1
00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,800
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler

2
00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,199
Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight

3
00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,520
Speaker 1: from two to six Eastern eleven pm to three am

4
00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,000
Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and to find your local

5
00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:17,440
Speaker 1: station for the Benmatlers Show at Foxsports Radio dot Com.

6
00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,680
Speaker 1: You can find it there or stream us live every

7
00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,000
Speaker 1: night on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.

8
00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,560
Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Mahler Show on

9
00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:27,800
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

10
00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,400
Speaker 1: Well, if you thought the Cowboys were going to stay

11
00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:39,479
Speaker 1: alive in the NFC playoff picture, yeah, the last rites

12
00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:45,120
Speaker 1: not quite there, but just about. Welcome in the beginning

13
00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,839
Speaker 1: of another week of the Ben Mahler Show. We are

14
00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:56,040
Speaker 1: in the air ev re where you cannot stop us

15
00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:01,480
Speaker 1: in collaboration as we solve all of life's problems, one

16
00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,399
Speaker 1: crunch at a time, coast to coast, border to border

17
00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:09,720
Speaker 1: and beyond on the vast in tantalizingly powerful microphones of

18
00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:15,080
Speaker 1: fs are am modinating live from the world Say Dog

19
00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:20,680
Speaker 1: Eat Dog World from the world famous Fox Sports Radio

20
00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:22,960
Speaker 1: studios as we kick off a brand new week which

21
00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,760
Speaker 1: is approved by BBS Recovery and Andre in the Commonwealth.

22
00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,600
Speaker 1: We're not sure about willis it's almost getting to that

23
00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,679
Speaker 1: time of the year, the holiday season here where people

24
00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,840
Speaker 1: are from school and Andre in education, so I imagine

25
00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:42,800
Speaker 1: he'll return to the active duty ranks in the Malard Militia. Now,

26
00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,560
Speaker 1: this portion of the Ben Maler Show made possible in

27
00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,040
Speaker 1: part by our friends at ti Iraq. For over forty years,

28
00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,680
Speaker 1: tire Raq has been helping customers like Malard, prop Guy,

29
00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,560
Speaker 1: Fergdog and Alf the Alien Opiner find the right tires

30
00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,320
Speaker 1: for how, what and where they drive ship fast and

31
00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:06,360
Speaker 1: free back by free roadhazard protection with convenient installation options

32
00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:12,960
Speaker 1: like mobile tire installation tireraq dot Com await tire buying

33
00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,079
Speaker 1: should be and also don't forget and I see over

34
00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,240
Speaker 1: there mister NICs gz Hey, dummy, what about what about

35
00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,360
Speaker 1: the HALion? Okay, fine, Yes, every goal starts with an

36
00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,320
Speaker 1: assist on and off the field. That's why Haleyon and

37
00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,560
Speaker 1: US Soccer are launching for the Assist, a celebration of

38
00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,400
Speaker 1: everyday acts of support that help people achieve their goals

39
00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,600
Speaker 1: with iconic brands like Censin, nine Toms, voltairean Adville and

40
00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:44,959
Speaker 1: send them to learn more what to HALion assist dot com.

41
00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,720
Speaker 1: We'll help you. Had a great weekend. We're back at

42
00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,920
Speaker 1: it again here all week no days off. If you

43
00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,440
Speaker 1: heard the podcast this weekend, you got a brief preview

44
00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,240
Speaker 1: of coming attractions. But enough of that, it's get right

45
00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:01,320
Speaker 1: into it. Don't waste any time, waste anytime. So our

46
00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,320
Speaker 1: lead this hour from Jerry's World. That's whe We're going

47
00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:10,920
Speaker 1: to start the Dallas Divas in Action hosting the Purple

48
00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,000
Speaker 1: People Eaters. And I mean lying if I said the

49
00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,200
Speaker 1: game had any juice. There was really no juice in

50
00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,320
Speaker 1: the game other than the fact that you just put

51
00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,360
Speaker 1: the Cowboys on TV. They could be peeling oranges and

52
00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,560
Speaker 1: people would watch. They could be chopping up onions like

53
00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,880
Speaker 1: a line line cook and just people would be watching.

54
00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,880
Speaker 1: It didn't matter. So he had Chris Collinsworth and Mike

55
00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,200
Speaker 1: Tarico an Island game. They had the call on the

56
00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,240
Speaker 1: peacock there and see. So I don't know if you

57
00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,120
Speaker 1: watched it or not. Maybe you were not watching, you

58
00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,160
Speaker 1: were burned out from the other events of the day

59
00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,440
Speaker 1: and you did not watch that. We are somewhat I

60
00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,800
Speaker 1: don't know, directly paid to watch. But if we don't

61
00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,320
Speaker 1: watch it, kind of what are we doing. So we

62
00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,720
Speaker 1: watched and red Shirt rookie J J. McCarthy looking like

63
00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,160
Speaker 1: he actually kind of knew what he was doing a

64
00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,600
Speaker 1: little bit. That's not a it's crazy though. He threw

65
00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,040
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns, he ran for a score, and

66
00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:09,040
Speaker 1: the great CJ. Ham just in time for the Christmas holiday. CJ.

67
00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,960
Speaker 1: Ham had the go ahead touchdown on his first carry

68
00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,760
Speaker 1: of the season. That's good efficiency there. And the Minnesota

69
00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,559
Speaker 1: Vikings put a giant dent in the Jerry Mobile Jerry

70
00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,320
Speaker 1: Jones playoff hopes there with a thirty four to twenty

71
00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,880
Speaker 1: six victory over the once proud Dallas Cowboys. They say,

72
00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,480
Speaker 1: once proud, that was back thirty years ago. They really

73
00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,760
Speaker 1: haven't been proud since then. The Vikings get to their

74
00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:38,320
Speaker 1: six wins, their six and eight sub five hundred, They

75
00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,360
Speaker 1: win their second consecutive game, and they were eliminated, see

76
00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,120
Speaker 1: you later, Bye bye, Nana na na hey, hey, good bye.

77
00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,400
Speaker 1: Eliminated from postseason consideration before the kickoff of this game.

78
00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:53,039
Speaker 1: But they didn't have a pity party. They didn't say,

79
00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,120
Speaker 1: oh woe is me, We've been eliminated. And they went

80
00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,160
Speaker 1: out there. They played that game. They played the game,

81
00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,400
Speaker 1: and they ended up well winning but still losing in

82
00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,080
Speaker 1: the end. So Minnesota was a fourteen win team a

83
00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:12,160
Speaker 1: year ago, and now they do not qualify for the postseason.

84
00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:17,960
Speaker 1: Now the Cowboys six seven and one, they have to win.

