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Speaker 1: some Mallard meet and greets during the course of the

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Speaker 1: but that is all stuff we will talk about as

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Speaker 1: in Western Pa. It was the AFC North Championship game.

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Speaker 1: There was the final game of the twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: regular season. The NFL has jammed two hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: This all started back on September fourth of last year.

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Speaker 1: Way back in twenty twenty five. You might remember the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Eagles they got together. It was a

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Speaker 1: real spinner, a slobber knocker. Literally. It started with a

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Speaker 1: it ended with Lamar Jackson returning to lead the Ravens

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Speaker 1: into Pittsburgh. Winner gets the playoffs. A wrangle against Aaron Rogers.

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Speaker 1: So the winner gets the division. The loser goes on

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Speaker 1: are no losers, and there's either go on a vacation

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Speaker 1: Mike Tarico Chris Collinsworth on NBC. They had the call. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't if you watched it or not. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: and this was a roller coaster of a game, A

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Speaker 1: Lamar in the fourth quarter as he sliced up the

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Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens are dun Skis and the window for

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson to get her done. Now. He's been a

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Speaker 2: This just happened. You feel you one another shots with

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm I love this guy. I love

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Speaker 1: Ravens as they do not qualify for the playoffs. To question,

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Speaker 1: as we discuss who do you blame, who do you

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Speaker 1: is the great, all time greats Hall of Fame quarterback

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Speaker 1: So a we are going to blame a kindergarten song

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Speaker 1: is who we're going to blame, all right, Crank up

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Speaker 1: the old boone box. Damn Bones a classic song, demn Bones. Right,

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Speaker 1: the headbone is connected to the neck bone, the neck

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Speaker 1: wishful thinking. And in the end, Lamar who played thirteen

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying there. It was kind of like

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Speaker 1: your phone was at twelve percent when they had Lamar

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Speaker 1: Baltimore was six and seven in games started by Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson at a losing record. This year, they were two

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Speaker 1: also lost to three non playoff teams the Ravens did

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Speaker 1: zero touchdown passes for Lamar this year, seven of them

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Speaker 1: It was Lamar Light, caffeine free, low calorie, low calorie

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Speaker 1: put on the microw I don't know anything that tastes

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Speaker 1: So and now the postseason Boogeyman has a right things

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Speaker 1: that go bumpity bump in the night for the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: Lamar's name certainly will be floated through talk radio like

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Speaker 1: lot about Lamar. Here's Lamar, here's his thoughts. He was

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Speaker 3: the Raves for racing season?

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Speaker 4: We just lost a game, you know, a divisional game,

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Speaker 4: you know, a game to put us in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: I'm not even thinking about that right now. To be

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Speaker 4: honest with Johan, don't still caught up in what just happened.

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Speaker 4: You know, that's not my focus right now.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a guy that does not want to play

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Speaker 1: aywhere else. Lamar didn't say that. Lamar said, I haven't

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Speaker 1: sounds like a guy that does not want to play

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Speaker 1: for the Baltimore Ravens anymore. That's the sound of Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: And there's a real debate. There's a real debate here

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Speaker 1: about Lamar and he has been a batter ring ram

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Speaker 1: keep riding the horse, of course, until the horse collapses

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Speaker 1: not hear, maybe not. Raheem Morris and the GM a

426
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Speaker 1: two for one combo as Terry Fontineau got the no no,

427
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: as he's gone two straight clunker seasons in the atl

428
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 1: and the exits confirmed. Just hours after Atlanta wrapped up

429
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,360
Speaker 1: a losing season with a win, they took down the

430
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints to help the suck bag Carolina Panthers

431
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. So the Falcons finished the season by

432
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: winning four straight games. What de damn do the headline players?

433
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: Many of them came out very vocal, full throated endorsements

434
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: for their head coach, including Drake London, the wide receiver

435
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: and Vijehon Robinson, the mustard man in the backfield, both

436
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: endorsing endorsing the head coach, and it did not matter.

