May 3, 2021 • 37 mins
Ben Maller parses the words of Robert Griffin III who took some cheap shots at Kirk Cousins, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number three, our number three
of our radio program, and we parse the words of
RG three, the NFL backup quarterback turned commentator for the
NFL Draft, and he was lobbing Haymakers cheap shots at
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a former teammate in Washington. That would be current Viking
quarterback Kirk Cousins. Fair or unfair shots by r G three.
We discuss here in our number three. Now that is
compelling commentary. Well come man, the beginning of yet another
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hour the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air
everywhere as we filibuster coast to coast, border to border
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hot sports takes all night long. The Fox Sports Radio
Studio is good to have you along with us, side
by side. So our lead this hour comes from the
fallout of the draft. Everyone's a commentator these days on
the NFL Draft, and if you're a former player, chances
are someone was willing to write a big check for
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you to play. Even if you're a current player who's
not really on a roster, there is some tension brewing
that has played out around the Minnesota Vikings, right, not
a Minnesota vikingsta specifically Kirk Cousins, now Minnesota drafted Texas
A and M quarterback Kellen Mond. Believe I say you
say his name a third round pick in the twenty
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twenty one draft this past weekend, and that raised some eyebrows,
led to some spicy comments from several people about the
future of Kirk Cousins, including one former teammate. In particular,
have you heard what was said about Cousins on the
off chance that maybe you missed it. Robert Griffin the Third,
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better known as RG three, a man that was a
teammate shared the quarterback room with Kirk Cousins in Washington.
He said, you know what, I'm gonna be spitting fire
out of my mouth and I'm gonna take some shots
at Kirk Cousins. And so that's what he did. As
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a college draft commentator NFL Draft college expert RG three,
who was playing in the NFL so a backup with
the Ravens last season, He said he believes that the
Vikings third round pick, this guy mind, the quarterback out
of Texas A and M, is a serious threat to
steal the starting job with the Vikings in twenty twenty one. Quote.
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I could tell you number eight, meaning Cousins in Minnesota
is probably not real happy right now because Kelln Mond
represents exactly what Cousins doesn't do well. Griffin babbled behind
the microphones over at the bleacher Report. He said that
this quarterback out of Texas and M, this Mond guy
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is a big, physical quarterback. He can run and throw
it all over the field, and I don't think that's
something that number eight is able to do. Now, keep
him on. He never actually said cousins name. He just
said number eight, right, So he didn't want to say
his name, say the name right in that first part
of the SoundBite. He did not say the name. He
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wouldn't say it now, Griffin went on. He did mention
the name. Griffin believes that the dual threat ability of
the Texas and M quarterback could be a difference maker
for the Vikings. Course could is a weasel word, he said.
Quote Cousins has been collecting checks there in Minnesota for
a long time, taking them to eight and eight ninety
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seven seasons. Griffin added, I guess you forgot the ten
win season. If he had a bad start to the
year like he did last year. I could see the
fans and maybe the organization leaning towards mind if he
comes in and impresses close quote. All right, let us
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discuss a lot to unpack here. The question is RG
three correct about the shaky status of Kirk Cousins and
should Cousins be concerned about a third round draft pick
quarterback out of Texas A and m I am shaking
my head. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no
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no no. All right, I've got Milli Vanilly Rhodes scholar
and umbrella, and we will combine all of these things
together into an adequate, adequate Mallard monologue. That's we are
going to do it now. To lead off with Robert Griffin,
the third has a lot of resentment towards Kirk Cousins.
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You don't need me to tell you that these recent
comments validate the speculation that there is legit bitterness year
and RG three was supposed to have the career that
Kirk Cousins has had at the very worst, at the
very worst, Robert group in the third was supposed to
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be the one cashing big fat checks and still being
in the NFL being relevant. Those things haven't happened. He
was the much bally hood number two pick in the draft.
The then Washington Redskins traded a massive bounty of draft
picks to the Saint Louis Rams at the time for
the rights to the Heisman winner, and instead RG three
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was the flash in the pan. He was the Millie
Vanilli of his day. He was lipsick gang. He was
lip sick Ganga. Right, he was burned by the law
of the instrument. Now, what is the law of the instrument.
The law of the instrument means that if you only
do one thing well, you're going to only try to
do that. Particularly, for example, if you're a pitcher in baseball,
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all right, if you're only a fastball pitcher, you're gonna
try to strike everyone out. If you lose your fastball,
you're done. And if you're a running quarterback who cannot
get the job done throwing the ball, the law of
instrument comes into play. And that's what happened to RG three.
He got hurt. Right, He's forced to be a traditional
drop back quarterback to win games. Truly on the strength
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of his arm, the law of the instrument could kicked in.
He was a fraud and a phony and a fake,
and he couldn't do it. Throwing the balls a drop
back passer was not his forte. It was kryptonite. And
so now he's out there directing his lasers at Kirk Cousins.
It's like taking every shot he can't. Cousins was the
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guy drafted lower. He wasn't supposed to be the guy
that made it. No. Secondly, if you take three steps back, okay,
three steps back. RG three is a Rhodes scholar at
collecting paychecks, the very thing he's accusing, the very thing
he's accusing Kirk Cousins of doing. Look at the mirror
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on the wall, mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's the
fairest of them all? RG three? Right, that's pretty much
all he has done in recent years. Now they're not
as big, the checks, they're not as big, but as
far as return on investment, Cousins has at least put
up some statistical success from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty,
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and really twenty fifteen he was injured, but twenty fifteen
to twenty twenty Griffin earned about seventeen million dollars. Do
you know many touchdown passes. RG three has thrown in
that period of time three seventeen million dollars for three
touchdowns and seven and interceptions and about a little over
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eleven hundred yards passing, which by my expert analysis means
he has been utterly useless for the Browns and the Ravens,
but he's earned a bunch of money during that same stretch.
Kirk Cousins has one hundred and forty three touchdowns twenty
one thousand passing yards, and he had a career year
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last year had thirty five touchdow I got off to
a terrible start. Some of those numbers were inflated because
the Vikings were way behind, but still thirty five touchdowns,
one hundred and thirty seven million dollars. Kirk Cousins, while
being at least a reliable player, he didn't miss a
bunch of games because of injury, and all of that
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in a bag of chips for Cousins, who was the
one hundred and second pick of the twenty twelve draft
way back then, barely remember it, fourth round pick, and
he's divided average quarterback play with Washington and the Vikings.
