March 7, 2026 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about the Cowboys using the franchise tag on George Pickens, the Chiefs wanting a "full commitment" from Travis Kelce, RB David Montgomery getting traded from the Lions to the Texans, Maller's Mountain of Money: Method Man Edition, and more!
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Back to it we go, and we begin this hour
with that Dallas Cowboys win in doubt. Throw the Cowboys
out because the Cowboys are good for business in these parts,
and so that is what we're going to do. And
there's one storyline that is bigger than all the other
storylines with the Dallas Cowboys and involves a certain disgruntled
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wide receiver. So if you haven't been following this story,
the Cowboys recently while we were away placed the non
exclusive franchise tag on the back of George Pickens by George,
which means that if you would like to get your
hands on George Pickens, you can do that. You can
negotiate a contract with Pickens. However, you got to read
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the fine print However, the Cowboys would have a chance
to match any offer sheet that George Pickens agrees to,
all right, so if not, if not, then the team
that signs him would have to give the Cowboys not one,
but two first round draft picks as compensation. So that's
the deal on that. Now, if you've not been following
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the nitty gritty on this, and perhaps not, the state
funded NFL media saying that they do not expect they
do not expect George Pickens to sign the franchise tag
anytime soon, that he's going to drag this thing out.
As is normal protocol, you sign at the very last
minute if you're going to sign that at all, and
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that's how this goes. You crank up the drama. O rama.
Now we hear the Pickens camp, the Pickens camp. We're
going to try to find a team, play the match game.
Try to find a team that is a match for
George Pickens on a long term contract, and then it
will be up to the Cowboys whether or not they
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want Pickens to actually leave or not, and how desperate
they are to keep George Pickens. So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question is
How could George Pickens crowbar his way out of Jerry's World?
How does he get out of Dallas? How does he
get out of the cowboy locker room? So my observations,
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I got fruit of the loom, whole foods, and hunger games,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we're going to eat our own dog food, is what
we're going to do. You know, that's an old, old
business saying you got to eat your own dog food.
You got to consume your own product and all that,
and a lot of people don't do that anymore. We
do consume our own dog food, though, we do. We
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do on the show. So number one, all right, So
don't let the franchise tag hornswaggle. You do not allow
the franchise tag to commit scullduggery because it's not handcuffs.
It's this idea. Oh it's a handcuff situation. It's not handcuffs.
It is like a suggestion box that is decorated and
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wrapped in barbed wire. That's what it is. So the
playbook for the Great Escape, they get very traumatic. The
Great Escape from Jerry's World. You start by poking the bear.
You must poke the bear. You know it. You raise
a hullabaloo. You got to raise a hullabaloo. You become
the mosquito that is buzzing around Jerry Jones while he's
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sitting on those tremendously expensive Egyptian sheets that he sleeps
on there at three in the morning, and you just
bother him. And we've seen this before. It's a common movie.
It's a common movie. Here, Michah Parsons, he did something similar.
He stopped his feet, he had a conniption fit. He'd
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settled down just a little bit, banged the drama and
all that, and suddenly Jerry flinched and traded his ass
to Siberia to go play for the Green Bay Packers,
the Holy Land of the Cheese Curd. And that was that.
But Jerry for a long time, Oh now, we're gonna
keep Michaeh Parsons, We're not gonna trade him. And then
he did, so we know that for Jerry, chaos is
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really good. It's really really good. And they have enough
if they were to get rid of George Pickens, they
already have in Ceedee Lamb a top level wide receiver,
so they can get somebody else in there. To play
wide receiver. But Pickins has to be willing to play
the game. You gotta play the game if you really
want to get it. I would love the franchise tag.
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If the company I work for wants to give me,
you know, one year of cowhard money, I'd be very
happy at that. I would not complain. I wouldn't demand
the trade. I would take that and have a cheshire
cat smile to these guys, these NFL players, they bitch
so much about to sell the franchise tag. It's such
a such a hardship for these guys. It's so sad,
it really is. It's like working in a sweatshop having
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to make the average of the last five years of
players at your position or whatever it is, and in
the of the formula is it's really difficult. I don't
know how these guys sleep at night being franchise tag.
My god. So anyway, George Pickens here he's got. As
you said, play the game, send out some cryptic Instagram stories,
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you know, and send out some stuff of you wearing
different uniforms. That's always good this time of the year. Right,
Oh yeah, here's here's George Pickens wearing Oh look at
it is that a is that a Raiders j oh
he's wearing a Raiders orse. He wants to play for
the thirds the social media posts that have the Freemi
vibes to them, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, So,
and then you can go just full if you really
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want to upset Jerry Jones, you go full what I
call food of the loom. You know those T shirts.
I don't think they're like this anymore, but they used
to make those T shirts that had the label, They
had the tag on the back and it would poke
and kind of tickle you while you wore the shirt.
It was very annoying. So you gotta do that. You
gotta be annoying. You got to poke and annoy Jerry
Jones and make it uncomfortable, make it loud and messy,
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and Jerry will enjoy that for a while and then
at some point he will no longer enjoy it. And
that's the point of demarcation. That is the point of
demarcation there. And as far as the window shopping, you're
free to roam around the NFL try to work out
a deal. You got to go to Buffalo first. Now,
nobody really wants to live in Buffalo if they have
a choice. But that's the team. You go in there
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as the number one option at wide receiver. They don't
have a number they don't have a number two receiver
in Buffalo. You go in there, get paid a ton
of money. You got a top level quarterback. You're good
to go. You're good to go. Patriots, they aid the
Super Bowl. They don't have an assassin at wide receiver.
Go to New England. Now I mentioned the Raiders. They're
starving for anything irrelevant. If the Raiders were a show
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on Vegas on the strip, they'd be canceled because they're terrible.
Then you got teams like the Titans who suck that
need help, the Ravens who have a star quarterback that
need a big time wide receiver. So George Pickens is
the shiny toy that price. Who cares about draft picks?
I would trade all of my draft picks. I don't
give an f about draft picks. Now, Meanwhile, to Indianapolis
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we go. The scouting combine is oh vat e R.
It's all over the How are we gonna go on
with our lives? All those nugs, all the nuggets, all week,
every day. Fifteen thousand stories popping out of the scouting
Combine with its corporate sponsor there in Indianapolis, all those
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NFL people running up expense accounts at the two or
three high and restaurants in downtown Indianapolis. So the combine
is over, another year is in the books. Another one
bites the dust, Another one bites the dust. So I
don't know how much you consumed of the combine. Very little,
very little I had. I will admit I had it
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on in the background. I think it was Thursday. I
think it was Thursday. I had it on the background.
I did not really pay attention to it, so that
that's it. And I did monitor some of the names
that are being hyped up, for example, if you did
not partake in the NFL Scouting Combine consuming it. From
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what I understand, I could be completely wrong about this,
but from what I understand, the two studs that got
the most buzz are Notre Dame running back, Jeremiah Love.
That's the name of a star, JEREMYA.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Love.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
That's a star's name. You better not suck. And your
named Jeremiah Love. That's a big time name. The Golden Domer.
And then you've got Cincinnati wide receiver Jeff Caldwell, who
Jeff Caldwell, who had scouts drooling at the combine. You
might want to see a doctor, all right, So let's
discuss this the question what are your takeaways from the
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nuggets that came out of the scouting combine? What are
the big takeaways on this? So the annual Underwear Olympics,
the closing ceremonies, which includes something with rich Eisen who
used to work here back in the day. But the
whole thing has been commandeered, and in the last fifteen years.
This is not new, this is not a fresh take,
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but the last fifteen years, this thing has been commandeered.
It's a marketing junket. It's a marketing juncket. They roll
out the runway, you got the red carpet. They shine
the spotlight on the players that are entering the NFL
and they parade them out. It's like fashion re in Paris.
It's fashion week, and you know they're wearing not shoulder pads,
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They're wearing spandex. But that's it. That's what they did.
They got bright colored cleats on, they shoes, the whole
thing and they run around and they shake it took us.
That's how they do it right there boom on fashion Week,
NFL's Fashion Week, the NFL executives poking proud. They bring
in their trainers and their doctors and they get all
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the measurements and then the wingspans, and it's kind of
like going to Whole Foods and buying a cantilope. They're
measuring it like it's a cantilope at Whole Foods, except
their human beings. And so Jeremiah Love and this guy
Jeff Calwell, who I've never heard of. They won the
weekend allegedly from what I read. Maybe I read it wrong,
but they won the weekend. They look like Marvel superheroes.
