November 10, 2022 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about Russell Wilson responding to Pete Carroll's comments about wearing a "wristband" for plays, the Cowboys leading the Odell Beckham sweepstakes, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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not about something that happened on the field. It's all
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about off the field. And the mantra of the show
the better story in the losing locker room, and better
story also where the news is, we go where the
story is, and the story takes us to two cities
this hour, Denver and Seattle. A couple of old pals
ratcheting up the noise, which is always good when you
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do talk radio. It's so great. It's the gift that
keeps giving Pete Carrol. Who know that Pete Carroll would
provide such content The ambassador of the Seattle Seahawks. There,
Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson over in Colorado, the headliners
in this audio kurf fluffle. If you haven't been following
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along because you actually have a life and you don't
pay attention to this stuff all the time, he might
have missed it. So during his weekly radio show, I
forget what station in Seattle, Not the good one we're on,
but the Seahawks coach Pete Carroll slobbered all over his
quarterback Gino Smith for wearing a wrist band with a
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playsheet this seasons, just to prove I'm not making that
we actually have some of the things that Pete Carroll.
You gotta remember Pete did not name Russell Wilson. He
just mentioned the resistance that the Seahawks had had with
previous quarterbacks. But let's let's have Pete explain what happened
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the long ship of sitting there and watching this scheme
in the in the concepts and the situations that Gino
has in his background, and then then putting it together
with Shane's communication Shane. He's getting everything he can get
out of Shane. Shane helps him all the way through
to the you know, to the fifteen second point. I
mean they're just communicating to get it done, and there's
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this conversation that goes on and so they work it out,
and Gino's taking advantage of all of that. If he
knows Gino's going off the off the wristband, that's a
big help. It's it's it's smooth things out, sped things up,
clean things up. And that's that's part of it too.
And and you know we never did that before. There
was resistance to that, So we didn't do that before.
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Oh see, that was resistance. He was not about Shane Waldron,
who Pete also slobbered all over there the offensive coordinator
Old Ram assistant in Seattle. So it sounds what Pete
said there, it sounds like what what Shane Waldron, the
offensive coordinator is doing is what Sean McVay used to
do for Jared Golf, where you spoon feed him and
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pretty much tell him, hold his hand and tell him
what to do. In this case Geno Smith and it's
working out. But the money part of that was Pete's
comments about wearing a wrist band. That was the part
of the quote that had legs that it makes the
play calling more efficient and that the keyword their resistance.
There was resistance that. Now, again he didn't reference Russell
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Wilson directly. It was an indirect shot, but he didn't.
After Russell Wilson has been the quarterback, had been the
quarterback in Seattle for the last decade. So with that happening,
what do the media people do? They take a quote.
They said, it's like the kid the instigator on the playground,
they run over the other kid. Did you hear what
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Johnny said about you? So a reporter in the Milehi
City then went up to Russell Wilson at his news
conference and said I need reaction, Russell, I need reaction
on the statement made by Pete care. Of course, Pete,
you just played We just played the sound bite that
Pete Gabe and so us feigned like he had no
idea what was actually said, but then answered the question,
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let's go to the audio tape. I don't know exactly
what he said, but but I think you know, I
won a lot of games there with that one on
the risk of I didn't know winning or losing mattered
if you were a ristband or not. All right, So
there you didn't matter if winning and losing matter if
you were a risk band or not. And he went
on he said, I think I'll do whatever it takes
blah blah blah to win blab All right, so let
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us discuss the question. Is Pete Carroll tossing some shade
at Russell Willison? Well, obviously that's a no brainer. I've
got Mickey D's, Rick Barry and DC Comics, a rather
eclectic group in this Mallard milelogue, and we'll put them
all together and we'll do a rain dance because it
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rains a lot and see it. Oh that's the cliche.
Although it rains a lot in other places more than
see it. All right, So number one, does the ground
shape when there's an earthquake? I think we know the answer.
It's a rhetorical question. Does a beast thing? The hippie
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coach here is living lave to Loca. He's winning the
Cold War. It's it's fascinating. The old geezer coach, oldest
coach in the NFL, has an edge over the hipster quarterback,
the TikTok star. This is man bites dog territory. The
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polar opposite of what Tom Brady has been able to
do to build Belichick when their relationship ended up in
divorce court and Brady went out won a Super Bowl
in Tampa, and Belichick's been a five hundred coach with
the Patriots. Well, Pete Carroll, he's like Mickey Dee's slogan,
their old advertising slogan, I'm loving it. He is loving
it right. Russell Wilson took a crowbar to get out
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of Seattle. He believed the roster had grown Stale didn't
want to be the captain of the Titanic. Was convinced
that it was gonna be heartbreak hotel for the Seahawks
for years to come. And so he said na na
na la la hey, good bye, just like that. And
he picked Denver because why he assumed that was a
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ready made roster, saying looked that way. They had talented
defensive players. They had some pretty highly decorated receivers, at
least in college. That's a Hamburger Helper situation. As a
just add water, you're good to go. And you know
what happens when you assume. And while the Seahawks are
rolling along, rolling along, rolling along, and they've been the
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beneficiary of some other teams in the division, the Rams
who blow the Cardinals who gave all their money to
a video game guy, the little little guy, a little
fella there, Kyler Murray. So it's like a two team race.
It's the Seahawks in the forty nine. The Broncos are fading, right,
they are fading. And Pete Carroll has decided, we love
it because we do talk radio. He has decided, you
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know what, I would like to poked the bear or
in this quarterback, the quarterback in this story, the quarterback,
because Pete Carroll decided, you know, he was in part
responsible for giving Russell Wilson the opportunity in Seattle. So
if you build them up, you can then knock him down.
All right, news and eleven page two. Why wouldn't Russell
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Wilson wear a Risman? He has recently, and so that's petty.
It still cares about that. But I want to go
into this a little bit. I would like you to
sit on my couch here and i'll explain. So I
think there are multiple reasons. Most likely is what I
call my hypothesis here is the rick Berry syndrome. Right.
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You probably don't know who Rick Berry is, but he's
an old NBA player from back in the nineteen seventies
and was a tremendous foul shooter. And if players in
the modern NBA copied what rick Berry did in the
nineteen seventies, his technique where he bent his knees and
he would lift both arms underhanded to shoot foul shots,
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then the modern player would shoot much better from the
foul line. However, nobody, not a single player since then,
has done that, has shot foul shots underhand. And why
because it's a granny shot. It's a masculating Wilt Chamberlain
did it back in the dance shot of very high percentage.
The year that Will I believe I'm correct on this,
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the year that Will shot fifty or average fifty points
a game. He alleged, is he shot underhanded? I think
he's alleged. I think he's a fact. But it's the
same logic, right, the rick Berry logic where the players
don't want to do it because you look like, you know,
look like a woss. It's the same reason we believe
that Russell Wilson has for the most part avoided the
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wrist band play sheet. It's a fashion full pump. It's
only somewhat recently, after a miserable stretch of performances where
Russell's having the worst year of his career that he decided,
you know what, maybe I do need a cheat sheet.
That's not such a bad idea. I'll get that cheat
sheet out, why not? But he didn't really have that,
and see how he did play poorly in stretches with
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the Seahawks. In fact, he'd often get off the good
starts and then fade like the setting sun over the
horizon as the season would go on. But in Denver
he's just faded from jump Street, all right. Final point,
So let's go over to the other quarterback that is
wearing the wristband being spoon fed what to do by
Shane Waldron, the offensive coordinat According to Pete Carroll, Pete
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pumping up his offensive coordinator to get a head coaching
interview in the offseason. So what secret powers does Gino
Smith possess from the wristband? I'm glad you asked, so
we would love to know the actual answer. We have
some ideas on this that Gino who was an absolute
ogre for years, roster spam, the guy that fans cringed
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when he came into the game because it's Gino Smith,
the guy that didn't even know what time zone the
West Coast was in when he played for the Jets.
He missed the team meeting because he didn't know the
time difference between the East Ghost and the West Coast.
So anyway, I can go on and that. But this
season so far, he's in the running for the MVP
Award and will likely end up getting some votes, maybe
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a couple win it. At this point, there's other players
ahead of him, but he's in the running for the MVP,
and Russell Wilson famously never even got a vote for
the MVP Award. But he made Geno Smith a deal
with the devil. He's got the magic dust right now.
He's number one in the entire NFL in completion percentage,
number three in quarterback rating. The only quarterbacks that are
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higher than him in QB rating are Jalen Hurts of
the undefeated Eagles and two A Tongue of Bloa who
missed some games because of a concussion. But he's in
the top ten in yards per pass passing yards total
on the season, and he's near the bottom in interception.
