October 18, 2025 • 34 mins
Big Ben talks about the Chiefs coming away with a big win against the Lions on Sunday Night Football, the Bears coming out of hibernation to upset Jayden Daniels and the Commanders on MNF, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and much more!
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and I was gonna go with the baseball but you know,
the baseball game was not all that great. I'm sorry,
JJ and Ritten and Nostradinas and all that. So the
football game there was more juice, and I go where
the juice is. That's the mantra you start out or
the better story isn't the better story the Sunday night
NFL game. So that is where we will begin. We
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will get to the baseball later. We'll start at Arrowhead Stadium,
just down the street from the home of the Bain
Mallard Chicken Fingers had a great Mallard meet and greeted
by a year ago last November. There was wonderful just
a Smorgesborg of chicken fingers in the air everywhere there
at the landing in Liberty, Missouri. But on Sunday night,
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an island game. We love our island games. Explain that
over the weekend on the Fifth Hour podcast, which I
know you listened to. You heard the Fifth Hour podcast
every single FN day on the weekends. So the Detroit
Lions roared into Cannsau City for the little playdate with
the Chiefs. That was the setup, that was the matchup.
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And I don't know if you're watching this, the baseball
game was going on. It was a quick NFL game,
pretty fast NFL game. Baseball games started a little bit
before the game in the NFL. So if you're not
watching Patrick Mahomes, wake up the echos two hundred and
fifty seven yards passing three touchdowns. You also scrambled for
another score. And Malon Matt tells me that's four touchdowns
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for Patrick Mahomes and he led the Chiefs to a
thirty to seventeen win over the Detroit football team as
Marquise Hollywood Brown had two touchdown receptions, Xavier Worthy had another.
The Chiefs get back to five hundred at three and
three on the season. They played a near flawless game.
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More on that coming up in a little bit there.
They had no penalties, no penalties for the Chiefs, no turnovers.
This is one week after you get a penalty, you
get a penalty, you get a penalty. And that Monday
night game, that last second lost when the Chiefs defense
stood around and watched the klutz quarterback for Jacksonville, Trevor
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Lawrence fall down multiple times and then go in the
end zone because Chris Jones decided he want to hustle.
I want a dubby anyway. So the Chiefs bounce back
and they get to win here. And the better story, though,
is in the losing locker room the Detroit Lions following
the loss. We had a rhubarb that took place there
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following the loss, as the Lion's safety Brian Branch boiling
over and got into it. He refused to do a
postgame clappity Clap Dappity DApp with Patrick Maholmes, and Branch
instead decided he wanted to deliver a right hook to
a man wearing a helmet, which generally is not a
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great idea, but he decided to do it anyway, and
he threw a punch there at Juju Smith Schuster. After
the end of the game, the teams are coming together
to exchange niceties. That didn't seem very nice, but I
don't know, maybe it was. It was like a nice
friendly punch have been there right at midfield. So let
us discuss the question how disappointing, how disappointing is this
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overall performance for Dan Campbell's Detroit Lions as they end
up on the wrong side of the scoreboard and not
even close in the second half. So I've got ice bucket,
toy Poodle, and Mighty Mississippi and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to put
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the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going to do.
So a this one obviously stinks. It's like a sting
from a hornet for the Lions here because this was
supposed to be as well. The Chiefs aren't that good,
but still they're at home. It's prime time. You're going
against Mahomes and those guys. So this is a measuring
stick situation for Detroit, a barometer about where you are
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right now and how you match up, and a little
bit of a gut check even though the Chiefs don't
have a great record, and so where do you actually stand?
Let's see where do you actually stand? Man? Okay, big
boy stage right there Monday night or Sunday night rather
with NBC and all that and how'd that work out? Yeah,
on this night, on that particular night, Sunday night, you
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did not measure up. You just didn't. The game was
not even really close in the second half, right, it
was not. You watched the end. The Chiefs were in
total control of this thing. And this wasn't cute little
Detroit hosting the Chicago Bears in Motown on a Sunday
afternoon at Ford Field. This was not that. This was
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Zarowhead National TV, big bright lights and all that stuff,
supposedly big boy football for the Lions here and an
angry Kansas City Chiefs team, and we saw what happened.
For the past month. Dan Campbell's Lions were the NFL's
IT team. I was asking my weekly appearance on with
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my friend Bob Fesco show in Kansas City there on
our affiliate in the mornings on Thursdays, I pop on
there and say, well, it is the top team in
the NFL. I think Dusty might have asked me that,
and I said, well, right now, the Lions, the Lions
that they were the one that stood out. And so
the Lions go out there and get whooped whoop, But
he whooped in the second half of this game here,
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So all the attitude and the fake kneecap biting, all
of that. So then Mahomes and the Chiefs come out
and absolutely slap them in the mouth in the second
half of this game. And some will say, well, the
Lions were shorthanded, their defense was missing some people and
all that. Well, you still have to play the game.
You play the game with with who's out there and
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no excuses. And Kansas City again defensively, they controlled the
game and offense compared to how they had played recently.
This was a night and day throwback performance, vintage performance here.
Twenty six first downs, three hundred and fifty five yards,
the Chiefs toying with them in the first half and
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then never trailed after halftime. They led from soup to
nuts in the second half all the way through, and
Aiden Hutchinson, that Detroit defense looking like a team there
that was taking part in the ice buck bucket challenge,
and they did not handle the ice water, did not
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handle that very well.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
There.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
They got hypothermia. Bad job by them, reality check, slap boom,
all that stuff. As they go down the Lions go
down there. Now, Dan Campbell is the head coach of
the Detroit football team, and we're gonna get his comments
in a minut. Let's go to Jared Golf though, here's
Jared Goff. This is Jared Golf on the ineptitude of
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the Detroit Lions. Take a listen. On offense, I thought.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
We hadn't move the ball decently, I think with limited
possessions certainly, and so were they on offense. We were
kind of both playing that game of long possessions.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And when you.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Play the game you got a score, you gotta fishing
with touchdowns, and they did and we didn't. That first
drive getting the touchdown have been nice field goals, you know,
consolation prize there. But then we had a couple of
drives we just didn't three an hour or five an
hour at front and yeah, so if you're gonna play
that time possession game, you gotta score at the end
of him and they did it more than we did.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So clearly my TV is not working because I did
not see that game. I did not see the game
that Jared Goff described there at all. I think Jared
Goff matter have had a concussion or something like that.
