1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number two, our number two, 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 1: and it's all about air. We're walking on air right now. 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: How did Michael Jordan's comments about today's NBA players not 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: playing basketball enough? How did that hit you? We'll talk 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: about that. Also, what did you take away from Jordans 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: saying that today's NBA players they want the logo right away. 7 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: They're all about the logo right away. And Lebron James 8 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: has been accused of catering to his legacy by stat 9 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: padding in a recent Laker blowout loss. Is this accusation 10 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: inbounds or under bounds? 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Well, this would be one of those 39 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: rare and appropriate times because his airness has entered the chat. 40 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,399 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan getting paid a little more than I got 41 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,519 Speaker 1: paid when I worked at NBC. But Michael Jordan's stop 42 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: by NBC for a little camera side chat with Mike 43 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: Turco and these big leather chairs, big leather chairs. Do 44 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: you see any of this? No, you weren't watching. You 45 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: didn't watch. The Knickerbockers and the Celtics are well. Michael 46 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: Jordan discussed a bunch of things, including his love of 47 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: the game clause, the legendary love of the game clause 48 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: that he had in his contract with the Chicago Bulls, 49 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: and Jordan also brought up the modern player in comparison. 50 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen. Here's 51 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan the love of the game other. 52 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 3: Game of contract. Right, if I was driving with you 53 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 3: down the street and I say I play basketball game 54 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 3: inside the road, I can go play in that basketball game, 55 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,519 Speaker 3: and if I get hurt, my contract is still guarantee. 56 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 3: I love the game so much that I would never 57 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 3: let someone take the opportunity for me to play the 58 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 3: game away from me, as opposed to now where you 59 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 3: don't have it, players probably don't play now they. 60 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: Get individual at tension with their trainer. 61 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 3: Sure, anyway to go out and shoot a hundred shots 62 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 3: to one thousand shots. I found that to my benefit 63 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 3: was go play basketball, man, That's what you did, That's 64 00:03:58,720 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 3: what you grew up doing. 65 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: There you go. I'm the same way as Jordan. If 66 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: I go and see somebody doing sports takes on the 67 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: side of a country road, I'll pull over and I'll 68 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: do sports takes. And I have it in my contract 69 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Radio where I'm allowed to get 70 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: into a sports debate on a dark country road out 71 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: in the boondocks, and they allow me to do that. 72 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: I had that written in. Yeah, I had that. That 73 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: was written into the contract. And Jonas Knox does not 74 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: have that. He's not allowed to do that. He cannot 75 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: pull over and do a hot take a debate on 76 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: the side of I have that. That's me, just like 77 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. I'm the Jordan of my time. All right, 78 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: So let's get into this. Let's discuss That's a good 79 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: jumping off point what Jordan said. So how did Michael 80 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: Jordan's comments about today's players essentially not playing basketball enough, right, 81 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: not loving the game, not wanting to play enough. How 82 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: did that hit you? So I've got pickley wiggley, belly 83 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: whopper and free choley, and we will combine all of 84 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to channel money ball. 85 00:04:58,320 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: Mallor is what we're going to channel. 86 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:10,239 Speaker 4: So number one, his airness stepped up to the microphone. 87 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: Step right up, step right up, fun for all ages, 88 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: his there has stepped up and basically told today's NBA 89 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: players kids yet don't play enough basketball. He dropped the 90 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 1: mic and he walked away. And you know what doesn't 91 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: sound wrong to me, doesn't sound wrong to me in 92 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: Jordan's speak, which is not coach speak. In Jordan speak, 93 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 1: the actual basketball part of basketball has become for the 94 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: modern player an inconvenience. It is an inconvenience, a nuisance 95 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: to the modern player. It's an ingrown toenail, is what 96 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: it is. And it's an ingrown tonabo toenail on an 97 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 1: oversized foot for the modern superstar. Jordan. Now, was this 98 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,159 Speaker 1: a humble brac, Sure of course it was. It was 99 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: better in mine day. And this is one thing in 100 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: my life. I remember when I started in the sports 101 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: radio and were there were guys from the old generation 102 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: who were ripping the modern player of the nineties. They said, 103 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: those guys are a bunch of softies. Alan Iverson and 104 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant, and that generation the guys from the eighties, 105 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: and now then the guys from the nineties ripped the 106 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: following generations. It's it's the same thing, I mean, but 107 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: on Jordan's point, I think they say he hit it. 108 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: I mean, Jordan had the fire in the belly. Was 109 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: baked into his contract that he could play a pickup 110 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: game of basketball anywhere, anytime, even if it was on 111 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,799 Speaker 1: a cracked blacktop next to a pigley wiggley in Wilmington, 112 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: North Carolina, it didn't matter. And if he blew out 113 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: his knee too bad, Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner at the time, 114 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 1: had to pay the contract, had to cut the check, 115 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: cut that check, cut that check to Michael Jordan. And 116 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: that's how deep his obsession. His obsession right, And so 117 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: he was a Jim Ratt loved basketball stuff, lived in 118 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: the weight room and the practice cord and occasionally casino. 