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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the beginning of another week of the Benmallars Show.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll get that up at some point.
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  Speaker 1: But our lead to begin the festivities here we start
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  Speaker 1: with the Sunday night game and all what a Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night game it was from Western New York. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you were tuned in. Supposed to be a
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  Speaker 1: big matchup made for TV. Couple of AFC heavyweights here,
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  Speaker 1: the Bills and the Race going at it, scoring up
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  Speaker 1: the first Sunday night Island game. You know, we love
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  Speaker 1: our island games. Let's they suck and then we don't
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  Speaker 1: talk about it. But this was a game worthy of conversation.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if you're watching it or not.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bills are not as fun to me early
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  Speaker 1: in the year when the weather's okay to watch a
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  Speaker 1: Bills game in Orchard Park, like it's got to be
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  Speaker 1: nasty weather. When the weather's not that bad. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: who cares, It's just not as compelling. But the weather
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  Speaker 1: was fine, and the Bills taking on the Ravens squaring up,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the matchup. And if you did not
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  Speaker 1: watch it, you were burned out on football. You missed
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  Speaker 1: a doozy. You missed a doozy. So Josh Allen putting
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  Speaker 1: the team on his back. There he leads the Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: football team for three scores, not one, not two, but
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  Speaker 1: three scores in the final four minutes, and it was
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  Speaker 1: capped off by a thirty two yard field goal by
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  Speaker 1: vagabond kicker Matt Prater, who they made a big deal
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that he just joined the team.
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  Speaker 3: That's what kickers do. They're not real players. They just
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  Speaker 3: changed teams all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Matt Prater gifed a thirty two yard chip shot
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  Speaker 1: field goal as time expired. Turn out the last the
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  Speaker 1: parties over see you later, that's it, goodbye, And so
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  Speaker 1: the Bills rally from fifteen points down, fifteen points down,
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  Speaker 1: and they clipped the wings of the once proud Ravens
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  Speaker 1: say bye bye, see you later, alligator there as the
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  Speaker 1: Ravens go down forty one to forty in the season opener,
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  Speaker 1: a thriller, and somebody do a wellness check on Chris Collinsworth.
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  Speaker 3: I think he might have had an orgasm in the
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  Speaker 3: fourth quarter. He was so excited. Oh my god, he
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  Speaker 3: was exit. Put your pants up, Chris. It's okay, It's
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  Speaker 3: all right, pal.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, so Buffalo somehow scores what turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: sixteen points in the final three fifty six of the
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  Speaker 1: football game, and it was capped off, as we said,
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  Speaker 1: by the kick by Matt Prater. There but May three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety four totally ourds for Josh Allen and
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  Speaker 1: the Bills offense, click a lick and couple of touchdown throws,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns on the ground for Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: as the past, couple of MVPs in the NFL getting
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  Speaker 1: together there and guys.
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  Speaker 3: That are in the shadow.
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  Speaker 1: Let's face it, these guys aren't as good as Patrick Mahomes,
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  Speaker 1: but you know they're fun to watch each other play
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  Speaker 1: one on one. There only they could do something against
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs in the playoffs, it would be different.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The better story is in the losing locker room. We
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  Speaker 1: talk about losers. We love losers. We live for the losers.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the story is. Especially the Ravens, like the
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  Speaker 1: losers are just more compelling to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: They're just better talk radio.
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  Speaker 1: Losers always more compelling than winners one hundred percent of
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  Speaker 1: the time. There the tragedy is more important than the
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  Speaker 1: triumph in a sporting context, and the heartbreak the common
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  Speaker 1: denominator the heartbreak for a great story. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of finger pointing, a lot of finger pointing going
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  Speaker 1: on on the Baltimore side of things, as it's not
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  Speaker 1: very often that you are that incompetent, it considered a
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  Speaker 1: good team, and you play like El Poopo down the
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  Speaker 1: stretch of that game. So let us discuss the question
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  Speaker 1: did the Bills win this game? Outright? Did they take
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  Speaker 1: the game? Or was this in case where the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: lost the game. And so I've got vending Machine, President Biden,
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  Speaker 1: and Global Tour and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make some Buffalo wings,
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  Speaker 1: which were invented in Buffalo. The chicken wing. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: chickens didn't have wings before a restaurant in.
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  Speaker 3: Buffalo, the Anchor Bar. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: The chicken did not have wings until the anchor bar
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  Speaker 1: in Buffalo started serving them. And that's true. I've been
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  Speaker 1: to the anchor bar before that. Chickens did not have
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  Speaker 1: wings all right, So let us discuss the first thought
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  Speaker 1: here is that this was less It was less about
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen riding in on a white horse with a
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  Speaker 1: cape on to save the day. Josh Allen is here
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  Speaker 1: to save the day. No, this it's about Baltimore lighting
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  Speaker 1: their own house on fire and getting a full, all
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  Speaker 1: inclusive trip on the vomit commet they flat's absolutely right,
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  Speaker 1: they did ride the vomit comment. This was such a
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  Speaker 1: bad performance. When the game was over, the raven fiends
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  Speaker 1: were calling billboard lawyers. You know those billboard lawyers who
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  Speaker 1: hurt you and will fight for you. Well, they were
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  Speaker 1: contacting those lawyers I know who hurt me. Number twenty
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  Speaker 1: two in your program, but number zero in clutch time.