So when you crunch the numbers, there's only one conclusion
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that we can come up with to explain what Geno
Smith has been able to pull off so far in
the year twenty twenty two NFL that Pete Carroll went
out and purchased a product from DC Comics. That Geno
Smith is wearing the Wonder Woman Bracelets of submission. That
those metal cuffs you know what I'm talking about. You
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you're on a Wonder Woman right back in the day,
right yeah, yeah, And they're indestructive to attack. Gino is
deflecting away opposing defenders. He just puts his wrist up
like that, and he's immune to sucking right now, which
is fascinating Gino Smith. This guy in the dictionary was
the definition to suck, and now he's not. Why you're
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not supposed to listen. When we make our mind up
that you blow, you're supposed to blow, and when you
don't blow, it upsets everything. Now, this is only temporary.
Maybe it'll last the rest of the year, maybe not.
But would you bet on Gene Smith next year to
continue this. I wouldn't bet on that, but but that's
next year. Right now, in the moment, he's getting her
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done at a ridiculous rate. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeartRadio app. What would you do for a Beckham? That's
the question. Well, come in the beginning of another hour
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Not to be confused with the old George Michael sports machine,
which is long gone. The speculation Machine is alive and well. Now.
The NFL trade deadline is not around anymore. It's the
past few weeks ago. But there is one more prize.
Now he's at a booby prize, but there's one prize
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left on the auctioning block if your an NFL team
would like to upgrade, and that would be Odell Beckham.
So have you heard the latest on the free agent
wide receiver? Every day there's another Odell Beckham story, and
I generally have avoided these. I haven't talked about Beckham
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as much as we did last year when he was
going through this scene deal when he left the Browns,
when he and his father get him out of Cleveland
with some social media posts. But it's a new year
and a new opportunity for Beckham to go on a
barnstorming tour to find work around the NFL. So, if
you haven't heard the latest, the playmaker Michael Irvin has
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recently declared that the Boys have the upper hand in
the Odell Beckham pursuit. Zeke Elliott and Micah Parson's couple
of big names on the Cowboys right now, both said
they want O b j on the team that comes
on the heels of Mike McCarthy, saying that he's a
fan of Odell, the same thing that many coaches have said,
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and Jerry Jones chimed in recently saying that Odell would
look pretty good in a Dallas uniform. So let us
discuss the question buy or sell the Cowboys having the
upper hand in air quotes in the Odell Beckham sweepstakes.
So I am going to buy this, all right, I
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agree with that sentiment right now. That is the case.
I've got pt Barnum, snow globe and a psychological exam,
and we'll tie all of these things together and we
are gonna make some Texas toast, is what we're gonna make. Now.
A Odell Beckham was born to play for the Cowboys.
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I didn't play for the Cowboys yet, but he was
born to play for the Cowboys. Jerry Jones consense that
this is legit. This is not phony, this is not fake,
this is not counterfeit. This is real. And the Cowboys
have been pulling out all of the stops right full
court press, every want to say it. They've made their
sales pitch very publicly, playing footsie under the table as
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they try to persuade OBJ with PDA's those public displays
of affection which Beckham loves. Tell me how great I am.
I'm Odell Beckham and a wind and dine and the
whole thing. Get all dolled up and go out in
the town. Now. The other question is should he want
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to go to the Cowboys? And, with apologies to my
friend Rob Parker, absolutely Odell Beckham has checked many a
box in his career. He's a super Bowl champion, he's
made a lot of money. But the next level to
start them is to go play in Jerry's world. It's
all about glitz and glamor. The Cowboys have not been
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relevant in terms of wins and losses for an entire generation.
Bill Clinton was the president the last time the Cowboys
were relevant. Monica Lewinsky was an intern the last time
the Cowboys were relevant. We know how that ended up.
But Dallas still is the two thousand pounds saltwater crocodile
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of the NFL. Why is that? Why is it that
the Cowboys are ratings gold? It's because Jerry Jones, despite
his frailties as an executive picking football players, is the
modern day P. T. Barnum, the greatest showman in the
NFL right now, and he's selling human curiosities. It's a
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freak show. And Jerry loves the star system. Odell loves
the star system. Jerry's been a star effort as long
as I've been around doing this and obj oozes with
the razmatazz on the field, which would make a partnership
between Beckham and the Cowboys a match made in heaven.
Does that mean the Cowboys are gonna win? No, They've
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got issues. I'm not a big Dak Prescott guy, the
stat bandito, But that doesn't mean this is not a
good situation for Beckham to go to. All things being equal, now,
part B of this, the Buffalo Bills have been mentioned
quite a bit, so right now. With Beckham supposedly deciding
in the next week or so where he's gonna go,
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would Odell Beckham actually go to Buffalo? His name has
been mentioned, he's been flirting with them a line. I
would be surprised, and there are certainly reasons to say yes.
Bill's mafia, the insane clown posse of NFL fan bases
from a football perspective. On the surface, it makes sense.
Josh Allen, assuming his arm doesn't get amputated here, has
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been rock solid for the most part. Von Miller, one
of Odell Beckham's besties from the Rams, is in Buffalo
doing his thing here. The Bills are a popular pick
by popular people to win the whole the whole ball
of acts. However, as Lee Corso says, not so fast,
my friend, there are other variables pushing against Odell Beckham
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going to Rome with the Buffalo location location location there,
unless Buffalo left or Orchard Park, New York's left, being
in the shadow of Lake Erie, unless that maybe maybe
the lake went away. Buffalo plays in a real life
snow globe, a real life snow globe, and that means
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what it means, you're playing cold weather. That's not even issue.
Odell's played in cold weather. Not that cold, but he's
playing cold weather. The problem is, if you're looking to
accumulate stats the passing game, the numbers go down to
an archaic level, to the bronze age. In really bad weather.
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You just don't see teams going up and down the
field matriculating the ball through the air. When the weather's bad,
they run the ball more. A lot of short passes,
but not a lot of big chunk plays, and so
that's a factor also, And of course also money. Beca's
made a lot of money and you always want to
make more money, and he spends a lot of money.
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So follow the Benjamin's all right last word here. So
how much fuel does Odell have left in the tanker?
This is the other part of it, and you should
probably be concerned if you're a cowboy fan picks as
if Jerry's interested in Odell, that means he's gonna be
hopping on one leg like a pogo stick if this
is the case. But it comes down to a psychological exam.
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Do you see the glass as half full or half him?
Like which side of the aisle or you want no,
I'm gonna Benny bright sun on this, I am gonna
be positive, mister Sunshine. The glass is completely full. The
liquid is at the bottom half of the glass and
there's air filling up the rest, so therefore the glass
is completely full. It's either full of air or water,
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but it's full. Now OBJ does not have the wear
and tear of absorbing hits all season as it played
it down and he's now been branded a winner. That
stank of him being a selfish a hole, which may
or may not still be true, but it doesn't matter.
He want and when you win, immediately you take a
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nice shower and people say, oh, he's a winner. The
Championship Defenders League gives you protection, and he did deliver
in big games for the Rams. He was playing very
well early in that Super Bowl before he got hurt.
So there's no more aigma associated with OBJ that you
can't win with this guy. And for this reason, he's
not like a force multiplayer. Now that being said, I
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do understand the other side of the aisle, the naysayers
that Odell suffered a torn ACL. He's had multiple injuries
in recent years. This one was in the Super Bowl.
He missed all seasons, hadn't plays Rusty obj is thirty
years old, so how many more years can a top
flight receiver play. It's not like running backs, but it's
not too much past the age of thirty. We see
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production go down, down, down, down, down down, and Beckham
is expected to be cleared for a return to game
action or at least to practice with the team in
the next week, but he might not be able to
play for another couple of weeks. So we're heading to
week ten. So yeah, let's say you don't get Beckham
till week twelve or week thirteen, so you got him
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for the final month of the season. So we're getting
close to the point where you either got to poop
we get off the pot for Odell Beckham. But absolutely
the Cowboys cowboy up, absolutely of that with Beckham. It'd
be good for my business. So selfishly, i'd like to
see that happen because we'd get at least one story
a week, good, bad, or ugly with Odell Beckham. Be
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your podcast from here, we keep it's maller. How about
that to the third degree. This is one big band
gets grailled a lot of times, a lot of times.
It was reported on Tuesday, No really, that the Red
Sox have reached out to teams about potential trades for
a second baseman. Should they not be able to resign
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Xander Bogarts since they would move Trevor's story over to
shortstop Ben, Do you think this report pretty much confirms
that Bogarts won't be coming back? Yeah? Yeah, absolutely him
bloom the GM in Boston. He says that they want
to keep Bogards, but his actions lead you to believe
that's not the case. He's as believable as Benedict Arnold.