119 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: That would happen. Now today, the new age baller, they 120 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: float on an inner tube down the Lazy River. They do, 121 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: yet they have all the creature comforts. They have private chefs, 122 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: they have personalized trainers, they have the shooting coaches, they 123 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: have the stretching gurus, they have sleep consultants, they have 124 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: a social media team, they have emotional support gardeners for 125 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: some reason, I don't know why you'd need that. So 126 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: it's work smarter, not harder. That's the mantra there the motto, 127 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: But Jordan's message was kind of obviously, stop hiding behind 128 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: the amenities checklist. It's kind of weak. Go play basketball, man. 129 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: The game has become a chore and the issue, and 130 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: to me this cuts down to the main problem that 131 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: I have with watching basketball, that the player treat it 132 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: like it's taking out the trash day. You know how 133 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: you got to take the trash out and want to 134 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: take he wants to take the trash out, but it's 135 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: what you gotta do. You know, if trash fills up, 136 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: you don't want a bunch of vermin in your home, 137 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: so you throw the trash out. And it shows in 138 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: the product like it does. I have it on in 139 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: the background. I was watching the Knick Celtics game, and 140 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: I saw the Warriors game after that, and at least 141 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: the first half, and it shows in the product where 142 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: you can tell as a fan the players don't really 143 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: seem like they want to be there. They like playing 144 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: grab ass with the other players and all that. They 145 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: don't really want to play in the regular season game. 146 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean anything other than we're getting eight million 147 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: dollars a game or some ridiculous thing like that. All right, 148 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: now more of Michael Jordan audio from and B see. So, 149 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan was asked if the players of today's version 150 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:59,840 Speaker 1: of basketball have the mindset to achieve greatness, which is 151 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: so we call a low hanging fruit question. That is 152 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: a t ball question for Michael Jordan. So again, Jordan 153 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: asked by Mike de Rico if the players of the 154 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: modern NBA have the mindset to achieve greatness. Let's go 155 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: to the audio tape. It's hard to be hungry when 156 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: you have, as simple as that. I mean, if you 157 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: don't have, you are willing to do whatever you have. 158 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:27,359 Speaker 3: So my mental approach was to going do my job, 159 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 3: be the best basketball player I can be, and all 160 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,319 Speaker 3: the chips and everything outside of that. I have people 161 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 3: that was handling that, you know, but basketball court, I'm 162 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 3: handling it right. And now it's like it's a prerequisite. 163 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 3: You know, everybody has to have a logo, everybody has 164 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,079 Speaker 3: to have a you know why right, Well, I'm pretty 165 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 3: sure I'm part of the reason. 166 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: Why every part of the round to get a logo. 167 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: But brand right, brand right, brand Jordan. 168 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 3: But the thing is is that that brand established based 169 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 3: on what I did on the basketball court. You know, 170 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 3: I didn't put the brand before I put the work. 171 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 3: You know, I put the work first, and then the 172 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 3: brand evolved based on the work. 173 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 1: Right there you go? All right, So that's Michael Jordan 174 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: on the Athlete today. So the question what do you 175 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: take away from that? Michael Jordan's comments about that today's 176 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: basketball players in the NBA wanting the logo right away, 177 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: right away. So I took away the C word, not 178 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: that sea word coddled. That's what I took away. Jordan's like, 179 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: oh these guys are coddled and air Jordan, nothing but 180 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: net on this one. I also relate to this because 181 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: the management. I really want to thank the company. They 182 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: have decided they want to keep me hungry. They don't 183 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: want to pay me cowhard money or Dan Patrick money, 184 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: or they just want me to really still have that 185 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: fire in my belly. And I thank them for that. 186 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: And so just keeping it real and it does mean something. 187 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: But the way I look at it, The goat, the 188 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: real goat, not Lebron James, please. The goat basically said 189 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: that the modern basketball player, it wants the logo before 190 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: the legacy and the brand, before the blood, sweat and tears, 191 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: and coming from Michael Jordan. Who's got that cachet, right, 192 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,599 Speaker 1: the guy who's silhouette Michael Joe. You realize his silhouette 193 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: that shot of him from the slam Dunk contest extended 194 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 1: out that logo of Michael Jordan. The silhouette of Michael 195 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: Jordan has essentially replaced the Church steeple in American sporting culture. 196 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: It is crazy and it says something. But this is 197 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: a belly whopper, I wrote on my scorecard, belly whopper. 198 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: A full belly makes a dull brain, it does. And 199 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: so these guys are born into once you're determined to 200 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: be a prodigy, from the time you're about what ten 201 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: years old, Oh man, you're good to go. And it's 202 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 1: like a decade of having your ass kissed and nil 203 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: deals now and sneaker deals and documentary crews following your 204 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: journey to the NBA off court production companies, all that stuff. 