He is the baseline of average right he that is
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The definition of average is Kirk Cousins, the guy has
started one hundred and four games. It's a great stat.
Cousins has started one hundred and four games his NFL
career and at the end of the game walking off
the field, Kirk Cousins, the team he was playing four
at the time, has fifty one wins, fifty one losses,
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and two ties in one hundred and four starts. He's
exactly a five hundred quarterback. You're gonna win half the time,
You're gonna lose half the time, no matter what. That's
much better, by the way than RG three, who's only
started forty two games in his career. His team has
a three eighty one winning percentage when he has been
a starting quarterback. Now, listen, Cousins is thirty two, He's
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got two years left and fifty six million guaranteed. That's
pretty pretty good job security in a league that does
not typically give out fully guaranteed contracts. It's rare, it's
happening more and more. Cousins has all right finalifly so.
Robert Griffin third, if I were to look at his
career right now in a snapshot, he's got a brighter
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future as a television commentator, talking head, putting makeup on,
then as a backup quarterback. The fact that he is
willing to break from the fraternal order of football players
to throw haymakers is a good sign. But he's gonna
have to do it against people other than Kirk Cousins,
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because it's obvious that when it comes to Kirk Cousins,
Robert Griffin the third is having a dance at the
hater's ball. Right, it's personal. You have to nurse the
grudge if the TV thing doesn't work out, and who
knows if it will. And RG three wants to play again,
he should get his umbrella ready. Now why should he
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get his umbrella ready? Because he was serving up so
much sodium chloride that he is in line. If they
replaced the umbrella girl mascot you know on that Morton salt.
If they change the mascot up and put a new
maskt they could put RG three holding an umbrella because
when it rains, it pours. And as for this quarterback,
who I don't know much about, I was reading some
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scouting guides on him. I watched some tape on the internet.
Kellen Mond is his name, I guess out he's a
rudimentary prospect. Undercooked would be the way it would be described.
Premature to say either way that what's going to happen.
The smart money, though, says, don't hold your breath, all right,
don't hold your breath. In fact, in twenty twenty, here's
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a troubling, ominous sign for this particular player's future. He
completed just thirty five percent of intermediate throws outside the numbers.
That ain't good, that reeks of not going to be
able to make it. He's also got a rather narrow frame.
He can fill that up a little bit inconsistent with
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his accuracy. Again, we can break down what it takes
to be good in the NFL, what it doesn't take.
But the most important thing is not arm strength, it's
not mobility. It is accuracy. And I would rather have
the accurate quarterback that can make all the basic throws
than the guy that can run like a gazelle and
has the bazooka for an arm, but can't complete the
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basic throws because most of the NFL. Here's the ugly
truth about the NFL. You watch pro football, it's those
short throws. It's yards after catch, yak at the yak.
It's just consistently throwing the football to where it's supposed
to be. It's not about all the other bells and
whistles and all that. That's what makes the highlights, but
consistently winning games. Tom Brady can't do any of those
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amazing video game type highlight throws. He doesn't do that,
but he's been able to figure it out. And so
the NFL comparison to this quarterback out of Texas A
and M is Josh Dobbs. That right, there is a
red flag. That is a big red flag shot when
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you're compared to Josh Dobbs. That is the scouting community
saying I don't think this guy's gonna be any good.
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someone in the world of sports, be a media guy
an athlete. You name him Alf the alien old piner
from down the street, just down the way from the
Pro Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. He says,
it doesn't matter whether or not RG three's take is
on point or not. He shot his shot. And that's
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more than you can say for some of the other
blowhards that are in the media. These powder puffs tiptoe
around the egos of their former teammates in peers. Well,
that is absolutely correct. Like I think RG three's a row.
He's a bad take, but at least he's throwing bobs
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and I'd rather get that. And one of the things
we used the phrase a lot. It was a term
for an old sportscaster, Howard Cosell jockocracy right, that former
athletes are hired. He's not even a former athlete, he's
still an active athlete. But there's a code, there's a
fraternal order when you're in that fraternity where you don't
cross boundaries. That we get watered down commentary that you're
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very cautious to step on anyone's toes and as a result,
your commentary is careful you reserved, you're hesitant to go
across the rubicon and go fully bombs away. And RG
three did. But he went bombs away at a guy
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that he had a personal beef with. And that's the commentary.
He was taking shots at Kirk Cousins of the Vikings.
Just Josh in cincinnatisis the Redskins thoughts so highly of
RG three when they drafted him number two. I guess
Cousins was just back up insurance. Mister Griffin sounds like
a quarterback who's jelly, just like his legs, he says.
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Robin Vegas from Sin City says, solid monologue, Benny, I'll
go with a minor us again. Hey, RG three, how's
the knee treating you these days? At least Kirk Cousins
can still play at an above average level. Does that
clipboard ever get heavy? He points out. Big D from
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West Virginia says, I have been a Redskins fansis nineteen
eighty and they just about broke me with the trade.
The double mortgage trade. He's referring to the RG three
three trade. That trade was so long ago. I was
on television the night that trade went down. That's how
long ago that was. And I haven't done the walk
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of shame in many, many, many many years with the headphone,
with the makeup. I put the headphones on every night.
Let's go to the phones here, and who do we
have any meany miney? Well, let's say hello to America's
favorite drag queen caller from Buffalo, New York, A seven
and a half toed drag queen. Nobody else has that,
our friend Felexus, Hello, Filexus jockson right? Oh, I get
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to hear how it radio? Thank you coming in loud
and clear and buffaloftunate. I wanted to ask Alexis why well, no, no,
hold on, We'll get Fulexus on it something. All right,
Wake up Flexus, you schmuck, wake up, very caution. We
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have like a twelve minute delay because Janet Jackson showed
her boobies on television, they installed all this. Well what
are what are you talking about? How long is it really?
But let the rubicon. I think he said that like
two minutes ago. Yeah, that's a long delay. Well it
sounds good even started. I know that's right. Yeah, I
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told you Eddie, listen. We gotta protect the license at
all costs, Eddie, we have that training every year. All right,
we'll put flexus back on hold. If it was only
like a thirty second delay, it would have worked. But yeah,
crazy double Mexican, says a monologue. Big band looks RG
three needs some looks like RG three needs some peanut
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butter with his jelly, he points out. Now I am
pulling for a Pittsburgh Steeler ready the round mound of
punt town. Did you see the NFL draft Pittsburgh Steelers.