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I'm sure they do Mazeletov. They look great. And it's
the NFL going full Hollywood. Hooray for Hollywood, Hooray for Hollywood.
It's Warner Brothers with the forty yard dash, is what
it is. And the draft is at this point, and
it's been this way as long as the draftsman. And
they try to add some sexy women and they add
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some fireworks and everyone's got a sob story and the draft,
you know, they all came from bad parts of town.
They all had no money. If anybody is drafted who
has a lot of money, they're shamed. What's wrong with you? Anyway?
The point of all this is the NFL draft is
when you break it down to its essence and you
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go back to bedrock. It's old dudes reading names off
a card. That's what the NFL draft is. There's nothing
exciting about it. Nothing. Let's just have somebody walk up
to a podium and read names. That's it. That's all.
Now they can add fog machines. They've tried that, hype videos,
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you know, the whole thing. And this is important. You
gotta start pumping up. This is the biggest event of
the offseason. You got to pump up these players. Send
out the press, release the hype videos, the dramatic piano
music in the background. You gotta have that. He's built like,
hey man, you know that old thing. You know, it's
it's the It might as well be produced by the
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people of Tutsi role who make that fluffy stuff cott
in candy with the throw some lollypops in there, some
Tutsi pops. You're good to go. Here's the reality check.
Though nobody knows anything nobody knows anything. When it comes
to the NFL draft, it is a spin of the
roulette wheel. You draft because somebody looks like the Incredible Hulk.
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They've got the measurables that you like, and that don't
guarantee anything. You're not gonna be a superstar because you
have the measurables. And as the old line goes from
back in the day, you can have the body of Tarzan.
But if you don't play like Tarzan, if you play
like yeah, it's not well, it's not well there you
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go play like Jane. So you don't know. What you
don't know is the point of all this. And you
don't know what you got until you open the box.
What's in the box, you don't know. Sometimes it's a
franchise level player and sometimes it's a honeysuckle turkey. We
cuts both ways, all right, now, final point. As the
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event of twenty twenty six came to an end, I
did notice the chatter that there are many NFL staffers
who think they're on thin ice. Now why is that?
Well a popular topic by popular people. The scouting combine,
artificial intelligence, Oh no, yes, and that it is spreading
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like a fungus, not the fungus hut, but it's spreading
like a fungus there. And the question whether or not
AI not Alan Irison, but AI will knock jobs for scouts.
There'll be fewer scouts and there'll be less coaching job.
And that's that because of AI and the many of
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the jobs that are currently done, the low level jobs
in the NFL are jobs that could easily be replaced
with AI and would be more accurate. And so this
is the concern that you have with people who work
in the NFL who are trying to make their way
up the ladder, that the ladder will be chopped down
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and they're going to fall down. So let us discuss this.
The question on this one, how do you see this
AI takeover of the NFL working out? All right? So
my first thought is I absolutely love this story. Now, yeah,
you hate in my job. Eventually we'll go there'll be
AI here. I'll lose my job the AI. I'm convinced
of that at some point. I believe that to be true.
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That said this, having covered the NFL for years back
when they had those fat guys that used to play
that smoked cigars and wore Hawaiian shirts, and they were
the scouts with the radar guns and all that and
the stop watches. Like that crowd, they got replaced. Almost
all of those guys got replaced by the Ivy League crowd.
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The analytical crowd came in. They flooded the league with spreadsheets,
and now they're the ones that are now in danger
of getting eaten by their own creation. How great is that?
The irony is just outstanding. So the same analytical crew
that took the NFL by storm, those nerds that flooded
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the NFL with all this stuff, they built this monster
in the lab where you put in all the numbers
and all that stuff, and now they're in danger of
being escorted out of the building with one cardboard box
with all their stuff in it. I've made that walk,
by the way. It's not a fun walk. It's not
a fun walk. I've made that walk before. But they
sold everyone on process over people. This was the argumenta
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process was more important than people. We don't care about
the human beings about the process. Okay, great, wonderful. Well
oh yeah yeah, Now the process is starting to replace
the people. It's the corporate hunger games, the corporate hunger
Games of the NFL, and maybe the odds be ever
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in your favor, Chad from Cornell or Mike from Harvard
or Steve from Yale or whoever. Good luck on that right.
And eventually it doesn't happen right away. I know in
radio it happens right away. But in other businesses, the
NFL's got a lot of money, so they can afford
to have no show jobs, which these jobs pretty much
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are no show jobs and all that stuff. Heckt The
Vikings GM who just got let go, was supposedly drafting
players based on Pro Football Focus or whatever it was,
and that was who he was drafting based on what
they recommended, rather than actually doing any scouting, which is
essentially what this would be. AI says to draft this guy. Okay,
it says, we'll draft that guy because that's what AI said.
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And then if anybody questions it, you say, well, the
AI said the drafted, So just blame AI. Okay, change
aies they okay, we'll change Aiyes, they just do it.
They whatever they're told. So. But the cost cutting does
eventually happen. It happens in every business, and it's it's
like they payroll slash and burn would be what this is.
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And there's so many more coaches now than there used
to be in all of these sports, so many more
now you can trim the fat away and I do
a little slash and burn situation, get rid of some
of these guys. And that's corporate America. One O, one man.
That's I've worked at big corporations for my entire adull
life and that's how they operate. But if the robot
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can right the Scouty report, then why have the scout right?
If the robot If AI can do what the nerds
can do, but they can do it quicker and they
can do it better, then what's the point. So my
point is my thing is this, Like AI is a
fine tool. I don't I'm not against it. The problem
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is when you start running these things like it's a
Madden franchise, you're just setting it up in franchise mode
and that's that and all. And the problem is that,
and then it's like they try to make this like
a science fair, which is also not great. It's like
a science fair. It should be a bar fight, not
a science fair. As far as I can, the NFL
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is concerned there, and AI can measure the wingspan. They
can do that. They can say, well, how many jumping
jacks can this guy do? Okay, he can do that many.
That sounds good. Can this guy do the old flip?
I don't know if he can do the flip? Let's
find out, well, lask AI and all that, but he
cannot measure. This is the thing AI cannot measure and
will never be able to measure, is whether or not
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player X has any guts or he has that. And
you can't measure who's going to panic in front of
seventy five thousand people on a Sunday night in the
fourth quarter because they have tight Tukas syndrome. There's no
AI program that will tell you that it's going to happen, right,
but it does happen, and oftentimes you find that information
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out by the scouting community. So it's like a chainsaw thing.
Realizing it's like a chainsaw, which is useful until you
forget it's you know, it's sharp, and then you can
get hurt by it.
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So our lead this hour from Canna City, the home
of the Ben Mallard Chicken Fingers in Kansas City, right
there the landing. We had a great Mallard meet and
greet couple of years back there. It was awesome, had
a couple of Mallard meet and greets in Kansas City
over the years. Well, Travis Kelcey, Yeah, did he retire? No,
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he did not retire. He did not. Supposedly, The latest
is Travis Kelcey and the chiefs are in deep conversation
about the plans for the twenty twenty six season. Have
you been following this now because you have a life,
you're not following this? Let me fill you in, So
have you missed it now? Kansas City expects Travis Kelcey
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to play, supposedly, although they haven't gotten the official word.
Oh the drama, so they haven't gotten the official word.
They want a decision by the end of the week.
By the end of the week, and they wanted to
says okay, so good okay. Now that would give them
if Kelsey decides to say X nay on the football
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a that would give them time to go out and
turn over some rocks and try to find another tight
end and look at the draft, the twenty six NFL
Draft if they need to find a Success's kind of
obvious there. But wait, there's more as every great infomercial,
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the late night staple, the classic. But wait, there's more
from Ron Poppel, who was supposed to appear on my
podcast and he decided not to do it and then died.
How dare him anyway? State funded NFL Media. State funded
NFL Media tells us that the Chiefs General Manager, Brett Veach,
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Brett Veach the GM there now he wants to make
sure that Travis Kelcey is all in if he does
end up playing in twenty twenty six That is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question the Chiefs,
according to this report, saying they want full commitment from
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Travis Kelcey for the twenty twenty six NFL season. How
are you interpreting this? So I've got subpoena, jello salad,
and dodgeball, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to have a delicious grilled
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cheese sandwich. Is what we're gonna have, with the cheese
on the outside and the inside of the grilled cheese. Now,
a looking at the situation in Kansas City, the Chief's
Kingdom as they call it, from thirty thousand feet looking
down here and then getting a little closer, and a
little closer and a little closer. I see a house divided.
