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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: Our lead story from the shores of Lake Michigan. It
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  Speaker 1: was the lid lifter on the new weekend, week seven
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  Speaker 1: card in the NFL. You had a matchup of young
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  Speaker 1: upstart quarterbacks, a couple of guys drafted in the same
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  Speaker 1: draft class a couple years back. Would sparks fly? Drake
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  Speaker 1: May leading the Patriot Traveling Circus as they rolled in.
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  Speaker 1: To the land right there, Windy City. Matchup with Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams and Da Bears. You had Al Michaels. Da Bears.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Herbie was there and his dog, Peter. He's
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  Speaker 1: a grown man and has to take his dog with
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  Speaker 1: him everywhere. It's slightly embarrassing. But they had the call
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  Speaker 1: on Amazon. I don't know if you were watching or not.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps not. I don't know what else you would have
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  Speaker 1: been watching, but who knows? Maybe you were staring at
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  Speaker 1: a wall. Good for you. So Caleb Williams ended up
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  Speaker 1: going over 300 yards, had 308 yards, a couple of touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bears put a big thing of ice water
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  Speaker 1: on Drake May and the Patriots with the win on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night, a win by six points. Luther Burden was
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  Speaker 1: a burden for the Patriots. The Bears wide receiver had
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  Speaker 1: four catches, a couple of big plays in the first half,
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  Speaker 1: 130 yards in Chicago. improves to 5-2, which is nice,
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  Speaker 1: but not as nice as the Minnesota Vikings record, which
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  Speaker 1: happens to be in their division. Colston Loveland, good name.
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  Speaker 1: He had a 12-yard touchdown reception for Chicago. You know
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  Speaker 1: how we roll here. The better story is in the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room, and that is where we go, where
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  Speaker 1: Drake May had some sexy stats. However... Another loss for
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  Speaker 1: New England. They played a couple tomato cans, got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of wins, and now they go back and play
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  Speaker 1: a better team on the road, and the same bugaboo
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  Speaker 1: pops up for the Patriots as they go down in
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  Speaker 1: this particular game. So that is a good jumping-off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. It's rather simple. The answer,
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  Speaker 1: not so simple. The question is this. Who does Mike
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  Speaker 1: Vrabel give the biggest piece of the Boston cream pie
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  Speaker 1: of blame to for the Patriots losing to the Bears?
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  Speaker 1: Before we answer the question, why don't we hear from
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  Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel? Here is Vrabel commenting on his quarterback who
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  Speaker 1: made a really bonehead throw. We handicapped the game. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about the fact. that Drake may just don't turn
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  Speaker 1: the ball over. He got a good chance to win.
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  Speaker 1: He turned the ball over. Bears ended up cashing that
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  Speaker 1: in eventually for a touchdown. But here's Mike Vrabel on
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  Speaker 1: his quarterback. He gave us a chance.
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  Speaker 3: He competed. And I know he'd like to have that
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  Speaker 3: throwback to Eli. But, you know, I thought he really competed.
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  Speaker 3: And whether that was running around and scrambling and finding,
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  Speaker 3: you know, good places to go with football. Gave us
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  Speaker 3: a chance. You know, I know he'd like to have
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  Speaker 3: that one back, and he'll learn from it like he
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  Speaker 3: always does. And, you know, I'm glad he's ours.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, glad he's yours. He's got a lot of learning
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  Speaker 1: this year. He's done a lot of learning. Every interception
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  Speaker 1: he learns, he's learned a lot, Drake May. More like
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  Speaker 1: Drek May on that particular throw. The Patriot defense was unbecoming.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Vrabel talking about the inability to wrap up
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  Speaker 1: and tackle, which I believe is taught in Pop Warner football.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the Patriot coach on that.
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  Speaker 3: Tackling wasn't good enough, not against this team. We knew
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  Speaker 3: coming in, certainly tackling on Thursday night, but against this team,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's Swift, Burden, the quarterback, it just leads to
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  Speaker 3: extra yards and conversions and But, you know, we fought.
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  Speaker 3: But I would say that we need to turn the
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  Speaker 3: ball over and we have to tackle better. And those
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  Speaker 3: are fundamental skills. But I like the way they competed.
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  Speaker 3: And we certainly gave ourselves a chance. It wasn't a
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  Speaker 3: great one, but it was enough.