437
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: Morris is not going to be back for a third

438
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: season at the Helm. He's out and Fontineau is right

439
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 1: behind him. Make sure that the door don't hit you

440
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: where the Good Lord split you when you leave the building. There.

441
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: So the Falcons have not made the playoffs since twenty seventeen,

442
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 1: which is doesn't seem like it's that long ago, but

443
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: it's been been a while. That's back when the ass

444
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: one thousand and two, one thousand holes were cheating in

445
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 1: the World Series and got away with it because Baseball's

446
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: got a spineless, gutless commissioner. But I'm not here to

447
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,400
Speaker 1: talk about that anyway. So it's been a minute. Falcons

448
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 1: suck second longest drought for the playoffs in the league.

449
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: Atlanta also has not had a winning record in eight seasons,

450
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,160
Speaker 1: which seems to be problematic. I didn't play in the NFL.

451
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 1: I don't work in the NFL. It seems like if

452
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,199
Speaker 1: you can't even win more games than you lose that

453
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: something is not going right there. And Morris and the

454
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: Falcons in two years went sixteen and eighteen. That is

455
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: a losing record and a good jumping off point. So

456
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: let us discuss the question did the Falcons do Raheem

457
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: Morris dirty, not giving him a third season and dumping

458
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: him after two full years in Georgia. So my observations,

459
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:42,360
Speaker 1: I've got second Scoop Rancero and President's Award, and we'll

460
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we're gonna play

461
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 1: Connect three is what we're gonna do now. Number so

462
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: on my scorecard, the malor scorecard. Two words. It's absolutely

463
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: not in terms of Raheem Morris getting some kind of

464
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 1: raw deal. Did the Falcons do him dirty? No, they

465
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: did not. This was not some kind of hit job

466
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 1: by Arthur Blank, the home depot guy that owns the

467
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. This was more of a youth in Asia situation,

468
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: if you will. Morris already face planted one of the

469
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 1: worst coaching runs in NFL history the first time around.

470
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: When he was in Tampa. You might remember Raheem Morris

471
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: was partying with the players and the bucks that they

472
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: were reports saying that he was just one of the guys.

473
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: He was about the age of the players. He was

474
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: out having a great time chasing girls and drinking and

475
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: all that stuff, which would have been fine if the

476
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: team hadn't sucked in Tampa Bay, which they did, and

477
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: so as well, he was a young guy. He's older. Now,

478
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,199
Speaker 1: let's give him another opportunity. They like twenty years ago.

479
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: Let's give him the guy. All right, We'll give Hi

480
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: an opportunity. So Atlanta gave him a mulligan. They said,

481
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: you know what, We're gonna take you down to the

482
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: ice cream stand. We're gonna get to his second scoop

483
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: of ice cream. And here you go, here's your second school.

484
00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 1: And he said, oh man, I really like that, Thank

485
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 1: you so much. And so Morris proved that as a

486
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: head coach, he's a really nice guy. He's a really

487
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: nice guy. And as a head coach, blah blah blah

488
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,719
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's

489
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: what he is, right, And so somehow the geniuses in

490
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: Atlanta hired Raheem Morris, who had already shown that he

491
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: wasn't a good head coach, but they gave Hi another

492
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: opportunity instead of Bill Belichick, who at one point was

493
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: in line for that. Oh Belichick sucks at North Carolina.

494
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 1: He does. He did stalk at North Carolina. And he's

495
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,360
Speaker 1: got that little fluozy chase. He's chasing on. I still

496
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: would have hired Belichick instead of Raheem Morris. I'd still

497
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: hire Belichick because I have a talk show to do

498
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: every night, and hire Belichick. Yeah, they'll probably suck anyway,

499
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: but they don't know how to win in Atlantas. Who cares?