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Oh the drama I do. I see a house divided.
To me, this one doesn't pass the smell test. Now
to the average consumer, or you'll say, wow, what are
you talking about, Mallard? You have big donkey. You don't
know what you're talking about. There is just nothing. I
think there's something there because I have a better schnaz
than you do. I can smell. I can smell better
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than you so this smells like the scent of passive
aggressive behavior. See power play, power play, if you will
at one arrowhead drive there before they move to Kansas.
Now the chief she am here, Brett Veach, the man
of the hour. He's out there playing mister nice guy.
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It's good cop, bad cop. He's being the nice guy,
you know, good cop and all that. However, if you
listen between the words, if you read between the lines,
shall we what do you say here when the jam
the general manager of an NFL team comes out and
announces says, listen, I need this player to be a
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thousand percent all in. I need this player to be there.
That is not a compliment. That is not a compliment.
That is like issuing a subpoena, is what it is.
It's like, hey, think about seriously, when you peel back
the onion, what do you get? Right? You don't have
to ask the guy who's already in the gym at
six in the morning if he's committed to the team.
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So by doing this, the obvious conclusion you connect the
dots on this one. And the obvious connection is that, listen,
you asked this guy who's spent the last couple of
years jet setting where it was the era's tour, traveling
around the globe, game show, cheesy game shows, bad acting
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with Adam Sandler, all that stuff, right, And he spent
more time, got more miles, more air miles than he
did yards his numbers, so a lead balloon. It was
not good. It was not good. So you know, you
look at the tight end five travel. Kelsey was not
good enough. He was multitasking and the brand and all
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that stuff. And so the chiefs, if you want to
get next level dramatic, they're in the swifty standoff, if
you will, because that big celebrity wedding coming up in
the spring here and we're home, I mean not that
far away, right, we're closing in on that, and so
they need the tailor effect. The business side, they need that, right.
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The balance sheet says, let's go for it, let's do it.
The football side, Yeah, the football side, see's a thirty
six year old or something like that, asset that's running
on fumes. Whatever Kelsey is, he's getting up there, and
the GM's essentially saying the way I use the Mallard
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Dakota ring, the general manager Breadviach there is essentially saying, hey, Travis. Yeah,
it's me. I am the GM and the Chiefs. Okay, hey,
what's going on the rock Star Live or the first
Hubby of the rock Star Life? That can wait? Right,
So either you put the glitter away, put the glitter away, uh,
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hit the weights and all that stuff, or go be
the first hubby full time. You know, it's it's an
awkward pickle, is what it is. There's never really a
good pickle, So it's an awkward pickle. But Kansas City,
you know, they want the after glove. The Chiefs, they
want to continue this as long as they can of
the Taylor's swift effect. However, they need an upgrade on
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the field. That's the problem. That's the conundrum. That's the
conundrum right there, it's time to decide to a Hall
of Fame career. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Hadn't been a Hall of Fame level player the last
couple of years, though, Kelsey, and so what are you
gonna do? What are you gonna do? Meanwhile, speaking what
are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
When I saw this, I thought, well, this must be satire,
this story out of Minnesota. But there's a lot of
stories out of Minnesota that make me roll my eyes,
but this one in particular. So the Vikings are window
shopping for a savvy veteran starting quarterback, at least a
former starting quarterback, so they know they need some insurance.
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They need a little bit of insurance there for McCarthy.
Actually need a lot of insurance for JJ McCarthy, not
a little bit. A lot of insurance for JJ McCarthy.
And the story that was very arrogant. It was like, Wow,
they think that they've got such great coaches and they've
got justin Jefferson that they can pretty much bring in
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any shmo and whatever dingle Berry they pick will put
up big numbers and lead them to victory because they've
got talent, they've got coaching and all that stuff. And
the name that popped up here, the name that popped up,
I saw that you see this? No Geno Smith? Geno Smith?
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Is that not comedy? Gold? My god? So good? Yeah,
the Raiders car So the quarterback Gino Smith, who was
not very good in Seattle and approved, he wasn't very
good with the Raiders, and he is a person of
interest for the Purple people eaters. All right, question, So
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the Vikings, if you believe the chatter, are interested in
Raiders quarterback Geno Smith, who will likely be released, better
known as fired from his job there in Vegas. So
how does that taste? How does that the fact that
the Vikings are being connected? Get your skull out right
now to Geno Smith. So you're telling me that's the
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grand plan? Come on, like, that's the big Nordic reboot
in Minnesota. This is what you're gonna do, and you
JJ McCarthy, but well, we're gonna bring in Geno Smith? Really?
Is that right? You know what that tastes like? That
tastes like liverwurst and in jello salad, is what it
tastes like. Right, It's stomach turning. It's absolute stomach turning.
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It's puke in your mouth. And I got nothing. I'm
not a Viking guy or anything like that. I'm not
a Viking fan, and I have friends in Minnesota and
all that, but my god, like, this is so over
the top. You want to believe that this was one
of those stories that was put out there by the
agent hoping that it leads to something, Right, that the
agent leaked it, and that says, hey, float the Minnesota
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connected to Gino Smith. Maybe someone will bite there in
Minnesota and say that's a good idea. Now the alternative
is also ridonculous. Kyler Murray. Yep, fun sized quarterback Kyler Murray.
He comes with a booster seat. If you get him
in a trade, the Cardinals will throw that in the
booster seat. So there is that. So can you imagine
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choosing if those are your options? You've got Kyler Murray
and Geno Smith. So what I'd rather have the mutant
fungus which is over here? Or do I want the
bubonic plague bacteria which is over here? Which one would
I like? That is such a horrific combo dish if
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those are your options you're considering. If you're the Vikings,
my unsolicited advice would be to go out and get
Kirk Cousins and bring him back. Not that he's any good,
but I'd rather have him than Geno Smith or Kyler Murray.
At least he likes football, unlike Kyler Murray and Geno
Smith's just bad. At least occasionally, Kirk Cousins is halfway decent.
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Geno Smith. You think about his signature Marmo with the Raiders,
it was giving the bird to Raider fans. That was it.
And then in Seattle, his signature moment was after the
first game he played against the Broncos when he gave
this big speech about how nobody believed in me and
all that, and then the rest of his time in
Seattle proved that those people were right by being a
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middling quarterback. So good anyway. So that's where we are.
That's where we are Gino Smith. When the pocket collapses,
he is gift wrappeding turnovers. It's like he's Santa Claus there.
You get a turnover, you get a turnover, you get
a turnover. Good luck on that. And the decision making,
which melts faster than the ice over there on Lake
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Minnetonka in April. So, and he's been bad, Genos with
the last year was like the new level of bad.
It was the new level of bad. Fewer yards, more interceptions.
Team was terrible. He was horrific. And so they say, well,
he's a bridge quarterback. I love when people say Gino
Smith is a bridge quarterback. It's a drawbridge to nowhere
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with a hole in it. And that's the kind of
drawbridge quarterback he is. Meanwhile, to Motown. We go, we
get a trade. We got to trade. Hours after we
did a Mallard monologue. He was part of a Mallard
monologue about David Montgomery. He's a running back, David Montgomery.
He's been traded bye bye to Detroit. Say didn't want
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to be traded. Lions trading running back David Montgomery to
the Houston Texans for offensive lineman Juice Scrugs. Any relation
to Neui Scrugs, I don't know. Juice Scrugs and a
couple of draft picks. Nothing really worth our time of
fourth round pick. If you're into fourth round draft picks,
(32:41):
I recommend a nice therapist is what I recommend. Also
a seventh round draft pick. Well, that's even better, and
that's not till twenty twenty seven. So Montgomery on the move. Question,
who got the better of this David Montgomery trade between
the Lions and the Texans. So, after eight minutes long
(33:04):
deliberation of the available information, I've seen some people saying, Wow,
the Lions got the better of the trade. I'm like, really,
I didn't see it that way. It's cute, like the
whole trade. It's not a big trade or anything like that.
Let me talk about it for a couple minutes, because
we talked about David Montgomery in a previous episode of
the show. This comes after he had said that the
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report was he wanted out of Detroit, and he said, nah,
he refuted that report, and then hours later he's traded.
And so the winner's corner. To me, the arrow is
pointing towards Houston. It's a slight lean. It's not like
this is going to change all that much, but the
slight lean there. David Montgomery is not some spare part
that Houston found in the trunk next to the spare tire.