The Red Sox have made every other move to clear
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the path for Xander to leave, and the ownership, and
I actually agree with the Boston ownership. They don't want
to give out these ten year contracts. They know that
these things are not going to work, and so they
don't want any part of them. And so the Red Sox,
unless they're willing to give out an eight, nine, ten
year contract, Xander Bogart's is not going to come back.
Highly unlikely. He doesn't get that kind of deal somewhere else.
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So the other teams, somebody's gonna give him the contract
in Xander will be gone next. South Florida fired their
head coach this week, and now sources are saying that
John Gruden is USF's first choice for their head coaching vacancy, Ben,
could you see Gruden making his return at the helm
of a college program. This would be a wonderful fit,
right because he's not gonna get a job in the
NFL other than Brian flora Is. Normally, when you sue
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the NFL, they don't hire you, and he's got a house.
He lives in that area, the Tampa area where the
University of South Florida is won a Super Bowl with
the Box. Florida's the kind of state that will forgive
him for the emails and all that there, They'll give
him a second chance because he's a big name. The
boosters will get excited. I don't see a downside to it.
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I don't see it that he's got that youthful energy
John Gruden. I think that'd be wonderful and that would
make them a player to cause some heartburn around football next.
Frank Reich told the reporter that obviously his desire is
to be a head coach again. Ben, do you think
he'll get that opportunity, Well, maybe in Pop Warner or
high school like NFL. No, he will not be a
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head coach again, not a full time head coach, maybe
an interim coach. In the NFL, he was, he was mediocre.
He's sixty years old. Younger guys were getting opportunities. Unless
he's buddies with an owner that we don't know about.
Frank Reich, it ain't happening there. It is Mallard of
the third degree with plenty of time left over. How
did we do? I guess he passed. That is a winner.
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We go for the reading of the questions. All right,
We're gonna start off with a question from fur Dog.
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He wants to know what's a better game, hide and
seek or Marco Polo. I'm gonna go Nah, I don't
know about Marcolo. I played a lot of hide and
seek back in the day. I did. I was a
good hide and see because I grew up there were
big though it would be to hide, no, but the
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orange grows. So I grew up in an area where
they were like orange grows and stuff. So it's a
lot of hiding places. We'd run through those orange grows
and hide, and there were places you could hide. The
problem the orange trees at the bottom you can see
right through. That's the problem. But I didn't play a
lot of Marco Polo too much. I didn't spend too
much time doing that. But I'm gonna go hide and seek.
What about you, Eddie? No, I'm a Marco Polo guy.
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I loved history the hot summers in central California. You
want to be in that pool as much as possible.
So Marco, Well, when you were my size, Eddie, you
didn't want to be in the pool. Yeah, I want
to wear a burkup while you were in the pool. Anyway, Roberto,
hide and go seek, man, God, that's my man high
fineah play hiding seekul with my daughter and my godson,
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and so good that I they can't find me. I
gotta scare a crap out of him. Roberto leaves against
this card some smokes. I'll be back, all right, what
about you, Coop, I have to agree. I have to
go with hide and Seek. In your face, Garcia, I'm
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the only one who's right. Yeah, we're in the majority
and you're on the wrong side, all right, But yeah,
hide and Seekers. But and like even like hide and
Seeks are grown up. It's like not a grown up person,
but it's it's a more advanced version of like every kid,
every little kid loves Peekaboo, Right, doesn't every kid love peekaboo?
They smile. You can put your hands up on your
face and then you move away and they smile. Like
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Hide and Seeks. The next level from peekabow. What is next?
All right, I'm pretty sure we've been asked this, but
it's probably been yours rob aka goat Man, Oh, the
Great goat Man. Yes, he wants to know. Have you
ever seen a UFO or anything extraterrestrial? Yes, well, there
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there have. There was one time I was hiking, of
all things, my fat ass was hiking and I saw
it wasn't like a flying sauce or anything like this,
but I had never seen it. But maybe it was
a drone. But this isn't the days before drones, so
I don't think it was a drone because there were
no drones at the time, and there were these like
five black orbs that were flying above where I was walking,
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but they weren't They didn't look like anything I've seen
since then, and they were kind of liquidy. It was
very hard. It's hard to describe. But that's the only
thing I ever saw. I said, I don't think that's
from our world, but maybe it was. Maybe it was
just some kind of drone technology that was somebody was
effing around with some fat guy on a white walk
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through the hills. But that's about the only time. What
about you, Eddie I thought I did one. When I
was trick or treating as a kid, there was this
thing flying in the sky and me and my friends
all paused and looked up and were like, what the
hell is that? And we just stared at it and
stared at and stared at it, and come to find
out it was you know those airplanes that fly with
those banners they tow. Yeah, find well this was. I
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don't I've never seen one since, but it was doing
this at night, so it was it was pulling like
a lighted sign and it just at a certain angle.
It looked really weird because you couldn't see the plane,
you just saw the sign. But then we looked long
enough that we figured out, oh, it's actually an AD.
It's not really. But I thought for a few moments
I thought for sure I had seen a UFO. But
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they answer is no, like a ghost ship or something like.
You know, yeah, remember that time in Phoenix years ago
there was a like a spaceship flew over Phoenix. You
know what's crazy? Though, nowadays the entire you could you
could film a spaceship flying over wherever, and if you
put it on the internet enough, people will be like, oh,
it's fake because it's on the right, it'd be really
(32:00):
and the government's pretty much announced like around military basic know.
We just we just people miss it, yeah, Roberto nah
nah wish all right, Coopa loop Yes yeah, yes, Um,
I still don't. I don't know what it was. And
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um granted, like look, marijuana is not a hallucinogenic why
but at one time I was very high. But that
being said, no it was I don't, I don't know
you were hitting out with your friend ayahuasca. No, no, no,
(32:45):
but no, it was like it was me and my
like my buddy's entire family, we all song. We were
standing in the front yard and it was, you know,
just something light in the sky that was not moving
like an airplane, you know, And and after a while
of like staring at it, it just kind of like
went off. I don't I don't know. I don't know,
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but you'll never know. Yeah, well maybe you will. Maybe
maybe that's coming in twenty twenty three, big announcement. We've
had a pandemic. We've had all kinds of crazy, crazy
thing alright, although somebody did point out a fair thing
like if if some and I think there are other
life forms out there. But if somebody came to the planet,
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we wouldn't be able to communicate with them. We can't
even talk to a dog or a horse or a fish.
How you know what I mean? So I don't anyway,
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of the questions. All right, We're gonna start off with
a quick one from ALFI only know Piner if he
wants to know. Did any of you drink Jolt Cola
back in the day? Yes, I did have a not often,
but I did have Joel Cola. I was more of
a doctor Pepper Cherry Cooke guy back in my day.
What about you Eddie? I think I tried it and
(35:16):
uh wasn't a big fan, but I do want it. Yeah,
I just didn't like the taste. All right. What about
tab soda? Did you ever drink tabs No, I've never
never tried that. I liked tab soda. What about you
Jolt never RC cola? Yeah, yeah, I had Rca Cola
too big soda family growing up. That's why I got
so fat. We drink a lot of soda. I tried
(35:37):
every soda possible. I'd like to get my hands. Got
a buddy who loves Arcia Cola, Roberto. Yeah, it's good,
big thing. It's nostalgic. What about you, coop Royal Crown? Uh?
I was also I'm also a big soda person, and
I was back in the day. Now now I stick
to one soda um Doctor Pepper, diet doctor Pepper. Yes,
HM love that. But back in the day, I was trying.
(36:00):
I was drinking all sodas, but I never tried jold.
I don't know. Maybe that was that before my time.
Probably probably was. It was a big deal when it
came out because it was it like an energy drink soda?
Or is it just it as gotcha? Gotcha? All right?
What is next year? It is asked, Ben, your questions
(36:22):
are answers? We ever handkerchief ready to go in case
we sneeze. See here, I don't know. This one is
from milkman Mike. Uh. I feel like it's a pretty
easy one, but I'll ask it anyway. He says, which
would you rather go through a Category five hurricane or
(36:44):
a blizzard that dumps three inches of snow? Three inches?
Does he mean? Did he mean three feet? He wrote inches.
I can handle three inches of snow, I believe. Make
sure I finished that sentence. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go.
The snow. I you just sit, let's change you make
it feed, Yeah, we'll make it feed. Yeah. Yeah. The blizzard. Yeah,
(37:06):
go with the blizzard. Just hang out inside, get a fire,
gone be pretty nice. What about you, Eddie? I mean,
I'm speaking from a place of total ignorance because I've
seen snow twice in my life, and as I've said,
I went to it. It did not come to me.