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  Speaker 1: That would be the running back for the Ravens. Dereck
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  Speaker 1: Henry again, number twenty in your program, but number zero
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  Speaker 1: when it matters most there for the Ravens. At the
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  Speaker 1: end of this game, Lord hen Lord Henry Gibmeth, and
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  Speaker 1: Lord Henry Taketh away in this game here one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty nine yards and a couple of touchdowns, and
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  Speaker 1: then that monstrosity at the end of the game there
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  Speaker 1: three ten or so on the clock and.
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  Speaker 3: Bug on the rug.
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  Speaker 1: The bug on the rug, all right, And that Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night game the Grinch on Christmas Eve. That was Derrick Henry.
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  Speaker 1: It'll fumble on the ground there. And so he wanted
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  Speaker 1: a snack. Derrick Henry's like, hey, it's Sunday night. I
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  Speaker 1: want to have a nice little snack. So he went
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  Speaker 1: to the vending machine and he ended up finding the
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  Speaker 1: vending machine of Doom, and he went up there. He
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  Speaker 1: put a dollar into the vending machine of Doom, and
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  Speaker 1: he wanted.
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  Speaker 3: A snickers bar.
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  Speaker 1: He thought that would be a nice snack at dice
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  Speaker 1: delicious Snickers bar, And so he punched in the number
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  Speaker 1: on the vending machine of Doom, and for some reason
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  Speaker 1: it spit out a butterfinger, and that's what he did.
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  Speaker 1: He'd say, you know, I got a butter finger, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give a butterfinger performance there.
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  Speaker 3: Boom ball on the ground. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: It was a three to zh six when the play stopped.
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  Speaker 1: Three oh six to go on the clock in that game,
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  Speaker 1: Bug on the rug and Ravens recover. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: thing you can't do at the moment. You can't do
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  Speaker 1: it for the Ravens. And the Ravens, make no mistake,
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  Speaker 1: they had this game in the bag. The game was
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  Speaker 1: in the bag. And it bothers me because obviously we
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  Speaker 1: know what happened to Bill's won the game, and so
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  Speaker 1: what ends up happening now is like anytime a team
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  Speaker 1: is down by a couple of scores, the cliche and
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting at Sportscasters College is, well, let's keep talking about
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  Speaker 1: remember that Bill's Ravens game. Yeah, this will not happen
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  Speaker 1: again this season.
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  Speaker 3: This is it.
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  Speaker 1: This is the one, the one off for the entire
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  Speaker 1: season that a team chokes as badly and as pathetically
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  Speaker 1: as the Baltimore.
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  Speaker 3: Ravens bid in this game. And then that is a
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  Speaker 3: flat out choke job by the Ravens. There.
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  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry was the if you look around here, all
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens had to do. I mentioned games in the back.
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  Speaker 1: All the Ravens had to do was stroll down the
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  Speaker 1: monopoly board and pass go, collect two hundred dollars and
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  Speaker 1: a nice victory and.
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  Speaker 3: Call it a night.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, go back to Baltimore and hang out with
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  Speaker 1: sports with Coleman.
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  Speaker 3: But what do they do there?
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  Speaker 1: No, Instead, they landed on go directly to jail, Go
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  Speaker 1: right to jail, Do not pass, go, do not collect
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  Speaker 1: squat you get nothing. And Dereck Henry, the prison warden
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  Speaker 1: there handing, handing them the orange jumpsuit, saying, here you go, boys.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice, big juicy L right there, nice big,
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  Speaker 1: delicious L.
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  Speaker 3: And so now there will be some. It's not his fault.
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  Speaker 3: He put up great numbers.
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  Speaker 1: But okay, these are bad people. These are evil people.
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  Speaker 1: The people that believe that they're fantasy nerd. There, losers,
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  Speaker 1: we need it. It's like a disease. We need to
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  Speaker 1: cut the disease out people that believe that because listen.
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  Speaker 3: Forget the snut sheet. I'm not playing fantasy football all right,
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  Speaker 3: forget the game plan, forget all that other stuff. Here.
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  Speaker 1: This was about the E word execution, and they failed.
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  Speaker 1: Most games are lost, not one. Most games are lost,
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  Speaker 1: not one. This is a great example. This is a
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  Speaker 1: humiliation situation, is what it was. I mean, the Ravens fans,
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  Speaker 1: they got served, and they got served some bad open
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  Speaker 1: mic poetry is what they got, roses are red, violets
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  Speaker 1: are blue, and I can hold on to a football
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  Speaker 1: better than number twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, tell me I'm wrong. No, that was pretty bad. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: This was not somehow Buffalo going Rocky Balboa. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to hear that. I'm sure that's already been written somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not my position on this. This was ball
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  Speaker 1: more face planting, like the iconic George Costanza back in
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  Speaker 1: the day running out of the kid's birthday party fire drill,
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  Speaker 1: just about having a melt down there and the bills there. Essentially,
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  Speaker 1: this win is like, hey, I found a twenty dollar bill.
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  Speaker 1: I found a nice twenty dollar bill blowing down the street,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know you take it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe you go out and buy some food with it,
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  Speaker 1: and you haven't. I don't think you can buy a
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  Speaker 1: full lunch with that anymore twenty dollars. But you put
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  Speaker 1: the money down, you buy a little food, and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: But you didn't earn it. You know, you found it,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't necessarily earn it, per se. And so the
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  Speaker 1: w does go to Buffalo, congratulations on that, and the
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  Speaker 1: scar tissue goes to the Baltimore football team and l
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  Speaker 1: butterfinger wrapper to Derek Henry. Let's hear from the head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Ravens one, John Harbaugh. John, your team
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  Speaker 1: just rode the vomit comet. What do you have to
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  Speaker 1: say for yourself, Coach Harbaugh?
