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Speaker 1: Well, the Pirate Ship not exactly sailing smoothly for a

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Speaker 1: begin the week, we start with the Sunday Night NFL

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Speaker 1: game at so Far in the Hood in Inglewood and

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Speaker 1: up to No Good. Yeah, there a final game of

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Speaker 1: the Sunday portion. There's only one lonely Monday night game left,

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Speaker 1: but the last game on Sunday. There as Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: in Theory leading the Tampa Bay Football team the Pirate

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Speaker 1: heavyweight matchup against Matthew Stafford and the La ri I Ams.

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Speaker 1: game they had Mike Tariko and Chris Coylesworth calling the game.

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Speaker 1: More on that in a minute. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you watched it or not, if you were checking

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Speaker 1: this thing out, not much of a game. Game was

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Speaker 1: o v we are at halftime. We watched so you

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Speaker 1: would not have to. And what did we see. Well,

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Speaker 1: we saw Devonte Adams catch not one, but two of

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and the La Rams jump out early and

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Speaker 1: never look back. That's called a boat race, kids. Thirty

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Speaker 1: The parties over as the Rams move into the Presidential Suite.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much to the Dallas Cowboys for helping

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Speaker 1: out beating up the pathetically overrated Philadelphia Eagles thirty four

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers go down extended garbage time. Game was over

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Speaker 1: at halftime. There and the better story in the losing

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Speaker 1: locker room of consternation on the Tampa Bay side of

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Speaker 1: the final play of the first half, Tampa getting their

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Speaker 1: he got dinged up right before halftime there, as the

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Speaker 1: second half coming to an end, Baker Mayfield decided to

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Speaker 1: It did not have enough velocity to get it done. However,

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Speaker 1: my god, I can't believe that. Now we don't know

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Speaker 1: So there is that now, Todd Bowles being bashed the

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Speaker 1: Bowles deserve to be ripped? Does he deserve to be ripped?

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Speaker 1: A part here for Baker Mayfield, the Hail Mary at

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Speaker 1: So a to answer the question, does Todd Bowles deserve

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Speaker 1: It's cheap heat is what it is, Todd Bowles. There's

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Speaker 1: Todd Bowles better plug the holes fast because the ship,

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Speaker 1: As the Rams blow the doors off the Buccaneers in

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Speaker 1: That was it. It was an island game. You're playing

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Speaker 4: As I think it feels like the game's slowing down.

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Speaker 4: I feel like he's in total command. I think he's

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Speaker 4: more and more comfortable with just the skilled players. You

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Speaker 4: But I'm really happy for him. Is a cool stat

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Speaker 4: that artist gaming, you know, twenty seven touchdowns in a

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Speaker 4: row without an interception, tying Tom. But he's playing great

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Speaker 4: and we'll just continue to stay in the moment. But

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Speaker 4: I'm loving every second of this.

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Speaker 1: All right, that was a lot of fluff, is what

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Speaker 1: to finish the game. You finished the game, and he

426
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Speaker 1: did a face plan, a biblical face plant in this

427
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Speaker 1: game late in it for Danny Dimes. Here is Daniel

428
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: Jones made the hour pointing out then much going on

429
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: there late in the game. Didn't execute in some key situations.

430
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, got to do a better job I

431
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,120
Speaker 5: think overall and our execution.

432
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 7: And certainly are their job and handling all that stuff.

433
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 7: So tough, yeah, tough to have a stretch like that

434
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Speaker 7: towards the end of the game.

435
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Speaker 1: Are are mirror mirror on the wall? Who's the first

436
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: of them?

437
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 3: Are are?

438
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 1: Are?

439
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:29,719
Speaker 3: All?

440
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: Right? Here is Shane Steichen, the head coach of the Colts.

441
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,400
Speaker 1: The Colts as mentioned the final four, the final four possession,

442
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: three and out, three and out, three and out, three

443
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: and out. How'd that go? Yeah?