500
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: So it's like turning down a Hall of Fame surgeon

501
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,719
Speaker 1: and letting your barber do your heart surgery. I need

502
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: heart surgy rather than use the top rated first in

503
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: his class at medical school the surgeon. I'm gonna hire

504
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,719
Speaker 1: Mike Barber. Why not? What the hell are right? Anyway?

505
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: So the Falcons also traded a future number one overall

506
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: pick a first round picture to the Rams, and they

507
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: beefed up the roster they went for. It also does

508
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: not hurt that Michael Pennix, the quarterback, was supposed to

509
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: take off in year two and did not work out

510
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: so well. And so despite beefing up the roster and

511
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: having what everyone says is a great set of playmakers

512
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: and all that, Atlanta tripped over their own shoelaces in

513
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: the division, which is softer than microwave marshmallows. Could you

514
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: be in a more sucky division than the NFC? South

515
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: where Carolina who stinks made the playoffs at seven and nine.

516
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: All right, so any Jean Robinson and Drake May and

517
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: all these guys who everyone says blue chip talent. This

518
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: guy's a stud, that guy's a stud, and yet the

519
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: results on the field like Luke leftovers, chronic underachievers, same movie,

520
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: different Sunday, but you're watching the same movie there. And

521
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: rahee Morris, who you gotta think is never going to

522
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: be a head coach again? Why would you other than interim,

523
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: why would you ever hire Raheem Morris as head coach?

524
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: That's it. So he ends his run with thirty seven

525
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: wins and fifty six losses, a less than four hundred

526
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: winning percentage as a head coach. That's not exactly progress progress. No,

527
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: that is the GPS recalculating forever, recalculating stand by, recalculating

528
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: recalculating standby. And that's it. And in the legendary words

529
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: of a former Atlanta Falcon head coach, Jerry Glanville, who

530
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: said it best, the NFL means not for long, certainly

531
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: not for long when you have losing records and you

532
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: have already failed your first attempt. So they didn't do

533
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: him dirty. The Falcons with Raheem Morris, this was overdue housekeeping,

534
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: overdue housekeeping. You got the broom. On one hand, you

535
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: got the dust pan. This is a reality check, is

536
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: what it is. Right Meanwhile, being in reality checks now,

537
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: we're still waiting overnight. If anything breaks overnight, we will

538
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: have it for you. But as of this hour, no

539
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: news out on the future in Jersey. For the Jets,

540
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: who completed a seventeen game this is mind boggling. Seventeen

541
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: game regular season, seventeen games and a defense that did

542
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: not get one interception. You'd think, just by dumb luck,

543
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: a quarterback would have thrown a pass that bounced off

544
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: somebody's helmet and then landed in the arms of a

545
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: safety for the Jets or a linebacker. They the first

546
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: team in NFL history to complete a seventeen game season

547
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: and not get one interception. Just insane. First team ever

548
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: to go that far and never do it with a

549
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: defensive interception, So tremendous work there. They hired the Defensive

550
00:31:55,280 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: Coordinated Alliance. Also, the Jets were outscored one hundred in

551
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: eighty eight to fifty four. If you watched Benny versus

552
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: the Penny on YouTube this week. You know that even

553
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: before this last game where they got smashed by the

554
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, the Jets it was already the single worst

555
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: close to a season in NFL history. They added on

556
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: to that by getting just smushed by Buffalo's backups. There

557
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: outscored one hundred and eighty eight to fifty four the

558
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: final five games, all of course, five losses and not

559
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: competitive at all, a team that had obviously just given

560
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: up on their head coach. And so the question does

561
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn? Does Aaron Glenn deserve a second season with

562
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: the Jets? All right, so how about not just no well,

563
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,719
Speaker 1: not just gonna go No, how about no way, no how,

564
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: no chance, no chance. All those things the scales of

565
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: sporty justice. And we are big believers in sporty justice.

