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  Speaker 1: A patriotic kind of a Monday Night. Welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: or Tuesday show here heading into the second day of December,
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  Speaker 1: still late on a Monday in the West, and our
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  Speaker 1: lead story some patty Cake fun under the darkness powered
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  Speaker 1: by moonlight there and it was the final game of
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  Speaker 1: the week thirteen card in the NFL. Jackson Dart leading
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  Speaker 1: the Giants, they drove the honey Wagon into Foxborough to
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  Speaker 1: take on Drake May and the Patriots in the Commonwealth.
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  Speaker 1: Were you watching this game? New elland a sizable favorite
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  Speaker 1: the Fox Refugees Joe Buck and Troy Aikman on ABC.
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  Speaker 1: They had the call there on television, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you were checking this game out or not.
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  Speaker 1: It really wasn't much else to watch. I can't really
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  Speaker 1: watch the NBA much during the regular season, so don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: We watched so you would not have to watch. And
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  Speaker 1: let's see what did we see. Let's say, oh, yes, right,
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  Speaker 1: Drake May living up to the hype. He passed for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns. The Patriots special teams were extra
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  Speaker 1: special good. They get a Neon Eraser Marcus Jones generic
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  Speaker 1: name but not a generic player at a ninety four
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  Speaker 1: yard putt return for a touchdown. And the Patriots kept
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  Speaker 1: the good times rolling along as they become the first
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  Speaker 1: NFL team into the eleven win club, and they beat
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  Speaker 1: up the Giants, who aren't so giant thirty three to fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Good coaching change there for the Giants. That's fixed that
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  Speaker 1: franchise right right from the beginning there. Oh and three
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  Speaker 1: now I believe with the new coach. So it was
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  Speaker 1: the tenth straight win. I'm told that's good for the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: Ten straight wins the AFC leaders the new only patri
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  Speaker 1: eleven and two on the the franchise's longest winning streak
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  Speaker 1: some since some guy named Tom Brady and some guy
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  Speaker 1: named Bill Belichick were there. That was back in twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: So Mike Rabel, who took some time off because he
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  Speaker 1: didn't get a job after the Patriots' former Patriot player
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  Speaker 1: was let go by the Tennessee Titans. He was schmoozing
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  Speaker 1: at Ohio State. Now he's in the NFL A game
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  Speaker 1: with the Patriots, and Mike Rabel has become now the
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  Speaker 1: third coach since nineteen seven. It's fifty five years to
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  Speaker 1: win ten or more games in his first season with
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  Speaker 1: a new employer. That is a good jumping off points.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question, how would you describe
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  Speaker 1: coach Mike Rabel's Patriots the performance that we saw. Patriots
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  Speaker 1: don't play a lot of these primetime games, so how
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  Speaker 1: would you describe the performance of Mike Rabel's Patriots in
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  Speaker 1: the Monday night game. So I've got us military dance
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  Speaker 1: class and nature doc entry, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we're gonna make pulled barbecue
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  Speaker 1: chicken sandwiches. We're gonna make it. They're gonna be freaking delicious,
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  Speaker 1: and you're gonna love them, and you're gonna get baked
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  Speaker 1: potato action going the whole thing, all right, So tell me, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a this was what we call a boom box game
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  Speaker 1: for the Patriots. As a boombox game, it did not
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  Speaker 1: go the way I anticipated the game would go. But
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  Speaker 1: that's why they played the games. That's why they play
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  Speaker 1: the games. There Mike Rabel turning the volume up on
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  Speaker 1: that boombox to eleven all the way up to eleven,
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  Speaker 1: smashing the base there and really sticking it to the
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  Speaker 1: giants and put putting them in the food processor and
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  Speaker 1: setting it to pure in the first half of this game,
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  Speaker 1: as it was oh v e r at halftime games
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  Speaker 1: are they pigged out on a bad opponent. That's what
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  Speaker 1: good teams do, beat bad teams convincingly. And it was
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  Speaker 1: like a midweek buffet special for the Patriots, of course,
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  Speaker 1: not midweek, the end of the week end, of the
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  Speaker 1: weekend beginning of the new week, so New England. What
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  Speaker 1: they did is they met expectations. They met expectations period
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  Speaker 1: full stop. They were supposed to win by a lot.
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  Speaker 1: They won by a lot. And this was a team
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  Speaker 1: that was a heavy favorite the Patriots coming into this game.
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  Speaker 1: The kind of a game that if you look at
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  Speaker 1: it on a tablet. He said, well, this was actually
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  Speaker 1: a classic trap spot. And if you watched Benny Versus
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  Speaker 1: the Penny on YouTube. We talked about it on the
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  Speaker 1: TV show. We discussed it that you had the Thanksgiving hangover,
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  Speaker 1: you had the bye week looming, the final week of
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  Speaker 1: the Buyser's upcoming for the Patriots and the Giants as
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  Speaker 1: well some other teams. But the bye week is coming
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  Speaker 1: up for them, so they're going to be in can
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  Speaker 1: Coon on vacation. And then you've also got, in addition
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  Speaker 1: to that, a makeship offensive line, make shift offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of starters gone from the Patriots offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: and the offensive line they tossed out there looked like
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  Speaker 1: it was something that was built from akia Ikia and
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  Speaker 1: it was not built following the instruction. You just kind
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  Speaker 1: of put it together there. But none of that mattered,
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  Speaker 1: not an ounce of that matter. It didn't matter in
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  Speaker 1: this game. Mike Rabel squad comes in here and with
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  Speaker 1: a level headed approach, blue collar, blue collar. Again, these
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  Speaker 1: guys are all rich, but that mindset that we always
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  Speaker 1: talk about this, you know, take care of do your
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  Speaker 1: job with Belichick used to say, and then they flipped
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  Speaker 1: on the boombox again. They cranked up the volume a
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  Speaker 1: little higher and they hit the Bachmann turner overdrive. Taking
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  Speaker 1: care of business is what they did, was what they did.
