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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 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead story, they gave us a dud of a
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night game, so we don't have to start with that. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: we'll head over to Jerry's World, where Dallas was a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown favorite over the lowly Cardinals, and they were high-stepping
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  Speaker 1: and running around, and things were going very well there.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys led 24-10, a two-touchdown lead, early in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and then they had to play the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the game. How'd that go? Not good. Made for
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  Speaker 1: good talk radio, though. Chad Ryland.
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  Speaker 3: Who?
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  Speaker 1: A kicker. Chad Ryland kicked the game-winning 42-yard field goal
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  Speaker 1: in overtime. He had missed a point after touchdown that
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  Speaker 1: would have given the game to Arizona in regulation. Who goofed?
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know. The idiot kicker. That was with
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  Speaker 1: six seconds left in the game after Arizona had rallied
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  Speaker 1: and gone down and tied the game. Thought they were
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  Speaker 1: going to win it. They had to go to overtime
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  Speaker 1: to win it. But in the end, they do win.
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  Speaker 1: So the Cardinals get a 33-30 victory over the once-proud
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  Speaker 1: Dallas football team. The Cardinals beating the Cowboys for the
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  Speaker 1: fifth consecutive time, we are told, and improved a 5-0
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  Speaker 1: on the road in AT & T Stadium in Jerry's World.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals... All these championships, that franchise has won since
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  Speaker 1: that stadium opened in 09. It makes sense that the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys would be 0-5 against the Cardinals with that
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  Speaker 1: championship pedigree. So this was, you talk about crushing. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys, two-touchdown lead. They obviously lose. They drop to 3-5.
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  Speaker 1: They did not trail until the final kick came. And
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  Speaker 1: they led, as I said, by two touchdowns early in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. That is a good jumping-off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Who gets the biggest piece of
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  Speaker 1: the blame burrito for C.D. Lamb's Dallas Cowboys? So I've
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  Speaker 1: got Chevron, Italian Bistro, and Flea Market. And we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together. We're going to try
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  Speaker 1: to avoid... Pocket book issues. I'm going to try to
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  Speaker 1: avoid pocket book issues. So, A, when you look at
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  Speaker 1: this cowboy blunder at the very end there, we're starting
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  Speaker 1: with horticulture. We're going to start with horticulture here because
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals said the game was over. They conceded defeat,
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  Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. How do I know that? They benched
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  Speaker 1: their captain, El Capitan Jacoby Brissett. They took him out
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  Speaker 1: of the game to get out of here. And then
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys were done in by, as I said, horticulture.
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  Speaker 1: And the ghost, Jerry Jones, planted a championship garden. A
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  Speaker 1: championship garden there. Loves to talk about all the moves
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys made to fix this, that, and the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing got watered down. The garden got watered down.
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  Speaker 1: $ 100 bills, Jerry Jones tossing those, making it rain and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And he ended up harvesting a bumper
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  Speaker 1: crop of poison ivy. My God. Minshew mania. Gardner Minshew.
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  Speaker 1: Too much for the Dallas Cowboys defense. The Cardinals say
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go to our backup. We're calling the game.
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  Speaker 1: And the Cowboys said, no, we want you to have
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  Speaker 1: the game, Gardner Minshew. We believe in Minshew mania. There's
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  Speaker 1: still a little mania left. Just a little left. And
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  Speaker 1: so that billion-dollar football cathedral, Jerry's World there, it's... With Minshew,
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  Speaker 1: it turned into a haunted hayride the day after Halloween
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  Speaker 1: as Minshew mania. Getting it done there. Jerry Jones, his
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  Speaker 1: defense could not stop a guy who looks like he
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  Speaker 1: should be selling used jet skis on Facebook Marketplace, and
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  Speaker 1: yet he led the Arizona Cardinals back, and it looked
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  Speaker 1: like he was playing against air. Wild. Absolutely wild. And
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't just Gardner Minshew who came off the bench
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  Speaker 1: like a Tasmanian devil for the Cardinals here. And it
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  Speaker 1: was like he had three double shots of caffeine and
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  Speaker 1: a bag of Halloween candy and then just lit up
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys in the late stages of the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: the game started. which should have been a game-winning touchdown
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  Speaker 1: score with six seconds left. And how about Tyler Algier,
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  Speaker 1: the former Atlanta Falcon running back? I didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: he was with the Cardinals because you'd have to pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to the Cardinals. He averaged 13.4 yards, not per catch.
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  Speaker 1: He averaged 13.4 yards per carry for the Cardinals. Oh, man. P.U.
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  Speaker 1: What stinks? You talk about a defense riding the vomit comet.
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  Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys defense. One of the epic meltdowns you'll
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  Speaker 1: see all season long. And it happened. And it happened
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  Speaker 1: in glorious fashion as the Cowboys go down there. But
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  Speaker 1: you're running back, averaging 13.4 yards per carry. That is
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  Speaker 1: getting a presidential escort through the Dallas linebackers and into
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  Speaker 1: the secondary and all that. But wait, there's more. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: So Dak Prescott, he gets the sour cream of shame.
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  Speaker 1: and we're doing the burrito thing, and CeeDee Lamb gets
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  Speaker 1: extra guac of embarrassment there. It was bad. Dak Prescott
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and overtime had a 50.2, 50.2
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  Speaker 1: passer rating and 10 total passing yards in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter and overtime combined. And then how about days after
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  Speaker 1: CeeDee Lamb came out, CeeDee Lamb and said no one
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  Speaker 1: can stop him one-on-one. He's unstoppable. Well, in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter in overtime, CeeDee Lamb had one more catch than
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  Speaker 1: you and I had. One for two yards. Mr. Unstoppable,
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  Speaker 1: CeeDee Lamb. You cannot stop CeeDee Lamb. Can't stop him.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot stop CeeDee Lamb. Oh, my God, he's so good.