566
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: So the scales of sporty justice are hipping hard towards

567
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: the off ramp, the exit ramp for Raheem Morris, get

568
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: out of here to see you later. This performance as

569
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: a coach, Aaron Glenn belongs in the pen, not the bullpen,

570
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: the penitentiary of football. My god, one of the worst

571
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: coaching jobs I've ever seen. It's unbelievable and masquerading as

572
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: a head coach. Aaron Glenn. He had the clipboard, he

573
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: had the scow. My favorite was when he was he

574
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: was educating the beat writers for the Jets on how

575
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: to do his job and then went out and just

576
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: got smooth, just smacked around by everybody, just so good.

577
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: Aaron was not really a coach. No, he walked around.

578
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: He was like walking around the Jets complex there at

579
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: florm Park like mister know it all. He had all

580
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: the answers right, and he had all everything. He knew

581
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: all the problems that Jets had how to fix. Him

582
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: and the Jets player on the field, they played like

583
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,239
Speaker 1: they had never been given a game plan, and if

584
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: they had been given a blank a game plan, it

585
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: was written in Chinese and they didn't know how to

586
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 1: read Chinese. So no adjustments, no teaching, no scheming anyone up.

587
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: That's it and so not a coach. Aaron Glenn was

588
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: a rancero and the Jets were lambs to the slaughter.

589
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: Every time they took the field on Sunday gift rapped

590
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: or Thursday or Monday gift rapped and delivered to who

591
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: they played. So unless this was intentional, which is of

592
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: course a violation of NFL rules that this was a

593
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: tank job and management had said we want you to tank.

594
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 1: And even that was the case, the Jets didn't end

595
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: up with the number one pick, so they f that up.

596
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: So anyway, other than it being a take, if the

597
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: Jets were actually if Aaron Glenn was coaching and the

598
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: Jets were trying, and this was the result, nobody, not

599
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: a single player overperformed, nobody was able to level up.

600
00:34:54,760 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: Didn't happen coaching malpractice from Aaron Glenn. Outside of it

601
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: being an intentional act of malfeasance that was orchestrated by

602
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: the Johnson and Johnson group that owns the team, it

603
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: was some kind of performance art. Yeah, he's gotta go,

604
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: he can't coach the guys sucks. Get rid of him.

605
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: He blows. So you can't be that unprepared on a

606
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: weekly basis and essentially give up the last month of

607
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: the season. Normally you say, well, you want to impress

608
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: the coach because the guy's gonna be back next year.

609
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: You want to put on a good show. No, they

610
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: look like they could. They wanted to go away. We

611
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: don't want to be here. Why are we here and

612
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: the Jets season. It became a meme with Aaron Glenn

613
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: It was our expectations were low, but holy fan by

614
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: the jetst like, we know you're gonna suck, but that

615
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: is the next level of suckage is what that is,

616
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: my goodness, and so congratulations. Yeah, they didn't get the

617
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 1: number two pick. They wrapped that bad boy up up

618
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: and that will be a bad boy. So that means

619
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 1: the Jets will put the whammi on some hot shot

620
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: defensive linemen or linebacker offensive lineman, a blue chip college

621
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: player who's been making a bunch of nil money in

622
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: the SEC or the big ten will slide into the

623
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: green waters of the Bermuda Triangle, which is where the

624
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: Jets facility is there, and that's where careers go to

625
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: vanish advantage. They just they disappear like socks in the dryer.

626
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: So maybe they'll burn some sage and they'll have a

627
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: ceremonial situation where man, they are just as being a

628
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:38,479
Speaker 1: bad Congratulations, our final stop, we head to Nevada. Then

629
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: the Raiders are officially on the clock. Congratulations. A little

630
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: over one hundred days away from the twenty twenty six

631
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, and even before they took the field against

632
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. That was it. That was it, that was all.

633
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: See you later, Bye bye. The Giants beat the Cowboys.