85
00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,120
Speaker 1: Check this out. You want to just eliminate the Cowboys

86
00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,599
Speaker 1: for God's sakes, This is what the Cowboys have. So

87
00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,440
Speaker 1: in order for them to make the playoffs, they have

88
00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:29,839
Speaker 1: to win their three remaining games. And then in addition,

89
00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,680
Speaker 1: but wait, there's more, they need the Philadelphia Eagles to

90
00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,719
Speaker 1: lose all three of their games in order for Dallas

91
00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,240
Speaker 1: to overtake the Eagles in the NFC East Philly. Mind you,

92
00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,280
Speaker 1: they do play Buffalo, however, the other two games are

93
00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:50,840
Speaker 1: against the Washington Commanders. Hello, yeah, so good luck on that.

94
00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,320
Speaker 1: Here is the owner, he's the GM. You liked the

95
00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,520
Speaker 1: team so much you bought it. Here's Jerry Jones commenting

96
00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,360
Speaker 1: on another lost cow Boys season. Tiger was.

97
00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,400
Speaker 3: We certainly didn't think we'd be here in this kind

98
00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,760
Speaker 3: of shape with three games to go, and hacked be

99
00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,200
Speaker 3: behind the eight ball the way we are. It's very disappointing.

100
00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,279
Speaker 3: I'm really obviously very disappointed for our fans. I'm disappointed

101
00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:18,320
Speaker 3: for these players. I didn't expect that. I thought we

102
00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,440
Speaker 3: could come out here and on both sides of the

103
00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:25,200
Speaker 3: ball make a better accounting of ourself. Minnesota did the

104
00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,160
Speaker 3: best job out there today on both sides.

105
00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,919
Speaker 1: Of the low. Okay, so let me translate that for

106
00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,279
Speaker 1: those of you who are a little slow. That's Jerry's

107
00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,720
Speaker 1: way of saying we blow. That's his way of saying that.

108
00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:40,040
Speaker 1: So that is a good starting point to this. And

109
00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,520
Speaker 1: I think the jumping off point would be George Pickens

110
00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,239
Speaker 1: because that's the subplot to this. George Pickens was there,

111
00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:52,240
Speaker 1: he played and did next to nothing. And this continues

112
00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:57,240
Speaker 1: a recent theme for George Pickens as the Cowboys wide

113
00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,960
Speaker 1: receiver who was the toast of the town a little

114
00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,160
Speaker 1: while back, but not anymore. So let us discuss the

115
00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:07,839
Speaker 1: question is this, how does this performance change things for

116
00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,000
Speaker 1: the Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens going forward. So I

117
00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:17,040
Speaker 1: got warn Buffett, tea spoon, and wagon wheel, and we

118
00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:21,960
Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are

119
00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,040
Speaker 1: going to make some delicious corn bread is what we're

120
00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,480
Speaker 1: going to make, with the proper amount of butter, a

121
00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,200
Speaker 1: nice warm butter on top. That sounds like a delicious

122
00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,160
Speaker 1: meal to me. Well, not a meal, it's a corn bread.

123
00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:34,880
Speaker 1: It's not a meal, but it's an addition to a meal.

124
00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:39,239
Speaker 1: It's an add on. It enhances the dining experience properly

125
00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:45,040
Speaker 1: made corn bread. So the way we'll start, and obviously

126
00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:50,239
Speaker 1: this changes things. It continues to change things big time, big, big,

127
00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,080
Speaker 1: big time. For a few weeks. For a few weeks,

128
00:07:54,120 --> 00:08:00,360
Speaker 1: George Pickens was I guess I amposter syndrome. Is that

129
00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,440
Speaker 1: the way you discover he was playing like a legitimate

130
00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,920
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver, number one in the entire NFL.

131
00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,800
Speaker 1: There and Jerry Jones was out on his radio shows

132
00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:13,840
Speaker 1: every week, very braggadocious. Jerry was celebrating how good George

133
00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,720
Speaker 1: Pickens was and really congratulating himself in many ways for

134
00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,520
Speaker 1: making the deal to acquire George Pickens. As many Cowboy fans,

135
00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,960
Speaker 1: they're not that bright. I can't believe. How did we

136
00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,760
Speaker 1: get this guy for a couple of late trappers. I

137
00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,920
Speaker 1: don't understand. Well, now you understand, dummy, Now you get it, dummy.

138
00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,120
Speaker 1: That's why he was available, George Pickens. That's exactly why

139
00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,880
Speaker 1: George Pickens. You could have gotten him for a cup

140
00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,440
Speaker 1: of sand, which is what the Cowboys gave up to

141
00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,280
Speaker 1: get George Pickens. This is it, you know, Jerry bragging

142
00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,880
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. He pulled his shoulder muscle, Jerry

143
00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,959
Speaker 1: Jones did, patting himself on the back. He was so

144
00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:53,079
Speaker 1: proud of himself. Full on navel gazing from Jerry Jones.

145
00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,719
Speaker 1: And now fast forward a couple of weeks and all

146
00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,559
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the costume is off. And as Warren

147
00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:02,120
Speaker 1: Buffett famously said back in the day, when the tide

148
00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,600
Speaker 1: goes out, you see who's swimming naked, And we now know,

149
00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,640
Speaker 1: we now know that's Peckts and Stark naked there in

150
00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,400
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones on the shoreline, right there in Jerry's world.

151
00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,079
Speaker 1: And Mike Tomlin somewhere in the greater Pittsburgh area yet again,

152
00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:22,280
Speaker 1: taking a victory lap for the Pitts sparg Steelers. There

153
00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:26,079
Speaker 1: they play on Monday Night football against the Miami Dolphins,

154
00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,920
Speaker 1: and Tomlin doing a victory lap there, sticking his tongue

155
00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,640
Speaker 1: out and going no, no, no, no, boo boo, just like that,

156
00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,360
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he's doing. And all the eld haters

157
00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:39,239
Speaker 1: there told you so. The last three games, George Pickens

158
00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,560
Speaker 1: has caught fifty percent of his passes, just fourteen catches

159
00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,800
Speaker 1: in three games, one hundred and fifty eight yards, no touchdowns,

160
00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,959
Speaker 1: and has gotten worse by the week. If you look

161
00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,600
Speaker 1: at the diagram, down down, down, down, down down down,

162
00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,319
Speaker 1: just like that, just like that, and not a weapon,

163
00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,960
Speaker 1: not a weapon, doing little cardio. I don't get my

164
00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,040
Speaker 1: workout in. It's on television, the little cardio. And not

165
00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:09,280
Speaker 1: even a decoy. He's not even involved enough as a decoy.

166
00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,680
Speaker 1: He's not that like at this point, George Pickens is

167
00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,120
Speaker 1: a ship. He's a ghost ship, is what he is.

168
00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,439
Speaker 1: An empty vessel, just kind of drifting aimlessly on the

169
00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,079
Speaker 1: Jerry world, see and just kind of floating along there.

170
00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,240
Speaker 1: Now the bottom line, he's not in the bubble of trust,

171
00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,360
Speaker 1: cannot be in the bubble of trust, not even close.

172
00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:34,520
Speaker 1: And you know, if you have the Cowboys and Jerry Jones,

173
00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:36,440
Speaker 1: he runs the show. It's his world, as we all know,

174
00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,200
Speaker 1: it's his world. So Jerry Jones, you can't you can't

175
00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,840
Speaker 1: extend this guy, you can't trust him. Cannot do it now.