That was a welcome back to her situation for the
MotorCity kiddies. Now, let's not gloss over. Let us knock
gloss over the end of the game. As safety Brian
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Branch refusing the niceties from Patrick Mahomes. As we said there,
Mahomes offering to give him a handshake or a little
fist bump there, and instead he decided to wallop. It
was a mollywop Juju Smith Schuster in the helmet. Now
it's dumb because the guy's wearing a helmet, So it's
it's just stupid because the guy's got a helmet on
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and all that stuff, and not as actually a real
tough guy move. You're not Rocky Balboa out there, and
you're the guy the Lions here who got knocked out
in the third and fourth round. And then your guy
threw a tantrum after the game. Who goofed? I've got
to know on the way out the Now, the Lions
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are good and all that, but that was pretty pathetic.
Here's Dan Campbell on the extra curricular activities post game
in Arrowhead.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I'm disappointed because you know, it's been a long time
since you're watching somebody kneel it three times in front
of you, and it's not even close. You know, you're
down two scores. I mean, we got we got worked
pretty good. So so yeah, it's disappointing. It's really disappointing.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay, well, the Lions go down there, the Chiefs still
at the grown up table there, moving on to the
other side, and that would be the winning side, the
Kansas City side from their perspective. Does this count? Here's
the question. Does this count as a state victory for
Andy Reid and the Chiefs here in week six? Al Right,
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So now here's the problem. That was a statement win
as much as a Week six NFL game can be
a statement win.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Mahomes and Kelsey were wobbly, very wobbly, uh for the
beginning part of the season, and and so this was
one of those situations like, hey, we're still around, you know,
remember us, We're still here. We haven't left. We're just
off to the side, and you know, we have every
intent of still being here at the end of the
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year and all that stuff. And there was just a
little more juice, just a little more right there for
one night, anyway, whether this has any kind of continuation
or not, for one night, the Chiefs look like the
Chiefs of recent years and you know they they is
that going to continue ive? Who knows you We'll see
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the swagger was back there. That was like a toy
poodle marking its territory on a hydrant, if you know
what I mean. Right there, nobody beats the whiz. They
took care of that right there. You could see from
the opening drive that it's say, hey, this is our
house and all that stuff. And they went there two
hundred and fifty seven yards to get from Mahomes. She
had three touchdown passes, one touchdown on the ground. So
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all around, sharing the sugar and the defense for Kansasy,
which was good in Jacksonville. It's not like they were
bad in Jacksonville until the final play when they stood
there and watched Lawrence fumble and futs around and getting
the end zone and all that stuff. But the second half,
that is when Detroit really flexed, right, they really did.
Detroit's firepower was totally neutralized in the second half of
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this game. I'm on Ross Saint Brown rather quiet. Jared Goff,
despite what he said, nothing special, nothing, just kind of
a blah blah type situation, couldn't get much of anything
other than those checkdowns. Charlie Checkdown for much of the
second half there for the Detroit Lions, and so they
scored seven points over the final thirty minutes. Now, I
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didn't play in the NFL, so I off to check
with Ryan Clark on this. But I don't think that's good.
I don't think that's good. And so Kansas City and
then slamming the door shut. And a credit to Steve Spagnolo,
the defensive coordinator there is his guys were flying all
over the place in this one. And that is the
first time in weeks that I watched Kansas City and thought, Okay,
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there you go. All that crap. He said, Wow, championship,
DNA and all that stuff. That's it the mode Joe Potato,
big time win, big time win. So there you go.
That's the roadside billboard the Chiefs have put up for
the rest of the NFL said, you thought we were slipping,
I think again. Now they had looked like a team
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that was sleepwalking, losing to all the good teams they
had played and then beating the bad teams they had played.
And this is the first quality opponent the Chiefs had beaten.
The Ravens are a bad team. The Giants are a
bad team, but they would last week. They're still a
bad team. You know, don't mistake Jackson Dart playing well.
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They didn't play that game. That was a Russell Wilson game.
That started the Sunday night game against can Zaw City.
So everything seemed like it was in place. Even Andy
Reid's mustache seemed like it belonged there. It had extra
hair to it. It was good to go there. So
the lesson do not sleep, do not sleep on the
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Chiefs there. They are still the standard, the gold standard
in the AFC. And you know here we'll see Buffalo
plays on Monday Night. The Bills play, I believe Atlanta
on the Monday night card. And that's the other team.
I mean, look around. Who else the Ravens have fallen
apart Pittsburgh's four and one? Are you considering them legit
in the AFC? The Chargers? Who's the t all? Right? Now,
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last word, let's address the heel A monster in the room,
the story that everyone will be talking about over the
next twenty four hours when they talk about the NFL weekend.
And that'll be one week, one week after it was
Uglee with a capitol U Ugu Lee for the Chiefs.
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They flipped the script in this game against the Lions.
I'm talking about from the officiating standpoint on Sunday, the
Detroit Lions the opponent. There there were no accepted penalties, none, none.
Against Kansas City. Detroit declined an offside penalty on Chris
Jones late in the fourth quarter. But that's it, that's all.
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That's all there was. Detroit was penalized four times for
thirty eight yards, and those mistakes swung the game. All
four of them swung the game. It's not my opinion,
it's a fact. You can go down point by point.
