So what's he gonna do when
- 8:28Speaker 1: it's ten degrees and you're playing a playoff game at
- 8:30Speaker 1: home in January and it's snowing. How's that gonna go?
- 8:35Speaker 1: So this was not the bow show. This was the
- 8:38Speaker 1: bow No show is what it is. Here is Bownicks
- 8:42Speaker 1: pointing out that the offense, the point total a little unbecoming.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Take a listen, you gotta do better.
- 8:49Speaker 4: At some point, ten points at gonna be enough.
- 8:50Speaker 1: We gotta score more.
- 8:51Speaker 4: We just have a tougher, resilient football team.
- 8:54Speaker 1: We five ways to win.
- 8:55Speaker 4: Usually right now, it's the defense leaning the charge. They
- 8:59Speaker 4: just continue to get the ball back. A bunch of
- 9:01Speaker 4: sacks tonight, you know, a few that were in field
- 9:04Speaker 4: goal range that knocked them out. And he'll win a
- 9:06Speaker 4: lot of games with the defense playing like that. And
- 9:08Speaker 4: then tonight we had a little spark with some special
- 9:10Speaker 4: teams plays and then you know, we just at some
- 9:13Speaker 4: point we got to start moving the football scoring points.
- 9:16Speaker 1: A couple of things. First of all, doesn't he sound
- 9:18Speaker 1: like Dan Rolofsky. You know that terrible commentator who was
- 9:21Speaker 1: a horrible NFL quarterback, dani ro Lobsky. He sounds to
- 9:23Speaker 1: me like Dani Rolobsky, just very robotic, lifeless. Bo Nicks
- 9:30Speaker 1: like he's just memorized sports cliche dot com. So what
- 9:33Speaker 1: it sounded like to me? But hey, dude, you're in
- 9:35Speaker 1: the cockpit and right now you're riding the vomit comet.
- 9:39Speaker 1: So congratulations that Broncos offense is riding the vomit comet,
- 9:42Speaker 1: a migraine inducing offense. Ten first downs against the Raiders.
- 9:47Speaker 1: The Raiders like, at least the Raiders have the excuse
- 9:49Speaker 1: when they had no offense. They said, well, we played
- 9:51Speaker 1: the Broncos. They're supposedly good. You're the Raiders. You suck, Like,
- 9:56Speaker 1: what is that? Five of fifteen? I believe I'm third down?
- 10:00Speaker 1: Terrible and bow Knicks. The numbers are bad, but they're
- 10:04Speaker 1: merely misleading. Bo Nicks had one hundred and fifty yards
- 10:06Speaker 1: passing in this game. Okay, one hundred fifty yards that's
- 10:09Speaker 1: not good. That's not good. He had forty three of
- 10:12Speaker 1: them on one big pass play, So that means I
- 10:15Speaker 1: did the math on this The other twenty seven pass
- 10:18Speaker 1: attempts for bow Knicks, he averaged less than four yards
- 10:22Speaker 1: per pass. Three point nine yards per pass. Oh my god. Now,
- 10:26Speaker 1: in chess they say checkmate, right, you've heard that in chess?
- 10:30Speaker 1: Checkmate bow Knicks. When he's playing quarterback for the Broncos,
- 10:33Speaker 1: he says, check down is what he says. There Several
- 10:38Speaker 1: times I lost count he completed passes on third down
- 10:42Speaker 1: throws that were short of the sticks, Like, why not
- 10:46Speaker 1: just throw the ball into the upper deck? Why even
- 10:48Speaker 1: bother throwing if you're gonna throw it, And he's clearly
- 10:51Speaker 1: in an area where the receiver's not gonna get yards
- 10:55Speaker 1: after the catch, he has to go back to catch
- 10:57Speaker 1: the ball, allowing the defense to get the position to
- 11:00Speaker 1: make a stop there. And he did that multiple times
- 11:04Speaker 1: in this particular game, which is one of the most
- 11:06Speaker 1: maddening things to do. If you watch football and it's
- 11:09Speaker 1: third down and the quarterback the numbers look good, he
- 11:12Speaker 1: completed the pass. Now his numbers in this game were
- 11:13Speaker 1: not good at all, but he completed the pass and
- 11:15Speaker 1: it's just short of the line to gain. You can't
- 11:18Speaker 1: run an NFL offense that way? And how bad? How
- 11:22Speaker 1: bad are things well, following this el Stinko performance, the
- 11:26Speaker 1: updated numbers, Bow doesn't look very good quarterback of the Broncos.
- 11:31Speaker 1: The updated numbers, his passer rating now is lower than
- 11:35Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. Now, why do we bring that name up?
- 11:39Speaker 1: Kyler Murray was benched, he was demoted by the Cardinals,
- 11:44Speaker 1: and the Broncos quarterback is statistically worse. And the eyeball
- 11:48Speaker 1: test even are blind listeners who don't have functioning eyeballs, even,
- 11:52Speaker 1: they would tell you he sucks. And so Kyler got
- 11:55Speaker 1: benched and bo he deserves the like. Again, you're either
- 11:58Speaker 1: part of the solution or you're part of the proper
- 12:00Speaker 1: right now, on that offense, he is the latter. And
- 12:02Speaker 1: if Russell Wilson, you know, Russell somewhere poured one out
- 12:06Speaker 1: to celebrate the fact that Broncos offense looks so bad
- 12:09Speaker 1: even though Denver won. He has a grudge against Sean Payton.
- 12:12Speaker 1: But if Russell Wilson were here to comment about the
- 12:15Speaker 1: Denver offense, he'd say, Bronco Country, let's sigh, because you sigh,
- 12:22Speaker 1: You sigh. When you watch the Broncos on offense, You're like, Wow,
- 12:25Speaker 1: that's not gonna do anything, all right, now, continuing the
- 12:27Speaker 1: theme of the hour. So the question now is what
- 12:30Speaker 1: intrigues you the most from the wide angle lens wide
- 12:34Speaker 1: angle lens, what intrigues you the most about Sean Payton's Broncos,
- 12:38Speaker 1: who at this moment I just slayed bo Nicks. They
- 12:42Speaker 1: are the top team in the NFL. The Denver Broncos
- 12:47Speaker 1: are in the catbird seat in the entire NFL. They're
- 12:51Speaker 1: eight and two. They're eight and two, all right. So
- 12:55Speaker 1: this run by the Broncos ten games into the season,
- 12:59Speaker 1: it's like that iron Maiden lyric living on a razor's edge.
- 13:04Speaker 1: That is the way the Broncos are doing it. You
- 13:06Speaker 1: watch them play. I'm seeing them play a few times.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Played against the Eagles, saw that a while back, and
- 13:11Speaker 1: the game against the Colts where their special teams screwed
- 13:14Speaker 1: it up. But the Broncos are bipolar, right, They're allergic
- 13:20Speaker 1: to style points. Denver had more penalties than first downs,
- 13:24Speaker 1: just like the Raiders did. But it's when the Raiders
- 13:27Speaker 1: do it, it's like, well, the Raiders, they're bad. That's
- 13:29Speaker 1: what bad teams do. But the Broncos are supposed to
- 13:31Speaker 1: be good. They had eleven flags, ten first downs, seven
- 13:35Speaker 1: three and outs on thirteen drives, more than half of
- 13:38Speaker 1: the Broncos drives three and out. It's just not it's
- 13:42Speaker 1: not a championship level football. But yet they have the record.
