September 11, 2023 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about the Giants miserable performance against the Cowboys on Sunday Night Football, who gets the blame for the Chargers late-game collapse against the Dolphins, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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Speaker 3 (01:47):
By the way, so point that out.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It's at the Charger Dolphins game. And decided I had
a decision to make. I could have either gone one
direction or another direction. I said to go to this direction.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So I'm here.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Not that that matters to you at all. It doesn't matter.
I mean the radio, whatever device you're listening to, that's
where I am. But our lead does come from Jersey
in a made for TV extravaganza. There is a rule
in television when you put the Dallas Cowboys on television
chu ching, chu ching, chut ching, it is a ratings
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gold mine that will be tested based on this particular game.
It was hyped up NFC East Brew Haha, huge massive ratings.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
The rainy night.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
In Jersey, Dak Prescott and the Cowboys paying a visit
against Danny Dimes and the Giants, the first game the
Giants played since paying Daniel Jones the contract, the ninety
plus million dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
In guaranteed money.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
My god, anyway, Oh, how did that go. How did
that go? They had to do it right. They had
to pay Daniel Jones, They had to pay They didn't
pay him. You guys would have an upset. You would
know you gotta pay him. Well, you didn't watch the game.
And if you didn't watch the game, boy, you're lucky.
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You are very lucky because Mike up Parsons, and not
just Michael Parson. He had a couple of plays, but
it was the entire Dallas defense, all encompassing, who swarmed
the Giants. They man handled the g men from soup
to nuts, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Forty
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to nothing, beat down. Let me repeat that for those
of you in the back of the room they've been
drinking all day. Forty to nothing. The New York Giants
lost a game forty to nothing. They plausibly practiced for
they lost by forty points.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Now we're gonna get into this here.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The Giants the worst shutout loss on their own field
in franchise. There's the second worst by margin in front
of the home crowd. The Giants have been playing for
almost one hundred years, almost one hundred years, and this
is a new level of stinkage and for the Cowboys
on the opposite side, the most dominating performance in the
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history of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Before they were America's team, back when they were just
a team.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The Dallas Cowboys a complete and total annihilation situation. So
let us discuss the question here, was this game a
forty to zero win for Dallas? More about the Cowboys
or more about the Giants? I've got sandbags, demerit, and palooza,
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and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to make an ice pack, which the
giants need because they have a migraine headache right now.
And if they don't have a migraine headache, they should
have a migraine headache, and so they need to have
a migraine headache. So to answer the question, we're gonna
tie all these things together, well, you know how that works.
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So to answer the question of was this game more
about the Cowboys and more about the Giants? The better
story is where that is right. The better story is
in the losing locker room. There's gonna be a kung
line of people to kiss the tuckers of the Cowboys.
Oh yourself, got no, we love you, Dallas. Oh my god, Dallas,
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Jerry dowllas, I want to have your baby, all that crap,
like all that nonsense. But the story is with the
Giants because they played like total a holes. Okay, my god,
completely unprepared.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You ever had that when you were in school? I
had it a lot. That's why I got in the radio.
But when you're in school and you didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Really pay attention in class, and then you got a
test coming up, but it's kind of a big deal,
and then for some reasons, you didn't study for the test,
but you got to take the test, and it normally
does not go very well. The Giants were completely hornswaggled
in this game. They look like they had not even
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practiced it, hadn't even opened the playbook. What should we
do here, We'll just improvise. We'll make it up as
we go to some improv That's what it looked like.
Absolute lightweights, Absolute lightweights. The New York Giants an annihilation situation.
The Giants were totally unprepared for the first day of school,
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and then they tried to wing it. They thought they
could get by with it. What exactly did they do
during training camp? Isn't it like the whole cliche. We
watched football lot of I mean the clasice is. The
cliche has been that you however, you play first, you
have all off season to prepare for that opponent. That
that's the game, that's the game, the first game that
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you put everything in there, that you get all the
time to prepare for that first opponent. So the Giants
look like they had decided to add a new feature
to their uniforms. They put about forty pound sandbags on
their backs and they were running around with the forty
pounds sandbags and masculating. And that doesn't even begin to
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describe the effort by the New York Football team which
plays in New Jersey, the NFC version. But that is
a go to detention. You failed, you have to study more.
Bad job by you in all phases across the board
a placement test, and the Giants went out and flunked.
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They didn't get one right. They did not get one
answer right on the test. All of them were wrong.
They fly And how about Brian Dable, You got some
explaining to do. Be fuddled. The Giants were a smoking
mirrors team last year and made those football and those
the Giants were frauds last year that they in the
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in the scope of the fact that they won a
bunch of close games and the numbers indicated that they
were not as good as their record indicated. And then
in the postseason when they played the Eagles in the
play Now, the Vikings were also equally misguided, the Minnesota Vikings,
and so you throw that game out. But when the
Giants played the Eagles in the playoffs, how did that go?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Now? Turning the page.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Here, while the Cowboys are going to be celebrated for
their defense, I'm not going to sit here and say
that the Cowboys were not good early in this game defensively,
and obviously the Giants.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Didn't score, so you could say all the way through.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
The game, But how terrible, how god awful was Daniel
Jones of the Giants. If only somebody had warned the
Giants not to sign this guy to an extension, If
only somebody had been the voice of reason out there
to say, what are you doing? Why would you give
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this guy a contract He hasn't earned it? You know,
I know, we live in the year where everyone gets paid,
everyone gets money, chur ching, chitching, chitching, chitching, everyone's getting paid.
In the ennf when you blow, you still get paid.
But I'm sorry. I was raised where you have certain
standards and this guy's an absolute bum, Daniel Jones.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But he got the contract.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Totally flummoxed, totally flummoxed out there, recorded the lowest passer
rating since he was drafted. And that's saying something because
there's been some l stinkos on that resume for Daniel
Jones unable to walk and chew gum at the same
time in this game. Now, I understand the quarterback apologist.
It's never the quarterback's fault. It's always somebody elsa's fault. Yeah,
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I know those idiots and losers is what they are
in their scum and on this side of the microphone, Okay,
on this side of the microphone, the quarterback apologies can
chew on a dirty sock. Okay, it's all the offensive
line's fault. No, it was.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
The offensive line wasn't great.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I get that, but are you telling me that, Daniel
JOSEI The only way this guy can be an effective,
efficient NFL quarterback is if the offensive line's great, the
play calling is grade, nobody drops a pass, the playmakers
are all wonderful. Okay, anybody can do that. Do you
understand anyone can do that? You're supposed to perform when
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everything's not going well. That's the point of demarcation. This
guy doesn't have it. He does not have it. We
knew he didn't have it. I got no skin in
the game. I'm not a Giants fan. It just annoys
me that this guy was bad at his job. He
sucked in college at Duke, he sucked in the NFL,
and he's laughing all the way to the bank. I mean,
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that is an absolute demerit for the Giants. I don't
want to hear how smart Brian Dable is and what
a genius Joe Shane is the g I don't want
to hear about it. You gave this guy a new contract.
Daniel Jones is puke okay, four years, one hundred.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And sixty million.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I know that's not as much as some of the
other countries. They gave him ninety two million guaranteed. The
guy should be selling insurance and they gave him ninety
two million dollars guaranteed for what exactly? What is the justification?