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  Speaker 1: They took care of exactly what you would expect them
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  Speaker 1: to do. They did no frills, no real razzle dazzle
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  Speaker 1: other than the special teams played. But it was a
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  Speaker 1: scorched earth policy. And the first half of this game
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  Speaker 1: barbaric is the word. They were barbaric in the first
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  Speaker 1: half of the game, talking us military style, by land,
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  Speaker 1: by sea, by air, in this case, by offense, by defense,
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  Speaker 1: by special teams, all phases of the game. Body blow,
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  Speaker 1: body blow, body blow. And by the time we got
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  Speaker 1: the halftimes, thirty to seven at halftime, thirty to seven,
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  Speaker 1: thirty to seven at halftime, and there was an obese woman,
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  Speaker 1: a fat lady was singing, and right there before the
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  Speaker 1: two minute warning in the first half, she was singing.
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  Speaker 1: And there you go, turn out the last. The party
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  Speaker 1: is over. So a wood shed job by the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: in this game. They turned the giants into mulch is
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  Speaker 1: what they did. They turned them into most Now, as
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  Speaker 1: for the hardware, a lot of discussion MVPTE, MVT PTE, MVP. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford had a dud in his game. He was
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  Speaker 1: the MVP favorite coming into the weekend. Ram's lost to Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: That's embarrassing. So here's Drake May's opportunity to show the
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  Speaker 1: world that he's mister MVP MV pay. So the question
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  Speaker 1: now the morning after or the few hours after the
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  Speaker 1: game here as we're talking after that Monday night football
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  Speaker 1: win Patriots quarterback Drake May. His twenty twenty five MVP campaign, better,
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  Speaker 1: worse or the same? Drake May's MVP campaign this season,
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  Speaker 1: now thirteen weeks into the campaign, on the campaign trail,
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  Speaker 1: are things better, worse or the same? All right, So
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go first. I don't think we should overthink this.
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  Speaker 1: Drake May gave a simpotical performance on the Monday night game.
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  Speaker 1: Was great. It completed almost eighty percent of his passes,
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  Speaker 1: averaged nine yards per pass, had a couple of touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any mistakes, no turnovers, and had a solid
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  Speaker 1: stat line across the board. Very clean, polished performance by
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  Speaker 1: Drake May. NFL quarterbacking one O one one oh one.
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  Speaker 1: He was basically the vallee victorian of error free football,
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  Speaker 1: which is important. Nevertheless, I would say, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the actual meat of the matter, let's pump the brakes
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  Speaker 1: on this somehow being a climbing of the ladder situation.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it that way, and it could not
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  Speaker 1: have been why because of the opponent you played. The Giants,
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  Speaker 1: they blow they're two and ten, They benched their top
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  Speaker 1: defensive player, didn't even play the first quarter of the
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  Speaker 1: game where you jumped out to a massive lead, and
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  Speaker 1: they came in there and it's like the Giants did
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  Speaker 1: play in the Northeast and it gets cold in New
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  Speaker 1: York with there was thirty degrees at kickoff, and it
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  Speaker 1: was just kind of you wanted to sit inside. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you would be outside. They played like snowmen in
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  Speaker 1: that in that way, it was no snow, but they
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  Speaker 1: played like it. They looked like they needed to jumper
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  Speaker 1: cables the Giants and get in their stand. They got
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  Speaker 1: their doors smashed in this one. But you don't really
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  Speaker 1: win an MVP contest. You don't win points and gain ground.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at the exit polling, you don't gain
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  Speaker 1: ground by beating up the lazy Bones brigade from the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of lazy bones there. So it was really
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  Speaker 1: dance class and Drake May he did the sideway shuffle.
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  Speaker 1: Do the shuffle, now you gotta do the shovel. The
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  Speaker 1: sideway shove, not a moonwalk. You didn't moon walk forward
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  Speaker 1: and didn't do that. In the MVP race. He certainly
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  Speaker 1: did not do a pratfall that didn't happen, didn't go backwards,
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  Speaker 1: more like stay in your light. He stayed in his lane,
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  Speaker 1: put on cruise control, self driving situation, and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of waved politely at everyone who was outside and look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm driving. I'm actually not driving the cars driving itself.