So I don't know what three feet of snow would
be like, but I will agree with you. I think
that would be better than having a potentially my home
(37:26):
blown away. How did you never you live? You grew
up in an area right below where like the Sequoia
that the big sequoia trees are like, right, You didn't
go up there and hang out. It was beautiful when
it snows up there. My family were not outdoorsy people,
and neither am I got you roverto Yeah, I'll go
with snow. If you get you have to stay home,
(37:49):
right snow day Yeah yeah yeah, snow parties get a
bunch of alcohol. Yeah, let's do it other party favors
and pick the snow. Yeah, and your house doesn't fall apart.
Yeah all right, Coolop definitely definitely would go with the snow.
All right, unanimous across the board. We all agree, snow, snow, snow,
(38:10):
Let it snow. Let it snow. Let its snow. And
we're only a couple of weeks away from the holiday
music returning. Will you'll hear that song and a million others?
All right, what is next? What do we have here? Uh,
let's go with Cowboy Killer. He wants to know, do
you slow down or step on the gas on a
yellow light? Yeah? Yeah, so if this is not a
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sweet probably stunned. Yeah, I usually gun it. That's normally
the move there, Eddie. Absolutely, I'm not going to slow
down for a yellow light. Yellow is drive faster. That's
red is stopped. Green, Yellow is drive faster. Roberto, Yeah,
we agree, Yeah, all right, Coop does oh absolutely. And
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that's when when I was like a kid and my
mom was like teaching me stuff. That's what she said,
She said, green means go, red means stop, yellow means
hurry up. Huh yeah, because isn't the law. And I'm
probably gonna get this completely wrong. Maybe an officer call
from and correct me. But if you're in the intersection,
like halfway through a yellow, you're fine, right, Yeah, isn't that?
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I don't think if it's even halfway through, as long
as you're in the intersection, okay, then boom, you're good.
And then I also look at the light coming up ahead,
and if I see that the the what is it
the crosswalk light starts? Gotta pump the turn on the
gas a little even a little more to beat that
next light coming. Yeah. You see that police chase yesterday
in La here that was on? Oh no, I was
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really good. Man, it was bad, but it was good TV.
But man, all right, what is I don't think we
have time for another? Was that it cool? Any quick one? Well,
there's one about a high speed chase. If you were
in a high speed chase, would you drive as far
as possible or stay in an area? You know? No,
you're supposed to stay in the area, you know, Eddie, Yes, yeah, yeah,
otherwise you end up at a call the sack and
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then but then you get different jurisdictions than they have
to trade off. That's when you can try and be
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Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio. Ahip oh, let's get over
to Eddie right now and hockey, hockey. Hockey man. He
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loves hockey so much he was away the other night
to go to a hockey game. Here's Eddie all right,
thank you. Ben. We are about a month in the
NHL regular season. It's been an interesting start to the
season so far, with the usual surprises both positive and negative.
We'll start on the positive side and the Vegas Golden
Knights leading the Western Conference and the NHL with a
twelve and two record, good enough for twenty four points.
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The Boston Bruins lead the Eastern Conference at eleven and two.
More on the Bruins in a moment, much to the
delight of Blind Scott. One of the big positive surprises.
The New Jersey Devils are riding a seven game winning streak.
They're off to a ten and three start, leading the
Metropolitan Division. Nobody saw that coming second best a second
best story, I guess would be. On the positive side,
the Seattle Kraken, in their second year of existence, have
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these second best record in the Western Conference, fifth best
in the HL. They're eight four and two for eighteen
points so far on the season. On the negative side, St.
Louis Blues do not good. On the negative side, they
are a part of that. The Calgary Flames, who many
picked to be one of the top teams in the West,
have lost six in a row. They're a middle of
the pack team so far, but the Saint Louis Blues,
thought to be a playoff team, so far they have
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the second worst record in the NHL and they're writing
an eight game losing skid. Penguin snapped their seven game
skided with a win last night. Senators have lost six
in a row, Blue Jackets plus five straight, and Columbus
has the worst record in the NHL at three and nine.
I mentioned the Boston Bruins are off to a great start,
but all that got overshadowed by controversy this past week
as they signed three agent prospect Mitchell Miller, now a
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talented young defenseman originally was drafted in twenty twenty by
the years on the Kyotes, but they never signed him
after the public found out he was convicted of assaulting
and bullying a black, developmentally disabled classmate when he was fourteen.
The bullying was racially motivated. Miller also ended up losing
his scholarship to play hockey the University of North Dakota.
He's undergone some court man mandated therapy, has done some
(42:00):
community service, offered a written apology to the victim, but
many say that that is not enough and he has
not earned the right player in the NHL. What's enough, Eddie?
He is he never allowed to play hockey again? Is
that the deal on that? Well? According to Commissioner Gary Bettman,
he does not know if Miller will ever be eligible
to play in the Russia. He would he be allowed
in Russia? That's a possibility. Um. So, the Boston Bruins
(42:23):
have decided they're going to release Mitchell Miller after signing
him to that contract. There were some Boston players who
actually spoke out about this as well. But it looks
like they're going to have to end up owning some
money because they signed him to a contract and now
they can't just release him. Without paying him something, and
if they do, they'll be a grievance filed by the
Players Association. So we'll see how this ends up turning out.
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And we'll see if this guy ever plays in the NHL.
We'll see, No, Eddie, how old is he? He's twenty,
he's young. Is there a statue of limitations on that
or no? It's your in public opinion. I don't know,
well right now, No, but the five years from now
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twenty seven, twenty eight, something like that. Yeah, I mean,
he's still obviously be young, but he I hope where
is he going to be playing. He's playing somewhere in
like the US Hockey leaguers. They could maybe go play
in Europe or something. I don't know. We'll see. Seven
months after the death of longtime owner Eugene Melnock, the
process of selling the Ottawa Senators has officially begun. Senators
are valued at five and twenty five million dollars by Forbes,
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selling price expected to be significantly higher, and one potential buyer,
as you mentioned last week, is actor Ryan Reynolds, a
Deadpool fame. We had this yesterday. We talked about the
fact that he said he needs a sugar Mama or
sugar Dad. Yeah. Yeah, he's estimated his wealth is one
hundred and fifty million according to Celebrity net Worth. But
he was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and said he's
(43:49):
gonna need some some partners if he's gonna he's successful
with this. This said, hockey's interesting because he knows the rule. Now,
he showed up at a senator's game and got a
very loud ovation from the fans and attendant when they
put him up on the video boards. Is there a chance,
Eddie that he's just doing this to promote his other
work he is actually not intending to buy the team,
or is he trying to buy the team to make
it a reality show? Isn't he involved in that other
(44:11):
reality Yeah? There's he owns a soccer tccer team. Yeah,
and uh, I haven't seen it, but looked at this
could be part of the show. Maybe he's doing this.
It's possible episode of the show. I want to buy
a hockey team and here's what I'm gonna do. Blah
blah blah blah blah blah. It's it's possible. He probably
knows rich super rich people. Always a Hollywood actor. I'm
sure he could find some people that would would help
him out with that invest Rich people love to hang
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out with other famous people because it makes him feel Goodah,
we got I mean Will Ferrell, right, was a part
of the soccer team here in LA that just won
a championship, which I was unaware of until I saw
on social media my old radio buddy Dave Yeah, the
voice of ye see, Yeah, I saw that. Good for him.
Magic's a part of it as well. Him. Williams Sarina too,
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huh okay even to share? How about that? Yeahs the
other fan of another team in time, Washington Capitol Starlings
and Raveskin has now scored more goals playing for one
team than anyone else in NHL history at seven hundred
eighty eighty, pass Gordy Howe, who had seven eighty six
with the Detroit Red Wings. Eleccan also went away from
Wayne Gretzky for most career road goals scored, Gretzky's at
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four h two Kan at four h one. He should
become just the third player in NHL history to hit
eight hundred crew goals later this season, joining only Gordy
Howe and Wayne Gretzky, he mentioned it early, but ematon O,
there's forward of Ander King. Gonn missed three to four months.
He got cut by a skate on his wrist the
other night against right out of a horror movie with
the blood dripping on the ice. It's Tampa Bay. Yeah,
(45:40):
that was It's not good. And also Peter McNabb, former
NHL player and longtime TV color analyst for more than
twenty five years with the color of Avalanche, passed away
after battle with cancer. He was seventy. He had been
working up until the end of October, played fourteen years
in the NHL. One of the longest tenured analysts in
the NHL. He had joined the Avalanche since their inception
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back in nineteen ninety five ninety six, and was inducted
into the US Hockey Hall of Fame just last And
that's to the end. That's absolutely a lot of people
want to do that. I probably want to do that.
