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Hour 1 - Purple Pickers · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: we were up all night giving you a fresh pod.
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Speaker 2: Here in our number one, who should be more embarrassed?
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Speaker 2: Who should be the most embarrassed in Minnesota for reuniting
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Speaker 2: with Kirk Cousins three years after they said, we don't
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Speaker 2: want you anymore. All of a sudden, we kind of
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Speaker 2: want you. We're kind of into you. Also, will things
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Speaker 2: be different during Kirk Cousins' reunion tour with the Purple
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Speaker 2: People Eaters? And is this trade of Kirk Cousins to
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Speaker 2: Minnesota a feather in the cap of Tom Brady's Raiders?
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Speaker 2: Social media seems convinced. Oh, my God, the Raiders got
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Speaker 2: a third-round pick. Oh, my goodness. Zippity-doo-dah, zippity-day. I have
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Speaker 2: a slightly different opinion on that. We'll get to it
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Speaker 2: them the purple pickers. But did they pick right? Welcome
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Speaker 2: But don't bury the lead, my man. That lead out
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Speaker 2: of the Twin Cities after being publicly flogged on national
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Speaker 2: television by the Buffalo football team. The Minnesota Vikings went
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Speaker 2: to auction the final hours.
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Speaker 1: The clock ticking down. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
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Speaker 2: They were trying to avoid kaboom before the deadline, the
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Speaker 2: trade deadline. Desperate, desperate to find a quarterback. That would
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Speaker 2: not poop his pants. And they made a deal. They
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Speaker 2: made a deal.
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Speaker 1: Who did they trade for? Did you see this?
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Speaker 2: Did you hear about it?
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Speaker 1: Were you out of the loop? Did they trade for
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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones? Hell no!
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Speaker 2: They didn't trade for Daniel Jones. Minnesota said, you know
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Speaker 2: what we want? We want to be like that old
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Speaker 2: band from 40 years ago that gets back together. So
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Speaker 2: why don't we bring in, not my cousin, not your cousin,
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Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins.
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Speaker 1: He's back.
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Speaker 2: He returns on a one-way flight from Lost Wages, Nevada.
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Speaker 2: And the third-round pick goes outbound for Minnesota. Back to Nevada.
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Speaker 2: So the Raiders get their little scratcher ticket, which a
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Speaker 2: lot of their dumb fans like. And the Vikings get
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Speaker 2: a quarterback. How good that is? Well, he steps into shoes.
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Speaker 2: They're clown shoes that Carson Wentz wore and imploded. And
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Speaker 2: Kyler Murray is going to be so happy. He can
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Speaker 2: just fully dedicate himself to his team. video game career,
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Speaker 2: and he can just stop pretending to be an NFL quarterback.
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Speaker 2: He never could. He was never good. And the Minnesota defense,
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Speaker 2: which has been carrying the entire franchise this year, defensive
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Speaker 2: coordinator Brian Flores, when he's not suing the NFL, he's
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Speaker 2: putting together an elite defense. And in offense, in Minnesota,
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Speaker 2: ranked 31st out of 32 teams in passing yards, 27th
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Speaker 2: in scoring offense. So Cousins reunites, and it feels so good,
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Speaker 2: with coach Kevin O'Connell. He could possibly make his return
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Speaker 2: this weekend. What an epic Midwestern matchup. You've got Minnesota
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Speaker 2: and Green Bay, blood rivals. They'll get together there at
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Speaker 2: Lambeau Field on Sunday. The not-so-frozen tundra. It's all about
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Speaker 2: this trade. Minnesota gets a quarterback. The Vikings go out
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Speaker 2: and they make a move. That is a good jumping-off point.
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Speaker 2: Let us discuss the question. Who should be the most
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Speaker 2: embarrassed in Minnesota for reuniting With quarterback Kirk Cousins.
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Speaker 1: Who should be the most embarrassed?
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Speaker 2: So I've got catwalk, dating apps, and the great British bake-off.
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Speaker 2: And we'll put all these things together and go hip, hip,
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Speaker 2: hooray is what we're going to do. Hip, hip, hooray.
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Speaker 2: So when you look at the scale of embarrassment and
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Speaker 2: who's got the banana cream pie on their face, this
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Speaker 2: is without a doubt Kevin O'Connell.
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Speaker 1: The quarterback whisperer. You people told me this guy is
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Speaker 1: a genius. He's got the Midas touch.
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Speaker 2: Well, when it comes to the quarterback position in recent years,
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Speaker 2: he's had the Saddam touch. And he thought, along with
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Speaker 2: the other geniuses there with the Vikings, and some of
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Speaker 2: the names have changed, but Kevin O'Connell is a consistent,
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Speaker 2: they thought they could do better than Kirk Cousins. They
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Speaker 2: looked at him. They said, ah, he's getting older. He's
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Speaker 2: injured a lot.
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Speaker 1: We can do better.
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Speaker 2: And now, now Kevin O'Connell's out there on the catwalk,
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Speaker 2: and he's doing the walk of shame, and he's shaking
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Speaker 2: his tushy and doing a pirouette, and that's it. Admitting defeat.