They drafted a they got a punter ready, But not
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just any punter, Eddy, No, no, no, no, no, no no.
You know, punters are a diame a dozen. They all
look kind of the same. There's nothing spectacular about a punter.
But in the seventh round, the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted a
two hundred and sixty three pound punter. Now, for me,
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that's not fat, but for the average person, two hundred
and sixty three pounds is obese. And that is the
punter for the Steelers. And this sus some video, this
guy when he's playing at Georgia Tech. And this, this
guy's built. This is not your average punty. He's a
two hundred and fifty fourth pick. He's five eleven, two
sixty three. Ah, that is outstanding. I hope this guy
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makes it. I want to see this guy have a
long career in the NFL. Because we all those fat
jokes we've done about Bartolo, Cologne and Lizzo, we can
we can then shift over and talk about this punter
for the press. I don't think he's gone. I don't
think he's gonna catch anybody from behind, but then again,
what punter does so no, but he could tackle, you know, conceivably,
he could tackle somebody right if they happen to run
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into him. Yeah, I don't see him getting bowled over
by a return man. This guy's like a tank. Yeah.
He's also I read he's an accomplished saxophone player. Oh well,
that's important. That's gonna help on team morality when the
Steelers are on those bus trips to Cleveland. That'll help
him out. Yeah. He's the heaviest punter ever drafted. We
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have the fattest punter ever selected in the NFL draft,
and he's a Pittsburgh Steeler. That's got to make you proud, Eddie.
Do you think he would just you know, keep it
in the kicker family. Is he fatter than Sebastian Janikowski,
who I assume is the fattest kicker we've had. I
could have been some fat with I see a little
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bit of a I see a pretty big gut there.
Oh yeah, he's got a tire going. Yeah, he's got
the michelin Man tire thing going on. So I think
he's fatter. Yeah. Uh. And he won the Nations. He
was the nation's best punter. Did you know that, Eddie?
I did not know that. No, but if you're gonna
draft a punter had better be you think. Do you
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see Carolina drafted a long snapper? No, yes, yes, of
course he went to Alabama. But him a damn work. No,
I know, but it actually kind of makes sense, isn't
that the position? Didn't the Chargers have a guy for
like seventeen years or something like that, Dave Benn? Yeah,
So why not draft if you can draft that player
in the seventh round. Most seven round picks don't even
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make I don't even think that's a bad pick by Caroline.
You draft a long snapper in the seventh round, and
then the guys are if he's good, and this guy's
apparently good, you can you can find one of these
guys up just about anywhere. No, yah boom, you get
a the most seven round picks don't even make the team.
They're delivering packages somewhere. Not there's something wrong with that,
but they don't make the team. But if you can
get a guy off the street to do the exact
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same thing, why waste the seventh round pick on it.
I don't think it's a wasted pick. I think wasted
pick is drafting in on the defensive back to doesn't
make the team and amazons you can get some guy
off the street, they can do this. I disagree. That's
a bad job by you. And he said, that's an
old man take. I'm a young guy. I like the
fat saxophone punter, and I like drafting a long snapper
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in the seventh round. There's video, though, of the coach
of Carolina calling up the long snapper, who assumed he
hadn't been drafted. I guess he wasn't even watching the
draft under why and then like, you know, Andy, the
way he reacted when he found out he thought the
guy was like he was being punked. He thought he
was being punked that he got drafted by the Carolina
Patricks wins. The last time a long snapper was drafted,
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I mean, yeah, it's only a draft, the long snapper said,
there would be worse questions. Eddie, you're you're a Raider fan,
but you had nothing to say about the John Condo
was the Raiders long snapper front eleven years and he
was undrafted. Okay, well, so now now that you gotta
draft these guys in the seventh round, boom done. I
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should have been a long snapper. I would have been
a great light still be in the NFL, was long snappy,
I'd be a long snapper. Something I should have focused
on that. I was a long snapper, but not not
a very good one. No, seriously, listen, you gotta look
for the whole key to life. You want to be
an NFL player. You ever wants to be the quarterback
because they get all the girls and all that stuff,
you should be a long snapper. It's like, well, you're
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playing actually in the bullpen catcher doesn't play in the game.
It's like nobody's done as many snaps as I have.
That's a good point. That's more for it affects your
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I wish Ben that all the stories that I kind
of bring up as the kind of the page I
don't know, the page two stories or whatever. We're all
fun in games, but sometimes they're not. I have a
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transgender sports story or a murder sports Sorry, which one
would you like to hear? Are they related to each other? No,
they're not. They're not related to each other. Hmm, my Jones,
I want a murder mystery or a transgender I go murder.
I'm gonna go murder, all right. I don't know if
this is much of a mystery. But there's a lightweight
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boxer named Felix verdejo U and like that, you said
that with a question mark at the end of I've
never heard of him, but he does have a good record.
He's like twenty seven and two with seventeen kna Got's
former olympian from Puerto Rico who he has turned himself
into authorities in his native Puerto Rico following the disappearance
of his mistress. Uh. This guy is married, and I
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guess his girlfriend went to go tell him that she
was pregnant with his child and that was that was
the last they heard of her. U. They then found
her in a lagoon. Obviously she's dead, and he was
not cooperating with authorities, and he's I'll turn himself into police,
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a scumbag if yeah, that's a little bit. I watched
those criminal shows, Eddie and yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean
if the girl husband boyfriend's first, that's the first. And
then when he doesn't cooperate, you know, and oh, oh,
she was pregnant and she was about to tell him. Listen,
let me tell you guys. If you can't keep it
in your pants, and you happen to have a mistress
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and she you know, she has a kid, you know,
deal with it. Okay, you don't deal with it that way.