634
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: Good effort by the Cowboys. There way to close the

635
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: year on a winning note unless they didn't. So the

636
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,399
Speaker 1: Giants won, and that meant that the Raiders hold the

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Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the twenty twenty six NFL

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Speaker 1: College Draft. It is the first time the Jets are

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Speaker 1: the Raiders rather picked number one since twenty seven. I

640
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: was barely alive back in twenty oh seven, So question

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Speaker 1: should Raider Nation? Should Raider Nation be excited? Woo excited?

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Speaker 1: All right about procuring the number one overall pick, number one?

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Speaker 1: So no chance, no chance. If you are a Raider

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Speaker 1: officionado excited about this, you're a bad fan. You're a

645
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Speaker 1: bad fan. You are This is the walk of shame.

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Speaker 1: This is not something to be excited about. You got

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Speaker 1: the hoodie up, you got the head down. You're sneaking

648
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Speaker 1: out of Caesar's Palace hoping that mouthwash Mike doesn't see

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Speaker 1: you as you're walking out of Caesar's Palace at sunrise.

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Speaker 1: You just don't want stop the music. There's no confetti.

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Speaker 1: You don't get confetti for this. Congratulations, Raider Nation, You've

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Speaker 1: won the President's Award at the Football Parade of Horribles.

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Speaker 1: You're the most horrible of the bunch. Congratulations there the

654
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 1: loser Lombardi, the Raiders picked it up. There, your EBT

655
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Speaker 1: card is loaded. Congratulations, you royally stink. Way to go.

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Speaker 1: As cam Ward would say, we ask talking about the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: There.

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Speaker 1: So the franchise which is made circling the drain a

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Speaker 1: right of passage this time of the year, and so

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00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: same mistakes, different names, different players, different executives. And now

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Speaker 1: you've got that bit owner Skinny Jeans, Tom Brady the

662
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: GM by proxy, Tom Brady pulling the strings like it's

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Speaker 1: a Vegas puppet show and he's the puppeteer pulling the strings. There,

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Speaker 1: Brady chose Pete Carroll's coach. It sounds like they're gonna

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Speaker 1: do the same thing the Seahawks did where they made

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Speaker 1: Pete claim that he was retiring even though he is

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Speaker 1: not retiring. Fact, here is Pete Carroll here the question

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Speaker 1: and the answer. He was asked about that because the

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Speaker 1: rumor is that the Raiders can say, hey, Pete, we're

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Speaker 1: going to fire your ass. So just claim you're retiring,

671
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Speaker 1: and then we won't say you were fired. And here's

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Speaker 1: the quote. You'll hear the question would you like to

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Speaker 1: come back next year? And do you to be a best sure?

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Speaker 1: Of course? On that note, group question to start with

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Speaker 1: real quick, Pete, Just on that note, there have been

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Speaker 1: some reports that you're considering retirement, are walking.

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Speaker 3: Away those actor.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's talking to me about that. I haven't said a

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Speaker 1: word to anybody that would indicate the Raiders will fire

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Speaker 1: Pete Carroll's what that indicates there, But we'll see or

681
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: he'll play along, play mister nice guy. He didn't really

682
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: want to leave the Seahawks, and they picked the other guy,

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Speaker 1: and then then the executive. There was a bit of

684
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Speaker 1: power play and all that. But remember Tom Brady picked

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Speaker 1: Pete Carroll. He then signed off on Gino Smith, who

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Speaker 1: sucks those ingredients which Tom Brady select do not make

687
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Speaker 1: a gour meal mea or gourmemial. They don't. I mean

688
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Speaker 1: they absolutely, It's like a leftover thing a majig. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know I could do Hickey's in there. I

690
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Speaker 1: don't know what that is. And so and then comes

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Speaker 1: the fairy tale. I admit I am anti draft. I

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Speaker 1: can't stand the draft. It's one of the annoyance and

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Speaker 1: I talk about it, but it's just insane, the amount

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Speaker 1: of bull crap for the draft. And I guarantee you

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Speaker 1: that Fernando Mendoza, the new Savior who sliced up Alabama

696
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Speaker 1: at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 1: and he's the new Savior, the new darling there, the

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Speaker 1: Indiana Hoosiers quarterback who will be most likely the very

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Speaker 1: top of the draft. And Cinderella incleutes the hype for

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Speaker 1: this guy, next level Heisman Glitter just put him in Vegas.