An illegal motion penalty wiped out a trick play touchdown
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on the first quarter against Detroit. There was a defensive
pass interference call that extended Kansas City's go ahead drive
before halftime. The roughing the passer penalty in the fourth
quarter set up a touchdown that pushed the Chiefs lead
to double digits. So you see where I'm going with this. Now,
question here's the question, what do you make of the
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Chiefs being we are told the second team in the
last seventy years, just the second team in the last
seventy years, to have no accepted penalties against them in
a regulation NFL games, only the second time in seventy
years that this has happened. So this one, Hey, it's smells,
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all right, I mean just calling it's the smells it does.
I mean it reeks of the shield doing what the
shield does best, protecting the crown jewel and above buying
into a conspiracy. I'm not. I mean, you didn't say
by the fourth quarter, I didn't notice the body language
of the Detroit line, some of the guys in the secondary.
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It looked like they were in a telephone tree with
the irs and they were getting bounced around and all
that stuff. Detroit had measured the fourth penalties for thirty
eight yards in this game, and just about every single
one of them, as we laid out here, took points
off the board or helped Kansas City put points on
the board. And that is not just bad luck. Okay,
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that's not just bad luck. That is again the heal
of monster in the room, biting the kneecap, nibble, nibble, nibble,
right at the kneecap there. And this is the part,
this is the part where the NFL deep state comes slithering,
slithering right out. Now, is that the Taylor Swift effect
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is that what that is was a phone call made.
Was this a point of reference? A point of emphasis
for the NFL referees in this game? It stands out
so much that it'd be hard to believe for a
rational person that this was not a point of emphasis
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for the NFL. The officials are given their directions before
every game what to look for, what's a point of emphasis.
I find it impossible that a message was not sent
down to just kind of observe and only call the
obvious penalties. Don't interfere with Kansas City at all. And
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you've got the most marketable pop star on the planet
who's now an NFL wag wag Wag wag wag. She's
a wag. Yeah, And you think the league wants a
sub five hundred, two and four Kansas City team, they
lose this game, they'd be two and four poase. No, No,
they want those cutaways, those reaction shots, they want the
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merch sales. The TV hype is it built in. It's
baked into the NFL. It's absolutely baked in. And this game,
with the lack of penalties, was the shortest Sunday night
game in fourteen years. It's been fourteen years, fourth shortest ever,
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fourth shortest ever. And of course, how does that happen.
That happens because there's no those no penalty flags of
the officials. I'm sure it was just a quinkie dink
that they decided to swallow the whistle like they were
entering the witness protection program and they're like, that's like
those kids. Kids are supposed to be seen, not heard.
And that's the referees there. And then when the NFL
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wants that's the lesson. When the NFL wants a game
to flow, all right, they make it a point of emphasis,
and it flows like the Mighty Mississippi. It just flew by.
And when they want chaos, it is a flag day festival.
Everyone gets a flag, flags in the air everywhere if
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they want that. And so this game flip the script.
Last week was a flag day on Monday night and
this week protect the brand at all costs. You got
to protect the brand there, protect the Swifties, protect mahomes
and the pigskin Illuminati, the Illuminati at work.
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just outside the Beltway. There the late game on the
Monday night football twin. But we'll get back to the baseball.
If you're on hold, you want to the app out
the baseball As the Mariners are up two zero on
Toronto and the Dodgers barely get by the Milwaukee Brewers
in Game one of the NLCS, and if the Mariners
and Dodgers play in the World Series, the entire sports media,
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the the triangle of sports media on the East Coast,
is going to lose their money. I don't want to
watch that. Who wants to watch the Mariners of the
Dodgers of the world. So of course they're gonna complain.
If Toronto's in there, they're gonna complain. If Milwaukee's in it,
this is gonna complain. Oh, this is so bad, all right. Anyway,
to the football twin Bill on a Monday night, you've
got Troy Aikman and Joe Buck they were doing the
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Fox Refugees. We're doing the game on ab They were
there in the booth. Doub Bears, Dob Bears, fresh off
the bye week, trying to snap out of that hibernation.
The Chicago Bears team against the squad formerly known as
the Redskins. Right, they were the match up there and
Caleb Williams and Dob Bears get the better of Jaden
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Daniels if he did not see the game as they
take down the Commanders on the final play as time
ran out, Chicago defeating Washington by one point twenty five
twenty four on a thirty eight yard field goal by
kicker Jake Moody. Yes, the same Jake Moody who was
fired by the forty nine Ers. The same Jake Moody
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who was at Loggerheads with his teammates on the sidelines
because he missed so many kicks in a forty nine
er uniform. Well, he makes the game winner as he
was the interim kicker there for the team from Chicago,
the Chicago Bears, paced by DeAndre Swift, he ran for
one hundred and eight yards on just fourteen carries. I'm
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told that's pretty good. I'm told that's pretty good, and
also grabbed a pair of receptions for sixty seven yards,
including a fifty five yard catch and run yack and
e yack yards after the catch there for a touchdown
against a very sloppy Washington defense poor tackling there by
that defensive units of the Bears are over five hundred.
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Don't tell anybody, but the Chicago Bears are over five hundred.
At three and two, They're coming off their bye week
and they have now extended their winning streak to not one,
not two, but three apes in a row. So the
Bears have won three straight under Ben Johnson. But the
better story is in the losing locker room. So that
is where we will begin, and the question what went wrong?
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What went wrong for Jaden Daniels and the Washington football team.
And I've got Bart Simpson, Hollywood Squares, and Will Smith
and we'll combine all of these things together and make
the Baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the Baba Ganoosh is
what we're gonna make. So to kick off here, this
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was a night to absolutely forget for Jade and Daniels,
the prodigy, the breakout star of the twenty twenty four
NFL season, not just Jaden Daniels, but the Commanders in general.
Jayden and Daniels is the headliner and all that. And
my word, and it's a conjoined word, but my word
for this night for Jaden Daniels and the Commanders is
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self inflicted. Self inflicted is the term I will use
here most games, as a rule, we have several truisms,
if you will, several of the points that are part
of the ethos of the show. Better stories in the
losing locker room and most games are lost, not one.
