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Speaker 1: I don't bear the lead. I didn't bear the lead.

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Speaker 1: But my god, So if you didn't see this, maybe not.

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Speaker 1: The Dallas mav Res putting the wreck in mav Reck

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Speaker 1: have cranked up the old ray Charles hit hit the road,

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Speaker 1: Jack or in this case, hit the road Nico, and

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Speaker 1: they have said bye bye to Nico. Harrison nine months

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Speaker 1: It's like they gave birth. Nine months after. He gave

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Speaker 1: a donation of luka doncik to the charity in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: the Purple and Gold Charity on skid Row there in LA.

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Speaker 1: So that move coming the day after, the day after

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Speaker 1: the Mavrec owner, someone named named the Patrick Dumont, who

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Speaker 1: money he I believe married into. Anyway, he attended the loss,

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Speaker 1: the mav Res loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, and in

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Speaker 1: that game, fans again doing the chanting fire hany go

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Speaker 1: Harrison did the thing that everyone shook their head at

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Speaker 1: he went rogue, renegade, renegade man. And of course that

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Speaker 1: the question. I think the most interesting part of this

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Speaker 1: is what does the Nico Harrison pink slip do for

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Speaker 1: the mav Res fan base. So on this one, I've

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Speaker 1: going to make some text mechs, which is not as

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Speaker 1: good as the traditional American Mexican food. But it's final

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Speaker 1: word to answer the question what does the firing of

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Speaker 1: therapeutic obviously, right, healing wounds you have like a dog

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Speaker 1: talking about months and months of bottled up range, bottled

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Speaker 1: the fans doing the sports version of no justice, no peace.

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Speaker 1: They gave it, got no justice, they gave no peace.

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Speaker 1: make no mistake about this, Nico Harrison was a self

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Speaker 1: Congratulations Nico, way to go, buddy. Now he does have

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Speaker 1: But the rhythmic chanting fire Nico fire, Nico was louder

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Speaker 1: you know, that kind of it was louder. He provided

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Speaker 1: Nico Harrison the voodoo bugaloo. He provided that front office

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Speaker 1: malfeasans by Nico Harrison's hubris. That's the price, the right

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Speaker 1: will vaporize anything good that ever happened while I was

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Speaker 1: the executive in Dallas. Check that box. And as the

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Speaker 1: something else. But Nico did the thing you can't do

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Speaker 1: You can't treat people like that and expect that the

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Speaker 1: the hoops. Who's goal is what they did. They're finally

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Speaker 1: some peace in Dallas now. Page two. Continuing the theme here,

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Speaker 1: continuing the theme. So the the other question that's on

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Speaker 1: Patrick Dumont, how much does he deserve backing Nico Harrison

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Speaker 1: in the Luca Boner, the blunder, the blooper, however you

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Speaker 1: all good words, all good descriptive words. They all work.

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Speaker 1: So on the Malard scale of blame, the Malar scale

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Speaker 1: of blame. The owner gets sixty percent, sixty percent, Harrison

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Speaker 1: gets forty percent. And here's why, all right, the owner

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Speaker 1: always has final edit. It's like when you make a movie.

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Speaker 1: the movie. And so they could have, as ownership should have,

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Speaker 1: this was not just a rogue GM running around in

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Speaker 1: the dark. You can trade a lot of players without

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Speaker 1: ownership signing off of it. You cannot trade the face

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Speaker 1: of the franchise. You're not gonna be able to do that.

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Speaker 1: So Dumont, if you look at it, he either rubber

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Speaker 1: He encouraged it. But that's bad also, or he was

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Speaker 1: just asleep at the switch. What else is there? Is

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Speaker 1: there anything else? Is so Niko or Harrison? Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: might have lit the match. He might have lit the

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Speaker 1: of the Mavericks there, he's the one that owned the warehouse.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I have no skin in the game.

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Speaker 1: I don't And you know we're on in Dallas and

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Speaker 1: right now if as a Dallas sports fan either, because

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Speaker 1: that insuran? Let me explain. So you hear those insurance scams,

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Speaker 1: It's like the Mavericks just torched their own warehouse to

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Speaker 1: collect an insurance payout. I'm like, eh, yeah, imagine in

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Speaker 1: this happen? Oh my hey, hey, dummy, you lit the match? Dummy? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're the one that did that. So this was not

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Speaker 1: a basketball decision. It was basketball arson, is what it was.

