Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny G Radio and a Happy Saturday. We're
Speaker 1: hanging out recording this podcast early on the eighth day
Speaker 1: of March as we celebrate National Proofreading Day, something that
Speaker 1: not many people do. Proofread does not happen. But this
Speaker 1: is a special edition of the Fifth Hour. Now. Danny
Speaker 1: G will join me tomorrow. He is busy doing something,
Speaker 1: but he would be boys, I believe for the mail Bag.
Speaker 1: If not, he won't be with us at all. But
Speaker 1: I think he'll be with us on the mail Bag
Speaker 1: on Sunday, And so we wanted to on this Saturday
Speaker 1: take time away. Now. Normally we don't talk sports. Normally
Speaker 1: we don't talk much sports on the weekend Fifth Hour podcast,
Speaker 1: but The cool thing about this is that when something
Speaker 1: happens that is worthy of our attention, we are able
Speaker 1: to break format and go right into it. And so
Speaker 1: this being the Saturday edition, the rare and appropriate, rare
Speaker 1: and appropriate bonus sporty coverage on the Fifth Hour, the
Speaker 1: trade that rocked the NFL. We'll get to that. We
Speaker 1: also have the phrase of the week, and who knows
Speaker 1: what else will pop up here on the Fifth Hour podcast,
Speaker 1: but we'll begin with this an emergency mal monologue, emergency
Speaker 1: malar monologue, and we were not planning on doing this,
Speaker 1: but the events changed on Friday, so we had an
Speaker 1: unexpected trade in the NFL. I assume you know by
Speaker 1: now you heard about it, but maybe not. The Raiders
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks said, hey, you know what we need
Speaker 1: to do. Let's make a deal. And so they made
Speaker 1: a deal in Las Vegas acquired quarterback Geno Smith, yes
Speaker 1: that guy, Geno Smith from the Seattle Seahawks, in exchange
Speaker 1: for a twenty twenty five third round draft pick. So
Speaker 1: that's it pretty simple. The Raiders get the player, the
Speaker 1: Seattle football team gets a lottery ticket, and that is
Speaker 1: the trade. So let us discuss the question for the
Speaker 1: esteem panel which you are a part of. What does
Speaker 1: the malor report card read? The malor report card read
Speaker 1: for this particular deal. All right, So we've got cosplay,
Speaker 1: waste management and sopranos, and we will combine all of
Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to make a
Speaker 1: special meal here on a Saturday, the Gabba ghool. We're
Speaker 1: gonna make the Gabba goool, all right, So num Burdwan,
Speaker 1: I said, numb burw Yeah, I love the unexpected trade.
Speaker 1: Let me start with that. I'll get to the mall
Speaker 1: of report card here in a second. But I love
Speaker 1: the unexpected trade that these high fullutint plug me in
Speaker 1: NFL insiders information men that are supposed to have all
Speaker 1: the answers, not always. They're caught flat footed here. They
Speaker 1: had no clue they were snapping. Nobody had been whispering
Speaker 1: that Geno Smith would be traded. In fact, the opposite
Speaker 1: was coming out of Seattle. The Dodo Birds were talking
Speaker 1: about extending Gino Smith. They had had meetings with Gino
Speaker 1: about an extension. So this came out of left field.
Speaker 1: This came out of thin air, which makes it all
Speaker 1: the more fun to break down here on an emergency
Speaker 1: Malord monologue. So as for the report card, and remember,
Speaker 1: we are impartial, we are fair, and we are balanced.
Speaker 1: We are measured with our commentary. So I want to
Speaker 1: be fair here the Raiders on the Malor report card.
Speaker 1: That could be a shock jock and give some kind
Speaker 1: of ridiculous score. But I'm not gonna do that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna go fugayzy on you. The Malor
Speaker 1: report card, I jotted down on my note my note
Speaker 1: app here on my phone, which I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 1: I dotted jotted down an F y as in fair,
Speaker 1: as in foul, as in all of that. My god,
Speaker 1: oh my, oh no, hell, Bill Miller, I mean, come
Speaker 1: on now. So I went F Now, Seattle they're the
Speaker 1: team that traded the player. They got a promisory note
Speaker 1: in return a third round draft pick. So I gave
Speaker 1: the Seahawks the D. I rotate nuts. They got the
Speaker 1: D and the Raiders got the F. So what in
Speaker 1: the world are we doing here? Welcome to bizarre world.
