May 24, 2025 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about the Denver Nuggets getting eliminated in Game 7 against the Thunder in embarrassing fashion, Brock Purdy getting signed to a big money extension by the 49ers, Maller's Mountain of Money: Jack Johnson Edition, and more!
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in here and all that crap. But our lead this
hour is from pro Bouncy Ball. Don't bury the lead,
my man, heart. We're not gonna bury the lead. So
we had an island game in the NBA, and island.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Game not at night.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
See, the NBA realizes Oklahoma City and Denver not worthy
of prime time. So they played that bad boy in
the afternoon. That game you normally Game seven standalone game,
Island game played at night. No, they said this game
so crappy, We're not gonna play that game at night.
And they didn't play the game at night. They played it.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
In the afternoon, Nicola Jokic and the Nuggets traveling circus
headed over to the Sooners State there for the last dance,
one last opportunity against Shaye Jogas Alexander the former Clipper,
and he plays for the Thunder. Now.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So game seven, Oh, greatest words at sports unless it
was this Game seven? Oklahoma City, the youngest team in
the history of the NBA at least sixty games, Woodpete
am do and against the championship pedigree of Denver. How
many times have we heard that when the Nuggets do anything,
go championship pedigree. Shove that right up your old keister.
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All right, So Thunder, we're an eight point favorite, come
into this an eight point favorite.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
How did that turn out? Well?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
If you didn't watch the game, consider yourself lucky. It
was a sleepy afternoon, a Sunday, fun day, without much
fun in terms of competition. You want a close game,
you want a game Game seven. If you could pick
out the scenario with five minutes to go, it's anyone's game.
Who's going to make plays down the stretch? So that
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we got none of that, We got none of that.
That did not happen in this game. But don't worry,
we did watch so you would not have to, and
you didn't miss a damn thing as a shade Jogas
Alexander scored thirty five points and Jalen Williams, who was
an absolute turd in a previous game four, and the
Thunder vaporized the Nuggets like a fat guy at McDonald's
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eating chicken nuggets, one twenty five to ninety three in
Game seven. As Oklahoma City advances, they head now to
the Western Conference Final and the top seeded Thunder will
host the sixth seeded Minnesota Timmyberwolves starting on what is
that Tuesday night?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Tuesday night? There you go.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So Oklahoma City the first trip to the conference finals
since twenty sixteen, and so that is the setup here,
but the better story is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we will begin as we
discuss the question, how does one explain how does one
explain Na Kola Jokic and the Nuggets getting crushed like
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a bug on the rug they got stomped on in
Game seven. It's one thing to lose, but to not
have any kind of fight, A gut list effort by
the Denver Nuggets in this game. So I've got poetic
Tom Hanks and Jelly Roll and we will combine all
of these things together and make a nice trip.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
To can Kuon is what we're going to make. So a.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
This was what I call a bad good game. A
bad I use that phrase. If you've been with the
show a long time, you know sometimes I'll use the
phrase bad good. Now what I mean by that It
was bad to watch. It was bad to watch. It
wasn't competitive, but it was good because it was such
a rat kill you didn't need to watch it. I
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was like, I'm not gonna sit here and say I watch.
After midway through the third quarter, I'm out. The most
valuable thing we have is our time. I'm not wasting
my time on that drek. Okay, I'm out. If the
Nuggets aren't gonna try, why am I gonna try to watch?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
My God?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Now, Denver, they started the game with an old Hollywood trick.
We see its back when people used to watch movies.
I know movies are kind of lame now and people
don't really go to movies, and the movies they make
are terrible for the most part, But when you used
to back in the old days people used to actually
go to the movies.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I got a big deal, you know, it was a
huge deal.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And so that quick start, it's called the fake out,
that quick start where you think, man, this is great,
great opening scene, we got something here.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
This is good. It's gonna be a good movie.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And then you settle in and it stinks. Movie blows right.
And the Nuggets got out of the gates. They were
up by eleven points. You figure that have a chance.
In the fourth chord, they had to play with the lead.
So they were up by eleven midway through the first quarter.
From that point forward, I went back. I did the
mal of math on this. From that point forward, up eleven,
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they were outscored. They being the Nuggets by fifty four points.
They fell behind by forty three points. So they went
up eleven, down forty three and turn at the last
the parties over. Now in that stretch, Oklahoma City faced
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no defense. Why couldn't the Nuggets play defense like that
against the Clippers in Game seven? In fact, that the
Nuggets looked like the Clippers that gave up. James Harden
out there playing for the nugget at five. James Harden's
out there for the Denver Nuggets so Oklahoma City in
that stretch where they went from down eleven to up
forty three, he had SGA and Jalen Williams combined for
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fifty five points.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
In that stretch.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
They shot sixty percent in a game seven over sixty percent.
While in that stretch, the Denver stars Nikoley Jokic and
Jamal Murray combined for twenty six points and shot forty
three percent.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Now, I never played in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I just do an overnight show. But I don't think
that's good. Do you think that's good? But the Nuggets
were an anemic seventeen percent from pre point range led
by Jamal Murray is one of eight from prepoint range
in that stretch. Yeah, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
Now that being said, I am actually happy the Nuggets lost.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
We are you happy the Nuggets low? You should be
happy that the Nuggets o.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
No, it's not because of that guy, Jeff and Denver
that calls the show. It's not because of that guy.
But the way I look at the Nuggets losing here,
I'm gonna go very deep here. I feel like this
is poetic that Denver lost. It's poetic justice, and somewhere
somewhere at a mansion far far away, Michael Malone cracked
open a cold one and celebrated the demise of the
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Nuggets because they did him dirty, dirty dirty dogs. They
did Michael Malone dirty, dumping him days before the playoffs.
You dance with the one you brought. They whacked Malone,
thinking that Weasley ownership there in Denver. They thought, well,
I'll get rid of the GM, We'll get rid of
the we'll get rid of the cod.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We're gonna be fine. And how that turned out.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
They hired that I want to be polite NEPO interim
coach David Adelman. Okay, that guy, and they know I'm
gonna zoom into the final four and all that well.
The doppelganger, as a listener pointed out, of the impractical
Joker star James Murray, had nothing, had absolutely nothing right there.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
And so the Nuggets are out, which is good.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's poetic justin you don't want to see a team
that makes that kind of business decision, that kind of
pathetic move, like the Denver Nuggets have success and they
didn't have it right now turning the page. So this
got me all worked up one of pet One of
the pet peeves I have is how amazingly lazy the
modern athlete is, right, how baby, how coddled the modern
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athlete is. And it's a great example of that in
what happened after Game seven. So Aaron Gordon, who started
despite a hamstring injury when you would have thought they
had to amputate it. It was like during the Civil War,
they had to amputate the leg. And he went out
there and played amazing. He hopped on one leg, he
was on a hopper, so he played fine. Okay, good
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for him, all right, But rather than just celebrating the
fact that he played, not that he played that great,
rather than just that after the game had concluded, Aaron
Gordon said he had a wish about what he'd like
to see the NBA do with the schedule in the playoffs.