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  Speaker 1: And so the malor mantra, which we have preached from
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  Speaker 1: the bully pulpit for many many years here is you
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  Speaker 1: don't get extra credit for doing what you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: Like your big favorite at home. You're supposed to win
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  Speaker 1: the game against an fear of your opponent that clearly
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  Speaker 1: has quit. That's a bunch of gutlass Giants players. So hey,
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  Speaker 1: through what you're supposed to do. They did. So the
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  Speaker 1: verdict not better for Drake May on the campaign trail,
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  Speaker 1: not worse, the same, the same, And so it was
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  Speaker 1: more of a maintenance night situation. No Heisman House moment,
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  Speaker 1: No Heisman House moment here all right now, last word
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  Speaker 1: the story that many people are freaking out about on
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  Speaker 1: the Giant side, and it's not the fact they've got
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of lazy guys that didn't really want to
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  Speaker 1: play this game after missing the previous two games. We
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  Speaker 1: were hoping for Jamis Winston. We were counting on Jameis
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  Speaker 1: Winston playing. He did not, which is disappointing because he's
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  Speaker 1: fun bad and Jackson Dart, who's not terrible. I don't
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  Speaker 1: hate Jackson Dart, but I was looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 1: Jameis Winston play. So Jackson Dart missed the previous two
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  Speaker 1: games with a concussion, and everyone and their mother yapping
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  Speaker 1: about the play. If you saw the game in the
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  Speaker 1: first half, was a bone crushing, bone crushing hit taken
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  Speaker 1: by the Giants quarterback Jackson Dart on the sidelines that
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  Speaker 1: led to a scuffle. There was a rhubarb that took
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  Speaker 1: place right there on the sidelines, and it was early
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  Speaker 1: in the game. Patriots linebacker Christian Ellis knocking Dart. His
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  Speaker 1: eyeballs went a little goofy. He hit him so hard there.
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  Speaker 1: It was right on the sidelines and knocked him, knocked
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  Speaker 1: him into the shadow realm. The hit was was vicious.
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  Speaker 1: You don't normally see that here Dart. Jackson Dart was
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  Speaker 1: actually flying like a lawn Dart, which you don't often
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  Speaker 1: see in an NFL game anymore. Since Dart was still
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  Speaker 1: in bounds, there was no penalty and no harm, no
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  Speaker 1: foul or in this case harm but no foul. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Now everyone's like, oh my god, we
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  Speaker 1: must protect Jackson Dart, we must save Jackson Dart. Well,
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  Speaker 1: here's Jackson Dart. He was asked about that. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: he had to say postgame about whether or not he's
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  Speaker 1: going to change anything.
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  Speaker 3: I understand the question, but like this is like this
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  Speaker 3: is football, Like I'm gonna get hit if I'm in
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  Speaker 3: the pocket or outside the pocket, Like it's out of
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I've played this way my whole entire life.
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  Speaker 3: There shouldn't be like any shocker at anybody. If you've
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  Speaker 3: followed along with my career and I'm we're not playing
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  Speaker 3: like we're not playing soccer out here, Like you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: get hit.
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  Speaker 1: Things happen.
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  Speaker 3: It's part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: See that I say, we're not playing soccer football. We're playing football,
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  Speaker 1: which is not football. It's football. There's a difference, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So the question on this one's rather obvious, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: address it to those of you in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the room. So where are you at on the Giants?
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart saying, hey, I'm not changing the way that
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  Speaker 1: I play, even though he got knocked silly by a
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  Speaker 1: Patriot defender. So look, I'll go first year. I'm good
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  Speaker 1: with it. I'm good with it. I'm not like these
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  Speaker 1: other guys freaking out. Everyone's trying to do a therapy
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  Speaker 1: session with Jackson Dart. I'm not enough already enough helicopter
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  Speaker 1: parenting of quarterbacks and listen, Jackson Dart essentially said, he said, relax,
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  Speaker 1: Francis is what he said. This is football. It's not
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  Speaker 1: Pilate's class. It's not there. Right across the courtyard there's
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  Speaker 1: a hot yoga place. It's not hot yoga, Okay, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's just something else. And you know what, I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's that's kind of cool. I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: Giants fan, I'm not a Jackson Dart fan. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: neutral party here. But if this guy wants to play
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  Speaker 1: like that. The Giants knew what they were getting when
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  Speaker 1: they drafted him, and he wants to play. And it's
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  Speaker 1: like he's a throwback, although he's too young to have
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  Speaker 1: been raised with NHL, NHL NFL films, those there's NFL films,
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  Speaker 1: those VHS tapes with all the hits and the fiberglass
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  Speaker 1: helmets and human meat missiles flying around the field and
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  Speaker 1: all that, And so this is who Jackson Dart apparently is.
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  Speaker 1: I like that he addressed that, like if you followed
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  Speaker 1: my career, like everyone's following Jackson Dart's career, Like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know we're all losers, but we're not that big
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  Speaker 1: of a loser where we're following your career. Dude, so
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  Speaker 1: chilled out on that. But telling Jackson Dart to avoid
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  Speaker 1: the hits is akin to asking Kyler Murray to not
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  Speaker 1: play Call of Duty. Now, the Cardinals tried to get
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  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray to not play Call of Duty. They had
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  Speaker 1: to take it out of the contract because the little
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  Speaker 1: fella loves the PlayStation, loves the place. It'd be like
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  Speaker 1: the Chief saying, hey, mahomes, can you not eat what
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  Speaker 1: a burger? He loves water burger. That's what he enjoys.