- 13:45Speaker 1: So it's mind boggling. And here in an island game
- 13:50Speaker 1: where everyone's watching, the world's checking out, and the Broncos
- 13:53Speaker 1: look like the most fraudulent eight and two team we've
- 13:56Speaker 1: seen in the NFL in years. They just don't pass
- 13:59Speaker 1: the test there. And you watch them and you go,
- 14:02Speaker 1: how the hell are they winning these games? Like I
- 14:05Speaker 1: get that they have a good defense, My god, And
- 14:08Speaker 1: so to use a horse racing analogy, that the Broncos
- 14:10Speaker 1: are winning these games even though they're not played in
- 14:12Speaker 1: terrible weather most of them, it's like they're in a swamp.
- 14:16Speaker 1: And if you know anything about racing and horse racing
- 14:19Speaker 1: and all, the Broncos thing is kind of a false nickname.
- 14:22Speaker 1: They're really the mutters. The Broncos are the mutters this year,
- 14:25Speaker 1: a bunch of race horses slogging through the slop of
- 14:29Speaker 1: their terrible offense and somehow finishing ahead of everyone else
- 14:33Speaker 1: in the race. So they're the Denver Mutters, not the Malors.
- 14:36Speaker 1: The mutters, old school, ugly football. Now, I'm not gonna
- 14:40Speaker 1: say in trash. Obviously defense is legit. I don't even
- 14:42Speaker 1: think negative to say about the defense. They're the real
- 14:45Speaker 1: deal and all that. The rest of the team, a
- 14:48Speaker 1: lot of divine intervention is needed, and it is ugly
- 14:53Speaker 1: with the capitol you ugly in fact, you look at
- 14:56Speaker 1: just the way they're playing undisciplined football. I crunch the
- 15:00Speaker 1: numbers and I say, the Broncos, there's only two teams
- 15:03Speaker 1: or the mutters. There's Chicago Bears and Jacksonville to commit
- 15:07Speaker 1: more penalties per game than the Denver football team. So
- 15:11Speaker 1: let's send a text message over to Sean Payton, and
- 15:14Speaker 1: right now we'll let Sean know. Sean, you're either coaching
- 15:17Speaker 1: the team this way to be undisciplined or you're allowing it.
- 15:21Speaker 1: Either way, it's on you. You're the big money coach,
- 15:23Speaker 1: you're the highest paid coach in the NFL by most accounts.
- 15:26Speaker 1: You're the guy that wanted this whole thing. You handpicked
- 15:29Speaker 1: most of the roster, and somehow the Broncos are winning
- 15:33Speaker 1: a knife fight and they have a butter knife, but
- 15:36Speaker 1: they're winning. You shouldn't win a butter You shouldn't win
- 15:39Speaker 1: a knife fight with a butter knife. There's not a
- 15:41Speaker 1: lot of rhythm, not a lot of flow. They're not
- 15:44Speaker 1: very graceful. They're not like a gazelle running across the serengetti.
- 15:49Speaker 1: There's none of that. And yet here we are, here
- 15:54Speaker 1: we are. Somehow they end up with another wins. Not sustainable.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Can't keep living on the razor's edge without getting cut.
- 16:01Speaker 1: So but the the Muters are eight and two, and
- 16:05Speaker 1: is that false advertising shirt because they don't they don't
- 16:08Speaker 1: have the vibe of an eight and two team. But
- 16:10Speaker 1: they're laughing all the way to the very top of
- 16:12Speaker 1: NFL Mountain. For now in the standings, our last word
- 16:16Speaker 1: to the losing locker room the Raiders. Oh yeah, all right?
- 16:21Speaker 1: So question is this a step in the right direction
- 16:24Speaker 1: or a step in the wrong direction? As the Raiders
- 16:27Speaker 1: had a shot to tie the game in the fourth
- 16:29Speaker 1: quarter against what is the NFL's top team. So what's
- 16:32Speaker 1: the temperature? Here's the question, what's the temperature in the
- 16:35Speaker 1: room for Pete Carroll and the Raiders, the NFL's oldest coach,
- 16:42Speaker 1: the NFL's oldest coast Well, here is before I answer
- 16:45Speaker 1: that question, here's Pete Carroll giving his state of the
- 16:49Speaker 1: Raider address. Take a listen. There's so many things we
- 16:52Speaker 1: can get better at it.
- 16:53Speaker 4: But the fighters in this dog now, I ain't no
- 16:56Speaker 4: doubt about it, and so I believe I couldn't.
- 16:59Speaker 1: Wait to tell them how proud I was the way
- 17:01Speaker 1: they competed.
- 17:02Speaker 4: And so we all know in this room we don't
- 17:05Speaker 4: do something, and so it's just a matter of time.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Congratulations Raider fans. You get a nice little sticker there,
- 17:13Speaker 1: participation ribbon as well. Good job, good loss, good loss
- 17:16Speaker 1: by the Raiders. So the temperature for Pete Carroll is
- 17:18Speaker 1: boiling hot, boiling hot. The silver and black. If you
- 17:21Speaker 1: look at the thermometer, it just shattered. It just shattered
- 17:25Speaker 1: here with zigzag lightning overhead. This was your shot, this
- 17:29Speaker 1: was your chance. Le Broncos offense wanted to give you
- 17:32Speaker 1: the game, and Gino Smith says, I don't want the game.
- 17:35Speaker 1: I don't need the game. I know Halloween, Gino's like,
- 17:37Speaker 1: I know, Halloween was just a few days ago. But
- 17:40Speaker 1: you know what I'm proving even after Halloween that on
- 17:44Speaker 1: a weekly basis, I visit the Masquerade Ball. And there
- 17:48Speaker 1: was Gino at the Masquerade Ball and back up being
- 17:52Speaker 1: propped up as a starter. He's got the mask on
- 17:54Speaker 1: like he's a starter. And they should write a book
- 17:58Speaker 1: about how Geno Smith, who everyone knew sucked with the
- 18:01Speaker 1: Jets when he first came in, couldn't play, and how
- 18:04Speaker 1: this guy was able to hornswoggle Seattle. I kind of
- 18:07Speaker 1: understand the Seattle thing, because they needed somebody and they
- 18:10Speaker 1: got rid of Russell Wilson and he happened to be there,
- 18:13Speaker 1: so like, we'll throw this stiff out, and he proved
- 18:16Speaker 1: to be a stiff, and so he I just laughed
- 18:18Speaker 1: because I remember conversations with like No Stradinis and some
- 18:22Speaker 1: of the guys who are Seattle Seahawk lapdogs. They're like, oh, no,
- 18:25Speaker 1: Gino's good. Yeah, no, he was never good. Number one
- 18:30Speaker 1: and number two. The fact that Gino not only convinced
- 18:33Speaker 1: Seattle to gain, but now the Raiders and he's the
- 18:36Speaker 1: NFL's thirtieth rank quarterback. Now, remember the narrative was when
- 18:40Speaker 1: the Raiders went out and got Geno Smith. The narrative
- 18:43Speaker 1: as well, okay, upgrade, upgrade. The numbers are like, okay,
- 18:49Speaker 1: he's gonna be at least average. So he's the thirty
- 18:52Speaker 1: the rank quarterback in the NFL. He's an upgrade unless
- 18:56Speaker 1: he's not. So I went back and I looked Aidan O'Connell,
- 18:58Speaker 1: who played a lot at the end. They kind of
- 19:00Speaker 1: took over mid season or early part of the season
- 19:02Speaker 1: and played most.