205 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: And there was a point where you had to you 206 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: had to earn it. You had to outwork the horse, right, 207 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: That was the old line. Had at work the horse. 208 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: Now you don't have to outwork the horse. There is 209 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: no horse, of course, of course, of course. And get 210 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: all the goodies, all the goodies, all the perks, right 211 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: and all that, and just have to make sure that 212 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: you use the right filter on your Instagram story and 213 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: you're you're good to go. 214 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 3: Now. 215 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:28,199 Speaker 1: The NBA is one giant tech incubator in sneakers, That's 216 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: what it's And the league is drowning in the abundance 217 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: of caution culture, which is another issue with love of 218 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 1: the game and all that. I feel like that's the 219 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: unofficial slogan. Is there anything I'm wrong on that the 220 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,599 Speaker 1: unofficial slogan of the NBA is out of an abundance 221 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 1: of caution? Like this is the modern NBA. You stub 222 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: your toe, don't rub some dirt on it, missed the game? 223 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: Come on, gotta rest? Back to back? 224 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 3: Come on? 225 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: What do we are? We we some kind of a 226 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: wild uh dracone in the Andanderthal world? You can't play back? 227 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: Do you think that a modern athlete can play back 228 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: to back? What is wrong with you. For the love 229 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: of God, we cannot expect our athletic heroes to play 230 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 1: back to back. Do you work back to back days? 231 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,959 Speaker 1: I don't work back Oh that's right, I do work 232 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: back to back days. Oh okay, you work, but you 233 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: work two days. Really you have a second job? Is 234 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:27,680 Speaker 1: that right? Oh my god? Oh oh my? Uh so 235 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: load management? National TV A big game Island game. Now 236 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: the algorithm says you should not play. The algorithm says. 237 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 5: Do not play. 238 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 1: Okay, just chill out. Everyone is so warped in this 239 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: bubble rap that it's it's got more bubble rap on 240 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: these basketball players than Amazon spends on buying bubble wrap 241 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: for the packages they send out. And it's the bare 242 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: minimum optics is what it is. Bare minimals, Like, just 243 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: do the bare minimum, check the contract compliance box. If 244 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: you're an NBA star, Like you're clocking in at a 245 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: cubicle on a nine to five, and so Jordan's telling you, 246 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 1: He's like, listen, today's players want the logo before they've 247 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: earned the lore. And it is true. As someone that 248 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 1: lived in a world before Michael Jordan was a superstar 249 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: in the NBA, it happened coincided. There was a famous 250 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: commercial with Spike Lee. How about spikee. Isn't Spike Lee 251 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: almost seventy He's still fan boying it up at the 252 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: Knicks game. Isn't that great? So I'm on the tv? Anyway, 253 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: There was a Spike Lee Michael Jordan commercial that kind 254 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: of took that thing to the next level back in 255 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: the day. But Jordan's He's telling you, it's like, listen, 256 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: these guys, this is what they want. This is the 257 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: world we were in, which is really fresh from Jordan 258 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: considering it's his business model that everyone wants to mimic. Right, 259 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: It's the Jordan model that everyone wants. It's not his 260 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: love of the game, it's the love of the chi 261 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: ching chi ching, chi ching chi ching. The brand extension 262 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: is what it is. And the product, of course, the 263 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: NBA product right now is as bad as it's ever 264 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: been in my life, diluted like cheap Gatorade powder. There 265 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: was a point the NBA was really bad in the nineties, 266 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: I remember, because they had Mike Fortello was coaching the 267 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: Cleveland Cadavers and pat Riley was coaching the Knickerbockers, and 268 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: it was slowed down. It was really boring, dull basketball, 269 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: but at least the players were playing now not so 270 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: much all right now, final point speaking of that to 271 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: La Lawland, we go where Lebron James, who's looking up 272 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: at the goat and Michael Jordan wishing he was Michael Jordan. 273 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 1: So Lebron James extended his double digit scoring streak to 274 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: one two hundred ninety seven games. He did this the 275 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: other night in a cloud of controversy. Yeah, so the 276 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: Lakers were blown out by the Phoenix Suns thunder Dan 277 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: Marley with a couple of hammer dunks there for the Suns. 278 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 5: It was. 279 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: It was wild how good they were, and my god, 280 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: did they had. Mary Stottemeyer had a big day there 281 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: and just really good team there for the Phoenix Sis. Anyway, Lebron, 282 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: he was playing in garbage time with a bunch of 283 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: backups when he reached the ten point marker, and that 284 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: had a lot of people raising their eyebrows saying like, 285 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: what are you doing, dude? Let it die, Let it die, 286 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 1: Let it die, let it die, let it die. All right, 287 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: So question Lebron James being accused of catering to his 288 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 1: legacy stat padding. Lebron James to get to ten points 289 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: to continue that streak of double digit games. Is this 290 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: accusation against Lebron James inbounds or out of bounds? That's 291 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: the question. So we went to a booth review on 292 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: this and expedited booth review and we determined its inbounds. 