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  Speaker 1: So, I guess they just competed. I thought this was
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  Speaker 1: pro football. Don't you get paid to, like, win? But
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  Speaker 1: they competed. They tried hard. They tried. That's where we
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  Speaker 1: are in 2026. They tried. The Patriots tried. They competed.
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  Speaker 1: All right, back to the question. So who does Mike
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  Speaker 1: Vrabel give the biggest piece of the Boston cream pie
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  Speaker 1: of blame to for the Patriots losing here to the Bears?
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  Speaker 1: I've got Portuguese, Ernest Hemingway, and highly contagious. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: put these together. We are going to burn up the
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  Speaker 1: dance floor. Is what we're going to do. So, A,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel, you heard him there talking about compete, compete, compete.
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  Speaker 1: We gave herself a chance, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: You'd like to think that somewhere behind closed doors, Vrabel
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  Speaker 1: is furious. As the Patriots, the margins are thin. They
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  Speaker 1: were bedraggled, disheveled, and undisciplined on defense. It was football malpractice.
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  Speaker 1: And Caleb Williams doesn't really throw the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 1: The Bears don't trust him to throw the ball down
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  Speaker 1: the field very much. It's mostly dink and dunk, which
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  Speaker 1: is a bad sign for him being a big-time quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And yet the Patriots... They fell right into it. The
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  Speaker 1: Bears are like, we're going to bet that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to miss a bunch of tackles, and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: chuck the ball within five yards of the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to miss a bunch of tackles, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get a bunch of yards, yards after
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  Speaker 1: the catch. And that's exactly what happened. And even with
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  Speaker 1: the messy play, the Patriots, it was still a winnable game.
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  Speaker 1: So the heavy play to the Boston cream pie of
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  Speaker 1: blame does go to Drake May and the defense. May
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  Speaker 1: gift-wrapped a touchdown opportunity, which should have gone touchdown New England,
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  Speaker 1: into a turnover for Chicago. He threw the ball right
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  Speaker 1: to the Bears defender at the goal line of Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been, if you convert there, you get
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. Obviously, a different setup in the game. And
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  Speaker 1: while the defense had a highly, highly, highly... What's the
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  Speaker 1: word I'm looking for here? Ill-advised case of mis-attack-a-litis. Mis-attack-a-litis here.
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  Speaker 1: The Patriots were not playing tackle football. They were actually
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  Speaker 1: auditioning for a little side hustle. We hear that the
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  Speaker 1: Patriot defenders are looking to have another job in the
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  Speaker 1: offseason for the Portuguese bullfighting circuit as Matadors. Ole! Ole, ole, ole.
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  Speaker 1: Just wave the cape. Wave the cape, step aside, let
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  Speaker 1: the running back go or the wide receiver, and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Toss in the festival of stupid penalties, jumping off sides
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  Speaker 1: before this ball was snapped, which is fascinating. And this
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  Speaker 1: was not a talent issue. There were some guys out
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  Speaker 1: for the Patriots, but this was not a talent issue.
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  Speaker 1: This was a complete execution of failure by the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: And the injuries are an explanation. They're not an acquittal.
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  Speaker 1: and people were freaking out about the Patriots' offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: and the offensive line was not the reason that this
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  Speaker 1: game went the way to Chicago. That was not why
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  Speaker 1: the game went the way it was. Drake May was
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  Speaker 1: sacked a couple of times in the game. He converted
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  Speaker 1: on a couple of the big chunk plays. They adjusted
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  Speaker 1: the offense as we thought they would, which is what
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to do in the big boy football, and
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  Speaker 1: they figured out a couple of things, but you had
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  Speaker 1: the penalties and all that, and so You're collecting an
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  Speaker 1: NFL paycheck. Do your job, as the old Patriot coach
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  Speaker 1: years ago used to say. Now, staying with the Patriots, A.J. Brown.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of valuable talk radio real estate was used
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  Speaker 1: on A.J. Brown when he came to the Patriots from Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: He was up on the auctioning block, and this was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, the Patriots got the guy, and watch out now,
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Well, another night, another quiet performance
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  Speaker 1: for the big pickup of the offseason, A.J. Brown. Six targets,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Six targets, just three catches, 48 yards. The
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  Speaker 1: word for his performance is hum, drum. Hum, drum. Which
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  Speaker 1: led to a lot of finger pointing. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it, like, what's going on? Dude, you used to
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  Speaker 1: be good. You're not good. What happened? Well, A.J. Brown
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  Speaker 1: was asked about why he all of a sudden sucks,
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  Speaker 1: and here's what Brown had to say why he's garbage now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a bit.