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  Speaker 1: Whataa burger? What a shot? What a burger? He's all
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  Speaker 1: about that. It's baked into the DNA. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get Jackson Dart to stop taking hits, you got
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  Speaker 1: to get Kyler Murray to stop being obsessed with video games.
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  Speaker 1: Neither one of those things is going to happen. You
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  Speaker 1: can't take the fangs out of a rattlesnake, cannot do it.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, the NFL again they celebrated this,
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  Speaker 1: so this is one of those things again. It's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: those a million years ago boomer Well, okay, maybe it was.
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  Speaker 1: But there was a time where and I remember the
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  Speaker 1: name of it. It was called Thunder and Destruction from
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  Speaker 1: NFL Films, the NFL's Hardest hits, Thunder and Destruction narrated.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a nature documentary, but gladiators of the
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  Speaker 1: Gridiron gladiators. It was great. And now all these years
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  Speaker 1: later we act like quarterback taking a hit or getting
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  Speaker 1: involved in any kind of contact is some kind of
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  Speaker 1: federal crime. There needs to be some war tribunal. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, no, that was kind of cool. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, wow, that's the NFL was like not every
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  Speaker 1: single play every single game. However, there were points where
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  Speaker 1: it happened a couple times a game. And if Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Dart wants to do some cosplay as a crash test dummy,
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  Speaker 1: then let him. He's an adult. He signed up for
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  Speaker 1: the circus. And when you sign up for the circus,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the lions actually do bite. They're not fake lions,
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  Speaker 1: they actually do bite there, and the elephants will actually
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  Speaker 1: step on you, so you might want to pay attention there.
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  Speaker 1: And you're not playing trivial pursuit, you're not. And so
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  Speaker 1: there you go. It's the hurt business. You're in the
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  Speaker 1: hurt business. You're either giving the hurt or you're getting hurt.
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  Speaker 1: And things go boom and sometimes they go come boom.
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• 19:14
  Speaker 1: this hour will circle back later on to the Monday
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Night beat down as the Patriots get another win and
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: they're sitting pretty in the catbird seat in the American
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Football Conference, the first team to eleven wins. But our
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: lead this hour is from Sin City because bad football
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: makes for good talk radio. The fallout from the flop,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the floppy mcflop that is the Raiders. So former Raiders
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: coach Antonio Pierce. Remember this guy was born to be
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: a Raider and had the whole marketing campaign and the
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: fan base fell in love with him and lasted just
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: a full season and then it was turn out the
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: last the parties over. So he did an interview this
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: week and it's about who cares what he has to say? Well,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I thought this was interesting, and I have the key
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to the microphone. So here I am, so Antonio Piers.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: It says he said, not I said he said. Antonio
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Pierce said that he doesn't think the Raiders bad mojo
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: will be solved anytime soon. So if you didn't see this,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: perhaps not. Pierce says that if the Raiders continue to
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: go the way they're going, and they've gone down that
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: path of this season, he says they might need decades
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: decades to fix this bad boy. That's a quote. They
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: might need decades to fix this bad boy, Pierce said
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: during a TV appearance at AP as his friends call him,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: talked about the one and done changes as the Raiders
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: have handed out pink slips to two of the three coordinators.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: The special teams coach got whacked, the offensive coodator was
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: molly whacked, and the offensive coordinator he's gone, as I
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: said Chip Kelly. The defensive coordinator has not been curb
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: stomped yet, but only because it's Pete Carroll's like pretty
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: much doing everything on defense. So that's where we are
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: right now, he says. Everyone is Antonio. Pierce said, everyone's
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: pointing fingers, but at some point there has to be
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: a thumb pointing back offered that before. I've heard that before.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: All right, so that is a good jumping off point.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. Former NFL head coach,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Antonio Pierce says, the Raiders may need decades, decades to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: fix because of the dysfunction in the building. Your thoughts.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: So I've got mashed potatoes, boarding pass and law of
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the Jungle, and we will combine all of these things
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make some delicious kettle corn,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: is what we're going to make. So a let's start here.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Antonio Piers did not just light a match. He lit
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: a Molotov cocktail and loved it. He loved the Molotov
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: cocktail right into the Silver and Black Circus tent. All right,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Darren Henderson at that big Raider facility there, you know what,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: No lies detected, No lies detected. This is a fresh wound.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: It's an open wound. It is not scabbed over for
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Antonio Piers. And he said, well, it's just a disgruntled
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: former employee. But is he wrong?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Is he wrong?