293 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: Inbounds now as inbounds as oxygen being required for human 294 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: beings to survive, you need oxygen, very important. You have oxygen. 295 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: You don't have oxygen, you got problems. We don't even 296 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 1: know why anyone would be pretending that this is not 297 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 1: what it's being described as unless you are so far 298 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 1: up Lebron's took us you can't see any sunlight. Okay, 299 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: that might be the case, but Lebron is an full 300 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: on in this game. It was full on legacy maintenance mode. 301 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: That's what Lebron was doing. And he's out there polishing 302 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: his resume like he's working part time at Zales and 303 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,239 Speaker 1: he's dealing with the jewelry. At the end of the day, 304 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,439 Speaker 1: Lebron trying to get that new endorsement deal with Fredo 305 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: lay Now you might have heard back in the day 306 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 1: of the Freto Bandito. Well, Lebron's like, what about the 307 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: statistical Bendito. That's me Lebron James guys stealing hollow numbers, 308 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: hollow numbers like he's running a smash and grab operation 309 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: in the box score. Now junk stats, a lot of 310 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: junk stats, garbage time compost and this goes on all 311 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,919 Speaker 1: the time, and we try to call it every time 312 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 1: we see it. We pointed out the great examples of 313 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: this are Russell Westbrook with the most bogus triple double 314 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: season of all time. If you go back, there's some 315 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 1: videos there. Russ was doing cosplay and I think it 316 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: was twenty seventeen. I want to say, I think that's 317 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,360 Speaker 1: about right. Remember him boxing out. The videos were great 318 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 1: on YouTube. He was with OKC. He was literally Russell 319 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: Westbrook was boxing out his own teammates to get rebounds. 320 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: He was boxing out his own teammates. Hey hey, numb nuts, 321 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: you're on the same team. And then there was a 322 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: there were some videos of the bigs on okay see 323 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: at the time who were literally trying to get out 324 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: of the way so Westbrook could get the bogus triple 325 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: double stats. It was hilarious. And the thing about this 326 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: is that we remember it in the moment. But when 327 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,680 Speaker 1: people go back and look at the Wikipedia pages of 328 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: these guys, the next group of fans, they don't realize this. 329 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: They're not smart enough to do the research on that, 330 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: nor do they have the time that that's a bogus record. 331 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: This is a bogus record and all that stuff. So 332 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 1: it's not just basketball. It goes on in all the 333 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: other sports as well. Remember Josh Allen, Josh Allen checked in. 334 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: It was a week eighteen game. I believe they were 335 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: playing the Patriots. The Bills were playing the Patriots. He 336 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: played one play, if I remember correctly, Josh Allen, so 337 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: his iron Man streak would continue one play, Keep it alive, 338 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: Keep it alive. Okay, there you go. The stat padding. 339 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: Marching band applauds that they play the music and all that. 340 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: It's just absolutely great. So Lebron hit the ten point 341 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 1: mark with about seven minutes to go in the game. 342 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:38,440 Speaker 1: The Lakers were down by twenty five points. He got 343 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: then yanked like a bad karaoke singer. A moment later 344 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 1: they took him out there. Those are not meaningful stats. 345 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 1: Those are what we call vanity calories. Those are empty carbs. 346 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,880 Speaker 1: That's what that is. And yet when Lebron, when Lebron's 347 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: long gone from playing in the NBA, and they look 348 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: at that stat the casuals, low information fantals. You look 349 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: at that record, they're not gonna remember Lebron stat padded 350 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 1: that and was playing in garbage time to try to 351 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: get to ten points. He really has shown his age 352 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: this season. Lakers have a really good record, but he 353 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: has shown his age. So it's a Fugazi situation. 354 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 3: Now. 355 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: At least Lebron did not reach the level of the 356 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: single greatest, the single greatest stat padding moment in the 357 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 1: history of my career in talk radio. It happened over 358 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: twenty years ago, one of the great moments. I'm not 359 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: making this up. It sounds like I'm making this up, 360 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: and I'm so. One of Lebron's teammates a guy named 361 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: Ricky Davis. Ricky Davis needed one more rebound to get 362 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: a triple double. So what did Ricky Davis do? Time 363 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: was running out. Ricky Davis decided to shoot a basket 364 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: at his own basket, of course, to miss it to 365 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 1: get the rebound, and David, sir, they had a commission 366 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:55,679 Speaker 1: with balls and hair on his chest at the time, 367 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: and David Sturts. So that's not going to count. Sorry, 368 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 1: we're not counting that now. Adam Silver, Today's commissioner, he 369 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: probably would have called it creative stat expression. We must 370 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: let our players express themselves. And even though it's just 371 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: a dirty play, we're going to allow it because it's 372 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: creative stat expression. That's Adam Silver's NBA and that's the 373 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: product that's not very good right now. It's all part 374 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: of the Lebron. This story is part of the Lebron experience, 375 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 1: and not the good part it is. 