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  Speaker 4: I understand how the game goes. It's just kind of
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  Speaker 4: how the game is. I know what type of player
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  Speaker 4: I am, and I know that that's.
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  Speaker 1: Always the case.
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  Speaker 4: Every time I line up, I get a lot of attention,
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  Speaker 4: so teams try to take me away. It gives a
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  Speaker 4: lot of opportunities for other guys to make plays and
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  Speaker 4: soften that up for me, and then whenever I get
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  Speaker 4: my shots.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to make them.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Question. Does wide receiver A.J. Brown deserve the
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  Speaker 1: heat that he's getting for his substandard play with the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots so the only proper answer here is yeppers yes
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  Speaker 1: yes yes yes yes yes I love the fact he
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  Speaker 1: said well I'm a decoy okay Timeout. Don't all the
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  Speaker 1: great wide receivers get boxed up by the defense yet
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  Speaker 1: they still make plays? Isn't that the whole point? That's
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  Speaker 1: the point of demarcation that separates the truly great wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver from the average wide receiver that the teams try
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  Speaker 1: to take them away, but the great ones still make
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  Speaker 1: the plays.
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  Speaker 2: A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Brown is not making the plays right now. And New
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  Speaker 1: England has to be suffering from a chronic case of
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  Speaker 1: buyer's remorse they thought they were getting a macbook pro
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  Speaker 1: sleek high performance machine with all the bells and whistles
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  Speaker 1: and instead they opened up the box and what they
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  Speaker 1: found up until this point for the most part has
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  Speaker 1: been an ernest hemingway royal quiet deluxe typewriter He's got
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  Speaker 1: the sticky space bar, and there's a missing ribbon. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what you've got. And Brown, again, this guy was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a luxury item, franchise-altering player, a supernova,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of receiver who keeps the opposing defensive coaches
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  Speaker 1: awake at night, popping tums like Tic Tacs. And instead,
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  Speaker 1: he has been a guy that can't get open and
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  Speaker 1: is now saying, well, I'm just a decoy. That's all
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  Speaker 1: I am. I'm a decoy. He's a store brand receiver.
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  Speaker 1: Store brand receiver masquerading as a premium product. And I
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  Speaker 1: go back to the point. We've asked this several times.
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  Speaker 1: Where's the fear factor? Where's the intimidation? Nobody's trembling in
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  Speaker 1: their cleats against Patriots version of A.J. Brown. He's not
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  Speaker 1: keeping defensive coordinators up all night listening to the overnight
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  Speaker 1: talk show. They're sleeping like babies. Patriots paid for lobster. Lobster,
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  Speaker 1: as they say in Maine. And they're getting canned sardines
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  Speaker 1: right now. And Brown has gone from a certified game
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  Speaker 1: record to a jar. Not Jerry in a jar. Just
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  Speaker 1: another receiver. A jar. Just another receiver. All right, last
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  Speaker 1: word here. To the Chicago Bears side of things. Bears
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  Speaker 1: feeling good about themselves. They get the win. They're 5-2
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  Speaker 1: on the season. You feeling that great if you're the
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  Speaker 1: Bears here?
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  Speaker 2: Eh.
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  Speaker 3: Eh.
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  Speaker 5: Eh.
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  Speaker 1: So much. I was not overwhelmed by the Bears. It
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  Speaker 1: was fine. It was fine. I think it was like
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  Speaker 1: the greatest thing I've ever seen. It was a Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night game. And one of the things that stood out,
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  Speaker 1: I thought this was on brand for the Bears. Quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, I don't know if you stayed watching that
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  Speaker 1: terrible postgame show they have on Amazon Prime. My God,
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  Speaker 1: does that suck. I left the TV on. It happened
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  Speaker 1: to be on. It was a mistake by me. Bad
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  Speaker 1: job by me. Shame on me. They put the ex-jocks
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  Speaker 1: on there, and they just giggle and laugh and say nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So Caleb Williams, he was on there. He raised some
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  Speaker 1: eyebrows when he popped up on, I guess it's called
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  Speaker 1: the Amazon Prime Video something-something post-game thing. So he was
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the set, and Williams called out Richard Sherman.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Richard Sherman used to be good back in the day?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Called out Richard Sherman for not having Chicago. This is great.