I guess I haven't. I hear you. I get bored,
but I don't work. I hear you. And that is
your puck the world's report. All right, thank you for that,
Eddie appreciated. As the continue on
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this hour, Denver and Seattle. A couple of old pals
ratcheting up the noise, which is always good when you
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do talk radio. It's so great. It's the gift that
keeps giving Pete Carrol. Who know that Pete Carroll would
provide such content The ambassador of the Seattle Seahawks. There,
Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson over in Colorado, the headliners
in this audio kurf fluffle. If you haven't been following
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along because you actually have a life and you don't
pay attention to this stuff all the time, he might
have missed it. So during his weekly radio show, I
forget what station in Seattle, Not the good one we're on,
but the Seahawks coach Pete Carroll slobbered all over his
quarterback Gino Smith for wearing a wrist band with a
(02:37):
playsheet this seasons, just to prove I'm not making that
we actually have some of the things that Pete Carroll.
You gotta remember Pete did not name Russell Wilson. He
just mentioned the resistance that the Seahawks had had with
previous quarterbacks. But let's let's have Pete explain what happened
(02:58):
the long ship of sitting there and watching this scheme
in the in the concepts and the situations that Gino
has in his background, and then then putting it together
with Shane's communication Shane. He's getting everything he can get
out of Shane. Shane helps him all the way through
to the you know, to the fifteen second point. I
mean they're just communicating to get it done, and there's
(03:19):
this conversation that goes on and so they work it out,
and Gino's taking advantage of all of that. If he
knows Gino's going off the off the wristband, that's a
big help. It's it's it's smooth things out, sped things up,
clean things up. And that's that's part of it too.
And and you know we never did that before. There
was resistance to that, So we didn't do that before.
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Oh see, that was resistance. He was not about Shane Waldron,
who Pete also slobbered all over there the offensive coordinator
Old Ram assistant in Seattle. So it sounds what Pete
said there, it sounds like what what Shane Waldron, the
offensive coordinator is doing is what Sean McVay used to
do for Jared Golf, where you spoon feed him and
(03:59):
pretty much tell him, hold his hand and tell him
what to do. In this case Geno Smith and it's
working out. But the money part of that was Pete's
comments about wearing a wrist band. That was the part
of the quote that had legs that it makes the
play calling more efficient and that the keyword their resistance.
There was resistance that. Now, again he didn't reference Russell
(04:22):
Wilson directly. It was an indirect shot, but he didn't.
After Russell Wilson has been the quarterback, had been the
quarterback in Seattle for the last decade. So with that happening,
what do the media people do? They take a quote.
They said, it's like the kid the instigator on the playground,
they run over the other kid. Did you hear what
(04:42):
Johnny said about you? So a reporter in the Milehi
City then went up to Russell Wilson at his news
conference and said I need reaction, Russell, I need reaction
on the statement made by Pete care. Of course, Pete,
you just played We just played the sound bite that
Pete Gabe and so us feigned like he had no
idea what was actually said, but then answered the question,
(05:05):
let's go to the audio tape. I don't know exactly
what he said, but but I think you know, I
won a lot of games there with that one on
the risk of I didn't know winning or losing mattered
if you were a ristband or not. All right, So
there you didn't matter if winning and losing matter if
you were a risk band or not. And he went
on he said, I think I'll do whatever it takes
blah blah blah to win blab All right, so let
(05:26):
us discuss the question. Is Pete Carroll tossing some shade
at Russell Willison? Well, obviously that's a no brainer. I've
got Mickey D's, Rick Barry and DC Comics, a rather
eclectic group in this Mallard milelogue, and we'll put them
all together and we'll do a rain dance because it
(05:46):
rains a lot and see it. Oh that's the cliche.
Although it rains a lot in other places more than
see it. All right, So number one, does the ground
shape when there's an earthquake? I think we know the answer.
It's a rhetorical question. Does a beast thing? The hippie
(06:08):
coach here is living lave to Loca. He's winning the
Cold War. It's it's fascinating. The old geezer coach, oldest
coach in the NFL, has an edge over the hipster quarterback,
the TikTok star. This is man bites dog territory. The
(06:29):
polar opposite of what Tom Brady has been able to
do to build Belichick when their relationship ended up in
divorce court and Brady went out won a Super Bowl
in Tampa, and Belichick's been a five hundred coach with
the Patriots. Well, Pete Carroll, he's like Mickey Dee's slogan,
their old advertising slogan, I'm loving it. He is loving
it right. Russell Wilson took a crowbar to get out
(06:52):
of Seattle. He believed the roster had grown Stale didn't
want to be the captain of the Titanic. Was convinced
that it was gonna be heartbreak hotel for the Seahawks
for years to come. And so he said na na
na la la hey, good bye, just like that. And
he picked Denver because why he assumed that was a
(07:13):
ready made roster, saying looked that way. They had talented
defensive players. They had some pretty highly decorated receivers, at
least in college. That's a Hamburger Helper situation. As a
just add water, you're good to go. And you know
what happens when you assume. And while the Seahawks are
rolling along, rolling along, rolling along, and they've been the
(07:37):
beneficiary of some other teams in the division, the Rams
who blow the Cardinals who gave all their money to
a video game guy, the little little guy, a little
fella there, Kyler Murray. So it's like a two team race.
It's the Seahawks in the forty nine. The Broncos are fading, right,
they are fading. And Pete Carroll has decided, we love
it because we do talk radio. He has decided, you
(07:58):
know what, I would like to poked the bear or
in this quarterback, the quarterback in this story, the quarterback,
because Pete Carroll decided, you know, he was in part
responsible for giving Russell Wilson the opportunity in Seattle. So
if you build them up, you can then knock him down.
All right, news and eleven page two. Why wouldn't Russell
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Wilson wear a Risman? He has recently, and so that's petty.
It still cares about that. But I want to go
into this a little bit. I would like you to
sit on my couch here and i'll explain. So I
think there are multiple reasons. Most likely is what I
call my hypothesis here is the rick Berry syndrome. Right.
(08:42):
You probably don't know who Rick Berry is, but he's
an old NBA player from back in the nineteen seventies
and was a tremendous foul shooter. And if players in
the modern NBA copied what rick Berry did in the
nineteen seventies, his technique where he bent his knees and
he would lift both arms underhanded to shoot foul shots,
(09:04):
then the modern player would shoot much better from the
foul line. However, nobody, not a single player since then,
has done that, has shot foul shots underhand. And why
because it's a granny shot. It's a masculating Wilt Chamberlain
did it back in the dance shot of very high percentage.
The year that Will I believe I'm correct on this,
(09:24):
the year that Will shot fifty or average fifty points
a game. He alleged, is he shot underhanded? I think
he's alleged. I think he's a fact. But it's the
same logic, right, the rick Berry logic where the players
don't want to do it because you look like, you know,
look like a woss. It's the same reason we believe
that Russell Wilson has for the most part avoided the
(09:45):
wrist band play sheet. It's a fashion full pump. It's
only somewhat recently, after a miserable stretch of performances where
Russell's having the worst year of his career that he decided,
you know what, maybe I do need a cheat sheet.
That's not such a bad idea. I'll get that cheat
sheet out, why not? But he didn't really have that,
and see how he did play poorly in stretches with
(10:06):
the Seahawks. In fact, he'd often get off the good
starts and then fade like the setting sun over the
horizon as the season would go on. But in Denver
he's just faded from jump Street, all right. Final point,
So let's go over to the other quarterback that is
wearing the wristband being spoon fed what to do by
Shane Waldron, the offensive coordinat According to Pete Carroll, Pete
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pumping up his offensive coordinator to get a head coaching
interview in the offseason. So what secret powers does Gino
Smith possess from the wristband? I'm glad you asked, so
we would love to know the actual answer. We have
some ideas on this that Gino who was an absolute
ogre for years, roster spam, the guy that fans cringed
(10:50):
when he came into the game because it's Gino Smith,
the guy that didn't even know what time zone the
West Coast was in when he played for the Jets.
He missed the team meeting because he didn't know the
time difference between the East Ghost and the West Coast.
So anyway, I can go on and that. But this
season so far, he's in the running for the MVP
Award and will likely end up getting some votes, maybe
(11:15):
a couple win it. At this point, there's other players
ahead of him, but he's in the running for the MVP,
and Russell Wilson famously never even got a vote for
the MVP Award. But he made Geno Smith a deal
with the devil. He's got the magic dust right now.
He's number one in the entire NFL in completion percentage,
number three in quarterback rating. The only quarterbacks that are
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higher than him in QB rating are Jalen Hurts of
the undefeated Eagles and two A Tongue of Bloa who
missed some games because of a concussion. But he's in
the top ten in yards per pass passing yards total
on the season, and he's near the bottom in interception.