You just take care of your business. I mean, my god,
if you have to say that, I mean, what kind
of I mean? Now? I mean his life is over. Now,
his career obviously is over. His career is over. But
I know, what are the laws and is this in
Puerto Rico? This happened? Yes? What are the laws for murder? Like,
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what's the punishment? I kind of think those laws are
pretty much the same everywhere, right, I mean, no, no, no,
that's someplace you can kill somebody and you're out in like,
you know, a few years. It's not. It's not. It's
not like America everywhere. I mean there's a lot. I
guess some have limits on how much you go to jail,
some like honor killings or something, right like in Saudi
Arabia or something. I don't think this would count. No, No, no,
I don't think so either. I'm saying you're right, there
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are some there are some weird laws I don't think
Puerto Rico has weird laws like that. I think this
guy is up poop creek and deservedly so. Yes, all right,
well that's a that's a depressing story. Sorry that I
appreciate that. Can you find another story like when the
murder stories I like wet? Remember we had the stories
about the murder hornets. Remember remember that, I do vaguely
remember the murder hornets hornet Asian giant hornets that were
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nicknamed the more murder hornets. They're very venomous. Those are
the kind of stories I like. I don't know, this
one's kind of depressed. Well, I mean it has to
kind of have a sports angle. I don't know if
the murder hornets really weird. Well, they're fans of the Rams,
the murder hornets or fans of the Rams both really
make any sense? Well, we don't know if they're not,
but they might be fans of the Rams from all
we know. All right, so you might want to ascid
wash your social media. This is a story that we
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are guaranteed of getting every single year, every single year
from now and forever, as long as we're around, we
will get a story like this did somebody in the
draft do have some old tweet? Yes, yes, happen, and
it's actually the guy that we just I did a
monologue kind of. It was only not about him, was
about RG three and Kirk Cousins. But Kelln Mond, the
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quarterback out of Texas A and M was drafted by
the Minnesota Vikings right in his third round pick. He
was the sixty sixth overall pick and was the second
of three quarterbacks taken within a four pick span, if
you're interested in that kind of thing. And so they
went back to his timeline and Kellen Mond, I guess
he's from San Antonio in twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, summer
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of twenty sixteen. And here is what Kevin Mond sent
out on Twitter. Quote Minnesota is an awful state was
what he sent out. And no one knows what man
Cato is is what he Also, he also sent that
out back to back, So now he gets to find
out what it's like to live in an awful state. Eight. Now,
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how old was he? He's not that old. Now, he
must have been like in high school or something like that, right,
I would think, and like, maybe what do you think
a junior in high school how old are you when
you were a junior in high school? He like sixteen
or something like that. Seventeen, Yeah, something like that. Yeah,
all right, there you go. I don't know, I even
I never thought Minnesota was like an awful Ain't is
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an awful state, Eddie. I've never been. I've never been.
I've been to the airport. That's that's it. I've not there.
I'm sure I would like it because it's the state
of hockey. Yeah, it's that makes a nice airport, good airport.
I've also only been to the airport. I'd like to.
There was a rumor that somebody's gonna name a Juicy
Lucy after me. That that would be big Eddie. That's
the that's the local fair there, Lucy Lucy. That's the
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burger with the cheese, the gooey cheese in the middle there.
How can anyone not like a Juicy Lucy? Seriously, I mean,
it sounds like a I would love to say it
sounds like a wonderful, wonderful burger. So anyway, all right
is the Bain Mathers Show. We do have a coming
up in just a few minutes. We will have unscreened
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phone calls. The instant advice line. Let's go back to
the phones and we will say hello to Johnny in Denver.
What's going on? Johnny? Hey? How are you doing? Hey? Johnny?
Talk to me? Man? Okay, I have two words why
Aaron Rodgers is going to be a Denver Bronco. I
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gotta hear this girl friend girl? Yeah, no longer girlfriend.
That's next level, Johnny. They've cranked it up. They're going
they're becoming honest. Aaron Rodgers is going to be an
honest man. Now, okay, one word, but you know, yeah,
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I have one d about Johnny. Now, Johnny, so why
don't you go why don't you go buy an Aaron Rodgers?
What number you think he's gonna wear with the Broncos?
Number one? Um? Are you going buy your replica Aaron
Rodgers twelve? Mass number twelve? I think we had was
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probably Charlie Johnson in the seventies. You know, I'm two
years older than the Broncos. Who but I do? Um?
Do you have a lot of wisdom about the NFL
and the college football game? Yeah? You're an inside? Are
you a made man? John? I have one reason why
uh um RG three was wrong about what he said,
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number one. Cousins has more experience playing in the NFL,
and I don't think the coaches would put mad in.
So that's pretty dumb on RG three's part, making a
sa hot take the john Ian. You'd admit that's a
hot take. It's a wrong take, but it's a hot take. Wow,
it doesn't make no sense, you know, because you think
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the coaches are gonna allow that young guy going that.
You don't sound like you're from Denver? Are you from Denver? Johnny? Yeah,
I was born and raised in Denver. I was really nineteen.
Sense a little it sounds like you've you got a little,
a little twin your family from somewhere else. I'm sensing something. No,
we have a lot of history and they need here
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in Denver, Colorado from the early twenties. And yeah, maybe
I'm just here and I guess my headphones are messed up.
He's just high, right, you know, Banish? How much alcohol
have you consumed here? About a half a pint of
ninety proof? All right, and you're still alive? All right?
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All right? Thank you, Johnny? Go back and finish up. Wow, okay,
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Hello and welcome. It's our number three, our number three
of our radio program, and we parse the words of
RG three, the NFL backup quarterback turned commentator for the
NFL Draft, and he was lobbing Haymakers cheap shots at
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a former teammate in Washington. That would be current Viking
quarterback Kirk Cousins. Fair or unfair shots by r G three.
We discuss here in our number three. Now that is
compelling commentary. Well come man, the beginning of yet another
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hot sports takes all night long. The Fox Sports Radio
Studio is good to have you along with us, side
by side. So our lead this hour comes from the
fallout of the draft. Everyone's a commentator these days on
the NFL Draft, and if you're a former player, chances
are someone was willing to write a big check for
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you to play. Even if you're a current player who's
not really on a roster, there is some tension brewing
that has played out around the Minnesota Vikings, right, not
a Minnesota vikingsta specifically Kirk Cousins, now Minnesota drafted Texas
A and M quarterback Kellen Mond. Believe I say you
say his name a third round pick in the twenty
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twenty one draft this past weekend, and that raised some eyebrows,
led to some spicy comments from several people about the
future of Kirk Cousins, including one former teammate. In particular,
have you heard what was said about Cousins on the
off chance that maybe you missed it. Robert Griffin the Third,
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better known as RG three, a man that was a
teammate shared the quarterback room with Kirk Cousins in Washington.
He said, you know what, I'm gonna be spitting fire
out of my mouth and I'm gonna take some shots
at Kirk Cousins. And so that's what he did. As
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a college draft commentator NFL Draft college expert RG three,
who was playing in the NFL so a backup with
the Ravens last season, He said he believes that the
Vikings third round pick, this guy mind, the quarterback out
of Texas A and M, is a serious threat to
steal the starting job with the Vikings in twenty twenty one. Quote.