- 19:03Speaker 5: Of the year.
- 19:03Speaker 1: Aid O'Connell last year was the twenty sixth ranked quarterback
- 19:06Speaker 1: in the NFL. So the Raiders went out they signed it.
- 19:11Speaker 1: As Pete Carroll said, you know, they got some dogs
- 19:13Speaker 1: in there. They got dogs with fleas. So they signed
- 19:15Speaker 1: this guy who's a dog with fleas, gave him a
- 19:18Speaker 1: big contract, and are worse off than they were if
- 19:21Speaker 1: they just kept Aidan O'Connell around and throwing him out there.
- 19:25Speaker 1: And the way Gino plays that plotting style and just
- 19:29Speaker 1: running in sand the Raiders' offense there. Other than that,
- 19:32Speaker 1: they're fine. Okay, I just want the record. They're fine
- 19:34Speaker 1: other than that. And you can practically hear the trickle
- 19:37Speaker 1: down panic when Gino's playing quarterback there. The receivers are
- 19:41Speaker 1: barking the lineman or something. Well, they traded Jacoby Myers.
- 19:44Speaker 1: That's why the Raiders didn't go. Okay, if you're gonna
- 19:47Speaker 1: die on that mountain, good luck. You look at the sideline,
- 19:51Speaker 1: right you look at the sideline and they got that
- 19:54Speaker 1: that Marines thing embraced the suck, but they're not embracing
- 19:57Speaker 1: it trying to fight through it. It's like we suck
- 20:00Speaker 1: coming of age, more like coming apart. For Pete Carroll's team,
- 20:03Speaker 1: they know who they are. It's at the point now
- 20:06Speaker 1: I get to mid season where past mid season bad
- 20:08Speaker 1: teams know they're bad. They know they're bad. They're that
- 20:11Speaker 1: that that toxicity, and the Silver and Black are giving
- 20:15Speaker 1: their fans. The few hearty souls that are left that
- 20:17Speaker 1: love the Raiders like Scrooge in the Bay Area. They're
- 20:20Speaker 1: giving them mercury poisoning. Right, and Tom Brady's fingerprints are
- 20:25Speaker 1: all over this mess. We might have to call slug
- 20:28Speaker 1: in Vegas and get slugged to have an intervention. The
- 20:31Speaker 1: ownership group that the hires, the culture, all that, and
- 20:37Speaker 1: Tom Brady. No one wants to rip him in the
- 20:39Speaker 1: media because Tom Brady's a god, but boy did he
- 20:42Speaker 1: botch this man. Hired the wrong coach, hired the wrong quarterback,
- 20:46Speaker 1: just a bad roster. It's like going to a It's
- 20:49Speaker 1: like getting a Brazilian, you know, butt implant in a
- 20:53Speaker 1: third world country and you end up dying. It's just
- 20:55Speaker 1: bad now. Meanwhile, Pete Carroll's probably on the sidelines. They're
- 21:00Speaker 1: dreaming of the Early Bird Special and planning some Jim Rummy,
- 21:03Speaker 1: Like what did I do? I didn't sign up for this.
- 21:05Speaker 1: It's like you want to get away? Man? Is it depressing?
- 21:08Speaker 1: Not for me, I'm not a Raider fan.
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- 24:09Speaker 1: So we're back at it and did the full breakdown
- 24:12Speaker 1: on the Thursday night NFL game. The Broncos get to
- 24:15Speaker 1: eight and two, they don't get any style points. No
- 24:19Speaker 1: style points for you. So now our lead this hour.
- 24:23Speaker 1: We go to the Middle East. That's right, We're going
- 24:28Speaker 1: to the Middle East. Is this going to be some
- 24:30Speaker 1: kind of breakdown on a geopolitical storyline, No, absolutely not.
- 24:35Speaker 1: We don't do that. We're hanging out in the toy store.
- 24:37Speaker 1: We're not going there. We're going to the crime blotder
- 24:42Speaker 1: the police blodder. That is where former Petsberg stealer the
- 24:48Speaker 1: insert Antonio Brown pop back up on our radar. You
- 24:54Speaker 1: might remember Antonio Brown. He's been on the DL for
- 24:58Speaker 1: a while there hanging out made some headlines in Dubai.
- 25:04Speaker 1: So if you didn't see this, perhaps not. We learned
- 25:06Speaker 1: now that Antonio Brown. Yep, that Antonio Brown, the former
- 25:09Speaker 1: NFL receiver. Antonio Brown, was extradited back from Dubai to
- 25:16Speaker 1: the United States and is currently in custody facing charges
- 25:20Speaker 1: of attempted second degree murder with a deadly weapon. All
- 25:25Speaker 1: of this stemming from a shooting incident that happened outside
- 25:29Speaker 1: of a boxing event in May of this year in Miami.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Now Brown is last we heard, he's being held in
- 25:38Speaker 1: the Essex County Jail there in Jersey pending a hearing.
- 25:42Speaker 1: He'll eventually end up in Miami Dade County. So I
- 25:47Speaker 1: guess the good news is he got a free trip
- 25:49Speaker 1: back from Dubai. He didn't have to pay for it.
- 25:51Speaker 1: The taxpayers had to pay for it. Now, AB's legal
- 25:54Speaker 1: team has stayed. You think his lawyers have said he
- 25:57Speaker 1: did it, he's guilty, no comment, or he didn't do it. Yes,
- 26:02Speaker 1: there are claiming that he's going to fight the charges.
- 26:04Speaker 1: They're claiming that he's innocent and all that. So that's
- 26:07Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. So let us discuss this
- 26:10Speaker 1: story's been on the back burner because Antonio Brown, even
- 26:13Speaker 1: though he's very active on social media, Antonio Brown has
- 26:16Speaker 1: been away and some people thought he was kidding when
- 26:19Speaker 1: he was in Dubai that they thought he was making
- 26:21Speaker 1: that up. Apparently he wasn't. He was actually in Dubai.
- 26:23Speaker 1: He wasn't lying about that. So the question is this
- 26:28Speaker 1: just how much legal trouble is Antonio Brown facing at
- 26:34Speaker 1: this we assume will be a trial upcomings normally the
- 26:38Speaker 1: way these things work, So again, is how much legal
- 26:41Speaker 1: troubles former Steelers receiver Antonio Brown in as we inch
- 26:46Speaker 1: closer to an eventual trial. So my observations on this,
- 26:50Speaker 1: I've got helter skelter, love, child, and snow globe, and
- 26:55Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
- 27:00Speaker 1: are going to swim through some muddy waters because Antonio
- 27:05Speaker 1: Brown is swimming through some muddy waters right now. Every man, woman,
- 27:09Speaker 1: and child can agree with that. So number number So
- 27:19Speaker 1: let's just say the obvious. I think we all know this.