Speaker 1: Remember about a week ago, the Raiders were all hot
Speaker 1: and bothered. They thought they had their quarterback, Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: They were gonna get Matthew Stafford from the Rams. You
Speaker 1: can ram it all day, you can ram it all night.
Speaker 1: And then Matthew Stafford, after meeting with Tom Brady at
Speaker 1: a clandestine location somewhere in Montana, Stafford said, I'm good,
Speaker 1: I'm going back to the Rams. It is interesting to
Speaker 1: note that after that all went down, a number of
Speaker 1: these so called insiders. Oh I knew all along. Oh
Speaker 1: he was never going to leave the Rams. Yeah, okay, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1: But the Raiders thought they had a shot at Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: They didn't get him. Then there was Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: his name popped up, but instead the Raiders end up
Speaker 1: with Gino Smith, which is hilarious. It is I mean,
Speaker 1: at some point we need to do a wellness check
Speaker 1: on the Raider fan base. Here. It is the mass
Speaker 1: Raid ball relocating to a Vegas theater, is what it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is called like it is. Geno Smith,
Speaker 1: for several years now has been doing cosplay. He is
Speaker 1: impersonating a QB One. It's like somebody going to comic
Speaker 1: Con dressed up as Spider Man. You're not really Spider Man,
Speaker 1: You're just dressed up as Spider Man. And that's Gino
Speaker 1: Smith now if you want to tell me that Gino
Speaker 1: Smith is a high end backup that you can play
Speaker 1: for a couple of games and maybe you'll be fine. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can even agree with you on that. But if
Speaker 1: he's your starting quarterback, you're porked. And if you're trading
Speaker 1: for Gino Smith, if this is your move here, that
Speaker 1: you're going out and you're trading assets to get him,
Speaker 1: what does that say about you? Holy Canoley, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's call a spade a spade here. Wow. All right,
Speaker 1: So that's where we are. Now, how should Raider fans feel?
Speaker 1: Should they feel encouraged or discouraged by this trade for Genosmith?
Speaker 1: So I think I've laid it all out for you,
Speaker 1: but just to pile on it's a dog pile. I
Speaker 1: would say that the Raider fan should not feel encouraged
Speaker 1: or discouraged. The emotion would be emasculation because this is
Speaker 1: an emasculating, demoralizing, and humiliating moment. You're like, well, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's the guy. Now he's running the show, and you
Speaker 1: get an f report card on the malor report card
Speaker 1: making this trade. Tom Brady's got a piece of the pile.
Speaker 1: We keep hearing how he's he's in. You know, he
Speaker 1: owns a little bit of the Raiders ten percent. Mark
Speaker 1: Davis the owner who won the genetic lottery to get
Speaker 1: controlled of the Raiders. So Mark Davis is the controlling
Speaker 1: owner and Tom Brady owns a little bit of it,
Speaker 1: but he's making football decisions. And Mark Davis could have
Speaker 1: simply hired some twelfth man fanboy in the Pacific Northwest
Speaker 1: and said, all right, I want you to run the team.
Speaker 1: You're a Seahawks fan, but I want you to run
Speaker 1: the Raiders. And that's what they've done. The Raiders have
Speaker 1: now recreated the twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Let me repeat that for those of you
Speaker 1: in the back of the room that aren't paying attention.
Speaker 1: It's early here on a Saturday, as we're doing this
Speaker 1: in real time, the Tom Brady front office has recreated
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: That is a bold strategy, Cotton. The Raiders have one
Speaker 1: weapon on offense at this point. Brock byers now keeping
Speaker 1: my Gino Smith playing in Seattle, a winning culture, good
Speaker 1: defensive players, a coaching staff, I know, Pete Carroll's there,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't established himself with the Raiders. But he
Speaker 1: had built something up in Seattle. They had a winning culture,
Speaker 1: and they had DK Metcalf and a bunch of other playmakers,
Speaker 1: and Gino Smith was nothing more than blah. So now
Speaker 1: he's going to a team that doesn't have all of
Speaker 1: those things, has one player in Brock Bowers. And here
Speaker 1: we are, Oh my god, what are you doing? Like seriously?