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I could tell you number eight, meaning Cousins in Minnesota
is probably not real happy right now because Kelln Mond
represents exactly what Cousins doesn't do well. Griffin babbled behind
the microphones over at the bleacher Report. He said that
this quarterback out of Texas and M, this Mond guy
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is a big, physical quarterback. He can run and throw
it all over the field, and I don't think that's
something that number eight is able to do. Now, keep
him on. He never actually said cousins name. He just
said number eight, right, So he didn't want to say
his name, say the name right in that first part
of the SoundBite. He did not say the name. He
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wouldn't say it now, Griffin went on. He did mention
the name. Griffin believes that the dual threat ability of
the Texas and M quarterback could be a difference maker
for the Vikings. Course could is a weasel word, he said.
Quote Cousins has been collecting checks there in Minnesota for
a long time, taking them to eight and eight ninety
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seven seasons. Griffin added, I guess you forgot the ten
win season. If he had a bad start to the
year like he did last year. I could see the
fans and maybe the organization leaning towards mind if he
comes in and impresses close quote. All right, let us
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discuss a lot to unpack here. The question is RG
three correct about the shaky status of Kirk Cousins and
should Cousins be concerned about a third round draft pick
quarterback out of Texas A and m I am shaking
my head. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no
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no no. All right, I've got Milli Vanilly Rhodes scholar
and umbrella, and we will combine all of these things
together into an adequate, adequate Mallard monologue. That's we are
going to do it now. To lead off with Robert Griffin,
the third has a lot of resentment towards Kirk Cousins.
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You don't need me to tell you that these recent
comments validate the speculation that there is legit bitterness year
and RG three was supposed to have the career that
Kirk Cousins has had at the very worst, at the
very worst, Robert group in the third was supposed to
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be the one cashing big fat checks and still being
in the NFL being relevant. Those things haven't happened. He
was the much bally hood number two pick in the draft.
The then Washington Redskins traded a massive bounty of draft
picks to the Saint Louis Rams at the time for
the rights to the Heisman winner, and instead RG three
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was the flash in the pan. He was the Millie
Vanilli of his day. He was lipsick gang. He was
lip sick Ganga. Right, he was burned by the law
of the instrument. Now, what is the law of the instrument.
The law of the instrument means that if you only
do one thing well, you're going to only try to
do that. Particularly, for example, if you're a pitcher in baseball,
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all right, if you're only a fastball pitcher, you're gonna
try to strike everyone out. If you lose your fastball,
you're done. And if you're a running quarterback who cannot
get the job done throwing the ball, the law of
instrument comes into play. And that's what happened to RG three.
He got hurt. Right, He's forced to be a traditional
drop back quarterback to win games. Truly on the strength
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of his arm, the law of the instrument could kicked in.
He was a fraud and a phony and a fake,
and he couldn't do it. Throwing the balls a drop
back passer was not his forte. It was kryptonite. And
so now he's out there directing his lasers at Kirk Cousins.
It's like taking every shot he can't. Cousins was the
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guy drafted lower. He wasn't supposed to be the guy
that made it. No. Secondly, if you take three steps back, okay,
three steps back. RG three is a Rhodes scholar at
collecting paychecks, the very thing he's accusing, the very thing
he's accusing Kirk Cousins of doing. Look at the mirror
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on the wall, mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's the
fairest of them all? RG three? Right, that's pretty much
all he has done in recent years. Now they're not
as big, the checks, they're not as big, but as
far as return on investment, Cousins has at least put
up some statistical success from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty,
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and really twenty fifteen he was injured, but twenty fifteen
to twenty twenty Griffin earned about seventeen million dollars. Do
you know many touchdown passes. RG three has thrown in
that period of time three seventeen million dollars for three
touchdowns and seven and interceptions and about a little over
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eleven hundred yards passing, which by my expert analysis means
he has been utterly useless for the Browns and the Ravens,
but he's earned a bunch of money during that same stretch.
Kirk Cousins has one hundred and forty three touchdowns twenty
one thousand passing yards, and he had a career year
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last year had thirty five touchdow I got off to
a terrible start. Some of those numbers were inflated because
the Vikings were way behind, but still thirty five touchdowns,
one hundred and thirty seven million dollars. Kirk Cousins, while
being at least a reliable player, he didn't miss a
bunch of games because of injury, and all of that
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in a bag of chips for Cousins, who was the
one hundred and second pick of the twenty twelve draft
way back then, barely remember it, fourth round pick, and
he's divided average quarterback play with Washington and the Vikings.
He is the baseline of average right he that is
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The definition of average is Kirk Cousins, the guy has
started one hundred and four games. It's a great stat.
Cousins has started one hundred and four games his NFL
career and at the end of the game walking off
the field, Kirk Cousins, the team he was playing four
at the time, has fifty one wins, fifty one losses,
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and two ties in one hundred and four starts. He's
exactly a five hundred quarterback. You're gonna win half the time,
You're gonna lose half the time, no matter what. That's
much better, by the way than RG three, who's only
started forty two games in his career. His team has
a three eighty one winning percentage when he has been
a starting quarterback. Now, listen, Cousins is thirty two, He's
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got two years left and fifty six million guaranteed. That's
pretty pretty good job security in a league that does
not typically give out fully guaranteed contracts. It's rare, it's
happening more and more. Cousins has all right finalifly so.
Robert Griffin third, if I were to look at his
career right now in a snapshot, he's got a brighter
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future as a television commentator, talking head, putting makeup on,
then as a backup quarterback. The fact that he is
willing to break from the fraternal order of football players
to throw haymakers is a good sign. But he's gonna
have to do it against people other than Kirk Cousins,
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because it's obvious that when it comes to Kirk Cousins,
Robert Griffin the third is having a dance at the
hater's ball. Right, it's personal. You have to nurse the
grudge if the TV thing doesn't work out, and who
knows if it will. And RG three wants to play again,
he should get his umbrella ready. Now why should he
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get his umbrella ready? Because he was serving up so
much sodium chloride that he is in line. If they
replaced the umbrella girl mascot you know on that Morton salt.
If they change the mascot up and put a new
maskt they could put RG three holding an umbrella because
when it rains, it pours. And as for this quarterback,
who I don't know much about, I was reading some
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scouting guides on him. I watched some tape on the internet.