- 27:21Speaker 1: This is not stealing some milk duds from the movie
- 27:24Speaker 1: theater stack Bar. This is not that. This is a
- 27:27Speaker 1: big deal. It's a big effing deal. Attempted second degree
- 27:32Speaker 1: murder with a deadly weapon. Now, that is up to
- 27:38Speaker 1: up to fifteen years, all expenses paid, all inclusive at
- 27:43Speaker 1: the Gray Bar Resort Hotel in Florida. Now keep in
- 27:46Speaker 1: mind that up to the greatest weasel term of all time.
- 27:52Speaker 1: Once you are told about the powers of up to
- 27:56Speaker 1: you'll never forget it. Everything you look at on your phone,
- 27:59Speaker 1: every advice you're on, every time you go to a
- 28:01Speaker 1: brick and mortar store and you look at advertising and
- 28:04Speaker 1: they say up to forty percent of up to seventy percent.
- 28:10Speaker 1: Of course, most of the time you're not getting any
- 28:12Speaker 1: kind of a discount. The human mind, though, sees up
- 28:15Speaker 1: too and just assumes, well, that means, okay, that's the deal.
- 28:17Speaker 1: So rarely, what I'm trying to say is, rarely do
- 28:19Speaker 1: people get sentenced to the maximum time. You got to
- 28:23Speaker 1: read one bad ombre to get the maximum time. Now, regardless,
- 28:27Speaker 1: you can't exactly shrug this off either, they've got surveillance video.
- 28:32Speaker 1: Obviously a lot of witnesses it was a big crowd
- 28:34Speaker 1: here the whole nine yards. So from the police report,
- 28:38Speaker 1: which is a version of the truth, not always the
- 28:40Speaker 1: entire truth. And Tonio Brown did not here's the amazing
- 28:44Speaker 1: part of this for those that haven't met in an it.
- 28:46Speaker 1: And Tonio Brown did not fire a single gunshot. Yet
- 28:50Speaker 1: he's on a second degree murder charge in Miami. Well,
- 28:54Speaker 1: how could that possibly be, Well, it's the law. It's
- 28:58Speaker 1: the law in Miami. And he I guess you could
- 29:02Speaker 1: say it's helter skelter if you're old enough to know
- 29:04Speaker 1: the legend of Charles Manson. We broadcast from la and
- 29:09Speaker 1: Charles Manson a legend. I guess, of course he was
- 29:13Speaker 1: in for the murder. Manson never actually killed anyone. Charles
- 29:17Speaker 1: Manson just brainwashed other people, a lot of women, to
- 29:21Speaker 1: go do the dirty deed. And so that's the thing
- 29:25Speaker 1: with Antonio Brown is it's the same concept as I
- 29:27Speaker 1: understand the surveillance video that shows Antonio Brown arguing with
- 29:32Speaker 1: the victim. The guy was twenty nine years old. I
- 29:35Speaker 1: don't know if he's thirty now. He's twenty nine at
- 29:36Speaker 1: a time. This is in the parking lot outside of
- 29:39Speaker 1: a boxing venue in Miami, and The altercation began because
- 29:44Speaker 1: Antonio Brown accused the guy of stealing a chain. Now
- 29:48Speaker 1: not his chain, as I understand, I believe it was
- 29:50Speaker 1: a chain of one of his friends, one of the
- 29:52Speaker 1: people that were in the posse with Antonio Brown. So
- 29:56Speaker 1: Brown and his group confronted the guy and say, hey,
- 29:59Speaker 1: give me chain. I want the chain, and he said no.
- 30:03Speaker 1: The guy said no, and they went back and forth.
- 30:05Speaker 1: And the allegation is that Antonio Brown essentially said release
- 30:10Speaker 1: the kraken, and he is alleged to have gone brave
- 30:13Speaker 1: heart and pointed towards the victim and said words to
- 30:17Speaker 1: the effect of handle this or get him to a
- 30:20Speaker 1: group of goons that were around him, and one of
- 30:25Speaker 1: the associates of Antonio Brown is according to the story
- 30:28Speaker 1: as I understand it, then said okay. Well, Antonio Brown
- 30:31Speaker 1: said handle this, get him, Okay, I'll pull out my handgun.
- 30:34Speaker 1: Bang bang, yeah, fired a couple of shots, struck the
- 30:38Speaker 1: victim in the leg, grazing the head. Otherwise, Antonio Brown,
- 30:43Speaker 1: if that bullet goes a little bit further to the
- 30:44Speaker 1: other direction, Antonio Brown's on a murder charge instead. It's
- 30:48Speaker 1: it's not that although it's attempted murder. Since ab didn't
- 30:52Speaker 1: fire a single shot. A lot of people said, well,
- 30:55Speaker 1: he's he should be okay. In fact, I even thought, well, okay,
- 30:58Speaker 1: he didn't. He's not one that pulled the trigger. It
- 31:02Speaker 1: wasn't his gun. Yet you look at it, and the
- 31:06Speaker 1: legal beagles there in Miami tell me not so fast,
- 31:09Speaker 1: my friends. So from what I've read, Antonio Brown is
- 31:13Speaker 1: still cooked. He's cooked. He's charged, as we mentioned, with
- 31:17Speaker 1: a tempted second degree murder with a deadly weapon. If
- 31:20Speaker 1: you look at the Florida law in the Sunshine State,
- 31:25Speaker 1: he was charged with Florida's principal theory. We have a
- 31:29Speaker 1: lot of lawyers. There are like a lot of former lawyers.
- 31:31Speaker 1: One of my favorite memories on this show was when
- 31:35Speaker 1: the Robert Kraft story was going on and he visited
- 31:39Speaker 1: the Robin Tug massage parlor there in Florida, and there
- 31:43Speaker 1: was this debate would he be able to get out
- 31:45Speaker 1: of it? And we this guy called up, He's an
- 31:47Speaker 1: older gentleman, he'd been a lawyer, and he called up
- 31:50Speaker 1: and he told us the legal loophole that Robert Kraft
- 31:57Speaker 1: would use to get out of trouble. And it was
- 32:00Speaker 1: the fruit of the poisonous tree if I remember correctly
- 32:03Speaker 1: and laid it all out and I was like okay,
- 32:06Speaker 1: and then that became the thing that Robert Kraft you. So,
- 32:09Speaker 1: I know there's some lawyers listening that will help us
- 32:10Speaker 1: out on this, because I'm just an amateur lawyer practicing
- 32:13Speaker 1: on the radio. The law. It means he didn't pull
- 32:19Speaker 1: the trigger Antonio Brown himself. The prosecutors are going to
- 32:23Speaker 1: allege that he orchestrated the shooting though, that he was
- 32:26Speaker 1: the mastermind, like Antonio Brown could be the mastermind of anything. Now,
- 32:30Speaker 1: it's more likely than not that Antonio Brown's lawyers will
- 32:33Speaker 1: try to work out some kind of plea deal to
- 32:35Speaker 1: a lesser charge because it's all on video, and so
- 32:37Speaker 1: they're going to try to go down that direction, a
- 32:40Speaker 1: plea to a lesser charge, say aggravated assault or accessory
- 32:45Speaker 1: or something along those lines, that would keep him depending
- 32:49Speaker 1: on how they approach it, they could keep him out
- 32:51Speaker 1: of the big house, out of the Gray Bar hotel.