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It's not that. The moment, and this is what really
leaned it the direction of the Texans for me, the
moment I saw the messaging from the Lions front office,
the whispers of salary cap relief and we save some
money getting rid of David Montgomery. That is called playing
dodgeball with the truth. And anytime I hear a team
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say we got rid of this player because of the
salary cap, I know bull crap. I know it's bull crap.
It's the magic phrase that you can use to justify
anyone leaving your team, anything that maybe will be deemed unpopular,
that that might be unpopular. You know, it's the perfect boogeyman.
(34:36):
You go, yeah, but soar Cap, you have it, you
have it, you have it, they have it, Rabbit, you
have it, Salary Cap, Saburcap, and then dumb people they
just believe it. They accept it, they move on and
they say that's that. And listen, do I think Detroit
believes that Montgomery's cooked? Absolutely? They don't want to say that.
So when they say they said, ah, salary Cap, believe no.
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If they thought he was still good, he'd be on
the team. Think he's done. Do you trust the Detroit Lions?
Do they know what they're doing? Do they know? I
would think he can still be at least a short
yardagh goal line guy and get touchdowns that way and
be a wrecking ball type running back David Montgomery. I
think he's twenty nine next season. So the Lions again,
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the cap excuse. This is just my default programming. When
you hear the cap excuse, dead white dead, you're whit
that they are reshaping the narrative. They're they're manipulating the
narrative to fit it because they're a little scared. I say, well,
We'll just say the salvarycap, Salvy Cap, Salvycap, Salvy Cap,
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Sava cap, salbarcap.
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Are these the guys we're going to have played the game?
I don't know, I don't know what we'll see. I
guess they want to play, so we'll have him play.
All right, let's introduce them real quick here, and let's
see who do we have. You've got D Block in Miami. Hello,
D Block in Miami. Welcome sir, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Happy Tuesday, Happy.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Too, Happy Tuesday. This is a very important game to me.
You're not gonna you're not gonna futch around with this, right,
You're gonna try. You know your sports, You're ready to go. Yes,
I'm one hundred.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Let's go on.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
And what is your level of confidence that you're going
to win the game.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Let's do this?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Okay? All right? Who would you like to partner up
with their D block? You got me Ben or the
Kooper Loop? All right, it's a good choice by you.
And we have a Jed who actually was online to
play Mallards Mount of money. Hello, Jed, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
I mean ice is a metaphor for Mitchell Chris that
feat of me, am I not supposed to go to
the agency.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Or what all right? Come downsor Cooper?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Obit?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Are you whoever wasn't midches?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I'm sorry? I like you?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Other guys hockey? Okay? What are the category? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
This is Malard's mountain of money, the method Man edition
method Man, not not meth Man, Jed method Man. He
turned fifty five years old on Monday. Oh yes, double Nicchols.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
The categories are protect your neck cream or c R
E A M. I believe that's cash rules everything around me.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I love that song. Judgment Day and still on it?
And de block on the air. Hold on a second,
you punch this guy and d block? Hello, d Block?
Which category would you like? D block? All right? And Jed?
How about you?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Ay?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I is near's Judgment Day? All right? All right? Gentlemen,
you say, do not hang up or you will be
you will lose. Do not curse or you will lose.
So those are the rules. Very simple rule. Not that deep.
It's not that deep. Okay. We are maulments away, minutes
away from having this amazing competition. You got Jedhuo fled
(38:08):
from the Redneck Riviera and then d Blocks in Mimy.
It's an all Florida matchup, a Floridian matchup here, so
we will guarantee someone from Florida is going to win
this game. Someone from Florida's gonna win the game. You've
got Jed who fled with Coop. The team is gonna win.
D Block in Miami and myself and we will get
to that and we will do it next.
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Now, Malor's Mountain of money. Do you have what it
takes to get to the top. Probably not.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Let's get right back to the game. The matchup is set.
D Block is in Miami, Miami, Miami, and he's teamed
up with with me and he's gonna play. He's talking
to someone else right now, but he's on the air,
and we have Jed who fled? Hello, Jed, Okay, I'll
(39:56):
put you on hold.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Man.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
That's a good point. Chobytreat okay, all right, let's do it.
Here we go. It's the Method Man edition and d
Block you picked cream? Yes, all right, very good. These
athletes all held out for more money. We put forty
five seconds on the clock. Are you ready, d Block? Yes, sir,
all right, let's do it. Here we go. Quarterback He
(40:19):
just came out of retirement to play for the Colts
this year at the end of the year. Yes, all
time NFL leading rusher for the Dallas Cowboys. Yes, Pittsburgh
Steeler running back. He missed an entire year to go
hang out in your town of Miami and right, Jet
skis Yes, the greatest left handed pitcher for the Dodgers.
(40:43):
Played with the Brooklyn Dodgers, also the La Dodgers. Jewish guy, Yeah,
good job, but you Chiefs linebacker. Currently he's with the Chiefs.
Defensive star held out for a big contract a couple
of years ago. Generic name five guy. He coached the
Washington Wizards for a while.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Coach he got Yeah, too late, too late, too late.
Chris Jones was the chances Yeah yeah, alright, alright, uh jee,
I'm there all right, clip with jed U. We have
judgment days that correct, Yes, it is alright, alright. These
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athletes will be Hall of Fame eligible next year. So
twenty twenty seven, they will be Hall of Fame eligible.
H forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Super Bowl winning quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes, this
guy was the power forward for the Clippers during the
Lob City days. Yes, this guy was the catcher for
the Giants like forever.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
Uh, this guy was a cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks
during the Legion of boom Era.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Uh. Richer yep, arm yep. Uh.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
This guy beat cancer. He was a pitcher for the
Red Sox and the Cubs. One World Series with both
of them. Chris, No, all right, we'll skip that one.
This guy had the same all right. He was with
the seventy six ers. Originally he won finals MVP with
the Warriors. O.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Man, how many was that? Lorena not good? Won? No,
it was one very sort of sheet. Look at that.
Oh my god, Ena, Oh my god, we're tired. All right, there,
we'll go, all right. I was trying to come up
with ways he kind of came up with answer to this. Yeah,
(42:45):
you're you're a woman. Okay, calm down, let's see d block.
We have protect your neck and still on it, protected neck,
all right, protect your neck very good? Are these fleets
all had major neck injuries? Major neck injuries? Are you ready? Yes?
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All right? For forty five seconds of the clock where
we did first and last name, and we are on
our way and go here we go, all right. Colts
quarterback who played for the Broncos at the end of
his career, won a Super Bowl. Come on, uh, the
playmaker for the Cowboys. Yes, Cecil's son baseball player, played
(43:35):
for the Brewers and the Tigers. Did a lot of homeboutfield. Yes,
former Pittsburgh senior defensive back. He's a loudmouth on ESPN.
Now he's a talking head. He does a podcast. He
thinks he has answered all wise problems. No, not Shannon,
but the other brother who played for the Packers. Yes, good,
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you a third base third baseman.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
Alright, alright, alright, Jed here, all right, Jed, we have
still on it.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
These athletes are some of the oldest. These are some
of the oldest all stars of all time. All right,
forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. He's the
king on the Lakers right now, Yes, the all time
hit king. Yes, this guy was the Sandman closer for
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the Yankees. This guy was a quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens.
He won a Super Bowl with them. He's still playing
in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yes, yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
Guess guys a left fielder for the Red Sox. He
played twenty three seasons back in the day the three
thou and hits. All right, this guy was a point guard.
This guy was a point guard for the Celtics in
the fifties.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Jed choked. Jed who fled choked?
Speaker 4 (45:15):
I'm absolutely means that.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Joe Flacco, Joe de Block, you won, d Block. You
gotta go the deckad, you gotta go the deck it,
you gotta go the decade. Good jump by you, d
Block shot you took down Jed who fled?
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Jed?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
How embarrassed?
Speaker 3 (45:38):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (45:38):
What do you? What is that?
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Don't know?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
What are you yelling about? What do you?