Speaker 1: All right now, page two as we flip the page
Speaker 1: here on this edition of the Fifth Hour with me
Speaker 1: Ben malor Danny G'll rejoin us tomorrow, yes, sir, and
Speaker 1: I'll share with you the real reason Ben hates Gino
Speaker 1: so much on Sunday's podcast. So we turned to page
Speaker 1: two and the question on page two, is there anything
Speaker 1: that we can take away from the timing of the
Speaker 1: Geno Smith trade between the Raiders and the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: And my answer, I'm nodding my head. Yes, you can't
Speaker 1: see me, but I'm nodding my head. Yes, thousand percent. Right.
Speaker 1: This is a PGA tour event, is what it is.
Speaker 1: It's a PGA Tour event. It is the Waste Management
Speaker 1: Open or go as we like to say, even in
Speaker 1: the plugged in world of social media and the interweb
Speaker 1: and all that this is a takeout the trash Day
Speaker 1: Blue Ribbon special. Right, you release bad news on a
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, Friday evening in an attempt to soften the
Speaker 1: scrutiny and people. It is proven on the weekends, you
Speaker 1: don't pay as much attention. You've got plans on Friday
Speaker 1: and Saturday, and Sunday's a wind down day to wind
Speaker 1: back up for the week. And so if you do
Speaker 1: something that isn't very popular, if you make a move
Speaker 1: like this and it cuts both ways, it's not just
Speaker 1: one side, it cuts both ways. So if you make
Speaker 1: a move like this and you're trying to avoid as
Speaker 1: much negativity as you can, you announce it on a Friday.
Speaker 1: You don't announce it on a Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday.
Speaker 1: You do it on Friday, and you do it, as
Speaker 1: we've laid out, for obvious reasons. Now the reason it's
Speaker 1: bad for both sides. For the Seahawks, they are confirming
Speaker 1: what we all knew that Geno Smith was a bust,
Speaker 1: that this guy was a failure. It didn't work out
Speaker 1: in Seattle. They have essentially wasted several seasons of your
Speaker 1: fandom if you're in the game there, if you're a
Speaker 1: Seahawks fan, and they have been in a holding pattern,
Speaker 1: They've been treading water there in Seattle for the last
Speaker 1: three years. And it validates my long standing take. I
Speaker 1: know Nosterdinas doesn't like this. I think JJ in Renton,
Speaker 1: he's on my team crying. Craig also seems to be okay.
Speaker 1: But that Noster Denis, he was so far up Gino
Speaker 1: Smith took us. He could not see the sun. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's right up there. But validates my long standing criticism
Speaker 1: that Gino Smith has full Jabbroni status as the quarterback
Speaker 1: in Seattle, and he is not only a quarterback, he
Speaker 1: is a Schmendrick. And for the Raiders, as we have
Speaker 1: also spelled out for you, but we'll spell it out again,
Speaker 1: you downplay this trade for obvious reasons. You have just
Speaker 1: acquired a thirty four year old quarterback who is a jag,
Speaker 1: not a Jacksonville Jag. He's just a guy, and you're
Speaker 1: going to then apparently pay him if when I'm hearing
Speaker 1: his accurate, the Raiders are going to give Geno Smith
Speaker 1: a new contract. So you traded a third round pick.
Speaker 1: Who cares about that? But you got a guy who's
Speaker 1: thirty four, so he's passed his athletic prime, not that
Speaker 1: he was ever good, and you're going to pay him
Speaker 1: more money. And so again Tom Brady has recreated the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three Seahawks of Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll and Gino Smith. They were together two years in Seattle.