- 32:54Speaker 1: And man, though, if this goes to trial and you're
- 32:58Speaker 1: going to be dependent on a jury of your peers,
- 33:01Speaker 1: what would a jury of Antonio Antonio Brown's like a
- 33:05Speaker 1: space cadet. What would a jury of his peers be.
- 33:07Speaker 1: Would we have to get Martians from other planets to
- 33:09Speaker 1: come in anyway? It would be playing Russian Roulette with
- 33:13Speaker 1: the Florida justice system. So good luck on that now.
- 33:15Speaker 1: Generally speaking, also prosecutors, this is my experience following some
- 33:20Speaker 1: of these high profile sports cases. Prosecutors as a rule
- 33:23Speaker 1: don't like to make deals with people who go on
- 33:25Speaker 1: the lamb to Dubai for four months. I'm just saying,
- 33:30Speaker 1: I'm just saying, all right now. Pace two, continuing the theme, So,
- 33:35Speaker 1: how would you describe ab Antonio Brown? AB's life in
- 33:41Speaker 1: the spotlight? He has been a public figure for a
- 33:44Speaker 1: number of years, hasn't played football in a long time,
- 33:47Speaker 1: but he's still a public figure. He was a public
- 33:49Speaker 1: figure very with the fur coats and all the nonsense
- 33:51Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh when he first came out on the scene.
- 33:54Speaker 1: So how would I describe Antonio Brown's life in the spotlight?
- 33:58Speaker 1: You could write a ten part docu series for Netflix
- 34:02Speaker 1: and you would still leave amazing stories on the cutting
- 34:07Speaker 1: room floor. That's how whack a doodle this is. It's cartoonish,
- 34:12Speaker 1: it's looney tunes. It's like mixing together into a big pot,
- 34:17Speaker 1: Daffy Duck and pepe Le Pew and the Tasmanian Devil
- 34:22Speaker 1: and you throw some cte in there and da da.
- 34:25Speaker 1: Now every year, every year it's a new episode from
- 34:28Speaker 1: mister Big Chess to mister Hot Air Balloon. That's one
- 34:32Speaker 1: of my favorite stories. The Blonde Mustache Chronicles of Antonio Brown.
- 34:36Speaker 1: If you remember that Attack of the Frozen Feet, one
- 34:38Speaker 1: of my all time favorite stories as well. Antonio Brown
- 34:41Speaker 1: acts like if Dennis Rodman and why Lee Coyote had
- 34:46Speaker 1: a love child, it would be Antonio Brown. Like if
- 34:49Speaker 1: somehow and it's twenty twenty five, there's some weird scientists
- 34:53Speaker 1: out there Frankenstein Labs. If you could have wy Lee
- 34:56Speaker 1: Coyote and Dennis Robin have a love child, it would
- 34:59Speaker 1: be Antonio Brown. The guy once killed his own aquarium
- 35:02Speaker 1: full of piranhas and stiffed the person that installed the aquarium.
- 35:08Speaker 1: He forgot to take care of it, and they all died.
- 35:11Speaker 1: And uh, you know, of course you said, well, what
- 35:14Speaker 1: who even has piranhas anymore? But that was a few
- 35:17Speaker 1: years back. Or how about the time Antonio Brown took
- 35:20Speaker 1: a limo. This is one of the all time great
- 35:22Speaker 1: Stories's bounced around the internet for years. Antonio Brown at
- 35:25Speaker 1: one point took a limousine to a charity event. He
- 35:29Speaker 1: then made the people at the charity event uncorked every
- 35:32Speaker 1: bottle of wine. You know, was really expensive bottle of wine,
- 35:35Speaker 1: the really pricey booze that snotty rich people.
- 35:39Speaker 5: Like to drink.
- 35:40Speaker 1: And so Antonio Brown he takes a limo. They bought it.
- 35:42Speaker 1: They got a limo. He went to the charity event
- 35:45Speaker 1: they had they uncorked. He had him on cork every
- 35:47Speaker 1: bottle of wine, as I understand it, and he said, eh,
- 35:52Speaker 1: nah eh, and he walked out and he didn't pay. Yes,
- 35:58Speaker 1: that's Antonio Brown. How about the time he launched furniture
- 36:02Speaker 1: like he was on the David Letterman show back in
- 36:05Speaker 1: the day from the fourteenth floor balcony and tossed it
- 36:09Speaker 1: over the side of the fourteenth floor balcony like he
- 36:12Speaker 1: was in the Home Run derby Us. I'm almost hit
- 36:14Speaker 1: a kid. Then there was the Raider era, which is
- 36:17Speaker 1: my personal favorite for Antonio Brown. He showed up the
- 36:20Speaker 1: camp in a hot air balloon. Do you remember this.
- 36:24Speaker 1: I remember that I did a talk show when he
- 36:26Speaker 1: was there. He showed up in a hot air balloon.
- 36:28Speaker 1: We didn't even know that was possible. Remember, the Raiders
- 36:31Speaker 1: were training in northern California Wine country where they have
- 36:36Speaker 1: hot air balloons, and he somehow commandeered a hot air balloon.
- 36:40Speaker 1: The frost bitten feet is an all time great. He
- 36:43Speaker 1: couldn't practice with the Raiders because he had frostbite on
- 36:47Speaker 1: his feet, and it's just great, screaming at the gm ah,
- 36:52Speaker 1: mister big chest, so good, oh so good. And later
- 36:58Speaker 1: some people have forgotten this. So in between teams, so
- 37:01Speaker 1: he was with the Raiders. As you never played a
- 37:03Speaker 1: game with the Raiders. He had the whole helmet thing
- 37:05Speaker 1: was ridiculous. So the Saints tryouts also a great Antonio
- 37:09Speaker 1: Brown story. So they told him, listen, we just want
- 37:12Speaker 1: you to try out. We don't we don't bring an entourage,
- 37:14Speaker 1: don't bring any cameras. We want to keep this on
- 37:16Speaker 1: the down low. And so what does Antonio Brown do?
- 37:20Speaker 1: He brought both. He brought people to shoot a rap
- 37:24Speaker 1: video at the Saints facility and on the camera crew
- 37:28Speaker 1: and everything on the field, the lighting, the whole thing,
- 37:31Speaker 1: the sound people. That's that's Antonio Brown, right, and you
- 37:36Speaker 1: toss in the chef this is also right. Out of
- 37:39Speaker 1: a movie. There was a chef that Antonio Brown was
- 37:44Speaker 1: very upset with. The chef had put a fishhead in
- 37:47Speaker 1: the refrigerator or the freezer. I think it was the freezer,
- 37:51Speaker 1: and Antonio Brown got very upset, didn't want to pay
- 37:55Speaker 1: the guy. He claimed it was a threat like the
- 37:59Speaker 1: god Father movie, not realizing that the chef was going
- 38:03Speaker 1: to make some soup with the fishhead. He didn't realize
- 38:06Speaker 1: that because you know who would. And the gummy fallis
- 38:11Speaker 1: is right, the gummy Dick and Dayton's that he was
- 38:14Speaker 1: throwing at police officers. You can't make this stuff up.