And now, now keep in mind the players have complained
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for a long time. Wow, we got back to back
games in the regular season. So the NBA made sure
in the playoffs. No back to back. You never played
back to back. Never ever back to back. They used
to play back to back. They never played back to back.
That's not good enough for this schmuck. Listen to Aaron
Gordon take a Liz.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I would really really appreciate it if there were a
couple of days in between games in the playoffs instead
of every other day, regardless if you go seven games.
And I understand, if you do your work early and
you get a first seed, then you can have some
time off. But I think the days in between games
not just an off day and a travel day, but
a travel day and a recovery day, just two, just
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two days. I think the product of the game would
be a lot better. I think there'd be a just
a better product on the floors, just to give all
these professional athletes just, you know, one more day of rest,
and you would see a higher level of basketball, probably
less blowouts.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Okay, that was not Ai, by the way, people think,
well that no one would actually like, No Marshmallow would
actually say that, like what would they want their name?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
He said it. That's not AI, that's real. So Aaron Gordon,
you just hearted.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He thinks the NBA needs more days off between playoff
games to prevent postseason blowouts. What is your verdict on
this one? Okay, so my verdict on this is poppy cocky.
That is my verdict on that poppycock. Poppycock, poppycock, poppycock, poppycock.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
That's my verdict.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It is twisted reasoning. Now, it's twisted reasoning. It's ridiculous,
Like tell me you don't know what you're talking talking
about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about.
The schedule is fair because it's equal for all the teams,
Like there is supposed to be a degree of difficulty
in the NBA playoffs. Hello, Like what are we doing here?
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Like everyone's playing under the same umbrella, the same conditions.
And I keep hearing from people, But we have the
top trainers, we use computer science and technology and all
this stuff. We're so advanced to the advancements to help
the human body quickly recover. Oh my god, it's never enough.
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And it reminds me of the Tom Hanks character in
the League of the Road when you talk about this.
Of course it's hard, right, It's yes, it's supposed to
be hard.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
It was easy. Everyone would do it. These guys, Eric Gordon, Dan,
you're wuss. What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
You need oh read it next year? How about a week?
How about we playing like the NFL? Wait once a week?
Every Sunday. You play a game every Sunday, play a
stupid game.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
That wouldn't be enough. It is so stupid. I just
I can't wrap my head about how dumb this is.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well we need yeah, okay, let's just why don't we
have how about the NBA Finals. It'll be sometime maybe
in August. They'll end the NBA Finals. That would that
be good? My god. The whole point is to distinguish
what the gold is from the gravel, and to do
that you have to have the war of attrition, not
the war of Let's get as much rest as we
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can possibly have. It's jeez, yeah, I'm sure blowouts will
never happen. Yeah, how about you don't quit like the
Nuggets did in this game, then you won't get blown out?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And you don't give me, oh they quit. You don't
lose a game by that many points if you're trying,
you don't.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
And the players again, they complain about the back to backs.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Fine, that there's a you have to do that because
of scheduling issues with the arenas, and so they've gotten
rid of a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
The back to backs. They used to play many more.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Back to backs and they belly ach im playing every
other day in the playoffs. And it's like the lesson is,
no matter what you guys are gonna bitch about something,
you're gonna complain about something, to shut up.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
It's annoying, it's unbecoming.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I mean, do you realize that people are watching you
stupid games, are working two or three jobs, most of them.
They they're not seeing any other family.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
The love was and you're complaining because you want an
extra day.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Off between a stupid playoff game when you're already getting
the day off between the play That's Aaron Gordon all
right anyway, uh now the last part of this.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Nicole Jokish also gave us some good content post game.
As the Nuggets have been.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Extinguished from the playoffs, they have been decommissioned from the postseason.
So he was asked whether the Nuggets can win a
championship as they are currently constructed another title with this
group of players. Then, well, here's what he had to say.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Take it was, do you feel like this team could
still win a championship as put together?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Now?
Speaker 6 (15:02):
I mean we didn't, so we just we can't if
if we if we could win, So I don't believe
in those if stuff. So we had an opportunity, we didn't.
If we didn't, we didn't win it. So I think
we can't.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay, there you go, ifs I do not believe in
the word if. All right, So the question where does
Denver go from here? Where does Denver go from here?
Do they simply remodel around Nicola Yolkic or is this
a total demo?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Blow it up?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So the answer, Mighty coder Ring tells me what the
joker just said there is now We're cooked? Is what
he meant to say, right, we're screwed. I mean this
is this is bad, bad, but bad, bad bad all right.
So if I'm the Nugg, it's like the chance of
them getting a player in the next five to ten
years as good as yo Kic still is is are
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slim and none, as the line goes, and none is
on a plane right now going to Bermuda, So good
luck on that. What you do here, if you're the Nuggets,
you go down to home depot and it's a DIY project,
do it yourself? A right, this is do it yourself project.
You've got really two or three seasons of Jokic where
you can make this thing work, right, you can make
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this thing work. And so you treat Nicole Jokicic like
the Jelly Roll song and you just hold on to
him until the wheels fall off. Of Jokic, he doesn't
seem like the kind of guy like he's a plane
demand that goes to some other team. He doesn't seem
like that kind of Maybe he is, and he's been
in the NBA a long time, and by osmosis, maybe
he's learned to be a schmuck like all the other
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guys in demand to go to some big market teams somewhere.
But if I'm the Nuggets and I got no skin
in the game here, if I'm the Denver Nuggets, I'm like, hey,
I'm riding this all right. I'm going till the wheels
fall off. He's thirty years old, So you got, like
I said, two or three seasons and this is going
to be these are the athletic primes.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
At thirty two, that's the peak. And then it's.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Slowly, you hope it slowly goes down, and you fill
the gaps in around him and you try to make
one one more sustained run with yo kitchen, and.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Then that's it. If he's done, money, he's done, you
move on.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
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So I lead this hour is from a developing story. Now.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It happened over the weekend in the NFL. We were
away a massive cartoon check massive check was handed out
in the NFL, and so we were not here. Now
if you listen to the Fifth Hour podcast, which you
should be doing in addition to this podcast, we did
do a brief chat about it myself and Danny g
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on the Saturday pod that we did over the weekend,
so we were not in the watchtower. And some new
developments after that have happened, which means that even though
this story has taken place with the last couple of days,
it is still worthy of some hot talk on the radio.
So and I assume you've heard the meat of it,
but maybe not, maybe not. We learned over the weekend
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the forty nine ers have done the thing you can't
do at the time we can't do it. They have
paid brock Party two one hundred and sixty five million
dollars over five years and a contract extension up Perty
gets one.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Hundred and eighty one garroteeth.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
If brock Purty goes out, never throws another touchdown pass,
and throws interception fumbles, all that, he still gets one
hundred and eighty one million total guaranteed money one hundred
and sixty five point one.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Million in the first three years. It must be nice.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And he is now under contract through the year twenty thirty,
which seems like it's a long way away, but it's
already May of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
So let's deliberate on this. That's what we do here.