176
00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:45,480
Speaker 1: I give him a one year deal or something like that.

177
00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,920
Speaker 1: But any more than that, forget about it. Forget about it.

178
00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,320
Speaker 1: Are now on the Minnesota side of things. The question,

179
00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:59,559
Speaker 1: and it's a burning question. Did quarterback JJ McCarthy play

180
00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,679
Speaker 1: his way out of the Vikings dungeon? Did he play

181
00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,719
Speaker 1: out of the Vikings dungeon? That's the question. So I

182
00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,640
Speaker 1: would say not quite, is the way I would approach that,

183
00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,480
Speaker 1: because he's got one foot out of the cell JJ

184
00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:17,520
Speaker 1: McCarthy at this point. The rest of his body, though,

185
00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,880
Speaker 1: is still chained to the wall on the brig. If

186
00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, you feel me on that,

187
00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,560
Speaker 1: all right? So the good news is, and I will

188
00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,360
Speaker 1: be Benny Brightside a lot of great listeners in the

189
00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,800
Speaker 1: Twin Seas, I would be Benny bright Side here that

190
00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:35,360
Speaker 1: if you look at this JJ McCarthy's his Viking ship.

191
00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,640
Speaker 1: The ship ain't be sinking at this moment. It's not sinking.

192
00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,880
Speaker 1: The bad news, See, that's the good news. The ship

193
00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,160
Speaker 1: is not sinking. The bad news is they're still bailing

194
00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,440
Speaker 1: water out and all they have is a tea spoon.

195
00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,080
Speaker 1: And so it's the odds are not good. The odds

196
00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,800
Speaker 1: are not good here and McCarthy finally showing a bit

197
00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:59,040
Speaker 1: of a pulse. We thought he was completely gone, completely gone.

198
00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,280
Speaker 1: That not the case. There's a bit of a flicker.

199
00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,160
Speaker 1: Do we go full spark? I don't know that we

200
00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:05,600
Speaker 1: want to go full spark. I'm not ready to go

201
00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,080
Speaker 1: full spark. I can't go full spark. Not gonna go

202
00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,920
Speaker 1: full spark. Will not do full spark. Not gonna happen,

203
00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:16,360
Speaker 1: Not full spark. Sorry no. And here's he's drifting out

204
00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:22,200
Speaker 1: McCarthy of the Purple Haze, like a groggy boxer making

205
00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,720
Speaker 1: it to his knees in that scene in every boxing movie,

206
00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,040
Speaker 1: we make it to your knees right before the ten

207
00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,840
Speaker 1: count and the referees all sweaty and leans in to

208
00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,440
Speaker 1: count you out, and then you kind of get up

209
00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,640
Speaker 1: a little bit. That's McCarthy at this point. However, let's

210
00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:40,120
Speaker 1: not throw a parade right in front of hollering James

211
00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:44,679
Speaker 1: group home in the greater Minneapolis area there because this

212
00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:50,480
Speaker 1: came against the last couple of games commanders who really

213
00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,120
Speaker 1: looked spent. I mean they just looked the bad anyway,

214
00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,079
Speaker 1: and they played an overtime game of the Broncos the

215
00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,319
Speaker 1: week prior, and then this Cowboy team a couple of defenses.

216
00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:00,840
Speaker 1: If you were to say, what is the the toughness

217
00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,920
Speaker 1: level of the Cowboys defense and the Commander's defense, it's

218
00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,480
Speaker 1: very similar to Coolwhip if you've ever tried to stop

219
00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:09,760
Speaker 1: a train with cool whip, it you need a lot

220
00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,560
Speaker 1: of cool whip to stop the train. I really like

221
00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:17,400
Speaker 1: a ton of cool web. It's it's a problem. Uh

222
00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,960
Speaker 1: it is, so anyway, list and there's there's still some

223
00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,960
Speaker 1: warning flares out there, several of them for JJ McCarthy

224
00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,120
Speaker 1: here that are shining shooting off into the night sky

225
00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,439
Speaker 1: and you're like, well, what's going on with that, McCarthy.

226
00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:32,600
Speaker 1: And the big one for me is you have the

227
00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:37,040
Speaker 1: top wide receiver in the game. You all told me

228
00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,360
Speaker 1: that JJ McCarthy gets to throw the ball to Justin Jefferson.

229
00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,559
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's a total stud. He's being paid

230
00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:48,040
Speaker 1: like a total stud, and yet they're speaking different languages.

231
00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:52,240
Speaker 1: Someone needs to get them a Rosetta stone because it's

232
00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,960
Speaker 1: not it's not good, mister wonderful. I mean, Justin Jefferson

233
00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,760
Speaker 1: had two catches for eight on two guys eight targets.

234
00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,000
Speaker 1: You had twenty two yards but eight targets. That means

235
00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,000
Speaker 1: six of the targets did not connect if my mal

236
00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,200
Speaker 1: or math is correct on that, which is essentially the

237
00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:15,000
Speaker 1: witness protection level witness protection level statline, the Vikings went

238
00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:19,360
Speaker 1: two for nine on third down. Kevin O'Connell treated the

239
00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,720
Speaker 1: passing game like it was radioactive. For the Vikings only

240
00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:26,200
Speaker 1: twenty four pass attempts, that's it, and it worked a

241
00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,480
Speaker 1: full game in modern NFL football, where you play hide

242
00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,240
Speaker 1: and seek with your quarterback. You know what. That reminds

243
00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,000
Speaker 1: me of Jim Harball when he was coaching at Michigan.

244
00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,360
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, it's progress. For jj McCarthy, it is progress,

245
00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:44,360
Speaker 1: but it's baby steps in mid December, which is kind

246
00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,440
Speaker 1: of like learning to crawl during a marathon. Like that's

247
00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,320
Speaker 1: usually not how that goes. You're not supposed to be

248
00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,560
Speaker 1: doing that, but here we are. And so it's desperation.

249
00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:57,760
Speaker 1: They got to find a lot from McCarthy in the

250
00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,160
Speaker 1: next few weeks or they're going to go back to

251
00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,320
Speaker 1: market they being the Vikings and try to get somebody

252
00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,920
Speaker 1: else in there. And so it's not really growth, it's

253
00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,560
Speaker 1: just there's something else going on there. And the dungeon

254
00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,840
Speaker 1: door is cracked, as we said, for McCarthy, and you know,

255
00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:17,000
Speaker 1: he's still kind of hearing the jailer's keys Jinglin a

256
00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,960
Speaker 1: little bit there on the side, and it's not great.