Speaker 1: Those cats combined had an eighteen and sixteen regular season
Speaker 1: and somewhere Al Davis is spinning around in a graveyard
Speaker 1: near you. Eighteen and sixteen, the record a five to
Speaker 1: twenty nine winning percentage together, and again that was with
Speaker 1: the Seahawks that had playmakers around. Gino Smith, had some
Speaker 1: names on defense, and there was a winning environment. None
Speaker 1: of those things exist in Las Vegas. And now they
Speaker 1: compete in an AFC Division AMC West that has the
Speaker 1: Mahomes Reid dynasty in Cana City, the Jim Harbaugh Chargers,
Speaker 1: and the Sean Payton Broncos. And so you're you're in
Speaker 1: that mix, which is good afternoon, good evening, and good night,
Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. Now, final thought from
Speaker 1: the Seattle side of things I mentioned on the Mallor
Speaker 1: report card. The Seahawks got a C on the Mallor
Speaker 1: report card because they have a The word I will
Speaker 1: use is flim plan at best. That's being kind. They
Speaker 1: have a flimsy plan in Seattle. You're trading away Geno Smith,
Speaker 1: which again I think that's a positive. You're finally admitting
Speaker 1: that we've got a problem here, and that's the first step,
Speaker 1: but doesn't mean you're on your way to fix anything.
Speaker 1: But you're getting rid of Geno Smith, so you're at
Speaker 1: least gonna have somebody new at the quarterback position, some
Speaker 1: younger blood. Okay, so Geno Smith goes for the ninety
Speaker 1: second pick. That's what we're hearing here, the ninety second
Speaker 1: pick of the draft, which is nothing that gets you
Speaker 1: all turned on. You know, you don't feel a little tingled.
Speaker 1: You get the ninety second pick in the draft. Who
Speaker 1: knows what that will be? Likely nothing, But then you
Speaker 1: find out the whispers on who Seattle's going after. Now,
Speaker 1: when I first saw this trade pop up on my phone,
Speaker 1: I said, okay, well maybe that's where Aaron Rodgers will
Speaker 1: end up. He'll go to the Pacific Northwest. They don't
Speaker 1: have anybody else there, so he'll go, hey, hang out
Speaker 1: and we'll see how that goes. And that'll be good
Speaker 1: for talk radio. It'll be fun to have Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: in Seattle. Well not so fast. So then the name
Speaker 1: that keeps popping up is a guy named Sam. Not
Speaker 1: Iowa Sam, That would be Sam Donald. The plot thickens. Yeah, yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: that's the same Sam Donald. I know, I understand your reaction.
Speaker 1: I had the same reaction. I I know it's rather shocking.
Speaker 1: It's rather shocking. All right, So how how do you
Speaker 1: process the Seahawks going after Sam Donald? So as they
Speaker 1: they said on the iconic show The Sopranos back in
Speaker 1: the day, marown Like if I was a pirate, I
Speaker 1: would say, shiver me timbers, is what I would say.
Speaker 1: This is like trading in a bag of manure. You're like,
Speaker 1: I've had the manure for while, I don't need them
Speaker 1: newer anymore. I'm gonna go down. I'm gonna trade in
Speaker 1: the bag of manure and I'm gonna go buy a
Speaker 1: bag of fertilizer. I think the fertilizer will do better
Speaker 1: than the manure. I don't need the manure anymore. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of the manure. I'm gonna say, buy
Speaker 1: the manure, and then I'm gonna bring in a bag
Speaker 1: of fertilizer, and that is going to change my life
Speaker 1: in amazing ways. Sam Donald is a younger version of Suck.
Speaker 1: He's I believe, twenty seven. But that doesn't matter. It
Speaker 1: is the fact that he has an underlying pre existing
Speaker 1: condition here. And you know what that condition is. Are
Speaker 1: you aware of the condition that Sam Donald has. My
Speaker 1: right hand was getting a workout that is correct. Yes,
Speaker 1: he has a glitch. I don't even know if that's
Speaker 1: strong enough. It was a cataclysmic debacle. At the end
Speaker 1: of his run in Minnesota, he was fine, he was fine,
Speaker 1: he was fine, and then it was not a telethon,
Speaker 1: It was a gagathon. He suffered from a panic attack
Speaker 1: as he gagged at the end, death by asphyxiation. There
Speaker 1: for a one Sam Donald, who did all of the
Speaker 1: things you can't do. It was an unmitigated disaster for
Speaker 1: the Vikings, who got down to the very last game
Speaker 1: of the year against the Lions in the regular season
Speaker 1: and then football Armageddon. It wasn't just a snaff woo.