We deliberate.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So the question who benefits the most, who benefits the
most from this deal? Is it the forty nine ers
locking up they're alleged in air quotes franchise quarterback, or
is it brock Perty securing a long term, massive amount
of money that is garanteed in that stability that you get.
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All right, So my observations on this. You've got a leaf,
the booth, and the overkill, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
some absolutely garlic fries, which you can get in San Francisco.
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They know how to make those garlic fries there oh man,
so good. All right, So my first observation, some would say,
number yeah, the arrow on this one is directed squarely
in the corner of Rock Party. No ifs ands or
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butts about it. Now, I have no ill will against
the player. There is this perception by people like her
nest Do and Terry in England, the other big forty
nine er apologists to listen to the show, many of
them in Northern California, that I am anti Rock Party.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I have some ill will. I don't. I've never met
Brock Party.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I did see him once at the Super Bowl and
he looked like he was a sophomore in high school.
But that's not that's good for him, you know. Mazoltov,
congratulations on getting the big pay day. Would I have
done it? Absolutely not. I would not have done this now,
as we mentioned in the fifth Hour podcast over the weekend,
the exclusive pod only fifth Hour that the company has
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me to do over the weekend, this is great news
for the l A Rams, the Arizona Cardinals, and the
Seattle Seahawk. Just a good weekend, right, You picked up
a win over the weekend because of nothing you did.
But it's kind of like I tell people when they
start out in broadcasting. Much of your success will be
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because other people fail in front of you. And the
forty nine ers they have done that. They have made
the mistake that you cannot do. To give one hundred
and eighty one million guaranteed to a supporting actor, not
a leading actor. A supporting actor masquerading as a leading
actor is malfeasance, is what it is. That's the word here.
Perty is not the straw that stirs the drink. You're
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supposed to be the straw that stirs the drink. Brock
Perty is not the straw. He is a leaf, not
Ryan leaf. He is just a leaf in the current.
That is what Brock Party is in the NFL. He's
a system guy. Now you can have success with a
system guy. There's a limit to it. In order to
win a Super Bowl, everything else must be perfect, and
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if things are not perfect, you're screwed. Party's success is
so tied, so handcuffed to Shanahan and the scheme of
the offensive scheme up Rock Party and the talent around him,
which last I checked, is not nearly as good. And
unless I'm mistaken, Rock Party does not elevate anyone, which
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is what The point of demarcation is to the players
that you pay and those that you don't pay. Top
dollar two. Brock Purty, you're not that guy, Pal, You're
not that guy. That's not offensive. That's just reality, and
it's been proven. When injuries started tearing away the elite
talent the Niners had. McCaffrey got hurt, last your Deebo,
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Samuel George Kittle, these guys were dinged up brock Purdy
like a vampire exposed to sunlight.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
It did not go well. Right.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
We saw the limitations, and the Niners still paid him.
They still paid him, which tells you how dumb the dumb, dumb,
dumb the forty.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Nine ers are. It's not like it was a secret.
If I know, they know.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So he proved our hypothesis was correct, and yet they
still paid him.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
On what planet in the Milky Way? Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Not this one, not this one, maybe some other planning
right across the world. The numbers dropped. Everything from the
NERD stat expected points added was down. But if you
go by the traditional stats year to year, when Perdy
had his guys and then when he didn't have his guys,
his numbers year to year he was down. Yards were
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down thirty five percent, touchdowns down thirty five percent, touchdowns
down thirty five percent, yards were down nine point seven.
Interceptions went up nine percent. So you can do the metal.
That's a lot as a ton. That is a massive situation.
But wait, there's more. The forty nine ers went one
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and seven as they were free falling, free falling the tailspin,
and brock Perty was not good enough to save them. Right,
He's not a good enough town to elevate the secondary
players that the Niners were playing, and they missed the
playoffs playoffs, and so these are legitimate concerns that this
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guy was elevated by elite players and he was deflated
without those elite players.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Now it's not all bad news. I'll be positive.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'll be Benny Bright's side for the forty nine er
marching in chowder society because the Niners sucked so much
last year that they have going into this year the
easiest schedule in the NFL. The Niners, based on strength
of schedule from what had happened last year, are on
easy street, which just is going to make it more agonizing,
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because what you're gonna end up doing is push back
the inevitable collapse because you can do it with smoke
and mirrors for a while, but eventually when you play
better teams down the line, good luck and so for
a while they'll be able to hide Brock Party. But man,
now flipping the page about page two, So what does
the timing, What is the timing of this announcement of
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the Brock Party contract tell us if anything, So it
absolutely tells us something. To me, it's a big part
of the story here, and it's really confirmation that we
are on the right side of the story with our take,
all right, because it is a trip to the booth.
That's trip of the booth, it is the confessional booth.
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It's an admission. The forty nine ers have admitted they're
not proud of this. They're not right. There are factions
of the franchise that obviously are shamed. This is a
massive overpay for a marginal talent rock party, and my
supporting evidence on that is the day it was announced.
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If you are proud of a move like this, you
want to get full attention. You want everyone to talk
about how great your franchise is and what a wonderful
move this was, and how do you do that, well,
there's ways to do it. People that work in public
relations know there's certain days of the week to get
more attention than other days. The worst possible time to
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do something the time, like in politics.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
If you want to announce bad news, or if you're a.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Major corporation and you're going to lay off a bunch
of people, what do you do it?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
When do you do it?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You do it on the Friday news dump dumpty dump
dump dump, the Friday news dump take out, the trash
day is what they call it. The goal when you
announce something on Friday is to downplay the media coverage.
And you would do that in a contract announcement because
you're ashamed of it. You're embarrassed of it. And I
don't blame the niners. I would be embarrassed to I
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would be ashamed. And even in the age of social media,
even in the age now where everyone's plugged in all
the time and all that news consumption, it is proven
is lower on Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays. People unplugged,
the unwind. Some people even go out and touch grass. Amazing,
I get their feet in actual grass, They get out
(28:33):
of their houses. It's amazing, right, so on that the
prosecution rest. I don't know how you can fight that back.
You don't make that announcement on Friday. You can make
that announcement any day of the week. You announce it
on Friday if you're the Niners, if you're embarrassed and
they're embarrassed.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
All right now, final point.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
We also learned over the weekend that the Rock Party
six year contract where the Niners comes with a no
trade clause. So is this a big deal, a little
deal or no deal? That Brockbirdy has a no trade law.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
So this is no deal. It's certainly not a big deal.
It's not a little deal. It's no deal.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And the reason is it is a whoopee damn do situation.
It's kind of like if you buy a car, you
go down to the dealership, you buy the car, and
the dealer will often throw in to try to sweeten
the deal. They'll throw in some extras that sound enticing
to get you to buy the car, but aren't necessary.