Kellen Mond is his name, I guess out he's a
rudimentary prospect. Undercooked would be the way it would be described.
Premature to say either way that what's going to happen.
The smart money, though, says, don't hold your breath, all right,
don't hold your breath. In fact, in twenty twenty, here's
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a troubling, ominous sign for this particular player's future. He
completed just thirty five percent of intermediate throws outside the numbers.
That ain't good, that reeks of not going to be
able to make it. He's also got a rather narrow frame.
He can fill that up a little bit inconsistent with
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his accuracy. Again, we can break down what it takes
to be good in the NFL, what it doesn't take.
But the most important thing is not arm strength, it's
not mobility. It is accuracy. And I would rather have
the accurate quarterback that can make all the basic throws
than the guy that can run like a gazelle and
has the bazooka for an arm, but can't complete the
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basic throws because most of the NFL. Here's the ugly
truth about the NFL. You watch pro football, it's those
short throws. It's yards after catch, yak at the yak.
It's just consistently throwing the football to where it's supposed
to be. It's not about all the other bells and
whistles and all that. That's what makes the highlights, but
consistently winning games. Tom Brady can't do any of those
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amazing video game type highlight throws. He doesn't do that,
but he's been able to figure it out. And so
the NFL comparison to this quarterback out of Texas A
and M is Josh Dobbs. That right, there is a
red flag. That is a big red flag shot when
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you're compared to Josh Dobbs. That is the scouting community
saying I don't think this guy's gonna be any good.
All right. It is the Ben Mathers Show. We will
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someone in the world of sports, be a media guy
an athlete. You name him Alf the alien old piner
from down the street, just down the way from the
Pro Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. He says,
it doesn't matter whether or not RG three's take is
on point or not. He shot his shot. And that's
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more than you can say for some of the other
blowhards that are in the media. These powder puffs tiptoe
around the egos of their former teammates in peers. Well,
that is absolutely correct. Like I think RG three's a row.
He's a bad take, but at least he's throwing bobs
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and I'd rather get that. And one of the things
we used the phrase a lot. It was a term
for an old sportscaster, Howard Cosell jockocracy right, that former
athletes are hired. He's not even a former athlete, he's
still an active athlete. But there's a code, there's a
fraternal order when you're in that fraternity where you don't
cross boundaries. That we get watered down commentary that you're
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very cautious to step on anyone's toes and as a result,
your commentary is careful you reserved, you're hesitant to go
across the rubicon and go fully bombs away. And RG
three did. But he went bombs away at a guy
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that he had a personal beef with. And that's the commentary.
He was taking shots at Kirk Cousins of the Vikings.
Just Josh in cincinnatisis the Redskins thoughts so highly of
RG three when they drafted him number two. I guess
Cousins was just back up insurance. Mister Griffin sounds like
a quarterback who's jelly, just like his legs, he says.
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Robin Vegas from Sin City says, solid monologue, Benny, I'll
go with a minor us again. Hey, RG three, how's
the knee treating you these days? At least Kirk Cousins
can still play at an above average level. Does that
clipboard ever get heavy? He points out. Big D from
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West Virginia says, I have been a Redskins fansis nineteen
eighty and they just about broke me with the trade.
The double mortgage trade. He's referring to the RG three
three trade. That trade was so long ago. I was
on television the night that trade went down. That's how
long ago that was. And I haven't done the walk
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of shame in many, many, many many years with the headphone,
with the makeup. I put the headphones on every night.
Let's go to the phones here, and who do we
have any meany miney? Well, let's say hello to America's
favorite drag queen caller from Buffalo, New York, A seven
and a half toed drag queen. Nobody else has that,
our friend Felexus, Hello, Filexus jockson right? Oh, I get
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to hear how it radio? Thank you coming in loud
and clear and buffaloftunate. I wanted to ask Alexis why well, no, no,
hold on, We'll get Fulexus on it something. All right,
Wake up Flexus, you schmuck, wake up, very caution. We
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have like a twelve minute delay because Janet Jackson showed
her boobies on television, they installed all this. Well what
are what are you talking about? How long is it really?
But let the rubicon. I think he said that like
two minutes ago. Yeah, that's a long delay. Well it
sounds good even started. I know that's right. Yeah, I
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told you Eddie, listen. We gotta protect the license at
all costs, Eddie, we have that training every year. All right,
we'll put flexus back on hold. If it was only
like a thirty second delay, it would have worked. But yeah,
crazy double Mexican, says a monologue. Big band looks RG
three needs some looks like RG three needs some peanut
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butter with his jelly, he points out. Now I am
pulling for a Pittsburgh Steeler ready the round mound of
punt town. Did you see the NFL draft Pittsburgh Steelers.
They drafted a they got a punter ready, But not
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just any punter, Eddy, No, no, no, no, no, no no.
You know, punters are a diame a dozen. They all
look kind of the same. There's nothing spectacular about a punter.
But in the seventh round, the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted a
two hundred and sixty three pound punter. Now, for me,
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that's not fat, but for the average person, two hundred
and sixty three pounds is obese. And that is the
punter for the Steelers. And this sus some video, this
guy when he's playing at Georgia Tech. And this, this
guy's built. This is not your average punty. He's a
two hundred and fifty fourth pick. He's five eleven, two
sixty three. Ah, that is outstanding. I hope this guy
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makes it. I want to see this guy have a
long career in the NFL. Because we all those fat
jokes we've done about Bartolo, Cologne and Lizzo, we can
we can then shift over and talk about this punter
for the press. I don't think he's gone. I don't
think he's gonna catch anybody from behind, but then again,
what punter does so no, but he could tackle, you know, conceivably,
he could tackle somebody right if they happen to run
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into him. Yeah, I don't see him getting bowled over
by a return man. This guy's like a tank. Yeah.
He's also I read he's an accomplished saxophone player. Oh well,
that's important. That's gonna help on team morality when the
Steelers are on those bus trips to Cleveland. That'll help
him out. Yeah. He's the heaviest punter ever drafted. We
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have the fattest punter ever selected in the NFL draft,
and he's a Pittsburgh Steeler. That's got to make you proud, Eddie.
Do you think he would just you know, keep it
in the kicker family. Is he fatter than Sebastian Janikowski,
who I assume is the fattest kicker we've had. I
could have been some fat with I see a little
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bit of a I see a pretty big gut there.