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  Speaker 1: Called out Richard Sherman for not having Chicago in his
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  Speaker 1: top five on his power ranking on some podcast. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: Richard Sherman does. And then Williams said, I see it all.
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  Speaker 1: He said that was his quote. I see it all.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Question. What is your read on the Bears quarterback Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams getting testy With Richard Sherman on the postgame show
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  Speaker 1: over his NFL power rankings. So good. He got upset
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  Speaker 1: about the power rankings. Can I say totally clueless? These
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  Speaker 1: postgame show interviews are a trip to the country club
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  Speaker 1: where the athlete is placed on a pedestal. while everyone
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  Speaker 1: else just plays grab ass and gives the manny and
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  Speaker 1: the petty. The Mallor verdict on this one, manufactured outrage.
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  Speaker 1: Manufactured outrage. The quarterback of the Chicago Bears is apparently
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  Speaker 1: conducting a daily audit, a daily audit of who's saying
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  Speaker 1: nice things about him and the Bears. Capital E. embarrassing
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  Speaker 1: so the dr mallard diagnosis i'm not a doctor but
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  Speaker 1: i can't play one on the radio the dr mallard
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  Speaker 1: diagnosis caleb williams suffering from a highly contagious and chronic
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  Speaker 1: case of google me syndrome gms google me syndrome there
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  Speaker 1: really is no cure there really is no cure caleb
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  Speaker 1: williams needs to be put outside take the phone away
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  Speaker 1: touch some grass go out there breathe some fresh air
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  Speaker 1: And stop treating every friends and family podcast opinion like
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  Speaker 1: a declaration of war. And we have to remind these
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  Speaker 1: guys sometimes this is the National Football League. Last we checked,
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  Speaker 1: not the National Feelings League. Not that. So you're playing
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, Caleb. Calm down. Criticism is not a
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  Speaker 1: personal foul. It's part of the price of admission. That's
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  Speaker 1: part of the deal. And Richard Sherman... Tossed a pebble
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  Speaker 1: into the pond and Caleb Williams is reporting. That's a tsunami.
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  Speaker 1: That is a no, it's just a pebble. Trust me, Caleb.
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  Speaker 1: Many more people now know that Richard Sherman, A, has
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  Speaker 1: a podcast and B, did not include the Bears than
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  Speaker 1: if you had kept your mouth shut, because I promise you.
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  Speaker 1: It's mostly friends and family that are listening to his
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  Speaker 1: little podcast that he's got.
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  Speaker 1: but our lead this hour is from indianapolis as there
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  Speaker 1: are said to be multiple nfl teams that are on
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  Speaker 1: the prowl And they are interested in trading for Colts
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  Speaker 1: running back Jonathan Taylor. The trade deadline's coming up November 10th.
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  Speaker 1: Mark that on your phone calendar, November 10th. So if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see this, perhaps it's been bouncing around the
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  Speaker 1: echo chamber. The last couple of days, another crappy season
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  Speaker 1: for the Colts. Indianapolis remaining undecided, reportedly, whether or not
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  Speaker 1: they're going to get rid of their star player. This
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  Speaker 1: after firing the incompetent Chris Ballard following a 2-4 start.
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  Speaker 1: So Taylor, who's in his late 20s, he has rushed
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  Speaker 1: for about 500 yards, seven touchdowns this season today. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the Colts, even if they were going to
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  Speaker 1: trade Jonathan Taylor, you don't say, oh, yeah, we're really
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  Speaker 1: horny to trade him. You say, oh, we're undecided. So
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  Speaker 1: you have the offers go up, up, and away. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Taylor himself insists that he has not considered leaving, calling
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  Speaker 1: trade speculation a disservice to his teammates. Bullcrap. Now, it's
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  Speaker 1: not just Jonathan Taylor. We are looking at a possible bonfire.
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  Speaker 1: In Indianapolis, as name brand players like DeForest Buckner and
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  Speaker 1: Quinton Nelson also could be put on the auctioning block
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  Speaker 1: there for the team from the Hoosier State as they
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  Speaker 1: consider a full demo job on a roster. This is
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  Speaker 1: what happens when you bet on Daniel Jones. They bet
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  Speaker 1: on Daniel Jones, who's not worth beans. And now here
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  Speaker 1: we are. They're farting it up right and left. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Is
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor too valuable for the Colts to trade because
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  Speaker 1: he's the only good player they have? Or is he
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  Speaker 1: too valuable for the Colts not to trade? You make
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  Speaker 1: the call. So I've got eBay, Woodstock, and Foot Locker.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll combine all of these things together, and we
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  Speaker 1: are not going to keep our mouths shut because it's
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  Speaker 1: talk radio. So number one.