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  Speaker 1: He's so good. Listen, it's the same Cowboys. I could
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  Speaker 1: go back to the archives from like 08, 09, any
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  Speaker 1: year you want, the last 20 years, and you could
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  Speaker 1: take a Mallard monologue. It's pretty much the same crap.
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  Speaker 1: We just repackage it because the Cowboys are the same.
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  Speaker 1: So why should we change? Why should we change? The Cowboys,
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  Speaker 1: every year, they have the same product. Every year it's
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  Speaker 1: the same product there. It's all sizzle, no steak, all talk,
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  Speaker 1: no tackling. That's what they've got right there. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And the Cowboys are America's team the same way that
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  Speaker 1: Chevron gas station bathroom is America's restroom. That Chevron bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way I always stop there because that's my
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  Speaker 1: America's bathroom right there. I always like to take a
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  Speaker 1: poo right there. At the Chevron. That's where I go.
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  Speaker 1: But everyone knows. Everyone knows what's going on with the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: And it continues yet again. It's just. It's wild. It
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely wild. And somehow Jerry keeps charging premium prices
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  Speaker 1: for this crapola. He had some great comments on the postgame.
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  Speaker 1: Now to the page two, the Komodo dragon in the room.
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  Speaker 1: The Komodo dragon in the room. Dallas is, as mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: three and five on the year. We're told that's not good.
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  Speaker 1: And people are barking for a coaching change. We got
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  Speaker 1: to make a change. Jerry Jones standing by. Brian Schottenheimer,
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys owner, saying that he isn't considering firing his head
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  Speaker 1: coach during the season. Not a consideration, despite Dallas with
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  Speaker 1: another embarrassing effort. Remember, a couple weeks ago, they lost
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  Speaker 1: at home to Tampa Bay. and the undrafted quarterback who
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  Speaker 1: went in there and played better in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: than Dak Prescott and made winning plays while Dak Prescott
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  Speaker 1: made losing plays. And so there's a pattern here going on.
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  Speaker 1: But Jerry Jones said, quote, I will say that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people let Brian, meeting Schottenheimer, down today, Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones said. He also invoked Wade Phillips, of all people.
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  Speaker 1: And he said he acknowledged that he did fire Wade
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  Speaker 1: Phillips midseason, saying that that was something he is, quote,
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  Speaker 1: not proud of it. I don't see that here at all.
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  Speaker 1: Close quote. All right. So that was Jerry Jones speaking
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  Speaker 1: to the media in the bowels of the arena. Here
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  Speaker 1: is the aforementioned Brian Schottenheimer. And he's talking about his quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, why would you talk about Jerry Jones? Here
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  Speaker 1: is Schottenheimer on his terrible quarterback, Dak Prescott. I believe
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  Speaker 1: in Dak Prescott. I believe in Jamar James. I believe
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  Speaker 1: in Quinton Williams. I believe in those guys, and they
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  Speaker 1: should as well. We're going to work our asses off
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  Speaker 1: to get it right and fix it. Can you jump
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  Speaker 1: up 14-3, come out halftime, and you gotta you know
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  Speaker 1: have that killer instinct and we didn't do that you
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  Speaker 1: see the thing is rather right you don't actually get
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  Speaker 1: paid for working hard you get paid for like winning
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  Speaker 1: like the work's just kind of part of the deal
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  Speaker 1: it's uh That's kind of the way it works. So
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones saying, hey, I'm not going to change coaches
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  Speaker 1: at this point. Here's Dak Prescott on his head coach
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  Speaker 1: being in the crosshairs right now.
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  Speaker 4: It's all of us.
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  Speaker 5: It's all of us.
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  Speaker 4: Don't put the blame on one person. Simple as that.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's weak. I think that's cowardly. This game
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  Speaker 4: is about all, as I said, all 11 that touch
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  Speaker 4: the field and every person that has a part in it,
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  Speaker 4: coaches and support staff. And so it's never just one
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  Speaker 4: person's fault. Even if I go out there and throw
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of interceptions, it's never just truly one person's fault.
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  Speaker 4: And so, yeah, don't take the easy and cheap way out.
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  Speaker 4: This is about us, and it's about us backing him
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  Speaker 4: up and backing one another up.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to show it. All right, so what do
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  Speaker 1: you make of what Dak Prescott just said and Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones giving Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer the dreaded vote of confidence? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, let's start with Dak. All right, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you something. Dak Prescott, that's the perfect answer of
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  Speaker 1: a guy that has no clue what he's doing. And
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  Speaker 1: he's the perfect Cowboy quarterback. A real leader says, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's my fault. I'm the one to blame. There are
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  Speaker 1: people to blame. There are people to blame. And Shottie's
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  Speaker 1: one of them. Dak Prescott's one of them. Oh, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, Dak, as we mentioned, Dak Prescott in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter and overtime had a 50.2 passer rating. Ten yards.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That sounds like somebody would come out and say, well, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's a collective. It's cowardly to blame one person. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when you're one of the people to blame, I'd say
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  Speaker 1: the same thing if I was Dak Prescott. As far
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  Speaker 1: as the level of surprise, what do you make of
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones coming out and saying, well, no, no, I
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  Speaker 1: don't see a Brian Schottenheimer change here. The dreaded vote
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  Speaker 1: of confidence for Brian Schottenheimer. I'm not surprised. No one
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  Speaker 1: should be surprised by this. Jerry Jones is running a
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  Speaker 1: football team like it's a family-owned Italian bistro. And the
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  Speaker 1: food is terrible. There's cockroaches in the salad. The reviews
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  Speaker 1: are horrific. But nobody's firing Cousin Brian. It's a family bistro,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't care if there's ants in the linguine.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to continue with Brian. Cousin Brian's not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if he's a shoddy chef. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to stay. He's going to stay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you know why Jerry Jones will not fire Schottenheimer.