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Speaker 1: And they burned down the mansion that Luca was living

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Speaker 1: we regret, we regret this. Oh really, well, isn't that

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Speaker 1: convenient you regret it? Okay, so you don't accidentally trade

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Speaker 1: a player like you just don't. You don't trade up

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Speaker 1: you don't trade them for a brittle bag of bones,

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Speaker 1: which is what you did. Whose legs have the shelf

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Speaker 1: life of cottage cheese. You did that. You're the ones

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Speaker 1: that took that bounty back, and so listen. It's intentional negligence,

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Speaker 1: is what it is. And after months of the rhetoric

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Speaker 1: being from the maverage, will Nico, we trust in Nico,

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Speaker 1: we trust the rhetoric, suddenly, oh you know that was

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Speaker 1: a mistake, but I really screwed that one up man.

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Speaker 1: Bad job by us. Yeah no kidding, no kidding, pal

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Speaker 1: My God. Now, visionist history for sure, considering what's been

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Speaker 1: going on. Not a full year, but close enough, close

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Speaker 1: enough has happened in February. Now we're in mid mid November. Now.

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Speaker 1: The worst part, it keeps getting worse. It's like how

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Speaker 1: low can you go? The worst part is they didn't

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Speaker 1: even shop like that's the part. It's one thing as well,

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't trade them, Yeah, you shouldn't trade them if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna trade him, Okay, there's ways to do this right.

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Speaker 1: that would be the quarterback Jordan Love. He said, what

421
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: what kind of cheese is he is? He is he

422
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: a cheddar cheese? He's a mozzarella cheese. What kind of

423
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: Well at this point, he's cheese fondue is what he is.

424
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: Jordan Love was supposed to be a breakout year again.

425
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: They went out, got Michael Parsons, a good defense, blah

426
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. And what they've gotten from Jordan Love.

427
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: He's what I call a fifty to fifty raffle quarterback. Now,

428
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: what is a fifty fifth raffle? Well, how you're fifty

429
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: to fifty raff will you split the money down the middle? Well,

430
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: Jordan Love, you split the performances about half the time.

431
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: He's pretty good and about half the time he sucks.

432
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: That's it, right, Either win a National TV game or

433
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 1: I guess they tied the Dallas Cowboys. He played well

434
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: in that game, relatively speaking. So you win a game,

435
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: or you get a ten percent off coupon for cheese

436
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: Kurds at Culver's. Congratulations on that. So Jordan Love is

437
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 1: a stat sheet warrior. He's a warrior, n Golden State Warrior,

438
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: a stat sheet warrior, top ten quarterback if you go

439
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: by the Trusty quarterback rating in the NFL. And I

440
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 1: know you say a prayer every night or every morning

441
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: to the quarterback rating, but Jordan Love is technically a

442
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback in the NFL. He's also looking up

443
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 1: at the tukis of the Chicago Bears and the tukis

444
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: of the Detroit Lions in the division. So so top

445
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: ten quarterback based on the numbers. And yet when you

446
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: actually watch him play a lot of the time when

447
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: you're watching him, it's it's like the difference between reading

448
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: sheet music. You read sheet music and then hearing the song.

449
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: You'd much rather hear the song than read the music.

450
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: You much rather do that. And so that's that's the

451
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: Packers to a t that fits him to a t

452
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: because he got pretty numbers, and yet music is kind

453
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: of flat, and you got some world class, world renowned musicians,

454
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: but they just got a little something missing. There's something

455
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: that's not quite right there. And again, he's got the

456
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: resume I'm talking about Matt Lafleur. He's got the resume

457
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: of a guy, not the guy, but a guy who

458
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: will be remembered for one thing, winning a lot of

459
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: regular season games and then bombing out, bomb bomb baby

460
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: in the playoffs because that's the talent. So you've got

461
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: the beauty contest of the regular season and then in

462
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: the postseason you've got the talent show and there's just

463
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: apparently not enough talent there, all right, So well, again,

464
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: he's not today, he's not on thin eyes. We can

465
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: revisit this at the end of the season and the

466
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: lake is starting to crack a little bit, starting to

467
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: crack a little bit. And remember, listen, the packers just

468
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: did something they don't normally do. That is not a

469
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: normal packer moved to trade for Micah Parsons and then

470
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: pay him a scene amount of money. You know, you

471
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: tade multiple picks away because you think you're going to

472
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: have a championship team. No one looks all that great

473
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: in the NFL. They don't all right. Meanwhile, speaking of

474
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: not looking all that great, we head to the Big Apple,

475
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: the Garden State. Well, actually it's actually the Guarden State,

476
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: not the Big Apple, because Florham Park, New Jersey, is

477
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: where the Jets facility is in Jersey, Baby, not the

478
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: Jersey Shore. But that is where Jets coach Aaron Glenn.