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Speaker 2: Admitting defeat. Minnesota's quarterback master plan. The smartest people in
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Speaker 2: the room. Fans don't know what they're talking about. They're
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Speaker 2: the smartest people in the room. Minnesota's quarterback master plan.
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Speaker 2: The blueprint was apparently written on an Etch-A-Sketch. They spent
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Speaker 2: three years... Three years auditioning a traveling circus. It was
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Speaker 2: more like a freak show.
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Speaker 1: J.J. McCarthy, Sam Darnold, Carson Wentz, Kyler Murray.
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Speaker 2: There were others. Seemed like everybody got a turn on
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Speaker 2: the Vikings quarterback merry-go-round. Round and round and round and
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Speaker 2: round on the quarterback merry-go-round we go. Turns out the
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Speaker 2: next Kirk Cousins is.
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins.
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Speaker 2: This is the NFL's equivalent of trading in your very
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Speaker 2: dependable 2018 Honda Accord that had 150,000 miles on it,
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Speaker 2: buying not one, not two, but three lemons. You won't
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Speaker 2: get a lemon. You got three lemons in a row.
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Speaker 2: And then paying extra. to get that 2018 Honda Accord back,
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Speaker 2: but now it's got 175,000 miles on it. You're just
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Speaker 2: happy to have it back. You really missed that bucket
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Speaker 2: of bolts. You really did miss it. Also, we must
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Speaker 2: save a little slice of embarrassment. We'll give them a
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Speaker 2: little Pop-Tart, a little fun-sized Pop-Tart. Kyler Murray. Now, feel
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Speaker 2: free to call up. I'm not going to give out
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Speaker 2: the number yet, but I'll give out the number in
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Speaker 2: a little bit. When I give out the number, feel
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Speaker 2: free to call up and say, you know what, Maller?
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Speaker 2: You were right.
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Speaker 1: I don't need the applause.
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Speaker 2: We did several monologues pointing out what the F were
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Speaker 2: the Vikings thinking, but Kyler Murray gets the Pop-Tart of embarrassment,
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Speaker 2: the little Pop-Tart of embarrassment. He has validated every criticism
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Speaker 2: that I ever had. He's validated the Arizona Cardinals, who
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Speaker 2: I believe paid almost $ 40 million to get rid of him.
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Speaker 2: And Kyler Murray, the Vikings are admitting, we failed, that
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Speaker 2: guy blows.
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Speaker 1: That's what they're saying.
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Speaker 2: And now they've said yesterday's leftovers that we didn't think
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Speaker 2: were all that delicious in the back of the refrigerator
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Speaker 2: in the Chinese takeout box. Well, now that's the dinner
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Speaker 2: we're looking forward to. That's the big dinner here in
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Speaker 2: the Twin Cities.
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Speaker 1: Who goofed? I've got to know.
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Speaker 2: I think we know who goofed. All right, now to
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Speaker 2: the big question and the big picture. And the question here,
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Speaker 2: will things be different? Will things be different during Kirk
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Speaker 2: Cousins reunion tour as the band is back together there
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Speaker 2: with the Vikings? So is he going to be different?
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Speaker 2: Is this going to end differently? So we always point
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Speaker 2: out like when you go to the zoo and you
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Speaker 2: look at the different animals in the zoo, And you
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Speaker 2: see the zebra out there. Way out in the back there,
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Speaker 2: there's a zebra and it's eating. And you look at
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Speaker 2: the zebra. You say, well, look at the zebra. That's
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Speaker 2: really cool. Can a zebra change its stripes?
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Speaker 1: Of course not.
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Speaker 2: Cousins is still captain almost. He's defined, his entire career
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Speaker 2: has been defined by sporadic malfunction. Now, that does not
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Speaker 2: mean this is not the right move. That does not
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Speaker 2: mean that the Vikings made the smart move, and I
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Speaker 2: give them an A for this trade. I give them
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Speaker 2: an A for this trade. It was a trade that
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Speaker 2: had to happen. That does not mean, though, that the
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Speaker 2: Vikings have acquired their savior. They traded for the least
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Speaker 2: offensive item. In the quarterback lost and found bin, the
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Speaker 2: Vikings officially entered the ABTT era. Anything but these turds.
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Speaker 2: Carson Wentz and Kyler Murray were so bad. How bad
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Speaker 2: were they? Thanks for asking. They were so bad that
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Speaker 2: Kirk starts looking like Joe Montana. combined with Thor. It's crazy.
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Speaker 2: It's crazy. Get him a cape. He's a superhero. This
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Speaker 2: is the NFL equivalent, what the Vikings are doing here,
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Speaker 2: of remarrying your ex-wife because you went on the dating
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Speaker 2: apps and they were a nightmare. And you're like, I
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Speaker 2: don't want to deal with that. I'll just get remarried here.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to deal with the dating apps. For
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Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell, though, this is a gotta-have-it combo meal.
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Speaker 1: You don't really want the burger. You really don't.
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Speaker 2: You're not even craving some fries, but you're starving and
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Speaker 2: the drive-thru closes in five minutes and you had to
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Speaker 2: pick it up.