444
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 8: I mean I thought the defense did a great job

445
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 8: getting the takeaways. You know, we get a backed up situation.

446
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 8: We got to get ourselves out of that situation. That's

447
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 8: a three and out there, and then we had another

448
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 8: three and out and then we had another three and out.

449
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,199
Speaker 8: So anytime you have three and out so you're not

450
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 8: moving them efficiently, it's going to be hard for any

451
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Speaker 8: one to win football games.

452
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: And we got to be better. I gotta be better. Okay,

453
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,879
Speaker 1: went in doubt. I got to better. We got to

454
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: be better. Just throw that out at the end. There

455
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 1: you go. You're good. So back to the point at hand.

456
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: The question on the table for the esteem panel here,

457
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: how is the Daniel Jones reputation rehab toward going for

458
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: the Colts. Well, we mentioned this was a major setback here.

459
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: The Colts go reverse Uno card and Jones turns back

460
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 1: the clock and it's like he's back playing in Jersey

461
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: for the gi Hey and Ts suck, Suck, Suck. The

462
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 1: Giants three completions in crunch time three. Now Daniel Jones

463
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: based on malarmath. He closed the game out in the

464
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and overtime, completing thirty three point three percent

465
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: of his passes. That's half the sign of the devil

466
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and overtime there for Daniel Jones.

467
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: And he's the guy. Remember, he's the guy looking for

468
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: the big payday. The Colts have decided that they're going

469
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: for it. They traded some scratcher tickets away to the

470
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: Jets to get their hands on sauce Gardener, and by

471
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: doing that, they have committed themselves to Daniel Jones. They've said, hey,

472
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: we want you, We're gonna sign you to a contract,

473
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: We're going to keep you. And Jones is looking for

474
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: a massive payday. So he's got a lot of leverage

475
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 1: you would assume going into this. However, in these high

476
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: leverage moments for the Colts quarterback in this game, he

477
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: looked like a feline. Now what kind of feline did

478
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: he look like? Did he look like a rag doll?

479
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 3: No?

480
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 1: Did he look like a Persian No, he did not

481
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: look like a Persian cat. Did he look like a sphinx? No?

482
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: He played like a scaredy cat. He played like a

483
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: scaredy cat at the end of this game. Scaredy cat,

484
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: scaredy cat, DNA, That's what it was, all right. Behind

485
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: throwing behind receivers, generally they don't catch the passes when

486
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: you throw behind him. You're being so critical. Why would

487
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: you be so critical? That's just my experience. I know,

488
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: I'm a shock jock. Usually if you'll behind receivers, they

489
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: don't catch the passes. Why would you say that? Okay? Anyway,

490
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: late on throws also problematic. Oh why are you being

491
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: so mean? Yeah, nearly picked off multiple times in the

492
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and overtime. Check that box. And as we mentioned,

493
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Speaker 1: the four straight three and outs to close the game.

494
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: That gets your that gets your resume updated. You might

495
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: want to go to one of the websites there and

496
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: see if you can find some work. My god, it

497
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: was not good, not good at all. So on the

498
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: Malard scale of panic, the top twol for determining how

499
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: bad a situation is the Malar scale of panic one

500
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Speaker 1: to ten, with ten being oh my god, oh my god.

501
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: This is an eight point oh eight point zero. On

502
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: the Daniel Jones Mallard scale of panic, for Indianapolis. And

503
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: here's why this is electric chair adjacent is what it's

504
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: electric chair adjacent. And so when you look at it,

505
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, this is his reputation, rehab tour and all that.

506
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: And it's off the road. Now, it's not fully in

507
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: the ditch, but it's halfway in the ditch, and you're

508
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: out of gas and you've got a lot of problems.

509
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: And so the Colts fans were hoping they'd get another

510
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: edition of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and

511
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: they just got the Temple of Doom part is what.

512
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: They got a lot of doom there and also Danny

513
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: Dimes returning the return of Danny Dimes in this game.