This is a first opportunity has to go out there,
and this guy, look, he looked like the.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
He was a hair brained. He looked hair brained.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You know, in the malarmansion, there's a lot of rabbits
around the mall of Manchi. And I never understood what
hair brain meant.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I don't know what this kind of do. I was
ripping rabbits.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
But I'll be driving down the road and I'll see
a rabbit, and the rabbit, instead of getting out of
the way of the malormobile, will stand up and look
and freeze at the car. That's Daniel Jones. He stands up,
he's got his his rabbit ears up and he freezes
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ninety two million. That's football mouthpractice by the New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Rip them. They need to be ripped.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And it's not gonna get much better, like you think
all of a sudden after this, Daniel Jones, you know, Oh,
he's gonna dominate the NFL the rest of the way,
My fat ass, He's gonna dominate the NFL the rest
of the way. Now the last word here. After the
events were over, Daniel Jones said that the forty zero
loss to the Cowboys was quote, not who we're capable
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of being. What does that even mean? You practiced all offseason.
Y'all got paid. Everyone got paid, You went to training camp,
you prepared for the Dallas Cowboys. That is exactly who
you are. So how do you grade that answer? If
minus f minus, just like the performance of the Vanilla
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vic Now, make no mistakes. I mean, there's nothing to
confuse here. You are what your record says you are
and fraudulent. The Giants are not a contender. They shouldn't
have been a contender last year. And then you have
Brian Dable, the head coach of the Giants. We have
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some postgame audio here of Brian Dable who commented that
when you lose a game forty to nothing, and you
would like to assign culpability, there's a lot there, Tiger.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Listen, Like I said, offense, defense, coaching, special teams, whatever
you name it. When you get forty to nothing, there's
a there's a lot of blame to go around, and
I'll take the I'll take the head of it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, well, you you probably eat the whole thing. All right.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Here's more. Here's how about Daniel Jones. I just gave
you part of one of these quotes, But here's Daniel Jones,
who was celebrating a big party. It was the putrid
palooza for the Giants, and he was the star of
the show. Here's Danny Dimes who points out rather obviously,
there have been better days.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
This wasn't our.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
This wasn't our best game. There's no no doubt about it.
Really wasn't you know who were capable of being and
we've got to show that. We've got to We've got
to put that on the field and play that way.
So we didn't do that tonight, and we have a
lot to a lot to work on going forward.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Is he stupid play that again? They just lost the game?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Fun and nothing.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
This wasn't our This wasn't our best game. There's no
no doubt about it. You know who we're capable of being,
and we've got to show that. We've got to we've
got to put that on the field and play that way.
So we didn't do that tonight, and we have a
lot a lot to work on going forward.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Now you could argue there's no great answer when you
come out of a loss like this, But I what.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I would like to hear is I want accountability.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh both good and all this, No, I want to
you got to rip people, rip them all right, they'd
nothing monotone.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That's how he is monotone.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I here's one more from Danny Dimes, who says the
F word is part of the equation here.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
We're certainly frustrated and extremely disappointed with how we perform tonight.
And oh yeah, I know I certainly am with myself.
So a lot to work on and clean up. We're
going to be critical of ourselves and you know, look,
look to correct it and get back on the right page.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Wow, it's like he was trying to memorize the script.
Get the talking points in there.
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from Los Angeles, well, actually in the hood in Inglewood.
It was an AFE Inner Division slobber knocker, and I enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I was at this game, and usually I go to
these games, I say, well, why am I this game?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
This game sucks.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I wasted my time, but I usually end up just
watching other games, which I did in this game also.
But every time I looked up, the Dolphins were scoring
a touchdown, and then I'd look down and I watched
like the Patriots game, and then I'd look up and
then the Chargers were scoring a touchdown, and then I'd
go back and I'd say, I may look a little
bit of that Bronco game with the Raiders, and I
look up and then there was another touchdown, and then
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I look back and I'm looking at that ram Seahawk
game and then boom another score. It's like that the
entire day. So these are heavyweight contenders duking it out
in the AFC. Now they're not on the same level
as the Chiefs said, Oh, can you say that the
Chiefs lost to the Lorens. We'll see if they lose
with Travis Kelce back in the lineup, then we've got
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something to talk about there. But both these teams consider
themselves worthy playoff teams, the Chargers and the Dolphins, so
they were scoring up mono a mono in the La area.
Tua tongue of Byelow, now he went out. I was
at the game last year when the Dolphins played the Chargers,
and Tua was so bad in that particular game, especially
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in the second half of that game against the Chargers,
that you wondered if there was an imposter, like a
body double that was playing for him. But in this game,
it was ridiculously good. Almost five hundred yards passing three touchdowns.
The Dolphins held off and really held Justin Herbert in check.
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It's hard to say that considering the Chargers still scored
thirty four points, but the Dolphins get a thirty six
to thirty four win. Tyreek Hill eleven catches for two
hundred and fifteen yards, two touchdowns and a partris of
pear Tree for the Miami football team, as it was
a title wave of offense and the Chargers they had
a chance to drive down to win the football game,
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but Trick laid the ball down the field. All you
needed was a field goal that Dolphins botched an extra point,
and so all you needed was a field goal in
order to win the game, and justin Herbert ended up
turning the ball over on downs and the clock then
ran out after that. The better story, though, is where
that is right, ding ding ding ding ding. The better
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story is in the losing locker room, and that is
where we start. So let's discuss the question who gets
the most of the Chargers bacon wrapped blame hot dog,
which is not to be confused with the blame pie.
This is the Chargers bacon wrapped blame hot dog, which
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they sell a lot of hot dog Hot Doc Hot
Doc when you leave Sofi Stadium. There's a whole cadence
if you want to sell hot dogs, and there were
I kind of about forty people selling hot dogs outside
Sofi Stadium after that game. Anyway, to answer the question
who gets the the most of the Chargers bacon rap
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blame hot dog, we are pointing the direction at one player,
and one player.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
In particular, we'll tell you who that player is.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
But we've got Ramshackle, halatosis and endurance, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a power outage, which is what the Chargers
defense suffered in particular. This is a massive bacon rap
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Wiener is what this is for the Chargers. Here and
Brandon Staley, the head coach, who was hired originally as
a defensive guru, a protege of Vic Fangio, who also
got sliced up on the other side. Vic Fangio, now
the Dolphins defensive coordinator, ended up getting this game right
on Benny versus the penny. But my analysis was completely wrong.
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I was convinced that the Dolphins defensively would be okay.
I was right at Vic Fangio would mess around with
Justin Herbert. That part of it was true. The Chargers
defensively picking up where they ended last season. If you
are old enough to remember the playoff game Jacksonville and
Los Angeles and the Chargers defensively coughing up multiple fur
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balls in that particular game against Jacksonville, blowing that big
lead there, and the Chargers defense came out and they
just got cooked.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
They absolutely got cooked.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And they got they got a little bit of a
break because the Dolphins matriculated the ball down the field
their first drive. They were within the ten yard line
and then the fumbball miscommunication on the snap FuMB up
and the Chargers got the ball back. But in terms
of the players, rip Brandon Staley all you want. Ultimately,
the one guy in particular that gets the biggest chunk
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of that bacon rap Charger blame dog that would be j. C. Jackson,
Not exactly Action Jackson.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
J C.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Jackson who signed a relatively large free agent contract later
the New England Patriots a couple of years back, and
he was flagged for an unforgivable sin, a pass interference
penalty right before HALFTIMEE you should have been tied at seventeen.