- 38:17Speaker 1: And the grand finale, the grand finale for Antonio Brown
- 38:21Speaker 1: met Life stadium, Buccaneers and Jets shirt off, toss the
- 38:27Speaker 1: equipment in the crowd and do jumping Jackson the end
- 38:31Speaker 1: zone and then give the peace sign as you Sasha
- 38:34Speaker 1: your way into sports infamy as you run off the field.
- 38:39Speaker 1: There So Antonio Brown's life in the Spotlight. It's the
- 38:41Speaker 1: world's most chaotic highlight reel. You've got a lot of
- 38:45Speaker 1: circus stuff going on, the clown car, You've got police
- 38:48Speaker 1: blotter mixed in there, some really good entertainment. It is
- 38:53Speaker 1: a master class Antonio Brown masterclass in self sabotage. Now
- 38:59Speaker 1: we are all rubbernecking the Antonio Brown experience. Somehow though
- 39:04Speaker 1: you cannot look away. You cannot look away all right. Now,
- 39:07Speaker 1: final point to Jersey. We go, we go to Jersey.
- 39:11Speaker 1: After the Jets had a clear and sale this week,
- 39:15Speaker 1: they said bye bye to Sauce Gardner. They sent his
- 39:20Speaker 1: ass to Indy and Quinn Williams said, hey, go eat
- 39:24Speaker 1: some barbecue in Texas. Get the hell out of here,
- 39:26Speaker 1: like great Texas barbecue. So the big defensive tackle from
- 39:28Speaker 1: Alabama went to Dallas. The focus now turning to who's
- 39:33Speaker 1: left And I bring this up because Jets wide receiver
- 39:37Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson said this week, when asked about the turbulence
- 39:42Speaker 1: with the Jets, he said, hey, I'm paid to play football,
- 39:46Speaker 1: and the Jets front office has a vision. He said
- 39:50Speaker 1: they have a vision. And he said he doesn't get
- 39:52Speaker 1: paid to have a vision, and he has to trust them,
- 39:56Speaker 1: right question. So Garrett Wilson, wide receiver overrated on my
- 40:02Speaker 1: big board. Jets fans slabber all over them. Overrated, but
- 40:05Speaker 1: he's okay. So Garrett Wilson says that the Jets have
- 40:10Speaker 1: a vision and that he has to trust it. I
- 40:14Speaker 1: gotta trust the vision. How do you interpret this? Okay,
- 40:19Speaker 1: So this is the football version of you know, when
- 40:22Speaker 1: something bad happens and everyone doesn't know what to do,
- 40:25Speaker 1: so they say thoughts and prayers, because what else are
- 40:27Speaker 1: you gonna say? You say thoughts and prayers.
- 40:29Speaker 2: Or go.
- 40:31Speaker 1: What he really meant to say was I really hate
- 40:34Speaker 1: what's happening, but I love all of the money that
- 40:38Speaker 1: I'm getting my chape. My paycheck is so big. Do
- 40:41Speaker 1: you understand the type of house I can afford? Do
- 40:44Speaker 1: you understand the trips I can take with that money?
- 40:46Speaker 1: You think I'm gonna f that up? So it's passive
- 40:49Speaker 1: aggressive code for Garrett Wilson saying these guys are freaking nuts,
- 40:54Speaker 1: these are loons. This is some tomfoolery that is going
- 40:57Speaker 1: on with the Jets, but I can't say it. So
- 41:01Speaker 1: when you say, hey, I get paid to play football
- 41:04Speaker 1: and they have a vision and I have to trust them,
- 41:06Speaker 1: it's kind of like saying, hey, my house is on fire,
- 41:11Speaker 1: but it's okay. I trust the landlord's vision. The vision's
- 41:14Speaker 1: really good, So I trust the landlord's vision. The Ganggreen
- 41:18Speaker 1: vision is extended misery the Jets front office to explain
- 41:25Speaker 1: on it. The vision of the Jets right now in
- 41:27Speaker 1: this moment is a snow globe. The Jets are like, hey,
- 41:31Speaker 1: why don't we model it. We'll do the modeling. Like
- 41:33Speaker 1: a snow globe. You shake, well, you take a snow globe.
- 41:36Speaker 1: You shake a snowglobe, You shake it up, and you
- 41:39Speaker 1: watch the glitter fall. There's no plan the glitter falls.
- 41:42Speaker 1: Where the glutter is gonna fall. It's a snow globe.
- 41:44Speaker 1: You just keep kicking the can down the road. That's
- 41:47Speaker 1: what the Jets are doing right now.
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- 41:51Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 41:55Speaker 1: It's Mallard, how about that?
- 41:57Speaker 2: To the third degree?
- 42:00Speaker 1: This is one big Ben gets grilled all right. Cool.
- 42:05Speaker 3: Lion's quarterback Jared Goff is on pace to take more
- 42:07Speaker 3: sacks than he ever has in a season before. He
- 42:09Speaker 3: said on Wednesday that he and the offensive line can
- 42:11Speaker 3: fix it. Ben, Do you think they can or will
- 42:13Speaker 3: this be a problem for the lines down the road?
- 42:15Speaker 1: Well, what really he's saying is it's a coaching problem.
- 42:18Speaker 1: Jared Goff has been spoon fed by good coaches. He
- 42:20Speaker 1: had Sean McVay in the last couple of years, mister Johnson,
- 42:24Speaker 1: Ben Johnson the coach of the Bears now. So usually
- 42:27Speaker 1: when you're pressured, you adjust, you make quick throws, you
- 42:30Speaker 1: you neutralize the pressure. The Lions haven't done that, and
- 42:33Speaker 1: Jared Goff can't handle it. So it's a coaching issue.
- 42:35Speaker 1: It's not an offensive line issue. It's a coaching issue.
- 42:39Speaker 1: They're not running the right offense because Jared Goff's not
- 42:41Speaker 1: that good and you have to spoon feed him otherwise
- 42:45Speaker 1: he sucks.
- 42:46Speaker 3: Next, Shaquille O'Neal recently claimed that he's heard it through
- 42:49Speaker 3: the grapevine that LS was having conversations with Nick Saban.
- 42:52Speaker 5: You buying it, Ben, I'm sure they talked.
- 42:55Speaker 1: I don't think they talked about him coming to Baton
- 42:58Speaker 1: Rouge again to coach at LSU. I'm sure they had
- 43:00Speaker 1: conversations because Nick Saban's friends with everybody. He's a godfather
- 43:04Speaker 1: of college football.
- 43:04Speaker 3: Next, the Braves decided to kick the can down the
- 43:07Speaker 3: road on Chris Sale. They're exercising their option for twenty
- 43:09Speaker 3: twenty six. Salesman stellar for the Braves, but they aren't
- 43:11Speaker 3: sure if they want to sign him to another extension.
- 43:13Speaker 5: But if he continues to pitch, well, do you think
- 43:15Speaker 5: he'll get one? Or is he too old?
- 43:17Speaker 1: Now he's too old for a long term extension. He
- 43:19Speaker 1: can go year to year or get a two year deal.
- 43:21Speaker 1: But yeah, he's washed up in terms of that. That's
- 43:22Speaker 1: not gonna happen. How do we do cool?
- 43:23Speaker 5: He passes it.
- 43:24Speaker 1: That is a win. Putter on the barn, that's a win.