257
00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,600
Speaker 1: All right, now, last word, let's just get right to

258
00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,520
Speaker 1: the story of the weekend. If there's one word that

259
00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:30,080
Speaker 1: would sum up the Sunday in the NFL, it would

260
00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:36,560
Speaker 1: be the I word, as in injury, Yes, injury and

261
00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,080
Speaker 1: the man alive. What a what a hot mess? That

262
00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:43,560
Speaker 1: was the Three Musketeers. He had quarterback Patrick Mahomes the

263
00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:49,000
Speaker 1: snap suffered a torn ACL and that's it. That's all

264
00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,800
Speaker 1: she wrote. He's out for the year. Only a few

265
00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,360
Speaker 1: weeks ago, Chiefs have been eliminated. The Green Bay Packers

266
00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,840
Speaker 1: lost star edge rusher Micah Parsons shortly after Mahomes went down.

267
00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:03,280
Speaker 1: Parsons went down. That's the crackle. NFL's highest paid non quarterback,

268
00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,600
Speaker 1: highest paid defensive player in the NFL. He tore his ACL.

269
00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:10,200
Speaker 1: He's out for the year. And wide receiver Davonte Adams

270
00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:16,160
Speaker 1: the hammy went whammy for the Rams, although the injury

271
00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,200
Speaker 1: report not as bad as the other two. Here the

272
00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,160
Speaker 1: Hollywood style kind of like NFL injury. In Hollywood, they

273
00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,800
Speaker 1: say celebrity DEAs. Rule of three is the theme there,

274
00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,800
Speaker 1: and one star dies, then two more tend to follow,

275
00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:32,760
Speaker 1: and that's how the common wisdom goes. Apparently with NFL

276
00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:38,120
Speaker 1: injuries it's a similar thing. So the question of the three,

277
00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:43,760
Speaker 1: you've got Patrick Mahomes, Michael Parsons and Davonte Adams, three

278
00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,400
Speaker 1: big names, household names in the NFL if you care

279
00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:52,720
Speaker 1: about football, all hurt. Which one is the biggest? So

280
00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:54,720
Speaker 1: I preface this for Terry and England. We do not

281
00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,520
Speaker 1: do lists. We do not believe in list on this show,

282
00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:01,520
Speaker 1: as Terry knows, and he's the gatekeeper that we don't

283
00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,600
Speaker 1: do this. But on Big Ben's Big board, which is

284
00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,960
Speaker 1: not a list, as Shannon de Moine knows, not a list,

285
00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,280
Speaker 1: but on Big Ben's Big board. Here's how it shakes out.

286
00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:16,480
Speaker 1: So at number three, Devonte Adams coming in at number three.

287
00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:20,919
Speaker 1: Here we mentioned the hammy went whammy for Devonte Adams,

288
00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,439
Speaker 1: but it's not a season ending injury, at least not

289
00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,000
Speaker 1: at this point. So they'll attempt the Rams to rub

290
00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:29,560
Speaker 1: some dirt on it. They'll try to rub some dirt

291
00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:33,760
Speaker 1: on it, and then they'll duct tape the hammy and

292
00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,639
Speaker 1: then after that they'll put some icy hot on it,

293
00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,840
Speaker 1: give it a couple of advil, and then call it aday,

294
00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:43,800
Speaker 1: call it a day after that. So that's the plan there.

295
00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,879
Speaker 1: It is code read for the Rams. They going to

296
00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,400
Speaker 1: Seattle and that's a very beatable team with Seattle. How

297
00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,480
Speaker 1: embarrassing was that Seattle needing a late field goal to

298
00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:55,120
Speaker 1: beat Grandpa at quarterback? Holy crap. Seattle's worse than I thought.

299
00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:56,760
Speaker 1: By the way, if they had to they need a

300
00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,960
Speaker 1: field goal, their top three defensive guys were out and

301
00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,400
Speaker 1: they had forty four year old. The Colts had forty

302
00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,760
Speaker 1: four year old you know, mister Rivers out there, and

303
00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,919
Speaker 1: they still had to lead the final second. Unbelievable. How

304
00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,359
Speaker 1: bad is that Seattle team is? But anyway, the Rams

305
00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,080
Speaker 1: going to Seattle. And listen, the secret weapon for the

306
00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,120
Speaker 1: Rams this year has been in the red zone. Devonte

307
00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,439
Speaker 1: Adams has been the man, the myth, the legend. And

308
00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,879
Speaker 1: so now more pressure on Puka Nakua to get her

309
00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:28,920
Speaker 1: done there. And they still have a bunch of torpedoes

310
00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,280
Speaker 1: the Rams, so they should be all right. At number two,

311
00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,200
Speaker 1: Patrick mahomey, have we done a wellness check on keg

312
00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,960
Speaker 1: our keg drinking friend in Kansas City? Nor so? Patrick

313
00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:46,040
Speaker 1: Mahomes torn to acl season cooked burnt toast for Kansas City.

314
00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,360
Speaker 1: The Chiefs were already moving like the drunk uncle at

315
00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:55,600
Speaker 1: the wedding and Patrick Mahomes sending the season to the well,

316
00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,159
Speaker 1: he was out by the time the season ended, but

317
00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:01,280
Speaker 1: they weren't winning that game anyway. So Patrick Mahomes there

318
00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:04,800
Speaker 1: will spend his off season getting a lot of quality

319
00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,760
Speaker 1: time with rehab clinics in Kansas City and wherever he

320
00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:10,800
Speaker 1: travels to and all that, and they'll stitch him back

321
00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:14,000
Speaker 1: together and they'll give him some terminator parts and some

322
00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,160
Speaker 1: wizard dust and he'll be back and we'll likely miss

323
00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,400
Speaker 1: half of next season. Though this is gonna spill over

324
00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,479
Speaker 1: based on what I've been hearing, this is gonna spill over,

325
00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,240
Speaker 1: just on timeline. Mahomes will not be ready to go

326
00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,560
Speaker 1: next September when the NFL season kicks off. So that

327
00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:34,520
Speaker 1: Mahomes magic, that hocus pocus, the Abra cadabra temporarily unplugged.

328
00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,560
Speaker 1: And again that leaves us with number one. That would

329
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:43,040
Speaker 1: be Micah Parsons, and Micah Parsons that injury, and I

330
00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,440
Speaker 1: don't want to be too dramatic, that is a kick

331
00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,560
Speaker 1: to the testicles for the green Bay Packers. It is

332
00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,760
Speaker 1: that's a right to the cheese kurds for green Bay.

333
00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,760
Speaker 1: They went out of character. They went out of character

334
00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,119
Speaker 1: green Bay. They decide we're gonna somebody almost never do.

335
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna go all in this season. We're gonna trade

336
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,359
Speaker 1: some draft picks, and we're gonna get the player and

337
00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:07,359
Speaker 1: pay him the highest contract ever given to a defensive player.

338
00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,960
Speaker 1: Michah Parsons, you shot, you shoot your shot. They shot

339
00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,199
Speaker 1: their shot there, and they put Michaeh. Parsons right in

340
00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,680
Speaker 1: the center of the wagon wheel, right there in the middle,

341
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,480
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the wagon wheel. And now

342
00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,400
Speaker 1: the wagon wheel is sinking in the quicksand outside Sherboygan,

343
00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,359
Speaker 1: it's not it's not going very well at this point.