Speaker 2 (45:41):
I said you go back and check it.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
I definitely said, Joe, No, you did not say you
did not say you said John, you said name. I
think he said name Jim. Even if you even if
you did, there wasn't enough points, even if you did
see that. All right, shut up about g Block anyone
you want to thank d Block for the win. Unbelievable
when Gobar is the whole city in Chicago, all right,
(46:05):
all of Chicago. Look at that. He's in Miami, his
heart's back in Chicago. There
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Back to it we go, and we begin this hour
with that Dallas Cowboys win in doubt. Throw the Cowboys
out because the Cowboys are good for business in these parts,
and so that is what we're going to do. And
there's one storyline that is bigger than all the other
storylines with the Dallas Cowboys and involves a certain disgruntled
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wide receiver. So if you haven't been following this story,
the Cowboys recently while we were away placed the non
exclusive franchise tag on the back of George Pickens by George,
which means that if you would like to get your
hands on George Pickens, you can do that. You can
negotiate a contract with Pickens. However, you got to read
(01:15):
the fine print However, the Cowboys would have a chance
to match any offer sheet that George Pickens agrees to,
all right, so if not, if not, then the team
that signs him would have to give the Cowboys not one,
but two first round draft picks as compensation. So that's
the deal on that. Now, if you've not been following
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the nitty gritty on this, and perhaps not, the state
funded NFL media saying that they do not expect they
do not expect George Pickens to sign the franchise tag
anytime soon, that he's going to drag this thing out.
As is normal protocol, you sign at the very last
minute if you're going to sign that at all, and
(02:00):
that's how this goes. You crank up the drama. O rama.
Now we hear the Pickens camp, the Pickens camp. We're
going to try to find a team, play the match game.
Try to find a team that is a match for
George Pickens on a long term contract, and then it
will be up to the Cowboys whether or not they
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want Pickens to actually leave or not, and how desperate
they are to keep George Pickens. So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question is
How could George Pickens crowbar his way out of Jerry's World?
How does he get out of Dallas? How does he
get out of the cowboy locker room? So my observations,
(02:42):
I got fruit of the loom, whole foods, and hunger games,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we're going to eat our own dog food, is what
we're going to do. You know, that's an old, old
business saying you got to eat your own dog food.
You got to consume your own product and all that,
and a lot of people don't do that anymore. We
do consume our own dog food, though, we do. We
(03:04):
do on the show. So number one, all right, So
don't let the franchise tag hornswaggle. You do not allow
the franchise tag to commit scullduggery because it's not handcuffs.
It's this idea. Oh it's a handcuff situation. It's not handcuffs.
It is like a suggestion box that is decorated and
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wrapped in barbed wire. That's what it is. So the
playbook for the Great Escape, they get very traumatic. The
Great Escape from Jerry's World. You start by poking the bear.
You must poke the bear. You know it. You raise
a hullabaloo. You got to raise a hullabaloo. You become
the mosquito that is buzzing around Jerry Jones while he's
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sitting on those tremendously expensive Egyptian sheets that he sleeps
on there at three in the morning, and you just
bother him. And we've seen this before. It's a common movie.
It's a common movie. Here, Michah Parsons, he did something similar.
He stopped his feet, he had a conniption fit. He'd
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settled down just a little bit, banged the drama and
all that, and suddenly Jerry flinched and traded his ass
to Siberia to go play for the Green Bay Packers,
the Holy Land of the Cheese Curd. And that was that.
But Jerry for a long time, Oh now, we're gonna
keep Michaeh Parsons, We're not gonna trade him. And then
he did, so we know that for Jerry, chaos is
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really good. It's really really good. And they have enough
if they were to get rid of George Pickens, they
already have in Ceedee Lamb a top level wide receiver,
so they can get somebody else in there. To play
wide receiver. But Pickins has to be willing to play
the game. You gotta play the game if you really
want to get it. I would love the franchise tag.
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If the company I work for wants to give me,
you know, one year of cowhard money, I'd be very
happy at that. I would not complain. I wouldn't demand
the trade. I would take that and have a cheshire
cat smile to these guys, these NFL players, they bitch
so much about to sell the franchise tag. It's such
a such a hardship for these guys. It's so sad,
it really is. It's like working in a sweatshop having
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to make the average of the last five years of
players at your position or whatever it is, and in
the of the formula is it's really difficult. I don't
know how these guys sleep at night being franchise tag.
My god. So anyway, George Pickens here he's got. As
you said, play the game, send out some cryptic Instagram stories,
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you know, and send out some stuff of you wearing
different uniforms. That's always good this time of the year. Right,
Oh yeah, here's here's George Pickens wearing Oh look at
it is that a is that a Raiders j oh
he's wearing a Raiders orse. He wants to play for
the thirds the social media posts that have the Freemi
vibes to them, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, So,
and then you can go just full if you really
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want to upset Jerry Jones, you go full what I
call food of the loom. You know those T shirts.
I don't think they're like this anymore, but they used
to make those T shirts that had the label, They
had the tag on the back and it would poke
and kind of tickle you while you wore the shirt.
It was very annoying. So you gotta do that. You
gotta be annoying. You got to poke and annoy Jerry
Jones and make it uncomfortable, make it loud and messy,
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and Jerry will enjoy that for a while and then
at some point he will no longer enjoy it. And
that's the point of demarcation. That is the point of
demarcation there. And as far as the window shopping, you're
free to roam around the NFL try to work out
a deal. You got to go to Buffalo first. Now,
nobody really wants to live in Buffalo if they have
a choice. But that's the team. You go in there
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as the number one option at wide receiver. They don't
have a number they don't have a number two receiver
in Buffalo. You go in there, get paid a ton
of money. You got a top level quarterback. You're good
to go. You're good to go. Patriots, they aid the
Super Bowl. They don't have an assassin at wide receiver.
Go to New England. Now I mentioned the Raiders. They're
starving for anything irrelevant. If the Raiders were a show
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on Vegas on the strip, they'd be canceled because they're terrible.
Then you got teams like the Titans who suck that
need help, the Ravens who have a star quarterback that
need a big time wide receiver. So George Pickens is
the shiny toy that price. Who cares about draft picks?
I would trade all of my draft picks. I don't
give an f about draft picks. Now, Meanwhile, to Indianapolis
(07:34):
we go. The scouting combine is oh vat e R.
It's all over the How are we gonna go on
with our lives? All those nugs, all the nuggets, all week,
every day. Fifteen thousand stories popping out of the scouting
Combine with its corporate sponsor there in Indianapolis, all those
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NFL people running up expense accounts at the two or
three high and restaurants in downtown Indianapolis. So the combine
is over, another year is in the books. Another one
bites the dust, Another one bites the dust. So I
don't know how much you consumed of the combine. Very little,
very little I had. I will admit I had it
(08:17):
on in the background. I think it was Thursday. I
think it was Thursday. I had it on the background.
I did not really pay attention to it, so that
that's it. And I did monitor some of the names
that are being hyped up, for example, if you did
not partake in the NFL Scouting Combine consuming it. From
(08:42):
what I understand, I could be completely wrong about this,
but from what I understand, the two studs that got
the most buzz are Notre Dame running back, Jeremiah Love.
That's the name of a star, JEREMYA.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Love.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
That's a star's name. You better not suck. And your
named Jeremiah Love. That's a big time name. The Golden Domer.
And then you've got Cincinnati wide receiver Jeff Caldwell, who
Jeff Caldwell, who had scouts drooling at the combine. You
might want to see a doctor, all right, So let's
discuss this the question what are your takeaways from the
(09:21):
nuggets that came out of the scouting combine? What are
the big takeaways on this? So the annual Underwear Olympics,
the closing ceremonies, which includes something with rich Eisen who
used to work here back in the day. But the
whole thing has been commandeered, and in the last fifteen years.
This is not new, this is not a fresh take,
(09:44):
but the last fifteen years, this thing has been commandeered.
It's a marketing junket. It's a marketing juncket. They roll
out the runway, you got the red carpet. They shine
the spotlight on the players that are entering the NFL
and they parade them out. It's like fashion re in Paris.
It's fashion week, and you know they're wearing not shoulder pads,
(10:05):
They're wearing spandex. But that's it. That's what they did.
They got bright colored cleats on, they shoes, the whole
thing and they run around and they shake it took us.
That's how they do it right there boom on fashion Week,
NFL's Fashion Week, the NFL executives poking proud. They bring
in their trainers and their doctors and they get all
(10:26):
the measurements and then the wingspans, and it's kind of
like going to Whole Foods and buying a cantilope. They're
measuring it like it's a cantilope at Whole Foods, except
their human beings. And so Jeremiah Love and this guy
Jeff Calwell, who I've never heard of. They won the
weekend allegedly from what I read. Maybe I read it wrong,
but they won the weekend. They look like Marvel superheroes.
(10:47):
I'm sure they do Mazeletov. They look great. And it's
the NFL going full Hollywood. Hooray for Hollywood, Hooray for Hollywood.
It's Warner Brothers with the forty yard dash, is what
it is. And the draft is at this point, and
it's been this way as long as the draftsman. And
they try to add some sexy women and they add
(11:08):
some fireworks and everyone's got a sob story and the draft,
you know, they all came from bad parts of town.