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Speaker 1: Now, we assume that.
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Speaker 2: Wide receiver Justin Jefferson rubber-stamped this transaction. It would make sense.
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Speaker 2: If not, that wouldn't make sense. So we assume that
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Speaker 2: Jefferson had a role in this.
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Speaker 1: It is comforting, though, to know.
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Speaker 2: That after spending millions on coaches and scouting and analytics,
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Speaker 2: reading the algorithm, the smartest people in the room, the
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Speaker 2: Viking Solutions, multi-billion dollar football team, the Viking Solution was
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Speaker 2: to open up their black book. and dial an old
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Speaker 2: Flames phone number, that that was the solution.
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Speaker 1: What happened to all the analytics?
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Speaker 2: The analytics said that Kyler Murray and Carson Wentz were
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Speaker 2: going to be great, and I don't understand, and J.J.
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Speaker 2: McCarthy and all that. Now, we mentioned that if you
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Speaker 2: look at Cousins, and we've been very critical of Cousins
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Speaker 2: over the years, he's not very good in big moments,
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Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that Minnesota cannot win a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: They can't.
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Speaker 2: This gives them at least a fighting chance. They did
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Speaker 2: not have a chance. They had no chance with the
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Speaker 2: Alligator Arms Murray and the guy that should be working
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Speaker 2: at a bed and breakfast in North Dakota, Carson Wentz.
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Speaker 1: They had no chance. At least now they have a chance.
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Speaker 2: And all he has to do, easier said than done,
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Speaker 2: is not Kirk Cousins, not burn down the barn. Don't
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Speaker 2: burn down the barn. Let the defense and the special
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Speaker 2: teams do their thing. And even a blind squirrel, I
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Speaker 2: was told, finds a nut once in a while. And
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Speaker 2: in my lifetime, there have been some bad quarterbacks, some
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Speaker 2: provably bad quarterbacks that have stood atop Football Mountain and
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Speaker 2: looked down at the peasants as the champions of the NFL.
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Speaker 2: And you only have to play well for a month.
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Speaker 2: Joe Flacco, no one thinks Joe Flacco's all that good.
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Speaker 2: For one month, that was the greatest playoff run I've
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Speaker 2: ever seen when he played in Baltimore and he got paid.
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Speaker 2: And the Ravens got played after that. And Flacco's still
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Speaker 2: hanging around, collecting a check. Nick Foles, great example. Nick Foles,
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Speaker 2: second-rate JV quarterback. However, for one brief moment in time,
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Speaker 2: it all came together for the Philadelphia Eagles, and he's
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Speaker 2: a champion. Another suck-bag quarterback in Seattle. The Seahawks fans
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Speaker 2: are learning how bad Sam Darnold is this year. The
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Speaker 2: real Sam Darnold has arrived. Some of the 12s are
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Speaker 2: starting to realize that. I guess they got blindsided by
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Speaker 2: that little bling-bling thingamajig that they got last year. If
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Speaker 2: Flacco and Foles and Darnold can win, then certainly Kirk
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Speaker 2: Cousins can stand atop NFL Mountain as the king. They
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Speaker 2: can certainly do that. Now, last word to the Vegas
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Speaker 2: side of things. Lost wages, Nevada. So the Raiders have
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Speaker 2: now officially pulled the ripcord on the Kirk Cousins parachute.
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Speaker 1: Bye-bye, he has been decommissioned.
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Speaker 2: And moving on up to a penthouse on the Upper
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Speaker 2: East Side, that would be Fernando Mendoza.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the turbulence. So I looked at some of
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Speaker 1: the reaction.
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Speaker 2: It seems overwhelmingly positive, which always raises my eyebrows when
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Speaker 2: I say, oh, it's overwhelmingly positive. Social media praising Tom Brady.
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Speaker 2: Yet another win by Tom Brady. The GM by proxy.
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Speaker 2: In Vegas, he liked the team so much, he bought
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Speaker 2: a piece of the team. But Tom Brady is there
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Speaker 2: in control of everything. And so he's being celebrated for flipping,
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Speaker 2: like a hot cake, Kirk Cousins for a third-round pick.
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Speaker 2: So here's the question. Is this trade of Kirk Cousins
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Speaker 2: to Minnesota a feather in the cap of Tom Brady's
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Speaker 2: run with the Raiders? So this seems to be the
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Speaker 2: popular opinion. By people that claim to be popular. So
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Speaker 2: I give that take a yawn and a shoulder shrug.
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Speaker 2: I give it a yawn and a shoulder shrug. It's
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Speaker 2: classic spin. It's hero worship with Tom Brady.
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Speaker 1: A third-round pick. Let me tell you about a third-round pick.
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Speaker 2: A third-round pick is the kind of thing losing organizations
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Speaker 2: and losing fans frame and hang over the fireplace. Oh,
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Speaker 2: let me put that on the fireplace. Whoop-dee-damn-doe. Whoop-dee-damn-do in
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Speaker 2: your little third-round traffic. Since Tom Brady took over as
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Speaker 2: the de facto general manager and the hands-on minority owner
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Speaker 2: of the Raiders, the Raiders are 11-32 under the leadership
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Speaker 2: of Tom Brady.
