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Speaker 1: Some Canadian bacon, the marritor is apparently not enjoying that

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Speaker 1: Everywhere homeboys hanging out together here as they demented coast,

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Speaker 1: ticket as we punch our ticket, well the Blue Jays

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Speaker 1: I wonder what happened to him because he's Canada dry

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Speaker 1: And of course our sympathy to Robbie the Mariner fan

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Speaker 1: who assumed the Mariners We're gonna lose. No stre Denis.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember everyone in Seattle. We got a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys that love the show in Seattle. I

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Speaker 1: should be. So our lead this hour is from obviously Toronto.

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Speaker 1: It was the eye in the bullseye of Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 1: the Final Chapter, Game number seven of the American League

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Speaker 1: Championship Series the Mariners and the Blue Jays, twenty seven outs,

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Speaker 1: nine innings, one game winner gets the Dodgers in the

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Speaker 1: Fall Classic.

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Speaker 3: It was on Fox.

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Speaker 1: You had Joe Davis and John Momentum Smaltz on the call.

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Speaker 1: Although I have noticed these last couple of games. Ever

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Speaker 1: since I did my Mallor monologue mocking the momentum that

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Speaker 1: he hasn't mentioned it as much. Although I did hear

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Speaker 1: it in every broadcast I watched. There were two Monday

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Speaker 1: night games and I heard it halftime the Buccaneers had

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Speaker 1: I heard that. I judge me anyway, So Joe Davis

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Speaker 1: and John Smoltz had the call. It was on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports One. I don't know if you're watching it or not.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps not, but don't worry. I actually I loved I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean. Some of these things I watch, I'm

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Speaker 1: I get paid to do that. But some of these games,

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Speaker 1: I watch them like, this sucks, but I kind of

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Speaker 1: When cheating one thousand and two, one thousand, oh, George

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Speaker 1: for the first time since nineteen ninety three. Holy, Holy Canoley,

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Speaker 1: get the poutine ready, baby, so they rallied to beat

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Speaker 1: of the American League Championship Series on Monday night. Vladimir

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Speaker 1: Guerrero and the Blue Jays will host they have home

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Speaker 1: on Friday night. It's on like Donkey Kong in Toronto

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Speaker 1: as the Blue Jays representing the World Series in Canada

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Speaker 3: We have all week to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room,

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Speaker 1: and so that is where we will begin. And the

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Speaker 1: seventh and eighth They fell eight outs away, eight out

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Speaker 3: But the Manors lose. They lose.

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Speaker 1: Now, Dan Wilson, who is he gonna shave that mustache?

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Speaker 3: God, I'll shave it for him anyway.

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Speaker 1: He's the manager of the Mariners, Dan Wilson, And he

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Speaker 1: Game seven. You've choked away a series, losing five five

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Speaker 1: When the first to lose four of the final five

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Speaker 4: Hold up their heads and and and you know, to

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Speaker 4: it's it's due to how hard they've worked, how hard

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Speaker 3: It's a special team in there.

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Speaker 4: And it's a shame we had to come out on

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Speaker 1: So that's a bad quote. Your professional athlete, Your job

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Speaker 1: quote is from the big dumper, cal Raley. Mister dinger.

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Speaker 1: This was his career year. He'll never play this well

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Speaker 3: You know, I hate to use the word failure, but

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Speaker 2: And that's what we expected just to get to a

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's uh, it hurts, all right. So that's

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Speaker 3: That's the money quote.

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Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs

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Speaker 1: down on cal Raley saying the Mariner season was a failure.

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Speaker 3: So I've got Rodent blue.

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Speaker 1: Chew and Alfred Hitchcock and we will come find all

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be wonderful because that's where the Manners are going.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Blue Jays are getting made for the World

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Speaker 1: to the moon. All right, big dumper gets it. Good

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Speaker 1: job by you. I was expecting the standard chow when

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Speaker 3: No awe shucks. They blew it. That's where it is.

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Speaker 3: We're all grown ups here. They blew it.

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Speaker 3: And that's it.

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Speaker 1: They were up to two in the American League Championship Series.

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Speaker 1: They had won both games, both games in Toronto. They

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Speaker 3: And theyft it up.