(29:39):
And that's what this is. It's not necessary. The no
trade clause is irrelevant. It's like those dealer accessories. It's
like the floor matt or the cargo net in the
car that you don't really need.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
I get. A no trade clause is overkill. It's just overkill.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And the reason why is because if you are a
starting quarterback in the NFL, you're most likely.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Not going to get traded.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But if you are going to be traded, no one's
going to acquire you unless you're fully invested in that
team unless you want to play for that team.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
You don't want the dead wood. You cut the dead
wood out of the team.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So no one's going to trade for a guy like
Brock Purdy unless Brock Purdy wants to leave and go
play for that team. He's from Arizona. Maybe someday he
wants to play for the Cardinals or something like that,
and that would be.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
The way it goes. But it's like, you don't need
to put it in. It's irrelevant. Now.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
If you're some offensive lineman or something like that, or
a different position, we can revisit that, But as a
starting quarterback, it doesn't matter. It's like an extra add
on from the dealership to try to get you to
buy the car.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
It doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
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Speaker 1 (30:53):
Why don't we introduce our contestants real quick and then
we'll set the game up and then we'll get right
to the game. We have the list known as discreet
is on.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Hello, Discreete, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Ben, Thank you?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
How are you, sir? Discreet?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
If I was any better, I would be sleeping, But
I am talking, so that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Well, yeah, second best is not bad, sir.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah, it's all right, sorry, not bad at all. So Discreete, welcome.
You're going to play the game. And where are you at, Discreete?
Where you You're on the streets? Is that right? You're
just on the streets.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I'm discreet in the streets.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I have to remain location vague because that's why I'm discreet.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I would not want to blow your cover at all,
because you are discrete.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
And who would you like to partner up with? You've
got me or you've got coop or really want a
good time? Loraina. Well, when you put it that way, Reiner,
who's oh no, I'm busy, sorry, Marino.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
But Ben, they don't call it the Lorena Show, so
I'm going with them.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Very exciting. Hold on a second, we have time. Taylor
in Boston. Who's gonna play? Hello, Tyler, welcome.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
What's going on, Benny? Now, you're not in the streets,
you're what are you doing? Tell you working? What are
you up to?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Building a bridge?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Build a bridge? That's up? Man? I mean you've called before?
Have you not? Tiler? Have you called before? Oh? I
played the game when I can.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
All right, yeah, as I said last time, you called
very masculine job building a bridge. You're very impressive. You
probably have women are like, oh man, this guy's a
real man. He builds a bridge. All right, who do
you want? You?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I guess you want to play with Coop? Is that right?
I assume Coop is the choice here.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Well, I mean we I owe a little vengeance. I
think you you've screwed me and Coop's replacement last time.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
So, uh.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well, you're gonna lose, and you'll lose at least you're
losing a street way. What are the categories here?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Please quickly, please Coop. We must get to the categories
and then we'll get to the game. This is Malard's
a mount of money, the Jack Johnson adition. He turned
fifty years old this week?
Speaker 4 (32:54):
What an old fart.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Yes, the categories are cookie, jar, better Together, crying, and
only the ocean?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
And discrete was on first? Which category would you like?
Discrete the ocean? Okay, only the ocean? All right? And Tyler,
how about.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
You best together?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Better together? All right? All right? Everyone, hold on, do
not hang up. Everyone, hold on. We will have Malord's
Mountain of Money. Innocent time. We'll get to that. We'll
do it next.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
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Speaker 1 (33:45):
All right, to the game, So Coop doesn't bitch and discrete?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Are you there? Discrete?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
All right?
Speaker 4 (33:52):
The category? Jack Johnson addition, and you picked only the ocean?
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Only?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Here we go forty five seconds on the clock. These
athletes all enjoyed surfing. Are you ready to screet?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
All right? Here we go.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
A quarterback for the New Orleans Saints when they won
the Super Bowl. Yes, a tight end Latin tight end.
Played for the Chiefs and the Atlanta Falcons. He's on
television now. Yes, slam nunk champ for the Clippers out
of Oklahoma, Okay, Oregon quarterback was a Heisman guy played.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
For the Tennis. Played for the.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Tennessee Titans, number two pick behind Jamis Winston. Yes, quarterback
for Boston College. They won that Hail Mary game against
Miami back in the day. Played for the Patriots. Yes,
Mexican pitcher for the Mets and the eighties. Fat guy,
left handed pitcher for the Mets in the.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
No I think at a fat pitch.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Sure for the Mets, right.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Well, he was, but not in the eighties a little bit.
He was a little baby. He was a fat baby. No,
it's a Sid Fernandez was the Yeah, he got one sixty.
Let's go move on.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
All right, let's kill a raid over there with a
boss Tyler. We've got better together.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
These athletes were one part of a dynamic duo. Are
you there, Tyler?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
There you go?
Speaker 7 (35:22):
All right, forty five seconds, let's begin. He was Shack's sidekick.
Died in a helicopter crash. Yes, he was part of
the Splash Brothers. He's on the Mavericks now, Yes, this
guy was thunder and Lightning with Lendale White in the
usc backfield.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
No, no, he went on to ball. He was on
the Saints.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
His last name is something that women had in the seventies.
All right, okay, this guy was Craig Bigio's partner, the
Killer Bob.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
This guy was the wide receiver on the other side
of Tory Holt on the Rams. Yes, this guy was
on the other side of Dwight Freeney on the Colts.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Oh, no, he had it. He had it out before
the buzzer. I heard it. You might you might want
to go to an ear doctor. He missed, and he
miss her Clayton, But no.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
He did not get the Robert mathis correct, and he
did not get that.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
He did after the buzzer. But the red light was on.
The red light was on, right, the red light was on.
You better hurry, Ben, You're gonna run.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Out of time to win.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
All right, Yeah, just screet? Which one do you want?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
You want?
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Cookie? Jar or crying shame? All right?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
These athletes never even made the playoffs. All right, off,
forty five seconds? You ready to scree?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
The quarterback. You notice the Amish rifle from herd. Oh okay,
offensive offensive lineman for the Cleveland Rounds.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
For ten plus years. He's on television.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Now white guy, big white guy, a generic name offensive tackle,
all proods. Okay, the Cans. This is where you throw
the game. I know this works. So the Kansas comic
great running back number forty, half back, NFL legend for
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the Bears.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Look at look at.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
Ben getting all county because he's choking away the game.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Cool, at least put some out.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I mean, try not to make it obvious.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
You have the Robert matthis which is full crap.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
That was after the buzzer and there was oh you go,
I heard the beginning of it.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Is that Robert mathis the guy's called the show for here.
He's full of crap.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I've never heard that guy in my life that I recognize.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
Who That guy Tyler, who's gotting you get a golden ticket?
Speaker 4 (38:09):
That's bullcrap. That guy Street, you never called gay industry.
You're dead to me? Okay, that was me. I don't
know who that is. I don't know who that is.