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  Speaker 1: It's rather obvious, because then he would have to admit
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  Speaker 1: he hired the wrong guy again. And he didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do that. He's not ready to do that. Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones would rather swallow a cactus. He'd rather take a
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  Speaker 1: cacti and swallow that than say, oh, yeah, I F
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  Speaker 1: this one up, too. I totally F this one up.
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  Speaker 1: And the Cowboys, they don't really have a coaching tree
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  Speaker 1: at this point. They don't. They've got a coaching shrub
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  Speaker 1: is what they have. So you've got that shrub. And
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  Speaker 1: Jerry keeps watering the dead branches on the shrub. Remember
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  Speaker 1: Jason Garrett? Jason Garrett lasted longer as the Cowboy coach
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  Speaker 1: than some European monarchs. And his greatest skill set as
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  Speaker 1: a head coach, when he was there back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: Jason Garrett was clapping. Clap on, clap off the clapper.
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  Speaker 1: That was it. As I remember, that's what he did.
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  Speaker 1: Schottenheimer could lose 14 games. Schottenheimer could lose 14 games,
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  Speaker 1: and Jerry Jones... would compliment Brian Schottenheimer on his posture
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  Speaker 1: because he's found the one thing valuable. Actually, more valuable
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  Speaker 1: than winning. Forget it. Winning is one thing. The thing
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  Speaker 1: more valuable than winning, though, for Jerry Jones, a coach
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  Speaker 1: who never says, you know, Jerry, you screwed this up.
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  Speaker 1: That's a bad job by you. Shame on you.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: Schotty's done a shoddy job, as mentioned here, but Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones has mastered the art. of selling failure. And as
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  Speaker 1: long as people continue to buy it, it's a great
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  Speaker 1: long-term investment opportunity. The Cowboys. Oh, it's so good. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: last word. To Landover, Maryland. Very rarely does the NFL
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  Speaker 1: serve up slop on Sunday Night Football. That was slop.
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  Speaker 1: You almost always lead with Sunday Night Football because it's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest game of the weekend. That was El Crapo.
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  Speaker 1: That was Washington and Philadelphia. My God, those teams both suck.
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  Speaker 1: And they played each other. Washington won 27-10. Turns out
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  Speaker 1: that backup quarterback for the Eagles, if it was in
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  Speaker 1: pirate lingo, we'd say, there she blows! That guy sucks.
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  Speaker 1: And so Philadelphia goes down 27-10. You're just run-of-the-mill. lackluster
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night game. The story here was after the game,
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles have, according to the Eagle beat writers in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room, the Eagles have assured Saquon Barkley that
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  Speaker 1: he will not be traded, that he will not be traded.
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia is two and six. The collapse is on. They've
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  Speaker 1: got a six game losing streak and Barkley for what
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  Speaker 1: it's worth. He's like, Oh yeah, yeah. I want to
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  Speaker 1: stick around. I want to fix the mess. And, That's
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  Speaker 1: his public position, that he wants to be part of
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  Speaker 1: the solution. He's looking for that, wants to be part
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  Speaker 1: of the solution there. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: And so there's all kinds of concerns about Barkley going
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  Speaker 1: forward here. And he had that magical season a couple
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  Speaker 1: years ago in 24 for the Eagles, was the greatest
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  Speaker 1: running back in the NFL, and he's a shell of
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  Speaker 1: what that guy was for Philadelphia. He's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money left on his contract. So the question, is
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  Speaker 1: Eagles general manager Howie Roseman making a mistake by refusing
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  Speaker 1: to trade Saquon Barkley? All right, so I got to
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  Speaker 1: believe there's some gamesmanship going on here, some It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be some gamesmanship. I'm going to go with gamesmanship
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  Speaker 1: on this. General manager Howie Roseman is supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: the loyal executive now. Come on. Give me a break.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to puke in my mouth. This is not
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  Speaker 1: how Howie Roseman is. This is not it. This has
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  Speaker 1: to be El Clasico in terms of posturing. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be posturing. And if it's not, someone might need
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  Speaker 1: to test the water at the Eagles facility and Saquon
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  Speaker 1: Barkley checks all of the boxes, not some of the boxes,
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  Speaker 1: all of the boxes of a guy that you would
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  Speaker 1: unload if you're in Philadelphia's situation. You're going nowhere, right?
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  Speaker 1: And that's the player you get rid of. He is
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  Speaker 1: the epitome of a guy that should be on the
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  Speaker 1: flea market. for the Philadelphia Eagles. He's pushing 30. Running
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  Speaker 1: backs fall off the map typically when they turn 30.
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  Speaker 1: Hobbled by lower body injuries the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got a bloated contract on top of that.
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  Speaker 1: $ 35 million remaining on his contract, Saquon Barkley, through 2028.
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  Speaker 1: So he's got a lot of cash coming his way.