479
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: Things are not going particularly well. Aaron Glenn's trying to

480
00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: swim against the current. He's being second guest. Hard to

481
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: believe football media would second guess the head coach of

482
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: a bad football team. But here we are, so he

483
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: became Aaron Glenn A turtle. What kind of turtle? A

484
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: snapping turtle, that's right, he snapped. Now. At his news

485
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: conference in the last news cycle here, Aaron Glenn was

486
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: asked about a recent report that the Jets beat reporter

487
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: Rich Samini, longtime beat reporter for the Jets at various

488
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: outlets in New York, that he reported star wide receiver

489
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson would be out three to four weeks because

490
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: of a knee injury. So that was his report. Well, Glenn,

491
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: I guess he didn't like that reporting. I don't know,

492
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: because it was right, he didn't like it. The Jets

493
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: played the Patriots in the Thursday night game and that

494
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: led to a very awkward exchange. This is Aaron Glenn,

495
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: who's the face of an NFL franchise worth What are

496
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: the Jets worths? Five billion, six billions? Something like that?

497
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: Believe it or not. Because they're in the right place, location, location, location.

498
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: So here's Aaron Glenn and listen to the interaction. We

499
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: have the audio here. Here's Aaron Glenn with the the

500
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: media in New York. Take a list. I'm going to

501
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: to pass on talking about injuries since you're Rich, He's

502
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: not here has all the answers, so you can got

503
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: some get all the injuries from Rich. So I go

504
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: right into the hill game candid form I or is

505
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: that not something you want to ask Rich? Well, I'm

506
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: telling you that's Rich Well you better call him. No

507
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: disrespect to you or Rich. But like, we want to

508
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: hear from you.

509
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 2: You know, you guys have been here.

510
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: You guys have been hearing from me. But now since

511
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: we're just reporting stuff you know that I haven't said,

512
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: then maybe you should ask you thanks everybody. See, all right,

513
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: there you go. So he repeatedly deferred all questions regarding

514
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: injuries to a beat reporter who wasn't even in the building.

515
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: Tell me the report was right without telling me the

516
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: report was right. Why would you be upset if it

517
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: wasn't right? All right? So, how are things going? Here's

518
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: the question? How are things going for Aaron Glenn and

519
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: his tenure with a j e tes suck sucks suck. Hey,

520
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: the Jets are on a burner. As the kids said,

521
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: they won a couple of games in a row. So

522
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: holy catfish Batman, this is Aaron Glenn pulled the ad

523
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: I do ask Ben on social media, we do it

524
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: on the radio show. He pulled the ask Rich card

525
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: from the bottom of the deck. Just ask Rich Samini.

526
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: He played it like he's like a high school kid

527
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: caught cheating on a test. But it's Rich's fault. I didn't.

528
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: I didn't cheat. It was Rich's fault. It was richest

529
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: idea blame ask Rich. That's so great, dude. You're the

530
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: head coach. Dude, what are you doing? You own the information. Hey,

531
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: it's great talk radio. I'm happy that you're bad at

532
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: your job. Interacting with the media. It's good for my business.

533
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: But seriously, take a couple of steps back. That is

534
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: literally one of the main pillars of your job is

535
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: to deal with the media, and that's how you do it.

536
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: Totally unhinged. Totally unhinged. Now I hear a lot of

537
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: I don't hear. I'm gonna check that. I don't hear

538
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: a lot. I've heard some defense of Aaron Glenn saying, well,

539
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick did it for twenty years with the Patriots,

540
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: and look at all the rings that he won. So

541
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn's just copying Bill Belichick and all that stuff. Okay,

542
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: all right, that's fine. I believe I'm not mistaken. The

543
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: Jets have two regular season wins are the twenty ninth

544
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:42,239
Speaker 1: team and the thirty two team NFL. And the thing

545
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: that people forget because time goes on, time marches on,

546
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: and people don't often look back. Why would you move on?