344
00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:29,600
Speaker 1: So the whole advantage that you had where you all

345
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,240
Speaker 1: love to brag to me when Parsons would have a

346
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,159
Speaker 1: bad game, I would point that out and the packer

347
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,400
Speaker 1: stockholders would get very upset with me, and they said, well,

348
00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,800
Speaker 1: you know, it's because he's getting double teamed. Okay, well

349
00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 1: you know have to worry about that. No more double teams,

350
00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,160
Speaker 1: no more fear, no more chaos on that side there,

351
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 1: that's all down the drain there, Michael Parsons, he's out,

352
00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,359
Speaker 1: and a year of Parsons prime, a year of his

353
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:56,440
Speaker 1: prime wasted. And it's also a dead giveaway that this

354
00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:00,920
Speaker 1: is an indictment on Jordan Love, that Jordan is simply

355
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,119
Speaker 1: not good enough. That that's really the lesson. Based on

356
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 1: what I've been hearing from the Packer stockholders out there,

357
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 1: they're like, we're cooked. Now. If you had a truly

358
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 1: great quarterback, you could make up for that. You could

359
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 1: Jordan Love could play out of his mind bonkers football

360
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,360
Speaker 1: for a month and could win a championship. And as

361
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:25,000
Speaker 1: he showed late against the Denver Broncos, he's not that guy.

362
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,160
Speaker 1: You're not that guy, Pal, You're not that guy. And

363
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,320
Speaker 1: he can't carry the team. And so really the Packers

364
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,040
Speaker 1: are they're double cooked because not on his Parson is

365
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 1: going to be out also part of next year. You

366
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 1: also got a quarterback and you've given a decent amount

367
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,640
Speaker 1: of money to who's not an alpha, he's an omega.

368
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 1: That's problematic. And so as for the people claiming it's

369
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:52,200
Speaker 1: not fair, oh my god, it's not fair. Stop star power.

370
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,679
Speaker 1: It happens, Guys get hurt. This is why it's not

371
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 1: flag football, even though the NFL would love for this

372
00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,159
Speaker 1: to be flag football. People get hurt in that anyway.

373
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: The NFL regular season. Again, this is the way I

374
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 1: was taught oh, you're old malor.

375
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 4: It was.

376
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,760
Speaker 1: It was, Hey, a war of attrition. Like you play

377
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,439
Speaker 1: the regular season with integrity, you play it to your

378
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,800
Speaker 1: fullest ability, and then oftentimes the team that wins the

379
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 1: championship is the one that has the fewest injuries. And

380
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,359
Speaker 1: so that's really what this is. Green Bay is not

381
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,880
Speaker 1: going to be that team. They're not. It sucks rocks.

382
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question it sucks rocks and all that.

383
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 1: You're not dealing with robots, even robots would get hurt.

384
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,159
Speaker 1: You're dealing with plausibly human beings, and so there's no

385
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 1: load management. And if this is with the NBA, then

386
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,359
Speaker 1: Micah Parsons wouldn't have played. He would have just waited

387
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,439
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, because that's what NBA ballers do, right.

388
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 1: I then don't want to play. God forbid we play,

389
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,199
Speaker 1: we might hurt ourselves. So that's not yet fully the

390
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,080
Speaker 1: mindset in the NFL, and I'm happy about that.

391
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor

392
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,119
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on

393
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,160
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

394
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,400
Speaker 5: Hey is Cabino and rit from Fox Sports Radio Now

395
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 5: in addition to hearing us live weekdays from five to

396
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 5: seven pm Eastern two to four Pacific on Fox Sports Radio,

397
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 5: We're excited to announce a brand new YouTube channel for

398
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 5: the show.

399
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: Yup. That's right.

400
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 5: You can now watch Covino and Rich live on YouTube

401
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,680
Speaker 5: every day. All you gotta do search Covino and Rich

402
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 5: FSR on YouTube again, go to YouTube search Covino and

403
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 5: Rich FSR. Check us out on YouTube, subscribe, hit that

404
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 5: thumbs up icon and comment away.

405
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 1: Let's go to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. And I'm

406
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: so happy that this happened this year and not last

407
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: year because I would have been blamed, you know, it

408
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: making all about me. I was able to go to Arrowhead.

409
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 1: I saw the Chiefs last year last November against the Broncos,

410
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: one of the craziest games I've ever been at. That

411
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 1: was the game the Broncos had the game winning field

412
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 1: goal blocked and the Chiefs won and they end up

413
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: going to the Super Bowl before they fell apart and

414
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 1: the hangover has continued. So Kansas City playing host to

415
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 1: the Charger in an AFC West Brew ha ha in

416
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 1: this key game for Kansas City, Stand Alive, Stand Alive,

417
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: taking on the Chargers. I don't know if you watch

418
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 1: the game or not. Now, if you had Kansas City

419
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: winning this game and staying alive in the playoff race

420
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: in the AFC, you are a big fat loser, You're

421
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: a loser. As the Chargers said, turn out the last

422
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: the parties over. They eliminate Kansas City from playoff contention.

423
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 1: They are d E A D debt debt debt Derwin

424
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: James picking off a pass from Gardner Minshew. Yes, Gardner Minshew,

425
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 1: number seventeen in your program, but number ninety nine in

426
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 1: your heart. Gardner Minshew was in there. He had taken

427
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: over for an injured Patrick Mahomes. As we mentioned earlier

428
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,199
Speaker 1: in this program, Mahomes done for the season. He was

429
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: injured late. The game was already over pretty much at

430
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: that point, closing seconds, and so Cans City goes down.

431
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: Chargers get a win. They won by three, and the

432
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: reigning AFC champions are no more as they have been

433
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:20,479
Speaker 1: exterminated and decommissioned from the playoffs. Justin Herbert had two

434
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: uttered ten yards. Modest numbers, and so the quarterback apologist

435
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 1: will say he's had he's hard. What's long with Yeah? Okay,

436
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 1: fine two uttered ten yards and a touchdown for the

437
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: team from SoCal. The Chargers get to ten wins, ten

438
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: and four consecutive ten win seasons for the first time

439
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 1: since they were the old San Diego Chargers. Show me

440
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: your lightning bolt way back in six seven. My god,

441
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: So the rare season sweep, very rare season sweep for

442
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,919
Speaker 1: the Chargers over the Chiefs. The story here, though, is

443
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 1: clearly in the loser's locker room. This is a pivot point,

444
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 1: is it not? At least it feels like a pivot

445
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: point that here we are. The Chiefs have been eliminated.

446
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: They have been excommunicated from the NFL postseason after all

447
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: of these years, first time in ten years, ten years,

448
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs will not be hanging out in playoff football.