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Speaker 1: They have a 256 winning percentage.
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Speaker 2: He is just as bad as an executive as Michael
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Speaker 2: Jordan was, except he doesn't get nearly the criticism. Doesn't
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Speaker 2: get nearly the criticism. that Jordan got in his days
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Speaker 2: with the Washington Wizards and the Charlotte basketball operation and
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Speaker 2: all that. And despite that terrible record, Raider Nation celebrating
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Speaker 2: the third-round draft pick while their supposed franchise quarterback, Fernando Mendoza,
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Speaker 2: has spent nine weeks in quarterback daycare. So I don't
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Speaker 2: want to hear any kind of excuse about Mendoza if
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Speaker 2: he comes out there and rides the vomit comet.
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Speaker 1: You sat his ass for nine weeks.
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Speaker 2: He's got to come out guns a-blazin'. Guns a-blazin'. It
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Speaker 2: is unbecoming of a number one pick. The Raiders tanked
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Speaker 2: last year to get the number one pick. You play
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Speaker 2: the number one pick right away. And there is no
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Speaker 2: guaranteed payoff at all. Fernando Mendoza... has been watching football
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Speaker 2: from the bench and getting those hemorrhoids out there.
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Speaker 1: Very educational. Very educational. Oh, it's so educational. You know
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Speaker 1: what you're talking about, Mahler.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: We'll see.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You know what's also educational? Watching the Great British Bake Off.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you can make those nasty British desserts
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Speaker 2: and become a chef.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that. Now, as for Tom Brady.
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Speaker 2: He spent his glory days winning championships with the Patriots
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Speaker 2: and even in Tampa Bay. And now he's collecting these
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Speaker 2: draft picks like a babushka, collecting coupons back in the
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Speaker 2: day for the grocery store. And that's his big contribution.
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Speaker 2: And it's a great shell game. It's a great three-card
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Speaker 2: Monty game, the hoarding of draft picks, because you never
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Speaker 2: have to show any tangible results. You just keep talking about, well,
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Speaker 2: these draft picks are going to pay off at some point. Oh,
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Speaker 2: it's going to be good. Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good.
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21:38
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Speaker 1: I'm multi-talented.
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Speaker 1: All right, back to it we go.
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Speaker 2: And let's see, what do we have here? Take a call.
21:55
Speaker 2: All right, we got the knuckleheads on the X machine who,
21:59
Speaker 2: as always, have a lot to say, hiding behind their avatars,
22:02
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22:05
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22:08
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22:10
Speaker 2: to comment on the moving and shaking chip in the cues.
22:15
Speaker 2: He was at one of the first Maller meet and
22:16
Speaker 2: greets we did years and years ago. It was Chip,
22:19
Speaker 2: and there was Dale there, and a professor from Syracuse
22:23
Speaker 2: came out. It was a small but good group in Syracuse.
22:28
Speaker 2: Chip says, A-plus on the Mallard monologue. I'm sure Kirk
22:32
Speaker 2: Cousins is as good as Joe Montana. Of course, Joe
22:36
Speaker 2: is now 70 years old and has been retired for many,
22:40
Speaker 2: many decades. There you go. Baltimore Freeloader account writes in.
22:44
Speaker 2: Media Freeloader says, I'm really starting to get tired of
22:47
Speaker 2: your You sending stray bullets Joe Flacco's way. It was
22:52
Speaker 2: a magnificent season and a great Ravens run. He says
22:56
Speaker 2: he won more than four playoff games in Baltimore. But
23:00
Speaker 2: more importantly was the incredible free food that was devoured.
23:05
Speaker 1: During the Super Bowl spree.
23:07
Speaker 2: I looked at Baba Ganoush. Isn't that nice? Ferg Dogg
23:12
Speaker 2: writes and says, Hey, Ben, can you go over the
23:14
Speaker 2: Chargers moves at the trade deadline, please? Were we buyers
23:18
Speaker 2: or sellers this year? Oh, you were buyers, Ferg Dogg.
23:21
Speaker 2: You were buyers. You were helping the Broncos out. And
23:25
Speaker 2: did you trade anyone else? No, I didn't see any
23:27
Speaker 2: other trades that. Reached my radar. King Rory is in Wisconsin,
23:32
Speaker 2: and he writes in at Ben Maller on the X Machine.
23:35
Speaker 2: He says, I wouldn't say I'm afraid of Kirk Cousins. However,
23:39
Speaker 2: I know the refs have their hands on their flags
23:42
Speaker 2: and are ready to blow their whistles if the Packers
23:46
Speaker 2: defense happens to breathe on Kirk Cousins. I don't like
23:50
Speaker 2: blaming the referees if the Packers lose, but I won't
23:53
Speaker 2: be surprised if they influence the outcome.
23:58
Speaker 1: It sounds to me like King Rory.