547
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: And you live your life. But there are some that

548
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: are too young. Bill belichick coaching team called the Brons.

549
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: They're bad. They're bad. But believe it or not, Belichick

550
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:03,239
Speaker 1: was at one point somewhat rdil with the media. Now

551
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: give me you an example of that. There's a video

552
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: that pops up usually once a year, of Bill Belichick,

553
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: young lad coaching the Cleveland Browns back way way way

554
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: way back in the nineties. Oh my god, he's coaching

555
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns and a local Cleveland comedian did a

556
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: comedy bit with Bill Belichick where they made his mom's

557
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: peanut butter and jelly sandwich and Belichick played alone. He

558
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,439
Speaker 1: played along. That was Belichick being Lucy goosey with the media.

559
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: And it's still on YouTube. It pops up every year

560
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: or every other year or whatever. So as a rule

561
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: of thumb, you can hate the media, you can despise

562
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: the media, you can think the media is the worst

563
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: thing in the world. However, the media versus me, we've

564
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: seen that play out never ends well. That routine does

565
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: not end well. And you know it, and I know it.

566
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: It's a battle you cannot win. Cannot know it. Name

567
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: me one unproven first year coach who decided to pick

568
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: a fight with the local media and a real media town,

569
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: not only like La there's like nobody that it's all fanboys,

570
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,479
Speaker 1: but in a real media town, all right, that would

571
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: have survived. I'll wait and I'll give out the number

572
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 1: eight seven seven ninety nine on five. I don't think

573
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: it's happened. I don't remember, so Aaron Glenn the I

574
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: guess he missed class the day when they went over

575
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 1: the fact that all right, so you're supposed to show

576
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 1: up the class and attention all students there, all the

577
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: students in the class. There. You can catch more flies

578
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: with honey than vinegar. Aaron Glenn's like, I don't need honey,

579
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: I don't want honey. I love vinegar. Give me the vinegar.

580
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 1: And so he just decided, I'm gonna turn every one

581
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: of these news conferences into a bubble bath. No water,

582
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: all vinegar, a vinegar bubble bath. Yep, that's right. Good times.

583
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: I should have used the old odorant line. I'd never

584
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: let never let him see a sweatmember that line of

585
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: old line there, never let him see a sweat, great

586
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: marketing term. And and there's there's Aaron Glenn is like

587
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: a Costco chicken, Uh, the the rotisserie chicken from Costco,

588
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: glistening with sweat and uh, full on Jersey car wreck

589
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: on the Jersey Turnpike. As Aaron Glenn, he's doing the limbo,

590
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: doing the limbo. How low. Can you go somewhat lower

591
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: than the Jets win total? Which is that's how low?

592
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: Pretty low? Pretty low? All right, final point to Jacksonville.

593
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: We go do all Coty the Jaguars rookie wide receiver

594
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: and defensive back. Rookie wide receiver defensive back Travis Hunter.

595
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: We found out I was gonna miss the rest of

596
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,479
Speaker 1: the year. Nada la da da la da. Good bye

597
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: see lad, he's out. Snap crackle pop the injury. Knee surgery,

598
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: right knee, bye bye, bye bye baby. He's all right.

599
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: That sucks now. He suffered a non contact injury, which

600
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: means the leg just gave out. The leg just gave out.

601
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 1: Happened during practice on Halloween. Spooky. Now, Hunter's knee ligaments.

602
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 1: We didn't see them. We hear they look like that

603
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: kind of shredded, like pulled pork. His knee ligaments there,

604
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: and so this is his maiden voyage is now done.

605
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: They popped the bottle of champagne. He went out there

606
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: and played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and that was it there.

607
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 1: He ended up playing sixty seven percent of the offensive snaps.

608
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 1: Thirty six percent. That's less than forty my computer like

609
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 1: brain tells me of the defensive snaps, and then the

610
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: injury happened. So the question now that Travis Hunter is

611
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: dun Skies for his rookie season, it's all over in Jacksonville.

612
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: Did he live up to the hype? Did he live

613
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: up to the hype? And the answer is, in nec situation,

614
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: not even close, not even This was supposed to be

615
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: Prime Time two point zero, the reincarnation. Instead it was

616
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: the two ways to nothing is what it was here,

617
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: because in the end you had a whole lot of nothing,

618
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: a whole lot of it. Couple one hundred yards receiving

619
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,760
Speaker 1: a couple of hundred yards receiving a handful of tackles

620
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: on defense, and one more touchdown than you and I scored.