Oh yeah, he's got a tire going. Yeah, he's got
the michelin Man tire thing going on. So I think
he's fatter. Yeah. Uh. And he won the Nations. He
was the nation's best punter. Did you know that, Eddie?
I did not know that. No, but if you're gonna
draft a punter had better be you think. Do you
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see Carolina drafted a long snapper? No, yes, yes, of
course he went to Alabama. But him a damn work. No,
I know, but it actually kind of makes sense, isn't
that the position? Didn't the Chargers have a guy for
like seventeen years or something like that, Dave Benn? Yeah,
So why not draft if you can draft that player
in the seventh round. Most seven round picks don't even
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make I don't even think that's a bad pick by Caroline.
You draft a long snapper in the seventh round, and
then the guys are if he's good, and this guy's
apparently good, you can you can find one of these
guys up just about anywhere. No, yah boom, you get
a the most seven round picks don't even make the team.
They're delivering packages somewhere. Not there's something wrong with that,
but they don't make the team. But if you can
get a guy off the street to do the exact
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same thing, why waste the seventh round pick on it.
I don't think it's a wasted pick. I think wasted
pick is drafting in on the defensive back to doesn't
make the team and amazons you can get some guy
off the street, they can do this. I disagree. That's
a bad job by you. And he said, that's an
old man take. I'm a young guy. I like the
fat saxophone punter, and I like drafting a long snapper
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in the seventh round. There's video, though, of the coach
of Carolina calling up the long snapper, who assumed he
hadn't been drafted. I guess he wasn't even watching the
draft under why and then like, you know, Andy, the
way he reacted when he found out he thought the
guy was like he was being punked. He thought he
was being punked that he got drafted by the Carolina
Patricks wins. The last time a long snapper was drafted,
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I mean, yeah, it's only a draft, the long snapper said,
there would be worse questions. Eddie, you're you're a Raider fan,
but you had nothing to say about the John Condo
was the Raiders long snapper front eleven years and he
was undrafted. Okay, well, so now now that you gotta
draft these guys in the seventh round, boom done. I
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should have been a long snapper. I would have been
a great light still be in the NFL, was long snappy,
I'd be a long snapper. Something I should have focused
on that. I was a long snapper, but not not
a very good one. No, seriously, listen, you gotta look
for the whole key to life. You want to be
an NFL player. You ever wants to be the quarterback
because they get all the girls and all that stuff,
you should be a long snapper. It's like, well, you're
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playing actually in the bullpen catcher doesn't play in the game.
It's like nobody's done as many snaps as I have.
That's a good point. That's more for it affects your
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I wish Ben that all the stories that I kind
of bring up as the kind of the page I
don't know, the page two stories or whatever. We're all
fun in games, but sometimes they're not. I have a
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transgender sports story or a murder sports Sorry, which one
would you like to hear? Are they related to each other? No,
they're not. They're not related to each other. Hmm, my Jones,
I want a murder mystery or a transgender I go murder.
I'm gonna go murder, all right. I don't know if
this is much of a mystery. But there's a lightweight
(25:17):
boxer named Felix verdejo U and like that, you said
that with a question mark at the end of I've
never heard of him, but he does have a good record.
He's like twenty seven and two with seventeen kna Got's
former olympian from Puerto Rico who he has turned himself
into authorities in his native Puerto Rico following the disappearance
of his mistress. Uh. This guy is married, and I
(25:42):
guess his girlfriend went to go tell him that she
was pregnant with his child and that was that was
the last they heard of her. U. They then found
her in a lagoon. Obviously she's dead, and he was
not cooperating with authorities, and he's I'll turn himself into police,
(26:03):
a scumbag if yeah, that's a little bit. I watched
those criminal shows, Eddie and yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean
if the girl husband boyfriend's first, that's the first. And
then when he doesn't cooperate, you know, and oh, oh,
she was pregnant and she was about to tell him. Listen,
let me tell you guys. If you can't keep it
in your pants, and you happen to have a mistress
(26:24):
and she you know, she has a kid, you know,
deal with it. Okay, you don't deal with it that way.
You just take care of your business. I mean, my god,
if you have to say that, I mean, what kind
of I mean? Now? I mean his life is over. Now,
his career obviously is over. His career is over. But
I know, what are the laws and is this in
Puerto Rico? This happened? Yes? What are the laws for murder? Like,
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what's the punishment? I kind of think those laws are
pretty much the same everywhere, right, I mean, no, no, no,
that's someplace you can kill somebody and you're out in like,
you know, a few years. It's not. It's not. It's
not like America everywhere. I mean there's a lot. I
guess some have limits on how much you go to jail,
some like honor killings or something, right like in Saudi
Arabia or something. I don't think this would count. No, No, no,
I don't think so either. I'm saying you're right, there
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are some there are some weird laws I don't think
Puerto Rico has weird laws like that. I think this
guy is up poop creek and deservedly so. Yes, all right,
well that's a that's a depressing story. Sorry that I
appreciate that. Can you find another story like when the
murder stories I like wet? Remember we had the stories
about the murder hornets. Remember remember that, I do vaguely
remember the murder hornets hornet Asian giant hornets that were
(27:31):
nicknamed the more murder hornets. They're very venomous. Those are
the kind of stories I like. I don't know, this
one's kind of depressed. Well, I mean it has to
kind of have a sports angle. I don't know if
the murder hornets really weird. Well, they're fans of the Rams,
the murder hornets or fans of the Rams both really
make any sense? Well, we don't know if they're not,
but they might be fans of the Rams from all
we know. All right, so you might want to ascid
wash your social media. This is a story that we
(27:53):
are guaranteed of getting every single year, every single year
from now and forever, as long as we're around, we
will get a story like this did somebody in the
draft do have some old tweet? Yes, yes, happen, and
it's actually the guy that we just I did a
monologue kind of. It was only not about him, was
about RG three and Kirk Cousins. But Kelln Mond, the
(28:14):
quarterback out of Texas A and M was drafted by
the Minnesota Vikings right in his third round pick. He
was the sixty sixth overall pick and was the second
of three quarterbacks taken within a four pick span, if
you're interested in that kind of thing. And so they
went back to his timeline and Kellen Mond, I guess
he's from San Antonio in twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, summer
(28:39):
of twenty sixteen. And here is what Kevin Mond sent
out on Twitter. Quote Minnesota is an awful state was
what he sent out. And no one knows what man
Cato is is what he Also, he also sent that
out back to back, So now he gets to find
out what it's like to live in an awful state. Eight. Now,
(29:06):
how old was he? He's not that old. Now, he
must have been like in high school or something like that, right,
I would think, and like, maybe what do you think
a junior in high school how old are you when
you were a junior in high school? He like sixteen
or something like that. Seventeen, Yeah, something like that. Yeah,
all right, there you go. I don't know, I even
I never thought Minnesota was like an awful Ain't is
(29:28):
an awful state, Eddie. I've never been. I've never been.