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah? If you look at what Pierce did, and he said,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: well he wasn't that good at coach. Okay, what about
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the fossilized Pete Carroll, good old Pete positive Pete positively
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: sucks as Raider coach. Look at the slop they've trotted
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: out on the field and Pierce. If you do a
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: side by side between Antonio Pierce and Pete Carroll Tonio
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Piers is looking more and more like a young John
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Madden reincarnated with a clipboard and a boom mic. My god.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Compared to the Raiders season this year, I saw the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Raiders in person. They're an embarrassedment. Gino Smith should not
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: even be in the NFL. He's that bad. The guy
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: just sucks. He's so terrible it's wild. And the fact
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: that Antonio Pierce did better with Gardner Minshew and Aidan
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: O'Connell last season. Now, I get that Pierce was going
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: for shock value, the shock and awe with the quote.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: But sometimes the truth is the shock, Like that's the thing, right,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: The truth is the shock. That is the thing there.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: The dysfunction junction, what's your function? That runs through the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: entire organization fun our Raiders. It runs through the organization
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: like gravy through mashed potatoes, like a mashed potato volcano
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: with gravy everywhere, and standing in the middle of it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: You know, he's standing right in the don't knee deep
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: in mashed potatoes and right there with the gravy. Human
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: traffic code. Mark Davis. Yeah, that guy, the spawn the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: next generation there, spawn of VL and my god. So
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: you know, you can always find Mark Davis at the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: PF chain's right near the Raider facility there inhaling Kung
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: pou chicken and making terrible decisions, rolling the dice and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: on the craps table. And it comes back snake eyes
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: every single time. It's snake eyes. You hire. Normally, what
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you do in business is you hire good employees and
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: get the f out of a way. Whether you're running
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: a professional sports team, you're running a radio station, a factory,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a trucking business, whatever it might be, the most important
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: part is to hire good people and then just let
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: them work. That's it, right, And if you're an NFL owner,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you just hire a good executive and a smart execut
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: of a quality head coach and get out of the way.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And what's going on now? Not in Raiderland, all right,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: not in Radlo. Mark Davis is the common denominator in
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: most of this run. Now, Al Davis was actually still
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: around at the beginning of this debacle, but he was
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: really old, good old Al. So it goes back twenty
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: three years. That's an entire generation of face plants for
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the Raider franchise, and the Raiders have become Area fifty one,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the football version. It's a mysterious barren, possibly occupied by
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: extraterrestrial and competent land out there in the Nevada desert.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And now you got pretty boy Tom Brady, Tom Brady,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the man that is the teflon dawn at the end
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: of it. I don't see anyone ripping tom Brady like
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: we're not part of the mainstream. We're on overnight. The
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: mainstream media will not go there. They will not go there.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I wonder why that is. I wonder why there's Tom
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Brady there tinkering. He is the GM by proxy of
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. And let's see he signed off on Chip Kelly.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Give chip Kelly the most money of any offensive coordinator. Check.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Let's hire Pete Carroll. Check Geno Smith the biggest crime
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of them all to not only trade for Geno Smith,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to then pay Geno Smith more money. This is a
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Vegas residency. The Raiders here of bad decisions and perform
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: nightly at the Collapse theater right on the strip there
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the Raider Nation, as it is called. They deserve better.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: They deserve better, and you don't see that the Raider charging.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: A lot of Raider fans, they're older. I don't see
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: many young Raider fans because they have been cool in
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a long time. But they're stuck in this barren wasteland,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the Raiders of rubble and minefields and abandoned trenches of
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: what used to be the Raiders decades. Twenty years, twenty years,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I mean Mike guy So and Antonio Piers, the way
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: things have gone the last couple of years of the
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Raiders things. Actually, he might be optimistic to say that
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: twenty years is all it's gonna take.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: All.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Right, Now to Minnesota we go a roster move. Did
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the Vikings actually add a quarterback that knows how to throat? No, Instead,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: they fired franchise icon Adam Feelin bye bye one day
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: after he was a healthy scratch, which is what you
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: don't want to be. He was a healthy scratch and
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the shutout loss to the Seattle football team. Adam Feelin
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: turns out he wanted to be fired. That's how bad
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the Vikings are. Franchise legend would rather go to the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: unemployment line than finish the year in the purple of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. It's crazy, absolutely crazy, and the Vikings
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: traded for this guy from Carolina. They traded some day
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: three draft picks, but who cares about that, But they
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: traded for the guy to add to the roster so
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: we could retire as a Minnesota Viking and finished the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: year on the Vikings of the Vikings are so bad
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: that this guy's like, I don't want to be here.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I gotta leave, and so they asked for the release.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: The decision was made. It ends the second and final
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: stint with the Purple People leaders for Adam Thielen, his
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: hometown team, and now he's gone there. He ranks third
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: in career touchdown catches. I'm told that's good, fourth in receptions.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I'm also told that's good, and fifth in receiving yards,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: which I also have heard is pretty good for the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Viking now, he said. In a prepared statement posted
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: on the social media which likely he had nothing to
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: do with. Adam Feelin said that he long ago decided
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: that this would be his final season and he wanted
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: to go to a new place, go compete somewhere else.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: He said, they want to go compete somewhere else. The
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: last few weeks of my career. Question, here's the question,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: what do you make of Adam Thieland asking for and
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: received the pink slip, the release from the Minnesota Vikings.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: So let's just call this what this is. Adam Thielen
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: is ring chasing. In fact, right now he's sprinting through
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the terminal B at the Minneapolis Saint Paul International Airport
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: there trying to find his boarding pass to catch a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: flight to Glorytown. He wants to go, not Glory Hole.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: That's where Jerry Jones goes. Jerry goes to Glory Hole. No, no, no,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: he wants Adam Thieling wants to go to Glorytown, which
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: is a different town. It's the next town over. Well, no,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: this is Glorytown. This is a little different here. But
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: this is not complicated. It's not the Vikings are admitting.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: He's like, we suck and there is no chance, we
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: have no future. Okay, we like you. We are going
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: to let you go. That's what this is. And he
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: saw the Viking office. The other thing about is steeling