449
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: No wild card game. You don't have to worry about

450
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game. You don't have to worry about

451
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: going to the Super Bowl in San Francisco, although I

452
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: imagine many of those guys that go out there to

453
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 1: sell all the crap they're trying to sell you on

454
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: radio row. That's usually what happens. But let us discuss

455
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 1: the question, and we're gonna get into this right now

456
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,439
Speaker 1: we're going to focus on Andy Reid. All right, So

457
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: the question is who gets most of the blame for

458
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: Andy Reid's Chiefs missing the plauf. Who's most to blame

459
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: for Andy Reid's Chiefs missing the playff? So I've got

460
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: sewing machine, swamp water, and Applebee's and we will combine

461
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: all of these things together and we will punch you

462
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: right in your intestines, is what we're gonna do. So

463
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: before we get into this, let's hear from Andy Reid.

464
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: Everyone's very concerned about the morale, the morale of Kansas City.

465
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: Here's it what Andy Reid had to say on that top.

466
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, guys are down the bust of their butt

467
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 6: to win the game, you know, and I wouldn't expect

468
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 6: anything less. So you know, it's not a great feeling.

469
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 6: I wouldn't expect it to be after losing a game.

470
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: Okay, was anyone expecting any other feeling they think they

471
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 1: were gonna have like a Chuck E Cheese party, go down,

472
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: play some ski ball or something like that, Like what

473
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: are we gonna do? So as far as who's most

474
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: to blame for the Chiefs missing the playoff under Andy Reid,

475
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,719
Speaker 1: number one. Let's start at the very top. The snake

476
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 1: rocks from the head down. Let's start with mahomes magic.

477
00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 1: It went poof, Oh my god, you can't say that. Yeah,

478
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: you can absolutely say he ends the year in the

479
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: injury tent, which is a bummer. However, let's not let

480
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: that cloud the reality of the situation. You watch the

481
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: NFL this year, Long before Mahomes suffered the season ending injury,

482
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes went to the candy shop and he ordered

483
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 1: fun dip. Except it wasn't so fun. The fun Dip

484
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 1: wasn't fun. Normally, Mahomes has been a wizard, the wizard

485
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: of Arrowhead and under pressure pulling rabbits out of the

486
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,239
Speaker 1: helmet and this guy's magic wand and all that. And

487
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: this year he turned on the sewing machine and he

488
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: stitched together a bunch of overthrows and bad wreaths and

489
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: ill timed giveaways and passes bouncing off receivers, hands and

490
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: helmets and all that stuf and on the deep ball

491
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: for Mahomes, it has been the Rocky Mountain horror show,

492
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: is what it's been here and more picks than touchdowns

493
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: for Mahomes, barely completing a third of those deep passes

494
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: for the Kansas City Chiefs offense. Now, is he still

495
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: an elite player?

496
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:09,959
Speaker 4: Sure?

497
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: Has he had an elite season. No, he did not

498
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: have an elite season, and a lot of butter fingers

499
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: around him. Butter fingers, a lot of butterfingers at the

500
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: worst possible moments, which is part of the story. And

501
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: he didn't get much help. But ultimately a lot of

502
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,239
Speaker 1: that is on Mahomes though also for not there were

503
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: some terrible games, he said the last month here, as

504
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: things continued to go the wrong direction. You also have

505
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: to point out the drops were often drive killers. They

506
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: were Rashie Rice. I hope he is better now at

507
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: the driving than he was before, because he's not very

508
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: good at football these days. My god, Travis Kelsey, who's

509
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: thirty six, I believe he moves like a cell phone

510
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: maybe older than that now, like a cell phone on

511
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: low power, like you know, the batteries on a loan

512
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: and it says, all right, you plug your phone in,

513
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: you got ten percent power. And he caught passes the

514
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: way you'd expect a podcast, like if we put Joe

515
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: Rogan out there and said, hey, Joe, catch some passes. Okay,

516
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: Joe would catch passes the way Travis Kelsey caught passes

517
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: a lot of bricks brick house like the Combodoor's there

518
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:23,479
Speaker 1: no separation, no vertical threat at all. The front office. Now,

519
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: the other indictment here is on the Chiefs front office,

520
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: like they just assume we're gonna get some guys back,

521
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: and you know what happens when you assume, and we'll

522
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: be okay, and everything'll be fine there. And they sat

523
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: on their hands at the trade deadline. They refused to

524
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: give up any draft picks to try to complete the roster.

525
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: They just kind of waited. It was like, it's like, well,

526
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: we're out of samples at Costco. Let's wait until they

527
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: fill up the sample trae. Okay, we'll wait. Well they

528
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: never did. They went home. The people that put the

529
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: samples out their day was done. That was it. And

530
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: so you look at everything. Yeah, the defense, Chris Jones,

531
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: keeping up with the Joneses. If there's one mall to

532
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: me that sums up this entire season for the Chiefs,

533
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: it was the game against Jacksonville was I believe a

534
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: Monday night game, and you remember Trevor Lawrence fell down

535
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: a couple of times and Chris Jones, mister all everything

536
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: defensive star face of the franchise, his effort, his lack

537
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: of hustle was next level and just caught on tape

538
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: and then got all defensive about it and all that.

539
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: Like that kind of sums up this season, just like

540
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: the offense had the thing of the jigs that weren't working,

541
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: the watching mccollegs. But the defense, the numbers weren't terrible,

542
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: but then there were these little things like they couldn't

543
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: get the do hickey to work, and it was just

544
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: a big It was a big mess bottom third and

545
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: sacks bottom third and pressures third down stops were not

546
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: great for the Chiefs defense, and they couldn't get off

547
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: the field. Often when they needed to get off the field,

548
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: they couldn't get off the field. So the ma if

549
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: you do the Malet math crunch the numbers on the

550
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: Chiefs here it's shared blame, which is never fun. But

551
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: the buck ultimately does stop with Mahomes because he's he

552
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: was able to elevate the players around him, and this

553
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: year he did not elevate the players around him on offense,

554
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: and the defense wasn't good enough to pick up the

555
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: slack and now they find themselves watching the playoffs when

556
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: that comes around here in January. All right now, page two,

557
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: So continuing the theme of the hour, the theme of

558
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: the hour, The question here is Chiefs coach Andy Reid,

559
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: big Rad. Is Andy Reid in danger of being whacked?

560
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: Is he going to be collateral damage from the Chiefs

561
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: being failures this year, not even making the playoffs? So

562
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: in terms of Andy Reid being in danger, is he

563
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: about to get fired? No? Is he in stranger danger?

564
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head. Yes, I'm gonna nod my head. Yes,

565
00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: on Andy Reid. I don't see him being fired, just

566
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: like you get out of here. However, the massage goodbye,

567
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: I call it the massage, whether he's finesse, you know

568
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Like this whole thing smells right now,

569
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: And it doesn't smell like delicious barbecue at the tailgated arrowhead.

570
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: It doesn't smell like that. It's musty, it's funky, and

571
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the equipment. If you've ever been

572
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: around hockey, the goalies equipment smells like ass just horrible.