514
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Speaker 1: The whole idea this season is to see if you

515
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Speaker 1: can commit long term. Are you just going to sign

516
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: this guy to a two year contract again him a

517
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: four year contract? What's it going to be? And this

518
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: was at best, if you're positive, this was just a setback,

519
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: a small setback, that's it. At worst, something much worse

520
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: than just a small setback for Daniel Jones. Here, if

521
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: you're a so called franchise guy, shrinks up in every

522
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: pressure situation, right, No bueno? That is a noe bueno situation.

523
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was hesitant and at the end of the game,

524
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: and also it just seemed like he was rattled by

525
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: the Chiefs defense, shrinking under pressure, which is generally what

526
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: you're not looking for here. That was Giants era Daniel Jones,

527
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: although to be fair, there were very many games where

528
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: he didn't even play well enough to get to pressure

529
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: situations where the games were over by the time you

530
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: would get to a fourth quarter where the game is

531
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: close situation. And so the Giants they got rid of

532
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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. The Colts picked him up now after he

533
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: stopped in Minnesota, and at this moment, the Colts say,

534
00:31:55,560 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: is the a team more of a contender or a pretender? Well,

535
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: the way they finished the game, you'd have to put

536
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: them in the pretender category. It's the only fair thing

537
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: to do. If you disappear in crunch time and I've

538
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: got news you're not the guy. You can't beat the

539
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: guy if you're gonna play like that at the end

540
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: of the game. And that's exactly what happened on this day.

541
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: And so the Colts they're gonna have some decisions. There's

542
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: still obviously a couple of games to go here, a

543
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: few games left in the regular season. But that was

544
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: not not a great afternoon. And so reputation rehab, reputation relapse.

545
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: It's a spinoff show, Reputation Relapse. You can go with

546
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: that if you would like. All right now, page two

547
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: on the cansa City side of things. And it was

548
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: not a smooth game for the Chiefs, a game that

549
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: had a lot on the line for Kansas City considering

550
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: that they've dug themselves a massive hole. Head coach Andy

551
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: Reid and his team able to come back. Andy Reid

552
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: singing the p of his team postgame, he said, that's

553
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: the part quote I appreciate as a coach the most

554
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: is the attitude. Andy Reid said, Well, he put down

555
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: his cheeseburger to talk to the media. He said, it's

556
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: a compliment to the players, coaches, and the supporting people

557
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: from the building. No one has been hanging their head

558
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: and oh no, and blah blah blah blah blah. All right,

559
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: So the question, all right, Andy Reid celebrating the ability

560
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: of his Chiefs team not to give up. So should

561
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: Andy Reid's Chiefs be celebrated for resiliency or ripped for

562
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: being in the hole. All right, Now, you celebrate the

563
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: fact that they've come back and won a few of

564
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: these games, or do you goof on them because of

565
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: the situation they find themselves in. So I would say,

566
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: let's not crown anyone. If you want to crown him,

567
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: crown his ass. But I'm not going to crown anyone.

568
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: The Chiefs weren't down to eleven at Arrowhead to day

569
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones in the fourth quarter, down by eleven to

570
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, Hello, if you need to rally to save

571
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: your tukas, is that great? I don't know about that.

572
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: It's certainly storm clouds. It's certainly storm clouds. And the

573
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: first three quarters of this particular game, if you break

574
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: it down, the first three quarters, the Chiefs looked like

575
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: they were running uphill, but they were not just running uphill.

576
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: They were running on a bank of mud, a mud

577
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: bank right on the Delaware River for some reason, and

578
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: that is where they rub the baseballs. The mud they

579
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: rub on the baseballs comes from the mud banks of

580
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,720
Speaker 1: the Delaware River. But that's essentially what they were doing

581
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: in this particular game. A lot of penalties, sloppy football execution,

582
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 1: was bad. All that stuff, no rhyme, no reason, none

583
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: of that stuff. And it's the same problem that has

584
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: been bird dogging the Chiefs all a season long. We've

585
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: seen it all year. It has not been a silky

586
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: road for Kansas City. Instead, it has been a sandpaper

587
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 1: road at this particular point. A lot of finger biting,

588
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,879
Speaker 1: hair pulling, the sweaty palms, all of those things. And

589
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: they have become the cardiac kids. They've become the cardiac

590
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: kids here and not in the fun way, not in

591
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: the fun way. No. And then you add Chris Jones.