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  Speaker 1: Not all that is guaranteed money. The point is, Like,
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  Speaker 1: all of those things. It's like the Eagles are effectively
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  Speaker 1: waving the white flag. They're 2-6. They have no quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And their defense is not very good either. It's a
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  Speaker 1: hot mess. So what are we doing here? Howie, all
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  Speaker 1: the media loves you. They lick your toes, Howie Roseman.
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  Speaker 1: Say how great you are. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: Drops down faster than a lead balloon. We always hear
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  Speaker 1: that when running backs get to about the age of 30.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a prime window of opportunity. And you can get, listen,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to get much in return because of
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  Speaker 1: the contract and the age and all that, but you
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  Speaker 1: get something. And it's not that difficult to replace who
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  Speaker 1: Barkley is right now. He's not very good at this
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  Speaker 1: particular moment. So the wheels on the bus are starting
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  Speaker 1: to not go round and round. They're starting to fall off.
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  Speaker 1: So why would you not trade him? The Eagles want
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  Speaker 1: to have their cheesesteak, apparently, and they want to eat it, too,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. They need a complete, ground-up renovation. Not a demo.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a demo. This is a renovation. You
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  Speaker 1: never do full demo in the NFL unless you're the
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  Speaker 1: Jets or the Browns, and they do that every couple years.
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  Speaker 1: But the teams that are actually competitive, they don't do
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  Speaker 1: the full demo. They do a renovation is what they do.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to do a renovation. But, my God,
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  Speaker 1: this is... It's pretty wild. You've got to think that's posturing.
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  Speaker 1: It would be insane. You can work with Barkley. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm the Eagles, I know it's taboo to make a
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  Speaker 1: trade with the Giants, but I would trade him back
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  Speaker 1: to the Giants. The Giants have some running back issues.
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  Speaker 1: It's spotty, the running back play. I would send him
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  Speaker 1: to the Giants because then he becomes the Giants' problem
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  Speaker 1: at that particular point. It is the Ben Maller show,
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  Speaker 1: meaning even if he plays well this year, he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be $ 30, 000. A lot of miles, a lot of
• 19:13
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• 19:16
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• 19:19
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• 19:22
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• 19:25
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• 20:15
  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the Mile High City.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: We had an AFC West. Brew-ha-ha! I know Coop's smiling
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: from ear to ear. The Chiefs traveling roadshow, visiting... the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: mile-high city there after... Remember the opener of the NFL
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: season for the Chiefs and the Broncos? That was a molly-whoppin'
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that Kansas City put on Denver. So it was the rematch,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: another play date, the last one of the year, unless
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: these teams meet in the playoffs. I don't know if
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: you saw this game or not. Were you watching? It
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: was the big game over there on CBS. It was
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: their big game. So you had Jim Nance and that
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Watt guy. Is it J.J. Watt? I guess J.J.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Watt.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: So the Broncos, the Broncos were down 24 to 13
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. And when the Chiefs lead by
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: double digits in the fourth quarter, they win like 90-something
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: percent of the time. But not this time. As the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Broncos came all the way back, they win with their
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: defense 28-24. Bo Nix, a couple of late touchdown drives.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: The much maligned Bo Nix, he does deserve the maligned category.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: But he did have a couple of late touchdown drives.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And someone named Malcolm Roach, how appropriate. As there's a
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Roach infestation here. And Malcolm Roach sacking Patrick Holmes. As
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: time ran out, turn out the last. The party's over
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: for the road team. And Kansas City goes down. The
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Broncos win. The better story is in the losing locker
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: room as Kansas City gagged. They sucked at a time
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: you cannot suck. And that is a good jumping off point.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. And I want to bring
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: this up because the question I'm going to frame it
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: this way. There's a lot of blaming the idiot kicker
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: as Harrison Buckner missed a 54 yard field goal in
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter in the rain. And they're blaming him.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: They're blaming Andy Reid's coaching and all that. So here's
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the question. When the Chiefs blow an 11 point. Fourth
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: quarter lead. Why does everybody rush to find someone to
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: blame other than Patrick Mahomes? I noticed that. I noticed
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: these things. I don't know why I noticed these things,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: but I noticed these things. What does the industrial complex
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: of the hot take have to say about Kansas City losing?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: And there were some really bonehead plays, really bonehead plays
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: in that game. So I've got Ambassador of Papua New Guinea,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Oscar de la Hoya, and Guantanamo Bay. And we will
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we're going to
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: get the ball rolling. We're going to get the ball rolling. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Enough with the Patrick Mahomes excuse train. True, true. Listen,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: he blew it. He gagged. However you want to say it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean he's not a top-notch quarterback and all that stuff.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: It just means that on this show, Patrick Mahomes does
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: not get diplomatic immunity. He does not. He sucked at
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: a time you cannot suck. He rode the vomit comet,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: all that. And yet the mainstream established football media treat
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: him like the ambassador of Papa New Guinea, right? Like
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: who parked his limousine on the sidewalk and you can't
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: do anything because he's the ambassador of Papa New Guinea.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: No.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And I will tell you, the MPS, the Mahomes Protection Society, right?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: There's a large group, Mahomes Protection Society. They all get
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: together at Whataburger once a month. They have a big
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: meeting there at Whataburger, the Mahomes Protection Society. They're working
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: overtime is what they're doing on this. Somebody needs to
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: give these people hazard pay. They do. Mahomes had the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: ball down four at the Denver 18-yard line. Needed touchdown.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: All right. First and 10, 105 left. The Chiefs had
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: not one but two timeouts. Two timeouts. And they even
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: had it first and goal to go at the four-yard
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: line of Denver with 35 seconds left and a couple
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: of timeouts. Did they score a touchdown? Hell no! They
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: didn't score a touchdown. So for me, it starts with Mahomes.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: You're Mr. Everything. You're the franchise quarterback. You've got to
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: make a play. You've got to win the game right there.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: You've got to give Kansas City the lead. Oh, you're
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: being such a meanie, Maller. I know. I know. I
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: should be like everyone else in the media and lick Mahomes' toes.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Everyone else, oh, come on, put your toe in my mouth, Mahomes.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Come on. Screw that. He didn't get it done. How
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: many points did the Chiefs score in the fourth quarter?