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Speaker 1: They screwed it up, and they had one hand already

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Speaker 1: They choked. It's called what it is. The Seattle Mariners

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Speaker 1: Once they stopped playing, that was it. They're not the

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Speaker 1: it up as Edward Bizardo, Eduardo Bizardo, who was just bad,

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Speaker 1: He gave up the home run to the cheater. He

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Speaker 3: This is just put the ball on this. It is

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Speaker 1: And we appreciate that he did not immediately run to

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Speaker 3: Maybe he did. I didn't see it.

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Speaker 1: it doesn't change the fact the Manners choked. But at

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Speaker 1: by you, cal Raley. It had an amazing year and

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Speaker 1: you lived up to the big contract you got.

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Speaker 3: Good job by you.

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Speaker 1: The bar is not the American League Championship Series participation banner.

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Speaker 1: It's the World Series, and the Mariners continue to be

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Speaker 1: the only team that has not made the World Series.

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Speaker 1: Every other member of the cartel has made the World Series. Now,

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Speaker 3: I want a puke. And so now some justice.

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Speaker 1: As he goes into Dodger Stadium would be saring and

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Speaker 3: I can't do that. But it's got star power.

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Speaker 1: It's got that's we mentioned got the villain, You've got

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Speaker 1: And O'tian's obviously the biggest star. But Vladi's gone nuclear

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Speaker 1: It's Holly Wood versus Hockey Town. Boo Springer, You've got

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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, we'll get back to the baseball,

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Speaker 1: and I know some of you guys are on holds

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Speaker 1: to want to talk about the Blue Jays and the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. One of those two teams will be

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Speaker 1: celebrating a championship. But our lead this hour is from

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Speaker 1: the NFL. We'll start with the late Monday night football game.

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Speaker 1: And it was late late start. The second half of

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Speaker 1: the Monday Night Football was like a coke current.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't a standalone doubleheader because they the games did

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Speaker 1: go side by side late in the early game where

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers and Lions played Detroit, winning that game. So

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Speaker 1: the second half you had the scuffling CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud. C J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud and the Texans their stage coach rolled into Seattle,

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Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest. They're a playdate with Sam Darnold and

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. This is the B side game. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know this is the less important Monday night game.

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Speaker 1: Now what is the tell that the Seattle Seahawks Houston

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Speaker 1: Texan game was less valuable to the NFL? You know

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Speaker 1: this When you see Dan Orlofsky in the broadcast booth,

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Speaker 1: that is a dead giveaway. He's doing the crap game.

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Speaker 1: The good game is where Joe Buck and Aikman go.

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Speaker 1: The bad game. They send to Orlofsky, So mister Owen

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Speaker 1: sixteen from the Lions was out there broadcasting the game

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Speaker 1: with two other jabebronis Now.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you watched it or not. We

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Speaker 3: had it on here into the late night hours.

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Speaker 1: Ended actually not that long before we cracked the microphones

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Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Radio and Jackson Smith and Jigba

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Speaker 1: getting it done yet again, having the breakout domination situation.

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Speaker 3: He was good last year, he's better this year.

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Speaker 1: So far, NFL leading fifth one hundred plus yard receiving game,

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Speaker 1: giving every fantasy football owner a bit of a chubby,

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Speaker 1: very excited about that, as the Seahawks beat the Texans

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Speaker 1: twenty seven to nineteen in a game that was not

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Speaker 1: that close on Monday night football in total now, Smith

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Speaker 1: and Jigba, he caught eight passes in this game for

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Speaker 1: ae undred twenty three yards. But the better story is

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Speaker 1: in the losing locker room and oh my god, what

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Speaker 1: has happened to mister Irrigation's Houston Texans and their offense

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Speaker 1: or lack thereof? And the story here is always about

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, because y'all told me a couple of years

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Speaker 1: ago that you'd found your forever quarterback. You told me that,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, they got so lucky. How did they

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Speaker 1: find this guy? Well, my god, how you feeling right now?

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Speaker 1: Everything good? No? Okay, so that is a good jumping

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Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question how are things

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Speaker 1: looking for the Texans quarterback?