701
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 1: Mama's boy visits Vegas. What could go wrong? Now, we've

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Speaker 1: seen the Raiders with the number one pick. If you're

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00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 1: old enough to remember a guy named JaMarcus r Now,

704
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: a lot of top picks get endorsement deals. They'll sell

705
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 1: you insurance, they'll sell you gambling websites. These days, they'll

706
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: sell you cars and all kinds of beverages. Well, JaMarcus Russell,

707
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: he was an all pro at the Purple Drank. The

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Speaker 1: stories that are still told all these years later about

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00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:23,720
Speaker 1: the malfeasance of JaMarcus Russell now that was then. Obviously

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Speaker 1: everyone's different. However, the early scouting report which went viral

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Speaker 1: about Fernando Mendoza is he has the talent of a

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Speaker 1: fourth round quarterback. Yeah, and that's who The Raiders are

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Speaker 1: going to most likely draft a fourth round talent at

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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick in the draft. Let's they

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Speaker 1: trade it, which is also possible. We have plenty of

716
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: time to break all of that down. We have lived

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Speaker 1: in the era where fourth round talents are regularly drafted

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Speaker 1: at the very top in recent years. Baker Mayfield was

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Speaker 1: the first pick by the Browns. He was projected as

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Speaker 1: a mid round pick. Kyler Murray, the little fella, fun

721
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Speaker 1: sized alligator arms Murray, should have been drafted the fifth round.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals loved his gaming ability and they drafted him. They said,

723
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Speaker 1: we can get a guy that's really good on twitch.

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Speaker 1: We'll take that guy. Why not? So they drafted him

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Speaker 1: at the top pick in Arizona. He can't play. You

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Speaker 1: go down the list. I mean a bunch of these

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Speaker 1: guys that were drafted who were supposed to be mid

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Speaker 1: round picks, but they have an agent does a good

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Speaker 1: marketing campaign and they hyped the guy up. They got

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Speaker 1: all these college awards in there you go, so good

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Speaker 1: luck on that. The argument against Fernando Mendoza is that

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Speaker 1: he is he's a shotgun only guy. And yeah, they

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Speaker 1: run the shotgun in the NFL, but that's all he

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Speaker 1: can do. And he uses a clap cadence, which is problematic.

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Speaker 1: He telegraphs throws and whatnot, and so it didn't look

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Speaker 1: that bad at Indiana, but you're playing in Indiana. It's

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Speaker 1: much different in the NFL. So the point is, even

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Speaker 1: if the rails tape, he's not a just add water quarterback,

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Speaker 1: He's not. He's not the franchise savior that walks in

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Speaker 1: to the facility there in Henderson, Nevada and fixes everything.

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00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: It's a it's a powerball ticket that's run through the wash.

742
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Speaker 1: It's like, well maybe probably not so anyway, listen, you

743
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Speaker 1: don't celebrate that you didn't hit the jackpot. Here, you

744
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 1: got some store credit, and that's it.

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

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

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Speaker 1: Here we go, Oh you knew that one? How about that?

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Speaker 1: To the third degree smarty fans over there is one

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Speaker 1: gets grail cool bent.

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Speaker 5: Over the weekend, Lions coach Dan Campbell vowed that the

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00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 5: Lions have hit rock bottom and that they're only going

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Speaker 5: up from here.

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Speaker 1: I'm and ross Saint.

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Speaker 5: Brown said he is confident with the players they have

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Speaker 5: and that they will bounce back. Yeah, Ben, do you

756
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 5: think they will bounce Backers are a deeper problem.

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00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: Well, they have to improve the roster. They were teetering

758
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 1: on the brink. It looked bad at times earlier. They

759
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: just look, there's a little They've lost some players, the

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00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: coaching wasn't as good. The whole thing is bedraggled in Detroit.