Shut up? Who doesn't know who the Kansas comment is? Dude,
everyone knows that. I mean, I'm so sick every week
is the same crap
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in here and all that crap. But our lead this
hour is from pro Bouncy Ball. Don't bury the lead,
my man, heart. We're not gonna bury the lead. So
we had an island game in the NBA, and island.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Game not at night.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
See, the NBA realizes Oklahoma City and Denver not worthy
of prime time. So they played that bad boy in
the afternoon. That game you normally Game seven standalone game,
Island game played at night. No, they said this game
so crappy, We're not gonna play that game at night.
And they didn't play the game at night. They played it.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
In the afternoon, Nicola Jokic and the Nuggets traveling circus
headed over to the Sooners State there for the last dance,
one last opportunity against Shaye Jogas Alexander the former Clipper,
and he plays for the Thunder. Now.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So game seven, Oh, greatest words at sports unless it
was this Game seven? Oklahoma City, the youngest team in
the history of the NBA at least sixty games, Woodpete
am do and against the championship pedigree of Denver. How
many times have we heard that when the Nuggets do anything,
go championship pedigree. Shove that right up your old keister.
(03:14):
All right, So Thunder, we're an eight point favorite, come
into this an eight point favorite.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
How did that turn out? Well?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
If you didn't watch the game, consider yourself lucky. It
was a sleepy afternoon, a Sunday, fun day, without much
fun in terms of competition. You want a close game,
you want a game Game seven. If you could pick
out the scenario with five minutes to go, it's anyone's game.
Who's going to make plays down the stretch? So that
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we got none of that, We got none of that.
That did not happen in this game. But don't worry,
we did watch so you would not have to, and
you didn't miss a damn thing as a shade Jogas
Alexander scored thirty five points and Jalen Williams, who was
an absolute turd in a previous game four, and the
Thunder vaporized the Nuggets like a fat guy at McDonald's
(04:06):
eating chicken nuggets, one twenty five to ninety three in
Game seven. As Oklahoma City advances, they head now to
the Western Conference Final and the top seeded Thunder will
host the sixth seeded Minnesota Timmyberwolves starting on what is
that Tuesday night?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Tuesday night? There you go.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So Oklahoma City the first trip to the conference finals
since twenty sixteen, and so that is the setup here,
but the better story is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we will begin as we
discuss the question, how does one explain how does one
explain Na Kola Jokic and the Nuggets getting crushed like
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a bug on the rug they got stomped on in
Game seven. It's one thing to lose, but to not
have any kind of fight, A gut list effort by
the Denver Nuggets in this game. So I've got poetic
Tom Hanks and Jelly Roll and we will combine all
of these things together and make a nice trip.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
To can Kuon is what we're going to make. So a.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
This was what I call a bad good game. A
bad I use that phrase. If you've been with the
show a long time, you know sometimes I'll use the
phrase bad good. Now what I mean by that It
was bad to watch. It was bad to watch. It
wasn't competitive, but it was good because it was such
a rat kill you didn't need to watch it. I
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was like, I'm not gonna sit here and say I watch.
After midway through the third quarter, I'm out. The most
valuable thing we have is our time. I'm not wasting
my time on that drek. Okay, I'm out. If the
Nuggets aren't gonna try, why am I gonna try to watch?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
My God?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Now, Denver, they started the game with an old Hollywood trick.
We see its back when people used to watch movies.
I know movies are kind of lame now and people
don't really go to movies, and the movies they make
are terrible for the most part, But when you used
to back in the old days people used to actually
go to the movies.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I got a big deal, you know, it was a
huge deal.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And so that quick start, it's called the fake out,
that quick start where you think, man, this is great,
great opening scene, we got something here.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
This is good. It's gonna be a good movie.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And then you settle in and it stinks. Movie blows right.
And the Nuggets got out of the gates. They were
up by eleven points. You figure that have a chance.
In the fourth chord, they had to play with the lead.
So they were up by eleven midway through the first quarter.
From that point forward, I went back. I did the
mal of math on this. From that point forward, up eleven,
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they were outscored. They being the Nuggets by fifty four points.
They fell behind by forty three points. So they went
up eleven, down forty three and turn at the last
the parties over. Now in that stretch, Oklahoma City faced
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no defense. Why couldn't the Nuggets play defense like that
against the Clippers in Game seven? In fact, that the
Nuggets looked like the Clippers that gave up. James Harden
out there playing for the nugget at five. James Harden's
out there for the Denver Nuggets so Oklahoma City in
that stretch where they went from down eleven to up
forty three, he had SGA and Jalen Williams combined for
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fifty five points.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
In that stretch.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
They shot sixty percent in a game seven over sixty percent.
While in that stretch, the Denver stars Nikoley Jokic and
Jamal Murray combined for twenty six points and shot forty
three percent.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Now, I never played in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I just do an overnight show. But I don't think
that's good. Do you think that's good? But the Nuggets
were an anemic seventeen percent from pre point range led
by Jamal Murray is one of eight from prepoint range
in that stretch. Yeah, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
Now that being said, I am actually happy the Nuggets lost.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
We are you happy the Nuggets low? You should be
happy that the Nuggets o.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
No, it's not because of that guy, Jeff and Denver
that calls the show. It's not because of that guy.
But the way I look at the Nuggets losing here,
I'm gonna go very deep here. I feel like this
is poetic that Denver lost. It's poetic justice, and somewhere
somewhere at a mansion far far away, Michael Malone cracked
open a cold one and celebrated the demise of the
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Nuggets because they did him dirty, dirty dirty dogs. They
did Michael Malone dirty, dumping him days before the playoffs.
You dance with the one you brought. They whacked Malone,
thinking that Weasley ownership there in Denver. They thought, well,
I'll get rid of the GM, We'll get rid of
the we'll get rid of the cod.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We're gonna be fine. And how that turned out.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
They hired that I want to be polite NEPO interim
coach David Adelman. Okay, that guy, and they know I'm
gonna zoom into the final four and all that well.
The doppelganger, as a listener pointed out, of the impractical
Joker star James Murray, had nothing, had absolutely nothing right there.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
And so the Nuggets are out, which is good.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's poetic justin you don't want to see a team
that makes that kind of business decision, that kind of
pathetic move, like the Denver Nuggets have success and they
didn't have it right now turning the page. So this
got me all worked up one of pet One of
the pet peeves I have is how amazingly lazy the
modern athlete is, right, how baby, how coddled the modern
(09:47):
athlete is. And it's a great example of that in
what happened after Game seven. So Aaron Gordon, who started
despite a hamstring injury when you would have thought they
had to amputate it. It was like during the Civil War,
they had to amputate the leg. And he went out
there and played amazing. He hopped on one leg, he
was on a hopper, so he played fine. Okay, good
(10:10):
for him, all right, But rather than just celebrating the
fact that he played, not that he played that great,
rather than just that after the game had concluded, Aaron
Gordon said he had a wish about what he'd like
to see the NBA do with the schedule in the playoffs.
And now, now keep in mind the players have complained
(10:30):
for a long time. Wow, we got back to back
games in the regular season. So the NBA made sure
in the playoffs. No back to back. You never played
back to back. Never ever back to back. They used
to play back to back. They never played back to back.