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Speaker 3: See Jay Stroud at this point.

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Speaker 1: So I've got fishtail, bubble, and schnazola, and we will

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Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are gonna

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Speaker 1: make the baba gnoosh. We're gonna make the baba ganoosh.

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Speaker 1: All right, So, first of all, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: hear the he's young. I don't want to hear that.

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Speaker 1: So if you're planning on sending me a message on

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Speaker 1: social media's young, give him a break, or calling up

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Speaker 1: and telling me.

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Speaker 3: Well, they had the offensive line, they got some.

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Speaker 1: Issues on that, or the injuries, or the seattles is

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Speaker 1: so good with their defense.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to hear it. Okay, I want to

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Speaker 3: hear it now.

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Speaker 1: I did a monologue before the NFL season started, and

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of crap for it because people

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Speaker 1: in Houston are mostly whims and they got very offended

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Speaker 1: that I dared point out that this was a player

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Speaker 1: that was not going the right his career was not

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Speaker 1: going the right direction. They had bad year last year,

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Speaker 1: Cjstraft and I mentioned something along the lines I'm paraphrasing

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Speaker 1: here that it was a crossroad situation for CJS draft,

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Speaker 1: and when you're in the industrial complex of the hot take,

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Speaker 1: you've got to take the fire, right. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of low information fans, a lot of morons

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Speaker 1: that are fun boys, and they don't understand reality, right.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the cool advantages you have when you

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Speaker 1: don't approach things that way, and so dumb people are like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, what are you talking about CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud, He's so great? Oh my god. Yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 3: getting as many of those messages right now. I wonder why.

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Speaker 3: I wonder why.

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Speaker 1: Right boooooo. He had drafted the guy to be the dude,

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Speaker 1: to be the mayor. That's where you drafted him. And

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Speaker 1: he looked good early on in his NFL career. They

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Speaker 1: thought they had found their unicorn. Right now, they found

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Speaker 1: a donkey with a fake horn on its nose. That's

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Speaker 1: it right there, boom, all right, and supposed to be

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Speaker 1: the guy who lifts the tide, lifts all boats.

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Speaker 3: The great quarterback lifts all players.

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Speaker 1: Around him, and he was gonna lift this franchise out

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Speaker 1: of mediocrity, the Texans, and not the guy that is

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Speaker 1: like the aux in the ditch, right stuck in the mud. Now,

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Speaker 1: if this was a fishtail, let's just assume CJ. Stroud's

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Speaker 1: career was a fishtail. If CJ was a fish, he

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Speaker 1: would be a flounder, a flounder, just flat lifeless down

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Speaker 1: there at the bottom. C J. Stroud in this game,

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Speaker 1: twenty three of forty nine, two hundred and twenty nine yards,

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Speaker 1: he averaged a puke in your mouth four point seven

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Speaker 1: yards per pass attempt. He had an interception, He had

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Speaker 1: a touchdown, but the touchdown came in garbage time with

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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes to go in the game. He

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Speaker 1: was sacked three times, constantly running around, had no idea

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Speaker 1: how to deal with a pass rush. You'd think he'd

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Speaker 1: learned that by the time he got to the NFL

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Speaker 1: and was just generally the word is blah. He was blam.

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Speaker 1: That's the word. That is not the stuff of a

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. And this is a major issue. And if

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Speaker 1: this doesn't get better, the Texans are going to have

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Speaker 1: to go to the market and get a quarterback. He's

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Speaker 1: been that bad this year if you look at his

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Speaker 1: full body work, where the texts gonna be like, listen,

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Speaker 1: this is back to back bad years and this is

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Speaker 1: no third year jump or anything like that.

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Speaker 3: This is who this guy is at this point, and

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Speaker 3: so what are we gonna do?

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Speaker 1: What are we gonna do so something don't look like

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Speaker 1: your franchise quarterback, looks like just your standard garden variety

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Speaker 1: game manager. Just blah, that's his stuff. And the first

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Speaker 1: five drive you talk about going on the road, trying

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Speaker 1: to set a tone, set an example, first five drives, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt,

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Speaker 1: Houston had fifteen third down places. There were two of

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Speaker 1: fifteen on third down. Houston also got a defensive touchdown.