So when you crunch the numbers, there's only one conclusion
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that we can come up with to explain what Geno
Smith has been able to pull off so far in
the year twenty twenty two NFL that Pete Carroll went
out and purchased a product from DC Comics. That Geno
Smith is wearing the Wonder Woman Bracelets of submission. That
those metal cuffs you know what I'm talking about. You
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you're on a Wonder Woman right back in the day,
right yeah, yeah, And they're indestructive to attack. Gino is
deflecting away opposing defenders. He just puts his wrist up
like that, and he's immune to sucking right now, which
is fascinating Gino Smith. This guy in the dictionary was
the definition to suck, and now he's not. Why you're
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not supposed to listen. When we make our mind up
that you blow, you're supposed to blow, and when you
don't blow, it upsets everything. Now, this is only temporary.
Maybe it'll last the rest of the year, maybe not.
But would you bet on Gene Smith next year to
continue this. I wouldn't bet on that, but but that's
next year. Right now, in the moment, he's getting her
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Not to be confused with the old George Michael sports machine,
which is long gone. The speculation Machine is alive and well. Now.
The NFL trade deadline is not around anymore. It's the
past few weeks ago. But there is one more prize.
Now he's at a booby prize, but there's one prize
(14:36):
left on the auctioning block if your an NFL team
would like to upgrade, and that would be Odell Beckham.
So have you heard the latest on the free agent
wide receiver? Every day there's another Odell Beckham story, and
I generally have avoided these. I haven't talked about Beckham
(14:56):
as much as we did last year when he was
going through this scene deal when he left the Browns,
when he and his father get him out of Cleveland
with some social media posts. But it's a new year
and a new opportunity for Beckham to go on a
barnstorming tour to find work around the NFL. So, if
you haven't heard the latest, the playmaker Michael Irvin has
(15:18):
recently declared that the Boys have the upper hand in
the Odell Beckham pursuit. Zeke Elliott and Micah Parson's couple
of big names on the Cowboys right now, both said
they want O b j on the team that comes
on the heels of Mike McCarthy, saying that he's a
fan of Odell, the same thing that many coaches have said,
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and Jerry Jones chimed in recently saying that Odell would
look pretty good in a Dallas uniform. So let us
discuss the question buy or sell the Cowboys having the
upper hand in air quotes in the Odell Beckham sweepstakes.
So I am going to buy this, all right, I
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agree with that sentiment right now. That is the case.
I've got pt Barnum, snow globe and a psychological exam,
and we'll tie all of these things together and we
are gonna make some Texas toast, is what we're gonna make. Now.
A Odell Beckham was born to play for the Cowboys.
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I didn't play for the Cowboys yet, but he was
born to play for the Cowboys. Jerry Jones consense that
this is legit. This is not phony, this is not fake,
this is not counterfeit. This is real. And the Cowboys
have been pulling out all of the stops right full
court press, every want to say it. They've made their
sales pitch very publicly, playing footsie under the table as
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they try to persuade OBJ with PDA's those public displays
of affection which Beckham loves. Tell me how great I am.
I'm Odell Beckham and a wind and dine and the
whole thing. Get all dolled up and go out in
the town. Now. The other question is should he want
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to go to the Cowboys? And, with apologies to my
friend Rob Parker, absolutely Odell Beckham has checked many a
box in his career. He's a super Bowl champion, he's
made a lot of money. But the next level to
start them is to go play in Jerry's world. It's
all about glitz and glamor. The Cowboys have not been
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relevant in terms of wins and losses for an entire generation.
Bill Clinton was the president the last time the Cowboys
were relevant. Monica Lewinsky was an intern the last time
the Cowboys were relevant. We know how that ended up.
But Dallas still is the two thousand pounds saltwater crocodile
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of the NFL. Why is that? Why is it that
the Cowboys are ratings gold? It's because Jerry Jones, despite
his frailties as an executive picking football players, is the
modern day P. T. Barnum, the greatest showman in the
NFL right now, and he's selling human curiosities. It's a
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freak show. And Jerry loves the star system. Odell loves
the star system. Jerry's been a star effort as long
as I've been around doing this and obj oozes with
the razmatazz on the field, which would make a partnership
between Beckham and the Cowboys a match made in heaven.
Does that mean the Cowboys are gonna win? No, They've
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got issues. I'm not a big Dak Prescott guy, the
stat bandito, But that doesn't mean this is not a
good situation for Beckham to go to. All things being equal, now,
part B of this, the Buffalo Bills have been mentioned
quite a bit, so right now. With Beckham supposedly deciding
in the next week or so where he's gonna go,
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would Odell Beckham actually go to Buffalo? His name has
been mentioned, he's been flirting with them a line. I
would be surprised, and there are certainly reasons to say yes.
Bill's mafia, the insane clown posse of NFL fan bases
from a football perspective. On the surface, it makes sense.
Josh Allen, assuming his arm doesn't get amputated here, has
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been rock solid for the most part. Von Miller, one
of Odell Beckham's besties from the Rams, is in Buffalo
doing his thing here. The Bills are a popular pick
by popular people to win the whole the whole ball
of acts. However, as Lee Corso says, not so fast,
my friend, there are other variables pushing against Odell Beckham
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going to Rome with the Buffalo location location location there,
unless Buffalo left or Orchard Park, New York's left, being
in the shadow of Lake Erie, unless that maybe maybe
the lake went away. Buffalo plays in a real life
snow globe, a real life snow globe, and that means
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what it means, you're playing cold weather. That's not even issue.
Odell's played in cold weather. Not that cold, but he's
playing cold weather. The problem is, if you're looking to
accumulate stats the passing game, the numbers go down to
an archaic level, to the bronze age. In really bad weather.
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You just don't see teams going up and down the
field matriculating the ball through the air. When the weather's bad,
they run the ball more. A lot of short passes,
but not a lot of big chunk plays, and so
that's a factor also, And of course also money. Beca's
made a lot of money and you always want to
make more money, and he spends a lot of money.
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So follow the Benjamin's all right last word here. So
how much fuel does Odell have left in the tanker?
This is the other part of it, and you should
probably be concerned if you're a cowboy fan picks as
if Jerry's interested in Odell, that means he's gonna be
hopping on one leg like a pogo stick if this
is the case. But it comes down to a psychological exam.
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Do you see the glass as half full or half him?
Like which side of the aisle or you want no,
I'm gonna Benny bright sun on this, I am gonna
be positive, mister Sunshine. The glass is completely full. The
liquid is at the bottom half of the glass and
there's air filling up the rest, so therefore the glass
is completely full. It's either full of air or water,
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but it's full. Now OBJ does not have the wear
and tear of absorbing hits all season as it played
it down and he's now been branded a winner. That
stank of him being a selfish a hole, which may
or may not still be true, but it doesn't matter.
He want and when you win, immediately you take a
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nice shower and people say, oh, he's a winner. The
Championship Defenders League gives you protection, and he did deliver
in big games for the Rams. He was playing very
well early in that Super Bowl before he got hurt.
So there's no more aigma associated with OBJ that you
can't win with this guy. And for this reason, he's
not like a force multiplayer. Now that being said, I
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do understand the other side of the aisle, the naysayers
that Odell suffered a torn ACL. He's had multiple injuries
in recent years. This one was in the Super Bowl.
He missed all seasons, hadn't plays Rusty obj is thirty
years old, so how many more years can a top
flight receiver play. It's not like running backs, but it's
not too much past the age of thirty. We see
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production go down, down, down, down, down down, and Beckham
is expected to be cleared for a return to game
action or at least to practice with the team in
the next week, but he might not be able to
play for another couple of weeks. So we're heading to
week ten. So yeah, let's say you don't get Beckham
till week twelve or week thirteen, so you got him
(22:54):
for the final month of the season. So we're getting
close to the point where you either got to poop
we get off the pot for Odell Beckham. But absolutely
the Cowboys cowboy up, absolutely of that with Beckham. It'd
be good for my business. So selfishly, i'd like to
see that happen because we'd get at least one story
a week, good, bad, or ugly with Odell Beckham. Be
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It was reported on Tuesday, No really, that the Red
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(24:23):
Xander Bogarts since they would move Trevor's story over to
shortstop Ben, Do you think this report pretty much confirms
that Bogarts won't be coming back? Yeah? Yeah, absolutely him
bloom the GM in Boston. He says that they want
to keep Bogards, but his actions lead you to believe
that's not the case. He's as believable as Benedict Arnold.
The Red Sox have made every other move to clear
(24:46):
the path for Xander to leave, and the ownership, and
I actually agree with the Boston ownership. They don't want
to give out these ten year contracts. They know that
these things are not going to work, and so they
don't want any part of them. And so the Red Sox,
unless they're willing to give out an eight, nine, ten
year contract, Xander Bogart's is not going to come back.