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: How many points? None. None. Bupkis! They put a goose
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: egg up in the fourth quarter. Didn't score. Didn't get
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: it done. Alright, here's Andy Reid, who's shockingly putting a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: positive spin on his team, gagging up an 11-point lead
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter against a divisional opponent. Take a
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: listen to this bullcrap.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: So listen, I thought the guys battled like crazy.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: They came down to it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: Too many penalties. Had over 100 yards of penalties. And
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: that puts you in a bad position all the way
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: down to a touchdown right at the end. So to
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: win the game, you got to make sure we take
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: care of that. Within that, there were some nice individual
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: things that took place. Our young rookie running back obviously
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: had a nice day and put us in a position
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: where on the kickoff where we could get ourselves a
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: scoring position.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Is this the way the world is now? You don't
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: get the job done and you get celebrated? Am I
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: missing something? We don't have that around here, do we?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: When did that happen? I didn't get that memo. I
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: always thought the whole thing about sports was they kept
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: track of who was good and who was bad and
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it's like the thing on the Jumbotron and that's... I
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: guess not. All these coaches come out. We really battled.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: We worked hard. I guess that's all that matters. The
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: fact that you lost doesn't matter. The fact that you choked...
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Very similar to the tone from Kansas City that we
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: got out of the Dallas Cowboys. Very similar. Here is
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, who did not get it done down the stretch. Again,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Chiefs had it first and 10 at the 18-yard line.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: The Broncos needing a touchdown with two timeouts left. 105
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: on the clock. Did not get in the end zone.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Here's Mahomes commenting on the division. Yeah, I mean, obviously
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: it was a big game.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not going to hide from that. But
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: now you're kind of in the dogfight for the division.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: And so you have to take it a week at
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: a time, a day at a time, a play at
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: a time, really. You just try to get better and better.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: And so at the end of the year, you're playing
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: your best football. You've put yourself in position to go
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: out there and make a run for it. Obviously, we've
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: lost these last two games against two really good football teams,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: but I was proud of how the guys battled. It
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: wasn't perfect, but we battled, and we'll learn from it
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: and have to get better and come up this next
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: week and find a way to get back on that
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: and the win column.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: So proud. Oh, the pride. Does anyone have more pride
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: than football coaches and players? My God, they're so proud.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: They are so proud. It's like Pride Month every month
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: with these guys. Every week, it's Pride Week. They're so
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: proud of themselves. My God, imagine if they won how
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: proud they would have been if they'd actually won. Craziness.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Absolute craziness. Again, Chiefs scored no points in the fourth quarter,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: blew an 11-point lead, and there you go. So, Chiefs
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: had the Broncos on life support, and Mahomes personally plugged
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the ventilator into a toaster. You're not supposed to do that.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: It's a bad job. So, Shame on you. As Mahomes,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: he's got enough jewelry at this point to open up
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: a hell of a pawn shop with all the bling-bling
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: that he's got in here. Unfortunately, none of those rings,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: none of those rings could buy him a fourth-quarter touchdown
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: to win the game there at the end. And even
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the great Andy Reid, as we heard. Andy Reid, same
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: bull crap. Andy Reid going on and on. Coaching genius,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Andy Reid. Big red, not his day there, period. on
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: this particular afternoon in the fourth quarter, to have stepped
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: out for lunch. He went out to get lunch and
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: having Harrison Buckner attempt the 54-yard field goal in the rain.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Not his finest moment, Andy Reid. Not his finest, especially
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the thing I don't understand. And somebody explain this to me,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: because I can't figure it out. I was talking to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: my friend Bob Fesco, who does a morning show in
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Kansas City, on the Chiefs station. Bob's a great guy.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and I've known Bob a long time, radio buddy of mine.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: We were talking about this. Andy Reid took all kinds
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of crap for signing the creepy kicker Justin Tucker. People
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: were killing him. All the woksers were attacking Andy Reid.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: And then Andy doesn't even put Tucker on the roster.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: So he took all this crap for signing Justin Tucker
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: and then doesn't even put him on the roster and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: then attempts a 54-yard field goal with the doofus who
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: you're thinking about replacing. It's just wild. I can't figure
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: it out. All right, page two. To Los Angeles. Speaking
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: of not being able to figure things out, Jim Harbaugh.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: What happened to Jim Big Harbaugh guy back in the day.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: What happened to Jim Harbaugh? That's not the Jim Harbaugh
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: that I used to know. Man. Now, Jim Harbaugh, after
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the Chargers went out and dropped a deuce right at midfield,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: yet again, Jim Harbaugh says he has no plans, no
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: plans to bench Justin Herbert. Despite the Chargers now 0-7.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: 0-7 after they lose to the Rams. That is the
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: worst start for the Chargers since the year 2000.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: And by the way, that was the old San Diego Chargers.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I may or may not have had sideline passes back
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: in those days to watch the Drek up close. I
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: had a hookup. I had a major hookup where I
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: was like, it was awesome. I have very fond memories
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: of that. That's a long time ago, but I have
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: very fond memories of those terrible Charger teams because they
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: allowed me to run around the old Qualcomm Stadium there
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: in San Diego, the Murph, like I owned the place.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: It was great. Justin Herbert, by the way, 257 yards passing,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: zero touchdowns, and two, two interceptions yet again. Chargers have
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: now gone 27 consecutive possessions without a touchdown. Is that good?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I'm asking for a friend. Is that good?