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Speaker 1: And CJ's draft was pressured from the Seattle pass rush

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Speaker 1: throughout the entire night. He was unable to adjust. The

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Speaker 1: soft underbelly was exposed. Yet again, this is not new.

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Speaker 1: It's just a reminder. This is who the ballplayer is,

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Speaker 1: right And so Seattle, you got a good defense. It's

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Speaker 1: not an all time great defense. They have a good

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Speaker 1: defense to the Seahawks. And I know that no. Studinis

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Speaker 1: was shaking his head yes, And so they were able

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Speaker 1: to put some pressure on CJ. Stroud and he never adjusted,

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Speaker 1: which I think is the job description, that you have

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Speaker 1: to adjust, that you're not gonna have everything's gonna go

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Speaker 1: great for you. They're not going to keep giving you

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Speaker 1: clean pockets and training wheels and just short passes, and

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Speaker 1: at some point you're gonna have to open things up.

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Speaker 1: That's life in the NFL. And as for the Nico

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Speaker 1: Collins injury and all the other various excuses, c J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud sucked before Nico Collins left the game, and that's

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Speaker 1: life in the league, Cupcake, that's how it goes. And

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Speaker 1: so you make it work, you find a way. The

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Speaker 1: elite guys they rise above it. And he looks like

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Speaker 1: a guy. He really looked like this for a while.

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Speaker 1: That's just kind of along for the rice. He's not

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Speaker 1: a bus driver, he's a bus rider. He's like in

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Speaker 1: the back of Roberto's bus. He's just kind of in

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Speaker 1: the back there. And so it was a gloomy night.

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Speaker 1: The Texans are two and four. You are what your

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Speaker 1: record says you are, and they are not good. Now.

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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, in the winning locker.

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Speaker 1: Room the Seattle Seahawks who win this game twenty seven

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Speaker 1: to nineteen.

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Speaker 3: Again the late touchdown by c. J. Stroud, But it's

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Speaker 3: one of these things.

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Speaker 1: Where the Texans, the way they played and as good

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Speaker 1: as Seattle's defense played, should have been a bigger final

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Speaker 1: margin than it was. And so while they were in

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Speaker 1: control a lot. But how about Sam Darnell. Let's address

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald here and his performance. And he played by

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Speaker 1: most accounts, he played okay, you know, he didn't one

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Speaker 1: touchdown pass, he had an interception. He also totally eft

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Speaker 1: it up and fumbled and gave Houston a touchdown. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what the hell that was what he was

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Speaker 1: trying to do on that, but it was a disaster.

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Speaker 1: So he have that up and the Texans scored a

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Speaker 1: touchdown when Donald was sacked and it was in the

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Speaker 1: end zone that was covered by Will Anderson in the

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Speaker 1: end zone that was in the third quarter for one

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Speaker 1: of the Houston touchdowns, the offense getting that one late touchdown.

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Speaker 1: But as far as Sam Donald's overall body work, he

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Speaker 1: was seventeen and thirty one. He completed less than fifty

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Speaker 1: five percent of his passes and averaged a little less

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Speaker 1: than seven yards per pass attempt in Seattle does win

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Speaker 1: the football game. So they've got that. But do you

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Speaker 1: trust Sam Donald as a Seahawk that he's among the

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Speaker 1: better quarterbacks in the NFL if you go by just

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Speaker 1: the raw stats. So if you go by the stats,

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Speaker 1: you'd say, yes, you trust Sam Darnald. I don't just

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Speaker 1: go by the numbers. I go by the eyeball test.

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Speaker 1: And it's also a full body of work. And I

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Speaker 1: look at this like bubbles, and he's the bubble boy,

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Speaker 1: and he's not in the bubble of trust. I don't

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Speaker 1: have Sam Donald in there. I don't trust him. The

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Speaker 1: Seahawks are five and two now, they've got a really

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Speaker 1: good record, and they're trending towards a playoff idea or

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Speaker 1: a playoff season. Rather they playoff season here for Seattle,

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Speaker 1: so they're looking like a playoff team. And just like

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, you know, he's better in Minnesota than he

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Speaker 1: wasn't Seattle.