These two things are related. You see the better stories
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in losing locker room because most of the time somebody
eft up to cost their team the game. This is
a great example of it. This is exhibit exhibit to
exhibit A. If you will exhibit A on this you
don't need a zib Bruder film style frame by frame
breakdown to figure it out. Jade and Daniels. I know,
Halloween's a few weeks away here, we're in the middle
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of October. So but Jane Daniels picked up his Halloween
costume a little early. He decided he wanted to be
Bart Simpson. And he said, you know, when you're Bart Simpson,
you got to hand out candy, and I'm going to
hand out butterfinger And he used his butter fingers to
give the game to the team from Chicago. Daniels out
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there in the rain, rainy night and auditioning for the remake.
I don't know if this is still on the air,
the America's Funniest Home Videos. That used to be a
think back in the day, but it still really but
it must be America's Funniest Cell Phone Videos exactly that. Yeah,
no home video. But he had Jaden Daniels one interception,
he had two fumbles, lost one of the two fumbles
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in the game. Also, his running back Jacoby Krosky Merritt
also fumbled on his own. So those three hairballs coughed
off by the Washington football team gift wrapped thirteen points,
thirteen points for Eugene in Chicago's bears as they get it,
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and now they might as well have left the Amazon
package on the porch. And then Washington just invites Caleb
Williams to come over there and come pick it up
before the porch pirates get it. And he picked up
the packages. I like the package. That's a good package.
And here's the thing, Chicago wasn't even that shark like.
This was not the most esthetically pleasing matchup. It was not.
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Chicago had nine penalty I think were over eighty yards
in penalties. They were begging, begging Washington to put the
game away, but Washington said, na, na, you know we
can't have it. We want you. Very similar to the
end of that Dodger Brewers game in the NLCS where
the Dodgers tried to give the game away and the
Brewers like Pogo sticked out of the batter's box and said,
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we don't want the game. And then the same thing
here the magic carpar It was a magic carbreak. We
agree on that it was a magic carpet ride. Last
season NFC title game. And there's some turbulence going on
now right, there's some turbulence. This is not a team
that looks like a playoff team right now, just based
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on what we saw here recently. They did beat the Chargers,
the beaten and broken Chargers in the previous game. But
if you look at Dan Quinn Medicine Man's Washington Commanders,
one week they are the Grandfather clock ticking perfectly, and
the next week they're busted in in a pawn shop.
And it goes back and forth, it goes back and forth.
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And then on the other side, the Bears, they come
out of the bye week, they're feeling all good about themselves, right,
they win their third straight game. And we were goofing
on Ben Johnson earlier in the year, some turbulence to
begin the seasons, behind the scenes, drama, o rama, and
now he's like, wow, he could be the coach of
the month, you know, why not? Coach of the month?
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All excited. So the Bears feeling good about themselves, Washington
not so much.
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we're gonna win this, so let's play with you. All right,
we're in it to win it. Very nice. Hold on
sec Mike in New Hampshire, and let's see here. Let's
go with Keenie Meenie miney Moe. Edward is in San Antonio.
Hello Edward, welcome.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
All right, I'm glad I got in.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You got in, Edward, You're lucky day. You want to
play with Lorena or Cooper Loop as your partner on password?
All right, you're out of the show, Loraina. Very nice.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
Ever pick now.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I don't understand why I can't make I can't figure
it out. All right, we have a list of words here.
No cheating, no cheating. I'll lock you in and unlock
Mike in New Hampshire in all right, good luck to
you both. My guy's gonna win, MIKEE in New Hampshire.
We have a list of wards one to ten. Mike,
you want the heir first. Please pick a word, sir.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Let's number.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Number six. All right, let's go with let's see here.
I don't want to go with here. Hmmm. I think
that the word I want to use I think is
two words. So let me see if I can do
something else here. Let's go with m I think I can.
(31:25):
How about uh oatmeal?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I got nothing on that one. Okay, all right?
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Uh Edward?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Uh the clue. I'm going to give you snickerdoodle grit What.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
You've never had? Snickerdoodle grits? What's wrong with you? Coop?
What do you wrong?
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Don't don't listen to Best about clues?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
High clue. Now I think we've got it here. Let's
go with snicker doodle grits. Yes, they're very popular Carolina.
There's a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I think I got it. Uh, how about a short bread.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Porridge?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yo?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Come on, you're mocking You're mocking me, dude, you're mocking me.
What I said short storage? He said, no, he said
porridge porridge.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Even worse, you screwed everything up with your first clue.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I did not go ahead?
Speaker 7 (32:42):
Cool, come on, uh, Edward, let's go uh.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
With okay, baking, baking, Yeah, we're all.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
It's all for the clues for the same word, all
tied together.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Oh my god, what do you say?
Speaker 7 (33:07):
What you guys suck?
Speaker 8 (33:11):
It's it's it's cookie, the cookie, snipper noodle cookie, you know,
short bread cookie?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Oh my god? All right, Edward, pick pick a number
one to ten, but not six, my god, number one,
number one, alright, alright, now we got this.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Come on, Edward, chauffeur chauffeur.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Oh how about how about it? Motorists? Motorist Mike, Yeah, yes,
all right, pick another number of mines. Pick another number, Mike,
hurry up, hurry up? Four uh, number four, All right,
let's go with let me see here. Oh boy, I'm
(34:10):
gonna get to it for la. How about residue? Click car? No,
Oh my god, we're out of time. It was the
way we were looking for was dust. Wait when you
lost cool, you and your snicker doodle grits.