And I don't know what he was thinking. He wasn't
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thinking and jac Jackson hit one of the Dolphin players.
It was an untimed down. Dolphins were within field goal range,
they kicked the field goal, they get the three points,
so they're up by three at halftime.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And that that.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Mistake there was one of a couple because Tyreek Hill
essentially treated J. C. Jackson like he worked at a
South Florida marina. He abused him like he worked at
that chartered boat company in Miami Beach there, and it
was so bad at the end of the game, I
believe jac Jackson got benched that Brandon Staley finally realized
I got to get this guy out of here because
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this guy's is brual. Not that it changed the outcome
of the game, but to a tongue of I loa
combining against that Charger defense with Tyreek Hill, and I
thought he was back at Tuscaloosa and it was like
Alabama playing Vanderbilt or Kentucky. That's what it looked like
watching him slice and dice an NFL defense there, and
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just absolutely a ramshackle performance by the Bolts there. Five
hundred and thirty six yards of offense from Miami the
every offensive play, they averaged over eight yards per offensive
play eight point two yards per offensive play for the Dolphins.
And defensively, while the Chargers were able to put up
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thirty four points, the Vic Fangio defense did contain Justin
Herberts odd to say that because of the final score,
and the point total and all that. But if you
saw the game and you were paying attention, the quarterback
Herbert had pretty pedestrian numbers for a game like this.
Was the running back Austin Eckler and friend who combined
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for two hundred and thirty four yards on the ground.
So impressive performance by the Miami Dolphins offense, but it's
really the defense J C. Jackson, and there are other
guys individually defensively, but he was the biggest at the
very top of the pyramid. Oh, you gotta blame now.
Secondly in Seattle. Now, my friend's the twelfth man we
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did here earlier, a beaten and broken down, trodden no
strudinas who lives in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I've not heard from J. J. Nritten.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
He's probably self medicating right now with the mini bar
as we speak. But very cocky, a lot of arrogance there,
crying craigs, likely crying right now as we speak.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
In Seattle, they were ah Listen the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
The Rams blow, And I would agree the Rams look
like they blew in the exhibition season. They weren't even trying,
and they were playing some regular players. It looked like
they had never never tackled anybody in their life. And
yet they go out there and all those Seahawks fans
who were so confident and arrogant that they were gonna
beat the Rams. Oops of daisy. You know what happens
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when you assume the outcome of a game. Yeah, Matthew
Stafford and the Rams put up twenty seven first downs,
four hundred and twenty six yards of offense, and there's
like one guy on that offense other than Stafford I've
even heard of, and they end up blowing out the
Seahawks in the second half of that game, win going
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away thirty to thirteen. The Rams outscored Seattle twenty three
nothing in the second half of that game. So thumbs
up or thumbs down the story here is the quarterback
for Seattle. Thumbs up or thumbs down? Do the Seattle
Seahawks have a Gino Smith problem? And two thumbs up?
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Two thumbs up on that. Yes, we were waiting. We
knew eventually this moment was going to pop up on
our radar. Lot it would happened last season.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
It did not.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Seattle was able to circumvent the schedule last year without
any real meltdown situation for Geno Smith. But here we
are in week one of the second act of Geno Smith,
and he is writing the Vomit Comet for the Seattle Seahawks.
He's right there at the front. He's he's manning the
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cockpit on the vomit comet. Geno Smith was not only
a quarterback, he was horrible, suffering from haltosis and man,
you talk about bad breadth for Geno Smith. Smith overall
was sixteen to twenty six for one hundred and twelve yards,
one touchdown, no interception. That was underwhelming, But the second
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half is where that was the real Geno Smith. In
the second half he was the epitome of pathetic at
quarterback for the Seahawks. Just three of eight in the
second half for nine yards, nine yards, no touchdowns, obviously
knowing sim Seattle on the score in the second half,
passerating below fifty. And he also had a moment where
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he saw the boogeyman. Very hard to look past the boogeyman.
In this case, we're talking about audio, the microphones catching
when defensive tackle Aaron Donald, he's a monster, Aaron Donald,
not a real monsters, the football monster. So Aaron Donald
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was rushing towards Geno Smith. The ball is snapped and
the on field microphone overheard Geno Smith letting out a genuine,
fright night terrified reaction as a Smith threw the ball
to the feet of his receiver and well, rather than
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me tell you what he said, we have the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Listen closely.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
The voice you hear here is Geno Smith at the
line of scrimmage, and listen to how Geno reacted as
Aaron Donald is breaking through that seat. Offensive line crusher comes.
Oh my god, Oh my god, he had a come
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to Jesus moment right there on the field. And there's
a higher power man now appropriately enough. That is also
what Seattle Seahawks fans were saying watching Gino Smith play quarterback.
Oh my god, this guy blows.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That's what they were saying.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Good luck to Pete Carroll and Drew Locke is warming
up in the bullpen if you would like to go
that direction.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Not that he's any good either.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
All right, final point, let's go to Denver where Jimmy Garoppolo.
This guy plays just well enough to win. He's doing
the same crap he did with the forty nine ers.
It's only one game. With the Raiders, but Garoppolo was
not wonderful. He was alright. He had a couple of
touchdown passes to Jacoby Myers, the pat in his Las
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Vegas debut in the Mile High City, spoiling Sean Payton's
first game as Denver coach. A slopfest for the Broncos
in terms of penalties and execution, but it was only
a one point game. Raiders won by one point and
Seattle had a lot of bonehead plays in this game.
The Raiders now have won seven straight games against their
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division rival Broncos, and it's one thing to lose to
Kansas City because Kansas City is good. The Broncos do
that all the time. But it's not think the Raiders
have had great teams in recent years, but they have
been good enough to beat the Broncos. And Chandler Jones
nowhere to be seen. Chandler had that famous meltdown during
the week. We talked about it on the show.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
But from the.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Denver side of things, Russell Wilson in the first half
was slinging the football around. People very excited about russ Is.
Russell Wilson now back on track for the Broncos based
on this performance, the big first half, and I am
shaking my head. No, he was suitable and actually pretty good.
(30:03):
I'll even concede, I'll be Benny Bright said, for the
first half. For the first half considering where he was, okay,
baby steps, baby steps. But the second half, the second
half performance, you gotta go. No, I mean it was
same old Russ. Now he didn't have the ball a lot,
the Broncos did not because of situations following the game.
(30:27):
But for thirty minutes he was fine. But in the
second half he was ten of seventeen Russell Wilson for
fifty two yards. He averaged three yards per attempt and
a passer rating of sixty three point eight, which is
not good. Denver scored just three points in the second half.
And that was the Russ that we saw last year.
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So there were a few things that went right for
him in the first half. But last I checked, you
don't get you don't get an A plus for half
a day's work.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
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Speaker 1 (31:01):
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Podcast or wherever you get your podcast, It's Mallard.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
How about that to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Coop dal Loop justin Coop.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Joe Flacco said in an interview last week that he
still believes he can play in the NFL and he's
hoping for a chance at some point this season. Ben,
do you think anyone will come calling?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yeah, they shouldn't, but I believe Joe Flacco will get
a workout. He's thirty eight, almost thirty nineties birthdays in January.
But I'm gonna go yes on this. And here's why.
This has been a pretty consistent thing my entire life,
where teams are attracted to veteran quarterbacks in an emergency situation.