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: No?
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm told that is not good. So Jim Harbaugh...
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Not only will he not bench Justin Herbert, he refuses
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: to strip away Mike McDaniel, either firing McDaniel or removing
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: him as the offensive play caller. Again, 27 consecutive possessions
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: without a touchdown for the Chargers offense. 27. All right,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: here is Jim Harbaugh, who wants you to know, despite
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the fact the Chargers are 0-7, there's some things about
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: this team that you need to know about. Take a listen.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: There's no quit. There's no surrender. No quit. There's going
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: to be an opportunity next week.
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: Get ourselves ready for that. It's that motivation.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: It's that dedication. Dedication, yes.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: There's next week. There's an opportunity. And we're the only ones.
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: There's no place to... There's no place to– there's no Appomattox.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: So you've got to keep working. You've got to keep
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: moving forward and just give it your very best. Get better.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Best.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: But there's never any quit. Oh, no. Because the level
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: of bull crap is like– you can't say quit, right?
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: If you say your team quit, they've got to fire you.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: So you cannot say your team quit, even when it's obvious. Like,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: they're so bad. there's a talent level there where if
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: they were putting the proper amount of effort in, they
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: would not be 0-7. Does anyone disagree with me on that?
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: That if that team was playing the proper way with
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the right effort, they would not be 0-7. Everyone kind
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: of agrees. Fine. We all agree. There's Harbaugh. No, no,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: no quitting this team. And the best, best means as
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: good as all the rest. That was that. Here is
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert on his offensive coordinator, Mike McDaniel. Let's see.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Is he going to rip his coach or is he
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: going to praise his coach? We'll find out. Let's go
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: to the audio tape. Here we go. Because I believe
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: in him. We believe in him. He's a great coach.
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: He's very smart.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Great coach.
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: You know, it's on us as an offense to make
• 32:58
  Speaker 9: those plays. And, you know, guys are open and just
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: got to find them and make plays and score points
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: and score touchdowns.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: And we haven't done that for him. Hey, when did
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel become a great coach? I must have missed that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Was I off that day? I don't remember when that happened.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Because I remember him with the Dolphins, and I don't
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: remember him being a great coach. I must have been
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: off that day. Did the Vatican announce that he was
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: a great coach? Did they have a ceremony at the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Vatican or something like that? Mike McDaniel, by the way,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: a 35-33 record. According to Justin Herbert, that's a great coach.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: That is a great coach, according to Justin Herbert. Here's
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, who has led the Chargers to an 0-7 record,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and despite that will not be benched, apparently. Here are
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: his thoughts on that really spectacular, imperfect season.
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: There's a lot of football left, and it's what I
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: would ask of everyone else in that locker room to
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: have a great enthusiasm, positive energy, and shut up to
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: work and give them their best effort, because that's what
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: everyone else is doing. For us to be able to
• 33:54
  Speaker 9: fix this, turn it around, that's what we're going.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: To have to do.
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: Clearly.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: All right, question. Is Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh showing admirable
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: loyalty to quarterback Justin Herbert and offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel?
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Or is he enabling incompetence? You make the call. All right,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: so this one's rather obvious. Let's start with the quarterback.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert is the Oscar de la Hoya of the Chargers.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: What does that mean? He's the golden boy.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: He is.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Imagine having that kind of job security in what we're
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: always told is an uber competitive industry. Except it always
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: seems like it's just, hey, we're playing hard. That's it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: We're playing hard and we're working hard and that's it.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: So it's crazy. He is literally one of the worst
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in that business, and Jim Harbaugh keeps standing by
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: his man. It's like, open your eyes, dummy. Seriously. Herbert
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: got paid, and the Chargers got played. Period. Stop. That's it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: You're not that guy, pal. You're not that guy. You
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: look at the Chargers here, and Herbert, you do the
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Pepsi challenge. Side-by-side blind taste test. Remove Herbert's name, reputation,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: and his bloated contract. There is not a man, woman,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: or child that knows even a little bit about football
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: who would say that Herbert should remain the starting quarterback.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't happen, right? He's serving generic... Discount store Mountain Dew
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: is what he's doing. It's Fountain Mist is what he's serving.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: He's just misting around there and selling it at Johnny
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Walker Blue prices. And yet Harbaugh treating his quarterback like
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: he's the Mona Lisa at the Louvre instead of a
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: velvet painting from a garage sale. And again, it's supposed
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: to be a meritocracy. We keep hearing about meritocracy, this, that,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and everything. And as for McDaniel... Being an offensive genius,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the only thing offensive about Mike McDaniel is his product,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: the offense. McDaniel apparently is the only offensive coordinator whose
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: job gets safer every time they punt three and out
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: or get a field goal or miss a field goal.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: It's wild. He gets more job security with every incompetent
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: thing that happens to the Charger offense. It really is crazy.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: And he could call plays. They could get a magic
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: eight ball and say, hey, magic eight ball, why don't
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: you call the offensive play? And Harbaugh would praise the process.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I said, well, yeah, that's a great out-of-the-box plan. That's
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: the way to go. Outstanding. Simply outstanding. All right, now,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: final point. To Jersey we go, where Raiders running back
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Ashton Gentry has been benched. He received a career-low two carries.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: That's it. Just nine yards. Vegas playing another tomato can,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: and they ended up beating the Jets there in that game. Clint? Kubiak,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the coach of the Raiders, defended the decision, saying, quote,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: that's my call. He insisted that Ashton Gentry remains an
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: important part of the Raiders' future bullcrap. Excuse me. It
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: was a little thing.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Bullcrap.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Anyway, rookie Mike Washington Jr. became the featured back. He
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: had 83 yards. He averages 3.3 yards per carry for
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. Ashton Gentry, that's the story. As previously, he
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: claimed that certain Jets defenders didn't want to tackle. He
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: said that in the lead-up to the Jets game with
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. Kubiak denying that those remarks influenced his decision.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the question. Do you believe Raiders coach Clint
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Kubiak when he says that running back Ashton Gentry was
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: not benched for his fat mouth? Yeah. So I am
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  Speaker 1: shaking my head no.