Speaker 1: It was uncomfortable. It was awkward. It was purgatory. The
Speaker 1: Boogeyman was knocking on the door. It was one of
Speaker 1: those things that go bump it he bumpity bump in
Speaker 1: the night. Sam Donald was not just a sloppy Joe.
Speaker 1: He was stuck in a maze, could not get himself out.
Speaker 1: He had anxiety, and that was what we expected. We
Speaker 1: expected that to happen, and it happened even worse than
Speaker 1: we thought it was going to happen. The wobbling, the
Speaker 1: gyrations of grimacing from agony and all that. You have
Speaker 1: to wonder what kind of LSD they're enjoying in the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks' front office there, if this is really the move. No,
Speaker 1: I don't want to kill them too much because they
Speaker 1: haven't added Sam Darnald. But if you look at the
Speaker 1: map from thirty thousand feet in the sky, the jigsaw
Speaker 1: puzzle is starting to fill out. Stafford stays with the Rams,
Speaker 1: the Raiders trade for a Hindenburg like quarterback and Geno
Speaker 1: Smith thinking somehow they're going to be able to not
Speaker 1: get manhandled, and by the rest of the division. Seattle
Speaker 1: now is on a rampage to get Sam Darneld, which
Speaker 1: would mean Aaron Rodgers ends up going to the team
Speaker 1: that plays with the Giants at this point, and then
Speaker 1: you've got who's next the next wave of quarterbacks as
Speaker 1: Arizona finds somebody that is dumb enough to take alligator
Speaker 1: arms Murray who is easy to disarm because he's got
Speaker 1: alligator arms, and eventually as the season goes on, he
Speaker 1: falls apart in the second half. That happens pretty much
Speaker 1: all the time. And then you've got the Kirk Cousins thing.
Speaker 1: Does he end up in Cleveland? So things are starting
Speaker 1: to settle into place as we see teams. If you're
Speaker 1: unprepared here, you're screwed. You're screwed if you're unprepared. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot of moving around going on as the
Speaker 1: new league gear in the NFL going to begin soon enough.
Speaker 1: But that that was quite the day, Quite the day.
Speaker 1: Back on Friday, as the Raiders Tom Brady be careful
Speaker 1: what you wish for? They go out. Is he gonna
Speaker 1: blame Brady? Does he get criticism because this seems like
Speaker 1: he's not doing a good job, being unfair to Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: That hiring Tom Brady to bring in the Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three is not
Speaker 1: what you were expecting that that should be for voting,
Speaker 1: But it's not vermoting. It went on, he did it,
Speaker 1: and because he's Tom Brady, it's like authorized and it's
Speaker 1: permissible to do that. And you're like, well, I don't
Speaker 1: think it should be. I mean, like come on, yeah,
Speaker 1: just again, I can't stress it up. Gino Smith was
Speaker 1: not very good when he had two or three really
Speaker 1: good playmakers. He now goes to a Raiders team, barring
Speaker 1: some kind of dramatic offseason improvement, a Raiders team that
Speaker 1: has less than Seattle. They have less to work with
Speaker 1: than the team he was at. Now. The other factor here,
Speaker 1: if Seattle is able to get the right quarterback, which
Speaker 1: would not be Sam Donald, would not be Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: is there a path to keep Dk Metcalf. Now, my argument,
Speaker 1: I did a monologue about this during the week on
Speaker 1: the Overnight Show, is that the reason Dk Metcalf want
Speaker 1: it out, we want money is always at the top.