They all had no money. If anybody is drafted who
has a lot of money, they're shamed. What's wrong with you? Anyway?
The point of all this is the NFL draft is
when you break it down to its essence and you
(11:30):
go back to bedrock. It's old dudes reading names off
a card. That's what the NFL draft is. There's nothing
exciting about it. Nothing. Let's just have somebody walk up
to a podium and read names. That's it. That's all.
Now they can add fog machines. They've tried that, hype videos,
(11:50):
you know, the whole thing. And this is important. You
gotta start pumping up. This is the biggest event of
the offseason. You got to pump up these players. Send
out the press, release the hype videos, the dramatic piano
music in the background. You gotta have that. He's built like,
hey man, you know that old thing. You know, it's
it's the It might as well be produced by the
(12:12):
people of Tutsi role who make that fluffy stuff cott
in candy with the throw some lollypops in there, some
Tutsi pops. You're good to go. Here's the reality check.
Though nobody knows anything nobody knows anything. When it comes
to the NFL draft, it is a spin of the
roulette wheel. You draft because somebody looks like the Incredible Hulk.
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They've got the measurables that you like, and that don't
guarantee anything. You're not gonna be a superstar because you
have the measurables. And as the old line goes from
back in the day, you can have the body of Tarzan.
But if you don't play like Tarzan, if you play
like yeah, it's not well, it's not well there you
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go play like Jane. So you don't know. What you
don't know is the point of all this. And you
don't know what you got until you open the box.
What's in the box, you don't know. Sometimes it's a
franchise level player and sometimes it's a honeysuckle turkey. We
cuts both ways, all right, now, final point. As the
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event of twenty twenty six came to an end, I
did notice the chatter that there are many NFL staffers
who think they're on thin ice. Now why is that?
Well a popular topic by popular people. The scouting combine,
artificial intelligence, Oh no, yes, and that it is spreading
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like a fungus, not the fungus hut, but it's spreading
like a fungus there. And the question whether or not
AI not Alan Irison, but AI will knock jobs for scouts.
There'll be fewer scouts and there'll be less coaching job.
And that's that because of AI and the many of
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the jobs that are currently done, the low level jobs
in the NFL are jobs that could easily be replaced
with AI and would be more accurate. And so this
is the concern that you have with people who work
in the NFL who are trying to make their way
up the ladder, that the ladder will be chopped down
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and they're going to fall down. So let us discuss this.
The question on this one, how do you see this
AI takeover of the NFL working out? All right? So
my first thought is I absolutely love this story. Now, yeah,
you hate in my job. Eventually we'll go there'll be
AI here. I'll lose my job the AI. I'm convinced
of that at some point. I believe that to be true.
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That said this, having covered the NFL for years back
when they had those fat guys that used to play
that smoked cigars and wore Hawaiian shirts, and they were
the scouts with the radar guns and all that and
the stop watches. Like that crowd, they got replaced. Almost
all of those guys got replaced by the Ivy League crowd.
(15:09):
The analytical crowd came in. They flooded the league with spreadsheets,
and now they're the ones that are now in danger
of getting eaten by their own creation. How great is that?
The irony is just outstanding. So the same analytical crew
that took the NFL by storm, those nerds that flooded
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the NFL with all this stuff, they built this monster
in the lab where you put in all the numbers
and all that stuff, and now they're in danger of
being escorted out of the building with one cardboard box
with all their stuff in it. I've made that walk,
by the way. It's not a fun walk. It's not
a fun walk. I've made that walk before. But they
sold everyone on process over people. This was the argumenta
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process was more important than people. We don't care about
the human beings about the process. Okay, great, wonderful. Well
oh yeah yeah, Now the process is starting to replace
the people. It's the corporate hunger games, the corporate hunger
Games of the NFL, and maybe the odds be ever
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in your favor, Chad from Cornell or Mike from Harvard
or Steve from Yale or whoever. Good luck on that right.
And eventually it doesn't happen right away. I know in
radio it happens right away. But in other businesses, the
NFL's got a lot of money, so they can afford
to have no show jobs, which these jobs pretty much
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are no show jobs and all that stuff. Heckt The
Vikings GM who just got let go, was supposedly drafting
players based on Pro Football Focus or whatever it was,
and that was who he was drafting based on what
they recommended, rather than actually doing any scouting, which is
essentially what this would be. AI says to draft this guy. Okay,
it says, we'll draft that guy because that's what AI said.
(17:00):
And then if anybody questions it, you say, well, the
AI said the drafted, So just blame AI. Okay, change
aies they okay, we'll change Aiyes, they just do it.
They whatever they're told. So. But the cost cutting does
eventually happen. It happens in every business, and it's it's
like they payroll slash and burn would be what this is.
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And there's so many more coaches now than there used
to be in all of these sports, so many more
now you can trim the fat away and I do
a little slash and burn situation, get rid of some
of these guys. And that's corporate America. One O, one man.
That's I've worked at big corporations for my entire adull
life and that's how they operate. But if the robot
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can right the Scouty report, then why have the scout right?
If the robot If AI can do what the nerds
can do, but they can do it quicker and they
can do it better, then what's the point. So my
point is my thing is this, Like AI is a
fine tool. I don't I'm not against it. The problem
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is when you start running these things like it's a
Madden franchise, you're just setting it up in franchise mode
and that's that and all. And the problem is that,
and then it's like they try to make this like
a science fair, which is also not great. It's like
a science fair. It should be a bar fight, not
a science fair. As far as I can, the NFL
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is concerned there, and AI can measure the wingspan. They
can do that. They can say, well, how many jumping
jacks can this guy do? Okay, he can do that many.
That sounds good. Can this guy do the old flip?
I don't know if he can do the flip? Let's
find out, well, lask AI and all that, but he
cannot measure. This is the thing AI cannot measure and
will never be able to measure, is whether or not
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player X has any guts or he has that. And
you can't measure who's going to panic in front of
seventy five thousand people on a Sunday night in the
fourth quarter because they have tight Tukas syndrome. There's no
AI program that will tell you that it's going to happen, right,
but it does happen, and oftentimes you find that information
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out by the scouting community. So it's like a chainsaw thing.
Realizing it's like a chainsaw, which is useful until you
forget it's you know, it's sharp, and then you can
get hurt by it.
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So our lead this hour from Canna City, the home
of the Ben Mallard Chicken Fingers in Kansas City, right
there the landing. We had a great Mallard meet and
greet couple of years back there. It was awesome, had
a couple of Mallard meet and greets in Kansas City
over the years. Well, Travis Kelcey, Yeah, did he retire? No,
(20:24):
he did not retire. He did not. Supposedly, The latest
is Travis Kelcey and the chiefs are in deep conversation
about the plans for the twenty twenty six season. Have
you been following this now because you have a life,
you're not following this? Let me fill you in, So
have you missed it now? Kansas City expects Travis Kelcey
(20:44):
to play, supposedly, although they haven't gotten the official word.
Oh the drama, so they haven't gotten the official word.
They want a decision by the end of the week.
By the end of the week, and they wanted to
says okay, so good okay. Now that would give them
if Kelsey decides to say X nay on the football
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a that would give them time to go out and
turn over some rocks and try to find another tight
end and look at the draft, the twenty six NFL
Draft if they need to find a Success's kind of
obvious there. But wait, there's more as every great infomercial,
(21:25):
the late night staple, the classic. But wait, there's more
from Ron Poppel, who was supposed to appear on my
podcast and he decided not to do it and then died.
How dare him anyway? State funded NFL Media. State funded
NFL Media tells us that the Chiefs General Manager, Brett Veach,
(21:47):
Brett Veach the GM there now he wants to make
sure that Travis Kelcey is all in if he does
end up playing in twenty twenty six That is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question the Chiefs,
according to this report, saying they want full commitment from
(22:09):
Travis Kelcey for the twenty twenty six NFL season. How
are you interpreting this? So I've got subpoena, jello salad,
and dodgeball, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to have a delicious grilled
(22:29):
cheese sandwich. Is what we're gonna have, with the cheese
on the outside and the inside of the grilled cheese. Now,
a looking at the situation in Kansas City, the Chief's
Kingdom as they call it, from thirty thousand feet looking
down here and then getting a little closer, and a
little closer and a little closer. I see a house divided.
(22:51):
Oh the drama I do. I see a house divided.