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and I was gonna go with the baseball but you know,
the baseball game was not all that great. I'm sorry,
JJ and Ritten and Nostradinas and all that. So the
football game there was more juice, and I go where
the juice is. That's the mantra you start out or
the better story isn't the better story the Sunday night
NFL game. So that is where we will begin. We
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will get to the baseball later. We'll start at Arrowhead Stadium,
just down the street from the home of the Bain
Mallard Chicken Fingers had a great Mallard meet and greeted
by a year ago last November. There was wonderful just
a Smorgesborg of chicken fingers in the air everywhere there
at the landing in Liberty, Missouri. But on Sunday night,
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an island game. We love our island games. Explain that
over the weekend on the Fifth Hour podcast, which I
know you listened to. You heard the Fifth Hour podcast
every single FN day on the weekends. So the Detroit
Lions roared into Cannsau City for the little playdate with
the Chiefs. That was the setup, that was the matchup.
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And I don't know if you're watching this, the baseball
game was going on. It was a quick NFL game,
pretty fast NFL game. Baseball games started a little bit
before the game in the NFL. So if you're not
watching Patrick Mahomes, wake up the echos two hundred and
fifty seven yards passing three touchdowns. You also scrambled for
another score. And Malon Matt tells me that's four touchdowns
(03:19):
for Patrick Mahomes and he led the Chiefs to a
thirty to seventeen win over the Detroit football team as
Marquise Hollywood Brown had two touchdown receptions, Xavier Worthy had another.
The Chiefs get back to five hundred at three and
three on the season. They played a near flawless game.
(03:41):
More on that coming up in a little bit there.
They had no penalties, no penalties for the Chiefs, no turnovers.
This is one week after you get a penalty, you
get a penalty, you get a penalty. And that Monday
night game, that last second lost when the Chiefs defense
stood around and watched the klutz quarterback for Jacksonville, Trevor
(04:03):
Lawrence fall down multiple times and then go in the
end zone because Chris Jones decided he want to hustle.
I want a dubby anyway. So the Chiefs bounce back
and they get to win here. And the better story, though,
is in the losing locker room the Detroit Lions following
the loss. We had a rhubarb that took place there
(04:24):
following the loss, as the Lion's safety Brian Branch boiling
over and got into it. He refused to do a
postgame clappity Clap Dappity DApp with Patrick Maholmes, and Branch
instead decided he wanted to deliver a right hook to
a man wearing a helmet, which generally is not a
(04:45):
great idea, but he decided to do it anyway, and
he threw a punch there at Juju Smith Schuster. After
the end of the game, the teams are coming together
to exchange niceties. That didn't seem very nice, but I
don't know, maybe it was. It was like a nice
friendly punch have been there right at midfield. So let
us discuss the question how disappointing, how disappointing is this
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overall performance for Dan Campbell's Detroit Lions as they end
up on the wrong side of the scoreboard and not
even close in the second half. So I've got ice bucket,
toy Poodle, and Mighty Mississippi and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to put
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the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going to do.
So a this one obviously stinks. It's like a sting
from a hornet for the Lions here because this was
supposed to be as well. The Chiefs aren't that good,
but still they're at home. It's prime time. You're going
against Mahomes and those guys. So this is a measuring
stick situation for Detroit, a barometer about where you are
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right now and how you match up, and a little
bit of a gut check even though the Chiefs don't
have a great record, and so where do you actually stand?
Let's see where do you actually stand? Man? Okay, big
boy stage right there Monday night or Sunday night rather
with NBC and all that and how'd that work out? Yeah,
on this night, on that particular night, Sunday night, you
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did not measure up. You just didn't. The game was
not even really close in the second half, right, it
was not. You watched the end. The Chiefs were in
total control of this thing. And this wasn't cute little
Detroit hosting the Chicago Bears in Motown on a Sunday
afternoon at Ford Field. This was not that. This was
(06:36):
Zarowhead National TV, big bright lights and all that stuff,
supposedly big boy football for the Lions here and an
angry Kansas City Chiefs team, and we saw what happened.
For the past month. Dan Campbell's Lions were the NFL's
IT team. I was asking my weekly appearance on with
(06:56):
my friend Bob Fesco show in Kansas City there on
our affiliate in the mornings on Thursdays, I pop on
there and say, well, it is the top team in
the NFL. I think Dusty might have asked me that,
and I said, well, right now, the Lions, the Lions
that they were the one that stood out. And so
the Lions go out there and get whooped whoop, But
he whooped in the second half of this game here,
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So all the attitude and the fake kneecap biting, all
of that. So then Mahomes and the Chiefs come out
and absolutely slap them in the mouth in the second
half of this game. And some will say, well, the
Lions were shorthanded, their defense was missing some people and
all that. Well, you still have to play the game.
You play the game with with who's out there and
(07:41):
no excuses. And Kansas City again defensively, they controlled the
game and offense compared to how they had played recently.
This was a night and day throwback performance, vintage performance here.
Twenty six first downs, three hundred and fifty five yards,
the Chiefs toying with them in the first half and
(08:04):
then never trailed after halftime. They led from soup to
nuts in the second half all the way through, and
Aiden Hutchinson, that Detroit defense looking like a team there
that was taking part in the ice buck bucket challenge,
and they did not handle the ice water, did not
(08:25):
handle that very well.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
There.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
They got hypothermia. Bad job by them, reality check, slap boom,
all that stuff. As they go down the Lions go
down there. Now, Dan Campbell is the head coach of
the Detroit football team, and we're gonna get his comments
in a minut. Let's go to Jared Golf though, here's
Jared Goff. This is Jared Golf on the ineptitude of
(08:48):
the Detroit Lions. Take a listen. On offense, I thought.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
We hadn't move the ball decently, I think with limited
possessions certainly, and so were they on offense. We were
kind of both playing that game of long possessions.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And when you.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Play the game you got a score, you gotta fishing
with touchdowns, and they did and we didn't. That first
drive getting the touchdown have been nice field goals, you know,
consolation prize there. But then we had a couple of
drives we just didn't three an hour or five an
hour at front and yeah, so if you're gonna play
that time possession game, you gotta score at the end
of him and they did it more than we did.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So clearly my TV is not working because I did
not see that game. I did not see the game
that Jared Goff described there at all. I think Jared
Goff matter have had a concussion or something like that.