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And let's 410 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: see you're totally fused, right since says, I love the King. 411 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: James Crush at three fifteen in the morning, say well, 412 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: there you go. Eileen in San Francisco was ranting about 413 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 1: something about Alcatraz. Dog, says Liz stat pads a clown 414 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 1: his record. His records are more hollow than the planet 415 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: we all live on. Also, apparently the Clippers just fired 416 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: Chris Paul. I think he fired himself. The way that 417 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: team must hate each other by that, there must be 418 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: some really good stuff that's gonna come out on the Clippers. 419 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 1: How much they don't like each other. There's some kind 420 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: of scandal. Uh, you have to really not like each 421 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: other to play as bad as they're playing like, there's 422 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: gotta be some serious stuff going on. It's gonna come 423 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: out and make some kind of Netflix documentary. Chatting with 424 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: a couple of people about that the other day, or 425 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 1: like this team is it's one thing to be bad. 426 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: They're not just bad, like they're intentionally booby trapping the season, 427 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 1: like they're throwing the ball away unforced mistakes like these 428 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: are all a roster of the oldest team in the NBA, 429 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: and they're playing like they hate each other. It's gotta 430 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: be something good there. Fat Daddy writes and says, one 431 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: hundred percent big man about Michael Jordan. I'm talking about 432 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: these today's today is the leads that are coddled and babied. 433 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 1: I think something else. Today's athletes are to prima donna. 434 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 1: There you go. They had to start looking looking up 435 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,679 Speaker 1: Jack Lalaine at sixty five, at seventy old, both times 436 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: he pulled boats for his birthday. All right, very good, Well, 437 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: the expensive cookies that would be the big short We're 438 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,360 Speaker 1: talking about. More about this later. But Penn State fired 439 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 1: James Franklin. They assumed they could get anyone they want 440 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: because they're Penn State, and they could not have been 441 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: more wrong, could not have been more wrong. They turned 442 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: their attention to the BYU coach, and they didn't get him. 443 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 1: They didn't get him because the CEO of Crumble Cookies, yes, 444 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: the overpriced delicious Crumble Cookies, cut a fact check to 445 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: BYU to pay for a giant raise for their football coach. 446 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: So Penn State and all those big whale boosters and 447 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: all that outbid by the CEO of Crumble Cookies, which 448 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: tells you how much money they must be making selling 449 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: those cookies. Right, those eight nine dollars cookies that have 450 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: about a dollar worth of material in them. 451 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 6: I'm not a big fan. 452 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: I think they're great, and I've made ripoff versions for 453 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,120 Speaker 1: several years. Once I found out how much they cost, 454 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 1: then I started making ripoff versions Benny the Baker, and 455 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,360 Speaker 1: they're they're fine, They're just as good. But yeah, that's 456 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: that's insane. They just the crumble cookie person stepped up. 457 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to 458 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 1: Dale from Muskege and we haven't heard from him. I 459 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: guess the snowplows must be back. Is that maybe? What's 460 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: going on? Hello? Dale? What's going on? Dale? 461 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 6: Hey? 462 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 7: Ben? 463 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm out here making snowbouts. Hey, before we get 464 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 5: into it, I just got it. I'm a little disappointed. 465 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 5: I've been on hold for like twenty minutes and you 466 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 5: must not know when I was on because you were 467 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 5: talking about two imaginary characters, Brick James and Michael Boredom 468 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,879 Speaker 5: and center having me on that's insane, Like these got 469 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 5: are those real people? Been? 470 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: All right? So dev again, for the record, let the 471 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 1: record show that Dale feels we should break format and 472 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,120 Speaker 1: not do the monologue and just go right into Dale. 473 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: Do twenty minutes of Dale from Muskigan. Could you could 474 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: you do twenty minutes Dale? I? 475 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 5: Uh, probably not. Your show's great, buddy, I'm just giving 476 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 5: you her time. 477 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,479 Speaker 1: How you been, Ben If I'm fine? You know, here 478 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: every night, not just during snowplow season. You know that, Dale, 479 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: We're here, You're around. 480 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 5: I worked. I worked for a shift most of the 481 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 5: most of the summer, so yeah, it's it's a weird 482 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 5: thing in the winter. I still get bits and pieces, 483 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 5: but I'm not like now. I'm in my truck for 484 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 5: sixteen hours a night the last couple of days, so 485 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 5: I have time. 486 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 2: To sit and away. 487 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: So really, what you're saying, Dale is we need a 488 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 1: lot of snow and then and then the Muskegon area 489 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: and then we're good. Then we'll have Dale every night 490 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,399 Speaker 1: with Dale as you drive around and clear the roads. 491 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:08,120 Speaker 2: Yeah. 492 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 5: I could bore people to get all lad if you 493 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 5: wanted me to. I'm pretty good at that. 494 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, so am I I've been doing it for a 495 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 1: long time. 496 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, man, you guys are great. 497 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 5: I absolutely love the show. Everything been good, guys. 498 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 1: We're live and well, doing amazing. We're surviving in the 499 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: battlefield that is talk radio. 