23:59
Speaker 2: Is expecting the Packers to lose this weekend against the
24:04
Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field. I'm actually, the funny thing
24:12
Speaker 2: is I was thinking about going to that, I'm going
24:13
Speaker 2: to be in Wisconsin this weekend. So I was thinking about, I'm.
24:16
Speaker 1: Visiting my brother, right?
24:18
Speaker 2: So I was like, well, maybe I'll go see a
24:19
Speaker 2: Packer game because I've never been to, I've been to
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Speaker 2: Lambeau Field, but I haven't been to a game at
24:23
Speaker 2: Lambeau Field. So I was like, all right. I'll go
24:25
Speaker 2: check that out. But then I was like, well, wait
24:26
Speaker 2: a minute. They're playing the Vikings. That's a big rivalry game.
24:28
Speaker 2: And then I looked at how much the tickets were
24:32
Speaker 2: on the secondary market.
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Speaker 1: I said, no, I'll be good. I'm not going to
24:36
Speaker 1: spend that kind of money.
24:38
Speaker 2: To sit outside for four hours in, I don't know,
24:41
Speaker 2: it was going to be 45 degrees on Sunday in
24:43
Speaker 2: Green Bay or something like that. I'm not spending that
24:45
Speaker 2: kind of cash to sit outside. Of course, I wouldn't
24:48
Speaker 2: spend that kind of cash if it was a dome stadium.
24:52
Speaker 2: I'm not going to spend that kind of cash. It's
24:54
Speaker 2: not happening. Not happening. Now, if somebody wants to give
24:58
Speaker 2: me tickets, I'd be more than happy to go. Not
25:00
Speaker 2: that I'm begging for tickets. I'm just saying, if I
25:03
Speaker 2: had a freebie, if I had a hookup, if I
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Speaker 2: knew a guy, I'd be in. But I don't know
25:08
Speaker 2: a guy. My brother who lives there, he's not a
25:11
Speaker 2: sports fan, so he doesn't know anybody. So that's completely useless.
25:15
Speaker 2: Completely useless. Now, King Roy mentioning the penalties and planting
25:21
Speaker 2: the seed of excuse should the Green Bay Packers... end
25:24
Speaker 2: up losing to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday in a
25:27
Speaker 2: made-for-TV matchup. Kirk Cousins, you've got to play in that game, right?
25:30
Speaker 2: Cousins has to play in that game. You only get
25:33
Speaker 2: so many of these games, you've got to play them. Minnesota,
25:36
Speaker 2: the least penalized team in the NFL this year. Did
25:40
Speaker 2: you know that?
25:40
Speaker 1: That's my fun fact of the hour.
25:42
Speaker 2: The Minnesota Vikings are the least penalized team in the NFL.
25:47
Speaker 2: They get called for 5.4 penalties per game. Fewest in
25:51
Speaker 2: the NFL. Now, the Green Bay Packers... Where do the
25:54
Speaker 2: Packers rank among NFL teams in penalties? Well, let's see,
25:59
Speaker 2: a little further down, Green Bay, not in the top
26:05
Speaker 2: five in penalties. The Green Bay Packers are near the bottom.
26:10
Speaker 2: They are in a bottleneck at 8.2 penalties. They're called
26:15
Speaker 2: for as many penalties per game as Dallas, Baltimore. They're
26:21
Speaker 2: in that bottleneck. Tied for 26 in the NFL. Green Bay,
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Speaker 2: close to the bottom. The most penalized team, as it
26:30
Speaker 2: has to be. The factory of sadness, the Cleveland Browns. Man,
26:33
Speaker 2: do they keep doing it year after year. The consistency
26:36
Speaker 2: of the product. Just tremendous job by that Browns organization
26:40
Speaker 2: year after year. The coaches change, the players change, and
26:45
Speaker 2: the one constant, the factory of sadness, never letting you down.
26:50
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the phones, and we have
26:52
Speaker 2: someone cashing a golden ticket. So here we go. Let's
26:57
Speaker 2: say hello to Scott from the Commonwealth, who's cashing that
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Speaker 2: golden ticket right away. Hello, Scott.
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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 3: Hey. Hey!
27:07
Speaker 4: I did it!
27:08
Speaker 1: Now I get the song.
27:09
Speaker 2: I did it!
27:10
Speaker 1: Yeah!
27:11
Speaker 3: Thanks, Lorena.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you're the answer to a trivia question. This is
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Speaker 2: the first time Lorena's had to do both jobs.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no, did Lorena take my call?
27:23
Speaker 4: Because I didn't realize it was her.
27:26
Speaker 1: Let's go through that.
27:26
Speaker 2: Who did you think it was? Did you think it
27:28
Speaker 2: was like an 800-pound man that answered the phone?
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Speaker 1: Who did you think it was, Scott?
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Speaker 3: Oh, no, I knew it was a female, but I
27:34
Speaker 3: didn't realize, does Lorena have a radio voice and a
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Speaker 3: telephone voice?
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Speaker 1: Oh, interesting.
27:42
Speaker 2: All right. Lorena, did you inject some testosterone when you
27:47
Speaker 2: were screening the calls? Do you want to hear what
27:48
Speaker 2: I sound like when I answer the phone?
27:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hear this.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
27:51
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling the Ben Maller Show.
27:53
Speaker 1: Who am I speaking to?
27:55
Speaker 2: No, that sounds the same.
27:56
Speaker 3: That's pretty close.
27:57
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to go.
27:59
Speaker 2: Welcome to Fox Sports.
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Speaker 3: No.
28:01
Speaker 1: Something like that. But you didn't do that.
28:04
Speaker 2: You didn't try to get that really low baritone thing
28:07
Speaker 2: going on. You didn't do that.
28:09
Speaker 4: Interesting.
28:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Scott, you're the answer to a trivia question.
28:12
Speaker 2: So Lorraine was somewhat concerned. And let me tell you,
28:16
Speaker 2: this is such a tight ship. I didn't even know
28:17
Speaker 2: until the show started that Coop wasn't here.
28:19
Speaker 1: I didn't get a message. You'd think I'd get a message.
28:21
Speaker 2: I didn't even get a message. But you're here now, Scott.
28:23
Speaker 2: That's all that matters. That's all we care about.
28:25
Speaker 4: All right. All right. Here's why I called.
28:29
Speaker 3: Yes.
28:29
Speaker 4: Ben, when are you going to write a book? You
28:33
Speaker 4: have all these cool stories. You have a million cool,
28:37
Speaker 4: funny stories. Remember the other night you were talking about
28:41
Speaker 4: back in the day in the 90s when I was
28:43
Speaker 4: doing broadcasting, I had just gotten into business. All the
28:46
Speaker 4: guys are like chain smokers, so they could have.
28:49
Speaker 1: A masculine voice.
28:52
Speaker 3: Remember that?
28:53
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, in radio.
28:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, a lot of the players were smoking.
28:56
Speaker 2: I'll never forget when I walked into the Chicago Cubs locker.
28:59
Speaker 1: Room and they had Rod Beck.
29:02
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember. I don't know how
29:04
Speaker 2: old you are, but Rod Beck was a closer.
29:05
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, no, I'm 63.
29:07
Speaker 2: Okay, oh, you're older than me. So Rod Beck was
29:08
Speaker 2: this fat closer with long hair, and he was a
29:12
Speaker 2: good pitcher. He was a star for the Giants, but
29:15
Speaker 2: he was with the Cubs after his glory days with
29:18
Speaker 2: the Giants. And he was smoking.
29:20
Speaker 1: Jeff Blauser, who was with the Cubs, he was smoking.
29:22
Speaker 1: Mark Gray. They were all smoking cigs in the locker room.
29:25
Speaker 1: It was wild. I was like, wow, I might get
29:27
Speaker 1: a casino in Vegas. This is next level, man.
29:30
Speaker 2: And as far as your– to answer your question, Scott,
29:33
Speaker 2: I would love to write a book. I actually– a
29:35
Speaker 2: friend of the show, I was working on a project
29:38
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. We had we had a
29:41
Speaker 2: draft of a book that we had made and put
29:44
Speaker 2: a lot of work into it. One of my friends
29:46
Speaker 2: who's a writer. They put a lot of work into it,
29:49
Speaker 2: and we pitched it to the publishing houses, and nobody
29:51
Speaker 2: bought it.
29:53
Speaker 4: Really?
29:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, to sell the book.
29:55
Speaker 2: Somebody asked to buy it, and nobody wanted it. So
29:58
Speaker 2: if you know somebody that can publish the book, we
30:00
Speaker 2: have a book, and we have it ready to go,
30:03
Speaker 2: and we can get it published. But they were not interested.
30:07
Speaker 3: Well, Ben, Ben, instead of– excuse me.
30:10
Speaker 4: Hold on. Excuse me.
30:11
Speaker 1: I'm not being a– Don't cough up a lung, please.
30:14
Speaker 1: Do not cough up a lung.
30:15
Speaker 3: No, no.
30:16
Speaker 4: I'm good. I'm good, Ben.
30:18
Speaker 2: Hold on.
30:20
Speaker 4: All right.
30:22
Speaker 2: No.
30:23
Speaker 3: I don't have a call button. I'm sorry.
30:24
Speaker 4: Why don't you just do.
30:27
Speaker 3: Like a podcast? Like my life as a broadcaster podcast.
30:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the kind of thing you do. Well, I
30:35
Speaker 2: will when they whack me. I'll do that. That'll be
30:37
Speaker 2: my podcast. When the company whacks me, I'll do that.
30:39
Speaker 2: But until then, no, I would like to write a book.
30:42
Speaker 2: And I had a rough draft of a book ready
30:44
Speaker 2: to go. And so we might revisit that at some point.
30:48
Speaker 2: And do it. But if you think radio's not doing great,
30:52
Speaker 2: newspapers are dead. I think radio's doing better now than
30:55
Speaker 2: it was. The book industry, Scott, not doing very well.
30:59
Speaker 2: Not a lot of people reading books these days. You
31:01
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying?
31:02
Speaker 3: I mean, Barnes & Noble is probably... Do you have
31:06
Speaker 3: Barnes & Noble out there?
31:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. It's a national... Yeah, it's a national.
31:09
Speaker 3: Okay.
31:10
Speaker 2: All right.
31:11
Speaker 3: If you walk in the store, back in the day,
31:14
Speaker 3: back in, like, say, 2008... there'd be like 10 people
31:19
Speaker 3: working there, 11 people. You walk in now, there's like
31:23
Speaker 3: three or four.
31:25
Speaker 2: That's pretty much everywhere. I mean, I remember when, I
31:28
Speaker 2: think it was, Barnes & Noble, or maybe it was
31:31
Speaker 2: Borders Books.
31:31
Speaker 1: They had this.
31:32
Speaker 4: Oh, you had Borders?
31:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was great.
31:36
Speaker 2: They're gone.
31:36
Speaker 1: But one of them had.
31:37
Speaker 2: They used to have these big, comfortable sofas and chairs.
31:42
Speaker 2: And then some CEO said, let's get rid of it.
31:45
Speaker 1: Too many people are coming in here, and they're not
31:47
Speaker 1: buying the books.
31:48
Speaker 2: They're just reading the books. And I would go in there,
31:50
Speaker 2: and I'd... I'd sit in those chairs and I would,
31:53
Speaker 2: you know, I'd buy stuff, but I'd sit in there.
31:55
Speaker 2: It was very comfortable.
31:56
Speaker 1: And that actually, that hurt their business and all. But
31:59
Speaker 1: I lived, when I.
31:59
Speaker 2: Lived over, when I lived in Hollywood, the bookstore over there,
32:04
Speaker 2: they had all the authors come through there when they,
32:06
Speaker 2: new books came out. So there were a lot of famous,
32:08
Speaker 2: it was really cool. There were a lot of famous
32:09
Speaker 2: people who would come in there. and try to get
32:11
Speaker 2: you to buy their book, and they'd speak about their book.
32:13
Speaker 2: And you knew they hated it, Scott, because they were
32:16
Speaker 2: around the unwashed, but they had to do it.
32:18
Speaker 1: It was part of the deal to get the book published.
32:20
Speaker 1: All right, I got to go. Thank you, Scott. We'll
32:22
Speaker 1: try to publish the book, buddy.
32:23
Speaker 2: Yes?
32:24
Speaker 1: All right, thank you.
32:25
Speaker 2: All right, go away. There's Scott. The CompuBox stats for
32:30
Speaker 2: the trade deadline, which is now over in the NFL,
32:34
Speaker 2: the 2026 NFL trade deadline, the musical chairs has stopped.
32:40
Speaker 2: There were 18 in-season trades, 18 in-season trades that is
32:46
Speaker 2: tied for the fourth most in the last 35 years.
32:52
Speaker 1: The fourth most in the last 35 years.
32:54
Speaker 2: So it's not the most tied for fourth most. How
32:58
Speaker 2: many trades happened at the deadline? Right before the music stopped,
33:02
Speaker 2: there were not one, not two, not three, not four,
33:05
Speaker 2: not five, but six trades that took place on Tuesday
33:08
Speaker 2: before the deadline. And that is tied for the fourth
33:12
Speaker 2: most on a single day the last 35 years as well.
33:17
Speaker 2: And overall, this calendar year involving trades, there were 110
33:25
Speaker 2: separate trades this season. That is the most in a
33:28
Speaker 2: season since at least 1990. Now, the theory on this
33:35
Speaker 2: is because of the analytics. This is actually a positive.
33:41
Speaker 2: Old school football people my entire life said you cannot
33:45
Speaker 2: make trades in the NFL. You can't expect the player
33:48
Speaker 2: to come in here and learn the playbook and adjust.
33:51
Speaker 2: It's just too hard for them to do. And they
33:55
Speaker 2: have been outnumbered by the analytical crew that says, okay,
33:59
Speaker 2: we can build a better mousetrap. We know that you
34:02
Speaker 2: can bring a player in and drop them in and
34:03
Speaker 2: everything will be fine and all that. And so that
34:06
Speaker 2: has changed in my life. There are many more trades now.
34:11
Speaker 2: Doing this job, doing sports radio, it was such a
34:14
Speaker 2: disappointment year after year. We'd all get worked up into
34:17
Speaker 2: a lather. We'd get all horned up for the trade
34:20
Speaker 2: deadline and there'd be no trades. Or it'd be like
34:23
Speaker 2: the backup left guard for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was traded.
34:29
Speaker 2: for a seventh-round draft pick, and you're like, okay, who
34:32
Speaker 2: the F cares? It doesn't matter at all. Irrelevant. Time now, though,
34:37
Speaker 2: for the Who Am I game, which is not irrelevant.
34:39
Speaker 2: We'll take some calls as well on the other side.
34:41
Speaker 2: But here's the Who Am I game. According to the
34:43
Speaker 2: next-gen stats, according to the next-gen stats, I.
34:49
Speaker 1: Lead all NFL quarterbacks.
34:52
Speaker 2: This 2026 season with an average of nine point nine
34:56
Speaker 2: air yards.