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Speaker 1: So this is a pivot in the row. You're at

762
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,360
Speaker 1: the fork in the road. You can go right or left.

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00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: This is that kind of off season for the lines.

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00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: They will be back to being the Lions of my

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00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: childhood if they screw this thing up next.

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Speaker 5: So South Carolina coach Shane Beemer has a problem with

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Speaker 5: Lane Kiffen. Apparently Kiffen hired away one of their defensive

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Speaker 5: assistants and didn't give them a call to kind of

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Speaker 5: let them know that it was going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Said he'd broke an unspoken rule. Yeah, I'm sure, yes.

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Speaker 1: Was this a bad form by Lane Kiffin. Well, I've

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Speaker 1: learned while I was away from my post coup that

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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin is the biggest douche nozzle in all of

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Speaker 1: college football. He's a Schmendrick, He's a dingle Berry. Everyone

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00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: hates Lane Kiffin. He's a bad human being. That's what

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Speaker 1: I learned. I've only dealt with Lane Kifn a few times.

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Speaker 1: He did seem a little phony to me, but he's

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Speaker 1: totally played the system. He's played the system.

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Speaker 5: So next you kind of talked about it a little

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Speaker 5: bit with some of the listeners, But a lot of

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00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 5: people say that Sam Darnold has proved the doubters wrong

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00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 5: by flipping the script from last season. Yeah, yeah, in

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Speaker 5: the last game season.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he's proved them wrong? Or is he No? No,

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00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 1: he is a he has been a what He's got

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00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 1: to play well in the playoffs because that's the problem

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Speaker 1: in big games. And he's been very mediocre the last

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Speaker 1: eight games of the season for Seattle and they've been

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Speaker 1: able to win in Spider him. How do we do that?

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Speaker 1: Is they went I was what I was say, he's

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Speaker 1: left the ball and he walked out.

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Speaker 2: I was sad, was here Fox Sports Radio has the

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

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Speaker 3: Who got here?

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Speaker 1: Was you talking to? So hear some interesting advice? Hold

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Speaker 1: that thought. No one's paid attention to me for ten

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Speaker 1: whole seconds, and if you don't like him.

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Speaker 2: And away we go.

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00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: See instid of ice slide Advice to Lamar Jackson and

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Speaker 1: the Ravens who missed the playoffs because they are idiot

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00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 1: kicker shanked a kick against the Steelers as time ran out.

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Speaker 1: So advice to Lamar Jackson. You're live on the air.

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Speaker 1: When you hear my voice at eight seven, seven ninety

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Speaker 1: nine on box line one, you're on the airline one.

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Speaker 1: Advice to Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Lots of hookers and cocaine.

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Speaker 1: Okay, line too, you're on the airline to advice to

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Please make a new.

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Speaker 2: Year's resolution to give up after dick to seven.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very nice. That sounded like Ferg Dog caller.

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Speaker 1: You're on their advice to Lamar Jackson caller. Okay, thank

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Speaker 1: you for that. Your next caller advice to Lamar Jackson. Hello,

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Speaker 1: good morning time. You know, a rose by any other

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Speaker 1: name is still too damn expensive? Am I right?

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Speaker 2: The right?

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Speaker 5: That is?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the very right, verys the great, the Rick and

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Speaker 1: Maryland making his debut. Line five, you're on their advice

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Speaker 1: to Lamar Jackson. Line five, kip of.

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Speaker 2: My Bears, head to the Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Bears, dump Bears. Line six, you're on the air line six. Hello,

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Speaker 1: hang up on coffy here, all right, hang up by

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Speaker 1: my one more coop, hurry up pegagg Line two, Line two,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air line two. O. No line one,

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Speaker 1: no line one. No. Oh, that was blind Scot. I'm

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Speaker 1: glad we cut that guy off. There. There we go.

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Speaker 1: That was a hot mess.