500 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,640 Speaker 5: Yes, Yeah, that's it. Yeah, I just wanted to check in. Guys, say, 501 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 5: all right, yes, one thing, what are you thinking of 502 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,880 Speaker 5: the backers this year? You think we're le jitter. 503 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 1: I'm not convinced. That was a nice win against the Lions, 504 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: but I'm not I'm not sold. 505 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 5: I'm not sold either, better not. I worry about Jordan. 506 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,959 Speaker 5: I think he's okay, but I think his turnovers are 507 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 5: you know, they're great, They're way down. But we'll see. 508 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 8: We'll see that. 509 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 3: Well. 510 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: The great thing is Dale, as we've seen in years past. 511 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to be an amazing quarterback. 512 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: We've seen some media Joe Flackel won a Super Bowl 513 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: Nick Foles. All you have to do is play well 514 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: for a month. You just have to have a good 515 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: month and you can win a super Bowl. So that's it. 516 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: He sucks, Eli said, Yeah, he's no good and he's 517 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: you know, people people trying this is how dumb people are. Well, 518 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: Eli Manner should be in the Hall of Fame. No, 519 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: he was an average quarterback who had a couple of 520 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: freak runs. That's it, you know, not a Hall of 521 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: Famer anyway. All right, thank you, Dale. I gotta there's 522 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: a Great Dale from Muskegan there driving a snowplow. We 523 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: have seasonal callers, and he's a seasonal call We have 524 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: some guys that only call during football season. Dale doesn't 525 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 1: call during football season until it starts snowing. In Michigan. 526 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: Snowplows are vital, very important. Yes, you don't appreciate a 527 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: snowplow unless you have to get to work and the 528 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: road is covered in the powdery stuff. You can plow 529 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 1: it all day and plow it all night. Hey, I 530 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: look at you. Unbelievable. Let's go out to the black 531 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: irishman who's hanging out in Omah Hall and let me 532 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: tell you something. I could not have asked for a 533 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: better holiday gift than that Creighton blue Jay hat. My god, 534 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: is that Loreina? Does that not look amazing? Come on? 535 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 1: I agree? And it's all because of the black irishman. 536 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: It's all because of him. He we we had a 537 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: bet and he's a man of his word. He lost 538 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: the bet and he paid up. And I gotta tell 539 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: you this size eight Creighton blue Jay's hat is so good. 540 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 2: He is funny kind of But you know I did 541 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 2: make some notes, so. 542 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: You have notes. You have no you're prepared. The Black 543 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: Irishman is prepared. This is amazing. We now present the 544 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: Black Irishman's commentary. Go ahead, his own monologue from the 545 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: Black Irishman. 546 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 2: Hey, no, merry Christmas. 547 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: First of all, happy house, Merry Christmas? Do you is 548 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: your daughter? Is your daughter awake or sleeping? 549 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 2: No, she's sleep man, Man, she's getting big, dude. 550 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: I mean, anyway, I'm sure she appreciates that. 551 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, he's a big girl. 552 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 5: Now anyway, man, he's bone. 553 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 2: Hit coaches do. He's bone hit decisions they make. I 554 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 2: mean with me, Nebrassa's coach, he sucks too. I don't 555 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 2: want to talk about Pittsburgh. And then Mike Tomlin. It's like, man, man, 556 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 2: you had Terry Brass y'all, I mean, y'all want Super 557 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 2: bowls with him? Man, man, shut up? How many How 558 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 2: many coaches have y'all had? Two? 559 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: Three? 560 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 2: Everybody want to everybody want to complain. 561 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: About got Chuck Nole, Bill Cower, Mike Tomlin since they 562 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 1: became Yeah. 563 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 2: Coward, coward played for a Shottenheimer in KC. 564 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 1: But anyway, now he's now he's boring America. He's boring 565 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 1: America on television and they got rid of they you 566 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 1: know that CBS show they got rid of like Boomera 567 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 1: Siasin and Phil Simms and all those guys. Somehow coward 568 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 1: keeps his job. 569 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 2: How is that? 570 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: I don't understand. 571 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 2: Mm well, cowerschool. But I'm trying to say on television, 572 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 2: these cultures make these bad de cities. I don't say, 573 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 2: man like that Minnesota's coach Man, Yeah, that that fourth 574 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 2: and whatever? That was a bad decision. How do you 575 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 2: want to make a concusion like that with a boogie quarterback? 576 00:31:59,000 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 2: That was bad? 577 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: Well? Does it really matter? Does it matter what decisions 578 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: the Vikings coach made with the quarterback, the way that 579 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: he played. 580 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 2: He had Donald last year? That's why they Donald. 581 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 3: Stop with that. 582 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: Donald's not gonna win anything in Seattle. He's gonna break 583 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 1: all these idiots Seahawk fans. Do you Sam Donald? Oh yeah, Sam, 584 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: Donald's gonna break your heart. 585 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 2: That Hey, that's fifth first fall. But no, it ain't. 586 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 2: It ain't Thomas fault that he been with Aaron Rodgers 587 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 2: Like we okay, I'm gonna take a chance, man, go 588 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 2: with this old man. Well, what's wrong with that? We 589 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 2: all know Rogers is old? 590 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: How is he No, he just turns fifties. Fifty five, Lean, 591 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 1: I'm saying, yeah, fifty five, he's the oldest player in 592 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 1: the end. 593 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 2: You know, I will say, I will say the Padlock 594 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 2: my homeboy, Kanas City. He was relaxed for a change. 