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  Speaker 4: Or just pointing, We're just gonna have to regroup and
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  Speaker 4: get ready to go play a long season. We've got
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  Speaker 4: sixteen games in front of us, good football team, tough environment. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: we did many good things, but we didn't play well
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  Speaker 4: at the end. Two big situations. The fourth down play,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's kind of a play that you don't
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  Speaker 4: really expect to happen. I mean, it was pretty pretty
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  Speaker 4: lucky play, but they made it between the scrambles. Josh
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  Speaker 4: Allen played a great game obviously, especially at the end
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  Speaker 4: on the fourth quarter to make those plays. Scrambled plays,
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  Speaker 4: extended extended completions and then a couple of big pass plays.
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  Speaker 4: So that's it. We're disappointed, but we'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Play like that, you might not have sixteen more games
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  Speaker 1: to play. Holy crap, all right now? Aside from Derrick
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  Speaker 1: Henry and his putting the bug on the rug and
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  Speaker 1: that that's a trend around the NFL. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a certain Houston Texans player we can thank for that
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  Speaker 1: as well. Anyway, aside from Derrick Henry, who else ends
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  Speaker 1: up who else ends up eating a piece of the
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Blame crabcakes. Henry's clearly got half the crabcake. He's
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  Speaker 1: got like the majority of the crab cakes and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. But you gotta hand Lamar Jackson a fork.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta hand Lamar Jackson the fork. Lamar gets a
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  Speaker 1: doggy bag as well. Oh he's a former MVP.
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  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? You didn't watch the game?
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  Speaker 1: Ban a shut up Lamar Jackson as guilty as anybody
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  Speaker 1: of taking his foot off the gas as well. That's
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  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh's strategy to just let up in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter of the game was over and all that. They
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  Speaker 1: let up on the gas too soon. Though, they let
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  Speaker 1: up on the gas too soon. That's the issue here.
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  Speaker 1: For three quarters, the Ravens as a team, they were
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  Speaker 1: a well filtered Instagram booty model. I mean, they had
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on looking good, right, and then in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: That's when it all went to hell. Right. The Henry
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  Speaker 3: fumble was.
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  Speaker 1: Brutal, but they roll around there and Lamar Jackson did
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  Speaker 1: he finish the game properly? Let's see here, let's go,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the eyeball test and the stats. The
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  Speaker 1: eyeball test said no. The stats say no as well.
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  Speaker 1: He put on cruise control like he was driving Miss
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  Speaker 1: Daisy in the fourth quarter there, and turns out that
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  Speaker 1: bit him. Fifteen yards passing in the fourth quarter for
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and a fifty nine passer rating. It was
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  Speaker 1: kind of like he was playing Madden but demo mode.
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  Speaker 1: It was like the demo mode on Madden. He ever
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  Speaker 1: done that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not good, and he just kind of gave
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  Speaker 3: the controller back now.
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  Speaker 1: I Meanwhile, Josh Allen in the fourth quarter was doing
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  Speaker 1: the electric boogaloo. He was doing the electric slide there
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  Speaker 1: for the Ravens right into the end zone. And let's
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  Speaker 1: also not not forget here, since we're playing the blame game,
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  Speaker 1: let's not forget the Baltimore defense. Let's not take them
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  Speaker 1: off the hook here. The Baltimore defense was ooey gooey
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  Speaker 1: and then went kabbouie. They just went kub blue, kub blue,
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  Speaker 1: kab louie. At the end of that game, they gave
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  Speaker 1: up two hundred and sixty four yards and twenty two
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  Speaker 1: points in the fourth quarter. Tell me you saw defense
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  Speaker 1: without telling me the second events, and then they spend
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of money on defensive players, improving the secondary
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  Speaker 1: in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't I told that? Where was that?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I guess they'll play well against the Cleveland Browns. Though
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  Speaker 1: they'll do very well against the Cleveland Browns. That's good, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So they'll play well against them.
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  Speaker 3: That's good. Right against the.
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  Speaker 1: Bills, not so much. That was not defense that the
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  Speaker 1: team from Baltimore play. That was an open borders policy
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  Speaker 1: is what that was. And somewhere former President Biden is
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  Speaker 1: very proud of the way the Buffalo Bills approached that,
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  Speaker 1: and the Ravens defensively approached that because it was like,
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  Speaker 1: come on, fellas, come on in here, take the end zone,
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  Speaker 1: take yourselves, make yourselves at home, settle right in. The
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  Speaker 1: Ravens opening the door here, no resistance at all, borderless
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  Speaker 1: end zone for the Baltimore Ravens. Tremendous here, and the
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  Speaker 1: secondary wide open. Kind of like when you get to
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  Speaker 1: Costco if you get there early before the rush on
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  Speaker 1: a Saturday and there's Costco samples and if you get
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  Speaker 1: there early enough before the rush boom, you're in as
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  Speaker 1: many samples.
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  Speaker 3: As you want.
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  Speaker 1: Some way to go, man, And we heard the soundway
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  Speaker 1: from John Harball, the Ravens head coach.
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  Speaker 3: Here he was just standing there.
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  Speaker 1: It appeared based on my television I was watching the game,
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  Speaker 1: and what I saw was John Harbaugh standing there. He
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  Speaker 1: had his headset and like a guy, he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to return something like a TV or something that was broken.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting no answers from the desk. And that was it.