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  Speaker 5: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: One, one, one, one, one.
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  Speaker 4: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: Can of worms after a minutes-long mallard deliberation of the
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  Speaker 1: available information. Normally our position has always been you hold
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  Speaker 1: on to the star player, you hold on to the
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  Speaker 1: star player. However, this is the exception to the rule.
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  Speaker 1: It is time for divorce. No marriage counseling, no couples therapy.
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  Speaker 1: Just split the assets and move on. Irreconcilable differences. They
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  Speaker 1: can't get along. Taylor wants to win, right? The Colts apparently...
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  Speaker 1: They're getting out of trying to win. And Indy isn't
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  Speaker 1: one player away at this particular point. The Colts are
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  Speaker 1: one of those teams that's stuck in the middle. They're
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  Speaker 1: not one player away. They're one good general manager, one
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  Speaker 1: good quarterback, and about eight other good players, just miracles,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, away from ending up as a legitimately
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: good team. Now, you're in a division where you can
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  Speaker 1: suck and make the playoffs. The great thing about If
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: you're in the NFC South or the AFC South, you
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: don't have to be that good. And it's kind of
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: like a participation charity thing where we get one of
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: the bad teams in the playoffs every year from those divisions.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: And so you don't have to be that great to
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs, but to be legitimate. contenders in the AFC,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Indianapolis isn't that. So they should put Taylor on eBay.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor. They can mark him slightly used. High mileage.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Still normally runs really great. Some championship aspirations. But those
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: are sold separately. Those are sold separately. And so any...
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: is not going to be a threat realistically for the
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl before Jonathan Taylor starts growing mold as he
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: has passed his expiration date. So keeping him would be
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: akin to that guy that's living in his mom's basement
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: making payments on a Lamborghini. Well, dude, you live in
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: your mom's basement. You probably should not have a Lamborghini.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: But I like the Lamborghini. But I know you don't
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: really need the Lamborghini because you should pay for some
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: other stuff. If somebody's offer is to the moon, I'm
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: talking like, I don't believe they'll get a first-round pick,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: but a second-round pick for Jonathan Taylor. You don't negotiate.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: You ask, hey, where can I send you the complimentary
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: charcuterie board? And I'll include cheese of the month on
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the charcuterie board. All right, now page two. To the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: business of football, where the commissioner, Roger the Dodger Goodell,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, declaring that the league's inaugural sojourn
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: to Australia Remember that debacle back in the beginning of
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the NFL season? He said, well, it was a tremendous success. Now,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Goodell singing the praises of the 49er-Ram game. The matchup
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: attracted over 100,000 fans to the Melbourne cricket ground. Ozzy
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Waz was not one of those fans. Neither was Ozzy Momentum.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think the Ozzy guy was either. So that
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: kicked off on a Friday morning local time in Australia.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: And I remember it was a Thursday game of the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: week in America. San Francisco famously arrived early. They got
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to run around Australia, have some Vegemite, enjoy the local
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: sights and sounds. And the Rams showed up about five
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: minutes before kickoff. That's what they did. Maybe a little
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: more than that, but it seemed like five minutes. So
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the 49ers dominated that game. And initially people thought, well,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the Rams didn't play well because of travel fatigue. Now
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: we just think the Rams sucked. And that's why they
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: didn't play well. But Roger Goodell called the contrasting travel
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: strategies a valuable lesson, he said, potentially opening the door
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: to more games. He's talking about now putting NFL games
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: in Japan, all over different Asian countries. So the question,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell says the NFL's Australia vacation, their Australian sojourn,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: was a, quote, tremendous success, close quote, agree or disagree
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: agree or disagree so i am going to disagree i'm
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: going to disagree and here's why the commissioner has never
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: met an nfl cash grab he couldn't dress up as
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: some kind of historical achievement roger dell i'm convinced goodell
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: could have been out on a boat in the atlantic
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: watching the titanic sink in binoculars and he would have
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: called it a tremendous success because every single lifeboat was
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: occupied sure they didn't have enough lifeboats and pretty much
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: everyone croaked in the ocean and they landed but still
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: but they had the lifeboats full and that's really what
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: it was all about so they spin it that's what
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: they do they spin it right this was supposed to
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: be a regular season nfl game not some episode of
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the amazing race it turned out to be that if
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: you keep it real I'm convinced you could sell 100,000
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: tickets in Melbourne to watch kangaroos box Mike Tyson. You
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: get 100,000 men, women, and children to go to that