That was a welcome back to her situation for the
MotorCity kiddies. Now, let's not gloss over. Let us knock
gloss over the end of the game. As safety Brian
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Branch refusing the niceties from Patrick Mahomes. As we said there,
Mahomes offering to give him a handshake or a little
fist bump there, and instead he decided to wallop. It
was a mollywop Juju Smith Schuster in the helmet. Now
it's dumb because the guy's wearing a helmet, So it's
it's just stupid because the guy's got a helmet on
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and all that stuff, and not as actually a real
tough guy move. You're not Rocky Balboa out there, and
you're the guy the Lions here who got knocked out
in the third and fourth round. And then your guy
threw a tantrum after the game. Who goofed? I've got
to know on the way out the Now, the Lions
(10:20):
are good and all that, but that was pretty pathetic.
Here's Dan Campbell on the extra curricular activities post game
in Arrowhead.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I'm disappointed because you know, it's been a long time
since you're watching somebody kneel it three times in front
of you, and it's not even close. You know, you're
down two scores. I mean, we got we got worked
pretty good. So so yeah, it's disappointing. It's really disappointing.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay, well, the Lions go down there, the Chiefs still
at the grown up table there, moving on to the
other side, and that would be the winning side, the
Kansas City side from their perspective. Does this count? Here's
the question. Does this count as a state victory for
Andy Reid and the Chiefs here in week six? Al Right,
(11:08):
So now here's the problem. That was a statement win
as much as a Week six NFL game can be
a statement win.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Mahomes and Kelsey were wobbly, very wobbly, uh for the
beginning part of the season, and and so this was
one of those situations like, hey, we're still around, you know,
remember us, We're still here. We haven't left. We're just
off to the side, and you know, we have every
intent of still being here at the end of the
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year and all that stuff. And there was just a
little more juice, just a little more right there for
one night, anyway, whether this has any kind of continuation
or not, for one night, the Chiefs look like the
Chiefs of recent years and you know they they is
that going to continue ive? Who knows you We'll see
(12:00):
the swagger was back there. That was like a toy
poodle marking its territory on a hydrant, if you know
what I mean. Right there, nobody beats the whiz. They
took care of that right there. You could see from
the opening drive that it's say, hey, this is our
house and all that stuff. And they went there two
hundred and fifty seven yards to get from Mahomes. She
had three touchdown passes, one touchdown on the ground. So
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all around, sharing the sugar and the defense for Kansasy,
which was good in Jacksonville. It's not like they were
bad in Jacksonville until the final play when they stood
there and watched Lawrence fumble and futs around and getting
the end zone and all that stuff. But the second half,
that is when Detroit really flexed, right, they really did.
Detroit's firepower was totally neutralized in the second half of
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this game. I'm on Ross Saint Brown rather quiet. Jared Goff,
despite what he said, nothing special, nothing, just kind of
a blah blah type situation, couldn't get much of anything
other than those checkdowns. Charlie Checkdown for much of the
second half there for the Detroit Lions, and so they
scored seven points over the final thirty minutes. Now, I
(13:06):
didn't play in the NFL, so I off to check
with Ryan Clark on this. But I don't think that's good.
I don't think that's good. And so Kansas City and
then slamming the door shut. And a credit to Steve Spagnolo,
the defensive coordinator there is his guys were flying all
over the place in this one. And that is the
first time in weeks that I watched Kansas City and thought, Okay,
(13:31):
there you go. All that crap. He said, Wow, championship,
DNA and all that stuff. That's it the mode Joe Potato,
big time win, big time win. So there you go.
That's the roadside billboard the Chiefs have put up for
the rest of the NFL said, you thought we were slipping,
I think again. Now they had looked like a team
(13:53):
that was sleepwalking, losing to all the good teams they
had played and then beating the bad teams they had played.
And this is the first quality opponent the Chiefs had beaten.
The Ravens are a bad team. The Giants are a
bad team, but they would last week. They're still a
bad team. You know, don't mistake Jackson Dart playing well.
(14:15):
They didn't play that game. That was a Russell Wilson game.
That started the Sunday night game against can Zaw City.
So everything seemed like it was in place. Even Andy
Reid's mustache seemed like it belonged there. It had extra
hair to it. It was good to go there. So
the lesson do not sleep, do not sleep on the
(14:37):
Chiefs there. They are still the standard, the gold standard
in the AFC. And you know here we'll see Buffalo
plays on Monday Night. The Bills play, I believe Atlanta
on the Monday night card. And that's the other team.
I mean, look around. Who else the Ravens have fallen
apart Pittsburgh's four and one? Are you considering them legit
in the AFC? The Chargers? Who's the t all? Right? Now,
(15:01):
last word, let's address the heel A monster in the room,
the story that everyone will be talking about over the
next twenty four hours when they talk about the NFL weekend.
And that'll be one week, one week after it was
Uglee with a capitol U Ugu Lee for the Chiefs.
(15:22):
They flipped the script in this game against the Lions.
I'm talking about from the officiating standpoint on Sunday, the
Detroit Lions the opponent. There there were no accepted penalties, none, none.
Against Kansas City. Detroit declined an offside penalty on Chris
Jones late in the fourth quarter. But that's it, that's all.
(15:46):
That's all there was. Detroit was penalized four times for
thirty eight yards, and those mistakes swung the game. All
four of them swung the game. It's not my opinion,
it's a fact. You can go down point by point.
An illegal motion penalty wiped out a trick play touchdown
(16:06):
on the first quarter against Detroit. There was a defensive
pass interference call that extended Kansas City's go ahead drive
before halftime. The roughing the passer penalty in the fourth
quarter set up a touchdown that pushed the Chiefs lead
to double digits. So you see where I'm going with this. Now,
question here's the question, what do you make of the
(16:29):
Chiefs being we are told the second team in the
last seventy years, just the second team in the last
seventy years, to have no accepted penalties against them in
a regulation NFL games, only the second time in seventy
years that this has happened. So this one, Hey, it's smells,
(16:50):
all right, I mean just calling it's the smells it does.