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Like it's kind of like how crap sticks to a blanket.
They just love it. And even though Joe Flacco has
been essentially useless for how many years since he left Baltimore,
he wasn't very good in Denver, He's been with the
Jets the last few years.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I think that's it, But no, I think he will
get an opportunity. It's not what you know, it's who
you know. I learned that years ago. It seems me
the smartest person in the world, but yet to know people.
And he's bounced around and he will continue to bounce around.
But I do predict he will get at least a
workout from an NFL team before the season's over, because
a bunch of quarterbacks are gonna get hurt.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
Next the deadline set by Mike Evans agent for the
Buccaneers to come to an extension agreement has come and passed.
Evan's had a good debut game, six catches, touchdowns, six yards.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Ben do you think Evans gets traded before the deadline?
So it's not a guarantee, but it's about a seventy
five percent chance he gets traded because even though the
Buccaneers beat the Vikings. Does anyone think the Buccaneers are
a legitimate threat in the NFC? No, the answer is no,
And so there is going to be a robust market
for a player like Mike Evans, who's good and he's
in the prime of his career.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
And so secondly, if you look.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Around at the teams that could need a wide receiver
like that, obviously Kansas City's the first one that comes
to mind based on what happened, and they're opener against
the Lions, the Broncos, how about the Patriots. You could
argue that they would be in on that. The Giants.
I wasn't very impressed with the Giants wide receivers. You
can go down the list. So Mike Evans would bring
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a nice return if you're into lottery tickets. So yeah,
I think that that is very tempting, considering he is
a free agent and the Buccaneers are not planning on
being a contender anytime soon.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Next Clemson and Alabama have been the powerhouse how this
of college football over the past decade, and youet two
weeks into the season both programs have lost the game already.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Ben, Do you think we're seeing a changing of the guard. Well,
not like the Clemson has been kind of trending the
wrong way. So the loss to Duke by Clemson, that
is a sign of the apocalypse for them. But Alabama,
it's not a great look losing to Texas. And Nick Saban,
who brought in the coach of the Longhorns, is a
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rehab guy, a coaching rehab guy. Steve Sarkisian who I
saw play when he was in community college back in
Soca back and the But that's embarrassing Alabama lose. I'm
not ready to ride off Alabama. They have a chance
to get right back in the SEC race, although it's
much harder now, there is a path for them. Clemson,
I don't know how you get past losing a Doke.
There is so much stank on that loss. I think
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they're done. But Alabama no, And it's still a feeling
out process in college football early in the season. Once
you get into those league games late in the season,
that's when everything all right. There it is malor to
the third degree starting out.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
The new week. How did we do you pass this?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
That is a way with time to spare, not much,
but time to spare. This is a little I got
half a second, but that was moth. That was enough.
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Speaker 3 (35:35):
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and no.
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On five hundred plus radio stations, a global audience on
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that's a lot of power just to call up and
say something stupid. But the question here we go. Here's
the question. How can the New York Giants be fixed?
The Giants lost forty to nothing to the Dallas Cowis.
(36:20):
You might remember in the playoffs last year, the last
game they played against Philadelphia they lost thirty eight to seven.
So that means the New York Giants the last two
games that they have played that have had any real value.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
They have been outscored.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Seventy eight to seven in the last eight quarters of football.
What is your advice to the Giants? We'll go to
the calls in eight, seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
You're on the airline one. Hello, line one. Well, they're
building a gallows outside myself. Okay, thank you. There's Tony
from the Bay line. To your next line too.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Hello, just that Mett, No backs that goat already?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
How many more majors? Is a guy I need to
win before you idiots?
Speaker 3 (37:01):
We'll accept it, all right, thank you? Yes, alright, calm down.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Line four. Hello, line four, you're on the air line four.
We're giving advice to the New York Giants. Line four.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
They need to be in a different division.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Okay, I recognize that voice. That's our friend from Ohio. Yeah,
how about the Canadian Football League one of the visions there.
Hello line five, your next line five, Hello, line five,
not paying attention. We're going to line six. Hello, line six,
you're live on the air. We're giving advice to the
New York Giants on how not to suck.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
They've been terrible.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
Okay, I understand, Well, you need to watch Benny versus
the penny, sir, clearly until I eventually I had to.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I had a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I got every one of my picks wrong, and I like,
they're going to cancel the show.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
But fortunately that didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Line number two, Hello, line two, Line line three, you're
on the ever giving advice to the New York Giants.
They have been terrible in their last two games playoff
game last year they got lost forty to nothing to
the Cowboys in the Sunday night game.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Hello, line three.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I waited a decade to see Benny actually go up
against a penny.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
And you didn't even flip a real penny. It wasn't
real penny. It was a real penny. You jeckass. Line four,
you're on the air. Line four, Hello, vote party, Okay,
all right, yeah, vote yeah, that always works. Yes, all right,
let's go to line five. Line I like how I
guy call him giving voting advice on a sports radio
show in the middle of the Night's gonna sway the election.
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Line five. Hello, line five.
Speaker 8 (38:43):
You gotta have a lost cat magnet if you want
to get one.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Okay, pay you for that, sir, appreciate that. Wonderful advice.
Line six. Hello, line six, I don't think anyone heard it. Hello,
line six, Good morning time.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I'm a commanders than.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Oh, congratulations, all right, Line number two Hello, line two, Okay,
put that little in that square on my Bengo card.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
There, I got that one. We have fudgie.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Line three, Hello, line three.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Gotta have New York's pregame meal champions noodles of noodles. Yeah,
well that's what all everyone in Brooklyn, you included, Uncle Moe.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
That's what you eat. Let's go to line number four.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Hello, line four, like, thank you for thank you for Well,
they bleeped themselves, so that's allowed.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
You can bleep yourself.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
You're allowed. We're okay with that. Line five is next.
We're giving advice to the New York Giants. The football
team has been outscored seventy eight as seven in the
playoff game last year they played against the Eagles, and
now the opener against the Cowboys. Hello, line five.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, I just sparted for a personal record twelve straight second.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Congratulations, sir Massel tough. All right, let's go to you
line one. You're on the Airline one. Hello, and I
got twenty five minutes to go.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Okay, thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Line two is next at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox Instant of Ice line for the New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Hello, line two.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Hello, some people like cucumbers better pickled?
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Line three is next, No pickles, no cucumbers. Hello, line
number three.
Speaker 8 (40:20):
Where's my baseball?
Speaker 7 (40:22):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
That's not the real where's my baseball? Guy?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
That's an impostor how dare you?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Sir? That's an iconic bit on this instant advice line
line four, Hello, Aaron Rodgers like powder?
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Okay, I don't want to hear the end of day.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
We'll do one more and only one more of it's good.
I'll take credit of non a blamacool a little people pick.
The final call on the Incident of ice line for
the New York Football Giants, Line six, Line number six.
You're on the airline sex. Hello, line six, you gotta
pay attention. In line six, you didn't pay attention. As
a bad job by line six
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Speaker 3 (01:47):
By the way, so point that out.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It's at the Charger Dolphins game. And decided I had
a decision to make. I could have either gone one
direction or another direction. I said to go to this direction.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So I'm here.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Not that that matters to you at all. It doesn't matter.
I mean the radio, whatever device you're listening to, that's
where I am. But our lead does come from Jersey
in a made for TV extravaganza. There is a rule
in television when you put the Dallas Cowboys on television
chu ching, chu ching, chut ching, it is a ratings
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gold mine that will be tested based on this particular game.