592
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. You add Chris Jones, the man

593
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: that quit against Jacksonville, allowing the Jaguars to score the

594
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: game winning touchdown, a game that will likely hurt the

595
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: Chiefs down The line is Jacksonville won in Arizona, so

596
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 1: the Jaguars have a record that will put them in

597
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 1: playoff contention in Kansas City is also trying to get

598
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: one of those spots. So it's a mess in that regard. Anyway.

599
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: The point is Chris Jones postgame said, quote, I've got

600
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: to show up the rest of these games. You know

601
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: what that is? That is a dead give it dead

602
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: give it. He's admitting Chris Jones, defensive star of Kansas City,

603
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: that he was lolligagging. He's a lolligagger, that's what he is. Lolligagger. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Yeah.

604
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: So it's say I've been on cruise control. When you say, hey,

605
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:18,720
Speaker 1: I've got to show up the rest of the games,

606
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,439
Speaker 1: that would mean you haven't shown up in a few

607
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: of the games. Therefore you have to show up in

608
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: the rest of the games because you haven't shown up.

609
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: You see the point. So he's been cruising along, cruising

610
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 1: for a bruising there. Here's the problem though. Now here's

611
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: the problem the Chiefs. They generally haven't started playing this

612
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: season until someone slaps them around a little bit and

613
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: then they wake up. Is that really resiliency or a

614
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: lack of urgency at the beginning of these games? And

615
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: Mahomes he rescued him a bit here he's he's still

616
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 1: not where he had been. Mahomes, and it's like a

617
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: weekly rescue plan. Who you gonna call Mahomes, that's what

618
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna call. And you talk about living on borrowed time.

619
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,439
Speaker 1: And Kansas City there you escaped an escape room. Good

620
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: luck on that. As we move forward, now turning the page,

621
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: we go to Green Bay, Lommafield, the Frozen Tundra as

622
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: the Minnesota football team. They showed up kind of. They

623
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: got their bell rung by the team from Wisconsin. So

624
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: Minnesota has now lost not one, not two, not three,

625
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: not four, not five, not six? How about seven? Seven

626
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: games lost this season? Does that sound like a lot. Well,

627
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: that's more than twice as many, more than twice as

628
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: many as the Minnesota Vikings suffered last year. And on

629
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday Sunday against the Green Bay Packers, the Vikings

630
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: ended up getting mollywopped by a team that had their

631
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: own issues. The Green Bay Packers had some issues, they're

632
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 1: underwhelming all season with Jordan Love and JJ McCarthy, though,

633
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: said hey, you might be underwhelming, but you've got nothing

634
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: on me, nothing at all on me. McCarthy attempted nineteen passes,

635
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: twelve of them were completed, for eighty seven yards. A

636
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: professional quarterback that sat out a season, JJ McCarthy had

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Speaker 1: eighty seven yards passing two interceptions. He got sacked not once,

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Speaker 1: not twice, not three times, not four times, how about

639
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Speaker 1: five times? Five sacks for jj McCarthy. Remember, sacks are

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Speaker 1: mostly a quarterback stat, mostly a quarterback stat that tells me,

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Speaker 1: you don't know what you're doing now. As such, get

642
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Speaker 1: to the point please. So you had the Vikings unable

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Speaker 1: to move the ball consistently as you might imagine, get

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Speaker 1: the ball to their playmakers, because if you can't complete

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Speaker 1: passes for more than eighty seven yards, chances are none

646
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Speaker 1: of your receivers are going for one hundred yards because

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Speaker 1: you didn't have more than any seven Ye had any

648
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Speaker 1: seven yards passing Jajon McCarthy, So that includes the playmakers.