I mean it reeks of the shield doing what the
shield does best, protecting the crown jewel and above buying
into a conspiracy. I'm not. I mean, you didn't say
by the fourth quarter, I didn't notice the body language
of the Detroit line, some of the guys in the secondary.
(17:12):
It looked like they were in a telephone tree with
the irs and they were getting bounced around and all
that stuff. Detroit had measured the fourth penalties for thirty
eight yards in this game, and just about every single
one of them, as we laid out here, took points
off the board or helped Kansas City put points on
the board. And that is not just bad luck. Okay,
(17:34):
that's not just bad luck. That is again the heal
of monster in the room, biting the kneecap, nibble, nibble, nibble,
right at the kneecap there. And this is the part,
this is the part where the NFL deep state comes slithering,
slithering right out. Now, is that the Taylor Swift effect
(17:58):
is that what that is was a phone call made.
Was this a point of reference? A point of emphasis
for the NFL referees in this game? It stands out
so much that it'd be hard to believe for a
rational person that this was not a point of emphasis
(18:18):
for the NFL. The officials are given their directions before
every game what to look for, what's a point of emphasis.
I find it impossible that a message was not sent
down to just kind of observe and only call the
obvious penalties. Don't interfere with Kansas City at all. And
(18:40):
you've got the most marketable pop star on the planet
who's now an NFL wag wag Wag wag wag. She's
a wag. Yeah, And you think the league wants a
sub five hundred, two and four Kansas City team, they
lose this game, they'd be two and four poase. No, No,
they want those cutaways, those reaction shots, they want the
(19:02):
merch sales. The TV hype is it built in. It's
baked into the NFL. It's absolutely baked in. And this game,
with the lack of penalties, was the shortest Sunday night
game in fourteen years. It's been fourteen years, fourth shortest ever,
(19:22):
fourth shortest ever. And of course, how does that happen.
That happens because there's no those no penalty flags of
the officials. I'm sure it was just a quinkie dink
that they decided to swallow the whistle like they were
entering the witness protection program and they're like, that's like
those kids. Kids are supposed to be seen, not heard.
And that's the referees there. And then when the NFL
(19:43):
wants that's the lesson. When the NFL wants a game
to flow, all right, they make it a point of emphasis,
and it flows like the Mighty Mississippi. It just flew by.
And when they want chaos, it is a flag day festival.
Everyone gets a flag, flags in the air everywhere if
(20:04):
they want that. And so this game flip the script.
Last week was a flag day on Monday night and
this week protect the brand at all costs. You got
to protect the brand there, protect the Swifties, protect mahomes
and the pigskin Illuminati, the Illuminati at work.
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Monday night football twin. But we'll get back to the baseball.
If you're on hold, you want to the app out
the baseball As the Mariners are up two zero on
Toronto and the Dodgers barely get by the Milwaukee Brewers
in Game one of the NLCS, and if the Mariners
and Dodgers play in the World Series, the entire sports media,
(22:42):
the the triangle of sports media on the East Coast,
is going to lose their money. I don't want to
watch that. Who wants to watch the Mariners of the
Dodgers of the world. So of course they're gonna complain.
If Toronto's in there, they're gonna complain. If Milwaukee's in it,
this is gonna complain. Oh, this is so bad, all right. Anyway,
to the football twin Bill on a Monday night, you've
got Troy Aikman and Joe Buck they were doing the
(23:04):
Fox Refugees. We're doing the game on ab They were
there in the booth. Doub Bears, Dob Bears, fresh off
the bye week, trying to snap out of that hibernation.
The Chicago Bears team against the squad formerly known as
the Redskins. Right, they were the match up there and
Caleb Williams and Dob Bears get the better of Jaden
(23:28):
Daniels if he did not see the game as they
take down the Commanders on the final play as time
ran out, Chicago defeating Washington by one point twenty five
twenty four on a thirty eight yard field goal by
kicker Jake Moody. Yes, the same Jake Moody who was
fired by the forty nine Ers. The same Jake Moody
(23:50):
who was at Loggerheads with his teammates on the sidelines
because he missed so many kicks in a forty nine
er uniform. Well, he makes the game winner as he
was the interim kicker there for the team from Chicago,
the Chicago Bears, paced by DeAndre Swift, he ran for
one hundred and eight yards on just fourteen carries. I'm
(24:11):
told that's pretty good. I'm told that's pretty good, and
also grabbed a pair of receptions for sixty seven yards,
including a fifty five yard catch and run yack and
e yack yards after the catch there for a touchdown
against a very sloppy Washington defense poor tackling there by
that defensive units of the Bears are over five hundred.
(24:34):
Don't tell anybody, but the Chicago Bears are over five hundred.
At three and two, They're coming off their bye week
and they have now extended their winning streak to not one,
not two, but three apes in a row. So the
Bears have won three straight under Ben Johnson. But the
better story is in the losing locker room. So that
is where we will begin, and the question what went wrong?
(24:56):
What went wrong for Jaden Daniels and the Washington football team.
And I've got Bart Simpson, Hollywood Squares, and Will Smith
and we'll combine all of these things together and make
the Baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the Baba Ganoosh is
what we're gonna make. So to kick off here, this
(25:17):
was a night to absolutely forget for Jade and Daniels,
the prodigy, the breakout star of the twenty twenty four
NFL season, not just Jaden Daniels, but the Commanders in general.
Jayden and Daniels is the headliner and all that. And
my word, and it's a conjoined word, but my word
for this night for Jaden Daniels and the Commanders is
(25:40):
self inflicted. Self inflicted is the term I will use
here most games, as a rule, we have several truisms,
if you will, several of the points that are part
of the ethos of the show. Better stories in the
losing locker room and most games are lost, not one.