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  Speaker 7: No.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: In terms of my level of belief, like I'm shaking
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: my head like it's a bobblehead driving down a gravel
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: road in the backwoods, just a real gravelly road. You
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: expect me to believe that Ashton Gentry runs his mouth
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: about the Jets not wanting contact, and then all of
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: a sudden, out of thin air, by total cosmic coinkydink,
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders decide, yeah, we'll only give this guy two carries.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Come on. Seriously. You got to be some kind of
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: naive to think that these two things are not related.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: And Kubiak insisting it's purely a football decision. Now, let
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  Speaker 1: me use my Malheur Rosetta Stone to translate what that means.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: That means that Clint Kubiak knows a large percentage of
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: the Raider fan base are knuckle-dragging Neanderthals that'll believe anything
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: he says. And so he will lie to your face,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: and you idiots will believe whatever he says because he's
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: the coach of the Raiders, and you believe the coach
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: of the Raiders. Good luck on that. We have something
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: called critical thinking on this side of the microphone. I
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: recommend it. It's not that common these days. You can
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: talk the talk if you walk the walk, and that's
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: the problem. Ashton jenty talked the talk he hasn't been
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: able to walk the walk he's averaging 3.1 yards per
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: carry Ashton Gentry, the Raiders putting his mouth on timeout.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: They sent him on a nice tropical vacation to Guantanamo
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  Speaker 1: Bay and thought, hey, I'll give you a couple of carries.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: We'll let you watch the rest of the game. Why not?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: And this is looking like yet another draft debacle for
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. A draft disaster. And Tom Brady is responsible. Yeah,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady, the de facto general manager of the Raiders,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: is His fingerprints are all over the crime scene, and
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: his DNA is splattered across the entire draft board, Tom Brady. Now,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: he has plausible liability because he hired his stooge buddies
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: to run the Raiders day to day, but you think
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Tom's not involved in the final say on who they draft?
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Please, Ashton Gentry was supposed to be the bell cow back,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the difference maker, the next great Raider running back, all
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: that stuff. And you don't draft a guy with the
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: sixth overall pick to bench him in a random week
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: here in week eight of the NFL season. You just
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: don't do that. Obviously, it was his mouth. If he
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: was playing good, they'd look the other way. The Raiders,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: they'd say, all right, he's a good player. He can
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: say what he wants. He obviously is not that good.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: So as a result, you get what you get.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Pacific. Here we go. It's Mallard to the third degree.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Koopaloop. It's not going to cost you an arm and
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: a leg. It's Mallard to the third degree.
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: Koopaloop.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: Ben, last call in that trivia was a perfect lead
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: into my first question.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, good, good.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: Yes, the Steelers. beat the Browns in their first place
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: in the division.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: You said you don't think they would go far in
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: the playoffs.
• 41:29
  Speaker 10: No.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: But are they the best team in the division? Record aside,
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: do you.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Think they're the best team? Are they the best team? Well, yes.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: At this moment, yes. They are the best team in
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the division because the Ravens have been eliminated without Lamar Jackson.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: The Bengals defensively forget about it. You see that game? Yeah. Yeah.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: They're a joke. And Cleveland, you never take Cleveland. Yeah.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: So by default, they are. That doesn't mean they're going
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: to win anything. They're not. The Bengals in that game.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Tennessee scored 36 points in that game against the Bengals defense.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: And Cam Ward had 304 yards passing. Next.
• 42:07
  Speaker 10: Over the weekend, USC had a huge upset over number
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: two Ohio State.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: The men of Troy. Do you think that win saved
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: Lincoln Riley's job?
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: No. No, because UCLA across town is in the top
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: five in college football right now. Even though they're drawing
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: flies at the Rose Bowl, they're still in the top five.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine how embarrassing that's going to be, Coop?
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: If UCLA ends up getting to the playoff and USC doesn't,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: or if UCLA somehow, God forbid, wins like Indiana did
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: last year? Next!
• 42:38
  Speaker 10: The Knicks have had a tough start to the season.
• 42:40
  Speaker 10: Josh Hart said, we all feel the fatigue, but we
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: have to fight through it. What fatigue is he talking about? Well,
• 42:49
  Speaker 10: all the chicks and all the money and all, you know,
• 42:52
  Speaker 10: we win a championship in New York, they kiss your ass.