621
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: That's it. One more Touchdown's a give you mind. The Jags.

622
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: Jags traded away not one, not two, not three, I

623
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: be four, four draft picks, including the Crown Jewel, their

624
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: first round draft pick in twenty twenty six, to move

625
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: on up a couple of spots to get that two

626
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: way unicorn unicord. They got a unicorn, that's what they said.

627
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: They told us that. Well, it turns out that they

628
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: did not get a unicorn. They got a Zebra. That's

629
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: what they got. Nice to look at. I don't really

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Speaker 1: do much. That's what they got. The Jags are like, well,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna get a Gulf Stream and they

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Speaker 1: got a greyhound bus standard ticket, squeaky breaks, greyhound bus

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Speaker 1: people with body odor in every other seat. That's what

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Speaker 1: they got. And I get that. He played both ways

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Speaker 1: and that's kind of cool. It's cute and it's fun.

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Speaker 1: And you do have to produce. You have to at

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Speaker 1: least be great on one side and you can be

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Speaker 1: average on the other for this to work. If you're

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Speaker 1: not going to be great, either defensively or offensively, it's

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Speaker 1: a non starter. And the production. As a wide out,

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Speaker 1: he was listed as a mid tier wide out. As

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Speaker 1: a defensive back, he was average. He's an average cornerback.

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Speaker 1: So Pro Football Focus the nerds over there say solid starter,

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Speaker 1: not franchise game changer. It's about where I had him

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Speaker 1: on the math scorecard. It's about where I had him.

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Speaker 1: They traded a big truck full of Bengo cards for

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Speaker 1: a novelty act. That's really what he is until he

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Speaker 1: shows that he's actually good. We're one year in and

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Speaker 1: he's already done for the year. He's heard. And so

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Speaker 1: it's a bit of a science experiment for the Jaguars

651
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 1: to try to figure this out, because it's not normal

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Speaker 1: in modern football to play both ways on the field.

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Speaker 1: And it turns out this is a science experiment, and

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Speaker 1: like most science experiments, what happens. They blow up in

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Speaker 1: the lab, come boom, just like that in the lab,

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Speaker 1: and then that's it. And so in the end, at

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Speaker 1: this point, based on the report card we filled out today,

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Speaker 1: Travis Hunter is just another drag drafted by the perfect team.

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Speaker 1: Just a guy literally and figuratively, just a guy. No

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Speaker 1: razzle dazzle. Where's the razmataz? I need some razmataz? No

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Speaker 1: highlight reel. One touchdown? You gave one touchdown? No how

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Speaker 1: many pick sixes did he have? Where were all those plays?

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Speaker 1: I didn't see that? Be sure to catch it.

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Speaker 2: Five editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two

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Speaker 2: am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: It's Mallard, how about that? To the third degree?

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Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grill.

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Speaker 1: All right, Coobley.

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Speaker 4: On Monday, Rex Ryan called Caleb Williams a generational talent yeah,

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Speaker 4: and said that he's gonna keep climbing. Ben, Is Caleb's

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Speaker 4: starting to change your opinion on his career outlook?

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Speaker 1: No, No, I have not changed my opinion yet. It

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Speaker 1: it takes a long time for me to change my opinion.

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Speaker 1: He's played better than I thought. I'll give him that.

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Speaker 1: He's played better than I thought. And he's had some

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Speaker 1: heroic moments here lately, which is good and encouraging. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I know he's got to worry about his

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00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,839
Speaker 1: hot takes every day Rex Ryan, So he's really good

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Speaker 1: at that kind of stuff. I'm not there, but the

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Speaker 1: Bears are. They're starting to make a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a rumbling noise. Next.

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Speaker 4: So Nico Harrison got fired, and yeah, with that firing

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Speaker 4: has a lot of people thinking that Anthony Davis could

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Speaker 4: be on the trade block. Yes, could you see Anthony

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Speaker 4: Davis getting moved this season? I think he's gonna be

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Speaker 4: traded to Cedars SINAI. I think that's where he's gonna

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Speaker 4: be traded. Cooper, come on, I mean the guy where

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Speaker 4: I was born? Why would you congratulations? A lot of

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00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 4: celebrities there as you know, so where like where's he

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Speaker 4: gonna go?