These two things are related. You see the better stories
(26:02):
in losing locker room because most of the time somebody
eft up to cost their team the game. This is
a great example of it. This is exhibit exhibit to
exhibit A. If you will exhibit A on this you
don't need a zib Bruder film style frame by frame
breakdown to figure it out. Jade and Daniels. I know,
Halloween's a few weeks away here, we're in the middle
(26:23):
of October. So but Jane Daniels picked up his Halloween
costume a little early. He decided he wanted to be
Bart Simpson. And he said, you know, when you're Bart Simpson,
you got to hand out candy, and I'm going to
hand out butterfinger And he used his butter fingers to
give the game to the team from Chicago. Daniels out
(26:44):
there in the rain, rainy night and auditioning for the remake.
I don't know if this is still on the air,
the America's Funniest Home Videos. That used to be a
think back in the day, but it still really but
it must be America's Funniest Cell Phone Videos exactly that. Yeah,
no home video. But he had Jaden Daniels one interception,
he had two fumbles, lost one of the two fumbles
(27:07):
in the game. Also, his running back Jacoby Krosky Merritt
also fumbled on his own. So those three hairballs coughed
off by the Washington football team gift wrapped thirteen points,
thirteen points for Eugene in Chicago's bears as they get it,
(27:30):
and now they might as well have left the Amazon
package on the porch. And then Washington just invites Caleb
Williams to come over there and come pick it up
before the porch pirates get it. And he picked up
the packages. I like the package. That's a good package.
And here's the thing, Chicago wasn't even that shark like.
This was not the most esthetically pleasing matchup. It was not.
(27:53):
Chicago had nine penalty I think were over eighty yards
in penalties. They were begging, begging Washington to put the
game away, but Washington said, na, na, you know we
can't have it. We want you. Very similar to the
end of that Dodger Brewers game in the NLCS where
the Dodgers tried to give the game away and the
Brewers like Pogo sticked out of the batter's box and said,
(28:15):
we don't want the game. And then the same thing
here the magic carpar It was a magic carbreak. We
agree on that it was a magic carpet ride. Last
season NFC title game. And there's some turbulence going on
now right, there's some turbulence. This is not a team
that looks like a playoff team right now, just based
(28:35):
on what we saw here recently. They did beat the Chargers,
the beaten and broken Chargers in the previous game. But
if you look at Dan Quinn Medicine Man's Washington Commanders,
one week they are the Grandfather clock ticking perfectly, and
the next week they're busted in in a pawn shop.
And it goes back and forth, it goes back and forth.
(28:58):
And then on the other side, the Bears, they come
out of the bye week, they're feeling all good about themselves, right,
they win their third straight game. And we were goofing
on Ben Johnson earlier in the year, some turbulence to
begin the seasons, behind the scenes, drama, o rama, and
now he's like, wow, he could be the coach of
the month, you know, why not? Coach of the month?
(29:20):
All excited. So the Bears feeling good about themselves, Washington
not so much.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
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Speaker 1 (29:31):
Attention everyone, and word is password, you idiot? Password? The
word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meler let's do
it password time, and let's welcome in our contestants. Here
we have is the Eenie Meani mini mode. Let's say
hello to Mike in New Hampshire, who was just talked about.
(29:54):
Hello Mike, welcome, good morning man.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
What a poor frection of me by r Gina I
mean blind Scott.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yes, Mike, who would you like to partner up with? Mike? Wow,
we're gonna win this, so let's play with you. All right,
we're in it to win it. Very nice. Hold on
sec Mike in New Hampshire, and let's see here. Let's
go with Keenie Meenie miney Moe. Edward is in San Antonio.
Hello Edward, welcome.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
All right, I'm glad I got in.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You got in, Edward, You're lucky day. You want to
play with Lorena or Cooper Loop as your partner on password?
All right, you're out of the show, Loraina. Very nice.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
Ever pick now.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I don't understand why I can't make I can't figure
it out. All right, we have a list of words here.
No cheating, no cheating. I'll lock you in and unlock
Mike in New Hampshire in all right, good luck to
you both. My guy's gonna win, MIKEE in New Hampshire.
We have a list of wards one to ten. Mike,
you want the heir first. Please pick a word, sir.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Let's number.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Number six. All right, let's go with let's see here.
I don't want to go with here. Hmmm. I think
that the word I want to use I think is
two words. So let me see if I can do
something else here. Let's go with m I think I can.
(31:25):
How about uh oatmeal?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I got nothing on that one. Okay, all right?
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Uh Edward?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Uh the clue. I'm going to give you snickerdoodle grit What.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
You've never had? Snickerdoodle grits? What's wrong with you? Coop?
What do you wrong?
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Don't don't listen to Best about clues?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
High clue. Now I think we've got it here. Let's
go with snicker doodle grits. Yes, they're very popular Carolina.
There's a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I think I got it. Uh, how about a short bread.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Porridge?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yo?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Come on, you're mocking You're mocking me, dude, you're mocking me.
What I said short storage? He said, no, he said
porridge porridge.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Even worse, you screwed everything up with your first clue.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I did not go ahead?
Speaker 7 (32:42):
Cool, come on, uh, Edward, let's go uh.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
With okay, baking, baking, Yeah, we're all.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
It's all for the clues for the same word, all
tied together.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Oh my god, what do you say?
Speaker 7 (33:07):
What you guys suck?
Speaker 8 (33:11):
It's it's it's cookie, the cookie, snipper noodle cookie, you know,
short bread cookie?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Oh my god? All right, Edward, pick pick a number
one to ten, but not six, my god, number one,
number one, alright, alright, now we got this.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Come on, Edward, chauffeur chauffeur.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Oh how about how about it? Motorists? Motorist Mike, Yeah, yes,
all right, pick another number of mines. Pick another number, Mike,
hurry up, hurry up? Four uh, number four, All right,
let's go with let me see here. Oh boy, I'm
(34:10):
gonna get to it for la. How about residue? Click car? No,
Oh my god, we're out of time. It was the
way we were looking for was dust. Wait when you
lost cool, you and your snicker doodle grits.
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