I've been to the airport. That's that's it. I've not there.
I'm sure I would like it because it's the state
of hockey. Yeah, it's that makes a nice airport, good airport.
I've also only been to the airport. I'd like to.
There was a rumor that somebody's gonna name a Juicy
Lucy after me. That that would be big Eddie. That's
the that's the local fair there, Lucy Lucy. That's the
(29:50):
burger with the cheese, the gooey cheese in the middle there.
How can anyone not like a Juicy Lucy? Seriously, I mean,
it sounds like a I would love to say it
sounds like a wonderful, wonderful burger. So anyway, all right
is the Bain Mathers Show. We do have a coming
up in just a few minutes. We will have unscreened
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phone calls. The instant advice line. Let's go back to
the phones and we will say hello to Johnny in Denver.
What's going on? Johnny? Hey? How are you doing? Hey? Johnny?
Talk to me? Man? Okay, I have two words why
Aaron Rodgers is going to be a Denver Bronco. I
(30:35):
gotta hear this girl friend girl? Yeah, no longer girlfriend.
That's next level, Johnny. They've cranked it up. They're going
they're becoming honest. Aaron Rodgers is going to be an
honest man. Now, okay, one word, but you know, yeah,
(30:59):
I have one d about Johnny. Now, Johnny, so why
don't you go why don't you go buy an Aaron Rodgers?
What number you think he's gonna wear with the Broncos?
Number one? Um? Are you going buy your replica Aaron
Rodgers twelve? Mass number twelve? I think we had was
(31:21):
probably Charlie Johnson in the seventies. You know, I'm two
years older than the Broncos. Who but I do? Um?
Do you have a lot of wisdom about the NFL
and the college football game? Yeah? You're an inside? Are
you a made man? John? I have one reason why
uh um RG three was wrong about what he said,
(31:46):
number one. Cousins has more experience playing in the NFL,
and I don't think the coaches would put mad in.
So that's pretty dumb on RG three's part, making a
sa hot take the john Ian. You'd admit that's a
hot take. It's a wrong take, but it's a hot take. Wow,
it doesn't make no sense, you know, because you think
(32:08):
the coaches are gonna allow that young guy going that.
You don't sound like you're from Denver? Are you from Denver? Johnny? Yeah,
I was born and raised in Denver. I was really nineteen.
Sense a little it sounds like you've you got a little,
a little twin your family from somewhere else. I'm sensing something. No,
we have a lot of history and they need here
(32:29):
in Denver, Colorado from the early twenties. And yeah, maybe
I'm just here and I guess my headphones are messed up.
He's just high, right, you know, Banish? How much alcohol
have you consumed here? About a half a pint of
ninety proof? All right, and you're still alive? All right?
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All right? Thank you, Johnny? Go back and finish up. Wow, okay,
moving on, moving on, moving on. We are going to
have a staple of this radio show, and buckle up
because it's the instant advice line. Who needs our advice?
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We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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you suggested the name of the person I wanted to
give advice to anyway, So thank you to Kathleen and
several others, because right now we are giving advice to
the head cheesehead of them all, Aaron Rodgers. He's not
very happy. He wants out of Green Bay. So advice
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to Aaron Rodgers, unforcing the Packers to trade him before
the twenty twenty one regular season begins. Eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox is the number eight seven seven
nine nine six six three six nine. Advice to Aaron Rodgers,
unforcing the Packers to trade him before next NFL season.
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You're live on the year. When you hear my voice,
will start out with you on line one. Hello, line one,
my stimulus check on the Kentucky Derby. Oh I'm sorry,
Fuzzy hate that. That's boy. What a great start to
the INSTA advice line with Fuzzy boy. We gotta Chucky
on that one man, all right? A line to your
(35:22):
next line too. Advice to Aaron Rodgers, he wants out
of Green Bay. Hello, line took cookie telling football. Okay,
I can quite make that out. Line three, you're next
for giving advice to Aaron Rodgers, he's a malcontent with
the Packers. Advice on getting traded from green Bay. Hello,
(35:45):
line four, damn squirrel for the greu when you eat
him with hotsas then yeah, yeah, I have gotten some
of our southern listeners below the Mason Dixon line that
are telling me that squirrel tastes really good. So I'm
not I've not had any squirrel. I guess I'm missing out.
Who knew that criticizing someone for eating squirrel, you'd have
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all these people tell you how good squirrel tastes. All right?
Line five, you're next. Hello, line five. Sources close to
the situation to say, kawhii was the foot seamen from record.
I hang up on that guy. That's Charlie. That's a troll.
We're talking about Aaron Rodgers, dummy. I know you can't
stay focused. Line set up. Line six. Hello, line six, alright,
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Line six is not there. We'll keep it going. Eight seven,
seven ninety nine Fox rat a tat tat advice to
Aaron Rodgers unforcing a Packer trade. Line one, you're on
the air. Go so scratch off. Disrespected the matted man.
I'm calling for two weeks of space. Okay, A line
to your next line to go, Happy birthday, Roberto, Yes,
(36:49):
happy birthday. Thank you. It's an early birthday, but happy birthday.
Line three, you're on the air. Hello, Line three, Harry Bank.
Can I sit on your lap? Baby? But that sounds
like my wife? No, I look Santa Clause every yeah,
I do play Santa Claus every Line four, Hello, line four,
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all right, line force not there. Line five, you're next,
go Line five. Advice thereon Rodgers. Line five, Baron Rodgers
sucked my book. All right, thank you for that. We'll
keep it going with you. One more, only one more
of it's good. I'll take creditive not I'll blame the
Cooper loop. Final call. Advice to Aaron Rodgers on forcing
a packer trade. Line one, Line one, go get your
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red Teddy Bear pencil neck, Hey, pencil neck ray. The
guys alegend a car carrying legend. That guy
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