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  Speaker 3: And so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: And there'll be people said, well, you just don't you
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  Speaker 1: don't know ball, but Lamar Jackson had a great stat
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  Speaker 1: line and all that, just like Derrick Henry. And of
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  Speaker 1: course my response is always whoopee, damn doo. That's my
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  Speaker 1: response on that. And games generally are decided in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. That game should not have been decided in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. You have a fifteen point lead, you
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  Speaker 1: should be very comfortable. They were not very comfortable in
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  Speaker 1: that position. You should have been very comfortable there in
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  Speaker 1: that position. So down the stretch it was a game
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  Speaker 1: we call crazy eights, or in this case crazy eight,
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  Speaker 1: as Derrick Henry. Yeah, Derek Henry holding he was already
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  Speaker 1: holding the scarlet letter card. And then Lamar he drew
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  Speaker 1: another eight and the defense for the Ravens they were
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  Speaker 1: playing and they struck with the draw. Four game over
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  Speaker 1: is what they had there. So hand, everyone at the table,
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  Speaker 1: everyone gets a crab cake and they all stink. And
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  Speaker 1: we talk about absolutely setting the tone, and they set
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  Speaker 1: the tone.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: They all blew it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Henry Lamar, Henry the most Lamar, and that defense defense
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: could have picked up the slack that was, who's at
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: your dinner table right there eating crabcakes? The blame crabcakes
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: now quick right, all right, last word here, So how
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: encouraging we'll go to the winners locker room. How encouraging
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: is this performance and victory for Josh Allen and the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Buffalo football team. A team that's been lurking around in
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: contender status, but a faux contender. They find new and
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: creative ways to choke in big games. So this is
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: not a big game. It's a regular season game. And
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: how big could it be? It's I mean, we're sitting
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: here talking in September. The season will go all the
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: way through end of December, and then January, the playoffs
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: in February, the Super Bowl and all that. So how encouraging.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: This is the daily double. It is the daily double.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Here you get the one to oh record for the Bills.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Check that box. So you're one and oher and you
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: have more importantly, the game in hand, the head to head,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: assuming that the Ravens don't completely fall off the map
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: this year, you have the hand in hand with the
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Ravens AFC bragging rights if it comes down to Buffalo
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and Baltimore at the end of the year. And Buffalo,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: to their credit, played until the final whistle, unlike.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: The Ravens who had the lead and gave up.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And that is a gutless performance at the end of
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: that game by the Baltimore evens, the Bills to their credit,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: did not play like that. They went right until the end.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: But I would not get too excited though, if I'm
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: a Buffalo Bill fin based on this win, because you
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: were getting your ask for the vast majority of that game,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and a fluky thing does not change the fact that
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: for the balance of that game you could not match
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: up with the Baltimore Ravens offensively. The Ravens lost this
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: game because of more self inflicted wounds. It wasn't anything
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills did, It was what the Ravens did
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: to cost themselves this game. Baltimore had been manhandling, absolutely
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: manhandling the Bills dollar general defense. In this game, Ravens
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: scored on seven of the first eight possessions, seven of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: them including not one, not two, three to nine, four,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: but five touchdowns. So Buffalo's defense ready to go on
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: a global tour as a matador. Holy holy, yeah, bullfighting baby.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: In this case, they actually won though. Ravens averaged eight
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: point six yards per play and lost.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: How do you do that?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: They averaged nine point two yards per pass, eight point
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: two yards per run and still lost the game. Now,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: in a positive note, the Bills have some time to
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: work out their defensive frailties. They have the hostess schedule
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: coming up. They play the Jets, that's pretty much a
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: guaranteed win. They play the Dolphins, and then they also
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: play the Saints. Those last two games at home, two
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: of what figure to be the worst teams in the
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: NFL this year, the Dolphins and the Saints. That's Cupcake City.
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  Speaker 1: Now that is the full Chicago Bears experience right there,
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  Speaker 1: Big money coach, number one draft pick and wow that sucked. Welcome,
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  Speaker 1: We start out from sweet home Chicago, right there, the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: shores of Lake Michigan. Iconic, Soldier Field, so iconic the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Bears can't wait to leave there and go to a
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: new stadium out in the suburbs. But for now they're
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: still playing at Soldier Field. They'll be there for a
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: couple more years until they build that new shiny taj
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Mahall Stadium and then gouge people to go to the stadium.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: That's the way businesses done in the NFL anyway.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: So Soldier Field, that was the stage right there, with
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the skyline of Chicago on one side, and then you
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: had the lake on the other.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Lake Michigan.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: There and the final act of the opening weekend the
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  Speaker 1: NFL twenty twenty five season, Vikings and Bears and NFC
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: North slaber knocker, slaber knocker. Now, this was an island game.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: You know, we love our island games. We love island games.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: So if you were watching, you likely know what happens.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: It happened. If not, maybe if we were watching, you
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: might not have paid attention.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: This game is over. Perhaps you missed it, but don't worry.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: We watched so you would not have to. In a
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: very shaky beginning, there, very wobbly, wobbly beginning for JJ McCarthy,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the red shirt rookie, red shirt rookie JJ McCarthy, who
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: then in the fourth quarter went bonkers. He had not
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: one but two fourth quarter touchdown passes, ran for another
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: score in his long awaited NFL debut, the former first
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: round draft pick. The Vikings snapped out of the doldrums
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: dreadful performance and they end up getting and when you
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: only remember the outcome, you won't remember how bad the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: game was from the Minnesota side of things for three quarters.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: But they end up winning it on a big push
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty four.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Over the Bears.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So that's good for the Vikings for our purposes, though,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the better story is.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: In the losing locker room.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: So that is where we are going to go, Sweet
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: home Chicago Bear football right there. Holy crap. So the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: debut of Ben Johnson as the Chicago Bears head coach,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the big money coach who's spent time as the Lions
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator and that's where he built his legacy, and