573
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: Or I guess any gym bag, any gym bag on

574
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: a hot, hot day. You know, sitting out there in

575
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: the sun during the summer just smells really gnarly bad

576
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: and terrible. And Andy Reid you talking about Mahomes being

577
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: the wizard of Arrowhead, Well, Andy Reid was the maestro

578
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: of offensive play calling. And this season the Chiefs attack

579
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: it looked like his spell book. The spellbook for Andy

580
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: Reid was soaked in swamp water and the pages were

581
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: sticking together. There was no real creativity, just kind of

582
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: reheated leftover and it wasn't working and so and this

583
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: didn't just pop up one overnight for the Chiefs. Now,

584
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: this has been festering. You remember last year in the

585
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: second half there were some signs that things were not

586
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: going well, and then it bottomed out in the Super

587
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: Bowl when the Chiefs got smoked by the Philadelphia Eagles,

588
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: and so Big Red was unable to find the source

589
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: of the mildew, couldn't find it. And Mahomes, as good

590
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: as Mahomes has been this year, he could not find

591
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: a can of fabreeze big enough to take care of

592
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: the flatulence in the phone booth that was taking place here.

593
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: And normally you get a mulligan when you're a legend.

594
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna give that person a mulligan. They're a legend

595
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: of the game that the whispers out of Kansas City

596
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: are that there are some factions saying it's time to

597
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: make a change, and it's the perfect time now with

598
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: Mahomes being hurt, because you bring in a new coach,

599
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: you'll let them settle in. There'll be no expectations for

600
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: the chiefs. Kelsey's going to retire. Mahomes will be out

601
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: at least probably half the year. Next year, you bring

602
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: a new coaching staff in, they don't have any real

603
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: pressure on them. They go in there kind of set

604
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: up their own thing. And these are grassroots whispers, is

605
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 1: what they are. You know, pitchforks padded in bubble wrap,

606
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: if you will, and all that stuff, and people gonna

607
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: lean into the age game. We saw what happened with Pete.

608
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll was not fired by the Seattle Seahawks, although

609
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: he was fired, they just made it seem like he

610
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: left to take an advisor's role. We know that's bull

611
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 1: crap because he immediately came back to coach the Raiders,

612
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: if you want to call what he's doing coaching the Raiders,

613
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: and so it'd be like, well, Andy Reids, old, let's

614
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: just send Grandpa to the retirement home at midnight when

615
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: no one's looking, and I just can watch. My advice

616
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: now is to watch for leaks, watch for the league

617
00:35:55,160 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: source behind a paywall on the athletic watch for someone

618
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: connected to Mahomes questioning Andy Reid, and useful idiots in

619
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 1: the media pushing the Andy slipping stories in the media

620
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: that he's not doing this right and he's screwing this

621
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: thing up. And then the Mahomes needs a new voice.

622
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: As we said and read now, the saving grace for

623
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, and there is a saving grace is there

624
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: are no obvious replacements. It's just no obvious name that

625
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: they say, Okay, we get that guy and we're gold.

626
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: The only one that would make a little bit of

627
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: sense would be Cliff Kingsbury, who's the OC of the

628
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders, and he coached Mahomes in college at Texas Tech.

629
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: And there's a guy. How about Cliff Kingsbury was a

630
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: hot he was hot, hot to trot last year Washington

631
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: got to the final four in the NFL playoffs, and

632
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: then he didn't take a head coaching jobs are arrogant.

633
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: He didn't like the jobs that were open. And now

634
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: you think anyone's gonna go out of the way to

635
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: hire Cliff Kingsbury after the Washington offense tank this year.

636
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: Come on, he had a chance and he set it out.

637
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 1: But that would be the only one. Arrowhead mahomes Cliff Kingsbury.

638
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: There's a connection there. And so unless he leaves the

639
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: beltway and heads over and with a whiteboard in hand

640
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: and drop plays for Patrick mahomes the loyalty, so that

641
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: the malord math on Andy Reid. He's in the danger zone.

642
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: The good news is there's no one who's really stepping up.

643
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, that guy's gonna get the job, all right.

644
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: Final point now to the pop star in the corner

645
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: of the room, question, what does the storyline of the

646
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: Chiefs being eliminated from playoff considerations? What does this do

647
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: for the Taylor Swift fueled NFL conspiracy theories that have

648
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:57,439
Speaker 1: been going around for several years. So I'll address this.

649
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: This is the snuffleophagus in the room. This is what

650
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 1: happens when a conspiracy theory runs out of oxygen. There's

651
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: no more auction here. The Taylor Swift fueled NFL rigging crowd.

652
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: Can we do a wellness check on them? Are they

653
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: doing okay? Are they quietly right now? They're slipping out

654
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: the emergency exit at the Applebee's, and they don't want

655
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: to pay the check. They're like, I was just going

656
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: to get out of apple as we go through the

657
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,760
Speaker 1: emergency exit, We're not paying the check. That's it. For years,

658
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: those that partake not farmer John, Their engagement farmers is

659
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 1: what they are. They're doing engagement farming. And they've got

660
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: their tinfoil sombreros on and they swore up and down

661
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 1: on the Holy Bible that the NFL was greasing the skids,

662
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: that it was all a rig deal for Kansas City.

663
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: It was the Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift romance. It was

664
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: the Golden Boy Patrick Mahomes, a scripted love story. And

665
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,919
Speaker 1: if it was a scripted love story, wouldn't it end

666
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 1: with the Super Bowl confetti in the air everywhere, drippling down, down, down,

667
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: down down the confetti just like that February retirement. Then

668
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: sometime in the spring wedding vibes with the biggest wedding

669
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: in America in many, many years. There instead Travis Kelcey

670
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: couldn't I guess we could say couldn't shake it off.

671
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 1: He was unable to shake it off this year and

672
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: it was just a bad year. And he limped off

673
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: Arrowhead and with a bit of a blank space. He

674
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 1: had a bit of a blank space where the magic

675
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: used to be, and he was kind of frozen there.

676
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: And that stench that the Chiefs had on offense there.

677
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: You know, it's just bad bad blood. There's another one

678
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: bad blood. So did not go well here, and the

679
00:39:54,520 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 1: wizardry of the Chiefs obviously away. Kelsey's magic gone, the

680
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: plot armor ripped away for the conspiracy theory. And this

681
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: was not cinema. This was definitely not cinema. It was

682
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: a documentary, but not the documentary Taylor Swift's been in

683
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: here recently. No refs with Q cards, we didn't have

684
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: any of that. No Lombardi delivery service on demand, we

685
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: didn't get that. Just a football boone doggle. It was

686
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: a boone doggle. And now Travis kelce can look at

687
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift and mutter, look what you made me do?

688
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: It's another one. By the way, I think that's a

689
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: that's a song. Look what you mean it is anyway,

690
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: all right, So the conspiracy is dead for now. Now

691
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: the big story is, will Taylor Swift dump Travis Kelsey?

692
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: She's a winner, she's only married a loser. Will Taylor

693
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: Swift Willy break up before the wedding? And will she

694
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: whoever wins the Super Bowl, will she latch onto that

695
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: team's tight end. Inquiring minds would like to know, But

696
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 1: I do expect a spin off conspiracy, and here's my

697
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: my expectation using the Mallard crystal ball. As you know,

698
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: I am a distant relative of Nostre damas friend of Nostradinas.