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Speaker 1: Like? Why would you trade for a guy who's not

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Speaker 1: gonna play like seriously. It's like say, I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna date the hottest woman in the world. I'm actually

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Speaker 1: gonna physically be with her, but I'm gonna I'm gonna date.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what's the point? All right?

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Speaker 4: Next?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 4: The Detroit Pistons went from winning fourteen games two years

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Speaker 4: ago to uh winning a winning record.

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Speaker 1: Last year in the playoffs. Yeah, they had a playoff

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Speaker 1: series with the next one.

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Speaker 4: So far this season they're leading the Eastern Conference. Then,

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Speaker 4: is this the year of the Pistons?

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Speaker 1: Well, cool, as you know, I have it. It's MEA's

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Speaker 1: background noise for me at this point, Cooper Loop. The

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Speaker 1: season starts in December twenty five. They're good. They're a

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Speaker 1: playoff team. I'm not there yet on the Pistons. How

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Speaker 1: do we know? Read passes.

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

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Speaker 2: Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR

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Speaker 2: to listen live. Attention everyone, and the password is password,

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Speaker 2: you idiot, password the word Game of the Stars.

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Speaker 1: Here's Ben Metler. All right, let's do it. Here we

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Speaker 1: go mass words nine let's welcome in our contestants. We

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Speaker 1: have Eenie Meenie miney Mo.

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Speaker 2: We have.

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Speaker 1: Mike in New Hampshire, who's going to play getting a

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Speaker 1: lot of airtime via Marcell. Hello Mike in New Hampshire,

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Speaker 1: Hey Ben.

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Speaker 5: When I be thrown Marcell that meathead, we're gonna change

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Speaker 5: my name to the Dynasty Sniper.

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Speaker 1: I like it. Marcell will lose his mind. I think

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Speaker 1: he already did, but he'll lose his mind again. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, very good, Mike, who do you want to

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Speaker 1: partner up with? Quickly? Please?

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Speaker 4: We're gonna play with Coop this time.

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Speaker 1: All right, very nice? You and Coop will lose. And

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Speaker 1: JJ in Renton is going to play. Hello, JJ, oh man, they're.

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Speaker 5: Going to big Dog Ben Maler.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, here we go.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: JJ was at the Seattle Mallar meet and greet we

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Speaker 1: did back in twenty nineteen, and very noice. Let's play

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Speaker 1: the game. We have a list of words here. You

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Speaker 1: still make anchors, Jju.

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Speaker 5: No, man, I'm working in the freezers now.

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Speaker 1: Man, okay, works in the We don't have time. Let's

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Speaker 1: play the game, all right. Mike in New Hampshire pick

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Speaker 1: a number one to ten please number seven. All right,

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Speaker 1: number seven, coop, all right, let's go with uh allry wattage.

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Speaker 4: Westward wattage, wattag.

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Speaker 5: Otage, wattage no electricity, what Mike?

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Speaker 1: Ok oh my goodness, this phone's crapping out.

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Speaker 5: Say it again, Mike, electricity bro.

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Speaker 1: J J what are you doing? What? What?

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Speaker 2: What is you?

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Speaker 1: Are you a Cleveland Guardian's picture? What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Come on, dude, man, he didn't say the word. You

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Speaker 1: say a word, mark, Mike? Oh you know what is

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Speaker 1: the word?

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Speaker 4: J J?

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Speaker 1: What is the word? That's not the word. It's not

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Speaker 1: the word. All right? Oh my god, I thought he said,

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Speaker 1: did he say it before? I said no? No, he said,

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Speaker 1: he said electric. Let's let's try, Mike. Let's Mike, let's try.

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Speaker 1: Let's try power. What I'm not talking to you? JJ?

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Speaker 1: I love JJ is one of my favorite callers, Mike power.

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Speaker 2: Energy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, it's pick a number, JJ, pick a number, Okay,

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00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 5: give me number, give me Russell Wilson's number, because you

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Speaker 5: know how trast is.

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Speaker 1: All right, that would be three, I know, all right,

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Speaker 1: number three. All right, let's go with no chance. How

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00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 1: about scouting scouting observing? No, I was trying the mallet maneuver,

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Speaker 1: the word was combine unfortunately. How about JJ helping out

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Speaker 1: his opponent. They're very nice of and very generous of

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Speaker 1: Jay