That's not good enough for this schmuck. Listen to Aaron
Gordon take a Liz.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I would really really appreciate it if there were a
couple of days in between games in the playoffs instead
of every other day, regardless if you go seven games.
And I understand, if you do your work early and
you get a first seed, then you can have some
time off. But I think the days in between games
not just an off day and a travel day, but
a travel day and a recovery day, just two, just
(11:06):
two days. I think the product of the game would
be a lot better. I think there'd be a just
a better product on the floors, just to give all
these professional athletes just, you know, one more day of rest,
and you would see a higher level of basketball, probably
less blowouts.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Okay, that was not Ai, by the way, people think,
well that no one would actually like, No Marshmallow would
actually say that, like what would they want their name?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
He said it. That's not AI, that's real. So Aaron Gordon,
you just hearted.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He thinks the NBA needs more days off between playoff
games to prevent postseason blowouts. What is your verdict on
this one? Okay, so my verdict on this is poppy cocky.
That is my verdict on that poppycock. Poppycock, poppycock, poppycock, poppycock.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
That's my verdict.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It is twisted reasoning. Now, it's twisted reasoning. It's ridiculous,
Like tell me you don't know what you're talking talking
about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about.
The schedule is fair because it's equal for all the teams,
Like there is supposed to be a degree of difficulty
in the NBA playoffs. Hello, Like what are we doing here?
(12:14):
Like everyone's playing under the same umbrella, the same conditions.
And I keep hearing from people, But we have the
top trainers, we use computer science and technology and all
this stuff. We're so advanced to the advancements to help
the human body quickly recover. Oh my god, it's never enough.
(12:38):
And it reminds me of the Tom Hanks character in
the League of the Road when you talk about this.
Of course it's hard, right, It's yes, it's supposed to
be hard.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
It was easy. Everyone would do it. These guys, Eric Gordon, Dan,
you're wuss. What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
You need oh read it next year? How about a week?
How about we playing like the NFL? Wait once a week?
Every Sunday. You play a game every Sunday, play a
stupid game.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
That wouldn't be enough. It is so stupid. I just
I can't wrap my head about how dumb this is.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well we need yeah, okay, let's just why don't we
have how about the NBA Finals. It'll be sometime maybe
in August. They'll end the NBA Finals. That would that
be good? My god. The whole point is to distinguish
what the gold is from the gravel, and to do
that you have to have the war of attrition, not
the war of Let's get as much rest as we
(13:35):
can possibly have. It's jeez, yeah, I'm sure blowouts will
never happen. Yeah, how about you don't quit like the
Nuggets did in this game, then you won't get blown out?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And you don't give me, oh they quit. You don't
lose a game by that many points if you're trying,
you don't.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
And the players again, they complain about the back to backs.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Fine, that there's a you have to do that because
of scheduling issues with the arenas, and so they've gotten
rid of a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
The back to backs. They used to play many more.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Back to backs and they belly ach im playing every
other day in the playoffs. And it's like the lesson is,
no matter what you guys are gonna bitch about something,
you're gonna complain about something, to shut up.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
It's annoying, it's unbecoming.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I mean, do you realize that people are watching you
stupid games, are working two or three jobs, most of them.
They they're not seeing any other family.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
The love was and you're complaining because you want an
extra day.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Off between a stupid playoff game when you're already getting
the day off between the play That's Aaron Gordon all
right anyway, uh now the last part of this.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Nicole Jokish also gave us some good content post game.
As the Nuggets have been.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Extinguished from the playoffs, they have been decommissioned from the postseason.
So he was asked whether the Nuggets can win a
championship as they are currently constructed another title with this
group of players. Then, well, here's what he had to say.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Take it was, do you feel like this team could
still win a championship as put together?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Now?
Speaker 6 (15:02):
I mean we didn't, so we just we can't if
if we if we could win, So I don't believe
in those if stuff. So we had an opportunity, we didn't.
If we didn't, we didn't win it. So I think
we can't.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay, there you go, ifs I do not believe in
the word if. All right, So the question where does
Denver go from here? Where does Denver go from here?
Do they simply remodel around Nicola Yolkic or is this
a total demo?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Blow it up?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So the answer, Mighty coder Ring tells me what the
joker just said there is now We're cooked? Is what
he meant to say, right, we're screwed. I mean this
is this is bad, bad, but bad, bad bad all right.
So if I'm the Nugg, it's like the chance of
them getting a player in the next five to ten
years as good as yo Kic still is is are
(16:01):
slim and none, as the line goes, and none is
on a plane right now going to Bermuda, So good
luck on that. What you do here, if you're the Nuggets,
you go down to home depot and it's a DIY project,
do it yourself? A right, this is do it yourself project.
You've got really two or three seasons of Jokic where
you can make this thing work, right, you can make
(16:24):
this thing work. And so you treat Nicole Jokicic like
the Jelly Roll song and you just hold on to
him until the wheels fall off. Of Jokic, he doesn't
seem like the kind of guy like he's a plane
demand that goes to some other team. He doesn't seem
like that kind of Maybe he is, and he's been
in the NBA a long time, and by osmosis, maybe
he's learned to be a schmuck like all the other
(16:45):
guys in demand to go to some big market teams somewhere.
But if I'm the Nuggets and I got no skin
in the game here, if I'm the Denver Nuggets, I'm like, hey,
I'm riding this all right. I'm going till the wheels
fall off. He's thirty years old, So you got, like
I said, two or three seasons and this is going
to be these are the athletic primes.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
At thirty two, that's the peak. And then it's.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Slowly, you hope it slowly goes down, and you fill
the gaps in around him and you try to make
one one more sustained run with yo kitchen, and.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Then that's it. If he's done, money, he's done, you
move on.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
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Speaker 4 (18:48):
So I lead this hour is from a developing story. Now.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It happened over the weekend in the NFL. We were
away a massive cartoon check massive check was handed out
in the NFL, and so we were not here. Now
if you listen to the Fifth Hour podcast, which you
should be doing in addition to this podcast, we did
do a brief chat about it myself and Danny g
(19:14):
on the Saturday pod that we did over the weekend,
so we were not in the watchtower. And some new
developments after that have happened, which means that even though
this story has taken place with the last couple of days,
it is still worthy of some hot talk on the radio.
So and I assume you've heard the meat of it,
but maybe not, maybe not. We learned over the weekend
(19:36):
the forty nine ers have done the thing you can't
do at the time we can't do it. They have
paid brock Party two one hundred and sixty five million
dollars over five years and a contract extension up Perty
gets one.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Hundred and eighty one garroteeth.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
If brock Purty goes out, never throws another touchdown pass,
and throws interception fumbles, all that, he still gets one
hundred and eighty one million total guaranteed money one hundred
and sixty five point one.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Million in the first three years. It must be nice.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And he is now under contract through the year twenty thirty,
which seems like it's a long way away, but it's
already May of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
So let's deliberate on this. That's what we do here.