It was hyped up NFC East Brew Haha, huge massive ratings.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
The rainy night.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
In Jersey, Dak Prescott and the Cowboys paying a visit
against Danny Dimes and the Giants, the first game the
Giants played since paying Daniel Jones the contract, the ninety
plus million dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
In guaranteed money.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
My god, anyway, Oh, how did that go. How did
that go? They had to do it right. They had
to pay Daniel Jones, They had to pay They didn't
pay him. You guys would have an upset. You would
know you gotta pay him. Well, you didn't watch the game.
And if you didn't watch the game, boy, you're lucky.
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You are very lucky because Mike up Parsons, and not
just Michael Parson. He had a couple of plays, but
it was the entire Dallas defense, all encompassing, who swarmed
the Giants. They man handled the g men from soup
to nuts, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Forty
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to nothing, beat down. Let me repeat that for those
of you in the back of the room they've been
drinking all day. Forty to nothing. The New York Giants
lost a game forty to nothing. They plausibly practiced for
they lost by forty points.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Now we're gonna get into this here.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The Giants the worst shutout loss on their own field
in franchise. There's the second worst by margin in front
of the home crowd. The Giants have been playing for
almost one hundred years, almost one hundred years, and this
is a new level of stinkage and for the Cowboys
on the opposite side, the most dominating performance in the
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history of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Before they were America's team, back when they were just
a team.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The Dallas Cowboys a complete and total annihilation situation. So
let us discuss the question here, was this game a
forty to zero win for Dallas? More about the Cowboys
or more about the Giants? I've got sandbags, demerit, and palooza,
(04:57):
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to make an ice pack, which the
giants need because they have a migraine headache right now.
And if they don't have a migraine headache, they should
have a migraine headache, and so they need to have
a migraine headache. So to answer the question, we're gonna
tie all these things together, well, you know how that works.
(05:17):
So to answer the question of was this game more
about the Cowboys and more about the Giants? The better
story is where that is right. The better story is
in the losing locker room. There's gonna be a kung
line of people to kiss the tuckers of the Cowboys.
Oh yourself, got no, we love you, Dallas. Oh my god, Dallas,
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Jerry dowllas, I want to have your baby, all that crap,
like all that nonsense. But the story is with the
Giants because they played like total a holes. Okay, my god,
completely unprepared.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You ever had that when you were in school? I
had it a lot. That's why I got in the radio.
But when you're in school and you didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Really pay attention in class, and then you got a
test coming up, but it's kind of a big deal,
and then for some reasons, you didn't study for the test,
but you got to take the test, and it normally
does not go very well. The Giants were completely hornswaggled
in this game. They look like they had not even
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practiced it, hadn't even opened the playbook. What should we
do here, We'll just improvise. We'll make it up as
we go to some improv That's what it looked like.
Absolute lightweights, Absolute lightweights. The New York Giants an annihilation situation.
The Giants were totally unprepared for the first day of school,
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and then they tried to wing it. They thought they
could get by with it. What exactly did they do
during training camp? Isn't it like the whole cliche. We
watched football lot of I mean the clasice is. The
cliche has been that you however, you play first, you
have all off season to prepare for that opponent. That
that's the game, that's the game, the first game that
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you put everything in there, that you get all the
time to prepare for that first opponent. So the Giants
look like they had decided to add a new feature
to their uniforms. They put about forty pound sandbags on
their backs and they were running around with the forty
pounds sandbags and masculating. And that doesn't even begin to
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describe the effort by the New York Football team which
plays in New Jersey, the NFC version. But that is
a go to detention. You failed, you have to study more.
Bad job by you in all phases across the board
a placement test, and the Giants went out and flunked.
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They didn't get one right. They did not get one
answer right on the test. All of them were wrong.
They fly And how about Brian Dable, You got some
explaining to do. Be fuddled. The Giants were a smoking
mirrors team last year and made those football and those
the Giants were frauds last year that they in the
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in the scope of the fact that they won a
bunch of close games and the numbers indicated that they
were not as good as their record indicated. And then
in the postseason when they played the Eagles in the
play Now, the Vikings were also equally misguided, the Minnesota Vikings,
and so you throw that game out. But when the
Giants played the Eagles in the playoffs, how did that go?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Now? Turning the page.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Here, while the Cowboys are going to be celebrated for
their defense, I'm not going to sit here and say
that the Cowboys were not good early in this game defensively,
and obviously the Giants.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Didn't score, so you could say all the way through.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
The game, But how terrible, how god awful was Daniel
Jones of the Giants. If only somebody had warned the
Giants not to sign this guy to an extension, If
only somebody had been the voice of reason out there
to say, what are you doing? Why would you give
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this guy a contract He hasn't earned it? You know,
I know, we live in the year where everyone gets paid,
everyone gets money, chur ching, chitching, chitching, chitching, everyone's getting paid.
In the ennf when you blow, you still get paid.
But I'm sorry. I was raised where you have certain
standards and this guy's an absolute bum, Daniel Jones.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But he got the contract.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Totally flummoxed, totally flummoxed out there, recorded the lowest passer
rating since he was drafted. And that's saying something because
there's been some l stinkos on that resume for Daniel
Jones unable to walk and chew gum at the same
time in this game. Now, I understand the quarterback apologist.
It's never the quarterback's fault. It's always somebody elsa's fault. Yeah,
(10:06):
I know those idiots and losers is what they are
in their scum and on this side of the microphone, Okay,
on this side of the microphone, the quarterback apologies can
chew on a dirty sock. Okay, it's all the offensive
line's fault. No, it was.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
The offensive line wasn't great.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I get that, but are you telling me that, Daniel
JOSEI The only way this guy can be an effective,
efficient NFL quarterback is if the offensive line's great, the
play calling is grade, nobody drops a pass, the playmakers
are all wonderful. Okay, anybody can do that. Do you
understand anyone can do that? You're supposed to perform when
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everything's not going well. That's the point of demarcation. This
guy doesn't have it. He does not have it. We
knew he didn't have it. I got no skin in
the game. I'm not a Giants fan. It just annoys
me that this guy was bad at his job. He
sucked in college at Duke, he sucked in the NFL,
and he's laughing all the way to the bank. I mean,
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that is an absolute demerit for the Giants. I don't
want to hear how smart Brian Dable is and what
a genius Joe Shane is the g I don't want
to hear about it. You gave this guy a new contract.
Daniel Jones is puke okay, four years, one hundred.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And sixty million.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I know that's not as much as some of the
other countries. They gave him ninety two million guaranteed. The
guy should be selling insurance and they gave him ninety
two million dollars guaranteed for what exactly? What is the justification?
This is a first opportunity has to go out there,
and this guy, look, he looked like the.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
He was a hair brained. He looked hair brained.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You know, in the malarmansion, there's a lot of rabbits
around the mall of Manchi. And I never understood what
hair brain meant.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I don't know what this kind of do. I was
ripping rabbits.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
But I'll be driving down the road and I'll see
a rabbit, and the rabbit, instead of getting out of
the way of the malormobile, will stand up and look
and freeze at the car. That's Daniel Jones. He stands up,
he's got his his rabbit ears up and he freezes
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ninety two million. That's football mouthpractice by the New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Rip them. They need to be ripped.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And it's not gonna get much better, like you think
all of a sudden after this, Daniel Jones, you know, Oh,
he's gonna dominate the NFL the rest of the way,
My fat ass, He's gonna dominate the NFL the rest
of the way. Now the last word here. After the
events were over, Daniel Jones said that the forty zero
loss to the Cowboys was quote, not who we're capable
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of being. What does that even mean? You practiced all offseason.