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: so many teams wanted Ben Johnson to be the coach
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and here's his opportunity in Chicago, and he inherited the
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: former number one overall in Caleb Who Caleb Williams, who
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: is bounced all over the place in college and now
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Looks like he should be bouncing somewhere
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: else the way he played in this game. So with
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the better story being in the losing locker room, let
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: us discuss the question for the esteem panel, how did
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: you grade Ben Johnson's debut as a coach in the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Windy City. So I've got utility, Bill, the coasters, and hearse,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together, and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: we're going to make the Baba Ganooshe. We're gonna make
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: it early. We're gonna make the Baba Ganooshe here early on.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: So my first thought here as we connect all these
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: things together, my first thought is, and I wrote this down,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: how do you grade Ben Johnson on the MAL report card?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: How do you create his debut as coach of the Bears?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson? The MAL report card? I wrote down. I
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: didn't write down an A. I wrote down, s O B. Now,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: not what you think, not what you I wrote down,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: same old Bears. That's what I wrote you probably thought
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: it meant something else. Same old Bears. That's that's right.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: They dominated for three quarters. We're really dominated for two
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: quarters defensively part of a third. The big interception there.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: They did control. The tempo was a low scoring game.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Minnesota could not get out of their own way. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: yet when it was time to finish, the opponent off
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the kill shot and put them six feet under. What
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: happened not good. Chicago decided to slide into their snuggie.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: The Bears there and they went into hibernation mode, and
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: it burned them.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: It burned them.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Proof that there is no such thing as momentum. The
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Bears had all the momentum them, should have won the game.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Minnesota at no momentum. Why would the Bears give up momentum?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: It makes no sense because it's not real, you dummies.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Anyway, So the.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears hired Ben Johnson, who is on the pulse
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: of He's at the forefront of modern offensive NFL football.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: That was the selling point of Ben Johnson, right, slick agent,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. And so there we go. Instead of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the next gen, which is all the nerd rage, the
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: next gen and all that, this was the dormant Bears,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and it was a Bear jamboree, a country Bear jamboree.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Every time they had a chance, and there were multiple
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: opportunities to deliver the knockout punch and just end the game,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: they tapped out, I can't do it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Cannot do it, not gonna happen.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Instead, they landed, They landed some little jabs they couldn't
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: land the haymaker, could not land the haymaker, and Ben
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Johnson's team pulling punches which you generally don't want to see. Listen,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I have no skin in the game, and I'm not
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a Bears fan or anything like that.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: But the power went out and they forgot to pay
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: their utility bill, and then they needed it most. They're
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: late in the game, just make one or two plays
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: who win the game, and they had nothing, so they
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: forgot to pay the utility bill. There at Soldier Field,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: the power went out.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: And this is not just a loss, mind you, this
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: is two losses for the Chicago Bears, because not only
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: lose at home, but you lose a divisional game in
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: what figures to be a pretty close nip and tuck division.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: So now you've really lost two games at home and
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: in the division for the Bears.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: That's a double gut punch, is what that is. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: this is supposed to be the new Bears, right, the
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: new Bears, all that crap that we read and heard about.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Oh it's gonna be different now, Oh yeah, it's gonna
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: be different. Okay, So the job was to protect home
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: field advantage soldier field. Instead, you hand the w to
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the Vikings. Because as much as we're going to rip
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the offense for the Chicago Bears, the defense also what
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: happened there to the Chicago Bears defense. I guess Dennis
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Allen's back to being a moron after you were really
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: just kissing his ass on the TV brought to you,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Oh Dennis Allen's defense and all that stuff for three
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: quarters and then in the fourth.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Not so much. Now as for the inevitable, what are
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: you doing? It's it's only one game. Why do you
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: have all these strong opinions after one game? You know
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: that crowd spoiler alert, spoil Guess what? Guess what? It's
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: a daily talk show. I am.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I asked to give my opinion as things unfold. They
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: don't ask me to wait to the end of the year.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I've told management. I said, listen, why don't you just
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: pay me a lot of money. I'll have no opinions.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I'll be boring. There's a lot of people that do
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: this that are very boring, don't know a strong opinion.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And I'll just do that and then just give me
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: like a big bag of money. In the end, I'll
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: never get an opinion wrong. It'll be wonderful, it'll be glorious.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: It's great. But this is all we have to judge
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: the Bears on. All we have is one game, one game.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: To judge Ben Johnson on and the other factor. And
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I noticed this watching the way the Bears were throwing
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the football around. The margin for error in that style
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of offense for Ben Johnson and the Chicago Bears is
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: razor thin, and it's a pass happy offense. That's what
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: they do. They incorporate the running game via short passes
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But you're playing outdoors, you're not
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: playing in a dome like you were with the Detroit Lions.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: You've got that win from Lake Michigan. Swirling around when
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: it gets later in the year becomes a big problems.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Like a blender goes swirling around, You've got that to
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: deal with. You've also got the occasional dormant weather, whether
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it's fog or snow when you get late in the year,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: assuming you even have a mathematical chance of leaning those
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: games and having them mean something. If you're the Chicago
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Bears and you're struggling in September weather and I mean
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: just you think about what's gonna be like down the
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: line in Chicago, and it's like wow. And so that's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: why you can't call it progress. They lost the game.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: They rode the vomit comet and they crashed it into
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the side of the building there. Man, it was bad.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It's a piecemeal effort to close the game. Did they
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: think they were gonna play with a running clock or
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: something like that, I don't know. Well, here's Ben Johnson,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the man of the hour. Here is the coach of
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the Chicago football team pointing out the key to wins