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: came over from Carolina. He saw the Vikings offense. The
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: headless horseman, no quarterback got shut out. Now he didn't play
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: in this game, but get shutout loss there throw back
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to the leather helmet era of the NFL, and he said,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I'm out. I'm good, see you later, suckers. Let me
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: find a contender before I completely fade the black. I
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: got to get out of here. And the Vikings agree,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: They told them, he yeah, Adam, go ahead, thanks for
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the memories. Don't let the door hit you where the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Good Lord split you. And that's it, so feeling. We
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: call this the shady move. It's the Shady McCoy move.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know who that is. Lashawan
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Shady McCoy, who did a TV show at one point
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: that nobody watched. I don't know what he's doing now,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: but Shandy McCoy, a legacy Polisher tour, a last shady
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: McCoy for Adam feelin. Now, Yeah, you hop on a contender,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: You play I don't know, fifteen snaps or something like that,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: maybe less than that. You get your little ring that
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: you'll sell on an auction at Sotheby's at some point.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: There you pose with the ring on Instagram and there
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you go and you make it seem like you're Jerry
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Rice or something like that in his prime, because you
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: want the bling bling. It's all about the bling blink.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: So the Malor wheel of speculation, the malor wheel of
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: speculators never all round and round for Adam Feeling, malar
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: wheel of speculation, big money, big money. He stop. Here
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: we go, Buffalo, Here we go Buffalo, and you got
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: the terrible towels and the Carolina cats. That's it, that's
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: all Buffalo. They need receive they just added, they just
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: added a guy that can't play in Cook's brand. And
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: so say you got another one, right, And they're collecting
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: these washed up wide receivers in Buffalo and just need
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: them to be on the roster and they can run
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: around like roombus out there. And then Pittsburgh. We'll talk
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: more about this later, but Aaron Rodgers story that still
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: has legs Rogers unloading on the wide receiver room there
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and so they don't know what they're doing, and they've
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: been scolded by Aaron Rodgers for mental mistakes. So she
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: got that in Carolina. The comedy on that one writes itself.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: So they Carolina traded him. Now Minnesota's fired him, Adam Feelin,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: and they could bring him back like an Amazon return
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that says like an Amazon return. So Feeling is not
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: trying to He's not trying to save anyone season. He's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: not that good. He's just trying to get some nice
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: photos for the scrapbook and a nice trinket for the
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: retirement celebration. One last shot. This happens more in basketball
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: than football. A lot of guys in basketball have chased
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: rings and it's like, well you win, but it's not
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: quite the same deal, but you get one. It's like
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: not normal football activity. Not normal football activity. A right
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: last word to the former player land where all injured
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: now cliche Field sportscaster JJ Watt is not not buying
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: into all the chatter about NFL referees must be full time.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: They've got to be full time. That'll fix everything, everything
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: at all that's wrong in the NFL full time referece. Well,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: he said no. He said no. That he was asked
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: about that on the Socials JJ Watt and whether it's
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: a good time to revisit the full time referee argument
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: which has been going on. Watt pushed back on that.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: He pointed out that the human element is a big
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: part of this, which is a correct point. So JJ
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Watt pushing back on the full time NFL referee argument
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: fixing the issues? Does this make sense to you? So,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: after a minute long Mallard deliberation, yes, I actually think
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: JJ Watt nailed it dead center of the bullseye. For
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: JJ Watt, the idea that making refere foreze full time
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: magically fixes everything is vercocta is what it is, right,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: It's a fugazy it's nonsense, just like Baseball thinks that
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: using AI eventually will fix the umpire and well, though
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: someone's going to have to program it, someone's gonna have
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: to monitor it. There'll be some glitches and some thing
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: of a jigs and watch mccaus to go wrong. But
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: in terms of the NFL issue, making officials full time,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: it's it's unnecessary. You could totally do it. It'll make
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: people feel better, and it's all other full time this
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: is it, okay? Uh yeah uh. But the problem is
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: they're not like they're humans. They're not laptops. You can't
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: just reboot them. That's the problem there. And they're flesh
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and blood zebras is what they are. And humans, I
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: don't know if you heard about this. Humans f up,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Humans screw up. It's it's part of the human condition.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: It's the malar law of the jungle. If it can
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: be botched, okay, eventually someone will botch it. It's the
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Malard law of the jungle. And you could lock every
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: official into a film room for ten to twelve hours
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: a day, three hundred and sixty five days a year,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: no holidays off and spoiler alert, spoiler alert, they'd still
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: miss a holding penalty. They'd still screw up a defensive
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: pass interference penalty. They left that up. And here's why.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Because half half the NFL rule book is subjective versus objective,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: meaning belief versus fact. There's a lot of shades of gray,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: more than fifty shades of gray when it comes to
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the officiating. And if you're one of these, you must
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: call every penalty you want, every little tug, call the penalty.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: And I know people like this that, friends of mine,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: they're like this, fine, Okay, that's good. Everyfing game will
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: be six and a half hours. There'll be seventy four
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: penalty and one hundred and forty replays. Is that what
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: you want? You do? Okay? I hope you get it, loser,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I hope you get that. You loser because you're a loser,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: all right. You gotta let the game breathe. You gotta
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: let the game breathe, but not too much. Right, there's
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: this sweet spot, it really, it's a sweet spot. And
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: the full time crowd, the group with their torches and
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: their pitchforks. We need full time the nerdoust colony, if
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: you will, of football sikos. They want one hundred percent
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: accuracy and newslash. It's never going to happen. You're never
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: going to get one hundred percent accuracy. Not gonna happen,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: and not with humans, not even with robots. Okay, football
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: is not math. It is chaos. And it's the old
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: argument we make all time, this letter of the law
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: versus the spirit of the law. The NFL survives on
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: the spirit of the rule book, not the letter of
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the rule book. And so jj Watt again to mark
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: this full circle is correct that the fixing of the
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: reps is not a job title or full time, part
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: time situation. It is a reality problem.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 37:11
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• 37:15
  Speaker 1: It's Mallard, how about that?