Speaker 1: But then behind money, he realized that he was not
Speaker 1: getting the ball enough in Seattle. He didn't like the environment,
Speaker 1: didn't think they were gonna be able to win in Seattle. Well,
Speaker 1: now that DK Metcalf doesn't have to play with Gino
Speaker 1: Smith anymore, who he must think is absolutely horrible, and
Speaker 1: they get somebody else in there, does that change things
Speaker 1: for DK Metcalf? Does he now say, all right, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll stay in Seattle. They're gonna pay me. Old
Speaker 1: John McKay quote. When you talk about what's going on
Speaker 1: with the Raiders and the Seahawks, you do a lot
Speaker 1: of praying, but most of the time the answers no right.
Speaker 1: And the Seahawks, it's the term that has been used
Speaker 1: a lot well is rebuild, But that's really just code.
Speaker 1: That's lip service for we're gonna suck, right, and we're
Speaker 1: not in it to win it and all that. And
Speaker 1: football is one of those sports. I know, no Stredina
Speaker 1: doesn't understand this and some of the other dopes, but
Speaker 1: football is one of those sports where even if you
Speaker 1: have a remote possibility, you go for it. You go
Speaker 1: for it, and you never want to be that team
Speaker 1: that just settles in to the little village called Suckville.
Speaker 1: You just don't want to embrace the suck. You can't
Speaker 1: do it, and it's a shame. You got to have
Speaker 1: that perseverance to go out there and compete, and even
Speaker 1: when things aren't looking great, luck be a lady here.
Speaker 1: Maybe you'll run into some kind of fluky thing and
Speaker 1: some good stuff will happen to you, even though you
Speaker 1: don't have a great quarterback or this, that or the
Speaker 1: other thing. But I'm sure we'll have plenty of time
Speaker 1: to talk about that more as the off season rolls on.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to make sure to do that. And
Speaker 1: it's one of the great things that we have here
Speaker 1: on the Fifth Hour a pod is that we are
Speaker 1: able to when we feel like it, we can just
Speaker 1: do sporting. We can be a sporty pod. And I
Speaker 1: didn't do another rant was some of years a I
Speaker 1: got from Cleveland, Well, you're gonna do a rant this
Speaker 1: weekend on the podcast. But that story with Miles Garrett
Speaker 1: was like, no, probably not. I mean I saw it.
Speaker 1: I can only do one Mallard monologue per Fifth Hour.
Speaker 1: We've already met our quota on this edition. But I
Speaker 1: am aware that the Browns owner Jimmy Haslam declined the
Speaker 1: request to meet with Miles Garrett as he asked for
Speaker 1: a trade. And again, I'm not doing a full monologue.
Speaker 1: I'm just a couple of thoughts on that. For Steve
Speaker 1: who's in Ohio and Steve O in Ohio. All I
Speaker 1: would say is there's there's one of two scenarios in
Speaker 1: play with Jimmy Haslam and his decision to not meet
Speaker 1: with Miles Garrett. It is either a Haslam is a
Speaker 1: softy and he knows that if they have a face
Speaker 1: to face meeting, Miles Garrett can sweet talk him, use
Speaker 1: that Svengali effect, and then all of a sudden, Jimmy
Speaker 1: as them will pay him more money and they'll patch
Speaker 1: things up. It's either that Haslam's a softy, or Haslam
Speaker 1: it's the other extreme that he wants. He wants Garrett gone.
Speaker 1: He don't want to pay him, and he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to meet with him, doesn't want to do it. Wants
Speaker 1: other people and a lot of rich guys are cowards
Speaker 1: who wants somebody else to be the go beatryt between
Speaker 1: the intermediary and set all that up and not. He
Speaker 1: doesn't want to have to be the one that's the
Speaker 1: bad guy. Doesn't want to be the bad guy in
Speaker 1: all that all right, time now, time now, in the
Speaker 1: fifth hour, that's enough of that sporty stuff. Way too
Speaker 1: much of that. Let's get to the phrase of the week.