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Speaker 3: But just like that, I do not believe.

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Speaker 1: I do not believe that we get to a late

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Speaker 1: season game or a wild card game for Seattle because

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Speaker 1: the Rams will win that division. That you're gonna trust

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald to get her done in a big spot.

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Speaker 1: His reputation precedes him. Final thought, we move away from

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Speaker 1: the Monday night game. We go now to Philadelphia where

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Speaker 1: the Eagles are having problems.

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Speaker 3: And how do I know that they won? They beat Minnesota?

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Speaker 1: How do I know they're having problems because defensive end

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Speaker 1: Brandon Graham. Yes, that brand, He's been around forever, but

650
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: he went around this year, has decided to come out

651
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: of retirement and is finalizing a deal. Of reports that

652
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: the deal is about done here and announcement will come

653
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: down sometime later here on Tuesday, as we're doing this

654
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Speaker 1: in real time in the overnight, and Graham will join

655
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Speaker 1: rejoin the Philadelphia football team. So the longest tenured player

656
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Speaker 1: in Eagles history is going to come back for his

657
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 1: sixteenth season. Question, bringing Brandon Graham, defensive end back Brandon

658
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Speaker 1: Graham out of retirement, is this a smart move or

659
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: a desperation move for the Eagles. So this is a

660
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: phone of friend move, is what I wrote down on

661
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: my scorecard, A phone of friend move for the Eagles,

662
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: because if you check your schnazola, it certainly smells like desperation.

663
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Speaker 1: Like this is some carefully late out a roster plan

664
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Speaker 1: unless it isn't. This is obviously on the panic side,

665
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: the arrows pointing at panic. Now, if you know the

666
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: story of the Backstore, in this Zadarius Smith decided he

667
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: wanted to quit the NFL during the season. He walked away.

668
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: He said, I can't handle this anymore. I'm done, and

669
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Speaker 1: he quit, pulled the Andrew luck and left the NFL

670
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: mid season to retirement, and took with him a player that,

671
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Speaker 1: even though he didn't have great stats compared to the

672
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Speaker 1: other stiffs that the Eagles have on that position, was productive.

673
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: And so Brandon Graham was supposed to be sitting on

674
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Speaker 1: the beach somewhere and sipping a nice pink lemonade, maybe

675
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Speaker 1: a hard pink lemonade, not lining up for third and

676
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: eight before Halloween.

677
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 3: But here we are, and Brandon Graham is back, and

678
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 3: this is a deadyboy.

679
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Speaker 1: Things are not going well in Philadelphia. Despite the win

680
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: over the Minnesota Vikings, things are not going well in

681
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia and the Birds this is you know what this is.

682
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: They broke up with their new girlfriend and they then

683
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: sent a late night text to their ex.

684
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Speaker 3: And this is like when the X you know, it doesn't.

685
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: Really move out, but kind of moves out, you know,

686
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like they leave some stuff behind,

687
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 1: like there's a you know, some shirts and some other

688
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: like toothbrush and some other crap they leave by, so

689
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: just kind of marking their territory.

690
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,760
Speaker 3: So Brandon Graham like marked his territory.

691
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Speaker 1: And the Eagles are like, at let's call this guy, Hey,

692
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: who are you gonna call you?

693
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 3: Would you like to play for the Eagles? You already

694
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 3: played for the Eagles?

695
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: And sure enough, boom, they started making calls, Hey, we

696
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: need some help, you want to play? And he was

697
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 1: on their call list and he answered the phone, he

698
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: answered the text, he wrote back, and now they're they're

699
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: back on the couch three weeks later saying hey, hey,

700
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Speaker 1: I missed you.

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Speaker 3: Hey, come on back, we missed you.

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Speaker 1: You know. At this point, Graham is like an emotional

703
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: support animal for the Philadelphi Eagles, and some people are

704
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: upset because this ruins the fairy tale. The fairy tale

705
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: is athlete plays a long career athlete wins Super Bowl.