- 43:27Speaker 1: I won, Eloy, I won.
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- 43:40Speaker 1: Live back to where we go, Here we go, Here
- 43:42Speaker 1: we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
- 43:45Speaker 2: Knock knock, who's there? Blame week? Blame week too.
- 43:48Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Well that Steward,
- 43:52Speaker 1: Here we go big Ben's lame jokes in the week.
- 43:54Speaker 1: He's your actual jokes by actual listeners. Weed Man, are
- 43:57Speaker 1: you there? Weed Man? Hippie in my i ami a
- 44:00Speaker 1: fan favorite. Yeah, thank you, Darren, thank you for Monday.
- 44:04Speaker 1: I love you Luck all right, people have been sending
- 44:07Speaker 1: a lot of weed Man jokes. I hope you're prepared.
- 44:09Speaker 1: People are goofing on you. Are you ready, weed Man? Yeah?
- 44:13Speaker 1: I love you. Okay, Now you have a homework assignment
- 44:16Speaker 1: this weekend. Weed Man. You have to get an email address. Okay, okay,
- 44:20Speaker 1: I'll try. No, no, it takes two minutes. Anyway, here
- 44:24Speaker 1: we maybe I'll call you up. I'll walk you through it.
- 44:26Speaker 1: How about that?
- 44:29Speaker 4: Okay?
- 44:29Speaker 1: All right, all right, very good time. Now, though, for
- 44:31Speaker 1: the portion of the show where we have fun jokes jokes,
- 44:35Speaker 1: these are actual jokes. If you'd like to send jokes
- 44:36Speaker 1: in for a future episode of the show, send them
- 44:38Speaker 1: care of Benmalershow at gmail dot com. Benmalershow at gmail
- 44:42Speaker 1: dot com. Why did weed Man return the broom that
- 44:46Speaker 1: he bought? Why it didn't come with instructions? That's Eeke
- 44:51Speaker 1: in Roseville, Minnesota. What do you call weed man aggressively
- 44:57Speaker 1: pursuing a quarterback? A bum rush? That's Kurt from Earth
- 45:03Speaker 1: who sent that one in. What did weed Man's heart
- 45:08Speaker 1: say to weed Man? What they said, if you don't
- 45:11Speaker 1: behave yourself, you're gonna be placed under cardiac arrest is
- 45:15Speaker 1: what it said there. That's a Drew in Minnesota. Noah
- 45:19Speaker 1: and Austin sent this one in. When weed Man was little,
- 45:22Speaker 1: what did he say after he encountered his first homeless man?
- 45:27Speaker 1: What I want to be just like him when I
- 45:30Speaker 1: grow up. Oh, come on, that's not right. No, come on,
- 45:33Speaker 1: I'll care you. That's a low blow. That is a
- 45:36Speaker 1: low blow, all right. How many weed men does it
- 45:39Speaker 1: take to change a light bulb? How many it takes three?
- 45:43Speaker 1: One to hold the lighter while the other two turn
- 45:47Speaker 1: the light bulb into a pipe. That's a drew. Truly,
- 45:52Speaker 1: I think you prematurely laughed weed Man on that one.
- 45:54Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's lames jokes a week. Did you hear
- 45:56Speaker 1: that weed Man found a new job? Very exciting news?
- 45:58Speaker 2: Wow?
- 45:59Speaker 4: What?
- 46:00Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? He found it on inweed dot com as
- 46:04Speaker 1: I guess he's what you're not here. That's a Brendan,
- 46:07Speaker 1: a funny guy Brendan from Boston who sent that one in.
- 46:10Speaker 1: Did you hear weed Man hippie has been hired to
- 46:13Speaker 1: work within archaeologists? How about that big news there? Yeah,
- 46:19Speaker 1: turns out you're an expert because your life is in ruins.
- 46:22Speaker 1: So there you go. George George and Uvaldi, Texas sent
- 46:27Speaker 1: that one in. Why hasn't weed man set up an
- 46:29Speaker 1: email account. Yet we're all asking that question. Why have
- 46:31Speaker 1: you not set up an email account? Now? Well, according
- 46:35Speaker 1: to Chip and Mane, it's because he can't find E
- 46:38Speaker 1: stamps anywhere. No E stamps to send the email? All right?
- 46:44Speaker 1: Did you hear that weed Man hippie lost a bicycle
- 46:46Speaker 1: race to a barber?
- 46:48Speaker 6: Oh?
- 46:49Speaker 1: Yeah, well the barber knew a short cut and so
- 46:52Speaker 1: he just kind of it's it, Eric said George and Uvaldi, Texas,
- 46:56Speaker 1: thank you, George, looks at the school there in Uvalde.
- 46:59Speaker 1: Tom in Indiana said this one in. Did you hear
- 47:02Speaker 1: that headhunters try to recruit weed Man for a telemarketing job?
- 47:06Speaker 2: Wow?
- 47:08Speaker 1: Happy, Well apparently it fell through. According to Tom in Indiana,
- 47:11Speaker 1: it fell through due to your fake resume and your
- 47:14Speaker 1: demand to work at home with your Obama phone, So
- 47:17Speaker 1: they did not. It'll hire you, all right. Why Why
- 47:23Speaker 1: did weed Man hippie keep staring at the frozen orange?
- 47:27Speaker 1: Why the package said concentrate, so he was concentrated what
- 47:34Speaker 1: he was doing? That said George. George and Uvalde, Texas.
- 47:37Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's lame jokes league. What is weed Man's
- 47:41Speaker 1: favorite government program? What snap? It reminds him of the alligators?
- 47:48Speaker 1: All right? What is that? Was some Michael leprechaun. What
- 47:51Speaker 1: is weed Man's favorite body part? What a bum? Come on?
- 47:56Speaker 1: That's easy man? That's a mic again? What is it's big?
- 48:00Speaker 1: He Ben's lame jokes? These are actual jokes by actual
- 48:02Speaker 1: listeners like yourself, who sent them in care of Benmaler
- 48:04Speaker 1: Show at gmail dot com. Benmaller Show at gmail dot com.
- 48:07Speaker 1: What is the difference between weed Man and Blind Scott?
- 48:11Speaker 1: What everyone likes weed Man? That's a Noah in Austin.
- 48:17Speaker 1: That's not that's not nice. What is weed Man's permanent address? What?
- 48:22Speaker 1: What it's sesame and Broadway, New York, New York, right
- 48:26Speaker 1: next door to Oscar the Grouch. That's Drue true in Minnesota,
- 48:32Speaker 1: weed Man, have you heard that your doctor is reaching
- 48:36Speaker 1: out to you?
- 48:37Speaker 6: No?
- 48:38Speaker 1: Wow? Yeah, yeah, he needs to examine, He needs to
- 48:41Speaker 1: explain that you have vagrancy. He said you have vagrancy.
- 48:46Speaker 1: That's a Drew Trew in Minnesota. You got any Jokescoop?
- 48:50Speaker 3: No?
- 48:50Speaker 1: All right, now, Coops out of the show. Did you
- 48:52Speaker 1: hear weed Man was called for jury duty for the
- 48:56Speaker 1: Antonio Brown case?
- 48:58Speaker 3: Wow?
- 48:58Speaker 2: Now you hear that?