Speaker 1: That's right, the phrase of the week. I've always appropriate
Speaker 1: this week in honor of the trade of Geno Smith,
Speaker 1: which was just for a third round pick, a three
Speaker 1: year starting quarterback only worth a third round pick, as
Speaker 1: the Raiders traded a third round pick to Seattle for
Speaker 1: Gino Smith. So let's go back in the hot top
Speaker 1: time machine. You probably don't remember this. It goes back
Speaker 1: man almost forty years. One of the great quotes in
Speaker 1: NFL history about a trade, about a trade, and it
Speaker 1: was from a head coach in the NFL who said,
Speaker 1: trade him for a six pack. It doesn't even have
Speaker 1: to be cold. Close phrase, that is the phrase of
Speaker 1: the week. That's right, trade him for a six pack.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even have to be cold. Now, that phrase
Speaker 1: originated with one of the great characters in the NFL
Speaker 1: many many generations ago, but a guy named Buddy Ryan.
Speaker 1: Buddy Ryan was the defensive guru of the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: the last time they won the Super Bowl in the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five season or Championship after the eighty four season,
Speaker 1: and Buddy Ryan would go on become a head football
Speaker 1: coach in Philadelphia, and he did not like to bite
Speaker 1: his tongue. He liked to let it rip. And so
Speaker 1: Buddy Ryan in nineteen eighty six. So we're going back
Speaker 1: a minute, but Buddy Ryan is in training camp. He's
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, and he did
Speaker 1: not seem to light one of his running backs very much.
Speaker 1: They had a running back named Ernest Jackson on the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six Philadelphia Eagles, and he was not a
Speaker 1: coach's favorite. Buddy didn't something about him. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it was. I even go back and look at
Speaker 1: the archives. But Buddy was not a fan of Ernest Jackson,
Speaker 1: and so he said, hey, trade him for a six pack.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even have to be cool. Now. Jackson played
Speaker 1: the season with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He went to the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. That was back when the Pro Bowl meant something,
Speaker 1: not now where the Pro Bowl is water balloon toss
Speaker 1: and tic tac toe and pinned the tail on the donk.
Speaker 1: Back then, it actually was an all star game, the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, and was an honor to be there. Even
Speaker 1: to this day though it's all pro status is what
Speaker 1: matters more. But anyway, so Ernest Jackson played one more
Speaker 1: season with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Buddy Ryan quote, trade
Speaker 1: him for a six pack, it doesn't even have to
Speaker 1: be cold, is one of his most memorable phrases. I
Speaker 1: would argue that Buddy Ryan had more memorable phrases as
Speaker 1: head coach than he did actual success on the field.
Speaker 1: Some of the other classics from from Buddy Ryan. Remember
Speaker 1: he had said quarterbacks are overpaid, overrated, pompous bastards and
Speaker 1: must be punished. That was a Buddy Ryan quote. He
Speaker 1: was the defensive guru, of course for the Bears and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and he hated quarterbacks. Couldn't stand him, could not stand him.
Speaker 1: He's also been credited I'm not sure if he's the
Speaker 1: first one to say this about he said one of
Speaker 1: the the players on the on the Eagles would be
Speaker 1: selling insurance in two years. That's what he say said,
Speaker 1: Which is you say that now? Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: can't believe he said that. Oh my god, you can't
Speaker 1: say that. You are such a mean person. What is
Speaker 1: wrong with you? And that whole deal. Some of the
Speaker 1: old school coaches, Yeah, it's it's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Maybe
Speaker 1: once in a while, we get a great, great SoundBite
Speaker 1: like Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State few years back when
Speaker 1: he he said, I'm a man, I'm forty right, you know,
Speaker 1: you go after me and all that stuff. That was
Speaker 1: a funny one. It's sporadic, but the old school guys tremendous,
Speaker 1: absolutely tremendous. All Right, we'll get out on that, have
Speaker 1: a wonderful rest of your Saturday. We'll have the mail bag.
Speaker 1: Hopefully Danny g will join us on the Sunday mail Bag,
Speaker 1: and I get his thoughts too, because he's mister Raider.
Speaker 1: We'll get his thoughts on the big trade tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: until then, we'll chat with you down the line and
Speaker 1: have a wonderful rest of your Saturday. Later, Skater, he's
Speaker 1: a winner. Bo Folation