706
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: Fade to black well, Brandon Graham, who has been part

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Speaker 1: of the glory days of the Philadelphia Eagles. They've never

708
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Speaker 1: had a period of sustained success like they've had the

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00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: last ten years or so in Philadelphia, going back to

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Speaker 1: the Nick Foles playoff run and all that. So Brandon

711
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 1: Graham was part of all that. He won another super Bowl,

712
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: he walked away, and now because of a injury, he

713
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Speaker 1: is back.

714
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 3: And there you go.

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Speaker 1: He's the connective tissue to the past decade, the glory

716
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: days of the Philadelphia Eagles. There and not the guy

717
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: who's going to get your double digit sacks. That's not happening.

718
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: He's just a warm blanket and you need a blankey.

719
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: He's a nostalgia blanket, Brandon Graham, and so good luck

720
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: on that. And Philly's playing like they're playing it up

721
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: some of the stories I've seen. That's like a storybook reunion.

722
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: They never intended for this to happen. They never did.

723
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: It's not one last midnight rodeo in Green, All Green,

724
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: Kelly Green. It's not that at all. You can cue

725
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: the orchestra and the nice sappy music if you want,

726
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: but in reality, this is a thirty seven year old

727
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 1: defensive end who had decided he didn't want to play football.

728
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: He didn't have it in him. His body couldn't hold

729
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: up and all that stuff. And now despite the bald tires,

730
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: the dense, the cracks, the rust, all that stuff, he's

731
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: back for the Philadelphia. So again, there's a theme to

732
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: this NFL season where the teams that were supposed to

733
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: be good the teams that were supposed to be really

734
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 1: really good at this point, Eh, Okay, the Chiefs are

735
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: coming around, but are they really coming around? You can't

736
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: get too excited about the win over the the Raiders.

737
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 3: Now, the Lions win was good. That was at home.

738
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 3: They played well in that game.

739
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

740
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

741
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: There we go, There we got, there we go.

742
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 3: That's grill google.

743
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Speaker 6: The Bears have won four games in a row, and

744
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 6: yet they still open as six and a half point

745
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 6: underdogs against the one in five Ravens in Week eight.

746
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 6: Ben in Chicago being disrespected by the odds makers.

747
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 3: Well, no, they're not being disrespecting.

748
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: It's not guaranteed Lamar Jackson's going to play, and if

749
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: he plays, like, how.

750
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Speaker 3: Is he going to do?

751
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: And all I mean, they're really the gambling line is

752
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: just based on what public perception is but yeah, if

753
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: you look at that, it does look like that is

754
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 1: a gigantic screw up by the odds makers, which tells

755
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: you the Ravens will likely win by two touchdowns next.

756
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Speaker 5: Uh.

757
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Speaker 6: There are a lot of bad teams in the NFL

758
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 6: this season, many of which we talked about during yesterday show. Yeah, Ben,

759
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 6: which teams fan base should feel the most hopeless?

760
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go the Jets like the Browns.

761
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: It's easy to say the Browns the Jets like because

762
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: the Browns fans kind of accept it. They suck like

763
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: the Jets fans every year think, Oh, this new coach

764
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: is gonna be great. This quarterback like, that's just like

765
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: a New Yorker thing. They just like every year, the

766
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: same crap. It's amazing. Sami, go the Jets because they

767
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: thought Aaron Glenn was a good coach. They thought Justin

768
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: Fields would figure things out. They both suck. Next, so

769
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 1: the Eagles got back into the win. Call him on Sunday,

770
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: Ye did it with an aerial attack? Do you think

771
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: Philly fans can breathe a sigh of relief?

772
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 3: No?

773
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 1: No, because it was that game was decided mostly because

774
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 1: of the incompetence of Carson Wentz. They the Vikings got

775
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: to the red zone six times, and they screwed it

776
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: up a bunch of those times, So I'm not comfortable yet.

777
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 3: It was it was a needed win, but I'm not

778
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 3: quite there yet for the how did we do you pass?

779
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 3: That is a win? Put it on the ball.

780
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

781
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783
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Speaker 2: listen live. Now, Mailer's Mountain of Money? Do you have

784
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top? Probably? Not?

785
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 3: All right, here we go.