34:57
Speaker 1: Per pass attempt.
34:58
Speaker 2: Again, according to the next gen stats, I lead all
35:01
Speaker 2: NFL quarterbacks this 2026 season with an average of nine
35:05
Speaker 2: point nine air yards per pass attempt. Who am I?
35:10
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35:13
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36:18
Speaker 2: but let's go to the phones. Anthony is in Louisiana,
36:21
Speaker 2: and we say hello to Anthony. Hello, Anthony. Welcome. Hey, man.
36:26
Speaker 3: How you doing?
36:27
Speaker 1: Hey, there he is, the great Anthony.
36:30
Speaker 2: What's going on with you?
36:32
Speaker 4: How was your weekend?
36:35
Speaker 1: Well, Anthony, it's.
36:35
Speaker 2: Actually Wednesday today. It's our Wednesday show. The weekend, I
36:39
Speaker 2: feel like we're past. What is the cutoff on when
36:42
Speaker 2: to ask about the weekend? I feel like we're in
36:44
Speaker 2: the middle. We're in the twilight area where we're in
36:47
Speaker 2: between weekends. We're kind of halfway. I think Tuesday is
36:50
Speaker 2: the cutoff, Ben. Okay, so we're past the cutoff. When
36:54
Speaker 2: you go past Tuesday, you can say, hey, what are
36:58
Speaker 2: you doing this weekend?
36:59
Speaker 1: Or like we're already in how's your week been weekend.
37:03
Speaker 2: There you go.
37:03
Speaker 1: You can say, how's your week going?
37:04
Speaker 2: That's good. That's another one.
37:06
Speaker 3: You had a good week?
37:08
Speaker 1: Oh, thanks for asking. I was hoping somebody would ask
37:11
Speaker 1: me how my week's going. Boy, it's been great. It's
37:14
Speaker 1: been so much fun.
37:15
Speaker 2: Man alive.
37:16
Speaker 1: How about you? What's going on with you, you little devil?
37:20
Speaker 3: Oh, nothing much.
37:21
Speaker 4: Oh, Coop made it back.
37:22
Speaker 2: I wonder how his cat's doing. Okay. Coop?
37:27
Speaker 1: Doing fine, thank you.
37:29
Speaker 3: Yeah.
37:29
Speaker 2: All right.
37:30
Speaker 3: Yeah.
37:31
Speaker 2: All right.
37:32
Speaker 4: Hey, Lorraine.
37:34
Speaker 1: What up, cuz?
37:36
Speaker 3: I love you.
37:37
Speaker 4: It's good to hear from you.
37:38
Speaker 1: It's better to hear from you.
37:39
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling.
37:40
Speaker 3: I love how you made me laugh. You guys, this
37:42
Speaker 3: is the humor.
37:43
Speaker 1: I try to keep it up.
37:44
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? That's right.
37:45
Speaker 3: Yeah.
37:46
Speaker 2: Very nice.
37:47
Speaker 3: You tell my friend Andrea I said hey.
37:50
Speaker 2: Bingo.
37:50
Speaker 1: I've got bingo.
37:52
Speaker 2: I'll let Andrea. I'll let her know. All right. We
37:55
Speaker 2: got one.
37:55
Speaker 1: Any other thing you want to say before we're done
37:57
Speaker 1: with the conversation?
37:58
Speaker 2: Anything else you want to say?
37:59
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Oh, and tell my other friend, Nature Boy, I said, hey.
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Speaker 2: Who? Nature Boy.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Nature Boy.
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Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: He changes that. That answers the call of the wild,
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Speaker 1: the Nature Boy. All right, well, thank you, Anthony.
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Speaker 2: All right, go away. There's Anthony. Time now for the
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Speaker 2: payoff on the Who Am I game. This is where
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Speaker 2: we pretend to be somebody else. So according to the
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Speaker 2: NextGen stats, I lead all quarterbacks this season with an
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Speaker 2: average of 9.9 air yards per pass attempt. Who am I?
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Speaker 2: That is the question. What is the answer? And let's
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Speaker 2: see here. Does anyone know the answer? We go to
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Speaker 2: the hoi polloi here. Pauly D is going with Kirk Cousins.
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Speaker 2: Rob in Vegas. Good to see his name. He's back.
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Speaker 2: Bobby the Brain Heenan. Bubby Brister from Doc Dan. Who
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Speaker 2: else do we have? Rob the Goatman, guest by Robbie,
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Speaker 2: the Mariner fan. Marlon Perkins from Alf the Alien Alpiner.
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Speaker 2: George Patton, the General from Chip. In the queues, 2%
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Speaker 2: chance going with Miss Cleo. Who else do we have?
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Speaker 2: Dom DeLuise from Michael in New Mexico. That's a name
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Speaker 2: we don't get very often. Viking Clown Shoes from Michael
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Speaker 2: in Tulsa. Rich Garces from James. That's a good name.
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Speaker 1: Do you have an answer, Lorena, quickly? Jordan Love. No,
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Speaker 1: it's C.J. Stroud of the Houston Texans. C.J. Stroud.