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: cricket venue in Australia to watch kangaroos box Mike Tyson.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you've created a sustainable boxing league. And
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: after all, remember many years ago, there was this famous
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: music concert in New York and it was, To this day,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: people still talk about it, romanticize it. 100,000 people, whatever,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: attended Woodstock. That didn't mean everybody became a hippie that
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: attended Woodstock. That's not how that went. That's not the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: case at all. And ultimately, Roger Goodell is always selling
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the sizzle. And even in this case, like the fajitas
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: are barely edible, but I'm selling the sizzle. You're buying
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the sizzle on the fajitas is what you're doing. All right,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: final point to New York we go, the Big Apple. Well, actually,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, where the Giants have some problems. They got
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: some problems. Their defense running amok. It's not going well
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: there for the G-men. Now, the defensive coordinator, someone named
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Denard Wilson, who's working for John Harbaugh, Denard Wilson, blasting
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: his defense. employees taking a shot at the defensive players
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: that he is in charge of coaching who apparently have
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: decided that they do not want to get into a
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: pursuit they've decided to take an anti-pursuit position and he
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: called these players quote traitors close quote let me repeat
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that for those who in the back of the room
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the giants defensive coordinator denard wilson ripping his own defensive players,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: some stumble bums here, and saying the guys that won't
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: pursue the football are traitors. This following the recent loss
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to the New Orleans football team. Now, Denard Wilson criticizing
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the overall effort, warning, if you don't change the behaviors,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: we have to change the players. The Giants currently rank
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: 19th in points allowed, and they have given away leads to,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: in a couple of games this year, raising eyebrows on
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: what shoulda, coulda, woulda happened and questions being asked about
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the accountability and are the Giants a nickel-and-dime operation on defense.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: So here's the question, and I know our friend the
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: moving man, In Boston, big giant apologist there. He's like, yeah, yeah,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I like this. I like it, too. So defensive coordinator
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Denard Wilson. Here's the question. Denard Wilson called out some
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of his giant defenders as traitors because they don't pursue
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the football. Can you unravel that? What this means, can
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you unravel what this means? So the Giants defensive coach
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: totally and completely broke rank here. Modern NFL football is
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: you never call out your players. Now, he didn't call
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: out individual players, so he's okay. But you don't even
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: call out your players as a group anymore. You're not
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: supposed to do that. So he broke ranks by publicly
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: blasting his guys. And honestly, it is a breath of
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: fresh air. In fact, what I'm going to do, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: I don't normally do this, doing overnight talk radio so
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: denard wilson the giants defensive coordinator i'm gonna let you
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: get your own neon eraser we have neon green neon
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: pink and you can get one of those neon erasers
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: i recommend the green uh and then you can also
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: take a brag tag so congratulations just brag away because
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: we've gone from missed tackles to treason treason you traitors
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: It's so good. It appears the Giants defense is dealing
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: with a massive supply chain shortage of give a damn.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: These guys just don't give a damn. They don't. They
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: have a case of IDGAF. I don't give a football,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. And it in many
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: ways is a new age zone defense. The Giants have
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: played this year. You've heard of the no-fly zone. I'm
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: sure watching football over the years, you've heard of the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: no-fly zone. You're nodding your head yes. The Giants defense
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: is revolutionary. They've decided to go with the no-try zone,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: which is much different than the no-fly zone, the no-try zone.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: And it would appear they have far too many passengers
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and not nearly enough drivers on that defensive side of
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the football. Now, some of these guys have perfected the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: art of looking busy while accomplishing absolutely nothing. And a
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: lot of you have that skill, that if you have
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the dreaded 9-to-5, it's a little harder to do that
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: if you're like a truck driver or your job is
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to take packages off trucks or something like that at
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: a warehouse. It's a little harder to do that. If
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: you have a 9-to-5 office job, I feel like it's
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: absolutely pretty easy to go, ah, gee whiz, I'll just
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: pretend like I'm working and that's it. The Giants defense
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: should be sponsored by Foot Locker because they've got 11
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: guys wearing sneakers, and eight of them appear to be
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: absolute loafers, just loafing around out there, and that spells
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: trouble every single time. Every single time. And if you're talented,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: that's great. If you're talented and lazy, it doesn't matter
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: how talented you are. You're not going to have much
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: success at all.