We deliberate.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So the question who benefits the most, who benefits the
most from this deal? Is it the forty nine ers
locking up they're alleged in air quotes franchise quarterback, or
is it brock Perty securing a long term, massive amount
of money that is garanteed in that stability that you get.
(20:41):
All right, So my observations on this. You've got a leaf,
the booth, and the overkill, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
some absolutely garlic fries, which you can get in San Francisco.
(21:04):
They know how to make those garlic fries there oh man,
so good. All right, So my first observation, some would say,
number yeah, the arrow on this one is directed squarely
in the corner of Rock Party. No ifs ands or
(21:26):
butts about it. Now, I have no ill will against
the player. There is this perception by people like her
nest Do and Terry in England, the other big forty
nine er apologists to listen to the show, many of
them in Northern California, that I am anti Rock Party.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I have some ill will. I don't. I've never met
Brock Party.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I did see him once at the Super Bowl and
he looked like he was a sophomore in high school.
But that's not that's good for him, you know. Mazoltov,
congratulations on getting the big pay day. Would I have
done it? Absolutely not. I would not have done this now,
as we mentioned in the fifth Hour podcast over the weekend,
the exclusive pod only fifth Hour that the company has
(22:07):
me to do over the weekend, this is great news
for the l A Rams, the Arizona Cardinals, and the
Seattle Seahawk. Just a good weekend, right, You picked up
a win over the weekend because of nothing you did.
But it's kind of like I tell people when they
start out in broadcasting. Much of your success will be
(22:29):
because other people fail in front of you. And the
forty nine ers they have done that. They have made
the mistake that you cannot do. To give one hundred
and eighty one million guaranteed to a supporting actor, not
a leading actor. A supporting actor masquerading as a leading
actor is malfeasance, is what it is. That's the word here.
Perty is not the straw that stirs the drink. You're
(22:52):
supposed to be the straw that stirs the drink. Brock
Perty is not the straw. He is a leaf, not
Ryan leaf. He is just a leaf in the current.
That is what Brock Party is in the NFL. He's
a system guy. Now you can have success with a
system guy. There's a limit to it. In order to
win a Super Bowl, everything else must be perfect, and
(23:14):
if things are not perfect, you're screwed. Party's success is
so tied, so handcuffed to Shanahan and the scheme of
the offensive scheme up Rock Party and the talent around him,
which last I checked, is not nearly as good. And
unless I'm mistaken, Rock Party does not elevate anyone, which
(23:39):
is what The point of demarcation is to the players
that you pay and those that you don't pay. Top
dollar two. Brock Purty, you're not that guy, Pal, You're
not that guy. That's not offensive. That's just reality, and
it's been proven. When injuries started tearing away the elite
talent the Niners had. McCaffrey got hurt, last your Deebo,
(24:00):
Samuel George Kittle, these guys were dinged up brock Purdy
like a vampire exposed to sunlight.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
It did not go well. Right.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
We saw the limitations, and the Niners still paid him.
They still paid him, which tells you how dumb the dumb, dumb,
dumb the forty.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Nine ers are. It's not like it was a secret.
If I know, they know.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So he proved our hypothesis was correct, and yet they
still paid him.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
On what planet in the Milky Way? Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Not this one, not this one, maybe some other planning
right across the world. The numbers dropped. Everything from the
NERD stat expected points added was down. But if you
go by the traditional stats year to year, when Perdy
had his guys and then when he didn't have his guys,
his numbers year to year he was down. Yards were
(24:52):
down thirty five percent, touchdowns down thirty five percent, touchdowns
down thirty five percent, yards were down nine point seven.
Interceptions went up nine percent. So you can do the metal.
That's a lot as a ton. That is a massive situation.
But wait, there's more. The forty nine ers went one
(25:13):
and seven as they were free falling, free falling the tailspin,
and brock Perty was not good enough to save them. Right,
He's not a good enough town to elevate the secondary
players that the Niners were playing, and they missed the
playoffs playoffs, and so these are legitimate concerns that this
(25:36):
guy was elevated by elite players and he was deflated
without those elite players.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Now it's not all bad news. I'll be positive.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'll be Benny Bright's side for the forty nine er
marching in chowder society because the Niners sucked so much
last year that they have going into this year the
easiest schedule in the NFL. The Niners, based on strength
of schedule from what had happened last year, are on
easy street, which just is going to make it more agonizing,
(26:09):
because what you're gonna end up doing is push back
the inevitable collapse because you can do it with smoke
and mirrors for a while, but eventually when you play
better teams down the line, good luck and so for
a while they'll be able to hide Brock Party. But man,
now flipping the page about page two, So what does
the timing, What is the timing of this announcement of
(26:32):
the Brock Party contract tell us if anything, So it
absolutely tells us something. To me, it's a big part
of the story here, and it's really confirmation that we
are on the right side of the story with our take,
all right, because it is a trip to the booth.
That's trip of the booth, it is the confessional booth.
(26:56):
It's an admission. The forty nine ers have admitted they're
not proud of this. They're not right. There are factions
of the franchise that obviously are shamed. This is a
massive overpay for a marginal talent rock party, and my
supporting evidence on that is the day it was announced.
(27:17):
If you are proud of a move like this, you
want to get full attention. You want everyone to talk
about how great your franchise is and what a wonderful
move this was, and how do you do that, well,
there's ways to do it. People that work in public
relations know there's certain days of the week to get
more attention than other days. The worst possible time to
(27:38):
do something the time, like in politics.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
If you want to announce bad news, or if you're a.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Major corporation and you're going to lay off a bunch
of people, what do you do it?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
When do you do it?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You do it on the Friday news dump dumpty dump
dump dump, the Friday news dump take out, the trash
day is what they call it. The goal when you
announce something on Friday is to downplay the media coverage.
And you would do that in a contract announcement because
you're ashamed of it. You're embarrassed of it. And I
don't blame the niners. I would be embarrassed to I
(28:11):
would be ashamed. And even in the age of social media,
even in the age now where everyone's plugged in all
the time and all that news consumption, it is proven
is lower on Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays. People unplugged,
the unwind. Some people even go out and touch grass. Amazing,
I get their feet in actual grass, They get out
(28:33):
of their houses. It's amazing, right, so on that the
prosecution rest. I don't know how you can fight that back.
You don't make that announcement on Friday. You can make
that announcement any day of the week. You announce it
on Friday if you're the Niners, if you're embarrassed and
they're embarrassed.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
All right now, final point.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
We also learned over the weekend that the Rock Party
six year contract where the Niners comes with a no
trade clause. So is this a big deal, a little
deal or no deal? That Brockbirdy has a no trade law.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
So this is no deal. It's certainly not a big deal.
It's not a little deal. It's no deal.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And the reason is it is a whoopee damn do situation.
It's kind of like if you buy a car, you
go down to the dealership, you buy the car, and
the dealer will often throw in to try to sweeten
the deal. They'll throw in some extras that sound enticing
to get you to buy the car, but aren't necessary.