786
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: Time now four of the game. I've been told by

787
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: Coop no small talk. So we'll have Mike in Boston. Hello, Mike, Welcome,

788
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: Hello Ben, No small talk? Who do you want to

789
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 1: partner with?

790
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 3: Mike? I'll take cool all right, and no, boy Pa,

791
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 3: I'm backfired. Poppy in San Diego. Hello Poppy.

792
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm gonna have to go with my master that matter.

793
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 6: We're gonna win, Okay, go ahead, all right, gentlemen, this

794
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 6: is malards amount of money. Kim Kardashian. Addition, she turns

795
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 6: forty five years old today. The category is our home video,

796
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 6: keeping Up, Black Book, and under the knife.

797
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Speaker 3: Mike, you were on first. Which category would you like?

798
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 2: Keeping up?

799
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 6: Keeping up? All right, Poppy? How about you under the knife? Okay,

800
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 6: all right, Mike, You and I are up. The category

801
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 6: is keeping up. We need the first and last name

802
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 6: of the athletes.

803
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 3: Uh.

804
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 6: These athletes all come from big sports families. Are you ready, Mike?

805
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 3: Yes?

806
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 6: All right, forty five seconds. Let's begin the star on

807
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 6: the Golden State Warriors right now. Yes, a star tight

808
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 6: end for the New England Patriots. He's retired now. Yes,

809
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 6: he is currently the quarterback at Texas. He's gonna be

810
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 6: a high draft pick.

811
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 3: Yes.

812
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 6: This guy was the center slash power forward for the

813
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 6: Lakers with Kobe Bryanty from Spain. Yes, this guy was

814
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 6: the father of Roberto Roberto. Uh, he just passed.

815
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 3: Away a few days ago. Yes, good job. This guy

816
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 3: is the father of Aaron, the manager for the Yankees.

817
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 3: Bob Boone, jeez, Brett Boone. No, all right, this guy

818
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 3: was an offensive lineman. It was Bob Boone. Okay, how

819
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 3: many points? Was oh boy? Alrightny? All right, Poppy? You

820
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 3: ready to go here?

821
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: Poppy?

822
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Speaker 3: All right? Forty five seconds. These athletes have all had

823
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Speaker 3: cosmic work.

824
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: Cosmetic cosmetic work done.

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00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 3: Are you ready, Poppy? Yes, all right, run away and go.

826
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Speaker 1: Basketball player. He went to high school in Alaska. He

827
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: played at Duke. He was with the Lakers and the

828
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: Bulls and the Cavaliers. All right, boxer named the real deal.

829
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson bit his ear off. Yes, white linebacker for

830
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears in the early two thousands. Yes, star

831
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Speaker 1: for the Heat, not Lebron, not Chris Bosh. Yes, primetime

832
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: defensive back coach at Colorado. Right, yes, let's see what

833
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: else did we have?

834
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 3: Guard? What was this guy?

835
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: We went to Yukon, I believe, played with the Hornets,

836
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:00,720
Speaker 1: the Celtics.

837
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, you got it rightes?

838
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 1: Yeah?

839
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 3: Wow? Wrong? Wow? What was that? What are we at now?

840
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 2: The lead?

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00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 3: Yes? All right, Mike, no, Mike, do you want home

842
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 3: video or black book?

843
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: Home video?

844
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 3: All right? These athletes are all known to have a

845
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 3: sex tape.

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00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 6: Forty five seconds on the clock.

847
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 3: Love sex tapes? Go col begin all right. This guy

848
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 3: is a famous wrestler. He just died.

849
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 6: No, no, he just died like most famous wrestler of

850
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 6: all time. Okay, yes, thank you. One of the best

851
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 6: tight ends of all time. He's on f S one

852
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 6: and ESPN. He was for the Broncos, the Ravens. No, okay,

853
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 6: this guy's second fiddle on the Nuggets, second fiddle on

854
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 6: the Nuggets.

855
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 3: He's the second guy on the Nuggets. The shooting guard, Cooop.

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00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 3: We're out of time, Coop, you do not get enough points.

857
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,760
Speaker 3: We win the game. Poppy, you won the game. We

858
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 3: won the game. We won the game. Cheater, No, you

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00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 3: had you went