Y'all got paid. Everyone got paid, You went to training camp,
you prepared for the Dallas Cowboys. That is exactly who
you are. So how do you grade that answer? If
minus f minus, just like the performance of the Vanilla
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vic Now, make no mistakes. I mean, there's nothing to
confuse here. You are what your record says you are
and fraudulent. The Giants are not a contender. They shouldn't
have been a contender last year. And then you have
Brian Dable, the head coach of the Giants. We have
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some postgame audio here of Brian Dable who commented that
when you lose a game forty to nothing, and you
would like to assign culpability, there's a lot there, Tiger.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Listen, Like I said, offense, defense, coaching, special teams, whatever
you name it. When you get forty to nothing, there's
a there's a lot of blame to go around, and
I'll take the I'll take the head of it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, well, you you probably eat the whole thing. All right.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Here's more. Here's how about Daniel Jones. I just gave
you part of one of these quotes, But here's Daniel Jones,
who was celebrating a big party. It was the putrid
palooza for the Giants, and he was the star of
the show. Here's Danny Dimes who points out rather obviously,
there have been better days.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
This wasn't our.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
This wasn't our best game. There's no no doubt about it.
Really wasn't you know who were capable of being and
we've got to show that. We've got to We've got
to put that on the field and play that way.
So we didn't do that tonight, and we have a
lot to a lot to work on going forward.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Is he stupid play that again? They just lost the game?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Fun and nothing.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
This wasn't our This wasn't our best game. There's no
no doubt about it. You know who we're capable of being,
and we've got to show that. We've got to we've
got to put that on the field and play that way.
So we didn't do that tonight, and we have a
lot a lot to work on going forward.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Now you could argue there's no great answer when you
come out of a loss like this, But I what.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I would like to hear is I want accountability.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh both good and all this, No, I want to
you got to rip people, rip them all right, they'd
nothing monotone.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That's how he is monotone.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I here's one more from Danny Dimes, who says the
F word is part of the equation here.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
We're certainly frustrated and extremely disappointed with how we perform tonight.
And oh yeah, I know I certainly am with myself.
So a lot to work on and clean up. We're
going to be critical of ourselves and you know, look,
look to correct it and get back on the right page.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Wow, it's like he was trying to memorize the script.
Get the talking points in there.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
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Speaker 1 (15:58):
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the end of the game. Welcome in the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Malors Show.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
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from Los Angeles, well, actually in the hood in Inglewood.
It was an AFE Inner Division slobber knocker, and I enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I was at this game, and usually I go to
these games, I say, well, why am I this game?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
This game sucks.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I wasted my time, but I usually end up just
watching other games, which I did in this game also.
But every time I looked up, the Dolphins were scoring
a touchdown, and then I'd look down and I watched
like the Patriots game, and then I'd look up and
then the Chargers were scoring a touchdown, and then I'd
go back and I'd say, I may look a little
bit of that Bronco game with the Raiders, and I
look up and then there was another touchdown, and then
(17:32):
I look back and I'm looking at that ram Seahawk
game and then boom another score. It's like that the
entire day. So these are heavyweight contenders duking it out
in the AFC. Now they're not on the same level
as the Chiefs said, Oh, can you say that the
Chiefs lost to the Lorens. We'll see if they lose
with Travis Kelce back in the lineup, then we've got
(17:54):
something to talk about there. But both these teams consider
themselves worthy playoff teams, the Chargers and the Dolphins, so
they were scoring up mono a mono in the La area.
Tua tongue of Byelow, now he went out. I was
at the game last year when the Dolphins played the Chargers,
and Tua was so bad in that particular game, especially
(18:15):
in the second half of that game against the Chargers,
that you wondered if there was an imposter, like a
body double that was playing for him. But in this game,
it was ridiculously good. Almost five hundred yards passing three touchdowns.
The Dolphins held off and really held Justin Herbert in check.
(18:36):
It's hard to say that considering the Chargers still scored
thirty four points, but the Dolphins get a thirty six
to thirty four win. Tyreek Hill eleven catches for two
hundred and fifteen yards, two touchdowns and a partris of
pear Tree for the Miami football team, as it was
a title wave of offense and the Chargers they had
a chance to drive down to win the football game,
(18:59):
but Trick laid the ball down the field. All you
needed was a field goal that Dolphins botched an extra point,
and so all you needed was a field goal in
order to win the game, and justin Herbert ended up
turning the ball over on downs and the clock then
ran out after that. The better story, though, is where
that is right, ding ding ding ding ding. The better
(19:21):
story is in the losing locker room, and that is
where we start. So let's discuss the question who gets
the most of the Chargers bacon wrapped blame hot dog,
which is not to be confused with the blame pie.
This is the Chargers bacon wrapped blame hot dog, which
(19:42):
they sell a lot of hot dog Hot Doc Hot
Doc when you leave Sofi Stadium. There's a whole cadence
if you want to sell hot dogs, and there were
I kind of about forty people selling hot dogs outside
Sofi Stadium after that game. Anyway, to answer the question
who gets the the most of the Chargers bacon rap
(20:02):
blame hot dog, we are pointing the direction at one player,
and one player.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
In particular, we'll tell you who that player is.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
But we've got Ramshackle, halatosis and endurance, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a power outage, which is what the Chargers
defense suffered in particular. This is a massive bacon rap
(20:31):
Wiener is what this is for the Chargers. Here and
Brandon Staley, the head coach, who was hired originally as
a defensive guru, a protege of Vic Fangio, who also
got sliced up on the other side. Vic Fangio, now
the Dolphins defensive coordinator, ended up getting this game right
on Benny versus the penny. But my analysis was completely wrong.
(20:54):
I was convinced that the Dolphins defensively would be okay.
I was right at Vic Fangio would mess around with
Justin Herbert. That part of it was true. The Chargers
defensively picking up where they ended last season. If you
are old enough to remember the playoff game Jacksonville and
Los Angeles and the Chargers defensively coughing up multiple fur
(21:19):
balls in that particular game against Jacksonville, blowing that big
lead there, and the Chargers defense came out and they
just got cooked.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
They absolutely got cooked.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And they got they got a little bit of a
break because the Dolphins matriculated the ball down the field
their first drive. They were within the ten yard line
and then the fumbball miscommunication on the snap FuMB up
and the Chargers got the ball back. But in terms
of the players, rip Brandon Staley all you want. Ultimately,
the one guy in particular that gets the biggest chunk
(21:53):
of that bacon rap Charger blame dog that would be j. C. Jackson,
Not exactly Action Jackson.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
J C.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Jackson who signed a relatively large free agent contract later
the New England Patriots a couple of years back, and
he was flagged for an unforgivable sin, a pass interference
penalty right before HALFTIMEE you should have been tied at seventeen.
And I don't know what he was thinking. He wasn't
(22:23):
thinking and jac Jackson hit one of the Dolphin players.