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Speaker 1: One of the all time greats of this generation, Justin

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Speaker 1: Jefferson of the Minnesota football team, who acknowledged postgame he

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Speaker 1: acknowledged the frustrations of the losing ways of the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 3: Tale is it's frustrating. It's frustrating to lose, you know,

653
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Speaker 3: it's frustrating to you know, to be up here and

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Speaker 3: say the same things every single weekend expecting for something

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Speaker 3: to change the following the weekend. You know, we're still

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Speaker 3: in the same spot.

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Speaker 1: So we just got.

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Speaker 3: To figure it out and see the things that we

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Speaker 3: need to change and get better.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Jefferson had four catches for forty eight yards. That's it.

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Speaker 1: So the question here Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson just heard

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Speaker 1: the SoundBite there saying he's frustrated they lose the same

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Speaker 1: things they say every single week and they keep losing

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Speaker 1: expecting things to change. How do you interpret the meaning

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Speaker 1: of this? So this isn't just venting, this venting, this

666
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Speaker 1: is not just venting here, this is going to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: And it's code read. It sounded if you listen close

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Speaker 1: to like McCarthy is causing Justin Jefferson to think that

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Speaker 1: the Viking franchise is insane, because isn't that insanity the

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Speaker 1: textbook Einstein insanity. The line is that, well, you do

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Speaker 1: the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome,

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Speaker 1: kind of like the Minnesota Vikings with JJ McCarthy. They

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Speaker 1: keep sending him out there. It's like Justin Jefferson's like,

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Speaker 1: this is he's implying it's insane. What's going on here

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Speaker 1: that the guy's not getting any better? So how do

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Speaker 1: you interpret the meaning of what Justin Jefferson had to say? Well,

677
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Speaker 1: it's pretty clear, as we said, it's code read. It's like, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: this is insane. We're doing the same thing every game

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Speaker 1: and nothing's changing here. And Jefferson is telegraphing the frustration

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Speaker 1: because it's rinse and repeat every week, rinse and repeat,

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Speaker 1: and that's how it goes. It's NFL cycle of failure,

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Speaker 1: the cycle of failure. And he said in himself, this

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Speaker 1: is every single week, every single expecting things to change.

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Speaker 1: And that tells you everything. It's not the effort for

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. It's not the play calling. It's the quarterback, dummy,

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Speaker 1: it's the quarterback. McCarthy doesn't have to worry about being

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Speaker 1: the goat. He's the worn. Now what is the worn?

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Wr And that is the worst

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Speaker 1: of right now? Worn, that's a spin off not to go,

690
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Speaker 1: not to go the worn, the worst of right now.

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Speaker 1: McCarthy has been about his intimidating as a wet sponge

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Speaker 1: when he's been playing quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. He

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Speaker 1: averaged four point six yards per pass attempt in this

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Speaker 1: particular game against the Packers. That is check down, Charlie.

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Speaker 1: That's checkdown purgatory, is what that is for the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings in this particular game. And wait, there's more. Had

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Speaker 1: a couple of picks for those are at the end

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Speaker 1: of the game. For the Vikings, one fumble, although it

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Speaker 1: was recovered. Remember of fumbles a fifty to fifty raffle ball.

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Speaker 1: Every time you fumble, both teams have a fifty to

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Speaker 1: fifty chance of recovering said fumble. Very little pulse for

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Speaker 1: the Vikings offense, they're the offense was essentially in a

703
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Speaker 1: body bag. Body bag. Body bag is what they were

704
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Speaker 1: in in this game. And this is the worst case

705
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Speaker 1: scenario for the Purple People leaders. The red shirt a

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Speaker 1: player and that's what this was. He was hurt, but

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Speaker 1: he got all the mental reps. JJ McCarthy and all

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Speaker 1: you geniuses. Every NFL draft we have the same conversation,

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Speaker 1: do you play the do you not play the guy?