To me, this one doesn't pass the smell test. Now
to the average consumer, or you'll say, wow, what are
you talking about, Mallard? You have big donkey. You don't
know what you're talking about. There is just nothing. I
think there's something there because I have a better schnaz
than you do. I can smell. I can smell better
(23:13):
than you so this smells like the scent of passive
aggressive behavior. See power play, power play, if you will
at one arrowhead drive there before they move to Kansas.
Now the chief she am here, Brett Veach, the man
of the hour. He's out there playing mister nice guy.
(23:34):
It's good cop, bad cop. He's being the nice guy,
you know, good cop and all that. However, if you
listen between the words, if you read between the lines,
shall we what do you say here when the jam
the general manager of an NFL team comes out and
announces says, listen, I need this player to be a
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thousand percent all in. I need this player to be there.
That is not a compliment. That is not a compliment.
That is like issuing a subpoena, is what it is.
It's like, hey, think about seriously, when you peel back
the onion, what do you get? Right? You don't have
to ask the guy who's already in the gym at
six in the morning if he's committed to the team.
(24:18):
So by doing this, the obvious conclusion you connect the
dots on this one. And the obvious connection is that, listen,
you asked this guy who's spent the last couple of
years jet setting where it was the era's tour, traveling
around the globe, game show, cheesy game shows, bad acting
(24:42):
with Adam Sandler, all that stuff, right, And he spent
more time, got more miles, more air miles than he
did yards his numbers, so a lead balloon. It was
not good. It was not good. So you know, you
look at the tight end five travel. Kelsey was not
good enough. He was multitasking and the brand and all
(25:06):
that stuff. And so the chiefs, if you want to
get next level dramatic, they're in the swifty standoff, if
you will, because that big celebrity wedding coming up in
the spring here and we're home, I mean not that
far away, right, we're closing in on that, and so
they need the tailor effect. The business side, they need that, right.
(25:29):
The balance sheet says, let's go for it, let's do it.
The football side, Yeah, the football side, see's a thirty
six year old or something like that, asset that's running
on fumes. Whatever Kelsey is, he's getting up there, and
the GM's essentially saying the way I use the Mallard
(25:49):
Dakota ring, the general manager Breadviach there is essentially saying, hey, Travis. Yeah,
it's me. I am the GM and the Chiefs. Okay, hey,
what's going on the rock Star Live or the first
Hubby of the rock Star Life? That can wait? Right,
So either you put the glitter away, put the glitter away, uh,
(26:11):
hit the weights and all that stuff, or go be
the first hubby full time. You know, it's it's an
awkward pickle, is what it is. There's never really a
good pickle, So it's an awkward pickle. But Kansas City,
you know, they want the after glove. The Chiefs, they
want to continue this as long as they can of
the Taylor's swift effect. However, they need an upgrade on
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the field. That's the problem. That's the conundrum. That's the
conundrum right there, it's time to decide to a Hall
of Fame career. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Hadn't been a Hall of Fame level player the last
couple of years, though, Kelsey, and so what are you
gonna do? What are you gonna do? Meanwhile, speaking what
are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
When I saw this, I thought, well, this must be satire,
this story out of Minnesota. But there's a lot of
stories out of Minnesota that make me roll my eyes,
but this one in particular. So the Vikings are window
shopping for a savvy veteran starting quarterback, at least a
former starting quarterback, so they know they need some insurance.
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They need a little bit of insurance there for McCarthy.
Actually need a lot of insurance for JJ McCarthy, not
a little bit. A lot of insurance for JJ McCarthy.
And the story that was very arrogant. It was like, Wow,
they think that they've got such great coaches and they've
got justin Jefferson that they can pretty much bring in
(27:36):
any shmo and whatever dingle Berry they pick will put
up big numbers and lead them to victory because they've
got talent, they've got coaching and all that stuff. And
the name that popped up here, the name that popped up,
I saw that you see this? No Geno Smith? Geno Smith?
(28:05):
Is that not comedy? Gold? My god? So good? Yeah,
the Raiders car So the quarterback Gino Smith, who was
not very good in Seattle and approved, he wasn't very
good with the Raiders, and he is a person of
interest for the Purple people eaters. All right, question, So
(28:29):
the Vikings, if you believe the chatter, are interested in
Raiders quarterback Geno Smith, who will likely be released, better
known as fired from his job there in Vegas. So
how does that taste? How does that the fact that
the Vikings are being connected? Get your skull out right
now to Geno Smith. So you're telling me that's the
(28:52):
grand plan? Come on, like, that's the big Nordic reboot
in Minnesota. This is what you're gonna do, and you
JJ McCarthy, but well, we're gonna bring in Geno Smith? Really?
Is that right? You know what that tastes like? That
tastes like liverwurst and in jello salad, is what it
tastes like. Right, It's stomach turning. It's absolute stomach turning.
(29:14):
It's puke in your mouth. And I got nothing. I'm
not a Viking guy or anything like that. I'm not
a Viking fan, and I have friends in Minnesota and
all that, but my god, like, this is so over
the top. You want to believe that this was one
of those stories that was put out there by the
agent hoping that it leads to something, Right, that the
agent leaked it, and that says, hey, float the Minnesota
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connected to Gino Smith. Maybe someone will bite there in
Minnesota and say that's a good idea. Now the alternative
is also ridonculous. Kyler Murray. Yep, fun sized quarterback Kyler Murray.
He comes with a booster seat. If you get him
in a trade, the Cardinals will throw that in the
booster seat. So there is that. So can you imagine
(30:01):
choosing if those are your options? You've got Kyler Murray
and Geno Smith. So what I'd rather have the mutant
fungus which is over here? Or do I want the
bubonic plague bacteria which is over here? Which one would
I like? That is such a horrific combo dish if
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those are your options you're considering. If you're the Vikings,
my unsolicited advice would be to go out and get
Kirk Cousins and bring him back. Not that he's any good,
but I'd rather have him than Geno Smith or Kyler Murray.
At least he likes football, unlike Kyler Murray and Geno
Smith's just bad. At least occasionally, Kirk Cousins is halfway decent.
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Geno Smith. You think about his signature Marmo with the Raiders,
it was giving the bird to Raider fans. That was it.
And then in Seattle, his signature moment was after the
first game he played against the Broncos when he gave
this big speech about how nobody believed in me and
all that, and then the rest of his time in
Seattle proved that those people were right by being a
(31:11):
middling quarterback. So good anyway. So that's where we are.
That's where we are Gino Smith. When the pocket collapses,
he is gift wrappeding turnovers. It's like he's Santa Claus there.
You get a turnover, you get a turnover, you get
a turnover. Good luck on that. And the decision making,
which melts faster than the ice over there on Lake
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Minnetonka in April. So, and he's been bad, Genos with
the last year was like the new level of bad.
It was the new level of bad. Fewer yards, more interceptions.
Team was terrible. He was horrific. And so they say, well,
he's a bridge quarterback. I love when people say Gino
Smith is a bridge quarterback. It's a drawbridge to nowhere
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with a hole in it. And that's the kind of
drawbridge quarterback he is. Meanwhile, to Motown. We go, we
get a trade. We got to trade. Hours after we
did a Mallard monologue. He was part of a Mallard
monologue about David Montgomery. He's a running back, David Montgomery.
He's been traded bye bye to Detroit. Say didn't want
(32:18):
to be traded. Lions trading running back David Montgomery to
the Houston Texans for offensive lineman Juice Scrugs. Any relation
to Neui Scrugs, I don't know. Juice Scrugs and a
couple of draft picks. Nothing really worth our time of
fourth round pick. If you're into fourth round draft picks,
(32:41):
I recommend a nice therapist is what I recommend. Also
a seventh round draft pick. Well, that's even better, and
that's not till twenty twenty seven. So Montgomery on the move. Question,
who got the better of this David Montgomery trade between
the Lions and the Texans. So, after eight minutes long
(33:04):
deliberation of the available information, I've seen some people saying, Wow,
the Lions got the better of the trade. I'm like, really,
I didn't see it that way. It's cute, like the
whole trade. It's not a big trade or anything like that.
Let me talk about it for a couple minutes, because
we talked about David Montgomery in a previous episode of
the show. This comes after he had said that the
(33:26):
report was he wanted out of Detroit, and he said, nah,
he refuted that report, and then hours later he's traded.
And so the winner's corner. To me, the arrow is
pointing towards Houston. It's a slight lean. It's not like
this is going to change all that much, but the
slight lean there. David Montgomery is not some spare part
that Houston found in the trunk next to the spare tire.