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and losses.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: Disappointing way to start the season there for us. You
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: think you can have a seventeen to six lead, right,
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: and yeah, see go the way it did there in
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: the fourth quarter. You know, we said going into Week
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: one that the team that would make the least number
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: of mistakes would win the game, and unfortunately we were
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: on the wrong side of that. We made too many
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: there late in the game.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Myself included, Yeah, the coaches always have to include themselves
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: in that. You can never say it to the players.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: You always have to say, well, I'm part of that.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: When you most coaches are like, well, no, I'm not.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: That's These are the idiots that screwed up. I didn't
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: screw up. They screwed up. They have to up. I
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: had a good game plan. They didn't listen. It's a
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: bad job by them, so shame on them. The new
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: shiny offense right looked looked shiny for but ten of
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: ten to start the game for Caleb Williams. And then
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: and then things started popping up that weren't supposed to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: pop up.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: There.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: The Bears teased you, they gave some hope. There were
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: people excited that, oh this is great, Bears are going
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: to get off to the one and oh start and
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: then they pulled the rug right from underneath you and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams is a debut in the new offense. Not
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of fireworks and for the balance of the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: game there it was more like a sparkler not explosive pyrotechnic.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: It was more of a sparkler and it.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Fizzled out before the game ended. Bad job by him,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Secondly, speaking of that wide Angle ents Wide Angle, NZ,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: what did you make of Caleb williams Maiden voyage as
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the new Chicago Bears offense gets put into place?
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: So what do you think?
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: So it was a tune that topped the hot one
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: hundred back in the day from the Coasters called yackety
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: yac and the song goes yakay act don't talk back.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: In this case it was yackety act don't fight back.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: That's the Bears. They just they had the lead. The
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Vikings said we want this. The Vikings took it, and
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the Bears were but that's what they did. And Caleb Williams,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: it turns out he's multitasking. He's actually moonlighting Caleb Williams
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: as an elevator operator. I know they don't have many
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: of those left. I know if you go down to
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the Hotel del Cornado there in San Diego, they have
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: elevator operators. And so he was leaving the elevator door open.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: He hit the button that says leave doors open and
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: he left it wide open. He said, come on in,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Come on in Minnesota, Viking. I'll give you a ride
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: right to the penthouse where there's serving w's.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: You can have one. Knock yourself out. So here is.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, a man that always has the best looking
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: nails on the football field, and here is him talking
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: about a bunch of gibberish about this, that and the other.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Mentality. We'll take all this that mentality. Mentality, have something
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: that we you know, that we preach and does that
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: work it out?
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: And I'm not it's not a play call thing. It's
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: not anything like that. It's just being able to go
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: out there and execute the players that are called and
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: be able to you know, executeim at a high level.
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: And that's something that that we take pride in. And
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: you know, today that didn't happen, and we're going to
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: get back to it.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Good news is Caleb went out, he found in all
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: night parlor. He got a manny and a petty after
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the game, so he's feeling a little pressed, but he
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: got the manny in the petty, so he's in good shape,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: all right. Now, How bad was Caleb to allow the
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Vikings to come back right, because it's not. You can't
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: just come back and win a game unless the team sucks.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I remember we talked about this in the Sunday Night
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: game where the Bills cannot mathematically come back without.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: The Thumbo bug on the rug by Derrick Henry.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Well, in this game, it was just consistent suck in
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: the second and third quarters where the Bears had opportunities.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Talked about that.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: To close the game out, for example, I went back,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I did the Malord math in the second and third quarter.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams attempted seventeen passes. He completed less than fifty
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: percent of them. He averaged less than five yards per attempt.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: He was horrible. And so what was missing?
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Well, after a minute long deliberation on the difference between
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the offense the Lions had with Ben Johnson and the
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: offense we saw from the Chicago Bears, the thing that
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: was missing, the secret sauce for Ben Johnson and the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Lions was the yards after the catch of the yak
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: at the yac and they didn't have that. Right Detroit
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: would turn and he still he didn't do it much
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: against Green Bay, but they'll turn that those little swing
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: passes and the big you know, chunky peter peanut butter
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: plays and all that good stuff. You'll stick to your
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: mouth kind of peanut butter. Hard to defend the Bears. Now,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: they did have a couple of big plays, but not
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: enough and more smooth peanut butter. Smooth peanut butter, creamy,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: easy to swallow, and no.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Bite. There's really no bite to it.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: A few extra yards, but it was mostly catch and
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: crash is what it was, all right, now, final thought,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: So we go now to the winning locker room where
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: it looked pretty bleak. It looked pretty bleak for a
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: long stretch of time, but in the end, the Minnesota
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Vikings came back. And so give me your reaction to
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy in his first start with the Vikings. Is
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the glass half full? Or is the glass half empty?
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: On the first go round of JJ McCarthy, So what
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: a juxtaposition?
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Why don't we start with that juxtapvisition Because the.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: First three quarters of this game, I was texting some
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: friends and we were going back and forth and say, Wow,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: this is one of the worst performances I can remember, Like,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: this guy looks like he'd never played football before.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Holy crap. You could literally see him urinating down his leg.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: It was wild.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: And so you go from that where he was having
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: a nice meal at the Shaky's Pizza parlor and you know,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: just the sticky floors, kind of the low quality pizza,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: the mojo potatoes, and the picture of flat soda had
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: all that going for him. And he's just sitting there
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and not even close to looking like he knows what
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: he's doing as an NFL quarterbacks Like wow, it was
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: like he was living in Pukesville. And how bad was he?