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: The canyon of kiss ass for the Knickerbockers.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: It's pathetic. That was a one-hit wonder of the Knicks.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: How'd we do, Coop? You passed this edition. That's a winner! Winner, winner, winner!
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Chicken dinner!
• 43:06
  Speaker 10: Woo!
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• 43:22
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• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Who the hell are you talking to, son? Here's some
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: instant advice. Hold that thought.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: No one's paid attention to me for 10 whole seconds.
• 43:31
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• 43:35
  Speaker 1: we go. It's the Insta advice line on screen radio.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Who needs the advice, the wisdom, the knowledge of the
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Malheur militia? Well, there's a team that was playing with
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: fire and they finally got burned. The Minnesota Vikings trying
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: to win with Alligator Arms Murray at quarterback Minnesota as
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: the 29th ranked offense. They stank. So any advice to
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the Vikings trade deadline is a little over a week away.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: You're live on the air. When you hear my voice,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: and again, advice to the Vikings, stinky offense, 877-99 on Fox.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Line one, you're on the air, line one. Advice to
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the Vikings, line one.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Having morning time.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: It's like having three screaming children in the back of the.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: Car and two lollipops.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: I hear you. That is a problem. The math ain't
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: mathing on that. Line two, you're on the airline two. Hello. Hey,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the people who want to give me candy because they
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: thought I'm too old to go trick-or-treating. You suck. That's right, losers.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Line three, you're on the airline three.
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  Speaker 7: Hello.
• 44:39
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's go. You call your next year advice to
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the Vikings. Stinky offense. Hello, caller. Don't play with miniature quarterbacks. Okay, yeah,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: stay away from the fun-sized quarterbacks. Let's go over to
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: line six. Line six, you're on the air. Line six, hello.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: The autumn wind is a queef. All right, let's go.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Line two, hello, line two. You're on the air, line two.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Who's house? Oh, yes. There you go. So exciting. You
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: can feel the buzz of L.A.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Football.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Invitation only, apparently. Line three. Hello, line three.
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: Shake the cheerleaders' cookies.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you for that. You see those Bucs cheerleaders
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: were out there shaking their tookus in the mud there
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: because it was raining so much at the game there.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: A lot of rain. Yes, line four, you're on the air.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: It's the Insta Advice Line unscreened radio for the Vikings'
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: El Stinko offense. Don't get mad at.
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: Me because you give out incomplete answers to fun facts.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: I give out great answers. Line five. Hello, line five.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, goobers are raising nets.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I like great.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: Goobers more than that.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you for that. The great debate continues. 877-99
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: on Fox. I hear Guy breathing in the background. Advice
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: to the Vikings offense. Justin Jefferson not happy. The Vikings
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: finally lost. They have the 29th ranked offense in the NFL. Hello,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: you're on the air, Line 6. Line 6 not paying attention.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: That was a waste of our time. Let's go over
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: to Line 2. Line 2, you're on the air.
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: Hello.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, how great is that? A fan favorite from Boston,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: a staple. You can't have an authentic instant advice line
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: without that. We haven't heard from where's my baseball guy
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: in a while. Line three. Hello, line three. You're on
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: the air. Bring back Joe Capp. Yeah, bring back Joe Capp.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: That's the one thing we need in life is Joe Capp.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: 877-99-ON-FOX is the number. This is unscreened radio. You don't
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: have to worry about a call screener. It's just me
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: and you. We're having some fun. Now, Les, I hear
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: you breathing. Line four. You're on the air. Line four.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Give me the gabagool. The gabagool. You got to get
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: in the baba ganoush and the jambalaya. Jambalaya. Line. Let's
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: go over to you. Yeah, I see this line ringing. Hello, caller.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: You're on the air, caller.
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: Hello.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Don't do drugs. Stay in school.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, don't do drugs. Just say no. That was when
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I was a kid. The first lady. Just say no.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: That was the big slogan. Line two. You're on the air,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: line two. Hello.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Hello. Yeah, he should have went back to Bad News
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Bear school. He should have played better football.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's Frank the Tank right there giving advice to
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: the Vikings' stinky offense. Justin Jefferson visibly upset, annoyed, didn't
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: talk to the media. Line three. Hello, line three. Pathetic. Pathetic.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: There you go. One word. That's all we need. Line four,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: you're on the air. It's the instant advice line for
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: the Vikings. They're 6-1, but they have the 29th-ranked offense.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: They're actually worse than the Chargers statistically. The Commanders won.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: The Commanders won.
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: You know who this is.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: That's right. Morning time. Morning time. Line five. Hello, caller.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: You're on the air. Line five. Trade Justin Jefferson to
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: the Patriots. Yes, for a seventh-round draft pick. I'm sure
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: that's the other part of that. Line 6, it's the
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: instant advice line for the Vikings here. Unscreen radio at
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: 877-99 on Fox. Hello, Line 6. You're on the air,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Line 6. It could be worse. You could be a
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Jet fan. Got a murder, got to go. There you go. Yeah,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: the Jets have nowhere to go. Line 2, you're on
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: the air, Line 2. Hello. Hello. Line two, not paying attention.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: We'll go to line three. Hello, line three. Give me candy.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: I want candy. All right. You got to earn the candy, dude. Yes,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hello, line four. We are still
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: six and one. All right. There you go. One more call.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop, final call. Line three. Line three. You're on
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: the air. Line three. Final call. Instant advice line for
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: the Vikings offense.
• 48:48
  Speaker 10: Oh, was that Poppy?
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I blame you, Coop. I blame you.