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It's not that. The moment, and this is what really
leaned it the direction of the Texans for me, the
moment I saw the messaging from the Lions front office,
the whispers of salary cap relief and we save some
money getting rid of David Montgomery. That is called playing
dodgeball with the truth. And anytime I hear a team
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say we got rid of this player because of the
salary cap, I know bull crap. I know it's bull crap.
It's the magic phrase that you can use to justify
anyone leaving your team, anything that maybe will be deemed unpopular,
that that might be unpopular. You know, it's the perfect boogeyman.
(34:36):
You go, yeah, but soar Cap, you have it, you
have it, you have it, they have it, Rabbit, you
have it, Salary Cap, Saburcap, and then dumb people they
just believe it. They accept it, they move on and
they say that's that. And listen, do I think Detroit
believes that Montgomery's cooked? Absolutely? They don't want to say that.
So when they say they said, ah, salary Cap, believe no.
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If they thought he was still good, he'd be on
the team. Think he's done. Do you trust the Detroit Lions?
Do they know what they're doing? Do they know? I
would think he can still be at least a short
yardagh goal line guy and get touchdowns that way and
be a wrecking ball type running back David Montgomery. I
think he's twenty nine next season. So the Lions again,
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the cap excuse. This is just my default programming. When
you hear the cap excuse, dead white dead, you're whit
that they are reshaping the narrative. They're they're manipulating the
narrative to fit it because they're a little scared. I say, well,
We'll just say the salvarycap, Salvy Cap, Salvycap, Salvy Cap,
(35:41):
Sava cap, salbarcap.
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Speaker 1 (35:49):
Are these the guys we're going to have played the game?
I don't know, I don't know what we'll see. I
guess they want to play, so we'll have him play.
All right, let's introduce them real quick here, and let's
see who do we have. You've got D Block in Miami. Hello,
D Block in Miami. Welcome sir, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Happy Tuesday, Happy.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Too, Happy Tuesday. This is a very important game to me.
You're not gonna you're not gonna futch around with this, right,
You're gonna try. You know your sports, You're ready to go. Yes,
I'm one hundred.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Let's go on.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
And what is your level of confidence that you're going
to win the game.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Let's do this?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Okay? All right? Who would you like to partner up
with their D block? You got me Ben or the
Kooper Loop? All right, it's a good choice by you.
And we have a Jed who actually was online to
play Mallards Mount of money. Hello, Jed, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
I mean ice is a metaphor for Mitchell Chris that
feat of me, am I not supposed to go to
the agency.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Or what all right? Come downsor Cooper?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Obit?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Are you whoever wasn't midches?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I'm sorry? I like you?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Other guys hockey? Okay? What are the category? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
This is Malard's mountain of money, the method Man edition
method Man, not not meth Man, Jed method Man. He
turned fifty five years old on Monday. Oh yes, double Nicchols.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
The categories are protect your neck cream or c R
E A M. I believe that's cash rules everything around me.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I love that song. Judgment Day and still on it?
And de block on the air. Hold on a second,
you punch this guy and d block? Hello, d Block?
Which category would you like? D block? All right? And Jed?
How about you?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Ay?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I is near's Judgment Day? All right? All right? Gentlemen,
you say, do not hang up or you will be
you will lose. Do not curse or you will lose.
So those are the rules. Very simple rule. Not that deep.
It's not that deep. Okay. We are maulments away, minutes
away from having this amazing competition. You got Jedhuo fled
(38:08):
from the Redneck Riviera and then d Blocks in Mimy.
It's an all Florida matchup, a Floridian matchup here, so
we will guarantee someone from Florida is going to win
this game. Someone from Florida's gonna win the game. You've
got Jed who fled with Coop. The team is gonna win.
D Block in Miami and myself and we will get
to that and we will do it next.
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Moments away from Malars Mountain of Money. A reminder that
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We're available, so Jack, I'd be sure also to select.
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Speaker 2 (39:25):
Now, Malor's Mountain of money. Do you have what it
takes to get to the top. Probably not.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Let's get right back to the game. The matchup is set.
D Block is in Miami, Miami, Miami, and he's teamed
up with with me and he's gonna play. He's talking
to someone else right now, but he's on the air,
and we have Jed who fled? Hello, Jed, Okay, I'll
(39:56):
put you on hold.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Man.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
That's a good point. Chobytreat okay, all right, let's do it.
Here we go. It's the Method Man edition and d
Block you picked cream? Yes, all right, very good. These
athletes all held out for more money. We put forty
five seconds on the clock. Are you ready, d Block? Yes, sir,
all right, let's do it. Here we go. Quarterback He
(40:19):
just came out of retirement to play for the Colts
this year at the end of the year. Yes, all
time NFL leading rusher for the Dallas Cowboys. Yes, Pittsburgh
Steeler running back. He missed an entire year to go
hang out in your town of Miami and right, Jet
skis Yes, the greatest left handed pitcher for the Dodgers.
(40:43):
Played with the Brooklyn Dodgers, also the La Dodgers. Jewish guy, Yeah,
good job, but you Chiefs linebacker. Currently he's with the Chiefs.
Defensive star held out for a big contract a couple
of years ago. Generic name five guy. He coached the
Washington Wizards for a while.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Coach he got Yeah, too late, too late, too late.
Chris Jones was the chances Yeah yeah, alright, alright, uh jee,
I'm there all right, clip with jed U. We have
judgment days that correct, Yes, it is alright, alright. These
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athletes will be Hall of Fame eligible next year. So
twenty twenty seven, they will be Hall of Fame eligible.
H forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Super Bowl winning quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes, this
guy was the power forward for the Clippers during the
Lob City days. Yes, this guy was the catcher for
the Giants like forever.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
Uh, this guy was a cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks
during the Legion of boom Era.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Uh. Richer yep, arm yep. Uh.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
This guy beat cancer. He was a pitcher for the
Red Sox and the Cubs. One World Series with both
of them. Chris, No, all right, we'll skip that one.
This guy had the same all right. He was with
the seventy six ers. Originally he won finals MVP with
the Warriors. O.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Man, how many was that? Lorena not good? Won? No,
it was one very sort of sheet. Look at that.
Oh my god, Ena, Oh my god, we're tired. All right, there,
we'll go, all right. I was trying to come up
with ways he kind of came up with answer to this. Yeah,
(42:45):
you're you're a woman. Okay, calm down, let's see d block.
We have protect your neck and still on it, protected neck,
all right, protect your neck very good? Are these fleets
all had major neck injuries? Major neck injuries? Are you ready? Yes?
(43:09):
All right? For forty five seconds of the clock where
we did first and last name, and we are on
our way and go here we go, all right. Colts
quarterback who played for the Broncos at the end of
his career, won a Super Bowl. Come on, uh, the
playmaker for the Cowboys. Yes, Cecil's son baseball player, played
(43:35):
for the Brewers and the Tigers. Did a lot of homeboutfield. Yes,
former Pittsburgh senior defensive back. He's a loudmouth on ESPN.
Now he's a talking head. He does a podcast. He
thinks he has answered all wise problems. No, not Shannon,
but the other brother who played for the Packers. Yes, good,
(43:59):
you a third base third baseman.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
Alright, alright, alright, Jed here, all right, Jed, we have
still on it.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
These athletes are some of the oldest. These are some
of the oldest all stars of all time. All right,
forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. He's the
king on the Lakers right now, Yes, the all time
hit king. Yes, this guy was the Sandman closer for
(44:37):
the Yankees. This guy was a quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens.
He won a Super Bowl with them. He's still playing
in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yes, yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
Guess guys a left fielder for the Red Sox. He
played twenty three seasons back in the day the three
thou and hits. All right, this guy was a point guard.
This guy was a point guard for the Celtics in
the fifties.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Jed choked. Jed who fled choked?
Speaker 4 (45:15):
I'm absolutely means that.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Joe Flacco, Joe de Block, you won, d Block. You
gotta go the deckad, you gotta go the deck it,
you gotta go the decade. Good jump by you, d
Block shot you took down Jed who fled?
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Jed?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
How embarrassed?
Speaker 3 (45:38):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (45:38):
What do you? What is that?
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Don't know?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
What are you yelling about? What do you?
Speaker 2 (45:41):
I said you go back and check it.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
I definitely said, Joe, No, you did not say you
did not say you said John, you said name. I
think he said name Jim. Even if you even if
you did, there wasn't enough points, even if you did
see that. All right, shut up about g Block anyone
you want to thank d Block for the win. Unbelievable
when Gobar is the whole city in Chicago, all right,
(46:05):
all of Chicago. Look at that. He's in Miami, his
heart's back in Chicago. There
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