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked. So the first three quarters of
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: an NFL game, JJ McCarthy was at seven of twelve passing,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: which is not good average less than five yards per
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: pass attempt. Had fifty six total yards passing through three
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: quarters of the game, one interception that was a pick
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: six to give the Chicago Bears an extra score, a
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: passer rating of thirty five point four going to the
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: That was the passer ready.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: So that means that they, they being the Minnesota Vikings,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: would have been better off calling up a hearse and
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: holding a mock funeral procession for the duke and burying
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the duke, putting the duke, putting the duke down in
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the ground, right, and then just ordering some tombstone pizza
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: and that's it.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: See you later.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Because the fun fact that we will use this from
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: time to time, if McCarthy had just spiked the ball
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: every single time he had snapped the ball, if he'd
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: spiked the ball every single time into the ground, his
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: passer would have been thirty nine point six. Statistically, he
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: was actually worse by attempting to pass than if he
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: had not passed. And it wasn't just bad, it was
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: historical bad for McCarthy for three quarters. Like it was
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: worse than just don't screw up, just kind of be
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: a game manager, that's the baseline. Like the Vikings essentially
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: played three quarters of an NFL game with a mannequin
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: at quarterback.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: That's what they had. And it didn't matter that the
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Bears still left the door open. We talked about this,
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams leaving the door open, the opportunity of the air,
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: and they took advantage of it. Now, Kevin O'Connell is
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: the Viking head coach. I'm sure he's not going to
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: say anything negative about the first three quarters of JJ McCarthy. Instead,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: we'll focus on the end of the game. Is that correct,
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Coach JJ McCarthy.
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: For him to make some of the plays he did,
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: I told him at halftime, you are going to bring
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: us back to win this game. When the look in
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: his eye was fantastic and the best thing is just
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: a belief I felt from the team unit. And ultimately
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: that doesn't get done without him in the second half,
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: two passing touchdowns and then the critical rushing touchdown.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: You smell that. Yeah, bull crap, that is bull crap.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: That is hot bull crap by Kevin O'Connell. Holy crap,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: what a dummy? I told him. Yeah.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Is that why he went out after halftime and threw
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: a pick six in the third quarter?
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Is that why, coach?
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Because you had told him, let's make it even worse,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: let's dig a bigger hole.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Why not? Why not? Oh? Man?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Well, he did light it up in the fourth quarter,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: but man alive, it was like a cheat code there late.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: But the first three quarters. Greek tragedy goes from it.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: We talked about a rewrite. It goes from a Greek
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: tragedy where everyone's dead the stage is covered in blood,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: to a Shakespearean comedy. All's well that ends well, just
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: like that there, and unfortunately there is a problem. You
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: cannot just live like that in the NFL, obviously, right,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: you can't stink for forty five minutes and then expect
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: to play Superman in the fourth quarter. That generally doesn't
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: have But it's not Disneyland. It's not like that, and
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: it's not sustainable, So good luck. We'll give him credit
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: for the comeback. Hell of a rally there for the
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Vikings to come back and win it. But the narrative,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I'm sure will be praising JJ McCarthy and how great
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: he was and the resiliency and all that stuff. To me, though,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you cannot ignore the first three quarters of the game
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: that he was at the salad bar and he was
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: serving up suck salad and that's what it was. So
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: that's a bit of a reality check. I would think
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: he's a rookie. So yeah, there's gonna be some bumps
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: on the road and all that, but man, the Vikings,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: if that's the way it's gonna go, you talk about
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: a roller coaster situation.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Holy Kenolly.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern be em Pacific.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Let's know imaging.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our conceessants for the game. We have Jed,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: who fled? Who's gonna play Maus amount of Money? Hello, Jed, welcome.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: I don't know what the news is, but I've always
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: got my thinking head on.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: All right, who do you wanna? Yeah? Right, who do
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: you want to partner with?
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Cooper?
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: I just said my thinking gaps on. Just a Gooper,
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: all right?
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: And uh boy, blind Scott? Yes, blind Scott, you want
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: to play Maus amount of money?
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I'll partner with you. Ben.
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: You're my hero.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: I'm your hero. I thought I thought Fred Tutcher was
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: your hero. I didn't realize I was your heron. He
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: likes me that much anyone trying to win him back?
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: So okay, well just send him money? All right? Very well,
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: what are the keatedgies? Quickly, Coop, let's pick the first category.
• 42:41
  Speaker 10: Now this is the easy E edition. He would have
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: been sixty one years old on Sunday. The categories are
• 42:46
  Speaker 10: boys in the hood, still talking, nobody move and creeping crawl.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: All right, and hold on, I say here, let me
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: punch him in, and I'll punch him in.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Jed, which one do you want Jed Eric right, ain't
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: no confident buster du he's a childer hero. Just give
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: me that boy.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Nobody move, I'll give you creep all right, creeper crawl
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: all right, Scott?
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Which one you want? Scott?
• 43:14
  Speaker 10: I'll take easy.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: I'm taking the tribute to medication. There is no.
• 43:18
  Speaker 10: There is no Do you want boys in the hood
• 43:20
  Speaker 10: still talking or nobody move?
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: Boy? Yeah? You think the hood? You think blind Scott? Yes?