• 37:17
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• 37:20
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• 37:24
  Speaker 5: After the Buccaneers ended their three game losing streak on Sunday,
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield said the team is quote very very close
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: to where they want to be on offense. Ben, do
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: you think that with Bucky Irving and Chris Godwin back
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: and playing well, that Tampa can return to being the
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: playoff beat that they seem to be early on.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Well, yes, but only because of the division that they're in.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: You need a hazmad suit in that division. Sants are horrific,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Atlanta blows, they're going to fire their coaching staff there,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: and Carolina's got some wings, but nobody takes them seriously.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Someone's going to win that division. Tampa bays in good
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: shape to win that. It's a dead man zone. So
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: by location, yes.
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: Next a few weeks ago, it seemed like the Colts
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: could run away with the AFC South. Not only have
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: the Jets taken over first place, but the Texans are
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: right on both of their heels.
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: What do you think comes out ahead in this the
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: end of the season.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Well, I love the Texans defense, and so I'm going
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I don't believe in CJ. Strapp, but I don't believe
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: in Trevor Lawrence either so uh, and certainly Daniel Jones.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I would say the top unit is the defensive unit
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: of the Texans. So if you're gonna put your money
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: on one of those teams, I would take the Houston
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Texans next.
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  Speaker 6: Dan Orlovsky set an a post on X Monday.
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  Speaker 1: We'll stop right if dan Orlovsky said something. If dan
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  Speaker 1: Orlovsky go ahead?
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  Speaker 5: Uh, he said the Miami Dolphins are a dangerous football
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  Speaker 5: team right now. Dangerous have totally transformed their offensive identity.
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  Speaker 1: Oh stop?
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  Speaker 6: Is any of that believable?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, here's how they've done that. They played the Let's
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: go the Atlanta Falcons, the Commanders, and the Saints in this.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, I don't buy it. It's nonsense. How do
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: we do? Koupolo passes?
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: I won the game?
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  Speaker 6: Jet who played?
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  Speaker 4: I love the game?
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• 39:19
  Speaker 1: in Maine who called up right away, Rob, Hello, Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: What's happening waiting on a big old snowstorm up here today?
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  Speaker 1: Benny Block. I wanted it to happen last night because
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I was hoping to watch a snow game. I didn't
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: get the snow game. I'm bummed out by that.
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  Speaker 4: We'll have a few in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry. Oh look at you, you're back. I thought
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  Speaker 1: you were a Texans fan. No, you're done with that.
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  Speaker 1: You're back on what they fighted?
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  Speaker 5: Bill?
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  Speaker 2: I jumped back on, Baby.
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  Speaker 1: I got you, all right, Rob? Who do you want
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  Speaker 1: to partner up with? Rob?
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  Speaker 2: Rob goes?
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  Speaker 1: Baby? Okay? Ok God, hold on, And we have Mike
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  Speaker 1: in Boston. What's going on? Mike? Welcome Mikey? What's up?
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  Speaker 2: Hey?
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Man? What's going on? What's going on? What
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: are you doing? Are you driving around? You're working right now?
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  Speaker 1: You what are you doing on my way to work? Oh? God?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Well, who do you want to partner up with?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: You?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? All right, Sarl Rena. You're not popular. It's the
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: only time Laran is not popular? Is this game? Right here?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Go ahead?
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  Speaker 5: Cool, all right, gentlemen, this is Malor's Mount of Money
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  Speaker 5: the Woody Allen edition. He turned ninety years old on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: That seems old to me. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: The categories are take the Money and Run midnight in Paris,
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  Speaker 5: husbands and wives, and small time Crooks and rob was
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  Speaker 5: on first. Robbis category would you.
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  Speaker 2: Like take the money and run?
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Alright?
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  Speaker 6: And then Mike, how about you?
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Small time crooks? Small time crooks? All right? Everyone, hold on,
• 40:42
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  Speaker 1: Hello, that's not money.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top.
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  Speaker 2: Probably not.
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• 41:26
  Speaker 1: who is teamed up with me. Rob in Maine waiting
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: for the Snow teamed up with Coop. Rob was on
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the air first, So you will go with Coop the
• 41:35
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that is correct, right Rob. We have take the
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: money and run.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: These athletes didn't live up to their mega contracts. We
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: need the first and last name. Forty five seconds on
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  Speaker 5: the clock.