595 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's doing great. Mahomes, he's really kicking. 596 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 2: No, he ain't got no pressure on them, you know 597 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 2: what I mean? Well, man practice, he looked relaxed. 598 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 1: Well, he's trying to prepare for that wedding. Is he 599 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: going to be a best man for Travis Kelsey at 600 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 1: the big celebrit your wedding? And are you going to 601 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: the weddings in Rhode Island this summer summer twenty six 602 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: And no, no, I might think it about it? Well, 603 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: it's close to Colour House in Rhode Island, so it's 604 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: so very close. 605 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 2: How about that, Lorain, you think about that? 606 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think geographically they are very close. Yeah, the 607 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: rain is actually going to go to the wedding. Is 608 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: our correspondent there unless there's a movie that she needs 609 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: to watch and then she will be going on watching 610 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: the movie instead. So yes, hey, all right, well listen 611 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 1: call more often Black irishman. You're a legend. Your name 612 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 1: comes up from time to time. I don't know if 613 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 1: you hear about that, but your name does come on. 614 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: So okay, all right, go away, there you go, the 615 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 1: black Irishman. Usually we have to hang up on him, 616 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: and he hung up on himself. So the great con 617 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: the great con Man. Is it true that Lane Kiffin? 618 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin is now being called out by his former 619 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 1: Old Miss players for a legend lying lying in his 620 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 1: farewell statements he ran off to batal Rouge in that 621 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: private plane. One of the Old Miss players posting on 622 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 1: social media about the Lane train and everything that went 623 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: down the last couple days with Lane Kiffin, and one 624 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 1: of the players for Ole Miss said, that was not 625 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,400 Speaker 1: the message you said in the meeting room. Everybody that 626 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: was in there can vouch on this, the old Miss 627 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,719 Speaker 1: player said of lane Kiffin, who posted, after a lot 628 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 1: of prayer and time spent with family, that made the 629 00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:39,320 Speaker 1: difficult decision and blah blah blah blah blah blah and anyway, 630 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 1: one of the Old Miss players posted on social media 631 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: that that's not actually how it went down. Keep in mind, 632 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,839 Speaker 1: we are reminded that the late Great Al Davis from 633 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 1: behind the Pearly Gates said of Lane Kiffen when he 634 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 1: used the overhead projector to point out how bad Lane 635 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,800 Speaker 1: Kiffin is as a coach. The ghost of Al Davis 636 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,320 Speaker 1: also said, I think he conned me. I think he 637 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:09,240 Speaker 1: conned all of you people. The great con man Lane Kiffin. 638 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:10,160 Speaker 5: He is. 639 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, keep an eye on that. Absolutely right is the 640 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 1: Ben Mahlord shows. We are working away through the overnight 641 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:24,400 Speaker 1: and way we go time now though for the install trivia, 642 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 1: then we're gonna have Mallard to the third degree. Here's 643 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:32,239 Speaker 1: the instant tribune. Over the last six games the Timberwolves, 644 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards ant man, there's a sound of him warming up. 645 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,560 Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards scored one hundred and fifty or more points, 646 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 1: made fifty or more field goals, and made twenty five 647 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,839 Speaker 1: or more three three throws, all just in the second 648 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,160 Speaker 1: half in overtime. Blank is the last NBA player to 649 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,799 Speaker 1: put those numbers up after halftime over a six game span. Again, 650 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards has scored one hundred and fifty or more points, 651 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 1: fifty or more field goals, twenty five more free free 652 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,759 Speaker 1: throws in the second half in overtime. Blank is the 653 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,280 Speaker 1: last NBA player to put up those numbers after halftime 654 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:09,680 Speaker 1: over a six game span. That is the instad trivia. 655 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,920 Speaker 1: If you know the answer, go to the X machine 656 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,040 Speaker 1: at Ben Malor the answer next. 657 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,320 Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 658 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,720 Speaker 6: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio 659 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,920 Speaker 6: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to 660 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 6: listen live. 661 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 9: I don't need presents underneath the Christmas tree so bright, 662 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,320 Speaker 9: no gaming consoles, TVs. 663 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 1: I don't even need a bike. 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It is the Ben Mahler Show. 673 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: A reminder you can always find this show on the 674 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,360 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app. It's always available to infect Eileen in 675 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 1: San Francisco. She had to hear the Warrior postgame, but 676 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,200 Speaker 1: she instead listened to us on the iHeartRadio app. We 677 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,879 Speaker 1: thank her for that. That's why the app is there. 678 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: Anytime you want to hear the Ben Maler Show, you 679 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,520 Speaker 1: can listen to it. Not covered up by any any 680 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,000 Speaker 1: local programming. It's always that we do the show no 681 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,839 Speaker 1: matter what. Every night we're here the iHeartRadio App, all 682 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,480 Speaker 1: the other bombastic blowhards that work here, also the new 683 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,920 Speaker 1: improved iHeart Radio app. You can make the Ben Maller 684 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,919 Speaker 1: Show a preset. Also Fox Sports Radio the fifth hour 685 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,360 Speaker 1: podcast of some of your presets right there on the 686 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,880 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio App. All right, time now to pay off the 687 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: instant trivia and then we'll get to Mallard. The third degree. 