Highly unlikely. He doesn't get that kind of deal somewhere else.
(25:07):
So the other teams, somebody's gonna give him the contract
in Xander will be gone next. South Florida fired their
head coach this week, and now sources are saying that
John Gruden is USF's first choice for their head coaching vacancy, Ben,
could you see Gruden making his return at the helm
of a college program. This would be a wonderful fit,
right because he's not gonna get a job in the
NFL other than Brian flora Is. Normally, when you sue
(25:29):
the NFL, they don't hire you, and he's got a house.
He lives in that area, the Tampa area where the
University of South Florida is won a Super Bowl with
the Box. Florida's the kind of state that will forgive
him for the emails and all that there, They'll give
him a second chance because he's a big name. The
boosters will get excited. I don't see a downside to it.
(25:50):
I don't see it that he's got that youthful energy
John Gruden. I think that'd be wonderful and that would
make them a player to cause some heartburn around football next.
Frank Reich told the reporter that obviously his desire is
to be a head coach again. Ben, do you think
he'll get that opportunity, Well, maybe in Pop Warner or
high school like NFL. No, he will not be a
(26:12):
head coach again, not a full time head coach, maybe
an interim coach. In the NFL, he was, he was mediocre.
He's sixty years old. Younger guys were getting opportunities. Unless
he's buddies with an owner that we don't know about.
Frank Reich, it ain't happening there. It is Mallard of
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We go for the reading of the questions. All right,
We're gonna start off with a question from fur Dog.
(28:04):
He wants to know what's a better game, hide and
seek or Marco Polo. I'm gonna go Nah, I don't
know about Marcolo. I played a lot of hide and
seek back in the day. I did. I was a
good hide and see because I grew up there were
big though it would be to hide, no, but the
(28:26):
orange grows. So I grew up in an area where
they were like orange grows and stuff. So it's a
lot of hiding places. We'd run through those orange grows
and hide, and there were places you could hide. The
problem the orange trees at the bottom you can see
right through. That's the problem. But I didn't play a
lot of Marco Polo too much. I didn't spend too
much time doing that. But I'm gonna go hide and seek.
What about you, Eddie? No, I'm a Marco Polo guy.
(28:46):
I loved history the hot summers in central California. You
want to be in that pool as much as possible.
So Marco, Well, when you were my size, Eddie, you
didn't want to be in the pool. Yeah, I want
to wear a burkup while you were in the pool. Anyway, Roberto,
hide and go seek, man, God, that's my man high
fineah play hiding seekul with my daughter and my godson,
(29:09):
and so good that I they can't find me. I
gotta scare a crap out of him. Roberto leaves against
this card some smokes. I'll be back, all right, what
about you, Coop, I have to agree. I have to
go with hide and Seek. In your face, Garcia, I'm
(29:30):
the only one who's right. Yeah, we're in the majority
and you're on the wrong side, all right, But yeah,
hide and Seekers. But and like even like hide and
Seeks are grown up. It's like not a grown up person,
but it's it's a more advanced version of like every kid,
every little kid loves Peekaboo, Right, doesn't every kid love peekaboo?
They smile. You can put your hands up on your
face and then you move away and they smile. Like
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Hide and Seeks. The next level from peekabow. What is next?
All right, I'm pretty sure we've been asked this, but
it's probably been yours rob aka goat Man, Oh, the
Great goat Man. Yes, he wants to know. Have you
ever seen a UFO or anything extraterrestrial? Yes, well, there
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there have. There was one time I was hiking, of
all things, my fat ass was hiking and I saw
it wasn't like a flying sauce or anything like this,
but I had never seen it. But maybe it was
a drone. But this isn't the days before drones, so
I don't think it was a drone because there were
no drones at the time, and there were these like
five black orbs that were flying above where I was walking,
(30:34):
but they weren't They didn't look like anything I've seen
since then, and they were kind of liquidy. It was
very hard. It's hard to describe. But that's the only
thing I ever saw. I said, I don't think that's
from our world, but maybe it was. Maybe it was
just some kind of drone technology that was somebody was
effing around with some fat guy on a white walk
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through the hills. But that's about the only time. What
about you, Eddie I thought I did one. When I
was trick or treating as a kid, there was this
thing flying in the sky and me and my friends
all paused and looked up and were like, what the
hell is that? And we just stared at it and
stared at and stared at it, and come to find
out it was you know those airplanes that fly with
those banners they tow. Yeah, find well this was. I
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don't I've never seen one since, but it was doing
this at night, so it was it was pulling like
a lighted sign and it just at a certain angle.
It looked really weird because you couldn't see the plane,
you just saw the sign. But then we looked long
enough that we figured out, oh, it's actually an AD.
It's not really. But I thought for a few moments
I thought for sure I had seen a UFO. But
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they answer is no, like a ghost ship or something like.
You know, yeah, remember that time in Phoenix years ago
there was a like a spaceship flew over Phoenix. You
know what's crazy? Though, nowadays the entire you could you
could film a spaceship flying over wherever, and if you
put it on the internet enough, people will be like, oh,
it's fake because it's on the right, it'd be really
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and the government's pretty much announced like around military basic know.
We just we just people miss it, yeah, Roberto nah
nah wish all right, Coopa loop Yes yeah, yes, Um,
I still don't. I don't know what it was. And
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um granted, like look, marijuana is not a hallucinogenic why
but at one time I was very high. But that
being said, no it was I don't, I don't know
you were hitting out with your friend ayahuasca. No, no, no,
(32:45):
but no, it was like it was me and my
like my buddy's entire family, we all song. We were
standing in the front yard and it was, you know,
just something light in the sky that was not moving
like an airplane, you know, And and after a while
of like staring at it, it just kind of like
went off. I don't I don't know. I don't know,
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but you'll never know. Yeah, well maybe you will. Maybe
maybe that's coming in twenty twenty three, big announcement. We've
had a pandemic. We've had all kinds of crazy, crazy
thing alright, although somebody did point out a fair thing
like if if some and I think there are other
life forms out there. But if somebody came to the planet,
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we wouldn't be able to communicate with them. We can't
even talk to a dog or a horse or a fish.
How you know what I mean? So I don't anyway,
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(34:55):
of the questions. All right, We're gonna start off with
a quick one from ALFI only know Piner if he
wants to know. Did any of you drink Jolt Cola
back in the day? Yes, I did have a not often,
but I did have Joel Cola. I was more of
a doctor Pepper Cherry Cooke guy back in my day.
What about you Eddie? I think I tried it and
(35:16):
uh wasn't a big fan, but I do want it. Yeah,
I just didn't like the taste. All right. What about
tab soda? Did you ever drink tabs No, I've never
never tried that. I liked tab soda. What about you
Jolt never RC cola? Yeah, yeah, I had Rca Cola
too big soda family growing up. That's why I got
so fat. We drink a lot of soda. I tried
(35:37):
every soda possible. I'd like to get my hands. Got
a buddy who loves Arcia Cola, Roberto. Yeah, it's good,
big thing. It's nostalgic. What about you, coop Royal Crown? Uh?
I was also I'm also a big soda person, and
I was back in the day. Now now I stick
to one soda um Doctor Pepper, diet doctor Pepper. Yes,
HM love that. But back in the day, I was trying.
(36:00):
I was drinking all sodas, but I never tried jold.
I don't know. Maybe that was that before my time.
Probably probably was. It was a big deal when it
came out because it was it like an energy drink soda?
Or is it just it as gotcha? Gotcha? All right?
What is next year? It is asked, Ben, your questions
(36:22):
are answers? We ever handkerchief ready to go in case
we sneeze. See here, I don't know. This one is
from milkman Mike. Uh. I feel like it's a pretty
easy one, but I'll ask it anyway. He says, which
would you rather go through a Category five hurricane or
(36:44):
a blizzard that dumps three inches of snow? Three inches?
Does he mean? Did he mean three feet? He wrote inches.
I can handle three inches of snow, I believe. Make
sure I finished that sentence. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go.
The snow. I you just sit, let's change you make
it feed, Yeah, we'll make it feed. Yeah. Yeah. The blizzard. Yeah,
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go with the blizzard. Just hang out inside, get a fire,
gone be pretty nice. What about you, Eddie? I mean,
I'm speaking from a place of total ignorance because I've
seen snow twice in my life, and as I've said,
I went to it. It did not come to me.