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  Speaker 6: Are you ready, Rob, Rob?
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, all right, forty five seconds.
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: Let's begin.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 5: He's the quarterbacks for the Cleveland Browns who I loved massages.
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  Speaker 6: Yes uh.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: This guy was nicknamed the Machine in baseball. He was
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: with the Angels for like ten years and sucked for
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: most of them.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Albert Yes uh.
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: This guy was on the Orlando Magic and the Detroit Pistons.
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: His dad was in the NFL. Yes uh.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: This guy was a.
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: Quarterback for the Denver Broncos and the Chicago Bears. His
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: nickname was Smoking Yes, the rain Man from the Seattle SuperSonics.
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: Yes uh.
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: This guy was another Angel player, a third baseman from
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: the Washington Nationals. Yes, let's go, and then a quarterback.
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: He was on the Broncos, but it was the Texans
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: who gave him a big contract.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Oh didn't get it in No, Yeah, we're up. Now
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: let's show him Madge done. That was pathetic by Coop
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: and Rob. Not good at all. We'll show Madge done here.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: All right, Mike, here we go. You picked small time crooks.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: These athletes have all been caught stealing. Okay you Ready's
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: all right, Mike. Forty five seconds. We need the first
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: and last name runaway. This guy played quarterback in Florida State.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: He loved crab legs. He's now in the NFL with Yes.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: He was known as the Juice with the Buffalo Bills.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: He also liked Yes. Currently the coach of the New
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: England Patriots. Yes, known as Nails for the eighty six Mets,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: also played for the Phillies outfielder had a lot of Yes.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: He was a quarterback for the Chargers, drafted after Peyton Manning,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: one of the great busts in NFL draft teds No,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: No before that. Yes, he played basketball at Notre Dame.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: He's currently a colleague of mine here at Fox Sports Radio.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: He's a college basketball coach in Wisconsin, Green Bay. Yeah,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: there you go. Stole a right. We didn't get the
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: hundred point in all right, tired, crazy match so far?
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: All right, Rob, do you want midnight in Paris? Or
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: husbands and wives midnight?
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: Uh, these athletes all have at least some French heritage.
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Current quarterback
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: for the Lions, Jared. Yes, this guy is the best
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: player in the NBA right now. A huge guy on
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: the Spurs. Yes, this guy was nicknamed the Stifled Tower.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: He was a center on the Jazz and the Timberwolves. Yes,
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: this guy was a point guard on the Spurs. He
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: was married to an actress. Yes, this guy was on
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: the Florida Gators, then the Bulls. His dad was a
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: tennis player. Let's go. This guy was a closer for
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers eighty eight saves in a row or something
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: like that. Eric, Yes, this guy was a catcher for
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers and the Yankees. He was from Canada, though
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: French Canadian. When he hit a home money was blank
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: with muscle, so tough. Russell.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let's show o's done here again. We
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: got an opportunity, Mike. The opportunity is ours.
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: Close one, all right.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Here we go get put forty five seconds the category
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: where we have husbands and wives. Is is that break? These
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: athletes are all married to another athlete. Okay, you understand, Mike.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: We need the first and last name. Good luck, We're
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: on our way and go. Currently at the quarterback of
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, he plays football. Actually he's
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: no longer a football players on CBS. His brother plays
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. Yes, tight end for the
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: believers with the Washington Commanders. He was a star with
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. He's one of the Yes, he a
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: quarterback for notre name. He's a talk show host here
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio. Golden Domeer played with the Cleveland Browns.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Sucked in the NFL, though he's on Fox. Yes, a
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: female gymnast. I was in a documentary Rippinger. She's married
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: to a Chicago Bears tight end. Uh now a short
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: stop for the Red Sox back when they they traded
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: him when he won the World. Yes, a white guy
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: for the he played for the Knicks. First son of
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: a billionaire out of damn Uh David. We were trying
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: to get David and Simone Biles.
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Simone yeah, yeah, that's all right. Well I ripped Simone
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Biles and it made it like a Netflix documentary. I
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: had all these middle aged women yelling at me. It
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: was yeah, they were very upset with my take. I
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: did a monologue about Simone Biles getting she was depressed.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, she got like the twisties or what, and
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: I was goofing on her and then uh, they put
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: it in this documentary and they ripped. They all these
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: middle aged women were very upset with me. Anyway, Wilson
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: was actually a rare good game. We don't normally get that. Rob,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: you won, so you get a golden ticket. There, Rob,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: I got a golden chickats I've got gold. We didn't
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: get David Lee and what he was it brock Oswather
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: was at the last category, Russell Martin. Russell Martin. So
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: there you go. All right, Well, thank you, gentlemen. Good job.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: There's a Mic and Rob another edition of Malay's Money.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: If you like the game, we play it every week
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: at about this time. If you don't like the game,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: we only play it once a week. So who the
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: hell cares? I mean, lightening up, Francis right, we want
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: to play it once a week. What's a big deal.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Who cares about that one once a week? So that
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: was one of the better games we've had. I think
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: I would say that's like a top three game we've
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: had this year.
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: I was sweat.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: That was a good, solid, good job, Good job boys,