It was an untimed down. Dolphins were within field goal range,
they kicked the field goal, they get the three points,
so they're up by three at halftime.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And that that.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Mistake there was one of a couple because Tyreek Hill
essentially treated J. C. Jackson like he worked at a
South Florida marina. He abused him like he worked at
that chartered boat company in Miami Beach there, and it
was so bad at the end of the game, I
believe jac Jackson got benched that Brandon Staley finally realized
I got to get this guy out of here because
(22:59):
this guy's is brual. Not that it changed the outcome
of the game, but to a tongue of I loa
combining against that Charger defense with Tyreek Hill, and I
thought he was back at Tuscaloosa and it was like
Alabama playing Vanderbilt or Kentucky. That's what it looked like
watching him slice and dice an NFL defense there, and
(23:21):
just absolutely a ramshackle performance by the Bolts there. Five
hundred and thirty six yards of offense from Miami the
every offensive play, they averaged over eight yards per offensive
play eight point two yards per offensive play for the Dolphins.
And defensively, while the Chargers were able to put up
(23:42):
thirty four points, the Vic Fangio defense did contain Justin
Herberts odd to say that because of the final score,
and the point total and all that. But if you
saw the game and you were paying attention, the quarterback
Herbert had pretty pedestrian numbers for a game like this.
Was the running back Austin Eckler and friend who combined
(24:04):
for two hundred and thirty four yards on the ground.
So impressive performance by the Miami Dolphins offense, but it's
really the defense J C. Jackson, and there are other
guys individually defensively, but he was the biggest at the
very top of the pyramid. Oh, you gotta blame now.
Secondly in Seattle. Now, my friend's the twelfth man we
(24:27):
did here earlier, a beaten and broken down, trodden no
strudinas who lives in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I've not heard from J. J. Nritten.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
He's probably self medicating right now with the mini bar
as we speak. But very cocky, a lot of arrogance there,
crying craigs, likely crying right now as we speak.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
In Seattle, they were ah Listen the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
The Rams blow, And I would agree the Rams look
like they blew in the exhibition season. They weren't even trying,
and they were playing some regular players. It looked like
they had never never tackled anybody in their life. And
yet they go out there and all those Seahawks fans
who were so confident and arrogant that they were gonna
beat the Rams. Oops of daisy. You know what happens
(25:09):
when you assume the outcome of a game. Yeah, Matthew
Stafford and the Rams put up twenty seven first downs,
four hundred and twenty six yards of offense, and there's
like one guy on that offense other than Stafford I've
even heard of, and they end up blowing out the
Seahawks in the second half of that game, win going
(25:30):
away thirty to thirteen. The Rams outscored Seattle twenty three
nothing in the second half of that game. So thumbs
up or thumbs down the story here is the quarterback
for Seattle. Thumbs up or thumbs down? Do the Seattle
Seahawks have a Gino Smith problem? And two thumbs up?
(25:52):
Two thumbs up on that. Yes, we were waiting. We
knew eventually this moment was going to pop up on
our radar. Lot it would happened last season.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
It did not.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Seattle was able to circumvent the schedule last year without
any real meltdown situation for Geno Smith. But here we
are in week one of the second act of Geno Smith,
and he is writing the Vomit Comet for the Seattle Seahawks.
He's right there at the front. He's he's manning the
(26:23):
cockpit on the vomit comet. Geno Smith was not only
a quarterback, he was horrible, suffering from haltosis and man,
you talk about bad breadth for Geno Smith. Smith overall
was sixteen to twenty six for one hundred and twelve yards,
one touchdown, no interception. That was underwhelming, But the second
(26:43):
half is where that was the real Geno Smith. In
the second half he was the epitome of pathetic at
quarterback for the Seahawks. Just three of eight in the
second half for nine yards, nine yards, no touchdowns, obviously
knowing sim Seattle on the score in the second half,
passerating below fifty. And he also had a moment where
(27:07):
he saw the boogeyman. Very hard to look past the boogeyman.
In this case, we're talking about audio, the microphones catching
when defensive tackle Aaron Donald, he's a monster, Aaron Donald,
not a real monsters, the football monster. So Aaron Donald
(27:27):
was rushing towards Geno Smith. The ball is snapped and
the on field microphone overheard Geno Smith letting out a genuine,
fright night terrified reaction as a Smith threw the ball
to the feet of his receiver and well, rather than
(27:47):
me tell you what he said, we have the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Listen closely.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
The voice you hear here is Geno Smith at the
line of scrimmage, and listen to how Geno reacted as
Aaron Donald is breaking through that seat. Offensive line crusher comes.
Oh my god, Oh my god, he had a come
(28:14):
to Jesus moment right there on the field. And there's
a higher power man now appropriately enough. That is also
what Seattle Seahawks fans were saying watching Gino Smith play quarterback.
Oh my god, this guy blows.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That's what they were saying.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Good luck to Pete Carroll and Drew Locke is warming
up in the bullpen if you would like to go
that direction.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Not that he's any good either.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
All right, final point, let's go to Denver where Jimmy Garoppolo.
This guy plays just well enough to win. He's doing
the same crap he did with the forty nine ers.
It's only one game. With the Raiders, but Garoppolo was
not wonderful. He was alright. He had a couple of
touchdown passes to Jacoby Myers, the pat in his Las
(29:01):
Vegas debut in the Mile High City, spoiling Sean Payton's
first game as Denver coach. A slopfest for the Broncos
in terms of penalties and execution, but it was only
a one point game. Raiders won by one point and
Seattle had a lot of bonehead plays in this game.
The Raiders now have won seven straight games against their
(29:22):
division rival Broncos, and it's one thing to lose to
Kansas City because Kansas City is good. The Broncos do
that all the time. But it's not think the Raiders
have had great teams in recent years, but they have
been good enough to beat the Broncos. And Chandler Jones
nowhere to be seen. Chandler had that famous meltdown during
the week. We talked about it on the show.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
But from the.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Denver side of things, Russell Wilson in the first half
was slinging the football around. People very excited about russ Is.
Russell Wilson now back on track for the Broncos based
on this performance, the big first half, and I am
shaking my head. No, he was suitable and actually pretty good.
(30:03):
I'll even concede, I'll be Benny Bright said, for the
first half. For the first half considering where he was, okay,
baby steps, baby steps. But the second half, the second
half performance, you gotta go. No, I mean it was
same old Russ. Now he didn't have the ball a lot,
the Broncos did not because of situations following the game.
(30:27):
But for thirty minutes he was fine. But in the
second half he was ten of seventeen Russell Wilson for
fifty two yards. He averaged three yards per attempt and
a passer rating of sixty three point eight, which is
not good. Denver scored just three points in the second half.
And that was the Russ that we saw last year.
(30:47):
So there were a few things that went right for
him in the first half. But last I checked, you
don't get you don't get an A plus for half
a day's work.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern Pacific.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Hey, it's Ben. Host of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller.
Would mean a lot to have you join us on
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nature and more. Listen to the Fifth Hour with Ben
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Speaker 3 (31:28):
Podcast or wherever you get your podcast, It's Mallard.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
How about that to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Coop dal Loop justin Coop.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Joe Flacco said in an interview last week that he
still believes he can play in the NFL and he's
hoping for a chance at some point this season. Ben,
do you think anyone will come calling?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yeah, they shouldn't, but I believe Joe Flacco will get
a workout. He's thirty eight, almost thirty nineties birthdays in January.
But I'm gonna go yes on this. And here's why.