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Speaker 1: And everyone's oh, you got to rest the player, You

711
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Speaker 1: got to leave him on the sidelines, let him learn

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Speaker 1: by osmosis. Okay, well Macarthy did that. He didn't play.

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Speaker 1: He was hurt. He went through training camp and then

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Speaker 1: the rest of the year he just kind of soaked

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Speaker 1: everything in and how's that working out? How is that

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Speaker 1: working out? Red shirt rookie season? So he a red

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Speaker 1: shirt rookie, second year player, and he's not growing. It

718
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:33,479
Speaker 1: is getting pretty bad, pretty bad. You drafted a guy

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Speaker 1: you thought he played a lot at Michigan, although he

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Speaker 1: didn't have that many reps throwing the football, But you

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Speaker 1: look at him, it's like you drafted him, you developed him.

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Speaker 1: He developed a player. He's got the you get the

723
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Speaker 1: Geiger counter out. The radiation is off the boards here.

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Speaker 1: He can't even get close to JJ McCarthy's been so bad,

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Speaker 1: and you're wasting a prime year of Justin Jefferson's career.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on that. Jefferson got the bag. What's in the bag.

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Speaker 1: You got a lot of money, money, money, mighty good frames,

728
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Speaker 1: good player, and normally it doesn't matter who the quarterback is.

729
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Speaker 1: If you have a good playmaker, you're going to get stats. Somehow,

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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy is so bad. How bad is he? He's

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Speaker 1: so bad that Jefferson's not even getting the stats. He

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Speaker 1: usually gets two touchdowns all year, if my math is correct,

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Speaker 1: for Justin Jefferson two and so you can lead the

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Speaker 1: league in some categories, but the touchdowns are just not there.

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Speaker 1: And this is a guy that has led the NFL

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Speaker 1: in so many categories as a receiver, and this year

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Speaker 1: it's just something side to us. I wonder what that

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Speaker 1: could be. I wonder what that could be. So it's

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Speaker 1: a quagmire, is what it is. The Vikings offense is

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Speaker 1: playing in quicksand at this particular point. And every week,

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Speaker 1: as Justin Jefferson pointed out, every week they promise change,

742
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Speaker 1: although they don't change the quarterback. They keep saying with

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Speaker 1: the quarterback out there. And so it's kind of like

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00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: the coaching staff is painting the windows while the burning

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00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,439
Speaker 1: building is burn, burn, burn, burn burn. The building they're

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Speaker 1: painting is on fire. That's what's going on. Their losses

747
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: are piling up, and they're poisoning the locker room with

748
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Speaker 1: one incomplete JJ McCarthy pass at a time.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm excited to the third degree. This is

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Speaker 1: one big Ben gets great. All right, go ahead there, Koobo.

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Speaker 9: So the New England Patriots have played one more game

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Speaker 9: than the Denver Broncos, and therefore they have one more wins.

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Speaker 9: So right now they have the number one seed in

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Speaker 9: the AFC. Looking ahead at the schedule game, who do

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Speaker 9: you like for that number one seed in first round, by.

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Speaker 1: Well, it should be the Patriots based on the fact

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Speaker 1: that they're playing nothing but Tomato Cans. Although the Broncos

760
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Speaker 1: are playing Tomato cans mostly other than the divisional games

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00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: they still have to play, so you look at the division.

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Speaker 1: The Bills aren't that great this year. If you look

763
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Speaker 1: at the rest of the schedule for the New England Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and there are some injuries. Now they lost a couple

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Speaker 1: offensive linemens, so that is a factor, but that's part

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Speaker 1: of football and all that. I I don't see more

767
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Speaker 1: than maybe one more loss for the for the Patriots

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Speaker 1: the rest of the year in the regular season next.

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Speaker 9: So, Chris Paul announced that this will be his final season.

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Speaker 1: In the NBA. Oh, I'm so sad. Yes, he's sure

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Speaker 1: to be.

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Speaker 9: A first ballot Hall of Famer, but Ben, where do

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Speaker 9: you have him on Ben's big board of all time

774
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Speaker 9: point guards?

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Speaker 1: He was a wonderful regular season player who often disappeared

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Speaker 1: in big moments and big big spots. And so they

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Speaker 1: are lob City Clippers. He did. He did have the

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Speaker 1: weight of having Doc Rivers as as coach, but he's

779
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Speaker 1: not the great like John Stockton's the greatest. Like I

780
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Speaker 1: watched Stockton Alove was amazing. So there it is malardly

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Speaker 1: third degree? How did we do coop to pass? That

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Speaker 1: is they win but one the game. I'm belave it

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Speaker 1: at the buzzer buzzer beating.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 1: Hey you sports figure, guy or girl?

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Speaker 9: Who get here?

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Speaker 1: Were you talking to songs?

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Speaker 9: Here?

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Speaker 1: Some instant advice? Hold that thought. No one's paid attention

793
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Speaker 1: to me for ten whole seconds, and if you don't

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Speaker 1: like it, school get away we go. It's the instant

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Speaker 1: Advice line on Screened Radio. Who are in sports needs

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Speaker 1: or advice could be a player, a prominent coach, or

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Speaker 1: media member, former athlete. Well this week is rather obvious.

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Speaker 1: Guy making thirty seven and a half million dollars a

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Speaker 1: year and he sucks at his job and he's now

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Speaker 1: giving the bird to fans that are criticizing him, even

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Speaker 1: though his coach doesn't have the balls to criticize him.

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Speaker 1: That would be Pete Carroll. We're talking about Geno Smith.

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Speaker 1: Any advice to Gino's Smith. If you're live on the

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Speaker 1: air when you hear my voice at eight seven seven

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Speaker 1: ninety nine on Fox, Hello, line one. Your advice to

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Speaker 1: Gino Smith Line one, Good morning time.

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Speaker 9: You want to sell sandwiches?

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Speaker 1: His name sound like a sandwich, that is true? Or pizza.

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Speaker 1: Possibly there's a pizza place. Hello, You're next advice to

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Speaker 1: Gino Smith. Hello, you're on the air, over under on

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Speaker 1: Cowboy Callers. Tonight is ten and bet the Morgar's on

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Speaker 1: the over Okay, there you go. We miss cowboy Dan.

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Speaker 1: Though he didn't call anymore, hopefully he's still around. Hello.

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Speaker 1: Your next advice to Gino Smith call.

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Speaker 2: Her turn that buzz off with your blood.

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Speaker 1: On it, Ben, I'll pay. Yes, I was making some

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Speaker 1: chicken shorm of the day and I almost cut my

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Speaker 1: thumb off. Hello, you're on the air. Yeah, didn't. I

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Speaker 1: got a buzzsaw thing chicken sharma buzzing a line six. Hello,

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Speaker 1: line six, you're on the air Air and Rogers known

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Speaker 1: as dig Breast. All right, Hey, Lucky Tony's back. Lucky

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Speaker 1: Tony's back line number one. Hello, line one, you need

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Speaker 1: to get some okay, all right, calm down, calm down,

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Speaker 1: Calm down, line your next line three?

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Speaker 7: Hello, yeah, man, this problem can only be alleviated by

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Speaker 7: soaking up prebees and going to the Rams game and

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Speaker 7: then blathering about it for an hour instead of talking

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Speaker 7: about thrilling cowboy.

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Speaker 1: All right, calm down, please, It was much more important

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Speaker 1: me going to that game. Hello, you're on the air.

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Speaker 1: Line five, go you know, like trash.

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Speaker 7: It's like st as a plan.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, not good for you, sorry, Sean the hood guy.

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Speaker 1: Line six, you're on the air. Hello, yeah, he needs

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Speaker 1: to retake. Okay, thank you. One more hurry up. Pick

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Speaker 1: at last one, last one hind three line three year

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Speaker 1: elier goal. We missed it. We missed it because a

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Speaker 1: lucky Tony. Lucky Tony