So I don't know what three feet of snow would
be like, but I will agree with you. I think
that would be better than having a potentially my home
(37:26):
blown away. How did you never you live? You grew
up in an area right below where like the Sequoia
that the big sequoia trees are like, right, You didn't
go up there and hang out. It was beautiful when
it snows up there. My family were not outdoorsy people,
and neither am I got you roverto Yeah, I'll go
with snow. If you get you have to stay home,
(37:49):
right snow day Yeah yeah yeah, snow parties get a
bunch of alcohol. Yeah, let's do it other party favors
and pick the snow. Yeah, and your house doesn't fall apart.
Yeah all right, Coolop definitely definitely would go with the snow.
All right, unanimous across the board. We all agree, snow, snow, snow,
(38:10):
Let it snow. Let it snow. Let its snow. And
we're only a couple of weeks away from the holiday
music returning. Will you'll hear that song and a million others?
All right, what is next? What do we have here? Uh,
let's go with Cowboy Killer. He wants to know, do
you slow down or step on the gas on a
yellow light? Yeah? Yeah, so if this is not a
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sweet probably stunned. Yeah, I usually gun it. That's normally
the move there, Eddie. Absolutely, I'm not going to slow
down for a yellow light. Yellow is drive faster. That's
red is stopped. Green, Yellow is drive faster. Roberto, Yeah,
we agree, Yeah, all right, Coop does oh absolutely. And
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that's when when I was like a kid and my
mom was like teaching me stuff. That's what she said,
She said, green means go, red means stop, yellow means
hurry up. Huh yeah, because isn't the law. And I'm
probably gonna get this completely wrong. Maybe an officer call
from and correct me. But if you're in the intersection,
like halfway through a yellow, you're fine, right, Yeah, isn't that?
(39:12):
I don't think if it's even halfway through, as long
as you're in the intersection, okay, then boom, you're good.
And then I also look at the light coming up ahead,
and if I see that the the what is it
the crosswalk light starts? Gotta pump the turn on the
gas a little even a little more to beat that
next light coming. Yeah. You see that police chase yesterday
in La here that was on? Oh no, I was
(39:34):
really good. Man, it was bad, but it was good TV.
But man, all right, what is I don't think we
have time for another? Was that it cool? Any quick one? Well,
there's one about a high speed chase. If you were
in a high speed chase, would you drive as far
as possible or stay in an area? You know? No,
you're supposed to stay in the area, you know, Eddie, Yes, yeah, yeah,
otherwise you end up at a call the sack and
(39:55):
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Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio. Ahip oh, let's get over
to Eddie right now and hockey, hockey. Hockey man. He
(40:15):
loves hockey so much he was away the other night
to go to a hockey game. Here's Eddie all right,
thank you. Ben. We are about a month in the
NHL regular season. It's been an interesting start to the
season so far, with the usual surprises both positive and negative.
We'll start on the positive side and the Vegas Golden
Knights leading the Western Conference and the NHL with a
twelve and two record, good enough for twenty four points.
(40:35):
The Boston Bruins lead the Eastern Conference at eleven and two.
More on the Bruins in a moment, much to the
delight of Blind Scott. One of the big positive surprises.
The New Jersey Devils are riding a seven game winning streak.
They're off to a ten and three start, leading the
Metropolitan Division. Nobody saw that coming second best a second
best story, I guess would be. On the positive side,
the Seattle Kraken, in their second year of existence, have
(40:57):
these second best record in the Western Conference, fifth best
in the HL. They're eight four and two for eighteen
points so far on the season. On the negative side, St.
Louis Blues do not good. On the negative side, they
are a part of that. The Calgary Flames, who many
picked to be one of the top teams in the West,
have lost six in a row. They're a middle of
the pack team so far, but the Saint Louis Blues,
thought to be a playoff team, so far they have
(41:17):
the second worst record in the NHL and they're writing
an eight game losing skid. Penguin snapped their seven game
skided with a win last night. Senators have lost six
in a row, Blue Jackets plus five straight, and Columbus
has the worst record in the NHL at three and nine.
I mentioned the Boston Bruins are off to a great start,
but all that got overshadowed by controversy this past week
as they signed three agent prospect Mitchell Miller, now a
(41:39):
talented young defenseman originally was drafted in twenty twenty by
the years on the Kyotes, but they never signed him
after the public found out he was convicted of assaulting
and bullying a black, developmentally disabled classmate when he was fourteen.
The bullying was racially motivated. Miller also ended up losing
his scholarship to play hockey the University of North Dakota.
He's undergone some court man mandated therapy, has done some
(42:00):
community service, offered a written apology to the victim, but
many say that that is not enough and he has
not earned the right player in the NHL. What's enough, Eddie?
He is he never allowed to play hockey again? Is
that the deal on that? Well? According to Commissioner Gary Bettman,
he does not know if Miller will ever be eligible
to play in the Russia. He would he be allowed
in Russia? That's a possibility. Um. So, the Boston Bruins
(42:23):
have decided they're going to release Mitchell Miller after signing
him to that contract. There were some Boston players who
actually spoke out about this as well. But it looks
like they're going to have to end up owning some
money because they signed him to a contract and now
they can't just release him. Without paying him something, and
if they do, they'll be a grievance filed by the
Players Association. So we'll see how this ends up turning out.
(42:45):
And we'll see if this guy ever plays in the NHL.
We'll see, No, Eddie, how old is he? He's twenty,
he's young. Is there a statue of limitations on that
or no? It's your in public opinion. I don't know,
well right now, No, but the five years from now
(43:06):
twenty seven, twenty eight, something like that. Yeah, I mean,
he's still obviously be young, but he I hope where
is he going to be playing. He's playing somewhere in
like the US Hockey leaguers. They could maybe go play
in Europe or something. I don't know. We'll see. Seven
months after the death of longtime owner Eugene Melnock, the
process of selling the Ottawa Senators has officially begun. Senators
are valued at five and twenty five million dollars by Forbes,
(43:29):
selling price expected to be significantly higher, and one potential buyer,
as you mentioned last week, is actor Ryan Reynolds, a
Deadpool fame. We had this yesterday. We talked about the
fact that he said he needs a sugar Mama or
sugar Dad. Yeah. Yeah, he's estimated his wealth is one
hundred and fifty million according to Celebrity net Worth. But
he was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and said he's
(43:49):
gonna need some some partners if he's gonna he's successful
with this. This said, hockey's interesting because he knows the rule. Now,
he showed up at a senator's game and got a
very loud ovation from the fans and attendant when they
put him up on the video boards. Is there a chance,
Eddie that he's just doing this to promote his other
work he is actually not intending to buy the team,
or is he trying to buy the team to make
it a reality show? Isn't he involved in that other
(44:11):
reality Yeah? There's he owns a soccer tccer team. Yeah,
and uh, I haven't seen it, but looked at this
could be part of the show. Maybe he's doing this.
It's possible episode of the show. I want to buy
a hockey team and here's what I'm gonna do. Blah
blah blah blah blah blah. It's it's possible. He probably
knows rich super rich people. Always a Hollywood actor. I'm
sure he could find some people that would would help
him out with that invest Rich people love to hang
(44:32):
out with other famous people because it makes him feel Goodah,
we got I mean Will Ferrell, right, was a part
of the soccer team here in LA that just won
a championship, which I was unaware of until I saw
on social media my old radio buddy Dave Yeah, the
voice of ye see, Yeah, I saw that. Good for him.
Magic's a part of it as well. Him. Williams Sarina too,
(44:55):
huh okay even to share? How about that? Yeahs the
other fan of another team in time, Washington Capitol Starlings
and Raveskin has now scored more goals playing for one
team than anyone else in NHL history at seven hundred
eighty eighty, pass Gordy Howe, who had seven eighty six
with the Detroit Red Wings. Eleccan also went away from
Wayne Gretzky for most career road goals scored, Gretzky's at
(45:18):
four h two Kan at four h one. He should
become just the third player in NHL history to hit
eight hundred crew goals later this season, joining only Gordy
Howe and Wayne Gretzky, he mentioned it early, but ematon O,
there's forward of Ander King. Gonn missed three to four months.
He got cut by a skate on his wrist the
other night against right out of a horror movie with
the blood dripping on the ice. It's Tampa Bay. Yeah,
(45:40):
that was It's not good. And also Peter McNabb, former
NHL player and longtime TV color analyst for more than
twenty five years with the color of Avalanche, passed away
after battle with cancer. He was seventy. He had been
working up until the end of October, played fourteen years
in the NHL. One of the longest tenured analysts in
the NHL. He had joined the Avalanche since their inception
(46:01):
back in nineteen ninety five ninety six, and was inducted
into the US Hockey Hall of Fame just last And
that's to the end. That's absolutely a lot of people
want to do that. I probably want to do that.
I guess I haven't. I hear you. I get bored,
but I don't work. I hear you. And that is
your puck the world's report. All right, thank you for that,
Eddie appreciated. As the continue on
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