(29:39):
And that's what this is. It's not necessary. The no
trade clause is irrelevant. It's like those dealer accessories. It's
like the floor matt or the cargo net in the
car that you don't really need.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
I get. A no trade clause is overkill. It's just overkill.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And the reason why is because if you are a
starting quarterback in the NFL, you're most likely.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Not going to get traded.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But if you are going to be traded, no one's
going to acquire you unless you're fully invested in that
team unless you want to play for that team.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
You don't want the dead wood. You cut the dead
wood out of the team.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So no one's going to trade for a guy like
Brock Purdy unless Brock Purdy wants to leave and go
play for that team. He's from Arizona. Maybe someday he
wants to play for the Cardinals or something like that,
and that would be.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
The way it goes. But it's like, you don't need
to put it in. It's irrelevant. Now.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
If you're some offensive lineman or something like that, or
a different position, we can revisit that, But as a
starting quarterback, it doesn't matter. It's like an extra add
on from the dealership to try to get you to
buy the car.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
It doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Why don't we introduce our contestants real quick and then
we'll set the game up and then we'll get right
to the game. We have the list known as discreet
is on.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Hello, Discreete, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Ben, Thank you?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
How are you, sir? Discreet?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
If I was any better, I would be sleeping, But
I am talking, so that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Well, yeah, second best is not bad, sir.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah, it's all right, sorry, not bad at all. So Discreete, welcome.
You're going to play the game. And where are you at, Discreete?
Where you You're on the streets? Is that right? You're
just on the streets.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I'm discreet in the streets.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I have to remain location vague because that's why I'm discreet.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I would not want to blow your cover at all,
because you are discrete.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
And who would you like to partner up with? You've
got me or you've got coop or really want a
good time? Loraina. Well, when you put it that way, Reiner,
who's oh no, I'm busy, sorry, Marino.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
But Ben, they don't call it the Lorena Show, so
I'm going with them.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Very exciting. Hold on a second, we have time. Taylor
in Boston. Who's gonna play? Hello, Tyler, welcome.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
What's going on, Benny? Now, you're not in the streets,
you're what are you doing? Tell you working? What are
you up to?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Building a bridge?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Build a bridge? That's up? Man? I mean you've called before?
Have you not? Tiler? Have you called before? Oh? I
played the game when I can.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
All right, yeah, as I said last time, you called
very masculine job building a bridge. You're very impressive. You
probably have women are like, oh man, this guy's a
real man. He builds a bridge. All right, who do
you want? You?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I guess you want to play with Coop? Is that right?
I assume Coop is the choice here.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Well, I mean we I owe a little vengeance. I
think you you've screwed me and Coop's replacement last time.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
So, uh.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well, you're gonna lose, and you'll lose at least you're
losing a street way. What are the categories here?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Please quickly, please Coop. We must get to the categories
and then we'll get to the game. This is Malard's
a mount of money, the Jack Johnson adition. He turned
fifty years old this week?
Speaker 4 (32:54):
What an old fart.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Yes, the categories are cookie, jar, better Together, crying, and
only the ocean?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
And discrete was on first? Which category would you like?
Discrete the ocean? Okay, only the ocean? All right? And Tyler,
how about.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
You best together?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Better together? All right? All right? Everyone, hold on, do
not hang up. Everyone, hold on. We will have Malord's
Mountain of Money. Innocent time. We'll get to that. We'll
do it next.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
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listen live. Now Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have
what it takes to get to the top? Probably? Not?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
All right, to the game, So Coop doesn't bitch and discrete?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Are you there? Discrete?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
All right?
Speaker 4 (33:52):
The category? Jack Johnson addition, and you picked only the ocean?
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Only?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Here we go forty five seconds on the clock. These
athletes all enjoyed surfing. Are you ready to screet?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
All right? Here we go.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
A quarterback for the New Orleans Saints when they won
the Super Bowl. Yes, a tight end Latin tight end.
Played for the Chiefs and the Atlanta Falcons. He's on
television now. Yes, slam nunk champ for the Clippers out
of Oklahoma, Okay, Oregon quarterback was a Heisman guy played.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
For the Tennis. Played for the.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Tennessee Titans, number two pick behind Jamis Winston. Yes, quarterback
for Boston College. They won that Hail Mary game against
Miami back in the day. Played for the Patriots. Yes,
Mexican pitcher for the Mets and the eighties. Fat guy,
left handed pitcher for the Mets in the.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
No I think at a fat pitch.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Sure for the Mets, right.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Well, he was, but not in the eighties a little bit.
He was a little baby. He was a fat baby. No,
it's a Sid Fernandez was the Yeah, he got one sixty.
Let's go move on.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
All right, let's kill a raid over there with a
boss Tyler. We've got better together.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
These athletes were one part of a dynamic duo. Are
you there, Tyler?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
There you go?
Speaker 7 (35:22):
All right, forty five seconds, let's begin. He was Shack's sidekick.
Died in a helicopter crash. Yes, he was part of
the Splash Brothers. He's on the Mavericks now, Yes, this
guy was thunder and Lightning with Lendale White in the
usc backfield.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
No, no, he went on to ball. He was on
the Saints.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
His last name is something that women had in the seventies.
All right, okay, this guy was Craig Bigio's partner, the
Killer Bob.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
This guy was the wide receiver on the other side
of Tory Holt on the Rams. Yes, this guy was
on the other side of Dwight Freeney on the Colts.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Oh, no, he had it. He had it out before
the buzzer. I heard it. You might you might want
to go to an ear doctor. He missed, and he
miss her Clayton, But no.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
He did not get the Robert mathis correct, and he
did not get that.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
He did after the buzzer. But the red light was on.
The red light was on, right, the red light was on.
You better hurry, Ben, You're gonna run.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Out of time to win.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
All right, Yeah, just screet? Which one do you want?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
You want?
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Cookie? Jar or crying shame? All right?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
These athletes never even made the playoffs. All right, off,
forty five seconds? You ready to scree?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
The quarterback. You notice the Amish rifle from herd. Oh okay,
offensive offensive lineman for the Cleveland Rounds.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
For ten plus years. He's on television.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Now white guy, big white guy, a generic name offensive tackle,
all proods. Okay, the Cans. This is where you throw
the game. I know this works. So the Kansas comic
great running back number forty, half back, NFL legend for
(37:30):
the Bears.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Look at look at.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
Ben getting all county because he's choking away the game.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Cool, at least put some out.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I mean, try not to make it obvious.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
You have the Robert matthis which is full crap.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
That was after the buzzer and there was oh you go,
I heard the beginning of it.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Is that Robert mathis the guy's called the show for here.
He's full of crap.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I've never heard that guy in my life that I recognize.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
Who That guy Tyler, who's gotting you get a golden ticket?
Speaker 4 (38:09):
That's bullcrap. That guy Street, you never called gay industry.
You're dead to me? Okay, that was me. I don't
know who that is. I don't know who that is.
Shut up? Who doesn't know who the Kansas comment is? Dude,
everyone knows that. I mean, I'm so sick every week
is the same crap
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.