688 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,200 Speaker 1: Here is the the aforementioned inch to trivia. Go to 689 00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:07,719 Speaker 1: pro bouncy Ball. Over the last six games, the Timberwolves 690 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,320 Speaker 1: ant man Anthony Edwards has one hundred and fifty plus points, 691 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,560 Speaker 1: fifty plus field goals, twenty five plus foul shots, and 692 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 1: that's just in the second half and overtime. Blank is 693 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:24,440 Speaker 1: the last NBA player to put up those numbers after 694 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,320 Speaker 1: halftime in a six game span. That is the question. 695 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,520 Speaker 1: What is the answer. Let's see Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, 696 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:38,680 Speaker 1: going with doctor j is his answer. Who else do 697 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,440 Speaker 1: we have? Ron Pope Peel from who was that? That 698 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,560 Speaker 1: was the the Great Rob the Goldman, Tom Chambers from 699 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,400 Speaker 1: Paul curly Neal from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Rob the 700 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,359 Speaker 1: Ambassador of Bakersfield. Could see Rod's name there. He's going 701 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,440 Speaker 1: with Robert Swift as his answer. Michael Jordan from FEMI 702 00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:03,279 Speaker 1: Dark Helmet guessed by Milkman Mike Fan of Spaceballs Hank 703 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,400 Speaker 1: Finkel Unless it's not from BP. Who else do we have? 704 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: Bruce Lee from alf the Alien o'piner, Tim Rain's exposed Legend, 705 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,879 Speaker 1: Rock Range from Shane and the moy Tree Rollins from 706 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:21,120 Speaker 1: mediocre Kabook your suck crossing Petrovich Captain Kirk gave us 707 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,240 Speaker 1: that one black irishman with vanilla wafers from just Josh. 708 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:29,680 Speaker 1: Do you have an answer Lorraine Larry Bird, Ben Garry 709 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,960 Speaker 1: Bird running doubt, throw the bird out? The bird is 710 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,560 Speaker 1: the word? The bird is the word? Nope, it is 711 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,960 Speaker 1: Kobe Bean Bryant, Toby Bean Bryan. 712 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:37,520 Speaker 5: Here we go. 713 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,360 Speaker 1: That was way back in O seven to. 714 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:46,279 Speaker 6: The third degree. This is one Big Ben gets grilled. 715 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,120 Speaker 8: Kobal for the first time in his thirteen year NFL career. 716 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,360 Speaker 8: Russell Wilson was a healthy scratch. With Jameis Winston as 717 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 8: the number two quarterback, the Giants decided to make Russell 718 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,719 Speaker 8: Wilson inactive from Monday Night Football. Ben, Do you think 719 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,880 Speaker 8: Wilson hangs it up at the end of the year. No, No, 720 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:02,440 Speaker 8: He's gonna go somewhere. 721 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,400 Speaker 1: He'll be a training camp arm somewhere, and he's going 722 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,040 Speaker 1: to try to continue his career. There's a supply chain 723 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,839 Speaker 1: shortage of quarterbacks there, so he'll someone will give him 724 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,520 Speaker 1: a chance to try to make a team next year's 725 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,520 Speaker 1: He's sucked for how many teams now here, the Broncos, 726 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,280 Speaker 1: he wasn't good at the NFAC, at the Broncos, Steelers, 727 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,040 Speaker 1: and now the Giants. The writing's on the wall, Coop, 728 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,960 Speaker 1: And I say he's going to continue, get one more 729 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,560 Speaker 1: chance next I'm embarrassing. 730 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,520 Speaker 8: I know Brian Schottenheimer warmed the cow warmed his Cowboys 731 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,120 Speaker 8: players that just because we've won three games, that doesn't 732 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,600 Speaker 8: change anything going on To say that the team can't 733 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,120 Speaker 8: brow complacent as they push for a playoffs, No, no, 734 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,160 Speaker 8: And you think the Cowboys will find themselves in the playoffs. 735 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,520 Speaker 1: Well, they look good I don't want to be a 736 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,400 Speaker 1: prisoner of the moment. I'm still gonna go no at 737 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,080 Speaker 1: this point. Now I'll change my opinion this should they 738 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,080 Speaker 1: win the Thursday Night get but I'm not I'm not convinced. 739 00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,920 Speaker 1: Everyone's getting all excited because they made some plays against 740 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,440 Speaker 1: Kansas City, which doesn't look like a playoff team right now, 741 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,440 Speaker 1: and the Eagles, who are having all kinds of issues. 742 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:09,760 Speaker 1: So you start peeling back those games and they're nice wins, 743 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,319 Speaker 1: but they don't look as nice when you look at 744 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,800 Speaker 1: the internal stuff with the Eagles and Kansas City is 745 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,359 Speaker 1: just not a very good team this year next. 746 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,239 Speaker 8: Jets kicker Nick Folk insisted in an interview after the 747 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:19,920 Speaker 8: Jets picked up their third win of the season that 748 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,640 Speaker 8: the team is getting better under Aaron Glenn. He also 749 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,200 Speaker 8: said that there's a lot of promise for the future 750 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:25,680 Speaker 8: of the organization. Ben. 751 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:30,080 Speaker 1: Do you think they have the right guy at the helm? Well, 752 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,560 Speaker 1: I don't know for sure. Obviously, I would say this 753 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,760 Speaker 1: season is a complete waste, and you always sell the future. 754 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,360 Speaker 1: We're gonna be great if Nick Foles came out. So 755 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:41,600 Speaker 1: this guy can't coach, he blows, we suck. We're gonna 756 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,000 Speaker 1: suck for years. Of course, of course he's gonna say 757 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,080 Speaker 1: the futures. But I haven't seen evidence that we're going 758 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:46,520 Speaker 1: back direction. 759 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:47,000 Speaker 5: How do we know? 760 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:47,480 Speaker 1: How do we not? 761 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:48,520 Speaker 7: Guy? 762 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,040 Speaker 5: I eat dog. I gotta eat dog. 763 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 1: Deal, I got it, General plan, I got it. I 764 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:54,040 Speaker 1: got it.