• 29:07
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• 29:18
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• 29:23
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• 29:27
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• 29:31
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• 29:34
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• 29:37
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• 29:42
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• 29:46
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• 29:49
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• 29:50
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• 29:54
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• 29:56
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• 29:59
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• 30:02
  Speaker 1: channel is the World Series on tonight? On Fox. Well,
• 30:10
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• 30:13
  Speaker 1: no time like October, and this is what it's all
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: been for. Do you know that? The World Series is
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: here streaming live on Fox One. I know Weed Man's
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: going to get that on his device. It's the Brewers
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: versus the Rays tonight. Baseball is big. I'm doing a promo, dummy.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Watch it on Fox. The worst World Series ever, according
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: to Weedman. My God. Stream it live on Fox One.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Holy crap. Hey, Julio, send me some food. Coop, make
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: sure not to send that to the TV people, please, Coop. Yeah,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: that's not the one I'm going to use for the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: air check. All right. Here we go, Weed Man. Actual jokes.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: We'll get to the Weed Man roast in a minute.
• 31:07
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• 31:08
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• 31:10
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• 31:17
  Speaker 1: What are our friend Lorena and Anthony in Louisiana going
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: to be on Halloween?
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: What?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Cousins. Kirk Cousins is what they're going to be. That's
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: from Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. What do you call 60
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: minutes of pain? What? An ow-er. That's what you call it.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: That's a good dad joke. Mike sent that one in. Well,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Kevin Dallas says some big news in his town outside Dallas.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: They closed a couple of businesses down. Did you hear
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: about this? No.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: What happened?
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently a local bra manufacturer has gone bust and
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a submarine company has gone under. So it's all over
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: for them. There you go. Thank you, Kevin. The 1980s
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: want that joke back. All right. Did you know that myself,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Weed Man, the host of the show, Ben Maller, once
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: commissioned a study to say ranch dressing, ketchup, and mustard
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: are the worst condiments ever? Really?
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: The study was done by the Mayo Institute. So there's that.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: George in Uvalde, Texas. Why couldn't the witch get pregnant?
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Her hubby had a hollow weenie. That's good. This is
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: so great. So this is why I love this show.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: That is from Rosie, who is a teacher, and probably
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: a prim and proper teacher, and she sent that, and
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I love that. All right. Who is iHeart's biggest competition?
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Adam Silver, guaranteed alien. That's from Kurt from Earth. Well,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: how do you fix a broken pumpkin? You need to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: know this weed, man. Halloween's coming up.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Wow, I don't know how.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: With a pumpkin patch. You use a pumpkin patch there.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: There you go. I love that one. That's a good joke, too.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: That was from Mike. Lucky Tony sent a fat chick
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: joke in about Packer fans. I think I'll skip that one.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? What happens at Fox Sports
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Radio on Halloween? What? All the shows have skeleton crews.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: That's from Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. I think we'll all
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: be here.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait, no.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Halloween's on Saturday. Friday, I think. Is it Saturday?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know. No, it's Saturday this year. Okay. That
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: means it won't be on a good day for another
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: seven years or whatever. That's what they say, yeah. Did
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you hear Jimmy Kimmel was trying out Weed Man hippie
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: jokes for his show? Wow, cool. Yeah, sadly, none of
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: them worked. None of them worked, though, just like you.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: That's Joe in Virginia Beach. What is Weed Man's favorite
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: part of a basketball game?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: What?
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Garbage time. That's surfer Todd the Canadian. How can you
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: tell Weed Man's getting cold? His gums start chattering. That's
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Noah in Austin. Kevin Kansas says, what's easier to understand
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: than Weed Man Hippie on the Sunday Fifth Hour Mailbag? What?
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Charlie Brown's teacher using a tin can and string speaking Russian.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: People hate your phone, Weed Man. Why did Weed Man
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: buy a boat?
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: There was a sail on it. That's why. There you go.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: What do you get when you cross Mike the Leprechaun
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and Weed Man hippie? What? A green midget looking for
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: apopuko gold and the end of the rainbow. That's from
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Rosie the teacher again. All right. Why did Weed Man
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: join a book club? Why? He wanted to read between
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the lines. That's Mike the Leprechaun. Big Ben's lame jokes
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: of the week. Thanks for ripping the promo, Weed Man.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy.