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Speaker 1: the Nevada court system. But it turns out that a

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Speaker 1: Nevada court has cleared the way for a lawsuit that

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Speaker 1: goes back not one, not two, not three, but four years,

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Speaker 1: go back to the year twenty twenty one. A lot

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Speaker 1: of craziness, a lot of people wearing masks and not

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Speaker 1: going out and weird stuff going on. But in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, there was a lawsuit filed by John Gruden.

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Speaker 1: Now you know that is that's an old NFL coach,

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Speaker 1: John Gruden, he coached the Raiders. Yeah, so John Gruden

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Speaker 1: file lawsuit. Well, a court Nevada has announced that that

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Speaker 1: dodges these type of lawsuits. Now, that suit alleged that

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Speaker 1: a malicious and orchestrated campaign was used by the NFL

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Speaker 1: to destroy John Gruden's career. You might remember the NFL

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Speaker 1: including the things that hit all the big ones, racism,

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Speaker 1: John Gruden and old emails that were strategically leaked by

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Speaker 3: That's the claim.

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Speaker 1: So the Nevada Supreme Court, that's right, the Nevada Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court did they cover area fifty one. Also, they ruled

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Speaker 1: John Gruden. They claimed as a former employee. That Gruden

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Speaker 1: John Gruden's lawyer say that this will help quote hold

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Speaker 1: back from the dead, comes back from the dead, and

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Speaker 1: now now he's got the villain, big, big football, big

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Speaker 1: Roger Goodell is in danger of getting the bitter taste

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Speaker 1: Most knowledgeable people who have looked at the case will

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Speaker 1: the prepondence of the evidence that the NFL leaked to

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Speaker 3: And they have really big walk in closets, I mean massive,

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Speaker 1: They can go in there and snoop around. And so

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Speaker 1: He's not knocking on the door. He's got the keys

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Speaker 1: about the entire power structure of the NFL. And that's

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Speaker 1: why this is so fascinating. This f's everything up. They

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Speaker 1: if it goes the way it's going right now, where

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Speaker 1: John Gruden can reveal a lot of warts, a lot

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Speaker 1: of interesting imperfections in the NFL world. And so the

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Speaker 1: Nevada Supreme Court, in so many words I'll sum it up,

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Speaker 1: told the NFL you cannot be both the judge and

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Speaker 1: the jury. That's essentially what they said. That's how I

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Speaker 1: interpret it. You can't have your sock puppet Commissioner Roger

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Speaker 1: Goodell arbitrate a case where he's one of the defendants

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Speaker 1: in the case. Like, that's not how you do this here.

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Speaker 1: And it's so simple, yet it is so beautiful at

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Speaker 1: the same time. I don't know what your position is.

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Speaker 1: My position is. It's simple, it's logical, and it's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like in some shady neighborhood boxing match

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Speaker 3: Just a coincidence, you know. It's just a weird thing.

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Speaker 1: So the league's very bedrock, the very bedrock of the

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Speaker 1: Court and all that stuff, you can take it to

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Speaker 3: They always win. It's like going to Moscow and suing

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Speaker 3: the government in Russia. Okay, you can do that. You're

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Speaker 1: And so now the whole wobbly Jenga tower, the whole

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Speaker 3: A little bit. It's shaking a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Right Gruden has for now because of this Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: Brent Musburger Hall of Fame broadcaster, Brent musburg you're looking live,

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Speaker 1: Brent Musburger said of John Gruden. He was the Raider

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Speaker 1: the Raiders coach, he called it. This is Brent Musburger,

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Speaker 1: a guy who worked in the NFL since like the sixties,

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Speaker 1: he said, professional hit job. That's Brent Musburger. Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer Brent Musburger said the NFL took down John Gruden

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Speaker 1: how Musburger said it. They didn't use the usual media goombas. Now,

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Speaker 1: So they've turned, and the NFL peeps, we would imagine

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Speaker 1: and that's what everyone does now.

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Speaker 3: Page two.

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Speaker 1: So where where does the NFL go now to avoid

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Speaker 1: the NFL do here? So they have to get out

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Speaker 3: He doesn't really react to the show very much anymore.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about Roger Goodell doing some cosplay in

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Speaker 3: And it's about.

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Speaker 3: You look around. You got Pete Carroll who's beginning his

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Speaker 3: So John Gruden, with that big greasy smile on his

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Speaker 1: Is Avis do us a solid here. We'll give you

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Speaker 3: And that worked. The second one worked. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Goodell can unforce it and bring him back and save

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Speaker 3: Is that here? I'm back? What are you gonna do now?

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Speaker 1: because you release the emails, or you take NFL money

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Speaker 1: fifty million, let's say maybe it's more than that. They

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Speaker 1: three things that have never ever been put together, but

431
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Speaker 1: they will be here for this monologue. And we're gonna

432
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: make some Mediterranean chicken. When we have some chicken swarma

433
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 1: and some rice and there there you go. All right,

434
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: So number one number So Matthew Stafford supposed to be

435
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: the ring leader of the RAM circus, right, he's out there,

436
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: the ring leader. There, the guy that the Rams brought

437
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 1: in and they brought back. There was some talk. Stafford

438
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: went to Montana and was whined and dined by Tom Brady,

439
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: white white pants Brady there in Montana and decided to

440
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: go back to the Rams. And so he was brought

441
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: in yet again as the ring master for the Rams

442
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 1: to ride the elephant at the circus under the big

443
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 1: top there and do the trap peez. Of course you

444
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: got to do that, the whole thing. And so there

445
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 1: he is the day he's supposed to get out there

446
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 1: and prove all the critics wrong and go out there

447
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,959
Speaker 1: and practice, and he's in street clothes. Now, can you

448
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: play an NFL game in street clothes? I don't believe

449
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: you can. I don't think that's allowed. I don't think

450
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: you can do it. So he's not practicing, not after

451
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh put his his name on it. He'd put

452
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: his name on it, you know, the guy who's the

453
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 1: puppeteer of the Rams told everyone he's coming back.

454
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Speaker 3: Baby.

455
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: Are you critics? Are you you overnight gas bags? He's

456
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: coming back, you losers. Well, he didn't practice, didn't practice.

457
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: McVeigh said he was going to do individual drills. Stafford

458
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: didn't do it, didn't do it. He's not there. He

459
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 1: wasn't there. Instead, he walked into some restorative and rejuvenation chamber,

460
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: which sounds like something you'd be sentenced to by a court.

461
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 3: Uh, And I guess this is a.

462
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: Hyper barrack chamber that they brought in that truck. The

463
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,679
Speaker 1: Rams had it there some outside third party. They had

464
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,199
Speaker 1: a truck there. I'm sure they probably had like a

465
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: side hot tub in there somewhere. And Stafford went in

466
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,679
Speaker 1: there with the towel. He had some cucumber slices and

467
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: there was a loofa so he could take a shower.

468
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 3: And he's done, get all soapy and all.

469
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: So Stafford is quickly you know I'm wrong on this,

470
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: quickly becoming the poulter Geist for the Rams. And they

471
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: haven't even gotten to the schedule yet, Like this is

472
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: a preview of coming attractions here, haunting the Rams. Like

473
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 1: this is not the the thing of a jig, right,

474
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: the thing of a jig or the watch you might

475
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: call it break, Because the thing of a jig or

476
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: the watch you might call it break.

477
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 3: And you can deal with that.

478
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: We're talking about the back, okay, And now I'm pretty

479
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: sure you have one. I've got one. We all have one, right,

480
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: everyone listening has back. So the center of the universe

481
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: and the human body the back, oh my aching back.

482
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: Think about playing professional sports or just living life, like

483
00:27:54,960 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 1: everything you do, every movement you make in the case

484
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: of a football player. You're talking about throwing a pass,

485
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: you're talking about taking a couple of steps, back handing

486
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: the ball to the running back. You're talking about sneezing,

487
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 1: you're talking about wiping your tukas your back is involved.

488
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 3: There is movement in the back.

489
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: And I've thrown my back out a few times over

490
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,719
Speaker 1: the years, and every time I throw my back out,

491
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 1: I think, well, that's it, it'll never come back, and

492
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 1: eventually it does come back. But I'm not a professional athlete.

493
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: I'm a professional gas bag. It's slightly different, I'm told

494
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: in these parts. So think about back into it. There's

495
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: no frame bending, can't do it. Every movement hurts, you know.

496
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: And so this is this is like the chassis on

497
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: the car cracking. Like everything you do is involved in

498
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: the back, right. This is not just a ding bumper,

499
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: it's the chassis like ding bumper, bumper. You can you know,

500
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: slap some tape on it and you know, take the

501
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: bumper off whatever. This is the chassis on the car.

502
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: Ranking that's where we are. He had an epidoral last week, Stafford,

503
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: and so Sean McVay can say, well, this surgery, the

504
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: surgery hasn't been discussed. He can say that all he wants,

505
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he will, but you don't talk about

506
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: rebuilding the engine. You don't talk about rebuilding the engine

507
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,719
Speaker 1: there until you've got oil pouring out all over the driveway,

508
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,479
Speaker 1: and then you're like, oh crap, we got a problem.

509
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 3: Now.

510
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: The Rams, listen the Stafford trade. They won the trade.

511
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: The Lions lost the trade. The Rams won a super

512
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: Bowl with Matthew Stafford. They've been a consistent playoff team

513
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: with Matthew Stafford. Jared Goff is the same guy he

514
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: was with the Rams. He's mediocre. He chokes in big games.

515
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: That's Jared Goff. So the Rams won that trade. That's fine,

516
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: and the Super Bowl has been a couple of years.

517
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: The Rams have a young, upstart defense they're excited about.

518
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: They think that's a defense that's good enough to get

519
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: to a super Bowl. But if you're honest right now

520
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: looking at Rams and and you've got your quarterback who's

521
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: currently being held together with duct tape and going into

522
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: hyperbaric chambers, and who knows what other stuff he's got

523
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: going on there trying to trying to keep the car

524
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 1: on the road, right, that's that's where we are. And

525
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: so you don't know what you don't know, and you

526
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: don't know when he's going to go kaboom and blow,

527
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: and you know, you don't know when the back is

528
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: going to say bye bye, I'm done. And every time

529
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: Stafford drops back, every time Sean McVay is on the

530
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: sidelines and he's saying, you know, prayers, oh father, you

531
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: know all that, the hail Mary's uh, you know, hoping

532
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: that he takes another snap after that.

533
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 3: Staff And so this is a tough spot.

534
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: To be in for the Rams, and it's it's gonna

535
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: follow them because at some point I would imagine Stafford's

536
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: going to actually practice, doesn't matter does he practice one

537
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: day and then take three days off or four days off?

538
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: And then where were now? Page two to Arizona we go.

539
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: Why I like talking about bad teams. I love bad teams.

540
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: And the Cardinals suck. There are some reports out in

541
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: recent days here that predicting they are predicting the Cardinals.

542
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: That's a bad football team. The Cardinals will trade Alligator

543
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: Arms Murray Kyler Murray before the twenty twenty seven season,

544
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: rather than offering him he yet another contract extension. Now

545
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: Murray would be thirty. At that point, the Cardinals would

546
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: be trying to get something, anything in return. In terms

547
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: of draft I love they say draft capital.

548
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 3: I love that draft capital.

549
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: Okay, wonderful, all right, So thumbs up or thumbs down,

550
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: Thumbs up or thumbs down on Kyler Murray having a

551
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: short shelf life in Arizona.

552
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 3: See what I did there, So I am going to

553
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 3: go thumbs up.

554
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: I'm going thumbs up on this. Uh Now, listen, the

555
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: clock is ticking. You can hear it if you listen closely,

556
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: that's the clock ticking.

557
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 3: Just like that.

558
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: You can almost hear it. And we believe it's not

559
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: gonna be till twenty twenty seven. It's going to be

560
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: after this year. We believe it'll.

561
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 3: Be after this year.

562
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: You do the math on that, there's like one year left,

563
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: and you know the contract and the guaranteed money, and

564
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: it was always complicated. If you want to move a player,

565
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: you can move a player. Arizona foolishly gave Kyler Murray

566
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: a massive contract, like they were buying the dream yacht.

567
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: They always wanted this yacht. They got the yacht. They

568
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: thought they'd be cruising, not for a bruising. They thought

569
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: they'd be cruising to the super Bowl.

570
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 3: And right there at sunset, beautiful weather, and you're in

571
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 3: this yacht and you got the air, the ocean air

572
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 3: there and oh man, it's just amazing wind in their hair,

573
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 3: the whole thing champagne. And instead reality check, they thought

574
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 3: they were getting a yacht. They actually mistakenly they went

575
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 3: on Facebook Marketplace and they bought a dingy, not a yacht,

576
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 3: not a yacht. They bought a dingy okay and a

577
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 3: little outboard motor.

578
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: Normal dingy outboard motor. There sputters after about ten minutes,

579
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: about ten minutes of use. It's sputters a little bit.

580
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: It's got expired registration. And they've got a captain for

581
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: the dinghy alligator arms who get seasick in calm water.

582
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's what we got here.

583
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: And so now, of course at Arizona, immediately had the

584
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: buyers were morse.

585
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 3: We talked about this many times here.

586
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: How bad was it? It was so bad. It was

587
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: so bad that they're likely awake right now. Executives like,

588
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: what did we do? Why did we do that? Why

589
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: didn't we just rent? Why did we buy? I don't understand,

590
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL are kind of like cars. I'll

591
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: use the Annalygy're like they're Arizona financed their car. However,

592
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: they realized it's got a four cylinder engine. And unfortunately

593
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: there's a speed governor that kicks in anything, you know,

594
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: anything sixty five miles an hour, so you can't go

595
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: past sixty five miles an hour. And I know when

596
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: I'm driving on the highway and I see one of

597
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: those they're always company cars, and they say, well, this

598
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: vehicle is being monitored by GPS and will not go

599
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 1: over a certain I immediately zoom past that vehicle. That's

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00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. That's Kylmer.

601
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 3: Every year.

602
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: Keep in mind also seven to ten teams, seven to

603
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: ten teams every year trade in their car or quarterback

604
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: for a newer model. And looking ahead into my crystal ball,

605
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: would be someone that would be interested in Alligator Arms

606
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:56,720
Speaker 1: Murray going forward after this upcoming twenty twenty five regular season.

607
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: So if you look in the crystal ball, you've got

608
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 1: the Petsburg Steelers, the ins Aaron Rodgers.

609
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 3: Like one year and then he'll be gone.

610
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: The Jets because Justin Fields blows the Giants because Russell.

611
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 1: Wilson sucks and Jackson darts. Probably not all that good.

612
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: The Dolphins, they'll need somebody. They'll get rid of the Brownies.

613
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: They always change quarterbacks every year, the Raiders because you

614
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: know Gino Smith come on. So the thing about the showroom,

615
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: it's always open. The quarterback showroom is always open. The

616
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: sales people, they are always smiling. They're always smiling. They

617
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: have some lemonade and some snacks you can get there.

618
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: And the Cardinals they're about to roll. It's not a

619
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: big ball, but they're gonna roll Kyler back onto the

620
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: lot there.

621
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 3: Now.

622
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: Kyler at this point's got about seventy thousand hard miles

623
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: hard miles, and it's a car that leads the race

624
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: after ten laps and then falls apart the rest of

625
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: the race. There there's a dent on that fender. If

626
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: you look, there's a little dent there on the fender,

627
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: and the check ego light on the dashboard is flashing

628
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: check ego right there. And Kyler a guy who is allergic.

629
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: We've learned over the years he's allergic to watching film.

630
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: I don't like watching film either, but I do a

631
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: talk show. I don't have to watch him, and he

632
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: doesn't like standing in the pocket very long.

633
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 3: We've learned about that.

634
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: Also allergic to looking over the offensive line unless you

635
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 1: get him an NFL branded step stool. Then he can

636
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: look over the offensive line. So you can a little NFL.

637
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: He got the NFL logo officially branded NFL and Cardinal

638
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 1: logo on the step school stool, and then he can

639
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: see over the offensive line and the extension. It's kind

640
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: of like the way I would describe it, it's like

641
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: buying a home gym for someone who is a couch potato,

642
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: Like why.

643
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 3: Would you do it?

644
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: And you realize you're like, well, that guy doesn't he

645
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Speaker 1: doesn't get off the couch. Why do we buy a

646
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Speaker 1: home gym that's just gonna collect furnit, you know, shirts

647
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: and stuff. It's gonna be over there and it's gonna

648
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: be like a laundry basket and that's it. So the

649
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: Cardinals will try to get rid of Kyler Murray at

650
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: the end of this year, not till twenty twenty seven.

651
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the end of the twenty twenty five season,

652
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: and that's the Yang they want. In terms of I

653
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: guess Kyler at this point was he where the mid

654
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: round draft pick. He's not that good and people have

655
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: I used to get pushed back when I would rip

656
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: Kyler early on. So you don't know what you're talking about.

657
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: And now everyone's in agreement. You know, it's it's not

658
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: much fun to talk about alligator armsmorried because everyone's agreed.

659
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 3: Sucks all right.

660
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 1: Now, final point to Philadelphia we go where the Eagles. Hey, gee,

661
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: el the Birds there Pro Bowl guard Landon Dickerson. We

662
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: don't talk about offensive linman unless A they're drafted right

663
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: for NFL draft. People get all horny for offensive lineman.

664
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: B they miss a block and the quarterback gets killed

665
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: or see they get hurt. That's this would be see,

666
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: So Landon Dickerson will undergo. They say it's a minor procedure.

667
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: Minor procedure. The Eagles guard on a meniscus injury to

668
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: his right knee. That's gonna happen in the coming days. Now. Dickerson,

669
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: who was considered one of the elite offensive linement in

670
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Speaker 1: the NFL, he will be considered week to week, not

671
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: day to day. Week to week with the goal of

672
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Speaker 1: returning for the NFL season up the less than a

673
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: month away. On a sleepy Thursday night in early September.

674
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Speaker 1: It all begins, all regular season over they Eagles and

675
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: that Dallas Cowboys.

676
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 3: How many points of the Cowboys gonna lose by that game? Anyway?

677
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 1: So left guard Landon Dickerson having surgery on his knee.

678
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: The Eagles are downplaying this. What is the level of

679
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: worry for the Eagles? So it's not zero a scale

680
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: of one to ten, it's not zero, it's not one.

681
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna beat a two. And the reason I'm going

682
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: to it is discomforting. However, it is Toleran Dickerson a

683
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 1: central part. The Eagles are not a passing team. They're

684
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: a running team. They don't throw the ball. They just

685
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: don't do it. They don't have a quarterback that can

686
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: throw the ball consistently down the field. So it's all

687
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: about Sequon Barkley and the pushy pushy with Jalen Hurts.

688
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: So minor knee surgery is still last I checked knee surgery,

689
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,919
Speaker 1: all right. So once they cut you open. I learned

690
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 1: this from my grandfather, you know, as a little boy.

691
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: He said, no Ben, little Benny, little fat Benny. Once

692
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 1: they cut you open, it's not minor anymore. Now, regardless

693
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: of that, here's the thing I've learned from years opining

694
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 1: on sports behind these microphones. When it comes to offensive lineman,

695
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: they're not human. They're kind of like Adam Silver. They're

696
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: from somewhere else out in the cosmos. They're like the

697
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 1: last gladiators. Even in the NFL, even in the Mighty NFL.

698
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: Quarterbacks get a hangnail and they miss two weeks, they're out.

699
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Speaker 3: See you later.

700
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 1: Wide receivers have a little twinge in their hammy and

701
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: they're worried it's gonna go whammy, and they go on

702
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: the injured reserve list and that's it.

703
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 3: Now.

704
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:15,280
Speaker 1: The offensive lineman a little different. See the offensive lineman.

705
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: They follow the Caveman medical plan.

706
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 3: What is that.

707
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is the Caveman medical plan,

708
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: which is rub some dirt on it. Just throw some

709
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:29,439
Speaker 1: dirt on it, grunt a couple of times, then take

710
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: a couple of pharmacy grade ibuprofen and get back in

711
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: the middle. That is the Caveman medical plan of the NFL.

712
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: That's the way it is. And so they're like those

713
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: naked mole rats. I remember learning this years ago. The

714
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 1: naked mole rat has a freakish pain tolerance. Freakish pain

715
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: tolerance don't even have the same pain receptors that we

716
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: have the rest of us have, right They just they

717
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: can just get absolutely shred the naked mole rat and

718
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: they're not really bothered by anything. Normal person tears the

719
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Speaker 1: meniscus and hobbling around on crutches. This guy Dickerson, Uh,

720
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: he's a good old Southern boy from Hickory, North Carolina.

721
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: And so I imagine Landon Dickerson probably walking around right

722
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: now at the Eagles Complex there in Philadelphia, eating a

723
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: hogi from wah Wahs and just not really worried at all.

724
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 3: Just a nice hogy and good to go.

725
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: And maybe he'll have lunch tomorrow with Jonathan over in

726
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:36,439
Speaker 1: Delaware and they'll have a great time.

727
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller

728
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. It's Mallar,

729
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 2: how about that to the third degree?

730
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 3: This is one big Ben gets grailled all right.

731
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 4: Now.

732
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 5: A lot has been made about the Bengals slow starts

733
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 5: under Zach Taylor, and some of that has been attributed

734
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 5: to lack of participation in the preseason by since he starters. Well,

735
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 5: Joe started and did well last week. Do you think

736
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 5: the Bengals will avoid these slow.

737
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 3: Start this year.

738
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: No, this is their thing. This is what they do.

739
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: They get off the bad start. They have a crappy defense,

740
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: so they won't stop anybody, and they're gonna have to

741
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: outscore the opponent. Now, the good news is they're playing

742
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: two Tomato Cans, so you should at least.

743
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 3: When one of them.

744
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: They're playing Cleveland and Jacksonville to start the year. They

745
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: suck so but it's not gonna because they played in

746
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: the preseason.

747
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 3: It's they're not. The Bengals are a bad defensive team.

748
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 5: Next, reports now say that Trey Young is resigned to

749
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 5: finishing off his contract with the Atlanta Hawks and testing

750
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 5: free agency in twenty twenty six. However, the Hawks made

751
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 5: some moves in the offseason and the East isn't exactly daunting.

752
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 5: Do you think a playoff run could keep Young in Atlanta?

753
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 5: So this is all part of the master plan. The

754
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:51,919
Speaker 5: Hawks are like, well, we don't know what we want

755
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 5: to do here, Well, Trey Young, everyone's slow playing this. Ultimately, though,

756
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 5: Trey Young can get more money from the Atlanta Hawks,

757
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 5: so even though the Hawks also are pathetic. You go

758
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 5: where the money is, and there's more money in Atlanta,

759
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 5: so you'll remain there, and they're just gonna drag this

760
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 5: out to the very next Jags kicker Cam Little hit

761
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 5: his seventy yard field goal in the team's preseason debut

762
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 5: over the weekend would have been an NFL record, beating

763
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 5: out Justin Tucker by four yards, but it won't count. Ben,

764
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 5: do you think kickers will be giving a ton of

765
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 5: chances to erase Tucker from the record books?

766
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: Well, not because it's Tucker, but it's it's gonna have

767
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: to be right before the end of the game or

768
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: the end of halftime, although.

769
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 3: It's not not because it's Tucker. No, I don't care

770
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,439
Speaker 3: about to how we do. How many pass this edition? Hey,

771
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 3: I won the game, but gay unbelievable. I'm all.

772
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

773
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774
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775
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 2: listen live.

776
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: As Wageo markettestants for the game, we have some people

777
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: standing by here. John is in Paradise. Someone to assume

778
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: that's Nevada or all casinos are no California. Paradise, California.

779
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: Where's Paradise? Where's Paradise California?

780
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 3: Where is that.

781
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 2: North of Chico?

782
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 3: Oh? When you think paradise, you think Chico, north of Chico.

783
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 3: That is paradise. Yeah, absolutely, yes, absolutely? All right, Well John,

784
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 3: welcome and let's see here. Now what are you up to?

785
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 3: You working? Are you just driving around randomly? What's going on?

786
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,399
Speaker 3: Just left my girlfriend's house.

787
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: Oh look at that, that sounds like a booty called

788
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: to me late night fun there, you know, took care

789
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,720
Speaker 1: of business, your big stud John, Right.

790
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 3: Come on, maybe maybe the exact opposite that way, chicked

791
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,240
Speaker 3: out of the house at two in the morning.

792
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: Almost that sucks. That's all right, I understand, I got you.

793
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: Well it happens, so but we'll see. Now, John, would

794
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: you like to play with myself Ben as your partner

795
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: or coop a loop.

796
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 3: Moody one, then I'll play with you.

797
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:09,919
Speaker 2: That's how I played.

798
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 3: I played with Eddie. We did good. If you really

799
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 3: want to make your girlfriend mad, you can play with me. Yeah, right,

800
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 3: hello John. Unfortunately Eddie is not available.

801
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: He's not working here right now, so he's not we

802
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: I did invite Eddie to the Malor Meet and greet.

803
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna go. I said you can

804
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 3: come and hang out. And we have him, you know,

805
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 3: in Vegas, and I don't think he's gonna show up,

806
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 3: but I did invite him.

807
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: All right, John, we'll partner uphold on a second. We

808
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: have Steve in the Bay Area. Hello Steve, quickly, Steve

809
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: pig Thicket. Well, Steve in the Bay Area, welcome out.

810
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:45,399
Speaker 1: You want to play with Coop?

811
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, Coop quickly? All right, Coop quickly one of

812
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 3: the category. Hurry up?

813
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 5: All right, this is the casey Affleck edition. We have

814
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 5: two hundred cigarettes Ocean's eleven. I'm still here in Manchester

815
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 5: by the Sea.

816
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 3: John, what do you want? Quickly? I'm sure I'm still here. Steve,

817
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 3: what do you want? All right? Hold on, we'll get

818
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 3: to Malor's mount of Money. We'll get to it. We

819
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 3: will do it next.

820
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors

821
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

822
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 3: Now, Malor's Mountain of Money?

823
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?

824
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 2: Probably not?

825
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 3: And right to the game we go. We have John,

826
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,720
Speaker 3: who's a little north of Chico and Paradise, California, teamed

827
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 3: up with me. He just had a disagreement with his girlfriend,

828
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 3: and so now he's calling sports radio and we have

829
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 3: Steve in the Bay Area. We don't know what Steve's

830
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 3: up to, but he's with Coop. So let's get to

831
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 3: the game right now. Here we go and it is

832
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 3: the Casey Affleck edition turned to fifty today. All right,

833
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 3: so you picked.

834
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: I'm still here, Yes, John, These athletes have all all

835
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,879
Speaker 1: been professional athletes for fifteen plus years.

836
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 3: They're still playing. Are you ready? I'm going to be

837
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 3: all right, John, forty five seconds on the clock. We're

838
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 3: on our way go. Starting quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes, Cory,

839
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 3: he won a Super Bowl. It was called the Elite

840
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,839
Speaker 3: with the Ravens. He's the Browns quarterback right now.

841
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 2: Yes.

842
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:18,320
Speaker 1: Starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. Longtime Detroit Tiger

843
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: played for the cheating Astros. Yes, last name is like Romance.

844
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: He played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Miami Heat, the

845
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers.

846
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 3: He's a forward white guy out of U C l

847
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 3: A U. Yes, that's right. A closer for the Angels,

848
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 3: he used to play with the Dodgers, played with the

849
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 3: Red Sox.

850
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 6: All right, center for the ah You did hundred points.

851
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 6: You didn't get Wenley Jansen Jens. All right, Steve, we

852
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 6: have Manchester by the seed. These athletes are off from

853
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 6: Matt to choose. It's are you ready, Steve?

854
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 2: I'm ready?

855
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 3: All right, forty five seconds. Let's begin.

856
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 5: Famous professional wrestler in movies, not the Rock. You can't

857
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 5: see him? No, all right, a professional wrestler. He's in movies,

858
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 5: but not the Rock. Yes, all right. This guy is

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Speaker 5: Terry Bradshaw's partner on the NFL on Fox. He was

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Speaker 5: a defensive end for the Raiders. Yes, this guy was

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Speaker 5: part of the Killer Bees in Houston. Not Craig Beegie

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Speaker 5: the other guy. Well say that the whole name. Yes,

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Speaker 5: this guy was a He led the Seahawks to the

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Speaker 5: Super Bowl in two thousand and five with yes, yes,

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Speaker 5: good job. This guy was a white guy on the

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Speaker 5: Bad Boy Piston?

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Speaker 1: Was that? Loreen?

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Speaker 3: I think it's funny. All right, we go next quickly, John,

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Speaker 3: what do you want? You want? Oceans eleven or two?

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Speaker 3: Order cigarettes? John? All right? These athletes were all known

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Speaker 3: to smoke. Forty five seconds were on our Way Center

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Speaker 3: for the nineteen eighties Lakers. He played for the Sacramento Kings.

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Speaker 3: He's got a beard. Was the GM of the Kings.

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Speaker 3: That is correct, manager of the Pirates. He was chained smoking.

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Speaker 3: Back in the eighties when he had Barry Bonds. He

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Speaker 3: managed the Detroit Tigers. Ben Che did not want that

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Speaker 3: we won the game. Another win you congratulations John, the

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Speaker 3: all time win