This has been a pretty consistent thing my entire life,
where teams are attracted to veteran quarterbacks in an emergency situation.
(32:13):
Like it's kind of like how crap sticks to a blanket.
They just love it. And even though Joe Flacco has
been essentially useless for how many years since he left Baltimore,
he wasn't very good in Denver, He's been with the
Jets the last few years.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I think that's it, But no, I think he will
get an opportunity. It's not what you know, it's who
you know. I learned that years ago. It seems me
the smartest person in the world, but yet to know people.
And he's bounced around and he will continue to bounce around.
But I do predict he will get at least a
workout from an NFL team before the season's over, because
a bunch of quarterbacks are gonna get hurt.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
Next the deadline set by Mike Evans agent for the
Buccaneers to come to an extension agreement has come and passed.
Evan's had a good debut game, six catches, touchdowns, six yards.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Ben do you think Evans gets traded before the deadline?
So it's not a guarantee, but it's about a seventy
five percent chance he gets traded because even though the
Buccaneers beat the Vikings. Does anyone think the Buccaneers are
a legitimate threat in the NFC? No, the answer is no,
And so there is going to be a robust market
for a player like Mike Evans, who's good and he's
in the prime of his career.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
And so secondly, if you look.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Around at the teams that could need a wide receiver
like that, obviously Kansas City's the first one that comes
to mind based on what happened, and they're opener against
the Lions, the Broncos, how about the Patriots. You could
argue that they would be in on that. The Giants.
I wasn't very impressed with the Giants wide receivers. You
can go down the list. So Mike Evans would bring
(33:46):
a nice return if you're into lottery tickets. So yeah,
I think that that is very tempting, considering he is
a free agent and the Buccaneers are not planning on
being a contender anytime soon.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Next Clemson and Alabama have been the powerhouse how this
of college football over the past decade, and youet two
weeks into the season both programs have lost the game already.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Ben, Do you think we're seeing a changing of the guard. Well,
not like the Clemson has been kind of trending the
wrong way. So the loss to Duke by Clemson, that
is a sign of the apocalypse for them. But Alabama,
it's not a great look losing to Texas. And Nick Saban,
who brought in the coach of the Longhorns, is a
(34:28):
rehab guy, a coaching rehab guy. Steve Sarkisian who I
saw play when he was in community college back in
Soca back and the But that's embarrassing Alabama lose. I'm
not ready to ride off Alabama. They have a chance
to get right back in the SEC race, although it's
much harder now, there is a path for them. Clemson,
I don't know how you get past losing a Doke.
There is so much stank on that loss. I think
(34:50):
they're done. But Alabama no, And it's still a feeling
out process in college football early in the season. Once
you get into those league games late in the season,
that's when everything all right. There it is malor to
the third degree starting out.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
The new week. How did we do you pass this?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
That is a way with time to spare, not much,
but time to spare. This is a little I got
half a second, but that was moth. That was enough.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
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Speaker 1 (35:32):
Here were you talking to some here some instant advice?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds. And if you don't like it, you
and no.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
We go. The curtain goes up on the int advice
line onscreen radio. The safety is off. You call my
number up at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
You're live on the air.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
On five hundred plus radio stations, a global audience on
the iHeartRadio app and all over the American Forces Network. Man,
that's a lot of power just to call up and
say something stupid. But the question here we go. Here's
the question. How can the New York Giants be fixed?
The Giants lost forty to nothing to the Dallas Cowis.
(36:20):
You might remember in the playoffs last year, the last
game they played against Philadelphia they lost thirty eight to seven.
So that means the New York Giants the last two
games that they have played that have had any real value.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
They have been outscored.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Seventy eight to seven in the last eight quarters of football.
What is your advice to the Giants? We'll go to
the calls in eight, seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
You're on the airline one. Hello, line one. Well, they're
building a gallows outside myself. Okay, thank you. There's Tony
from the Bay line. To your next line too.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Hello, just that Mett, No backs that goat already?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
How many more majors? Is a guy I need to
win before you idiots?
Speaker 3 (37:01):
We'll accept it, all right, thank you? Yes, alright, calm down.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Line four. Hello, line four, you're on the air line four.
We're giving advice to the New York Giants. Line four.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
They need to be in a different division.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Okay, I recognize that voice. That's our friend from Ohio. Yeah,
how about the Canadian Football League one of the visions there.
Hello line five, your next line five, Hello, line five,
not paying attention. We're going to line six. Hello, line six,
you're live on the air. We're giving advice to the
New York Giants on how not to suck.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
They've been terrible.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
Okay, I understand, Well, you need to watch Benny versus
the penny, sir, clearly until I eventually I had to.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I had a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I got every one of my picks wrong, and I like,
they're going to cancel the show.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
But fortunately that didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Line number two, Hello, line two, Line line three, you're
on the ever giving advice to the New York Giants.
They have been terrible in their last two games playoff
game last year they got lost forty to nothing to
the Cowboys in the Sunday night game.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Hello, line three.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I waited a decade to see Benny actually go up
against a penny.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
And you didn't even flip a real penny. It wasn't
real penny. It was a real penny. You jeckass. Line four,
you're on the air. Line four, Hello, vote party, Okay,
all right, yeah, vote yeah, that always works. Yes, all right,
let's go to line five. Line I like how I
guy call him giving voting advice on a sports radio
show in the middle of the Night's gonna sway the election.
(38:40):
Line five. Hello, line five.
Speaker 8 (38:43):
You gotta have a lost cat magnet if you want
to get one.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Okay, pay you for that, sir, appreciate that. Wonderful advice.
Line six. Hello, line six, I don't think anyone heard it. Hello,
line six, Good morning time.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I'm a commanders than.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Oh, congratulations, all right, Line number two Hello, line two, Okay,
put that little in that square on my Bengo card.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
There, I got that one. We have fudgie.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Line three, Hello, line three.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Gotta have New York's pregame meal champions noodles of noodles. Yeah,
well that's what all everyone in Brooklyn, you included, Uncle Moe.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
That's what you eat. Let's go to line number four.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Hello, line four, like, thank you for thank you for Well,
they bleeped themselves, so that's allowed.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
You can bleep yourself.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
You're allowed. We're okay with that. Line five is next.
We're giving advice to the New York Giants. The football
team has been outscored seventy eight as seven in the
playoff game last year they played against the Eagles, and
now the opener against the Cowboys. Hello, line five.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, I just sparted for a personal record twelve straight second.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Congratulations, sir Massel tough. All right, let's go to you
line one. You're on the Airline one. Hello, and I
got twenty five minutes to go.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Okay, thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Line two is next at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox Instant of Ice line for the New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Hello, line two.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Hello, some people like cucumbers better pickled?
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Line three is next, No pickles, no cucumbers. Hello, line
number three.
Speaker 8 (40:20):
Where's my baseball?
Speaker 7 (40:22):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
That's not the real where's my baseball? Guy?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
That's an impostor how dare you?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Sir? That's an iconic bit on this instant advice line
line four, Hello, Aaron Rodgers like powder?
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Okay, I don't want to hear the end of day.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
We'll do one more and only one more of it's good.
I'll take credit of non a blamacool a little people pick.
The final call on the Incident of ice line for
the New York Football Giants, Line six, Line number six.
You're on the airline sex. Hello, line six, you gotta
pay attention. In line six, you didn't pay attention. As
a bad job by line six
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