699
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: He lives in Seattle, but not his wife. She's a vegan,

700
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: but anyway, she's a nice woman, but she's a vegan.

701
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: So the conspiracy theory would be that Taylor Swift wanted

702
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to lose so her husband to be Travis

703
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: Kelsey will have more time to plan the wedding, and

704
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 1: so she wanted to make sure and he's healthy relatively speaking,

705
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So it's worked out well on me.

706
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller

707
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

708
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: It's Mallard. How about that to the third degree, This

709
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: gets all right.

710
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,760
Speaker 4: Ben Trevor Lawrence had a historic performance on this Sunday,

711
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 4: first player in NFL history with five passing touchdowns, a

712
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 4: rushing touchdown, and fifty plus rushing yards in a single game.

713
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: Are we buying the Jaguars yet? I'm not. They're obviously

714
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: playing very well, They're good. I'm not quite fully on board.

715
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: I'm like looking at the train and I'm seeing the engine.

716
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: There's some steam engines there. There's you know, locomotives that

717
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,399
Speaker 1: look pretty impressive. I'm not. I just it's gonna take more.

718
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: They play the Jets, coop. You know they're supposed to

719
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: win that game when you play the Jets. So I'll

720
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: hold off on that next.

721
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 4: So you kind of alluded to it during your phone

722
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 4: call with Andrea, But a lot of people have been

723
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,359
Speaker 4: making this connection. Tom Brady tore his ACL in his

724
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 4: ninth season. This is Patrick Mahomes' ninth season. They both

725
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,720
Speaker 4: had three Super Bowls at the time of the torn ACL.

726
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 4: Of course, Tom Brady came back and won four more.

727
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 4: Do you think Patrick Mahomes is gonna come back and

728
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 4: have you know, at least somewhat kind of a similar success.

729
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, if he's gonna have to commit himself and

730
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: you get in great shape, and that's part of his job.

731
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: He's selling his body. That's what you do. You're a

732
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: professional athlete, You're selling your body. That's your product. There.

733
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: So Tom Brady was always in pretty good shape. My homes.

734
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,720
Speaker 1: It was a little chubby. Any little chubby. He's enjoying.

735
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: He's gonna father likes donuts. I like donuts too, But

736
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: I don't play quarterback in the NFL. So get in

737
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: good shape, I can. Why not they can win another

738
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: couple of Super Bowls in Kansas City. This is not

739
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: Tom Brady two point zero though.

740
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 4: Next, Fernando Mendoza became the first ever player from Indiana

741
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,760
Speaker 4: to win the Highestman Trophy over the weekend, and now

742
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 4: he is the favorite to be the number one overall

743
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 4: pick in the NFL draft. I don't believe I was

744
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:28,760
Speaker 4: gonna say, do you think that's gonna happen?

745
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: Though I've seen him play obviously Andianism one of the

746
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,439
Speaker 1: top teas. I just doesn't even look like an NFL

747
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: quarterback to me. I don't am I missing something like

748
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: he's just like he's fine. He's got the height, he

749
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,439
Speaker 1: just doesn't there's nothing magical about his game. I'm gonna

750
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: say he will not be then a more pick. How

751
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: did we doubt he passes? Adition? That is, he went

752
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: put away. Not a great year for quarterbacks, though in

753
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: the draft doesn't look great.

754
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

755
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 2: the nation yet. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports

756
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 2: Radio dot com and within the iHeart video app search

757
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 2: FSR to listen live.

758
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,760
Speaker 1: Hey you sports figure, guy or girl? Who got here

759
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 1: with you? Talking to so here some incident advice? Hold

760
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: that on, no one's paid attention to me for ten

761
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: whole seconds. And if you don't like it, anyway we go.

762
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: It's the advice line Onscreened Radio. As we get started

763
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: here and reminder, Mark points out that this portion of

764
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: the show made possible by Hailey On. That's right, Haley On.

765
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: Every goal starts with an assist on and off the field.

766
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: That's why Haley On and US Soccer launching for the

767
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: assists the celebration of everyday acts of support to help

768
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: people achieve their goals with iconic brands like Censinine, Tom's

769
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: voltairean Advil and senthrm. To learn more, go to Haley

770
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: on assist dot com. Who needs our advice? Well, it's

771
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 1: all over now. They've been decommissioned. Cans City out of

772
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Patrick Holmes a season ending injury that will

773
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: spill into next year. Snap crackle pop at Arrowhead. Any

774
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: advice to Ma Holmes, Travis Kelcey and Andy Reid As

775
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have been bumped. They're not gonna make the

776
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 1: playoffs this year. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox

777
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: is the number eight seven seven nine nine six six

778
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: three six nine. You're live on the air. When you

779
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 1: hear my voice, Hello, line number one, Hello, Line.

780
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 2: One, Holiday Road.

781
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: All right, there we go call it here next, Hello caller, Hello.

782
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 2: Take ninety minute showers. It'll help you sell boot Lake

783
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 2: merch outside of Airwhead Stadium.

784
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like the Great helmet Man Sofa Stadium. Also Hello,

785
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 1: Line four, you're on the airline for we're giving advice

786
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs. Unscreened radio. You're on the airline four

787
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: morning time.

788
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 2: And look at it, Ben, Did you know Henry Ford

789
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 2: was a driven man?

790
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 1: Oh? I see you. There you go. It's a card

791
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,439
Speaker 1: joke here, all right, you're on your collar. Five yellow.

792
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: You're on the air line five.

793
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 3: Hello.

794
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: Oh that's random laugh guy, that's just random laugh guy.

795
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: Let's go to you. Line six, you're on there. It's

796
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: unscreened radio. Get quick, right to the point, right off

797
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 1: the air. Hello. Line six.

798
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 2: Andy Reid celebrates making the playoffs with a cheeseburger.

799
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: And he celebrates and I'm making the playoffs. That's a

800
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: great way to live life. Live life, cheeseburgers to paradise.

801
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,919
Speaker 1: Line number one, you're on the airline one, eight seven,

802
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: seven ninety nine on Fox.

803
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 2: Hello, line one, Yeah, boyor time Philepercawns, Yippie.

804
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,919
Speaker 1: Bitter blind Scott caller. You're on the air Hello caller,

805
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,879
Speaker 1: go oh Ben.

806
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 5: My advice is just start another dynasty, Am Lisa.

807
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, pull your pants back up your dope.

808
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,359
Speaker 1: Line four, you're on the air line four. You gotta

809
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: eating barbecue and enjoy playing football. That's wonderful advice. That's

810
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: that's our friend from Iowa. I believe I Line up five.

811
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 1: You're on the airline five.

812
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 2: Hello, Daniel Mallards. You coming to the hood this year?

813
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'll be. You don't invite met me, invite

814
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:08,879
Speaker 1: me over man, I'll come down, I'll hang out.

815
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 2: I want more.

816
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: Hurr up Pine one. Line one you're on there, go

817
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: Line one, god go go. No Line one, you're too slow.

818
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: Line one bet job bye Line one