- 49:00Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Apparently, after further investigation, the district attorney determined
- 49:04Speaker 1: that weed Man was born deceptive and ripped off more
- 49:08Speaker 1: people than Antonio Brown. No drury duty. That's all right,
- 49:14Speaker 1: very nice. See what else we have? How good is
- 49:17Speaker 1: the tire rack lunch room? How good? It's a Michelin
- 49:22Speaker 1: Star restaurant. That's how good it is. That's how good
- 49:25Speaker 1: it is? A last one? What is Marcel's favorite childhood toy?
- 49:29Speaker 1: Marcel and Brooklyn? It is a building Blocks, Building Blocks reda.
- 49:33Speaker 1: Thank you. That's Mike again, thank you, There he goes.
- 49:36Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 49:39Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 49:42Speaker 5: Thank you, Marcel.
- 49:43Speaker 3: All right, there's a lot this weekend as far as
- 49:46Speaker 3: entertainment goes that I want to point out. And we're
- 49:48Speaker 3: going to start in the theaters as always, and this
- 49:50Speaker 3: is gonna be it's gonna be a tough one, I mean,
- 49:53Speaker 3: an exciting one for me. Two of my favorite actresses
- 49:57Speaker 3: have new movies this weekend, both Jennifer Lawrence and Sidney Sweeney.
- 50:03Speaker 1: Yes, interesting, back to back.
- 50:07Speaker 5: I might I might have to do that. Which one
- 50:09Speaker 5: will I go to first?
- 50:10Speaker 1: Though?
- 50:10Speaker 5: That's the question.
- 50:11Speaker 1: I think. I think Jennifer Lawrence because she's been on
- 50:15Speaker 1: longer you know. Yeah, she had been on your radar
- 50:17Speaker 1: longer than Sidney Sweeney.
- 50:18Speaker 3: That's true, and Sidney Sweeney, this isn't exactly a role
- 50:21Speaker 3: where she's a.
- 50:23Speaker 5: Hot exactly. The goodies well should be more than about her.
- 50:30Speaker 3: No, No, you're right, this is not her acting your capabilities.
- 50:33Speaker 3: Lorena is right. This may be her best role as
- 50:36Speaker 3: far as acting goes.
- 50:37Speaker 5: We'll see. H She is coming out, and they.
- 50:39Speaker 1: Don't put ugly people in movies coming out.
- 50:42Speaker 3: She's coming out in the movie Christy, where she will
- 50:46Speaker 3: play the Hall of Fame boxer Christy Martin.
- 50:50Speaker 5: And yeah, this one's got pretty good.
- 50:53Speaker 1: This is Christie Martin.
- 50:54Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty good reviews so far in theaters.
- 50:58Speaker 3: And then back to Jennifer for Lawrence, she will be
- 51:01Speaker 3: in a movie called Die My Love and it is
- 51:05Speaker 3: a uncompromising portrait of a woman in gulf by love
- 51:09Speaker 3: and madness. And her co star in this will be
- 51:12Speaker 3: Robert Pattinson and the early reviews from critics are saying
- 51:16Speaker 3: this is a tour de forced performance from Jennifer Lawrence.
- 51:20Speaker 3: So yeah, maybe a potential potential Oscar nod here for
- 51:23Speaker 3: this one. Yes, Nick Nolty and Sissy Spasic also star
- 51:27Speaker 3: in this movie.
- 51:29Speaker 5: That's still around.
- 51:30Speaker 1: Yes, good for them.
- 51:31Speaker 3: And then, last, but not least, I have to mention
- 51:34Speaker 3: this even though I have zero interest at all, but
- 51:35Speaker 3: I know a lot of people will. Predator bad Lands
- 51:39Speaker 3: is in theater. It's it's the latest Predator movie. You know,
- 51:44Speaker 3: Alien versus Predator, that kind of thing.
- 51:46Speaker 1: I think you guess how many I've seen of those movies.
- 51:48Speaker 5: Zero?
- 51:49Speaker 1: You're right, you win? Can you guys me me too?
- 51:51Speaker 3: I mean, I've seen all the Alien movies, but I
- 51:53Speaker 3: have except for Alien Versus Predator, I've not seen any
- 51:56Speaker 3: Predator movies.
- 51:57Speaker 5: I just like that one scene where it comes out
- 51:59Speaker 5: of its.
- 52:00Speaker 1: To make it.
- 52:02Speaker 3: Yeah, that's Alien, not Predator. But El Fanning stars in
- 52:05Speaker 3: this one and shocking. The reason I bring it up.
- 52:09Speaker 3: It's got great reviews from the critics and even better
- 52:11Speaker 3: reviews from audiences. So it's an enjoyable film apparently, So
- 52:15Speaker 3: check that out if you're a fan. Moving over to television,
- 52:19Speaker 3: we have a couple of things I want to point out.
- 52:21Speaker 3: The first is a new movie called or limited series
- 52:27Speaker 3: called Death by Lightning. This is on Netflix. It's available
- 52:29Speaker 3: right now, and it's an interesting premise. I'm surprised they
- 52:33Speaker 3: were able to get like a whole limited series from this,
- 52:35Speaker 3: but it chronicles the assassination of President James Garfield. So yeah,
- 52:43Speaker 3: it is produced by the makers of Loss, some of
- 52:46Speaker 3: my favorite producers, so I might check it out for
- 52:47Speaker 3: that reason alone. But it's stars Nick Offerman, Matthew McFadden,
- 52:55Speaker 3: Betty Gilpin, lots lots of big names there, and so
- 52:58Speaker 3: check that out on Netflix.
- 52:59Speaker 5: It's got good reviews from critics.
- 53:02Speaker 3: Frankenstein also comes out Gamro del Toros Frankenstein.
- 53:05Speaker 1: I mentioned that late Halloween was last week.
- 53:08Speaker 3: It came out in theaters a couple of weeks ago,
- 53:10Speaker 3: but it was like a limited release. So now it's
- 53:12Speaker 3: you know, everybody can see it on Netflix. And then
- 53:16Speaker 3: last but not lease, I have to.
- 53:17Speaker 1: Ask, but here we go. This is the walk off,
- 53:20Speaker 1: This is the big hitter right here, here we go.
- 53:22Speaker 3: That's right, the highly anticipated follow up from Vince Gilligan,
- 53:27Speaker 3: the creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul Plurabis.
- 53:31Speaker 5: It premieres on That's a mouthful. I don't know, that's
- 53:35Speaker 5: a mouthful.
- 53:35Speaker 3: Plurabis, It's you know, it is a It's available right
- 53:39Speaker 3: now on Apple TV and it is a drama slash
- 53:43Speaker 3: sci fi where the most miserable person on Earth must
- 53:47Speaker 3: save the world from happiness.
- 53:48Speaker 5: That is the tagline, and.
- 53:50Speaker 1: It's oh is that right, yeah, Bill somewhere.
- 53:54Speaker 3: It stars Rhea Sehorn from Better Call Saw Fame and
- 54:00Speaker 3: uh yeah, the It's already been greenlit for a second season.
- 54:03Speaker 3: You can watch the first two episodes right now. There
- 54:05Speaker 3: will be nine episodes this season pluribus on Apple TV.
- 54:09Speaker 3: And that is Coop screw under Him