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: All right, very good gentlemen, Do not hang up, do
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: not Let make sure you feed them down. All right,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: we will have that's the matchup. It's Malver's Mountain of
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Money in its entirety.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: We'll get to that and we will do it next.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: to get to the top? Probably not?
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: All Let's do this. Here we go, we walk him in.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Are contestants.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: We have Blind Scott who's teamed up with me, Jed
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: who fled with Coop a loop from the swamp lands
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: of Florida, and Jed.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: You were on the air first, so you will go
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: with coople loop. It is the easy e. Addition, which
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: category did you pick?
• 44:17
  Speaker 10: There?
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Creep and crawl? All right, creep and crawl very good?
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: All right, Jed.
• 44:23
  Speaker 10: These athletes were on wild card teams that went to
• 44:27
  Speaker 10: win it all.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Do you know what a wildcard team is? Jed?
• 44:32
  Speaker 10: Go for forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
• 44:36
  Speaker 10: Broncos quarterback that looks like a horse. Yes, big poppy
• 44:43
  Speaker 10: from the Red Sox, Yes, gap too, defensive lineman from
• 44:48
  Speaker 10: the Giants. Yes, crazy haired safety from the Steelers from
• 44:53
  Speaker 10: the back of the day. Yes, let's we're gonna skip ahead.
• 44:58
  Speaker 10: This guy had the last name of a fish. He
• 45:01
  Speaker 10: was on the Angels team that actually won it all.
• 45:04
  Speaker 10: Jim Tammons getting no, you're close, Simmon, no with the
• 45:10
  Speaker 10: different letter.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Nor, we're let's skip it. Uh. This guy was a
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: pick yes, yes, yes, oh god, this guy was a man.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: A lot of time, way too much salmon, A lot
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: of salmon. You took a long time with Samon.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: I was playing a call game, dud. Do you have
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: any dancing around that?
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, blind Scott, you're not going to sabotage this game,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: right Scott.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: You're in it to win.
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: It.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, No, I'm ready.
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: Let's go.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, these athletes you pick boys in the hood, which
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: is so appropriate, and you think the North end of Boston,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: you think the hood.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: All right, here we go.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: These athletes are all from south central Los Angeles.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Blind Scott. Forty five seconds on the clock. Ball, he's
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: not He's from Inglewood. No, forty five seconds on the clock.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: We're on our way, and here we go.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: He had a triple double every game during an NBA
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: season for Oklahoma City. Jarg Hardy No I played with
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: the Clippers. All right, legion of boom. Defensive mac defensive back.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: He's got a big mouth. He's on television on Amazon. Okay,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Orioles first baseman in the nineteen eighties. Black guy hit
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of home run switch hitter with Cal Ripken.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: He was the other star of the Orioles.
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: With the Freddie merccurry.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, you're done. Get out of here. You you, Dennis,
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Dennis and Ramondi.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: You there, Dennis, Dennis, You're going to the bench. Dennis
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: first basement of the nineteen eighties, Orioles in the nineties. Yeah,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: that's one hundred porter all right, wide receiver.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: Let's see here.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: The greatest female tennis play of all time, the greatest
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: female tennis player of all time, African American.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Jerry right, he.
• 47:12
  Speaker 10: Said, the greats tennis player of all time.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: I'm glad that we have all this time. Thank you?
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: All right? Well we got one hundred. We got a hundred?
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: Is that?
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: You got a hundred points? All right, yo, Dennis, I'm
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: glad I went to the bench. Good job. You're my closer. Dennis.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: You're gonna get about seconds? Can I be the I
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: stop you bitching? All right, let's go, Dennis. You what
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: do we I guess we get to go again? Right,
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: because we all get a hundred?
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: So we have nobody move or still talking? Which one
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: do you want?
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: Dennis? Mom man, nobody moved, Nobody move? All right, Dennis
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: is in VERMONTI just haw's your home. You have no go.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: It's just a little small talk, Coop.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll put forty five seconds in the cock
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: of these athletes own records that have stood a long time.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: Are you ready, Dennis, I'm all right. Yeah, here we go.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: The NFL's all time leading rusher, Yes, the greatest wide
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: receiver of all time. Yeah, Yankee player nickname Jolton. His
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: nickname was Jolton.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: With a J. Played in the sixties.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, greatest pitcher of all time, the top pitcher in
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: baseball gets this award with his name on it. Shit,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: that's not I'd be quite the award if they got that.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: How about this nickname night train? Nickname night Train.
• 49:00
  Speaker 8: Scared.
• 49:02
  Speaker 10: I don't think you quite made it up to the one.
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got some of them. Cy Young, is the
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: award name that you're looking for? Yours was more interesting,
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: though your award?
• 49:13
  Speaker 9: And if he didn't get the point, no more question.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: Dick Dick Lane. Dick Lane was a night trained nick
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: Dick Lane's real name is night Scott. Do you want
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: to run up the score here?
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants not Scott call them Scott gone.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: He called you told you Blind Scott. Jed Jed Coop
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: called you. You picked Scott was just on the phone.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: He was, he said, Freddie Mercury was the answer. I mean,
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: come on, he wasn't even trying.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: That was a stupid cheesy radio bit by blind Scott.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: What no, no, he me?
• 49:49
  Speaker 9: He answered not he answered.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: The word he did.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: But there's a lot of layers of who to blame
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: on that.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Good news is we don't have to take Blind Scott's
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: call the rest of the show. He's out of the
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: show now, that's great. Right, he's been on the air
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: and he ruined the whole thing, and that's the way
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: to go.